Male LG Nagaji Scaled Fist 12 | HP 90/90 | AC 23(27)(32)(36), T 22 (26), FF 20(24)(29)(33) | CMD 41, FFCMD 38 | F +13, R +14, W +14 Init +3/7 | Perc +2/4 | Stunning Fist Uses 13/13 | Ki Pool 13/13 |
"The sservicce is itss own reward, Masster Zhuang."
Next mission: Facing the Duergar of Slave Mountain!
It's been about 2 hours since the last time people cast buffs, so all have worn off.
As you don't know exactly where to find them, you won't be able to precast buffs with a duration shorter than 15 minutes. Also, it is pitch dark in most of Slave Mountain, so what do you do in regards to light sources?
Male LG Nagaji Scaled Fist 12 | HP 90/90 | AC 23(27)(32)(36), T 22 (26), FF 20(24)(29)(33) | CMD 41, FFCMD 38 | F +13, R +14, W +14 Init +3/7 | Perc +2/4 | Stunning Fist Uses 13/13 | Ki Pool 13/13 |
Wayfinder here. Having double checked prestige costs, I'll snag a scroll of 5xLesser Restoration with 2PP. I'll reapply mage armor and barskin while we quest into the dark as well.
"Well that was all very exciting. Who knew that someone's mind could come up with all that awful? Glad that I am traveling with such a skilled group of adventures. There were many times that I was going to step in, but it seems that you all had it in hand. I am sure that it was partly because you knew that Nugats has your back.
"I can't want to see how awful the Darklands in the Tapestry is going to be."
Boros pulls out his callistrian holy symbol and casts a spell of heroism and expeditious retreat on himself as the group gets ready to move forward in the darkness. He flaps his wings once, longing for the feel of enough strength to lift himself up from the ground without magical aid.
Boros pulls out his callistrian holy symbol and casts a spell of heroism and expeditious retreat on himself as the group gets ready to move forward in the darkness. He flaps his wings once, longing for the feel of enough strength to lift himself up from the ground without magical aid.
It's close, I can feel it...
GM Auke wrote:
As you don't know exactly where to find them, you won't be able to precast buffs with a duration shorter than 15 minutes.
Expeditious retreat has a duration shorter than 15 minutes, so you're free to cast it, but it would be gone before the encounter.
Male Human Alchemist (Grenadier) 11 | AC 20 (25)| T 14 (15) | FF 17 (21) | HP: 20/91 | CMD 22 (23) | Fort +14| Ref +15 (16) | Will +6 | Init +12| Perception +21| Bombs 5/20
Oddly Sparky has nothing for darkness other then an oil of Daylight which he has no need to use right now. Lots of grabby things in the dark so Sparky will drink his freedom of movement extract.
Boros pulls out his callistrian holy symbol and casts a spell of heroism and expeditious retreat on himself as the group gets ready to move forward in the darkness. He flaps his wings once, longing for the feel of enough strength to lift himself up from the ground without magical aid.
It's close, I can feel it...
GM Auke wrote:
As you don't know exactly where to find them, you won't be able to precast buffs with a duration shorter than 15 minutes.
Expeditious retreat has a duration shorter than 15 minutes, so you're free to cast it, but it would be gone before the encounter.
Sorry, I missed that part. I'll hold off on that one. Just Heroism it is then. Thanks!
Incoherent murmurs and groans echo through this large, dark cave. Tall stalagmites emerge from the cave floor surrounded by shallow pools of water. Ahead, a dim purplish light emanating from a multifaceted black gemstone the size of a human skull illuminates several humanoid forms heaped around the stone.
As you are approaching as a beacon of light, the enemies will get a surprise round.
Three duergar quickly scramble into the darkness, while their cloaked leader attacks one of the humanoid forms on the ground.
Damage:2d8 + 5 ⇒ (5, 8) + 5 = 18
The circle is dimly lit by the glowing gemstone, but outside this there's only the lightsources you brought yourselves, so unless the duergar are within your darkvision, you can't currently see them.
Boros raises his bow, but knows he is at a disadvantage with the range of his darkvision. Instead of getting a shot ready, he prays to his goddess, and his fickle mistress grants his weapon awe inspiring power.
"Get them away from the prisoners!" he says with some urgency to his companions as he moves to the east in the hopes of seeing one of the evil dwarves come around the massive column.
The previously attacked humanoid stands up and walks towards the party. With the daylight you can all clearly see it is a ratfolk, or at least it was a ratfolk, as it is now an undead! (Ratfolk fast zombie)
Keriassa Tree
Red
Nugats
Narayan
Blue
Green
Boros
Sparky
Yellow
Purple (delay)
Keriassa speaks in an arcane tongue and twists her fingers to give everyone good hope then begins to speak of the downfall of the whispering tyrant to inspire their violent tendencies.
