[Pathfinder] Hewligan's Rise of the Runelords: The Hook Mountain Massacre

[hewligan]

OOC: Hey, hewligan...I don't know the plant-things special qualities and whatnot, but an Archon's attacks are ranged touch attacks (so they only have to hit touch AC), and they penetrate all damage resistance. Jut wanted to point that out in case it matters at all.

Er... yes. It does. I had 4 pints of beer yesterday (it was my last day at work before I start a new job), so to be honest I am amazed I didn't make many more mistakes. I will just make an extra hit next round for the Archon at the very start of combat!

 

[hewligan]

OOC


I don't roll, The CMD is a target number, so in Jovik's case he has a CMD of 20

I obviously spoke too soon about not making mistakes. Oh dear. Lesson to learn from this: DO NOT POST WHEN DRUNK

 

[hewligan]

OOC: End of Round 2

Jovik cannot help but sigh in relief as the healing magic courses through him, lifting the pain from his damaged body, and knitting together his wounds. He braces himself, watching as the summoned creature of light hits the Tendriculos with one of its beams of light, searing into its flank and causing a stench of burnt wet plant material across the room.

Everything is moving so fast. This is not going well. The room itself is shaking with the movement of this monsterous thing.

And then with a speed that belies its size, it suddenly snaps forward and grasps the young rogue between its jaws.

OOC: Once inside the plant’s mass, the opponent must succeed on a DC 20 Fortitude save or be paralyzed for 3d6 rounds by the tendriculos’s digestive juices, taking 2d6 points of acid damage per round. A new save is required each round inside the plant. The save DC is Constitution-based. A swallowed creature that avoids paralysis can climb out of the mass with a successful grapple check. This returns it to the plant’s maw, where another successful grapple check is needed to get free. A swallowed creature can also cut its way out by using a light slashing or piercing weapon to deal 25 points of damage to the tendriculos’s interior (AC 14).

I need the above save roll from Jovik please. Also for Jovik (if the save is successful) and for everyone else, round 3 actions and initiatives please.


OOC: Tendriculos at -75hp, but worryingly some of its old wounds appear to be healing up rather quickly......

 

[Fenris]

OOC: Oh wow, by the skin of my teeth. In true Jovik fashion
1d20+4=20
BTW Hew is this a poison? Because I have a better save against poisons.

Jovik gasped at the speed of this creature, yet he had the presence of mind to catch himself just about the gut, holding himself about the churning pit of gastric juices
Inside the plant creature, Jovik lashes out with his daggers, trying to cut deep enough into the plant's insides to escape as he held his breath.

[sblock]
Init
1d20+8=23

Attacks

1d20+9=18, 1d4+2+1d6=9

1d20+4=11, 1d4+2+1d6=7
Second is a miss, only 9 points of damage. Does being INSIDE a creature give me access for a sneak attack?


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[Friadoc]

Kael AC: 20; Mal AC: 26; Spells Remaning - 1: 5; 2: 4; 3: 2

It's a risk, but it's a risk that Kael has known to pay off more than once. With a thought toward the safety of himself and his allies, as well as a trust in Jovik's nimble graces, Kael drops a fireball in behind the plant-creature. It's the varisians hope that if it could affect Jovik, that the young man will be able to avoid it as he has so many others before. Also, if Jovik is still alive, Kael hopes that this will aid him in getting out of that thing.

Initiative and Fireball Damage (1d20+2=7, 6d6=26)

 

[Rhun]

As the archon continues to send rays of light lancing out through the air, Danth turns his attention against the enemy, driving Crimson Dawn deep into its bulk!


AC: 22/24 vrs. EVIL, Hit Points: 56/56

INITIATIVE: 04 (again)

Crimson Dawn Attack: 30 (Critical Threat) for 11 damage.
Confirm Critical: 30 (CRITICAL) for an extra 9 damage.
TOTAL DAMAGE: 20

LATERN ARCHON, augmented
Ranged Touch Attack 1: Touch Attack 09, damage 6
Ranged Touch Attack 2: Touch Attack 21, damage 6
Free Attack from last round = + 3 damage.

