GM Pox's "The Mummy's Mask" (Inactive)

Game Master WerePox47

Hadjii's INT check: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12

Calla Know Engin: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (20) + 16 = 36..

Calla Int: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

Marius Int: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

With Calla's engineering knowing and the groups cohesive effort you all think that with the info you have and the library modle you could accurately predict where the secret entrance is..

"OK, off we go. We'll get er done. " and we head off to our secret library.

Yall make your way to the Library and after getting over to the model you realize you need some sorta light source to make the plan work.. [ooc]Daylight spell would work.. Im sure someone can cast it so ill move forwards..{/ooc]

The group finds the spot and sets out.. The door is located in an otherwise nondescript wall of a bathhouse in the Wadjet’s Walk district.

After finding the opening switch you see.. "Two deep alcoves open on either side of this dusty chamber. A small, battered bronze chest sits on the floor at the far end of the room. Beyond the chest, a passage continues to the south."

Actions? Map is updated.. Bottom right.

Hemket will give the chest a once over for traps and then open it if no traps are present.

perception: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (11) + 22 = 33
disable device: 1d20 + 26 ⇒ (18) + 26 = 44

Its obviously trapped and after you disarm it you discover that the chest is empty.. By this time Calla has her detect magic going and tells you there is sorta spell effect in play around the exit of the room to the south.. After examining it closer it is an alarm spell..

"Why would anyone trap an empty chest?"
and he will search the chest to see if there's any secret chambers or such.

taking 20 for a 38.

No secret chambers.. Apparently the designers were a+@+@~$s..

The only way out of the room is to the south and it has the alarm spell on it..

Marius throws up his hands dramatically.

"Oh no an alarm spell whatever shall we. Dispel Magic."

Marius then casts Dispel Magic on the Alarm spell.

Caster level check: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 5 + 2 = 23 If this would be a failure add. 1d6 ⇒ 2 To the check

Once Hemket is informed that the dispel has been cast, he will head down the hallway to the south.

Hemket could have just disabled it.. Tally HO!

Marius casts a spell of unraveling and manages to remove the spell without use of mythicness..

Straight ahead of them is a room.. They see.. "Several desks piled with scrolls and codices sit in this chamber, though they seem to have seen little recent use."

You also notice what appears to be a large geared construct standing in the middle of the room.. Atm it's motionless..

Know Arcana

oh boy -- a knowledge check!

Hadjii's Knowledge:Arcana check: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Kn(Arcana): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17

K. Arcana: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (15) + 18 = 33

show off!

This is a variant of a Clockwork Soldier.. 3 questions

Special Defenses, Special weaknesses, and any SLA it has

Well, a trapped empty chest is definitely something I would do in my hideout, followed by an illusion of a wall to conceal the passage to other places. One who got here and is still alive would think "hey, someone stole the treasure and went back away!" Of course, not us, cause we know better...

K.Arcana: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (10) + 20 = 30
The arcanist would like to know its Spell-Like abilities and Special abilities, plus its attack options.

"Is it only me who expects the worse in those situations?" She asks to no one in particular, casting a spell that she rarely uses, to disable the freaking monster.

Active Spells:
- Mage Armor (8 hours) - 1st level
- Defending Bone (10 hours) - Mythic Point
- Greater False Life (10 Hours) - Mythic Point HP: 2d10 + 8 ⇒ (2, 6) + 8 = 16
- Spectral Hand (10 min) - Mythic Point Hand: 1d4 ⇒ 3

From her safe position she tries something that would be, say, wise. "I know it's not our style guys, but give me a minute to try something." She addressees the clockwork in Ancient Osiriani, hoping it would talk to them. "Excuse me, sir, we would like to talk to you for a second, if you don't mind?"

If it does not respond she tries to shake it a little with prestidigitation.

Logos readies to cast Shield and step in front of Calla if it looks like it's attacking.

Calla shouldn't your False Life be at +10 not +8? Wild Arcana gives +2 to caster level right?

The robot has Construct Traits, No SLA's, DR/Adamantium, Vulnerable to Elec. and swings its big halberd for attack options..

As Calla calls out the gears of the robot start to turn.. It does a spinning display with it halberd before calling out in a robot voice.. "INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! DEFENSE SYSTEMS ACTIVATE!"

Init Order:

Calla
Hemket
Robot Soldier/s?
Hadjii
Marius
Unknown
Sheeba
Logos

Round 1

Calla and Hemket can go..

"EXTERMINATE!!!EXTERMINATE!!!"

Load it up with arrows.

deadly aim, rapid shot, point blank shot, studied target, clustered shot, megabless, not moved yet so flat footed
to hit: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (12) + 17 = 29 damage: 1d8 + 13 + 2d6 ⇒ (4) + 13 + (4, 3) = 24
to hit: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (6) + 17 = 23 damage: 1d8 + 13 + 2d6 ⇒ (4) + 13 + (6, 1) = 24
to hit: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (7) + 17 = 24 damage: 1d8 + 13 + 2d6 ⇒ (2) + 13 + (1, 1) = 17
to hit: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32 damage: 1d8 + 13 + 2d6 ⇒ (6) + 13 + (3, 4) = 26

confirm: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (11) + 12 = 23 damage: 2d8 + 26 ⇒ (1, 7) + 26 = 34

Calla will wait to see if the poor creature is still alive after such a barrage of arrows, before spending her precious magic with such a pitiful guardian. If it is still alive she casts Grease so it will have a hard time coming after them. Reflex DC 20 or fal Clockoliath!

Logos's readied action kicks off, he casts Shield and steps between Calla and the construct, giving her cover if it decides to attack.

"My hero!"

Unfortunately with Calla giving up your surprise round you go off of initiative, so your spell/moving will have to wait.

