oh. Well Hadjii will simply target the enemy caster, and remove the top 4 spells on that individual.
OK, if he's exposed, I'll target him.
rapid for 3, deadly aim, megabless, haste.
Arduino blinks as some of his wits come back to him. "Wh... what happened? Something about... brooks?"
He waves his way through two spells.
Hadjii dispels the leaders top 4 spells.. The only visible effect is that he shrinks in size..
The charging elemental pops an image leaving 2..
2 hits
takes 8
The other elemental has 2 potential hits..
hit!
pop, 1 mage left..
Jack hits twice and trips his maftet!
Hemket opens fire and unlike before his arrows do work this time.. Every shot hits, but the leader still stands.. He screams in rage however..
M1 -83
M5 -48
M6 -100 somthing
Leader -216(1 images)
Logos is still up!
Logos stubbornly keeps attacking!
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Two hits kill the flanked one.. His other 2 finish off the one on the paladin..
Init Order:
Leader
Group minus Kin
Maftets
Kin
The remaining Maftet attacks the wolf from prone..
Jask is potentially crit 4 times and hit another..
3 of which confirm..
Kin is up!
Jack has Stoneskin up -- stops 50, so he's down 28 (& 18 bleed when his turn comes around)...
Kin tears her way through one of the Maftets.
Kin finishes off the last Maftet..
All alone the LEader roars in fury and flying charges Hemket.. Elementals will get an AoO each.. Raptor dive for a full attack!
vs AC 25 5 hits, 1 pot crits..
confirms..
5 hits drops Hemket, the rest are turned on Ard.
yes..
Ard takes 96 and needs to make two DC 27 Fort or be Staggered for , 4 rounds, if save just 1 round.
Group is up!
Ow.
Logos Roars and swipes at the Maftet as it goes past!
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The blow sends Arduino's head ringing, but through his magics the damage is evenly split between him and Kin, badly scratching both of them.
Head still ringing, Arduino tries to tell a joke. "Ever heard the one about the giant bloody screaming eagle..."
He gestures Kin forwards.
...
...
eager to stop Jack's bleeding, The Hadj will step back 5' and use a Mythic Point to cast MASS Cure Light Wounds -- targeting everybody in the party that is injured:
then he waves his hands with his thimbs in his ears and sticks his tongue out at the evil chump from just over 5' away: "neener-neener-neeeener!"
Jack uses SPRING ATTACK to step in, snap at the creep, and step back:
...
the two air elementals use FLYBY ATTACK to check for hits (provoking AoOs as they cruise in) -- they strike from the square Hadjii just vacated, for flank with Marius:
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then they take up station in the middle of the room, ready for another swoop next turn...
Hemket wakes up. He wisely chooses to play dead for the moment.
ooops: I forgot Hadjii was in wolf form -- so no hands by the ears during the "neener-neener-neener"...
instead, Hadjii-wolf wags his tail excitedly whilst he calls out "neener-neener-neener"!
The last image is poped by the AoO from the elemental..
Logos also gets in a good hit as the Maftet flies by him to attack Hemket and Ard..
Logos is still up..
Marius double channels..
The paladin sinks through the floor and reappears next to the Leader.. Smite Evil as a swift and attacks.
yes
Leader -311
Amazingly the Maftet still stands.. Knees trembling..
Hemket remains playing dead, as it is fairly hard to keep track of combat with your eyes closed.
Logos moves after the leader and attacks!
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Between the elementals, Logos, and Kin the mighty Maftet CLeric falls..
Combat over!
+5 Mithril Breastplate
+3 Cloak of Resistance
+3 Scimitar x2
+2 Belt of Physical Perfection
+4 Headband of Wisdom
Mwk Scimitar x12
Yall also find another tile piece to the puzzle room.. You have all 3 now..
With her mortal enemies slain the paladin bids you all farewell before moving on into the afterlife..
From the floor Hemket asks "Is it safe now?"
Arduino waves a little sadly at the paladin. "She was nice."
Arduino pulls out a wand and taps everyone back to full health.
as the paladin departs:
"It has truly been an honor to serve with you, Lady Sophronia! A peaceful rest is well deserved...we will tell the tale of your valor!"
Hadjii-wolf licks Hemket's face:
"That Maftet clearly did not like your arrows, once they got through! I would not like them either..."
to Arduino:
"Thank you for healing poor Jack, sir -- and the rest of us! I must say, your bird is remarkably dangerous to our foes. Can you ride her? I have spent many lonely hours in the skies above the desert: it might be nice to have some sharp-eyed company on my long flights..."
