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"Yeah! The Abadarans are almost as bad as the Pharasmins!" Rova agrees with Unset, though she's a little unsure why he's against statutes at this moment. This whole area seems pretty lawless. Sorry, couldn't resist.

She calls on Groetus and fires again toward the elemental.

Three-action eldritch shot
Great Groetus! (+1 striking shortbow eldritch shot, deadly d10, magical, 60-foot range): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (7) + 19 = 26
Hunter's edge (precision/piercing damage): 2d6 + 2 + 1d8 ⇒ (4, 4) + 2 + (8) = 18
TK projectile: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 4, 3) = 17

"Get it, Thkrull!" Rova urges, firing a pair of arrows to help.

Command an Animal, Strike x2
+1 striking shortbow (deadly d10, magical, 60 foot range, reload 0): 1d20 + 19 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 19 + 1 = 35
Hunter's edge (precision/piercing damage): 2d6 + 2 + 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3, 1) + 2 + (7) + 1 = 14

Shortbow (iterative): 1d20 + 19 - 5 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 19 - 5 + 1 = 34
Piercing damage: 2d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (3, 3) + 2 + 1 = 9

Rova fires, but distracted by whatever the creature is doing, she misses horribly.

Whoops. Monster Hunter should have let me try to RK when I hunted prey: Nature (trained), in case it's an elemental; -13 to this if it's a construct: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (10) + 14 = 24
Three-action eldritch shot
Great Groetus! (+1 striking shortbow eldritch shot, deadly d10, magical, 60-foot range): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (1) + 19 = 20

FYI, I'll be out of town Friday-Monday, so not posting during that time.

Sizing up the figure, Rova fires an arrow through the underbrush toward it.
Hunt Prey, Strike, Command an Animal
Flat: 1d20 ⇒ 6
+1 striking shortbow (deadly d10, magical, 60 foot range, reload 0): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (11) + 19 = 30 Foe is off-guard to me in in natural difficult terrain
Hunter's edge (precision/piercing damage): 2d6 + 2 + 1d8 ⇒ (4, 6) + 2 + (1) = 13

Rova nods, looking to see if Thkrull can fit into the tight space. If not, I can leave him out here.

"Oh, a secret passage! Those are great for getting away from Pharasmins!" Rova exclaims.

She glances at the glittering geode. "Do you know what it is, Kennari?"

"Great Groetus!" Rova exclaims.

Rova, seeing the fighting ends, turns her eyes to the next threat -- the fire! If they're not careful, it could burn the entire island down to stone! The fire seems the concern that's least likely to wait patiently for us.

Rova fires two quick arrows at the nearest xulgath as she urges Thkrull to land before he falls!.

Strike x2, Command an Animal
+1 striking shortbow (deadly d10, magical, 60 foot range, reload 0): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (15) + 19 = 34
Hunter's edge (precision/piercing damage): 2d6 + 2 + 1d8 ⇒ (5, 3) + 2 + (6) = 16

Shortbow (iterative): 1d20 + 19 - 5 ⇒ (3) + 19 - 5 = 17
Piercing damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (5, 5) + 2 = 12

"Should we do something about this fire?" Rova asks. "I think it's spreading! It could burn the forest down if Groetus doesn't get here really, really soon!"

She watches as Thkrull batters the nearest xulgath, then turns her attention to the quickly approaching one.

Command an Animal (posted above), Hunt Prey (green), Strike!
+1 striking shortbow (deadly d10, magical, 60 foot range, reload 0): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (10) + 19 = 29
Hunter's edge (precision/piercing damage): 2d6 + 2 + 1d8 ⇒ (4, 4) + 2 + (2) = 12

Encouraging Thkrull to keep at it, Rova keeps her attention on the purple-skilled xulgath, firing a pair of arrows.

Command an Animal, Strike x2

+1 striking shortbow (deadly d10, magical, 60 foot range, reload 0): 1d20 + 19 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 19 + 1 = 26
Hunter's edge (precision/piercing damage): 2d6 + 2 + 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6, 2) + 2 + (4) + 1 = 15

Shortbow (iterative): 1d20 + 19 - 5 ⇒ (7) + 19 - 5 = 21
Piercing damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (2, 2) + 2 = 6

Rova urges Thkrull on, and fires a pair of arrows at the same xulgath.

Strike x2, Command an Animal

+1 striking shortbow (deadly d10, magical, 60 foot range, reload 0): 1d20 + 19 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 19 + 1 = 32
Hunter's edge (precision/piercing damage): 2d6 + 2 + 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3, 6) + 2 + (1) + 1 = 13
Deadly?: 1d10 ⇒ 1

Shortbow (iterative): 1d20 + 19 - 5 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 19 - 5 + 1 = 24
Piercing damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (6, 5) + 2 = 13

"Prism!" Rova cries out as she sees the stairs collapse.

Rova, seeing what Kennari's doing, urges Thkrull on, not that the elephant needs it. In the meantime, she takes aim at the nearest of the xulgaths, with the purplish scales, and fires her bow. But she's distracted by the growing fire.

