Adventures in Sigil - OOC - Part III [4E]

[dariathalon]

Here is Pavick's arcana check. Arcana - (1d20+32)[39]

Aramil would be an idiot to take advantage of his mark, because Pavick intends to close this portal down by any means necessary ASAP!

Edit: Made it by >< that much!

[Mando Knight]

Originally Posted by dariathalon

Here is Pavick's arcana check. [roll0]

Aramil would be an idiot to take advantage of his mark, because Pavick intends to close this portal down by any means necessary ASAP!

Edit: Made it by >< that much!

Also, it was the wrong mark, and thus could not be punished at all (I usually try to avoid overwriting the Aegis with Dual Lightning Strike's mark and go vice-versa, due to the limited functionality of the latter).

[Hzurr]

Excellent! As soon as it gets to Pavick's turn, the portal is going to snap shut, leaving Baalzebul & Baftis' torso on the far side. Muahahaha!

I'll let everyone else go ahead and finish out this scene as it, just treat it as if columns K+ aren't there

[Orsik Vondal]

If someone can give Ash a bonus to saves, I will wait to post. If not, then he will take his turn and his chances. If Ash dies, there is probably someone close by that can resurrect him. Ash wants to be brought back, so he can get his soul back and destroy Jabba.

[Nai_Calus]

Oh so you can't answer my questions on Twitter, I SEE HOW IT IS JON.

In that case Eltain is doing the thing I've been wanting to do since we first encountered this stupid armada, damn it.

Also, bloody hells, stupid saves. Between the dazed and the weakened... At least it's not Stunned? I guess?

[Hzurr]

Oops, just realized that I forgot to actually roll Zorella's attack against herself and Baftis' attack against Baalzebul

Zorella: (1d20+23)[32] vs AC
Damage: (1d10+12)[18]

Baftis:
(1d20+24)[31]
Damage:(4d4+16)[26]

[Nai_Calus]

I hate when I do that. Then you have to go back and do it and derp. :<

[DSCrankshaw]

Asheroth should be able to use my natural 11 from Unluck in his attack against the devil in F8, assuming I hit. That may be enough to turn a miss into a hit.

[DSCrankshaw]

If anyone's interested, Black Gate is currently publishing my short novel, "A Phoenix in Darkness," as a serial. This is not the novel I've discussed around here previously, but a prequel of sorts to it. The publisher describes the story as follows:

Young members of a secretive Order of wizards investigate a series of strange kidnappings, and discover a sinister and ancient conspiracy.

I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to comment on it, positive or negative, at the Black Gate blog.

[Hzurr]

Originally Posted by DSCrankshaw

If anyone's interested, Black Gate is currently publishing my short novel, "A Phoenix in Darkness," as a serial. This is not the novel I've discussed around here previously, but a prequel of sorts to it. The publisher describes the story as follows:

Awesome! Bookmarking this for when I have downtime at work.

[Hzurr]

A handful of d20s, just to see if anyone saves out of Pavick's spell:

Medusa: (1d20-6)[-2]
War Devil: (1d20-6)[0]
War Devil:(1d20-6)[11]
Zorella: (1d20-9)[2]

--edit-- Wow, ok, I decided just to hit the fastfoward button rather than have y'all go around Coup de gracing everyone.

Dang. That was a great round for Pavick.

[Nai_Calus]

Pavick: Here to kick ass and chew gum, and he's out of gum.

[dariathalon]

When Pavick gets pissed, people die.

[Hzurr]

Originally Posted by dariathalon

When Pavick gets pissed, people die.

I now envision a new action movie about Pavick traveling throughout the cosmos going crazy & killing people when someone messes with Slick. We'll call it "Snakes on a Plane"

[DSCrankshaw]

Sounds more like "Snake in the Planes."

[Nai_Calus]

Smart Zorella, asking the Paladin for mercy. Probably won't get it.

[dariathalon]

Snake on the Planes sounds like a fun movie, but first I want to do the Pavick/Shep buddy cop movie that we had planned a while back. Maybe Snake on the Planes can be a sequel.

