>>171687His CL mod should be at least +2, btw.
Sleeping now.
>>171577After another pause,
"You are lucky the Kronburg Office is not answering. I will investigate this matter further with our detained suspects. But do not assume that you and your... 'colleagues' are off the hook." He starts to stand up. "You may not go far."
I think I may have made the encounter too hard
>>171692No. Stop. Banish that thought. I like hard fights. I want hard fights. I desired overleveled, unfair encounters. I don't make high HP characters just so that I can take no damage. Big challenge = big XP. You could have given me a lvl 10 paladin, and I would be thrilled (although probably dead).
You think I put the +2 Silver sword in his claws and told him to "dress to impress" (wear armor) just because I'm pretending to be retarded? No, it's because if he came unarmed and unarmored like a civilian, Posey's victory would be meaningless. Posey has never killed a paladin before, so this is a very important experience for her. If she dies, she does. Him being able to crit me and bypass my immunity was a pleasant surprise.
Pick related, but opposite.
Alluring had a lot more HP than I expected though, and his potential escape complicates things, but I already had a plan to deal with him, an especially evil one.
>>171687I think Pup #2 gets an attack of opportunity for casting a spell within reach reach, unless it was cast defensively
[1d20+2 = (12+2) = 14]I think it's alluring's turn. He doesn't know it, but if he takes the withdraw action now to avoid Pup #1, he might just get out of this alive, as Posey's summon is about to expire.
Also, GM, real quick, how do you interpret Chill Touch?
https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/chillTouch.htmI think how the RC interprets spells like this is a bit counterintuitive, so it's "ask your DM" territory.
>>171693O.... kay then....
>>171695I'm assuming that the questionable portion is this line:
>You can use this melee touch attack up to one time per levelI think the most natural interpretation of that line is that each time you cast the spell, the number of times the attack may be used is the same as your caster level
If you're asking how many times it may be used in one round, I think it's the same as the number of touch attacks you can make in the round, unless of course, the number of touch attacks you can make is higher than your number of remaining uses of the chill touch attack.
>>171694Alluring's action is to get the fuck out of there as quickly as he possibly can.
>>171697Okay, so does it work like Scorching Ray (you make more attacks in one action) as the RC implies, or more like Produce Flame (you spend an action every turn until you run out of attacks)?
I'm fine with either ruling. I just need to know so that I can decide what my next turn is.
>>171698I think the more natural reading would be that it does not increase the number of attacks per round. Though that seems a little underpowered for damage die. Then again, strength damage is a part of it.
The 5e version has the total amount of damage from a single attack increase
>>171700Okay, so, I spread out the number of attacks over time?
Alright. Posey's next action will be to return to melee range with a move action.
She then casts Chill Touch, making a concentration check to cast defensively (DC 16)
[1d20+10 = (16+10) = 26] (+1 from Sadism, since her puppies took damage)
I need to resolve this skill check before making the attack.
>>171701Defensive cast. AoO avoided.
Posey makes her first Chill Touch with Charnel Touch. She's flanking (for the last round), so +2, +1 sadism.
[1d20+8 = (10+8) = 18]
>>171702Pretty sure his touch AC is lower than 18.
[1d8+1d6+1 = (8+4+1) = 13]DC 15 to avoid taking 1 point of strength damage.
With this deadly boop, Posey's turn is over.
Her puppies should vanish to whence they came now, dissolving back into the cerebrotic periphery with a sickening gurgle.
>>171705Haha, that's 1 point of Strength damage.
I'm going to have to step out for a bit soon.
>>171706https://youtu.be/5BaTwcl77Xo?si=0RacHHzodHOgyqOp>>171708The griffin looks around himself, to confirm that the oozes are indeed gone. He winces in pain, and begins to look behind him, to see if his cousin is okay. But he can’t take his eyes off of Posey.
He has not ceased to grip the Equestrian sword, and he pulls it back in a mighty swing.
“Arcturus, cleanse this realm of such
filth”
[1d20+10 = (12+10) = 22]
>>171710Sorry, I passed out.
>>171711It hits.
Posey is down to 13 HP. Her fast healing reactivates.
>>171711Posey goes in for another boop, with charnel touch and chill touch
[1d20+8 = (2+8) = 10]
>>171713Oh
Okay
I forgot to subtract 2 HP earlier. Posey is at 16 HP after healing.
I might fall asleep again soon
... A lot of sleep debt
>>171713>>171714The white griffin pulls his head back and to the right, dodging Posey’s boop. He takes a long, labored breath, and blood runs down in a small trickle from the right side of his beak. He’s looked tired since Posey first spotted him on the street, a kind of tired that comes only after years, but now his bloodshot eyes bear more physical signs of exhaustion. When he exhales, he speaks
“I came here to get away from the endlessness of it. I lost faith in Peace. When a letter said Celestialists were looking for me, my cousin thought to sell them out for a little money. When his handlers wouldn’t let back out, he roped me into it. I cursed him and his greed, and the impossible situation he placed me in. And I cursed more when I saw you.”
His eyes become wide
“But now I understand. Boreas brought you here so that no innocents may be harmed by my cousin’s greed. He placed me here so my cousin may live while you cease.”
His beak contorts into a smile, the first such expression.
