Of The Dark and Strange (Inactive)

Game Master Signore di Fortuna

<There's enemies nearby, at least five.>

Making sure her crossbow was ready, Corda said, "There are five nearby."

You enter into a large chamber, guarded by a flesh golem and four cultists. They seem to be preparing to dump chemicals into the water.

Initiative:

Corda: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Morgor: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21
Derika: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Vishanti: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
Eldan: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8
Anton: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
Flesh Golem: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (4) - 1 = 3
Cultists: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23

The cultists draw their weapons and continue to make their preparations to poison the water supply. 3 rounds before the water is poisoned.

Round 1: Cultists, Morgor, Vishanti, Eldan, Anton, Corda, Flesh Golem, Derika

How in the fu<k are we supposed to do that? We're not mythic.

"Do your best to stay away from the golem, but stop those stupid bastards with the vials at all cost!" She yells out as they prepare to engage the enemy.

Morgor took a step to the side and made himself as small as possible to keep from being hit.

Sidestep to H-15 and Total Defense.

Assessing the situation quickly, Vishanti moves forward, once again reaching into the fabric of space, tearing a hole through which she connects the point where Elson stands in one moment and the point her would be in the next.

Move to D,12 Teleport Eldon to D6. Moving him from a point withing 30ft of me, to another point within 30 ft of me.

Eldan steps forward to put the first of the cultists down.

Attack: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (2) + 23 = 25; Damage: 1d4 + 12 ⇒ (3) + 12 = 15
Attack: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (11) + 18 = 29; Damage: 1d4 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14

"What I wouldn't give to be a little speedier..." the kobold mutters as he slays his opponent.

Anton raises his holy symbol. "Sarenrae, smite our foes who wish to harm the innocent!"

Holy Smite: 5d8 ⇒ (2, 2, 8, 2, 3) = 17; DC 18 Will Save for half damage and to not be blinded.

Will Save: 1d20 ⇒ 10

The cultists put their hands up to their eyes as Anton's spell blinds them and assaults them with holy light.

Round 1: Cultists, Morgor, Vishanti, Eldan, Anton, Corda, Flesh Golem, Derika

Corda leveled her crossbow at the nearest cultist, and fired.

Twang vs C4: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

Damage?: 1d10 ⇒ 9

Corda puts down a second cultists as the flesh golem turns its attention toward Eldan, in order to protect the remaining cultists.

Attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (10) + 13 = 23
Attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 15

But both of its attacks miss the kobold.

Round 1: Cultists, Morgor, Vishanti, Eldan, Anton, Corda, Flesh Golem, Derika

Moving to H10 and casting magic missle on C1, before I forget to tell you what I'm doing and get distracted. Lol :o)

Moving closer to her next intended target, but not close enough to give the golem an opportunity to attack her she raises her hand and fires off four bolts of energy at the cultist near Eldan.

How ya like me now?: 4d4 + 4 ⇒ (3, 2, 2, 1) + 4 = 12

Derika finishes off a third cultist. The remaining cultist fumbles around in his bag to try and finish his preparations, but he is significantly hampered.

Round 2: Cultist, Morgor, Vishanti, Eldan, Anton, Corda, Flesh Golem, Derika

Morgor maintained his position, still unable to do anything about the behemoth in front of them.

Total Defense.

Vishanti focuses her attention on the remaining cultist, conjuring a twisting pattern of subtle, shifting colors weaving through the air around him, reminiscent of a heavenly aurora.

Cast Hypnotic pattern DC 16, centered on C2's space
No. of HD i can affect: 2d4 + 9 ⇒ (2, 3) + 9 = 14

He's gonna be gone in just a minute anyways, less actually once I do what I do here in another sec or so. Lol ;o)

With one cultist left she says, "Concentrate on big ugly, I got this jerkface." She says in a eerily calm tone.

I gots a plan.

Will: 1d20 ⇒ 18

The cultist manages to avert his eyes as Vishanti completes her spell.

Round 2: Cultist, Morgor, Vishanti, Eldan, Anton, Corda, Flesh Golem, Derika

Eldan steps forward and starts attacking the golem.

Attack: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (14) + 23 = 37; Damage: 1d4 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16
Attack: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (15) + 18 = 33; Confirm: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (19) + 18 = 37; Damage: 2d4 + 24 ⇒ (2, 4) + 24 = 30
Attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (1) + 13 = 14

Good thing it lasts for as long as I keep concentrating

Anton moves forward and raises his holy symbol. "Sarenrae, grant us the strength to finish this fight."

Bless: +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects for 7 minutes.

Corda reloaded her crossbow as fast as she could.

Full-Round Action to reload. I really need Rapid Reload.

The flesh golem continues to attack Eldan.

Attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (12) + 13 = 25; Damage: 2d8 + 5 ⇒ (5, 1) + 5 = 11
Attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 20

Round 2: Cultist, Morgor, Vishanti, Eldan, Anton, Corda, Flesh Golem, Derika

Without a word she charges at the cultist straight ahead of her while she swings her mighty axe at him.

Slice: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (20) + 14 = 34

&dice: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (17) + 14 = 31

You dead son.: 3d12 + 12 ⇒ (10, 6, 9) + 12 = 37

In a fury over what they were trying to do to the people of their town, and not having yet dealt with her feelings about the losses they had already suffered, Derika takes out all her anger and frustration on the bastard trying to destroy their water supply as she cleaves into him with her axe in a vicious attack while she screams.

With the cultists handled in short order, only the golem remains.

