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First line of Cleric dedication: You cast spells like a cleric. You gain the Cast a Spell activity.Under Scrolls in GM Core
I could be wrong, but given the above I would allow it. You have the Cast a Spell activity and nothing about scrolls requires spell slots that I am aware of.
btw, BBEG for this one had AC 24, 65 hp, Fast Heal 7 and resistance to all physical except magical silver. no particular weakness to vitality though it didn't matter with all the ghost charge bombs flying in! With a different scenario, I found out just how quickly vampires can be taken out by a Kineticist with Solar Detonation. Tess was still able to do her part in destroying them, but between the two of them the vampires didn’t really have a chance.
Chronicles sent. Goldur / SodiumTelluride I could not find a good way to give the extra prestige from within RPGChronicles. If you want, I can download a copy and edit it. Otherwise I think you can just note it in your own records and it should be fine.
After you wake in the morning, you find that Lileone has swallowed her pride and apologized to Zahra. Zahra is pleased that her name has been cleared. Yuka has finished the promised filter and brings it out to the coral reef. Honoke, Lileone and Zahra are all there to help with the clean up. With the effort of the group the coral reef is saved. While working on the cleanup, Salvio realizes something. If the charges had gone off, the resulting implosion of water likely would have pulled the toxic algae from the reef into the city. It is determined that Tsomo wasn’t an aquatic elf like he looked. He was a malenti in disguise. The city finds someone who eventually decodes the markings on the sharks. They were words such as each shark is marked with a different command, such as “Wait,” “Ready,” “Meet Here,” “Inform Zemdar,” and others. Given the involvement of sahuagin, the authorities believe that Zemdar would be Baron Zemdar — a sahuagin war leader who has been causing problems in the area. As such, the local militia takes a particular interest in the case. Zahra is pleased with your efforts, including the capture of Tsomo. The undine informs them she has made financial arrangements with Razethka and invites the PCs to join the next expedition to the shell settlement.
Lileone says “I’m not sure we will ever know the full story, but with something like this it seems they were trying to destroy part of the city, make it uninhabitable.” Looking towards the bound Tsomo being led off, she says “Hopefully the locals will learn more during the interrogation and investigation.”
Goldur pins Tsomo, which seems enough to have broken his spirit as he does not struggle when you tie him up.
With the saboteur caught and the explosives deactivated, things calm down. Lileone Expresses her gratitude for you catching Tsomo alive. You turn Tsomo over to the local law enforcement and can now find someplace to sleep.
Salvio gives Goldur a sudden boost to their strength. Round 7: Bolded may act. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Tsomo (Frenzied Sparkly Purple) 22 damage disarmed of ranseur grappled by Goldur
Round 8: Salvio
Galandir brings a rope over and hands it to Goldur. The Red Reverend threatens Tsomo with a spell. Goldur grapples Tsomo, having a rope ready if someone manages to pin him. If Tsomo were able to move you don’t think his grapple would have succeeded.
Tsomo finally manages to break free of the spell that was paralyzing him. You can tell because he starts speaking in aquaan again and doesn’t sound happy. Those who understand aquaaan are likely learning new and colorful phrases in the language that you are pretty sure are not appropriate in polite society.
Round 7: Bolded may act. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Tsomo (Frenzied Sparkly Purple) 22 damage disarmed of ranseur grappled by Goldur
Round 8: Salvio
This is a docking area, there are plenty of mooring ropes as well as other smaller ropes. The mooring ropes are probably too thick to use to reliably secure a person, but you do see others that would work.
With some difficulty the small water elemental manages to get Tsomo on the dock. Xuan has no difficulty getting the weapon away from Tsomo’s grip. He notices they still have a few more of the grenades.
Round 6: Bolded may act. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Tsomo (Frenzied Sparkly Purple) 22 damage disarmed of ranseur hold person DC 14
Round 7: Salvio
Galandir sheathes his weapon and shield. A wave appears in the pool and pushes at paralyzed Tsomo. Although Tsomo is bigger, while paralyzed the elemental is able to push him ten feet.
Tsomo remains paralyzed.
Round 6: Bolded may act. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Tsomo (Frenzied Sparkly Purple) 22 damage hold person DC 14
Round 7: Salvio
Goldur runs out on to the dock and asks Tsomo if they will cooperate. Then the remembers that Tsomo is paralyzed by The Red Reverend’s magic and can’t even turn his head to glare at him. Still seems to be in a killing frenzy, just a lot less movement at the moment. Round 5: Bolded may act. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Tsomo (Frenzied Sparkly Purple) 22 damage hold person DC 14
Round 6: Salvio
Xuan moves around the dock and then slips into the water where he will be able to reach Tsomo.
