I was just waiting to make sure Brom got his chronicle before I inactive it, so inactiving now.
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"Find Baba Yaga, Elvanna must be stopped and only Baba Yaga can stop her." Are the man's final words.
“You can find its source in the Pale Tower, on the other side, but this portal is but one of many. Through them, Elvanna will spread a new ice age across your world, consuming it for all eternity. Closing this portal might save Taldor, but Golarion would still be doomed.” In addition to this, the man informs you that the portal leads to Irrisen, and as pathfinders you would need to report back to the society before a team could be sent through the portal.
“She seeks to take Baba Yaga’s place, and claim all of Golarion as her personal kingdom. Irrisen is a land of endless winter, created by Baba Yaga’s magic. Elvanna seeks to cover the entire world in ice and snow, using portals like this one.” The man explains.
He is clearly on his death bed, no amount of healing could keep him alive. "It means that I herald Baba Yaga's return, but something has happened to Baba Yaga. Every hundred years, she returns to Irrisen to place a new daughter on the throne. But Queen Elvanna has other plans, it seems. Baba Yaga has not appeared as planned, and Elvanna intends to slay everyone loyal to her mother. She hunted down those of us who would herald Baba Yaga’s return and slew my associates. I am the last of the Three Riders and a threat to Elvanna’s plans.” The man answers, pausing randomly to cough up blood.
“Once, I was called Illarion Matveius. Now I am known as Black Midnight. I am Baba Yaga’s Black Rider, harbinger of the Witch Queen’s return.”
I just finished reporting the Scenerio, I don't know if anyone was on slow track, but here's the chronicle for those who are not: here I didn't list gold gained mainly because my chronicle is slow track, we earned max gold. And people can go ahead and roll for their day jobs if they would like.
Ceobryrn hits the remaining sprite, but his damage is somewhat reduced. Sterk charges the troll, but misses, and provokes an attack from the troll
Brom steps up to Ceobryrn's side and uses his burning hands on the troll and the sprite. Searching the camp, you find a few items but what draws the majority of your attention is the huge vortex beyond icy stalagmites. A bank of quill-like icicles spear outward in a ring, seemingly grown from a heavy sheet of ice covering the ground. A second ring of giant icicle-shaped monoliths stands inside the outer ring, surrounding a swirling cylindrical vortex easily ten feet in diameter. Icy winds and driving snow blast from the vortex, creating the wintry weather in the clearing. A surge of wind suddenly blasts from the swirling vortex in the ring of icicles, gusting outward in a stinging spray of snow and ice. Suddenly, a gaunt horseman with curling ram’s horns and wearing coal-black armor lurches through the portal astride a black warhorse, surrounded by tendrils of cold, dark mist. The rider slumps in the saddle, a shard of blue ice jutting from his back. As rider and mount come to a halt in the snow, the horse suddenly dissipates into black smoke, and the horseman falls to the ground with a groan.
Sterk moves up to between Serah and Ceobryrn and tosses his fused oil at the troll, catching the troll on fire and dealing fire damage the troll now looks very angry. Lars moves forward with his pickaxe in hand. Brom moves forward and shoots the atomie with another magic missile and it comes falling down. The remaining sprite shoots at Serah with it's tiny shortbow and misses. The troll inches forward, and attacks Serah with both of it's claws. the troll then takes another fire damage
The troll is misfortunate.
If you didn't know any better, you'd swear Serah was swatting flies as you hear a splat and boom fey in snow.
GM Brom's action, Brom fires off a magic missile from his wand for And with that, the Atomie cries out in pain and throws down a thunderstone after inching closer to him the stone hits Ceobryrn's square, and he needs to make a DC 15 Fort save or be deafened. Responding to the sound of the thunderstone, a giant troll and two more fey come into view.
Ceobryrn throws another Chakram at the atomie, and hits it for a devastating wound, but surprisingly it's still flying.
Aponyaye is able to recognize the fey that was speaking as a winter-touched atomie, it takes less damage from weapons not made of cold iron, is immune to cold damage and vulnerable to fire damage.
"Surrender? Funny I was going to suggest that you do the same thing, now shall we dance?" The fey flies up 10 feet and Ceobryrn throws his Chakram, hitting the creature, but it doesn't do as much damage as he thought it would.
All PCs except Serah won initiative, go team pathfinder!
So, we will be starting the Final Encounter shortly, giving people a chance to do something before I start combat, but I wanted to take this time to say that if we do not finish by this weekend, I will not be posting during this weekend as I will be at DunDraCon. That being said, I fully intend to be done before Friday with your cooperation.
