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Everything is silent.
Everything is silent.


Then the shadow Amadi jumps out of her tree and starts to approach her vivid other self.
Then the shadow Amadi jumps out of its tree and starts to approach its vivid other self.


AMADI
AMADI
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The shadow Greibel picks up some water and it turns into a blob in its hand.
The shadow Greibel picks up some water and it turns into a blob in its hand.


The shadow Rhu reaches out to poke the other Rhu. To Rhu, it looks like a crisp-edged shadow, unlike most everything else he can see, not hairy. It feels like nothing at all.
The shadow Rhu reaches out to poke the other Rhu. To Rhu, it looks like a dark, crisp-edged silhouette, and, unlike most everything else he can see, not hairy. It feels like nothing at all.


RADEK
RADEK
...That's not right. Not at all.
...That's not right. Not at all.


Rhu steps past shadow-Rhu to see how it reacts as much as to get out from behind it.
Rhu steps past his shadow self, and the shadow turns after him.
 
The shadow turns after him.


The shadow Amadi looks up at Amadi and then licks the Gravedigger tree below her.
The shadow Amadi looks up at Amadi and then licks the Gravedigger tree below her.
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Rhu responds by slicing at his shadow with a strike through the fabric of space itself, but misses as well. ''(rolled 14 vs AC)'' Only after does he remember to swear an oath of enmity against it.
Rhu responds by slicing at his shadow with a strike through the fabric of space itself, but misses as well. ''(rolled 14 vs AC)'' Only after does he remember to swear an oath of enmity against it.
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<pre>
The Gravedigger, still being a tree, summons his cloud of boiling blood and grit and then attempts to pummel the shadow Greibel into the earth with his shovel. It doesn't entirely succeed.
Frezak (GM): Well.
 
I'll use a Minor Action to activate THE BOILING CLOUD
Meanwhile the Georges kneel down and aim their weapons at each other.
Then I'll gander up here.
 
Then I will Mark both shadows.
Greibel decides now would be a good time to try to summon a lightning storm inside a cave. Then he thinks better of it and instead calls forth the spirit pack on his and the Gravedigger's other selves. The spirits trample through and out another wall without any apparent affect. ''(rolled 12, 11 vs reflex)''
Frezak (GM): And then use... Earthgrasp Strike on Shadow Greibel.
Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D20+9
(
4
)
+9
=
13
Vs AC
gaaaaah
That's all, then >.>
George spends the entire turn taking aim at himself.
Shadow George does the exact same thing.
Shadow Radek... hmm.
Ganelon: HMM.
Apheori (GM): Radek is so fancy.
Frezak (GM): Shadow Radek grumps.
Bear Soup Guy: His misanthropy is especially acidic
Gaurav: It drips from his mouth and sizzles on the ground.
Apheori (GM): Okay, to be clear - Gravy is no longer a tree, right?
And did he ever put Amadi down, or is she now just sitting on his horns or something?
Frezak (GM): I'm totally a tree.
Apheori (GM): Okay.
Frezak (GM): Just also wielding a shovel.
Apheori (GM): XD
And did you ever put Amadi down? Because if not, she should still be on top of you.
Frezak (GM): I did not do anything to her.
if she held on, she's still in there.
Somewhere.
Apheori (GM): Can you move her icon for me please? I can't use the key required to keep something out of the grid. >.<
Thanks.
Maaan, this was a terrible idea. Why did I think this was a good idea?
Ellemerr: Because it is!
It's just also difficult as all hells!
Gaurav: We should be fine, especially if shadowRadek stays out of the action and shadowRhu keeps making relatively weak attacks. I am very interested in seeing what shadowGreibel does.
Apheori (GM): Okay, shadow Radek uses ethereal chill on... uh...
So it's centered on an ally targeting an enemy?
Ganelon: Artificer abilities are a confusing mess, aren't they?
Yes, the idea is that you pick an ally with an enemy next to him.
Apheori (GM): Less so than Rhu's character sheet, but yes.
Ganelon: And the enemy takes damage while the ally gets some kind of minor buff.
Apheori (GM): Okay, centered on shadow greibel, targeted at Gravy...
Ganelon: Because his magic stuff is at-will powers and they can never be impressive.
Unless they're Firehawk.
Bloody Firehawk.
Apheori (GM):
rolling 1d20 + 9
(
1
)
+9
=
10
So it all fails, or what?
Ganelon: Yyyep.
Apheori (GM): GREIBEL.
YOU'RE UP.
Bear Soup Guy: GREIBEL TIME
I feel like I want to RP this and make Greibel trepidatious (NOT A WORD APPARENTLY) because these people all look like us and he watched that episode of Doctor Who where the 2D things didn't understand the 3D world
Eh, I also want to summon lightning storms though
Ganelon: Inside a cave, no less.
Bear Soup Guy: How would something like Verdant Bounty effect a combat situation like this?
Ganelon: Is that the one that makes this big overgrowth everywhere?
Bear Soup Guy: indeed
+5 stealth to allies in ten square range
Ganelon: We haven't got much need for hiding right now.
Bear Soup Guy: Thought so
Okay, thunderstorms it is
WAIT
Might these shadowy figures be weak to..."RADIANT" damage?
Or am I thinking too Pokemon for D&D
Apheori (GM) shrugs.
Apheori (GM): Are shadows normally susceptible?
Ganelon: To light?
Radiant damage is typically effective against undead.
Bear Soup Guy: Ah
Apheori (GM): Are shadows undead?
Ganelon: Shadows are a kind of monster, though. And they're vulnerable to it as well, I believe.
Apheori (GM): Ah.
Ganelon: Well... for example.
Ghosts have Insubstantial, that makes them take half damage from... all damage.
When they take Radiant damage, they lose it against that attack and usually for a turn afterwards.
Bear Soup Guy: Makes sense
Ganelon: Zombies would just take an extra 5 damage or so.
These things, if they'd be vulnerable, would strike me as the "extra 5 damage" sort.
Since we just proved that they have substance.
Well, Rhu did. By getting gently caressed by his clone.
Bear Soup Guy: I can get some extra damage in on Gravy's marks with a different thing, so I think I'll just do that
I'm so bad at this game
Apheori (GM): I'm worse.
Bear Soup Guy: So the number on a burst is the diameter of the burst?
Frezak (GM): It's number of squares outwards from the center.
Bear Soup Guy: Ah, so the radius
Sexy
Frezak (GM): Can't remember which is diameter or radi- yeah
Greibel CALLS FORTH THE SPIRIT PACK
Greibel:
rolling 1d20+7 vs Shadow Greibel and Shadow Gravy reflex
(
5
)
+7
=
12
Bear Soup Guy: eep
Ganelon: Actually you roll separately for each person.
Bear Soup Guy: Oh, nice
Ganelon: At least, I think.
Hold on.
Bear Soup Guy: Okay
Gaurav: We invoked spirits to fight spirits.
Bear Soup Guy: FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
Ganelon: ...Nah, I think I'm mistaken.
Sorry!
Bear Soup Guy: No worries