Round 5: Bolded may act. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Tsomo (Frenzied Sparkly Purple) 22 damage hold person DC 14
Round 6: Salvio
Tsomo stops in place.
Round 5: Bolded may act. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Tsomo (Frenzied Sparkly Purple) 22 damage hold person DC 14
Round 6: Salvio
It looks like 4-09 and 4-14 are related? Let's do those. 4-09 is only slightly related to 01-18 Lodge of the Living God levels 1–4 I don’t see any relation between it and 4-14. 4-14 Shattering Golden Chains Levels 3–6 Is likely related to:
—— 2-23 An Agent's Obligation Levels 3-6 I’ve evidently played it, but I have no memory of the plot.
Galandir misses with both of his attacks even though the now frenzied Tsomo isn’t protecting themselves as well as they were. Xuan moves towards the action while Salvio starts casting a summoning spell. Tsomo takes an attack of opportunity on Xuan as he moves through his threatened space and manages to hit.
He then withdraws in order to get some space between himself and those on the dock. Round 5: Bolded may act. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Tsomo (Frenzied Sparkly Purple) 22 damage
Round 6: Salvio
Some possibilities:
Repeatables:
Note that I don’t particularly like 1-23, I don’t consider it a good repeatable. I was just listing off all three 3-6 repeatables. I don’t think we have anyone good underwater, so Crashing Wave may not be the best fit for this group either.
This time Goldur hits hard with his hammer. The Red Reverend moves towards Tsomo. Round 4: Bolded may act. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Tsomo (Frenzied Sparkly Purple) 22 damage
Round 5: Salvio
The Red Reverend’s head goes underwater, but then he surges up again and pulls himself on to the dock. Tsomo flies into a frenzy and attacks Goldur. The attack hits.
The fire from the grenade finally goes out. Round 4: Bolded may act. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Tsomo (Frenzied Sparkly Purple) 7 damage
Round 5: Salvio
Xuan hits and kills the Red Shark as it flops around trying to get back into the water. He then turns and kills the Green Shark with two blows. Round 4: Bolded may act. Knowledge Nature for sharks. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Exploded 10’ area, end your turn in the area and take fire damage. Red Reverend 28 damage
Round 5: Salvio
Goldur continues to inspire everyone, although he does need some more weapons practice. Salvio moves to a better position. Red Shark flops around until it flops off the decks. It then bites in the general direction of Red Reverend.
Round 4: Bolded may act. Knowledge Nature for sharks. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Exploded 10’ area, end your turn in the area and take fire damage. Red Shark 6 damage
Round 5: Salvio
*clank* *thud* *glub* I show you as still having 43-28=15 hit points remaining, @Red Reverend. Any idea where the difference comes from? I notice you have hit points tracked in your profile, but wasn’t sure you had been maintaining it.
Galandir’s second strike hits Tsomo. Round 3: Bolded may act. Knowledge Nature for sharks. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Exploded 10’ area, end your turn in the area and take fire damage. Red Shark 6 damage
Round 4: Salvio
Tsomo swims to a flank with Red Shark and attacks The Red Reverend. His strike hits hard.
Tsomo makes some burbling sounds and Green shark moves into position to attack Xuan. The shark misses.
Spoiler:
The area of the grenade continues burning. The water recedes, leaving two of the sharks flopping on the deck. Tsomo uses some colorful aquaan phrases as the water recedes. Round 3: Bolded may act. Knowledge Nature for sharks. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Exploded 10’ area, end your turn in the area and take fire damage. Red Shark 6 damage
Round 4: Salvio
Xuan has fallen back into his style of feinting with the first strike and clobbering with the followup. Green nips at Red Reverend as he moves away, but doesn’t connect.
Round 3: Bolded may act. Docks are flooded with 4 feet of water, treat as deep bog or aquatic. Knowledge Nature for sharks. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Exploded 10’ area, end your turn in the area and take fire damage. Red Shark 6 damage
Round 4: Salvio
I wouldn’t mind if you allowed my sharks unleash that. Unfortunately it looks like they failed to take levels in Cleric so it would deviate rather severely from their published statistics. :)
Salvio attempts to shoot the shark in the water by ducking down into it. It doesn’t work this time. Sensing blood in the water, Red Shark swims over to Xuan and attacks them.
