Round Robin: Intro 2 United in Purpose (Inactive)

Game Master Sedoriku

Jaxon draws out and lights a torch before seeing if he recognizes these things at all.

Francine tries to dance at the creatures, but they seem completely uninterested. They are mindless She also follows Jaxon’s lead getting her own torch prepared.

Qigiq also tries to find out what these things are before bolstering Alaric and moving back.

Alaric moves away from the fight, as he sets up his aura of flames and fire.

Occultism to Identify
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Round 1 Thousands of little cilia
General Active Conditions: None

Alaric 26/26
Francine 17/19
Jaxon 25/30
Samna 30/30
Kondai 26/26
Qigiq 24/24

Thousands of translucent hairy things!

Kondai is up!
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"Smash them and burn them!" Qigiq advises the others hastily.

Damnit! I posted and the forums at it again!
"Don't let them interrupt me!" shouts Kondai as he puts forward one hand in front of him and starts screaming as an energy ball forms in his outstretched hand. Then he starts screaming.

<><><>Start casting a spell . . . I'm not finished casting it.

The four different groupings of things start to sidle closer but they move astoundingly slow, only getting about 15’ feet closer apiece and struggling to keep that pace.

Occultism to Identify
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Round 2 The Horde Slowly Approaches
General Active Conditions: None

Alaric 26/26
Francine 17/19
Jaxon 25/30
Samna 30/30
Kondai 26/26 Casting a spell
Qigiq 24/24

Thousands of translucent hairy things!

Bold are up!
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"Those are amoeba swarms. They move slowly, but if they get to you, then can cause acid burns by crawling over you." Jaxon waves his lit torch towards the swarms. "One came up a drain pipe and into the prison wash one time. Messy business."

Jaxon backs up to allow anyone with ranged spells to try them. He holds the torch up, prepared to hit the swarms with it if they come close.

◆ Step
◆◆ Ready action to attack if they come within range.

Torches deal 1d4 blugeoning + 1 fire damage as an improvised weapon.

Fran skips in close to the lead swarm, swings her torch and skips back out of reach.

Torch Attack: 1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (19) + 4 - 2 = 21
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4 +1 Fire

◆ Stride
◆ Strike
◆ Stride

"BIG BANG ATTACK!"
<><><>Finish casting Horizon Thunder Sphere at White

attack Roll vs. white: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

Damage to if hit white: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 1) = 6 Electricity damage
Damage to all other swarms, area damage, regardless if I hit white: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 1) = 4 Electricity damage None-white creatures can make a basic Reflex save DC 17 for 1/2 damage

Kondai is now crackling with energy.

Well, that damage was certainly worth waiting two rounds for (eye roll)

Alaric shifts forward a small bit to keep an eye on the swarms. "We can burn them down before they reach us." He says as he raises his shield.

◆ Stride
◆ Raise Shield

"Fortunate. Make sure to stay back. Do not get overrun," Qigiq cautions the others as he drops his spear against the column and draws his sling. He loads a stone bullet and whips the sling over his head, releasing it toward the forward mass of amoebas.

Sling (T): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17
Bludgeoning: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Jaxon readies an attack with his torch in case the swarms reach him in the next little bit.

Francine dances closer, slams her torch down on the largest gathering of the swarm she can find and feels quite a few of them burn under her torch. Critical hit and you found a weakness.

Reflexes: 3d20 ⇒ (15, 6, 8) = 29
Kondai hits the white swarm with a blast right in the middle of them, and the rest of the swarms can't avoid the worst of the lightening that rains down on them as well. The sparking area of electricity seems pretty effective.

Crit hit on white, all others failed their saves, and you found a weakness.

Alaric repositions and readies his shield.

Qigiq fires a sling into the mass of the closest swarm and hits a few smooshing them under the sling bullet. Hit, not resisted.

Samna is up!

Sorry for the bare bones post, I didn't have enough time to fully update the tracker and post that as well.

Samna regroups with her companions, seeing the wisdom of trying to dart in to smash some of the creatures.

