Faiza "Ember" Nejem's page

Had a great time. :) Thanks for answering the initial request from Cinder and myself, GM!

Sorry! Out of the house most of the day.

PFS: 30341-21
Faction: Liberty's Edge
Current XP: 2
Current Prestige: 2
Current Fame: 4

(no day job)

HOORAY! It looked hairy there for a bit. :3

Ember is happy to let her wand be used to heal the woman they've been looking for. She listens, more or less seriously, to the tale of Kassen. But as soon as they're walking out the crypt, she abandons the pretense of solemnity to do a running leap and land atop her brother's back, piggy-back style.

"Hi-ho, Cinder! Take me out of here as a conquering hero. I nearly died in that last combat, you have to carry me. I'm so weak now."

Back in the town, Ember gives Vigny a cheerful hug. "Thanks for keeping us on our feet! You're a good woman to have around in a pinch. Love to travel with you again, sometime!"

Ember turns on Ayo then, seemingly debating whether to dare hugging the serious woman as well. Ultimately she settles for a handshake.

"You may have a stick jammed up there and not know what the word 'fun' means, but you're tough as nails and I'd fight at your side anytime. Carry on doing you, Captain."

Yay team!

Once the healing is dispensed via that faithful wand...

3 total wand charges for for Ember: 3d8 + 3 ⇒ (7, 6, 6) + 3 = 22 (Hey, good heals!)

...Ember sits up woozily. "Dii' we win?" she groans, clutching at her head. "Ooohhh. It looked bad there for a bit. Cinder, you okay?"

(If anyone needs wand charges please feel free to roll yours. Best 2 PP I've ever spent... but I think we're gonna have nearly wiped out this wand, haha!)

Sorry, got caught up in stuff/got a little food poisoning or something and forgot to roll my save after asking if the heal could be redirected at Ayo. Also I'm at the 21 damage not the 14, since I did not receive that heal in question!

Round 4 stabilize: 1d20 + 2 - 8 ⇒ (9) + 2 - 8 = 3

Round 5 stabilize: 1d20 + 2 - 9 ⇒ (15) + 2 - 9 = 8

Now at -23 damage (-10 HP). You got this, team! Keep focusing on him! *waves pompoms*

If you want to hit Ayo with that CLW rather than me she might be a better bet, Vigny! (GM permitting the retcon.) Because she has some self-healing abilities. Will roll a stabilization check depending.

Ember goes limp at the powerful blow, falling without a word to the crypt's floor.

Stabilize, DC 10: 1d20 + 4 - 7 ⇒ (10) + 4 - 7 = 7

More blood pools around her from the slash.

(Nice hit, Vigny! :D At least one of us rolled good damage on that. Not sure if it was a flavor/RP bit there or not, but just in case, using wands doesn't provoke. :) )

Ember wheezes. "M-maybe a little bit... of... healing...?" she manages at Vigny, but she gamely tries to bring down the bastard who'd just slashed her.

Unarmed strike, flank, trait: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13 Yuck. Going to use my portfolio re-roll and GM stars

Reroll: 1d20 + 8 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 8 + 4 = 31 Ha, that's better, if only it was a 19-20 weapon!
Damge: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 2) = 4 Yeah, that was totally worth it.

Her fist plows into bones, but Ember's weakening from blood loss. She steps south, to avoid getting surrounded like that again.

Seeing her brother cured somewhat by means of the potion he drank, Ember relaxes slightly-- that turns out to be a mistake, as the scimitar catches her across the belly. Ayo gets hit at the same time, and Ember hisses.

"Damn! Ayo, hang in there!" she calls to the eastern woman, and tries again to drop her target.

Unarmed strike: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

The pain of the injury makes her strike go very wide. Ember takes a step back.

"Dammit, brother! Stop getting hurt!" Ember calls at her twin. She kicks the knee out from the skeleton nearest her, or tries to.

Vs Pink: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

"Vigny, got any tricks up your sleeves?"

Once they're across the dangerous section, Ember helps Ayo re-dress in her armor (unless those doors swinging open happened automatically or something), and strides forward to the doors.

Her speech on seeing the enemy ahead is less badass than Ayo's. "Hey! More skeletons! One of them talks!"

Ember dashes in, vaulting off the stairs in order to try and land feet-first in the ribcage of the closest skeleton-- hopefully crunching bone in the process.

Unarmed strike vs flat-footed yellow: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21
Damage (bludgeoning, sneak attack): 2d6 ⇒ (2, 5) = 7

I am totally fun skipping the swarm.

"Woah!" Ember says. Clearly she'd been distracted and shaken by the gory vision from the pool. "Hmm. I don't know any way to turn those plates off... maybe I should start studying that kinda thing."

She frowns. "Maybe we could jump across them? Wonder what they do."

