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Runt smiles at that. "Why Kizzy, you make a GREAT point. It's like a good trashy heroic romance novel. I think. I really would like to read one some day."

"Not sure about this. When a raging ghost asks for a piece of someone, it it kinda makes me nervous that Bad Things will happen. Then again I don't like the idea of fighting a raging ghost."

"That doesn't look good. You sure a letter from him about you would not be considered a part of him?"

I don't know if any of us claimed the love letters. May I assume Runt took them? Seems like something she would do.

Nice. We stayed in Pidgeon Forge for a big family thing and I eyed Gatlinburg longingly. I much prefer rustic and beautiful to touristy.

"We did liberate the fort. Not sure why you think we could have protected it. And we found a nice love letter. Would you like to see it? Or maybe we should just read it to you. I think you will find it interesting."

Just the way you asked how long so you knew if Heightened awareness would still be active made me think you had cast it earlier.

Understood. That particular question was only regarding the spells cast earlier, like heroism, which is now gone.

"I'm ready to move forward now. You got any spells for undead, now would be a good time. I'm tempted to use my Death Ward scroll, but it is to long of odds for me."

And with that she pops a lemon drop into her mouth and then moves forward if given the go ahead.

When did Runt cast Heightened awareness? The beginning of the day or after meeting Gimruk? If in the morning, it is over, if after meeting then you have 40mins left.

In the same post she cast voluminous vocabulary (Sylvan), see invisibility, summon monster, and false life, all of which happened after we got there and Yap hid, but before we enter the clearing.

Bert? You bringing the azata back? Casting that now?

See this post. She did a number of castings after they finally arrived. Bert lasts 10 minutes and she rarely uses up all her summons, so why not.

Remember to add Bert to the lineup when combat when/if comes and see invisibility/heightened awareness as active spells. 3rd level spells are harder to come by so she does not recast heroism.

@Gimruk
What an interesting build. It's like you WANT To be pummeled down to 0 HP>. Please don't fail those will saves. Please. Don't make me hide like Yap.

"I think if I was as small as Yap, I'd hide too. Probably very good at it."

How long did it take to get there so I know how much, if any, is left on the heroism spell.

Runt casts Heightened awareness, voluminous vocabulary (Sylvan), and see invisibility on herself and summons Bert the Bralani as a guard.

DC 15 linguistices to pick up Aklo too: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16

Oh, and false life
temp hp: 1d10 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10

"I'm ready to see what the fuss is all about. You all ready?"

Unable to help herself you boasts some more. "Maybe Kizzy here will write a ballad about it. A small one. Though the dragon was quite large."

To back up her claim she flourishes a still bloody (probably some of which came from Forest) talon.

Runt weights its words and the facial expressions sense motive: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (6) + 22 = 28. Unable to resist bragging, Runt says, "And we have dragon meat, so no going hungry here."

Oops! Probably not the smartest thing to say to a trapper, particularly if he's a greedy one. All this living among friends has short-circuited my mouth. A few months ago, I would never have spouted off like that.

Runt immediately casts Heroism on herself using some Magnesium to boost the duration to 110 minutes.

She also casts her usual morning spells (magic vestment (10 hours), magic greater weapon (10 hours), and enchantment foil (11 hours)) using some Quicksilver to boost the enchantment foil duration.

"I guess we should go say hi."

So, settle in while Runt skins and butchers the dragon? Spend the night. Then have Isabella repair the boat in the morning and proceed?

That's what I was thinking.

Feeling a little lonely, Runt calls out, "Anyone care to join me?"
Then again, butchering the thing holds its own kind of pleasure.

"I'd like to butcher this dragon before we head out. Do you all mind the wait?"

Runt will take the handy haversack since nobody else wants it and it will greatly help in carrying all the cash. She will hand it over if someone more needy asks for it. She stuff as as much coin as will fit in the thing, starting with the gold, of course. And waiting a day will allow the Make Whole spell to be cast on the boat and allow us to carry more, though I suppose when we come back we could collect loot we needed to leave behind.

Tempting. The thing is that though it has corrosive, with the inquisitor bane ability the undead bane is usually redundant. So for her it is a toss up. +2 vs. +1/1d6 acid damage. The +2 might be more useful, not less. So do take what you want. Undead bane seems like a nice match for a cleric. If you want it, take it!

"How about you take the falchion with the bane ability and I take the other one." With a snigger she adds, "Forest can have another longsword and maybe the shield since he is more likely to be beat up and eaten."

"Well then Isabella," Runt says brightly, "You should take it. And maybe you could upgrade it to that divine thingy."

Runt is interested in one of the Falchions and/or the shield. Forest, you got your eye on anything?

"I could use it, for intimidation and diplomatic purposes, but it is not all THAT useful. I could wear it until we can sell it. Or keep it in case someone joins the group that can use it better."

"Wow, nice haul. Can we even carry all those copper? That haversac will help, but sheesh."

