Hecktor downs a potion of protection from evil, to save the casters a spell slot...unless they could cast a way stronger one.
Jaxom will also cast protection from evil on himself again.
Shortly before the party goes in Silas remarks, "This is it! We're gonna need an army to beat this guy." Suddenly there are multiple Silas's!
"Good, but I need to be stronger for this. You know Gilmork, those tusks are just what I need! OINK RAAR!" His muscles suddenly bunch up and his skin turns a slickly shade of green and the muscles keep growing, and growing, and growing. Threatening to rip his clothes, just when it looks like they will, the growth stops. The now very orkisk looking Silas breathes a sigh of relief (thank the gods, no wardrobe malfunction!), and uh belches. A few moments later there's a sheepish, "Sorry!"
Just before everyone goes in Silas uses his wand of bless weapon and downs a potion of Divine Favor and will cast Good Hope and put Inspire up.
The opening leads into a rotunda formed from tremendous limestone blocks. A ten-foot-tall dais rises from the center of the room, supporting a concentric mini-ziggurat of layered, rune-covered gear—even those with no magic can feel the supernatural energy pulsing from the thing. On either side of the dais, a half-flight of stairs ascends from the floor to the largest gear. Colored chalk streaks the walls, floor, and ceiling with arcane symbols and patterns, and sickly-scented oils burn from careful placed braziers made from human skulls. Scattered throughout the room flop the decaying parts of dozens of battered undead corpses, all bearing bloodless gashes and sundered limbs. These flop and undulate unnaturally, scattered beneath him like fish in a net. Above the strange seal hovers a horrifically decomposed humanoid. The lower half of his body is gone, leaving only guts and his dangling spine encased in a weird, glass-like receptacle filled with sickly-colored fluids bolted into his chest. Tubes made from intestines and other compounds rise from the fluids attaching to his face, neck, and arms. He preaches loudly, bellowing obscene liturgies from a strange book to a worshipful audience of rotting corpses. Dark energies seep from the ziggurat, caressing the surrounding undead.
Round 1
Silas
Luc
Huecuva
Drazmorg
Hecktor
Bloody Bones
Gilmork
Jaxom
Lucanor is about to share his knowledge, only to see their oracle is already ahead of him. With a nod he chants "Drazmog, we've come to put an end to you. If you were anything close to human, I'd offer you a chance to turn yourself in. Instead, we'll be sending your tattered soul to the hell it's earned a hundred times over." He releases two arrows against the lich.
"Careful guys, we know about those Bloody Bones. Those things at the altar though, are Huecuvas, not that powerful, but remnants of heretical clerics, they are quite resistant to normal weapons. Drazmorg looks to me like a lich, no wonder I'd say. We might need blunt magical weapons to properly hurt him, though electricity and cold won't hurt him. Take care of his ghoulish touch as well, he can paralyze us if we come within reach, but surely he'll use spells on us, liches are known for that."
Silas takes one look at the macabre tableu and twitches. With a wistful look at the twins, he heeds Gilmork's warning well and instead reaches for the staff. Pointing it at figure on the dais, he bellows, "Drazmorg! Today is a good day to die! You're going down son."
Then amped up by Jaxom's magic and a little of his own, Silas starts sprinting. When about 30' form the dais, he plants the staff firmly into the ground and like a long jumper he flings himself up and over the heads of the monsters below! He lands with the staff in a two handed grip and aims thunderous blow at Drazmorg's head.
I'll let Silas redo his action.
Round 1
Silas sprints into the inner seal area with his hasted speed. He manages to close the distance and is in melee with Drazmorg!
Luc steps out of cover and fires two arrows at Drazmorg. One hits, but the damage is lessened greatly by the magical protections on the Lich!
Huecuva all move to intercept the intruders, except one and turns to climb the Ziggurat after Silas
Drazmorg reaches out with a grave touched hand! Silas takes negative energy damage and must make a DC17 Fort save or be paralyzed. The Lich then floats away south.
Hecktor
Bloody Bones
Gilmork
Jaxom
Hecktor moves forward.
As he sees the hated skeletons, he goes for the closest.
"Out of my way!"
Hecktor chops apart a Bloody Bones!
Bloody Bones
Green moves and fires a Tendril at Hecktor miss
Pink moves and fires a Tendril at Hecktor miss
Red moves and fires a Tendril at Hecktor miss
Blue moves
Gilmork
Jaxom
Round 2
Silas
Luc
Huecuva
Drazmorg
Hecktor
Bloody Bones
Gilmork
Jaxom
Jaxom moves into the doorway with one hand gripping the quicken rod; his mental call to the heavens is answered by
Who appear near the ziggurat and zip around it to lash the lich with their light.
