The Avalon Chronicles

Game Master lynora

The metal dragon is completely unaffected by the blast, but its head turns towards Taron and it starts its rampage in that direction. Students scream in terror and try to run away, but in this crowd it's almost impossible. Several students get crushed under the metal dragon's claws as it moves.

A wave of fire sweeps across the floor, pushing students out of the way and toward the exits.

"From techno-zombies to metal dragons. Someone likes music themed monsters." Alton says to Jim as he hangs by his legs from the lights and moves people out of the way.

"Music-themed?" Jim ponders as he fires up his jet-pack.

Jim, seeing the metal monstrosity, brings out a device similar to one he used the day prior. Enlarge person, Personal Weapon Augmentation: Bane:that thing

He doubles in size, still not very large compared to the dragon, but hopefully big enough to cause a distraction. His right hand spins a few times, and he's off to tangle with the dragon.

Before actually engagin the thing, Jim will put up a wall between the dragon and the majority of the students, not blocking off the escape routes of any other students as he does so. Wall of force

Jim will try a few punches, activating his battlefist as he does so, of course.

Taron stands his ground and fires again, six shots in rapid succession, all of which become goo in midair and try to keep the dragon in place.

Entangling Ectoplasm = Tanglefoot Bags

FYI, for all those trying to hit the gear wyrm....AC is 60 and it's immune to magic....which is about to become really bloody obvious. Everyone say thank you, Solivala. ;P

Many students fire magical attacks at the thing, none of which have any effect whatsoever. It doesn't even seem to notice Jim or his punches.

Is that goo a conjuration effect? If it becomes an actual something it at least has the possibility to effect it.

Edit: never mind, question answered.

Edit 2: Its touch AC is pretty much impossible to miss. Also good to know. :)

A light blue shield stops bits of floor from hitting Michael, Kitty, and a few otheres. Michael grimaces from the strain.

"Kitty, we need to get out of here!"

The sticky ectoplasm slows the advance of the gear wyrm but does not stop it. Since it can't move easily it stops and unleaashes its breath weapon.

80ft cone of poisonous gas, Fort save DC 40 for half, 3d6 temp Con (In other words, the gas can knock you out, but it won't kill you. Getting stepped on by the giant mechanical dragon, that will kill you.

Vai runs to the back of the room and tries to find some debris to hide behind. She doesn't want to run away anymore. She wants to fight. She doesn't know if she should though. She can't reveal what she is, so she hides and watches.

I kinda switch between writing out her actual thoughts and giving her feelings through text. I'm not trying to hint at anything here, just saying how Vai feels.

Holy $h!t! Glad I'm immune to poison.

Jim, seeing that his punches are ineffectual, ill start to climb the dragon, as insane as that sounds.

A light blue shield stops bits of floor from hitting Michael, Kitty, and a few otheres. Michael grimaces from the strain.

"Kitty, we need to get out of here!"

"Yeah, definitely time to use those running away skills," she says wide-eyed with fear as she watched the creature trampling students without thought.

She grabbed his hand and turned to run.

Nasima's smile at watching all her friends onstage turns quickly to dismay, then to determination. Ohhhhnonononono! She vaults out of her chair and flips over to land by the thing's feet, sending as many breezes as she can muster to keep pushing kids towards the door. Her negligible mass allows her to walk on the busted floorboards with no worry of falling through. Her hair twirls and straightens into a tight braid behind her as she summons a giant cloud of fog up by the thing's head and instructs a dozen Little Guys to keep that fog around its eyes at all times, hopefully inihibiting its vision at least somewhat. The sylph then goes incorporeal, turning into a small cloud herself and floating over where it crushed students. "Are any of you okay? Ohgoshohgosh please be okay! Hello?!"

Wrote this before the breath weapon thing, so I'm assuming I don't need to save, unless it decided to gas itself in the foot.

Yeah, Nasima, you should be clear of the breath weapon.

I land where the note tells me to and procede to search for Headmaster Ryo.

Michael pulls Kitty to a stop before she can run them into the cloud.

"This is going to be harder than I thought..." Michael says as he watches students in the dragon's breath fall to the ground unconscious.

Mob post is on the way, but I thought I'd make the quicker post first.
Fortitude save can only be made on a natural 20.
1d20 ⇒ 2
Damage: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 5, 4) = 15
Owwwww.
Vakkler's eyes widen. "What in the Underdark--"
The poisonous gas fills his lungs, and the kobold passes out.

Torches approach from the forest, carried by men and women with very ill intentions. A few of them carry swords, a few clubs, and a few are intent on simply burning the school to the ground.

DAMMIT! Vai thinks as she watches people fall left and right to the breath. She was NOT going to be useless anymore. Professor Sunwake had told her that she had to make her life her own again, and she'd had enough tears in the past couple days. She was going to get in trouble for this she knew, but she couldn't help it.

Vai jumps forward as blue wings sprout from her back. She was aiming for one of the kobolds who had just succumb to the gas, (Vakkler) flying as fast as possible, aiming to scoop him up and fly off with him before the dragon could even notice.

