DM Brainiac's Kingmaker 2E: Table 2

[Blaze!]

Blaze shakes her head in annoyance. "Plants don't burn, shadows ignore light. We used to be a proper queendom."

Instead she calls on a deeper light from within herself, flaring the life force within her friends and subjects as she hopes to sear away the darkness as well.

HHHeal: 2d8 + 2 ⇒ (4, 7) + 2 = 13 DC 20 Basic Fort

[DM Brainiac]

Fortitude: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 121d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 271d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 21

Blaze disrupts the shadows' forms with healing magic while mending Ankra's wounds. Russ misses with his attack, but Ankra's critical strike annihilates the most wounded of the shadows.

Still regarding the kineticist as the biggest threat, the remaining shadows continue to attack him! They relentlessly drain him and tug at his shadow, which finally rips free to become a spawn under the shadows' control!

Shadow Hand: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (7) + 15 = 221d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29
Damage: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (4, 6) + 3 = 132d6 + 3 ⇒ (5, 3) + 3 = 11
Shadow Hand: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (6) + 15 = 211d20 + 10 ⇒ (17) + 10 = 27
Damage: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (5, 4) + 3 = 122d6 + 3 ⇒ (5, 6) + 3 = 14

50 total void damage to Ankra. He is now enfeebled 4!

[Blaze!]

"That's right! That is right! Plenty more fire and light, and- and all kinds of things you hate!"

Blaze rushes forward to the edges of the fray, sneaking in a flank on the most injured one. probably with Ankra since they're surrounding him

Ignite: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18
Fire: 3d6 + 2 ⇒ (2, 5, 6) + 2 = 15

[Russ'Ruk]

Vicious Flame Striking +1 Cold Iron Bastard Sword: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (6) + 12 = 18
Slashing; fire: 3d8 + 3 ⇒ (5, 8, 8) + 3 = 241d6 ⇒ 5

Flame Striking +1 Cold Iron Bastard Sword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Slashing; fire: 2d8 + 3 ⇒ (1, 5) + 3 = 91d6 ⇒ 3
well at least they're flanking attacks so maybe the first one hits? But for real paiz-bot could you let me do the ONE thing my class is good at please?

Russ tries to assault the damned shades, abandoning defense since the stupid things decided to go directly after his companion instead.

[Ankra]

Ankra staggers back away from them, barely keeping on his feet. "Hey, I was using that shadow," he mumbles. Somehow he realizes that he's fading and slaps his face with one glowing hand, then the other, refreshing himself and getting him ready to wade back in.

Stride, Lay on hands, lay on hands. Heal 24 hp.

[Vesi Medvyed]

Vesi follows Ankra, extending a cupped hand in which two shiny berries lie. "Eat this, you'll feel beter."

Out of useful spells, casting Cornucopia for Ankra to heal 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (5, 1) + 8 = 14 HP (need to use an Interact action to eat them).

[DM Brainiac]

Russ and Blaze team up to slice and burn another shadow out of existence. The remaining shadow and the spawn created from Ankra's shadow attack Russ, weakening him as they tug at his shadow!

Shadow Hand vs Russ: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (8) + 15 = 231d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28
Damage: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (3, 3) + 3 = 92d6 + 3 ⇒ (1, 5) + 3 = 9
Shadow Hand vs Russ, Clumsy 2: 1d20 + 15 - 2 ⇒ (15) + 15 - 2 = 281d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (2) + 10 - 2 = 10
Damage: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (2, 5) + 3 = 10

28 total void damage to Russ and he is enfeebled 2.

[Blaze!]

"C'mon Russ, we've got this, just one more left maybe," Blaze urges, slapping a cupped hand full of flame across what she thinks might be the back of one of the shadows.

Stride to flank the OG shadow with Russ
Ignite: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 10 = 21
Fire: 3d6 + 2 ⇒ (5, 5, 3) + 2 = 15

[Ankra]

Ankra stuffs the berries into his mouth, savoring the warm glow as the magic seeps into him. Refreshed, he turns to the shadow ripped from him and lets loose with an icy spear.

elemental blast, ranged, 2a: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30
damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

[Russ'Ruk]

Vicious Flame Striking +1 Cold Iron Bastard Sword: 1d20 + 12 - 2 ⇒ (9) + 12 - 2 = 19
Slashing; fire: 3d8 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (1, 7, 5) + 3 - 2 = 141d6 ⇒ 3
just barely hits thanks to flank i believe

Russ'ruk nods alongside his queen, and strikes, raising his shield though he's not sure it would protect him from the vicious assault these things can unleash.

23ac, 26hp left

[Vesi Medvyed]

Vesi tries to zap the shadows again, then encourages Russ.

Electric arc, Reflex DC 19: 3d4 ⇒ (1, 1, 3) = 5 sad womp

And Guidance on Russ.

[DM Brainiac]

Reflex vs Electric: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 171d20 + 14 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 14 - 2 = 32

Vesi's lightning damages one of the shadows but the other one evades. The rest of the group focuses their attacks and destroys the last original shadow. Only the spawn pulled from Ankra's shadow remains, reaching for Russ. It misses at first but then recovers with a critical hit!

Shadow Hand vs Russ, Clumsy 2: 1d20 + 15 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 15 - 2 = 241d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (16) + 10 - 2 = 24
Damage: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (4, 2) + 3 = 9

18 void damage to Russ and he is now enfeebled 3.

[Blaze!]

"You're doing great Russ! I didn't even know you could get eaten alive by a monster without fitting in its mouth!"

Stride to flank
Ignite: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28 Looks like a crit!
Fire: 3d6 + 2 ⇒ (6, 6, 3) + 2 = 17 so 34 and 2d6 ongoing fire damage if a crit

[Russ'Ruk]

Shield block to eat 5, bringing it down to 14 damage to me and my shield, shield breaks, and I'm down to 12hp, free action to let go of the shield and 1 action to change grip on my weapon to 2 hands leaving me with

Russ's shield cracks not from the force of the attack from the shadow but by the withering energies that errupt from the strike, causing the thing to become far too brittle to reliably use again. Prompting him to believe he desperately needs to get a magical augmentation for it. However in the meantime he has to survive, so he readjusts his grip and brings his magical sword down alongside Blaze's fiery impact in both hands.

Vicious Flame Striking +1 Cold Iron Bastard Sword 2H: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (18) + 9 = 27
Slashing; fire: 3d12 + 0 ⇒ (11, 10, 1) + 0 = 221d6 ⇒ 5

Just barely not a crit even with flank, but hey 27 damage isn't nothing to sneeze at alongside blaze's 34