:D
Amnur takes the square....
and ....
nothing happens.
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Amnur holds the small stone for several moments, reveling in it's ancient unique beauty, and then secures it in his pack. "What Shi? Were you all saying something? I was so absorbed in that little stone... Well best we be off and kill us some wench-like monkey-demons!" He heads out with the others to assess the situation outside.
As you emerge from the Azlanti complex, you find complete chaos. Ensuing All along the palisade wall, Pathfinders and camp workers are trying desperately to hold off the horde of charau-ka outside the walls. Wave after wave of rocks, sticks, and even the camp’s own garbage are flying over the walls at regular intervals. Somewhere back in the jungle, that same deafening roar echoes across at the valley.
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Amnur looks at the chaos, "By Torag's Beard" and instinctively whips his waraxe into his hand, looking ready to charge the nearest wall and leap into the fray. He stalls, remembering the object just recovered and looks around, "Hmm, I'm feeling we should charge but we do have this fancy stone... Any thoughts how to use it?"
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Seeing all the carnage about him, Oriandor raises his fist yelling, "You damn dirty apes!"[/b] and draws out his wand of shield with his tail.
Turning to the dwarf behind him, the tiefling shakes his head while unsteathing his weapon. "Do whatever you're gonna do quickly, for there's glory and monkeys out there, although we only get the former if we take care of the latter!"
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Amnur obliges, loath to sheath his weapon, but aware enough that a magic solution should be considered before throwing himself into battle. He takes the box back out and starts moving around the site, visiting the sphere and other places of potential signifigance. He pays attention to any reaction from the stone or his surroundings to see if there's a reaction, and asks the others to do the same. "Lets see if this durn'ed things of any use to us." he says as he walks.
In dividing his attention between the device and his surroundings, he fails to pay adequate attention to either one, smacking his nose into several posts (causing him to put on his helm and lower his visor, further reducing his ability to see clearly), tripping over mounds of dirt and piles of gear half a dozen times, and falling headlong into at least three trenches with a loud clanging of armor and arms... as well as a litany of dwarvish cursing.
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Shilyn laughs at the dwarf as he stumbles around a bit. "Hey, want me to carry that for you before you kill yourself falling into the jakes or something?" With a giggle at the thought of Amnur getting himself in deep crap, as an old adventurer used to tell them, she holds out her free hand for the runed box.
After you have had a moment to take in the scene, a large boulder flies out of the nearby jungle and smashes a hole in the palisade wall, creating a breach (see area B2).
Soon after, a boiling mass of shrieking charau-ka charge the breach, while behind them stomps a huge mass of a gorilla man with 4 arms, roaring. The moment it appears, the device starts vibrating and glows, elevating slightly.
Shilyn falls unconscious, but is breathing steadily.
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She feels her hand tingle with the power of the cube as its wisdom of the monolith begins to fill her mind.. Words just spoken come to her lips again and she sees her mother smiling as they flow.. I can do this..
Everyone is welcome to read the "Shilyn" and "I" back and forth if you would like. Make sure to act generically with your characters, but I don't mind you following along.
You are very aware, Shilyn. You basically just got the keys to the station wagon, and suddenly know how to drive. That, and you're unconscious, lol.
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As the vision of her mother fades, Shilyn begins to concentrate on one of the monoliths. In her mind's eye, she sees the huge thing and begins to call to it. "Come..defend," she tells it silently, or so she hopes. [b]"Gah, if I'm talking outloud in this condition, everyone's going to think I'm nuts.. and I'll have a lot of explaining to do which I have no explaination for.."[/i] she muses.
Pulling an image of the apes in her mind, she focuses on the monolith again. "Kill these things." not even sure this will work given her current state.
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Amnur turns at the sound of the crashing boulders and the roaring ape-demons. Then Shi collapses and Amnurs head whips around in all directions, "What happened!? Is she hurt?" he asks, even as he stoops quickly to inspect her limp form.
Amnur tries to remove the box from her grasp as he checks Shi for injuries.
The four-armed gorilla, looks to be about fifteen feet tall and causes the ground to shake with each step. It intelligently scans his troops on the other side of the camp near the breach and roars at them, causing the ape-men to devolve into a frenzy.
New map updated. The other pathfinders in the camp are hobbling over to defend the breach. The large ape wipes them away with one sweep of his hand. A few lie broken on the ground, and others get up for more.
Amnur, you are unable to get the box away from her. You all notice a huge Monolith that walks towards the breach, pausing to bow at you all with a huge flourish, and giving Amnur the finger as it walks past you all.
