Giyozara's page

”Turn to the last page, all the good stuff is always written on the last page. At least in all the books I read.”

Arcana +9 , Occultism +10

Kvit's ears flick as he hears his name. He pokes his head in past and looks up and down. "Woah, nice, this is what I was looking for."

He steps in to have a look around. "What do you think Giyozara? Think we can get this activated?"

"Hmmmm, Maybe. I have to admit all of my magic comes innately, so I wouldn't know where to begin to getting these things working. Maybe if we had some instructions . . ."

GM, Arcane is +6 for them secret checks.

”Hmmm, runes made out of silver. I know your first thought is to pry out the silver for money but . . . I dunno. Seems like the ruins might get . . . Angrier.”

"No, yeah, thanks for slapping me. I needed it. Man, if it's all the same with you guys, I might want to head back to town soon. I'm almost spent here."

"Uh, sorry all . . . dunno what came over me. Had trouble differentiating friend from foe."

Maybe I'll get to play today: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

Suddenly Giyozara comes to his senses and immediately turns to the mouther, anger flaring in his eyes. He creates a giant ball of energy in his hand, and fires it off at the thing.

Three action Horizon THunder Sphere, level 2: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

damage if hit, 1/2 damage if miss: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 1, 6, 3) = 14 Lightning damage

Please don't be confused: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15
Sigh. I love not being able to play the game. So fun.

1-Cherry, 2-Kvit, 3-Kka, 4-Drosil, 5-Monster[/dice: 1d5 ⇒ 2

punch Kvit1: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19
nonlethal damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1

punch Kvit2: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 8 - 4 = 11
nonlethal damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

punch Kvit3: 1d20 + 8 - 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 - 8 = 19
nonlethal damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4

COnfusion imparts the flat footed condition, so 16 hits.
Flat check DC11: 1d20 ⇒ 16

Giyozara seems to snap out of it.

will save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
sigh

The confused Giyozara continues shooting Fuin
Spell attack through cover: 1d20 + 9 - 1 ⇒ (3) + 9 - 1 = 11
cold damage if hit: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (3, 4) + 4 = 11

will save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9

CRITICAL FAIL! YAY!

1-Cherry, 2-Kvit, 3-Kka, 4-Drosil, 5-Monster: 1d5 ⇒ 4

Attack Drosil
ranged spell with someone blocking the way: 1d20 + 9 - 1 ⇒ (7) + 9 - 1 = 15
damage if hit: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (3, 3) + 4 = 10 cold damage

"Yay!"

"Ray of frost good enough?"

"Oh for the love of . . YOU BOTH ARE DEAD. BELCORA IS DEAD. SHUFFLE OFF TO PHARASMA OR SHE'LL BE RIGHT PISSED AT YOU. WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER SET OF GHOSTS UP HERE!"

indimidate one of them: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

"Hmmm, someone enchanted that mining pick as a weapon. Makes sense I suppose, the magic makes it more resistant to decay, and I think the striking rune might help it break through rock. Don't know how serviceable it'll be as a weapon."

"There is a spell Earsitle will allow me that can allow me to repair objects. If we gather all the pieces, I can repair the book tomorrow."

Looking at the stairs, "I'm not sure we want to go downstairs yet. I still want to put all those bodies to at least some sort of rest."

"Also, did we ever fully explore that secret room in the bookbinding place? I feel like a secret room full of books could be important.

"No problem, trick I picked up a while back. Not sure what it has to do with dragons, but it seemed useful. At least it did in my dreams. That was the first time I actually cast it you know."

<>Perception check to figure out where the snickering is coming from.
perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14
<><>Cast Glitterdust in the vague area of where I think he is (if perception check gives me that info)

Ray of frost: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23
damage if hit: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (1, 2) + 4 = 7

"She went to all the trouble of concealing this room, let's look around."

Perception +5

"Plus there's the 'been dead for 500 years' bit. From what I know about her, she was human . . . don't think those guys live that long. Well, undead do, but the stories of the Roseguard said she was human when they fought and killed her. Oh, and the Roseguard killed her, so . . . I mean, pretty sure she's dead?"

<><>Cast Infectious Enthusiasm

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE WALL OF TEXT IT COULD HELP OUT OTHER PLAYERS

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<>Shied

ray of frost at aqua: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
damage if hit: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (3, 2) + 4 = 9 cold damage
<> Cast shield

”I’m really starting to hate this Belcora. So far that’s three ghosts that her workplace has created. And we are on what, floor 3? Of how many?”

