Book 2 - Act 3: Tidewater Rock

The shipping lanes of Golarion's seas and oceans are filled with fat merchant vessels laden with trade goods both mundane and exotic, as well as the pirates and freebooters who prey on them. Under the banner of their Hurricane King, these buccaneers sally forth from that archipelago of lawless pirate ports and anchorages known as the Shackles, plundering the shipping of countless countries and trade consortiums, then vanishing back into the maze of islands and reefs they call home. The nations of the Inner Sea would like nothing more than to end the pirate menace once and for all, but the eternal hurricane known as the Eye of Abendego has thus far shielded the Free Captains of the Shackles from the threat of retaliation.


In the Skull & Shackles Adventure Path, the PCs take on the role of pirates, but they must make a name for themselves in piracy, plunder, and disrepute to truly become infamous Free Captains of the Shackles.

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Post by Grimbold » Tue Mar 27, 2018 7:42 pm

Rod also pulls back to inside the tower. "Maybe we can build a makeshift barricade." He turns to the guards. "See what you can come up with." He then turns to the captain. "I think you might be needed to help at the top of the tower. There is a flying lady there that needs sticking with arrows."
Then he looks around. "We need to create a kill zone, where anyone who enters is attacked instantly."
Move back into the tower. Ready attack.
If we leave the square right behind the door free, we can all ready attacks and slice anyone who enters. We just need to ready, so noone bullrushes us or the like. With a barricade, we might get some cover from projectiles, thoug I think if there are foes right inside the gate, no one will be able to shoot in.

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Post by Eilandor » Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:23 pm

Toruk continues to cough and hack from the smoke due to the massive electrical current sent through his body. Brave but not stupid, the Undine knows well enough when he's been bested. He musters enough strength to get to his feet and head for the stairs.
Double Move inside and down the tower.
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Post by Vardaen » Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:31 pm

Round 4 Gragol 27, Maggie 17, Buccaneers Red 17, Roderick 16, Toruk 15, Guards 11, Aya 10, Isabella 9, Buccaneer Green 3

Round 5 Gragol 27, Maggie 17, Buccaneers Red 17, Roderick 16, Toruk 15, Guards 11, Aya 10, Isabella 9, Buccaneer Green 3
Roderick has a plan, fill the lower level with just the right number of men and swords and hold any press that comes in. He moves just right and the guard and Royster join the horseshoe of weapons. Royster looks , "We'll hold this spot together! No one gets in!"

Toruk on the roof flees down the stairs into the top floor of the tower past a guard there moving up to join the fight. The guards along the roof fire at the flying woman, or reload the ballista.

Aya hears that grease is needed and she makes a foolish but brave move and heads out past Rod who tries to warn her. She stands outside and covers the steps with grease. It causes two of the pirates to slip and fall down the stairs. They bowl into the others there that just were on their feet, now everyone is a pile of prone and knocked over bodies. The stairs are coated now.

Down below the buccaneers are scaling the cliff, slow but steady they move up the rocks little by little unmolested. Isabella Inkskin looks as Toruk flees, "Oh come and play!" She considers the guards, but instead notices Aya step outside. She smiles ear to ear, "Who's this hussy?" She cackles and sends another bolt of lightning down into Aya! The blast is even stronger than the one that hit Toruk. Aya screams, and from inside you watch in horror as she's roasted alive from the eletrical bolt. Her body goes ridged and you almost see her bones inside her lit up body. Crumpling to the ground she is a smoking ruin of a person.

Gragol, Maggie...
Rod: Move, Ready
Toruk: Double Move
Guards: 1Up, 2Move, Ready #/4 ReloadBallista, 5 Shoot Isabella 16 Miss, 6 Shoot 12 Miss
Aya: Move, Grease Stairs: Down Tumbles More, bowling over others (3,4,5,6,8 prone)
Isabella: Lightning Bolt vs Aya: Ref Save 8 Fail: 37 = -1 HPs
Green Scale the Cliffs
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Post by AdamDaBomb11 » Thu Apr 05, 2018 4:43 am

"Blasted 'ell!" Gragol exclaims. The Dwarf's Urgrosh clatters to the ground and he steps forward to scoop up Aya and bring her back into the tower.
Free: Drop Urgrosh
Move: SW, S
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Post by Vardaen » Thu Apr 05, 2018 1:50 pm

Round 5 Gragol 27, Maggie 17, Buccaneers Red 17, Roderick 16, Toruk 15, Guards 11, Aya 10, Isabella 9, Buccaneer Green 3
Gragol can't believe it. Dropping his dwarven weapon on a crate he darts to the door, grabs Aya under the arm pits and drags her back inside the tower.

Maggie...
Gragol: Drop Urgosh, Move, Drag: CMB: 28 Seems Good.

