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Actually I have a question about nauseated.
Nauseated creatures are unable to attack, cast spells, concentrate on spells, or do anything else requiring attention. The only action such a character can take is a single move actions per turn.
I expect the first sentence precludes spell-like abilities, but what about quick channels?
Bah I say!
Does Eben have a whip? Tanith might want to borrow it.
I'll allow the quick channel. Channels aren't spells, don't require concentration, and are generally much more flexible about their use.
In the future, Tanith, it makes it easier if you roll the readied action yourself so I don't have to dig up to-hit and damage.
I'm like 99.9% sure what Zahol's got is Anti-Life Shell, but we can give it a shot when I get back on later.
Also there's a possibility your Readied action still triggers. Technically speaking the Standard is spent when you Ready, not when it goes off. KC's call.
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That's not what I'm reading. The line that convinced me was, "[A]nytime before your next action, you may take the readied action in response to that condition." The section also talks about the actual actions provoking AOOs, but the standard action ready (during your regular turn) not provoking. Though, I don't particularly care either way because the total damage is about the same in the best case scenario (wraith fails this Will save).
I have magic circle against law on me... do I still have shield other on me as well?
You should still have shield other running.
...I think that actually hits Carina. If it's targeting her Touch AC, it'll definitely hit unless someone put cat's grace or something like that on her and I just missed it.
By the way, that expertly drawn blade barrier? It goes up 20 feet. Just in case Tanith was wondering. :P
...I think that actually hits Carina. If it's targeting her Touch AC, it'll definitely hit unless someone put cat's grace or something like that on her and I just missed it.
For some reason I thought Carina's Touch AC was the higher of the two. Yeah, that's probably gonna hit even with MCAL, since it doesn't stack with Shield Other.
Okay, serious strategy time:
Should I keep trying to dispel Zahol's protections, or focus on blasting him down?
I forgot to post this last night, but I'm planning to allow you from now on to spend an Action Point to "target" with your bombs. You may or may not choose to use this now, but enemy buffs are only going to get more plentiful in the future and the bombs are hard to use as it is.
Do you mean targeting specific protections?
Specific spells, yes.
Alrighty then. Thanks very much! :)
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While magic circle against law won't help against blade barrier, haste will. And don't forget the resistance bonus from shield other - it doesn't stack with mcal, but it sure counts when you're saving against Zahol's spells.
e: I'm trying to maintain a list of all the buffs (and debuffs) affecting Astraden at any given moment, in the stat bar. Possibly helpful, though I only have space for acronyms, and it doesn't include spells I cast on other people like it used to.
So I actually made my save against the Blade Barrier?
AAARGH AND I FORGOT HASTE FFS
Go ahead and kill him, since nobody else can really reach him. Once the wraiths are dealt with Farrukh will start bow=ing.
So, just out of curiosity, do we have a plan for how we'll get Restorations once we're done here? It might be a bit difficult to explain why we need them...
We can just say you and Tanith went at it so hard you need magic to recover.
Well, that'll explain me. :p
What about Rodrigo?
Rodrigo is well known to be fond of his trouser snake, which may or may not spy on people.
We really don't need to explain anything. Ekaym can bring x amount of healing to us daily to begin with (so scrolls of restoration), and we can just pay him for anything over that, if needed. All that's between us and our manager, none of the arena's concern, is the impression I've received so far. (Or Astraden can just prepare & cast a couple of them, but I assume we wouldn't want to deplete her 4th level spells before the big arena fight.)
I'm a bit confused as to how the Wraith managed to get cover from both the Blade Barrier AND the wall for both me AND Tanith without needing to save against the Blade Barrier at least. Because near as I can figure the only place he can get cover from in the first place is that corner directly above it, and I'm directly to the left of Astraden (though my token seems to have disappeared), though that would mean I couldn't even swing at it at all so was it another square to the left? But then it wouldn't get cover from the wall and hoo boy I've gone cross-eyed
Sorry, the "blade barrier" line was deceptive—it gains cover automatically just by attacking from inside the wall.
An incorporeal creature inside an object has total cover, but when it attacks a creature outside the object it only has cover, so a creature outside with a readied action could strike at it as it attacks.
Also, not that it matters, but I meant that it was getting cover from the blade barrier only against Tanith. Silly as it is, covers never stack. :P
Your token is being buried under archons.
Who here likes rolling saving throws? That's a rhetorical question. I assume of course the answer is "everybody".
If Rodrigo wants to spend a spell slot on Dimension Door I'd like to change the action I just posted to three Shield Bashes instead. That drops the attack rolls by 1, but raises the damage to 1d6+18 per swipe.
