Strange Aeons: Lovecraftian Affair [DMOOCH]

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Surprise Round ...

S17: Something bites Brother Jaume in the left knee for 13, but Brother Jaume manages to just wriggle away from getting grabbed.

Begin Round One ...

R1T17: Before Brother Jaume can cry out, he hears a snap of something about him, and then another. With the second snap he is struck in the head for 10 (+1d4 bleed). Brother Jaume's sixth sense is operating well, though, and at the sound of the third snap he puts out his quarterstaff, feels resistance, and hefts it towards the northern wall and there is the sound of impact and pain.

R1T15: Brother Jaume, you take 1 bleed. What do you do? There is something big, invisible, with a mouth or beak and sharp-ended tentacles. Your monastic senses actually helped you unwittingly counterattack. What do you do?

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Star Vampire: 17. (99:99). RS. DAZED til R2T17!!!
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer.
Flair: 11.
Winter: 7.

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R1T15: “*Grunt!* I need some healing! It’s invisible and right here!” Brother Jaume calls out. The portly friar steps to the South and unleashes a flurry of rapid strikes at the invisible beastie. His first fist, glowing with positive energy, hits nothing. The glow diffuses. The second hit likewise hits nothing, but the third, ki-infused hits something muscular and wet. It is a solid blow, and yet something about the landing tells Brother Jaume that it might not have hurt the creature as much as he hopes.

R1T14: Vilma, there is light on your morningstar, and your shield is readied. You saw Brother Jaume step south, and from the rapid succession of attempted attacks, he only moved 5' total. Vilma doesn't see anything, but guesses where the creature probably is. What do you do?

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Star Vampire: 17. (93:99). RS. DAZED til R2T17!!!
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer.
Flair: 11.
Winter: 7.

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R1T14: Casting a spell, Vilma calls on her goddess' help before stepping in.

R1T12: St. Dorn casts a quick spell on Flair, "For when you need a little extra focus," before he sets off into the room beyond, heedless of any danger from a large invisible opponent.

R1T11: Flair, St. Dorn cast guidance upon you. The creature is not yet visible, but based upon the movements of others, you can get a sense of its "boundaries." What do you do?

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Star Vampire: 17. (93:99). RS. DAZED til R2T17!!!
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls).
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12.
Winter: 7.

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R1T11: Flair quickly went over his options. An invisible enemy was going to tricky to fight, as his radiant missiles required line of sight to fire. Indirectly hitting it via area effects might be a good idea, but not one they could capitalize on if it's not undead. And while a lot of invisible things are undead, not all are. He needed more data to determine specifics on this thing.

And a surefire way to tell if something was undead? See how it reacted to positive energy. Add that to Jaume's cry of pain, Flair stepped forward and sent out a healing wave of energy, both to aid his friend and to test if it also healed their enemy. An average burst of energy blew forth, and Brother Jaume was just visible enough to get 6 healing. Unfortunately, since the enemy is invisible, Flair has no idea if his burst affected the whatsit or not.

R1T7: Winter casts sanctuary on herself, asking the Lady of Graves for her protection. This means that whatever Winter does, it is likely to be passive aid for the party and not offense, which tracks with what she said of herself.

End Round One, Begin Round 2 ...

R2T17: When Brother Jaume countered and the big thing apparently bonked against the wall, the teetering-laughing noise had stopped. In fact, there wasn't much sense of movement. Now, however, it begins again. In the middle of battle, there is that awful, vaguely mocking laughter-like sound. There is a snapping sound and a slash appears on St. Dorn's right lower leg for 4 mod (+1d4 bleed). Another snapping-slashing across Dorn's chest for 4 mod. A third snapping sound, but Brother Jaume has been listening for it and senses he ducks just in time. Vilma, however, senses a large beak-mouth try to bite her, and she pushes back; she even thinks she almost had a chance to push the thing back a few feet but its mass resisted her.

R2T15: Brother Jaume, you are no longer bleeding. As before, the creature is still invisible, but you are pretty sure of where it is. What do you do?

Vilma on deck, St. Dorn on deck ...

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Star Vampire: 17. (99:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls).
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. BLEED 1d4!!!
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7.

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R2T15: Brother Jaume moves to the South ten feet hoping to avoid any attacks of opportunity. Unfortunately, hope is Vilma's gig as there is a horrific snapping sound.

