M Aasimar (Garuda Blooded) Cleric 8 Stargazer of Pulura 8 | HP: 123/123||AC 32, Touch 16, FF 28 | Init: +12 | F: +19, R: +18, W: +26, +2 racial vs death, energy drain, negative energy, and necromancy +2 insight vs mind affecting| CMB: +12, CMD: 26 Speed 30ft| Perc: +35, SM: + 9 | Active conditions: none
Spugnoir2 wrote:
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Spugnoir smacks into the ciling, is he stuck there?
Foxy said that was quickened Telekinesis, so that had to be a violent thrust use. You take 1d6 from slamming into the ceiling, "If a telekinesed creature is hurled against a solid surface, it takes damage as if it had fallen 10 feet (1d6 points)." Then you would fall back down (unless you can fly) for nd6, with n depending on how high the ceiling is. You are also probably prone at the end of that...
Also, are you sure your will save is only a +10?
+5 from lvl 17 Alchemist +3 Wis +5 resistance (cloak) + 1 luck (lucky Horsehoe) +1 Competence (Cracked Pale Green Ioun Stone) +2 Morale (from Heroism, doesn't stack with the morale bonus from heroe's feast)
M Aasimar (Garuda Blooded) Cleric 8 Stargazer of Pulura 8 | HP: 123/123||AC 32, Touch 16, FF 28 | Init: +12 | F: +19, R: +18, W: +26, +2 racial vs death, energy drain, negative energy, and necromancy +2 insight vs mind affecting| CMB: +12, CMD: 26 Speed 30ft| Perc: +35, SM: + 9 | Active conditions: none
Ardan moves up behind Grergof and calls on Pulura's heralds a third time...
Move action - move 30'
standard Action - Spontaneously cast summon monster VI (it is a standard action due to sacred summons), sacrificing blade barrier
IF Xin crits this coming round:
Ardan will use Divine Interference as an immediate action to force a re-roll on the initial attack, sacrificing Hypnotic Pattern for a -2 on the roll
This will only happen on the first crit, as Ardan has only 1 immediate action
M Aasimar (Garuda Blooded) Cleric 8 Stargazer of Pulura 8 | HP: 123/123||AC 32, Touch 16, FF 28 | Init: +12 | F: +19, R: +18, W: +26, +2 racial vs death, energy drain, negative energy, and necromancy +2 insight vs mind affecting| CMB: +12, CMD: 26 Speed 30ft| Perc: +35, SM: + 9 | Active conditions: none
The summoned Lillend immediately begins singing, and reaches out to heal Grergof...
Move action - start Bardic Performance: Inspire Courage, +2 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +2 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls
Standard Action - Cast Cure Serious Wounds on Grergof
Healing:3d8 + 7 ⇒ (8, 2, 6) + 7 = 23
As Ardan goes before everyone else in the init order, that +2 to hit and damage will apply to Grergof's attacks above... (Not to mention the tigers, but I'm not bothering for this round).
Damage:16d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 3, 2, 2, 6, 4, 6, 2, 1, 5, 1, 5, 5, 6, 3) = 56 Burn Damage:2d6 ⇒ (5, 2) = 7
and a DC 26 fort save vs Entrap if it hits, and a DC 26 reflex to avoid catching on fire (Burn)
Grergof hits Xin only two times. Once the flail goes right through Xin and twice it deflecs from the hard metal doing no damage. But one mighty hit properly dents it. As the Sihedron is transferred, Xin freezes for a short moment, looking after it.
Fort DC30:1d20 + 19 ⇒ (14) + 19 = 33
Atua also hits Xin, and manages to entangle him in the cooling lava.
Fort DC30:1d20 + 19 ⇒ (5) + 19 = 24
Abomentolor's spells are wasted on Xin.
Ref DC22:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30 Will DC18:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (14) + 14 = 28
The tigers rip one elemental apart and badly damage the other.
HP 122/122 (133/33 w/ Hero Feast)
AC 17/12/15(26/19/24 with Mutagen and shield,Haste)
Saves F15/R15/W10 11 Fear Poison Immune
Weapon in hand:
Special Effects: 14/26 bombs
Heroes Feast (+11 HP +1 Attack/Will save, +4 vs. Poison/Fear) Heroism (+2 attack/saves/skills)
See Invisible
Countless Eyes(All around vision, can't be flanked)
Heighten Awareness (+2 Perception and Knowledge skills),Tears to wine(+2 enhancement bonus on all Intelligence– and Wisdom-based skill checks.)Communal Stoneskin( 10DR 150 points absorbed),Freedom of Movement
Haste (+1 AC/Hit/Reflex),Targeted Bomb Admixture(14/18 rounds)
spugnoir unleashes a torrent of force bombs upom Xin
Male Gnome Elemental Sorcerer (16) - Ini +9 - HP 128 - AC 18(26) / 18(18) / 15(23) - Fort +15 / Ref +15 / Will +18 (+5 cloak/+1 Stone/+1 Horseshoe)) - Perception +7 - Concentration +27
Third time is the charm Abomentolor thinks and hurls the same amgic at Xin again, before returning the Sihedron to Grergof, who definitely needs it more than him.
