[Outpost I] GM Abraham's Ancients' Anguish (Inactive)

Game Master Abraham Z.

"Can someone move shelf 4 so I can start on that? This is my expertise."

You are probably the best climber of us all! Archimedes will try to help you too ! The little angel nods and casts guidance on him.

Ali grabs the tablet and runs back to the tables and begins to try and slot the tablets into the table I think this is what we were needing - Sajan go and get that torc off of the statue, hurry!

Sajan goes and gets the torc off the statue.

Acrobatics to jump, spending a ki point: 1d20 + 49 ⇒ (20) + 49 = 69 for 17 feet off the ground.
Climb check: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20 if I need one

Shelves Status

Shelf 1 Art of Cosmetics (Craft (alchemy) or Disguise): Moved 100% | Catalogued 50% | Studied 0% |
Shelf 2 Art of Weaponry (Craft (weapons) or Profession (soldier)): Moved 100% | Catalogued 0% | Studied 0% |
Shelf 3 Bitter and Sweet Secrets of Wisdom (Knowledge (religion) or Linguistics): Moved 100% | Catalogued 100% | Studied 100% |
Shelf 4 Resolving of Enchantments (Knowledge (arcana) or Spellcraft): Moved 75% | Catalogued 0% | Studied 0% |
Shelf 5 Secrets of Mirrors (Perform (any) or Sense Motive): Moved 100% | Catalogued 100% | Studied 100% |
Shelf 6 Signs of the Clouds and the Earth (Profession (farmer) or Survival): Moved 100% | Catalogued 100% | Studied 100% |
Shelf 7 Signs of the Sun and the Courses of the Moon (Knowledge (geography) or Perception): Moved 100% | Catalogued 100% | Studied 100% |

Phase 8 - the Bold May Act
Enora - may act twice
Chasik - Fatigued - may act twice
Ali/Familiar
Shel
Sard
Sajan - 4 dmg

Moving: After rolling your STR check, you can add +5 to your result; however doing so requires that you make a DC 15 FORT save, or become fatigued (or exhausted if already fatigued).

Cataloguing: Perception, Profession (Librarian), or either of 2 skills for that shelf. Read both Terran & Ancient Osiriani: +5; read neither: -5; read only 1: +0

Studying: Linguistics, Sense Motive, or either of 2 skills for that shelf. Read both Terran & Ancient Osiriani: +5; read neither: -5; read only 1: +0

22:00

Shel completes the studying of shelf 7 but does not find anything of especial interest.

Sard attempts to study the tablets that have been found on shelf 6 but is not quite able to ascertain the fullness of their meaning. If there's anyone who can cast guidance on Sard that will give him the 25 he needs to open the spoiler. Sard also makes some headway on the cataloguing of shelf 1.

Ali lays his hands on Sajan, who feels the fatigue miraculously lifting from his body. Ali also works on studying the tablets but is also not quite able to make out their deepest meaning. Nevertheless, he carries them over to the area in the northwest of the complex with the three tables and finds - perhaps not surprisingly - that the final table (the one titled "rebirth") fits perfectly in the slot on the first table. Do you leave it there?

Sajan moves back to the area with the large statue and attempts to leap up to get the torc from it. Although he uses his monkly skills to make an almost superhuman leap into the air, it is not quite high enough to reach the torc. Not only that, but as he scrambles to find his footing on the polished smooth stone, he just barely misses his foothold and finds himself falling back to the ground.

Falling damage to Sajan: 1d6 ⇒ 4

At this point, please all be sure that your position on the map is updated to the appropriate place for whatever action you are taking.

Sajan is by far the worst monk I have ever heard of, but I have heard of him lol. Also because I have slow fall, 30ft, I shouldn't take the damage from the fall, or any other negative consequences. They give Sajan 50ft of silk rope, but I'm not aware of any particular way of throwing it for it to tie itself barring some sort of Equipment Trick. I suppose that it might be long enough to wrap around part of the statue and then fall back down, functionally giving two halves of rope, both 25ft in length that he could climb at the same time.

