The Kolloseaum: Team Gil's Conscience (DM: Iron Sky, Judge: Luinnar)

[Darksteed]

OOC: Kauldron is at 59/59 hp and 9/12 surges left. Used Healer's Mercy that was spent off and one +14 Healing Word. Kauldron's good to go.

 

[dimsdale]

ooc: Lerrick has spent 3 of 9 surges.

 

[Neurotic]

[MENTION=5656]Someone[/MENTION], Martelai doesn't use bones for fortune casting, but star charts...in this case very quickly drawn points in the sand, triangle with an arch between them

"Ootah, this next fight will be harder still. Your luck is holding steady which means very little improvement over this fight. Take care of yourself."

OOC: in the future casting, I'll let the victim roll so I don't get blamed for all the bad rolls

Cast Fortune (1d20=7, 1d20=6, 1d20=4)

 

[Iron Sky]

Match Two: The Black Pool, Round 0

The group is led from the sandy arena where a group of goblins is standing waiting for the burrower to cool down enough to be dragged away.

You find yourselves led to an arena that has a stone pit full of a metallic-looking black liquid that bubbles and churns. Across a walkway is a platform and upon the platform are four giant statues of a succubus with a red glassy sphere on a pedestal rising behind them.

On the sides of the platform are yellow spheres set into similar pedestals. In the center is a metal grate over a cool blue liquid. In the center of the grid floats a giant red gem, spinning slowly beneath a brass framework that hovers in the air above it.

Above it all drift two pentagonal platforms upon which spheres of energy flicker and dance...

The announcer booms out. "Ladies and gentlemen and whatever else we have in our fine audience today; here we have a match the likes of which you've never seen before! Our competitors have a simple task: be the last ones standing on the platform. To help them - the red spheres behind the statues will let them smack each other around, the yellow spheres will let them blast each other. For more excitement, the central gem will change each round for all sorts of exciting mayhem! Getting near it is dangerous, but which ever team controls it will have an advantage the next round! When we begin, they'll have a few seconds to get into position before hostilities are initiated...

Aaaaaaaaaannnd - let the games begin!"

GM: See special match rules below. You cannot target any enemies or harm them in any way the first round. Enemy team initiative is 22. Everyone can take your actions to position yourself and roll initiative, then the enemy will go. After that, the no-attack restriction will be off and, we'll do the usual init order thing (PCs that beat enemy go, enemy go, all PCs go, etc).

[sblock=Combatants]-Party-
Ootah: S9, 45/46hp
Joy: P9, 46/46hp
Cyr:T9, 42/42hp
Gil: U9, 36/36hp
Kauldron: N9, 59/59hp
Artemis: R9, 37/37hp
Martelai: Q9, 54/54hp
Lerrick: T8, 47/47hp
Brenwar: O9, 65/65hp

-Enemy-
Eladrin Mercenary 1: O11
Eladrin Mercenary 2: Q11
Eladrin Mercenary 3: T11
Eladrin Mercenary: 77hp, AC 23, Fort 18, Ref 22, Will 16. MBA: +12 vs AC, 2d8+6 damage.

Eladrin Shadewalker 1: N11
Eladrin Shadewalker 2: P11
Eladrin Shadewalker 3: R11
Eladrin Shadewalker: 94hp, AC 23, Fort 21, Ref 22, Will 20. MBA: +14 vs AC, 2d8+8 damage and the Shadewalker becomes invisible to the target until the end of the Shadewalker's next turn.

Eladrin Spellweaver 1: S11
Eladrin Spellweaver 2: U11
Eladrin Spellweaver: 82hp, AC 22, Fort 18, Ref 20, Will 22. MBA: +13 vs AC, 2d8+4 damage and the target is slowed until the end of the Spellweaver's next turn.

Eladrin Arcane Archer: T12
Eladrin Arcane Archer: Minion, AC 21, Fort 17, Ref 21, Will 19. MBA: +12 vs AC, 5 force damage and push 1.

