Piety's page

Oh. That's how that works? I don't think I read that far into whatever book that was where I learned about Treants. I think it was "Flora Knowledge for the Aspiring Adventurer". Honestly, it was pretty boring. Just pages and pages and pages about stupid plants and what they did and what kind of sunlight and temperature they needed and how you could use them to remedy this or that condition because why would you use magic when you could rub random plant goo all over your junk and blah blah blah. I just skimmed through the ones that could kill me and then burned the book b/c wtfboring.

Detect magic, then spellcraft:
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (9) + 14 = 23

This is magical, it's fading. Seems adjuration-y. Probably a holy symbol or something, maybe he was a cleric not a druid.

Erm. Well, I was hoping to interrupt him, but I was too slow. He insta-summoned. What can we do about that? Either way, let's search the tree corpse and see if he was carrying anything interesting. Barring that, I guess we'll just have to be ready for crazy s%%~ and you'll have to improvise some great lie.

Maybe we can do something to make it look like we've defeated these bad guys and they'll just leave? Tree boy is toast, so no toting him out to throw them off.

Because they can't? He was obviously special. Probably a druid-tree or some crap.

Yea, good job Tempy. You totally f~@~ed that one up by letting the kindling over there summon help. I wonder who this "she" is that's coming to kill us.

Oh, yea, hai. I closed my browser window again and lost track of time.

I will keep burning this tree until there is no tree left.

DefConc: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (20) + 15 = 35 need to beat a 19
Burning Arc,DC18 RSv: 9d6 + 9 ⇒ (2, 5, 6, 2, 5, 3, 4, 5, 2) + 9 = 43

Wow, a 20 on my conc check...nailed it

Holy s~@$! He just destroyed your sword. I can think of no worse thing to do to a swashbuckler.

Yup, more fire for the tree.
Burning Arc DC18: 9d6 + 9 ⇒ (3, 5, 1, 5, 5, 6, 1, 5, 6) + 9 = 46

Oh s@$*, too fast!

Yea, so as soon as he says he's going to summon aid and how he's going to do it, I light him on fire. If we're close enough (unclear if we're actually that far back on the map while talking, I moved myself and Tempy up assuming we're close enough) then I use burning arc, otherwise I use fireball.

Fireball DC19: 7d6 + 7 ⇒ (2, 1, 1, 6, 2, 2, 6) + 7 = 27
Extra dam f/ BA (also DC18 save): 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (3, 4) + 2 = 9

Damn it Temperance, your mouth is always getting us in trouble. Why can't you just kill something? Why do you always have to talk to it?

Well, might as well light him up.

Burning Arc,DC18 RSv: 9d6 + 9 ⇒ (6, 2, 1, 1, 4, 5, 3, 2, 3) + 9 = 36

If the elemental is *not* laughing hysterically after Tempy does her thing (I'll delay till after her), then...

I'll take the scroll from the snake, step forward a bit and ready to cast it if Leo gets knocked off the edge.

If it is laughing, then I'll just continue to delay.

Kn: Planes: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (18) + 13 = 31

Yes, I believe they do.

Piety is down 14, so a round or 2 of LL plus an infernal healing should do the trick.

Limping a little over to Saio after the fight:
Me too! Me too! I can use some of your wonderful healing touch. Those claws, um, hurt. A lot. Maybe I'll be a little more cautious next time around.

Whispering while being healed:
Why is he looking at me like that and talking about his passion and boiling blood? I mean, I'm not clueless about guys and their libido, but after slaying demons? Is that a thing? Maybe some kind of enchantment magic or aura these monsters possessed? I didn't recognize the infernal things, so I don't really know what is going on.

6CL + 5Int mod, so 11 (still fails).

I'll draw my dagger too. Then I'll actually blast it with some magic missiles b/c I wasn't even startled by it and I'm not scared of some big monster-daemon thing.

I don't case defensively, so I provoke.

If he doesn't attack, or rolls a 1:
Magic Missile: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (3, 1, 1) + 3 = 8

Otherwise, I'm sure he breaks my concentration.

I move up and then smash my brown daemon friend in the face with some raw arcane energy.

Magic Missile: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (4, 1, 4) + 3 = 12

It's 9d6+9, so another 9 points of raw fire damage, which means another 4 points of post-save damage.

I fried the hell out of brown on my last turn and don't see any damage on the map. You said all of it didn't go through, but hopefully some of it did?

If he does look fried, I'm going to repeat my last, successful, action and fry him again.

So yea, if the Daemon guys didn't seem to care that we said we were servants of Asmodeus and did it in a fairly epicly intimidating, way, then I'll move in and light the one that just fried everyone up.

Burning Arc,DC18 RSv: 9d6 + 9 ⇒ (5, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4) + 9 = 56

Wow, that's a really good damage roll.

