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Pavro nods grimly in thanks to the vanished earth elemental and exhales,

"Well that little oik was tougher than expected. I'd best get Aressa back and see what that spell caster did to her..."

He takes the minutes needed to resummon the eidolon, who is no longer laughing, but swishing her tail and scowling furiously. She surveys the scene as Pavro mentally fills her in and can be heard muttering, "Not funny, grrr."

"What do we do with the gecko thing, it seems harmless enough? Anyone want a pet?" Pavro asks, eying the creature dubiously.

This time the earth elemental's slam catches the goblin chief directly on the chin with terrible force! Pavro whoops and attempts to daze the nearest goblin again.

Elemental PA: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29 Damage: 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16
Elemental Crit Conf. PA: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26 Extra Damage: 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17

The earth elemental swings its lumpy fists again, but is easily dodged by the nimble chief. Pavro targets the closest goblin with a daze spell.

Earth Elemental PA: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15 Damage: 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15

Welcome back Marcoul, or shortly anyway :) Grrr, I just could not hit that bugger so had to use an extra summons, think I've used 5/8 now including this one.

The earth elemental moved up onto the chief, there is no way he can make that move without provoking, since even a withdraw would only stop him provoking from one square.

The earth elemental swings twice at the chief who ignores both its attack of opportunity and charge with disdain. Pavro scowling decides he can afford to squander some resources on this smug little git, and simply summons another earth elemental ordering it to attack the chief in Terran, even as the first elemental vanishes.

The new earth elemental charges the chief from the front and slams its earthern fist into him dealing a savage blow to the little goblin,

"Ha, eat fist you cocky little pillock. You aren't raiding anyone again!" Pavro shouts punching the air, even as he ducks behind the pillar furthest from the chieftain.

Earth Elemental AOO PA: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18 Damage: 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12
Earth Elemental Charge PA: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11 Damage: 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16
Earth Elemental Charge PA: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22 Damage: 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16

The earth elemental smashes its fists into the rising goblin almost casually before moving for its real target the chief, but here it stumbles and its powerful blow flies well wide of the mark.

Pavro moves into the room behind and between Avian and Thandion and attempts to daze the chieftain with a cantrip.

DC 15 will or dazed for one round if he has less than 5 hit dice.

Elemental AOO PA vs Gob: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21 Damage: 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14

Elemental PA vs Chief: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10 Damage: 1d6 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12

Is the purple one the chief? And does the prone goblin standing provoke an AOO from the elemental?

Pavro peers around the door and summons an earth elemental into a flanking position with Avian before ducking back behind the door,

"Uraughhhhh rummmcrumsh norooom!" He calls, sounding like he is gargling gravel.

A roughly humanoid figure composed of rock and earth appears behind the chieftain and slams its fists into the goblin's back.

Elemental PA vs Chief: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18 Damage: 1d6 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12

Pavro smiles maliciously and moves back ducking out of sight behind the doors after dismissing Aressa, having no idea what the strange mirth inducing magic is effecting her.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

"Raids aren't going to be a part of Sandpoint's future, not if I can help it. Not by you at any rate because you'll be dead you slimey little s#~&e." Pavro growls furiously, beginning a spell as Aressa charges.

Pavro scowls at the goblin,

"We're here because you slinky little bastards are up to something with some other humans, and because members of your tribe particpated in a raid upon my home! So either you tell us everything you know about these Longshanks and then get the hell out of here, or my lovely assistant Aressa here will rip your throat out and give your internal organs a unigue opportunity to enjoy some fresh air."

Intimidate: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

"Hmmm, anyone know there way around a lock?"

"Well I think we should probably clear this level, or at least check everything out before we go down. Don't want to be fighting on two fronts. How about we check the tower, then the barracks, then deal with the locked doors?"

Ah I see, was assuming Aressa and Pavro were on the same init.

Pavro attempts to daze one of the crossbow wielding goblins again while Aressa pounces forward snarling to plough into their ranks targeting their leader if she can.

Aressa Bite PA: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12 Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Aressa Claw PA: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13 Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Aressa Claw PA: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20 Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Did Aressa's bite miss? She hit AC 16 for 8 damage.

Well that's disappointing :( But such is life I suppose. Are the rest of you interested in cotinueing if we can find a new DM? I think we've got a good group and I'd be sad to see it go.

That's Aressa. She's a sphinx with the head of a haughty dark haired woman - with fangs. There do seem to be 8 goblins though, but I'm guessing we cannot see some of them?