Sajan begins retrying his previous attempt to grab the torc, hopefully using the arm/hand as a stepping point.

"Success is simply a test of time."

Climb Check: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (10) + 14 = 24
Acrobatics, ki point: 1d20 + 49 ⇒ (2) + 49 = 51 12 feet up
Climb check: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (7) + 14 = 21

Ok, disregard the damage from falling

Did you include the +1 from Archimedes casting Guidance on you in your climb check?

Enora is on her own in shelf 4.

First action

fortitude save for +5 on strength check: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17

strength check with +5: 1d20 - 1 + 5 ⇒ (16) - 1 + 5 = 20

Second action

cataloguing with kn(arcana): 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (9) + 15 = 24

Ok, disregard the damage from falling

Did you include the +1 from Archimedes casting Guidance on you in your climb check?

Yes, those are with the assumption of guidance, forgot to write that, my bad.

Sajan does not quite manage to climb to the top of the statue, but he also does not fall from his perch about halfway up.

Enora continues working in the library.

"Sajan, would you rather I simply fly up and retrieve it?"

"That might be the most efficient answer." he replies to Sard.

Sard smirks as he weaves a spell (fly, obviously), then swoops up and grabs the torc. "My, but I am majestic, soaring through the air like this."

Chasik, stands in the hallway, trying to catch his breath at all the energy he exerted. He watches and the monk tries to jump up and grab the torc around the statues head.

Sard, please give me a STR check

Strength: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (17) - 1 = 16

Shel starts cataloguing shelf 2, casting an eye over to the others attempting to solve the riddle. As they seemed to have things in hand, she tried to busy herself by doing something

Catalog shelf 2 1d20 + 17 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 17 + 5 = 33

Ali leaves the rebirth tablet on the rebirth table and hopes to see something happen.

Archimedes flies up to Sard, casts guidance on him as he flies, and then attempts to help lift the tablet.

Aid Another: 1d20 - 4 ⇒ (20) - 4 = 16

Shelves Status

Shelf 1 Art of Cosmetics (Craft (alchemy) or Disguise): Moved 100% | Catalogued 50% | Studied 0% |
Shelf 2 Art of Weaponry (Craft (weapons) or Profession (soldier)): Moved 100% | Catalogued 100% | Studied 0% |
Shelf 3 Bitter and Sweet Secrets of Wisdom (Knowledge (religion) or Linguistics): Moved 100% | Catalogued 100% | Studied 100% |
Shelf 4 Resolving of Enchantments (Knowledge (arcana) or Spellcraft): Moved 100% | Catalogued 50% | Studied 0% |
Shelf 5 Secrets of Mirrors (Perform (any) or Sense Motive): Moved 100% | Catalogued 100% | Studied 100% |
Shelf 6 Signs of the Clouds and the Earth (Profession (farmer) or Survival): Moved 100% | Catalogued 100% | Studied 100% |
Shelf 7 Signs of the Sun and the Courses of the Moon (Knowledge (geography) or Perception): Moved 100% | Catalogued 100% | Studied 100% |

Phase 9 - the Bold May Act
Enora
Chasik - Fatigued
Ali/Familiar
Shel
Sard
Sajan

Moving: After rolling your STR check, you can add +5 to your result; however doing so requires that you make a DC 15 FORT save, or become fatigued (or exhausted if already fatigued).

Cataloguing: Perception, Profession (Librarian), or either of 2 skills for that shelf. Read both Terran & Ancient Osiriani: +5; read neither: -5; read only 1: +0

Studying: Linguistics, Sense Motive, or either of 2 skills for that shelf. Read both Terran & Ancient Osiriani: +5; read neither: -5; read only 1: +0

17:00

Enora has completed the moving of shelf 4, which is now available for cataloguing. Enora makes significant progress on cataloguing the same shelf.

Sard flies up to the top of the statue but finds that he is not strong enough to wrest the torc free.

Chasik watches Sard's and Sajan's efforts from below.

Shel completes the cataloguing of shelf 2, which is now available for study.

