Stepping towards the main room, priceless ShiningCrusade artifacts displayed on pedestals creak and move by some unseen force under a sign that reads “The Shining Armory”. Eerie light seems to dart between the objects while the din of a raging battle echoes throughout the chamber. The central feature is a low, artificial hill atop which stand two stuffed owlbears surrounded by shattered undead foes. Each of the beasts wears chainmail barding and an orange-and-black caparison depicting a stylized owlbear. A dead man dressed in furs lies on the floor before a suit of fullplate armor.
The two stuffed owlbears, mighty creatures that they are, turn their stiff heads towards you and leap at you!
Very nice, my dear. We shall destroy these creatures quickly." Teric seizes arcane power and bends it to his will in a set of dramatic gestures. A bluish ball of fire appears right under the closest owlbear. Oddly, the flames seems to radate cold instead of fire. What's more the flames seems to stick and cloy at the creature's fur.
Casting Flaming Sphere on the closest owlbear. Teric is modifying it to be a Cold spell. Reflex DC 19. His Freezing spells abilities means that if it fails the DC, it is slowed for 1 round. He is also using his Rime metamagic feat (full-round action for a sorceror) to cause it to entangle the creature if it fails. Slowed makes it only take 1 action; -1 to attacks, AC, and Reflex saves; and move at half speed. Entangled also makes it move at half speed; -2 to attacks and -4 to Dex.
Teric also takes a 5 foot step to the south. Can someone help me since I'm on my tablet?
| Witch 12 | AC 15 (19 w/Mage Armor) T 14 FF 12 | HP 86/86 (14 temp HP)| F+12,R+11,W+13 | Evasion | Init +3 | Perc +18 | Lowlight Vision | +2 to recover from continuous effects such as such as ongoing poison damage, daily saving throws against disease, a hold person spell, or lingering damage from an attack |
Tessara thinks back to her lessons under the tutelage of former master of spells Kreighton Shane. "Good thing we use dummy animated objects instead of the real thing; we wouldn't want you to have to deal with ANY resistances on top of a moving target now, do we...
Meanwhile, while one of the animated objects manages to avoid the brunt of Narika's fireball, the other gets hit, and hit HARD, but both her spell and Teric's.
Teric, shouldn't you roll damage for that freezing/flaming sphere?
And so it moves up, slooooooowly, as it's counterpart moves up to Valora and attempts to bite the rider!
CG Human Medium 9 | HP 44/75 | AC 27 | T 18 | FF 21 | CMD 22 | F +8 | R +13 | W +9 | +3 AC/Saves vs Undead/Constructs 10ft aura | Init +9 | Percep +11 | SM +11| Spirit Dance 17/22 | Influence 1/5
"Cripes, those are huge!" Explosions and a horse go surging past her and the little woman wilts slightly. "We're so gonna wreck this place savin' it..." She then shrugs. "Oh well! Seren follows Valoria's lead, charging at the red owlbear instead. After two steps she starts to twirl, picking up speed into a whirling dance of limbs and blades.
Her face has gone sheet white and her eyes have rolled back into her head by the time she's reached her target, though her movements are becoming stronger and her posture brazenly confident. One of her swords snaps out at the leg of the red owlbear, and when she speaks it's with a Tien accented man's voice. "Entertain me, beast!"
Free action to dance, full round to charge Red. Seren and allies within 10ft have a +2 AC and saves vs constructs.
| Witch 12 | AC 15 (19 w/Mage Armor) T 14 FF 12 | HP 86/86 (14 temp HP)| F+12,R+11,W+13 | Evasion | Init +3 | Perc +18 | Lowlight Vision | +2 to recover from continuous effects such as such as ongoing poison damage, daily saving throws against disease, a hold person spell, or lingering damage from an attack |
Tess creeps closer, using her fortune hex on Seven to increase her odds of continuing to hit the creature next round.
Would someone please move me on the map? Two squares south, four squares to the right. Thanks! Fortune hex on Seven next round.
If something happens before you initiative that afffects your damage, I alter the damage dealt. Sometimes I forget though.
