Morrighan will shout encouragement to her companions. "It's just a vision. We can conquer this!"Start Raging Song for Song of Strength. That's +3 to all Strength-based skill checks, and it's not vision-dependent.
I'ts not explicitly written, but I think because the haunt is evaluation worthiness, attempting to bypass the check with a different way likely does not result in an auto-success, just might thoughts. But no matter sinec Morrighan has passed.
Climbing to her own tune, Morrighan scales the wall with vigor and reaches the very top. Upon her success, everyone suddenly receives a vision of a vision of a young Shoanti hunter sitting atop a cliff overlooking a sprawling forest. A massive wolf lies next to him, head on her paws. The hunter and the wolf get up and turn to walk away as the sun rises, bathing the forest in its orange glow. The vision fades and you find yourselves once more standing where you were before the haunt enveloped the room in darkness.
This is the last room, so do let me know if there's is other things you want to do before heading back out of the sepulcher.
Male Human (Chelish/Varisian) Demon Hunter 6, Init +3, HP 53/53, AC 19 T 13 FF 17, Fort +7, Ref +6, Will +5, P +9, Effects:
Petronicus sits down on the ground to catch his breath. "Whew! That was the hardest illusion I've ever climbed. Seems my body doesn't care if I climb a cliff or only think I'm climbing a cliff. Very strange." He then congratulates Jennings for achieving the milestone and helping everyone along the way.
male Summoner 6 HP 47 | AC 14; Touch 11; FF 14 | F +5; R +4; W +7 | CMB +3; CMD 13 | Speed 20 ft | Init +0 | Perc +10| Stealth: +4 Summoner (unchained) 6
"Thanks Glastor! It's good there two gnomes to help the party!"
Physically, I moved us forward quite a bit, also that 3d6 negative energy never happened, and going back checking Ingrge should have started this combat at full health since glastor healed the party everytime there was hurt.
After a careful look around, all seems to be in order, and the sepulchrt is restored to a relatively good state. Upon returning to the entrance, the Pathfinders are caught by surprise as standing in the path of the exit is a large monstrosity made of bones. Seemingly the ones that littered the grounds earlier. Flanking on either side is an unusual animated wolf like creature, with rune etches drawn all over. Is as if a painting coming to life. The wolf immediately runs over to Ingrge, their movements seemingly fluid like and the ram into the elf!
male Summoner 6 HP 47 | AC 14; Touch 11; FF 14 | F +5; R +4; W +7 | CMB +3; CMD 13 | Speed 20 ft | Init +0 | Perc +10| Stealth: +4 Summoner (unchained) 6
male Summoner 6 HP 47 | AC 14; Touch 11; FF 14 | F +5; R +4; W +7 | CMB +3; CMD 13 | Speed 20 ft | Init +0 | Perc +10| Stealth: +4 Summoner (unchained) 6
Half-Orc Fighter 5/Monolith 1 HP 65/65 | AC 24* T 12* FF 24* CMD 27* (25% Fort)| F +13* R +6 W +6 (+3 vs Fear, +2 vs Emotion, +2 vs negative levels, death effects, and mind-affecting effects) | Init +3 | Perception +4
Gleam pushes forward past his companions and hops down from the elevated balcony down to the main floor with the wolf. As he makes the short hop he touches the stone implanted in his forehead and grows to monstrous size.
Male CG Gnome Cleric of Desna 6 | HP: 45/45| AC: 20 (12 tch, 19 Fl) | CMB: +3, CMD: 14 | F: +7, R: +3, W: +9; +2 vs. illusions | Init: +1 | Perc: +6 [low-light], SM: +8 | Speed 20 | Channel (positive) energy 9/9 (53d6, DC16) | Reroll: 1/1, Coin: 1/1, Pearl 1/1, Bit of Luck: 6/6, Agile Feet: 6/6| Active conditions:
kn:arcana wolves:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14 kn:arcana bones:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11 "Eeek!" cries out Glastor, upon seeing the creatures in the room. "They look scary! Desna grant my friends the ability to defeat their enemies!"
Glastor moves in, and readies to cast Prayer when Pip gets into the room. (+1 luck bonus attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saves, and skill checks. Enemies take a -1 to all of these rolls. NO save, SR applies. SR if needed:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22
"Stand back!" shouts Petronicus. "I'll keep them off of you ... I hope."
