Toffitt waits quietly at the landing for a bit, listening for signs of movement and testing his weight on the structure. Could this hold Finneas?
When Toffitt stops, so does Dyrant, floating like an guardian angel.
fly to hover (DC15)
"Doctor wait up! I have a magic cloak, I can walk on walls too. Do you want me to help you? I can see in the dark you know."
Actually, this is probably a mistake.
Finneas will walk down the wall of the pit 15' and stare into the darkness.
It's full of stars.
Female voice: No it most certainly isn't.
Male voice: He's not right in the head, let him see stars if he wants. Hey boy, bang your head on the wall a few times, you'll see stars a'plenty.
The party descends with Toffitt on the first landing, Dyrant floating above him, and Finneas straight down 15'. No one sees or hears anything new. The stone with light on the floor of the pit glows contentedly.
Dyrant floats and waits for the Doctor to continue.
This place ain't so bad.
Toffitt descends to the point where the cavern walls expand outwards and the stairs continue down without a wall next to them. He looks at the ceiling while it's at eye level, and then descends to the ground.Once he's in the stone's dim light he temporarily stows his ioun torch. Still stealthy. Slow steps. Listening for the faintest sound over the creak of the stairs.
CREAKKK!
Atol stands nervously near the entrance to the pit.
I can't help them from here, we should stick together.
He traces the word 'priest' on his phylactery a few times and calms down slightly...
Seeing Dr. Toffitt at the bottom (and after hearing the rocky racket he is making), Dyrant will signal to Atol and Glim to begin their descent.
I hope they are smart enough to spread out their weight.
Realizing that heavy falling objects (like plateclad gnomes and overburdened priests) are heavy, Dyrant gently flies closer to the center of the tube to avoid any falling debris.
As Toffitt descends to the 3rd landing, he notices something rather large coming towards him from inside the cave. As it gets closer, he sees something similar to a dragon except it has no wings and seven heads.
Initiative
Atol
Dyrant
Finneas
Finneas Bonus roll
Glimmil
Toffitt
Hyrda
Finneas = 20
Toffitt = 18
Dyrant = 15
Glimmil = 12
Atol = 12
Hyrda = 5
Cave is 15' x 15'
Hyrda is 15' x 15'
New Map
Party up for Round 1
Dyrant startles as the beast comes into view.
Know (Nature) or Arcana +12
Freakin' dragons.
Round 1, Initiative 12, Location H9
Weapon Equipped = Cudgel
Conditions = Bless (1 of 50)
Channel Energy Left: 7/7
Resistant Touch Left: 8/8
Strength Surge Left: 8/8
Cleric Spells Remaining:
0) Create Water, Guidance, Light, Stabilize
1) Bless, Command, Obscuring Mist, Protection from Evil, Shield of Faith
2) Bull's Strength, Sound Burst, Spiritual Weapon, Spiritual Weapon
3) Prayer, Magic Circle Against Evil, Resist Energy Communal
On seeing the creature, Atol moves down to be closer to the party (another 20') and casts Bless (+1 to hit and saves vs fear w/in 50' of Atol).
"Is that a Black Dragon?! It has so many heads! I've never heard of such a creature!"
Round 1 Init 20
HP = 47/47
AC = 21/11/21
Weapon Equipped = Cold Iron Greatsword +1
Speed = 25'
Rage/day = 6/7
Oracle Spells Left (CL 4, +9 melee touch, +6 ranged touch):
2 4/4 Resist Energy*, Cure Moderate Wounds*, Fog Cloud
1 4/7 Divine Favor*, Shield of Faith*, Remove Fear*, Enlarge Person*, Cure Light Wounds*
0 (at will) Purify Food and Drink*, Create Water, Stabilize, Ghost Sound*, Detect Magic, Mage Hand, Light, Spark*
* Allows save DC = 12 + Spell Level
Status Effects = None
Finneas walks down the wall and attempts to lop off a head.
