GM Endless Forms' Shattered Star (Inactive)

Game Master Mike Tuholski

Sorry guys! I hadn't forgotten, I've just been so busy I was struggling to keep my other games updated and decided to give Brelar a few extra days. He must still be having trouble though.

Bert thinks hard about the problem. He knows that bindings are complex spells and can even be strengthened by having assistants lend their aid. However, by studying the appropriate auras Brelar is quite sure that Xin must have done the binding spell himself (i.e. CL 20).

Bert and Brelar also know that you can't dispel a binding spell with dispel magic or a similar effect, though an antimagic field or mage's disjunction affects it normally. A bound extraplanar creature cannot be sent back to its home plane by dismissal, banishment, or a similar effect.

Bert is fully aware that demons are chaotic creatures and unlike devils are very likely to forget their promises and fail to fulfill their end of the bargain. However, this demon seems particularly desperate to get out of this place and likely wants little more than to flee back to her home plane.

"I have no means to relieve you of your bindings, demon." the Varisian man states with a shrug. "Nor would I, if I could."

"As much as I detest the binding of a free-willed creature, I also abhor senseless violence set upon innocents, which is undoubtedly what you will seek after you regain your freedom." Karn offers. "However, I am not the leader of the group and if your freedom is what we require to save the rest, then perhaps I will have to hunt you down across the planes after we have finished our quest."

Karn has neither AMF or MD, so he is content with the destruction of the embodiment of chaotic evil.

Ok, sorry for the delay. I was giving some time for responses but was also hoping the delay would give Brelar time to jump back in but we should just keep pushing forward. Hopefully having BS playing Karn will make it less onerous for you guys to tag-team botting Brelar while he's still gone.

Belmedra sighs and raises her six swords. "I have been so long alone and yet your company already bores me. I wish I had been sent someone more useful."

Hey, look at that! Last map ever now updated. That's 31 total maps we've been through and some of those are the huge level maps from the earlier books.

Initiative:

1. Karn, Argust, Bert, and Brelar
2. Belmedra (marilith demon)

You guys are up!

OK, time fer talkin' is over, Bert! This gal wants action!

August moves to attack the demon girl! Instead of Power Attack we'll try Stunning Assault, DC 26 Fort.

Attack: 1d20 + 34 ⇒ (4) + 34 = 38 for Damage (plus Evil): 2d6 + 28 + 2d6 ⇒ (4, 5) + 28 + (4, 5) = 46

Piledriver - Trip: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (18) + 24 = 42

Karn steps to the side as he draws his longarm hammer. With a flourish, the Varisian's eyes flash green as a white-hot light surrounds the hammer's head. "May Desna bless us for this combat with evil!" he bellows as he slams the hammer into the ground.

The light flashes outward, encasing Argust, Karn, Brelar and Bert as they seemingly grow butterfly wings of light that will defend them.

Blessing of Fervor on the group.
+2 to AC/hit/Reflex for Karn.

If allowed, August will use the +2 BoF option this turn.

Bert shrugs. "Sorry about this. But we all knew it was going to come to a fight." Hecalls on his luck, then casts his usual good hope!

Fort: 1d20 ⇒ 1

Argust is not able to trip the demon, but he still surprises her with the fury of his attack! She stands stunned in surprise as Bert and Karn offer their usual aid to the dwarf.

Initiative:

1. Karn, Argust, Bert, and Brelar
2. Belmedra (marilith demon, 36 dmg)

You guys are up!

August smiles as his attack catches the enemy in stunning fashion. He then tries to finish the job. Extra Attack from BoF.

