Nasir picks up his sword from the ground and flies into melee range with the fiend.
The hell-maggot reaches out with its mouth and grabs at Nasir as he comes within 10ft!
HIT
FAIL
ROUND TWO
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GRIMSLAKE: 5ft steps away; ray of exhaustion on Frantino; AoO on Nasir **ENTANGLED**
Ezranadir: moves; casts fly on Nasir
Doc Hatfield: guidance on Nasir
Roscoe:
Nasir: picks up sword; flies into melee range; suffers AoO
Ayita:
Frantino: saves vs. ray exhaustion; five foots; swings, hits!
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -11hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino || **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
ROUND TWO
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GRIMSLAKE: 5ft steps away; ray of exhaustion on Frantino; AoO on Nasir **ENTANGLED**
Ezranadir: moves; casts fly on Nasir
Doc Hatfield: guidance on Nasir
Roscoe: DELAY
Nasir: picks up sword; flies into melee range; suffers AoO
Ayita: DELAY
Frantino: saves vs. ray exhaustion; five foots; swings, hits!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -11hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino || **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
ROUND THREE
The grimslake fires its ray again, straight into Frantino!
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.
ROUND THREE
The grimslake fires its ray again, straight into Frantino!
@NASIR @FRANTINO - Attacks of opportunities?
ROUND THREE
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GRIMSLAKE: ray of exhaustion on Frantino**ENTANGLED**
Ezranadir:
Doc Hatfield:
Roscoe:
Nasir:
Ayita:
Frantino:
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -11hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino || **EXHAUSTED** –6 Strength and Dexterity
With the creature flying out of melee range, Roscoe draws his light crossbow and fires a bolt toward it.
With the creature flying out of melee range, Roscoe draws his light crossbow and fires a bolt toward it.
[dice=light crossbow]1d20+8+4;1d6+5
Shall we call this your Round Two action? Which means you should state another action for Round Three.
With the creature flying out of melee range, Roscoe draws his light crossbow and fires a bolt toward it.
[dice=light crossbow]1d20+8+4;1d6+5
HIT!
AoO? Yes, please!
,
Frantino was clearly too busy dodging the ray to swing accurately.
Frantino will try to strike back, although Fury has suddenly gotten very heavy.
,
"More than likely this wand is useless against this thing and I don't have many non-fiery spells." He takes a 5' step back putting the wand away for now.
He casts a Force Missile at the thing.
HIT! of course.
• Free Action: "That thing sure is ornery."
• Non-Action: 5-foot-step
• Move Equivalent Action: Draw club
• Standard Action: Throw club at hostile creature: [dice=attack]1d20+3, [dice=damage]1d6
HIT! Doc, bringin' the pain!
AoO? Yes, please!
[dice=AoO +2 halberd w/ PA]1d20 + 9 - 1, [dice=damage]1d10 + 11 - 1
Frantino was clearly too busy dodging the ray to swing accurately.
Frantino will try to strike back, although Fury has suddenly gotten very heavy.
[dice=+2 halberd w/ PA]1d20 + 9 - 3, [dice=damage]1d10 + 11 - 3
A miss and a HIT!
ROUND THREE
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GRIMSLAKE: ray of exhaustion on Frantino**ENTANGLED**
Ezranadir: force missile! HIT!
Doc Hatfield: throws his club, HIT!
Roscoe:
Nasir:
Ayita: moves; casts guidance on herself
Frantino: misses AoO; swings, HIT!
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -11hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino || **EXHAUSTED** –6 Strength and Dexterity
ROUND THREE
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GRIMSLAKE: ray of exhaustion on Frantino**ENTANGLED**
Ezranadir: force missile! HIT!
Doc Hatfield: throws his club, HIT!
Roscoe: DELAY
Nasir: DELAY
Ayita: moves; casts guidance on herself
Frantino: misses AoO; swings, HIT!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -11hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino || **EXHAUSTED** –6 Strength and Dexterity
ROUND FOUR
The hell-maggot reaches out with its mouth and grabs at Nasir!
