[LPF] Toad in the Hole

[Systole]

A short-to-medium Living Pathfinder adventure, designed for four 2nd level characters. Toad in the Hole is set near Venza over the course of one or two days. Given the timing, level-ups will probably have to wait until completion of the adventure, but this is subject to change. However, time-based rewards will accrue based actual experience level.

GM: Systole
Judge: Satin Knights

Heroes:
@DalkonCledwin : Fae'shiel Aeros, Magus 2
@Artur Hawkwing : Marcus Cole, Ranger 2
End XP: 5612 XP
Gold: 3119 GP[sblock=Itemized XP &GP]3045 [starting]
200 [wagon ambush]
120 [Beyal]
533 [upper tower]
400 [lower tower & rescuing all goods]
264 [11xp/day x 24days (level 2 TBX)]
1050 [15xp/day x 70days (level 3 TBX)]

5612 xp
TBG = 1454g (11x24 + 17x70)
Total gold = 1454 + 1665 = 3119[/sblock]
@Terrible Swift Sword : Mortar Foehammer, Ranger 2
End XP: 3982 XP
Gold: 1424 GP[sblock=Itemized XP &GP]2769 [starting]
200 [wagon ambush]
120 [Beyal]
267 [upper tower]
341 [11xp/day x 31days (level 2 TBX)]
285 [15xp/day x 19days (level 3 TBX)]

3982 xp
TBG = 664 (11x31 + 17x19)
Total gold = 664 + 760 = 1424[/sblock]
@Scott DeWar : Vincenzo, Fighter 2
End XP: 5071 XP
Gold: 3035 GP[sblock=Itemized XP &GP]2560 [starting]
200 [wagon ambush]
120 [Beyal]
533 [upper tower]
400 [lower tower & rescuing all goods]
418 [11xp/day x 38days (level 2 TBX)]
840 [15xp/day x 56days (level 3 TBX)]

5071 xp
TBG = 1370 (11x38 + 17x56)
Total gold = 1370 + 1665 = 3035
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@jbear : Maui and Taniwha, Druid 2
End XP: 5141 XP
Gold: 3035 GP[sblock=Itemized XP &GP]2630 [starting]
200 [wagon ambush]
120 [Beyal]
533 [upper tower]
400 [lower tower & rescuing all goods]
418 [11xp/day x 38days (level 2 TBX)]
840 [15xp/day x 56days (level 3 TBX)]

5141 xp
TBG = 1370 (11x38 + 17x56)
Total gold = 1370 + 1665 = 3035
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[sblock=XP]Encounter 1: Pugwampi ambush, 200 xp each, 20 May 2012
Encounter 2: Encounter with Beyal, 120xp each, 31 May 2012
Encounter 3: Pugwampi/three-eyes/guardhouse traps, 267xp to Mortar, 533xp to all others, 3 July 2012
Encounter 4: Lasher and Rex, including rescue of all cargo, 400xp each, 20 July 2012
[/sblock][sblock=Treasury]Encounter 1: 5 @ shortbow (s), 5 @ longspear (s), 22 @ arrow (s)
Encounter 2: Ancient dwarven bracelet
Encounter 3: 5 @ shortbow (s), 5 @ longspear (s), 23 @ arrow (s)
Encounter 4: MWK cold iron scorpion whip, studden leather armor, 5 crates of trade goods
[/sblock][sblock=Adventure Rules]* Initiative, saving throws, and perception rolls will be made for the players by the GM if it moves the adventure along quickly. Otherwise, players will roll their own dice.

* Dice rollers can be Invisible Castle or the EnWorld on-line dice roller for the players. The GM will use his own dice at home or an on-line random number generator.

* Any absences for longer than 2-3 days should be communicated to the GM. In general, please try to post 3x/week. Players who consistently slow down the game will be removed, at GM's discretion. Note: I will not be available from Friday evening to Sunday evening most weekends during the summer.

* All characters need an appropriate character picture, head-shot preferably, for token on the tactical grids.

* A mini-stat spoiler block that includes a link to your character sheet will be required in every IC post. Please spoilerblock OOC posts and discussions.

