IC VIII Lost in the Flood

[Athedia]

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Forgot SR:

Caster Level Check: (1d20+9)[27]

[Admiral]

Mithril's spell finds its mark, wounding the demon.

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Vrock is bloodied.

The creature rears its head and attacks Natalia in a flurry of motions.

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-3/+3 power attack
Attack: (1d20+12)[19] (1d20+12)[26]
Damage: (2d6+9)[14] (2d6+9)[16]
Miss on 1: (1d2)[2]

Attack: (1d20+10)[20] (1d20+10)[30]
Damage: (1d8+6)[7] (1d8+6)[9]
Miss on 1: (1d2)[2]

Attack: (1d20+10)[29] (1d20+10)[17]
Damage: (1d6+6)[7] (1d6+6)[11]
Miss on 1: (1d2)[2]

I think only the third hit, for min damage.

[CoffeeIncluded]

Natalia dodges the first two attacks but the third slashes across her arm. Bringing the wound up to her face she looks up at Shiny and Mithril, both behind her. She's between this demon and them. She needs to fight hard and fast and Shiny cast that spell to make her invisible but he needs to help Stephan more. And there are the shadows in her mind, watching, waiting, stirring.

And this time she reaches into her mind, and she grabs the shadows, and she pulls them out. Lets them settle over her, but not into her as she fades from view. "Mine," she growls as she attacks again, punctuating each syllable with an invisible slash. "Mine but not me! Beast! Collared!"

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I hope this works after that dramatic statement. And since Shiny hasn't gone yet he's still flatfooted and has -2 to AC too, right? Actually, he's flatfooted anyway since I'm invisible against him!

Attack: (d20+15)[30]
Crit: (d20+15)[33]
Damage: (d6+5)[8] plus sneak attack: (6d6)[26]
Crit damage: (d6+5)[7]

Attack: (d20+15)[30]
Crit: (d20+15)[19]
Damage: (d6+5)[7] plus sneak attack: (6d6)[20]
Crit damage: (d6+5)[9]

Attack: (d20+15)[22]
Crit: (d20+15)[33]
Damage: (d4+5)[9] plus sneak attack: (6d6)[17]
Crit damage: (d4+5)[7]

Attack: (d20+10)[12]
Crit: (d20+10)[12]
Damage: (d6+5)[6] plus sneak attack: (6d6)[14]
Crit damage: (d6+5)[9]

Attack: (d20+10)[17]
Crit: (d20+10)[29]
Damage: (d4+5)[9] plus sneak attack: (6d6)[24]
Crit damage: (d4+5)[9]

[Admiral]

Drawing forth a cloak of shadow, Natalia moves swiftly forward and slashes deeply into the creature. Three of her blows land, but as they do she realizes that the creature is able to avoid being struck where it is vulnerable, and her blades glance off of its flesh. Looking down at herself, to her shock, she sees she is still visible.

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Unfortunately, as seen earlier with Shiny's spell, invisibility effects don't work in the view of the Many Eyes.

[CoffeeIncluded]

Drawing forth a cloak of shadow, Natalia moves swiftly forward and slashes deeply into the creature. Three of her blows land, but as they do she realizes that the creature is able to avoid being struck where it is vulnerable, and her blades glance off of its flesh. Looking down at herself, to her shock, she sees she is still visible.

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Unfortunately, as seen earlier with Shiny's spell, invisibility effects don't work in the view of the Many Eyes.

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It's a supernatural ability, not magical. Dispel magic won't work on it.

[Admiral]

Shiny floats over to Stephan, casting a spell of distraction on the creature as he does, and casts an illusion on the fighter to protect him.

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Distract Assailant CL: (1d20+9)[22]
Will save: (1d20+10)[18]

He has -2 to attack and AC but is not flatfooted.

[Dusk Eclipse]

Stephan adopts a more agressive stance before diving while twisting to avoid the grasping claws of the demon, once the vrock is forced to protect himself from both himself and Natalia he draws his remaining blade before stabbing the demonic vulture twice in a flash of steel.

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Non-action:Designate Vrock as Dodge target
Swift: Enter punishing stance (+1d6 damage - 2 AC)
Free: Draw second Dragonsplit
Move: move to flank with Natalia while tumbling to avoid AoO (1d20+13)[18]
2nd non-action: Switch grip of drsgonsplits to piercing for a 19-20 x 2 crit
Standard action: initiate Wolf Fang strike
Attack 1( PA -5/+5) (1d20+10)[27]
Crit confirm (1d20+13)[30]
Damage (2d6+9)[15] crit damage (2d6+9)[15]

Attack 2( PA -5/+5) (1d20+10)[24]
Crit confirm (1d20+13)[31]
Damage (2d6+9)[11] crit damage (2d6+9)[14]

Ac is 20 vs the vrock (20 normal +1 haste +1 dodge, -2 punishing stance)

[CWater]

Rhenner flies after Stephan, though he keeps a distance to the vrock, so he doesn't get into its reach. "So eager to fly into danger you can't even wait for your healing to finish", he quips before casting a second healing spell on Stephan.