Jaxom then raises his free and clenches it. The stones beneath the bloody bones and false priests begins to shift, and they need to make a Reflex DC 20 check to avoid being entangled.
The icy touch of the Lich is excruciating as frostbite rapidly sets in. The cold threatens to send him into a torpor but Silas grits his teeth and shakes off the lassitude with a snarl! He then jabs at Drazmorg as he floated away. It wasn't his best shot, more wild strength than precision, but boy it had some power behind it!
Before he could do anymore one of the filthy Huecuva moves to intercept. Silas swings the staff with great force aiming for it's neck!
Silas you're forgetting the NA bonus to AC provided through Barkskin and the +2 AC vs Evil from Prot. from Evil. Hecktor has those bonuses as well.[/ooc]
Gilmork moves into the room and casts a new spell.
Silas' AoO deals some damage to the Lich who hisses in pain.
Gilmork casts Prayer
Jaxom summons some Lantern Archons... they deal a little damage to the heavily protected Lich. Jaxom casts a spell and +4 and +6 all of the creatures are affected by the Shifting Earth and entangled.
Round 2
Silas smashes a Heucuva, it looks very wounded.
Luc
Huecuva
Drazmorg
Hecktor
Bloody Bones
Gilmork
Jaxom
Lucanor continues to fire his arrows , preferring to strike at the lich, a little damage being better than none at all
Silas' AoO deals some damage to the Lich who hisses in pain.
Gilmork casts Prayer
Jaxom summons some Lantern Archons... they deal a little damage to the heavily protected Lich. Jaxom casts a spell and all of the creatures are affected by the Shifting Earth and entangled.
Round 2
Silas smashes a Heucuva, it looks very wounded.
Luc fires an arrow into Silas' Heucuva and finishes it off. His second arrow strikes another undead priest, dealing moderate damage.
Huecuva
Pink engages Hecktor +9 missing.
Green tries to move out and falls prone, it crawls out of the Sands.
Red also falls prone and crawls towards the enemy.
Drazmorg moves and summons the mythic power of the Seal to send a bolt of Acid at the Lantern Archons two of the Archons +3 take half of Acid Damage. So 19 damage? I think this kills them both. Drazmorg gestures to the corpses on the Seal Floor, and more rise to fight the living!
Hecktor
Bloody Bones
Gilmork
Jaxom
Hecktor dodged the attack and lets out a mocking spit.
"What were you trying, huh?
It's the last thing you've ever DONE!!!"
Silas' AoO deals some damage to the Lich who hisses in pain.
Gilmork casts Prayer
Jaxom summons some Lantern Archons... they deal a little damage to the heavily protected Lich. Jaxom casts a spell and all of the creatures are affected by the Shifting Earth and entangled.
Round 2
Silas smashes a Heucuva, it looks very wounded.
Luc fires an arrow into Silas' Heucuva and finishes it off. His second arrow strikes another undead priest, dealing moderate damage.
Huecuva
Pink engages Hecktor missing.
Green tries to move out and falls prone, it crawls out of the Sands.
Red also falls prone and crawls towards the enemy.
Drazmorg moves and summons the mythic power of the Seal to send a bolt of Acid at the Lantern Archons two of the Archons take half of 39 Acid Damage. So 19 damage? I think this kills them both. Drazmorg gestures to the corpses on the Seal Floor, and more rise to fight the living!
Hecktor hacks apart the lesser undead in his way with a brutal attack!
Bloody Bones
Pink attacks Hecktor with its claws +6 missing
Red sends four tendrils of gore at Hecktor +5 Hecktor's magical protection keeps them off of him!
Green sends four tendrils of gore at Gilmork +3 but its aim is foiled by the shifting sands!
Blue sends four tendrils of gore at Lucanor +3 but the Inquisitor proves too dodgy.
DGreen moves and sends a tendril at Hecktor
Purple moves and sends a tendril at Hecktor
Gilmork
Jaxom
Round 3
Silas
Luc
Huecuva
Drazmorg
Hecktor
Bloody Bones
Gilmork
Jaxom
With his mysterious scepter, Jaxom points at the entangled and prone undead. Fire shoots up from the flagstones, twining around the scepter before leaping towards the undead.
*1.5: 54
*1.5: 27
*1.5: 13
He then flicks the scepter in a dismissive fashion, pushing the roiling earth and moving those undead away from Gilmork and Luc.
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"Valiant Hecktor, I pray thee waste not your time on trifles! Slay the lich!"
He then raises, the quickening rod in his other hand and summons a small herd of Celestial Aurochs to clear the path.
These bison appear from a rift and form almost a river of flesh as they stampede over the undead in their way on their way to attack the lich.
