Tome of Righteous Repose table 2 (Inactive)

Game Master GM Sapphire Fox

Kern finishes his wand casting, and calmly sheathes it away. he then flips a second wand out of his wrist sheath and attempts to activate it

UMD, faction pin: 1d20 + 8 + 1d4 ⇒ (16) + 8 + (4) = 28
CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

21/23hp, fast healing 9 rounds left

The bard take a 5' step and begins to play a song on her mandolin.
Undead b~+*@ screwed me over
go to hell undead b!&#&.
Go to hell, go to hell, go to heeeell

striking a cord notes transform into a shower of razor sharp, crystalline shards. The shards deal 2d6 points of piercing damage to all creatures caught in the area of effect.

2d6 ⇒ (4, 2) = 6 reflec dc 14

LOL, so much damage

But a very pretty attack!

reflex: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16 reflex for half, or avoid?

Michiko noticing a bit of positive energy being used to heal, unleashes her Auras of Cowardice, and Sacrilegious

At 3rd level, an antipaladin radiates a palpably daunting aura that causes all enemies within 10 feet to take a –4 penalty on saving throws against fear effects. Creatures that are normally immune to fear lose that immunity while within 10 feet of an antipaladin with this ability. This ability functions only while the antipaladin remains conscious, not if he is unconscious or dead.

A graveknight constantly exudes an aura of intense evil and negative energy in a 30-foot radius. This aura functions as the spell desecrate and uses the graveknight’s armor as an altar of sorts to double the effects granted. The graveknight constantly gains the benefits of this effect (including the bonus hit points, as this aura is part of the graveknight’s creation). In addition, this miasma of fell energies hinders the channeling of positive energy. Any creature that attempts to summon positive energy in this area—such as through a cleric’s channel energy ability, a paladin’s lay on hands, or any spell with the healing subtype—must make a concentration check with a DC equal to 10 + 1/2 the graveknight’s Hit Dice + the graveknight’s Charisma modifier. If the character fails, the effect is expended but does not function.

hearing the undine taunts, she just cackles as a burst of negative energy is released outwards from her

Channel Negative to harm: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 5, 5) = 12 DC 17 for half

Bold may act
lizbeth
Phoebee
Kern
Michiko
Z'hor'll
Guy

will: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

9/23hp, fast healing 9 rounds left

Will ST: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

Guy is in fine form today and laughs off the negative energy.

Does this anti-healing effect bother CLW wands, or just cast spells?
Also, I don't believe channeled energy goes through walls does it, so Z'hor'll is spared?

For half

Are we fighting a Lord Soth clone? LOL

If I make the save is it half or no damage?

1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 will save

save for halve, and no it does not go through walls, as for how the Aura is written I dont think wands would be affected, and I cant seem to find anything that would tell me eitherway

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Guy takes out his wand and casts CLW on Kern.

CLW: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

If anyone else has one of those things remember you can use it to attack undead too.

"We have acid flasks if our enemy refuses to advance. Phoebee - are you okay being in front still? Should i take your place?"

Kern waits expectantly for an answer

Bold may act
lizbeth
Phoebee
Kern
Michiko
Z'hor'll
Guy

Z'hor'll looks at Kern's skin melting when hit by the blast of negative energy, glad that he has solid stone between himself and the source. "Phoebe, don't you have a powerful wand of healing that we should be using? And Guy, you've got that protection wand!"

He starts to orate,
"Stranglegut are legion, forces of death, Soldiers of the lich who were promised might. A bold samurai struck forth; in a breath A thousand orcs struck down before her sight.

"In Torag’s house the elf was last interred. With view of Kala’s Tears, her peace insured."

Inspire Courage, +1

Phoebe has a wand of CMW with 5 charges, and Guy has Prot.vs evil with 7

It is only a CLW wand that she has

the briefing gave us a CMW wand and the linked discussion thread shows you received it.

Thanks for the reminder. That had not made it onto my character sheet and it should have. I think a CLW made more sense since Kern was at 9 HP, don't you? Or would you have preferred he cast the PfE (ignoring the pathetic 2 I rolled)?

Oops, I forgot about that. Do we need more offense. If we do, she can do what she can and she can chuck the wand to the other bard or she would try and touch the Lord Soth wanna be with the wand as well.

