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They made it a longsword. Had they made it a finesse weapon, I would have thought about it.

I do have characters that would use the longsword, but I think almost all of them have already leveled out of tier for this.

This was a fun series of adventures and I'm really glad to have played through it.

Thanks GM Badblood and all the players! It really was a good group.

Thanks for running this series!

Let me know if you have any that you want to play. I can see about setting them up for you.

Perform: Sing: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14

I assume you mean Slide 2 when you say spreadsheet.

Provided no one objects, Guy does release Chika.

He is very glad to find someone who will accept the prisoner Zaril, even more so when he finds out that they are an organization dedicated to good.

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“I think the only win was our contact with the Grippli tribe.” Guy says. He then tells of what happened with the Grippli and how the group procured some large reptile eggs for them.

“Although we fought the Aspis alongside them, I do not think the kobolds would welcome anyone back to the dwarven ruins.” He adds his own notes that he took while at the dwarves ruins.

“We might be able to salvage something at Fort Bandu, but even that would be a challenge. The Praetorian there currently sees little difference between our organization and the Aspis. Hopefully he will change his mind in time.”

The woman says her name is Chika and says, "I'm not a real Aspis agent even. I'm just a scout doing a job for them. Please let me go. I won't cause any trouble."

Sense Motive via Versatile Performance: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31

If he believes her, Guy is willing to release Chika here or any settlement along the way.

The party makes a brief stop at Fort Bandu and meet with the beleaguered Praetor Sylien briefly. He seems annoyed at the sight of the Pathfinders and the prisoners they are dragging with them. "I am not going to draw the ire of Bloodcove keeping one of their agents here and frankly, I don't have the soldiers I need to properly guard a monster like him. You are welcome to resupply but I'm afraid that you need to keep moving."

Guy accepts this, but does mention "Yes, Bloodcove is likely who sent the people who caused all the problems for the Grippli. Watch your back when dealing with them."

Eventually the party arrives in Nantambu, ready to meet with Aya Allahe and report to her everything that has transpired since departing from her store several long months ago.

Guy first inquires as to if there is any place to hold the prisoner Zaril. When informed there isn't, he frowns but does not complain.

He gets cleaned up before meeting with Aya. He suggests the others may want to do so as well, given how long the party has been in the field.

With a shrug, Guy notes “Seems we have worn out what little welcome we had. Best we get going.”

He stripes away anything that might be used as a weapon on the guy and ties him up, hobbling his legs as well. He considers a moment, then gags the man as well. After he is done with that, he turns to the woman and asks “Are you going to make trouble on the way back? By the way, we haven’t exchanged names. I’m Guido, what is your name?”

After getting an answer, he nods towards the man. “Mind telling us his name?”

Looking down at Sharrowsmith's body, Guy says “Certainly not the way I would want to end my career.” There is a mixture of sadness and disappointment in his voice.

Looking at the two Aspis agents, he says “We may want to allow the kobolds to handle justice on the man. The woman showed some sense.” He checks for Magic items on all three of the Aspis. He also searches them for Aspis badges.

Looking to Sinaryn, he asks “Are you sure we want to try and take the man across that much country? I expect he would do everything in his power to make trouble for us.”

With Laafdahni conscious, Guy rushes to find out how Bask is doing. He is greatly relieved to see it is the Aspis agent on the ground.

“Good work, sorry I wasn’t more help.”

Looking around, he asks “Do you think there are any more of them coming?”

“Never!” is Guy’s immediate response.

It is quite clear that he wants nothing to do with that spell.

Sort of my job as the bard, buffs for everyone!

Thank you.

Guy uses his wand on Laafdahni to make sure she survives, then puts it away. He continues his song.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Guy rushes over to where Laafdahni gasped in pain, finding her on the ground unconscious.

Double move
I think the area he moved through has light.

Guy has it.

Who is supposed to act now?

Never mind, now there are names in bold.

Guy continues his song as he gets out his wand and heals himself a little bit.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Looking at the woman, he points out “The one who said not to retreat has run. Are you sure that is the type of leader you want to follow?”

Just going to point out that Guy is forced to withdraw next round if he isn’t down and dying.

"It's a high time to fight
When the walls are closin' in!
Call it what you like,
This time you got to win!"

Guy starts back up his song and moves past the Aspis agent and out of the way.

Acrobatics to avoid AoO, Heroism: 1d20 + 14 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 14 + 2 = 20

Do I get an Attack of Opportunity on the leader with him moving in and back out like that? I am Kitsune, so the bite threatens.
I am guessing not, sounds like he used Spring Attack along with some other special allowing him to move that much. Still want to check.
Am I understanding things correctly that none of them are blinded any more?

Hearing there is someone invisible around the corner, Guy moves up to where he can see the enemy agents and glitter bombs the area.

