This probably doesn't have anything to do with Anippe, but rather the story Kori spin when we were renting our room at the inn. His Bluff check was very high, 40 IIRC (with ??? showing outcome), and his story was that Mina is an expatriate noble from Galt. Those sorts are not popular in Andoran, as evidenced by the crafter outright charging us 50% more for the spell foci once he learned of our supposed origins.
I think Mina was the most likely target because someone bought Kori's story too well.
The beat of wings against his window window woke Cob, ears already perked and aimed in the direction of the window. He recognized the flappy outline of bat wings, familiar from his time with the Stone Munchers, the creatures had sometimes roosted in the shallow caves where the tribe sometimes overwintered, good eating for when you could catch them napping, but of course a growling belly wasn't something Cob would have to worry about today so he approached the window to shoo away the bat who probably just got confused at all the clear stuff. Nimbly he flipped open the window and started to shoo the...
Huh, what was that longshanks doing over there? Between one blink and the next there was a longshanks hanging upside down over his window, poking his head down. Now Cob wasn't one to miss a whole longshanks, but it would've been downright unmannerly, he'd just learned the word, to try stabbing em the eye just for showing up. After all, he sneaked up on folks too.
The pale face formed into an upside down smile with with sharp wolf-fangs before he skittered through the window over the ceiling of the room.
"Hey, you're not supposed to just barge in!" Cob protested.
"That is where you are wrong, little pest. This is no home, only a common inn. Now, why don't you tell me everything about your traveling companions and then you can help me kill them! Won't that be fun?" The smile only grew as Cob felt a lance of spike of pain drive into his mind, but this wasn't the first time Cob had been stabbed in the brain, nor the second, nor even the third. His brain had grown tough, his brain had grown spikes.
"How about I kill you instead?!" Cob jumped faster than the stranger expected, putting all his skill and hate into a slash across his throat and one across his cheek.
The goblin and the trespasser then looked at each other in shock for a moment frozen between them, the former at the fact that opening the man's throat hadn't killed him, just made slow black blood dribble onto the floor, the latter that he had been wounded at all.
"Shoffe, tell 'em it's a dead 'un!" he called out to his mind friend even as the room filled with screaming screeching bats so thick he couldn't see the stranger anymore.
Cob Will Save (DC 17): Immune PfE Cob Uses Mythic Surge Cob Attacks (Vs AC 22/29): 28, 34 (Success, Success)
Damage: 26; -1 (After DR)
Intruder now at 61/77 Swarm Attack: Cob Takes 7 Damage -> Now at 68/75
What does Cob until the others arrive?
[] Retreat, he isn't Gorok to fight fair face to face, plus he can't even see him
[] Start throwing acid, it's bound to hit something and should at least distract the dead man from going after someone else
[] Write in
OOC: What happened with the bats is there were two full swarms outside, but the vampire just had all but one bat lie flat on the street, Cob failed his Perception roll to notice them, and then one bat was sent up to draw his attention and get him to open the window.
Well she is the mage, if hypothetically you wanted to deal with a party with an obvious mage it would make sense to ambush them first unless maybe you also thought the goblin would be weak willed.
Everyone is in their own room, including Sirim who is on call in case the kid... has a nightmare or something. He isn't an expert on kids but he remembers having those at her age so he's appointed himself to be on call. The closest rooms are Sirim and Gorok with Mina and Kori being on the other side of Sirim, the order in which the dice were rolled.
There is a time to fight and there is a time to retreat. Cob isn't prepared to fight an Invisible Vampire supported by bat swarms.
He could fling some acid around and hurt the swarms, but not enough to kill it, and that would just eat up his actions while leaving the Vampire free to attack him.
[X] Retreat, he isn't Gorok to fight fair face to face, plus he can't even see him
-[X] Cob Shadow Teleports to Sirim's room as a Move Action while Shoffe informs everyone that an Undead capable of controlling a swarm of bats and some sort of mind affecting magic has attacked. Cob can't see it, either because of the bats or because it has become Invisible.
Yeah, he didn't need to make that Will save, but I'm glad the Vampire wasted its action trying to Dominate Cob.
They are weak against sunlight, not that helps here, but Mina's Searing Light spells will hit it really hard. Their DR can be bypassed by magical silver weapons. Cob's +1 Alchemical Silver Dagger counts for that.
Not quite how PfE works unless you're houseruling it. Relevant part highlighted.
Second, the subject immediately receives another saving throw (if one was allowed to begin with) against any spells or effects that possess or exercise mental control over the creature (including enchantment [charm] effects and enchantment [compulsion] effects, such as charm person, command, and dominate person). This saving throw is made with a +2 morale bonus, using the same DC as the original effect. If successful, such effects are suppressed for the duration of this spell. The effects resume when the duration of this spell expires. While under the effects of this spell, the target is immune to any new attempts to possess or exercise mental control over the target. This spell does not expel a controlling life force (such as a ghost or spellcaster using magic jar), but it does prevent them from controlling the target. This second effect only functions against spells and effects created by evil creatures or objects, subject to GM discretion.
The re-roll is only if PfE is cast on the victim after they've failed to resist. If they're already under the PfE effect, they automatically succeed against Charm and Compulsion effects which exercise ongoing control, like Dominate Person, Suggestion, etc.
Not quite how PfE works unless you're houseruling it. Relevant part highlighted.
The re-roll is only if PfE is cast on the victim after they've failed to resist. If they're already under the PfE effect, they automatically succeed against Charm and Compulsion effects which exercise ongoing control, like Dominate Person, Suggestion, etc.
Hmm... you are right not denying that, just trying to think if I need to do a reread since he would have been able to see Cob's auras. Would he guess Protection from Evil from just the abjuration aura?
I think not, at the very least not on a goblin, he is pretty prejudiced against goblins and the idea of them being clever.
I wish we had See Invisibility loaded into Cob's ring, then he would be better able to fight back, but between the Invisible Vampire and the bats, he's better off regrouping with the others.
[X] Retreat, he isn't Gorok to fight fair face to face, plus he can't even see him
-[X] Cob Shadow Teleports to Sirim's room as a Move Action while Shoffe informs everyone that an Invisible Undead capable of controlling a swarm of bats has attacked.
we can't prepare for literally EVERY scenario. But see Imvisibility is a reasonable one.
[X] Retreat, he isn't Gorok to fight fair face to face, plus he can't even see him
-[X] Cob Shadow Teleports to Sirim's room as a Move Action while Shoffe informs everyone that an Invisible Undead capable of controlling a swarm of bats has attacked.
The narration states Cob can't see the vampire because of the bat swarm, not because of the invisibility effect. Or is it just fluff to cover for one of its abilities?
The narration states Cob can't see the vampire because of the bat swarm, not because of the invisibility effect. Or is it just fluff to cover for one of its abilities?
