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The half-dragon's head flies off at such velocity that it smashes into the nearby shrine of tiamat, staining it with thick draconic blood. "Well, look at the time. Congratulations. We'll just be leaving..." "BLASPHEMY! SLAY THEM!!" "For Tiamat!!"" (ready action: hold person) 11/26 (blessed) 27/29 (blessed) 24/27 dodging (blessed) 21/24 13/38 (giant spider) x2
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Zedekiah 24 HP // 20 AC With the duel officially over, he charges the man who had readied himself to magically protect it from interruption, commenting, "I think it's time you put that away, don't you?" Drawing his blade as he moves, he begins carving through the man, piece by piece. _____________________________________________ Spell Slots: [1] 2/3 Prepared: Expeditious Retreat / Feather Fall / Longstrider / Shield / Sleep Expended Abilities: --- Portent (Day 5):
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 Janelle Nel subtly taps Jared on the shoulder, points at the enemy spellcaster, then slashes the air. If the entertainer could hit him with one of those rays before he cast his spell, it could be disrupted. That might save Zed some grief. Meanwhile, she had her own avenging to do. Linan's life was snuffed out on the orders of some invisible commander hiding behind an army of henchmen, with champions dueling and cowards dealing to pointlessly pad and protect their egos. Nel would show Frulam how it felt when the roles were changed. She skitters behind a stone pillar and returns to human form, back up against the cover while she strikes an flint to an oily steel. Knowing her enemies would expect a white spider to come back into vision on the other side of the occlusion, she doubles back around it in an instant and points at her armored target accusingly, meeting her gaze and intoning in Druidic, "Roast in your shell." There would be no running from this reckoning. Heat Metal Damage: 2d8 16  30/30 HP; 17 AC; 3d8 HD; 1/4, 0/2 Spells; Entangle, Goodberry, Thunderwave; Heat Metal, Pass Without Trace; 9/10 Healkit; 1/2 Wildshapes; PP 20, PI 17 Ending up hiding behind the total cover of the pillar. Heat Metal posted:Choose a manufactured metal object, such as a metal weapon or a suit of heavy or medium metal armor, that you can see within range. You cause the object to glow red-hot. Any creature in physical contact with the object takes 2d8 fire damage when you cast the spell. Until the spell ends, you can use a bonus action on each of your subsequent turns to cause this damage again. If a creature is holding or wearing the object and takes the damage from it, the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or drop the object if it can. If it doesn't drop the object, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the start of your next turn. slydingdoor fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Oct 17, 2014 |
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Zedekiah 24 HP // 20 AC Finally up close with the woman, Zedekiah finds himself unexpectedly mortified. Staring awkwardly at Frulam, he is compelled to ask, "Hrast! What's wrong with your face?! What did that to you?" _____________________________________________ Spell Slots: [1] 2/3 Prepared: Expeditious Retreat / Feather Fall / Longstrider / Shield / Sleep Expended Abilities: --- Portent (Day 5): Waador fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Oct 17, 2014 |
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Zedekiah 24 HP // 20 AC Partially turning his head away from the cultists, he calls out behind him, "Oh, Jethro! Wilbur! If you two would like to make it out of this in my good graces, I would rather appreciate you putting a few crossbow bolts into the heads of your former employers. Feel free to think of it as the first step in your atonement in this matter." _____________________________________________ Spell Slots: [1] 2/3 Prepared: Expeditious Retreat / Feather Fall / Longstrider / Shield / Sleep Expended Abilities: --- Portent (Day 5):
