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Note: I have a sorcerer or a dragon disciple if the group needs a front liner instead. Which should I bring?

Me either. I just want to make sure I don't lose or forget (another) chronicle. I tend to do that when it's emailed to me as I do not check my yahoo account all that often. It is my spam account I give out when I want something sent to me and I only check it when I know something is on the way.

@GM
Did you send the chronicles yet?

How do you provide them? Via email, dropbox, google docs?

Solstice emerges from the smoke before it has had a chance to clear. She looks at the beast dubiously.

"Why do I have the feeling this isn't over?"

She checks a little more closely to see if the thing is regenerating, like a troll or something.

Solstice nods shyly, but when she realizes that it might be hard to see her, she speaks up.

"I agree. The beast will be sure to fall under that onslaught, though I think I should pitch in a little bit. You made it to the plane of fire?"

Her idea of pitching in is to lob a volley of darting motes of energy that weave though the battle to impact the enormous creature. (i.e. magic missile)

4d4 + 4 ⇒ (2, 2, 3, 3) + 4 = 14

Remember to add the bonus to Crowe's first attack for being invisible, provided it helps.

Solstice quickly casts a scorching ray on the massive target, hoping that she can feel out whether the thing is resistant to fire or not with a cheap spell.

to hit ranged touch, inspired +2, in combat: 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 6 + 2 - 4 = 11
damage, inspired: 4d6 + 2 ⇒ (5, 4, 4, 4) + 2 = 19
to hit ranged touch, inspired +2, in combat: 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (8) + 6 + 2 - 4 = 12
damage, inspired: 4d6 + 2 ⇒ (5, 2, 5, 3) + 2 = 17

vs. spell resistance: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17

Then she does the sensible thing and runs back to hide in the smoke.

@Skivven
Keep in mind that if you start off where you are you will not benefit from the haste spell.

Solstice still makes Crowe invisible which may help his first attack land and make him harder to hit until he does attack.

"Still, it is worth a shot to make him invisible if for no other reason than it will make him harder to hit while it lasts. So here goes..."

Solstice walks up to the barbarian and says, "I always did cheat at hide and seek."

Besides that she also casts invisibility on herself, elemental body, protection from energy (cold), and haste (one round before the door is opened).

Solstice privately wonders about the purpose of the assembled artifact but it is not her way to question things unless she has a strong opinion so, as usual, she just tags along behind the others, casting her cantrips and looking for anything unusual and/or magical.

Did we look at the area up the stairs?

Solstice is mystified by her compatriots explanations. She would have just kept trying combinations at random. Hopefully they were on to something.

"Sure. OUCH!"

At which point Solstice drops a miniature plow she picked up after its pointy part pricks her palm.

"I'm getting the feeling this might take a while."

"Why Crowe! You have a hidden talent there."

acrobatics: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13

Solstices efforts look pretty pathetic compared to his. The added mage hand does make things a little interesting, but the objects don't stay airborn for long. It's obvious that she has never done this before. But she sticks to it and the parties efforts are accompanied by the sounds of pieces of furniture clattering to the ground.

"Show me how it's done, will you? Except for that whole upside down thing. I'd be just happy with keeping three balls in the air for more than 2 seconds without using a spell."

"I wonder if you are supposed to put something in those hollowed out areas of that holy symbol. Is that the symbol for Sarenrae? Sometimes I get these things confused. I mean, why not have a symbol that makes more sense. Like a honkin' battle axe for a god of war, or some bandages for a goddess of healing? Why all these weird shapes?"

Solstice finds a spot to perch and watch the others do their thing, casting mage hand and then trying to juggle some rubble with her three hands.

"Hey, Crowe. I've always wanted to learn how to juggle. Seein' as we have to sit here and wait while the others figure this stuff out, how about you join me?"

Solstice, ever softly spoken and quite used to norther barbarian bombasticness, responds to Crowe's complaint.

"Not yet, Crowe. I think that as we locate its sources of power we weaken it. Eventually, though, it will be able to get to us and then you will be able to fight."

...

"Wit respect," she adds, not noticing how ironic it is for her to suggest this, "You may want to invest some time into non-combat oriented skills though."

Solstice also tags along and helps Skivven look for things and stuff.

perception aid: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22

boon: 1d20 ⇒ 8

Are aids allowed?

"A ritual? How long will the ritual take and how hard is it?"

Though she is not so bold as to voice her agreement Solstice does think, Oh, my, yes. Not good, not good. Do not piss off a major deity. Or any deity for that matter.

Solstice is not the most leaned of folks and has nothing to contribute. She does fire up a detect magic and scans things to point out what is magical and what is not. She does not, however, go reaching for the helmet or help decipher the book or contribute anything helpful in the way of religious knowledge.

Well, how about that. An orc that worships Sarenrae.

Solstice listens nervously for what The Reaver is up to.

"Well, enough lollygagging here. We are in a race against time unless we want to suffer the same fate as those twisted nail members."

To the others outside the rooms she whispers, with uncertainty in her voice, "You know we could heal him. Should we?"

Orcs are people too, right? I mean, I've met a lot of half orcs that seem like decent pathfinders less violent than Crowe over there.

Solstice slows her pace when she, to her surprise, hears talking instead of fighting.

With a sigh, Solstice drops what she is doing (but not the rubies) and heads over in case they need help.

Yep. I know the feeling. Certain characters take on a life of their own.

