028: Power isn't all that money buys

[Sierra]

<El-Cideon> Morning in Peridot finds a motley rabble assembled outside the dao trading outpost. Primarch Arwin is here with a dozen underlings, arrayed in formation with gleaming metal hammers in hand. A pair of Kardanus's acolytes stand off to one side, and there's also another party: a middle-aged businesswoman, blonde, thin, stern-looking, attended to by a pretty young maid and a trio of adventurers--a tall bronze-skinned man with a heavy club, a dark-skinned woman with face hid behind a wicker mask, and a short blonde tomboy with twinned swords. "Ah, good, you made it," Arwin remarks upon noticing your arrival. "The watch didn't give you any trouble on the way here, did they? That twit Montgomery tried to talk us out of this, you know." He laughs, once. "Had the sense not to try and stop us, though!"
<Julia> "No, it was a remarkably quiet walk," Julia says, looking up to the dao outpost to see if there's any response visible.
<El-Cideon> Two stone golems loom above the parapets, silent promise of rebuke should anyone try and storm the outpost. No living creature is in sight, however.
<Franceska> "Did you get any response just yet?" Franceska asks, while Darrin takes off to be in the best spot to notice any signs of treachery and alert her in time.
<Julia> Well, she hopes someone else can deal with the golems, that's for sure!
<El-Cideon> "I think he figures to call our bluff, or bet the mayor will talk some sense into us before we knock down their door." He shrugs. "He's wrong on both accounts. Now, my lads and I are geared up to break down those stone hooligans, but I won't say that'll be fast or easy. I propose your group race in while we keep them tied down and take that fiend's head before he can escape. Bello's lot over there--" He jerks a thumb towards the adventurers, "--I figure they watch the east side of the compound, make sure no one bolts out the slave door. Suit you?"
<Julia> "Okay then," Julia nods and casts false life, wishing she had her zombie around to take hits for her instead.
<Julia> roll 1d10+9
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d10+9 and gets 16."12 [1d10=7]
<El-Cideon> "I do not know what they will attempt to do to stop us," Rosemund says, "so just in case--!" She mutters a prayer for Franceska, Stephanie, and Julia in turn. (OOC: Benediction on each of you--+2 luck bonus to saves for 90 minutes, may reroll 1 roll before the spell ends)
<Franceska> "Just to be on the safe side," Franceska muses, "if they try to resist we are allowed to respond with lethal force?"
<El-Cideon> "They can warp away if they feel too in danger," Arwin says. "I *expect* you to use lethal force."
<Franceska> "Oh my!"
<Steph> "Filthy slavers'll get what for," muses Stephanie.
* Franceska excitedly goes through her repertoire of spells for the surest ones to horribly kill the enemy. Will she even have enough? How troubling....
<El-Cideon> "That's the idea." He nods to his crew, who heft a battering ram and get into position. The gang of adventurers disappears around the other side of the compound.
<Steph> "Franzy, you look pleased as punch!" comments Stephanie.
<Franceska> "This is quite the rare occasion. You should treasure it!"
<El-Cideon> "Heave ho, lads!" Arwin calls out, and the dwarven team sets to work against the heavy metal door of the compound. The golems clamber down behind the wall, as if at some unheard signal, and are not seen again--until the ram finally busts through the door and its metal halves slam down on the courtyard beyond with a tremendous *clang*, then the doorguards surge out to flail away at the intruders with heavy stone fists. "Get in there, then!" Arwin shouts at you as he rushes in to engage the golems with his team.
<Steph> Stephanie wraps herself in invisibilty, and then dashes ahead!
<Steph> OOC: 5rds
<Julia> Julia bolts past as quickly as she can, keeping her head low to try and avoid any giant stone fists!
* Franceska hardly intends to be at the front of the charge, and so follows after Julia and, presumably, Stephanie, trying to keep near Rosemund.
<El-Cideon> Rosemund rushes around the occupied offenders, metal against stone echoing around the courtyard. Beyond the walls, within the main building, your progress is immediately blocked in the hallway by a quartet of figures: the handsome blonde swordsman habitually on guard at the outpost now guarding an irritated-looking arcanist of advancing years; and a pair of rocky elementals blocking the corridor before them. There are heavy sounds behind them, somewhere else in the compound--furniture being moved? "Double-dealing us all along, were you?" the swordsman says, drawing a rapier. "Shame to sully my blade with the blood of such pretty girls, but if that is your will..."
<El-Cideon> OOC: init
<Franceska> roll 1d20+1
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+1 and gets 7."12 [1d20=6]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7 swordsman
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7 swordsman and gets 21."12 [1d20=14]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+6 mage
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+6 mage and gets 8."12 [1d20=2]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20-1 e1
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20-1 e1 and gets 5."12 [1d20=6]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20-1 e2
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20-1 e2 and gets 6."12 [1d20=7]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+3 Brenna
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+3 Brenna and gets 11."12 [1d20=8]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 Rosey
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 Rosey and gets 5."12 [1d20=3]
<Julia> roll 1d20+2
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+2 and gets 14."12 [1d20=12]
<Steph> roll 1d20+5
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+5 and gets 19."12 [1d20=14]
<Franceska> "What can I say? Those dwarves make a compelling case," Franceska responds, quite happy to kill these people with the full support of local law.
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Dapper Val (21) > Steph (19) > Julia (14) > Brenna (11) > Sergei (8) > Franceska (7) > Elemental 2 (6) > Elemental 1 = Rosey (5)'
<El-Cideon> The swordsman raises one hand and fires a trio of fiery beams at Rosemund, bravely rushing forward in the vanguard!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+13 touch
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+13 touch and gets 14."12 [1d20=1]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+13 touch
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+13 touch
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+13 touch and gets 24."12 [1d20=11]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+13 touch and gets 21."12 [1d20=8]
<El-Cideon> roll 4d6 fire she resists fire by 10
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 4d6 fire she resists fire by 10 and gets 15."12 [4d6=6, 1, 3, 5]
<El-Cideon> roll 4d6
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 4d6 and gets 13."12 [4d6=1, 5, 3, 4]
<El-Cideon> Two of the beams strike home, but Rosemund's divine protection blunts the worst of the strike!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Steph, then Julia
<Steph> OOC: Can I be anywhere, due to invis?
<El-Cideon> OOC: Rosemund was pretty close behind you, which didn't allow a ton of time to advance. You could be up to the elementals? Swordy/magey are 20 ft beyond them.
<Steph> OOC: Good enough!
<Steph> Stephanie rushes forward to the obvious mage- why do they dress like mages, don't they know how obvious a target they are- and comes out of hiding to deliver a pair of brutal attacks! OOC: Using WOLF FANG STRIKE!!1 to attack with both weapons.
<Steph> roll 1d20+11 hello!
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+11 hello!  and gets 15."12 [1d20=4]
<Steph> roll 1d20+9
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+9 and gets 29."12 [1d20=20]
<Steph> roll 1d20+9 daggercrit?
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+9 daggercrit? and gets 26."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> OOC: daggercrit
<Steph> roll 2d4+10+4d6+1d8 (negative energy)
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 2d4+10+4d6+1d8 (negative energy) and gets 30."12 [2d4=4, 2][4d6=1, 6, 4, 2][1d8=1]
<El-Cideon> A hoarse cry rips itself out from the mage's sneery lips as an unexpected dagger plunges between his ribs!
<El-Cideon> OOC: Julia
<Julia> "We're not here for you minions. RUN!" Julia yells, her hair doing that creepy floaty-snake thing as she casts fear upon them!