Can anyone in the group not make a DC 10 Acrobatics if you take 10 and have the running start? On my brief look at everyone's sheets it seems like we're all capable of pulling that off-- Ayo can if she takes her armor off. But someone speak up if I have it wrong. We're not in a time crunch, so taking 10 would be allowed.

Will(power, it's now or never...): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17

Ember makes a face. "Gross! Don't look at the water. You'll see really creepy images."

Ember freezes, staring down into the water at what looks like some eldritch horror to her. After a second she parses what she's seeing as the ceiling with a myriad of small bat forms upside down, and not.... a tentacle beast with five hundred faces. She mimes for quiet with a finger held to her lips, then points upward.

Ember tries to tip forward, seeing no purpose to disturb the critters if they've managed to ignore the ruckus so far.

Stealth if needed?: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Sorry! Lingering Thanksgiving food coma here. Yeah, that's what I'll plead.

I moved people on the map.

Ember nods at her brother taking the potion-- he's come too close to death several times for her liking in the last few days. She peers around the room, looking at the standing water with distaste and hoping they don't need anything that happens to be at the bottom of the pool.

She makes a face at her reflection.

"How much you wanna bet there's some slimy leeches in there?" she stage-whispers to the others.

Ember breathes hard, shaking her head. "That was rough as hell," she says emphatically. "Cinder, you have got to stop getting hurt so much. Can one of you ladies heal up my fragile brother with that wand?"

Another CLW on Cinder: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8 Should put Cinder at full. Lol, I think I might wind up burning through most of this wand, this scenario.

She picks up her crossbow, while Ayo looks to see if any of her spears are salvageable.

Looks like two of Ayo's shortspears definitely missed. 50% recovery, I think:

Spear 1, high is good: 1d100 ⇒ 78
Spear 2, high is good: 1d100 ⇒ 58

She is able to salvage both spears.

Ember stows her crossbow and draws her blade again. "Let's go see what was in that room, then!"

She moves back down the hall.

"Fair enough," Ember concedes to Vigny. She takes one more defensive swipe at the lead zombie then backs up to let Vigny take her place.

Fighting defensively: 1d20 + 6 - 4 ⇒ (12) + 6 - 4 = 14
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6

5 ft step out to let Vigny in, move action to pick her crossbow up from this square

"Ayo! Can you help my brother with my wand Vigny passed you?"

I think Ayo's still not quite fully back with us per her OOC statement-- she's also out of ranged weapons now, heh. I'll have her CLW on Cinder if you're still cool with that GM.

CLW on cinder: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

"Cinder's the only one of us real hurt right now," Ember points out. "I'll stand this ground until I take a blow."

She adopts a defensive posture and lashes out with her blade.

Fight defensive vs orange: 1d20 + 6 - 4 ⇒ (11) + 6 - 4 = 13
Damage if that hits: 1d6 ⇒ 3

AC 19 for the round. Welcome back bro! I know Ayo is still wrestling with RL illness so I'll keep botting her for the moment.

The honorable warrior has only one shortspear left. She draws and throws it, retaining her stoic silence.

Ayo vs Green, cover: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 2 - 4 = 14
Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8 (I think I forgot earlier that thrown ranged weapons add STR bonus. Oh well)

Woops forgot Cinder's Fort save:

Cinder Fort: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Ruh roh, bro

"Ah, dragon crap!" Ember shouts as as her brother gets badly hit. "Get back, Cinder! Get to the fountain!"

Wobbly on his feet, Cinder can only take a short step backwards. 5-ft

Ember hurriedly steps up to take his place, dropping her crossbow in order to draw her short sword and stab.

Mwk shortsword vs blue: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Ayo retains her grim silence, stricken with the dishonor of attacking at ranged like this. She throws the fourth-- and nearly the last-- of her shortspears, dogged determination marking her movements.

Ayo vs Red: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 2 - 4 = 2

No luck for the eastern woman, however.

Ember locks and loads and fires again over her brother's shoulder!

Vs Red, cover: 1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (8) + 5 - 4 = 9
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 4

But her bolt misses.... Cinder adopts a defensive stance, focused on holding the line while the others pepper the creatures in the back.

Unarmed strike vs blue w/ combat expertise and fighting defensively: 1d20 + 4 - 4 - 1 ⇒ (7) + 4 - 4 - 1 = 6

Miss, but this boosts Cinder's AC to 18 for the round

Ayo grimly hurls a third spear, again targeting the reddish zombie.

Spear vs Red, cover: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (12) + 2 - 4 = 10

Unfortunately her spear clatters to the stone much like Ember's crossbow bolt.

I think Ayo's STR damage got cleared by the fountain drinking.

"Vigny!" Ember calls out in alarm. "You okay?"

