Male Half-Elf Solarian 19 | SP 169/169 HP 139/139 RP 11/11 | EAC 35(37) KAC 36(38); DR 5/- Resist Fire 15 | F +15; R +15; W +14 | Speed 25 ft. | Init +6 | Perc +28
"For the Sun and the Fury," Arcalinte says, a bit more resigned than enthusiastic as he pushes past Isu to descend the stairs.
The party repositions and prepares themselves for battle. Spec's deadly display of sharpshooting leaves the yellow cultist with horrible burns, but the cultist remains in the fight. (76 dmg!)
In retaliation, the cultists draw and lob incendiaries at your group. Yellow's grenade lands between Ted and Spec, bursting into a spiral of liquid flame. Red's fiery charge bursts between Arc and Isu instead.
As this is happening, three smoky shades rise up from the ground back in the hallway. The blue one emerges ready to attack Isu but finds him missing, and instead moves over to menace Ted. The pink and green ones rise around Jelico and immediately reach out with their tendrils. Jelico manages to dodge away from both.
A final ghostly, roughly humanoid figure rises up from the ground next to the kish hologram. Violent purple light leaks from its form, eddies of color that are quickly engulfed by darkness. A raspy voice, the same one you heard in the hallway, billows from the shade "The weapon is ours. You cannot oppose the universe's desire for death. For the instrument of the Devourer to consume it." She extends her hand and a black beam lances through the air at Isu, narrowly missing him.
School necromancy
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range touch
Targets one living creature or construct
Duration instantaneous and 1 round/level; see text
Saving Throw Fortitude partial and Will partial, see text; Spell Resistance yes
You concentrate key particles in your blood into tiny biological nanobots that you can inject into a foe with a touch, disrupting and damaging its natural processes. Make a melee attack against the target’s EAC; if you hit, the nanobots deal 4d8 damage and swarm through the target’s biological or mechanical systems, causing the creature to be confused, as per confusion, for 1 round per your caster level. If the target succeeds at a Fortitude save, it takes only half damage and negates the confusion effect. A confused target can attempt a Will saving throw at the beginning of its turn each round to end the confusion effect.
Casting this spell doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity.
Spell Grenade:
Spell Grenade (Sp)
You can spend 1 Resolve Point to store a spell with a range of touch in a grenade, allowing you to affect a target within the grenade’s blast radius with the spell. Casting a spell with spell grenade uses the spell’s standard casting time, and throwing the spell grenade is a standard action. You must throw the grenade before the end of your next turn, or the spell is wasted. You are considered proficient with the grenade for this attack. Choose a single target within the grenade’s blast radius; that target is affected by the spell as if you had successfully touched it. The grenade goes off as normal, with all of its usual effects within its blast radius. If you miss the targeted intersection with the grenade, you must choose a target within the grenade’s new blast radius. If there are no suitable targets within the grenade’s blast radius, the spell is wasted. Spells whose ranges are not touch don’t benefit from this magic hack.
Flash Teleport:
Flash Teleport (Sp)
As a move action, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to teleport up to 30 feet. You must have line of sight to your destination. This movement doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity.
Male Human Mystic 12 | 76/76 HP, 97/97 SP, 9/9 RP | Init +3 |Perception +25 | EAC 22, KAC 23 | F +7, R +8, W +12 | Spells/Day Left: oo/6/5/2/3/0/0
This isn't good. Jellico thinks to himself as he dodges the shades' strikes.
Jellico hears Isu calling for him and decides to take the risk of running further in. He tries his best to move around the shades and get into the room. Probably provoking from everyone
Moving a few steps in, he throws a few Shooting Stars the shade standing in the doorway.
Shooting Star:2d4 + 2 ⇒ (1, 2) + 2 = 5
Male Half-Elf Solarian 19 | SP 169/169 HP 139/139 RP 11/11 | EAC 35(37) KAC 36(38); DR 5/- Resist Fire 15 | F +15; R +15; W +14 | Speed 25 ft. | Init +6 | Perc +28
"Dammit, we walked right into their trap," Arcalinte curses as the shades reveal themselves. He does an about-face and shoves through the rest of the party to keep them from getting flanked.
