Gornak steps back and attacks any ghouls that might threaten Aylmora.
Energy snaps out from Aylmora like a ripple in the air, striking Grayst. The ghouls seems to shrug off the attack with little damage...
...then Gornak's hammer comes down - and narrowly misses Grayst, shattering the floor.
The door to the cellar swings wide and a third ghoul enters the fray; a hunched and wrinkled creature with eyes almost lost in folds of skin. With a hiss he gestures and a shard of crystal shoots at Thanadros.
Enervation chance (15%):
Attack Ranged Touch: Damage:
The shot flies wide and shatters against the stone wall.
Round 2
"..." Thanadros leers at the newcomer as the mental crystal fragments rain down around the party. "...You die first." He says as he raises his bow and sends 2 arrows at the foul creature.
Grayst spins and launches himself at Gornak.
Bite Damage:
Claw #1 Damage:
Claw #2 Damage:
Vaclav up next.
Vaclav stands tall with his talisman bow held high in his left hand. "Erastil for good! Erastil for right!"
DC 15 will for 1/2
Fort save:
Gornak is not paralysed. Yet.
Blind Sedge:
Grayst Sevilla:
Erin Habe:
Gornak's original attacker still flails at him.
Bite Damage:
Claw #1 Damage:
Claw #2 Damage:
Grayst Sevilla 20
Vaclav 17
Erin Habe 14
Aylmora 13
Thanadros 11
Gob 9
Gornak 8
Blind Sedge 6
Aylmora, though paralysed, can take a mental action.
Gob's eyes blaze with fury as he lets forth a psychic gout of flame at the ghoul who shot a crystal.
Ranged Touch damage (3pp)
Despite his thick armor, tough skin and invisible force screen, Gornak is bleeding from multiple wounds.
Disease save:
Paralysis save:
But he's still standing and he swings again at one of the ghouls.
Round Two:
Her mind aflame with impotent fury, Aylmora unleashes another blast of uncontrolled phrenic energy at the ghoul that was Grayst Sevilla.
Aymora's second blast slams into Grayst, shaking him.
Thanadross drills two arrows into the wrinkled ghoul, both shafts drive deep and the ghoul tumbles backward. Even as he falls, Gob's bolt of fire finishes the job, incinerating the ghoul with a final shriek that echoes in your ears and in your minds. He crashes against a table in the corner, and a mass of papers and parchments tumble over him as he finally sinks down, dead. In moments the drapery covering a window above him begins to catch alight.
However, Thanadros' shots open him up to an opportune attack from Grayst:
Claw (AoO): Damage: Catching him with a claw and drawing blood
Immediately the room brightens to normal light as the imposed gloom lifts.
Gornak takes step back to swing his hammer down once once more, smashing his initial attacker hard. To your horror, you recognise this ghoul is none other than Erin Habe himself. He reels from the attack, but is still fighting like a thing possessed.
Round #3:
With a howl of insane fury, Grayst tears into Thanadros.
Bite: Damage:
Claw #1: Damage:
Claw #2: Damage:
Only one blow lands solidly.
Vaclav's action...
ROund 3:
Vaclav continues to pray to Erastil, but changes to tone to one asking for protection and aid.
Cast protection from evil on Gornak.
"Gornak, kill Aylmora's foe first!"
Status:
HP: 23/23 AC: 18, touch: 12, flat footed: 16 (MW Breastplate ACP-3)(+2 more if ring of FS is active)
Fort: +5 = +4+1 Ref: +3 = +0+2 +1 citybred Will: +7 = +4+3
Erin Habe presses his attack on Gornak.
Bite Damage:
Claw #1 Damage:
Claw #2 Damage:
Erin is now inside Gornak's guard if he is using his hammer. He'll either have to strike with the haft or change weapons.
Don't worry though, unless you start aiming fireballs into lumbar-mills (by common sense an obviously bad idea) I certainly won't use this kind of effect to screw over the party. Similarly if you want to set something highly flammable alight with energy rays, you can.
Edit: as for rays of frost extinguishing fires, that's problematic. It could suck the heat out of a portion of fire, maybe reduce it down, but this fire now fills an entire 5' square and several objects in it (corpse, table, papers, drapery), so without an effect that will cover the square it's probably not going to work. Good news is, the floor is stone flags.
Round 3
Seeing the fire spreading, and worried about the ceiling, Gob manifests a blast of electric energy at the next closest ghoul (or whichever is wearing metal armor).
Ranged touch (+3 if target in metalarmor)
Damage 3pp energy ray, electric
Round 3
Thanadros drops his bow and pulls his longsword, swinging wildly at Grayst. "Yaaah!"
Mwk Longsword | Damage | Crit: 19-20/x2
Gornak drops his hammer, draws his garbage hook, and attacks the adjacent ghoul.
Round Three:
Unable to move, Aylmora takes the opportunity to focus her will.
Grayst Sevilla 20
Vaclav 17
Erin Habe 14
Aylmora 13
Thanadros 11
Gob 9
Gornak 8
Aylmora focuses her mind.
Thanadros' attack misses.
Gob sends a spark sizzling past the Grayst's ear.
Gornak's blow slices into Erin Habe's padded cloth jacket, shredding it but not drawing blood.
Grayst presses his attack on Thanadros.
