The Invasion of Toril

[Archmage1]

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With the artificers monocle(MIC 72), detect magic will identify after 3 rounds. the spellcraft checks should have identified any scroll of level 16 or less as well.

"Bleerie, I am afraid that I can't cast any such effects. Krgg, that was some good smashing in that fight."

[mucco]

"Ah well, we'll have to fight smarter. My patron god Oghma blesses me with powerful magic, as you could see. I excel at making martial combatants fight better, but I could find some way to help you spellcasters too.

On those items, I have no use for them. Well I suppose I could keep the rod, in case it is needed. Just don't push the button while we're moving on the ship, it'll crush the wood."

[Archmage1]

"The scrolls that we found are a scroll of protection from arrows, and scroll of make whole with three uses, and an immovable rod. The rod could come in handy at some point, as could the protection from arrows. Noru, are you willing to reveal how you plan to fight?"

[Tharione]

Noru pauses in his casual walk toward the lower decks and turns.

"Mine is a style best demonstrated, not spoken of. perhaps oddly, you'll find killing things is not my strong suit. As I said, solving problems is what I do."

He gestures to the skeletal archon.

"Killing is their job."

He returns to calmly walking away.

[Dramiscius]

Zipxap looks around at his shipmates, slapping himself in the head as he'd forgotten to grant them protection for his voice, he begins going around and granting it to all of them making his rounds on the boat in preparation for future attacks.

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Not sure if this is acceptable, but zip would prefer to begin each day by casting his endure exposure on party members present, although if you want me to specifically state it each day I understand, though the timeline moves a little more quickly then im used to.

[Archmage1]

"Zipxap, What are your capabilities in a fight?"

[Dramiscius]

Clearing his throat he speaks in a shrill voice

I prefer to stay out of direct combat, however I have breath akin to that of a mighty dragon, which I can preform some interesting tricks with. However it's indiscriminate in who it hits, so from now on ill be granting everyone protection from it during my morning regiment, rather then worry about harming my comrades during the heat of battle.

[Allyzedl]

You arrive at the harbor of Waterdeep. Most of which has rotted away. You manage to find a dock that looks sturdy enough. The two goblins wave goodbye to you as you jump off the ship onto the docks. Upon Krgg’s landing on the dock, the overwhelming weight of him and his gear landing on the dock causes him to go straight through the wooden dock into the water. Krgg then begins to feel something nibbling at his ankles as he swims to shore.

Gazing upon Waterdeep the party sees the ruins of a once great city. Buildings are crumbled in pieces; wooden planks are on the ground where merchant carts used to stand. Windows from houses lay shattered on the ground, which has been stained deep red with the blood of those who once lived here. You seem to be in a merchant district.

You hear the clanking of metal coming from behind an old abandoned building.

[mucco]

Bleerie walks to the blacksmith building, and steps in. "Hello? Friends here, don't be afraid!" IT WAS NOT A BLACKSMITH

Bleerie casts a quick spell, before slowly moving toward the building. She pays full attention to it, trying to look through any window or to determine what kind of creature, or creatures, are currently in there. She whispers "Armored people walking, maybe. Be ready for some fighting."

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Casting Sign, slowly moving toward the building.

[Dramiscius]

Surveying the scene, the kobold once again vanishes from sight.

Best I remain out of sight

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Casts walk unseen and follows Bleerie

[Archmage1]

As Gale looks over the wreckage of Waterdeep, she can't help but to remember her past. To those who look at her, she seems almost lost in thought, lost in her memories.

So much death and destruction here. I can hardly believe that Waterdeep was destroyed by this invasion. Every other time, the city survived... somehow. I remember running through these streets, and now they are just ruins. Just memories in my head. I will find who did this, and they will NOT enjoy that meeting.

After surveying the ruins for several minutes, with tears running down her face, Gale starts heading for the clanking building, floating off of the ground to minimize noise. Once she arrives, she will take a look inside, and activate detect magic, concentrating on it as she surveys the contents.