As Valoria and Seren strike their opponents, they realize that these are, after all, objects. And have a certain amount of hardness to them, which softens their blows.
Narika's smile widens, feeling the emotional rush of being in a little bit of a contest with Teric. She sends another ball of fire where it will hit both owlbears but none of her friends, this one blue.
Teric rolls his eyes at Narika, but chuckles himself. He flicks his wrist, sending the blue ball at the other Owlbear who was battling Valoria. Then he opens his mouth and...nothing comes out. The Owlbear however, seems to react as it's ears are frosted over by a cold sonic scream unaudible to the rest of the group.
Both spells vs. Blue this time Cold Flaming Sphere (Reflex DC19 for half):3d6 ⇒ (1, 5, 3) = 9 Again, failure means slowed and entangled
Cold Ear Piercing Scream (Fort save DC18 for half):3d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 5) = 16 Failing the save just means slowed, not entangled
On round 1, Undy steps forward 5', retrieves his rod of lesser intensified metamagic, and readies an action to cast intensified snowball at either of the creatures if they come within 50' (his range limit for the spell). This readied action would have gone off almost immediately, as Red is next in the initiative order and it moved up slightly, bringing it into range - so no need to change Undy's position in the initiative, he remains right before Red.
Undiana seems to recall that at their core, animated object are much like constructs, with all the immunities that entails. But, being objects they also have none of the finesse of any other opponent: no special attacks coming from them. Fort, Reflex and Will for Saves Order, high to low.
Undiana's snowball manages to catch the construct in the one spot it wasn't reinforced in. Frozen stuffing, dried flesh and feather burst all around it as it falls to the ground, motionless.
Riddywhipple does not recall anything of note as the magic missiles zip by to pepper the remaining construct.
Reflex, Blue:1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (16) + 4 - 2 = 18
While under fire, it does manage to avoid the ball of freezing fire.
Fort, Blue:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
But it does not manage to absorb the blast of low frequency sound which seems to leach the heat out from it's components, freezing its joints and leaving it vulnerable to a frostball.
Reflex, Blue:1d20 + 4 - 1 ⇒ (7) + 4 - 1 = 10
Undiana and Riddywhipple have until the end of today to act, because the creature is at 5 hp. If they do not, I'll bot them and move on. Start thinking of where you want to go next, and please help a brain dead GM and clearly state who is boosting what before sending it off.
Tiny Male CG Faerie Dragon | HP 39/40 | AC 23 T 16 FF 19 (+4 vs AoO) | CMB +6, CMD 16 | F: +4, R: +6 (imp. evasion), W: +9 | Init: +3 | Perc: +15 (darkvision), SM: +8 | Speed 10ft, Fly 60 (Perfect), Swim 30 | Active conditions: Good Hope, Inspired Rage | Constant: SR 13
Sorry, I misunderstood. Thought you said that it only had 5 hp left and Riddy did 8 force dmg, so I assumed that meant it was destroyed. Does its hardness apply to force damage from a spell too?
Assuming it's still standing after Riddy's action: Undy moves forward and unleashes a 15' cone of cold water and ice at the construct.
This is the Fluid Mastery ability from the Shaman's Waves spirit, which Undy has because of his wizard Spirit Whisperer archetype
Cold dmg:4d4 ⇒ (3, 4, 2, 2) = 11It is also pushed back 5' away from me. DC 20 Reflex for half damage and to negate the push
Afterwards, assuming we are out of initiative, Undy will use a Pearl of Power and another charge of Heightened Awareness.
GM, the reflex save against Narka's fireball is for half damage, not no damage.
OK: to clear things up with regards to the sequence of events: First, Riddywhipple hit it for 10-5 damage. Blue starts at 39, goes to 44. Saves against the cold-flavored flaming sphere, which is a save negates unless there is some modifier I am not aware of. Then Blue fails the save against the Ear-Piercing scream. We take 16-5 damage, bringing us to 55 damage taken. We fail the save against the cold-flavored fireball, which deals us 34-5 damage, bringing us to 84 damage taken total, before Riddywhipple pings Blue for 3 damage, and Undiana finishes the job with his Fluid Mastery ability. Let me know by PM if you have any further questions, or if you disagree with anything here.
