Three Goddesses - IC (Thread #2)

[Toliudar]

Dot

It was at moments like this that Dot deeply regretted not having her menagerie with her. Not because she particularly needed them, but because they would each have especially enjoyed the opportunity to tear a devil a new one. Instead she would simply have to fight devils with...deviltry.

Dot begins by targeting the furthest devil with magic designed to turn it into a slack-jawed imbecile. If it lost the power of thought, of speech, surely it would also lose the ability to use magic. She then ripped through a summoning in record time, bringing a massive skeletal form into a far corner of the room. On her immediate direction, it sends a green ray towards one of the devils.

Dot sends to her colleagues.

"The skeletal devil is a friend. Well, at the very least, a useful tool."

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Standard action - cast Feeblemind on the Devil farthest from our entrance to the room. Will DC 27 or Int and Cha are reduced to 1. CL check to beat its Spell Resistance: (1d20+23)[36]

Swift action - using a Major Esoterica use of Quickened on her Summon Monster VII to bring in a Bone Devil in whatever open space she can find in the room, as long as it doesn't block her colleagues from reaching the Barbed devils. She mentally instructs it to use Dimensional Anchor on a Barbed Devil. If Dot senses that the most distant devil made its save against the Feeblemind, she'll have the bone devil target him. Otherwise, it will be the next most distant.

Move action - pull out her rod of quicken from her pack.

Bone Devil - use Dimensional Anchor SLA. Touch attack: (1d20+14)[26]. Spell resistance check: (1d20+12)[17]

Bone Devil is more or less as standard but with HP 138.

[Debbie_D]

The devil that Dot targets with the Feeblemind appears to resist the magical attack, as its countenance and stance do not change. Her dimensional anchor and the same spell from her summoned bone devil are more effective as two of the devils are now bathed in a greenish light, a sure sign that they can no longer teleport or whatever, away.

Lil up, Ireth to follow

[PSinger]

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Defined by Rus, who is too busy to gitp right now...

Lildorrinene begins calling on the magic within Talbot as she begins summoning with the staff.

[Vulaas]

Ireth begins a cantata in Celestial that, that while it begins slowly, one can't help but find strangely uplifting and increasing your determination.

"
O Fortuna
velut luna..."

Using bardic music, inspire courage (+1 hit/+1 damage/+1 saves against fear) to all allies within 60ft.

[Debbie_D]

In order to keep forward momentum in this game, we will press forward and ret-con Lil's actions in later.

Ireth summons up her bardic powers, bolstering the party in the face of the devils who oppose them.
Tallesin up, devils to follow.

[Ason]

OOC:

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This is all assuming Lil's actions don't disable the currently unanchored devils.

Tallesin utters a prayer as he draws his sword, before flying across the room towards the farthest devil not yet dimensionally anchored. Just as he nears his target, Tallesin pauses as his belt glows slightly, and the mage unleashes a full attack at his foe.

The Breakdown

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Standard: activate Sacred Scabbard (CW 136); sword now Blessed
Move: fly across the room near unanchored devil [move speed now 70]
Swift: use 3 charges of Belt of Battle (MIC 73)

5 Foot Step: to be adjacent to target
Full Attack: with greatsword

Attack Rolls
1: (1d20+27)[37]
2: (1d20+22)[39]
3: (1d20+17)[26]
4: (1d20+12)[14]
Haste: (1d20+27)[37]

If Any Attack Succeeds
Toxic Weapon: No SR, Fort Save DC: 24, Constitution Damage (1d10)[4]
Spell Power: +4 to Tallesin’s caster level checks vs. SR
Shattermantle: target’s SR reduced for one round by -2 per successful hit
Vampric Touch: No Save, SR Check (1d20+23)[35], HP Drain (8d6)[30], Empowered (multiply HP drain results by x1.5)
Arcane Strike Damage: (5d4)[15]

Attack Damage Rolls
1: (2d6+8)[16]
2: (2d6+8)[20]
3: (2d6+8)[17]
4: (2d6+8)[14]
Haste: (2d6+8)[10]

Against the devil's barbed defense against melee strikes, Tallesin has DR 3/silver, which should negate some of the hurt.

