Labalyn's memorial

[Anastasia]

Nothing happens at all. It's as if the Words fall flat - or perhaps the will of the Guardian opposes you on this. You know not.

Anything else?

[Nephrite]

For whatever reason, Moore smiles.

You're not as clever as you think you are, Guardian. You tipped your hand a little too much on this one, if you didn't want it to be so obvious, then you should've just let this one go.

Cresiel, I know you were going to anyway, but protect her. I think I understand now what's going on here. Heal her with whatever you can so she can get back a step from him... I know what to do now.

That's only to Cresiel and Jetina.

Do not stop running.

That's to Kaja.

Also, do I have an idea of how far the Demonic Rush spell can go? I mean, in this case it didn't go very far, but for all I know it can go like... super far. If I have an idea that might help with other plans. Basically, if I think he can make it all the way to Kaja even after two rounds of quad-move running, let me know.

Moore will sing again, in order to bolster their allies!

He's redoing Inspire Greatness to get the temp HP back onto Jetina. And I guess now that everyone has extra Con it'll be more temp HP, so.. hold on...

[22:15] <Nephrite> roll 10d10 temp hp
[22:15] <Penuche> Nephrite invokes Penuche's magic: < 47 > [d10=7,7,2,1,3,7,4,4,10,2]

Cresiel: 287
Kaja: 207
Jetina & Moore: 197

[Anastasia]

You aren't sure but it's likely fairly long range. It moved pretty fast.

Does that change anything, and if not, anything else this turn?

[spoiler]

Cresiel: 287
Kaja: 207
Jetina & Moore: 197

Mass Valiant fury for +6 str/con morale and +2 morale will saves and extra attack ala haste.

Inspire Excellence for +12 competence to Strength for everyone.

He's using his Harmonize move ability to also cast Destined Strike, which is the following:

+4 to attack and damage rolls, Improved Critical Feat, +23 to threat confirmations right now.

Inspire Heroics, +14 morale bonus to saves and +14 dodge to AC for everyone.

Oh, I forgot, but everyone also gains the following benefits for future rounds: they gain fast healing 11, and gain damage reduction 11/-

He's using his move action to Inspire Courage.

Courage +20 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +20 morale bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls.

Cresiel
HP: 1068/1068(963) (regeneration 20)
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Protective 20ft (+4 deflection/+4 resistance vs evil)
Bonuses: Attack+0, Damage+0 AC+0, Saves+0, Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Holy Fury 39/39 (enc) Channel Energy 18/18 Divine Retribution 1/1 Blinding Speed 24/25 Knight's Challenge 15/15
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: Detect Evil (CL35), Detect Snares and Pits (CL35), Discern Lies (CL35), True Seeing (CL35)
Notes: Adjacent allies gain a shield bonus equal to Cresiel's shield bonus.

Kaja
HP: 753/753(648)
Negative Conditions:
Aura:
Bonuses: Attack+0, Damage+0 AC+0, Saves+0, Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Breath Weapon 1/1 Dervish Dance 13/13 Endless Cuts 3/3 +5 One Attack On FA 1/1 (rnd) Take 10 On One Attack (rnd) 1/1
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active:
Notes: Goes in and wrecks things. The end.

Jetina
HP: 11/705(600) (fast healing 5)
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Courage 10ft (+4 morale vs fear), Positive Energy 10ft (1 hit point healing/round)
Bonuses: Attack+0, Damage+0 AC+0, Saves+0, Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Smite Evil 7/7 Smite 6/6 Channel Energy 14/14 Emergency Healing 3/5 True Believer 1/1
Spells Used: 2 9th level spell used
SLAs Used:
Spells Active:
Notes: Divine Vigor is +10ft land movement and +2 temp hp per hit die. Divine Shield is Cha mod to shield bonus to armor class.

[Nephrite]

No, at least not for Moore.

I know Antimagic's out, but if you can think of any way to stop him from doing that trick again, I'm all ears. I have an idea but I don't know if it'll work... I was going to try and will a wall to keep him from chasing Kaja, that seemed to work to get us here, and might work again. I leave it up to you to decide if you want to heal her or try that.

To Cresiel.

"You do understand the second you kill anyone here, your little stunt is over, right Torm?" Moore says as power settles into all his allies. "Do you think for even one second anyone is going to let you get back out of here? Is your rage so blinding that you've managed to blind yourself to truth?"

[Anastasia]

Init is Torm (Supreme Init) > Moore (59) > Cresiel (54) > Kaja = Blood Kaja = Jetina (33)

Cresiel flies ahead, a silent force of mercy to mend Jetina's broken form. He flies along and around, blocking Torm a little further ahead.

Mass heal, 250 healing Jetina. His divine movement speed helps here. Jetina, go.

[spoiler]

Cresiel: 287
Kaja: 207
Jetina & Moore: 197

Mass Valiant fury for +6 str/con morale and +2 morale will saves and extra attack ala haste.