Round 1, Init 18 {L26 + 20'}
Toffitt drinks his mutagen and (if possible) starts wall crawling—20' up. "Dragon with many heads."
I'm a bit unclear—does the stairway remain flush with a wall all the way down, or do the walls of the cavern telescope out at some point?
Round 1 Init 20
** spoiler omitted **Finneas walks down the wall and attempts to lop off a head.
[dice=Greatsword Power Attack]1d20+8;2d6+13
[dice=Crit Confirm]1d20+8;2d6+13
Round 1, Initiative 12, Location H9
** spoiler omitted **
On seeing the creature, Atol moves down to be closer to the party (another 20')
Sever the heads and burn the stumps! Either that or do massive damage all at once...The heads grow back without fire.
"Oh, and the heads breath cold air that will give you frostbite."
Glimmil glances down into the dark pit, wondering how Toffitt's scouting progress is going while shrugging at Atol when he hears the stairs are clear.
"Down for heroic deed-doing, it is!" he offers as he watches Dyrant floating down on his own, ushering Cog to begin the journey.
As the yelling about a black dragon with more heads than Cobwaddles is mentioned, Glimmil hesitates just for the briefest moment.
"Wait, so it can't fly? If it has seven heads does that mean seven fire br.. err cold breaths?"
Glimmil worriedly looks at Atol and the floating Dyrant and wonders if the last dragon breathed on his friend seven times if they would be able to survive.
"Perhaps we should lure it out? Fall back friends, and I will protect you!" Glimmil and Cog scramble down.
Round 1 so far
Finneas = 20 - Moves and readies. Sunder (provoking) or regular?
Toffitt = 18 - Mutagen and 20' up
Dyrant = 15 - ??? Knowledge check would know pretty much everthing too
Glimmil = 12 - double move down stairs
Atol = 12 - Move and bless
Hyrda = 5
Round 1, Init 13
Cyrohydra!
Dyrant tries to stay well out of reach of the jerkohyrda.
Dyrant readies to give the hydra a stern look if it gets closer.
The hyrda emerges from it's cave and Finneas takes careful aim at one of the many heads. As he stretches out for a neck the head turns and bites him. He manages to lop off the offending head, but two of the other heads bite him.
AoO
- - no confirm
- damage
#1
- damage
#2
#3
#4 - EDIT: This is a miss with the hex.
- damage
#5
#6
#7 head chopped off
Toffitt drinks his mutagen and scrambles up the wall to use Dyrant as cover (he's now 5' above Dyrant).
Will save vs. Dyrant (of course)
Glimmil and Cog move down.
Toffitt = 18 - Mutagen & move
Glimmil = 12 - double move
Atol = 12 - bless
Dyrant = 7 - hex
Finneas = 6 - Hit
Hyrda = 5
Party up for Round 2
New Map
Round 2, Initiative 12, Location E37
Weapon Equipped = Cudgel
Conditions = Bless (2 of 50), Spiritual Cudgel (1 of 5)
Channel Energy Left: 7/7
Resistant Touch Left: 8/8
Strength Surge Left: 8/8
Cleric Spells Remaining:
0) Create Water, Guidance, Light, Stabilize
1) Bless, Bless, Command, Obscuring Mist, Protection from Evil, Shield of Faith
2) Bull's Strength, Sound Burst, Spiritual Weapon, Spiritual Weapon
3) Prayer, Magic Circle Against Evil, Resist Energy Communal
Atol casts Spiritual Weapon and moves another 20' down.
"Finneas, are you OK? I'm coming! Get hit less!"
Round 2, Init 7
Dyrant will cast Flaming Sphere and send it dropping down upon the hydra.
fire damage vs. DC17
Burn, you abomination! BURN!
The hyrda tapdances around the sphere.
- Save
Attacks of Opportunity
Sometimes a combatant in a melee lets her guard down or takes a reckless action. In this case, combatants near her can take advantage of her lapse in defense to attack her for free. These free attacks are called attacks of opportunity. See the Attacks of Opportunity diagram for an example of how they work.