GREIBEL
GREIBEL
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Spooked.
Spooked.


Frezak (GM): yeah, I always roll for each guy.
Amadi sticks her tongue out at her shadow and climbs higher up in the tree, viciously mocking her black clone as it's left behind.
Ganelon: This is an area attack. You always roll against each target of an area attack.
 
It's just a really weird area attack that hits a limited number of targets.
It staggers from the force of the attack.
So yes, roll again.
 
Bear Soup Guy: Ah, right on then
Radek shakes his head and powers up the eyebot and sets it loose over the battle.
so the 12 roll against gravy and
rolling 1d20+7 against greibel
(
4
)
+7
=
11
(shadows both)
Apheori (GM): >.<
Bear Soup Guy: and a massive success all around
I stand by Greibel's witticism
Apheori (GM): That your turn?
Bear Soup Guy: Yep
Frezak (GM): Well.
At least those guys starting next to me take... 4 damage >.>
Apheori (GM): Also, everyone: let me know if you touch a shadow.
Like, with a hand or something. Weapons don't matter.
They take four damage? Is that from the mark?
I don't know what's going on. Help.
Ganelon: I don't think it's the mark, but Frezak would know.
Frezak (GM): It's from the Boiling Cloud
Until I fully bring forth the might of Codrichun, I'm surrounded by a cloud that hurts people that start their turn next to me.
Apheori (GM): During Greibel's turn?
Frezak (GM): At the start of the affected shadow's turns.
Apheori (GM): Ah.
So not just yet, then.
But aiight.
Amadi!
Amadi sticks her tongue out at her shadow and climbs higher up in the tree, mocking her black clone as it's left behind.
Ellemerr: That is probably a combined move action and a vicious mockery that I shall roll. Yes.
rolling 1d20 + 6
(
16
)
+6
=
22
Hit
rolling 1d6 + 4
(
6
)
+4
=
10
Damage
Gaurav: Nice!
Ellemerr: Target has -2 to all attacks until the end of my next turn.
And I'm done.
Apheori (GM): All these icons are terrible.
Radek!
Ganelon: Trying to remember everything that happens without them is a lot worse.
Apheori (GM): Aye.
Radek shakes his head.


RADEK
RADEK
Try to leave one unharmed for study, please.
Try to leave one unharmed for study, please.
Ganelon: Who needs a good shootin', hm?
Or should I just summon robots?
I love doing that.
Gaurav: I think shadowRhu's the only one who's actually attacked up so far, although shadowGeorge is getting ready to. I imagine that's going to change in the next couple of turns, though.
Oooo yes robots
Ganelon: Alright then!
Radek powers up the eyebot.
It flies over to there, three squares (15ft) above ground level.
Bear Soup Guy: Robots versus shadow people
This is the encounter I'll use to convince people that D&D is awesome
Ganelon: That's his standard action. Nobody seems to desperately need healing, so his turn's done.
Apheori (GM): Okay, shadow gravy gets et by boiling blood, and in turn eats at boiling blood.
I have no idea if that actually does anything.
4 damage?
Frezak (GM): Yup.
Apheori (GM): Maaaan, Gravy is nifty.
Okay, how do marks work?
Ganelon: People with marks on them take a -2 to attacks that don't include the guy who marked them.
So if he fired at, say, Gravy and Greibel, he'd be fine, but if it was Radek and George, -2 to both.
That's an area attack example. Single target works the same way, though.
Apheori (GM): And to mark someone... is that a minor, or what? How many can you mark?
Ganelon: There's no limit to how many you can have at a time, but they tend to go away quickly.
Frezak (GM): Gravy can once a turn mark anyone adjacent to him as a free action.
Apheori (GM): Can shadow Gravy mark real Gravy and Amadi the way real Gravy marked them?
Frezak (GM): yup
Apheori (GM): Okay, he marks them.
And then he... uh...
Frezak (GM): Unless she's out of reach because branches.
Apheori (GM): He's got branches too.
Frezak (GM): Gah!
Apheori (GM): I guess the shadow Gravy assumes the form of the fearsome ram-tree, takes a step back, and then does the associated attack.
rolling 1d20 + 9 vs fort?
(
10
)
+9
=
19
Frezak (GM): yep
Apheori (GM):
rolling 2d10 + 5
(
6
+
7
)
+5
=
18
Ganelon: You want me to shoot him for that?
I can interrupt by shooting him for you.
Frezak (GM): I would love to not be proned.
Ganelon: It won't stop the attack, just gives resist 5 all.
Frezak (GM): Sure.
Ganelon: Okay!
Apheori (GM): So what does that do?
Radek:
rolling 1d20+12 vs. AC
(
20
)
+12
=
32
Ganelon: This is Shocking Feedback.
Frezak (GM): Hah!
Ganelon: Radek fires his weapon in response to an enemy hitting and dealing damage with an attack. Radek's shot happens first.
Apheori (GM): Resist all is what, +5 to all defenses?
Frezak (GM): no, it's damage reduction.
Ganelon: No, it just subtracts 5 from all incoming damage.
Apheori (GM): Ah.
Okay.
Ganelon: So this is obviously a hit, meaning our Gravy takes only 13 damage total.
And also the shadow one takes...
Apheori (GM): 13 damage and Gravy is thrown back three squares...


