King Maker Solo

[Eonn]

With a swing of your sword you put an end to the larger spriggan. As it drops to the floor, it reverts back to its smaller size.

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There was a few who you killed outside the building when you first dropped in from the sky. These guys were in the building on guard duty. There was just one other in this room, any you make short work of him as he had about 10hp left.

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These guys each carry a bit of loot. I'll tally it up for you and tell you everything at the end.

[Pyrophilios]

Vindariel notes the fey creatures carrying valuables - probably looted from the colony and resolves to take them back when he is done with them.

Time to finish this. He beginns to move from room to room to kill every last one of them.

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Do you have a map of the insides of the building?

[Eonn]

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Yeah, here's one. You entered through 37 and are now in 35. Looks like you have to move through 36, but where to after that?

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[Pyrophilios]

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Yeah, here's one. You entered through 37 and are now in 35. Looks like you have to move through 36, but where to after that?

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I'll visit the open areas first to make sure there are no spriggans that can get into my back, before I try to open any doors: So 32, 33, 34 and finally 31

Perception:
Vindariel (1d20)[14]+16
Crystal (1d20)[8]+16

Ini: (1d20)[3]+7

Vindariel moved forward to the outer corridor where light spilled through the arrow slits. There he turned south, moving counter clockwise in his search and destroy mission.

[Eonn]

Stepping into the hallway that rings the fort, you cut down the odd spriggan that you come across. In the first room you enter, you come face to face with a spriggan who seems much better equipped and trained than the others you have encountered.

The spriggan tisks before saying something in gnome and drawing a crossbow.

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""'ere already? I'll kill kill kill you myself!"

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Just a quick now, I just noticed that despite being called Spriggans, these are not fae, but humanoids (gnome). Anyways,

Initiative: (1d20+8)[20]

[Eonn]

The Spriggan is quick on the draw, firing off two crossbow bolts towards your face before you can react.

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(1d20+24)[41] damage: (2d8+10)[22]
(1d20+19)[21] damage: (2d8+10)[23]

[Pyrophilios]

Pain lances through Vindariel as the first bolt hits home. Still, it is a trifling matter compared to the whirlwind Vindariel is ready to unleash

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According to d20PFSRD they should be fey. But that's alright, gnomes are distant relatives of the fey, so maybe those are halfbreeds or something.

Anyway, the usual Attack routine, this time combined with a psionic lion charge to gain a full attack at the end:

Power Attack: (1d20)[9]+18, damage (5d6)[19]+26; if crit: (1d20)[10]+18, damage (5d6)[16]+26;
1st Iterative Attack: (1d20)[16]+13, damage (5d6)[20]+26; if crit: (1d20)[3]+13, damage (5d6)[16]+26;
Haste: (1d20)[17]+18, damage (5d6)[14]+26; if crit: (1d20)[7]+18, damage (5d6)[19]+26;

With an earth shattering roar, Vindariel charges the whily little bastard.

[Eonn]

You strike the spriggan several times, deeply wounding the creature. Just as your ready yourself for a counter attack, he turns tail and dashed through a side door.

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He is going to take the withdraw action and flee.

Weird, the AP pdf defiantly has them stated as humanoids. That being said, I've come across more than 1 type in important parts of these books. Several 'dungeons' have had rooms labeled with duplicate numbers, and back in the first book one boss had a +1 to hit when he should have had a +10 or +11.

[Pyrophilios]

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Withdraw works against the first 5ft, but thanks to size Large my reach is 10ft.
So he takes an attack of opportunity

Power Attack: (1d20)[2]+18, damage (5d6)[17]+26; if crit: (1d20)[2]+18, damage (5d6)[14]+26;

Moving to follow him should he survive.
I'll use a standard action and try to mind control him again:

Will Save DC 22

Vindariel lashes out against his retreating foe and readies himself to follow the creature to try and get a grip of its mind now that it is filled with righteous terror of him.

[Eonn]

Trying to follow the leader out, you find your path blocked by two quivering spriggans volunteered to cover their boss's escape.

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You do not have line of effect on the leader. Does your ability still work without it? Otherwise, you still have your standard action.

If your large, please remember that you're going to be squeezing in the hallways. The nat 2 on your AoO doesn't hit.

[Pyrophilios]

Vindariel switches mental gears and instead of using mind control on the fleeing target, he just covers the two new targets in a cloud of flashing lightning

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Elemental Burst when I don't have line of sight to the target

(10d6)[35] Electricity
DC 24 Refl for half damage

[Eonn]

You fry the spriggans and pursue the leader! Taking a turn, you find yourself back in the room with the ladder. Through the opening to the watch tower, you see him edging a barrel billowing fire towards the hole. It seems he plans on burning the whole place down!

[Pyrophilios]

"STOP"
Vindariel thunders the word with all his might, sending his mind to subdue the creature's with a surge of power

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Another try at mindcontrol, DC 22 Will

[Eonn]

The spriggan freezes.

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Will save: (1d20+8)[16]

[Pyrophilios]

Vindariel nodds to himself and has the spriggan set the barrel back down and comes up to him:
"Answer me: Who are you, how many of your people are there and what have you done to the villagers here."

