Syen is walking along through the Caldera, hunting for Galtraxis. He has just emerged from a bank of shrubbery when suddenly the landscape ripples in front of him and changes before his eyes. Some sort of massive illusion was apparently cast over the area, and its dismissal allows him to see a huge burnt area of volcanic rock, with a colossal red dragon sitting in the still bubbling bed of lava in the center. It grins at him toothily, saying "Hello." As it speaks a green ray springs from the dragon to strike Syken. The orc dodges out of the way in the last instant.
Please indicate any buffs you had running prior to the combat in your first post. Be very detailed in your OOC description of your actions. That means use the coordinates, tell me what kind of action each thing you're doing costs, etc.
Does that imply the Dimensional Anchor (he can't fail the sellcraft check), missed him? Because a 43 definitely hits Syken's Touch, and certainly hits his flat-footed touch (kinda curious though, I thought there was no surprise round, so how did he shoot that off if I might ask?). At any rate though...
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First off, Syken will have a Greater False Life in effect for...
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Greater False Life:2d10 + 20 ⇒ (8, 3) + 20 = 31
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31 Temp HP. He'll also have a Resurgent Transformation in effect, so when he drops to 25% of his max health, that will kick into effect, doing a few things (click here for the full list). He'll have Overland Flight on, as well as his Cognatogen (as mentioned on his statblock). They're all hours per level in duration.
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Last but not least, he'll have a Delayed Consumption in effect with a Combined Targeted Bomb Admixture/Bomber's Eye.
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Now then, if I count correctly, Galtraxis looks to be 110 feet away or thereabouts, so Syken will dive straight into the attack.
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As a free action, he activates his Boots of Speed, giving him the effect of Haste for +1 on attack rolls, and an extra attack when making a full attack.
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As an immediate action (or essentially a swift as it is on his turn), he will bring his Delayed Consumption into effect. Targeted Bomb Admixture allows him to add his Intelligence Modifier to his bomb damage a second time, though removes its ability to splash. Bomber's Eye increases the range increment of his bombs to 30 feet and grants a +1 Insight bonus to attack on them (and I don't think he has any other insight bonuses to his attack).
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He will then do a full attack with fast bombs, using TWF, Improved TWF Greater TWF and Rapid Shot, with an additional attack from Haste, and throwing Frost Bombs.
Breakdown of Attack Bonus:
15 BAB
+7 Dex
+1 Weapon Focus
+1 Circumstance Bonus (Throw Anything)
+1 Competence Bonus (Pale Green Prism Ioun Stone)
+1 Morale (Flawed Pale Green Prism Ioun Stone)
+1 Haste
+1 Insight (Bomber's Eye)
-4 Two-Weapon Fighting
-2 Rapid Shot
-3 Range Penalty (Over 90 feet away but less than 120)
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Total: +19 to hit.
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Making his full attack routine +19(Base)/+19(TWF)/+19(Rapid Shot)/+19(Haste)/+14(Base)/+14(Improved TWF)/+9(Base)/+9(Greater TWF)
Attack rolls:
They should hit on anything that's not a crit fail, truthfully, but here goes.
Erg, that looks like a lot of 1's. Anyway though, Vulnerability to Cold:
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1: 56*1.5 = 84
2: 33*1.5 = 49.5 -> 49
3: 55*1.5 = 82.5 -> 82
4: 48*1.5 = 72
5: 46*1.5 = 69
6: 53*1.5 = 79.5 -> 79
7: 43*1.5 = 64.5 -> 64
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84 + 49 + 82 + 72 + 69 + 79 + 64
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Total: 499 Damage! One short of 500! Agh!
Syken looks at the newly revealed wyrm and smirks. "There you are," he says in Draconic, lacing his fingers and cracking the joints. "Hope you're ready for this."
With that, he quickly mixes together a number of prepared vials, and begins tossing them towards the dragon. They fizz through the air, trailing frigid mist, and as they clash against the dragon's scales, they burst into ice. Despite his quick aiming and throwing all but one of the 8 thrown bombs connect squarely against Galtraxis.
499 damage to Galtraxis, after his resistance and vulnerabilities are all taken into account. I do believe that is one frosted dragon. If, somehow, he isn't dead yet, he needs 7 DC 37 Fort saves to avoid being staggered for 1 round. And if he isn't dead, Syken will use a hero point and drink an extract of Spell Resistance. But, again - I think he just got smoked :P
He rolled a one, so yeah it missed. There is a surprise round, he just uses his standard action to dismiss his Screen spell instead of casting improved invisibility or timestop or something actually dangerous to y'all. I just forgot he had Quicken Spell in the other two fights.
The dragon freezes solid, before cracking and falling apart into meaty ice chunks.
Ah, okay then. And his dimensional anchor looks more like a 16 on the die roll. Not that Syken did any teleporting anyway, so I suppose it doesn't matter much.
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Now I want to try lowering the level of build I can accomplish it with, but I'm also still interested in seeing how Varin could do against him (dragon fight ftw). Hmm, welp, I'll be thinking about that for a bit. Anywho though, fun match. As someone else termed it, a bit like Hide and Seek Rocket Tag :P
I swear that was a 1 before. -shrug- As you say, irrelevant. Feel free to make another character or different version of Syken and post in the main thread discussion page.