AMADI
The shadow Gravedigger assumes the form of the fearsome shadow ram-tree, takes a step back, and then rams the other tree with its shovel, throwing him back a few meters. ''(rolled 19 vs fort)'' Radek shoots it with some sort of lightning pellet, reducing the effectiveness of the shadow's attack and doing what looks like considerable damage. ''(rolled 32 vs AC (natural 20))''
Acrobatics to stay in tree.
 
Radek:
Amadi falls out of the Gravedigger's branches as a result. ''(rolled 10 acrobatics)''
rolling 26+1d6
 
26+
The shadow Radek shoots his counterpart as well with some sort of shadow pellet, to similar, though less potent, effect. ''(rolled 22 vs AC)'' He seems almost to be grumping.
(
 
3
The shadow Greibel summons a massive swarm of clinging insects, clouding the air, centred on Amadi, and covering George, Greibel, both Gravediggers, and Radek as well, eating at Amadi and the other Greibel in particular. Then it swarms away, coalescing around the shadow Greibel in a horrible black cloud, buzzing silently.
)
 
=
Amadi seems mildly surprised at this, and possibly a little pleased - this actually hurt her.
29
 
Ganelon: That much lightning damage.
SHADOW AMADI
Frezak (GM): jeeeez
(silently, to Amadi)
Ganelon: To the shadow.
Are you real?
It's 2[W].
 
