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Boooon?: 1d20 ⇒ 16

Player Name: John Woodford
Character Name: Jivan
PFS Number: 67750-14
Progression: Standard
Faction: The Exchange
Day Job: None

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One wonders what occupational safety and health has to do with armies of undead....

Jivan tries to pull Lukaas out on the next round.

Round 3:

CMB check to break grapple, incl. inspiration: 1d20 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 17 + 2 = 22

Lukaas is torn free of the grasping tentacles! Barely.

Jivan doesn't have the self-telekinesis wild talent, so I don't think he can pull himself out this way.

The full damage takes Jivan to exactly 0 HP.

GM E, Jivan took no damage from the black tentacles on the first round, because his force ward gives him 5 temporary HP. Accepting a point of burn this round on the telekinetic haul recharged the ward fully.

The Vudran concentrates, a storm of silvery threads flashing into being around him and coalescing into a whiplike tendril. "I will try to free you, Urzaia!" The tendril wraps itself around the warpriest's waist and pulls. It's not enough to break the tentacles' grasp, though.

CMB check to break grapple: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (6) + 17 = 23

Autocorrect has done you wrong, Sleeping Sword.

ETA: Good thing we were both able to act in the window to edit, eh?

GM E, is it possible for one character to pull another one out of the black tentacles? Jivan has the telekinetic haul wild talent, and can (if he uses a point of burn) apply a great deal of lift to Urzaia.

ETA: Jivan can lift up to 5,000 lbs. (or 2300 kg, for those of you in the civilized part of the world), which is a Heavy load for a 38 STR.

AFAICT, it depends on what you're throwing around.

I figure it's like a bullet: bludgeoning and piercing.

Forgot to ask....would someone move me right behind Father U? Thanks.

Done.

Jivan hustles forward, the haste spell giving him the speed to squeeze past Urzaia and launch his preferred projectile at the green skeletal warrior.

Penny dropping vs. flat-footed AC, including haste, inspiration, and PBS: 1d20 + 7 + 1 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 7 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 24
Damage, if applicable, including inspiration and PBS: 3d6 + 6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (3, 5, 4) + 6 + 2 + 1 = 21

With his ioun torch lighting his way, Jivan peeks around the corner and looks northeast.

If he sees anything hostile he shoots a high-velocity copper piece at it:

Squeezing penny, including PBS: 1d20 + 7 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (12) + 7 + 1 - 4 = 16
Damage, if applicable, including PBS: 3d6 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (1, 1, 3) + 6 + 1 = 12

Still waiting on resolution of the GM's laptop issues.

Jivan sets an ioun torch floating around his head.

Jivan nods. "Of course. Quil, do you recognize the name?"

"Being kidnapped is, I hope, a new experience. Quil, do you recognize any of the wights? They were made from gnomish bodies, it seems."

"The creatures who seized you were the wights that were here? No others?"

Jivan has a wayfinder for light.

"I believe--no, my last thought was nowhere close to right. It is best for the rest of you to lead, and I will open any locks we find."

Jivan looks around for any sign of what left the gouges in the floor.

Perception check: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30

Jivan casually removes another copper piece from the jingling pouch on his belt and waits to see if there's a target left for him.

A swarm of silvery threads suddenly fills the air around Jivan. He tosses the copper piece up into the threads, where it accelerates toward the wounded wight with a crack like thunder!

Kinetic blast with pushing infusion.

Penny for your thoughts, including inspiration and PBS: 1d20 + 7 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 7 + 2 + 1 = 17
Kinetic blast damage, if applicable, including inspiration and PBS: 3d6 + 6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (4, 4, 1) + 6 + 2 + 1 = 18

Pushing infusion bull rush, including inspiration and PBS: 1d20 + 6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 6 + 2 + 1 = 23

Jivan has the grace to look abashed. "Ah, forgive me. My background makes me perhaps inclined to see crime where there is only coincidence. When you said that the church was holding the title to his house, I assumed that the church also held his debts." He runs a hand over his wayfinder and sets it to glowing, then holds up his copper piece. "I am ready."

