(Inactive) Psion's Return to the Tomb of Horrors (IC)

[nonamazing]

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"I have a lot of questions about this too, Ariornvuraurix. Why was this tower attacked? Assuming, of couse, that the giants didn't merely decide to use it for target practice when they were bored one day."

Davreya looks at the wrecked tower, his mind filled with questions. After a few moments, he turns around and quietly moves to catch up with the others.

 

[Psion]

The party, with Garrel scouting ahead, heads into the passageway. The passage is about 10 feet wide and 15 feet high, and spirals upwards into the mountainside at a steep angle.

[sblock=OOC]
Please let me know in the OOC forum the party order, and how far ahead Garrel is scouting.
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[Psion]

The party ascends the sloping, spiraling passage with Garrel advancing ahead. Garrel can see a bit of light ahead as he rounds a bend. There appears to be a boulder suspended in the passage ahead. All of the sudden, the boulder lurches into motion and begins plummeting down the passage towards you!

Garrel glimpses a tremendous giant behind the rock as it begins to roll towards him. The rest of the party hears the thundering sound coming from ahead.

[sblock=OOC]
Garrel move silent check (1d20+9=14)
Sorry, Garrel, the giant heard you and let the rock go.

Here's how I am going to handle this:

Garrel DID advance further on the giant than the book assumes. I'll give you an improved reflex save, or a standard action and a normal reflex save, since you saw the rock before it started rolling.

The rest of the party, I'll give you a listen check to get a standard action or an improved reflex save in, keeping in mind that you have not seen the boulder yet; your action can include alerting another. Normal reflex saves, though I'm not going to give any large creatures a reflex save to dodge aside... think of something fast or be in a world of hurt.

Nightbreeze is presumably absent, so someone may feel free to suggest an action for Doorgath.
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[CanadienneBacon]

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"What the?! Ari! Get outta the way!" Peja mutters the dwarvish word for 'craft' and points at a section of wall near the rest of the party behind him.

[sblock=OOC]
Peja's listen check result 19.

If the 19 was good enough to have heard, Peja quickly shouts a warning and then uses a standard action to cast stone shape on a section of wall near himself and the others behind him. Peja will try to mold a section of wall in the tunnel to make a (narrow?) alcove for everyone to duck in to. Peja can reshape 24 cubic feet of stone with this casting. Peja's desperate and in a hurry and not thinking straight, so no worries if you rule against the idea. I was going to go for shattering the boulder itself before I realized I might have better luck molding an alcove in the wall. :\

After that, Peja's reflex save was an 8. Not knowing what an improved reflex save was, I just rolled a normal one.[/sblock]

 

[Psion]

[sblock=OOC]
"improved reflex save" just affects the save DC. 8 wouldn't make it, but I'll rule that the stone shape gives everyone else a save for nothing (and the Dire Bears a save for half).
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[Kafkonia]

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[SBLOCK=OOC]

Since I never picked out a new meditation, I'm keeping Ari with her last bonus -- the +7 to listen from Chronepsis. If she makes it through, I think she'll continue with that for now. Listen check of 20 -- http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=866870.[/SBLOCK]

"My goodness!" Ari exclaims, seeing the rock heading for them. As she's about to dodge, she sees Peja stumble, and channels some of her arcane power to assist him before dodging away herself.

[SBLoCK=OOC]
As an immediate action, Ari can force another creature to reroll once per day via the Fickle Finger of Fate. She's doing this for Peja's reflex save.

Ari's reflex save is a 23 -- http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=866875[/SBLOCK]

 

[Fenris2]

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Garrel shouts, "Get back out of the passage! A giant just rolled a huge boulder at us." And, he uses his standard action to go ethereal via his second use of his cloak today.

OOC: Neener neener ;-)

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Peja finds himself curiously graced by a sensation of fluidity never before experienced. The dwarf experiences the joy of unfettered movement for a bare flash of a second before the boulder bears down on him.

[sblock=OOC]If he does get that reflex save re-roll (thanks, Ari!), Peja rolled a 12. Reflex save re-roll 12.[/sblock]

 

[nonamazing]

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Listen check. (1d20+13=19)

Davreya looks up, startled, as he hears the rumbling further up the corridor. As the others begin to shout, Davreya closes his eyes and concentrates, quickly weaving a spell of escape. He snaps his eyes open, the magic preparing to release, and makes a quick decision, grabbing Doorgath by his fur. "Doorgath! Grab Kull!"

A split second later, there is a flash of light, and Davreya vanishes.

I hope the others are going to be alright, Davreya thinks. I saw Ari ducking to the side--was that alcove there a second ago?--but I'm not sure if Peja managed to get out of the way in time...
[SBLOCK]Casting Dimension Door with my standard action, if that's possible. I can bring along up to three medium creatures, or one large and a medium. Assuming Doorgath is still in dire bear form, I'll grab him (he was just ahead of me in the marching order), and he will hopefully grab Kull. If this works, then we should all be fine--I'll send us back to the main chamber, next to the fountain with the dolphin statue and off to the side. Let me know if any further rolls might be required to pull this off. (A Concentration check, perhaps, for casting while under stress? Here's one just in case: Concentration check. (1d20+7=9))[/SBLOCK]

 

[Psion]

[sblock=Garrel]

Garrel shouts, "Get back out of the passage! A giant just rolled a huge boulder at us." And, he uses his standard action to go ethereal via his second use of his cloak today.

You still need to roll a reflex save to get it off in time.
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[sblock=Davreya]
Give me a reflex save. Also, where are you dimension dooring to.
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