Megadungeon B (IC) III

[RCgothic]

Eleanor

Eleanor slowly advances up the left hand wall until she's standing in front of the door and threatening both fish women with her lance. She's ready to attack at the first sign of aggression.

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Eleanor has a readied attack Divine Surge at +14 for 9d8+6 damage.

She has 10ft reach. Lance is piercing, so not affected by being underwater.

She also has two AoOs if the priestesses provoke by moving closer or attempting a ranged attack or casting.

Thicket of Blades means they can't move without provoking AoOs. She won't attack if they retreat non-agressively, but she not telegraphing that fact.

[Sliver]

Scarecrow

Scarecrow doubts that this won't turn bloody. With Shian's current state, they couldn't communicate with the sahuagin at all, but chances for this to resolve peacefully would be rather small regardless. Scarecrow swims closer, ready to breath a line of acid (4d8+4) at the first sahuagin to show aggression, hopefully hitting both.

[Artorias]

Namia

Namia looks at everyone, wondering if a battle is avoidable, so she waits for now, but stares them down and speaks to them in the only language she can speak to them. Fear.

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Intimidation Check (Unmodified): (1d20+10)[20]

[RaggedAngel]

Doldor

Doldor spreads his bulk menacingly, gesturing for the sahuagin to move. Or at least, trying to.

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Intimidate Assist: (1d20+3)[11]

(-1 Charisma, +4 Size bonus)

[Malimar]

Snajuk, Under the Sea

Scarecrow can't get at a good angle to hit both priestesses (it's actually very difficult for non-sahuagin to tell their gender, because they are shark-people and thus no boobs, but they are in fact female), but he moves a bit up and readies a line of acid for the first one to be violent anyway!


Doldor gets real poofy and waves his arms menacingly and menaces the sahuagin! They are not impressed.


The priestess to the east begins to cast a spell!

Scarecrow breathes upon the priestess! She fails to dodge, and is coated in acid and has her flesh melted!

The priestess loses concentration on her spell.


Eleanor moves up to stabingulate the priestess who tried to cast the spell, hits her, and she very dies.


The priestess to the north... flees! Eleanor hits her, but she escapes around the corner to the west!


Namia, having nobody left to intimidate, delays!


...You're not out of combat yet, for reasons.

A thorough search of the priestess's body will take a bit of time, but obvious equipment includes a masterwork trident and a holy symbol of Quasxthe (an octopus eating the world).

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# = building
, = water/seafloor
. = water/within the spiral building
╪ = coral door

C = Scarecrow
DD = Doldor
E = Eleanor
N = Namia
s = sahuagin priestess

[RaggedAngel]

Doldor

Doldor moves 50 feet north and west to follow the priestess. If she's within 20 feet of him, he'll then attempt to hit her with a tentacle and then grip her. If not, he'll move another 50ft after her.

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+2 Tentacle: (1d20+12)[29]
Damage: (1d4+7)[8]

If he hits, Grapple check to establish a hold: (1d20+15)[19]

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Doldor Wildheart
Male Neutral Good Engineer Throwback - Dwarf Druid 5 / Planar Shepherd 4, Level 9, Init 2, HP 102/102, Speed 20ft, Swim 50ft. Size Large, 10ft/20ft
AC 28, Touch 11, Flat-footed 26, Fort 13, Ref 8, Will 17, Base Attack Bonus +6/+1
+2 Tentacles (8) +12 (1d4+7)
Bite +5 (1d8+2)
+2 Black Dragonhide Breastplate (+7 Armor, +2 Dex, +10 Natural, -1 Size)
Abilities Str 20, Dex 15, Con 15, Int 10, Wis 22, Cha 8
Condition Greater Resistance (+3 to Saves)
Greater Magic Fang (+2 enhancement bonus to tentacles)
Scales of the Sealord (+3 Natural Armor, +10ft Swim speed)
Camouflage (+10 to Hide)
Quickswim (+10ft Swim speed)

[RCgothic]

Eleanor

"I guess we didn't expect them to let us just walk in and take it," Eleanor says, attempting to open the coral door, stabifying the lock if necessary.

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Mountain Hammer (1d20+14)[24] Vs tiny immobile object.
Damage (1d8+6)[7](2d6)[7] ignoring DR.

[Sliver]

Scarecrow

Scarecrow swims up to Eleanor and readies another acid breath in case hostiles come into view.

[Artorias]

Namia

Namia puts the hammer on her back, strapping it in place and moves to grab the trident "Sorry. I never fought underwater, but it feels like it will be really hard for me to fight with something like my hammer, so I will have to take this. I will make sure to give it back, unless they don't want it."