"Here, many hands make light work."

Library lore-repairing books?: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

Giyozara will begin doing some bookbinding and handing the completed books to others to take out of the room so they 'can be filed properly.'

"Hey, listen, why don't you knock off a bit early-if you feel like it of course! We'll see about finishing up the rest of the books. Looks like you could use a break. You must be almost hallucinating . . . a stack of never-ending books to bind, how silly. I mean, it must be terribly real to you of course, not trying to say it isn't a problem, but that just shows how much of a break you need."

diplomacy?: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

Giyozara rolls his eyes with a ‘not again’ look in his eyes, and begins again with the ghost.

”Whoa, whoa, whoa, we have no desire to steal any books guarded by one so dedicated. We are simply . . . Trying to figure out the state of things. Perhaps you could maybe tell s your story? Help us understand the current way things are?”

"Sorry Fuin, someone should've clued you in. There was a . . . well a nice ghoul in the room when we first came down here. He was like those mushroom-eyed guys above, only he was a ghoul. Some sort of abnormality meant he didn't crave living flesh as far as we could tell. Too bad the other ghouls seemed to have gotten to him." Giyozara informs their new friend as they continue to search.

"Not surprised they killed him. They seem to take an insane disintrest in anyone who doesn't devotedly follow their cult. Weapons out everyone. . . Let's do what Kka said and hit some of those side rooms."

”Whelp, we’d best trudge down to the ghoul level.”

"Thank you so much, I didn't want to turn into a ghoul. We . . . may have need of a few more castings so if it isn't too much trouble, maybe have a few of your supplicants keep a cure disease memorized just in case? There . . uh. . . . there may be more ghouls down there. We'll let you know when we completely clear that floor."

I'd like to point out we don't know how many stages there are until 'death and I become a ghoul and attack the party.' And if I crit fail a recovery check that usually means I go down by two stages.

So I've actually run abomination vaults and know the DC and so I'm staying out of the conversation, but let's just say the chances of Gyozara recovering on his own are slim to none.

As Giyozara spits out a rotton tooth.

"I uh, I don't feel so good. If we want to continue, maybe we can stop by the local temple of Serenrae and see if any of the priests happened to memorize remove disease today."

So if the DC is 19+, I will have to make a minimum of 2 (or probably more ) consicutive Day save or risk just dying. We might just have to go to Absolom and ask for four or five lvl 5 priests to remove disease until one of them sticks, otherwise the odds are pretty bad that I’ll live to 5 when Cherry Berry can cast that spell.

Fantastic, DC 18 fails at level 3. Pretty sure my sorcerer isn’t long for this world, I am notoriously bad at rolling saves.

fort save vs. ghoul fever: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
If that doesn't succeed, hero point
fort save second try: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

"Least we can tell, the ghouls seem to be hell bent on resurrecting . . . or doing 'something' with Belcora. The 'meat statue' was a . . . vessel that they were hoping her soul would be able to inhabit. At least that's our guess."

Giyozara will shake Fuin's hand

"Ah, so good to see another scholar. I look forward to working with you."

Oh, that’s fine, especially if it is another melee. Our front liners are going down entirely too often.

Boss Skrawng rolls his eyes at his servant. "And they say WE're the dumb ones for using poop as a strategy. What do we want with a ghost? No, we want the town to live in, numbskull! The whole deal with the mushroom-eyes downstairs, remember? They can keep it for all I care, we want the town. And once we have trained our flies to bombard the townspeople with our 'special ammunition,' it'll be as good as ours!"

Intimidate: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22

To empphasise the point Giyozara will spend a focus point to activate draconic claws, transforming his hands into viceral claws.

Looks like Giyozara is an expert in Library Lore +8 (I knew there was a reason we kept him around :) So with a little luck, we can increase the bulk of interesting books we take back with us to Otari. Once there, we sell them to Morlibint and pick up a list of what he's wants for next run.

Since we aren't levelling up, I don't think there are any purchases planned on this run back into town, are there? We should spend the 16gp to transfer the Armor Potency (+1) rune to someone's armor. I'd love for Kka to get it (every little bit helps), but it probably makes more sense for Lough to tack it onto his Splint.

