Another Bloody Isekai IC: Team Heroes

[FearlessGnome]

Ted and Mao enter the aura and drag the unconscious Tara back to safety. Immediately she stops drowning.

Micah drops into the water - the corpse is about 20 feet under the surface, 10 to 15 feet from Micah. It appears to have stopped moving, although it immediately sees Micah and grins maliciously.

Bob and nabaru have yet to act, and Micah has actions left.

[dragonsamurai77]

Nabaru runs towards the north hole and jumps in, intending to blast the creature with frigid breath.

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Spend 10 ft of movement to move to D4.

Constitution check to avoid drowning: (1d20+10)[21]

Regardless of success, Child of Shadow gives me concealment until my next turn.

Assuming success:
Sudden Leap into the hole: I've moved 10 feet, so the DC is 10, which is an auto-success with my modifier.

Swim check: (1d20+6)[26]

Swim down until I'm within 15 feet, then use Frost Breath towards the Drowned (not using Entangling Exhalation this time).
Damage: (3d6)[13] cold, DC 25 Reflex for half.

[Unavenger]

I take a moment to swim calmly towards the drowned, and then poke the blasted thing right in the face.

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I shouldn't be able to fail on the swim, but what the hey, (1d20+15)[19]

Knowledge: (1d20+15)[18]
Stabby stabby: (1d20+14)[15] for (1d8+12)[13]

[FearlessGnome]

Spoiler: Battle Map

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	A	B	C	D	E	F
1	w	w	w	w	w	w
2	w	.	.	H M N D	B.	w
3	w	.	.	.	.	w
4	w		.	.		w
5	w					w
6	w		.	.	P	w
7	w	.	.	.	.T, Ma, Ta	w
8	w	.	.	.	.	w
9	w	.	.	.	.	w
10	w	.	.	.	.	w
11	w	.	.	H, D.	.	w
12	w	w	w	w	w	w

H = Hole. The water surface is just a foot down.
P = Broken Pedestal
w = Wall
. = A watery glint covers objects and creatures in these squares.

Ta = Tara
B = Bob
N = Nabaru
M = Micah
T = Ted
Ma = Mao

D = A 'Drowned' - undead with water powers.

Micah's attack slides off of the corpse's hardened skin without hurting it.

The thing reaches out to Micah, trying to grab and grapple:

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Full attacks, each attack substituted for a grapple:
Touch attack: (1d20+17)[19]
If successful, grapple check: (1d20+21)[27]
Note that Micah takes -2 on the opposed grapple check for being underwater.

If Micah successfully resists, the second attack is replaced with a grapple attempt as well. If the first attempt succeeded, the following does nothing and it ends its turn.
Touch attack: (1d20+17)[24]
If successful, grapple check: (1d20+21)[22]

The second corpse has reached the surface of the Southern hole, although its head only bobs quickly above the surface before disappearing into the water again.

Spoiler: Constitution checks:

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Nabaru made one ahead of time, so that carries over.
Bob: (1d20+1)[16]
DC 12

Ted: (1d20+4)[10]
Mao: (1d20+4)[5]
Tara: (1d20+4)[23]
DC 10
Mao is drowning.

Conscious party members may act. If you have any bonuses to constitution checks beyond your con bonus, now would be a great time to tell me.

[dragonsamurai77]

Nabaru swims down towards the creature, analyzing it for a moment before slamming an open palm into it at unnatural speed.

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Swim check: (1d20+6)[14]

Attacking with Insightful Strike.
Hit: (1d20+10)[15]
Damage: (1d20+19)[23], halved for being underwater.

[Triskavanski]

"Alright Mao we've got here.. Mao.. MAO!?" Ted cried out, hopping off his animal companion, seeing the cat starting to spit up water now as well. "Seriously..? Oh I've got a swell IDEA, why don't we all go into the water. What, are you a scaredycat? Afraid of the water? I don't know. LOOKS PRETTY DAMN LETHAL DOESN'T IT?!"

He huffs, picking up Mao the best he could, and tried to squeeze past the pedestal on to the other side. "Come on mao, spit it up! Breath!"