INITIATIVE ORDER ROUND 1
Amnur
Ori
Mylvie
Varian
Ape men #1
Ape men #2
Flori
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Juliet runs up clearly wondering at the huge statue walking through her camp...
What in the ... ???
Who... ???
Where did you ... ???
Finally, she just points at the huge statue walking towards the breach, hips swaying, as it swipes groups of ape men away with its huge paws and then blows them kisses as they bounce and land in heaps.
The large 4 armed ape creature notices it too, and roars loudly and beats its 4 arms across its large chest and charges the large statue with hate blazing in its eyes.
Shilyn, you are part of a different initiative.
Azlanti Monolith CR 16
Advanced Iron Golem (Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 162)
N Huge construct
Init –2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +0
Defense
AC 31, touch 6, flat-footed 31 (–2 Dex, +25 natural, –2 size)
hp 155 (21d10+40)
Fort +7, Ref +5, Will +7
DR 15/adamantine; Immune construct traits, magic
Offense
Speed 20 ft.
Melee 2 cold iron slams +36 (4d12+27/19–20)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Special Attacks breath weapon, cold iron, powerful
blows
Statistics
Str 47, Dex 7, Con —, Int —, Wis 11, Cha 1
Base Atk +18; CMB +34; CMD 43
Special Abiliti es
Breath Weapon (Su) As a free action once
every 1d4+1 rounds, an iron golem can
exhale a 10-foot cube of poisonous gas.
This gas cloud persists for 1 round; any
creature within the area when the golem
creates it (as well as any creature that passes
through the cloud during the remainder of that
round) is exposed to the cloud’s poisonous effects.
This poison is magically created each time the
golem uses this power.
Breath weapon—inhaled; save Fort 19; frequency
1/round for 4 rounds; effect 1d4 Constitution
damage; cure 2 saves. The save DC is
Constitution-based.
Cold Iron This iron golem is constructed from cold iron,
meaning its slam attacks count as cold iron weapons.
Immunity to Magic (Ex) An iron golem is immune to spells and
spell-like abilities that allow spell resistance. Certain spells and
effects function differently against it, as noted below.
• A magical attack that deals electricity damage slows an iron
golem (as the slow spell) for 3 rounds, with no saving throw.
• A magical attack that deals fire damage breaks any slow
effect affecting the golem, and heals 1 point of damage for
every 3 points of damage the attack would otherwise deal.
If the amount of healing would cause the golem to exceed
its full normal hit points, it gains any excess as temporary
hit points. The iron golem gets no saving throw against
fire effects.
• An iron golem is affected normally by rust attacks, such as
those of a rust monster or a rusting grasp spell.
Powerful Blows (Ex) An iron golem inflicts one and a half times its
Strength modifier and threatens a critical hit on a 19–20 with
its slam attacks.
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Shilyn watches as the monolith bats away ape men as if they were cornhusk dolls and gives a mental grin. "You want some of this big one? Ok, you're on!" she muses willing the golem to grab one of the apes and hurl it at the four-armed one while breathing a cloud of gas in front of the charging ape. "Distract, weaken, and kill."
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Oriandor turns his head to see the giant statue moving towards them. He steps out of the way, quickly analyzing it before breathing a sigh of relief as it mocks Amnur in the way only their fellow half-elf would to a paladin.
Swiping the wand from his tail, Oriandor casts a protective ward upon himself before moving to follow up with the dwarf while yelling, "Get back you damn, dirty apes!".
Both groups seem mesmerized as they watch the two huge entities rush towards each other and collide. You see the (male) statue blow a kiss towards the monster, and a thick noxious gas spreads forward to meet the monster rushing forward.
The monster seems to be in such a hurry to combat the statue that he doesn't notice the gas, and breathes deeply into it. It chokes and falls to its knees trying to regain its breath, still out of reach of the statue. It regains its composure, but rises considerably less composed than it once was. Monster takes 26 damage, and must make a CON save each round for the next 4 rounds.
The monster rages and slams the monolith with 4 powerful fists
hitting with 3, doing 36 damage. Additionally, it hooks the monolith with 2 of its arms and starts to pull (rend), doing 11 more. (47 damage in total.)
Power ranger round, summed up.
Champion = 2 Con damage and 26 HP damage.
Azlanti Monolith = 47 hp damage
Ready for "Go, go Power Ranger!" round 2.
INIT
Shilyn/Monoltih
Champion
"Wee little ones" round 1 summary.