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 "Uh, right away, sir!"Both mercenaries fire at Zed's command, with one striking the cultist with a bolt. Meanwhile, Alethra fends off the fanatical swings of the surviving Dragonclaw. guards vs cultist: 2#1d20+3 21 9. One hits for 4 damage. dragonclaw vs alethra: 2#2d20k1+5 11 12 2#1d6+3 8 5 2d6 6. Missed. "Tiamat, save and protect your servant."An enchantment shimmers around Frulam as she turns and runs for it. Frulam heads into the cavern and jumps out of sight off a ledge. From his current vantage point, Hager can make a swing at the woman as she flees, but he finds himself thinking he is not so sure she is worth the effort. Hager: You get an opportunity attack against her (AC16), but to take it you must first pass a DC14 Wisdom save. Anyone attempting to attack her or cast a spell on her must make the same save each time. From here, Hager and the others nearby can make out where she is headed. The eastern chamber that lies at the bottom of the stairs is immense. A wide ledge runs along the left wall and drops away to a pit on the right. Many stalactites descend from the ceiling, and the sound of dripping water echoes continuously. "You will not touch her!"The cultist casts of spell of rotting as he touches Hager. At the merest touch flesh begins to rot away, muscles weaken and the will to live fades. Such is the power of Tiamat! Level 2 Inflict Wounds vs Hager: 1d20+3 21 hits for 4d10 23 necrotic damage. 24/27 11/26 (blessed) 21/24 4/29 (blessed) (blessed) 12/16 28/44 AC16 (Heated Metal)(Sanctuary) 11/33
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Janelle Nel raises the dimly glowing steel to her lips and exhales. It flares like an ember as does the armor sympathetically linked to it when the spell was first cast. In truth, everything was linked since Creation, until the end of time--Linan and Frulam, Nel's birth mother Melliny and the raider on whose orders she'd been killed and Nel captured in her stead. There was no getting away from it, no matter how far or for how long you ran, or how much stone or how many soldiers you put in the way. She peeks out of cover and slings an acorn at one of those last things. No luck, but it wasn't really necessary as long as the others landed a few more blows. "It's all but over. Finish them with Sleep." Heat Metal Damage: 2d8 15  sling attack; damage: 1d20+5 9 1d4+3 5 miss 30/30 HP; 17 AC; 3d8 HD; 1/4, 0/2 Spells; Entangle, Goodberry, Thunderwave; Heat Metal, Pass Without Trace; 9/10 Healkit; 1/2 Wildshapes; PP 20, PI 17
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Only one fanatical cultist stands between you and Frulam. You can hear her whimpering in the next cavern over, desperately pulling at her clothing, trying to get out of her armor even as it scalds her body. Escape is doomed to failure - unfastening the straps of a suit of chainmail will take far more time than she has left. Taking off her gloves only made it worse. She clutches one hand to her most recent wound only to have it burn her even more. 21/24 4/29 (blessed) 24/27 11/26 (blessed) (blessed) 12/16 2/44 AC16 (Heated Metal)(Sanctuary)
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Ander Basha HP 11/26(2HD)|AC 17|Daily healing remaining:0|Javelin/Arrows remaining: 8/39| Spells:0 Ander fixes his eyes upon the last cultist standing in the way. "You are a fool, you place your trust in your faith, and your faith is lacking." Though he doesn't exactly follow up with his boast. Bonus Action switch hunter's mark to cultist Attack vs AC @ Cultist: 1d20+1d4+5 9 3d6+3 15
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Janelle Beheaded, stripped and flayed; marked, chased down and burned at the stake--they were fates that might have befallen Nel for her alleged witchcraft back in the day, but now she was the one with the power to sentence evildoers to death and carry out the execution. The monster-blooded man doesn't get it right though, Frulam isn't merely being brought low, she's being broken down into component parts. "Not even trash, Zed. Just. Ash." The steel brightens from red to orange to white, then bursts into flame in Nel's hand. She advances to watch the cremation from the top of the ledge her quarry had jumped, then ends the spell and gathers the deceased's belongings, from her person and her room up the chute. 30/30 HP; 17 AC; 3d8 HD; 1/4, 0/2 Spells; Entangle, Goodberry, Thunderwave; Heat Metal, Pass Without Trace; 9/10 Healkit; 1/2 Wildshapes; PP 20, PI 17
