No, Khain's got it right. Unless you've got a boon that let's you use some other skill, it's got to be a Profession, Craft, or Perform check in which you've invested at least one rank.
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Hey guys, sorry for the delay. I've reported event #24100 and have the sheets ALMOST ready to scan and send, but I forgot to ask for day job checks. So please respond here with either a roll for your day job or the info that you don't have one and I'll scan and send it. Because I know some of you might not be checking this thread anymore, I'm going to annoyingly repeat this same information in both PMs and e-mails to each of you! Cheers, Christopher
As it happens, exploration of the remaining passages show that they all lead into the sewers proper, and away from the lair of the Nightsoil Marauders. The sole exception is the passage leading south off of the "throne room," which leads to what is clearly Inoklar's bedchamber. This chamber contains Inoklar’s bed and other furnishings. A search of the room finds a large chest containing Inoklar’s takings from the Nightsoil Marauders’ operations, including emblems and tokens of rival crime organizations in Magnimar: a set of miniature scales carved from black onyx stolen from an inattentive Night Scale thief, several Varisian scarves and knives taken from Sczarni thugs, an ornamental star of Desna filched from one of the Gallowed, a broken klar that belonged to a Shoanti gang leader, and most importantly, a golden Aspis Consortium badge. At the bottom of the chest, well hidden from her superstitious goblin minions, are Inoklar’s scrawled notes detailing her plans to take over Magnimar, as described in the adventure’s background. The party is prepared to return to Heidmarch with all of this material, when they remember their promise to the goblin Ekkie, who proved so instrumental in their success. So, after several false starts and wrong turns, the heroes find themselves, coated in filth and laden with the unconscious bodies of a pair of goblin dogs, at the mouth of an enormous sewer outflow pipe at the edge of the city. Ekkie, now laden down with the various alchemical supplies, bits of junk, and other things she considers "treasures," is prepared to pour the last of her found healing potion down the dogs' throats as the sun begins to set. Before she does that, though, she takes a stick and scratches in the stinking mud at your feet. With a few surprisingly deft scratches, she limns the Sign of the Open Road, symbol of the Pathfinder Society. "I'll watch for this here, right? So I know who's in my gang?"
I'm going to do a wrap-up post and e-mail scanned Chronicles this afternoon. Travis, I'll PM you about your faction mission.
Sense that it she is living out the last moments of her life, the monstrous fighter Inoklar lashes out her only target, Manzcar, snarling in defiance as she does so.
The blow lands solidly!
But this last act of defiance is a last act indeed, and the heroes descend with blade and fire, acid and magic, and end the creature's life. ------- You are standing in a large room with the last wisps of magical mist melting away behind you. Ekkie the Goblin peers around the corner cautiously. "Which gang won?
Posting now! Sorry!
Post away however you wish, Alys. It's your turn!
We're just waiting on Alys as far as I know. Then the bugbear. And then we wrap this sucker up and I e-mail scans of the Chronicle sheets!
It's Alys's turn, then Inoklar's. The only way to get past her is to attempt using the Acrobatics rules for passing through spaces occupied by enemies. Keep in mind that such attempts are made at half speed, unless you want to take a +10 to the DC.
He's a she! And as I said in the gamethread, I came up with four after I went through everything.
Inoklar roars ferociously, annoyed by the defensive stances taken by the two heroes nearest her, and swings viciously at Alys!
The halfling's choice to defend himself rather than attack proves wise. Snarling in contempt, she steps back into the protection of the corridor.
All heroes may now post in any order!
Where is Manzcar five-foot stepping to? He can't quite make the corner. Those are five foot wide corridors extending north and south at the back of the room. The color is different because I haven't changed the lighting situation to reflect any light source brought forward yet. Frankly, I've lost track of who might have one to light things up. Anyway, do you mean for Manzcar to go to BL14, perhaps? Just need to hear from Rutilus and Alys!
Her movements disturbingly nimble for one of such monstrous bulk, Inokar the Bugbear dances out from between the heroes and swings her viciously spiked morningstar at Manzcar!
But Manzcar ably knocks the descending blow awry!
All heroes can act now. Travis will need to make a stabilization check.