Stride, Ready an action to Flurry is a blob comes in reach.
unarmed strike: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16 for bludgeoning: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
unarmed strike: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 8 - 4 = 11 for bludgeoning: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Samna readies a flurry of punches at the things, if they get clowe enough.

However the swarms still keep their almost glacial pace as they only reach up to the feet of Kondai and fail to engulf him or anyone else.

I fudged up last post in mentioning critical hits. These things are sadly immune to those.

Occultism to Identify
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Round 3 Swarming, Swarming, Swarming
General Active Conditions: None

Alaric 26/26
Francine 17/19
Jaxon 25/30
Samna 30/30
Kondai 26/26
Qigiq 24/24

Ameoba Swarms:
Black: -15
White -6
Yellow -7
Purple -7

Bold are up!
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<>Enter Arcane Cascade Stance
<><>Spellstrike, Punchies +Produce Flame

attack roll: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
damage if hit: 1d6 + 4 + 1d4 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 4 + (3) + 3 + 1 = 12
5 bludgeoning, 6 fire, 1 electricity, and it should be on fire from being in the fire aura.

"Look out, Kondai!" Jaxon steps up to the creature and swings at it with the torch. He immediately retreats.

Attack vs Black: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
Bludgeoning Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2 +1 fire

◆ Step
◆ Strike
◆ Move

Qigiq loads another stone in his sling and whips it toward the closest swarm. "The heavens guide us," he prays and instills divine guidance upon Kondai.

Interact, Strike, Cast (V): guidance @ Kondai

Sling (T): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
Bludgeoning: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Fran repeats her earlier actions, running in, swatting the critters with her lit torch, and dancing back.

Torch Attack: 1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 4 - 2 = 10
Potential Bludgeoning: 1d4 ⇒ 3+1 fire

◆ Stride ◆ Swat ◆ Stride

As the swarms slowly drifts into Alaric's aura he tosses a small ball fire into its midst as he slowly retreats.

Produce Flame vs Black: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13
Damage (Fire): 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 If hits then the target takes 2d4 Persistent Fire from Incendiary Aura.

◆◆ Produce Flame
◆ Stride

Samna darts in to stomp some of the swarm, then retreats.

Stride, Flurry, Stride

Flurry
unarmed strike: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12 for bludgeoning: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
unarmed strike: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 8 - 4 = 20 for bludgeoning: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Kondai slams a plasma covered fist into the first swarm and deals a significant amount of damage to the swarm but a few of the amoebas are still swarming about.

Jaxon, however, is able to slam a torch into the mess and kill them outright.

Qigiq fires a sling into the next swarm smooshing some amoebas as he does.

Francine tries to dance closer and then back but can’t reach in one movement. She has to stride twice, but her torch burns the swarm nicely.
The swarm is more than 25’ away. You couldn’t hit and run. However...

Alaric fires a bolt of flame into the next swarm after black and burns more than a few, but his aura doesn’t reach that far.

Samna also has troubles reaching now that the first swarm is gone. She strides forwards twice and slams a few punches that with Francine, kills the swarm. Same problem as Francine, too far to make it in one stride. But you both did enough to kill.

The swarms then move forward. The closest one can only get into the spaces of the two ladies, but can't do anything beyond getting closer. The other follows up as well.

Occultism to Identify
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Round 4 Swarming, Swarming, Swarming
General Active Conditions: None

Alaric 26/26
Francine 17/19
Jaxon 25/30
Samna 30/30
Kondai 26/26
Qigiq 24/24

Ameoba Swarms:
Black Burned Up
White Punched out
Yellow -7
Purple -7

Bold are up!
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Fran whacks the swarm twice with her lit torch.

Torch: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Torch, MAP: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (8) - 3 = 5

She beats a hasty retreat after that

◆◆ Strike x2 (whiff whiff)
◆ Stride

Jaxon laughs as he sees the swarms being burned up. "Burn, baby, burn! Come on Alaric! We can clear 'em out with that thing of yours!" He waits until Alaric moves, hoping to keep watching the swarms burn.

Delay until after Alaric to hopefully get more burning

Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3 +1 fire

Attack: 1d20 + 9 - 5 ⇒ (7) + 9 - 5 = 11
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1 +1 fire

◆ Move
◆ Strike
◆ Strike

Hearing that the group is standing their ground Alaric gets himself closer and burns the swarm with a bit of hellfire.

