Is the ... is the past repeating?
Eigensspace draws his dagger.
◆ Interact (Draw)
Eigensspace will try to Tumble Through to the other side.
vs Reflex DC
vs AC, off-guard if Tumble Through was a CS
As he rolls to his feet, Eigensspace reaches out a foot for a Trip.
vs Reflex DC
The chef dodges to one side as Tokoyo swings at him, and the strike is a miss.
Eigensspace gets right past him, though he doesn't manage to throw off the chef's defenses. He still nicks him with his knife, though he doesn't fall, either.
Phaedro's turn. The slippery floor of the kitchen is difficult terrain.
Initiative:
Purple Fa AC 28-33, 9 damage (reaction used)
Phaedro AC 26, 120/120 HP
Savannah AC 29, 148/148 HP (Monastic Archer Stance)
Eigensspace AC 28, 128/128 HP
Green Kuen AC 27-32, 59 damage (armor broken, reaction used)
Tokoyo AC 28, 94/138 HP (reaction used)
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Tokoyo looks around below deck. "My thanks, Captain, for getting us access. This ship looks wonderfully maintained. Perhaps we should apply some of the decor here to the Deranged Dingy."
"Perhaps we should relieve these gentlemen of their knives once we've knocked them around?" He leaps across the kitchen towards the other chef, and does just that!
~) ⛨ 26, 27 vs reactions, or 28 mobility / scramble, ♥️ 120/120
◆) Daring Stunt
~) Adrenaline
◆) Head Smash
◆) Interact to Draw Combat Grapnel or Stretching Reach
↺) Scrambling Retreat
Adrenaline
As you slip past the deadly blades of your opponents and perform stunts that put life and limb on the line, the thrill of danger washes through your veins. This heightened state is called adrenaline. You gain adrenaline by performing actions that have the risky trait. The GM might determine that a particularly dangerous action, such as leaping a deep chasm or sprinting across hazardous terrain, gains the risky trait. Such stunts typically involve at least one action and either automatically deal damage to you or risk dealing damage as the result of a failed skill check or saving throw. You gain adrenaline at the start of the risky action (before you move or attempt any rolls). The adrenaline lasts until the beginning of your next turn, so you must constantly perform risky actions to keep your adrenaline flowing. Normally, you gain and keep adrenaline only in combat encounters, and when an encounter ends, you lose adrenaline. To help you gain adrenaline, you gain the Daring Stunt action. Other daredevil actions, such as certain class feats, require you to have adrenaline.
Audacious Combatant
Your adrenaline fuels you to attack again and again. Whenever you have adrenaline and make an attack as part of an action with the press trait, your multiple attack penalty is –4 (–3 with an agile attack) on your second attack of the turn instead of –5, and –8 (–6 with an agile attack) on your third or subsequent attack of the turn instead of –10.
Daring Stunt (◆)
[risky]
Frequency: once per round
You hurl yourself into the fray and try to maneuver a foe. You Stride or Leap. You can use Daring Stunt while Burrowing, Climbing, Flying, or Swimming instead of Striding if you have the corresponding movement type. You must move at least 10 feet and end your movement adjacent to at least one enemy. At the end of your movement, you can attempt to Grapple, Reposition, Shove, or Trip one enemy within your reach. You must meet all the requirements of that action.
Head Smash (◆)
[attack, press]
Requirements: You have adrenaline, you have a creature grabbed or restrained, and you and the required creature are both adjacent to the same prop.
Fueled by adrenaline, you drive an enemy’s head into a sturdy object. Attempt an Athletics check against the Fortitude DC of the grabbed creature.
Critical Success: You deal stunt damage to your target, who must attempt a Fortitude save against your class DC or become stunned 2; this is an incapacitation effect. Your target remains grabbed or restrained by you until the end of your next turn or until they Escape.
Success: As critical success, but the target is only stunned 1. Your target remains grabbed or restrained by you until the end of your next turn or until they Escape.
Failure: You deal half your stunt damage to the target. Your target is then no longer grabbed or restrained by you.
Critical Failure: Your target is no longer grabbed or restrained by you. Your target can either grab you, as if it succeeded at using the Grapple action against you, or force you to fall and land prone.