Ali leaves the rebirth tablet slotted into the first table in the room with the pulsating cylinder. It seems to fit well in the slot, but nothing noticeable happens from leaving it there.

Archimedes assists Sard with the effort to pull the torc free, but still it does not seem to be quite enough.

17:00

Edit: please note that I have moved some of your icons on the map to reflect the actions that you are currently doing.

”Cmon guys, get in gear! Move faster,” Shel calls out as she attempts to study shelf 2.

Perception 1d20 + 17 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 17 + 5 = 35

Aligets a bit frustrated and uses the final charge on his flying boots and moves to try and help with the torc by attempting to dead lift it.

Str Check: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

Assuming he is successful he will bring it to the ground and slot it into the table with all the ouroboroses on it.

Would someone else please inspect the third table and figure out its use?

Shel completes the study of shelf 2 but does not find anything especially interesting there.

Ali flies up to the top of the statue and with a burst of strength is able to rip the torc from the statue's grasp.

With a loud bang, the southernmost column in the long hall suddenly shatters in a deafening roar of shrieking stone, (the spot where the column was is now difficult terrain and is marked with a "no" symbol on the map), creating a large cloud of dust (the cloud of smoke is marked on the map in red - it's a 20' spread around the spot where the column collapsed). Moments later, creaking mournfully, the giant statue starts moving.

Sajan is still halfway up the statue (12' up in the air), and Sard, Archimedes, and Ali are flying in the statue's vicinity, 15' up in the air. Ali, you have the torc in one hand. Now that the statue is moving, Sajan will need to make Acrobatics checks to avoid falling off (or you can jump down of course). Also, I don't believe that anyone currently has a weapon in hand, but let me know if I've missed that anywhere. The statue is Gargantuan (occupies a 4x4 space).

Combat Round 1 - the bold may act!
Shel
Sard
Chasik
Statue
Enora
Ali & Archimedes
Sajan

Conditions:cloud of smoke round 1

Pathfinders are up!

17:00

Knowledge (Arcana) to know anything about the statue. With your check, tell me the questions you would like, in descending order of preference, from this list.

Should have seen that coming. Ancient temples and stone guardians kinda go hand-in-hand. Well let me occupy the bastard while you acrobatic monkies come back down

Chasik moves forward, grabbing his magical silver hammer. He grips it tight with both hands and with a mighty “grunt”, he takes a hack at the gargantuan beast.

power attack, fatigued, vital strike vs FF: 1d20 + 14 - 1 ⇒ (20) + 14 - 1 = 33
crit baby!: 1d20 + 14 - 1 ⇒ (15) + 14 - 1 = 28

vital strike damage: 2d8 + 11 ⇒ (4, 5) + 11 = 20
crit baby!: 2d8 + 22 ⇒ (2, 1) + 22 = 25

forgot I was used by a shield so text should have a boy been “gripping tight with right hand”. Mechanics still the same tho

Knowledge (arcana): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16 Resistances or immunities or weaknesses, if that's worth anything.

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Sard flies quickly away and fires bolts of force back at the statue. Move action fly > half speed, standard to cast magic missile

CL check vs. SR (if needed), spell penetration: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18

magic missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
magic missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
magic missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
magic missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
magic missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Shel and Enora are in the other room studying and cannot go outside where the statue is without going through the cloud, correct?

Shel hops down from the shelf and double moves toward the commotion, pulling her kukri as she moves.

Would someone move me 40’, Please?

This scenario is ridiculous lol. Remind me to burn a replay on it with one of my actual PCs.

Sajan hopes down from the statue, drawing his Temple Sword on the way. He also focuses on dodging the statues attacks (especially if that provokes an AoO) and spends a swift action and a Ki point to get +4 AC.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 28 ⇒ (2) + 28 = 30
AC 20 > 24, 28 vs AoOs

He then swings with his +2 Temple Sword defensively.

Swing: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

AC 24> 27

17:00 Combat Round 1 - the bold may act!

