[SFS - PbP Gameday IX] 1-11 In Pursuit of the Scoured Past - GM bigboom (Inactive)

Game Master bigboom

Immature Xenolash: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
Damage (Slashing & Acid): 2d4 + 8 ⇒ (1, 2) + 8 = 11 +Entangle (DC 14 Acrobatics/DC 19 Break)

Reflex: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12

Oddman calls his trident back and throws it again.

Cold Iron Trident vs. KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
Piercing damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
Fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

And now 1 point of damage away from minimum >.<

Botting Hermena and Ceolor based upon their attacks in previous combat.

Hermena attacks with her rifle!
Ranged Attack - AG Assault Rifle: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

And Ceolor does his mystical solar flare attack!!
Solar Flare vs EAC: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 8 + 2 = 27
Photon Aligned, d4+5 Cold, d2 Electric damage: 1d4 + 5 + 1d2 ⇒ (4) + 5 + (2) = 11

Oops, I made a mistake in attributing damage to Ceolor when it should have been Altorin. Altorin, thanks for catching that!! The previous list should be the following:

Oddman (-2SP)
purple hellknight
Oda (-2SP)
Hermena (-6SP, Burning - Ref DC11 or other actions to end condition)
Ceolor
Altorin (-8SP, Burning - Ref DC13 or other actions to end condition)

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Oda runs up and scares the bejeezus out of the remaining hellknight!

Hermena fires away at the hellknight, hitting for 13 points of damage!!
Ref save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
Hermena also manages to put out the flames that was burning her clothes!

Ceolor attacks as well, hitting for 11 points of damage!!

Altorin lashes out but just misses!!!

Oddman throws his trident again and hits for 11 points of damage!!

The hellknight brings a heavy flamethrower to bear and prepares to fire on Oda and Altorin!
Immature Xenolash, AOO: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23
Damage (Slashing & Acid): 2d4 + 8 ⇒ (3, 2) + 8 = 13
+Entangle (DC 14 Acrobatics/DC 19 Break)

But just before the hellknight can pull the trigger, Altorin gets another whip in and hits this time, sending the hellknight down to the ground unconscious!!

burn fire damage, Altorin: 1d4 ⇒ 4
Altorin takes 4 more points of fire damage from the burning flames and is then able to put out the fire!

Final status:
Oddman (-2SP)
Oda (-2SP)
Hermena (-6SP)
Ceolor
Altorin (-12SP)

Combat Concluded!!!

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As you are now out of combat, I've unmasked the rest of the map. You're standing in a control room overlooking the library that is 10 feet below you.

From this control room, you have access to a narrow hallway that circles the entire tower. In the northeast, southeast, and southwest corners of the tower, steep stairs descend 10 feet to the burning library. The circular stairs in the corners of the tower lead up and down to other floors (which leads you away from the burning library, so are not relevant to this scenario).

With the battle now over, you look through the glass windows at the library below you. Fire and smoke fill this immense room. A long and mazelike trench is carved into the floor of the room, brimming with gray mist. Shelves line the walls of the trench, filled with rows of ancient parchments and tomes. The trench forms into a rough circle in the room’s center, creating a small island with three bookshelves standing atop it. The twenty-foot-high ceiling of the room mounts large spray nozzles, each attached to a canister of blue foam.

The trench contains a magical gray mist and is 5 feet deep. Although not thick enough to provide concealment, the mist in the trench has a strange languid quality to it, causing the fire there to move with hypnotic grace.

Piles of burning books other texts are scattered throughout the room, creating fire hazards (that are marked on the map with flames). It looks like moving through those fires will be quite hazardous!

In the room, you see Loomarch pulling books off the shelves on the island and feeding them into his burning maw, while the fanatics have fanned out into the trench and are burning books there. A couple of hellish dog creatures are also in the room, pulling books off the shelves and ripping them apart with their jaws.

I find it amusing that they've even got dogs trained to participate in the book burning!! ha! Images of the hounds unmasked. I found two versions...so of course I opted for the fun one!

Here in the control room, you find the controls for the cryo-nozzles but the entire system appears to be deactivated!

The hellknights down in the library have not yet noticed that you've taken over the control room. So you can take the outer hallway and positions yourselves at whichever set of stairs (NE, SE or SW) you like before they'll notice your presence and combat begins.

