Chapter 1: Introductions - An Arcane Heirophant Did It!

[VennDygrem]

Calder's emerald eyes cloud over into perfect orbs of white and electricity crackles through his body. He draws three arrows, taking a moment to choose deliberate points on his quarry to attack, then looses each arrow at a separate creature.

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{Swift} Activate Thunder Weapon for 6 rounds (+3d6 electricity damage, on a hit target rolls Reflex Save DC 21 vs. Entangle for 2 rounds)
{Full-Round Action} Aim/Rapid Shot/Hyper - 3 ranged attacks at full BAB-2, +Wis mod (3) to attack, +3d4 damage

Attack vs. Target 1: 16 - 36 damage (8 is electricity)
Attack vs. Target 2: 29 - 33 damage (10 is electricity)
Attack vs. Target 3: 26 - 39 damage (10 is electricity)

Per above, if any are hit, they also save vs. Entangle (Ref save DC 21) for 2 rounds; this is largely redundant, but entangle comes with its own penalties.

[dman]

Two lightning arrows streak into the closest beast, and it falls quivering with residual electrical energy.  The other remains motionless as an arrow to thinks into it's back - lightning corsing through it's body.

[Nanshork]

Not to be outdone, Ijol moves in to engage the closest enemy and one of his arms turns into a spike as he attempts to impale the creature.

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Move action to get next to the closest not dead one.

Standard action, spend a fury point to make one attack +6d6 damage and ignores Dr/hardness.

Attack: 40 (Crit threat, confirmation roll 27)
Damage: 46 (Using the first 2d6 rolled as my base weapon damage that's an extra 48 damage added on a crit)

On hit, 1 more bleed damage and 5 more feet reduced speed to target plus Reflex DC 25 or be slowed for one round

Raging, 3 fury points remaining.

[dman]

As his furious strike lands the nearest beast's skull splits apart and Ijol is showered in clear fluid and limp chunks of pink brain matter.  No sooner is he covered in gore then a golden portal opens up and *VOOM* the two downed beasts and their respective leftovers are sucked through the portal in an instant leaving only the quivering paralyzed beast on the right left.

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Battle Map - Underground Lab

[Raineh Daze]

The strange dance doesn't let up, and a shimmering cloud of ghostly butterflies form... a larger butterfly, which then goes to hover over the beast thing.

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Maneuver: Law of Mortality-Dead Butterfly (Fullround Action). Swarm moves into bull's space; would normally provoke an AoO but it's paralysed.

Enemies that start their turn with the butterfly swam in their square have to make a DC 21 Fortitude Save or be Nauseated for 1 round. Remember, Hold Person (and therefore Monster and Paralyzing Gaze) also offer another save at the start of the monster's turn.

Aine gets a +5 atk/dmg bonus for the turn based on her perform check.

The bull takes 2d6 negative energy damage.

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Size/Type:    Tiny Undead (Swarm, incorporeal)
Hit Dice: 9HP (6d12)---Equal to Initiator's HD, 1/4 HP
Initiative:    +2
Speed:    Fly 55' (Good)
Armor Class:    14 (+2 size, +2 Dex), touch 14, flat-footed 12
Base Attack/Grapple:    +4/—
Attack:    Swarm (2d6 cold or negative energy per 3 IL)
Full Attack:    Swarm (2d6 cold or negative energy per 3 IL)
Space/Reach:    10 ft./0 ft.
Special Attacks:    Ghastly Distraction
Special Qualities:    Half damage from slashing and piercing, swarm traits, undead traits, incorporeal traits
Saves:   F 13, R 14, W 9.
Abilities: Str 2, Dex 15, Con 10, Int 1, Wis 10, Cha 10
Skills: none
Feats:    none
Alignment:    Always neutral

Combat

Ghastly Distraction (Ex): Any creature that begins its turn with a swarm in its square must succeed on a Fortitude save (DC 21) or be nauseated for 1 round.

[dman]

The Beast is unperturbed by the butterfly swarm.

[skydragonknight]

Lynn's boost in size wears off, and seeing one is still functioning, tries to turn it into sashimi, despite knowing deep down inside that it is not fish, and will disappear when it dies. Life is a tragedy.

[dman]

Lynn tears apart the last beast and *VOOM*.  It's sucked back through a portal.  Proteon moves forward and rapidly utters the arcane secrets to open two sets of portals in rapid succession.  Dark and ominous, the first portals open and four flying gargoyle-like creatures emerge.  In unison the long index claws of each hideous humanoid point out and fire a hissing beam of dark energy at each of you.  The first beam strikes Ijol directly in the forehead, but Ijol screams in fury and the energy dissipates seemingly frightened away by his anger.  The second beam strikes Calder and he feels the dark energy sap his strength away.  Áine easily dances out of the way of the third beam, and the fourth beam grazes Catlynn's shoulder.  She suddenly feels weak and feeble.