<Julia> OOC: DC 19 will or panicked. Shaken for 1 round if passes
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+10 Val
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+10 Val and gets 22."12 [1d20=12]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+15 Sergei
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+15 Sergei and gets 35."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 E1
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 E1 and gets 7."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+2 E2
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+2 E2 and gets 19."12 [1d20=17]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Dapper Val (21) > Steph (19) > Julia (14) > Brenna (11) > Sergei (8) > Franceska (7) > Elemental 2 (6) > Elemental 1 (panicked) = Rosey (5)'
<El-Cideon> Neither of the men flees as desired, but they do look at least a little frightened by this display? The mage staggers back several feet, bleeding and swearing at his attacker. "Treacherous harlot!" he breathes out as he invokes a curse upon her--
<El-Cideon> OOC: fort, Steph
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16-2 Brenna firing at him first though!
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16-2 Brenna firing at him first though! and gets 21."12 [1d20=7]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11-2
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11-2 and gets 26."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8 and gets 7."12 [1d8=7]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8 and gets 4."12 [1d8=4]
<Steph> roll 1d20+10 he can't recognize me! but I am a treacherous harlot
* Hatbot --> "Steph rolls 1d20+10 he can't recognize me! but I am a treacherous harlot and gets 15."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> She may well be such, but it is unlikely that Stephanie will be inflicting any more treacheries on this day--as the spell takes hold, her arms, legs, entire body stiffens, locks up, turns altogether to stone, and where the tiefling rogue stood is now simply a menacing statue.
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Dapper Val (21) > Steph (19, Petrified) > Julia (14) > Brenna (11) > Sergei (8) > Franceska (7) > Elemental 2 (6) > Elemental 1 (panicked) = Rosey (5)'
<El-Cideon> OOC: Fran
<Franceska> Not really willing to approach such a nasty mage, Franceska decides to give her wand a test with the bleeding man as its first target!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+13 DC20
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+13 DC20 and gets 32."12 [1d20=19]
<Franceska> roll 5d4+5 MM
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 5d4+5 MM and gets 16."12 [5d4=2, 3, 3, 1, 2]
<El-Cideon> With this onslaught of forceful projectiles, the mage clutches his midsection with a groan and collapses to the ground.
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Dapper Val (21) > Steph (19, Petrified) > Julia (14) > Brenna (11) > Sergei (8, dying) > Franceska (7) > Elemental 2 (6) > Elemental 1 (panicked) = Rosey (5)'
<Franceska> Whistling happily, Franceska raises an eyebrow at the swordsman, as if to ask him if he would like to flee now.
<El-Cideon> The one elemental with some semblance of wits about it surges forward to swing away at Rosemund.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+12-2-2+2 charge
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+12-2-2+2 charge and gets 23."12 [1d20=13]
<El-Cideon> It swings wide, and Rosemund retaliates while its terrified companion sinks through the floor and away!
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+12-2
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+12-2 and gets 16."12 [1d20=6]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7-2
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7-2 and gets 22."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8+5
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8+5 and gets 9."12 [1d8=4]
<El-Cideon> "Please, we're only getting started here!" the swordsman challenges in response to Fran's cavalier attitude, chanting a quick spell before circling behind Rosemund to pin her between him and his ally.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+17+20-2 true strike/shaken
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+17+20-2 true strike/shaken and gets 52."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+17+20-2 true strike/shaken crit?
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+17+20-2 true strike/shaken crit? and gets 40."12 [1d20=5]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d6+4
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d6+4 and gets 10."12 [2d6=3, 3]
<El-Cideon> OOC: Julia
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Dapper Val (21) > Steph (19, Petrified) > Julia (14) > Brenna (11) > Sergei (8, dying) > Franceska (7) > Elemental 2 (6) > Rosey (5)'
<Julia> "No, that's not very good at all," Julia's hair falls down as she sees Stephanie's state, shaking her head and walking over to touch Val. Briefly. But long enough to hopefully fuck him up some!
<Julia> roll 1d20+4 charnel touch/scabrous touch
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+4 charnel touch/scabrous touch and gets 21."12 [1d20=17]
<El-Cideon> OOC: hit
<Julia> roll 1d8+2 damage, DC 19 fort or sickened, then DC 18 fort or suffers from the shakes
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d8+2 damage, DC 19 fort or sickened, then DC 18 fort or suffers from the shakes and gets 7."12 [1d8=5]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+10
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+10 and gets 25."12 [1d20=15]
<Julia> OOC: has to roll both, they're not contigent
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+10
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+10 and gets 25."12 [1d20=15]
<El-Cideon> Dark energy crackles all over him, but he fights off the creeping contagion! Brenna draws a couple more arrows and tries to perforate him from afar.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16-2
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16-2 and gets 27."12 [1d20=13]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11-2
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11-2 and gets 29."12 [1d20=20]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11-2 crit?
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11-2 crit? and gets 23."12 [1d20=14]
<El-Cideon> roll 4d8 hit + crit
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 4d8 hit + crit and gets 17."12 [4d8=5, 5, 3, 4]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100 stabilization?
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 stabilization? and gets 47."12 [1d100=47]
<El-Cideon> OOC: Fran!
<Franceska> "How ridiculous, to think you would dare--" Franceska mutters in disbelief at the sheer audacity, before she is suddenly an angry albino bear clawing Val's eyes out!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+13 and gets 30."12 [1d20=17]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+13 and gets 27."12 [1d20=14]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+8
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+8 and gets 16."12 [1d20=8]
<El-Cideon> OOC: first two hit
<Franceska> roll 2#1d8+8
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 2#1d8+8 and gets 25."12 [2#1d8+8 = 13, 12]
<El-Cideon> Gashed horribly, he still has it in him to laugh a taunt. "I like a woman with some claws...but the fur will have to go!"
* Franceska flicks some of his blood back into his face in lieu of her response.
<El-Cideon> roll 2#1d20+12 elemental vs Rosey, flank counters grav
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2#1d20+12 elemental vs Rosey, flank counters grav and gets 54."12 [2#1d20+12 = 28, 26]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8+7 ow
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8+7 ow
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8+7 ow and gets 18."12 [2d8=8, 3]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8+7 ow and gets 19."12 [2d8=7, 5]
<El-Cideon> Rosemund calls for a healing aura to support her as she bashes away at her rather more efficacious aggressor.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+12-2
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+12-2 and gets 28."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+7-2
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+7-2 and gets 15."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d8+5
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d8+5 and gets 11."12 [1d8=6]
<El-Cideon> Val's blade crackles with dark magic as he stabs away once at Franceska. "You may have claws--but I can sting!"
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+17-2
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+17-2 and gets 31."12 [1d20=16]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+17-2 crit?
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+17-2 crit? and gets 25."12 [1d20=10]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d6+2+12d6 goddamn ow
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d6+2+12d6 goddamn ow and gets 58."12 [2d6=6, 1][12d6=6, 1, 1, 4, 6, 1, 5, 5, 5, 6, 3, 6]
<El-Cideon> He pierces right through to the heart, draining energy and mending his wounds as Franceska bleeds out. He sighs with visible relief, suffused with unnatural energy.
<El-Cideon> OOC: Julia
<Julia> Since he's not dying very quickly, Julia steps back and curses him with blindness!
<Julia> OOC: DC 17 fort
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+10
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+10 and gets 14."12 [1d20=4]
<El-Cideon> His smug smile suddenly vanishes as his eyes go blank--"What--how did--YOU VILE WITCH!"
<El-Cideon> Brenna opts to keep shooting the resilient swordsman rather than the elemental that would be even more resilient to her attacks!
<Julia> Julia very carefully does not laugh nor do anything to give away her position to him.
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16-2-2 rapid shot
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+16-2-2 rapid shot
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16-2-2 rapid shot and gets 28."12 [1d20=16]
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+16-2-2 rapid shot and gets 31."12 [1d20=19]
<El-Cideon> roll 1d20+11-2-2 rapid shot
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d20+11-2-2 rapid shot and gets 25."12 [1d20=18]
<El-Cideon> roll 3d8
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 3d8 and gets 16."12 [3d8=5, 5, 6]
<El-Cideon> OOC: Fran
<El-Cideon> roll 1d100 stabilization~
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 1d100 stabilization~ and gets 10."12 [1d100=10]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Dapper Val (21, blind) > Steph (19, Petrified) > Julia (14) > Brenna (11) > Sergei (8, stable) > Franceska (7) > Elemental 2 (6) > Rosey (5)'
* Franceska presses on with her attack, fully intending to impale him on her claws and finish him off for good!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+11
<Franceska> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+11 and gets 26."12 [1d20=15]
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+11 and gets 17."12 [1d20=6]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+6
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+6 and gets 20."12 [1d20=14]
<El-Cideon> OOC: first and last hit
* Franceska then shift aside to take use of the blank look in his eyes.
