Secret of mana IC thread

[Alhallor]

Spoiler: OOC

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I'm just gonna assume that the ride is with all of you. If there is a back and forth trip. That's gonna happen with no issue.

When everyone is seated on Coney she gallops forth, her wings pressed on her body and takes a jump over the pit.

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Her wings flap uncontrolled and there seems no way to make them do everything correct… But then a part of her gryphon brain seemingly activates and she begins to glide. Then she pumps her wings which feels like a bucking horse for everyone who is on her. But you're all able to hold on to some part that seemingly isn't necesarry for flying. It's a bit of a harrowing ride but at last you're over the pit. You're estimate that it's longer than 300 feet (but not by much) and when you land it seems that the temple complex just continues. You see the familiar bricks on the ground and on the wall but they seem to have lost color. Larimar's warm silver light reveals a door that's unhinged (and open) it had a mural of sorts once but it seems to have been scratched out thoroughly.

Spoiler: Coney

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When Coney takes a look into the room, she sees a big Hydra Skeleton (9 heads) sitting before a grand altar. It even has some steps that lead to something… Black with yellow dots, it can't be Darkness because Naberus would let her see through that.

Don't be shy! Come in!

Says a voice when everyone is before the door, coming out of that room.

[WindStruck]

Larimar looks at the others a bit awkwardly before drawing out his bow and taking the first tentative steps in to the doorway, looking for danger or who just invited them in.

[Alhallor]

When Larimar struts forth his light shines on a mass of heads and attached bones. It's almost seems like they are all somehow connected. The room has 6 fire bowls (3 on each side) who are unlit. There is a kind of shrine which stairs leading up to it and on the top there seems to be… A black congealing mass with yellow dots (eyes?) sprinkled all over it.

Spoiler: MAP

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Inside the water temple. As Always you're positions are merely suggestions. You should all be able to edit the map, but I can always do that too. The pit is of course longer than mapped here.

Ah, guests! What gives me the honor? I fear I have nothing to make you more comfortable but I guess that's not why you're here?

It's hard to pin down where the voice actually comes from. It could be from the black mass, or the bones. Or even from behind one of the bowls.

Spoiler: OOC

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Thaum's buffs from before are still active.

[Ridai]

On the griffon they go and then go down at alarming speeds. Picking up speed, you see. Nothing to worry about. All as planned. Thaum certainly will not say anything to the contrary, regardless of his insight into temporarily griffony rabites' minds.

Getting off of Coney and stepping closer to the rest of the temple, Thaum looks... unwell. An after-effect of the ride, perhaps, but no, it seems more than that. Like he is uncomfortable in his skin, which looks paler than usual (the same going for the color of his hair, the light in his eyes having dimmed as well).

They are called inside so... in they go? Thaum looks to the mass, and the bones.

"Hello. We have heard of people outside having dreams of being chewed on in darkness. And there is a rather disconcerting pit on the way here. And for a temple of water, it feels like Undine's mana is being pushed away with all might. Would you happen to know about any of this?" He does his best to maintain proper form.

[Aegis013]

Jahn hops off of Coney's griffon-back, clapping his hands excitedly "That was fun. Let's do that again sometime."

He curiously moves forward and seeing the strange entity, Jahn racks his brain to determine if he has any idea what this could be.

Spoiler: Bardic Knowledge

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(1d20+6)[12]

[WindStruck]

Larimar had thought he'd seen everything by now. Well he sure as hell was wrong as he was looking face to face to face to face etc with the writhing mass of seletons and bones and looking at a black blob with yellow eyes.

A part of him just wanted to say, 'who in the **** are you?' but he managed to refrain from that and let Thaum do the talking before they inevitably all died horribly. Larimar may not be the sharpest arrow in the quiver, but this really looked like Evil with a capital E.

[kinem]

Ken too keeps quiet for the moment, understanding little of what he sees and trying not to assume too much. Thaum knows about this spirit stuff, I hope ...

