Where hope dies (Afina, Surarruthru, Calleigh)

[Yuthirin]

Please note that Calleigh and Tryll have True Seeing, if it's relevant.

[Anastasia]

So noted. Waiting on Surrarthru (and you if you wanna post anything else) to have a chance to chime in before possible combat.

[Yuthirin]

i might get something in later tonight, but I don't have the time to do it now.

[Iron Dragoon]

Sorry for the late post. I do want to loot whatever books/scrolls there are.

Surraruthru prepares for the Necrolyte by finding a good hiding spot with line of sight to the door and readying a spell to feed into Wand.

Prepping a level 6 Beguiler spell to feed Wand.

Spoiler: ShowHide

Surraruthru: 238/238 HP, Mind Blank, Arcane Sight
AC: 32 (Touch: 17, Flat Footed: 26) SR: 18, Immunity to Fear, Sleep, Paralysis, Reflective Fear, Darkvision 60 ft, Low-Light Vision, Waterbreathing
Spells/SLAs: http://www.soulriders.net/forum/index.php/topic,101754.msg1059635.html#msg1059635

[Anastasia]

Make a quick Hide check.

[Iron Dragoon]

> roll 1d20+51 Hide
<Kobot> Iddy rolled 1d20+51 Hide --> [ 1d20=1 ]{52}

fffffffffffff-

[Anastasia]

The party prepares - and the door opens, "Now!" The Master says, everyone leaping on the cornugon.

Surprise round, y'all. Act.

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru fires off the spell from Wand!

> roll 1d20+23 Touch Attack: Wand
<Kobot> Iddy rolled 1d20+23 Touch Attack: Wand --> [ 1d20=17 ]{40}

Spoiler: ShowHide

Surraruthru: 238/238 HP, Mind Blank, Arcane Sight
AC: 32 (Touch: 17, Flat Footed: 26) SR: 18, Immunity to Fear, Sleep, Paralysis, Reflective Fear, Darkvision 60 ft, Low-Light Vision, Waterbreathing
Spells/SLAs: http://www.soulriders.net/forum/index.php/topic,101754.msg1059635.html#msg1059635

[Ebiris]

From this vantage it's easy enough for Afina to just drop down a few feet and give the cornugon a fierce frontal lobotomy with her sword! It's not as effective as skirmishing usually, but these things seem resistant enough to that that she'll make up for it with the volume of her attacks. She also hastes everyone as is traditional.

[12:18] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+48 haste
[12:18] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+48 haste --> [ 1d20=2 ]{50}
[12:18] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+48 #1
[12:18] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+48 #1 --> [ 1d20=1 ]{49}
[12:18] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+43 #2
[12:18] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+43 #2 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{47}
[12:18] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+38 #3
[12:18] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+38 #3 --> [ 1d20=7 ]{45}
[12:18] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+33 #4
[12:18] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+33 #4 --> [ 1d20=11 ]{44}
[12:19] <@Ebiris> +2 for all those from evil outsider bane
[12:19] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+13+2d6+2d6+2d6
[12:19] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+13+2d6+2d6+2d6 --> [ 1d20=10 2d6=6 2d6=8 2d6=5 ]{42}
[12:19] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+13+2d6+2d6+2d6
[12:19] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+13+2d6+2d6+2d6 --> [ 1d20=11 2d6=11 2d6=6 2d6=9 ]{50}
[12:19] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+13+2d6+2d6+2d6
[12:19] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+13+2d6+2d6+2d6 --> [ 1d20=17 2d6=4 2d6=7 2d6=2 ]{43}
[12:19] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+13+2d6+2d6+2d6
[12:19] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+13+2d6+2d6+2d6 --> [ 1d20=7 2d6=8 2d6=7 2d6=8 ]{43}
strikes as good/silver/anarchic/epic, also +2 damage per attack if necrolytes have dr/silver

Spoiler: ShowHide

Afina: 208+20/208, heroes feast (CL 20), greater mage armour (CL 23), moment of prescience (CL 23), resist energy (cold) (CL 23), resist energy (acid) (CL 23), shadow form (CL 23), mind blank (CL 25), shield (CL 23), greater heroism (CL 23), haste (CL 23)
AC 65, spell resistance 38, blindsense 30, immunity to fire, water, disease, poison, fear, 50% miss chance (applies to spells as well), freedom of movement
Spell charges: 6/9/7/6/8/3/4/6/6/4

[Anastasia]

> roll 15d6
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 15d6 --> [ 15d6=47 ]{47}

Wand's attack.

"Got 'em!" Wand calls. As Afina slices the Necrolyte's skull open, an orb of searing fire slams into its exposed brain. The result causes cranial explosion, spraying everywhere before vanishing entirely. The Necrolyte's robe and possessions hit the ground, slain before ti even realized a thing was awry.

Free act.

[Ebiris]

Nodding in approval, Afina turns invisible and goes to flit through the door opposite their side before retreating back after seeing what awaits there.

[Anastasia]

Meanwhile, Tannin makes a face and nudges the remains. "Amazing luck so far," he mutters. "Wonder how the others are doing?"

Meanwhile, Afina peeks in. Ahead is a massive room - dominated entirely by a sinking pit. Terraces line it as it sinks further and further in. They are filled with Necrolytes and various undead, the former experimenting on the latter. All sorts of things, from the mundane of checking undead over, to infusing them with strange magic, to coldly and smoothly dissecting them. There must be at least 90 Necrolytes in there, working away, and even more undead of various form.

Skeletons of all kinds? Check. Zombies? Oh yeah. Wights, ghosts and other incorporeal menaces? By the bushel. Ghosts that burn like fire and freeze like ice? Absolutely. Giant creatures made of corpses? In spades. Crawling hands that skitter about and lick up the blood and viscera on the ground with tongues that come from their palm? You bet. Little balls of floating light that have screaming faces within? Looks like it. Skeletal knights of bone and rage, with eyes that sear whatever they look at? Of course they are. Brains in great aquariums, where they devour each other with black, rotting teeth? Done and done. Headless, rotting imps that flay one another and toss the skin into a great bonfire? It's there.

All of this is overseen at the bottom, 500ft away and 900ft down. A feminine figure sits on a throne of bones there, a shadowy thing standing besides her. It's hard to get much of a look, admittedly, due to angle and circumstances. You can also note the topmost levels have doors leading away from this vast pit.

[Ebiris]

Afina returns after getting a look. "The layout's favoured us so far, everything's been isolated. But past there's a much larger chamber and it's absolutely filled with devils and undead. Wiping out everything there would deal a major blow but we can nibble around the edges a while longer, be thorough that way," she says, going to phase through the wall by the door that branches off this corridor for a look.

[Anastasia]

"I'm not sure attacking that room straight is a good idea," Sylvie says before Afina goes, "What are their numbers?"

[Ebiris]

"Hundreds and hundreds," Afina answers, lingering so they can discuss this. "A strong opening with a lot of fireballs and magmabergs would thin out their numbers to something more managable though."