Grimm is confused by Kerm's declaration that the big monster is fake, so he looks for a cluster of beasts that he can light up.
Grimm is confused by Kerm's declaration that the big monster is fake, so he looks for a cluster of beasts that he can light up.
There are multiple possibilities, one good option would be all four faceless stalkers, standing in a 10-ft-square area.... Or the cluster of sinspawn and skum directly in front of the aboleth and near Krar--two of each in a 10-ft-square area....
I guess krar will make a full withdraw.
I guess krar will make a full withdraw.
By withdrawing straight backward, Krar minimizes the AoOs provoked to one from a faceless stalker (due to its reach) and one from a sinspawn....
AoO on Krar as he dashes away from the line of monsters blocking the bridge.... a deep cut across Krar's back for 11 slashing damage!
AoO on Krar as he passes through his threat range.... it snaps its freakish jaws inches from Krar's flesh....
before we decide if the faceless stalker deals damage I hit him which gives him a penalty.
krar only takes 9 because the faceless stalker takes a minus 2 to attack/damage.
ROUND 3!!!
Grimm!
Faceless stalkers (4)!
Kate!
The SSM!
Dwayne Lee!
Skum (4)!
Mephos!
Sinspawn (5)!
Derrik!
Radsworth!
Cpt Kermit!
Koran!
Krar!
Eeeeekity-eek!!
before we decide if the faceless stalker deals damage I hit him which gives him a penalty.
[dice=panther vs. FS]1d20+8[dice=damage]1d6+5
[dice=crit? vs. FS]1d20+8[dice=damage]1d6+5
[dice=panther vs. Sinspawn]1d20+8[dice=damage]1d6+5
krar only takes 9 because the faceless stalker takes a minus 2 to attack/damage.
Stalkers attack roll total was 20, minus whatever penalty to impose on it....okay, so 9 damage instead.....
After Grimm:
The two north-most stalkers turn their fury on Derrik, sensing and hating his holy aura....
Longsword
Slam
Longsword
Slam
The monsters flail vainly against the divinely-gifted bulwark that is the armor of Derrik the Stubborn!
The other two stalkers continue their assault on the menacing giant in front of them (Koran)....
Longsword misses thanks to protection from evil!
Slam hits for 4 bludgeoning....
Longsword to confirm a deep slice for 16 slashing!
Slam hits for another 4 bludgeoning....
A devastating barrage of cuts and slams on Koran! Is he able to withstand it?....
Oh, crap, you dumb b#$&%! You let Koran and Krar get too hurt! Please, Mama Nature, don't let me be too late....
Moves 10 ft to the southeast and channels positive energy to heal all companions....
The great fish-like monster half emerging from the canal forms words with a deep, bubbling voice....
Surrender, Fierce Ones.... You cannot hope to stand against The Slime-Shrouded Master....
It attempts to dominate Dwayne Lee.... Will DC 22!
Yes.... That one looks feeble of will....
Will save with protection from evil vs dominate monster DC 22........ Dwayne Lee would be subject to The SSM's commands were he not warded from mental control by Kate's protection from evil spell....
Aww, f++#! That big old catfish monster done stuck its slimy mind-dick in my mind-booty! Ugh! Like it could yank me around like a dang puppet....'cept somethin's gummin' it up.... Kate's blessings'?
Dwayne Lee, befuddled by Kermit's claim that the mind-raping catfish monster was an illusion, turns his AR-15 on the skum at the north end of the line, 15 ft away....
blasting it for 11 piercing and bludgeoning.... All four remaining skum are now wounded....
Two attack Derrik....
Trident
Bite
Claw
Trident
Bite to confirm
Claw
Only a bite for 5 piercing makes it through Derrik's armor!
The other two skum hold the line blocking the bridge....
Including kate's healing Koran is currently at 20 hp he will be down to 12 when he stops raging.
on his turn koran will use renewed vigor.
Grimm lobs his alchemical bomb at the mass of faceless ones.
plus fire.
Against Derrik....
Bite misses....
Claw misses....
Claw misses....
Bite misses....
Claw misses....
Claw slashes for 3 damage....
Bite to confirm crit pierces for 6 damage....
Claw
Claw to confirm crit slashes for 3 damage....
The other two resist the urge to pursue Krar and instead hold the line....
Grimm lobs his alchemical bomb at the mass of faceless ones....
Grimm's bomb explodes in the midst of the faceless ones, dousing them with alchemical flames! They shriek and twist in the fire!
Reflex saves for half damage?
Derrik parries the countless blows with shield and axe, but even his intense focus is disturbed by the wrath that currently lashes out inside of him allowing the otherwise ineffectual blows strike home. They scrape against his armor causing small chinks but its holy properties deflecting much of the damage. His own wounds less severe than his ally Koran and seeming to heal of their own accord... Knowing that Koran is in danger his hidden power reacts.. the runes upon his armor illuminating much more and projecting themselves in some weird language.. symbols beginning to Float around Derrik. He swings his arm high, Dawnbringer positioning itself into its holster and extends his hand towards Koran.
" As I am protected so shall you be Koran... Nay creatures.. you will have to kill me before you do so ANOTHER! "
Derrik does so even among all the danger.. as the symbols that surround him in a strange spherical pattern begins to flow towards KORAN.
AoO with reach, longsword
AoO with reach, longsword to confirm crit Derrik is struck a vicious blow for 18 slashing damage! .... But wait.... Doesn't a swift action not provoke an attack of opportunity, even if it is a spell?