[sblock=Example Mini Stats]Sylla the Grim
AC: 18 (14 flat-footed, 14 touch)
HP: 22/22
CMB: +4 CMD: 18
Fort: +1 Reflex: +4 Will: +3
Perception: +2
Initiative: +4

Current Weapon in Hand: Spear (Light)
Current Conditions in Effect: Guidance, Resistance
Spells Remaining (1st): 0


Boots
AC: 22 (20 flat-footed, 12 touch)
HP: 29/29
CMB: +5 CMD: 17 (21 vs. Trip)
Fort: +4 Reflex: +5 Will: +1
Perception: +6 (Scent)
Initiative: +2

Current Weapon in Hand: Natural weapons
Current Conditions in Effect: Mage Armor[/sblock][/sblock]

 

[Systole]

The way down to the Central Port leads along the Via di Banchine, Venza’s coastal road. The road is, as usual, thick with wagons and pedestrians, merchants and stevedores. It takes some time for you to make your way to the port, but not long after that to find Franco Specialty Goods. The building is a warehouse is good repair, and despite the building’s modest size, its close proximity to the docks means that the real estate alone must be worth a small fortune. A steady flow of loaded wagons comes in and out of the shipping bays – some head to the nearby docks, others turn inland.

A smaller door leads inside, and passing through it, a small bell announces your presence. Immediately inside is an open area with several desks piled high with papers and parchments. A small army of accountants arrange and rearrange the documents, occasionally reaching for an abacus or a pen. The office area opens to the warehouse proper, where laborers load and unload the wagons with crates and boxes and barrels. Unusually, many of them are dwarves, or female, or both. A rather portly but extremely well-dressed human seems to be directing most of the laborers' work, while occasionally signing papers that the accountant-types thrust at him.

The heavyset man looks up at the sound of the bell, and says something to one of the female dwarf laborers. She nods and walks over to you. While her attire is mostly simple working clothes, she’s wearing a single animal fur over her shoulders – a sign of kinship to some dwarven clan, perhaps? – and she’s carrying a stevedore’s gaff-hook. And for a dwarf, she is strikingly tall.

“You’re here about the notice, right?” she says, somewhat gruffly, and with more than a little of a mountain accent. “I'm Varga Renlow. It’s going to be a few minutes before Signor Franco can see you. The Uffitze brothers bollixed up another shipment, and we’re trying to get it all straightened out now. It's a bit urgent.” She gestures with her gaff-hook toward a door through which you can see a conference table and several well-upholstered chairs. “You can wait in there. The big man'll be along in a bit.”


[sblock=GM]Welcome to Toad in the Hole. Feel free to RP in the conference room until the group fills out and/or everyone gets here.[/sblock]

.... Geralt Franco .......... Varga Renlow ...

 

[DalkonCledwin]

Having arrived with some new gear in tote, Fae'shiel nods her head in acknowledgement of what the Dwarf Asks. When the conference room is indicated as a place she can wait for the man who would be handing out the assignment she heads over to the area and sits down. Once there she quietly pulls out her longsword and a small whetstone which she proceeds to use to sharpen her blade. After her last adventure she is in dire need of sharpening the blade. Slamming her sword into a mummified giant of a monster is a sure fire way to dull a blade if one is not vigilant against such things.

 

[Caim]

"Aye, don't mind if I do." Mortar makes his way to the conference room as he makes eye contact with several of the female dwarves. "Ya have any ale I may have while we wait?"

Mortar finally makes his way into the conference, hands empty, and takes a sit across from the elf he notices sharpening her sword. "Always nice to see a woman that knows the importance of taking care of her blade."

 

[DalkonCledwin]

Fae'shiel looks up sighs and then gets back to work sharpening her blade. She doesn't appear to be in a very talkative mood at the moment.

 

[jbear]

Maui walks into the room looking a little lost and out of place. He frowns as Varga speaks, struggling to follow the accent at first and nodding as the words begin to make sense.

"Aha ... te Big Man. Right. Okay. We wait here?"

