Doug groans as he regains consciousness and applies his divine healing power on himself.
Doug also steps up to the green wraith and tries to help free Beth from it's attacks.
The animated Hammer lumbers towards Bethany and tries to slam down on her, before flipping around and trying to slam down again.
But it completely misses both time!
Initiative - ESCALATION 0
Lokmorr
Wraiths( G 44/66) (R 52/66) (U 30/66 Staggered)
Hrarsk
Doug 46/80 & Betrayer
Bethany 58/64 T20
Khellirin
Hammer Golem
Fortuna 56/70 T20 Weakened(SE) Free Disengage Check
Fortuna is up!
Stone Golem - AC 25 | PD 23 | MD 18 | HP 280
Golem immunity: Non-organic golems are immune to effects. They can’t be dazed, weakened, confused, made vulnerable, or touched by ongoing damage. You can damage a golem, but that’s about it.
Lokmorrr, the Betrayer - AC 24 | PD 19 | MD 23 | HP 340
Wraiths - AC 19 | PD 14 | MD 27 | HP 66
Vulnerability: holy
Ghostly: This creature has resist damage 16+ to all damage (including holy damage) except force damage, which damages it normally.
Fortuna scoots over near Khel and uses the time she's unmenaced to sketch a bow of smoke with her wand, then fire dark, writhing arrows at each of the opponents.
Fortuna, having popped free fires off force arrows at all the foes.
All 3 wraiths take the full brunt of Fortuna's force bolts, staggering the green one.
The Hammer Golem gets hit by a force bolt as well. Lokmorr on the other hand is unaffected.
ESCALATION increases to 1!
Lokmorr's aura of betrayal shifts to Fortuna
Lokmorr then whispers at Fortuna in Abyssal
Lokmorr also smiles at Hrarsk and fires off a quickened magic missile.
The wraiths assault their nearby victims.
Only Bethany is affected, and just from her temp HP.
Initiative - ESCALATION 1
Lokmorr
Wraiths( G 30/66 Staggered) (R 38/66) (U 16/66 Staggered)
Hrarsk 65/75
Doug 46/80
Bethany 58/64 T6
Khellirin
Hammer Golem 266/280
Fortuna 26/70 Betrayer / Confused SE / Staggered
Hrarsk, Doug, Bethany and Khellirin are up!
Stone Golem - AC 25 | PD 23 | MD 18 | HP 280
Golem immunity: Non-organic golems are immune to effects. They can’t be dazed, weakened, confused, made vulnerable, or touched by ongoing damage. You can damage a golem, but that’s about it.
Lokmorrr, the Betrayer - AC 24 | PD 19 | MD 23 | HP 340
Wraiths - AC 19 | PD 14 | MD 27 | HP 66
Vulnerability: holy
Ghostly: This creature has resist damage 16+ to all damage (including holy damage) except force damage, which damages it normally.
Frustrated at how little he's able to hurt it, Khel nevertheless keeps up his attacks on the red-eyed wraith.
Bethany swings clumsily at the hammer. Just as it's about to retaliate, she steps cleanly out of the way and lets the swing smack into the wraith instead. "Oh no!" she calls, with the voice of one used to being heard, "looks like one of your allies has turned against you!"
Hrarsk prays for help under his breath while swinging his sword at the wraith once again.
Khel spins and dissipates the red wraith.
Bethany lets out a foul sound.
Not only hampering and almost taking out the green wraith but also injuring and confusing Lokmorr.
Initiative - ESCALATION 2
Lokmorr 291/340 Confused
Wraiths( G 6/66 Staggered/Hampered) (U 14/66 Staggered/+1 to hit this)
Hrarsk 65/75
Doug 46/80 T7 +1 to Hit
Bethany 58/64 T6
Khellirin T7 +1 to Hit
Hammer Golem 266/280
Fortuna 26/70 T7 +1 to Hit Betrayer / Confused SE / Staggered
Doug is up!
