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"How much do we need the plant creatures? Can we just pole our way up the river without them? While I'll go into the swamp looking for plant creatures if we must, its not high on my list of things that I WANT to do :-("

Shwarto helps in the various chores but is eager to press on

"I have a method but I'm certainly not volunteering it"

"Sorry, I have no magical way of communicating across distances that form"

"Unfortunately, its what we did NOT find that is most important. We did not find the inhabitants, nor their bodies. We did not find the plant that we need to advance. We DID find some maniacal elves who attacked us to the death. We need to track them down and find the villagers and the plant"

Does Shwarto have any idea why there would be Arsenic in a healing hit?

knowledge: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (1) + 13 = 14
3 higher if Arcana

Never mind :-)

"Yes, lets get the weapons back to the ship and then try and track down these elves"

Shwarto would see if he could break into the armory (we might need what is inside)

Take 20 on disable device for a33

"It looks like we're going to have to follow them. They seem to have taken the plant that we need. Great, huh?"

I'd say we pretty much search everything in order as we come to it (going back and searching the buildings we missed due to combat breaking out). We have to search EVERYWHERE

"Ow!!. Ok, be warned. Putting the amulet on hurts a little and it doesn't look like it will come off. I THINK its all quite safe and you can wear them alright. But I didn't see that coming so take that with some scepticism.

Oh, and thanks for the healing. Greatly appreciated"

"The boat is fine right now. So, lets keep searching the buildings. Remember not to destroy the plant creature that we need for fuel!"

"Everybody should take one of those amulets. Being harder to hit is good!"

Shwarto would try and identify the magical amulets.

Take 10 on spellcraft for 20

"We need to make sure that the ship is ok"

He quickly scratches a note and ties it to Twikli's leg and sends Twikli down to check out the vessel. Twikli is to land and get a reply only if everything is ok down there

"Haven't they had enough yet? They should run, darnit!"

With that, Shwarto advances and just shoots his acid dart at peach

to hit: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 5 + 1 = 10
damage: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Take as much time as you need.

"Well, it worked once. Lets do it AGAIN!"

Shwarto will step out of his concealment and shoot the cyan elf

stealth: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (11) + 15 = 26

to hit: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 5 + 1 = 25 Vs touch.
damage: 1d3 + 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + (5, 6) + 1 = 14

And quickly dimensional steps back

Shwarto will step out of his concealment and shoot the light blue elf

stealth: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (11) + 15 = 26

to hit: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 5 + 1 = 25 Vs touch.
damage: 1d3 + 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + (3, 5) + 1 = 12

He then uses his dimensional step ability to return to where he originally came from

"Ha. Take THAT!!"

Shwarto decides its time to, uh, bravely get out of the way of the melee fighters. Yeah. Thats it. He certainly is NOT running away :-).

He moves away from the combat and casts mage armour on himself (finally :-))

I'll be at a con from Thursday through Sunday. I'll try and check in when I can but no guarantees. Feel very free to Bot me if required

At 10 minutes per level, the web essentially lasts forever unless I dismiss it or it gets burned away

Shwarto steps down beside Wasee, attempting to hide
I am presuming that the gate and fence are sufficient for a poor little Wayang to hide behind

He shoots at what I think is the peach one (the one due south of the purple/blue one)

stealth: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (5) + 15 = 20
acid splash: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6 vs touch
damage: 1d3 + 2d6 ⇒ (2) + (5, 3) = 10

Sigh

I'm hoping that Shwarto has enough situational awareness to make the following plausible

Hearing something coming from the north, Shwarto ducks behind the building and readies a create pit (Reflex save DC 17) the instant that he notices an enemy coming around from the north (ie, when somebody steps into the square that I've now marked.

If he is NOT aware that somebody may be coming from that direction, he'd head to the square immediately to the left of Waseem and just try and acid splash orange (he's headed too far to get stealth)

touch attack: 1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (8) + 5 - 4 = 9
for
damage: 1d3 ⇒ 3

"Things are looking bad over here. I'll try and slow them down a little at least"

Shwarto casts create pit over the Raptor and its handler (light blue bordered square). Reflex save DC 17 or fall in

He might have had to advance 5 feet in order to see. If he did, he did so. If he did not have to, he instead moves to the square immediately to the left of Waseem

Shwarto again ducks back out of sight and then sneaks forward

stealth: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (3) + 15 = 18

and then lobs another acid splash at orange

touch: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Does
damage: 1d3 + 2d6 ⇒ (3) + (5, 2) = 10 (obviously, reduce if sneak NOT successful

If the Girallon is still up, Shwarto will try and take it out with an acid splash

touch attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

If not, he'd throw it at somebody else (given that roll, hardly matters who :-()

He'd then obviously move backwards and then sneak forwards, trying to hide for next round

stealth: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (5) + 15 = 20

"Watch out, there are attackers coming from the rear. And the ship is under attack too. We have to finish this QUICKLY"

If there is enough support to cast a web spell centered at the light blue spot indicated on the map (just above and to the left of the first e in centre) Shwarto will cast a web spell centered there

If there isn't enough space, he'll throw a "create Pit" spell to get blue and purple. In either case, Reflex Save DC 17

He'll then move and try to stealth (I'm assuming that as a small creature I can fit where I have moved him)

stealth: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (16) + 15 = 31

perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (10) + 12 = 22

knowledge Arcana: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (19) + 13 = 32

I'm going to assume that lets me know pretty much everything about it

"They brought a Girallon along. Vicious brutes! Very strong, lots of attacks. Do NOT get hit by 2 or more of its claws, they HURT"

Shwarto heads back to the gate where he has enough cover to hide, attempts to hide and then shoots the Girallon
sneak: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (6) + 15 = 21
to hit acid splash(vs touch): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
damage: 1d3 + 3d6 ⇒ (2) + (5, 6, 3) = 16 (MAybe if stealth happened to be enough

He DOES speak Elvish :-)

"They think you're a city elf and they apparently don't like city elves. Nice try, though!"

