AC20 with expertise5, shield towards Foxglove
40 hp

20:47, Today: Zer-wedula rolled 13 using 1d20+1. attack on foxglove.


Zer-wedula swings wildly at Foxglove.  "Don't make me angry, Foxy!" he warns.

PM

Round 3
Glum moves, balancing easily on the slippery slope.  He hits with his spiritual energy.
(You needed to move to get line of sight to the square behind Aldern.)

Tanrov/Garth carefully stands up and lets go with his 1 hand, "this isn't so hard" he thinks.  He sheathes his scimitar and draws his dagger.

Catessa Fallowfield  & Garious
Cat starts climbing and falls down.  Garious, sensing his mistresses distress, also starts to climb down the slippery slope.
Don't forget 2HD from being an animal companion, thats an extra 14hp(10 for 2d8 +4con).

Zer-wedula swings and misses.

Round 4
Talis [Private to Talis Revain: Since you are so familiar with this sensation, you can feel the edges of the paralyzation wearing off, you can act in 1 more round.]

Aldern Foxglove goes through a reverse transformation (see msg 226), when Glum's spiritual nunchuks hit.  His face loses it's feral appearance and a look of horror and revulsion comes over his face.  He drops his war razor, as if he can't stand to hold, sobs, and begs "Save me from HIM, Hunter is terrible. He...he makes me do things...horrible things.  Help me, you're my only hope."  He seems genuinely terrified.
[Private to Talis Revain: At this point, you can almost sense the anger and frustration from the mold...wait, from MOLD!]


Tactical Situation
Aldern Foxglove has stopped attacking Zer-wedula in a 5' wide passage.  Most of the party is on a slippery ledge, dc 5 climb, 12 balance - please review the rules on climbing and balancing.
At the start of your turn, roll a balance or climb(requires at least 1 hand) check, if you fail, you fall down and start sliding.
There is no sign of Talis.
Cat is still 20' below the party, soaking wet.


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Throwing the dagger as he is transforming I rolled a 16 (1d20) +7, but I think it missed because of being in a melee attack.

23:02, Today: Zer-wedula rolled 12 using 1d20+6. roll to hit without expertise.


"I will believe you when you're dead!" Zer-wedula yells as he cuts wildly at Aldern.

Glum simply held his balance while directing the spiritual nunchuks for two attempts to strike Foxglove, perhaps not as successful as they might have been.

12:19, Today: Glum rolled 4 using 1d8+1. Nunchuk damage 2.
12:19, Today: Glum rolled 6 using 1d8+1. nunchuk damage 1.
12:19, Today: Glum rolled 14 using 1d20+6. Spiritual Nunchuks second blow.
12:18, Today: Glum rolled 16 using 1d20+6. Spiritual nunchuks first blow.
12:18, Today: Glum rolled 23 using 1d20+9. balance.

Round 4
Glum balances easily on the slippery slope.  He "hits" with both, but only 1 does damage (the other doesn't get over the natural armor).

Tanrov/Garth throws his dagger, but goes high.  there is just to much in the way.

Catessa Fallowfield  & Garious continue moving.
Climbing is a very slow process (1/4 speed).

Zer-wedula swings and hits, since Aldern isn't resisting.

Round 5
Aldern Foxglove goes through another transformation.  The fear of His Lordship and the feral nature of Hunter are replaced with a look of utter selfconfidence.  He shows great skill and magic as he leaps over Zer-wedula, off the wall and over Tanrov.  Casually balancing on the slope he pulls out a mask and breaks into a wide grin, bows before the PCs, and says, “So you do not want to hear what that fool Foxglove might have said, good.  Norgorber likes his secrets kept secret.  Let me introduce myself, I am the Skinsaw man, free at last.  I wonder how your deaths shall affect your friends. What things might you have done that will go unfinished? What will those broken promises spawn? How will your murders shape the world?”  You notice, with this last transformation, his wounds healed.



