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Game Master JASON RODARTE

A muscular canine with a maw full of sharp teeth and an inky black coat that almost seems to drink in the light around it closes in to attack Mao.

Misschance: 1d100 ⇒ 26 Succes!

Mao manages to get in an attack and hurts the black dog.

Bite: 1d20 + 6 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 6 - 1 + 1 = 26 Threat!
Confirmation: 1d20 + 6 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 6 - 1 + 1 = 20 Confirms!
Damage: 2d4 + 12 ⇒ (2, 1) + 12 = 15

Everyone notices that the dog is chained to the bottom wall with a long chain.

Party is up!

Non che know planes :)

He draws and loads his crossbow

Cloudia has no understanding of the esoterica of ANY field of knowledge. She just knows that her wand of magic missiles hurts things that hide in shadows and she proves it.

MM damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Aurus rushes into the room with a shocked look at the sound of the attack on Mao. "Hey, mutt! Pick on someone yer own size!" angrily yells the half-elf.

Power Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18
Damage: 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (2, 5) + 7 = 14

"You guys could back off and let me pepper it with missiles until it succumbs."

They seem to enjoy this sort of thing. Is this a macho thing, I wonder?

Aurus rushes into the room with a shocked look at the sound of the attack on Mao. "Hey, mutt! Pick on someone yer own size!" angrily yells the half-elf.

Misschance: 1d100 ⇒ 43 Hits

With Cloudia's Magic Missile and Aurus' hit the mastiff is seriously injured.

It blends with the shadows and retreats.

The only thing it's size is Lukian and the gnome is too far away.

Aurus stands, sword at the ready, looking about vigilantly. "Man, I hate enemies that don't die when they're supposed to," he says grumpily.

Was it a puppy?

Was it a puppy?

Yup. A full grown version would probably have TPKed you.

Cloudia casts light on some miscellaneous item and tosses it into the room where the dog was chained up. Then casts light on her spear when/if they are done with that light.

"Where did it go?"

Cloudia casts light on some miscellaneous item and tosses it into the room where the dog was chained up. Then casts light on her spear when/if they are done with that light.

"Where did it go?"

Cloudia tries to cast light, but she feels resistance from the plane of shadows.

Casterlevel check: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20 Succes

She throws it to the hiding hound.

With the extra light you can all easily see the hound is staggered and whining scared as it carefully licks its wounds.

Cloudia then recasts the light on her spear.

Casterlevel check: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 Failure

She tries again?

Casterlevel check: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10 Failure

She tries again?

Casterlevel check: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15 Succes

Before recasting the spell on her spear she ruthlessly drops the hound with a magic missile.

"Sorry, it had to be done."

Before recasting the spell on her spear she ruthlessly drops the hound with a magic missile.

"Sorry, it had to be done."

Cloudia drops the shadow puppy.

There is nothing of interest in the room.

Aurus gasps audibly at Cloudia's callous dispatching of the dog. "Iomedae's Sainted Breastplate, Clou! The thing was a puppy!" He seems impervious to the irony of the blood still dripping off his greatsword.

She tersely replies, "I did what I had to do."

The gnome's eyes open wide as he sees what the sorcerer has done.

"Watch that line of thought, Cloudia," the paladin says, glowering. "That's how some cracked-out wizard winds up with a lab full of people, figuring out what makes 'em tick, or some dad winds up stealin' bread and becoming a career criminal when folks won't hire a man with THIEF branded across his forehead. I ain't sayin' you're gone rotten - but I am saying that 'doing what you must' is how a lot of folks start that way."

He wipes the blood from his sword. "I talk mean, but I only kill what I have to. Cowerin' puppies? That ain't right, even if they got bad owners." The anger seems to slump from his shoulders. "It's about knowing, for sure, that what you do is right. And that ain't always easy. But that's what makes good."

"Let's move on. You can heal it if you want to and I will leave it alive if you feel so strongly."

"You aren't listenin' kid - it isn't the dog I was ever worried about." He shakes his head. "I agree, though, let's move on. I'm liking this place less and less the longer we're here."

I don't approve of what Cloudia has done either, but it seems that we need to regroup our will. This place is making us hostile towards one another. We're here to work together.

It's a dog and it tried to bite us. You put down dogs like that, particularly magical dogs from an evil plane of shadow. Weird people. Not worth arguing about though.

We should get going. I use to think I would like to go to another Plane. Maybe the land of the Fey would be more fun! he states.

So 3 more charges of Aurus' wand of CLW and Mao is back to full!

Charges freely given!

Aurus pauses as they reach the seemingly last doorway. "Clou, when we go in there, stick close with that spear, will ya? You're carrying our light at the moment. I'll protect you when things get ugly." He looks at the group. "Any last preparations you want?"