Derrik is stricken by a lucky blow and it throws his concentration off balance. He audibly roars at that. As the strike did happen alot of the force seemed to be slowed by the symbols. Now his blood quite evident.
AoO on Derrik with trident clang!
AoO on Derrik with trident clang!
Derrik's breastplate turns the tines of the skum tridents aside....
AoO on Derrik with bite
AoO on Derrik with bite
AoO on Derrik with bite
Again, the paladin's armor protects him from harm!
How 'bout this, m+!@*&-f&$%@+!!
Cpt Kermit points his Glock at a faceless stalker, firing with Point Blank Shot and Precise Shot .... The faceless stalker yelps and twists as the bullet finds its mark....
To clarify the battlefield....
The Fierce Ones face The Slime-Shrouded Master and its minions at the west end of a broad bridge (about 20 ft wide, spanning a canal about 40 ft wide. (I may have given much smaller dimensions before, but having recently revisited St Armand's Circle IRL, I have a clearer conception of dimensions.)
Derrik stands beside enlarged Koran, facing (clockwise from the north) a sinspawn, two skums (at Derrik's 9:00, 10:00, and 12:00), a group of four faceless stalkers standing in a 10-ft square opposing Koran, a sinspawn to Koran's 2:00, two more skum holding the line about 10 ft from Koran (still within reach of his massive hammer!), and then another two sinspawn holding the line, both about 15 ft from Koran....
The Slime-Shrouded Master remains half submerged in the canal, about 15 ft to the southeast of Koran, and if what Kermit says is true, its not even the real SSM, but an illusion....
Krar is about 15 ft west of the line of monsters holding the bridge, and about 10 ft southwest of the towering Koran.....
Captain Kermit is about 10 ft north of Krar, and 10 ft west of Koran's back.....
Dwayne Lee is about 10 ft from the north end of the line of monsters, and about 30 ft north of Krar....
Grimm and Kate stand about 10 ft southwest of Dwayne Lee, and about 25 ft from the line of monsters at the bridge....
Radsworth and Mephos are another 10 ft further west than Grimm and Kate, about 35 ft from the line of monsters at the bridge....
Mephos!
Radsworth!
Krar!
Then.....round 4!!
Ooh-ooh-ooh!
Krar runs in and out provoking three AoOs
AoO on Krar with bite misses....
AoO on Krar with bite misses....
AoO on Krar with trident Krar is raked by the tines of a skum trident for 3 piercing damage....
assuming a 28 hit the skum he would take a penalty on his attack roll making it a 14 to hit ac 16.
assuming a 28 hit the skum he would take a penalty on his attack roll making it a 14 to hit ac 16.
[dice=forgot to role for crit]1d20+8[dice=damage]1d6+5
Okay, Krar dodges the trident and delivers a punishing riposte that breaks a skum's jaw....
YO, ARCANE DUDES!
Kill these faceless stalkers before they turn Derrik, Koran, and Krar into hamburger....
mephos raises his rod and another beam of fire shoots forth at one of the faceless stalkers attacking koran.
mephos raises his hand and another beam of fire shoots forth at one of the faceless stalkers attacking koran.
Without many options at his disposal, Radsworth takes a cue from Mephos. Aiming Traveler at the same Stalker (assuming it lives), he channels fiery red magic through it's chamber. The bullet and scorching ray both streak towards a faceless stalker.
meta magic rod.
Two rays of arcane fire scorch a black, crackling hole in one of the wounded faceless stalkers, and it drops ablaze on the pavement!
ROUND 3!!!
Grimm!
Faceless stalkers (4)!
Kate!
The SSM!
Dwayne Lee!
Skum (4)!
Mephos!
Sinspawn (5)!
Derrik!
Radsworth!
Cpt Kermit!
Koran!
Krar!Eeeeekity-eek!!
Round 4!!
Bombs away, Grimm! :)
After Dr Grimm:
Pain!! The terrible pain!! These Fierce Ones are unstoppable! Why won't they just die like all the others!?
In Aklo: We must retreat, Slime-Shrouded Master! The Fierce Ones burn us with fire! We must escape the burning flames, Master!
One of the more badly burnt faceless stalker can endure the searing pain no more! It breaks from the line, complete withdraw from a square directly in front of Koran to leap southeastward into the canal, drawing an AoO from Koran as it passes through a square at 10-ft reach with his enlarged earth breaker!
No sooner does this first stalker break than the other two still standing make a break for it as well, complete withdraws, and dive into the canal behind their Slime-Shrouded Master....
Yes! They're running! We're gonna win this....
Channels positive energy to heal "her boys"....
Give life and healing to my boys, Mother Nature!
NO!! The Fierce Ones were weakening.... Useless, simpering cravens! A few seconds more, and the warriors in front would fall, but no!! A few displays of fire, and my worthless, cowardly minions scurry like bugs!
Enraged, The Slime-Shrouded Master withdraws deeper into the canal, and the projected image he had been observing, casting, and speaking through fades away like a nightmare with the break of dawn....
YEEEEEE-HAAAAWWWW, M@&*$$-F~~#!#S!! YEAH!! RUN, YOU FAT, SLIMY, PIG-F*%$ERS!!
Dwaye Lee takes a farewell shot at a sinspawn within PB range before it turns to flee as well....
HA! Got ya, ya ugly varmint!
The remaining four skum completely withdraw, diving off the bridge into the canal with a great splashing and sloshing!
Seeing the other monsters routed, the sinspawn succumb to panic and despair, and likewise flee the field of battle, loping off eastward across the bridge into the center of St Armand's Circle, making complete withdraws where necessary to avoid attacks of opportunity....