Round 2: Morgor, Vishanti, Eldan, Anton, Corda, Flesh Golem, Derika

I'm gonna try a thing I've never done before on the golem cuz I think it'll bypass damage reduction if it has anything. I got arcane strike and blooded arcane strike and this is what it does. I was thinking of just going all out crazy on this thing seeing everything we've been through so far in such a short time. I just think she really needs something she can totally lose it on and take out all the frustration, anger, and guilt she's feeling. Arcane Strike As a swift action, add +1 damage, +1 per 5 caster levels and your weapons are treated as magic for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. Then:Blooded Arcane Strike While bloodraging, Arcane Strike is always in effect and multiplies with Vital Strike. Is this a good thing? I'm just not sure how to describe that she goes into it....

You'd basically turn your axe into a +2 magic weapon while you rage. All the anger will manifest into the energy crackling all over the axe

Soooo...what is that vital strike thing? Is that just a part of it? The wording is a little confusing to me, so that's why I thought I would bring it up before actually trying it. I don't even know how I would describe her....or how she would go into something like that. I mean...what would I say? She went bonkers? Lol

I guess...it would kinda be like her channeling all her rage into her weapon when she attacks? I just...I don't know how to describe that though.

Usually Vital strike is a separate feat that lets you roll damage twice, then add it up, then add your modifiers. With this feature you double the extra damage as well if you have the Vital strike feat (which I recommend next time you get a feat)

Unleash her inner dragoness!

Vishanti's breath catches as she witnesses the fury of her love unleashed. It had been a long time coming, and she could feel that it was yet to fully run it's course. Thier enemies would rue the day they'd awakened her dragoness.

Moving carefully, she gets into a position to send another wave of healing to those who were still hurt.

Move to H9. Channel.: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 2) = 12

Yeah...okay, that makes more sense. So...is it just the arcane strike that I'm using then? I'll be raging at the same time too soooo....that's gonna be pretty nasty. So...once I get vital strike I can do a nasty combination of things then huh? And don't you worry...that dragoness is fixin' to rear her head and we fixin' to go to bed. Lol Henry got me one of those like humidifying aromatherapy fancy things and we gonna try it tonight...oops I mean this morning. Damn time got away from us....

Heh, hope it helps. Sweet dreams!

Eldan continues his attacks with fancy footwork and conviction.

Attack: 1d20 + 23 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 23 + 1 = 39; Confirm: 1d20 + 23 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 23 + 1 = 36; Damage: 2d4 + 24 ⇒ (1, 4) + 24 = 29
Attack: 1d20 + 18 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 18 + 1 = 35; Confirm: 1d20 + 23 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 23 + 1 = 43; Damage: 2d4 + 24 ⇒ (4, 2) + 24 = 30

Eldan overcomes the golem and leaves it in a useless heap.

Combat Over.

Her shoulders sag as her rage can't seem to find another outlet since this one was taken away from her so quickly. Screaming in a furious rage she goes to the golem and just starts hacking off it's limbs as the raging torrent inside her takes a furious hold on her. After hacking it up, she strips all the cloth she can find from the cultists and throws it on and around the golem before throwing alchemist fire on it. Chest heaving she watches as it burns for a minute as she tries to catch her breath. Chest heaving she looks at the others, "We need to search them, destroy whatever poison they had, take what if anything useful they had on them, make sure the rest of this area is secure, and then head to the cemetery.

She ticks of what she thinks they should do. She had to stay focused somehow or she would completely lose it. Looking at everyone she asks, [b]"That sound like an okay plan?" She asks as she goes to the cultists bodies and starts searching them.

Taking 20 on the search. Will wait to find out what everyone wants to do before getting Out of the sewers.

"Give the poisons to me. When we get back to the house, I can try and figure out what it was made of. If I can do that, perhaps I can figure out where they're getting the ingredients and stop them."

She nods feeling a bit numb as she retrieves the vials from the four bodies and takes them to Corda before resuming the search of the bodies.

Derika doesn't find much besides the cultists' gear. Apparently, these four were just subordinates. There is a large bag with several different vials, each an agent to creating the ghoul plague.

Derika takes the bag to Corda, "Destroy every bit of this crap and as quickly as you can. We need to get to the cemetery as soon as possible." She says as she quickly gathers up the gold, potions of cure light wounds, and the alchemists's fire.

Eldan nods. "We better hurry."

Rubbing the back of her neck she nods, "Yeah, we need to move so....if we take that bag of crap with us can we destroy it later? Would that be okay? I don't want to have something happen to Renault....like it did to Gaston cuz we didn't get there fast enough." She says while trying to hold back the raging torrent she felt inside. Maybe what happened to Gaston wasn't her fault....but she couldn't help but think if she'd been a little faster maybe he'd still be here. She saw the look on Renault's face when she told her he didn't make it....she hated that look as much as she hated losing good people to this crap that was being started by these greedy bastards for no other reason than they could. Her hands close into fists as she thinks about everything.

Vishanti nods, silently resting her hand on Derika's powerful arm as a small comfort. The anger brought her focus so ehr would do nothing to diffuse that now, just let her know she stood by her side."Let's go."

She nods as her love speaks, Vishanti had always been there for her, keeping her from falling over the edge. Vishanti kept her from feeling hopeless, and that was a good thing. Giving Corda the bag of vile toxins, she turns and heads quickly back to where they had left Parthenia.

I think I've been tired a lot lately cuz I gave Corda that bag of vials like three times. Lol

You return to the surface without incident.

"That didn't take you long," Parthenia says.

She nods, "Few things just needed killin'. We have to hurry to the cemetery now." She says as she heads that way while wiping gore off of her, "Someone remind me to burn these clothes later."

"They were not a very talkative bunch, And we didn't have much time." Vishanti replies.