Creamsteak
Explorer
There's the combat map. Same problem as last night.
(CSDGH) Demon with a Glass Hand [IC]
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There's the combat map. Same problem as last night.
[sblock=OOC]Sorry, I should have been more explicit. The sweeping strikes cost Thalnil nothing, he can do it on every attack, if the circumstances are correct. He would have used the sweeping strikes on the last attack.[/sblock]
Having hoped to take out one of them on his previous series of attacks, he has left himself flanked. Gritting his teeth, he realizes he is committed and tries to bring down one. He channels his will into the blade calling on the power of the deep crystal from which the blade is forged causing it to blaze with light, the blue crystal briefly glowing with power.
[sblock=OOC] Channels two power points into the sword (adding +2d6 damage for this round) Power attacking 8, using sweeping strikes to get rid of images. If he manages to take down the Vrock he will cleave the other one (using sweeping strikes there as well).
Combat Stats:
Jovar: +25/+20/+15 (12 BAB + 12 Str + 5 Enhancement +1 Feat +3 Insight -8 Power Attack)
Damage: 3d6 + 2d6 + 43 (+18 Str +5 Enhancement +4 Insight +16 Power Attack) 15-20/x2
AC 33 (10 + 10 Armor +1 Dex +2 Deflection +4 Shield + 4 Insight +2 Natural)
Power Points remaining: 27
HP 133 remaining (172 max) (adjusted from last round for damage reduction)
Saves:
Fort +26 (12 Class +7 Con +3 Resistance) (+4 Morale)
Refl +17 (9 Class +1 Dex +3 Resistance) (+4 Morale)
Will +15 (3 Class +3 Wis +2 Feat +3 Resistance) (+4 Morale)[/sblock]
Having hoped to take out one of them on his previous series of attacks, he has left himself flanked. Gritting his teeth, he realizes he is committed and tries to bring down one. He channels his will into the blade calling on the power of the deep crystal from which the blade is forged causing it to blaze with light, the blue crystal briefly glowing with power.
[sblock=OOC] Channels two power points into the sword (adding +2d6 damage for this round) Power attacking 8, using sweeping strikes to get rid of images. If he manages to take down the Vrock he will cleave the other one (using sweeping strikes there as well).
Combat Stats:
Jovar: +25/+20/+15 (12 BAB + 12 Str + 5 Enhancement +1 Feat +3 Insight -8 Power Attack)
Damage: 3d6 + 2d6 + 43 (+18 Str +5 Enhancement +4 Insight +16 Power Attack) 15-20/x2
AC 33 (10 + 10 Armor +1 Dex +2 Deflection +4 Shield + 4 Insight +2 Natural)
Power Points remaining: 27
HP 133 remaining (172 max) (adjusted from last round for damage reduction)
Saves:
Fort +26 (12 Class +7 Con +3 Resistance) (+4 Morale)
Refl +17 (9 Class +1 Dex +3 Resistance) (+4 Morale)
Will +15 (3 Class +3 Wis +2 Feat +3 Resistance) (+4 Morale)[/sblock]
Creamsteak
Explorer
I'll simplify the correction by handling it at the end of the round. Your first two attacks destroy a mirror image, and your third attack hits the real target but does not match the AC of the Vrock. So V3 only has 1 image remaining.
pathfinderq1
First Post
Suvarion surveyed the quickly changing battlefield with a critical eye. She was disappointed in her own performance so far- the passage of years had left her more rusty than she liked to admit- but she was still standing, and more and more of the enemy were falling- some of these strangers had very impressive abilities of their own. Once more she exerted her will and the air crackled with power- as two shattering bursts of flame lit the air around the vrock that was flying in her direction...
