The Ice Box

Thia does a twin strike and rolls her saves.

Krystoff wrote:Thia does a twin strike and rolls her saves.

Thia's turn:
Standard: Twin Strike on the demon
TS #1 23+2 vs Ac miss
TS #2 25+2 vs Ac miss

I have Thia down for one slow affect. Her saving throw is 6 and remains slowed.

Candelos' turn

Forgot to mention it in the post, is that with the +2 from distant advantage?

Krystoff wrote:Forgot to mention it in the post, is that with the +2 from distant advantage?

Yes, I got it. Each of your attacks had +2, which offset his full defense.

The demon: "That lying B$%(* trapped me here. If I can't have her head, I'll grind that orb under my heel."

Minor action: insight check to determine if that was a lie.
Free action: say "you haven't given us a good reason why she would do something like that to you unless you deserved it"

scoot to your right (west)

Stu wouldn't scooting to the right be east?
Move: shift to right (west)
Standard: attach with Valiant Strike @ +2att (flanking) +1att (one enemy for VS)

Well, if Candelos is facing the demon, who is to the south, then Candelos' right would be West. If you're looking at a map of Candelos' ICON, then right would be East. Since Sonya is communicating with Candelos in character, when she says right, she means that she wants Candelos to shift to the West. Also, I think I'm in the square to your east so you can't shift there anyway.

OK, your right Stu. I must have the Cheri syndrome.

Mick wrote:

The demon: "That lying B$%(* trapped me here. If I can't have her head, I'll grind that orb under my heel."

Minor action: insight check to determine if that was a lie.
Free action: say "you haven't given us a good reason why she would do something like that to you unless you deserved it"

scoot to your right (west)

Stu wouldn't scooting to the right be east?
Move: shift to right (west)
Standard: attach with Valiant Strike @ +2att (flanking) +1att (one enemy for VS)

Candelos' turn:
Candelos makes an Insight check to see if the demon is lying. Candelos rolls 19+11=30 and doesn't think he's lying.

Standard: Valiant Strike on the demon
VS 32+1+2 vs Ac hits for 20hp of damage. The demon falls.

Do you want to kill it or just knock it out?

There are no other threats in sight (other than the Frigid Aura which doesn't seem to be going away...)

What does the party want to do?

Knock it out. We can always kill it later.
Let's drag it out of the room and close the door.

Knock it out. We can always kill it later.
Let's drag it out of the room and close the door.

I agree. I'll let Sonja hold the orb while I help Kaddim drag the demon out of the cold room.
During that time I'll inform Kaddim I don't think the demon was lying about being trapped here by V.
There may be a good reason why she trap him here but I think I should move away from the party with the orb while some of the party questions the demon.

Ross wrote:Knock it out. We can always kill it later.
Let's drag it out of the room and close the door.

Concur on all counts.

"Vyrellis, why don't you tell us your side of what happened. We'll ask Demon boy his side in full detail in a few minutes when he wakes up..."

side note: now that the battle is over, how much fire vulnerability did the undead have? It'd be fun to calculate how much damage Miri did total with the one spell (including ongoing damage)...

Sonya agrees... Knock the demon out. We can kill it later if it gives us trouble. I think it has useful information. Drag it out of the room so we are not affected by the cold anymore and then close the doors and take at least a five minute rest.

Teramotos wrote: Drag it out of the room so we are not affected by the cold anymore and then close the doors and take at least a five minute rest.

Yes, and healing surges. Miri will use as many as she can get max value out of and put as many extra as can fit in Sonya's new belt. I think our boys may be needing them...

Also, we'll move 2 rooms away, since the adjacent also has Frigid Aura. We'll finish exploring the other room after resting up/questioning V & Demon boy.

Candelos, what does your little friend recommend?

What new belt? I don't have that yet, I let you make stuff for others during the last extended rest...

Who is going to drag the demon out? He's large size and it will take several rounds (more if slowed) to get him out.

Where will the PC that are not dragging the body out be?

