Deep into the Infinite Stair

Anastasia · December 04, 2019, 01:55:38 PM

> roll 1d20+24 Jessica
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 25 > [d20=1]
> roll 1d20+18 Queen
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 36 > [d20=18]
> roll 1d20+33 Old Man
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 35 > [d20=2]
> roll 1d20+21 Angel
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 37 > [d20=16]
> roll 1d20+18 Daemon
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 36 > [d20=18]

Init is Alicia (Supreme Init) > Angel (37) > Daemon = Queen (36) > Old Man (35) > Jessica (25)

Open.

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Jessica
HP: 653/653+20
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Telepathic Block 20ft (Stops telepathy/summons) Magic Circle Against Evil 10ft (Protection from Evil)
Bonuses: Attack+7 (+4 morale, +3 luck), Damage+3 (+3 morale) AC+5 (+2 insight, +3 luck), Saves+7 (+9 Ref) (+4 morale, +3 luck), Skills+4 (+4 morale), Checks+0 Extra attack as if hasted.
Resources: Defensive Roll 1/1 Plane Hop 1/1 Superior Invisibility 3/3 Ghost Form 3/3 Shadow Form 2/2
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: Recitation(CL34), Righteous Wrath of the Faithful(CL34), Foresight(CL34), Freedom of Movement(CL34), Greater Heroism(CL34)
Notes: +4 bonus to people who flank with her instead of +2.

Ebiris · December 04, 2019, 02:21:17 PM

The daemon is closer, it's more innately objectionable, and it's weak to what Alicia is best able to dish out. So it's little surprise that Alicia focuses her attacks there. Swelling in size to dominate the battlefield and put all foes within her reach. "Defeat the supporters first," she advises Jessica and Queen as she commences her attack, intending to switch up to the angel should the daemon fall to her blows.

[18:16] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+87+16 blinding speed, 13th level arcane strike, channelled maximised/vivacious flux grasp, smite evil
[18:16] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 109 > [d20=6]
[18:16] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+87+16 blinding speed, 13th level arcane strike, channelled maximised/vivacious flux grasp, smite evil
[18:16] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 109 > [d20=6]
[18:16] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+87 blinding speed, 13th level arcane strike, channelled maximised/vivacious flux grasp, smite evil
[18:16] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 95 > [d20=8]
[18:16] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+87 blinding speed, 13th level arcane strike, channelled maximised/vivacious flux grasp, smite evil
[18:16] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 90 > [d20=3]
[18:16] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+82 blinding speed, 13th level arcane strike, channelled maximised/vivacious flux grasp, smite evil
[18:16] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 98 > [d20=16]
[18:16] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+82 blinding speed, 13th level arcane strike, channelled maximised/vivacious flux grasp, smite evil
[18:16] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 83 > [d20=1]
[18:16] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+77 blinding speed, 13th level arcane strike, channelled maximised/vivacious flux grasp, smite evil
[18:16] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 96 > [d20=19]
[18:16] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+77 blinding speed, 13th level arcane strike, channelled maximised/vivacious flux grasp, smite evil
[18:16] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 78 > [d20=1]
[18:16] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+72 blinding speed, 13th level arcane strike, channelled maximised/vivacious flux grasp, smite evil
[18:16] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 87 > [d20=15]
[18:16] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+72 blinding speed, 13th level arcane strike, channelled maximised/vivacious flux grasp, smite evil
[18:16] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 85 > [d20=13]
[18:16] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+77 blinding speed, 13th level arcane strike, channelled maximised/vivacious flux grasp, smite evil CRIT CHECK
[18:16] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 82 > [d20=5]

If the daemon dies, attacks will swap to the angel. If the angel dies attacks will switch to the old man.

Many moments of prescience will be used for a +30 bonus if the first attack on a target misses and will be used up until I've exhausted all 4 uses of it.

