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phaedrusxy · « **Reply #80 on:** July 13, 2012, 01:17:19 PM »

Sorry for the delay, guys. I've just been busy and also kind of debating where to go next with this.

Update incoming!

Bozwevial · « **Reply #81 on:** July 13, 2012, 02:19:37 PM »

...well, at least we have future weapons?

Also, if we ever get our hands on the Lochnar, I'm going back to smack my past self for making such poor character-building decisions.

Kuroimaken · « **Reply #82 on:** July 13, 2012, 05:49:52 PM »

I'm a little unsure what Raoul can contribute, considering, you know... DMZ.

phaedrusxy · « **Reply #83 on:** July 13, 2012, 06:49:35 PM »

He could cast from outside the DMZ into it, using instantaneous conjurations, etc.

Bozwevial · « **Reply #84 on:** July 13, 2012, 06:56:31 PM »

Incidentally, is the phane in the DMZ right now?

phaedrusxy · « **Reply #85 on:** July 13, 2012, 08:58:39 PM »

Quote from: Bozwevial on July 13, 2012, 06:56:31 PM

Incidentally, is the phane in the DMZ right now?

Yep. Which is probably for the best. You guys feel free to make Knowledge (Planes) checks, if you want to see what your characters remember about them.

Agita · « **Reply #86 on:** July 13, 2012, 09:53:58 PM »

I as a player remember enough that I feel little shame about metagaming "we don't want to fight it".

Kuroimaken · « **Reply #87 on:** July 14, 2012, 12:09:15 PM »

If a freaking Balor is saying "I will hold them off" instead of "I will kill them while you get the artifact" then I know better than to stay and make a heroic stand.

Bozwevial · « **Reply #88 on:** July 14, 2012, 04:02:20 PM »

Well, the non-fireproofed party members can't really help Xuuvosic get the artifact. Attacking this thing is pretty much suicide. About the best thing we can do is run interference against it and the duplicate balor, if that.

Agita · « **Reply #89 on:** July 14, 2012, 04:07:49 PM »

We can hide and stand ready to bail it once X returns!

VennDygrem · « **Reply #90 on:** July 14, 2012, 04:32:30 PM »

Yeah, I'm just as boned as you guys are in this situation. I'm not fireproof and I can't take the thing on any better than you guys can. Our best bet is to get out of here with the artifact as fast as possible. No level 8 character is meant to stack up against any epic monster.

I never thought I'd say this, but why can't we, for once, find ourselves facing a volcano made of lightning instead of lava? Now that's where I'd shine! Well, at least I'd be immune to it, anyway.

Kuroimaken · « **Reply #91 on:** July 14, 2012, 09:44:16 PM »

Quote from: VennDygrem on July 14, 2012, 04:32:30 PM

Yeah, I'm just as boned as you guys are in this situation. I'm not fireproof and I can't take the thing on any better than you guys can. Our best bet is to get out of here with the artifact as fast as possible. No level 8 character is meant to stack up against any epic monster.

I never thought I'd say this, but why can't we, for once, find ourselves facing a volcano made of lightning instead of lava? Now that's where I'd shine! Well, at least I'd be immune to it, anyway.

Because fire is the single most common immunity in all of D&D and everything that isn't immune to it can be killed by submersion in lava? Seriously, the only thing that can potentially outdamage lava as an environmental hazard is a black hole, and those don't come up too often!

phaedrusxy · « **Reply #92 on:** July 14, 2012, 11:05:42 PM »

Quote from: Kuroimaken on July 14, 2012, 09:44:16 PM

Quote from: VennDygrem on July 14, 2012, 04:32:30 PM
Yeah, I'm just as boned as you guys are in this situation. I'm not fireproof and I can't take the thing on any better than you guys can. Our best bet is to get out of here with the artifact as fast as possible. No level 8 character is meant to stack up against any epic monster.

I never thought I'd say this, but why can't we, for once, find ourselves facing a volcano made of lightning instead of lava? Now that's where I'd shine! Well, at least I'd be immune to it, anyway.

Because fire is the single most common immunity in all of D&D and everything that isn't immune to it can be killed by submersion in lava? Seriously, the only thing that can potentially outdamage lava as an environmental hazard is a black hole, and those don't come up too often!

I'll be sure to throw one of those in the next arc. And just for Venn, it will be made of lightning.

VennDygrem · « **Reply #93 on:** July 15, 2012, 12:47:29 AM »

Haha, thanks. Cade just wants to walk into a giant lightning storm and goad the bad guys into it, saying, "Hey, look, it's not real! It doesn't even tickle!"

phaedrusxy · « **Reply #94 on:** July 15, 2012, 04:49:05 PM »

I've been kind of at a loss for how/where to take this campaign going forward (or backward...), but while driving this afternoon I had a bit of inspiration, and am now really interested in pushing on with it. That's been part of the reason for the periodic delays on my part. I apologize, but I think I can keep up the momentum for a while now.

So... just waiting on Agita/RJ's Initiative so we can get this volcano erupting!

Also, are all of X's minions inside the pit, or did the ghouls come out? (It's daylight... so I assume all the vamps did not.

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Agita · « **Reply #95 on:** July 15, 2012, 08:56:01 PM »

Thy wish is my command.

HeadofVecna · « **Reply #96 on:** July 16, 2012, 03:05:11 AM »

Erm ... all of them are inside the pit, with X's gear

VennDygrem · « **Reply #97 on:** July 16, 2012, 05:51:22 AM »

Hm... Is this this just in the middle of the volcano inside the lava, I wonder? Or is there going to be a staircase inside leading to some protected shelf inside? Because I could just pick X up and throw him in to help save time...

phaedrusxy · « **Reply #98 on:** July 16, 2012, 09:15:52 AM »

Quote from: VennDygrem on July 16, 2012, 05:51:22 AM

Hm... Is this this just in the middle of the volcano inside the lava, I wonder? Or is there going to be a staircase inside leading to some protected shelf inside? Because I could just pick X up and throw him in to help save time...

You don't see any staircases or anything like that inside the volcano. It just looks like a giant open pit, with sheer walls, filled with lava (inside a large dead magic zone).

Bozwevial · « **Reply #99 on:** July 16, 2012, 10:23:00 AM »

Not that I want to make this any more challenging for Fruuzberglag (who is the very model of a modern balor general), but shouldn't those iteratives cap off at -5? (Assuming you're pulling from his stat block for the duplicate, this should benefit us indirectly too.)

Also, at some later date (possibly the next time we level), would you object strongly to me swapping around a few things on my sheet? Namely, one or two spells and changing Rapid Shot for Two-Weapon Fighting/some defensive Tome feat.

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