If the party leaves the body, everyone can make it out in 3 rounds.

I'll need to calculate the extra time it'll take for 2,3, or 4 people to drag the body out.

After Candelos' turn, top of the order...
Frigid Aura
FA on Kaddim 14 vs Fort miss, Kaddim takes 2hp of cold damage.
FA on Candelos 25 vs Fort hits, Candelos takes 5hp of cold and is slowed again.
FA on Miri 10 vs Fort miss, Miri takes 2hp of cold damage.
FA on Thia 28 vs Fort hits, Thia takes 5hp of cold and is slowed again.
FA on Sonya 23 vs Fort hits, Sonya takes 5hp of cold and is slowed.

Current PC status:
Miri 37/54hp with 8/9 surges
Kaddim 27/73hp with 2/11 surges
Candelos 38/72hp with 6/14 surges
Thia 51/60hp with 5/7 surges
Sonya 44/61hp with 2/9 surges

Looks like we can only move him 4 squares at a time (move and a move). We'll have to do readied actions to move him, during the slowest persons initiative. i think there is room for all of us to be adjacent to him, until we get him to the door way.

Ross wrote:Looks like we can only move him 4 squares at a time (move and a move). We'll have to do readied actions to move him, during the slowest persons initiative. i think there is room for all of us to be adjacent to him, until we get him to the door way.

A little bit longer since the squares marked in black where the pillars were are difficult terrain. Since some will be slowed, that is only one square of movement per turn...

The party will be able to do it, but it'll cost hit points...

I still say that we do it (drag the demon out). If only a limited number of people can help, then Kaddim and after Kaddim, Sonya should be excluded (e.g. get out of the room first) because they have the lowest number of surges left.

Looks like dragging the demon will take to long.
What if we tie it's arms up and give it first aid to use a surge.
Then tell it to follow us out of here or we will slay here and now.

I like Mick's idea...

If someone is knocked out can you teleport them as if they were allies? They can't really resist like an enemy. If I can I will move towards the door, but 3 squares from the demon and this on him:

Dimensional Warp
You reach out with arcane power, and two of your nearby allies suddenly wink out and reappear in each other’s places.
Encounter Arcane, Teleportation
Minor Action Close burst 3
Target: You and one ally in burst or two allies in burst
Effect: Each target teleports into the other’s space. Both targets must occupy the same size space, or the power fails.

Thia will help pull the demon if thats what everyone decides.

Oh, nevermind. He's too big.

I say we go with Mick's idea as well.

To speed things up I'm going to say that the party all get together and drags the demon out.

It takes 4 rounds to drag the body out if everyone helps and it takes 3 rounds for Kaddim and Sonya to exit without helping and will still take damage unless they close the door.

Vyrellis points out that binding and waking the demon may not be such a good idea since it has a rechargable breath weapon.

Dragging the demon out takes 4 rounds. After four rounds of Figid Aura
Kaddim takes 8hp and is now at 19/73hp with 2/11 surges
Candelos takes 8hp and is now at 30/72hp with 6/14 surges
Miri takes 6hp and is now at 31/54hp with 8/9 surges
Thia takes 7hp and is now at 44/60hp with 5/7 surges
Sonya takes 6hp and is now at 38/61hp with 2/9 surges

The Frigid Aura does 1d4+1, for some reason I rolled really well during the battle, but really low after the battle.

The party now has an unconscious bound demon as a prisoner.

Does the party want to take a short rest now, or wake/interrogate the demon? If you take a short rest, the demon also gets to take a short rest...

Isay question him now. I'll use a second wind first though.

Dwarmaj wrote:Does the party want to take a short rest now, or wake/interrogate the demon? If you take a short rest, the demon also gets to take a short rest...

I say we take a short rest and get Vyrellis' side of the story while we're resting. Also, seems like we can take turns poking Demon boy every couple minutes so he doesn't get a short rest...

