Active effects: Blind, stnskin (120), Images (5), keen, res cold 30, airwalk, end elem, see inv, lt fort, all-round vision, DR10/adam, DR5/pierce, res skin)
"Away from this racket!" Parity shouts, stumbling south across the air toward the island.
Perception:1d20 + 24 ⇒ (13) + 24 = 37
As he gets closer, "Up! Stay away from the water. Creatures below!"
Heng follows, but does not hear what has alerted Parity. "I would guess it's something even worse than Omox. Are there more passages to the south? Let's move on quickly."
Active effects: Blind, stnskin (120), Images (5), keen, res cold 30, airwalk, end elem, see inv, lt fort, all-round vision, DR10/adam, DR5/pierce, res skin)
Continue to the south for now. We will return for the side passages later as needed.
You follow Parity towards the south. Ameiko's light reveals more of the large cavern, including rocky beaches to the left and right, and a couple more islets.
As you near the skulls-adorned island, the fiends swim up from below to attack. As they near the surface, you get a closer look. They are humanoid in form, with massive lobster pincers at the end of their arms, and similar segmented armor plates across their bodies. Their heads are hideous and octopus-like with masses of writhing tentacles about their beaked jaws.
Knowledge (planes) DC 25:
These are piscodaemons, cruel aquatic fiends from Abaddon, who roam the lower planes sowing misery and blight, delighting in drawn-out deaths, poisoning victims, and dismembering their prey slowly.
|| Per +16 | Fort +10 Ref +11 Will +13 | BAB +10 | CMB +8 | CMD 23 || Init +3 Halfling Oracle of Life/14
Round 1
Status:
HP = 95/95
AC/T/FF = 24/16/21 (25% ignore sneak/critical)
Weapon Equipped = +1 Holy Light Crossbow
Bolts = 60/60
Speed = 15'
Channel = 4/6 (7d6)
Energy Body = 13/13
Oracle Spells Known (CL 13th; concentration +18)
6th 3/4—mass cure moderate wounds, greater dispel magic, heal, wind walk
5th 7/7—break enchantment, breath of life*, mass cure light wounds, wall of stone, wall of time
4th 4/7—air walk, blessing of fervor*, cure critical wounds, holy smite*, restoration, tongues
3rd 6/7—cure serious wounds, dispel magic, invisibility purge, magic circle against evil, neutralize poison, stone shape
2nd 7/7—aid, cure moderate wounds, ghostbane dirge*, resist energy, lesser restoration, shield other, spiritual weapon
1st 8/8—bless, burning disarm*, command*, cure light wounds, detect evil, detect undead, sun metal*
0 (at will)—create water, detect magic, detect poison, guidance, light, mending, purify food and drink*, spark*, stabilize
* Save DC = 15 + Level
Status Effects = Non
K. Planes:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10
Harlan takes the opportunity and blesses his friends with the fervor that his advanced sandwich making skills have taught him work best in this situation.
Harlan casts his blessing on the party. The fiends remain in the water, each gurgling some kind of spell. The cavern around you is sudden filled with nauseating gas clouds.
All: DC 16 Fort save (and each round you remain in the cloud) or become nauseated. Visibility restricted per fog cloud. The cloud goes from the water to 20 feet up.
Active effects: Blind, stnskin (120), Images (5), keen, res cold 30, airwalk, end elem, see inv, lt fort, all-round vision, DR10/adam, DR5/pierce, res skin)
Fort Save:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (2) + 14 = 16
Parity steps to the west and attacks the nearest gurgling spellcaster (Assuming the ones with yellow lines are casting? Using Harlan's extra attack from Blessing of fervor)
Malnival ignores the stinking mists for the moment and casts a hastening spell on the party. Parity steps down to the water's surface and slashes at the nearest fiend. The water deflects the first two attacks, but the third strike cuts through. Notably, a good amount of the force is absorbed by the fiend's armor.