Inspire Excellence for +12 competence to Strength for everyone.

He's using his Harmonize move ability to also cast Destined Strike, which is the following:

+4 to attack and damage rolls, Improved Critical Feat, +23 to threat confirmations right now.

Inspire Heroics, +14 morale bonus to saves and +14 dodge to AC for everyone.

Oh, I forgot, but everyone also gains the following benefits for future rounds: they gain fast healing 11, and gain damage reduction 11/-

He's using his move action to Inspire Courage.

Courage +20 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +20 morale bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls.

Cresiel
HP: 1068/1068(963) (regeneration 20)
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Protective 20ft (+4 deflection/+4 resistance vs evil)
Bonuses: Attack+0, Damage+0 AC+0, Saves+0, Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Holy Fury 39/39 (enc) Channel Energy 18/18 Divine Retribution 1/1 Blinding Speed 24/25 Knight's Challenge 15/15
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: Detect Evil (CL35), Detect Snares and Pits (CL35), Discern Lies (CL35), True Seeing (CL35)
Notes: Adjacent allies gain a shield bonus equal to Cresiel's shield bonus.

Kaja
HP: 753/753(648)
Negative Conditions:
Aura:
Bonuses: Attack+0, Damage+0 AC+0, Saves+0, Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Breath Weapon 1/1 Dervish Dance 13/13 Endless Cuts 3/3 +5 One Attack On FA 1/1 (rnd) Take 10 On One Attack (rnd) 1/1
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active:
Notes: Goes in and wrecks things. The end.

Jetina
HP: 261/705(600) (fast healing 5)
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Courage 10ft (+4 morale vs fear), Positive Energy 10ft (1 hit point healing/round)
Bonuses: Attack+0, Damage+0 AC+0, Saves+0, Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Smite Evil 7/7 Smite 6/6 Channel Energy 14/14 Emergency Healing 3/5 True Believer 1/1
Spells Used: 2 9th level spell used
SLAs Used:
Spells Active:
Notes: Divine Vigor is +10ft land movement and +2 temp hp per hit die. Divine Shield is Cha mod to shield bonus to armor class.

[Nephrite]

So, my understanding of D&D combat will bite me here -- so forgive me for this one.

Mechanically, Jetina should be able to take a 5-foot step to get out of Torm's immediate attack range without provoking an AoO so she can cast, assuming that he doesn't have more than a 5-foot reach on his swings?

[Anastasia]

Correct.

[Nephrite]

Jetina, infused with the power from her friends, manages to take a step back and away and tries to heal them all again!

She only needs to heal herself, so she'll just go for a regular Heal for 275.

[Anastasia]

That it for her, then?

[Nephrite]

Yes, also, I believe we're now out of the two rounds of Time Stop, so we should be back to normal, which means Moore has a standard action to use from the "real" rounds, and I believe Torm's actions are used up for this as well.

[Nephrite]

Small addendum, I forgot Moore used his standard on the first "real" round, so he's out of options, but the rest of the party should still be able to act.

[Anastasia]

A favorable time split for you, if nothing else.

Cresiel continues to bar the way, all as Kaja runs forward. He pins Torm in inevitably, hammer raised in silent challenge before he brings it down hard.

> roll 1d20 -35 PA Cresiel strongly suspects it's homerun or bust so he'll embrace that and 20 fish
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 12 > [d20=12]

With a flick of his wrist Torm's greatsword whirls around, the hammer deflected back as at the same time Torm does not turn. His arms reach behind him unnaturally, a third coming from the back of his helmet to support the blade.

"The Abyss touched you?" Cresiel murmurs as his eyes momentarily widen. He is pushed back by the parry a second later, skidding back a good dozen feet and landing in a crouch. He's up a moment later as Kaja runs and runs and runs, as fast as terror and duty can propel him.

Help us stall, Moore. As long as Kaja reaches the Guardian, we may yet triumph!

Jetina.

[Nephrite]

Jetina moves near to Cresiel herself, but behind him.

The idea is that if Torm wants another shot at her he has to do his demonic rush trick again to get to her.

She will call out again for healing on herself!

275 to Jetina, that should top her back off with the improved hit points, I think?

"I don't know what caused you to lose hope, Torm." Moore says, rather sadly. "But if anything has been proven in the last few months, it's that miracles exist and can save even those like you. So many people are waiting for you to return." He adds. "I don't even know how you managed to get in here... but you know as well as I do that the rest of the Triad are coming."

He's kind of hoping being the sappy kind will piss Torm off enough to take a swing at him. Maybe.

[Anastasia]

How is she moving, long and around? She might provoke an AoO otherwise.

[Nephrite]

I assumed since she had gotten out of AoO range the first time she could, but yes, she can make a U shape, ought to have plenty of room to do so.