Coldwater's Abomination Vaults

Game Master Quentin Coldwater

When Cherry is done trying to save them, Lough enters the chambers and eviscerates them mercilessly.

Revenge.

Kka pockets the few bits of jewelry that Murschen left behind for later resale.

Loot sheet updated.

Kka recoils from the stench of the creatures, but not before she identifies them. "These guys are undead ghaasts. We should be able to finish them off without too much trouble...." Her voice trails off as Cherry starts the process of making the ghasts wish they were truly dead, "...or we could bore them into Phaaraasma's arms..." Her voice once again trails off as Lough wades in and sends them all to the river of souls, "...yeah, thaat works too."

Once the ugly butchery is done and any wounds patched up, Kka checks her mental map. "I guess there's only a few doors to the east left to check before we're done here. How about we try the double doors at the other end of the arena?" She heads over there and checks them for traps and locks.

Activity: Search with (Perception +13) - SECRET

Lough nods at Kka ad makes a beeline for the double doors.

He seems more… resolved…

…or perhaps relaxation gives his troubled mind clarity and focus?…

Kka opens the big double doors. There's a big hallway going north and south. North leads to the area with the shrieking lizard, so you head south. There's another door with a big lock. Sadly, none of the keys you currently have work, so you're either going to have to pick it (five DC 30 Thievery checks), or bash it open (a single DC 30 Athletics) check.

I'm going to assume either is going to work eventually, but it's going to take some time and noise. Time for the enemies to pre-buff! Or well, let's roll a few checks to see if you just bash it open in one go.

Athletics check Fuìn: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (14) + 13 = 27
Athletics check Fuìn: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (13) + 13 = 26
Athletics check Fuìn: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (19) + 13 = 32

Books, glass bottles emitting smoke, and clumps of slime fill the shelves that cover the high walls of this chamber. The southern area displays the dissected remains of several creatures, pinned to a wall like rare and unusual specimens. The head of a morlock, somehow kept alive through some mechanical means with tubes and wires connecting to its body, screams a constant hoarse note.

A spider-butted creature clings to the ceiling and another worm-creature with a magic wand in one tentacle and a rapier in the other stands on midair near the ceiling.

The room is 25 feet high, and both are effectively touching the ceiling. The dais is 5 feet high. So basically, if you stand on the dais, you can hit them with a reach weapon.
(You occupy feet 0 to 5, with a reach to 10. The enemies occupy spaces from 10 to 20 feet high. Or, if you want to think in squares, there's four vertical squares between dais and ceiling. You occupy square 1, threaten square 2. The enemies, since they're large, are in squares 3 and 4. Hope this clarifies things.)

The worm screeches into your mind, "Do not disturb me while I'm on the cusp of my greatest invention yet! I've nearly finished my flesh golem, and now you shall become part of it!"

Cherry Berry: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (15) + 14 = 29
Fuìn: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (9) + 14 = 23
Kka: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (8) + 15 = 23
Kvit: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26
Lough: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14
Drider: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (16) + 13 = 29
Worm: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (16) + 18 = 34

The worm wins initiative and walks forward, pulls a vial from its belt, and tosses it at Kka.

Acid flask vs Kka: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (13) + 19 = 32

It hits Kka, and acid splashes all over her and everyone around her.
Kka takes 5 acid and 6 splash damage. Fuìn, Cherry Berry, and Lough take 6 acid splash damage. The acid clings to Kka's feathers, eating away at her flesh...

The drider remains where he is and casts a spell. He points at Kvit, and suddenly everyone is engulfed in a ball of flames.
Fireball damage: 6d6 ⇒ (4, 4, 1, 5, 5, 3) = 22
Everyone can make a basic DC 24 Reflex save to negate the damage.

Worm, 15 feet in the air
Drider, 15 feet in the air
Cherry Berry, 6 damage
Kvit
Kka, 11 damage, 2d6+2 persistent acid damage
Fuìn, 6 damage
Lough, 6 damage

Everyone is up! First, make a basic DC 24 Reflex save versus Fireball!
Kka, don't forget your ongoing damage.

