Crawling Pubs, Not Dungeons [IC Thread]

[Entaris]

Viktor smirks and motions to Mav to stand back as he finishes his incantation, bringing the Centipede in just behind the ghast. That would be all the help these two get out of him in this situation, as he himself takes a step back and begins looking around the bone piles to see where to start desecrating.

"Do mind that you don't get any on you! I hear its stench alone can take weeks to wash out!" He jibes.

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(1d20+5)[14] To find the best way to desecrate these altars ^_^

[Socratov]

I climb up the wall even further charging my hands with arcane crackling energy

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stay out of reach of the ghast, but within 60'.

EB:
attack: (1d20+4)[18]@touch
damage: (2d6)[6]

Not bothering with crits, since the only crits I seem to get are ciritical failures. If I do get a crit I'll post the confirm etc. in the OOC thread.

[Stormageddon]

Jade fires again at ghast!

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Attack (1d20+7)[18]
Damage (1d8+2)[3]

Attack (1d20+7)[22]
Damage [roll]1d8+2/roll]
Confirm Crit (1d20+7)[17]
Crit Damage (2d8+4)[15]

[dextercorvia]

Scary, Round 2

Llarimar steps back and casts his spell. Mal swings his weapon at the ghast, but is distracted as Llarimar shouts right behind him, and that gives the undead a chance to dodge. Mavra blasts the creature with fire. Viktor places a centipede between himself and danger, but the vermin is unable to catch hold of the supernaturally quick abomination. Jade is unable to get a clear shot in the tight corridor, and wastes the arrow rather than risking her companions.

The undead manages to bite Mal's shoulder (6 damage), but its claws scrape ineffectually at his exoskeleton.

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I rolled the dice offline to smooth out the update post. You are all up again.


Oops, Jade is on my hand drawn version at B3, I missed her when copying it to a spreadshet. Mavra is +5 feet (ceiling level).

[miinstrel]

OOC: This is pretty much perfect... I wanted myself between it and everyone else.

Mal places his bulky mass directly at the edge of the hallway and focuses on keeping the undead from reaching any of the others.

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Full round: Total Defense (+4 AC, total 21)

[Socratov]

upon seeing her success she keeps blasting the creature with bolts of eldritch energy.

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attack: [roll0]
damage:[roll1]

[Entaris]

Seeing that the Ghast was being entertained by the others, Viktor shrugs and wanders over to examine the bone piles.

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(1d20+5)[19] Knowledge:Religion

[Stormageddon]

Jade focuses all his energy into her target.

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(1d20+7)[9] using a inspiration point +3, Point blank +1 firing into combat -4
Damage (1d8+5)[9] using an IP if hits.

[dextercorvia]

It is hard to get a clear shot in the tight quarters, so the arrow and eldritch blast miss their mark. The centipede is able to take a nibble out of the creature, but Mal is not. Infuriated that the only thing it can reach is made of metal, the ghast pushes past Mal into the hallway and bites Jade (8 damage). Llarimar waits until the creature moves then reaches out and blasts the creature with positive energy.

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Centipede deals 1 damage to Scary. It's movement isn't a 5' step because of the corner of wall, so Mal gets an AoO (the centipede did, too but missed). Jade needs to make a DC 15 Fort save or be paralyzed. Also, Jade and Llarimar have to make a DC 15 fort save or be sickened.

I had Llarimar ready an action to use his healing belt on the thing if it came within reach. When it moved close enough, he hit it for 12 damage. Knock off one charge on the belt for today.

[Dorian Gray]

Llarimar channels more healing energy, swinging a glowing arm at the ghast.

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Cure light wounds for (1d8+6)[7]. Melee touch: (1d20+1)[18]

[dextercorvia]

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[Socratov]

Well, at least I have more where that came from...

So, Viktor, any closer to whatever it is you're doing?

I move a little towards the ugly creature and send the crackling energy towards the ugly thing again...

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move to B5 above Llarimar...

Attack: (1d20+4)[15] @ touch
damage: (2d6)[4]

not going to bother with critical hits until they present themselves...

[Entaris]

"Hmm? Oh, yes, I'm just admiring these well-stacked bones..." Viktor comments, looking for any particularly well-preserved skulls amongst the rows, muttering a divination under his breath all the while.

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(1d20+3)[15] Spot for nice, old Skull
Cast Detect Magic

[Socratov]

Viktor, I swear on my daddy's foolishness, if you are again going to re-enact that wretched play you're so fond of I will personally slap you so hard Llarimar here will need a full day to reverse the direction your head is facing.

Seriously guys, he just can't shut up about it once he sees a skull...