Aressa snarls and hurks herself at the goblins before her, sinking her teeth into one, but her claws both flailing wildly and missing.

Pavro moves forward in front of Marcoul and attempts to daze one of the goblins on the far side of the room with a chanted spell,

"Emite remmahpots!"

Daze DC 15 Will or be dazed for 1 round.

Bite: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Claw: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
Claw: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

"Double doors I say."

VOW if you are going to autopilot it anyway do you think we could just say Aressa leads with Thandion behind and we search everywhere checking doors on the right side first or something? That way you can fill in all the stuff until we come to an actual encounter in one post and save us tons of time.

Pavro chuckles and Aressa huffs imperiously leaping through the trapdoor up onto the roof, presumably.

Aressa leads the way to the top of the stairs, before looking to Thandion and then at the trapdoor,

"I don't have hands so you will need to lead the way here."

Pavro looks slightly embarrassed from further down the stairs but evidently has no desire to move to the fore and open the trapdoor for his eidolon.

Is the trapdoor accessed via the stair or a ladder?

"Plus there's probably inbreeding," Pavro agrees optimistically.

"Oh, I think we've probably done that pretty handily already. To that end I'm going to call 'Ress back before Rocky vanishes," Pavro says cheerfully, taking the minute to recall his eidolon and then heading over towards the large room behind Aressa, who looks irritated and fails to return the summoner's cheery greeting.

"Probably best to leave him for the moment I suppose, he does not seem to be in immediate danger, we can free him or her maybe, when we have dealt with the goblins."

Pavro then walks over and opens the door that looks likliest to lead toward the front gate of the fortress instructing his earth elemental to move in ahead through the stone and rise up in the center of the room as he does so.

"Well I'll just tell it to knock them out for the moment, at least that way they are not an immediate danger," Pavro says, before instructing the elemental in rumbling terran.

The elemental proceeds to carefully pummel the hideous creatures into unconsciousness.

"Now what about Dobbin in there? I'm not really any good with animals...."

Pavro frowns at Severus,

"Why on earth would I do that? We leave them here they are a threat, they can be bred for more goblin mounts, nobody would want to care for these wretched things, and we cannot release them into the wild, what if they started to breed? You want them alive when their trainers arrive and order them to attack? Surely its better for everyone if we put these things down, keep them alive if you must, but at least render them unconscious."

Goblin Dog Pic - Yuck!

The earth elemental continues attacking the dogs following Pavro's instructions, and looking at the mangey scaberrous beasts as he climbs over, Pavro is not really inclined to stop it. What would we do with them let those things go into the wild to possibly breed, no. Keep them, no.

They are goblin dogs right?

With a shrug Pavro scrambles over next, not liking the idea of being left alone.

I could be wrong Severus as I cannot check the map right now, but I think the barred gate leads into a room so to umbra it we would need to deal with its occupants, etc.

Pavro converses with the air elemntal in auran and then reports back to his friends,

"The other goblins with their dogs are round the rear left of the island. There's a courtyard beyond with four goblin dogs in, but we'd have to move around to the left to access it. How about we move around to the left deal with the goblin dogs and then I have the elemental carry a rope over the wall and secure it?"

"I'm going to have the elemental try to open the gate, it looks like its only barred. Then I guess we get in and bar it so those goblins and there dogs out here can't get behind us. Might stop that druid for a while to."

Pavro's air elemental flies over and attempts to open the gate.

Pavro calls his air elemental back shouting in Auran and asks it to fly over and open the gate, which it proceeds to attempt.

Well I don't really see it as a Summoner problem, many characters have access to the same summons list. The problem is that what seems like a perfectly valid tactic is too great for the creatures CR, I'd argue that that would be true even with the old size caveat, since a medium elemental effectively gets a DC 14 reflex death effect against small characters by engulfing them and flying potentially 300ft up with no more saves - of course the character can try to kill it, but that's not exactly a win either!

Its dealt with easily enough by simply side stepping the problem, which I'm happy to do. Sadly things like this are bound to crop up with such an expansive rule set. *shrugs*

The air elemental chases the shaman down using its speed and maneuverability to counteract the advantages given him by the foliage and strikes from above.

Slam: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17 Damage: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Retcon of elementals actions. I included a higher ground bonus of +1 in the roll and in retrospect am not sure I should have. Do you need to be on ground to have higher ground? An air elemental is probably just as stable, but I can't find any explanatory text. Also including sermanic performance.

Hmmm, its a bit of a pain, and I can definitely see the potential for it being broken with my DM eyes. Fail a reflex save it flies you 100ft up and drops you is potentially devastating and really too powerful for a 2nd level spell equiv.

