The Battle of Father and Son

[Corwin]

Seira decides to follow that fireball up with hellish flames and see whether it puts a serious dent in the ooze!

Widened Greater Fireburst, staff metamagic of Fiery (and Searing) used.

20:26 <CC> roll 1d20+48 SR
20:26 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 53 > [d20=5]
Plane of Fire, thus maximized for a damage of 135 (with Fiery added in). Ref DC 43 half.

That's it for my turn, though I'll continue blasting at it next time. Since it's under two miles across, my widened spells keep on hitting its entire form.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+16
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 31 > [d20=15]

Owwies.

Your flames erupt over the wall, scorching it deeper. The ooze writhes against the goldenfire coming ahead steadily in spite of this, crossing distance fast but not fast enough as...

Go ahead.

[Corwin]

It can keep crossing that distance as much as it wants, but unless the ooze can go straight up Seira doubts it can reach her from where she's floating a mile above it. Another wave of fire lashes out at the ooze, even as twin fireballs sear it further!

21:10 <CC> roll 1d20+48 SR
21:10 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 50 > [d20=2]
21:10 <CC> roll 2#1d20+47 SR
21:10 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 58, 59 >

Searing (via staff metamagic) and Maximized (due to Plane of Fire) Widened Greater Fireburst for 135 damage. Ref DC 43 half.
Searing Widened Fireball emulation for 70 damage. Ref DC 40 half.
Another Searing Widened Fireball emulation for 70 damage. Ref DC 40 half.

All spells cover the entirety of the ooze's size. Also, you never gave me an estimate of how badly (or not) I'm damaging it.

[Anastasia]

You're scorching it for sure, hurting it, though it's soldiering on quite well.

> roll 1d20+16
> roll 1d20+16
> roll 1d20+16
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 24 > [d20=8]
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 24 > [d20=8]
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 21 > [d20=5]

Those blasts, however, are enough to finally check it. The tidal wave slows and comes to a stop from your assault, wobbling and jiggling in place. It begins to sink down on itself, rapidly becoming a ball of swords and flame. A great ball bigger than a house, one that begins to fly upward, spinning around and around. A bladed ball of fire and death, seeking you inevitably, rising up swiftly, blinking every few moments, seeming to close the distance faster and faster.

It's going to be in your face, fas-!!!!

> roll 1d100 vs 1-50
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 92 > [d100=92]
> roll 25d12
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 164 > [d12=7,3,6,11,4,11,4,10,2,5,12,8,3,4,11,3,1,4,10,2,10,8,3,10,12]

It's at that moment that another blast hits you right in the stomach. Pain erupts as Imix's hate slams you, leaving you coughing for air. All as the ball rises up, going right for you as - !!!

We never entered init, let's go ahead and do that now since everyone's had a go this round.

[Corwin]

I presume we're maintaining the init from before:

Imix (63) > Seira (43)

Maybe add the ooze to it?

[Anastasia]

In this case, I'm going to call for a new init rather than to get tangled into that, as we weren't really using it at that point.

[Corwin]

It's a waste of time but okay.

19:20 <CC> roll 1d20+24
19:20 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 42 > [d20=18]

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+53
<Penuche> Space_Cat invokes Penuche's magic: < 62 > [d20=9]
> roll 1d20+8
<Penuche> Space_Cat invokes Penuche's magic: < 21 > [d20=13]

Init is Imix (62) > Seira (42) > Ooze (21)

Yeah okay, that was pretty meaningless with the variance of 1. I had to laugh a bit at that.

> roll 1d20+103 (+5 ???, +3 recitation, +12 ???)
<Penuche> Space_Cat invokes Penuche's magic: < 108 > [d20=5]
> roll 1d100
<Penuche> Space_Cat invokes Penuche's magic: < 89 > [d100=89]
> roll 25d12
<Penuche> Space_Cat invokes Penuche's magic: < 151 > [d12=7,5,9,10,1,10,9,6,6,2,3,6,4,1,9,5,2,6,6,6,4,8,12,6,8]

Again pain. Again burning agony. Another strike before you can react, leaving you coughing up flaming, golden blood. It hurts, it hurts horribly. You can feel every pulse of hate in Imix in those split seconds of contact. The towering contempt he has for you, the scorn at your claims, the disgust at what you've done with the Cauldron, how he despises your foolishness - and how he covets it as well, as it's brought a chance to crush his wayward son, once and for all.

Go.

[Corwin]

Seira heals herself and strikes at the ooze with a pair of massive fireballs to keep things going!

I think it's cheating that he goes twice, but whatever, he'll burn through his uses quicker.

Heal with Sensual Blessing and temp hp 20 from Greater Heroism leaves me in top shape again.

19:31 <CC> roll 2#1d20+47 SR
19:31 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 58, 65 >

Searing Widened Fireball emulation for 70 damage. Ref DC 40 half.
Another Searing Widened Fireball emulation for 70 damage. Ref DC 40 half.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+16
> roll 1d20+16
<Penuche> Space_Cat invokes Penuche's magic: < 27 > [d20=11]
<Penuche> Space_Cat invokes Penuche's magic: < 32 > [d20=16]

As you heal your wounds, you blast and batter the ooze again. It's burning with goldenfire now, entire form sizzling and boiling. Swords begin to deform and melt - and its rise is stopped, starting to fall apart, a rain of swords and ooze to the ground. Got it!

In this case, you just happened to have a trump card it couldn't deal with. It was actually very hard to damage without that. Chance to react.

[Corwin]

Seira pulls one of the swords towards her with telekinesis going past its normal range limits, inspecting it.

[Anastasia]

It looks to be a greatsword+2, flaming. It was stronger as part of the creature, but this magic remains in it.

[Corwin]

Nice! The guys from Mineral are bringing her better weapons, but waste not want not! Seira forms a bag of holding and pulls the swords the ooze had into it. If Imix can't be bothered to show up while she's killing his minions, maybe casually disregarding him while looting them will get him over the edge?

[Anastasia]

Gimme a raw Charisma check since you're pretty clearly trying to get under his skin.

[Corwin]

20:37 <CC> roll 1d20+11+4
20:37 <Penuche> CC invokes Penuche's magic: < 31 > [d20=16]