[Malimar]

Snajuk, Under the Sea

Namia moves north, strapping her hammer to her back and grabbing the trident off the floor (which we'll say totals out to two move actions instead of three, for simplicity).


Scarecrow swims north and readies an acid in case he sees an enemy!


Doldor glorpulates in the manner of an octopus up to the north.

Important Note: This temple has a smooth sloped floor upwards the whole way 'round. There are no stairs or anything, it's just round and evenly up the whole way. But for ease of mapping, I have artificially indicated locations where one floor becomes the next.

Doldor sees nobody; the sahuagin priestess fled with great alacrity.


Eleanor opens the door! It opens! Beyond: TEETH, SO MANY TEETH, SHARP GNASHY TEETH. A Huge shark is trapped within, surrounded by bones and glittering platinum coins!

Scarecrow reflexively belches acid on the shark! The shark dodges some of the acid, but is still a bit melty!


The shark can't escape from the room, but it can just barely fit its jaws through the door somehow, and it tries to bite at Eleanor. But she interposes the wall between her and the shark and it fails to bite her.

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Second Floor

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# = building
, = water/seafloor
. = water/within the spiral building
╪ = closed coral door
| = open coral door
< = up to next level
> = down to previous level

C = Scarecrow
DD = Doldor
E = Eleanor
N = Namia
p = sahuagin priestess
sss = Huge shark

[RCgothic]

Eleanor

"I've got the shark, get after that priestess!" I call as I stab it in the face. "Scarecrow, give me some covering fire and then get moving!"

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White Raven Tactics to give Scarecrow another turn after Eleanor.

Lock didn't appear to need smashing, so:

Mountain Hammer (1d20+10)[14] -4 PA
Damage (1d8+14)[17](2d6)[3]

Manoeuvres recover next round:
(9d5)[2][5][3][2][4][4][4][5][2](31)

[RaggedAngel]

Doldor

Doldor will heed Eleanor and continue up the stairs as quickly as he can.

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50ft move speed, he'll obviously stop and do something if he runs into more creatures.

[Artorias]

Namia

Namia moves in front of the door and attacks with her trident, but keeps her distance, attacking very defensively. "Don't think I will let you fight that beast alone, even if you have the advantage against it. The others can take care of the priestess."

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Namia will move to the square in front of the door and will use the 10ft. reach of the trident to attack defensively. If it counts as a 5ft. step instead of movement she will attack defensively as a full round action. Either way, she gets +2 AC.

Attack 1: (1d20+10)[22]
Damage 1: (1d8+8)[14]

Attack 2: (1d20+5)[9]
Damage 2: (1d8+8)[10]

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If tridents cannot be held with two hands then the damage only has a +5

[Sliver]

Scarecrow

Being the only one with light, Scarecrow rejects the suggestion that he should leave. "Don't go too far" He tells Doldor as he breathes a cone of cold at the shark. (If Eleanor gives him an extra round, he adds in a Slow Breath)

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(6d6+6)[29] cold damage

Dragonborn breath reusable after next round.

Huh, my save DC wasn't updated to the increased Con (I think that's the reason)... It's 23, not 22.

[Malimar]

Snajuk, Under the Sea

Namia ducks in past the shark's jaws (it misses its attack of opportunity) and stabs it! It bleeds three times, because of the trident's three pokey bits!


Doldor scoots further away from the party!

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Doldor will heed Eleanor and continue up the stairs as quickly as he can.

Important Note: This temple has a smooth sloped floor upwards the whole way 'round. There are no stairs or anything, it's just round and evenly up the whole way. But for ease of mapping, I have artificially indicated locations where one floor becomes the next.

Doldor gets a bit around the corner, sees no foes, so uses his second move to scoot further... and sees a betentacled illithid mind flayer standing by an open door, in the middle of casting a spell! The mind flayer is wearing a mightily fancy hat and flowing robes! Doldor stops with the mind flayer well within his tentacle range.


And as it happens, the mind flayer's turn is next! He completes his spellcasting, and three fiendish sharks burst into being between him and Doldor!

The mind flayer, rolling an excessively high Spellcraft check, recognizes that Doldor is positively glittering with spells. So, without bothering to address Doldor in words (adventurers are beneath communicating with), he concentrates (successfully) on casting defensively, and hits Doldor with a targeted dispel magic! I think Doldor's Wild Shape, being [su], is undispellable, but the mind flayer tries to fry everything else. Doldor's greater resistance, greater magic fang, scales of the sealord, and camouflage are all dispelled; quickswim remains active. Then the mind flayer takes a 5' step northeast.

