OotS 1004

[Lhorgrim]

It's up!

 

[Dioltach]

Nice to see Roy using those Fighter class skills Jump and Climb.

 

[Lhorgrim]

Is there any significance to the fact that they are now out of the nave and up in the gallery? It seems like the last panel indicates they'll be staying in the gallery for awhile unless Vampire Durkon can go gaseous form.

 

[delericho]

Is there any significance to the fact that they are now out of the nave and up in the gallery? It seems like the last panel indicates they'll be staying in the gallery for awhile unless Vampire Durkon can go gaseous form.

Well, Roy just needs to take him out of the room so his vote doesn't count. I'd guess that gallery probably counts as "out of the room" for that purpose.

 

[Celebrim]

I figure Durkon can sustain at least 8-9 hits from Roy's sword, largely because he killed the clerics before the fight to buff his temporary hit points, and can sustain an additional hit every 5 rounds he drags it our and every 2 times he drains Roy. Durkon appears to have taken 6 hits, and dragged the fight out to about 8 rounds and drained Roy once. So he can still take 4-5 hits at this point.

Roy may have only 170-180 hit points. He's taken about 75 damage from harm, 30 from inflict serious wounds, 26 from flame strike, and 13 from a vampire slam attack. That's 145 damage. He's only in this fight at all because he's made every single saving throw he's been asked to make. Roy needs to hit everything on a full attack action against what is apparently Durkon's very impressive AC, or he's going down soon. From Roy's perspective EVERYTHING has gone wrong to this point. His only hope was to get in several rounds where he hit Durkon 3-4 times in the same round and keep Durkon within 5' of him at all times and disrupt multiple attempts at spell-casting. That hasn't happened, and he's now basically lost.

 

[delericho]

Yeah, CoDzilla vampire against non-optimised lower-level Fighter is never going to end well.

Roy's only saving graces are that Durkon's hit points should actually be fairly low (d12 hit dice but no Con bonus - a structural flaw of 3e's undead) and, crucially, the fact that he doesn't actually have to win.

 

[Scott DeWar]

I just hope the accumulation of neg levels don't get too out of hand!!

 

[Scorpio616]

Roy may have only 170-180 hit points. He's taken about 75 damage from harm, 30 from inflict serious wounds, 26 from flame strike, and 13 from a vampire slam attack. That's 145 damage............ That hasn't happened, and he's now basically lost.

Looks like Roy just made his called strike to stake Durkula. If not, Roy is more boned that you calculate, each negative level also reduces the victim's HP by 5, so since each vampire wallop is two levels, Roy is 20HP lower.

A creature takes the following penalties for each negative level it has gained:

-1 on all skill checks and ability checks.
-1 on attack rolls and saving throws.
-5 hit points.
-1 effective level (whenever the creature’s level is used in a die roll or calculation, reduce it by one for each negative level).
If the victim casts spells...

 

[MarkB]

What are the chances that Durkon vampirised either of those priests he fed on? Because if he did, there's another serious flaw in Roy's plan: There may be two backup Clerics of Hel ready to step in and be her voting proxies if Durkon is taken out of the picture.

 

[Falkus]

What are the chances that Durkon vampirised either of those priests he fed on? Because if he did, there's another serious flaw in Roy's plan: There may be two backup Clerics of Hel ready to step in and be her voting proxies if Durkon is taken out of the picture.

They'd have to have the Summon Proxy spell ready. And they were already out of high level spells when Durkon attacked them.