[Toliudar]

Coney is elated that her first flight - with four passengers, no less - has gone remarkably well, and she looks forward to the next opportunity to do something like this again. She nods at Jahn's kind words. But for now, she regretfully changes back into her usual rabite form, and tucks the wand away for safekeeping, then gathers up the cords and returns them to Thaum.

Inside, she is deeply unsettled by the presence of such a large predator - even in skeleton form. Hundreds of generations of herbivore screamed at her to get away from anything with that many mouths. She steps through the doorway, but then quickly hops off to the left, hugging the back wall in order to keep a safe distance from those nine snapping heads.

"Indeed. It would be a great honour to meet anyone with the vision and power to work their will on such a scale. I mean, to create such an awe-inspiring space as your, well, your front porch, so to speak. And then the grandeur of this structure! The majesty of such a guardian! And the alluring mystery of a hidden speaker. It's very alluring. Bravo!"

Spoiler: OOC

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Ideally, Coney is aiming for the vicinity of C15 on your map.

Diplomacy: (1d20+23)[26]

[Alhallor]

Thaum's words seem to produce a heavy, almost graspable silence. Then the voice speaks again. When it does it seems that the sceletal heads seem to shift and weave a tiny bit. Some stonedust trickles down from the ceiling.

Oh, you're here about that.

The mass at the top of the altar seems to shift and more yellow dots appear and disappear rapidly. The voice seems almost bubbly when it speaks again.

It seems in that case I have too...

But Coney's words seem to cool the entity of somewhat… But it seems it's now on edge, a strange strain on the voice that all of you can hear. The sceletons stopped moving but the black mass seems to be agitated.

It seems… You do know some manners. Thank you. Though it wasn't my power alone that shaped my front door and my guardians. Though it had been so long… So long. Shall I share my vision with you, as I did 30 days ago? He shared my plans, perhaps you do too?

Spoiler: Coney

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You do make it to your designated spot though you come pretty close to some of these teeth.

Spoiler: Jahn

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The sceletal remains seem to have been a multiheaded Hydra (with 9 heads). The... Thing on the altar is nothing you have ever seen or heard about. It kinda reminds you of a Shapechanger but it's too big, too bubbly and has too many spots that could be eyes to be one. Though your ears hear some soft movement… Behind you. From the Pit.

Spoiler: Updated map

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Updated Seemed fitting.

[Ridai]

"Please feel free to share your plans so we know whether ours align them," Thaum responds with an even voice.

[Toliudar]

Coney 'wanders' in, mostly trying to put some distance between herself and the others, in case the hydra activates. She tries to get a sense of how recent the erasure of the work on the walls is - whether the edges still look fresh, or if they too have faded.

"Yes, please, sir! We'd love to hear more."

[Alhallor]

The black mass bubbles again and it seems like one of the yellow-eye-like things swells and with a sickening "pop" it sprays more yellow dots on the whirling black mass. In that moment your minds are flooded with pictures and... Instructions?

You see a figure like Thaum. A fair blue-haired maiden praying at exactly this shrine, the bricks are in a vibrant but pleasant blue and the fire-cups are burning with a calming blue fire. She disappears and strange figures emerge, that you can't discern... But leave the seed of the Thing before you... But they got defeated. After that the shrine loses it's color and the black thing emerges from the shrine devouring all the energy's that can be found here. Growing in power and might. Retrieving the sceleton of a mighty beast that was once slayed here.

And after devouring the rests of power that was on this shrine, it wants to eat even more. You're suddenly flooded with the knowledge how to refine shadebloom. And giving it to the thing that it can get away from here and eat from even more shrines. Though you don't feel any pull to do that.

It's hard to sort through to the memories and discern which is yours and which belongs to the thing.

You... You too... Don't want to feed me! I just eat you!

The big sceletal hydra seems to collect it's heads and actually stand up! And one of it's heads snap at Ken!

