Sentinil (IC)

[Jack_Simth]

Sentinil, Jewel of the West, a lovely fortified city, is ruled with a heavy-hand. The Arcane Lords jealously guards their power, keeping guilds, churches, and criminals under a tight leash so that they cannot grow to be a threat. Theft and murder are seen as threats to the status quo, and are quickly eliminated. The Arcane Lords, however, are permitted to do almost anything to individuals with little to no status... and status is based on personal Arcane might. Infighting among the Lords is quite common, but the Overlord prevents excessive spill, as he refuses to permit abuse of the peasantry or merchants from getting to the point where it will weaken his tax base. With all the wizards, sorcerers, and other Arcanists, and a relative preferential treatment of merchants, the city is a mecca for those dealing in magical goods... and so the city thrives.

You, however, are not so lucky. You're still not sure how, but your ... magic alternative was discovered. In the middle of the night you were surprised, had all your defenses Disjoined, and were promptly wrestled into unconsciousness by a warrior somehow equipped with a blanket counter for your powers.

When you awaken, still suffering from your nonlethal wounds, you're in a dark, dank cell, along with many others in similar condition. You have been stripped bare and re-dressed in bright orange prison garb, with everything you had been wearing removed... including, you painfully realize, those sections of skin bearing your psionic tattoos. As a rat tugs one of the torches out and through the bars of your cell, it quickly becomes apparent that something is suppressing magic here, as the torch lights right up once it's a few feet from your cell...

Glancing around, you note there were a great many people caught up on the sweep.... but most did not survive having their implants, grafts, and tattoos removed by someone who did not know how to do so properly.

The bars of your cell are barely large enough for a rat to go through... but they look to be mundane iron, and your cell looks to be mundane rock. The cell door seems to open to a fairly large area, where a lone guard leans back in a chair, snoring. There is a club sitting on his desk three feet away from him, and a ring of keys hanging loosely from his belt. There's a framed diploma hanging on the wall, which says in big, bold letters: "IGC"; the rest is smaller than is easily read from where you stand.


Spot checks to read the small type on the diploma.

You awaken when you recover enough to have 1 HP. So that's your starting HP.

The interior of the cell is in an AMF, which also suppresses psionics and other non-mundane stuff. Next move is yours.

Recruiting OP, for reference later:

Sentinil, Jewel of the West, a lovely fortified city, is ruled with a heavy-hand. The Arcane Lords jealously guards their power, keeping guilds, churches, and criminals under a tight leash so that they cannot grow to be a threat. Theft and murder are seen as threats to the status quo, and are quickly eliminated. The Arcane Lords, however, are permitted to do almost anything to individuals with little to no status... and status is based on personal Arcane might. Infighting among the Lords is quite common, but the Overlord prevents excessive spill, as he refuses to permit abuse of the peasantry or merchants from getting to the point where it will weaken his tax base. With all the wizards, sorcerers, and other Arcanists, and a relative preferential treatment of merchants, the city is a mecca for those dealing in magical goods... and so the city thrives.

You, however, are not so lucky. You're still not sure how, but your ... magic alternative was discovered. In the middle of the night you were surprised, had all your defenses Disjoined, and were promptly wrestled into unconsciousness by a warrior somehow equipped with a blanket counter for your powers.

When you awaken, still suffering from your nonlethal wounds, you're in a dark, dank cell, along with many others in similar condition. You have been stripped bare and re-dressed in bright orange prison garb, with everything you had been wearing removed... including, you painfully realize, those sections of skin bearing your psionic tattoos. As a rat tugs one of the torches out and through the bars of your cell, it quickly becomes apparent that something is suppressing magic here, as the torch lights right up once it's a few feet from your cell...


The Big 16 (do make sure to read them)

* 1. What game system are you running (D&D, Call of Cthulu, Palladium, GURPS, etc.), and if applicable what edition (Original, Classic, Revised, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 10th, etc.)?
3.5 D&D

* 2. What 'type' or variant of game will it be (i.e. "Shadow Chasers" or "Agents of Psi" for d20 Modern)? What is the setting for the game (eg. historic period, published or homebrewed campaign setting, alternate reality, modern world, etc.)?
Hunted Characters - for odd powers

* 3. How many Players are you looking for? Will you be taking alternates, and if so, how many?
4. More, if I get a lot of quality applications.

* 4. What's the gaming medium (OOTS, chat, e-mail etc.)?
Play-by-post here

* 5. What is the characters' starting status (i.e. experience level)?
60,500 xp (halfway to 12th)

* 6. How much gold or other starting funds will the characters begin with?
You start out in prison, with nothing but standard-issue prison garb (everything was confiscated - so no items, no spell components pouches, no spellbooks, no holy symbols, no shoes, no gold, et cetera; if you'd previously had Psionic tattoos, they were carved out of your hide while you were unconscious; ditto for such things as grafts).

If you have Psicrystal Affinity, your psicrystal was able to escape the sweep, and is hiding in waiting outside the prison. You won't be able to communicate with it initially, though, as the Telepathic Link is Su, and you're in an AMF.


* 7. Are there any particular character classes, professions, orders, etc. that you want... or do not want? What are your rules on 'prestige' and/or homebrewed classes?
PrC's: No. I can very much say this - read the PrC header in the DMG if you don't believe me. PrC's tend much, much too much towards "base class+" than they do "balanced" in my experience.

One 'side' of the gestalt must be a "pure" (no multiclassing, no PrC's)Psion (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/classes/psion.htm). This is a fixed requirement.

For the other 'side' of the gestalt, pick any non-Arcane WotC base class, and no multiclassing penalty (but restrictions, such as from the Monk or Paladin, still apply)

* 8. What races, subraces, species, etc. are allowed for your game? Will you allow homebrewed races or species? 'Prestige' races or species?
Elan. You're an Elan Cabal that was caught, and (at game start) is in a cell until the powers that be decide exactly what to do to you ... or you break out. Your jailer is a proud graduate of IGC, after all, so that shouldn't be too hard, despite the other percautions.

You can apply templates, provided they're legal to apply to an Elan, and they have an LA, but the LA goes on your non-Psion side.

* 9. By what method should Players generate their attributes/ability scores and Hit Points?
Attributes: 32 point buy.
Hit Points: Max first, average thereafter.

* 10. Does your game use alignment? What are your restrictions, if so?
Alignment exists... but other than for alignment-restricted classes such as the Monk, Paladin, Barbarian, Druid, and Bard, it has very little effect on the game. No Evil, and no Lawful-Stupid, Stupid-Good, or Chaotic-Stupid, either.

* 11. Do you allow multi-classing, or have any particular rules in regards to it?
No multiclassing penalty on the non-Psion side. Psion side has to be pure.

* 12. Will you be doing all of the die rolling during the course of the game? Will die rolls be altered, or left to the honor system? If players can make die rolls, which ones do they make, how should they make the rolls, and how should they report them?
Use the forum roller.

* 13. Are there any homebrewed or optional/variant rules that your Players should know about? If so, list and explain them, or provide relevant links to learn about these new rules.
Yes.
Gestalt (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/gestaltCharacters.htm) obviously, one of the classes must be Psion (and said Psion 'side' must be pure). With that, of course, goes Fractional BAB and Fractional saves (so no Barbarian-1/Bard-1/Fighter-1/Rogue-1/Monk-1/... to get your saves into the stratosphere).

A few variations:
1) Becoming an Elan damages the mind... but it's not always in the same manner. You can elect to have the Elan -2 racial penalty to Charisma be either Wisdom or Intelligence, instead.
2) You can migrate Psion manifesting to either Wisdom or Charisma if you so choose.
3) If you have a Psicrystal, replacing it is painful and difficult; you expend 100 xp per character level (you're implanting a portion of yourself) into a crystal or gemstone over the course of 24 hours of constant focus.
4) Magic and Psionic items draw on your inner strength to power themselves. The number of magic and psionic items you can use in a day is limited to 1/2 your Charisma score. So when you eventually get magic/psionic items, you may find you have to choose between that +5 Fullplate and that +6 Belt of Giant Strength ... and you can't simply swap them out at will (as it's "per day" rather than "at one time"). Single-use items (potions, scrolls, Power Stones, Psionic Tattoos, and so on) have their power installed at creation, and don't count towards this limit, although multiple-use charged items (such as wands, staffs, and Psicrowns, and so on) do count towards the limit.
5) (added 4/1/2010) The Factotum's Cunning Surge is limited to once per round.
6) (Added 4/3/2010) If you have a Psionic class on your choosable 'side' of the gestalt, power points neither stack nor overlap - you have two pools of power points, and two pools of powers. So the Wilder//Psion has seperate Wilder Powers and Psion Powers, and seperate Wilder Power Points and Psion Power Points. You can't use Wilder Power Points with Psion Powrs, and you can't use Psion Power Points with Wilder Powers. Racial abilities that burn power points, however (such as Elan Resilience) can draw from either pool.

* 14. Is a character background required? If so, how big? Are you looking for anything in particular (i.e. the backgrounds all ending up with the characters in the same city)?
Yes, at least some background is required. You're all Elans, that got caught in a sweep in the same city (Sentinal) - you may have been just visiting Sentinal, or you could be a resident ... but in either case, you got surprised, your defenses Disjoined, were placed in an AMF before you could blink... and then bludgeoned into unconsciousness and dragged off to prison. What happened before then is up to you.

* 15. Does your game involve a lot of hack & slash, puzzle solving, roleplaying, or a combination of the above?
Not sure yet; we'll see where it goes. I hate puzzles in RPG's, though, so those aren't going to deliberately come up.

* 16. Are your Players restricted to particular rulebooks and supplements, or will you be allowing access to non-standard material? What sources can Players use for their characters?
Eh, any WotC on the feats & templates ... but I do want full sourcing (book and page) on anything that's not in the DMG, PHB, MM, or XPH.


Applications so far:
{table=head]Player|Sheet|Build Summary
Lochar |Mistan Illis (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196059) |Monk/Egoist
Yukitsu |Melchizedek (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196034) |half celestial Elan egoist//paladin/fighter/cloistered cleric of heironeous
Nodwick22 |Gryffon the Gold (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196054) |Kineticist11//Urban Ranger6/Rogue5
Kobold-Bard |Ky-enn Sortast (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196080) |Nomad 11//Swordsage 11 (unarmed variant)
Ryuuk |Miran Inoloven (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=195966) | Seer//Binder
Gryps2 |Ella Serrate (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196159) |Egoist//Fighter/Voidmind (+5 LA / -Illithid Control)
Scoot |Cerperach (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196116) |Shaper//Soulknife
Tacitus |Sebastian Ux (http://www.thetangledweb.net/forums/profiler/view_char.php?cid=36169) |Psion 11//Draconic Template 1/Rogue 2/Totemist 2/ Incarnate 6
Vulaas | Suliern j'Tenar (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196119) |Egoist (Cha)//Crusader
Lyndworm |Shormit Kharlow (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196228) |Psion 11//Scout1/Ranger 10
KaganMonk |Kelvin Varspine (http://coyotecode.net/profiler/view.php?id=8340) |Psion (Egoist)//Soulknife
SilverStar |Iriana of the Seventh Star (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196324) |Nomad//Warblade
Alsc |Cael, Telepathic Barbarian with Stockholm Syndrome (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=195985) | Telepath :: Barbarian
Ernir |Nestor Isaand (http://www.thetangledweb.net/forums/profiler/view_char.php?cid=36201) |Telepath//Factotum
Toliudar |Linj (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196117) | Telepath/Druid
playswithfire |Aestar (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196398) |Erudite//Warblade/Swordsage
tiny tim |Unnamed (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196418) |Half-Celestial Kineticist//Soul Knife
Lyndworm |Kharlow Shormit (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196228) |Psion 11//Scout1/Ranger 10
DythTheKobold |Sairin (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196417) |Psion //Divine Bard
[/table]

Accepted Characters:
{table=head]Player|Sheet|Build Summary
Gryps2 |Ella Serrate (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196159) |Egoist//Fighter/Voidmind (+5 LA / -Illithid Control)
Scoot |Cerperach (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=196116) |Shaper//Soulknife
Tacitus |Sebastian Ux (http://www.thetangledweb.net/forums/profiler/view_char.php?cid=36169) |Psion 11//Draconic Template 1/Rogue 2/Totemist 2/ Incarnate 6
KaganMonk |Kelvin Varspine (http://coyotecode.net/profiler/view.php?id=8340) |Psion (Egoist)//Soulknife
[/table]

[Scoot]

Upon waking, Cerperach is immediatly taken aback.
He looks around, viewing the dismal scene before him, and is pushed close to tears,
No,No,No!! ,
with the last thought barely escaping his lips as a pathetic wimper.
No, I can't let this get to me. Wait for the others to wake up, maybe someone here knows what's going on. I'm just a traveler, ya, that's right, they must have mistaken me for someone else, they must have.
His eyes begin to wander towards the guard.

Rolls

[roll0] Spot

[KaganMonk]

Kelvin wakes up with a splitting headache and covered in bruises. Looking around to see where he is, he sees quite a few other people bleeding from gouges and cuts. That's just one of the reasons I don't use tattoos. The world is full of ignorant fools. Taking a second look, he sees one person has already awoken and looking around in panic. Panic never helps. Fear is your enemy.

Kelvin looks to be a twenty something young man, with short black hair and startling blue eyes. Though fairly lean, he looks tough and muscled, with the tan of a seasoned adventurer.

Forcing himself into an upright position, he spends a moment focusing his mind before trying to move out of the guard's line of sight. Once out of the guard's vision, Kelvin tries to concentrate on healing his wounds. . . only to have his attempts fail utterly. "Blast it all. Anti magic" he mutters.

He looks at his conscious companion inquiringly "This is why I stay out of Sentinil. You wouldn't happen to be a psion as well, would you?"

Deciding to try a different track of his powers, he concentrates on the weapon he knows no one can take from him. Though he can feel it waiting to spring to hand, he can't quite get it to materialize.

Rolls:

[roll0]
[roll1] vs. DC20
[roll2] vs. DC20 if first fails
[roll3]

[Scoot]

Hearing another concious being, Cerperach snaps back to attention.

"I am a Psion, yes. This is my first time in Sentinil though, is this the usual welcome wagon? Or are we just special."

With that he attempts a slight smile, and returns his attention to the guard.

Roll

Concentration vs 20 [roll0] Psionic Focus

[Tacitus]

Sebastian Ux

The beast had been curled in a corner, but when he stretched he showed not skin but scales. He flexed clawed fingers as he slowly lifted himself from the ground and shook free the cobwebs from his mind. When the light caught his skin it gleamed in the dark as though he were wrought from topaz. Splotches of human skin show through the scales and tufts of wild hair push out from an otherwise bald skull. He looks down at his hands, eyes wide with horror as he realizes he can't hide is heritage. He reaches into his mind for something, anything at all, even that simple pearl of serenity in an otherwise chaotic world. Whether he can find it or not he slowly looks up and scans his surroundings with slitted sapphire eyes.