Heng dives into the mists to strike at one of the eastern foes.
P2 Will save vs Kiyomi's confusion:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28 P3 Will save vs Kiyomi's confusion:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29 P4 Will save vs Kiyomi's confusion:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21 P5 Will save vs Kiyomi's confusion:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28
Harlan climbs above the noxious clouds and dispels the south east quarter.
Three of the fiends attack, flying up out of the water to engage Parity and Heng. The other four cast spells on themselves then fly up, closing
to melee with Parity, Heng and Harlan.
Active effects: Blind, stnskin (120), Images (5), keen, res cold 30, airwalk, end elem, see inv, lt fort, all-round vision, DR10/adam, DR5/pierce, res skin)
Taking 9 + 9 bleed, 40 points of stoneskin gone, burn the jingasa of fortunate soldier to avoid extra crit damage from claw 1. Question, since the stoneskin took all the tentacle damage, does the poison still come into play?
So looks like no home internet until end of the week and i've near burned though all my phone data minutes. Hopefully I'll be fully back up by Fri, but feel free to bot if needed before then and have a Happy New Year : )
Round 2
AC:34/30, hp:98/130, Ki 7/11, Stun 7/13, Fire 10/10; dragon form, inspired, bleeding
Heng frowns at the demonic bile left from the fiend's bite, but not suffering any immediate effects, focuses his ki on defense and lays into the evil around him.
Malnival slashes, doing some minor damage to the fiend. He struggles but barely manages to keep his stomach in the nauseating cloud.
Malnival Fort save vs stinking cloud (DC 16):1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
Parity withstands the toxic fumes, then conjures a host of mirror images, but cannot land a solid hit against his opponent.
@ Parity: bleed doesn't stack, so just take the largest iterative each round until you're healed. And their poison is injury, so if you don't take damage, you don't get poisoned (as far as I understand it).
Heng lays in on one of his attackers, slamming the fiend with one crushing punch, leaving it shaken from the impact. His other swings fail to connect with any real force.
Kiyomi continues her inspiring song, firing her bow at one target. The arrow hits cleanly, but appears to do no harm.
Ameiko, still retching from the stinking gasses, moves back out of the clouds to clearer air.
Harlan moves up and away a few feet before blasting the fiends with holy power. Most of them ignore the smite as their natural resistances repel the magic, but three are burned by the holy energy, and one appears blinded.
Round 3
AC:34/30, hp:81/130, Ki 6/11, Stun 7/13, Fire 10/10; dragon form, inspired, bleeding
Heng seems to intuit the strikes with his ki awareness and dodges every attack save one. unless the GM forgot to subtract the shaken penalty which would mean a miss... He continues to bleed freely from the foul wounds, how does the bleed work exactly? but flies into a flurry of fist and foot.
Active effects: Blind, stnskin (120), Images (5), keen, res cold 30, airwalk, end elem, see inv, lt fort, all-round vision, DR10/adam, DR5/pierce, res skin)
Parity loses 2 images, with haste, AC is 29 so that tentacle 23 doesn't take one. For bleed, doesn't that stack if it's from different sources. So different creatures count as different sources? taking your ruling for now
Also adding in inspire courage to attacks ... missed that last round
Parity weapon channels belker's claws assuming the creature breathes something.
Parity brings Suishen down with extraordinary power, cutting through his target's thick plates and leaving a deep wound. The fiend hisses and spits in pain, but continues fighting.
Heng continues to flurry blows on his opponent, slamming it with three solid hits. Kiyomi slings her bow and draws a blade.
Harlan releases a burst of healing power, careful to exclude the fiends. He then casts another holy smite, hoping to catch more of them this time. Four appear burned by the blast, and one more is blinded.
Quickened Channel:7d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 1, 5, 6, 3, 4) = 23for all except Ameiko, and cleans up any current bleeds.
