A new sultan?

[Corwin]

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CL 34 spells for all who wish to receive them:
Overall: Glorious Rally, Celestial Valor, Ghost Touch (Armor, Shield and Weapons)
Defensive: Shield of Warding, Foresight, Visions of the Future, Foresight
Perception Modes and Protections: True Seeing, Vision of the Omniscient Eye, Detect Scrying, Greater Arcane Sight
Movement Modes and Protections: Freedom of Movement, Pass Without Trace, Greater Anticipate Teleport
Skill Checks: Greater Heroism, Voice of the Dragon
Ability Checks: Good Hope, Sign
Immunities and Resistances: Nondetection, Mass Death Ward, Heroes's Feast, Energy Res 30 (all)
Esoteric Boosters: Fortunate Fate, Spell Turning
*Selune added +17 sacred to everything except rank checks.

Numerical benefits:
AC: +27 normal/+27 touch (+2 insight Foresight, +2 dodge Visions of the Future, +17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Attack: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Damage: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Fort and Will Saves: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Ref Save +25 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally, +2 insight Foresight)
Ability Checks: +19 (+17 sacred Selune, +2 morale from Good Hope)
Init: +19/+23 (+17 sacred Selune, +2 morale from Good Hope, +4 one-time bonus from Sign)
68 temp hp

Also immunity to all death spells, magical death effects, energy drain, and any negative energy effects (Mass Death Ward), immunity to poison and fear (Heroes's Feast), energy resistance 30 to fire/cold/acid/elec/sonic (Energy Resistance x5), being a difficult target to divination (Nondetection), becoming impossible to track without magic, and limiting the usefulness of scent (Pass Without Trace), moving and attacking normally everywhere, as well as receiving +15 to CMD vs grapples (Freedom of Movement), being healed with 150hp once if dropped below 0 (Fortunate Fate), reflecting 1d4+6 spell levels of spells that have you as a target and aren't touch spells (Spell Turning), +10 enhancement bonus on Bluff, Diplomacy, and Intimidate checks and a really nice and deep commanding voice (Voice of the Dragon), true seeing, +10 to perception and immunity to being dazzled or blinded (Vision of the Omniscient Eye), immediate ability to analyze magic (Greater Arcane Sight) and our favorite combo of detecting when someone's scrying on you and blocking their teleport for 3 rounds any time they try to teleport within a 170ft radius of you.

Personal only spells:
Sensual Blessing, Many Moments of Prescience, Moment of Prescience, Mind Blank, Bibliotheca Arcana

[Anastasia]

Challenges, battlecries. They all echo amid them, and you hear a few familiar voices.

"We will not be lulled astray!" Empress Sulia is heard, her voice mixing with so many others.

Give me a chance to claw you apart, Shar!

Forward!

Before you the endless shadows begin to rise up. 30ft away from all as the Song of Shar is heard, a mournful dirge that yet draws you in. Great, looming shadows, faceless and bigger than any others. They appear by the hundreds, blending together and becoming a coherent whole, separate at the same time as they advance towards the party in all directions. Shadow itself rises against you as...!!!

We'll begin with this. Initiative.

[Corwin]

20:25 <Seira> roll 1d20+23
20:25 <Penuche2> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 38 > [d20=15]

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+38 Ranbar
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 48 > [d20=10]
> roll 1d20+40 Shadows
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 44 > [d20=4]

Init is Luneli (Supreme Init) > Ranbar (48) > Great Wall of Shadows (44) > Seira (38)

Did you include the +17 to init, Seira?

[Corwin]

Yes, my gargantuan dragon self is just lacking in dex. Although you're right, I did miscalculate some other stuff. Should've been +13+6+17, so my init should be 38+13=51.

Also, I am never flat-footed and will counterspell/AoO if the opportunity arises.

[Anastasia]

Init is Luneli (Supreme Init) > Seira (51) > Ranbar (48) > Great Wall of Shadows (44)

I figured that was too low, even with dragon form.

Luneli will hold a moment pending mages doing mage things, so he doesn't get in the way of radiuses quite yet.

[Corwin]

Seira decides to try a different opening and warps the spells she calls upon to only affect the incorporeal. It might be a bit lackluster, but the opener is where she can test things out best.

Using Miracle for a Widened Ghost Touch Spell of Seira's Healing Flames. Only hits incorporeal, reaches out for a radius of 3 miles around me.

