Shards of the Titanswar

Game Master EldonG

Reiko starts forward, and then thinks better of it. He draws his katana, speaks a word of magic, and it begins to glow with that sinister red it always has when he's focusing his power into it. Then, he almost smirks, and takes off his overcoat, revealing his arms, and the gruesome scars on them. Anyone familiar will notice right away the arcane symbols and formulas normally found on a scroll. He speaks again, and one set begins to glow, and disappears, letter by letter, almost as if it's being read. His eye begin to glow, matching his blade, and he begins to grow in size as he calmly strides toward the beast. There will be only death in this place today. Yours... Not ours. Prepare yourself. He calls out, and as he speaks his voice gets deeper, more sinister, more... foreboding.

Swift Action-make sword +1. Standard Action-Enlarge Person. Move Action-Move toward thing.

Antonio shot the creature from behind a bush.
Crossbow attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20 for a possible 1d8 ⇒ 8 piercing damage. If vulnerable to sneak attack damage add 2d6 ⇒ (1, 3) = 4 precision damage.

Then he dropped the crossbow and dashed towards a flanking position, drawing his sword along the way.

Baldek's eyes grow wide as he's easily picked up as he charges forth, then he smirks as he feels a thick coat of grease on his armour and starts to slip. "Aye! Tasty yes! Trouble with butter, is it makes it hard to pick your food!" he banters as he tries to slip away.

CMB to break grapple, with rage and grease: 1d20 + 6 + 2 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 6 + 2 + 10 = 38

Nia, you're correct. It does normally require a will save to avoid blindness. Trust me - it makes it. You can try a roll for identifying it - roll high. I'll add the appropriate modifier.

Auric - you're grappled - light weapons only.

Ref: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15

Baldek squirms like a champ, and is rewarded by slipping out onto his rump. (I'll allow a reflex DC 15 to be on your feet.)

Aya - it doesn't seem to respond to the ray - at all.

Squuirrrmy dwwaarrrf!

Antonio's shot almost misses, but catches the thing unaware, so it draws blood.

It responds to the move, though.

Tentacle: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (6) + 16 = 22
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Activate Lore Master lets me take 20 on the knowledge check.

Bonuses to Various Knowledges:

+4 Dungeoneering, Engineering, Geography
+8 Nobility Planes Religion
+9 Nature, Local
+10 History

oh... sorry... When it automatically grabbed us on our turns without any of the necessary rolls I assumed it was more of a flavor/environmental thing than an actual grapple...

unless you were using its attack roll as the grapple check, in which case he failed to grapple me... (my CMD against him right now should be 24 if I'm not mistaken- 10+3 bab+6 str+1 Dex+4 Deflection from smite)

Good point, Auric. It can possibly fail.

Grapple Auric: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (9) + 19 = 28
Grapple Antonio: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (1) + 19 = 20

It *does* fail to grapple Antonio!

Sakuro focused on her magic and sent out another wave of grease. This time, she splashed it onto Auric's armor, giving him the same benefits against grappling that she'd given to Baldek. "Antonio, you want some grease now or later?" she called out, referring to the third warrior who'd seemed quite close to getting grappled by the creature - whatever it was.

Cast: Grease. Target: Auric's Armor. 4/6 1st level spells remaining.

Yes, you can take 20. Only once a day, but this is a good time for it!

lol, anything can roll a 1!

"Thanks, Sakuro!" Auric calls out as he breaks free of the grapple and steps into greatsword range.
grapple (vs CMD -20): 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (2) + 23 = 25

and my CMD vs him grappling my again is now 34

Is it under the effects of greater invisibility? And do I know what it is called or do I have a name to give it even if made up?

Nia'Nikta cursed quite loudly and fluently.

"This is the spawn of an elder god and one of its followers. Its highly resistant to magic."

She called on the wellspring of power within her empowering her words. Her voice carried over the din of battle.

"Strike it down quickly and keep those in close out of its clutches. Sakuro, keep up the great work. Aya, if you can focus your magic on effecting things around it or that ignore resistances to magic you won't have to worry about its resistance. Auric, Antonio, Baldek, Reiko, fight defensively if you can."

Activating Bardic Performance:
+1 insight bonus to AC, attack rolls and saving throws against exceptional, supernatural, and spell-like abilities

Auric

As evinced. ;)

DC 12 Ref to end up on your feet. (Baldek had farther to drop.)

