Amiri | Female CN Medium Human Barbarian 3 | HP 50/50 +5 while raging | AC 20 AC 19 while raging | F +9 R +7 W +7 | Perc +7 (+2 Init) | Default Exploration ( Search) | Speed 25ft | Active Conditions: None
I second the vote for Neutralize Poison. Also, I will gladly use any wands that I can for anyone at any time, just let me know.
Looks like we have some solid votes for the aid token to neutralize poison which is probably good. That will create another success for the Monument district. The district will be claimed and we will move to the next Act tomorrow. Great job, folks. Also, Xukong I dig the RP and descriptive nature of the posts but I too would love an accompanying OOC or Discussion post with the mechanical details.
m half-elf rouge-unchained/4 [HP: 35/35] [init: 5; perc: 10 (+2 vs. traps/+1 vs. surprise)] [AC: 18/14/14] [saves: 5/8/3(+2vs. ench; +1 vs. traps; evasion)] [CMB: 4; CMD: 18(14)] [Active Conditions: ]
I was hoping that Disabling the trap would help the other tables so they would not have to do the same. I wasn't sure how to role-play the point. I should have explained like I just did. I am sorry for any confusion and/or delay of the game.
Honestly, that worked out just fine. We're coming into a weekend and a day or so lull so completing the encounter and moving an Aid Token is great. Awaiting instructions from Redelia.
|AC 14, T 14, FF 11|HP: 42/42|F +5, R 0, W +4 (-1 vs sonic, +1 vs earth/acid, +2 vs MA/disease)|Init -1 Perc +2|CMB +7 CMD 16|5/5 Arcane, 2/2 Shard, 3/3 erase, 1/1 六, 5/5 Death Field, 1/1 Scholar, 1/1 Archivist, 1/1 Time
GM Weenerton wrote:
Also, Xukong I dig the RP and descriptive nature of the posts but I too would love an accompanying OOC or Discussion post with the mechanical details.
Please understand, I don't mean to cut anybody short on what they need to know; I just didn't know I wasn't being clear enough. I did provide the links that had all the necessary information (although I get in hindsight how that first post on the matter would have been confusing; my mistake).
Back on the ground just a short bit ago. Saw that there wasn't anything Zarnel could offer either in the disabling traps or neutralizing poison departments, so good that he wasn't here anyway. Nice job everyone!
@Xukong: Wow I'd never seen those dolls before. It's perfect for my Kuthite dhamphir oracle! In spite of the confusion over it, I'm very glad you got a chance to use it so I could learn about it. Thanks!
Less flying the next few days. Ready when y'all are.
A pair of enormous brass doors blocks the way forward.
Numerous plates are missing from the doors’ surface,
exposing complex clusters of gears, sprockets, springs, and
other confusing clockwork innards. Every second a thousand
gears twist, click, and whir. For all its complexity, the doors
seem to be missing any means of being opened.
GMs, please move your players immediately on to Act 4. Please continue to run F2 until the next announcement.
Kreighton Shaine paces back and forth in front of the doors for a moment as several Pathfinder agents tinker with the doors’ complex machinery. Satisfied, he steps up on a piece of debris to address the crowd.
"Congratulations to those of you who have survived the dangers of our expedition thus far. Some of your fellow Pathfinders managed to interrogate a demon lurking here. This beast reports that the Throne Room is the domain of one Yealek-Vor, who we have surmised is a kalavakus demon-priest of the Chained Maiden, the ‘Horned One’ our duergar spoke of. He reportedly possesses something called a ‘Key of the Sky’ and is attended by many fellow demons. We’ll have quite a fight on our hands. But first we require those among us with the skills to find a way through this clockwork portal. I imagine some finesse could persuade them to open."
As the elf finishes his declaration, one of the Pathfinder agents cries out in alarm as the doors begin clacking wildly and grind a trapsmith’s tools into tiny shards. The portal shudders and begins violently sloughing off gears and scrap metal that animate and begin attacking the crowd.