21:09 <Seira> roll 3#1d20+39+3+17 SR
21:09 <Penuche2> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 60, 69, 74 >
21:09 <Seira> roll 3#5d8 goldenfire
21:09 <Penuche2> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 26, 28, 25 >

Damages evil, heals good; neutral enemies get half damage, neutral allies heal half. Goldenfire/divine damage, Ref DC 41 half.

Ending my turn in gambit, to hopefully use my larger reach and ghost touch weapon to smack them if they come in range.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+30
> roll 1d20+30
> roll 1d20+30
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 47 > [d20=17]
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 50 > [d20=20]
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 48 > [d20=18]

Goldenfire spreads from you, washing out and yet - it's wrong somehow. Within 30ft by people shadows form and are buffeted by your magic, yet any place there isn't is simply shadow. Shadow that is momentarily lit and nothing else, no great extermination of it. Instead some of the shadows within 30ft fall, only for more shadows to instantly emerge once the goldenfire is passed, quickly filling in the ranks of the fallen. Shadows come uncaringly of your reach as...

They provoke an AoO filling in the ranks, if you would like to make it.

[Corwin]

I have over a dozen AoOs.

18:18 <Seira> roll 1d20+71+23-33 PA
18:18 <Penuche2> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 75 > [d20=14]
18:19 <Seira> roll 6d10+95+33+1d6+23
18:19 <Penuche2> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 184 > [d10=10,3,4,3,7,3][d6=3]

Also, how is Shar negating my SDA and restricting me to 30ft? My K:A, K:P, K:R and Spellcraft are ridiculously high, easily over 120 by taking 10.

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CL 34 spells for all who wish to receive them:
Overall: Glorious Rally, Celestial Valor, Ghost Touch (Armor, Shield and Weapons)
Defensive: Shield of Warding, Foresight, Visions of the Future, Foresight
Perception Modes and Protections: True Seeing, Vision of the Omniscient Eye, Detect Scrying, Greater Arcane Sight
Movement Modes and Protections: Freedom of Movement, Pass Without Trace, Greater Anticipate Teleport
Skill Checks: Greater Heroism, Voice of the Dragon
Ability Checks: Good Hope, Sign
Immunities and Resistances: Nondetection, Mass Death Ward, Heroes's Feast, Energy Res 30 (all)
Esoteric Boosters: Fortunate Fate, Spell Turning
*Selune added +17 sacred to everything except rank checks.

Numerical benefits:
AC: +27 normal/+27 touch (+2 insight Foresight, +2 dodge Visions of the Future, +17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Attack: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Damage: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Fort and Will Saves: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Ref Save +25 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally, +2 insight Foresight)
Ability Checks: +19 (+17 sacred Selune, +2 morale from Good Hope)
Init: +19/+23 (+17 sacred Selune, +2 morale from Good Hope, +4 one-time bonus from Sign)
68 temp hp

Also immunity to all death spells, magical death effects, energy drain, and any negative energy effects (Mass Death Ward), immunity to poison and fear (Heroes's Feast), energy resistance 30 to fire/cold/acid/elec/sonic (Energy Resistance x5), being a difficult target to divination (Nondetection), becoming impossible to track without magic, and limiting the usefulness of scent (Pass Without Trace), moving and attacking normally everywhere, as well as receiving +15 to CMD vs grapples (Freedom of Movement), being healed with 150hp once if dropped below 0 (Fortunate Fate), reflecting 1d4+6 spell levels of spells that have you as a target and aren't touch spells (Spell Turning), +10 enhancement bonus on Bluff, Diplomacy, and Intimidate checks and a really nice and deep commanding voice (Voice of the Dragon), true seeing, +10 to perception and immunity to being dazzled or blinded (Vision of the Omniscient Eye), immediate ability to analyze magic (Greater Arcane Sight) and our favorite combo of detecting when someone's scrying on you and blocking their teleport for 3 rounds any time they try to teleport within a 170ft radius of you.

Personal only spells:
Sensual Blessing, Many Moments of Prescience, Moment of Prescience, Mind Blank, Bibliotheca Arcana

[Anastasia]

As near as you can tell, the shadows themselves aren't forming enough to be creatures, you suspect, until they get that close. Some mass that is a thing rather than an creature, or perhaps some primal force similar to that. It is the Plane of Shadow after all. It may simply be an extension of the plane's nature and will, as natural to occur here (and under Shar's touch) as the sun and water are on the Prime.

Your spell isn't being limited at all. It's simply not working, it's not a question of your SDA being negated.

Meanwhile, your rip through yet more shadows only to find more come, claws and fang dispersing them easy as can be.

