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Adept walked quite along way back with the others, remaining silent. He debriefed his part in the mission, as required, and took in the briefs of the others. It was a wonder they'd survived, but they had, thanks in great part to the healers with their squad.. He had a lot of valuable experience now.
The Adept lashes at the giant with another forty-five-foot tether, each one wrapping around the giant to impede his movement.
Adept reaches forward, lashing at the creature with a tether of crystal chunks and force energy.
Adept moves up and reaches forward, lashing at the creature with a tether of crystal chunks and force energy.
Adept will try to get to him, or at least where he can reach his arm into rubble to touch Daimargh, and warp him to the surface.
I'm in the same boat. Knowing the game is about fun and fighting and survival is a low chance and even if we survive the game is still over, I dont care what anyone does as long as its fun.
Adept continues removing debris, shunting it into his extradimensional room. He is straining, but continues the work, though it tires and pains him to do so.
Adept addresses those who ended up in his room. "We should free the others. Let's get this rubble and throw it in the back of the room. Pile it up, make a safe space outside the room, try to get the others. A short time after I leave this room, it will collapse and all contents will spill out, so we want to be out of the way when that happens. Can you sense how many others are alive?" On that note, Adept begins using telekinesis to move large chunks from beyond the shimmering portal to the material rubble into the back of his room.
If the roof looks to be collapsing, Adept will step into an extradimensional room, as he did before. Likewise, as before, the party may also enter for their own protection.
Feeling very surrounded, the Adept gestures and intones a protection spell, of sorts. A globe of spinning crystal blades erupts around the group, whirling and encasing all foolish enough to approach!
Adept is hit by a bolt in the meat of his thigh. The pain, while severe, does nothing to impede his preferred form of movement that doesn't require legs.
The adept once again summons a snaking tether of crystalline material, attaching it to the ground and using it to propel himself forward at an enemy! He strikes with a nine-foot blade made of crystal, stabbing at an enemy in hopes of encasing it in the same crystal!
Adept will take total defense this round, waiting for the ambush to appear.
"These families picked a poor place to be."
The Adept will teleport on person at a time in the order they approach him.
::I can teleport us past the line, with the same slowness as before. Or if everyone has their own way this time, I can just teleport myself.::
The adept ends up separated from the group and runs into a commander of the enemy troops, and reacts quickly by encasing the man in a wall of living, slashing crystal.
explanation: Relevant text: 1 SP: Cure (1d8+12): As a standard action, you may spend a spell point to touch a target and heal it an amount of damage equal to 1d8 + your caster level. This is a positive energy effect, and as such may be used to harm undead (Will half). +0 SP: Greater Healing: Your cure effect heals 2 points per caster level instead of 1 point per caster level. You may take this talent a total of 4 times. Each time this talent is taken, increase the amount healed by 1 hit point per caster level, to a maximum of 5 hit points per caster level. +1 SP: Mass Healing You may spend an additional spell point when using a cure or invigorate to affect an additional creature per 2 caster levels (minimum: 1). All targets must be within range. So, with the Cure base ability and greater healing, i'd do 1d8+12 (the +12 being +2 per CL at CL 6). I've only taken the talent once. Mass healing, at CL 6, gives me 3 additional targets, so 4 total targets. I hit 4 people for 1d8+12 each, which if i choose people in the collective, means the Vitalist can play with a total of 4d8+48 HP. Not normally all that powerful, just like a really good level 1 or 2 Cure spell for 4 different people. The fact that it is all at once coupled with the fact that it can all be played with in the Collective makes it really good. Costs me 2 SP.
"Any healing would be best done before leaving the hall." Once everyone else is out, the Adept reaches out with a tendril of gravitic crystals to tether himself to the ground and slowly lowers himself down and lands 40ft away from the erstwhile dimensional pocket's door.
Adept faces the impending explosion, waves his hands in two circles in front of him, and shouts "In here!" as a shimmering portal appears in front of him perpindicular to the direction of the impending explosion. Those looking into the portal see a hallway 20ft wide and 30ft deep. To demonstrate it efficacy, the Adept flees inside of it.