He sits down with the others looking awkward.

"Haere atu Taniwha!" he barks causing the big cat wrapped around his shoulders to slink lazily to the ground where it curls at his feet licking a paw lazily.

He watches Fae'shiel sharpening her blade in silence for a while. If his face is anything to go by the grating metal noise is none to pleasing to the ears of the jungle druid. He then sizes up the dwarf that the elf had actively ignored. "Not te Mighty Axe that is for sure ..." he mutters under his breath.

As time ticks by Maui can no longer resist and he blurts out to no one in particular and any and everyone at the same time: "So ... what are we doing here? What does te Big Man want with Heroes from te Hall? Someone is lost?"

[sblock=Stats]
[http://livingpf.wikia.com/wiki/Maui_(jbear1979) Maui]
Initiative: +2
AC: 18
HP: 21 Current: 21
CMB: +5 CMD: 17 Fort: +4 Reflex: +3 Will: +5

Conditions:

In Hand: Scimitar+1: +6; 1d6+5 (Crit: 18-29/x2)
and Heavy Shield

Spells: Orisons: Create Water, Guidance, Light, Virtue
1st: CLW x2, Obscuring Mist

Taniwha
Initiative: +6
AC: 18
HP: 23 Current: 23
CMB: +3 CMD: 19 (23 vs Trip) Fort: +4 Reflex: +9 Will: +2

Conditions:

Bite: +8; 1d4+1 special: Trip
2x Claws: +8; 1d2+1
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[Artur Hawkwing]

Marcus Cole - Half Elf Ranger (2)

Marcus sort of lags behind some of the others, though when his tall, lanky form enters he looks rather relieved to have found the spot. He nods when greeted by the dwarf.

No worries, take your time. If you need a hand, let me know.

Directed to the conference area, Marcus enters and looks around. Most of the faces he doesn't know, but recognizes from the Inn.

Hello, all. Should be fun. I'm Marcus.

He nods greeting to everyone until his eyes find the Elven maiden. He gives a bit of a smile upon spotting Fae'shiel, but remembering her tongue to be as sharp as her sword, he finds a seat and shrugs off his backpack, taking out the small journal size book and opening to a page.

[sblock=Marcus Cole]
Marcus Cole

Initiative: +5
AC: 17 Touch: 14 Flatfoot: 13
HP: 22 Current: 22
CMB: +4 CMD: 18 Fort: +5 Reflex: +6 Will: +2

Weapon: Longbow, Composite (2 str):
Attack: +5
Damage: 1d8+2
Crit: 20x3
Special: Allows up to 2 STR bonus applied to damage
Ammo: Arrows - Remaining: 35
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[Systole]

"Aye, don't mind if I do." Mortar makes his way to the conference room as he makes eye contact with several of the female dwarves. "Ya have any ale I may have while we wait?"

Varga plants her free hand on her hip and gives Mortar a glare that could blister paint. "Do we have any ale? Ale? Does this look like an ale house? Do I look like a serving wench?" She gestures with her gaff-hook, which suddenly seems extremely sharp and very pointy. "There's the room where ya can sit and wait and drink whatever you brought with ya, assuming you're civilized enough not to chew on the furniture in the meantime."

She turns away, back to the warehouse. "Ale? Seriously?" she mutters to herself. "This kind of crap is the reason I left Copperhead."

.... Varga Renlow .....

 

[DalkonCledwin]

Fae'shiel glances up as she hears Marcus introduce himself smiles slightly for a second and then says "Hello Marcus, it is good to see you again." she then sheaths her sword deciding that it is sufficiently sharpened.

[sblock=OOC]Now that the sword has been sharpened, I would assume for a full 15 minutes, it should recieve a +1 to it's next damage roll.[/sblock]

 

[jbear]

Maui chuckles as the dwarf receives a growling.

"Te brown water is no good anyway. It just makes te belly fat and te waters run."

He responds to Marcus' greeting with a nod of the head. "I am Maui. This is Taniwha. Fun? We are here for fun? Lady Hook doesn't look like she wants us here for fun."