Urathash spouts off non-sense about the glory and greatness of Stone Giants as he lands a solid blow against Kaos. But only one blow did damage to the Dragon Disciple, and was not enough to clear the way.
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Uruthash changes his tact and tries to simply hit the dragon-like humanoid in his way. Kaos was able to hastily dodge the Stone Giant's next blow. But the big Stone Giant was able to hit Kaos on its next, but misses the rebound.
Uruthash spouts off a litany of inane judgments against the party. They are essentially meaningless. Just like his attacks against Kaos, meaningless.
"Hold them back!" the leader calls out, then moves toward a flight of stairs heading up.
Round Four Complete Haskyll backs up to a point where he can call forth a wave of energy that effects the party, but does not heal the enemy.
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+2 Justice, +6R, Bane +2d6 The leader continues to pull rocks and launch them at wielder of Agrimmosh. Only one of the three rocks hits the Ranger Barbarian to cause damage.
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Bane on a rock +2d6
Again the big Stone Giant hits Ulfgard with a pair of rocks. It takes a step up.
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Bane on Attack +2d6 The big Stone Giant screams at the fourth Stone Giant. Giant:
"Get in there and kill them all" The big Stone Giant growls as he throws several rocks at Ulfgard. Two more hit the over-sized Dwarf.
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Justice and Resistance Round Two The large Stone Giant begins pulling boulders out of a bag at his side and heaves them at the party's giant, aka, Ulfgard. Two of the rocks strike the Ranger Barbarian. One of the rocks missed a critical strike.
The Dire Bear moves closer, climbing over a chair.
Now with two weapons in hand, the Hill Giant Chieftess works in an attempt to secure Agrimmosh, ignoring the attacks from the Dwarf Warpriest.
With a ferment desire to obtain Agrimmosh, Grenseldek hacks at the Dwarf Ranger Barbarian, then steps back drawing a second handaxe.
Grenseldek becomes enraged when she sees Agrimmosh, "Agrimmosh! You are Ruby's Champions. Oh yes, I have heard of you. My spies in Trunau have told me much. It looks like my trophy has come to me." The Giantess pulls out a well-crafted handaxe, and attacks the Dwarf Warpriest. The Hill Giant Chieftess barely manages a strike against Ragnir.
Round One When the door flies open the Hill Giantess lays the geode on the raised table and peers through the door. She sees the Orc Leira, "How dare you barge in like this. I ordered that I am not to be disturbed. You will pay for your insolence."
Slowed by the trees and its many wounds, the Sandpoint Devil turns and flees.
The Sandpoint Devil clumsily flies between two trees. Small limbs and leaves are torn from their branches raining down to the ground twenty feet below. The demon horse spews forth fire down upon three members of the party along the more open trail area. Leaves and thin branches near the edges catch fire.
Working to hover in place, the black winged horse screams. Birds flee. Small woodland animals scury away.
With Garrath and Brandark distracting the Xanesha, the Lamia Matriarch misses her chance to take out the Lord Mayor. So, she turns her attention to those causing the distraction. She move back five feet splashing in the three feet deep waters and goes, once again, after the Shoanti Barbarian. The Lamia Matriarch slowed by the water can only manage a single thrust at Garrath. Xanesha does activates the polearm's special ability. A wave of despair emanates from the exotic polearm.
You can't see the Lamia Matriarch smiling under her mask. Xanesha flies up five feet and looks at the Shoanti Barbarian. The eyes of her exotic mask glows with a pale green light.
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Mage Armor=AC28,Fly 10 minutes, Invisible Suddenly and appearing behind the Lord Mayor, Xanesha with her wicked looking pole arm attacks Grobaras. In her excitement to finally get her prey, she misses the fat you know what.
The Lord Mayor begins to scream like a small child as he turns to see the hideous large creature.
Round One
Xanesha goes invisible. Round Five The tower continues to shake.
As Xanesha chases a figment, Brandark stumbles and drives his axe into a wooden beam. The tower begins to shake. Round Three Elektra cast Slow on the snake woman. Sadly, the big bad evil woman resisted the attempt.
Flynn puts up his bow and draws his scimitar. He concludes that Xanesha is a Lamia Matriarch.
