Crossed swords

[Corwin]

18:56 <Corwin> roll 1d20+66+10 improved evasion
18:56 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 90 > [d20=14]

Immediate action to use Stand Fast on everyone. My guys get +20 to this one save on top of the +10 they already have from spells.

[Anastasia]

Nice.

> roll 1d20+73 evasion Donald
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 86 > [d20=13]
> roll 1d20+74 improved evasion Amaryl
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 84 > [d20=10]
> roll 1d20+60 Ranbar
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 62 > [d20=2]

420 damage. Seira, Donald and Amaryl take none. Ranbar takes full. Ow.

Yet this time your party stands true. Donald's shield holds while Amaryl blurs in between them with you. Only Ranbar isn't quite fast enough - peppered a dozen times, shards of shadow like daggers all throughout her. She staggers back but stays up, managing to resist just a little while.

That is, until a towering column of shadow erupts all around her.

This is a spell if you have a counterspelling option available, Seira.

[spoiler]


Amaryl: -1 everything, -1 AC, -1 reflex, -1 ranged attacks, -1 dex, int skills.
Donald: -1 everything, -1 melee attacks, -1 str/int/cha skills, -1 spell DCs

Amaryl
HP: 479/648
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Divine 10ft (various)
Bonuses: Attack+0, Damage+0 AC+0, Saves+0, Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Emergency Skirmish 1/1 Blinding Speed 25/25 Elemental Summon 3/3 Smiting 1/1 Dragonfire 1/1
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active:
Notes: Always goes first with supreme init, +4 bonus to attacks after the first miss in a round.

Donald
HP: 361/890
Negative Conditions:
Aura: Divine 10ft (various)
Bonuses: Attack+0, Damage+0 AC+0, Saves+0, Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Protection Devotion 1/1 +5 One Attack On FA 1/1 (rnd) Take 10 On One Attack (rnd) 1/1 Armor Haste 15/15 Breath Weapon Boost 3/3 Weapon Damage Dice Boost 3/3 Strength Domain 1/1 Luck Domain 1/1 Protection Domain 1/1
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active:
Notes: Two quickened spells/round when under armor's haste, unkillable allows Con saves to not be reduced below 1 HP. Slashing flurry enables extra attacks for penalties.

Ranbar
HP: 19/818
Negative Conditions:
Aura:
Bonuses: Attack+0, Damage+0 AC+0, Saves+0, Skills+0, Checks+0
Resources: Channel Energy 14/14 Inspiration 29/29 Cunning Save 4/4
Spells Used:
SLAs Used:
Spells Active:
Notes: Baseline cunning insight is +4 from feats, exalted adds +6, ring adds +1, total of +11 if used in tandem with that.

[Corwin]

Superb Dispelling

19:11 <Corwin> roll 1d20+37 I always do!
19:11 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 55 > [d20=18]

Forgot my +10 to counterspelling from an item, so 65.

[Anastasia]

That moment is just enough - you break the spell into shadow fragments, buying you precious seconds which lets you...

Go.

[Corwin]

Which Seira attempts to extend further by stopping time!

19:28 <Corwin> roll 1d20+37 CL
19:28 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 42 > [d20=5]

Arcane Thesis gives me this: Your spells are stronger and much harder to resist, cast with a +10 bonus on caster level checks for the purposes of overcoming spell resistance, and with their save DC increased by 5.
Don't know if it'd apply here, since I wouldn't normally roll CL to use my Time Stop SLA.

[Anastasia]

Go ahead.

[Corwin]

As time stops, Seira starts working on a better plan of getting through this. They're doing fine, but this sort of struggle is unsustainable. While plenty of options exist for leveling the field, many are too risky and she'll suffer casualties. Therefore, the best stopgap measure Seira can think of is vastly increased healing. Getting all three of her friends strong enough to shrug off Shar's shadows in time would be hard, but keeping them alive long enough to arrive at a solution is far more doable!

19:47 <Corwin> roll 1d4+1
19:47 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 5 > [d4=4]

Round 1: Greater Heroism, Summon Monster IX,  Summon Monster IX

I'm trying to use a Summon Monster IX/Good SLA, unless my knowledge is telling me this is impossible here?

Knowledge check of 96 (Planes, Arcane, Religion).

[Anastasia]

It should work unless Shar has particular anti summoning features here - which is possible since it's a demiplane.

[Corwin]

Did it work so I see what I do with the other rounds of time stop?

[Anastasia]

I need to know what you're summoning first.

[Corwin]

Astral Devas or not-Leonals if I can, Bralani if I can't.

[Anastasia]

Astral Devas are under SMX so they're out. So are ghaele. Bralani are possible if you want to go that way.

Looking at the various options along what you want, the one that stands out most if the firre eladrin as a single summon with SM9.

[Corwin]

As a great deal of hollyphants start appearing next to her friends, guarded by floating spheres of silver!

And as time resumes, everyone is healed! Ranbar's wounds, being the most serious, take the efforts of six of hollyphants crowding her. Donald's treatment requires four. Amaryl needs the aid of two of them, while one is enough to bring Seira back up to speed. That leaves ten of them, with three aiding in the defense of Seira's friends and the remaining hovering protectively around her as she tries to pull Shar all the way out of the wall!

It's time to take this up a notch! Seira calls out to her friends as time resumes with these numerous reinforcements! I'll hold Shar off while the rest of you prepare for the fight ahead. Amaryl! Go for that Endurance spell. Ranbar! Same, but barraged with the superior variant of Divine Power! Donald, let's see a tarrasque roar!

Round 1: Greater Heroism, Summon Monster IX, Summon Monster IX
Round 2: Miracle'd Create Magic Tattoo (+1LC for CL38), Summon Monster IX, Summon Monster IX
Round 3: Many Moments of Prescience, Summon Monster IX, Summon Monster IX
Round 4: Danata's Improvisation, Summon Monster IX, Summon Monster IX
Round 5: Standard: Effulgent Epuration, Move: Superb Dispelling channeled into claw, Summon Monster IX, Summon Monster IX

20:46 <Corwin> roll 10d3
20:46 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 23 > [d3=2,3,2,1,3,2,2,3,3,2]

23 hollyphants, and 38 spheres for Effulgent Epuration. If possible, I'd like them to start out protecting Ranbar rather than defaulting to me.

Time resumes, standard action.
Charisma for Shar:
20:53 <Corwin> roll 1d20+32
20:53 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 42 > [d20=10]

The spells I'm asking them to cast, each on him or herself:
Amaryl: Endurance of the Dragon Princess
Donald: Visage of the Tarrasque
Ranbar: Barraged Greater Divine Power+Barraged Endurance of the Dragon Princess

[Anastasia]

Okay, give me a single CL check for something you did?

[Corwin]

21:18 <Corwin> roll 1d20+38
21:18 <Penuche> Corwin invokes Penuche's magic: < 53 > [d20=15]

If Arcane Thesis helps, that's +10 more.