Spoiler: attack at Ken

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Attack: (1d20+15)[32]
Damage: (1d10+6)[10]

From the hydra springs forth a wall of flames who shimmer blue-black and connect the two fire-cups. The wall also continues to connect more of the fire-cups.

Spoiler: Wall

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The wall brings his fire outside. For everyone within 20 feet it does (1d4)[1] half cold, half negative energy damage (that is true for every further damage). For everyone within 10 feet it does [ROLL](2d4)[5] If you want to get through the wall it does [ROLL]2d6+11[ROLL] damage.

You hear movement behind you, from the pit. The flickering of flames and the rushing of water. Though nothing seems to emerge from it right know.

Spoiler: OOC

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Sadly Jahn is stunned for one round. Should the stun be removed somehow he can still act. And yes should you want to refine Shadebloom yourself you just need to get an alchemy set, 200 gold of miscallenous materials and can then press it into a shadowcoin that does 5d4 negative energy damage. You're pretty sure you could do even more with it but you would need to research further. The battle begins now and it's your turn.

Spoiler: MAP

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Battle in the water temple.

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* post roll count doesn't match database

[Ridai]

The plan is revealed, this creature wanting to feed on mana and the man they were looking for presumably wanting to spread what is happening here. Why do ever more villains crop up at the same time? Is there a secret evil championship going on? Are they getting close to the deadline and they have been slacking for 20 years because "oh I have so much time left" while eating Shade-O's and drinking Thanabrews, and are now in dire need of some evil deeds to submit, and pronto, so they can enter the championship? And now the skeleton starts attacking as well!

Thaum more or less expected the latter, but starting to weave reinforcing spells tends to make future opponents aggressive sooner (as it is about as subtle as drawing swords during peace talks). Having to weigh Jahn looking like he can't move, Ken being attacked, Coney being far away from the group, movement from the pit behind them, and braziers now radiating foul draining cold, Thaum has a laundry list of things to get to. The braziers and the cold fire are perhaps the biggest ongoing issue for the entire group, and while he can't do much about the foul part of it, the cold can very much be dealt with. Spreading his arms, a brief mist sprinkles onto the party, imbuing them with comfortable warmth against the cold (with Coney sadly being too far away to benefit).

As the already disappearing mist infuses the party, Thaum quickly sends a weakly glowing droplet to Ken as a massive jaw snaps at him, immediately washing away all wounds and leaving him bolstered against further injury.

Spoiler: Actions

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I am not seeing what braziers are lit and where the wall is, so that makes taking Thaum's action very much guesswork. I also have no idea what "The wall brings his fire outside." is supposed to mean.

Assuming it is the two braziers closest to the entrance, because that would be the most effective thing to do.

Can't cure Jahn from the stun, too many buffs that need to be applied to the group. Watching Coney move away from the group before the start of the fight had me going "oh no".


Standard mass resist energy (cold) on everyone but Coney, because Coney is way too far away and no target must be further apart than 30ft. Everyone affected gets resist cold 20.

Swift close wounds on Ken, healing him for 27 HP, healing him to full and overhealing him for 17 THP.

Spoiler: Current party status

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Name	HP (THP)	Status and buffs
Coney	50 / 50	greater resistance (+4 resistance to saves)
Jahn	73 / 73	shield of faith (+4 deflection to AC), barkskin (+5 enh to natural armor AC), mass resist energy (resist cold 20), stunned
Larimar	48 / 48	greater resistance (+4 resistance to saves), shield of faith (+4 deflection to AC), barkskin (+5 enh to natural armor AC), mass resist energy (resist cold 20),
Ken	57 / 57 (17)	mass resist energy (resist cold 20)
Thaum	56 / 56	Aura of protection (Will DC 19), greater resistance (+4 resistance to saves), mass resist energy (resist cold 20)

[Alhallor]

Spoiler: ooc clarifying the fire

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The braziers aren't burning. There is a wall of fire connecting all of the braziers. (the black line, that I can't draw over the hydra sceleton) and it faces outwards (towards you) instead of inwards (towards the thing) you can of course change your action if you want to. Also rerolling the fire if you go through the wall (2d6+11)[16]

[kinem]

Ouch! Ken's pain is brief as Thaum's magic soon heals him. "Thanks Thaum!"

