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Nikolsi looks up from his book as Salvis enter's the library, Aella curling around his feet. "Ah, Sir Salvis. Do you have news of some kind? You have been most gracious to allow me the run of this library." Salvis does not respond; simply eyes him sitting there at the table, and then snaps his fingers. "What the.. " Nikolsi's voice fades away, as does the rest of him. Aella startles with a loud "Meow! and fades away as well.
As color comes back into his vision, Nikolsi looks around to take stock of what just happened. He is standing in front of a large house, not quite palatial. Across from the drive, a small group of people stand in a rough circle. To their right, Nikolsi sees a group that is more familiar to him, being composed of several of the... unique... characters he had met previously at the Crossing House.
"I wonder what was so important that Salvis sent me here in such a rush? Doesn't look like much, does it Aella?" Aella ignores him, focusing instead on the wealth of new scents around her.
indigo butterfly wings unfurl from under Iko Ilue's cape, and he gracefully flutters up and toward the Falcons. As he does, he sings a lament about the ravages of time, and the bitter taste of betrayal (singing into his staff as though it were a microphone).
While nothing about the song appears magical, while he sings tiny translucent fey spirits start phasing in and out of existence around the five Falcons he's closest to, poking and distracting them.
Chief 1
Chief 2
Fire 1
Fire 2
Mage 1
Mage 2
Demon 1
Demon 2
Swift 1
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The soldier falls under the vicious strikes of Nephre, then turns its deadly gaze upon the old man, attempting to crush his mind.[/ooc]
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Momentarily distracted by his compatriots falling prey to nausea all around him, Koro is unprepared for the creature's mental assault. But before he succumbs to the creature's attack, he will summon forth herculean strength from within himself, and attempt to partition the mental attack into one section of his mind in a desperate attempt to delay it from taking hold.
If this is not a spell but instead a natural/extraordinary/supernatural ability inflicting one of the following conditions:
...then he can use Durable to do the same. In both cases, the effect is treated as a number of points in his delayed damage pool equal to the creature's caster level or hit dice respectively.
If it is somehow neither, then Koro will be affected immediately.
Lehkazeran roars and for a brief moment his eyes flash red. A subtle but distinct taste of iron fills the air. Suddenly, two copies of Lehkazeran split from him and stand shoulder to shoulder.
"Fighting me. That will be your last mistake, mechanical man," they say in unison.
+1 acid damage. If the attack hits, 3 allies within 50' get a new save vs an ongoing condition from Inspiring Pose.
Dymer sees his assigned companions find ways to shake off the nausea brought on by their first foe, shakes his head at his own lack of foresight considering there are several alchemical remedies that he should have on-hand just as a matter of course, and starts slowly making his way back towards the group, hoping that one of them may have a way to help clear his head once they're finished smashing the construct into pieces.
This is not a good first impression I'm making, Dymer thinks to himself.
The effect is a CL 8 Mind Thrust for and you are fatigued for one round.
Can you link me Cold Iron Call and Durable please?
Nephre laughs. "Staying down? Easier to smash your head in, then!"
She makes good on her threat.
As the monstrous duo of Nephre and Lehkazeran take the fight to the clockwork soldier, a blinking sensor begins to flash on the chest of construct.
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When targeted by a spell or spell-like ability, you may delay the onset of its effects until the end of your next turn as if it were damage. Each effect is treated as if it were an amount of hit point damage equal to its caster level for the purpose of your delayed damage pool. If you do not have enough space remaining in the delayed damage pool, you may not delay the effect.
If you possess the (patrol) package and the Defend Other talent, when an ally within the area of your patrol is the target of a spell or spell-like ability, you may spend an attack of opportunity to move to put that ally within reach (with the normal limits for moving as part of your patrol) and redirect the effect to yourself.
If you possess the (challenge) package, any time a creature under the effects of your challenge casts a spell or uses a spell-like ability that does not include you in its effect, it suffers a -2 penalty to the spell’s save DC. This penalty increases by 1 for every 4 points of base attack bonus you possess.
Wiki Note: Per discussion with the author, this is intended to permit characters to cure effects caused by things this ability can delay before they take effect.
Durable
When targeted by a natural, extraordinary or supernatural ability that inflicts ability damage, ability drain, disease, negative levels, poison or any of the following conditions: (blinded, confused, cowering, dazed, dazzled, entangled, exhausted, fascinated, fatigued, frightened, nauseated, panicked, paralyzed, petrified, shaken, sickened, staggered, stunned, unconscious) you may delay the onset of its effects until the end of your next turn. Each effect is treated as if it were an amount of hit point damage equal to the attacking creature’s Hit Dice for determining the capacity of your delayed damage pool. If you do not have enough space remaining in the delayed damage pool, you may not delay the effect.
If you possess the (patrol) package and the Defend Other talent, when an ally within the area of your patrol is the target of such an ability, you may spend an attack of opportunity to move to put that ally within reach (with the normal limits for moving as part of your patrol) and redirect the effect to yourself.
