8:32am 2019-11-09 Smon Has entered the room
JamesDevil: We ended in another room
chris107: Good job. I have 2 spell slots left!
Smon: Morning all
JamesDevil: Morning smn
chris107: Morning Simon
Smon: Jorian says he's sick & may not turn up
JamesDevil: aw
chris107: Poor Jorian. I fear he is not in robust health.
JamesDevil: *James sends good vibes*
chris107: That tickled
chris107: At least Drak will survive the boss encounter...
chris107: Anyone heard from Ferg?
Keelia: one more minute, sorry
Smon: Fergus told me a few weeks ago he'd need to drop out as baby on the way! Also getting married!
JamesDevil:
chris107: Congratulations to him!
JamesDevil: WOOT!
JamesDevil: Grats to him!
Smon: Fergus is my oldest friend and first memory from when I was about 1 year old and he was a smaller baby banging spoon on table wanting MORE! So v happy for him.
chris107: hehe
JamesDevil:
Keelia: Congrats to him!!
Smon: GM: last session http://smonscurseofthecrimsonthrone.blogspot.com/2019/11/ep-96-abysium-vault.html
chris107: Aye... One more door left...
chris107: To Xin!
Smon: When you return to the Abysium vault (final vault) do you have any way to protect from the radiation poisoning?
chris107: And the radioactive room to pass through again to get there.
JamesDevil: Claw will run through it
JamesDevil: DC14 CON save right?
JamesDevil: thats my bonus amount ^^
Smon: OK you all ready to go forward again?
chris107: If we all stick close our saves should be good. I've shepherded two spell slots but no anti poison spells on my list.
JamesDevil: did we finish freeyng our loot forward?
JamesDevil: ferrying*
JamesDevil: if so then yes
Keelia: I can give anyone that needs it resistance
chris107: ready and willing
Keelia: For saving throws
chris107: Is that adv?
Smon: You'll take 5 environment damage in the Sicatite vault, either hot or cold
chris107: That would be most welcome.
Keelia: No, it's an extra d4
chris107: still fail on a 1 then
chris107: 179/184
JamesDevil: Claw has all the remaining loot he can carry then dumps the rest on the others
JamesDevil: we swapped the thingy didn't we?
Keelia: Q will take EE form resistant to poison
chris107: we did
JamesDevil: you should be at full hp
Smon: Then the Abysium vault which has a door on to near the apex of the Crystal Palace - Malassandra remembers there used to be even more levels above, but looks like they were completely destroyed by the explosion when Xin died.
chris107: Do you still want to avoid it, James?
JamesDevil: nah, i'm good
JamesDevil: 323/325
Keelia: Worse comes to worse, I've got some greater restoration spell slots left. I've been saving as much as I can...
chris107: So we pass the Sihedron on init order. All included this week?
JamesDevil: I may as well give the enemies a slight advantage
Smon: You'll be on full hp right now from passing the Sihed around
chris107: (excepting emergencies)
chris107: 184/184
JamesDevil: yep, so back and forth today between you and Q
chris107: So not to Claw as usual?
chris107: Cool
JamesDevil: not in combat no
Keelia: Q will tap both with resistance for the hell of it.
chris107: Thanks
JamesDevil: I already have resistance but thank you anyway#
JamesDevil: *hug*
Smon: GM: With your excess loot safely stored in the Noqual vault where you defeated the elder crystallises, Malassandra activates the floor Sihedron and you return to the Siccatite vault...
Smon: /roll d2
Smon rolls 1d2 and gets: 2
chris107: "Quickly! To the door."
chris107: She points.
JamesDevil: Claw charges forward and boots it open
Smon: It's icy cold (5 dmg, resistance applies) - you activate floor Sihed again and re-enter the final Vault with the Siccatite clouds, where you defeated the Marilith.
JamesDevil: >.>
Smon: You head for the door on the far wall - everyone make a DC 14 CON save unless immune to Poison
chris107 rolls 1d4 and gets: 4,
JamesDevil rolls 1d20+14 and gets: 18, (+14) = 32
chris107 rolls 1d20+19 and gets: 11, (+19) = 30
Keelia: immune
chris107: Keeping the S moving to heal any inflicted wounds
Keelia: Q passes it to Claw first (since we're not yet in combat)
Keelia: Claw can pass it to M
Smon: Maps - http://smonscurseofthecrimsonthrone.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-crystal-palace-of-xin.html - on the bottom map you should currently be in the green vault on the far left. Claw boots the crystal door open, revealing a long passage that Malassandra recalls should lead to Xin's personal workshops.
chris107: M to Q
chris107: 90' long?
Smon: Once you are some distance down the 90' long tunnel you are out of the abysium poison and start feeling better
Smon: yup
chris107: (That red circle looks dangerous )
Smon: In the tunnel you're able to heal back to full hp, and didn't take any lasting radiation damage. The tunnel ends at another black crystal sealed door, of the kind Claw's boot has proved an unfallible key.
