Captain Fergus' cold iron rapier and Caydenite shield clatter to the ground when the phantom dissipates.
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Captain Fergus turns to face the remaining fiends and uses his rapier to parry to cover Sylvara's withdrawal from melee. "You have to get through me to get to my crew, you fiendish scum!" The dretches' claws shred the phantom's ectoplasmic form, pieces of Captain Fergus splatter onto the walls...as he drops to the ground.
Captain Fergus dissipates , clearing the path, aside the two dead dretches, for the remaining fiends to rush out to attack the others.
"Fall back, Sylvara. Let's lead the fiends to their slaughter.
"Sylvara, Preacher's cold iron starknife is on the ground by the corner behind them."
Captain Fergus coup de grace's the dying fiend (his current hated target) by his feet.
"Lure them out into the open so the lion is not left out of the fun, Preacher."
"Die, fiendish scum!"
Captain Fergus, hearing the sounds of dretches from the way Guriok heads that way.
"Fiends to find and slay. Do not let any live. We will kill them all this day."
"Aye, that woman is a nuisance, but she is no fiend." Captain Fergus walks to Preacher and retrieves his two drinking cups from the backpack. Preacher puts out his hand to the captain, "If it would be okay, I will hold Guriok's cup and deliver it to him after you have filled it with grog, Captain." The phantom assents to the request, "You're not a bloody cabin boy! But your request is granted, Priest of the Fallen." Fergus fills the two cups, one in his left hand and the other in Preacher's right hand, with grog. He then turns around to face Guriok. Preacher sleight of hands drinks the grog, then fills the cup he is holding with water from his waterskin, and walks over and hands the cup to Guriok. The captain makes a shorter toast than yesterday, "Fiends to slay! We are going to slay bloody dretches this day!"
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Hated Target (Su): The phantom can take a move action to designate one creature within its line of sight as a hated target. The phantom gains a +2 bonus on attack rolls against its hated target, and a bonus on damage rolls equal to 1/2 the phantom’s Hit Dice (minimum 1). The phantom is so focused on this hated target that it takes a –2 penalty on attack rolls against all other creatures. The phantom can maintain these bonuses against only one target at a time, and these bonuses remain in effect until either the hated opponent is dead or it has been out of the phantom’s line of sight for at least 1 minute. When the spiritualist reaches 7th level, the phantom can use this ability as a swift action, and takes no penalty when attacking creatures that are not designated as its hated enemy. The phantom must be manifested in ectoplasmic form to use this ability (unless the spiritualist is 17th level or higher; see Shared Hatred below). Captain Fergus, eyes still filled with simmering rage as he looks at the woman, "Get out of my sight while my crew figures out what to do with you. Tell us where the fiends down here are located so they receive my ire instead of you."
Captain Fergus attempts to divert his well-aimed piercing strike with his rapier...
"Bloody Hell!" Captain Fergus twists his rapier-wielding hand's wrist at the last moment, so instead of piercing her chest, he slams his rapier's hilt into her chest above her heart instead causing her to get pushed back ten feet from her dropped weapon.
surprise round Captain Fergus uses Hated Target on foe with the scythe. Round 1 The phantom pirate charges towards the scythe-using foe.
Captain Fergus assumes a defensive stance in response to the warning Preacher called out and moves toward the mongrel on the floor by the barricade.
Half-suprised at the agility of his mate, "You move with the speed and deftness like I used to, Guriok."
Captain Fergus, charges getting his cold iron rapier in hand, and kicks at the woman as Guriok failed to get in his grasp "Why you all have to talk no kill talk!" he growls.
Captain Fergus, still clearly pissed at the disrepect he perceived Bengi gave towards Preacher, makes his way over to join Onyx and Guriok at the door.
"I'm not interested in games or puzzles Preacherelius. I won't be thinking about it any more. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise drop it." Captain Fergus' eyes flare red as he snarks at Bengi, "Only a fool who thinks they are wise refuses to learn wisdom from others when it is offered. Preacher was doing you a kindness, to make your flawed logic, whatever it might be, possibly not kill you one day. Do not dare tell me or others what to do. You are not the captain nor commander of any of us. Don't make me have to repeat myself in the future."
dwarf: Captain Fergus walks up and bashes the dwarf in the forehead with the heel of his boot, causing the dwarf to go unconscious again. "Unbind him, leave his things, and let's head out. By the time he comes to again we will be a fairways away from here." "Let's get a bloody move on already, crew!" as he makes his way to exit the dwarf's apparent home.