More will come and provoke, how many AoOs do you get per round and do you want to spend all of them?

[Corwin]

7 in dragon form and I'll take them all now, my counterspells don't take AoOs.

18:42 <Seira> roll 6#1d20+71+23-33 PA
18:42 <Penuche2> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 69, 63, 64, 77, 68, 72 >
18:43 <Seira> roll 6#6d10+95+33+1d6+23
18:43 <Penuche2> Seira invokes Penuche's magic: < 194, 194, 180, 184, 183, 186 >

[Corwin]

+17x3 damage to all the shadows present from my spells (30ft radius).

[Anastasia]

Init is Luneli (Supreme Init) > Seira (51) > Ranbar (48) > Great Wall of Shadows (44)

Ranbar is at your side, saving resources for now, her longspear radiant with the power given as...

> roll 1d20+67
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 70 > [d20=3]
> roll 1d8+45+1d6
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 57 > [d8=8][d6=4]

A quick thrust impales a shadow rising up as your rampage tears others up around it, getting it in the throat and causing flames to erupt out from the wound. As it grasps at its neck in vain, meanwhile...

Luneli will go now.

"Stay close," Luneli calls, going to take your left flank, charging in to meet the shadows before him head on.

> roll 1d20+84
> roll 1d20+84
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 93 > [d20=9]
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 96 > [d20=12]
> roll 3d12+153+2d6
> roll 3d12+153+2d6
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 194 > [d12=11,12,12][d6=2,4]
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 179 > [d12=8,10,5][d6=2,1]

A rising shadow is ripped in three by a swipe of his dual maces, tearing through shadowstuff like a sword. Moonfire bursts in the wake of his swings, another down and another coming. As he holds the line, the shadows erupt out, coming at all of you endlessly, like night everlasting.

> roll 1d20+80 (+19 ???, +3 ???, +10 ???, +1 ???) touch AC
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 92 > [d20=12]

Touch AC?

[spoiler]

Ranbar
HP: 494/494
Negative Conditions:
Aura:
Bonuses: Attack+23, (+17 sacred, +6 morale) Damage+23 (+17 sacred, +6 morale) AC+27 (+17 sacred, +2 insight, +2 dodge, +6 morale), Saves+23 (+25 ref)(+17 sacred, +6 morale), Skills+23 (+17 sacred, +6 morale), Checks+19 (+17 sacred, +2 morale)
Resources: Channel Energy 12/12 Inspiration 24/24 Cunning Save 4/4
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: See bookmarked post until I have a few to transcribe, going to skip it for the sec to keep things moving.
Notes: Baseline cunning insight is +4 from feats, exalted adds +6, total of +10 if used in tandem with that. +2 more from higher int, reminder.

Numerical benefits:
AC: +27 normal/+27 touch (+2 insight Foresight, +2 dodge Visions of the Future, +17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Attack: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Damage: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Fort and Will Saves: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Ref Save +25 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally, +2 insight Foresight)
Ability Checks: +19 (+17 sacred Selune, +2 morale from Good Hope)
Init: +19/+23 (+17 sacred Selune, +2 morale from Good Hope, +4 one-time bonus from Sign)
68 temp hp

[Corwin]

80 touch/88 vs incorporeal in dragon form.

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CL 34 spells for all who wish to receive them:
Overall: Glorious Rally, Celestial Valor, Ghost Touch (Armor, Shield and Weapons)
Defensive: Shield of Warding, Foresight, Visions of the Future, Foresight
Perception Modes and Protections: True Seeing, Vision of the Omniscient Eye, Detect Scrying, Greater Arcane Sight
Movement Modes and Protections: Freedom of Movement, Pass Without Trace, Greater Anticipate Teleport
Skill Checks: Greater Heroism, Voice of the Dragon
Ability Checks: Good Hope, Sign
Immunities and Resistances: Nondetection, Mass Death Ward, Heroes's Feast, Energy Res 30 (all)
Esoteric Boosters: Fortunate Fate, Spell Turning
*Selune added +17 sacred to everything except rank checks.