[Eonn]

The Spriggan obeys and though he does not speak common, you telepathy allows for easy communication.

"I am Agai. I don't know, you have slain most of them. Nothing, the town was empty when we arrived."

[Pyrophilios]

Vindariel nodded:

"Go down and tell them all to leave this building and wait in the courtyard for me. Tell them if they continue their attack, they'll die.
They are to empty all their pockets. They may keep their weapon and their armor. If they do that they may go without further harm from me."

[Eonn]

Agai complies, heading down to the first floor. From a window, you can see a number of spriggan fleeing from the building. Agai stays in the ground floor, awaiting further orders.

[Pyrophilios]

Vindariel makes sure, the building is empty, before following Agai outside, making sure that the little buggers didn't steel anything else.
Once that is done, he turns to the remaining Spriggan: "By the powers invested in me through the Swordlords and the people of SoL: For the crime of attempted murder and arson, I hereby condemn you to death.
Lay down on your belly, close your eyes and sleep."

Once again, Vindariel conjures up the scythe made from radiant energy and beheads the creature in one swift motion.

That done, Vindariel takes his time to search the stockade and the remaining buildings thoroughly for any more hints, taking his time to open doors and/or break them in his search.

That done, collecting all remaining valuables, he returns through a well timed Psychoport back to Thorica for dinner.

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Taking 20 to search everything thoroughly, collecting all loot and returning back per psychoport
(1d100)[44]

Once back, I'll use Psychic Reformation before leveling up: As normal on the Psionic side, but instead of more Aegis, I'll take a first level of Soul Knife, or rather Augmented Blade

For that I'm shuffling around some of my feats

[Eonn]

The fort is relatively barren, containing only a small armory of weapons sized for humans, though not spriggans in either of their sizes. You find a room with a well inside the fort. Looking inside, just above the water line is four potions of water breathing. Further investigation reveals a small underwater tunnel leading back into town.

The ransacked goods don't seem to be stored within the fort. On Agai's person, however, is a plain looking (though quite heavy) cloth bag. An item you know to be a bag of holding. Turing it out, you find a huge amount of wealth in valuables, magic items and of course, gold and gems. Most of it you assume to have been looted from Varnhold in the previous days.

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You loot 500gp from the spriggan. From Agai, you loot:
1 potion of cure moderate wounds
An enchanted breastplate
A magic heavy crossbow
A masterwork greatclub

In the Bag of Holding is the following:
6,000 gp in assorted coins and jewelry
a small payroll coffer holding 500 gp
an assortment of gems worth 3,500 gp,
a magic longsword with the crest of House Varn on its pommel guard
a wand
a magic ring
and an exquisite enchanted darkwood and ivory composite longbow (+4 Str).

Give me a Knowledge (Arcana) to identify everything, and a knowledge (Nature) as well.

[Pyrophilios]

Vindariel took his time sorting the loot after dinner.
He examined each piece carefully, making sure to note down everything in his diary as well.

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Aid Another check by psi crystal:
Arcana (1d20)[19]+4
Nature (1d20)[10]+4

Arcana (1d20)[12]+9+2
Nature (1d20)[16]+9+2

[Eonn]

With careful study, you are able to identify the item's magical properties.

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1 potion of cure moderate wounds
An enchanted breastplate = +1
A magic heavy crossbow = +1 seeking
A masterwork greatclub

In the Bag of Holding (type IV) is the following:
6,000 gp in assorted coins and jewelry
a small payroll coffer holding 500 gp
an assortment of gems worth 3,500 gp,
a magic longsword with the crest of House Varn on its pommel guard = +2 defending
a wand = spectral hand with 17 charges
a magic ring = half of a pair of rings of friend shield
and an exquisite enchanted darkwood and ivory composite longbow (+4 Str) = +2 thundering

You also recognize the workmanship on the bow as being similar to that of centaur tribes

[Pyrophilios]

Vindariel is intrigued by the bow. Since it seems as if the Centaurs are his next line of investigation, he keeps the bow with him.
After resting and recuperating from once again reforming his very being, Vindariel returns to the colony, trying to find out in which direction the centaur tribes are likely to be found.

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Knowledge test Geography:

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[Eonn]

Away from the mountains, to the plains is the direction you choose. Horses are creatures of the prairie, so why not centaurs as well? You head eastward, passing over large expanses of forested land that slowly thins to hilly grasslands uneventfully before finding something strange about the terrain. A number of strange furrows scar the grass in this area, disrupted here and there by sinkhole-like depressions and mounds of earth and soil.

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Can you make me a knowledge arcana or survival check?

[Pyrophilios]

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Survival test:

(1d20)[4]+12

Vindariel takes his time, cartographing his way as he used to do before.

[Eonn]

You can't be sure the reason the terrain is like this, but map it out regardless. A few hours in and to take a moment to rest and settle down among the tall grasses of the plain.

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Roll me perception vs Stealth (1d20)[15]. What you're about to fight isn't very stealthy... roll me initiative too while you're at it. (1d20+8)[21]

[Pyrophilios]

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Perception (1d20)[8]+16
Ini (1d20)[19]+12
Knowledge Check to recognize whatever I'm seeing (1d20)[17]+11 (+2 from crystal helping)