Earl feels the thundering of many feet and 4 large constructs in the ground above him. He is quite confident that coming up above ground here would be very hazardous to his health.
Mike hears Lauriel's words and heads towards the fourth tower, nimbly keeping out of view of the still-distracted guards.
Exiel conjures his force sphere and prepares to cast his dimension door spell once it collapses. It rattles under a hail of rifle fire and tank ordinance.
Exiel you did not have a swift action left to use lay on hands last turn since you used an immediate action to cast EFS. You can do it this turn.
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Mike sneaks along the fence while the soldiers fire on Exiel's invisible force sphere. Lauriel delivers her message to Rhon and 42 and then flies to join Mike at the fourth tower. Exiel delivers a little bit of healing to himself and continues to wait for his barrier to collapse. It does not happen this turn, but he can see that it is beginning to crack and will soon collapse.
Pathfinders are up. Your general locations are marked on the map.
Lauriel flies up to the roof and waits for the fireworks to die down.
Exiel hangs tight in his force bubble waiting for the last possible moment before making his egress to the fourth tower. Readied action to cast dimension door once sphere falls.
Huge Celestial Earth Elemental CR 8 l HP 95/95 l AC 19 l T 7 l FF 19 l Fort +11 l Ref +2 l Will +7 l CMB +21 l CMD 30 l Immune to Bleed, Bull Rush, Crits, Flanking, Overrun, Paralysis, Poison, Precision damage, Sleep, Stunning l Resist: Acid (10), Cold (10), Elec (10) l DR 5/- l DR 5/evil l Prec +13 (darkvision & tremorsense 60 ft) l Init -1 | Conditions:
Earl having decided that Mike must be losing his mind to have sent him here without any help decides to beat a hasty retreat to where he last knew his friend and companion where heading.
Earl makes a break for the tents with a double move burrow for 40 feet.
Mike emerges at the guard tower and blasts a soldier, heavily wounding him. At around the same time, Exiel's EFS collapses and he casts his spell, vanishing from the sight of the soldiers and appearing next to Mike.
42, Rhon, Earl and Viktor wait in the tents with bated breath. The sound of ordinances and gunfire is still ringing and echoing throughout the camp and the surrounding forest, along with the blaring sirens throughout the camp...
Exiel and Mike are up. Refer to the map, there are four soldiers. The camp is still in some disarray, but you know that it will not be long before the sounds of your fight here are noticed over the other sounds in the camp.
Exiel sees that he is presently threatening all the enemies with his stolen lance, so he sees no reason not to stab at the one that Mike has already wounded.
Exiel finishes off 1 soldier, Mike obliterates another.
The remaining two soldiers unsling their rifles. One shoots at 1d2 ⇒ 1 Mike, the other runs to the panel and activates a bolt of lightning that jumps to Exiel and then Mike.
The soldier misses Mike. The bolt of lightning does not.
Exiel and Mike are up. You each take 60 electric damage. Exiel save DC19 to evade, Mike save DC17 for half. Resistance applies. No AoO on the soldier who shot at Mike since he 5ft stepped adjacent to Exiel.
Mike crushes one more soldier. Exiel disarms the last one. The soldier throws up his hands and stares at you gibbering in a language you don't recognize.
Meanwhile, silence has descended upon the camp as the guards look around warily for Exiel.
We can consider combat over, but the guards are nearby and on high alert.
"All you now, Lauriel," Exiel quips as he levels his lance at the last soldier. "And do me a favour and tell our friend here that if he moves, Mike's gonna do to him what he did to the others."
Lauriel goes to the controls and starts messing around with them.
"Probably for the best. Lauriel, if you need me to aid your attempts to scare him into compliance, let me know, I know just the thing that usually works."
Lauriel uses her perfect recollection of Viktor's instructions to recalibrate the last anchor. A loud hum begins to echo throughout the camp and indeed the whole clearing where the camp is situated. Purple lightning builds up at the four corner watchtowers, and then streak to join above the ruined chapel in the center of the camp as a curtain of arcane sparks erupts skyward from the perimeter fence. The smoldering chapel erupts into strange flames that seem to burn backward through time, restoring the structure to its former state.
The chapel is now restored!
Exiel, Mike and Lauriel are at the South-Western tower. There are alot of guards nearby.
Rhon, 42, Earl and Viktor are at tents in the South-Eastern part of the inner camp (where you fought the dullahans).