If you possess the (challenge) package, any time a creature under the effects of your challenge uses such an ability that does not include you in its effect, it suffers a -2 penalty to the ability’s save DC. This penalty increases by 1 for every 4 points of base attack bonus you possess.
Wiki Note: Per discussion with the author, this is intended to permit characters to cure effects caused by things this ability can delay before they take effect.
Spellcraft (to identify the spell)
Knowledge (Engineering)
If Koro is only fatigued for 1 round, then it will pretty much wear off when it comes out of his delayed damage pool, so there's no need to worry too much about it. He will also take the damage, but that gets drained from his delayed damage pool as nonlethal damage, so it's not a pressing concern at the moment.
Pretty sure I can make it to one other person (as a move action) and administer a panacea to clear their nausea (as a standard action). Whoever has the ability to cure others of nausea when given the chance will be the first to get it.
Craven's hands quickly begin clutching his head. "UghrraAAA.." he yells as his body begins bubbling out as if something was trying to burst its way out. During this process, he was slowly growing in size. Bigger and bigger.
The previously stock-still construct begins to whirrrrr as palpable energy crackles in the air nearby, before letting loose a single devastating shot from the siege railgun on its body.
Finally in a position to match his bravado with action, Lehkazeran smiles, baring his long, sharp fangs, and circles his prey, trying to draw out any resistance it might offer before attempting to rip it to pieces.
Time seems to flicker, and Iko Ilue gets a strange sense that This Has All Happened Before...And Will Happen Again.
. . .
indigo butterfly wings unfurl from under Iko Ilue's cape, and he gracefully flutters up and toward the Falcons. As he does, he sings a lament about the ravages of time, and the bitter taste of betrayal (singing into his staff as though it were a microphone).
While nothing about the song appears magical, while he sings tiny translucent fey spirits start phasing in and out of existence around the five Falcons he's closest to, poking and distracting them.
Already starting to get bored with the clockwork thing's rather poor showing in battle, Nephre continues to just stomp on it repeatedly.
Will: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23 Whelp! Failed the Will save. Here he comes...
Craven's hands quickly begin clutching his head. "UghrraAAA.." he yells as his body begins bubbling out as if something was trying to burst its way out. During this process, he was slowly growing in size. Bigger and bigger.
This is my whole turn.
A robotic voice emanates from the downed solider. "Reinforcement protocol activating in t-minus 10..9..8..7..6..5.."
Nephre laughs and looks towards the tomb door. "There's more? Good, this one was too easy!"
The lone member of the Sun Falcons not affected by Iko's attack raises his longbow and aims at the overly pretty butterfly boy.
After his attack, the archer vanishes from sight.
Dymer nods his thanks towards Koro for the nausea-cure, then, not wary of what might happen should the construct's countdown complete, quickly collects two small catalytic vials out of one of his pouches, activates them, and tosses the bunch at the construct laying on the ground.
The fighter, having been affected by slow before, opts to wait until the sun falcon's mage takes her turn.
The archer's arrow pierces her shoulder, threatening to knock her from the sky, but she twirls midair with the grace of a master dancer, and remains aloft.
The monk teleports up into the air and attempts to grapple Iko He succeeds and pins the bards wings tight.
Meanwhile, the mage casts a spell to negate the slowing effect on his allies.
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After curing Dymer of nausea, Koro will race over to Ozzie and administer a panacea to him as well.
He grumbles a bit over Nephre's joy at the thought of enemy reinforcements, but he doesn't actually make a move to stop the robot.
Deep in his heart of hearts, he still wants to get his hands dirty with a real fight, for once.
The furious assault from the various members of the exploration team are finally too much of their lone foe. With it's last functional action, it says "Recruitment protocol complete. Active scorched earth protocol." And with that, it detonates in a thunder explosion. Once the smoke and debris clear, there's not much left of the fallen soldier. Certainly nothing salvageable.
While she'd been expecting the explosion, Nephre is caught off-guard by the psychic assault. The staggering blow to her mind catches her mid-dodge, resulting in her taking the full (though surprisingly weak) force of the blast.
Everything goes white as the explosion catches Lehkazeran square in the face. For a moment he's lost in his mind, the ringing of his ears an all encompassing sound that drowns or everything else. But somewhere in it, something breaks through: a cacophony of roars, and is all comes riding back. He's a Dragon, and a Vampire. And he will not be cowed.
Slowly, Lehkazeran turns his head to face the ruins and smiles as tears of blood start to drip from his eyes.
Dymer, seeing two of his comrades sway on their feet as if Stunned - though Lehkazeran snaps out of it very quickly - pulls a catalyst out of his belt pouch, priming it for use as soon as any new opponents appear. "Before it exploded, it sounded like it had called for reinforcements. Everyone get ready!"