Unfortunately, you won't have time for a 10 min rest because, well, books are burning.

Please go ahead and try to reactivate the cryo-nozzles, execute any desired healing, take any other actions you like (given the short amount of time you have available due to books burning), then decide your positions before we hop into combat!!

Mysticism: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29

Oddman reactivates the cryo-nozzles system, aiming the closest one straight at Loomarch, leaving it ready to fire (or freeze, in this case). Then he starts moving to the northeast corridor. I’m assuming that now that it’s activated, anyone can control the nozzles

I volunteer to take the northeast route and go fight the regular hellknights and hotdogs, since Loomarch will probably be immune to my little fire boost augment. Someone should stay in the control room though, to put down the fires and help the rest of the party with the nozzles, since they seem to always hit

If possible, Oddman will also cast Pyre Wreath on himself.

Agreed on taking out the lesser threats first and to minimize the damage they are doing. Not sure who wants to man the cryo turret but I can do it if neccesary, or Oda if she is conflicted on fighting other Hellknights directly.

Altoring waits to see if someone else wants to take control of the turret, otherwise he heads downstairs with Oddman.

Oda feels that there was an agreement and the hellknights have broken it.

Ceolor smiles braodly as he works his way through the maze. "This really will be a great setting or plot device to use in a story sometime!"

He seems out of it for the rest of the time though, barely commenting on the hellknights nor even paying much attention during the short skirmish, shooting one handed and absentmindedly. Thank you for the bot! I forgot to update this game when I sat down at the computer yesterday! whoops.

He finally gets his notes and experiences in an organized fashion and finally perks up and notices his surroundings. "Wait the hellknights are BURNING things? OOOOHHH, that urks me, but i'm not sure if I should be more mad at the hellknights for burning things or the curators for their unwillingness to keep back ups!"

He looks over the controls and then into the room. "I am a good shot wiht most things. If the coolers need skill then I can man them, or I could get into the middle of it and shoot away. Either way works for me. My most damaging shots with my 'rifle' are fire based though and I'm not sure how helpful MORE flames would be here..."

"That works for me. I am a terrible shot...can't even control this guy half the time! Plus I want to get down there and hear what they have to say!" Altorin thanks Ceolor for taking the controls and prepares to breach in the hallway below.

I definitely prefer to be in the group below, just in case I need to heal anyone and I do a bit better in the thick of it.

Pyre Wreath is fine, Oddman. Anyone else want to buff up or heal before entering combat?

Okay, Altorin and Oddman are in place to attack from the NE corner.

Ceolor might man the cryo-nozzle controls. No, the nozzles do not require skill to shoot. Just once per round, the person controlling them will have to indicate a single 40 foot line from one of the three nozzles. The effect areas key on the left side of the map includes templates for 30 foot lines, so the nozzle's 40 foot line would be similar to the template, but with two more squares to be 40 feet.

Where would Hermena and Oda like to be positioned for the start of combat?

Oda moves up in support of the group.

Hermena smirks down at the oblivious hellknights as she recharges her purple forcefield. "Nothing like a bit of high ground to make your entrance with a bang. If you can pull them towards the northeast corner I'll riddle them with bullets from the south."

Hermena can't heal SP, so she's going wait until her forcefield recovers (only 2 rounds, so it should be full by the time she gets in position) then set up at the SE corner with her rifle. If we're 10 feet above the center room, do the hellknights get any cover?

From Hermena's current vantage point, she'll have LOS on the hot dogs...errr hellhounds and on red & purple. Loomarch is on the other side of a tall bookshelf, so currently has total cover.

However, if red or purple moves to have the edge of the trench in between them and you, then standing down in that trench provides them improved cover. I've placed the letters "EX" in a couple spots to serve as examples of spots where the NPCs would have improved cover from you.

Alrighty, let's get the main event started!!!

Combat Initiated!!!

I'm going to say that Ceolor gets the drop on the bad guys and can activate the cryo-nozzle one time before round 1 begins. So this round, Ceolor, you can do two 40 foot lines of cryo-freezing. Please draw a line or otherwise indicate where you'd like to freeze!