Produce Flame vs Yellow: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24
Damage (Fire): 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5 If hits then the target takes 2d4 Persistent Fire from Incendiary Aura.

◆ Stride
◆◆ Produce Flame

Francine tries to hit the swarm twice but the squiggling and crawling forms on the ground unnerve her enough that she swings wide both times. A hasty retreat means she won’T get caught by them any time soon.

Alarci burns the swarm with a small ball of fire as he gets close enough for the flames to ignite his powdery aura.

JAxon moves up as well slamming his torch into the swarm twice and leaving most of the smaller creatures badly burned or killed.

I’ll bot the three people up in another 8 hours from now.

[ooc]Occultism to Identify
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Round 4 Swarming, Swarming, Swarming
General Active Conditions: None

Alaric 26/26
Francine 17/19
Jaxon 25/30
Samna 30/30
Kondai 26/26
Qigiq 24/24

Amoeba Swarms:
Yellow -27 2d4 persistent fire damage
Purple -7

Bold are up!
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Kondai will throw of a ki blast ball of fire at the amebas and then concentrate and yell as he 'powers up' recharge Spellstrike

Remember, Kondai is still sparking. If any creature hits him with a natural attack, grapples him, or otherwise makes contact with him, they take 1 electricity damage.

produce flame: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
damage if hit: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7 fire.

Kondai finishes off yellow with anoter kiblast ball of fire. The last of the amoebas burning up in the flames.

Only purple remains.

Qigiq strides a little closer. He loads his sling and flings it at the remaining swarm of amoebas.

Stride, Interact, Strike

Sling: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
B: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Samna moves closer and punches at the swarm in a flurry of blows before backing off to a safe distance.

unarmed strike: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21 for Bludgeoning: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
unarmed strike: 1d20 + 8 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 8 - 4 = 23 for Bludgeoning: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Qigiq and Samna both land solid blows on the final swarm and is slowly encroached on the party. It gets below Jaxon' feet bet is too slow to attack him or starts climbing.

Occultism to Identify
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Round 5 And then there were only a thousand left!
General Active Conditions: None

Alaric 26/26
Francine 17/19
Jaxon 25/30
Samna 30/30
Kondai 26/26
Qigiq 24/24

Amoeba Swarms:
Purple -27

Bold are up!
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Fran reaches into her belt and pulls out a hatchet. She then hurls it into the swarm, hoping it will do a bit of damage.

Hatchet, Confident Finisher: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
Slashing Damage, Precision: 3d6 + 1 ⇒ (1, 2, 2) + 1 = 6

I'm guessing these things are immune to crits?

As an afterthought, she hurls the torch in as well.

Torch: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (20) - 3 = 17
Bludgeoning Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2 +1 fire

◆ Interact (Draw Weapon)
◆ Strike (Hatchet)
◆ Strike (Torch)

Frank's hatchet buries itself in the middle fo the swarm and deals no damage as all Hut one poor amoeba slip around the thing. Resistance to slashing and immunity to precision (and crits)

Her torch however is much more effective. Leaving the swarm bare alive.

should be really easy to finish off now.

Jaxon dances out of the swarm towards the other side and just tries to beat it to death with his torch.

Attack vs flatfooted: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4 +1 fire

Attack vs flatfooted: 1d20 + 9 - 5 ⇒ (20) + 9 - 5 = 24
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4 +1 fire

◆ Move
◆ Strike
◆ Strike

If Jaxon's turn doesn't finish it off . . .

Kondai disappears and reappears behind the swarm and punches it, then throws a blast of fire with a palm strike.

<>Laughing Shadow Conflux spell, teleport+attack
<><>Spellstrike with produce flame.

First Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
damage if hit: 1d6 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 4 + 1 = 7
Bludgeoning and 1 electricity
If it can be flanked, the last '+1' damage becomes +3 due to laughing shadow

"Die you insignificant worms! DARK IMPACT-FIRE"
spellstrike: 1d20 + 9 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 9 - 4 = 14
damage if hit: 1d6 + 4 + 1d4 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 4 + (1) + 3 + 1 = 15
1d6+4 bludgeoning, 1d4+3 fire, 1 Lightning
again, if it can be flanked the last damage goes from +1 to +3

Samna will delay.

