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[Pyrophilios]

Nale Elan Aegis AC: 25+5+4 (16+5+4 T/20+4 FF) DR: 4 HP: 76/76 PP:36/37 Perception: +11 Initiative: +3+4 Conditions: Elemental Flux Stance (Air) (+4 ini +4 dodge Electricity Resistance 15, +2d6 electricity damage

With a groan Nale got to his feet. Rolling his shoulders, he moved his head back and forth until an audible click gave him the desired relief. Next his skin began oozing ectoplasm that quickly began to harden into a black, chitin like armor, leaving only his head uncovered.

Next he quickly picked up his giant sword and nodded. With a look to his companions he said:

"Are you all ready to hunt? There are giants that need killing."

Immediately after that, a translucent disk of force appeared before him, ready to block incoming attacks.

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Move action pick up +2 Oversized Longsword

Swift action: activate Time skitter maneuver

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Time Skitter
Discipline: Riven Hourglass (Boost); Level: 3
Prerequisites: One Riven Hourglass maneuver
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: See text

DESCRIPTION

By accelerating your personal time-stream, you speed up your movements and accelerate your blows for a few moments. After initiating this boost, you gain the benefits of a haste spell for a number of rounds equal to your initiation modifier (4) (+1 to attack rolls, AC, initiative, and Reflex saves, a +30-foot enhancement bonus to movement speeds, and one extra attack when making a full attack).

Standard Action: Harness Powerstone (Force Screen)

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Harness Power Stone
The aegis can manifest a single 1st-level power from a power stone stored in his power stone repository as if it were a known power, with an effective manifester level of 1. This effective manifester level does not make an aegis eligible for feats and prestige classes requiring a manifester level, nor does it allow him to activate other power stones without a Use Magic Device check. The aegis may manifest the chosen power as many times as his power point pool will allow, but changing to a different power (either within the same power stone, or within another power stone in the repository) requires a move action and flushes the old power from the power stone (so power stones with multiple powers lose one power, but the rest are unaffected; power stones with only a single power are flushed and dissolved). If this customization is lost or removed, any applicable attuned power is flushed from the power stone. The aegis must be at least 3rd level and have the Power Stone Repository customization to select this customization. This customization may be selected a second time beginning at 5th level; doing so allows the aegis to manifest a second 1st-level power from a power stone (either a second stone, or a second power in an already-selected stone). The aegis may freely alternate between these two powers (or any others gained via Harness Power Stone customizations) when manifesting, but trading out either power for a new power flushes out the sacrificed power as usual.

Force Screen
Discipline psychokinesis [force]; Level gifted blade 1, psion/wilder 1, psychic warrior 1

MANIFESTING

Display Auditory
Manifesting Time 1 standard action

EFFECT

Range Personal
Target You
Duration 1 min./level (D)
Power Points 1

DESCRIPTION

You create an invisible mobile disk of force that hovers in front of you. The force screen provides a +4 shield bonus to Armor Class (which applies against incorporeal touch attacks, since the force screen is a force effect). Since it hovers in front of you, the effect has no armor check penalty associated with it.

Free action: Form Astral Armor

[Esprit15]

Mentha shrugs off the nausea easy enough, though the sudden cold could have been better forewarned by the woman. The gnome does a quick check - head, arms, legs, fingers, toes. Nothing missing, so a good teleport in her book. She turns around, and laughs. “Oh I am going to have fun with you.”

Bones grow out from her skin again as she points off at the mammoth and hisses an incantation. She then scampers behind the brick wall, offering a smile to the elven woman. “This seat taken?”

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Casting Blindness on the mammoth - DC 20 Fortitude save
Moving to E9
Manifesting her armor.

Initiative for next round: (1d20+2)[4]

[jakarta]

The mammoth attempts to resist.

(1d20)[14]

Edit: and does easily.

[Xav]

Lewis Blackheart Tiefling Legendary Magus AC: 27 (18 T/20 FF) DR: - HP: 66/66 Perception: +14 Initiative: +7 Conditions: -

Few words are spoken by Lewis. In fact, he says a short: "Noted," - after the briefing, and the only thing that causes the grimace of discontent on his face is the fact that his sword was still kept away from him. The sudden teleport fails to catch tiefling by surprise, - he turns out on his feet, not feeling any special discomfort. He immediately drops all the bags, bales and other stuff, examines the surrounding area, finding the scouts - one alive, another, seems, not so much - and a crowd of enemies heading to the group. And then he heads for his sword. The moment he holds the hilt, his mind reunites with the blade's consciousness, and from this moment Lewis feels confidence. Now things are suddenly looking much better, and a mere frost giant isn't enough to spoil the mood. The man casts a quickening spell and And fills the poisonous storm, rapidly unfolding around, with the energy.

