Day 14A: Poltergeist Construction

[Iron Dragoon]

Session Start: Thu Oct 30 11:57:48 2014
Session Ident: #dunes
* Now talking in #dunes
* Topic is 'Moore(32)>Lucy=Poltergeist(29)>Pepo(24)>Veren(16)>Bash(13) '
* Set by Kotono on Wed Oct 29 13:48:37
<Kotono> The poltergeist before you is nothing more than ectoplasm now, a thin rime of it on the floor of the tunnel. For the moment, the party is safe. OOC: Free act.
<Veren> "That was... informative. With preparation, I believe we can fight those effectively."
<Nephrite> "Good job, everyone!" Moore calls out as he continues to strum on his Lyre.
<Lucy> Her wings seamlessly retreat into her back and Lucy peers down the tunnel to see how far it goes by now.
* Veren holds up a dagger and looks at it with a frown.
* Nephrite is now known as Moore
<Pepo> 'Do the poltergeists regenerate or is there a finite number?' Pepo's telepathic voice booms at Bash.
* Lucy sheathes her own daggers anew after snatching them out of the air.
<Kotono> It's about 20ft down, as seen before. It needs more time to go further.
<Kotono> Bash shrugs, "Hell if I know," he admits, "They usually don't bother us after killing one, but we don't go back to trying to go down, either."
<Lucy> "If one appears each twenty feet, it shouldn't be too difficult to reach our desired depth," Lucy muses. "And certainly easier if there is a scroll of Mage Armor available."
<Veren > "There are magic shops here, yes? I think it best if we... go shopping, a bit."
<Kotono> Meanwhile Bash rubs his head, "And leave him alone while he strums that lyre of his?" Glancing at Moore and then at Pepo, "And am I going crazier, or did that cat just talk in my head?"
<Lucy> "Oh, I can certainly keep an eye on things."
<Pepo> Pepo meows and looks up at him, a cute sound at odds with his deep mental voice.
<Veren > "I will need either new blades, or a way to make these effective."
<Kotono> "Eyes on you, cat," Bash mutters in reply. OOC: Okay, so what's the plan now
<Kotono> ?
<Veren > OOC: Not really sure, but I know Lucy wants a mage armor scroll, I need some way to deal damage, and Pepo needs to rest for PP, right?
<Lucy> OOC: I intend to guard Moore and see what happens. If Veren goes shopping or to ask Kamhoff, I'd appreciate a scroll of MA.
<Pepo> OOC: I can fight 4 more poltergeists before I'm done, so I can guard Moore for a while
<Kotono> OOC: Okay then. Are you staying or going to get things, Veren?
<Veren > OOC: It looks like it's just me going, so I guess so.
<Veren > OOC: Are we pooling funds for this? Do we want to start tracking as a single pool?
<Lucy> OOC: I'd prefer not to. I'll give you 25gp.
<Veren > OOC: Okay, well, I have 1791 gold, so I guess I'll pick up some scrolls of magic weapon, too. Anyone else want anything?
<Kotono> OOC: Okay. If anyone else does in the next few, just note it in the OOC room. Iddy, into #evildunes.
<Lucy> Meanwhile, Lucy decides to take the watch a bit more seriously and places a clairaudience sensor at the edge of the tunnel, intending to keep on moving it further down as the tunnel itself grows.
<Kotono> OOC: Link me real quick?
<Lucy> OOC: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/clairaudienceClairvoyance.htm
<Kotono> OOC: Okay.
<Kotono> Soon Veren leaves, off to find proper weapons and scrolls. Meanwhile Moore continues to play - it's now 30ft down. You can notice a few things - near the bottom the rocks of the tunnel begin to glow. Not blindingly bright, but as if the light itself seeps into them. As you study that, there is a silent howl in all your minds, echoing twice in Lucy's through the clairaudience. She can also hear
<Kotono> faint murmurs of noise through it, indistinct and not heard otherwise or by others. Emerging from the light, 30ft down the tunnel, is a large sphere of ectoplasm. It howls and vibrates, a dull green color. OOC: Lucy, make a quick int check.
