Aestrid Tularssan's page

I'm in with Milt. Thanks for the heads up!

Good job everyone and thanks to the GM for a well run game. Do I assume correctly that Ironwhip was at least CR 6 vis-à-vis the killing a known slaver that is my level or higher for the Liberty's Edge Faction Journal Card?

Aestrid's Day Job - Profession: Courtesan: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (15) + 13 = 28

That was close...

Aestrid returns to the group and returns to the central chamber with the Key. She nods acceptance to the former slave's plan and then gathers the last valuable items before they leave. "Savour your new-found freedom and don't hesitate for a moment in striking your former captives. We will do our part."

Aestrid unlocks the other room and retrieves the object of their quest. She asks over her shoulder, as she checks for anything else of interest, "Is there anything we can do to help make the uprising a success?"

"It doesn't matter what you believe, really. You are welcome to return with us to freedom and it is we Pathfinders who have done the deed." Aestrid says. She shrugs, clearly having no more time for this man, and turns her gaze to the barred room to the west.

"That looks like the sky key, perhaps." She says, indicating the thing on the desk beyond the barred portal. She looks around for a means to open it and if it is not a simple latch, she moves back to Ironwhip's body and looks to see if he has anything that would work as a key, checking for magic auras at the same time...

Spellcraft 1: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16
Spellcraft 2: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16
Spellcraft 3: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
Spellcraft 4: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17
Spellcraft 5: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

Aestrid dismisses her invisibility and addresses S'Slarn, "Is the Sky Key piece there?"

To the wayang, she replies, "I don't know what you have been told, but we Pathfinders are a relatively benign bunch, except to those like the Aspis Consortium, who scheme to destroy antiquities or who fight against us or our allies. At any rate, we are your rescuers. My name is Aestrud Tularssan."

She bows, speaks a command word and so doing resumes her own natural appearance rather than that of the duergar smith.

Diplomacy (+1 if the Wayang might be attracted to Aestrid): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Everyone might want to delay for Aestrid. Stone shape as indicated on the map, leopard charge/pounces

Aestrid begins chanting and reaches out to touch the wall. Suddenly, the wall parts to reveal a 15' wide hole about 5' high. The stone flows onto the ground to make a low hump and to the sides to make pillars at the flanks of the "window" in the wall.

She spits, "Vengeance is at hand, Slaver!"

Her leopard charges forward, leaping at the last moment to bite and slash with its claws.

Pounce Bite, damage, grab: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 151d6 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 111d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
Pounce Claw 1, damage: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 241d6 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Pounce Claw 2, damage: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 291d6 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Snippet of arithmetic;
Sums or products, take your pick.

Hello Kitty will 5' step forward after finishing her business. I moved it on the map.

The invisible Aestrid calls out, "I'll get the wall in just a sec. Get ready!"

Yeah, I googled the manual and saw there was a layer manipulation tool thingey that I didn't have, which is why I asked.

There is some math to do with Aestrid's next turn as she does Stone Shape (16ft^3 = 27648 in^3) to affect the of walls of stone (45'x10'x1" = 64800 in^3 assuming 1" thickness).

This means she should be able to make a portal in up to 42% of the wall or so (round that down to 1/3 and we have a 15x10 hole in the 45x10' wall or a 7.5'x20' hole with the manipulated stone being piled in the edges of the shaped area. If the wall is 2" thick, she'll do a 10' hole; if it's 3" thick, she'll do a 15'x6'hole; and if it's 4" thick, she'll do a 7.5'x5' hole.

Aestrid's leopard continues the attack, raking and biting at the remaining guard. The cleric moves up to the wall, readying herself to cast a spell.

Aestrid double moves (sadly), critter full attacks

Leopard bite, damage, grab attempt: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 271d6 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 111d20 + 11 ⇒ (11) + 11 = 22
Leopard claw, damage: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 271d6 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
Leopard claw, damage: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 131d6 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

roll20 newbie question:

Is it possible for a player to elevate a token above the layer of the dead duergar or is that a GM-only functionality?

Aestrid is moving 20' (or more) towards the wall and when I do that, she ends up beneath the dead dwarf token's layer.

Aestrid's incantation of summoning runs its course and a large cat appears opposite S'Slarn and begins attacking the same deurgar he is grappling.

For her part, she says, "I'll try to take out that wall," slips past her allies and slowly moves under cloak of invisibility across the battlefield.

Celestial Leopard smite/bite (+2 flanking, +2 inspire); +3 damage from smite; grapple if bite hits: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 171d6 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 141d20 + 13 ⇒ (1) + 13 = 14
Celestial Leopard Claw 1 (+2 flanking, +2 inspire): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 241d6 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Celestial Leopard Claw 2 (+2 flanking, +2 inspire): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 261d6 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
Aestrid invisible stealth, moving quickly: 1d20 + 7 + 20 - 5 ⇒ (14) + 7 + 20 - 5 = 36

Before the door opens - Bless, Shield of Faith (AC=>22), Extended Invisibility. Start casting Summon Monster III (extended)
Aestrid calls on Calistria to shield her, bless her and her allies and keep herself hidden from view, the latter being enchanted with her rod.
Immediately before the door opens and cloaked in invisibility, she begins chanting a prayer of summoning.