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I'm getting 2 arcane potential points at the combat start, due to Adrenal Potential
Move - retrieving the sword
Standard - casting Haste on everybody around, and getting 1 arcane potential point for casting
Storm is activated (free action), I'm refluffing it a bit, so that it looks a little more appropriate - as a grey poisonous cloud of miasma. Radius - 45', Height - 95'. Any creature within the Storm at the end of Lewis' turn is subject to a vile akashic toxin.
All 3 arcane points are transferred to essence and allocated to a Storm veil.
Swift - changing the Storm's properties: Save - Will, DC 22 or nauseated.
All allies, including scouts, are protected from the Storm's effects - they automatically pass any saves and treat all damage as 0.

[Stelio Kontos]

“The doctors say that the best way to avoid the nausea is to”

*PoP!*

Torsten's body finished that sentence for him, with an unhealthy mix of stomach contents flying out into the snow.

Despite that, he noted quickly his precious bow scattered amongst the pile of random stuff; he grabbed for it, and in a swift roll scrambled past the elf behind the wall, ready to poke his head around it and launch a hopefully impressive fusillade of arrows.

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Do I have my sniper goggles on? I'd like to. They don't do much without a weapon in hand :)

One action to grab bow and arrows (I have an efficient quiver), or two? If two, consider both my actions to instead be grabbing the pair.

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Laundry list of saves rolled in Discord:
Fort = 12 (failed, sickened)
Reflex = 28 (stylishly passed)
Perception: I can't fail either
Initiative, when the round ends: 25

Actions:
Standard to grab bow and arrows (hopefully both?)
Move, hopefully, to E7 on the map
Swift: studied target on the frost giant

[jakarta]

(Tor has his goggles.

1 action for now, one for quiver.)

The guy in the hood and straight jacket gets covered in steak-and-potato vomit.

Will/Moral check for ogres
(1d20)[2]
(1d20)[5]
(1d20)[9]
(1d20)[18]
(1d20)[19]
(1d20)[2]
(1d20)[13]
(1d20)[15]

[jakarta]

Counting from the north, ogres 1,2,3, and 6 stop momentarily in confusion, staring wide eyed at the swirling yellow storm that just appeared before them.
(they will only take one move instead of running. I'll update positions at end of round.)

The party is all now standing in yellow snow, as the storm veil has interacted with the snow a bit.

[Paddywagon Man]

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Jeffy: (1d20+7)[12] Fort, (1d20+12)[32] Ref
Jack Slide: (1d20+7)[12] Fort, (1d20+12)[30] Ref

"FOOOOOOOOOD!"

Jeffy and Jack both look overjoyed to be unbound and presented with a veritable buffet of pungent ogre flesh - though they're currently lacking their best carving tools.

Jeffy grabs his beloved, well-used butchering axe, though a bit clumsily. Without his wayfinder and ioun stone he... doesn't really know how to use it properly, embarassingly. But he wouldn't go a battle without it, and punches Jack's over-long nose into his squishy blue head in rebuke when they both grab for it.

"Hkeeeeeh! Jeffy's axe! You're too WEAK to be Jeffy!"

Jack teeters back, grumpily, and grabs a syringe spear.

"Be strong Jeffy then, mr FFFAT! Sneaky Jack, clever Jack will be getting tears and meat when ogres are chewing you!"

The teleporting sickness catches up a moment later, and they each aggressively vomit on the other.

[Infernally Clay]

Leif Fochlucan Aasimar Druid HP: 75/75, AC: 25 Conditions: None Spell Slots: 1st: 6/6, 2nd: 5/5, 3rd: 4/4, 4th: 3/3, 5th: 2/2 Animal Companion: Iorek, Medium Bear HP: 72/72, AC: 25 Conditions: None

“What the bloody hell is going on?!” Leif yells as she falls out of the portal and onto the snow, looking around for Iorek to make sure he’s safe. She’ll deal with whatever else is happening after that.

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Fortitude save: (1d20+9)[28]
Reflex save: (1d20+4)[6]
Perception checks: (1d20+19)[36] and (1d20+19)[39]

Leif falls flat on the ground, her face buried in snow, and as she gets up to survey her surroundings she notices legs sticking out from the snow and where her gear is. The most pressing matter to her, however, is freeing Iorek from the teddy bear. She does that first. That means Iorek can help whoever it is buried in the snow while Leif gathers everyone’s equipment.