Then the fiendish sharks bite at Doldor! None of them get the natural 20 they need to penetrate his armor (even without scales of the sealord).


Eleanor is vaguely familiar with the ritual involved with this Huge shark: when a sacrifice to Quasxthe is called for, they are shoved into this room equipped only with a platinum coin. It's not clear whether the platinum coin is to try to bribe the shark or to try to bribe Quasxthe once the sacrifice gets where they're going. Sharks and carnivorous fishes are sacred to Quasxthe.

Anyhow, Eleanor delays to after Scarecrow so as to better WRT him.


Scarecrow breathes cold! The shark does not dodge. And it passes out and floats to the ceiling of the sacrifice room.


Eleanor... her foe defeated, um. Delays to the top of the initiative! (And therefore does not use up WRT.)


(It would take a couple minutes to collect all the platinum coins from the floor of the sacrifice room. The party may not have a couple minutes.)

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Second Floor

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# = building
, = water/seafloor
. = water/within the spiral building
╪ = closed coral door
| = open coral door
< = up to next level
> = down to previous level
* = defeated foe

C = Scarecrow
DD = Doldor
E = Eleanor
N = Namia
p = sahuagin priestess
L = mind flayer
s = summoned fiendish Medium shark

[Sliver]

Scarecrow

Having dealt with the shark, Scarecrow double-moves to follow Doldor.

[RCgothic]

Eleanor
The crusader looks wistfully at all that platinum before deciding that No, she really doesn't have time to gather it up. She double moves after Doldor.

[RaggedAngel]

Doldor

Doldor recognizes the mind flayer for what it is, and realizes the kind of danger he's in. He turns and quickly retreats down the sloped, winding, smooth-floored corridor, putting himself out of the mind flayer's line of sight. He then turns, readying a spell that can hit around corners: a crushing burst of intense pressure that should harm even creatures of the deep.

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Doldor Wildheart
Male Neutral Good Engineer Throwback - Dwarf Druid 5 / Planar Shepherd 4, Level 9, Init 2, HP 102/102, Speed 20ft, Swim 40ft. Size Large, 10ft/20ft
AC 25, Touch 11, Flat-footed 23, Fort 10, Ref 5, Will 14, Base Attack Bonus +6/+1
Tentacles (8) +10 (1d4+5)
Bite +3 (1d8+2)
+2 Black Dragonhide Breastplate (+7 Armor, +2 Dex, +7 Natural, -1 Size)
Abilities Str 20, Dex 15, Con 15, Int 10, Wis 22, Cha 8
Condition
Quickswim (+10ft Swim speed)

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Doldor will move 15 feet west, then 5 feet northwest. He freely provokes attacks of opportunity from the sharks.

He will then ready an action to cast Pressure Sphere, centered at the edge of his line of sight between the sharks and the Illithid. It'll go off in the "middle" of the Illithid and sharks' shared turn (He intends to try and disrupt the Illithid's spellcasting, if possible). If that's too vague, he'll have it go off when the sharks start moving.

(4d6)[17] damage, Fort DC 18 for half.

[Artorias]

Namia

Namia, her foe defeated before she can wrestle it, looks a bit sad, but turns to follow Doldor as fast as she can move in this alien environment.

[Malimar]

Snajuk, Under the Sea

Eleanor heads up the slope!


Namia also heads up the slope!


Doldor retreats a bit, all three sharks try to bite him and fail, and then readies a pressure sphere! He could have readied to interrupt any casting the mind flayer might do -- he can still hear any verbal components, so that would be a fine thing to do, though the mind flayer could elect to use a PLA or a spell without a verbal component. So he just readies for if the sharks move or the mind flayer moves or the mind flayer casts or really just whatever.


The mind flayer contemplates for a second. He doesn't exactly want to get back into range of the octopus... and lucky for him, he's familiar with giant octopuses and their capabilities. So he delays until after his sharks, sending them in to bite at Doldor with a word in Infernal.

The three fiendish sharks scoot in, charging!

Doldor's readied action goes off, and he pressure spheres the sharks and the mind flayer! All three sharks fail; two of them pouf back to the Hellish Plane of Water, one is merely disabled. The mind flayer just barely ignores the wave of pressure.

The disabled shark, I'mm'a say can finish his charge (as a partial charge if nothing else), misses Doldor, bleeds a hit point, and poufs away, too!