[miinstrel]

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The fight seems to be going well for us, so I don't think this will be a big issue but per the SRD:
"You can’t move diagonally past a corner (even by taking a 5-foot step)."

That was why I total defensed at the end of the hallway there. No biggie for now, but FYI for future combats :)

Mal was unprepared for the creature's strength and is pushed off balance. As he steadies himself by planting an enormous foot into the muck he brings his mace around and catches the creature in the back as it steps past him and follows up with another blow.

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AoO: (1d20+5)[13], damage (1d8+1)[9]

Standard: attack! (1d20+5)[14], damage (1d8+1)[8]
Move: 5 foot step to B4. Now the centipede can get in there without taking an AoO.

[dextercorvia]

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Damn. I even double checked that rule when you said something about blocking him from the others. I was wondering whether he could make a 5'step across the corner. But then I had it stuck in my head that it was just no 5' step. So, in retrospect, he would have needed to do a bullrush. My apologies to all. I try not to break the rules. I'm going to leave it, because as Mal said, it seems to be going your way, and retcons are a pain.

[Stormageddon]

Jade attempts to scream as the jaw of the undead fiend closes about her shoulder but is unable to move he mouth sickening feeling comes over her but she is unable to move even to throw up. Jade watches helplessly as the creature prepares to attack again.

[dextercorvia]

Mal's mace fails to find purchase in the creature as it rushes by, and his follow up is no better. Llarimar's touch pains the creature once again. Jade is paralyzed, Mavra misses, and Viktor determines the skulls in his area are all non-magical. The centipede advances and attacks the ghast, but can't manage to hit the supernaturally quick creature. It then vanishes back to where it came from. The undead directs his attacks at Llarimar. It flails at the holy healer to no effect though.

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Jade is paralyzed for 2 more rounds. Scary missed vs Llarimar's monster AC all three times.

You guys are up.

[Stormageddon]

Jade continues to pretend to be statue hoping beyond hope that she would be over looked.

[Socratov]

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Attack: (1d20+4)[22] @ touch
damage: (2d6)[4]

[Entaris]

Viktor wanders to each of the other niches in turn, looking them over for any interesting skulls, weighing mentally his likelyhood of getting behind Mal to slip into the hallway Scary lept out of.

[Dorian Gray]

"I need to save spells!", Llarimar yells, winding up and swinging his staff at the ghast's head.

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(1d20+1)[20], (1d8)[8] damage.
Yeah, I've used almost half my 1st level spells, 1 of my 2nd levels, and 2 belt charges. I can keep healing for a while, but spell damage against this guy will be more of a last resort sort of thing.

[miinstrel]

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No worries on the rules dexter; we all miss them. I was just called out on this one in my RL campaign last week, so it's fresh in my mind :P.

@Dorian - Well your attacks are rolling better than any of ours so do whatever you want haha.

Undaunted, Mal continues his assault.

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Standard: Attack! (1d20+5)[22], damage (1d8+1)[7]

[dextercorvia]

The ghast is pretty torn up by this barrage of attacks. It howls in frustration as it claws furiously at Llarimar, but still can't penetrate his armor enchantment. The creature is barely holding its limbs on at this point, but seems desperate to inflict as much damage as possible.

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By my count you've done 49 points of damage. He missed all three times again. You guys are up.

[Socratov]

smelling victory Mavra shrieks while firing the ghast that is quickly becoming a mass of torn flesh

"I am the spirit that denies! And rightly so; because everything that arises is worth it perishes. "

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Attack: (1d20+4)[19] @touch
damage: (2d6)[11]

[Stormageddon]

Errrr uhanff gjaod....

[dextercorvia]

Demoralized with that quip, the undead fails to dodge this blast of energy. It collapses to the ground in a burning heap.

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Everyone gets 450xp for that. I decided that cutting corners was a combat enhancing ability that I gave to this ghast, so I bumped its CR by 1 for calculating XP.

[Socratov]

Viktor! You can come out now, the big scary monster is gooone! or did you find something interesting?

[Entaris]

Viktor walked back into view, looking down the hallway the aghast had come from. hmm? Ah yes, well, I didn't find anything of interest...unless there is aught of use down here... he mutters, wandering n that direction.

[dextercorvia]

Viktor heads down the hall and sees a couple of magic auras coming from one of the shelves. It turns out not to be one of the skulls, but what appears to be the ghast's stash of worldly possessions.

There is a dry rotted pouch containing 400 gold pieces, a thumb sized piece of black onyx, a pendant set with a jade carving of a diving hawk, a wand (magic), a masterwork silver dagger, and a crumbling quiver containing only a single arrow (magic).