“
Heh. Do you not understand? Boreas guides all. Boreas, Arcturus, Erye. Hahaha,
do you even realize?. You are playing only the role they wrote for you. Whatever happens here, I know, they are in control. And you play by
their terms.”
He swings
[1d20+9 = (14+9) = 23]
>>171718That brings me down to 9 HP
Posey moans as the sword slashes into her cheek, her tainted flesh falling away like wet mud, exposing her rune-carved cheekbones. She cackles.
"~Is ThAt WhAt We ArE? jUsT cOgS iN tHe MaChInE?" she says, her neck cracking sideways as her head tilts uncannily, corrupt fluid's pouring out of the side of her head
She giggles uncontrollably, her teeth chattering feverishly
"I DEFY YOU STARS!"She strikes once more (no sadism this time)
[1d20+7 = (1+7) = 8]
>>171719>Proud denouncement of fate>Nat 1.................
Is it too late to make a secondary attack with my natural weapons?
Posey is at 10 HP after that attack, which heals to 11 from her katane emergency healing.
>>171691"Of course. Do not worry. Good luck with your investigation." Amber can palpably feel the tension in the room ease somewhat. She thanks her lucky stars that there are telephone issues, and that she had the forethought to indoctrinate the captured officer–this will buy her just enough time.
Amber puts her precious viol back in its case, makes a respectful bow, and exits the customs administration office. She's well aware she will be followed the entire way, and so she heads downtown, but not directly to the pertinent office of salvation, and at a respectable clip but not so fast as to appear to be fleeing.
>>171720Yes.
Posey trips and fails, but the maddened glee on the griffin’s face does not end.
“The stars gave you animation, and they shall end it.”
He’s been holding the sword variously between his right claw, his left, and both. Now he shifts it to his left, and his free right claw extends, moving to grab Posey’s hoof
[1d20+6 = (9+6) = 15]
>>171723Is that a grapple? Do I get an AoO?
>>171721>>171723>>171724Nope. A simple grabbing of the hoof, like you may to a young maiden.
“
Boreas, I am your conduit. Let your strength flow into her.”
Lay of (claws). 10 HP damage
>>171723Btw, that touch attack would hit, because in this chain shirt reduces her touch AC.
>>171725BRUH
>>171725Sanguine static crackles around Posey's body. Her innards acutely rot and melt onto the floor in a putrid pile. She shivers and shakes as the unholy power that weaves her sinews together is a hair's breadth away from shattering forever. Patches of her mane blacken and fall out. Her eyes glass over, and one of her eyeballs droops in its socket.
"I-i-isn't it more gentlemanlike to buy me a d-drink first?"
Posey is at 1 HP
>>171727“Not even Tartarus waits for you. Your animating force shall rejoin the world of the living, and become one with the roots and soil.”
Okay, I am at 1 HP. I have a few options.
I could take a 5 ft step back and heal myself with inflict light/moderate wounds, which
I could step back and use the 1/day gaseous form I get from the red curse to turn into red mist to evade until I heal like a coward.
I could step away, then throw my net at him to entangle him, buying me a round to do one of the above actions.
OR
I could go full retard and lash out at him with my charnel touch and natural weapons in a final burst of animalistic rage.
>>171728"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w9KVIfpNG4wPosey makes a full-round attack, attacking with her touch spell as a manufactured weapon, and her natural attacks as secondary weapons
Charnel Touch + chill touch
[1d20+7 = (6+7) = 13]Slam (conduit for chill touch)
[1d20+2 = (10+2) = 12]Bite (also chill touch)
[1d20+2 = (19+2) = 21]
>>171729Does 13 beat his touch AC?
>>171728
>>171729>>171730I’m kind of skeptical of posey conducting natural attacks in the sand round as charnel touch without suffering a penalty to attack bonus on the charnel touch.
But a 13 would land
(I've been forgetting the bloodline boost on Charnel Touch this whole time...)
>>171731[1d8+1+1d6+1] Charnel Touch + Chill Touch damage.
DC 15 vs STR damage
>>171733Well, does that put him on the ground?
This is the most fun I've had so far this game. The suspense is thrilling.
A minute, I have to drive
>>171737>>171733The griffin’s feathers puff out, and some on his wings come loose and fall to the ground. His whole body shivers, and his head tilts upwards, while the outer fold of his wings - but not the inner fold - extends outwards. A new flow of blood trickles out of his mouth. Then he turns his head to Posey
“You fool. You’ve sacrificed your position for short term gain.”
Then he turns his eyes upwards, to the brick ceiling.
“Arcturus, grant me the peace I have earned.”
And he collapses onto the floor.
>>171738Wait, I won?
Hooray! Victory at last.
Posey gasps a sigh of relief as the griffon collapses, her body slowly reconstructing itself due to her vampiric nature,.
But not fast enough.
"Oh Maar, bless me with this bounty."
Posey hums an eerie aura as she delivers a coup de grace with her fangs, slaying the Paladin.
"And my our friends you served you here shamble and haunt these grounds for all eternity.
Rolling religion, to sacrifice him.
[1d20+15 = (7+15) = 22]Like a lowly Jew, Posey sinks her teeth into the raw chicken and drains him of his blood.