Threatened Squares
You threaten all squares into which you can make a melee attack, even when it is not your turn. Generally, that means everything in all squares adjacent to your space (including diagonally). An enemy that takes certain actions while in a threatened square provokes an attack of opportunity from you. If you're unarmed, you don't normally threaten any squares and thus can't make attacks of opportunity.
Reach Weapons
Most creatures of Medium or smaller size have a reach of only 5 feet. This means that they can make melee attacks only against creatures up to 5 feet (1 square) away. However, Small and Medium creatures wielding reach weapons threaten more squares than a typical creature. In addition, most creatures larger than Medium have a natural reach of 10 feet or more.
Provoking an Attack of Opportunity
Two kinds of actions can provoke attacks of opportunity: moving out of a threatened square and performing certain actions within a threatened square.
Moving
Moving out of a threatened square usually provokes attacks of opportunity from threatening opponents. There are two common methods of avoiding such an attack—the 5-foot step and the withdraw action.
Performing a Distracting Act
Some actions, when performed in a threatened square, provoke attacks of opportunity as you divert your attention from the battle. Table: Actions in Combat notes many of the actions that provoke attacks of opportunity.
Remember that even actions that normally provoke attacks of opportunity may have exceptions to this rule.
Making an Attack of Opportunity
An attack of opportunity is a single melee attack, and most characters can only make one per round. You don't have to make an attack of opportunity if you don't want to. You make your attack of opportunity at your normal attack bonus, even if you've already attacked in the round.
An attack of opportunity "interrupts" the normal flow of actions in the round. If an attack of opportunity is provoked, immediately resolve the attack of opportunity, then continue with the next character's turn (or complete the current turn, if the attack of opportunity was provoked in the midst of a character's turn).
Combat Reflexes and Additional Attacks of Opportunity
If you have the Combat Reflexes feat, you can add your Dexterity modifier to the number of attacks of opportunity you can make in a round. This feat does not let you make more than one attack for a given opportunity, but if the same opponent provokes two attacks of opportunity from you, you could make two separate attacks of opportunity (since each one represents a different opportunity). Moving out of more than one square threatened by the same opponent in the same round doesn't count as more than one opportunity for that opponent. All these attacks are at your full normal attack bonus.
Round 2 Init 20
HP = 33/47
AC = 21/11/21
Weapon Equipped = Cold Iron Greatsword +1
Speed = 25'
Rage/day = 6/7
Oracle Spells Left (CL 4, +9 melee touch, +6 ranged touch):
2 4/4 Resist Energy*, Cure Moderate Wounds*, Fog Cloud
1 4/7 Divine Favor*, Shield of Faith*, Remove Fear*, Enlarge Person*, Cure Light Wounds*
0 (at will) Purify Food and Drink*, Create Water, Stabilize, Ghost Sound*, Detect Magic, Mage Hand, Light, Spark*
* Allows save DC = 12 + Spell Level
Status Effects = None
"Cut off his head? Ok, I was doing that anyway."
Finneas swings again, accepting further attacks to try for another head.
Round 2 so far
Toffitt = 18 - TBD
Glimmil = 12 - TBD
Atol = 12 - Moves 20' down. Spiritual Weapon. Hit for 6
Dyrant = 7 - Flaming sphere. Miss.
Finneas = 6 - Misses.
Hyrda = 5
AoO on Finneas
- miss
As he descends, Glimmil hollers to the wiser men among his companions.
"This multi-headed dragon... is it EVIL?"
I certainly didn't sense it was evil... And here I was hoping for something evil to vanquish again!
When Glimmil realizes the creature isn't evil, and also doesn't have wings, he wonders aloud for the others to hear, "Hey, if it can't fly, it sure isn't going to climb these stairs? Can't we just shoot at it from up top?"
One good bullet in the eyes... wait, it has so many of them... one, two, three, four...
Glimmil continues to guide Cog down to protect his companions.