[18:19] <@Ebiris> roll 6d6+38+13d4+408+2+2d6+2
[18:19] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 512 > [d6=4,4,6,5,5,1][d4=1,4,1,3,3,4,1,1,1,1,4,2,4][d6=2,5]
[18:20] <@Ebiris> roll 6d6+38+13d4+408+2+2d6+2 (2+2d6+2 is smite evil/evil outsider bane so won't apply to other targets)
[18:20] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 508 > [d6=3,5,5,6,5,4][d4=2,1,2,1,4,1,1,1,1,2,2,3,3][d6=4,2]
[18:20] <@Ebiris> roll 6d6+38+13d4+408
[18:20] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 500 > [d6=3,2,6,3,2,2][d4=4,4,3,3,2,2,2,3,3,4,3,2,1]
[18:20] <@Ebiris> roll 6d6+38+13d4+408
[18:20] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 508 > [d6=5,6,5,5,6,4][d4=1,3,1,3,1,2,4,2,2,3,4,4,1]
[18:20] <@Ebiris> roll 6d6+38+13d4+408
[18:20] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 503 > [d6=4,5,6,3,2,1][d4=1,3,4,4,3,3,1,3,3,4,2,4,1]
[18:20] <@Ebiris> roll 6d6+38+13d4+408
[18:20] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 504 > [d6=2,6,1,3,3,6][d4=4,1,3,4,4,2,4,4,2,2,3,3,1]
[18:20] <@Ebiris> roll 6d6+38+13d4+408
[18:20] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 501 > [d6=1,5,4,5,3,2][d4=1,2,4,2,2,3,1,2,4,4,2,4,4]
[18:20] <@Ebiris> roll 6d6+38+13d4+408
[18:20] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 505 > [d6=6,6,6,3,1,5][d4=2,3,3,2,2,2,2,1,4,3,4,2,2]
[18:20] <@Ebiris> roll 6d6+38+13d4+408
[18:20] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 495 > [d6=3,4,5,2,2,2][d4=2,4,3,4,2,4,2,2,2,1,2,2,1]
[18:21] <@Ebiris> roll 12d6+76+13d4+816 If 96/82 is a crit
[18:21] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 956 > [d6=2,4,2,1,3,4,4,3,5,3,1,3][d4=4,1,2,1,4,1,3,1,1,1,2,4,4]
[18:21] <@Ebiris> roll 6d6+38+13d4+408 if it isn't
[18:21] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 492 > [d6=2,1,4,4,1,1][d4=1,4,1,1,2,2,3,4,3,2,2,4,4]

Also one swift left depending on how this ends.

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Anastasia · December 04, 2019, 02:32:24 PM

MoP used up when the 78 misses, 1 left.

You rip, tear and strike. Spell and sword sunder daemon and then angel apart. The two cry out as your blade brings the end to both of them, leaving the old man alone, his companions shorn away from him. They do not bleed, but are simply ripped apart like images torn akin to paper.

Go with the swift.

Ebiris · December 04, 2019, 02:41:49 PM

"Queen, take some of my power," Alicia urges now that they have the real foe still to contend with.

Last swift used to make her my familiar.
Bab becomes +34
Gets all of Alicia's skills at base rank, probably irrelevant here
Gains limited wish twice as an SLA at CL 34
+17 natural armour
Intelligence at 22 if it's not higher.
Spell resistance 39 if it's not higher.
Improved evasion.
Also we have an empathic link to feel each other's emotions. Alicia is currently feeling all resolute and confident, but a little concerned at how easily the daemon and angel went down.

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Anastasia · December 04, 2019, 02:56:56 PM

Noted and added.

You feel Queen's emotions - sheer, ragged hope and desperation. A great wave of both, mixed together.

Init is Alicia (Supreme Init) > Angel (37) > Daemon = Queen (36) > Old Man (35) > Jessica (25)

Queen is up.

The Queen rises up off the ground, chanting away, words of power that resonate through everything here. Words of desperate hope, words of inspiration. Yet as she does, she weaves as second song through it, a song of longing and sheer, timeless desperation. All about mouths form in the arena's stone surfaces, wooden lips repeating the same song behind her.

Inspire Courage, +10 morale to attack rolls, weapon damage rolls and saves vs fear. Inspire Heroics, +8 morale to saves and +8 dodge to AC.

Old Man.

The old man raises his staff up high. The Angel and the Daemon return instantly, as if never gone. He then extends his staff out with the greatest care, no words, no incantations, no channeling the Weave. Instead, a blast of pure force hits the party.

"He can reju-" Is all Jessica can manage, before...

Reflex.

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Jessica
HP: 653/653+20
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Telepathic Block 20ft (Stops telepathy/summons) Magic Circle Against Evil 10ft (Protection from Evil)
Bonuses: Attack+13 (+10 morale, +3 luck), Damage+10 (+10 morale) AC+13 (+8 dodge, +2 insight, +3 luck), Saves+11 (+13 Ref) (+8 morale, +3 luck), Skills+4 (+4 morale), Checks+0 Extra attack as if hasted.
Resources: Defensive Roll 1/1 Plane Hop 1/1 Superior Invisibility 3/3 Ghost Form 3/3 Shadow Form 2/2
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: Recitation(CL34), Righteous Wrath of the Faithful(CL34), Foresight(CL34), Freedom of Movement(CL34), Greater Heroism(CL34)
Notes: +4 bonus to people who flank with her instead of +2.

Inspire Courage, +10 morale to attack rolls, weapon damage rolls and saves vs fear. Inspire Heroics, +8 morale to saves and +8 dodge to AC.

