Uuranx time!
Activate Touch of Rage 2
"Iomadae, Lend me your strength!! Send this vile creature back to it's putrescent spa of filth and vermin!!"
attack with falchion
hasted falchion
last falchion
almost...
Randtam's hounds assault the thing without much effect. The bolt of electricity released from Randtam's hands, however, blasts unerringly into the creature's form and aided by the power of the ectoplasmic rod leaves a huge crackling hole and a foul stench.
Uuranx and Balator land some solid melee blows while Alamin does her best to keep the good guys on their feet.
The creature attempts to see if it can harm faster than Alamin can heal:
Random Hound
Balator
Uuranx
Alamin
DC 22 FORT for 1/2
As the party watches in horror a small section of blobulous matter splits off and moves towards Randtam at an amazing speed!
Alamin, Balator, Randtam, Uuranx
-14HP
Alamin absorbs the full blast of the tendril.
-37HP
-25HP
-14HP
[dice=DC 22 FORT]1d20+16
Alamin absorbs the full blast of the tendril.
-37HP
[dice=3/6LOH]1d6
[dice=pulse heal 3/8]2d6-25HP
1/2 damage Bastion of Good!
Balator fails to evade the tendril again, but between Uuranx's sacred shield and Alamin's healing the damage is minimized.
"Keep fighting my new friends, the Professor is depending on us!"
-59 HP (effectively -18 more due to con damage)
-3 CON
-5 CHA
Hound Archons go completely defensive and try to take any attack on the four warriors. They sacrifice their bodies for the four.
Randtam cast Protection from Evil on himself.
attack with falchion
hasted attack
last attack
-33hp
Once again Alamin provides some healing to keep the party on its feet as Balator connects once and Randtam casts a protective spell. The real damage is done by Uuranx who lays 3 blows on the thing, 2 of which are devastating. The ill-colored blob shudders and shakes from the punishment before continuing it's assault as it's mini-me reaches Randtam hungry for wizard blood!
(hound now 4/5 due to full defense)
Hound
Alamin
Hound
Hound
DC 22 FORT
Alamin, Balator, Randtam, Uuranx
-25HP
-30HP
-18HP
Balator....Uuranx, keep after it!
Not happy with set up. Darn it.
Summon IV.
Dismiss archons. AC should not hit with Protection from Evil
All lightning elementals attack bad thing coming at me
Crit damage
Randtam and Uuranx sucking up all the good attack rolls!
Walk me through your AC calculator Randtam.
Apparently if I need to walk you through I am going to die.
10 AC + 2 Dex + 2Force Ring + 4 Prorecton from Evil + 1 Ring of Protection +1 amulet of natural armor = AC 20
Is this not enough. Do I even have a chance to live?
Mage Armor still inactive otherwise +4 more. AC 24
+52 HP
-51 HP (effectively -18 more due to con damage)
-3 CON
-5 CHA
Apparently if I need to walk you through I am going to die.
10 AC + 2 Dex + 2Force Ring + 4 Prorecton from Evil + 1 Ring of Protection +1 amulet of natural armor = AC 20Is this not enough. Do I even have a chance to live?
Mage Armor still inactive otherwise +4 more. AC 24
+52 HP
Your touch AC would include: 10AC + 2DEX +2 Prot Evil +1 ring of Prot.
So your touch AC right now is 15.
Ring of force shield gives a shield bonus to AC
Natural armor doesn't help touch AC
Prot from evil is +2 AC not +4
Need Uuranx action.
attack with falchion
hasted attack
last attack
-23 hp
Apparently if I need to walk you through I am going to die.
10 AC + 2 Dex + 2Force Ring + 4 Prorecton from Evil + 1 Ring of Protection +1 amulet of natural armor = AC 20Is this not enough. Do I even have a chance to live?
Mage Armor still inactive otherwise +4 more. AC 24
+52 HP
Your touch AC would include: 10AC + 2DEX +2 Prot Evil +1 ring of Prot.
So your touch AC right now is 15.
Ring of force shield gives a shield bonus to AC
Natural armor doesn't help touch AC
Prot from evil is +2 AC not +4
I hate it when logic, facts, and game rules get in the way of what I want. Dang it!
Alamin heals again, but Balator and Uuranx seem to be winded from the fray as most of their work goes for naught. Randtam dismisses his Hounds which valiantly interposed their bodies from the blob stopping significant damage. In their place he summons a host of electrical elementals to counter the on rushing mini-blob. The succeed in destroying the small blob with some mighty blasts of force, but not before the mini malevolence strikes Randtam, causing additional damage.