Shel 0 dmg;
Red 0 dmg;
Sard 0 dmg;
Chasik 55 dmg; 1 CHA dmg; fatigued; grappled;
Statue 49 dmg; grappled;
Enora 0 dmg;
Ali 0 dmg;
Archimedes 0 dmg;
Sajan 0 dmg;

Conditions:cloud of smoke round 1

Shel rushes to the aid of her companions, drawing her kukri as she goes. As she passes through the cloud of smoke she observes that it appears to be a normal cloud of smoke (i.e. not poisonous or other weirdness; in the cloud you can only see 5' away) but she passes through it without incident. Shel, I moved you to what seemed like the most likely place you would go with 40' of movement - hope it's where you want to be.

Immediately after Shel, another creature bursts forth from the cloud of smoke, almost as if in hot pursuit! Draped in fine dark robes, this creature’s body seems to be made of equal parts bone, leathery flesh, and blood-red smoke. It gets directly in Shel's face, but does not appear to have enough actions remaining to attack her. Yet. Knowledge (Religion) to know something about this creature.

Sard stares at the statue intently, dredging his memory to see what he might recall about such entities, but unfortunately he remembers nothing at all. He flies to the other end of the hall and lets loose a barrage of force missiles at the poor statue, which does not appear to be immune to them.

Chasik strikes the statue with a frightful blow. Although it does not appear that all of the damage goes through, nevertheless he is undoubtedly satisfied with his effort! Chasik, I didn't understand what you wrote about your shield. Did you mean that you are also wielding a shield? And if so, how are you two-handing your warhammer? Or did you mean something else?

The statue swings its mighty khopesh towards Chasik!

Khopesh attack: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (11) + 22 = 33
Khopesh dmg: 3d8 + 14 ⇒ (1, 4, 3) + 14 = 22
CHA dmg: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Not only does the blow wound Chasik, but it seems to somehow make him a bit uglier too. And the statue seems to grow a bit stronger as a result.

The statue follows up by slamming its free arm towards poor Chasik.

Slam attack: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (17) + 22 = 39
Slam dmg: 3d8 + 14 ⇒ (8, 3, 8) + 14 = 33
Grab: 1d20 + 34 ⇒ (10) + 34 = 44

The blow also strikes the poor fighter, further wounding him and seizing him tightly in the statue's grip. Chasik is grappled.

Sajan easily jumps down from the statue (I've put you next to Chasik but feel free to put yourself in any square adjacent to the statue that you prefer) and swings his temple sword at the statue but, even with it grappling Chasik, does not come close to hitting it. (Sajan, I don't understand your AC notations that you made in your last post - can you please clarify for me - thx)

@Enora - yes, that is correct - you'll need to pass through the cloud to rejoin the group.

Enora and Ali are up!

Enora casts fly on herself and moves 60 ft as high up as possible in the room towards the cloud.

Sorry, I thought I was making the AC notes pretty clear for you by doing it that way. My base AC was 20, but 24 with a Ki point, it was then increased to 28 against AoOs. The second notation was that my new base AC was 24, because of the Ki point, plus an additional 3 for fighting defensively, for a total of 27.

i forgot I was wielding my shield, so my description was off, but the attack/damage was correct for my one-handed swing

Chasik after delivering a powerful blow, isn’t able to react in nearly enough time and gets beaten up pretty bad and is clutched in the massive creatures arms. His hammer clangs to the ground as he is swept off his feet. He thinks how he is going to get out of this predicament.

Well, I did say I was going to occupy its attention. Maybe I should have chosen different words!

Ali flies into a position to take advantage of Chasik's positioning and tries to strike with Gamin while holding the massive stone torc in his shield hand (probably not as an effective shield!)

Damnable living Statues, every single time! Gamin grumbles. He didn't particularly like being slammed against stone.

Ali offered a small apology and then swung gamin with a loud boyish grunt. Ali waits to hear from Archimedes about whether there is evil in the room, possibly emanating from the statue but then strikes.

+2 Allying Mithral Sword, Flank: 1d20 + 15 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 15 + 2 = 371d8 + 13 ⇒ (1) + 13 = 14
+2 Allying Mithral Sword, Flank Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 10 + 2 = 241d8 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 20

We have to hurry!