  This mask is crafted from leathery preserved sections harvested from several different human faces, draped one over another almost like scales and leaving the eyes and mouth exposed—the overall effect is similar to that of a scaled skull. As he puts it on, the mask desaturates his color, making him appear insubstantial and shadowy (granting +5 to hide) before  the mask’s features begin to slither and take on the appearance of Zer-wedula, changing his whole appearance to look like the halfelf (disguise self).

The cult of Norgorber is a complex organism, but the god of
murder, secrets, greed, and poison would have it no other
way. Many thieves’ guilds include small shrines to his guise
as the “Gray Master.” Hidden sects of conspirators who
venerate him as the god of secrets know him as the Reaper of
Reputations. And those who see divinity in the poisonous know
him as “Blackfingers.” Yet the most sinister and dangerous of
his followers are the Skinsaw Men—they know Norgorber as
Father Skinsaw. These fanatic murderers are not assassins—
they kill, not for wealth, but for the sick joy of it. The Skinsaw
Men hold that all of their murders serve a greater cause, their
leaders receiving visions of victims which they believe to
be divine messages from Father Skinsaw. With each murder,
society is shaped—deeds the victim might have accomplished
go unrealized and the lives of those who knew the dead shift
and change in subtle ways. Over the course of years, or even
centuries, murders can shape nations and write the future’s
history. And when the Final Blooding occurs, then shall Father
Skinsaw reveal to his flock the purpose of this shaping of
society by death.



Tactical Situation
Most of the party is on a slippery ledge, dc 5 climb, 12 balance - please review the rules on climbing and balancing.
At the start of your turn, roll a balance or climb(requires at least 1 hand) check, if you fail, you fall down and start sliding.


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Aldern Foxglove -

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AC 15 with Shield towards Skinsaw Man
HP 40/50

"Fine," Zer-wedula mutters.  "Too much in the way too reach me, Skinflint."  Zer-wedula casts Heroism on himself.  As Willi pokes her head out of his robe pocket, Zer-wedula says, "Nice disguise but my friends will know me by the weasel in my pocket."   (+2 to hit, saves, and skill checks)

Glum sighed and allowed his nunchuks to continue the attack.  The first blow landed nicely albeit blocked partially by damage reduction.  The second missed as Glum tried to keep his feet.  He scrabbled to hold onto his balance but then the nunchaks winked out of existence.

9:51, Today: Glum rolled 7 using 1d8+1. First blow damage.
19:51, Today: Glum rolled 7 using 1d20+6. Spiritual Nunchuks second blow.
19:51, Today: Glum rolled 15 using 1d20+6. Spiritual nunchuks first blow.
19:50, Today: Glum rolled 12 using 1d20+9. balance.

Talis thinks, "no I don't feel insane", and looks around for clues.

Climb check 14

full defense

Round 5
Talis can be heard in the other room;
[Private to Talis Revain:
  This damp cavern contains several items of furniture. A rickety table sits in the middle of the cave, its damp surface cluttered with all manner of what appears to be garbage: empty bottles, bits of clothing, crumpled
bits of paper, and more, lying in neatly organized rows.  A closer inspection of the collection on the table is enough to worry Talis, for this is Aldern’s collection of relics from that Zer-wedula's life.  They range from mundane
things like used potion bottles and scrolls on up to objects as personal as an  envelope of hair (perhaps harvested from him as he slept or from a discarded comb).  The only objects here that weren’t taken from Zer’s garbage are a stack of charcoal drawings on water-damaged parchment depicting an idealized perfection of Zer.
  A painting leans against the far side of the table, facing a large leather chair that sits nearby.  The portrait is a clumsy attempt to repaint the portrait with blood and bits of runny rotten flesh into a caricature of the Zer.  What the portrait was before is unknown, some person in a room in a city.
  The chair’s high back and cushion are horribly stained by smears of rotten meat and its arms are sticky with blood. A smaller table sits against the southern wall, its surface heaped with silver platters, fine porcelain plates, and crystalware. The “food” on these plates and platters is rotten meat, in some cases humanoid in source, and in all cases writhing with maggots. Thick, rotting blood gels in the crystal.
  Yet the horrific stench of the room seems somehow even thicker and more overwhelming than this gruesome display can account for on its own. The stench seems strongest to the west, where the cave’s wall has been overtaken by a horrific growth of dark green mold and dripping fungi. At the center, a patch of black tumescent fungus grows, its horny ridges and tumor-like bulbs forming what could almost be taken to be a humanoid outline. What appears to have once been an exquisite puzzlebox the size of a man’s fist lies smashed on the ground at the fungoid shape’s feet.  The box is the same as the one depicted in the stained glass windows.]

