M skittermander sensate operative 7 | SP 63/63 HP 44/44 | RP 9/9 | EAC 25; KAC 26 | Fort +4, Ref +11, Will +9; evasion | Init: +13 | Perc: +20, SM: +19; darkvision (60 ft.), low-light vision | Speed 40 ft | Active conditions: None.
-16 SP, 47/63 SP
"Hey, that's not polite!" Borq shouts as he moves (provoking) into Qimok's space, hoping to hide a bit. He slashes at green (or whatever is most injured within reach) with his very threatening survival knife.
Keskodai discovers there is no mind to thrust.
Qimok damages Green and Blue.
Raia hits Yellow
Trouway's trick attack fails but still manages to hit. Green looks like it's barely holding together.
SP 64/64 HP 54/54 | RP 7/9| EAC 20(24); KAC 21(26) | [ooc]Fort +4; Ref +4; Will +12 | Init: +2 | Perc: +17, SM: +6 | Speed 30ft | Communalism 1/1; Healing Touch 1/1; Force field 10/10 | Spells: 1st 6/6; 2nd 3/5; 3rd 3/4
I think everyone else is protected by the wall. Hoping to only hit myself plus yellow and violet.
Keskodia, without good options to deal with unattaching the thing, looks at the shock grenade in their hand, and to avoid any attacks of opportunity for throwing it, just pulls the pin, just like the mission report had said Jek had done that once or twice before.
shock grenade MKII: explodes 15 ft. radius, DC 14 reflex save for half damage. (I'm assuming Keskodi doesn't get a saving throw.)
Damage electrical:1d12 ⇒ 6
Is there a skill or save to try to detach it?
If not, after the grenade, Keskodia grabs their carbon staff.
Qimok tries to pry the ooze loose, to no avail. Unable to use his primary weapons while tangled up in ooze, he then tries to clothesline the two oozes in his space with his powered armor's gauntlet. Alas, the goddess of valor appears to have looked away for a moment.
Did Borq's trick attack hit?
As a 7th-level operative, doesn't Trouway have skill mastery (always take 10) with their specialization skills?
If either of them would have taken out Green, Qimok would still attempt to Cleave two adjacent oozes, just with a different weapon--and still miss, with those rolls.
Green gets splattered by Borq's previous attack ((How did I miss that?)) so his attention is now on Blue.
Violet isn't attached to Raia so Keskodai can catch Yellow and Violet in the blast - as well as themselves, but not Raia.
ref(Yellow):1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16 ref(Violet):1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19
Qimok misses and fails to get that ooze off ((DC=19), neither does Keskodai.
Empowered Weapon As a move action, Raia can expend a spell slot to grant her weapon a bonus to attacks equal to the level of the spell slot, and +1d6 bonus damage per level of spell slot expended. Give up a level 2 slot.
Green, Blue and Violet are resistant to cold being cold siccatite security oozes.
Orange is attached to Borq so Borq takes fire:1d10 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10. This ignores armour protections.
It then flares white hot, (swift action) doing fire:3d6 ⇒ (6, 1, 1) = 8 ((DC 14 fort for half)) in a five foot aura affecting both Borq and Qimok, doing damage to itself. The aura affects anything that enters it until Orange's next turn.
It then smacks Qimok with a pseudopod.
pseudopod:1d20 + 16 ⇒ (10) + 16 = 26B&F:1d6 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14
The ones still attached do damage.
yellow(fire):1d10 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10 - Keskodai.
Yellow then flares up with it's own five foot heat aura affecting Keskodai and Raia before smacking Raia with a pseudopod
fire:3d6 ⇒ (2, 3, 2) = 7 DC 14 fort for half.
pseudopod:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (9) + 12 = 21b&f:1d8 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15
Red tries again to attach to Trouway
attach:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14
Violet tries again to attach to Raia
attach:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 17
SP 64/64 HP 54/54 | RP 7/9| EAC 20(24); KAC 21(26) | [ooc]Fort +4; Ref +4; Will +12 | Init: +2 | Perc: +17, SM: +6 | Speed 30ft | Communalism 1/1; Healing Touch 1/1; Force field 10/10 | Spells: 1st 6/6; 2nd 3/5; 3rd 3/4
Fortitude:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24 10 damage + save for half for 7 more damage total 17
Keskodia considers the options...
Can't use mind thrust, it's got no mind.
Can't use the staff with two hands while it's attached to me.
Out of shock grenades.
Shooting a pistol at this range would cause an attack of opportunity.
Can't use healing spells without an attack of opportunity.
I'm too weak to deatch it, or would need a lot of luck to do so 10% chance.
Keskodia decides to use Total Defense, getting +4 to AC until the start of their next turn.
LG male skittermander gladiator soldier 7 (armored storm, powered armor jockey) | SP 24/70, HP 65/65, RP 4/8 | Speed 30 ft. | EAC 22, KAC 25 | Fort +8, Ref +6, Will +5 | Init +7; clearsight goggles, darkvision 60 ft, low-light vision; Perception +7 | Active conditions: none [hyper used, reroll used]
Seeing that his nufriends are making very slow headway against these oozes, Qimok has a new idea. He steps back and calls out, "If this works, disengage, stay mobile, and focus fire!" He draws upon the last shred of weird energy that has clung to him since experiencing temporal visions early in his career, and uses it to cast a spell at the oozes.