It is at this point that the mind flayer moves to within sight of Doldor but not within reach of him! (He doesn't appear at all affected by the pressure sphere, though his clothes are a bit more rumpled and his Fancy Hat is slightly askew.) And he sees Doldor is backed up by at least one goliath, probably more! So he makes a frown-esque face with his tentacles, and incants and gestures and tosses a bit of flesh, and TENTACLES. Black tentacles spring from the floor beneath and around Doldor, Namia, and Eleanor (he didn't know Eleanor was there, but the spell's got a pretty wide radius)! Evard's Black Tentacles!

The tentacles entwine and crush at Doldor, Namia, and Eleanor! Doldor and Namia are grappled tightly, but Eleanor immediately fights her way free easily.


Scarecrow heads up to follow the party!


It is at this point that the sahuagin priestess returns from higher up in the building, and comes to float next to the mind flayer!

And then they are joined from that direction also by a strange abomination of unnature, which vaguely resembles a sahuagin with four arms, but horribly mutated and twisted. It hisses. Nobody recognizes what this thing is, either, but it comes to interpose itself between the mind flayer and the party.

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Second Floor

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# = building
, = water/seafloor
. = water/within the spiral building
╪ = closed coral door
| = open coral door
< = up to next level
> = down to previous level
* = defeated foe
ψ = area of Evard's black tentacles

C = Scarecrow
DD = Doldor (grappled by Evard's black tentacles)
E = Eleanor (within area of but not grappled by Evard's black tentacles)
N = Namia (grappled by Evard's black tentacles)
p = sahuagin priestess
L = mind flayer
H = strange mutated 4-armed sahuagin

[Sliver]

Scarecrow

Scarecrow continues towards the group, frowning at the sight of the tentacles. Someone who can cast these would have comparable power to their own, if not greater.

If the tentacles are still there by his turn, Scarecrow attempts to dispel them. Otherwise, he'll advance further.

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Voracious Dispelling, targeting only the tentacles.

ASF - success on 2 - (1d2)[2] (Maybe the tower shield isn't really worth it anymore...)
dispel - (1d20+9)[12]

Of course, pass the 50% ASF and then roll 3 on the dispel.

[RCgothic]

Eleanor
The crusader delays until after Doldor, spotting opportunities for him with WRT. Then she picks her way through the field of tentacles and slams her lance into the four armed creature!

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WRT, Doldor gets two turns.

Divine Surge (1d20+14)[24]
Damage (9d8+6)[52]

[RaggedAngel]

Doldor

Doldor might be an octopus, but that doesn't seem to give him the grappling edge against the Black Tentacles. He spends his two full rounds attempting to break out of the grapple, failing both times.

[Artorias]

Namia

Namia tries to fight against and move out of the tentacles' disgusting embrace and as close to the equally disgusting creature that conjured them.

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Fight Against Grapple Check: :(1d20+17)[32] (8 BAB + 5 Str +4 Special Size Mod)

[Malimar]

Snajuk, Under the Sea

Eleanor delays until after Doldor!


Namia successfully busts free of the tentacles!


Doldor tries to break free of the tentacles, but they are too strong for him!


Eleanor fights her way past the tentacles, then stabingulates the strange mutant sahuagin-thing! She deploys the holy power of Numiel, which strikes down into the creature and... hurts it badly, but doesn't kill it.


Doldor, WRT'd by Eleanor, tries again to squirm free of the tentacles, but fails!


The mind flayer decides it is time to deploy DOOM. He thinks real hard at the party, and wracks their brains with terribleness! Doldor and Eleanor resist the mind blast (Eleanor doesn't even need to use up her reroll); Namia's brain is completely gobsmacked; Namia drops her trident and is stunned for 7 rounds. Oh, also the mutant thing is within the area; the mind flayer overcomes its power resistance, but it makes its save. It glances back at the mind flayer, mildly irritated.

The black tentacles, having been broken free of by Eleanor and Namia, do not attempt to re-grapple them (because, mystifyingly, that's how the spell works); they continue to grapple Doldor. But he manages not to be damaged by them!


Scarecrow moves up within sight of the black tentacles and attempts to dispel them, but fails!


The sahuagin priestess scoots up next to the mutant creature and casts a healing spell on it! The mutant looks a bit less stabbed!