After the door opens - wait to go last yet again

Thanks for the NPC-assist. I'm gone again until tomorrow evening but after that should be back to several times a day.

"Thanks, Sveinki. A little deception can be a blessing, as they say."

Aestrid takes the time to perfect her appearance in the form of the smith, her morningstar appearing as the smith's hammer and her whip looking as a slaver's whip. She even adopts the priestess' holy symbol, except with the triple-dagger symbol of her own goddess on the side toward her heart.

She keeps her eye open on the trail...

Survival assist, untrained: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Have fun guys. Unfortunately, I'm stuck here and can't make it to Gen Con, and I'm going to be scarce for much of next week so Aestrid may have to fade into the background for a bit.

Assuming the combat ends eventually, and if there is indeed a patrol that is coming by, the group can hide in the back of the hut thing with the bodies while Aestrid uses her Hat of Disguise to look like the Priestess (she'll do this part regardless). If this is the plan, she'll keep her back to the patrol and will have her scroll of Tongues out to activate and speak duergarese as needed to try to bluff.

Lady's luck, my friend

Aestrid slides up next to Sveinki, touching the dwarf and bestowing upon him some of her goddess' guidance.

step, Bit of Luck to Sveinki - for the next round roll all d20's twice and take the best result

No, as that one is in rounds and we are well past that. Also, Glitterdust is a 10' spread so it affects everything within 10' of point of origin (effectively the same as a burst in many cases except it is more limited going around corners). That means that if the target is the intersection 5' south of my red circle, it hits both baddies and misses S'Slarn.

Speaking of which, Aestrid might know something about something here...
Knowledge: Planes: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

Aestrid sticks with her plan, completing her divine ritual and creating a sphere of silence centred on the back part of the workshop to conceal the din of combat.

Cast silence, now centred on a point on the wall marked on the map with a Red Circle, use metamagic Extend Rod to double the duration to 12 rounds.

Fools.

Aestrid looks in alarm as the bumbling Fredrik threatens to expose the group to the very patrol they are now trying to avoid. As Sveinki engages, she begs Calistria to conceal the din arising from their lack of subtlety.
Cast Silence on the floor beneath the Anvil.

Cross-posted with the GM there a bit. Consider my post to have happened before we entered, please.

Aestrid speaks a word of command and her appearance changes to match one of the duergar - a balding male dwarf dressed in similar style armour and standing a little less than 5' tall. She proudly wears her slaver's whip on her hip and makes her morningstar look like one of the dwarves' hammers.

She addresses the Oni, her voice still her own, "Tanbaru, are there other humans that came here ahead of us? If so, tell us what you can about them and the same for Ironwhip - what they carry for weapons, what you've seen them do, everything."

Activating hat of disguise once more for flavour...

@S'Slarn, Aestrid healed most of your wounds (11 points) with the fey's CMW wand. If anyone else is hurt significantly, she'll do the same for them.
Survival: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20

Aestrid looks up from her work with the wand and returns it to her pocket, "Well, Dosojin kami are supposed to be benevolent protectors and guides for pilgrims. Assuming there is no deceit here, this one could be helpful, at least to help us avoid fights we can't handle here."

Aestrid considers the oni's words as assesses her allies' condition after the fight. She would not take the creature into her mind if she could help it.

She would not cede control - never again.

Seeing Sslarn's wounds, she activates the Fey's wand and offers to take away some of the nagaji's pain.
Knowledge (Planes): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19
CMW from the wand - 23ch remain: 2d8 + 3 ⇒ (1, 7) + 3 = 11

Aestrid watches with an dispassionate air as the slavers die, reaching to a well-worn dagger to finish the job on any that might recover.

This is a good thing

As for the strange mist, she calls on her fell goddess to help see arcane auras, inspecting at statue and dwarf alike. Through her concentration, she asks, "Is anyone hurt?"

Detect Magic as well and she has several knowledges that might apply but none she's great at...

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
Knowledge Arcane or Planes or Religion on the statue: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Aestrid moves forward and lashes the remaining duergar, giving the slaver a taste of the lash it has so richly earned.

whip attack: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (6) + 15 = 211d3 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

S'Slarn should be +8 to hit with that punch on bonuses alone (+4 prone, +1 bless, +1 prayer, +2 Inspire)

Aestrid steps forward and lashes out at the last remaining dwarf, her whip aiming to entangle the slaver's feet.

Trip attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 20

Can I refocus Aestrid up to the 20 count for initiative so the group isn't waiting on her to post?

Aestrid steps back out of the reach of the huge dwarves, and reaching into a fold in her shirt she pulls forth the triple dagger symbol of the Favoured Sting, Calistria. She calls on her fickle goddess to bless the Pathfinders while simultaneously cursing the slavers to well-deserved misfortune.

Cast Prayer, +1 luck to attack, damage, saves, and skills; baddies get -1 to same. 6r duration.