Brother Jaume, roll a Ref save (you are not yet enlarged, so no DEX penalty)!

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Star Vampire: 17. (99:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls).
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. BLEED 1d4!!!
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7.

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R2T15: Instead of losing fingers, Brother Jaume "only" has his left arm holding his staff mauled by a horrific toothed beak for 29 + grabbed, causing the friar to call out in extraordinary pain as he is held in the clutches of the monster. Unable to freely expand he slashes at whatever is holding him, his dagger bouncing off of a slick, rubbery hide.

R2T14: Vilma, you are filled with Milani's demand for justice. What do you do?

St. Dorn on deck, Flair in the hole ...

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Star Vampire: 17. (99:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS. GRAPPLING Brother Jaume!
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well. GRAPPLED by Star Vampire.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls).
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. BLEED 1d4!!!
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7.

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R2T14: Seeing her ally grabbed, Vilma sweeps around with her morningstar, attempting to bash the creature, but doesn't hit anything.

R2T12: Dorn suffers 4 bleed. He steps back and away a little bit, and puts his faith in the likelihood that if Brother Jaume is being held, he is taking all of the monster's focus. He performs first aid on himself to stop the bleeding.

R2T11: Flair, you still have guidance. What do you do?

Winter on deck, Critter in the hole ...

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Star Vampire: 17. (99:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS. GRAPPLING Brother Jaume!
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well. GRAPPLED by Star Vampire.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls).
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7.

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R2T11: Flair makes an educated guess and rushes into the room, realizing that he can't fully clear the invisible monster because of his desire to jump defensively in the places he thinks it might be. Once he safely gets past the invisible thing, he touches Jaume on the back. For an instant, Flair seems to shrink and Jaume disappears, but in the blink of an eye, Flair returns to his normal size and Jaume reappears 10' away from where he was, teleported out of its grasp, but at a new attack vector.

R2T7: Winter comes strolling right through. When she sees that she isn't attacked, she brazenly casts a spell and touches Brother Jaume for 14 healing. "Either my sanctuary spell protected me, or when it attacked Brother Jaume when he tried to move it was too focused to attack others that open themselves up."

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In other words, no Combat Reflexes from big ugly.

End Round 2, Begin Round 3 ...

R3T17: The ti-ttering sounds seem to go right over Vilma's head and behind her into the narrow passageway behind her! If this thing is a normal large creature, that is hard to conceptualize since the ceiling is only 10' high, and Vilma never felt it brush by her. Vilma gets attacked, by something big trying to bite her, and it just barely is unable to get through her armor!

R3T15: Brother Jaume, quarterstaff in one hand ... dagger in another. Still seriously wounded even after Winter's healing. Unable to get to the monster that is now in the hallway with Vilma blocking the door. What do you do?

Vilma on deck, St. Dorn in the hole ...

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Star Vampire: 17. (99:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls).
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R12T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7.

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R3T15: Brother Jaume, who is feeling a bit like an over-used dire wolf chew toy, sighs with relief. “Whuff! Thanks Flair and Winter. That beastie packs a punch!”
Blood drips from several deep puncture wounds in his robe, pattering to the wooden floor. He grasps his holy symbol and prays to Erastil for aid, giving himself 17 healing.

R3T14: Vilma, this thing chose to go into the passageway and surely must be squashed into it uncomfortably. Usually, squeezing means diminished defenses and attacks. Do you hold the breech and just do what you can yourself, taking all of the hate unto you? or, do you start to try to lead it back into the larger room? What do you do?

St. Dorn on deck, Flair in the hole ...

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Star Vampire: 17. (99:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls).
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R12T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7.

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R3T14: Raising her shield, Vilma holds the breech, striking at where she thinks it is, but not hitting anything. "Come closer, I can hold it !"

R3T12: While he has a spare moment, St. Dorn casts a spell on himself and then moves up behind Vilma. "I'll give you some more protection here in a second," he says to her.

R3T11: Flair, you have guidance ready to go. What do you do?

Winter on deck, Critter in the hole ...

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Star Vampire: 17. (99:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls).
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R12T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7.

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R3T11: Flair moved to Vilma's side and touched her on the shoulder, concern in his currently opaque eyes. "This should help!" he says as a symbol seems to spread cross his hands and forehead, though it vanished soon thereafter, and Vilma feels an infusion of fortification (4 THP).