Cast good hope (7 minute duration) as a standard, then begin raging song (with guarded life and reckless abandon attached) as a move action. 5-foot step back.
inspired rage effect on allies:
When the skald begins a raging song and then on each ally's turn, if the ally can hear the raging song, that ally must decide whether to accept or refuse its effects. This is not an action. Unconscious allies automatically accept the song. If accepted, the raging song's effects on that ally last for that ally's turn or until the song ends, whichever comes first.
Affected allies gain a +2 morale bonus to Strength and Constitution and a +2 morale bonus on Will saving throws, but also take a –1 penalty to AC. While under the effects of inspired rage, allies other than the skald cannot use any Charisma-, Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills (except Acrobatics, Fly, Intimidate, and Ride) or any ability that requires patience or concentration.
When starting an inspired rage, the skald chooses which rage powers (if any) to add to the song, and all affected allies gain the benefit of these rage powers, using the skald's level as their effective barbarian level. The skald uses his skald level as his barbarian level for the purpose of selecting rage powers that require a minimum barbarian level. If the rage power's effects depend on the skald's ability modifier (such as lesser spirit totem), affected allies use the skald's ability modifier instead of their own for the purpose of this effect.
Male LG Nagaji Scaled Fist 12 | HP 90/90 | AC 23(27)(32)(36), T 22 (26), FF 20(24)(29)(33) | CMD 41, FFCMD 38 | F +13, R +14, W +14 Init +3/7 | Perc +2/4 | Stunning Fist Uses 13/13 | Ki Pool 13/13 |
Narayan shuffles forward in his trademark stance, leaping forward with a flying kick at the oncoming zombie!
"Oh my, undead. I hate undead. They are so noncommittal. Do I want to be alive, or do I want to be dead? nah, I'll just be both. Terrible, just terrible."
In his element, Nugats hustles forward to see what is going on. Seeing the leader, he begins to cast his spell.
If she fails, she falls 40 feet
Create Pit DC 18 Reflex:
School conjuration (creation); Level sorcerer/wizard 2, summoner/unchained summoner 2; Subdomain caves 2; Elemental School earth 2
CASTING
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, F (miniature shovel costing 10 gp)
EFFECT
Range medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect 10-ft.-by-10-ft. hole, 10 ft. deep/2 levels
Duration 1 round + 1 round/level
Saving Throw Reflex negates; Spell Resistance no
DESCRIPTION
You create a 10-foot-by-10-foot extra-dimensional hole with a depth of 10 feet per two caster levels (maximum 30 feet). You must create the pit on a horizontal surface of sufficient size. Since it extends into another dimension, the pit has no weight and does not otherwise displace the original underlying material. You can create the pit in the deck of a ship as easily as in a dungeon floor or the ground of a forest. Any creature standing in the area where you first conjured the pit must make a Reflex saving throw to jump to safety in the nearest open space. In addition, the edges of the pit are sloped, and any creature ending its turn on a square adjacent to the pit must make a Reflex saving throw with a +2 bonus to avoid falling into it. Creatures subjected to an effect intended to push them into the pit (such as bull rush) do not get a saving throw to avoid falling in if they are affected by the pushing effect.
Creatures who fall into the pit take falling damage as normal. The pit’s coarse stone walls have a Climb DC of 25. When the duration of the spell ends, creatures within the hole rise up with the bottom of the pit until they are standing on the surface over the course of a single round.
"Oh my, undead. I hate undead. They are so noncommittal. Do I want to be alive, or do I want to be dead? nah, I'll just be both. Terrible, just terrible."
In his element, Nugats hustles forward to see what is going on. Seeing the leader, he begins to cast his spell.
If she fails, she falls 40 feet
It might be unclear, but the big black things are stalactites, so you can't see through them. Assuming you'll move to a direction where you've got line of sight, here's the reflex save. (Also create pit is capped at 30 feet.)
Boros curses himself for getting out of position. He quicksteps back to where he started and enacts his innate ability to see invisibility. At least with the two Dureuger in the center of the room making themselves so large, he shouldn't have a hard time hitting them.
Hopefully.
Move back to where I started, standard to use spell like ability see invisibility.
Deadly Aim, Rapid Shot, Manyshot with Reckless Abandon using Adaptive Holy Bow and Good Hope. The Raging Song negates the penalty for the strength damage. Ignores Sparky's soft cover through Deadeye Bowman.
Male LG Nagaji Scaled Fist 12 | HP 90/90 | AC 23(27)(32)(36), T 22 (26), FF 20(24)(29)(33) | CMD 41, FFCMD 38 | F +13, R +14, W +14 Init +3/7 | Perc +2/4 | Stunning Fist Uses 13/13 | Ki Pool 13/13 |
Hoping to capitalize on Tree's rush, Narayan leaps over his friend to cannon into the towering Duergar with the fury and support of his friends lending power to his blows!