Attack: 1d20 + 36 ⇒ (9) + 36 = 45 for Damage: 2d6 + 41 + 2d6 ⇒ (4, 2) + 41 + (2, 2) = 51
Attack: 1d20 + 36 ⇒ (1) + 36 = 37 for Damage: 2d6 + 45 + 2d6 ⇒ (1, 3) + 45 + (2, 6) = 57
Attack: 1d20 + 31 ⇒ (20) + 31 = 51 for Damage: 2d6 + 45 + 2d6 ⇒ (3, 6) + 45 + (4, 1) = 59
Attack: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (12) + 26 = 38 for Damage: 2d6 + 45 + 2d6 ⇒ (6, 2) + 45 + (5, 3) = 61
Attack: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (20) + 21 = 41 for Damage: 2d6 + 45 + 2d6 ⇒ (5, 6) + 45 + (3, 6) = 65

Confirm #3?: 1d20 + 31 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 31 + 4 = 45 for Damage with Bleed: 2d6 + 45 + 2d6 ⇒ (6, 1) + 45 + (2, 2) = 56
Confirm #5?: 1d20 + 21 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 21 + 4 = 34 for Damage with Bleed: 2d6 + 45 + 2d6 ⇒ (4, 6) + 45 + (5, 2) = 62

Plus two saves DC 26 Fort or be staggered for 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 and 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5, the save makes it just one round.

Joining in the fray, Karn pulls his hammer free from the small crater left by the impact of his raging spell. "Save some for me, Argust!" he bellows as he moves to the flank of the demon and takes a mighty swing.

+5 Lucerne Hammer | PA/FF/BoF/GH/Flank: 1d20 + 22 + 2 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 22 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 36
Vital Strike Damage: 2d12 + 12 + 12 ⇒ (12, 9) + 12 + 12 = 45

Waiting to see if the demon is still upright.

Phew! Over the peak of pollination so posting should be better for a while (until I'm gone Friday-Saturday).

Argust and Karn work together to quickly kill the demon; because of the strong binding she is not send back to the Abyss but rather lies dead in front of you.

And she didn't even get to use her fancy weapons! Which were:

You find on her a +2 abysium longsword of life stealing, an adamantine longsword, a horacalcum longsword, a +3 inubrix longsword, a +1 construct-bane noqual longsword, and a +1 flaming burst hot siccatite longsword. In addition there are 240 pounds of raw abysium in here, worth a total of 24,000 gp.

With the guardian removed, you can exit through the door she was guarding. As you cross the threshold, mechanical sounds and the hum of arcane runes begin echoing through the palace.

Gears, levers, cogs, bars, and other construct components lie scattered haphazardly throughout this chamber, creating an uneven, shifting surface to stand on. Some of these components are barely larger than an inch, while the largest measure 10 feet in diameter. Crystal shelves are littered with thousands of molds and castings of intricately engraved armored plates and human-like appendages, while heaps of shattered fragments of transparent crystal lie scattered everywhere. Runes flow like thick liquid along the crystal walls, casting strange shadows among the debris.

Those who can read Thassilonian can correctly interpret the runes on the wall, which are ancient scrawlings from Xin, akin to what one might expect to see on a mad scientist’s laboratory chalkboard.

Aaaaand you should level up for the last time, as we only have two more combats!

Going to GenCon?

With Lore Master, Bert can take 10 for a 41 Knowledge (Arcana) result.

Bert skips around the room, heedless of the shifting surface (+19 Acrobatics, and a +22 Reflex save), ooh-ing and aah-ing over the various items present while he jots notes to himself. As he goes, though, he starts slowing down and getting a bit more serious. "Uh-oh! Someone built a really tough construct here, and unless I'm really out to lunch it looks like the thing was set up to be driven by a captured soul--a really, really tough soul. After what the demon told us about Xin still being around, I bet it's his soul. The construct was made using all seven skymetals, too. Hmmm...think we should retreat and get some more stuff before we come back here and take it on?"

EF--would we be able to do that without messing things up at this stage?

Yeah, I'm not sure how much coin we'd have available for our last bit of purchases for this level up. Two more fights? Man, hard to believe...

Karn is leveled up! Took another level of Rage Prophet to make it easy!

The Varisian man nods grimly. "We should prepare. If we are fighting a construct, then adamantine is probably the best choice for our weaponry."

Karn and Argust already have +5 weapons, so they'll bypass substance-based DR.

