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<blockquote data-quote="Satin Knights" data-source="post: 6246425" data-attributes="member: 6666968"><p>As the two old men confer, <span style="color: #ff8c00">"Yeah, he knows a thing or two about killing demons."</span> He chuckles a bit. <span style="color: #ff8c00">"Were you sleeping during the ceremony? Gebidinger has been one of The Thirteen for twenty years now. He went toe to toe with the glaberzu and came out fine. If it is twenty or thirty demons up there, then he will be fine. Small groups are easy. Hordes, well it is hard to spread the smites out. And it ain't like demons are going to fight fair."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff8c00">"Stop him, not likely. You heard him. He gave me five minutes to figure this out."</span></p><p></p><p>Answering questions tossed his way, <span style="color: #ff8c00">"Well, the missing middle finger, I've seen that before. A finger is about all you need to clone someone. It works before or after they die. Shouldn't work on them, but I've never tried it to verify that."</span> When the asking mage starts asking questions in a second voice, it throws the priest for a moment, but he dismisses worries and answers. <span style="color: #ff8c00"> "The Shield has stood for over a thousand years. There should be no way this is happening. Unless..." </span> </p><p></p><p>After Elenka makes her announcement, <span style="color: #ffff00">"Hey you! You little girl! Who are you to tell us how to fight demons? And in our own house?"</span> The retiring Gebidinger that was trying to marshal people into groups is more than a little miffed. <span style="color: #ffff00">"I'll be leading this army if you don't mind!"</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff8c00">"Yeah, pride. Pride will be what kills him."</span> mutters the old priest. <span style="color: #ff8c00">"It won't be the first time."</span></p><p></p><p>[sblock=Aradra]<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4369699/" target="_blank">Profession Soldier (1d20+10=26)</a> Fighting up hill towards the keep is going to be difficult. The demons can fly, much of the paladin army cannot. It will come out that the kalvakas demons have Air Walk instead of flying, so even without wings, they all have the advantage. Unknown numbers are behind the keep's wall. The keep has stood since before the Year of the Pact, so it is old, but very sturdy. The only advantage on the paladin's side is that it is their own house, so they have the territory advantage once they gain entrance. Odds: Extremely difficult[/sblock][sblock=Anaerion]Normal spell means of restoring life don't work on a demon. The top level spells that break all the rules, well, yeah, they break all the rules. But, looking at these guys, each with a finger missing, maybe someone convinced them that a Clone spell might work. </p><p>Malkovian cannot figure out how these creatures would be able to break a working dimensional lock cast by a god, if the legends are true.[/sblock][sblock=Sylvain and Anaerion]Anaerion <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4369631/" target="_blank">id one of the rings (1d20+21=37)</a>, Sylvain already rolled. First ring: <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-forcefangs" target="_blank">Ring of Force Fangs</a>. It can absorb up to 9 levels worth of force spells instead of allowing them to affect the wearer. Stored charges can be as magic missiles, releasing up to five charges as five missiles in one action. If the ring is full of charges, it doesn't block more incoming spells. This is part of why Magic Missile and Spiritual Weapons spells failed so many times. SR was likely another contributing cause. Anaerion has seen this ring in use by the mermaid before.</p><p></p><p>Since it is an auto-success for both to id the other ring, it is a <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-mind-shielding" target="_blank">Ring of Mind Shielding</a>: The wearer is continually immune to detect thoughts, discern lies, and any attempt to magically discern her alignment. (One way to get past pesky paladin detect evil abilities. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)[/sblock] </p><p></p><p>[sblock=Status]117/117 AC 19 AT24 ~ <span style="color: #ffd700">Daylily</span> ~ <span style="color: #33ff99">Fly 40r, good weapon, See Invisibility</span>, ~ </p><p><span style="color: #000000">..</span>83/83<span style="color: #000000">.</span> AC 18 AT25 ~ <span style="color: #ffd700">Relic</span> ~ </p><p><span style="color: #000000">..</span>82/82<span style="color: #000000">.</span> AC 17 AK24 ~ <span style="color: #ffd700">Sylvain</span> ~ </p><p><span style="color: #000000">..</span>99/99<span style="color: #000000">.