Guy, you already did the CLW, but we're looking more to the future

Phoebe, whatever makes more sense. For sure, Z'hor'll can burn through charges of the CMW wand if you have better things to do. My best ability isn't going to work well on Michiko, so I would be chucking acid vials. I'll still try and trip or disarm her, just don't expect it would work.

She does have a bit more damaging spells or she can still use grease

We do need to kill her

Taking a deep breath, Lizbeth rushes back into the fog and back towards the Undead Champion, the Curved dagger glowing in her right hand. Blood foucused anger coursing through her, the Bloodrager strikes Michiko in the back.

Kukri, inspire: 1d20 + 10 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 10 + 1 = 23 for damage, Magic: 1d4 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 7 + 1 = 12

reroll: 1d20 + 10 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 10 + 1 + 2 = 32

crit confirmation: 1d20 + 10 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 10 + 1 + 2 = 29

For extra damage: 1d4 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 7 + 1 = 12

Unable to move figure right now. If 29 confirms then 24 damage. Good point - i pass the acrobatics check

Nice hit, I hope you don't hit the grease spell :)

This might hurt, lol

The bard moves up, glaive at the ready and pokes at the undead creature
Lady Shelyn, grant me strength
1d20 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 4 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 23 moment of greatness + flank
1d10 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 1 = 5

We have a flank now

Seeing a wounded Phoebee step up and attack... Kern grimaces, grows a claw and moves past her into the scrum.

battleshape claw, IC, flank: 1d20 + 7 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 7 + 1 + 2 = 30
battleshape claw, IC, flank, confirm: 1d20 + 7 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 7 + 1 + 2 = 23

magic damage, IC: 1d6 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
additional crit magic damage,IC: 1d6 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

miss chance 81-100 misses: 1d100 ⇒ 67

13/23 hp, 8 rnds fast healing

1d100 ⇒ 53 miss chance 81-100 misses

Forgot the fog cloud

I killed a white dragon once, this undead thing, well she is no dragon. she says with a smile.

Guy, you already did the CLW, but we're looking more to the future.

Honestly I wondered if you thought a PfE would have been a better use of Guy's time than a CLW. Not so I could retro it, but because in the future I may need to make a similar call.

How beat up is the monster

Lizbeth give me a percentage 80-100 misses

not counting lizbeths damage, its more then 1/2 hurt, I'll update it when lizbeth gets the percent

technically, 81-100 is 20% ;) And can't you just roll it, GM, so we can move on to the next initiative tics? Please?

percentage: 1d100 ⇒ 44

lizbeth hits and the creature is not very well off

Bold may act
lizbeth
Phoebee
Kern
Michiko
Z'hor'll
Guy

Hooray! We are not doing so bad but if you could heal me a bit Bubbles, she would appreciate it

On my phone..

Phoebee again focus her magic on her instrument and casts another chord of shards
2d6 ⇒ (4, 4) = 8

Reflex save DC 14 for half

Kern and Phoebee attacked this turn already. also - chord of shards is a cone so it would hit kern and lizbeth. lets not do that in melee

Oops, I would like to change that action if possible

The bard will attempt to slash at the undead
1d20 + 4 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 4 + 1 + 2 = 26
1d10 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 2 + 1 = 12

Can the Bubbles get the wand and use it?

She takes a 5' step back

she is furious, and lashes out at Lizbeth attack: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (18) + 14 = 32

confirm crit: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (15) + 14 = 29

Damage: 1d8 + 10 + 1d6 ⇒ (2) + 10 + (2) = 14
Crit Damage: 1d8 + 10 + 1d6 ⇒ (6) + 10 + (1) = 17
81-100 miss: 1d100 ⇒ 19
so sorry about that lizbeth, 31 points of damage in total

Bold may act
lizbeth
Phoebee
Kern
Michiko
Z'hor'll
Guy

The d6 on energy weapons doesn't double on a crit so it is 25 damage. Leaving Lizbeth on -2

Don't feel bad, I'm Dming the Dalsine Affair and they are at the last battle. The baddy got initiative and critted the barbarian with a shocking grasp. The he moved over and killed the inquisitor with another shocking grasp. He then took another 5 step and critted the barbarian again with a cold touch spell. I think that the group is mad at me.

for her burst on the weapon becomes a 2d6 on a crit, its actually written on the character itself, so it is 31 damage, and without the last D6, it would only be 30 not 25

isnt phoebee next to me as her move was taken not on her turn?