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spot(1d20)[7] listen(1d20)[11] hide(1d20+1)[18]

[Medic!]

Krgg

When he trudges to shore Krgg checks his feet and ankles for critters or bites.

"That settles it, no more damn boats! You'd think I was of one of the Water-tribes..." he growls as he sits to remove his boots and pour the water out. He wipes his hands down over his face and head, and shakes like a dog, flinging droplets carelessly.

He puts his boots back on and rises to his feet, surveying what's left of the town he spent so much time in.

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If needed Swim Check - (1d20+8)[28]

[Tharione]

Noru trots his mount ahead at a speed to keep up with the remainder of the group.

He speaks softly but aloud, "It might be better to send the expendable magical constructs into places first. If you don't mind my tactical opinion."


He unslings and holds his bow. The raven on his shoulder flies off ahead into the sky at top speed.

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The raven flies off to aerially survey the city, Noru can see what it sees.
it is also carrying a letter if possible.

[Allyzedl]

Looking through the windows, Bleerie and Zipxap see the inside of a rundown shop. Gale quickly darts behind broken carts and barrels, hiding behind them as she approaches the building. The only thing she sees is the building, but the sound of clashing metal is now repeating faster than before. Krgg stands in front of the building soaking wet.

Noru’s raven flies high above the building. Behind it there is a battle underway. It looks like someone is fighting with a bunch of giant ants. The fight is the source of the sound as the humanoid’s weapons clash with the weapons of the giant ants. However, the raven cannot clearly discern any more details than that about the humanoid or the giant ants other than that they are fighting, and the humanoid seems to be overwhelmed.

[Tharione]

"It seems the source is not within the building but behind it, Giant ants and some sort of humanoid figure. It would be my guess that, whoever they are, they will not emerge victorious without aid."

Noru seeks to ride the shortest path to get around the structure that he is aware of with both his birds view and his own.

The bird continues onward over the city.

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his horse has 180' move speed and ignores terrain penalties from sandy, muddy or swampy terrain.

[mucco]

"Alright Noru, I'm on it." The gnome darts past the building, just as fast as an unencumbered human.

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Double move, 60 ft.

[Medic!]

Krgg

When his grumbling about being soaking wet subsides, Krgg hears the sound of a fight. He calls his armor onto himself and follows his companions around to the back fo the building, drawing Foebane as he stalks around the structure.

He bellows a battle-cry as he rounds the corner to announce the death of....something!

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Standard to call his armor, then double moving at 20ft/move until he can see the cause of the ruckus. Getting Granteds out of the way here: (1d6)[4] (1d5)[5] (1d4)[1] (1d3)[2]

[Archmage1]

Hearing Noru's identification of the source of the sound, Gale flys up over the building, and comes to the aid of the lone humanoid. She seems to focus for a second, and then a blast of ice streaks towards one of the ants.

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Fly up to get a line of sight, eldritch spear(250ft range) hellrime blast(fort dc 18 failure -4 dex, cold damage) (1d20+8)[22] damage(7d6)[24]
If there is damage reduction, Gale should be able to observe the attack doing less damage than it should.

[Allyzedl]

Noru rids his steed, stopping just in front of the battle. Bleerie follows right behind the steed as it kicks dust from the ground as the steed runs into Bleerie’s face. Krgg shouts something fierce is his native tongue and runs as fast as he can, just barely moving at all, Krgg is able to see the battle from around one of the corners of the building. Gale flies above the building and shoots a blast at the giant ant that is closest to the humanoid figure. Zipxap, now invisible follows behind Noru and his steed, as he sees the battle ensue a Bleerie stops just short of running him over.

@Party
You see 6 Formian fighting against a single Elf. He is unnaturally tall and muscular for an Elf. He has sharp features and after further inspection of those features, he seems to have small bony protrusions. Small scales cover his entire body, with noble golden eyes to suit. He seems to be only wearing a loincloth, but has a faint aura around his body. Fighting against the Formian he is whipping his greatsword around as blinding speeds. He seems to be in some sort of frenzy while he is attacking the Formian.