Glum his blows miss as the weapon follows Aldern.
You should have 2 rounds left on your weapon, you cast it in round3, and it should be good until it's last attack in round7.
Also, the Spiritual Weapon attacks on it's own. independent of you, so you may act as well.

Tanrov/Garth just tries to defend himself.

Catessa Fallowfield  & Garious climbs forward and throws a rock, hitting for 11 damage.  Garious seems unsure of what to do, so he stays above where Cat is.

Zer-wedula casts heroism.

Round 6
Aldern Foxglove ignores Tanrov and attacks Glum with his claws.  Glums skill at balancing allow him to avoid the claws, but the bite hits for 3 damage.  He(Aldern, not Glum) begins to smell bad, r.e.a.l.l.y bad.  "Watch Zer, as you fail to save your friends."
Glum
DC 19 Fortitude vs paralyzation
Fortitude DC 19 vs Disease
EVERYONE within 20' of Aldern
Stench; DC 19 Fortitude save vs Sickened


Tactical Situation
Most of the party is on a slippery ledge, dc 5 climb, 12 balance - please review the rules on climbing and balancing.
At the start of your turn, roll a balance or climb(requires at least 1 hand) check, if you fail, you fall down and start sliding.


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Tanrov will try to help Zer with The Skinsaw Man some how by trying to hit him with the scimitar.

Rolled a 9 on my climb check (1d20 [6] +3)
Rolled a 20 to hit with the scimitar (1d20 [13] +7)
Rolled a 8 for damage (1d6 [6] +2)
Rolled a 17 on the fort save vs disease and fails
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AC18 HPts 29/32

Glum's weakness was purely in strength, not in fortitude, and certainly not in the delivery of violence.  When Aldern moved to bite him, Glum's highly trained, if no longer strong, fists were there to greet him.  Glum shook off the ill effects even of the stench.

00:34, Today: Glum rolled 5 using 1d8-2. second blow damage.
00:33, Today: Glum rolled 5 using 1d8-2. damage first blow.
00:32, Today: Glum rolled 16 using 1d20+6. second blow.
00:32, Today: Glum rolled 24 using 1d20+6. first blow.
00:30, Today: Glum rolled 24 using 1d20+6. fort save 3.
00:30, Today: Glum rolled 26 using 1d20+6. fort save 2.
00:30, Today: Glum rolled 19 using 1d20+6. fort save 1.
00:37, Today: Glum rolled 18 using 1d20+9. balance.
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Sword in hand, Talis moves toward the combat, with a longing look at the obviously magical/something box, wishing he had paid more attention to his uncles lessons on the deeper mysteries of arcana.

Cat: AC 18 HP 21/31
Gar: AC 20 HP 30/30

Cat  watches the transformation with a feeling of dismay, almost to the point of missing a hand hold. Almost. She really doesn't want another swim. And just what is a Skinshaw man? She lobs another pebble at Foxglove.

10:59, Today: Catessa Fallowfield rolled 18,13 using d20+9,2d6+2. attack, damage.
10:58, Today: Catessa Fallowfield rolled 15 using 1d20+2. climb for gar.
10:58, Today: Catessa Fallowfield rolled 6 using 1d20+3. climb .

Round 6
Talis appears behind Zer, sword in hand.  While gagging at the smell, he keeps it together and makes his save vs stench.

Glum ignores the stench, and the gut wrenching fear.  He swings, and manages to connect once.  His spiritual weapon swings but misses.