R3T7: Winter moves in to the last adjacent spot behind Vilma. "Here, to give you a little insight to conquer this fiend," she says, and casts a spell, touching Vilma's shoulder and filling Vilma with some fleeting sense of the future.

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You have guidance cast on you.

End Round 3, Begin Round 4 ...

R4T17: There is a snapping sound, and Vilma feels impact at her leg. But it isn't a normal direct impact so much as something attempting to pull her down. It happens again, and this time she has something briefly hook around her shin and pull towards "it" until Vilma falls. Something slashes her chest for 7 (+1d4 bleed), blasting right through the protection Flair had provided, but at least it was there for this strike. And there on the ground, something bites Vilma in her left shoulder for 7, but her prone position means she actually has better leverage than expected to use her full body weight to pull down and not be grabbed.

R4T15: Brother Jaume, what do you do?

Vilma on deck, St. Dorn in the hole ...

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Star Vampire: 17. (99:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Guidance til R14T12. BLEED 1d4!!!
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R7T11. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7.

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R4T15: “Flair, can you do your teleport trick to get me behind this thing on the stairs?” BJ asks before moving to the corner of the room and channeling healing power (9 healing to self, St. Dorn fully healed, 6 healing to Vilma).

R4T14: Vilma, you are currently prone, and with the friar's help you are no longer bleeding and your wound is very light. You have guidance at your disposal. What do you do?

St. Dorn on deck, Flair in the hole ...

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Star Vampire: 17. (99:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Guidance til R14T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R7T11. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7.

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R4T14: Vilma goes to stand up, but is bit in the right shoulder in the attempt, taking 12, but she is so defense-focused with friends around her that she rolls up out of a potential grasp like a resolute and angry pillbug. This time, when she attacks, her blow finally lands solidly against something rubbery-hard, yet giving. When she looks at her morningstar after the strike, there is some type of transparent fluid on her weapon's spikes.

R4T12: St. Dorn calls on Torag to protect his servant's ally, and he touches Vilma's back. There is a faint glow of a downward hammer that surrounds Vilma.

R4T11: Flair, what do you do? You have a guidance still extant on you.

Winter on deck, Invisi-critter in the hole ...

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Star Vampire: 17. (91:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Guidance til R14T12. DS.
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R7T11. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7.

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R4T11: Flair shouts back to Brother Jaume, "It takes a bit to recharge, sorry!" He swings his fist around the corner, but missing. Intellectually, he knew this was a bad idea; he wasn't exactly amazing in melee, but he'd had lost enough allies to just stand around and wait for them to drop it.

R4T7: Winter looks back to Brother Jaume, knowing he'll do more in close quarters than she will. She nods from his direction to the floor at her spot, and then she steps back. She starts speaking, but instead of telling a story, she starts to act out a monlogue of a famous Ustalavan high drama. She speaks with such intensity and verve, it has a surprising, buoying effect on the members of the party.

End Round 4, Begin Round 5 ...

R5T17: Once again, the tittering sounds shift .... from the west of Vilma, echoing in the corridor .... to overhead of Vilma and Flair and St. Dorn, and into the room. The table in the middle of the room, shudders, indicating that it brushed against or is next to it, and the sounds of the tittering continue south until the creepy, quasi-laughing sounds aren't adjacent to the party anymore, but definitely sounds like it is coming slightly above Brother Jaume. That is when he gets bitten in the head for 11, but doesn't grab him. Again, because of the weird, noisy nature of whatever you are fighting, you all have a good sense of where it is, despite its invisibility.

R5T15: Brother Jaume, quarterstaff in off-hand and silver dagger in right. You know where this thing is (and you know it is 5' off the ground, with a height advantage against you, but as before ... it is invisible. What do you do?

Vilma on deck, St. Dorn in the hole ...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (91:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Guidance til R14T12. DS.
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R7T11. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7. INSPIRE COURAGE!

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R5T15: BJ fights back against the invisible assault. His first two attacks completely miss, and his ki attack doesn't strike solidly enough against some type of rubbery, slick surface. “Get to the stairs and close the door. I will try to follow!” he calls out as he inches west along the wall.

R5T14: Vilma, you are currently in Defensive Stance, with a guidance at your call. What do you do?

