[GPT] ULTRA PLUS City of Golden Death (Inactive)

Game Master Will Huston

Dawn has spells, but no Eldritch Pool. That's the life of an Edlritch Scion.

"Yeah, good job Golthwur!" Dawn leans in for a high five.

Nisha has surprisingly taken no damage and used no spells.

Angela has most of her inspiration points left and all her extracts left. Actually speaking of which...

As Dwan hands over her potion of Cure Moderate Wounds, Angela tosses in an infusion of Alchemical Allocation, and one of her daily preparations of Cure Light Wounds as well. "Here use these before you start to heal up with your limited wand. I can make more of these daily. First takes this bottle labled with 'Alchemical Allocation' then swish the potion and spit it back into the bottle. Don't worry there's no backwash and my preparations of Allocation actually help remove any bacteria present in the potion already extending its shelf life. Then take the 'Cure Light Wounds' bottle."

It ultimately heals 1 point less, But Dawn's potion+Alchemical Allocation (2d8+3, doesn't use the potion), and Angela's CLWs Infusion (1d8+5) should refund Sir Hayden 3 uses of his limited level 3(?) wand. Angela is built to hand out buffs, don't be afraid to use her infusions before wands. She has one non-infusion ready to heal herself if needed. EDIT: Nvm, I just realized that this doesn't have a bonus from Fey Foundling. Keeping the same dice rolls means everyone would be at full health?

"Yeah, good job Golthwur!" Dawn leans in for a high five.

The old man looks on at Dawn's gesture in confusion. "Young Lady," he rebukes. "You are not in primary school and this is decidedly not a classroom setting. Simply speak, if you must. There is no need to raise your hand and await to be called upon."

He shakes his head and walks away to look for possible summoning runes that could explain the appearance of the fiery ape. As he does so, he mutters aloud, "Honestly, what do they teach the youth these days?"

"...school? Young? Oh.." Dawn contemplates her place in life.

Eltran rolls his eyes with a smile after the wizard’s but remains silent.

He moves to Dawn and whispers.

“You are formidable! Really a.. awesome!“ he says with a quivering but reassuring voice.

Angela gives a shake of her head and picks up Golthwur's hand and guides it to Dawn's raised hand. "Golthwur, you also need have somethings you need to learn. This is called a 'High Five,' an expression of accomplishment or excitement." She gives a small huff and then heads off to look for further runes so the group doesn't have a THIRD ape to put down.

Eltran looks at Angela and claps his hands.

”This action is even known on the planes! Angela is very good at this … ehh … team building! Surely, I will mention this in my report!!“ he says smiling.

Hayden's got plenty of healing left

The knight smirks as the smartly dressed halfling tries to teach Golthwur to do a high-five. "And when you high-five Angela, that's really more of a low-five. But next, we can show you how to fist bump." He holds his closed fist out towards Golthwur just to see what the man will do.

"It is called a 'high five', though it involves raising only a single appendage?" Golthwur replies quizzically.

When Hayden offers a first bump, Golthwur tries to correct him, "Bumping fists? How mundane. Sir, what you are offering is referred to as the 'evocation salutation'. Allow me to demonstrate."

The old man does so by briefly connecting his own fist with Hayden's, then pulling it back slightly and "blowing it up". The skin on Golthwur's hand rapidly cycles through a series of bright colors as he does so, making noises with his mouth.
Casting prestidigitation.

Eltran claps his hands again.

“Fantastic! This is exactly why traveling the plains is so exciting! All these different cultural practices! Thanks for the demonstration Golthwur and Sir Hayden!“

As Angela approaches, Dawn drops to her knees. High fives are High, dammit.

The group continues pressing forward on the roads of Xin-Grafar. They come across a platoon of gold-plated humanoid skeletons. The signet badges they wear match the soldiers from the murals at the entrance. City guard, their watch never ending.

As the group approaches, a bridge, Angela and Nisha's spider sense goes off, and they see a red humanoidesque creature hiding amongst the rubble. It starts chanting ominously.

Surprise Round Ambush! (Move or a Standard unless you have some ability to do both in a surprise round!)
Dawn
Golthwur
Demon
Eltran
Hayden
Nisha
Angela

Hayden's got plenty of healing left

The knight smirks as the smartly dressed halfling tries to teach Golthwur to do a high-five. "And when you high-five Angela, that's really more of a low-five. But next, we can show you how to fist bump."

Angela gives an eye-roll as she starts to walk away. "Oh Abadar, not like I haven't heard that a thousand times before." However her tone and the slight grin on her face does imply she found it at least a little humorous.

