GM Pox's "The Mummy's Mask" (Inactive)

Game Master WerePox47

You guys arrive at the destination you see..

A thundering, hissing roar echoes along the trench here, as if from a cascade of water tumbling over a cliff. Yet this cascade is no normal waterfall—it is a wall of falling sand churning over the edge and dropping down into the trench below, turning the trench wall into a constantly churning wall of grit and dust. There is no apparent source of the sand above and no evidence of sand accumulating.

Tef-Naju explain the entrance was behind this waterfall of sand..

New map..

"Well, you don't see that every day."

"We probably should look for traps."

perception: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (1) + 18 = 19

Khufu says as he watches a kangaroo rat hop off into the distance ...

Hemket gives it a looksee for traps (though he suspects the whole damned thing is one).

perception: 1d20 + 29 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 29 + 6 = 36

nearly as captivated by the kangaroo rat, but saved by a lack of critical failures on skill checks.

Khufu spies a rat.. And that its hot as hell out here..

Hemket also notices the rat, but no traps to speak of..

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Khufukhaf looks to Hemket and says "I'll check it out, if something attacks me, try shooting it."

Then the monolith walks up to the wall of shifting sand and sticks his hand into it.

Khufu sticks his hand into the sand and it stings and pushes his hand downwards with incredibe force.. You are thinking it would take consdierable effort to move thorugh it without being knocked down..

Additionally, before Khufu can explain his thoughts a very large fist comes slamming down on him through the sand.. It is gone before any response can be had.. Perc check from eveyone..

Attack: 1d20 ⇒ 16 hit
Dam: 4d6 + 21 ⇒ (4, 2, 2, 4) + 21 = 33

Init Order:
Hemket
Monster
Rest of Party

"Round 1"

Hemket is up.. Currently you see nothing to attack with the waterfall of sand..

Hemket will hold his action till he sees something to engage.

Perc checks..

Hemket holds his action and before anyone else can act two fists come slamming down at Khufu from the sand.. Anyone that speaks Terran can hear something audible from through the sand.. Something to the effect of mighty earth mother grant me your epic power..

Attacks: 2d20 ⇒ (15, 11) = 26 both hit..
Dam: 8d6 + 66 ⇒ (4, 2, 4, 6, 4, 6, 6, 3) + 66 = 101 plus you need a Fort save DC 32 or be stunned for Rounds: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Party is up.. Besides the brief glimpse when it attacked you see nothing but a waterfall of sand..

perception: 1d20 + 29 ⇒ (5) + 29 = 34 Is that good enough to figure out the square(s)?

You saw it clearly when it attacked.. It looks very similiar to the rock guy statue you guys found in the chest, except its huge in size..

Know Planes for anyone over 20 perception..

You have the squares yes, but when you fire your arrows are deflected by the sand, not making it through.. Book gives it stats of Hurricane Force winds to move or shoot through it..

Had a feeling that would be the case, but I would still find out for myself. Guess I'm done for this round.

Perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23

Planes: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (16) + 17 = 33

Ama hits Khuf with a Heal

As an immediate, Khufu spends a Mythic Point on Absorb Blow, stopping 20 points and upping his DR to 3 and granting 5 energy resistance vs Acid against the surprise round. (down 10)

Then the same thing during the first round, upping his DR to 4 and energy resistance to 10 vs acid. (down 77 more) (Currently at 81 of 168)

Fort Save: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (19) + 21 = 40

"Ouch....."

move action to back up and wait for someone to heal me.

"Our enemy speaks Terran and is most likely a being of earth. The cascade of sand will shield it. After I stop bleeding, I would be interested to see what would happen it the sand was partially diverted by means of a magically conjured wall. "

Amarantha knows this is a elder earth elemental, although its something more.. Mythic probably. A 33 gets you 1 question..

Khufu you can't use immediate actions while flat-footed. It's just now your turn so moving forward you can do that. You are not stunned however.. So 134 damage minus normal DR..

Withdrawing will provoke as he has reach..

Attack: 1d20 ⇒ 11 hit..
Dam: 4d6 + 33 ⇒ (5, 4, 5, 5) + 33 = 52

Hmm..With all these beatsticks, I'll go with any special defenses

So Khufu burns one mythic point to block 20 for a total of 20 + 7 DR blocked. (159 total damage)

Currently at 9hp.

Elemental Immunities, DR 10/-..

Khufu staggers away from the onslaught..

Everyone but Khufu and Hemket can go..

You still have a standard action if you wanna quaff a potion or something else Khufu..

Is there anything putting us on a clock for how fast we have to clear these areas and accomplish quests?

Sort of, but not really.. You have several days to work with.

Ama will delay until mr sandman makes his apperance

Hadjii's Perception check: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (8) + 27 = 35

air-Hadjii will dip down to 70' altitude for a look, and use a Mythic Point to cast <Wall of Stone>: per the description, the wall can be used in pretty flexible ways -- the wall "can be used to bridge a chasm, for instance, or as a ramp". In this case, Hadjii is attempting to create an arch of stone to block the falling sand. Imagine the first 10-foot section of this <image of the archway leading into Cheyenne Mountain>...