Ted, don't forget that while you're burning, you get a save at the end of each turn. I'll roll this one. Ted Reflex vs. burn:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17No longer burning.
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The red and yellow cultists are caught off guard by Ted's magical grenade and eat a full blast of shrapnel followed immediately by red succumbing to a nanite infestation. Despite being confused, red manages to duck under Isu's swing, though it lops a whole chunk of hair off his head.
All three shades attempt to grasp at Jelico as he flees, and two deadly tendrils pass through his body (Dealing 9 and 10 acid dmg respectively, in case you want to trigger reflecting armor) The pair of magic missiles collide with the closest of the shades, slightly injuring it.
Spec's first plasma blast finally takes down the yellow cultist, while the second chars the red cultist's face. As the jet of plasma fades, you see the gruesome burn wounds have left the confused cultist lacking one eye.
The red cultist, dreadfully injured both mentally and physically, loses track of Isu in his confusion. He raises a pistol and fires twice upon Spec, despite the cover the droid has. Jets of acid from his weapon splash both against the wall and Spec's energy shield. (Dealing 9 dmg to your temp hp. This attack provokes an AoO from Isu)
Meanwhile the lesser shades converge upon Arc. While he's able to dodge most of the slow tendrils, the final shade catches him in a flank and delivers a minor wound. (8 acid dmg) The final shade, Malice, floats slowly through the air, rising up until she's almost at the ceiling. With a dismissive gesture, she points at Spec "The Devourer's dreams will be your dreams as well."
A surge of nightmarish imagery invades Spec's logical processing circuits, supernaturally tearing them down. (Successful save, still taking 23 mental damage. Weirdly, I think temp hp still gets to apply here.)
Male Human Technomancer 12 Dataphiles | SP 84 HP 64 RP 10/11 | EAC 28 KAC 29 CMAC 37 CMD 29 CMB +9 | Kinetic DR 5/- | F+6 R+10 W+11 | Init+6 | Perc+3 | 1st 1/6 2nd 0/6 3rd 0/5 4th 0/4 Cache 0/1
Thanks for the save, Cellion ;)
Ted feeds a battery to his top and hurls it towards Malice.
20' radius Explosive Blast right up by Malice against the north wall so that it catches red and pink too, but not Isu nor Jelli/Arc/green. Save DC 18 Ref for half.
EXPLOSIVE BLAST T3
School evocation (fire)
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Area 20-ft.-radius burst
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw Reflex half; Spell Resistance yes
You magically transform a used battery into a powerful explosive device, propelling it in a straight Line to a grid intersection within range, at which point it detonates, dealing 9d6 fire damage to all creatures and objects in the area. If you send the battery through a narrow opening, you must make a ranged attack (usually against an Armor Class of 10 for a narrow opening or an Armor Class of 15 for an extremely narrow opening) to avoid hitting the side and detonating it prematurely.
Male Half-Elf Solarian 19 | SP 169/169 HP 139/139 RP 11/11 | EAC 35(37) KAC 36(38); DR 5/- Resist Fire 15 | F +15; R +15; W +14 | Speed 25 ft. | Init +6 | Perc +28
Arcalinte ignites his blade and attacks the shade right before him.
Aww, sadly, that Xavra slash is meeting some crit immunity. The ceiling is 20 ft high from the lower floor, but you can reach her thanks to your size and reach!
Despite the red cultist's best efforts to shield himself from the explosive blast, he's cleaved in half by Isu and then tossed across the room by the explosion to slump against one of the consoles. The purple shade fails to dodge fast enough and takes the full blast, though its incorporeality means that the flames are only partly effective. Malice raises a smoky limb up against the flames and passes through almost unharmed.
Isu's blade slices directly through the purple shade, which reforms after the edge passes through, and then cleanly bisects Malice as well. The greater shade flares her violet light and suddenly a retaliatory blast of psychic energy assaults Isu, but he easily shrugs it off. (Hits you with share pain)
Isu Will:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27
Spec's attack connects with Malice as well, blazing through the shade's body. Arc's attack just barely misses the green shade as it drifts out of reach.
