[Adventure]: Land Ho! FWBTHW (DM:H.M.Gimlord,Judge:Ozymandias79)

H.M.Gimlord · Aug 25, 2011

Arrows whiz by the adventurers in their tiny craft, as they bob up and down in the waves. Most fly by harmlessly thanks to Sheng's obscuring cloud, but Hankel and the magician himself are not spared this luxury. Two rogue arrows find their marks as bad luck would have it.

As Riardon relieves Fenwick of his task at the tiller, the warlord realizes that he might not have to work too hard, for right before them is the ladder for which they have been steering.

[sblock=Enemy Actions]
Archer 1:
Standard: Longbow
Target: Hankel
Attack: 1d20+13-5(TC)-2(Range)=15 vs. AC Miss

Archer 2:
Standard: Longbow
Target: Sheng
Attack: 1d20+13-5(TC)-2(Range)=14 vs. AC Miss

Archer 3:
Standard: Longbow
Target: Gensai
Attack: 1d20+13-5(TC)-2(Range)=20 vs. AC Miss

Archer 4:
Standard: Longbow
Target: Sheng
Attack: 1d20+13-5(TC)-2(Range)=7 vs. AC for 1d10+8= damage

Archer 5:
Standard: Longbow
Target: Sheng
Attack: 1d20+13-5(TC)-2(Range)=22 vs. for 1d10+8=10 damage

Skeleton Soldier 3:
Standard: Longbow
Target: Sheng
Attack: 1d20+14-5(TC)=14 vs. AC Miss

Skeleton Soldier 5:
Standard: Longbow
Target: Riardon
Attack: 1d20+14-5(TC)=28 vs. AC Miss

Skeleton Soldier 6:
Standard: Longbow
Target: Gensai
Attack: 1d20+14-5(TC)=24 vs. AC Miss

Skeleton Soldier 7:
Standard: Longbow
Target: Hankel
Attack: 1d20+14-5(TC)=20 vs. AC for 5 damage[/sblock][sblock=Status]Riardon: Q19 64/64HP 1AP 9HS Total Concealment
Gensai: P20 81/81HP 1AP 12HS Total Concealment
TikChik: O19 70/70HP 1AP 8HS Total Concealment
Sheng: P19 56/66HP 1AP 7HS Total Concealment
Fenwick: Q20 61/73HP 1AP 11HS Total Concealment

Hankel: O20 27/32 Total Concealment
Skeleton Archer 1: C19 76/76 Cover
Skeleton Archer 2: C20 76/76 Cover
Skeleton Archer 3: C21 76/76 Cover
Skeleton Archer 4: C22 76/76 Cover
Skeleton Archer 5: C24 76/76 Cover

~~Skeleton Soldier 1:~~ ~~I17 Minion Dead~~
~~Skeleton Soldier 2:~~ ~~I21 Minion Dead~~
Skeleton Soldier 3: K19 Minion
~~Skeleton Soldier 4:~~ ~~H23 Minion Dead~~
Skeleton Soldier 5: K18 Minion
Skeleton Soldier 6: I20 Minion
Skeleton Soldier 7: K23 Minion
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[/sblock][sblock=Regarding the Boat]The Ladder: Is at L18

Waves: One character must spend a Standard Action each round to maintain the boat's course. The standard action amounts to a DC 20 Athletics Check.

Failing the check means that the party grants combat advantage to the archers.

Failing by more than 5 means that the boat capsizes and the party must swim (as described in the PHB) to the ladder amid the hail of arrows.

Steering and Moving the Boat: The boat moves at a rate of one square per round in the direction that the person maintaining the boat chooses.

Docking the Boat:

Athletics DC 20 (Minor): Moor the boat to the ladder
- Success: The boat is fastened in place
- Failure: The Boat still requires fastening
Athletics DC 15 (Move): Climb ladder
- Success: PC reaches the top of the ladder
- Failure: By less than 5: PC does not advance, By 5 or more: PC falls into boat.
Athletics DC 25 (Move): Jump to ladder from an unmoored boat.
- Success: You are on the ladder
- Failure: You fall in the water, you are swimming, and you require a DC 25 Athletics check to grab the ladder

Characters already at the top of the ladder can aid others in the boat with a successful DC 15 Athletics roll to grant +2 (stacks with number of rolls).[/sblock][sblock=Story Outline]
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Original Party enters a bewitched cellar door that
- Talon (Shifter Druid/Ranger)
- Rujah (Dragonborn Warden)
- Riardon
- Jin (Human Swordmage)
- Fenwick

