After an eternity, Dalamus returns to the anxious party and reports what he found. You prep your spells and head up the spiral staircase.
Epik emerges from the staircase to a bizarre sight. Magma and Sam can see this as well, the rest of you are blocked by the stairs.
A bonfire of utter blackness dominates the center of this room. It crackles as if it were normal flame, but it’s a slick, glossy black rather than the orange-red of a fire. Surrounding the black flames is a pale yellow corona that casts light about the room. A sheaf of papers lies scattered near the base of the black-flame bonfire. More than a dozen passages originate in this room, with at least some of them doubling back on themselves. Floating in the middle of the bonfire about 10 feet off the ground is a desiccated corpse draped in immaculately embroidered black and purple robes with an immense high collar.
Next to him, a giant walking armored statue of clay passes by stalking toward the back of the room. It doesn't seem to notice you yet.
The corpse turns its purple glowing eyes upon you and laughs a dry rasping chuckle, "The last pretender was right ... there were more of you to attempt today. Years of boredom and I get this excitement twice in a day. Prepare for a painful death, outsiders."
The armored creature is a clay golem
Off to the east, Epik notes the broken and life-drained corpse of the rakshasha.
Upon entering the room....Dalamus will wait to see what happens before him, then he will react.
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54 of 64
18 (t 14, ff 16)
darkvision (10 hours), levitate (10 min), mage armor (50 min), resist energy (fire) (100 min)
5th: summon monster V (x2), telekinesis, wall of stone
4th: black tentacles, secure shelter, stoneskin, summon monster IV (3)
3rd: magic circle vs evil, sound lance (x3), summon monster III, wind wall
2nd: baleful transposition, darkvision, greater slide, levitate (2), resist energy (2)
1st: benign transposition (x2), feather fall, identify[/i], [s]lesser orb of sound (x2), shield
Cantrips: detect magic, light, open/close, sonic snap
11 uses remaining (11/day)
35 feet remaining (300/day)
0 use remaining (1/day)
0 use remaining (1/day)
10 minutes remaining (10/day)
6 charges remaining
4 charges
13 charges
25 charges
49 charges
17
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"A clay golem and a lich, as we expected. The black bonfire empowers the undead and necromantic magic," Nowzai explains in grim tones.
The archons fly forward, pelting the lich with light rays.
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Nowzai will activate his spider-climbing slippers and move up the wall and into the room, climbing the ceiling to above the chamber.
Effects: Divine Bond, Resist Energy, Smite Evil
Epik will smite evil on the lich as a swift action and will then move forward to power attack the golem with his adamantine great sword.
Knowledge Arcana -
Knowledge Planes -
"Can we destroy the bonfire?"
Dalamus will move to the alcove where rakshasha is and search his body for anything helpful.
move to supportg Epik. Brother see to the lich i will take care of the golem.
damage
The lich is more variable. A spell caster of immense power, traditionally it has resistance to non magical edged and pointed weapons, cold, electricity and other undead immunities. Individual lichen can have other abilities and can be as varied as humanoid races.
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I will move up and attack the lich, looking for the best line of sight.
I'll take a 5 foot NE, and full round attack the Lich:
Attack: Damage: Miss: Crit:
Attack: Damage: Miss: Crit:
Attack: Damage: Miss: Crit:
Attack: Damage: Miss: Crit:
+1/+1 if he moves within 30 feet of me, and AoO if he moves within 15.
Ohh! and another +1/+1 if anyone was able to repair 11 hp on my bow in the 3-4 minutes we waited on Dalamus (which would be awesome, hook me up!)
If no one is able to mend I will cast magic weapon on 50 of my cold iron arrows (damage bonus included above).
Nowzai sends his archons forward and they each fire a bolt at the lich, and one even hits. The lich laughs scoffing the smoking on his shoulder.
Nowzai himself climbs up the wall and emerges from the staircase on to the side of the wall. Epik rushes the clay golem and although he catches the creature unaware, the golem's armor turns aside his blade.
Sam moves into the room ...
The black energy swirling around the lich swarms around and repairs the wound caused by the archon's light. The lich continues to chuckle and then casts an exceptionally quick incantation, summoning a group of four 3-headed dogs, their flesh flayed and stripped from their bodies. They appear between Epik and Sam and attack ...
Dalamus is still checking the body for anything useful. I fear this is going to be a rough fight.
Dalamus can't get to the body.