She watches Golthwur and Hayden from a distance as she also scours for further traps and... has to stop and blink for a moment in surprise when she sees that Dawn is on her knees with a hand raised. It takes her a moment but she does give the woman a high-five. "Uh, thank-you. Not many people who are willing to do that!" She also passes the woman another Alchemical Allocation Infusion, just in case she needs it.

She keeps her spear out and ready as she makes sure to keep her eyes open and on the lookout.

Spotting the red thing in the rubble, she gives a shout. "There's something or someone over there! Be on your guard."

She looks at it and tries to see if she recognizes it.
Knowledge(They all the same) w/ free inspiration: 1d20 + 8 + 1d6 ⇒ (7) + 8 + (6) = 21
If she can, spells known/prepared and then resistances/immunities would be good to know.

The halfling then takes a full-defensive position with her longspear ready to try fending off anything that it might throw at the group. AC is 23 for the round

When Hayden offers a first bump, Golthwur tries to correct him, "Bumping fists? How mundane. Sir, what you are offering is referred to as the 'evocation salutation'. Allow me to demonstrate."

The old man does so by briefly connecting his own fist with Hayden's, then pulling it back slightly and "blowing it up". The skin on Golthwur's hand rapidly cycles through a series of bright colors as he does so, making noises with his mouth.

Hayden is completely in awe of Golthwur's 'evocation salutation'. So much so that he doesn't even notice the upcoming danger.

Waiting to see the result of Angela’s identification.
Can’t remember if ambush rounds allow for swift actions in 1e. If they do, I’ll stare.
If the thing is susceptible to mind affecting, I’m throw a calm emotions at it, DC 16, with a -2 to its will save if I’m allowed to stare.
If it is immune to mind affecting I’ll. . . . I dunno. . . Farie Fire it? Prevent it from hiding?

Angela pieces together that it is a babau demon. She knows that demons can sometimes summon more demons to their cause, and babaus specifically can see invisible objects and spread darkness around. They can also teleport themselves.

As far as Nisha knows, its susceptible to mind affecting, but as she attempts, it seems to resist the spell. I need a caster level check to overcome spell resistance from Nisha

Spell resist: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Hayden is completely in awe of Golthwur's 'evocation salutation'. So much so that he doesn't even notice the upcoming danger.

Golthwur is completely in awe of his own performance of the 'evocation salutation'. So self-congratulatory, in fact, that he, too, doesn't even notice the upcoming danger.

The magical energy fizzles before it reaches the demon. It continues its chant.

Round 1
Dawn
Golthwur
Demon
Eltran
Hayden
Nisha
Angela

Angela pipes up, "Babau demon! These things are annoying as the can summon more of themselves, in addition to seeing invisible things and making annoying darkness. Also they seem to have some resistances to magic given that fizzled spell, and I'm going to assume the basic demon resistances. Let's pound it and the spell it is casting into the ground before it summons more of itself."

"Just what is it casting?" Golthwur tries to discern.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (1) + 13 = 14

The wizard then casts a spell upon himself.
Mage armor

Dawn lays down her sword and surrenders while Golthwur protects himself. The demon swears in abyssal as his friend won't come and join him. He then casts a spell on his longspear that causes the area to become dim around him.

Creatures that don't have darkvision have a 20% miss chance to hit.

Round 1 Hey who turned off the lights?
Golthwur
Demon
Dawn (delayed)
Eltran
Hayden
Nisha
Angela

I'm sorry Nisha is such a one trick pony!
Stare, feint, stab
Feint, -2 vs. outsiders: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (11) + 18 = 29
attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
damage if hit: 1d8 + 5 + 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 5 + (3, 2) + 3 = 21
If the attack fails to connect then the next damage he takes, he takes +3 extra damage

Knowledge, Religion: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Hayden moves around the creature and raises his bow, firing into the dim light. "Quickly, destroy this demon!"

Attack (PBS): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13
Miss Chance (low is bad): 1d100 ⇒ 8
Damage (PBS): 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Angela takes her longspear and stares at the demon for a second, guessing it's motives, movements, and actions. She stabs forward for a second, before bringing the spear down and under to point at a particularly weak looking joint.

"Here, you should try targeting here. He sticks it out when he starts to cast!"

Is he in the dark? Or just Dim-light?
Miss chance just in case, 1-20=miss: 1d100 ⇒ 94
Poke (+1 Longspear), studied: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 6 + 2 = 15
Piercing Damage, studied: 1d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 2 = 5
Next question, does that affect aid another attempts?
Miss chance just in case, 1-20=miss: 1d100 ⇒ 28
“This type of enemy has weak points here, here, aannnd here!” +1 Longspear, Aid another, studied: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 2 = 17

Oh, did I have initiative? Sorry you were waiting on me.

