Kali Altzairu's page

Sorry for petering out and showing up late...again.

Boon?: 1d20 ⇒ 18

Nope; just as well, I guess.

*starts snuffing lights and putting up chairs as the camera slowly pans, and fades, out*

Pardon my continued absence; it's been exactly a week now since I got back from Japan, and I've ended up sick almost that whole time, AND the house had some crazy-butt power problems a day or two ago, so I had to spend night before last in a hotel in the town I live in!

Sorry for my extended hiatus; post-international travel syndrome ("unsummoning sickness", one might say). Thanks for the puppet-strings.

"Let the void within you disperse, as these words of power unravel your existence. In the name of virtue, let darkness be no more...."

Kali can hardly help but contemplate Zaigan's invocation.

"How can a void possibly disperse...?"

dice=Kali Reflexd20+11+1-2

Nota Bene, DM: I have already factored my sickness and other modifiers into my stat-line, so you shouldn't add it; my save result there, therefore, should've been '17'. Does that change anything?

Now if you could move me next to Abaal...:

Taking her repeat-'performance' with her javelin as a sign of things to come should she try to fight these things, Kali calmly retreats to alongside Abaal, who receieves a gentle sweeping kick across the backs of his knees.

Improved Trip, sickened, haste: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (13) + 13 = 26

If you’d be so kind as to move me on the map, GM. Thanks!

Same for me; I'm not sure if it's my location, my browser, or both, but it doesn't think I have what I need to paste.

Bald are up.

Uhhhh...Okay.

Meanwhile....

Kali tries tossing a javelin at one of the daemons...

javelin, sickened, haste: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10

...and her first act as a near-Enlightened being is to describe my embarrassment, DM.

Ash staggers out of the room, trying to shield his eyes from any more of the runes. ”Ive never experienced anything like that before,” he whispers.

Dexterity for me - 5 seems good; I'm amazed by the implication it could continue.

Kali follows Ashwell - almost literally floating, in fact - nodding in silent assent. She heads to join Zaigan before his sentence is even finished.

An island toward the center of that pond holds a small plinth, atop which rests an oval stone.

"Ahh, soon we shall get to rescue a handsome plinth!" Intones Kali (whose voice is now starting to get weirdly reverberant) a moment before any of the others even lay eyes on the little island. "But first..."

Kali Will? Kali WILL!!

BTW, am I still sickened? If so, for how much longer?

Wisdom and Strength

Kali gasps in wonder.

Hit me.

Kali remains where she is.

I am ready. Either I am worthy, or I am not. Either way, I get what I deserve.

That explicit enough for you?

FYI, I've got a couple of rerolls to my name in case a side-effect goes too far (not spending it that time around, though).

Power, Kali reflects in silent awe. Personal, pure, and simple.

She stands resolute (if wobbly) before the wall, as reverent as she has ever been before any prior master; she's certainly not going to turn away just because of a little discomfort, what could be more disgraceful???

I am ready.

Disappointed (yet also, to her own deep dismay, relieved) that she was unable to demonstrate her skills against the fallen monks, Kali moves in and is shocked to see the moving writing against the wall.

"What the Hell...?"

She gets closer to investigate.

Might be good for you to post botting instructions on your sheet, unless I just missed it.

Not a bad idea in general (a few of my other characters do already have some), but it's a bit more moot now; made it yesterday, but this is my first time back online.

Greetings from THE WORLD OF TOMORROW - in other words, Japan!!!

I'd do something now, but I think Elby just made THAT a moot point as well!

See Discussion; provided you approve:

While Abaal fumbles with flint and steel, Kali takes out her Wayfinder and lights it like a proper Pathfinder...

Knowledge (Religion), Grand Lodge bonus: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (5) + 13 = 18

...but when she sees what she reveals, she almost regrets it.

"So much for 'they just say that to scare us'...." She says softly; Kali clearly doesn't scare easily, but you notice the normal snide edge is missing from her voice.

HEADS UP:

You should probably assume I will not be reliably available for another 48 hours...because guess where I'm headed?!?