Nia - yes, for all intents it is unnamed. This, more than almost anything else, but often I won't simply give the name of rare things - many things exist that even the greatest of scholars don't know of by name. This avoids *too much* knowledge.

reflex: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

CMD vs its grapple now 35

Reflex: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Oof, but no damage.

"Antonio, you want some grease now or later?"

Seeing the deadly game the creature was playing, Antonion came to a snap decision.

Adopting a fighting defensive stance, he acrobatically rolled into flank with the creature and attacked!
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

Flank sword attack: 1d20 + 6 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 6 - 4 = 20 for a possible 1d8 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (3) + 2 + (6, 4) = 15 slashing, cold iron and precision damage.

Bladek hurries to get back on his feet and strikes at the strange creature, taking advantage of Antonio's positioning.

Rage, PA, Flank, Reckless abandon (-1 AC): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 241d12 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17

if this thing is huge Antonio should be able to provide a flank to 2 or 3 of us, right?

Auric shifts next to Baldek where the creature's attention is divided and finally swings his greatsword at the vile beast...

attack: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (14) + 17 = 31, for: 2d6 + 14 ⇒ (2, 6) + 14 = 22 plus: 1d6 ⇒ 5 if an outsider
smite ignores DR :)

I am a bit confused as to what round we are on. I posted my round 1 action earlier, but it seems others have posted several rounds worth, so I'm going to go ahead and post my round 2 action now.

Round 2
Reiko looks to be in much better control of himself this go around, considering the last time he had enlarge person cast on him he went a little insane. This time, he appears to still be as calm and collected as he normally is. He charges forward at the beast, taking a wide swiping arc with his blade at what looks like a glitterdusted appendage, while also flanking with Baldek.
Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
Damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

i think we're nearing the end of round 2... In round 1 Baldek and I got hit/grabbed, Sakuro greased Baldek, we both escaped the grapple, you enlarged, Antonio shot his crossbow and moved, and Aya used scorching ray; in round 2 (so far) Sakuro greased me and Baldek, Antonio, Reiko, and I all attacked the creature... Still to act in round 2- Aya, Alyra, and the monster...

Dont forget me Auric. I did Bardic Performance and Identified the creature to the best of my ability ^.^

Dont forget me Auric. I did Bardic Performance and Identified the creature to the best of my ability ^.^

Forgot that! +1 Hit and Damage then. Thanks!

Aya unleashes a Force Missile for force damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Sorry Nia! I think that only took 1 round, right? so you should still be able to act in round 2 also...

Baldek- just +1 to hit (her version doesn't improve damage, but does add to AC and saves)

In all that, I forgot its actual attack. :(

While still holding Auric, it bit.

Attack: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (19) + 17 = 36
Damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

ouch... I never saw anything saying otherwise so I'm still assuming that I'm getting 5 back each round from Alyra? Since that attack happened before my turn, I'm going to edit my 2nd round action slightly...

still round 2: In the midst of moving and attacking, Auric quickly summons divine energy within himself... lay hands on self, swift action
lay hands: 1d6 ⇒ 3

"You are wise to focus on me, foul beast, but you'll have to do better than that!

took 14, healed 5 from Alyra and 3 from self: 6 damage left.

Yes - Alyra should have everyone covered.

so i think we're just waiting on round 2 actions from Alyra if she wants to do anything (i think she's down 15hp: 10 from me and 5 from Baldek), and Nia (who I believe was able to do everything she's done so far in just round 1). Jun seems not to have posted anything at all during this entire encounter and may have been forgotten in the inn during the hustle to get out here, or perhaps just got left behind when we ran off and might arrive late...

Yeah, I'm hoping we haven't lost Jun. Alyra is moving up slowly, just prepared to do any major healing.

Aya, I need an SR roll, please.

(No roll was required on the first attack.)

I'll continue, hopefully Jun will show up.

This round, it attacks all in melee range, some twice!

Auric: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (19) + 16 = 35
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Auric: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (8) + 17 = 25
Damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

Baldek: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (4) + 16 = 20
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Baldek: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (1) + 16 = 17
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Antonio: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

A third splash of grease shot out of Sakuro's fingers, splattering onto the armor of one more companion. All right, that was the three warriors fighting it covered, and hopefully that would be enough to forestall any further attempts at grappling on its part. "I can do Shield spells, too - anyone want one?" the caster girl inquired.

Cast: Grease. Target: Auric's Armor. 3/6 1st level spells remaining.

Antonio cried out when he was hit.
"Agh! Yes, a Shield would be helpful!" He said as he maneuvered around to attack.