JamesDevil: >:)
chris107: Yay! for the beastly boot of Claw.
JamesDevil: ooc Claw is STILL naked btw
JamesDevil: 'Knock, knock!'
JamesDevil: Claw boots
chris107: Mallassandra really wishes she'd chosen Minor Illusion as her cantrip
Keelia: You can use the Cloak of Resistance in my bag as a toga?
JamesDevil: hmm, ok
chris107: She has mage hand, will that cover it?
Keelia: Alternatively, Q has some Common Clothes in her bag. I'm not sure they would fit (Simon?)
Smon: Mal - the red circles should just be another one of those magic stairways like the one in the throneroom.
chris107: phew
JamesDevil: @K they would have been vaporized from the same explosion i think
Smon: Claw could make a ragged loincloth if he wants to look less Den.
8:56am 2019-11-09 joriandrake Has entered the room
Smon: Hi Jorian - you playing?
chris107: morning Jorian.
Keelia: It's a magic item? Didn't think they evaporated so easily?
JamesDevil: Claw makes a loose fitting Loincloth
Smon: Normally I'll tell you if magic item destroyed.
JamesDevil: @K common clothes arn't
joriandrake: hello, ye i feel betters, woke up 3 minutes ago, need to get a offe then i play
joriandrake: yes
Smon: OK J - Drakhaien will need to make a CON save DC 14 for passing through the Abysium vault again to the 90' tunnel beyond. He gets +d4 due to a Resistance spell from Quillax I'll say.
Smon: NB Keelia Resistance is Concentration so only 1 target at a time, but I think Drak needs it the most!
Smon: Drak also can benefit from Mal's save aura which is +6 I think.
chris107: it is
Smon: GM: At the far north end of the tunnel from the Vaults to the upper levels of the main palace, the Boot of Claw does its work once more; the door shatters, revealing a large, cluttered workshop... (tbc)
joriandrake: ok, back with coffee, a sec
joriandrake rolls 1d4 and gets: 4,
Smon: The chamber is about 50' across, with another door opposite, but much wider, over 100' easily.
Gears, levers, cogs, bars, and other construct
components lie scattered haphazardly throughout this
chamber, creating an uneven, shifting surface to stand
on. Some of these components are barely larger than
an inch, while the largest measure 10 feet in diameter.
Crystal shelves are littered with thousands
of molds and castings of intricately
engraved armored plates and humanlike
appendages, while heaps of shattered
fragments of transparent crystal lie
scattered everywhere. Runes f low like
thick liquid along the crystal walls, casting
strange shadows among the debris.
joriandrake rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 18, (+12) = 30
joriandrake: ok, so only 1 missing since first failed save
Smon: Drak feels fine. He is with the others as they enter the cluttered workshop.
chris107: Can we pick our way across to the door?
Smon: @Keelia Drakhaien is -1 CON due to radiation poison, do you want to heal him w a spell?
chris107: (keeping the S moving)
Keelia: If he's not continually dropping HP, I'd prefer to save the spell slot for the big bad...
Keelia: but if he's in danger from it, yes
Smon: (Checking book it looks like it would need a Greater Restoration level 5, so may be best to save it yup)
JamesDevil: Claw will carefully pick him his way across the room to the door
Smon: He's stable at -1 CON
Smon: GM: You begin to pick your way carefully through the scattered debris. Quillax has both Arcana & Engineers' Tools prof yes?
chris107: M at his shoulder.
joriandrake: the con loss moved Drakhaien from 14 to 13 CON, lowering his max HP aswell by 20 hp
Keelia: Yes, she does
Smon: GM: As you move through the chamber, you all have another vision:
In a chamber lit by bright forge-fires, Xin labors alone.
Rune-engraved gears and intricate armored plates of all
shapes and sizes swirl in the space around the old king, the
pieces floating into place with every fall of his rune-scarred
hammer. With each new blow, the stooped and aging
emperor hisses between clenched teeth. “Lies. Deceit. My
outcast court spoils and rots with treachery, but not so my
new children of metal from the skies!” Laying his hammer
aside, Xin stands upright, his arcane susurrations forming
glyphs of power that settle on the newly created clockwork
soldier. With several twists of a key that seems carved
roughly out of stone, Xin speaks again: “Rise, my servant.
Take your place among your brothers.” The clockwork
soldier stands, casting loyal, lifeless eyes down on its
creator. Xin points a crooked finger, and a magical portal
splits reality, revealing a thousand identical creations
assembled beyond. Xin rests a heavy hand upon the
anvil, breathing deeply with strain and exhaustion from
countless hours of such creation, before picking up his
hammer and striking hot metal once more.
Keelia: Q pays close and careful attention to his voice
Smon: As the vision of the forging of the Xin Legionnaires fades, Quillax has a chance to contemplate the debris. She has a feeling that something far greater than the Legionnaires was forged here - a Construct of almost unimaginable power.
chris107: M sheds a single tear to see her Lord so again.