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I was thinking Hardness, but that might not have been as widespread with constructs back in Shattered Star days.

I'm also leveled up, just need to see if I can take time to figure out how much gold we gathered up. Not sure what I'd spend it on yet though.

You have the magical means to return to Magnimar for one last trip if you want, but the ominous mechanical sounds and arcane hum should tell you that Xin is not only aware of your presence (as if he wasn't already) but that he is actively preparing for you now.

Also, sadly I won't be at GenCon again this year. It just falls right during our busy field season. However, I might be able to make it next year. We'll see.

OK, I think I got all the treasure that we gathered and save for items that I know we kept we each get 83,558 gold pieces of spending cash.

Now I will ask for suggestions as to what to spend it on.

Ok, I'm back so let's push along!

You make a quick trip to resupply and then return to Xin's palace to stop the mad Emperor's nefarious plans!

This might once have been an antechamber to the larger chamber beyond, but its walls are now shattered and crumbling, scorched black in places while still smoldering in others with the glowing embers from a dying fire. A smoky haze hangs low to the floor, and red-hot crystal shards pop and burst here and there on the walls, sending out tiny burning slivers in all directions. A twenty-foot-square slab of stone inscribed with glowing runes sits in the middle of the room’s floor, while sprawled to the west, where the fire damage seems to be the most recent, lies the blackened body of a forty-foot-tall giant dressed in exotic armor and clutching an immense sword.

As soon as you enter the room, the fires and smoke along the walls seem to quicken and churn and you are forced into another vision of the past:

Bent with age, the once-imperious emperor of Thassilon seems on the verge of crumbling under the weight of his elaborate robes as he finishes the final touch, polishing the immense central crystal of a sparkling three-legged, four-armed war machine. He pats a coppery metal panel on the machine’s side and smiles tiredly.

“Anon, I shed my feeble body at last for this new life!" he sighs. “One final rest to prepare the final apotheosis, and those seven traitors shall know their invulnerable lord’s displeasure. And Thassilon... my Thassilon... shall be rekindled.” In the vision, Xin gathers up the seven shards of the Sihedron, then descends a magical staircase into a lower chamber, but as he crosses its expanse, a dark shadow falls over him.

A massive giant, his black flesh pulsing with powerful red runes, suddenly manifests behind the emperor, heaving a gigantic sword over his head. Xin whirls, seems to recognize the giant, and snarls: “So this is how my loyalty is repaid—in my own blood, even as I forsake mortality!” He stumbles forward as the giant’s sword shatters the weakened palace’s crystal floor.

Calmly—smiling, even—Xin reaches out a bony hand as the giant prepares to strike again. “You will die. But I will live again!” Holding high the fragments of the Shattered Star, Xin closes his eyes and hurls them at the giant, and a blinding white fire consumes all.

As the vision ends, the rune giant’s remains suddenly stir....

Initiative:

1. Argust and Bert
2. Shasthaak
3. Brelar and Karn

Argust and Bert are up!

In case it matters on the next fight Argust now has a +6 Initiative modifier.

Argust charges the enemy!

Attack: 1d20 + 40 ⇒ (16) + 40 = 56 for Damage: 2d6 + 46 ⇒ (1, 5) + 46 = 52 plus If Evil: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 4) = 8

AC 39 after the charge. Is this considered a giant or subtype? If so Argust gets a +4 dodge bonus to his AC.

