Illusionist Wizard 11; AC 14, 18 with Mage Armor; HP 21/81 (+ 0 temp HP); F+12, R +11, W+13; Init+7, Perception +12 +1 on saves vs, Transmutations | +2 on saves vs. Illusions
Pai will head to the southernmost cabinet and see what it is labeled. "Spread out everyone and see what the cabinets are called. We might find something to give us a clue."
Barlor crawls out of the vent and tries to reassure Ing that the vent is a good place to wait, but not a good place to play. He will then look around for cabinets and files.
Pai, the southernmost cabinet is labeled "Servant Contracts".
As Barlor and Peri begin to spread out to other cabinets, Haris turns around and moves to look at the one directly to the north of him. On it he sees a label for “Internal Security: Evidence", but before he can do anything else, the sound of clomping on the hard floor echoes through the archive and Haris turns around to see one of the chairs from table marching towards him, its armrests rising like the fists of a boxer preparing to fight.
Illusionist Wizard 11; AC 14, 18 with Mage Armor; HP 21/81 (+ 0 temp HP); F+12, R +11, W+13; Init+7, Perception +12 +1 on saves vs, Transmutations | +2 on saves vs. Illusions
As I wasn't in the last fight, I don't remember if you do in init. order, or if you prefer everyone to post whenever, and then you sort it out, DM.
Quick on the draw, Pai fires out a tiny glob of acid at the strange animated chair.
I prefer everyone to post when they can (with contingency options please if you have a slow initiative or think your action might get interrupted). Either way, I'll sort it out.
Haris leaps onto the table, readies with a crowbar, "Sit!", he appropriately shouts at the chair. In the panic, he had mispronounced the word he meant to say.
Haris performs an acrobatic routine, tumbling and spinning around the chair and leaping to the table with ease. However, his crowbar proves to be a clumsy weapon and fails to land solidly. FYI I'm going to rule that a crowbar doesn't qualify for weapon finesse, so Haris' attack roll was adjusted 13 counting higher ground.
Peri's magic missile blasts a small hole in the back of the chair, but Pai's acid misses due to Haris' close position to the thing. -4 for it being in melee with another.
As Barlor, Ing, and László jockey for position and ready weapons Beckett draws his sword and steps quickly to attack, but his swing goes high.
Beckett's attack1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11 Miss
The chair lunges at Haris, landing a solid blow that throws him off balance. With surprising speed, the chair's other armrest wraps around his legs and pulls the acrobat into the hard seat. Haris is Grappled
Male Varisian Human Rogue/2 Urban Ranger/4 HP: 30/30* |AC 22 T 16 FF 18| Fort +8/Ref +13/Will +3| Init +5| Perc +10| SM +10
Round 2:
László slides over to H-9, trying to set up a flank with one of the others. His residual incredulity at the idea of being attacked by feral furniture robs his attack of any shred of accuracy, though.
Illusionist Wizard 11; AC 14, 18 with Mage Armor; HP 21/81 (+ 0 temp HP); F+12, R +11, W+13; Init+7, Perception +12 +1 on saves vs, Transmutations | +2 on saves vs. Illusions
Pai moves to J 12, hoping to get a better view of the chair to allow her acid spell to get through.
Haris wriggles free from the chair's grasp as Peri puts another small hole in it. Pai's attack is less effective, nearly hitting László before flying off to who-knows-where. In ducking the errant spray of acid, László swipes nothing but air with his mace, tangles up with Beckett and spoils his attack as well.
Barlor is the only one to land a strike, but the strong oak of the chair withstands most of the damage from his dagger.
The chair pursues Haris with single-minded purpose, one of it's armrests slamming into the rogue's knee. It then lunges forward to grapple him again, but Haris is ready this time and evades capture.
Male Varisian Human Rogue/2 Urban Ranger/4 HP: 30/30* |AC 22 T 16 FF 18| Fort +8/Ref +13/Will +3| Init +5| Perc +10| SM +10
I hadn't been entirely sure where Haris was for the purpose of flanking; I'll stay put for now.
Round 2:
"I do not see anything to speak with, and it attacked us out of hand!" As the chair slams Haris, the Varisian recovers from his shock and lashes out with his mace. Splinters fly.
Illusionist Wizard 11; AC 14, 18 with Mage Armor; HP 21/81 (+ 0 temp HP); F+12, R +11, W+13; Init+7, Perception +12 +1 on saves vs, Transmutations | +2 on saves vs. Illusions
Pai moves onto the e table at H 11, hoping to get higher ground on the chair and a better angle to fire her acid blast.
László, you posted as Round 2, but we are actually in round 3 now (the chair goes at the end of each round, thus a new round begins after it has acted). We are only waiting on Barlor and Beckett now, and if they don't post by this evening, I'll continue their attacks for them.
Oops, sorry. I've been making merriment at a wedding and totally lost track.
Barlor, frustrated that his dagger did him no good, drops it and draws a club, taking a swing with that.
Club:1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22, Damage:1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Haris drops back off the table and heals some of the brusing to his leg 3 points. Even though his flanking partner has withdrawn, László's mace connects solidly, sending splinters across the room. Barlor's club, while more impressive in appearance, is less so in practice and bounces off, hardly leaving a scratch. Beckett's sword twirls about, but never finds wood.