JamesDevil: "looks he made ALOT of those things"
Smon: It would take some time to sift through the debris to find out any more about what it might be, though.
chris107: "Those scheming rune-lords must pay for their treachery!
Keelia: She shares her feeling with the others about the uber construct
joriandrake: (current max hp 123)
Keelia: She steps forward and starts to poke around.
chris107: Does M have any recollection of an uber-construct?
Smon: GM: Are the rest of you waiting while Quillax investigates?
joriandrake: Drakh will help her search (and offer Help action for her, if Quillax needs a roll)
chris107: aye
JamesDevil: "Uberstruct eh? do you want to try find out more in here?
Smon: Malassandra - no, it must have been a secret project of Xin?
chris107: cool
chris107: she mentions this.
Smon: GM: If Drak has Arcana prof he can Help Quillax, giving her Advantage on her check - either Arcana or Investigate, Q's choice.
JamesDevil: Claw doesn't need rest, he'll re-jig the loot in his bag
Keelia: "Look for books, plans, anything that might look like a magical super construct"
Keelia: Arcana is probably more appropriate (and higher )
Keelia rolls 1d20+15 and gets: 10, (+15) = 25
Keelia rolls 1d20+15 and gets: 10, (+15) = 25
JamesDevil:
Keelia: Apparently, no, that's the extent of her ability to search for magic plans
joriandrake: (and yes he has the prof)
Smon: GM: The wall writing is ancient Thassilonian formulae in Xin's hand. The pieces - it's all starting to come together (pass)
Keelia: Q wanders over to read it
Smon: the construct created
here incorporated elements of all seven
skymetals, and likely had an element of
animation via a captured soul of immense
power since fragments of crystal bear certain
similarities to what one might expect of
components from a spell like magic jar
or trap the soul, only much more potent...
joriandrake: If there was a vision an enemy might be nearby, or another construct the EMperor posessed
Keelia: She drop EE form to speak "Mal, take a look at this,"
chris107: M tries to keep everyone inside her aura.
joriandrake: Drakh will carefully move with Q and Mal
Keelia: "Eh, lot of magic schools would kick him out for trapping a soul and binding it to a seven sky metal monster."
JamesDevil: "A Soul Jar eh? Wasn't that ghost thing saying something about making a new shell for himself or something?
chris107: M looks
JamesDevil: "
Keelia: "Pretty sure that would be an expellable offence."
Keelia: (Did he pull a voldemort and split his soul crystal? That's why we've seen ghosts of him?)
chris107: (Could well be)
JamesDevil: (Who are we gonna call then?)
Smon: It looks to Quillax from the writing and diagrams that Xin was creating some kind of uber powerful control automaton bonded with his own soul(?) that would command his armies of Legionnaires. It was designed to accommodate a living soul though, whereas Xin appears to be currently (un)dead.
Keelia: (I think the ghostbusters would take too long so we call us )
joriandrake: I assumed the Emperor rather madea golem body for itself?
chris107: Any sign of the element that was to host the soul?
Keelia: Q has a bad thought. "How hard it is to forcibly take a soul? And Mal, how do we make sure he doesn't do that to you?"
Smon: The construct itself is not here - this looks to be mostly discarded elements.
joriandrake: Drakh tries to observe if the discarded elements are really discarded, or just deactivated, and if anything there is worth something
chris107: "My Goddess will protect me." She says with the utter certainty of the zealot.
Smon: Malassandra, you know that Xin was assassinated by a mighty rune giant sent by the Rune Lords, that pierced the Crystal Palace's defences. But something caused a massive explosion, devastating the palace.
JamesDevil: "And if she doesn't I'll make it quick"
Smon: Mal you can roll Investigate DC 15.
Keelia: Q will poke around some more to look for anything related to soul crystals, jars, or the army, to find a weakness or build herself a suit of armour."
chris107: Possibly his 'soul gem?'
JamesDevil: Claw smiles evilly
chris107 rolls 1d20 and gets: 20,
chris107:
joriandrake: good enuff
Smon: cool
Keelia: Q figures she has a good chance of recognising a reliquary since she had that last undead ass obsessed with her ages ago. She remembers she still needs to go back and deal with that house...)
JamesDevil: ooc eh? did I miss that?
Keelia: (wasn't that this game - way back when - with the lich house)
Smon: GM: It occurs to Mal that Xin's spirit survived death somehow - could it have fled into this control automaton? But Quillax can see it was intended to hold a living spirit, not a dead soul. The device ought then to be Vulnerable to positive energy, even if active.
joriandrake: last undead ass?
Keelia: (don't worry about it )
chris107: Right up her street then. She tells the others.
joriandrake: (radiant damage?)
JamesDevil: "How would a flaming sword fair against this metal monstrosity Q?"
