Avi Solrem's page

Good game, great party! Thanks for running it Shadow!

boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 3

Avi has no day job skills.

Avi holds up wrapped tablets.

Here are the tablets. We believe they are counterfeits, but still quite valuable. They convey accurately information about the actual time of the original tablets. And...

he nods at Nails to throw captain DuMoire forward towards Osprey.

One thieving and slaving captain. We figure the society can figure out what to do with him, which authorities they'd best like to work with, and so on. That is... above our pay grade.

Avi sighs. Bring him. We can let the Society decide. But quickly.

Avi exhales in relief when the contents of the chest are what they seek.

Lets carefully wrap these in our packs and get back to our rowboat fast!

Hes still holding out hope they can sneak off before any authorities arrive.

That's just a move action for Avi, so...

[standard] pew pew! light crossbow, piercing damage: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 221d8 ⇒ 5

Moved Avi back.

Huh, my slides edit must not have stuck last night :/ Thank you.

Avi directs the fireball lateraly to begin consuming another lacedon.

[move] Flaming sphere onto RED
Fire damage RED, DC16 reflex negates: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 4, 2) = 10
[move] Reload crossbow

Avi grimaces in disgust as a lacedon lunges at him.

That was close... can't let that happen.

He backs up a step and incants a fireball onto it.

[5ft step] N
[standard] Cast flaming sphere on BLUE
Fire damage BLUE, DC16 reflex negates: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 5) = 13

And for good measure...

[move] Draw light crossbow

Oh, lol. I can't believe I didn't just try that. Thank you.

Anyway, updated his "Active conditions" with the Shield spell Armor Classes

@Avi: If you could add in the Mage Armor and Shield spell to Avi's AC at the end of his stat line where 'Active Conditions' are that would be great.

Yeah when I get to my laptop today I’ll do that. Editing profiles seems to have been disabled on mobile.

Literally none of the other three of us have bows or crossbows, sorry!

It’s also a personal only spell.

Ah, that’s right. Forgot it was personal, my mistake.

Avi's prep:

- Cast shield on self (Duration 4m/40rds)
- Cast gravity bow (Duration 4m/40rds) on any teammates wielding a bow or crossbow (no seriously, please take it if you will, it advances the arrow damage die, e.g., 1d8 -> 2d6)

Avi sighs and nods.

Yup, ready. Push it open...

Survival: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22
INT: 1d20 ⇒ 18

Avi will approach with Nails, but at this point he expects Nails will have to force open the door with his brute strength.

Good thinking Pip. I'm sure that key he had on him will open up the slave hold, or something else important.

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Later, down below...

That is unfortunate. I hope it's only one or two that have passed and the rest are savable. No, I think we need to beat down this door now so that we an assess the situation. Maybe someone in here knows about the contents of the crates so that we can reduce how many of them that we have to open in our search.

Seems visible enough to me.

Are we leaving him tied up where we found him or dragging him with us?

Avi frowns, but Nails' actions align with his initial instincts.

Then you're incentivized to help us recover them as fast as possible.

He follows the dwarf down into the hold, scanning as they go to take note of the layout and how crates might be organized. He also looks for keys that might unlock slave shackles and/or holds as they will obviously need to be freed.

Avi sighs and shakes his head.

Whether he’s telling the truth about what he knows, it is true authorities arriving could complicate our extraction. We need to get to the hold fast.

He gives Pip and Nails just enough time to finish their tie-up, urging them along, before leading the team towards the hold.

That helps quite a bit. Ty.

I could def tell he wants out of there, we just didn’t have objective reasons to believe he didn’t know about the tablets.

It seems there's essentially no convincing him to simply show us the mostly likely crates where they reside (or are we just not rolling high enough?)

Then we're headed to the lower hold. Lead the way and keep your hands visible.

You aren't going anywhere until we find the tablets, so you'd better starting thinking hard about which crates might have them!

Avi asserts.

I'd go with demoralize but I suppose it's best to not break Pip's progress with him.

Did the intimidate roll do anything?

The deal is, you show us which crate has the ancient tablets that Darsielle Du Moire was hoping to sell, and you might make it out relatively unscathed.

Intimidate: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

Avi's adrenaline begins to kick in a bit. He's not inclined to join the physical struggle like Nails, but for lack of a better idea in the moment he attempts to stun the brigand's mind...

Cast daze (DC 14)

Avi dismisses his flaming sphere and also joins Nails.

Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 12

Avi is surprised the brigand doesn't try to leave the flames, but he's happy to leave his fireball there to burn him.

Fire damage, DC16 reflex negates: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 5) = 9

He then tries to fog his mind...

[standard] Cast daze (DC 14)

Avi incants a ball of flame onto the remaining brigand, and then glides a bit closer.