Round 3: Bolded may act. Docks are flooded with 4 feet of water, treat as deep bog or aquatic. Knowledge Nature for sharks. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Exploded 10’ area, end your turn in the area and take fire damage. Red Shark
Round 4: Salvio
Galandir moves through the deep water and gets ready to attack anything that approaches him. Round 2: Bolded may act. Docks are flooded with 4 feet of water, treat as deep bog or aquatic. Knowledge Nature for sharks. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Exploded 10’ area, end your turn in the area and take fire damage. Red Shark, readied attack
Round 3: Salvio
Goldur knows that these are Jigsaw Sharks. They are fast swimmers, able to cross the whole area without issue. They have nothing unusual that would allow them to operate on the docks once the water recedes and will not frenzy when there is blood in the water like some sharks do.
Everyone can tell they don’t have feet so once the water recedes they also expect they will get off the docks. Goldur then moves through the deep water to a better position. Round 2: Bolded may act. Docks are flooded with 4 feet of water, treat as deep bog or aquatic. Knowledge Nature for sharks. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Exploded 10’ area, end your turn in the area and take fire damage. Red Shark, readied attack
Round 3: Salvio
Xuan tries to strike Tsomo as he swims away but isn’t able to. Galandir waits to see what will happen. The portal at the bottom of the chamber opens and water surges up over the docks. The docks are temporarily covered by about 4 foot of water, and the sharks surge up with the water. You expect it will not take long for the water to return to the normal level.
As the water surges up, the Green Sharks floats up to where it can bite Red Reverend, but misses.
Round 2: Bolded may act. Knowledge Nature for sharks. Docks are flooded with 4 feet of water, treat as deep bog or aquatic. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Exploded 10’ area, end your turn in the area and take fire damage. Red Shark, readied attack
Round 3: Salvio
He then takes a step to get out of the flanking position and into the water and then swims backwards.
The Red Reverend and Xuan move to flank Tsomo. The grenade Tsomo had thrown explodes in fire and shrapnel. There is fire in the area where it exploded.
Tsomo carefully moves out of the flanking position and attacks Xuan with his ranseur.
Round 2: Bolded may act. Knowledge Nature for sharks. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Exploded 10’ area, end your turn in the area and take fire damage. Red Shark, readied attack
Round 3: Salvio
PaizoCon @ Fox Den, I am one of the organizers for the event.
Sorry, it is likely I will not have time to update until Monday.
Goldur starts inspiring people. Salvio feels very inspired and manages to one-shot the Yellow Shark.
Red Shark swims over to where there is blood in the water. Round 2: Bolded may act. Knowledge Nature for sharks but they look normal so unless you are in water they shouldn’t be able to bite you. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. White diamond is unexploded grenade Red Shark, readied attack
Round 3: Salvio
Spoiler:
Galandir moves up next to Xuan. The two sharks move to different areas near the docks. They look like they are ready to bite anything that comes in range. Round 1: Bolded may act. Knowledge Nature for sharks but they look normal so unless you are in water they shouldn’t be able to bite you. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. White diamond is unexploded grenade Red Shark, readied attack
Round 2: Salvio
Red Reverend also moves to get closer to Tsomo. Tsomo tosses a grenade and then moves out on to the dock. As he moves he draws a ranseur.
Round 1: Bolded may act. Knowledge Nature for sharks but they look normal so unless you are in water they shouldn’t be able to bite you. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Salvio
Xuan moves towards Tsomo.
Tsomo gets splattered by a glitter bomb. He manages to blink at the right time to avoid getting the glitter in his eyes.
Red Shark swims over to the edge of the dock, snapping his jaws.
Round 1: Bolded may act. Knowledge Nature for sharks but they look normal so unless you are in water they shouldn’t be able to bite you. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Salvio
Initiative:
The dock area is filled with air. The water here is 20 feet deep and calm. The gate at the bottom of the dock is partially raised, with a 5-foot gap that allows the sharks to pass freely underneath it. The portal underneath the water in the middle of the dock can be opened to allow ships to rise into the center. Passengers can then disembark onto the wooden platforms. The rollers on the upper end of the dock facilitate taking ships ashore when necessary. Round 1: Bolded may act. Knowledge Nature for sharks but they look normal so unless you are in water they shouldn’t be able to bite you. Goldur and Red Reverend are fatigued. Salvio
You manage to catch up to Tsomo at the docks. It seems the guards have blocked his exit as you follow him into a dock. He sneers and says “Looks like my only way out is through you. Your loss.”
The efforts of Galandir, Xuan and Salvio are successful, preventing Tsomo from making any progress. The group closes the gap. You come into an area with several food stalls. The group tails Tsomo into the savory sights and smells of the bazaar's dining area. A character can identify painfully hot seasonings with a DC 18 Appraise check and dump the spices into the water to aggravate Tsomo's vision, succeed at a DC 14 Dexterity check to snatch food and fling it into the water to provoke a feeding frenzy, or attempt a DC 16 Bluff check to convince an angry merchant that Tsomo shoplifted something as he fled, causing the merchant to join the pursuit.