Keelia: "Less well then it did the last suit of armour downstairs," she supposes
Smon: GM: Q knows constructs tend to be fire resistant.
Keelia: "Seven sky metals will make it resistant to much of our damage; it's not alive. But an undead soul in a living soul chamber gives us at least a chance."
joriandrake: and one was immune, even healing I believe in the cold/hot vault from fire
Keelia: "It will be resistant to fire, cold, poison, even ghost."
Smon: GM: There is enough material here that Quillax could potentially build herself another Construct to match Clank & the Librarian, but it would take several weeks.
JamesDevil: I have a life stealing greataxe or a regualr great axe, not sure which would be better :/
joriandrake: "I got nothing for ghost bustin" Drakh notes "Except Chill Touch minor spell. It might be immune to that though" he then adds
Keelia: "Life stealing, I suppose? At least that is magical which will prevent it from reducing the damage."
JamesDevil: "Necro on an undead though...."
Keelia: "Avoid Fire and Ice. It will probably be resistant to necro - it's a metal shell"
joriandrake: (yeah, its how the 5e spell works, and even if immune to the damage, it might stop any regeneration of the undead-machine)
JamesDevil: "k, regular great axe it is"
Keelia: "It is a soul in a suit though, so psychic may work when it would not normally. Blinding worked before."
joriandrake: "Well, I can try and stab it really hard, in weap spots" the elf shrugs
joriandrake: weak*
Keelia: Anyone have any adamantine?
joriandrake: nope
chris107: Only a suit of armour.
JamesDevil: "Only in dragon teeth form"
Keelia: Or any weapons made of sky metal?
chris107: We have the swords from last week
JamesDevil: "Does Silicite count?"
chris107: They mix each of the elements.
joriandrake: We have a lot of skymetal material & loot, we could move back to town to leave it there and get adamantine if we need it
Keelia: "We need those. That will give us the best chance in terms of weaponry, I think."
Smon: So the swords are +2 longswords that do +2d6 combined energy damage.
Keelia: Simon, is the forge here still usable?
JamesDevil: i'm prof qwith smith tools if that helps
Smon: There is no forge here - either Xin used magic to melt & forge metal, or the materials were forged elsewhere. After 15 minutes you think you've uncovered everything about the workshop you are likely to.
joriandrake: I assume some of the vaults may have been used to craft the metals
chris107: Onto the next door?
Keelia: I think back quickly to get those swords?
chris107: We risk poisonings
Keelia: Q can do it in EE form.
JamesDevil: they are in the bag with me
chris107: How many of us use long swords?
joriandrake: Drakh readies bow as he notes while he is trained with the use of longswords he dislikes them, as they lack true finesse
Smon: GM: Malassandra recalls there was a Foundry in the lower (now flooded) parts of the Palace.
joriandrake: (I could use it, but can't sneak attack with it)
chris107: And M has the Sun Sword. All radiant damage.
Keelia: M should stick with Sun Sword. Claw and Jorian should have the sky metal swords as backup. Q will stick to elemental forms for now
Keelia: She's likely to be the main target - he doesn't like her
chris107: M reckons all the real action is going to take place within that red sihedron
Smon: Q is a rival techno-mage
Keelia:
joriandrake: THankfully Xin still doesn'tseem to have noticed Drakh also to be a caster
Smon:
Smon: Is Claw booting the far door now?
Keelia: Q retakes EE form before he does
joriandrake: can we perhaps fix a couple golems to be on our side, or maybe release some prisoner or such to aid us? last time we fought the demon but something else?
JamesDevil: Claw will hold off for now
JamesDevil: "So whats the plan?"
Smon: ok
chris107: We head through the next door and use the red stairway?
joriandrake: Drakh takes the usual Eternal Entertainer form an follows the others
JamesDevil: "Ok, here we go"
JamesDevil: Claw boots the door open
Keelia: Probably better to head to where we think the boss is before we're all out of spells. We can come back and clean up later (Q wants some of the constructs to help guard her library)
chris107: Claw distributing the swords to those who want them.
Smon: The crystal door shatters before the Boot of Claw...
joriandrake: (I got you K, but I worry once the 'boss' is gone the whole place will disappear. So we may want to transport the loot and such to safety before that battle)
Smon: Beyond is a second huge chamber, 50' deep and over 100' wide...
The walls are now shattered and
crumbling, scorched black in places while still smoldering in
others with the glowing embers from a dying fire. A smoky
haze hangs low to the floor, and red-hot crystal shards pop
and burst here and there on the walls, sending out tiny
burning slivers in all directions. A twenty-foot-square slab
of stone inscribed with glowing runes (magic stairwell) sits in the middle of
the room’s floor, while sprawled to the west, where the fire
damage seems to be the most recent, lies the blackened body
of a forty-foot-tall giant dressed in exotic armor and clutching
an immense sword. Mal knows this must be the Slayer of Xin!