Initiative, Oddman: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20
Initiative, Oda: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16
Initiative, Hermena: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12
Initiative, Ceolor: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Initiative, Altorin: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Initiative, hellknights: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13
Initiative, hot dogs: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
Initiative, Loomarch: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14
For PBP simplicity, I'm going to delay the hot dogs to after Ceolor. The results in all the NPCs acting in one block.

Round 1
The following characters in bold may take their turn:

Oddman (-2SP, Pyre Wreath 3/3)
Altorin (-12SP)
Oda (-2SP)
Ceolor (two cryo-freeze line attacks this round)
red hot dog
purple hot dog
Loomarch
red hellknight
purple hellknight
Hermena (-1SP)

Oda advances 20 feet, swings her light reaction cannon up and fires at the Blue knight.

Light Reaction Cannon: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11 Damage: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

Oddman moves into the room and throws his trident at purple hellknight.

Cold Iron Trident vs. KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
Piercing damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

Altorin rushes into the room and to the edge of a trench before sending a blast of mental energy towards the hellknight in purple.

"Let's be honest with each other. I never liked you!"

Damage (DC 14 Will Halves): 2d10 ⇒ (7, 9) = 16

Ceolor double checks everyone is in place before slightly moving the nozzle across the room from them and then uses ICE BEAM fires the freezing ray hoping it will put out the fire. He then immediately turns on the controls for the opposite nozzle and takes aim directly south, hoping to hit the hell knight there and the fires as well.

Oddman's trident strikes purple with pinpoint accuracy, inflicting 10 points of damage!!!

Will DC14: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Altorin hurts purple's feelings but doesn't devastate purple. Still though, 8 points worth of hurt feelings is imparted!

I assume Oda meant purple rather than blue?
Oda fires a round from her impressively large weapon but this hot misses purple!!

Ceolor fires off the cryo coolant and silently words 'Pew! Pew!' to himself while doing so!
Cold Damage: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 1, 2) = 7
Ref DC16: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Where the coolant hits burning fires, the fires are instantly snuffed out! Red is also hit by the icy beam for 3 points of damage!!!
Love the ice beam gifs!!!

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Oh wait a minute!! I misread the NPCs for this battle. At this tier, there actually are no hellhounds. Darnit, I wanted them in not so much to attack you guys but because I really wanted to use those hot dog tokens! And I hadn't mentioned it yet but those dogs have integrated shoulder mounted machine guns!!!! So those cute little weiner dogs are firing off torrents of machine gun fire at you guys...how amusing an image is that?!?! Ah well... hot dog hellhounds removed from the map. Apologies for that!!!

Loomarch, seeing the cryo-nozzles activate, looks up at the control room and sees Ceolor up there, looking back down straight at Loomarch. Loomarch moves towards the control room, pulling out a grenade and lobs it towards the control room!!!
Grenade: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (16) + 15 = 31

Ceolor being in the control room is shielded from the grenade blast, but as the party noted before, the damage to the control room has resulted in the floor being unstable. Loomarch's grenade blast causes the control room floor to collapse, destroying the cryo-nozzle controls and Ceolor falls down from the control room to the floor of the burning library!
Falling bludgeoning damage: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 2) = 4
Reflex DC16: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
Ceolor takes 2 points of damage from the fall!!
Ceolor, you're now located in the same room as Loomarch, at the same height level.

Red moves up gaining some cover from his position in the trench. Purple stays in place.

Then the two of them focuses their flamethrower fire on Altorin!!

flamethrower vs EAC: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 28
Fire damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

flamethrower vs EAC: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31
Fire damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Fire damage, crit: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
burning fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Altorin is hit with two massive blasts of flame and also set on fire!!!
Yikes! Sorry Altorin!

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Round 1 cont'd & Round 2
The following characters in bold may take their turn:

Oddman (-2SP, Pyre Wreath 3/3)
Altorin (-29SP, -3HP, Burning - Ref DC11 or other actions to end condition)
Oda (-2SP)
Ceolor (-2SP)
Loomarch
red hellknight (-3HP)
purple hellknight (-18HP)
Hermena (-1SP)

Oddman calls his trident back, activates his second Photoenergetic Node and throws the trident at purple hellknight again.

Cold Iron Trident vs. KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17
Piercing damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13
Fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Tis okay! I even have Fire Resistance 2.