[dariathalon]

Wow, after writing that post, I'm realizing that Pavick is really doing what all of us do when we grow up. He's turning into his parents.

[Nai_Calus]

It's not that Eltain doesn't care about slick, btw, it's that he's far more worried about the people we left behind, and he doesn't think he'd be of any use anyway. Plus someone needs to be diplomatic with the poor addle-cove dead people and that's not Aramil.

Eltain is so not his parents.

Also, I still want that Eltain/Zyrr romantic dramedy buddy cop movie.

[Orsik Vondal]

I just got back in range from a week in Big bend National park with my freshmen. I am updating from my phone. Sounds like we did pretty good in the fight. Hzurr, did you want me to roll saves for Jabba's maggot death power? I can if I need to.

[Hzurr]

Originally Posted by Orsik Vondal

I just got back in range from a week in Big bend National park with my freshmen. I am updating from my phone. Sounds like we did pretty good in the fight. Hzurr, did you want me to roll saves for Jabba's maggot death power? I can if I need to.

Yeah, go ahead. I'm guessing the more healy member of the party will be helping you, so take a +4 bonus to the Saving throws.

[Mando Knight]

Originally Posted by Nai_Calus

Plus someone needs to be diplomatic with the poor addle-cove dead people and that's not Aramil.

...addle-cove?

[Hzurr]

Originally Posted by Mando Knight

...addle-cove?

It's both a real term, and a Planescape term. http://www.gamebanshee.com/planescap...t/glossary.php

[Orsik Vondal]

(1d20+4)[19] vs. Maggot Death

[Haberdashery]

Okay, that's enough being in haze for one week, I think! I'll whip up a post tomorrow, when I can think straight.

[Hzurr]

Hey, was going to hold off a bit before I let Eltain take Zorella away to be "dealt with" just in case anyone else wanted to jump in and say something.

[Haberdashery]

I dunno, I can't think of anything I want Shep to say or do. Kinda at a dearth of ideas at the moment. Just assume Shep is going with Pavick to help with Slick; perhaps he offers to carry him on his shoulders.

[Orsik Vondal]

Originally Posted by Hzurr

DM Post

One of the ruesti walks over to the fallen skull that Aramil mentioned and picks it up, only for the skull to start glowing faintly. He quickly drops it and backs away. "Er...what did you say that was?"

Sweet action! Pav just got a new cursed magic orb!

[DSCrankshaw]

Part Two of my short novel, A Phoenix in Darkness, is now online.

Here's a small taste, from one of my favorite scenes:

He couldn’t see the front of the room, where the lecturing voice continued to drone on, but he could see the children. They were young girls, perhaps a dozen of them aged somewhere between eight and ten, and dressed in identical gray dresses which only accentuated the differences between them. Aside from the differences in age, which could be quite noticeable for that range, Seth recognized the dark hair and the broad features of the working class in most of them, the honey-colored hair and tall, willowy body only found in certain noble families, and even one girl whose dark brown skin marked her ancestry as from the Daurens region of the Novar Empire. The girls were the only living people he could see — the others were dead. Corpses lay on low tables around the room, each with two or three of the girls gathered around it. They were all young men, maybe all peasants from what he could tell, but it was hard to notice their faces when their chests were peeled open to reveal their organs. What Seth couldn’t understand at first, or perhaps didn’t want to understand, was what the girls were doing with the bodies. Even seeing the organs lying on the table and the blood on the hands and dresses of the children wasn’t enough to hammer into him what was happening until he watched one girl, with dark, curly hair and a look of intense concentration on her face, use a knife to saw at a corpse’s chest. She set the knife down, wiped back a lock of her hair to leave a smear of blood at her temple, then reached into the chest cavity with both hands to pull out a heart nearly the size of her head. She gave the girl next to her a dimpled smile, which the other girl returned while making some quip that caused the first one to giggle.

Just in time for Halloween.

[dariathalon]

I have to say that skull is one of the weirdest items I've seen in 4e. A minor action power to kill yourself and someone else (save ends)!?!? Do you even get saves when you're dead?