The first blinded fiend teleports away. The second blinded one, heavily wounded and shaken by Heng, withdraws into the water. The others continue their attack each of you with claws and poisoned tentacles.
Round 4
AC:32/30, hp:116/130, Ki 5/11, Stun 7/13, Fire 10/10; dragon form, inspired, fervored
bah, haven't been using blessing of fervor.
The weeping wounds close under a wave of divine healing. Heng frowns at the retreating tentacled terror and makes a request of the remaining one. "Do not flee, fiend. I wish to vanquish you forever." He turns his focus to an extra attack.
Active effects: Blind, stnskin (120), Images (5), keen, res cold 30, airwalk, end elem, see inv, lt fort, all-round vision, DR10/adam, DR5/pierce, res skin)
Losing another image, Parity switches opponents stepping northeast and attacking the creature in front of Kiyomi.
Continuing Belker's Damage to first demon:2d12 ⇒ (1, 5) = 6; 3 rounds left
To hit:1d20 + 19 ⇒ (3) + 19 = 22; miss?
Haste To hit:1d20 + 19 ⇒ (12) + 19 = 31; Damage:1d8 + 1d6 + 19 ⇒ (6) + (2) + 19 = 27 Iterative to hit:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 22
Malnival takes his bleeding wound in stride and continues to slice at the fiend. His tenacious attacks chip away pieces of the thing's lobstrine armor.
Parity leaves the retreating fiend and turns to attack the second one on him. Two blows deflect off its shell, but he cuts in on one. Similarly, Heng struggles to land a telling blow, but manages a couple.
Kiyomi continues her inspiring performance. Ameiko finally gets control of her stomach and begins to chide and insult the fiends, dragging on their morale.
Satire: -3 to attack, damage, and saves vs fear/charm!
Harlan casts a third consecutive smite, with much better effect. Five of the six remaining take damage, and two more are blinded by the holy blast, and the one in the water is killed outright.
The two blinded fiends back away. The other three continue to attack Parity, Heng and Malnival separately. Distracted by Ameiko's satire, they can only connect with a lucky claw snap against Malnival.
Active effects: Blind, stnskin (120), Images (5), keen, res cold 30, airwalk, end elem, see inv, lt fort, all-round vision, DR10/adam, DR5/pierce, res skin)
Active effects: Blind, stnskin (120), Images (5), keen, res cold 30, airwalk, end elem, see inv, lt fort, all-round vision, DR10/adam, DR5/pierce, res skin)
"Given the Emperor's body was probably dumped in the Well, we should look for him under the water, I think, yeah?"
Female Human (Tian) Aristocrat 1 / Bard 12 (Court Bard)
Ameiko flies over to join you as the nauseating clouds quickly disapate. She still looks a little green, and holds her stomach while fighting of lingering sickly pangs. "What were those things? I feel like I heard something about them once -- nasty things from Abaddon, right?"
Knowledge (planes):1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
The beach landing opens up into a large cave, with hanging stalactites and a sand-strewn floor. It gently slopes up to the east, becoming steeper until reaching the far wall in a narrow wedge. It is otherwise empty and uninhabited.
"If we can trust what she says, Empress Maemi indicated that Shojinawa Ito has Higashiyama's body. She also said his lair was directly below hers, in the caves to the north." She points that way, towards the noisy waterfall.
Active effects: Blind, stnskin (120), Images (5), keen, res cold 30, airwalk, end elem, see inv, lt fort, all-round vision, DR10/adam, DR5/pierce, res skin)
Parity's info is accurate. Burned up a lot of stoneskin, but HPs are OK.
By my math, at the end of the fight, Malnival had taken 34 damage + 4/bleed and Kiyomi had taken 23 + 5/bleed. Bleeding damage will continue until healed.
Active effects: Blind, stnskin (120), Images (5), keen, res cold 30, airwalk, end elem, see inv, lt fort, all-round vision, DR10/adam, DR5/pierce, res skin)
