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Honestly, probably not. I love this trilogy, and I planned to run the whole thing when I started. But I'm feeling kind of burned out with things in my local PFS community, and my personal life. So I'm going to step away from PbP stuff for a while. I enjoyed GMing for you all. You were a great group, and I hope you all had fun! Hopefully you can find a GM willing to run part 3 for you.
You are able to bring the sailors to shore, adding another day to your journey. They appear a bit disgruntled to be walking, but are happy to be alive nonetheless. After three more days of travel, you cross the Sea of Eels in peace. You arrive in Shokuro and rendezvous with a Pathfinder Society contact who is waiting to receive the Laughing Crow. From here, the mission heads inland towards Nesting Swallow...
Ne'erduwyl:
an untrained Knowledge check cant succeed at a DC greater than 10. You are unable to understand the information contained in the book. After recovering all of the items, you have an uneventful trip through the sewers to back to the street level of Korvosa.
Giovanni:
try as you may, you find it just too difficult to make sense of the smeared writing. Peregryne finds no other dangers in the room, and progresses to the alcove and removes a few flagstones, as per the instructions. Doing so reveals a backpack. Looking inside the backpack, it has more storage space than it would appear.
Backpack, Spellcraft DC24:
longsword, Spellcraft DC20:
+1 longsword chain shirt, Spellcraft DC20:
+1 mithral chain shirt ring, Spellcraft DC20:
... the bag also contains several hundred gold and platinum coins. As well as a tarnished, plain silver locket whose interior bears only the inscription "Ever Yours --EK".
2 different potions, a scroll, short sword, a cloak, robe with needles in the sleeves, battered notebook, walking stick[/ooc] Potion 1; Alchemy or Spellcraft DC18:
potion of cure moderate wounds Potion 2: Alchemy or Spellcraft DC18:
potion of invisibility Scroll; Spellcraft DC 23 or 'Read Magic':
scroll of Summon Monster III Detect Magic:
the robe and cloak detect as magical cloak, Spellcraft DC20:
cloak of resistance +1 robe, Spellcraft DC20:
If looking at the gremlin's book:
it is haphazardly filled with information; however, most of the contents are damp, and the ink has run and smeared.
Taking tactical positions Peregryne and Endir finish off the small creature across the room. After doing so, several party members notice that their positioning for clear shots put them on a slanted area of the floor leading into the pit. Reflex Saves:
Status:
Giovanni steps over and misses his thrust at the creature wrapped around Sal. Ne'erduwyl wiggles her ears in an attempt to hypnotize the tiny creature...
Endir lodges an arrow in the beast that's hugging Sal! The tiny creatures falls prone for a nap. Initiatives - Bold may act:
Giovanni lights the room followed by a blast from Peregryne, destroying the creature that was attacking Giovanni. Sal takes a swipe at the creature grappling him, to no avail.
Peregryne lets out another burst of energy, seriously wounding the creature at the far end of the room.
The other creatures tries to maintain its grip on Sal.
Initiatives - Bold may act:
Giovanni draws an oil and applies it to his buckler starting to light up the room, as the creature next to him lashes out at him.
Endir moves onto the stairs while drawing his bow and taking aim at the creature grappling Sal!
The tiny humanoid on the far side of the room begins reading from a scroll... Initiatives - Bold may act:
An odd flapping sound comes down from the ceiling and whooshes right at Giovanni!
A similar sound comes from the darkness and Sal feels something try and hit him.
Initiatives - Bold may act:
Valon deftly jumps on board the attacking ship and strikes at one of the remaining sailors, leaving the sailor rather "woozy" looking! The sailor tries to steady himself and swing back at Valon!
The remaining sailor tries to jump onto The Laughing Crow...
Initiatives - Bold may act:
Dexter:
Spellcraft: Create Pit
Initiatives - Bold may act:
With unerring accuracy Danny knocks one of the LingShenese Sailors square in the chest. Meanwhile The Balrog cuts down one of the other sailors in one fell stroke! Daji is trying to come up with a plan as the rigging of the ship flaps into his face, despite the wind blowing the other direction. He settles for casting a spell to boost his allies and readies his morningstar. The scimitar weilding individual near the ship's center mast casts a spell, and a bolt of force flies out at The Balrog.