Let's get going he suggests.

Hey that was post 1776 :)/. A very US number, lol

Solstice takes the suggestion and stows her wands and grabs the spear in two hands.

The sign above this high door reads “Biological Oddities” in clear lettering, while a dark reflection of the same sign warns that the room beyond contains a “Ritual Chamber.”

Brave Aurus again opens the door.

Harsh, cold light floods this room from the ceiling, gleaming off the marble walls and shining across the polished granite floor. Myriad pedestals display stuffed creatures suffering from unspeakable deformities, and liquid-filled glass tanks hold the shrivelled bodies of even stranger anomalies. In the room’s center, a wide ebony pyramid rises ten feet off the ground; darkness seems to flow out from its top into the air like ink in clear water. Indistinct rune circles, candelabras, and idols cover what can only be the site of barbaric sanguinary rites, occupying the same space in the Shadow Plane.

Standing before the dais is the thin gray form of another Fetchling. Kneeling before him, the Blakros daughters, Eleanir and Michellia, sway in a sort of trance as Uthil Mak prepares for the ritual branding by coating a thin knife in a strange black liquid.

Cloudia: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21
Aurus: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Lukian: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
Mao: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

Uthil Mak: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14

Cloudia
Lukian
Mao
Uthil Mak
Aurus

Rushing through the door just opened by Aurus, Cloudia figures the best way to stop the ritual is to drop all three of them on their faces and casts a DC 16 grease spell beneath them.

"Hurry, I do hope this works!"

Uthil Mak: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8 Fails

The Fetchling falls prone.

The blackros sisters are non-combatants

As Cloudia casts the grease spell, Mao rushes forward to engage the fetchling.

double move

Acid splash

1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24 rta
1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14 confirm

1d3 ⇒ 3
2d3 ⇒ (3, 1) = 4 if confirmed

Acid splash

Misschance: 1d100 ⇒ 37

Due to the lack of light Lukian misses the Fetchling.

The Fetchling stands up, provoking from Mao.

1d20 + 3 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 3 + 4 = 21 Potential hit
1d100 ⇒ 20 Misses due to shadowblend misschance

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12
He then steps off the grease, draws a flask and addresses you.

"Who dares disturb Uthil Mak, overseer of Wightir House and executor of the Penumbral Accords in his most sacred duties?"

party is up

"Spread out so he cannot bomb us all together like the last guy did."

Is that pillar tall enough to give full cover? I'd love to cast a Summon Monster spell, but that would only draw fire unless I can hide out of sight behind the pillar.

Cloudia pulls an alchemist fire and tosses it at the shadowy menace.

To Hit Ranged Touch: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2, 1 splash

meh

"Spread out so he cannot bomb us all together like the last guy did."

Is that pillar tall enough to give full cover? I'd love to cast a Summon Monster spell, but that would only draw fire unless I can hide out of sight behind the pillar.

Cloudia pulls an alchemist fire and tosses it at the shadowy menace.

meh

Misses and scatters away far from combat.

The pillar grants normal cover, not full

Aurus steps into the room, sword out. "Hey! Leave the ladies alone! We gotta bone to pick with you!"

Start performance and single move, +1 to hit and damage

He will shoot a blinding ray at the monster
1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 1 = 17 RTA

He will shoot a blinding ray at the monster

1d20+4+1 RTA

Misschance: 1d100 ⇒ 22 Misses due to shadowblend.

Also, blinding ray really doesn't do much against end of level bosses as they are likely to have more HD than you.

It's hard to hit him with all this dim light. Some light would really be helpful now. Mao takes a defensive stance, taking his time until the fetchling would be easier to hit.

Total defense

It's hard to hit him with all this dim light. Some light would really be helpful now. Mao takes a defensive stance, taking his time until the fetchling would be easier to hit.

Total defense

I've added an aura to Cloudia to represent her light spell. Inside the lightened area attacks against the Fetchling have a 20% misschance. Outside the lightened area it's 50%.

Uthil Mak drinks the contents of the flask.

"You will pay for this disruption. The Onyx Alliance does not take kindly to intruders interfering in their official and lawful business."

He moves to the corner of the room.

Party is up!

Cloudia moves after the villian and casts a magic missile at him.

MM damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

"We decided we don't like your lawful business. And if we lose this battle I think we will like it even less!"

"Luk! Step outta the way!"

Delay until Lukian steps, out of the way, then I'ma charge him >:)

He casts ray of frost at the b baddy
1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 4 + 1 = 8 rta
and then moves behind the sorceress.

Not too inspiring there. Aurus he complains as he moves out of the way. And it is Lukian, not Luk. he says.

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