AC 25/T19/FF17 HP 68/68 F+8 R+15 W+8 Init +8 Perception +13
Swasbuckler (Whirling Dervish) 9
"Not my favorite place, but we are here on duty, not for pleasure!" Following Torean to stay in contact with her comrades Dailung helps to explore this area.
While looking around, nothing but dust and broken wood seem to lie in the small stairwell, drifitng through the door brings you into what was clearly once the grand dining room. Two long mahogany tables occupy much of the space. Dozens of splintered chairs stand amid dented goblets, scraps of cloth, and unidentifiable lumps of meat on the floor. The wood of the furniture is gouged and stained.
At the leftmost table sit two more maenads, wild-looking women covered in spattered blood and grinning a wicked smile that reveals sharp teeth. The pair are giggily passing a jug of rancid-looking wine back and forth to each other as they occasionally bite into what appears to be a human thigh. Neither of the duo seems to notice your presence.
A large door stands across the room from you, while a slightly smaller one sits in the wall to your right.
You can do a Percpetion check to look around if you like, or scout another room, or decide to come back to the Material Plane here, etc.
Torean, from before, you recall that Maenads have some resistance to magic and fire, and that their bite an claws carry poison with them as well. Those who didn't yet attempt one may use Knowledge Nature if you like to see if you remember anything else about these monsters.
Male Dwarf Inquisitor 10 [HP: 75/75 | AC: 24/13/22 CMD: 24 | F+12 R+8 W+12* (+5 vs. spells/spell-like, +2 vs. Necromancy, +1 vs. Evocation) | Init +4 | Perc +12 SM +16 Darkvision]
Toren stares hard at the two maenads eating human flesh at the table, but then he grabs Vad's arms and shakes his head. He looks at the others and then points to the wall on the right. "I'll come back and destroy these two, but that's not why we're here. We can't chance the soulstone getting away."
Sticking your heads through the door, reveals an expansive ballroom, its fine wooden floor now warped and cracked as the roots of a massive rose bush grow out from underneath. The thorny stems of the bush have pushed through the windows in the northern and eastern walls, as well, the glass long since broken.
A waist-high marble pedestal stands near the center of the room. Beside it stands a an emaciated woman with vines sprouting thorned roses growing out from her taut skin and forming a train behind her. she gazes intently at a stone placed atop the column, her hands slowly dancing over it in some precise ritual.
As you move your bodies slightly forward to get a good look, you find your path unexpectedly stopped. Some magical force seems to be preventing you from entering the room.
DC 32 Spellcraft:
There seems to be a forbiddance effect around the ballroom, preventing both teleportation and ethereal travel into it. Forbiddence zones also frequently contain magics that wound creatures of improper alignments as they enter.
While you take in the room, the pakalchi circles the pedastel. As she moves around it, her head tilts up seemingly staring straight at you from her empty sockets where plant tendrils occupy what should be eyes.
"Ah, visitors!" Muthrazi says. "Are you here for me or him? Not that it matters: just a curiosity you can clear up in the moments you still live."
As she notices you, you feel a rising sense of panic welling up inside from her gaze.
Each of you need a DC 22 Will save or become Panicked for 1 round and Shaken for another 1d4 ⇒ 2 rounds after. If you make the save, its merely Shaken for the one round. this is a fear and mind-affecting effect if that matters.
Initiative Muthrazi Dailung, need Will save
Liam, need Will save
Torean, need Will save Something
Vad, need Will save
Again, you cannot physically enter the ballroom in Ethereal form. To figure out the details as to why, hopefully Spellcraft can aid as per above.
Liam: she is on the Material plane (but can see you, and her gaze can affect you here). Your blast would go straight through her and leave her unaffected. Do you want a different action?
Dailung, what was the Int check for, the Spellcraft?
Dailung tries to frighten the sahkil, but she laughs at the kitsune "Oh? Well I'm afraid your desires may be left unsatisfied."
Dailung, you still have a Move Action if you would like.
Liam in turn backs out of the wall, fishes out the vial of hypnalis and downs it. Immeadiately the caster is shunted back into his familiar plane. The abrupt transition sends a shock through his system however.
Liam takes 3d6 ⇒ (6, 4, 3) = 13 nonlethal damage. A DC 18 Fort save halves that.