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Nowzai directs the archons to focus on the golem, and they concentrate their light rays on it in a barrage.
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Nowzai turns to the lich and conjures a half-globe of stone from the earth, completely enclosing the lich within.
Epic full around attacks the golem (no power attack).
Why can he not get to the body? It is within movement range
round 2
attack the closest 3 headed dog.
damage
damage
haste attack
damage
Why can he not get to the body? It is within movement range
There are enemies between you and it.
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Ok I am confused. The tokens around Sam are not the Archons?
Nevermind I just re-read your post and saw that they are dogs. What I still don't understand is that was my last rounds action. I should have an opportunity to attack them since you posted that after my actions were posted.
I will attack the dog that stands before me. Dalamus will also activate his boots of speed giving his Haste
Attack 1
Damage
Attack 2
Damage
Attack 1
Damage
Look at the original initiative order. You go after the lich.
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I'll swap up and attack the dogs right in front of me. I'll also keep an eye out for AoO opportunities on all dogs as well:
Cold Iron +1 arrows:
Attack: Damage: Miss: Crit:
Attack: Damage: Miss: Crit:
Attack: Damage: Miss: Crit:
Attack: Damage: Miss: Crit:
Edit: You shouldn't need haste yet Dalamus, Sam cast it on everyone right before we came in.
Yes, which means my first round action would change to the attacks that I had posted.
Round 1
Sam will move up and attack the Golem
He will enchant Morda'ael to +5 Keen
To Hit -
Damage -
Sam will continue his assault on the golem
To Hit -
Damage -
Confirm Crit -
Total Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
Confirm Crit -
Total Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
Confirm Crit -
Total Damage -
; failed
Nowzai traps the lich under his dome of stone.
Magma does 78 damage and kills a dog
Dalamus does 19 damage to a dog
Nemoris does 59 to one dog and kills it and then does 23 to another dog.
Archons do 20 points of damage to the Clay Golem.
Epik does 5 points of damage to the Clay Golem.
Sam does 27 points of damage to the Clay Golem.
The golem lashes at Epik with its fists.
; HIT!; + the wound is cursed. It won't heal naturally and it requires a DC26 CL check to heal magically.
; HIT!; + the wound is cursed. It won't heal naturally and it requires a DC26 CL check to heal magically.
The 2 dogs split to attack Dalamus and Epik.
; HIT!; + DC18 Fort Save or be dimensionally anchored
; miss
; HIT! + REND!; + DC18 Fort Save or be dimensionally anchored
; miss
; miss
; miss
round 3
Attack nearest dog
damage
damage
haste attack
damage
if the dogs are dead i will attack the Golem instead
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54 of 64
18 (t 14, ff 16)
darkvision (10 hours), levitate (10 min), mage armor (50 min), resist energy (fire) (100 min)
5th: summon monster V (x2), telekinesis, wall of stone
4th: black tentacles, secure shelter, stoneskin, summon monster IV (3)
3rd: magic circle vs evil, sound lance (x3), summon monster III, wind wall
2nd: baleful transposition, darkvision, greater slide, levitate (2), resist energy (2)
1st: benign transposition (x2), feather fall, identify[/i], [s]lesser orb of sound (x2), shield
Cantrips: detect magic, light, open/close, sonic snap
11 uses remaining (11/day)
35 feet remaining (300/day)
0 use remaining (1/day)
0 use remaining (1/day)
10 minutes remaining (10/day)
6 charges remaining
4 charges
13 charges
25 charges
49 charges
17
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The archons continue to blast the golem.
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Nowzai begins a new summoning spell.
Epik will heal himself as a swift action and then will full round attack the golem.
Extra power attack from haste:
Dalamus will continue attacking the dogs.
