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Day Job Profession (Minister): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17

Nice job all!

Thanks for taking my turn, P33J.

Strat calls upon the dawnflower to restore his allies vigor. "My goddess, please grant us a reprieves from these wounds."

Channel Energy, omitting dragon: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5

"Foul creature, the Dawnflower is the only one who shall possess my soul, as my parents before me! What have I need of power as long as I possess her warmth in my heart? We have seen through it's deceptive words, friends, do not give in to whatever temptations it may offer!" Strat moves towards the creature, attempting to interpose himself between it and Shayla.

np on the retcon, just wanted to offer options so keep moving forward.

Oh, one more thought.

"I could also try summoning Sarenrae's strength, see if that does anything."

Could try a channel too. Any thoughts on that?

Strat wonders at the gnomes intention, unsure how to help. Hearing the woman moan, he examines that area next.

Sense motive on gnome: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27
Heal (if able and untrained) on woman: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Also will cast Detect Magic and examine both.

"Might as well go."

"I don't like it." Strat peers over the edge with Crin.

Just to understand, how many people can fit in the cage at once? Also would someone need to stay up top to operate the lever?

"Hmm, I don't like this idea so much now." Strat has Crin use the wand on him as well.

STR penalty: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Strength Check to assist: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Strat attempts to remove the wand from the statue. If able he hands it to Crin.

Figure if I'm right, Crin wands himself, the rest of us attempt to aid him in opening it. Thoughts?

"Hmm, so if we use the wand to make Crin weak, he becomes strong?"

I hope this isn't too meta, but the penalty seems to equal the strength bonus. So if your strength score is negative, it might provide a bonus. Can more than one person stand on the dais?

"Hmm, perhaps if we were weaker, we'd become stronger? Crin, do you want to try stepping on the dais?"

Round 1

NP, Crin!

Strat draws his falchion and moves forward to strike out against one of the foes.

Move to #5, draweing weapon as going, standard to attack. I also can't move myself as I'm on my iPad at present..

Attack with PA: 1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (14) + 4 - 1 = 17
Damage: 2d4 + 6 ⇒ (3, 4) + 6 = 13

Sorry, I'm still here. I had a project dumped onto my lap after returning from my trip and have been working on it since for the most part. I should be reliable again after getting caught up. I didn't post it here apparently and apologize for that. The next thing on my schedule isn't until October atm, so hopefully no more issues in this game.

Surprise Round

Seeing Crin's current state, and feeling his own wound, Strat calls forth the strength of his goddess. "Let the Dawnflower's healing flow through you."

Standard to channel, I'll omit any wounded enemies (up to 2)

Channel Energy: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 5) = 8

"I can hold onto him while we move forward. But first...If you bear us no ill will, come forth! We mean no harm!" Strat calls out.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Working on getting caught back up. Glad to see you survived the bear, Shayla!!

Considering I just got my computer back, I hate to say this but next week I'll be out of town for work. Experience taught me that I'll be unlikely to have time to post. Please bot me as necessary.

Strat takes a step away while Crin attempts to deal with the bear, laying a hand upon Shayla to restore some of the wounds she's suffer.

5' step away from the bear, standard to convert to CMW.

CMW to Shayla: 2d8 + 3 ⇒ (3, 7) + 3 = 13

Crin, I'm holding off to see if you want to try to diplomatize this bear. If you do, I'll try to heal Shayla instead of attacking this round.

Round 1

"Shayla! Let her go!" Strat moves up and draws his falchion, bringing it down upon the bear.

5' step north 1 square, move to draw weapon, standard to attack.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
Damage: 2d4 + 7 ⇒ (2, 1) + 7 = 10

"Hard to think a person would walk to his own death like that. I don't like this, whatever it is doing it. Does the sword have anything new to say about it?"

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Sorry again for the disappearance all.

Strat attempts to help Shayla pulling Kalkamedes out of the bog. "Dangit, you're gonna kill yourself!"