Assessing the situation as best he can, Ken can only guess what the hydra might be capable of, but it's certain to be very dangerous.

He steps back far enough that he should be able to safely cast a spell out of the monster's reach, and casts Rain of Spines. A hail of metallic-looking needles pierces the hydra and the air above it.

Spoiler: Rain of Spines

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(6d6)[24] damage, Reflex half DC 18. No SR.
If it fails the save, it is knocked prone, entangled, and can't move from its location for 9 rounds as the spines pin it to the floor. A DC 20 grapple check or Escape Artist check allows it to break free and end the secondary effect. It could probably break free easily but that should take an action.

[WindStruck]

"Well, crap," Larimar says. So much to do, so little actions available per round!

Whispering the command phrase to his bow, it seems to lose its soft Luna glow again. At the same time, Larimar makes a break for the corner of the room opposite of Coney. He could only hope that Thaum's protections would help him!

Spoiler: ooc

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Should wind up on the cell S17.

Probably provoke a bunch of AoOs, but I hope an AC of 25 is good enough.

I'd rather attempt a tumble, but feel it's just too slow and my standard action was eaten up this round anyway.

[Toliudar]

Coney

The rabite takes a quick step away from the swiftly forming icefire wall, and stares, mesmerized, at the great beast rising up before them. She watches first Ken and then Jahn act, Larimar scurry to a better position, and Thaum blanket his companions with protect. Somehow, through her predator-fear, she manages to call out to her companions.

"I'm going to try to drive it off. Uh. Wish me luck?"

She thinks of holding up her amulet forcefully against the skeleton, but thinks better of it - there were enough ancient horrors at this dance already. Insteady, she seeks to combine all of her devotion to Mana with her newfound friendship with Tanebrous into a burst of holy-ish energy that she directs at the hydra.

Spoiler: OOC

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Coney's warm fur absorbs 2 points of cold damage.

5' step to C16 (I think I've made the change on the map)

Standard action to turn undead.

Turn Check: (1d20+9)[11], meaning she turns undead of 7 hit dice or less. Disappointing!
Total hit dice turned are (2d6+16)[24]
She can use this ability again in 5 rounds.

[Aegis013]

A jewel on Jahn's headgear shimmers briefly, refocusing his mind.

Recognizing the seriousness of the threat, Jahn clutches his amulet and begins an incantation:

"Salamander, hear my plea.
Make your light illuminate our way.
Grant us a brilliant blaze.
Let us incinerate our foes."

Spoiler: OOC

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Immediate action Third Eye Clarity to negate Stunned condition.
(no swift action this round)
Immediate action (using next round's swift action) activate badge of valor.
Standard activate Dragonfire Inspiration for +3d6 Fire damage for the team on attack rolls.

Maneuvers granted: (1d6)[6] (1d5)[4] (1d4)[4] (1d3)[2] (Divine Surge, Revitalizing Strike, Tactical Strike, Foehammer)
Next turn: (1d2)[1](Mountain Hammer)

[Alhallor]

Ken's Barrage of needles isn't able to pincushion the sceleton down. Instead it's many heads weave and bop around, getting grazed by the needles. Some of the damage that is inflicted by them seems to get partially healed by the weird wall it's in!

It takes a quick jab at the running Larimar.

Spoiler: Attack at Larimar

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Attack (1d20+15)[29]
Damage (1d10+6)[11] (Mind your newly acquired DR)

But then takes a quick step forward and unleashes a barrage of fangs and bones at the other three still standing in the hallway.