The blue shade carefully drifts closer to Spec, trailing dissolving smoke through his chassis (Dealing 8 acid dmg) The green shade attempts the same against Arc, but misses. The purple shade carefully approaches Isu and plunges a tendril through his power armor (Dealing 10 acid dmg)
Not interested in tangling longer with Isu, Malice floats through the northern wall (provoking AoO) and repositions to the north of Arc, Spec and Jelico. She reaches a smoky hand towards Isu and...
Isu Will:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14
exerts a powerful mental pressure upon him, freezing him in place! (Succumbed to hold person. At the end of your turn you can make a new save vs. DC20 to end the effect early)
BTW, if anyone has an anti-incorporeal effect that I'm missing, let me know.
I have mystic strike; I couldn't tell from your description if you counted it or not. Also, my hammer has the disruption property so I will start using that if I can get unstuck
Yep, I've been accounting for mystic strike. I believe everyone in the party can do half damage. Just want to make sure I'm not missing something that lets people do full dmg.
Isu's quick, opportunistic swing narrowly misses Malice as she retreats. A disintegration shot from Ted splashes against a nearby console, earning a stream of admonitions in kishalee from the hologram. Although Spec's first plasma blast misses, the second connects with Malice, burning some of the smoke that makes up her body away. Jelico's missiles slam with perfect precision into the blue shade, weakening it further but not finishing it off.
The blue shade advances carefully after Jelico and Spec, whipping a smoke trail across the droid's body (Dealing 8 acid dmg) The green shade attempts to take advantage of Arc's precarious position, but the solarian leaps out of the way of its tendril attack. On the main floor, the purple shade delivers a frenzied assault against the vulnerable Isu. His armor holds against the first tendril, but a second attack starts dissolving his skin. (Dealing 7 acid dmg)
Malice raises both of her "hands" into the air and then calls out "Devourer, I lay waste in your name" as she focuses her mental magic upon Spec once more.
Spec Will:1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 4 + 2 = 26
With determination, Spec powers through the psychic attack (Taking 17 damage)
whoops, I rolled with my reflex save last time. I just figured it was my will that sucked but actually soliders/mysticisms are good at will saves. Still, that is a 6 and now a 4 to break free
Male Half-Elf Solarian 19 | SP 169/169 HP 139/139 RP 11/11 | EAC 35(37) KAC 36(38); DR 5/- Resist Fire 15 | F +15; R +15; W +14 | Speed 25 ft. | Init +6 | Perc +28
Arcalinte tries to beat back the blue spectre attacking the party so he can focus on Malice.
Arc, looks like you missed that I had a "x2" on you to take two turns. I'm going to assume you wanted to continue focusing on the blue spectre and bot you thusly. Arc (Fire/holy):1d20 + 12 ⇒ (6) + 12 = 182d8 + 15 + 3 ⇒ (8, 8) + 15 + 3 = 34 Arc (Fire):1d20 + 12 ⇒ (15) + 12 = 272d8 + 15 + 3 ⇒ (6, 6) + 15 + 3 = 30
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While Isu struggles in vain to free himself from the mental magic holding him paralyzed, the rest of the group works to fight the remaining foes. Ted's top gets charged with magical potential. Spec's shots leave blazing, red hot marks against the walls of the facility, missing Malice.
Arc's plasma-sheathed blade cuts arc after arc through the blue shade, evaporating some smoke with each swing. Its only after three slashes that he's able to eradicate it. His final slash weakens the green shade.
The green shade attempts to retaliate by lashing out with a tendril, but Arc is once more too quick on his feet. On the main floor, the purple shade continues to take advantage of the paralyzed Isu, tearing in with acidic tendrils. (One hit and one crit for 26 total acid dmg)
Now with a clear view of your group, Malice forms a black disk of swirling force between her hands and fires it at Arc. It collides, grinding away at him before bouncing off and striking Jelico, missing Ted and striking Spec. (11 force dmg to Arc, 7 to Jelico, 9 to Spec) The impact of the force disk is enough to send the droid down sparking.