...the intent is sand waterfall will be routed to the sides, and the elemental will be framed for a clear shot by Hemket.

Seeing Hadjii's plan, Arduino follows with his own wall to deflect the sand.

Wall of Stone similarly.

Working together Hadjii and Ard spring a pair of stone arches making a tunnel through the sandfall. Combining the spells the arch is 20' wide and completely blocks the sand, providing line of sight to the huge elemental..

Amarantha's delayed action can go off now..

Then Hemket is up for round 2..

Hemket with study the elemental as a swift action, activate his boots of speed as a free, and start shooting.

deadly aim, rapid for 2 extra, clustered shot, studied target, haste
to hit: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (13) + 25 = 38 damage: 2d8 + 46 ⇒ (5, 7) + 46 = 58
to hit: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (13) + 25 = 38 damage: 2d8 + 46 ⇒ (2, 2) + 46 = 50
to hit: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (10) + 25 = 35 damage: 1d8 + 23 ⇒ (8) + 23 = 31
to hit: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (6) + 25 = 31 damage: 1d8 + 23 ⇒ (2) + 23 = 25
to hit: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (6) + 25 = 31 damage: 1d8 + 23 ⇒ (3) + 23 = 26
to hit: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (1) + 25 = 26 damage: 1d8 + 23 ⇒ (2) + 23 = 25 miss

Ama will heal someone if that thing survived that onslaught

Khufu is at 9 hp if you want something to heal..

Hemket hits 3 times for good damage, however it still has plenty of rock left..

E -129

I'll assume Amarantha casts a heal spell on Khufu putting him to 139 hps..

On his turn the elemental huffs and puffs and charges into a trampling run.. He charges through Khufu, Hemket's and Hadjii's square..

Overrun: 1d20 ⇒ 15 beats all yalls cmds..
You each take.. Trample: 4d6 + 21 ⇒ (3, 6, 4, 2) + 21 = 36 you are each knocked prone and one of you provokes an Aoo via Greater Overrun.. He smashes at the archer that just damaged him heavily..

Attack Hemket: 1d20 ⇒ 4 hit
Dam: 4d6 + 21 ⇒ (1, 4, 4, 4) + 21 = 34 You see him expend some mythic power into the attack as well.. Hemket make a fort save DC 32 or be turned to stone..

Party is up!

fort save: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (15) + 14 = 29

surge: 1d8 ⇒ 2

stoned

I think this works because he's moving from the square in front of me that I threaten, into the square I occupy...

As the elemental charges into Khufu's square in his overrun attack, Khufu burns an immediate action to burn one point of mythic power and use Cage Enemy to stop its overrun.

Flail AoO: 1d20 + 19 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 19 + 4 = 36 (power attack, combat expertise/stalwart, ever ready)

damage: 1d10 + 29 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 29 + 4 = 43

Ill look into it more in the morning on if that works.. The first square of movement that he threatens would be the square that he tramples over yall.. I suppose you could keep him standing on top of yall lol.. Again I look at it more in the morn.

the movement from the square in front of me into my square provokes under Cage Enemy, so I think he never leaves that square and stops right in front of me.

Everyone, might be worth noting that in the overrun description it talks about how you can choose to dodge out of the way of the elemental. Might be worth looking into.

Not wanting to become visible in front of a 40' tall piece of rock, Ama casts Blessing of Fervor

on Friday at 11:06pm,

air-Hadjii will dip down to 70' altitude for a look....

note that Hadjii was 70' up -- I believe he was probably not hit by the elementals's charge...

for his next trick, Hadjii will conjure an earth elemental of his own, using the last charge of his Rod o' Quicken Spell to cast his prepared Summon Nature's Ally VII as a swift action!

for his standard action, Hadhii will spend a Mythic Point to cast <Sunbeam>, directing a bolt only at the enemy elemental: DC 28 DX save from the bad-guy Elemental, please...

4d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 1, 5) = 10 damage -- half if saving throw is successful
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the Greater Earth elemental tries to punch the gargantuan one in the nuts a couple times (taking +2 from BoF):

augmented Greater earth elemental's slam attack: 1d20 + 23 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 23 + 2 = 32
slam damage: 2d10 + 12 ⇒ (4, 3) + 12 = 19

augmented Greater earth elemental's 2nd slam attack: 1d20 + 23 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 23 + 2 = 28
slam damage: 2d10 + 12 ⇒ (10, 1) + 12 = 23

thanks to my phenomenal dice rolls, the new elemental basically just stands there flagellating pathetically...

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Hadjii will also drop 10' (to 60' altitude), and prepare to cast <Instant Restoration> on his summond creature as an immediate action, if needed...

forgot about earth elemental's <'Earth Mastery'>: does a 33 AC hit evil elemental? if so, 20 damage instead of 19...