Glimmil Status:
HP: 62/62
AC 28 (24 base +4 total defense)
Spells: 1) Challenge Evil [ ] Prot Evil [ ]
Smite Left: 2/2
Lay Hands Left: 4/4
Cog Status:
HP 42/42
AC 25
Round 2, Init 18 {>}
"Finneas, try to draw it out. It's too well-protected in there. We must get fire or acid on it, or the heads will multiply. Bad news for us."
Toffitt takes out his wand of shield and casts it on himself. He inches down the wall five feet.
**Heroism (skills, attacks, saves +2), Ward (saves +1 more, +2 defl to AC)
AC 28 (17 touch; 23 flat-footed) [4 armor, 3 nat armor, 2 deflect, 5 dex, 4 shield)
HP 43/43
Fort +11 Reflex +13 Will +5
Weapon Equipped Dueling blade
Shield Equipped none
Mutagen ACTIVE (+4 Dex, +2 AC, -2 Wis, 40 minute duration)
Controlled Rage 0 of 5 rounds used
Spontaneous healing 0hp of 10hp used
Elixirs
1 Shield (Glimmil)
- Shield (Finneas)
- Expeditious retreat
- empty slot
- empty slot
2 Alchemical allocation USED
- Alchemical allocation
- See invisibility
Wand of Shield 37 charges
Slippers of spider climbing 1 of 10 minutes used
I certainly didn't sense it was evil... And here I was hoping for something evil to vanquish again!
The party looks to aid Finneas, but for now he faces the creature alone. Hanging from the side of the wall and dodging six heads is too much for Finneas this time and he is unable to chop off another head. The hyrdra however is not so distracted. First, one head breathes on him, covering him in frost. Then two of the six remaining heads bite at his legs. While each bite is not particularly vicious, the number of them begins to take its toll on Finneas. The hyrda seems to be fairing better. In fact, it looks completely unharmed from where Atol's spiritual weapon hit it.
- DC 18 REF for half
#1
damage
#2
damage
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7 - growing back
Party is up for Round 3
Toffitt = 18 -
Glimmil = 12 -
Atol = 12 -
Dyrant = 7 -
Finneas = 6 -
Hyrda = 5
Atol - Spiritual Weapon - Round 2: 6
Fast Healing Round 2: -6
New Map
Round 3, Initiative 12, Location E37
Weapon Equipped = Cudgel
Conditions = Bless (3 of 50), Spiritual Cudgel (2 of 5)
Channel Energy Left: 7/7
Resistant Touch Left: 8/8
Strength Surge Left: 8/8
Cleric Spells Remaining:
0) Create Water, Guidance, Light, Stabilize
1) Bless, Command, Obscuring Mist, Protection from Evil, Shield of Faith
2) Bull's Strength, Spiritual Weapon
3) Prayer, Magic Circle Against Evil, Resist Energy Communal
"We're coming Finneas! Hang in there!"
Atol moves another 20' down into the hole and continues his attack with the spiritual cudgel.
Trying to buy us time, and do a little more damage to the creature, Atol casts Sound Burst centered on the heads.
Sigh...
- Save vs. Sound Burst
1d20+8 = 25 - Save vs. Sound Burst
Finneas is just standing there acting as bait!
... that's my job!
"Hey ugly! Over here!" Glimmil shouts at the multi-headed monster as he rides down the stairs, thrusting his lance at one of it's heads.
Glimmil Status:
HP: 62/62
AC 24
Spells: 1) Challenge Evil [ ] Prot Evil [ ]
Smite Left: 2/2
Lay Hands Left: 4/4
Cog Status:
HP 42/42
AC 25
Round 3, Init 7
I do not like this beast. It has too many heads by seven.
Dyrant will give the beast a withering glare of anger.
You *WILL* burn! By the cudgel!
fire damage vs. DC17
Dyrant will draw his wand of serious curification after mentally commanding his ball of fire to burn the beast.
* * *
vs. Hex
vs. Flaming Sphere