Z'Hor'll will delay
"Kern, Lizbeth, how are you guys doing?"

Phoebee what weapon are you using to slash at the undead?

"the graveknight just swung away from me and that thud i assume is Lizbeth falling down... She's turning to me now..." Kern anxiously awaits what his allies are up to behind him.

phoebee has a magic glaive

ahh wasn't sure, its why I asked

She has a magical glaive

Guy entering melee range is a BAD idea with an AC of 13. It would be better (at least in my mind) if we kept a nice secure battle line. We have too many squishies in this party. 1 @AC13, 2 @AC15, 1 @AC18, and a barbarian that is partially squishie. It would be far better to use the choke points to minimize attacks on the squishies. Healing for 9 is NOT what Guy would be better off doing; I'd really prefer if he could cast a Burst of Radiance but because the battle field is so mixed up and because after one round of fighting we have someone who could die with one lucky strike he can't.

Do what you want to do - if you want Lizbeth to withdraw while you ready a burst - do it and call it out. You aren't being forced to take an action you don't want to.

edit: also - that sounds like a really good plan.

I just don't want anyone to die. That would suck.

Just to be clear, I am NOT criticizing anyone, I'm simply stating that our party makeup is more squishy than normal and a change in normal tactics is called for. Our ACs are frighteningly low.

Word - i agree we are going to need careful tactics to survive - let alone stand a chance of taking this... undead thing... down.

Guy has a bad feeling about this.

Pay no attention to the mousy little cleric. That big burly barbarian, she's the real threat!

sorry lizbeth.. i didnt expect the undead to step into a flank.

Ok, first, the rust monster is only available on the raiders set, as a sealed monster. This is not used for undead crusaders. As such, it is supposed to be sealed behind a locked and magically sealed door.

Second, even if it were, the first hit causes half damage to the item, giving the broken condition. It is not destroyed with one hit

Third, as a design desicion, it should not be in the position to be easily drawn into this fight. Adding a CR4 creature to a fight that is already APL+4 is a bad choice, especially when the party is already struggling.

Remember we are an APL3 group that lost its heavy hitter when the Druid quit.

Do we know how close we are to being done? I have Paizocon this weekend and am down to play Lizbeth Sunday. If nowhere near not too much of an issue just wondering.

I think that this is the last encounter.

We can certainly try to push - Phoebee is up.

Giving our front-liner(s) +2 AC and +2 Resistance to saves cannot be a Bad Thing, if you don't have anything more direct to do, Guy.

We need to pull out all of the stops on this one!

I agree, a PfE would be beneficial. It's just a matter of weighing the possibility that someone with 8 hitpoints taking 18 points of damage vs. a protection spell. When I'm seeing hits doing that kind of damage and someone around the threshold where a better than average hit puts them near -con I get real nervous. In that case I would normally go for the healing spell or a quick KO if I'm sure of the KO. If they are not in danger of being outright killed then a protection spell makes more sense. I think that I would have done the same thing had I remembered the PfE, but was interested in hearing alternative reasoning.

Do you really think this is the final encounter? Guy is pulling his punches and saving his Bonded Holy Symbol spell for the final encounter when he could probably finish this guy off with another 5d4 burst.

I thought gm said it was

Guy, even if it isn't, blow everything you have. Worst case, we find a place to hole up and rest.

This is the MAIN boss, but not the last encounter there is one or too but not mandatory, its if you were to get to her a different way

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Question: Would Burst of Radiance do full damage/blindness in a fog cloud? It doesn't say anything about that in the spell description but I'd hate to blow the spell for nothing.

Burst of Radiance would have to have a target to be used, but anything with a 10' radiance would be hit as normal

so for example if you Target Kern or Phoebee anything with a 10' radiance would be affected as normal

if you were to target Michiko, you would have an issue trying to land it directly on her due to the fog cloud

does that clear it up at all?

Don't blind the people that are hitting this thing.

It is a burst, so is not targeted. You need line of effect tot the point of origin, but pinpointing will be harder.

We need Kern ASAP, with the the cmw wand.

Thanks for the save there guys.

We bad

Chronicle Sheets are up, feel free to DL them and enjoy, this has been recorded as well

This was fun!

Cheers all!

it is recorded in, and if you look and it says that you have already played it, don't worry, it IS an evergreen, and it will count reguardless

Thanks all.