Given that my turn involves reacting to things that happen, no I really cannot. I can hardly be bogging things down when three other people have yet to post their actions for this turn. Given I am possibly the most regular poster in this game I dont see me as the cause of any slowness.
Watch out shouts Anariel, The invisible enemy is just behind and above the yellow Astradaemon. A way above but even so.
With that Anariel quickens a spell, causing an explosion of colourful lights to illuminate the invisible enemy.
Casting quickened glitterdust, it does not allow for SR. The invisible enemy should be revealed and needs to make a DC27 will save or be blinded with a new save at the end of every round.
She then focuses her mind, drawing on reserves of arcane power and unleashes a powerful burst at the nearest astradaemon (blue). BEGONE she roars.
Following it up with a persistent dismissal on blue, spending an arcane pool point to increase the DC and using metamagic mastery to negate the increased casting time.
Take care Anariel rumbles, These are astradaemons, their very touch drains your life force and they appear to be able to cast enegy drain. Her voice holds a trace of concern perhaps.
With that she makes a long swooping circuit of the group with her enhanced flight speed, trying to find the unndetectable enemy.
Taking a movee action to fly around the group to see if the enemy pops up on my blindnsense radar. I have a fly speed of 120. I will use 115 of it as I may want to use dimensional slide as part of it. My standard an swift actions may depend on if I spot them
Given the giant storm going on Anariel wards the group with communal electricity resistance, makes sure her ring of invisibility is active and casts mirror image before they fly up to the top of skyreach.
Images:1d4 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
Anariel flies forward and up a bit to get a closer look at the wird red spinning disc.
Rising to 170', making an active perception check and I will roll a knowledge check in case it is relevant. I have no intention of going any closer to what certainly looks like an obnvious trap until I have checked it out for danger.
Perception:1d20 + 36 ⇒ (12) + 36 = 48 Knowledge:1d20 ⇒ 19 +39 unless engineering or geography in which case it is +22
Also, I think Fletch lost his mass fly spell to the dispel. Grognar, could you provide him with an air walk please, I would rather not use another level 7 spell slot for one person.
You have no idea what would happen if you all choose to dawdle for even a second, so no time for any buffs besides a method of flight (you could obviously re-cast some stuff during that ten-minute period in the Repository, but that’s the last time you could do so).
I'd be willing to make an exception if all of those were quickened, though.
I missed that. I assume I could reup mind blank while we wait around for Zurnzals timer to expire and reactivate my ring of invisibility. Are eny enemies visible to us? I would reume Sun Giant form to get up there, is annything visible to 40' blindsight or see invisibility?
I don't know of it affects anything but I rolled my own SR penetration and got a 44. I would also cast some buffs before we go up given what we see. Mostly it's likely to be renewing shield and mirror image along with communal electricity resist on everyone and renewing mind blank.
Anariel, in elemental form, sinks into the ground and earth glides away from the horrible thing that tried to bite her. Popping out of the ground next to Thereus she grins at him, This adventuring lark is exciting, isn't it! before turning back to the monstrosity lurking beyond the wall of fog. With a wave of one hand she sends a barrage of glowing blue orbs through the fog to smash into the creature.
Casting Battering Blast, spending an arcane pool point to increase my caster level to 21 so that I get an extra orb. Blindsight means I suffer no miss chance for the fog.
Freebooters bane may well also apply to those adding 3 to each attack and damage and to the bull rush below.
Bullrush, Int mod (14) +CL (21) +30, one roll per orb that hits:4d20 ⇒ (6, 12, 14, 3) = 35 for a 79.
If that pushes it then it needs to make a DC31 reflex save or be knocked prone, assuming it can be which I doubt given its a giant worm but you never know.
That is my turn, no swift action for me this turn as I used an immediate. If it tries to bite me again I am likly to EFS again.
I moved to ground level on my last turn and I will certainly EFS that bite attack which will also negate the cone of cold on me
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Anariel flies forward and down, to ground level, bringing both enemies into range of her blindsight. Peering through the fog she can also see one of them!
If they both survived then at the end of her turn Anariel switches form to that of a medium earth elemental, contracting her size away from the horrid things. Statline will be updated momentarily.
Settling into position Anariel breathes out two quick, enormous blasts of flame at the twin centipede monstrosities.
Defensively casting empowered, intensified dragons breath, using a use of metamagic adept to negate the cast time increase followed by quickened intensified dragons breath. Depending on the outcome I may take a free action at the end of my turn to change my shape.
Anariel flies forward and down, to ground level, bringing both enemies into range of her blindsight. Peering through the fog she can also see one of them!
With a flicker Anariel once again changes her form to that of a massive golden yellow giant. She quickly weaves a spell around herself, vanishing from sight. Suddenly a beam of acid lashes out from empty air through the fog.
Free action to switch to sun giant form so I can access my gear if needed, casting greater invisibility, followed by quickened intensified dragons breath for 60' line of acid and then 5' stepping to try and vaguelly conceal her location. Stat line is updated with sun giant stats.
Anariel sighs a little, I really dont like letting him go. I suggest, once we are done with this situation we hunt him down and explain why his actions were not appropriate. In the meantime lets grab that scroll and restore Grognar. Xanaphia, can you activate it for us please.
If we let him go we may as well agree to his terms. After all, if he has lied then I can totally find him in about 10 minutes with discern location and I can assure you if I have to do that the rest of your life will be short and unpleasant Zurnzal.
As I have run this I am leaving this decision to the rest of you. I will delay for the moment but will act before the enemies go next if the decision is taken to fight.
