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Free +5 hp to bran. Swift - smite the spellcaster. Standard Attack with bow. Move->LoH 3/5 remaining

LoH: 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (3, 4) + 4 = 11 37 hp total
Miss 51-100 is good: 1d100 ⇒ 54hit, maybe
1d20 + 12 ⇒ (8) + 12 = 20
1d8 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 2 + 4 = 12

"Keep the pressure on Bran, you should be fine now."

Sorry, thanks for the botting.

Yulai moves to the center of the courtyard and takes aim at the sorcerer. Trusting her back to her companions, and a large rock.

"Cover Tal bran."

Ready an attack on the sorcerer to disrupt casting

Readied, bless: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 9 + 1 = 24
damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Yulai coup de graces the minotaur, her face disgusted.

"Evil beast. Ugh. Where did it come from anyways, this place isn't large enough for a labyrinth?"

3d8 + 6 ⇒ (1, 7, 8) + 6 = 22 22 damage, DC 32 fort or die.

Yulai steps up with tal and fires on the minotaur. ideally putting herself in front, I can't see the map atm

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29
1d8 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
2d8 + 4 ⇒ (1, 5) + 4 = 10

Yulai readies a shot on the first foe to come within lin of sight.

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

Sadly, it's bound to miss.

"This way, this way. Get inside."

Yulai moves south, into the side room then if clear she motions at the door to let one of her partymates peek at the tower.

Let's gather in the south east room 7, we can assess the wall that looks crumbled? on the tower, and if it's not a suitable entrance we can move to the stable side.

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22
1d8 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Yulai fires another shot into the beast, although the angle is bad.

"You had to flatten it out didn't you?"

5' step back through the door, arrow again
1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18
1d8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

Yulai steps back as Bran grabs the beast, and lets an arrow fly straight into it's exposed chest.

"Quickly, give it all you've got. Bran has it!"

She seems way too excited by this.

Assuming Line of Sight on the manticore from the courtyard since it attacked tal.
Yulai steps out the door, taking aim at the manticore.

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27
1d8 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

"Ha! I think I got him. Yuki! I got him!"

She ducks as the manticore shifts.

"Ok maybe not!"

Yulai peeks around the corner firing her bow at the nearest hob.

Bow, Cover Penalty included: 1d20 + 9 - 4 ⇒ (12) + 9 - 4 = 17
Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

"Wings. That's can't be good. We're going to want to be inside sooner. Check that door."

Yulai gestures to the southern door.

Swap us over to automatic bonus progression, then give us random nifty stuff. I'm largely unenthused about +1 anything even though it's a real benefit, it just feels bland. (I will of course wear whatever the level appropriate thing is at level 6)

Setting aside the purely mechanical numeric bonuses, I like adaptive + training enchants on my bow instead of upgrading it every time I find a str boost. There's a bunch of nice things for mounted/familiar characters that I wouldn't object to. Fluff wise I'd like to keep the eastern armor types for her as long as it makes sense with her dex (so kikko for now).

Logistics - I like Haversacks for individuals and a portable hole or bag of holding for group hauling, but if we're going for the gritty feel maybe just leadership and some followers with a train of horses/oxen+wagons to get the same effect if we are dealing in large piles of things. I can't remember if RHoD has much in the way of 'you find a pile of copper under the dragon' style too big too carry treasures.

bow: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Yulai fires at the riders, then moves into the remains of the tower near Iris.

"What else did you see, or do we just have to worry about our friends on the wolves?"

This is great, nothing to apologize for. Clearly we are fine.

"Cleanly done. Someone help me cut up the body. It's too big to just leave here to rot, without risking it attracting more trouble."

Yulai sets about the task, pausing only to give some of the interior muscle to Yuki when he props his head up, and offering a small piece to Boots if he seems interested. As the companions discover the armor she's arm deep in dismembering the beast and waves consent.

"By all means, I'm content with mine. If you're done with the wagon, and it's not salvageable, it could be a serviceable pyre. Or we could just throw the bigger chunks in the bog and put our trust in vultures to clear off the rest I suppose"

She eyes the wooden bridge a moment, dubiously.

Go nuts.

"Better to handle this now, than leave it to hunt future travelers, I suppose. Very well, we are agreed. Quickly, before it wakes."

Bow from here after the CDG.
1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26
1d8 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

That's my take, Yulai is indifferent to hydras but this hydra is on the road. Essentially, as a player - kill it so we don't have to avoid it in the future. As a paladin - it's dangerous animal asleep on a main road, better to protect future travelers.

"Well that's certainly a thing. Gather up and let's get you healed. How long will it be asleep Isawa?"

Standard
Channel Positive Energy, 1 of 2/day remaining: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 5) = 6

Move
She moves further away from the shore with Os after the wave of cool light flows through her and the companions.

Os moves to the shore, Yulai shoots the hydra.
Bow: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

"Off the bridge. Now."

Suiting action to words, yulai kicks Os into motion. She arrives at the shore already pulling her bow as she slides off the ox and fires a single shot at the hydra's chest.

"Goodnight all, I think I'm for bed. The future may not have such comfort."