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Bull's Strength to CMW: (2d8+13)[16]

I blame the displacement XD

[Admiral]

Both of Stephan's blades make contact, but inflict only shallow wounds. Soon after Natalia's blade slides into a weaker point in its hide.

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just Mithril's turn

[Athedia]

Mithril repeated her motion, it had hurt the demon the last time, with luck it would again.

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MM
CL Check: (1d20+9)[26]
Damage: (5d4+5)[13]
Circleted: 1/3 left

[Admiral]

Mithril's spell badly wounds the creature, but it stays steady, and with one more roar tries to finish off the wounded warrior.

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So close.

I'm afraid I am on my phone for a few hours and not able to post for the Vrock. Would someone, perhaps Coffee if she's not on her phone, be willing to roll for its attack on Stephan? It will use exactly the same rolls as it did in its last full attack on Natalia. (What a bummer that he always gets the worst of it, but then this kind of beast is more inclined to go for the enemy it can kill than the one who deals it more damage).

[Admiral]

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Disregard the above request; found more time than I thought.

On Stephan because it's not his lucky day.

-3/+3 power attack
Attack: (1d20+10)[27] (1d20+10)[25]
Damage: (2d6+9)[20] (2d6+9)[14]
Miss on 1: (1d2)[2]

Attack: (1d20+8)[24] (1d20+8)[10]
Damage: (1d8+6)[14] (1d8+6)[7]
Miss on 1: (1d2)[1]

Attack: (1d20+8)[21] (1d20+8)[28]
Damage: (1d6+6)[10] (1d6+6)[9]
Miss on 1: (1d2)[1]

Whoosh, glad Shiny cast that displacement. Still gets hit by the first attack.

[Dusk Eclipse]

Stephan tries to parry the vrock's attack, but he isn't able to compensate for the demon deceptive reach

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Immediate Action: initiate Wall of blades

(1d20+10)[13]


Edit: I hate the rng

[CoffeeIncluded]

She wasn't expecting the eyes to pierce the shadows and gloom. BUt in a way, it's as much a relief as it is scary. Still, as Mithril strikes the demon and it claws into Stephan again, she flips her blades, takes a deep breath, and exhales as she lets it out in a flurry of five brutal blows. It's not paying attention to her--and that should be its fatal mistake.

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Natalia is still flanking with Stephan, which is the only reason I'm posting it. Also the vrock still has -2 to ac, right?

Attack: (d20+15)[19]
Crit: (d20+15)[30]
Damage: (d6+5)[10] plus sneak attack: (6d6)[28]
Crit damage: (d6+5)[9]

Attack: (d20+15)[26]
Crit: (d20+15)[22]
Damage: (d6+5)[9] plus sneak attack: (6d6)[22]
Crit damage: (d6+5)[9]

Attack: (d20+15)[16]
Crit: (d20+15)[23]
Damage: (d4+5)[7] plus sneak attack: (6d6)[20]
Crit damage: (d4+5)[8]

Attack: (d20+15)[35]
Crit: (d20+15)[21]
Damage: (d6+5)[8] plus sneak attack: (6d6)[28]
Crit damage: (d6+5)[7]

Attack: (d20+10)[11]
Crit: (d20+10)[14]
Damage: (d4+5)[8] plus sneak attack: (6d6)[18]
Crit damage: (d4+5)[6]

EDIT: if the first attack finishes the vrock Natalia sheathes ER blades.

[Admiral]

Natalia's first swing just barely misses the creature, but her second lands in its neck, slaying it in a single stroke. The demon spirals off into the darkness.

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out of combat for now

[Athedia]

Mithril floated in midair panting as the adrenaline wore off. "What now? Are there more out there? The notes didn't mention those."

[CoffeeIncluded]

Natalia watches the demon fall, panting as her pulse slows. She sheathes her blades, looks down at her hands, and says, "Demon slayers..." She chews her lip and looks at Mithril, and everyone else. "summoned here? Maybe more, don't know. Never read..." Looking down at the abyss she asks, "Search for what lost? Or through...and hope on shore later?"

[CWater]

"I doubt these are the only ones." Rhenner casts two more healing spells on Stephan. One of the ordinary kind and another that allows his body to heal itself faster, rather than fixing it directly by magic. "It works slower, but the results are usually more reliable."

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Master's Touch to CMW: (2d8+13)[26] and a Lesser Vigor after that, the latter will heal 17 HP in 15 rounds. (I'd really like a wand with that spell.. ^^)

By my calculation, Stephan is at 31/78, prior to this healing.