Attack 1
Damage
Attack 2
Crit confirm
Damage
Attack 3
Damage
CL check to cast LoH on himself:
Spells Prepared
Cantrips -
- Dancing Lights
- Detect Magic
- Read Magic
- Mage Hand
- Touch of Fatigue
Level 1- 7 Total
- 3/4 - Intensified Shocking Grasp
- 1/2 - Long Arms
- 1 - Frost Bite
Level 2- 6 Total
- 1 - Brow Gasher
- 2 - Frigid Touch
- 0/1 - Ablative Barrier
- 2 - Mirror Image
Level 3 - 5 Total
Level 4 - 2 Total
- 2 - Dimension Door
Arcane Pool
Sama'el - Arcane Pool Power Points – 13/14
Arcane Pool Power(s)
- Throwing Magus
- Flamboyant Arcana (Ex)
- Arcane Deed - Precise Strike (Ex)
Mord'ael
Currently +4 Keen Frost Burst
Scimitar +3
Int - 14
Wis - 10
Cha - 10
Ego - 14
Special Abilities
Alertness
Black Blade Strike - 1 AP for +3 Damage for 1 Min
Telepathy
Unbreakable
Teleport Blade
Arcane Pool - 3
Wands
- Shield - 43 Charges
- Protection from Evil - 46 Charges
- Obscuring Mist - 48 Charges
- Weapon Wand - 48 Charges
Darkness - 1/Day (1 left)
Pearl of Power 1/day (1 left)
Sam will attack the Golem again
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
Do I have visibility on the Lich? If so I'll take the shots on him. If not then the golem. 5ft step first:
Attack: Damage: Miss: Crit:
Attack: Damage: Miss: Crit:
Attack: Damage: Miss: Crit:
Attack: Damage: Miss: Crit:
Crit 1:
Crit 2:
Magma keeps hammering away at the dogs, slaying another one near him. Dalamus cuts at the one near him twice, noticing the blade is doing damage, but the extra effect against chaos doesn't seem to be processing.
Nemoris fires into the golem, stepping as he does do, his first 2 arrows just barely scratching it as the suddenly quick moving golem actually dodges away from what would be brutal damage.
Nowzai's archons also fire at the golem blasting away pieces of scorched clay. The wizard himself starts casting a spell.
Sam and Epik slash several times and the pummeled clay golem finally falls to the ground in a crash of broken pottery.
The final dog creature lashes back at Dalamus, striking him several times with bites and ripping at his flesh.
Finally, with a shuddering crash the top of the stone dome explodes out sending pieces of stone left and right. The lich flies up, still encircled by the nexus and points at Nowzai, no longer laughing, as he finishes a quick summoning spell.
A small winged red humanoid creature (an imp) appears behind Nowzai swinging a scorpion-like tail at the wizard striking him twice injecting poison into the wizard. Near simultaneously a horned hoofed humanoid wielding a vicious, saw-toothed glaive, grinning a feral smile in a toothy maw below which writhes a hideous, twitching beard. It's a barbazu, or as more commonly known, a bearded devil. The creature scowls at Nowzai but turns to attack Nemoris, since the wizard is out of reach. It hits the ranger once causing a horrific bleeding wound.
A tremendously huge stone and earth head appears out of the wall of stone and follows up with shoulders and a massive fist, with which it swats an archon out of the air.
; HIT!; + DC18 Fort Save or be dimensionally anchored
; HIT!; REND!; + DC18 Fort Save or be dimensionally anchored
; miss
; HIT!;
HIT!; + DC17 Fort Save or take Dex damage
; HIT!; + bleed 2/round
; miss
; HIT!;
round 4
attacking the demon with the glaive
damage
damage
haste
damage
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46 of 64
18 (t 14, ff 16)
darkvision (10 hours), levitate (10 min), mage armor (50 min), resist energy (fire) (100 min)
5th: summon monster V (x2), telekinesis, wall of stone
4th: black tentacles, secure shelter, stoneskin, summon monster IV (3)
3rd: magic circle vs evil, sound lance (x3), summon monster III, wind wall
2nd: baleful transposition, darkvision, greater slide, levitate (2), resist energy (2)
1st: benign transposition (x2), feather fall, identify[/i], [s]lesser orb of sound (x2), shield
Cantrips: detect magic, light, open/close, sonic snap
11 uses remaining (11/day)
35 feet remaining (300/day)
0 use remaining (1/day)
0 use remaining (1/day)
10 minutes remaining (10/day)
6 charges remaining
4 charges
13 charges
25 charges
49 charges
17
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Despite the imp's attacks, Nowzai completes his summoning spell and calls in another lantern archon to replace the defeated. The archons turn their light beams on to the lich.
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Nowzai steps away from the imp and casts, creating a wall of gusting winds between himself and the imp.
Epik will attempt again to heal himself as a swift action.
He then moves up to attack the Barbazu with his good aligned weapon.
