The Tengu Inquisitor, 白眉道人II

[Richard Loh]

白眉道人II
Male Tengu Inquisitor 3
N Medium Humanoid (tengu)
Init +7; Senses low-light vision, scent (corpses & badly wounded only); Perception +10
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Defense
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AC 18, touch 14, flat-footed 14 (+4 armor, +4 Dex)
hp 24 (3d8+6); judgement of sacred healing 2
Fort +4, Ref +5, Will +6; +2 trait bonus vs. charm and compulson
Defensive Abilities judgement of sacred protection +1; DR judgement of sacred resiliency 1: magic; Resist judgement of sacred purity +1, judgement of sacred resistance 4 (fire)
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft.
Melee +1 Keen Cold Iron Wakizashi +4 (1d6+2/15-20/x2) and
Bite (Tengu) -2 (1d3/x2) and
Whispering Shrike +4 (1d6+2/15-20/x2)
Ranged Masterwork Composite longbow (Str +1) +7 (1d8+1/x3)
Special Attacks judgement of sacred destruction +2, judgement of sacred justice +1, judgement of sacred piercing +2, judgement of sacred smiting (magic)
Spell-Like Abilities Detect Alignment (At will)
Inquisitor Spells Known (CL 3):
1 (4/day) Hide from Undead (DC 14), Remove Fear, Comprehend Languages, Cure Light Wounds
0 (at will) Resistance, Stabilize, Daze (DC 13), Detect Magic, Guidance, Light
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Statistics
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Str 12, Dex 18, Con 12, Int 12, Wis 16, Cha 7
Base Atk +2; CMB +3; CMD 17
Feats Disruptive, Escape Route, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot
Traits Birthmark, Theoretical Magician
Skills Acrobatics +3, Climb +5, Escape Artist +3, Fly +3, Heal +7, Intimidate +5, Knowledge (arcana) +6 (+9 to identify the abilities and weaknesses of creatures), Knowledge (dungeoneering) +6 (+9 to identify the abilities and weaknesses of creatures), Knowledge (planes) +6 (+9 to identify the abilities and weaknesses of creatures), Knowledge (religion) +6 (+9 to identify the abilities and weaknesses of creatures), Perception +10, Ride +3, Sense Motive +9, Spellcraft +9, Stealth +5, Survival +7 (+8 to track), Swim +4; Racial Modifiers +2 Perception, +2 Stealth, monster lore
Languages Common, Tengu, Tien
SQ domains (spellkiller inquisition), judgement (1/day), solo tactics, spellkiller (dc 14), teamwork feat (change 3/day), track
Combat Gear Potion of cure light wounds, Potion of restoration, lesser, Wand of Identify, Skyrocket firework (3); Other Gear Masterwork Chain shirt, +1 Bane (Animal) Arrows (2), +1 Flaming burst Arrows, +1 Keen Cold Iron Wakizashi, Whispering Shrike, Arrows (100), Blunt arrows (100), Masterwork Cold Iron Arrows (20), Masterwork Composite longbow (Str +1), Ring of climbing, Backpack (15 @ 28 lbs), Bedroll, Belt pouch (1 @ 33 lbs), Rope, Spell component pouch, Trail rations (10), 1647 GP, 3 SP
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Special Abilities
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Birthmark +2 save vs. charm & compulsion
Detect Alignment (At will) (Sp) Detect chaos, evil, good, or law at will.
Disruptive +4 DC to cast defensively for those you threaten.
Escape Route You do not provoke attacks of opportunity when moving through spaces adjacent to allies
Inquisitor Domain (Spellkiller Inquisition) Deities: Any (with GM approval).