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Zedekiah 27 HP // 20 AC He is somber in his response, obviously having been thinking along the same lines during the process, but remains convicted when he speaks, "He was half a man. And half a dragon. It is true that his scales are not as resilient as a true dragon's, but they are resistant to lightning-based assaults. If he is turned into a cloak, or a breastplate, or even a suit of scale mail, that property may save the life of its wearer. If that wearer is someone with a more noble purpose than his own, perhaps in some indirect way his life can bring about some good in this world. And perhaps that will be enough to help tip the scales in favor of his soul ever finding redemption, or at least, perhaps some kind of peace." He shrugs, a bit sullen about the fate he assumes the man will find in death, having failed Tiamat in front of her very altar, "Even if he is now condemned to the Hells for all eternity, in his life he brought immense suffering to this world, and a great deal of injustice. By turning his remains into a force for good, I will help to balance that scale that he has upset. It is a minor act, but an act I am able to take, and so I will. Every avalanche begins with a single stone, after all. Besides that, I can't speak for any of you, but I expect that my business with the Cult of the Dragon will remain unfinished until I have undone the calamity they have wrought upon this region. Which leaves those who press on rather likely to face such a lightning-based assault more than once in the coming days. If our chances at success can be improved by using the strength of the enemy against them, so be it. When this is over I will give the armor a proper burial, honoring the deeds it helped to accomplish, and condemning the failings of its donor, but not a moment sooner." On the subject of mounting the head as a trophy, he admits, "Perhaps mounting his head is a step too far, though. You are right, I can see little good ever coming from that. Perhaps I shall have him buried in an unmarked grave, engraved with a prayer that even those condemned at death may find redemption in the next life." He looks at her, uncharacteristically sincere about it, "I do appreciate you challenging my instincts, incidentally. One's moral compass can never be calibrated without a true north, as it were." He also adds, "Though, to answer your question: yes. If my remains could be used to undo whatever darkness I may have unknowingly or knowingly caused in life, I would hope they would be used to do so." _____________________________________________ Spell Slots: [1] 2/3 Spells: Expeditious Retreat / Feather Fall / Longstrider / Shield / Sleep Abilities: Second Wind / Portent (Day 5): Waador fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Oct 20, 2014 |
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Jared HP: 21/24 (3/3HD) | AC: 13 | Spells: 2/2 Jared is trying to scout with his mental projection, but all this talk about skinning people and Zed's views are just a bit too disturbing. "I think the point is that skinning the guy was disturbing and immoral, or perhaps even evil. That you actually want to wear his skin is even more disturbing and well I would be careful one of the two paladins don't decide that you are too evil to let live as you go around skinning people."
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Jared's projection finds a few interesting things hiding in the shadows. To the east, past the caged stairs, is a depression hiding four kobolds. They appear terrified, but are trying to remain still. They have a number of clay pots with them. Behind the southern stalagmites are a pair of blue drakes. The appear to be guarding a set of two dragon eggs in the south-eastern part of the room. The eggs are about 3 foot tall each. As for Frulam, her body has moved. Somehow in the last hour she either crawled to the south-western corner or was taken there by the drakes. It is pretty messy. Everything above the waist is...missing. There is a large pool of blood surrounding the remains.  21/24 21/29 24/27
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Zedekiah 27 HP // 20 AC He also responds to Jared, "Well, yes, when you frame it as if I am going around skinning people and wearing their skin like a bath robe, of course it sounds amoral." He pauses, thinking on that for a moment, "...which might be fair. I'll have to think about this further. That said, he did give me his permission to do this. Or, at least, he seemed fine with the idea so long as I consented to him skinning me if the battle had gone the other way." _____________________________________________ Spell Slots: [1] 2/3 Spells: Expeditious Retreat / Feather Fall / Longstrider / Shield / Sleep Abilities: Second Wind / Portent (Day 5):
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