Basic Reflex (Expert) w/ Spellguard (+2) vs 22 fire (DC 24): 1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 11 + 2 = 21

◆) Life Boost
◆) Raise Shield
◆) Stride

Already bleeding, Lough wades in, feeling god and loose, on his way to the dais to go toe to toe (claw to claw) with the beasts on the roof!

+6 fast healing (☑□□□)

Fuìn don't forget the spiderfoot brew Link to discussion before! I also have one more to hand out, I will hold it out for whoever wants to grab it. Kvit will spend the interact action so it would be a free action for anyone adjacent to take it.

assuming I can't use reactions, if I can, I would cast interposing earth to gain a bonus against this reflex save

reflex DC24: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (18) + 14 = 32

Kvit pats out some smoldering bits of robe and he looks up and sneers. He draws a vial of a tar-like sticky threads and holds it out. "Either come down and fight, or we're coming up!"

He holds out the second vial of spiderfoot brew while shielding himself.

◆ interact to draw vial ◆ interact to hand out vial ◆ shield

I've allowed reactions before your turn begins. Interposing Earth gives standard cover, which gives a +2 and then immediately crumbles which makes it a crit success!

Nope, misread. The barrier remains. Please draw where you would like the barrier to be.

Ironically, this is actually a situation where he's one of the people who doesn't need the spiderfoot brew here, because he has a reach weapon and Lunge. :S

Fuin kicks in the door after a few tries. Suddenly thrust into combat again, he tries to find something witty to riposte with, but he panics, points to the drider, and yells "Spider-butt!" before getting pelted in the face with a frankly unnecessary amount of fire.

Reflex DC 24: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (16) + 14 = 30

He manages to flinch away from the worst of it, but that still sucked. "Aw, man," he grumbles as he pats off the licks of flame clinging to his hood and armor. "If I'd waited like two seconds I coulda made a quip about the irony of the spider killing us with fire." He sighs audibly. "Life is full of little disappointments."

He then rushes in and tries to bury the heavy iron ball in the drider's face.

♦ Stride 25 ft.
♦ Step.
♦ M Hammer vs Drider: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34 B Dmg: 2d8 + 4 ⇒ (4, 5) + 4 = 13

With the door now open, Kka coughs and bats away some of the acrid smoke wafting through the doorway. "Ugh! More stinkiness. About paar for the course so faar." She looks around at yet another revolting tableau. "That's just great! Yet another caarnival of horrors." She looks up and spots the spiders. "And these must be the ring masters of this murderous circus. <arrrgh!>" She jerks as the worm screams into her brain, then jerks again as a vial of acid smashes against her and soaks her in vitriolic liquid. "<ARRRGH!> What The Frick!?"

BOOM!

"<ARRRGH!> All right already! Enough with the fireworks."

Basic Reflex Save vs DC 24: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (13) + 14 = 27

Fortunately, her finely hones reflexes shifted her sufficiently away to avoid the worst of the blast.

That's 11 for the acid and 11 for the fireball, reduced by 5 due to her Fiendish Resistance, for a total of 17 hit points, leaving her at 49/66.

Kka looks up at the creatures again and sighs. She couldn't reach them even standing on the dais. Seeing Kvit handing out vials of Spiderfoot Brew, she steps back, grabs the vial and quaffs it.

Action 1 (◆): Stride (35 feet)

I don't know if the fact that Kvit spent an action holding out the vial means that Kka only needs one action to drink it down, but I'm going to assume two actions.

Action 2 (◆): Interact - Take Spiderfoot Brew from Kvit.

Action 3 (◆): Interact - Drink Spiderfoot Brew.

The brew tastes awful, but the acid bites harder, so she tries to shake the sizzling substance off her feathers...

Persistent 2d6+2 Damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (4, 1) + 2 = 7 acid damage

Now at 42/66.

Persistent Damage Recovery Flat Check vs DC 15: 1d20 ⇒ 2

Finally a use for one of my Hero Points. Reroll time.

Persistent Damage Recovery Flat Check vs DC 15: 1d20 ⇒ 17

...and after a shaky start, manages to get most of it off herself.

Kka: Kvit's action to hand out a vial means he feeds you the potion, saving you an action.
At first I was like, "yeah, handing out the potion makes sense," but you can also just skip the middleman and feed it directly. So, you have one action left over!