Solstice's eyes brighten at the sight of the rubies. They are her favorite gemstone and she is always looking to accessorize with them.

She also casts detect magic and scans the items, leaving Ingrge and Shonne to their own devices.

Some spellcraft rolls as needed. she's not very good at it though.
spellcraft: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
spellcraft: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
spellcraft: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
spellcraft: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
spellcraft: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
Well, not usually.

Almost to herself, Solstice mutters "Have you ever noticed how folks feel justified, even enthusiastic about killing orcs? I wonder if they might have been able to be convinced to help us in our mission. Oh well! They do tend to be a bit of a problem. Most of the time."

Solstice moves into the room and positions herself in the safest corner she can find. She continues to pick on poor green and sics a DC 26 Greater Aggressive Thundercloud that seems to be made of fire instead of lightning and sends jagged bolts of that fire raining down on the hapless soul.

damage: 6d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 3, 2, 1, 6) = 18

@Solstice I'm going to take your actions as haste in surprise round, Ear piercing scream in the first round. Let me know if you'd like to change that.

I'm good with a surprise round casting. But what do I need to say if I want the spell to go off before that because I really wanted to cast it before we threw the door open? Though in this case I don't think it matters.

@Ingrge
Remember to add the bonus from haste making that a 23 to hit.

For her part, Solstice will hit one (preferably in the back) with a DC 23 Ear-piercing Scream that does fire damage instead of sonic.

damage: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 6, 3) = 13

Solice nods, though nobody notices since she is quite invisible. Before they go in she will cast a haste spell.

"Oh!" is about all you get out of Solstice who gets ready to cast haste if a battle occurs.

Almost shyly Solstice posits, "Well, perhaps it is hidden beneath. It might be up the stairs, but I doubt it. Fountains are not typically placed on the second floor. Keep an eye out for suspicious looking cracks or rugs that might cover a trap door."

Solstice casts invisibility on herself and then follows along. She keeps her detect magic going and does a quick scan of everything en route.

With a voice barely above a whisper, Solstice says, "Well, I suppose we need to check out the fountain. We WERE told that that is the most likely place we would find the relic."

But whe will follow wherever the other lead, not being of leadership material herself..

Solstice responds by casting a detect magic.

knowledge arcana or spellcraft if needed: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

"You sure?" she asks, a bit clueless, "Looks like a really bad ceiling decoration to me."

Solstice just follows the lead of the others as she pokes and prods things with her metamagic rod after casting heightened awareness on herself from her wand.

Solstice mostly manages to get in the way. She almost takes out Crowe's other pinky with a makeshift hammer she fashions from an anytool.

craft untrained: 1d20 ⇒ 2

Solstice casts her chain of perdition spell to try and clamp it down, though she does not hold out much hope that her little spell will hold it up much.

cmb: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (18) + 17 = 35 to entangle

if it has SR, the roll is 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29

How big is this reaver thing and will it fit in a pit spell?

Solstice casts her Monkey Fish spell and nimbly climbs up and over the mausoleum.

climb, haste, monkeyfish: 1d20 - 1 + 6 + 8 ⇒ (14) - 1 + 6 + 8 = 27

She definitely used the Haste spell. I was just not sure how long it lasts and now I do.

Over to gameplay...

Well, let's see what the GM says. For all I know the minute the haste lasts expired before the chase started.

Moving the discussion to Discussion

Solstice is staying away from burning the higher level spells if a lower level one will do. I think Monkeyfish would do the trick and be a bit more cinematic too.

But speaking of haste and invisibility, Solstice cast both before the chase started. Then again maybe she never got her haste spell off or maybe it ran out before the chase scene started. Are they active and do they have any effect and how many chase scenes would they last? Is each scene a round? In a chase you can do anything that takes a standard action and that applies, right? No full round actions?

"Um... Now would be a great time to learn how to cast fly."

Is there an option to not roll? At a +2 I'm afraid she will make matters worse. If there is no chance at making things worse, she will try, of course. Or, could she cast monkeyfish on herself and clamber over the boxes? Would that count as a success?

Solsitce gapes as the some of the party seems intent on running towards the beasts source of power instead of away from it. Then, to make matters worse, Skivven starts pouring out smoke so that it will be impossible for the front liners to protect the more vulnerable members, namely her. Particularly if it can smell things well like some beasts do. Instead of running into the cloud and towards the bastion, she casts a haste spell on herself and as many of the others as she can and then tries to move behind a tree or something, keeping the others between her and the brute.

I assume that since we can see the reaver, it can see us unless we do the stealth thing. Trying to capture an orc right now would probably just get us attacked by the reaver. Don't know if the smoke thing will do the trick or not, but I'm sure we can overwhelm the three remaining orcs back at the camp.

"Following them back makes more sense. I'd rather not draw the reaver's attention right now. Besides, I'm thinking it has a radius for a reason and that if it wanders too far from it's lair it grows weaker and more vulnerable."

Solstice, already invisible, simply follows along behind.

Solstice will cast invisibility on herself in case action erupts and lag 30' behind the group.

Player: miteke

Character Name: Solstice Rain
Character Level: 8th
PFS #: 141936-8
Faction: Sovereign Court
Day Job: [dice=perform sing]1d20+15
Progression (Slow/Standard): Standard

Solstice is actually level 9. I had it misprinted in one section of my character sheet. Hope that does not mess up any math.