ALSO: I should've mentioned before now I have a Wayfinder - the standard kind that casts light; I don't know if you'd consider this a reasonable retcon that I lit it up when Abaal was fumbling with torches?

Kali nods in silent approval at the group's suspicion; for once, she didn't need to be the voice of -*moment's involuntary squeal as she compulsively self-lacerates with her chains*- reason.

”Dont say I didn’t warn you lot,” Ash grumbles as the rest of the group decide to pass on a possible respite. ”I am specifically putting that in my notes.”

"As one of your mental powers will surely recall, I did try to ask about that in advance; I can hardly say I was satisfied with their response."

She draws a stout little flask full of translucent, tinny-colored liquid and pours it over herself (mage armor potion).

It's also a good time to ask how long it's been since I used my barkskin power.

Kali hangs back, intrigued by the situation; she suspects it would be a mistake to take this situation at face value.

"Can you tell us who bound you?"

"We are the guardians of these ancient halls..." she looks at Zartan.

Her twin continues seamlessly, as if echoing her words: "...our authority is bound to the legacy of the Ruby Sphinxes."

"No others possess the authority to alter the charge." they conclude in harmony.

"Well then," says a familiar voice from behind accompanied by a familiar jankling of chains, "Where are the Ruby Sphinxes?"

"Sorry," She addresses the others after an awkward moment. You notice one of her chains is substantially askew. "I...got stuck on a gargoyle".

Sorry for my extended absence; I guess I needed a even more time away from the Internet than normal..that, and I've been screwing around with a brand-new laptop that I haven't gotten in the habit of coming here on yet.

Why do I have a brand-new laptop? Well, that may be worth mentioning to you later this month....

“The stomping of the rich is not a noise to be ignored in troubled times.
It usually means they are feeling anxious or confused about something, and when the rich feel anxious and confused, they act like wild animals.”

- Hunter S. Thompson

Yeah, that did work.

@Abaal: I was perusing your character sheet, and...just thought you'd want to know, whatever video you linked your "Shield of Swings" to, it appears to have since fallen to the YouTube's ongoing Great Self-Pwnage.

Kali is ready; as Zartan retreats, she practically LEAPS upon the statue...

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32

If necessary to grab/operate/yank out the gem:
generic CMB check (seems like it would make sense): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (9) + 12 = 21

...To get the other one?:
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (10) + 12 = 22

generic CMB check: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32

@Kali 6HD

Okay then: 51 - 3 - 3 - 2 - 1 + 6 - 10 - 6 +8 = 41.

Did you guys want to take care of those scratches before we move on?

"That does sound practical," Replies Kali. Glancing at the paladins, she continues. "Anyone mind doing some of us a favor*"

* = well-known Chelaxian idiom for requesting healing magic (often taken literally by the parsimonious, legal-minded healers predominant in the Infernal Queendom)

As the last tojanida collapses, the water between it and its killer shimmers eerily again, and Kali looks a bit...better.

Either 1 more Ki, or 8 hit points regained!

@DM: How many HD did Blue have? It's important.

No mention of the Acrobatics roll you requested?

Belier's Bite bleed damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Kali replies to Ashwell with an ominous dead-on stare, yet remains silent above the neck while the rest of her relentlessly stomps the yellowish turtle-crab beneath her in a manner that surely defies all comparison to any famous adventurer to have ever come before....

Flurry, haste, height-advantage, flank, Cruelty: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 24
magic/cold iron/silver bludgeoning damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Flurry, haste, height advantage, flank, Cruelty: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (4) + 16 = 20
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 3
magic/cold iron/silver bludgeoning damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Flurry, haste, height advantage, flank, Cruelty: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (5) + 16 = 21
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 35
magic/cold iron/silver bludgeoning damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Flurry, haste, height advantage, flank, Cruelty: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 3
magic/cold iron/silver bludgeoning damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13

Flurry, haste, high ground, flank, Cruelty: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 46
magic/cold iron/silver bludgeoning damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Momentary rewind here:
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (13) + 12 = 25

As the tojanida beneath Kali's bootheels collapses, the water between them momentarily takes on a mysterious and unnerving sheen, like some errant current running from the former to the latter...