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Calder -11 Strength Penalty
Catlynn -10 Strength Penalty

The second portals open in a burst of light and two giant rock creatures armed with double swords emerge.  The first walks right into the swarm of butterflies, and appears oblivious to their presence.  It grimly knods at it's partner flanking Catlynn, and swings it's rocky blade.  The two creatures expertly coordinate their attacks on the cat.  Lynn catches the blade of the first attack on her left thigh.  She ducks the second, and dodges the third from behind, but the rock creature spins his double sword around and slams it home into Catlynn's abdomen on her right side leaving a terrible wound.

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1) to hit 30 dmg 21-5hardness=16
2) to hit 28
3) to hit 20
4) to hit 39 confirm crit 36 dmg 18+17= 35 -5hardness = 30

total 46 damage

[VennDygrem]

Calder reacts as the creatures appear and start calling up strange magical attacks against the party, loosing retributive shots from his bow in quick succession. As he's hit by one of the beams, he instantly feels much of his strength melt away, leaving him stronger than an average human, but far weaker than he should be.

These gargoyles needed to be taken out first.

Focusing his concentration, he takes careful aim to focus fire on the one creature he knows he hit, which just happens to be the same that affected him with its sapping magic, before he moves on to any others.

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AoO's on the three flying creatures within 30-ft upon their use of SLAs:
AoO vs. Target 1: 16 - 15 damage (10 is electricity)
AoO vs. Target 2: 31 - 17 damage (11 is electricity) *Critical Threat*
AoO vs. Target 3: 26 - 19 damage (14 is electricity)
Critical Confirmation: 18 - 16 critical damage if successful
On any hit, the target must make a DC 16 Reflex save or be entangled for 2 rounds. If the target is already entangled, it becomes slowed for 1 round on its failed save.

Round 2
{Misc} 5-foot step back
{Full-Round Action} Aimed Rapid Shot vs. Flying Creature 2; if it goes down, move on to Flying Creature 3

Attack 1: 27 - 32 damage (6 is electricity)
Attack 2: 24 - 38 damage (18 is electricity)
Attack 3: 22 - 31 damage (8 is electricity)

On any hit, the target must make a DC 16 Reflex save or be entangled for 2 rounds. If the target is already entangled, it becomes slowed for 1 round on its failed save.

Note: Calder's AoO range is 30 feet, and any square occupied by a target hit within the last round is also considered a threatened square (any creature moving through that square provokes, for instance)

[dman]

Calder's arrows fill the sky with streaking lightning.  The 2nd and 3rd flying humanoids fall pierced to the ground and get sucked back into their dimension.  His last shot flies wide.

[Nanshork]

Ijol focuses on the giant creature next to him.  Enraged, his movements speed up as he lets loose a barrage of piercing arm attacks.

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Swift action, spend a fury point to gain Haste for one round.  (+1 bonus on attack rolls and a +1 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves)

Full-attack on the big guy next to me.  Attacks count as +1 cold iron weapons.

Attack 1: 36 (26 damage)
Attack 2: 34 (22 damage)
Attack 3: 27 (21 damage)
Attack 4: 34 (21 damage)

On hit, 1 bleed damage and 5 feet reduced speed to target (stacks per attack) plus Reflex DC 25 or be slowed for one round (one save per round).

Raging, 1 fury points remaining (plus one per attack that hit = 4).

[dman]

Rock pierces rock as Ijol's fury drives him to new heights of assaulting power.  Each strike crushes a rocky limb.  First the right arm crumbles. Then the left and each leg shatters leaving only a rocky head and torso that get sucked back through a portal.

[Raineh Daze]

The fairy flutters over closer to the combat, spinning around and folding her arms confidently. The result is two enormous pillars of ice sprouting underneath the non-flying creature and rushing up towards the ceiling.

Wherever it ends up, the spectral butterfly cloud floats over it.

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Maneuver--Ice Pillars. 1 pillar per 4 ranks in Intimidate (so 2) appears within 60', and grows to a maximum height of 60'. It must make a DC 22 Reflex save or be thrown 5' in a direction of my choice for every point it fails the save. If caught between the pillar and a solid surface, it takes 1d6 damage per point of failed save and the pillar instantly shatters. It presumably also takes falling damage.

A large creature takes 2 pillars to lift, so only the big guy is targeted. Also, eastwards. If it saves, it can choose to move to an adjacent square or ride the pillar up (presumably not being crushed in that situation).

Summoned butterflies move to occupy same square as the enemy; dealing 2d6 cold damage, and forcing a fort save or nauseated at the start of its turn (same as last time). It provokes an AoO by doing so (still incorporeal).

[dman]

The rock creature's impassive face looks almost comical as it slips on ice that begins to raise slowly under its feat and then the pillars surge upward to smashing it into the roof.  The ice shatters and the creature slams back down onto the ground.  It's head cracks against the ground - obviously hurt but with the same impassive face staring back at you. 