Human Magus 14 | HP: 93/93 | Temp HP: 0/0 | 50% miss chance| DR 10/adamantine (140/140) 140 minutes| AC: 28/ FF 22/ T 15| Fort: +14 Ref: +14 Will: +14 | Perception: +10| Init: +5
Knowing where his teammates should be, 42 heads to meet up with them and get ready for anything that could happen. "Was the fire that necessary?" looking at his two teammates. "We should meet up with the others.."
42, check the map for your location. You were left at the tents with Rhon and Earl. You remember that Exiel's plan was to meet at the chapel once he and Mike finished their job.
If the last guard is being watched by Mike and offers no resistance, Exiel will stow his lance and cast invisibility on himself. As soon as Lauriel is done, Exiel will direct her to change into bird form and perch on Mike's shoulder.
"Just in case I need some way to find you, Mike," Exiel explains as he cast invisibility on Mike as well.
"Alright, I'm not sure how long that thing's gonna remain in that state, but if Rasputin wasn't on to what our plans were he certainly is now. Let's hustle on inside before he gets too much time to prepare our welcome party."
Exiel flies invisibly over to the entrance of the cathedral, keeping an eye out for Rhon, Earl, 42 and Victor.
Huge Celestial Earth Elemental CR 8 l HP 95/95 l AC 19 l T 7 l FF 19 l Fort +11 l Ref +2 l Will +7 l CMB +21 l CMD 30 l Immune to Bleed, Bull Rush, Crits, Flanking, Overrun, Paralysis, Poison, Precision damage, Sleep, Stunning l Resist: Acid (10), Cold (10), Elec (10) l DR 5/- l DR 5/evil l Prec +13 (darkvision & tremorsense 60 ft) l Init -1 | Conditions:
Viktor declines to follow you to the cathedral, waving at you to go ahead as he seats himself in a field chair.
Both groups of you fly/run to the cathedral as the soldiers on the other side of the gate look in a mixture of surprise, confusion and fear. Exiel and Mike, though invisible, easily see 42, Rhon and a ripple of moving earth heading towards the cathedral from the South.
Like a rotten tooth in an infected jawbone, the restored chapel sits in the prison’s central yard. Strange lights flickering from within, and its onion-shaped domes scintillate with a sickly purple light. Large stained-glass windows adorn the chapel’s otherwise solid stone exterior, depicting the fall of angels from the heavens, the miracles of saints, and the death of martyrs. Nailed to the cruciform crossbars of the monastery’s front doors is an emaciated corpse. It is stripped bare to the waist, its body marked with crude tattoos, and a long mustache droops over the macabre grin that only rigor mortis can bring.
Human Magus 14 | HP: 93/93 | Temp HP: 0/0 | 50% miss chance| DR 10/adamantine (140/140) 140 minutes| AC: 28/ FF 22/ T 15| Fort: +14 Ref: +14 Will: +14 | Perception: +10| Init: +5
perception:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12
42 doesn’t see any mist dragon or sun demon coming at them. He will continue to move forward to meet up. If alerted by a teammate, he will activate his blinking ring.
Rhon looks at the door and its "decoration". "Well this is grizzly. We should probably make sure his corpse doesn't bear any nasty surprises before we try to remove it and get inside." Rhon turns as Earl emerges from the ground in front of the cathedral and sets Viktor down.
Terran:
Earl would you mind carefully removing the man from the front doors once we are sure it is not trapped?
Huge Celestial Earth Elemental CR 8 l HP 95/95 l AC 19 l T 7 l FF 19 l Fort +11 l Ref +2 l Will +7 l CMB +21 l CMD 30 l Immune to Bleed, Bull Rush, Crits, Flanking, Overrun, Paralysis, Poison, Precision damage, Sleep, Stunning l Resist: Acid (10), Cold (10), Elec (10) l DR 5/- l DR 5/evil l Prec +13 (darkvision & tremorsense 60 ft) l Init -1 | Conditions:
Earl remembers to grab up the funny little man before he leaves the tents and takes him along for the trip over to the now visible cathedral.
He sets the strange little guy down in front of himself so that everyone else can see him just in case he becomes a threat.
Earl listens to what Rhon has to say, nods his head, and waits.
Mike and Earl head towards the chapel door first. They do not notice anything out of the ordinary until Earl emerges from the ground to reach for the corpse. Suddenly he notices that there is a translucent apparition superimposed on the corpse, as if it too was pinned to the door. It locks eyes with Earl. Incredibly, however it somehow gets distracted by the shimmering form that is the invisible Mike, and fails to successfully target Earl with whatever ability it was attempting to use on Earl.
Mike and Exiel are up.