Flank sword attack: 1d20 + 6 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (5) + 6 + 2 - 4 = 9 for a possible 1d8 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (3) + 2 + (2, 1) = 8 slashing, cold iron and precision damage.

Auric's sword connects, and bites deep, but it just seems to draw more attention.

Just large. Maybe close to huge.

Auric is shocked by the force of the creature's blows. He calls out, "I could use a shield! Healing is an even more pressing concern!"

Thank Goldar for Alyra's constant healing, and for Baldek ignoring my urging to wait... I would not have survived if all those attacks were directed at me...

He summons his own healing energy once more and proceeds on the only course available to him... swinging his sword as hard as he can...

lay hands: 1d6 ⇒ 3

attack: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (20) + 17 = 37,
for: 2d6 + 14 ⇒ (1, 2) + 14 = 17 ignores DR
plus: 1d6 ⇒ 3 if an outsider

confirm crit: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (3) + 17 = 20,
for extra: 2d6 + 14 ⇒ (2, 2) + 14 = 18

I took 26 (and was already down 6), so even with 5 back from Alyra and 3 from LoH, I'm still down to 12 hit points...

Nia knows the danger in getting close seeing the beating the others are taking.

"Strike at its heart and start to retreat. Draw it away from the village."

Maintainin bardic performance.

She knew her horse would not like her but she urged him to move towards Auric afer she cast cure light wounds. So all she had to do was survive a hit and touch Auric. Or take one of the blows so Alyra or one of the others can get to him.

Bladek hurries to get back on his feet and strikes at the strange creature, taking advantage of Antonio's positioning.

[ dice=Rage, PA, Flank, Reckless abandon (-1 AC)]1d20+11; 1d12+11

Did that previous attack hit DM?

Baldek gets hammered by the invisible creature thinking We're not going to survive that one. I should probably run!

What kind of damage does Baldek feel? A claw, a blow, a bite?

But his deep fuel of hatred keeps him from retreating, and he raises his axe once more at the beast.

Rage, PA, Flank, Reckless abandon (-1 AC): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 151d12 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

Just to be sure: Am I also getting the 5 hp healing from Alyra?

If Antonio hit it with his 9, then my 10 should have hit it as well, right? Also, Reiko should have been in the mix of people getting whacked as he moved into melee range in Round 2.

Nobody else has felt resistance to their swings. Everybody is getting 5/round from Alyra. She does get to Auric, this round.

As soon as she gets close enough, she pulses with positive energy, healing everyone but it:

Healing: 6d6 ⇒ (2, 3, 6, 5, 1, 4) = 21

Father, I beseech thee! Allow the healing waters to flow through me!

Oh, every blow so far has been the same, except for the bite. It just isn't grabbing at the greased people.

Nia'Nikta would touch Auric once she got up to him.

Cure Light Wounds: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Well, that puts me back to full! Thanks.

Nobody else has felt resistance to their swings. Everybody is getting 5/round from Alyra. She does get to Auric, this round.

To clarify, does that mean we felt nothing, our blades just passing through? Is there blood?

Yeah, that confused me as well. Did we hit it or not?

I'm not sure, but I think maybe it has some kind of DR you're not penetrating at all?

Round 3- it looks like everyone except Reiko and Aya have already acted, I think; I'm assuming Sakuro meant she was greasing Antonio (because she greased me in round 2)

No other attacks have made contact. It isn't easy to hit, as the shape is incredibly confusing.

Er, yeah. XD; The one that hadn't been splattered yet! *Forgot to edit that*

Ok, then, starting at the top of the round:

Round 4:

YYESSS! Keeepp thheemm aaliivve! Fffrrressh blloood iisss bessstt!

Auric: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (3) + 16 = 19
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Auric: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (11) + 17 = 28
Con loss from blood drinking: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Baldek: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (20) + 16 = 36
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Crit on Baldek?: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34
Extra Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Reiko: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (20) + 16 = 36
damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

I'll assume it was Reiko that got greased last. Antonio was greased the round before.

i don't know what this creature is, but does it have to be grappling me to drink blood or is it just a regular attack roll? It's first attack missed me, and the second attack will miss if its a grapple check... if all it needed was one regular attack roll for 1d4 Con loss, then that is one super deadly monster (and I could super use restoration).

edit: I was going to post an action, but I think I'm going to wait for clarification first... also, is there a reason there's no confirmation roll against Reiko? (and, Antonio got greased in round 3, it was me in round 2 and Baldek in round 1)