St. Dorn on deck, Flair in the hole ...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (91:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Guidance til R14T12. DS.
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R7T11. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7. INSPIRE COURAGE!

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R5T14: Vilma waits at the door, letting her allies pass but ready to strike at a sign of the creature approaching. "Then come, I'll hold it here! Or dispel its invisibility?"

R5T12: "As a paladin of Iomedae, I cannot allow others to stand in my stead," says St. Dorn. "Yes, Vilma, hold the breech here; but I will go aid Brother Jaume. I cannot allow others to die while I live again."

St. Dorn bolts forward, trying to avoid the thing but going underneath it, but the older man isn't so acrobatic. His lower left arm gets bitten for 9 mod, and then he is grabbed. It seems a bad place to be, but he calls out, "My guilt is my guidance to redemption!" and there is a slight glow around him as he swings his hammer in the grapple, but he does not land a blow, and the faint glow disappears.

R5T11: Flair, what do you do? You still have that guidance waiting for use.

Winter on deck, Monster in the hole ...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (91:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS. GRAPPLING St. Dorn!!!
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Guidance til R14T12. READIED to attack (RS), which will miss, when it gets to her!!!
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. GRAPPLED!
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R7T11. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7. INSPIRE COURAGE!

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R5T11: Having little to help, Flair listens to Villma and withdraws all the way downstairs to the exterior door of the dining room, crossbow trained on the stairs.

R5T7: Winter maintains her dramatic monologue, taking a quick, defensive break to cast a spell on Dorn to fully heal him. She then steps back by the window.

End Round 5, Begin Round 6 ...

R6T17: The creature holding St. Dorn continues to hold him and can't seem to hurt him, despite biting him.

R6T15: Brother Jaume, what do you do?

Vilma on deck, St. Dorn in the hole...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (91:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS. GRAPPLING St. Dorn!!!
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Guidance til R14T12. READIED to attack (RS), which will miss, when it gets to her!!!
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. GRAPPLED!
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R7T11. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7. INSPIRE COURAGE!

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R6T15: Brother Jaume surveys the room for anything helpful to identify this foe; specifically to determine if this is a haunt or a creature he can analyze, but he does not have enough information. He moves 5 ft to the East before unleashing another flurry of kicks and strikes. His first strike misses, but he makes an upward knee strike with a jump that connects! He knows he contacted hard as he lands, but it does feel its weird rubbery nature resist some or all of his power, but he's not sure by how much. The laughing does change, though, and heartened by this, Brother Jaume does an upward cartwheel kick but doesn't connect.

R6T14: Vilma, what do you do? Only Flair went past you, and he continued out of sight. You heard him trundle completely down the stairs, you're sure. Also, you have an unspent guidance still.

St. Dorn on deck, Flair in the hole ...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (85:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. RS. GRAPPLING St. Dorn!!!
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Guidance til R14T12. READIED to attack (RS), which will miss, when it gets to her!!!
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. GRAPPLED!
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R7T11. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7. INSPIRE COURAGE!

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R6T14: "Flair! They aren't going to fall back! We fight!" Vilma calls down. She then steps into melee, and attempts to hit the creature, calling on a split-second insight she receives. Amazingly, her Hail, Milani! pass is successful as she feels her morningstar solidly strike and likely pierce the creature.

R6T12: St. Dorn concentrates and casts a spell in the grapple, but nothing appears to change visually or in the status of either combatant.

R6T11: Flair, you are downstairs, covering the stairs with the crossbow, and now you are being called back upstairs.

Winter on deck, Critter in the hole ...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (74:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. GRAPPLING St. Dorn!!!
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger in hand as well.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls).
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. GRAPPLED! Saved vs. his sanctuary.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R7T11. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7. INSPIRE COURAGE!

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R6T11: Flair's eyes darted across the room. He had only now realized the huge gap in his repertoire invisible enemies represented. He looked for a bag of flour or other container of particulates to try and negate its invisibility. He simply thinks through his memory palace of when he went through the cupboarded dining room previously, cataloguing far more dishware and tableware than anything like a larder, and definitely no from-scratch baking needs like flour. Convinced there is nothing in the dining room to help, he colorfully swears in Infernal (that which will not be reprinted here, for want of corruption checks from the listener), and begins to head up the stairs again, annoyed that it takes longer to go against gravity than it did coming down the stairs.

