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"Enter the Crucible" L10 Endurance Utility - Resist 10 all for Encounter
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<blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 6023701" data-attributes="member: 11821"><p>Actually, I beefed her up to be a more capable, challenging "boss" solo ... and then nuked her, afterwards. (It was a pretty epic fight, actually - the party needed to take apart her transformation and protection ritual in a 12-success skill challenge while being drained of healing surges from her defiling ritual and assaulted by her weakened kuotagha. And THEN they had to face her.)</p><p></p><p>The sword hit and ritual failure themselves brought her to bloodied, left her at -5 to defenses for the encounter, cost her an action point, removed her Clonic contingency (see below), kept her aura in check ... and ruined the quite valuable artifact used to do it. Otherwise, Crucible or no, the party wouldn't have stood a chance. I could have had her retreat at a bit over 100 HP, but the party managed a near-miraculous final round and critted her twice.</p><p></p><p>This was a rather unique one-time opportunity to defeat a sorcerer-queen who'd overextended herself via the intervention of an artifact dedicated to defeating her - a whole lot like how Kalak was killed, so I thought there was precedent. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Enter the Crucible saved <em>one</em> character's bacon, which admittedly helped a lot. But it did nothing to protect anyone else.</p><p></p><p>I've gone ahead and attached her stat block. Knowing Abalach-Re, it's entirely likely she had another contingency plan set up... I'm really looking forward to seeing how my campaign evolves from here - I seeded some rumors about gods coming back at the Blue Shrine, but there's bound to be some interesting stuff going on back in Raam, now, too...</p><p></p><p>-O</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Obryn, post: 6023701, member: 11821"] Actually, I beefed her up to be a more capable, challenging "boss" solo ... and then nuked her, afterwards. (It was a pretty epic fight, actually - the party needed to take apart her transformation and protection ritual in a 12-success skill challenge while being drained of healing surges from her defiling ritual and assaulted by her weakened kuotagha. And THEN they had to face her.) The sword hit and ritual failure themselves brought her to bloodied, left her at -5 to defenses for the encounter, cost her an action point, removed her Clonic contingency (see below), kept her aura in check ... and ruined the quite valuable artifact used to do it. Otherwise, Crucible or no, the party wouldn't have stood a chance. I could have had her retreat at a bit over 100 HP, but the party managed a near-miraculous final round and critted her twice. This was a rather unique one-time opportunity to defeat a sorcerer-queen who'd overextended herself via the intervention of an artifact dedicated to defeating her - a whole lot like how Kalak was killed, so I thought there was precedent. :) Enter the Crucible saved [I]one[/I] character's bacon, which admittedly helped a lot. But it did nothing to protect anyone else. I've gone ahead and attached her stat block. Knowing Abalach-Re, it's entirely likely she had another contingency plan set up... I'm really looking forward to seeing how my campaign evolves from here - I seeded some rumors about gods coming back at the Blue Shrine, but there's bound to be some interesting stuff going on back in Raam, now, too... -O [/QUOTE]
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