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There is a blink.

Twinkle in the sky.

A star.

And Apoc is no more…

Nature (Expert): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17
Hero Point
Nature (Expert): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26

"The firmament above is ancient. Patient. We observe only now, from here, what has already long ago come to pass. Teaching us how to conduct ourselves. It is very terrestrial to think of different civilizations as competing needlessly"

Apoc reminds them of their celestial duty

Apoc rises "Anything you have not already cultivated, you can learn from others how to. All stars are born, but some collide into one another, combining energies in new ways"

Nature (Expert): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15
Will Hero Point a CF only

Apoc rises "What energy and good will we put out into the cosmos makes a circle around, encompassing us all, bound by the same forces" his obscurity...

Society (Trained): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

...may have the correct tone to invite agreement?

Apoc remains standing, but refrains from engagement.

He never understood the concept of taxes, hindering his ability to speak to them, let alone make some sort of impassioned argument...

Speaking simply and carrying a large stick, Apoc stands up "A new galaxy forms from a single burst of light. Sometimes when it is time to begin, it is best to simply begin" and sits down.

Society (Trained): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23

Stabilize w/ Medicine: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26

Apoc leashes cool water upon the fallen beast…

Apoc moves his massive leg to "kick" the remaining elemental - it topples down just missing Storg and Aldonza!

◆) Parry (to AC 23)
◆◆) Timber

Basic Reflex vs DC 19 (blunt) vs Yellow: 4d4 ⇒ (1, 1, 3, 3) = 8

His staff trained in the air, whirling like a pool, particles of water orbit around our celestial hero - he keeps his galactic eye on every portal within 30 feet!

◆) Parry (to AC 23)
◆◆) Ready to Blast
↺) Deflecting Wave (Reduce Blunt or Slashing damage by 5; Fire or Acid by 10)

Focusing on the most wounded of the two, both within reach, Apoc conserves energy, drawing a gravitic pulse into his core to birth a new star…

◆) Recharge
◆◆) Spellstrike w/ Gouging Claw
↺) Deflecting Wave (Reduce Blunt or Slashing damage by 5; Fire or Acid by 10)

Spellstrike w/ Staff (B, 2h, reach) w/ Cascade (+1 force) w/ Gouging Claw (4d6 piercing, 4 bleed) vs Elemental: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (15) + 14 = 292d8 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (4, 4) + 4 + 1 = 134d6 ⇒ (6, 4, 2, 2) = 144 = 4

The sea intervenes to blunt the wing bat. Apoc's body resalts.

↺) Deflecting Wave (Reduce Slashing dameg by 5)
◆◆) Spellstrike w/ Gouging Claw
◆) Arcane Cascade
↺) Deflecting Wave (Reduce Blunt or Slashing damage by 5; Fire or Acid by 10)

Spellstrike w/ Staff (B, 2h, reach) w/ Gouging Claw (4d6 piercing, 4 bleed) vs Yellow Air Creature: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (2) + 14 = 162d8 + 4 ⇒ (7, 8) + 4 = 194d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 2, 6) = 184 = 4

Salty shards coalesce into flesh-cutting spikes around his spinning longstaff - he cracks the flying creature onto the ground with it, arcane ocean energy spraying gently in a radius around him. His attached mollusks begin to swirl!

Apoc gathers his elemental aura, and readies a blast at the first creature to emerge...

◆) Gather
◆◆) Ready to Blast

Believing constellation #10 to be one that re-centers his gravity, Apoc mistakingly misinterprets it's symbol, and stands upon it in good faith of his own assessment...

GM, no idea what #10 does, but please apply it's effects...

Astronomy Lore (Expert): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12

Apoc interprets the symbols closest to him on the floor for his eager teammates…

Kesstraka marvels at Apoc. “Tell me of the lands that you come from. What is your peoples’ greatest achievement, the thing you are most proud to show to the rest of the world?”

Apoc takes a generous interpretation, to say the least, of the iruxi’s request ”For it was that there was a long time that I was but a speckle of dust awaiting incarnation. What you might call a “star” was my “land” and “people”. It is this circumstance that gave rise to my body as you see it, for as I emerged from the ocean, so it was that I began to be who you see before you. Unfortunately, I believe our greatest achievement is before us” it may be inferred here that he is claiming all sentient species (maybe more?) in his definition of “his people” ”I am trying to understand your question, and wonder if you your intended subject is the disconnected individuality that constitutes the shell that houses my spirit, my soul. Yes. I am “proud” that I can participate in this cosmic movement as a protector. That I am here.”