Unafraid, Argust rushes in as Bert offers up his usual good hope for the fight ahead! The undead giant takes the blow in stride and roars as his large blade bursts into flames. He shouts out curses in Thassilonian: "Xin! I will drag what is left of your forsaken soul through fire and ice, through the deeps of this world and trap you there! That is more than you deserve for your betrayal!" Shasthaak swings at the nearest living creature, Argust, driven on by his new undead lust to kill the living:

+4 human-bane longsword: 1d20 + 35 - 4 ⇒ (20) + 35 - 4 = 51
damage: 4d6 + 33 + 12 ⇒ (5, 4, 4, 2) + 33 + 12 = 60
fire: 5d6 ⇒ (6, 6, 3, 3, 3) = 21

+4 human-bane longsword: 1d20 + 30 - 4 ⇒ (20) + 30 - 4 = 46
damage: 4d6 + 33 + 12 ⇒ (5, 4, 2, 2) + 33 + 12 = 58
fire: 5d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 1, 3, 2) = 12

+4 human-bane longsword: 1d20 + 25 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 25 - 4 = 38
damage: 4d6 + 33 + 12 ⇒ (5, 1, 3, 4) + 33 + 12 = 58
fire: 5d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 6, 6, 1) = 22

Confirm:
+4 human-bane longsword: 1d20 + 35 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 35 - 4 = 41
damage: 4d6 + 33 + 12 ⇒ (3, 5, 1, 4) + 33 + 12 = 58

+4 human-bane longsword: 1d20 + 30 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 30 - 4 = 44
damage: 4d6 + 33 + 12 ⇒ (2, 6, 2, 6) + 33 + 12 = 61

Initiative:

1. Argust and Bert
2. Shasthaak (60 dmg)
3. Brelar and Karn

You guys are up!

Wow, is that damage right? I'm a dwarf, not a human. Also is this thing considered a giant? That will make one of the confirms a miss unless that is what the -4 is in the rolls. If it is, Argust is dead unless I can find something to prevent it.

If dead I think the Sihedron instantly casts True Resurrection though.

As the healer, I can't act until I know Argust's situation. @ Argust: If it all hits and confirms, what is your negative HP?

I think the -4 is because it's using Power Attack, and if so both of the confirmations would miss.

I think the -4 is because it's using Power Attack, and if so both of the confirmations would miss.

Well I charged so -2 AC for that. The second one would confirm and I would be alive at 4 HP since Life Link would take 10 of the damage, assuming that the damage rolls are correct (I'm not sure how Human Bane works on a dwarf or if he always gets to roll 4d6, just thought I'd ask).

I have Fast Healing 5 so I'd jump to 9 HP before Karn does anything. This is all assuming the dodge bonus wasn't in the rolls, of course. Otherwise I'm straight dead at -57 HP.

@Argust: Usually, when you turn undead, you don't retain your old types/subtypes, so human zombies are just undead. I'd imagine that a giant undead is still just undead type, not giant type, so no +4 AC against it.

Also, if I BoL you, there is a more than likely chance you are still dead... :(

It's type is listed as undead (augmented humanoid), but it also says "Graveknight rune giant" as the name of this monster, so I'm going to say the "augmented humanoid" subtype means he still enough of a giant for your bonuses to apply.

And yes, the damage is right (there is no human bane included); he's a gargantuan giant two-handing a longsword with power attack and that's a lot of damage. Yes, the -4 was from power attack.

I'm alive! Barely. After Fast Healing I'm at 9 HP! Let's just hope he doesn't get that lucky again.

Argust takes two devastating strikes that might have ruined most mortals. Well, that was pretty good! My turn!

Argust decides to click is heels for Haste and go back to work fully confident that his dear friends can keep him alive! AC 46 vs this guy now.

Attack: 1d20 + 41 ⇒ (18) + 41 = 59 for Damage: 2d6 + 44 ⇒ (2, 3) + 44 = 49 plus If Evil: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 6) = 12
Attack: 1d20 + 41 ⇒ (20) + 41 = 61 for Damage: 2d6 + 48 ⇒ (3, 2) + 48 = 53 plus If Evil: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 3) = 9
Attack: 1d20 + 36 ⇒ (3) + 36 = 39 for Damage: 2d6 + 48 ⇒ (3, 2) + 48 = 53 plus If Evil: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 6) = 11
Attack: 1d20 + 31 ⇒ (4) + 31 = 35 for Damage: 2d6 + 48 ⇒ (2, 4) + 48 = 54 plus If Evil: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 3) = 8
Attack: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (4) + 26 = 30 for Damage: 2d6 + 48 ⇒ (2, 2) + 48 = 52 plus If Evil: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 5) = 6

