The_Ninja_DM's Carrion Crown

Game Master Spiral_Ninja

The quartet of fire elementals descend on the remaining troll and leave in a smoking husk.

OK, I'll let this one slide, but in the future you must be able to see your subject to cast aid spells.

You can gather up the troll and troll hound bodies and torch them, before searching the area.

You see hunks of meat hanging from meat hooks attached to an old staff, a small amulet depicting a gagged skull, a torn guard's uniform, and several stacks of troll plunder.

These contain:
a pair of bellows
a shovel
a sledge
a battered tankard
several pretty stones
208 gp
345 sp
a spyglass (on the body of the boss troll]

"What's with this gagged skull amulet, it creeps my out."

Know(Religion): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21
KnArcana: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17
KnReligion: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18
Wow, no luck on any of those.

Vertielle shrugs, casting detect magic, and then shrugging again.

KN arcana/spellcraft: 2d20 ⇒ (4, 9) = 13

"That is a symbol of the Whispering Way!!! I will keep the staff and see if I can figure it out later. Right now, it is beyond me. I think the creatures father is tied up in some bad S*^%"

"Vot? Vot's so bad about vhisperink? Dey tellz me to do et all de time."

"Just hearing that name gives me the creeps"

The doorway further in is blocked by a huge pile of -stuff- anything that was in this gatehouse seems to have been piled against the door. It will take around a half-hour to clear.

Once cleared, the gates swing open revealing a broad stone terrace with no railings along its edges. To the north, a narrow stone bridge arches above a waterfall that drops into the river 200' below.

The terrace is occupied, however, buy yet another troll with a trollhound on a leash. it seems to have been studying the manse cross the bridge. as you enter it turns' startled,and dropps the leash, ordering the hound to attack!

NOTE: The squares on the terrace are 10' squares as well, but the ones on the bridge are only 5' squares

Eva=1, Gkirkhan=2, Rova=3, Vertielle=4, Wood=5

Initative:
Evangline Initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Gkirkhan Initative: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
Rova Initiative: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Vertielle Initiative: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
Wood Initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21
troll Initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19
trollhound Initiative: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Round 1:
Wood
troll
Rova
trollhound
Vertielle
Eva
Gkirkhan
trollhound

Note: assuming the two fighters are first through:

the troll roars and claws Gkirkhan claw: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25 for damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

as the trollhound goes for Rova biting: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16 for damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9 plus disease (Fort DC 14) plus a trip attempt: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24

Vertielle draws her wand, leveling it at the troll.
Hold Person, DC 12 Will

"Oh, Yez! Dis iz a fight!"

Gkirkhan grins like a maniac as he raises both weapons and lets the blood rush through him.

Beate: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24
Damage: 1d8 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8
Sieglinde: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
Damage: 1d8 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

Anyone else? I swear, they're the last trolls here, honest!

Gkirkhan's first blow strikes true, but the follow through fails.

Eva moves in behind Rova and can casts CLW
CLW: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Wood begins to summon his own dog.
Mon summon 1

Just dropping by to confirm that I am still here. Not sure if my post got lost, but...
Vertielle draws her wand, leveling it at the troll.
Hold Person, DC12 will
Waiting for combat to play out a bit before I get all verbose again

Rova closes on the trollhound (since Ghirkan seems to hogging all the troll..), and attempts to split it longwise with his nodachi..

Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25
Damage: 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (5, 6) + 8 = 19

<The trollhound's attack will miss, by the way, AC=21, so no poison or trip>

Rova delivers on his promised action, dealing a nearly mortal wound to the beast.

BTW, there is only one trollhound. Not sure why it thought it could go twice. ;P

Round 2: the monsters will stick to their original targets.
Wood
troll
Rova
trollhound
Vertielle
Eva
Gkirkhan

Troll vs Gkirkhan claw: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22 for damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

Trollhound vs Rova biting: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22 for damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7 plus disease (Fort DC 14) plus trip: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19

Uhh.... will save?

Sorry Vertielle, here we go.

Will save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19

Attack Sieg: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21
Damage: 1d8 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

Attack Bea: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
Damage: 1d8 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14

"HAHAHAHAHA! That tickled!" Gkirkhan bellows as he wades in once more, hammer and sword swinging.

Vertielle looks at the wand with a disdained expression of exasperation, and shoves it back into its sheath, holding her longsword now with two hands.
She takes a purposeful step forwards, keeping her sword in front of her.
Ready against attack to aid another armor class / using combat expertise
Aid Another, Combat Expertise: 1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (1) + 4 - 1 = 4
Wow, fall on my face. Classy.

Eva goes in for the attack
atk: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

atk: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Since Vertielle used her wand on the troll I'm going to assume Eva attacked the trollhound along with Rova. next time list your target Eva.

With Eva's aid the trollhound goes down.

whether or not it tagged Rova depends on if he hit as well.

Round 3: the remaining troll tries once more to take out Gkirkhan.
Wood
troll
Rova
Vertielle
Eva
Gkirkhan

Troll vs Gkirkhan
bite: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26 for bite damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
and claw 1: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21 for claw damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
and claw 2: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15 for claw damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Wood feels that the troll will get hammered after hitting Gkirkan.

He fires a splash of acid at the troll.
hit touch range/damage: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 - 4 = 151d3 ⇒ 3

His new celestial dog tries to flank with Gkirkan and hit the troll using smite evil.
dog: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 3 + 2 = 141d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Sieg: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16
Damage: 1d8 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
Bea: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26
Bea Crit: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22
Damage: 2d8 + 12 ⇒ (6, 3) + 12 = 21

Gkirkhan continues to laugh like a maniac as he smashes his hammer in the trolls face, then guts him with his sword.