Spells in Effect
- Magic Circle vrs Evil, duration <70 minutes (remember everyone within 10' of Danth gets +2 to AC and Saves vrs EVIL)
- Divine Favor on self, round 8(?) of 10 (+2 attack and damage bonus)

[sblock=Spells Prepared]
- Level 0: Detect Magic, Light, Guidance, Read Magic
- Level 1: Command, Bless, Shield of Faith, Divine Favor + (d) Cure Light Wounds
- Level 2: Deific Vengeance (CD), Hold Person, Lesser Restoration x 2 (normally Resist Energy, Silence) + (d) Heat Metal
- Level 3: Summon Monster III, Magic Circle vrs Evil, Dispel Magic + (d)Searing Light
- Level 4: Restoration x 2 (normally Holy Smite, Summon Monster IV) + (d) Fire Shield
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[hewligan]

Round 3: Init Order: Jovik (23), Ogre-kin 2 (16), Jokad (12), Kael (7), Tendriculos (5), Danth (4)

Jovik slips into the gullet and then down into the gut of the thing. Acid washes over him, burning and stinging his face, neck, and hands.

OOC: 7hp damage to Jovik. The 'save' avoided you being paralysed

Jovik slashes and stabs in blind panic as the thick flesh of the creature's innards press in upon him with their stifling stink. He feels something give under his blade, and tries to push home his advantage. There is a rending noise, and then a sort of popping as a thick sheet of flesh gives way and Jovik finds himself dumped unceremoniously onto the floor at the side of the beast.

The gash quickly seals, and before Jovik's eyes appears to be starting to magically heal already.

OOC: Jovik freed!

Back in the corridor Jovik can hear movement from the left. The 'Mamma' is coming.

The ogre-kin in front of Jokad seems to send the impending arrival of his mother, and it appears to make him nervous.

"Gotta kill the big-un. Gotta kill the big-un. Make Mamma happy" he hollers as he launches himself with a suicidal tendency towards Jokad. His ogre-hook latches onto Jokad's armour. The Shoanti is surprised by the strength of the blow, and knows he is going to have a wicked bruise there tomorrow.

But the armour held. (a miss, but only because of Danth's magical protection)

And Jokad made sure it was a suicidal attack. He kicked back the ogre-kin, forcing it to relinquish its hold in its ogre-hook. The thing looks up at him with strangely pleading eyes, and two seconds later it is dead, Jokad's sword protruding from the back of its neck.

OOC: Jokad now clear.

Kael, seeing Jovik pop free, and hearing the call for help from Jokad for the Black Arrows to come to their aid, feels that perhaps time is running out for the heroes, and instead decides to drop some fire on the beast.

OOC: I need a reflex save for Jovik to avoid the fireball damage before I can progress this round please.

 

[Fenris]

Jovik ref save
1d20+11=24

 

[hewligan]

Kael's fireball explodes. The room is suddenly bathed in both the horrendous noise and the retina burning flash of the roiling explosion as it blossoms out from the fire-seed that Kael threw behind the Tendriculos.

The door shatters outwards in a cascade of splinters as the fire explodes in front of it. The tendriculos bellows in pain. Kael shuts his eyes momentarily. Jokad cannot help but turn towards the noise and heat. Danth moves a hand before his eyes.

The flame clears. The beast is falling, tumbling back into the giant hole it created in the floor. Somehow, Jovik is picking himself up at the wall beside Jokad. It isn't quite clear how he made it there, but he did. Only seconds before he had been in the very gut of this beast, and now he was picking himself up unceremoniously , with only a singed eyebrow and some burn marks (both acid and fire) to his clothes to show for the ordeal.

The room is clear, but pretty much devastated. The plant thing lies dead at the bottom of the hole in the floor, some twenty feet below.

Outside the now-missing front door you can see Kibb charging across the yard to your aid, with Jakardos and Vale close behind. There is no sign of Kaven.

Danth relaxes, momentarily, letting the tension release from his shoulders. He had been posed to attack, but there will be plenty more opportunity for that lying ahead.

 

[frostrune]

Jokad lets the body of the ogre-kin slide from his blade. He whirls about to see how best he can help just as the fireball explodes. The intense heat seems to suck the breath from his lungs but when his vision clears he sees the giant charred mass topple over dead. In the space a few heartbeats the battle went from dire to victorious.

Then he hears something coming from around the corner; coming from where they heard the female voice. He quickly looked up the stairs to his right to ensure no enemies were charging down upon him then he settled into the niche hoping to surprise 'momma' when she arrives.

OOC: that is the rest of his 'move' action.