As the elemental tries to knock the demoniac warpriest into the acid pool, Garduk re-evaluates the relative threats presented by Tarsutek and his disgusting minion.
"Doesn't anybody have a bow?" he growls from the tunnel floor. He decides to save the charges on his wand and casts a spell using his own arcane energy.
"Telum magicum" he roars. Two pale blue bolts of force streak over the web-encrusted pool and slam into the thognorok.
Male Human Oracle of Sarenrae 5 (HP 31/49) | AC:17(20) | T:11(14) | FF:16(19) | cmd:15 | Fort +6 | Ref +4 | Will +8 | Init. +1 | Perc:+2 | Speed 20ft | Channels: 4/5 | Spells: 1st 6/7, 2nd 4/5 | Status: Link (Walla,Fox), Shield of Faith (12 min)
Wanting no part of the spider swarm currently enveloping Kulga and Gray, Robun shuffles back a step before turning his attention toward Tasutek and Thognorok. He rises his arms high overhead and calls out, ”Servants of darkness, suffer the wrath of Sarenrae’s holy light!” An eruption of brilliant light flashes from behind the priest and his monstrous ally, burning them with its radiance and searing their eyes.
Cast Burst of Radiance. DC 16 Reflex save. Passing the save means the targets are dazzled for 1d4 rounds. Failing the save means they are instead blinded for 4 rounds. Evil creatures in the area of the burst take 1d4 points of damage per caster level (max 5d4), whether they succeed at the Reflex save or not.
Marty attempts to bull rush Tasutek, but due to the slippery rock he can’t get a good footing to execute the maneuver, and fails to push Tasutek off the rock.
Gray resist the urge to puke at the spiders climbing over him.
Garduk calls for someone to shoot the warpriest with a bow as he uses his magic to send two magic missiles of force to slam into Tasutek.
Brushing the spiders off, Kulga continues to march forward stoutly on her dwarven legs.
Calling up Sarenrae, Friar Robun brings forth her holy light to burn and blind the evil master and his pet. Alsase the burning radiance only dazzles them both as it flash fries them.
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
Dazzled:
The creature is unable to see well because of overstimulation of the eyes. A dazzled creature takes a –1 penalty on attack rolls and sight-based Perception checks.
horrific Appearance Thognorok:
Any creature that witnesses a thognorok’s horrific appearance could find itself overwhelmed with revulsion at the Qlippoth’s constantly sprouting and waving insectile legs, becoming sickend for 1d6 rounds (Will DC 13 to negate).
Slipping out of the spider swarm, Gray moves closer to the warpriest and throws a shuriken that misses strikes the rock at the foes’ feet instead.
Omar pulls out an acid flash and hurls it at the ground where the swarm is the acid splashes over the spiders killing many.
Bot: feeling sick Seb moves forward drawing forth a flask of alchemical fire and throws that at the spiders, but it misses instead falling to the left of the swarm splashing them with fire.
Bot:Seb directs Maima to move towards the foe, which it does bounding forward and over the spiders up behind Gray. double move
Thognorok lashes out at Marty with three bite attacks, only two hit, but it is enough to send Marty back to the elemental planes.
The spider swarm remains where it is without direction from it’s creator.
Tasutek uses his fervor to cast another quicken spell upon himself, then draws and throws a javelin at Kulga, but misses ”Embrace the greatness of Rovagug he will rise from his prison and smote all!”
spellcraft DC16:
cast Stunning barrier
GM Rolls:
Seb range throw vs spiders w/-2 sick:1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (14) + 4 - 2 = 16 fire damage:1d6 ⇒ 3 flask miss direction:1d8 ⇒ 1
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
Dazzled:
The creature is unable to see well because of overstimulation of the eyes. A dazzled creature takes a –1 penalty on attack rolls and sight-based Perception checks.
horrific Appearance Thognorok:
Any creature that witnesses a thognorok’s horrific appearance could find itself overwhelmed with revulsion at the Qlippoth’s constantly sprouting and waving insectile legs, becoming sickend for 1d6 rounds (Will DC 13 to negate).
”He’s got some kind of magical barrier up - it makes him harder to hit, and the first person to strike him in face to face combat may be briefly stunned! Not that we’ll need to worry about that any time soon.”
Garduk snarls as the qlippoth sends the mud elemental back where it came from.
"Damnation! I hope I don't start to get a bad reputation on the elemental planes!"
The arcanist, still lying on the tunnel floor, flips open his scroll box and quickly rifles through its contents until he finds the sheet he is looking for.
I was saving this one for an emergency. I think this qualifies.
Garduk flips open the scroll, and begins to read.