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21 If he actually detects the invisible person, there may be a redirect otherwise it is the blue circle on the map
Glitterdust, DC 15 Will or blinded — mostly using it to reveal invisible

Since Silence is a full round action, he should also be able to see who is casting it on what object.

Dancing Lights: 1d10 ⇒ 5
Perception, Heroism: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 8 + 2 = 21
Stealth, Heroism: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 8 + 2 = 23

Guy allows his song to end, not knowing just how many more battles they have. Hearing the sounds of talking, he cautiously moves forward until he can see in the direction of the sounds. I wonder if they meant Bocke or me when they said we had a deadly archer?

Nice, with them carrying a torch, I shouldn't need to provide light of my own.

I assume right now we hear the voices and see reflections from the torchlight.

Guy continues his song and moves forward. “Might want to back up so they come to us.”

He then nocks an arrow, ready to shoot if he sees another Aspis Agent.

+1 darkwood composite shortbow, Inspire Courage, Heroism, Bless: 1d20 + 8 + 2 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 8 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 19 Likely range modifies or Point Blank Shot
Cold Iron arrow, Piercing damage, Inspire Courage, Heroism: 1d6 + 2 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 2 + 2 = 11

Guy continues his song as he also leaps off the ledge and rushes to where he can fire at the retreating Aspis agent.
Acrobatics, Heroism: 1d20 + 14 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 14 + 2 = 19

+1 darkwood composite shortbow, Inspire Courage, Heroism, Bless, Range: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 8 + 2 = 29
Cold Iron arrow, Piercing damage, Inspire Courage, Heroism, Arcane Strike: 1d6 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 9

Guy continues his song as he shifts position, imbues his arrow with some arcane power, and fires at the red Aspis agent who is still visible through the doors.

+1 darkwood composite shortbow, Inspire Courage, Bless, Heroism: 1d20 + 8 + 2 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 8 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 33
Cold Iron arrow, Piercing damage, Inspire Courage, Heroism, Arcane Strike: 1d6 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 10

Crit Confirm?: 1d20 + 8 + 2 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 8 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 18
Total Crit damage: 10 + 2d6 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 ⇒ 10 + (2, 2) + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 = 30

Is it alright if I move the guardian off the platform? I'm thinking of moving it off to where the pillars are since no one is likely to be in that area.

"Bask, if the handler goes down do you think you could control that cat? Seems Aspis only know how to mistreat animals."

Guy takes a deep breath, and then he starts singing at full volume.

“I get knocked down, but I get up again
You are never gonna keep me down!

I get knocked down, but I get up again
You are never gonna keep me down!”

Nice acoustics! I like how it echoes in here!

He stays back from the ledge so that it is hard to see where he is.

If possible I would like cover bonus from anyone on the ground.

Inspire courage, +2 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +2 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls.

Guy steps back far enough that it would be difficult to see him from the ground and gets his bow ready.

Stealth, Heroism: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 8 + 2 = 26

I assume the Heroism on Bask is also still active then.

“Although you are likely correct Sinaryn, I do hope you are wrong about the fighting.”

Kn: Nature, Heroism: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 3 + 2 = 17
Kn: Local, Heroism: 1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 11 + 2 = 15 ...and that is my good knowledge skill

When they get to the mural with the Grippli, Guy says “The grippli helped twice, both when the dwarves were coming here and when they had to leave. They told us a little of that history and were the ones who gave us the device after we helped them by finding a protector for their tribe.”

Kn History, Heroism: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 3 + 2 = 12
Kn Local, Heroism: 1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 11 + 2 = 16
Perception, Heroism: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 8 + 2 = 21

Guy notices that the symbol on the south point of the compass matches the symbol on the piece of metal. If Toral doesn't notice, he points it out to him.

Guy goes up with Toral to where the guardian is.

When Toral turns to talk to the guardian, Guy asks it “Also, do you have a name? Golden Guardian seems more a title than a name.”

Gesturing to himself, he tells it “My name is Guido, but my friends call me Guy.”

Diplomacy since it was an honest accounting, Heroism: 1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 11 + 2 = 20

Guy realizes he let a tiny part of his irritation show, but hopes they don’t notice. We really shouldn’t have apologized for rescuing the miners.

Guy thinks a bit, and checks his bag.

"Three jars of the basilisk extract, two of which were used to remove petrification. One for our own party member, and another on an Aspis agent we found petrified in the rooms over there." He points in the approximate direction where the woman had been found.

"We can leave the unused jar here if you wish."

"I should mention that the woman said her group had heard talk of a golden statue and was planning to come in here and melt it down. That is one of the reasons we expected there to be Aspis here."

"We also have the toy you used to train Stink-Eye. I doubt you would consider that a treasure, but we have no use for it."

"We found and retrieved several items from the human we came in search of. I presume you are not objecting to that."

"I think that is it." He looks to the others for confirmation.
The sword, wands, etc all seems to belong to Sharrowsmith. I really don't think there was any other treasure.