Numerical benefits:
AC: +27 normal/+27 touch (+2 insight Foresight, +2 dodge Visions of the Future, +17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Attack: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Damage: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Fort and Will Saves: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Ref Save +25 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally, +2 insight Foresight)
Ability Checks: +19 (+17 sacred Selune, +2 morale from Good Hope)
Init: +19/+23 (+17 sacred Selune, +2 morale from Good Hope, +4 one-time bonus from Sign)
68 temp hp

Also immunity to all death spells, magical death effects, energy drain, and any negative energy effects (Mass Death Ward), immunity to poison and fear (Heroes's Feast), energy resistance 30 to fire/cold/acid/elec/sonic (Energy Resistance x5), being a difficult target to divination (Nondetection), becoming impossible to track without magic, and limiting the usefulness of scent (Pass Without Trace), moving and attacking normally everywhere, as well as receiving +15 to CMD vs grapples (Freedom of Movement), being healed with 150hp once if dropped below 0 (Fortunate Fate), reflecting 1d4+6 spell levels of spells that have you as a target and aren't touch spells (Spell Turning), +10 enhancement bonus on Bluff, Diplomacy, and Intimidate checks and a really nice and deep commanding voice (Voice of the Dragon), true seeing, +10 to perception and immunity to being dazzled or blinded (Vision of the Omniscient Eye), immediate ability to analyze magic (Greater Arcane Sight) and our favorite combo of detecting when someone's scrying on you and blocking their teleport for 3 rounds any time they try to teleport within a 170ft radius of you.

Personal only spells:
Sensual Blessing, Many Moments of Prescience, Moment of Prescience, Mind Blank, Bibliotheca Arcana

[Anastasia]

> roll 10d6 and nothing else, everything else is blocked due to DvR/spells active
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 27 > [d6=2,2,1,6,3,1,4,2,2,4]

27 damage all.

Shadows savage all of you - it's like shadow stuff and hunger, tearing away at you. Something hungry, expressionless shadows assailing you. Amid it all you hold your own, the wounds minor indeed, nothing more than the fury of a power beneath your own - for now.

A flash of light. A column of flame and light cascades ahead, as meanwhile you hear Empress Sulia call, "Forward! Courage and bravery ahead, in the name of tomorrow!"

Advance. Push forward as you can.

In the skies above great shadows go to clash against the light of the moon, twisting into reality. Creatures of all kind of shadow, from dragons to griffons to great, looming fiends with swords of shadowstuff. They all rush to the moon as beams of moonfire lance out, striking back against them.

Rise.

The same horrors rise up around Seira. Amid all the shadows are more - a great wyrm like herself of pure shadow, snarling defiance and with a breath of oblivion. With it rises something that stops your heart for one moment - a shadow-woman of black hair, a phantasm in leathers and with twin short swords. Her eyes of nothing are closed and yet there is a smile on her face. You know this image too well - Shar. Some form of her? Some phantasmal image? A mere shadow copy? Perhaps even an avatar? Even as you hear Shar's voice, from the shadow's mouth comes the Song of Shar, louder now, clearer.

The Song will not be denied this time, Seira. You will not be saved this time. The end comes this time.

The wyrm is 50ft up and 50ft away, rising from the shadows like steam. Shar is 50ft away, below it, swords brought up as...

> roll 1d20+29 shadow wyrm
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 49 > [d20=20]
> roll 1d20+40 ???
<Penuche2> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 48 > [d20=8]

Init is Seira (51) > Shadow Wyrm (49) > Ranbar = Shar...? (48) > Luneli (47) > Great Wall of Shadows (44)

Fair warning: I won't reply back to you until Alicia's done with her turn, since I need to keep you all in rough sync.

[spoiler]

Ranbar
HP: 494+41/494
Negative Conditions:
Aura:
Bonuses: Attack+23, (+17 sacred, +6 morale) Damage+23 (+17 sacred, +6 morale) AC+27 (+17 sacred, +2 insight, +2 dodge, +6 morale), Saves+23 (+25 ref)(+17 sacred, +6 morale), Skills+23 (+17 sacred, +6 morale), Checks+19 (+17 sacred, +2 morale)
Resources: Channel Energy 12/12 Inspiration 24/24 Cunning Save 4/4
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active: See bookmarked post until I have a few to transcribe, going to skip it for the sec to keep things moving.
Notes: Baseline cunning insight is +4 from feats, exalted adds +6, total of +10 if used in tandem with that. +2 more from higher int, reminder.

Numerical benefits:
AC: +27 normal/+27 touch (+2 insight Foresight, +2 dodge Visions of the Future, +17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Attack: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Damage: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Fort and Will Saves: +23 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally)
Ref Save +25 (+17 sacred Selune, +6 morale Glorious Rally, +2 insight Foresight)
Ability Checks: +19 (+17 sacred Selune, +2 morale from Good Hope)
Init: +19/+23 (+17 sacred Selune, +2 morale from Good Hope, +4 one-time bonus from Sign)
68 temp hp