Spoiler: Attacks at Ken, Jahn and Thaum

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1.st Attack at Ken. (1d20+13)[27]
Damage (1d10+6)[12]
2.nd Attack at Ken (1d20+13)[30]
Damage (1d10+6)[13]
3rd Attack at Ken (1d20+13)[23]
Damage (1d10+6)[7]
1st Attack at Jahn (1d20+13)[23]
Damage (1d10+6)[12]
2nd Attack at Jahn (1d20+13)[21]
Damage (1d10+6)[13]
3rd Attack at Jahn (1d20+13)[24]
Damage (1d10+6)[13]
1st Attack Thaum (1d20+13)[24]
Damage (1d10+6)[10]
2nd Attack Thaum (1d20+13)[31]
Damage (1d10+6)[12]
3rd Attack Thaum (1d20+13)[33]
Damage (1d10+6)[16] (Should be able to bite Thaum because it's undead and therefore not hindered by the aura. But should it be. (1d20+6)[10]

Coney feels that the Hydra is to mighty to be affected by that attempt from Tanebrous, but instead she feels that something different IS affected by it, though she can't exactly discern what.

For the three still in the entrance, the rushing of water, the rumbling of earth and the blazing of fire is heard. Should one of them try a quick glance outside, it seems there are some weird looking elementals that crawled out of the Pit.

I'm just gonna take your power!

Thaum, Ken and Jahn feel a certain shift in the air and sonic energy's come crashing down upon them.

Spoiler: Do you Thaum?

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Will save against aura (1d20+11)[29].

Spoiler: Thaum, Jahn, Ken

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Make a DC 19 Reflex save or take 26 damage (save for half, rolled in the dice roller thread) sonic damage, the area around you becomes difficult terrain, indicated by the grey area. The sceletal hydra also takes damage.

Spoiler: Updated map

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Chaos in the water temple.

[WindStruck]

Larimar took a bite from the undead hydra and grimaced a bit, though he'd honestly been worse off than this.

Part of the reason he ran here was for a better shot, and he heard stuff coming behind them. Lucky for him, because his allies just got pummeled and affected by some spell. But overall, this wasn't good...

Looking down at his bow, which was now flaming, he almost raised it to start shooting at the hydra but.. no, that wasn't really a good idea, was it? The arrows probably weren't going to do much, except for maybe this flame stuff.. maybe.. but they needed to nip this thing in the bud. And.. the bud happened to be sitting atop that altar.

Then, Larimar got an idea.

Spoiler: ooc

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I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move.

(turn down volume)

He dashed up to the blue flame wall and it seemed he was about to leap through it. Instead, he instantly appeared on the other side! Then kept going a bit and turned to start scaling the side of the rise leading up to the altar.

Spoiler: breaking down the actions

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move to R11
use anklet of translocation to teleport to R9
After moving a bit more and climbing, should end up at O6

..and I think after all that, I'll wind up taking 1 cold and 1 negative damage for ending my turn at O6??

[Toliudar]

Coney

The rabite is intrigued and troubled by the reaction of...something in there...to her use of Naberius' peculiar talent. But for now, she had to turn her attention to the matter at hand. Or rather, heads.

Since the battle in Rabiton, she has been learning how to marshal her fire more carefully, for a more intense explosion, and it seemed that this was an ideal opportunity to try that out. Aiming for a spot just on this side of the coldfire wall, where the bony hydra coiled, Coney let loose with her most powerful fireball to date.

Spoiler: ooc

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Full round action: Coney is making use of her Easy Metamagic and Empower spell to cast an empowered Fireball, centred on K12 and 10' up, so that even if one of her colleagues steps up adjacent to the hydra, they'll be outside of the blast. Reflex DC 19 for half on (9d6)[31] x 1.5 or 46 fire damage.

[Alhallor]

Larimar's action is succesfull though he get's "burnt" when he comes especially close to the wall of cold fire. Though when he arrives by the other side he almost can't feel it anymore, because of it's strange magical properties.