The tall man tries to hook the feet of the nearest (blue) wolf in order to trip it. Trip versus blue wolf's CMD:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (2) + 14 = 16. Yuck, I'll take my shirt/other stuff reroll on that: trip reroll + GM Stars bonus:1d20 + 14 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 14 + 4 = 21
Petronicus and Zarzuket knows the larger creature to be a bone golem, a construct made of magic. Being made of bone it is resistant to most attacks unless it is made of adamantine and is blunt! The creature is also immune to most magics. Not affected by Prayer
Glastor and Morrighan on the other hand, know the wolf to be a tattoo guardian, another creature made of magic, being able to seemingly turn themselves into flat writings.
Flyn dives out of the graven guardian's reaches and fires a single arrow into the fray. It becomes evident the weapons hurt the creatures as their ink like bothers smothered when it comes in contact with the arrows. Petronicus however, learns the difficult way that their fluid form allows them to manoeuvre around his trip attempt with relative ease.
Petronicus, keep your reroll, you learn the hard way that they cannot be knocked prone or grappled because of their fluidity.
FYI, someone removed the ogres, I did not remove them earlier cause they are there and for all intents and purposes are difficult terrain. I did highlight the area in red where it is difficult terrain instead.
The bone golem rips pieces of his body apart and hurls it towards gleam. The combination of bone, sinew and flesh magically manifest itself into a cage that wraps around and binds Gleam down.
Range Touch:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21
Gleam Is trapped in a caged of bone and flesh. You can escape the cage following grapple rules vs CMD 23, or by dealing damage to the cage itself. This are practically your only available actions.
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Combat Round 1 Conditions: Prayer
Wolf Guardian R-14
Gleam (caged), Petronicus, Glastor, Ingrge - 30
Bone Golem
Zarzuket, Morrighan
Morrighan casts good hope and begins her raging song.
Good Hope:
This spell instills powerful hope in the subjects. Each affected creature gains a +2 morale bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls.
Raging Song:
+2 morale bonus to Strength and +4 morale bonus to Constitution and a +2 morale bonus on Will saving throws, but also take a –1 penalty to AC
The wolf creatures fluidly move across the stairs, and turn their attention to the trapped prey, gnashing as their makeshift bodies easily travel in and out of the cage.
Ignore difficult terrain, and do not provoke AoO under any circumstance.
Half-Orc Fighter 5/Monolith 1 HP 65/65 | AC 24* T 12* FF 24* CMD 27* (25% Fort)| F +13* R +6 W +6 (+3 vs Fear, +2 vs Emotion, +2 vs negative levels, death effects, and mind-affecting effects) | Init +3 | Perception +4
Gleam lets the haste and rage flow through him as he starts hacking at the cage.
Any extra swings, prioritizing red, then blue then big.
Mutagen, Ka Enlarge, Haste, Raging Song, Good Hope, Power Attack.
Half-Orc Fighter 5/Monolith 1 HP 65/65 | AC 24* T 12* FF 24* CMD 27* (25% Fort)| F +13* R +6 W +6 (+3 vs Fear, +2 vs Emotion, +2 vs negative levels, death effects, and mind-affecting effects) | Init +3 | Perception +4
I totally missed the bit of luck on me, thanks Glastor. Here's the duplicate versions of rolls.
That gives us AC 31 for 32 damage.
AC 33 to confirm a crit for 105 (35 damage if no confirm)
Iterative AC 25 for 33 damage
Potential Finishing Cleave Crit, AC 33 to confirm for 105 damage (32 damage if no confirm)
male Summoner 6 HP 47 | AC 14; Touch 11; FF 14 | F +5; R +4; W +7 | CMB +3; CMD 13 | Speed 20 ft | Init +0 | Perc +10| Stealth: +4 Summoner (unchained) 6
Gleam, since Glastor acted after you, bit of luck would only come into effect next turn.
Having higher ground, Ingrege lines up two perfect shots at the graven guardian he earlier injured. More of the wolf's outline start s to become obscure, but the creature still stands vigilant and ever ready to retaliate.
Gleam rages and swings his weapon wildly attempting to break free from the bones that bind him. One powerful smash is all it takes to break apart the cage.
Only Gleam's crit hit. First attack did not meet AC of the bone cage.
Glastor and Zarzuket support the party by doing some spellcasting.
The Bone column suddenly turns his attention towards Flyn instead and throws pieces of himself towards him and traps the elf in another bone like cage!
