GM Cellion's Dawn of Flame AP

Game Master Cellion

May be a slight delay in posting. Stuck at the hotel because of another blizzard.

It's snowing here too, but nowhere near a blizzard. Be safe!

Speaking of safe, guess who isn't? Our party! We should take the hint and finish clearing this place out before hostile reinforcements arrive, no time to wait for healing again I think.

Is anyone else down HP? I already used treat wounds on Flint today, so I can't heal him again.

Sorry it took so long for me to post, folks!

For someone with a high Sense Motive, Flint didn’t even think to use it on the slurred speech injures Anassanoi. I guess we need to start being more paranoid…

I had actually suspected something like this, but Ordyt didn't say it out loud because he's not a terribly devious fellow.

Not gonna lie, I'm getting tired of having to chase fleeing villains.

Better than having to flee from villains!

You can let them get away if you'd like. ;)

Yeah, Belmarniss is NOT gonna just let that happen. :P

Given the magical displays, I'm not convinced Verrael isn't just shapeshifted, rather than mind-controlled. Might be another efreet.

If Mehhren hadn't gotten a critical AoO I'd have Ordyt just plunge through the wall and damn the torpedos, but he's gotten the stuffing beaten out of him and she's got full cover from the spell.

I messed up my post! I don't even have a MkIII frag, and the damage numbers I used my roll for the MkII cryo grenade, so that should be ice damage which is why I was hoping it would clear part of the WoF.

You know, Belmarniss' original concept was something along the lines of "heroic Darth Vader figure," but she's turned out more like old-school Anakin Skywalker as I've played her. :P

Do we try and take Nyralaen alive, too, or go all out?

Mari, I think you mean Varrael…

Flint would have to take an action of some kind to switch off the stun setting, so he probably won’t bother, but he is more in the heat of combat right now than thinking politically so he will just keep using what he has at hand.

How high up is Verrael? Would Flint need to activate his jetpack to reach her with his blade?

Yes, I got my names scrambled.

Only 5ft above the ground right now, but the ceilings in the larger rooms are 20ft high, so she could potentially go higher up.

Goddammit, of COURSE the dice betray me when I try to do something cool. Why did I expect any different?

Is Varrael still within reach, or did she float up out of reach with that guarded step?

Still within reach!

Should I roll Medicine again or can I keep that nat 20 from earlier? :V

You can keep it :)

Perhaps Ordyt will lead Bel through a few rounds of meditation lol

Fleshing out the plan a bit, and seeking GM input. Not sure what rolls this would require beyond Engineering (if any), or what the anassanoi would countenance since it's their infrastructure at stake but:

The Mk1 frags alone wouldn't deal much damage, but we're in a sewer, there are likely pipes hither and thither running water, sewage, toxic gasses etc etc. What if we rigged the charges to blow one or more of these pipes in order to spook/delay the Legion, maybe even inflict casualties, per Flint's suggestion? I'm fine with taking the GM's lead on how feasible that would be but surely there's an anassanoi civil engineer who could help us out.

I sure wish we had Noma's giant warbot right about now :'( sighs wistfully, daydreams about a mech...

The Mk1 frags alone wouldn't deal much damage, but we're in a sewer, there are likely pipes hither and thither running water, sewage, toxic gasses etc etc. What if we rigged the charges to blow one or more of these pipes in order to spook/delay the Legion, maybe even inflict casualties, per Flint's suggestion? I'm fine with taking the GM's lead on how feasible that would be but surely there's an anassanoi civil engineer who could help us out.

Sounds like a plan to me, and very feasible. An engineering check to set those explosives appropriately would work.

Is this something I can take a 10 on?

My thinking is less "make a huge bomb that will blow up all the bad guys" and more to set some grenades on tripwires and such to make them really, really take their time searching an otherwise empty hideout. And, y'know, add an overly complex looking timer device to grab their attention for even longer.

Yep, taking 10 and the rest sounds reasonable!

Oh NOW I get a good roll. <_<

Better late than never!

Regression to the mean!

Got a question on perspective, my junksword has reach on this casting. Is the azer still in range to hit, or do I need to go after them? I can't tell if that's one square between us or two.

One square between you, so if you have reach, you can smack em. Please remind me in the future that you have reach btw, because I probably forgot about it in some previous rounds/fights and didn't give you the AoOs you should have.

I think we should push on the moment our 10min of SP recuperation is up.

Side note, this is the first time in a long time Ordyt has used most of his RP in an adventuring day!

Do we have 10 minutes to spare? I hope so, because Flint really needs it before the next combat…

I'm going to be pretty slow in all my campaigns for the next week until I've taken the S10 exam next Thursday, but did we want to build a barricade/other prep?

Follow up, does that cancel our SP recovery if we do something like that?

Flint was trying to keep resting…perhaps if those who took light damage want to barricade or otherwise prepare that would work…

Sure, let's throw a barricade together real quick. I haven't taken much damage but I still need to rest to get my energy shield back.

Engineering?: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (17) + 21 = 38

I will help!

Engineering: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (2) + 17 = 19

Sorry for the delay folks! Gateway issues kept me from posting. Plus, Mother Nature decided to play an April Fool's joke on us by dumping about 8 or so inches of dense, wet snow on us, causing power outages that threw off my sleep cycle due to my CPAP going offline, we weren't able to get out of our garage because of said outage, so we couldn't shovel the driveway immediately, and when we did try to shovel it it was a real struggle due to how heavy and wet the snow was. I finally limped into work about 3 hours late, and stayed late too. Leaving me tired, cranky and sore when I finally got home. Very funny, Mother Nature. Ha ha. You got me. Happy April Fools. -_-

That's a lot of snow!

I must have raided your luck pool, the weather here has been nice enough that the contractors came and installed our 6ft privacy fence today a week ahead of schedule.

Not exactly sure what course of action to take...it's like we're in Schrodinger's Encounter, both in-combat and out-of-combat at the same time...

Something will be happening at the end of this round, so I've kept you in initiative.

I forget, I can spend a Resolve point on my turn to stabilize, right?

Yep. Dying Rules Link

@Cellion Ordyt is no longer entangled, right? He's still listed as such in the initiative tracker so I wanted to double check

Right! I just missed removing the debuff from the tracker

Would it be okay if I took the armor? It'd be a bigger boost to me than it would be to Ordyt at this stage (I've got 6th level armor, you've got 8th level)...but on the other hand, you DID take the biggest beating in the fight...

That’s fine with Flint…

Also fine with Ordyt!

I need to get through the wall, right? I can't just go through the hole Marisol made?