"Right. Let's say hello." Bharak threw the door open, his blade in hand. He anticipated the 'whoosh' of Vhane's bolt flying past his head, trusting the other dwarf to aim true. He couldn't help but smile, looking forward to a brawl where his mind would not be tampered with.
Ryn nods, preparing to send her shield hurtling through the doorway at the first site of sinspawn.
Bharak throws open the northern door.
A Sinspawn had been resting on his bedroll and looks shocked by the appearance of adventurers.
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You have a round of surprise, remember you're in a narrow passageway. What are you doing?
Selective metamagic rod in hand, Axton readies a spell. As soon as atleast three* of the sinspawn are visible in the hallway, and with no more than three of his allies are in front of him, he casts cone of cold down the hallway.
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With the door thrown open, Bharak immediately swung at the nearest sinspawn. It was far from a killing blow, but it was enough to draw blood. Or whatever it was within the creatures that passed for it.
Bharak hits Purple, who breaks the pattern and remains alive.
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Silviana cannot see any enemies from her position at the back of the group, so instead she casts blessing of fervor and activates her invocation .
• Increase its speed by 30 feet.
• Stand up as a swift action without provoking an attack of opportunity.
• Take one extra attack as part of a full attack action, using its highest base attack bonus.
• Gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves.
• Cast a single spell of 2nd level or lower as if it were an enlarged, extended, silent, or still spell.
These effects are not cumulative with similar effects, such as those provided by haste or a speed weapon, nor do they actually grant an extra action, so you can't use it to cast a second spell or otherwise take an extra action in the round. Blessing of fervor does not stack with haste.
An omdura can call forth the power of her deity to improve her allies’ abilities as a standard action.
When the omdura calls upon this power, she must select one type of invocation from those listed below to grant the benefits to her allies within 30 feet. A called invocation cannot be disrupted, but it ends immediately if the omdura is killed, paralyzed, stunned, or knocked unconscious.
The omdura can use this ability for a number of minutes per day equal to her level. This duration does not need to be consecutive, but it must be spent in 1-minute increments. The omdura can change her chosen invocation to another type as a swift action, but doing so expends a 1-minute increment of her invocations.
At 7th level, an omdura can call an invocation as a move action instead of a standard action. At 13th level, an omdura can call an invocation as a swift action.
• Destruction: The omdura’s allies are filled with divine wrath, gaining a +1 sacred bonus on weapon damage rolls. This bonus increases by 1 for every 3 class levels the omdura has.
• Healing: The omdura radiates a healing light, granting fast healing 1. This causes the omdura’s allies to recover 1 hit point each round (up to their maximum hit points). The amount of fast healing increases by 1 for every 3 class levels the omdura has.
• Justice: This invocation spurs the omdura’s allies to seek justice, granting a +1 sacred bonus on attack rolls. This bonus increases by 1 for every 5 class levels the omdura has. At 10th level, this bonus is doubled on attack rolls to confirm critical hits.
• Piercing: This invocation gives the omdura’s allies great focus and makes their spells more potent. This benefit grants a +1 sacred bonus on concentration checks and caster level checks to overcome a target’s spell resistance. This bonus increases by 1 for every 3 class levels the omdura has.
• Protection: The omdura radiates a protective aura, granting a +1 sacred bonus to Armor Class. This bonus increases by 1 for every 5 class levels the omdura has. At 10th level, this bonus is doubled against attack rolls to confirm critical hits against the omdura’s allies.
• Purify: The omdura’s allies are protected from the vile taint of her foes, gaining a +1 sacred bonus on all saving throws. This bonus increases by 1 for every 5 class levels the omdura has. At 10th level, the bonus is doubled against curses, diseases, and poisons.
• Resiliency: This invocation makes the omdura’s allies resistant to harm, granting DR 1/magic. This DR increases by 1 for every 5 class levels the omdura has. At 10th level, this DR changes from magic to an alignment (chaotic, evil, good, or lawful) that is opposite the omdura’s. If she is neutral, the type of DR doesn’t change.
• Resistance: The omdura’s allies are shielded by a flickering aura, gaining 2 points of energy resistance against one energy type (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic)chosen when the omdura calls this invocation. The protection increases by 2 for every 3 class levels the omdura has.