At the moment of Blue's "fall", I both use my Soul-Drinker trait (effectively subtracting Blue's HD from the damage I then took from Yellow), and reclaim 1 Ki!

/rewind

Swim to move 5 feet?: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17

Kali emits a short, bubble-intensive cry of pain (as well as, perhaps, something else that it's best not to dwell on?) as the remaining foe gets in one good nip, and retaliates...

Flurry, haste, height-advantage, flank: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (7) + 14 = 21
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 57

Flurry, haste, height advantage, flank: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (10) + 14 = 24
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 65

Flurry, haste, height advantage, flank, Cruelty: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (5) + 16 = 21
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 67

Flurry, haste, high ground, Cruelty, flank: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 59

That's it!:
+1 Vicious Flurry, haste, high ground, flank: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 12
magic/cold iron/silver bludgeoning damage: 1d10 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
Vicious damage: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 3) = 6
Belier's Bite bleed damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3
Vicious damage to self: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Belier's Bite bleed damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4

With a screaming of chains and a bloodthirsty howl, Kali dives straight onto the tojanida beneath her!

I think this stacking arrangement here works; Flurry of Blows VS Deep Blue:

Swim: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19

+1 Vicious hasted, height-advantaged, cruel, BOOT TO THE HEADSTOMP TO THE SHELL!!!: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (15) + 15 = 30
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 33
magic/cold iron/silver bludgeoning damage: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16
Vicious damage: 2d6 ⇒ (1, 6) = 7
Vicious damage to self: 1d6 ⇒ 1

+1 Vicious Ki Flurry, haste, height advantage, Cruelty: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (7) + 15 = 22
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 81

Flurry, haste, high ground, Cruelty: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 77

Flurry, haste, high ground, Cruelty: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 23
magic/cold iron/silver bludgeoning damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Flurry, haste, high ground, Cruelty: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 35
magic/cold iron/silver bludgeoning damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

But was I healed, somehow? That's what's important.
Or are you saying you'll let the damage slide because you overlooked it as DM?

Zartan responds in Aquan, If we could have talked this out I will be incredibly annoyed.

Under the circumstances, I'm guessing it's like the deal with Van Pelt from JUMANJI: Yes, they can talk to us like rational beings, but they were summoned here to kill us and It's What They Do™ so there's no talking our way out of it.

Did I get healed somehow after last fight? I took 3 damage (from myself - worth the risk just the same, I suppose), but you're not recording that.

As for jumping in the pool, it doesn't look ike there's room, am I wrong?

For someone who claims not to speak English very well, you are already proving yourself a great combat-narrator.

Kali's face remains stoic after her clownish attempt at spear-fishing catches only wall-eye; if there's one thing Kali's training taught her, it's how to sublimate one's torments and channel them constructively - i.e., to take them out on another.

Oh look, one of those things is now just about at boot-level with her....

Spending 1 Ki for another attack, all against Deep Blue; I'm not sure if I'm suffering physical damage penalty due to water, since it would appear to be bobbing at the surface and I'm not in the water at all. Also, let me know if I'm wrong about any of the bonuses I'm tallying up below:

+1 Vicious hasted, high-ground, flanking BOOT TO THE HEAD!!!: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (3) + 15 = 18
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 4
magic/cold iron/silver bludgeoning damage plus Vicious: 1d10 + 5 + 2d6 ⇒ (8) + 5 + (2, 1) = 16
Belier's Bite bleed damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3
Vicious damage to self: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Employing grim secrets of the Chelaxian monastic tradition, Kali's infernal beatings begin to draw no small amount of blood, a sight that instills in her a further unholy euphoria!