Keelia: (a valid concern)
chris107: eek
JamesDevil: How big of a sword?
Keelia: grab the sword
joriandrake: it is stil alive?
JamesDevil: lets find out
Smon: /roll d100
Smon rolls 1d100 and gets: 25,
JamesDevil: Claw rushes over and grabs the sword
joriandrake: please don't kill it if still alive, amybe we can ask it to kil Xin, again
chris107: Blackened body kind of gives it away
joriandrake: nothing is certain in this place
Smon: As you enter the room, a random gout of semi molten crystal bursts from the far wall in Claw's direction...
Smon: /roll d20+15
Smon rolls 1d20+15 and gets: 15, (+15) = 30
Smon: hits AC 30
JamesDevil: o yea, thats a hit
chris107: "We need to get up those stairs quickly!"
Smon: Claw takes 21 piercing & 21 fire (res halve to 10+10 = 20)
JamesDevil: "I want that damn sword!"
JamesDevil: piercing eh? interesting
chris107: 40' tall giant so how big is the sword?
joriandrake: what may the sword weight?
Smon: As Claw reaches for the 20' long sword you experience a final vision...
Smon: Final Vision—The
Assassination
Bent with age, the once-imperious emperor of Thassilon
seems on the verge of crumbling under the weight of his
elaborate robes as he finishes the final touch, polishing
the immense central crystal of a sparkling three-legged,
four-armed war machine. He pats a coppery metal panel
on the machine’s side and smiles tiredly.
“Anon, I shed my feeble body at last for this new life!”
he sighs. “One final rest to prepare the final apotheosis,
and those seven traitors shall know their invulnerable
lord’s displeasure. And Thassilon... my Thassilon... shall be
rekindled.” In the vision, Xin gathers up the seven shards of
the Sihedron, then descends a magical staircase into
a lower chamber, but as he crosses its expanse, a
dark shadow falls over him.
A massive giant, his black flesh pulsing with
powerful red runes, suddenly manifests behind
the emperor, heaving a gigantic sword over
his head. Xin whirls, seems to recognize the
giant, and snarls: “So this is how my loyalty
is repaid—in my own blood, even as I forsake
mortality!” He stumbles forward as the
giant’s sword shatters the weakened
palace’s crystal floor.
Calmly—smiling, even—Xin reaches
out a bony hand as the giant prepares
to strike again. “You will die. But I
will live again!” Holding high the
fragments of the Shattered Star,
Xin closes his eyes and hurls them
at the giant, and a blinding white fire
consumes all.
Keelia: (want sihedron?)
Smon: As the vision ends, the dead giant's remains stir, but Claw is already reaching for its sword...
Smon: Claw I'll give you a free opposed Athletics check to wrest the sword out of its grip as it wakes up.
Keelia: (necromancy )
JamesDevil: ooc no thxs Keelia
JamesDevil Rolls 1d20+17x2 and gets:
8 (+17) = 25
19 (+17) = 36
joriandrake: so the assassin is alive, or somesuch
Keelia: (OK now in combat, so no S to James unless he asks)
Smon: How do get +17? +6 Prof +10 STR?
JamesDevil: 30 str
Smon: 30 STR = +10
chris107: (Cool, any one wanting to use their reaction should also pass up the S that turn)
JamesDevil: hmm, odd
joriandrake: I ask for its use once, so I can get a freeby imp.invisibility out of the S
JamesDevil: the app i'm using is being weird, nvm +16 then i'll make a note of it
Smon: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/dc/9c/05/dc9c05b0c0e52abccfe07268a90612fe.jpg
Smon: Shasthaak's roll:
joriandrake: if we really fight, but I still wonder if even this thing is undead or such we couldn't persuade to fight against Xin
Smon: /roll d20+6x2
Smon Rolls 1d20+6x2 and gets:
6 (+6) = 12
12 (+6) = 18
Smon: sorry +16 not +6!
Smon: So got a 28
JamesDevil: ah! i rolled my saving throw which is 17 because of ring of prot, thats why
Smon: It gets up, roaring angrily, as Claw rips the 20' long katana from its undead grip!
chris107: yay!
JamesDevil: "Lets do this!"
joriandrake: oh
Smon: "HOW DARE YOU!!" it yells in Thassilonian, bare-handed. "XIN-SCUM!"
joriandrake: oh, its a misunderstanding
chris107: Mal leaps at it with the Sun Sword
joriandrake: (I assume Mal being with us, a former general or such doesn't help us find allies)
JamesDevil: ooc smn is this even wield-able?
Smon: It looks down at Claw and yells in Giant. "GIVE ME BACK THE SWORD, CATAMITE OF XIN!"
chris107: (Paladins are not much in for undead allies)
joriandrake: (I assume that means I shouldn't even bother to try talk to it)
Smon: It's a Gargantuan weapon so Claw would not get Prof bonus if using it.