Fort Save
Fort Save
Dalamus will continue on the last dog
Attack 1
Damage
Attack 2
Damage
Attack 3
Damage
Spells Prepared
Cantrips -
- Dancing Lights
- Detect Magic
- Read Magic
- Mage Hand
- Touch of Fatigue
Level 1- 7 Total
- 3/4 - Intensified Shocking Grasp
- 1/2 - Long Arms
- 1 - Frost Bite
Level 2- 6 Total
- 1 - Brow Gasher
- 2 - Frigid Touch
- 0/1 - Ablative Barrier
- 2 - Mirror Image
Level 3 - 5 Total
Level 4 - 2 Total
- 2 - Dimension Door
Arcane Pool
Sama'el - Arcane Pool Power Points – 13/14
Arcane Pool Power(s)
- Throwing Magus
- Flamboyant Arcana (Ex)
- Arcane Deed - Precise Strike (Ex)
Mord'ael
Currently +4 Keen Frost Burst
Scimitar +3
Int - 14
Wis - 10
Cha - 10
Ego - 14
Special Abilities
Alertness
Black Blade Strike - 1 AP for +3 Damage for 1 Min
Telepathy
Unbreakable
Teleport Blade
Arcane Pool - 3
Wands
- Shield - 43 Charges
- Protection from Evil - 46 Charges
- Obscuring Mist - 48 Charges
- Weapon Wand - 48 Charges
Darkness - 1/Day (1 left)
Pearl of Power 1/day (1 left)
To Hit -
Damage -
DC 17 Fort Save or be Fatigued.
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
Confirm Crit -
Total Damage -
With three quick strikes, Magma takes down the summoned devil and it disappears in a puff of brimstone.
Feeling the weight of the dimensional lock settle on him, Dalamus lashes out and cuts the dog thing once.
Nemoris sees the visible lich and fires arrows at him, nicking the bony creature once, before his remaining arrows get caught in a sudden roar of wind that surrounds the lich.
Nearly the same time, Nowzai calls up his own wall of wind. His archons find the lich harder to strike than the plodding golem and the undead caster dodges all but 2 blows.
Sam steps over and sets a flurry of blows on the imp, taking 3 to cut the winged creature down eliciting a hiss of anger from the lich.
The lich roars reaching into the black flame and the entire cavern fills with a foul miasma causing unholy pain to seep at your soul. It lingers and continues to leach. The raw power coming from the fearsome creature affects all who see him.
Next to him the elemental slips into the ground and leads with a fist out of the ground striking at Magma but banging off the thick-skinned stone childe.
Dalamus gets chomped by all 3 heads and the creature jerks its heads in three different direction causing rending damage.
; miss
; HIT!;
+ bleed 1 per round + sickened rounds. Make a DC 22 Will Save for 1/2 damage and no sickened. Neutral take 1/2 or 1/4 and are not sickened.
+ Bleed and sickened as above.
; fail
; miss
; HIT!;
; HIT!;
; HIT!; REND!;
will
take a 5 foot step attack the dog
Round 5
damage
damage
haste
damage
if the dog dies move attacks to the golem
Epik moves to attack the three headed dog attacking Dalamus.
Assuming that the combined attacks from Epik and Magma will kill the dog, Epik will move to power attack the earth elemental on Round 5 (otherwise he continues to attack the dog).
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second will save
attack the golem
damage
damage
haste
damage
Will Fear
Will Blight
Dalamus falls to his knees from the amazing power that he just endured, badly injured. Dalamus will withdraw down the stairs away from the power, while he tries to figure out his next move.
Ok, so Dalamus is Shaken and Dimentionally locked.
Dalamus will also deactivate the haste
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38 of 64
18 (t 14, ff 16)
darkvision (10 hours), levitate (10 min), mage armor (50 min), resist energy (fire) (100 min)
5th: summon monster V (x2), telekinesis, wall of stone
4th: black tentacles, secure shelter, stoneskin, summon monster IV (3)
3rd: magic circle vs evil, sound lance (x3), summon monster III, wind wall
2nd: baleful transposition, darkvision, greater slide, levitate (2), resist energy (2)
1st: benign transposition (x2), feather fall, identify, lesser orb of sound (x2), shield
Cantrips: detect magic, light, open/close, sonic snap
11 uses remaining (11/day)
35 feet remaining (300/day)
0 use remaining (1/day)
0 use remaining (1/day)
10 minutes remaining (10/day)
6 charges remaining
4 charges
13 charges
25 charges
49 charges
17
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"We need to destroy or neutralize that black flame! It is bolstering and healing the lich."
Nowzai focuses on the fire, trying to discern a vulnerability.