[standard] Cast flaming sphere (marked on map)
Fire damage, DC16 reflex negates: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 1) = 4
[move] 20ft

Avi, frustrated at the pirate's agility, frowns and tries again.

activate bloodline round 2/4
[standard] Minute Meteors (Sp) in PINKs square
Fire damage, DC16 reflex negates: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

minor note to GM: I didn't realize for a bit but hero lab printed the minute meteors ability with the stats (damage in particular) of using it at Avi's full caster level. By default mongrel mages actually use bloodline abilities capped at caster level 1. They have to use a point from the mongrel reservoir to "activate" the bloodline and use abilities at full caster level.

So, that swift action he just took, I marked off enough points to account for prior uses of minute meteors.

Again, very minor note.

Avi steps back and focuses on the mongrel blood coursing through his body. He lends vitality to the weakly present bloodline so that it surges with energy, his eyes gaining a slight glowing sheen.

[5ft-step] S
[swift] activate bloodline (1 mongrel reservoir point) to use 1st-level bloodline power and bloodline arcana at full sorcerer level, duration 4 rounds

After gaining that safe distance he points to the heavens and calls down a small column of rock and fire onto the nearest pirate.

[standard] Minute Meteors (Sp) in PINKs square
Fire damage, DC16 reflex negates: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Bubba sends his regards...

[standard] Cast Spell-Like Abilities acid arrow vs PINK
Ranged touch PINK, acid damage: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 92d4 ⇒ (1, 4) = 5
If successful, the acid lasts one more round for another 2d4

After he hops to a box further away so his time can climb aboard the ship.

[move] 5ft

Since he started this with a well-placed bluff, Avi figures he should head up the rope first.

He nods to Nails in thanks and heads up.

Once he hits the deck he looks around at the crew. He suspects they might try to order them around first, so he gives a pause to see what they say.

Avi calls out the "password"

Swordfish!

He adds in

We were expected! Can you please help us up onto the Hydra's Fang?

Bluff: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (15) + 12 = 27

Um, do these count as humanoids? Well, let's try it.

[standard] daze (DC 14 Will, spell resistance)

light crossbow attack (into melee, 10ft away): 1d20 + 4 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 - 4 - 4 = 101d8 ⇒ 4
[move] reload crossbow

Imagine there were a crossbow that shot harpoons... that would be something.

Thankfully (for the shot, not otherwise...) there is now zero feet between Avi and RED

After dodging several attacks, Avi again nervously shifts his body in hopes of getting off crossbow shots without being attacked.

[standard] Attack RED
light crossbow attack (into melee): 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 - 4 = 31d8 ⇒ 8
[move] reload crossbow

Yeah, trying to think of whether we knew we'd be in and around water during daily prep.

While Avi's element is technically chaos (he's a ganzi), he is *not* in his element in the water. Nervous laugh.

Okie, just going to risk it :grimacing:

Avi cautiously resumes his defensive stance but begins shifting his body to obtain a crossbow bolt without exposing himself to attack.

Gulp...

[standard] Total defense
[move] reload crossbow

Looks like Andros is no longer sinking

Avi doesn't feel like he's doing well with his crossbow underwater, but he has little other choice for now.

[move] reload crossbow
[standard] attack RED
[dice=light crossbow attack (underwater through 10ft), P damage]1d20+4-4; 1d8

apologies, I'll include IC from here on out. Also I'd somehow missed a map update (looked at it at one point, and finally submitted my post much later, my bad).

Being encroached upon, Avi takes a defensive stance.

[standard] total defense

and MAYBE

Swings to a further rung of the boat...

[move] 5's swing? is this possible or is it just a move action that also provokes? Water combat movement always gets me confused. If it provokes he stays put, but then I don't know how he's getting out of that square.

Looks like Andros is no longer sinking

Avi doesn't feel like he's doing well with his crossbow underwater, but he has little other choice for now.

[move] reload crossbow
[standard] attack RED
light crossbow attack (underwater through 10ft), P damage: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 - 4 = 161d8 ⇒ 7

Can we help him swim or pull him up on subsequent turns?

Still clinging to the boat, Avi tries his hand at an underwater shot.

[move] reload crossbow
[standard] attack RED
light crossbow attack (underwater through 10ft), P damage: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 - 4 = 71d8 ⇒ 3

In that case he grabs on and [move] draws his crossbow

Grabs onto a "thwart"... [move]

Calls down the fire...
[standard] Minute Meteors (Sp) in RED's square
Fire damage RED, DC16 reflex negates: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Muscles?!

Avi looks over himself and shrugs.

Doh sorry, focused on his jumping, not his knotting.

Avi carefully descends the rope to see whatever it is Nails sees down there.

Climb Take 10