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Nikolai doesn't have a dayjob. Thanks for the game!
"We should call the caves Aroden's Knot, or the Cave of the Jelly-cube!"

"What about *huff* those reliefs we found *puff* in the main cave?" the gnome panted, as he arrived as soon as his little legs could carry him. "They looked pretty ancient and Azlanti to me. Plus, there's a whole branch of the cave we've yet to explore!"
He then addresses Janira. "Welcome back to the world of the living." he smiles with genuine relief. "Next time let's listen to Master Farabellus and 'don't spit the party'!"

"Great job everyone!" Nikolai races back down the hill, shouting to his allies. "Don't forget the wand in the backpack she gave us!"

Cursing his bad luck in Gnomish, he takes another step towards the ledge and tries again, hands crackling with sparks at the exertion.
Lingering Performance has ended, as of Janira's last turn, correct?
Five foot step to H5, Move action to mitigate burn, standard BLAST: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 3 + 1 = 61d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Using both hands, Nikolai draws the ambient energy around him into a ball, shouting at the minotaur.
"You've attacked one of ours, now you'll face the full fury of a flock of Pathfinders!" He takes a step and hurls the crackling orb at the beast.
5 foot step forward to G4, Move action to mitigate burn, extended range to increase range to 120'
Touch attack+Higher Ground+Bard Song: 1d20 + 3 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 1 + 1 = 6Damage+Bard Song: 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 1 = 8

Nikolai runs (4x speed in a straight line, loses Dex bonus to AC) to F4.

Nikolai scrambles up the ledge to get into a good sniping position.
"Hold on Janira! We're coming!" he shouts as he prepares to bring the lightning.
In an attempt to distract the minotaur, he begins hurling insults at the top of his lungs. "I drank your mother's breastmilk this morning you giant cow! MOO!"

Nikolai watches in horror as his companions are swallowed by the jelly-cube . His blast useless against the creature, he tries to find a more tactically sound position.
Nikolai will move down Row 4 as far as possible. E4, by my reckoning.

Can I hit the cube with thrown alchemical splash weapons from my current square?

"Oops!" Nikolai utters sheepishly as the electricity skitters across the cube.
"It doesn't look like I'm going to do much good!" he cries as he pulls out his longspear and moves out of the way.
Nikolai will move to G4 if he can get there in a single move action. Otherwise he moves to B4.

Good call, that's a 19 to hit (unless Nikolai is squeezing or Celeb is providing cover) for 8 electricity damage.

"It's a jelly-cube thing! Right there!" Nikolai points his little gnomes fingers at the object, accidentally releasing a blast of electricity.
Electric Touch attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 181d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

"Watch out!" Nikolai shouts. "There's something in the tunnel! Should I blast it?" he asks, while readying a shock.

"Necromancy never pays. Clearly, his own twisted creations turned on him." Nikolai nudges the body with his foot as he speaks, ensuring that it is indeed dead, before searching the room.

"Hey! I found a tunnel. Do we wanna take it, or go back?"
Sorry for the delay. Moving with two cats and a 2 month old...

"I think the cave flappy in my pack is dead, or sleeping. Besides, don't they kill by strangling?" he asks, while firing another bolt of crackling energy at the zombie. "That wouldn't do much good against undead!"
Kinetic Blast: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 71d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Nikolai pulls his longspear as well, turning the end of the corridor into a thicket of pointy objects. He channels a blast of electricity at the first zombie that closes with the party.
"We've got them now!"
Kinetic Blast touch attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20electricity damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Nikolai switches with Celeb and fires a crackling blast between Garret and Morād's legs at the zombie.

At zombie #3 Kinetic Blast against touch AC, soft cover and melee penalties apply: 1d20 + 3 - 8 ⇒ (4) + 3 - 8 = -1electricity damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Yikes. Good thing PFS doesn't have critical fumbles.

Nikolai shakes his head as Morād rushes into the chokepoint just vacated by Torag's Fist. "No sense of tactics!" he thinks as he waits for a zombie to appear.

"I think my electricity will work," he says to Celeb, "how about we switch?"

There's nowhere for Nikolai to go, he will continue to delay.

"Let's use the choke point to our advantage!" the gnome shouts to his allies. "Garrett, pull back! Dolgrin, have Torag's Fist retreat to our side of the corridor!"

Nikolai follows the others, his thoughts preoccupied with the diorama. He knew he was missing something, but couldn't pin it down.
"Ugh!" he wrinkles his nose as the stench grows. "Smells like something died. Let's hope its not still moving!"

Nikolai delays until he has a clear shot, or when someone less squishy engages the southern zombie, so he can get by.

Nikolai looks genuinely hurt when Garret ignores his question. "So much for Cooperate." he mutters as he returns the cloak to his pack. "I'll bet you don't even know about cave flappys anyway..."