"Is that going to burn the whole forest down?" she worries out loud.

Hunt Prey, Strike, Command an Animal
+1 striking shortbow (deadly d10, magical, 60 foot range, reload 0): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (1) + 19 = 20
Piercing damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (5, 6) + 2 = 13

Stealth (expert): 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (3) + 18 = 21

Rova sneaks forward, using all the skills she learned as the hands of her cult family. Unfortunately, she's so busy glancing back to see why Thkrull isn't making more noise that she slips out of the shadows.

Well, those rolls were awful.

"If it's just two of us, I think our best bet is to just sneak," Rova says, "while Thkrull makes a distraction."

The elephant grumbles, even though he's certain he can be more distracting than anyone else in his halfling's care.

"Should we try to sneak over there?" Rova asks in a whisper. "It might be hard. Maybe Thkrull could make a distraction, though? Or do you have a spell, Kennari?"

Lore (Groetus) (trained): 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (3) + 13 = 16

Rova tries to tell them all about Groetus, but unfortunately, her excited sermonizing makes them want to hear more instead.

"Maybe we should tell them about Groetus?" Rova asks. Or avoid them...

Rova nods, in complete agreement with Prism. I feel bad, since it seems obvious we're supposed to go to the distillery, but I don't think there's a real reason for us to be concerned about what's happening there.

Diplomacy (trained): 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (14) + 15 = 29

"Oh, the circus is so much fun! And I bet we could find some trees for you to log if you want to do both! We need big poles to hold up the big top!"

"Oh, no, we have a circus! You should come! You can learn all about Groetus! Maybe you can perform too if you want?"

"That's because they only know the lies about him that the Pharasmians tell!"

"Oh! Or, since everyone's over there, maybe we should go warn him about Groetus! That could let so many people know!"

"Wow!" Rova exclaims. "If that's their festival, we're going to have to put on our best show to match that!"

She continues to enjoy the festivities, spreading word of the circus when she can (but not Groetus -- she'll wait until the show tonight, since it seems like everyone's already taking advantage of their time to enjoy themselves).

If we don't know where the aeon tower is yet, Rova will watch some of the Stump Festival and enjoy herself, talking up the circus as circumstances permit.

"More doppelgangers!" Rova whispers to her companions. "It sounds like they may have taken over the distillery! But fortunately, they seem to be content to stay there for the moment!"

Rova happily walks through town, seeing the sights and listening to see if anyone knows Groetus is coming, or if there are doppelgangers here too.

Diplomacy (trained): 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (13) + 15 = 28

Rova shrugs and nods as Prism solves the problem. But she'll still make sure to enlighten everyone about Groetus.

Rova blinks. "I don't think we have that much money, do we?" She looks at Niksi. "Is there some other way we could compensate you? I could tell everyone about Groetus coming, so they'd be ready."

She doesn't mention that she plans to do that anyway.

"We should probably find out where to set up first," Rova says, looking around. I wonder where we can find Commissioner Ikener."

She heads into town looking for some sign of its leadership.

Rova, level 11!
+14 hp
+1 to everything

General feat: Incredible Scout. (And I'll make Scouting my default exploration activity, so giving everyone +2 to initiatives.)

Warden’s endurance: You shake off a grizzly's grab or a poison's ill effects with equal ease. Your proficiency rank for Fortitude saves increases to master. When you roll a success on a Fortitude save, you get a critical success instead.

Medium armor expertise: You've learned to defend yourself better against attacks. Your proficiency ranks for light armor, medium armor, and unarmored defense increase to expert.

Skill increase: Religion to master*. (I'm going to retrain a previous skill increase to Stealth that moved it to expert to Religion -- so Stealth goes back to trained -- and then this one would move Religion to master. That'll set up for another feat next level.

Unimpeded journey: You move quickly through obstacles, whether they're tumbled stone or tangled undergrowth. You can ignore the effects of difficult terrain. As normal for ignoring difficult terrain, this also lets you treat the hindrances of greater difficult terrain as those of difficult terrain.

+1200 gp

I'd say move along narratively (though if someone else wants to do the circus performance, I'm happy to read it!).

Rova looks her up and down, trying to figure out whether Thkrull could carry her. Not sure how much Bulk she'd be?

Nature (trained): 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (18) + 14 = 32

"I think that's her name," Rova decides.

"Maybe she wants us to bring her to the stone? Or the room with the crafters were?"

She moves back to the ghost room, to see if Runkrunk follows.

"Oh, that's nice! Thank you, Groetus!" Rova exclaims as she feels the god's power (offered through the orb, obviously).

"But how do we get it to start working properly again?"

Is there something we can do here?

FYi, I'm on vacation through Thursday. I may have some changes to post, but I'm not sure. Feel free to bot me (GM or players) if necessary.

Reflex (master, evasion), inspired): 1d20 + 20 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 20 + 1 = 29

Rova manages to avoid any of the items but one just glances off her wrist as she fires an arrow, and she misses badly.