"Or force," shouts Kreighton Shaine above the din. "Brute force may be in order!"
Various objects fall off the great door and leap into motion attacking the party!
Knowledge Arcana 13:
The closest creatures are animated objects, a type of construct. They are immune to many tactics, including mind-affecting effects and nearly anything that requires a Fortitude save.
Knowledge Arcana 18:
Animated objects have a hardness that makes them difficult to destroy. They don’t have any particular elemental vulnerabilities.
|AC 14, T 14, FF 11|HP: 42/42|F +5, R 0, W +4 (-1 vs sonic, +1 vs earth/acid, +2 vs MA/disease)|Init -1 Perc +2|CMB +7 CMD 16|5/5 Arcane, 2/2 Shard, 3/3 erase, 1/1 六, 5/5 Death Field, 1/1 Scholar, 1/1 Archivist, 1/1 Time
Xukong advances haltingly, and wards itself with its shield wand.
Amiri | Female CN Medium Human Barbarian 3 | HP 50/50 +5 while raging | AC 20 AC 19 while raging | F +9 R +7 W +7 | Perc +7 (+2 Init) | Default Exploration ( Search) | Speed 25ft | Active Conditions: None
Grease is short ranged which would put me ahead of Xukong which I do not have the movement to do and cast plus not the idea place for this character to be haha but magic missile goes through hardness I am pretty sure so that seems like the good option here!
Enora is shocked to see the objects animate. What is this! First demons and now we are being attack by normal objects. Out of habit, the halfling points her powerful staff at the green objects and releases a volley of missiles!
“Clockwork animations? I had a friend who made these. I hope I get a chance to see her again soon... “
As Zarnel muses on his memory of Chou Wei, he strides forward and draws an ammentum from across his back. Arriving between Xukong and Arin, he throws the weapon with all of his might at the one with the Green gears. “But her's were much nicer. “
Slide 2 I believe. Those Tokens look like Clockwork thingies. And I should clarify, I'm saying Clockwork, but I don't know that's what they technically are. The description of animated gears and metal scraps brings that term to mind.
|AC 14, T 14, FF 11|HP: 42/42|F +5, R 0, W +4 (-1 vs sonic, +1 vs earth/acid, +2 vs MA/disease)|Init -1 Perc +2|CMB +7 CMD 16|5/5 Arcane, 2/2 Shard, 3/3 erase, 1/1 六, 5/5 Death Field, 1/1 Scholar, 1/1 Archivist, 1/1 Time
Zarnel the Torn wrote:
“Clockwork animations? I had a friend who made these. I hope I get a chance to see her again soon... “
Those Tokens look like Clockwork thingies. And I should clarify, I'm saying Clockwork, but I don't know that's what they technically are. The description of animated gears and metal scraps brings that term to mind.
No, not clockwork, animated objects - but scrap metal, like cruder versions of this.
A thousand apologies for missing a day, folks. At a conference and time got away from me.
Arin and Zarnel land shots with projectiles although the damage seems to be mitigated by their tough exterior. Enora's magic missiles seem not to affect the creatures at all.
They advance and deliver a slam attack at the heroes in front of them.
|AC 14, T 14, FF 11|HP: 42/42|F +5, R 0, W +4 (-1 vs sonic, +1 vs earth/acid, +2 vs MA/disease)|Init -1 Perc +2|CMB +7 CMD 16|5/5 Arcane, 2/2 Shard, 3/3 erase, 1/1 六, 5/5 Death Field, 1/1 Scholar, 1/1 Archivist, 1/1 Time
Amiri | Female CN Medium Human Barbarian 3 | HP 50/50 +5 while raging | AC 20 AC 19 while raging | F +9 R +7 W +7 | Perc +7 (+2 Init) | Default Exploration ( Search) | Speed 25ft | Active Conditions: None
Enora is clearly upset that her missiles did not work. Nobody told me that they could resist force missiles too! These are pesky little buggers! She moves closer to the action and tries throwing a ball of acid at the blue piece of metal.