Sending a half-elf and three human children down a hall hurriedly, Ryo turns to go to the attack in the concert and spies the school's newest arrival.

"Ah, it's you. I'm Headmaster Ryo, Mister Blackadder. Welcome to Avalon. I was wondering when you would show up, but you have horrid timing. It seems a construct is running rampant right now. "

What am I doing? I'll fly up instead.

Jim realizes that he is climbing when he can just fly, and proceeds to fly up to the dragon's maw, where he can perhaps be of a little more use.

D20 = 16
percepiont check 16 + 31 = 47
do I see the torches?

Hands Headmaster Ryo the note.
"Are you holding a BarB-Q as well or are those season ticket holders?" as I point to the peasents with torches.

"Well this night just keeps getting better and better..." Ryo mumbles as he looks at the window where Khasser's pointing.

::Aananda, we've got trouble twice over. People from town are coming and there's a mechanical dragon raging through the concert area. Pick your poison.::

"Well this night just keeps getting better and better..." Ryo mumbles as he looks at the window where Khasser's pointing.

::Aananda, we've got trouble twice over. People from town are coming and there's a mechanical dragon raging through the concert area. Pick your poison.::

::I'm a lot better at smash than diplomacy. I suck at diplomacy. I'll head to the concert area to deal with the mechanical dragon.::

Poison immunity is a great thing.

Taron walls off a large section of the concert area with a wall of ectoplasm, protecting quite a few of the unconscious students for the moment.

Headmaster Ryo wrote:

"Well this night just keeps getting better and better..." Ryo mumbles as he looks at the window where Khasser's pointing.

::Aananda, we've got trouble twice over. People from town are coming and there's a mechanical dragon raging through the concert area. Pick your poison.::

::I'm a lot better at smash than diplomacy. I suck at diplomacy. I'll head to the concert area to deal with the mechanical dragon.::

Pardon the bit of metagaming, but Nasima would be waayyyy more useful in diplomacy and/or crowd control than fighting mechagodzilla here. She doesn't, however, have telepathy, so someone will have to tell her...

"Well this night just keeps getting better and better..." Ryo mumbles as he looks at the window where Khasser's pointing.

"Since there seems to be some trouble where would you think it best for me to help out?"

Vai jumps forward as blue wings sprout from her back. She was aiming for one of the kobolds who had just succumb to the gas, (Vakkler) flying as fast as possible, aiming to scoop him up and fly off with him before the dragon could even notice.

There are a few cries of alarm as she flies over, but most people are too busy focusing on the gear wyrm to pay much attention to her.

What am I doing? I'll fly up instead.

Jim realizes that he is climbing when he can just fly, and proceeds to fly up to the dragon's maw, where he can perhaps be of a little more use.

Apologies in advance....this is gonna hurt....

With a target in such easy reach, the dragon snaps at Jim.

Bite attack: 1d20 + 99 ⇒ (1) + 99 = 100
Damage: 12d6 + 35 ⇒ (2, 5, 4, 1, 4, 6, 3, 2, 1, 3, 5, 4) + 35 = 75

...or not. Heh. Only possible scenario where Jim does not get chomped..dragon rolled a 1. :)

The sharp adamantine teeth snap down on nothing but air as Jim dodges away at the last second.

Okay, that thing can one-shot people. I am officially throwing off the kiddie gloves and burning them when I get back.

Vai turns, with Vakkler now in her arms, and speeds out the main exit, rocketing by the headmaster thanks to a boost from Nasima's winds. She's not too sure with her wings yet though, and loses control at such high speed, losing her hold on Vakkler and she crashes and tumbles end over end, finally crashing into the wall, unconscious, wings still plain.

Vakkler probably won't like the way his unconscious body is being treated >_>

Okay, that thing can one-shot people. I am officially throwing off the kiddie gloves and burning them when I get back.

This is why I've been throwing out warnings for so long. The gear wyrm is well above the CR I would expect the students to be able to handle. I expect it to give the teachers a run for their money. No kiddie gloves required for this guy. The demon invasion? A distraction so they could sneak this guy in.

Agarthian Storyteller wrote:

Okay, that thing can one-shot people. I am officially throwing off the kiddie gloves and burning them when I get back.

This is why I've been throwing out warnings for so long. The gear wyrm is well above the CR I would expect the students to be able to handle. I expect it to give the teachers a run for their money. No kiddie gloves required for this guy. The demon invasion? A distraction so they could sneak this guy in.

Enre can hold it off and hurt it for awhile. Go go Massive amounts of HP and ability to do touch AC attacks.

narrator wrote:

Agarthian Storyteller wrote:

Okay, that thing can one-shot people. I am officially throwing off the kiddie gloves and burning them when I get back.

This is why I've been throwing out warnings for so long. The gear wyrm is well above the CR I would expect the students to be able to handle. I expect it to give the teachers a run for their money. No kiddie gloves required for this guy. The demon invasion? A distraction so they could sneak this guy in.

