KC's Age of Worms

Game Master Kobold Catgirl

It's a poison effect, and there's no additional save—just a flat 1 minute duration. Zalamandra is trying to retrieve Astraden's scroll of remove paralysis.

I just feel like I should give a disclaimer, since there are going to be questions about the encounter as you've experienced it. This isn't what the encounter would have looked like had you guys attacked on the spot way-back-when. This is what the encounter looks like after the Harbinger takes a couple weeks to plan and find potential allies among the remnants of Kyuss's servants. I'm not saying this as a matter of blame or whatever—backing off and taking some time to prepare may well still have been the best call you guys could've made—I'm just saying that the encounter was scaled up according to the Harbinger's options.

And to underline that, I'll say that with a 1,000-mile telepathy, those options might have expanded if it had had a month or longer to get ready for the inevitable scry-and-fry. This is a smart monster. One of the smartest monsters you're ever going to fight, in fact. That skews the difficulty.

Of course, since I've said all that, I've pretty much made the real worthy target of blame clear. :P

Alright... should I focus on blasting down the nagas, or the Harbinger?

Harbinger. Everything else can be mopped up afterwards.

QUOTE="Dungeon Kobold"] It's a poison effect, and there's no additional save—just a flat 1 minute duration. Zalamandra is trying to retrieve Astraden's scroll of remove paralysis.

I just feel like I should give a disclaimer, since there are going to be questions about the encounter as you've experienced it. This isn't what the encounter would have looked like had you guys attacked on the spot way-back-when. This is what the encounter looks like after the Harbinger takes a couple weeks to plan and find potential allies among the remnants of Kyuss's servants. I'm not saying this as a matter of blame or whatever—backing off and taking some time to prepare may well still have been the best call you guys could've made—I'm just saying that the encounter was scaled up according to the Harbinger's options.

And to underline that, I'll say that with a 1,000-mile telepathy, those options might have expanded if it had had a month or longer to get ready for the inevitable scry-and-fry. This is a smart monster. One of the smartest monsters you're ever going to fight, in fact. That skews the difficulty.

Of course, since I've said all that, I've pretty much made the real worthy target of blame clear. :P

Scry-and-fry tactics would have lacked something important though: The Harbinger himself.

Plus fighting him in a couple of levels would have been easier.

Once Zalamandra's done de-paralyzing Astraden... would it be worthwhile to have her teleport Cuetzpalli inside the repulsion zone, right next to the Harbinger? (I think that works within the rules for repulsion, right?) One full attack with Kelmarchen before the Harbinger can step away might be enough to put this down.

Of course, not to be a negative nelly, but... he's definitely got at least one more time stop in him, I think.

Like I said, the more time he had to prepare, the more options he could have had. 1,000 miles is a long ways. :P

Scry-and-fry tactics would have lacked something important though: The Harbinger himself.

In a manner of speaking, scry-and-fry is pretty much what you guys used. That's what I'm referencing.

Alright--hopefully, keeping my eyes closed will be enough to beat his displacement and mirror images. Should I try to dispel his protections at this point, or just focus on Force Bombing him into oblivion?

Note to Self: From now open battles with high level casters with a fervored dimensional anchor on myself.

Alright--hopefully, keeping my eyes closed will be enough to beat his displacement and mirror images. Should I try to dispel his protections at this point, or just focus on Force Bombing him into oblivion?

Kill the bastard. His CL is a minimum of 18, so your Dispels have a pretty low chance of working.

Note to Self: From now open battles with high level casters with a fervored dimensional anchor on myself.

Then you just know that's the battle we'll need to beat a hasty word of recall retreat from...

Carina Viera wrote:

Alright--hopefully, keeping my eyes closed will be enough to beat his displacement and mirror images. Should I try to dispel his protections at this point, or just focus on Force Bombing him into oblivion?

Kill the bastard. His CL is a minimum of 18, so your Dispels have a pretty low chance of working.

Will do.

It's funny that I had to refer back to the Theldrick fight, since that fight and this one have a lot in common: A prepared, "consolidated" force of dangerous enemies, an incapacitated character within range of a (sort of) coup de grace, and now a question about channeling while unable to move.

Don't forget only a single exit that is too slow to use for escape.

Uuuuuuugh.

Did not want to do this to Astraden again. It's kind of becoming a thing.

Noooo! If Astraden's dead, who's going to put my brain back? (I mean, priorities...)

