Skull & Shackles: Sails under a blood red sky.

Game Master DBH

Ashlei. OK.

The Phase spiders are attacking this round as Ethereal ambush is something they all have.

Esmarelda backstabs the Redheaded Phase Spider.

Orange takes a step and bites Cassiopeia

bite: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22
damage + Poison + Grab: 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (4, 1) + 7 = 12

Fort save DC18 please Cassiopeia. Or 1d2 Con damage.

Grapple: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (15) + 16 = 31

OK. Orange has grabbed Cassiopeia. Next round it will do more bad things to her

Percy can now act.

Fort save: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
Con damage: 1d2 ⇒ 2

Ugh, this is continuous damage over time until you make two saves in a row, isn't it. That killed one of my other characters on the boards. (Wyvern poison, in that case.)

"Hey! Leave our mage alone a%&$@##s."

He spun seeing the girls helping Rhialla to the damned spider thing attacking Cassiopeia.

charge furious focus power attack stab orange: 1d20 + 15 + 2 - 2 ⇒ (16) + 15 + 2 - 2 = 31
damage: 1d8 + 7 + 6 + 1d8 ⇒ (2) + 7 + 6 + (7) = 22

"If you can get free get behind me Cass."

He called out with a growl.

Percy hits Orange hard.

Looking much the worse for wear Red returns to the ethereal plane.

Ashlei may now act. The other two Phase spiders look worried by Red fleeing.

It is a Free action to Phase shift. No AOO I'm sorry.

Obviously pissed off, Ashlei whips out her Starknife (quickdraw) from her magical belt, and tosses it at Orange's head! (Targeted Throw ability)

+1 Starknife(Thrown w/PBS): 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (10) + 17 = 27
Magic/Silver Damage+Scorching+Precision: 1d4 + 4 + 1d6 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 + (4) + 9 + 2 = 22

"That's my...OUR pretty mage! You can't have her! Get back Cassie!"

Ashlei stakes her claim and sinks her Star knife into Orange's forehead. Orange looks blankly into space for a moment before slumping to the ground dead.

Seeing this Yellow immediately slips back into the ethereal plane.

Silence falls over the fort again.

What are you doing now?

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25
Aid anyone?

As the monster with Cass in its grasp started to fall he moved quickly to the striken mage doing his best to keep her from tumbling to the ground.

"Easy now Cass."

He muttered as he started to train his spear torwards the other creature who dissapated into the nethers again. He cursed as he moved Cass behind him with one arm the other holding the spear out warily.

"I hate these things. Everyone status. You good Rhialla love?"

He asked his eyes wandering about the place looking for the next threat.

perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Ok, I looked it up. Phase spider poison lasts for 8 rounds and has a cure of 2 consecutive saves. I've already done the first round.

2. Fort save, Con damage: 1d20 + 6 - 1 ⇒ (19) + 6 - 1 = 24

3. Fort save, Con damage: 1d20 + 6 - 1 ⇒ (1) + 6 - 1 = 6
Con damage: 1d2 ⇒ 1

4. Fort save, Con damage: 1d20 + 6 - 1 ⇒ (15) + 6 - 1 = 20

5. Fort save, Con damage: 1d20 + 6 - 1 ⇒ (19) + 6 - 1 = 24

That's two consecutive saves, so it's thrown off.

Cass shivers and mutters "It burns!" as she seems to fold in on herself, but against all odds after a minute she simply pants painfully and yet somehow remains alive.

"I don't... ever want to go through something like this again."

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27

Esmarelda jumped down from the wall and ran over to the group, grabbing Rhialla and bringing her close. "Don't react much, but there is someone in the building straight ahead. In the second story of it." She whispered as they came closer to the group. "Well they ran off instead of dying so, one of us is likely to go through what you went through... meaning you might go through it again..."

Sharing a look with Esmarelda, and giving her a subtle nod, Rhialla responds to Percy's question. " I’m relatively alright love. Bastard bit me and I felt a bit of a burn, but shook off the worst of it. C’mere Cass, it looks like you weren’t so lucky.” she says going over to the wizardess and beginning to inspect her wound, checking for a fever or any other signs of poisoning.

Heal: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24

Cass definitely got a nasty spider bite, which is inflamed and warm, but it seems that not enough poison got into her to crawl up through her whole circulatory system. Still, she's a little bit weak and feverish. (3 Con damage)

With a 'tink' noise, Ashlei's starknife returns to her magical belt yet again.

Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (15) + 12 = 27

Cursing under her breath, Ashlei turns to the window where she knows they are being watched from...

"You enjoying the bloody show! Well...how about this one witch! Eat my fire!"

Ashlei reaches up and yanks one of the globes from her necklace...and tosses it at the window! (B13)

Necklace of Fireballs (Type III):

Fireball(Type 5d6) DC 14 for 1/2 damage!: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 5, 2, 5) = 15

"You enjoying the bloody show! Well...how about this one witch! Eat my fire!"

