stonegod's Expedition to Castle Ravenloft: Ch. III [IC] (Completed)

[EvolutionKB]

Avron forgetting about the silence spell yells in frustration as the lightning fails to work. He tries it again though hoping to burn through them this time. He points out weaknesses to his allies, hoping they can strike better to save them from their foreseen doom.

[sblock=Actions]storm bolt vs spectres. storm bolt vs spectres (3d6=16) I'll use dark knowledge(tactics) as well. You don't need to be able to hear for this so here goes: dark knowledge religion (1d20+16=21)Well that sucked. Allies gain +1 to attack against spectres.[/sblock]

 

[stonegod]

Round 5 (Cont)

The holy rain continues to fall, but it passes straight through the two spectres, doing naught. Ravika's ice storm lets up, and everyone has a moment of Lord Mateusz looking at them from the balcony before he disappears behind the curtain like the necromancer before him.

Kopri cyan continues to hound the spectre, but the ghostly woman continues to ignore her. It gestures lazily to Tessa, and that which was Ravika turns her eye to the priestess. But Ashlyn is not done, striking out with her silvery sword, but it passes through nothing but air. [All miss to miss chance (all three)]

Avron fumes with frustration, but points vigorously at the shifting pattern of the undead, a hint to better hit. Lighting flows forth once more, but it too finds nothing there as the spirits ignore it. [Incorporeal miss again]

Round 6

Marot and Jarrith reach the spiral stair and begin bolting down them, Khensu following behind.

The ghostly spectre reaches once again for Ashlyn's heart, but fortunately the knight's hightened defenses keep it at bay. Ravika ghosts over towards Tessa, though both Ashlyn and Landreth swing at it, both striking against their former friend. [AoO: Ashlyn hits for 14 (max!), Ladreth for 24]. Ravika's touch is dead on, but a bright flare protects Tessa from the worst of it. [8 damage, no drain]

Ladreth lets his guard down a moment to step around the evil apparition, which is enough for the spectre to pounce, ripping life from his heart. [AoO to move to flank; hit for 6, 2 levels] Grimacing, the halfork plunges his blade deep into the creature, though it still clings to unlife. [Hit for 29]

[Tessa, Avron, Ashlyn up.]

Upstairs
M: 22
J: 15 [35/40, cat's grace]
K: 4 [24/62]

Downstairs
S: 22 -30hp
T: 17 [-8, death ward]
L: 6 [15/38, silence] effect, 2 levels]
R: 4 [-34, Undead]
A: 2 [4/9 levels drained, 41/45hp, AC 31/Touch 19]
A: 12 [holy rain, 4 r]

 

[pathfinderq1]

Tessa fought a surge of terror as the spectral form of her former compatriot closed in on her. She focused her will on the task at hand, summoning forth another gout of flame- deep within her a power roared in exultation...

OOC: Attempting Concentration check to defensively invoke her second Scorching Ray from her aberrant dragonmark; Concentration +12 vs DC 19; if she makes the Concentration check, then two 4d6 fire bolts (both at Ravika), +6 ranged touch. If either actual die roll for an attack is between 9 and 15, she'll use an action point- let me know so I can mark it off.

 

[Stormwind]

Ashlyn continues to hold the shades attention and she continues to attack defensively. Her sword still swings eagerly in her hand as she strikes at the incorporeal form before her, her raven continuing to attempt to harry the incorporeal form.

[Raven - Harry vs S (Will DC15 or suffer -2AC)]
[Ashlyn - Improved combat expertise for 9pts (-9 attack, +9AC) -> AC31 (touch AC19)]
[Ashlyn - Full attack vs S (smite on first): 1d20+6/1d20-3 (two rolls vs incorporeal miss chance on smite), damage 1d10+6+1d6/1d10+3 (Bypass DR)]
[Note: 2AP for smite]

 

[EvolutionKB]

Avron stomps his feet like a tantruming child and again lets lightning go at his foes.

[sblock=Storm Bolt]storm bolt (3d6=6)Yuck.[/sblock]

 

[stonegod]

Keeping her flagging defenses up, Ashlyn smiles as Kopri finally seems to distract the spectre, just long enough for her to strike true once with her blade. The sliver light feels the dark room, but only for a moment, and the shadows trick up her follow through.

[S Harried; Hit with smite for 12 damage; miss with next]

The light is enough for Avron whose lightning finally hits its mark. With a soundless scream, the apparition spams... and then is gone!

[Hit, even with a save will kill it. Yay!]

Tessa on the other hand, has to deal with her dead companion. Her fires roar to life, but pass through the ghostly shell with nary a scorch.

[Incoporeal miss both]

But, as her 'mistress' dies, the dead eyes of the now free undead look at the gathered. With not a sound, she descends into the water and then the stone, and is gone.

Within seconds, heavy footsteps can be heard behind as the silence dissipates and the Flamists finally rejoin their companions.

End Combat
J: 35/40
K: 24/62
T: 39/48
L: 15/38 2 levels
R: Undead
A: 4/9 levels drained, 41/45hp

 

[Stormwind]

Ashlyn leans on her blade as the spectre falls and what was Ravika disappears into the stone below. She takes a labored breath, and then from somewhere summons the energy that resides within her and once again healing energy emanates from her, enveloping the living and healing the simpler wounds that afflict both her and her friends.
The deeper wounds from their incorporeal foes remain, being beyond her minor powers of healing.

[Turn undead -> Sacred healing (15hp healed per living creature within 60ft)]

 

[ethandrew]

Ladreth's chest heaved with exertion. He was visibly more exhausted after this fight than previous. The healing burst did help raise his vitality, which was dangerously dipping, but the hulking orc didn't quite seem whole. Slowly he made his way through the sludge, ichor from the once living foes spattered on his armor and running down the blade of his sword.

A companion had fallen, not the first, not the last, but she would be honored all the same.

 

[DEFCON 1]

As Jarrith bursts into the room, he shouts to the assembled "You wouldn't BELIEVE what just happened to us!--" However, his feet splash to a halt as he looks around at the carnage to be found down here, as well as the fallen form of the shifter druid. Suddenly, his face grows dim. "Oh. Well... maybe you would."

Khensu follows into the room and sees the bloody faces around him, and his eyes grow weary. He shakes his head in sadness, and kneels down in the fetid water to give a prayer to the Flame.

Jarrith's lips purse as he thinks about what to say, but nothing comes forth. He just looks to the others, waiting to see if anyone takes the lead in heading to the tomb they need.

 

[stonegod]

[sblock=OOC]Your only real exit other than back is to climb up to the balcony and out the exit the necromancer used.[/sblock]