Checking the last box from his Memories of the Past boon to cast Slow on all 5 remaining oozes (CL 7, Will DC 15).
Retreat? From Qimok?
Raia didn't like her position anyway. It was too close to too many oozes. She steps carefully back from the pair of oozes attacking her and runs for the door.
Momentarily secure, she telepathically asks, "Who needs help?
Careful step and move. Will draw an AoO from Red
Ashbourne, I think you can still use the staff. I read the attach description as applying to the ooze.
Attach (Ex):
Source Alien Archive 4 pg. 152, Alien Archive 2 pg. 149, Alien Archive pg. 152, Alien Archive 3 pg. 150
The creature can attempt a special attack against KAC as a standard action. If it succeeds, it deals no damage, but the creature adheres to its target. Once attached, the creature gains a +4 bonus to its AC (from cover) and a +2 circumstance bonus to melee attacks, but it can attack only the creature to which it’s attached. An attached creature can’t move on its own (though it moves with its target), take actions that require two hands, or make attacks of opportunity. An attached creature can be removed with a successful Strength check (DC = 10 + 1-1/2 × the creature’s CR) made as a move action, or it can remove itself from its target as a move action.
Status SP 41/48 HP44/44 | RP 9/10 Spells remaining 1st: 4/5 2nd: 5/5 3rd: 1/3 Aphelion laser pistol -- 19 shots left
No longer surrounded by oozes. Raia takes a breath and looks over the field. "Where's Keskodai?" The walls chop up the battlefield. She can't see him.
The odds have come down quite a bit. Qimok, Borq and Trouway are engaged one on one. She'll never get a clean shot past Thrym and Trouway. Qimok's out of range, but she can lend Borq a hand. She casts microbot assault. AoE is the yellow box.
Microbot Assault, essentially +2 AC and +2 to hit for anyone attacking or attacked by violet:
This spell creates a 10-foot-square area filled with microbots that harry Raia’s enemies for as long as she concentrates (a standard action) plus 1 round afterward. If the microbot swarm is not harrying an enemy at the beginning of a round, it flies 20 feet toward Raia’s nearest enemy. The microbots provide harrying fire against foes in the microbots’ spaces, and covering fire to anyone attacked by foes in the microbots’ spaces.
[ooc] Violet is resistant to cold being cold siccatite security oozes.
LG male skittermander gladiator soldier 7 (armored storm, powered armor jockey) | SP 24/70, HP 65/65, RP 4/8 | Speed 30 ft. | EAC 22, KAC 25 | Fort +8, Ref +6, Will +5 | Init +7; clearsight goggles, darkvision 60 ft, low-light vision; Perception +7 | Active conditions: none [hyper used, reroll used]
Borq is the one who's further away from Raia. Qimok is the one who's now in her spell.
Qimok was about to follow his own advice and move, but then Raia's spell gives him an advantage that he's unwilling to give up. He spins his curve blade, slicing furiously at the ooze.
holy carbon steel curve blade, -4 full attack, +2 harrying fire:1d20 + 12 - 4 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 12 - 4 + 2 = 30, damage (S):1d10 + 13 ⇒ (4) + 13 = 17 Sadly, oozes are immune to critical hits, so no extra damage or bleed. holy carbon steel curve blade, -4 full attack:1d20 + 12 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 12 - 4 = 11, damage (S):1d10 + 13 ⇒ (4) + 13 = 17
LG male skittermander gladiator soldier 7 (armored storm, powered armor jockey) | SP 24/70, HP 65/65, RP 4/8 | Speed 30 ft. | EAC 22, KAC 25 | Fort +8, Ref +6, Will +5 | Init +7; clearsight goggles, darkvision 60 ft, low-light vision; Perception +7 | Active conditions: none [hyper used, reroll used]
All of the oozes except for Red are staggered, so get no reactions until after 7 rounds of slow. Allowing the PCs to move without getting clobbered with AoO's repeatedly was the clincher on me deciding to burn that boon!
Oh, and I forgot to specify that Qimok was full attacking Violet, but I hope that was obvious.
Qimok hits Violet once (-31)
Keskodai smashes into Yellow (-70)
Borq goes for Violet, managing to avoid Orange (-56)
Trouway also goes for Violet (-81)
Sorry I got BOrq and QImok's icons mixed up. Staggered is a game changer. That was a great play. I think I can steer the microbots. But even if I can't they'll swarm red, so if you need to move, go ahead.
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O kind and benevolent GM phaeton_nz, Could you please give me a ruling on steering the microbots? I quoted the text of the spell in my previous post.
"Trouway, get out of there. There's an ooze behind you. If you can get closer to Qimok, your ooze will also be attacked by my spell. "
Raia steps back a few steps while maintaining concentration on her spell.
If you go straight north 6 squares, you'll eat an AoO from Red, but violet and yellow are staggered I think. If red follows it will end up in my spell and be easier to put down. Just an option.