Effect Key: location, hp/max hp, damage related, TenT or TsnT, conditional, save ends, encounter[/sblock]

[sblock=Terrain]Statues: The central (red) square is a wall and cannot be passed. Any square that is more than half full of the statue (not including arms) is difficult terrain.

Oil: The oil is hazardous terrain (can make a save if forced into it). Creatures that fall into it are restrained(save ends). Creatures that end their turn in it take 5 damage of the round's type. Getting out of the pool and back onto the platform takes 2 squares of movement.[/sblock]

[sblock=Rules of the Round]Central Gem: Each round the central gem will change colors, each color having a different effect. Regardless of the color, ALL creatures in the arena will have the following effects:

*Vulnerable 5 to one damage type.
*Resist 10 to all other damage types.

The damage type is determined by the color of the center gem.

Standing in the blue area will have two effects:

1) When the gem changes colors, everyone standing in the blue area will take an attack (see Round Attack below).
2) When the gem finishes changing colors, whichever side has more conscious players in the blue area will get a round benefit for their team that changes depending on the central gem's color. On a tie, neither side gets the benefit.

Statues: A player on or adjacent to one of the red spheres can control the the statue next to it and direct it to attack as a minor action. The statue's attack can target any creature within reach 5 of its center square: +12 vs AC, 2d10+3 damage and slide 3.

Yellow Spheres: A player on or adjacent to a yellow sphere can control one of the pentagonal platforms and direct it to attack any creature on the map as a minor action. Attack is "Round Attack" below.

Black Liquid: Any creature that falls into the liquid takes the a "Round Attack" below when they fall in and are restrained(save ends). At the end of each turn in the oil, creatures take 5 damage of the current round's type.

Round Attack: +10 vs NAD(depending on center gem color): 1d10+3 damage (type depending on center gem color) and slide 1.

Victory: If at the end of a round, only one team is on the platform (others are unconscious, dead, or in the oil) the round ends immediately.[/sblock]

[sblock=Appease the Crowd]*As a minor action, a PC may make a skill check to wow the crowd. If they succeed at the check, they gain +2 to their next d20 roll if they beat the DC, plus +2 per 5 by which they beat the DC. If the check is failed, the PC takes a -2 penalty to their next d20 roll, -2 more per 5 by which they miss the DC.

I.E, if the DC is 15, 1-5 would be -6, 6-10 would be -4, 11-14 would be -2, 15-19 would be +2, etc.

*All skill DCs will start at 15 and each individual skill's DC goes up by 2 per time the skill is used as the crowd gets more jaded. The DCs go up at the end of the round in which they are used. The DCs do not drop between arena rounds.

*Any skill can be used, as long as the player can provide relevant character action to back up the roll.

Current Skill DCs:
Acrobatics: 19
Insight: 19
Religion: 19
Streetwise: 19
All: 17[/sblock]

 

[Someone]

OOC: Are the Cast Fortune roll valid for Initiative too? If it is, my initiative is 14. As for positioning, I don't know what strategy are we following - I intuit that trying to control as many red orbs as possible my be the best option, but that may lead us very open since there are no restriction as to where the eladrin may deploy - they could do it right on top of our leaders and/or squishies for a devastating first round.

 

[Iron Sky]

OOC: Are the Cast Fortune roll valid for Initiative too? If it is, my initiative is 14. As for positioning, I don't know what strategy are we following - I intuid that trying to control as many red orbs as possible my be the best option, but that may lead us very open.

GM: Cast Fortune works on the next 3 d20 rolls (so yes, Initiative is affected).

 

[Neurotic]

GM: Cast Fortune works on the next 3 d20 rolls (so yes, Initiative is affected).

Unfortunately, no. Cast fortune affects only attack roll, saving throw or (non trivial) skill check. No easy way out

 

[Iron Sky]

Unfortunately, no. Cast fortune affects only attack roll, saving throw or (non trivial) skill check. No easy way out

GM: Teach me to skim. What Neurotic said.