Stone Golem - AC 25 | PD 23 | MD 18 | HP 280
Golem immunity: Non-organic golems are immune to effects. They can’t be dazed, weakened, confused, made vulnerable, or touched by ongoing damage. You can damage a golem, but that’s about it.
Lokmorrr, the Betrayer - AC 24 | PD 19 | MD 23 | HP 340
Wraiths - AC 19 | PD 14 | MD 27 | HP 66
Vulnerability: holy
Ghostly: This creature has resist damage 16+ to all damage (including holy damage) except force damage, which damages it normally.
Clearing his head, Doug takes a swing at the wraith he finds himself face to face with.
Doug points at Lokmoor, "you might want to keep your distance from that one. Pretty sure he is our poop monster."
Doug finishes off the wraith with the green tint with a powerful blow.
This time the Hammer drops on Doug.
Doug gets clipped by the first swing and gets clobbered by the second one.
Initiative - ESCALATION 2
Lokmorr 291/340 Confused
Wraith (U 14/66 Staggered/+1 to hit this)
Hrarsk 65/75
Doug 3/80 Staggered/+1 to Hit
Bethany 58/64 T6
Khellirin T7 +1 to Hit
Hammer Golem 266/280
Fortuna 26/70 T7 +1 to Hit / Betrayer / Confused SE / Staggered
Fortuna is up! (and is confused)
Stone Golem - AC 25 | PD 23 | MD 18 | HP 280
Golem immunity: Non-organic golems are immune to effects. They can’t be dazed, weakened, confused, made vulnerable, or touched by ongoing damage. You can damage a golem, but that’s about it.
Lokmorrr, the Betrayer - AC 24 | PD 19 | MD 23 | HP 340
Wraiths - AC 19 | PD 14 | MD 27 | HP 66
Vulnerability: holy
Ghostly: This creature has resist damage 16+ to all damage (including holy damage) except force damage, which damages it normally.
You can’t make opportunity attacks or use your limited powers. Your next attack action will be a basic or at-will attack against any nearby ally, determined randomly.
Fortuna staggers, holding her head. "My allies have turned against me?" she cries in dismay, "Gods, you're right!"
She fires a line of icy smoke at the man who just benefited her.
Fortuna fires off her chilling ray, chilling the friendly cleric.
Lokmorr's evil fades from his eyes for a moment and he whispers "End my suffering."
as he slams into the wrath with his spear, dissipating the foul undead.
The evil quickly refills in Lokmorr's eyes though as he turns back to you.
Initiative - ESCALATION 3
Lokmorr 291/340
Hrarsk 49/75
Doug 3/80 Staggered/+1 to Hit
Bethany 58/64 T6
Khellirin T7 +1 to Hit
Hammer Golem 266/280
Fortuna 26/70 T7 +1 to Hit / Confused SE / Staggered
Hrarsk, Doug, Bethany & Khellirin are up! ESCALATION 3!
With the wraith before him vanquished, Khel steps closer to the massive hammer, attempting to smash it with his hammer and blade! Sadly, his attacks, while numerous, are not overly effective.
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Hrarsk frowns upon being hit by Fortuna's ice, but he had no time to discuss it with her. He mumbles yet another prayer for healing on behalf of Doug () and fires a flaming sphere at both Lokmorr and the hammer.
Bethany begins humming softly, the tune's volume growing as she swings her scimitar back and forth in front of Lokmorr to keep time. At a particularly appropriate moment in her song, she waves the scimitar wildly for a moment, sending a blast of air straight toward the enemies' ears (or, in the case of the hammer, the spot where its ears would be if it had ears).
Doug smites the hammer and lays into it.
with a striking blow!
With Hrarsk's healing
Doug becomes no longer staggered.
Meanwhile Khel proves that the blender if more powerful than the stone and whittles down the hammer.
Hrarsk's spell also staggers the hammer, and does a bit of work on the surprisingly resilient Lokmorr.
Bethany's cacophony causes Lokmorr some pain but is less effective on the golem.
The hammer crushes down once on each side this time.