Dawn finally notices the demon and calls her reflections. The gold-tinted light bounces off her and renders her blurry. She readies her falchion and steps up to the creature.

Standard: Cast Blur
Move: Draw Falchion
Free: 5 ft step

kn planes: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (10) + 14 = 24

"Ohh, a demon! How interesting! All these planar creatures! I am exactly right here! Do you believe that I am funny ... let me tell you a joke ..." Eltran says in Abyssal when he casts hideous laughter.

Hideous laughter, Eltran is humanoid and an outsider so it is not of another type and thus the demon has no bonus. DC 17 Will save.

[dice=kn planes]d20+14

"Ohh, a demon! How interesting! All these planar creatures! I am exactly right here! Do you believe that I am funny ... let me tell you a joke ..." Eltran says in Abyssal when he casts hideous laughter.

Hideous laughter, Eltran is humanoid and an outsider so it is not of another type and thus the demon has no bonus. DC 17 Will save.

Also as a reminder the demon has a -2 to will saves because of my stare

He's in dim, but there's not anything about low light vision negating the miss chance in the darkness spell, unlike darkvision. I don't think the miss chance applies to aid another.

With Angela's help, Nisha is able to hit the demon whom she successfully feinted. Not all her damage got through the demon's sticky hide. The spear sizzles as acid bites into the spear. Normally, I'd need a reflex save or your weapon takes acid damage, but since your spear is adamantine, there's no way for the acid to do enough damage to hurt it. Sir Hayden's arrow misses wide of the demon and he lacks any knowledge of the beast (its knowledge planes btw). Dawn provokes against the demon's longspear. She takes a wound (8 points of piercing) casting her spell and will need to concentrate to get the spell off. DC 20 Concentration The demon starts laughing its cruel, hollow laugh at Eltran's joke, but it might not be the magical effect. I need a Caster Level check against its Spell Resistance. Eltran knows that the demon's protective hide will be extremely tough unless your weapon is blessed by the good gods, or cold iron, and while its immune to electricity and poison, its also going to resist acid, cold and flame. DR 10/Good or Cold Iron, Resist Acid, Cold, Fire 10

Round 2 Well at least he's laughing
Golthwur
Demon (-11, -2 to Will Saves, and hideous laughing, depening on Eltran's Caster Level.)
Dawn (-8, Concentration DC 20)
Eltran
Hayden
Nisha
Angela

"It is resitant to spells and you need good or cold iron weapons to hurt it!! And its immune to electricity and poison, its also going to resist acid, cold and flame." Eltran shouts.

Spell resistance, cl check: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 22

Concentration, DC 20: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25

Dawn sticks out her tongue even as the demon's spear pierces her armor. "Nyah nyah! This adamantine falchion is coming for ya!"

"It is resitant to spells and you need good or cold iron weapons to hurt it!! And its immune to electricity and poison, its also going to resist acid, cold and flame." Eltran shouts.

"Resistant to spells? Well, then, one had best leave it alone, shouldn't they? As for particular weapons, unless you brought some for the rest of us, then you can save your breath, sir. Do I look like a pack mule to you?" Golthwur huffs.

"Mule, eh? That gives me an idea," ponders the old man as he puts some distance between himself and the pesky demon, then retrieves a scroll case containing summon monster I.

Golthwur, Grand Poobah of Panic and Warden of Wailing, reaches into his bag of tricks hoping it can save him.

Will Save: 1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 5 - 2 = 23

It lays on the ground, but its laughter trickles to a chuckle and then stops.

Round 2 Well at least he laughed.
Demon (-11, -2 to Will Saves, prone)
Dawn (-8, Concentration DC 20)
Eltran
Hayden
Nisha
Angela
Golthwur (round 3)

"Golthwur, I thought you of all people would know about oils of Bless Weapon. Makes any weapon holy for about a minute."

Move action, draw oil, standard action, apply to spear.

Eltran starts to inspire courage!

+1 to hit and damage!

"My jokes seem to be quite poor but at least my experience can aid the team to battle you demon!" Eltran says.

Hayden draws a Cold Iron arrow based on Eltran's advice and tries to fire o nthe prone demon. He shifts his armor as bruises reappear on his skin from Dawn's wounds.

Attack (PBS, IC): 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 8 + 1 = 29
Miss Chance (low is bad): 1d100 ⇒ 85
Cold Iron Damage (PBS, IC): 1d8 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 4 + 1 = 13

Crit Confirm!: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 8 + 1 = 12
Extra Damage: 2d8 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (2, 2) + 8 + 2 = 14

5 damage transferred from Dawn. Dang, no crit, but max damage with Cold Iron!

Angela grumbles some at hearing she can't do squat to hurt the enemy. She instead moves into full support mode. She lashes out twice, trying to help guide in both Nisha and Dawn's next weapon strikes.