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Leif uses her move action to stand from prone and then her standard action to free Iorek.

[jakarta]

A bear suddenly appears in front of the Druid.

[jakarta]

The man who was tossed into the circle just before the teleport has somehow escaped his bonds. He pulls off his hood while crawling across the ground. He almost slithers...right to the bag of his gear.

Meanwhile...The ogres advance 30-90 ft according to each's level of confusion...

The frost giant throws an ice bolder at Jeffy. attack (1d20+13)[23], dam (1d8+17)[21])
And the mammoth advances to...(1d20+14)[28]

And the rider (1d20+18)[25]

[jakarta]

And the mammoth advances to...(1d20+14)[28]
And the mammoth advances though the edge of the storm unaffected...
And the rider (1d20+18)[25] is likewise unaffected...

The FIRE Mammoth charges (trample + improved bull rush = no AOOs rules the GM) right though the party members still in the LZ circle.

(Party members in the path roll REF vs dc 29 or take dam (1d8+14)[21] (blunt) + (2d6)[10] (fire) and be on fire for (1d4)[4] rounds, save for half of the physical damage and to avoid being on fire)

Also, scorching heat emanates from the Mammoth. Anyone within 5 ft of the path of the mammoth Fort save dc 21 or take (2d6+14)[17] fire damage (save negates).

(anyone remaining adjacent at the end of his turn, making mellie attacks without a reach weapon, or passing within 5 ft in subsequent rounds are subject to the FIRE AURA. dc 21 or 2d6+14).

[Pyrophilios]

Nale Elan Aegis AC: 25+5+4 (16+5+4 T/20+4 FF) DR: 4 HP: 48/76 PP:35/37 Perception: +11 Initiative: +3+4 Conditions: Elemental Flux Stance (Air) (+4 ini +4 dodge Electricity Resistance 15, +2d6 electricity damage

And as quickly as he had gotten up, Nale landed back on the ground. At least the snow kept him from getting roasted by the flame aura

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Ouch, that will be hard save to make
Spending one PP to activate Resilience for +4 to roll

Reflex save (1d20+13)[17] 31 damage
Fortitute save (1d20+14)[28] no damage

[jakarta]

The snow in the area is now simmering piss.

[Infernally Clay]

Leif Fochlucan Aasimar Druid HP: 27/75, AC: 25 Conditions: None Spell Slots: 1st: 6/6, 2nd: 5/5, 3rd: 4/4, 4th: 3/3, 5th: 2/2 Animal Companion: Iorek, Medium Bear HP: 24/72, AC: 25 Conditions: None

Saves:

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Leif's saves:
Reflex save: (1d20+4)[19]
Fortitude save: (1d20+9)[14]

Iorek's saves:
Reflex save: (1d20+6)[12]
Fortitude save: (1d20+6)[17]

So both take 48 damage.

[Paddywagon Man]

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Jeffy: (1d20+10)[28] Reflex, (1d20+5)[7] Fort
Jack: (1d20+10)[11] Reflex, (1d20+5)[19] Fort

The two acrobatic murder goblins are a bit slow on their feet from all the vomiting but shriek and do their best to roll away from the trampling mammoth!

Both are, unfortunately, trampled thoroughly and lit on fire. But they rally pretty quickly and know just what to do! They stop, drop, and roll - directly under the mammoth, slashing and hacking at it with their weapons mercilessly, the flames on their bodies extinguished hopefully along with the beast's life.

[Paddywagon Man]

Jack, somersaulting like a more civilized cartoon cannibal than the obese log-rolling Jeffy, plans to stab with the tragically unloaded syringe spear... but it turns out rolling underneath a burning mammoth is not actually the excellent idea it had seemed at first. He bumps up against its leg, foiling its attack and leaving him in prime stomping territory.

"Ehhhh... hello, nice friendly beast."

