Gerard still has his RD 4 action.
RD 5:
Andrea -
Daniel - Hits it twice but the smite didn't appear to do extra damage.
26 HPs of damage.
Greater Shadow - destroyed
Gerard
Euphemia
Orsin -
Onyx Ooze
I put a yellow halo around the earth elemental.
I don't think anyone moved closer to it last round, tell if I missed a move and I'll correct the map.
Round 4
This fight is beyond me... Have the elemental take Daniel's place so he can escape. It's attacks are strength based, weaken it!
Andrea casts Blessing of Fervor on everyone.
Stand up as a swift action without provoking an attack of opportunity.
Make one extra attack as part of a full attack action, using its highest base attack bonus.
Gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves.
Cast a single spell of 2nd level or lower as if it were an enlarged, extended, silent, or still spell.
So there is no confusion the PCs don't get all those benefits at one time:
With this blessing, you call your allies to move forth and empower them to conquer and become victorious. Each round for the duration of this spell, each of your allies can choose one of the following bonuses for that round at the beginning of its turn (their choice).
Increase its speed by 30 feet.
Stand up as a swift action without provoking an attack of opportunity.
Make one extra attack as part of a full attack action, using its highest base attack bonus.
Gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves.
Cast a single spell of 2nd level or lower as if it were an enlarged, extended, silent, or still spell.
These effects are not cumulative with similar effects, such as those provided by haste or a speed weapon, nor do they actually grant an extra action, so you can't use it to cast a second spell or otherwise take an extra action in the round. Blessing of fervor does not stack with haste.
RD 5: update
Andrea - bast blessing of fervor
Daniel - Hits it twice but the smite didn't appear to do extra damage.
26 HPs of damage.
Greater Shadow - destroyed
Gerard
Euphemia
Orsin -
Onyx Ooze
Gerard, use Euphemia's fireballs!
On Orsin's turn, he uses his scroll of grease on Daniel.
THEN, on DANIEL'S turn, he casts liberating command as an immediate action, hoping to break the cycle of grabs once and for all.
The paladin once again, struggles against his captor, aided by new magic.
The paladin breaks free (I think) and attempts to move away once, again, provoking from the ooze.
The paladin gets to ESCAPE ARTIST vs the attack
The paladin remains free and moves as far away from the creature as his feet can carry him, as the very slippery and slightly burned and frozen Half orc passes everybody he speaks, RUN!
RD 5: Ooze
The ooze will try to maintain the grapple
Seeking to crystallize its food,
; ;
; ;
Your metal armor becomes unbearably frigid
Reflex save is for extra damage only.
Your gear takes an automatic 11 HPs cold damage (no save)
RD 5: Earth Elemental
The summoned creature will try to bash the ooze,
;
He hits the ooze hard.
RD 6:
Andrea -
Daniel - Breaks grapple and slips out of reach using escape artist he runs
Greater Shadow - destroyed
Gerard
Euphemia
Orsin -
Onyx Ooze
Andrea runs with super speed out the door with the others.
Desperately fighting against the strength and flow of this creature Daniel attempts to break free (standard) and depending on success either Moves out of the room or tries to see if Imoedae's power could help him via DETECT EVIL
[dice=Reflex save] 1d20+10
[dice=CMB to break Grapple] 1d20+16+2
Daniel manages to use LoH to keep himself in the fight.
[dice=LOH+Fey Touched] 5d6+10
Daniel your gear took a total of 38 HP of damage:
RD 2 - 8 hps
RD 3 - 11 HP
RD 4 -AoO - 8 Hp
Rd 5 - 11 Hp
Gerald your gear took:
Aoo - 8 HP
Rd 1 - 4 HP
The creature's stats states no saves for gear, however, this conflicts with the attended magic item rule which states:
Magical Items: Magic items always get saving throws. A magic item's Fortitude, Reflex, and Will save bonuses are equal to 2 + half its caster level. An attended magic item either makes saving throws as its owner or uses its own saving throw bonus, whichever is better.
Anything magical gets its save throw each round.
Daniel - Since you were in the ooze for a long time anything that is not magical in nature is destroyed.
Gerard - What non-magical items did you have from your waist and below. I know you have daredevil boots.
*The make whole spell can restore/fix items.
Orsin runs with all due haste, following Andrea and Daniel.
Daniel - Since you were in the ooze for a long time anything that is not magical in nature is destroyed.
Orsin runs with all due haste, following Andrea and Daniel.
Daniel - Since you were in the ooze for a long time anything that is not magical in nature is destroyed.
Gerard's magical gear is unscathed from the acid and cold.
The paladin continues his move, throwing aside his ruined non magical weapons,
(Lucerine Hammer, Warhammer, Arrows)
And ripping his undergarments from around the edges of his armor.