The magic missile causes the creature of air to stop moving, and with that, combat ends. There is nothing of interest on either body, and the party is able to rest peacefully the rest of the night. In the morning, the party resumes their travels deeper into the forest, until they encounter four low igloos stand here in the snow. A well-packed trail of large footprints passes between them, heading both north and west.
"So Izoze failed I take it." A feyish creature speaks as you approach.
Izoze drops to the ground as Serah's sword connects.
Both Ceobryrn and Sterk manage to miss Izoze with their attacks.
Serah strikes a telling blow on Izoze, but doesn't do quite as much as expected.
Brom shoots off another magic missile, and Lars takes out his wand and moves closer to Brom.
The creature of air once again slams into Sterk.
Ceobryrn barely misses Izoze, and is not quite sure if she is a fey or something else entirely.
Aponyaye recognizes the creature as a Mephit, specifically an Ice Mephit, it is an outsider that is immune to cold and weak to fire it has a cold breath attack that it can use every 4 rounds, is resistant to non-magical weapons, and heals faster then normal in areas below freezing
Sterk then manages to hit the creature made of air.
Aponyaye then moves up to Ceobryrn and heals him up a bit.
Izoze attacks Sterk as he moves around to flank with Serah.
Sterk manages to hit the creature back, but does not do quite as much as he expected that he would do to the creature.
Serah steps up and slashes at Izoze, but she too misses the creature.
Brom fires off a magic missile at Izoze, hitting without effort.
Sterk angrily misses the creature, now feeling both sore and sick.
One of the creatures, who looks like a giant gust of wind, rushes over to Ceobryrn's side and slams into him it then continues moving, disappearing into the darkness.
Ceobryrn takes out his sunrod and makes it shine. Sterk, you now have light, so I'm presuming you come out of delay.
Sterk delays until he can see something while Aponyaye and Serah take out torches in order to try to provide some light. Suddenly, a blast of cold air strikes Serah, Sterk, Ceobryrn, and Lars. Lars then grabs Serah's torch and flint/steel and begins lighting it, as Brom casts shield on himself.
As the party moves along, entering into the area of the forest known as the Somir Valley, an area near the center of the Border Wood, they find a clearing which may serve as a place to rest as the night grows deeper and colder.
When the party emerges from their tents, a voice is heard. "You have become quite the nuisance, and you cannot be allowed to go any closer to the portal." The frozen voice speaks.
A strong gust blows up enough snow to put out the camp fire, and the party is now enveloped in darkness.
Ceobryrn hits and drops the Giant Weasel as it tries to flee.
The Weasel flees, running off into the distance. No Attacks of Opportunity, and no one can catch up with it, but you can use ranged weapons to attack it if you wish to prolong the battle.
Sterk also misses, but Brom strikes true with a magic missile.
The Giant Weasel attacks Serah.
The Giant Weasel bites into Serah, and then without letting go of her with it's teeth slashes at her with both of it's claws, her body going limp.
Both Serah and Ceobryrn miss the rather large weasel. [dice=knowledge nature]1d20+5 any know weakness and/or special attacks? Ceobryrn knows that if the weasel hits you with it's bite attack, it won't let go, and worse, it will cause you to start bleeding. No particular weaknesses
A cold wind blows through the valley, bringing a spray of sleet and broken ice. The sky ahead roils with thick, gray clouds and the sun is only a dim glow somewhere in the mist.
The trail continues through a narrow pass, descending south and east into an icy valley. An unusual pattern of lines is scratched into the fresh snow covering the trail at the edge of the clearing. As you are leaving the area, I need Reflex saves from Sterk, Ceobryrn, and Serah, as you trigger a trap. cold damage on a failed save, DC 14, half on a success. I am assuming that these three characters would be in the front of the group. After the trap triggers, you have a chance to heal up before we are moving on to the next area.
As the gem shatters, Sterk swears he hears the voice of the little girl whispering, "Thank you..." Aponyaye does not find anything else of note in the hut.
The gem does not really smash that easily, it will require a DC 20 Strength check to break, or repeated attacks that add up to 12 hit points of damage against something with hardness 8, of course an adamantine weapon would cut through it like butter.
The sapphire appears to be the receptacle for the Ulfen girl's soul, if undestroyed, it could be used to make another Guardian Doll that kept the knowledge of the old one, if destroyed, the girl's soul would be freed from it's prison.
The doll is incinerated by Brom's burning hands and the only thing left of it is the sapphire eye, which drops on top of the man's head.
Aponyaye strikes the doll with his crossbow bolt, but it doesn't seem to do anything.
The magic missile strikes almost without effort, and seems to be fully effective.
The doll struggles against the rope, trying to escape. And unfortunately slips out of the rope's grasp. "A neat trick, but not an effective one." The doll speaks as she points a finger at Lars now. "You might be more useful to me.
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