R6T7: Winter is still there, still giving her dramatic monlogue. Vilma recognized the effect of the guidance, but realizes that the dark-haired changeling's verve might have something to do with her success on that last strike as well. Winter casts a spell and steps up and touches Vilma, who now feels protected somewhat against the forces of darkness and malice.

End Round 6, Begin Round 7 ...

R7T17: St. Dorn, who isn't tasty at all, is released. The teetering laughter sounds move slightly .... still above folks' head, but slightly northeast against the eastern wall. There is a slash against Winter's left foot for 8 (+1d4 bleed). Then there is a slash against Brother Jaume's right hand for 5 (+1d4 bleed). St. Dorn gets struck by something, but not wounded. Finally, Brother Jaume's defensively spinning quarterstaff protects him from a bite.

R7T15: Brother Jaume, you take 1 bleed. What do you do?

Vilma on deck, St. Dorn in the hole ...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (74:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. GRAPPLING St. Dorn!!!
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger on floor. BLEED 1d4!!!
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Protection from evil til R36T7.
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. GRAPPLED! Saved vs. his sanctuary.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use genie jaunt til R7T11. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7. INSPIRE COURAGE! BLEED 1d4!!!

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R7T15: BJ flinches away from the stinging attack and tries something different. “Going to try to harm it with positive energy.”

The moneric clasps his holy symbol and a very weak burst of positive energy filters throughout the room. Brother Jaume has no idea what the effects might have been - if he harmed the thing at all.

R7T14: Vilma, what do you do?

St. Dorn on deck, Flair in the hole ...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (74:99). Saved vs. Winter's sanctuary. GRAPPLING St. Dorn!!!
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger on floor. BLEED 1d4!!!
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Protection from evil til R36T7.
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. GRAPPLED! Saved vs. his sanctuary.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7. INSPIRE COURAGE! BLEED 1d4!!!

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R7T14: Hoping to put an end to this fight, Vilma steps into melee so she can swing her glorified club. She brushes past St. Dorn, and in so doing opens up a bite from it. She swings her weapon, but misses. Annoyed, she calls out, "Let's get this over with!"

R7T12: St. Dorn puts a hand on Vilma to give her 2 healing before stepping all the way back against a door on the west wall.

R7T11: Flair continues running back to the action, hoping that his failed plan to circumvent the invisibility hasn't doomed any more of his teammates, and steps back into the room.

R7T7: Where Winter had been struck, she had been steady in the performance of her dramatic monologue. There is a brilliiant white glow from the gash on her foot; as the wound closes, that brilliant white consumes her and then flashes throughout the rest of the room to provide 7 healing to Brother Jaume and Vilma (stopping the former's bleeding). Winter no longer seems to be wounded. She DOES however, seem to be confused by this turn of events, and moves to the far side of the room. To her credit, she maintains her performance.

End Round 7, Begin Round 8 ...

R8T17: While "above" everyone's head, or at least in a relatively high position, the malicious laughing sound seems to move a little bit so as to be somewhat over the table in the room. Brother Jaume's belly gets struck for 11 (+1d4 bleed); Flair's upper right arm gets slashed for 9 mod (+1d4 bleed) and his lower arm for 7 mod; Brother Jaume manages to instinctively block a fourth slash. Then, the bite comes, striking Vilma in the side of her abdomen for 14. This time, it maintains a hold on her!

R8T15: Brother Jaume, you suffer 4 bleed. What do you do? You can tell from Vilma's bodily position, that she is held by whatever the monster is.

Vilma on deck, St. Dorn in the hole ...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (81:99). Saved vs. Winter's & Dorn's sanctuary. RS.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger on floor. BLEED 1d4!!!
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Protection from evil til R36T7.
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11. BLEED 1d4!!!
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7. INSPIRE COURAGE!

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R8T15: The bleeding monk staggers to the west and clasps his holy symbol to pray for aid once more, providing up to 4 healing in a burst for those that need it, and stopping all bleeding. “Now what?”

R8T14: Vilma, you are currently being held in some unseen, monstrous beak, though you do have a host of protective/offensive spells on you. What do you do?