Confirm #1?: 1d20 + 41 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 41 + 4 = 61 for Damage: 2d6 + 44 ⇒ (5, 3) + 44 = 52 plus Bleed: 2d6 ⇒ (4, 2) = 6
Confirm #2?: 1d20 + 41 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 41 + 4 = 65 for Damage: 2d6 + 44 ⇒ (6, 3) + 44 = 53 plus Bleed: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 2) = 3

Critical Mastery gives me Bleed (above) and Stunning Critical, target is stunned for Rounds: 1d4 ⇒ 4, a DC 27 Fort save changes that to staggered instead (if it can be affected by those conditions, of course).

Karn strides forward as he sees that there is still a chance for survival despite the heavy blows taken by Argust. "Keep your head down next time and let him come to us!" he draws his hammer one-handed and weaves a spell choosing to try and heal the dwarf.

The Varisian envelops his hand with light and shoves it into the back of the over-eager dwarf.

Heal - 140 HP regained.

Cast, Move, then Touch. I probably provoke, but I don't see many options at this point.

If it's a book graveknight, I think you have to make a caster level check to get the spell off. They're nasty. Also, botting Brelar:

Before Karn can advance, the wizard casts a rapid abjuration, touching everyone except Argust. Touch range, sorry. Casting communal resist energy (fire); Karn, Bert, and Brelar now have resist fire 30.

Sorry, Bert is right: Any creature that attempts to summon positive energy in this area (30' around him)—such as through a cleric's channel energy ability, a paladin's lay on hands, or any spell with the healing subtype—must make a concentration check (DC 26).

However (luckily for you guys):

Argust is enraged that the rune giant graveknight would have the audacity to wound him so severely and puts his sword to work. Although the graveknight is a tough to hit through his armor and thick skin, Argust digs his blade in deep several times and after the dust settles, the giant is lying on the ground in pieces!

As you watch though, the giant's armor begins piecing the body back together....

"Brelar! Its armor needs to be completely destroyed--can you disintegrate it?"

I can chop it up some more, or maybe we can burn it! What'll we do?

Concentration Check-DC 26: 1d20 + 14 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 14 + 5 = 37

Karn easily overcomes the dread knight's aura as his healing power burns bright, infusing Argust with life. He quickly grasps his hammer in both hands however and quickly brings it down on the armor, trying to destroy it.

Can I Sunder? If so, then I will take the Full Round action to auto-hit.

Vital Strike Damage?: 3d12 + 12 + 12 ⇒ (5, 2, 8) + 12 + 12 = 39

I will assume you can all work together to sunder the armor in time. Despite its enchantment bonuses, I think you're putting out more than enough damage each round to take care of it before it can manifest.

With the armor torn apart and shattered in pieces, the giant's undead body finally stops moving for good and there is calm in the chamber... except for the now ever-present mechanical whirring and arcane pulses resonating throughout the palace.

"If we hurry, my good hope spell will still be running. Come on!"

Argust will ask for more healing as he took quite a beating in the short fight. We can use my wand to do that but it'll take too long to be the best idea. I'm at 149/206 now.

OK Bert, whatever you say!

Karn summons up another gout of healing to bring the man to full before the final fight with the runelord. "You cannot stay injured into our fight." he says dourly.

CCW: 4d8 + 14 ⇒ (4, 5, 3, 7) + 14 = 33
CCW: 4d8 + 14 ⇒ (8, 5, 6, 7) + 14 = 40 Full health!

As the man begins to move forward with the group to find the Runelord, he blinks his eyes a few times and he begins to see the spirit world in addition to his normal sight.

See Invis on Karn for the next 140 minutes.

I emailed Brelar a few days ago that we're starting the final fight this week but haven't heard back from him. But we'll soldier on I guess!

The square slab of rune-scribed stone is a stairwell similar to the one you encountered on the main floor of the palace. Once activated, the slab slowly transforms into a staircase heading up....