Without further explanation, feeling his reply sufficient. He makes no moves to hurry his host along.

Astronomy Lore (Expert): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30

Apoc will take his part in patching up the party...

Per our SOP here

Storg to Treat Wounds (Medicine, Trained) vs DC 15: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 142d8 ⇒ (5, 6) = 11 vs Heavy wounds
Apoc to Treat Wounds (Medicine, Trained) vs DC 15: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 162d8 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7 vs Moderate wounds
Tharpe to Treat Wounds (Medicine, Trained) vs DC 15: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 242d8 ⇒ (1, 8) = 9 vs Light wounds
Critical Success: 2d8 ⇒ (8, 6) = 14

+0 for Slipp, +7 for Aldonza, +19 for Apoc (w/ Pearly White Spindle) in 10 minutes

Apoc finishes the lizard off!

◆) Parry
◆◆) Strike x2

Staff (B, 2h, reach) vs Last Basilisk: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (19) + 14 = 332d8 + 4 ⇒ (4, 4) + 4 = 12
Staff (B, 2h, reach) w/ MAP (-5) vs Last Basilisk: 1d20 + 14 - 5 ⇒ (4) + 14 - 5 = 132d8 + 4 ⇒ (4, 3) + 4 = 11

Fortitude vs Gaze (DC 20) w/ Avert (+2): 1d20 + 13 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 13 + 2 = 22

◆) Avert Gaze
◆) Spinning Staff (Two Foes @ First then Second most damaged)
◆) Shield (to AC 23)
↺) Shield Block (hardness 10)

Staff (B, 2h, parry, reach) vs Foe One: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (12) + 14 = 262d8 + 4 ⇒ (7, 2) + 4 = 13
Staff (B, 2h, parry, reach) w/ MAP (-5) vs Foe Two: 1d20 + 14 - 5 ⇒ (18) + 14 - 5 = 272d8 + 4 ⇒ (1, 4) + 4 = 9

Blind, Apoc “feels” the subtle air shifts around him whereupon his stone-hearted foes dwell - and spins his staff to crack them!

Seeing his wizard ally move to safety, Apoc unleashes on the closest basilisk to him, bringing his staff down like a comet careening through the atmosphere ablaze with incinerating velocity!

◆) Avert Gaze (+2 vs Petrifying Gaze)
◆◆) Spellstrike w/ Ignition
↺) Deflecting Wave (Reduce triggering blunt or slashing damage by 5, acid or fire damage by 10)

Spellstrike w/ Staff (B, 2h, reach) w/ Ignition (4d6 fire) vs Green Basilisk: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (19) + 14 = 332d8 + 4 ⇒ (2, 2) + 4 = 84d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 4, 5) = 13

Apoc closes his eyes, but "opens" his galaxy, viewing the creatures from a distance, and consulting the ancient matter stored in his core for a clue as to what may have caused their host to have turned to stone.

The tides gather around his trunk.

◆) Avert Gaze (+2 vs Petrifying Gaze)
◆) Recall Knowledge (Special Attacks? Energy Types?)
◆) Channel Elements
↺) Deflecting Wave (Reduce triggering blunt or slashing damage by 5, acid or fire damage by 10)

Apoc, unable to properly sort papers by bureaucratic priority instead assigns each one a constellation based on how small the handwriting font is, and assembles them accordingly...

Astronomy Lore (Expert): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17

Deeply confused by the antics of civilized governments, Apoc scratches his head nob…

Society (Trained): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

No strong opinion vis Translate or Bribe…

Apoc opens his chest - a minigalactic supernova bangs outward, assailing the gargoyle with missiles made of starstuffs - he whirlwinds here, the staff an orbital crashlanding of wood, cracking at least one of the remaining observatory occupiers down permanently.

Force Barrage (Rank Three) @ Paravax (4 Shooting Stars): 4d4 + 4 ⇒ (2, 2, 2, 4) + 4 = 14

◆◆) Force Barrage
◆) Spinning Staff (Two Foes @ Paravax, Green, and/or Red in order)

Staff (B, 2h, parry, reach) vs Foe One: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (19) + 14 = 332d8 + 4 ⇒ (3, 4) + 4 = 11
Staff (B, 2h, parry, reach) w/ MAP (-5) vs Foe Two: 1d20 + 14 - 5 ⇒ (5) + 14 - 5 = 142d8 + 4 ⇒ (1, 8) + 4 = 13

Reversing course, the energy snap reverts to single point in space, and the Awakened Prime of Celestia glows with infinite possibility!