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(1d20+8)[18] for Up Close and Personal attack (FAILED BECAUSE OF POOR ROLLING TECHNIQUE)
(1d8+9)[13] piercing plus (5d8)[25] Hidden Strike damage, and mammoth provokes an attack of opportunity at the start of its next turn.
(1d20+8)[27] Vital Strike
(2d8+9)[15]

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* post roll count doesn't match database

[jakarta]

The decidedly unfriendly beast tries to stamp the goblin.
stamp (1d20+15)[28], physical damage (2d6+7)[10] and fire (2d6)[7]

[Esprit15]

Mentha gives a whoop as the giant and mammoth rush by her, heat warming her face. “Now that’ll wake you up!” She hides the disappointment at her earlier spell failing. It was a long shot, but now that they were closer she had a lot more options. She circles around the other woman taking cover behind the wall. The skeletal serpent tattoo on her arm gives off a faint glow as she begins her spell. When she completes it, a wave of fear seems to emanate from the tiny gnome.

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Move to B6

Cast Fear, Will Save DC 24 for the Giant and the Mammoth
Pass: Shaken for 1 round
Fail: Panicked by Mentha for 9 rounds

[Xav]

Lewis Blackheart Tiefling Legendary Magus AC: 27 (18 T/19 FF) DR: - HP: 28/66 Perception: +14 Initiative: +7 Conditions: Hasted, on fire

And without even having time to swear, Lewis was enveloped in a fiery aura and almost crushed by a huge animal. Just having time to rejoice at the fire-resistant skin, the tiefling swings his blade, testing the strength of the mammoth skin, after which he teleports to the side.

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(1d20+13)[24] - Reflex
(1d20+10)[15] - Fort
Both saves are failed, so Lewis gets 48-10 damage (fire resistance).
Lewis gets 1 arcane point from Lingering Adrenaline
Black Blade gets 1 arcane point (now 2 total)

Then he uses Lunge (gets -2 to AC and 10' reach) and attacks mammoth via Spell Combat (-1 to hit for attacks) and Warp Assault for 1 point:
Swift: Black Blade Strike (1 point for +3 to damage)

(1d20+17)[28] for (1d6+19)[22] damage
(1d20+17)[19] for (1d6+19)[22] damage - haste
(1d20+15)[32] for (1d6+19)[20] damage - warp assault
(1d20+12)[21] for (1d6+19)[24] damage

And warps away via Warping Surge to F18
Gets 1 arcane point from using Warping Surge and uses it to put 1 essence into Storm. Now Storm Will save DC vs nauseating poison is 23 (creatures make their saves only at the end of Lewis' turn, but this time, I guess, all passed them).

Lewis arcane points: 0
Black blade arcane points: 1

[jakarta]

Mentha gives a whoop as the giant and mammoth rush by her, heat warming her face. “Now that’ll wake you up!” She hides the disappointment at her earlier spell failing. It was a long shot, but now that they were closer she had a lot more options. She circles around the other woman taking cover behind the wall. The skeletal serpent tattoo on her arm gives off a faint glow as she begins her spell. When she completes it, a wave of fear seems to emanate from the tiny gnome.

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Move to B6

Cast Fear, Will Save DC 24 for the Giant and the Mammoth
Pass: Shaken for 1 round
Fail: Panicked by Mentha for 9 rounds

The mammoth and Rider try to shake off the magical assaults

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Mammoth will vs fear:(1d20+7)[23]
Frost Giant Rider:
(1d20+8)[21]

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Mammoth will vs
(1d20+7)[25]
Frost Giant Rider: (1d20+8)[12]

[jakarta]

(Treating player actions to this point as simultaneous as the Mammoth doesn't act in response until its turn.)

Jack's attack: This mammoth has very tough barding/fur/skin. All attacks miss. Re-roll the vital strike damage, or mention in your next post how much it is.
Lewis' attack:
>>Then he uses Lunge (gets -2 to AC and 10' reach) and attacks mammoth via Spell Combat (-1 to hit for attacks) and Warp Assault for 1 point:
Swift: Black Blade Strike (1 point for +3 to damage)

(1d20+17)[28] for (1d6+19)[22] damage
(1d20+17)[19] for (1d6+19)[22] damage - haste
(1d20+15)[32] for (1d6+19)[20] damage - warp assault
(1d20+12)[21] for (1d6+19)[24] damage

42 damage (assuming all of Lewis' attacks are magical.)
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Save results:
The Frost giant rider begins vomiting (over Jack) as the Mammoth flees south (run action, I'll count all the squares later. I duplicated the background battle-grid and made approximate placements on the next page)

PCs who haven't taken their turn before initive count 19 may take their turn before the mammoth moved.
PCs who qualify may take AoOs on the fleeing elephant.