So, considering Astraden nearly got her head bitten off, should I still change my target to the naga trying it?

Never mind. Focused on blasting Harbinger down.

Well, Astraden's copycat took the hit for her, Tanith--you might still be able to save her.

Nope- KC rolled a 1 on the copycat miss chance. Low is, as always, bad for players. You might be able to save her, though: do you have another breath of life syringe ready?

Edit: Oh, you already took your action. Nevermind.

...oh, crap.

I actually do have a syringe--would I be allowed to burn an AP to use it on her now?

Nope, I'm afraid using that syringe is a standard action. You can choose to heal Astraden, or you can take your attacks. Your choice—though I will charge 1 AP for using the syringe, since breath of life technically has no effect on a coup de grace.

...right.

Revision Time!

Really really sorry for holding us up like this, guys.

I really wish you'd gone with the first option. She can just as easily be coup de graced again next round and you're basically the only person who can deal full damage to him.

Do we have a way of resurrecting Astraden once the fight is over?

Zalamandra is poised to de-paralyze Astraden, remember.

Zalamandra could also teleport Astraden out of harm's way on her next turn, which should come before the nagas can make another CDG attempt.

Then, there's also the matter of the repulsion field keeping Cuetzpalli out...

Do we have a way of resurrecting Astraden once the fight is over?

Not if the fight ends with us all dead.

At the very least, an alive Astraden can pump out another bit of healing for everyone within range. Not that I'm biased or anything :v

What should Cuetzpalli do? Stone discuss at the Harbinger? If it hits, it'll bypass DR. His to-hit is pretty bad, though.

EDIT: Actually, if he uses that "Reckless Abandon" ability, it's a +18 to-hit, which isn't so bad. The Harbinger has cover, though.

Does Zalamandra wish to teleport him this round? One potential option would be to teleport him and Astraden up ahead, which would remove Astraden from immediate danger from a coup de grace. If Zalamandra wants to teleport, Cuetzpalli will delay.

If Zalamandra can teleport so that Cuetzpalli is west of her and Astraden is east of her, she'll indeed plan to do so.

I'd say it's a move action to reposition people like that.

Okay, I'm home now. Sorry for being completely gone, but I just didn't have time to post. I have a metric crap ton of posts to catch up on, and will be doing that ASAP over the next day or two. Thanks for watching Cuetz while I was away.

Oh . . . who wants to tell him?
.
.
.
.

(And we should assume he'd close his eyes, since it would be churlish to GMPC his character for a few days and then hand him back saying 'Yeah, sorry about Cuetzpalli's brain being erased while you were gone, Jelani...')

Oh, the irony of me making that statement...

Were we assuming that glitterdust negated the displacement? The answer is very important. Particularly looking for DankeSean's answer on this, since he's the one that cast it (most recently).

I was casting it because he was invisible. I wasn't assuming it would do anything about displacement; that's not actually what it does, barring a very generous ruling I'm unfamiliar with.

Alright, I just wanted to make sure you hadn't made that action in misunderstanding.

KC, I still have displacement up. Does that help me any against the naga attack?

Ah, it might.

*Rolls*

But it didn't.

Ow.

RNG better be saving up 20's in my favor for a future date. Like, we finally meet Kyuss and I crit EVERY DAMN TIME.

What if he turns out to be a literal wormgod, as in, a huge swarm of worms? Talk about disappointing.

I'm just looking forward to Eben going through his quiver later and wondering who the f*#% got all the arrows jumbled together and fired half the magic ones.

What if he turns out to be a literal wormgod, as in, a huge swarm of worms? Talk about disappointing.

Then I'd be saying "YES! I CAN CONTRIBUTE!"

While carrying enough explosives to blow up the Free City...

What if he turns out to be a literal wormgod, as in, a huge swarm of worms? Talk about disappointing.

I'm just looking forward to Eben going through his quiver later and wondering who the f#$% got all the arrows jumbled together and fired half the magic ones.

I've actually been HOPING to roll a 1 on my arrow selection so I can have an excuse to fire that one freezing burst arrow that, under other circumstances, I keep saying 'no, it's not a 'special' enough shot yet...'

I hope everyone's having a good day so far. :)

The way you say that makes it sound ominous.

What did Trump do now?

No idea.

Urgh. Sorry, guys. Today really got away from me. We'll move on tomorrow, when I get home from a town hall.

So I think our ride back home just got lost in (planar) space. Ocean voyage back to the north, anyone?