 

[Darksteed]

OOC: I just have one question. Is Non-typed damage, like regular old everyday melee damage a type that gets resisted due to the central gem? Or no?

 

[Someone]

OOC: Initiative rolled in last post. I can't find a good way to deploy. If we bunch up (in the center, perhaps) trying to protect the vulnerable party members or ranged attackers we'll be easy prey of area attacks and yellow/red orb effects. If we spread even a bit, given that the enemies deploy later and they'll most likely have a much better initiative, they'll simply set up for another devastating first round since they'll be able to pretty much pick their targets without opposition.

 

[Iron Sky]

OOC: I just have one question. Is Non-typed damage, like regular old everyday melee damage a type that gets resisted due to the central gem? Or no?

GM: There will be one type of damage that everyone is vulnerable 5 to. Everyone will have resist 10 to all other damage types(untyped damage is a type, despite its name).

 

[MetaVoid]

Deva studies their opponents and the setup.

"Joven advises to stay close to each other. I advise we remain on the walkway or close to it until they try to set up. Then we react to whatever they do."

Initiative (1d20+10=14)

OOC: I don't think we can get anything by separating. Area attacks or no, we have to stay together. That will limit melee attacks and pushes.

We need to get the minion down, he has a push attack.

[MENTION=60965]Iron Sky[/MENTION], how many actions we have for positioning? If we have some potions or other items that are non-attacks (whetstones or whatnot) can we use them? If we have double move, we can make a wall in front of the blue area, trying to increase the movement THEY need to get in. So we get the advantage first round.

 

[Neurotic]

[sblock=Tactics]
I think we should rush forward and endure whatever they do in the first round, important thing is to have more of us in the blue area then they manage to put in. The exception would be Kauldron and Brenwar who should block normal passage toward the spheres left and right (hoping the eladrin don't get more then 3 square teleport)

I will curse and kill the minion in the first round so I get my curse spread out.

Having vulnerable people 6 squares deep presents a problem as our defenders need to move so they can come forward. The point is moot if we're deploying at will.

[MENTION=5656]Someone[/MENTION], Ootah got initiative, he can target one of their easier to hit targets or use some accurate attack to overcome the penalty of my low rolls and foil whatever they planned, at least partially.

Ootah has range so he should go in the U row as far left as possible, so that single push cannot get him down and to be out of reach of all or most of the attacks while still having an option to attack.

Also, since using orbs allows attacks of anyone in range, no matter our positioning, vulnerable targets are vulnerable. We need to drop few of them as fast as we can using slides to drop them while at the same time guarding against same tactics...


So, first round, bunch up minimum of three squares from the edge, next round, our artillery focuses on one of theirs while defenders take one each with help of Joy and Artemis. Lerrick focuses on getting to the red orb and sliding people around...damage will not (I think) be important as much as tactical movement (and being eladrin, they got advantage on us).

[MENTION=60965]Iron Sky[/MENTION], how do we get to red orbs, the access seems blocked by the statues.
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[sblock=Actions]
Minor: Drink Potion of Will giving Martelai will 25 for the encounter
Move + Move: J9, gain concealment
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[sblock=Martelai Stats]

AC: 20 Fort: 17 Reflex: 19 Will: 19 (25)
HP: 54/54 Surges: 7/9 Surge Value: 13+1
CURSED: none
STATUS: resist 5 necrotic, concealment

FEATS
Sacrifice to Caiphon, Improved Fate of the Void, Superior Implement(Accurate Rod)
Rod Experise, Bloodied Boon


POWERS
Eldritch Blast
Dire Radiance


Knack for Success
Cursebite
Ethereal Stride
Delban's Deadly Attention
Mirror Darkly
Cast Fortune