Grapple Assist: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16

Computer is fixed. I'll be catching up over the course of this week to get caught back up. Apologies for the delays.

So this morning my computer decided to go all screwy on me. I didn't have time to troubleshoot so I'll be looking at it tonight. I'm hoping it's something minor but wanted to give a heads up if I don't post that's why.

"We don't know how far we have to go and not sure what we may find when we get there. If we're going to get this done tonight, maybe we better talk on the road. Shayla, why don't you help me get the harness set up on Kalkamedes while the rest see what else you can find out from Gamin. After he's ready to be set loose, we can go. Sound like a plan?"

Strat also touches the blade to see if he can hear. "Yes, a pleasure, um, Gamin. My name is Strat."

"Ask who is on the other end. If they know Kalkamedes, maybe they know something. Try holding out the blade, maybe we can all listen in if we all touch it."

"Let's see if we can't find anything useful quickly before we release him." Strat helps search the cabin quickly.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Ideally for restraining him, I'd think maybe the harness form a climbing kit with some rope. The harness is already designed to catch someone if they fall and should have loops for rope for us to keep a hold of him. One person could always keep a hold of it. If we don't have the materials on hand, could we possibly purchase them still?

"How...aware is he right now? Does he respond to names, places? Anything at all?" Strat looks to see if Kalkamedes's eyes are open.

"I don't like suggesting such a thing, but perhaps we should keep a rope lashed to him if we're to lead him. Not the most humane way to treat a man, but if it will prevent him from falling to his death or some other danger, it might be for the best."

I suppose looking at group setup the investigator would have trapfinding (plus I wouldn't mind seeing how it plays!). Not really sure how needed it would be here, but only thing I see lacking off the top of my head. But really I'd say which you want!

Strat Spineshank, cleric of the Dawnflower. Focused on clericing. He was my first PFS character as well back a couple Gencons ago. I beleive this should get him to level 4, but I"ll have to double check.

Strat's pretty straightforward, he doesn't quite get complicated plans that well. Quite a few time's his strategy has been to stand in front of a door to hold off some foes while keeping everyone alive with channels. Not intended, just the way it works out. He focuses on range with firebolts and melee with his falchion. He's not the best battle cleric, but he tries.

Skill wise Strat pretty much has Sense Motive maxed and that's it.

I live in Illinois as far as time zones go, posting time fluctuating between all three shifts pretty regularly (I need a better sleep pattern).

Cleric - 3
Wizard - 1
Brawler - 1

Can't wait for it to start!

I would like to join. Level 3 Cleric of Sarenrae.

Thanks for taking the time to run this for us, Wise Fox!! It was greatly appreciated and a whole lot of fun!!

"A good day for us all. And good work for you as well." Strat thanks the others, as well as the artillerists who helped man the ballistas, offering what aid he can to the wounded and departed.

Strat steps back and unleashes his last channel to heal the wounded.

Channel: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7

I'll be honest. I'm not as familiar with familiar's (HAH!) as I wish I was. I believe that yes, it can deliver the spell for you and not provoke. That doesn't mean it's not susceptible to harm. Also you'd have to have it move in such a manner to avoid AoOs from movement.

Also it needs to take into account the PFS rule on only one combat companion per player, which I also don't know as well as I wish I did, about if it can target it or not. Since it'd be doing the spell, I think that the minotaur could still attack it directly regardless.

Remember touching a target is a free action part of the spell. So you could, as an example, read the scroll, move next to Rhyno, then touch him as a free action that doesn't provoke.

Also depending on where you stand you can avoid the AoO with cover. Since he has reach, as long as you aren't adjacent to him, cover is applied as a ranged weapon. Try to find a square where he can't draw a line from any corner of his square (corner being the 5' squares not his full space) to all four corners of where you want to stand.

Whoa, this thread is busy!

Did Seon'i burn her scroll of glitterdust already? Blinding the minotaur for a round would give Rhyno the time he needs to get on his feet and back up long enough to get himself patched up.