A throne made of pale white metal sits to the north, with a rune-etched plate floating lazily in the air before it.

As the throne room seems to have been abandoned, you check the door beyond into the dead heart of Xin!

The walls of this cathedral-like chamber stretch nearly a hundred feet into the air above, towering sheets of black crystal along which dance ripples of strange energies. Crumbled shards of crystal litter the floor, while an immense Sihedron rune has been carved into the floor in the center of the chamber. The energy rippling on the walls congregates upon a strange crystal the size of a man’s head, embedded in the center of the rune and pulsing as if to the rhythm of an unseen, crystalline heart.

There is little of note in this room save its occupants, for it is here that Xin’s new body has waited for so long to be activated. The clockwork reliquary stands in the center of the room atop the Sihedron rune that pulses with the palace’s energies. The reliquary’s wickedly curved components shift and twitch as the PCs enter, and the bones of the ancient wizard emperor Xin, drawn into the reliquary upon his death as one of his contingencies, seem to glow within their crystalline prison, shifting and seeming to be larger than the skeleton of a mere man has any right to be. The palace walls shudder, and creatures composed of crystal step out of them at the same time the energies f lowing along the walls descend and coalesce into beautiful but stern humanoid figures. As Xin’s spirit quickens within the reliquary, a small force of axiomite and elder crystallis minions held in reserve step forth to protect him. The clockwork reliquary comes to grinding, shrieking life, and the light of the flamma horacalcum Bert still maintains in his keeping causes the bones inside its central crystal to change into an image of Xin himself!

The axiomites and the crytallises move quickly to block your path into the room, defending their reanimated and clockwork-ified leader!

Karn:
+2 longsword: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (17) + 27 = 44
damage: 1d8 + 10 + 4d6 ⇒ (8) + 10 + (5, 2, 4, 4) = 33

Karn:
+2 longsword: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (2) + 27 = 29
damage: 1d8 + 10 + 4d6 ⇒ (3) + 10 + (3, 1, 3, 6) = 26

Argust:
+2 longsword: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (15) + 27 = 42
damage: 1d8 + 10 + 4d6 ⇒ (1) + 10 + (4, 3, 5, 6) = 29

Karn:
claw: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (6) + 22 = 28
damage: 4d8 + 9 ⇒ (5, 1, 1, 5) + 9 = 21
plus 1d6 bleed

Argust:
claw: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (10) + 22 = 32
damage: 4d8 + 9 ⇒ (3, 8, 1, 8) + 9 = 29
plus 1d6 bleed

Initiative:

1. Axiomites and Crysallises
2. Argust, Bert, and Brelar
3. Xin, the Clockwork Reliquary
4. Karn

Argust, Bert, and Brelar are up!

Hey! Watch where yer swingin' that thing, fella! Argust again clicks his heels and goes to work, starting with the creature in front of him!

Attack: 1d20 + 41 ⇒ (19) + 41 = 60 for Damage: 2d6 + 44 ⇒ (2, 3) + 44 = 49 plus If Evil: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 3) = 9
Attack: 1d20 + 41 ⇒ (5) + 41 = 46 for Damage: 2d6 + 48 ⇒ (5, 3) + 48 = 56 plus If Evil: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 2) = 7
Attack: 1d20 + 36 ⇒ (16) + 36 = 52 for Damage: 2d6 + 48 ⇒ (2, 1) + 48 = 51 plus If Evil: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 1) = 6
Attack: 1d20 + 31 ⇒ (6) + 31 = 37 for Damage: 2d6 + 48 ⇒ (2, 4) + 48 = 54 plus If Evil: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 5) = 10
Attack: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (3) + 26 = 29 for Damage: 2d6 + 48 ⇒ (4, 3) + 48 = 55 plus If Evil: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 6) = 7

Confirm #1?: 1d20 + 41 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 41 + 4 = 63 for Damage: 2d6 + 44 ⇒ (4, 3) + 44 = 51 plus Bleed: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 4) = 7

Critical Mastery gives me Bleed (above) and Stunning Critical, target is stunned for Rounds: 1d4 ⇒ 3, a DC 27 Fort save changes that to staggered instead (if it can be affected by those conditions, of course).