Just as the mass of particles reaches a critical juncture of pre-expansion, a disturbance created by the gargoyle's sudden movements inverts the gravitic pulse, dilating the energy with equal and opposite polarity, forcing it's dispersal into an alternate universe which exists discrete from this one.

And so, Apoc whirls his staff, and faces off hand-to-hand with the stone menace, charging his implement with overflowing primal energy, and raising it against the beast's maw, trying to block it's gnash.

↺) Shield Block (10 hardness)
◆◆) Spellstrike
◆) Parry (to AC 23)

Spellstrike w/ Staff (B, 2h, parry, reach) and Gouging Claw (S, 4d6) vs Paravax: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (15) + 14 = 292d8 + 4 ⇒ (2, 3) + 4 = 94d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 6, 4) = 13

"All creatures are gods in their own rite. But if we cannot appreciate the divinity in all things, then a blight upon our world have we become"

Apoc casts Enlarge while he makes his point.

"No tribute today, Paravaax. I am the Protector, and if you cannot exist in harmony with those whose land you share, then I am here to reclaim this Observatory for those descended from those that built it"

Apoc looks for tracks of the Sod Hound, and, if they head into one of the entrances, follows, leading the party from the frontline.

Survival (*) +9

Staff pointing forward, he channels gentle arcane magic through it - a little galaxy of stars swirling like a milky way - ready for danger to strike.

"Defend" aka Repeat a Spell w/ Shield (AC 23)

Apoc gets onto the water, and log paddles across!

Swim (Athletics, Trained) w/ Underwater Marauder vs DC 15: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27

Apoc, inside of his massive, trunken body, looks at the thin, barely supported rope.

Then he looks towards the rushing waves of the river - not unlike an ocean, but with greater, more focused force.

He considers his options, wondering how difficult of a swim it may be.

Any way to estimate the Swim DC?

Apoc imagines himself Leaping across, and assessing the surrounding vegetation, wonders if he can do so without having to Balance...

Apoc tosses the mop to the floor, and kindly accepts the gifted Scrollstaff of Striking.

”We shall protect you on your pilgrimage to the observatory - I too am excited to once again see the stars up close…” he swears himself to Lumki.

↺) Deflecting Wave (Reduce triggering blunt or slashing damage by 5, acid or fire damage by 10)

Expecting a counterattack, a gravitic pulse draws a salty wave to crash on the face of the sod, blunting it’s strike…

Second strike vs Blue who is adjacent

Whirling with the force of a tsunami, Apoc crashes the mop into both hounds, his central galaxy glowing as with a supernova!

◆) Stride
◆) Spinning Staff
◆) Parry (to AC 23)

Staff (2h, reach) w/ Cascade (1 force) vs Pink: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (18) + 14 = 322d8 + 4 ⇒ (8, 7) + 4 = 191 = 1
Staff (1h, agile) w/ map (-4) w/ Cascade (1 force) vs Pink: 1d20 + 14 - 4 ⇒ (14) + 14 - 4 = 242d6 + 4 ⇒ (2, 3) + 4 = 91 = 1

Seeing the Red Hound flee, our cosmic here nods "Good"

◆◆) Spellstrike w/ Gouging Claw
◆) Arcane Cascade
↺) Deflecting Wave (Reduce triggering blunt or slashing damage by 5, acid or fire damage by 10)

Spellstrike w/ Staff (B, 2h, reach) and Gouging Claw (4d6 P) vs Yellow: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 222d8 + 4 ⇒ (4, 4) + 4 = 124d6 ⇒ (2, 6, 3, 2) = 13

Primal energy now infuses Apoc's staff - it grows vicious spikes as it crashes into the Yellow Hound, impaling it. Corresponding thorns sprout from his exoskeleton, glowing with gravitic buoyancy.

His central galaxy dilates into an infinitely small and dense hole - and for a moment, all is dark! - but then, with a primal sound that reverberates with concentric tremors, a gravitic pulse draws nearby ocean water into orbit our cosmic hero - not unlike a cold ring around a large planet! - an Aqueous Ellipse of Hydrokinetic Potential.