Alaric reaches out and severely burns the remaining swarm before tactically retreating to safety.

Produce Flame vs Purple: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24
Damage (Fire): 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5 If hits then the target takes 2d4 Persistent Fire from Incendiary Aura.

◆◆ Produce Flame
◆ Stride

Qigiq squints and waits for the dust to settle.

Jaxon, Kondai and Alaric all strike the swarm and burns every single one of the amoebas to a crisp.

The hallway otherwise seems clear and empty. Moving along there’s the sounds of charred amoebas breaking under foot but otherwise the place seems empty. The room that the amoebas seem to have set up as their home contains a few mostly decayed bones of creatures that were unlucky to get caught down here.

The hallways beyond them don’t seem to hold much, and it seems the swarms mostly left them alone. After a bit there’s one big room. The floors and walls of this room have been white washed into a pure glistening white even after all of this time. Off to the left is a room that seems made to look in on this new room.

It takes a moment but Kondai immediately recognizes that the are a series of holes in the tops and bottoms of the ceiling and that one of the far holes seems to be dripping a liquid. He also spots among the glistening whites of the room that there are a few bones fo things that ran from the swarms and have been cleaned so thoroughly that their bones are dazzling white.

You found a hazard. Moving into the room will trigger it.

"Something . . . cleaned those creatures to death." Kondai says, pointing out the bones in the room. "It seems likely that whatever ran from those aomebas ran in here and . . . that happened. We should probably figure out how to turn off the magic or bypass it. Maybe send some archaeologist down here who knows more about this kind of thing."

arcana check?: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14 while not moving into the room to identify the hazard and how to turn it off.

Fran has a look to see if she can find the hazard and whether she can disarm it or not.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

I guess not...

Kondai doesn't think this place is magical in origin, while Francine can't see anything beyond a gleaming white. Crafting would be the best way to tell what this is with out triggering it

Crafting: 1d20 ⇒ 5

"Huh. Looks damned nice though." He spots the bones. "Oh, but probably not very safe."

Crafting (U): 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (2) + 0 = 2

"Let us see how intelligently this trap was crafted," Qigiq heads back to the amoebas' lair and collects a pair of skulls. He walks to the threshold of the white room and tosses one of the skulls into the room. "And if there is a delay between activations."

The animal skull clatter into the room but nothing happens. Standing that close Qigiq does spot a control panel below what looks like a nearly completely faded mural of a smiling man with a receding hairline. It might control the hazard... but that would meaning entering into a known danger.

Could we use Thievery? I have a +8

Crafting: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Alaric doesn't notice much. "So how do we enter without becoming one with the dead?"

Crafting untrained: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Wow, failure all around.

”Like I said, let’s just go get some egghead who knows about this stuff, there’s gotta be one upstairs at the camp.”

"So it needs something heavier or bigger than that," Qigiq says with a thoughtful frown. "No one with skill in traps and such?"

Samna pulls out a few tools from behind her belt and attempts to disarm the hazard without setting it off.
Thievery: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

"Ah. Good." Qigiq makes room for Samna to work.

Hrmm, know what I'll take that.

Samna is able to disable the large pressure plate right at the front of the entry way that seems weighted to react to a creature's full weight and not just the light skull that Qigiq sent in. She feels that she has gotten this part of the hazard disabled but there's not assurance that there aren't more plates in here, but she can safely say that the first few feet are safe.

That's one success to disabling the trap, and I'll say the first 10 feet of the room are okay to traverse. Any further attempts to disable can be done with Thievery (trained) Engineering Lore (or alchemical/similar lores trained) to disable or clog the hazard. Athletics or Acrobatics to plug holes also work to disable the hazard. Beware, thought, a crit failure will set this thing off.

Fran also pulls out her thieves tools and gets to work.

Thievery: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

I hope that's not a crit fail... I'll try again if it's not