Ebiris · December 04, 2019, 03:01:02 PM

[19:00] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+63 ref
[19:00] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 81 > [d20=18]

Can I tell if the angel and daemon are coming back via temporal recursion and if it's an effect that can be ended or an instantaneous one?

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Anastasia · December 04, 2019, 03:13:23 PM

Your hunch is right - that's exactly what the Guardian is doing.

> roll 1d20+51 improved evasion Jessica
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 61 > [d20=10]
> roll 1d20+83 improved evasion Queen
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 86 > [d20=3]

> roll 80d8
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 351 > [80d8=351]

Alicia halves and the other two negate.

The blast is enough to momentarily stagger Alicia. Amid it she sees Jessica blur ahead, through it as her rapier is held low. Queen merely fades into the stone, emerging out a second later. It's just in time, enough to hold things in check for the moment as Jessica...

Jessica will hold a moment, she wants to get in his face without those in the way, because she suddenly suspects attacking him with those up is a bad idea. Maybe it isn't, but she has some suspicions now. You're up.

Ebiris · December 04, 2019, 03:19:52 PM

A straight up dispel probably won't work because he's not using the weave, but it probably still interacts properly with targeted magic... Alicia sends a silent mental thanks to Chrona 42 as she formulates her response here.

Using alter reality, is there any sort of 'temporal balance' spell or effect I can manage to basically work like an antimagic sphere but for ongoing chronomancy effects?

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Anastasia · December 04, 2019, 03:25:19 PM

Sure, that's reasonable enough. Didn't a spell like that come up during all of that, or was it Seira's?

Ebiris · December 04, 2019, 03:30:41 PM

I can't recall all the specific ones and there's a lot of logs to go through, but we did have to undo and counter a wide variety of temporal effects. Some of it did just get dispelled though.

Asserting her will to suppress any temporal effects within a ten foot radius of herself, Alicia walks closer to the old man and his friends to bring them into reach of it...

So that's standard and move, two swifts left after seeing what this does.

Anastasia · December 04, 2019, 03:36:55 PM

The two wink away as you step closer, leaving the old man abandoned again.

Ebiris · December 04, 2019, 03:39:57 PM

She may as well test if he's vulnerable to negative energy. Yes most things protect themselves from it as a matter of course, but this is a test rather than a true battle.

Quickened enervation first.

[19:39] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+60 ranged touch
[19:39] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 69 > [d20=9]
[19:39] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+37 SR
[19:39] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 57 > [d20=20]
[19:39] <@Ebiris> roll 1d4 negative levels
[19:39] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 4 > [d4=4]

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Anastasia · December 04, 2019, 03:43:56 PM

No good - it ripples right off of him to no effect.

Ebiris · December 04, 2019, 03:47:09 PM

She follows that up with a quickened perfect summons on the area. She hasn't used that spell in a long time but if he tries summoning fresh allies now that temporal recursion is out, any fiendish ones will instead be uncontrolled angelic ones!

done.

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Anastasia · December 04, 2019, 04:08:34 PM

Init is Alicia (Supreme Init) > Jessica (38) > Queen (36) > Old Man (35) > Jessica (25)

Jessica goes.

Like a dart Jessica lunges ahead, that one open moment enough as her rapier seeks your foe's throat.

Jessica is using superior legedemain to sneak attack and auto-flank for +4 bonus to her attack roll.

> roll 1d20+70 (+13 various, +4 flank)
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 82 > [d20=12]
> roll 1d6+42+23d6
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 114 > [d6=1,2,3,2,1,6,5,3,5,5,1,4,3,5,5,6,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,5]

A direct hit, right into the old man's throat. She pulls the blade out, no blood - only a soft hiss of air, the wound there and yet not telling. Yet a moment later...

> roll 1d20+93
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 109 > [d20=16]
> roll 1d20+93
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 110 > [d20=17]
> roll 1d20+93
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 99 > [d20=6]
> roll 1d20+93
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 108 > [d20=15]
> roll 1d20+93 crit?
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 110 > [d20=17]
> roll 3d8+31+5d8
> roll 3d8+31+5d8
> roll 3d8+31+5d8
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 56 > [d8=2,1,5,6,2,6,2,1]
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 63 > [d8=1,6,6,3,3,4,8,1]
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 60 > [d8=3,5,1,4,3,4,5,4]
> roll 9d8+93+5d8
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 162 > [d8=7,1,3,4,3,8,2,6,1,7,4,8,8,7]

A four some of great wooden spikes erupt from thin air, impaling the old man from all directions. He hangs there as if a forgotten doll, before he gestures with his staff and suddenly Alicia's body shakes and...

Fortitude.

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