yeah, I didn't think of that, it is undead, but you can crush its body and bones
cmb:34 + 1d20 ⇒ 34 + (5) = 39yeah, were just going say you killed this one zub, hes gotta roll a nat 20 to actually get out.
as zub spends time strangling and destroying it, it turns to dust after is dies, and nahoce releases here blade.
The heroes now have 5 directions to go, south, southwest, southeast, northeast, northwest. Though not all of them are important to the mission, some contain valueable secrets that can help, otherwise might have hostages/slaves.
after about a minute, heroes get open the hard to open door that was stuck.
Inside they see 4 great ghuls, and 12 beetles, but only 1 beetle is real, and every 3rd round 6 more beetles come in as they are illusions and heroes can tell this but can't tell which one is real, and the illusions can switch spots with the real one if the real one hasn't been ided yet. whoever makes a 20 will save and a 20 perception save at the same time identifies the real one, if you tell others what the real one is, everyone else gains a +4 bonus to both. and yes the illusions can be killed.
init:9 + 1d20 ⇒ 9 + (9) = 18 ghuls
init:13 + 1d20 ⇒ 13 + (20) = 33 silver
init:14 + 1d20 ⇒ 14 + (18) = 32 elmar
init:21 + 1d20 ⇒ 21 + (12) = 33 kaylor
init:7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (18) = 25 zub
init:7 + 1d20 ⇒ 7 + (6) = 13 nahoce
init=last beetles, they automatically deal 3 piercing damage to whoever they touch, damage reduction applies, a single hit kills them, they are very tiny and fast though they automatically go last, ac 30, t 30, ff 14.
actually elmar, they knew you were here as the door was stuck and you had made noise to open it, the creatures knew what was up, go ahead and make a full round 1
elmar kills the real beetle with a well placed shot causing all the illusions to disappear.
Male Dwarf Ranger 19, Lore Warden 2 (HP 279/279 | AC 32 T 22 FF 23 | Fort 27 Ref 28 (Evasion) Will 17 | Init 26 | Percp 42 (46 vs traps in stone) [darkvision, tremorsense 10])
Eh... I'm going to say he spent his turn focusing on the beetle anyway, let the others pummel some ghuuls for a round since Elmar's first attack is responsible for half of his damage anyway.
I'm going to have Nahoce channel energy on all the ghuls, though this is after they go.dmg:8d6 ⇒ (2, 5, 6, 4, 5, 2, 4, 4) = 32will:12 + 1d20 ⇒ 12 + (3) = 15 and they all fail
Kaylor is upI wouldn't be surprised if the weekend goes slow and posting goes down. Valentines day weekend, plus snow storms equals slower posting
3 ghuls will try to attack kaylor with full attacks as they just need to shift
hit:9d20 ⇒ (20, 2, 10, 14, 14, 18, 20, 11, 14) = 123since they need nat 20s and 2 of them actually get a bite on kaylor confirms:2d20 ⇒ (4, 7) = 11 dmg:2d6 + 16 ⇒ (6, 4) + 16 = 26
and as the heroes work together they kill the monsters in no time flat ghuls disintegrating. The beetle killed turns to stone and on the wall is an impression where you can place the stone beetle. A sign reads: beyond this door lies great power and great evil, enter at your own risk. You may get sucked in or lost beyond this point though if heroes don't wish to do that yet, there is like 4 other sections to explore.
which section heroes? we have a more south path, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest. You are looking for treasures, slaves and hidden secrets of Hakotep that can help you put him to rest once and for all and end his reing of terror.
Kensai 20/Lore Warden 1 (HP 271/271 | AC [will recalulate if needed] | Fort 28 Ref 24 Will 22 (+4 vs emotion spells)| SR13 vs evil spells | Init 46 | Percp 33)
Then Kaylor still has plenty of time on his mirror image.
1 is actual hit:1d9 ⇒ 3 1 is actual hit:1d8 ⇒ 4
The last thing the undead see before being crushed, sliced, and bludgeoned to death by the killer quartet is Kaylor smirking as he continues to remain unhit.
6 copies remaining for about 13 minutes
Kaylor turns invisible again as the group heads south.