(AC is probably down to 24 ATM unless the Torc does function as some kind of shield)

EDIT: Forgot I had to take a move action to pull my sword

17:00 Combat Round 2 - the bold may act!

Shel 0 dmg;
Red 0 dmg;
Sard 0 dmg;
Chasik 55 dmg; 1 CHA dmg; fatigued; grappled;
Statue 75 dmg; grappled;
Enora 0 dmg;
Ali 0 dmg;
Archimedes 0 dmg;
Sajan 0 dmg;
Yellow 0 dmg;

Conditions: cloud of smoke round 2

Enora passes through the cloud of smoke without incident, flying just below the 20' ceiling.

@Sajan, ok makes sense. So, just to clarify: a) the ki point increases your AC by 4 for how long? b) what is boosting your AC another 4 against AoOs? c) So if your AC is boosted to 27 for fighting defensively, does that mean that your AC against AoOs is still 28, or is it now 31?

@Chasik, ok got it. Why did you write that your warhammer falls to the ground though? Being grappled doesn't cause you to lose your weapon but you can't take any action that takes 2 hands, so you won't be able to 2 hand your warhammer, but since it's a 1 handed weapon anyway it shouldn't be an issue for you.

And yes, you did get its attention with that crit!

@Ali, if you want to use your shield there is nothing preventing you from (free action) dropping the torc to the ground. Also, you can draw your sword as part of your move action to move, so you don't need to spend a second move action. However, there's no room for you to flank the statue from where you are because you are technically squeezing into its square at the moment (it is occupying a 4x4 area). Because it is grappling, it cannot take an AoO against you, so there's nothing preventing you from flying to wherever you would like to attack from, but if you want to stay where you are we'll have to dig into the rules about occupying an enemy's square (I can't remember them offhand).

Ali watches his fighter friend deliver a savage blow to the statue and, not to be outdone, directs his friend Gamin to an equally critical spot on the enormous stone figure! As with his friend's attack, Ali notices that not all of the blow seems to strike home, but with his critical strike there are still plenty of shards of stone flying hither and thither.

Meanwhile, Archimedes looks into the hall attempting to ascertain if there is any evil before him and determines that there is the presence of evil somewhere in the 60' cone of his attention.

At this point, another of the strange looking creatures (Yellow) emerges from the cloud of smoke, just beneath Enora but far enough below her that it neither provokes from her, nor is able to attack her, and runs into the fray.

Shel is up!

Sajan has mobility...because pregen, which gives +4 AC against AoOs from movement. The ki point only lasts until the start of my next turn. Final AC until my turn, 27.

Shel swings at the new creature appearing in front of her, hoping to delay it long enough for the others to come help.

Attack 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 17
Damage 1d3 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Attack 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (16) + 14 = 30
Damage 1d3 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Attack 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
Damage 1d3 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Attack 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
Damage 1d3 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Primary attacks are with +1 ghost touch weapon in case that helps.

Is there enough clearance for me to get above it? 10 ft of altitude is easily within the movement speed of my current fly speed even if I will need to take a square of horizontal movement with it to avoid needing to make a fly check, assuming that there is room enough for that I will be where I am now on the map, but 25 feet of altitude

Ceilings throughout the complex are 20', except in stairs, where they are 10'

Ceilings? I thought this was open air. I think we are in a bit of trouble guys.

17:00 Combat Round 2 - the bold may act!

Shel 35 dmg; bleeding (1)
Red 0 dmg;
Blue 0 dmg;
Sard 0 dmg;
Chasik 55 dmg; 1 CHA dmg; fatigued; grappled;
Statue 75 dmg; grappled;
Enora 0 dmg;
Ali 0 dmg;
Archimedes 0 dmg;
Sajan 11 dmg;
Yellow 0 dmg;

Conditions: cloud of smoke round 2

Shel unleashes a barrage of blows against the Red thing next to her. However, only one of them connects, and that one appears to do no damage whatsoever! The enemy does appear to be fully corporeal, however.