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They each attempt to gore the undead before slamming into the far wall as many tons of flesh come to a swift halt.
The last remaining Archon shoots its rays of light at the lich.
Jaxom wilts a bit from the effort of pouring so much of his magic through his frame in such a short time.
Silas feints high and then whips the staff down and around in a knee height arc. It smashes into the undead priest with a meaty thud! He'd forced to fend off one attack with a sudden block and calls out to Jaxom, "Small problem. It's flying..."
Lucanor tries to back up out of range of the creature that just missed him, and then fires at the lich.
Gilmork steps 5 feet to the west then fires at the Bloody Bones that are in the way of Hecktor and Drazmorg, hoping to open up a path between the lich and his scythe-wielding doom.
Also, Trample is a full round action so cannot be combined with charging. You can Trample, or you can Charge but you cannot do both.
And Jaxom's turn illustrates why I don't like Pathfinder. I had to look up like 10 different fricking pages of abilities to figure if his turn was legal. Also, Jax that rod can only be used 3X per day.
Also also text from Shifting Sand As a move action, you may move the area of shifting sand up to 10 feet in any direction. Not 20
Gilmork destroys Red BB and damages Pink
Jaxom does a metric ton of stuff that I'll have to make about two dozen d20 rolls now.
1 22
2 23
3 14
4 19
Blue is incinerated
Green takes 27
Red takes 13
The end result is a bunch of redead undead.
Round 3
Silas smacks around the last Bloody Bones.
Luc misses the Lich
Huecuva
Red crawls out of the Sand and stands.
Green moves to the south of the Ziggurat which is 25' tall and an obstacle if anyone is wondering.
Drazmorg floats to the West and gestures at Hecktor Drazmorg summons more mythic power and gestures at Jaxom
Hecktor
Bloody Bones
Gilmork
Jaxom
Between Gilmork's Prayer and his queen's favor, Jaxom is barely able to reject the lich's magic.
Hecktor can only move forward, and takes a defensive stance.
"You coward!! Get your cour shriveled face down here, if you want to fight!"
The vicious spell lingers trying to work its vile work on the sorcerer, but his heroic spirit saves him.
Round 3
Silas smacks around the last Bloody Bones.
Luc misses the Lich
Huecuva
Red crawls out of the Sand and stands.
Green moves to the south of the Ziggurat which is 25' tall and an obstacle if anyone is wondering.
Drazmorg floats to the West and gestures at Hecktor Drazmorg summons more mythic power and gestures at Jaxom. Both heroes resist the mythic lich's power.
Hecktor moves up and taunts.
Bloody Bones crawls out of the shifting sands and stands.
Gilmork
Jaxom
Round 4
Silas
Luc
Huecuva
Drazmorg
Hecktor
Bloody Bones
Gilmork
Jaxom
The herd of auroch's stampede over the undead bedeviling Luc and Gilmork.
Jaxom moves forward and tries to dispel the charms keeping the lich aloft.
The lonely archon continues to send out its beams of light.
Lucanor stays out of the way of foes reach and casts True Strike hoping to line up with and get a better shot at the lich next time
Gilmork 5-foot steps and grabs some blunt arrows from his quiver.
"I'll teach you to stay up and in sight of a disciple of Gozreh."
Having said that, he unleashes a volley upon the flying lich.
A dispell magic roll is a caster level check. That's not listed in the above so afaik it doesn't help.
Having downed one minion only to watch Drazmorg float away with impunity, Silas feelt an icy cold sweat trickling down his back. This wasn't going to be easy...
He jogged down the pyramid and engaged the foe to the south. He brought the staff down hard in a two handed strike, blending a fraction of his power into it. A faint blue trail was left by the staff as it scythed down and bounced off the undead abomination with a meaty thwack!
Gilmork fires four arrows and they all bounce off various invisible shields the Lich has in place (Shield spell, Mage Armor...)
Jaxom directs his herd of beef to stampede elsewhere
22,21,15 DC19
+2
+6
The Herd destroys the undead. Jaxom casts Dispel CL check 22, a powerful protective magic is stripped from the Lich.
Round 4
Silas deals 16 damage to the Heucuva.
Luc casts True Strike.
Huecuva attacks Silas +9 missing.
Drazmorg is now determined to get rid of that pesky mage He casts Suffocation on Jaxom Fort DC25. Once more Drazmorg calls on the mythic power of the Seal to cast a another spell...a ray of enervation strikes at Hecktor who takes negative levels.
Hecktor
Gilmork
Jaxom
Round 5
Silas
Luc
Huecuva
Drazmorg
Hecktor
Bloody Bones
Gilmork
Jaxom
Gilmork steps 5 feet south-west and fires another four blunt arrows at the flying lich.