[PFS/DMK] So you think you can seek? (Inactive)

Game Master Kludde

Nalshene also re-casts her few buffs.
Umbral mage armor
greater false life Nalshene temp: 2d10 + 15 ⇒ (2, 5) + 15 = 22
greater false life Narshala temp: 2d10 + 15 ⇒ (4, 9) + 15 = 28

Nalshene estimates the recharge time to be seconds, not minutes. In fact, it may be only a matter of second before another blast washes over the group.

Let me know if you want to cast those spells. You spent one round reviving Pad. Do you want to linger casting spells, or do you want to get out of the way?

Jebediah is leaving, post haste.

North or east? (Map updated)

1d2 ⇒ 2

East.

Jebediah rushes for the eastern tunnel, anxious to not go through the magic-draining trap again.

Glau follows immediately behind Jeb without abandon, trying to avoid the trap again.

Nalshene also follows along as quickly as possible. She doesn't want to risk more of her magic items.

Pad, dinosaur rider, is holding on for dear life.

The corridor makes a u-turn, and splits into three before ending into a tall vertical shaft, which descends before opening up into a wider chamber stretching off to the sides. Dozens of manacles hang from the sides of the cylindrical walls, from which hang as many prisoners. A doorway on the southeastern edge of the room is level with the floor, while a single door on the opposite side stands thirty feet above the ceiling of the wider, horizontal chamber.

Each of the three identical shafts is accessible from area in the northwest by one of the three doorways 10 feet below the ceiling, 60 feet above the floor. The bottom 30 feet of the three shafts are connected by a single horizontal chamber.

Pad grants Jeb the ability to soar through the air with Extended Fly (32 min).

I hope you like your new wings.

How wide are the shafts?

25 feet, see the map

As the others start to leave, Amsheagar will take a few seconds to transform into a more arid form and fly above their heads.

Nalshene casts fly on Narshala, and transforms into a tiny fey version of herself, granting her wings.

Glaurung unfolds her leathery wings and follows Amsheagar, Nalshene, and Narshala, not confident enough in her current weakened state to take the lead.

Jebediah nods, and carefully flies forward.

At the opposite end of the shaft, a shimmering wall of colors separates this area from the next.

Jebediah regards the wall with a critical eye.

"Anyone know what that is?"

Pad casts Detect Magic and scans the area for traps.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 20 - 6 ⇒ (15) + 20 - 6 = 29
Trapfinding, t10: 10 + 25 - 6 = 29

Amsheagar will also look at it.

knowledge arcane: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18

As will Nalshene.
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (6) + 25 = 31

The Acadamae professor and the pyromaniac come to the same conclusion: the wall is a prismatic wall - a powerful piece of warding magic that can only be dispelled under special circumstances.

The wall requires casting spells to remove it in a particular order. The order is Cone of Cold, Gust of Wind, Disintegrate, Passwall, Magic missile, Daylight and finally Dispel magic. I can cast Cone of Cold, Daylight with a scroll and Dispel Magic but none of the others.

"Oh dear. I do not have much I can add to this, unfrotunately. I doubt my illusory versions of those spells will do the trick..."

"I can contribute Gust of Wind and Disintegrate."

'I can produce missiles and dispeling magics,' Glaurung offers. 'Can we burrow around it though? That might be easier.'

Was there a scroll of Passwall in any of the loot we recovered? It appears to be the only missing spell to take down the wall.

So, any plans?

I have the ability to cast phase door whose description is almost EXACTLY the same as passwall. Kludde, would you rule that it replicates the effects well enough that we may be able to use it to dispel the wall?

Sounds like a more expensive version of passwall, so I'll allow it

Alright then, I think we have all the spells we need to remove the wall.

"We will need to precisely coordinate the order of our casting, friends."

"Fine, let's start. I'm sure whatever is down there knows we're coming and probably has a knife to Osprey's throat."

Jebediah nods.

"Right then. Let's get this show on the road."

He then prepares to cast his contributions at the right time.

The wall requires casting spells to remove it in a particular order. The order is Cone of Cold, Gust of Wind, Disintegrate, Passwall, Magic missile, Daylight and finally Dispel magic. I can cast Cone of Cold, Daylight with a scroll and Dispel Magic but none of the others.

Pad casts Cone of Cold on the wall.

Yes! Let's bring down the wall!

Jebediah nods, and casts Gust of Wind, and Disintegrate.

Nalshene casts phase door.

With four of the colors of the prismatic wall out of the way, the shimmering wall starts to look less saturated.

I'll assume you also cast Magic Missile, Daylight and Dispel magic

With the last dispel, the magical wall drops, to reveal a balcony.