The heroes move south again, which causes the door to lock shut forever, unless they litterally break it down, there is not going back. the other rooms where just experience and treasure anyway, but you did miss out on an interesting NPC that can become you enemy or your ally depending upon roleplay
Pharoah's Vault
The walls of this circular chamber are coated with white plaster. A life-sized statue of an imposing pharoah (history 30 to id, also gives a rare artifact upon idtenfying it), his stern face deep in contemplation and his hands cradling what appears to be an entire city, stands near the southern end of the room.
They also see a creature chained up against a wall and one wax figures as a statue. There is actually 2 statues in the room, one in wax, the other portraying a pharaoh made of stone Hello, my name is Agazuberi, please unchain me and set me free. and there is a key in the middle of the room out of anyones reach
planes 26:
this thin although this creature is usually evil, you can't be for sure if this one in particular is well evil
sense motive dc 37, only roll this if at least one person got the planes check:
This one in particular is CN, and this is a trick. However, this one does want more power than the pharaoh, Hakotep and wants to put a stop to this undead business to create an empire of her own. Although she does plan to kill the adventures on sight as soon as you unchain her, you actually can bargain with her, free her and not fight her.
perception dc 40:
If you attack her while she is chained, it will do something to the chains to release her. There are 2 ways to release her, the key or by attacking her
arcana/spellcraft/engineering knowledge dc 25, any of them will do:
You've ided this before, but you need the knowledge to know what it is, because it will not activate until the demon tells it to, and she is forbidden to speak the word to activate this construct until she is free as the chains have a curse on her, not to mention it looks different until activated. clay golem the wax golem that is, the other is just at statue
she responds to Zuberu they know I can do certain things and that I have certain powers that I'm afraid to share, they were going to kill me outright, but they have instead decided to keep me prisoner to serve them. They haven't had much control over me, but they do let me out of these chains once a week just enough to make me do some tasks for them, because they know I'm capable of doing them.
oh zub, there was a key in the middle of the room on the floor which unlocks the chain, which you all saw, no need to smash the chains and make all that noise, unless your character really would do that.
Thank you she says and then she frees her construct. They move out the door faster than you could say "you're welcome" and when the doors opens for just a split second, all you can see is desert out there. You can see a Unicorn taking off as she gets on it before the door closes. if you want to spend the hours tracking her, maybe even days, you can try, but good luck with that, she is long gone
what now heroes? You can spend more time in this room, move out and go onto the next quest, track her, or whatever you want to do.
"Well, normally those things are evil. But since she chose not to sick her golems on us, I suppose she might not be." Kaylor shrugs. "Shall we continue onwards?"
unicorns are CG and they do have detect evil, but there is always a chance the Unicorn did not cast detect evil if the unicorn does not suspect that she is evil, so she probably never did anything evil in the presence of the unicorn, so she could still be evil or not. It is detect evil, not sense evil. As well as many other things, the unicorn only knows so much but isn't omniscient. It is like the detect magic spell, if a player/character does not suspect magic presence or would not think of it, he/she would not use the at will spell even though the player has it, that is usually new players, but we don't know how experience this Unicorn it.
Heroes move on into the the Foyer after a long rest spells back, recharge 15 hp, and that girl is back in her city by now, her home were she resides if you want to find her.
Tef-Naju stops the pcs You want into the Foyer, you won't see the light of day and the city will be ours to enslave
Special Earth elementals are attacking, there are 5 of them, Plus Tef-Naju
perception dc 52:
3 explosive barrels are here, way above their heads, you just need to weaken the boards supporting them to drop as you need to do 25 dmg to the boards, ac 10 to hit
yep did not know that about the Unicorn, so you can assume the characters noticed this one lacked a magic circle as you saw a red spot on its white skin telling you it was born without that ability and replaced with SR of 15
tef-naju is cre 17 while the rest are cr 14.
planes dc 27:
vulnerable to cold, takes 5 extra damage from evocation and enchantment spells or has a -2 to all saves or both. immune to acid and have dr 10/magic or natural weapons. Some are Shaitan, others are just outsiders similar to to Shaitans.