Spoiler: OOC Larimar

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When I understand the wall of Fire correctly you get damaged by it once per turn with her highest possible damage potential, because you get within 10 feet you do get (2d4)[3] half cold, half negative energy damage (so you can half this.)

Coney's mighty fireball explodes within the bone hydra and almost sweeps away the wall of cold fire, but both the wall and the hydra still remain, though the later looks heavily burned and almost seem like they will collapse at the next moment. The weird black gooey thing has no time to look after the small chobin and is more afraid of the fire that was way too close for him.

Spoiler: OOC

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Ridai, Ken and Jahn still have they're turn before the enemies will act.

[Ridai]

Any plans of trying to stop the elementals from entering the room go out of the proverbial window when the world around Thaum explodes in deafening noise and Ken is savaged by the skeleton. A quick estimation through bones and fellfire rules out reaching Larimar with his spells at this time. Thus, all Thaum can do at this point, judging by how bad a state Coney's fireball left the hydra in, is push further into the room and hope for the best. Navigating the treacherous floor, the healer ends up right next to the undead monstrosity. The lack of Undine's mana remains sickening, but he is hardly cut off from his source of power. Not with the massive reservoir inside of him. Raising his shield against the hydra, weak flickering blue light first is seen suffusing Thaum, straining against the ambient lack of mana, a weak and indistinct illusory shape above Thaum's shoulder.

There is more strain involved than he imagined. Deep breath, concentrating on collecting water mana in his hand from his own body. There is no time. With an additional push, Thaum practically rams more energy into the spell, creating shining blue orb of water, the indistinct shape for a little moment clearly taking the shape of Undine. Throwing his arm wide, a sudden flood of ephemeral water bursts forth, wiping away wounds, tearing at the undead essence of the skeleton, and splashing against the cold wall of fell fire.

Spoiler: Actions

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With how much damage is potentially coming in from spells, gotta heal up.

Move from K19 to M17

Standard Mass Cure Moderate Wounds on Ken, Jahn, Thaum, and the skeleton, healing (or damaging, Will DC 20 halves) for (1d8+38)[40] HP (overhealing turns into THP). Thaum does not provoke AoOs due to Shielded Casting. This breaks Aura of Protection vs the skeleton.

If the skeleton is not destroyed after this:
Swift Cast Close Wounds, damaging for 27 HP (Will DC 17 halves)

Spoiler: Current party status

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Name	HP (THP)	Status and buffs
Coney	50 / 50	greater resistance (+4 resistance to saves), Dragonfire Inspiration (+3d6 fire damage on weapon/natural attacks)
Jahn	73 / 73 (14)	shield of faith (+4 deflection to AC), barkskin (+5 enh to natural armor AC), mass resist energy (resist cold 20), Dragonfire Inspiration (+3d6 fire damage on weapon/natural attacks)
Larimar	37 / 48	greater resistance (+4 resistance to saves), shield of faith (+4 deflection to AC), barkskin (+5 enh to natural armor AC), mass resist energy (resist cold 20), Dragonfire Inspiration (+3d6 fire damage on weapon/natural attacks)
Ken	56 / 57	mass resist energy (resist cold 20), Dragonfire Inspiration (+3d6 fire damage on weapon/natural attacks)
Thaum	56 / 56 (14)	Aura of protection (Will DC 19), greater resistance (+4 resistance to saves), mass resist energy (resist cold 20), Dragonfire Inspiration (+3d6 fire damage on weapon/natural attacks)

[Aegis013]

"Now that's some awesome magic! Let's see how it handles mine next." Jahn lunges forward fearlessly, his longsword flashing out at the creature, gleaming brightly as a trail of fire arcs across the trajectory of the swing.

