DM Pendin Fust Wrath of the Righteous - Group A (Inactive)

Game Master theheadkase

Thom follows Nebbin's eyes towards the southern route, then nods. "Looks good to me."

He then waits for the team's scout to take point, hoisting his longspear in readiness to follow.

Lucius keeps a firm grip on his wand of magic missile as he follows. His own magic is largely depleted, and it makes him nervous.

I thought we slept. Is that not the case?

I thought we slept. Is that not the case?

I misread! Thanks. Same action, different motivation.

Saoirse nods as she follows with Nebbind down the southern passage, her eyes scanning warily as she adjusts to the dimmer light. Whispering to herself, "Soft steps... soft breath..."

Oop. Let my games get away from me...

As the group heads south, Turook steps forward to scout the way.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26    +2 vs traps
Stealth: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27

As you start moving east, can you give me stealth checks?

As Nebbin moves south he sees more cavern with some passages naturally formed. He hears some more slithering, skittery sounds towards the east and he sees more of the insect like creatures on the ground...in a torpor of some sort, perhaps because they are newly hatched.

Stealth: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Oh, this should be good...
Stealth: 1d20 - 6 ⇒ (3) - 6 = -3

K-THUNK K-THUNK K-THUNK

Stealth: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

Moving things along...
Saoirse Stealth: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (8) - 1 = 7
Saoirse Stealth: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14

As you move towards the south edge of the cavern the insect larvae seem to waken!

Nebbin Init: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13
Thom Init: 1d20 ⇒ 17
Lucius Init: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20
Turook Init: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
Saoirse Init: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
Vescavor Swarms Init: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15

Group Alpha = Lucius, Thom, and Vescavor swarms. Group Beta is Nebbin, Saoirse, and Turook.

Group Alpha PCs give me your actions.

Have the rest of us moved down? Or do we need to spend our actions catching up with Nebbin?

That...seems bad. Lucius calls to the infernal depths for a protective ward.

Mythic point to cast communal protection from chaos.

The gibbering larvae fly up towards the tunnels leading away from this part of cavern. Their droning buzz drives into your skulls, Thom and Nebbin especially. They shake their heads after a moment, but the disturbing sounds continue to drill into the sanity of any near enough. Nebbin cries out after he shakes his head, and moves back towards the group calling for Thom to follow.

Thom Will Save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27
Nebbin Will Save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17

Group Beta up! I had Nebbin double move back to "safety".

Saoirse comes up next to Nebbin, putting her small hand against Nebbin's broad shoulder to help steady him, watching closely to see how fast the swarms are moving in. Now that any chance of stealth is over, Saoirse turns to ask a question to Lucius, "Do you have any ideas? We can't fight swarms with swords and hammers."

Turook moves up to support the scarred oracle.

Target southern skeeter
Longbow, Attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11 +2 vs. Evil Outsider
Cold Iron Arrows, Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11 +2 vs. Evil Outsider

Knowledge(Planes): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

"I would not suppose you brought holy water, or vast gouts of blessed flame?

Nebbin flushes at Saoirse's touch. He glances at her with a smile and then a commic look of startled surprise suddenly crosses his face at Lucius' question.

"OH! I have a flask of holy water, Lucius!"

"So do I," Thom croaks.

“And this Battle Aspergillum...” Turook says, patting his quiver.

"Excellent. Use those. I have no blessed flame, but Infernal cold shall serve."

Lucius chants again in Infernal, calling an ice slick down on the nearest swarm.
Spell resistance: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14
cold damage: 1d6 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8 +50% because swarm, so a 12 damage. If I penetrated spell resistance.

Assume you know everything about the vescavor swarm (including that its a swarm)

Vescavor Swarm

Turook's arrow flies true, but harmlessly, through the swarming mass of demonlings. Lucius' spell fires off but the swarm is not affected (close).

The flying demonic larvae swarm over Thom, crawling all over his body, trying to find ways into inside his armor and mask.

Swarm1: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 4) = 6
Swarm2: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 6) = 8

Thom Fort Save 1: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28
Thom Fort Save 2: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

As the first swarm chews away at him, he fights through a nauseating feeling, but when the second swarm begins chewing at him, he begins to feel nauseous.

Thom is nauseated for 1 round.. Everyone else is up.[/ooc]

"Get off him!" Nebbin yells as he pulls a vial -- stamped with Iomedae's sword symbol -- from a pouch. "Go pick on someone your own size!"

He moves closer and tosses the holy water toward the creatures, hoping the splash will drive them away from Thom, though most of it seems to end up on the floor. Not sure if he'd have to move adjacent as if it were incorporeal or if I can throw it, but he'll do whatever's required.

Ranged touch: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26
Damage: 2d4 ⇒ (1, 1) = 2 sigh; so much for my only vial...

“We should regroup, and come back with better tools for the task...” Turook growls through gritted teeth. He offers a hand to Thom, to make their way back.

Not knowing what else to do, Thom stumbles back towards the cave's entrance.

Moved on the map

Nebbin nods at Turook's words.

I think retreating's our only option at this point, or trying to go around them. We can hopefully get alchemist's fire from above, or see if Aron and Nurah can help, as Lucius suggested.

Are you heading back up the rope? Cuz Thom's gonna need some climb check.