Blackleaf Gloves Teleport

Decree of Khirad
Flames of the Smoking Crown

Elixir of Will
Armor of Dark Majesty (daily, minor): place your curse on any enemy you can see instead of only closest one
Talon Amulet (daily, minor): until the end of the encounter any creature that hits Martelai in melee takes 1d6 damage
Rod of Avernus: (daily, minor): until the end of the encounter any enemy that ends it's turn adjacent to Martelai takes 5 psychic damage

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[Rapida]

OOC: Initiative: Initiative (1d20+2=9)

 

[Someone]

[MENTION=5656]Someone[/MENTION], Ootah got initiative, he can target one of their easier to hit targets or use some accurate attack to overcome the penalty of my low rolls and foil whatever they planned, at least partially.

OOC: I have nothing that can hit with a 7, barring major bonuses that I won't have the first round, so my initiative advantage will be for nothing. I'll place Ootah at U-2 as you suggest, and hope for the best.

 

[dimsdale]

Ohhhhh boy...here we go. The cleric then laughs to herself at the thought that three months ago she was resting comfortably in the safety of her father's mansion My oh my... how times have changed. Lerrick looks around to find someone protect her.

initiative: 9

 

[FourMonos]

[sblock=initiative 12] 1d20 +3 → [9,3] = (12) Roll Lookup [/sblock]

[MENTION=60965]Iron Sky[/MENTION] you have Artemis listed at 23/37, he should be at 37/37 and has 6/8 surges.

 

[CaBaNa]

OOC: @Iron Sky how far of a fall is it from the platform to the black liquid? Also, are those minor action attacks from the spheres once per round?

[sblock=meta tactics chat]

Gil can reach the closest red or yellow spheres without running, and taking a penalty to attack. He could also reach the blue area without running.

Either way, we may want to take a single move action and total defense for the first round, instead of a double move action.

If we all nine "fill up the blue area", that may net us a strong advantage for the second round, who knows. That would also mesh with Neurotic's idea of staying 3 squares away from edges. I'm not worried about avoiding area attack, as we resist 10 to all for the most part.

If the sphere attacks can be done multiple times per round, we should go for spheres, as well as the blue area. If the sphere attacks are once per round, it may be best to be in the blue area exclusively.
[/sblock]

Wide eyed as he takes the scene in, Gil almost jumps up and down with excitement, Look at the Succubi! They're huge! the scholar starts chatting with the opposing team as well, Hello! Don't you guys have an advantage here?! Good luck!

Gil readdresses his party, We may have to knock these guys off the platform more than once you know, I grew up with eladrin, they teleport. How deep d'you think that is Artemis?

 

[Iron Sky]

How many actions we have for positioning? If we have some potions or other items that are non-attacks (whetstones or whatnot) can we use them? If we have double move, we can make a wall in front of the blue area, trying to increase the movement THEY need to get in. So we get the advantage first round.

GM: You have a full round worth of actions.

How do we get to red orbs, the access seems blocked by the statues.

GM: The only blocking terrain from the statues is the red square. I seem to have not noted that (thought about it then got distracted I guess). I'll add it above later when I have more time, but here's the statues' "terrain": Statues: The red square is a "wall". Any other square that is mare than half filled with statue(not including arms or tail) is difficult terrain.

You have Artemis listed at 23/37, he should be at 37/37 and has 6/8 surges.

GM: I'll fix it later, gotta run after I finish this post.

How far of a fall is it from the platform to the black liquid? Also, are those minor action attacks from the spheres once per round?

GM: The liquid is a few inches below the lip of the platform. Also, the minor action attacks from the spheres or statues should be 1/round per creature. Another thing I seem of have forgotten to add that I'll edit later.

 

[pathfinderq1]

OOC: Initiative for Joy; 1d20+4= 8; roll Roll Lookup >I'm good with whatever deployment the party ends up in- Joy tends to be a melee leader, after all.

Joy moved forward cautiously, keeping most of her attention on their foes.