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Athrax steps forwards, "Ah, that was easy. Definitely not a major challenge for The Sewer Dragons, the pathfinder society's greatest allies." He smiles at Dreng, "We wiped out the Onyx Alliance for you and easily closed the portal on our own so you shouldn't have any further issues from them. What other threats and missions would you like us to handle for you? I assure you, there won't be a more capable group."

Thanks for saving the game and doing an excellent job stepping in, got the chronicle.

Knowledge (local): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

Oooh, maybe actual in character knowledge and not (mostly for him at least) out of character speculation!!!

It was obvious the bugs had some power here (this massive hive is a definite sign of power) and the queen dragon is the boss of the city so she had to have an alliance with them. The offspring was trying to challenge her rule and while dragons are intelligent, I wouldn't assume they act like civilized people. Most of nature sees nothing wrong with killing or banishing their offspring to prevent challenges to their power. Her whelp making a deal with outsiders and stealing from mom and forcibly removing her allies from their base and setting it up to challenge her dominion is a pretty grievous set of actions. I'm not saying to trust the bug, but we made a deal with it (under duress, but still a deal) and have other priorities... or at least Athrax does.

TLDR: Athrax votes to keep to the deal made with the bug.

PS: I liked Solstice Scar, it wasn't that hard to suspend disbelief and enjoy sequential runs.

Athrax's forehead furrows, "Wait, why are we killing the insect again? Do we believe it works for the boss dragon lady or not? Why don't we just stick to the plan and figure out if we've been had before executing her right hand bug?"

"I'm all for Pethjun's plan, that's our primary mission. Close the portal and make sure we have a way back to reap our rewards..." he doesn't continue his thought ...from the pathfinder society.

He starts shoving items and the horde of coins into his pack, slipping the necklace over his head muttering, "Stupid whelp, shoulda been wearing this."

Athrax nods, "Good work all, finish the weak worm off if you wish or knock it out so we get a bit of leverage. I'll prepare for alternative possibilities." He pulls and drinks a different elixir.

Move to draw Elixir of Fire Breath, Standard to Drink.

After everyone jumps in his way... which is exactly how he wants it. Athrax steps up and tosses his bag of gooey noodles at the jerk dragon who is causing all their troubles. He then pulls out an elixir.

5-ft step, Throw Tanglefoot Bag at dragon, Draw Elixir of Bomber's Eye.

Ranged Touch vs. FF + PBS - Cover - No Precise: 1d20 + 8 + 1 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 8 + 1 - 4 - 4 = 20

Tanglefoot Bag

Athrax slips his hand into his pack, hand wrapping around a tanglefoot bag, This goes bad, gotta keep it on the ground.

So... Athrax is in position to attempt to take down said Dragon and honestly doesn't care that much about worshiping it. His motivations lie in a significantly different direction.

But I'm more than willing to give you all time to make your case that this dragon deserves worship or set up your own stuff, so I'll hold off on his actions for a bit... also he's sorta a coward so fighting this thing by himself doesn't seem like an ideal plan. But if he is reading the situation right, he thinks Pethjun is also preparing to fight.

Athrax moves up, mostly to get a bit of tactical space from his allies since dragons tend to breath on stuff and clumping up isn't ideal. He seems to be surveying the room.

"So this is the top of the tower, nice little digs ya got, shiny. I'm guessing that Jegan figured out pretty quickly that an army wasn't really any good against Kobolds, so no need for them. Anyway... here we are. So what's this army supposed to be doing? Conquering the world here or something? What sorta spoils would said army have access too then?"

reflex: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

Again easily dodging most of the shards, Athrax looks around for immediate enemies... other than his clan mates... then quaffs a potion. He looks at the mirrors and the room with a shrug, ”I don’t see any other exits but the way we came in, so must be through the mirrors. Stupid portals. Stupid Plane hopping.”

Drinks one of his potions of CLW for 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6, 1 of 2 used.

Athrax moves up and into a position to help his allies, without exploding them in fire. "STUPID EXTRA IMAGES! I'll try to get a few knocked out."

Move, Attack.

+1 shortspear + Flank: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 2 = 7 for Magic/Piercing: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Reflex DC 12: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23

The alchemist chortles as he swats most of the shards away, ignoring the few that cut him.

Athrax easily ducks the clumsy attempts at him and then steps back to quaff his tasty beverage, flinging the empty flask to the side into a pillar, it shatters. He stares at the mirror beast and taunts it with his newly drawn shortspear pointing straight at the fiend, "Come at me, BRO!"

5-ft step, Drink Shield Elixir, Move to draw Shortspear.

Athrax jumps back, "WHAT THE HECK!?! Why go after me? I didn't touch a stupid mirror. FINE! YOU WANT SOME FIRE DEATH? OKAY!"

