DM Bigrin's Shattered Star (Group B) (Inactive)

Game Master bigrin42

The ringing of combat draws Zaphomil awake and instantly alert. Though his wounds still hurt, he was well-protected by his allies and he saw the grievous injuries the for just inflicted on Angelica. He rolls over to her urgently and converts his last powerful spell to heal her wounds.

Cure Serious: 3d8 + 5 ⇒ (8, 4, 5) + 5 = 22

Attack D Sword: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 9 + 2 = 30
Dmg D Sword: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Attack S Sword: 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 7 + 2 = 14
Dmg S sword: 1d6 + 1 + 1d6 ⇒ (1) + 1 + (5) = 7

Critical confirmation: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 9 + 2 = 24
Critical dmg: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Intimidate: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Stepping around the duelist, Jakscar strikes heavy blows with his shorter blade, locking the duelist's defence on him. This and Angelica behind the enemy, allows Jakscar's large blade to pierce the quicksilver enemy in a chink in his armour although the blade fails to strike very deeply.
"Come face a real master of the blade, or do you have to hide and only strike those smaller than yourself."

step to 56X and attack with both blades, forfeiting sneak attack damage to attempt to demoralise the enemy

Angelica staggers from the two successive shots, the wounds and accompanying shock sending her mind and body reeling. She blinks away the stars from the flash of electricity and takes in the situation. As such, she decides to assess the flow of the fight before continuing. Everything seems to slow down as she watches Whiskers slip into the space across the enemy from her before he strikes. Movement beside her draws her attention to Zap moving to grab her ankle. At first she is relieved to see he's alright, but then the wave of healing washes over her, and suddenly she's revitalized for the fight. She renews her fervor and strikes with the help of Jakscar standing behind the enemy.

She's delaying until after the other Players, changing her init position to go after Harbug.
Standard, attack w/rapier (and flank) 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 7 + 2 = 27, confirm threat 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 7 + 2 = 19
damage 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 plus SA 2d6 ⇒ (1, 1) = 2 (plus crit if it hit) 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4 (yuk, 9 damage, or 13 if she crit)

With Zaphomil able to cast spells, Shabbezz figures that he can be left on his own for now. She slides her wand into her hand and moves around the nearest pillar to take a shot at their foe, trusting that the magical projectiles will weave past the fray of combatants to strike true.

Draw wand of magic missile as a move action.

Move to AA-55.

Activating the wand of magic missile (36 charges remaining, CL3, range 130 feet, two missiles, no attack roll needed), both missiles to hit at the enemy at X-55.

Damage (force), 1st missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Damage (force), 2nd missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Harbug maneuvers around the white haired man and looks ready to stab at him with the longspear.

5' step to Z-55, ready to attack with Longspear if he tries to cast a spell. Question just to make sure--is his rapier magical, or is he casting spells to electrify it (ala Magus)? If he's going Magus style, I'm throwing in a spellcraft check just in case.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30
Readied attack with Longspear: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14; Dmg if hit: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Should have rolled the attack first =\

Fang goes all-out attacking the rapier-wielding man.

Bite: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10; Dmg if hit: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Claw 1: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5; Dmg if hit: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Claw 2: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22; Dmg if hit: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Harbug - you haven't seen him successfully cast a spell yet. So at this point whatever assumptions you make are up to you

The man winced at Jakscar's blow and was about to answer him when Angelica's rapier took him in the throat. Shabbezz's magical missiles burned some of the gray skin from his chest, and even Fang got in on the action nipping at the man's exposed ankles. The man's white hair flashed in a cloud around his head and he turned to try and block some of the strikes coming in against him. He backpedaled, putting the column between himself and Harbug, his rapier flicking this way and that to ward off any more attacks.

Shabbezz kept up the pressure on the white-haired assailant while her teammates ran him to ground.

Draw wand of magic missile as a move action.

Activating the wand of magic missile (35 charges remaining, CL3, range 130 feet, two missiles, no attack roll needed), both missiles to hit at the enemy at Y-56.

Damage (force), 1st missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Damage (force), 2nd missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Attack D Sword: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22
Dmg D Sword[/dice: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Attack S Sword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Dmg S sword: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Engaged one-on one if only for the briefest of moments, the two swordsmen engage in the dance of steel. Again Jakscar is able to pin his opponent's blade long enough to land another heavy blow.
"You will die here" Jakscar growls still trying to sap the enemy's will.

