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Zaza the Measure
Halgur 35206-2008
Level 6 Vigilant Seal

Zaza chuckles at Emoubu. "You'd be surprised. I did quite a bit of judging back in Urgir. The laws there were somewhat...relaxed."

Zaza scowls. "There's still time for Rufus to find out what gnome tastes like. I hear silent gnomes are good for the digestive tract. Chatty gnomes not so much."

intimidation, coerce: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (3) + 15 = 18

Hero point reroll

intimidation, coerce: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (8) + 15 = 23

sense motive: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25

Zaza smirks at the gnome's false bravado. "Well that's one option but I think we'll pass. My counteroffer is this: you surrender to us before I fry you up and feed you to Rufus for dinner." She grins ferally and pauses for a moment for her threat to sink in. "So... what's you decision?"

◆ Sense motive, two actions remaining.

"We can see you now. Let's try you not being able to see us." Zaza gestures and causes a handful of stinging sand to fly into the traitorous gnome's eyes.

Cast blindness on orange. Fort save DC 22

"Rufus, menj el érte!"

◆◆ Cast blindness, ◆ command animal

Zaza contemptuously casts fear on one of the zombies and allows leaves Rufus to finish it off before turning her attention to a different target and grinning evilly. "Your turn now."

Cast fear vs red, will save DC 22

intimidate, demoralize vs yellow: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (3) + 15 = 18

◆◆ cast fear, ◆ demoralize

Zaza prepares to use her magics to protect Emoubu. Unfortunately the swashbuckler is too quick and leaps into the fray before the sorcerer can properly gather the arcane energy necessary to do so."Blast it Emoubu. How can I properly ward you if you run away like that?" Cursing under her breath, the half-orc moves forward to assist Emoubu. She turns and glares at one of the 'zombies', and slowly and menacingly draws her finger across her throat'

intimidate-demoralize vs red, intimidating glare: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (7) + 15 = 22

She indicates a target and orders the mastiff. "Rufus, támadás"

◆ Stride, ◆ demoralize, ◆ command an animal

stealth: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18

Zaza signals to Rufus and the pair cautiously make their way into the warehouse.

Zaza will avoid notice.

Zaza the Measure wrote:

Doesn't one success and one critical success get me the three successes needed for a simple lock? Here's another one if not.

I am seeing your critical success.

Can you link me to the post with the other success you rolled? I am not seeing it...

Oops nevermind. I thought I got a success on the very first one behind the spoiler but after checking it's actually only an 18.

Zaza continue to make progress on the Simple Lock... Click-Chock... she must be getting close...

...meanwhile, Soguchi continue to hear something...

** spoiler omitted **

Doesn't one success and one critical success get me the three successes needed for a simple lock? Here's another one if not.

thievery: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13

[dice=perception]1d20+8

** spoiler omitted **

No worries. I've missed plenty of stuff in my few years of PbP as well.

Zaza curses softly as she continues to work on the lock.

thievery: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31

Someones having second thoughts Whispers Soguchi as he draws his sword. He approaches the door and makes a chopping motion with the sword then stops and looks at his companions and makes a knocking motion with his free hand

Zaza gives Soguchi an annoyed glance and whispers back. "No, I'm not. Now be quiet while I finish with this lock."

Not sure if I need a second thievery check but here is one just in case.
thievery: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13

"Now see what you made me do."

If that is a critical failure I will hero point reroll.

Zaza frowns as she works on the lock. She turns and whispers to the others. "That gnome merchant mentioned Zatqualmish moving amidst a crowd of slow-moving humanoid figures who seemed to follow his every command and who occasionally twitched as sparks flew from bits of metal in their flesh. I think those might be technic zombies. One of my informants told me about them last week when I was trying to track down artifact smugglers. They're supposedly resistant to electricity and can even deliver a shock if they hit you hard enough. That might complicate things. Also why would Zatqualmish be able to order them around?"

"We don't necessarily need to break in. One of the doors might be open." Zaza surreptitiously checks all the doors looking for one that might be unlocked.

Zaza will be using avoid notice as her exploration activity.

I won't be able to access the map for a few hours. Would someone please place Zaza and Rufus on the map for me?

Zaza has no school items and casts false life and mage armor after the briefing.

Zaza heads over to the gnome shopkeeper and peruses his wares, asking some pointed questions about his goods before leading the conversation to the missing Zatqualmish.

mercantile lore: 1d20 + 11 - 1 ⇒ (11) + 11 - 1 = 21

Anchor Post

Neesquix likes Zaza's style "Tell ya what - I usually charge by the word - but I'm on a sabbatical at the moment, and feeling generous - we greens gotta stick together, eh?" he rises and stands with the posture of self importance - elbows the brute carrying the umbrella who adjusts it again to keep him shadily out of the sun "Turns out I know someone who knows someone who saw a harried and frantic gnome enter an old building in the Crafters’ Quarters, "Morgan’s", a long-since abandoned potion shop. You bring me a potion back and we'll call it square, okay?"