<Franceska> roll 1d8+8+2d6+4
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d8+8+2d6+4 and gets 21."12 [1d8=2][2d6=2, 5]
<El-Cideon> There's no snide taunt coming back from him this time--he just bleeds, noisily and profusely.
<El-Cideon> The remaining elemental swings madly away, trying to batter down the steel standing before it.
<El-Cideon> roll 2#1d20+12-2 no more flankings
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2#1d20+12-2 no more flankings and gets 40."12 [2#1d20+12-2 = 27, 13]
<El-Cideon> roll 2d8+7 uh oh
* Hatbot --> "El-Cideon rolls 2d8+7 uh oh and gets 15."12 [2d8=3, 5]
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Dapper Val (21, blind) > Steph (19, Petrified) > Julia (14) > Brenna (11) > Sergei (8, stable) > Franceska (7) > Elemental 2 (6) > Rosey (5, dying)'
<El-Cideon> Rosemund topples to the ground, muttering an apology for letting all her friends down as she goes. Val himself makes an awkward attempt to stumble backwards, away from the melee and the vicious bear in front of him.
<El-Cideon> OOC: AoO, Fran
<Franceska> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+11 and gets 15."12 [1d20=4]
<El-Cideon> OOC: whiff. Julia
* El-Cideon changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Dapper Val (21, blind) > Steph (19, Petrified) > Julia (14) > Brenna (11) > Sergei (8, stable) > Franceska (7) > Elemental 2 (6) > Rosey (5, stabilized)'
<Julia> "Now to take care of you!" Julia snaps, stepping over to touch the elemental!
<Julia> roll 1d20+4
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+4 and gets 13."12 [1d20=9]
<El-Cideon> OOC: hit
<Julia> roll 1d8+2 DC 19 fort or sickened for 4 rounds
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d8+2 DC 19 fort or sickened for 4 rounds and gets 4."12 [1d8=2]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+10 fort
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+10 fort and gets 17."12 [1d20=7]
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Dapper Val (21, blind) > Steph (19, Petrified) > Julia (14) > Brenna (11) > Sergei (8, stable) > Franceska (7) > Elemental 2 (6, sickened 4 rounds) > Rosey (5, stabilized)'
<Cidward> The elemental shudders and flakes of dirt shiver off it as it succumbs to some magical ailment! Meanwhile Brenna keeps trying to pin down Val before he can escape.
<Cidward> roll 1d20+16-2-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+16-2-2 and gets 23."12 [1d20=11]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+16-2-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+16-2-2 and gets 22."12 [1d20=10]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+11-2-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+11-2-2 and gets 26."12 [1d20=19]
<Cidward> roll 3d8
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 3d8 and gets 8."12 [3d8=4, 3, 1]
<Cidward> OOC: Fran
<Franceska> Snarling out an incantation only another bear would understand, Franceska dashes after Val with the intent to bring him down. This time for sure!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+13 Lion's Charge
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+13 Lion's Charge and gets 19."12 [1d20=6]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+13 and gets 25."12 [1d20=12]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+8
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+8 and gets 15."12 [1d20=7]
<Cidward> OOC: first two hit
<Franceska> roll 2#1d8+8
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 2#1d8+8 and gets 22."12 [2#1d8+8 = 10, 12]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+16 CMB grapple
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+16 CMB grapple and gets 21."12 [1d20=5]
<Cidward> OOC: grapple failed :(
<Franceska> roll 1d20+16 CMB grapple Benediction reroll
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+16 CMB grapple Benediction reroll and gets 25."12 [1d20=9]
<Cidward> OOC: that makes it
<Cidward> Unable to wriggle away, the swordsman flails weakly in Franceska's claws, barely clinging to life!
<Cidward> The elemental wheels on the only foe within reach and swings away twice at Julia!
<Cidward> roll 2#1d20+12-2-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 2#1d20+12-2-2 and gets 24."12 [2#1d20+12-2-2 = 14, 10]
<Julia> OOC: AC 21
<Cidward> OOC: Val's utterly fucked, let's just skip to Julia
<Julia> Julia now attacks with even more potent negative energy on the elemental!
<Julia> roll 1d20+4 inflict serious
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+4 inflict serious and gets 9."12 [1d20=5]
<Cidward> OOC: hit, they have fail touch AC
<Julia> roll 3d8+9 DC 18 will to half
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 3d8+9 DC 18 will to half and gets 17."12 [3d8=2, 2, 4]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+2 also fail will
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+2 also fail will and gets 9."12 [1d20=7]
<Cidward> As hunks of stone rattle off the elemental onto the floor, Brenna slips in opposite Julia to aid via distraction!
<Cidward> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+11 and gets 18."12 [1d20=7]
<Cidward> roll 1d6+1
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d6+1 and gets 2."12 [1d6=1]
<Cidward> OOC: Fran
<Franceska> Franceska's hands close around the swordsman's throat, twisting and crushing!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+16+5
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+16+5 and gets 38."12 [1d20=17]
<Franceska> roll 1d8+8 die
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d8+8 die and gets 15."12 [1d8=7]
<Cidward> With a sickening crunching of bone and gristle, his neck twists right round to an unnatural degree!
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Steph (19, Petrified) > Julia (14) > Brenna (11) > Sergei (8, stable) > Franceska (7) > Elemental 2 (6, sickened 4 rounds) > Rosey (5, stabilized)'
* Franceska drops him to the ground and marches over to the elemental!
<Cidward> roll 2#1d20+12-2-2 rocky vs Julia
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 2#1d20+12-2-2 rocky vs Julia and gets 33."12 [2#1d20+12-2-2 = 18, 15]
<Cidward> OOC: Julia
<Julia> "And another!" Julia says dramatically as she uses the same tried and true tactic.
<Julia> roll 1d20+6 inflict serious
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+6 inflict serious and gets 24."12 [1d20=18]
<Julia> roll 3d8+9 DC 18 will for half
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 3d8+9 DC 18 will for half and gets 17."12 [3d8=1, 3, 4]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+2 and gets 17."12 [1d20=15]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+11 Brenna
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+11 Brenna and gets 20."12 [1d20=9]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+6 Brenna
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+6 Brenna and gets 13."12 [1d20=7]
<Cidward> roll 1d6+1
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d6+1 and gets 2."12 [1d6=1]
<Cidward> Brenna's sword proves nowhere near as effective as Julia's magic at disassembling the creature, but at least she's annoying it somewhat?
<Cidward> OOC: Fran
* Franceska contributes to the elemental's destruction! Hopefully!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+11 and gets 17."12 [1d20=6]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+11
<Franceska> roll 1d20+6
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+11 and gets 16."12 [1d20=5]
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+6 and gets 18."12 [1d20=12]
<Cidward> OOC: last hits
<Franceska> roll 2d6+4
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 2d6+4 and gets 10."12 [2d6=1, 5]
<Cidward> But Rocky toils on, imperturbed even by the close proximity of death in carrying out his last orders!
<Cidward> roll 2#1d20+12-2-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 2#1d20+12-2-2 and gets 32."12 [2#1d20+12-2-2 = 17, 15]
<Cidward> OOC: Julia
<Julia> "Should've just dispelled it," Julia grumbles, no longer quite so excited about casting the same spell over and over.