As the sorceror appears, the two maenads stare at hi agog. One the green tries to stands up but passes out in a drunken stupor, but the other begins frenzily screaming.
Maenad
Muthrazi
Dailung, shaken, ethereal, Has Move Action
Liam, shaken, on Mateiral Plane Torean, need Will save, ethereal Something
Vad, need Will save, ethereal
Male Dwarf Inquisitor 10 [HP: 75/75 | AC: 24/13/22 CMD: 24 | F+12 R+8 W+12* (+5 vs. spells/spell-like, +2 vs. Necromancy, +1 vs. Evocation) | Init +4 | Perc +12 SM +16 Darkvision]
Torean's "Strong-Willed" ability allows him to roll twice and take the better result Will save (heroism):1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 9 + 2 = 22+5 vs. spells/spell-like abilities Will save (heroism):1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 9 + 2 = 13+5 vs. spells/spell-like abilities
Torean grimaces as he sees the pakalchi seems ready for them. The dwarf grabs his potion and drinks it down. "Give us the soulstone!"
Torean too is unnerved by Muthrazi by recoves, steps back, and is rudely shunted back to the Prime.
Same as above. you take 3d6 ⇒ (2, 5, 4) = 11 nonlethal damage from the harsh transition, with a DC 18 Fort Save halving it.
While two of their party strategically back away, Dailung and Vad notice what seems to be a moving mass of thorny roses bush break away from the hedges ringing the crumbling villa and shuffle over besides Muthrazi as the sahkil laughs. It moves what might be its head back and forth, but doesn't linger on the oread or the kitsune.
Know Nature to estimate the capabilities of this new entrant.
Initiative
Maenad
Muthrazi
Dailung, shaken, ethereal, Has Move Action
Liam, shaken, need Fort save, on Material Plane
Torean, shaken, need Fort save, on Material Plane
Something Vad, need Will save, ethereal
Technically no: you're still at 74 hp for now, but with 6 nonlethal damage too. Non-lethal's a bit weird.
Vad tries to maintain his composure, but Muthrazi's gaze haunts him as he hastily retreats through the misty expanse of the Ethereal plane.
In the dining room, the frenzied maenad stands and moves to the corner of the table, cackling at Torean. Lookssocross,soserious.Thestoutmanisbeingsorigidandstiff;letyourselfgoandsi ngandplayandseethefunoftheworld! As she says so, Torean's vision begins to swim as he starts to see the solid walls and people around him shift and meld and foreign sounds begin to invade his thoughts.
Torean needs a DC 17 Will save or take a –2 penalty on Will saving throws, caster level checks, Intelligence-based skill checks, and Wisdom-based skill checks for an hour. Mad Halluciantion, which is an illusion (phantasm) effect.
Still on the Ethereal plane, Dailing sees Muthrazi cast some form of spell, then concentrates.
KP:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (18) + 13 = 31
The pakalchi suddenly becomes for more 'real' to the kitsune as she moves closer. She then begins alternating between 'solidity' and the same faded look from before, as if she is blinking back and forth between the Ethereal Plane and the Material one.
Blink: On either plane you have a 50% miss chance against her (as your attack may strike when she's on the wrong plane), while she also has a 20% miss chance against you (as she can't entirely control the shifts. Force effects do not have a miss chance.
Initiative
Maenad
Muthrazi, blinking Dailung ethereal
Liam, 6 nl, on Material Plane
Torean, 11 nl, on Material Plane Plant thing
Vad, Shaken 3 rounds, ethereal
Male Dwarf Inquisitor 10 [HP: 75/75 | AC: 24/13/22 CMD: 24 | F+12 R+8 W+12* (+5 vs. spells/spell-like, +2 vs. Necromancy, +1 vs. Evocation) | Init +4 | Perc +12 SM +16 Darkvision]
Will Save vs Spell/Spell-like (shaken, heroism):1d20 + 9 + 5 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 9 + 5 - 2 + 2 = 17 Will Save vs Spell/Spell-like (shaken, heroism):1d20 + 9 + 5 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 9 + 5 - 2 + 2 = 26
"Stay together! Looks like we have to deal with these two first!" Torean yells at his friends, then suddenly feels magic wash over him. Instinctively, his training takes over and his mind fortifies itself against the spell. He looks to the maenad and hefts his hammer. "Oh, no you don't. I'll break you, witch!"