"Yes I did seem to rile them a bit. "
The Sphinx is cleared, pretty much, but you do have the peices to open the secret room if yall wish..
"Might as well check out the secret room if we went to the trouble of getting all these pieces. "
"Time to see what all this was for..."
Arduino makes a polite gesture for someone tough to go open the door; Kin takes a defensive position.
Ok with the 3 pieces of the puzzle you guys are able to open the secret treasure chamber.. There is a guardian that yall stomp in a matter of seconds and a pile of loot..
Having cleared the temple the group returns to the Maftets to deliever the good news.. They seem happy and set off to reclaim their home. The thriae are eternally grateful for the return of the queen egg and fullfill their bargain by handing over the tribes most powerful item..
It a staff made from a dark wood and has arcane and divine sigils carved throughout its length.. It has a large egg chapped piece of amber setting atop it..
A powerful staff that has the following spells and abilities.
Caster Level 13th. Has 15 charges instead of 10. Any arcane casters and druids may use the item without UMD.
Burning Arc, heightened to 5th(1 charge)
Cloak of Winds, extended(1 charge)
Obsidian Flow, heightened to 5th level(2 charges)
Geniekind, extended(2 charges)
Sirocco, widended(3 charges)
In addition while in desert terrain you produce a 20' radius aura provides you and your allies constant endure elements as well as provididng trackless step.
Arduino greets the grateful thirae and maftets with equanimity. "Nice to see some good being done... though having arrived late, I'll be accursed if I know WHAT good we've done."
Surrounded by those with martial leanings, he takes the staff with a bow, grasping it eagerly and studying the amber crowning it. He makes a few steps in the sand and watches as the staff smooths it away.
"...father, help me, I do believe I'm going native."
Logos snorts. "What's wrong with going Native? You got something against us natives?" He asks, one fist going to the side of his head as he pushes hard, and cracking sounds come from his neck. He repeats the exercise, from the other side. "Maybe you see the natives as barbarians with no idea of civilization?" He begins popping the knuckles in his hands.
Kin snaps her beak at Logos as Arduino lets out his own snort. "Something against natives? My ancestors were stubbornly rolling about in river-mud singing about dryads and will-o-wisps while yours were running fruit-and-vegetable stalls in the market quarter of some metropolis. No, instead, I call forth the difference between the forest-native of my family and the desert-native that I do appear to be becoming."" With the top of his staff he idly scratches his brow beneath his cloth kheffiyeh.
the neutral Hadjii-wolf chuckles at the pair's antics (a wolf chuckling seems rather unseemly, but the wolfish grin clearly shows amusement):
"It appears we have The Odd Couple in our group! Logos' ready abandonment of civility in battle juxtaposes with Arduino's persistent dapper and suave style -- I believe you will learn much from working together..."
A look of gravity can then be seen on the canine features:
"What is our next move? The cult appears to be moving forward unabated -- despite our interference..."
Logos stretches. "Fall back to town, regroup, get rid of junk..." He elbows his backpack, which is stuffed to the seams with junk, the straps straining to hold up all the junk he's carrying for the group. "Then after a bath, we figure out where to go next. I'd hoped they would have been stupid enough to leave some letters around talking about where they were working, or one of them would have wanted to live long enough to spill their guts, but they all just wanted to spill their guts without talking." He shakes his arms, splattering blood on the floor. "Speaking of which, we need a wand of prestidigitation while we are in town.. maybe two or three."
"Well we can't expect them to leave us a guidebook. I imagine we have to do some research or such. Either that or wait for something to pop. "
"My Create Water cantrip can serve as a sort of poor man's prestigitation for the purposes of cleaning up -- similar to it's use as a poor man's Endure Elements in the heat of the day. But you I would only douse upon request: do you desire a cool rinse after that blood-soaked episode?"
"Better than smelling like a rotting corpse and attracting predators. Or scaring people when we port back to town, rather not have to explain being coated in blood and gore to the town guards."
"But I thought you liked being covered in blood and entrails. "
"No, it just seems to happen when people are stupid around me." He states, letting the created water sluice over him getting rid of the worst of it. He shakes his shaggy head and beard, splattering Hemket with bloody red water.
"Blaugh! That's just gross. "
"A free rinse for everybody that wants one!"
between cantrips, Hadjii will sniff at the egg-shaped amber nodule atop Arduino's new toy:
"A staff of egging the badguys' house?! A truly unique item, Ard..."