<Julia> roll 1d20+6 inflict
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+6 inflict and gets 15."12 [1d20=9]
<Julia> roll 3d8+9 save for half
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 3d8+9 save for half and gets 19."12 [3d8=6, 1, 3]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+2 and gets 20."12 [1d20=18]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+11 Brenna
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+11 Brenna and gets 19."12 [1d20=8]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+6 Brenna
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+6 Brenna and gets 12."12 [1d20=6]
<Cidward> roll 1d6+1
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d6+1 and gets 4."12 [1d6=3]
<Cidward> OOC: Fran
<Franceska> If she's getting angrier and more impatient, are her claws hitting harder? Franceska decides to test it out.
<Franceska> roll 1d20+11
<Franceska> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+11 and gets 24."12 [1d20=13]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+6
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+11 and gets 20."12 [1d20=9]
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+6 and gets 7."12 [1d20=1]
<Cidward> OOC: first two hit
<Franceska> roll 1d8+8
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d8+8 and gets 9."12 [1d8=1]
<Franceska> roll 1d8+8
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d8+8 and gets 12."12 [1d8=4]
<Cidward> Finally it yields to the inevitable and crumbles to dust before you, leaving no foes clearly within sight! Outside, there's a cheerful dwarven cry and something grand and heavy topples to the ground. Before you, around the corner of the hallway, are sounds of...more fighting? There's a great hollw clattering and some surprised shouting. But in your immediate vicinity is only stillness--rather too much of it, in Stephanie and Rosemund's cases.
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | '
* Franceska looks between Rosemund and the downed enemy mage, before making a quick decision and heading over to check on the mage. If he's still alive, it would be a simple matter to step on his neck and make sure.
<Cidward> He is still alive, but evidently not for long.
<Julia> Julia kneels down over Rosemund to adminster whatever battlefield first aid will keep her from dying. Stephanie is sadly beyond her powers.
<Julia> roll 1d20+11 heal to I guess wake her up when I figure she isn't dying
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+11 heal to I guess wake her up when I figure she isn't dying and gets 27."12 [1d20=16]
* Franceska takes extra pleasure in killing the bastard, and then turns back to reach Rosemund.
<Cidward> Rosemund blinks back to consciousness, covered in blood and gore but at least plainly alive! "Oh--are you alright?" she asks first.
<Julia> "Rather more concerned about you, dear."
<Franceska> "Yes," Franceska says curtly, human again. "We must stop cutting things too closely."
<Cidward> She climbs to her feet, wobbly of stance and uncertain of direction. "Oh, I--whoa, excuse me!" She leans on the wall for a moment. "Oh, I will be right and proper in a moment!" she promises, going around and checking for injuries other than her own, tending to Franceska's grievous wounds before herself.
<Cidward> roll 4d8+18 Fran heals
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 4d8+18 Fran heals and gets 35."12 [4d8=1, 4, 5, 7]
<Cidward> roll 4d8+18 Rosey heals
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 4d8+18 Rosey heals and gets 32."12 [4d8=1, 7, 3, 3]
<Cidward> roll 2d8+14 Fran again
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 2d8+14 Fran again and gets 24."12 [2d8=8, 2]
<Cidward> roll 2d8+14 Rosey! again
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 2d8+14 Rosey! again and gets 22."12 [2d8=2, 6]
<Franceska> "Same here," Franceska responds, nodding appreciatively. "He only stabbed me in the heart so I'm quite alright."
<Cidward> "Only?" Rosemund echoes incredulously before stepping up to Stephanie. "Oh dear!" she cries out. "I...do not know if I can do anything about this..."
<Franceska> "I could do something about that tail or those other things?"
<Cidward> "We should do something about stopping everyone else who is still here!" Rosemund protests. "I hear more fighting..."
<Julia> "Lets just put her safely to one side for now?" Julia suggests. "Hopefully we can find someone to return her to normal afterwards."
* Franceska waves Brenna over, asking her, "Could you watch over her? And make sure no one unsavory comes after us here?"
<Cidward> Rosemund nods and, with a heave of exertion, slides statue Stephanie (still frozen mid-taunt) over to a corner.
<Cidward> Brenna nods. "Of course. Once Arwin and his man finish I'll send them on after you."
<Julia> Onwards, then!
* Franceska nods at her, quite happy at the prospects of killing more people inside. She pauses just long enough to ask Rosemund, "Can you handle that spell you cast earlier one more time? It wore off too quickly!"
<Cidward> Ahead of you, to the left along the hallway is an open door leading to a small barracks room. It is evidently empty. Beyond it on the right is the lobby before Pomerand's office; the office door is open, the office recently ransacked and not obviously populated at present. Farther on, the hallway twists to the left. There are shards of rock on the floor here, some bearing a vaguely human semblance, as of more ruined elementals.
<Cidward> Rosemund nods and obliges!
<Franceska> Darrin will tell her afterwards if anyone managed to flee this place, or if their snake woman made an appearance so Franceska doesn't worry about that overmuch. Instead, she decides to take a look through Pomerand's office for now just to make sure no one and nothing of interest is there.
<Cidward> OOC: perception?
<Franceska> roll 1d20+19
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+19 and gets 26."12 [1d20=7]
<Cidward> Franceska doesn't find anyone hiding out in the office. She also finds it quite cleaned out of anything plainly valuable, be it coin or information.
* Franceska follows the hallway onwards!
<Cidward> Around the corner is quite a chaotic array of action: shortly before you in the branching corridor is Trademaster Pomerand, trailed several feet by his hulking, mustachioed bodyguard and the shell of what was once Isabel Asmachi. "Deming!" Pomerand's calling out. "Deming, where've you got to! Clean out the treasury, I said, I shouldn't think that so difficult a command, I--" He cuts off as his bodyguard whirls him around to face you all. Beyond this trio, far down the hall, a familiar white-robed man is engaged in combat with a flaming humanoid figure. Chanting echoes from a chamber down the hall, a man's voice, cut off suddenly with a horrible shriek.
<Cidward> "Oh, it's you!" Pomerand brightens up. "Here to help us with these awful intruders, no doubt?"
<Julia> "Not quite... Isabel! Kill them all!" My if this isn't the sort of thing someone could right a dramatic story about, a gift that turns out to be an assassin!
<Cidward> Branson hefts his axe, looking quite pleased with the chance to employ it at last!
<Cidward> OOC: init
<Julia> roll 1d20+2
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+2 and gets 11."12 [1d20=9]
<Cidward> roll 1d20 Pomerand
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20 Pomerand and gets 8."12 [1d20=8]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+5 Branson
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+5 Branson and gets 20."12 [1d20=15]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+2 Rosey
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+2 Rosey and gets 8."12 [1d20=6]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+1
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+1 and gets 14."12 [1d20=13]
<Julia> roll 1d20+2 Isabel
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+2 Isabel and gets 5."12 [1d20=3]
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Branson (20) > Franceska (14) > Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand = Rosey (8) > Not!Isabel (5)'
<Franceska> "Regrettably, your fortunes in this town have declined," Franceska informs Pomerand with what would sound as true regret if she weren't quite so eager to kill him.
<Cidward> Paying no notice to the traitorous zombie right next to him, Branson roars right down the hall and brings his massive down atop Rosemund's armored head!
<Cidward> roll 1d20+23
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+23 and gets 37."12 [1d20=14]
<Cidward> roll 1d12+1d8+14
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d12+1d8+14 and gets 29."12 [1d12=10][1d8=5]
<Cidward> OOC: Fran
* Franceska angrily gestures at the brute and a stalagmite erupts from the ground directly beneath him!
<Franceska> roll 9d6 piercing, ref DC18 half
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 9d6 piercing, ref DC18 half and gets 35."12 [9d6=3, 6, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 3, 6]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+5
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+5 and gets 17."12 [1d20=12]
<Franceska> OOC: Impaled~
<Cidward> As the ring of metal on metal resounds about the corridor, a furious stone spike juts up and pins the wild savage to the spot!
<Cidward> OOC: Julia
<Julia> Julia hangs back and begins to summon more undead to the cause!
