[PFS] GM Lithrac's Assault on the Wound (#5-24) (Inactive)

Game Master Cyril Corbaz

Bart steps back into flank and stabs!

mwk cold iron dagger: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 10 + 2 = 21
miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 78
damage: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
sneak: 3d8 ⇒ (2, 5, 7) = 14

mwk cold iron dagger: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 10 + 2 = 21
miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 28
damage: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
sneak: 3d8 ⇒ (5, 3, 4) = 12

Round 2, Flanking, Sneak Att, Offensive Defensive, Power Att, Blesssing of Fervor (AC: 24), Mirrored Enemy

Filios again attacks the enemy from a flanking position with Bart.

CB Att: 1d20 + 9 - 2 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 9 - 2 + 2 + 2 = 21
CB Dam: 1d10 + 4 + 5 + 3d6 ⇒ (10) + 4 + 5 + (6, 4, 1) = 30

Miss Chance - High Good: 1d100 ⇒ 11

Sorry Kuraishimo, didn't see the last two lines. He didn't take any damage from your magic missile since he has a shield spell up. You need to make a stabilization check for round 2 by the way

Titus's first swing dissipates one of the mirror images, whereas the second one hits him fully! The third swing misses completely.

There is still one image up as Bart stabs the warlord. His first attack meets the image and dissipates it, (Bart's first attack misses by less than 5, so it dissipates the last image) but the halfling's second stab misses the warlord.

Filios's efforts are also met with thin air.

Kyra is up!

Kyra glances worriedly at the fallen form of Kuraishimo, but holds herself just back from healing the fallen man, knowing if he returns to the realm of consciousness, he'd still be gravely wounded and a likely target for knocking over the cliff as long as the demon warlord stands over him.

In her frustration, she shouts out in Kelish.

/Kelish/"I can't heal Kuraishimo while the warlord fights over him! Drive the demon away from him!!"/

Kyra prays to her goddess for additional aid, knowing her blessing should be particularly effective with the hastened attacks of her allies.

Cast bless on the party, granting a +1 on attack rolls.

Kyra then advances along the back wall, drawing her scimitar while she moves to Kuraishimo, planning to drag him away from the demon lord as soon as she can.

This will provoke an AoO. She is moving along the back wall. She is AC21 from BoF.

Kyra blesses the party and yells something in Kelish, but sadly no one understands her.

Brae-Hagen stabs the cleric as she walks by!
Flaming shortspear (AoO): 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (7) + 15 = 221d6 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 14 = 15 plus 1d6 ⇒ 2 fire.

The Warlord's voice booms across the cave, then is magically enhanced in the valley below where the armies tirelessly fight. "I shall break you at the gates of Jormurdun."

Initiative - round 3
Brae-Hagen
>>>Filios
>>>Bart
>>>Titus
Kuraishimo (-9, unconscious, bleeding)
>>>Kyra
Everyone can act! Kuraishimo has two stabilization checks to do, one for round 2, one for round 3.

Bart casts his own spell and becomes even shorter.

Reduce Person

"Verily I doubt that." Titus draws a wand and activates it. Shield.

Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

Round 3, Flanking, Sneak Att, Offensive Defensive, Power Att, Blessed, Invisible Enemy

Where are you running to, coward!

Kyra catches her breath slightly as the demon commander disappears, giving her a chance to assess the injured about her in the room.

Gripping her holy symbol, she glances at the fallen form of Kuraishimo and she begins to intone her typical request to Sarenrae to heal her entire group...

Then she realizes that Brae-Hagen may still be lurking about, and without the ability to exclude him from her goddess's divinity, that she could in fact do more harm than good.

She then scans her allies, noting her wounds (Kyra down 19hp with the AoO that hit for 17hp; Bart down 15hp) before deciding to tend to her wounds quickly before making her rounds on the others.

Spontaneously losing command for a cure light wounds. As always, Kyra's heals are empowered.

Cure light (on self): 1d8 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

With the empower, Kyra heals 18.

Guilt begins to wash over the cleric as she realizes her healing touch could've brought Kuraishimo completely back into the fight with a stronger spell...

Rolling for Kuraishimo since he doesn't post.
Kuraishimo's stabilization roll, round 2, DC 19: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Kuraishimo's stabilization roll, round 3, DC 20: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Initiative - round 4
Brae-Hagen
>>>Filios
>>>Bart
>>>Titus
Kuraishimo (-11, unconscious, bleeding) Stabilization check DC 21 needed.
>>>Kyra
Everyone can act!

Titus will give himself sight beyond sight. Cast See Invisibility.