Knowing the others might get there before her, Angelica calls out, "Buggy, let me pair up with Whiskers." in hopes that the spot providing her the best advantage isn't taken before she can get to it. Moving as quickly as she can, she moves south around Harbug to end up across from Jakscar. With her companion on the other side, she jabs her rapier hard at the enemy's softer parts.

Move, to Z56 (by way of Z54, AA55, to Z56)
Standard, attack with rapier and flank 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 7 + 2 = 21, damage 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 plus SA 2d6 ⇒ (6, 5) = 11

That's fine re: assumptions, just was asking.
"You got it!" the orc growls as he dashes around the target. "Fang! With me!"
Move to Y-58 via AA-56 (shouldn't provoke due to cover I think, first diagonal), AA-57, Z-58 (10' 2nd diagonal), Y-58. Ready to attack with longspear when there is a flank.

As per previous ready rules, the roll from before is the roll I'm using (though it gets an additional +2 since I will have a flank this time); thus

Attack roll: 8 (from here + 6 +2 (flank) = 16; Dmg if hit from same place: 14

The cat growls viciously and dives at the rapier-wielding man.
5' step to Y-55, full attack.

Bite, Flank: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 4 + 2 = 20; Dmg if hit: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Claw 1, Flank: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 4 + 2 = 22; Dmg if hit: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Claw 2, Flank: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 2 = 18; Dmg if hit: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

The grey-skinned man, surrounded and attacked from all sides, finally fell. The rapier clattered on the stones and, after a few moments, the electrical discharge on it went out. Blood still seeped from Angelica's wounds, but Zaphomil's slowly closed as Harbug's healing spell continued its work.

On the man's body, you find a few items of interest, namely the man's rapier, cloak, and a small wand. He also has a nice composite bow and a spellbook with accompanying items.

Harbug mumbles a few orcish words and looks over the spellbook.
Read magic, just hoping to find out what's in it.
When he finishes glancing through the pages, he grunts a few more orcish words and looks at the man's equipment.
Detect magic, spellcraft to identify
Spellcraft rapier: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28
Spellcraft wand: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11
Spellcraft cloak: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15

With the threat neutralised, Jakscar cleans his blades and sheathes them. Clapping his hand on Zaph's shoulder he exclaims. "I thought we might have lost you for a minute there, glad you are hanging around a little longer." With that he rummages in his pack to add another potion to his bandolier before redrawing his blades and taking up watch at the next exit. 59z

Shabbezz exhales in relief after she's sure their opponent has fallen. When the items he had carried are laid out for examination, she draws upon her training as a diviner and and enhances her abilities to discern magical properties.

Casting identify as a spell-like ability (CL: 5; Duration 3 rounds/level [15 rounds]; see link for details).

Spellcraft (rapier): 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (19) + 22 = 41
Spellcraft (wand): 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (6) + 22 = 28
Spellcraft (cloak): 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (11) + 22 = 33

Once she's finished and relays her findings to the group, she will wait her turn to read the spellbook after Harbug is finished with it.

Together Harbug and Shabbezz laid out the items and determined their magical properties. The cloak was a basic cloak of resistance, and the wand held eleven charges of detect secret doors. The rapier was the real find, though. To Shabbezz' mind, the rapier identified itself as a named weapon, Silverfang.

With the threat neutralised, Jakscar cleans his blades and sheathes them. Clapping his hand on Zaph's shoulder he exclaims. "I thought we might have lost you for a minute there, glad you are hanging around a little longer." With that he rummages in his pack to add another potion to his bandolier before redrawing his blades and taking up watch at the next exit.

The faithful of Desna grimaces while he feels his wounds knit together, but turns it into a smile. "It happened so fast, but thankfully I have some wonderful allies. Otherwise, I'd still be on the floor." He eyes the puddle of his own blood with a shudder, then draws his wand. "Hold still," he tells Angelica.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

Angelica looks curiously at the gnome, Zap, sweetie, you are much worse off than I am. Why don't you heal yourself first?" as she tries to get him to use those on himself before her.

As they sort through the pale man's belongings, Angelica eyes the weapons with interest, before she remembers something. "Hey, while you guys are eyeballing all that stuff, looking at the magic and all that, can you check out this dagger I mentioned, briefly, when we were finding the stuff for Maroux?"

He winks at her. "I'll be fine. As long as nothing like this fellow jumps out at us again and use me to practice his butchery. I'd rather you tall folks who get in the thick of things to get most of the healing." Looking at the dagger, he calls up the ability to study magical auras. "I've learned a thing or two about reading enchantments since you last showed me that dagger. Let me take a look."

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

Shabbezz looks up and notices Zaph and Angelica conversing over the dagger.