<Cidward> "Oh, this is quite intolerable!" Pomerand cries out. "Everywhere is perfidy and betrayal! Well, I'll have no more of you today, to be sure! Branson, I trust you to handle yourself, of course!" With a wave of his hand, Pomerand blocks up the corridor with a fresh new wall of stone, himself on the other side.
<Cidward> Rosemund steps back from the pinned barbarian, taking this moment's respite to heal herself up before he can take another swing at her.
<Cidward> roll 4d8+18
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 4d8+18 and gets 40."12 [4d8=7, 8, 2, 5]
<Cidward> OOC: Isabel, she's right next to Pomerand on the other side
<Julia> Unseen to all, the zombie reveals its own treacherous nature and hurls itself at the trademaster in rebellion!
<Julia> roll 1d20+5 grapple?
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+5 grapple? and gets 6."12 [1d20=1]
<Cidward> OOC: failed :(
<Cidward> "What the devil?!" the party might hear through the wall.
<Cidward> roll 1d20+8 Branson STR check vs rock!
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+8 Branson STR check vs rock! and gets 9."12 [1d20=1]
<Cidward> OOC: Franceska
* Franceska turns into her usual albino bear, although soon her body starts sporting vicious-looking thorns. She stops just a step short of the trapped man, ready to tear him apart in earnest!
<Cidward> OOC: Julia
<Julia> The impaled strongman suddenly finds himself encircled by a bunch of rotting ugly ogres with giant clubs, who all groan and bring them down on him with single-minded murderousness!
<Julia> roll 1d3
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d3 and gets 2."12 [1d3=2]
<Julia> roll 1d20+9 flanking
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+9 flanking and gets 13."12 [1d20=4]
<Julia> roll 1d20+9 flanking
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+9 flanking and gets 26."12 [1d20=17]
<Cidward> OOC: latter hits
<Julia> roll 2d8+9
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 2d8+9 and gets 22."12 [2d8=8, 5]
<Julia> Julia meanwhile keeps on summoning more!
<Cidward> "Woeful day!" Pomerand cries out from the other side of the wall. "Even the dead turn upon me. Such injustice, it is a day that will survive in notoriety, to be sure!"
<Cidward> roll 1d20+16 punch vs Isabel
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+16 punch vs Isabel and gets 35."12 [1d20=19]
<Cidward> roll 1d8+9
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d8+9 and gets 11."12 [1d8=2]
<Julia> OOC: splat
<Cidward> "You are as wicked as those you serve!" Rosemund cries out, calling down divine indignation upon the trapped barbarian. "May you accompany them to Hell!"
<Cidward> roll 4d6 will halves
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 4d6 will halves and gets 16."12 [4d6=5, 6, 3, 2]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+8
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+8 and gets 22."12 [1d20=14]
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Branson (20) > Franceska (14) > Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand = Rosey (8)'
<Cidward> Pinned as he is, Branson can only snarl in some ugly primitive tongue and swing thricely at the undead that dared to strike him!
<Cidward> roll 1d20+23-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+23-2 and gets 33."12 [1d20=12]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+18-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+18-2 and gets 25."12 [1d20=9]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+13-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+13-2 and gets 28."12 [1d20=17]
<Julia> OOC: AC 15
<Cidward> roll 3#1d12+1d8+14
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 3#1d12+1d8+14 and gets 85."12 [3#1d12+1d8+14 = 27, 32, 26]
<Julia> OOC: -1 ogre
<Cidward> OOC: Fran
* Franceska doesn't really care about all that except that these are all people she doesn't like and may kill to her heart's content. If she kills enough of them, the authorities might even give her a medal! So she steps over and tries her very best to maul him to death!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+11
<Franceska> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+11 and gets 26."12 [1d20=15]
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+11 and gets 22."12 [1d20=11]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+6
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+6 and gets 8."12 [1d20=2]
<Cidward> OOC: first two hit
<Franceska> roll 1d8+8+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d8+8+1d6 and gets 13."12 [1d8=3][1d6=2]
<Franceska> roll 1d8+8+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d8+8+1d6 and gets 13."12 [1d8=2][1d6=3]
<Cidward> OOC: Julia
<Cidward> He bleeds and bleeds from multiple wounds, but fights on with savage fervor!
<Julia> An Allip manifests onto the field, gibbering madly as Julia shouts directions, "Go through that wall and kill the genie! And you, move opposite the bear and hit him!" She follows up that by launching a debilitating ray right at the barbarian!
<Julia> roll 1d20+4 enfeeblement
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+4 enfeeblement and gets 16."12 [1d20=12]
<Julia> roll 1d20+7 ogre attack
<Cidward> OOC: hit
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+7 ogre attack and gets 24."12 [1d20=17]
<Cidward> OOC: also hit
<Julia> roll 1d20+5 allip attack, touch, charge
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+5 allip attack, touch, charge and gets 14."12 [1d20=9]
<Cidward> OOC: also also hit
<Julia> roll 1d6+4 strength penalty
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d6+4 strength penalty and gets 7."12 [1d6=3]
<Julia> roll 2d8+9 club hit
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 2d8+9 club hit and gets 16."12 [2d8=3, 4]
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Branson (20, -7 STR) > Franceska (14) > Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand = Rosey (8)'
<Julia> roll 1d4 wis drain
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d4 wis drain and gets 3."12 [1d4=3]
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Branson (20, -7 STR) > Franceska (14) > Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand (-3 WIS) = Rosey (8)'
<Cidward> "Oh, I simply can't have any of this today. Insolent ghost, strike what you cannot see!" Pomerand takes a few steps down the hall, then blinks out of sight.
<Cidward> "Oh, Fran," Rosemund cries out. "Why must you always put yourself in harm's way?!" She steps behind her ursine friend and bestows a protective aura to ward off blows. (OOC: Shield of Faith on Fran, +3 shield bonus to AC)
* Franceska gives Rosemund an incredulous look over her shoulder.
<Cidward> Snarling at Franceska in challenge, Branson looks to engage in a little animal control as recompense for those claw marks!
<Cidward> roll 1d20+20-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+20-2 and gets 33."12 [1d20=15]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+15-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+5-2 and gets 14."12 [1d20=1]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+10-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+10-2 and gets 11."12 [1d20=3]
<Franceska> OOC: New AC 18!
<Cidward> roll 1d12+1d8+8 damage
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d12+1d8+8 damage and gets 19."12 [1d12=5][1d8=6]
<Cidward> Franceska takes an axe in the shoulder--but only once, thankfully!
<Cidward> OOC: Fran
<Franceska> Bleeding now, Franceska waits just enough to attack simultaneously with the skeletal ogre to distract the trapped man before she takes a step back from the immediate melee.
<Franceska> roll 1d20+13
<Franceska> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+13 and gets 16."12 [1d20=3]
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+13 and gets 32."12 [1d20=19]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+8
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+8 and gets 24."12 [1d20=16]
<Franceska> roll 1d8+8+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d8+8+1d6 and gets 13."12 [1d8=2][1d6=3]
<Franceska> roll 2d6+4+1d6
<Cidward> OOC: latter two hit, yes
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 2d6+4+1d6 and gets 16."12 [2d6=5, 5][1d6=2]
<Cidward> Branson is more wound than man by this point, nigh every inch of him shredded and gaping, but he glares on hatefully at the intruders!
<Julia> roll 1d20+9 flanking ogre
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+9 flanking ogre and gets 20."12 [1d20=11]
<Cidward> OOC: hit
<Julia> roll 2d8+9
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 2d8+9 and gets 17."12 [2d8=3, 5]
<Julia> roll 1d20+7 Allip perception to hear djinn. If it fails it'll just attack the square he disappeared from
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+7 Allip perception to hear djinn. If it fails it'll just attack the square he disappeared from and gets 20."12 [1d20=13]
<Cidward> OOC: perception fail. Feel free to attack!
