The hunt for goldenfire (Afina and Jaela, later Surraruthru too)

Anastasia · January 02, 2016, 02:20:54 PM

Jaela throws all her magic at the barrier - but the sheer, simple and overwhelming power of the spell is stunning. You've fought archmages with less power behind a spell. Despite your best effort, the wall appears.

On the other side, Surraruthru can see the golem rear back and punch the wall with all it has.

> roll 1d20+49
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+49 --> [ 1d20=20 ]{69}
> roll 6d10+40
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 6d10+40 --> [ 6d10=35 ]{75}

On the other side, a chunk of the wall bulges out - before it tips forward, falling right onto the party.

Due to the previous wall being in place, you don't have room to dodge. As written, that means you wouldn't get a Reflex save against this and the 10d6 damage it provokes. However, I generally don't agree with that sort of thing, so you will get a Reflex save. I will impose a -10 circumstance penalty to the save, however.

Make Reflex saves Afina, Jaela and Mirajane.

Ebiris · January 02, 2016, 02:24:30 PM

[18:24] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+38-10 evasion
[18:24] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+38-10 evasion --> [ 1d20=1 ]{29}

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Corwin · January 02, 2016, 02:28:38 PM

[20:27] <Tohsaka> roll 1d20+44-10 evasion
[20:27] <Kobot> Tohsaka rolled 1d20+44-10 evasion --> [ 1d20=1 ]{35}

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Anastasia · January 02, 2016, 02:37:35 PM

> roll 1d20+24 Mirajane (+4 celestial valor, +1 haste, -10 circumstance)
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+24 Mirajane (+4 celestial valor, +1 haste, -10 circumstance) --> [ 1d20=20 ]{44}

Before anyone else reacts, Mirajane kneels and thrusts her spear up. The wall plummets, the sight of that plus the sheer speed catching the other two off guard. It crashes down on them, crushing them beneath it.

> roll 10d6 Afina and Jaela full
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 10d6 Afina and Jaela full --> [ 10d6=34 ]{34}

CRUNCH! Both steam pixie and angel's vision is blocked by tons of iron pressing them down. Pain as they're crushed hard enough to turn a peasant into a greasy smear on the ground. They're both alive and relatively unhurt, but having all this iron on you is a problem. A moment later you hear a second crash, not that you're in any position to worry about that.

Surraruthru can see it happen. The first wall falls and hits the second, which gives it up and tumbles backwards as well. Kascha and the unicorn are still where they are, most of the floor now covered in fallen iron. The first wall has a bulge in it, right where it fell on Mirajane. A little dome, as if a force managed to protect her.

Afina and Jaela, you're being crushed by a wall of iron. This is obviously suboptimal. You can't move nor can you cast spells with somatic components. A Strength check to lift the wall is possible, as are actions that don't require moving and spells that don't require somatic components.

Afina, you're up.

Ebiris · January 02, 2016, 02:43:58 PM

Afina is trapped and unable to kill! Unable to move her limbs under this crushing weight she tries to dimension door her way out, only for her magic to fizzle under the mana-burn she's currently suffering. Unwilling to let it lie like that she attempts speeding herself up enough to squeeze another attempt, but this magic too slips away from her!

[18:41] <@Ebiris> roll 1d100 spell failure dimension door
[18:41] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d100 spell failure --> [ 1d100=8 ]{8}
[18:42] <@Ebiris> roll 1d100 spell failure x2 haste/time stop
[18:42] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d100 spell failure x2 --> [ 1d100=10 ]{10}

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Corwin · January 02, 2016, 02:45:57 PM

"Mirajane!" Jaela calls out, muffled though she might be by a wall of iron crushing down her pride. "Are you alright? Can you get to me?"

Anastasia · January 02, 2016, 02:47:17 PM

"Trying," Mirajane says, "I have it!"

