[Day 44 – The fighting continues]
[This game uses the Pathfinder 1E roleplaying game. Game sessions happen once a week. This session happened April 10, 2023.]
[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 9th level Ninja
Zitch Grimreaper – male ratfolk 9th level Witch with a donkey rat (capybara) familiar
Roscuro – male ratfolk 9th level Monk
Swamprover – female grippli 9th level Wizard
Winston – male ratfolk 9th level Gunslinger
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Templeton von Trapp – male ratfolk 9th level Summoner (Synthesist)
NPCs
Gridik Stormstride – male blue kobold 7th level Wizard (Invoker)
Hrefna – female changeling 7th level Omdura
Ariphi – female tiefling 7th level Rogue
Fish – male grodaire, actual name is Hummlgau
Autumn
Day 44 continues
The Ratpack was still in the middle of a fight between themselves and a Hungry Fog and a Manananggal in the entry area/ballroom of the Black Keep. The room was flooded with a black mist that obscured vision and made it difficult to locate the Hungry Fog. The Manananggal was up near the ceiling, holding Ariphi in its claws and preparing to drink her blood!
Marativy moved up the steps separating the ballroom from the next room and threw cold iron shuriken at the Manananggal. She hit with two of the shuriken but did not do as much damage as expected [it had DR that the cold iron did not bypass]. For her troubles, Marativy took an opportunist attack from the Hungry Fog [for doing a ranged attack within the things reach], which destroyed one of her shadow clones. Swamprover defensively cast Snowball at the Hungry Fog, doing some damage but not as much as she expected. A second Hungry Fog formed in the ballroom and flowed over Winston, injuring him noticeably [17 points of damage]. The original Hungry Fog flowed over Templeton, Swamprover, and Marativy, injuring Swamprover heavily [22 points] with an attack. Roscuro moved between the two Hungry Fogs, provoking attacks of opportunity from both [and denying them the ability to make similar attacks against his companions], which miss [due to his Mobility feat], and struck the first Hungry Fog for full damage [meaning their DR does not block silvered attacks]. Winston stepped out of the Hungry Fog on him and made an arm shot at the Manananggal, forcing it to drop Ariphi, who fell to the floor adjacent to the original Hungry Fog [taking some damage but avoiding the blood drinking attack that was imminent]. She kip-upped from the floor and then attacked the Hungry Fog with everything she had, hitting it in a critical spot, triggering additional attacks from Roscuro and Marativy, who also hit and damaged it. Templeton moved to provide flanking for others on the first Hungry Fog. The Manananggal swooped down and attacked Swamprover with her claws, hitting twice [for another 22 points of damage] and bearing off the grippli. Hrefna activated a Life Pact as it seemed likely that Swamprover might need it soon. Zitch cast Baneful Polymorph on the Manananggal, turning the flying corpse into an undead bat, which dropped Swamprover onto the stairs [causing 9 more points of damage]. Fish missed with its water spray attack. Gridik [finally] stepped five feet into the room and cast Dragon Breath, burning both Hungry Fogs with fire and burning away the black mist for a bit, exposing the Hungry Fogs.
Marativy stepped out of the original Hungry Fog [now that she could see where the edges were] and sliced at it with her magical wakizashi, killing it! Swamprover cast Wall of Fire, encircling the remaining Hungry Fog [again, because she could now see where its edges were]. That Hungry Fog oozed partially out of the ring of fire and onto Winston, Roscuro, and Hrefna, taking damage from the Wall of Fire and multiple attacks of opportunity from Roscuro and Winston. The Hungry Fog then attacked Swamprover, who dropped to the floor, unconscious [she went to negative 12 hit points, then the Life Pact kicked in and she received 6 hit points back from those in the pact]. Roscuro moved to draw off the remaining Hungry Fogs attack of opportunity and was hit as a result [for 24 points of damage] but punched the Fog back. Winston reloaded his musket and shot the Hungry Fog, followed by Ariphi critically hitting it and killing it! Templeton pounced on the undead bat [the polymorphed Manananggal] and slashed it multiple times [but didn’t kill it due to the “bat” still having all the original’s hit points – see Baleful Polymorph for details]. The bat withdrew and flew through a transom over the door to the next room. The Ratpack became aware that some sort of beasts were on the other side of that door, trying to get through. Zitch cast his Healing Hex on Swamprover, which revived her.
Hrefna activated her healing aura to start healing the damage that most of the party had suffered. Templeton went to pursue the undead bat through the transom, but stopped once he could see into the next room. The next room was a mess hall or kitchen and in it were six shadow mastiffs. He chose to cast Black Tentacles into the room to try and trap as many of the mastiffs as he could, entangling three of them. The mastiffs started howling, causing a fear effect that rolled over the Ratpack. Winston, Hrefna, Roscuro, Marativy, Zitch, and Templeton resisted the effect, but Swamprover, Gridik, and Ariphi fled in fear.
Roscuro moved up to the set of double doors leading to the next room and prepared to attack the mastiffs once the door opened. Winston also readied to shoot. Templeton descended from the transom and opened the doors, exposing the mastiffs to Roscuro’s and Winston’s attacks, both of which hit. Hrefna activated Archon’s Aura, but most of the mastiffs were strong of will and resisted the bane effect of the aura [she only got one of the six]. Zitch cast Glitter Dust to try and blind the mastiffs, but only blinded one of the three he was targeting [better than nothing].
Marativy turned invisible and sneak attacked the two mastiffs in the doorway, unfortunately failing to connect at all due to their shadowy nature. The lead mastiff then attacked, missing due to being blind, while the rest advanced to better positions. Roscuro attacked with a flurry of blows, splitting his attacks between the lead mastiffs and damaging both but failing to drop either. Winston shot the blind mastiff and hit. Templeton attacked fully, killing the blind mastiff with a bite and claw attack and tagging the adjacent mastiff with one of his remaining three attacks, causing it to bleed. Hrefna activated the Daylight function her Halflite Charm, negating the shadows around the mastiffs [and the miss chance related to those shadow]. Zitch put the Evil Eye on the remaining mastiff in the doorway [-4 to the mastiff’s AC] and cackled.
Marativy attacked the now perfectly outlined shadow mastiff in the doorway, hitting it twice and killing it. The shadow mastiffs repositioned themselves, those once caught by the tentacles breaking free.
[It was getting late at this point so we paused the fight here as it was not likely to resolve soon.]
End of Session
Rat Whispers
[Yipes each round became a wall of text! Sorry about that, but the fights are getting complex.]
[I didn’t have anywhere to notate it, but Roscuro has been using his Boots of Haste for these fights to keep his AC up and get an extra attack when he flurries. The shadow mastiffs represent the 7th encounter the PCs have had on this day, so we are starting to run low on combat resources.]
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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Next Session: Session 31
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