<Julia> roll 1d20+5 touch/charge
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+5 touch/charge and gets 16."12 [1d20=11]
<Julia> Meanwhile Julia summons a thin strength-sapping white mist over the barbarian and the ogre, though the sturdy undead doesn't feel a thing from it!
<Julia> roll 1d6 cold and fatigued
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d6 cold and fatigued and gets 3."12 [1d6=3]
<Cidward> The allip's eager hand swipes merely through empty space, no trace of Pomerand therein. What it can see, down the hall, is the white-robed man stabbing the firey creature into mere cinders, burning merrily himself all the while! From inside the chamber down the hall, there's a mournful wail--two of them, both male and female: "What have you done?!" "Infidel, how dare you?!" A hissing susurration echoes from the corridor.
<Cidward> OOC: any save on the fatigue?
<Julia> OOC: nope
<Cidward> Branson sags as his strength is sapped away. Rosemund steps in to try and put him down for good before he can hurt anyone else!
<Cidward> roll 1d20+12-2 one shot...!
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+12-2 one shot...! and gets 27."12 [1d20=17]
<Cidward> roll 1d8+5
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d8+5 and gets 9."12 [1d8=4]
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Franceska (14) > Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand (-3 WIS) = Rosey (8)'
<Cidward> With a meaty *thump* on the head, Rosemund fractures the recalcitrant barbarian's skull!
<Julia> "Well done!" Julia applauds.
<Cidward> OOC: Fran
* Franceska imbues herself with the ability to defeat any random avalanche this plane would wish to saddle her with, and tears past the stalagmite all the way at the wall and then through the wall!
* Julia dispels her strength-sapping mist while ordering the ogre to go rush after Fran, walking after her more sedately in turn. The Allip just lingers unhappily, lacking its target.
<Cidward> Franceska finds herself alone on the other side of the wall, next to a depressed-looking gibbering undead horror. More depressed than usual. Some sixty feet down the hall the robed man stands, turning to look at her and muttering a vicious, "YOU!"
<Cidward> roll 1d20+9 no-longer-smiling man init
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+9 no-longer-smiling man init and gets 21."12 [1d20=12]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+9 ??? init
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+9 ??? init and gets 24."12 [1d20=15]
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | ??? (24) > robed man (21) > Franceska = Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand (-3 WIS) = Rosey (8)'
<Cidward> Rosemund steps through behind her friend, right behind Franceska for when she inevitably needs to be healed up again!
<Cidward> From the chamber down the hall, a sickly green mist seeps out. There's the sound of a man crying out his last pitiful wails within, and a woman sidles out backwards, face a mask of horror. A familiar woman to some of those assembled here! Hair black and with an oily sheen, sharp-featured, slender build. "Go, Pheretima!" her companion calls out. "I'll hold them here. Someone must report home!" She nods, and with a whirl dashes thirty feet down the corridor.
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Pheretima (24) > robed man (21) > Franceska = Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand (-3 WIS) = Rosey (8)'
<Cidward> OOC: Fran/Julia. He's holding 'til someone gets in range
* Franceska finds herself quite disagreeing! No one would be reporting home! But first, there is an annoying opponent barring her way, so she decides to try and use Enervation upon him.
<Julia> Seeing no sign of Pomerand, Julia must deal with what she has. "You, get the snake woman!" she shouts at the allip, which gibbers happily and races after her. "You, squash that little man!" she yells for the ogre, flinging a ray of exhaustion at Pheretima to keep her from running very far.
<Julia> roll 1d20+4 ranged touch exhaustion
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+4 ranged touch exhaustion and gets 6."12 [1d20=2]
<Cidward> OOC: whiff
<Julia> OOC: reroll
<Julia> roll 1d20+4 ranged touch exhaustion
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+4 ranged touch exhaustion and gets 22."12 [1d20=18]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+7 ranged touch enervation
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+7 ranged touch enervation and gets 26."12 [1d20=19]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+9 SR
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+9 SR and gets 14."12 [1d20=5]
<Julia> OOC: DC 18 fort or exhausted, fatigued otherwise
<Cidward> OOC: Hit for both but Fran failed SR, subject to SR Eb?
<Julia> roll 1d20+11 SR
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+11 SR and gets 23."12 [1d20=12]
<Cidward> OOC: passed
<Julia> roll 1d20+9 ogre charge smash
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+9 ogre charge smash and gets 24."12 [1d20=15]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+7 fort
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+7 fort and gets 25."12 [1d20=18]
<Julia> roll 1d20+5 allip charge sanity devouring
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+5 allip charge sanity devouring and gets 21."12 [1d20=16]
* Franceska follows in after her spell, though she happily lets the undead ogre lead the way.
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Pheretima (24, fatigued) > robed man (21) > Franceska = Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand (-3 WIS) = Rosey (8)'
<Julia> roll 1d4 wis drain, did the ogre hit?
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d4 wis drain, did the ogre hit? and gets 4."12 [1d4=4]
<Cidward> OOC: ogre just whiffs the first dude (who is standing in the way here) allip does hit him
<Julia> OOC: allip is going for Pheretima, not the dude
<Cidward> OOC: what's its movement?
<Julia> OOC: fly 30 perfect, so 60ft charge
<Julia> OOC: Oh, they're too far. Okay, both just approach their targets, the ogre's only got 40 feet.
<Cidward> OOC: she moved 30 ft past him one her turn, he was 60 ft off--yeah, okay
<Julia> OOC: Allip runs to get in melee with her at least for AoOs if she runs
<Cidward> OOC: noted, smiley jerk is taking his held turn
<Cidward> The robed man darts in towards Franceska and makes a jab at her with a greasy-looking dagger!
<Cidward> roll 1d20+15-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+15-2 and gets 31."12 [1d20=18]
<Cidward> roll 1d4+3 also roll fort
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d4+3 also roll fort and gets 7."12 [1d4=4]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+15
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+15 and gets 16."12 [1d20=1]
<Julia> roll 1d20+7 ogre AoO
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+7 ogre AoO and gets 10."12 [1d20=3]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+15 reroll
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+15 reroll and gets 27."12 [1d20=12]
<Cidward> Franceska's vision swims for a moment--but she overcomes the sensation, whatever it was!
<Cidward> Rosemund charges in to join in on the dogpile around the man, seeing no other obvious targets.
<Cidward> roll 1d20+12
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+12 and gets 13."12 [1d20=1]
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Pheretima (24, fatigued) > Robed man = Franceska = Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand (-3 WIS) = Rosey (8)'
<Cidward> Pheretima bolts around the corner at the end of the hall, out of immediate sight.
<Julia> roll 1d20+3 AoO touch from allip
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+3 AoO touch from allip and gets 23."12 [1d20=20]
<Julia> roll 1d20+3 AoO touch from allip crit?
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+3 AoO touch from allip crit? and gets 17."12 [1d20=14]
<Cidward> OOC: crit
<Julia> roll 2d4 wis drain
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 2d4 wis drain and gets 6."12 [2d4=4, 2]
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Pheretima (24, fatigued, -6 WIS) > Robed man = Franceska = Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand (-3 WIS) = Rosey (8)'
<Cidward> OOC: smiles/Fran/Julia and party
<Julia> Blinding worked well last time, so Julia tries that!
<Julia> roll 1d20+11 SR DC 17 fort if passes
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+11 SR DC 17 fort if passes and gets 20."12 [1d20=9]
<Cidward> OOC: not passed :(
<Franceska> Well, nothing to do about it. She puts her trust in Julia to take out their main target, and so goes all out against this annoying distraction!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+13 and gets 28."12 [1d20=15]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+13 and gets 17."12 [1d20=4]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+8
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+8 and gets 23."12 [1d20=15]
<Cidward> OOC: first hits
<Julia> Meanwhile the ogre drops the hammer while the allip runs down Pheretima some more!
