Three Goddesses IC - Thread #3c

[MikelaC1]

With a sudden BAMF!, you find yourself in a room, the recipients of an obvious teleport. However, several things about this situation are not to your liking. First of all, not all the members of your group made it to the same location, as only Taleira, Selena, and Lok are in your group. Second of all, while you did not expect to get teleported to this location, the large and angry fire giant in the room knew you were coming, and scores a hit on Lok for 32 points of damage as you arrive in the room.

Roll initiative: giant initiative [23]

[MikelaC1]

Current initiative
Lok 26
Giant 23
Selena 21
Taleira 15

[lostsole31]

Lok's Initiative [roll0]

[MikelaC1]

[roll0] Selena initiative

Lok up, giant on deck.

[lostsole31]

Lok uses telekinesis to try to trip the giant. He puts as much energy as he can into looking a fraction into the future to avoid the giant's attacks as much as possible.
Since there was so much in-between time, he's at 8 images.

TK to trip. No attack roll required. TK check [roll0]
* Giant must roll greater than this amount with STR or DEX or fall prone.

Defensive precognition at max (+6 PPs) to give +3 insight bonus to AC and on all saving throws. Duration = 17 minutes.

[MikelaC1]

The giant avoids Lok's attempt to trip him, merely using his greater size and strength to keep his balance. The way he stomps past the telekenetic foot makes Lok happy his real foot is not there, as he would be in great pain from it.
The giant also retaliates by attacking the images of Lok.
[roll0] attack & [roll1] damage
[roll2] attack & [roll3] damage
[roll4] attack & [roll5] damage
[roll6] attack & [roll7] damage
[roll8] 1=Lok
[roll9] 1=Lok
[roll10] 1=Lok
[roll11] 1=Lok
None of his hits connect with the vrock, but he does dispel 4 images


Selena attempts to attack the giant with a greater shadow evocation. She hurls a lighting bolt at the creature. Being a weak minded dupe, the giant does not see it as an illusion, however a strange thing happens as she casts. Part of the bolt seems to "break off" from the main body, and strikes the southwest corner of the room. The giant still takes damage from the main bolt
[roll12]

Taleira up, END ROUND 1

[Telasi]

Taleira Ulharvyth

Taleira leaps forward, interposing herself between the giant and the non-warriors in the room. A quick flurry should hopefully distract him.

Rapid Blitz. Power Attack -5/+10. Dervish Dance active.
Attack 1
Hit: [roll0] vs. AC, threat range 15-20.
Damage: [roll1] (adamantine, slashing, evil, chaotic) + [roll2] Vampiric
Critical: [roll3], [roll4] extra damage.
Attack 2
Hit: [roll5] vs. AC, threat range 15-20.
Damage: [roll6] (adamantine, slashing, evil, chaotic) + [roll7] Vampiric
Critical: [roll8], [roll9] extra damage.
Attack 3
Hit: [roll10] vs. AC, threat range 15-20.
Damage: [roll11] (adamantine, slashing, evil, chaotic) + [roll12] Vampiric
Critical: [roll13], [roll14] extra damage.

[MikelaC1]

Its not a great round for Taleira, as she only scores one hit on the giant, but at least she has gotten his attention away from Lok and Selena, which was her plan all along.

END ROUND ONE
Round two, Lok up.

[lostsole31]

Though a couple heads shorter than the fire giant, Lok taunts him, "Ohhh, my. That must be sooo infuriating for a creature of law to make such a logical progression of attacks .... and miss. Every time."

He tops off his images as he can, tries to trip the giant again, and then sounds out a pounding pulse of psychic energy that is felt in the room.
Active
Inertial Armor @ +8
Force Screen @ +6
Defensive Precognition @ +3

Free Actions, do not provoke AOOs
Mirror Images @ [roll0] images (max of 8)
TK to trip giant [roll1] ... the giant will probably make it each time, but it doesn't hurt to try.

Auto-Concentrate defensively (base mod is +25) to manifest psionic blast. He puts 2 extra PP into it to make sure he duration is 2 rounds and uses size to keep the cone-shaped burst from affecting friendlies.
* Psi-blast stuns creatures in cone for 1 round, but with his boosting in this case it would be 2 rounds.
* Will DC 23 negates.

[MikelaC1]

[roll0] will save

[MikelaC1]

The giant is stunned by the psionic force unleashed by Lok and is unable to attack for this round.

Selena up, Taleira on deck, post out of order if you wish.

[lostsole31]

Reminder: The power was amped so he would be stunned for 2 rounds, vice just one.

[MikelaC1]

With the way Tali attacks, I predict he will be stunned for only one round...:smalleek:

[lostsole31]

Let the ass-kicking begin! :smallamused:

[Telasi]

Taleira Ulharvyth

Taleira wastes no time pressing the advantage. An invocation of Wraithstrike provides a further boost, and then she tears into the giant.