The gnome approaches the pool, intent on respectfully giving the gillman plenty of space. Instead, his excitement gets the better of him when he sees the diorama. "Oh wow! he shouts, before asking the rest of the party, including the gillman, "Do you know what this means!?"

Attempting to identify the city and any other information about the trinkets.
Untrained Know(Geography): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Know(History): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

"A spa... Right." the gnome shrugs. "While they do spa things, tell me more about this cave flappy! he insists as he pulls the cloak out of his pack and thrusts it into Garret's face. "Do they always look like this?"

After Niles gets the gillman's attention, Nikolai realizes something important. "Ohh, he's deaf. Does anyone know Absalom Sign Language?"

Untrained Know (local): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
"They live underwater, maybe Aquan..." the gnome mutters to himself when no one answers him.
"Hey... What's he doing?" he asks when Niles moves forward to meditate with the gillman. "I thought he was the smart one!"

Nikolai cautiously approaches the gillman (closing to 30 ft) and calls out to him. "We are Pathfinders! We come in peace!"
He turns to the party. "What do gillmen speak, anyway?" he asks, before a lightbulb goes off and he turns back to the gillman and repeats himself, this time in Azlanti.
"Είμαστε Πρωτοπόροι. Ερχόμαστε εν ειρήνη!"

If no one objects, Nikolai will gather up the cloak and stuff it in his pack.
Nikolai nods as they pass the plank, and Celeb comments about their impending company. While his weapons stay stowed, his anxiousness is clearly visible as an increase in the frequency of the tiny sparks playing across his body.
He resumes his scribbling of the petroglyphs, that is, until they reach the larger cavern. At the sight of the much older reliefs, the gnome's arms lower to his sides, his jaw goes slack in awe.

"Wow."

As the group circles the room, Nikolai begins picking apart the subtle differences in phrasing on each of the reliefs and makes sure to highlight them in his notes, his excitement rising with each subtle change.
After cataloging the visible carvings, he arrives at the wide tunnel that leads deeper into the caves, and is immediately entranced by the flickering, heatless bluish light coming off the torches.

"Ooh! Hey guys, check these out!" Nikolai shouts to the group, before attempting to reach the nearest one and pull it from the wall.

Probably unnecessary dice rolling.
Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21
Know (History): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
Linguistics: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Climb: 1d20 - 4 ⇒ (17) - 4 = 13

In the interest of moving things along...
When the bundle doesn't respond, Nikolai picks it up, slings it over his shoulder, and throws his rope up to his more agile allies on the other side of the pit, taking 10 to climb up the other side.
Once there, he spreads the bundle out, and steps back to give his fellow Pathfinders the ability to examine it as well.
"Do cave flappys usually look like this?" the gnome asks Garret while scratching his head.

Untrained Know (Dungeoneering): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12Sense Motive: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (6) - 1 = 5
"A cave flappy?!" the gnome exclaims, "I've never heard of those. Is this one dead?" he shoulders the spear and cautiously pokes at it with his finger.

Nikolai draws his longspear and pokes the bundle. Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

Taking 10 on climb using knotted rope: 10-4=6
The gnome carefully lowers himself to the bottom of the pit.

"Well, who wants to carry the pack?" Nikolai asks the group as he struggles to see its contents as they're handled by the tallfolk. "I've got enough trouble with my own, but I'd be happy to hold a cure potion to pour down one of your throats if we run into trouble."

As the party traverses the caves, the gnome lags behind the others, fascinated by the glowing fungi and the glyphs they cover. He proceeds to sketch as many as he can in his journal while keeping up with the group.

"Ooh!" he utters as they approach the pit.

"I have climbing gear if we want to try to do this the hard way, or we can all jump it and save the bother."

"My short legs are going to have issues jumping this. Besides, there's no spikes or..." He trails off as he quickly surveys the pit. Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15 "Traps down there. Lets go check out the bottom!"

After the hippogriffs are defeated, Nikolai stows his longspear and recovers his pack, before inspecting the fallen creatures.
He plucks off several choice feathers before attempting to harvest a talon (Heal: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (19) - 1 = 18) if anyone approaches during this time, the gnome shrugs and quips, "Waste not! Besides, I could get some cool inkpens made!"

Nikolai watches, fascinated, as Torag's Fist materializes."Wow! How'd you do that!?" he asks Dolgrin, his mouth hanging open.

When the minotaur appears, the gnome utters a soft moan as the sheer size of the beast registers. "I don't like it..." he mutters, then asks Janira, "Are you sure you can evade that thing on your own?"

Nikolai tries again to shock the hippogriff, while harrying it with his spear.
Kinetic Blast: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 3 + 1 = 231d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 1 = 4 -4 for firing into melee, Touch attack
"Ha!" he shouts as the charge passes through the unlucky creature. "Lighting strikes the hippogriff!"