Yulai beds down, thinking about the morning ride, then puts it all out of her head for the evening. Time enough to worry once the problems arrived.

"Can we get a rough map? I'd rather not murder the wrong bugbear. I'm all for dispensing with monsters, but there's monsters and then there's inconveniently monstrous raced hermits, and you won't believe the scolding if we mistake the latter for the former."

She trails off, then smiles apologetically.

"Which is to say that as heroes we're quite capable of hero things, but still, a map would be a big help."

Yulai nods, then begins pulling on her kit. "I'll be along shortly, if we're in a hurry you could lace me?"

A few minutes later she joins Iris and heads to the rest of the group. Yuki, ever practical, tries to sleep on yulai's shoulders.

Yulai smiles at the sausage comment, but doesn't stop eating her share.

"Tis best to eat and drink while times are pleasant, I've found. Stories of heroes don't mention the bugs."

Reminder to anyone who needs it, please add 688.91 gold to your inventory. The way I track loot, once a distribution is made, I will start a new loot sheet. Which means responsibility for tracking the already-distributed loot turns to you.

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Thanks again for doing fantasy accounting. To make it easy on you, I'd suggest each player add a "Loot Log" to their profile, and then link to your distribution posts in this discussion thread that splits the loot with a [url] tag.

Red DM of Doom wrote:

The E6 cap is for NPCs as well, in this world.

Barring exceptional circumstance, there's no higher-level NPCs running around.

Excellent. Thanks for clearing that up.

It had honestly never occurred to me that anybody would run E6 without applying the same to NPCs.

Heaven and earth and horatio...

It works just fine but I'm ok with it either way. I just like to get it cleared up early in E6 games since being surprised is bad times.

Every time I've played E6 it's capped player not npc power, so it seemed worth asking.

Yulai visits the clerics of Abadar and prays in the attached chapel. After an hour, she emerges to speak with the priests.

"Greetings Vaultkeepers. I am, regrettably, ill informed of local religious matters, and seek instruction, and possibly an introduction. If there is a priest capable of scribing the higher arts, and writing the very breath of life to parchment, that it might be called forth in an instant, I would consider the introduction to be worth a small offering of gold or similar service in kind."

Yulai can help smooth the way on selling things by being polite, comfortable, and competent with weapons, but she's not a merchant. So someone else would have to haggle if it came to that. She'd know more about the bow than the knives.

"I suppose we might work for..."

Yulai cuts off as Iris speaks, her cheeks flushing.

"No, we have guard's business with us. Bring him in Bran."

She steps out of the way as bran hustles their prisoner into the room.

"Hobgoblins, claiming to be Of the Red Hand, they ambushed us on the road. We took a prisoner, and since he was in your jurisdiction we thought we'd drop him in whatever passed for a cell and let your local magistrate decide his fate. Maybe you can learn more from him than we have."

She stops for a moment to look around finally then continues.

"My name's Yulai, by the way. Love the rug."

Not a problem, it's the weekend.

"Thank you. We'll see Soranna, then."

Yulai knees the ox in the direction of the captain.

"Delivering a hob to the local magister. He and his companions ambushed us on the road, they claim to be members of the Red Hand. Oh and we'll want to stay the night in a bed. I'm Sakura, Yulai Sakura. How are you this fine afternoon?"

Yulai slows OS, but doesn't try to keep the ox from ambling toward the nearest bit of green.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

It's as much my fault as yours for playing the class with the loosely defined RP requirement. At least half the reason I like chosen one is not having to be a turbocharged authority on morality as a paladin.

Anyways, turn over goblin to authorities, move along.

"I have no authority in these lands. In theory I'd have some authority in Tian Xie, but as I have no more idea where that is than you do, it seems a bit moot. Take him to the local constable, or ransom him. As long as you do not seek to torture or murder him I am not obliged to intervene on your behalf. I, think. We could turn him over to Yuki, but we'd be here all night."

Yulai seems amused at the thought that she would ever be trusted as a judge, and not entirely certain what else to say. Yuki, on the other hand, is noticeably proud.

"It's not my place either dear girl. These lands are the humans. One day they may fall to the orc or the goblin, but for now they are still human lands with human laws. The penalty for banditry is a short trial and a noose for the guilty if I recall correctly, but I am no authority to conduct either. We'll need the local magister."

"Count me out. I'll defend myself but interrogating captives is a task for magisters, not apprentice fox priests. He's evil enough, but playing with him is cruel."

@dm Every dm is different about LG paladin code, and it can be a drag on the party. I'm not interested in doing the fall from grace thing with this character. Lmk if I need to be more or less lawful stupid if I hit your sense of code wrong and I'll adjust, Yulai isn't supposed to know better, but Yuki does so retcons are easy enough if required.

Channel puts her and is at full.

"None for me, I sing"

She trails off.

"It's not pleasant. Let's gather it up and get back on the road. I'd rather not find ourselves ambushed again."

Yulai heads to the camp, following Tal'ariel.

"What I don't understand is why ambush us? We're clearly well armed. Hobgoblins."

Diplomacy +10 if you want to ask questions backed by the dice, but I'll be out of pocket tomorrow doing toddler birthday things so feel free to do it without me if he wakes up and I'm not around.