Aestrid reels at the sudden assault, scrambling badly as she tries to react.

That answers that

When the group gathers at the top of the stair, Aestrid pulls the fey's wand out of her pack and activates it, healing her wounds.

She brushes herself off and asks, "Are we going to negotiate with the grey dwarves just as if they were the standard ones we were sent to treat with? I've never encountered their race before."

CMW: 2d8 + 3 ⇒ (3, 1) + 3 = 7

Aestrid removes her buckler and hooks it onto a loop on her pack. Taking a deep breath, she moves very deliberately up the slope.

Move slowly; Take 10 on the climb if she can = 9
Rolled Climb if she must: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (9) - 1 = 8

Also, can she have checked that wand out?
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

"Either way, we need to make our way across this stream." She addresses the defeated Fey, "Is there an easier crossing, or is this it?"

Aestrid presses the fey, relieving it of its healing wand.

"You haven't answered my questions in full yet. How many of the Aspis group made it to the other side, and have they returned this way?" She pauses for a moment and then adds, "And don't think we're above executing you for trying to lure one of us to his death. You're guilty and our revenge will be just, but help us and we will consider the weight of your words."

"Come on out of the river, then, water boy," Aestrid hisses, staying her spell for the moment, "First, what do you know about the dwarves up ahead, and second, tell us what you know about the group that came before us. How long has it been, how many of them, what did they look like, and did they come back?"

Aestrid moves back away from the water's edge and chants softly, beseeching her fickle goddess to strike the watery fey down. A glowing whip appears and strikes!

Meanwhile, the cleric's own form wavers and splits and suddenly there are two Aestrids where once there was one.

(free) - Copycat domain ability (R1/6 of one extra image per mirror image)
(move) - step back as shown on map
(standard) - cast Spiritual Weapon
Spiritual whip attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 221d8 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Still here waiting my turn, but I have a question...

Would Spiritual Weapon be subject to the negative effects of underwater combat? The spell does Force damage (not slashing/piercing/bludgeoning/lethal/nonlethal), but for some parts of the spell description it behaves as if the attack were the favoured weapon.

Aestrid nods admiringly at Jorin's courage and, as the half-orc is about to jump into the water, brushes his arm lightly with her fingers, saying, "Good luck."

Bit of Lick Domain ability - for 1 round, roll all d20's twice and take the best result

"The trap could be simply to lure people into dangerous water... Speaking of which, I'm really not much of a swimmer," Aestrid warns, "If someone wanted to go down there, we could send them with a tether tied around one of these trees."

She pauses for a moment in thought then continues, "If we camped here, I could prepare something different that could help us. Water breathing, and maybe something that would help against grey dwarves, whatever that might be."

A look of pity biefly passes across Aestrid's eyes as she contemplates an eternity of serving a dead master's bones.

Still, she bows to Grodel and comes up in a composed and neutral expression, allowing the poor being to continue its vigil if it wishes. She declines use of the Eiodolon's treasures and looks off toward their end goal in silence.

Calistria, help me to be your scourge of revenge here, even though this poor thrall will not feel your Grace. Perhaps by example, it will find its way.

"More importantly, Grodel, what do you want? Do you wish to be free of this place? Do you wish to rule here? Do you seek revenge?... Is there anything we can do to help you attain your wishes and hopes?"

Aestrid bows politely, "Thank-you Grodel. We seek to learn about them, trade with them. Are they still here somewhere or has some calamity befallen them?"

"Yes, we come in peace. Clearly. Will you help us?"

diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

"Indeed, we mean no harm. Can you even understand us?" Aestrid asks, sympathetically, raising her hands open as if to show she has nothing to hide. She speaks the same in Tien as well, just in case the lands Hin Jao stole came from more eastern shores.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

"Doesn't look very promising. "

Shouldn't be a surprise.

Aestrid speaks a command word and her clothes change instantly to what looks like attire appropriate for jungle living - form fitting brown cotton slacks and blouse, with high boots and a dark green-coloured cloak. Her skin changes colour as well, deepening to a kelish olive-brown.

She winks and grabs at her hip and shakes out a leather whip that looked like a belt pouch a moment before.

"Shall we? "

Hat of disguise, no spells. I'm Kris V on Maptools but am a newbie there so please be gentle

Aestrid touches the tapestry and speaks the command word, eager to part company with the unpleasant and cryptic Zey.

Aestrid interjects fluidly, "We're all on the same side here, Sveinki, and there is always the possibility of uncertainty."

...Or deception

Continuing on without a beat, she presses the Venture-Captain for details, "Aram, has there been any substantive contact between the Society and these dwarves? I mean, has contact been two-way or has it only been via scrying?"

Aestrid's ready, also passing time while we wait.

This dwarf is certainly... inquisitive.

Not one to be intimidated by anyone, and seeing an outburst like the Master of Spells' as a lack of control and ultimately a weakness, Aestrid bows silently and looks to the others to see if they wish to press Zey any more.

It will be interesting to see if these dwarves even want to be kept in this tapestry or if they seek liberty.