Atua also lands a solid hit which pushes the retriever over the fringe of disassembly. Luckily, the lava pins it to the ceiling, or it would fall down and with bad luck onto someone of the group.
As the attacks fly, the walls start shooting slivers from the left and right.
HP 99/116
AC 17/12/15 (25/18/23 with Mutagen and shield)
Saves F15/R15/W10 11 Fear Poison Immune (+11 Will save with hero's feast
Weapon in hand:
Special Effects: Heroes Feast (+11 HP +1 Attack/Will save, +4 vs. Poison/Fear) 23/23 bombsHeroism (+2 attack/saves/skills)
See Invisible
Countless Eyes(All around vision, can't be flanked)
Heighten Awareness (+2 Perception and Knowledge skills)Freedom of Movement, Communal Stone skin (10/Adamantine DR 128 points)
Spugnoir grunts as he gets needled. Might as well clear the place out. I figure it will make a good place to fix up.
Is everyone alright? Grergof stands looking up at the massive hole left by Abador’s spell.
Hmm if you can do that to all our enemies, maybe I can retire my flail when this is over.
He brushes the crystal fragments off of his armor where it shattered on it.
Don’t forget to use the Sihedron if anyone was hit
If there is something we can always count on, is Varsk's epic flail.
Ardan blocks the crystal splinters with his shield. After confirming there are no further attackers, he resumes searching the room...
Perception: 1d20 + 16 + 3 + 9 + 5 + 2 + 10 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 16 + 3 + 9 + 5 + 2 + 10 + 10 = 66
16 ranks +3 trained +9 wis + 5 eyes of the eagle+2 luck+10 tears to wine +10 Sarzari Shadow Memory
Ardan turns up a single wooden coffer that seems to have weathered the passage of time quite well. This coffer is coated in unguent of timelessness so its contents remain fresh — within is 20,000 gp worth of rare incense usable for the casting of gate spells along with three more vials of unguent of timelessness and a rod of withering.
Lets keep going to the next door.
He points at C4 and then moves to stand next to the doorframe with his flail ready to smack anything that comes out as soon as someone else opens the door.
Abomentolor takes the sihedron for a while to cure the pincushion side effects on his health.
Fluid-filled cylinders grow from the walls here, each containing mummified husks of stunted, malformed creatures spilling forth from their cracked faces. Several canisters are toppled, with more of the shriveled bodies spilled out before them. The vile preservative liquids have fused the dumped corpses into a disgusting, homogenous mass.
A vision flashes of Xin’s frustrating history with homunculus creation. His rage at how difficult he found the creation of life is significant.
16 ranks +3 trained +9 wis + 5 eyes of the eagle+2 luck+10 tears to wine +10 Sarzari Shadow Memory
1 rank +3 trained+1 wis+4 racial+10 tears to wine
(6 rank +3 trained+1 int+4 Sage Knowledge +8 racial+10 tears to wine
Taya dives into Ardan's pack, even as she says to Ardan
Ardan promptly shares the warning "The pile of corpses is actually an aberration!"
+4 (dex)+2 The Stargazer +4 familiar+2 luck
HP 116/116
AC 17/12/15 (25/18/23 with Mutagen and shield)
Saves F15/R15/W10 11 Fear Poison Immune (+11 Will save with hero's feast
Weapon in hand:
Special Effects: Heroes Feast (+11 HP +1 Attack/Will save, +4 vs. Poison/Fear) 21/23 bombsHeroism (+2 attack/saves/skills)
See Invisible
Countless Eyes(All around vision, can't be flanked)
Heighten Awareness (+2 Perception and Knowledge skills)Freedom of Movement, Communal Stone skin (10/Adamantine DR 128 points)
Corpse orgy... Spugnoir's brain seems to short out thinking about that..
Atua hurls lava bolt as she moves to close with the thing...
+24 bridijiine +1 heroes feast
and a DC 26 fort save vs Entrap if it hits...
That can't be anything but evil. You shall feel the wrath of the Dawnbringer!
Grergof steps up next to Atua and readies his flail in case the thing moves within stiking distance.
Atua and Spugnoir prove that this abomination burns.
Ardan uses the Sihedron to drop an Ice Storm on the creature. Then he sends the Sihedron to Grergof... (who can choose his own point...)
As fire seems to work, Abomentolor shoots it with fire rays. Then he steps behind Grergof.
The pile of corpses shrieks in pain.