Since Kn: planar, that means I got the 17, so don't know much. Luckily Leo filled us in while I was searching my memory for what the hell these things were.

Is it normal that they seem almost friendly? Is that like their thing, or does it seem like they recognize us as essentially allies or what?

Tall, furry, claws, not inclined to murder, bad grammar. Doesn't hit my player knowledge check. Do I recognize these things in character?

Kn:Something: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14 (might be better if one of her better Kn)

#$%#

Alright Forty, if you can't tell no one probably can. You done checking that door for traps Edwin? Good idea to be cautious, we're in some ancient doom-tomb, so all kinds of bad things could be awaiting us, set either by the good guys or the bad guys. Are you good at finding traps? I wouldn't expect you to spend a lot of time looking for traps, but you do have to be observant so you can see other ships and stuff. Anyways, if you're comfortable with you abilities, open that door. If not, maybe our always helpful priest can see something.

I can't fail the duneoneering check.
I can't make the Heal check.

In infernal, clearly annoyed with the uneducated superstition of her companions:
We shouldn't worry about the fact that this frog king worships demons or daemons and we're unleashing some unlawful evil into the world. Our master is not stupid, he knows what he's doing. And our mission was to "go to the Horn of Abbadon and release the beast there". It's called the Horn of Abbadon for Asmodeus' sake, pretty clear it isn't a bastion of devils.

I can manage 3 castings of gaseous form in day 1. But I'd only need 2 anyways. I GF in there, after doing so I see the book and stuffs, so I assume my normal form. Then when I'm done and have the book, I recast so I can head back out.

Kn: Religion: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (10) + 12 = 22
Kn:History: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12

Yea, well, you remind me of my older sister that was always bossing me around and casting enchantments on me to get me to do what she wanted. I had to look in my spellbook first to confirm it before I volunteered, so give me a break.

Pages through her spellbook while Tempy rambles...
Oh yea, I have that one. I'll just need to re-sync my brain and spellbook with this cool trick I learned and then I can cast that instead of fireball. I like fireball though, so hopefully I can switch back afterwards.

Anyways, it will last a little longer than 10 minutes. Do you want me to cast it on one of you or should I do it on myself?

He seems frozen in time, do you want me to thaw him?

I think this will trigger when she backs up:

Then I ready an action to blast that crone frog with arcanified magic missiles as soon as she tries to cast or move away.

Magic missile 1: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Magic missile 2: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Magic missile 3: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Magic missile 4: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Poorly worded on my part (if she'd backed up and casted I would've hit her before she concentrated...oops).

Not her turn just yet, but since she's soon, doing her thing.

I slide over onto the "live" side of the loathsome veil, but since I resisted it's effects the first time, I'm confident I can withstand it again. Then I ready an action to blast that crone frog with arcanified magic missiles as soon as she tries to cast or move away.

Magic missile 1: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Magic missile 2: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Magic missile 3: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Magic missile 4: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

S+*@, I kept checking to see if people had posted, but somehow didn't realize that we were waiting on Piety :\

Spellcraft to ID veil: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (5) + 14 = 19

Oh, wow, I've always wondered what a Loathsome Veil looked like. That really does turn the stomach. But I think it's only 1 side that's a problem, so I'll just get onto the otherside of it real quick...

Piety moves to the back side of the veil.

Huh, it looks about the same from this side, but doesn't make me want to hurl. Interesting.

She traces her fingers along it for a second, then refocuses on the combat around her.

Double move b/c of rough terrain, she had a little movement left so figure she would spend a second looking at this fascinating display of magic.

Oh! Another froggie came out to play. Anyone like frog legs?

Primary, red frog
Burning Arc,DC18 RSv: 8d6 + 8 ⇒ (3, 2, 4, 1, 3, 3, 2, 1) + 8 = 27

Secondary, super frog
Burning Arc,DC16 RSv: 4d6 + 4 ⇒ (6, 2, 1, 2) + 4 = 15

I almost forgot! After seeing Ash cast darkness in the fight with the T-Rex, Piety swapped Mirror Image for Darkvision in her prepared spells. She also casts it on anyone needing a little boost, so that's her + Tempy + anyone else that needs it. I marked off the 2 castings on my sheet already.

Do we want to put this light out? It extends our vision a little, but also could draw attention to us.

You most certainly are not. But I have no idea what those fish are. They weren't in my textbooks and they aren't Tien. We should probably leave them alone.
Kn:Dungeoneering: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

Kn:Engineering: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21
You can use them as a narcotic, but you actually hold them in your mouth in the whole form. If they slice your cheeks a little that only elevates the experience. You should try that Neji.

Forgetting she's on message, she says under her breath:
Idiot.