Garrath, hanging back to get some healing, throws a pair of axes at Xanesha. Both axes appear to glance off the large snake woman before making any contact. Stone and Devora both provide healing to Garrath. Brandark tries to hack and slash at the large snake-like creature. Xanesha is quick and agile. She maneuvers around each attack. Xanesha then flies up and back about five feet, and attacks the Dwarf Cavalier.
Round Four
Round One (Complete) Garrath, with his Greatsword, strikes at the snake woman. One of Xanesha's Mirror Images dissipates.
Stone and Devora move up to the top of the tower. Brandark hacks at Xanesha, but misses the snake woman. Round Two Elektra moves up and fires a Magic Missile at the snake woman. Two of the missiles strike Xanesha and two others destroy Mirror Images. Glistenwing tries to Confuse the large snake woman.
Flynn continues to fire his bow. But the arrows appears to bounce off a force field surrounding the large snake woman or its remaining Mirror Image. Garrath comes out of his rage and begins to sling Chakrams at Xanesha. One of the sharp round rings appears to take out Xanesha's remaining Mirror Image. Stone weaves a spell to provide greater attack and defense for the party. Xanesha become momentarily confused and hesitates.
As Devora continues to tell her tale of the brave Heroes, she adds a spell to her repertoire. A winged woman rises from the darkness of the city below. Brandark gives it some of his best hacks and slashes, but none of the blows seem to land true on the large snake woman. Xanesha sees the winged woman rising from the city below. She turns away from Brandark, moves, and attacks the brightly shining angelic looking creature. The image disappears as quickly as it appears. It was just a figment.
Round Three
Surprise Round A large snake-like creature comes out of invisibility and strikes the Dwarf Cavalier. Round One Elektra begins by asking Glistenwing about the magic in effect. Since they were able to communicate, Elektra goes ahead and cast Haste. Flynn moves a little further up the stairs to get a good look at the scary monster. He fires an arrow at the creature, but it deflects off what appears to be a magical field surrounding the snake woman. Flynn can tell that the creature is evil. Garrath tries to tumble his way closer to the creature, but the snake woman is too quick. She stabs at the barbarian.
Garrath, in a rage now attempts to sunder the creature's Mirror Image spell. It does not work.
Stone backs down the stairs silently humming, until it is no longer silent. He then dispels the zone of Silence. The snake-like lady taunts, "The Heroes of Sandpoint cannot defeat Xanesha. Oh yes, I know who you are." As she talks she flies up and partially over the crude parapet wall at the top of the tower (5'). She then with incredible speed stabs at the big Barbarian.
Devora, with the Silence down, tells tales of the Heroes valor. She knocks an arrow and moves up the stairs. Brandark swiftly readies his Shield. He then moves up and attacks the snake woman, but misses the heavily fortified creature. [ooc]Elektra 27 (AC13/14HA 39/39)
Round Two
Stone moves up enough to touch Brandark before the Dwarf heads on up to the top of the tower. But when the Cleric tries to speak to cast the spell no words come out. Stone is unable to cast the spell. The demon-like creature continues to fly around the top of the tower and then begins to dissipate. GM Screen:
, , (146) Mage Armor (AC29), Mirror Image 93 Rounds, Shield 94 (AC32) Invisibilty, Fly 96 Haste 7 Rounds {AC33}, Divine Favor (+20/+15/+10;+17/+12/+7) 8 Rounds, Silence 9 Rounds
Surprise Round Six identical large snake-like creatures appear from invisibility wielding a wicked looking longspear. The creatures are female and wearing exotic masks. They are flying about a meter off the ground and strike at Brandark with their longspear. It is obvious that the creature has a Mirror Image spell up.
Round One Elektra 27 (AC13 39/39)
Ironbriar looks at Flynn, "We are Skinsaws. We follow only Norgorber." GM Screen:
Sense Motive DC30:
Ironbriar is correct about the Skinsaws. But you sense that there is something else going on here. Something that even Ironbriar is currently unable to betray.
"I am speaking clearly," Ironbriar looks at the Shoanti Barbarian and fidgets a little, particularly when Brandark starts making kindling out of his office. Flynn indeed senses that the Judge is not telling the whole story.
Ironbriar begins to look more nervous when Garrath starts putting on his face paint, "My liege requires sacrifices. If you know Norgorber, then you know it is true. The sacrifices were carefully chosen. I don't know what else to tell you? We all are under service in one way or another."
Ironbriar silently stares at Flynn.
Bound and gagged, Ironbriar does not respond to Elektra.