"Hound of Sod, you attack without reason - I must make an example" Rising his wooden staff over his head, it comes crushing down to shatter the fallen beast, beating it back into the earth from whence it came!

◆) Recall Knowledge
◆) Channel Elements
◆) Strike
↺) Deflecting Wave (Reduce triggering blunt or slashing damage by 5, acid or fire damage by 10)

Staff of Striking (B, 2h, parry, reach, trip) vs Red (prone): 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (15) + 14 = 292d8 + 4 ⇒ (7, 8) + 4 = 19

◆) Recall Knowledge (Q: Special Attacks? Or Special Defenses?)
◆◆) ??

The galaxy at our cosmic hero’s core swirls with curiosity - he tries to make sense of the constellations from multiple angles…

Apoc swears an oath "We will deal with the Paravaax menace, using whatever means are at our disposal"

When the party is mustered, he leads branch first, the former-mop-staff glowing with soft indigo light.

Explore ➤ Repeat a Spell w/ Shield (AC 23)

”I can speak” Apoc raises his hand, switching into Mwangi ”The ocean. She housed me for a long time before my body assembled itself. And I call her my home of homes. Now, I am am a protector of the planet, with my friends here, on this gigantic floating turtle” he indicates the ship ”And serving in the role of Prime Communicator. If you speak the tongue, I will be silent on your behalf. To listen. But if an intermediary is needed, I can function in that role”

Walking forward with his mop turned walking stick bracing his weight and punctuating his slow, trunken steps, our cosmic hero comes in peace.

Shrinking back down to size, Apoc approaches Tharpe, and slaps some seaweed on his wounds.

Treat Wounds (Medicine, Trained) vs DC 15: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 292d8 ⇒ (3, 3) = 6
Critical Success: 2d8 ⇒ (8, 6) = 14
+20 HPs for Tharpe

"You defended well" he tries to honor his efforts.

"I'm sorry"

In Apoc's wooden hands, charged with green primal energy, thorns grow from the head of the map where once there was soggy rope - he sweeps the devil leader from the deck with a powerful swing, tossing his limp form back into the depths from which he came, right in front of the crocodile waiting below...

◈◈) Spellstrike
◈) Shield (to AC 22 w/ Clumsy)
↺) Shield Block (hardness 10)

Spellstrike Mop (B, 2h, parry, reach, trip) w/ Enlarge (+2) w/ Cascade (1 force) w/ Gouging Claw (4d6 Piercing) vs Final Devil (Flanked): 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (9) + 14 = 232d8 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (2, 6) + 4 + 2 = 141 = 14d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 6, 1) = 13

The situation escalates. Despite his objections, Apoc realizes that a failure to repel the oncoming force could easily mean casualties from among his own team. After all, they did board the floating seaturtle by their own will and with hostile intent, and ignored two warnings...

He strikes to kill!

◈ Stride
◈ Strike (15-ft reach w/ Enlarge stack Twisting Tree)
◈ Shield
↺) Shield Block (Hardness 10)

Staff of Striking (B, 2h, parry, reach, trip) w/ Cascade (1 force) vs Black Leader: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 172d8 + 4 ⇒ (3, 4) + 4 = 111 = 1

"Please" Apoc continues as he non-lethally dispatches the totally-outclassed sea devils. His power seething like the cosmos, he restrains his great strength at the prospect of retaining greater life of the sea, his home.

◈ Stride
◈ Non-lethal Strike (15-ft reach w/ Enlarge stack Twisting Tree)
◈ Shield
↺) Shield Block (Hardness 10)

Staff of Striking (B, 2h, parry, reach, trip) w/ Cascade (1 force) w/ Non-lethal (-2) vs Blue Devil (Prone): 1d20 + 14 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 14 - 2 = 212d8 + 4 ⇒ (3, 8) + 4 = 151 = 1

Unable to understand the rogue’s strange words - nor the assumptions underlying them! - Apoc nevertheless recognizes the display of comradeship for what it is. Heading to the breach, one strong wooden hand tears the mop head from it’s shaft, and, gripping it with a surge of glowing purple arcane power that emanates from the centralized galaxy at his core, the Awakened Prime of Celestia transforms the mop stick into a staff of great power - shooting out 8 feet in either direction, and darkening in barkish palor, it whirls with speed and force in the conrasu’s ample hands, until he reaches into the water with his expanded form and swats away one of the approaching sea devils.