<Franceska> roll 1d8+8+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d8+8+1d6 and gets 18."12 [1d8=5][1d6=5]
<Julia> roll 1d20+9 flanking ogre
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+9 flanking ogre and gets 15."12 [1d20=6]
<Julia> roll 1d20+5 charging allip touch
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+5 charging allip touch and gets 13."12 [1d20=8]
<Franceska> OOC: Swift to use Oaken Resilience
<Cidward> The allip misses its target, but does at least catch up with it! On the branching corridor at this far side of the building, Pheretima stands between two doors, both sturdy, one wooden reinforced with iron bars, and one heavy metal like the front door.
<Cidward> Singed as the robed man is, he's not looking well at all after a savaging of claws! But he's well enough to strike back, at least--
<Cidward> roll 1d20+15-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+15-2 and gets 32."12 [1d20=19]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+15-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+15-2 and gets 17."12 [1d20=4]
<Franceska> OOC: AC18
<Cidward> roll 1d20+10-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+10-2 and gets 15."12 [1d20=7]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+10-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+10-2 and gets 9."12 [1d20=1]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+5-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+5-2  and gets 18."12 [1d20=15]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+15-2 crit chance on that first roll
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+15-2 crit chance on that first roll and gets 31."12 [1d20=18]
<Franceska> OOC: Immune to crits
<Cidward> roll 1d6+3 then!
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d6+3 then! and gets 4."12 [1d6=1]
<Cidward> roll 1d4+3
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d4+3 and gets 5."12 [1d4=2]
<Cidward> 1d20+12-2 Rosey!
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+12-2 Rosey! and gets 15."12 [1d20=5]
<Cidward> 1d20+7-2 Rosey!
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+7-2 Rosey! and gets 9."12 [1d20=4]
<Cidward> Beset by a spirit around the corner, Pheretima proves able to do little but ignore it and try to continue her escape, heaving the heavy metal bar off the rear door and laboriously pulling it open. The allip finds it has some good company here: there is some dozen of skeletons standing at attention immediately on the other side. "What in the Name of--?!"
<Cidward> OOC: melee party + Julia!
<Franceska> The man is fiendishly hard to hit, but she's not about to despair just yet!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+13 and gets 33."12 [1d20=20]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+13
<Franceska> roll 1d20+8
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+13 and gets 22."12 [1d20=9]
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+8 and gets 17."12 [1d20=9]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+5 skelemob init
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+5 skelemob init and gets 15."12 [1d20=10]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+13 crit?
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+13 crit? and gets 19."12 [1d20=6]
<Cidward> OOC: hit but not crit
<Franceska> roll 1d8+8+1d6
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d8+8+1d6 and gets 18."12 [1d8=7][1d6=3]
<Franceska> roll 1d20+16 CMB grapple
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+16 CMB grapple and gets 35."12 [1d20=19]
<Cidward> OOC: success
<Julia> It's a regular corpse party here, the allip sure doing its part to drive her insane! Meanwhile Julia jogs ahead, reaching the corner where she can hopefully spy on the action. Her ogre just keeps on doing what it does best.
<Julia> roll 1d20+3 allip touch
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+3 allip touch and gets 10."12 [1d20=7]
<Julia> roll 1d20+9 ogre flank
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+9 ogre flank and gets 23."12 [1d20=14]
<Cidward> OOC: both miss
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Pheretima (24, fatigued, -6 WIS) > skelemob (15) > Robed man = Franceska = Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand (-3 WIS) = Rosey (8)'
<Cidward> "Oh, you are so badly outnumbered!" Rosemund cries out as she swings away. "Why will you not simply give up?"
<Cidward> roll 1d20+12-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+12-2 and gets 30."12 [1d20=20]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+12-2 crit?
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+12-2 crit? and gets 19."12 [1d20=9]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+7-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+7-2 and gets 22."12 [1d20=17]
<Cidward> roll 1d8+5 no crit
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d8+5 no crit and gets 10."12 [1d8=5]
<Franceska> No! There won't be any giving up on her watch!
<Cidward> roll 1d20+15-2 belatedly forgot smiley's turns, vs Fran here
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+15-2 belatedly forgot smiley's turns, vs Fran here and gets 28."12 [1d20=15]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+15 crit?
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+15 crit? and gets 17."12 [1d20=2]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+15 dagger
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+15 dagger and gets 18."12 [1d20=3]
<Cidward> OOC: -2 there
<Franceska> OOC: Still immune to crits, AC18
<Cidward> roll 1d20+10-5
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+10-5 and gets 25."12 [1d20=20]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+10-5
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+10-5 and gets 8."12 [1d20=3]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+5-5
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+5-5 and gets 4."12 [1d20=4]
<Cidward> roll 1d6+3
<Cidward> roll 1d6+3
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d6+3 and gets 7."12 [1d6=4]
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d6+3 and gets 7."12 [1d6=4]
<Cidward> "If one of us escapes, my sacrifice is not in vain!" he cries, quite unaware of Pheretima's predicament.
<Cidward> Pheretima wheels around, tries the other door only to find it locked, and out of desparation slashes at a grinning undead warrior.
<Cidward> roll 1d20+12-2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+12-2 and gets 29."12 [1d20=19]
<Cidward> roll 1d6+2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d6+2 and gets 6."12 [1d6=4]
<Cidward> --Barely even nicking it, as the horde crowds in around her and slashes away!
<Cidward> roll 5#d120+1 basic skellies y'know
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 5#d120+1 basic skellies y'know and gets 187."12 [5#d120+1 = 20, 74, 34, 48, 11]
<Cidward> roll 5#d20+1 basic skellies y'know dammit
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 5#d20+1 basic skellies y'know dammit and gets 63."12 [5#d20+1 = 14, 4, 8, 16, 21]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+1 crit?
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+1 crit? and gets 5."12 [1d20=4]
<Cidward> roll 1d6+1
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d6+1 and gets 4."12 [1d6=3]
<Cidward> OOC: melee gang!
<Julia> Julia does her part by throwing in more of that lovely strength-sapping fog amidst the undead horde and their unfortunate target!
* Franceska squeezes tightly against the man's throat before he comes to his senses and does something annoying like surrender!
<Franceska> roll 1d20+16 grapple
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d20+16 grapple and gets 23."12 [1d20=7]
<Julia> roll 1d20+11 SR exhausted if passes
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+11 SR exhausted if passes and gets 28."12 [1d20=17]
<Julia> roll 1d6 cold damage
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d6 cold damage and gets 4."12 [1d6=4]
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Pheretima (24, exhausted, -6 WIS) > skelemob (15) > Robed man = Franceska = Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand (-3 WIS) = Rosey (8)'
<Julia> roll 1d20+5 allip gotta be flanking with someone
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+5 allip gotta be flanking with someone and gets 13."12 [1d20=8]
<Franceska> roll 1d8+8+1d6 if success, 5 damage if miss
* Hatbot --> "Franceska rolls 1d8+8+1d6 if success, 5 damage if miss and gets 16."12 [1d8=4][1d6=4]
<Julia> roll 1d20+9 ogre smash
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+9 ogre smash and gets 20."12 [1d20=11]
<Cidward> OOC: hit, he's grappled so AC is nuked
<Julia> roll 2d8+9
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 2d8+9 and gets 21."12 [2d8=6, 6]
<Cidward> And another misshapen cranium is duly crushed on this day!
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Pheretima (24, exhausted, -6 WIS) > skelemob (15) > Franceska = Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand (-3 WIS) = Rosey (8)'
<Cidward> Rosemund decides to heal up her friend rather than chase off after more trouble, favoring Franceska with her usual disapproving expression for all the trouble she causes.
<Cidward> roll 3d8+16 heals
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 3d8+16 heals and gets 27."12 [3d8=2, 4, 5]
* Franceska grins in satisfaction, driving the body into the ground and grinding it with her foot.