"Psions, then... I've lived here my whole life and never once caught wind of such horror. They... must be good at covering their tracks... or I must be blind."

Spot: [roll0]
Concentration (Focus): [roll1]

[Jack_Simth]

The guard continues to snooze, seeming not to have noticed that anyone is awake.

Sebastian Ux:

The Diploma is legible enough for you; "IGC" stands for "Incompetent Guard College" and Ralf Dewclaw there graduated with honors.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella wakes up with a massive headache, contributing to her caustic mood. She rolls over, groans, and clutches her head. 'Anti-magic', she thinks. She's only experienced the field once or twice before, but it really does a number on the psychically charged ichor filling her skull. Not that it still wasn't totally worth it, mind you.

Shifting into an upright sitting position, she brushes her long black hair away from her face, and is still less pleased to see that she is in different clothes then she remembers wearing when she was rendered unconscious. She's also in a strange room with a bunch of corpses and, hey, three other non-corpses. She blinks, narrowing her eyes as she attempts to place the still living faces. Crap, no one she knows. She hears them mention something about psionics, and notices one of them seems to be halfway into turning into a dragon-thing. Well, there are certainly worse people to be stuck with when making a prison break. Being a longtime resident of Sentinil, she knew what must have happened. Those thrice-accursed Arcane Lords must have made a sweep of all the cabals. 'That's it,'she thought to herself, 'now they'd have to go.'

She stands wobbly to her feet, trying to focus her suppressed psionic might. She coughs, then speaks. Her voice is quite mild and pleasant considering the tall, tough-looking body it comes from. "Okay, so, I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I intend to bust out of here as soon as possible and really nail it to the people who did this to us."she says, shifting over towards the iron bars. "Unless someone has a better idea I'm just going to break this stupid thing open." Fortunately, her long bangs concealed the small holes in her forehead, though someone who looks closely might spot them.


[roll0] : Psionic Focus roll
There's a DC 10 Spot check to spot the tell-tale Voidmind holes in her head.

[KaganMonk]

Yeah, welcome to Sentinil. Let's just say that the Arcane Lords don't really like competition from those with powers of a more . . . mental persuasion. I was raised here, according to my journal. When I was kidnapped and turned into a being of the mind, I fled Sentinil, knowing that staying meant death. My last job may even have been a setup to get me into the city. My name is Kelvin, by the way. General mercenary for hire with a tendency to be more durable than I look.

Seeing the woman get up, Kelvin gives her an appraising look. If you think you can rip the cell apart, be my guest. The best I think I could do is chip away at the bars with my sword, alerting everyone that we were trying to escape. He stands up to get behind her, ready to be out of the cell.

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

His brief moment of focus had done much to settle the draconic man's nerves and allowed him to begin thinking rationally. He remembered looking for a jeweler in order to get his hands on some fine gems. He was... a Skarn Noble visiting from the high mountains and the fortified city 'his people' had there. A hand dropped to his calves and the hard lump of metal embedded in his skin on each one. By the placement it seemed he'd lost the platinum, gold, and silver when the folded spines merged back into his flesh, but the copper had remained. He chuckled to himself, "I don't suppose any of you have two jink to rub together? No? Never mind." With a sigh he examined his clothing more closely and then their cell before shaking his head, "The Illustrious Warden Dewclaw may be a proud graduate of the Incompetent Guard College, which sounds fake as hell if you ask me, but I agree with the sentiment that we needn't be alerting anyone. Just gimme a minute and maybe a hand."

He begins picking through the corpses as quietly as he can, seeing if any of them have been left with anything at all or if perhaps any of them have body parts which could be implemented as some sort of tools.

Search: [roll0]

[Jack_Simth]

Sebastian:
You find that, the corpses have pretty much been half-flayed, and have even less than you do. Still, with their skin half-gone already, it wouldn't be too much of a hassle to extract a few femurs, which you could then use as improvised clubs.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella glances back towards Kelvin as he brings the skittish-looking man up to speed. He certainly didn't look like he had a sword on him, but he could be one of those mind blade types. Not bad to have in this kind of situation.

She'd have to show off what she could do if she was going to get her rightly deserved place in whatever new pecking order was going to go on in this city's psychic underbelly. And the best way to do that of course was with sheer brute force. This would be a pretty great time for her extensive background in breaking things to pay off, but with iron bars she estimated it was about a 50/50 shot.

"This is either going to be really loud or really quiet." she says as she places both her hands on the bars and tries to pull them apart.


[roll0] Strength check for bending bars.

[Scoot]

Sebastian

"The Illustrious Warden Dewclaw may be a proud graduate of the Incompetent Guard College, which sounds fake as hell if you ask me, but I agree with the sentiment that we needn't be alerting anyone. Just gimme a minute and maybe a hand."


Cerperach thinks on this for a moment, we may not have a minute,
"Are you talking about killing him? I may be able to help with that"
and then concentrates on springing forth his blade, never having to bring it out in such a situation though, he's nervous.
looks like the woman is going to bust us out of here, hopefully this comes quick
And grins a relieved smile when the pale red knife appears, gleaming in his right hand.

Roll

Will Vs. 20 [roll0]

[Jack_Simth]

Ella hits the door of the prison so hard that it rips off of it's hinges, taking a significant chunk of masonry with it. The guard falls out of his chair as he wakes up, landing painfully on the floor.


Nice roll. DC 30 to get an iron WALL, so the effective iron portcullis? Not really a problem.

He's distracted; you guys go first, no need to roll the initiative. He's currently Prone.

Yes, you'll roll over him. That's expected.

[KaganMonk]

As he promised, Kelvin is right behind Ella, ready to go. As he moves towards the guard and out of the cell's anti-magic field, he materializes a blade of dullish grey energy and charges it with psionic power. Bringing it down on Dewclaw with measured precision, he aims to hurt without killing the hapless guard.

Move: Move to guard
Free: Materialize Mind Blade
Swift: Manifest Hustle
Move: Charge Psychic Strike
Standard: Nonlethal Attack

[roll0]
[roll1] + [roll2]

Current PP 127

[Jack_Simth]

The flat of Kelvin's mental projection swings mightily, coming down towards a particularly vulnerable area, hitting the classic IGC graduate on the the side of his forehead, knocking his head into the wall, and promptly causing him to lose consciousness.

The noise clearly attracts attention, though, as you can almost immediately hear clanging bells in a 4/2 pattern. On a quick glance around, you now can see your surroundings fairly well - there's a long row of cells, with bars and doors almost identical to the one just recently demolished, and at the end, a single, solid door, that seems to be a different material. The clanging seems to be coming from that direction.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella drops the now wrecked iron bars to the floor. "Man, I am good." In addition to being able to manhandle some wrought iron, her headache was disappearing. Which means no more antimagic. She walks over to the desk, sweeping the club off of it and twirling it expertly in her hand. She closes her eyes, focusing her mental powers to heal her aching body and prepare it for the good times ahead.

"Now it's time for things to get fun, guys." she grins, glancing towards the others. "Hope you're feeling up to it."


Body Adjustment, base cost 5, additional points spent 10
[roll0] HP healed

[Scoot]

Seeing the situation has already been handled, Cerperach moves forward and asseses the situation.
Looks like we've got company, better suit up. Time to put all this training to use.
With that he extends his blade, charges it up, and then sees to tending to his wounds.
"Plans, anyone?"


Shape Mind Blade into Longsword, Charge Psychic Strike
Body Adjustment, Augment with 6 points. 11pp total
Heal [roll0]

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

He curses to himself as he rips out a chunk of flesh from one of the corpses with his claws at the sound of the crash. Blood still dripping from his fingertips he shakes his head and rises. He flicks the droplets away and looks upon the corpses for only a moment more before turning to escape the magic suppressant field. The moment he exits the field his skin seems to fly apart and turn in on itself until he shows not the topaz scales of a dragon but the tan skin of a humanoid male. His forearms are covered in thick scales of a deep sapphire and his legs and arms sprout six inch spines, all of which are currently folded against his body.

He jerks his neck to one side and a horrific pop echoes through the hall in the moment before the alarms drown out the sound. His mind reaches out to see if he can contact his psicrystal, 'Kilian, you there? Need to know you aren't splinters somewhere.'

He laughs weakly as he glances to Cerperach, "A plan? Now we want a plan, right, AFTER we alert everyone in the damned place to what we've done. I was going to do something simple like pick locks with bone tools and then have one of ye quietly silence the idiot, but noooooo. I might suggest some psychoportation, but not knowing the materials involed in the construction of this building and protections against such travel I personally would not recommend it. Of course, we could always try it on one of the corpses."

Unless there is an objection I'll have the psicrystal pipe up next post, but need to know where it might be if you have a specific location in mind for it or if its just hiding wherever.

And a Body Adjustment for me as well. 11pp to boot.
[roll0]
113/124pp

If we have time (probably not) he'll also toss out an Elfsight (3pp), Danger Sense (11pp), Psionic Overland Flight (11pp), and Synesthete (1pp) in that order.
97/124

If it matters he can manifest most of them without display without even rolling concentration. On the flight, [roll1] vs DC 21

[Jack_Simth]

You find you have very, very little time between when Kelvin downs the guard and when there's a response; with just a moment to react, the door at the far end of the hallway has a very small opening appear as a block is moved out of the way of the window... and a small red bead comes flying at you...

Kelvin gets to act before it detonates, but you do all get caught in the Fireball: [roll0], Reflex DC 16 half. You are not considered flat-footed for the detonation.

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

Wisps of soulstuff whirl around the disguised creature as he hurls himself back from the assembled group of escapees in an effort to avoid any and all of the oncoming fireball.

Reflex: [roll0] Evasion
IC depends upon the roll.
And there ya go.

[Gryps2]

Ella

"I think I'd prefer a fight to watching you dissect a bunch of corpses and horse around with a lock." Ella says, giving Sebastian a look. A look soon obscured by a giant plume of fire that sends Ella lunging (perhaps belatedly) to the side for cover. "Sneaky punks!"


[roll0] Reflex save
Depending on the save I might drop some points into Elan Resilience, assuming he penetrates my Spell Resistance.

[Scoot]

"Better late than never to form a plan, I was just wondering if anyone had thought this through."

He pauses a moment before adding,

"And had thought to tell us before the others acted."

Anything else Cerperach had to add is quickly cut short as he instinctively jumps back to the cell to escape the sudden blast of fire.

"Already!?"

Reflex[roll0]

[KaganMonk]

Kelvin takes a moment to focus his mind before he sees the incoming fireball.

Hmmm. Reminds me of the time I fought the dragon Kasparovnin. And he was a pushover. With a slight grin, Kelvin prepares himself for the blast.

Actions:
Sorry, didn't realize I got a turn as well.
Spent focus with Mind Cleave to boost Psychic Strike, so...
Full: [roll0]

[roll1]
Immediate: 3pp for resilience, no damage.

[Jack_Simth]

The escapees escape the worst of the blast, and most negate it with their inherent psionic ability. From the other side of the door, you can already hear your unseen assailant casting his next spell...

Well, so much for Round 1. You each now get 1 round of actions before he fires again. As he will be taking the same action ... unless something stops it ... go ahead and pre-emptively roll your reflex save when you're declaring your actions.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella straightens back out as the flames lick harmlessly over her body. That wicked blanket counter they used on her had her nervous, but whatever they has used, this guy obviously doesn't have it. Confident again in her inherit magic resistance, she rushes forward halfway towards the door, stretching out a palm as her eyes glow white, a dolorous hum emitting from the air around her as a bolt of sonic energy lashes out towards the door. "Ohh, wizards, come out and play!"


Energy Push (Sonic damage) on the door. Initial cost 3 PP, extra 7 PP spent for a total of 9d9-9 damage, ignoring hardness.
Attack Roll (Ranged Touch): [roll0]
Damage: [roll1]

Reflex Save: [roll2]

[Scoot]

Fearing another blast, Cerperach curses his forgetfulness,
Remember, you're no longer human, you can ignore this.,
and curses himself still as he once again focuses his effort to repairing his wounds.


Manifesting Body Adjustment, 6pp augment, 11pp total
[roll0]
Reflex [roll1]

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

Leaning against one of the walls not leading to a cell the confused draconic creatures takes a moment to reaffirm his psychical state, especially after being on the receiving end of a fireball. That he managed to avoid it entirely does not even come to mind.

113/124pp
Another Body Adjustment
[roll0]
102/124

Reflex: [roll1] Evasion

I'd have done something else, but I got caught up with something and now its like 3:30am, I'm half brain dead, and I don't want to potentially hold the game up waiting for my actions tomorrow.

[KaganMonk]

"I hope you can take down that door soon. The best I can do is walk up to it and open it." Kelvin concentrates to try to nullify the incoming power as he moves next to Ella.

Standard: Power Resistance (9pp)
Move: Stand next to Ella

Power Points 115 of 132

[roll0] if you beat Power/Spell Resistance 23

[Jack_Simth]

The door shudders and vibrates, but does not yield as the burst of sound shakes it's foundations and those in the party heal themselves up as another blast of flame pours on them; Kelvin and Cerperach take the brunt of the blast, Ella manages to avoid the worst of it, and Sebastian dodges it completely with an uncanny grace.


Magically treated iron door; hardness 30, 72/120 hp remaining.
Fireball: [roll0], SR penetration: [roll1], reflex DC 16 still.
Knowledge(Architecture and Engineering), DC 20, please.

[Scoot]

This time anticipating the blast, Cerperach manages to focus his power into deflecting the damage,
Now, I get to play
and then redirects his mind to opening the door, sending a burst of energy towards it.


Elan Resiliance, 13pp
Manifest Psionic Knock, Targeting the door, 3pp
90/132 pp

[Jack_Simth]

The wounded door shudders on it's now-twisted hinges, flipping open to reveal a red-haired young man in a long, black flowing cloak and an oversized collar that goes up behind his head. His shirt is a black and red plaid, overlaid with a symbol of a red snake, twisted into a figure eight and biting it's own tail. He has a wide leather belt keeping up his pleated black pants, which go to highly polished black shoes. He rolls his green eyes at you, and huffs slightly.

About ten feet behind the man is an oak desk, set to face the door you just opened. On either side of the desk is another door, almost identical to the one you just opened. All told, the man is about twenty feet from the wall behind him.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella's disappointment at the door's resilience is immediately overwhelmed by her discomfort at being enveloped in a weltering ball of flame, the searing heat of which penetrating her inherit magic resistance. Instinctively she pours mental power into blocking the heat, straightening up from the flame mostly unharmed."Feh! Arcane scum!"

