43/43 HP, AC: 19[25] (+1 vs traps), T: 15[17], FF: 15[19], CMD: 16,F: +5 , R: +11[13] (+1 vs traps), W: +5[4] (+2 vs Illusions), Init +5, Perception +15 (+17 Traps),NG Male Wayang Swashbuckler 1/Investigator 4,Rapier +11 (1d4+5, 18-20 x2)
Varuna draws his blade, and at the same time, a blueish-green vial from his pouch which he quickly chugs down. He feels his muscles tighten, before loosening up again, and he feel a surge of frantic energy move through him.
Varuna recognises the living statues as caryatid columns, which is exactly that, living statues. Being mindless constructs they are immune to mind affects or matters that affect body (Requiring fortitude save). On top of that they are immune to most magics (anything that SR can bypass). They also take reduced damage due to their hard skin. DR5/-
My bad. I thought he could/should keep working on the device while the more combat oriented dealt with the rockettes.(I thought the "cannot focus" just meant more penalties...:(
These intruders distracting my work they are.
The tengu draws his bow and fires at the southernmost statue.
Rogue 3/1 Diviner AC 19, touch 15, flat-footed 15(+4 armor, +3 Dex, +1 dodge, +1 size) hp 28 (3d8+3) Fort +3, Ref +7, Will +5; +2 vs. fear Percpetion +12, In +8
Oops, thought I could move on my tablet. Can some one move me up to within range of his long spear so he can poke please?
Waki, you can ignore the markings and assume there are no walls/doors.
The pathfinders find themselves in a mix of reactions as they notice the living statues coming to defend the sphere. Waki fires an arrow directly at one of statues with a blue stone gem on it's head. The arrow manages to indent the stone skin, but hardly penetrates it. Rahab and Benny move in to strike the same creature, but their weapons strike into the nothingness.
Varuna prepares himself for the oncoming wave of attack by drinking a concoction and Vosk by drinkg a potion.
The creature with the blue gem attacks Rahab who is directly in her view, but is unable to break through his strong defences. The other one has a red gem on her head and moves towards Magt, Magt strikes it taking out a good chunk of pieces from her. However it comes with repercussions as the hard skin chips off a piece of the blade on his horsechopper. Additionally the statue returns the favour and cuts deep into Magt with the sword.
Those with effect conditions, could you let me know the duration of the effects? Bold may action!
FYI, we didn't pay much attention to weapons found along the way, but at this point in the party's general inventory there is one mwk longsword and 2 mwk bastard swords. If you want to use it i'll just assume you had been holding it all along.
Condition explanations:
Broken: any attacks made with the item suffer a –2 penalty on attack and damage rolls. Such weapons only score a critical hit on a natural 20 and only deal ×2 damage on a confirmed critical hit.
Shaken: A shaken character takes a –2 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
Vosk's enlarge spell takes effect this turn and lasts 10 rounds
Vosk grows to the size of the ogre, stepping 5 feet as he does so in order to keep room for himself without smashing Varuna into the corner. Seeing the vicious strike that Magt took from the fearsome statue, the Nexian mage pulls another wand and taps his companion. "This will stabilize you should you be struck like that again."
5' step, draw wand of infernal healing, cast on Magt. Now has a wand in each hand.
Vosk lends a helping hand to the other enlarged pathfinder with a touch of infernal.
Varuna moves quickly to stop the thread poking it right in the eye. His thrust is enough to penetrate the creature's skin to cause it to go unconscious. His magic reinforced rapier takes no damage from the attack due to it's flexibility.
Combat Round 2
Waki, Rahab (Divine Favour),
Varuna (Dex Mutagen (30mins) heightened awareness (30mins))
Magt -12 (Infernal healing (Rd62)),
Benny (shaken), Vosk(shaken) ((Enlarge Person Rd12))
Creatures R (unconscious) B -2
Seeing he no longer has a clear shot at the remaining statue, and not wanting to hit his friends, Waki will delay shooting with his bow and wait to see if the other drops quickly.
