Into the darkness...

I believe I have one more interrupt if I get hit by melee attack. I will note however that it is going down really fast. I hit it once for 14 and it appears like it is halfway dead already.

move: W,W,SW
minor: mark skull load
standard: attack with Holy Strike getting the +2 dam for wis

AP? if I have one: attack with Holy Strike getting the +2 dam for wis

...if you use an AP, remember you get + 9 hit back.

Free Action: "Candelos, watch out for the Vamp next to Kaddim! May wanna move S,SW, and then West and NW to end up in the square you want."

Sonya:
Move: NW, W, W, W, W
Standard: Full Defense
Done...

Mick wrote:move: W,W,SW
minor: mark skull load
standard: attack with Holy Strike getting the +2 dam for wis

AP? if I have one: attack with Holy Strike getting the +2 dam for wis

Candelos' turn:
Move: move adjacent to the Skull Lord (provoking an AoO from the vampire next to Kaddim)
AoO Claw attack 35 vs Ac hits for 6+5-5hp of damage. (The vampire seems to do more damage in this area...)

Minor: mark the Skull Lord (overwriting Kaddim's daily power mark)

Standard: use Holy Strike
HS 32 vs Ac hits for 12+2hp of radiant damage (it looks like he took extra damage).
The attack reduces the Skull Lord to zero hit points. One of his heads is destroyed, then he is healed back to max hitpoints.


Candelos uses an Action Point and regains 9hp

Standard: attack with Holy Strike 24 vs Ac hits for 13hp of radiant damage. (it looks like he took extra damage)




Skull Lord's turn...

I'm one square too far to the East. S/b one more West I think.

Sorry, it's the vampire's turn...

Vampire (only one up)
Standard: Claw attack on Kaddim
Claw 29 vs Ac hits for 11hp of necrotic damage (he seems to be doing extra damage in this area)

Move: shift 1S




Kaddim's turn, then Thia...

Uh, that was one more West, not one more East. Now I'm two too far to the East, sorry...

Teramotos wrote:Uh, that was one more West, not one more East. Now I'm two too far to the East, sorry...

Sorry...




Kaddim's turn, then Thia...

Move: Use Aramathor's Step to flank the Skull Lord.
Standard: Use Isolating Slam on the Skull Lord, and if I hit push the vampire away to the North.

Move: Shift 1E
Standard: Twin Strike

Ross wrote:Move: Use Aramathor's Step to flank the Skull Lord.
Standard: Use Isolating Slam on the Skull Lord, and if I hit push the vampire away to the North.

Kaddim's turn:
Move: use Armarathor's Step to teleport adjacent to the Skull Lord

Standard: use Isolating Slam
IS 27+2 vs Ac hits for 9hp of damage

Secondary Attack on the vampire
IS 24 vs Fort hits, the vampire is pushed 3 north

Krystoff wrote:Move: Shift 1E
Standard: Twin Strike

Thia's turn:
Move: shift 1E

Standard: use Twin Strike on the Skull Lord
TS #1 23+2 vs Ac hits for 9+1hp of damage
TS #2 27+2 vs Ac hits for 6hp of damage. (The Skull Lord falls when the last head is destroyed).




Miri's turn, then Candelos and Sonya

Yeah!!! So only one Vamp left??
Miri, then Candelos and Sonya...

Teramotos wrote:Yeah!!! So only one Vamp left??
Miri, then Candelos and Sonya...

Yes, just one vampire left...

The Skull Lord looked a lot more intimidating that he really was.

I was surprised the party spent so much time focusing on the vampires when the Skull Lord would just raise them and get two other attacks.

Once his main attack power was disabled, he couldn't put up much of a fight.


Since there is just one minion remaining lets just say Miri or Candelos finishes it off.

I think the party handicapped yourselves at the beginning of the encounter (Kaddim not healed up, few members used light), but you guys pulled it out in the end.


Well done

Searching the room the party doesn't find any treasure on the downed undead.

Examining the room Kaddim and Miri notes:
The pillars block all natural light into or out of the areas they enclose.
The pillars also seem to regenerate when damaged.

Candelos examines the statues and notes
The NE statues grants undead the chance to critical on a 19-20
The NW statues increases all necrotic damage by 5
The SW statue grants undead 5 temp hitpoints when they hit something
The SE statue increases all defenses of undead by 1

Also the room itself imposes Vulnerability 5 to all bloodied living creatures.

Challenging room... they put a lot of work into it.


What next?
Where do you want to rest? Here or the last room you rested in?

...oh man, that's a tough room. Very well thought out however. Giving my a lot of ideas here for when I DM.

Sonya will go into the hall and pick up her axe.

Sonya will suggest that we just rest here, trying for an extended rest.

yeah, that made it basically 6 different rooms if you count outside the room as well. 4 quadrants and the hallways in between are the other 5.

Rest here is fine.

Pick up shield.
Rest here is fine.
If its a extended rest can I get a item made?
I don't recall the exact name without the character builder but I think it's called a Sunblade.
+2 and it gives off light and does radiant damage.

Sure could have used it this encounter

Dwarmaj wrote:Challenging room... they put a lot of work into it.

Concur. Great room from a designer's pov.

I say we rest up here. Miri wants new boots when we rest up (level up?) but isn't quite sure how much gold, or more importantly residuum, she has. Let's split up all the treasure we've found so far, dust absolutely everything nobody wants as a treasure pick, make as many items as we can, then rest up & go downstairs to take back all of Kaddim's stuff ...and then some!