Red replies to Shel:

Red bite attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32
dmg: 1d6 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

Red claw attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (7) + 12 = 19
dmg: 1d4 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

Red claw attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (17) + 12 = 29
dmg: 1d4 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

bite attack, crit confirmation: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32
crit dmg: 1d6 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

Red's bite is particularly vicious, nearly removing Shel's gall bladder, while its claw attack opens up a bleeding wound on the poor halfling. Shel, you'll take an additional point of bleed damage at the start of each of your turns.

As if things weren't bad enough for the poor tomb robbers Pathfinders, another one of the strange creatures emerges from the cloud and heads in the direction of Sajan...

Blue bite attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (15) + 12 = 27
dmg: 1d6 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

... and he just barely manages to sink his teeth into the monk's flesh.

Btw, if you are wondering, none of these creatures were in the cloud yet when Shel passed through, and Enora was just high enough in the air that she could not see them (nor they, her)

Reminder: Knowledge (Arcana) to know about the statue, Knowledge (Religion) to know about the other things.

Sard and Chasik are up!

Chasik, just a reminder that, though you are grappled, nothing prevents you from full attacking the statue (at essentially no penalty, since your penalties and its penalties balance each other), as long as you are not using a 2 handed weapon

Sorry to post out of turn but I will not be able to post again this weekend! So Enora casts haste into the room so that she can get most of the martials in the spell's effect.

kn(arcana): 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (4) + 15 = 19

kn(religion): 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (3) + 15 = 18

Enora shouts everything she learns to the group

Sard loops around (making sure to fly at least 30ft), ending up in a position where the only creatures within 20ft of him are enemies farther away from the enemies. He begins to laugh as the glow in his eyes intensifies until he emits a powerful wave of fire centered on the ground that engulfs the three creatures. I think I hit all three smoke creatures in my 20ft radius blast without hitting any allies where I am right now, considering Enora's elevation.
EDIT: misread the power. I can center it up to 60ft from me, so I will place it on the ground in a position where it will hit all three enemies without hitting any allies, which should be possible given Enora's elevation.

fire damage: 9d6 ⇒ (1, 5, 2, 3, 1, 2, 4, 1, 5) = 24 DC 23 Reflex for half.

Elemental (fire) 9th level bloodline power. Anyone that fails their save gains vulnerability to fire until the end of my next turn.

Chasik groans as he is held tight. He squirms as best as he can to slam the stone creature with his hammer.

vital strike, PA, flank?: 1d20 + 14 - 1 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 14 - 1 + 2 = 232d8 + 4 + 6 ⇒ (3, 7) + 4 + 6 = 20

17:00 Combat Round 2 - the bold may act!

Shel 35 dmg; bleeding (1); haste (exp. round 9);
Red Ghul 14 dmg; vulnerable to fire
Blue Ghul 2 dmg;
Sard 0 dmg;
Chasik 116 dmg; 4 CHA dmg; fatigued; grappled; haste (exp. round 9);
Statue 70 dmg; grappled;
Green Ghul 0 dmg;
Enora 10 dmg; bleeding (1); haste (exp. round 9);
Ali 0 dmg; haste (exp. round 9);
Archimedes 0 dmg; haste (exp. round 9);
Sajan 11 dmg; haste (exp. round 9);
Yellow Ghul 14 dmg; vulnerable to fire

Conditions: cloud of smoke round 2

Sard sends a blast of fire towards the three strange creatures.

Red Reflex: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16
Blue Reflex: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
Yellow Reflex: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

One of them (Blue) manages to avoid the worst of the blast but the other two are hit full on. Nevertheless, Sard notices that they all seem to be less affected by the fire than he would otherwise expect.

@Sard, re your altitude, the ceiling height is 20', so the highest 5' square you can be in is 15' up. I've adjusted the notation on the map.

Chasik strikes out at the statue but, without any flanking partner, just barely misses.

