Xantrian Higgenstrom's page

Verily, I have no idea why I had him refitted.

He...I mean, it does not shut up. We are on a mission, about to do something clandestine and making introductions with a contact and this...hunk of slag naively toots about his old master. Yes, what a great Pathfinder that ol' pal was. But what about being INCOGNITO you scrap iron monstrosity!?

It's hard being benevolent sometimes.

I hear you. It's sometimes annoying when he tries to get me to charge into battle. Nevermind that I have a negative strength modifier and the blackened curse while wielding a broken weapon I'm not proficient in. I'm not charging anywhere.

I probably would've survived - my hit points were equal to it's average damage, and I die at -23. I couldn't have survived the round after though (and if there's a crit I'm pretty much dead). The reach was what was killing me, I think I typed a post where I withdrew three times, and each time I had to remind myself that reach would not make that work.

Sorry about the slow posting at the end, but I was at a con at the end, trying to post between slots. That plan didn't work out well when I was running Bonekeeps and going longer than expected.

Well crap. We'll see if I live through this.

The healing puts me 1 damage and fully heals everyone else. Then Xantrian takes 48 damage, putting him at 49.

"We need this to die, NOW!"
Xantrian channels energy, only healing himself for Channel: 5d6 + 12 ⇒ (3, 1, 6, 6, 4) + 12 = 32. Then he uses Energy Body: 1d6 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16.

"If we get out of here alive, you need to spend more on defense!"
Gamin braces for impact.

Damage Total
Xantrian - 1
Everyone else - 0

Heads up - I'm paying attention to the posting, but I really need to know whether or not that vrock will be dead or not before I take my turn. It matters a lot as to which resources I attempt to use since I'm stick inside the reach of a creature with reach.

The damage puts me at 49 damage taken. Then I start my turn and take the 5 bleed. Then life link triggers and I take 5 off of Algar, Boron and C2. This puts me at 69 damage, Algar at 6 and Boron at 15.

"Uh, guys? Can we take care of this? This is going to hurt."
Xantrian grabs his holy symbol of Lymnieris and releases a burst of positive energy, hitting all of the creatures besides the vrock. Channel: 5d6 + 1 ⇒ (1, 4, 6, 4, 6) + 1 = 22 Then Xantrian uses energy body to heal himself. Energy Body: 1d6 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

"Geez. Please don't kill yourself out there. I kinda like you."
Gamin searches for more crusaders.
Gamin Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 15

Bless - 7 rounds remaining.

Damage totals
Algar - 0
Boron - 0
Gregor - 0
Xantrian - 23

Boron takes 25 and I take 29 (two instances of odd damage). Then the start of my turn happens and I take 5 off of Algar and Boron. Since this is magical healing, Boron's bleeding should stop. This puts Algar at 11 damage and Boron at 20.

"Don't worry! I'll help you!"
Xantrian spends a standard action activating a life link with the fallen crusader. Then he uses energy body to heal himself. Energy Body Heal: 1d6 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13. Lastly he takes a 5 ft step to J14.

"Ah good there's one of you. Any more out there? Team medic is standing by!"
Gamin searches for more crusaders.
Gamin Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 13

Bless - 8 rounds remaining.

Damage Totals
Algar - 11
Boron - 20
Gregor - 0
Xantrian - 26

I think next turn a channel will be in order.

At the start of my turn, life link triggers and takes 5 damage off of Algar onto me.

"You wish to try to stop me from helping injured crusaders? Well guess what? You won't like me when I'm healing!"
Upon saying that, Xantrian becomes a transparent outline of himself, with light pouring throughout his body. He looks as if he was brimming to the tip with positive energy, almost like he became a positive energy elemental.

Xantrian spends a standard action to turn on energy body, then spends a move action healing himself. Since he has 10 damage, his static mods on healing himself will take care of the damage. Then he takes a 5 foot step to K15.

"Well now you've done it. Every demon on this battlefield is going to come over here. Hey crusaders! Pay attention to the bg glowing stupid aasimar! Hi! We want to help you! Don't make him turning into a stupid beacon for nothing!"