Propelling Strides
You can push yourself off a wall or large creature to gain some speed. If you are adjacent to a prop (see sidebar) at the beginning of a move action, you gain a +10-foot circumstance bonus to your Speeds for that move action.
Scrambling Retreat (↺)
Trigger: You’re targeted by a melee attack.
Requirements: You have adrenaline and you aren’t encumbered.
You slip away from an oncoming attack, though your foe might choose to follow. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to AC against the attack. After the attack, you can Stride up to half your Speed. If you do, the attacker can Stride to follow you as a free action, keeping you in their reach throughout their movement until you stop moving or they have moved
their full Speed.
Stretching Reach (◆)
You can leverage your size and muscle to extend your reach and attack more distant foes. While in this stance, when you wield a melee weapon that requires two hands and doesn't have reach, the weapon gains a reach of 10 feet.
Stunt Damage
When you smash your enemy into the scenery, it does real damage. Whenever you have adrenaline and force a target to move, and the movement is interrupted by a prop (see sidebar), the target takes an amount of bludgeoning damage equal 1d6 plus your Strength modifier. This damage increases by 1d6 at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th level.
Grabbing his head, he smashes it against the frier pot! "Are you seeing stars, good chef?"
Phaedro is quite successful at restraining the chef. He's also pretty successful at bashing his head against the counter.
While Phaedro has done quite a good job restricting the chef's options, he still manages to slip out of the hold. "We never did any of those murders!" he protests, "There's no reason you should be here arresting us!" In one practiced motion he slips a vial out of his pocket and runs the fluid along the edge of his blade.
Tokoyo's turn. The slippery floor of the kitchen is difficult terrain.
Initiative:
Purple Fa AC 28-33, 9 damage (reaction used)
Phaedro AC 26, 120/120 HP (Stretching Reach)
Savannah AC 29, 148/148 HP (Monastic Archer Stance)
Eigensspace AC 28, 128/128 HP
Green Kuen AC 27-32, 75 damage (bloodied, armor broken)
Tokoyo AC 28, 94/138 HP
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"I don't like the look of that substance. Sorry Eigensspace, but I have to stop this trickery before he has the chance to apply it." Tokoyo says apologetically as she surveys the battlefield.
Tokoyo is unable to react to Green Kuen's application of Poison, but the danger of poison worries her. Disengaging from her confrontation with Purple Fa, she runs out of the kitchen but suddenly turns on her heels and runs back in before leaping towards Green Kuen. Her Sudden Pounce clears 30 feet of distance across the slippery floor, making Green Kuen Off-Guard to her.
The Slayer Strikes at Green Kuen again.
Tokoyo wants to know about Kuen's poison.
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Tokoyo slashes twice into the chef.
His knife falls to the floor, and so does he. He covers his head with his hands and groans, "Okay! You can take me alive! Cops are supposed to announce themselves, you know. You should have knocked on the wall and called out that you were coming to arrest us."
"Yeah, then we could have slipped out through the porthole before you got here," says the other wryly.
He isn't ready to give up yet.
Phaedro, Savannah, and Eigensspace's turns. The slippery floor of the kitchen is difficult terrain.
Initiative:
Purple Fa AC 28-30, 17 damage
Phaedro AC 26, 120/120 HP (Stretching Reach)
Savannah AC 29, 148/148 HP (Monastic Archer Stance)
Eigensspace AC 28, 128/128 HP
Green Kuen AC 27-29, 116 damage (bloodied, 6 persistent bleed, armor broken, unarmed, prone)
Tokoyo AC 28, 94/138 HP
Savannah retreats to within 30' of Purple Fa and looses a trio or arrows at him.
for plus
for plus
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If the chef weren't so nimble, that might have gone a little better. Even so, Savannah grazes him with one arrow.
Phaedro and Eigensspace's turns. The slippery floor of the kitchen is difficult terrain.
Initiative:
Purple Fa AC 28-30, 39 damage (reaction used)
Phaedro AC 26, 120/120 HP (Stretching Reach)
Savannah AC 29, 148/148 HP (Monastic Archer Stance)
Eigensspace AC 28, 128/128 HP
Green Kuen AC 27-29, 116 damage (bloodied, 6 persistent bleed, armor broken, unarmed, prone)
Tokoyo AC 28, 94/138 HP
Eigensspace will sustain Discomfiting Whisper ◆.