The bomb leaves his hand and he takes a deep and slow breath, ready to savor the taste of the explosion and burning enemy.

5-ft step, Throw bomb at Green, draw an elixir (of shield) as a move.

bomb vs. Touch: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18 for Fire: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (4, 1) + 3 = 8

4/9 bombs left

Athrax nods, "Ah yes, an Umbral Dragon. I know all about those. Yup, definitely sure do. They are dragons that do dragony things for sure." I think they bought it.

He follows along in the middle of the pack or near the rear muttering to himself.

Athrax's eyes squint, "Well okay then, you better not be jerking us around. Sewer Dragons don't take kindly to being played. What kind of dragon is this we are facing? Red? Blue? Gold? Orange? Opaque? Beige? Rainbow?"

If I can kill this thing and curry favor with the boss dragon in this realm, my pathfinder allies will be impressed and certainly present me with a field commission, maybe even a venture captaincy!

Atrax thinks for a second, "Wait, how do we know you actually serve the great Argrinyxia? What if you are just setting us up to take out one of her children and doom ourselves?"

Athrax thinks a moment as to their charged mission, a dragon in our debt would be invaluable though, "Is there no chance for redemption for this whelp? Could we perhaps persuade them to repent their evil deeds and return to the fold?" He kicks himself mentally for his words, Our stupid cleric is rubbing off on me, that was very flowery.

Anthrax nods, finally someone who seems to be in charge, ”Yes, that is a good start. Also, who are you and what is this place?”

Heal DC 15: 1d20 ⇒ 15

He sighs at the disgraced creatures, waste of life, not even worth exploding. Without hiding his lack of concern for them he simply says, "Hmm... well we won't waste any more of your time then. Enjoy your... whatever."

He moves back over to the others and stares at the tall man, "Portal? Where does it go and what do you want with it?"

Athrax shrugs as they are unable to find a way into the sewers, "Well, better to talk to some of these idiots than wander for days. Let's start with the dredges, no one will miss them if things go poorly."

He hollers over to one of the tieflings, "Hey you, want to give us a hand. It'll be worth it." He attempts to convey the message as not a threat, though his smile appears less friendly and more like a crocodile looking at a tasty fish.

Diplomacy Aid: 1d20 ⇒ 16

I concur, though Athrax is fine with the group trying to actually talk to people and find a lead too instead of menacing them. He was just trying to be tough with his 'stab people if they don't answer' post.

Athrax shrugs, "tis a good plan. Or we could just start um... interrogating these fools until they tell us where the Onyx Alliance is located. I mean, that's what the lesser races are for, right? To serve us. If they don't answer the question, we let Pethjun add a hole to their body and ask again."

Athrax hands out the spoils, "Peth, you get stabbed a lot so take these (2 CLW). Sneaky Healy Smek, take this and use it if needed." (1 Invisibility but I'd be fine with Fazgyn taking it too). He hands off the oils of darkness to whoever with a shrug while muttering "useless" and holds onto the dusts of tracelessness, "Probably good for when we leave this place so we can't be tracked back home."

He pops through the portal after Pethjun returns to investigate as well, now less worried about the other side. Slipping back through he inspects the portal to figure out which side the magical focus item might be on. "I've done enough work with exploding spells to know this thing looks like magic. We just gotta find the focus and boom-boom it to close the portal. Hopefully it is on our side or if not, we can drag it back through. The other side is not a place I want to set up my... er our empire."

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22

Athrax pops into the room as he sees the two freshly cooked bodies lying on the floor, "Well, that was disappointing. Big boom and just a few echoing screams. Make them suffer more next time please." He wrings his hands together, "Time to loot!" He starts picking through the two bodies, looking for fun stuff.

When Pethjun strides towards the portal he just waves his hand dismissively, "Yes, yes go check the other side and let us know if we need more explosives over there."

Perception find stuff: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17

Hearing the explosions Athrax is momentarily sad, I didn't get to see any of them!!!

He hurries up to the fancy portal-ish room to try to catch a glimpse of things exploding.

Double Move.

Athrax, hearing voices from the trapped portal room scrunches his forehead and then slips back through the tunnels to see what is going on back there.

Take 10 stealth if allowed for 23, double move.

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Okay, the arrow thing next to the portal is an arrow trap.

The thing straight north of that is an Alchemist Bomb Trap.

Athrax sticks to his location, guarding the back routes so no one can sneak past the group. He happily listens to the screams of agony and is silently proud that none sound as if they are made by Kobolds.

Athrax continues his quiet skulking, keeping an eye out for anyone sneaking through the hall or trying to get behind the group. A smile comes to his lips as he thinks of someone actually making it to the final room with all the explosions waiting for them there.