[Unavenger]

I scowl at the creature as it tries to grab me - or at least, as much as I can scowl underwater - and float around it opposite Naburu as I aim a barrage of attacks at the damnable thing:

Spoiler: Full attack yo

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Rapier (1d20+15)[18] for 35 and (1d20+10)[16] for 34
Kukri: (1d20+15)[23] for 29
Foot of Fury: (1d20+16)[34] for 25

[FearlessGnome]

Ted drags Mao out of the drowning aura, and Mao immediately resumes breathing.

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	A	B	C	D	E	F
1	w	w	w	w	w	w
2	w	.	.	H M N D	B.	w
3	w	.	.	.	.	w
4	w		.	.		w
5	w				T, Ma	w
6	w		.	.	P	w
7	w	.	.	.	. Ta	w
8	w	.	.	.	.	w
9	w	.	.	.	.	w
10	w	.	.	.	.	w
11	w	.	.	H, D.	.	w
12	w	w	w	w	w	w

H = Hole. The water surface is just a foot down.
P = Broken Pedestal
w = Wall
. = A watery glint covers objects and creatures in these squares.

Ta = Tara
B = Bob
N = Nabaru
M = Micah
T = Ted
Ma = Mao

D = A 'Drowned' - undead with water powers.

With not a roll over 6 between them, both Micah and Naberu fail to hurt the deadly corpse.

The thing reaches out to Micah once more, trying to grab and grapple:

Spoiler: Rolls

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Full attacks, each attack substituted for a grapple:
Touch attack: (1d20+17)[24]
If successful, grapple check: (1d20+21)[27]
Note that Micah takes -2 on the opposed grapple check for being underwater.

If Micah successfully resists, the second attack is replaced with a grapple attempt as well. If the first attempt succeeded, the following does nothing and it ends its turn.
Touch attack: (1d20+17)[19]
If successful, grapple check: (1d20+21)[27]

The second corpse stays still.

Spoiler: Constitution checks:

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Bob: (1d20+10)[19]
DC 13

Nabaru: (1d20+10)[19]
Tara: (1d20+4)[5]
DC 11

Conscious party members may act. The unconscious Tara begins to drown once more.

[dragonsamurai77]

Nabaru lashes out in a fury of claws and fangs, the distraction proved by Micah mitigating his somewhat awkward underwater movements.

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Full attack, all damage rolls are again halved for being underwater, but flanking should counteract the to-hit penalty.
Claw 1:
(1d20+12)[13]
(1d4+7)[9] damage
Claw 2:
(1d20+12)[29]
(1d4+7)[11] damage
Bite:
(1d20+6)[12]
(1d6+4)[8] damage

[Triskavanski]

Ted sighs a breath of relief now that Mao stopped drowning.. But then Tara started spitting up water next!"Arrgh!" cried the cat "Can you please stop dieing that would be very helpful okay?" as he moved to try to drag her next to mao.

[Unavenger]

Micah lashes out again, hoping for better luck this time:

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Rapier (1d20+15)[31] for (1d8+13)[14]+(2d6)[7] and (1d20+10)[27] for (1d8+13)[21]+(2d6)[7]
Kukri: (1d20+15)[26] for (1d4+10)[13]+(2d6)[5]
Feet of Fury: (1d20+16)[20] for (1d6+10)[14]+(2d6)[4] and (1d20+16)[29] for (1d6+10)[16]+(2d6)[11] and (1d20+16)[22] for (1d6+10)[12]+(2d6)[10]

[FearlessGnome]

Spoiler: Battle Map

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	A	B	C	D	E	F
1	w	w	w	w	w	w
2	w	.	.	H M N D	B.	w
3	w	.	.	.	.	w
4	w		.	.		w
5	w		.	.	T Ma Ta	w
6	w	.	.	.	P.	w
7	w	.	.	.	.	w
8	w	.	.	.	.	w
9	w	.	.	.	.	w
10	w	.	.	D.	.	w
11	w	.	.	H .	.	w
12	w	w	w	w	w	w

H = Hole. The water surface is just a foot down.
P = Broken Pedestal
w = Wall
. = A watery glint covers objects and creatures in these squares.

Ta = Tara
B = Bob
N = Nabaru
M = Micah
T = Ted
Ma = Mao

D = A 'Drowned' - undead with water powers.