St. Dorn on deck, Flair in the hole ...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (85:99). Saved vs. Winter's & Dorn's sanctuary. RS. GRAPPLING Vilma.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger on floor.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Protection from evil til R36T7. GRAPPLED!!!
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12. Can't use Urbo's major ability til R8T11.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7. INSPIRE COURAGE!

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R8T14: Since the creature now holds her, somewhat revealing its presence, Vilma swings wildly in its embrace. "Come here! It's there!"

R8T12: St. Dorn doesn't do anything special, but looks towards the west, trying to get some perspective. "I sense the evil, but I don't have it pinpointed yet."

R8T11: Flair, you still have guidance. Also, Urbo's major ability has reset. What do you do?

Winter on deck, Critter in the hole ...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (85:99). Saved vs. Winter's & Dorn's sanctuary. RS. GRAPPLING Vilma.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger on floor.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Protection from evil til R36T7. GRAPPLED!!!
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. Concentrating on detect evil; completed 1 round.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7. INSPIRE COURAGE!

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R8T11: Flair moves up to strike this thing, shouting in frustration at his otherwise uselessness thus far, and the frustration continues as he whiffs his kick (because he has a feeling he doesn't wanna touch it with his hand!).

R8T7: Winter continues her dramatic monologue. She then goes to the north end of the room, prays for guidance for the grappled warrior, and touches Vilma again.

End Round 8, Begin Round 9 ...

R9T17: The creature maintains a hold on Vilma at her abdomen where it bit her, and starts to chew and drain her blood and vital fluids for 9 + 1 Con. This blood drain effect is both good-not-good and bad. The bad is obvious, as color starts to drain out of Vilma's face. The good-not-good is that as blood goes into the creature, it begins to show up and is no longer invisible, as Vilma's blood reacts with it to give it a bloody red color. That would have been good, were it not for the fact that now the party can actually see this eldritch horror!

Everyone, roll a SAN check! Flair and Vilma, you both have a guidance effect you can use.
Flair, you need to roll a second Will save for a different reason ...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (85:99). Saved vs. Winter's & Dorn's sanctuary. RS. GRAPPLING Vilma.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger on floor.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Protection from evil til R36T7. GRAPPLED!!! Guidance til R18T7.
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. Concentrating on detect evil; completed 1 round.
Flair: 11. Guidance til R11T12.
Winter: 7. Sanctuary til R4T7. INSPIRE COURAGE!

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R9T17 (Cont'd): Vilma's mind is not protected against horror, but is protected from the horrors of evil, and the insight helps. Still, something like this thing cannot leave a mind truly unaffected (3 SAN). For their parts, St. Dorn and Vilma also are able to resist the primary part of the horror of this creature (3 SAN each).

Brother Jaume likewise is strong of mind, recoiling from the horror, but only partially affected by it (3 SAN). Unfortunately, the weight of so much mental horror - even if not individually overwhelming, has had its toll on the friar, and he suffers a massive cognitive overload.

Flair sees the red moving through the body, and as it is a slow reveal, is able to prepare his mind for the assault. It's horrible nature still is tough to handle, though (3 SAN), and just this stress is enough to send the already fragile schizophrenic into a complete mental freakout (confused).

R9T15: Brother Jaume, what do you do?

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (85:99). GRAPPLING Vilma.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger on floor.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Protection from evil til R36T7. GRAPPLED!!!
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. Concentrating on detect evil; completed 1 round.
Flair: 11. CONFUSED til R11T17!!!
Winter: 7. INSPIRE COURAGE!

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R9T15: BJ groans and staggers to the East. He appears to shake his head before his form twists and grows larger. His staff plows into the creature in a series of powerful strikes. The first connects for 15 mod, and the second connects for 14 mod. Brother Jaume notes that despite a perfect execution of his first strike, it doesn't seem to be as effective as he had hoped.

R9T14: Vilma, you are currently being grappled by the now-visible whatsit. What do you do?

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls.
Star Vampire: 17. (56:99). GRAPPLING Vilma.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger on floor.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Justice judgment (+1 attack rolls). Protection from evil til R36T7. GRAPPLED!!!
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. Concentrating on detect evil; completed 1 round.
Flair: 11. CONFUSED til R11T17!!!
Winter: 7. INSPIRE COURAGE!

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R9T14: Still standing, Vilma strikes again. With her opponent visible, she easily lands a blow that does 10 mod. "I won't hold it for long!"