OOC: Standard action, manifest Energy Ball (fire) augmented to 14d+14 (Reflex half DC 25), targeted as an airburst to catch only V2; Swift action to manifest Quickened Energy Ball (fire) for 8d6+8 (reflex half DC 22), same target; move action to regain psionic focus (+24 Concentration vs DC 20); 28 more pp spent, 82 left
OOC: Standard action, manifest Energy Ball (fire) augmented to 14d+14 (Reflex half DC 25), targeted as an airburst to catch only V2; Swift action to manifest Quickened Energy Ball (fire) for 8d6+8 (reflex half DC 22), same target; move action to regain psionic focus (+24 Concentration vs DC 20); 28 more pp spent, 82 left
Psion
Adventurer
Dark Figure said:
[sblock=OOC]I'm hoping the GM will give me a little license with time to respond...[/sblock]
Haros smiles, and announces to any of the stalwart warriors, psions, and mages he now stands with who can hear. "This creature is trying to bargain with me for what lies herein." Haros smiles modestly, with a calm look of certainty on his face. Regarding the creature, he says "I've been the devil in devil's bargains before enough to know the sound of one. The man in me who would have been tempted by faint bargains of power is lost like blood on the sands. Know this, nether creature: I wait not for the winds of fortune. I make my fate; I make no bargains not knowing what I bargain with or for."
[sblock=actions]
Have the Psimech and Haros trade places (so Haros is out of the vrock's reach); have the Psimech guard the door and attack any creature attempting to enter.
Soulshriver does 5' "float" towards v3. Again, directs its attacks between 2 vrocks (if any are left after the goliath's turn). If possible, I want it to use the ectoplasmic cocoon to cover the wagon. (Unsure if this would work, as the power description says creature), otherwise direct it at the vrocks. I'll direct the attacks at the vrocks as follows:
v5: psionic charm, psionic dominate, control body, detect thoughts, dismiss ectoplasm
v3: crisis of breath, disable, ectoplasmic cocoon (if wagon not valid), dissolving touch, (no power)
Tendril attacks on v3 (1d20+11=25, 1d20+11=25, 1d20+11=27, 1d20+11=30, 1d20+11=18)
Tendril attacks on v5 (1d20+11=23, 1d20+11=18, 1d20+11=19, 1d20+11=18, 1d20+11=18)
Looks like all touch attacks hit again. Again, DC 18.
Haros manifests probability mantle. 20% "non-penetratable" cover and free reroll every round.
Secondary mind... nothing special. Pays attention to the wagon and the dark figure with true sight.
Points spent: 11. Total expnenses: -71.
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Shard reels, her composure slipping when, for the first time, she feels actual pain * from the creature's attacks. Now they rise over her like towers of tainted flesh...beaks and claws poised to strike her down. Even the ice sculpture that had been a third is little consolation.
She opens her mouth, and the gem on her forehead flashes just as she starts to scream, "N..."
There's another flash from a point to the west...just over ten yards away. Shard reappears, her interrupted cry resuming without pause. "...OOOO!"
For a moment she looks around, as if not sure where she is, then looks at her hands. When she looks back at the demons, her chin lifts defiantly.
"You can endure fire and ice...if not without scar. I'm through playing with you though."
She places her hands palm to palm over her heart...and her skin, already pale, starts to glow softly, with an inner light. In seconds, that light has swelled to where she's hard to look at, even in daylight. A rushing sound like wind surrounds her, whipping the sand at her feet into a dancing circle.
For those watching, the moment has some of the same feeling as watching a bird emerge from an egg. The wonder of birth and rebirth. It looks as if she's about to shed her skin and become something else...something wonderful... The sound of wind changes, becomes more like a chorus, ethereal voices in harmony rising...
And then it all goes wrong. Her expression changes from one of righteous fury and triumph to one of pain. The chorus becomes discordant, and fades. The light building up inside her suddenly seems to find release prematurely...it gushes out in a torrent,' a river of the purest, whitest brightest radiance imaginable, engulfing the two demons as it goes.
And then it's over. Shard stands there with a stricken expression...the face of someone who has experienced a terrible and heart-destroying loss. Someone who has stood at the gates of paradise...only to have it snatched away at the last moment. Except for the clear stone in her forehead, she seems so young...so vulnerable...it's impossible to equate her with the woman who had brought storms of ice and fire against three demons without flinching.