The statue releases its hold on the valiant fighter and lashes back at Chasik, first with its khopesh:

khopesh attack: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (15) + 22 = 37
khopesh dmg: 3d8 + 14 ⇒ (6, 5, 6) + 14 = 31
CHA dmg: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Once again, the statue seems to get a bit stronger from the beauty it has stolen away from Chasik. It then bashes at him again with his other arm...

slam attack: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (17) + 22 = 39
slam dmg: 3d8 + 14 ⇒ (6, 2, 8) + 14 = 30
Grab: 1d20 + 34 ⇒ (11) + 34 = 45

... once again reestablishing the grapple on the beleaguered but brave warrior.

As if things weren't bad enough, yet one more of the foul undead beasts can be glimpsed at the edge of the cloud, where it scampers up the pillar next to Enora and lashes out at her with its claw!

claw attack: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (14) + 12 = 26
claw dmg: 1d4 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10
20% miss chance due to concealment from smoke, high is good for me: 1d100 ⇒ 56

The wound it gives Enora begins to bleed. Enora, you will take 1 point of bleed damage at the start of each of your turns

Enora knows nothing about the statue but she correctly identifies the creatures as Advanced Ghuls, CE medium undead shapechangers, former jann whose eternal existence was twisted by fate and wrought through the displeasure of Ahriman, Lord of the Divs. As if the curse of undeath and ravenous hunger were not enough, these once-majestic creatures now bear donkey hooves as feet. Despite their horrific undead appearance, this feature shames them the most, and they hide their feet from view. Ghuls, like ghouls and ghasts, haunt cemeteries and other places of the dead hoping to feed on corpses. They also hunt mourners and grave tenders, as they enjoy the taste of living prey as well as that of the dead. Selective in their diets, ghuls choose their victims by personality, believing innocence and youth taste more delicious than the barely palatable flesh of the bitter and old. Sometimes a ghul follows a funeral procession in hyena form, keeping a safe distance until the ceremony, whereupon it changes into its true form to attack and feast. Sorrow and despair taste as delicious as innocence to a ghul. The longer a ghul goes without feeding, the more ferocious and primal the creature becomes, and these ones seem especially hungry!

Enora, you can ask one question about the Ghuls (from the list previously noted). You've already seen firsthand that they appear to have some degree of fire resistance, that they probably have some form of damage resistance (since you saw that Shel's one hit did nothing), that their claws cause bleed damage, and that they have a climb speed in addition to normal movement; you can also probably presume that they possess the usual undead traits. Since Enora is offline for the weekend, if one of you wants to select the question on her behalf, I'm sure that will be fine - I'll take whatever is the first question posed.

Enora is able to flit away from the green beast with her flight and caste haste on her fellow party members without difficulty. I've taken the liberty of moving you 5 away from Green so that your spellcasting will not provoke. From this position, everyone will be included in your haste except for Sard.

Enora, if you are still checking online, let us know if you have something in mind that you would like to do when your next turn comes up. Otherwise, I'll ask one of your fellow party members to post a move for you.

Reminder: Knowledge (Arcana) to know about the statue, Knowledge (Religion) to know about the other things.

So, some friendly GM advice: as you can already see, this fight has the potential to be quite deadly. You are playing high tier, but believe me, it's even worse without the 4 player adjustment! Most of us have various boons sitting on our old chronicle sheets, which we often forget to use in the heat of battle - please take a moment to review yours and see if any of them might be useful to you in this encounter. (For example, Chasik, if you have anything that would retroactively have given you a +1 on that last attack, such as something that would remove your fatigue, I'll allow you to use it to retcon that attack). Also, the statue clearly has hardness, so hitting it with a non-adamantine weapon is going to be less effective; still, both Chasik and Ali critted it and clearly did a lot of damage even after the hardness was subtracted; while it's difficult to know exactly the "health" of such a creature, I think as a kindly GM I can share that it has less than half of its hp remaining.

Ali and Sajan are up!

using Mythic Legacy to obtain Mythic Weapon Focus giving me an additional +1 to attack

Chasik once again gets grabbed by the monstrosity of a foe. He can only groan in annoyance. It’s clear he has not been hurt this badly in quite a little by time, but his training kicks in.