Gamin attempts to search for more injured crusaders.
Gamin Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 18

"Perhaps those of us good at finding things might want to help out here?" Gamin adds. Gregor, mind spending a standard action searching for crusaders? Your perception is much better than either of mine.

Bless - 9 rounds remaining

Damage Totals
Algar - 16
Boron - 0
Gregor - 0
Xantrian - 0

Not that any of this matters, since you can't be a templated creature anyway under a polymorph spell unless you have a special ability that lets you do so. A fungal nymph is just what Bestiary 4 uses as an example of a Fungal Creature.

At the start of his turn, Xantrian takes 5 damage off of the wounded crusader from the life link.

"Yes, rotate the battlefield. We define where the line is, not some stupid demon!"

Xantrian moves to L16, drawing his trusty wand of bless along the way. Then he casts bless on the party.

"C'mon crusaders. Don't be shy. Where are you?"

Gamin searches for more crusaders. Gamin Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 9

"Don't worry friend! I can help you!"

Xantrian includes the fallen crusader in his life link as a standard action.

"Any more out there? Speak up! We want to help you! We'll get to you before the monsters do if you yell loud enough!"

Gamin takes the opportunity to search for an injured crusader.
Gamin Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (3) + 0 = 3

Perception 1d20+9

"We are victorious!!!" Boron exclaims bleeding but triumphant.

He then takes out his own wand of cure light wounds and uses it on himself and his companions as needed.
1 Use per charge
1d8+1
1d8+1
Healed 11. 1 damage on Boron.

You don't need to do this - I took care of it upthread. No wand charges needed.

Ah, crap. I just noticed that Amazing Red made his post ending combat while I was typing my post detailing my turn. Well, 2 CLW should take care of all the damage from that last fight, since I'll have 22 damage on me and each CLW will heal a minimum of 11 damage. Boron will be left with 2 damage on him.

Xantrian Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (9) + 0 = 9
Gamin Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (8) + 0 = 8

"Ah, so we'll be retrieving wounded crusaders? Sounds like you've got the right guy for the job!" - Xantrian.

"Really? Defending and healing reinforcements? And they say the Pathfinder Society doesn't handpick its teams..." - Gamin.

Anyone else want to make a knowledge planes check? I wanna use my out of character knowledge :p

Assuming that the AC24 hit didn't actually hit, then Boron would actually take 73 damage which is 37 for me and 36 for him. Then life link triggers which takes 5 damage from Boron onto me.

"Oof. That actually hurt. Well, time for me to do my job."
Xantrian channels positive energy to heal. (Note that due to range, this will not hit the vrock, although I could select him out even if he was in range.)
Channel Positive: 5d6 + 1 ⇒ (4, 1, 2, 6, 5) + 1 = 19 (+11 to heal myself)

"All right, now we're talking! Eat that demon! You're going to need to wake up a lot earlier in the morning to finish off this party of Pathfinders!"

Bless - 9 rounds remaining.

Damage Totals
Algar - 0
Boron - 12
Gregor - 0
Xantrian - 12

How do you have bane and judgment up? Both cost a swift action to start...

I bet you thought that Vrock was alive. Nope! Chuck Tests!

Knowledge (planes) to identify the creature: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16
Spellcraft to identify the spell: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

"Ferocious demon! You are no match for our overwhelming power!"

Xantrian pulls out his wand of bless and uses it.

"Wow, that couldn't have gotten more generic if it was a mad lib. You need to work on your battle cries."

Gamin casts guidance on Xantrian.

Xantrian's Fort Save w/ Guidance: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30

Xantrian Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (1) + 0 = 1
Gamin Perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (5) + 0 = 5

I'm guessing that it's staggered 8 rounds then? I'm not going to do anything then. We've pretty much got this battle won. Note that if the battle ends and I'm not online, but people have damage on them, I can spend spell slots to heal myself now. (since we're in the last iteration) I have a ton of slots still left.

Sorry, I've been trying to figure out if I can do anything useful, but all I have are slashing weapons and resist energy can only target creatures, not weapons. Boo... So let's make it make 2 saves versus staggered then?

"Fire ooze? Well you can call me Mr. Gold Pieces cause I'm about to make it rain!"

Xantrian takes a step back and casts create water on the ooze.