Rogue 3/1 Diviner AC 19, touch 15, flat-footed 15(+4 armor, +3 Dex, +1 dodge, +1 size) hp 28 (3d8+3) Fort +3, Ref +7, Will +5; +2 vs. fear Percpetion +12, In +8
Will the material also break or damage magical weapons? I am not sure I would know unless I tried but is there a knowledge check I can make?
Going to help us move, but Benny and Waki, i'll allow you guys to do your Round 2 and Round 3 actions.
Rahab screams something unintelligible loudly at the statue before swinging his Gamin at it once more. His sword bounces right off the statue. Both sword and stone equally hard and did not break anything this time.
Gamin vs Thing:1d20 + 10 - 1 ⇒ (6) + 10 - 1 = 151d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 1 = 5 Gamin has a hardness of 19!
The statue picks it's own sword and swings towards Rahab, it's swing slightly harder than Rahabs, and cuts him a little bit.
Rogue 3/1 Diviner AC 19, touch 15, flat-footed 15(+4 armor, +3 Dex, +1 dodge, +1 size) hp 28 (3d8+3) Fort +3, Ref +7, Will +5; +2 vs. fear Percpetion +12, In +8
Drawing his crossbow the halfling will move and attempt to get into a position to shoot the creature
Rogue 3/1 Diviner AC 19, touch 15, flat-footed 15(+4 armor, +3 Dex, +1 dodge, +1 size) hp 28 (3d8+3) Fort +3, Ref +7, Will +5; +2 vs. fear Percpetion +12, In +8
Rogue 3/1 Diviner AC 19, touch 15, flat-footed 15(+4 armor, +3 Dex, +1 dodge, +1 size) hp 28 (3d8+3) Fort +3, Ref +7, Will +5; +2 vs. fear Percpetion +12, In +8
Varuna Varghese wrote:
Bennybeck Wabbittracks-01 wrote:
Could these things break your claws or teeth?
Abilities like this only affect manufactured weapons. Otherwise classes like Monk or Brawler would be severely hindered.
After taking down one of the constructs, Varuna rushes to the other side of the room to help with the other.
Human Magus 3| HP 24/24 | AC 19(24)/T13/FL16(21) (+2 vs evil) | Fort 5/ Ref 3/Will 3 | Perc +0, Init +2
Argent Vosk puts away both of his wands, securing them at his belt.
"We must work quickly before more of these things find their way to us."
If we have another round to work on the defenses, he will try again to use his knowledge to overcome some of the defense.
religion:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28
Just for clarity, you cannot work on the sphere when there is danger. However with that said, Magt has done enough to take down the statue. I've assumed Vosk Religion roll for the interaction round that is explained below:
Benny's crossbow hits the creature but it's unable to penetrate it's tough skin. DR5/-
Magt uses his might and strength to reign down some tough beating on to the living statue. And it's enough to break it apart, giving the pathfinders some breathing space and time to continue working on the sphere.
Mechanically now, you have 2 rounds for healing/buffs and only 1 round to interact with the sphere. After that more danger will return! This cycle will continue until the house has collected enough clues. So far we are at 56/150 clues required. Each 2 successes = 1 clue.
Vosk seems to have gotten ahead of himself and started working on the puzzles. It pays off, as he manages to solved two of the markings dating back to ancient religions regarding elemental tribes.
Reminder on sphere interactions:
1. Damage one the rings, using Disable Device or an attack that deals hit point damage
2. Solve one of the many facets of the polyhydron, using your choice of (standard action): Appraise, Disable Device, Intelligence, Knowledge (any), Linguistics, Perception, Wisdom , Use Magic Device. If you speak any of the elemental languages add a +1 bonus for each language you speak.
Defensive Rings:
Blue: (Destroyed)
Blue: Protects other Rings
Teal: Increases difficulty of puzzle
Red: Causes fear
Green: Helps guardians
Waki: Ring and puzzles are two different things! Because you said colour of the rings, I assume you're working on the ring now and not the puzzle? The rings are protecting the puzzle.