Captain Fergus' roleplay posts includes starting to view the other PCs as being members of 'his crew' first: Guriok
As yet to have roleplay scene to start viewing them as 'mates': Sylvara
Captain Fergus replies to Onyx before heading back over to Preacher. Infernal: "Hero-gods of my homeland can be fickle, but so can the more powerful deities. Cayden's expects his followers not to be d#ck$, but he is one of the few gods I know about who do not have a$$es amongst their priests. The only other deities that I am aware of that don't have such nuisances they deem to share their power with are Preacher's deity, Desna, Tia's deity, Kurgess and the snake-haired maiden's deity, Shelyn."
Captain Fergus walks over to Onyx, sheathing his cold iron rapier as he closes the minor gap of distance, causing his ectoplasmic rapier to dissipate. When he reaches Onyx, he bends over while standing in front of Onyx, and places the hand of his sword arm onto Onyx's left shoulder, as he looks him in the eyes, "I do not know what you are seeing or hearing, but you are aware that something is off with your senses, which is you claiming the start of your victory over whatever is messing with your noggin'." After Onyx replies, he continues, "As for Preacher's offer of a mere string tether, it can help ensure you are not lost to us, eh? If it were not for the anchor line that keeps me and Preacher tethered, I would've turned into mist and returned to the nether already. The crew is better with both you and I to help 'em deal with the pests down here. When you healed Preacher yesterday, you also helped to keep me anchored. So keep up the good work, mate." Captain Fergus then whispers in Infernal to Onyx, Infernal:
"I will cover you so you can wipe 'em away if you need to, before I stand back up. Focus your emotions into resolve against whatever has been messing with your head. You have shown you have our backs, and we have yours." Several seconds after the phantom whispers to Onyx in infernal, he stands back up and makes his way back to be closer to Preacher.
In response to Xantor's shout, Captain Fergus rushes towards Xantor, "Do you know which way he went?" Captain Fergus looks around to see if he can spot the missing group member.
Captain Fergus appears to exhale slightly in reponse to Guriok's words and pat on his back, a mixture of annoyance and gratefuleness appears briefy on his face. The phantom's telepathic connection with Preacher makes it feel like he has been mates with the half-orc for the weeks Preacher has been travelling with Guriok, giving him a sense of feeling he has not really experienced for more than a century...that of the companionship and rapport he had while his entire crew was still alive. With that feeling growing with some of the strangers that fate had thrown into 'the pit' with Preacher, Guriok and himself. Some of the strangers reminding him of certain members of his former crew. He ponders talk he had heard about reincarnation during the century he sailed the Obari Ocean, Inner Sea and Arcadian Ocean on Fiend's Demise, and wonders about the possibility that some of the strangers-becoming-mates might be the reincarnated souls of members of his crew. He then ponders whether objects, like his ship, could possibly have some sort of reincarnated form as well...as flashes of his ship being partially destroyed by the thing that forced him to slay his crew...with only Cruncher getting away, and his first mate left bleeding to death on deck when the thing made him swim to Liachora to witness the, now historic, destruction of his home port...and the positive feelings Guriok and strangers-becoming-mates have been making him experience become dulled, and his seething hatred regarding those montrosities and fiends returns to occupy the forefront of his mind....
The captain, now on the other side, replies, "I saved us a bit of time by jumping across while you and Onyx are helping the others across. Maybe they have never seen a lion before, nor how majestic they look when they pounce, err, leap. Singing sea shanties are sometimes used to lift the spirits of the crew. Landlubbers can benefit from such things too."
"Jump across? he says, then looks towards the lion, "Arataurë, friendly contest to see which of us can jump the farthest?" Captain Fergus walks a bit back from the edge so he has room to get a decent running start and waits to see if white lion deems to accept the friendly contest.
Captain Fergus telepathically tells something to Preacher. "What are your names? I am Captain Fergus, and these are my mates," he indicates as he says each name, Preacher, Guriok, Xantor, Onyx," and then towards the others, " and Arataurë, Sylvara, Bengi, Aravashnial, Anevia and Horgus."
Captain Fergus helps Guriok with with the rock.
After helping the lion get into the room, Captain Fergus retreives the magic map to see if there is any update since the last time he looked at it.
"Two of their descendants are trying to free a third that is caught in the rubble."
"Customs are customs, be they plain or strange." Captain Fergus replies, as he bends forward so that his head of his 6'7" frame is below the lion's eye level, keeping eye contact with Arataurë, "Don't live up to my Cruncher's name with my head, eh?"
Captain Fergus holds out his left hand, palm upwards, for the lion to place his paw on the ectoplasmic phantom's open palm, "Well met, mate."
