| joepz |
Name:Durad
Race:wyvaran
Classes/levels:spiritualist 4
Adventure: shards of sin
Location:the shriezyx right before the shard
Catalyst:Death by Darkvision
The Gory Details: (optional)
the other two players are a fetchling (unchained rogue VMC barbarian) and a human with fetchling heritage (arcanist specialising in shadow spells) and with the spiritualist's first phantom being a shadowy female former pathfinder who died in Nidal the party had a shadow theme going from the start. This often meant they just go through the dungeon in darkness, hoping their darkvision would give them an edge.
After dealing with most of the derro's the party is compelled to the secret door and behind it they find the petrified shriezyx. Having gone by the hawks eyes monument they note the foreshadowing down and throw knowledges. I tell them about the fire weakness and fear, among other things. The arcanist had gone to the founders flame monunment earlier this day and threw very wel so his prepped burning hands are DC20!
So they go down to the shriezyx chamber, shriezyx animate and win initiative. First shriezyx webs the front guy (spiritualist) which fails his save and is now slowed. the other one moves forward to bite the spiritualist. players take their turns, move forward with the frontline and a surging shadows spell entangles and anchores one of the shriezyx.
shiezyx's turn again. I tell my players he starts with a bite attack, players react with "Starts?". I then proceed to search for some extra d20's for the claws. players:"how many are you rolling!?" shriezyx does good damage and they are almost always hitting, even with entangle.
the rogue gets a good sneak attack off and almost downs one of the shriezyx but then both rogue and spiritualist go down, which leaves just the arcanist. He flees up the stairs, shriezyx in hot persuit. He turns around to burning hands one of the shriezyx, the damaged one, which gets enough damage to explode into a spray of burning ichor. The other one is shaken automatically but also fails it's save and is now frightened for 1 round. This back and forth happens a few more times before the second shriezyx also explodes but by that time it was way too late for the spiritualist.
morale of the story: if the party didn't all have darkvision someone would probably have had a torch with him, giving both shriezyx shaken off the bet and if used as a weapon applying frighten....