Hardness, as discovered by anyone who began play around season 6, if a wonderful thing that blocks ALL damage, irrespective of the source. That's why in that season, those of us who survived decided that maybe adamantine wasn't that overpriced after all. :D
The last stuffed owlbear is turned to a statue of ice, a statue that Riddywhipple's magic missile shatters into a thousand pieces.
Hooray!
Looking to each other, you nod in silent assent, and circle back to the back end of the Museum and the small garden the Blackroses have begun to plant. Thousands of the glowing glyphs that have been shifting along the museum's walls coalesce here to form some sort of protective engram around the outside of the museum, casting a sparkling aura of light that bounces off the fountain’s waters.
These are shifting runes, a swarm of diminutive constructs. These creatures are not only guarding the museum, they are the power source for all of the alarms in the museum. It is possible to disable them using conventional tools, in addition to using methods more suited to the arcane. A disable device check will allow you to disable them if you accumulate enough successes. Knowledge (Arcana), Spellcraft, Linguistics, or Use Magic Device will also work. None of these has a DC that is different from the others. They are also self-regenerating: "Destroying" them will only knock them out for perhaps a minute until they return. For every 5 you exceed this check by you will get an additional piece of information.
OK; we were casting spells that were so similar that some of the descriptions could have applied to several of them. I thought Narika's cold ball was the first spell you were referring to. Thank you for explaining.
Narika looks at the runes and sees what she knows about them.
"Interesting. These seem to be the power source for the alarms. We should try to disable them with either mechnical or arcane means. Destroying them wont work though as they'll just regenerate."
Everyone can read the spoiler above. Skills checks.
GM, by making a skill check, do we need to move up and be in physical contact with the swarm?
CG Human Medium 9 | HP 44/75 | AC 27 | T 18 | FF 21 | CMD 22 | F +8 | R +13 | W +9 | +3 AC/Saves vs Undead/Constructs 10ft aura | Init +9 | Percep +11 | SM +11| Spirit Dance 17/22 | Influence 1/5
"I can't tell if they are tryin' to burn me or freeze me!" "Hah, they are just very eager. This was an entertaining battle." Seren stumbles out of her dance at the end of the battle with the owlbears, and while the party corrects themselves she becomes distracted, wandering over to another group of pathfinders that she begins to dance about with. During the little show she flares with holy light, healing their wounds.
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Once the party arrives outside Seren will look rather perplexed by the situation, scratching her head with the dull side of one of her swords. "Ummm, I dunno if I can cut those... guess I can go tinker with'em. They little all squirmy but so am I." She'll find herself falling into a summersault, flipping rather lazily over Narika's head and giving the little halfling a wink before her eyes roll back into her head again. Then she'll approach the blue swarm with a needlessly acrobatic display, ending hunched down on the balls of her feet.
"Can ya fix'em, Wynn?" "I can fix anything, lovely. Just watch." She'll reach both hands into the glyph swarm while chatting between her normal slurred common and a crisp Osiriani accent.
Free action to spirit dance - Trickster, move to blue, standard to try and UMD the thing.
Spirit Aura: Choose one skill when you are within 30 ft of Seren. You gain a +1 bonus on skill checks using that skill, and that skill counts as a class skill for you.
| Witch 12 | AC 15 (19 w/Mage Armor) T 14 FF 12 | HP 86/86 (14 temp HP)| F+12,R+11,W+13 | Evasion | Init +3 | Perc +18 | Lowlight Vision | +2 to recover from continuous effects such as such as ongoing poison damage, daily saving throws against disease, a hold person spell, or lingering damage from an attack |
Know arcana 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (14) + 17 = 31
Tess takes a look at the magical swarm and studies it’s makeup. She nods, agreeing with Teric ‘s description.
