Koran steps forward and raises Mjolnir to the sky. A bolt of lightning shoots upward into the sky before striking one of the Noseratu in the center of the pack, it arcs outward into the crowd.
Reflex vs DC 21 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald takes 18 electricity after resistance....
Reflex vs DC 19 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald takes 46 electricity after resistance.....
Reflex vs DC 19 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald takes 18 after resistance....
Reflex vs DC 19 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald takes 18 after resistance....
Reflex vs DC 19 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald takes 18 after resistance....
Reflex vs DC 19 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald takes 18 after resistance....
Reflex vs DC 19 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald takes 18 after resistance....
The nosferatu jerk and twist in Koran's lightning, moaning their agony....
Before Koran:
Dr Grimm burns his wish to cast black tentacles on a mob of nosferatu and werewolves!
(Per player's Facebook PM to the DM)
MBs ate a huge dice-heavy post for the black tentacles....
Of 12 nosferatu in the AoE, 7 are grappled for damage....
Of 15 werewolves in the AoE, 14 are grappled for damage....
Battle of Le Catacombs! Round 1!
Grimm! (Acted)
Koran! (Acted)
Nosferatu (24)!
Yingzen!
Marcus!
Sieg!
Derrik!
Dr Jones!
Daisy!
Al'Torac!
Radsworth!
MJ!
Werewolves (30)!
Eeeeeek! Eeeeeek!!
All of the nosferatu (except those in the black coils of Dr Grimm's wish) seem to recede into shadow, hiding behind columns....
Stealth Stealth
Stealth . Stealth
Stealth . Stealth
Stealth . Stealth
Stealth . Stealth
Stealth . Stealth
Stealth Stealth
Stealth . Stealth
Stealth
Perhaps 10....
Yingzen remains hidden for now....
Perhaps 10....
Without the appropriate Knowledge checks (religion for nosferatu, local for werewolves), a PC has no clue how many HD a foe might have....
Unrelated to what's happening now, aerial view of Lido Key....
Marcus floats over to catch the biggest cluster of things he can find.
"I say HALLEUJAH! Praise be to Jeeee-SUS and the Almighty! Help me strike down these heathen creatures where they stand Lord. AMEN-AH!"
Will vs DC 27 holy word fails! Paralyzed and all else....
Will vs DC 27 holy word fails! Paralyzed and all else....
Will vs DC 27 holy word fails! Paralyzed and all else....
Will vs DC 27 holy word fails! Paralyzed and all else....
Will vs DC 27 holy word succeeds!
Will vs DC 27 holy word fails! Paralyzed and all else....
Will vs DC 27 holy word succeeds!
Will vs DC 27 holy word fails! Paralyzed and all else....
Will vs DC 27 holy word fails! Paralyzed and all else....
Will vs DC 27 holy word fails! Paralyzed and all else....
Will vs DC 27 holy word fails! Paralyzed and all else....
Will vs DC 27 holy word fails! Paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word succeeds!
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word is paralyzed and all else....
Will save vs DC 27 holy word succeeds!
Ah, thanks, Ruladin!
The nosferatu are not affected by paralysis as undead monsters....
Reflex vs DC 21 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald 1d20+16 takes 18 electricity after resistance....
Reflex vs DC 19 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald 1d20+16 takes 46 electricity after resistance.....
Reflex vs DC 19 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald 1d20+16 takes 18 after resistance....
Reflex vs DC 19 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald 1d20+16 takes 18 after resistance....
Reflex vs DC 19 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald 1d20+16 takes 18 after resistance....
Reflex vs DC 19 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald 1d20+16 takes 18 after resistance....
Reflex vs DC 19 lightning of Mjolnir and Thor's Herald 1d20+16 takes 18 after resistance....
The nosferatu who saved actually evade the lightning damage from chain lightning cast by Koran....
Sieg delays for now, while the people who can wipe out multiple targets are still able to act.
Oops! I meant the wewewolf under him who rolled a 20....
Derrik pursues the vile filth that deem themselves able to excape his sight. It was time to thin the herd.
Daisy holds her action....
MJ strolls menacingly toward the columns to the right, opposite the side where a number of nosferatu and werewolves struggle in the coils of Grimm's black tentacles....
Last chance, monsters. In case you're still unclear, you've bitten off way more than you can chew with us.... Run away while you still can.... Otherwise, we're gonna beat your asses all the way back to your coffins and dens, and there's a whole movie theater back behind us full of recliners with wooden handles that are gonna be removed and sharpened into stakes.... I think you get the picture?
Intimidate
All quickly depart through dark side tunnels, those grappled by black tentacles suddenly dissolving into swarms of bats or spiders to fly or scuttle through narrow apertures....
All werewolves not grappled by Grimm's black tentacles or paralyzed/blinded/etc by Marcus' holy word turn tail and flee as well....
One of them, gripped in the coils of a black tentacle, cries out: We were mistaken, good madams et monsieurs! Show us mercy, we beg of you!
" And what off it, you beg for your life now, but have you ever given mercy to the people you hunted? Do you really think you deserve it!? Can you regret your actions? Otherwise, death by the hands of those tentacles I assure you would be LESS painful. "
The cowering, grappled werewolves begin to assume their human shapes, perhaps hoping to inspire mercy in the mighty FOs....