[Debbie_D]

Tallesin's complex attack series against the barbed devil leaves the beast completely befuddled. He manages 3 hits, but between the drain of CON, the vampiric effect, and ordinary damage is enough to finish the beast off. Of course, attacking a barbed devil is always a painful experience, and Tallesin takes damage from the porcupine like body.

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[roll]5d8+30

Apply any DR you have, you got hit 5 times.

[Debbie_D]

damn roller

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(5d8+30)[53]

[Debbie_D]

Two of the remaining devils attack those of the party who were in the front line, that being Atarath and Taleira

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Atarath
(1d20+27)[39] attack & (2d8+17)[30] damage
(1d20+22)[29] attack & (2d8+17)[25] damage
(1d20+17)[21] attack & (2d8+17)[23] damage

Taleira
(1d20+27)[47] attack & (2d8+17)[26] damage
(1d20+22)[27] attack & (2d8+17)[23] damage
(1d20+17)[34] attack & (2d8+17)[27] damage

Meanwhile, the last remaining devil decides to try his magical powers and focuses his spell on Dot, trying to freeze her in position.

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Hold Person, will save DC20

[Debbie_D]

one crit confirm on Tal, since its a natural 20, its a hit

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(1d20+27)[36] confirm & (2d8+17)[26] damage

Atarath is hit once by a devil claw, taking 30 points of damage. While the damage is not great, the nasty claws carry a further magic power, which cause a fear effect to try and take hold of the deva.

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Will save, DC20

Taleira also gets hit once, for 26 points of damage, and the same fear effect attempts to take hold of her.

Atarath and Sword up.

[Debbie_D]

As Atarath readies herself to strike at the devil assualting her, Sword rears up on his hind legs, and lashes both of his front hooves at the fiend. The first one connects solidly with his head, and the devil is stunned by the powerful blow.
PSinger, resolve your attacks as if the devil is stunned

[PSinger]

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Lil's summoning doesn't go off, that's why I didn't specify. Summon Monster IX takes a full round to cast, so she is summoning all round long.

For Atareth, she is immune to fear. In fact, any ally within 10' of her gets a +4 on all saves vs. fear-based attacks.

Atareth smiles and says, "Good set up, Sword!"

She then begins to God-Hammer the hell out of the devil.
Attack 1: (1d20+37)[38]
Damage 1: (1d8+18)[22]
Attack 2: (1d20+32)[39]
Damage 2: (1d8+18)[26]
Attack 3: (1d20+27)[29]
Damage 3: (1d8+18)[26]

Her deva nature and hammer overcome the devil's DR.
Because this devil is stunned, she'll make the other devil her dodge-buddy. (I almost forgot having to deal with dodge-buddies again. )

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EDIT: It looks like a good number, but Attack 1 failed because it was a natural '1'.

[MikelaC1]

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Debbie has a bit of a sore back this morning

Atarath has mixed success against her set up devil, and only manages one hit against the fiend. Even though her attacks did not hit, she still takes the damage from the barbed spikes of the devil.

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(3d8+18)[30]

She takes 30 points of damage from the barbs.

Taliera up, Melinda to follow

[Telasi]

Taleira Ulharvyth

Taleira takes the hit and rolls with it, mitigating the damage a bit, though she's still hurt. A word and a gesture turn her blade's edge to a thin grey mist, and then she counterattacks with a series of vicious blows.

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Swift Action: Cast Wraithstrike. Full-round Action: Full Attack. Power Attack -10/+20. Karmic Strike active, AC is 44. 20% miss chance that I keep forgetting, too.

Attack 1
Hit: (1d20+21)[18](39) vs. Touch AC, threat range 15-20.
Damage: (2d4+35)[38] (adamantine) + (1d6)[2] Vampiric
Critical: (1d20+21)[24], (2d4+35)[39] extra damage.
Attack 2
Hit: (1d20+16)[20](36) vs. Touch AC, threat range 15-20.
Damage: (2d4+35)[40] (adamantine) + (1d6)[3] Vampiric
Critical: (1d20+16)[17], (2d4+35)[42] extra damage.
Attack 3
Hit: (1d20+11)[8](19) vs. Touch AC, threat range 15-20.
Damage: (2d4+35)[42] (adamantine) + (1d6)[3] Vampiric
Critical: (1d20+11)[25], (2d4+35)[40] extra damage.
Attack 4
Hit: (1d20+6)[19](25) vs. Touch AC, threat range 15-20.
Damage: (2d4+35)[39] (adamantine) + (1d6)[2] Vampiric
Critical: (1d20+6)[26], (2d4+35)[42] extra damage.

