Cha-Ka Ra's page

Yeah, thanks for DMing. :-) Also, Cha-Ka is now level 2! Huzzah!

Out of curiosity, what was the secondary objective?

"I heard footsteps on the roof heading towards the back where the Frostfurs are. Our friends could be in trouble."

With that, Cha-Ka rushes off to check on the rest of the group, if nothing else, hoping to re-unite them all.

Double move action.

Cha-Ka seems briefly torn as to which foe to pursue: the enemy he had been studying, or the one appearing to cast lord only knows what kind of spell. Finally, he decides that Enrik wasn't that successful last time, and he didn't really feel like dealing with another enlarged druid spell caster or an invisible fey enemy or some other kind of thing. So he moves forward to try to interrupt the gibbering man.

To Hit: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Damage: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13 Why is it my best damage rolls always seem to come with horrible attack rolls? :-(

I also don't know if Linguistics would help at all with the Skald language, but if so, I have that.

"We might want to regroup. Sadly, I'm rather slow in this armor." Cha-Ka edges towards the exit, drawing his curved blade and swinging it at Henrik. "I also wouldn't be surprised if the chaplain is a spell caster."

5ft step, M/E draw weapon, attack
To Hit: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 1 = 17
Damage: 1d10 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 4 + 1 = 13

"Err...by the by, anybody know what he's talking about? Weregild?"

I'm glad you think so, Ardisen. Although it would have perhaps been more entertaining if I had rolled not-Mary, as my plan for them would have been to pretend to poorly hit on them. :-P

Cha-Ka's head snaps up as he hears something from the roof. A bad feeling starts to creep into his bones as the feathers on the back of his neck stand up. Well, I'm glad I gave Castien and Ardisen that whistle. Although I wish Ardisen were here. He'd probably know how to handle this subtly.

Cha-Ka turns away from Enrik and the chaplain to face the party member sitting next to him. We didn't really specify a sitting arrangement, so I'm just going to roll to see who I'm next to. Feel free to overrule this though.

1= Aspex, 2= Mary, 3=Xoricon
1d3 ⇒ 2

Cha-Ka places his arm around Mary's shoulders and leans in close to whisper in her ear.

Assuming Mary then shakes her head, Cha-Ka will say the following.

Pulling back slightly in order to be able to look Mary in the eyes, Cha-Ka continues to talk, still in a hushed tone. "Are you sure you're ok, Mary? You almost died earlier today. That can be a lot to take in. Maybe you should go rest until you fully regain your health?" Cha-Ka removes his hand from Mary's shoulders and turns slightly so he can flick his eyes from her to the back of the room where the storage house is.

He then turns to Aspex and Xoricon. "Aspex, you seem to be a woman of learning, and Xori, you've probably traveled a lot. Tell me, have either of your studied the texts of the Azlanti or Thassilonians? Or perhaps some ancient Osiriani?"

Cha-Ka sighs inwardly. Note to self: In the future, establish a code word or gesture for 'be alert' or 'danger' or something.

I'm guessing all of this is going to require a bluff check?
Bluff: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0 Aaaaannndd about as I expected; that went horribly. >_<

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14 If this is against the guy who initially greeted us, I get an additional +1 for favored enemy

Also, Cha-Ka will definitely say something to his party about what he heard, but what exactly/how he does it is going to depend on the outcome of the sense motive check.

Somewhat cannibalistic, eh? The Frostfurs would approve. ;)

Hmmm, now that you mention it, what would a Tengu eat? Do they eat similar foods to their bird ancestors? Or has their diet become closer to that of the other humanoid races? Although actually a quick google search says crows are omnivores, so maybe either way they'd eat about the same stuff?

Before splitting up, Cha-Ka leaves a signal whistle with Castien and Ardisen. In slightly hushed tones, he says, "If something happens and trouble shows up, you can blow this, and we should hopefully be able to hear it and come to your aid. If we run into trouble...well...hopefully we'll just be able to yell loudly enough since I only brought one."

At dinner.

Cha-Ka happily munches on the tasty food, but when it comes to the wine, he sniffs it, blinks at the somewhat unpleasant odor, and then begins looking to see if there's water he can drink instead.