"Oh, let me help you with that, Zaphomil."

Spellcraft (Aid Another): 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (10) + 22 = 32

The dagger is nothing more or less than a standard magical dagger.

+1 dagger

So with a quick double raising of her eyebrows, Angelica claps and rubs her hands together, adding "So, who wants what? I mean, I got no problem throwing this magic dagger in the mix, but if no one wants either of them, I'm keen on the rapier, or bow.... or both even."

"I've got no more use for them than the man on the floor does." Harbug responds dismissively. "If you think you can put them to good use in keeping us alive by making things dead, then do it."

"The wand may prove useful, but I'm more interested in having a crack at that spellbook," Shabbezz interjected. "The cloak I can take or leave, and I have little need for the rest."

Angelica looks to Jakscar, "Well, Whiskers, you may be the only one left that may want either of those weapons.... So, do you have a preference?" As she talks, she heads back over to the door on the other end of the room, prepared to continue where she left off in examining it.

Move back over to Z58, and inspect the area in front of and including the doors for traps.
Perception 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (12) + 15 = 27 (+2 vs traps, and +4 vs stone like creatures)

"Well those silver flecks make that cloak look rather dashing, but I have no use for the blade, fine though it is. As for the bow, I have one to match that so please feel free. Ready to move on when everyone else is."

Sorry been in and out of hospital since Friday with my wife, nothing bad just a couple of late pregnancy worries.

Angelica whips a look over her shoulder at the last comment, "Seriously? That is outstanding. Here," She tosses the newly identified magical dagger into the pile, "I won't likely use this anytime soon. I hope someone else can at least get some use out of it." As she collects up the new rapier, she unceremoniously draws and just drops her current one. Picking up the bow, she realizes that she doesn't have any arrows to go with it, and looks for some on the body before grabbing the dead man's quiver full.

Sans any disagreement, she will take the new Rapier and Bow.
She leaves the Dagger +1 there.

Shabezz gives the wand an experimental wave with one hand, them slides it into her belt.

"Well, unless you'd all like to rest for a few hours and allow us arcane scholars to pore over that spellbook, are we good to get moving once again?"

Are you guys resting, or moving on. This would be a good room for resting, given the locked door on one side, and the portcullis on the other

As everyone passed around the items and loot, Angelica took what suited her best and went back to examining the eastern door. It was like the others, with the central panel triggering the unlocking and opening of the door. She noticed that the hinges were on her side, letting the doors swing into the room. She thought that might be useful information, if they were to stay here.

Zaphomil considers his wounds and his remaining allotment of magic. "I think I have enough to keep us going through another fight or two, assuming no one sneaks up behind me again. Hopefully these heavy doors behind us will prevent that. It's been a harrowing morning so far, but it seems odd to stop already. In any event, we can hopefully fall back to this area in case it's necessary."

I think I can manage. Let's move on.

"Sounds good. Angelica can you get that door open?"
We've also got at least _some_ healing left in Harbug's healing hex; thus far today it's only been used on himself.

Sweeping the cloak up to his shoulders and taking a few steps to check it looked as dashing as he thought, Jakscar then redraws his blades. "Right, well now I look more fantastic, let's get going. I'm fine for a while longer if you all are.". With a spin Jakscar moves into the position of danger when the door opens.

The door was easy enough to open, now that Angelica had a good idea of the panels to push to disengage the locks. She wondered again if the other panels did something in the past, as there didn't seem to be any negative effects to pushing on the wrong ones.

The door opened to reveal a row of marbled pillars, each carved to resemble a beautiful woman, supporting the ceiling of the hallway beyond. The pillar closest to the door seemed to be missing its head.

Here's the map

From her position near the rear of the group, Shabbezz couldn't see much, but she could make out some of the carved pillars past the door.

"Ugh, I hope this isn't like the last time with those construct columns," she said with dread in her voice.

Angelica eyes the statues warily, the concern on her face masks Shabbezz's words. With a small shiver of regret, she keeps her eyes focused ahead for any dangers along the hall. With her new rapier in hand, she creeps into the room, skulking up to the first pillar, before continuing on to the corner to peer around it.

If she doesn't see anything, she moves to AA62, then on to AA65
Stealth 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (17) + 13 = 30 (Can move at full speed w/o penalty)
Perception 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (15) + 15 = 30 (+2 vs traps, and +4 vs stone like creatures)

Angelica sees two things about the columns almost immediately. First, though they had a different appearance than the columns that attacked in the hallways above, they still looked lithe enough to possibly move about. Secondly, the missing head from the nearest column seemed to have been detached cleanly, with no signs of breaks or scarring where it might have been smashed or pried off.