Altorin holds his breath as the flames wash over him.

Reflex: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

As the flames part, he is looks rather grumpy as his fur is charred and his mustache is still on fire.

So 5 (7-2)+10 (12-2) = 15 Fire Damage after resistance. Resistance reduces the turns burn damage to 0.

"The feeling is mutual, it seems! Then there will be no hard feelings for all of this. Just business." he coughs before making an exaggerated frown. He then lashes out at the hellknight with his whip.

Immature Xenolash: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
Damage (Acid & Slashing): 2d4 + 8 ⇒ (2, 4) + 8 = 14 +Entangle (Acrobatics DC 14/Break DC 19)

He then steps back trying to make some distance between him and the flamethrowers.

With the hellknights turned towards Altorin, Hermena focuses fire from her position, trying to bring purple down. Full attack against Purple.

AG Assault Rifle Attack 1: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 7 - 4 = 18
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
AG Assault Rifle Attack 2: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 7 - 4 = 19
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Ceolor gives a small surprised sound as he tumbles down from the upper floor, along with most of the floor as well. He scrambles back up the floor a bit as it crumbles under him, trying to avoid the worst of the damage. He lands with a flourish and only a few scratches. As he moves, a slightly dark energy starts to flow around him, and any free floating parts of his out fit and hair subtly shift towards the edges of the wall, before he lands on the ground, hair floating slightly more than it ought to, before shifting immediately down, almost as if it's held flat by water or more pressure.

He looks up at Loomarch and smiles a broad grin. "Ohh, I get to fight you myself? Fun! I did enjoy your memory, but as a being of pure fire, I'm not sure you're going to enjoy my weapon!"

He reaches out and quickly pulls out his 'rifle' made of dark looking light. He takes aim, marking a small spot of shadow on a weak point in Loomarch's armor. He then tries to fire his 'rifle' at the spot. A small tight beam of electricity fires out, and connects to wither Loomarch or something behind him, and then stays in place for a second, as something notably pulses back along the beam, frost starting to form on whatever Ceolor hit.

Solar Flare, Heat drain: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
Blade in the night, d4+6 Cold, d2 Electric damage: 1d4 + 6 + 1d2 ⇒ (1) + 6 + (1) = 8
Free action: drop into graviton mode, swift: draw solar flare, move: mark Loomarch for Blade in the Night, Standard: FIRE DRAIN FIRE! Also glad you enjoyed the 'cryo-beam' gifs, thought they were appropriate.

Oda wades into melee and punches at Red I am unsure about the third dimension here. Is red on my level or above or below?

Unarmed Strike (Hammer fist): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26 Damage: 1d4 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

*CRACK!* *CRACK!* Hermena fires two shots from her rifle and being the excellent marksman that we all know her to be, both shots hit purple, injuring the hellknight gravely for 16 pointso f damage but purple doesn't go down just yet!

Oddman again throws his trident and hits purple! This attack, however, puts purple down!!!

@Altorin, gotcha. With resistance, you took 15 points of damage last round.
With purple down, Altorin attacks red with his whip and hits for 14 points of damage also entangling red!!

@Oda, they are down below you in a 5' trench. But you can go right up to red and kick/punch him.
And to add insult to injury, Oda runs right up to red and smacks red right in his armored face for 13 points of damage!!!

In true cinematic fashion, Ceolor sticks a three-point landing and rises to confront Loomarch mano a mano! Wild west style, Ceolor draws and shoots, hitting Loomarch for 1 point of damage! Although he winces, it seems he managed to resist the cold!

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Athletics: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25
Loomarch peforms an impressive standing leap across the trench and moves right up to Ceolor and swipes at Ceolor with an armored claw!!
Claw vs KAC: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (17) + 12 = 29
slashing damage: 1d6 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12
The attack hits Ceolor, inflicting 12 points of damage and Loomarch also grabs Ceolor, grappling Ceolor!!

Red takes a guarded step back and again fires his flamethrower, attempting to envelope Oda and Altorin.
Unarmed Strike (Hammer fist): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13 Damage: 1d4 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
Before red can open fire, Oda sees an opening and swings at red but misses!!
flamethrower vs EAC, Oda: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21
flamethrower vs EAC, Altorin: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16
Fire damage, brutal blast: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Oda is hit for 3 points of damage but Altorin manages to dodge away from the flames!!

fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2
Altorin continues to burn, but his resistances prevent him from taking any damage!!