The sand where the light had hit is bleached white...or if not bleached, then scrubbed of all impurities...made clean. Where the light touched the unclean demonic flesh though, it had burned with all the wrath of heaven itself.
* - Shard had been hit earlier, but casting Greater Heroism on herself means that she had 15 temp HP. Thus, this second strike was the first real damage she's taken.
(Quickened Dimension Hop to H1 (quickened spells don't incur AoO). Then Celestial Lance! Using a 7th level slot to power it. Does 7d8 damage in a 60' line that includes both remaining vrock on her, Ref save DC 23 for half. Damage is untyped, but doesn't affect Good creatures. It's an Su ability that isn't subject to SR.)
She opens her mouth, and the gem on her forehead flashes just as she starts to scream, "N..."
There's another flash from a point to the west...just over ten yards away. Shard reappears, her interrupted cry resuming without pause. "...OOOO!"
For a moment she looks around, as if not sure where she is, then looks at her hands. When she looks back at the demons, her chin lifts defiantly.
"You can endure fire and ice...if not without scar. I'm through playing with you though."
She places her hands palm to palm over her heart...and her skin, already pale, starts to glow softly, with an inner light. In seconds, that light has swelled to where she's hard to look at, even in daylight. A rushing sound like wind surrounds her, whipping the sand at her feet into a dancing circle.
For those watching, the moment has some of the same feeling as watching a bird emerge from an egg. The wonder of birth and rebirth. It looks as if she's about to shed her skin and become something else...something wonderful... The sound of wind changes, becomes more like a chorus, ethereal voices in harmony rising...
And then it all goes wrong. Her expression changes from one of righteous fury and triumph to one of pain. The chorus becomes discordant, and fades. The light building up inside her suddenly seems to find release prematurely...it gushes out in a torrent,' a river of the purest, whitest brightest radiance imaginable, engulfing the two demons as it goes.
And then it's over. Shard stands there with a stricken expression...the face of someone who has experienced a terrible and heart-destroying loss. Someone who has stood at the gates of paradise...only to have it snatched away at the last moment. Except for the clear stone in her forehead, she seems so young...so vulnerable...it's impossible to equate her with the woman who had brought storms of ice and fire against three demons without flinching.
The sand where the light had hit is bleached white...or if not bleached, then scrubbed of all impurities...made clean. Where the light touched the unclean demonic flesh though, it had burned with all the wrath of heaven itself.
* - Shard had been hit earlier, but casting Greater Heroism on herself means that she had 15 temp HP. Thus, this second strike was the first real damage she's taken.
(Quickened Dimension Hop to H1 (quickened spells don't incur AoO). Then Celestial Lance! Using a 7th level slot to power it. Does 7d8 damage in a 60' line that includes both remaining vrock on her, Ref save DC 23 for half. Damage is untyped, but doesn't affect Good creatures. It's an Su ability that isn't subject to SR.)
Creamsteak
Explorer
Initiatives
Suvarion 21
Jarek 20
Dark Figure 19
Thalnil 13
Haros 12
Shard 8
Vrock 8
Bulettes 7
Suvarion: The vrock makes his save against the first fireball but not the second. Total damage after all things figured was 52, but the Vrock is still standing.
Jarek: Delaying, waiting for player input.
Dark Figure: Speaking loud, so all can hear.
"So you think that you were a villain once? Redeemed by the light?"
"Ah the stories we could share, had I the time..."
"To think that a fallen hero would confront a redeemed monster in this wretched part of the desert?"
"Which of us is the hero and which the monster this time?"
The grim character laughs in a raspy way, echoes of his voice resonating through the air.
"Know that I am only bargaining to help you along..."
"Whatever is inside there is wanted greatly by my master..."
"If you keep it from me, you will be persued till the item is acquired regardless of your own wishes..."
"This is not an affair to become attached too, I know this better than anyone."