Just in the nick of time, the door which she had tried so hard to smash down opens abruptly. Casting a glance back at Cerperach, she gives an approving grin before rushing forward, raising a hand to whip her bangs out of the way, a long translucent green tendril sprouting from her forehead and lashing towards the newly revealed mage, attempting to crack into his head and wrap around his body. "Looks like you guys bit off a little more than you could chew!"


Immediate action: Elan Resilience, Enhanced: 3 PP for 12 damage blocked
Move action: Move 30 feet into next room.
Standard action: Attack with sentient tentacle, use improved grab to establish grapple if attack is successful.
Attack Roll: [roll0]
Damage: [roll1]
Grapple Check: [roll2]

[Jack_Simth]

Just before the tentacle would otherwise strike, the red-haired mage shouts and brings his arm up in a blocking motion, concentrating briefly, causing a pair of translucent leathery wings to envelop him, blocking the tentacle from striking. The wings fade in just a moment, but the tentacle is very much stymied. The red-headed man frowns, and starts to look a little worried.

Immediate action: Wings of Cover, Races of the Dragon, page 119. He's got a "no" effect, too.

Of course, there's four of you and one of him... and two more people yet to go before he does. He's probably dead now.

[KaganMonk]

Shaking off the effects of the fiery blast, Kelvin is almost disappointed that someone got to the mage before he did. As the grasping tentacle is stopped, a predatory grin comes back to his face. "My turn!" he yells as he charges into the fight.

Immediate: Elan Resilience, 7pp
Full: [roll0]
[roll1]+[roll2]+[roll3]

Spend focus for Psionic Weapon
If miss, Psychic Strike is retained

108pp/132pp

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

Satisfied that he has conquered the majority of the fatigue and weakness in his body he turns his attention towards escape. He glances around quickly and then expands his awareness into the ether to detect any sort of scrying that may be following them.

From outside the prison he gets flashes of insight from his psicrystal, Killian, 'Those who came looking weren't particularly thorough in their search and seizure. I analyzed their movements and was able to escape, if only barely. I'm sorry I do not have any further details for you at this time, I've been keeping on a tall shelf with my limbs hidden away.'

Sebastian replies, 'For now just keep yourself out of trouble, I'm on my way.'

I'll have a proper stat block eventually, definitely after the first time I reshape my soulmelds, but for now...
HP: 85/85 Nonlethal: 34
AC: 13
PP: 102/124

Condition: Minor Shape Changed to Skarn Noble

Detect Remote Viewing, Manifested Without Display (DC 19 with a +18 mod)

PP: 95/124

With my move action I suppose I'll head on towards the door but stop just on this side, out of anyone's way.

[Jack_Simth]

Kelvin heats things up, charging in and brutally hitting the mage, knocking him unconscious in a single blow that cuts through the man's chest and exposes his ribs in a shower of blood. He lays there, bleeding on the ground at Kelvin's feet.

-2/39 HP. If he's not tended to, or not finished off, stabilization checks; 91 or better stabilizes
[roll0] -3
[roll1] -4
[roll2] -5
[roll3] Stable
[roll4]
[roll5]
[roll6]
[roll7]


Sebastian:
As you manifest the power, you immediately become aware that you're being watched. Opposed Caster/Manifester level check, please.

[Tacitus]

[roll0]

"Anyone got telepathy?"

[Jack_Simth]

Sebastian:
Opposed: Sorry, his minimum roll is higher than that. You don't get to find out where your unseen watcher is hiding.

[KaganMonk]

Exhausted from the damage he's had to absorb on the edge of death, Kelvin walks over to and leans on the desk. Concentrating, he begins to seal his wounds. "I've got no talent for messing around in other people's heads. Mine are more of a self-preservation type."

Move: To desk
Standard: Body Adjustment augmented to 11pp
[roll0]
97/132pp

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella crouches down next to the mortally wounded man, rifling through his robes for keys, weapons or anything else of interest. "Yeah, brain-scanning was never my forte. Something on your mind?" she pauses, then grins. "Don't worry, I'm leaving his bones if you want them."


Standard action: Loot (near-) corpse
Search check: 1d20+4

[Scoot]

Stunned at what just happened, Cerperach stands still,"That's.. A lot of blood.", and then quickly regains composure in order to respond to the scaly figure near him, "I'm afraid I don't have what you're looking for either, why are you interested?"

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

He grumbles to himself before shaking his head, "Never mind then, just try to keep quiet and keep on your toes. Expect an ambush around every corner."

[Jack_Simth]

Looting the man, you don't find any keys. You do, however, find two bone rings on his fingers, his overly-fancy cloak, a bone amulet around his neck, a simple hemp rope belt around his waist (under his shirt, with a collection of bones sewn into it), and a curious vest worn underneath his shirt... which also has a collection of bones worked into the cloth.

A moment later, you all hear a cackling whisper in your ears: "Ah, so you've awakened... good, good. Scurry, my little mice, and grow strong enough to eat... oh, and do be careful in the next room; it would not do if my next meal and evening's entertainment got itself slaughtered before it was time for dinner. Have fun playing with the little lizards."

Sebastian:
Your Detect Remote Viewing is still functioning... and there's a rather lot of scrying sensors here. Most of them appear to be originating from the room just on the other side of those two doors; you get a brief image of an overly-large device, mounted to a floor, projecting some illusionary images onto a wall. But there's also a sensor in the room that is active, out of range, and has some form of insulation against the return scrying effect....

[Gryps2]

Ella

"Crap! What's wrong with this guy?" Ella growls, looking over the unconscious man. "This is what I get for promising to leave the bones."

She jerks upright as the voice whispers in her ear, her expression darkening. Nothing she hated more than a coward who sat in safety and taunted others while sending his minions out to fight them. Oh, he'd get his, alright. She'd see to that. But for now, she'd satisfy herself in trying to bust up his little game.


Body Adjustment (again), 5 PP base, 6 PP for extra 3d12
[roll0] HP healed

And if I have time, Psionic True Seeing, 9 PP, manifested without display, DC 20 Concentration check.

Concentration: [roll1]

[Scoot]

Hearing the voice, Cerperach's thoughts race,
Is this an Arcane Lord? Can he see me, hear me, kill me? Crap, sounds like he's got things planned for me... Us. ... Crap., and then turns to the rest of the fellow escapees, whilst already concentrating on drawing upon threads of ectoplasm to weave a new ally,"Everyone heard that, right? Sounds like we've got some more company up ahead, we should move quickly."


Manifesting Astral Construct Augment 5 times, 11pp total.
Giving it Extra Attack and Pounce, 2nd Ability from Boost Construct feat
Construct will last 11 rounds, 1 full round to create

79pp left

[Jack_Simth]

Nothing of particular note seems to happen.

Ella:
True Seeing reveals that there's a stylized mark on each item on the almost-corpse jailer. It's the same stylized mark on each item. You do, however, see that the collar on the cloak is made stiff by way of a bunch of bones, which are invisible to normal sight.

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

While the others call up creations of astral matter and pierce the veil of illusion the draconian focuses himself and after a brief moment of concentration a blue-green torc forms around his neck.

Rapid Meldshaping, Dissolving Spittle.
Religion: [roll0]
Arcana: [roll1]
Spellcraft: [roll2]

[Jack_Simth]

Sebastian:
The items are all made with or out of active undead - mice, sparrows, and other trivially-killed and trivially-animated animals. The intent appears to be as a target for scrying; scry on the undead that can't resist the magic at all, and you see the person who's wearing it as a side effect. In order to scry on the undead, though, you have to have specifically seen that specific undead, be aware of what it is, and choose to scry on it... which means, generally speaking, the only one who'll be able to do so is the person that made it, or someone who's worn it.

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

He laughs aloud, "Oh, you are good, aren't you? Everyone, leave the corpse to his petty trinkets. I doubt anything good can come of any of them. Quite the opposite, really." If he can get his hands on any of them, or if they're just still on the unconscious man, he'll toss them (and him) back down the corridor from which they came and shut the door. He then checks his own clothing for similar objects.

Search: [roll0]
+4 for Frisking self maybe?

"Futtering whoreson, its in our clothes too."

[Jack_Simth]

The cracked voice whispers in your collective ears "Ah, am I going to lose reception on this station soon? Eh, that's okay... I've got other channels to watch. Just remember: what doesn't kill you makes you tastier for when I do."

Sebastian:
You find something undead in each and every garment of clothing that was put on you while you were unconscious. Tiny little snakes, woven directly into the fabric at the seams, and not visibly exposed at all.

[KaganMonk]

Kelvin finishes concentrating and turns to see the dragon man searching his clothes. Disliking the tone of the voice in his head, he follows suit, trusting him to know what he's talking about. "Better yet, let's toss everything back in our cell. Try scrying that. And has anyone seen a window? If I have a rough idea of where I'm going, I think I can get us all out of here with no more fuss."

Full Round: [roll0] to regain focus

[roll1] to search self.

[Gryps2]

Ella

"What the hell is with people and bones?" Ella snarls, patting herself down to discover whatever unpleasant bits have been implanted in her clothes. As she does so, she circles the two corridors, casting a True Seeing eye around to try and see if there are any weaknesses to this maniac's defense. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem too likely to her at the moment.


Search: [roll0]
Spot: [roll1]

[Jack_Simth]

Kelvin:
You don't find anything you wouldn't expect of cheap prison garb in your bright orange jumpsuit. The cloth is itchy and uncomfortable, the weave is rather loose, and the seams are so thick they look like they were done by the newest apprentice in the shop.

Ella:
For the most part, you don't find anything you wouldn't expect of cheap prison garb in your bright orange jumpsuit. The cloth is itchy and uncomfortable, the weave is rather loose, and the seams are so thick they look like they were done by the newest apprentice in the shop. You do, however, find that there's the skeleton of a small snake woven into the collar of your shirt.

[Scoot]

Seeing everyone else begin to strip down, Cerperach follows suite, no time for modesty today. "If you all give me some time, I can manifest up some clothing later.", he then turns his attention to the newly created behemoth next to him, "But for now this guy is getting antzy, and I'm enjoying the freedom, its been a while since I've been able to do this in public." He pauses, thinking about what he's said, "The nudity, that is."

[KaganMonk]

Finding nothing in his clothes, Kelvin is momentarily confused, but dismisses it as he sees the other soulblade strip down. "Oh please. If the clothes are that important, we can take care of them later. For now, we should probably try to get out of here. Who's first through the door?" He takes a moment more to focus before preparing himself for the inevitable battle.

Full: [roll0] vs. 20
Focused!

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

Even as the disguised draconian discards his clothing the skin below ripples and changes to a sheet of shaggy fur. For an instant he gives off the air of a creature capable of ripping ones arms from their sockets if angered, but then he flashes what is a fairly hairy smile, "Tricky bastards won't get the best of us, not yet anyway. Lets go, construct first, I'd think."

If the construct does not, he will move to the front to open the next door with acidic bile pooling under his tongue.

Aka, readied action to Spit if anything hostile pops out /in 30ft. I've got more than enough essentia to max it out at 3, so 4d6 Acid
Ranged Touch: [roll0]
Acid: [roll1]

[Scoot]

"Agreed. I'll get him going." With that, Cerperach turns his attention to opening the door, leaving nothing to chance and starting with what worked so well earlier. He then orders his new buddy to charge, Hit anything you see, no mercy.


Manifesting Psionic Knock on the door. 3pp.
Then, Free action to direct the Construct. Charge in, preferably at an enemy if you see one. It's a level 6 Construct with Extra Attack and Pounce, I can post a full stat block if needed.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella grasps the snake weaved into her collar and tries to tear it off of the prison garb. "No one is taking their clothes off, da--egh." she stops short, giving Sebastian a look. "I don't have a lot of room to talk, but you're really weird, you know that?"

Cracking her neck, she takes her place to begin the room invasion, a hum coming from nearby as she focuses for a moment. "Alright, let's do this thing."


Freedom of Movement, Psionic, 7 PP

75/130 PP, 93/93 HP w/ 24 nonlethal damage

[Jack_Simth]

As Ella rips the skeleton of a snake out of the collar of her shirt - which is quite easy, as it is cheap fabric - the snake starts hissing and wriggling... but it doesn't attack, it just slithers away.

The construct charges into the room... and just stands there, not seeing any targets. The room is metallic, about twenty feet wide, and ninety feet long. At the far end, there's a door. There's also a curious device in the center of the room, that's projecting semi-transparent illusions of the various other places in the prison above it.

True Sight/See Invisibility:
Four little kobolds in outfits remarkably similar to the one on the almost-corpse in the room you were just in, standing at the back wall, looking at you through the semi-transparent control structure. They're invisible, and facing you, getting ready to unleash their magics. As they are adjacent to the far wall, they're approximately 85 feet away.

Anyone:
You can take an AoO on the undead snake, if you like.

[KaganMonk]

Seeing no one in a room designed to spy on the prison, Kelvin uneasily moves next to the construct, knowing his place on the front lines. Ambushes are horrible things to be caught in. First step, recon. He pulls all his senses inward, collating all the information from the surrounding area instantly. Sensing the enemy on the far wall, Kelvin doesn't hesitate to bend time to his whim and shapes his weapon into a better fighting implement, preparing to attack.

Move: 30? ft next to construct
Standard: Manifest Touchsight (5pp)
Swift: Temporal Acceleration (11pp)
Full: [roll0] at nearest or first Kobold I see.
[roll1] + [roll2]
Shape mind blade to Bastard sword
Must. Remember. How. TA. Works. Gah!

81/132pp
Touchsight next 11 min. (60ft radius)
11 AC / 10 FF

[Gryps2]

Ella

Glancing through the door. Ella's newly enhanced vision allows her to correctly ascertain the scene. "There's four invisible kobolds in those weird robes lined up near the far wall. Looks like they're planning on something." She grins. "Let's see if they planned on this."


She focuses her power, casting herself through the dimensions and aiming to arrive at a spot twenty feet from the casters, whereupon she unleashes a massive cone of green ichor from her forehead at the sorcerous kobolds.


Psionic Dimension Door, 7 PP, 6 PP extra to manifest as a move action. DC 19 to manifest without display.
Concentration check: [roll0]

Standard action: Cone of Slime supernatural ability. 11d6 acid damage, DC 14 Reflex save for half damage. If they take damage, they get -2 to their Will saves, and have to make a DC 14 Will save or be stunned for 1d4+1 rounds.
Damage: [roll1]
Stunned: [roll2]

PP: 69/130; HP: 93/93, nonlethal damage 24; AC 15 t 11 ff 14; Saves: +11/+4/+7

[Jack_Simth]

The wave of slime goes over the kobolds, who dodge quite admirably, but are still briefly outlined before the slime settles down at their feet. One of them seems particularly confused in the brief blast, but the others shrug it off.

