Somebody's going to die...

[Barbarian MD]

I can fly, too.

Again, the fighter's sword simply bounces off John.

With another mighty roar, John unleashes another blast of icy, terrible fury. A feeling of nauseous death rises up the warblade's throat, tickling his uvula.

End of Round 1/4 and 1/3 of your armor and sword being non-magical.
Energy Drain (2d4)[4]
Quickened Energy Drain (2d4)[5]

No save, as you probably know. Although from what you said earlier, I imagine you're going to negate at least one of them with some fancy manuever.

Durations of Effects

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Round 2/10 haste
Round 3/ 21 minutes true seeing
Round 3/42 blink
Round 3/ 210 minutes stoneskin
Round 3/ 21 minutes Shield
1/3 uses of quicken left
92 stoneskin remaining

[Niezck]

Couple of things ...

You need to beat my Spell Resistance 31.
Also, can I have some ranged touch attacks please? :)

Oh, and 1 concentration check DC 24 for casting defensively.

[Barbarian MD]

Certainly, sir! See, this is why it's good to have practice.

Touch attack 1) (1d20+24)[25] +2 if you can't see invisible
Touch attack 2) (1d20+24)[28] +2 if you can't see invisible
Crud, add +1 for haste.

Spell Resistance 1) (1d20+21)[34]
Spell Resistance 2) (1d20+21)[37]

Did I do that right?

Never answered my question: does a 1 auto-fail? Otherwise, I'll always beat the check.

(1d20+32)[38]
(1d20+32)[40]

[Niezck]

Damn you 12 touch AC!

All hit, I take 7 negative levels. (Incidently, how does that work with gestalt? o_O)

[Barbarian MD]

It knocks down your last 7 levels.

Feel free to break out the slide rule and graphing calculator to figure out how that affects you...


Per level:
-1 on all skill checks and ability checks.
-1 on attack rolls and saving throws.
-5 hit points.
-1 effective level (whenever the creature’s level is used in a die roll or calculation, reduce it by one for each negative level).
If the victim casts spells, she loses access to one spell as if she had cast her highest-level, currently available spell. (If she has more than one spell at her highest level, she chooses which she loses.) In addition, when she next prepares spells or regains spell slots, she gets one less spell slot at her highest spell level.


EDIT: Totally forgot about your touch AC being so low! I was kind of holding my breath for that one.

[Niezck]

Yes, but do I take -7 on both sides of the gestalt or what?

Doesn't affect me anway ...

In my turn, I use a standard to Iron Heart Surge them away, then move 5ft closer to you, so we're 5ft away.

Your turn.

[Barbarian MD]

You can surge them both away?

[Niezck]

Well, it says one effect, so I presume negative levels is an effect, as they all stack together?

[Barbarian MD]

I think that's probably refering to one effect, as in a spell.

Doesn't a quickened spell count as a second spell?


I'm not an expert--I don't know anything about it.

Here's the quote:
select one spell, effect, or other condition currently affecting you and with a duration of 1 or more rounds.

So I think you shrug off the first (4 levels), but still suffer from the second (5 levels). I'm guessing when you said 7, you somehow ignore one from each.

[Niezck]

Oh, sorry, I thought it was 4 & 3. Right, I'll shrug off the 5 levels then.

Your turn.

[Barbarian MD]

Hopefully you can't surge again, since you haven't recharged..

Calm assurance flows into John's face. He has found a weakness, and he will use it.

"DEATH!"

MAXIMIZED ENERGY DRAIN
Quickened Energy Drain

8
(2d4)[7]

Touch attack 1) (1d20+25)[44] +2 if you can't see invisible
Touch attack 2) (1d20+25)[42] +2 if you can't see invisible

Spell Resistance 1) 41 (maximized as well? if I actually have to roll, (1d20+21)[41]
Spell Resistance 2) (1d20+21)[36]


Concentration checks don't fail on a 1, so I'm not going to bother anymore.

Durations of Effects

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Round 3/10 haste
Round 4/ 21 minutes true seeing
Round 4/42 blink
Round 4/ 210 minutes stoneskin
Round 4/ 21 minutes Shield
0/3 uses of quicken left
2/3 uses of maximize left
92 stoneskin remaining

EDIT: OOOoooohhhh, those were good.

EDIT: And this ends Round 2/4 and 2/3 of your armor and sword being non-magical.

[Niezck]

2 more levels to go, and I'm dead.

[Barbarian MD]

Wow. I like casters. This didn't go how I thought it would go at all.

And yes, I have two more energy drains left. While I'm thinking about it, can I use a 10th-level slot to cast a 9th-level spell?

[Niezck]

I believe you can.

This would have gone much different without those dispel magics. My armour protects me entirely from negative levels ...

[Barbarian MD]

Really? I was trying to decide between doing a mage's disjunction (which may or may not have worked), or doing a more targeted dispell to try to prevent you from killing me with your equipment. I figured, quicken another one? Why not?

Yeah, if this hadn't of worked, I would have died about two rounds ago.

[Niezck]

You mean with your AC in the 60s? I doubt it

[Barbarian MD]

So I guess that's a wrap? You could still crit on me, but my AC is now beyond your range to hit with anything else.

You could fly around, but even without my buffs, my AC is too high for you to hit, and I can fly, too, albeit more slowly.

I'm going to keep up the energy drains. Although...I suppose I could try other spells for the practice (especially since your saves are now not quite so epic), since I'm not worried about you criting on me too badly.

Want to call it?

Nah, even with my AC so high, you still got through about once a turn. Once a turn would kill me before I could take you down, and if you had waited out my buffs, I'd be screwed royally.

[Niezck]

Yeah, this one's to you. I stand little to no chance against you now.

[Barbarian MD]

Good game, though. Thanks for teaching me some of the important caster-y stuff, like casting defensively.

[Belial_the_Leveler]

Psst, a few things:

1) How do you know his armor is magical to target it with GDM?
2) You can't maximise or empower dispels.