1d20 + 3 - 9 ⇒ (1) + 3 - 9 = -5
1d20 + 3 - 10 ⇒ (3) + 3 - 10 = -4
1d20 + 3 - 11 ⇒ (9) + 3 - 11 = 1

Saw your rolls right after posting mine, cellphone posting is hard.

No worries, I'll use your last roll for the current round. However I was under the impression that you had 18 Con, hence +4 on this roll.

Titus's spell goes off, and the aasimar sees the magus not far from him, just behind Kyra. He's able to warn his companions at once!

Unsure what else to do for the moment, Tiny Bart pulls a scroll and reads it.

expeditious retreat

I cannot see the map at work. Is it possible for me to move into a flanking position on our newly discovered enemy?

You can't flank what you can't see.

You are correct, con is +4, was going off memory, not that any of the rolls were close.

@GM Lithrac: Your post indicated that he tells us where the enemy is located...is that not true? I was assuming that I could flank, just with the requisite miss chance. If I am wrong, then so be it, but let's not try to act like this is common knowledge with your normal cavalier attitude, ok? It is beginning to wear thin on me.

It appears you're correct, Filios. After some research, the RAW don't say that you can't flank an invisible target. He has total concealment from you, which no AoOs from you when he provokes, but flanking is allowed. That being said, you'll provoke from him if you move into position. Using Acrobatics would work, but moving at half speed will also mean you'll need a double move to get there. Your choice.

Thanks, GM Lithrac

Round 3, Flanking, Sneak Att, Offensive Defensive, Power Att, Bless, Mirrored Enemy

Filios moves in, taking an attack from the enemy, then again attacks the enemy from a flanking position with Bart.

CB Att: 1d20 + 9 - 2 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 9 - 2 + 2 + 1 = 26
CB Dam: 1d10 + 4 + 5 + 3d6 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 5 + (3, 6, 2) = 23

Miss Chance: 1d100 ⇒ 3

You can flank, but you can't sneak attack a target with total concealment.

Brae-Hagen doesn't take his AoO. And thanks for the information Titus.

Surprisingly, no strike comes from where the warlord is said to be. Filios strikes, but his weapon only meets thin air.

Employing some retcon here as the OOC thread discussion has brought light to Kyra's decisions...

Kyra, knowing she has little time before the warlord returns, leans over and presses her hands to Kuraishimo's bloodied chest before reciting the prayers of her goddess.

She'd lose Fire Shield to hopefully heal Kuraishimo as much as she possibly could.

Cure Critical (empowered): 4d8 + 7 ⇒ (3, 3, 4, 5) + 7 = 22

Kyra heals (actually harms) Kuraishimo for 33 damage.

As the devil melts away beneath her fingers, Kyra's eyes widen in absolute horror.

"Dawnfl... wha--- SOMETHING IS WRONG?!"

She looks up and meeting the eyes of her fellow Pathfinders, she looks back down at the smoldering remains of her ally.

"I... I... he's dead? He didn't heal?!"

Knowledge (religion): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27

That check feels good enough to put 2 and 2 together...

"My healing... it... hurt Kuraishimo."

Kyra looks up, her face flush.

"No, it KILLED HIM."

The following round...

Kyra, with little to offer and wary of her own magic, takes a few steps towards Bart, but then a few steps back.

"I... have I been cursed?"

She considers applying her other spells to her allies, but isn't sure if they would have their intended result, or the complete opposite. Hadn't her blessings hastened her allies? Hadn't her blessing made their aim true? Perhaps, it was only her healing.

Swallowing hard, she stepped up to Filios and spoke in a whisper.

"Blessed Sarenrae, I hope this makes you stronger, not weaker..."

Cast Bull's Strength on Filios, for +4 Strength.

A veil of sadness obscures the Pathfinders' heart as one of their own falls to a dramatic curse. Has Sarenrae abandoned her zealous servant? It can't be, for in this hour of grief, Kyra can feel the goddess soothing presence touching her very soul.

Doubt not, for I am with you always.

Her mind regaining some measure of clarity, the priestess is able to deduce that only her healing is cursed, and that her other spells work perfectly. Filios's muscles bulge with raw strength, reassuring Kyra.

Yet evil lurks close, and the half-fiend Warlord Brae-Hagen torments the Pathfinders with a hysterical laughter. "Feel the Memory of Teremthal, my late demonic father. May his death on the walls of Nerosyan at the Society's hands be not in vain, and cast your souls into oblivion..."