Kobold: Reflex: [roll0] Will: [roll1]: 5/17 HP remaining
Kobold: Reflex: [roll2] Will: [roll3]: Stunned: 5/17 HP remaining
Kobold: Reflex: [roll4] Will: [roll5]: 5/17 HP remaining
Kobold: Reflex: [roll6] Will: [roll7]: 5/17 HP remaining

[Scoot]

Seeing that everybody else can see something that he can't, Cerperach focuses his mind in order to augment his vision, Let's see what's going on in here

...

Oh... Crap. Get in there and smack something!

Manifesting Psionic True Sight, 9pp.
68pp left.
Free Action to instruct Construct to charge one of the squares with a kobold.
Attack 1d20+17
Attack 1d20+17
Attack 1d20+17
Miss Chance, 50% right? 1 hits, 1d2
Miss Chance, 1 hits, 1d2
Miss Chance, 1 hits, 1d2
Damage 1d8+11
Damage 1d8+11
Damage 1d8+11

[Jack_Simth]

The psionic beast mindlessly obeys orders, charging into the fray. It swings, connecting on the first blow and knocking back the luckless kobold to the wall, where it splats with a sickening thud. With the other two swings, it simply misses, as there's no longer anything there.

AC: 23 (+1 size, +3 Dex, +1 natural, +4 Mage Armor, +4 Shield Spell) Flat-footed 20, touch 14

Kobold: -11/17 HP remaining (Dead)
Kobold: 5/17 HP remaining (Stunned 5 rounds)
Kobold: 5/17 HP remaining
Kobold: 5/17 HP remaining

[Jack_Simth]

Sebastian hangs back slightly, fixing up his eyes to see what's really going on, Swiftly following up with another power to help him avoid the coming storm.

The two active kobolds, sorely wounded, grimly begin their dance of doom, even though they no longer have the manpower to pull it off properly; a burst of translucent wings hits the area, repeatedly slamming at everyone in the party painfully. Still, it does reveal exactly where they are, making the True Seeing effects pointless....


Base 7, +1 Greater Draconic Rite of Passage (Races of the Dragon Web Enhancement), +1 Dragon blooded (as Kobolds - check Races of the Dragon), +1 feat (Invisible Needle, Complete Mage) = Caster level 10 for this effect.
[roll0] Reflex DC 17 half. SR penetration: [roll1]
[roll2] Reflex DC 17 half. SR penetration: [roll3]

Opponent status:
AC: 23 (+1 size, +3 Dex, +1 natural, +4 Mage Armor, +4 Shield Spell) Flat-footed 20, touch 14

Kobold: -11/17 HP remaining (Dead)
Kobold: 5/17 HP remaining (Stunned 4 rounds)
Kobold: 5/17 HP remaining
Kobold: 5/17 HP remaining

[KaganMonk]

Resisting one attack and powering through the second, Kelvin rushes into the fray, to no effect. Though he desperately tries to strike one of the attacking lizards, he misses in a spectacular fashion.

[roll0] vs. 17
Immediate: Resiliate away the damage (9pp)
Full: [roll1] one of the casting Kobolds
[roll2] + [roll3]
72/132pp
30/92hp

Well, at least I'm within AoO range if they are foolish enough to provoke them.
Aaaand forgot about shaken. Not that it mattered with my failing rolls.

[Scoot]

Cerperach manages to dodge the worst of the first blast, but is forced to relocate even more of his dwindling power into deflecting the second.
Gah, can't keep this up. Go for the lizard that's actually done something, big guy.
He then focuses his mind once again to healing his wounds, hoping that this time it will be enough to get him through a few more fireballs.

The Construct is obviously damaged, but pays no heed as it unleashes another flurry of blows towards one of the remaining kobolds.


Reflex 1 [roll0]
Reflex 2 [roll1]
Resiliance will be neccissary. 16pp on that.
Standard Action: 11pp Body Adjusment, [roll2]
Free Action: Command Construct to move(5-ft step) forward, reach over Kobold 2, Full attack Kobold 3.
1st, Construct Reflexes
Reflex 1 [roll3]
Reflex 2 [roll4]
Construct Attacks
Attack 1 [roll5]
Attack 2 [roll6]
Attack 3 [roll7]
Damage 1 [roll8]
Damage 2 [roll9]
Damage 3 [roll10]

Not entirely sure how those wings work, so I'm just rolling everything anyways.

41pp left, 55hp left. 11 nonlethal(I think).

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella crouches as the flurry of force wings rips through the room, buffeting her rather badly as she is unable to avoid the worst of it. Straightening up bruised, she sneers. "Alright, you two are losing your spellcasting privileges." Stepping to the side of the rampaging construct, she sends her head tentacle over to grapple the kobold currently being assailed by Cerperach's psychic construct, while directly her mental energies to ensnare the remaining unstunned kobold.


Reflex save: [roll0], 1 PP spent for Enhanced Elan Resistance, giving me a +6 to save (Immediate Action).

Move Action: Move 10 to be within 10 feet of both kobolds.
Standard Action: Telekinetic Manuever to grapple kobold #4, 7 PP.
Grapple Check: [roll1]

Also using my nifty independently attacking tentacle to attack/grab kobold #3.
Attack Roll: [roll2]
Damage: [roll3]
Grapple Check: [roll4]

61/130 PP; 61/93 HP; nonlethal dmg 24; AC 15, t 11, ff 14; Saves: +11/+4/+7

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

With a growing growl the shaggy beast inches forward until he is within range of the kobolds and lets loose on one of them.

30ft Ranged Touch with Dissolving Spittle on the kobold being telekinetically grappled, or whatever is left by that point.

Touch: [roll0] Does not include -4 for firing into melee (Edit: oh great, and I miss if firing into melee. Awesome.)
Acid: [roll1]

HP: 53/85 Nonlethal: 34
AC: 13
PP: 76/124
True Seeing, Offensive Precognition, Wookieshape

[Jack_Simth]

As Kelvin charges, swings, and misses, Cerperach's construct pounds in... hitting a wing of Force that blocks his blows, once, twice... but the third lands true, as both active lizards find themselves short of reaction time to stop it... causing one of the remaining active Kobolds to go splattering into the wall. Ella targets the remaining active lizard, holding it fast and securely in her mind's grip; the tentacle bounces off the planes of force protecting the little lizard. Sebastian shoots his acidic spittle, which just barely misses due to distraction from Kelvin standing right there, swinging.

The little lizard stops struggling against bonds of mental might when he realizes he should have learned a few spells that don't require his hands to be useful, and he has no chance. That's what he gets for counting on his hatchmate... the traitor that's just standing there, most notably.

"Eep! Okay, you can go. I clearly can't stop you."


Not opposing the grapple - no chance, he's got a negative modifier. Surrendering, instead.

The acid spittle just barely missed - you're firing into melee, but the grapple makes him denied dex to AC, dropping his touch AC down to 11.

And we're no longer in rounds.

Opponent status:
AC: 23 (+1 size, +3 Dex, +1 natural, +4 Mage Armor, +4 Shield Spell) Flat-footed 20, touch 14

Kobold: -11/17 HP remaining (Dead)
Kobold: 5/17 HP remaining (Stunned 3 rounds)
Kobold: -13/17 HP remaining (Dead)
Kobold: 5/17 HP remaining, grappled by Ella's mind - probably for the rest of his life.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella scowls as the kobold sorcerer gives himself up. "Oh yeah, that's me, Ella 'Spare the guy who tried to kill me' Serrate." she snarls, wanting to give him more of a thrashing. Logic dictates that giving Mr. Magic Voice one fewer minion to send after them is the best choice to make, but in her gut she didn't care much for killing opponents who weren't belligerent to the end. Still, no reason not to scare the crap out of him. She keeps him in her telekinetic grip, glancing at the others. "Some one take care of the one I stunned. You, on the other hand," she says, walking up to the psionically restrained kobold and towering over him, "are going to spill your guts. Who are you working for? What's his game?"


Intimidate: [roll0]

[Jack_Simth]

The little lizard cowers under Ella's scowl "Aiee! Don't hurt me! My siblings and I are ... were, for those two ... just low-ranking arcane lords. We're not told why anyone's locked up in here; it's just a holding cell until the ranking Lord involved decides what to do with the prisoner. Sure, we're supposed to keep people in, but... come to that, how'd you get out? Escape risks are always stoned, this is the first time ..." the little lizard reconsiders that trail of inquiry "... ah, you're doing the questioning here. Sorry."

Opposed: [roll0] - yeah, no way he's getting a 29

[KaganMonk]

Kelvin comes over to the squealing kobold to get a better perspective. He smiles gently as he asks a couple questions of his own. "So even after seeing what we're capable of, you don't know why we were captured? Nifty cells, by the way. If she lets you live, you might get to see how they work."

Closing a few more wounds, he remembers that they're still not out of the woods yet. "Oh, and you wouldn't happen to know what's past that door, would you?" he asks as he points at the door they haven't gone through yet.

[roll0] 11pp
61/132pp
56/92hp (still haven't figured out non-lethal)

[Jack_Simth]

The kobold shudders slightly, diverting eyes from the very scary Ella to the much less scary Kelvin, and answers his question, eyes occasionally darting back to Ella. "N-no, we are j-just supposed to k-keep the p-prisoners here." The kobolds tone of voice changes to something that's trying to mimic someone talking imperiously ... and he fails miserably at it, his fear showing through "'They're here because an Arcane Lord wants them here. You are not to ask questions.'" The Kobold's voice goes back to his normal, frightened squeek ... which is settling out a bit as he focuses on Kelvin "So in the cells you went. Odd, though - normally, people can't get out - the steel bars and the antimagic prevent most from doing so, and anyone who can bend bars comes in as a statue. We've been sitting here watching the paint dry for about five years now. Makes for a steady, safe job... until today. Courtyard's just outside. A bunch of archers. The Master casts some spells on the arrows every shift change, each archer takes twenty of them for patrolling the wall. Keeps the riff-raff out. And there's the Gate, of course."

Kelvin:
Whenever you're healing lethal damage, you also heal an equal amount of nonlethal damage as a freebie (assuming you've got any nonlethal left to heal). "Started at 1 HP" is generally going to get you about where you want on the HP totals, even though all the initial damage was of the nonlethal variety

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

The furry monstrosity takes a moment to tend to his new wounds before glancing to the fearful kobold, "And teleportation effects past the walls, any issue there?"

BA [roll0]
HP: 85/85 Nonlethal: 1
AC: 13
PP: 65/124
True Seeing, Offensive Precognition, Wookieshape

[Scoot]

Cerperach takes a moment to finish healing before stepping forward to the stunned Kobold. "This little fellow just looks too pathetic to kill. If anyone has a grudge they wish to satiate they can go ahead, but I'm just knocking him out for now." He then turns to the now motionless construct near him, its structure now beginning to fade away, "Good job, enjoy your break, you lifeless pile of goo." He then attempts to slam the kobold in the head with the blunt side of his blade.


BA, 11pp [roll0]
30pp left
63hp
Attack, with -4 for nonlethal, [roll1], Damage [roll2]
This will be embarassing when it misses.

Construct should be gone within the minute.

True Seeing is still up

[Jack_Simth]

The kobold cringes as Cerperach smacks his the mostly-helpless hatchmate unconscious, and continues to answer "Teleportation effects will get you out of here... and into the lockbox, below ground. There's a permanent alarm there for when the lockbox catches someone, a trap that continually renews a barred forcage on the spot, magically reinforced adamantine walls, and some holes in the ceiling that let The Master put whatever he wants through. He tends to favor acid or Cloudkill spells, but he'll open the hatch if it's someone he knows. The first time. Once you're past the courtyard gate, teleportation is fine."

[Gryps2]

Ella

Keeping up the psychic grapple on the kobold, Ella frowns. "Keh, pretty baroque measures, alright. What an arrogant prick." She draws her tentacle back into her forehead, then hastily arranges her hair to hide the hole. "First, you're going to tell us about this gate, since I'm sure the jerk in charge has rigged it with all sorts of fun stuff. Second, you're going to make yourself useful and render me and my friends here invisible." She casually nudges one of the kobold corpses with her foot. "I don't think I need to explain what'll happen to you if you try something stupid."

[Jack_Simth]

The kobold begins shaking in Ella's mental grip. "I ... I ... can't...."

Everyone:
Make a Will save, DC 35.

[Scoot]

Cerperach
Hm. Let's see if I can grab a 20.
3 :D
[roll0]

[Jack_Simth]

The voice comes back "There we go; I wasn't completely certain if your type could be followed directly; looks like you can, easy as anyone else. Pity; I was looking forward to not needing to keep a few spell slots free for that every day. Ah, well, you've definitely shown evidence of other things I can use. But I can't wait to see what else you come up with over the course of the forced growth... but anyway, I've got a small army of Lords scheduled here for a meeting an hour from now, so you might want to consider vacating before the early birds start to show up. Be tasty. Oh, and I think he's saying he can't because he can't move his arms. Just FYI."

Detect Scrying:
While you had thought you'd left the mobile scrying sensors behind with the minor undead animals, more scrying sensors appear, one at a time, on each of you - clearly following you all directly, now, although Ella is still clearly being followed by one of the originals ... looks like she missed a few of the undead.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella casts an annoyed glance up at nothing in particular. "Gods, I hate that guy." She looks back down at the kobold. "Anyways, before I was so rudely interrupted, I was going to let you go so you could cast those spells. If you try to cast anything else besides the spell I requested, I will be painting this chamber 'kobold blood red'. Got it?" she says, leaning in and preparing to drop her concentration on the grapple the moment the kobold acquiesces.

[Jack_Simth]

The kobold squeeks, then nods.

(the following assumes that Ella does, indeed, drop the hold - if Ella does not choose to do so, well, ignore the rest)

The kobold then carefully proceeds to cast a spell, taking care to exagerate the motions and slow down the words as much as he can manage while still actually casting it, so it's as clear as possible exactly what he's casting. He carefully charges his hand with the touch spell, and holds it out for the first to accept it.

Mechanics:
Spellcraft to ID. Lower DC than normal - 12

DC 12 Spellcraft:
Invisibility

[Tacitus]

Spellcraft: [roll0]
IC to come as a result of the roll.
And of course I fail. Awesome. *le sigh* what was that saying about a jack of all trades...?

Sebastian

Sebastian takes a step back from the kobold as he is casting, completely unsure of what the lizard is casting.