Yulai is -4, Os is -1, probably better to save the spell for now.
"We'll be fine with a bit of rest I think, but let's check the house."

Yulai heads toward the house, cautiously.

Yulai settles Os and dismounts, sheathing her sword. Running her hands along the Ox she fingers the scarred hide barding a moment and then continues her inspection.

"You're fine you big goof. It only singed the threads. I can fix it when we get to town tonight. Oh, and it's safe Yuki, you can come out."

Yulai mounts again, then turns Os back toward the vale. Yuki pokes her head out, then ducks back into the sack.

"We could spend a long time chasing goblins in the hills, or we could go into town and find a local that probably knows right where to find them. Look around - rough to play hide and seek."

Feedback - This is a really bad way to run obscuring mist for PBF. It's really good for face to face, but we're going to have to do a lot of "wait on the GM to answer player 1's questions" with the incomplete information about where stuff is. Instead of having the player be able to post completely what they do and the rest of us react accordingly.

Right now Tal is wandering forward to find a hob - but if she wanders into the spellcaster instead, she could yell out before the next person in initiative comes up.

DM's game, DM's rules and I'm cool with it. It's going to slow the game to a crawl every time it comes up though.

Anyone have a good solution?

Total defense, +4 AC (dodge) to 25/18

Yulai shifts Os casually in front of her new friends, readying her shield.

"When you're ready."

Yulai guides Os forward, her eyes on the fogged road, searching for the hounds. As she reaches Tal'ariel she nods quietly, comfortable in the mist, and quiet. She gestures behind Os, in case the elf wishes to seek cover.

If we find the hellhound, Yulai smash with incorrect religious fervor, if not, stand ready in front of Tal.

This is the best game btw. We're doing mounted combat, volley fire archery, and grappling in the first fight.

Good times.

Yulai cries out as the flame rushes over her, as does the mighty ox Os Uushi, but this only serves to stir their determination. She leans down, clenching the saddle tightly with her knees, pushing the fire away with her shield, before smashing her kunai into the hounds open jaws. It glints with holy power for a moment as the jaws snap closed reflexively. Meanwhile, Os's head comes around, smashing his horns against the hellish beast nearby.

"Fiend, chew on the wrath of Gozreh and Erastillyn!

She winces as the rain of arrows comes in, and looks around desperately trying to see past the hounds and the smoke. In the next moment, she smooths the harness against her leg, and draws another kunai determined to finish her foe.

From her pack, a string of apologies are heard in celestial.

Would you mind breaking down the math of the ride bonus for me please?

Sure, give me a moment.

Ok, here's what hero lab is doing:

4 ranks + 3 class + 4 dex - 3 kikko - 2 shield => 8.

That, uh, doesn't work hero lab. You're exciting.

Digging into it, it looks like it's not calculating the shield penalty? Probably because the default weapon is the bow.

Ok, yeah if I uncheck the bow as default weapon it drops. That makes sense.

So it should be +6 with shield. Ok, that makes more sense and yeah os doesn't attack in that case but we do guide with knees and keep the shield bonus?

Thanks for checking my work - did I mention I'm bad at mounted combat?

Just parsing the round here, a lot of stuff to keep track of:

Does Yulai's Ride bonus include her armor check penalty, btw? It says +8, but that might be 4 ranks +3 prof +4 dex = +11, and then -3 from kikko armor, and not counting the shield because she's usually using her bow?

Anyway, if ACP is included, she succeeds on guiding with knees but fails to Fight with Combat Trained Mount, if ACP is not included in the +8, then she fails at both.

The only difference is whether she keeps her shield bonus, really.

Her smite hits, and deals damage.

Bran hits, no crit though. The hobgoblin is still standing.

R1 wDC14: 1d20 - Success!

Isawa kills the one Bran hit, and trips both the others. In other news, which spells did you pick with Mystic Past Life, Magical Lineage and Wayang Spell Hunter? It doesn't say on your sheet.

Yes it does include ACP, hero lab autocalcs that for statblocks. The ox is combat riding trained.

I did not think through this whole ox riding + familiar thing in combat.

I have no idea if I did the right checks for ride there but I think I have to make two each round - combat and guide. If someone knows the RAW for riding cold please correct me when I get stuff wrong, I haven't done mounted combat in years. The plan was to get off the ox to fire arrows at things, but that doesn't work when ambushed.

Best laid plans, surviving contact with the enemy since...yeah

Yulai grabs a kunai from a sheath, it's unclear where, and leans over smashing it into the head of the nearest hellhound, just above the spine. She misses the killing blow, but draws the blade back ready to strike again. Her skin seems to glow with righteous fury, and her eyes glint with devotion as she urges Os with her knees.

"Shelyn and Sarenrae take you, hound. You have no place here. Go back to Gozreh!"

Responding to his rider's command, the Ox's massive head, and more importantly the attached horn, slams into the creature. From within her saddle, a small voice is barely heard muttering to itself in celestial.

Celestial
"I know it's not proper, but at least she didn't try to use the bow this time. It's a process. Yes, I'm sorry."