The Adept reaches out with a tendril of telekinetically-fastened crystal shards that erupt from his body, latches on to the wall, and lifts himself up. He whips his body around like the end of a flail, his arm elongating into a deadly blade that slashes at one of the fools attacking Gigantos before pulling his body back to relative safety behind Gigantos.
::Next.:: the Adept transmits over the thought-link, handing the rope that was dropped to the next person he shunted to the top. ::Please affix the rope to something so that the next person can start climbing.::
::Well, choose amongst yourselves whom I will warp next, and it shall be done.::
::Well, I can send you up one at a time unless someone up top finds a rope or ladder. If one of you has a rope, I will send you up first. Traveling instantaneously through space is not my specialty.::
Yeah. Maybe you could look for a ladder or a rope while you're up there? It'll reduce their Climb DC by a lot. If not, I can still Warp one of them up per round so we will get up there eventually.
well, looks like i am burning SP to pop you all up there then. It's all good, your damages would outweigh the extra D6 those SP would have done for me.
I can't port you in a lull, i have to be next to you. So either you go next or take your 5% success. or find a ladder. haha
The Adept will warp the giant up to the wall.
The golem's death throes sent chunks of itself flying everywhere in a last-ditch attempt to damage the fortress per its last command. Unfortunately, one such chunk the size of a small stable landed a few paces behind the Adept, and the resultant explosion threw him several dozen feet forward to land prone before rolling and sliding in a manner that would have been comical if it weren't for the pain. Stands, somehow still alive.
Yeah. I had trouble keeping the party up in a Dark Sun game where I played a Vitalist because Athas is a deadly place, where every day is a 20 on the fate dice. The collective is good, but every PP you spend adding a member takes away from the healing that each member receives, so it's a balancing act. But once we got a cleric in our party, it was sooooo nice to be able to do something besides react to damage. Also it was really nice that my Vitalist took down the BBEG using FEELINGS. I was playing a (Life Leech) Vitalist and i turned a huge attack the BBEG did against me (trying to take out the healer, because BBEGs are smart) back against the BBEG, killing him.
honestly, i dont think Vitalists, by themselves, are all that much better than clerics. Psionic healing is less effective than magical healing when you consider what effects from from what resource use. Consider Body Adjustment (BA) psionic power. before they reach ML 3, they would use the Natural Healing (NH) power.
Now consider a cleric at the same CL
Cleric wins. But there's a Faith trait that gives one more HP healed with cure, so that edges cleric even further. Then at level 6 a cleric with the heal domain gets a 50% boost in all their healing, blowing Vitalist out of the water. This is without taking into account that a 5th level Vitalist only gets enough PP to do a max (5pp) power five times (assuming they have an 18 in their manifesting stat, that is a total of seven times).
The cleric (if using spells solely to heal as the vitalist above, with the same 18 in the casting stat) at 5th level gets 3x3rd, 4x2nd, 5x1st level heals.
Now add one level.
So we are at 141 for the 6th level Vitalist and 393.75 for the 6th level cleric. I don't have time to get into the cleric's Channeling for heals or the Vitalist's class abilities regarding heals, so maybe the Vitalist gets the edge there, but i doubt its edge garners it the 252.75 points healed needed to catch up to the Cleric (more than that including the Cleric's channels) ========================================================= Where it gets REALLY silly for healing is when you have Vitalist + Cleric (or mass heal talent from life sphere). I was playing a Vitalist in a Dark Sun game and we had a Cleric as well; this situation comes forth in this gestalt game because we have a similar situation (though it's the same person for both classes). This is due to the Collective feature moving "points healed" around like it does, coupled with an area heal spell or channel. Since it specifically says you can move overages, a party of four level 6 characters can really work some magic. The Cleric does a 3d6 channel with 3 allies around, that is 12d6 of heals that can be allocated as needed. Even more so with the Life Sphere. And if there are more than 4 people in the collective getting hit with the channel, that can be some truly ridiculous amounts of healing going on. EDIT: Vitalist can augment their powers by spending 1 PP to add one more collective member, but I don't want to run all the numbers for every possible permutation by Manifester level and party size to determine the most optimal numbers.
The Adept hangs off the back of the golem by a tether, just outside the antimagic field, and heals himself.
::How is everyone?:: the Adept asks over the mental link provided by the dwarf.
Agreed! Haha
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