He continues to stand back, not taking any sort of hostile action from his position.
Thalnil: Your first swing is a critical threat on the real target, confirming. You deal 116 points of damage and destroying that vrock. Your sweeping strike hits a mirror image on the other target. Your cleave swing is a critical threat, but disperses a mirror image. Your second regular swing destroys another mirror image leaving this Vrock with none. You can't sweep any more because you lack a second target. Your third swing is a critical threat. It confirms. You deal 82 damage. This destroys this Vrock as well.
Haros: Manifests Probability Mantle.
Shard: You hop and your celestial lance deals 36 points of damage. Both Vrocks fail their save. This is enough to finish off both of the vultures.
Vrock: The single remaining (airborne) Vrock begins channeling some form of spell (recognizable as a summons).
Suvarion 21
Jarek 20
Dark Figure 19
Thalnil 13
Haros 12
Shard 8
Vrock 8
Bulettes 7
Suvarion: The vrock makes his save against the first fireball but not the second. Total damage after all things figured was 52, but the Vrock is still standing.
Jarek: Delaying, waiting for player input.
Dark Figure: Speaking loud, so all can hear.
"So you think that you were a villain once? Redeemed by the light?"
"Ah the stories we could share, had I the time..."
"To think that a fallen hero would confront a redeemed monster in this wretched part of the desert?"
"Which of us is the hero and which the monster this time?"
The grim character laughs in a raspy way, echoes of his voice resonating through the air.
"Know that I am only bargaining to help you along..."
"Whatever is inside there is wanted greatly by my master..."
"If you keep it from me, you will be persued till the item is acquired regardless of your own wishes..."
"This is not an affair to become attached too, I know this better than anyone."
He continues to stand back, not taking any sort of hostile action from his position.
Thalnil: Your first swing is a critical threat on the real target, confirming. You deal 116 points of damage and destroying that vrock. Your sweeping strike hits a mirror image on the other target. Your cleave swing is a critical threat, but disperses a mirror image. Your second regular swing destroys another mirror image leaving this Vrock with none. You can't sweep any more because you lack a second target. Your third swing is a critical threat. It confirms. You deal 82 damage. This destroys this Vrock as well.
Haros: Manifests Probability Mantle.
Shard: You hop and your celestial lance deals 36 points of damage. Both Vrocks fail their save. This is enough to finish off both of the vultures.
Vrock: The single remaining (airborne) Vrock begins channeling some form of spell (recognizable as a summons).
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Creamsteak
Explorer
Things may go into out of combat time if nobody makes any direct hostile action towards the dark figure, once that last Vrock is blown to hell (which I imagine will come soon).
pathfinderq1
First Post
Suvarion registered the dark figure's words, but most of her concentration remained on the remaining vulture-thing. She debated the wisdom of disrupting its summoning with a sundering burst of pure power, but in the end chose a less-subtle approach- exerting her prodigious will she unleashed a cone of corrosive ectoplasm, scorching the vrock and all its mirror-twins.
OOC: Manifest Breath of the Black Dragon, augmented to 14d6; 60 foot cone, aimed to catch just the airborne vrock, not anyone on the ground; Reflex half, DC 24; 14 more pp, 68 left- maybe she'll still have a few when this is over...
OOC: Manifest Breath of the Black Dragon, augmented to 14d6; 60 foot cone, aimed to catch just the airborne vrock, not anyone on the ground; Reflex half, DC 24; 14 more pp, 68 left- maybe she'll still have a few when this is over...
Creamsteak
Explorer
Evaluating your dragonsbreath now since it could end this.
Save failed.
Spell Resistance passed.
53 Damage before any other modifiers.
Regardless, enough to destroy the Vrock.
XP: Each member of the group recieves 1680 XP for completion of that encounter.
Save failed.
Spell Resistance passed.
53 Damage before any other modifiers.
Regardless, enough to destroy the Vrock.
XP: Each member of the group recieves 1680 XP for completion of that encounter.
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