The dwarf moves opposite the maenad on the other side of the table and casts a spell to give him the might of Torag.
Swift Action: Activate Justice Judgement. Standard: Cast Divine Favor
To be clear, in case that affected your move, the Green maenad essentially passed out in the excitement and is down for the count. (4-player adjustment).
Delaying Dailung for now. Feel free to jump back in at any time.
Also, technically Liam cannot affect Dailung with haste while she is on the ethereal plane, but if Dailung comes back to the Material this turn I'm fine allowing it (since you're in the same 'block' and PbP timing can be complicated)
The briar creature, now even more confused as Muthrazi flickers in and out of phase with it, moves next to he and stands ready, still unable to detect your presence.
Initiative
Maenad
Muthrazi, blinking Dailung ethereal (delaying) Liam, 6 nl, on Material Plane, hasted
Torean, 11 nl, on Material Plane, hasted
Plant thing Vad, Shaken 3 rounds, ethereal
Vad shakes his head, trying to dislodge the dread, lessening it perhaps, but not dislodging it. Returning to the room, Vad sees Torean and Liam on the other plane, and makes a wave to Dailung as if to say 'follow me.' He grabs the extract of hypnalis and gets ready to consume it.
Darn it, I posted something this morning that appears to have been swallowed by the Paizo Golem :(
Dailung comes back onto the Material Plane just in time to have Liam's wave of speed wash over her, though the transition does a number on her insides.
Like the rest, take 3d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 6) = 17 nonlethal damage, with a DC 18 Fort save to halve it.
Meanwhile, the maenad rushes forward to bite at Torean.
Bite:1d20 + 15 ⇒ (3) + 15 = 18 for damage:1d6 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Initiative
Maenad
Muthrazi, blinking Dailung, on Material Plane, hasted, 17 or 8 nl (Fort needed)
Liam, 6 nl, on Material Plane, hasted
Torean, 11 nl, on Material Plane, hasted
Vad, Shaken 2 rounds, ethereal Plant thing?
Male Dwarf Inquisitor 10 [HP: 75/75 | AC: 24/13/22 CMD: 24 | F+12 R+8 W+12* (+5 vs. spells/spell-like, +2 vs. Necromancy, +1 vs. Evocation) | Init +4 | Perc +12 SM +16 Darkvision]
Torean feels himself moving faster and smiles as Vad suddenly appears. He steps opposite the crusader. The dwarf swings his warhammer at the maenad, the weapon suddenly humming with an angry might.
Torean needs to give me two DC 19 Fort saves vs poison, or else take 1d3 ⇒ 2 Con damage, then another 1d3 ⇒ 1 Con damage.
Thing:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (12) + 13 = 25
Across the room, the door swings open in front of Liam and Dailung to reveal Muthrazi. Liam immediately blasts her with missiles of force, but they seem to splash harmlessly off her form.
Spell Resistance Penetration:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12
Smiling, she flick her wrist at the sorcerer and a thorn launches out to strike at Liam, though it too bounces off the man's stony skin.
"Sorry, lady," Vad says to the maenad that Torean dispatched. "So much for getting the last dance," be says, shrugging his shoulders, and moving towards Muthrazi. At the end of his move, Vad launches his trident through the doorway at the outsider.
Vad rushes forwards and hurls the trident at Muthrazi, but she vanishes onto the Ethereal plane just as it would hit her.
miss chance, high hits:1d100 ⇒ 35
The trident returns to the oread's hand as the sahkil grins at him. Words echo through his head as she wiggles thorned fingers.
"Oh, are we playing a throwing game? Well, if you insist"
Initiative
Liam, 6 nl, hasted, Stoneskin (72 DR remaining)
Muthrazi, blinking Dailung, hasted, 17 or 8 nl (Fort needed), Stoneskin (80 DR remaining)(delaying) Torean, 25/52 hp 11 nl, hasted
Vad, 10 nl
Plant thing?