Zarnel and Xukong act as two sides of the same coin, light and dark colliding on the animated objects. The green-geared figure is smashed to bits.
Amerel stabs at the orange-geared enemy and finds purchase, although not as much damage as he would normally have expected from such a precise blow.
Enora's acid splash lands but is ignored by the creature, it's layers of metal and cogs near impenetrable. Las Lajas whips his trusty weapon with little luck.
The monsters return in kind and attempt to batter our heroes.
orange slam vs Zarnel:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16 orange slam vs Zarnel:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25 orange slam vs Zarnel, confirm:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24 damage:2d6 + 6 ⇒ (2, 5) + 6 = 13
blue slam vs Xukong:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21 blue slam vs Xukong:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
Again in a mirroresque scene Xukong evades all attack while Zarnel is pained badly.
Enora
Las Lajas
Amerel
Arin
Xukong
Zarnel
objects orange -5
objects blue
|AC 14, T 14, FF 11|HP: 42/42|F +5, R 0, W +4 (-1 vs sonic, +1 vs earth/acid, +2 vs MA/disease)|Init -1 Perc +2|CMB +7 CMD 16|5/5 Arcane, 2/2 Shard, 3/3 erase, 1/1 六, 5/5 Death Field, 1/1 Scholar, 1/1 Archivist, 1/1 Time
I did just make a Knowledge check, anything come of it?
Shard +2, flank, Spellstrike, chill touch vs Blue:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (11) + 12 = 23 cold iron damage, plus negative energy:1d10 + 8 + 1d6 ⇒ (7) + 8 + (2) = 17plus 1 Strength damage on failed DC 15 Fortitude save
With another unnatural shriek, Xukong's dread sword punches straight 'through the looking-glass', as it were.
Standing strong at the apex of the battlefront, Zarnel feels pride in the combat prowess of his teammates. Las' whip, Amerel's rapier, and Zukong's shrieking blade. The wound in his own side merely adds to the intensity of the moment, and he focuses on the pain as his sword comes back around onto the animated pile of scrap.
Amiri | Female CN Medium Human Barbarian 3 | HP 50/50 +5 while raging | AC 20 AC 19 while raging | F +9 R +7 W +7 | Perc +7 (+2 Init) | Default Exploration ( Search) | Speed 25ft | Active Conditions: None
I am really not sure what I have to offer in this combat. With hardness, almost all of my spells are made harmless and feels wasteful for the chance to get a point or two in. My lvl 0 spell has no chance of damaging it. I guess crossbow it is? I am open to suggestions.
Enora is even more upset by her spell hitting and being ineffective. Finish them quick... there is nothing I can do to help.Enora pulls out her crossbow and fires once at the blue piece of metal.
|AC 14, T 14, FF 11|HP: 42/42|F +5, R 0, W +4 (-1 vs sonic, +1 vs earth/acid, +2 vs MA/disease)|Init -1 Perc +2|CMB +7 CMD 16|5/5 Arcane, 2/2 Shard, 3/3 erase, 1/1 六, 5/5 Death Field, 1/1 Scholar, 1/1 Archivist, 1/1 Time
Something ought to work, Enora; acid splash, if nothing else (and unless they somehow have golem-like Spell Immunity - and they don't appear to - I'm tempted to "call b$+!#%++" on magic missile not working).
It's a tough one and I've checked with a few GMs about it. Unless a spell or attack specifically reduces hardness (like an axe for wood) the hardness value is deducted from each damage source. Normally energy damage is then halved for inanimate objects. This object is animated so at least the damage is not halved. I understand this is particularly frustrating but there are options like Aid Another or Enora's ability to swap spells.
Waiting for Amerel and we'll move into the next round.
Zarnel and Xukong again pincer one of the pile of animated objects slashing and hacking. Las Lajas catches cog with his whip and brings the orange gears down!
Orange stands provoking AoO from Amerel and Zarnel.