The poor robot goes down in a hail of arrow fire before it can even act.. Everyone is about to cheer when the undeniable sounds of other robots in the complex say.. "INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! DEFENSE SYSTEMS ACTIVATE!" It's hard to tell how many though since they all say it at the same time..

For now nothing else is seen, so Hadjii and Marius may go.

1d7 ⇒ 2

How does someone else taking an action undo my readied action?

After rereading i see ur point.. Your spell goes off but you cant move and cast in a surprise round..

I didn't think that was a surprise round or I would have gotten only 1 shot.

It wasn't.. He had a readied action based on the robot becoming hostile.. Im not really sure how that works tbh.. At first I thought it would just go off initiative and maybe it does.. Not sure now.

Readied action to cast spell, spell required a standard action, so you can ready to cast it (you can't, for example, ready an action to cast summon monster, as that takes a full round action, and that can't be readied. Oddly enough, you can ready to charge in the surprise round, but no other round, as charging is a full round action except in the surprise round). 5ft adjustment is a free action, you can take a free action whenever you are taking any other type of action, including a readied action. The way the readied action works is this : You ready your action. Your readied action takes effect when the trigger occurs. You can't change it or take any other action until it occurs. When your initiative comes up, you can replace your readied action with a new (full action or standard, depending on the round type) action, or you can continue to hold the readied action. After your readied action takes place, you drop back into the initiative order the next round as per normal. If you decline to hold your readied action, you drop back into the initiative order immediately as you take your action.

The reason you can ready a charge in the surprise round is that surprise rounds permit partial charges, which means a single movement and attack, rather than the double movement. This is a standard action, but not available most of the time.

Ok so you cast and 5' step and thats your action for the round.

Marius and Hadjii are up atm..

Hadjii will cast his prepared Call Lightning.

I still wanted the robots to yell 'Exterminate'. Drat.

Well he didnt get a chance.. Hadjii you currently have no target for ur call lightning.. I suppose a small cloud will just hand out above ur head.

Marius..

I figure we're bound to see some robots within the next 8 minutes...

What if these are Borg Daleks? Then they yell "Assimilate! As-simila-a-ate!!"

Sheeba squeezes her way forward to investigate the strange voices; although I would normally want her to go left (always go left first), I reckon without specific direction from Hadjii she'll head for the bigger room she can see ahead -- where it looks like there's plenty of space for her squeezed bulk...

about 40' of the move is squeezed, so it's a double move for her to get there.

Hemket will follow behind the wolf. Any sign of rolling robots with plumbers helpers and I run.

Marius will use the scepter to cast blessing of fervor on everybody.

Wasn't trying to be a jerk, just making sure I was aware of any house rules if the core didn't work. I'll be travelling today as of about 10 minutes from now, so please feel free to bot me to keep things moving. @Hemket - Yep, I know. It's just odd that it's allowed part of the time is all, at least to me. I would probably, were I a dev, make that not readiable, but it's an extra rule for something that almost never comes up anyway.

I'm actually getting very used to the guidelines of the 5th edition publishers, that would be something like "if it doesn't break the game, you can do it..."

I didnt take it offensive.. Ill update tm at some point.

Something else gets to act before yall can move..

At the other end of the hall a figure appears with what appears to be a wand in its wand.. Twirling it around a spell is cast.. Everything around you and back out into the street explodes with black tentacles.. They try to grab at you..

CMB Grapple: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (17) + 14 = 31 Everyone is grappled

You each take 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9 and are grappled.. The black lines on the map is where it stops

Know Arcana on the creature.

Init Order:

Calla
Hemket
Robot Soldier/s?
Hadjii
Marius
Unknown
Sheeba
Logos

Sheeba can go then:

Round 2

Calla and Hemket can go.

CMD: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (19) + 14 = 33 to break the grapple Bet that worked

He will move forward out of the tentacle area.

He will then spend a mythic point to get a shot off at the caster. He will spend a swift action to study the target.

deadly aim, blessing of fervor for +2, megabless
to hit: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (3) + 18 = 21 damage: 1d8 + 12 ⇒ (7) + 12 = 19 not optimistic about that roll

When his action comes up

Grapple Escape: 1d20 + 13 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 13 + 2 + 2 = 37 Crit should do it no matter what the DC is, Added 2 for Rage

Logos rips free of the tentacles, enraging as he does so. He charges forward, his heavy steps smashing down tentacles that get in his way as they were not there. He shoulders anyone in his way out of his way as well.

Charge Claw, Power Attack, Rage: 1d20 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 17 + 2 = 39
Charge Claw, Power Attack, Rage, Confirm: 1d20 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 17 + 2 = 33
Damage: 2d6 + 14 ⇒ (4, 6) + 14 = 24
Crit: 2d6 + 14 ⇒ (3, 4) + 14 = 21

Dragon Style to ignore difficult terrain and charge through ally spaces

How is your cmb +14? I count +8 bab, +2 str for a +10.. Not that it matters with that roll but..

Hemket moves out the the spell area but his missiles goes wide..

Breaking the grapple is a standard action, so you have a move left in which you can exit the spell area.. No attacks though.. Your towards the end of the round though before that happens.. You might not be able to act by then lol..

DoH! Forgot about that. Oh well, in that case, Logos will break free and move beyond the range of the tentacles. Even at half move, he can do 35 feet, so that's not an issue. Then the round after he'll charge the caster and crit, if the caster is still there. I'm trying to get a post in as I'm sick and I have to travel monday, so don't want to hold up the game. I figure better to post contingency moves.

Understood.

Well I have +8 for BAB, +2 for the bless (since that adds to CMB), +2 for strength, and +2 for blessing of fervor.

near the end of round 1:

Sheeba tries to rip her way through the tentacles: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (13) + 14 = 27

if that works, please more her back to where I put her before...