<Cidward> roll 1d20+10 P vs skellies
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+10 P vs skellies and gets 17."12 [1d20=7]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+10
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+10 and gets 28."12 [1d20=18]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+5
<Cidward> roll 1d20+5
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+5 and gets 25."12 [1d20=20]
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+5 and gets 25."12 [1d20=20]
<Cidward> roll 1d6+2
<Cidward> roll 1d6+2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d6+2 and gets 6."12 [1d6=4]
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d6+2 and gets 4."12 [1d6=2]
<Cidward> roll 1d4+2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d4+2 and gets 4."12 [1d4=2]
<Cidward> roll 1d4+2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d4+2 and gets 6."12 [1d4=4]
<Cidward> roll 5#1d20+1 skellies!
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 5#1d20+1 skellies! and gets 68."12 [5#1d20+1 = 8, 5, 16, 20, 19]
<Cidward> roll 2#1d20+1 potential crits
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 2#1d20+1 potential crits and gets 4."12 [2#1d20+1 = 2, 2]
<Cidward> roll 1d6+1
<Cidward> roll 1d6+1
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d6+1 and gets 6."12 [1d6=5]
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d6+1 and gets 6."12 [1d6=5]
<Cidward> "This is absurd!" she cries out as she's swarmed. "To make it this far--!"
<Cidward> OOC: Fran/Julia/friends
* Franceska takes off after the woman they absolutely can't let get away!
<Julia> Julia begins to summon a swarm to make things even more traumatic for the poor snake woman, while the allip keeps trying to drive her mad!
<Julia> roll 1d20+5 allip
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+5 allip and gets 8."12 [1d20=3]
<Julia> Meanwhile the ogre vanishes into the ether.
<Cidward> OOC: whiff
<Franceska> As she sees this strange scene, Franceska summons a toxic cloud of noxious fumes all over the skeleton army and their would-be nemesis!
<Franceska> OOC: Fort DC17
<Cidward> roll 1d20+7
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+7 and gets 10."12 [1d20=3]
<Franceska> OOC: Nauseated
<Cidward> Rosemund rounds the corner, blinks in surprise. "Um, what exactly is happening here?" she asks.
<Franceska> The albino bear shrugs, though it's hard to keep from smiling. Julia must have been terribly busy after slipping away.
<Cidward> Pheretima is too busy being a noisome, vomitous mass to accomplish much in the way of self-defense as more scimitars lay into her!
<Julia> "I was just trying to kill her, but now I'm trying to make it fun," Julia says while waving her arms about, the spell nearly done.
* Cidward changes topic to 'Current planar traits: heavy gravity (-2 to attack rolls, physical skills) | Pheretima (24, exhausted, nauseated, -6 WIS) > skelemob (15) > Franceska = Julia (11) > Trademaster Pomerand (-3 WIS) = Rosey (8)'
<Cidward> roll 5#1d20+1
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 5#1d20+1 and gets 34."12 [5#1d20+1 = 4, 10, 2, 8, 10]
<Cidward> OOC: Fran/Julia/friends
<Julia> A mass of rats appear amidst the skeletons and Pheretima!
<Julia> roll 1d20+4 swarm fort
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 1d20+4 swarm fort and gets 5."12 [1d20=1]
<Julia> They then start vomiting and defecating all over her, too distressed to bite.
<Franceska> They're not exactly on her side, but Franceska invokes a spell that lets all the nasty undead and other critters surrounding Pheretima strike again!
<Franceska> OOC: Mass Snake's Swiftness, everyone there takes one more attack now
<Julia> The allip gets in a final two attacks before it too vanishes!
<Julia> roll 2#1d20+5
* Hatbot --> "Julia rolls 2#1d20+5 and gets 22."12 [2#1d20+5 = 10, 12]
<Cidward> OOC: alas, no more braindrain
<Cidward> roll 5#1d20+1
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 5#1d20+1 and gets 69."12 [5#1d20+1 = 13, 20, 16, 16, 4]
<Cidward> roll 1d20+1 crit?
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 1d20+1 crit? and gets 21."12 [1d20=20]
<Cidward> roll 2d6+2
* Hatbot --> "Cidward rolls 2d6+2 and gets 9."12 [2d6=5, 2]
<Cidward> "Maybe, um...maybe someone should just kill her already?" Rosemund speculates, watching the horrid spectacle that is Pheretima's protracted demise.
<Julia> "No, I think this is fine," Julia shakes her head serenely.
<Cidward> In due time--extended, awful, grisly time--Pheretima's body gives way with one final shudder beneath a horde of marauding skeletons. Which then stand quietly in formation in the corridor. After some seconds, a man peeks his head around the corner: blonde, short but mildly frazzled hair, wearing spectacles and a look of genial incomprehension. "Oh, hello! I do not know you all. You are not on staff, I hope? Only, then I would have to kill you." He fiddles with his fingers absentmindedly. "Due apologies, of course!"
<Julia> "No, we're here to kill awful slavers," Julia says. "Or awful snake women who killed our friends."
<Franceska> Having returned to her human form by then, Franceska gives him a strange look. "And that said, who might you be?"
<Cidward> "Oh, where are my manners!" He shooes the skeletons away. "Birthnamed as Benjamin, but I find that most people prefer 'Ben.' Well, it is more efficient, is it not?"
<Julia> "Charmed. My name is Julia. You didn't see a dao run your way, did you?"
<Franceska> "Oh! The one with the skeletons in his closet?"
<Cidward> "Please! I kept them in the basement," he clarifies. "Oh, I am afraid I have not seen any walk this way," he says to Julia, sounding disappointed.
<Franceska> "What are you even doing here? With all your skeletons?"
<Cidward> There's a tromp of boots from back down the hall, as Arwin and a much-diminished squad of dwarves meander through the compound.
<Franceska> "What is he doing here? With all his skeletons?" Franceska repeats, this time directing her question to Arwin.
<Julia> "Better hide them by the way!" Julia says quickly, glad her undead are all gone as she turns around with an innocent smile.
<Cidward> Ben scratches his head, leaning on the back door of the compound so as to casually block any glimpse of his little horde. "I have been keeping an ear out in town for news, in case the guards, ah, decided to come looking for me. I heard about this instead and thought it might be more useful than hiding."
<Cidward> "Did I miss a dao corpse along the way?" Arwin is saying down the hall, running a hand through his beard. "Maybe that mess in the vault...?"
<Franceska> "It seems he ran away," Franceska says with genuine disappointment.
<Julia> "He turned invisible and ran away after putting that wall of stone up," Julia says, matching disappointment in her own voice.
<Franceska> "But that matter aside, is there anyone in this town who has experience with petrified people?"
<Cidward> Rosemund bashes the lock off the door near Pheretima's festering corpse, pushes the door open into a broad array of slave pens that she promptly goes about opening, to the joyful shouts of the inhabitants.
<Cidward> "Well, you'd think so, what with this being the plane of Earth, but not to my knowledge," Arwin admits. "You might talk to the mages about it." He catches sight of Ben, frowns a little. The human wizard rewards him with a sheepish grin on recognition.
<Franceska> "How about you, Benjamin?"
<Cidward> He looks speculative. "Oh, not off-hand, there hasn't been much call for it. But perhaps with a little research I could work something out? Oh, that is, of course, assuming the authorities don't plan on arresting me."
<Cidward> "Why?" he adds, looking skeptically at Franceska. "Are you petrified, my good lady?"
<Julia> "A brave man like you, standing up against slavers to free the innocent?" Julia asks, "Perish the thought, surely!"
<Franceska> "How unfortunate." Having said that, Franceska decides to double back to that vault to see if maybe Pomerand is still hiding there. As the question, she pauses, saying, "Oh, something was petrified earlier, that is all."
<Cidward> Arwin looks annoyed, but waves away the possibility of arresting anyone with the good sense to be present here today.
<Cidward> "It would be unthinkable, wouldn't it?" Ben echoes Julia. "If I hadn't just thought it."
<Cidward> Franceska finds the vault open and the contents melted, seared, and liquefied mostly into useless rubble. There is one tall corpse within that might have been a dao's--it's the proper size, at least.
<Franceska> Something for Julia to check later. For now, Franceska is quite satisfied with how the day went.
<Cidward> ~