It turns out it's hard to miss when you're that big though.
Initiative - ESCALATION 3
Lokmorr 257/340
Hrarsk 49/75
Doug 52/80 /+1 to Hit
Bethany 58/64 T6
Khellirin 64/72 +1 to Hit
Hammer Golem 107/280
Fortuna 26/70 T7 +1 to Hit / Confused SE / Staggered
Fortuna is up and still confused. ESCALATION 3!
Stone Golem - AC 25 | PD 23 | MD 18 | HP 280
Golem immunity: Non-organic golems are immune to effects. They can’t be dazed, weakened, confused, made vulnerable, or touched by ongoing damage. You can damage a golem, but that’s about it.
Lokmorrr, the Betrayer - AC 24 | PD 19 | MD 23 | HP 340
The mage whirls on the paladin in confusion, sending a bolt of force in his direction.
Fortuna continues to babble and fires off a missile at Doug.
ESCALATION increases to 4!
Doug once again hears the whispers as he tries to shake off Fortuna's missile.
Seeing Doug still not quite fall Lokmorr decides to finish him off with a simple quickened magic missile.
Initiative - ESCALATION 4
Lokmorr 257/340
Hrarsk 49/75
Doug -7/80 /+1 to Hit / Betrayer / Confused
Bethany 58/64 T6
Khellirin 64/72 +1 to Hit
Hammer Golem 107/280
Fortuna 26/70 T7 +1 to Hit / Confused SE / Staggered
Hrarsk, Doug, Bethany and Khel are up! ESCALATION 4!
Rather than his usual whirlwind style, Khel goes for straight power this time. He raises his hammer and brings it smashing down on the hammer golem, following up with a devastating blow from his blade!
Bethany's song ends abruptly in a roar of outrage as the hammer fells the valiant Doug. The roar, however, is loud enough to damage all but the most resilient nearby ears.
Hrarsk sighs seeing Doug fall, but knowing his prayers would be unable to help him. He charges the hammer with his sword.
Doug lies on the floor unconscious and drooling.
When you drop to 0 hp or below, you fall unconscious and can’t take any actions (except to make death saves).
To make a death save, roll a d20 at the start of your turn. If you roll 16+, use a recovery to return to consciousness and heal up to the number of hit points you rolled with your recovery. If you roll a natural 20, you get to take actions normally that turn. If you roll 15 or less, you take one step toward the grave. After the fourth failed death save in a single battle, you die.
You also die when you reach negative hit points equal to half your maximum hit points.
If you’re able to use one of your recoveries (or otherwise get healed) while you are dying, ignore your current negative hit points. Start from 0 and add the hit points you’ve regained.
Doug struggles and his heroic nature allows him to regain consciousness on his own!
Doug also tries to wipe his eyes but is a bit confused after standing up.
Khelrin finally goes for the weak spots on the hammer, almost taking it out before Bethany is able to finish it off with a thunderous roar that also harms Lokmorr, the Betrayer.
Hrarsk then charges Lokmorr, dealing a serious blow.
Initiative - ESCALATION 4
Lokmorr 185/340 (+1 to hit this)
Hrarsk 49/75
Doug 28/80 /+1 to Hit / Betrayer / Confused SE
Bethany 58/64 T6
Khellirin 64/72 +1 to Hit
Fortuna 26/70 T7 +1 to Hit / Confused SE / Staggered
Fortuna is up (and still confused) ESCALATION 4!
Fortuna continues to whirl wildly, firing off spells at the people who are killing her enemies.
"Leave me alone! Traitors! Backstabbers!"
Fortuna misses and then finally snaps out of it!
Doug still hears the whispers and is not target-able as an ally.
Lokmorr goes after Hrarsk with a flurry from his spear.
Hitting twice!