[skydragonknight]

Worried of further ambushes, Lynn adopts a more defensive posture even as she unleashes her Ferocity on the creature. However, she seems somewhat distracted. She shifts into Mist, to potentially ward off future attacks.

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Ferocity for +4 Str/Dex
Fighting Defensively for -4 to hit +2 AC

AC is 34

Stance change:

Mist Sign "Gathering and Dissipating"
Drunken Demon (Stance)
Level: Oni Brawler 3
Initiation Action: Swift Action
Range: See text
Duration: See text

While in this stance you benefit from a Gaseous Form effect, with the following differences:
-Your flight speed is equal to your base speed.
-Your DR/magic is equal to your Str mod (currently 6)
-You can't raise higher above the ground than 5 feet per 5 IL. If you initiated this stance while higher, you fall as if under a feather fall effect until reaching the maximum altitude.
-You can momentarily solidify to perform physical activities. You can even grapple creatures. You also benefit from your material armor, natural or  manufactured. You don't lose any stance benefits while grappling.
-You can fill up to a number of 5x5x5 cubes equal to your ranks in Climb, that must be connected to at least one another but can otherwise be positioned as you want. You can change your “shape” and size" as a move action without provoking Aoos, but the center of the new shape must be the same as the previous (in case of irregular shapes, to determine the center draw a line between the two most distant points of the new shape, the center will be the middle of that line). When you move you always remain in the same exact orientation, and must take a move action to reshape in order to get in a new orientation.
-You cannot flank another creature with just yourself, and you can only by flanked through your most exterior borders and corners.
-Other creatures need to succeed at a Spot check opposed by a Climb check from you to recognize you as a creature instead of a mist, although if you attack them, they automatically recognize you as not being regular fog.
(For the sake of Moving through a Square your mist form does not count as occupying the squares it fills completely.)

[dman]

Another set of portals opens and four bulbous tentacled worm-like creatures emerge, surrounding Ijol and Calder.  They beginning flailing their tentacles wildly.  Their bulbous slimy touch sucks the will of their targets.  Calder blocks the first tentacle with his bow, but the second lashes his wrist, and two more slam into his back.  The gargoyle creatures shift in the air and fire black bolts at Ijol.  He manages to shake off the first one which he fends away with his left appendage, but the second one strikes him full on the chest, and he feels his strength sapped from his body of rock.

The rock monster easily defends himself from Caitlyn's assault while prone.  Then he holds out his palm toward Catlynn, and an invisible wave of energy breaks over her misty form.

 

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Calder takes 24 dmg after hardness and 3 Wis dmg.

Ijol takes 4 Wis dmg and gets a -12 penalty to str

Caitlyn Fort save DC 22 or lose hardness

[VennDygrem]

Calder soon finds himself feeling overwhelmed by the new creatures swarming over him. The other creatures at least appeared at a distance, but these were right on top of him! He hadn't felt such anxiety before; but then again, he hadn't felt much of anything in his short life.

He tries to carefully aim his bow at the ravening, tentacled monstrosities, but his shots are far more frantic than he anticipates.

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{Full-round action} Aimed Rapid Shot; two vs. the creature north of me, one vs. the creature south:
Attack 1: 15 - 34 damage (14 is electric)
Attack 2: 18 - 40 damage (14 is electric)
Attack 3: 25 - 24 damage (3 is electric)
Creatures hit must also make a Reflex save (DC 16) vs. Entangle for 2 rounds. If already entangled, enemies are instead slowed for 1 round.

As a sniper, Close Quarters Ranged Combat prevents my ranged attacks from provoking AoO's.

{Misc} 5-foot step

[dman]

Calder's first arrow glances off the northern worm-creature's rubbery hide, but the second strikes true in the creature's forehead, and the third catches the southern creature just under it's gobby orifice.  Each creature is wracked by electricity, but only the one to the south appears to be twitching uncontrollably. 

[Nanshork]

Ijol maintains his heightened reaction speed as he attacks the tentacled creature next to him.

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Spend another fury as a swift action for another round of haste.  (+1 bonus on attack rolls and a +1 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves)

Full-attack on the tentacle thing to the south of me.  Attacks count as +1 cold iron weapons.

Attack 1: 28, 18 damage
Attack 2: 35 (Natural 1 to confirm crit), 17 damage
Attack 3: 22, 18 damage
Attack 4: 25, 16 damage

On hit, 1 bleed damage and 5 feet reduced speed to target (stacks per attack) plus Reflex DC 25 or be slowed for one round (one save per round).

Current Effects:
3 Wis dmg and a -12 penalty to str

Raging, 3 fury points remaining

[dman]

Ijol's furious fusillade of attacks pay off.  The worm-creature is knocked unconscious and *VOOM*.  It's gone.