If they're also serving water, he'll toast with that. If not, he'll toast with a turkey leg. Because that's clearly just as socially acceptable, right? ;-)

Cha-Ka will study the man briefly, and then also attempt to sense his motive.

Move action for favored enemy on him.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 5 + 1 = 16

Craft(weapons): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

"Well, the goblins might be right in that it might be used for sparkily magicky scrying or some such." Attempting to cut off the glare he fully expects to receive in response, he quickly continues. "But you being the arcane type and all, I'd imagine you'd know best."

Once Mary is back up, Cha-Ka addresses her with a crooked grin. "Glad to see you're back in the realm of the living. Don't suppose you'd like to check if there's more evil lurking about with your" he wiggles his fingers in a poor imitation of spell casting "Stuff."

Annoyed that the doll is now out of reach, Cha-Ka sheaths his sword and moves back, drawing his sling as he does so.

Cha-Ka splutters slightly before finally yelling, "Get back here you devil!" He then tries to smack the creature before it gets too far away.

To Hit: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11 Sigh, the internet dice do not like Cha-Ka today.
Damage: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

Ah, right. I forgot it was the standing up that provoked and not the spell casting. Sorry about that.

To Hit: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Damage: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

Cha-Ka continues to smack ineffectively at the doll.

"I may not have a magic sword, but let's see what I can do," Cha-Ka mutters under his breath. He then takes aim and attempts to disrupt the spell with a well-placed smack to the head.

To Hit: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Damage: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14 D'oh! Max damage and I probably miss. :-(

Alas, Mary being unconscious means no flanking.

Cha-Ka charges from the other side of the building. Not really, just flavor text. "I'll distract the creature! Somebody come and heal Mary!" He then swings his curved blade at the foul creature.

To Hit: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Damage: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Cha-Ka has just enough movement to get where he is without provoking an AoO.

Cha-Ka approaches the hut from the opposite angle as Mary, hoping to either quickly flank or at least avoid having them both get hit with a single blast of magic. He moves carefully with his blade drawn, looking for any signs of movement from around the hut.

Stealth: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

Also, does the hut look flammable?

Cha-Ka bounces nervously on the balls of his feet. He continues to speak in hushed tones, watching the house for any signs of movement. "While I don't like the idea of allowing this evil to continue, I'm also cognizant of our mission. Who will look after our wards as we fight? And what happens if, gods forbid, we fall?" He raises his hands as if warding off protests. "I'm not saying that we shouldn't do it. Just that these are things we should plan for if we do."

Do we know roughly how far it is to our destination?

Wow, that was a lot easier than I was expecting.

Cha-Ka turns to his companions, speaking in a whisper. "Does that seem a bit out of place to any of you?"

Before leaving to find the troll
Cha-Ka blinks at his companions. "You all say that as though I was suggesting otherwise. I was merely pointing out a possibility."

He then proceeds to shift his flower from his makeshift nest into the pot he bought, some dirt scattering as he does so. The pot then goes carefully back into his bag.

After
Cha-Ka watches the troll carefully. While he isn't expecting a fight to break out or anything, he isn't particularly hopeful that negotiations will work out the way they wish. He just hopes they figure out some way across that doesn't involve swimming, shuddering slightly at the thought.

Going to make the troll his favored enemy. Because why not.

Would Cha-Ka have been able to purchase a flower pot from the man before he left?

After the man leaves, Cha-Ka looks at his companions. "Anybody know what a 'jadwiga' is? Also, from the sounds of it, it seems unlikely that this Rimetusk will be willing to take us across the river for a price that we can afford. Maybe Ardisen could convince him otherwise, but if he's as greedy as he seems, that might be unlikely."

Cha-Ka glances around before leaning in closer to his companions and speaking in a whisper. "It seems like another option would be to get evidence that he's cheating these 'jadwiga' types, and then use that to pay either him or those he's cheating for passage."

"It is quite lovely." Cha-Ka considers the flower for a moment, trying to decide if he should leave it be, or take it back with him. After a moment, he attempts to carefully dig the flower and some of the surrounding dirt out. He then carefully makes a small nest from his blanket and places both the blanket and the flower on top of his backpack.

That done, he helps break camp and gets ready to continue the journey, humming happily under his breath.

Survival: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

Cursing himself for missing the obvious snow storm, Cha-Ka attempts to make up for it now by quickly setting up camp.