She slots another crossbow bolt into her weapon and fires again.

Crossbow vs Red (not blue), cover penalty: 1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 5 - 4 = 10 Assumed miss

***

(Cinder's working on his homework project due tomorrow but he says hi, heh. Ayo's player has requested I continue to bot her due to life situation. Continuing to bot both of them, with their players' permission, unless that's a problem, GM.)

Ayo, with the grim stoicism of her honor, throws another shortspear forward.

Shortspear, cover penalty: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 2 - 4 = 13
Damage if hits: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Cinder knows his sister is going to yell at him a lot for not bringing a ranged weapon. He calls out to the injured Vigny: "If you pull back, I can take the front line!"

(Readied action to move forward into Vigny's current square if Vigny pulls back)

(Cinder's buried under a mountain of homework but since he has no ranged weapon he asked me to say that he delays. I appreciate the effort from Vigny and you, GM! But since it looks like it'll be unfeasible to finish up tomorrow, haha, don't worry too much about it.)

As a heads-up, I know it's been a really rough week for Ayo. I'll try and ask her later today if she'd appreciate my botting her.

Ember snaps a crossbow bolt off over Vigny's shoulder.

Vs Blue, cover: 1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 5 - 4 = 20 Potential crit!
Confirm?: 1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 5 - 4 = 14

Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 4
Extra damage if confirms: 1d8 ⇒ 8

"Anything's a ranged weapon if you throw it hard enough," Ember snickers. "Alright, let's do as Vigny says!"

She pulls back down the tunnel, drawing her crossbow as she goes.

Ember will take a swig of the fountain before she moves on. "Hey, I'll risk it, Kassen seemed like an alright fellow!"

Which isn't to say she looks totally confident. She swallows, tensing to see if she's about to puke or die, before hurrying on to the next chamber.

(Took the liberty of moving us all to #18 on the map)

Still uncertainly looking down at her gut to see if the water is about to make her ill, Ember peers into this catacombs doubtfully. "Smells like somethin' curled up and died in here, alright," she mutters. "Eyes sharp, folks."

She moves in, intending to follow the wall around until it reveals either dead ends or another passage. She keeps a wary eye on the recesses and the sarcophagi as she goes.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

Had to give the map a look again.

"There's a lot of things on this level we haven't seen yet," Ember points out. "Let's see what we can see, eh?"

She leads back the way they came and to the juncture point, trying a different passageway. Perception for the room she's about to enter: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14

I moved Ember to where she suggests the party try and explore. I know we're all sort of collectively dragging but if we can punch through at a good clip with each other for the last leg of this, that would be awesome. :D I'm as guilty as anyone else, I know. But Cinder's player and and I have a convention the weekend after this one, and it'd be really cool if we could play the twins at it-- we each have plenty of other characters so it's not a requirement, but if we can summon up some speed for the last leg, that'd be great!

"Sounds good!" Ember says. "About face!"

She seems in good spirits as she starts back the other way.

Ember tends to rely on her speed rather than her strength but she makes the attempt.

STR #1: 1d20 ⇒ 13
STR #2: 1d20 ⇒ 8
STR #3: 1d20 ⇒ 4

"Cinder! Get over here! You're the brawn of this relationship!"

(If we can take 10 on the STR check then I assume Cinder can manage it fine. ;) for that matter so could Ember but either/or.)

Ember shrugs. "We could just give it a try, but... hang on."

Using her blade, she scrapes away some of the black mold to try and see if the carvings depict anything useful.

(If the carvings don't seem to apply to the wheel, she'll go ahead and try to turn the wheel anyway.)

"Y'alright there Cinder?" Ember says with a concerned look at her brother, and gives a nod of permission for Vigny to use the wand on her poor beaten sibling as needed. (Feel free to roll your own healing Cinder-- are you actually down 10, or is that from the last combat?)

Looking around at the wheel, Ember grimaces. "Wonder if it's meant to drain the room, or something? Like there's a plug or a crank down there beneath the water?"

Perception to study the wheel?: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

"Stop getting hurt, Cinder!" Ember yells at her brother, while trying to do a wheel kick through the skeleton's ribcage.

Attack green: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

She doesn't connect, but she steps back all the same-- knowing her brother's tactics as her own, if they both pull back the skeletons must step forward.

Another punch from the dynamic duo!

Unarmed strike vs red: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Sorry, family illness lately.

Ember moves in and punches at the closest skeleton!

Unarmed strike vs red: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

...she misses.

Ember nods her thanks for Vigny's use of the wand, giving her a thumbs up now that her brother is breathing again, and her own scratch is healed.

"Thanks-- those frogs were nasty, eh? I don't see much in here beyond coins. Cinder, you alright?