”Halt your front - we must pass undisturbed”

Striking non-lethally!

◈ Stride
◈ Interact to Swap
◇ Regrip
◈ Strike (15-ft reach w/ Enlarge stack Twisting Tree)

Staff of Striking (B, 2h, parry, reach, trip) w/ Cascade (1 force) w/ Non-lethal (-2) vs Yellow Devil: 1d20 + 14 - 2 ⇒ (7) + 14 - 2 = 192d8 + 4 ⇒ (8, 5) + 4 = 171 = 1

Feeling the zenith of his own tremendous power - and watching his allies’ pre-emptive strikes land lethally - he makes a desperate plea: ”Please”

Earlier

Someone had handed him a mop.
A staff really, with some textile knots attached at one head.
It's utility completely lost to our conrasu hero - he presumed it to be akin to a ceremonial sword.

Now

Couple days in and Apoc was blasting the deck clean with a jet of water when lo, sea devils spotted some 120+ feet out! Preparing to defend his crew, his central galaxy (his heart!) glows with millions of tiny twinkling lights - a miniature wormhole opens, and... his mass re-orients itself, dilating vastly in three dimensions as his construct body absorbs a fraction of the surplus energy!

Expanding to great size, the little starfish accentuating each of his joints begin to spin excitedly!

◆◆) Enlarge
◆) Arcane Cascade
↺) Deflecting Wave (If attacked, resist [5] vs blunt or slashing, or [10] vs acid or fire)

Unable to comprehend the vessel he is upon - akin perhaps to floating on the back of a gigantic turtle - the Awakened Prime of Celestia struggles to find a "job" around the shipdeck his first day (and first time!) aboard. But soon, he notices that everyone else busies themselves with more important tasks such as playing music, tending to magical maintenance, and keeping watch from the crows nest. So. He satisfies himself with occasionally blasting clean the surfaces of the deck itself, so that his shipmates have no problems slipping over troubled waters.

A hydrokinetic swabbie!

Nature (Expert) +11
Society (Trained) +9

”Why exchange necessitates more than a simple constellation of people agreeing to mutual benefit” leaving off the subject of the sentence, Apoc consults his center galaxy, scrying it for insight into the geography and the complex interactions of civilizations as he has observed them yet…

Over the firmament, a star twinkles.

Upon the dirt, a pool of mud lurks.

From it's depth, a saproling, just under the surface, begins reach for the sky.

And Lo!

Down from the heavens themselves, with nary a sound, just a flash of light, appears a creature in the shape of a tree, soppy and salty and wet, decorated by starfish at each joint, aglow at it's very core: a miniature galaxy spirals with speckled light, serving it's attached body as a "heart" of sorts. It blinks once, twice. Looks around.

"I can be called Apoc" it greets the next creature to arrive!

Awakened Prime of Celestia is a Conrasu whose essence was born of the first star at the universe’s beginning, stranded for millennia as one of trillions of nameless particles at the bottom of the ocean, liberated by an astrological event that caused a piece of driftwood to fuse with what would become his cosmic core!

His own First Contact with Golarion thus being very recent, the planet, he has decided, it is his purpose to protect…

A remastered Twisting Tree Magus / Hydrokineticist achieved of Level 5

His player is down with the proposed slower pace, adores “series” style of play, and is willing to burn the replay for the scenario he hasn’t run since pathfinder’s first year, unless GM can muster enough of a critical mass who is green to either / both scenarios in which case he will gladly step aside

Stowing his greattrunk upon his back, the magic that swirled around our cosmic hero comes to rest, and shrinking back down to his typical size, Apoc helps Halran and Dura up.

He is glad that he never had to strike Thisnabel.

She was nice to him.

"I'm sorry"

Apoc tries to finish off Halran (again), two shooting stars assault him from his central galaxy slam into the fighter! - then, he focuses upon Dura, finding himself unable to attack Thisnabel, who was nice to him...

Magic Missile @ Halran: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 31d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

~) Inexorable Iron (+2 temporary HPs)
◆◆) Magic Missile @ Halran
◆) Strike @ Dura

Striking Greatclub (blunt, backswing, reach, shove) w/ Arcane Cascade (+1) w/ Enlarged (+2) vs Dura: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 252d10 + 4 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (9, 7) + 4 + 1 + 2 = 23