Teriq replies to Lilly's terse comments, still in the strange primal language.
heh... go Tongues curse =)
Ignan (ie: just Lilly):
"I have no doubt at your ability to survive, my dear." He replies, in Ignan, managing to bow slightly between shots, even as he hovers on the far side of the colossal beetle's mouth. "I am more concerned with the fact that that worm-filled creature there, does not appear to be entirely real."
"Still, I heard it send the chitinous beast to fetch you, specifically. So it must be around somewhere, yes?" He adds, his sharp elven eyes, glancing around, trying to find signs of where the worm-that-walks might actually be or where it could be, if not the one before them.
Perception:1d20 + 19 ⇒ (7) + 19 = 26
And this to see if he knows some sort of magic that might explain what he's seeing. Knowledge (arcana):1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14
@Teriq: Here you go --> acid dmg, Rand:2d6 ⇒ (1, 5) = 6 - we're all caught up now and you can all go together
Initiative - Round 5 (Bold may go)
Tothek [outside, flying 30']
Favian -14 [in mouth, difficult terrain, beetle juice (7) continuous acid dmg]
Thrag -81 [in mouth, flying 5', beetle juice (7), continuous acid dmg]
Rand -24 [in mouth, difficult terrain, beetle juice (6) continuous acid dmg]
Teriq [outside, flying 5']
Lilly -104 [outside]
Worm That Walks [black tentacles grapple check on its turn]
Huge locust spider - purple
Huge locust spider - yellow
Huge locust spider - blue
[color=red]Beetle [DEAD; mouth is now forever more stuck in the OPEN position; acid in and outside of mouth and acid pool still active][/color]
NOTE: normal light inside mouth; dim light in top portion of stomach as indicated on map.
Arcane Pool 5/14 | Lesser Extend Rod 0/3 | Pearl I 0/2 | Reroll 0/1 | Ablative Barrier 20/50 | Mythic Power 0/2
Favian combines sword and spell again, this time his surges forward in a cascade of color.
Spell Combat. Bladed Dash to move 30 feet forward and make an attack followed by my full attack. Movement doesn't provoke, and still can't fail the concentration checks.
Please explain the +6d6 in your dmg line; I'm missing something here as I thought you could add +3d6 with VS... also, math is hard for me right now, and I'm only getting to +9 on your Will saves; please tell me where I'm missing that +5 to gap it to 14... anyway with or without that extra +5, Thrag is fairly certain he just whammo'ed through an illusion.
Initiative - Round 5 (Bold may go)
Favian -14 [in mouth, difficult terrain, beetle juice (7) continuous acid dmg]
Thrag -81 [in mouth, flying 5', beetle juice (7), continuous acid dmg]
Tothek [outside, flying 30']
Rand -24 [in mouth, difficult terrain, beetle juice (6) continuous acid dmg]
Teriq [outside, flying 5']
Lilly -104 [outside]
Worm That Walks [black tentacles grapple check on its turn]
Huge locust spider - purple -83
Huge locust spider - yellow
Huge locust spider - blue
[color=red]Beetle [DEAD; mouth is now forever more stuck in the OPEN position; acid in and outside of mouth and acid pool still active][/color]
NOTE: normal light inside mouth; dim light in top portion of stomach as indicated on map.
”Rand” | Male LG Medium Human Unchained Monk 13 | Mythic Power Uses: 4 (4) | HP 4 (134) | AC 39; T 20; FF 33; +4 dodge bonus to AC vs. Koth | CMD 47 | F +14 R +17 W +17; +2 vs. Enchantments | Init +12 | Perc +24; Darkvision 60' | Speed 70 ft | Ki Pool: 10 (13) | Active Conditions: Barkskin; Shaken; Immune to Electricity and Poison, Resist 10 Acid, Cold, Fire
Realizing he can't see into the body of the beetle where his fellow pathfinders are, Rand flies out of the mouth and lands on the beetle's shell above the center of it's thorax.
Continuing to take the bonus to AC, Reflex Saves, and Attack. Between upward movement and difficult terrain, that's gonna be a double move for me.
EDIT: the problem is that you aren't far enough down the gullet yet, at least according to the map. I'm going to punch a hole into the shell of the beetle.
Tothek sees no reason to conduct a battle inside an acid pit where he cannot see well. He uses the extra movement provided by the blessing to land atop the great beetle’s carapace.
Seeing Rand there, Tothek enchants the monk with Darkvision.
”Rand” | Male LG Medium Human Unchained Monk 13 | Mythic Power Uses: 4 (4) | HP 4 (134) | AC 39; T 20; FF 33; +4 dodge bonus to AC vs. Koth | CMD 47 | F +14 R +17 W +17; +2 vs. Enchantments | Init +12 | Perc +24; Darkvision 60' | Speed 70 ft | Ki Pool: 10 (13) | Active Conditions: Barkskin; Shaken; Immune to Electricity and Poison, Resist 10 Acid, Cold, Fire
Rand nods his thanks to Tothek, but it's clear he's focusing to power up something.
Or maybe he really has to use the bathroom. Either way, he's really focused.
Male CN Fighter 14 | HP 157/157 | AC 33 T 16 FF 29 | CMB +17, CMD 36 | F: +15, R: +11, W: +13 | Init: +4 | Perc: +17, SM: +17 [/ooc] | Speed 30ft | Active conditions: Blur
GM:
Thrag has Improved Vital Strike for triple dice instead of double. I can make sure I note that more specifically.
Will Save: +4 Base, +4 Cloak, +4 Bravery, +1 Cracked Pale Green Ioun Stone, +1 Indomitable Faith trait
Bravery is enhanced by Armed Bravery and Sash of the War Champion. The sash makes him effective level 15 for determining his Bravery bonus. Armed Bravery makes his Bravery bonus count for all Will saves instead of just fear.
Jots down a note about Armed Bravery on a piece of paper... :)
@Rand/Tothek: you guys are now roughly above Thrag's location yes? Please confirm; I'll update the map and move this forward tomorrow.
In which case Lilly quickly casts a spel on herself and then moves to try and get out of line of sight of whatever is inside the bettle casting spells.
”Rand” | Male LG Medium Human Unchained Monk 13 | Mythic Power Uses: 4 (4) | HP 4 (134) | AC 39; T 20; FF 33; +4 dodge bonus to AC vs. Koth | CMD 47 | F +14 R +17 W +17; +2 vs. Enchantments | Init +12 | Perc +24; Darkvision 60' | Speed 70 ft | Ki Pool: 10 (13) | Active Conditions: Barkskin; Shaken; Immune to Electricity and Poison, Resist 10 Acid, Cold, Fire
That was my intent yes. I wanted to punch a hole in the shell to be able to see.
The squirming mage then turns its attention to Thrag, and extends a wormy appendage his way, uttering an incantation. Thrag tries to bat the worm infested hand away with his hammer but his weapon flies right through it. The Worm That Walks then touches him.
melee touch:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19 Thrag Will Save:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 14 = 15
Favian and Teriq:
Thrag disappears from view! Spellcraft check please.
Initiative - Round 6 (Bold may go)
Favian -21 [in mouth, difficult terrain, beetle juice (7) continuous acid dmg]
Thrag -81 [???]
Tothek [outside, Slide 5, flying 30']
Rand -24 [outside, Slide 5, flying 30']
Teriq -43 [outside, flying 5']
Lilly [outside]
Worm That Walks [black tentacles grapple check on its turn]
Huge locust spider - purple
Huge locust spider - yellow
Huge locust spider - blue
[color=red]Beetle [DEAD; mouth is now forever more stuck in the OPEN position; acid in and outside of mouth and acid pool still active][/color]
NOTE: normal light inside mouth; dim light in top portion of stomach as indicated on map.
”Rand” | Male LG Medium Human Unchained Monk 13 | Mythic Power Uses: 4 (4) | HP 4 (134) | AC 39; T 20; FF 33; +4 dodge bonus to AC vs. Koth | CMD 47 | F +14 R +17 W +17; +2 vs. Enchantments | Init +12 | Perc +24; Darkvision 60' | Speed 70 ft | Ki Pool: 10 (13) | Active Conditions: Barkskin; Shaken; Immune to Electricity and Poison, Resist 10 Acid, Cold, Fire
Having channeled his Ki for a moment, Rand smashes his fist into the shell of the beetle then unloads the rest of his attacks into the hide.
@Tothek: we now have grouped initiative so I'm not planning to make interim posts, but for your information Rand's first punch produced some cracks in the shell while the other attacks were ineffective; i.e. you don't think this is a really good idea.
Lilly dashes forward, around the body of the worm, so she can get a good look inside the mouth. She quickly casts a spell, trying to get rid of the fog cloud.
Taking the movement speed from blessing then trying to dispel the fog cloud
CL Check:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (4) + 13 = 17
Well, thats no good. Lilly promptly casts a spell as an immediate action, seeking to correct her luck. Borrowing Fotune in order to reroll
@Lily: the giant beetle is dead and thus its legs are all spread out on the ground in the indicated positions. The legs' thickness is of 5 feet, so you must either make a DC 15 climb check to clamber over them (20-ft movement cost unless using accelerated climb), an acrobatics DC 20 to high jump over each of them in your path (5-ft movement cost), or go around them the long way. You may redo your turn accordingly; apologies for not defining that up front, as I thought you'd be going back in the way you came out earlier...
Hrmm... no one is going to deal with the sabre toothed tiger? Bah.
burn?:2d6 ⇒ (1, 3) = 4
Teriq is a little surprised to see the tiger show up, summoned out of mid air, as he is almost certain the creature that appeared to summon it was an illusion. Whatever magic is at play, he has a pretty good idea that the perpetrator has to be able to see what's going on, so inside the giant beetle seems the obvious choice.
He drifts away from the large cat, into the beetle itself, using his senses, blessed by the fires of Sarenrae herself, to glance down the thing's gullet, in search of an answer.
5' step, into the beetle, then depends on what he sees. 60' darkvision and the ability to see through the fog as if it were not there.
What's down there, aside from the suspected illusion on the edge of the fog that he sees already?
Reaction dependent on situation.
perception vs. DC 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24 please; Teriq Perception:1d20 + 18 ⇒ (4) + 18 = 22; burn had no effect on the tiger; via your darkvision now, at the back of the demon beetle’s stomach you see... a chitinous scythe embedded into a mound of tumorous growths..
Favian:
with the power of Teriq's talisman nearby, you are able to decipher the glowing runes and ley lines surrounding the spell that whisked away Thrag- it was a rather mighty spell of Plane Shift, so you know that the half-orc is no longer in the abyss... where exactly, you don't know...
@Tothek: you were in the middle part of the giant beetle's abdomen so you needed to move first to get in position; I'll only take the first attack this time; also, please give me your +16 to hit and +13 dmg breakdown; thx. Archers always throw me for a loop, especially when they have no buffs listed in their headers... ;)
@Teriq: I'll only take the first attack as this was a 10-foot move, and you also get an AoO from the tiger when you moved away. claw, smite good:1d20 + 18 ⇒ (6) + 18 = 24 [Miss]
Manyshot can only be used during a full attack, so wouldn't apply on a single attack (I've grumbled at that restriction many a time) And I don't think higher ground applies to ranged attacks, just melee
”Rand” | Male LG Medium Human Unchained Monk 13 | Mythic Power Uses: 4 (4) | HP 4 (134) | AC 39; T 20; FF 33; +4 dodge bonus to AC vs. Koth | CMD 47 | F +14 R +17 W +17; +2 vs. Enchantments | Init +12 | Perc +24; Darkvision 60' | Speed 70 ft | Ki Pool: 10 (13) | Active Conditions: Barkskin; Shaken; Immune to Electricity and Poison, Resist 10 Acid, Cold, Fire
Sorry, all of this was caused by my lack of darkvision. I need to correct that when we get paid from the module.
Rand attempts to punch through over 15 feet or hard giant beetle shell and other associated exoskeleton layers; the material is harder than adamantine and each blow ring out with deafening clangor within the canyon floor... the sound transmitted perhaps for up to a mile in each direction. Amazingly a few cracks begin to spread out from the epicenter of his blows, but he soon realizes that this would be long, endurance training work that is best attempted against softer material, like oak trees or granite.
Tothek and Teriq take down the fiendish dire tiger with their arrows. The horse-sized smilodon disappears in a puff of sulfuric smoke.
Lilly re-enters the mouth carefully, especially as she crosses over the razor sharp teeth and she dispels the magical fog cloud that surrounds the back of the beetle's stomach.
Favian advances, finally leaving the black tentacles behind, and shines some light on things: at the back of the demon beetle’s stomach you see, a few feet behind the Worm That Walks... a chitinous scythe embedded into a mound of squirming, worm-infested tumorous growths!
acid dmg Favian & Lilly:2d6 ⇒ (4, 5) = 9
Favian and Lilly:
Perception check please
Suddenly swarms of wasps materialize around Favian and Lilly, filling the insides of the dead beetle with sickening buzzing!
swarm damage:3d6 ⇒ (6, 6, 4) = 16Favian, Lilly: Two Fort saves each please
NOTE: acid pool depth: 5-feet (worm that walks head just sticking out of acid pool); mound of tumors: sticks out 5-feet above acid pool surface; stomach ceiling: 10-foot above acid pool surface; normal light within 20' of Favian; dim light in lower portion of stomach as indicated on map.
Within swarm: distraction in effect - Spellcasting or concentrating on spells within the area of a swarm requires a caster level check (DC 20 + spell level). Using skills that involve patience and concentration requires a DC 20 Will save.
Also, due to ongoing dmg, Favian and Lily have a choice of either one concentration check with DC 22 + spell level, or two checks: DC 14 + spell level and DC 18 + spell level.
”Rand” | Male LG Medium Human Unchained Monk 13 | Mythic Power Uses: 4 (4) | HP 4 (134) | AC 39; T 20; FF 33; +4 dodge bonus to AC vs. Koth | CMD 47 | F +14 R +17 W +17; +2 vs. Enchantments | Init +12 | Perc +24; Darkvision 60' | Speed 70 ft | Ki Pool: 10 (13) | Active Conditions: Barkskin; Shaken; Immune to Electricity and Poison, Resist 10 Acid, Cold, Fire
Sighing, Rand made his way back inside the dead beetle's mouth and down it's gullet as far as he could go.
Taking the bonus to defense and offense from BoF. Going to double move to get into melee with, ideally, the worm that walks. If it takes less than 70' of movement, I'll attack with a stunning Fist. If not, disregard.
Attack Roll w/Stunning Fist and BoF:1d20 + 24 ⇒ (18) + 24 = 42 Damage Roll:2d8 + 9 ⇒ (2, 8) + 9 = 19DC 23 Fort Save or be fatigued.
@Rand: 90-feet of movement brings you to the location on the map (15 feet west of Teriq); you have 50 feet left in your second move action (I didn't want to assume where you want to go from there so please move your pawn; with 50 feet you're 5 feet short of the Worm That Walks according to my calculations; you sure you want to go into the acid pool?)
@Tothek: the swarm resists your spell.