Initiative order is Afina (38) > Surraruathru = Unicorn (30) > Kascha (22) > Jaela (Miko 14) > Mirajane (Like Mother 8) > Adamantine Golem (5)

Go Surraruthru.

Iron Dragoon · January 02, 2016, 03:06:26 PM

Surraruthru sees the others in trouble and decides to use his Disintegration spell on the wall to free them as he flies towards Mirajane to give her the spear!

> roll 1d20+17 Ranged Touch
<Kobot> Iddy rolled 1d20+17 Ranged Touch --> [ 1d20=3 ]{20}
> roll 26d6 Disintegrate dam. CL 13
<Kobot> Iddy rolled 26d6 Disintegrate dam. CL 13 --> [ 26d6=96 ]{96}

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Anastasia · January 02, 2016, 03:50:58 PM

A large hunk of the wall is gone, freeing Afina and Jaela. They can see and breathe once more, "Yes, like that," Kascha calls, as...

Unicorn's up.

Iron Dragoon · January 02, 2016, 04:00:09 PM

The Unicorn snorts and uses its Cure Moderate Wounds on Afina!

> roll 2d8+5 Unicorn heals
<Kobot> Iddy rolled 2d8+5 Unicorn heals --> [ 2d8=10 ]{15}

Anastasia · January 02, 2016, 04:08:35 PM

Afina's pain from being crushed lessens, restoring some of her vitality.

Kascha's up. She'll hold to try and interdict another wall if it appears. Jaela.

Corwin · January 02, 2016, 04:18:17 PM

Suddenly freed, Jaela's first thought is to glance in Mirajane's direction. But she had said that she had a plan to deal with this, and trust has to start somewhere. It helps, she muses, that Mirajane had somehow interdicted with Gae Ardaigh.

"Tell me if you need help!" she call over to Mirajane, and then her focus is consumed by hurting the massive golem even more! Her aim was a bit off before, but now she tries to center on the knee joints with her strikes....

34 damage, DR20, 1 temp hp left from 15. Still using Gambit, and if Mirajane manages to rejoin me I want to try the Angelfeather Stone gambit.

[22:15] <Tohsaka> roll 1d20+57
[22:15] <Tohsaka> roll 1d20+57
[22:15] <Kobot> Tohsaka rolled 1d20+57 --> [ 1d20=5 ]{62}
[22:15] <Kobot> Tohsaka rolled 1d20+57 --> [ 1d20=15 ]{72}
[22:15] <Tohsaka> roll 1d20+52
[22:16] <Kobot> Tohsaka rolled 1d20+52 --> [ 1d20=17 ]{69}
[22:16] <Tohsaka> roll 1d20+47
[22:16] <Kobot> Tohsaka rolled 1d20+47 --> [ 1d20=8 ]{55}
[22:16] <Tohsaka> roll 1d20+42
[22:16] <Kobot> Tohsaka rolled 1d20+42 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{60}
[22:16] <Tohsaka> roll 1d8+49+13
[22:16] <Tohsaka> roll 1d8+49+13
[22:16] <Tohsaka> roll 1d8+49+13
[22:16] <Kobot> Tohsaka rolled 1d8+49+13 --> [ 1d8=7 ]{69}
[22:16] <Kobot> Tohsaka rolled 1d8+49+13 --> [ 1d8=3 ]{65}
[22:16] <Tohsaka> roll 1d8+49+13
[22:16] <Kobot> Tohsaka rolled 1d8+49+13 --> [ 1d8=1 ]{63}
[22:16] <Kobot> Tohsaka rolled 1d8+49+13 --> [ 1d8=3 ]{65}

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Anastasia · January 02, 2016, 11:18:27 PM

Jaela thrusts out with a series of jabs, several of them tearing deep into the golem. She leaps up and tears it open from middle to neck, a tremendous squeal of tearing adamantine. The injuries are still healing, but far slower than Jaela's dishing them out. Yet it still doesn't move - it's like hacking apart a boulder with a pickaxe, slow and laborious.

