M Human Destined Urban Bloodrager 16 | HP 102/148 (118/164) | AC 54 (T31, FF54, CMD60) | F+26/R+28/W+30 (+2 vs fear, +5 vs mind-affecting) | Mv 40' | Init +9 | Per +24| Rage 30/36 | Spells 4/2/1/0 (6/4/3/2) | Active: Heroism, Barkskin, See Invis, Shield, FoM, Long Arm, Dance, Vigor, Tactical, BoF, Legendary
Dervak will hang back and watch for other threats. He ends his Rage and waits to catch his breath.
Was raging for 7 rounds that fight, so Fatigued for 14. Had only used 4 rounds in the first 2 fights combined, so that one took quite a lot longer.
"Kat, do you need to drink one of those healing potions the derro had?"
"Mun" takes the offered handkerchief and blows into it, nothing but air comes out. It picks and tears into its skin, slowly unraveling itself. When Mara poses her question it looks upwards and begins wailing uncontrollably again.
He's afraid of what's in the attic. Mara can make out some scrawling on the paper, Lowl's handwriting, "Swivel head in the right dire..." Mara can also make out a picture of an angel.
Your senses are overcome with another vision. You see images of a fungus rapidly growing and then collapsing in on itself before growing anew. A quiet voice says, "It reaches its tendrils through the minds of those who know of it. It reaches beyond the veil of dreams. Hurry."
Heroism, Perceive Cues, Heightened Awareness, See Invisibility, Barkskin, Freedom of Movement, Echolocation
AC 23 T 13 FF 22| Current HP 39/83| F +10 R +14(trap sense +3) W +11(see profile for conditional modifier)| Init +1| Perc +27 (+32 vs traps, trap spotter, smog sight) Sense Motive:+29+1d6 |Inspiration 10/10
That formula book does look like it has a couple gems in it! Always exciting :D
Kat waves Dervak off. "All good, bruv. Mara's got me and we can hold on to the potions for later. I'd say we each take one, eh?"
Kat makes a face as the construct acts stranger and stranger. She takes a moment to drink another extract, clay skin this time, out of worry this could take a bad turn.
Half-Orc Heavens Shaman 16 (Speaker for the Past) | HP: 150/ 159 4 con damage Init 8 (roll three times) Per: 29 (See Invisibility)| CMB: +13 CMD: 30 | AC:30 T:17 F:26|Saves F:15 R:15 W: 26 (27 aberrations)
Hexes Used:
Fortune:
Healing:
Heaven's Leap: Dervak
Time Flicker:
Speed or Slow Time: 0/2
Mara pointed up the stairs and told her comrades, "There's something nasty up there in the attic, I think; he's frightened of it. We need to deal with whatever it is."
M Human Destined Urban Bloodrager 16 | HP 102/148 (118/164) | AC 54 (T31, FF54, CMD60) | F+26/R+28/W+30 (+2 vs fear, +5 vs mind-affecting) | Mv 40' | Init +9 | Per +24| Rage 30/36 | Spells 4/2/1/0 (6/4/3/2) | Active: Heroism, Barkskin, See Invis, Shield, FoM, Long Arm, Dance, Vigor, Tactical, BoF, Legendary
DM_Delmoth wrote:
Your senses are overcome with another vision. You see images of a fungus rapidly growing and then collapsing in on itself before growing anew. A quiet voice says, "It reaches its tendrils through the minds of those who know of it. It reaches beyond the veil of dreams. Hurry."
I assume we all heard this, and not just Mara? Ignore if I am wrong.
"What was that?" asks Dervak. "'It reaches its tendrils through the minds of those who know of it?' And we know that Xhamen-Dor 'infected' Lowls... don't tell me any more about Xhamen-Dor. It might be too late for me, it might not. If it isn't too late, then I don't want to learn any more about it. I don't want it in my head. Just tell me what to hit." Ignorance is bliss!
"I don't trust leaving a troubled construct on the loose. You're talking as if it is a person, Mara, but we don't know how its 'mind' works. It might be 'sad' now but it could go berserk and try to kill us. Just... get it some distance away so we can go up the stairs. I don't want it right there at our backs."