Thom manages to shake off the vescavors crawling over him and he runs back towards the cave entrance.

Yep. Not sure where else we would retreat to. And yah ... not sure how to deal with that. Did we leave the rope in place? Maybe we can call the folks topside to help pull Thom up?

Thom, what's your climb? Also, I wouldn't be averse to Nebbin helping you. And wasn't one of the scales of Terendelev imparting air walk or some such?

-3

"Here, Thom, take my ring," Nebbin urges, pulling off the magic device that helps him climb even better. "I don't think I need it!"

That should put him at +2, and it's only a DC of 5 with the rope.

He sets up a guard stances between the rope and the swarms, waiting to make sure his companions have safely ascended before following them.

Let's retreat upstairs. We need something other than we have or to go around these guys.

Lucius does his best to hustle up the rope.

1d20 - 1 ⇒ (10) - 1 = 9 Knotted rope with an adjacent wall is DC 0, so I think I'm still fine.

Yep that's perfectly fine, and Thom, hopefully you can roll a 3 :) But feel free to snowball those swarms!

OK, let's make a decision here -- Lucius, you have the ability to cast three flurry of snowballs? We could do that and deal with these things or since they're apparently not following us, simply try a different tunnel and leave them here for now. We've already spent about three weeks making a decision, though.

Getting the ball rolling here.

"Draw them in!"

Lucius reaches for the proverbial infernal snowball...

flurry of snowballs: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 5, 3) = 16 + 50% = 24

Reflex save DC 16 for half.

Reflex: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18 Saved

The swarms get pelted by the snowballs, and more than the damage caused itself, the surprise of such a cold attack and their newness in age causes them to shrink back towards where they came, eventually dispersing into cracks in the walls.

"Oh, good job, Lucius!" Nebbin says, happily ... or at least as happily as he says anything since he entered the Worldwound.

"I guess we should see what else we can find, right?"

He heads back into the cavern, keeping toward the northern top wall, and then the eastern as he heads for the southeastern passage.

Nebbin as usual needs guidance and doesn't want to determine what way we go, but I want to keep us pushing forward so am having him be a little more assertive.

Saoirse nods towards Lucius, "Good spell, I'm glad it worked so well against these swarms. Hopefully they will stay back long enough for us to do what we need to do. Lets press forward while the opportunity is there before us."

Looking into area marked E3

Multiple passageways within the walls and ceiling provide access to a large cavern. Its resin-encrusted surfaces gleam with slick layers of translucent slime, reflecting a pulsating purple glow from the southeast tunnel. A very large winged insect, reminiscent of the swarm of larvae you fought, is doing something towards the eastern wall.

Thom struggles to keep up with the group, pulling a wand from his heavy pack and putting it to work as they walk.

Patching back up after the swarms.
Wand of CLW, x2 charges: 31 + 2d8 + 2 ⇒ 31 + (2, 7) + 2 = 42

What knowledge to ID this bad boy? ... or girl?

"What's that?" Nebbin asks in a hushed voice, trying to move so the stone block is between him and it.

Stealth: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

Knowledge (Planes): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20 Non-swarm vescavor?

Lucius peers at the insect, while trying to keep an eye out for the re-emergence of the swarming larvae.

He grips the wand of magic missile tightly.

Lucius has it, knowledge planes

Knowledge roll beaten by 5: 1d3 ⇒ 2 1=Offense, 2=Defense, 3=Ecology

Unless Lucius's info reveal shows this to be a bad move, buff (prot from evil) > destroy > hope the swarms get dispersed when their queen is destroyed? As for how to "destroy" ... no clue.

Our normal approach should work, here.

"That's the colony's Queen. She is likely resistant to magic, but hammers and swords should be able to slay her. "

Nebbin nods, swallowing nervously as he lifts his hammer. At Lucius' command, he sneaks forward as far as he can and then charges, hammer lifted.

"For Mendev!" he screams as he runs.

Stealth (to get as close as possible): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
+1 demonbane earth breaker, power attack, furious focus, charge: 1d20 + 13 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 13 + 2 = 34
Damage: 2d6 + 15 + 2d6 ⇒ (6, 3) + 15 + (1, 2) = 27

I'm assuming I can get close enough to charge in a surprise round; if not, can I please save those rolls?

Thom draws on his reserve of power, pushing a protective barrier of righteousness over himself and his teammates.

Use Inspired Spell to cast Communal Protection from Evil (duration 2 minutes for Nebbin and Turook, 1 minute for everyone else). 1 Mythic point spent.
Then Thom waits for the assault to begin in ernest, at which point he'll hustle forward.

Conditions/effects: Protection from Evil (1 of 10 rounds), Life Link (Lucius, Nebbin, Saoirse, Turook)
Current ACP: -7 (Shield stowed)

Yeah you're getting close. I'm not wasting that roll!

Nebbin's hammer SLAMS into the vescavor queen, rattling her hard carapace and drawing forth a scream. The sound of a thousand insectoid voices lashes through Nebbin's head.

Nebbin Will Save: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 4 + 2 = 20 Saved..thanks to Thom :)

Everyone else can act in the surprise round.

Was Thom's spell his surprise round? Or could he use his surprise round to get 20 feet closer?

note to self .. get Thom's speed up somehow.