Due to scedule changes I have to reduce my number of pbp games a bit, as such Markus has been temporarily recalled for consultations.
Sorry everyone, but he may come back at some point.
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Is there a window southeast of markus, and another leading into M37? If yes, Markus would have spent his missing turns aerially inserting himself into M37, and thus have a possible flanking position on the Leukdaemon.
Gonna get back into the game tomorow!
Round 5:
Markus constitution likey wards off the ill effects
He whirlwinds again, likely proneing both foes but only hitting one with his AoO Round 6:
he keeps up his attack routine in round 6.
Markus somehow matrix dodges the fireball while bloodraging and singing a song, only taking 18 damage.
IM A LUMBERJACK AND IM OK
Advancing into yellows square, Markus does the multitrip once more!
BLEGH But he epically fails.
legal reasoning: Whirlwind attack allows me to make a single melee attack against each foe in reach in place of my regular attack actions. I then use the trip rules as written, by replacing the single melee attack against each foe in reach with a single trip attempt against each foe within reach. I think this part is not contentious at all. The When you use the Whirlwind Attack feat, you also forfeit any bonus or extra attacks granted by other feats, spells, or abilities.
AoOs are specifically not extra attack, but rather actions that interrupt the flow of combat. There is also an enemy NPC boss villain in carrion crown that whirlwind trips with a bladed scarf (and then AoO with that scarf, and then AoOs again when you try to stand up), which is kind of nasty because the dude is a vampire and does a bunch of level drain whenever he hits. But I dont have the book purchased.
I had a lot of things to do over the weekend, normal posting will resume on monday evening my time.
Lets try this again shall we? LETS GO ON A TRIP! BLOODRAGE NANANANANANA BLOODRAGE!
However, his efforts are likely somewhat disappointing. active effects: Shield Longarm Bloodrage Protective luck righteous vigor
readied action: [dice=damage]3d6+13[/dice[
Markus, having shield and longarm up, places himself (cant move the token) 5 feet to the right of the entryway, ready to give whoever opens the door and looks hostile a good whooping, while allowing non reach allies like Ulricha or others to take up the frontspot.
I think I bluffed her into believing that fluid obtained from cow tits is the yuckiest thing for mortals on Golarion. I think I bluffed her that is. I have encountered a hammock mimic once, but I basically just bloodraged and then we tore it to shreds.
In terms of ambushes, I rate this about a 4 out of 10. Clearly less creative then the accursed mimic toilet. Yikes, that one was nasty. The villainous monologe gets some points for style, but was frankly too short to have any emotional impact. If "Amber" had done that, there would also be creampie-cakes flying, and nobody would have any idea of what they were made from, resulting in prolonged psychic damage. Markus gives his assessment of the ambush.
Oh Wow, someone called me hero! The last time someone called me that I was working in a Paladin-cafee in Alyushinyrra as a side-gig. Markus announces, wondering where he is and if he has to make the reflex save.
Blood really? You clowns arent even sufficiently immune to disease to ignore this gross violations of basic sanitary and hygienic standards. If you ever wondered why the totally not a Succubus Lady prefers to be outside... Hygiene and grooming boys, Hygiene and grooming! Markus does some out of turn trashtalking.
Markus is squeezing
Best of Luck Lykan!
If its Ember, its best to negotiate with her from a position of strength, ideally after unmessing the Baron. Markus opines We have some protection from evil spells to hit the baron with?
Lets strike the iron while it is still reasonably hot. Markus adds and is ready to go, with about 30 feet distance, after the Kitsune rouge.
Likely some additional Demons. The Schir was packing more heat then is normal for a Schir, I do know that Ember has abilities beyond that of the average of her kind, meaning we know of 2 like, demons with enchanced abilities, but barely encounter "rank and file" demons. Markus opines.
Let me handle these manacles
Focusing his fury, Markus, quite surgically, breaks one of the connecting chains. May need a locksmith to properly remove them, but at least you are no longer restrained.
One of the reasons why I hold... "Amber", in reasonably high regard is her personal comittment to hygiene and cleanliness. It may sound shocking, but if you are fighting in the Abyss as a non teleporter, and get teleported while in bags of holding a lot, you really appreciate someone who cleans her bag after every transport, and like, actual cleaning not just some prestigitation. It kind of weird how bad the smell in a bag of holding can get, especially if it was used to transport non teleport capable demons before, like, nearly all of them smell horribly, even if there actually isnt any air inside the bag. Markus thinks to himself On the other hand, its good preperation against stinking cloud spells. Overall I am also reasonably happy that to my knowledge there arent any telepaths in this party!