He Tumbles Through Green's square, making a nonlethal slash on the way ◆.
vs prone
◆ Shield
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Phaedro spins around with a gleeful smile "Out the porthole, huh? We'll keep that in mind" he winks at Eigensspace, then grabs purple chef by his apron and collar, and raising him over his head, drops him head-first atop a box of raw fish!
~) ⛨ 26, 27 vs reactions, or 28 mobility / scramble, ♥️ 120/120
◆) Daring Stunt
~) Adrenaline
◆) Head Smash
◆) Daring Reversal
~) Shoved Foe may take Stunt Damage?
↺) Scrambling Retreat
Spinning again, he slams back into green chef with his grappling hook, cutting and knocking him back. Then turns once more to tell purple "You're Next!"
Adrenaline
As you slip past the deadly blades of your opponents and perform stunts that put life and limb on the line, the thrill of danger washes through your veins. This heightened state is called adrenaline. You gain adrenaline by performing actions that have the risky trait. The GM might determine that a particularly dangerous action, such as leaping a deep chasm or sprinting across hazardous terrain, gains the risky trait. Such stunts typically involve at least one action and either automatically deal damage to you or risk dealing damage as the result of a failed skill check or saving throw. You gain adrenaline at the start of the risky action (before you move or attempt any rolls). The adrenaline lasts until the beginning of your next turn, so you must constantly perform risky actions to keep your adrenaline flowing. Normally, you gain and keep adrenaline only in combat encounters, and when an encounter ends, you lose adrenaline. To help you gain adrenaline, you gain the Daring Stunt action. Other daredevil actions, such as certain class feats, require you to have adrenaline.
Audacious Combatant
Your adrenaline fuels you to attack again and again. Whenever you have adrenaline and make an attack as part of an action with the press trait, your multiple attack penalty is –4 (–3 with an agile attack) on your second attack of the turn instead of –5, and –8 (–6 with an agile attack) on your third or subsequent attack of the turn instead of –10.
Daring Reversal (◆)
[flourish, press]
Requirements: You have adrenaline and are flanked by at least two enemies.
You follow up an attack with a punishing shove to give yourself some space. Make a melee Strike against one of the flanking enemies that is within your reach and then attempt an Athletics check to Shove that enemy. You don’t need a hand free to attempt this Shove. This check has the same multiple attack penalty as the initial attack and doesn’t count toward your multiple attack penalty. The other enemy flanking you is then off-guard to you until the end of your next turn.
Daring Stunt (◆)
[risky]
Frequency: once per round
You hurl yourself into the fray and try to maneuver a foe. You Stride or Leap. You can use Daring Stunt while Burrowing, Climbing, Flying, or Swimming instead of Striding if you have the corresponding movement type. You must move at least 10 feet and end your movement adjacent to at least one enemy. At the end of your movement, you can attempt to Grapple, Reposition, Shove, or Trip one enemy within your reach. You must meet all the requirements of that action.
Head Smash (◆)
[attack, press]
Requirements: You have adrenaline, you have a creature grabbed or restrained, and you and the required creature are both adjacent to the same prop.
Fueled by adrenaline, you drive an enemy’s head into a sturdy object. Attempt an Athletics check against the Fortitude DC of the grabbed creature.
Critical Success: You deal stunt damage to your target, who must attempt a Fortitude save against your class DC or become stunned 2; this is an incapacitation effect. Your target remains grabbed or restrained by you until the end of your next turn or until they Escape.
Success: As critical success, but the target is only stunned 1. Your target remains grabbed or restrained by you until the end of your next turn or until they Escape.
Failure: You deal half your stunt damage to the target. Your target is then no longer grabbed or restrained by you.
Critical Failure: Your target is no longer grabbed or restrained by you. Your target can either grab you, as if it succeeded at using the Grapple action against you, or force you to fall and land prone.
Scrambling Retreat (↺)
Trigger: You’re targeted by a melee attack.
Requirements: You have adrenaline and you aren’t encumbered.