Dervak is not sympathetic at all about the construct, doubting that its emotional state would follow any sort of understandable progression.
Once 'Mun #3' is out of the way, Dervak will use another Shield charge (wand at 40), enter Rage, and pull down the stairs to the attic.
You manage to corral the weeping "Mun" off to the side of the room with a little cajoling.
Ivy fills the 10ft tall attic, endless trailing vines flow in through broken windows and cover the floor here like a living carpet. The sickening scent of decay hides within the scent of fresh vegetation. The vines snake up the walls and wind around the beams above, coating every surface of this space with a carpet of green leaves. Unlike the ivy outside, the tendrils in the attic are twisted and malformed. Putrid yellow berries sprout like cancerous growths between the leaves.
Kat and Mara notice something horrid hiding amidst the ivy overhead. A large black tree with branches trailing downward, exposed roots that end in hoofs. Green slime dribbling out of mouths that formed around the trunk.
The Elder God known as Shub-Niggurath is reputed to have a thousand young, but the rare scholar knowledgeable on the topic knows her spawn are myriad. The most fecund are the dark young. Dark young superficially resemble trees and possess magic that allows it appear as a tree or to control the plants of the trackless forests it favors. The numerous sucking mouths that stud their trunks drain blood, drink flesh, and devour life rapidly. This dark young is unusually small. Aberration traits, at will-tree shape, 3/day entangle, command plants, 1/day tree stride. If it pins you its sucking maws deal 1d4 str damage, fort reduces to 1. Those that are reduced to 0 str don't die but their withered and destroyed bodies are driven insane as their minds are filled with strange and horrifying visions. DR 15/slashing
The ivy in the attic begins to move unnaturally, it grasps and coils around your limbs. Luckily everyone avoids the worst of it, for now. EntangleDC 16 reflex at the end of your turn or be entangled
Round 1 Dark Young Theo <-------------- Mara <-------------- Dervak <-------------- Kat <--------------
Note it hasn’t broken stealth yet so only Mara and Kat can directly target it.
Half-Orc Heavens Shaman 16 (Speaker for the Past) | HP: 150/ 159 4 con damage Init 8 (roll three times) Per: 29 (See Invisibility)| CMB: +13 CMD: 30 | AC:30 T:17 F:26|Saves F:15 R:15 W: 26 (27 aberrations)
Hexes Used:
Fortune:
Healing:
Heaven's Leap: Dervak
Time Flicker:
Speed or Slow Time: 0/2
Mara concentrated, causing stardust to swirl around the creature, illuminating it. "Nasty plant creature! Lighting it up with stardust."
Using Stardust Spirit ability. The creature sheds light like a candle, and cannot benefit from concealment or any invisibility effects. it has a -3 penalty to attack rolls and sight-based perception checks for 4 rounds.
M Human Destined Urban Bloodrager 16 | HP 102/148 (118/164) | AC 54 (T31, FF54, CMD60) | F+26/R+28/W+30 (+2 vs fear, +5 vs mind-affecting) | Mv 40' | Init +9 | Per +24| Rage 30/36 | Spells 4/2/1/0 (6/4/3/2) | Active: Heroism, Barkskin, See Invis, Shield, FoM, Long Arm, Dance, Vigor, Tactical, BoF, Legendary
Dervak still has Long Arm active, so reaching the plant-monster is easy.
And, expecting trouble, he had entered Bloodrage before ascending.
He strikes up at the creature with the Furious Falchion.
Attack, Heroism:1d20 + 18 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 18 + 3 = 29 Damage:2d4 + 26 ⇒ (1, 4) + 26 = 31
Heroism, Perceive Cues, Heightened Awareness, See Invisibility, Barkskin, Freedom of Movement, Echolocation
AC 23 T 13 FF 22| Current HP 39/83| F +10 R +14(trap sense +3) W +11(see profile for conditional modifier)| Init +1| Perc +27 (+32 vs traps, trap spotter, smog sight) Sense Motive:+29+1d6 |Inspiration 10/10
Reflex Save:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24
Kat avoids entanglement with a few deft movements.
