IC: Dichotomy's Age of Worms Redux, Part V(b)

[o3caudata]

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well crappers. i totally missed the step yes. You proceeded as i would have suggested.

Gaze attacks are stupid. Any chance you didn't give me the 50% chance? (or maybe their gaze attacks are extra stupid) gaze attacks

/*end straw grasping*/

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[TiCaudata]

Erdolliel closes her eyes from the creatures' gazes while casting a spell.[sblock=oc]Cast Fireball. Reflex DC 17 for half damage. 8d6 damage. I don't think I can include all the baddies while avoiding Kushnak, so I will just include the gaze creatures. Center the blast on the square directly above Kushnak. I think that since fireball is a spread, the fact that the creatures get concealment doesn't matter. Am I right?[/sblock]

 

[Dichotomy]

[sblock=This is wrong]Erdolliel closes her eyes and launches a ball of flame into the room. The drow shrugs off the spell altogether. The alien creatures suffer some burns. Kushnak nearly fails over as the flames sear his wounds.

Next to Kushnak, the drow opens her eyes, and Kushnak sees intense hate. She weaves and bops to avoid attack while she casts what Kushnak knows is a channeling of negative energy to inflict harm. The drow swipes at Kushnak with her spell-armed hand, but she completely misses.
[sblock=OOC]So, as we discussed via chat, the gaze attack thing is odd. Maybe we should continue to discuss it. In the meantime, even if we use the 50% here, I rolled and K failed two of them, so I just applied his first saving throw roll. In short, he's slowed anyway.

Erdolliel: fireball (correct that the concealment doesn't matter); spell resistance for 3 - 2+ fail; saves K - 16+ success, 7 - 15+ success, 8 - 15+ success, 9 - 4+ fail; 21 or 10 damage
3: opens eyes (10%, 78%, 66%; saves: 2+), slowed; cast defensively 10+ success; touch attack against K, 1!

Status & Init:
Erdolliel: faerie fire; haste
3: 56 damage; slowed
Kushnak: dodge 9; 58 damage; slowed
7: 10 damage
Nethezar: 16 damage; confused
8: 10 damage
9: 21 damage

Fly in effect ~ 21 rounds. Prayer for good guys 8 rounds. Confusion on Nethezar 8 rounds. Slow on Kushnak 1 round. Haste 1 rounds. [/sblock][/sblock]

 

[o3caudata]

Kushnak retreats and attempts to heal some of his wounds.

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5' step SW and spontaneously cast cure critical wounds defensively. +14 concentration 4d8+8

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[TiCaudata]

[sblock=oc]REDO!! So, that last post sucked as far as my wording was concerned. After chatting it out with both of y'all, here's my stab at what I meant to do...[/sblock]Erdolliel closes her eyes from the creatures' gazes while moving back from the ensuing blast.[sblock=oc]Move 5'E, and 10' NE, then Cast Fireball centered on the ceiling 5'W of E's current position. Reflex DC 17 for half damage. 8d6 damage. My intention is to include all the baddy gaze monsters without including Kushnak or myself, so if I still didn't succeed in that intention, there's gotta be a way to make it happen... Hope that's better and more clear and stuff.[/sblock]

 

[Dichotomy]

[sblock=OOC]So... Erdolliel is getting a redo. But, in short, I don't think I at all understand what you are trying to do.

Here's the longer answer.

This map represents where I think you want Erdolliel to move, and the X marks the intersection where I think you want to place the fireball. (BTW, your use of the term "current" is not clear, but this is what I think you meant.)


If you look at the random stuff that I put on the map further to the right, that is my attempt to visually demonstrate a 3D display of where the creatures are in the room. (The upper right one is as if you were standing west of Kushnak and looking back at him. Kushnak and 3 are both on the ground. 9, 8, and 7 are all 15 feet up. Make sense? The lower right one is as if you were standing south of Kushnak and looking back at him.)

In putting this all together, I'm not seeing that you get 8. I am really, really mentally dead right now, though. So let me know if I'm just missing it.

Awww, crap. And now I'm thinking I must be wrong, because I don't think Erdolliel could even target that intersection, cause she can't see it. But then I still don't see how you get all three aliens. Sorry, I'm not going to try to work this out tonight. Maybe you guys can either figure it out, or figure out what I'm missing.[/sblock]

 

[Dichotomy]

Erdolliel closes her eyes and launches a ball of flame into the room. The alien creatures suffer some burns.

Next to Kushnak, the drow opens her eyes, and Kushnak sees intense hate. She weaves and bops to avoid attack while she casts what Kushnak knows is a channeling of negative energy to inflict harm. The drow swipes at Kushnak with her spell-armed hand, but she completely misses.

[sblock=OOC]I think o3 figured it out. If Erd places the fireball at intersection X at the ceiling, she hits all three alien creatures, but not Kushnak or 3. So, I'm going with that. Because I'm lazy, I'm not re-rolling.

Erdolliel: fireball; saves 7 - 15+ success, 8 - 15+ success, 9 - 4+ fail; 21 or 10 damage
3: opens eyes (10%, 78%, 66%; saves: 2+), slowed; cast defensively 10+ success; touch attack against K, 1!

Status & Init:
Erdolliel: faerie fire; haste
3: 56 damage; slowed
Kushnak: dodge 9; 48 damage; slowed
7: 10 damage
Nethezar: 16 damage; confused
8: 10 damage
9: 21 damage

Fly in effect ~ 21 rounds. Prayer for good guys 8 rounds. Confusion on Nethezar 8 rounds. Slow on Kushnak 1 round. Haste 1 rounds. [/sblock]

 

[o3caudata]

Kushnak attempts to finally put down the drow.

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Attack #3(+1/1 prayer & Com. Exp. 5): +13, 2d6+13

Feat dodge on 9. AC 30 vs 9, 29 vs others.

If 3 falls, 5' step SW otherwise hold position.

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[Dichotomy]

Deciding to not risk an attack by the drow's touch spell, Kushnak swings his sword at her head. The drow backs away, but the half-orc still slices open her throat. The drow collapses to the cavern floor.

Nethezar's voice is heard in the distance, grumbling. The voice gets closer. Finally, the scholar makes his way down the path toward Erdolliel. "What in the Nine Hells happened?"

The three alien creatures lash out at Kushnak, but the half-orcs superior armor and deft dodging elude the creatures.

[sblock=OOC]Kushnak: attacks 3, 13+ hit, 18 damage, drops; steps
7: full attacks K, 17+ miss, 8+ miss
Nethezar: double moves
8: full attacks K, 6+ miss, 11+ miss
9: steps 5 feet down (only 10 feet off the ground); full attacks K, 3+ miss, 11+ miss

Status & Init:
Erdolliel: faerie fire; haste
3: 74 damage; slowed
Kushnak: dodge 9; 48 damage; slowed
7: 10 damage
Nethezar: 16 damage
8: 10 damage
9: 21 damage

Fly in effect ~ 22 rounds. Prayer for good guys expired. Confusion on Nethezar expired. Slow on Kushnak 2 rounds. Haste 2 rounds. [/sblock]

 

[TiCaudata]

"It's about bloody time sage!!! YOU got confused by the woman that Kushnak just killed and now HE'S facing off with 3 tentacled things that daze you with their bloody eyes! Try not to look at them directly." [sblock=oc]I'll post an actual action soon but DI said he's unlikely to check or post until the new year, so I'm holding off until I have more time.[/sblock]