Granted Powers: You gain the Disruptive feat as a bonus feat (even if you do not meet the prerequisites). When you defeat an enemy (whether by reducing it to 0 or fewer hit points, taking the enemy ca
Judgement (1/day) (Su) Variable bonuses increase as the combat continues.
Judgement of Sacred Destruction +2 (Su) Weapon Damage bonus.
Judgement of Sacred Healing 2 (Su) Fast Healing
Judgement of Sacred Justice +1 (Su) Attack bonus
Judgement of Sacred Piercing +2 (Su) Concentration and vs. SR bonus
Judgement of Sacred Protection +1 (Su) AC bonus
Judgement of Sacred Purity +1 (Su) Save bonus
Judgement of Sacred Resiliency 1: Magic (Su) DR/magic
Judgement of Sacred Resistance 4 (Fire) (Su) Energy Resistances
Judgement of Sacred Smiting (Magic) (Su) DR bypass
Low-Light Vision See twice as far as a human in low light, distinguishing color and detail.
Monster Lore +3 (Ex) +3 to Knowledge checks when identifying the weaknessess of creatures.
Point Blank Shot +1 to attack and damage rolls with ranged weapons at up to 30 feet.
Precise Shot You don't get -4 to hit when shooting or throwing into melee.
Scent (corpses & badly wounded only) (Ex) Detect opponents within 15+ feet by sense of smell.
Solo Tactics (Ex) Count Teamwork feats as if your allies had the same ones.
Spellkiller (+2 Sacred) (DC 14) After defeating enemy, gain +2 sacred bonus to AC for 3 minutes. End the effect when hitting an arcane spellcaster to stagger your opponent.
Teamwork Feat (change 3/day) Swap your most recent Teamwork feat for another
Track +1 Add the listed bonus to survival checks made to track.
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The tengu learns its art from the Temple of Nalinivati from Tian Xia. Tasked with exorcising the world of demons, this particular tengu takes his job very seriously.

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[Richard Loh]

The inquisitor White Brow is tasked with collecting Licktoad goblin's ears in the marshlands, in Tian Xia. After a fight with the goblins, the party, consisting of 2 synthesist summoners, and a "durid" with his lion animal companion, managed to slay the leader of the group, a ranger whose favoured enemy is human. Poor Durid have to take the shots as he's the only human in the party. His lion was also shot down by the ranger who possessed arrows of animalsbane. Upon raiding the village, they found a fan, at the back of which is a crude map to a cavern systems where the rest of the goblins are supposed to reside. Rumours however, indicated that the caves are home to a host of undead as well.

Early into the caves, the encounters are light, with the 2 synthesist summoners making short work of enemies, giant amoeba, and a giant spider. Collected a bit of loot until they entered a cave with a single skeleton in o-yoroi, wielding twin wakizashis. Thinking that it's just a simple fight, the first synthesist, Shadowbane, was promptly cut into shreds by two well-placed blows. In the meantime, at the back of the passage, behind the party, a duo of skeletons attempted to ambush the party, but with the Durid at the back, the Durid and his lion pet made short work of the skeletons. Unfortunately, the twin wakizashi wielding skeleton is much more of a fight, with now, Crimson Death, the second synthesist moving into combat. Unfortunately, as the eidolon only does slashing and piercing damage, it is very hard to affect the skeleton properly which resulted in Crimson Death being the next to be dispatched. White Brow in the meantime, let loose with accurate blunt arrow shots resulting in the skeleton being battered.

Durid led his lion into the fray, without much success, due to the inability to significantly affect the skeleton. With extremely precise strikes, the skeleton dispatched the Durid and the lion without too much fanfare. Sensing it's near the end... White Brow in a desperate attempt, channeled his powers into positive energy and attempted to charge the undead with positive energy. With its superior Willpower, the skeleton resisted the effects of the positive energy and grinning, it ended the life of White Brow. As White Brow slumps to the floor, his lifeblood oozing onto the ground, he hears a voice saying: The skeleton has only 1 hp left...

So concludes the sorry story of the first expedition into the Jade Regent.

[Stephen]

"The skeleton has only 1 hp left..."

LOL. Which evil b'tard was running that?

Edit: Nvm, I saw in chat. Gratz Darrell!

[zenieth]

mk 2 incoming. don't worry. death is common in my games

[alexender]

Ah yes, the Human Druid with the Cat, that would be me, the ranger hates me and has arrows that hates my cat.

That TPK would be my mistake, for not knowing my cat's capabilities well enough.

Bite attack would do Bludgeoning/Slashing/Piercing damage

Claw attack would do Bludgeoning/Slashing damage

Still it was a night of monster bashing that was fun, reminding me of the time when we played-up in Darkest Vengeance and had a darkness loving, dual wielding, backstabbing sonofabitch raining and wailing blows on us.

[Richard Loh]

Attempted a second assault on the skeleton samurai. Managed to dispatched him with only half the party downed. Not bad. Retrieved a minor artifact called 'Whispering Shrike', although the sword was damaged. Brought back to the town and repaired, but when repairing, found a note inside the sword, pointing to hidden treasures beneath Brinewood Castle.