If he has time (I don't know how many rounds it takes for us to decide where to go), he'll also use the CLW wand on Natalia.

[CoffeeIncluded]

Natalia fidgets and looks down at the black of the pit. "If chase, than dive now...but can keep up?" Do they even have time left?

[Admiral]

Natalia leads the way in diving down into the darkness to search for Stephan's sword, with the rest of the party close behind.

For a few seconds they plunge into the darkness. Though they can fly rather quickly downward, they're aware they almost certainly won't up to their lost weapons if they fall freely. But as they soar downward, something juts out at them so quickly they can barely swerve to avoid it- a sinewy stretch of spider-web several feet wide reaching from the thick curtain over to the stony side of the valley, small spiders moving along it. They can't see the sword on it, but focusing one's eyes into the darkness reveals that webs like these stretch all over the canyon in a vast network, growing thicker as they go deeper.

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For how long will you want to descend before giving up and going back up?

Also make a spot check, everyone.

[Dusk Eclipse]

Stephan is just inches behind Natalia as they dive deeper into the bowels of the underdark, barely dodging branches, roots and webs as he focuses solely on finding his lost weapon.

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Spot (1d20+11)[26]
I think we agreed to go down for two minutes or something like that

[CoffeeIncluded]

Natalia keeps her eyes peeled as they descend, praying that she and they haven't made a terrible mistake. The things jutting out make her flinch back and whimper, but she has to try.

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spot: (d20+13)[26]

Heh, this better be enough since I don think anyone can beat ours!

It was a bit less than that. Though I guess we can fly through at this angle; we don't need to fly straight back up.

[Admiral]

The party descends, having to slow a bit to avoid colliding with the tangle of webs as it grows denser. They scan the webs for a sign of the fallen weapons, but see mostly arachnids weaving their way through. A couple of times each of them finds a tiny spider on their clothes, fallen from the webs they are gliding past, and has to shake it off.

After about thirty seconds of descending, Natalia spots an object in the tangle ahead.

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Is the object Natalia's longbow (1) or Stephan's sword (2)? (1d2)[1]

The spot check for this one is good so I don't need the others. Only reason Natalia spotted it before Stephan is that she has darkvision right now, which reaches farther than torches.

If you choose to keep descending (may depend on what you find of course) will need a second Spot check from the gang.

[CoffeeIncluded]

Bad idea bad idea this was a bad idea. Natalia resists the urge to bolt upwards screaming, which grows stronger with every spider that drops on her clothes, but this urge is quelled the moment she sees something sticking out of the webs.

"Bow!" she shouts, pausing to yank it free and very deliberately not looking at the tiny spiders and threads of web that still stick to it. "But...no sword seen. Should...want keep looking?"

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Want to keep trying a bit more? I'm fine with that.

[Admiral]

As Natalia flies closer to the web, she sees that it is lightly stuck to the web, with a few dozen small spiders swarming around it. She reaches out and is able to yank it free in a hurried motion- and once it is her hand, she jolts backwards in horror as she sees something new- a pair of green eyes deeply embedded into the webs, staring outwards in a horrifying glare.

[CoffeeIncluded]

"Yah!" Natalia shrieks as she stumbles backwards, no mean feat in midair. "Eyes!"

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Can she identify the eyes?

[Athedia]

"Eyes?" Mithril lowered herself, shining a torch at the web. Well, Natalia hadn't lied, there were eyes. Mithril had been skeptical, given how twitchy the girl was around spiders.

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Nature: (1d20+18)[38]

[Admiral]

Mithril studies the eyes for a few moments. Long idle trips through the knowledge of her hometown library had granted her a sense of the distinguishing features to look for in its size, shape and pattern, and soon she becomes confident that the eyes belong(ed) to a drow, as it shares some characteristics with Ildan and with the warriors they'd faced in the arena.

More intriguing to her is that while she can see no creature in the web that the eyes might belong to, the eyes are quite clearly alive.

[Athedia]

Mithril studies the eyes for a few moments. Long idle trips through the knowledge of her hometown library had granted her a sense of the distinguishing features to look for in its size, shape and pattern, and soon she becomes confident that the eyes belong(ed) to a drow, as it shares some characteristics with Ildan and with the warriors they'd faced in the arena.

More intriguing to her is that while she can see no creature in the web that the eyes might belong to, the eyes are quite clearly alive.

Mithril grabbed Natalia and pulled her back. "Drow eyes. JUST drow eyes!" What magic was this that these eyes lived outside of any visible host?

[CoffeeIncluded]

"WHAT?!" Natalia struggles to move forward, draw her blades to cut them out and free the person that must be trapped in there as well. "What mean only eyes? How? Stuck? Why? What--need help free!"