Spoiler: Actions

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Push forward through the rough terrain to engage in melee, moving to K17, provoking an attack of opportunity from the skeletal hydra.
Free action enter Snowflake Wardance.
No swift action this round (immediate action used last round)
Standard action, Divine Surge
(1d20+16)[28] to hit
On hit it deals
(9d8)[40]+[/roll]2d6[/roll]+4 physical damage and (3d6)[11] fire damage.
52 physical and 11 fire.
5 reciprocal goes into Jahn's Steeley Resolve pool from his vicious weapon.
Rolled here.

All maneuvers granted (other than Divine Surge, which is expended) next round.

Spoiler: Group and Individual buff timers

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Group: Dragonfire Inspiration, +3d6 fire damage on attacks for the party. Remaining rounds: 4

Individual:
Snowflake Wardance, +cha mod to attack modifier. Remaining rounds: 12
Steeley Resolve 5/5 (Furious Counterstrike +1 to atk/dmg until the end of my next turn.

[kinem]

OOC: This assumes the hydra has been taken down. If not, Ken will attack it.

Ken grins as impressive displays of magic by Coney and Thaum seems to turn the battle around, and the ogre-slayer adds dead-hydra-slaying to his list of accomplishments.

He casts another spell, this time causing a vortex of dagger-like shards to fly forth from himself and engulf all three of the weird-looking elementals.

OOC:
Steelsting: (9d6)[31] force damage, Reflex half DC 18

[Alhallor]

The massive sceletal hydra whethers the magic of undine bathered against him, some small sceletal bits are falling off, it's lunge against Jahn who was approaching him seems almost desperate.

Spoiler: Attack at Jahn

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Attack: (1d20+13)[23]
Damage: (1d8+4)[9]

But after it's hit it explodes in a massive storm of bones, fangs and claws, leaving a big mess.

The elementals are hit by Ken's spell. The weird (earth?) elemental seems too slow to react and get's hit by the force spikes, but still stands. Both the water and the fire elemental evade most of the spikes but are still hit by the spell. The massive force of the earth elemental strodes forward, tears at the hanging door and rips some of it away, that the fire elemental has enough space to go towards Ken and strike it with one of his flaming fists.

Spoiler: Attack at Ken

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Attack: (1d20+12)[17]
Damage: (1d8+4)[5] and (1d6)[1] Fire damage
should you be hit you must make a Fort DC against 14 if you don't make it you lose a level.

The water elemental seems to strode forward the wall... And then appear at the other side of it!

Suddenly Larimar feels a lot of eyes on him.

You annoying rat!

From the mass of black goo and eyes burst forth many jaws, appaerantly from a hydra that fly towards Larimar.

Spoiler: Spell at Larimar

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It's (10d4)[25] half cold damage, half negative energy damage, make a Reflex save against 19 to half the damage.

Spoiler: Updated map

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Is sthis still supposed to be the water temple?

[Ridai]

So much for trying to keep the elementals out, as the water elemental simply sweeps through the wall. A quick assessment of the situation reveals that there really is not a position he could move to without risk of being engaged by any of the elementals, with the water elemental moving through objects and now being in an ideal position to rush into the group's flank or even pincer it, the earth elemental most likely being able to burrow through walls and ground, and there being no telling whether the fire elemental might also have difficult to contain modes of movement. There is also a straight line over to Coney from the water elemental. To top things off, Thaum recognizes the dark fire elemental's flames with a certain degree of alarm. He can practically feel a vile quality to its heat, moreso than that of the wall's fell fire. It is better if none of them get hit by it at all.

From one moment to the next, Thaum disappears in a blink, reappearing further behind Jahn and Ken, to elude the danger of the fire elemental. This hardly puts him out of danger, even putting him right into the heat of the wall of fire. But it is not supposed to keep him safe. It is supposed to put him into range of all his allies. And into the water elemental's way.

Gathering energy, shielding himself from the fire elemental, Thaum disperses ephemeral droplets far and wide, even beyond the cold wall of fire. "Take heart!" The shower of droplets suffuses his allies, the distinct feeling of fortune being on their side, guiding their hands (or ears) and averting harm.