You slip away from an oncoming attack, though your foe might choose to follow. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to AC against the attack. After the attack, you can Stride up to half your Speed. If you do, the attacker can Stride to follow you as a free action, keeping you in their reach throughout their movement until you stop moving or they have moved
their full Speed.
Stunt Damage
When you smash your enemy into the scenery, it does real damage. Whenever you have adrenaline and force a target to move, and the movement is interrupted by a prop (see sidebar), the target takes an amount of bludgeoning damage equal 1d6 plus your Strength modifier. This damage increases by 1d6 at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th level.
Eigensspace isn't able to get past or to land a hit on the surrendering chef. "Ha! Way to go, Kuen!" laughs the other one.
Phaedro manages to grab the chef again, though he's finding the effects of Eigensspace's spell distracting.
"What kinda cops try to kill somebody surrendering?" The chef on the floor stands up again, grabbing his knife. He swipes desperately at Phaedro--and connects.
Tokoyo's turn. The slippery floor of the kitchen is difficult terrain.
Initiative:
Purple Fa AC 28-30, 39 damage (reaction used, Off-Guard to Phaedro, Grabbed by Phaedro)
Phaedro AC 26, 84/120 HP (Stretching Reach, DC 17 Fort vs poison, grabbing Fa)
Savannah AC 29, 148/148 HP (Monastic Archer Stance)
Eigensspace AC 28, 128/128 HP (discomfiting whispers)
Green Kuen AC 27-29, 122 damage (bloodied, armor broken, unarmed)
Tokoyo AC 28, 94/138 HP
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"Well done, Captain! You seem to be handling the poison fine. Shall we take these guys in alive?" She asks the Minotaur.
Playing into the mistaken assumption that they are law enforcement, Tokoyo yells to Green; "You had better stay down if you know what's good for you. We've got bad cops and we've got personnel who aren't cops!" She neglects to mention that the last category includes all of them. Turning to Purple - stuck within Phædro's meaty hands - she says "Especially you!" before hitting him with a Honed Strike into a Regular Strike.
Tokoyo's first attack pretty badly wounds him. The second isn't quite as good (or bad), but still leaves a mark.
"He tried that!" the chef shouts indignantly, twisting futilely against Phaedro's grip, "They hit him while he was down!" He slashes at the minotaur's arm, with a "Leggo!" which unfortunately does the trick and he slips away, ducking under Tokoyo's weapon.
Phaedro, Savannah, and Eigensspace's turns. The slippery floor of the kitchen is difficult terrain.
Initiative:
Purple Fa AC 28-29, 118 damage (bloodied, persistent bleed 10, Off-Guard to Phaedro, reaction used)
Phaedro AC 26, 61/120 HP (Stretching Reach)
Savannah AC 29, 148/148 HP (Monastic Archer Stance)
Eigensspace AC 28, 128/128 HP (discomfiting whispers)
Green Kuen AC 27-28, 122 damage (bloodied, armor broken)
Tokoyo AC 28, 94/138 HP (reaction used)
◆ Sustain Discomfiting Whisper
◆ Tumble Through
vs Reflex DC
◇ Trip
vs Reflex DC
◆ Shield
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"Tell us what you know about the Time Stealer!"
Phaedro sends a grappling hook flying Purple's way - non-lethally, aimed at his groin.
He continues to pin down Green, and launches a second, wild shot at Purple!
~) ⛨ 26, 27 vs reactions, or 28 mobility / scramble, ♥️ 61/120
◆) Strike vs Purple
◆) Daring Stunt vs Green
~) Adrenaline
◆) Strike vs Purple
↺) Scrambling Retreat
Eigensspace slips past the chef and knocks him to the floor once more.
Neither of Phaedro's attacks quite connect, but he does pin the one on the floor down a little more.
Savannah's turn. The slippery floor of the kitchen is difficult terrain.
Initiative:
Purple Fa AC 28-29, 118 damage (bloodied, persistent bleed 10, Off-Guard to Phaedro, reaction used)
Phaedro AC 26, 61/120 HP (Stretching Reach, Grabbing Green)
Savannah AC 29, 148/148 HP (Monastic Archer Stance)
Eigensspace AC 28, 128/128 HP (discomfiting whispers)
Green Kuen AC 27-28, 127 damage (bloodied, armor broken, reaction used, prone, grabbed by Phaedro)
Tokoyo AC 28, 94/138 HP (reaction used)
Savannah looses another pair of arrows at Purple.