Do I need a roll on this?

"One more thing, you will want to send one of your healers to the portcullis area. We were able to prevent one of the warriors we battled there from dying. We left them unconscious there."

GM Badblood had clarified that he was human.

Guy tries his best to focus them on the apology portion of Laafdahni's response.

"There has been much needless violence, more than we were aware of. We are sorry."

AutoAid Diplomacy

So I think we are waiting for two things:
1. Toral to rephrase his answer to make it more of an answer and apologetic so he can use diplomacy
2. Someone to step up with Intimidate to answer if we were the ones who killed those kobolds two weeks ago.

Toral's was the second check. The scenario states that the PC being addressed can use Diplomacy if their response is apologetic. To be clear, what they want addressed is whether the party is allied with Sharrowsmith, who they are alleging caused a cave-in that killed many of their people. That hasn't been addressed by the party, but I would still allow Toral to say something that make it a Diplomacy check instead of a Bluff.

I have now aided twice. I will most likely use my last Aid attempt on the Intimidate check by whomever does it.

Summary of earlier kobold battle.

Found first miners being attacked by undead. They told us more miners were taken away by Kobolds before the undead showed up.

We followed and found them holding people prisoner.

We slew the kobolds that looked to be about to murder the prisoners in a ritual. We allowed the remaining kobolds to flee.

I am guessing this is connected to the battle they are asking about.

Not doing the check yet, just clarifying the question.

"Pardon me, but do you mean an attack here or where the humans are mining in the Bandu Hills?"

Guy lets his ears droop, allowing some sadness to show as he answers the most recent question.

"I am sorry to say that yes, we did have to kill the basilisk. I didn't even know its name, but it very nearly killed us. Not being scaly-kind, we had no one skilled enough to be able to handle the beast."

"I am sorry about that, if it had still been in its pen we could have avoided that bit of violence."
Bluff via singing, Touch of Glory, Heroism: 1d20 + 11 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 11 + 3 + 2 = 33
Since not all the group were sorry we killed the beast I am guessing you would rule this a Bluff. If you would accept Diplomacy it is the same total and would make it easier for others to Aid.
For his part, Guy did want to avoid killing it.

Some of it is also we don't know who is responsible for what. We don't have the whole story of what Sharrowsmith was or was not responsible for.

I'll put some more stuff in gameplay now, but even with your explanation I'm not sure where we stand.

I think what you said is:

1. We failed the first check because you ruled a player was using a different skill than they thought.

2. We need to watch who answers what and make sure we answer the questions.

3. Each person only has three times they can lead this.

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So far only one skill check in response to the questions, Toral failed.

Guy is now going to lead on a different check.

@GM Bad Blood,

It really feels like we are getting into trouble because we aren't understanding the rule mechanics being used. There is also some problems with content, but it feels like it is mostly rules.

What rules are being used for this skill challenge?

Is it a single person makes the check and others can aid? Is it each person makes the check and number of successes is used? Is it everyone rolls and highest is used and others are considered Aid Another Attempts?

I have seen all of the above and more mechanics used in this sort of situation. Although what we say is likely to be somewhat the same, what we do in terms of dice rolls would be considerably different.

Is he? I had thought that at first, but later thought we hit something that indicated he was a dwarf. The characters that started this got a description of him, but unfortunately we weren’t told what race he was.

Whatever race he is, please assume Guy used the correct race.

“There is also the dwarf we seek. Is Nieford Sharrowsmith here? We started this journey in order to bring him home.” I really hope he hasn’t caused yet more problems here!

Auto Aid Diplomacy

Guy allows his song to end and directs his dancing lights up to where the voices are coming from.

"As my companion said, it was no curse. Ashkurhall is the dwarven name for this place." Pointing to Toral, he adds "He can explain."

If we have to Aid Bocke, I will do so. Otherwise I would rather Aid Toral since he is a dwarf and he has the highest diplomacy skill in the group.
With the Heroism, my Diplomacy is +13

Is Toral at least moving someplace closer to the creature as he uses the relic?
I was really hoping he would use it when the creature was right there next to him.

Guy wipes away some of the blood and admits "Seems it is real. Still might want to hit it as it flies down."

He begins a song and moves closer to Toral.

“Wait until we are sure this isn’t a trick!”

Fortunately not everyone in the group is in a near panic.

Realizing that the creature understands common, Guy tells the creature “Our mission started as an expedition to find a dwarf named Nieford Sharrowsmith. We found signs that he came here.”

“Where is he?”

It is usually a standard action to activate a magic item. Toral hasn’t used a standard action to activate it. If that doesn’t work, Guy can try to activate it blindly with UMD.

I hadn’t realized it was speaking Common.

“It seems to want to talk. Does someone who speaks its language want to tell it that this started as a rescue mission?”