"There is NO way that is going to work. Still, I'll give her the chance"

Readied action - If the enemy doesn't stop attacking
If I have to move 5 ft North to shoot red I would, otherwise stay where I am

acid splash to hit: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10 against hopefully flat footed touch
damage: 1d3 + 3d6 ⇒ (1) + (3, 1, 4) = 9

I think at this point we should proceed together. They're likely to know we're coming and I kind of like the strength in numbers approach. That said, if the others prefer me to scout Shwarto would do so

Sounds like a plan

Hiding, not cowering. May be planning on ambushing us. But I agree, lets start with them

At least on the map, I seem to be ahead of everybody else. If that is the case, I'll wait for them to catch up. If we're all together, sneak up to the gates

stealth: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (2) + 15 = 17

Shwarto will start to slowly stealth his way forward, using any and all bits of cover to gain concealment

stealth: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (15) + 15 = 30

"I can't help but think that the risks in splitting the party may well outweigh the benefits of coming from two directions at once.

I had an entire course at university called "Never split the party. Except when you should"

The problem with obscuring mist is that it
1) makes it really obvious where you WERE
2) Only stretches a little distance, at least on the scale where we are.

I'd suggest waiting until we get much closer to the guy that Shwarto saw and THEN cat it.

But yeah, I'm fine with the rowboat/stealth approach

"I'm still quite willing to sneak up, but I'm almost certain that person I saw was planning on ambushing us. And he very likely has friends that I failed to notice"

sense motive: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22
Wow :-)

Assuming we go for Selenas plan. Twikli would be back in normal owl form

stealth: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (20) + 15 = 35
perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30

"I think the one I saw has already seen us. We can still TRY and stealth in but I'm not too optimistic it will work"

I'm ALWAYS up for stealthing :-)

"Be careful, there is at least one thing still alive and hiding from us. Near to the Garrison and Station Houses. But that was about all I saw"

perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31
stealth: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (4) + 15 = 19 (Twikli's is considerably higher)

"Let me make a brief aerial reconnaissance first. Maybe I'll see SOMETHING useful from the air. From WAY up. Do you have a telescope that I could possibly borrow?"

Shwarto will have Twikli turn into an owl and he'll get onto Twikli.

They will then take awhile to, above the River Queen, circle up and up until they're about 1,000 feet in the air (way out of bowshot and even long range spells cast by most casters). Once 1,000 feet in the air or so, they'll make several passes over Whitebridge and area to see if there is anything that they can see.

GM - I'm guessing that translates to something like 2 hours by owl back?

"Perhaps you're right. Probably too much risk for too little gain. We have to go there anyway"

"How far are we from Whitebridge right now? If we're close enough, perhaps I could fly ahead and scout things out?"

"Nothing more to do here. I think we need to proceed. Quickly"

"Shakaro, hold on a second. Let me make sure it isn't magically trapped first"

Shwarto first just looks at the backpack, looking for traps. He then casts detect magic

perception: 1d20 + 11 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (19) + 11 + 1 - 1 = 30 +1 traps, -1 distance

I can't speak for everybody but Shwarto is definitely assuming battle positions :-).

I am guessing that I have no way to either make more acrophage or stretch out the remaining amount. But I thought I'd ask :-)

On the off chance it matters
Craft Alchemy: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

"We need to be even more on our guard. We also need to press on. Is it possible to move more quickly than we have been? Somehow, it feels like time is of the essence right now"

perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32

"Interesting. I just found this arrow. Its pretty much identical to the one on the Lady Luck. Did any of those monkeys carry bows? Do they normally carry bows? Anybody see an arrow being fired at all in the last combat?"

He'll also carefully examine the arrow, seeing if it resembles any particular tribes arrow that he may know about
knowledge I'm guessing local: 1d20 + 13 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 13 + 2 = 16

This is a guess at knowing how edible and tasty snakes are. If it is survival instead, on that massive roll my result would be a 19 :-)

knowledge nature: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (19) + 13 = 32

"Oh yes, they're quite tasty. Especially in a curry sauce. You just have to be careful to NOT include the poison. The easiest way is to just cut off the head and eat the rest"

Shwarto would definitely help with any repairs required on the ship. Untrained craft +7 for the win :-)

Shwarto sneaks back and again tries to kill the cyan mamba

stealth: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (12) + 15 = 27

to hit: 1d20 + 5 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 5 - 1 + 1 = 25 Vs touch. NO have precise shot
Confirm: 1d20 + 5 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 5 - 1 + 1 = 11
damage: 1d3 + 3d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + (4, 2, 2) + 1 = 10