Delay.

I completely understand, it is a thing that happens. I am very thankful that you put in the effort to get a replacement GM so we can finish this out. I also appreciate you running the game itself and wish you the best with handling all the things you have to deal with, good luck!

Anthrax dreams of electric sheep... that explode.

Anthrax keeps chilling.

Athrax continues to wait, though his lips pull back in a smile as he hears the screams of pain from non-kobolds. Music to his ears!

Athrax continues to wait.

Athrax remains where he is hiding each round, he will only break stealth if enough targets present themselves, and then flee to hopefully draw them into the traps in the tunnels.

Does he need to step back further to remain in cover or is the edge of the tunnel good enough if someone walked down it?

I guess I'll save my bomb then, good job traps!

Athrax darts around helping to reset the traps that are re-settable and then holes up waiting for the next wave of enemies.

Taking 10 on resetting the traps gives a 24 and then stealth take 10 gives 23.

Fire dancing in his eyes as he watches his enemies explode, get speared with various pointy things and burn, he turns around to hear a few traps going off. Brow furrowed as a single dirty hooman lucks out, he darts back and looks at the poor creature for a moment, oh no, he isn't surrounded by my allies, what poor luck... for HIM!

He creates and throws a small explosive device at the fool, waiting for a second to make sure the moron dies.

Move 20 ft, Throw Bomb at Red.

bomb vs. Touch AC: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21 for Fire: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (3, 6) + 3 = 12

Athrax is fine with falling back behind some of the traps. I think we were all taking advantage of the first few traps hitting to get in some good shots. But, if Pethjun stays up front Athrax will probably still keep lobbing bombs around. If he falls back, Athrax sure won't stick around.

Wasn't sure about the splash hitting the dude at the top of the rubble pile, so didn't mention it. Sorry! Thanks for giving it to me anyway. :D

Athrax giggles with glee as his bomb blows up in the first human's face and scorches the second one. He then almost collapses in joy as the idiots keep stacking up in favorable exploding formations! He yells at Pethjun, "hold the line and I'll finish em off!"

Standard to toss Bomb at yellow.

Bomb + PBS - Cover vs. Touch AC: 1d20 + 8 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (5) + 8 + 1 - 4 = 10 for Fire + PBS: 2d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (5, 1) + 3 + 1 = 10

If hits, Blue and Green also take 5 damage, DC 15 Reflex for 1/2. If misses then 1d8 ⇒ 1 it lands in Green's square and Green, Blue, Yellow & Pethjun take 5 damage, DC 15 Reflex for 1/2. Sorry Pethjun, alchemists suck when they miss!

Athrax keeps sneaking forwards, emerging from the side tunnel into the pitched battle already taking place. Eyeing the enemy in front of him he begins concocting a bomb, my allies are too close, idiots! Ah well, they'll be fine, it only burns a little.

At the last second he sees a second target down below, struggling to climb the rubble, oooh! No collateral damage there! BUUURN!!!!

Move 15 ft, Throw a bomb at blue.

bomb: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24 for fire: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (4, 1) + 3 = 8

Slightly surprised to hear the screams coming from the other direction, Athrax turns and slowly moves that way.

Double move while stealthed.

Athrax will wait for the screams, then sneak up to investigate to see if he can add to their pain.

Stealth: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (8) + 13 = 21

Athrax uses his boro bead to refresh his shield extract and then settles into a spot where he can see a couple pit traps and listen for enemies' screams.

I’m fine to continue at whatever pace, the character I had this assigned to is still good to go.

Athrax also spends more time (2 rounds) building his last trap, a pit trap (shown on map). Take 10 for 24.

With his prior experience building a swinging axe trap, Athrax moves to the east tunnel system and drops another one of those in there.

Take 10 for 24 on this one.

Athrax starts trapping the side tunnels to discourage enemies from taking those paths.

SWINGING AXE TRAP (red rectangle)
Type mechanical; Perception DC 20; Disable Device DC 20. Set-up Time 1 phase; Size 5 ft. by 10 ft.
EFFECTS
Trigger location; Reset none; Effect: Atk +10 melee (1d8+1/×3); multiple targets (all in 10-ft. line)

Craft (Traps): 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (2) + 14 = 16

Arrow Trap is 1 phase to complete so I'll roll for it. Craft (Traps): 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (10) + 14 = 24

Phase 1, Athrax will leave up his already placed bomb trap. He will also work to construct an Arrow Trap to trigger in the square between the bomb trap and the portal.

Phase 1, Athrax will leave up his already placed bomb trap. He will also work to construct an Arrow Trap to trigger in the square between the bomb trap and the portal.