Saving his construct bane bullets for the reliquary, Bert calls on his luck before taking careful aim at one of the crystallises and firing!

DA bullet #1, incl. PBS, good hope, and luck: 1d20 + 17 + 1 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 17 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 39
DA bullet #2, incl. PBS, good hope, and luck: 1d20 + 12 + 1 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 12 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 32
DA bullet #3, incl. PBS, good hope, and luck: 1d20 + 7 + 1 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 7 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 28

DA bullet #1 damage, incl. PBS, good hope, and luck: 1d6 + 7 + 1 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 7 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 20
DA bullet #2 damage, incl. PBS, good hope, and luck: 1d6 + 7 + 1 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 7 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 16
DA bullet #3 damage, incl. PBS, good hope, and luck: 1d6 + 7 + 1 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 7 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 17

EF, for his L17 feat Bert took Clustered Shots, so total up his bullet damage and apply DR only once against the total.

Karn's Init is actually +4 due to Eaglesoul, so he should go before Xin.

@Argust: I assume you were hit by the longsword? Need to know these things for Life Link.

Karn recoils as the two longswords cut deeply into his flesh, but he is able to avoid the claw swipe. Scowling, he feels as Argust's wounds transfer.

Argust @ 182; Karn @ 113

The injured man steps back and roars in pain as he wildly swipes with his lucerne hammer as luminescent eagle's wings erupt from his backside.

Activate Eaglesoul as a Swift.

Some of Karn's wounds heal, but the man is still heavily injured.

+5 Construct Bane Lucerne Hammer | Rage/PA/FF: 1d20 + 24 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 24 + 2 = 42
Damage: 1d12 + 12 + 12 + 3 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 12 + 12 + 3 + 3 = 34

+5 Construct Bane Lucerne Hammer | Rage/PA: 1d20 + 15 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 15 + 2 = 19
Damage: 1d12 + 12 + 12 + 3 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 12 + 12 + 3 + 3 = 40

+5 Construct Bane Lucerne Hammer | Rage/PA: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 10 + 2 = 16
Damage: 1d12 + 12 + 12 + 3 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 12 + 12 + 3 + 3 = 37

Yes I was. I was in a bit of a rush and didn't state what hit me this time. Argust has Fast Healing 5 also so he is actually at 187 HP currently.

@GM: If it matters, I forgot Good Hope bonuses. Please add +2 to attack and damage.

@Argust: No worries! Just don't want to miss something!

Especially in the last fight. So, what should Brelar do? I assume he can likely identify the creatures and come up with something to combat them, however I don't wizard well, especially at high levels. I was hoping he'd be able to return. Ideas?

@GM: Can we assume that Brelar would take Quicken Spell as his 17th level feat?

If so, then I vote for a Quickened Haste + Incendiary Cloud that covers all of the bad guys?

Sounds good to me!

Bah! I remember updating yesterday but it must've gotten eaten and I didn't notice.

Sounds reasonable for Brelar.

Argust drives his blade into the axiomites, taking one of them down in the first three swings and leaving the next one heavily wounded with his backswings. Bert finds that missing the crysallises would be hard and by focusing his shots in one spots he maximizes his damage against their tough bodies.

Karn then steps back and manages to hit the injured axiomite once, but it is not enough to bring her down. Brelar then speeds things up and drops a burning cloud in the room!

fire: 6d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 4, 5, 3, 5) = 28
Ref: 5d20 ⇒ (18, 16, 20, 6, 1) = 61

The fire doesn't appear to have any effect on Xin's clockwork reliquary and the axiomites likewise are quick to cover themselves and don't seem injured at all. The crysallises look a bit charred though.