The resist 5 lasts until my next turn ends.
Only Amadi and Greibel hear this.
Apheori (GM): 2d10 + 6 ?
Ganelon: It's normally 2d10+6, but critical hits deal maximum possible damage, plus a rolled amount if made with enchanted weapons on top of that.
Apheori (GM): Ah, right.
Ganelon: For a basic +1 weapon, you add 1d6.
Hence, 26+1d6.
Ellemerr:
rolling 1d6 + 9
(
6
)
+9
=
15
acrobvatics
Apheori (GM): 1d6?
Ellemerr: wait
>.>
Apheori (GM) is so lost.
Ellemerr:
rolling 1d20 + 9
(
1
)
+9
=
10
Ganelon: She's just making mistakes.
Apheori (GM): Amadi falls out of the tree.
Ellemerr:... Can I take the d6 instead?
Ganelon: In and out of character, apparently.
Apheori (GM): Can radek shoot radek for shooting radek?
Er, gravy.
Or...
Ellemerr: Heeee
Apheori (GM) falls over.
Ganelon: Yes, actually.
Apheori (GM): Oh blimey.
Ganelon: The only time you can't use an immediate action is on your own turn.
So he can't, say, provoke an opportunity attack and then shoot the person in response to them trying to hit him with that.
Anything else is fair game.
Apheori (GM): Okay, shadow Radek does the same thing to Radek.
Ganelon: So roll a... 1d20+12.
Apheori (GM):
rolling 1d20+12 vs. AC
(
10
)
+12
=
22
Ganelon: Alright. Shadow gravy took 5 less damage from the crit and Radek takes 2d10+6.
Apheori (GM):
rolling 2d10 + 6
(
5
+
10
)
+6
=
21
Wheee.
Shadow Radek grumps.
I don't care if it's out of turn.
Bear Soup Guy: The party is hit with 5 melancholy damage
Ganelon: Grumping is a free action.
You can do those on anyone's turn.
Apheori (GM): Excellent.
Gaurav: 2d10, eep.
Apheori (GM): Is an area burst 1 like the aura of codrichun?
I mean, the same size.
Ganelon: Area burst 1 is a 3x3 square.
Apheori (GM): Aiight.
Ganelon: Like so.
Apheori (GM): What's the most damage Greibel could possibly do?
Bear Soup Guy: Faerie Fire does 3d6+4
Apheori (GM): Heeeeee.
What's the opposite of radiant damage?
Ganelon: Necrotic, generally.
Apheori (GM): Whazzat do?
Ganelon: It's the damage type of shadow magic and most stuff related to the undead.
Previous editions would call it negative energy.
Apheori (GM): Does it do anything special? Or just look funny?
Ganelon: No damage type really does anything special. Attacks that deal necrotic damage tend to also weaken people and/or heal the user vampirically.
Apheori (GM): Mmkay.
Thankee.
Ganelon: Undead tend to be immune or resistant to it - in 3.5 and the like, they were often healed rather than harmed by it.
Divine healing spells, of course, harmed them.
So it's basically like un-healing.
Apheori (GM): Shadow Greibel does clinging drones at Amadi. Does that hit the real Greibel too?
It's a close blast 5.
Ganelon: Close Blast 5 means a 5x5 that must be next to him. So...
Apheori (GM): o____o
Ganelon: Like that.
Apheori (GM): Ooookay, he does that.
Ganelon: Does it target enemies, or creatures?
Apheori (GM): Creatures. So that would include shadow Gravy?
Ganelon: Yes.
Apheori (GM): OKAY.
Gaurav: Clinging Drones sounds like an awesome attack.
Ganelon: Pick an order for people getting hit and then roll 6 times.
Bear Soup Guy: Gaur: It really is
Apheori (GM):
rolling 1d20 + 7 vs amadi fort
(
11
)
+7
=
18
rolling 1d20 + 7 vs George fort
(
2
)
+7
=
9
rolling 1d20 + 7 vs Greibel fort
(
18
)
+7
=
25
rolling 1d20 + 7 vs Shadow Gravy Tree fort
(
19
)
+7
=
26
rolling 1d20 + 7 vs Regular Gravy Tree fort
(
2
)
+7
=
9
rolling 1d20 + 7 vs Radek fort
(
7
)
+7
=
14
Ganelon: I have no idea what this power does, but if it's damage, you only need to roll that once.
And then just compare who gets hit and who gets missed.
I can say for sure that Radek, George, and our Gravy are fine.
Bear Soup Guy: Greibel is decidedly not fine
Apheori (GM):
rolling 2d8 + 5
(
3
+
7
)
+5
=
15
Hits get smacked and are slowed and can't shift (save ends), the miss ones get smacked for half damage.
Poor shadow Gravy.
Ganelon: Half damage in this case is... 7.
Bear Soup Guy: Also all enemies can't shift while adjacent to shadowgreibel for the rest of the encounter
Apheori (GM): Wheeeee.
Amadi seems mildly surprised and possibly a little pleased by her own hurtings. But man, that hurt.
Apheori (GM): Did anyone take off damage for themselves?
Oh, okay.
Ellemerr: I did.
Apheori (GM): Everyone do that.
Ganelon: I did as well.
Bear Soup Guy: Done
Ganelon: You'll have to do George.
Apheori (GM): Wheee.
I'll assume Frezak did Gravy even though he has so much health I can't even tell.
Ganelon: If so, this is a reminder that he still has resist 5 until my turn ends.
Frezak (GM): I wasn't hit.
(To Amadi): Shadow Amadi asks if you're real.
Apheori (GM): Miss does half damage.
Ganelon: You were missed, but this is a daily.
Frezak (GM): right
Ganelon: So take 2. (Wow)
Apheori (GM): Oh, right.
Forgot about that.
Frezak (GM): I FEAR NO FAERIES
I AM TREEEEE


AMADI
AMADI
More or less. They think I am. I think. And that might be good enough. Does anyone think you are?
More or less. They think I am. I think. And that might be good enough. Does anyone think you are?
Apheori (GM): Shadow Amadi walks up to Amadi and pokes her. There's a massive spark, but it doesn't do any damage.
(To Amadi): I'm real. I'm real. I'm real, I'm real, I'm real!
Apheori (GM): From Shadow.
Apheori (GM) gestures vaguely.


The shadow Amadi walks up to the other Amadi and pokes her. There's a massive spark, but it doesn't actually hurt either of them.
SHADOW AMADI
(silently)
I'm real. I'm real. I'm real, I'm real, I'm real!
AMADI
AMADI
(grinning)
You don't sound like you believe that.
You don't sound like you believe that.
Amadi grins.
 
Apheori (GM): The shadow Amadi shrieks something silently and does a thing.\
The shadow Amadi shrieks something silently and lashes out at her other self with focused sound that nobody can hear. ''(rolled 22 vs reflex)''
rolling 1d20 + 6 vs reflex on Amadi.
 
(
16
)
+6
=
22
Gaurav: Huh.
Ellemerr: hit
Apheori (GM):
rolling 1d10 + 4
(
10
)
+4
=
14
She used focused sound that nobody could hear.
Except Amadi.
I wonder if she can even affect anyone else.
Amadi clutches her ears and no longer looks like being hurt might be a fun thing.
Amadi clutches her ears and no longer looks like being hurt might be a fun thing.
Gaurav: So maybe she's the one we keep around for experimentation.
 
Apheori (GM): Are you kidding? Watch this!
Meanwhile the shadow Rhu takes this opportunity to randomly fall over.
Ganelon: I think we ought to start with dropping them as quickly as possible because PC powers hurt like crazy.
 
Apheori (GM): Shadow Rhu tries to swear an oath of emnity on Rhu and falls over.
'''''Ganelon''' (Radek): Clearly he's been blessed by Hazz. Even more so than you.
Gaurav: It's... a minor action. You don't even have to roll or anything.
 