Meanwhile Mirajane attacks, trying to bust the iron around her.

> rollroll 1d20+39 (+4 gmw, +4 celestial valor, +1 haste)
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+39 (+4 gmw, +4 celestial valor, +1 haste) --> [ 1d20=17 ]{56}
> roll 1d20+39 (+4 gmw, +4 celestial valor, +1 haste)
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+39 (+4 gmw, +4 celestial valor, +1 haste) --> [ 1d20=14 ]{53}
> roll 1d20+34 (+4 gmw, +4 celestial valor, +1 haste)
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+34 (+4 gmw, +4 celestial valor, +1 haste) --> [ 1d20=13 ]{47}
> roll 1d20+29 (+4 gmw, +4 celestial valor, +1 haste)
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+29 (+4 gmw, +4 celestial valor, +1 haste) --> [ 1d20=5 ]{34}
> roll 1d20+24 (+4 gmw, +4 celestial valor, +1 haste)
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+24 (+4 gmw, +4 celestial valor, +1 haste) --> [ 1d20=6 ]{30}
> roll 1d8+19
> roll 1d8+19
> roll 1d8+19
> roll 1d8+19
> roll 1d8+19
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d8+19 --> [ 1d8=6 ]{25}
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d8+19 --> [ 1d8=3 ]{22}
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d8+19 --> [ 1d8=1 ]{20}
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d8+19 --> [ 1d8=4 ]{23}
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d8+19 --> [ 1d8=7 ]{26}

A series of blows slowly expands the safe zone around Mirajane, until a final thrust tears a hole open in the wall. Mirajane emerges out, safe once more.

As she climbs out, the adamantine golem turns to Jaela, taking a pair of swings at her.

> roll 1d20+49
> roll 1d20+49
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+49 --> [ 1d20=16 ]{65}
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+49 --> [ 1d20=18 ]{67}
> OOC: Forgot the +4 from gambit, so those both hit AC 68.
> roll 1d20+53 crit confirm 1
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+53 crit confirm 1 --> [ 1d20=19 ]{72}
> roll 1d20+53 crit confirm 2
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+53 crit confirm 2 --> [ 1d20=3 ]{56}
> roll 1d20+53 crit confirm 1
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+53 crit confirm 1 --> [ 1d20=19 ]{72}
> roll 1d20+53 crit confirm 2
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+53 crit confirm 2 --> [ 1d20=3 ]{56}
> roll 1d100 1-20 miss chance 1
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d100 1-20 miss chance 1 --> [ 1d100=3 ]{3}
> roll 1d100 1-20 miss chance 2
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d100 1-20 miss chance 2 --> [ 1d100=4 ]{4}

Jaela just got seriously lucky, though Fortunate Fate would ensure survival.

Both blows are nigh overwhelming, but Jaela just barely dodges. Both blows hit the ground, shattering it and sending cracks along the floor and up the walls.

Afina's up.

Anastasia · January 02, 2016, 11:30:38 PM

Also this got lost in the shuffle of a big post: Take your AoOs for gambit, Jaela.

Corwin · January 03, 2016, 01:51:20 AM

The first strike passes through an afterimage, while Jaela's cloak diverts the other, as if through a will of its own. And each time, she retaliates!

7:47 AM <Tifa> roll 1d20+57 AoO
7:47 AM <Kobot> Tifa rolled 1d20+57 AoO --> [ 1d20=8 ]{65}
7:47 AM <Tifa> roll 1d20+57 AoO
7:47 AM <Kobot> Tifa rolled 1d20+57 AoO --> [ 1d20=13 ]{70}
7:48 AM <Tifa> roll 1d8+49+13
7:48 AM <Kobot> Tifa rolled 1d8+49+13 --> [ 1d8=8 ]{70}
7:48 AM <Tifa> roll 1d8+49+13
7:48 AM <Kobot> Tifa rolled 1d8+49+13 --> [ 1d8=5 ]{67}

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