after a few good shots, elmar makes one in particular popping off the head of the undead. then elmar and Kaylor work together and easily take down 1 golem.
Before combat
for kaylors checks, most pass by allot, others are passed by his companion.
The girtablilu, whose name was Dakuri, was the nephew of the mercenary leader Rubilia. Dakuri was a fine scout and the girtablilus anxiously await his return. A successful dc 25 religion check allows a pc to recall the burial customs of the girtablilu. To respect the body, the pcs should cover it with sand (and they did) and place a stone stone engraved with a simple rune over the body (and oh, look, they just happen to find one). A pc who makes a nature check dc 20 knows that the amulet Dakuri wears is a personal effect that his family would likely appreciate having returned. Return it to family or keep it for money and profit/and or own benefit?
at the lair of the king. a pc who makes a religion dc 15 recognizes the structure as a temple of Sarenrae. with a dc 25 religion check a pc can identify small religious glyphs carved on the pillars indicating that the temple's residents deconsecrated the temple in a formal ceremony, probably as part of moving to another holy site. In such a ceremony, the temple relics would have been removed, along with any items of value that could be of use a the new site.
Zereletan does see the pcs as unfriendly, but as the heroes show off what they know about the religion they find out he is a proud and noble person and that he struck a deal with the pcs. Find my lost crown and I'll give you my treasure He does mention where he lost that treasure, but considering the danger there and the fact that it is at the bottom of the water, he himself cannot easily get back the item himself and neither can his guards.
Back to combat: Avelloran is up.
okay botting avelloran, he mostly takes damaging spells and would get a level 6th spell, so lets says it is acid fog to hit the 4 birds in that corner.
acid to all birds in the upperlefthand corner.
then the birds retailate by using razor wings on the closest targets
6 of them and each get 2 attacks.
first four attacks at zub, next four attacks at elmar, next 2 at nahoce and last two at kaylor
zub
zub
zub
zub
at elmar
at elmar
at elmar
at elmar
at nahoce
at nahoce
at kaylor
at kaylor
then the one bird still takes bleed dmg.
zub was hit for and every round on your turn until battle ends or until you are healed you will take continous damage ever round from bleed.
then the dragons, they aren't going to use line effects just yet, next round they will though, but for now just claws after moving
vs zub
vs silver
vs silver
also they did fly over, and their fly is poor, so fly checks. Conditions are normal, dc 10 as they moved half their speed.
nahoce and zub are up
then round 2 and back to
silver, elmar, kaylor and avelloran
it would still live regardless, but zub takes it down a good bit.
then silver makes his attacks, first he is going to try to finish off the dragon after shifting vs touch
and it dies, grit regained, then he will shoot a bird he hasn't worked on and spend a grit to make it bleed. then he will shoot a bird he has worked on, so he can finish it and regain that grit
and in addition, 5 bleed dmg.
elmar, kaylor, avelloran are up
As tempted as he is to try out his sacred geometry ability to blast the dragon with cold or fire, Kaylor decides he'll probably do more damage with a full attack. He charges his blade with arcane power , defensively casts arcane mark, and makes good use of Nahoçe's blessing to get an extra attack, continuing to fight defensively.
Kaylor quickly takes down another dragon as it collapses.
Zub, your other dragon has 17 damage on it, because of silver.
Sounds like there's still a golem or two up and fighting. Elmar will fix that (as, of course, his attacks bypass all golem DR).
it was dead by the time silver got to it, so he could not have shot it, so he shot the other dragon engaged with you, it currently has 17 dmg on it.
Edit Elmar actually killed the golem in 3 hits, so he used his other 2 to kill off a bird silver worked on.
okay, it has been 24 hours for avelloran, so lets assume he does cloud kill for the 2 birds on the right
sweet, they both lost 20 HP due to con loss.
okay, monsters turn, first the birds
the first one against kaylor with 2 attacks, then against nahoce, then another 2 against silver, then another 2 against zub
vs kaylor
vs kaylor
vs nahoce
vs nahoce
vs silver
vs silver
vs zub
vs zub
okay, silver and zub are both hit once
and additional bleed, we are already bleeding, so only highest bonus will apply, silver still has 6.
anyway, now the dragon, it has a line which it can use and might be able to hit 2 of us at most, so it will shift and use its special attack.
1=silver and zub, 2=elmar, 3= avelloran, 4=nahcoe, 5 =kaylor
Edit:
electric.
all hereos are up again
Kaylor casts fly and moves next to two of the birds.
silver will quickdraw his other gun since this one is out of ammo and fire at the birds with more adamantine bullets.
it must save, or it is for sure to be dead. alive, but I never applied, silvers fire damage from his weapon when he shot it, because it is that close to death.
which means, zub did kill it as he delivers a few good blows to it.
Nahoce and Elmar still have a turn.
Oh, if Elmar's up again, it's time to shoot some birds.
elmar kills a bird and works on anther.
the birds on the right take another dmg from the cloud and then it leaves them and that causes one's hp to go below 0 and die.
avelloran will finish them off with magic missile, then he leaves us for good.
and with empowered spell, so 24 dmg to it.
and then now the birds will try their luck.
vs zub
vs zub
vs kaylor as he is in melee
vs kaylor as he is in melee
okay, we will say heroes defeat the birds on the next round.
combat over noone is bleeding anymore.
kaylor I'm counting his attack as a miss, unless his confirm says nat 20, then it will be a crit.
okay, so hereos come a scorched obelisk, a shocking chest trap which they disable and spot easily. and treasure gained.