"Or!" Suddenly inspired, he gestures a 'come hither' with a curling finger, trying to draw Zaza in "Dog for sale?"

Zaza smiles wryly at Neesquix. "Sorry, Mother would be very cross with me if I sold Rufus. She felt I needed some protection in my travels so she gifted him to me. If you're truly interested in a well-trained mastiff though I could send her a letter. She breeds and trains dogs in Urgrir. I should warn you however. They're rather expensive."

Zaza calls Rufus to heel and sidles over to the goblin. She nonchalantly leans against one of the alley walls looks up and down at the one-legged goblin. "Staying out of trouble are we?" Without waiting for a response she continues, "We're looking for a gnome gone missing. Name of Zatqualmish. We'd like to find him quickly and quietly. If we have to start up a ruckus it could be very bad for business you know. Nobody wants a bunch of constables stomping around and looking into things. Bad for business, you know. Anyway, I don't suppose you have any information that might help us get to the bottom of this mystery?" She raises an eyebrow expectantly at the goblin.

underworld lore: 1d20 + 13 - 1 ⇒ (11) + 13 - 1 = 23

"The trail looks like it leads into town."

I have one glyph. I'll give an extra hero point to Emoubu Since he's level 4. Do we only have three players?

Zaza will prepare false life as her Arcane Evolution spell for the day.

After surveying the room, Zaza pulls a shirt from the wardrobe and presents it to Rufus. "Rufus! Nyommon követni!"

survival: 1d20 + 12 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 12 + 2 = 21

Rufus has scent and +12 survival

Zaza smiles wryly. "We are quite the frightening group aren't we? Even so there's no need to go around antagonizing the staff just yet. Why don't we go to the scribe's room and see if Rufus can sniff out a trail."

A tengu carrying a temple sword with an amber pommel approachesI am Soguchi I have travelled from Absalom to tell a young gnome there are more endeavours more suited for her and her cat in other places. I will take her place here and help out where I can. No this is not a prank. We had far too many of those at the Dacilaine academy[b] He shakes his head [b]No Nan Slicing heads off is not required today. He then looks to his left No Gran magic is not required here I think Grandfather has the right of it Stick to my practices and see if there is any here interested in the Way of the Kirin

The half-orc turns to the tengu. "I see you speak to your ancestors as well. Is it only the more recent ones that speak to you or do you hear from ancient ones also?"

The Black Sovereign (Map) link is private, so I cannot have access.

I cannot access it either.

A tall attractive half-orc woman in purple robes arrives at the meeting place. She seems a bit weary, as though she hasn't been getting enough sleep. She is followed by a very well behaved black mastiff. She slumps down in a nearby chair and gestures for the dog to lie at her feet.

"Greetings everyone. Sorry I've been out of pocket so much during the preparations for our esteemed guest, but I've been working behind the scenes trying to see if I could generate some goodwill with Kevoth-Kul. I heard rumors of some tech thieves smuggling artifacts out of Numeria and I've been burning the midnight oil trying to catch them. I figured that would be a better use of my abilities than trying to play hostess and prepare for some high mucky-muck's visit. Unfortunately my leads haven't lead to the ringleaders yet." She yawns. "I had hoped that by hurrying here from Blackwood Forest as quickly as I did to get an early start I'd be able to see better results. In retrospect I should have just taken my time. I certainly could have used the extra rest."

"Dread Marshall Emoubu is here!" The Kobold cheers themselves. "After many weeks of difficult crossing, Emoubu has finally arrived to do the things Emoubu is good at!"

"Emoubu presumes Emoubu is here to lend Emoubu's majestic presence to things. And if not, Emoubu is sure Emoubu is here to scare all the disagreers into agreeing. Emoubu is very scary when Emoubu wants to be, and can make nice talk too."

Emoubu has spent the last week making sure his clothing and gear is shinny and clean. There are signs that his gear is well used, but still well cared for.

Zaza smirks at the kobold's braggadocio. "I hope you're as skilled with your weapons as you are frightening. I've found peacocks can be rather intimidating but ultimately rather delicate when met with force."

Poor poor Emoubu, honestly, this has been his lot from the very beginning, he always appears to be the low-level frontliner.

Don't worry too much. Rufus will be happy to support you on the front lines.

This quest is listed as being for levels 1-4 on the main sign up sheet. It is actually for levels 3-6.

Zaza the Measure wrote:

So we couldn't notice the crit failure for intimidation after the first crit failure?

The skill checks are not done in rounds and Alyreha is just listening to everyone before she makes a decision so I let everyone roll their skills before she can decide.

Okay no worries. I'll take my lumps. Thanks a bunch for running this for us GM Frost.

So we couldn't notice the crit failure for intimidation after the first crit failure?

