(2) A Haunting at Perdition's Point (Inactive)

Game Master mdt

Lineera, feeling her courage begin to waver, keeps pressing after Elena. Then, seeing Mahb on the ground, Lineera calls, clearly in a fright. "Elena! This is too much! We need to run!"

Double move action, the edge of this room I'm moving across is still at the half movement, right?

Mahb catches the eldritch missile in her wrinkled face and drops.

Yes, anything not outlined in Yellow is Squeezing. I still need a stabilization check from Mahb for Round 6 (Fort Save, DC 12) If that fails, Round 7 is DC 13 Fort Save.

Unseen things happen, blood pools, evil occurs.

ROUND 7

Init Elena: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Init Elijah: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
Init Eva ⇒ 0 (Stable)
Init Lineera: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
Init Mahb ⇒ 0 (Not Stable)

Init CloakHat 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
Init CloakHat 2: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
Init Zombie 2: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4
Init Zombie 3: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (19) - 1 = 18
Init Zombie 4: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (6) - 1 = 5
Init Zombie 5: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (12) - 1 = 11
Init Eeeviiillll Munchkin: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (4) - 1 = 3

I dub this the Squeaky Cloakhat Round!

Order : Cloakhat 2, Zombie 3, Lineera, Elijah, Zombie 5, Elena, CH1, Z4, Z2, EM

Cloakhat 2 squeals, spits out something, and another ball of hideous reddish black light flies from it's hand and hits Elena this time, right in the chest.

Magic Missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Then he runs away down the corridor, saying something in a language nobody speaks. Zombie 3 hisses soulessly and pulls it's crossbow out of the balustrade, and fires at Elena.

Attack: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (15) - 1 = 14

The bolt misses and thuds into the wall, thanks to her protection from evil spell.

Elijah and Lineera and Elena up. Z5 can only fire at Lineera, and as long as she squeezes around the corner, he can't hit fire at her.

The GM notes a channel right now would hit all 3 allies, and no enemies who are alive

Elena cries in pain when the eldritch bolt of energy slams into her with unexpected force. Mustering all her willpower, she shuts down the pain and keeps her focus on their overwhelming task.

"Don't even think about it! Our friends need us!" - she shouts back to Lineera - "We can do this, don't panic and follow me!"

'I need to heal Mahb before it's too late! Then we need to reach Eva, she's probably fighting for her life right now!... But it'll be all for nothing if we don't destroy these abominations, and fast!'

Tightening her grip on her weapon, Elena steps forward and strikes at the undead kobold, trying to fell it with one mighty blow.

Longspear Attack: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 - 4 = 17
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

Lineera shakes off her fear enough to keep up the pace and pushes through the gap behind the balustrade, breathing a little easier now that the arrows flying towards her back could no longer reach her as easily. placing herself in front of Mahb and Elena, Lineera calls back, "I'll hold them off! Check on Mahb!"

Yet another double move... This speed penalty from armor is making me regret my decision! And as a reminder, everyone's got +1 to Attack until round 14.

The spear rips into the zombie, but it doesn't appear the blow bothered it much.

I moved Elijah since there's no need to wait on someone to log in to move him, his moves are fairly straight forward for the next few rounds. Even running, he can only move 60 ft when squeezing due to armor. I mapped out his shortest route, and will assume he follows it unless someone overrides his movements.

Zombie 4 tries to fire at Elena.

Attack: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (17) - 1 = 16 Good roll, but she's got +4 AC from the Balustrade

The bolt buries itself in the Balustrade instead.

Unseen things happen, blood pools, evil occurs.

ROUND 8

Init Elena: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
Init Elijah: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15
Init Eva ⇒ 0 (Stable)
Init Lineera: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Init Mahb ⇒ 0 (Not Stable)

Init CloakHat 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
Init CloakHat 2: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
Init Zombie 2: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (20) - 1 = 19
Init Zombie 3: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (18) - 1 = 17
Init Zombie 4: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (15) - 1 = 14
Init Zombie 5: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (8) - 1 = 7
Init Eeeviiillll Munchkin: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1

I dub this the Cloakhat Twin Powers Activate Round!