HP 101/116
AC 17/12/15 (25/18/23 with Mutagen and shield)
Saves F15/R15/W10 11 Fear Poison Immune (+11 Will save with hero's feast
Weapon in hand:
Special Effects: Heroes Feast (+11 HP +1 Attack/Will save, +4 vs. Poison/Fear) 21/23 bombsHeroism (+2 attack/saves/skills)
See Invisible
Countless Eyes(All around vision, can't be flanked)
Heighten Awareness (+2 Perception and Knowledge skills)Freedom of Movement, Communal Stone skin (10/Adamantine DR 128 points)
Spugnoir BLAMS with his gun
+22 bridijiine
Atua two hands her obsidian longsword and lunges into melee with the beast...
+25 to hit - 5 Power attack +1 morale (heroes Feast)
+1 enhancement + 7 (1.5*str, 2 handing her longsword) + 15 power attack
Fire
+25 to hit - 5 Power attack -5 first iterative +1 morale (heroes Feast)
+1 enhancement + 7 (1.5*str, 2 handing her longsword) + 15 power attack
Fire
+25 to hit - 5 Power attack -10 second iterative +1 morale (heroes Feast)
+1 enhancement + 7 (1.5*str, 2 handing her longsword) + 15 power attack
Fire
+25 to hit - 5 Power attack -15 third iterative +1 morale (heroes Feast)
+1 enhancement + 7 (1.5*str, 2 handing her longsword) + 15 power attack
Fire
+25 to hit - 5 Power attack +1 morale (heroes Feast)
+1 enhancement + 7 (1.5*str, 2 handing her longsword) + 15 power attack
That also triggers staggering critical, Fort DC 29 success: only staggered 1 round, failure rounds
+25 to hit - 5 Power attack -10 second iterative +1 morale (heroes Feast)
+1 enhancement + 7 (1.5*str, 2 handing her longsword) + 15 power attack
That also triggers staggering critical, Fort DC 29 success: only staggered 1 round, failure rounds
+6 Cleric +3 Stargazer+3 Con +2 Luck +4 Resistance+1 Competence
Ardan delays, figuring the problem is handled...
Grergof steps up and uses his flail to stop the screaming.
Then he passes the Sihedron to Atua
Atua swongs her sword to little effect . Grergof does a bit better, but maybe he got some gore in the eye while bashing the disgusting pile. The musket shots are a waste of ammunition, as they don't penetrate the body mass at all. But in conclusion the surprisingly not undead thing falls apart and stops moving. Hard to tell what being dead means for this thing, but it doesn't recollect itself or show any other signs of not being just a pile of dead bodies.
Ardan searches the room, as the party passes the Sihedron back and forth so they are all fully healed...
16 ranks +3 trained +9 wis + 5 eyes of the eagle+2 luck+10 tears to wine +10 Sarzari Shadow Memory
Hmm...I wonder if this is worth it. Seems that we just need to go get His Highness.
"Yeah, the loot is rather lame. The runelords had more stuff in their lairs. You don't even find some statues for Gwen and Jimmy's garden decoration business here. But it is still not as disgusting as in the basement of that wannabe undead cultists. Even with that thing." He points to the pile of corpses.
"But I guess we could wall up the doors instead and go where we think this Xin is. And hope that he doesn't call all the monsters and construct in this place to aid him."
"Also, we continue to have these strange visions of the past, I suspect that there is something to learned there. So let us proceed onwards and scour the rest of this hall, before daring the portal the iron dragon guarded..."
Atua has moved along to the next door and she warns "Be wary, there are 3 medium sized humanoids moving behind this door, and a much heavier giant type as well... Spugnoir, do you want to check for traps?
Greregof waits for the others to show that the door is ready then he sets up next to the door ready to smash whatever comes through the door.
This workshop possesses a cold, alien beauty. Armored plates of unearthly craftsmanship float in vaguely humanoid shapes throughout the room, the soft glow of electricity subtly arcing between them. Several tables grow from the floor, where more complete specimens rest, surrounded by glowing motes of mathematical equations.
Three of the greeters from the first visit are toiling in this workshop. And one of their creations is standing there - a heavy humanoid made of metal. The three workers, that are in service of Xin here look somewhat like female elves, but not quite. Well dressed as for a social event. But the strangest thing is the hair that starts out blonde, but turns into glowing equations, the further away from the head it goes.
"Halt there." one of the elf likes commands. Two of them draw swords.
This is your department, Ardan.
16 ranks+3 trained+ 2 Int+2 luck+10 tears to wine
While Ardan recalls, Atua responds instinctively to the lawful outsiders. She after filling the whole room with fire, she flies into the room, both hands on her sword ...