INITIATIVE ORDER ROUND 1
Amnur, eyes wide in surprise, absentmindedly returns the salute of the monolith. Coming back to himself his battle senses take over, pushing distractions out, "Someone with range keep an eye on Shi!" and charges north as fast as his stubby legs will carry him (which isn't far) and shouting his family battle-cry in challenge, ROANOOOOCCKKKK!!".
Oriandor turns his head to see the giant statue moving towards them. He steps out of the way, quickly analyzing it before breathing a sigh of relief as it mocks Amnur in the way only their fellow half-elf would to a paladin.
Swiping the wand from his tail, Oriandor casts a protective ward upon himself before moving to follow up with the dwarf while yelling, "Get back you damn, dirty apes!".
The bow and gesture tells mylvie all she needs to know, a grin splits her face and I maintain my position.
Oh, Shi, well done.
Varian, torn between protecting Shi and moving to defend the wall, finally succumbs to the need to make a decision. Seeing Mylvy has Shi well protected for now, he moves toward the nearest apeman, and extends a greatsword from his hands, ready to strike the nearest foe.
2 groups of ape-men move toward Amnur, Vari, and Ori.
Flori delays.
Juliet Diaz seems to come out of her stupor, and - being injured - grabs her bow out. I and my guards will watch over your friend, as she seems to be the only chance to stop that monster. Help your friends with the breach!
"Wee li'l ones" round 2 ready. Please post in spoiler format. All speech/directions may be done in non spoiler format in order to communicate with each other cohesively.
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As the monolith's arms flash forward toward the ape, she tries again to expel the noxious gas but senses that it's not working at the moment. "Darn, I so wanted to give him a lung full while face-to-face," she mutters quietly to herself.
Giving Flori an hour or so to jump in. I would hate to delay her 2 rounds in a row. Botting after the hour is up.
We are having our house inspected today, so that is the cause for the radio silence... We are currently in full scramble mode getting our house "camera ready".
Sorry for the delay.
Inspection done. We looked amazing. We are going to be renting the house. I'm exhausted.
Round 2 summary (those that be under 10 feet tall)
Amnur charges ahead under the trees, swinging low with his waraxe at the near group of ape-men. He calls the beasts on, "Yer as ugly as yah are smelly! Feel the might of Amnur!!"
Attack(Charge)&Damage: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 5 + 2 = 231d10 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12
The creature staggers under the weight of his blow.
The tiefling dashes towards the first crazed beast and makes a wide swipe at it with his magically imbued blade, missing to the left.
Attack with wakizashi: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
Mylvie casts mage armour on herself. Then she moves forward behind Amnur, Oriandor and Varian.
Varian holds his ground, waiting for the apes to approach him, and casts shield of faith on himself (+2 to ac)
Upon getting hurt or seeing their compatriots hurt, the Ape men go into a shrieking frenzy, that seems to make them act a little quicker and possibly more reckless.
Ape Men #1 shrieks and attacks Amnur.
if hit MISS.
Ape men #2 shrieks, five foots, and attacks Amnur.
if hit MISS.
Flori Watches over Shilyn to make sure that she is taken care of.
Round 3, ready set go! Amnur deals damage to one of the ape men.
King Kong vs. The Amazing 50 foot woman.
"Ok big guy, let's see what you can do," Shilyn muses as she wills the monolith to smash the great ape's face.
attack 1: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (11) + 18 = 29
damage 1: 4d12 + 27 ⇒ (8, 6, 11, 1) + 27 = 53
attack 2: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (10) + 18 = 28
damage 1: 4d12 + 27 ⇒ (4, 4, 3, 1) + 27 = 39
As the monolith's arms flash forward toward the ape, she tries again to expel the noxious gas but senses that it's not working at the moment. "Darn, I so wanted to give him a lung full while face-to-face," she mutters quietly to herself.
The blows hit powerfully, though don't fully seem to sink in. But they definitely do damage. (72 hp damage)
The 4 armed monstrosity roars with pain and anger retaliates.
Damage
Damage
Damage
Damage
(69 hit points damage)
SHilyn, in reading through everything carefully, I realize that you didn't get an attack last round. Your breath weapon is a free action, and I didn't get an attack roll from you. I will roll your damage here and include it in the totals.
Shilyn bot: 104 total hp damage = 155 - 104 = 41 remaining hp.
Monkey Damage: 201 total damage = 17 remaining hp.
Round 3, Optimus Prime vs Megatron. Ready Set go.
Thanks for the reminder Varian. With you changing weapons often, I will need a reminder for reach when you do have it. So nicely done, that is perfect.