Order : Cloakhat 2, Cloakhat 1, Zombie 2, Zombie 3, Elijah, Z4, Elena, Z5, Lineera, EM

Cloakhat 2 says something angrily, pulls out a sling, and fires a sling stone at Lineera.

Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

The stone makes a nice thunk sound as it hits' the Balustrade.

Zombie 3 fires his crossbow at Lineera. This provokes an attack of opportunity from Elena, and if she's armed, Lineera

Attack: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (9) - 1 = 8

Assuming Zombie 3 isn't ripped to shreds in AoO's then his bolt thuds into the Balustrade next to the stone.

Elijah continues forward at a run.

Zombie 4 attempts to skewer Elena from behind again.

Attack: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (10) - 1 = 9

Again the bolt thuds into the Balustrade instead of Elena's kidneys.

Elena & Lineera up.

Map updated, I assume Pyewacket would land by his mistress if nothing else, to watch over her as she bleeds.

She is indeed armed! :)

Lashing out with her sickle, Lineera attempts to stop the bolt from loosing.

Attack: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (11) - 2 = 9
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

But her nerves and the cramped space turn the attack ineffectual.

Shooting a dirty glare down in the hall in return for the stone sent flying at her, "You better surrender and stop what you're doing! It's wrong!" With that motherly quip uttered, she spins herself behind the kobold and attempts to take the vile creature's head off.

Attack: 1d20 ⇒ 3
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Yet she's unable to land a solid hit.

Sorry for the absence today, I was doing the holiday airport shuffle.

Mahb proves heartier than she looks. Her breathing falls into a regular, if shallow, rhythm.

Fort Save v DC:12 (Rnd 6) 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14 Winner!

The raven lands lightly on the downed hag's head, raises its hackles, and sends out threatening caws.

AoO on Zombie3

Seeing an opening, Elena strikes the zombie with a powerful blow.

Longspear Attack: 1d20 + 4 - 4 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 4 - 4 + 1 = 20
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Ok this is great it seems my connection is so unstable that it takes 5 min to post something... And I can't edit it! So forgive the double post guys... If I'm able to post this at all that is. :(

Realizing she has to help her friend, and heal herself, before it's too late, Elena focuses divine energy into herself, then releases it with a mighty burst.

Channel Positive Energy, Healing: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Determined not to let the disgusting creature that wounded both her and Mahb get away, Elena moves closer to it, ready to strike the first chance she gets.

Channel as standard action, then move south-west as move action.

Elena's spear rips through the zombie's skull, and the formerly undead zombie falls to the ground. The top of it's skull follows after slowly tipping off the shaft of Elena's spear.

Mahb is now at 1 pt, and awake, with a bird on her head

Lineera, do you want to change your action, given that the zombie you tried to cut the head off of has no head for you to attempt to cut off?

Not sure where you want to place me in the order, so use this action when appropriate.

Mahb regains consciousness with a start and a swear on her ancient lips. "That lizard-faced, iguana-f&~&er..." With the help of the exhortations of the bird on her head, she crawls painfully behind the balustrade and casts a hard, white eye on the fleeing kobold. She mutters black oaths. Dozens of small black spiders crawl from her mouth as she spits a gobbet of phlegm at the kobold. As the sputum flies, it grows in size and transforms into an egg-sac, crawling with thousands of baby spiders. The sticky mass flies past Elena and streaks towards the kobold, threatening to pin it to the wall.

With a wipe of her sleeve, Mahb cleans the spiders from around her mouth and spits out the bits.