Jivan tosses the copper piece into the air, catching it without seeming to pay much attention to it. "Well, the dead so far have included a person who stood to collect a great deal of money from your church--money that their heirs wouldn't be able to get; someone who owed substantial amounts to the casino, so it's convenient that the church can take possession of his house after his death; and one who had just won a large jackpot, only to have her belongings stolen after her death. It is clear that your church has benefited from at least two of those deaths--we don't know for certain who might have ransacked her house. Not that I suspect you, of course, but...." He shrugs. "It does look suspicious. Tell me...if we were to ask Venture-Captain Torrsen the name of the first dead gnome, what would he tell us?"

Jivan nods, still deftly walking the copper piece across his hand. "Interesting, interesting. Quil, I have a question before we investigate further. How is the necromancer involved with your church?"

After finding the message, Jivan stays quiet, apparently lost in thought. He walks a copper piece across one hand in a nervous tic, occasionally looking at Ash or Katsu.

Jivan relaxes as the Ulfen drunks disperse, loosing the mental grip he was about to use to levitate a cart over them. He takes his usual turn investigating the death scene, looking in particular for traces of ectoplasm, and/or bloodstains that the Tien psychic could interrogate.

Perception check, including focus: 1d20 + 10 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 10 + 4 = 31

Are there any large, unattended objects around? Like a cart, or something similar?

Filled in, and added icons of the remaining characters to the marching order page.

"Of course." There will be time to seek out the stolen goods later....

"Since nothing was apparently stolen from the other death scenes, this is likely thieves taking advantage of an unguarded house after Ser Griddlu was killed. We still need the painting, in any case."

"We very much need to find the person or persons who ransacked this place. Quil, do you have any contacts with people who might handle items of...uncertain provenance?"

Jivan searches the merchant's quarters, looking in particular for signs of theft.

Perception check with bonus: 1d20 + 10 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 10 + 4 = 26

GM E, should this post be in the Gameplay thread?

Jivan strokes his chin meditatively. "Ah. Interesting. Before we leave here, I am curious about one thing." He checks the floor around the dropped whiskey bottle, looking for signs that the contents spilled there.

"Do only gnomes join your lottery, Quil?"

Rolling his eyes as the bard walks off, Jivan goes with the other scouts to assist with the search.

Perception check: 1d20 + 10 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 10 + 4 = 27

"It is possible that whoever is behind this is trying to collect many gnome ghosts, using one to kill other gnomes."

"Let's go talk to her, then."

"Dana and Ashwell, some of the adepts of Vudra--the home of psychic magic--are able to read the echoes of past events that have marked a place. Can either of you do that?"

Following the other two searchers, Jivan carefully examines the garden and, if the house has one, the workshop area.

Perception check w/focus bonus: 1d20 + 10 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 10 + 4 = 19

"I have heard praises for the Way of Mrs. Cosmopolite, but others speak of it as subsendential rubbish." The Vudran shrugs. "Quil, where can we find Humush's family?"

"That is something that can be checked. She may have been affected by some magic, as well. Can one of you psychics establish that?"

"Lukaas, did you say that the neighbor said she broke down the door? None of us who were searching found any sign of forced entry, and I have seen enough crime scenes to be able to tell."

"A trouser press? I suppose so, given the fashions of Taldor. A more civilized people--" He indicates the bloused trousers of his garb. "--have no need for such things."

Not being a con man skilled diplomat, Jivan focuses his attention on searching.

Perception check, including bonus: 1d20 + 10 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 10 + 4 = 30

The keen-eyed kineticist searches the area thoroughly.

"No, besides everyone going mad about who inherits the throne."

Jivan smiles. "Venture-Captain Torrsen has told us quite firmly not to get involved with that."

Fortunately, when mine were that age, <mumble> years ago, I didn't have to deal with a pandemic.

"Hello, Quil. I'm Jivan. I am curious about the exotic and unusual customs of Avistan--what are the decorations for?"

The Vudrani looks oddly at Dana. "Surely all of the bodies were not found in one place? And surely they are not still where they were found? I do not know about you, but I traveled many days to come here--I would hope that Quil would not have left the dead there for this long!"

My sympathies. Are the kids off school for a holiday, or is your location doing remote learning?