Enre can hold it off and hurt it for awhile. Go go Massive amounts of HP and ability to do touch AC attacks.

Well, then, get in there. even if you weren't at the concert, just say you had a gut feeling you were needed there. :)

Again, holy $h!t. In any case, it can't kill me without rolling max damage on 4 bites, and even then, I'll only be inert, until it eats me.
The actual bonuses don't matter in this case, but I might still damage it on a nat 20.
Attack 11d20 ⇒ 15
Attack 21d20 ⇒ 8
Attack 31d20 ⇒ 7
Attack 41d20 ⇒ 7
Attack 51d20 ⇒ 14

No hits. Trying to punch it in the face, if only to distract it.

Knowledge(Arcana)1d20 + 37 ⇒ (3) + 37 = 40
Total result above 36, +5 Attack and Damage if I attack it, plus what ever actual knowledge I gain.

Staring with eyes wide as he takes in all he can about the creature, Alton starts casting a spell that he hopes will stop the construct in it's tracks.

Control Construct.
Spellcraft:1d20 + 29 ⇒ (12) + 29 = 41

If it has 31 HD or less, then I've got it as far as I know. Immediate orders to stop.

::Be careful.::

"Khasser, no matter what you're going to help with, you need to hide your draconic features as much as you can. I'll explain later, but right now, follow the arrows on the walls and get the rest of your classmates to safety." As soon as he says the word 'arrows' a line of flashing red arrows appears on the walls. "I've got company to entertain." He says grimly, walking out to meet the mob.

"What is the meaning of this?"

Enre gets up from his seat in his room. After spending most of the day alone he decides to walk around to see if he can speak with anyone. As he walks he does not notice anyone remembering finally that there was a concert he heads to where it was. Hearing odd noises he hurries along. Once inside he notices the metal dragon attacking the students. Shaking his head he says "Does everything like to attack this school?" He than says yells out "Since I just walked in what is that and how do you stop it?"

Nasima, still in cloud form around the creature's eyes or sensors or whatever, trying to blind it, hears Enre and calls down to him. "It's a big metal thing that came up through the floor! Try hitting it with the big metal thing on your back, for starters, and we can work from there!"

Sees the thing breach the floor, and with an "eek" returns to his ghost form, which protects him from the poison. He will caste haste, catching everyone (8 ppl) around him he considers an ally...

Opens an eye when he feels the first rumble, interrupting his meditation. The old fox grumbles, and grabs his robe, heading back to the basement...
::Ryo-san, is the school under attack again?:: he sends to Ryo

"What the f..." he says as the chair he's in falls over, and he immediately kips up. "That didn't sound like pyrotechnics..."

::Ryo-san, is the school under attack again?:: he sends to Ryo

::Big metal dragon in the basement and what appears to be a mob out front. This is not going to be a good week.::

Knowledge(Arcana)1d20+37

Total result above 36, +5 Attack and Damage if I attack it, plus what ever actual knowledge I gain.

Staring with eyes wide as he takes in all he can about the creature, Alton starts casting a spell that he hopes will stop the construct in it's tracks.

Control Construct.
Spellcraft:1d20+29

If it has 31 HD or less, then I've got it as far as I know. Immediate orders to stop.

It has more than 31 HD.

Alton's attempts to take control of the gear wyrm are futile as the magic seems to slide off of it, completely ineffectual.

Vakkler is still unconscious. The mob approaches the front gate.

Slarrow falls from Vakkler's pack, realizing his master has fallen unconscious for some reason. The tiny albino slurk hops over to Vai's unconscious form. He begins croaking up a storm, hoping to attract a healer.
Augh, missed Ryo's post.
The mob shouts at Ryo, refusing to be slowed. A few rocks are thrown. The others just attempt to go around the Headmaster.

Solivala's face breaks for the first time in untold years as it is covered by shock. His orbs nearly fall out of the air their orbit broken by the sudden unexpected emotion from their master. But in moments his swarm rises like a protective fog around him.

Solivala composes himself. The paramaters could always be changed.

Enre moves forward as he does so he releases his seals before attacking the thing.

Attack and Damage Roll:
1d20 + 38 ⇒ (2) + 38 = 403d8 + 31 ⇒ (5, 4, 2) + 31 = 42

As Khassar follows the arrows he takes time to cast Shield, Mage Armor, Moment of Prescience, Percieve Cues, and Stoneskin on himself.(+8 deflection bonus, +5 to perception and sense motive, and DR10 adamantine)

Enre moves forward as he does so he releases his seals before attacking the thing.

Attack and Damage Roll:
1d20+38;3d8+31

Enre's attack fails to connect with the gear wyrm at all as the creature breaks free of the goo that had been hindering it.

Ephebe seems to blink out of existence, reappearing next to the gear wyrm as she reaches out to touch it with some condensed time.

16d6 ⇒ (6, 4, 6, 2, 1, 6, 2, 5, 5, 4, 5, 6, 5, 5, 6, 4) = 72