Wraithstrike, then Full Attack. Power Attack -10/+20.
Attack 1
Hit: [roll0] vs. Touch AC, threat range 15-20.
Damage: [roll1] (adamantine, slashing, evil, chaotic) + [roll2] Vampiric
Critical: [roll3], [roll4] extra damage.
Attack 2
Hit: [roll5] vs. Touch AC, threat range 15-20.
Damage: [roll6] (adamantine, slashing, evil, chaotic) + [roll7] Vampiric
Critical: [roll8], [roll9] extra damage.
Attack 3
Hit: [roll10] vs. Touch AC, threat range 15-20.
Damage: [roll11] (adamantine, slashing, evil, chaotic) + [roll12] Vampiric
Critical: [roll13], [roll14] extra damage.
Attack 4
Hit: [roll15] vs. Touch AC, threat range 15-20.
Damage: [roll16] (adamantine, slashing, evil, chaotic) + [roll17] Vampiric
Critical: [roll18], [roll19] extra damage.

[MikelaC1]

Its not a pretty sight, as the already dubbed buzz-saw goes to work. When shes finished with her annihilation, the fire giant topples over, most certainly dead.
As the dust settles, the group sees a door out of the room in the northwest corner.

[lostsole31]

Lok will be at the back of the group. He can still attack something in front of Selena.

[Telasi]

Taleira Ulharvyth

Tali flicks blood from Dancer, then makes her way across to the door. "Shall we?"

[MikelaC1]

Nothing untoward happens as Taleira approaches the door, and she sees nothing special on it, it appears to be a normal oaken door, sized appropriately for a giant house, of course

[Telasi]

Taleira Ulharvyth

Given the lack of response from her companions, Taleira pulls open the door.

[MikelaC1]

The door opens easily and reveals a very short corridor that ends in a similar door to the open Taleira just opened.

[Telasi]

Taleira Ulharvyth

Tali steps into the corridor. Assuming nothing untoward happens on doing so, she'll go open the opposite door and see what's on the other side.

[MikelaC1]

Nothing bad happens to Taleira and she opens the door into the next room.
There are two tables in this room. On one table are figurines of humans, each one is labelled with a different name: Daniel, Darren, Greg and Patrick. On the other table are three sets of cards, the first set has numbers on each card, 19, 20, 21 and 22, the second set has the names of cities of Daystor, Erandol, Terkaton, Kroy and Rennador, and the final set has occupations listed, carpenter, wagon driver, waiter and sailor. The human figurines each have 3 slots carved in their base, large enough to hold of each type of card. The door leading out of the room has 4 slots in it, shaped in such a way that a human figurine could be placed in each one. Finally, on the table with the figurines is a scroll. On the scroll is written the following:

This record company recently held auditions across the world to find four singers to form a new band. The four guys chosen are now super-stars but can you work out each guy's previous day job, his age (19,20,21,22) and home town?

1. Greg is exactly two years younger or older than the guy from Erandol who
used to be a wagon driver.
2. Either Darren or the guy from Rennador (who may or may not be Patrick) used to be a sailor.
3. The guy from Terkaton is younger than Daniel but older than the one who
used to be a carpenter.
4. The 22 year old from Kroy isn't the one who used to be a waiter

[Telasi]

Taleira Ulharvyth

Tali blinks and does a double take. "Riiiight, wasn't expecting that." After reading through the scroll a few times, Tali starts shuffling around the cards and figurines into groups, though not yet setting them into their places on the table, thinking out loud as she does so for the benefit of the others.

Erandol, wagon driver
"It's not Greg, but it's somebody two years younger or older than him. That means it could be Darren, Daniel, or Patrick."

22, Kroy
"Whoever's from Kroy can't be the waiter."

Terkaton
"It's not Daniel or the carpenter. Whoever it is has to be 20 or 21 to be older than the carpenter and younger than Daniel. If it's not Daniel, then it could be Darren, Greg, or Patrick."

Rennador
"It's not Darren, so it could be Greg, Daniel, or Patrick."

Sailor
"It's either Darren or whoever's from Rennador. Anybody, really."

Carpenter
"Has to be 19 or 20. It's not Daniel, and he's not from Terkaton."

Greg
"He's not from Erandol and he isn't the wagon driver. He is two years older or younger than the wagon driver from Erandol, though."

Daniel
"He isn't the carpenter, and he isn't from Terkaton. To be older than both of them, he has to be either 21 or 22."

Darren
"He isn't from Rennador."

Patrick
"He might be from Rennador."

"Hmm... I guess that means:"
Daniel
Erandol
Wagon Driver
21

Darren
Kroy
Sailor
22

Patrick
Terkaton
Waiter
20

Greg
Rennador
Carpenter
19

[MikelaC1]

Taleira slides the cards and figurines around for a while, and then sets them together in the order described. Sliding the figures into the slots on the door, the door suddenly disappears and reveals....

We will be returning to the main IC thread, however I will have to calculate how long each party takes to complete their section before I start opening up the final scene.

[lostsole31]

Lok bounces his vulturine head up-and-down and side-to-side in his approving manner to Taleira.