The Battle of Father and Son

[Anastasia]

CL check then, same as the one for the fireball I just called for.

[Corwin]

21:13 <CC> roll 1d20+38+2+1+2+10 CL
21:13 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 57 > [d20=4]

IGNORANCE used.

[Anastasia]

This time the same light flashes, but your magic bulls past it and...

How much damage are we talking here, since it influences an action.

[Corwin]

320 Goldenfire damage with a 2 miles radius, Ref DC 55 half. Everyone killed by it explodes with the same damage/save/radius. CL to beat SR is 81+Honeydip's Determined Caster aura bonus for Imix, and 71+Honeydip's Determined Caster aura bonus for everyone else.

Being a divine rogue/paladin I don't fail a save on a 1, have a high enough ref save that even a 1 means I pass, and evasion which ensures I take no damage.

The damage from Widened Maximized Empowered Simmer's Contagious Fireburst is 20d10, or 20d10+20 with Soothsayer's Spite coming into play. Empowered and Maximized it becomes 300+20 and thus 320 per blast. Around me are 3 water elementals who expire and add to the explosions, and then there is every regular soldier within 2 miles of Imix's and party who explode and hit them.

[Anastasia]

Well, this edge cased Simmer's Contagious Fireburst to either being changed or banned, but that was honestly close to that for a long time as it was. Admittedly it's a stress situation since your widening ability isn't standard, but it was on it's last strike anyway. Won't take effect until after this adventure, so just making a note of it now, so this has zero impact on the current battle.

Not even going to bother rolling the saves for the army.

The detonation is titanic - there's no other word for it. The goldenfire burst is massive beyond measure, and when it's gone, so is the army. Yet a glowing red light surrounds Imix and the elite warriors around him - the primal elementals, Asgeroth, the little dragon and Magul are untouched beneath this light. Imix is nearly transparent, a red hot metal shield within his body glowing brighter and brighter with goldenfire.

Yet the sacrifice is made. Before your eyes, the shield shatters. Shards of it fly close and far, tiny little dots of red and gold light, going from mere feet away to going farther can you can imagine. Some stay within Imix's body as the light fades, leaving them intact while devastation is all around them.

Magul cries out at that, hands to his empty eyes, while Asgeroth looks on in grim disgust.

Chance to change or continue with the last delayed blast fireball.

[Corwin]

I actually already used that fireball, although I do have two actions left! I will take them once you tell me what that light I saw in Imix twice before during my spells was, whether it was this shield, what is this shield, is it an SDA, did it break, can I absorb some of it and if so do I need a dvr check or the motes that flew away from him are free to the taking?

[Anastasia]

Obligatory K:P and K:A checks real quick.

[Corwin]

10 for 103 has served me well before, for both.

[Anastasia]

You think the light came from the shield, logically.

As for the shield? You honestly aren't sure, but you recall one old legend. It's fragments of legends - it's said Kossuth made several shields of iron for reasons unknown, only that they offer incredible protections against flame. Known as Kossuth's Mercy, these shields are generally believed to be a myth by most scholars, just a random bit of lore debris that means nothing. Maybe the myth is true in some form? It's an old one, and few even in Fire talk of them.

The shield shattered, so unless it has a highly unusual definition of not breaking, it broke.

You could go gather the shards if you want, sure. There's tons and tons of them - on a glance far more than a shield that size should have made. Many traveled what must be miles, or dozens of miles, or thousands of miles or far more, perhaps even to other planes across planar borders, they went so far. Admittedly the way infinite planes work that's a little fuzzy anyway.

Any shards within Imix are obviously out of bounds, but any just lying there are free game.

[Corwin]

Undeterred by this apparent failure, Seira cups her hands as sickly emerald light forms between them. And then, without further ado, the emerald washes away the gold upon the horizon!

It's safe to come out now, she relays to Elle afterwards, before sending a message to Amaryl and Zaaman Rul saying, Got his army and a fancy Kossuth-made shield, but Imix is still kicking

And then Seira drops down, her superior speed allowing her to close some of the distance even as her divine power seeks out many of the shards around her and brings them to her. It may not do much, but infuriating Imix to focus solely on her at the expense of reason and common sense is a decent goal to have!

Widened Enhanced Maximized Empowered Twinned Disintegrating Burst for 2 miles, which happens to break the Resilient Spheres for Donald, Ranbar and Honeydip (Ranbar should be capable of casting, since Elle is within Prismatic Sphere that cuts off all spells in and out from my understanding).
CL roll to beat SR:
21:50 <CC> roll 1d20+34+1+10+14+2 (+10 more vs Imix)
21:50 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 66 > [d20=5]
Enhanced it's 60d6, maximized and empowered makes it 540, twinned makes it 1080 damage.
Fort DC 47 to only receive 90 damage (5d6, maximized and empowered to 45, twinned to 90)

Dropping down 460ft (moving down at twice speed since it's down) so that I'm 690ft from Imix/the ground. Using Alter Reality to try and 'steal' as many shards as a I can.

[Anastasia]

Where are you aiming to be relative to everyone when you cast disintegrating burst?

[Corwin]

I was adjacent to Imix's throne before shooting up 1,150ft into the sky. So I seek to be 690ft above the ground and 5ft away from Imix now. I believe Elle should be almost directly below me, given we were inspecting the throne side by side in Time Stop. You know where Donald and Ranbar are. Honeydip would be 1,150ft up in the air and 5ft more to the side (given we were adjacent).

[Corwin]

I believe that Magul should still not have line of effect/line of sight towards me, since Imix protected everything there including my wall.

[Anastasia]

Imix autopasses, can't fail on a 1 and his 1 is high enough to pass.

> roll 1d20+57 Magul
> roll 1d20+57 Magul
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 75 > [d20=18]
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 66 > [d20=9]
> roll 1d20+52 mettle Asgeroth
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 70 > [d20=18]
> roll 1d20+52 mettle Asgeroth
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 53 > [d20=1]
> roll 1d20+49 dragon
> roll 1d20+49 dragon
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 54 > [d20=5]
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 56 > [d20=7]
> roll 1d20+39 primal 1
> roll 1d20+39 primal 1
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 40 > [d20=1]
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 48 > [d20=9]
> roll 1d20+40 prima 2
> roll 1d20+40 prima 2
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 48 > [d20=8]
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 58 > [d20=18]

The burst of disintegration hits hard, striking hard and dissolving ground - not that it matters now, the throne gone as well. Asgeroth grimaces as much of his right side is gone, while one of the primal elementals staggers, flames flickering. Yet Imix is barely even disturbed by that, as...

That it for your turn?

[Corwin]

I'd appreciate a response from Zaaman Rul and Amaryl since then I know what to expect. Also, just short of 2 miles of ground just got excavated underneath everyone. My dudes can all fly, I presume so can the enemies?