Nabaru and Micah manage to get in substantially more damage this time around, although it is becoming increasingly clear that fighting underwater greatly favours this creature. This battle of attrition could end abruptly and tragically.

Ted quickly retrieves Tara as well, and she immediately begins breathing again. However, the creature that caused them so much trouble is not content to stay in the water now that no potential victims remain in its aura, and it climbs out of the hole.

The corpse fighting Micah and Nabaru reaches out for Micah once more:

Spoiler: Rolls

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Full attacks, each attack substituted for a grapple:
Touch attack: (1d20+17)[35]
If successful, grapple check: (1d20+21)[23]
Note that Micah takes -2 on the opposed grapple check for being underwater.

If Micah successfully resists, the second attack is replaced with a grapple attempt as well. If the first attempt succeeded, the following does nothing and it ends its turn.
Touch attack: (1d20+17)[25]
If successful, grapple check: (1d20+21)[27]

Spoiler: Constitution checks

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Just Nabaru and Bob this time.
Bob: (1d20+10)[14]
DC 14
(1d20+10)[30]
DC 12

[Triskavanski]

"You!" Cries out Ted, who, in a swift and fluid motion, charges the zombie creature now that its shown itself, drawing his his non-stick mitral frying pan in the same instant.

Spoiler: Mechanics.

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Charging attack - +2 to hit.
Two-handing the +2 mythril frying pan
White raven stance - Leading the Charge - +3 to damage rolls
Iaijitsu focus - (1d20+16)[20] 15-19 (2d6)[6] 20-24 (1d6)[3] 25-30 (1d6)[4] 31-35 (1d6)[5] additional damage
Catch off-guard - benefit: You do not suffer any penalties for using an improvised melee weapon. Unarmed opponents are flat-footed against any attacks you make with an improvised melee weapon.

(1d20+15)[26] to hit.
If Crit (1d20+15)[34]

(2d6+9)[14] - this attack ignores up to 5 points of the target's damage reduction
if Crit(2d6+9)[16]

[Esprit15]

Tara gasps as air returns to her lungs, eyes shooting open. "We need to get out of here," she shouts to nobody in particular, pulling a potion off of her belt and taking a drink from it.

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Standard Action: CLW Potion: (1d8+1)[2]

The woman tests her limbs, feeling that everything was still attached. With a bit of focus, she changes her stance, the fire inside of her quieting and the tension in her legs becomes stronger.

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Swift Action: Change stance to Leaping Dragon

With a powerful burst of energy, Tara hops up into the air, trying to grab onto the side of the wall for some extra distance from the Drowned.

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Move Action:
Jump and cling onto the wall: (1d20+18)[21], +10ft to result, Tara is treated as running
Clinging I assume would be climb: (1d20+18)[31]

[Triskavanski]

Mao, spurred on by some hidden reserves of strength so too also awakens, quickly getting to his paws as he shakes his head. Letting out a low growl, he gets into his martial spirit stance, focusing his eyes on the soaking wet zombie over by his master.

[Unavenger]

As it grabs hold of me, I squirm out of the way, and roll my eyes at it. We could be here a while. I jab at it, noticing that my rapier seems to be way more effective than my other weapons. Gah, shoulda brought another piercer for the other hand.

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Rapier (Piercing, not halved!): (1d20+17)[30] for (1d8+13)[21]+(2d6)[11] and (1d20+12)[23] for (1d8+13)[21]+(2d6)[8]
Kukri: (1d20+15)[23] for (1d4+10)[14]+(2d6)[8]
Feet of Fury: (1d20+16)[34] for (1d6+10)[16]+(2d6)[6] and (1d20+16)[17] for (1d6+10)[11]+(2d6)[7] and (1d20+16)[31] for (1d6+10)[14]+(2d6)[5]

[dragonsamurai77]

Nabaru has little option other than to continue striking out with his natural weapons, supporting Micah.

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Full attack again. These all do piercing in addition to one or more other damage types, so in hindsight, I'm not actually sure if they should be halved underwater.