Great Groetus! (+1 striking shortbow eldritch shot, deadly d10, magical, 60-foot range): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (1) + 19 = 20

Rova turns her attention to the remaining ghost -- "Back to Groetus with you!" -- and fires an enchanted arrow at it, trying to squeeze the shaft just over Prism's head, like if her target were an apple balanced on her hair.

Hunt Prey, Strike, Enchanting Arrow

+1 striking shortbow (deadly d10, magical, 60 foot range, reload 0): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (9) + 19 = 28
Hunter's edge (precision/piercing damage): 2d6 + 2 + 1d8 ⇒ (6, 6) + 2 + (3) = 17
Mental: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 2) = 7

"Hi Thkrull, sorry, though I saw something coming out here, but it was nothing. Bye, Thkrull!" Rova calls as she dashes back to the room, panting slightly from the exertion.

D'oh! Sorry!

Will (expert), inspired: 1d20 + 16 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 16 + 1 = 25

Rova's about to shoot when she realizes she knows where the golem might have gone. She rushes outside to check and make sure Thkrull is taking care of it!

Rova keeps her focus on the bloody ghost red, firing a groetus shot at it.

Three-action eldritch shot
Great Groetus! (+1 striking shortbow eldritch shot, deadly d10, magical, 60-foot range): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (6) + 19 = 25
Hunter's edge (precision/piercing damage): 2d6 + 2 + 1d8 ⇒ (1, 3) + 2 + (2) = 8
TK projectile: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 6, 2) = 12

"Oh, undeath. Then you're stuck being tormented until Groetus comes to save you!" Rova cheerfully replies.

Rova lets out a cry of pain and steps back before unleashing another Groetus-blessed arrow. "You're already dead, but it can get worse!" she calls out.

Actions: Step, Enchanting Arrow
+1 striking shortbow (deadly d10, magical, 60 foot range, reload 0): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (13) + 19 = 32
Hunter's edge (precision/piercing damage): 2d6 + 2 + 1d8 ⇒ (2, 6) + 2 + (6) = 16
Mental: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 1) = 2

Enchanting Arrow [two-actions] With a single whisper carried on the wind, you enchant your ammunition to make a foe more vulnerable to your attacks. Make a bow Strike. On a hit, the target takes an additional 2d6 mental damage.

Shaking slightly, Rova moves into the room to give herself a better angle so she doesn't accidentally shoot Prism. "Groetus, show them The End!" she whispers as she pulls back and arrow and fires directly into the red ghost's ethereal chest!

Stride, Enchanting Arrow
+1 striking shortbow (deadly d10, magical, 60 foot range, reload 0): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (17) + 19 = 36
Piercing damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (6, 6) + 2 = 14
Deadly?: 1d10 ⇒ 2
Mental: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7
Enchanting Arrow [two-actions] With a single whisper carried on the wind, you enchant your ammunition to make a foe more vulnerable to your attacks. Make a bow Strike. On a hit, the target takes an additional 2d6 mental damage. On a critical hit, the target also becomes stunned 1. The mental damage increases to 3d6 if your bow has a greater striking rune, or to 4d6 if your bow has a major striking rune.

LOL. I was looking for the golem!

"Great Groetus!" Rova curses, firing a god-empowered arrow at the ghost Kennari is fighting. Her lingering fear -- not helped by Prism's warning -- throws off her aim, unfortunately.

Three-action eldritch shot (frightened 2)
Great Groetus! (+1 striking shortbow eldritch shot, deadly d10, magical, 60-foot range): 1d20 + 19 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 19 - 2 = 22
Piercing damage: 2d6 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (1, 2) + 2 - 2 = 3
TK projectile: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 4, 6, 3) = 17

Down to frightened 1 after my turn.

Will (expert), inspired: 1d20 + 16 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 16 + 1 = 28

Rova whimpers slightly as she realizes she may not get to live until Groetus arrives.

Dang. Frightened 2

Reflex (master, evasion), inspired): 1d20 + 20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 20 + 1 = 40

Rova barely notices the cone of cold as it goes right over her head. "Oh, I guess these ghosts aren't friendly like the last ones," she says. "So, that means we'll have to destroy them!"

Actions: Hunt Prey (red), Enchanting Arrow

+1 striking shortbow (deadly d10, magical, 60 foot range, reload 0): 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (13) + 19 = 32
Hunter's edge (precision/piercing damage): 2d6 + 2 + 1d8 ⇒ (4, 3) + 2 + (6) = 15
Mental: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7
Deadly?: 1d10 ⇒ 4

Crit specialization: The target gets stuck to an adjacent surface by the missile. The target is immobilized and must spend an Interact action to attempt a DC 10 Athletics check to pull the missile free; it can’t move from its space until it succeeds.

Enchanting Arrow [two-actions] With a single whisper carried on the wind, you enchant your ammunition to make a foe more vulnerable to your attacks. Make a bow Strike. On a hit, the target takes an additional 2d6 mental damage. On a critical hit, the target also becomes stunned 1. The mental damage increases to 3d6 if your bow has a greater striking rune, or to 4d6 if your bow has a major striking rune.