[Day 24 – An unnecessary fight then scoping out the Elf Job]
[This game uses the Pathfinder 1E roleplaying game. Game sessions happen once a week. This session happened October 31, 2022.]
[SPOILERS! If you are likely to adventure through the Shattered Star Adventure Path from Paizo, this campaign will be spoilers all the way down.]
Player Characters
Marativy – female ratfolk 8th level Ninja
Zitch Grimreaper – male ratfolk 8th level Witch with a donkey rat (capybara) familiar
Roscuro – male ratfolk 8th level Monk
Swamprover – female grippli 7th level Wizard
Hrefna – female changeling 7th level Omdura
Via Roll20
Templeton von Trapp – male ratfolk 8th level Summoner (Synthesist)
NPCs
Gridik Stormstride – male blue kobold 6th level Wizard (Invoker)
Ariphi – female tiefling 7th level Rogue
Autumn
Day 24 (continued)
Late Morning
Elaneiros, having challenged the Ratpack to defeating his automatons to earn additional support from him, allowed the Ratpack to prepare for the fight. Hrefna cast Keen Edge on Marativy’s wakizashi. Gridik cast Cat’s Grace on Roscuro and Mage Armor on himself. Then Roscuro signaled to Elaneiros to start the automatons.
Elaneiros activated two snake automatons and a lion automaton [later identified as a Taotieh, but we referred to it as Lion-el]. The first round of combat went poorly as the automatons had DR that the Ratpack could not overcome and all three automatons had a higher initiative than most of the Ratpack. Hrefna was immediately bitten and held by the robo-lion and then swallowed whole the next round! [It put her into an extradimensional holding space.]
With the group’s heavy hitter removed from the melee and the combat otherwise going poorly, Roscuro decided to end the fight. He used the Suggestion power of the Shard of Lust to have Elaneiros turn off the automatons. This ended the fight, but both sides disagreed on who won the fight. Elaneiros claimed the automatons were undefeated and could be reactivated. Roscuro claimed that by stopping the automatons, the fight was won. He did not point out that the Ratpack could also have attacked Elaneiros directly as well but firmly believed it.
With neither side satisfied but the job still on, the Ratpack left the Spire.
Marativy volunteered to go scout out the Ardoc campus and went off to do so while the rest of the group returned to the Grange. The Ardoc campus was in Bis and against the outer wall of Kaer Maga. It consisted of several buildings from 1 to 3 stories tall, all surrounded by a 10-foot wall.
After observing the campus from several angles, Marativy was able to confirm the location of the target building and the best way to approach it, which was to jump across the outer wall from an adjacent building, land on a building adjacent to the target building, and then climb up onto the target building. She turned invisible and made the leap across the wall. She discovered that the smaller spy-bot automatons could See Invisible as several saw her land inside the walls and sounded alarms. The alarms brought out two large guard automatons, one going to each of the two gates onto the campus, and several human guards. Marativy quickly left the campus by jumping back over the wall and then observed the security finish deploying from the top of a building further away. An hour later she returned to the Grange.
Evening
Hrefna cast Commune. [Unfortunately, I don’t currently have the Word file we’ve been tracking the answers in, so I can’t summarize the info here, but my notes indicate we confirmed the spy-bots do have See Invisible as a power.]
End of Session
Rat Whispers
[Short write-up this session as most of the session was the fight against the automatons.]
Ratpack
Book 1: Shards of Sin Landing Page – Links to all Book 1 sessions
Book 2: Curse of the Lady’s Light Landing Page – Links to all Book 2 sessions
Book 3: The Asylum Stone Landing Page – Links to all Book 3 sessions
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