The magic users fair better as Pai's acid sizzles a blackened mark on the seat while Peri's magic missile puts another small hole in the back.
The Chair, having lost its original prey, scuttles about and lunges at Barlor, crunching through his shield and armor with a slam to the dwarf's midsection. As Barlor gasps for breath, he suddenly finds himself pulled into the Chair's wooden embrace, his face squashed against the carved back.
Illusionist Wizard 11; AC 14, 18 with Mage Armor; HP 21/81 (+ 0 temp HP); F+12, R +11, W+13; Init+7, Perception +12 +1 on saves vs, Transmutations | +2 on saves vs. Illusions
Pai had began to worry if they could do enough damage to stop the assault from the chair. They had hit it several times, but it was still mauling them. At a loss for other options, she kept firing her tiny bursts of acid at it, hoping it might eventually wear down the animated furniture.
Pai and Peri, it seems I might have made an error regarding your acid and magic missile spells. I can't find developer confirmation, but I think they should not be damaging the chair. Technically I think magic missiles are not energy damage, but rather pure magic "force", and acid used to bypass hardness in 3.5 (now all "energy" is lumped together and left very vague regarding what types of objects might be susceptible to what types of energy. Both now seem to fall into a grey area in regards to objects, animated objects, certain constructs, and hardness. Most seem to believe differently then I do, so I'll defer to democracy. I'm not going to remove first couple damages, but in character - Peri you should realize magic missiles are not being effective. Pai - your acid seems to be doing about half normal. Feel free to change your round 3 and 4 actions.
Hardness
Each object has hardness—a number that represents how well it resists damage. When an object is damaged, subtract its hardness from the damage. Only damage in excess of its hardness is deducted from the object's hit points. I can only assume this is what we are dealing with
Energy Attacks
Energy attacks deal half damage to most objects. Divide the damage by 2 before applying the object's hardness. Some energy types might be particularly effective against certain objects, subject to GM discretion. For example, fire might do full damage against parchment, cloth, and other objects that burn easily. Sonic might do full damage against glass and crystal objects.
Not applicable in this situation but good to know anyhow Damage Reduction:
Some magic creatures have the supernatural ability to instantly heal damage from weapons or ignore blows altogether as though they were invulnerable.
The numerical part of a creature's damage reduction (or DR) is the amount of damage the creature ignores from normal attacks. Usually, a certain type of weapon can overcome this reduction (see Overcoming DR). This information is separated from the damage reduction number by a slash. For example, DR 5/magic means that a creature takes 5 less points of damage from all weapons that are not magic. If a dash follows the slash, then the damage reduction is effective against any attack that does not ignore damage reduction.
Whenever damage reduction completely negates the damage from an attack, it also negates most special effects that accompany the attack, such as injury poison, a monk's stunning, and injury-based disease. Damage Reduction does not negate touch attacks, energy damage dealt along with an attack, or energy drains. Nor does it affect poisons or diseases delivered by inhalation, ingestion, or contact.
Attacks that deal no damage because of the target's damage reduction do not disrupt spells.
Spells, spell-like abilities, and energy attacks (even non-magical fire) ignore damage reduction.
Sometimes damage reduction represents instant healing. Sometimes it represents the creature's tough hide or body. In either case, other characters can see that conventional attacks won't work.
If a creature has damage reduction from more than one source, the two forms of damage reduction do not stack. Instead, the creature gets the benefit of the best damage reduction in a given situation. [/ooc]
My question is: Is an animated chair still an object or does it become a construct? Magic missles can not attack objects but can attack constructs uhhh.
I have four rounds of actions which rounds should I re do if any?
Illusionist Wizard 11; AC 14, 18 with Mage Armor; HP 21/81 (+ 0 temp HP); F+12, R +11, W+13; Init+7, Perception +12 +1 on saves vs, Transmutations | +2 on saves vs. Illusions
The acid splash is all Pai has that can do any damage to it, so even at half, I've got no choice in the matter.
I read all of those, plus researched through the forums. The chair has Hardness, not DR.
Peri, only two rounds of actions. OOC - I'm giving you two successful magic missile damages for my error (You wouldn't have known the chair was resistant until after the first one anyway, and I'm going to give you two damages for my mistake. IC - Just assume it took two tries to notice the chair's hardness.)
I haven't ever had to deal with an animated objects (which act as constructs for the purposes of magic missile, meaning they can be targeted) or hardness (which animated objects have while other constructs usually have DR) in the new rules. I have to say I don't like how they are handled now.
Knowing she is of no help vs. demonic furniture peri will get out her wand of Cure Light and attempt to heal any who need it in the prior rounds.
Round Three: Peri switches wands (Magic missle in right hand CLW in left), and walks to square I12
Round Four: Peri will use UMD to heal Farmer Dwarf Barlor I don't believe wands provoke
UMD Wand of Cure Light 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16
If a success 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Keeping her composure the beautiful Enchantress jests
"Hmmph I suppose a change of tactics is required"