So finally the honor comes to Grergof to smash the construct to pieces. The joints break, the glass cylinder shatters, the 'freed' skeleton inside it crumbles. The once mighty and fear inducing construct lies in shambles.
M Aasimar (Garuda Blooded) Cleric 8 Stargazer of Pulura 8 | HP: 123/123||AC 32, Touch 16, FF 28 | Init: +12 | F: +19, R: +18, W: +26, +2 racial vs death, energy drain, negative energy, and necromancy +2 insight vs mind affecting| CMB: +12, CMD: 26 Speed 30ft| Perc: +35, SM: + 9 | Active conditions: none
Unless Foxy's real insistent about me rolling it out, I'm just going to narrate... Not that I expect it to take long ...
As the Lillend's song rises to a triumphant crescendo, the remaining elemental is torn apart in a by the fangs and claws of a swarm of Pulura's tigers...
Meanwhile, Ardan congratulates Brother Grergof "Well struck, a famous victory! Bards will sing your name!"
Ok, Xin is defeated, and I think that's the end of the AP. So, what does everyone want to do to close things up? Clear the downstairs levels? Just call it a game ("and the heroes all lived happily ever after")? ...
The elemental is taken apart by the tigers who have little trouble to finish the job with their large numbers.
Amid the clockwork reliquary’s scattered remains is a king’s ransom in various skymetal components (worth 200,000 gp in all). In addition, several powerful magical items used as nothing more than potent components for the construct’s body can be salvaged from the remains, including a rod of quicken metamagic, a rod of empower metamagic, a cube of force, an orb of utter chaos two hands full of ioun stones, two philosopher’s stones, a spindle of perfect knowledge, and last but not least, a fancy key.
Male Gnome Elemental Sorcerer (16) - Ini +9 - HP 128 - AC 18(26) / 18(18) / 15(23) - Fort +15 / Ref +15 / Will +18 (+5 cloak/+1 Stone/+1 Horseshoe)) - Perception +7 - Concentration +27
"Ustalav? You'd go back to that bleak, dismal country?" Abomentolor asks in disbelief. "That's almost as stupid as living in Underbridge, when you could live in a villa in the Capital District."
This simple-looking key seems to be carved crudely from stone, but is in fact a sort of skeleton key that can be used to wind all clockwork constructs swiftly and efficiently. Originally, the key allowed the carrier to command limitless numbers of
clockworks simultaneously. With this key, Xin could command his entire clockwork army effortlessly, and its use was key to his power over Thassilon. But when Xin used it as an element in the clockwork reliquary’s construction, the key’s powers were vastly diminished. Xin accepted this as a necessity, since if all had gone according to plan, he would still be able to command his army using his new body. The diminished key can be recovered from the destroyed reliquary’s remains.
The guardian key can fit into any clockwork construct’s keyhole, and fully winds a clockwork with a single turn made as a move action. Clockworks wound by the guardian key are healed of 5d8+20 points of damage, remain active for 10 times longer than they normally would, and during this period gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throws. The guardian key can also be used to seize control of a clockwork. To do so, a creature must attempt a touch attack against the target clockwork as a standard action. If it hits, the clockwork can attempt a DC 15 Will save to resist. If the clockwork’s save fails, that clockwork regards the key’s carrier as its creator, and follows that person’s commands to the letter—provided the commands are spoken in Thassilonian. The guardian key can control only one construct at a time. If it is used to control a second clockwork, the previous one is released from its duties immediately.
There is a fantastic manor with a magnificant waterfall. I'll have to install guard rails for certain, and it needs plenty of fixing up but is an excellent place for a lab.
Grergof responds to Ardan ‘s comments about bards
I suppose this story will need to come out to let the city know what happens so they feel safe. But I’m not a hero. Every one of you did and Father Redgrave did the hard work of figuring this all out. I just can hit things, so I shouldn’t be the hero. It should be you all.
Then later when talking about mansions he says to Spugnoir:
I can think of no better master for Schloss Caromarc. That should make a wonderful lab!