[Scoot]

Cerperach

Cerperach is oblivious to the spell cast, but decides to step fowards anyways, "This little guy wants to keep his life, there's nothing he can do right now to kill us, and any hinderance he could bring upon us would only mean death. I'm going to trust him. However strange that may sound, but I see no reason to disbelieve him." He holds out his arm to the Kobold, "Fire away."

I was considering a Sense Motive, but from what I've seen, I believe this guy.

Here's one anyways, I can edit my post if I have to. [roll0]

[Jack_Simth]

With nobody stopping him, the cowed kobold carefully casts Invisibility on all those present, and one by one, you all vanish from the view of normal sight.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella looks down, appreciating her own invisibility as much as a person with True Seeing on can. "Alright, nice work. Now go back into the other room there and help yourself to an antimagic cell." She then focuses inwardly, repairing some of the damage dealt by the earlier battle before heading towards the door. Then, she decides to slap on another effect before going out into the open. "Ready, gentlemen?"


Body Adjustment, 5 PP, extra 6 PP spent, DC 18 to manifest without display
[roll0]
[roll1]
Overland Flight, 11 PP, DC 21 to manifest without display
[roll2]

So now for continuing effects I have True Seeing, Freedom of Movement, and Overland Flight

90/93 HP, no more nonlethal
39/130 PP, running on empty

[KaganMonk]

Kelvin takes a moment to prepare for the coming gauntlet, then opens his eyes. "Let's do this. Assuming of course, our annoying eavesdropper doesn't object." He opens the door once everyone is done and looks out into the courtyard.

Biofeedback, Force Screen, Thicken Skin, and Deflection Field
[roll0] to eliminate visual display from Deflection Field (Shimmering, spinning band of energy).

DR 2/-
AC 20/ Flat 19/ Touch 16
55/132pp

[Jack_Simth]

The little kobold runs, screeching, back the direction you all came as Kelvin opens the door. Looking out, you see a tiled exercise yard, patterned in five-foot segment. The courtyard appears to be about a hundred feet along each dimension. At the opposite end, you see a heavy, iron gate. Along the courtyard itself are a series of archery targets, spaced every five feet and labeled; the ones on the far wall are numbered 1-20, with numbers above the two slots for the gate even though there's no targets there, and letters along the walls on either side.

Along the walls, humans in chainmail patrol the walls, carrying bows. There's about a dozen in easy view while you're still inside the building, but it's instantly apparent that there's more along the wall out of range of your current view, as they're walking out of view on one side, and others are walking into view on the other. A quick estimate on spacing, and how fast the guards are going by tells you there's about thirty of them, give or take.

The voice giggles.

[Scoot]

He opens the door once everyone is done and looks out into the courtyard.


Cerperach

Seeing that nothing negative befell him, Cerperach breathes a sigh of relief. One more obstacle passed.
He then takes a moment to steady himself, and puts his foot foward.
"Ready"


True Seeing is Active
30pp
63hp

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella grimaces invisibly at the giggle. Damn that guy, probably knows something we don't. Might as well add some protection. "Okay, who here can't fly? I can probably carry one of you over the walls."


Thicken Skin, 1 PP, 9 PP extra for +4 natural armor total, DC 16 to manifest without display
[roll0]

HP 90/93
29/130 PP
AC 19 t 11 ff 18
Saves: +11/+4/+7

Overland Flight, True Seeing, Freedom of Movement, Invisible

[Scoot]

Cerperach

In response to Ella's question about aerial prowress, "I'm pretty much grounded."

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

After surveying the walls for a moment and watching the others prepare themselves for what must surely be a bloody battle to come Sebastian likewise prepares himself. The fur across his body ripples and changes until it takes on the appearance of the hide of a lion. Bones crack and skin stretches until the noble form of a winged lion, a lammasu, stands where he had been but a moment before. He looks up to the walls once again as acidic spittle churns in his mouth, "We must hurry. I am large enough and now strong enough to carry a rider, albeit somewhat akwardly."

Okay, so Metamorphosis into a Lammasu for 7pp.
+11 Str, -2 Dex, -1 Con, +10 Natural Armor, 60ft Average fly speed
Large Size. 1d6 claws, pounce, rake, +2 Spot

Manifested without display (+18 mod to hit a DC 19), not that it isn't obvious already. XD

HP: 74/74 Nonlethal: 0
AC: 20
PP: 58/124
True Seeing, Offensive Precognition, Invisibility, Metamorphosis: Lammasu

Edit: Lammasu probably fits better, especially if he needs to carry somebody.

[KaganMonk]

Kelvin
Seeing a much more reliable method of transportation, Kelvin jumps onto the leonine flier's back and holds on for dear life. "Let's get this show rolling!"

If you need rolls for me to stay on Sebastian's back...
[roll0] probably -5 for a mount not meant to be ridden
or
[roll1] for an unopposed grapple, simply to hang on.

[Scoot]

Cerperach

Seing that the mount has been filled, Cerperach heads towards Ella, "Looks like I'm with you, let's get rolling."

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella scoops Cerperach up in her arms in a rough carry. "Here's the deal. Watch your hands or else you'll be walking all the way down to the ground." Without any further ado, she steps forward out of the door and attempts to fly up and above the castle walls.


Assuming I get to take a turn now, Double Move to get 50 feet into the air.

[Jack_Simth]

As Ella and Cerperach reach cruising altitude, there's a bone-chilling whisper in their ears as thirty two warriors draw and fire flaming arrows twice each, and you see the intersection he names underneath you on the courtyard labels "F 11, fifty up"

The hail of arrows is mostly avoided by Ella, who only gets hit three times... but Cerperach, her cargo, is not so fortunate. He's pierced nine times, and the flaming arrows drive him into unconsciousness; his blood drips from him, and becomes visible as it falls to the ground, staining the courtyard.

Mechanics

Mr. Unseen Voice does not have your best interests at heart. He seems to be reading off your coordinates for the archers. It might amuse you to note that I went back to a few geometry references to dig up the coordinates for your move into the courtyard.

Result:
Unless I'm missing something, that's
AC 19 for Ella - 3 hits, 5, 9, 5 = 19 damage (minus a bit for Resilience - either 5 out, or 9 out, pretty much)
AC 10 for Cerperach - 1 crit, 8 hits; 16+ 9+ 12+ 14+ 14+ 7+ 11+ 8+ 12 = 103 damage. I'm going to go out on a limb here and pretend Cerperach can tell which one's the crit, and choose to negate that with Resilience, dropping it down to just 87 damage - which leaves Ella carrying someone who's Unconscious, Bleeding, and Dying, but not yet Dead.

Rolls:

Arrows: 64 of them. Ouch. At least they're all at the same attack/damage bonus as they're generic archers. I wonder if the forums will let me roll the hundreds of dice? Oh yes, and they're all technically separate attacks. Fortunately, you'll be out of the death zone next round.

High is good for the person rolling (so 1 miss, 2 hit on concealment)
There's two PC's in the courtyard at the moment, occupying the same space. Carried person lacks Dex to AC (can't dodge of own accord)
Target: 1 = Ella, 2 = Cerperach

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3|[roll10]|[roll11]|[roll12]|[roll13]|[roll14]
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5|[roll20]|[roll21]|[roll22]|[roll23]|[roll24]
6|[roll25]|[roll26]|[roll27]|[roll28]|[roll29]
7|[roll30]|[roll31]|[roll32]|[roll33]|[roll34]
8|[roll35]|[roll36]|[roll37]|[roll38]|[roll39]
9|[roll40]|[roll41]|[roll42]|[roll43]|[roll44]
10|[roll45]|[roll46]|[roll47]|[roll48]|[roll49]
11|[roll50]|[roll51]|[roll52]|[roll53]|[roll54]
12|[roll55]|[roll56]|[roll57]|[roll58]|[roll59]
13|[roll60]|[roll61]|[roll62]|[roll63]|[roll64]
14|[roll65]|[roll66]|[roll67]|[roll68]|[roll69]
15|[roll70]|[roll71]|[roll72]|[roll73]|[roll74]
16|[roll75]|[roll76]|[roll77]|[roll78]|[roll79]
17|[roll80]|[roll81]|[roll82]|[roll83]|[roll84]
18|[roll85]|[roll86]|[roll87]|[roll88]|[roll89]
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20|[roll95]|[roll96]|[roll97]|[roll98]|[roll99]
21|[roll100]|[roll101]|[roll102]|[roll103]|[roll104]
22|[roll105]|[roll106]|[roll107]|[roll108]|[roll109]
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60|[roll295]|[roll296]|[roll297]|[roll298]|[roll299]
61|[roll300]|[roll301]|[roll302]|[roll303]|[roll304]
62|[roll305]|[roll306]|[roll307]|[roll308]|[roll309]
63|[roll310]|[roll311]|[roll312]|[roll313]|[roll314]
64|[roll315]|[roll316]|[roll317]|[roll318]|[roll319]
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[Tacitus]

Sebastian

Growling due to his lack of foresight into the matter the winged lion roar in defiance before charging out into the courtyard with incredible speed, pushing himself faster and farther than a normal beast of his type should be able to.

He's booking it, so a run action if he can with 60ft Average fly speed.

Hustle! Swift action for 5pp to gain an additional move action.

HP: 74/74 Nonlethal: 0
AC: 20
PP: 53/124
True Seeing, Offensive Precognition, Invisibility, Metamorphosis: Lammasu

[Jack_Simth]

Sebastian, with Kelvin on his back, rockets through the courtyard, faster than anyone inside the courtyard can react. The voice laughs "My, you do run quickly. I think that's enough for today... I already drove one of you unconscious, and I wouldn't want you dead before you're ready supper. Be tasty; I'll come play with you again when I get bored. Oh, and there's a bag of gold in the bushes by the front gate; you might want to stop and pick it up. It'll be a bit more interesting if you have some toys the next time I feel like playing, eh?"

Once clear of the prison wall, it's easy to see that you're still in Sentinil. There's about a hundred feet between the courtyard and the outer fence, but after the outer fence it's the city as usual, with trees, buildings, and for those who don't want to be seen, total cover for hiding from the prison guard. Just inside the gate of the outer fence, there's a bag waiting... and conspicuously, no guard, even under True Sight, and there's no cover there for anyone to hide in.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella laughs as the measly three arrows sink into her flesh. Sparing some sparse amount of mental power to mitigate the wound of the most serious hit, she sets a course for the outer fence. "Hah! Talk about a fusillade of futility! Don't you -- holy CRAP!" Turning to look at Cerperach, she notices his mortally arrowed status. "Hang on!"

Ignoring the treasure for the moment, she moves at top speed to set down just outside the outer fence, whereupon she tries to inexpertly bind up Cerperach's wounds. "C'mon, you don't want to die like this..."


2 PP on Enhanced Elan Resilience on the 9 damage arrow shot, so I take 11 damage total.

Full-out move to the outer wall.

Heal check: [roll0]

[Jack_Simth]

Cerperach, unfortunately, continues to bleed....

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

The winged lion spots the bushes by the front gate and descends near it to first check for any additional scrying sensors pinging on his scrydar before swiping it if it seems to be clean.

[Jack_Simth]

Sebastian:
There's a scrying sensor... but it's on you, not the bag, and has been following you continuously for quite some time. The bag is quite hefty, and weighs in at about fifty pounds.

Ella, Cerperach:
Just to speed things up with the Heal checks, how about you both roll a set - Ella, three more Heal checks, and Ceperach, four stabilization rolls? Then we just ignore any rolls that come after the success... assuming there is one ... and get it done in two or three posts, rather than six or eight.

[Tacitus]

I knew there was one on us, but giving them any extras is never a good idea.

If I can stop and help Heal with my lion paws (doubtful, but eh):
[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]

As for 50lbs worth of gold, I'm large and have an inhuman strength score. I should be fine. XD

[Jack_Simth]

Surprisingly, Sebastian's oversized, clawed paws work acceptably well at binding Cerperach's wounds, and the bleeding stops. Cerperach's still ridiculously fragile, but he's not in immediate danger of dying unless someone decides to poke him strongly, or someone drops him.

Ad-hock -5 penalty for the awkward form, and you still make the DC 15.

[KaganMonk]

Tumbling off the lion's back, Kelvin prepares to administer (very) basic first aid, when the lion beats him to it. "I'm glad that worked. I'm afraid of what would have happened if I'd tried. Now what? I'm not a great planner, though I'd love to get a little revenge if the opportunity presented itself. Yes, I mean against you, Mr. Voice. Do you prefer any particular name, sir? Anyways, any idea of how to get our friend here better soon?"

[Jack_Simth]

The voice stays mysteriously silent.

Assuming you're looking for a way to heal him up and don't have something along the lines of Share Pain (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/empathicTransfer.htm)... Knowledge(Local), Gather Info, or Knowledge(Religion) could all be used to locate a suitable establishment.

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

He remembers he doesn't have to mess with things as crazy as clerics or bed rest and rips wounds from the fallen to himself with sheer badassery, and then ignores it all with even more machismo. Being a winged lion may be getting to his head.

So.... I forgot I had Empathic Transfer. XD
7pp for [roll0] healing.
I'll also be ignoring the majority, total to come after I post.
29 damage to self.
Ignore 28 of it for 14pp

HP: 73/74 Nonlethal: 0
AC: 20
PP: 32/124
True Seeing, Offensive Precognition, Invisibility, Metamorphosis: Lammasu

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella straightens up as Sebastian tends to Cerperach. "Oh, we're going to kill that guy dead, no question. Not only did he killed all of my friends, take all my stuff and throw me into a cell to rot, but he didn't even have the decency to kill me when he had the chance." Ella pulls the arrows out of her body with a wince. "Underestimating me is going to be the last mistake he ever makes."

Walking over to the bag of loot, she crouches down and opens it. "Which brings me to this. Giving us money? His arrogance is unbearable."

[Jack_Simth]

Inside the bag, you see quite clearly that the mysterious voice lied - it's fifty pounds of platinum coins, rather than fifty pounds of gold coins. You don't spot anything else obvious in the bag. On the surface it seems to be nothing more than a reinforced sack, as would be needed for that many dense coins.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella boggles somewhat at the immense haul. Her looter's instinct quickly kicks in; there's 50 coins per pound, and at 50 pounds this sack carried some 2500 coins, worth 25,000 gold. Divided evenly four ways, that left each of them 625 coins, or 6250 gold. Or, you know, one person with 25,000 gold, which was probably Disembodied Voice's real intent with this untainted loot. If so, it was just one more reason the bastard deserved a fist in his undoubtably ugly face. She may be capricious, but she wasn't treacherous. All her new comrades seemed to be trustworthy in the breach, even the weird shapeshifting lizard man.

Seeing that Cerperach was now amongst the land of the nonmortally wounded, she figures now would be the best time to get this out of the way. "Uh, guys, there is a lot of money in here."