Disclaimer: I personally know very little about these sorts of things, so all the following is flavor text.

"Right, anybody have a shovel? The ground is probably too frozen to actually dig through, but if not, it would be good to dig a hole and use that to shelter us from the biting wind. We're also going to want lots of branches." He licks one finger and holds it up. "Hmm, the wind seems to be coming from the North. That means we should make the lean-to in that direction, so hopefully it will encourage the wind go up over our shelter rather than through it."

The Tengu takes a moment to look around. "Sadly, the only other thing I see around to help block the wind are these trees, but I'm worried that if we camp too close to them, the snow will gather in their branches and fall down on top of us in one big pile. Which is especially likely if we have a fire. We'll also need some branches to lay down on the ground; there's no faster way to lose body heat than to have it sucked down into the endless cold ground, so we'll want to put what we can between it and ourselves. Hopefully there will already be plenty of fallen branches to help us out, but if not, we'll have to cut pieces off of trees. We should also gather firewood, but I do also have a heatstone if things start to get too cold."

He starts quickly rushing about gathering branches to construct a lean to of sorts, glad that he remember to bring some string with him to help tie the branches together. He directs the others as best he can to try to get as much done as possible in the little time they have before the storm breaks.

Man, we are rolling HORRIBLY on this. 4, 5, 4, 6 :/

"Then here, you can hold on to it. Heal people if they get hurt or anything." Cha-Ka hands the wand over to Xori. "Then I think it would be best if either Mary or I take the potion of healing, since you" he addresses Mary "Also look like the melee sort."

Survival: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9 +6 instead of +5 if it's tracking

Cha-Ka looks at the potion. Then his face lights up as if remembering something. "By the by, does anybody know how to use this? If so, it might be better if someone else held on to it." He pulls out a small stick to show everyone. It's a wand of CLW

"I have 50ft of rope and a grappling hook in my bag, if that would help. We could have some people try that approach while others try to break down the door to see which is faster."

Cha-Ka continues forward at a brisk trot.

Do I need to make another diplomacy check to get the goblins to continue to follow me?

Diplomacy: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (18) - 1 = 17

Cha-Ka then moves forward, still trying to keep a look out for unwanted guests.

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Cha-Ka, knowing that his heavy armor would prevent him from reaching the tower anytime soon, continues to stand next to the goblins, trying to keep an eye out for any unwanted attention due to the smoke signal.

"I think we should start herding our wards forward. If some of those goblins' buddies show up, it would be better to be close to the towers where we can take cover from projective weapons."

Unless someone objects, he's going to try to start ushering the goblins forward.

We're still only on the second round, right? In which case I already posted my action, which was basically to hand Castien my waterskin.

I think the shooting is unnecessary. Didn't one goblin fall asleep and the other one fall unconscious? I'm guessing from Castien's shot last round.

Did she actually use the sleep scroll? Last round I think she just pulled it out. If she did, then Cha-Ka will try to give his water bottle to Castien.

"Castien, you will undoubtedly be faster than me. I'll stay here and guard our goblin companions." Cha-Ka holds his water bottle out to the elf.

Move action and then move-equivalent to hand the waterskin over.

"They do at least seem genuinely interested in fighting." I'll have to make sure to keep a close eye on them though. And I'll have to mention searching them to my companions once this is done.

Cha-Ka glances at the goblins, trying to determine what they're up to. "You don't plan to just use this as an opportunity to escape do you?"

Sense motive on their response to see if they're lying.
Sense Motive: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

After relaying his impression of the goblins' response, Cha-Ka turns to his companions. "While I have a sling, I feel that I would better serve the group watching these guys" He nods towards their goblin traveling companions. "And leaving the goblins in the towers to our more than capable archers and those swifter of feet."

Cha-Ka will spend his turn keeping up with the goblin prisoners. So if they move forward, he will do his best to keep up with them. Preferably still remaining in front of them, so that he's more likely to be targeted than they are by those in the tower.

Not quite sure what to make of their new traveling companions, Cha-Ka decides to follow Mary's lead and check their bonds as well.