With some sort of titanic effort Khufu is able to stop the charging elemental before he can overrun half the party memebers.. He does so by smacking it across the shin. Amarantha casts a buff spell, and Hadjii summons in reinforecements..

One of the elementals hits its target.. Only 10 damage though.

E -172

Ard is still up.

"Not so fast..." Khufu chides the elemental in Terran.

are we in our turn now?

Sorry.. Yes Khufu, you and Ard are still up..

Khufu bangs away at the great elemental's already dinged up shin.

"Don't turn .... my ... friend ... to stone!"

Use 1 MP to cancel out Power Attack penalties for the combat and Blessing of Fervor for another attack

blessing attack: 1d20 + 19 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 19 + 3 = 24 (power attack, combat expertise/stalwart -> Current DR at 13)
attack #1: 1d20 + 19 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 19 + 3 = 29
attack #2: 1d20 + 14 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 14 + 3 = 35
attack #3: 1d20 + 9 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 9 + 3 = 16

Confirm #2: 1d20 + 14 + 3 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 14 + 3 + 4 = 25 + Surge 1d8 ⇒ 5 = 30

damage blessing: 1d10 + 29 ⇒ (6) + 29 = 35
damage #1: 1d10 + 29 ⇒ (6) + 29 = 35
damage #2: 1d10 + 29 ⇒ (5) + 29 = 34
damage #3: 1d10 + 29 ⇒ (4) + 29 = 33

crit damage for #2: 1d10 + 43 ⇒ (4) + 43 = 47

Only 1 hit.. Elemental's are immune to crits as well.

E -196

Ard is up!

Ard casts Haste on the group and uses a mythic point to casts enervation on the thing..

RTA: 1d20 ⇒ 13 hit.
Neg lv: 1d4 ⇒ 3

E -211(3 neg levels)

The elemental focuses on Khufu again..

Attacks: 2d20 ⇒ (15, 16) = 31 2 hits..
Dam: 8d6 + 66 ⇒ (1, 1, 6, 1, 6, 4, 2, 5) + 66 = 92 plus DC 34 or be stunned to Rounds: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Group is up!

dropping another 10' (so he is 50' above ground), air-Hadjii hits the thing with a <SUNBEAM>
-- REFLEX save, DC 28, or be BLINDED.

it also takes 4d6 ⇒ (4, 1, 1, 3) = 9 points of damage, halved on a successful saving throw.

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hasted summoned greater earth elemental continues his effort to beat on the bigger one (BoF for +2):

augmented greater earth elemental's 1st slam attack: 1d20 + 23 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 23 + 2 + 1 = 33
slam damage: 2d10 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (7, 1) + 12 + 1 = 21

augmented greater earth elemental's 2nd slam attack: 1d20 + 23 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 23 + 2 + 1 = 33
slam damage: 2d10 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (7, 8) + 12 + 1 = 28

augmented greater earth elemental's Haste attack: 1d20 + 23 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 23 + 2 + 1 = 42
slam damage: 2d10 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (7, 1) + 12 + 1 = 21

Heh. GM, did you forget my better half?

Kin descends.
1d20 + 20 ⇒ (5) + 20 = 25 1d8 + 18 ⇒ (6) + 18 = 24

Immediate to block 20 and up DR to 14

Takes 92 - 20 - 14 - 14 = 44

Fort Save: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (7) + 21 = 28

Stunned.

Thought you still had her in your pocket..

Ken comes dive bombing in to attack, but misses..

Forgot about the sunben Hadjii and the blindness..

Reflex on 1st beam: 1d20 ⇒ 11 fail, blinded.. With tremorsense though he doesn't have a miss chance.. His AC is lowered though.

Reflex: 1d20 ⇒ 13 fail

Hadjii's elemental pounds him 3 times.. He remains intact although is whooped up on pretty good.

-270(3 neg)

Amarantha, Ard, and Kin are up still in the round.

Ama casts Debilitating Portent(Will 27) on the big boy

Communal Airwalk next round will leave it truly blind...

Kin attacks..

6d20 ⇒ (16, 12, 5, 15, 3, 14) = 65 4 hits..
Dam: 2d8 + 36 + 1d6 + 18 + 1d6 + 10 ⇒ (8, 3) + 36 + (1) + 18 + (1) + 10 = 77 -40 DR, 37 damage.

-307.. He is cracked heavily.

Ard trie another enervation.

RTA: 1d20 ⇒ 2 but misses..

The elemental roars in furry and attacks Ard as he is the only non-stunned person in range..

Attacks: 2d20 ⇒ (5, 10) = 15 hits..
Dam: 8d6 + 66 ⇒ (1, 1, 4, 5, 1, 4, 5, 2) + 66 = 89 plus save vs flesh to stone.. Bird takes 44.

Save: 1d20 ⇒ 13 you all see Ard turn to stone as well..

Group is up!