"In foveam cadunt!"
Across the acidic pool, the solid rock beneath Tasutek's and his abyssal minion's feet disappears, leaving a large hole - 10' x 10' x 30'. Create Pit (CL3), DC 13 Reflex save to avoid falling in by jumping to safety in the nearest open space. I'll draw the border of the pit on the map.
(As per Garduk's question, I'm ruling the pit only covers the horizontal surface of the rock, and doesn't extend into the water. From the description; 'You must create the pit on a horizontal surface of sufficient size')
Having no patience for allowing others to tarnish her glory, Kulga scrambles up the rock and launches herself over next to the pit. Her footing is sure as she stands at the lip of the temporary pit, axe waiting for any who dare the climb.
nit +6; Senses Perception +9 ————— Defense ————— AC 16 (20 Mage Armor), touch 16, flat-footed 11 (+4 Dex, +1 dodge +1 Wis) hp 30 (2d10+1d8+3) Fort +5, Ref +11, Will +2
The young Varisian makes a move to get on the rock and tosses a thunderstone down the hole.
1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
You can throw this stone as a ranged attack with a range increment of 20 feet. When it strikes a hard surface (or is struck hard), it creates a deafening bang that is treated as a sonic attack. Each creature within a 10-foot-radius spread must make a DC 15 Fortitude save or be deafened for 1 hour. A deafened creature, in addition to the obvious effects, takes a –4 penalty on initiative and has a 20% chance to miscast and lose any spell with a verbal component that it tries to cast.
Since you don't need to hit a specific target, you can simply aim at a particular 5-foot square. Treat the target square as AC 5. Crafting this item is a DC 25 Craft (alchemy) check.
Worrying about Marty, Garduk uses his magic to open an interdimensional pit below Tasutek and Thognorok which both instantly plummet 30 feet to the bottom.
Omar double moves past the spider swarm.
Kulga scrambles up the rocks and leaps to the pit’s edge looking down at the two foes trapped within.
Gray moves forward and throws a thunderstone into the pit hoping to deafen the foes. Kulga is the only one that can see that the blast of sound didn’t have any lasting effect on them.
Seb directs Maima to move away as he throws another alchemist’s fire at the swarm this time hitting them solidly.
Friar Robun sucks another wound from Gray and then uses his wand of cure light wounds to heal himself. Also, Robun finds his sickness has passed from first seeing the Thognorok.
Standing up then shifting Thognorok shoots a green sticky web at Kulga, but the mass of green threads shoot past her missing.
Standing, Tasutek uses his warpriest fervor to quickly cast a cure spell on himself and then touches his greataxe causing it to glow purple with chaotic energy, ranting ”Putting the servants of Rovagug in a box won’t help you he will devour all in the the end!”
The spider swarm remains where it is again.
GM Rolls:
Tasutek Fort DC15 vs Thunderstone:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17 Thognorok Fort DC15 vs Thunderstone:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Thognorok vs Kulga web w/+1 bless, -1 dazzled, -2 range:1d20 + 4 + 1 - 1 - 2 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 1 - 1 - 2 = 14 to hit
Moving on rocks - Rocks are slick and rise about 5 feet out of the water, requiring a successful DC12 Climb check to clamber over.
Edge of pit - must make Reflex DC13 saving throw with a +2 bonus to avoid falling into the pit
Sicken condition:
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
Dazzled:
The creature is unable to see well because of overstimulation of the eyes. A dazzled creature takes a –1 penalty on attack rolls and sight-based Perception checks.
Male Halfelf - Skald 8 - AC21/T13/F16/CMD14 |HP 40/59 | Fort:+9;Ref:+6;Will+7 |Percept.+6 | Init.+4 | { heroism , rage} (7/23 song used) { +8/8 hp , 3xmirrors, fly }
If Kulga and Gray don't need to listen to this raving lunatic, I can drop silence on the pit. Delays to see if either object. If not, Omar will use spell kenning(full round) to cast silence on the stone at the edge of the pit.
Male Human Oracle of Sarenrae 5 (HP 31/49) | AC:17(20) | T:11(14) | FF:16(19) | cmd:15 | Fort +6 | Ref +4 | Will +8 | Init. +1 | Perc:+2 | Speed 20ft | Channels: 4/5 | Spells: 1st 6/7, 2nd 4/5 | Status: Link (Walla,Fox), Shield of Faith (12 min)
"Ah! Much better," Robun says as he finally recovers from his sickness. "Now, let's get to work." Robun absorbs yet more of Gray's harm, and uses his own healing magic on himself rather than relying on his wand.