</span> AC 24 AL23 ~<span style="color: #ffd700"> Orlando </span>~ </p><p>105/105 AC 30 AL25 ~ <span style="color: #ffd700">Borric</span> ~ <span style="color: #33ff99">+2 Heroism 989r</span> ~</p><p><span style="color: #000000">..</span>65/65<span style="color: #000000">.</span> AC 17 AT26 ~ <span style="color: #ffd700">Anaerion</span> ~ MA/OFl/4hr/DS/16h/<span style="color: #33ff99">MC989r</span>/4 MI/ ~</p><p><span style="color: #000000">..</span>74/74<span style="color: #000000">.</span> AC 18 AR28 ~ <span style="color: #ffd700">Elenka</span> ~ <span style="color: #33ff99">Magic Circ f/Evil 10',</span> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000">..</span></span>65/65<span style="color: #000000">. </span>AC 21+4 AP26 ~ <span style="color: #ffd700">Drevezh'Koro</span><span style="color: #696969">l</span> ~<span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #33ff99">MA 8h, Gr Magic Fang 9hr, Large 81r</span></span> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">..</span>82/82<span style="color: #000000">.</span> AC 18 AR26 ~ <span style="color: #ffd700">Arianna</span> ~ MA/4hr ~</p><p>164/164 AC 28 AZ39 ~ <span style="color: #ffd700">Kalinn</span> ~ </p><p><span style="color: #000000">..</span>74/74<span style="color: #000000">.</span> AC 18 AX39 ~<span style="color: #ffd700"> Breninyr</span> ~ (will ask for MA when in position) </p><p>105/105 AC 26 outside ~ <span style="color: #ffd700">Aradra</span> ~ <span style="color: #33ff99">Gravity Bow 101r, Good Weapon, Adaptation 10m</span> </p><p>101/101 AC 22 outside ~ <span style="color: #ffd700">Shadow</span> ~ defend </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff8c00">Orange AU27</span> ~ Old Priest examining demon and talking</p><p><span style="color: #00ff33">Green BD37</span> ~ <span style="color: #ffd700">High Priest</span>, tending to messenger paladin</p><p><span style="color: #ffff66">Light Yellow BD31 ~</span> <span style="color: #ffd700">Kalton Gebidinger</span>, barking orders</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000">G 0 1 F A D G D </span></p><p>Inside Red circle, Magic Circle vs. Evil 10'</p><p>Yellow-Green circles: Inspire Courage +2</p><p>Cyan circles: Channel Positive Energy bursts</p><p>Purple shaded state: Confused</p><p>Blue square shaded area: Reverse Gravity</p><p>Green diamond state: Weakened</p><p>Green dot state: Haste</p><p>Magenta Triangle state: Flying</p><p>Blue Circle: Prone</p><p>Red X state: dead</p><p>Grey X state: Paralyzed/unconscious</p><p>Balls around Demons: Mirror Images</p><p>Greyed Area: Stinking cloud, no visibility beyond 5'</p><p>[/sblock]link=<a href="http://lpf.coloredpixels.com/Allbright/cathedral23.jpg" target="_blank">cathedral23.jpg</a>[sblock=inline map]<img src="http://lpf.coloredpixels.com/Allbright/cathedral23.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Satin Knights, post: 6246425, member: 6666968"] As the two old men confer, [COLOR=#ff8c00]"Yeah, he knows a thing or two about killing demons."[/COLOR] He chuckles a bit. [COLOR=#ff8c00]"Were you sleeping during the ceremony? Gebidinger has been one of The Thirteen for twenty years now. He went toe to toe with the glaberzu and came out fine. If it is twenty or thirty demons up there, then he will be fine. Small groups are easy. Hordes, well it is hard to spread the smites out. And it ain't like demons are going to fight fair."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff8c00]"Stop him, not likely. You heard him. He gave me five minutes to figure this out."[/COLOR] Answering questions tossed his way, [COLOR=#ff8c00]"Well, the missing middle finger, I've seen that before. A finger is about all you need to clone someone. It works before or after they die. Shouldn't work on them, but I've never tried it to verify that."[/COLOR] When the asking mage starts asking questions in a second voice, it throws the priest for a moment, but he dismisses worries and answers. [COLOR=#ff8c00] "The Shield has stood for over a thousand years. There should be no way this is happening. Unless..." [/COLOR] After Elenka makes her announcement, [COLOR=#ffff00]"Hey you! You little girl! Who are you to tell us how to fight demons? And in our own house?"[/COLOR] The retiring Gebidinger that was trying to marshal people into groups is more than a little miffed. [COLOR=#ffff00]"I'll be leading this army if you don't mind!"[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff8c00]"Yeah, pride. Pride will be what kills him."[/COLOR] mutters the old priest. [COLOR=#ff8c00]"It won't be the first time."