Tanrov/Garth starts to swing at Aldern, but suddenly looks green and seems distracted.  he misses.
Sickened: The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.

Catessa Fallowfield  & Garious climbs forward and throws a rock, barely hits.  Garious, at Cat's distress, starts moving forward, but as he starts to get close to Aldern, he stops and starts whimpering.  he can no further without handle animal rolls from Cat.
Aldern has Unnatural Aura (Su) Any animal within 30 feet of Aldern automatically becomes panicked and remains so as long as it is within this distance.

Zer-wedula seems dazed and glances back in the room behind Talis.  He runs into the room[Private to Zer-wedula: and starts eating fungus off the walls
You failed a save vs a haunt and were overcome with the desire to eat the fungus

When he sees the strangely humanoid shape on the wall, he realizes the shape matches that of his own shadow exactly, and suddenly experiences a sensation of vertigo as he feels compelled to feed on the fungus to reclaim his stolen shadow].
[Private to GM: Vorel’s Phage
 To most victims, though, the
phage causes a painful and hideous outbreak of facial tumors and a
sickening deteoriation of the skin across the entire body.
Infection—contact or ingestion; Fortitude DC 20; Incubation 1
day; Damage 1d4 Charisma and 1d4 Constitution.
immediate, failure, 3 chr 4 con]

Round 7
Aldern Foxglove looks at Cat, "So you want to play too Little Mother" in a parody of Talis, "let me deal with this lummox, first."  Aldern savages Tanrov, who is flatfooted because he is climbing, with all 3 attacks for 28 damage.  To Zer, "Wait, we are just getting to the best part."
Tanrov - don't forget -2 for being sick;
3 DC 19 Fortitude vs paralyzation
1 Fortitude DC 19 vs Disease
EVERYONE within 20' of Aldern must make this save each round, once you are sick you may stop making the save (
Stench; DC 19 Fortitude save vs Sickened


Tactical Situation
Most of the party is on a slippery ledge, dc 5 climb, 12 balance - please review the rules on climbing and balancing.
At the start of your turn, roll a balance or climb(requires at least 1 hand) check, if you fail, you fall down and start sliding.


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Glum ignored the stench and stayed balanced on the slippery slope as he rained blows on the miscreant, physically and spiritually, though not all that effectively.

22:48, Today: Glum rolled 8 using 1d8+1. possible damage second spiritual.
22:48, Today: Glum rolled 3 using 1d8+1. possible damage first spiritual.
22:47, Today: Glum rolled 1 using 1d8-2. possible damage first blow self.
22:46, Today: Glum rolled 24 using 1d20+6. Spiritual Nunchuks second blow.
22:46, Today: Glum rolled 18 using 1d20+6. Spiritual nunchuks first blow.
22:45, Today: Glum rolled 8 using 1d20+6. second blow self.
22:45, Today: Glum rolled 17 using 1d20+6. 1st blow self.
22:45, Today: Glum rolled 22 using 1d20+6. fort save.
22:45, Today: Glum rolled 23 using 1d20+9. Balanc.

Tanrov is paralyzed (1d20 [13 +5 included])but is not diseased (1d20 [18] +5 not included for a total of 23)

Cat: AC 18 HP 21/31
Gar: AC 20 HP 30/30

There seem to be a few good things about staying this far from the fight it seems to Cat. While she lobs another pebble, Gar looses his footing going back for a swim.

15:04, Today: Catessa Fallowfield rolled 13,7 using d20+9,2d6+2. attack, damage.
15:03, Today: Catessa Fallowfield rolled 5 using 1d20+2. balance for gar.
15:02, Today: Catessa Fallowfield rolled 14 using 1d 20+3. dc climb

Talis looks back at Zer (eating fungus, not a good thing), then looks at outside (where Tanrov just got paralyzed), "Out of the frying pan, into the fire".  From the nice, nonslippery surface of the doorway, Talis throws 1 of his 2 stones at Aldern.

for vs stench = 10
20-2 sick-4 into melee=14 to hit, 10 dam

Sickened: The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.