Huh, nice trick! And you didnt need a bag of holding type 4 for that exfiltration unlike some ladies I know. Markus appreciatively nods at Alice. How often can you do this and what is the range? Can you teleport heavy things above enemies? Does it have to be a person? Can you do this to foes? Like, rearranging their positioning in combat by like, pulling the mage in front of the fronliners is highly effective! Oh, if you ever shout "People's Elbow", I will ready myself to get teleported above some foe! Let them know that gravity is a harsh mistress!
Someone I knew and liked turned into a ghoul. Poisoned food supply. Coupled with a trap that like, made him age 2 weeks. Aging two weeks normally isnt a problem, but it sure is when you contracted ghoul fever and that stunts stops you from getting any clerical aid.
The man shrugs. Having to put down people you like... sucks. Hard.
I was with the *ORChestra* private military company, initially on the side of the hold of Belkzen against the worldwound, there is that misnomer that only Mendev is fighting the demons, which aint true at all, our unit was part of a sadly ill fated push on demon besieged Raliscrad. Which fell far before we arrived, leaving us stranded in Worldwound turf. One of our skalds scribed a bunch of bards escape scrolls, and did something to link them, and then we used them in unison as we were about to be overrun by very angry bug-buggerers, as we have used the powers of scamming and bullshit to inflict some rather disproportionate casulty exchange ratios.
Markus pauses Like, you narrowly manage to fight of a Derakni swarm long enough that your casters get their scrolls off, you get shifted, you smell pretty reasonable food, the sea, and then you see several Balors in front of you as your vision adjusts, because you barded escape in front of someone who has Balor Bodyguards, plural. I was like "bugger my lovelife, I think we win the frying pan into the fire award of this century."
I think the Nocticulans have a way of rerouting bards escape spells to the midnight isles personally, as this realm is like... more the 50% of bards who cast this spell and end up in the Abyss end up in the midnight isles.
f+$$ing-abyssal-trash-compactor-who-thinks-he-is-a-demonlord kn planes DC 10:
Kabriri, demonlord of ghouls, hunger and cannibalism. Markus seems to have a rather sizeable dislike for him. My unit did negotiate to only be used against her "near peer competitors" so to speak, she offers this as a standard when hiring mortal mercs even. Have I mentioned that Leng ghouls taste even worse the dretch arse?
I can rig my armor up with some extra handhold like ropes, makes it easier to grapple me, but also easier to take hold if you need aerial evac! Idea: Handholds on the armor
Attempts to grapple the wearer of the armor gain a +2 bonus, but an ally only needs a move action to grasp the the armor, or a swift action if he has quickdraw.
Yeap, I am a bacon of modesty and humility, even on an interplanar scale. I am so utterly nongreedy, I may have more then a snowballs chance in hell when it comes to dating Sorshen, on the off chance that she really wants to troll... I think Karzoug was the jealous and greedy one? Clearly, the reason I am not taking any of this gear is... yes, I am extremely non greedy and it has nothing to do with my unusual fighting style, clearly. Markus deadpans. bacon of modesty and humility kn planes DC 20: A reference to the antics of one Alonsyius Thrune, who, after having a business dispute of sorts with a certain propriortress in Alyushinyrra, opted to sue said propietress in Alyushinyrras court. Shamria, the Demonlord holding court was rather hungover from a night of excessive partying and assassination, opted to interpret a regular title of the thrice damned house of thrune, "beacon of mankind" and "bacon of modesty" and turned the thrune noble into bacon. She was then seen pocketing a sizeable degree of bribes from Andoran and Galt, because of course.
Markus begins refreshing his shield and long arm buff. Lets have a chat with the welcoming comitee yes?
Thing is, less foul summoning circles can mean more powerful demons. Like, Schirs? They want to murder and main someone, messy circle, not very strong demon. Mariliths or Lilitus? They want artificats, highly valuable prisoners or such things, and can be quite specific about hygiene. Much less foul circle, but much bigger problem. Markus muses Great catch on that bag Quince!
Summoning circle Markus says neutrally
Hmm, Blood bits, may have been used to summon the Schir, would fit with their proclivities for violence spite and mayhem. Markus turns on detect magic. Someone got some holy water to splash on it? It can mess such things up. Oi, that door looks important, we got a sneaky person or do I bash it down?
I should have f*$@ing learned burning hands, but I was in the Abyss, half of the foes there are fire resistant, and the bigger half has spell resistance, which I am ill equipped to overcome. The large man growls.
Allright, I cover our rear, I have a cunning plan to get out of dodge. Should I need to. Lets regroup, and take stock. Enemy is on alert, but maybe we can try something else. He pauses
I am back as well. But hej, running from swarms.