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Apparently still able to see or sense through the cloud, Xin tries to steal back the Sihedron from Argust? Bert? I don't remember who was holding it. "It is mine! And I will raise my empire anew with this prize!"

cmb steal/disarm: 1d20 + 34 ⇒ (13) + 34 = 47

It then sends six inubrex darts flying through the cloud at Argust! These darts ignore any armor or shield bonus granted by metal armor or shields.

inubrex dart: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (18) + 26 = 44
damage: 2d6 + 12 ⇒ (2, 1) + 12 = 15

inubrex dart: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (14) + 26 = 40
damage: 2d6 + 12 ⇒ (6, 2) + 12 = 20

inubrex dart: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (5) + 26 = 31
damage: 2d6 + 12 ⇒ (2, 1) + 12 = 15

inubrex dart: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (18) + 26 = 44
damage: 2d6 + 12 ⇒ (5, 3) + 12 = 20

inubrex dart: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (9) + 26 = 35
damage: 2d6 + 12 ⇒ (3, 3) + 12 = 18

inubrex dart: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (19) + 26 = 45
damage: 2d6 + 12 ⇒ (5, 5) + 12 = 22

"Take down the dwarf!" Xin's voice echoes through the chamber. The two axiomites step out of the cloud and strike:

+2 longsword: 1d20 + 27 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 27 - 4 = 26
damage: 1d8 + 10 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 10 + 12 = 27

+2 longsword: 1d20 + 22 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 22 - 4 = 24
damage: 1d8 + 10 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 10 + 12 = 27

+2 longsword: 1d20 + 17 - 4 ⇒ (20) + 17 - 4 = 33
damage: 1d8 + 10 + 12 ⇒ (7) + 10 + 12 = 29

+2 longsword: 1d20 + 12 - 4 ⇒ (12) + 12 - 4 = 20
damage: 1d8 + 10 + 12 ⇒ (1) + 10 + 12 = 23

+2 longsword: 1d20 + 27 - 4 ⇒ (5) + 27 - 4 = 28
damage: 1d8 + 10 + 12 ⇒ (1) + 10 + 12 = 23

+2 longsword: 1d20 + 22 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 22 - 4 = 33
damage: 1d8 + 10 + 12 ⇒ (1) + 10 + 12 = 23

+2 longsword: 1d20 + 17 - 4 ⇒ (8) + 17 - 4 = 21
damage: 1d8 + 10 + 12 ⇒ (6) + 10 + 12 = 28

+2 longsword: 1d20 + 12 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 12 - 4 = 25
damage: 1d8 + 10 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 10 + 12 = 26

"Break his precious sword!" Xin charges the crysallises. A crystallis’s claws overcome damage reduction and hardness as if they were adamantine,

Sunders:

claw: 1d20 + 22 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 22 - 4 = 19
cloud miss: 1d100 ⇒ 39
damage: 4d8 + 9 + 8 ⇒ (3, 2, 6, 5) + 9 + 8 = 33

claw: 1d20 + 22 - 4 ⇒ (2) + 22 - 4 = 20
cloud miss: 1d100 ⇒ 51
damage: 4d8 + 9 + 8 ⇒ (5, 6, 2, 5) + 9 + 8 = 35

claw: 1d20 + 22 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 22 - 4 = 22
cloud miss: 1d100 ⇒ 51
damage: 4d8 + 9 + 8 ⇒ (7, 6, 2, 1) + 9 + 8 = 33

claw: 1d20 + 22 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 22 - 4 = 19
cloud miss: 1d100 ⇒ 97
damage: 4d8 + 9 + 8 ⇒ (8, 5, 7, 6) + 9 + 8 = 43

Confirm:
+2 longsword: 1d20 + 17 - 4 ⇒ (14) + 17 - 4 = 27
damage: 1d8 + 10 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 10 + 12 = 24

Initiative:

1. Axiomites and Crysallises
2. Argust, Bert, Brelar, and Karn
3. Xin, the Clockwork Reliquary

ax 2: 143 dmg
cr 1: 71 dmg
cr 2: 28 dmg

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