[MikelaC1]

Taleira's wraithstrike trick turns her into a formidable fighting machine and she solidly connects on 3 of her hits, striking vital areas on the barbed devil and finishing it off in one round. Of course, even her unmatched fighting skills are not enough to keep her from taking damage in return from the strikes.

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(4d8+24)[54]

She takes 54 points of damage in retaliation. Melinda up. Two devils down, one damaged by Atarah, one undamaged.

[Kalirren]

Melinda quickly makes her way to the middle of the room and takes a moment to ascertain which door leads to their goal. Satisfied with the party's progress, she lays a spiteful curse that gives the devils a taste of their own medicine.

"Every rose has its thorn, and every shrub its poison..."

[Inflame the Righteous - anyone attacking us in melee gets to take 1d6+15 irresistible divine damage.]

[MikelaC1]

Melinda lays a powerful counter curse on the devils and now both sides will be taking more than they are giving in battle, as the first round of initiative ends.
Two devils down, one devil engaged in battle with Atareth, one devil not in battle currently.

Round two, Dot goes first.

[Toliudar]

The devil's attempt to freeze her in place splashes against Dot's protections and disappears without a ripple

At Dot's command, the invisible earth elemental lumbers forward to assist Atareth, abruptly becoming a very visible lump of earth as soon as it has done so.

Dot points to the un-dimension-locked surviving devil and issues a command to her own summoned bone devil. It sends a blast of light similar to the others at the barbed fiend.

The little mage smiled at the remaining devil. She spoke softly to it in Infernal.

"Well, you can either lay down on the ground and surrender right now, and risk your master's displeasure, or die in the next two seconds and face a century of oblivion and demotion in the armies of hell. Personally, I'm hoping you don't surrender, because I haven't seen our Deva here really exert herself. But it's your choice."

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The devil's Hold Person has no effect on Dot thanks to Mind Blank.

Earth elemental's charge attack: (1d20+8)[12], which is +4 and to the devil's flatfooted AC if it cannot see invisible creatures. Damage: (1d6+7)[12].

If either of the two remaining devils is not yet dimension locked, the Bone Devil will attempt to do so: Ranged Touch: [roll]1d20[/roll+26[/roll] Spell Resistance: (1d20+12)[23]. If both of the surviving devils are dimension-locked, Dot will order the Bone Devil to attack the nearest one. Charge attack: (1d20+19)[33] Damage [roll]18+8[/roll], breaks a devil's damage reduction.

Dot bluff check: (1d20+28)[36] to convince the devil to surrender. She then prepares to cast Hesitate (PH2) on the devil's turn, if it does anything BUT surrender and lay down on the floor. Will DC 25 negates. SR check to beat Spell Resistance: (1d20+23)[27]

[MikelaC1]

The earth elemental obviously still has some sand in his eyes as he attempts to attack the devil, as his fists miss the target totally. Even with his poor attack results, he still takes damage from the barbs.

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(1d8+6)[8]

The bone devil fires off its Dimensional Anchor at the remaining devil, and now it is bathed in the green light as well.
Dot attempts to convince the remaining devil to surrender, but appearantly the displeasure of Koric is more fearsome than demotion in the armies of Hell, and the devil refuses to give up.

Lil up, Ireth to follow.

[PSinger]

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Posting for Lost, who is still crushed under the mountain of finals + one-day job + callbacks + ....

When I looked at hezrou, I saw that the stench would hurt us so ...

Lil finishes the circles she makes with the main end of the wand and dark energies swirl together up to the ceiling and takes shape as a Huge spider-like demon (bebilith). Lil tepes with it.

The bebilith on the ceiling poop-shoots a web at the non-stunned devil to try to ensnare it.

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Ranged touch attack (1d20+11)[18]

Effect: An entangled creature can escape with a DC 24 Escape Artist check or burst the web with a DC 24 Strength check. The check DCs are Constitution-based. The web has 14 hit points and hardness 0. There is a 75% chance that the webbing will not burn if any sort of fire is applied to it (check each round).