Assuming the above hits:
+1 Vicious Ki Flurry, haste, high-ground, flank, and now...CRUELTY!: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (17) + 17 = 34
That surely hits; if Cruelty bonuses don't apply to this, they still do to the rest
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 20
magic/cold iron/silver bludgeoning damage plus Vicious: 1d10 + 7 + 2d6 ⇒ (9) + 7 + (1, 1) = 18
Vicious damage to self: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Ki Flurry, haste, high ground, flanking, Cruelty: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (3) + 16 = 19
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 54

Ki Flurry, haste, high ground, flanking, Cruelty: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (11) + 16 = 27
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 70

Ki Flurry, haste, high ground, flanking, Cruelty: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 74

Ki Flurry, haste, high ground, flanking, Cruelty: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26
miss chance? low means hit: 1d100 ⇒ 26
magic/cold iron/silver bludgeoning damage: 1d10 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Kali abruptly breaks from her latest exercise in self-mortification into a sprint across the room for some spear-fishing...

javelin, charge? vs Red Lobster: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11 -2 if you won't allow a charge in this case; I forget if that could be done here

...only for her javelin to I'll let you describe the humiliating consequences of that, DM; I believe I'll still be able to salvage it later.

Kali watches as three of her collegues march in succession to an unknown fate.

She vaguely recalled hearing a long and dreadful tale that, somewhere along the way, involved a door that sent passersthrough to literally nowhere.

They wouldn't...would they? She ponders with a split-second look back in the direction of the door to the entryway.

She hesitates only a moment, however; squeezing her chains tight around her, she follows through the portal with monastic obedience.

Perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (18) + 13 = 31

Kali seems entirely unsurprised upon arrival to the other side (even a tad disappointed); in fact, she's alarmingly quick to pick up on what's now around her.

She points to the far side of the pool before them with an arm motion so quick it jingles and clanks with her chains.

"I think perhaps we are meant to go down there...."

Kali Altzaire wrote:

especially since "communism" is technically an aspirational future state of affairs?

Besides North Korea, I personally think now it's merely a slogan and nothing else. And let's just stop at that.

For the record, it's not even them anymore (from the sound of it, they're more like Razmiran than anything else), but yes.

Kali's veins flash like streaks of red lightning through her blackened skin as she draws on the power of her enchanted Kuthite body-wrap to help her stomp the little nuisance into the ground.

+1 Vicious Flurry vs Green Machine: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13
I'll guess that doesn't hit, but in case it does:
enchanted physical damage: 1d10 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
untyped Vicious damage: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 2) = 5
Vicious damage to self: 1d6 ⇒ 3

+1 Vicious Flurry: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25
damage: 1d10 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
Vicious damage: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 6) = 9
Vicious damage to self: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Flurry: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
damage: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

Flurry: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
damage: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

Oh, gee, what a time to get top intiative; well...!:

Ashwell and Kali have about 2 round worth of action you can do after Zartan disabled the carpet trap and before the ambush happen. You can move your token to where you would like to be after the paladins have scale down the rope.

Round -2: With a jarring rattle of chains, Kali springs from her resting stress-position after the traps are dealt with, and eagerly rappels down the rope; if she has time in the round, she also avails herself of a stout little flask of translucent, tinny-shaded liquid (potion of mage armor)...

Round -1: ...Once at the bottom, she concentrates a moment to fortify her flesh against harm, like lightning-scarred bark on an old hangman's tree.

Round 1 - FIGHT!: Damn it, she thinks. Not my favorite foe; I should have expected as much, though...

Quick on the draw nevertheless, Kali concentrates the dark pitch within her soul until it ignite into a red-hot spear of energy from each fist!

Both vs Red-Vines:
scorching ray #1: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
heat damage: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 4, 6) = 19

If the above is enough to take it out, this one will be against Green Machine:
scorching ray #2: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
heat damage: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 1, 5, 3) = 13

I don't even know Vietnam is also communist. I think most Chinese players would look at Tian Xia and goes "Oh, it's us but fantasy!".

Well, is anyone, really (especially since "communism" is technically an aspirational future state of affairs?)? Also, "Tian Xia" is technically a continent, not a single country, but of course it would have many places that resemble certain parts/eras of China (the most obvious being Bachuan).

One of the earliest threads I ever got involved in on this site was some Spaniard asking if Golarion had an analog for there.

