The Psionicle, Part VI

[Dalamar]

"Don't you dare call me a goblin, I'm a blue, above mere goblins when it comes to psionics!"
Syld holds the drilbu of lesser ectoplasm in front of himself and launches lesser ectoplasmic missiles at Tori'Shel.

 

[Jarval]

"Desimus, run!" Jansson yells. He charges towards Tori'shel, drawing his sword as he runs. He swipes his blade at her with all the force he can muster.

Combat Info (with Charge mods): +9 to hit (Shortsword, 1d6+2 dmg); AC 18

 

[dkoz]

Desimus does just that, he runs. Jumping to his feat he disappears into the brush in a mad flight of breaking branches and torn leaves.

 

[Zhure]

Osius

Osius will strike Tori'shel with his morningstar, two-handed. (+5 to hit, 1d8+4 damage.)

 

[GnomeWorks]

Battle with Tori'shel, Round II

Initiative
Jansson - 16
Tori'shel - 14
Syld and Nathan - 12
Desimus - 9
Osius - 5
Golem - 3

Jansson charges at the technologist with all the force he can summon.

The halfling gets a 10, and +9 is 19 - a hit! He inflicts 4 points of damage to Tori'shel.


Tori'shel sneers at Jansson. "You will have to do better than that, if you expect to live!"

With that, she pulls out a strange, egg-like device, and throws it at Nathan.

Tori'shel gets a 13 on her ranged attack roll, and the grenade hits.

With a loud *click*, the device explodes as it comes into contact with Nathan.

Student check - 22.

Nathan takes 9 points of damage.

The explosion hits those near Nathan - which is Syld.

Syld takes 2 points of splash damage.


Syld launches a pair of ectoplasmic missiles from his drilbu of lesser ectoplasm at Tori'shel.

Manifester check - 14.

The staff gets a 14 and an 18, both of which hit. It inflicts 5 points total to Tori'shel.

Meanwhile, Nathan manifests Disable from the Gem of Telepathy.

Manifester check - 12.

Nathan sets the Will save at 16. Tori'shel gets a 2, which fails.

Tori'shel collapses into a pile before Jansson and Osius.

"Damn you!" She says in a venomous voice. "Go ahead... finish it! Kill me, you psionic scum!"


Meanwhile, the golem stands above Desimus, awaiting commands.

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I will give everyone an opportunity to post new actions, considering the fact that Tori'shel is now disabled.

 

[GnomeWorks]

At the Temple, Round I

Meanwhile, while everyone else left to investigate what happened with Desimus and Tori'shel, Niko and Animus follow Jhessail as she leads them to the Eye of Imzil and the temple that it lies in.

...

As you clear the line of trees, you find yourselves approaching a huge temple - a stepped pyramid with vines and ivy growing over it. A small square door, roughly a half-foot taller than Jhessail, is the only entrance into it.

The yuan-ti priestess leads you inside, beckoning for you to follow you.

Once inside, you follow a small hallway, roughly 10 feet long, into a darkened square room. In the center, on a stone pedestal that is very similar to the one that was found in the Thri-Kreen tunnels (only Animus draws this connection - Niko doesn't). A large emerald is set in the center of the top of the pedestal, light from outside glinting off of it.

Jhessail mutters something, and a bright light emanates from a globe in her hand. As the light fills the room, you can see that there is a goblin with its hand on the gem, as though it were preparing to take it. Behind him, Jirlai - you recognize him as the sorcerer from the 'Kreen tunnels - and a githyanki stand and watch.

"Damn!" It hisses. "Jirlai, you said that they would be distracted by the technologist!"

"It is of no matter." The sorcerer says. He then turns to the githyanki. "I presume that we will deal with them?"

"Proceed." The githyanki says, gesturing wide. "If you require assistance, I will provide it." He then turns to the goblin. "Lathe, assist him. I shall deal with the gem."

The goblin takes its hand from the gem, and begins advancing towards Niko and Animus. Jirlai keeps his distance, but moves away from the githyanki to the other side of the room.

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Initiatives and actions, please.

 

[Creamsteak]

OOC: I'd like to get a better idea of the situation... since this doesn't sound like a simple fight. I can help you put together a grid relatively quickly if you like. I can take excel grids and turn them into .gif files that work quite well for these purposes. If A1 is the north west corner of the room, and A2 is the next space over and such, all I need is room measurements and what square each person is in.

 

[Creamsteak]

I should have labled the squares A1-whatever, but I forgot to do it before I uploaded it. Anyway, I'll post my action in an hour or so... pending that I think of one.

Initiatives: Animus is at 20. Niko is at 15.

 

[Creamsteak]

Animus waits patienty for Niko's golem's round. He then jets across the room and moves to the square directly above G (goblin) and attacks the goblin while Niko's Golem moves into flanking position.

With Flanking: +5 to hit, 1d8+5+1d4 damage (Power attack/Psionic Weapon)

If something prevents flanking: +5 to hit, 1d8+3+1d4 damage (Just Psionic Weapon).

Tumbling if necessary (+12) to avoid attacks of opportunity for moving through the goblin's threatened area.

"This is it, my only opportunity. I can't screw this up. Get away from that pedastal Goblin!"

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Assuming Animus doesn't have any difficulties tumbling (magical wards), Niko takes his cue, moving to where Animus previously was, attempting to activate one of his devices...After that, he commands his golem to attack the goblin in suit with Animus.

(Niko takes a 5 ft. step into Animus' square, activates his Cloaking Device, and commanding his golem -assuming he would have been in Niko's Square- to make a 5 ft. diagnoal step to the bottom-left square adjacent to the goblin and then make a full round attack (Golem II: +3/+3 with flanking bonuses, 1d8+3 damage, AC 21, Hardness 2).