Stopping you at AA62, since you indicated you wanted to examine the columns

Angelica peers dubiously at the statue with the missing head. She then scans up about the ceiling for some sort of weapon or effect that could shear the head off a statue, or even worse, one of the group. She decides to get a better view, of both the cut itself, and the angle of incidence. Sheathing her new rapier, she stretches and limbers briefly before doing her best to ascend the headless statue.

Climb 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15, assuming it has plenty of handholds.

Once she arrives just below head level, she checks for anything that could hit her once head pops up over the edge, and if she finds nothing, raises herself up to examine the surface and anything else at this elevation that she may have missed from ground level. If the only threat is just low enough to take the heads off the statue columns, and that's all, they may just be safe enough going through this hallway.... unless it slopes upward, or raises suddenly.

Perception 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (16) + 15 = 31 (+2 vs traps, and +4 vs stone like creatures)

Zaphomil scowls at the statues, knowing that their luck with them had been pretty poor up to now. He shakes his head, then dashes forward to the corner of the hallway, then throw his back against the wall, ready to throw a spell or channel up if necessary.

Move to Z-66.

Staying put as Angelica scouts ahead, Jakscar quickly moves up to give her a boost as he realises her intention to climb. Remaining at the bottom of the headless statue, he sees Zaph move forward and places himself between the two, ready to aid where needed.

When you're fragile and knowingly walking into danger, it pays to remain in reach of the healer. Shabbezz follows close to Zaphomil as they enter the hallway.

Move to Z-65.

As Angelica and Jakscar inspected the first column, Zaphomil dashed forward to see around the corner. What he saw made him give a little squeak and press up against the wall. There were three more columns, and all were headless. The fact that three stone heads were crawling across the floor towards him like a stone spider with an abnormally large body. Appendages with claws reached out from beneath the head and clicked menacingly. The heads came around the corner, pressing up against the group.

"What on earth is this fresh hell and the little ones are at the front!"

Jakscar tries to tumble forward past the first enemy, putting himself in harm's way to distract the enemies away from the wizard and cleric.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14
That doesn't look good, but just in case
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24
If he makes it
Reaching the place of danger he lashes out at the one in front.
Attack: 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 9 + 2 = 27
Dmg: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

So, Jakscar is going for AA65?

Angelica calls out her irritations, "Damnit, little ones! What's the point in me scouting if you're just going run on ahead?" Huffing in frustration, she drops down the short distance from her climb, draws her recently stowed new weapon, and stabs at the weird crawling head in front of her. She drives forward with the point of the mithril rapier, stabbing for one of the eyes, hoping that it's just as delicate as most are.

Free? Drop down and move draw weapon or
Move? drawing rapier during move
Standard, attack AA64 with Silverfang 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28, confirm 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26, damage 2d6 + 6 ⇒ (1, 3) + 6 = 10

Sorry, yes

The cat dashes forward toward the nearest head and snaps at it.
Charge to Z-63, bite; or if Angelica and Jakscar took that one out, delay and charge/move as appropriate to Z-65 if Shabbezz moves.
Bite, charge: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 4 + 2 = 26; Dmg if hit: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Bite crit confirm, charge: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 4 + 2 = 22; Crit Dmg if hit: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

"Good one fang!" Harbug brings his spear to bear as he charges up behind Angelica.

Once again, if the head in AA-64 is dead, Harbug will delay and move (Subtract the +2 to the attaack roll and add back the -2 AC, as the only head Harbug can charge at all is AA-64) once there is an open space from which he can attack with the longspear he is still holding. If no space opens before the heads' turn to go, and Harbug's knowledge roll tells him they are NOT immune to mind affecting effects, he will Evil Eye hex the one in AA-66 for -2 to attack rolls.

If one of his 4 knowledges is appropriate: Kn. Arcana, History, Nature, Planes; Arcana and Nature are +7, History and Planes are +6 so 1 less. Priority of questions 1) what they are and are they immune to mind affecting effects, 2) any special defenses (like DR or energy resistance), 3) Special attacks.

Kn. Arcana: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

Longspear, charge: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 6 + 2 = 24; Dmg if hit: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Going by the map, I had thought that you had already gone around the corner, and I was still behind you. My mistake!

Zaphomil presses his back against the wall, realizing his error. He cautiously weaves a spell, conjuring a shimmering starknife to defend him.

Concentration DC 19: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27
Spiritual Weapon: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2