Male LG Nagaji Scaled Fist 12 | HP 90/90 | AC 23(27)(32)(36), T 22 (26), FF 20(24)(29)(33) | CMD 41, FFCMD 38 | F +13, R +14, W +14 Init +3/7 | Perc +2/4 | Stunning Fist Uses 13/13 | Ki Pool 13/13 |
Neutral, as you didn't need to spend, but you also didn't kick him below 0 as he went down due to the subdual being more than his actual hitpoints. Unless you continue your full attack on the unconscious Duergar.
Also as Narayan is standing next to the pit, he needs to make a reflex save or fall in.
Male LG Nagaji Scaled Fist 12 | HP 90/90 | AC 23(27)(32)(36), T 22 (26), FF 20(24)(29)(33) | CMD 41, FFCMD 38 | F +13, R +14, W +14 Init +3/7 | Perc +2/4 | Stunning Fist Uses 13/13 | Ki Pool 13/13 |
Ah! Thought that was an obelisk. Narayan will put at least one more lethal attack into the unconscious dwarf. Robed necromancer's a potential cleric, he has nothing better to do with his swings, and this guys a soul-eating slaver.
Ah! Thought that was an obelisk. Narayan will put at least one more lethal attack into the unconscious dwarf. Robed necromancer's a potential cleric, he has nothing better to do with his swings, and this guys a soul-eating slaver.
Narayan kills the unconscious duergar and regains 1 ki.
With the additional light and short distance you can now see that the cloaked leader once was a duergar, but has somehow been transformed in a Morgh! It is however different from the ones you fought earlier as this one seems to be able to create spawn!
Morgh's Create Spawn ability:
Humanoid creatures killed by a mohrg rise immediately as fast zombies under the mohrg’s control. The sudden bloom of unlife when a mohrg’s victim dies and becomes a zombie causes a surge of negative energy to flow through the mohrg. Whenever a mohrg creates a zombie in this manner, it is healed 1d6 hit points per HD possessed by the slain creature and acts as if hasted for the round immediately following the spawn’s creation.
Boros moves across the battlefield, inspired by Keriassa's song. Whether he is ready to simply fire his bow or not, he allows himself to fall into the thrall of the words, relishing in the rage of the skald.
Accepting the skald's song, this should be fun!
In a good position now, towering over his gnome friend, Boros lets loose a single arrow at the glittery Morgh.
Firing at the one outlined in red - Modifiers in effect: Heroism, Weapon of Awe, Inspired Rage w/reckless abandon, Point blank shot, Deadly Aim. Bow is adaptive to allow me to add the bonus to strength from the song, and seeking just in case somehow there is a concealment miss chance.
Male Human Alchemist (Grenadier) 11 | AC 20 (25)| T 14 (15) | FF 17 (21) | HP: 20/91 | CMD 22 (23) | Fort +14| Ref +15 (16) | Will +6 | Init +12| Perception +21| Bombs 5/20
Sparky moves up to get a better look at what is going on. Since we have ided the enemies can we get names attached to the colors?
He then tosses a bomb at one of the duergars (red) selecting out prisoners.
Targeting upper left corner of red with a force bomb. Due to radius + Splash Weapon Mastery it wall deal 15 force damage to the other Duergar and the purple enemy. DC 24 reflex save for half. The red Duergar will need a DC 24 reflex save or they are knocked prone.
ranged touch attack vs red Duergar including haste and point blank:1d20 + 13 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 13 + 1 + 1 = 33 force dmg + DC 24 ref knockdown:6d4 + 10 ⇒ (4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3) + 10 = 31
The repair teams have patched the rift beneath the Muckmouth. They discovered that the tapestry itself is generating massive amounts of necromantic energy around the rifts. The Muckmouth is secured!
GMs, the Muckmouth Secured condition on Page 10 is now in effect!
Tree succesfully moves to the position of his choice, but when he is about to throw his axe he gets tripped by the green Duergar, who attacks him from invisibility.
Male LG Nagaji Scaled Fist 12 | HP 90/90 | AC 23(27)(32)(36), T 22 (26), FF 20(24)(29)(33) | CMD 41, FFCMD 38 | F +13, R +14, W +14 Init +3/7 | Perc +2/4 | Stunning Fist Uses 13/13 | Ki Pool 13/13 |
Narayan flings himself once more into the fray with a joyous snarl, attempting to finish off the duergar that bar his way to the true threat.
The sequencing is a titch odd on this one since I don't know if/when the Duergar are dropping. So... priority queue instead.
Narayan will begin by attacking the prone one. The first attack he makes against each Duergar will be stunning; the first hit against each one will be nonlethal and intimidating. He'll make his Medusa's wrath attacks as soon as possible, which will be once he's made them stunned (DC 18 fort) or flat-footed (via hitting them once they're already shaken), so just weave them in whenever they were allowed. Hopefully after the Then after all his swings, he'll put a ki point into one more attack as a swift.
Okay... here goes.