JamesDevil: k
Smon: ok roll init everyone
JamesDevil: only +6 anyway
JamesDevil Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets:
9 (+2) = 11
11 (+2) = 13
chris107 Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets:
14 (+2) = 16
9 (+2) = 11
Smon: /roll d20
Keelia rolls 1d20+3 and gets: 12, (+3) = 15
Smon rolls 1d20 and gets: 4,
joriandrake rolls 1d20+5 and gets: 14, (+5) = 19
joriandrake: ok I wil lask for the S then
Keelia: Q drops EE form and shouts in Thassilonian. "Peace!! We are not allies of Xin! We are fighting to stop him!"
Smon: The undead Xin-slaying giant seems confdused by Quillax's words. #19 Drak what are you doing?
Keelia: "We need your help!"
joriandrake: (Sadly K I assume the Paladin won't allow us to get the undead assassin as an ally)
Smon:
joriandrake: Drak waits to see if he gets the S
Smon: Does Q pass the Sihedron to Drak w her Reaction?
Keelia: "You stopped him once but he has taken the form of a construct."
Keelia: (Not yet, she's trying to calm things down)
joriandrake: (I won't engage it yet but I want to gain distance and become invisible)
Keelia: "And we need all the help we can get." She shoots a sharp look at Mal and Drak.
Smon: OK Drak you can duck back into the Workshop & turn Invis.
Smon: #16 Mal your turn
Smon: /roll d100
chris107: "From this!? It is this Giant that caused my master to fall in the first place!"
Smon rolls 1d100 and gets: 85,
joriandrake: ok, drakhaien bonus action dashes and moves for a total of 90 feet at best to be behind everyone else compared from the undead, he readies action: shoot at undead if someone of the allies attacks in melee
joriandrake: end turn
chris107: "It is a thing of the Rune Lords!"
chris107: end turn.
joriandrake: I wanted to use the sihedron's invisibility spell, so I can't do it now
Keelia: "Mal," Q snaps. "Xin is currently an undead soul trapped in a body of metal."
chris107: (I reckon it would take mal 6 seconds or so to say all that )
Smon: GM: Drak retreats back into the workshop about 30' where he can keep line of sight on giant and readies a shot. Yes?
joriandrake: yes
chris107: (I'm convinced, guys. Just got to get mal convinced IC)
Keelia: She says more gently, "Would that really be the end he would have wanted when he was sane)
Smon: Is Mal attacking on her turn? No?
chris107: No
Keelia: "Would you leave his soul trapped in a hell of hatred and metal?"
joriandrake: Drakh could try a persuasion roll on Mal, as person I am too tired, feeling bad to atempt a proper roleplay persuasion
Smon: OK, Quillax roll Persuasion please (DC 10 vs giant, not sure vs Mal. and I have a sense of deja vu here)
joriandrake: (Quillax got this it seems anyway)
Keelia: "He should be free to go onto the afterlife and rest."
Keelia rolls 1d20+3 and gets: 2, (+3) = 5
chris107: Mal's head drops slightly. She knows Q is right. her Emperor is long gone. Leaving only his mad mind behind.
Keelia: (fuck my cha score )
joriandrake: (or not)
Smon: "ENOUGH OF YOUR XIN-LIES!"
Smon: #13 Claw
JamesDevil: ooc smn what are the stats of the sword?
joriandrake: "look, whatever Xin was once to you now he just has to be killed, doesn't matter how or by whom" Drakh yells it into the room frustrated
JamesDevil: "its beyond saving now"
chris107: (Please see above)
Keelia: Wait!
Keelia: I forgot I had timeglass still on
Smon: It's a +3 gargantuan longsword (so 4d8+3+STR+Rage), Claw is not currently attuned to its other powers.
Smon:
Keelia: That gives me adv to ability checks
Smon: ok
joriandrake: (yay, good luck K)
chris107: good luck
Keelia rolls 1d20+3 and gets: 1, (+3) = 4
chris107:
Smon: LOL!
joriandrake: somehow I expected it
Keelia: WTF
Keelia: I have such a good argument
Smon: Time seems to flicker and shift for a moment... to no avail.
chris107:
JamesDevil: ok, so attack roll is /roll 1d20+19?
Smon: Good argument - yes, hence DC 10 'easy'.
Smon: Claw you would attack w giant sword at +13 - +10 STR, +3 weapon
JamesDevil rolls 1d20+19 and gets: 2, (+19) = 21
joriandrake: (This is like politics, people don't usually vote capable people into power, but charismatic ones)
Smon: 2+13 = 15, miss
Keelia: (Note to self, start improving CHA score with next epic boons...)
Smon:
JamesDevil: aw man, next attack
Smon: You might want to take the 3 skill proficiency boon Q!
JamesDevil: screw it, reckless
JamesDevil Rolls 1d20+19x2 and gets:
6 (+19) = 25
3 (+19) = 22
Keelia: I think so!