• Smiting: This invocation bathes the weapons of the omdura’s allies in a divine light. These weapons count as magic for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction. At 6th level, the allies’ weapons also count as one alignment type (chaotic, evil, good, or lawful) for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction. The type selected must match one of the omdura’s alignments. If the omdura is neutral, she does not grant this bonus. At 10th level, the allies’ weapons also count as adamantine for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction (but not for reducing hardness).
At 11th level, when using her invocation class ability, the omdura chooses two invocations to grant her allies. In addition, the omdura also benefits from any one invocation she calls, but she receives only half the invocation’s granted bonus.
Having no clear shot, Vhane awaits to see how the battlefield might change so that he can get a better shot.
Ryn hurls her shield at the first sinspaw she sees, the moment the door flies open.
Ryn sends her shield into the room to hit Purple.
Purple yells something in another language. And then swings at Bharak with the weapon he picks up.
"Intruders!"
His blow hits the doorframe in the cramped quarters of the fight.
The party can now act. You can hear activity on the other rooms as the Sinspawn react to the warning. None of their doors will be opened this round.
Axton is still holding his readied cone of cold.
Bharak had no idea what the creature said, but he knew that it was loud enough for others to hear. Without missing a beat, his blade came down again, and again, and again. He knew that these creatures would give no mercy, but by the same token, he was not prepared to offer it either.
Bharak dismembers Purple
Everyone hears the sounds of frantic activity as the Simspawn hurriedly ready themselves.
What now? Another round or two until the doors open.
Doors fly open as the remaining Sinspawn hurry out to face the intruders.
Blue opens the door to see Bharak & Ryn right in his face!
The others scramble out, Green with his halberd ready, the others at the back have longbows.
Axton lets his held spell go when the hallway is crowed with targets.
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Map updated. The party can now act!
Axton muses about how long it will take his allies to destroy these Sinspawn. Two rounds? Three?
As the door opens, Ryn smashes her shield into the face of the unfortunate sinspawn with devastating force.
Immediately following her strike with an unrelenting assault of blows, the clang of her shield and crack of boots meeting bones, filling the hallway.
Silviana tosses her starknife at the revealed sinspawn. She takes an extra attack with blessing of fervor.
• Increase its speed by 30 feet.
• Stand up as a swift action without provoking an attack of opportunity.
• Take one extra attack as part of a full attack action, using its highest base attack bonus.
• Gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves.
• Cast a single spell of 2nd level or lower as if it were an enlarged, extended, silent, or still spell.
These effects are not cumulative with similar effects, such as those provided by haste or a speed weapon, nor do they actually grant an extra action, so you can't use it to cast a second spell or otherwise take an extra action in the round. Blessing of fervor does not stack with haste.
An omdura can call forth the power of her deity to improve her allies’ abilities as a standard action.
When the omdura calls upon this power, she must select one type of invocation from those listed below to grant the benefits to her allies within 30 feet. A called invocation cannot be disrupted, but it ends immediately if the omdura is killed, paralyzed, stunned, or knocked unconscious.
The omdura can use this ability for a number of minutes per day equal to her level. This duration does not need to be consecutive, but it must be spent in 1-minute increments. The omdura can change her chosen invocation to another type as a swift action, but doing so expends a 1-minute increment of her invocations.
At 7th level, an omdura can call an invocation as a move action instead of a standard action. At 13th level, an omdura can call an invocation as a swift action.
• Destruction: The omdura’s allies are filled with divine wrath, gaining a +1 sacred bonus on weapon damage rolls. This bonus increases by 1 for every 3 class levels the omdura has.
• Healing: The omdura radiates a healing light, granting fast healing 1. This causes the omdura’s allies to recover 1 hit point each round (up to their maximum hit points). The amount of fast healing increases by 1 for every 3 class levels the omdura has.
• Justice: This invocation spurs the omdura’s allies to seek justice, granting a +1 sacred bonus on attack rolls. This bonus increases by 1 for every 5 class levels the omdura has. At 10th level, this bonus is doubled on attack rolls to confirm critical hits.
• Piercing: This invocation gives the omdura’s allies great focus and makes their spells more potent. This benefit grants a +1 sacred bonus on concentration checks and caster level checks to overcome a target’s spell resistance. This bonus increases by 1 for every 3 class levels the omdura has.