HIT
ROUND FOUR
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GRIMSLAKE: bites NASIR, grabs, constricts, drops **ENTANGLED**
Ezranadir:
Doc Hatfield:
Roscoe:
Nasir:
Ayita:
Frantino:
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -11-24=-35hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino || **EXHAUSTED** –6 Strength and Dexterity
ROUND FOUR
The hell-maggot reaches out with its mouth and grabs at Nasir!
[dice=@NASIR bite+GRAB]1d20+12-2 HIT [dice=dmg]2d6+7
[dice=@NASIR flatfooted grab CMD20]1d20+18-2 [dice=Constrict dmg]1d6+6
How does he hit on a Nat 1?
How does he hit on a Nat 1?ROUND FOUR
The hell-maggot reaches out with its mouth and grabs at Nasir!
[dice=@NASIR bite+GRAB]1d20+12-2 HIT [dice=dmg]2d6+7
[dice=@NASIR flatfooted grab CMD20]1d20+18-2 [dice=Constrict dmg]1d6+6
OMG! That’s so weird. It wasn’t a nat 1 when I previewed the post. Oh well. Guess my hit got eaten by the Paizo BB Gods.
ROUND FOUR
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GRIMSLAKE: bites NASIR, MISS! **ENTANGLED**
Ezranadir:
Doc Hatfield:
Roscoe:
Nasir:
Ayita:
Frantino:
may go!
STATUS
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Ezranadir||
Roscoe ||
Nasir || -11hp **FATIGUED** –2 Strength and Dexterity
Doc || **POISONED** -1 Wisdom
Ayita || **CURSED!** -4 to everything but damage
Yazhi ||
Frantino || **EXHAUSTED** –6 Strength and Dexterity
With the fiend in his face, Nasir slashes quickly at it twice with his sword.
The thing flops to the ground, spurting gore from multiple wounds… and then it shimmers and vanishes, returning to whence it came.
The dice roller is acting a bit weird but could be randomness.
Yeah. It ate a roll by me and then TWO crits. But that’s just randomness. Crits had to come up sooner or later!
Exhaustion and fatigue from the thing’s ray immediately dissipate. Nasir and Frantino both feel full of energy!
Roscoe watches the thing crash to the ground.
"Nice. I'm guessing we'll see more of its ilk around here," he says.
The halfling moves to the exit on the other side of the circular chamber and peers through.
Nasir flies back down to the ground and flicks the gore from his sword before sheathing it.
"Shu hayda! What was zat zing and where did it go?"
He turns to Ezranadir.
"Shukra, Ezranadir. Za flying was most helpful. Wiz all of za flying enemies we have run into, maybe I should have also chosen za flying carpet like Ayita!"
Nasir chuckles to himself has he surveys the area and the rest of the group.
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"Shu hayda! What was zat zing and where did it go?"
"I imagine it went back to whatever plane from whence it was summoned."
He watches as Roscoe moves to the exit and calls after him. "Best be checking for traps before going any further there, Roscoe."
Responding to Nasir, "Perhaps, Winged Boots would be better suited. You would not have to command or steer it."
"I am almost exhausted on my spell repertoire. I have a mixture of low to mid level of less than 5 remaining. Definitely cannot perform that Fly spell again."
Roscoe watches the thing crash to the ground.
"Nice. I'm guessing we'll see more of its ilk around here," he says.
The halfling moves to the exit on the other side of the circular chamber and peers through.
[dice=perception]1d20+11
The pillar to the southwest of the room looks similar to the previous pillars which opened upon command. However, without a way to ascertain if it is magical, you don't really know if it is another door.
Yes, another doorway into my demesne! Say my name! SAY MY NAME! says the liquid voice inside Roscoe's head.
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Oh, I have this thing, I keep forgetting about it.
Scrawled in common on a beat-up wand, the party can see Ayita's handwriting - "majik armor" - with 13 little hatch marks on it. Maybe it has 37 left.
Ter glares at her; she'd told Ter that the falcon would get protected really well every day or so by the magic stick.
I can still cast a couple of cure lights, anyone need that? And cantrips, anyone need water?
Ter sighs.