Its probably easier if we just assume summoned air elementals can't use whirlwind, saves a lot of bother. Its not a tactic I was planning to use I just spotted it in the stat block and thought ooooh!

I would like to argue against that ruling on whirlwind VOW.

There are definite advantages to maintaining a whirlwind and these are the only reason being able to maintain it is relevant.

A creature that can fly is allowed a Reflex save each round on its turn to escape the whirlwind. The creature still takes damage that round but can leave if the save is successful.

So essentially a creature that can maintain its whirlwind can keep creatures with no fly speed trapped inside it automatically with no save, where a creature that can only maintain for a round must try and catch them again each round giving multiple saves, etc.

The air elemental reforms, but simply shifts back in a whirlwind again and goes for the shaman.

Pavro meanwhile casts a daze spell upon one of the goblins and attempts to get behind cover from the archer.

Two DC 14 reflex saves, 1st for slam second for getting picked up by the whirlwind. If it picks him up it uses the remainder of its 100ft. movement to move him straight upwards.

Slam Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

DC 15 Will or goblin archer is dazed for one round. Not sure how high the tower is spells range is only 30ft. so Pavro may need to move closer to use it.

I sacrifice a goat every other Wednesday.

About 85ft. I believe. If he fails his 2nd save vs the elemental it will pull him 45ft. into the air towards us.

Pavro summons a small air elemental just above the bridge making blowing wheezing sounds that sound like a whistling breeze,

"Whoooo wheeeeeeeee woooorrrrr woooeeeioooo!"

the bird-like form of swirling air flies forward and transforms into a twenty feet high whirlwind slamming into the goblin!

The goblin needs to make two DC 14 reflex saves. First one to avoid taking damage, second to avoid being swept up into the whirlwind. As per the Whirlwind ability.[/url]

Damage if 1st save fails: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Aressa assaults the second goblin dog, tearing it into a pile of bloody shreds, then vanishes as Pavro dismisses her. The young summoner moving back to the edge of the bridge and motioning to the goblin shaman,

"Bring it on small green and ugly! Your mother was a cockroach and your father smells like a week old pilchard marinated in wee!"

Bite PA: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14 Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
Claw PA: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23 Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Claw PA: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23 Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

Aressa Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
Aressa Init: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Aressa charges the goblin dogs pouncing upon them in her now familiar storm of claws and fangs! Meanwhile Pavro peers up at the gates not having noticed the danger.

Bite PA: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22 Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
Claw PA: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9 Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
Claw PA: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16 Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Where Aressa is charging to depends upon the enemies position after their init, if it stays as is to R22.

I'll assume the doors are closed?

Raising his shield above his head Pavro hurries over to the door and examines them trying to see if there is any obvious way of determining if they are locked or not. If he cannot tell he tries opening them taking care to do so gently and as quietly as possible.

Edited in response.

Can you describe what we see on the other side VOW? I'm afraid I can't find it if you have already done so.

After Pavro makes his way nervously across the bridge he joins Aressa is surveying their surrounding, and looking for possible entry points into the goblin fortress.

If its okay I'm going to switch up the skills ranks from bluff and spellcraft and put them both in linguistics. Taking Auran and Terran since I've got elementals on my summons list now.

Level up info...

Pavro
+8 hp - 5 roll, 1 con, 1 favored class.
+1 Fort
+1 Reflex
+1 BAB, so +1 to hit and +1 to CMB and CMD.
Feat = Augment Summoning.
Skills = Bluff, Diplomacy, Spellcraft increased by 1 each.
Spells Known = 1 extra 1st and 1 extra cantrip.
Spells Selected = Summon Monster I, and Guidance cantrip.
Spell Slots = 1 extra 1st level.
Class Abilities = Summon Monster II

Aressa
+10 hp - 6 roll, 1 con, 3 toughness feat.
+1 Will
+1 BAB, so +1 to hit and +1 to CMB and CMD.
Feat = Toughness
Skills = Acrobatics, Knowledge the Planes, Perception, Stealth increased by 1 each.
+1 Evolution Point, spent on Improved Natural Armor
+2 natural armor

Heck I'll take a roll! Lol and its half +1! And half +1 again, that was very nerve wracking for a gain of butt diddly, lol!

Pavro HP Roll: 1d8 ⇒ 5
Aressa HP Roll: 1d10 ⇒ 1 Rerolling a single 1
Aressa HP Roll: 1d10 ⇒ 6