Since you can make a Drag as a Standard against a foe, makes sense you can drag your ally. You go back up to your max move. I figure the goal is get her out of danger and such.
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Post by Vardaen » Fri Apr 13, 2018 7:00 pm

Round 5 Gragol 27, Maggie 17, Buccaneers Red 17, Roderick 16, Toruk 15, Guards 11, Aya 10, Isabella 9, Buccaneer Green 3
Maggie reload and readies her pistol, she looks down at the wounded Aya, and she wants to take a moment to heal her, but decides she needs to keep the door clear for the moment, and does does't call down a blessing just yet, hoping Aya will stabilize on her own.

Then the pirates press up the stairs. They all manage to get to their feet and move up the stairs, slow and steady. They don't read the door not yet, and the others down lower fire up random shots at the guards near the ballistas but they aren't ant real threat from that distance.

Rod and Toruk...
Maggie: Reload, Ready Shot
Red: 3,4,5,6,8 Stand and move a bit (Grease: Half Speed Acro: 19, 7, 16, 22, 19) Successe, and 1 stand still but not fall
Red: the rest, ready bow shows, guard, etc
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Post by Grimbold » Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:44 am

Rod readies his bow and wants to shoot the first enemy to get into the tower, and he has the guards install some cover if they should shoot inside. "If they shoot in, get into cover" he advises the people here.
Is the guard captain, Royster McCleah, here? If yes, Rod will send him up to the top of the tower to shoot at the woman and the attackers from above.

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Post by Eilandor » Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:21 pm

Toruk stumbles his way across the room to the next flight of stairs. Wincing the whole way, some of the Undine's skin still smoldering while some is charred and flaking off. Circling the stairs downward, "I hope Sandara is still holed up in that room. Without some healing I'm as good as dead."
Continue down the tower to where Sandara was and ask for healing.
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Post by Vardaen » Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:49 pm

Round 5 Gragol 27, Maggie 17, Buccaneers Red 17, Roderick 16, Toruk 15, Guards 11, Aya 10, Isabella 9, Buccaneer Green 3


Round 6 Gragol 27, Maggie 17, Buccaneers Red 17, Roderick 16, Toruk 15, Guards 11, Isabella 9, Buccaneer Green 3
Rod readies his bow, and looks at Royster giving him commands to go to the tower's top. Royster looks over at Rod, "You are the great heroic swashbuckler, YOU go attack the spellcasting witch who's blowing down doors and murdering our people. That seems more the speed for an adventurer type like you. Me and my men can hold this place against her buccaneers!" he doesn't go any place. He doesn't like Rod, and doesn't take orders from him, not now, not here. He too is ready to hack down the first one through the door.

Toruk staggers down calling out for Sandara for aid, he needs healing, and he needs it badly. Sandara comes out of a room, she's been getting up and ready, and when she spots Toruk she gasps. At once she reaches out and sooths the burn marks and charred skin. Its not much, but its a start. "Besmara's Grace, this is bad!"

Your guards down below ready blade or bow, and are ready to defend the keep from anyone that comes inside. Up top the men that have loaded the ballista fire on Isabella. One misses wide, the other however clips her in the leg. Her protection sucks up much of the blow, shimmering and weakening, but she's bruised from the impact lightly. The men with crossbows fire down now as the horde of men scaling the rocks. One good shot connects, hits a man in the shoulder and sends him falling to his death.

Isabella cackling begins to chant an incantation to summons beast atop the tower. "I will take this tower one floor at a time, starting with you fools!" It will take her a few moments, but a vague shape is starting to form atop the roof of the tower. The men and women from the second boat have scaled the rocks and have reached the tower's base now and are starting up.

That's when someone notices Captain Aya isn't breathing. She's died of her wounds, her system unable to handle the shock of the damage she's taken. There was nothing Maggie could have done, likely Aya was actually dead when Gragol dragged her inside.

Gragol and Maggie...
Rod: Ready Bow
Toruk: Look for Sandara
Guards: 1UP, 2Ready, 3/4 Shoot Ballista at Isabella: 20 Hit for 13 - 10 Pro Arrows = 3, 18 Miss, 5 Shoot Green 16 Hit #23 for 10 (Falls to Death), 6 Shoot Green 6 Miss
Sandara: Heal Toruk: +10
Aya: Sablize: 5 Fail -1 HP = DEAD DEAD
Isabella: Summon Monster IV
Green:CLIMB - BASE OF TOWER
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Post by AdamDaBomb11 » Thu Apr 19, 2018 3:30 am

"We'll 'old this 'ere entrance 'n the name'o'the Capt'n!" Gragol cries out. The Dwarf moves closer to complete the semi-circle around the entrance.
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