“This type of enemy has weak points here, here, aannnd here!” +1 Longspear, Aid another, studied: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 6 + 2 = 14
“This type of enemy has weak points here, here, aannnd here!” +1 Longspear, Aid another, studied: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 6 + 2 = 27
Two move actions to aid the two melee fighters.

Dawn looks at the laughing, prone demon. "Oh come on, he was hilarious. Laugh it up!"

Falchion, Aid, Inspire Courage: 1d20 + 9 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 9 + 4 + 1 = 31
Damage: 2d4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (1, 4) + 4 + 1 = 10

Nisha, having some time bought by Eltran, applies an oil to her weapon. Eltran starts inspiring his allies, which means he's the dread inspirational comedian. Even with the problems of hitting a demon's heel, Sir Hayden gets a great shot and his arrow head actual pierces the babau's hide. Angela helps people try to hit a prone demon. Dawn's weapon does nothing.

Round 2 Well at least he laughed.
Demon (-24, prone)
Dawn (-8, Concentration DC 20)
Eltran
Hayden
Nisha
Angela
Golthwur (round 3)

The demon stands up, drawing attacks from those standing over him.

He then steps back and attempts to stab Nisha. Its a grievous wound. (15 points of piercing)

Round 3 The Abyss beckons
Demon (-24)
Golthwur
Dawn (-8, attack of opportunity)
Eltran
Hayden
Nisha (-15, attack of opportunity)
Angela (attack of opportunity)

attack of opportunity: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22
damage if hit, good aligned: 1d8 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Same old song and dance
feint, including -2 for being an outsider: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (15) + 16 = 31
Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19
damage if hit, good aligned: 1d8 + 6 + 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 6 + (2, 1) + 3 = 16
If I don't hit, next attack that deals damage deals 3 additional damage.

Hayden draws another cold iron arrow and fires it at the demon as he gets back up.

Attack (PBS): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
Damage (PBS): 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Dawn should be at -3, while Hayden at -5.

Eltran continues to inspire courage!

"Yes, get this creature! Tabris was tasked with cataloging all knowledge of the Great Beyond! Let us follow his example ... but for that this creature needs to be destroyed!"

Delaying this round.

Right. +1 to Hayden's attack and damage from Inspire Courage.

As the demon stands up, Dawn takes a swing.
Falchion: 1d20 + 9 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 9 + 1 + 4 = 19
Damage: 2d4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (1, 4) + 4 + 1 = 10
The demon seems to ignore the blow. Note to self: Take Power Attack next level.

"Hey, stop poking my friends, or I'll poke your eyes out."

Concentration Check, DC 19: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
Dawn blows some dust in its direction, but the magic doesn't take hold. She shrugs and steps up to the beast.

Free: AoO
Standard: Try to Cast Glitterdust defensively, failed
Free: 5 ft step

Golthwur opens the scroll and begins mummering magical marks, weaving wondrous words, and reciting remarkable runes.

Activating summon monster I scroll, which I believe takes a round to complete.

Poke ( +1 Longspear), studied, IC: 1d20 + 6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 6 + 2 + 1 = 17
Piercing Damage, studied, IC: 1d6 + 2 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 2 + 1 = 7

Angela takes a poke at the fleeing demon, but doesn't anything against it's magical hide. She instead moves a step closer and then tries to help Nisha and Dawn again.

“This type of enemy has weak points here, here, aannnd here!” +1 Longspear, Aid another, studied: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 6 + 2 = 12
“This type of enemy has weak points here, here, aannnd here!” +1 Longspear, Aid another, studied: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 6 + 2 = 26

Both of Nisha's stabs are quite effective. The blade sizzles as it cuts through demonic hide. Sir Hayden's arrow lodges in, and he knows that he would ne'er have made that shot if it were not for Eltran cheering him on. Perhaps, Sir Hayden should take Eltran on as a squire. Dawn's attacks and spells fail her. honestly DR 10, its better to have some back up weapons or something rather than just try to muscle through it. Golthwur relies on spells cast by other spellcasters and starts to chant over his scroll. Casting Summon Monster by itself is a full round, and a scroll, I think makes it worse. You need a move action to pull it and then to split a full round spell, it takes up this turn and next turn's standard action. Angela keeps pointing at weaknesses and hopes for the best.

Knowing that her temporarily holy weapon could be his end, the demon goes all out on Nisha. He gets one solid strike to her shoulder (11 pts of piercing

Round 4 The Abyss beckons
Demon (-63)
Golthwur
Dawn (-3)
Eltran
Hayden (-5)
Nisha (-26)
Angela

Oh angela, you can go too, that's my bad.