In which case I would use my move action to move, to avoid detection. She will fly up to the roof, how high is the ceiling?
Stealth, heroism, invis:1d20 + 19 + 2 + 20 ⇒ (9) + 19 + 2 + 20 = 50 She currently has a fly speed of 120', stealthing at half speed, flyng upwards at half speed, she can rise 30' and take no penalty. Her stealth includes the the penalties for being huge currently
Anariel would not take an opportunity attack. She also would not have done nothing in a surprise round. While she is unlikely to have initiated the attack she would at least have delayed to see what Zurnzal was going to do. Having seen what he did she would certainly react.
Assuming this is a surprise round
You complete ARSE! Why in all the nine hells did you do that! I said we wanted to talk. FINE!
With that she casts another spell and then blasts him with a bolt of acid, trying to get any others she can perceive beyond the fog walls as well.
Anariel casts greater invisibility followed by intensified, quickened dragons breath. It can be a 30' cone or 60' line of acid, whichever might best catch the most enemies. If it is just Zurnzal then so be it. She then 5' flies to try and disguise her actual location a bit, just in case.
Anariel, still invisible, shifts her form to that of a huge gold dragon and stretces her senses to see what she can perceive.
Anariel currently has 60' blindsense, 40' blindsight and see invisibility active. Form of the Dragon 3 gives her frightful presence (only activates if she attacks), immunity to fire, 120' darkvision, and DR10/magic
We want you to tell us what the hell has happened here. How did you end up getting the whammie put on you quite so strongly. Then you should probably get out of here and report to Captain Petelunegro, she is organising things in the city.
From the start it looks like we still have "A lone Pathfinder scratches at the door of the Center House with a shortsword." or we could pay a visit to Zurnzal in the Repository.
this is him trying to correct his error. I'm sure based on the interactions Anariel would be telling him he is doing it wrong as he is screwing up. Do we need to get into the building they were looting?
Anariel rolls her eyes at Grognar, Fine, fine, let me waste all of my magical energy dealing with these fools. If we frighten them all they will just scatter all ove the place and this will become even more difficult.
She turns on the group of thieves, You lot! Surrender at once in the name of the Decemvirate! Give up your booty and your weapons and return to Skyreach. Wait there until we have dealt with the current situation and can deal with you!
Casting Mass Suggestion on the group, DC30 will save to resist. I can affect 19 targets, it lasts for 19 hours, hopefully we will have the situation handled one way or another in that time.
On the way to the next group Anariel pops her spellbook out of her glove of storing and flips quicky through the pages to find a less lethal way of dealing with the groups.
Spending an arcane pool point and swopping out chains of light for mass suggestion but waiting to see what the rest do to conserve spell slots.
Anariel begins to swear some more, Now we have Aspis involved and working with Torch. Damn the man. An assassin to boot as well. Best be careful everyone!
What do we do then? Obliterate the other groups of thieves? Not sure I want to waste the magical energy. She turns on the hapless survivor, Where is Torch? If you tell us the truth I might recover your petrified friend once this is all over.
A surprisingly deep voice rumbles from nearby, But hatstands are entirely practical pieces of furniture after which a tornado of magic is unleashed against the would be thieves!
Try to rob us will you! shouts Anariel as she appears floating above the enemy.
Multicoloured magical energy erupts across the group, setting them all to screaming and wailing.
Thief 1:1d8 ⇒ 4, fort save or die
Thief 2:1d8 ⇒ 2, 40 acid, reflex save for half
Thief 3:1d8 ⇒ 8, 2 beams
Thief 4:1d8 ⇒ 3, 80 electricity, reflex save for half
Thief 5:1d8 ⇒ 6, will save or permanently insane
Thief 6:1d8 ⇒ 3, 80 electricity, reflex save for half
Thief 7:1d8 ⇒ 2, 40 acid, reflex save for half
Thief 8:1d8 ⇒ 8, 2 beams
Thief 3, 2 beams, reroll 8's:2d8 ⇒ (4, 5) = 9, fort save or die, fort save or turned to stone
Thief 8, 2 beams, reroll 8's:2d8 ⇒ (7, 8) = 15, will save or sent to another plane
Reroll 8:1d8 ⇒ 5, fort save or turned to stone
I could still take a swift action depending on the outcome
How long has this taken? My scroll of aram zeys focus only lasts for 3 minutes and I dont have a spare. if it runs out I will spend another arcane pool to swop out a spell for it and cas it if necessary
Anariels huge dragon jaws split into a grin. Oh, its like some sort of magical trap but it also is a conduit for some sort of other ritual. I should be able to disable it, but not, I think, in this form, and not without some extra preparations.
With that Anariel changes form back to a troll and draws a scroll from her pack. Activating it she turns into an air elemental, draws her tools from her polymorphic pouch and approaches the pylon.
You might want to stand back a bit.
Using a scroll of Aram Zeys Focus so I can disable magical traps. Has it been more than 19 minutes? If so I will recast bestow insight as well.
Anariel will take the dimension door scroll and two potions. I have an orange prism ioun stone and a competence bonus to saves so the pale green ones doesnt benefit me much.
Arriving at the Mausoleum Anariel scowls, Well, this isnt good. I can burn us a way in without expending any resources if you want to go that route. See if we can find out what's causing all of this?
Shapechange allows her to duplicate Form of the Dragon 3 which gives me a 12d8 breath weapon in a 100' line or 50' cone usable every 1d4 rounds. That should be enough to deal with masses of stacked up undead? It also gives DR10/magic.