School necromancy
Casting Time 1 standard action
Range touch
Targets one living creature or construct
Duration instantaneous and 1 round/level; see text
Saving Throw Fortitude partial and Will partial, see text; Spell Resistance yes
You concentrate key particles in your blood into tiny biological nanobots that you can inject into a foe with a touch, disrupting and damaging its natural processes. Make a melee attack against the target’s EAC; if you hit, the nanobots deal 4d8 damage and swarm through the target’s biological or mechanical systems, causing the creature to be confused, as per confusion, for 1 round per your caster level. If the target succeeds at a Fortitude save, it takes only half damage and negates the confusion effect. A confused target can attempt a Will saving throw at the beginning of its turn each round to end the confusion effect.
Casting this spell doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity.
Spell Grenade:
Spell Grenade (Sp)
You can spend 1 Resolve Point to store a spell with a range of touch in a grenade, allowing you to affect a target within the grenade’s blast radius with the spell. Casting a spell with spell grenade uses the spell’s standard casting time, and throwing the spell grenade is a standard action. You must throw the grenade before the end of your next turn, or the spell is wasted. You are considered proficient with the grenade for this attack. Choose a single target within the grenade’s blast radius; that target is affected by the spell as if you had successfully touched it. The grenade goes off as normal, with all of its usual effects within its blast radius. If you miss the targeted intersection with the grenade, you must choose a target within the grenade’s new blast radius. If there are no suitable targets within the grenade’s blast radius, the spell is wasted. Spells whose ranges are not touch don’t benefit from this magic hack.
Male Half-Elf Solarian 19 | SP 169/169 HP 139/139 RP 11/11 | EAC 35(37) KAC 36(38); DR 5/- Resist Fire 15 | F +15; R +15; W +14 | Speed 25 ft. | Init +6 | Perc +28
Whoops! Didn't see that! Thanks, Cellion!
Arcalinte, breathing a sigh of relief as one shade falls, focuses his attention on the other!
The green shade is punctured by a hail of shrapnel moments before Arc's first slash carves through it. It backs off as he follows with a second. To the north, Malice avoids most of the explosive shrapnel. A cloud of nanobots escapes from the grenade and swirls around Malice, but can't find purchase to dig into her. (Immune since she's neither living nor a construct) Eventually they lose momentum and dissipate.
Jelico's healing magic shocks Spec into consciousness. Jelico, you've still got a second turn to play with. Spec, you're conscious and can take your turn this round.
Male Human Mystic 12 | 76/76 HP, 97/97 SP, 9/9 RP | Init +3 |Perception +25 | EAC 22, KAC 23 | F +7, R +8, W +12 | Spells/Day Left: oo/6/5/2/3/0/0
Jellico stands up and moves further into the the control room, drawing his pistol as he goes. Rounding the corner, he levels his gun and gets off a shot toward the shade attacking Isu.
Male Half-Elf Solarian 19 | SP 169/169 HP 139/139 RP 11/11 | EAC 35(37) KAC 36(38); DR 5/- Resist Fire 15 | F +15; R +15; W +14 | Speed 25 ft. | Init +6 | Perc +28
"ENOUGH!" Arcalinte roars as he releases the solar fire to purge the shades.
Arc, no actions left this round. If you'd like to keep the supernova damage for next round, go for it. Don't forget to give me a DC and whether you're using the 10ft or 15ft version.
Jelico's shot goes awry as Spec pulls himself back to his feet.
Driven by single-minded fervor, the green and purple shades continue their assaults upon Arc and Isu. Dissolving tendrils snake out, causing small acid burns underneath the armors of the two heroes (Dealing 8 dmg to Arc, 10 dmg to Isu) Isu's armor repels the purple shade well enough that its can't deliver a more effective attack.
Malice, crackling with violent power, hurls another swirling black disk at the party. This time, she aims right for Spectre, frustrated at his recovery and determined to fix the issue. Her disk lands and ricochets to Ted, Arc and Isu in turn, losing too much momentum to reach the far away Jelico. (Dealing 10 force dmg to Spec, 11 to Ted, 7 to Arc and 11 to Isu) To her visible fury, Spec remains standing.