<Lucy> roll 1d20+5
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+5 and gets 8." 12 [1d20=3]
<Kotono> There's something about that murmur - but Lucy doesn't have time, as the air all around the party begins to vibrate. OOC: Init here.
<Kotono> roll 1d20+12 ectoplasm orb
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+12 ectoplasm orb and gets 27." 12 [1d20=15]
<Kotono> roll 1d20+5
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+5 and gets 22." 12 [1d20=17]
<Pepo> roll 1d20+6+8
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 1d20+6+8 and gets 18." 12 [1d20=4]
<Lucy> roll 1d20+4+8
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+4+8 and gets 24." 12 [1d20=12]
<Moore> roll 1d20+13
* Hatbot --> "Moore rolls 1d20+13 and gets 26." 12 [1d20=13]
* Kotono changes topic to 'Ectoplasm Orb(27)>Moore(26)>Lucy(24)>Bash(22)>Pepo(18) '
<Kotono> "I haven't seen one like this before!" Bash calls, "Watch your damned head-" Whatever he says is cut off, as a massive gust of wind blows everyone back. Blades, razors and knives of green ectoplasm come in the wake of this wind, slicing over the party. OOC: Reflex saves, all. Remember to note if you have evasion.
<Kotono> roll 1d20+8 Bash evasion
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+8 Bash evasion and gets 9." 12 [1d20=1]
<Lucy> roll 1d20+8
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+8 and gets 15." 12 [1d20=7]
<Moore> roll 1d20+11
* Hatbot --> "Moore rolls 1d20+11  and gets 21." 12 [1d20=10]
<Pepo> roll 1d20+13 evasion
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 1d20+13 evasion and gets 16." 12 [1d20=3]
<Kotono> roll 6d6 Bash full, Lucy full, Moore half, Pepo full
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 6d6 Bash full, Lucy full, Moore half, Pepo full and gets 28." 12 [6d6=5, 5, 4, 3, 5, 6]
<Kotono> The blades slice a grim path through the party. All around are scored, sliced and stabbed. The ground is littered with green ectoplasm weapons, as if thrust there. The walls are chipped and several weapons are stuck in it. All of you can hear a murmuring now, constantly in your ears. OOC: Int checks all but Lucy.
<Pepo> roll 1d20+7
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 1d20+7 and gets 22." 12 [1d20=15]
<Kotono> roll 1d20+2 Bash
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 Bash and gets 10." 12 [1d20=8]
<Kotono> OOC: Moore?
<Moore> roll 1d20+4
* Hatbot --> "Moore rolls 1d20+4 and gets 9." 12 [1d20=5]
<Kotono> Pepo can make out something in the murmurs. It's one voice arguing itself over and over. It comes from all the places the ectoplasm is, as if connected as part of a greater whole. OOC: Moore.
<Moore> OOC: Does the attack disrupt my playing?
<Kotono> OOC: If you try to maintain it after that, yeah, you'll need a check to resolve it.
<Moore> OOC: Sure, I'll try and keep playing for now and we'll see what happens.
<Kotono> OOC: Make a concentration check.
<Moore> OOC: http://dndtools.eu/feats/complete-mage--58/melodic-casting--1918/
<Moore> roll 1d20+16
* Hatbot --> "Moore rolls 1d20+16 and gets 24." 12 [1d20=8]
<Kotono> OOC: That doesn't play nice with how Pathfinder does concentration, but whatever, deal with after session.
<Kotono> OOC: Success.
<Kotono> Moore manages to withstand his wounds and keeps his performance going. OOC: Lucy.
<Lucy> "Don't you want to be put to rest?" Lucy asks reasonably as she batters the blob with missiles.
<Lucy> roll 5d4+5 swift for arcanist's gloves
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 5d4+5 swift for arcanist's gloves and gets 15." 12 [5d4=4, 2, 2, 1, 1]
<Kotono> Missiles pepper the sphere. It shakes all over, as do the swords all around. But otherwise it doesn't react at all. OOC: Okay. Bash. He'll hold a second. Pepo, go.