• Protection: The omdura radiates a protective aura, granting a +1 sacred bonus to Armor Class. This bonus increases by 1 for every 5 class levels the omdura has. At 10th level, this bonus is doubled against attack rolls to confirm critical hits against the omdura’s allies.
• Purify: The omdura’s allies are protected from the vile taint of her foes, gaining a +1 sacred bonus on all saving throws. This bonus increases by 1 for every 5 class levels the omdura has. At 10th level, the bonus is doubled against curses, diseases, and poisons.
• Resiliency: This invocation makes the omdura’s allies resistant to harm, granting DR 1/magic. This DR increases by 1 for every 5 class levels the omdura has. At 10th level, this DR changes from magic to an alignment (chaotic, evil, good, or lawful) that is opposite the omdura’s. If she is neutral, the type of DR doesn’t change.
• Resistance: The omdura’s allies are shielded by a flickering aura, gaining 2 points of energy resistance against one energy type (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic)chosen when the omdura calls this invocation. The protection increases by 2 for every 3 class levels the omdura has.
• Smiting: This invocation bathes the weapons of the omdura’s allies in a divine light. These weapons count as magic for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction. At 6th level, the allies’ weapons also count as one alignment type (chaotic, evil, good, or lawful) for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction. The type selected must match one of the omdura’s alignments. If the omdura is neutral, she does not grant this bonus. At 10th level, the allies’ weapons also count as adamantine for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction (but not for reducing hardness).
At 11th level, when using her invocation class ability, the omdura chooses two invocations to grant her allies. In addition, the omdura also benefits from any one invocation she calls, but she receives only half the invocation’s granted bonus.
The sinspawn charged into the room, first into Axton’s spell and then into Bharak’s blade. The dwarf went to work, moving with a speed that belied his short stature. If the creatures thought that he would be slow and ponderous, then it was a fatal miscalculation.
Vhane unloads a barrage of bolts at any spawn left standing.
Unable to hit squat, Vhane gives a slight shake of his head in frustration at his inability to hit anything.
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Three of the Sinspawn die to Barak, Ryn & Silviana in the bloody opening to the fight.
Lt. Vhane sees one bolt hit Yellow but not quite kill it.
The remaining Sinspawn shoot at Bharak and miss! :(
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Loot:
+1 Human bane arrows (58),
Potion of Cure moderate wounds (6).
+1 chainmail (6),
+1 Composite longbow (6).
Nothing else here. Where to next?
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"That's a right fine mess we done cleared up. But let's not waste time, there's a cleric that needs dying." Bharak said, as he moved forward.
You approach the door to D4. You know from Silviana's dream walk that this room holds the captured Cleric of Zon-kuthon and the two Animate Dream guards.
To reach the traitorous Cleric of Nethys you will need to pass through this room.
The door itself is not trapped or locked.
What are you doing now?
"Right. I'm good to go." Bharak said. "Got three seconds everyone before I open this door, and then it's time to get to work." If anyone had anything they planned to do, now was the time to say it.
"Ready."
Crossbow in hand, Vhane nods that he's ready as well.
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The door flies open and you can see the two Animate dreams tormenting the unconscious Gein in the corner.
You have surprise on them. What are you doing in the surprise round?
Having caught the foe by surprise, Bharak quickly moved in…what mattered now was whether he could keep the initiative…
Next?
Silviana must also wait in the corridor for the martials to rush in.
Ryn sends her shield spinning into the room, passing through one of the creatures, ricocheting off the wall, then passing through the other, managing to do some damage before coming back to her.
Barak rushes in, Ryn clips two of the Animate dreams with her shield. Lt. Vhane & Koriah shuffle forward.
Orange darts forward and slams its arm through Bharak
Lt. Vhane, Ryn & Silviana may now act!
Vhane moves into the room, placing himself on the far side of Bharak and just a step behind. He then takes somewhat of an aim at the one in front of Bharak and fires! ... missing by just a bit.
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Silviana moves in to the spot just behind Bharak. She frets that she will not be able to be very useful this fight since none of her weapons are magical. However, she maintains her invocation and the blessing that Desna has gifted them.
• Increase its speed by 30 feet.
• Stand up as a swift action without provoking an attack of opportunity.