Other than that, we have a few potions we can sell (2 Bravo's Brew, Skeptic's Elixir, and Barkskin Potion for 39.5gp), though we should keep the Healing Potions. The Staff of Necromancy can be sold off as well (for 115gp). All told, we should be able to add 138.5gp to the kitty for when we do finally level up and can spend it.

I mean, I have the bibliophile background. Gyozara reads a LOT.

Giyozara has nothing on him other than his kit, so 3.4 bulk before he is encumbered and 8.4 bulk before he is overburdened.

As Giyozara grabs what books he can carry he continues his conversation with Cherry.

"No idea what Belcora wants . . . wanted with Absolom. Seems like she wanted to destroy it. Mose people want to rule over it. See, it's not the size of the city that's tempting, it's the fact that it's smack dab in the center of the sea. Trade routes from Taldor, to Qudara to Chelliax to Rahadoom to Khatapesh . . . you can even sail to here from as far away as Alkenstar . . . or so I'm told. Basically, it is the central nexus of all trade routes on this half of the world. If you ruled those shipping lanes? I mean, you'd be super rich for one, but also, like, you could control the flow of goods and services. Promote commoners to kings and topple tirants just by determining who gets shipped what thing."

”Hmmm, while she was foolish to try attack Absolom, she was at least trying to learn from he early mistakes. Look here.” he holds up a book that has several annotations in it. [b]”Looks like she gave up on a naval attack somewhat early in her planning process. Seems even back then the harbor was choked with ships. You couldn’t get a ship in or out without the cooperation of what she calls the ‘docking guild.’ Must have been their name back then.

Gyozara reads a book on dragon-style martial arts while Cherry tends to people’s wounds to get his focus point back.

[b]”I wouldn’t mind a rest, I am pretty low on spells myself.

hopefully that last crit kills it.

Giyozara will cast shield and gtfo, I’m on my phone, can someone double move me?

"Lough! Hit him and leave! I'll follow you out!"

I'm sitting here to give lough flanking, I'll delay until he attacks, then I'll leave

Giyozara wrote:

Not a crit on Gyozara, casting his bloodline spell dragon claws gave him a +1 status bonus to AC for a round. Combined with his shield spell (+1 circumstance) gave him an AC of 20

Also: crit on a roll of 12. WTF PAIZO, you say in your own DMG to not send one high level monster after players and then that’s all you do, just room after room of 1 monster at party CR +3

We are resting after this, right?

Actually, not a question, we are resting after this.

This is clearly a Severe encounter and is thus supposed to be a tough fight with a non-trivial chance of a TPK. Whenever we come up against a single Severe opponent like this, we should expect them to be 2+ levels above us and for several of us to go down during the fight. Kka is on her 8th or 9th (or 10th? I stopped counting a while back :) trip to the Dying condition already and we're only halfway through the 3rd level. It's not that big a deal. The nice thing is that so far (almost?) all the tough creatures we've run into can either be talked into not attacking us, and/or have limited mobility, making retreat a viable tactic if things get rough (as is the case currently).

Kka is close enough to reach Giyozara in one Stride (thankfully the golem has no AoO), do some auto-success Battle Medicine, and then get back out of the room. Everyone else can move under their own steam. We should all get as far down the hallway as possible and see if the golem chases us out the room and down to the main library area where we'll have room to spread out and not to be such a concentrated target. What Kka does next will depend on Giyozara's situation (ie. is he ambulatory) and whether everyone clears out of the room.

As to resting after this (by which I presume you mean we head back to Otari for at least one night), I'm not sure that's necessary. I believe each level of the Vaults is supposed to be run through in one session (it is only worth 4 XP). Are the spellcasters in the party that far down on slots that they've got nothing...

There is absolutly nothing in game that prevents us from taking our time that we know about at this point in time other than that necrotic beam reacharging. We could take multiple days of downtime between every fight if we wanted. There is no 'ticking clock' that we know of. I'm down to like, 3 spells? 2 first level and 1 second level.

Not a crit on Gyozara, casting his bloodline spell dragon claws gave him a +1 status bonus to AC for a round. Combined with his shield spell (+1 circumstance) gave him an AC of 20

Also: crit on a roll of 12. WTF PAIZO, you say in your own DMG to not send one high level monster after players and then that’s all you do, just room after room of 1 monster at party CR +3

We are resting after this, right?

Actually, not a question, we are resting after this.