Iron Heroes: A Saga of Might

[Shayuri]

"Listen to her," Vela says abruptly, floating up from where she's been searching for a weakness in the Conch's shell. Leave it to the sorceress, she thinks, to find a weakness that is not physical.

"This dark magic cares nothing for your loss...it only seeks to use you, just as it uses those trapped below to fuel itself. Look at this thing and ask yourself...if he were here, what would he want you to do? Join with a monster and lose your soul...and with it, your only chance of ever seeing him again...or rejoin your sisters and know love again?"

 

[mfloyd3]

Xoria fights the urge to struggle with her arms, and instead focuses her will. She lets eldritch energies wick outward from her body and along the conch's tentacles.

Sensory Deception: Trying to make the creature's tentacles feel like she is burning it.
Mastery level 1 illusion
Mana cost: 1
DC: 6
Roll 1d20+2 (Illusion Mastery 2)

 

[Walking Dad]

Olmar
Defense 13 (FF13), HP 27/35, F +5,R+4,W+4; Ini +2 ; Fury Pool 2/12; DR 1d4

Olmar hacks at the tentacles trying to free the sorceress without hurting her.

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pick attack on tentacle:
1d20+4 - 1d6+6 - 20/x4

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Reserve Points: 13 / 34

Pick (gripped with both hand and Power attack 1):
1d20+4 - 1d6+6 - 20/x4

In berserker rage:
1d20+5 - 1d6+8 - 20/x4
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[Dr Simon]

As Xoria struggles in the tentacles of the Black Conch, she looses the concentration needed to pull together her eldritch energies. Luckily Olmar moves in and smashes into the tentacles. With a hiss, the Conch snaps them back into its shell and spins on the spot, slamming its massive bulk into Olmar.

"I will feed on your soul, mortal!"

The hag drifts across to Xoria, still enveloped in billowing shadows.

"I would like to see my sister again," she says, "but you are just a surface dweller. How can I trust you?"

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Xoria - since she's grappling she also needed a Concentration check 11+7=18, fail.

Vela - Diplomacy check. I've been running opposed checks vs. the Conch to simulate the PCs fighting against its influence. Each success moves the hag one step on the reactions track. I'll leave it to you to work out where she currently stands, although a good Sense Motive will give you clues.

Olmar - pick attack 16+4=18, hit for 1d6+6=10 damage.

Next round:
Conch - slam attack on Olmar hits for 2d6=8 damage less DR 1d4=1 -> 7 damage in total.
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[mfloyd3]

"Destoari showed us the memorial she began for Phulsileeris," answers Xoria, regretting she had not had the sense to take something more tangible from Destoari. "And she spoke of your time together, in the depths of the sea, before the Conch's hunger for the souls of men drew you into the shallows."

 

[Dr Simon]

The hag is silent for a moment, then a scaly hand emerges from the shadow cloak and touches Xoria on the arm. She feels an icy cold, as if plunged into freezing water, but then she feels a tingle of invigoration.

"The conch is immune to magic of the mind," whispers the hag, "but it cannot stand sunlight." The hand points to the roof of the chamber.

Meanwhile, Olmar and Vela circle the massive shell, looking for an opening and trying to avoid the darting tentacles.

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Xoria is healed of 11 hit points.

Olmar and Vela to act this round.
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[mfloyd3]

OOC: Any obvious way to open the ceiling of the chamber? Or does the hag seem to be suggesting just cracking it open?

 

[Dr Simon]

OOC: Any obvious way to open the ceiling of the chamber? Or does the hag seem to be suggesting just cracking it open?

OOC: The roof of the chamber is just a smooth dome of mother-of-pearl; there doesn't seem to be any way of opening it. Xoria suspects that's what the hag might be inferring.

 

[Walking Dad]

Olmar
Defense 13 (FF13), HP 20/35, F +5,R+4,W+4; Ini +2 ; Fury Pool 2/12; DR 1d4

Olmar 'flies' up and hacks at the ceiling with all his might!.

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PA 2 with twohanded pickaxe, autohit vs object.
1d6 + 8 damage (ignores 2 DR, don't know if also hardness...)

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Reserve Points: 13 / 34

Pick (gripped with both hand and Power attack 1):
1d20+4 - 1d6+6 - 20/x4

In berserker rage:
1d20+5 - 1d6+8 - 20/x4
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[Shayuri]

(OOC - Ufgh, I dunno what happened...I've kind of screwed this game over the past week or so. It's always been on my 'list,' but I put it off and posted to other things and then got tired before I got to it. Really sorry about that! I see I've missed a lot! I'll be more conscientious in the future.)

Vela looks up at the warrior, but a dark suspicion lingers in her mind, and she stays hovering by Xoria. Something like the Conch, she believes, won't go down without trying to take someone with it.

(Readying action, basically...to counterattack if the Conch attacks or grabs someone)