Unfortunately for Andrea the paladin retains his modesty.
Daniel's equipment looks tarnished from the battle but it is still intact.
The earth elemental keeps at his task.
Euphemia, meanwhile, runs off with the others, not at all confident that she could survive whilst the others flee.
The earth elemental hits again damaging the creature.
The creature will attack the EE.
The paladin continues his move, throwing aside his ruined non magical weapons,
(Lucerine Hammer, Warhammer, Arrows)
And ripping his undergarments from around the edges of his armor.
Unfortunately for Andrea the paladin retains his modesty.
Vampire's gonna pay.... Gerard draws his cloak about himself.
Orsin, Daniel... Can we break through an east wall? Any one.
Lets go through the secret doors, we'll need magic to go through the walls.
It takes the group about 45 minutes to weave in there way back to the upstairs. Gerard is able to find some britches along the way that he will be able to jury-rig to fit his body. The group has a few options for a suitable saferoom.
Daniel would suggest a room that has limited access, so the group could better defend it against corporeal enemies. Realizing walls are useless against incorporeal enemies.
Suggested watch order
Orsin-Andrea
Gerard-Daniel
Andrea-Euphemia
The burned and scarred paladin surveys the room.
Good and bad points no matter where we stay. One exit means we can be easily contained by an enemy, but limits the numbers that can get at us.
He uses the remaining charges on himself
And presents his hand to Gerard.
Do you need Iomedae's grace? I can lay on hands 2 more times this day.
We still have many potions left if anyone needs them.
In the morning we should decide, should we head back to report, resupply or head straight down to the basement? No more treasure hunting. Andrea looks over at Gerard.We have enough loot.
If we can make it through the night, we need to go After Illnerik. Provided he has not fled by other means he may be restricted in his movement.
Adjusting his borrowed pants, Gerard waves Daniel off. Save it, it harms undead yes?
I'm after something useful, don't care much for loot.
That onyx ooze was something else. I'm trained in... anatomy. And it had none. No one knows a weakness? The stuff of nightmares, that.
Other than bashing and slashing until it dies? None that I know of. That ooze was a particular kind of creature where there is no vulnerability to exploit, one must just try to kill it before they are killed. Plus it had the advantage that we could not bring our numbers to bear upon it.
Andrea leans back. Right now we have the ability to cut right through the difficulties of hacking our way to Ilnerik and cut the head off of the Shadowcurse. We have scrolls of Scrying that can locate where Ilnerik sleeps, and with the destruction of the model we are not blocked from scrying or teleporting.Euphemia and Talbard both have the ability to teleport and together they can get all of us right next to Ilnerik for one last fight. Granted, we will be behind enemy lines and it will be a fight that we cannot run from and regroup. The question is, is it worth it?
I am not one for facing illnerik on his terms. Let's get through the night and renew our magics and face him at strength.
The morning brings new light and hope. We will find him and kill him.
The group makes it through the evening without any encounters.
Andrea notices that Daniel is still rather wounded. Daniel, here. I'll fix you up. [ooc]If you already healed yourself up, let me know.[/dice]
CMW for Gerard
When Daniel awakens in the morning he uses his last 2 remaining Lay On Hands, before he kneels in reverence to his Goddess and prays.
As he finishes his prayers, he stands ready.
Euphemia, Orsin. Do you wish to attempt to scry? There is that scroll we found that you can use.
Before we continue, let us attempt to make a plan according to what we know of Ilnerik.
We know he is a vampire and the strengths and weaknesses of one. The Mother said that he has greater ability to summon minions instead of being able to shapeshift and he has a being called the Nilhoi as his right hand
As for his other skills. We did talk about how he was a Pathfinder in life before the betrayal and had relevant skills. Andrea nods to Orsin. He might have bardic abilities such as spells and boosting the abilities of himself and his ally with song or instruments. So silencing him might be feasible.
Orsin nods in thoughtful consideration of the priestess's words as Daniel finishes his prayers and Euphemia finishes staring at Frank for an hour. His face, by no means freshly shaven, has grown gaunt and lifeless. His bargain with the archdevil Geryon continued to weigh heavy on his thoughts as he struggled in vain to forget his charge to steal the paintings.
"I can silence him, to be sure, but we should focus on cutting him down as quickly as possible. I've been thinking about that prayer of searing light you've used before and I feel pretty certain I've come up with a spell of my own that acts just like it. I've also learned been working on a few other spells and I think I've finally got the hang of them. Ilnerik won't know what hit him."
"Maybe a band of mischievous shadow-stuff monkeys can help distract his followers in the mean time," he muses, giving Andrea a sly wink.