The mutant sahuagin creature thing extends its tongue at Eleanor, waggles said tongue, and... completely doesn't recognize that she's in her can't-5-foot-step-without-provoking stance, so it 5' steps away from her, and provokes. But Eleanor's lance scrapes against its natural armor to no effect! Then the creature concentrates on her, there is a bass-pitched hum, and Eleanor feels her brain wracked with pain! She feels herself blacking out and collapsing, but she steels herself and Numiel fills her with courage and she uses up her Zealous Surge to resist the psychic crush! So instead of immediately collapsing unconscious, Eleanor just takes 13 damage.

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Second Floor

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# = building
, = water/seafloor
. = water/within the spiral building
╪ = closed coral door
| = open coral door
< = up to next level
> = down to previous level
* = defeated foe
ψ = area of Evard's black tentacles

C = Scarecrow
DD = Doldor (grappled by Evard's black tentacles)
E = Eleanor (within area of but not grappled by Evard's black tentacles)
N = Namia (stunned, within area of but not grappled by Evard's black tentacles)
p = sahuagin priestess
L = mind flayer
H = strange mutated 4-armed sahuagin

[RaggedAngel]

Doldor

Doldor tries and fails again to escape the Black Tentacles. He makes a note to learn that spell, because it's annoyingly good.

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I'm going crazy over here. I seriously miss having a danger-doggo at times like this.

[Sliver]

Scarecrow

Scarecrow tries to dispel the tentacles, then moves forward as far as he can, even if it means to move into the tentacles. If he is grappled, he teleports 10ft further.

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pass on 2 - (1d2)[2]
(1d20+9)[21]

[RCgothic]

Eleanor

The crusader scowls at the priestess undoing her good work. She steps SE to get a better line of sight and stabs at the priestess twice.

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5ft step SE
Attack (1d20+14)[16]+2fc -2pa
Damage (1d8+12)[13]
Attack (1d20+9)[13]+2fc -2pa
Damage (1d8+12)[17]

Manoeuvres reset: (9d5)[5][1][2][3][4][5][2][4][3](29)

[Malimar]

Snajuk, Under the Sea

Eleanor, though moving at half speed, can still 5' step because the tentacles are not explicitly difficult terrain, I think. Then she stabs at the priestess! Her first blow is just barely deflected by a thin field of force, and the creature ducks out of the way of her second! Then her DD goes into her HP.


Namia is stunned!


Doldor tries and fails to escape the black tentacles!


The mind flayer is concerned. He... casts a spell! The blindness/deafness afflicts Eleanor's eyeballs! Eleanor is blinded! Then the mind flayer moves north.

The tentacles try to squeeze Doldor, but he resists!


Scarecrow tries to dispel the tentacles... and just barely succeeds! They wink out! Doldor is free of the tentacles! Then Scarecrow moves 15' up to Doldor and Namia!


The priestess 5' steps SE (Eleanor cannot see, and thus cannot take AoOs) and casts a spiritual weapon, and a tentacle made of force appears and begins to whip at Doldor! It hits him, and Doldor takes 2 damage!

The strange mutant is smart enough to recognize that Eleanor has been effectively neutralized, and so moves on to the next-biggest target: the big giant octopus! It doesn't manifest defensively because it has garbage Concentration (but high AC), which means Doldor gets an AoO! Doldor's tentacle bounces off its super-tough hide! Then it manifests brain lock on Doldor! Doldor actually can't fail except on a natural 1, and he does not roll a natural 1. In fact, he rolls a natural 19. Doldor's brain does not seize up and stop functioning. Then the creature moves up past Eleanor (again, no AoO from Eleanor because blind, and Doldor already used his) and menaces Doldor with its four claws and its sharp gnashy teeth!

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Second Floor

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#..## #<.L#
#..#  ##..#
#.C## |...#
#NDD###...#
##DDHE..p##
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# = building
, = water/seafloor
. = water/within the spiral building
╪ = closed coral door
| = open coral door
< = up to next level
> = down to previous level
* = defeated foe

C = Scarecrow
DD = Doldor (being whipped by spiritual weapon)
E = Eleanor (blind)
N = Namia (stunned)
p = sahuagin priestess
L = mind flayer
H = strange mutated 4-armed sahuagin

[Sliver]

Scarecrow

Scarecrow moves to stand float south of Doldor before aiming a line of acid, trying to cover both the mutant and the priestess. Then he quickly breathes some entangling frost at the mutant.

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I think the 45ft line can hit both of them:
(4d8)[12] acid damage, DC 23 halves
(1d4-2)[0] recharge

(3d6)[8] 15ft cone of cold,
(1d4)[1] rounds of entangle,
2 rounds recharge.