Gale shoots an icy blast at Formian 1, hitting it in the back of the head.


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I'm currently looking for a better way to create maps, if anyone has any suggestions please let me know in the OOC thread.

But for now:

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[Dramiscius]

Zipxap

Seeing the Formians' he decides an aerial view would be best, incase more happen to come and try to ambush him and his companions.

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Using humanoid shape to turn into a Harpy and fly 20 ft up in the air while invisible.

[Zman]

Zaavariel

Surrounded by massive ants, Zaavariel whips his blade around in a frenzy of blinding speed...

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Knowledge Planes(Untrained) (d20+1)[6] to Identify and distinguish largest threat.

Attacks to be taken against the most prominent threat first. If one dies, resolve next attack against the next most potent threat, etc

Whirling Frenzy 1/4

Attack 1
Power Attack(-2/+4) (d20+15)[18]
Damage (2d6+18)[30]
If Magebane is applicable: +2 to hit +(2d6+2)[10] to Damage

Attack 2 -Whirling Frenzy
Power Attack(-2/+4) (d20+13)[16]
Damage (2d6+18)[23]
If Magebane is applicable: +2 to hit +(2d6+2)[9] to Damage

Attack 3
Power Attack(-2/+4) (d20+8)[10]
Damage (2d6+18)[26]
If Magebane is applicable: +2 to hit +(2d6+2)[10] to Damage

Attack 4-Bite
Power Attack(-2/+4) (d20+8)[14]
Damage (d6+6)[9]

PS Eyes are Golden, not Green.

[mucco]

Bleerie casts a spell, and everyone is instantly surrounded by a faint blue aura. "Here, this is to be a bit safer. Have fun smashing around!"

Important for everyone

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Standard action: cast Mass Shield of Faith. Everyone gets +3 Deflection AC, duration 10 minutes.

Maybe next round

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The gnome darts on the side, to get a better angle, shouting: "Avoid the dark!" She then conjures a thick curtain of blackness, which envelops four of the giant ants.

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Move action: move six squares up.
Standard action: cast Doomtide, so that it hits the three upper foes as well as the bottom left one. Draw a line between my upper left corner and Zaavariel's upper left one to see the lower bound of the black.

Enemies are entitled to a Will save DC 22 to avoid being Dazed for 1 round. Anyone moving or starting the round in the blackness must roll as well.

SR checks:
(1d20+10)[19]
(1d20+10)[30]
(1d20+10)[12]
(1d20+10)[14]

(I found a Cleric illusion! Yay for +1 to DCs for gnome! )

[Archmage1]

Gale

Seeing the rest of the party come into view, Gale decides to try to help the elf by disabling some of his attackers, and launches a blast that is almost totally black.

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if in range for eldritch chain, cast it with beshadowed blast(fort dc 18 or blind, applies to all targets), if not, move into range, and then do the same thing. Ranged touch attacks.
primary attack (1d20+8)[17] damage(7d6)[20]
secondary chain(1d20+8)[12] damage: half of above
tertiary chain(1d20+8)[17] damage: half of above

[Tharione]

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(1d20+20)[39] knowledge: the planes on formians
regardless probably enough to recognize they are extraplanar.

"Well they fit the vague definition of my opposition. Skeleton, kill the ants ignore the others."

A 20' radius of pitch darkness surrounds Noru after a brief chant and wave.

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Noru casts no light then dismounts his phantom steed
Darkvision can see normally through the darkness non-magical sources cannot illuminate it.
Noru is invisible to darkvision.

[Medic!]

Krgg

The orc brandishes his falchion and wades into battle, preparing to strike the nearest ant-thing. Krgg shouts a taunt to the elf they've stumbled across, Keep those eyes open, elf, see how an Orc handles trivial creatures like this!