Initiative - ESCALATION 5
Lokmorr 185/340 (+1 to hit this)
Hrarsk 9/75
Doug 28/80 /+1 to Hit / Betrayer / Confused SE
Bethany 58/64 T6
Khellirin 64/72 +1 to Hit
Fortuna 26/70 T7 +1 to Hit / Staggered
Everybody is up! ESCALATION 5
"Alright, you..." growls Bethany, whirling on the evil monster. Taking a swig from her ever-full mug, the barkeep pauses, then pronounces:
"Doom to you, and all your kin,"
"May they rot in ruin,"
"Death to you, you'll never win,"
"That's just not what you're doin'!"
Bethany punctuates the final line with a finger pointed directly at Lokmorr, conveying all the guilt and shame the gesture can.
"O, gods, what have I done?" Fortuna wails, seeing Doug on the floor and slowly getting to his feet. She whirls on Lokmorr. "You bastard! You made me do that!"
She grasps a ball of flame from the air and hurls it at the giant figure. "Eat a Fury's Fiendish Flame, you undead jerk!"
Hrarsk strikes back angrily at Lokmorr, starting to feel weak.
With his stab, he begins to feel stronger.
As the massive hammer drops to the stone floor, Khel turns his attention to Lokmorr. His new magical boots move him adroitly across the floor, Khel grinning as he savors the fight to come. With hammer and blade in hand, he smashes and slices with blinding speed at the mad dwarf!
With the Hammer and wraiths finally out of the way the party descends en masse upon Lokmorr and take him out before he can cause any more trouble.
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Bethany frowns at Fortuna's dangerous use of alliteration, yet can't help but be impressed by the results. Maybe she's learned to control it somehow... or maybe it controls her, and she just likes to blame handy undead. Worth keeping an eye on.
Including...
Nargrym’s Steel Hand - Champion’s fist (recharge 11+): As a free action after you have been hit by an enemy attack, you can heal using a recovery. If the escalation die is less than 2, you only get half the usual healing from the recovery.
Note that you can’t use this ability if the attack drops you to 0 hp or below. You’ve got to be on your feet to sneer at their attack and recover.
If the escalation die is 3+ when you use this, the recovery is free.
Quirk: Alternately paranoid that people are looking too closely at your precious stone hand and upset that people aren’t paying enough attention to your amazing stone hand.
Champion's Hammer of Mighty Stunning (+2) (Can be either 1 or 2 handed) When you roll a natural even hit with this weapon and have more hit points than the target, that creature is also stunned until the end of its next turn.
Quirk: Warns of impending doom.
Champion's Cloak of Adroit Avoidance +2 PD, (recharge 6+): When an attack or effect deals ongoing damage to you that a save ends, you can roll an immediate save against it.
Quirk: Doesn’t notice social slights or insults.
Champion's Helm of Psychic Armor +2 MD (recharge 16+): When an attack that targets Mental Defense hits you, cancel the attack’s nondamage effects against you.
Quirk: Won’t stop going on about “the amazing dream I had last night.”
Champion's Sash of Suppleness +2 Recoveries (recharge 6+): A silky sash worn as a belt. When an attack hits your AC and deals 16 damage or less, change that hit into a miss.
Quirk: Always stretching, even when it would be more polite or sensible to not be doing so.
Beyond Lokmorr’s looted treasures, the most valuable item in the room can be found in Nargrym’s sarcophagus, still worn by the giantslayer’s corpse: Nargrym’s giant’s nail scale mail, a coat of scale armor crafted from the fingernails of slain hill giants.
Epic Giant’s Nail Scale Mail : +3 Heavy Armor (Enemies engaged with you take a –2 attack penalty against your allies, if they are giants they get -4)
Quirk: Has trouble maintaining an indoor voice.
These surely must be the treasures that you've come seeking to aid you in your fight against the giants.
In addition to all those treasures Lokmorr has a key which you are able to use to unlock the secret door and make your egress when ready.
Hrarsk 9/75
Doug 28/80
Bethany 58/64
Khellirin 64/72
Fortuna 26/70
Also don't forget to heal up using recoveries or other means.
Hrarsk pauses for a long rest after Lokmorr falls down. "That was difficult. Little wonder that he was in a cage. I wonder how he got out..."