Age of Ruin OOC: The final battle

[Lycar]

Okay let's count our blessings then.

Orin can give the usual bardic inspiration +3 to to-hit and damage to pretty much everyone who hears him. Since this is a moral bonus, it might not stack with whatever the cleric bless their men with.

Inspire Greatness has the problem of only lasting 5 rounds after he inspires one guy. But maybe that is enough to get rid of the 2d10 worth of temporary HP.

However, the '+2 to frankly, everything' spell is also available. Since it lasts minutes, rather then turns, one casting might even last them most of the way up the stairs.

Also, Orin can Dispell Magic, although his chances to disable more then but a handfull of spells are not too good.

In a pinch, he can put out a couple of HP of healing too, Draven can only heal people up to 1/2 health after all.

Apart form that, well, he does have a neat armour now and can go around swinging his migraine-stick.

Lycar

[knewsom]

dont' worry too much about healing people, Draven can heal up to full HP, just not with his healing aura - he needs to use "touch of vitality" for that, and can also remove conditions like level drain and poison. With touch of vitality, he can heal up to 110 hp/day, with the fast healing aura, there's no limit , but can only heal to half of total HP.

[Toliudar]

Right, Ozzy - sorry about that about the clansmen, then. How about the Zhan, Kael Vorn and Khael'an all take the roof entrance, then? Maybe the priests will compete with each other for who gets there first, but at least they're all more or less together, then.

If this city only has 'a few dozen' dwarves, then we're already facing a fair percentage of the population in this fight. There's a good chance that there'll be no city left to take over when we're done. Even if the process doesn't release another god, and the accompanying cataclysm.

The basic bardic inspiration and the +2 to all spell would be a VERY welcome thing, Lycar.

[The Great Skenardo]

*sigh* oh well, looks like we made them walk a long long way for nothing then. Then again, we could always take over the city completely and forge a new empire.

Yes....we could...
<_<
>_>

[Ozzy_G]

Is that the plan then? Anything else?

[The Great Skenardo]

Which group is planning on securing the altar, then? No altar = no ritual, so that's a good short-term goal.

[Toliudar]

I'm hoping that both groups are working towards the central chamber. Once there, securing any of the Altar, the crown or any surviving priests would be worthwhile targets.

[Lycar]

Is that the plan then? Anything else?

Don't ask Orin to come up with battle plans!

Unless he happens to have read/heard about something like that before...

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You asked for it: Bardic Know.: (1d20+12)[15]

Right about now he has to fight to hold onto his bowel contents. This will change dramatically once he includes himself into a casting of Good Hope. But until then...

Lycar

[Ozzy_G]

Nothing similar to this occurs to Orin.

[Toliudar]

Ozzy: any comments from the others as we present/discuss this plan?

Is Khael'an willing to do some advance aerial strafing and scaring? Does he want to go into the building?

Presumably, we're asking for a volunteer from among the Zhan priests. Who do they get?

[Ozzy_G]

Khael'an and Gadirir are quite happy to strafe, and the High Priest of Isana will go with you.
Let's see what Sumner wants to say though...

[Toliudar]

It occurs to me that an interesting real world parallel for this effort to move away from demon worship would be the efforts to step away from nuclear weapons. Once one side starts using them, everyone feels they need to have them. What we are now working towards, I hope, is an effort to collectively take them off the map. A kind of Geneva Convention of extraplanar agents. Fun!

[Ozzy_G]

Okay, any last minute spells you want to cast just before you attack?

[Toliudar]

Ismal will cast protection from evil on Draven and Sumner just before we head down.

[knewsom]

yay! Also, Draven will activate his "Senses" aura, to help with initiative, and of course, switch it soon thereafter to something else. :)

[The Great Skenardo]

I'll go ahead and cast Greater Force Edge on the Eater of Men.

[Ozzy_G]

Great what-what? Is that from one of your items?


Sorry if I've been a bit distracted for the last couple of days. I've got a lot of work at the moment, as I'm in my third year and it's coming up to winter deadlines. Also, the presentation I'd nearly finished was corrupted on Tuesday and I had to do it all over again.