"Larimar! Shout when you need help!" Thaum calls out. The hydra may be gone, but there is still the 20ft high opague wall of cold, foul fire, preventing him from seeing what is happening on the other side. Needless to say, Thaum is ready to make his way through the wall, in whatever way necessary.

Spoiler: Actions

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Swift Anklets of Translocation, teleporting from M17 to L15, taking 1 negative energy damage (after cold resistance; damage absorbed by THP)

Standard Recitation, 60ft burst centered on Thaum, giving all of his allies (but not himself) +3 luck to attacks, AC, and saves for 10 rounds. Doesn't provoke due to Shielded Casting

Spoiler: Current party status

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Name	HP (THP)	Status and buffs
Coney	50 / 50	greater resistance (+4 resistance to saves), Dragonfire Inspiration (+3d6 fire damage on weapon/natural attacks; 4 rounds), recitation (+3 luck to attacks, AC, saves; 10 rounds)
Jahn	73 / 73 (14)	shield of faith (+4 deflection to AC), barkskin (+5 enh to natural armor AC), mass resist energy (resist cold 20), Dragonfire Inspiration (+3d6 fire damage on weapon/natural attacks; 4 rounds), recitation (+3 luck to attacks, AC, saves; 10 rounds)
Larimar	30 / 48	greater resistance (+4 resistance to saves), shield of faith (+4 deflection to AC), barkskin (+5 enh to natural armor AC), mass resist energy (resist cold 20), Dragonfire Inspiration (+3d6 fire damage on weapon/natural attacks; 4 rounds), recitation (+3 luck to attacks, AC, saves; 10 rounds)
Ken	56 / 57	mass resist energy (resist cold 20), Dragonfire Inspiration (+3d6 fire damage on weapon/natural attacks; 4 rounds), recitation (+3 luck to attacks, AC, saves; 10 rounds)
Thaum	56 / 56 (13)	Aura of protection (Will DC 18), greater resistance (+4 resistance to saves), mass resist energy (resist cold 20), Dragonfire Inspiration (+3d6 fire damage on weapon/natural attacks; 4 rounds)

[Toliudar]

Coney wasn't sure how useful her blinding magics would be against creatures that don't seem to have obvious eyes, but she was sure that water creatures didn't like fire. Perhaps she could weaken this new opponent, and take another shot at bringing down the wall.

Stepping closer to the craziness in the doorway, she unleashed another fireball, sailing over the heads of her colleagues before exploding.

Spoiler: OOC

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Coney casts fireball, centred on R14 so as to catch the wall and the water elemental in it.
Reflex DC 19 for half, (9d6)[38] fire damage.

[WindStruck]

Larimar continues scaling the altar from the wrong way, partially dodging the negative hydra blast from the black eyes, wincing and shielding himself but not stopping.

"Who are you calling a rat, you fugly eyesore!"

There, when mere feet away from the black mass of eyes, Larimar angrily points at the black mass and the silver radiance of Whisp shoots out in two rays of light into the mass.

Spoiler: ooc

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Larimar is at M6 now.

Got a huge bonus to attacks and only need to succeed on a ranged touch attack.. and I'm right here. Pretty inconceivable I miss, but I guess I'll roll anyway.

(1d20+17)[21]
light damage: (1d6)[2]


(1d20+17)[35]
light damage: (1d6)[1]

[kinem]

Fortunately, the weird fire elemental's attack is deflected by Ken's armor.

Ken's own blade is now flaming along with others in the group, but he doubts that will do anything against the fire elemental. To bolster his attack, Ken uses his Blademage power.

OOC: Swift action to activate BM's Edge, then Full Attack vs fire elemental. Ignoring fire damage.
Attack 1 (1d20+19)[22], damage (2d6+15)[25]
Attack 2 (1d20+10)[23], damage (2d6+6)[11]