Sparel Radtymah |
There's something that definitely appears to be a crude altar, and Sparel can tell that both spell effects emanate from it.
Rosa, feel free to now change your actions
Sparel, I see no action listed for using Truename. Any suggestions? Also, would you be alright with NPCing Gabe?
Presently Gabe got summoned, spoke a bit, and drew her weapon. I thought that was probably about the limit of her actions the round. I wasn't entirely sure how many actions she got since the spell she was summoned with usually has a longer casting time. Regardless, when her turn rolls around she'll take her full round of actions. If she gets a standard action the round she is summoned:
she'll throw up a Blade Barrier up to 320 feet long and 20 feet high. She'll summon it inside the room wherever would A) hit the most enemies and B) give us a tactical advantage. The reflex DC is 21 to get to one side or the other of the wall or take 15d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 2, 4, 6, 1, 6, 1, 2, 1, 6, 1, 3, 1, 5) = 42 force damage.
Edit: Crap that's a lot of 1's and 2's
Tialvoron Manaril |
if the ice gets shot with a cannon, Rosa will need to roll damage. Only the GM knows how much HP the ice has because I purposefully didn't choose a CL for the caster of Icy Prison.
Akor Scourgebane |
The Blade Barrier cuts down a large group of the Devil's Rosa Gated in, while the Cannon Golem shatters the ice prison, releasing whatever is inside, for good or ill.
Akor sprouts a pair of wings, that look almost like celestial fairy wings. He flies straight into the fiends, and begins cutting them down left and right.
Not gonna bother rolling for the minor outsiders, nor should any of you.
Tialvoron Manaril |
BOOM!...ccccchhhhkk goes the sound of the cannon golem firing, its round impacting the floating ice tomb. Cracks spread like a spider's web out from the impact area as shards of ice fall into the large black pool. The cannonball, too, falls with a splash into the black pool from which bubbles of steam then rise as the cannonball is melted. A sudden movement from within the tomb widens the cracks and sends the ice sliding off of the mass and into the pool in large chunks.
A large creature of fine gold and white metals framing segments carved from white marble embellished with sapphires and emeralds stands hovering where the ice once was. (sorta looks like a golem, if fey made golems. It glances around the room, noting the newcomers.
Knowledge Checks on the PCs. Not sure if this would give me any info on them but I figured at our epic level that something had gotten around.
History: 1d20 + 28 ⇒ (3) + 28 = 31
Nobility: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (14) + 27 = 41
Planes: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (19) + 13 = 32
I don't even know what Akor is so I will make whatever knowledge check i should make for him as well if one of the above are not applicable.
"First devils, now demons... all manner of evil host has arrived. It appears the two are working together for some unknown reason, highly unusual. And an elf in here? Another hero to defend the temple? But the devil stands not far from him, and it looks like they could be in concert. Time will tell, but there is much to do in so little time."
The creature casts a spell. "Defilers! Leave this area, your work here has come to an end!" shouts the creature with an elven accent while drawing Prescience, an elven curveblade.
First Round: Casts Haste as a standard action, draw weapon as a move action.
Rosa.Luminass. |
I agree unless is some kind of mass combat, dynamic goons are there to get wasted and to wast. At this level now point as all rolling per goon unless it gets a hero moment.
The cannon round hit true and Rosa sees the ice start to brake from inside, 1st a crack then it shatters, the thing that comes out.
"NO! could it be, a high Metron here?, no it has the look of a fay crafted think, 1st world? what ever it is they wanted it power, taint it as they seek to taint the world. But by the hells what is it, a lost god?"
Rosa calls to the thing in the Ice, as she defends the Cannon Golems from her own devil hoard.
"Thing, I free'ed you, I say pay back your debt to me here and now, fight with us to stop this foul corruption to our worlds order."
It looks at her in puzzlement,
"It must be wondering why devil seek aid in fighting devil"
It looks away itself then its voice booms out.
"Defilers! Leave this area, your work here has come to an end!"
Rosa crys out as one of her own, buts her deep with a blade, she spins and cuts down a bearded Devil. Others come and she has no time to see what happens next in the room. Her Cannon Golems open fire in the alter, they must be given time to do there work.
Sparel Radtymah |
"The plot thickens. " Sparel says as he casts another spell
Summon monster V to summon 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 Lantern archons
Sparels motions end with a number of white lights emerge out of the ether. They proceed to fly around the battlefield and zap the mook demons/devils.
Gabriella leaps to the middle of the thickest part of the demons and says a single word in a calm perfect voice.
"Holy."
A spherical wave of energy radiates off her. As it expands demons and devils scream and vanish in a perfect circle.
Casts Holy word
Sparel Radtymah |
Seeing the back and forth between Rosa and the thing in the ice Sparel says quietly to himself
"For goddess sake"
He then holds his holy symbol aloft (CG Elven moon goddess)
Then raises his voice to the room "She's with us (Gesturing to Rosa with a thumb). They're (with a wide gesture to the room beyond) not. If you want to live I suggest you side with us."