The goblin takes a five-foot step back and swings its horsechopper at Alys.
It clearly has little experience with the weapon! Across the room, Inoklar the Bugbear drops her own horsechopper and draws a morningstar, which she swings heavily at Travis!
The spiked ball bites into Travis's shoulder!
Travis collapses!
Hmmm, no, that's a good point about when it would appear. Oh well, water under the bridge at this point. If he had summoned it into an adjacent square, well, first off in this particular case the goblin wouldn't be able to get his AoO anyway because he's using a reach weapon and isn't a Polearm Master or anything. But I'd be inclined to say no. You provoke an AoO when you leave a threatened square, right? And a creature summoned in the manner you're suggesting wouldn't be doing that?
The bugbear swings it's horsechopper at Travis!
The swing goes wide!
Well, I only took the AoO because Khain specifically said he summoned it "a few feet away." Are you asking about if it was summoned into an adjacent square?
As the magically summoned rat approaches, the goblin chops down!
But again, it misses!
And I'll go ahead and roll the AoO against the rat while I wait to hear from Travis on his movement.
I have no idea what happened with those rolls on the shaken condition. It must have screwed something up when I deleted the roll for Jory, 'cause I'd swear that Inoklar rolled a 20 against Travis and had a 32. But we'll go with the rolls as they're posted in the forum now, which means: Alys is shaken for two rounds.
Travis, the charge rules also say that "you must move to the closest space
Note also that whether you wind up there or the one you went to, you're provoking from Inoklar's polearm.
Travis, it's entirely possible I screwed up the math there, I'll look at it again. And that goblin will take the AoO on the rat, I'll post that in just a sec.
The remaining goblin scurries back at an angle to the wall and swings its horsechopper at Alys...
...but the creature had been bamfoozled by the halfling's feint and misses badly! Meanwhile, the hulking bugbear stalks forward at last, making a dizzying number of passes, swings, and even spins with its own deadly weapon!
When he steps onto the flagstones between the pillars , they crack open and a sticky morass entangles the cleric's feet!
Regarding that attempt to search for traps during combat, couple of things to keep in mind. First off, any such checks would be made at -5 because you're distracted by combat. Second, intentionally looking for a "stimulus" (in this case a visual clue of the presence of a trap) is a move action. No harm no foul this time, just keep it in mind in the future.
Right, as long as you use it within one minute of the casting and designate it's use before you make the roll.
The monstrous bugbear barks orders at her goblin minions, then pulls a vial from her belt pouch and throws back its contents.
The two goblins move forward, their polearms held high, to new positions behind pillars closer to the heroes.
Now it's my turn to slow things up. My wife stayed home sick today and I'm prepping for my Tuesday night game at the FLGS. I'll try to sneak in the bad guy's turn this afternoon, but no promises, sorry!
I don't believe he can actually even see to where they'd step out, could he, he's deep in Khain's mist? Looks like it would be a double move for him to even get out of the mist. I'll give him another couple of hours and post for him tonight if he doesn't show.
Anybody know anything about Jory? Seems like its been a few days.
For Alys:
Several flagstones in the middle of the floor look as if they have been removed and replaced. They are the three between the columns just beyond the where the crossbow bolt enchanted with light lays.
Despite the distance, the bugbear woman hurls a javelin at Travis.
The deadly missile flies across the room with uncanny precision, streaking for the paladin's chest. But Travis knocks it away! She then growls something too low for the heroes to hear at her goblin companions, who react by grimly readying their horsechoppers but holding their positions. Inoklar has clearly learned something about Jory's arrows, though. She moves behind the stone throne seeking cover.
One of Jory's arrows sinks deep into the bugbear's shoulder, but the other flies just wide!
Inoklar laughs and pulls the arrow from her stomach, tossing it aside.
Travis's bolt arcs into the center of the room illuminating it almost fully. The rows of columns proceed down the left and right sides, and lurking behind those farthest away you spy a pair of goblin warriors. But what really draws your eye is the crude throne at the far side of the chamber, where sits an enormous bugbear woman, blinking in annoyance. She snarls at the heroes, beckons with her horsechopper, and says, "Why have you come here?"
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