[Scoot]

Cerperach

Returning to consciousness, Cerperach jolts up. "W-What?! Did we escape?" He then takes a moment to look around him, not recognizing his surroundings, but noticing that everyone was there, he cracks a smile "Thanks, everyone. I owe someone here a drink." .
As he begins to stand up he addresses Ella, "Money? From where?".

[KaganMonk]

Staring thoughtfully at the bag of platinum, Kelvin responds somewhat distractedly. "Hmm? Oh, that would be Ella. Don't worry, though. I was standing by to kill you and bring you back to life afterwards if we needed to. I could really use some armor. Well, we might as well take it with us if its clean."
With that, Kelvin gets up and ready to leave.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Closing the sack back up, Ella slings it over her shoulder and gives Cerperach a wane (and invisible) grin. "You owe Sebastian one too, but we'll sort that out once we find a good hiding place." With that, she follows Kelvin into the city.


[roll0] K:Local roll for a good secret spot to hide out at for the moment.

[Jack_Simth]

The city is bustling; you seem to have wandered into the market district. There's many places selling fruits, vegetables, scrolls, potions, and even a few that are selling weapons and armor. They seem to be taking little in the way of obvious precautions against theft. There's also quite a few people milling about - slightly drunken crowds, that look like they're talking about some show or another they just saw. Robes are popular attire, but the colors and exact styles vary widely - it seems that fashion for the moment dictates that you have a unique pattern to your robes.... which must be great for the seamstresses and tailors.

Ella:
You do know of a bar with a couple of rooms in the back that they let out. Lots of hustle and bustle, and the rooms have doors that go direct to the outside. The owner's discreet, and it should be a simple matter to get in and out unseen as needed.

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

After returning to his furred form the draconian also contemplates the locations of possible safehouses. However, he first contacts his psicrystal, 'Kilian, would it be possible for you to come to me at the moment or are you closed in? Seems we're headed to the market district.'

Ectoplasm trembles around the psicrystal as it lefts itself from the shelf it was on through a form of telekinetic force. It replied through the link they share, 'I believe I can locate an open window. I'll meet you there.' (Unless you decide he can't find an open window for some reason. >.>)

Sebastian glances to his comrades, "We need to get everyone basic clothes as fast as possible. I can walk about the city unclothed for a brief time, but this form is going to rouse a fair bit of suspicion."

Knowledge Local: [roll0]

[Jack_Simth]

Sebastian's psicrystal dutifully locates him; other than a brief encounter with an eagle who got quite confused by the not-tasty prey-sized flying not-bird, the psycrystal's trip is uneventfull.

Sebastian
You don't know of any good safehouses.

[Gryps2]

Ella

"I know a place to hide out, guys. Should be pretty easy to manage getting in and out of there in a pinch." Ella glances at the others. "As for clothes, well..." She trails off, casting her eye across the numerous stalls to see if there's any tailors or cloth merchants about.

[Jack_Simth]

There are indeed cloth and clothing merchants amongst the other types. Silk, cotton, linen, wool; dyed, bleached, and raw. There's also people selling wooden poles, ladders, and rope (both silk and hemp). Blankets, buckets, and bedrolls. You'd almost say you could find any mundane item in the book here.

Any mundane item in the PHB, that is.

[Scoot]

Cerperach

Still tired from his near-death experience, Cerperach struggles to keep up as the party heads into the crowd, "Give me some pants and a place to sleep, it's been a rough day and I can't wait to end it." He pauses, and then continues, "Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind a bit of metal to put between my flesh and those arrows, too."

[Gryps2]

Ella

"Well, I'd love to snag us some new threads, but I'm carrying rather a lot now, so I'll leave that so someone less encumbered." Ella hefts the bag on her shoulder as she speaks. "Just be sure to get me something nice. Not too girly though. Maybe a nice dark blue, something that will go with my eyes."

[Jack_Simth]

As you get closer to the crowds, you find there's a problem with being invisible in public: people don't see you to avoid you. There are, however, a few women who're looking in your direction, smirking.

Oh, and I might point out that the person carrying the sack of cash would need to be the one doing the shopping....

[Gryps2]

Ella

Seeing that none of her friends seemed to be the type to just up and grab things, Ella sighs and swings the sack off of her back, grabbing a handful of coins out of it and thrusting them out towards Sebastian. "Fine! Sebastian, take these and get us some clothes. Your psicrystal can follow us back to the inn and then lead you after us. I'm not hanging around here to be spotted in prisonware."

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

He takes the bag full of coins and after a brief moment of concentration he goes about the business of finding and buying clothing and bags into which to split the money among the others. For the moment he is maintaining his furred form, at least until he can get some clothes and get out of sight of those who saw him buy them.

The psicrystal will follow the others, hopefully out of sight.

Obviously wait for invis to run out.

Also, I somewhat doubt I'll run into too many more scrying sensors, but its there all day, so I might as well remind you. XD

Channel the Psychic Dragon, unaugmented. 1pp for +5 Diplomacy and Cold Resist 5 for 11 minutes. I don't know if I really need to roll diplomacy to interact with a merchant, but its generally simulating better interactions with people, I guess. I suppose I could also toss out an Animal Affinity for Charisma to meet the generally same end.

So find a vendor and get some clothes for the group. Nothing fancy, and if at all possible something that fits in with a style that is not currently robes among the townsfolk. Robes will do if something else would stick out too much, but are secondary.

[Jack_Simth]

Sebastian:
After a bit of looking around, you find that there is clothing intended for household servants, which does NOT come in robe form. You locate Artisan's outfits for a crown, cleric's vestments for five crowns, some cold weather outfits for eight crowns, as well as quite a few others.

Thanks in part to your channeling, the merchant's seem to talk fairly freely - seems they're mildly put-off that they missed the ending of the recent show 'Prison break', as the cheap scrying service provider that had been contracted to run the show in the street had not quite been ready for the contestants bullying the 'guards' into turning them invisible.

Your 'scrying sense' picks up quite a few sensors. At the more expensive shops, individual items have scrying sensors following them. For the most part, though, it's a matter of a few sensors placed in various places around the shops to watch for shoplifters. With such a large sample size, you're easily able to determine that they're all run by some centralized setup very much like you found in the prison - there's not so much a person casting all these sensors, as there is a collection of mounted magical devices doing so.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Seeing Sebastian get underway, Ella indicates to the others. "C'mon, let's get going." She wait for Sebastian's psicrystal before she starts to lead the group back towards the inn she thought of earlier.

[Jack_Simth]

Ella leads most of the party through the streets of the city; after a while, you reach the specified address, which, at first glance, appears to be a run-down pub; the wooden entryway doesn't fit quite right in the frame, and stands slightly ajar. Wisps of smoke escape through the gap. The exterior paint is flaking, and you can vaguely make out what remains of the painting of a frothy mug on a rotten wood sign above the door. The windows appear to be nailed shut, but it looks like the hinges are sufficiently rotted away (yes, rotted - they're not metal) that you could likely open them backwards without too much trouble.

[Gryps2]

Ella

"Ah, this place is as crappy as I remember it." Ella says cheerfully, pushing the crooked door in as she steps into the building. "C'mon, we can get four rooms and plan our next move."

[Jack_Simth]

As you step into the building, the reason for the smoke becomes apparent: The building is on fire. Seems a vagrant moved into the abandoned building, set up a still, then drunk himself into a stupor... but the fire is now out of control, and is almost to his reserve of moonshine... which is surprisingly large.

You have: [roll0] rounds until the building goes kaboom.

[Gryps2]

Ella

"Well, okay, that part is new." Ella says, taking in the scene in a split second before she turns and starts to fly backwards, trying to round the corner of another building to get out of the blast. "Dammit! Get to cover!"


Full-out move with Overland Flight.

[Scoot]

Cerperach
"I have some serious doubts in your taste in Inns!" Cerperach quickly turns tail and follows Ella as well as he can by foot.


Double move, and of course I'm not focused anymore, speed of thought does not count.

[KaganMonk]

"We are so going to get blamed for this, I just know it! And we don't have enough juice to do anything about it." As he runs away, Kelvin thinks back to his early years in Sentinil, or even his unremembered past, trying to remember any good bolt holes. Anything is better than this.

Double move following Ella and Cerperach, scooping up the crystal if need be.
[roll0]

[Jack_Simth]

With nobody making any particular effort to quench the flames, the fire spreads like wildfire, reaching the store of moonshine, and setting it off. The party, moving like there would be no tomorrow if they didn't, are well out of range of the blast when it detonates. The building, however, is left a smoldering crater - which is quickly put out when every other person in sight casts a spell, causing the remains of the building to be completely drenched in water.

Meanwhile, after all the time spent walking, the invisibility wears off....

Spellcraft DC 15:
They all cast Create Water

Kelvin:
Well, it's no good for keeping a low profile, but you do know of a reputable hotel that'll keep a roof over your heads - decent place, but they do charge 2 crowns per person per night.

[Gryps2]

Ella

"That place would have been perfect if it hadn't exploded and burned to the ground." Ella says, dusting herself off. She looks down at her now visible prison garb. "Damn, I wanted to be inside before this happened. I hope Sebastian at least found some clothes that didn't suddenly explode on him."

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

After some time and a different body or two Sebastian has gathered a few clothes of many different sorts. He makes contact with his psicrystal and once he learns of the fire he rushes to their location with as much haste as he can muster without appearing too strange. He has with him several bundles of clothing in different cuts, half of them made with the female body in mind.

So the purchases:
2 cold weather outfit
2 Artisan's clothing
2 Monk's
2 Traveler's

One female and one male where applicable.

He is wearing the Aristan's Clothing for the moment, decked out as a Painter or Sculptor.

Too lazy to do math for what it should have cost right now. XD

[Jack_Simth]

With his psicrystal to guide him, Sebastian has no difficulty at all finding the rest of the party standing in front of the smoldering crater which had once been the location they thought they might find rest.

Sebastian:
Total = 30 gp = 3 pp

[KaganMonk]

"Ah good, our designated shopper has arrived. As you can see, our shelter is, well, not much of a shelter at the moment. And the best place I can think of to stay is a reputable hotel of a fairly pricey nature. Maybe with these clothes, we'll be able to shop around a bit more."

Kelvin browses through the clothes before grabbing a set of traveler's clothes, liking the cloak. He quickly finds some quiet alley or other private place to change out of the prison uniform, then comes back, leaving the prison garb behind. "Much better. Anyone have a semi-trustworthy contact in this city, or should we head out before things heat up even more?"

[Scoot]

Cerperach

Seeing Sebastion return with the clothing, Cerperach quickly selects a cold weather outfit, favoring it over the simple monk's ware that remains. Seeing as he is already nude, he decides to simply put on the clothing where he stands, he leaves the coat open, and his hood down."I'm afraid I don't know a soul here. A nice rest in a plush bed might be worth the cost right now, though."

[Gryps2]

Ella

Picking through the selections, Ella doesn't really mask her disappointment, murmuring as she looks over them. "This is all you could find, eh?" Well, she thought, this is what you get when you let a shapeshifter to whom clothes are probably unwelcome restraints do the shopping. Ella takes one of the monk outfits. "I guess this will do for now."

Waiting until Kelvin has finished changing, Ella goes down the same alleyway to change clothes, tossing the old prison garb into a heap before turning to rejoin the others. "Alright, where are we headed to now?"

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

Sebastian, now in the form of something vaguely human, sighs and rolls his eyes, "You can go shopping for something that suits your tastes later. I wasn't exactly shopping for style. As for contacts, I kept to myself during my life here, more often than not. The majority of my life I was unaware of many of my talents, and a dragon runt who can't cast spells is hardly a useful member of society in the eyes of the majority."

I just had a thought. Psicrystals use their master's ranks, so...
Kilian's Knowledge Local: [roll0]

And the psicrystal beats us all. XD

[Jack_Simth]

Sebastian
Your Psicrystal reminds you that there's a set of utility tunnels underneath the city that'd make a great place to hide out, as almost nobody goes down there. They're patrolled, but only sparsely, and there's access points over most the city, so you'll be able to get around. They stink, though, due to stagnant pools of water. Not that the crystal cares about such things.

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

The shifter pauses for a moment as if pondering something and then nods ever so slightly. He seems to start out in the middle of whatever thought he was having, "And then there are, of course, the utility tunnels under the city. Not terribly the nicest place to lay your head but we certainly won't have to worry about any innkeepers speaking to the wrong people about us. Not to mention ease of travel about the city undetected. Patrols may be an occasional nuisance, but what good city doesn't have its rats?"

[Gryps2]

Ella

"Wherever we can get some sleep and divide up the loot is fine by me." Ella says, tugging and adjusting her outfit. "Lead the way."

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

He turns his gaze to his psicrystal and directs it to locate the nearest entry to the tunnels that is out of direct view of any current observers. He'll follow after once it has located something.

[Jack_Simth]

The crystallized fragment of Sebastian's personality quickly leads you down to one of the the utility tunnel's entrances. The place stinks rather badly, and you quickly discern why when you spot the numerous puddles of stagnant water, which seem to collect small, decaying dead things, although while you do see day-old corpses in the puddles, you don't spy any long-dead bones.

The ceiling and walls of the tunnels appear to be covered in arcane runes of some nature, and the tunnels are filled with a very soft glow that seems to emanate from them. It's enough to see by, barely.

The tunnel itself curves out of sight around a bend.


Shadowy Illumination, but anything granting low-light vision, such as the Elfsight power, lets you see just fine.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella glumly looks around the utility tunnel, taking a sniff before grimacing. "What a incredible smell you've discovered." Her eyes narrow, as psychic energy adjusts her vision to the darkness. She starts to walk ahead. "Let's see if we can find some place more secure and less stench-riddled down here."


Psionic Darkvision, 5 PP
32/130 PP

[KaganMonk]

"Well, as long as there's nothing bigger, hungrier, more magical, or in general more dangerous than us, we'll probably be alright. And if we clean up the water, it might even smell better. But why is there water, and where are the bones? Let us find a place to rest our heads and worry about the rest in the morning."

Despite his bravado, Kelvin also adjusts his eyes to see in the darkness and wishes he could read the runes on the walls. The whole city seemed to be a death trap.

Darkvision for 5pp
50/132

[Scoot]

"How does one clean water?" Cerperach inquires as he swirls his boot in the wretched soup. "And as for the lack of bones, maybe there is something bigger than us down here. But we shouldn't concern ourselves with that, if there was some huge monster down here, I'd think we'd be able to hear it before we see it."


Mythweavers is down, so I can't check my powers, but I don't think I have anything for my vision anyways.

[Jack_Simth]

The utility tunnels are windy and maze-like, befitting anything that was built, then expanded, then altered by successive generations. It'd clearly be very easy to become lost, and finding a good place to hole-up might actually prove somewhat tricky.

