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"I would really rather not draw this out further. Orin, would you kindly dispatch these things for me?"
Diabolic Edict:
Diabolic Edict
Focus 1 UncommonEnchantmentSorcerer Source Core Rulebook pg. 403 3.0 Bloodline diabolic Cast verbal Range 30 feet; Targets 1 willing living creature Duration 1 round You issue a diabolic edict, demanding the target perform a particular task and offering rewards for its fulfillment. It gains a +1 status bonus to attack rolls and skill checks related to performing the task. If it refuses to perform the task you proclaimed, it instead takes a –1 status penalty to all its attack rolls and skill checks. Yendi stares at elemental #2 and casts another spell, conjuring a guillotine of shimmering eldritch energy over its head, "And I will NOT have you fleeing through the floor before that work is done."
Suspended Retribution: Suspended Retribution
Spell 6 CurseDivinationMentalPrediction Traditions divine, occult Cast somatic, verbal Range 60 feet; Targets 1 creature Saving Throw basic Reflex; Duration 1 minute All life dances one step from the precipice, one heartbeat from disaster. You open your eyes wide and see doom waiting in the wings, then invite it to step forward. A spectral omen of disaster appears above the target's head— traditionally, this is a downward-pointing sword, but some spellcasters report seeing a hangman's noose or a grinning skull instead. When you Cast this Spell, pick one of the following triggers. The target moves more than its Speed in a single round. The target makes more than one Strike in a single round. The target Casts a Spell. The target uses a specific skill you name. The target uses a specific ability you name. If the target takes the triggering action, the portent of doom activates—the sword strikes down, the noose loops around the target's neck, the skull bares its fangs—and the target takes 70 mental damage with a basic Reflex save. The target instinctively knows which action will trigger the omen and can ward off the omen by spending a total of 3 actions, which have the concentrate trait, to pray, make signs against doom, or similar apotropaic actions. These actions need not be consecutive. After the creature spends the actions, the spell ends. Heightened (+1) The damage increases by 10.
Yendi is crushed in the jaws as the creature begins to carry him off!
Clutching at the silver die he found on himself in Nivi's house, he closes his eyes before wrenching himself sharply to the side, trusting in luck to make it the right time to escape! Whether or not that succeeds, he draws on the power in his blood to try to restore his savaged body
Yendi staggers a bit as he's struck with the leg, but maintains his focus on the spell in effect as he turns to the spider, "We won't be having that. Tell me, do your eyes taste regret?" and tries to twist its senses together.
Synesthesia: Synesthesia
Spell 5 DivinationMental Traditions occult (but Divine in this case) Cast somatic, verbal Range 30 feet; Targets 1 creature Saving Throw Will; Duration 1 minute The target's senses are suddenly rewired in unexpected ways, causing them to process noises as bursts of color, smells as sounds, and so on. This has three effects, and the target must attempt a Will save. Due to the distraction, the target must succeed at a DC 5 flat check each time it uses a concentrate action, or the action fails and is wasted. The target's difficulty processing visual input makes all creatures and objects concealed from it. The creature has trouble moving, making it clumsy 3 and giving it a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. Critical Success The target is unaffected.
If Kas is still grabbed, I think freedom would be ideal, yes. If he is trying to escape beforehand, he's in message range, so could get a +2 as a reaction if that would make a failure into a success. Otherwise, I think either healing Kas if he's still in bad shape or making the spider frightened 2, to try to avoid a repeat would be better than the damage on it, right now
As the battle begins, Yendi lets out an uncharacteristically fierce battle cry to Demoralize #2
Yendi stands his ground in the growing rocky spikes and intones "Abominations that think you've found prey, realize now that you stand in the presence of something far greater than yourselves! My companions are no prey for simple spiders! The chains Kas carries so tirelessly will bear you to the ground!! These shards are nothing compared to the way Kohl's roar is destined to crack the Earth! You will see that Orin is more immovable than the walls that held you in Nivi's realm! You will see with all of this that Chulyin's thunder was only the beginning of the wrath he can unleash and I REQUIRE that you show your appreciation!"
Roaring Applause: Roaring Applause
Spell 3 Emotion Enchantment Mental Traditions arcane, divine, occult Cast somatic, verbal Range 60 feet; Targets 1 creature Saving Throw Will; Duration sustained Your flamboyant flourish invokes such powerful feelings in your audience that you incite cheers and applause. Targets of this spell must be able to see, hear, or otherwise understand you. The targets must attempt a Will save. Critical Success The target is unaffected.
"I had thought that our pantsless friend might need time to recover before traveling... but that hardly seemed the case from the way he ran off. Today has been less harrowing than yesterday. I think that if our rescuees have gathered their things, we should be about as ready to go as we're going to get."
