To cure rotting earth (Ithea, Moore)

[Anastasia]

Spot and do you have any means to see effectively in the steam?

[Nephrite]

[22:04] <Nephrite> roll 1d20+31 spot
[22:04] <Serith> Nephrite roll for Serith < 48 > [d20=17]

That should be +2 due to racial. I could cast True Seeing if necessary but otherwise no.

[Merc]

"We don't really want to announce our presence here, keep in mind the most likely presence is either devils or helpers," Ithea warns Crystal.

"Ithea": ShowHide

HP: 346/346
AC/Touch/Flat-Footed: 56/39/56
Effects: Heroes Feast (CL 20)
Qualities: DR 10/silver, SR 34, Darkvision, Low-Light Vision, +4 CMD vs Trip/Overrun/Bullrush, Evasion, Uncanny Dodge, Immunity to Frightful Presence, +4 vs Fear, Spellwarped

Inspiration: 0/6

Abilities:
Racial: Healing Touch 0/1
Rogue: Mimic 0/1
Factotum: Inspiration 0/6, Nerveskitter 0/1, Heroics 0/1, Piety 0/9
Duskblade: Attunement 0/14, Quick Cast 0/4
Feats: Chaos Devotion 0/1
Gear: Counterstrike 0/2, Greatreach 0/3, Reciprocate 0/2, Haste 0/10 (rounds), Daylight 0/1, See Invis 0/1, +2d6 electric damage 0/3, Gate 2/3

Spells:
Lv 0 - 0/6
Lv 1 - 0/23
Lv 2 - 0/23
Lv 3 - 0/23
Lv 4 - 0/18
Lv 5 - 0/14

"Balyss": ShowHide

HP: 228/228
AC/Touch/Flat-Footed: 51/38/48
Effects: Heroes Feast (CL 20)
Qualities: Darkvision, low-light vision, RE(Fire) 20, RE(cold) 15, RE(sonic) 10, RE(acid/electricity) 5, prophet's sight 3/day, Evasion, trap sense+2,  uncanny dodge, DR 10/cold iron and evil, Regen 1/cold iron and evil.

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"Crystal/Hope": ShowHide

Crystal
HP: 223/223
AC: 43 / 39 / 31
Effects: Heroes Feast (CL 20)
Qualities: Low-light vision, DR 10/cold iron, greater invisibility, SR 36, evasion

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Hope
HP: 484/484
AC: 51 / 21 / 41
Qualities: Improved Evasion, +4 will vs enchantment, DR 15/epic, SR 32, immunity to sleep and paralysis, RE(acid/cold/electricity) 20, darkvision, low-light vision, water breathing, fast healing 3.

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[Ebiris]

Hey Merc, let me know which/how many golems you're bringing and I'll update their cheat sheets? Topic is here

[Merc]

I didn't have a specific thought on that. Maybe two shredstorms and the ironwyrm? The ironwyrm takes Baleruk's role and the two shredstorms primarily for digging? Honestly though, whatever you're comfortable running combat for since you volunteered there.

Edit: Also, for Dune, Ithea picked up the permanent blindsight so she'd be able to 'see' through the steam that way. Any need for spot checks for her?

[Ebiris]

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Shredstorm #1 77/77
AC 24, construct traits, immunity to electricity, swarm traits

Shredstorm #1 77/77
AC 24, construct traits, immunity to electricity, swarm traits

Smrgol 459/459
AC 50, construct traits, immunity to magic, immunity to rust, fast healing 10

[Anastasia]

Moore can't see much with the steam, but it looks still. Ithea can confirm it - nothing's out there to her blindsight.

"Hello Earth!" Dana shouts, cupping her hands over her mouth, "Any assholes here ready to get destroyed? Anyone?" No answer, to which Dana mutters, "Fucking pussies already ran away."

"Good. No problems with us digging, then. Ithea, aren't the golems going to do that?" Balyss asks, looking around herself.

[Merc]

Ithea sighs at Dana's scream but lets it go, instead nodding to Balyss. "Yes, we want to dig some 20 feet from the lowest point of the seam according to Silver to hit the cavern we want. I'll assume we're on 'the wet side' given all this steam."

Ithea does a quick search for the lowest spot before commanding the shredstorms to dig from there.

[Anastasia]

This all passes uneventfully. You soon get your position and order the shredstorms to dig away.

How fast can the shredstorms dig and how big a tunnel do they make?

[Ebiris]

Shredstorms don't have a burrow speed but they do 3d6 damage per round to anything in their space and ignore 20 points of hardness plus 2d6 lightning damage (which would be halved against objects). Against stone it'd average out at I guess 1 inch per round? Makes a hole 10 feet wide at least.

[Anastasia]

That's fine, we'll roll with that. That's a little under a foot a minute. We'll round it up to a foot a minute for ease of calculation. This will vary depending on the composition of each part of Earth you go through, but that's a good average to work with.

The shredstorms get right to it, digging and burrowing away. Afina's golemcraft proves worthwhile again as they make a steady hole together, cooperating to dig into the ground. They pulverize the stone into a fine dust that settles to the bottom, only be shredded further a few seconds later. Stille goes over and watches, whistling low. "Good work, I think. The only question is what to do while they dig and we follow."

[Nephrite]

"I could tell some exciting stories!" Moore offers. "I don't know that we'd have time to get into the gritty details of them, though..."

[Merc]

"Well, it'll be roughly 20 minutes at the pace they're going, so feel free. I'm going to keep watch though, in case some patrol of devils starts getting closer. Probably if anything is waiting for us, it'll be closer to their mines, but no reason not to practice some safe scouting," Ithea replies.

[Anastasia]

Crystal stops, blinks and says slowly, "Ah, Ithea? We might have a problem. I thought Silver said that we needed to travel 23 feet from the lowest point, towards the wet wall side, then dig. Rather than digging at the lowest point and going down 23 feet. Right?"

[Merc]

"Easy way to verify," Ithea says, nonplussed as she draws the sunnishard mace. "I'll quickly scout under the earth and verify. If its not, I'll find the correct spot and redirect the shredstorms."

Earth Glide spell active while holding mace.