R9T12: St. Dorn's brow relaxes, as he no longer needs to concentrate, for evil has revealed itself. He gestures a salute to the monstrosity holding the Milanite. "I don't know what you are, but I know you are Evil's tentacled hand-puppet, and with Torag's strength lent to me, I shall lay you low!"

St. Dorn charges forth, a faint sheen around himself and his warhammer and smites it for 17.

R9T11: Flair gets the sense that Vilma is not grappled by a larger creature, but that a larger creature has merely "docked" with its controller-human! Only he can see the truth, and his visual HUD has her fully computed, whereas it is only now compiling data on the larger monster. He points his crossbow at her and fires, but the bolt is deflected by her armor. Flair reloads.

R9T7: Winter blinks at Flair having just shot at Vilma, but she maintains her monologue (which still affects Flair). Realizing that the heroes need just a little more help, she prays to Pharasma to give aid in battle to all .... except Flair. She then steps to the side, but is still adjacent to Flair.

End Round 9, Begin Round 10 ...

R10T17: This time, the monstrosity only bites down harder on Vilma, maintaining the hold and doing 13 + 2 CON.

R10T15: Brother Jaume, do you maintain your size? What do you do?

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls. +1 morale attack rolls .... EXCEPT Flair.
Star Vampire: 17. (29:99). GRAPPLING Vilma. RS.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger on floor.
Vilma: 14. Healing judgment (FH2). Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Protection from evil til R36T7. GRAPPLED!!!
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. SMITE EVIL vs. critter (+5 attk, +3 dmg, +5 deflection bonus to AC). RS. Charged!
Flair: 11. CONFUSED til R11T17!!! Crossbow in hands, loaded.
Winter: 7. INSPIRE COURAGE!
* Bless til R39T7.

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R10T15: The enlarged and battered monk looks like he is trying to say something to Vilma but no sound is heard. Concerned, he presses the attack on the monster. His first attack with the staff lands for 12 mod, while the second strikes even harder with the friar's desperation to save Vilma for 18 mod, enough for the thing and Vilma to fall to the ground.

R10T14: Vilma, you are prone and "held" by the unmoving monster. What do you do?

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls. +1 morale attack rolls .... EXCEPT Flair.
Star Vampire: 17. (-1:99). DYING!!!
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger on floor.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Protection from evil til R36T7. GRAPPLED!!!
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. SMITE EVIL vs. critter (+5 attk, +3 dmg, +5 deflection bonus to AC). RS. Charged!
Flair: 11. CONFUSED til R11T17!!! Crossbow in hands, loaded.
Winter: 7. INSPIRE COURAGE!
* Bless til R39T7.

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R10T14: Vilma's body begins to knit its wounds (FH2). Vilma begins to stand, but Flair - who is still currently focused on her as an enemy - gives a weak front kick against her armor as she takes to her feet, steps aside, and heals herself with a spell for 11. She looks at him and shouts, "Flair! Get over it!"

R10T12: St. Dorn stands over the creature, and notes that power still surges through him, which is all he needs to understand. He strikes at the monster with all his might. The faint glow surrounding him and his weapon is gone and he says confidently, "It is dead," as he steps away from Flair.

R10T11: Flair, you are still confused. Assuming that you are successful, what do you do? You have an unloaded crossbow in hand.

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Roll percentile and state your hopeful action as an if/then statement. DO NOT roll percentile in Discord and then try to play out an unfavorable result.

Winter on deck, Brother Jaume in the hole ...

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HEROES: +1 morale vs. charm/ fear; +1 competence attack/ weapon damage rolls. +1 morale attack rolls .... EXCEPT Flair.
Brother Jaume: 15. Light on quarterstaff, but silver dagger on floor.
Vilma: 14. Light on morningstar. Divine favor til R11T14. Protection from evil til R36T7. GRAPPLED!!!
* Shield of faith (+2) til R34T12.
St. Dorn: 12. Light on warhammer. Expeditious retreat til R43T12. SMITE EVIL vs. critter (+5 attk, +3 dmg, +5 deflection bonus to AC). RS. Charged!
Flair: 11. CONFUSED til R11T17!!! Crossbow in hands, loaded.
Winter: 7. INSPIRE COURAGE!
* Bless til R39T7.