Gamin doesn't say anything - he just groans.

EDIT: Ah, actually resist energy protects the wearer's equipment too, so Algar should resist all the fire damage to his weapon.

"Ugh. Polluted spawn. Sounds fun."

Xantrian pulls out a wand and casts [i]bless[/b].

yay quick posts from the bus

Note that I will be traveling most of the day tomorrow, so my access will be spotty. I will try to check in, but if you need to bot me to get the game moving - by all means do so. (It's not like my character is hard to figure out.)

you can spend 2pp every once in a while to get a free wand of clw...

Points to the wand of bless with the Taldan crown symbol on it.

Also, if you think I only spend money on wands of cure light wounds, you haven't seen my scroll library.

That would be funny - however he would be greatly disappointed if he did take over me. Have you seen my to hit bonus with him?

And I'm fine on wand charges as of now - my theory behind this character is that I will spend a certain amount of my wealth on keeping the party alive. (With the rest going for random cool stuff and a phylactery of positive channeling.) I may be switching to real spells soon to heal myself anyway...

(I also haven't used this wand since 1st level.)

Xantrian pokes himself with his wand a bunch.

CLW possible charges: 7d8 ⇒ (2, 4, 8, 1, 7, 5, 4) = 31
(5 charges needed)

"But I was just doing my clerical duties..."
"Mental control."
"But I just needed to provide..."
"Mental control."
"Really, but they looked like they needed..."
"I watched you an Incubus cast a spell on you. Mental control. Period. Stop debating. You're wrong. Now stop lollygagging and meet back up with the rest of the group."
"Oh all right..."
"The things I do for you..."

Gregor takes 3 damage from the crusader, Xantrian takes the other 3.
Gregor takes 10 damage from the crusader, Xantrian takes the other 10.
At the start of Xantrian's turn, life link transfers 5 damage from Gregor to Xantrian.
At this point, the damage totals are:
Xantrian - 47
Gregor - 8
Algar - 0
Boron - 0

Xantrian casts a quick spell on himself while he starts looking around for a good tavern or other place where people are huddled.
Move to G35, which at this point I'm assuming is down a street with other buildings. Then CLW on myself: 1d8 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12.

"Hey, you. Yeah people in that building. Yes I'm a talking sword. Someone come over here and dispel this guy. Or punch him in the face, one of the two."
Gamin readies a guidance in case Xantrian uses the one that he already has on him.

Current damage totals are:
Xantrian - 35
Gregor - 8
Algar - 0
Boron - 0

So, Xantrian takes 24 damage - 19 from the attacks against him and 5 from the shield other on Gregor. At the start of his turn, life link triggers to take the other 5 off of Gregor onto him.

Xantrian double moves to K35.

"Would somebody get over here and tackle this idiot? He's under a mental control effect! He's also really easy to tackle! Somebody? Anybody?"

Gamin casts guidance on Xantrian.

Will save, with Guidance: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15

Xantrian moves 40 ft south (to some square I can't tell because google docs acts weird on my phone).

"What are you doing man? Snap out of it!"

Gamin casts guidance on Xantrian.

At the end of my turn, my mind crystal activates to give me a second save versus the suggestion.
Will save, with guidance: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15

Well, that's it for my tricks. The range on the shield other is 170ft, so you should have 3 rounds before it and the life link break unless someone comes after me. (Which, if you think you can defeat the encounter in 3 rounds, you may just want to do that first.)

If you want to move to the Woundward, we can do that. We don't have to switch with anybody - but if they need help, then let's go there!

"A lot of these guys are intimidating. Thus why you see I'm not in the military. If you have to yell at the people you're working with, what's the point? We're all sentient humanoids - no need to get mad." Xantrian says while heading to the next location.

Gamin scoffs at his comment. "And how else do you plan on building discipline? You have a lot to learn Xantrian..."

All for staying in this district for now. We'll see how it turns out on the next map.

Xantrian and Gamin will attempt to search for the crusader's gear.

This will be an aid another check if you're allowing an aid another on the search, otherwise this will be Gamin trying to aid another on helping me.