Ganelon: Clearly he's been blessed by Hazz.
Rhu looks down at the shadow Rhu with something approaching pity, but from the direction of annoyance, and takes a step back and smites his counterpart with consuming light, setting it alight with holy fire. ''(rolled 25 vs reflex (natural 20))'' Above, the eyebot shoots it for good measure.
Even moreso than you.
Apheori (GM): And that
s it for shadow Rhu.
Frezak (GM): Wait for my turn, guys.
Shit is gonna get.... well, devoured.
SCoured.
Ganelon: The eye is watching.
Rhu looks down at shadowRhu with something approaching pity, but from the direction of annoyance.
Apheori (GM): So what's Rhu do? WHAT'S RHU DO? WHAT'S RHU DO?
Gaurav: Radiant Vengeance, is what!
Oh wait no
There's a penalty for ranged attacks from right next to someone, right?
Ganelon: No, you provoke attacks of opportunity for them.
But if you just shift backwards 1, you won't be in range for that to matter.
Gaurav: Should I spend one of my dailies? shadowRhu is being incompetent, so I think I can beat him by just hitting him over and over. But I dunno if I should finish him quickly and come over to help you guys.
Ganelon: Finishing him quickly would be appreciated.
Gaurav: Well then.
Move action: shift one step away.
Ganelon: We're not in a great spot here. People are hurt and I can only heal so much.
Gaurav: Standard: Oath of Consuming Light (Level 5 Daily)
Ganelon: Really not a lot of healing at all.
Frezak (GM): Don't worry about me.
I'm A TREE
Apheori (GM): A felled tree.
Roots sticking up.
Frezak (GM): I CAN RISE AGAIN
Apheori (GM): Defruited.
Frezak (GM): My fruit!
Gaurav:
rolling d20+7 wisdom vs reflex
(
20
)
+7
=
27
YES
Apheori (GM): WAZZAT DO?
WAZZAT DO? WAZZAT DOOOOOO?
Gaurav: That's 2d10+WIS(+5) damage, and I can never remember if you add half level to damage too.
Apheori (GM) clings to Gaurav's head.
Apheori (GM): WHAZZAT DO?
...sorry, I'll stop.
Ganelon: You do not add half level to damage.
So, 25+1d6 damage. Anything else?
Gaurav: What's the 1d6 for?
Ganelon: Crits on a +1 weapon.
Frezak (GM): So you disintegrate Dark Rhu?
Gaurav: "Whenever you hit the target with a divine power, the target takes 1d6 extra radiant damage"
Ganelon: Or if it's not +1, just 25.
Neat.
Gaurav: And that's (also) an aftereffect.
Apheori (GM): So 25?
Gaurav: I used my Implement, but I don't think it's a +1 implement. So yeah, 25.
Ganelon: The extra damage thing is a save-ends effect.
You probably want a thingy for that.
Apheori (GM): Oh.
Ganelon: And if they're vulnerable to radiant damage, this is radiant damage.
Apheori (GM): They ain't.
And I'm quickly losing track of all these effects.
Whoo!
Gaurav: so the aftereffect kicks in after the first one ends, right?
Ganelon: Yes, if he saves against the effect, he gets hit by the aftereffect.
Gaurav: so basically every time I hit shadowRhu with a divine attack, he gets 1d6 extra damage, until he saves against that.
Ganelon: Which is amusingly another save-ends.
Gaurav: THEN that changes to a 1d4 extra damage, until he saves against THAT.
wow.
Ganelon: Though you can't do better than Thrall.
"Hit: The target is Dominated (Save ends)
Aftereffect: The target is Dominated until the end of its next turn."
Gaurav: nice.
Ganelon: (It's in the level 20s)
Gaurav: I should really get an implement for Hazz' at some point. Perhaps a tentacle that I can wave at people.
okay, so that leave a minor. Hmm.
Ganelon: Oh, right.
Gaurav: Can I diplomacy with shadowRhu as a minor? Or would that count as a standard?
Ganelon: You hit him with an attack, so the eyebot shoots a laser at him.
5 damage automatically.
Gaurav: robots are my friend
Ganelon: There are no rules for diplomacy during combat.
Apheori (GM): Go ahead and give it a wonk.
Gaurav:
rolling d20+1 diplomacy against shadowRhu
(
12
)
+1
=
13
Frezak (GM): Remind me of the 'bot's range?
Ganelon: It's 3.
Frezak (GM): As far as lazors go?


RHU
RHU
"Stop this! Your life is worth more than dying in disgrace in a filthy hairy cave!"
Stop this! Your life is worth more than dying in disgrace in a filthy hairy cave!
Frezak (GM): Gah.
 
Ganelon: So Shadowgraves is no longer in range, unfortunately.
The shadow Rhu doesn't respond and just lies there.
Gaurav: WOOOOOOO laserbolt!
 
Apheori (GM): The shadow Rhu doesn't respond and just lies there.
'''''Ganelon''' (Radek): We're not in a great spot here. People are hurt and I can only heal so much.
Gaurav: so that was actually -2 to attack since I range-attacked someone prone, but natural 20 woo
 
and that's the end of Rhu's turn.
'''''Frezak''' (Gravy): Don't worry about me. I'm A TREE.
Frezak (GM): All RIGHY
 
Apheori (GM): Yeah, sorry.
'''''Apheori (GM)''': A felled tree. Roots sticking up.
Frezak (GM): Move: Stand.
 