Bewitched cellar where party finds a secret entrance to a thieves' den
- The group finds weapons with lightning powers
- The group finds a box engraved with dwarven and draconic script
- The box contains documents in dwarven script
Back at The Hanged Man
- Talon deciphers the dwarven docuements and discovers that a man named Hankel Mast Gimlord is heir to the throne of Rioc Parvel, a dwarven mine and stronghold.
- He is overheard by a sailor dwarf named Fargo who recalls the legends of Rioc Parvel and offers you sea passage to Avenroc
- The lightning weapons found by the group have a dwarven inscription that reads "When it's my turn, I'll show you my power."
- Unscrewing the pommels of their weapons they discover a small blue crystal in each that appears to encapsulate a small storm.
The ocean voyage
- Fargo's ship is attacked by a flotilla of drowned ones
- A storm portal opens and swallows the ship
- Talon challenges a crewmember to a sparring match
- Fargo drops the group off in the harbor of a city called Rioc Alair
The Crystal Mug inn
- The group meets Firebyrne an apprentice blacksmith to a dwarf named Hankel Mast who has been missing for some time
- The group discovers that the bewitched cellar of their prior experience is the cellar of the Crystal Mug
- The group is ambushed when they attempt to expose the thieves' ring
- Mervin materializes in a barrel
- The group reveals the thieves' den to authorities
- Mervin discovers a dagger of lightning power
- Riardon finds several rituals
- Jin learns that Hankel has, in fact, been kidnapped by a man named Lars Hallmaster, whom Firebyrne had described as a "Friend". A wizard named Shear seems to be directing Lars' actions.
- Jin opens up a cursed chest and is mortally wounded by flaming skulls
- Jin's body is resurrected (using one of the rituals found by Riardon), but is possessed by an ancestor of Jin's named Gensai
The city of Rioc Alair
- The group meets a university professor named Amatalystan Shea Aramista who fills the group in on the history of Rioc Parvel
- The group gears up at a black market shop in the cellar of a gear store
- The group uses another ritual found by Riardon to generate a portal that leads to a remote, wooded location
Iguyo Di Wer Grovisv
- The group chooses to join sides with a green dragon to defeat a band of blue-dragonkin kobolds
- The group learns of the existance of a blue dragon named Wer Vhisar who Iguyo Di Wer Grovisv blames for driving her mother aunt from their lair, and charges the group with destroying Wer Vhisar
The entrance to Wer Vhisar's lair
- The group navigates a pit trap
- and disables a glyph of warding powered by an electric crystal
- that guards a library containing some curious items
The hall
- The group is met by a kobold welcoming party that temporarily separates the group. Gensai and Fenwick fall into a prison cell. Rujah falls into the river below and is swept out to sea. Mervin stays behind to cover Riardon's retreat.
The prison
- The group meets Tikchik and Sheng
- The group discovers a dwarven prisoner and a kobold prisoner
- The group decides to look for Rujah and Mervin
The hall part deaux
- The group learns the fate of Rujah and Mervin
- The group realizes that Iguyo De Wer Grovisv has lied to them
- They find a hiding kobold who grants them an audience with Wer Vhisar
Wer Vhisar's Lair
- Wer Vhisar reveals to them his version of the feud story between himself and the three green dragons
- Wer Vhisar offers the group an opportunity to seat Hankel Mast Gimlord on his rightful throne in return for three tasks
  - Transplant the diffusion of Wer Vhisar's father
  - Turn over a large gem called the Moonstone
  - Destroy Iguyo Di Wer Grovisv's mother and aunt
The Library Again
- The party finally meets Hankel Mast, but, though he's aware and eager for the quest, he doesn't seem to know that he is the heir to Rioc Parvel
- Hankel provides several documents, in particular, a map shoing the location and nature of their first task.
- TikChik returns Hankel's knife
- Sheng finds a source of arcane magic.
- The party is given a boat and provisions
Rioc Stang
- Light the lighthouse
- Find Stang: Arkus Gimlord's Axe

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Rituals in Riardon's Pack:
- ~~Raise Dead~~ Used to raise Jin from the dead (got Gensai instead)
- ~~Knock~~ Used to open the chest that killed Jin
- ~~Linked Portal~~ Used to get to the green dragon encounter
- Object Reading
- Vistani Passkey
- Precise Forgery
- Decipher Script
- Wizard Sight
- Arcane Lock
- Diffusion Transplantation (illegible at the moment)
Those of you who found lightning weapons still have them.
Mervin still has the dagger (but he's still on the floor of Wer Vhisar's lair)
Quick Plot summary
- Setting: An interior island on the continent of Avenroc
- Old blue dragon destroys a dwarven mine and dwarven king dies
- Dwarven heir exiles himself and dies leaving a son who is clueless as to his heritage
- Old blue dragon is killed by two sister green dragons, who now have a daughter (that's three green dragons on the loose).
- The old blue dragon's son wants to avenge his father's death, but doesn't want to take the risk, so he offers the job to the adventurers.
- Hankel (the clueless dwarven heir) is being held in the prisons below the blue dragon's lair
- Wer Vhisar has pressed you into his service to light the dwarven lighthouse, kill the green dragons, re-seat Hankel on the throne at Rioc Parel, and transplant Wer Vhisar's father's diffusion.
- Hankel has been freed and the party meets him in the trashed library that apparently was used by Shear on his visits to Wer Vhisar.
- Evidently, Hankel has no idea that Bardir was his father, and that he is hier the throne of Rioc Alair