MOVE: Crawl 5'
STAND: Cast Web Bolt @ #2

Reflex DC:15 or grappled. If grappled, it can escape with an Escape Artist, etc. at DC:15.
I don't know if a concentration check is needed for prone casting but just in case...
CONCENTRATION: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

mahb will get to act next round, not this one.

Waiting on Lineera, given the holidays, not in a huge hurry

Whoops, I thought moving to flank the kobold was my action, I was waiting on you! Sorry!

Moving to pursue the little creature along with Elena, but pushes her way past it to cut off its escape.

It was, but the Attack of Opportunity happened before Lineera could move, and Elena killed the zombie on the AoO. So.. by the time Lineera could act, the zombie would be dead already. :) I indicated that up the thread a ways. :)

Aha! Well I'll blame my lack of noticing on the holidays then and change my movement accordingly! Same basic idea, moving to trap the Big Hat.

As Lineera moves to surround the caster, he squeaks. With a shuffling roar, Evil Munchkin comes staggering out of the shadows to charge Lineera with a slam attack.

Charge: 1d20 + 3 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 2 + 2 = 8

Is that a blink of recognition in the dead white eyes? A tear? The slam goes so wide, surely Munchkin doesn't want to hurt Lineera...

Oh, no, it wants to rip her face off, it just tripped on a stone...

CloakHat 1 steps out from behind some stones, points at Lineera, and chants with glowing yellow eyes. A new glow joins the room, as Lineera's sickle begins to glow red hot.

Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2 Reflex save DC 15 to drop sickle and take no damage

Zombie 1 charges up behind Munchkin, but can't get to Lineera.

ROUND 9

Init Elena: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Init Elijah: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16
Init Eva ⇒ 0 (Stable)
Init Lineera: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
Init Mahb: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17

Init CloakHat 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
Init CloakHat 2: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
Init Zombie 2: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (19) - 1 = 18
Init Zombie 3: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (13) - 1 = 12
Init Zombie 4: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0
Init Zombie 5: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0
Init Eeeviiillll Munchkin: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4

I dub this the 'Can it get much worse?' Round!

Order : Zombie 2, Mahb, CloakHat 1, Elijah, Loakhat 2, Zombie 3, Lineera, Elena, Evil Munchkin, Zombie 4, Zombie 5

Zombie 2 holds, waiting for an opening.

Mahb up (if you want to use the previous action, that's fine, but wanted to give you option to change with change in scenario. Elijah runs ahead (can't affect things this round).

With Munchkin suddenly close enough, Lineera shouts her command, "Munchkin! Kill that creature!" As she cries this order, her hand flinches at the sudden heat, and releases the handle of her weapon, only to watch the weapon violently fling itself away from her! Ah, Heat Metal, the perfect spell to mess with a Haunted Oracle.

Charisma: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
Reflex Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15

I'm good with Mahb's posted action. Go for it.

Since the zombie is down, I assume you're casting it at the cloak hat

Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20

The small hatted figure easily sidesteps Mahb's spell, chittering angrily at her in an unknown language.

Cloakhat 1 pulls out a small light repeating crossbow and fires at Lineera.

Attack: 1d20 + 3 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 3 - 4 - 4 = 13 The bolt misses and slams into the wall next to Elena

Cloakhat 2 pulls out a dagger and attacks Lineera from behind.

Attack: 1d20 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 2 = 5

Lineera then tries to take over Munchkin again, and CloakHat 2 chitters at the zombie to tell it to ignore her.

Control: 1d20 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 1 + 4 = 20

Munchkin doesn't even blink when Lineera orders him to attack something else other than her.

Elena Up!

Oh, and it was Burning Disarm, not Heat Metal, but same effect. :)

It's time to teach those undead a lesson! Let's start with Cloakhat number 2!

With the Cloakhat focused on his attack on Lineera, Elena calmly aligns the tip of her spear with its head, then thrusts forward with great might and deadly precision.