I will let others take first pick of the magic items. Note: There are still some decent arcane items from the ettin and Mammy Graul haul for folks to claim. Question: do I need to worry about Runt's size when it comes to claiming weapons or armor?

Before entering, Runt will summon 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 medium earth elementals to lead the way (since she knows Terran and they can take shortcuts and she's rather not rely on dretchs).

After summoning the elementals, she gives them this command.

Before entering and after the elementals return she will cast Heightened Awareness, Shadowfade, and See Invisibility on herself.

Prior to search....
"No hurry, I have a whole dragon to skin. Anyone want a tooth? Think you could use a couple of channels on us. I'm a little injured too."
Speaking of which, how long will that take? I'm thinking we will need to return to the corpse after the mission as it will take a loooong time, in spite of Runt's eagerness.

After search...
Hoping a bit in excitement, Runt is ready to plunge into the lair.

Shyly, Runt responds with her head low, "I think Forest deserves a lot of credit and, probably, dragon scale. I mean, look at us. I'm practically uninjured and Forest looks like a big chew toy."

Looking up with a smile she adds, "But dragon scale? That does sound pretty nice. Runt, dragon slayer! I'm definitely putting that on my resume, though I don't think anyone would believe me."

Runt examines the corpse with an eye towards salvage. A few scales maybe? Is the tongue worth anything? Blood?

survival: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

She also looks around to see if it left any tracks that they could follow back to it's lair. I mean, dragon's lair loot? Right?

survival, tracking: 1d20 + 10 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 10 + 5 = 32

"Think we can salvage the boat?"

The elemental leads off with a pair of slams
to hit slam, outflank: 1d20 + 14 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 14 + 4 = 31
damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

to hit slam, outflank: 1d20 + 14 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 14 + 4 = 37
damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Sword in hand and with a flank, Runt tries to finish the creature.
to hit falchion, divine power, inspire greatness, bane, heroism, outflank: 1d20 + 13 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 13 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 4 = 36
damage slashing, cold iron, divine power, inspire, bane: 1d6 + 11 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (1) + 11 + 4 + 2 + 2 + (1, 3) = 24

to hit falchion, divine power, inspire greatness, bane, heroism, outflank, map: 1d20 + 13 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 4 - 5 ⇒ (2) + 13 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 4 - 5 = 24
damage slashing, cold iron, divine power, inspire, bane: 1d6 + 11 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (2) + 11 + 4 + 2 + 2 + (3, 1) = 25

Free shot from divine power
to hit falchion, divine power, inspire greatness, bane, heroism, outflank: 1d20 + 13 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 13 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 4 = 41
damage slashing, cold iron, divine power, inspire, bane: 1d6 + 11 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (6) + 11 + 4 + 2 + 2 + (4, 3) = 32

Makes sense and simple, so that is 22 temp HP.

Then let's let Iron handle it. I like that idea since I suck at rolls like that.

With Kizzy switching up her performance, IC is no longer active, BTW, just IG.

@Kizzy
You want to roll the HP or should I?

"Ha! I was feeling ignored, thanks for popping on by."

Seeing a flanking opportunity, the air elemental abandons it wind form for now and flanks with Runt. With 100' of movement it should be able to do this without drawing and AoO.

Runt drops her crossbow and pulls her falchion and takes a swing once the elemental is in place.

to hit slam, outflank: 1d20 + 14 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 14 + 4 = 28 Ignore this attack if changing form is a standard action. Not that it matters with that roll.
damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

to hit falchion, divine power, inspire, bane, heroism, outflank: 1d20 + 13 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 13 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 4 = 30
damage slashing, cold iron, divine power, inspire, bane: 1d6 + 11 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (2) + 11 + 4 + 2 + 2 + (2, 6) = 29;

Well, not good enough I'm thinking.

"Dang, you are tough to hit!"

Yea, the size thing is ambiguous too, since the whirlwind is definitely bigger than the elemental. So does the target have to be smaller than the elemental or smaller than the whirlwind? Messy.

Runt puts three bolts deep into the dragon.

You sure? That first attack was a pathetic 32 to hit.

Regarding Whirlwind form, I think you are right. More I think about it I think you are right and they can only affected if trapped if picked up and you are being generous with your original ruling.

The sentence on this page that says "The whirlwind is always 5 feet wide at its base, but its height and width at the top vary from creature to creature (minimum 10 feet high). A whirlwind’s width at its peak is always equal to half of its height. The creature controls the exact height, but it must be at least 10 feet high." Then also look at chart on this page where it shows the whirlwind zise by elemental size. It says the whirlwind can be up to 40' high and as short as 10' high and can pick it's height. So it has the volume. In any case it seems like it effectively expands when it assumes whirlwind form.

But it also says that "Creatures one or more size categories smaller than the whirlwind might take damage when caught in the whirlwind (generally damage equal to the monster’s slam attack for a creature of its size) and may be lifted into the air." So it can not damage or lift it. But if captured, "A creature that can fly is allowed a Reflex save each round to escape the whirlwind." But it does not say a creature of the same or larger size is unaffected. That fly check implies that it needs to be picked up to be affected, but not explicitly stated.