Tialvoron Manaril |
"I see. An interesting coterie you have here, counting angels and devils among your allies. I am here to reclaim the sanctity of this place and defeat this horde. You may count my blade among your allies in this."
Sparel Radtymah |
"I see. An interesting coterie you have here, counting angels and devils among your allies. I am here to reclaim the sanctity of this place and defeat this horde. You may count my blade among your allies in this."
"Explanations later." Sparel says as an arrow is deflected by his magical protections. "Fight now."
Rosa.Luminass. |
"Ba-BOOM!"
In unison Two more gout's of smoke and flame leap from the Golems cannons red hot balls of death blast throw any Devil over the barrel opening, then across the mass in the room and slam into the side of the corrupted Alter, sending shrapnel and stone chips in every direction, shattering the flesh and bone they meet.
You can see Rosa using all her skill and powers to, slash, spell and intimate her own swarming horde from the Cannon Golems so they can keep up this hellish bombardment.
Going to keep rosa doing this wile you guys do your thing inside, any thing you can V evil will get Rosa so she will stay out shooting in and fighting.
Akor Scourgebane |
In less than ten minutes, the various minor fiends, cultists, etc are destroyed, leaving only Dheembleth, the hooded arcanist, and a pair of large, unique looking devils, that were not around when the fighting began. Unfortunately, Rosa's cannon golems have been destroyed, though Gabrielle is still around, much of her help coming in via healing the various wounds the quartet sustained.
Re-roll initiative, seriousish combat now
Rosa.Luminass. |
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28
The fighting is close, hard work, many times Rosa is swarmed by Dheembleth army of the controlled, only to fight once more free, to the shock of all at one point Rosa Hound of hell and Gabrielle Arch angel of the higher planes are seen fighting back to back, as magic and fire rage around them.
Then Rosa leads what seems to be a suicide charge with the last of the cannon golems into the throng at the pit . At the last moment she dos the unthinkable, she detonates her own golem, the blast rips throw the room as she, the golem and the last Dheembleth hoard disappear in the blast wave. Its sound rocks the room.
Then a moment of silence, slowly from cloud of dust and falling flesh and steal, Rosa staggers back to the group, Gabrielle rushes to her and heals what he can, she looks at the others, you can see the pain on her face, she looks spent, blood and gore cover her, her imp seems to be the only devil Demon left with her.
She dos not see Dheembleth and the devils behind.
in a rasping voice gaining strength as Gabrielle healing, she says "How do we stand?"
She looks when the others point out Dheembleth and his Devils, saying nothing.
Tialvoron Manaril |
The newly-freed strange creature tirelessly cuts a swath through the enemy forces. Wading forward, cutting ten feet at a time, it swings its elven curveblade Might in a wide arc, cleanly slicing enemies in twain with two-handed strikes before moving forward. Balls of fire, rays of ice and bolts of lightning strike the creature to no effect. Might, gleaming through the blood that stained it, flashes many times per second as its master hovers two feet off the ground to keep from slipping in devil's gore.
It cuts down the last of the rabble near it before flying over to join its rescuers. "Tialvoron is my name." Minor chips in the creature's marble-like skin begin to smooth back over, damage undone.
Rosa.Luminass. |
Rosa nods at Tialvoron,
"Rosa Luminass Hound of hell, here to police the crimes of one Dheembleth and his fellows, Tialvoron your aid is timely and much needed"
She stands ready for what comes next.
Sparel Radtymah |
Initiative 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28
Sparel unleashes more creatures upon the battlefield. The horde of summoned creatures meets up with the horde of demons as they fight each other. Sparel sees a large clump of demons starting to form a defensive line. He summons another wall of swirling blades to keep them from having a strategic advantage and murder them by the score.
A particularly fast barbed devil throws itself at Sparel. With a look the creatures leap is halted mid air only to be redirected and flung into one of the nearby walls of blades. The creatures body splatters as it discorporate.
Demons come at Sparel in mass and he surrounds himself with a sphere of nearly invisible force. The demons pound on it to no effect. Sparel prepares himself then drop the protective barrier. The throng of demons makes it about two steps and sparel says a single pure word of power. "Holy." As Gabrielle did before the demons scream in agony as they vanish from the material plane. Standing in a now empty circle sparel looks determined...and pissed.
As Tivalvoron introduces himself Sparel says, "You fight well. Glad to see you made the right choice to side with us. When this is done we will talk further."
Then to Dheembleth in an obviously angry voice and pointing with hand still glowing with eldritch power Sparel says, "This is your last chance to yield. You will submit to judgement or you will meet oblivion here and now. Frankly, I hope you choose the latter."
As he says this Gabrielle comes to stand by Sparel looking very menacing.
Sparel Radtymah |
Sparel, need 2 more checks, for you and Gabe
Missed that. My bad.