Longspear Attack: 1d20 + 4 - 4 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 4 - 4 + 1 = 21
Longspear Critical Confirmation: 1d20 + 4 - 4 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 4 - 4 + 1 = 7

Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
Critical Damage if applicable: 2d8 + 12 ⇒ (4, 1) + 12 = 17

Oh Yeah! Christmas is here, and Elena has a gift for every undead in the room! ;D

If Cloakhat 2 is dead, Elena moves to his space, otherwise she stays where she is and doesn't move (I'm not moving Elena on the map for now, awaiting confirmation! ;p).

Lineera, looking at cloakhat 2, is shocked to see a bloody spear tip come through the gap between the lid of the hat and the collar of the cloak it's wearing. She see's a crackle of red and yellow energy, and then as the spear draws back, the cloak hat crumples into an empty pile of clothes with a hat on top of it.

Will save from Elena and Lineera, DC 16, to avoid being shaken for 1 round by that.

Munchkin attempts to slam Lineera again.

Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Oh look, he's not attacking, he's trying to hug her to show he's sorry!

Oh, wait, no, he slipped in the blood splatter from Cloakhat....

ROUND 10

Init Elena: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17
Init Elijah: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22
Init Eva ⇒ 0 (Stable)
Init Lineera: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
Init Mahb: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

Init CloakHat 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Init Zombie 2: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (11) - 1 = 10
Init Zombie 4: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (7) - 1 = 6
Init Zombie 5: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (17) - 1 = 16
Init Eeeviiillll Munchkin: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (6) - 1 = 5

I dub this the 'Tide Be Turning' Round!

Order : Elijah, Lineera, Elena, Mahb, Cloakhat 1, Z5, Z2, Z4, Munchkin

Will Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Charisma: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20

Lineera, eyes narrow as the first of these infernal mages is taken, then she whirls on the little corpse in front of her and commands without a drop of hesitation in her voice. "I said: Kill that creature!"

Delaying further action until I know whether or not this works, and probably won't post till after the holiday.

Will vs Shaken (DC 16): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

Although startled, and a little disgusted, by the Cloakhat's eerie end, Elena isn't about to let her focus slip, and turns her attention to the remaining foes.

Waiting for Lineera to finish her actions, then I'll post Elena's. ^_^

CloakHat Control Roll: 1d20 + 2 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 5 = 12

Cloakhat 1 tries to exert command, but Lineera manages to override Munchkin for the round.

[ooc]Lineera won't know that she succeeded until Munchkin goes however, so Lineera will be delaying until the end of the round. Which means Elena will as well.

Waiting on Mahb to advance the NPCs.

I think Eva is going to take Elijah since Mahb is now conscious... for at least a single round. :)

Pyewacket flaps after his mistress.

Flaps after her? What does she do?

Is that a reference to Mahb crawling earlier? Or did we have an eaten post?

I think we have an eaten post. Her crawling was taken care of last round, she crawled, cast web, missed the cloakhat, and then the turn ended. I'll just skip her for now so we can get a move on.

Cloakhat 1 spits out something that sounds nasty, apparently realizing that Lineera has control of Munchkin again. He looks off toward the part of the cave that nobody can see and motions toward Lineera and spits out something in a language you don't recognize. Then he turns back to Munchkin and tugs an amulet out of his cloak, holding it up and pointing at Munchkin. Munchkin suddenly screams in agony, and his body is wracked with black fire. Munchkin's body bursts into dust, as if it never existed.

The screaming goes on for several seconds after the body vanishes.

Another small creature comes staggering around the edge of the cave wall. This one is not a kobold though, it's a gnome. Her green hair is matted with fresh blood, and her clothes are soaked in crimson. Dull eyes stare at Lineera as she staggers forward.

Zombie 2 staggers forward and attacks Lineera.

Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Will Save, DC 18 to avoid being shaken for one round when Eva's corpse staggers forward.

Waiting on Lineera for the rest of her action (one standard action), and Elena (full action), and Mahb (full action).