Tsomo widens the gap. Only Xuan managed to slow him down at all.
You make it to an Engineering Bay. Tsomo dodges into a large, water-filled chamber that contains submersibles available for rental. You can attempt a DC 18 Knowledge (engineering) check to harry Tsomo with an apparatus of the crab, succeed at a DC 20 Disable Device check or a DC 13 Strength check to sink the submersibles to block Tsomo's exit, or cast any electricity spell of 1st level or higher on the machinery to force Tsomo out of the water. The submersibles are too large to quickly leave the bay, so Tsomo cannot use them to flee you.
Salvio doesn’t come up with a way to get the squid to reflexively squirt ink. Xuan just pokes the squid in the eye, causing it to drop packages. The Red Reverend calls out to the squid to “Put the squeeze on that guy!” and they do. Goldur shows Salvio how to get the squid to squirt ink in Tsomo’s face. Galandir tries the same trick of poking the squid in the eye, but by now it is on guard against that.
You manage to catch up a little bit with Tsomo.
You approach a masterful performance. The chase crosses paths with a group of marketplace performers, who are putting on a show with trained dolphins and penguins. Characters who succeed at a DC 20 Handle Animal or wild empathy check can command the dolphins to grab at the villian, those who succeed at a DC 16 Ride check can grab hold of a dolphin and speed forward to block Tsomo's path, and those who succeed at a combat maneuver against CMD 22 can collar Tsomo with one of the hoops from the performance. Characters can attempt a DC 13 Dexterity check to save the penguins from being trampled, but this action does not slow Tsomo's movement.
Goldur takes one of the waterbreathing potions. That is two of the three available, Xuan having already taken one. Although Red Reverend isn’t able to slow down the fleeing villian, Goldur is able to operate a different bridge and cause him to backtrack.
You manage to keep pace with Tsomo.
You continue through the market, both you and Tsomo finding the path impeded by an Obtrusive Customer. Ahead you see an awakened giant squid, who is covered in bright parcels and leisurely perusing the market stalls. You can ask the squid to grab Tsomo with a DC 19 Diplomacy check, force the squid to squirt ink at Tsomo with a DC 18 Knowledge (nature) check, or make an attack roll against AC 20 to poke the squid in the eye and make it drop its packages on top of Tsomo.
By the time that Salvio has a good idea of how to operate the bridge, Tsomo is already past it. Xuan finds he is just a little too slow to block the fleeing villian here. Galandir does manage to force Tsomo to double back, having swam to block off one avenue of escape.
Neither Galandir nor Salvio are successful in slowing the villian down. He widens the gap between you.
You enter Gondolier’s Canal. Tsomo attempts to dart between two halves of a movable bridge that has been raised to allow gondolas to pass through. You can force him to change his path with a DC 18 Swim check to physically block his exit, a DC 16 Knowledge (engineering) check to close the bridge and seal off his escape route, or a DC 18 Acrobatics check using a trio of passing tojanidas as platforms to move ahead and cut him off. Any of these actions cause Tsomo to swim in a different direction, slowing his escape to the docks.
Xuan hits the fleeing saboteur in the face with some jellyfish. Tsomo manages to keep his balance in spite of Goldur’s spell.
The Red Reverend puts a small crack in the tank.
You leave the Glass Pit to chase Tsomo through the Livestock Mart. Your group spots Tsomo diving into the bazaar's animal tanks, commanding nearby sharks to help cover his escape. You can use a successful DC 16 Handle Animal or wild empathy check to command an ill-tempered leopard seal to bite the fleeing Tsomo's leg, perform a combat maneuver against CMD 18 to grab a cluster of jellyfish and fling them into Tsomo's eyes, or make a ranged attack against AC 16 that deals at least 10 points of damage to shatter a glass tank of piranhas and spill the hazardous fish into Tsomo's path (multiple attackers can contribute to the necessary hit points). You can make an attack roll against AC 14 to protect bystanders from the sharks, but this action does not slow Tsomo's movement. Goldur and Red Reverend are Fatigued.
Fatigued: Fatigued: A fatigued character can neither run nor charge and takes a –2 penalty to Strength and Dexterity. Doing anything that would normally cause fatigue causes the fatigued character to become exhausted. After 8 hours of complete rest, fatigued characters are no longer fatigued.
Goldur and Galandir each manage to handle one of the sites. Salvio manages to deactivate the last two sites. You meet back near the Glass Pit. As you are discussing where to find a bed for the night, Lileone points out Tsomo. Realizing he has been spotted, Tsomo jumps into one of Vialesk's waterways to swim towards the docks. |