Ashlei reaches up and yanks one of the globes from her necklace...and tosses it at the window! (B13)

** spoiler omitted **

Sigh.

How big is the area we're in?

"It won't be until tomorrow morning, but I'll be able to get you feeling better Cass, but in the meanwhile.." Rhialla says as she focuses, sending out a wave of healing energy that washes over her companions, leaving the faintest taste of fine rum on their lips.

Channel: 5d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 2, 5, 4) = 21

If I make the throw IN the window then where we are shouldn't matter. It should mostly be contained. The item says I can throw it anywhere within 70 feet, and...'When a sphere arrives at the end of its trajectory'...then it detonates. The interior of the building's second floor should take the brunt of the blast, which was minor really.

for some reason I initially thought we were inside a room so the idea of it going off near the window just sounded like blowback

There is a scream of terror and a blast of fireball from the window and whoever is there moves away.

What now?

You'd need to go back into B13 or climb the outside walls to reach the room the window is on. DC10 climb.

Screaming outrage, Ashlei runs for the wall and starts climbing!

"BY BESMARA'S STRAINING BUSTIER... I WILL COOK YOUR LIVER... AND EAT IT... WITH YOUR PICKLED BRAINS!"

Climb: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17

"I am going to laugh so hard that I'm going to split my side if we get into that tower and find out that this is like... a captive princess in the tower or something."

Distance to the tower window?

Ashlei easily scales the walls and is looking into an empty room.

B21. Captain's Quarters
Several overturned beds barricade the windows to this room, blocking out most of the natural light. Doors lead east and north.

What now?

She may be impetuous, but she's not completely stupid.

Growling in frustration, Ashlei carefully climbs back down.

Climb: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

She then proceeds to kick the orange-ish dead spider-thing until its head is a bloody mess. She punctuates each kick with a nasty curse or vile promise of things she plans to do to its buddies.

After about 5 minutes of that she stops, and pulls out some water. She then looks at the others staring at her suddenly.

"WHAT? Did I get something in my hair? It's red, so normal blood is harder to see usually..."

Esmarelda looked to Cassiopeia and nodded in agreement. "At least we can say we're never boring right?" She asked with a chuckle."However there was someone there for sure. We'll need to keep our eyes wide open, even more so apparently. First the damn spider things, then that ... What was it called again?"

What now?

Ashlei starts going over the spider-man's corpse looking for anything of value...

Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (13) + 12 = 25

"Alright, let's search the body then hit that building to see what the hell Ashlei just scorched for taking a peek at us., last thing we need is someone...or something with a grudge murdering us in our sleep tonight." Rhialla says, taking stock of the situation.

The Phase spider has nothing on her.

What now?

"You feeling okay Cass? I dont need to carry you or anything?"

He asked the mage a touch of concern, but more so a heavily laced hint of jest in his voice as he doublechecked with the pretty wizard before making his next decision.

"Well lets check out where Ash felt eyes from . . . with any luck it was a monster staring down at us."

"I can walk for now, just... it sucks," says the wizard sullenly.

"Ugh, stairs. Let's get up into that tower."

The room is above B13. The room where you had fun fighting the Animate Dream. You have to deal with that to get upstairs from inside the building. :).

We'll have to deal with that nightmare thing again. When we get to the door, everyone stay close to me as we go in. I have a few spells that might give us some protection against it." Rhialla says.

Will cast Magic Circle against Evil (10ft radius centered on me), and Swallow your Fear on Percy, Ash and Es.

Sighing and nodding, Ashlei get ups and kicks the spider-thing's corpse one last time.

"I've been thinking too: Capn' Percy? Let me engage the monster directly, and you stand a bit back and wait to attack the thing with your long spear when it tries to cast a spell...or whatever it is doing with its magic. If you can hit it, it might keep it from finishing whatever nasty-ness it is trying to spew."

He eyed Burnout like she was a strange new creature.

"Rhialla...can you determine if someones mind has been taken over. Ashlei here has an idea that didnt start with rush in and hit the thing hard."

He began with a chuckle.

"Seriously though, that's sound. Not sure if my pike can effect its spellcasting that way but its worth a shot."

"Don't have to tell me twice." Esmarelda told Rhialla as she kept close to the cleric with a wink.

Esmarelda laughed at bit at Percival's joke but nodded in agreement with the idea.

You know the Animate dream doesn't appear until someone enters the room. Tell me how you're going in?

Rhialla casts her protective spells, holding her sword at the ready as they prepare to enter the room.

Everyone within 10ft of me: +2 deflection bonus to AC/+2 resistance bonus on saves.