"It massively resists everything but slashing! It drains your strength and drives you insane and can move through and control plants!"
Kat enters her battle stance, then takes a hand off her spear and draws her potion of enlarge person and drinks it down with one quick swig.
Swift to enter stance, move to draw potion, standard to drink
Gotta do a round of prep, but Kat is going to be switching to her cold iron shortsword for some slashing damage
Heroism, Perceive Cues, Heightened Awareness, See Invisibility, Barkskin, Freedom of Movement, Echolocation
AC 23 T 13 FF 22| Current HP 39/83| F +10 R +14(trap sense +3) W +11(see profile for conditional modifier)| Init +1| Perc +27 (+32 vs traps, trap spotter, smog sight) Sense Motive:+29+1d6 |Inspiration 10/10
Kat would have needed to do the same actions anyways, and she sadly does not have much to help Theo atm aside from just killing the thing
M Human Destined Urban Bloodrager 16 | HP 102/148 (118/164) | AC 54 (T31, FF54, CMD60) | F+26/R+28/W+30 (+2 vs fear, +5 vs mind-affecting) | Mv 40' | Init +9 | Per +24| Rage 30/36 | Spells 4/2/1/0 (6/4/3/2) | Active: Heroism, Barkskin, See Invis, Shield, FoM, Long Arm, Dance, Vigor, Tactical, BoF, Legendary
Dervak will not change his action, as there isn't much he can do to help Theophilus other than kill the thing.
However, if it grabs Theophilus before Dervak's attack, then it either has to just use the tentacle/branch to maintain the grapple and not its whole body (thereby taking a -20) or else it has the Grappled condition for -4 Dex and so may be a bit easier for Dervak to hit.
I considered going with a -20 on its grapple check and decided against it. So yes it has the grappled condition for Dervak’s attacks.
Dervak cuts through the creature's bark and it gushes the same foul green sap that oozes from its mouth, his second slice is too weak merely dents it. One hit, one miss. Mara’s command for Theo to escape helps the witch little against its vice like grip. The creature bleats in some twisted facsimile of a goat from each of its mouths echoing around the attic and it strangely lets Theo go.
Tentacle vs Dervak, stardust, high ground, power attack:1d20 + 18 - 3 + 1 - 3 ⇒ (8) + 18 - 3 + 1 - 3 = 21 Plus grab, stardust, high ground, power attack:1d20 + 23 - 3 + 1 - 3 ⇒ (4) + 23 - 3 + 1 - 3 = 22
It saves a branch for each of you. Dervak swats the branch away with his falchion and the one intended for Kat gets tangled in some ivy. Mara and Theo are not as lucky and are both crushed by the twisting gnarled and bark covered tentacle.
Heroism, Perceive Cues, Heightened Awareness, See Invisibility, Barkskin, Freedom of Movement, Echolocation
AC 23 T 13 FF 22| Current HP 39/83| F +10 R +14(trap sense +3) W +11(see profile for conditional modifier)| Init +1| Perc +27 (+32 vs traps, trap spotter, smog sight) Sense Motive:+29+1d6 |Inspiration 10/10
See the discussion thread. In the meantime, to keep things moving, I'll have Kat take her full attack
Kat finishes enlarging with a flourish, tapping her boots together to increase her speed. She takes a moment to study the plant for weaknesses before unleashing a flurry of stabs.
Half-Orc Heavens Shaman 16 (Speaker for the Past) | HP: 150/ 159 4 con damage Init 8 (roll three times) Per: 29 (See Invisibility)| CMB: +13 CMD: 30 | AC:30 T:17 F:26|Saves F:15 R:15 W: 26 (27 aberrations)
Hexes Used:
Fortune:
Healing:
Heaven's Leap: Dervak
Time Flicker:
Speed or Slow Time: 0/2
Mara made a shortcut in the fabric of space, allowing Theo to escape the monster.
On my phone and can’t view the map properly. Blur should still be running (20% miss chance against Mara).
Miss chance to hit:1d100 ⇒ 18 Miss chance grapple:1d100 ⇒ 1
Yep you're right Time Flicker is still active.