• Take one extra attack as part of a full attack action, using its highest base attack bonus.
• Gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves.
• Cast a single spell of 2nd level or lower as if it were an enlarged, extended, silent, or still spell.
These effects are not cumulative with similar effects, such as those provided by haste or a speed weapon, nor do they actually grant an extra action, so you can't use it to cast a second spell or otherwise take an extra action in the round. Blessing of fervor does not stack with haste.
An omdura can call forth the power of her deity to improve her allies’ abilities as a standard action.
When the omdura calls upon this power, she must select one type of invocation from those listed below to grant the benefits to her allies within 30 feet. A called invocation cannot be disrupted, but it ends immediately if the omdura is killed, paralyzed, stunned, or knocked unconscious.
The omdura can use this ability for a number of minutes per day equal to her level. This duration does not need to be consecutive, but it must be spent in 1-minute increments. The omdura can change her chosen invocation to another type as a swift action, but doing so expends a 1-minute increment of her invocations.
At 7th level, an omdura can call an invocation as a move action instead of a standard action. At 13th level, an omdura can call an invocation as a swift action.
• Destruction: The omdura’s allies are filled with divine wrath, gaining a +1 sacred bonus on weapon damage rolls. This bonus increases by 1 for every 3 class levels the omdura has.
• Healing: The omdura radiates a healing light, granting fast healing 1. This causes the omdura’s allies to recover 1 hit point each round (up to their maximum hit points). The amount of fast healing increases by 1 for every 3 class levels the omdura has.
• Justice: This invocation spurs the omdura’s allies to seek justice, granting a +1 sacred bonus on attack rolls. This bonus increases by 1 for every 5 class levels the omdura has. At 10th level, this bonus is doubled on attack rolls to confirm critical hits.
• Piercing: This invocation gives the omdura’s allies great focus and makes their spells more potent. This benefit grants a +1 sacred bonus on concentration checks and caster level checks to overcome a target’s spell resistance. This bonus increases by 1 for every 3 class levels the omdura has.
• Protection: The omdura radiates a protective aura, granting a +1 sacred bonus to Armor Class. This bonus increases by 1 for every 5 class levels the omdura has. At 10th level, this bonus is doubled against attack rolls to confirm critical hits against the omdura’s allies.
• Purify: The omdura’s allies are protected from the vile taint of her foes, gaining a +1 sacred bonus on all saving throws. This bonus increases by 1 for every 5 class levels the omdura has. At 10th level, the bonus is doubled against curses, diseases, and poisons.
• Resiliency: This invocation makes the omdura’s allies resistant to harm, granting DR 1/magic. This DR increases by 1 for every 5 class levels the omdura has. At 10th level, this DR changes from magic to an alignment (chaotic, evil, good, or lawful) that is opposite the omdura’s. If she is neutral, the type of DR doesn’t change.
• Resistance: The omdura’s allies are shielded by a flickering aura, gaining 2 points of energy resistance against one energy type (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic)chosen when the omdura calls this invocation. The protection increases by 2 for every 3 class levels the omdura has.
• Smiting: This invocation bathes the weapons of the omdura’s allies in a divine light. These weapons count as magic for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction. At 6th level, the allies’ weapons also count as one alignment type (chaotic, evil, good, or lawful) for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction. The type selected must match one of the omdura’s alignments. If the omdura is neutral, she does not grant this bonus. At 10th level, the allies’ weapons also count as adamantine for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction (but not for reducing hardness).
At 11th level, when using her invocation class ability, the omdura chooses two invocations to grant her allies. In addition, the omdura also benefits from any one invocation she calls, but she receives only half the invocation’s granted bonus.
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Ryn still to act!
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Ryn moves up beside Bharak.
Green swipes at Ryn but misses by a hairs breadth.
Bharak, Koriah & Axton can now act!
Rage (+2 AC)
Growling in anger at once more having his mind violated, the dwarf attacked with everything he had. Physical pain was one thing. Bodily harm he expected. But to have his very mind be tampered with? That he could not forgive.
Bharak growls and nearly shreds Orange. It is still there but looks badly off!.
You faintly hear spellcasting from the next room.
Koriah advance into the room and attacks the badly off Orange
She hits but doesn't end it!
Axton?
Silviana frowns. "Something's casting spells next door," she cautions.