GM SpiderBeard's Second Darkness (DrEvil Group) (Inactive)

Game Master Barvo Delancy

I think Trig was saying you might need to bot her...

Brenna is overcome by the stinking cloud...

I thought you posted earlier the DC was 13, which I made on both saves. Did it change?

Whoops! I did miss that Brenna. Had a crazy week and updating between crises. You can reposition yourself and continue attacking if you so wish.

Without a target, Trig holds her action as she eyes the south door to ensure nobody else joins the fight.

Brenna still has an action and can act normally.

Oh, I still plan to get out of the room via withdraw, unless someone else recklessly charges in. I think the plan right now is to draw them out of the cloud.

The group pulls out of the cloud, which conveniently vanishes as the dretches act. For a moment, they all get a good look at you (except the ones in the pit). One dretch utters a nasty-sounding word, and a second stinking cloud appears overtop of all of you! The last thing you see clearly is the dretches charging in.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12 Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12 Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

The dretches, however miss badly.

Everyone must make a DC 13 fort save or be nauseated! And eveyrone is up!

Fort Save, poison: 1d20 + 6 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 6 + 4 = 22 Lyr ignored the cloud and focused. He ran into the chamber, scrambling past his allies and enemies.

I don't think they can see while they are in the cloud, so they shouldn't be able to take AoOs. If I'm wrong I'll suffer the consequences.

Once in the room where he could see, he noticed the pit. Acting quickly he tossed a flask down the hole.

Holy Water, touch attack, inspired, point blank: 1d20 + 7 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 7 + 2 + 1 = 18
Damage, inspired, point blank: 2d4 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (4, 2) + 2 + 1 = 9
1 point of Splash damage, DC 15 reflex save negates

Fort save: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

Brenna crinkles her nose at the sudden stench and takes a pair of powerful swings at the dretches that advanced on the team.

Power attack, swinging on blue. Includes the +2 attack & damage from Zoso's bardic inspiration.

Battleaxe 1: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24
Battleaxe 2: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19

Battleaxe damage 1: 1d8 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19
Battleaxe damage 2: 1d8 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12

Not sure if they still have concealment within 5'; rolling miss chances just in case.

Miss chance 1 (low=miss): 1d100 ⇒ 92
Miss chance 2 (low=miss): 1d100 ⇒ 99

No misses from miss chance anyway.

Fort Save!: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Zoso finishes his summoning, bringing forth a small air elemental just to his side.

Much relieved he was able to shake off the effect and finish his spell, he continues to singing as the gas filled his lungs and commands the elemental to immediately spin into it's whirlwind ability, hoping it will clear the air.
Seems intuitive but I actually can't fine anything concrete on this.

"Oh, to sail away
To sandy lands and other days
Oh, to touch the dream
Hides inside and never seen."

With the cleared vision? Targeting grey.
Zoso lastly lets loose a long awaited arrow.
Point Blank: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 9 + 1 = 14 Damage: 1d8 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 4 + 1 = 7

Fort Save: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9 Still coughing and gagging Saphren retreats further outside.

You can't actually see your target, so 50% miss chance for Lyr.

The group brace for impact as the dretches rush in. Sarkast is completely overcome by the stinking cloud and rushes outside to recover.

Lyr lobs a flask of holy water high, and it crashes down into the pit. There's a statisfying shriek of pain as it connects. The dretches in the pit try to scrabble their way out, but fail.

Brenna stands fast and swings out brutally with her axe. The blue dretch is cut down and dies screaming in pain. Zoso's arrow flies true into his target, although only partially damages it thanks to its resistance.

Trig resists the stinking cloud, and tries a quick tremor on the white dretch. The creature shrieks as it hits the ground.

The dretches counterattack, with one shrieking as it leaps upon Brenna to no avail. The one Trig knocked down tries to stand back up, but a quick swipe from Brenna ends its life.

Everyone is up and everyone in the cloud needs their DC 13 fort save to resist the nausea. I rolled a successful AoO for Brenna so two more dretch down. Three left. Saphren is nauseated for an unfortunate 5 rounds.

zzzz! Someone PM me when I can do more than take a move action. <-- Joke. One dretch can be hassle. I suspect this is gonna be a long fight. 2 stinking clouds cast. 4 to go.