Smon: GM You must have missed me saying you don't get Prof bonus w 20' long sword James
Smon: You roll at +13 so 6+13 = 19, miss
JamesDevil: ah shit
chris107: (Mal will try her considerable powers of persuasion on her turn?)
JamesDevil: end turn
Smon: #4 The Rune Giant Assassin glowers and raises its hands, a massive devastating blast of flame billows out catching everyone but Drakhaien, who is too far back.
chris107: (With the S/humility she's at +16)
chris107 rolls 1d20+16 and gets: 15, (+16) = 31
Smon: /roll 18d6
Smon rolls 18d6 and gets: 1, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 6, 2, 1, 3, 3, 3, 4, = 62
Keelia: that will be ouchy
chris107: (that's the save by the way )
joriandrake: I think my readied action should've triggered when it got engaged in melee?
chris107: assuming it's a Dex save?
Smon: 62 fire damage, DC 18 DEX save for half. Drak you can roll your Readied shot
joriandrake: does it count as a shot with adv or normal?
chris107: Reaction, Shield Mistress. 0 damage.
JamesDevil Rolls 1d20+2x2 and gets:
19 (+2) = 21
12 (+2) = 14
Smon: (BTW that fire blast is nothing compared to what he does w the sword!)
Keelia Rolls 1d20+12x2 and gets:
5 (+12) = 17
18 (+12) = 30
JamesDevil:
chris107: 184/184HP
Smon: normal shot Drak, can sneak att as Claw adjacent
Keelia: He has Disadvantage on Q for attacks (when he attacks)
joriandrake rolls 1d20+11 and gets: 4, (+11) = 15
joriandrake: hm, thats it for 1st round folks
Smon: The arrow pings off the giant's near-impenetrable armour. His head brushes the ceiling 40' above.
Smon: R2 #19 Drak then #16 Mal (I'll allow Mal a Persuasion attempt if not attacking)
chris107: "STOP THIS!" bellows mal. In an attempt to... well stop the fight
chris107: in Thessalonian
joriandrake: can I please have the S?
Smon: #19 Drak is still demanding the Sihedron.
chris107: (It would help mal more on her persuade roll?)
Keelia: Q will pass it
Smon: #16 Mal roll Persuasion DC 15
Smon: or Intimidate DC 20
Keelia: to M first who can pass it to Drak
joriandrake: I got it with reaction, I wil ltell my turn orders
joriandrake: I shouldn't have lost my turn?
chris107 rolls 1d20+12 and gets: 9, (+12) = 21
chris107: Go back to Jorian then. It's cool.
Smon: Drak you need to tell me your action.
joriandrake: I wanted to, but I asked if I even have my turn still to tell
Smon: Mal passes the Sihedron to Drak. Hurry up & post your action Drak or you lose it.
joriandrake: Drakh got the Sihedron, he uses Humility to gain access to greater invisibility, casts it, passes S to Mal, end turn
chris107: (mal never had the S)
chris107: (that roll was just her natural charm )
Smon: (Q passed it to Mal)
joriandrake: I thought Q passed it to Drakhaien
Smon: OK Mal regains the Sihedron. The rune giant pauses its attacks.
Smon: Q passed it to Mal giving Mal the option to pass to Dr.
joriandrake: ok, I pass on my turn, Ialready have a head ache dont need to double it
Smon: (Drak goes invis)
joriandrake: heck, brb going to get a pill
Smon: /roll d100
Smon rolls 1d100 and gets: 90,
JamesDevil: brb, bio
10:15am 2019-11-09 chris107 Has exited the room
10:16am 2019-11-09 chris107 Has entered the room
chris107: "You failed so many centuries ago. Do you want to spend eternity regretting that?" (Mal chooses humility)
Smon: The Rune Giant pauses, looking down at you all. "I do not understand. You do not serve Xin? How long was I unconscious?" He looks down at his scorched undead body. "Hmm."
chris107: then reacts the S to D
JamesDevil: back
Keelia: Q tilts her head a little, "Couple hundred years."
chris107: "You can help us lay Xin's spirit to rest once and for all now."
Smon: "200 years... I have ...slept... a long time. You are Malassandra. You have the Sihedron. But Xin still lives?"
Keelia: (Q would like the S to help with the dmg)
Keelia: "Not so much living as existing. He's been a bit naughty with the magic."
chris107: "Xin's spirit lives. Your duty is unfinished. "
Smon: "His spirit? He died? And I died too... but now I am reborn. To finish the mission. For Sorshen and the Runelords!" he grins evilly.
chris107: "And I am Malassandra. You may battle me when your work is done."
joriandrake: (back - if I have it, Drakh will pass Sihedron if combat continues to Quillax)
Smon: (you are out of combat)
chris107: "Should you wish it."
joriandrake: OK, Drakh keeps concentrating on invisibility just in case and moves S to Q
Smon: Shasthaak observes Malassandra. "You were always the Most Loyal to the Failed King. Yet now you seek to destroy him? I do not understand..."