Zaza becomes enraged. "What? All that we've done for you and you just might let us keep your research? I ought to throw you into the deepest pit down in Zarta's basement and let you rot for a couple of centuries."

intimidate: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (11) + 13 = 24

A sly grin crosses the sorcerer's face. "Or better yet. I'll give you to Rufus to play with. He's still young enough to chew up everything." She turns to the dog. "Would you like that Rufus?"

intimidate: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (9) + 13 = 22

Zaza points out the scroll in the owl's beak and cringes. Oh crap! A stuffed owl. Good thing we have the group that we do. I know at least one young pathfinder that would be extremely upset if she were here to see that. Good job getting that scroll, Mimi. Do me a favor though. leave the owl bit out of your report. If this gets published then my young ranger friend is almost certain to read the chronicle and things won't go well afterwards." The sorcerer chuckles. "Although now that I think about it she might still be banned from the library at the grand lodge. Let me just get that out in one piece."

thievery: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24

"There we go. Now remember everyone, we found it inside a wooden badger or something and definitely not inside a stuffed owl." She gives the party a stern glare.

Zyek nods encouragingly to the rest of the party as Lil Brute trundles over back towards her. Pretty good striking everyone. Especially given that fog - pain in the rear to see anything through it.

The ysoki pats her construct affectionately as she spends a few minutes giving it a more thorough once-over. And you too LB. Took a real beating out there though. Still got a ways to go to build up your kinetic defenses.

As the party then makes their way to to Transmutation showroom, Zyek heads over to the Scroll Storage. Gonna check this out unless she's interrupted by something happening as soon as we enter the Transmutation space Most of the name scraps've been on paper; another might be written down on one of these.

"Good idea. Rufus and I will come with you." Zaza signals to the mastiff and the pair follow Zyek.

Zaza scowls and launches a volley of eldritch bolts at the creature.

flat check DC5: 1d20 ⇒ 14
damage, force: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (2, 4, 4) + 3 = 13

◆◆◆ cast magic missile

Zaza pulls a wand from her belt.

◆ interact-draw wand

Zaza's mask glows with a sickly greenish light as she focuses its power on one of the creatures.

Cast fear at blue. DC 20 will save

With the mask's energy expended for the day she decides to frighten the remaining creature the old-fashioned way and glares at it threateningly.

intimidate-demoralize, intimidating glare vs red: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (15) + 13 = 28

◆◆ Activate demon mask, ◆ Demoralize

Unable to choose a singe target Zaza opts for all of them.

flat check DC5 vs red: 1d20 ⇒ 16
scorching ray vs red: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15
damage, fire: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 6, 3, 3) = 14

flat check DC5 vs blue: 1d20 ⇒ 11
scorching ray vs blue: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17
damage, fire: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 1, 6) = 17

flat check DC5 vs white: 1d20 ⇒ 3
scorching ray vs white: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13
damage, fire: 4d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 2, 5) = 16

◆◆◆ cast scorching ray

Zaza looks around at everyone standing in the doorway for a moment before frowning and following Dennis inside.

"Old school, huh?" Zaza sighs. "Fine. If you insist on doing things the hard way..."

thievery: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

Zaza has a pearly white spindle aeon stone so she is at full health.

dispel magic, counteract check: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12

Zaza focuses her will and curses as she fails to affect the wards.

"We still have a few areas we haven't checked yet. I doubt they'll b too dangerous. I say save your power for the time being. What do the rest of you think?"

Zaza turns and looks questioningly at the rest of the party.

"Let's take the research notes to our friend the skull and then check out the areas on the second floor that we skipped."

Zaza causes a spark of electricity to arc between the two remaining enemies.

electric arc DC 20: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (2, 2) + 4 = 8

◆◆ Cast electric arc

Zaza points to the shisk woman. "Rufus, támadás!"

◆ Command an animal

reflex save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

"Blast it!" Zaza falls to the floor. Carefully returning to her feet she uses the scroll to enchant Zhamie's weapon.

Stand, cast magic weapon

“Oh. There you are, Pathfinders. What took you all so long? I’ve been waiting for you all to get through those defenses and find the Arclord’s research for me. But now that you’re here, I’ll have to be taking whatever you have for myself,” she sneers.

“Mother needs me to bring her that research so that she can cook some true names and mix them together. I, Liaskra, don’t entirely get it myself, but I don’t have to. All I need to know is that you have what I need for mother, so I am going to take it!”

Zaza snorts derisively. "I suspect that Mommy is going to be disappointed. We don't have any research. I mean, I certainly don't. Dennis do you have any research?"

"We should probably make certain that there are no further threats on this floor before heading upstairs. I would rather not be caught between two sets of enemies."

I'm a little uncertain about what we still haven't visited on this floor. Is it just the Evocation atrium, Transmutation showroom and the scrolls storage room left to investigate?