"...and how about you, captain?" she half-teases Ayo, concerned over the stoic woman's weakened appearance since fighting the awful shadowy thing. "We okay to keep trekkin'? I don't think we can do much for the poor dead bastard in the corner."

Ember hurries over to her brother before anything else. "Where's my wand!" she cries.

Only after he's been seen to does she look around.

Untrained heal: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

(Take 10 on the Perception)

"Oh hey... shinies." With a quasi-apologetic look at the very dead person they originally belonged to, Ember starts sliding the man's ring off his finger, and his belt pouch as well.

"Uh, I'll just see if there's an inscription on this ring... maybe he has family who could... inherit..."

"Can someone help my brother!?" Ember shouts, and stabs again at the frog.

Vs Frog's grappled AC: 1d20 + 6 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 6 - 2 - 2 = 22
Confirm? Vs Frog's grappled AC: 1d20 + 6 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 6 - 2 - 2 = 22

...holy crap, apparently she's really upset over her brother!

Critical: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 4) = 10

"CINDER!" Ember calls out again, torn between her brother who's barely standing and her own problems, like the bite she just took. She savagely stabs at the frog again. "Let me GO!"

Attack, grappled penalty, dex penalty: 1d20 + 6 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (18) + 6 - 2 - 2 = 20
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Her blow is accurate but weak.

"Cinder!" Ember shouts angrily, watching her brother get nommed and unable to move closer to stop it. She hacks at her frog.

Attack blue: 1d20 + 6 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 6 - 2 - 2 = 11 -2 for the grappled itself, which washes with frog grappled AC; additional -2 for the dex penalty
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6

"Ow! Where the hell did they come from!" Ember yelps as she gets one arm nommed by a sticky frog tongue. Unable to take advantage of positioning with her brother, she settles for delivering a sideways stab at the red-hued frog.

Attack with shortsword, grappled penalty: 1d20 + 6 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 6 - 4 = 12
Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

(Will go on blue if red is down)

"Hot damn!" Ember says, impressed, at Vigny's feat of strength-- but praise dies a moment later at the new foe to deal with. "Hey, wait for me, Cinder!"

Acrobatics, ACP: 1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (13) + 4 - 1 = 16

She follows suit after her brother's lead, by jumping into the murky water in order to get into an advantageous position. I think even with some leaping it's a double move for me to reach the current square.

Pretty sure none of us have Kn Nature, hehe.

Ember wrinkles her nose. "Let's try this other passage. Maybe there's an option that isn't 'get burned like a dead rat.'"

She moves north until she comes to an apparent door, and looks it over for trouble.

Per for traps?: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

Gosh, this week.

Ember looks around with her nose wrinkled. "I don't like the looks of those little dead rats either, Vigny. That fungus looks like a nasty hanging spiderweb, too. Anyone got a torch? Maybe it'll burn."

Perception for anything amiss: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

(Ember just likes annoying you, Cinder. Or her typist missed the west thing. >___>)

Ember stays behind Ayo, blade drawn, peering around.

Per: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

She doesn't hear whatever her brother is talking about, but she stays ready all the same.

Sorry, busy weekend!

Ember flashes Vigny a grin but trots over to her. "Can you use that voodoo stick of mine on me a second? I got scratched a little that time."

(Assuming Vigny willingly activates Ember's wand:)

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

"Better, thanks! Right, so south, east, and west, huh? We could leave it to chance."

She pulls out a three-sided coin (hey, it could happen) and gives it a flip.

1-S, 2-E, 3-W: 1d3 ⇒ 2

Ember grins as one skeleton falls. She takes an adjusting step-and-kick, driving her heel towards the exposed spine of the next skeleton.

Unarmed, flank, trait: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 5 + 2 + 1 = 22
Damage, sneak attack: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 4) = 7

Sorry! My bad

Ember tries a complicated roll to get into a better position regarding the skeleton...

Acrobatics vs Yellow's CMD: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18

...and comes up out of the roll with a brutal elbow to its skull.

Unarmed strike, flank, trait: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 5 + 2 + 1 = 28
Confirm?: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 5 + 2 + 1 = 14

Normal damage: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5
Extra damage if 14 confirms: 1d6 ⇒ 6

"--bah," Ember says at Cinder's successful blow. "You only got that cuz I distracted it!"

"Aw, you shouldn't talk about yourself like-- oh hey more bone guys!"

Ember darts forward, chanting one of the arena songs. "Look to the left! Look to the right! Stand-up-sit-down fight fight fight!"

She slips into position behind the slow skeleton and smashes her knee into the base of the undead's exposed spine.

Unarmed strike vs flatfooted red: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
Damage, sneak attack: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 6) = 12

...well, she tries to smash her knee into its spine. She's a little off-balance, and kicks hard, but inaccurately.