An arched balcony overlooks this eighty-foot-diameter round room from sixty feet up the northwest wall. Two identical balconies occupy the western and southwestern stretches of the wall; one supports a black-glassed mirror, and the other holds the bound body of an angel, her torn form held together by wires, glowing chains, and lunar thorns. Hundred-foot-long silken tapestries of demonic symbols and obscene acts of self- mutilation and eroticism hang from the ceiling to the floor below. In the room’s center, at a height of forty feet from the ground below, is a platform supporting a large, canopied bed, connected to a square walkway by a narrow catwalk.

Hovering high in the middle of the chamber, a demonic woman is mounted on a Shantak. Her body is the perfect embodiment of desire, a glory that only poets could give words to. Her flesh is seemingly stitched into the dark armor that caresses her supple form.

You have come to the Ring of Ecstasy. So much could be yours, yet you have slain all my servants. You have thwarted me for the last time. I will show you a world of sweet, sweet agony, and I will cherish every scream and every whince of you.

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The leader of the Glabrezu disruption is also here, and immediately rushes up to Jebediah, striking with with his flaming greataxe

Greataxe, Vital Strike, Jeb: 1d20 + 31 ⇒ (9) + 31 = 403d12 + 9 + 1d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 1) + 9 + (5) = 18

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Jebediah
Nalshene
Amsheager
Glaurung
Pad
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Queen
Irentios
Shantak
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"It really is such a shame," Glau says as she flies into the room, "the Ring of Ecstasy sounds like exactly the kind of thing I would be interested in. But alas, you have taken some of our friends and we would like them back."

Glau casts a spell to blur her figure. displacement

"I agree, Glau. It would have been so much fun. Perhaps there will be relics left after we destroy this demonic filth that we can take back with us?"

Nalshene casts a targeted greater dispel magic on the queen, then a Quickened Tenebrous loathsome veil (Shown on map as green line).
Caster level: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (18) + 15 = 33 NICE! Her three highest level spells are dispelled.
SR check: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (7) + 15 = 22 Not as great, so my loathsome veil might not affect her. Probably will affect her steed though. If affected, they need to make a DC 27 Will save or are affected as if they had 11 fewer hit dice.

Seeing his fellow druid try to take some of the demons powers away, Amsheagar does the same and casts Greater Dispel Magic on her.

Caster Level: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (20) + 15 = 35
SR: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (8) + 15 = 23 Dispel can't be resisted.
Knowledge Planes: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28

Hopefully that will bring her down to our level.

Fellow Druid! I take major offense, my good man! :-P

With a snarl, Jebediah unleashes on the man with the flaming axe.

Casting Quickened Bear's Endurance, then full-attacking.

Talon, Rage: 1d20 + 18 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 18 + 2 = 22, for 1d8 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 17 + 2 = 22 damage +2d6 ⇒ (5, 4) = 9 Holy damage +1d6 ⇒ 2 Acid damage.
Talon, Rage: 1d20 + 18 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 18 + 2 = 29, for 1d8 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 17 + 2 = 24 damage +2d6 ⇒ (2, 1) = 3 Holy damage +1d6 ⇒ 5 Acid damage.
Bite, Rage: 1d20 + 18 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 18 + 2 = 39, for 1d6 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 17 + 2 = 20 damage +2d6 ⇒ (3, 2) = 5 Holy damage
Foreclaw, Rage: 1d20 + 18 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 18 + 2 = 38, for 1d8 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 17 + 2 = 26 damage +2d6 ⇒ (6, 6) = 12 Holy damage
Gore, Rage: 1d20 + 18 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 18 + 2 = 27, for 1d8 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 17 + 2 = 22 damage +2d6 ⇒ (2, 6) = 8 Holy damage

You sound like you need a hug!

Pad dismounts from Jeb and casts Grasping Hand on the demonic queen.

SR check, Grasping Hand: 1d20 + 20 - 6 ⇒ (11) + 20 - 6 = 25

CMB grapple, Grasping Hand: 1d20 + 29 - 6 ⇒ (17) + 29 - 6 = 40

Those 6 negative levels are brutal.

Nalshene withers down the protection of the Demon Queen, before generating another one of her trademark sickening patterns. The demon queen looks alright, but the Shantak seems to be somewhat less sturdy in the air.

WIll: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (9) + 15 = 24

Jebediah heads for the general, dealing massive trauma to the axe-wielding human.

Pad conjures a grasping phantasmal hand, that tries to swipe the queen from her steed. As it makes contact, however, the force dissipates.

The leather-clad queen raises her blade, and swipes the air at Nalshene in retaliation, even though she is way out of reach. A ray of dark energy shoots forth, hitting Nalshene with unerring precision. Nalshene feels her pulse drop, as is the life is being sucked out of her. Die, you worthless insect.