Alice regarding teleportation hex: So, Markus knows how Succubi work. He may think a) there is a variant profane gift that allows the mortals receiving the gift to teleport, but allows allows the Succubus to teleport a gifted mortal when and whereever she wants to. b) Alice is totally not a Succubus, because heck, she may be a Lilitu c) her gifts are very potentially dangerous d) if Markus thinks she is a Lilitu, which is probably very funny rp-wise, he will be super polite to her.After all, he worked for Nocticula before. e) when Markus at some points figures out Alice is not a demon, there will be an RP gold mine.
Markus takes some bites but is mostly fine, he stops bloodraging as he moves past Ulricha, being quite annoyed at his inability to deal with swarms.
Back to the rasping rifts or whereever with you you bug buggering twat! Markus intones Le sigh, if that Ifrit would show up with a swarmbane clasp i would probably take one. He buggers away from the swarm, as he literally cant do anything to it. Should have learned burning hands, Qlippoth beneath bugger my lovelife.
Let me give you a HUG GOATFACE Markus seeks to feint the demon!
And then tries to do his felling smash again, even though the demon as not buying it at all.
HAVE A NICE TRIP HAHAHA! BON VOYAGE!
I will extract the medical bill from the descendends of the third tier cultists who made that degenerate Larvas spawning you
Markus 5 feet steps closer and felling smashes the Schir!
If this hits, swift action to trip him
Markus has greater trip, so anyone who has reach on the Schir, which is at least Zofia, Ulricha and Xandarian, get to boink the Schir as an AoO.
OI KNEW IT WAS A F!$&ING GOATF$$$ING GOAT! IT IS SAID THAT ONLY BY SUMMONING DO THEY EVER GET LAID! Markus Bloodrages, and begins to shout insults at the goat demon. MOI CUNNING PLAN IS TO HIT IT REALLY HARD IN ITS FACE, OR IN ITS ARSE, ITS HARD TO TELL THOSE APART!
I had a loved one just die in my arms, posting will be reduced in terms of pace.
Blyad lets play then, are you a f~&#ing goat or a goatf*&$er? And why do I have the feeling the answer is Yes?
Markus springs into action (moves 15 feet towards it) strikes (from 15 feet distance) and then moves back 15 feet using his spring attack. He misses by a mile though AoO:
Establishing defensive position Markus announces as he moves in, his dark vision eyes peering towards the noise Oh Lord in Iron, grant me a great fight, Oh Lady in Shadow, grant me a great victory, oh Ardent Dream grant me a great victory party to be remembered As the footsteps get louder, you can almost see Markus grin like a madman. He does wisely stay within the 30 feet chanting radius of Alice. current effects + resource tracker:: Good hope (6 more minutes); Long arm(5 more minutes); shield (one minute) -1 charge Shield wand -8 charges CLW wand -1 level 1 spell used -2 rounds of rage used 80/82 hp Adjusted statline to include these Boni.
ROIGHT SOUNDS LIKE SUM PROPER FOITING! Markus seems... genuinely happy at Alices warning, as he gets read to rage again.
He uses one round, close to when the fire ends to cast shield on himself from his wand, and in the meantime uses his other wand of cure light wounds to heal himself. As cure light wounds is on the spiritualist spell list, he does not need to roll UMD.
current effects + resource tracker:
Good hope (6 more minutes); Long arm(5 more minutes); shield (one minute) -1 charge Shield wand -8 charges CLW wand -1 level 1 spell used -2 rounds of rage used 80/82 hp Markus confidently strides back in, his Sabatons (of course he wears Sabatons, what did any of you expect) crunching crispy worms beneath him.
Note, I will not eat ze worms. Even if they are crispy! Having bite attacks does not equal actually eating! The half orc, no longer large as he is stopped raging (fatigued for 4 turns), says I ate Vermleck stew as a dare once, had the shits for the next 12 nights.
Doubt it, a group of our weight class should be able to deal with some swarms, its not like they were these effing spell resistant fire resistant Vevascor shits, or hell wasps, these are nasty too.
Unless someone has a spare swarm bane clasp, there isnt much I can do against swarms... Can we rig up some improvised explosives? We are loud anyway. Oi I got an idea! Markus sprints out of he cave, you hear a crashing noise, he sprints back in carrying a tree We cover that log in oil, set it on fire, have it roll over the bugs?
Should have bought that swarmbane clasp! Cuka Blyad! Markus swears a fair bit as he rushes back in before the fire wall goes up Or learned burning hands He adds Lessons learned!
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