Xantrian Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12
Gamin Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 12

"Hello ma'am. Commander Neylan has requested the presence of you and your troops at his base. I don't know if you've noticed, but we don't need troops on lookout anymore - the demons are already inside the city. You've done an excellent job here, but the mission has changed. You're needed inside the city."

Xantrian rolls Diplomacy, using guidance.
Diplomacy by Xantrian: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (8) + 16 = 24

"Besides, it appears the demons can teleport into the city. The walls aren't doing anything anymore. Get in there where you can make a difference!"

Gamin attempts to aid on Diplomacy.
Diplomacy aid by Gamin: 1d20 ⇒ 16

"Do not worry. You are not the only ones fighting. Between the forces of the crusaders and the supplimental forces the Pathfinder Society is providing, we shall win this."

Xantrian can't fail aiding Diplomacy.

"What? You think that these demons are going to go out there and kill themselves? Who do you think are going to kill them? You are capable - now get your ass out there and kick some demonic booty!"

Gamin attempts to aid on Diplomacy.
Diplomacy aid by Gamin: 1d20 ⇒ 17

"Absolutely. Who do we need to find?" asks Xantrian.

Woo! Xantrian will continue to search the place to make sure there's nothing else magical.

Boron takes 8 points from the schir's horn, and the other half gets transferred to me. This puts the damage totals at Xantrian (35), Boron (14), Gregor & Algar (0). Assuming Boron doesn't heal himself in between the life links, 10 damage is transferred over to me via life link, putting Boron at 4 damage and me at 45. Then I pull out my CLW wand and get to work. (I figure that we're actually going to have some big fight at some point where I'll actually need my spells, so this is one of the few times I should actually use my wand.)

CLW charges (rolling lots, seeing how many I need): 10d8 ⇒ (7, 3, 7, 6, 3, 5, 3, 2, 8, 3) = 47
(It looks like I'll need 5 charges to heal the 45 damage. If you're doing the math at home, don't forget I have Fey Foundling and Positive Energy Feedback Loop. Makes the CLW wands go much farther.)

After poking himself with his wand multiple times, Xantrian throws back up detect magic to see if there is anything magical in the area.

Boron only takes 7 damage from the Schir's horn, as 7 damage is transferred over to me.

At the start of my turn, life link triggers. I take 5 damage off of Boron. He should have 6 damage on him, I have 27, and everyone else should be uninjured.

"You are dying quickly. You can follow the lead of your compatriots, or you can leave and find yourself living a bit longer."

Xantrian attempts to demoralize S4. Intimidate w/ Guidance: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13 vs. 10 + HD + Wis. Success means that they are shaken for 1 round, plus 1 round for every 5 which I beat the DC by.

Xantrian notices the schirs moving around the south of the line, and attempts to stay out of their way by 5-foot stepping to F9.

"Xantrian, you know you are about as scary as a firefox begging for food. Besides, these demons are summoned. They're not going anywhere!"

Gamin casts guidance on Xantrian.

Keep up the good work guys. Yay conserving resources mode!

Boron only takes 9 damage from the Schir's horn, as 10 damage is transferred over to me.

At the start of my turn, life link triggers. I take 5 damage off of Boron. He should have 4 damage on him, I have 15, and everyone else should be uninjured.

"Vile beasts. You have little hope in attacking us. Go back whence ye came."

Xantrian attempts to demoralize S5. Intimidate w/ Guidance: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6 vs. 10 + HD + Wis. Success means that they are shaken for 1 round, plus 1 round for every 5 which I beat the DC by.

Xantrian also takes the time to stow his wand of bless back on his waist.

"Excellent tactics men. Keep the line and our enemies will be sure to fall! If you do not have weapons made of cold iron or aligned with the angels, now would be the time to switch!"

Gamin casts guidance on Xantrian.

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We're essentially using block initiative here. We all go, then they all go, then we all go, they they all go. You just delaying until after them really only changes the round number written on top of your post.

Here's the situation if you delay:

• Schirs go
• Algar goes

Here's the situation if you do something else now (like cast divine favor like you wanted to):

• Algar does something
• Schirs go
• Algar goes

Because of the block initiatives, you are effectively losing a turn if you delay here. If you want to hold the line, then either buff yourself or ready (which will let you act before the schirs).