For me, I have an empty teaching post I should return to. Now If the world is safe, I think I can train more knights on how to fight quite well given all our experience
He looks back at the destroyed construct:
Of course I may need to get a merciful weapon to make Sure I don’t hurt the novices.
But don’t we need to worry about the construct army?
M Aasimar (Garuda Blooded) Cleric 8 Stargazer of Pulura 8 | HP: 123/123||AC 32, Touch 16, FF 28 | Init: +12 | F: +19, R: +18, W: +26, +2 racial vs death, energy drain, negative energy, and necromancy +2 insight vs mind affecting| CMB: +12, CMD: 26 Speed 30ft| Perc: +35, SM: + 9 | Active conditions: none
"Well, this key, I think it is Xin's master key for his clockworks. We might be able to get the to destroy each other... We would I guess have to go downstairs and find out. But I think the immediate threat to Varisia is eliminated... " He pauses and casts a sidelong glance at Spugnoir.
@Spugnoir
This crystal is what powered the rise of the palace and it's repair as well as the construction in the first place. In its current almost depleted state it functions as an instant fortress.
Male Gnome Elemental Sorcerer (16) - Ini +9 - HP 128 - AC 18(26) / 18(18) / 15(23) - Fort +15 / Ref +15 / Will +18 (+5 cloak/+1 Stone/+1 Horseshoe)) - Perception +7 - Concentration +27
"If you don't want to be the hero, that is very humble." Abomentolor compliments Grergof. "This is none of my virtues, I will enjoy it a lot to be a hero."
"For the key I have an easy solution. Sell it to Lini. Not only the key, but sell her the whole army, and tell her that is the key for it. Then she can clean out the basement."
How much damage was there in the city. A few buildings in the waterfront…. I believe we stopped the rest. Did I miss some? If so we should go there and help them rebuild. And yes a handful of golems could be quite useful for that.
Honest question, I don’t remember much after we stopped the tital wave with a miracle, killed the creature in the sea and took out the constructs in the first couple blocks.
Male Gnome Elemental Sorcerer (16) - Ini +9 - HP 128 - AC 18(26) / 18(18) / 15(23) - Fort +15 / Ref +15 / Will +18 (+5 cloak/+1 Stone/+1 Horseshoe)) - Perception +7 - Concentration +27
"If the other people in Magnimar are not sitting idly on their ass, it should be fixed before we come back. And if not, we ask Gwen and Jimmy, if they can rebuild the stuff with their fiddle."
"But as it wasn't in Underbridge, there are people who kno whow to fix stuff and have some coin to spend on it."
Abomentolor clearly isn't into the 'selfless help other people out with manual work' stuff.
Well technically he is the Savior of Magnimar and Ustalav. Although if you hate that gloomy country so much, I guess you could leave that off the resume.
Male Gnome Elemental Sorcerer (16) - Ini +9 - HP 128 - AC 18(26) / 18(18) / 15(23) - Fort +15 / Ref +15 / Will +18 (+5 cloak/+1 Stone/+1 Horseshoe)) - Perception +7 - Concentration +27
"I wouldn't want to live there. A sunny beach in Varisia is better than any place we have been in Ustalav. But leaving off the resume that I was there and kicked the ass of the biggest evil there? No way."
"But I might consider adding some fancy mansion in one of the upper district to my collection of buildings."
Despite Abomentolor not liking water - there is another boss fight down there.
Grergof walks over and drops the key in his Hand Haversack.
We can decide what to do with this later, but for now let’s not leave this laying around.
Are you all sure that Xin will not come back? Also did you figure anything about the the crystal?
He looks over the rest of the crushed construct.
Does anyone want these rods or know what the any of this other stuff does?
M Aasimar (Garuda Blooded) Cleric 8 Stargazer of Pulura 8 | HP: 123/123||AC 32, Touch 16, FF 28 | Init: +12 | F: +19, R: +18, W: +26, +2 racial vs death, energy drain, negative energy, and necromancy +2 insight vs mind affecting| CMB: +12, CMD: 26 Speed 30ft| Perc: +35, SM: + 9 | Active conditions: none
"I think should return to Magnimar for the moment. We have defeated Xin, and Magnimar should know that the threat has been thwarted. But, there is too much wealth and to many arcane secrets to leave lying around this place. Not to mention there is at least one major bound demon... So, on the morrow we can return and start cleaning up."
I don't think that jumping into another boss fight for the day is a good idea if we can avoid it... Although given Atua's binding, we will lose her services (and there may be other losses)...
WRT to the gear, obviously take all of it. Between us we can probably use all of it, including the crystal (assuming we can figure out how to take it). @Foxy, please detail the Ioun Stones ("two hands full")