Concentration DC 17: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (10) + 12 = 22
As these words echo in the stone bunker, Brae-Hagen reappears, a quick blast of water that surges and attempts to knock over Kyra. "... I lied! My magic is much more pragmatic. Being cast into this canyon will do. Say hello to your pathetic troops!" cackles madly the Warlord.
Brae-Hagen successfully casts hydraulic push on the defensive.
CMB: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14
Yet for all his mockery, the half-fiend's magic proves weak and the surge of water fails to send Kyra down below, simply washing over her, the cleric's undomitable faith keeping her strong.

Initiative - round 5
Brae-Hagen
>>>Filios
>>>Bart
>>>Titus
>>>Kyra
Everyone can act!
Brae-Hagen is now visible, though still retains his 50% miss chance from his displacement spell.

Titus' eyes widen as the healing spell instead slays the tiefling comrade.

"For the sake of our friend, you will join your father in oblivion!"

Titus moves up with purpose and swings his blade. Taking +2 to attack/AC

1d20 + 16 ⇒ (17) + 16 = 33

Miss High is Good for me: 1d100 ⇒ 86

1d10 + 17 ⇒ (4) + 17 = 21

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 19 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 19 + 1 = 25 I would think that being Tiny would give me an Acro bonus beyond the Dex bonus of reduce person but I can't find it at the moment. If anyone finds such a thing (if it exists), add that modifier to my roll.

Tiny Bart hops around the Warlord's feet. Tiny size means I'm actually in his square so I don't think I can provide flanking.

Kyra quickly looks to her allies during the brief respite afforded to them by the retreating demon.

"Guys! We cannot healing for this battle... we have no idea who has been affected and who hasn't..."

Then, Kyra almost drops to her knees as she leans hard forward against the surge of water.

She narrows her eyes at the returned demon.

"Fiend! You will pay dearly for your evils!"

The cleric flows backward with the last of the water, almost like a dancer as she creates some room between herself and the warlord (fancy way of saying 5ft step back).

With the words flowing quickly from her lips, a ray of radiant light shines forth from Kyra's outstretched hand...

Casting searing light.

Ranged touch: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 5 + 2 + 1 = 18
Spell resistance: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
Concealmeant (high=good): 1d100 ⇒ 16

... and meets a spectral image of the demon.

Kyra grits her teeth and her eyes bulge wide in frustration.

I can't find anything about a bonus to Acrobatics beyond the +2 to Dex.

Kyra's beam is swallowed by the fiend's demonic resistance. It doesn't bypass SR either.

Filios is up!

Round 4, Power Att, Bless, Displaced Enemy

Filios moves in and attacks.

CB Att: 1d20 + 9 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 9 - 2 + 1 = 27
CB Dam: 1d10 + 4 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 4 + 5 = 15

Miss Chance: 1d100 ⇒ 81

Confirmation: 1d20 + 9 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 9 - 2 + 1 = 14
Add'l Damage: 1d10 + 4 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 4 + 5 = 13

Titus and Filos are both able to inflict severe wounds to the demonic warlord. However, he retaliates in kind, unwilling to surrender!

Concentration DC 19: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (8) + 12 = 20
Brae-Hagen focuses for a moment, and his spear is empowered with freezing rime. He then unleashes the fury of the Abyss upon his half-angel counterpart!

Flaming shortspear, spell combat, power attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 151d6 + 14 ⇒ (5) + 14 = 19 plus 1d6 ⇒ 4 fire damage

Flaming shortspear, spell combat, power attack: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 151d6 + 14 ⇒ (2) + 14 = 16 plus 1d6 ⇒ 4 fire damage

Flaming shortspear, spell combat, power attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 191d6 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 17 plus 1d6 ⇒ 5 fire damage

The first attack that hits also inflicts:
Empowered Frigid Touch: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 3, 6, 1) = 12 *1.5 = 21 cold damage and staggered for 1 round
Since no attack appears to hit, the spell remains charged in his spear.

Everyone can act!

Titus dodges the fury of the abyss and gives back some heavenly infused fury! Taking extra attack.

1d20 + 14 ⇒ (12) + 14 = 26

Miss: 1d100 ⇒ 16

1d20 + 14 ⇒ (17) + 14 = 31

Miss: 1d100 ⇒ 43

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

He also misses but this was due to cowardly magic.

Round 5, Power Att, Bless, Displaced Enemy, Flanking, Sneak Attack

Filios attempts to roll into a flanking position with Titus to avoid an attack by the enemy.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14

CB Att: 1d20 + 9 - 2 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 9 - 2 + 2 + 1 = 11
CB Dam: 1d10 + 4 + 5 + 3d6 ⇒ (8) + 4 + 5 + (6, 5, 2) = 30

Miss Chance: 1d100 ⇒ 23

Crap Rolls!