Map is updated. There is some sort of incorporeal creature guarding the door.
The air around Mike's location visibly dims, and then Mike becomes visible when he unleashes a beam of gravity at the Incorporeal creature.
Doing a Maximized Gravity Blast with Gravitic Boost attached to it, which turns my d6s to d8s.
Attack Roll vs. Regular AC (Likely Flatfooted, unless it has truesight or blindsight):1d20 + 25 ⇒ (1) + 25 = 26 92 points of bludgeoning damage on a hit, or 46 since it's incorporeal.
Even flat-footed will not help a natural 1
A stray flash of lightning in the sky momentarily dazzles Mike and causes him to miss his target. The spirit lets out a low moan as it becomes covered in shiny dust.
GM:
1d20 ⇒ 1 1d100 ⇒ 82 1d20 ⇒ 6 1d20 ⇒ 1
Fortunately Mike is not the only creature suffering from ill fortune as the incorporeal creature is blinded by Exiel's glitter. Unable to see, it points blindly at where Earl was standing, and unfortunately aiming a touch attack at a large earth creature proves easy for the undead creature even when blinded. The earth elemental feels a strange lurching motion deep within himself. You see a spectral form of Earl being pulled out from his body and being sucked towards the chapel doors. The spectral form of Earl is painfully crucified on the chapel doors, moaning in pain as his physical body collapses to the ground.
Fortuantely, the undead monster still appears unable to shake off Exiel's blinding dust.
Earl is rendered helpless and takes 2 negative levels. He also needs a will save to break free, or he will continue to be helpless and take negative levels.
Shaking his eyes to clear his vision, Mike again gathers darkness and strikes!
Attack Roll vs Regular AC for Maximized Gravity Blast:1d20 + 26 ⇒ (11) + 26 = 37 That will be again be 46 damage after halving for incorporeal if I hit.
Human Magus 14 | HP: 93/93 | Temp HP: 0/0 | 50% miss chance| DR 10/adamantine (140/140) 140 minutes| AC: 28/ FF 22/ T 15| Fort: +14 Ref: +14 Will: +14 | Perception: +10| Init: +5
Seeing his teams rock elemental attacked and rendered helpless, 42 moves and draws his Ghost Touched scimitar. aiming his hand towards the ghostly figure, he lets out 5 beams of energy.
"Bombardment with magical force seems like a good idea," Exiel chimes in as he unleashes his own barrage of magic missiles at the incorporeal creature.
He moves immediately after firing to make it difficult for the creature to note his location. Lauriel, sensing danger, also flies back to Exiel to merge with him.
Huge Celestial Earth Elemental CR 8 l HP 95/95 l AC 19 l T 7 l FF 19 l Fort +11 l Ref +2 l Will +7 l CMB +21 l CMD 30 l Immune to Bleed, Bull Rush, Crits, Flanking, Overrun, Paralysis, Poison, Precision damage, Sleep, Stunning l Resist: Acid (10), Cold (10), Elec (10) l DR 5/- l DR 5/evil l Prec +13 (darkvision & tremorsense 60 ft) l Init -1 | Conditions:
None of you are able to work out what the creature is or what it is doing to Earl, except that you are sure it is very bad for Earl.
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2d20 ⇒ (11, 16) = 27
Althought Exiel and 42 feel some resistance to their spells, they manage to push through it. The incorporeal spirit is clearly damaged by the magical attacks. Unable to see where you are, the creature remains floating at the door, as if ready to retaliate once any of you give a hint as to your location.
Meanwhile, Earl's spectral form continues to writhe and languish in pain upon the chapel door.
Earl takes another negative level, total 3 now. Make another will save.
Pathfinders are up. Your opponent appears to have readied an action.
Exiel and Mike blast the incorporeal creature. When it hears Exiel's incantation, it immediately retaliates by pointing a spectral finger in Exiel's direction, but it points slightly off-target.
Huge Celestial Earth Elemental CR 8 l HP 95/95 l AC 19 l T 7 l FF 19 l Fort +11 l Ref +2 l Will +7 l CMB +21 l CMD 30 l Immune to Bleed, Bull Rush, Crits, Flanking, Overrun, Paralysis, Poison, Precision damage, Sleep, Stunning l Resist: Acid (10), Cold (10), Elec (10) l DR 5/- l DR 5/evil l Prec +13 (darkvision & tremorsense 60 ft) l Init -1 | Conditions:
Will Save:1d20 + 6 - 3 ⇒ (11) + 6 - 3 = 14
Earl continues to listlessly lay on the ground unmoving.