Male Human Technomancer 12 Dataphiles | SP 84 HP 64 RP 10/11 | EAC 28 KAC 29 CMAC 37 CMD 29 CMB +9 | Kinetic DR 5/- | F+6 R+10 W+11 | Init+6 | Perc+3 | 1st 1/6 2nd 0/6 3rd 0/5 4th 0/4 Cache 0/1
Ted's top crackles with power as it slams in to Malice.
Magic Missile:3d4 + 3 ⇒ (1, 4, 2) + 3 = 10
Magic Missile:
School evocation (force)
Casting Time 1 standard action; see text
Range medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Targets up to three creatures, no two of which can be more than 15 ft. apart; see text
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance yes
You fire two missiles of magical energy that strike targets unerringly (the creatures must still be valid targets) and deal 1d4+1 force damage each. You can’t target specific parts of a creature, and objects are not damaged by the spell.
You can target a single creature or several creatures, but each missile can strike only one creature. You must designate targets before you attempt to overcome spell resistance or roll damage.
You can cast this spell as a full action. If you do, you fire three missiles instead of two.
Droid Outlaw Mechanic 12 | SP 108/108 HP 76/76 RP 11/11 | EAC 28 KAC 30; | F +11; R +16; W +6 | Init +8 | Perc +16 | Conqueror (white star-class): +16 (3d12+12 E&F)
Whatever has not malfunctioned in Spectre's internal hardware keeps his weapon trained on Malice. Sparks escape from his torso as he fires two more times.
Male Half-Elf Solarian 19 | SP 169/169 HP 139/139 RP 11/11 | EAC 35(37) KAC 36(38); DR 5/- Resist Fire 15 | F +15; R +15; W +14 | Speed 25 ft. | Init +6 | Perc +28
GM Cellion wrote:
Arc, no actions left this round. If you'd like to keep the supernova damage for next round, go for it. Don't forget to give me a DC and whether you're using the 10ft or 15ft version.
I did NOT realize my range for Supernova had extended to 15 feet. But I'll use the 10 ft so I don't burn my friends!
Arcalinte seethes as he takes Malice's attack, unleashing the solar fire within.
Using the Supernova damage from last round, DC 17 Reflex I believe?
Ted's magic missiles pummel Malice, striking true despite her incorporeality. Jelico focuses his attention on the shade attacking Isu, but his mental magic finds little purchase in the shade's ghostly thought patterns. Thankfully, Isu finally manages to break free of the paralysis moments later.
Only Spec's second shot manages to strike true against Malice, blazing a path through her body before the smoke gathers back together. Malice opens up a psychic channel in response and shunts the pain back toward Spec...
Spec Will:1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 4 + 2 = 20
...but thanks to his artificial nature, he resists the effect! (Android Constructed trait saves the day)
Arc's supernova engulfs the green shade, eating away at its smoke, but not quite fiercely enough to eradicate it. The green shade lashes out at him in retaliation, but doesn't manage to connect. The purple shade on the other hand reaches out once more into Isu, dissolving more flesh (Dealing 8 acid dmg) Malice, her smoke beginning to ebb away, turns to a more defensive posture and attempts to lock Arc in place.
Arc Will:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
Her mental magic seizes him, paralyzing him in place. (End of your turn each turn you can make a new Will save to end the effect)
Spec, you don't have line of sight on Malice since she backed away. I'll assume you move and fire once with your first attack instead.
Arc Will vs Paralysis:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
GM Screen:
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Magic missiles and shooting stars go flying across the room, pummeling their targets. Isu's cleave slices through both shades inside the room, lopping the head off one of them. (Sadly immune to crits due to incorporeal, but...) Both shades attempt to reform, but the damage to their ghostly essence is too extensive. They fade away to nothing, leaving only Malice!
Spec follows after Malice, catching her with a blistering beam from his conqueror. She lashes back with a final attempt to share pain...
Spec Will:1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 2 = 9
...manifesting as a psychic surge through the droid's circuits. (Dealing 9 points of damage) Spec collapses once more. Although the droid is down, Malice isn't faring too much better. The smoke of her body is growing thin. She releases an echoing scream against Ted!
Ted Will:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11
Which clouds his mind with blistering pain. (You're currently suffering inflict pain for 9 rounds) Malice backs away.
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