Round 7
Talis pulls out a stone, but misses and fails his save vs stench; Sickened.

Glum ignores the stench, but in all the attacks only his spiritual weapon hits, once.  Perhaps under more advantageous circumstances (say, with someone flanking) a couple more would have hit.

Tanrov/Garth freezes...
Sickened
[Private to GM: 4 rounds -1]

Catessa Fallowfield  & Garious climbs forward and throws a rock, missing.  Garious, tries to scramble away from Aldern, looses his balance and starts sliding down the slope.  Luck is with him and he doesn't slide off into the water.  He slides down the slope until he hits the door for 6 dam, >thud<.  However, now he is well within the Aura and is outright panicking.
Aldern has Unnatural Aura (Su) Any animal within 30 feet of Aldern automatically becomes panicked and remains so as long as it is within this distance.
[Private to GM: Garious; 2 rounds]

Zer-wedula PM
[Private to Zer-wedula: Eating the nasty magical fungus was a bad idea, you have a painful and hideous outbreak of facial tumors and a sickening deteoriation of the skin across the entire body.  -4con, -3chr.  Similar to Kasanda and Lorey pictures in the Gallery (msg 78)].
[Private to GM: Vorel’s Phage
 To most victims, though, the phage causes a painful and hideous outbreak of facial tumors and a sickening deteoriation of the skin across the entire body.
Infection—contact or ingestion; Fortitude DC 20; Incubation 1
day; Damage 1d4 Charisma and 1d4 Constitution.
immediate, failure, 3 chr 4 con]

Round 8
Aldern Foxglove looks pleased with his work, "Here Little Mother, have a present".  He uses Tanrov to vault over Glum and Talis to the other side of Garious (jumping/tumble move), this causes Tanrov to slide down the slope.  Tanrov get's lucky and his scabbard catches on the wall halfway down.  Tanrov takes 1 damage, and even luckier, he keeps a grip on his scimitar.
   Aldern looks at Garious and in a parody of Cat croons softly, "Poor doggie, are you afraid of me..."  He switches to a menacing voice, "...you should be," and he slashes a claw at the dog, doing 14 damage.  Garious stops moving, paralyzed. (he almost saved, but the combination of sickness and panic was too much)  Licking the blood off his claw, Aldern casually asks "What to do, what to do...Little Mother, would you like your dog back?"

within 20' of Aldern must make this save each round, once you are sick you may stop making the save (
Stench; DC 19 Fortitude save vs Sickened

Only Glum remains unaffected (and Cat who isn't within 20')


Tactical Situation
Most of the party is on a slippery ledge, dc 5 climb, 12 balance - please review the rules on climbing and balancing.
At the start of your turn, roll a balance or climb(requires at least 1 hand) check, if you fail, you fall down and start sliding.


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AC18 HPts 29/32

Glum could feel his feet slipping beneath him as he tried to get low enough to help Tanrov.  He held on though [ooc I hope] as he reached down to cast Remove Paralysis

23:25, Today: Glum rolled 19 using 1d20+2. climb.
23:24, Today: Glum rolled 16 using 1d20+6.
23:23, Today: Glum rolled 12 using 1d20+9. balance.

DM: Tanrov, you may go ahead and act. 
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Throws his last magic stone at Aldern, without comment and then draws forth his bow.  "It's look's like just you and me Glum.  I hope they can climb up that slope quickly.  Do you want me to stay and fight or help stop Zer from eating the angry mold?"

to hit 24
dam 13
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Cat: AC 18 HP 21/31
Gar: AC 20 HP 18/30

Though it feels like abandoning Garious, Cat starts climbing again, away from what ever Foxglove has become. "You used to be nice. Yes, I'd like to have Garious back. "She wastes a pebble. Maybe it'll distract him.

11:38, Today: Catessa Fallowfield rolled 11,11 using d20+9,2d6+2. attack, damage.
11:37, Today: Catessa Fallowfield rolled 11 using 1d20+3. climb
Not sure what I can do with Gar.