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Updated chronicle looks good, thanks.

Thanks, Terevalis, and thanks for running the scenario!

Terevalis, when you have a moment, please remember to mark this game as inactive. Thanks.

Hmm... odd. I got it setup where anyone with the link can view it. But basically I used DocHub, (free online software) to edit the PDF. Added in my character info and then crossed out the Boon we didn't get.

Must be an issue with the Google Drive app - when I tried opening it as a new tab in the browser. It worked fine. Thanks.

Thanks, I did not see the original link and hadn’t realized you had posted. Terevalis, you’re redoing them?

Vello, I couldn’t open yours, so I’m not sure exactly what you did to modify it.

Tusk is at -5 hp. He should get up to 0 hp in 56 hours, or 3 full days to get to 1 hp. There shouldn't be any harm in waiting around at this point.

Sorry for being offline. Slipped on icy steps yesterday morning, hit my back and side hard. X-rays don't show any kind of break, so they discharged me to go home,, but I'm in significant pain whenever I try to move and the muscle relaxants and painkillers are leaving me groggy. Will try to get back into action later today.

Photo of my Player Character Portfolio for reroll.

Also, just in case Janira is out of healing magic and someone wants to keep Tusk from bleeding out, he has a potion of CLW in his backpack.

Is that 2 crits from the same minotaur against your characters, Tusk?

Not that I'm aware of. Looks like one crit to me.

Tusk staggers a moment under the minotaur's assault, blood pouring from the gaping wound in his side. Then he straightens up, spits out a bloody tooth, tightens his grip on the enchanted longsword and, with a roar, swings at the beast with everything he has left.

Orc Ferocity FTW! Dropping power attack because I'm more concerned about hitting than max damage. This sucker has had (I think) 37 points of damage dealt to it so far, it has to be close to dead. Not as close as Tusk is, but close.

+1 longsword, raging, flaming: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 131d8 + 8 + 1d6 ⇒ (8) + 8 + (4) = 20

Unacceptable! Using my PC Portfolio reroll - will post a link to a photo of it in the discussion thread.

+1 longsword, raging, flaming: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 271d8 + 8 + 1d6 ⇒ (2) + 8 + (5) = 15

MUCH better! Come on, crit confirm!

+1 longsword, raging, flaming: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 111d8 + 8 + 1d6 ⇒ (7) + 8 + (1) = 16

I assume that isn't enough to confirm, but I hope the damage from the hit is enough to take the beast down anyway.

Tusk smirks at the minotaur as the blade strikes true, and murmurs (too quietly for anyone but the minotaur to hear), "Gotcha, sucker!"

The half-orc topples over into the blood-soaked mud. He is unconscious before he hits the ground. His blood continues to trickle onto the ground, mixing with that of the minotaur.

At -9 and bleeding.

The minotaur should get an AoO as the half orc leaves a threatned square since it has reach correct?

I assume so.

Hopefully Tusk will be able to get out of the (*&)&##@! river.

As Tusk orients himself in the water, he gets really angry.

Raging, free action.

Swim, DC 15: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21

Tusk wades ashore and tugs on his armor to let the water run out of it. [i]This mail had better not rust![/ooc]

The big half-orc draws the +1 longsword as he steps up to the minotaur. As a swift action, Tusk calls upon the power of hellfire. The blade of the necromancer's sword bursts into flame and he brings it back for a mighty two-handed swing.

"All right, you steaming pile of bull! Let's dance!"

+1 longsword, raging, power attack, flaming: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 241d8 + 11 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 11 + (1) = 15

Tusk jogs up to the log over the stream and eyes it doubtfully.

"Well, here goes nuthin!"

Tusk steps carefully onto the log, then begins inching across with baby steps.

Move action to get up to the log, move action to walk across at half-speed.

Acrobatics DC 7: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (7) - 3 = 4

SPLASH!

Myrtella left the game, no need to include her in the initiative order.

Weighed down by his armor, Tusk moves a little more slowly than Vello and Asavir, but also double-moves towards the stream.

Tusk double-moves towards the battle.

Positioned him on the map.

I assume we have taken at least a minute looking around, so Tusk is no longer fatigued.

Greataxe slung over his shoulder, Tusk follows the group, occasionally glancing down at the magic longsword to admire it jouncing along at his side.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Tusk holds up his hand. ”I think I could make good use of that sword.”

He slides the enchanted blade into his belt. ”Yup, I’m good to go.”

Tusk eyes the amulet at first, but then catches himself. "How about the longsword, Avasir?"

Tusk takes a few deep breaths and lets them out slowly. He looks tired, and wipes a sheen of sweat from his face with a corner of his cloak.

Fatigued for 1 minute.

He claps Erôth on the shoulder before following the wizard into the next chamber. "That wasn't too bad, eh? What do you call that thing you did, with the sharp rocks?"

Vello, Avasir, are you holding for now? GM, did Erôth's attack damage the zombie? Did Tusk's? If the zombie is still up, is it going to attack?

No, I can´t! The corner absolutely blocks los

That's fine, that's why I had the readied action go off where it is.

To keep things moving, let's say Tusk's readied action has triggered, although I had intended for it to go off when the zombie was one square further into the cave (where Erôth is now). I think that means the zombie will have cover against the attack, right?

As soon as he catches a glimpse of the approaching zombie, With an incoherent roar, Tusk slams at the creature with his greataxe, bringing the weapon down in a powerful chop from over his head. A few loose hairs from Erôth's beard are sliced off as the blade screams past the dwarf and float gently to the cave floor.

Please use the rolls from my
readied action post.

Erôth, you’re blocking Vello and Tusk’s readied action. I take it you can’t attack from where you were?