The mother blob emits a high pitched sonic squeal of fury at the destruction of its smaller self.
It lashes out in fury!
Alamin
Uuranx
Balator
Uuranx
DC 22 FORT
Alamin, Balator, Randtam, Uuranx
-18HP
-26HP
-13HP
Keep battling! We are close, I can feel it!
activate TouchofRage3
last round of haste
attack with falchion
hasted attack
last attack
-34 hp
"Cayden guide my blade!"
-55 HP (effectively -18 more due to con damage)
-3 CON
-5 CHA
For the children!
Lightning elementals attack the blob
Randtam fires magic missiles
+56 HP
A mighty cut from Uuranx and a series of devastating blows from Balator finally finish off the multi-hued menaced.
The sickly colors of the blob fade as it dissolves into super-fine particles leaving a large pile of dust in its place. You breath somewhat easier as the latent sense of malice retreats significantly as the apparent source of evil has been defeated.
***end of combat***
Welcome to level 10!
While I still have my elementals around. Do I see anything else in the room. Treasure, secret passages
Boo!
After a thorough search of the cavern little of note is discovered besides a multitude of desiccated bodies.
The one thing that does catch your eye is the strange black semi-metallic box in the corner of the room. It seems to be projecting a harness of force energy that Randtam deduces was somehow tethering the creature of ill-light to this location.
You shudder to think of what may have happened had the blobulous thing not been contained to this area. You shudder even harder when you consider what power would have the power and malevolence to bring such a thing to a place and let it feed on the unwitting and unwary.
Check out metallic box
"What should we do with that box thing?"
The device seems completely alien to anything Randtam has ever seen or even heard of before. Even the strange devices used by the hideous Aboleths or dread empires of Thassilon seem commonplace in comparison to what you see before you.
From what Randtam can piece together the box acts as some type of force projector that creates a band of energy similar to a wall of force that might be used to keep ethereal or astral creatures tied to a certain point on the material plane.
The use of such a device seems specific and limited, but to the right buyer Randtam figures the sales price would be 15,000 GP.
Alamin, is this device inherently evil? Can it be used as a neutral device to help others? It seems it can be worth a good deal of coin. I am worried it can only be used to hold creatures against their will whether they are good or evil.
Can it be destroyed?
Alamin confirms that there is no inherent evil in the device but something VERY evil either built it or used it regularly as there is a significant residual taint of evil surrounding the thing.
It looks like you could bash it to pieces if someone like Uuranx had enough time but it might take him a few hours and several stout hammers. The design work gives you the impression that it might survive the strike of a titan or the breath of a dragon.
Anywhere left to explore in this place?
The party has fully exhausted all areas of exploration with the exception of a tunnel that wends through the earth for miles, running beneath Illmarsh to open into the waters of Avalon Bay beneath the town’s wharves. Flooded side
passages also connect to the Hall of the Recondite Order of the Indomitable Sea in town.
"Should we head back to town? What leads do we have left to pursue Randtam?"
We should reprovision back in town and then take the tunnels to under the lake. The evil is in the lake, although this we just encountered was something not right for this world. But we made it through.
We should be ready to fight underwater and fight Skum and there deplorable defenders. We need to stand strong and be ready. Balator, Do you breath underwater? Do you have anything that helps in battle around or underwater? Do you know anything of Skum and who their gods were?
This is not going to be pleasant. Let's get ready!
I am no fish so I can't breathe water and I'm afraid i have no special abilities when it comes to underwater.
How large is the metallic box? Can I take it with me and study it?
The box is portable, if heavy, but Uuranx easily moves it.
The tunnels do not extend to the bottom of Lake Encarthon, just to the waters at Illmarsh's wharves.
You will need to figure out a different way to get to the bottom of the lake and engage whatever evil lurks there.
Head back to town and rest up.
"Anyone have ideas on how we can get to the bottom of the lake without drowning?"
I am not sure. But we have a boat token that may help.
Two elixirs of swimming and one ring of swimming.
"You have been in Illmarsh a while now, is there anyone in town that might be able to help us?"
We did encounter a strange old man when we first came to town. Something Croon I believe it was? I think he was an inventor or some such and he said he was working out towards the Tern Rocks. Randtam would know as that's much more up his alley, but I think it had something to do with underwater exploration.
"Let's go finds this man Croon."