I like Brad's idea. Take a short rest (Sonya will use one surge) and get Vyrellis to tell us what she knows. Take turns poking Demon boy. Worse case, his breath weapon will recharge, he'll use it and we'll have to knock him out again or kill him. I would think that a demon as powerful as he is would be smart enough to know that we have the upper hand and could kill him if he (the demon) attempted to attack us.

It would take more than poking him to not allow him a short rest. You don't actually sleep when your taking a 5 minute rest. We'd have to actually inflict damage on him, and whomever was doing that wouldn't be able to rest either.

Hes unconscious already; I wonder what type of damage you would have to inflict to keep him from resting?

Thia could sit there and beat on him with her fists for the 5 minutes if you guys want to rest.

That would work.

Krystoff wrote:Hes unconscious already; I wonder what type of damage you would have to inflict to keep him from resting?

Thia could sit there and beat on him with her fists for the 5 minutes if you guys want to rest.

We'll take a 7 minute rest (or attempt to). Thia & Miri, the most healed, will hit him for minor nonfatal damage for 2 mins then rest. When Sonya & the boys are rested 3 mins after that, they'll hit him whil Thia & I are still recovering.

Vyrellis tells Candelos that she doesn't remember seeing this demon efore. Karavakos did have many creatures from the outter planes in his army from the pact that he made. This is probably one of the mercenaries that was trapped in here with him.

Vyrellis: "If he has no knowledge on how to get out of here I say kill him. Demons are nortorious for lying, betrail, and many other unfavorable traits."

Candelos should get an insight check to see if Vyrellis is lying to him.

Ross wrote:Candelos should get an insight check to see if Vyrellis is lying to him.

Concur. Truth is often more damaging than lies, and Demons would know that. If she wants to kill him before we can interrogate him, she might be hiding something that she knows he can tell us.

Concur with Brad/ Miri... will communicate the thought that Vyrellis might be hiding something by using OHOM before it ends (if I can do so).

Candelos will make a Insight check on to see if Vyrellis is lying to him.

Mick wrote:Candelos will make a Insight check on to see if Vyrellis is lying to him.

Candelos rolls an Insight check (27). Candelos doesn't think Vyrellis is lying, but it doesn't sound like she's telling everything she knows either.

Vyrellis: Believe me if you like, but that thing is a demon and it will kill all of you if it gets the chance.



The party takes turns resting (while also keeping the demon unconscious).

How many surges does everyone want to use?

Sonya will use 1 only.

Ross, you might want to take only 1, or none. If you think we'll get another five minutes, I can use Inspiring Word and you'll get 2d6 extra hits per surge.

K. I'll only do one as well.

1 for me

Dwarmaj wrote:Vyrellis: Believe me if you like, but that thing is a demon and it will kill all of you if it gets the chance.

How many surges does everyone want to use?

"C'mon V, you really think that's news to us? Tell us something we DON'T know.

I think he'll tell us all about how he got trapped in here though, and that could help us figure out how to get out. ...and that's what we all want, right?"

(Miri will use 2 surges to get to max.)

use 2 surges
motion to Kaddim & Sonya to question the demon while Miri & I take the orb to adjacent room.

What questions does the party have for the demon?

What questions will Candelos and Miri ask Vyrellis?

Dwarmaj wrote:What questions will Candelos and Miri ask Vyrellis?

"Demon boy seems to think you're responsible for trapping him in here. Is he blaming you for what Karavakos did? How does he know you two and what happened the last time you saw him? Obviously, he knew you by name, even in the Orb... how would that be?"

Vyrellis: (a bit anoyed)

Of course he knew me by name, I am the queen and former wife of Karavakos.

Karavakos had many demons under his command, so it is not unlikely they would know of me.

I tire of these questions. If you want my assistance, and you will need my assistance, I suggest we move on.

Oh and did anyone think to check for treasure in the ice room? That was the reason you went there correct?

Note: Given the size of the Ice Room it could take several minutes to search it properly. Without protection from cold, someone will be taking quite a bit of damage.

Can't Mick get cold protection from Vyrellis?