We all beat the enemy in initiative. You got a 9 and all the schirs got a 5. Go ahead and take your turn.

"Gentlemen, we have company..."

Xantrian moves back to F10 because he is squishy and he knows it. He draws his wand of bless as he moves.

He then casts bless off of the wand. The four of us now have a +1 morale bonus to attack rolls and to saves versus fear effects.

Lastly, he tries to make a knowledge check to identify the ferocious demons. Knowledge(planes) including Guidance: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30

"We have the rear guard! Be careful in the front! Foolish warriors are dead warriors!"

Gamin casts guidance on Xantrian.

"All right guys, let's stop creatures from teleporting in, shall we?"

Xantrian casts dispel magic at the summoning circle.
Dispel Check: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19

(For the record, my assumption is that I can dispel magic traps just fine with dispel magic. If I have to counter the spell effect instead to permanently disable it, then I do that instead.)

EDIT: Welp, dispel checks are good things to use rerolls on.
Dispel Check: 1d20 + 7 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 7 + 5 = 16 The +5 is because I'm overpowered.

EDIT2: Apparently, the answer is come at me bro? Oh boy.

Does this look like it will repeatedly summon things or is it once and done?

"Uh, oh boy. Somebody was having fun with conjuration magic over here. Anyone else want to take a crack at seeing what this does before I try to remove it from existence?"

I'm all for using dispel magic on it, but other party members should have a shot at identifying it to see if it's even worth using a 3rd level slot on or if the chance of failing is too high that we might as well trigger it to see what happens.

EDIT: Perhaps we have someone trigger it and I try to counterspell whatever happens? If it's a summoning circle presumably it will try to summon something?

Gamin speaks quickly to console the huddled group. "Do not fear fair citizens, we shall make sure that the place is safe for habitation once more!"

Xantrian looks at the party. "You heard Gamin. Let's do this!" He starts to turn to the house, but takes one moment to turn back to the wide-eyed innocents. "Oh yeah, don't worry. He's supposed to do that. Intelligent weapon, not demon in disguise. Nothing to worry about. Let's go."

I'm going to be terrible at actually finding anything. While sweeping this house, I'll have detect magic up and scanning. I actually have a decent spellcraft in case we run into any magical traps. Gamin will maintain a guidance on me at all times. (This is my default assumption while I am weilding Gamin.)

"Excellent job Gregor. I see your deity was right to reward you with those gifts. You use them quite well."

We were the only ones here, right? Let's stay here then and focus on this district.

All right. Let's get this party started. I start by life linking the party and casting a reach shield other on Boron and Gregor.

Here's the short version. At the start of each of my turns, if any of the three of you have 5 or more damage on you, 5 of that damage is transferred to me. For the two of you who are shield other'd, I will take half of all damage you guys take. If the damage is odd, I take the extra one. Also you have a +1 resistance bonus to saves and a +1 deflection bonus to AC. (If you don't have anything better.)

I'm all for going to the confluence district first, since we're already here. (It's where the Starrise Spire is.)

"You laugh, but I actually prefer when there's extra time at a meeting like this. Urgency before a mission makes for a dangerous mission. Not that demons won't be dangerous anyway..." Xantrian's voice trails off at the thought.

Gamin fills the silence left by Xantrian. "I wholeheartedly agree Gregor! I see many ferocious soldiers here. If, by chance, we ride against the demonic hordes today, we shall be certain to make great victories!

Of course, they probably just sent us up here to deal with another stupid dungeon again. Where's the glory in that?"

Xantrian looks down at Gamin with a slightly disapproving look.

Knowledge (history): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
Knowledge (planes): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (12) + 10 = 22

"Nah, me and my weapon are new around here. Came as quick as we could once we got the summons from Absalom. Thank Lymnieris for that tapestry, amiright?"

"Hell, I didn't want to be on that side of Avistan when the cult of Lissala tried to awaken Krune. Good thing everything turned out okay.

"And quite frankly, I hope that a militaristic city like Mendev actually exterminates their sewers every so often. That seems like a dangerous point of entry if they were to ever be invaded."