That's a decent idea! It's a will save so possibly a decent chance of succeeding depending on this thing's will bonus. Of course the DC is only 13, but the chance of blinding it could save someone's life for a round. Also no SR on that.

The problem with Withdraw is that the minotaur has reach. The action of leaving the square provokes, so no matter what the second square will provoke from the minotau unless Rhyno can put some cover between him and the big baddy.

Strat steps to the left and picks up Rhyno's weapon (did you want the hammer or the earthshaker?) and hands it to him. "Swing away, Rhyno!"

5' shift left (someone please move me, at work), move to pick up Rhyno's weapon, standard to hand it to him.

5' Left, I should have at least partial cover to any square of the minotaur by Rhyno.

Also Terrill, isn't your bless still in effect?

I often try to play the batman style character in having a variety of items, but for some reason I haven't kept up as well on Strat. A 10gp smokestick in this case could easily negate an AoO from the big guy and help us out greatly. An obscuring mist would be even better. Sure it gives up a 20/50% miss chance too in that case, but better for us with multiple attacks than him with his big attack. Throw in a tanglefoot bag and it would further hamper him.

Another thing to consider for the future, Terrill, is Litany of Sloth. That spell is ridiculously good, has no save, only a swift action to cast and negates both the ability to cast defensively and make AoOs. Combine that with step-up and casters hate you, plus being melee, you can get an ally to flank that much easier, or get into melee of a reach monster. (Note: I haven't checked to see if Litany of Sloth is allowed in PFS play, and if not disregard this post)

I'll check out the link above when I get home Seoni!

As far as the weapon, I have to agree with Wise Fox on the ruling that it would provoke, regardless of whether it makes sense or not. As the rules state, it would provoke in this case, and if Wise Fox says that's his ruling I would agree to it.

That said, I do think the grounds for an arguement do exist. Drawing a weapon does not provoke, but picking it up off the ground does. In this case, if his weapon had been stowed on his person, such as a sword in a sheathe, it wouldn't provoke, but picking up a weapon that conceivably landed near his hand does? Realistically I don't see it making sense. But this is a realism vs. game mechanics arguement and not always a valid one for Organized Play.

Other options at this point? Hard to say. Ideally a darkness spell or maybe obscuring mist could provide enough cover to negate an AoO, but I'm not sure we have those options available to us. Standing on his square while unconscious would've given him the cover needed, but can't be done while conscious.

If one of us took total defense and tried to provoke the attack, that might work, but his attack bonus may well be pretty high. A risky idea no mater what.

If Rhyno wanted to simply take total defense this round while prone, I'd understand the reasoning.

Another possibility is that I could pick it up from the ground. Terrill is providing me cover thus negating his AoO. I could pick it up and then hand it to Rhyno. But it'd have to be next round to do it since I already acted this one.

I'd have to agree, attacking from prone is probably your best bet. If I understand smite correctly, you'd still be under his effect, and standing would likely just get you killed. To feign death would probably need a bluff check. So real hope is maybe to take him down before he takes us down.

Strat! The wand worked when it most needed to! And that was my understanding of the large ballista operation, but I'll admit it was a vague one.

My understanding was it took a round to load regardless, then next round you could fire as a standard. So no matter what only every other round. Just wanted to clarify for future rounds. It might be needed :)

Also, 'bout dang time on the wand! I debated wand or channel, figure save the channel next round for when the big guy attacks again.

More reinforcements arrive to help crew the siege weaponry!

The new artillerists will use their actions to reload the large siege weapons for PCs to use if PCs are manning them

I may have misunderstood something. Just to clarify, if we have two people on the large ballistas, they can fire each round, 1 reloading as a full round, the other shooing as a standard. Is that correct?

Strat nods to Terrill and pulls out his wand, targeting the downed ally.

Move to retrieve wand, standard to heal Rhyno.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8