Survival to locate a good place to hole-up. I'm guessing you're looking for:
1) Unlikely to be patrolled and/or easy to notice patrols and hide before they notice you.
2) Defensible (limited number of entrances/exits)
3) Reasonably dry

But that's just at a guess... person who makes the roll tells me exactly what they're after.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella starts to take a look about, searching for a safe and hopefully non-smelly bolt hole.


You basically hit the mark with your definition, though Ella would prefer a place that didn't smell like the Lord Privy's privy.

Survival Check: [roll0]

[Jack_Simth]

Ella:The place seems remarkably empty of decent bolt-holes.

[Scoot]

Cerperach

Cerperach drearily searches for a place to crash, anywhere dry and reasonably safe is good enough.


Survival [roll0]

[KaganMonk]

Kelvin joins in the search, channeling a bit of sewer rat wisdom to find a good bolt hole. Meanwhile, he prepares for trouble, manifesting his mind blade in its largest form.

Animal Affinity to Wisdom, 11 minutes
[roll0], same parameters
47/132pp

Mind blade as a bastard sword while I'm at it. No one to see us down here.

[Jack_Simth]

Cerperach: The tunnels seem surprisingly free of good places to hide.

Kelvin:After a bit of looking, you find a spot where the wall has caved in a bit, granting access to the basement of some building or other. The basement appears to have been sealed off a few decades ago, judging by the rust on the nails in the oaken planks where the trapdoor in what is (from your perspective) the ceiling was sealed. It's still a bit smelly, but the building overhead seems to be doing a good job of keeping the damp out, and there's only the one entrance - which is tights, but if you have to squeeze a little to get in, that means most patrollers will need to do so as well... making it rather unlikely anyone will bother.

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

He sends his psicrystal out in search of someplace that patrols likely won't show up that is relatively dry, but only so they don't have to sleep in sludge. He doesn't think at all about a defensible position. While it skitters off along the walls just out of the wettest areas, he searches on his own, sans a nose.

Yes, he took off his nose.
Elfsight, bringing me down to 28p
Same Animal Empathy for Wisdom
My Survival: [roll0]
Psicrystal: [roll1]

[Jack_Simth]

Sebastian:You and your psicrystal almost immediately find a few locations where you won't need to sleep on sludge; there's a fair number of locations where old cave-ins have raised the floor, and the raised areas are surprisingly dry. You also find a section where it appears an earthquake caused a small section of the city to buckle, resulting in a high spot in the tunnels, where everything quickly drains away due to the floor slanting away from the area - most of them are in long stretches of tunnels, although you do find what appears to be a dead-end where there was a cave-in that raised the floor.

[KaganMonk]

Kelvin calls out,"I think I've found something! Just past this cave-in here."

As the others catch up with him, he squeezes past some rocks and out of sight. He finds himself in a somewhat musty, though dry, basement.

"It looks like this place has been sealed up for awhile. As long as we don't make a ton of noise, I don't think anyone will find us, and its easily defensible and hidden. What do you think?"

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella follows Kelvin in, though she has a little more difficult of a time squeezing through the entrance. "Well, that's annoying. Now this is the sort of place I wanted, though." She walks through the room, looking over it. "Just have to make sure there's no unpleasant surprises in here before we set up camp."


Search check: [roll0]

[Jack_Simth]

Ella:You don't find anything beyond a half-empty one pound box of copper roofing nails. They're still in usable shape, though.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella picks up the box of nails as she finishes looking around. "Looks safe to me, gentlemen. Unless you want to spread a few of these around near the entrance just to be sure."

Slinging the bag of money down to the ground, she sits next to it and pulls it open. "Alright, time to divide the loot."

[Scoot]

Cerperach

Exhausted from the day's ordeals, Cerperach seeks refuge in one of the more hosptiable corners of the room and slumps down. After a moment he rips a small piece of material from his sleeve, and begins to stretch it. "Does anyone else want a blanket tonight? I can make a large one and we can cut it up."


Starting Minor Creation, Psionic.
It will be 1pp I belive.

[Jack_Simth]

As cerperach weaves his blanket out of strands of raw ectoplasm from the Astral Plane... and some of it leaks over the area, coating the floor nearby in an inert slime.

Material display, you don't appear to have rolled Concentration to suppress it.

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

Unsatisfied with the locations he found, though fairly good for keeping out of the muck, he eventually finds the others, his psicrystal skittering along ahead of him. His body compresses to help him get inside and once he takes a moment to look around he shudders, he never liked ectoplasm, "So are we going to just all sleep the night away or take turns in case a patrol happens along?"

[Gryps2]

Ella

Having finished dividing the loot into four piles, Ella tucks her own share back into the sack and plops it next to the wall, sitting down next to it and leaning back. "That psicrystal of yours never has to sleep, does it? Why not let it manage the watch?" She yawns as she speaks, "As for me, I need some rest."

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

He ponders this for a moment, "I suppose. I guess I'm just paranoid." He glances towards his psicrystal and directs it to find itself a perch generally out of sight to keep watch for patrols, or anything else particularly unpleasant.

[Jack_Simth]

The psicrystal dutifully takes the watch... and as you rest up, the night passes uneventfully. You are awoken early in the morning by the sounds of children clomping along the floor above your heads. They shake down a small amount of dust. Having not particularly eaten the night before, you awaken a bit hungry.
Search: [roll0]

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

Upon waking, the still nose-less man retreats to one of the corners, or as close as possible, and begins shaping the heavy magic of his soulmelds into stable forms. As he does so part of his mental power sinks into his body and spreads outwards, removing the need for food and water while also curbing the hunger pangs.

Shaping soulmelds is an hour long process, so he'll be sitting around for a while. Haven't decided on his melds for the day as it might be different from his commonly shaped melds. I'll have to get back to ye on that one. >.>

Hmm... and we dinged too, so that'll also make some changes.

[KaganMonk]

Having spent most of his remaining energy the night before to heal himself completely, Kelvin awakes in the morning to find himself much refreshed. Feeling the first pangs of hunger, and knowing he is safe from prejudice, he invests the slightest bit of his mental energy into eliminating his need for food and drink. Becoming a being of mental energy wasn't all bad. Reminded of his lack of a past by the children overhead, he wistfully wishes he could remember his own childhood. While waiting for the others to show signs of movement, he considers new ways to use his powers to combat his new foes.

Forgot to post for the night before, but I used as many pp as necessary to heal myself fully. 49pp comes to [roll0] of healing, if you'll allow it. And now to level up!
Oh, and 1pp to replete and eliminate my hunger. Great to be Elan!

[Gryps2]

Hearing the children, Ella groans, then rolls over and wraps her arms over her head. Apparently she isn't interested in getting moving quite yet. She murmurs to the others, "Somebody shut those kids up. I'm not finished sleeping yet."


Enhanced Elan Repletion means that Ella never gets hungry or thirsty. It's kind of a dumb feat in that it just saves you 1 PP/day, but it's a nice aesthetic effect.

[Jack_Simth]

The kids eventually seem to quiet down, which seems to line up with a door slamming. After that, the only sounds you hear appear to be of a few maids busily scrubbing the place above. They seems awfully quiet about it, making no sounds beyond breathing, moving, and those noises generated by the cleaning itself.

Detect Scrying / See Invisibility / True Seeing:
The scrying sensors from the night before are still following you.

Sense Motive DC 20:
The cleaners appear to be Dominated. Would be DC 15, but +5 Ad-hock for not being able to actually see and interact with them.

KaganMonk:
Yes, you can burn off the last of your PP before heading to bed.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Eventually Ella sits back upright, cracking her neck as she nastily arranges her hair with her hands. "Dangit. I guess it's time to get down to business." she grumbles, before focusing some mental energy into healing her longstanding injuries. "Does anyone know if that jerk is still watching us?"


Body Adjustment, 5 PP + 6 PP for a total of 4d12 healed.
HP healed: [roll0]
139/150 PP

[KaganMonk]

"Hmm? Oh yes, definitely watching us. Maybe not actively, but the sensors are still there. So no plans out loud at the moment. I'll try to put something up to protect us later. In the meantime, there's something I've been preparing for awhile..."

Kelvin pulls out a dull quartz crystal he picked up from somewhere in the sewer and concentrates on it. A portion of his mind that he had been preparing infuses the crystal, causing it to glow slightly before sprouting legs and crawling into his pocket.

"There. A companion to help me with defense and such."

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

As the draconian meditates he calls down a mantle of scales that forms heavy armor like the hide of a blue dragon around his shoulders before fading into wisps of blue mist. A blazing wyrm of blue soulfire bursts from his lips and coils around his head before settling into his hair and pointing its draconic gaze forward, menacing. It too dissolves as fur sprouts from all over his body, particularly his back in the vague from of a cloak or a hide of a massive wolf. His hands become alive with blue-white sparks arcing from silver studs on supple black leather gloves. The fur on his torso fills in and his ears take on sharp points as his form wavers slightly though he never truly moves. At long last he opens his eyes, all three of them. The last is a blazing blue beacon of light that is undoubtedly a Third Eye, and a moment later his power reaches out to touch the minds of each person in the room, requesting a mental audience.

'And this, my erstwhile companions, is how we foil that smug bastard, at least to start. Telepathic communication, as I requested yesterday, is now at my command at will. I would suggest trying to keep speech limited except with the public and to avoid rousing suspicion. I will need to renew this connection once ever hour or so else it will fade, but I have no limits on how often I can manifest this ability.'

Incarnum Spoiler:
Essentia: 13-1
Capacity: T: 3, I: 4, TB: 4
[I] [0] Elder Spirit: +4+2E Insight to Arcana, History, and UMD
[Bound]: Immune to frightful presence, sleep, and paralysis effects as if a dragon. +4+2E Intimidate
[T] [0] Worg Pelt: +2+2E Hide/MS
[I] [0] Theft Gloves: +2+2E Disable Device, Open Lock, Sleight of Hands
[I] [0] Lightning Gauntlets: 1d6+Ed6 Electricity as Touch
[I] [0] Psion's Eyes: +4+2E Autohypnosis, Psicraft, UPD
[Bound]: Mindlink at Will
[T] [0] Dragon Mante: +2 Enhancement to Fort. +3E to Energy Resists, stacks.
[TB] [0] Blink Shirt: 10+10E feet Dimension Door at Will
[Bound]: DD becomes a Move Action

[Jack_Simth]

The manifesting and binding goes without a hitch, but afterwards, you start to hear the pitter-patter of rain on rooftops. After a moment, you can hear water flowing through the utility tunnels just outside your hidey-hole, and the floor begins to dampen.

Everyone:
You have all seen the edit I made to my signature line about two months ago, correct?

[KaganMonk]

Finally, we can have a decent strategy discussion! It might, however, be good to do so while we're getting out of the sewers. I'm sure our hideout will be alright later, but I'd rather not be swimming around while the water is rising. Oh, and I'm going to set a trap for our friendly foe. Give him a bit of a shock next time he tries to scry us. Now out we go!

Kelvin manifests a power, keeping the display off, just in case, before peeking out of the hiding place. Seeing no one there, he heads out, mostly to start walking before deciding where they were going. There was rain coming, after all.

[roll0] vs. DC 21 for Remote View Trap
[roll1] just in case there are patrols, though I assumed there wouldn't be.
135/154pp remaining

Remote View Trap, 36 hours, 8d6 electricity and scry is blocked, Will save vs. 20 to halve the damage and view normally

Yep, saw that awhile ago. Have a good trip!

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella stands up to follow Kelvin, focusing her mental energies for a moment to make sure that she isn't swamped by water on the way out of the sewer.

'Neat trick. Personally, first thing I'd recommend doing is going shopping. I have a hankering for a two handed weapon and some armor.'


Adapt Body; 9 PP spent. I assume that we didn't sleep for 11 hours so I should still have some time on my Psionic Darkvision.
130/150 PP

And bon voyage!

[Scoot]

Cerperach

Finally aroused to movement by the flow of water, Cerperach slowly stands up and begins to stretch.

I have to agree with Ella, our powers will only get us so far, some equipment will be necissary.

Reminding himself of his own powers, Cerperach concentrates to set some aside to nourish himself for the day.

That food trick never gets old.


Elan Repletion.

Have a nice trip

[Jack_Simth]

After a bit, the rain picks up enough that there is a slight sloshing in your hidey-hole, and some foul-smelling mud starts to seep through the debris at your entrance, displacing some of the debris as it goes.

Knowledge(Dungeoneering), please, DC 30 (Higher is better - gets you useful info).

[Gryps2]

Ella

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting out of here." Ella says, heading towards the entrance to the utility tunnels to peak through it.

[Jack_Simth]

As Ella sticks her head through the hole, the foul-smelling mud reaches up and strikes at her, smashing her into the ceiling of the passageway and yanking her through into the tunnels beyond, holding her fast.

Mechanics:
Nobody recognized that there's a beasty there, so Surprise Round to the beast.

Slam: [roll0] (vs. Flat-footed AC) for [roll1] bludgeoning and [roll2] acid damage (counts as a single attack). If it hits, it invokes Improved Grab, for Grapple: [roll3] and Constriction damage: [roll4] and another [roll5] Acid damage.

Oh, and this beast has an AC of 1, so let loose with the Power Attack, please.

Beast's Initiative: [roll6]

Edit:
Let's see... flat-footed due to the surprise round, so no Elan Resilience. Fortunately, Ella's immune to the Acid damage. Ella has a grapple modifier of only +15 (I think), so even with a 20, she's not opposing the grab. Sorry.


Ella:
You get a swallowed up by a vast inky pool of black death....

[Gryps2]

Ella

Bashed and enveloped, Ella could only formulate one thought: screw this.


Psionic Dimension Door, 7 PP, 15 feet up vertically, which will hopefully put me at or a little above street level.
Concentration check for being Grappled [DC 24]: [roll0]
Concentration check for manifesting defensively [DC 19]: [roll1]

HP: 63/103; AC 15 t11 ff14; Saves: +11/+5/+8
PP: 132/150
Ongoing Effects: Psionic Darkvision, Adapt Body

[Jack_Simth]

Ella vanishes out of the grip of the beast, only to appear in a jewelry store not far above your hidey-hole. She's quickly accosted by sales staff, but manages to avoid the worst of it and make it out, both alive and without purchasing anything.

