Roscoe turns back to Frantino.
"Yeah--let's see if we can keep going. Something is drawing me forward--this place is majestic."
He steps closer to the pillar, then repeats the same phrase that worked before, once again in alta voce.
Roscoe turns back to Frantino.
"Yeah--let's see if we can keep going. Something is drawing me forward--this place is majestic."
He steps closer to the pillar, then repeats the same phrase that worked before, once again in alta voce.
Roscoe says, "OPEN FOR THE GLORY OF ALAZNIST!" and the pillar lowers into the floor, revealing an opening into another room.
Mmmmm, yessss. Say my name again, Roscoe Elring. Say it. the voice whispers in his mind. Roscoe shudders at the syrupy seduction of the woman's voice in his head. But... he's just not sure if the shudder is one of pleasure... or of horror. His Sihedron medallion vibrates eagerly on his chest, emitting an uncomfortable heat.
When a spirit gains at least 3 points of influence over the medium, the dual impulses housed within the same body cause the medium to meld with his spirit’s consciousness. The resulting muddled sense of self and struggle for control causes the medium to take a –2 penalty on initiative checks as well as a specific additional penalty listed in each spirit’s entry. However, the spirit’s mental presence grants the medium a +4 bonus against possession effects and a +2 bonus on saving throws against mind-affecting effects that are not related to possession.
Runelord of Wrath Influence Penalty: You are quick to violence and prefer a weapon to spells or contemplation. You take a penalty equal to your spirit bonus on Intelligence checks and Intelligence-based skill checks, and to your caster level (to a minimum of caster level 0); as usual, a reduced caster level may render you unable to cast spells. You can’t benefit from effects that increase your caster level.
While the team is talking, the first pillar slowly rises up and reseals the room... with you in it.
The floor of this circular room is stained dark red in places, while the walls are decorated with collapsed weapon racks and ruined shelves.
There is another pillar on the far edge of the room.
Roscoe can feel the power growing in him. His thoughts are his own--but he can feel them tainted by something else.
You want me to do your bidding--but if you want that, you're gonna have to share more of your power with me. Share your secrets! I'm not your slave! Share with me the secrets of Thassilon--of the archmages!
Nasir pulls out a sunrod and strikes it on the ground to light it up. He holds it in his left shield hand and draws his sword as well. He enters the room with the group.
While the team is talking, the first pillar slowly rises up and reseals the room... with you in it.
Ooops. Wrong game. I think most of you dont' have night vision. nly Frantino and Ezranadir have low-light. Others are human or halfling wiht no night vision of any sort. AM I wrong?
As soon as Nasir enters the room, he feels an instantaneous burst of cold and a horrific silent scream pierces his (and everybody's) brain. It is the sound of reality tearing asunder, the wall between planes rupturing and spitting forth one of its inhabitants!
In the center of the room, at the epicenter of the planar tear, a maggotlike creature with a long tail covered in frightening hooked suckers appears.
The grimslake opens its hideous maw and from its tongue fires a weird yellowish ray of corruption.
HIT!
A character that is already fatigued instead becomes exhausted.
This spell has no effect on a creature that is already exhausted. Unlike normal exhaustion or fatigue, the effect ends as soon as the spell’s duration expires.
Exhausted
An exhausted character moves at half speed, cannot run or charge, and takes a –6 penalty to Strength and Dexterity. After 1 hour of complete rest, an exhausted character becomes fatigued. A fatigued character becomes exhausted by doing something else that would normally cause fatigue.
Fatigued
A fatigued character can neither run nor charge and takes a –2 penalty to Strength and Dexterity. Doing anything that would normally cause fatigue causes the fatigued character to become exhausted. After 8 hours of complete rest, fatigued characters are no longer fatigued.
Sorted Initiative SURPRISE ROUND
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GRIMSLAKE: hits Nasir with a Ray of Exhaustion DC13
Ezranadir:
Doc Hatfield:
Roscoe:
Nasir: need a Fort save DC13
Ayita:
Frantino:
STATUS
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Ezranadir|| )
Roscoe ||
Nasir ||
Doc || **POISONED -1 Wisdom**
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino ||
ROUND ONE
The hell-maggot reaches out with its mouth and grabs at Nasir!
HIT
And then the maggot-y thing climbs up the wall until it is 15ft in the air.
ROUND ONE
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GRIMSLAKE: bites Nasir, grabs him, marrow drains him, releases him and crawls up the wall.