Claw 1:
(1d20+12)[32]
(1d4+7)[8]

Claw 2:
(1d20+12)[31]
(1d4+7)[10]

Bite:
(1d20+6)[14]
(1d6+4)[7]

[FearlessGnome]

Spoiler: Battle Map

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	A	B	C	D	E	F
1	w	w	w	w	w	w
2	w			H M N	B	w
3	w					w
4	w					w
5	w		.	.	Ma Ta	w
6	w	.	.	.	P.	w
7	w	.	.	.	.	w
8	w	.	.	.	.	w
9	w	.	.	T.	.	w
10	w	.	.	D.	.	w
11	w	.	.	H .	.	w
12	w	w	w	w	w	w

H = Hole. The water surface is just a foot down.
P = Broken Pedestal
w = Wall
. = A watery glint covers objects and creatures in these squares.

Ta = Tara
B = Bob
N = Nabaru
M = Micah
T = Ted
Ma = Mao

D = A 'Drowned' - undead with water powers.

And with that final volley, Micah and Nabaru succeed in destroying one of the Drowned. Party members up in the room notice the watery glint wink out in the Northern half of the room, and Nabaru, though he still cannot breathe, no longer feels that desperate need to breathe.

Ted having charged at the second corpse and gotten a good hit in, it attacks back.

Spoiler: Rolls

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Full attack
Slam attack: (1d20+13)[14]
Damage: (1d8+12)[16]
Slam attack: (1d20+13)[29]
Damage: (1d8+12)[13]

Spoiler: Constitution check

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Just Ted this time!
(1d20+4)[16]
DC 10

The party may act.

[Triskavanski]

Noticing Mao was awake again, Ted calls to him while withdrawing away from the Drowned. "Mao! Back Corner!" Quickly the other cat moves to the corner as Ted goes to climb onto the cat.

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Ted and Mao move to B2, and prepare to charge once mounted. If possible, they'll climb the wall to give them a little more time to strike.

[dragonsamurai77]

Slow-moving in water, Nabaru instead teleports to the surface, climbing out of the well and ready to face the other monster.

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Shadow Jaunt to the water's surface, climb out, then move to D4, just outside the aura. Regain concealment.

[Unavenger]

I drag myself up out of the water, and roll onto the shore before standing up. "Your friend's done for, dead guy. Now it's your turn."

"I recommend you lot leave this one to me, but chances of that... well, we'll find out together I guess."

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I think that getting out and standing up is two move actions, but neither of them actually moves me so I think I can five foot step towards the drowned.

[Esprit15]

Tara climbs toward the back of the cave (upper end of the map) and higher up the wall. ”Huh, maybe I spoke to soon. Um... good luck, don’t drown!” she calls from her perch.

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Can’t shoot a bow while climbing, so just getting to a safer spot - (1d20+16)[17]

[FearlessGnome]

Spoiler: Battle Map

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	A	B	C	D	E	F
1	w	w	w	w	w	w
2	w	.T Ma	.Ta	H	.B	w
3	w	.	.	.M	.	w
4	w	.	.	.N	.	w
5	w	.	.	D.	.	w
6	w	.	.	.	P.	w
7	w	.	.	.	.	w
8	w	.	.	.	.	w
9	w	.	.	.	.	w
10	w	.	.	.	.	w
11	w		.	H .	.	w
12	w	w	w	w	w	w

H = Hole. The water surface is just a foot down.
P = Broken Pedestal
w = Wall
. = A watery glint covers objects and creatures in these squares.

Ta = Tara
B = Bob
N = Nabaru
M = Micah
T = Ted
Ma = Mao

D = A 'Drowned' - undead with water powers.

Victory is within reach, with all party members now facing only one of the abominations, but it has not given up. The Drowned charges Naberu.

Spoiler: Charge

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Attack: (1d20+14)[28]
Damage: (1d8+12)[18]

In what is likely the last or second to last round of combat, the drowning aura finally lies thick over every member of the party.

Spoiler: Constitution checks

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Ted: (1d20+4)[21]
Mao: (1d20+6)[23]
Tara: (1d20+4)[7]
Naberu: (1d20+10)[25]
Bob: (1d20+10)[19]
DC 10

Finish him

[Triskavanski]

"THIS IS WHY WE DON'T GO INTO THE WATER!" Ted shouts as he points to the last zombie thing around. In a flash Mao charges the creatures unleashing a flurry of claws, teeth, and a spatula!