Keelia: Q then passes it to Claw.
Smon: /roll d100
Smon rolls 1d100 and gets: 43,
chris107: "He is insane. More powerful than ever but mad. Your duty still remains clear."
Smon: GM: The walls are still popping sending globules of molten metal across the room like spears - the last few have not come near you, luckily.
JamesDevil: "Are we good then?"
Keelia: Q eyes the walls with a frown.
chris107: "Quickly! Up the stairs, Giant!"
Smon: The undead giant turns to Claw. "Very well, my duty to Sorshen is clear. Return my sword and I shall fight by your side."
joriandrake: (Drakhaien puts on nightjaunt mask while invisible, starting the 1 hour proces of attachment)
JamesDevil: Claw heads up the stairs
chris107: (and the rest of us )
Keelia: (James, pass the S back ?)
JamesDevil: Claw hands the sword back
joriandrake: Drakh follows them invisibl
JamesDevil: "that is a fine weapon
JamesDevil: may it serve you well in the battle ahead"
chris107: M heads up the stairs too. providing the giant does.
Smon: GM: You hurry onto the stairs-square, Mal activates it and the stairs rise up towards the ceiling. Claw hands back the sword. "Finer than you know." The giant follows you up the stairs in a couple enormous steps, to the Final Level....
Smon: GM: OK you just earned an Epic Boon!
JamesDevil: ooc out of interest what does that sword do when is attuned? or would you prefer not to say?
joriandrake: (yay, we got an ally! at least for a while, unsure if he won't try to kill us after Xin too, after all undead but still an assassin, might not want witnesses)
Smon: +2 attribute or a Feat.
Keelia: Whoo hoo!
chris107: yay!
joriandrake: yay
Smon: "My sword is the Slayer of Men."
joriandrake: thanks for the game and the boon
JamesDevil: o, nice
joriandrake: Simon as we discussed it last time, Drakhaien takes the +10 feet range and bonus action casting of Mage Hand for the boon
JamesDevil: "Claw nods in approval"
Smon: OOC when Attuned it does 8d6 slashing + 8d6 fire +3 + STR etc...
JamesDevil: O.o
Smon: For Shas works out as 71 dmg/hit
JamesDevil: I instantly regret handing it back
chris107: That us done for the day?
Smon: I'll describe the next chamber for you (end at 10.30)
joriandrake: I would die in about 2 hits, if I would not have lost the 1 CON then Drakh would be on 1 hp after two hits still
JamesDevil: meh, 35 a hit to me
Smon: GM: You walk up into an irregular chamber about 40' across on average, with a door in the opposite (south) wall. throne made of pale white
metal sits to the north,
with a rune-etched plate
floating lazily in the air
before it.
Smon: Can roll Arcana DC 20 if Prof, Mal has advtg
chris107: not prof
Keelia Rolls 1d20+15x2 and gets:
12 (+15) = 27
5 (+15) = 20
joriandrake: ok
joriandrake rolls 1d20+10 and gets: 3, (+10) = 13
joriandrake: 20
joriandrake: as I can't have a roll lower than 10
Smon: Quillax & Drak reckons the throne & plate is one of Xin's legendary Spellwells, this one keyed to Evocation. It could be used to help fine tune the process of soul transfer....
Keelia: Q shares that with the others
Smon: The throne is of Inubrix but only worth ca 1000gp.
joriandrake: oh neat, I remember the other one which Drakhaien tamed, spells can be looted!
Smon: GM: Beyond the western door you hear a clattering sound, as of hurried and urgent mechanical activity...
Smon: Something tells you your goal is VERY near!
Keelia: Q takes EE form.
chris107:
JamesDevil: Claw smiles
Smon: Shasthaak looks grim. "Xin waits beyond that door. I can feel it!" He raises his sword. "Beloved Sorshen, be with me now!"
Smon: end session
JamesDevil: "Finally, an actual challenge!"
Keelia:
Keelia: Nice one
Smon: OK no game next week, next in 2 weeks
chris107: Thanks Simon, guys
Keelia: OK
JamesDevil: thxs smn
joriandrake: thanks
joriandrake: bye everyone
chris107: Plenty of time to choose our boons
chris107: Have a great two weeks all!
JamesDevil: i'll be taking +2 to CON btw
joriandrake: Simon can Drakh attempt to sit in this throne too, and tap the power?
Smon: Well done spotting you could win over the undead giant, & doing it
joriandrake: I honestly assumed Mal would just fight it whatever we do as with the demon before, glad it was different
Smon: Drak sits on the throne - he doesn't sense any power to tap.
Keelia:
chris107: Mal will kill him afterwards. It's the right thing to do
Smon:
joriandrake: still, it may try to kill us later too
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