Dailung steps forward and lunges at Muthrazi. Her first piercing thrust aims true only to have the pakalchi shift planes at the last moment causing her to hit nothing but air. The second thrust hits the fiend, but fails to penetrate her viney exterior.
As Dailung steps close to her however, the vine train surrounding Muthrazi threatens to entangle the kitsune. The swashbuckler manages to dodge, stepping carefully to remain mobile and avoid the thorns within.
Reflex:1d20 + 13 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 13 + 1 = 27
The plant thing is also going to keep delaying to just make this simpler on all of us.
Initiative
Liam, 6 nl, hasted, Stoneskin (72 DR remaining) Muthrazi, blinking
Plant thing?
Dailung, hasted, 17, Stoneskin (80 DR remaining)
Torean, 25/52 hp 11 nl, hasted
Vad, 10 nl
Liam fires again, but once again the missiles splay harmlessly across Muthrazi's skin.
Thing:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (16) + 13 = 29
With Dailung right in front of her, the kitsune is exposed to a barrage of attacks - both of the pakalchi's claws and four vines that whip out at the swashbuckler. Miracuously, only one vine hits, and that does not penetrate Dailung's stony skin.
Male Dwarf Inquisitor 10 [HP: 75/75 | AC: 24/13/22 CMD: 24 | F+12 R+8 W+12* (+5 vs. spells/spell-like, +2 vs. Necromancy, +1 vs. Evocation) | Init +4 | Perc +12 SM +16 Darkvision]
Torean sees Dailung able to hold off the pakalchi and her plant. "Keep at it Dailung! Liam, Vad, take down the plant!" He pulls out a scroll of healing and casts it on himself. Some of the smaller cuts and bruises disappear.
AC 25/T19/FF17 HP 68/68 F+8 R+15 W+8 Init +8 Perception +13
Swasbuckler (Whirling Dervish) 9
Me de dan, Dailung would have parry riposted! I forgot. Happens.
Dailung attacks again.
AttackNL:1d20 + 18 ⇒ (9) + 18 = 271d6 + 18 ⇒ (4) + 18 = 22 HasteNL:1d20 + 18 ⇒ (4) + 18 = 221d6 + 18 ⇒ (1) + 18 = 19 2ndAttackNL:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 201d6 + 18 ⇒ (1) + 18 = 19 if any of those hit, she will automatically intimidate the opponent.Enforcer Intimidate:1d20 + 17 ⇒ (8) + 17 = 25 On the second hit, the cruel weapon property will make the target become sickened.
As Torean's heals a portion of his injuries, Dailung skewers the briar creature. Her piercing thrusts seem to not be the most effective, but the plant has a large portion of it cut away. It does not seems especially unnerved however.
The creature is a Plant, and thus immune to morale and mind-affecting effects.
Plant thing - 45 hp. Vad and Liam are up.
Also Dailung, just so I'm making sure I understand correctly, you are willing to party the next 4 attacks against you this round? How much Panache is in your pool at the moment? Also, note that Riposting is an immediate action, so you would only be able to do that on the first successful parry.
Vad catches his trident as it appears back in his hand. Seeing little room to operate, he moves a bit closer, and launches his trident at the plant creature in the doorway.
Arc Miss chance, high hits:1d100 ⇒ 12 Plant Reflex:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
Liam's blast of fire lashes out. Muthrazi manages to blink away just in time, but even as the plant twists away from the worst of it, the flames seem extremely effective.
Thing:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (6) + 13 = 19
Within the room, Muthrazi blinks back into sight and grins wickedly at Liam. Then she stays in view, seemingly not blinking anymore (even though Liam recalls her spell should not have expired yet). The pakalchi frowns, but launches three thorns at Dailung and a fourth past her at Vad. She then steps further back into the chamber, towards the pedestal withZ ey's soulstone
The briar guardian in turn slams out at Dailung only to find its attack countered by the kitsune. Seeing an opening, the kitsune stabs the creature again, and the repeated injuries cause it to slump over, still.
Attack:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19
Initiative
Liam, 6 nl, hasted, Stoneskin (72 DR remaining) Muthrazi, not blinking right now Dailung, hasted, 17 nl, Stoneskin (64 DR remaining)
Torean, 25/52 hp 11 nl, hasted
Vad, 10 nl