Time splits into two and Mara finds herself simultaneously being both grappled by the dark young and not. She simply manifests herself in the timeline where she is not. When Mara does so she sees smoke pouring out of the sharp angles of the attic, but she blinks and its gone.
Kat slashes the dark young twice with her gladius. Splashing the foul green waste of the creature all over the room.
Action to Theo, unless he's unconscious? or dead...
Heroism, Perceive Cues, Heightened Awareness, See Invisibility, Barkskin, Freedom of Movement, Echolocation
AC 23 T 13 FF 22| Current HP 39/83| F +10 R +14(trap sense +3) W +11(see profile for conditional modifier)| Init +1| Perc +27 (+32 vs traps, trap spotter, smog sight) Sense Motive:+29+1d6 |Inspiration 10/10
Gladius Damage Dice (two hits, enlarged):2d8 ⇒ (6, 8) = 14 +36 for 50 total slashing
Male +4 circumstance (Blindness/Deafness/Curse) Human(Varisian) Witch 16 Hp 160/98 AC 27 Initiative +13 Fort +15 Ref +13, Will +15 Perception +26
Theo squeezes his baby blues shut. The Witch braces for the inevitable to hurl him into Pharasma's bosun burner. The sudden quietness pervades the gentleman's isolation retreat. He tentatively--and timidly--has eyes wide open. He looks down. He looks up. He looks across into the nightmarish tree attic. Theo sighs.
The Witch then Misfortune Hexes the Bad-Tree beard!
misfortune Will DC 20 2 rounds
Dark young vs misfortune:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (6) + 13 = 19
As the ropy mass of black bark-like tentacles is cursed by Theo Kat's weapon slices through a few branches that appear to have grown into the building. The thing slips and the rest of its anchors break loose causing it to crash full force into the attic floor. The attic already straining against the weight an enormous half-ork shatters into thousands of flying splinters and fractured beams. Everyone but Theo is tossed downwards.
Falling damage:1d6 ⇒ 6 Wood splinters:2d6 ⇒ (4, 5) = 9Everyone saved so you only take falling damage. You are prone unless you have an ability that lets you avoid the falling damage or convert it to nonlethal. Or similar.
M Human Destined Urban Bloodrager 16 | HP 102/148 (118/164) | AC 54 (T31, FF54, CMD60) | F+26/R+28/W+30 (+2 vs fear, +5 vs mind-affecting) | Mv 40' | Init +9 | Per +24| Rage 30/36 | Spells 4/2/1/0 (6/4/3/2) | Active: Heroism, Barkskin, See Invis, Shield, FoM, Long Arm, Dance, Vigor, Tactical, BoF, Legendary
Dervak will attack from prone and then stand. Using Destined Strike 3 of 3 to effectively negate the Prone penalty. Doing it in this order because I don't want to risk a Grab hit taking away my ability to use the Falchion. Dervak's AC is 27 against the AOO with the Prone penalty included. Hopefully between Stardust and Misfortune, it will miss.
Heroism, Perceive Cues, Heightened Awareness, See Invisibility, Barkskin, Freedom of Movement, Echolocation
AC 23 T 13 FF 22| Current HP 39/83| F +10 R +14(trap sense +3) W +11(see profile for conditional modifier)| Init +1| Perc +27 (+32 vs traps, trap spotter, smog sight) Sense Motive:+29+1d6 |Inspiration 10/10
Kat stands up, easily avoiding any reprisal from the monstrosity with her keen observational skills, then taps her boots together and takes a swing.
Kat rolls out of the way and kips up fluidly as Bad Treebeard swats at the spot on the floor she used to occupy, her slash with the gladius is misjudged and cuts nothing but air. The creature continues to flail about the room and between its recent spat of bad luck, the lights in its numerous eyes, and the party's defenses it only manages to smash the floor. The floor groans in protest against the weight of the dust up but holds for now.
The fake Mun still in the room cowers in fear, taking no side.
I believe this is the last round of Stardust and Misfortune.
Round 4 Dark Young Theo <-------------- Mara <-------------- Dervak <-------------- Kat <--------------