I exchanged all my arrows for cold iron, in Riddleport before we left I believe, if that is the DR I'm working against. I'm assuming the air elemental can't blow the gas out the open doors?

Full damage then, Zoso! Moot point since it's dead anyways.

Everyone still has actions this round. The stinking cloud is gone in the northern room.

Fort save: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

Still resisting the cloud, Brenna hacks away - perhaps a bit happily - at the ochre-colored demon.

Power attack again.

Battleaxe 1: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32
Confirm crit: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28
Battleaxe 2: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

Damage 1 (crit): 3d8 + 33 ⇒ (4, 1, 5) + 33 = 43
Damage 2: 1d8 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16

After splattering her current assailant, she steps (5') into the doorway to prepare to attack the next one.

Well not everyone... Gag gag, hack hack

Fort: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17

Holding her breath, Trig moves out of the door and turns back to send another ripple of earth at the dretch.

trip: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24

Zoso Fort: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Elemental Fort: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

Zoso falls sick to the nausea and tries to flee the room.

The air elemental attacks the yellow dretch along side Brenna.
Attack, slam: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Sorry guys, update will be tomorrow, thanks!

Lyr tossed another vial down the pit.

Touch Attack, inspired, point blank: 1d20 + 7 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 7 + 2 + 1 = 29
Damage, inspired, point blank: 2d5 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (3, 2) + 2 + 1 = 8

Zoso, I'd rule that the air elemental's whirlwind can suck up the stinking cloud, but you have to use that ability.

Brenna completely destroys the dretch in front of her, slashing it to pieces with several easy strokes. The two remaining dretches in the pit squeal, and then there is a horrific shriek as Lyr's holy water dissolves the head of one of them. Only one dretch remains. It scrabbles uselessly at the pit walls.

The stinking cloud vanishes as it dissipates.

Zoso's Nausea: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

I'm pushing to the next round since the combat conditions changed so much. Everyone is up!

Gag, gag, hack, hack

I both love and hate Stinking Cloud. :)

Brenna shouts out, "You got the last one, Lyr? I'd rather not jump down there if I don't have to."

Elementals are immune to stinking cloud anyway, since it's a poison effect, I think.

-Posted with Wayfinder

Lyr nodded and notched an arrow, firing into the pit.

Bow, inspired, point blank: 1d20 + 7 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 7 + 2 + 1 = 25
Cold Iron, inspired, point blank: 1d8 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 9

Lyr's arrow lodges in the dretch's brain, and it collapses in the pit.

With a bwoop the dretch corpses pop out of the ground as the pit closes.

End of Combat

Saphren is nauseated for a couple more rounds. He tries to stay out of the way with his back to a wall. Finally, once he is himself again he will enter the room to help search it.

Lyr waited until the pit un-conjured and retrieved his arrows. He cleaned them and put them back into his quiver.

Lyr's specialty arrows are Durable. They don't break under normal use.

"Well, that was stinky," jibes Brenna. "Where to next?"

A door beckons southwards. As the stinking clouds fade, you hear the sounds of movement and conversation from behind the door before it falls silent. It seems your fight with the dretch was noticed, although reinforcements never came through that south door.

Zoso rests on his knees as he recuperates outside. Once he's not feeling like he'll vomit, Zoso will assist in searching the newly cleared areas.

"Lyr, you'll have to teach me what you can about firing blind. I have my arrows seperated by a partition but not by feel like this." Zoso says as he hands the other once of his arrows. "That's pretty clever."

"It is mostly about planning." Lyr said in his gravely rasp. "The Drow language is sophisticated. They have a complex hand sign which allows them to communicate silently. They also have an alphabet of bumps and dents, which allows them to write in words that can only be read by feel."

"I just tied my knots to make those letters." He ran his fingers along the small knots along the fletching threads of the arrow Zoso handed back to him. "This one says 'Iron.'"

Let me know what you'd like to do next. There's a door to the south and presumably someone behind it who heard the fight.

"If I were in that room, I'd be concentrating all of my attacks at that door, ready to destroy whoever opens it," Brenna says, bouncing her axe by its haft in her hand. "So... maybe we should see if there's another way?"

