The Eye of Anubis: OOC Thread

[Kaitou Kage]

We'll work on it

[NeoTiamat]

A quick announcement before I go post.

Your wonderful and saintly DM (no, not Isabella, me), has caught a cold, which is generally making me snuffly and sore-throated and less than happy. As such, posting might be a bit irregular over the next week or so, since in addition to figuring out classes, I also have to wait for the medicines to get me up to a sufficient level of not-wanting-to-curl-up-and-die.

That said, I'll try and keep things fairly regular, but don't be amazed if a post is late by a day or twelve hours.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

Hey, don't worry about it. Take good care of yourself and get better, okay?

[The Whistler]

Just a thought--how're we going to spring those monks before everything gets interesting? Granted, things are rather up in the air at the moment, but we're probably at the "everyone start running for the monastery" phase now, so we should get on top of hostage-releasing whenever we can.

[Nathan of the FoS]

The Chazzman is on it. Hostage release begins next round.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

Good job on the release! Now for the rest of the rescue. Can the cannon reach that bodak? If so, give it hell. If not ... Is it possible for the living survivors to keep ahead of the bodak and lead it on a circle round the fire, then loop back to the monastery and rush inside? Or perhaps those of us who can still fly can pick up one or two monks a piece and carry them to safety? Just a thought ...

As for the heavily wounded ... Yeah. If Tomas would fly to the monastery under his own power and Andre would be so kind as to carry Lia in, I think that'd probably be best. ^^; High altitude, please, we don't know where that stalker's at.

[lostboy]

Right this is a touch hypothetical and would require some healing to be done first, but the Bodak thing has a GAZE attack right? Khalil is rockign a dose of powder of the black veil which causes blindness to everyone near him except him for 2d4 rounds, anyne got blindfight and want ot come on a suicide mission?

alternatively if I get hihg enough to be out of range of the gaze attack can I drop a molotov on it?

[NeoTiamat]

You don't really need the powder. You can just close your eyes as you charge it. The main issue with that is that, well, yes, you are blind and can't see it, at which point the salt mummies and the Mohrg have fun. And the Mohrg can paralyze you, which isn't exactly that much better.

You can certainly get some altitude and drop molotovs on the Bodak.

[Cronax]

Hi, I've been lurking on this campaign and giving combat and rules related advice to NT for a little while now.

In case any of you don't want to dig it up, Gaze attacks work like this:

If you're in the radius during your turn, you need to make a save.
The bodak can also actively try to use the gaze on an individual on its turn. (So you could potentially need to make 2 saves per round)

There are two things your character can do to mitigate this:

Averting your eyes: when doing this, you only need to make the saves listed above 50% of the time (rolled randomly). The bodak however has concealment against you (20% miss chance)

Closing your eyes: the gaze is entirely ineffective against you, but you suffer the penalties for being blind (50% miss chance, move half speed, flat footed, etc)

[Isabella]

Hey, Tomas, isn't your shield Death Warded?

[NeoTiamat]

Yes. Yes it is.

Also, regarding Gaze Attacks. You have to make the save under two situations.

-You start your round in the Bodak's Gaze-Aura. (Probably because it moved into range)

-The Bodak takes a Standard Action to look at you specifically.

In other words, you can pass through the aura on your turn without problems, so long as you don't start your next round in it. It is, however, possible, to be forced to make two saves in a round, once from the active Gaze-attack and once from the passive gaze attack.

[lostboy]

Ok the plan hasnt exactly worked out that well, therefore can I suggest that the crew of the cannon ship bail out and give the rest of us a hand?

We've got Khalil, Tomas, Ishaq and Jervis all on fairly negative hp, Charles facing down something nasty, Lia and Andre tackling a vampire on their own, and there isnt anything else much to shoot the cannon at or indeed even bother enticing onto the ship. So how about some melee support and perhaps a tad of healing?

On the other hand life would be much easier if I could roll decent numbers on attack rolls.....*sigh*

[DocBeard]

-30 isn't that big of a deal for me. The -60 I was at while alone with Cavendish was a problem. I could /really/ use a dispell on this exhausted, but I understand if it is a low priority.

And yeah, my shield is, plus my modified fort save is +14 so I don't think I can actually fail unless Neo counts natural 1s that still make the DC as failures. My trouble with the movement system is why I made a straight line the other night, I was going to try and cut the Bodak off, but Jervis seems to have him handled, while the Morg has a beeline at Charles and the monks, so I'm cutting it off instead.

I do the leaps tall buildings in a single bound jump instead of straight up flying because the former seems awesome on a desert map.

[NeoTiamat]

-As a side note, I fear that a Dispel Magic wouldn't help Tomas. At the moment, he's just really tired, nothing magical about it. On the other hand, I believe that Kuzan has some spells that can help with that, Healing Lorecall, I think.

-Remember that there's still the Necroelemental Invisible Stalker somewhere in the general area. Although if you think about it, you might be able to figure out what its doing.

-Tomas's shield trumps any required rolls, so he's quite safe from the Bodak's Gaze.

[Kaitou Kage]

So Kuzan would also be immune from the death gaze right now because of his death ward spell?