[Ozzy_G]

Oh, also a guy PMed me today to ask me about the game threads since he's reading them.
So if any of you would like to look back over things, here's a compete list.
In total, the threads include:
The first group (Age of Ruin)
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29944

The second group (In the Shadow of Dead Gods)
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32153

They meet up (The battle of Mokar)
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36030

They split up (The death of a dream, When we killed time itself)
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37293
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37304

The third group (Grave of an Empire)
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41583

They all meet up (The Bronze Cauldron)
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45452

They split up (When all your friends are dead, Where demons dwell)
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46689
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46699

They meet up (facing down destiny)
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77368

[Lycar]

Orin will save his casting of Good Hope for just before they 'go over the top' so to speak.

Bardic Music will be used as appropriate.

Also, if the valley is really that deep, fighring our way up from ground level might be less then advisable.

Soo... combined rooftop assault or can we be inserted a few levels below the temple chambers somehow?

Also Skenardo: Great speech! Couln't have done it better. Of course, Orin has more ranks in Perform...

Lycar

[Ozzy_G]

Also, if the valley is really that deep, fighring our way up from ground level might be less then advisable.

Soo... combined rooftop assault or can we be inserted a few levels below the temple chambers somehow?

There is a street next to the central building. It has houses next to it, which if you then go down a floor lead to tunnels which lead to the cavern.

[Toliudar]

So as not to force Ozzy to make more maps than he has to, I'm trusting that if working our way to the cavern from street level was unreasonably indirect or stupid, he'd tell us. My sense, from the description he gave Kaleff is that the big chamber is actually close to street level - am I wrong in that?

[Ozzy_G]

You go to the side buildings, down one floor, then along about forty or fifty feet of tunnel. It's not all that long really.

[The Great Skenardo]

Great what-what? Is that from one of your items?

Oh, that's right; I'm not a spellcaster. I don't have any abilities or spells to cast

[Ozzy_G]

Ah, I see what you did there.
You were a smart-arse.

[The Great Skenardo]

I have options! I can hit people...kind of hard, or I can hit them very hard. And I have a lot of different swords, so that's almost like having a spell list. This invocation requires three attack rolls, but each one can do 1d10+10 damage, and I can use it without a concentration check every round!
The range isn't that good, though.

EDIT: On the other hand, my spell resistance(metal) is a lot higher than theirs, so that's good.

[Ozzy_G]

Right, so who is Orin casting Good Hope on?
And is there anymore spells from anyone?

[Ozzy_G]

Okay guys, everyone have a +2 bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls.

Is Kaleff casting any spells?

[Toliudar]

NS did say that he'd be on vacation for a while, with spotty access. Any chance we could move forward, and retro in any buffs Kaleff might have wanted to cast?

[knewsom]

Also +3 to init from Draven's aura. If we are outnumbered, he will switch (after we roll for init) to acid shield, If we outnumber our opponents, he will switch it to Power, granting an extra +3 damage.

[Ozzy_G]

Okay, some of you recognise some of these people.
Ismal knows

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The man with the 4 horns is Archmage Gothul, and his sidekick with the wattle and white streak is Magus Emorik. The warrior with the red crescent moon tattoo is his bodyguard.

Orin knows

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The man with the 4 horns is Archmage Gothul, and the man with the red crescent moon tattoo is his bodyguard. The man with the wattle and the white streak you don't know, but he resembles Cofaos, a guy who you met briefly in Mokar along with Sumner, Kizima and Kaleff. The small girl is Eji, who you met in the Gray Wastes and were told was a magical construct.

Sumner knows

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The man with the 4 horns is Archmage Gothul, and the man with the red crescent moon tattoo is his bodyguard. The man with the wattle and the white streak you don't know, but he looks a little bit like Cofaos. The guy with the same tattoos as you and slightly green skin is your younger brother Garen Kesh, who you thought died in the destruction of Zardis. He's aged many years since then, but you still recognise your own brother, even if he is now slightly green. The small girl is Eji, who you met in the Gray Wastes and were told was a magical construct.