"Maybe we could try something else," Trig suggests. Is the floor stone? Maybe elementals could go under the door and pop up behind whoever is waiting.

Saphren will check the south doors for traps and have a listen as well.

Perception, Traps: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (5) + 20 = 25 Also he has trapspotter so please roll for him as well.

Perception, Listen: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (19) + 15 = 34

I like it Trig. Send them in first, give them a moment or two and then open the doors.

Saphren listens intently and although the conversation has ceased, he hears the sounds of a few people trying very, very hard to be quiet. The door is not trapped.

Trig checks the floor and the foundation is indeed stone.

Is the door locked?

No.

"Maybe someone can magic the door open from a distance? Or we could go around back and I could do a little stonework, hew through the wall. That might take some time though."

Apologies for the lag there.

"Hmm, I'm not against checking for a second way in but the summoning surprise sounds like a good option to me too."

Okay, planning done. You're summoning the elemental. Trig, lemme know how you're doing or if the command is "go under the door and attack everything ins ight" With no response I will assume that is the case.

I can help with that too. Lyr summons at the same time Trig does.

Command is "move benath the floor to the other side of the chamber, surface to attack and block the exits when we enter the chamber.

Last clarification. What kind of elementals? Summon monster 2 spells?

Saphren stands besides the door waiting for the casters to complete their summons and give the word to go.

Okay, earth elementals, Trig only has Summnon Monster 3 so we go with that and she gets 1d3.

Elementals: 1d3 ⇒ 3

Lyr and Trig summon four elementals between the two of them. With instructions to attack the creatures on the other side of the door, the elementals seep in and charge. There's the sound of chaos, and the door is booted open by Brenna! You see four elementals at work, with two of them having pummeled an unsuspecting drow into paste.

Earth: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14 Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
Earth: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17 Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Earth: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27 Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
Earth: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22 Damage: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Two drow remain in the room, and they quickly attack an earth elemental, almost destroying it.

attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19 Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26 Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Lyr controls yellow elemental. TRig controls the remaining three, which have her augment summoning buff. Everyone is finally up!

Saphren dances lightly into the room moving into a flank with an elemental and attacks power attacking.

+1 Cold Iron Falchion: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 10 + 2 = 182d4 + 12 + 3d6 ⇒ (3, 3) + 12 + (1, 5, 5) = 29 If he hits he delivers a debilitating Injury: Disoriented -2/-4 against Saphren (Ex) Foe who takes sneak attack damage takes attack pen (more vs. striker) for 1 rd.

Brenna rushes in hot on Saphren's heels and veers to one side to corner in on the drow.

Adamantine battleaxe +1 power attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19
Damage: 1d8 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

Lyr also has Augment Summoning, but I just realized I made a mistake. Lyr can't summon Elementals. They aren't on the list of Erastil's summon options. Sorry for the mix up.

Sorry! I thought I had posted here, must have forgotten to hit send.

The elementals focus their attack on a single foe, and move to flank it between them.

red elemental, power attack, earth mastery: 1d20 + 8 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 8 - 1 + 1 = 14
damage: 1d6 + 7 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 7 + 3 + 1 = 13

green elemental, power attack, earth mastery: 1d20 + 8 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 8 - 1 + 1 = 28
damage: 1d6 + 7 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 7 + 3 + 1 = 12

red elemental, power attack, earth mastery, flanking: 1d20 + 8 - 1 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 8 - 1 + 1 + 2 = 20
damage: 1d6 + 7 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 7 + 3 + 1 = 14

green elemental confirmation: 1d20 + 8 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 8 - 1 + 1 = 26
additional crit damage: 1d6 + 7 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 7 + 3 + 1 = 17

Trig sends a ripple of earth at the drow fighting Brenna and Saphren (if it's still alive, otherwise targeting the one fighting the elementals).

trip: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14

Removed yellow elemental. Drow is still dead.

Saphren and Brenna move in on the drow in the lead. Saphren barely misses while Brenna cuts him brutally. Trig's elementals then get to work, and simply pummel the drow in the rear into non-existence. The remaining drow captain suddenly looks very, very worried. His expression changes to one of determination.

Zoso and Lyr are up! I've moved Zoso to a better starting position.