I use my standard action to let Codrichun briefly touch this world.
'''''Frezak''' (Gravy): I CAN RISE AGAIN.
The tree shakes its leaves, and a boiling could of grit and bone drips from them like ravenous pollen, gathering around the Gravy Tree before blasting out.
 
Apheori (GM): XD
'''''Apheori (GM)''': Defruited.
Frezak (GM): Soo...
 
Shadow Greibel, Shadow Gravy and then Shadow Amadi.
'''''Frezak''' (Gravy): My fruit!
rolling 1D20+12
 
(
The Gravedigger tree gets up and shakes its leaves, and the cloud of grit and bone drips from them like ravenous pollen, gathering around the trunk before blasting out at the three nearest shadows: Greibel, the other tree, and the Amadi.
15
 
)
The cloud tears through them all, scouring at their shapes, before drifting back out of this particular reality. The eyebot also lasers two of them.
+12
 
=
Then the Gravedigger slams the other tree into the ground with his shovel, knocking it over, following through with a mighty chop from the edge of the blade. The silhouettes of branches and crap fly everywhere.
27
 
rolling 1D20+12
And then the Gravedigger proper explodes out of the tree-shape he had adopted, landing next to Amadi.
(
 
14
THE GRAVEDIGGER
)
NOT MY FRUIT!
+12
 
=
The other tree, including dislocated branches and leaves, dissolves into a puddle of strange black liquid. Already it seems to be sinking into the rocky floor of the cavern.
26
rolling 1D20+12
(
15
)
+12
=
27
Vs AC.
Apheori (GM): I think that gets them all.
Ganelon: The eyebot is an excellent multitasker and lasers both of those two for 5 damage each.
Frezak (GM):
rolling 2D10+5
(
8
+
2
)
+5
=
15
And all targets have -2 to all defenses, Save Ends.
so Shadow Gravy takes... 15 damage and the others get 20?
Apheori (GM): Isn't it 10 and 15 on the others?
Ganelon: Shadow Gravy takes 10 'cause he's got resist 5 from Shadow Radek.
The others take 15 and 5 from a laser. 20 total.
Apheori (GM): Ah, I already subtracted the lasers.
Frezak (GM): Dammit!
Dark Gravy isn't dead!
LET US AMEND THAT
Apheori (GM): Man, for a god Amadi sure is squishy.
Ganelon: I don't remember if your chainshovel was used today.
Frezak (GM): Minor action: I slam him again with a shovel.
Ganelon: I guess we were thinking the same thing, though!
Frezak (GM): YEP
rolling 1D20+9
(
18
)
+9
=
27
AC
Gaaah
Ganelon: We're all squishy. Gravy is just exceptionally un-squishy for a PC.
Apheori (GM): How much damage does the shovel do?
Ganelon: Actual gods, though, tend to have immunity to attacks from anything level 20 and below. I think.
Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D10+5
(
10
)
+5
=
15
And he's prone.
Ganelon: I think that's curtains for 'im.
Apheori (GM): Nope, still alive.
Ganelon: Bah!
Apheori (GM): XD
Frezak (GM): Goddam!
Ganelon: Damn my own resist 5!
Apheori (GM): Oh, forgot the resist.
Ganelon: NEW PLAN
SHADOW RADEK'S POWER IS GONNA RUN OUT BUT WE SPITE KILL HIM ANYWAYS
Frezak (GM): I kinda want to execute my dark self now.
I can just AP and end him.
Apheori (GM): Do you want to?
Frezak (GM): YES
Apheori (GM): Pity.
You might have found shadow Radek's response... interesting.
Frezak (GM): Then I can mark the people flanking my fruit.
Ganelon: Interesting?
Frezak (GM): AP!
Apheori (GM): FRUIT.
Ganelon: You mean healing his ass for like 10 and 20 THP?
Frezak (GM): Strength Of Stone!
rolling 1D20+9+2
(
14
)
+9+2
=
25
AC
HRAAAAAAGH
rolling 1D10+5+5
(
10
)
+5+5
=
20
HEADSMAN CHOOOOOP
Bear Soup Guy: The crits are real
Apheori (GM): The Gravy tree smashes the shadow gravy tree into the ground, spilling branches and crap everywhere.
Frezak (GM): And then Gravy explodes out the tree, landing next to Amadi and screaming about fruit.
Apheori (GM): The dissolve into a strange black liquid and sink into the rocky floor of the cavern.
They*
Frezak (GM): And marks the two interlopers.
Apheori (GM): The branches. The dead guy.
Frezak (GM): Doing the desert raider thing again.


RADEK
RADEK
...Interesting.
...Interesting.
Frezak (GM): Turn over!
Apheori (GM): There's a puddle.
Ellemerr: That was pretty awesome.
And I should sleep. >.<
Apheori (GM): But it's shrinking.


THE GRAVEDIGGER
THE GRAVEDIGGER
GERRROF MY FRUUUUIIIIIT! Raaarghaaarglearrrgh.
GERRROF MY FRUUUUIIIIIT! Raaarghaaarglearrrgh.


Apheori (GM): Heee.
George, meanwhile, shoots the shadow George. This unfortunately doesn't kill it.
George shoots the other George!
Gaurav: yay!
brb
Apheori (GM):
rolling 1d20 + 15
(
9
)
+15
=
24
rolling 4d6 + 8
(
5
+
6
+
1
+
3
)
+8
=
23
He grumbles.
Ganelon: Nice shooting
Frezak (GM): Also I get 4 THP from Weight Of Earth.