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Round 2 cont'd & Round 3
The following characters in bold may take their turn:

Oddman (-2SP, Pyre Wreath 3/3)
Altorin (-27SP, Burning - Ref DC8 or other actions to end condition)
Oda (-5SP)
Ceolor (-14SP, grappled)
Loomarch (-1HP)
red hellknight (-30HP)
Hermena (-1SP)

@Hermena, from your current position, you won't have line of sight on red but if you move to a position directly south of red, then you'll have line of sight with no cover penalties.

For those attacking red, he's looking pretty hurt so a couple well-placed hits will take him down. So when you post, you might want to consider what your character does if red is not yet down or if red is already down.

Ceolor drops his 'rifle' the thing turning back into a tiny black ball of darkness and reaches for the baton at his belt, with a flourish he brings it up into the armpit of Loomarch's armor.

"Weeellll look at you jump across a chasm. Of course you'd resist anything cold I threw at you. I take it fire is just as effective... You're really going to make me use my baton, aren't you? Fine! Now let go of my neck!"

Baton bash, vs KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Blade in the Night, Bludgeoning: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Move to draw his baton, standard to attack.

"Looks like these two aren't an issue...I need to check out what crashed down on the other side, make sure Ceolor didn't take a fall!" he says disengaging from the hellknights.

Double Move through a patch of fire.

He rushes over through a pile of burning books to reach Ceolor.

"I know you have a flair for the dramatics...but did you try to drop the entire library on him?" he jokingly asks his ally.

Reflex: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16

"Is that a round about way of saying I threw the book at him? Cause no he did this to himself! But trying to drop the library on him wouldn't be a bad idea..."

Oddman calls his trident back from the corpse, and throws it at red hellknight, using his second round of extra fire damage.

Cold Iron Trident vs. KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
Piercing damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12
Fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Oda punches Red again

Unarmed Strike (Hammer fist): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27 Damage: 2d4 + 18 ⇒ (1, 3) + 18 = 22

"Heh, 'flare for dramatics' - 'cause he's on fire..." Hermena chuckles to herself.

With Oda and Oddman teaming up on Red, Hermena turns her gun towards Loomarch, lining up the flaming fiend in her crosshairs before pulling the trigger. Full attack on Loomarch, if he is within line of sight; if I need to move to see him, Move Action to move then Standard Action to fire (only use first result).

AG Assault Rifle Attack 1: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 7 - 4 = 7
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
AG Assault Rifle Attack 2: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 7 - 4 = 16
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

Ceolor grins braodly over Loomarch's shoulder at the sarcesian with the sniper rifle. "Thanks Hermena! It's nice to know you think I'm such hot stuff!"

Hermena moves into the library to a position where she can see Loomarch and fires! However, the rifle shot misses!!

Oddman again throws his suprisingly effective trident, taking the red hellknight down!!!

Altorin rushes right THROUGH the fire!
Fire damage: 1d6 ⇒ 6

As a result, he takes 4 points of fire damage and whereas his left arm has already been on fire, now his right leg also catches fire!!
Reflex DC15: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21

But as he makes his way closer to Ceolor and Loomarch, Altorin manages to put out both fires and he's no longer burning!!

Oda, red is now down so you can take a completely different action. The trenches are 5' below you. Loomarch, Ceolor and Altorin are all on the same level are you, but they're underneath the control room displayed on the map.

Ceolor doesn't resist the grapple and instead draws a baton and tries to smack Loomarch but misses!!!

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LA, RA, LL, RL: 1d4 ⇒ 4
With Ceolor grappled, Loomarch grabs a hold of Ceolor's right leg and pulls the leg right towards its burning maw... the same maw that Loomarch was using to incinerate books earlier!!!

fire damage: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 2, 1, 3) = 11
Ceolor takes 11 points of fire damage and Loomarch tries to hold Ceolor's leg in place while Loomarch's maw continues to burn! No longer grappled but please roll a Fort save

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Round 3 cont'd & Round 4
The following characters in bold may take their turn:

Oddman (-2SP, Pyre Wreath 3/3)
Altorin (-29SP, -2HP)
Oda (-5SP, two turns availabe: two move actions and two standard actions)
Ceolor (-25SP, fort save required)
Loomarch (-1HP)
Hermena (-1SP)

Fort save, this sounds bad?: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20

Ceolor yanks his foot out of the maw as soon as Loomarch lets go of it. Singed slightly and the shoes of his armor melted some, Ceolor takes a moment to lash out at Loomarch one more time with the baton, seeing if it's any more effective than his gun and then dances back from the man.