Waki manages to bypass some of the ring's defences, but not enough to totally take it down.
So I've made an error. Both Benny and Varuna's checks surpassed the requirement that they both would have destroyed one ring. So the remaining rings are:
Thanks. That was exactly what I was hoping for. Putting wands away was my combat action. I was assuming the enemy would die. Then I wanted to make sure I wouldn't be the holdup when puzzles started again, so wanted to roll ahead. I was filling an emergency con table that had a GM cancellation, so wasn't sure how free I'd get to post again.
43/43 HP, AC: 19[25] (+1 vs traps), T: 15[17], FF: 15[19], CMD: 16,F: +5 , R: +11[13] (+1 vs traps), W: +5[4] (+2 vs Illusions), Init +5, Perception +15 (+17 Traps),NG Male Wayang Swashbuckler 1/Investigator 4,Rapier +11 (1d4+5, 18-20 x2)
With the threat of combat over for now, Varuna gets back to work on the circles, hoping to make the puzzle easier for the others. He moves to the red circle and gets to work with his set of delicate tools.
-9 HP
-1 con damage
fast healing rnd 11
shield rnd 40
Can any of you casters fix the damaged weapons?mending spell?
While the demon blood slowly fixes his flesh, Magt picks uphis blade and stalks back to the sphere. We must get through quickly! He takes another swing at the teal ring.
Rogue 3/1 Diviner AC 19, touch 15, flat-footed 15(+4 armor, +3 Dex, +1 dodge, +1 size) hp 28 (3d8+3) Fort +3, Ref +7, Will +5; +2 vs. fear Percpetion +12, In +8
The statues only carry one masterwork quality longsword each. Nothing else on them.
After Waki weakens the teal ring, Magt and Rahab knock it to destruction using raw force. Varuna is able to disarm completely one more ring and Benny does the same with the last remaining ring. As the rings have been deactivated, a gush of winds flow through and turning around you find yourself with company of more living statues.
Sorrina Westyr’s image appears, her hair windblown and a look of wonder on her face. “The Society's discoveries have weakened the prison of the powerful being sealed within Aucturn's Tear,” she pauses, studying a flotilla of crystal balls that hover around her. “Our divinations indicate that it’s now offering a fraction of its power to our forces!”
Behind Sorrina, a small army of Pathfinder mages are studying the floating globes. Then one of them whispers in Drandle Dreng’s ear. Abruptly, Drandle hurries to the forefront, his shaggy head appearing in the center of the Divination window. "ACG Warriors, make a run for it!" Hands gesticulating wildly, he shouts, “NOW!”
Table GMs, the Thunderous Aid condition is now in effect. ACG Tables, you may make a run for it.
Human Magus 3| HP 24/24 | AC 19(24)/T13/FL16(21) (+2 vs evil) | Fort 5/ Ref 3/Will 3 | Perc +0, Init +2
Argent Vosk takes up his sword in both hands, preparing to attack the column as it closes in. "Blade don't fail me now, and forgive me for what this might do to you."
-1 con damage
I have lost track of what round this is.
-3 hp (the fast healing will wear off at round 11 with me at -3)
shield until round 40
I will use one of the mwk bsdswords
Rrrgroch! Magt charges the right hand (blue) statue.
Vosk and Varuna move closer towards the statue coming from the north. They ready themselves in anticipation for retaliation if attacked. The creature moves towards Varuna, Vosk swings over Varuna trying to hit it but falls just inches short.
No AoO for Vosk since it stopped at Varuna.
It swings it's sword toward Varuna, as he parries it and stabs it in return creating a small dent in the statue like thing.
On the other side of the cavern, Magt heads in strong and hard with one of the swords he picked up. The blow from Magt is so strong it takes out a chunk of his head! In it's extremely sorry state, it swings it's sword at Magt as well, and manages to cut him a little.
Magt, you are at round 8! I'm also keeping track of your stats in the initiative counter below.