Ella:

You're teleporting blind. That's... asking for it. Oh well... random destination list: [roll0]
{table=head]Die|Location
01|Occupied by a largish object. Take damage per targetting an occupied location, and roll again.
02|Street, empty
03|Street, something coming. Reflex DC 15 to avoid taking [roll1] bludgeoning damage from something running you over.
04|Railway, empty
05|Railway, train coming. Reflex DC 20 to avoid taking [roll2] from getting hit by a train.
06|Residence, empty. You can leave safely, either by another Dimension Door, or by walking out to the front door.
07|Residence, occupied. Diplomacy, Charisma, or Bluff check, DC 20, to get out without being attacked by the occupant.
08|Residence, trapped. Reflex DC 17 halves [roll3] Cold damage.
09|Military Barracks. Take [roll4] Force damage from Magic Missiles as the occupants react and shoot you. You can leave safely next round with another Dimension Door, though (nobody threatens), but you won't be permitted to get to the front door.
10|Business, lobby. Will save DC 15 to avoid buying something for [roll5] crowns just to get the pushy salespeople off your back.
11|Business, storeroom. Reflex DC 17 halves [roll6] Cold damage.
12-19|Teleport-blocked area. Take damage as per a solid object, and roll again.
20|Oops... the ground was not as high as you thought. Take [roll7] falling damage (10 feet, Tumble negates)[/table]

Note: Ella rolled a successful Will save in the OOC thread.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Brushing herself off, Ella glares away the sales staff as she leaves the bauble shop. She glances down at her bruised arm and mutters to herself before looking for a place to hide so she can heal up without having a lot of questions asked about her weird unidentifiable-by-Spellcraft powers. She tests her Mindlink with Sebastian:

Well, I managed to get out of its clutches to the surface. If I were you guys, I'd find some other way besides the tunnels to get out of there."

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

He starts to rush to the opening after Ella but slides to a halt as he hears her voice in his mind. He glances to the others and broadcasts his thoughts to everyone, She's safe topside. We need to go, now. Can either of you use any psychoportation? He glances back to the opening and tries to find his psicrystal, which he had assumed would be keeping watch just outside their hidey-hole.

[Scoot]

Cerperach

Cerperach glances worriedly at Sebastion, thinking aloud to everyone, I don't. Should I start running, or does someone have me covered?. He then quickly manifests his weapon, not wanting to be caught unarmed.


Ya, manifest Mind Blade. Free action if it matters, don't know what happened with Ella's combat I'm not attacking it.

[Tacitus]

"I can take us all out of here, but I was hoping not to expend any mental energy." Once everyone is touching him he'll make their escape...

Can I get within 5ft of my psicrystal without going into the corridor, if its still out there? Share Powers doesn't seem to require line of sight or line of effect, so...

As for a destination, if it is within range he'll picture their entry point, as I recall looking for a more secluded access point. Though having lived here could he get details on the shop Ella is in and picture somewhere nearby?

[Jack_Simth]

Ella:You do manage to spot an alleyway you can duck down; it seems unoccupied on first glance.
Sebastian:Your psicrystal apologizes in your head, saying "I'm sorry; I thought it was just another blob of mud. Still, it doesn't seem to have recognized me as anything other than a rock. And yes, I'm just outside the corridor."

[Gryps2]

Ella

Ella ducks into the alley, focusing psychic energy to heal her wounds, though it's still no salve for her bruised ego.


Body Adjustment, 5 PP +6 PP augmented, manifested without display
Concentration check [DC 18]: [roll0]
HP healed: [roll1]

[KaganMonk]

"If you want to run, I guess we'll run. I'm not afraid of a little mud though. You get this teleport, I'll get the next one."

Kelvin materializes his blade as he sets his left hand on Sebastian's shoulder, then concentrates some more power into the blade.

[Jack_Simth]

The mud, sensing prey, oozes through the hole, quickly filling much of the basement in it's deeper substance: a seemingly endless inky black, which coats the walls and floor like an inevitable tide of doom... and it lashes out violently at Sebastian, hitting him and dragging him into the main pool, where he's quickly out of sight as it slowly begins to brutalize him....

Target: [roll0]: Kelvin, Sebastian, Cerperach
Sorry about the lack of resolving the teleport, but nobody seems to be touching your shoulder and you declared that you were waiting for such....

Attack: Slam: [roll1] for [roll2] bludgeoning and [roll3] acid; if it hits, it invokes Improved Grab; grapple: [roll4] and Constrict: [roll5] and another [roll6] Acid damage if the grapple check succeeds.

[KaganMonk]

"For the love of..."

Expending energy like lives depended on it, Kelvin every small movement becomes a blur as he prepares for battle. Fire seems to swirl around his body as he moves as close to the mud as he can without being pulled in before firing a cone of razor sharp crystals at the creature, trying to avoid the spot his teammate went.

"Cerperach, you might want to keep a little bit of distance from me."

Temporal Acceleration 11pp
Energy Emanation [roll0] fire 12pp
Move in close
Swarm of Crystals [roll1] slashing 12pp

I really need to take Meditation next. Wasted move actions.
111/154 pp remaining, full health
AC 11

[Jack_Simth]

As the razor sharp crystals slice into the beast, it splits into two chunks... which seem identical to the original, if a bit thinner.


Split (Ex)

Slashing and piercing weapons deal no damage to a [name withheld]. Instead the creature splits into two identical [name withheld], each with half of the original’s current hit points (round down). A [name withheld] with 10 hit points or less cannot be further split and dies if reduced to 0 hit points.

[Scoot]

Cerperach

"Will do, Kelvin". Wanting to get this thing off of Sebastion, Cerperach gathers an amount of ectoplasm and kneads it into a small ball which he then tosses at one of the muddy blobs. He then steps back and gives Kelvin some space.

"Hopefully this will help."


Entangling Ectoplasm, 1 pp. Ranged touch, [roll0], if hit, entangled for 5 rounds. This is assuming the splices are now "Medium"
155 PP left
65 HP
11AC

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

Damnation! I hate this city. With a burst of power he unleashes a blast of discorporating energy and then is gone with a flash. The psicrystal makes its escape! It heads down the tunnels as fast as it can away from the muddy ooze in a direction of a drain grate or something of the like to get topside.

32 and 25 damage.
35/92

Swift Action: Reallocate Essentia. Take it from anywhere and get 4 into Blink Shirt.
Expend Psionic Focus to Take 15 on a Concentration Check for a 34 to Manifest while Grappled.
Manifest Without Display (habit): [roll0] Fail only on a 1
Manifest Defensively: [roll1] Fail only on a 1

Psionic Disintegrate! 11pp
Ranged Touch? [roll2]
Damage: [roll3] or [roll4]

Fort DC 19
If disintegrating something you are currently touching is a bad idea, ignore the above nonsense and he'll just cast Psionic Overland Flight for 11pp and do as follows anyway.

Move Action to Blink 50ft straight up. He doesn't care what bull**** he gets himself into, he can't stay there. Activating a soulmeld doesn't seem to provoke from what I can tell, at least not this one. Dissolving Spittle specifies that it does, and this one does not. So it shouldn't need Concentration.

Edit: And the Concentration skill listing for soulmelds only lists needing a concentration check when shaping soulmelds when distracted, not activating of investing essentia.

[Jack_Simth]

The blob of ectoplasm hits the Gargantuan blob of black mud, expanding to coat the beast as best it can as Sebastian hits it with a black ray that does almost nothing prior to Sebastian vanishing from view.

Cerperach:Gargantuan, actually. The above assumes you're willing to pay the required 7 power points to cover the beast. However, as that would be pretty self-evident, we can ret-con that in if you're willing to keep up with the expenditure.

Sebastian:Fort: [roll0] ... umm ... Disintegrate, Psionic is a standard action; invoking the Blink Shirt is also a standard action. How are you getting two standard actions and one Swift action in one round?

[KaganMonk]

"If you get close to me, you'll get burned. Otherwise, we need a few more pieces before using the blade wind technique is truly effective."

Warping time again, Kelvin manifests another short blade in his left hand. While his fire scorches the nearby mud, he strikes out as quickly as he can against one of the active mud piles.

Temporal Acceleration 11pp
Shape Blade to Two Short Swords
Energy Emanation [roll0] 2/12 rounds
Full Attack:
[roll1] for [roll2]
[roll3] for [roll4]
[roll5] for [roll6]
100pp

[Jack_Simth]

Kelvin's psychokenetic fire burns the beasts as he slices into them... and they splatter all over the place as he lays into them... but Kelvin quickly finds he's surrounded as the split beast retaliates like the Hydra of legend; luckily, they can't all manuever properly, and two of them target the only other target still in the room.

General mechanics:
Let's see... guessing a little at distribution of hits...
Beast 1: 58/290 (entangled - puts Dex into the negatives, so no actions for this one)
Beast 2: 48/290: Attack: Slam: [roll0] for [roll1] bludgeoning and [roll2] Acid. If it hits, it invokes Improved Grab; grapple: [roll3] for Constrict: [roll4] and another [roll5] acid if the beast wins the grapple.
Beast 3: 69/290: Attack: Slam: [roll6] for [roll7] bludgeoning and [roll8] Acid. If it hits, it invokes Improved Grab; grapple: [roll9] for Constrict: [roll10] and another [roll11] acid if the beast wins the grapple.
Beast 4: 35/290: Attack: Slam: [roll12] for [roll13] bludgeoning and [roll14] Acid. If it hits, it invokes Improved Grab; grapple: [roll15] for Constrict: [roll16] and another [roll17] acid if the beast wins the grapple.
Beast 5: 35/290: Attack: Slam: [roll18] for [roll19] bludgeoning and [roll20] Acid. If it hits, it invokes Improved Grab; grapple: [roll21] for Constrict: [roll22] and another [roll23] acid if the beast wins the grapple.

2 and 3 mauling Kelvin, 4 and 5 mauling Cerperach.


Sebastian:
You appear in mid-air, and fall twenty feet, hitting a stone roof with a jarring thud, and then rolling a bit falling onto a cobblestone sidewalk further down. Take [roll24] falling damage.

[Scoot]

Cerperach

No! I.. I'm sorry, Sofia.

With the light fading fast, Cerperach attempts to break free of the muck now consuming him.


grapples, just for kicks.
[roll0]
[roll1]

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

For several long moments the draconian man lays where he landed, hoping that his psicrystal can escape the sewers unharmed. He slowly gets to his feet and tries to slough off the muck as best he can while mending his wounds. He has no words for those he has left behind, too shaken by nearly being consumed himself and his mind in shambles from the pain and lack of true focus.

27/92

11pp for [roll0]

I'll figure out my pp in a bit

[Gryps2]

Ella

Waiting around nearby on the surface, Ella is in a good spot to hear, if not see, a man suddenly appear in the sky, crash into a roof, and roll out into the street below. Amateur teleporters, she thinks, always overshooting.

Rounding the corner to see where the man landed, Ella seems shocked to see Sebastian, and only Sebastian, rushing over to try and help him to his feet. "Sebastian? What the hell? Where are the others?"

[Jack_Simth]

Fortunately, the street in question is relatively empty, and other than one guy walking the roof to inspect the damage a few moments after the thump, nobody seems to be paying any particular attention to the two people lolling about the street.


Kelvin:
Let's see... if you use Elan Resilience on the highest damage attack (either the first hit at 23 bludgeoning and 9 acid, or the first Constrict at 24 bludgeoning and 8 acid), then it's 85 damage out of your max of 100 hp. And he'd just woken up, all rested. So you're *probably* alive ... if you have a way to teleport out of the grapple. Like, say, that Dimension Door power listed on your character sheet. Just two concentration checks, and burning some PP.

[KaganMonk]

Holding himself together seemed like pure agony, but Kelvin just barely managed it. Regretting his inability to grab Cerperach, he launches himself upwards through the ether, hoping he kept track of the route well enough to aim for an alley or some such at the right height.

Thank you for doing the math for me.:smallsmile: It's been an interesting week in my life.

Psicrystal is with me, so no worries there for me.
32 damage comes out to a nice even 8pp (Supernatural so no AoO)
Concentration [roll0] vs auto failure (19 bonus vs 19 DC)
Dimension Door for 7pp
If I come out too high like Sebastian, I'll tumble ([roll1] vs auto-fail) for 10 feet less.
Edit: And now I really hope you're not using crit-failure. That's awful.

85pp and 15hp

[Jack_Simth]

As Ella and Sebastian are getting their conversation on in a mostly-unused side-street, they are interrupted by a severely wounded Kelvin appearing in their midst ... relatively safely. Meanwhile, the beasts under the city devour Cerperach's corpse, dissolving it into nothing.
Kelvin Wis check, DC 15, as he's deliberately trying to remember a good point to "land" with the teleport: [roll0]; and if it fails, the same table for the earlier random port: [roll1]

Cerperach:
So, are you going to be writing up a new character?

[KaganMonk]

Kelvin pounds the ground in frustration, a look of sorrow on his face. He concentrates for a little bit before standing up and looking around, his bruises already fading.

"In my arrogance, I thought we could defeat the monster. And in return, I lost our companion. I have failed."

"I need armor."

[roll0] healing for 11pp
Concentration [roll1] vs 26 without display
Concentration to gain focus, auto succeed.

74pp 37hp

[Gryps2]

Ella

Turning from Sebastian to the recently apparent Kelvin, Ella glowers down at him, the image of Cerperach scored with arrows fresh in her memory. She still felt a little residual guilt at his near-death there, and the fact that everyone, her included, left him to his fate (even if by accident), angered her greatly. "Oh, really? You think fighting some dumb pile of muck when we could just avoid it was a bad idea? Oh, and particularly when we didn't have any equipment?" She sneers balefully, "You're just lucky you have looks. They're about the only thing keeping me from knocking even more of the crap out of you."

[Tacitus]

Sebastian

He blinks a few times and slowly seems to collect himself, his psychic power focusing his thoughts and generating a pearl of calm in his otherwise jumbled thoughts. His mind reaches out to the other two, We may need to find a new place to stay when night rolls around again. His thoughts then reach out in a different manner to his psicrystal, You okay?

Autosucceed to gain psionic focus.

[Jack_Simth]

Sebastian:
Your Psicrystal reports that it's fine. The mud can't seem to distinguish an unmoving Psicrystal from a mundane rock.

[Gryps2]

Ella

Distracted from her fury by Sebastian, Ella grimaces. Yeah, fine, we can deal with that later. Right now let's just get some equipment. She turns away to try and compose herself and think of a place with what they need.


Autosucceed psionic focus check.
Knowledge (Local) roll for finding a good magical weapons shop: [roll 1d20+4[/roll]

[Jack_Simth]

Ella:
You do know of a local temple to Moradin where weapons are blessed during long rituals, and sometimes given to those who make sizable donations. You've noticed that those carrying the blades tend to do better in battle... and more importantly, they're not expected to be reporting back to the Guilds....

[Gryps2]

Ella

I think I remember a place we can get some equipment. with little fuss. she projects to the others. Assuming neither of you have any qualms about tithing to Moradin.