Baton Bash, KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18
Damage, Balde in the night bludgeoning: 1d4 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

Oddman calls his trident back from the second corpse, takes a small leap around the stairs and jumps over the trench:

Athletics DC 15: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

Landing safely on the other side and moving just behind the shelf, which he uses for cover as he tosses the trident against Loomarch.

Cold Iron Trident vs. KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
Piercing damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

It’s all fun and games until someone gets a leg eaten

Altorin moves around to surround Loomarch and flicks his whip out, attempting to pull Loomarch to the ground.

Trip+Improved Trip+Hindering: 1d20 + 8 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 8 + 4 + 1 = 28

"Get your maw off of my comrade. It is time to send you back to where you were summoned from!" Altorin roars seeing him attempt to mutilate Ceolor.

With the entire team converging on Loomarch, Hermena tries once again to shoot the device twice. Full Attack from her new position.

AG Assault Rifle Attack 1: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 7 - 4 = 7
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
AG Assault Rifle Attack 2: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 7 - 4 = 18
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

Botting Oda

Previous round...
Athletics: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
With red now down, Oda turns his attention to Loomarch. He leaps across the trench, moving past Oddman and a bookshelf until he has eyes on Loomarch. Oda then brings his gun to bear!

Light Reaction Cannon: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20 Damage: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13

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Current round...

Oda continues to fire upon Loomarch!!
Light Reaction Cannon, full action: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 - 4 = 20
Damage: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Damage, crit: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Light Reaction Cannon, full action: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 - 4 = 19
Damage: 1d10 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

Previously...
Oda maneuvers into position and lands a solid shot on Loomarch for 13 points of damage!

Currently...

Hermena continues firing on Loomarch but the shots miss!!

Similarly, Oddman leaps across the trench and throws his trident, hitting Loomarch for 12 points of damage!
Hah!! Your comment made me laugh!

Altorin flicks the whip with a skillful, well-practiced motion, wrapping it around his legs and bringing Loomarch down prone!!

Oda again opens fire, hitting Loomarch twic for a total of 25 points of damage!!

Ceolor slips out of Loomarch's grasp before Loomarch could fully inflict his fiery foot fetish dreams upon Ceolor! Moreover, with Loomarch prone on the ground, Loomarch proves an easier target as Ceolor smacks Loomarch for 10 points of damage before backing away!

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Loomarch remains on the ground and raises his hands, spitting out a massive 30' cone of flamethrower hotness when envelopes Altorin, Oda and Oddman!
Just like what you see for Loomarch's NPC art on the slides.
Altorin, this flamethrower attack will provoke if the whip attack applies.

flamethrower vs EAC, Altorin: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (10) + 15 = 25
flamethrower vs EAC, Oda: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (1) + 15 = 16
flamethrower vs EAC, Oddman: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (2) + 15 = 17
Fire damage: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Oda avoids the blast but Altorin is hit for 4 points of damage whereas Oddman suffers 1, his pyre wreath absorbing 5 points of damage!

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Round 4 cont'd & Round 5
The following characters in bold may take their turn:

Oddman (-3SP, Pyre Wreath 2/3)
Altorin (-29SP, -6HP)
Oda (-5SP)
Ceolor (-25SP)
Loomarch (-61HP, prone)
Hermena (-1SP)

Just about done guys!!! Oda, if you want to get in any last words to Loomarch with the deluded datapad before Loomarch goes down, now's the time to do it!!

Altorin takes the opening to strike out at Loomarch before he douses the tri in flame.

Attack of Opportunity, Immature Hindering Xenolash: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
Damage (Acid and Slashing): 2d4 + 6 ⇒ (2, 3) + 6 = 11 +Entangle (Acrobatics DC 14/Break DC 19)

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"Okay...now you have got me heated! Literally...I am going to be bald after this, ugh!" Altorin says striking out again.