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GM:

Summary:

PCs in boat are rearranged so that Riardon can steer
PCs in boat are rearranged to be within Sheng's aura
Sheng takes 10 damage
Hankel takes 5 damage
PCs in boat can now reach the ladder

OOC:

Just realized that I didn't NPC Gensai. I will do this tonight and retcon. Please do not post until then.

Walking Dad · Aug 25, 2011

OOC:

Sorry, missed the no posting. Hope the below actions are still fine...

Riardon

Riardon easily stirs the boat the last bit and moors it to the ladder.

[sblock=OOC]

standard: stir the boat (we still need 1 SQ, right?)
minor: moor the boat to the ladder.
(actually only 26 and 22... I forgot the shield penalty. But still success)

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When you spend an AP, you get a +2 on attacks.

[sblock=Mini stat block]
Riardon d'Caelis
Perception: 20 Insight: 15 Low-light Vision
AC 28 Fortitude 22 Reflex 22 Will 19
Initiative: +4
Hit Points: 64 / 64 Bloodied: 32
Temporary Hit Points: 0
Resist: -
Saving Throw: +5 vs Charm
Action Points: 1 Second Wind: 1
Healing Surge:16 Surges per day: 9 / 9
At-Will Powers: Directing Strike, Intuitive Strike
Encounter Powers: Inspiring Word 2/2, Battlefront Shift, Arcane Mutterings, Chilling Cloud, Warlords Favor, Steel Monsoon, Lion's Roar, Feystep, Rousing Words, Amulet of Life
Daily Powers: Calculated Assault, Stand the Fallen, Warlord's Recovery, Sunblade Burst

Condition:

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Tenchuu · Aug 29, 2011

OOC:

I am cool with a total defense for last turn. Can you just update the map post WD's turn (and remove the smoke effect on the map) so I know where I am relative to the shore?

Voda Vosa · Aug 29, 2011

Sheng produces another orb of green gas that turns into a screaming skull and sends it flying towards the skeletons on the beach. The chaotic conjuration destroys one skeleton after another, wiping all the undead in the shore. The sorceror grins, triumphant.

[sblock=Actions]
Chaotic orb: 26 vs will, hit and kill, even, secondary hit; 26 vs will, hit and kill, another attack; 30 vs will, hits and kills. Rolls[/sblock]

H.M.Gimlord · Aug 30, 2011

OOC:

Tenchuu said:
OOC: Can you just update the map post WD's turn (and remove the smoke effect on the map) so I know where I am relative to the shore?

[sblock=Updated Map]

[/sblock] @Voda Vosa : I believe your Chaos Bolt gets another attack because there were 4 skeletons (Now 1 left) and you rolled a 30.

@Walking Dad : You do not need an additional square. The prow of the boat is adjacent to the ladder. That's good enough.

@Tenchuu : Welcome back. You might as well attempt to climb the ladder or at least move adjacent.

The ladder is two squares of vertical movement (in other words 3 squares to move you from an adjacent square on the boat to an adjacent square on the island). You grant CA while on the ladder.

BTW: Here's a wider view, so that you can take in what your PCs have already seen.[sblock=Wide View]

[/sblock] The tower is 3 stories tall (about 15 feet per story), the third of which is open to the sky, and on the top, there is a tower that extends another 15 upward. The archers are shooting from the third story.

Walking Dad · Aug 30, 2011

[sblock=OOC]
so Riardon still has his standard and move action?

Will move up the ladder if Sheng is able to destroy the last skeleton.
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Voda Vosa · Aug 30, 2011

Sheng also hits the other skeleton with a 28

Tenchuu · Aug 30, 2011

OOC:

Double Move up to E21.

H.M.Gimlord · Sep 2, 2011

OOC:

Status:

I believe that @BenBrown still has a full turn left, and [MENTION=59043]Walking Dad[/MENTION] has a move action left. I haven't heard from @renau1g , but I hear that RL has not been kind to him of late (nor me for that matter. I got stuck tiling the entryway to my house on evenings and weekends, and I found out on Tuesday that my aunt has breast cancer, hence my slow posting).