Miri will also dust for anyone any back up items or whatever if you're short on residuum. We're at the home stretch before we've beaten everything in this pyramid, so little sense in waiting for later. We might not have many extended rests left in this prison.

Everybody please post what items you want and how much gold and/or residuum you have and Sonya and/or Ken, please post what treasure we've found but yet to divvy up.

Post Script: Ken, when I switched to the new Asus laptop, I lost which rituals Miri should know. I have her starting ones, but not any of the ones she's found, which was quite a bit. Is that easy or hard to look up?

PPS: Miri will spend 2 healing surges to get full up.

Mick wrote:Pick up shield.
Rest here is fine.
If its a extended rest can I get a item made?
I don't recall the exact name without the character builder but I think it's called a Sunblade.
+2 and it gives off light and does radiant damage.

Sure could have used it this encounter

Too funny! Yes, that would have been nice for this encounter!

Iron Armbands of Power please.
I thought the shard was already made?

Ross wrote:Iron Armbands of Power please.
I thought the shard was already made?

The party found a Shard of the Mage a little while ago.
https://nwgamers.forumotion.com/online-role-play-gaming-f14/on-line-game-treasure-collection-thread-t567.htm#9509

Ah. Brad is using that, right?

Ross wrote:Ah. Brad is using that, right?

You mentioned a shard in the last battle so I assumed Kaddim had it.

It only works on implement powers so Miri may be a better fit for it, but Kaddim does have a few implement powers as well.

I could use it with a couple of powers only, but she can hit multiple enemies with many of her powers. I thought I had the Lightning Shard.

Ross wrote:I thought I had the Lightning Shard.

I see where the item was requested, but no confirmation that the item was made.

I also don't have it on Kaddim in the Character Builder.


I'll try and post an update for each character sometime this weekend.

Dwarmaj wrote:I'll try and post an update for each character sometime this weekend.

Thanks ...and people should post their wishlists for items 10th & lower, right?

bradly wrote:
Thanks ...and people should post their wishlists for items 10th & lower, right?

Yes

The next rest will be an extended rest. Don't want to kill anyone just yet.

...so I take it we're not advancing to 10th level just yet? Seems like I've been 9th for a really long time. I'll see if I can sort through the treasure thread...

Teramotos wrote:...so I take it we're not advancing to 10th level just yet? Seems like I've been 9th for a really long time.

I believe the party has had 7 encounters since they last leveled up.

I'll have to review the next few encounters to see if the party needs to level up or not.

Looks like the characters posted in the character forum is already up to date.

https://nwgamers.forumotion.com/people-places-and-things-f5/new-millennium-player-characters-t173.htm#1146


No level ups at this time.

Let me know what three items Miri will create.

If Miri is going to swap out Wizards Escape, what will she take instead.
Will Miri keep Magic Missile that has been updated?

Yes, I'll swap out 'Wizard's Escape', will let you know what I'm replacing it with before we're done figuring out items for this extended rest. I'll keep Magic Missile, but how are we playing 'Bracers of the Perfect Shot'? Miri has a set of those, and they become useless if they don't work with Magic Missiles. Should I get a free 3rd level item exchange?

bradly wrote:Yes, I'll swap out 'Wizard's Escape', will let you know what I'm replacing it with before we're done figuring out items for this extended rest. I'll keep Magic Missile, but how are we playing 'Bracers of the Perfect Shot'? Miri has a set of those, and they become useless if they don't work with Magic Missiles. Should I get a free 3rd level item exchange?

The bracers only work when you hit with a Ranged Basic Attack, Magic Missile is no longer a RBA and has not "to hit" any more. So the bracers no longer work with the spell.

Yes, you can swap out the bracers for another 3rd level item.

Currently waiting to find out what powers Miri will be swapping out because of rules changes and what 3 items Miri will be creating.

Dwarmaj wrote:Currently waiting to find out what powers Miri will be swapping out because of rules changes and what 3 items Miri will be creating.

Miri will take 'Fire Shield' instead of 'Wizard's Escape', and just take 680gp in residuum for the bracers. Not many 3rd level items that help a 9th level PC like those did...

Unless we get a lot in player's share from undistributed treasure, Miri will not be crafting any items for herself. Except for a ton of rituals, Miri only has 4 magic items and still no gold until we figure out what needs to be distributed.

Flaming Sphere (not Sleep), Shield (not Feather Fall), Stinking Cloud (not Bigby's Icy Grasp), Fire Shield (not Dimension Door), and Wall of Fire (not Ice Storm) will be here memorized spells.

Looks like Miri has selected her spells.

I still need a list of the items to be made.

Kaddim has requested Iron Armbands of Power.


Also, don't forget about the items you got from Breeze...
https://nwgamers.forumotion.com/online-role-play-gaming-f14/after-the-cultists-t659-15.htm#9628

I requested a Sun Blade
This was I don't need to fumble around for a light source.

Dwarmaj wrote:
Also, don't forget about the items you got from Breeze...
https://nwgamers.forumotion.com/online-role-play-gaming-f14/after-the-cultists-t659-15.htm#9628

Didn't notice that earlier. I guess that means Miri can make a +2 level item once.

Dwarmaj wrote:I still need a list of the items to be made.

I say we don't hold onto ANY 'party treasure' & dust everything not being used. What does that come out to?

Coming up with a list of items to be commissioned has to be the step after we know what we have available to spend. We need to resolve step 1 before inquiring about step 2...

bradly wrote:
Didn't notice that earlier. I guess that means Miri can make a +2 level item once.

The ritual applies to to any items made during the rest period you use it for. You could make 3 items of level +2 if you wished. But once you use it it's gone no mater what items are made.