GEORGE
GEORGE
Fuck.
(backing up)
Oh fuck.


Apheori (GM): The problem is shadow George then does the exact same thing, except at Amadi.
The shadow George, meanwhile, shifts its aim and shoots Amadi instead. Looking very, very surprised, she falls limply to the cavern floor, not moving.
rolling 1d20 + 15
(
10
)
+15
=
25
Ganelon: I can't saaave heerrrrr
(Well actually, I could on my turn)
Ellemerr: Hit
Also when I said I should sleep I meant I should sleep.
Apheori (GM): Noooo.
Ganelon: Yeah, I know.
Apheori (GM) clings to Ellemerr.
Apheori (GM):
rolling 4d6 + 6
(
6
+
4
+
2
+
3
)
+6
=
21
Frezak (GM): good lord
Ellemerr: I have to get up in 7 hours, devil woman!
Also OUCH
Bear Soup Guy: The amount of crits today is staggering
Gaurav: ^ truth
Ganelon: You should have seen Frezak GMing the Fell Taints.
Frezak (GM): Those Taints.
They were the Fellest.


GEORGE
GEORGE
Wait, what?
Wait, what?
 
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(From Ellemerr): Do I disappear on unconciousness? I mean, it's not sleep...
Bear Soup Guy: I need to shower
Gaurav: We could continue on Sunday if that works for everyone.
(To Ellemerr): Yeah, that's what I need to think on. XD
Ganelon: Or give them any sort of healing and they regain consciousness.
Bear Soup Guy: Should be good for me
Ganelon: No complaints here.
(To Ellemerr): If they take you out entirely the key would get wrecked, but these have all been normal attacks, which can't actually do that...
Ganelon: If we're stopping, though, allow me to make a summary of these silly icons because there's no way anyone's remembering it all otherwise.
Apheori (GM): Oh, yeah.
Gaurav: But I don't have to go for a while, so if you want to go on, I'm game.
Bear Soup Guy: excellent point
Apheori (GM): Sunday works for me too, and THANK YOU GAN.
I expect Frezak probably needs to sleep too.
Gaurav: Trees don't sleep.
Apheori (GM): YES THEY DO.
THEY BREATHE BACKWARDS AND STUFF IN THEIR SLEEP.
Gaurav: They breathe backwards in the day, too. They just also breathe... forwards at the same time.
Ganelon: Shadow Greibel and Shadow Amadi have a -2 to defenses until the end of Gravy's next turn. They are also both marked by Gravy.
Shadow Amadi has a -2 to attacks which should actually have expired by now, so take of the jagged spiral thingy.
Greibel is slowed and cannot shift (save ends).
No-one can shift while next to Shadow Greibel for the rest of this fight.
Shadow Rhu is the target of Rhu's oath, prone, and takes 1d6 radiant damage whenever Rhu hits him with a divine power (save ends). If he saves against it, he instead takes 1d4 radiant (save ends again).
Frezak (GM): The -2 to defenses is SE.
Ganelon: Oh? Sorry, then.
Frezak (GM): Codrichuuuuun
Ganelon: Shadow Greibel and Shadow Amadi have a -2 to defenses (save ends).
That's all. See you all Sunday.
Bear Soup Guy: Fantastic
Apheori (GM): Excellent.
Gaurav: What time Sunday? Usual, or same as today?
Apheori (GM): We are on shadow Radek's turn.
Ganelon: "When the DM is conscious."
Bear Soup Guy: ^
Apheori (GM): That.
Gaurav: Perfect.
Apheori (GM): I like 17:00 UTC. That seems like a good time to aim to all be here by.
...because I probably CAN.
Bear Soup Guy: Sounds good to me
See you all Sunday then!
Good day, one and all
Gaurav: Bye everybody!
(To Ellemerr): I guess Amadi is just unconscious and collapsed for now. So we'll handle it like normal unless one of the shadows does an actual something weird to her.
(To Ellemerr): A normal kill (non fancy shadow stuff) will kill her body, but with the key she's basically untouchable technically anyway and will just come back, but if they wreck the key, badness will ensue.
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INT. Cave cavern thing
The shadow versions of the party loiter uncertainly before them. The copies, solid and three dimensional, are exact - there is even a shadow Rasputin on the shadow Greibel's head - but absolutely black. To Amadi and Greibel, they seem to be gleaming.
Because the shadow Gravedigger-tree is right on top of where the pinpoint hole was, it is also unclear whether or not the hole actually closed.
Everything is silent.
Then the shadow Amadi jumps out of its tree and starts to approach its vivid other self.
AMADI
(to her shadow-self)
I'm not the whole. Are you the whole? Probably not. This is a bad idea.
She hears it repeat the same back at her, but the words aren't quite there.
The shadow Greibel picks up some water and it turns into a blob in its hand.
The shadow Rhu reaches out to poke the other Rhu. To Rhu, it looks like a dark, crisp-edged silhouette, and, unlike most everything else he can see, not hairy. It feels like nothing at all.
RADEK
...That's not right. Not at all.
Rhu steps past his shadow self, and the shadow turns after him.
The shadow Amadi looks up at Amadi and then licks the Gravedigger tree below her.
Ellemerr (Amadi): So I'm sitting in the Gravy-Tree. And my shadow is walking up and... licking my tree?
Amadi suppresses a sudden urge to lick the Gravy tree as well.
Rhu waves his arms around the shadow Rhu form where the hair should be.
RHU
(to the shadow Rhu)
...why aren't you hairy?
The shadow Rhu tries to hit Rhu with its maul, though it misses. (rolled 13 vs AC)
The tree bristles in fury.
The shadow tree also bristles in what might be fury.