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Now then.. Ted is going to use Leading the Attack as he draws his nonstick spatula to slice and dice the foe.
He is currently in Leading the Charge stance, granting +3 to all damage rolls on charge attacks.

(1d20+15)[29]

If hits, everyone gets a +4 to hit the creature

(1d8+9)[17] + Spirited Charge (1d8+9)[16]
Iaijitsu Focus (1d20+16)[18] 15-19 (2d6)[6] 20-24 (1d6)[3] 25-30 (1d6)[5] 31-35 (1d6)[4] additional damage if the enemy is still flat footed due to catch off guard.



MAO! The King of the Jungle! Mao uses Battle Leader charge gaining +10 to the charge damage roll
Bite! (1d20+16)[29] To attack, if Ted hit, add +4 to each attack

(1d6+20)[26]

CLAW! Don't know if Battle Lead Charge would work on the full pounce

(1d20+14)[31]
(1d6+6)[7]

Claw 2!
(1d20+14)[15]
(1d6+6)[8]


RAKE!
(1d20+16)[19]
(1d3+6)[7]



RAKE 2!
(1d20+16)[27]
(1d3+6)[9]



Since Mao is in Martial Spirit stance, each hit will heal out +2 to one lucky recipient each.

[Esprit15]

As the battle seems to be turning around, Tara lets out a "Whoo! Get 'em!" ...and finds her lungs filling with that same choking sensation that overcame her the first time she blacked out. Her grip weakens and the woman falls to the stone floor with a loud slap and clang, and metal armor and wet limbs come to a sudden halt.

And then, she feels just a hint of energy, enough to shake her out of her brief, dreamless sleep. Her body was hers again, and the little bit of light from the everburning torch reaches her eyes. She coughs, the suffocating sensation still all around her, but that could be dealt with later. She hops to her feet quickly, and taking inspiration from Mao and Ted, moves like a rocket toward the creature that had knocked her out not once but twice in the past thirty seconds, thrusting her sword forward at the creature.

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Battle Leader's Charge
Knowledge Devotion: +2
Ted's Leading the Attack: +4
Charging: +2
AC: (1d20+19)[33]

Knowledge Devotion: +2
Battle Leader's Charge: +10
Ted's Leading the Charge: +3
Power Attack (Shock Trooper): +12
Damage: (2d6+34)[43]

[FearlessGnome]

With a final, collective charge the party are able to take down the undead abomination, and its supernatural aura fades.

Remiel gives a quiet thumbs up. "I thought I might actually have to step in there. It's good to see you were able to take them down. The last group who came this way got caught by one at the end of the corridor. They... didn't last very long." He gives Micah a curious look. "Still, I find it very interesting that you were unaffected by the aura. You don't look amphibious. Is this part of your 'magic immunity'?"

"Anyway. So what will it be? Are you still pressing on? There will be more traps if you do. I would advice against sawing through suspicious objects."

[Esprit15]

"I think us taking a break might be good. Several of us passed out from those things and I don't know about the others, but I am feeling pretty rough after that. Unless one of you guys is a good healer, taking a break might be a good idea."

[dragonsamurai77]

I am enough of a healer to restore consciousness to those who have fallen. A "good" healer? Certainly not. I concur, resting for a bit would be beneficial.

[Unavenger]

"Yeah, that aura's magic, seems like. I know some monsters think they're immune to magic but ain't really, like golems and such, but some of us over here are the real deal. 'Course, it comes at a price. I can't use magic of my own, and the best I can do with a magic item is donk someone over the head with it."

I turn to the others. "I'm a hundred per cent A-Okay, but if you guys need to rest, feel free. I can heal you up a little bit while you sleep, or save you if you're about to die, but any more than that I'd need to use my salves for, and... well, I only have so many of those. So, if you gotta sleep... well, go ahead, sleep. Shouldn't be too much that can reach us here..."

[Triskavanski]

"Murreow." complained Mao, looking rather annoyed about the whole afair, finding a place to flop opposite of the Podieum. "Yeah.. This is why we didn't want to go into the water. If we could breath water.. that might be okay, but this.." the cat shakes his head, before sighing. "Though to go either direction we'll have to go in again, and this time those frost giants are propally awake... And I can't cook these! Thats gross! Why couldn't we be attacked by something edible?"