A high-pitched buzz pervades the museum, rising in frequency to the point of being inaudible. A moment later, a rolling boom echoes through the museum like thunder, and the glowing wards around the museum begin to fade.
@Table GMs: The “Failing Wards” condition on page 9 is now in effect.
Male CG Undine Wizard 10 | HP 81/81+12| AC 13+4 T 13 FF 10 | CMB +3, CMD 16 | F: +11, R: +9, W: +10 | Init: +4 (+8 with H. Awareness) | Perc: +16, SM: +2 | Speed 30ft (Swim 30) | Timelost Chronicler (1/scenario): used Active conditions: Overland Flight, Mage Armor Know (U/R): Arcana +20/12, Dung +18/10, Local +14/6, Nature +18/10, Planes +20/12, Relig +19/11
I don't mean to post out of initiative order, but tomorrow is going to be pretty jam packed and I don't want to slow things down again, so I'll post skill checks for Undy and Riddy, though I realize that by the time their turn comes at the bottom of the initiative, the situation may be very different and they might not be relevant. Bot me as needed. Undy has Burning Hands, Flurry of Snowballs, and Fireball as AoE spells and can use his Mask of Conflicting Energies to change to another energy type if they are immune.
I'll be your stand-in GM for today. I'm guesing you are tier 7-8?
Narika and Seren approach one of the swarms and start to try to unravel the underlying magic, making considerable progress.
Narika, I moved you up next to it on the map, as you must be adjacent to do this. primary, 1 for Narika:1d2 ⇒ 2 damage:8d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 4, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5) = 30Ref DC 19 for half
A sudden jolt of electricity smahses into Seren, arcing on to Narika and then Valora.
Status, bold may post
Tessara
Valora 30 NL damage (ref DC19 for half)
Red
Teric
Undiana / Rioddy (posted above)
Narika 30 NL damage (ref DC19 for half)
Seren 30 NL damage (ref DC19 for half)
Blue (4 successes)
Generally for knowledge checks, you should probably wait until your initiative before making them and sharing the information.
CG Human Medium 9 | HP 44/75 | AC 27 | T 18 | FF 21 | CMD 22 | F +8 | R +13 | W +9 | +3 AC/Saves vs Undead/Constructs 10ft aura | Init +9 | Percep +11 | SM +11| Spirit Dance 17/22 | Influence 1/5
Seren yelps and flails herself about, twisting around the worst of the sudden jolt of power from the swarms. Her left side is is still singed and her hair has started to stand on end. "They ain't happy!"
Valoria flinches as the electricity arcs across her armor. Thanks to her connection to the elemental planes, some of the damage is negated. She looks down at Arazni to make sure she is OK, then urges her forward to do battle with the twisting blue runes.
| Witch 12 | AC 15 (19 w/Mage Armor) T 14 FF 12 | HP 86/86 (14 temp HP)| F+12,R+11,W+13 | Evasion | Init +3 | Perc +18 | Lowlight Vision | +2 to recover from continuous effects such as such as ongoing poison damage, daily saving throws against disease, a hold person spell, or lingering damage from an attack |
Tess moves just south of Narika and taking advantage of Seven’s boosting ability, tries to solve the problem of blue.
As the ozone clears it is apparent that Seren and Narika managed to avoid the worst of the blast of electricity.
Valoria, intent on disarming the trap, takes the blast full to her face. Luckily her heritage provides some protection. Tess also moves up to help.
The second set of runs swarm forward engulfing Undiana and Teric.
damage:2d6 ⇒ (4, 2) = 6 And fort DC 14 vs distraction Undi fort:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18
Undiana and Riddy rapidly move up to the other set of runes and try to disable them, it looks almost deactivated now.
One DC 22 or better check is all that is required now to finish off the blue runes
Status, bold may post
Teric 6 NL damage; Fort DC 14 vs distraction.
Narika 15 NL damage
Seren 15 NL damage
Blue (9 successes)available in:1d6 ⇒ 6
Tessara
Valora 26 NL damage
Red
Undiana / Riddy - 6 NL damage