Waiting on if we're out of combat before dropping rage.

Eva Charges the troll with a flying kick
atk: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Between Gkirkhan and Eva, the final troll falls, clearing the way to cross the bridge. Unfortunately...

The bridge appears to be occupied. There is a very ugly dog standing guard on the bridge, most likely the reason the trolls chose not to cross.

And by very ugly...I mean a flesh golem hound.

What now?

Wood begins casting. Enlarge person on Gkirkan

His new dog waits to pounce.

Wow, that's a lot uglier than these first couple, Vertielle observes.
She tucks the wand into her belt and draws her sword through the air, the magic making a low hum as it cuts the air. With a flourish, she gets ready to charge.

The slender (10' wide) stone bridge arches gracefully over a roaring waterfall here, linking the gate house to a fortified manor house clinging to the cliff on the far side. From here you can see a rope bridge leading from somewhere behind the manse to a large building built along the cliff wall on the far side of the waterfall, as a tower of some sort peaks out against a far cliff behind the manse.

A point of note; the bridge to the manse has no handrails.

What my RL players had to say about the lack of OSHA standards in local construction is not suitable for a family-friendly board, btw. ;)

Initative:
Evangline Initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16
Gkirkhan Initative: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
Rova Initiative: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Vertielle Initiative: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17
Wood Initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
flesh golem hound Initiative: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (2) + 0 = 2

My poor doggie seems to be asleep!

Round 1:
Gkirkhan
Vertielle
Eva
Rova
Wood
FG hound

Note: The hound will howl to alert anyone inside the mansion, then attack the first person to reach it, starting on the eastern side of the bridge.

FGH bite: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 20 for damage: 2d8 + 7 ⇒ (8, 7) + 7 = 22

Gkirkhan pauses for a moment, he looks at the hound and then at the party.

"Um, iz dis vun supposed to get keeled too?"

How long between this fight and the last?

How long do you want to take? It's not aggressive unless you step onto the bridge. It charges strangers on the bridge, but will not leave the bridge, and will return to it's resting spot once you step off.

Long enough for Gkirkhan to not be exhausted, about a minute.

No problem, take all the time you want.

Sorry, let's get the last fight closed, then onto the new one..

Rova swings on the trollhound, looking to complete it's demise..

Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15
Damage: 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (1, 2) + 8 = 11

Barely connecting, but still solid enough to end it.

On to the new tangle..

"I' got da adamantine ta do a numb'r on it. Lemme try dis."

Rova moves onto the bridge, and will swing at the Frankenweenie..

Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25
Damage: 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (5, 3) + 8 = 16 <-Adamantite magic slash

He lands an effective blow against the snarling..zom-dog-lem (?)

One more thing. Once this critter is down, level to 6, everyone.

Vertielle shrugs at Gkirkhan.
I guess so, she decides as Rova rushes past, her hair billowing slightly in his wake.

Bea: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Sieg: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Gkirkhan leaps forward and hammers and hacks at the ugly dog-thing.

Only to wonder what he's doing wrong as the blows aren't hitting like he knows they should.

Vertielle jogs forward, skirting the dog's reach, and looks for an opening.
Aid Gkirkhan AC, Combat Expertise: 1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (14) + 4 - 1 = 17
Finding none in the melee of swords and hammers as large as herself, she strikes a defensive pose and fends off the beast's counterattacks.

"Anyone have something that could put that puppy to sleep for a while?"

I figure the hammer ought to work!

Round 2:
Gkirkhan
Vertielle
Eva
Rova
Wood
FG hound

The critter goes for Rova in response to the pain he just caused it.
bite: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (4) + 13 = 17 for bite damage: 2d8 + 7 ⇒ (5, 5) + 7 = 17 followed by a slam: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (15) + 13 = 28 for slam damage: 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (6, 5) + 7 = 18

Vertielle winces as Rova is hit, but steps aside and whaps the hound on the side to draw its attention.
Fight Defensive, aid Gkirkhan's AC, flank with Rova: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 - 4 = 10
Nailed it! My new AC is 21, Gkirkhan's is 18.

Wood taps Rova with the wand enlarging him and his weapon.
"This should help."

Eva Cast CLW on Rova
CLW: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Bea: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Sieg: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

Gkirkhan misses the critter.

Twice.

OK, GM goofed. I misread the stat block for the hound, even after I copied it directly.it only gets ONE attack; either the bite or the slam, so...Rova did not get hit. My bad, sorry. Note, this means Eva doesn't need to cast the clw on Rova. Continue the beat-down on that poor doggie.

Rova will continue the attempted mayhem upon the doggerel..

Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11
Damage: 2d8 + 8 ⇒ (5, 6) + 8 = 19

Automatic miss...

..and fails (and flails) wildly!

Round 3:
Gkirkhan
Vertielle
Eva
Rova
Wood
FG hound

The doggie looks from one opponent to the other and considers, then goes for 1d2 ⇒ 1.

1=Gkirkhan, 2=Rova

bite: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (14) + 13 = 27 for bite damage: 2d8 + 7 ⇒ (4, 4) + 7 = 15

Ow! Looks like NOW we need that cure, Eva. Unless it's down before it gets to go, that is.

Eva Cast CLW on Gkirkhan
CLW: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5