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for plus
She switches out her bow for her kusarigama and moves up to Fa.
"We didn't kill any time stealer!" The briefest of pauses. "Or anybody else, and you can't prove that!"
Savannah's first arrow hits. It's a bad injury that could have been worse. The second shot, though, is not close. It hits a pan on the stove. The sound isn't even that impressive, rather dull because the pan is full of water.
The man in green stands and strains against both Phaedro and Eigensspace's spell. He manages to slip away, looking worse for the wear.
Tokoyo's turn. The slippery floor of the kitchen is difficult terrain.
Initiative:
Purple Fa AC 28-29, 134 damage (bloodied, persistent bleed 10, Off-Guard to Phaedro)
Phaedro AC 26, 61/120 HP (Stretching Reach, Grabbing Green)
Savannah AC 29, 148/148 HP (Monastic Archer Stance)
Eigensspace AC 28, 128/128 HP (discomfiting whispers)
Green Kuen AC 27-28, 137 damage (bloodied, armor broken)
Tokoyo AC 28, 94/138 HP
Tokoyo kicks one of the chefs out before moving to pursue the other.
He falls back against, darting to one side before quickly switching directions. Savannah sees exactly what he's trying to do, but he still manages to catch her with his knife.
All PCs' turns. The slippery floor of the kitchen is difficult terrain.
Initiative:
Purple Fa AC 28, 144 damage (bloodied, Off-Guard to Phaedro and Savannah)
Phaedro AC 26, 61/120 HP (Stretching Reach, Grabbing Green)
Savannah AC 29, 131/148 HP (Monastic Archer Stance)
Eigensspace AC 28, 128/128 HP (discomfiting whispers)
Tokoyo AC 28, 94/138 HP
Savannah hisses in pain at the strike. She returns the favor, whipping the bladed part at Fa's legs, in an attempt to trip him.
She then whips the blade at him twice.
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Eigensspace sustains his Discomfiting Whispers, and then moves up.
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Savannah doesn't manage to injure the chef, though she does send him to the floor. Where Phaedro knocks him out.
Once they are restrained and revived, they're perfectly willing to talk.
They are brothers, and their names are Fa and Kuen. They are totally innocent, and have no idea why anybody would be trying to arrest them, which is why they assumed anybody entering their kitchen must be trying to arrest them.
They totally didn't commit all those murders. They aren't aware of any murders, anyway! They are definitely not hired assassins, who took a job that let them stay belowdecks on a boat where nobody would ever see their faces because they're trying to stay under cover until the heat from their latest crimes cools down. They definitely have experience running a commercial kitchen and are not at all overwhelmed by the volume. Besides which, they're perfectly good cooks (this part, at least, is demonstrably true)!
They may be master assassins, but master criminals they are not. They also don't seem to have anything to do with, nor any awareness of, the time loop.
Eigensspace does detect magic from the large cupboard on the side of the kitchen. Specifically from the box full of very sharp and haphazardly arranged assortment of kitchen implements.
The small storage space is crammed with food, spices, and cooking implements, as well as several poorly organized crates. Space has been made to accommodate two hammocks.
There are two other doors, to the private dining room (which appears to be locked with a combination lock) and the office.
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"Well, that's unfortunate. We'll need to explain and somehow convince Mr Rui that his chefs were assassins." She looks at the stab wound on her side and winces. "Anyone have any fast way to heal? Otherwise, we will have to use up precious time for wound treating." Tokoyo asks the others.
Pointing at the office, she says; "That's probably the quickest location to check out - unless any one of you are good at picking or busting locks open."
Loop 1: 40 minutes remain
This makeshift office contrasts the splendorous facade of the rest of the boat, simple and functional. Crates of research materials are strewn about and book stacks line the shelves.
It is clear that Rui has been splitting his time pretty evenly between running his restaurant and studying ritual magic. But the office is disheveled, and finding relevant documents might take a bit of digging...
Savannah patches up everyone while they search.