[/COLOR] [sblock=Aradra][URL="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4369699/"]Profession Soldier (1d20+10=26)[/URL] Fighting up hill towards the keep is going to be difficult. The demons can fly, much of the paladin army cannot. It will come out that the kalvakas demons have Air Walk instead of flying, so even without wings, they all have the advantage. Unknown numbers are behind the keep's wall. The keep has stood since before the Year of the Pact, so it is old, but very sturdy. The only advantage on the paladin's side is that it is their own house, so they have the territory advantage once they gain entrance. Odds: Extremely difficult[/sblock][sblock=Anaerion]Normal spell means of restoring life don't work on a demon. The top level spells that break all the rules, well, yeah, they break all the rules. But, looking at these guys, each with a finger missing, maybe someone convinced them that a Clone spell might work. Malkovian cannot figure out how these creatures would be able to break a working dimensional lock cast by a god, if the legends are true.[/sblock][sblock=Sylvain and Anaerion]Anaerion [URL="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4369631/"]id one of the rings (1d20+21=37)[/URL], Sylvain already rolled. First ring: [URL="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-forcefangs"]Ring of Force Fangs[/URL]. It can absorb up to 9 levels worth of force spells instead of allowing them to affect the wearer. Stored charges can be as magic missiles, releasing up to five charges as five missiles in one action. If the ring is full of charges, it doesn't block more incoming spells. This is part of why Magic Missile and Spiritual Weapons spells failed so many times. SR was likely another contributing cause. Anaerion has seen this ring in use by the mermaid before. Since it is an auto-success for both to id the other ring, it is a [URL="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-mind-shielding"]Ring of Mind Shielding[/URL]: The wearer is continually immune to detect thoughts, discern lies, and any attempt to magically discern her alignment. (One way to get past pesky paladin detect evil abilities. :p)[/sblock] [sblock=Status]117/117 AC 19 AT24 ~ [COLOR=#ffd700]Daylily[/COLOR] ~ [COLOR=#33ff99]Fly 40r, good weapon, See Invisibility[/COLOR], ~ [COLOR=#000000]..[/COLOR]83/83[COLOR=#000000].[/COLOR] AC 18 AT25 ~ [COLOR=#ffd700]Relic[/COLOR] ~ [COLOR=#000000]..[/COLOR]82/82[COLOR=#000000].[/COLOR] AC 17 AK24 ~ [COLOR=#ffd700]Sylvain[/COLOR] ~ [COLOR=#000000]..[/COLOR]99/99[COLOR=#000000].[/COLOR] AC 24 AL23 ~[COLOR=#ffd700] Orlando [/COLOR]~ 105/105 AC 30 AL25 ~ [COLOR=#ffd700]Borric[/COLOR] ~ [COLOR=#33ff99]+2 Heroism 989r[/COLOR] ~ [COLOR=#000000]..[/COLOR]65/65[COLOR=#000000].[/COLOR] AC 17 AT26 ~ [COLOR=#ffd700]Anaerion[/COLOR] ~ MA/OFl/4hr/DS/16h/[COLOR=#33ff99]MC989r[/COLOR]/4 MI/[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#33ff99] [/COLOR][/COLOR]~ [COLOR=#000000]..[/COLOR]74/74[COLOR=#000000].[/COLOR] AC 18 AR28 ~ [COLOR=#ffd700]Elenka[/COLOR] ~ [COLOR=#33ff99]Magic Circ f/Evil 10',[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000]..[/COLOR][/COLOR]65/65[COLOR=#000000]. [/COLOR]AC 21+4 AP26 ~ [COLOR=#ffd700]Drevezh'Koro[/COLOR][COLOR=#696969]l[/COLOR] ~[COLOR=#000000] [COLOR=#33ff99]MA 8h, Gr Magic Fang 9hr, Large 81r[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] ..[/COLOR]82/82[COLOR=#000000].[/COLOR] AC 18 AR26 ~ [COLOR=#ffd700]Arianna[/COLOR] ~ MA/4hr [COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#33ff99][/COLOR][/COLOR]~ 164/164 AC 28 AZ39 ~ [COLOR=#ffd700]Kalinn[/COLOR] ~ [COLOR=#000000]..[/COLOR]74/74[COLOR=#000000].[/COLOR] AC 18 AX39 ~[COLOR=#ffd700] Breninyr[/COLOR] ~ (will ask for MA when in position) 105/105 AC 26 outside ~ [COLOR=#ffd700]Aradra[/COLOR] ~ [COLOR=#33ff99]Gravity Bow 101r, Good Weapon, Adaptation 10m[/COLOR] 101/101 AC 22 outside ~ [COLOR=#ffd700]Shadow[/COLOR] ~ defend [COLOR=#ff8c00]Orange AU27[/COLOR] ~ Old Priest examining demon and talking [COLOR=#00ff33]Green BD37[/COLOR] ~ [COLOR=#ffd700]High Priest[/COLOR], tending to messenger paladin [COLOR=#ffff66]Light Yellow BD31 ~[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ffd700]Kalton Gebidinger[/COLOR], barking orders [COLOR=#000000]G 0 1 F A D G D [/COLOR] Inside Red circle, Magic Circle vs. Evil 10' Yellow-Green circles: Inspire Courage +2 Cyan circles: Channel Positive Energy bursts Purple shaded state: Confused Blue square shaded area: Reverse Gravity Green diamond state: Weakened Green dot state: Haste Magenta Triangle state: Flying Blue Circle: Prone Red X state: dead Grey X state: Paralyzed/unconscious Balls around Demons: Mirror Images Greyed Area: Stinking cloud, no visibility beyond 5' [/sblock]link=[URL="http://lpf.coloredpixels.com/Allbright/cathedral23.jpg"]cathedral23.jpg[/URL][sblock=inline map][IMG]http://lpf.coloredpixels.com/Allbright/cathedral23.jpg[/IMG][/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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