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Krgg moves up 3 squares and diagonal up/left one, placing him in flanking position with the elf against Ant#2.

Attack - (1d20+22)[41]
Crit Confirm - (1d20+22)[33]

Slashing Damage - (2d4+13)[19]
Critical Damage - (2d4+13)[18]

Vicious Damage - (2d6)[11]
Vicious Damage to me - (1d6)[6]

Healing to the Elf - (1d6+7)[13]

EDIT: That's what I'm talkin about

*Note if any AoOs are provoked (and successful), Krgg gains the total damage divided by 5 (up to a bonus of 3) as a bonus on his attack and damage

[Allyzedl]

Zaavariel swings around with his greatsword, missing every single Formian. Zipxap is still nowhere to be seen. Bleerie casts a spell over the party, protecting them. Gale then shoots an Eldritch chain at the closest Formian, hitting it, as it bounces to the next one it misses. Noru creates a field of darkness around himself. The darkness also covers Krgg, Bleerie, and Zipxap, however they can see through it, but can no longer see Noru.

The Formian notice the others around them and a few move away from the elf. Two of the Formian head towards Bleerie and Krgg, striking at Bleerie.

The other four Formian enclose the elf, and continue their assault on him.
Formian 4 and 5 try to hit Bleerie with their stingers. While the first Formian misses Bleerie, the second attack hits Bleerie right in the face with a stinger. Bleerie begins to feel a little lightheaded.

The remaining Formian attack Zaavariel with their stingers as well. Only 1 of the Formian hit Zaavariel with their stinger. Zaavariel begins to feel a little lightheaded.


@Zaavariel

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As far as you notice, they all look the same.

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Formian have hive mind, so they can’t be flanked unless you are flanking all of them. Everything inside Noru’s black circle has concealment.

Bleerie takes 18 damage from getting hit in the face with a stinger.
Zaavariel takes 9 damage.

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[Archmage1]

Swearing at herself as her chain fails to bounce, Gale tries again.

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So, more or less a repeat of the last round, hopefully with better rolls.
once again, dc 18 fort save or blind
primary attack (1d20+8)[28] damage (7d6)[30]
secondary attack (1d20+8)[18] damage (7d6)[25]
tertiary attack (1d20+8)[15] damage (7d6)[22]
... feel kind of like an idiot. 30 dam on first, 15 on second, 7 on third.

[Archmage1]

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Got a crit, so confirm, and bonus damage attack (1d20+8)[11] damage (7d6)[28]
:( so no crit for me

[Medic!]

Krgg

A wave of confidence exudes from Krgg, washing over Bleerie as he slices Foebane out towards the ant-thing. Watch yourself little one, you're too useful to be offering yourself up as bug-food.

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Krgg initiates Crusader's Strike against #5

Attack - (1d20+20)[28]
Critical Confirmation - (1d20+20)[29]
Slashing Damage - (2d4+13)[15]
Critical Damage - (2d4+13)[20]
Vicious Damage - (2d6)[7]
Vicious Damage to Krgg - (1d6)[4]

Healing to Bleerie - (1d6+7)[12]

May the Dice be with me! Gross

[Zman]

Zaavariel

Zaavariel continues to swing madly barely noticing others coming to his aid... His fury only increasing...

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If one dies, resolve next attack against the next most potent threat, etc

Whirling Frenzy 2/4

Attack 1
Power Attack(-4/+8) (d20+15)[21]
Damage (2d6+24)[31]
Mage Bane (2d6)[7] to Damage

Attack 2 -Whirling Frenzy
Power Attack(-4/+8) (d20+13)[28]
Damage (2d6+24)[30]
Mage Bane (2d6)[9] to Damage

Attack 3
Power Attack(-4/+8) (d20+8)[17]
Damage (2d6+24)[30]
Mage Bane (2d6)[11] to Damage

Attack 4-Bite
Power Attack(-4/+8) (d20+6)[10]
Damage (d6+8)[14]