Frantino is grateful he won't have to wait until tomorrow to not feel so tired. He will use his new investigator skills to search around with detect magic recast in order to see if there are any additional traps, or when this trap might reset. "Ayita, can you tell if this trap will reset, and if so how quickly?" He'll also closely examine the next pillar.
The combined efforts of the very perceptive Ayita, Ter and Frantino, find an ancient inscribed summoning circle that is designed to call three creatures from the Lower Planes. Some of the arcane calligraphy is out of date with current extraplanar geography, thus resulting in its earlier malfunctioning.
The trap, damaged as it is, will still reset in 24hours.
The pillar that Frantino examines is very similar to the others (nearly identical). He supposes it too could be opened by somebody using the right vocal inflections and Thassilonian pronunciation. He assumes it can be done by somebody used to activating arcane objects, especially those items that a person couldn’t normally use.
Roscoe holds up a hand, the shreds of what remain of his willpower keeping him from speaking the password.
"Something tells me someone else should activate this next one. I think these archmage spirits are pretty strong. But you've seen how I've done it, right?" he asks.
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"Oh, I have this thing, I keep forgetting about it."
"Ayita, if you are using that then keep it for Ter's benefit. I was mainly asking in regards to offensive type wands."
"Something tells me someone else should activate this next one."
Before we hastily activate the next pillar, let us make sure everyone is healed, rested and ready to proceed. I know all of you have interest in Thassilonian lore but who else here can speak Thassilonian other than Roscoe? I myself can and can activate arcane objects being a wizard and such. We should also decide on a course of action on how to proceed other than just boldly entering more rooms. I take it from her discovery, Ayita is the trapfinder of the group."
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I've got some skill with it, yes, though not nearly so much as my cousins. Most of us speak Thassilonian, we had a study group going back in town, at Blackberry's... I don't do arcane magic, but hunter magic, which is similar to druidic but mostly practical stuff.
Ter perks up at the mention of her favorite treat. A dried blackberry appears for her from Ayita's pouch.
"I believe that all of us except Doc can speak Thassilonian. Because I am no longer exhausted from the creature's enfeebling ray I am fully prepared to move on, but Nasir still has some wounds we should heal first. These arcane summoning runes will call forth another creature in a day and I'd rather we weren't here when they reset."
"I have a wide range of skills at my disposal, but others in the party can perform some of them far better than I. For example, you often demonstrate greater depth in many areas of knowledge. Ayita is better at finding and disabling traps, but her lessons have enabled me to be an adequate back-up. Roscoe and I are both pretty effective at tricking magic items into performing. Once we are ready, I can speak the Thassilonian phrase to open this next door, hopefully we'll find a different path to go down so we can find the old runewell and disable the portal to the Cove before our competition makes things worse."
Frantino will wait for Nasir to be healed and will then speak the Thassilonian phrase.
"Shukra, Gregory C. Hatfield. Sarenrae's blessings upon you, my friend. Now let us see what awaits us zru zis next door..."
Nasir readies his sword and shield and stands next to the door that Frantino will open.
When everyone is ready, Frantino will speak in Thassilonian, "Open for the glory of Alaznist!"
Roscoe feels a tingle down his spine as Frantino speaks the words of passage.
"Grrr--let's do this!" he says angrily.
The stone pillar descends into the ground, revealing a half-moon-shaped chamber. This marble-floored rooms is a rich blue hue, though ancient bloodstains discolor much of it. The walls are carved with bas-reliefs depicting naked human figures slitting their own throats, blissful smiles on their faces. Rusty iron manacles hang from chains along the walls and an ancient skeleton lies slumped to the south, a curved sword blade lodged in its ribs as if the long-dead person had plunged the blade into their own chest.
At the same time, the pillar into the trapped rooms rises up, sealing the room.
Ezranadir is unsure if he should leap through the opening as the pillar, the massive, inexorable, murderously powerful pillar, closes.
Ezranadir watches as the pillar closes sealing him off from the group. He thinks to himself, "I'm a Wizard not a Gymnast!" As it closes, he waits a minute and speaks in the same tone in Thassilonian as Frantino, "Open for the glory of Alaznist!"
The pillar slowly descends into the ground, revealing the middle room with a Roscoe, Nasir, Ayita, Doc and Frantino.