Kensai 20/Lore Warden 1 (HP 271/271 | AC [will recalulate if needed] | Fort 28 Ref 24 Will 22 (+4 vs emotion spells)| SR13 vs evil spells | Init 46 | Percp 33)
Planes:1d20 + 23 ⇒ (9) + 23 = 32
Remiel speaks in everyone's head. They're weak to cold, evocation, and enchantment spells. They're immune to acid, and you should use magic or natural weapons against them.
Kaylor will charge up his weapon as per usual with keen, frost, flame, shocking bane and then attack one with maximized intensified shocking grasp.
they will burrow and then try to come up behind us and attack to catch us offguard.
stealth:9 + 1d20 ⇒ 9 + (17) = 26 they were up against the building but now they are behind us, if their stealth beats our perception, we are flat footed.
2 attacks on kaylor hit:26 + 1d20 ⇒ 26 + (20) = 46hit:26 + 1d20 ⇒ 26 + (18) = 44 ouch, 2 hits on kaylor even if he isn't flatfooted
hit:26 + 1d20 ⇒ 26 + (20) = 46 vs elmar
hit:26 + 1d20 ⇒ 26 + (10) = 36 vs silver
ouch, even if we weren't caught ff, that is still a hit
crit confirms:1d20 + 26 ⇒ (2) + 26 = 28 on kaylor and it did not crit, though if your perception does not beat that 26 stealth, then it did crit
crit confirmst:1d20 + 26 ⇒ (8) + 26 = 34 on elmar. additonal dmg:1d6 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12
Nahoces botting and then we are up again
Zub you have the boss pinned, oh wait let me make sure cmb:1d20 ⇒ 7yeah he needs to roll a 20
Doublegold, he isn’t pinned yet, just grappled. If he doesn’t think he can escape he can attack normally or punching or something.
Zuberu easily overpowered the geniekin champion. Compared to the mummified beast this was no worthy foe. The brawny priest laughs as he proceeds to utterly dominate his opponent, cinching his arms around the outsider’s ribcage, cinching his hold in tight, and crushing him in a merciless bearhug.
Kensai 20/Lore Warden 1 (HP 271/271 | AC [will recalulate if needed] | Fort 28 Ref 24 Will 22 (+4 vs emotion spells)| SR13 vs evil spells | Init 46 | Percp 33)
Actually, due to uncanny dodge, Kaylor can't be caught flat-footed unless someone feints, so unless it might get me AoO on the creatures due to their movement, I see no point in rolling. And due to fighting defensively, only the nat 20 hits.
Kaylor grins, barely noticing the creature's blow. Instead he strikes right back at them, activating his boots.
If one of the elementals next to him still looks pretty healthy, he'll also blast a quickened shocking grasp. Let me know if this hits/misses/doesn't happen because he still has the charge if he misses. To Hit:1d20 + 24 + 2 - 2 - 4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 24 + 2 - 2 - 4 + 1 = 23 Non-Cold:1d6 + 12 + 15 + 2d6 + 2d6 + 2 + 10d5 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 12 + 15 + (4, 4) + (3, 5) + 2 + (4, 5, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 2, 5) + 5 = 87 Cold:1d6 ⇒ 5+2 = 94 total
Male Dwarf Ranger 19, Lore Warden 2 (HP 279/279 | AC 32 T 22 FF 23 | Fort 27 Ref 28 (Evasion) Will 17 | Init 26 | Percp 42 (46 vs traps in stone) [darkvision, tremorsense 10])
Since the grappled leader can't make AoOs, Elmar steps back and fires at the closest Elemental. DR is only applied once per enemy b/c Clustered Shots, but his weapons are magic...
anyway Nahoce will hit 5 of them with her fan blades spell as she traps them and this hits the leader to but not zubdmg:15d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 1, 1, 5, 5, 6, 3, 3, 1, 3, 6) = 52 ref:15 + 1d20 ⇒ 15 + (6) = 21
Kensai 20/Lore Warden 1 (HP 271/271 | AC [will recalulate if needed] | Fort 28 Ref 24 Will 22 (+4 vs emotion spells)| SR13 vs evil spells | Init 46 | Percp 33)
geez, 31 is their touch AC a la adamantine weapon? Also, just a reminder, all our initial attacks were versus their flat-footed AC since they hadn't acted yet. Which is important because if my spell attacks miss, I still have that charge, so I'd want to avoid needlessly wasting more spells.