Piety probably also knows about their croak, and so also makes earplugs.
Kn:Local to know something about Boggards: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (12) + 16 = 28

Kn Nature: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21

Quietly, over message:
Um, that's a treant guys. Seems like he is, uh, protecting some unknown evil thing and we definitely don't want any part of that because we're all good people. On an unrelated note, fire is fun and trees burn really well.

Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (14) + 0 = 14
Um, what do we see?

Where did I get these d7's from? Ugh, let me re-roll with proper dice

Fireball: 7d6 + 7 ⇒ (1, 2, 6, 5, 5, 4, 6) + 7 = 36

How the hell did that thing dodge my first shot? It jumped like a frog!

Um, I toss another fireball from behind my tree and then move somewhat closer to the beast and this huge "bison". Maybe next round I'll get to do real damage?

Fireball,DC19 RSv: 7d7 + 7 ⇒ (3, 4, 6, 2, 7, 7, 3) + 7 = 39

^##$, he didn't get close enough for me to fry him. And he chewed that horse in half. Eww. Guess I'll have to light this whole place on fire before that beast eats Edward.

I move behind a tree, then cast fireball. DC19 Reflex save for half damage.
Fireball damage w/ Arc boost: 7d6 + 7 ⇒ (1, 5, 2, 4, 6, 5, 1) + 7 = 31

Hey, I think I hear something up ahead, sounds pretty lou...WHAT THE ^#$@ IS THAT?

Kn:Nature: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13
Also no idea what it is, so let's see how she does with her horse

Ride: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (9) + 0 = 9
Acro to land gently: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (7) + 0 = 7
Yup, also on my ass
Where do I land? 1 is due west: 1d8 ⇒ 4
Fall damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Also near the top of the turn order, so will write out my actions.

From the ground:
I've spent a lot of time studying books on the natural world and I've never read about one of those. I hope it tastes good well done!

I'll ready to cast burning arc on it if it gets close enough. 45 feet is my range. It gets a DC 19 reflex save for 1/2 damage if it does get blasted.
Burning arc, w/ arcanist reservoir bump: 9d6 + 9 ⇒ (5, 5, 3, 4, 6, 1, 5, 6, 3) + 9 = 47

And she'll stand up and 5ft away from the monster too.

Piety brings as her starting gear:
Elemental Spell (Acid) Rod, Lesser
Wand of Infernal Healing
Pathfinder chronicles (All 10)
Sleeves of Many Garments

She also scribed a ton of spells, b/c she's striving to add utility. Plus she can scribe scrolls f/ this list now!

Also, it won't last as long, but if you'd prefer misdirection to undetectable, I can swap your evil aura with a random peasant or bunny or something.

Did you miss my intro? My name's Piety. How about you? Should I just call you Blondie?

And yes, I have misdirection. What self-respecting revolutionary doesn't?

Oh, and I have a lot of camping supplies already, but you all aren't sharing my tent so should buy your own. I'm happy to look over what you have and see if you're missing anything, I'm pretty knowledgeable about living rough.

I think the weapon smith should have a high pull masterwork quality composite longbow. I bet he can fit one to your size and strength, will probably cost about...
...Piety walks over and feels Edwin's bicep...
600 gold.

Kn:Eng: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20

Ahem, that's Piety, not Penelope. I'm named after a cardinal virtue, just like my sisters. My parents were weird. I've never been particularly good at adhering to mine, I know my lord likes fire, and that I'm happy to provide, but worship is just not my thing.

What do I know about the town?
Kn:Local: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (10) + 16 = 26

What do I know about this artifact?
Kn:History: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19 or Kn:Arcana: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34

Do I know anything about this treacherous Baron?
Kn:Nobility: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20 or Kn:History: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12

Do I know anything about the Caer Bryr?
Kn:Nature?: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30

Well, knew that roll was too good to keep. Rebuilt her and she is now fully demunchkined. Hrm. Wish I hadn't built the other version. With the loss of the campaign bonuses, 2 levels and the metamagic trick, she looks pretty weak. I don't know if she'll actually be combat effective now compared to the PCs. Will probably just drop her into a support role for now. She can still do crafting and utility and stuff, doesn't need HP and spell levels to contribute there. I'll look at it more later and see if I can make some more changes to either preserve her power level or have her do something else.

Note: I think the constraints are reasonable to keep us from being overpowered as a group, just again wish I hadn't built the awesome version of her first to compare to.

What does she come in with, wealth-wise? Should I assume nothing and I need to buy her stuff from my main's stash, or does she bring some starting wealth? You mentioned 8k gp above, but that may have changed in the several re-framings of our composition.

Str 8 (Foible)
Dex: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16
Con: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17
Int 18 (Focus)
Wis: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8
Cha: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Well, won't complain about those rolls.