Began our entry into Brinewood village. Along the way, near the cemetary, with White Brow's superior eyesight, they managed to spot a winged fairy, who goes by the name of Spivey, a cleric of Desna and was promised safe refuge within the cemetary and before leaving, she warned us that there is a lot of undead within Brinewood Castle itself.

The initial entry was simple enough, getting jumped by corbies. They scratched the party some but made short work of them due to the synthesist. The next fight, with an ettercap and his giant spider companion proved to be a slight problem. The problem comes when the spider keeps spitting web at the front line fighters, hindering their effectiveness. After a while, they were dispatched too. So far, so good. Continued into the courtyard and encountered TWO ogres in a wrestling match. Now, being in a fight for longer than normal, they were severely injured when the party stumbled upon them and in the blink of an eye, they too were dispatched. The party seems strong! Met another ogre ranger, this time with elves as her favoured enemy. Lo and behold, the juicy morsel half-elf synthesist Ivan was dangling in front of her. She forced her way out and begin rampaging with a large flail, but then, the quick thinking Richmond greased her weapon which eventually resulted in her dropping her flail and having to resort to her mighty fists to continue the fight.

Met another tengu in the castle proper, with four corbies as his minions. With accurate shots, it tore arrows into Alex, the druid while its minions dealt with the lion, whose name is 'Tiger'. With the two synthesists leading the point, White Brow followed behind releasing arrow after arrow, but the aura of concealment granted by the magic, known as a 'Blur' spell rendered at least 8 attacks of the party useless. With fast healing and being extraplanar in nature, this particular tengu switched to a kusari-gama and downed Alex with a single crippling blow when the party closed in to melee on him, but before it could continue its assault on Alex's unconscious body, it was beset by two very angry and menacing synthesists with White Brow taking potshots with his arrows. Finally, with sufficient battering by the combined firepower of the team, the tengu fell unconscious, and even with it being unconscious, its body is still regenerating at an extremely fast rate. Searching in his inventory, White Brow stuffed a Skyfire fireworks under the tengu's body and quickly ran off with his party members in tow to observe the beautiful fireworks as it burned through the tengu's body.

Enjoying the spoils of war, the party discovered that the tengu's kusari-gama is actually an unique weapon, also known, as the "Dancing Wasp". Also found a key which is required for the party to proceed. Next up? Down to the basement of Brinewood Castle where perhaps, great treasure awaits...

[alexender]

A different view:

A midst the damp and partially flooded caverns, the party of four trudged along the natural stone ground, weary from the consistent harassment from the denizens of the cavern.

With a sickening squish, the last of the overgrown spiders were dispatched, an unholy surge of energy swelled from the inner sanctum of the caverns, sending chills down the spine of the only living beings within the bowels of the caverns, the Vanquishers of the Licktoads.

Moving forward towards the source of the emanating unholiness, the druid was quick to notice that even the moss and algae were receding from the source.

“Be prepared companions, whatever is at the source, defiles the very ground,” warned the druid, “And it is expecting us.”

In an instant both synthesist don their eidolon and the tengu notched his longbow, with fiery determination, stepping forward as if in response to the druid’s warning.

As they emerge from a narrow path, the party arrives at an open cavern, flanked by a rancid pool of water, the owner of the unholy blight greets them with brandished twin wakizashi, clad in a well maintained o-yoroi, one can almost make out a hint of anticipation and malice across its skeletal visage.

“Herklaedi” resounded from both synthesist, as they weave arcane forces to form an armour-like second skin on themselves, and with thundering force they charged to meet the skeletal samurai head on.

As their claws tore into the skeleton, sparks flew in response to the clashing arcane energies, “Its o-yoroi is magical,” barked one of the synthesist.

“No matter,” retorted the other, as the eidolon clamps it jaws on the samurai, crackling energies from the o-yoroi formed in protest to the oppressive might of the bite.

Twin pinpoints sockets flared in its skull, with uncanny skill, it brought both wakizhashi to bear against its attacker, in an upward arcing slice the first blow nearly severed the synthesist from hip to collarbone, the second strike draw a deep gash across the synthesist’s chest and sends him sprawling to the ground.

“Sic’em Tiger,” ordered the Druid to his lion companion, in a burst of speed, all 500 pounds of fur bounded muscle slammed into the undead warrior. While reeling from the barrage of claw swipes, the undead samurai mustered an impossible feat of strength, a backhand slap connected to the lion and sent the king of beasts rocketing the far cavern wall.