Tiny Bart furiously stabs with his daggers!

mwk cold iron dagger: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10
damage: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

mwk cold iron dagger: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20
damage: 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Titus's attacks avoid the half-fiend like small pox, sundering the air around him.

Brae-Hagen strikes Filios as he moves by.
AoO: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (18) + 15 = 331d6 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20 plus 1d6 ⇒ 3 fire, as well as 21 cold damage and staggered for one round.

Bart and Filios aren't any luckier...

Initiative - round 6
Brae-Hagen
Filios
Bart
Titus
>>>Kyra
Kyra can act!

Kyra sensing the growing frustration shared by herself and her allies, decides to instead attack the fiend's magical spells, hoping if she can strip some of those away, she could aid her allies better.

Casting dispel magic.

Dispel caster level check: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

I imagine there's several spells with the same caster level, so the GM would need to roll randomly to determine which gets dispelled.

1d3 ⇒ 2

Brae-Hagen is weakened physically by Kyra's spell! His muscls no longer bulge like a raging bull's. Almost simultaneously, his displacement spell ceases to take effect. Natural duration elapsed!

Enraged by the weakening of his magic, the Warlord points at Titus and declares. "I shall have no rest until you lie dead, devoid of your soul. Perish now!" Smite good against Titus.

He then unleashes his full wrath upon the aasimar, then steps away from the wall.

Flaming shortspear, PA, smite: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (2) + 14 = 161d6 + 20 ⇒ (4) + 20 = 24 plus 1d6 ⇒ 6 fire damage

Flaming shortspear, PA, smite: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 201d6 + 20 ⇒ (3) + 20 = 23 plus 1d6 ⇒ 2 fire damage

Claw, PA, smite: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 101d4 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

Bite, PA, smite: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 251d6 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15

Only managing to bite the unbreakable rager, Brae-Hagen groans in disappointment.

Round 7 - Everyone can act!

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 19 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 19 + 1 = 35

Tiny Bart hops away and draws out a wand.

"Not this day! Not by your hand!"

Rawr: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (14) + 14 = 28

1d10 + 17 ⇒ (1) + 17 = 18

Rawr: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (12) + 14 = 26

1d10 + 17 ⇒ (2) + 17 = 19

Rawr: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25

1d10 + 17 ⇒ (2) + 17 = 19

Are you actually suggesting that I took 20 pts of damage, plus 3 fire, plus 21 cold damage for a total of 44 points of damage on one AoO?

Yea, he never discharged the frigid touch from last round. Sorry.

Yes, as Titus said. He never hit Titus, so the spell remained in his blade.

Titus almost cuts the Warlord in half, killing him outright. However, Brae-Hagen remains standing, his horrendous fiendish eyes piercing Titus with all their hatred and scorn. Suddenly, the warlord's body bursts into flames, consuming himself slowly. You then remember Ollysta Zadrian's words and counsel, her imperious voice echoing through your ears.

If you should kill him in particularly spectacular manner, this might shift the balance of battle and allow us to scatter the remaining forces. Those demons will run like headless chicken if you break their morale.

End combat - we're out of initiative, but I'm still counting the number and order of actions you take for two reasons (Filios being unconscious and bleeding, Brae-Hagen's body slowly burning to ashes).

Titus stows his blade and picks up the fallen warlord. He raises the body high in the air for all his troops to see before tossing him down the canyon hundreds of feet below. After stripping him of weapons and loot of course. :)

His body is still burning, do you wish to proceed?

Um, do we know what's causing it? I'm still going to do it unless someone gives me a really good reason not to.

Tiny Bart ignores the burning warlord and rushes over to Filios, trying to stop his wounds.

"Can someone help me over here?!"

Heal: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16

Bart stabilizes Filios!

As the warlord collapses, Kyra struggles to steel herself against her darker desires to step up and slash her scimitar across the demon's neck.

Instead, she rushes to Filios and does what she can to work with Bart to naturally stop the bleeding of his wounds.

She watches from the corner of her eye as Titus advances to the burning body of their fallen enemy.

Yes, burn with the cleansing fires of the day... and burn in your after-hell, you...

Her attention is brought back to focus as she holds pressure against Filios's body, but she manages to convey her desires to Titus.

"Do it."

Titus will do s the lady asks and will throw the body into the canyon with a loud roar!

With a loud roar (you can attempt an intimidate check there, since the acoustics in this room make the sound echo a hundredfold in the canyon below), Titus casts the smoldering warlord into the chasm where both armies are still deadlocked in a hopeless battle. Grasping Brae-Hagen's burning body proves an exceedingly painful experience, however.
Fire damage for Titus: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 3, 5, 5) = 15