Initiatives - Bold may act:
Ne'erduwyl:
These creatures that look like stalactites made out of tentacles and flesh are Darkmantle(s). Small Magical Beasts. They can cast Darkness as a Spell-Like Ability once per day.
From the far side of the room you hear some guttural, almost arcane sounding, vocalizations.
Initiatives - Bold may act:
After a few more moments the ship pulls up to yours and the crew (both above deck and below) grab onto The Laughing Crow with grappling hooks and pull the ships together. Clearly a hostile boarding action is about to take place! Initiatives:
Initiatives - Bold may act:
The few furnishings in this large chamber are restricted to racks, iron maidens, and other implements of torture. Near the center of the room a massive table with manacles hanging from each corner bears testament to grisly interrogations, and nearby a pair of wooden tubs stand empty, their contents long since evaporated. Against the north wall stand several empty racks and hooks for holding weapons or tools; the implements that once hung there are now scattered in disarray across the floor. A short series of steps near the eastern wall leads to the only exit.
Perception:
Some of you almost catch sight of a a small, dark colored gremlin on the far-side of the room, before some movement on the ceiling takes most of you by surprise! Initiatives:
Some of you catch a glimpse of a creature that looks like a bunch of tentacles joined together by flesh, before a large area of the room goes dark!
Initiatives - Bold may act:
With Dexter pointing out the mechanisms that Giovanni may have overlooked, Dexter sets to work disabling the trap.
After about 30 seconds there is a hollow *click* as Giovanni finishes his work.
Feeling confident that he has surpassed the trap Giovanni opens the door... Past the stone door, the coarse brick of the sewers gives way to cut stone block construction with corbeled arch ceilings that peak at a height of ten feet. Sturdy wooden doors line the walls, though years of mildewed neglect have eaten away at the facades.
Moving up to the door, Dexter and Giovanni give it a once over. Dexter:
It looks like when the door is opened, something(s) may get launched out of one or more of the holes in the wall/ceiling surrounding the door. Giovanni:
The door is quite decorative and well made. The only thing of apparent note is the ruby/glass in the horse's eye. Which you're pretty sure you could pop out without much issue. There don't appear to be any traps. The rest of the group admires the pictures of the horseman tribes fighting demons or the like.
Valon is able to free the ship from what stopped it, and hop back on board. After about a day's travel through the narrow canyon and gully The Laughing Crow and crew reach The Sea of Eels, which looks to be a journey of a few days to cross. The sea (actually a large lake) has no viable current, so you must rely on The Laughing Crow's sails and the wind to propel you along the water. Perceptions:
Your first day of sailing across The Sea of Eels passes without issue, though everyone in the group (save The Balrog) notices the glint of ship's sails in the distance just before sunset. On the morning of the second day... The light of dawn reveals a ship some six hundred feet to port and fast approaching. Its banner bears a single upthrust spear, and its golden sails sparkle in the morning sun. Knowledge (Local OR Nobility) DC 13:
The ship's markings belong to the Lingshen. The ship is heading straight for you. Status:
The Laughing Crow (ship)
The group heads east, then looks north... Algae and moss slick the first four stairs in a short flight of steps that rises to a stone and steel door worked with designs of riders on horseback. Etched into the center of the door is a horse head emblem with a fleck of ruby-red glass for an eye. The edges of the door bear depictions of Shoanti on horseback fighting horned, winged monsters.
Status::
Ne'erduwyl Giovanni Endir Peregryne Dexter & Sal Finding nothing of note among the fungal patch, the group continues on following Sascha's instructions. Following the sewers for another ~650 feet, descending gently to follow the water flow. A natural cleft in the rocky soil breaches the sewer wall and rises gently to the north. Heaps of stranded organic material and garbage litter the opening, from which emanates a pungent stink even stronger than the complex’s already unpleasant odor.
Giovanni and Sal both attack the creature as it leaves itself vulnerable while making ranged attacks, and Sal takes out a large chunk of fungal growth! Their next attacks miss, however. Endir lets loose an arrow that finally drops the creature! and Peregryne blasts it with forceful wind for good measure, to ensure it doesn't rise again.
Status:
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