Percy, Ash, Es: If experiencing a fear effect of any kind, gain a +2 morale bonus to Strength and Constitution, a +1 morale bonus on Will saves, and a -2 penalty to AC.

If frightened, he remains in place and gains the confused condition for the remainder of the fear effect, except he treats all results of “attack self ” as “do nothing” and treats “attack nearest creature” as “act normally.” If the subject is panicked, he remains in place and gains the confused condition for the duration of the fear effect.

Her hands clear for quick drawing weapons as needed, Ashlei ties back her flowing red hair and leads the way back into the Animate Dream's location.

"Cap'n! I don't JUST hit things hard! I stab them! Then again. And then again. Then another time to be sure. THEN I kick them in the privates! Note in my defense...that's usually the best part! See? I always put real thought into it!"

Cass casts magic circle against evil in preparation for another fight against the dream-thing that is mostly resistant to her magic.

Cass casts magic circle against evil in preparation for another fight against the dream-thing that is mostly resistant to her magic.

I already cast that...unless you want to cast twice to expand the coverage. If you're within 10ft of me you're covered

Frankly there's nothing else I can really do. This thing is immune to most of my magic anyway, and the haste spell was ruined by the phase spiders.

Ah okay. Doubling up on it does increase the spread, especially if you and I space out so the melee folk have good coverage. As an added bonus, moving from one magic circle to the outher should trigger the secod effect anyway as an added bonus.

Second, the subject immediately receives another saving throw (if one was allowed to begin with) against any spells or effects that possess or exercise mental control over the creature (including enchantment [charm] effects and enchantment [compulsion] effects, such as charm person, command, and dominate person). This saving throw is made with a +2 morale bonus, using the same DC as the original effect.If successful, such effects are suppressed for the duration of this spell. The effects resume when the duration of this spell expires. While under the effects of this spell, the target is immune to any new attempts to possess or exercise mental control over the target. This spell does not expel a controlling life force (such as a ghost or spellcaster using magic jar), but it does prevent them from controlling the target. This second effect only functions against spells and effects created by evil creatures or objects, subject to GM discretion.

As Ashlei enters the room the Animate dream appears beside her, it has been lurking by the door awaiting your return. It snaps a bite at her.

will save vs Magic circle: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28

bite vs Touch AC: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (8) + 16 = 24
damage: 6d8 ⇒ (4, 1, 1, 5, 4, 5) = 20

20 Negative energy damage and a will save DC21 please Ashlei.

As you were expecting it the party can now have an action.

What are you doing?

Magic Circle gives a +2 to AC and Saves, whether the enemy saves against it or not. So Ashlei's AC should be 26 right now so no damage!!

It was attacking Touch AC. :)

Understood, but my magic armor does give me Negative Energy resistance '10', so I should only take half of that: Deathless Armor *10 points of positive or negative energy damage per attack that the wearer would normally take. The wearer has a 25% chance to ignore negative levels from any attack.

Will w/Charmed Life and PfE: 1d20 + 4 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 4 + 2 = 13

Assuming I can still go after that horrible save...

Screaming curses from the bottom of the abyss, Ashlei moves to let her teammates in the building, then quickly draws her Starknife and starts the process on the Animate Dream again...

+1 Starknife vs. Incorporeal: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (15) + 16 = 31
Magic/Silver Damage+Scorching(NO Precision!): 1d4 + 3 + 1d6 + 0 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 3 + (1) + 0 + 2 = 10

Hit Chance?: 1d100 ⇒ 79

+1 Starknife vs. Incorporeal-Iterative attack!: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24
Magic/Silver Damage+Scorching(NO Precision!): 1d4 + 3 + 1d6 + 0 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 3 + (3) + 0 + 2 = 10

Hit Chance?: 1d100 ⇒ 67

Wisdom drain: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Lose 2 points of Wisdom Ashlei.

Ashlei shrugs off some of the damage but feels her minds becoming cloudy and dull. She strikes twice and hits both times.

Anyone else doing anything?

Moving into the room, Rhialla reaches out to send a flow of divine power to her companions, enabling them to operate at a heightened capacity.

"F~+@ it."

He muttered and followed in after Ash made her move. He rounded the corner and stabbed hard at the thing with the pike as extended as he could make it.

power attack furious focus: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (9) + 15 = 24
damage: 1d8 + 7 + 6 + 1d8 ⇒ (2) + 7 + 6 + (3) = 18
miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 54

You can gain the benefit of only one channel vigor spell at a time. Limbs: You gain the benefits of a haste spell.

Mind: You gain a +4 competence bonus on Knowledge and Perception skill checks and on ranged attack rolls.
Spirit: You gain a +6 competence bonus on Will saving throws and Bluff and Intimidate checks.
Torso: You gain a +6 competence bonus on Fortitude saving throws and concentration checks.

So which one did you pick?