Ogres run closer, crossing into the storm area.
will saves
1 (1d20+1)[14]
2 (1d20+1)[17]
3 (1d20+1)[8]
4 (1d20+1)[15]
5 (1d20+1)[13]
6 (1d20+1)[5]
7 (1d20+1)[8]
8 (1d20+1)[3]

Edit: all stop on the edge of the storm and vomit at the party.

LegoLass casts a spell and conjures a scattering of randomly arranged colored bricks on the field between the party and the ogres (Lego caltrops).

[Infernally Clay]

Leif Fochlucan Aasimar Druid HP: 27/75, AC: 25 Conditions: None Spell Slots: 1st: 6/6, 2nd: 5/5, 3rd: 4/4, 4th: 3/3, 5th: 2/2 Animal Companion: Iorek, Medium Bear HP: 24/72, AC: 25 Conditions: None

Leif dives into the snow, dousing the flames around her, then begins to grow and shift into an enormous plant creature with a gaping maw filled with seemingly infinite teeth and attempts to latch onto the fleeing mammoth.

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Leif wildshapes into a plant creature with these stats, but treated one size larger thanks to Powerful Wildshape.
Leif uses Bite for her AoO and attempts to grab as part of the attack.
To hit: (1d20+17)[33], to damage: (2d6+11)[18]
To grapple: (1d20+23)[26]

[jakarta]

The giant flower hits but is unable to latch on. (is there anything making the damage magical?)

Reflex and fort save vs fire damage.

Does the bear do anything?

[Infernally Clay]

The giant flower hits but is unable to latch on. (is there anything making the damage magical?)

Reflex and fort save vs fire damage.

Does the bear do anything?

Iorek can just hang back for now against all this chaos.

Fort save: (1d20+13)[29]
Dex save: (1d20+10)[25]

[jakarta]

Both saves made.

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(at end of round)
The man who was tossed into your teleport has been trampled and burned. He crawls to his bag and reaches in. He retrieves a small, ornate suitcase and and touches a gem in the center before collapsing.

The case glows and splits into sections which rearrange themselves into a standing, armored female form.

"Directive?" it asks.

[Pyrophilios]

Nale Elan Aegis AC: 25+5+4 (16+5+4 T/20+4 FF) DR: 4 HP: 49/76 PP:33/37 Perception: +11 Initiative: +3+4 Conditions: Elemental Flux Stance (Air) (+4 ini +4 dodge Electricity Resistance 15, +2d6 electricity damage, Haste, Temporary: Fire Resistance 10 +20ft fly speed (total 80ft)

With a little mental effort, Nale inured himself against the flames and increased his fly speed. Still burning like a comet, Nale took to the air, aiming for the northern most ogre with a dive attack, pulling back up sharply to get out of the reach of the monster.

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Swift action: Rapid augmentation for Elemental Resistance [Fire 10] and +20ft fly speed [-2 PP]

Fire damage (2d6)[3] vs. 10 Fire resistance Edit: no damage

Regeneration ring: +1 hp

Move: 15ft up and forward towards the ogre at I5, staying at a hight of 15 ft above ground

Standard action: attack at flat footed, vomiting ogre

Power attack: -2
(1d20+15)[31], damage (3d6)[12]+(2d6)[6] electricity +20, if crit x2: Edit 38 damage total

Risk opportunity attack from ogre and move up 20ft to a total of 40ft height

[jakarta]

The blow nearly splits the ogre in half.

[Esprit15]

Both saves made.

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(at end of round)
The man who was tossed into your teleport has been trampled and burned. He crawls to his bag and reaches in. He retrieves a small, ornate suitcase and and touches a gem in the center before collapsing.

The case glows and splits into sections which rearrange themselves into a standing, armored female form.

"Directive?" it asks.

Mentha gives a satisfied dust off of the hands as she returns to her spot. “Yeah, your directive is to kill those ogres. Start with…” she reaches for her crossbow and points it at the nearest ogre. “That one.”

…then she actually loads a bolt into the weapon.

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Move to E9 and draw crossbow

Use standard action to load crossbow since move was used moving

[Stelio Kontos]

Relieved to have zipped out of the worst of the mammoth trampling -- but currently without arrows -- Torsten shook his head in disgust. Anyone reading thoughts right now would sense Of all the amateur...stupid...

There was no sense coming to an ogre fight without at least something to fight back with. He uttered a quick phrase, vanishing from sight, and went back in, as quietly as he might, to retrieve his quiver.

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Cast invisibility on self.
Move back to wherever my quiver is, using Stealth:
(1d20+37)[57] includes invisibility stealth bonus; moving half speed is no concern since Haste is up.