In the future, no, just because an enemy is down doesn't mean all initiative goes haywire.
Sorry. =(
You didn't mention who was up so I assumed it was everyone.
No, it's fine, I've been forgetting that because there are so many "Make a save" announcements to keep track of. I just wanted to clarify how it's handled—the init blocks don't change unless I say otherwise.
Like, right there, where I for some reason thought Farrukh and Tanith were in different blocks! Ha ha. Crazy times. Crazy times.
It's simultaneous. It's like the death of Nikabrik, where nobody knows who did the final blow and nobody wants to know because of the tremendous guilt.
I just want to say, KC and DC's collaboration on tieflings/planetouched has produced the best explanation for the race/s I've seen so far. Just realized that with Zahol's dialogue today.
Really?
I can copy the scroll of heal and one scroll of restoration into my formula book, I think. :)
Shall we come up with some sort committee system? I'd rather not earn any more Eben-wrath points by accident. Even a basic 'second' might help.
I don't think anything so formal is necessary, just a simple "Does anyone have any use for this peon? Y/N." should suffice.
That's basically the usual 'everyone chime in' system that some games seem fond of.
Okay, just to break this down:
Zahol was an NPC one PC had suggested be taken alive. Several other PCs then made an effort to keep him alive, including using a party resource (the scroll of remove disease) that we normally wouldn't use on a villain.
So, after all this, said villain is a prisoner due for interrogation.
Then Tanith unilaterally makes the decision to squish his neck.
Now, it is possible Zahol had the ability to unleash the ulgurstasta and interrogating him would have resulted in such. But if that was the concern, Tanith should have said 'I think we should kill him instead of interrogating him because...' Personally, I'd still have disagreed with that, but I'd have gone with the group if that's how the majority swung.
(And I really don't understand why the possibility of him unleashing the ulgurstasta is a big deal when the first thing Tanith says upon finding the force field holding the ulgurstasta is basically 'How do we break it down so we can fight the ulgurstasta ?' Either we want the thing to stay locked up and not get free or we want to kill it. But that's a side question at best.)
(And I don't even know what an ulgurstasta is; I'm cut-and-pasting the word because I kept calling it an 'ur-ghost-thing'.)
It's not an issue of a complex democratic system being needed; but this is the kind of thing that makes Tanith come off as less of the impetuous semi-oaf I think you're generally aiming to portray him as and more of a arrogant jerkass who doesn't give a s&~@ about what the other party members are intending.
If nothing else, we're now down a remove disease scroll for nothing. If Eben gets worm-infected again and we're one remove disease short to de-worm him, I'm going to make it my goal to fall over on top of Tanith as he dies. :-)
^Pretty much that. As well, Zahol releasing the Urgulstasta NOW would have been one of the better case scenarios even if he were the one controlling it, since currently it is relatively weak.
Astraden's decision to use the remove disease scroll came before she looked the evil magic scroll over and after she did it seemed clear to me that the only choice was to kill Mr. Evil Cleric. A message from a friend that's following the game only, wrongly, reinforced that thought. That, combined with a general feeling that the game had been chugging since we'd come upon this whole open-ended exploration thing, made me feel like I should just do it.
Killing the scroll-reader has the added benefit of weakening the *looks it up* urgulstasta over time. For all we know it's one day shy of full power now.
But ultimately Tanith prides himself on his semi-oaf status. If the whole thing rubbed Eben the wrong way Tanith will behave differently.
I'm just playing a game, so I don't actually care that much. But, more communication before killing can't be a bad thing.
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Okay, just to break this down:
Zahol was an NPC one PC had suggested be taken alive. Several other PCs then made an effort to keep him alive, including using a party resource (the scroll of remove disease) that we normally wouldn't use on a villain.
Well for the record, we would have no way of interrogating him if I didn't use the scroll. Speak with dead only works on corpses that have not been turned into undead creatures.
But I was also disappointed we didn't get to interrogate him before killing him, and I think Tanith was wrong about Raknian not being the scroll-reader. He's a smart, cultured guy, and really it would be a better story if he was the one who read the scroll, to make the end of the Games have that much more of a bang.
e: I'm hitting the sack now - quite a long day. Assume Astraden attempts to aid everyone on all skill checks she can attempt, and should combat break out immediately casts divine favor on herself and attacks with her rapier.
Right, I wasn't complaining about the use of the scroll. It was a clever move on your part. If I were a GM and we played using XP, that would totally be a bonus XP moment for me. :-)
What, having someone to interrogate isn't its own reward? Player entitlement at its worst!