Necromancy school Wizards get +2 to the following Kn(Arcana) tests, undead bloodline sorcerers also. Any divine caster with a Death Domain get's a +2 as well.

Will Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Knowledge Arcana: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

Lineera seems startled, but otherwise unphased by Munchkin's sudden disappearance, at the very least, it was one less combatant to worry about. Preparing to move forward, Lineera hesitates slightly at the sight of Eva, but then, her eyes quietly narrow into a glare. There can be no retreat at this point, not from here at least. No, no, first vengeance must be dealt out. Digging her feet in, Lineera pushes herself forward, unconcerned of the little zombies around her. Leveraging her comparatively large size and the weight of her armor, she pushes to get past the little beast. Her intention is clear; she's forcing a path through to the wretch in control of all this.

Overrun: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (12) - 2 = 10

You can't overrun, as that requires a standard to be used as part of movement or charging, you used your movement to take over Munchkin. Which is just as well, as the manuever check failed. You can change your action if you like.

Still waiting on Mahb, Elena, and Lineera's change of action

Lineera focuses the energy within her, offering a whispered apology to Eva, hoping that she wouldn't really mind, given the circumstances.

Channeling energy to Control Undead instead.

Zombie Kobold Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9 DC 14
Zombie Eva Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17

Lineera feels her energies wrap around the kobold and take root, but Eva's corpse shakes off the energies, her eyes stare at Lineera accusingly.

Sorry! I was confused. I thought I had to wait a round to act so I thought I was a round ahead.

Mahb struggles to her feet and pursues the group, trying to figure out how best to be of use.

MOVE: Get up
MOVE: Black line (with Pyewacket following)

Just waiting on Elena now.

Sorry, didn't mean to hold up everybody!

Knowledge (arcana), untrained: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

With her friend blocking the way, Elena can't really make out what's happening. All she manages to see is the kobold's body engulfed in unnatural flames, while the nerve-wracking scream pierces her ears.

I'm assuming Elena has yet to see Eva since the wall blocks her vision.

"Lineera! What do you think you're doing!? Move out of the way!" - Elena yells, enraged by the horrible situation and taking out her angst on her companion - "And wasn't that your kobold? He should be protecting Eva! Where is she!?"

'This whole place is a death trap...'

Elena channels energy to heal herself and Mahb... Not much I can do with a drow in the way! xD

Channel Positive Energy: 1d6 ⇒ 3

ROUND 11

Init Elena: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Init Elijah(Eva): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16
Init Lineera: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19
Init Mahb: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Init CloakHat 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Init Zombie 2: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (15) - 1 = 14
Init Zombie 4: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (15) - 1 = 14
Init Zombie 5: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (14) - 1 = 13
Init Zombie Eva: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (12) - 1 = 11

I dub this the 'Eva Eats Brains' Round!

Order : Lineera, Elena, Elijah(Eva), Z2, Z4, Z5, CloakHat 1, Zombie Eva(!), Mahb

Glancing over her shoulder as the undead kobold's assault wavers against her, she responds to Elena. "Brace yourself child, we're here for vengeance now." Turning back to the matter at hand, Lineera declares in a loud voice, "Munchkin! let's kill this bastard!" With that order uttered, Lineera pushes into the room, using the speed offered by the higher ceiling raising herself to her full height. Pressing deeper into the room, she paid little heed to the attacks coming at her as she continues to press forward. Towering over the small creature, she drives her shield down and against the little beasts skull.

Attack: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (20) - 2 = 18
Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Confirm the critical please.

As Lineera rushes past Eva, the zombie lashes out with a gnomish arm that is far harder than it was in life.

AoO: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Eva's eyes flare as she misses Lineera, and it seems her slack face is full of hatred for the drow.

The small creature also attacks Lineera as she passes, a mitre or mace in one hand.

AoO: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

But the red-eyed creature misses the attack, startled at the formerly hesitant drow's sudden burst of courage.