Tusk scrapes zombie gunk off his axe blade on the edge of his boot, then spits on his hands, grips his axe and raises it high, waiting for the next shambler to come through the tunnel into the cave.

GM, isn't zombie 2 up? Or is it the start of the next round?

Tusk holds his axe at the ready, and stares at the spot where the tunnel opens into the cavern.

"Here, skelly skelly skelly. C'mon, we're all here just waiting for you to rip the living flesh off our bones!"

Readied action: as soon as a skeleton or zombie comes through the tunnel and steps into range, Tusk attacks with his axe before it can attack any of the PCs.

Tusk holds his action until Erôth backs up.

There are no skeleton tokens on the map anymore. I will find something appropriate and add it in.

EDIT: Done.

"Erôth, back out of the tunnel and let them come to us!"

Tusk takes a five-foot step to the side of the tunnel entrance and readies an action: he will attack with his greataxe as soon as a zombie or skeleton comes within reach.

Erôth, you should still have a move action after you make your stated attack, so unless you have another plan, I suggest backing up to your original space and let the zombies come to us.

@GM - Yes, we still have four players.

@Myrtella - sorry to lose you, hope to see you at another PbP table sometime.

Same here - I made that mistake for most of book 1 of our home ROTRL campaign.

Tusk tenses as the skeleton strikes, then grins as its claw scrapes his against his armor.

"My turn, you scrawny bastard!"

Greataxe, power attack, inspire courage: 1d20 + 4 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 4 - 1 + 1 = 241d12 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 7 + 1 = 16

Confirm crit?: 1d20 + 4 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 4 - 1 + 1 = 131d12 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 7 + 1 = 10

As clarified in the Rules Questions forum, with quotes from the relevant sections of the CRB: Natural Weapons & Standard Actions

I assume you're asking because this is usually a full-round action?

Absent an effect like a haste spell, yes.

Interesting. Ok, thanks.

Just to clarify - is the skeleton getting two claw attacks as a standard action?

"Finally, something to hit!"

Tusk drops his pack to the floor and marches into the darkness, swinging his axe at the first shambling, moaning creature he encounters.

Greataxe, inspire courage: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 1 = 91d12 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 1 = 17

Darkvision works like infravision and sees heat outlines?

No, you just see in total darkness, but only in black and white. Heat doesn’t come into it - Pathfinder dropped the infravision/ultravision used in older editions of D&D.

Darkvision is the extraordinary ability to see with no light source at all, out to a range specified for the creature. Darkvision is black-and-white only (colors cannot be discerned). It does not allow characters to see anything that they could not see otherwise—invisible objects are still invisible, and illusions are still visible as what they seem to be. Likewise, darkvision subjects a creature to gaze attacks normally. The presence of light does not spoil darkvision.

Tusk has darkvision out to 60 feet, and I assume Erôth does as well. Anything else for us to see? I'm not sure where we're starting on the map, and if you want us rolling initiative - I placed Tusk's token where I'd like to begin his turn, I assume he's going to be up front.

Tusk grunts impatiently and hoists his axe. "Like I said before, which way do we go to find him?"

Overhearing the gillman's proposal, Tusk perks up. "Now we're talking! What kind of forces are we looking at, and which way do we go to find them?"

And who's the human?

With a bow, Tusk hands Myrtella the silver piece.

Tusk pulls out a silver coin and starts to toss it into the pool, but thinks better of it and stops.

"Any of you spell-crafters have a way to place this coin somewhere in the model more carefully than if I just chuck it at the thing? I figure that's probably right for the merchant Avasir talked about, and there are already coins in there."

Tusk walks over the edge of the water a few yards away, not so close as to interfere with Vello's peaceful overture but keeping his axe at the ready in case the gillman should prove to be unfriendly.

He looks out at the model city. "Pretty. Anyone have any idea what it's for?"

"The Merchant is depicted weighing and trading coins of different sizes, a reference to the holy text’s proverb that peace brings trade and prosperity to all people."

Tusk snorts. "Well, not all people. Some of us depend on a decided lack of peace to earn our beer money."

Tusk plants the end of his greataxe on the ground and leans on the handle while the eggheads look around at the cave drawings.

Tusk offers Myrtella a swig from his jug of ale as a consolation prize.

"Try a swallow of this. It does some of the same job as any old magic cloak, and it's almost guaranteed not to have any lice."

It helps one of Tusk's saves, anyway.

Tusk realizes that he's the only one still in the pit. Shaking his head as Myrtella lays the plank across the gap, he climbs up the rope and joins the rest of the group, hauling his armor up behind him.

As he puts his mail back on, he considers the items left in Janira's pack. He takes:

- potion of barkskin
- flask of alchemist's fire
- flask of acid
- tanglefoot bag
- thunderstone

I assume someone grabbed Janira's pack itself and brought it into the pit and back up, yes?

Tusk applauds, then tosses the free end of the rope up to Myrtella. "Try to find something to tie it onto!" he calls.

Tusk shrugs, and pulls a rope out of his pack.

"Sure. I'll climb down and up the other side. While I'm doing that, maybe one of you could tie some knots in the rope to make it easier to use? The rest of you can use it to climb down, pull the rope down, toss it up to me, then I can anchor it while you climb up. I should probably take off my armor first, though. You can drop it down to me when I get to the bottom and we can get it tied to the end of the rope."

It will add a couple of minutes on either side of the pit for Tusk to take off his armor and put it back on again - any objections? It increases his climb modifier from +3 to +7.

Tusk quickly gets out of his scale mail, takes a swig of ale from the jug he bought before leaving Absalom (+2 on will saves for an hour, just in case), replaces it in his pack, then hands his bundle of gear (except for his weapons, which he keeps) to Vello.

"I've got this. Hold my beer."

Climb, unless someone has a better idea?: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13