They do find the kings crown in the water after
and then after spending some time checking the water, heroes hear screams in the distance as citizens are under attack and running from something.
100 feet is where the enemies are.
They enemies notice you all, the enemies now will come south to go after you all instead of going east to pursue the citizens, so they aren't in your way.
more forgotten pharaohs, these are more powerful, 4 of these.
arcana 18 2 of these
silver
zub
nahoce
elmar
kaylor
drake 18 to id this one
order
Kaylor and elmar
drake, and not yet ided 18 arcana creature, and forgotten pharaohs
silver, zub, nahoce
all enemies are currently 100 feet away, and remember everyone would have had 3 seconds to get in one move or action before the battle started. And yes, you all did see and hear the enemies in that 3 second time period.
The party all hears a voice in their heads. Kaylor says the new folks are prettier cousins to SB. They do something similar to pouncing but with a large jump and have kind of nasty bites as well as 2 claws. The drakes only have a lot of resistance to electricity, but immunity to paralysis and sleep. They can put on a great burst of speed three times a day and like to spit nasty electric dust balls to obscure sight and deal damage in a 15ft radius. They can also fly. The cultists are still pretty wimpy pathetic good for nothing- The voice is cut off by Kaylor's voice coming from and seemingly empty square.
"That's not what I said...."
Oh please, they're nothing compared to those other things. Anybody want to take bets on how long before we defeat them all? For some reason I feel like we should split time in to 6 second intervals. Although why 6 and not a nice 5 or 10, I have no idea.
Kaylor uses his 3 seconds prep time to move away from his comrades to avoid having the entire group get hit by an area effect. He then waits for Elmar to fire off his shots and then puts up a wall of fire as a sphere with 25ft radius around the group with the heat facing outwards.
"The cultists have dragons with them? How powerful is this organization? I feel like we're fighting some sort of badly-organized secret nation that sent only a small part of its resources to try and attain an incredibly powerful artifact."
Elmar will obligingly set up an arrow shower before the wall of fire comes down. No adamantine, because why waste it.
during silvers, 3 seconds, he would have quickdrawn his longbow and fired off a single shot.
at the drake or a cultist if it dies and
Silver responds to that. You are going to count seconds during battle? I'd rather save my thoughts for what I'm going to do next. Unless you have a stopwatch, but I'm keeping my hands on my weapons.
okay, silver bullet and elmar work together to take down the drake. elmar has one shot left, so he uses it on a cultist.
nahoces wall as the enemies run through both kaylors and nahoces wall.
so every alive creature took 55 dmg. one cultists took 77 dmg.
that one made us run through fire, kill him first
3 cultists surround kaylor
1 cultist is elsewhere
the bullettes are elsewhere
map updated
Silver, Zub and Nahoce are up.
Edit: wait the cultist can save for half for the blade barrier as well as the bulettes.
nope full
yep, they take half. 21+14=35.
silver will drop his weapon to quickdraw his earthbreaker on anything near him starting with the cultist.
and the cultist takes much damage, but is still alive.
Kaylor unsuccessfully resists the urge to laugh at the stupidity of these cultists daring to challenge him. Continuing to fight defensively, he charges his blade with arcane power and casts intensified shocking grasp. He then activates his boots for an extra attack.
Kaylor skillfully blows up one of the cultists flanking him, slices the arm and then head off of the other, and deals a mighty blow to the third.
elmar is up for round 2
Elmar steps back from the cultist near him, and fires at it and the one north of Kaylor.
which is not only enough damage to kill both cultists, but does massive damage to a bulette, preferably the one zub does not have pinned.
okay the one pinned will try to get out.
the other will swipe twice at silver
Silver took
all heroes are up again
which is not only enough damage to kill both cultists, but does massive damage to a bulette, preferably the one zub does not have pinned.
Kaylor, deciding shocking grasp, would be unnecessary, kills the bulette who was so thoughtful as to stand right next to him.
okay, so the heroes return to the kings palace and he thanks you for recovering his crown for him.
Naheeba is now at the place. thank you for getting rid of those bulettes, me an my people greatly appreciate it
A man named Erayu and his maftet tribe are also there. You must go to the walled Oasis, we are missing a part to the bronze sentinel there. as they point to the bronze sentinel not activated. however it is filled with some fire type creatures.
Heroes rest here in the kingdom for a day, gain treasure for their work.
If anyone would have used any healing spells before the new day please say so as you get them back.
they are all good people.
remember the people running from the monsters you just fought? Naheeba is the leader of that tribe of people running.
Noticing Zuberu's attentions, Kaylor looks around for a certain type of person previously mentioned in a spoiler to the DM.
try as zub might, all of the nomads in the room are male, except for one and her name is Naheeba. That was very good zub, but I'm married as she shows you her real wedding ring. I don't think my husband would appreciate it.
Just then a very attractive female walks into the room, but does not yet know what Zub did or wasn't there at the scene.