Addendum: 5' step to Q18 to provide Janira with flanking.

Nikolai is bent over a particularly interesting ordinary plant, furiously scribbling notes and sketches in his journal, oblivious to the approaching creatures. When he finally notices them, they've already proven hostile.

"Oh cool! What are these?" he asks, as he drops his pack (a free action, reducing his encumbrance to light) and fires a blast of crackling energy at the beasts.

Priority target is unengaged, using a move action to mitigate burn and use extended range if greater than 30'.
If both enemies are in melee, he will target the closest one, then draw his longspear as a move action.
Kinetic Blast: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 71d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4: targets Touch AC.

Nikolai listens intently to Janira as they travel, nodding in agreement when she mentions things he already knew, and 'ooh'ing and 'aah'ing at the things he didn't.

When they made camp for the night, the gnome quickly made friends with the caravan. Before going to sleep, he lays out a small collection of knicknacks and doodads of uncertain function, does a quick inventory, then packs them back away.

He watches intently as Janira uses her wayfinder, fascinated by the device.

Nikolai tends to stay in the middle-rear area of the party. And a 3! By this rate I'll get to a 20 in 16 rolls or so!

"They make liquid ICE!?" Nikolai shouts, before realizing he's not using his inside voice anymore. "I hope I can afford some after this mission."

The gnome looks crestfallen as Janira brandishes the wand. "Master Shaine says I'm not allowed to use wands in populated areas, not after last time..." he trails off, remembering a distant event.
"But I'll keep trying, and get a Cure stick as soon as I can afford one!"

"On foot! What are we waiting for!" the gnome squeals. "Let's get a move on! These little legs only go so fast!"

"Ένας μελετητής των ξεχάσει γλώσσες!"

Nikolai's eyes widen, and he begins to bubble over with excitement as Janira mentions the connection to the full moon, but visibly deflates when she refutes the lycanthropy angle.
He listens with rapt attention as the halfling tells the tales of her entry into the Society; Gasping at the dramatic parts, and cheering at victories.

The gnome seems to recoil from Morād everytime the old drunk speaks, as if his voice was akin to nails on a chalkboard.

Nikolai guffaws at Ob's Fist of Torag joke, covering his mouth so as not to offend the proud dwarf.

When it was his turn, he spoke excitedly, eager to share his stories.
"I was a typical gnome; grew up traveling, seeing the world, learning different languages, and visiting interesting locations. I stopped in Finderplain to visit Brightbeak, and heard tales of the Lightning Stones in Western Katapesh: twenty foot tall columns that flashed with strange symbols when struck by the frequent lightning in the area. I got a bit too close to one when it got hit..." He trails off and shrugs, the subtle motion sending tiny static discharges whizzing around his armor and up his hair. "Now I can generate some sparks of my own!"
I came to the Society because my cousin's former roommate's sister's father mentioned they could help me control it while I met interesting people, saw fantastic locales, and found fascinating devices. I loved all my classes, especially Equipment Essentials."
He points to the elf Celeb, beaming a wide smile. "I see he paid attention, he's got some rope!"

"Hey, what languages do you know? he barely takes a breath before posing the question to Niles, as if it had been rattling his mind like a cage. "We could have secret conversations!"

Does Celeb have any holy symbols prominently displayed?

Yowza. Hopefully I'm just getting the low rolls out of my system!
A small non-damaging, but startling spark leaps from Nikolai's hand as Janira's draws near.
"Oops!" he blushes. "Sorry about that! It happens sometimes when I get excited."
He leans in with his hand at the side of his mouth, and whispers to the halfling "Shouldn't be too hard to outpace this lot; they didn't pack any rope! They weren't paying much attention in Instructor MacManus's Equipment Essentials class!
He straightens quickly, realizing his whispering isn't very subtle. "Our first real mission! Exciting!"

"Ancient, mysterious caves and gillmen?" a childlike voice pipes up from beneath the table. "Sounds like... adventure!"
A gnome sporting a shock of electric blue hair jumps into view, holding an outstretched arm to Janira. "Nikolai Galvani Thales. Pleased to meet someone of similar stature!"
Does Nikolai know anything about the caves? Know (History): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

Ready to get this party started!
I've got my character sheet on my profile and linked to a more traditional sheet on a site called Myth weavers. I can whip one up in Google Docs if you like...

My apologies, sometimes I forget to introduce myself! As he speaks, sparks crawl up his electric blue hair like a Jacob's Ladder.
Nikolai Galvani Thales, long range shocker, tinkerer, and translator of tongues!
Aerokineticist 1. PFS#12438-12. I'm finishing buying gear and fleshing out my character sheet. Do you have a preferred format? Should have no problems with starting Monday!

I'm interested in joining this mission, if you'll have me.
I've GMed, but not played, the Confirmation