We have only ever done what we must do to survive, good sir knight! Please! We....we cull zee weak and infirm from among zee humans of Paris.... We do our part to promote zee natural order! We are not zee heartless killers portrayed on zee cinema screen.... Only creatures of zee natural world, doing what we must....
Pretty words from a mouth that's feasted on human flesh....
Woodcut of a werewolf attack....
"This is the first time I've ever heard of the 'natural order' including someone who's cursed to be a man-beast. Doesn't seem very natural to me."
Although a small, evil part of me wants to let these monsters go to eat more snooty French people, I can walk through that field of tentacles with my freedom ring and make quick work of them....
Derrik reaches out with his mind upon the one who speaks and upon the rest of the Werewolves.
His aura crushes down upon the werewolf. " I am giving you a chance here. You will renounce your current ways and not attack anyone else. You shall not eat Human flesh but only feed upon monsters who cause earth and humanity harm. Life those Undead from before. If you sincerely accept this, you will be let free.. otherwise every one of you will be slain.. slowly... And forced to watch until your turn comes. " Derrik's weapons gleam menacingly.
I swear to do only good zings to zee human from now on!
Bluff ....sounds sincere enough to Derrik....
Uh, oui! Me too!
Bluff ....lying through his pointy teeth!
Oui! Oui! Only zee good zings! Hugs et kisses, non?
Bluff ....lies, lies, lies!
Me too! I will do only zee nice zings to people!
Bluff ....sounds sincere....
I will hug zem, and kiss zem, and call zem mon cherie!
Bluff ....sounds sincere....
Monsters only for supper from now on!
Bluff ....seems legit....
Uh, oui! Monsters, zey are delicious! No more humans for me....
Bluff ....sounds like b#*@~#@$....
I never really liked killing zee sweet persons of Paris, anyway....
Bluff ....yes he did!
Oui! Oui! Only zee bad monsters from now on!
Bluff ....somehow, she seems honest....
I swear it! I will be zee nice werewolf from now on!
Bluff ....not buying it!
From now on, I will eat only zee bad guys, oui?
Bluff ....Derrik believes him....
Me too! No more peoples!
Bluff ....(Irish cop being sarcastic:) Sure! Sure ye will!
No more peoples for me, eizer! I will be zee friend of zee human!
Bluff ....sounds legit....
Seven of the werewolves actually seem sincere about reforming.... The rest are obviously lying to save their hides....
Sense Motive
Don't believe any of them, Derrik.... Every one of them is an evil, wicked liar through and through....
"Let me try a different approach." Koran steps forward and slams Mjolnir downward exploding the nearest werewolf's skull into thousands of pieces.
"You kill one more innocent, and that will be all of you."
The werewolves are all intimidated, at this point....
But as we know, intimidation only really holds power at arm's reach.... Or hammer's reach, in this case....
To make a long story short, the FOs determine that all of these werewolves are irredeemable, so they are put to the blade and hammer....
After about three minutes of brutal but efficient work, Koran, Derrik, Mikey Jay, Sieg, and Yingzen have executed all of the werewolves they could find.... About 30, all told....
The FOs then continue to follow Dr Grimm on his twisting course....
Derrik is dissatisfied with the spread of evil the world had undergone. 'Is this what evil did to someone? Was there no such thing as redemption? If that was the case maybe I should be less merciful, for evil absolutely corrupted. Perhaps one day other FO's would be corrupted too? No! ' Why did he think these things. The pure amount of filth must have have him on edge. He follows Dr. Grimm but Dawnbringer seems to twitch eerily.
After a while, Grimm's lead comes to a broad stone door inscribed with alchemical symbols presented as a kind of puzzle lock....
To open the vault, the symbols, which are graven into removable avacodo-sized stones, must be placed in their correct placement on the alchemical diagram....
Craft (alchemy) or Knowledge (arcana) DC 30 to know what that is....
Huh.... My link failed....
Derrik makes his attempt at figuring out what the solution could be. In his chemistry class he paid a good amount of attention, though recently he has applied his love of fantasy to his knowledge so far, which mostly included monsters rather than theories.
Craft (alchemy) succeeds!
Dr Grimm knows which configuration represents the Philosopher's Stone, and makes it so on the door....
With a deep groan of stone grating on stone, the vault is opened....
Um.... From this point on.... We'd better let Yingzen search for and disable the many alchemical traps I--er, Flamel....set to protect the Philosopher's Stone from would-be thieves....
Right. Stay back, friends....
The tengu carefully scrutinizes the interior of the vault, looking for telltale signs of trap triggers....
Perception to detect traps
Perception to detect trap
Disable Device
Perception
Disable Device
Perception
Disable Device
Perception
Disable Device
Perception
Disable Device
Yingzen successfully finds and disables five different traps within the vault, each one warding a case in a concentric series. The smallest, inner case within the vault contains a ruddy metallic stone the size of a small apple--The Philosopher's Stone!
Derrik is still wary. " While I find it good that we have bypassed the traps and defeated the fodder here.. I found it too easy to have received the Philosophers Stone, with a Guardian. A Person with enough Brute force or a powerful, resilient Outsider could have simply walked in here and taken it. It may simply be me worrying too much however. We have the stone..Dr. Grimm, collect it. For it was once yours. "
Grimm takes the Stone from its resting place in the case, and tosses it into the air near his head, which begins to orbit....