Then the shadow Rhu tries to grab the other Rhu's head, hands outstretched. This doesn't work either, and it winds up smearing a palm across the side of Rhu's face. This time the touch burns like ice.
RHU
HEY!
Rhu responds by slicing at his shadow with a strike through the fabric of space itself, but misses as well. (rolled 14 vs AC) Only after does he remember to swear an oath of enmity against it.
The Gravedigger, still being a tree, summons his cloud of boiling blood and grit and then attempts to pummel the shadow Greibel into the earth with his shovel. It doesn't entirely succeed.
Meanwhile the Georges kneel down and aim their weapons at each other.
Greibel decides now would be a good time to try to summon a lightning storm inside a cave. Then he thinks better of it and instead calls forth the spirit pack on his and the Gravedigger's other selves. The spirits trample through and out another wall without any apparent affect. (rolled 12, 11 vs reflex)
GREIBEL
I guess they were....
(he puts on glasses)
Spooked.
Amadi sticks her tongue out at her shadow and climbs higher up in the tree, viciously mocking her black clone as it's left behind.
It staggers from the force of the attack.
Radek shakes his head and powers up the eyebot and sets it loose over the battle.
RADEK
Try to leave one unharmed for study, please.
The shadow Gravedigger assumes the form of the fearsome shadow ram-tree, takes a step back, and then rams the other tree with its shovel, throwing him back a few meters. (rolled 19 vs fort) Radek shoots it with some sort of lightning pellet, reducing the effectiveness of the shadow's attack and doing what looks like considerable damage. (rolled 32 vs AC (natural 20))
Amadi falls out of the Gravedigger's branches as a result. (rolled 10 acrobatics)
The shadow Radek shoots his counterpart as well with some sort of shadow pellet, to similar, though less potent, effect. (rolled 22 vs AC) He seems almost to be grumping.
The shadow Greibel summons a massive swarm of clinging insects, clouding the air, centred on Amadi, and covering George, Greibel, both Gravediggers, and Radek as well, eating at Amadi and the other Greibel in particular. Then it swarms away, coalescing around the shadow Greibel in a horrible black cloud, buzzing silently.
Amadi seems mildly surprised at this, and possibly a little pleased - this actually hurt her.
SHADOW AMADI
(silently, to Amadi)
Are you real?
Only Amadi and Greibel hear this.
AMADI
More or less. They think I am. I think. And that might be good enough. Does anyone think you are?
The shadow Amadi walks up to the other Amadi and pokes her. There's a massive spark, but it doesn't actually hurt either of them.
SHADOW AMADI
(silently)
I'm real. I'm real. I'm real, I'm real, I'm real!
AMADI
(grinning)
You don't sound like you believe that.
The shadow Amadi shrieks something silently and lashes out at her other self with focused sound that nobody can hear. (rolled 22 vs reflex)
Amadi clutches her ears and no longer looks like being hurt might be a fun thing.
Meanwhile the shadow Rhu takes this opportunity to randomly fall over.
Ganelon (Radek): Clearly he's been blessed by Hazz. Even more so than you.
Rhu looks down at the shadow Rhu with something approaching pity, but from the direction of annoyance, and takes a step back and smites his counterpart with consuming light, setting it alight with holy fire. (rolled 25 vs reflex (natural 20)) Above, the eyebot shoots it for good measure.
RHU
Stop this! Your life is worth more than dying in disgrace in a filthy hairy cave!
The shadow Rhu doesn't respond and just lies there.
Ganelon (Radek): We're not in a great spot here. People are hurt and I can only heal so much.
Frezak (Gravy): Don't worry about me. I'm A TREE.
Apheori (GM): A felled tree. Roots sticking up.
Frezak (Gravy): I CAN RISE AGAIN.
Apheori (GM): Defruited.
Frezak (Gravy): My fruit!
The Gravedigger tree gets up and shakes its leaves, and the cloud of grit and bone drips from them like ravenous pollen, gathering around the trunk before blasting out at the three nearest shadows: Greibel, the other tree, and the Amadi.
The cloud tears through them all, scouring at their shapes, before drifting back out of this particular reality. The eyebot also lasers two of them.
Then the Gravedigger slams the other tree into the ground with his shovel, knocking it over, following through with a mighty chop from the edge of the blade. The silhouettes of branches and crap fly everywhere.
And then the Gravedigger proper explodes out of the tree-shape he had adopted, landing next to Amadi.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
NOT MY FRUIT!
The other tree, including dislocated branches and leaves, dissolves into a puddle of strange black liquid. Already it seems to be sinking into the rocky floor of the cavern.
RADEK
...Interesting.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
GERRROF MY FRUUUUIIIIIT! Raaarghaaarglearrrgh.
George, meanwhile, shoots the shadow George. This unfortunately doesn't kill it.
GEORGE
(backing up)
Oh fuck.
The shadow George, meanwhile, shifts its aim and shoots Amadi instead. Looking very, very surprised, she falls limply to the cavern floor, not moving.
GEORGE
Wait, what?


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