Man there is a lot of info dump on that ability to patch together! I wish they would have just said "the whirlwind form does not affect a creature of the same size or larger in any way." That would have made things easier.

Looking forward to checking out your build.

That's the thing though. Half the time we are in rush mode and have no time to craft things, and then, when we do, we are cash strapped. It is actually rather fun not having the wealth of gear level 10s usually do, but I wanted shirtless warned.

@Runt: although the air elemental is not big enough in whirlwind form to suck the dragon up, it would still give the dragon -8 on fly checks. This could potentially hinder its maneuverability and/or force it to land. If you want to take back the attacks and stay in whirlwind form you may.

Note: I reread the description and it seems the wirlwind form should be 40' high, 20' wide at the top, 5' high at the bottom. I think it should be able to capture the dragon as per the normal rules and should only require you make the DC 18 reflex save and not have to make flying checks to move if not captured. I'm OK with sticking with your ruling above, but I don't think it is necessary.

I only had time to do a non-combat post. Now that my sick wife is in bed, I can sally forth!

Runt sends out three bolts at the evasive dragon.

to hit repeating heavy crossbow, divine power, inspire, bane, heroism: 1d20 + 10 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 10 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 32
damage piercing, divine power, inspire, bane: 1d8 + 2 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 4 + 2 + 2 + (4, 6) = 25

free attack from divine power:

to hit repeating heavy crossbow, divine power, inspire, bane, heroism, combat stamima: 1d20 + 10 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 10 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 = 39
damage piercing, divine power, inspire, bane: 1d8 + 2 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 4 + 2 + 2 + (6, 5) = 26

to hit repeating heavy crossbow, divine power, inspire, bane, heroism, combat stamina, map, combat stamima: 1d20 + 10 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 - 5 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 10 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 - 5 + 4 = 39
damage piercing, divine power, inspire, bane: 1d8 + 2 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 2d6 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 4 + 2 + 2 + (3, 1) = 19

Good idea to add a player before attrition takes out another one of us.

@Shirtless
Forest is s fighter, even if he labels himself a RANGER. He has fun with barroom brawl coming up with all kinds of weird powers using the feat. He's the heavy hitter.

Runt is an inquisitor (Monster Tactician) that does a lot of summoning and is a decent hitter, though with not nearly the DPR that forest has. She does have some teamwork stuff going on so if you are interested in tag teaming with her or her summons, we can make it happen.

We also have a cleric and a bard if that influences things.

Also we are getting to the place where we get a lot of interesting things thrown at us like flying creatures that seem adverse to standing there and letting us pummel them to death. So make sure you have some equipment that lets you fly and hit incorporeals and deal with other tricks like that. Magic items have been elusive in this game so you might not get the opportunity later. Plan well.

Hope that helps you figure out what direction you want to take.

The elemental is in whirlwind form and does not get an AoO. Specifically "A creature in whirlwind form cannot make its normal attacks and does not threaten the area around it." All it gets is its DC 18 attempt to capture a creature and it does it's slam damage to it if it fails the DC (as well as other hindrances).

I'll go for that! The elemental's ability to hit sucks, so it will just follow the dragon around and hinder its flying.

Sorry, I was confusing ablative barrier with clay skin

Forest 24/116; clayskin 25/50, fly 106rds

Keep in mind that the healing also restores 1 point of NL for every point of lethal so the NL should be gone and he should be at 49 HP. Unless you were tracking that separately.

Note that the crocs vanish of course. It does have DR 5/— and reach. The elemental is summoned directly over the top of the dragon. I do not have permission to move it so you will need to.

I guess it attacks then...
to hit slam: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (5) + 14 = 19
to hit slam: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 17

Won't even bother to roll damage with those rolls:(

Here is the AoO if it heads off after someone else:
to hit slam: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20

Nope!

"Well, that looked painful."

Reloading her crossbow she summons a large air elemental which enters whirlwind form and tries to scoop it up.

Croc AoOs

Runt 96/96; magic vestment, enchantment foil, false life 7, divine power 7rds,<<<

Crocs 23/28, 15/28, 28/28<<<

Runt/crocs already went.

Runt sticks to land and pumps a couple of shots into the dragon while the crocs all gang up on the dragon.

Did the dragon land?

31 misses… I don’t think I could get a 31 even with a die roll of 20…

Runt could use a heroism spell if you can spare the time and get to her. She never got a chance to cast it.

Runt activates bane on dragons and uses her swim roll to get to the island and climb up, then she pulls out her crossbow (part of the move action) and shoots at the dragon.

Does Runt have an action now that she made her swim roll?

I think 6 weeks is a long time to not post, and I too suspect Zherxikas is no longer with us. Nuts.

swim: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

Oh, the crocs chase after the dragon, though they are unable to reach it and feebly leap out of the water. I moved their icons to show their enthusiasm. They are hard to see as they are under the dragon icon.

@GM Ironperenti
Please add water breathing to the buffs on the players.