"Aye, I will help our ferocious feline ally through the tight quarters."
"Arataurë, you remind me of my companion, Cruncher. The figurehead of my ship was made in the drake's image. It's been over a century, so he'd be bigger than the last time I saw him." Captain Fergus tells the lion as he helps Sylvara with her animal friend from the front.
Round 5
Captain Fergus focuses his anger at a nearby and closes the distance to it and strikes.
Xantor charges into the fray, having finally caught up to the others. The oracles charges the nearest (yellow) darkmantle.
Captain Fergus looks at Xantor, "Heal him!", as he turns around and focuses his rage on one of the darkmantles still attacking the others.
darkmantle stats:
There is Darkness so only attack if you have darkvison. Otherwise you need a light spell to negate the darkness spell.
CMB +1 (+5 grapple) Round 4 Captain Fergus rushes to Preacher's aid and stabs the creature from the side so he does not risk stabbing Preacher with the strike.
Darkmantle stats:
There is Darkness so only attack if you have darkvison. Otherwise you need a light spell to negate the darkness spell.
Round 2
The tentacled creature tries to get ahold of Captain Fergus, but the phantom bats the grab the tentacles away, then retaliates with a strike of his own.
Round 3
The phantom pirate avoids another lunge of the thing's tentacles.
After dispatching with the one that attacked him, Fergus moves over to attack the one constricting Preacher.
Captain Fergus seethes as he focuses his rage on the thing that tried to get him, and attempts to pierce it with his recently acquired magical cold iron rapier.
Captain Fergus walks across the air for a few steps, then Preacher shifts him back to ectoplasmic form
The phantom pirate loses his balance as he plops down to the stairs-turned-slide, and quiety curses, as his balance was impeccable during life. As he stands back up, he shouts, "By Cayden's everful tankard, my ship, Fiend's Demise, is down here!"
"Preacher, get your arse down here, so I can get to my ship!" "Guriok, come lend a hand, eh?" "Bring my new sword and shield down with you and put the necklace in my pouch for now." Then, as he focuses on the ship he was the captain of for over a century, he takes off his hat with his left hand, "What has happened to you, lass? How in tarnations did you wind up here? There's not a sea nor ocean for leagues from this place." So entranced by seeing his ship, he fails to mention to the others above that the floor is covered with coins...
GM:
Ah, okay. I am going to wait until after you have replied back to the following, before typing up Fergus' next actions. From what I had read about phantoms, while in incorporeal form, they retain their elevation, which is how I wrote Shimmerella appeared to have been running on air towards Sylvara during the gathering before chaos ensued, as well as Captain Fergus being 'stuck' at the elevation he was at when the ground fell away, and Preacher shifted him to ectoplasmic form so he would fall down with him (and thus stay within the limits of the etheric tether). Phantoms gain incorporeal flight when the spiritualist reaches 9th level. A more refined google search entry than I originally did to figure out if Shimmerella would ignore gravity when Preacher shifted her to incorporeal form while she was standing on the chair during the gathering: I think by rules (though Paizo did not specifically cover it in the rules type-up for spiritualists or phantoms), that incorporeal phantoms are 'stuck' at the elevation they were at when they are manifested in their incorporeal forms (which would be the same elevation the spiritualist is on when the spiritualist manifested the phantom in their incorporeal form) or the elevation they were at in their ectoplasmic form when the spiritualist shifts them to their incorporeal form. I am good either way, just prefer consistency so I know how to treat the phantoms' movements regarding elevation while they are in incorporeal form (for the levels they do not have the incorporeal flight ability). I will wait for you to reply back regarding the clarified specifics of how you want us to handle the phantoms' elevation while they are 'stepping of' (Wile E. Coyote style sans the signs and the falling). A good way to combine the two (retain elevation) and (elevation in relation to the ground beneath an incorporeal phantom that does not have incorporeal flight yet) would be: they retain the elevation, but can 'levitate' downwards only (using same action to do so as the levitate spell maybe) to 'slow fall' down to the ground below them. But this approach would mean they could not walk up stairs while in incorporeal form, so maybe houserule it that they can levitate at-will to be 'on the ground' or to retain their elevation when the elevation of the ground they are becomes lower. The latter approach would prevent game mechanic approach of being able to levitate upwards...but then that would be limited to 50' above the ground (the spritualist is on) at most, and that is with the phantom needing to be adjacent to the spiritualist before the phantom leviates upwards due to 50' maximimum length of the etheric tether while the phantom is in incorporeal form. That would give them 'limited flight' while incorporeal form, and once