“In Mani,” announced the druid, as he took advantage of the opening caused by the backhand slap and laid his hands lightly on the o-yoroi to devastating effect, as the positive energy boils partial of the undeath away from the undead warrior.

Ever the opportunist, the tengu drew upon the same positive focus “In Mani,” he mutters and deliver an equally painful touch to the skeletal samurai, vaporizing more of its undead essence.

In a flurry of blows, the undead samurai, drives one wakizashi into the druid, causing him to stumble back from the force of the blow, gritting his teeth and face contorted in pain, he backs off further hoping for respite.

With a cross slash, it nearly took both the arms off the synthesis, fortunately clad in his eidolon, the pain feedback was kept to a minimum.

No such mercy was granted to the tengu, as a wakizashi cleaves deep into right ribs, slicing through his hollow bones, causing massive tissue damage, the reaction was immediate, the tengu clutched his side and dropped to his knees in utter disbelieve, eyes nearly bulging from their sockets.

“You will fall,” roared the synthesist, as he brought two powerful claws to bear on the skeleton’s shoulders, the sound of bone splintering echo in the cavern, leveraging on his attack, the eidolon’s jaws slam shut on the skull of the skeleton and a sickening crunch is heard as its entire skull crushed and is ripped out along with partial of the spinal column following suit.

As the sense of uneasiness washes off, it is clear that victory was obtained, with haste tending to the wounds of the injured, the Vanquishers of the Licktoads will live to fight another day.

[Richard Loh]

Stepping gingerly into the room after eliminating a giant frilled lizard earlier, the party stepped into a room laid bare of its trappings, except bodies chained, spreadeagled to the wall, the extremities held taut by hooks, with their torsos cut open, and the viscera hanging from their opened stomachs and the bodies facial expressions forever locked in a silent scream.

In the midst of such a dissection, with the victim thankfully dead, a short and slight elf turns and notices the party and in the blink of an eye, it materializes before Richmond and slashed at him with its knife before quickly disappearing and reappearing at a corner of the room. "Puny damage!" exclaimed the synthesist, but his eyes widened in alarm as he realised that the dagger is poisoned. Controlling his nerves, with what feeling like hours but in actuality, mere split seconds, Richmond managed to shake off the effects of the poison even though the constituition of the fused eidolon weakened him. Such is the drawback of being fused with an otherworldly being.

"How do you like my handiwork? I love seeing my displays staying alive as long as possible as I slowly exposes them to the world, to see them take pride in that I keep them alive so that they KNOW they will be displayed in the best light possible."

The party felt sick in the stomach, knowing that to fall prey to this demon in elf disguise is to wake up in similar conditions as the rest of the victims, before death claims them. Raging, the two synthesists tore into the room after the creature, but with its natural ability, it dodged most of the attacks with Richmond batting a light blow at the elf. White Brow quickly moved into position between the two synthesists which provided a clear shot at the elf. Quick as lightning, the elf dodged the arrow before the feathers of the arrow even left the bow. "Get em, tiger!", the druid bellowed, the young lion closed the gap between the two synthesists and attacked, but to no avail. "This guy is fast!" exclaimed Ivan. Moving quickly beside White Brow, the druid called upon the power of the natural world to limn the elf in bluish faerie fire. Confused, the rest of the party wondered what that was for when the elf stops moving, that he turns invisible. "Its a quickling! Its flesh is vulnerable to cold iron weapons!" exclaims the druid, one who is familiar with feys and nature.

Being cornered in the room, with the party thinking that it is cornered, he grins, and in a feat of amazing agility, it leapt over the lion and the two synthesists and made a beeline for White Brow, as only White Brow alone possesses cold iron arrows, the only weapons which can directly hurt a quickling. With a single stab of his dagger, it nicked White Brow's hand and a sudden burning sensation coursed through White Brow's body as the poison does its work. Still struggling, White Brow regained his senses and grinned, knowing that the time is not up yet. Pulling back, he nocked another cold iron arrow and let loose, with the quickling dodging out of the way again. It is unnaturally fast. Nothing in the world could be this fast. Sensing that it will lose if its trapped in a room with five hostile enemies, the quickling fled from the room with the rest of the party giving chase. As White Brow follows, on his first step out, he quickly blacked out, for the poison has paralysed his nervous system and the last thing he hears is the sound of claws rending flesh as the party finally caught up to the quickling and hear it screaming in pain as it too is being physically ripped open by the two synthesists, like what it did to its victims... Karma is indeed a funny thing...