Sparel Perception 1d20 + 29 ⇒ (5) + 29 = 34
Gabriella perception 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (18) + 27 = 45
Sparel Perception 1d20 + 29 ⇒ (13) + 29 = 42
Gabriella perception 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (17) + 27 = 44
Rosa.Luminass. |
Rosa
1d20 + 36 ⇒ (13) + 36 = 49 Perception
1d20 + 36 ⇒ (3) + 36 = 39 Perception
1d20 + 36 ⇒ (5) + 36 = 41 Perception
Rosas Imp
1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21 Perception
1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 Perception
1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19 Perception
Rosa.Luminass. |
Rosa sword and imp move to one side as she moves two the hooded man, she was not taking things from her him she was giving things to him.
Because just after She has cast antimagic-field and gone flying at the Hooded man.
Sparel Radtymah |
Sparel (in his elemental form) flies up and forward to get a better angle (up to 50 feet to get a better shooting angle) then raises a finger and utters a word of utter contempt at the demon. A ray of crackling black energy shoots toward the creature.
Touch attack 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (8) + 19 = 27
If hit Fort safe DC 28. Spell resistance does not apply in this case. If he fails that's 200 Pts of damage and assuming he survives needs to roll concentration or lose his spell. If he succeeds in his fort safe he takes 3d6 + 20 ⇒ (2, 1, 5) + 20 = 28 and needs to roll concentration or loose his spell.
Rosa.Luminass. |
Change Action, now going to cast antimagic-field area is to small 10' only, Akor did we take down the alter? IE can we Teleport now? also Sparel
Akor Scourgebane |
Ok, meant to post this before, but the site has been having serious issues.
The hooded mage was performing his spellcasting, WHILE the battle was being fought. Thus, while you know what was going on, you are unable to prevent it.
Tialvoron Manaril |
i think the site might have been bogged down due either to the end of the world or perhaps the RPG Superstar having first round voting opening today.
Ah, i thought that he was working on the casting the whole time but was still casting. That is the impression that i got.
Akor Scourgebane |
1d20 + 18 ⇒ (13) + 18 = 31 Initiative
As the 'heroes' destroy their lesser foes, the cowled mage was busy casting some long, involved ritual like spell. Once the minor fiends are defeated, the quartet catches their breath for a moment.
The group hears a bubbling, gurgling sound, as something seems to be rising out of the ooze pit. It looks like a huge blue and purple faceted egg like sphere, four feet in diameter. Sparel, being so in tune with all forms of magic, is able to figure out what it is: an arcane bomb, which if it is detonated, would incinerate any who wield magic.
Rosa.Luminass. |
Narr the hole pathfinder office went off to the cinema to see the Hobit and a meal, by the time they got back, site down etc. and Wee I feel like James Bond, just got to the last scene in the film where the bad guys about to used his death ray or in this case arcane bomb
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17 Initi
Sparel Radtymah |
Knowledge Arcana 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (13) + 37 = 50
Knowledge Dungeoneering1d20 + 27 ⇒ (19) + 27 = 46
Knowledge Engineer1d20 + 27 ⇒ (12) + 27 = 39
Knowledge Geography1d20 + 27 ⇒ (20) + 27 = 47
Knowledge History1d20 + 27 ⇒ (14) + 27 = 41
Knowledge Local1d20 + 27 ⇒ (8) + 27 = 35
Knowledge Nature1d20 + 27 ⇒ (13) + 27 = 40
Knowledge Nobility1d20 + 27 ⇒ (15) + 27 = 42
Knowledge Planes1d20 + 38 ⇒ (18) + 38 = 56
Knowledge Religion1d20 + 32 ⇒ (7) + 32 = 39
Spellcraft 1d20 + 33 ⇒ (5) + 33 = 38
The above is to see how much I can figure out about the egg. Essentially, how big is the explosion (immediate vicinity, city block, city, state, country, world)? Can I contain it, if so how (in theory)? We can teleport now since the altar was destroyed, right?
Rosa.Luminass. |
Not good about the Altar and as thats got a "you can do very little magic wise, spell on, and hes done his big spell, then Run seems like the only thing so where to, A Place?, A Plane, or future Time, Rosa can do all three, OR we out try and drop the bomb into a another A Place?, A Plane, Shunt it to Nspace. Also this is by far the best Pathfinder game I am in, its slow but man where do you get to do the things in an RPG we are doing here. :)
Tialvoron Manaril |
i doubt putting it in another place will work with the altar still in effect blocking dimensional travel.
can i tell anything else with my spellcraft, such as can it be handled with bare hands, can it be moved, what is the blast radius, duration of effect, etc?
Akor Scourgebane |
Sparel, you recall Arcane Bombs being used a lot during several of the various magic heavy wars in the distant past. They were devastating, and even the smallest could effect a few miles. This one, while not nearly very big, would probably have a blast radius of roughly ten to fifteen miles.
Attacking them with dispels, or even a disjunction have no effect, as they just absorb any arcane spell, growing bigger and more powerful. Their weakness, however, is magic granted via the Gods.