"As Chulyin here says, they were the ones that finally managed to find the song to open this place again..." Yendi leans in a bit and whispers conspiratorially, "and to be completely honest with you, Shane was working to try to hold the door open a little longer to make this recovery possible while sending for us. I understand your anger, but I think you understand far more viscerally than I do just how important it is not to risk damaging that effort, no matter how long you've wanted to do this."
Yendi hurriedly inserts himself into the situation, "Please, let's not be overly hasty about this. Believe me, I understand that you have a strong and valid grievance, buti would ask you to reconsider. It is both tragic and infuriating that it took so long to find a way to open the portal to this place again, but we still need to work together to get everyone back through it in a limited window and, for reasons that I would be happy to explain as we travel, we are rather desperately short-handed already. I know you have no reason to trust Shane, but please, at least believe that you can trust me until we get everyone out of here!"
Yendi continues with his most reassuring smile (number 13 in his daily warmups), "And I'm certain thT we can find a way to accommodate Sparkles, assuming that he's lodge-broken and has a diet that can be properly accommodated on the surface?"
Yes... except all content from the GMG is Limited. I should bring it up to the Guide team to ask about (and hopefully codify). The content, yes, so we don't bring in new rules from the GMG. I've never seen anything in the guide suggesting that the sections that are just clarification about how to run CRB rules would be invalid.
Using the base DC to identify a Unique creature's base type is actually one of the things written in the GMG, in that first chapter clarifying some mechanics. The example there being that you don't use the level-based Unique DC of a Unique orc to recognize that they are an orc. If the scenario actually says "use this Unique DC to tell what general type of dragon he is" (unlike this one apparently), that's a different matter, of course.
"Oh, not at all! What you've accomplished, with only a gnome as materials is truly breathtaking! He's simply a little incongruous with the natural splendor you've cultivated. Really, no one could have done better with him... I was simply trying to imagine what a master like yourself might accomplish with the space if you weren't still hosting him!"
Yendi takes a second to take in the overwhelming sight (being sure to visibly display appropriate awe, of course), before smiling broadly, "It is truly an honor to be welcomed so graciously but such an impressive host. My name is Yendi Ionescu. I know it is of little import, but I would hardly dream of being so impolite as to not offer it. If I might be so bold as to light the other side? It seems to me that The Eternal Rose herself would weep to see such majesty half-shrouded in shadow..." With that, Yendi looks carefully for at least tacit permission as he goes to cast his own light spell on a cluster of prisms opposite from Kas's position. "That even the humble gnome you have so kindly hosted for this short spell can hardly detract from the scene is a true testimony to an artistic eye, doubly impressive to cultivate when one has such natural magnificence!"
Yendi approaches the table, more curiously than cautiously, and looks over the simple dice set, "I wonder... could this actually be the game she ran up the debts with before she had to disappear? Or maybe the one she played to try to win her way back out if the hole? Maybe even one she made herself, while lying low..."
He reaches out and takes a handful of dice, "So, five of a kind or a straight, I think..."
Looking down at the dice he ponders, "trying to follow the sixes seems like an ill omen..." and keeps all of his 2s, rerolling the others.
He smirks lightly, "a set of 5 should do, but we can hardly fail to see what happens with the rest, especially in this place." Setting aside the 5 2s, he rerolls the last 4 dice.
Yendi withdraws a scroll from his belt pouch, "Sadly this will only help me to understand them, not the other way around..." and cast Comprehend Languages. "Still, if this was a place where Nivi Rhomdazzle dwelled, there will be cards, coins and an appetite for combining the two in someone here, if I can find them, and if my travels have taught me anything, it's that no man ingratitude himself better than one who both knows how to hold his opinions and how to take a loss cheerfully."
"I, for one certainly appreciate your efforts. Unfortunately, I fear I have no quick solution to this... frankly horrific parasite problem. I think that perhaps it makes our esteemed Master of Scrolls double correct. Or triply, as there's not only the fate of our missing Pathfinders to spur us on, or the threat of the portal closing, but also the need to get back to a better place to tend to this infestation..." [ooc]With the injuries tended to, and ample time for the expended power in his blood to restore itself, Yendi will not need to take care of anything else in particular before trying to find the path forward[ooc]
Yendi stifles a small yelp, as he tries again to avoid the worst of the rain of larva.
Desperately brushing away the ones that he couldn't avoid, before they can took root deeply, Yendi draws the dagger from his belt and invokes the power of the spellheart embedded at the base of the hilt, to send a forceful spray of water at the creature ((DC 30 basic reflex save)).
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