Round 7/8 Conditions: Intermittent Winds (-2 penalty to range attacks)
Magt -12 (Infernal healing (Rd12), Shield (Rd40)),
Varuna (Dex Mutagen (30mins) heightened awareness (30mins))
Vosk (Enlarge Person Rd12) Statue things R -3 B-33
Waki
Rahab -6 (Divine Favour Rd10)
Benny
Others:
Magt: Horsechopper -2 (Broken)
Thunderous Aid:
Between combats, one PC can gain a +3 bonus to skill check to solve the puzzle. The group must decide which PC gains this bonus before she attempts a skill check. Due to the nature of PBP, I will not hold it against you if make a selfish decision and decide to use it. But I'll leave it up to you guys how you want to decide on this.
43/43 HP, AC: 19[25] (+1 vs traps), T: 15[17], FF: 15[19], CMD: 16,F: +5 , R: +11[13] (+1 vs traps), W: +5[4] (+2 vs Illusions), Init +5, Perception +15 (+17 Traps),NG Male Wayang Swashbuckler 1/Investigator 4,Rapier +11 (1d4+5, 18-20 x2)
GM:
You're missing a big chunk of what Thunderous Aid can do. It also grants those spell like abilities in combat for those that want to try it. Not that I think they're all that useful.
Thanks Varuna. Hadn't notice that I didn't copy it fully.
You hear a voice whispering from within the sphere vault. Ranginori has seemed to have sensed your presences and is attempting to provide some of his magical aid to you. However, channelling the magic from within the vault may proved to be a little bit tricky.
Other Thunderous Aid benefits I missed earlier:
A PC adjacent to the puzzle orb can attempt an DC17 Diplomacy check, DC17 Spellcraft check, or DC14 Use Magic Device check to direct the Duke of Thunder’s wrath. If successful, a PC can cast one of the following spells as a spell-like ability, using her character level as her caster level and either her own Charisma or 20 to determine the spell’s save DC. This ability can only be used once per combat, and any summoned elemental disappears at the end of the combat.
Available SLA: cure light wounds, shocking grasp, summon nature’s ally II (air elemental only), cat’s grace, cure moderate wounds
Rogue 3/1 Diviner AC 19, touch 15, flat-footed 15(+4 armor, +3 Dex, +1 dodge, +1 size) hp 28 (3d8+3) Fort +3, Ref +7, Will +5; +2 vs. fear Percpetion +12, In +8
The halfling takes a 5' step and fires his crossbow at the creature fighting the tie fling
1d20 + 6 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 6 - 4 = 21 1d6 ⇒ 4
Even as the many-faceted prison spins and reconfigures itself, it cannot keep pace with the combined efforts of the Pathfinder Society. A refreshing breeze pours from the immense orb, restoring the agents' will to fight.
Table GMs, the Winds of Restoration condition is now in effect.
Human Magus 3| HP 24/24 | AC 19(24)/T13/FL16(21) (+2 vs evil) | Fort 5/ Ref 3/Will 3 | Perc +0, Init +2
Argent Vosk once again attempts to strike out at the statue in engaging Varuna. With more time for this strike, he puts some of this arcane power into his blade hoping it will be enough to overcome the creatures defenses.
Rogue 3/1 Diviner AC 19, touch 15, flat-footed 15(+4 armor, +3 Dex, +1 dodge, +1 size) hp 28 (3d8+3) Fort +3, Ref +7, Will +5; +2 vs. fear Percpetion +12, In +8
If only I hit this good with his spear, on a creature that would take sneak attack damage
The winds of changes bring restoration to the group. The breeze makes everyone feel rejuvenated. You recover 8hp, and 1 ability damage. Regain one use of a class feature. And you can also recover one or more spells that has total levels equal to your character level.
Meanwhile Benny fires accurately a bolt at the creature, but it bounces off it's unusual but natural hard skin. Did not penetrate DR.
Vosk get's a little more luckier this time with a strong solid swing that knocks a chunk of rock out of the stone creatures arm. But it still looks to be standing strong.
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