Full Attack.
Immature Hindering Xenolash: 1d20 + 6 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 6 - 4 = 15
Damage (Acid and Slashing): 2d4 + 6 ⇒ (4, 4) + 6 = 14 +Entangle (Acrobatics DC 14/Break DC 19)

Immature Hindering Xenolash: 1d20 + 6 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 6 - 4 = 20
Damage (Acid and Slashing): 2d4 + 6 ⇒ (2, 3) + 6 = 11 +Entangle (Acrobatics DC 14/Break DC 19)

Oddman calls back the trident and tosses it against Loomarch again.

Cold Iron Trident vs. KAC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
Piercing damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

He finally misses an attack, and it wasn't even due to the prone penalty

Cursing under her breath, Hermena slows down and steadies her aim, rather than trying to hit the fiend twice. Standard Action to shoot once.

AG Assault Rifle Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
Piercing Damage: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

Oda taps away on her datapad delivering a message to the team.

The room is clear thanks to me and my cannon. The order of the pyre will think twice before crossing me again.

Alrighty, time to wrap this up!
The last round of combined attacks from the team finally brings Loomarch down! Or actually, he's already down prone... But he becomes unresponsive!!

Combat Concluded!!!

With the hellknights all put down, you have no problem putting out the remaining fires, saving as many of the library's texts as you possibly can. Looking through the documents that the hellknights were targeting, they appear to be old planetary surveys.

Moments later, Albryan brings Royo to rejoin you. They are accompanied but additional lore wardens who pick up the hellknight bodies and depart with them. You notice one of the hellknights appears to still be alive as they exit.

Excited, Royo says, "While researching more information in the Tower of the Oma, I discovered that one of the dispatched relics would have entered the system where First Seeker Jadnura first discovered it. I believe he’s traced the another object that hurtled into a distant star system in the Vast. Unfortunately, any other objects of a similar design appear to be untraceable based on the available records. Still, this is a major find for the Society and a huge leap for uncovering the mystery of the Scoured Stars!! I believe that finding another of these objects could help the Society enter the currently inaccessible system!!"

Albryan follows up saying, "Thank you all very much for your assistance in defeating the Order of the Pyre. As a token of our appreciation, the Curators hereby waives the entire research fee and in addition, Royo, we have for you this." Albryan provides Royo with a sealed tome. "It contains instructions on how to visit the Athaeum in the future."

Turning to the party, Albryan says, "I've just received word that the surviving hellknight was 'persuaded' to provide a bit more information regarding their actions. It appears Kelria found something especially troubling to the Order of the Pyre and departed with it while ordering the rest destroyed. They believe they were protecting the multiverse against dangerous secrets here. Believe us... we'll ensure this prisoner provides more details in time. And this hellknight transgression will not go unanswered."

Albryan continues, Also, the Curators recognize the Society’s likely need to reproduce the information you've uncovered today in order to rescue your lost agents. Therefore, we agree to grant the Society immunity in replicating the key data needed in order to complete your ongoing mission. Our gratitude also compels me to say that Athaeum hasn’t seen Starfinders in many years and we the Curators hope to continue working with the Society now that you've decided to return from your long silence."

Congratulations! You've come to the end!! Please go ahead and post up any final remarks / RP posts! I'll do the logistics wrap-up (e.g. chronicles) over in the discussion thread later on today.

"We were glad to help. These Hellknights burning down the place isn't good for anyone. By the way, do you happen to have a section on regrowing burnt Ryphorian fur...and quickly. Or even better, if you can tell me who and why that Dragon is here?" he smiles and rubs the charred patches from being on fire for so long.

Oddman just stands nearby Royo, ready to provide any further assistance.

When they return to Absalom Station, he vanishes in the shadows of the first alley he finds, without saying a word.

Oda shakes her datapad softly. She has no idea what has gotten into it.

She slides the pocket computer into he pocket and goes back to her berth to stow her gear and clean her gun and armour.

Hermena nudges Oda and winks. "Sounds like your compatriots wore out your welcome for you. Shall we head back to the ship and get ready to may way while the bookworms finish passing notes?"