He takes a deep breath and takes a flury of swings at the enemy.

pa, vital: 1d20 + 14 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 14 - 1 + 1 = 26
1d8 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11

iterative: 1d20 + 9 - 3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 9 - 3 + 1 = 10
1d8 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

haste: 1d20 + 14 - 1 - 3 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 14 - 1 - 3 + 1 = 26
1d8 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

@Chasik, since there's no reason you couldn't have activated your Mythic Legacy on your last turn, I'm going to give you the hit from that attack (you had missed by 1), which increases the damage (after reducing for hardness) done to the statue by 12 (so its current dmg total is now updated to 82). How long does the Mythic Legacy boon last for? Also, I think you are leaving out a +1 from your latest attacks: you should be getting +1 from haste and +1 from mythic weapon focus (as well as subtracting 1 for fatigued and 3 for power attack). I'll resolve these latest attacks that you've just posted when your next turn comes around.

ML lasts for 1 round. I have Furious Focus so I ignore the penalty for the first swing. So I have attacks of 14/9, -1 fatigue, +1 haste, with a -3 PA for swings 2/haste. Hope that made sense

Enora casts a spell on herself to increase her vitality.

Casting 'false life' for d10+7 temporary HP.

Then Enora uses her wand with the spell 'mage armor' on herself.

@GM:Before going in Enora had cast false life 10 temp. HP so she is unharmed. But the bleed is active although no real HP were reduced, correct?

Thank you GM Abraham for the 5 ft step. Enora would want to know weaknesses.

Sajan turns around and swings at purple, knowing that stone is generally difficult to scratch. Any leftover attacks will go to yellow.

+2 Sword, haste: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23
damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

+2 Sword, haste: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19
damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

+2 Sword, haste, ki point: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31 threat
damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
+2 Sword, haste, ki point, confirm: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12
crit damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

+2 Sword, haste: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
damage: 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

17:00 Combat Round 2 - the bold may act!

Shel 35 dmg; bleeding (1); haste (exp. round 9);
Red Ghul 14 dmg; vulnerable to fire
Blue Ghul 14 dmg;
Sard 0 dmg;
Chasik 116 dmg; 4 CHA dmg; fatigued; grappled; haste (exp. round 9);
Statue 70 dmg; grappled;
Green Ghul 0 dmg;
Enora 0 dmg; bleeding (1); haste (exp. round 9);
Ali 0 dmg; haste (exp. round 9);
Archimedes 0 dmg; haste (exp. round 9);
Sajan 11 dmg; haste (exp. round 9);
Yellow Ghul 14 dmg; vulnerable to fire

Conditions: cloud of smoke round 2

Enora recalls that Ghuls have no particular weaknesses. I've adjusted your dmg total to reflect that the 10 hp dmg you took came off of your temporary hp. You are still bleeding, however.

Sajan unleashes a fluffy of sword blows against the Blue Ghul. His first and third attacks connect but unfortunately they seem to be less effective than he would have hoped. As I imagine is obvious by now, the Ghuls have some form of DR - I don't know if Sajan has any way of dealing with that at this level, but if so, let me know.

@Sajan, what is your AC now?

Ali and Archimedes are up!

Other than DR/ magic and DR/ Slashing, he can't get around any DR with his sword. His fists, on the other hand, ignore DR Magic, Silver, Cold Iron, and Bludgeoning, Unfortunately, he probably won't hit with his fists lol.

Ali continues to rear into the statue trying to end that threat before moving on to the ghuls

Gamin once more in exasperation protests to having to hit stone like this.

Gamin, + haste: 1d20 + 15 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 15 + 1 = 251d8 + 13 ⇒ (6) + 13 = 19
Gamin, + haste: 1d20 + 15 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 15 + 1 = 291d8 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 20
Gamin, + haste: 1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 10 + 1 = 251d8 + 13 ⇒ (8) + 13 = 21
Gamin, + haste: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 5 + 1 = 111d8 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 20