Through the amulet Lil asks, "Melinda, do these flames hurt anyone touching the subject? or, is it only attacks? or, can you define who is good, such as anyone wearing the same casting of this spell? I want to heal Taleira with the wand."

Lildorrinene takes out the healing wand as she moves behind Taleira, and readies an action to heal Taleira if Melinda says it is safe to do so.

[Debbie_D]

(1d20+6)[26] STR check

awesome 20

The web hits the barbed devil squarely, but the devil simply flexes his muscles and bursts the web with almost no effort at all.

Ireth up.

[Kalirren]

"Faith's flames will not burn their own champions," Melinda tepes back, balking at the thought of an Emissary hesitant to approach a display of her own Goddesses' power.

[And if they do, I'll eat my hat.]

[lostsole31]

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Here I am! .... but this is only a guest appearance until finals are over.

Lil taps Melinda with the wand for 39 healing.

[Vulaas]

Ireth

While the nymph continues to sing her inspirational song, it appears that sweat is beginning to bead on her brow with the apparent mental effort she is undergoing. With a quick flick of her hand and curling of her fingers a massive plume of impossibly white flame envelops the devil that was covered (ineffectively) in webbing.

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Using my Melodic Casting feat to continue my Inspire Courage while also casting Flame Strike on the devil.
(15d6)[53] damage, half fire and half divine

[Debbie_D]

Ireth brings a flame strike down on the uninjured devil. While the flame part of the spell is ineffective, the divine part strikes the devil, burning him with its holy damage.

Tallesin up

[Ason]

Having finished off his foe, Tallesin flies back to join Atareth's combat, leaving the casting devil alone for now. Taking up a flanking position (if possible), he swings at the already wounded fiend as he coolly states, "Terrible you may be, but love knows no fear."

The Breakdown

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Attack: (1d20+27)[34] (normal mods + arcane strike + flanking - power attack)(weapon still Blessed)
Damage: (2d6+9)[19]
Vampric Touch: No Save, SR Check (1d20+23)[42], HP Drain (8d6)[25], Empowered (multiply HP drain results by x1.5)
Arcane Strike: (6d4)[15]

[Debbie_D]

Tallesin's attack is not nearly as successful this time around as his scimitar misses the target. The bad news is that this attack still causes him to be poked by the devils barbs.
(1d8+6)[9]
The devils continue their counter attack. The devil menacing Atarath strikes at her with his claws.
(1d20+27)[40] attack & (2d8+17)[26] damage
(1d20+22)[31] attack & (2d8+17)[29] damage
(1d20+17)[26] attack & (2d8+17)[27] damage
The other devil chooses (probably foolishly) to rush at Taleira and attempt claw her.
(1d20+27)[32] attack & (2d8+17)[30] damage
(1d20+22)[34] attack & (2d8+17)[22] damage
(1d20+17)[21] attack & (2d8+17)[25] damage
Of course, the really bad news for the devils is now they get to take damage because of these attacks.
(1d6+15)[20] devil on Atarath
(1d6+15)[21] devil on Taleria
(is this one roll of damage per round, or one roll of damage per attack?)

[Debbie_D]

Atareth is hit by only one claw, and takes 26 points of damage for his trouble.
Once again, Sword rears up and strikes out with his front hooves, however slightly wiser to the tactic, the devil manages to avoid the powerful hoof blows.
Atareth up.

[PSinger]

Atareth changes style, but not tactics. She focuses much more on overall defense, but especially against her current opponent, and wails away with her hammer.

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Combat Expertise for 5
This devil is her Dodge-buddy for 1
AC = 44, 45 vs her current opponent
Attack #1: (1d20+32)[36], damage (1d8+18)[24]
Attack #2: (1d20+27)[43], damage (1d8+18)[24]
Attack #3: (1d20+22)[25], damage (1d8+18)[25]

If hit by 2 attacks, roll Fort DC 32 or stunned. If hit by 3 attacks, check twice.

[Debbie_D]

Atareth's focus on defense costs her, and she is only able to score one hit against the devil. She is wearing it down for sure, but the barb damage is piling up on her as well.

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(3d8+18)[31] barbs

She takes another 31 points from the spikes

Taleira up.