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Spoiler Alert to any who have not played the Wake of the Watcher.
Greetings everyone,
My group just got done kicking the crap out of the Vicar and his 10 lower level minions in the Temple of Gozreh in Illmarsh and I had to let everyone know about it.
our group:
Cornellius: Dhampir Crusader (me)
Crolimar: Gnome Alchemist
Illona: Human Witch (Female)
Y'lderick: Human Inquisitor
Kate: Human Ranger (female)
Cassomyr: Elf Rogue (hehe)
First off, we snuck in (or thought we were) and got into the second open area where there is a door to the far left and another to the far right. through the open 10ft wide pathway in the middle, we see 5 clerics bowed down in worship. We already know these guys are worshipping Dagon, and are responsible for the disappearance of a dozen citizens. So, we begin our stealthy approach and I, the pretty decently quiet Crusader alerts them with a 20 stealth roll. Gotta love that, but in the ensuing melee, our Naginata wielding Ranger is guarding the right door (which she defended vs. 3 of the 3/3 cleric rogues), and our alchemist is bombing the hell out of the left side with poisonous vapor bombs that drain wisdom (which had another 2 of the 3/3 cleric rogues and the main cleric boss). That leaves me, our rogue, and our inquisitor to defend and crush the middle.
And oh how we crushed them...
Being a Crusader 7 / Oracle 1 / Ustalavan Knight 1 (the red ruby knight PrC from BoNS), I had just received the Island of Blades stance, and me and our rogue walked through those 3/3 cleric rogues like the were butter and we were the hot knives. I wont go into huge detail, but for those that know the BoNS, my crusader has the Manuevers - White Raven Tactics and Divine Surge. So through out the melee, our rogue would get his sneak attack on any enemy I was adjacent to (thanks to the island of blades stance), and on the Scion of the Sea-(divine guardian Chuul) and the Main cleric, I was able to let the rogue get his full attack, use white raven on him, use my divine surge, then the rogue would get another full attack on the initiative right after me. Since this battle was 16 rounds, I was able to go through my 5 maneuvers 3 times, which was devastating to the rogue/clerics we were fighting.
I mean, once I got my white raven tactics back, I would delay till after our rogue did his full attack, then use it so he would go after me again, and thus, set up 3 opportunities for the rogue to get 4 attacks @ 5d6 sneak damage each.
Of course, he didn't hit every time, but he got two hits twice and 3 hits once, so it was truly deadly, especially against the Scion, which almost killed two other team members. (It had a dislike for the alchemist who poisoned almost every cleric in the place, with 4 of the ten receiving -5 wis, and another 2 getting -3 wis.)
Lets just say we were not being pelted by spells during most of the battle.
I will say that near the end of the fight, when only the main cleric stood, that it did get a nasty command spell off on our witch, and she had to cast her Cloud Kill spell on me and the inquisitor. He succeeded on his save (whew! it was close) and I rolled a natural 20 on mine, so I was good. But other than that, the only real threat was to our alchemist who stood at -4hp on the scions tenticles, and to the inquisitor, who was under 20hp.
It was one of the best fights I had been in in recent memory, and if I had not pulled a white raven out of my ass on the Scion, our poor alchemist would have awakened in the realm of Dagon, screaming from being violated in the worst possible ways...