The judge looks at Elektra and holds his arms out toward the Mage. He brings them together at the wrist. Ironbriar let's out a sigh.
The Judge is unaffected by the Archon's Aura of Menace. Surrounded and realizing he cannot win, the Elf drops his shortsword, "Ok. Ok. You win. I knew you would be a meddlesome lot when you walk into my city." He scowls at the party, then orders the other Cultist to surrender. The other Cultist seeing his dead cult members, quickly obeys and drops his hand crossbow. Victory
The Judge takes a step back, pulling out a nice looking Short Sword. He calls out to the remaining Cultist standing, "Move as far away as you can. Now!" The one standing Cultist remaining moves to the far end balcony. Seeing the remaining Cultist moving to the far side of the room, Ironbriar calls forth a wave of negative energy the engulfs everyone else in the room. The two unconscious Cultist die.
Judge Ironbriar is unaffected by Stone's spell.
Judge Ironbriar feels the effect of the slowness and sees his Lemures dissipate. He weaves a spell.
Elektra's Slow is dispelled.
Three devilish creatures are summoned out of nowhere and attack.
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None of the attacks were successful. Also, appearing almost out of nowhere, you see an elf is heavy robes. You have seen this elf before. He showed up shortly after the Lord Mayor on the day the party defeated Choco's band of outlaws. You will recall that the Lord Mayor referred to him as Justice Ironbriar. The Justice looks directly at Garrath, "These are Lemures from the pit of hell. You should leave. Now!"
With the Barbarian waiting for an opportunity to strike, the big Bat flies to a position about 10 feet over Brandark and Kelvin's head. It lets out a horrific screech.
The bat was flying, but low enough to the ground for Garrath to attack it.
The bat flies up five feet just out of reach of the big Human's Greatsword.
Thinking Iesha is no longer a threat, the Skinsaw Man begins to attack the Dwarf.
When the Duplicate sees Elektra he swiftly removes what looks like a mask. It drops to the floor. You now see the Skinsaw Man, “You! You’ve come to me! I knew my letters would sway your heart, my love! Let us consummate our…our… hunger!” He then glances at the woman, "She means nothing to me." He then attacks the woman. @Brandark:
The creature as he is attacking the woman says, "Hi Iesha, you got real ugly." He says this at a level only Brandark and the woman would have been able to hear.
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The thing that looks like Elektra tries to make a move over the fallen Ghoul, but was clumsy in its attempt.
The creature that looks like Elektra will then try to bite the Dwarf Cavalier. But his efforts will not even scratch Brandark's armor.
"I am not who you are looking for Iesha," The Ghoul puts on a mask and transforms before Shalelu's eyes into Elektra.
As the Giant howls in rage and pain, the Giant chokes up on his whip-like chains and goes after both the Dwarf Warpriest to his left and the big human to his right. It misses the Dwarf, but bits and pieces of Orc shower the big human and striking true.
As Kaos approaches the Giant's great reach, gives the dense creature an opportunity to strike. Again bits and pieces of Orc goes flying in the missed attack.
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46/76+9 Struck by yet another bolt, the Cave Giant becomes enraged. He slashes his left chain with live Orc attached and right chain with dead Orc attacked at Ragnir. Bit and pieces of dead Orc goes flying. The live Orc and chain crashes into the Dwarf Warpriest.
As Ragnir and Kaos sink deeper in the water, the Giant is lead by its remaining handler to throw a rock at the Dwarf Ranger, barely hitting Ulfgard.
The Orcs continue to spur the big Giant on as it tosses another rock at the Dwarf Warpriest. It splashes next to Ragnir.
The Giant lead by his Orc handlers, picks up a large stone and tosses it at the Dwarf Warpriest. The rock splashes in the pond way short of its target.
The Sandpoint Devil has only once before faced a foe as formidable as Garrath, and that was a Stone Giant. With Garrath Enlarged, he is like a Giant. The Sandpoint Devil withdraws from combat, flying toward the southeast.
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26 - 5 + 9 - 5 + 29 - 5 = 49.
The winged devil surveys its prey and see a human leading a horse to the woods. It swoops down, touching the ground about 10 feet before Orik and continues to Trample over the brave humanoid.
The ugly winged horse swoops in front of the party, flying about 25 feet off the ground. It lets out a horrific baying sound.
Round Two
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