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

Here's what Cha-Ka bought:
- Cold weather outfit
- Heatstone
- 50ft silk rope (and he sold his 50ft of regular rope)

Cha-Ka is a young Tengu, standing about 4'5" in height. His clothes look like he woke up some time in the middle of the night and decided to go the desert. And he didn't bother to turn on the lights as he got dressed. Around his head is what appears to be a scarf just recently, and rather poorly, dyed a streaky off-black. The color clashes with his glossy black feathers, which are in turn a stark contrast from the light sandy color of the rest of his clothes. On his back is strapped a long, curved blade. Upon seeing both Castien and Ardisen, he grins happily at them.

Turning to the Venture Capatin, he asks "Do you expect someone to try to rescue the goblins? Is there some sign by which we should be able to identify our extraction team as opposed to some group pretending to be them?"

While he doesn't introduce himself to the rest of the group, the slip seems to be more one of obliviousness rather than one of ill intent.

Upon hearing Mary's question, he eagerly rummages through his bag. "I have rope! And...this!" He pulls out some rope and a small stick, which he enthusiastically waves around. Though he owns it and seems to know what it does, he clearly has no idea how to use it.

Oops, I totally forgot that I grabbed a potion of cure light. Oh well.

PFS #: 129459-1

Cha-Ka reporting in. Also, the title sounds cold.

If that druid's still alive, Cha-Ka will make it his favored enemy and attack. If it's already down, he'll move to the other small druid and attack that one instead. Unless she's asleep, in which case he'll go after the other big druid.

Cha-Ka swings mightily at one of the druids.

Subtract 1 from both of these if against a druid who he's not right next to.
To Hit: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 4 + 1 = 21
Damage: 1d10 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 1 = 8

Hoping to quickly take down the druids, Cha-Ka moves towards the one that Waylander is facing, swinging his blade at her.

To Hit: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
Damage: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Confirm Crit: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13
Crit Damage: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14
*whistles* Man, if that confirms, I'm going to be sad I didn't go after one of the uninjured ones. Not that I could have reached someone else though.

He calls back to the spellcasters in the group. "Would knocking down that piece of wood help disrupt the spell at all?"

Cha-Ka relaxes by pounding metal with a large hammer. Keeps him fit and ready to hit other things on the next adventure.

Craft Weapons: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Awww, sad. He hits his thumb with a hammer.

Ooo! Ooo! Linguistics check! (Linguistics for some reason is my favorite skill. Because I like knowing tons of languages)

Linguistics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19

Sometime before rushing in to the maze.
"Castien's right! The fairy creature says the ritual has started. And...ummm...Marodais, do you think you could help me out with this?" He waves at the gash in his leg that the dog gave him.

After entering the maze and splitting up.
"Nothing here but some chests that we should look at if we manage to defeat the druids."

By "South" do we actually mean "East" which is apparently the down direction? Or do we actually mean South? I'm going to go for the NE exit because it seems like that's closer to the direction the sound is coming from but if that's not the case I'll take a different exit.

Cha-Ka starts to take the North-East exit. "There are 3 exits here. We're taking the Northeast one." As he approaches the chosen exit, he allows his sword to drag slightly, leaving a clear gash in the ground to indicate their path.

Fort: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4 Haha...this isn't going to be good.

Oh, actually that's really not that bad.

Cha-Ka gives a caw of surprise as he begins rapidly shrinking. He blinks in puzzlement, looking up at the fairy and then down at himself again. Then he mutters "I hope a minotaur doesn't show up. It might mistake me for a halfling and kill me."

Taking a deep breath to calm his nerves, he looks intently at his target. Then with a flying leap he strikes at the creature before landing on the other side.

Cha-Ka makes the fairy his favored target. Also, the leaping jump is just flavor text + a 5ft step, not an actual jump.

To Hit: 1d20 + 3 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 3 + 1 + 1 = 13 BAB +1, Str is now +2 instead of +3, +1 for being small, +1 for favored enemy
Damage: 1d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 1 = 7 Smaller weapon, +2 reduced strength + 1 two-handed + 1 favored enemy

Ok then, I'll just take a second move action.

After standing up, Cha-Ka limps over to the rest of the group.

Ok then, I'll delay.

Cha-Ka unsteadily gets to his feet. Holding tightly to his sword, he peers around, attempting to see where the small fairy went.

Move action to stand up. Holding standard action for now.

Ouch. I hope he gets better soon!