<Pepo> roll 1d20+18 knowledge psionics. Because psionics are all about ectoplasm so there has to be a connection here.
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 1d20+18 knowledge psionics. Because psionics are all about ectoplasm so there has to be a connection here. and gets 22." 12 [1d20=4]
<Kotono> The creature here is one mind, divided into many parts. It enables it to control all the swords as if they were part of its own body. Conversely, it means the swords can be hurt and it injures the poltergeist, too. It's one big mental connection.
<Pepo> 'The ectoplasmic weapons are still part of its body and may be damaged to injure it,' Pepo informs the others, setting to this in the most expedient manner he can by creating a wall of lightning that runs straight down the middle of the stairway, cutting through the main blob and several weapons while blasting weaker electric sparks at the ones littered on one side,
<Pepo> roll 1d100 wild surge 5+
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 1d100 wild surge 5+ and gets 37." 12 [1d100=37]
<Pepo> roll 2d6+9 DC 20 ref half for stuff directly on wall
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 2d6+9 DC 20 ref half for stuff directly on wall and gets 18." 12 [2d6=4, 5]
<Pepo> roll 2d6 for stuff near wall
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 2d6 for stuff near wall and gets 10." 12 [2d6=5, 5]
<Kotono> roll 1d20+6 main blob gets a save, secondary parts don't.
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+6 main blob gets a save, secondary parts don't. and gets 25." 12 [1d20=19]
<Kotono> Lightning crackles through the ectoplasm orb and weapons. Several of them wobble wildly from voltage, which makes the others all around wobble. They seem completely out of control! OOC: Bash is defending himself since he's out of productive options. Orb is up.
<Kotono> Wild and half crazed, the weapons fly around in erratic and uncontrolled paths! OOC: Ref saves all, +2 bonus since the orb's control is in shit city. Plus you count as having evasion.
<Lucy> roll 1d20+10
<Kotono> roll 1d20+10 Bash evasion
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+10 and gets 27." 12 [1d20=17]
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+10 Bash evasion and gets 25." 12 [1d20=15]
<Pepo> roll 1d20+15 evasion
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 1d20+15 evasion and gets 33." 12 [1d20=18]
<Moore> roll 1d20+11+2 evasion
* Hatbot --> "Moore rolls 1d20+11+2 evasion and gets 27." 12 [1d20=14]
<Kotono> But the party evades the storm of uncontrolled blades. OOC: Nice dodge. Moore.
<Moore> Moore continues to play his Lyre! OOC: He'll move a bit away as well, 10 ft.
<Kotono> OOC: Lucy. Go, I'll be a sec since dog.
<Lucy> Lucy's hand reaches for the handle of her axe of its own accord, but rather than charge into melee she rears back and tosses the magical weapon through the floating weapons and all the way at the blob! And then the whirling axe impacts against the wall of the tunnel and heads right back through the opposition, all the way to Lucy where she easily manages to catch it by the handle!
<Lucy> roll 1d20+15 whirling blade
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d20+15 whirling blade and gets 22." 12 [1d20=7]
<Lucy> roll 1d12+14 magic
* Hatbot --> "Lucy rolls 1d12+14 magic and gets 15." 12 [1d12=1]
<Kotono> The thrown axe cleaves through the shocked sphere, bisecting it. It falls into two broken halves, reduced to gummy ectoplasm. The weapons crumble in form as well, becoming little more than stains. OOC: Free act.
<Lucy> "Well, wasn't this exciting?"
<Kotono> Bash holds his shoulder, stemming blood from a gash there. "Exciting as nearly dying is. Shit!"
<Pepo> Pepo keeps his wall up for now, in case any more monsters come at them.
<Lucy> "Haven't you said you never saw this before? New knowledge, appearing before your very eyes!"
<Moore> "Once I'm done with this, I can take care of the injuries." Moore says as he focuses on playing.