Kali Altzaire wrote:

Where ARE you from?

Tian Xia the communism one, but I came to the US since high school and spent...

You know, technically I can think of AT LEAST 2 places that would mean (actually, 3, but I don't think I've ever heard of people getting out of there), so China, or Vietnam?

"What is going on in there!?" Abaal shouts from the hall, concerned by the sound of freezing laser-fire.

Better than a laser capable of emitting a beam of pure anti-matter!

And for my part, I can only say that your English is much much better than any of the many and varied languages that I cannot speak, read or write in at all. ;)

Very much agreed - as I've said to others on the matter before.

Where ARE you from?

'Give us a gender-neutral name alternative to Noah, that means "rest" or "repose," derived from the Earthly Hebrew root word noach.'

'Also, which band has the best album-covers?'

With a deep, metallic thud, the RED! metal doors open to reveal a richly appointed room lit by lanterns along all four walls. A wide carpet of regal BLUE! hue stretches thirty-five feet across the floor to a pair of deep GREEN! metal doors set into the north wall opposite you. Halfway across the room, the carpet branches to the west, where it ends at the foot of a GOLD!en door with bright SILVER! hinges....

"Zons, how garish," remarks Kali a touch disdainfully as she first enters the chamber; she then remains a model of stoicism for Abaal to aspire to until she finally starts to feel The Eyes Of The Three creeping her way. After some contemplation, she asks:

"Ought we, the six challengers before you - and by 'ought' meaning strictly 'with regard to planning for the sake of our own self-interest in surviving and surmounting this challenge' - to expect this challenge to take us no longer than, at most, 16 hours, SPECIFICALLY AS OPPOSED TO the contrary expectation that it will take significantly (as defined by the perceptions and needs of we the challengers, and your fiduciary understanding thereof) longer?"

Never mess with a Chelaxian when rules are on the line.

Kali Altzairu wrote:

Oh, Nota Bene: Expect Mondays to be my 'Internet Shabbat'.

Does that include our first day in Gameday XII as well?

If that falls on a Monday, then I guess so.

Anything else, mostly reactive or passive thing, from everyone, that I should know about?

Steal Ki (Ex): At 5th level, a hungry ghost monk can steal ki from other creatures....If the monk scores a confirmed critical hit against a living enemy or reduces a living enemy to 0 or fewer hit points, he can steal some of that creature’s ki. This ability replenishes 1 spent ki point to the monk’s ki pool, as long as the monk has at least 1 ki point in his pool. He cannot exceed his ki pool’s maximum....This ability replaces purity of body.

Life Funnel (Su): At 7th level, a hungry ghost monk can steal a creature’s life force to replenish his own. If the monk has at least 1 ki point in his ki pool and scores a confirmed critical hit against a living enemy or reduces a living enemy to 0 or fewer hit points, he heals a number of hit points equal to his monk level....A monk with this ability cannot steal both ki and hit points at the same time. This ability replaces wholeness of body.

Whip Mastery wrote:

Benefit: You no longer provoke attacks of opportunity when attacking with a whip. You can deal lethal damage with a whip, although you can still deal nonlethal damage when you want. Further, you can deal damage with a whip despite a creature’s armor bonus or natural armor bonus.

That'll do it!

Anyone else remember the Lasher prestige class from 3.0's Sword & Fist? I think I might've enjoyed the chance to play that.

Zartan is the protégé of my lvl 15 rogue/pain taster

*looks at latter character's sheet*

Also: Kali's burdensome chains constitute a barbed vest, so bear that in mind when combat comes.

Elby looks over Kali. "Do you also have past sins to atone for? I have always chosen to do so by easing the suffering of others rather than causing pain to myself..."

"To live is to suffer; to suffer is to live." Kali says as she assumes a stress-position and tightens her chains around her.

"One does not-*gasp*- 'atone' for the sin of -*Unh!*-weakness, simply forever remain a-*AaHHH!*- step ahead of it."

Forgive my paladin... she's kind of an idiot.

This belongs on a bumper-sticker or something.