they gain incorporeal flight, they are no longer restricted to up and down limitations of levitation, and thus can fly diagonally (like above anc over a dangerous ground area, which the limited flight of levitation does not allow). EDITED: I forgot about line of effect also being needed while phantoms are in incorporeal form, so the levitate at-will approach of incorporeal phantoms, would make for the best story-telling with crunch combination. EDITED: Oops, the spritualist could just switch the incorporeal form phantom back to ectoplasmic form to walk up steps...so this approach if no at-will levitation (or no levitation at all) is part of their incorporeal form. EDITED: Ah, since falls of less than 10 feet do not result in falling damage, a tactic spiritualists can have with their phantoms, is every few feet or so (so the phantom is less than 10 feet above current ground level), shifts the phantom back to ectoplasmic form, then once they harmlessly land, shift phantom back to incorporeal form, and continue their incorporeal form air-walking. Captain Fergus' (and Shimmerella's) skills that automatically have maximized skill ranks due to their emotional focus (hatred and whimsey, respectively for the two of them) include Acrobatics, which will allow Fergus and Shimmerella more height without taking falling damage doing the above tactic. As for your question far phantoms can be from the spiritualist they share the ethereal tether with, copy and pasted for your convenience: Etheric Tether (Su): At 1st level, a spiritualist can force the phantom to manifest in an area around her by pushing the phantom's consciousness though the veil of ethereal essence, allowing it to fully manifest in either ectoplasmic or incorporeal form. Whenever her manifested phantom takes enough damage to send it back to the Ethereal Plane, as a reaction to the damage, the spiritualist can sacrifice any number of her hit points without using an action. Each hit point sacrificed in this way prevents 1 point of damage dealt to the phantom. This can prevent the phantom from being sent back to the Ethereal Plane. This tether is limited. When the phantom is fully manifested, it and the spiritualist must remain within 50 feet of one another for the phantom's manifestation to stay stable with little to no concentration on the part of the spiritualist. The spiritualist can stretch the limited tether, but only when the phantom is in ectoplasmic form. When a spiritualist starts her turn and her ectoplasmic phantom is more than 50 feet away from her (but closer than 100 feet), the spiritualist must concentrate on the link as a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity or the ectoplasmic phantom immediately returns to the Ethereal Plane and cannot be summoned from that plane for 24 hours. This concentration can be interrupted as if it were a spell. Treat this effect's spell level as equal to 1 + 1 per 10 feet farther than 50 feet that the phantom is from the spiritualist (maximum spell level 6th). If the tether is interrupted or the check fails, the phantom immediately snaps back into the consciousness of its spiritualist master. If the ectoplasmic phantom is ever more than 100 feet away from its spiritualist, or the incorporeal phantom is ever 50 feet away from the spiritualist or outside of line of effect from the spiritualist for more than 1 round per spiritualist level the spiritualist possesses, the tether is automatically broken; the phantom immediately returns to the Ethereal Plane and can't be summoned from that plane for 24 hours.
telepathic communication between Captain Fergus and Preacher in Iblydosian:
<"I hear down below. It's been over a century, but that's his voice. If it's him, I can't leave him down there."> <"Maybe my connection with you is why I am feeling a tug from below. Let's be smart about this. Walk down to the steps, then I will shift you to your wispy form so you can walk in and see what's down there, and whether it truly is your friend down there."> Captain Fergus walks down the steps and stops before stepping onto the slide. His ectoplasmic form then changes to the his wispy form and he walks forward for 35 feet, maintaining the same elevation as the step he walked off.
Now that Onyx is back in the room with them, Captain Fergus looks at the magic map, and walks around the room a bit, then back out into the cavern, staying within 10 feet of the door to the room.
If Xantor also has rope and hands it to Captain Fergus:
Captain Fergus first loops the rope around the closest stone chest , then attaches Xantor's rope to Guriok's rope. , which leaves 85 feet of rope from the chest to throw down the stairs to Onyx Captain Fergus than throws the rope down so it is within Onyx's reach, "Grab ahold of the rope, mate, and loop and tie it around your waist , and do not let go as we pull you up." if Xantor does not have rope: Captain Fergus ties a loop of rope around his waist, then holds the other end out to Guriok and Xantor, "You two lower me down so I can grab him, then haul us up."
Captain Fergus puts his left hand out to prevent Preacher from sliding down the stairs-turned-slide, "It might be more bugs down below, a lot of bugs. Guriok, do you have any rope?" He then calls down the stairs-turned slide, "Onyx, are you conscious?" |