Fire
ReFlex DC 23 for 1/2 damage, and a fail means the subject is on fire taking 4d6 each round
+19 CL
Ardan announces "Axiomites and a Kolyarut, outsiders of extreme law, resistant to magic and non-chaotic sources of damage. He continues even as he conjures "And thus, anti-ethical to my lady Pulura "
Ardan then demonstrates his prowess as a summoner, calling Pulura' Heralds...
+1 superior summoning +1 the Pack sidereal arcana
After appearing on opposite sides of the outsides, the 3 entropic dire tigers charge the enemies with a snarling cacophony...
+18 base +2 augment summoning +2 Flank +2 Charge
+14 smite law
+23 base +2 augment summoning
+18 base +2 augment summoning +2 Flank +2 Charge
+14 smite law
+18 base +2 augment summoning +2 Flank +2 Charge
+14 smite law
Edit: Possible Critical on Tiger Bite A
+18 base +2 augment summoning +2 Flank +2 Charge
+14 smite law
The Kolyarut stares at one of the tigers, which freezes in place. This one in turn touches the tiger and all three of the tigers disappear.
One other axiomite touches all her companions, the last one sends lightning through Ardan.
[ooc]Ardan, Abomentolor
Axiomite(108), Axiomite(127), Axiomite(112), Kolyarut(65)
Grergof, Spugnoir <--
By the nine Hells this is not the way we should be making friends. But since we are commited….
Grergof moves up 10’ from the closest enemy. And smashes one huge swing at it, trusting in the stone skin keep him safe.
Abomentolor searches his backpack for marshmallows to roast at the burning axiomites.
He looks surprised when the tigers disappear as fast as they showed up. "Is that supposed to happen?"
As the tigers quit work early, and Grergof has to do the rest of the work probably, Abomentolor hits the group with a haste.
HP 116/116
AC 17/12/15 (25/18/23 with Mutagen and shield)
Saves F15/R15/W10 11 Fear Poison Immune (+11 Will save with hero's feast
Weapon in hand:
Special Effects: Heroes Feast (+11 HP +1 Attack/Will save, +4 vs. Poison/Fear) 19/23 bombsHeroism (+2 attack/saves/skills)
See Invisible
Countless Eyes(All around vision, can't be flanked)
Heighten Awareness (+2 Perception and Knowledge skills)Freedom of Movement, Communal Stone skin (10/Adamantine DR 128 points)
Spugnoir throws some force bombs at an Axiomite
Force Bombs Force Bomb: When the alchemist creates a bomb, he can choose to have it inflict force damage. Force bombs deal 1d4 points of force damage, plus 1d4 points of force damage for every odd-numbered level, instead of 1d6. Creatures that take a direct hit from a force bomb are knocked prone unless they succeed on a Reflex save. DC21
Grergof whacks an Axiomite, but it is not enough to bring down this sturdy opponent. Spugnoir throws a bomb at the wall and another one at the axiomite, but she is still standing.
Teeth bared in a non-smile, Atua goes for the Kolyarut...
+25 to hit - 5 Power attack +1 morale (heroes Feast) + 1 haste
+1 enhancement + 7 (1.5*str, 2 handing her longsword) + 15 power attack
Fire
+25 to hit - 5 Power attack -5 first iterative +1 morale (heroes Feast) + 1 haste
+1 enhancement + 7 (1.5*str, 2 handing her longsword) + 15 power attack
Fire
+25 to hit - 5 Power attack -10 second iterative +1 morale (heroes Feast) + 1 haste
+1 enhancement + 7 (1.5*str, 2 handing her longsword) + 15 power attack
Fire
+25 to hit - 5 Power attack -15 third iterative +1 morale (heroes Feast) + 1 haste
+1 enhancement + 7 (1.5*str, 2 handing her longsword) + 15 power attack
+25 to hit - 5 Power attack +1 morale (heroes Feast) + 1 haste
+1 enhancement + 7 (1.5*str, 2 handing her longsword) + 15 power attack
Fire
The inevitable is hard to hit and atua manages to cut into it only twice.
The axiomites call down the power of order on the group. The Kolyarut swings his sword and fist at Atua.
The inevitable is hard to hit and atua manages to cut into it only twice.
Atua is also hard to hit (AC 39, post lunge) and doesn't get hit at all.
DC 20
+21 will +1 morale (heroes feast)
DC 20
+21 will +1 morale (heroes feast)
DC 20
+21 will +1 morale (heroes feast)
HP 219+?/256
vs DC 19
+2 Cleric +4Stargazer +4 Dex +2 Luck +1 trait+4 Resistance+1 Competence
vs DC 20
+6 Cleric +4 Stargazer + 9 Wisdom +2 Luck+4 Resistance+1 Competence+1 morale (Heroes Feast)
vs DC 20
vs DC 20