Ezranadir:
Doc Hatfield:
Roscoe:
Nasir: need a Fort save DC13 Need a Fort DC18
Ayita:
Frantino:
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir|| )
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -20hp
Doc || **POISONED -1 Wisdom**
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino ||
It has been longer than 10+ minutes.
Knowledge (dungeoneering) for information.
Nasir will delay his actions until Ezrandir goes as he expects that there will be a large fireball incoming...
ROUND ONE
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GRIMSLAKE: bites Nasir, grabs him, marrow drains him, releases him and crawls up the wall.
Ezranadir:
Doc Hatfield:
Roscoe:
Nasir: makes his saves; DELAY
Ayita:
Frantino:
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -20hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino ||
Ezranadir tries to recall if he has heard/read anything about this creature. If he recalls any info, he relates it to the group.
[dice=Knowledge-Dungeoneering]1d20+12
ROUND ONE
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GRIMSLAKE: bites Nasir, grabs him, marrow drains him, releases him and crawls up the wall.
Ezranadir: knowledge recall and fireball!
Doc Hatfield:
Roscoe:
Nasir: makes his saves; DELAY
Ayita:
Frantino:
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -20hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino ||
Nasir feels the wave of fatigue wash over him just before he is bitten by the maggot-y thing. He grits his teeth and leverages all of his years of intense training to overcome the pain and exhaustion afflicting him. As the flash of heat from the fireball washes over him, he steps toward the singed abomination and swings his sword.
Defensive Abilities
Slashing Scales (Ex)The scales running in a line down a grimslake’s back have razor-sharp ridges and spines, and the creature is adept at lashing at attackers with these scales. Any creature that attacks a grimslake with a natural weapon, unarmed strike, or light weapon must succeed at a DC 15 Reflex save or take 1d4 points of slashing damage. The save DC is Dexterity-based.
Nasir feels the wave of fatigue wash over him just before he is bitten by the maggot-y thing. He grits his teeth and leverages all of his years of intense training to overcome the pain and exhaustion afflicting him. As the flash of heat from the fireball washes over him, he steps toward the singed abomination and swings his sword.
And then the maggot-y thing climbs up the wall until it is 15ft in the air.
See post quoted above. Does Nasir have a reach weapon?
With the room completely dark, Roscoe starts with casting a light spell on his belt buckle.
"What's going on in there!?" he yells.
Once he can see, he enters the room to engage what he sees.
Frantino will move into the room and try to figure out what it is.
He'll move so that he is by Nasir, then he'll draw and drink his second (and final) extract of long arms.
ROUND ONE
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GRIMSLAKE: bites Nasir, grabs him, marrow drains him, releases him and crawls up the wall.
Ezranadir: knowledge recall and fireball!
Doc Hatfield:
Roscoe: casts light and moves into room
Nasir: makes his saves; DELAY
Ayita:
Frantino: knowledge recall; move; drink long arms extract
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -20hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino ||
Ceiling.
[dice=Knowledge Dungeoneering]1d20 + 7 + 1d6
It's a grimslake, an aberration from the Abyss. The grublike grimslake is commonly found on Abyssal battlefields, where it crawls among the bodies, sucking away marrow and other vital tissues found within the dead. Of course, when fresh carcasses aren’t available, grimslakes eagerly to turn to living victims—they take particular delight in the sound of screams as they feed.
Special attacks: constrict (1d6+6), marrow drain, penetrating jaws (ignores cold iron and silver DR).
Energy resistances: acid 10, fire 10
[RETCON]
Nasir feels the wave of fatigue wash over him just before he is bitten by the maggot-y thing. He grits his teeth and leverages all of his years of intense training to overcome the pain and exhaustion afflicting him. As the flash of heat from the fireball washes over him, he realizes that this creature is out of his reach.
Time to get creative again. By Sarenrae, I really need to learn to fly!
Nasir drops his sword, reaches into his pouch to grab a tanglefoot bag, and chucks it at the fiend.
Nasir drops his sword, reaches into his pouch to grab a tanglefoot bag, and chucks it at the fiend.
Not stuck to the ceiling.
rounds.
ROUND ONE
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GRIMSLAKE: bites Nasir, grabs him, marrow drains him, releases him and crawls up the wall. **ENTANGLED**
Ezranadir: knowledge recall and fireball!
Doc Hatfield:
Roscoe: casts light and moves into room
Nasir: makes his saves; throws tanglefoot bag, hit!