Bite: Damage:
Claw #1: Damage:
Claw #2: Damage:
This time two attacks draw blood.
Vaclav circles behind his allies to find an opening against Aylmora's attacker.
"Go to Pharasma! You are long overdue!" He drives his mace into the ghoul's flank.
Mace ... damage +2 more to hit if V reaches flanking position.
Status:
HP: 23/23 AC: 18, touch: 12, flat footed: 16 (MW Breastplate ACP-3)(+2 more if ring of FS is active)
Fort: +5 = +4+1 Ref: +3 = +0+2 +1 citybred Will: +7 = +4+3
Grayst does indeed take a swipe:
AoO Claw: Damage:
...but misses completely. Vaclav, too, fails to connect, but Grayst is now flanked.
Erin Habe keeps attacking Gornak.
Bite Damage:
Claw #1 Damage:
Claw #2 Damage:
...but he cannot breach Gornak's defences.
Gornak swipes again with his deadly (in theory) hook.
Grayst Sevilla 20
Vaclav 17
Erin Habe 14
Aylmora 13
Thanadros 11
Gob 9
Gornak 8Aylmora focuses her mind.
Thanadros' attack misses.
Gob sends a spark sizzling past the Grayst's ear.
Gornak's blow slices into Erin Habe's padded cloth jacket, shredding it but not drawing blood.
END ROUND 3. Begin Round 4.
Grayst presses his attack on Thanadros.Bite: 1d20+7 Damage: 1d6+8
Claw #1: 1d20+7 Damage: 1d6+8
Claw #2: 1d20+7 Damage: 1d6+8This time two attacks draw blood.
?? A second Round 4 attack? or Round 5?
Vaclav swings his mace high and drives it down at the ghoul's head.
Mace ... damage
Fort
As Grayst claws at Thanadros, his body seems to resist some of the damage, however, the second claw hits directly, nearly dropping the warrior.
"We-We need to kill these things, NOW!
Mwk Longsword | Damage | Crit: 19-20/x2
Seeing Thanadros' injuries, Gob calls on the fell powers of his patron to heal him a bit.
Healing hex
Still paralyzed, Aylmora unleashes another blast of uncontrolled phrenic energy at the ghoul that was Grayst Sevilla.
Vaclav's blow lands squarely, as does Thanadros' and Grayst reels under the attack, his ferocity checked for the first time. Gob boosts up Thanadros, and then Gornak's hook sweeps around in a lethal arc, and Erin Habe crumples to the ground.
Grayst leaps for the door.
Vaclav is surprised as Grayst breaks for the door, but he sees an opportunity as the ghoul passes and cuts at the ghoul's legs.
Mace ... damage
"No. You are staying right here..."
AoO: Mwk Longsword | Damage | Crit: 19-20/x2
Vaclav's blow crunches into ribs but does not stop the ghoul. Then Thanadros sweeps his sword around and takes the ghoul's head clean from his shoulders. The body takes two more steps, slamming into Aylmora and knocking her to the floor in the door way.
The fire in the corner is now lighting the room very well, smoke is drifting across the ceiling and being drawn up the stairs. A flickering glow up there shows that something above the wooden floor has also caught alight.
If gob needs help with the fire, Thanadros helps out. Once that is done he turns to either gob or Vaclav and holds out a wand.
"Could you take care of my wounds, my friend?"
Thanadros offers the wand to anyone else needing healing. "Is there anything we can do for Aylmora?"
Thanadros reestablishes psionic focus.
The fire is beyond Gob's ability to put it out, it now covers three squares, and it is burning in the room above.
"Get her out of here. I'm going to look upstairs."
Although it is unlikely the ghouls left anyone alive, Vaclav xcharges up the stairs to check.
Still unable to move, Aylmora takes the opportunity to regain her focus within both herself and Emyralda.
"Right." Thanadros picks up Aylmora in a fireman's carry. "Be careful Vaclav, I doubt there are survivors. If there are monsters up there, retreat and we will engage them outside."
With that, Thanadros carries Aylmora outside and looks for a good defensible spot to set her down at.
"Well, if someone else could heal me as well..." Gornak trails off, unsure of what to do. He's torn between checking the upstairs and leaving because he's too weak. In the end, he helps Thanadros bring Aylmora outside.
Gob uses his healing hex on Gornak and then rushes upstairs with Vaclav, without a word.
Upstairs is a carnal house, blood and bones are scattered around on the upper floor, doors are opened and it is clear that the orderlies and other patients have been killed and devoured.
The smoke is getting thick on the second floor, Fort DC 14 or be dazzled this round (eyes watering).
Fort
Vaclav sees enough before the smoke blots out the scene. He feels his way along the wall down the stairs. "Too late. They killed them all."
Fort
Perception (edit: -1 from dazzled)
Gob tries his best to look around the room fir survivors, valuables, and obvious clues, taking as long as he can to do so before he risks choking or burning to death.
Gob takes in the scene of carnage in a single glance, there's no-one left alive in here.
Vaclav staggers out of the smoke-filling building. Everyone else exits (I assume) with Aylmora as the sanatorium burns down behind you.
"Gob! Get out of there before the whole place goes up!" Gornak pleads as he quickly dashes in and out to retrieve his hammer.