Range Touch vs Ingrge:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (9) + 12 = 21
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Combat Round 2 Conditions: Prayer
Wolf Guardian R-36 Gleam -14, Petronicus, Glastor, Ingrge - 30 (caged) Bone Golem
Zarzuket, Morrighan
Morrighan will grant her allies Outflank and Paired Opportunists with her raging song (performance will cost 2 rounds).
She'll then cast haste, move, hop down the ledge, and flank with Gleam. (This will provoke if the creature has reach. AC 20 while raging.)
Outflank:
Whenever you and an ally who also has this feat are flanking the same creature, your flanking bonus on attack rolls increases to +4. In addition, whenever you score a critical hit against the flanked creature, it provokes an attack of opportunity from your ally.
Paired Opportunists:
Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has this feat, you receive a +4 circumstance bonus on attacks of opportunity against creatures that you both threaten. Enemies that provoke attacks of opportunity from your ally also provoke attacks of opportunity from you so long as you threaten them (even if the situation or an ability would normally deny you the attack of opportunity). This does not allow you to take more than one attack of opportunity against a creature for a given action.
Good Hope:
This spell instills powerful hope in the subjects. Each affected creature gains a +2 morale bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls.
Raging Song:
+2 morale bonus to Strength and +4 morale bonus to Constitution and a +2 morale bonus on Will saving throws, but also take a –1 penalty to AC
male Summoner 6 HP 47 | AC 14; Touch 11; FF 14 | F +5; R +4; W +7 | CMB +3; CMD 13 | Speed 20 ft | Init +0 | Perc +10| Stealth: +4 Summoner (unchained) 6
An earth elemental appears and attacks the big creature.
attack:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
damage:1d4 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
haste:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
damage:1d4 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Zarzuket casts gird ally on Pip and the elemental.
Male CG Gnome Cleric of Desna 6 | HP: 45/45| AC: 20 (12 tch, 19 Fl) | CMB: +3, CMD: 14 | F: +7, R: +3, W: +9; +2 vs. illusions | Init: +1 | Perc: +6 [low-light], SM: +8 | Speed 20 | Channel (positive) energy 9/9 (53d6, DC16) | Reroll: 1/1, Coin: 1/1, Pearl 1/1, Bit of Luck: 6/6, Agile Feet: 6/6| Active conditions:
Glastor, seeing Ingrge caged, now casts liberating command as an immediate action!
Ingrge can take an immediate action to perform an escape artist check at +12 (which, added to his +11, prayer, and good hope, should be a 12+11+1+2=+26, if my maths don't fail me!
Half-Orc Fighter 5/Monolith 1 HP 65/65 | AC 24* T 12* FF 24* CMD 27* (25% Fort)| F +13* R +6 W +6 (+3 vs Fear, +2 vs Emotion, +2 vs negative levels, death effects, and mind-affecting effects) | Init +3 | Perception +4
Opps, thanks, sorry was a rough weekend at work, I think I made mistakes in like half my pbps.
What was Pip's flight path? Was the required fly check taken into consideration?
Morrighan takes a risk to get into a combat position, provoking the Bone golem to intervene. The construct swings his arms wide and knocks the human to injure her.
An earth elemental rises from the ground but is unable to penetrate the golem's defenses. Meanwhile, Ingrge is immediately able to escape from the carrion cage thanks to a little magical intervention from Glastor!
The rune like wolves continue to lash out at Gleam, but gleam proves stands firm in a defence position as he is no longer hindered by the bones that trapped him down earlier.
Male Human (Chelish/Varisian) Demon Hunter 6, Init +3, HP 53/53, AC 19 T 13 FF 17, Fort +7, Ref +6, Will +5, P +9, Effects:
Sorry for the delay in posting this weekend. Very busy with family in town! Now back on track.
Taking advantage of his current position, Petronicus strikes at the distant (red) wolf-like creature, feeling the magical powers of the other Pathfinders coursing through him. (I'm pretty sure I'm not flanking or adjacent to an ally that's also threatening the red wolf, so no paired opportunist: Full attack 1 with guisarme (magical, slashing) w/Haste, Good Will, Prayer, and Inspired Rage -4 cover -2 PA:1d20 + 13 - 4 ⇒ (11) + 13 - 4 = 20, Damage 1:2d4 + 19 ⇒ (1, 4) + 19 = 24, Haste attack:1d20 + 13 - 4 ⇒ (2) + 13 - 4 = 11, Damage 2:2d4 + 19 ⇒ (2, 1) + 19 = 22)