Ayita:
Frantino: knowledge recall; move; drink long arms extract
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -20hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino ||
Ayita gets out her magic carpet and steps onto it, drawing Social Control. She directs Yazhi to attack the monster (Yazhi would need to be able to reach it).
I assume "attack" means Yazhi will close with the thing.
ROUND ONE
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GRIMSLAKE: bites Nasir, grabs him, marrow drains him, releases him and crawls up the wall. **ENTANGLED**
Ezranadir: knowledge recall and fireball!
Doc Hatfield: casts; moves; CMWs Nasir
Roscoe: casts light and moves into room
Nasir: makes his saves; throws tanglefoot bag, hit!
Ayita: draws carpet; steps onto it; draws weapon
Frantino: knowledge recall; move; drink long arms extract
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -20+22=FULL hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino ||
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Modifying that, if I can, since it takes a standard action to activate Yazhi's Spirit's Gift - that will last 5 minutes. Also, in Friday's post I already wrote that she got the carpet out.
Ayita activates the Spirit's gift on Yazhi (DR5/adamantine), then takes a step onto the carpet, drawing Social Control.
The grimslake moves backwards from Frantino and opens its maw. Another ray of wan energy blasts out, this time at the half-elf.
A character that is already fatigued instead becomes exhausted.
This spell has no effect on a creature that is already exhausted. Unlike normal exhaustion or fatigue, the effect ends as soon as the spell’s duration expires.
An exhausted character moves at half speed, cannot run or charge, and takes a –6 penalty to Strength and Dexterity. After 1 hour of complete rest, an exhausted character becomes fatigued. A fatigued character becomes exhausted by doing something else that would normally cause fatigue.
Fatigued
A fatigued character can neither run nor charge and takes a –2 penalty to Strength and Dexterity. Doing anything that would normally cause fatigue causes the fatigued character to become exhausted. After 8 hours of complete rest, fatigued characters are no longer fatigued.
ROUND TWO
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GRIMSLAKE: 5ft steps away; ray of exhaustion on Frantino **ENTANGLED**
Ezranadir: moves; casts fly on Nasir
Doc Hatfield:
Roscoe:
Nasir:
Ayita:
Frantino:
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -20+22=FULL hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino ||
Modifying that, if I can, since it takes a standard action to activate Yazhi's Spirit's Gift - that will last 5 minutes. Also, in Friday's post I already wrote that she got the carpet out.
Ayita activates the Spirit's gift on Yazhi (DR5/adamantine), then takes a step onto the carpet, drawing Social Control.
Gotcha.
Frantino grunts as the ray hits him, but he resists the worst of the effect.
He'll then step over and reach out to attack with Fury, but the fatigue affects his accuracy and power. Hopefully the creature's entanglement will offset this penalty.
,
Frantino will make sure everyone is aware that the grimslake is resistant to fire and acid.
Fireball Fire Dmg: 5d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 4, 4, 5) = 19
He'll then step over and reach out to attack with Fury, but the fatigue affects his accuracy and power. Hopefully the creature's entanglement will offset this penalty.
+2 halberd w/ PA: 1d20 + 9 - 1 ⇒ (11) + 9 - 1 = 19, damage: 1d10 + 11 - 1 ⇒ (5) + 11 - 1 = 15
HIT!
ROUND TWO
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GRIMSLAKE: 5ft steps away; ray of exhaustion on Frantino **ENTANGLED**
Ezranadir: moves; casts fly on Nasir
Doc Hatfield:
Roscoe:
Nasir:
Ayita:
Frantino: saves vs. ray exhaustion; five foots; swings, hits!
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -20+22=FULL hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino || **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
As the grimslake fires its ray of exhaustion at Frantino, the half-elf (standing in the center of the room) feels a brief flicker of cold. The entire team can hear a brief shriek, similar to earlier, in their heads. It fizzles out quickly, though.
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Ezranadir winces and shakes his head upon hearing the shriek.
"I believe we triggered that shriek which was an arcane trap trying to summon something more. I think the age has degraded it causing it to only summon this one Grimslake. We should be more careful and checking for traps from here on out."
ROUND TWO
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GRIMSLAKE: 5ft steps away; ray of exhaustion on Frantino **ENTANGLED**
Ezranadir: moves; casts fly on Nasir
Doc Hatfield: guidance on Nasir
Roscoe:
Nasir:
Ayita:
Frantino: saves vs. ray exhaustion; five foots; swings, hits!
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -20+22=FULL hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino || **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity