Part 3: Fava beans and a nice Chianti

[MetroMagic]

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30 on the FORT save; just over what is needed; no worries. A mediocre percentile roll, no help but no hindrance either. Gleron succeeds; the early warning and the long years of practice were enough.

After a brief… soul-searching?  …to makes sure he’s all there, Gleron concludes that he doesn’t feel much different after, than he did before. To the extent he can tell, he doesn’t feel at all Disjoined himself; apparently none of Gleron stuck to the Tiefling and followed her to her fate. He managed to get all of himself out, and escaped into the Troll just in Time.

Gleron finds himself in an odd situation; he now seems to be indebted to the “Witch” for the warning that may have saved his life, the very “Witch” he was hired to kill. And she has even offered to save him once more, from the ones who hired him to kill her, by removing the Agra’s taint from him, though she is the one who put it there… but that was the result of his own attack, triggering her planned defenses. The situation has gotten very complicated, troubling for someone like Gleron who believes in both honoring the letter of his commitments, and honoring his self-interest, and conducts himself according to both.

[MetroMagic]

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Putting some things in order from OOC that describe what is happening IC.

Thrash is more centrally located, near the Marauders, while the Uruk-hai are close to the walls of the chamber.

There is one Uruk-hai whipping Goblins off the dais, who is probably closest to Thrash, but he is close to the edge of the dais near the staircase down, while Thrash is in the center near the portal, so they are about 20 to 25 feet apart, not next to each other.

Halfaz is attacking this Uruk-hai in the dais that had a whip.

Goblins are flooding past Halfaz on his way to the top of the dais; they are running for their lives from the whip of the Uruk-Hai at the top of the stairs, and now also running from the charging 25 foot tall Dwarf. Every one of them who passes too close to Halfaz takes Fire damage from his Flaming Aura.

Arkesh’s team has not seen this before with the Halfaz copies… but this is no copy. This is Halfaz the Harssaf, a natural force of Fire and Earth who sails the Magma Seas, who braved the deadly coast of far northern Radiance to seek out Star Feather and join her to free all slaves... This is the real Halfaz, Captain of the Bejeweled Ship.

[Sneaky_Sable]

Now seemed as good a time as any. Prep the incense, check. Dagger in hand, check. A fool pre-occupied with his own grandeur to take precautions, always check.

"In the very rocks around you, eh? Cute." Sable lit the incense, and reached up through the dias until just the tips of his clawed hands holding the incense stick poked through. He released the lit null-zone trigger, then retreated back into the stone, biding his time for the next true strike.

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Sable is going to place the incense as close to Thrash and behind him as possible, then swim through the stone to get out of the 'blast radius'. His casual Stealth including all remaining bonuses is 70. Next time around the track, Sable plans to gut this guy like a fish.

[sirpercival]

Halfaz swings Shimnack with a fiery flourish, and it bites deeply into the Uruk-hai's flesh, sending up odors of foul cooked meat.  The Uruk-Hai seems... not to be fazed.  In fact, its wide face splits into a malicious grin at the Harssaf.  "Oh, this will be fun," it grates in a voice made of gravel.

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36	Margravine
28	Ror
27	Halt, Ptolemaeus
24	Sable
22	Gabriel
18	Darayat
16	Tanatou
14	Throisar
12	Halfaz

Missing: Bane, Bracken, Sheerak, Skellum, Vir
I'll be revealing enemy inits as we get to them.

Active: The Margravine

What's the countdown on the null grenade?

[Sneaky_Sable]

What's the countdown on the null grenade?

OOC: Well, I lit the fuse December 27th of last year, so.....

I'd say it's been lit for a round, and if I recall those were two round fuses. If they're longer then two rounds, Sable starts it at the two round mark. Light it, turn and swim. Tick tick fwam.

[Harald]

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Activate the Reverie artifact.
Stay Invisible all along.
Move in charge range, spending inspiration to get enough move actions for this.
DC 30 Lucid Dreaming check :emulate Lion's Charge. success.
1d20+28=30
Once in range, charge Trash, full bitch-slap attack , using my disruption ability. Trash should be in my Dreamheart bubble. Spend 12 inspiration points to considere each hit to be a natural 20.
Should any of them hit, 1D3+1 dmg each, but also, a DC26 Fort save or he 'll be unable to use spells, spell-like abilites, or psionics for 1 round.
use 3 more inspiration points to gain an other standard action.
DC 30 Lucid Dreaming check : emulate Gate. success
1d20+28=47.
Summon an Hecantoncheires through Gate. pay the 1000 Xp.
DC20 Lucid Dreaming check, to change the Hecantoncheires aspect through the Dream, because why the hell not1d20+28=34
Trash is a medium creature, so only 15 Big H's attacks on his face. should there be some Witchlight Marauders in range, they'll get some too.
Hecantoncheires attacks :
1d20+73=79, 2d6+20=30, 1d20+73=75, 2d6+20=22, 1d20+73=74, 2d6+20=30, 1d20+73=79, 2d6+20=31, 1d20+73=74, 2d6+20=30, 1d20+73=86, 2d6+20=29, 1d20+73=90, 2d6+20=28, 1d20+73=76, 2d6+20=24, 1d20+73=91, 2d6+20=24, 1d20+73=80, 2d6+20=27, 1d20+73=88, 2d6+20=24, 1d20+73=82, 2d6+20=28, 1d20+73=83, 2d6+20=30, 1d20+73=84, 2d6+20=27, 1d20+73=78, 2d6+20=29
Then, 3 more inspiration points, to get out of melee range, the Hecantocheire should disappear as soon as I move, or, as it is called, stay there until the end of the round. Whatever.
End the effect of the Reverie at the end of my turn.

She flew in total silence, at the forefront of the group, without a word, nor being seen. if one was able to pierce through the glamour hidding here, one would have seen Moïra's glare was murderous. She did not appreciated trash during theur first meeting, nor his current treason, and appreciated even less to be wounded by one of his beasts. Oh yes, it was personal.
She entered the room in silence. With a mere through, she activated Arkesh's marvelous gift, and around the Margravine, the raw energies of the Dreamheart erupted.
Let the chorus of Fate sing their Requiem ! May the chords and winds and drums of Destiny weep the incoming rampage !
For She has become Nightmare incarned.
Sculpting with a mere though, a single one among thousands calculating in an clockwordk doomsday efficiency, a spell to enhance her strikes, she charged the damned orc through the air. No time to boost or to laugh : for she was very busy weaving a major spell, siphoning up the necessary energy from the very stuff of dreams.
In mere seconds, she was right on Trash.
And, still unseen, she bitch-slap him, thrice.
It was no mere disdain. The Magravine has been trained toroughly in her young days. With a bit of luck, should her strickes were precise enough and the anatomy of the orc not so different from the humanoids she knows, he will be unable to cast a spell for a few seconds.
If he survive the little surprise she has weaved just for him.

For a huge copy of Moïra, the exact clone of her, except bigger and also, translucid as made of some glowing fuschia glass, has appeared right in front of the Orc while the Margravine was striking him.
And the clone stroke immediately, insanely fast, with a gigantic zweihander, her moves blurred, leaving a glowing aura of bright purple butterflies, hacking and slashing her master's target.
Two second later, the Margravine was flying above Trash, erupting in a maniacal evil laugh over the link.

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once the Hecatoncheire disappear, he should do so, like a shattered cathedral stained glass, the shattered glass then flying away in small bright purple butterflies.
I do expect Trash to survive this, but he should be wounded enough for all of us to stop him quick. And if one of my disruptive strikes land, that we'll reduce the nasty thing he can do on us.

[MetroMagic]

As the Margravine’s Dreamheart washes past Halfaz on the top of the dais, the power of Nightmare flows through him, like blazing glorious music in his veins.

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That musical selection has to be worth something, thanks! +2 Circumstance bonus to Halfaz on all attack rolls in his next flurry... then she’s gone, taking her stirring music with her.

Margravine: The piece lasts for a little less than 2:08, good for 20 combat rounds  :-)

[MetroMagic]

As Janis’ strike force originals race into their first true combat together, her expert training takes hold and her words in The Plan^TM come back to them, forging them into an organized combat unit:


STAGE FIVE, STEP SIXTEEN In this step you destroy the opposition.

For this step, I’m going to remind you of possibilities discussed and resources you have:

First, everyone has lots of Rituals. There are overlaps, so spend them wisely depending on who you are near. Don’t turn on an Effect that someone else already can give you, and be careful of each other, don’t damage your friends.

Halfaz, Tanatou, Sheerak, you’re a front line hand to hand combat sub-group. Coordinate with each other, both as originals and copies.

Halt, Ptolemaeus, you’re a distance weapon sub-group, you can coordinate with each other too, as originals and copies.

Sable, Vir, if you’re off sneaking, you may coordinate. Or Vir may be busy sending out flights of parrots. Don’t get in their way, the parrot cloud is a cloud of death.

Star and Ror may be with either sub-group. Yep, Star likes front line too, especially against Undead and Lower Planars. If those types are there, she and Aurora will jump for it. And if a lot of Spells start flying at you and you’re feeling beat up, remember the two of them are your main line of Magical defense. Our girl Star can just grab hold of Spells and send ‘em back, and Ror has a Ritual for every occasion.

Star and Ror have some Effects running continuously, so take advantage of that.

Also.. if you’re within 30 feet of Star, you’ll have Time on your side… you’ll find out. I love being in a fight when she’s got my back… I can anticipate what the opposition is doing. You’ll see that on the combat map she sends you on the Link.

Ror and his copies will have a major… Greater… Mirror Image thing going in a Circle for the allies around them… about eight images, and more keep popping up to replace ones that get destroyed, as long as you still have at least one image. It doesn’t last forever, though, only about three and half minutes, so use it well while you can. It may keep your copies alive another few minutes, and every minute is precious.

And remember… try not to break Bral. The Prince will be unhappy.

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A small bit of The Plan^TM; and that’s why you all have a +2 Luck from Janis! +2 Luck Bonus to almost all rolls except damage rolls: attacks, saves, skill checks, percentiles; it stacks with other Luck Bonuses. Area of Effect: The Plan^TM

Also remember the Aerial Combat Training, Circumstance bonus +4/+2 to hit, AC+2. Everyone who participated gets a Circumstance bonus from training with Janis that affects all your to-hit rolls for melee and ranged attacks, and AC: +4 to hit if you are in the air, and can make use of the 3-D maneuverability she taught you, +2 to hit on the ground, and +2 to AC. These bonuses stack with all other bonuses. If you are attacking from the air, and making multiple attacks in the round, your second attack if any is at full attack bonus, just like your first attack, instead of reduced; your third attack is like your normal second, fourth like third, etc.

Team Good gets the +2 Luck, the Aerial Combat Training bonuses, and the Time bonuses from Star.

Team Evil and Darayat are inside The Plan^TM, Janis’ Area of Effect, and are on the Link, so they too get the +2 Luck and the Time bonuses, but not the Aerial Combat Training bonuses. Darayat, however, will notice that the same types of maneuvers were used by the Elven Armada crews during the time he Spelljammed with them on board their patrol ships – apparently they received the same training.

To recap the Time bonuses:
If Linked with Star and receiving her Combat Map: Roll all attacks and Saves twice, take better roll +2 Time bonus; +2 Time Bonus to Initiative rolls; these effects stack with all bonuses and extra rolls.

Also, everyone on the Link is receiving Captain Vir’s +2 Morale bonus, unless it is superceded by a larger one. As I recall, it applies to all attack rolls, all save rolls, and all Skill checks.

To recap some relevant equipment and Effects that were spread around – I’m not going to try to recap everything, just the ones in general distribution to Team Good. (SirP can add a recap for Team Evil.)

All of Team Good received and I think used, a Protection Scroll of Slow/Delay Poison.
Duration: 12 hours. The subject becomes temporarily immune to poison. Any poison in its system or any poison to which it is exposed during the spell’s duration does not affect the subject until the spell’s duration has expired. Delay poison does not cure any damage that poison may have already done.

Several of you have a RainBowstring +2 and set your initial color by firing till just before it came up.
Range: Line of sight. +2 to hit and damage; bolts do 1D6 of damage; double damage +4 to creatures matching the Color. The colors begin in the cycle at random, 1D7. Red: Fire-using creatures. Orange: Earth-using creatures. Yellow: Plant-based. Green: Water-based. Blue: both Air-based and Electricity-using creatures. Indigo: Acid and Poison-using creatures. Violet: Metal and Regenerating creatures. Effectiveness against two does double the double damage if a creature has both; Blue Dragons are very susceptible to Blue bolts and take quadruple damage from them. Since the bolts are the Light of Radiance, all Undead, including non-corporeal, take double maximum damage from a bolt, 16 HP per hit.

Every original on Team Good received a coating of Mirror from Star, unless you specifically declined:
Wall of Mirror: First 120 HP damage reflected back onto source; includes non-targeted.

FYI, Gleron’s attack on the Link bypassed your personal Wall of Mirror because you let him inside on the Link, to attack from there. Likewise with deaths of Copies; it was internal damage that you caused yourself, not from an outside source. Good for Gleron, he didn’t get toasted by everyone reflecting back at him at once. Good for you, you still have your full 120 HP Mirror before the Spell shatters. Star’s Spell Reflection back at Gleron was from a different source.

Most of Team Good took a set of Black Leather, which Star colored for you as you asked. For example Tanatou’s is red, I think.
Black Leather – may wear under armor as padding, or separately as clothing
+4 bonus to AC and all saves, stacks with all other types of bonuses; no penalties

Several of Team Good have mini-Spell Cannons. You know what yours does.

A reminder: As the primary spell defense and Circle provider, Ror is easy to locate at all times, not just because he is 25 feet tall and wreathed in Bloodfire at the moment – even when he’s not. He’s visible on the Link and through Sable’s eyes too; I’ll end with Janis in her recap of another piece of The Plan^TM:

From
STAGE ONE, STEP TWO…
Star, while Ror is doing his Rituals, you’re going to put a faint Continual Light globe centered on Ror that is exactly 75 feet in radius, and exactly the X-Ray Color that Sable can see but pretty much no one else but the two of you can. Sable, you and Star will be able to see that Color of the globe, so Sable, you just have to stay outside the globe, if you’re going to keep away. Because it’s X-Ray color you’ll be able to see it through walls, whatever. So if you need to know where the Circle for the copies is, you’ll know.

[Debatra]

Monstrous Humanoids fall under Knowledge (Nature), so:

Rolled 1d20+25 : 17 + 25, total 42

For anything concerning their fighting styles, weaknesses, backstory(oh dear god; not even more), etc
 
Actual actions to follow.

[Debatra]

Forgot the +2 morale bonus from Vir.

[sirpercival]

The Margravine and her tame monstrosity bear down on Thrash, swinging with precise wildness.  The orc seems to ignore the Hecatoncheires; many of its attacks seem to connect, and yet there's no sign of the impact whatsoever on Thrash's body. 

Thrash instead focuses his full attention on the Margravine.  One of her slaps misses; for the second and third, however, Thrash makes a small motion with his hand, and while the second connects (again, seeming to have absolutely no effect), the third simply... doesn't, with no explanation.  Then the Margravine moves away, and the monstrosity explodes like stained glass, melting away into butterflies.

Meanwhile, the Uruk-Hai facing off with Halfaz grins at him, reaches over to the cave wall, and quickly and easily wrenches out a boulder which must weigh almost 300 pounds.  He turns to Halfaz and clobbers him towards the center of the room with the stone, smashing through all Halfaz's defenses with crushing force.

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You take 108 bludgeoning damage, which ignores DR and hardness.  Don't bother using the counter for +4 AC, it won't help, might as well save the maneuver.  In addition, make a Strength check vs a DC of 52 for a bull rush towards the dais.

Another Uruk-Hai roars in excitement, then leaps up into the air towards the ceiling of the cavern, moving with such speed that a sonic boom obliterates several dozen goblins around him, finally turning to survey the rest of the party.  His hand flashes four times, each time releasing a globe of force towards a member of the combined parties.

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Ror takes two attacks (one hits for 14 damage), Halfaz takes one (which misses), and Darayat takes one (which hits for 19 damage).

Ror & Darayat must make DC 26 Will saves or be Frightened for 1 round and Shaken for 1d4 rounds; on a successful save, you're Shaken for 1 round.  Immunity to fear doesn't apply, but if you are immune you get a +5 on your save.

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36	Margravine
33	Uruk-Hai 2
29	Uruk-Hai 1
28	Ror
27	Halt, Ptolemaeus
24	Sable
22	Gabriel
18	Darayat
16	Tanatou
14	Throisar
12	Halfaz

Still need an initiative for Sheerak.

Active: The Halt, Ptolemaus

I'll post a combat map as soon as I can -- takes longer than writing the post

[MetroMagic]

When the big boulder hits Halfaz, the jolt is less than half of what he expected though he still is partly crushed, and the Uruk-Hai who threw it staggers from an impact, hand, arm, and face bloodied. A hot, bright, sweet smell radiates out from Halfaz in a gust like a wave of caramel, and shattered shards of rainbow spin off of him in all directions and fade out. The Orc-creature’s grin cuts off and he glares with fury at his victim as he curls his smashed lip in a snarl, spitting out a few teeth. The Uruk-Hai roars at Halfaz, "Coward! Hiding behind the stink of Elf-magic!”

The Witchlight Marauders on the top of the dais nearest to Halfaz, who have been milling around looking for targets, suddenly orient on him and look like they’re going to rush him but then stop, confused, as the deliciously burnt aroma dissipates.

Ror, too, is still protected; he feels almost no impact from the force globe that hits him, and the Uruk-Hai who threw it jerks his arm back in surprise as if it had been slapped.

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First, notes about a gift from Halfaz: When he helped give the originals and copies Earthglide, there were a few other Effects that came with it. One was: Magic weapon to be hit. As it happens, the Force globe the Uruk-Hai threw at Ror was Magic, and the boulder the other Uruk-Hai threw at Halfaz was carrying some Magical charge too – as you’ve found out, all of the rock here has some. Other attacks you’ve been hit with had some Magical component too. There isn’t much in here that isn’t Magical, so the protection hasn’t been as useful as hoped.

Next, notes about the interaction of gifts from Ror and from Star. The Wall of Mirror that Star cast on Halfaz, Ror, and the other originals has been whittled away by the damage they took when the copies from Ror died: Group1,2,5,6,9 except for Sheerak9; though since that damage was self-inflicted (your actions directly created the copies, as Sable will tell you since he made sure he didn’t have any) it did not reflect. Of the starting 120HP damage reflection, 70 remains for Halfaz, Halt, Ror, Vir, and Tanatou; 80 for Sheerak, 120 for Ptolemaeus and Sable.

The Disjoining of the copies was not a death when the Ritual creating them ceased (not de-ceased :-), so no damage resulted from losing those copies.

Halfaz just now took HP damage in excess of the remaining 70HP capacity of the Wall of Mirror, so the Spell shattered, but first it reflected 70HP back on the Uruk-Hai. Halfaz did not suffer the 70HP damage; he only suffered the remainder of the damage that was not reflected. But his Mirror coating is gone.

Ror just took 14HP damage. Those 14HP were reflected back on the Uruk-Hai who caused them; Ror did not suffer the damage, but he still has to save; the additional Effects occur with the successful hit, not from the damage. By my count, Ror’s Mirror coating has 56HP of reflection left.

Save bonuses applying to *everyone* on the Link (Darayat, you too!): +2 Morale (from Vir), +2 Luck (from Janis), +2 Time and roll twice, take the better roll (from Star).

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Excerpts From:
STAGE ONE, STEP FIVE - RESULTS

Janis keeps things moving. {Janis} Here we go, in Step Five you all get loaded up with your Rituals from Ror, your ScryBubblegum from me, and your Magic goodies from Star.

Ror, send out your copies with these assignments, here are the lists, thanks!

Star, stop thinking about extra Rituals from the extra extra Ror copies till you’re done with your tasks in Step Five, and go give everybody whatever you’re Casting… like putting Mirrors on them… or giving them, or check over the things they already took from the piles you set up.

……..

Goldenseal, how about you and your copies leaving a few crumbs on the food carts, and come help me and my copies count out all the extra ScryBubblegum for everyone else’s extra copies… and for twenty-five million parrots instead of just sixteen million.

……..

Star moves from original to original, checking over the Magic items they took. She also has dropped a different Wand from the sleeve of her robe into her hand. Again about twelve inches long and half an inch in diameter, this Wand has a perfectly reflective surface that glitters with all of the glowing people around it.

Star begins with Tanatou. She Casts from this Wand, and as the Magic streams from it and settles onto him, the polish on his gold armor intensifies and takes on a glittering hardness, reflecting the scene around him. The same is true for all of his surfaces; even his hands are reflective. He feels a slight tension across them, but not enough to slow his movements… just a sensation on the edge of awareness. {Star} Tanatou, you can faintly feel the Wall of Mirror Spell that has coated you with reflectivity? Good. That sensation tells you the Spell is still in Effect, and it will reflect damage to you back onto its source, whether from a weapon, or a Spell… even one with an untargeted area… or Psionics… whatever its source.. It will continue till it is broken from enough damage. The shattering won’t hurt you, but it is fun to watch… bits of shards of Spell flying everywhere and dissipating. Unfortunately what will hurt you is whatever damage you take beyond that point.

Sable, the matte black color you have underneath the Mirror doesn’t eliminate the reflections entirely but will damp them down quite a bit, as you can see... that’s just the appearance of the Spell, its efficacy is not affected. And Vir, when you turn Invisible, the appearance of reflectivity will be Invisible too, but again, the Spell will continue to reflect damage even though its reflection of Light can’t be seen. Star continues with her Casting for the rest of the originals, and a few of the parrots as Vir requested.

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I *think* that was clear, but just in case: The coating of Mirror will reflect the first 120 HP of damage you take, whether or not the Spell’s visibility to an observer’s eye is covered up by other Magic. So, with mostly upside and little downside, unless I hear otherwise, I’m going to assume that all originals have been painted with Wall of Mirror.

[MetroMagic]

Something Thrash is doing is continuing to kick up blue-gray around him, to Ptolemaeus’ Timesight; it seems that events affecting Thrash are receiving a little kick of Time Momentum to carry the Effects forward slightly… about six seconds or so, by Ptolemaeus' estimation on the Link.

[MetroMagic]

Dais and Top, and the rest of the Chamber: Layout Recap

The whole dais is 100 feet square, with 30 feet of broad steps all around its edges. The top of the dais is 40 feet square, with an inscribed circle of runes – not quite inscribed; the circle is a little smaller than 40 feet in diameter. It has cracks, roughly patched, and a pile of rubble on the dais has been patched into an archway across it, held together with a flickering Magical light. The archway is half an oval, enclosing the portal, and arcs above the circle along its diameter so that it presents its portal face to the long end of the chamber. The portal itself is a silvery rippling surface, lit dimly by the wan, fitful glow of the Dwarven runes in the floor that Thrash has somehow cobbled together.  The portal is therefore about 30 feet wide at its base and about 20 feet high at its top, and its base – lying on the diameter of the circle – is perpendicular to the side of the dais and bisects the dais. A long way of saying: the portal arch lies exactly in the middle of the dais.

Thrash is standing toward the right side of the portal, not in its center, because then he would have been in the way of the flood of marching Goblins. And he is standing just in front of it, close enough to whirl around and poke his head through to see the other side, which Thrash just did maybe two minutes ago, right before Darayat sailed through the portal into the chamber.

This puts Thrash not quite 20 feet from the front edge of the top of the dais, and about 10 feet from the right side edge. His front line of four Witchlight Marauders is right in front of him, about 15 feet from the front edge of the dais.

The Uruk-Hai and Halfaz met at the front edge of the top of the dais, a little to the left of its center, where the Uruk-Hai was whipping Goblins down the stair, about 25 feet from Thrash. Halfaz Shimnacked the Uruk-Hai there. The Uruk-Hai stepped across the dais to the partially caved-in side wall on the right side of the dais, which spills up the stairs from the right rear corner of the dais and partially onto the top; you’ll see a very close approach on the map of the chamber there. This looks to be the same rubble pile from which the portal arch was rebuilt. The Uruk-Hai tore a big boulder out of the wall of scree, threw it at Halfaz, and knocked him partway down the stairs, so he is no longer on the top of the dais, and was knocked even further to the left along the flight path of the boulder which crossed diagonally from right to left.

The other six Witchlight Marauders are off the right front corner of the dais at the bottom of the steps, about 55*sqrt(2) feet away = a little less than 80 feet.

The Margravine has flown back out toward the center of the chamber.

Ror is a little to the left side of the chamber, about 60 feet out from the dais steps, since he stepped toward the dais previously, with his big, 25 foot height steps.

Darayat is about 20 feet from the bottom of the steps, directly in front of the dais.

Throisar is about 70 feet from the bottom of the steps, directly in front of the dais and nearly in the center of the chamber.

Sable is in the rock below the center of the dais.

Anyone else from Halfaz and Ror’s party who emerged with Ror is about 80 feet from the bottom of the steps, near the left wall where it bulges out into the chamber.

Anyone else from the Margravine and Throisar’s party who came in with the Margravine is about 120 feet from the bottom of the steps and near the right wall where it bulges out into the chamber. Except for the Force Puppet, who is hovering above the steps at the front of the dais, near the chamber ceiling.

((Disclaimer: SirP may amend.))

[FireInTheSky]

Ror looks a little rattled after being hit by the force globe, but none the worse for wear.  He shakes his head as if to clear it, and then discharges 3 rituals:
  Advanced Ritual of Intuition
  Advanced Time Vortex, coupled with Advanced Circle of Good Hope

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Rit. of Intuition - 1/rd, +5 to one roll, and it's considered a nat. 20
Time Vortex - gain a single extra swift, move, standard, or full round action, not more than once per round, not more than once per action type.
Circle of Good Hope - all allies (including evil party and Daryat) within 75' gain the effect of Time Vortex, as well as a +5 morale bonus to Attacks, Saves, Skill Checks (overlaps - does not stack - with the +2 morale bonus from Vir)

{on the Link} <Thrash is not the only one who can play with time.  Now we all can.  Act now!>  Ror then reaches into a pouch at his waist and pulls out a small handful - well, small in his current hand size - of what looks like gray clay, as well as a piece of gum.  He splits the gum in half, putting half in his mouth and squishing the other half into the clay-like substance.  Ror then heaves the clay towards the pack of 6 Witchlights on the floor off the side of the dais. [/1st full-round action]

[2nd full-round action]
Immediately after throwing the clay, Ror flies directly at Thrash on the dais.  As Ror charges through the air toward Thrash, his axe begins to glow brighter and brighter, becoming hard to look at.  Just as Ror reaches the dais, he shouts aloud, I would rather Dumathoin's Works be destroyed by my hand than eaten by the scourge of the Multiverse and thinks <BOOOOM!!>, as a MASSIVE explosion rocks the cavern, centered in the group of Witchlights on the floor to the right of the dais.  Ror rides the shockwave he knew was coming, and swoops up over the line of Witchlights in front of him, using his now-long arms to take a huge swing from above at Thrash.  As he swings, there is a brilliant flash of green-white energy, after which the axe's glow almost flickers out, before beginning to grow again.
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Rolls

Ror pulled 1d4+2=4 charges of "BOOOOM!!, Love Janis" from the bag.  Each one does 30d10 (Invisible Castle) structural damage (total 609) and 20d6 (Invisible Castle) damage to creatures (total 262), with a 10' radius (up to MM & SirP what the radius of 4 together is).  Ror then tossed them directly in the middle of the group of Witchlights on the floor (Ranged attack roll = 36).  He then charged Thrash, used the nat20 from RitIntuit for his attack roll, with a crit confirm of 57, dealing 13 slashing damage + 4 alignment damage + 37 pure arcane damage (+11 slashing damage if critted).  I rolled a 19% vs. the 20% miss chance.  BUT!!! +2 LUCK from Janis includes percentile rolls, giving me a roll of 21%.  Well, if that isn't lucky, I don't know what is.    (Also, does the Axe absorb that effect and/or others when Ror hits Thrash?)

[MetroMagic]

The Uruk-Hai who threw the boulder at Halfaz stops in mid-roar, gaping. Halfaz’s legs are sticking out of the boulder like twin popsicle sticks from a giant lollipop; Halfaz apparently tried to Earthglide into the boulder as it hit him and succeeded in merging with it. Halfaz still looks battered and bruised, especially on the legs which bounced and mashed repeatedly against the steps as he and the boulder tumbled to a stop midway down. He can easily slip out of the boulder and rise to a wobbly stand, looking bruised but not nearly as damaged from 300 pounds of rock as the Uruk-Hai was expecting.

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Without getting into physics, let’s figure that the boulder tumbled you and itself about halfway down the stairs before it rolled to a stop.

300 pounds of rock is not enough to fully enclose Halfaz, so there was also some ‘get smacked around while rolling down the steps’ damage.

The original 108 damage figured both the initial impact, which was blunted by the Earthglide ploy, and the tumbling down the stairs, which was reduced in impact but not in momentum, and still smacked around the half of Halfaz that was sticking out of the boulder.

Given that the Wall of Mirror reflected 70HP of the damage back onto the Uruk-Hai – not a bad thing! – we’ll just call it even from there.

Net result of Earthglide ploy: Uruk-Hai takes 70HP. Halfaz takes 0. Wall of Mirror used up, very successfully.

[Harald]

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This happens during my turn, obviously. Unless I say it explicitily, anything the Margravine discovers is shared on the Link.

The Margravine's gleeful laugh on the Link has been heard for two mere seconds. Then it stopped, as she was processing
what was happening. A strange process indeed. Fortunately, only a mere glimpse of the prodigious intellect of the noble assassin was perceptible, for to see it in its full glory might be maddening unless you had a similar mind. A mind of wheels, within wheels, working in a clockwork, mechanical precision at thought speeds, in strange learned-by heart  mnemotic algorithms, each thought sharpened to an incredible edge. Streams of simultaneous thoughts being produced and thrown together through the Link.
 Obviously, Trash has somehow managed to resist my disabling strikes. That means that this orc has an unexplainably high endurance. It might be wise to weaken this or choose an other way to break him.
He is delaying what we will be throwing at him for approximatively six seconds. Such a mechanism entails that, should he be a prepared and intelligent fighter - the fact that he was chosen to keep these wytchlights marauders, apparently one of the direst secrets of  the planes, a secret, is a strong indicator of this hypothesis validity-, he has defenses prepared to supress such damages before the end of his delay.
Active Defenses ? Should the situation dire enough for him, he has surely such a failsafe potential tool for this.
Automated defenses ? Probable. Perhaps a few contingencies.
Nature of said defenses ? Damage control, healing, damage redirection, escape in a safe place.
Damage control tools ? Temporary immunities and resistances, planar or temporal displacements.  Solution : overwhelm him with as many sources of heavy damage. Overcome his mind to process, offer too many choices for him to process, so he can only make mistakes. Reduce his possibilities to act quickly, through hexes and  ailments. Disallow him to act completly if possible.
Displacement ? Disallow him ways to escape. Forbid him to fly or teleport away. Forget not : through the river or the ground itself.
Damage redirection ? Classical bear trap, through eldritch means usually. Counter : attacks by proxies, minions, summons, and other indirect means. Can be helpful against some resistances, multiply targets for our own defenses, and offer us some sacrificiable rabble against this kind of defenses...

[Sneaky_Sable]

"You people and your magic... So what you're saying is immobilize him. Done." Sable's voice rang out over the Link. Then the weasel went to work.

He sheathed the dagger. That wouldn't be the weapon of choice in this matter. He pulled out a piece of gum, which he broke into thirds, and popped one piece in his mouth. The other two pieces went into two handfuls of off-white clay which he retrieved from his bags. Sable then started to swim upwards, to appear under Thrash's robes, letting his upper muzzle and arms poke up out of the stone beneath Thrash.

(Take 10 on Stealth for 70, though methinks Thrash is a touch distracted)

With two meaty slaps, two handfuls of oblivion were slapped onto the backs of Thrash's knees.

No witty comeback, no cute retort. Just a silent command to his ioun stone to render himself insubstantial, and then another silent thought.

"Boom."

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78 and 58 Damage, 117 and 81 Structural Damage.

For his [second] action, Sable will use a move action to sink beneath the stone of the dais as the smoke clears.

[phaedrusxy]

The dark, distant voice that once was housed in the tiefling's clone now emanates from the mind of the troll and across the link <I have an effect that can prevent his using any means of teleportation to escape.>

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So if I understood Ror's actions, that means we all have an extra full-round, standard, move, and swift action that we can use at some point? Nevertheless, Gabriel/Gleron is going to cast Investiture of the Orthon when his initiative comes up. I'll decide what to do with his extra actions when the time comes (if anything).

[GuyFawkes]

Some sort of time manipulation, huh. Neat trick. I should take note of that.

But enough is enough. Let us see what you have.

While the others moved into the chamber, Ptolemaeus stayed in the walls and glided along the chamber ceiling. He ignored the supersonic orc that leapt close and concentrated on Thrash, memorizing his mana signature such that he could know where he was with his eyes closed.

Materilizing a long, ornate rifle, he held it close to his chest and let gravity take effect. Head first, Ptolemaeus fell into the spacious chamber, rifle aimed at Thrash, his coat hanging down covering the length of it. In a split second he peered through the scope, aimed for the head, controlled his breathing, and squeezed the trigger.

Using the recoil of the shot and the Time imparted by Ror's ritual, he spun around clockwise, spreading his coat in a spinning flourish. In that same movement he had materialized two revolvers and rained down projectiles on the orc through his coat. Before the echoes of the shots dissipated, he was back inside the ceiling.

All the while, Ptolemaeus observed Thrash and what his reactions to his attacks as well as the others might be.

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Free Action: Use Lockdown on Thrash, spending 10 mana points to gain +5 bonus to attacks and damage on him.
Move Action: Move down through the ceiling and into the chamber, around 10 feet below the ceiling.
Standard Action: Attack using Blindside maneuver. If it hits, Thrash is flat-footed until the beginning of my next round.
Full Action (from Ror's Time Vortex): Full attack plus Rapid Shot with revolvers.
Free Action: Use Burst of Speed to move back into the walls (-2 mana points).

Each attack gains the Entangling Threads ability, inflicting slow for 1d4 rounds (DC 27), not stacking. Also, when the slow is in effect, all following attacks gain the Strangling Threads ability, adding insight bonus to damage for all attacks equal to his WoTB class levels, and inflicting a -1 penalty to saves, stacking up to -5, for 1d4 rounds.

All attacks ignore miss chance due to True Seeing.

Mana Points: 4/41

Summary of Highest Attacks and Damages:

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Blindside Maneuver
Attack: 76
Damage: 11 + 3 + 24 = 38

Full Attack
Attack 1: 73
Damage: 10 + 2 + 17 = 29
If previous attack slows, +6 damage.

Attack 2: 63
Damage: 12 + 3 + 17 = 32
If previous attack slows, +6 damage.

Attack 3: 64
Damage: 11 + 3 + 9 = 23
If previous attack slows, +6 damage.

Attack 4: 77 (nat 20)
Damage: 8 + 4 + 6 + 10 + 17 = 45
If previous attack slows, +6 damage.

Attack 5: 66
Damage: 8 + 4 + 9 = 21
If previous attack slows, +6 damage.

Attack 6: 72
Damage: 5 + 4 + 17 = 26
If previous attack slows, +6 damage.

Attack 7: 56
Damage: 7 + 4 + 9 = 20
If previous attack slows, +6 damage.