I need a DC 20 fort save

The general lift his greataxe to swing it at Jebediah, only to have the swing falter on the magical defense of the druid.

Greataxe, Jeb, Vital Strike: 1d20 + 31 - 4 ⇒ (2) + 31 - 4 = 29

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Jebediah
Nalshene
Amsheager
Glaurung
Pad
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Queen (2 dispels)
Irentios (95)
Shantak (sickened)
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Will: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23 If the effect has the pain or shadow descriptor, I gain an additional +2 against it.

Nalshene shakes off the effects of the demon's attack and goes back on the offensive. She casts a Quickened shadow evocation emulating a battering blast spell, using a pinch of dweomer's essence to increase her chance to beat her SR, hitting the demon and her steed, then casts enemy hammer on the man with the axe.
SR demon lady: 1d20 + 15 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 15 + 5 = 32
SR steed: 1d20 + 15 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 15 + 5 = 38
SR human if needed: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (19) + 15 = 34

demon ranged touch ball 1: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28 force damage: 5d6 ⇒ (2, 6, 1, 3, 1) = 13
demon ranged touch ball 2: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21 force damage: 5d6 ⇒ (3, 5, 2, 6, 3) = 19
steed ranged touch: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15 force damage: 5d6 ⇒ (6, 5, 4, 6, 4) = 25
They each get a DC 30 Will save to reduce the damage to 20%. Then I get bull rush attempts against her and the steed (trying to knock her off, specifically.)
bull rush demon: 1d20 + 11 + 7 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 11 + 7 + 10 = 43
bull rush steed: 1d20 + 11 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 11 + 7 = 38
Wow, that's a lot of nice rolls! :)

The human is immediately affected by enemy hammer, and will get a Fort save each round that I try to throw him somehwere.

Pad casts a quickened Haste on the group, flies up to 20 feet toward the ceiling and readies a spell versus the demon queen's next casting.

Don't forget Haste!

Just realized I forgot the possible crit with that ball on the demon.
Crit ranged touch?: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28 crit force damage: 5d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 2, 3, 5) = 16

HA!

Jebediah keeps ripping into the human.

Talon, Rage, Haste: 1d20 + 18 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 18 + 2 + 1 = 30, for 1d8 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 17 + 2 = 22 damage +2d6 ⇒ (5, 5) = 10 Holy damage +1d6 ⇒ 4 Acid damage.
Talon, Rage, Haste: 1d20 + 18 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 18 + 2 + 1 = 26, for 1d8 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 17 + 2 = 26 damage +2d6 ⇒ (1, 4) = 5 Holy damage +1d6 ⇒ 6 Acid damage.
Talon, Rage, Haste: 1d20 + 18 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 18 + 2 + 1 = 33, for 1d8 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 17 + 2 = 26 damage +2d6 ⇒ (6, 1) = 7 Holy damage +1d6 ⇒ 2 Acid damage.
Bite, Rage, Hate: 1d20 + 18 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 18 + 2 + 1 = 27, for 1d6 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 17 + 2 = 22 damage +2d6 ⇒ (1, 3) = 4 Holy damage
Foreclaw, Rage, Haste: 1d20 + 18 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 18 + 2 + 1 = 22, for 1d8 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 17 + 2 = 25 damage +2d6 ⇒ (6, 5) = 11 Holy damage
Gore, Rage, Haste: 1d20 + 18 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 18 + 2 + 1 = 31, for 1d8 + 17 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 17 + 2 = 22 damage +2d6 ⇒ (4, 1) = 5 Holy damage

Amsheagar looks at the beasts, Raises his hand and casts sunbeam to try and blind their foes.

SR: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (1) + 15 = 16
SR: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (6) + 15 = 21

But... with those rolls... fails..

Nalshene avoid dying a horrible death at the far end of the dark ray. Still, the effect eats away at her soul, leaving a gaping wound.

Damage, Nalshene: 3d6 + 15 ⇒ (2, 3, 5) + 15 = 25

Nalshene batters the demon and the steed, knocking the demon off her ride. Annoyed, she takes to the air herself.

Will: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (7) + 27 = 34
Will: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (10) + 15 = 25
Will: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

Jebediah rips and slashes at the man, who stands up to the onslaught, ready to bring his axe down once more.

Fort, Human: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (13) + 16 = 29

Amsheagar targets the demon with a sunbeam, but it does not seem to do the queen much harm.

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Jebediah
Nalshene
Amsheager
Glaurung
Pad
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Queen (5, 2 dispels)
Irentios (173)
Shantak (25, sickened)
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