Take 5 more points of damage off of Gray, putting Robun at 11 damage.
Cast Cure Light Wounds, not from the wand.
CLW:1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Apparently bolstered by overcoming the illness caused by the qlippoth, Robun's magic not only heals his wounds, but makes him appear even healthier than normal, some of his weeping sores sealing up and his sallow skin turning a healthier shade.
Robun's Spirit Boost revelation means any healing that exceeds a character's max hp gets turned into temp hp for a number of rounds equal to his levels in Oracle (4 rounds).
Robun is at full health with 1 temp hp.
Garduk glares at the rogue in exasperation from up the path. "No, I can't just throw a fireball into the pit! I burned an expensive scroll to buy you guys time, so you could get there without being acid-webbed to death. Just get ready to stab them when the spell expires, and try not to fall into the big pool of acid."
Fireballs! What is it about fireballs? No style, no finesse, and they burn everything you're looking for!
He points to Kulga and shouts, "And do you think she would thank me for roasting them before she has a chance to cut them into pieces? Not likely!"
Garduk turns to Robun. "Acrobats! I put our enemies into an extra-dimensional box, you are literally absorbing his wounds with your own body - you're looking much better, by the way - and Seb is here with an actual giant ape! How much magic and wonder does he need!"
He calls back out to Gray, "Also, I don't know how to cast spells like that yet. Yet!"
Male Halfelf - Skald 8 - AC21/T13/F16/CMD14 |HP 40/59 | Fort:+9;Ref:+6;Will+7 |Percept.+6 | Init.+4 | { heroism , rage} (7/23 song used) { +8/8 hp , 3xmirrors, fly }
"Fireballs! What is it about fireballs? No style, no finesse, and they burn everything you're looking for!"
That's exactly what happened to the party I ran this for when it came out. Maximized fireball burnt half their total treasure (paper scrolls were not happy)
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Garduk pops a wand out an uses it to cast shield on himself.
Kulga keeping her balance on the edge of the pit puts away her gear and draws her bow.
Omar starts casting a silence spell on the edge at the top of the 30ft pit. Meanwhile the alchemist fire continues to burn for a second round before going out, but the damage is done and the swarm disperses.
Friar Robun draws another wound from Gray as it manafest upon himself then heals it all with a cure spell.
Seb and Maima both take a defense stance. Seb’s sickness at seeing the Thognorok passes.
Gray calls for someone to fireball the pit, Garduk argues about the economics and that Kulga is looking to shoot something.
Thognorok throws another web at Kulga entangling her in a web that starts to burn her like acid.
(web 1pt acid, Entangled DC 16 strength or escape to remove, or damage)
Seeing Kulga ready her bow, Tasutek takes a total defensive stance speakig to Kulga ”Hah, you will fall to to the might of Rovagug and be consumed!”
GM Rolls:
2nd round fire dam to spider swarm:1d6 ⇒ 2
Thognorok vs Kulga web w/+1 bless, -1 dazzled, -2 range:1d20 + 4 + 1 - 1 - 2 ⇒ (16) + 4 + 1 - 1 - 2 = 18 to hit range touch.
Moving on rocks - Rocks are slick and rise about 5 feet out of the water, requiring a successful DC12 Climb check to clamber over.
Edge of pit - must make Reflex DC13 saving throw with a +2 bonus to avoid falling into the pit
Entangled:
The character is ensnared. Being entangled impedes movement, but does not entirely prevent it unless the bonds are anchored to an immobile object or tethered by an opposing force. An entangled creature moves at half speed, cannot run or charge, and takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls and a –4 penalty to Dexterity.
Dazzled:
The creature is unable to see well because of overstimulation of the eyes. A dazzled creature takes a –1 penalty on attack rolls and sight-based Perception checks.
Female Dwarf LN Slayer 7| HP 67/67 | AC 25(26), T 13, FF 24 CMD 25 | F +9(12), R +8(11), W +5(8) | Init +3 | Perc +12 | SM +12 |
Hey Gray, if you're trying to figure out something to do while they're down in the pit, I certainly wouldn't say no to you just ripping the webbing apart. (I'd recommend breaking it with damage rather than a Strength check if possible)
Move action to convert a 1st level spell slot into an arcane reservoir point.
Garduk concentrates for a moment, staring over the acidic pool, then calls an ally who is undoubtedly weaker than the mud elementals he has come to rely on, but perhaps a bit more maneuverable.
With a pop of displaced air and the scent of a spring dawn on a mountaintop, the eagle appears over the web-encrusted water. After a moment to orient itself, she opens her beak and shrieks, then streaks toward the arcanist's enemies in the pit.
