Paralogue 3: Fine, I'll Do It, Dood!

DevilMaster (GM): the last night as you went to sleep in the
other inn
you received a note
from the priest
"Training is to be accelerated due to special circumstances. Meet in temple tomorrow. Be prepared."
Atticus: "Accelerated? He doesn't mean..."
DevilMaster (GM): "Mean what?"
-Fazij
Atticus: "Well, I think he means we're going to fight a devil."
DevilMaster (GM): "Oh."
Atticus: "It is the most important step in becoming a Hell Knight."
"One must prove their mastery over the forces of Hell."
DevilMaster (GM): "Ah, I see."
"Well then, let's try to get a good night's sleep."
"Can't kick ass while we're tired."
Atticus: "I agree, make sure to try out that mutagen recipe you found in there."
"It will likely come in handy."
DevilMaster (GM): "Yeah, worth a shot."
DevilMaster (GM): you arrive at the temple the next day
and the priest of Asmodeus welcomes you
besides him
this imp
wearing a signifier mask
Priest: "Welcome, Atticus. I regret if my note last night has caught you off your guard."
"But...we recently received a special visitor that required the hastening of your trials."
he gestures to the imp
"His name is Kal-Ghul, and will explain further."
"I am the familiar of Giodarno Torchia."
"The leader of the Order of the Gate."
"He has seen fit to send me to personally oversee your training."
"And I say your training comes to fruition now."
Atticus: "I take it things are not progressing at the front of the Worldwound as much as Torchia would like."
DevilMaster (GM): "The Worldwound is an important tool to the Gate."
"We would like to understand and explore it."
"You seem to be our best option at doing so."
Atticus: "True. I've MET the others exploring it."
"They are not ones to cooperate with he order..."
DevilMaster (GM): "This is true."
"But you are special."
"You wield the same sort of power as my master."
"And could perhaps turn the tide in favor of the gate."
Atticus: "Torchia has...?"
"I see."
DevilMaster (GM): "He is unimportant at the moment."
"You are."
"Unimportant in regards to your training, in any case."
Atticus: "Well then, lead us to this task..."
DevilMaster (GM): "Certainly."
"Your foe shall be..."
he clears his throat
"An imp."
Atticus: "Are you... quite sure?"
DevilMaster (GM): "This is no ordinary imp."
"He possess powers...quite beyond the ordinary."
Atticus: "Interesting..."
DevilMaster (GM): "He is currently being kept in a small demiplane of my master's design."
"We believe he has summoned a companion there to accompany him."
"If this is the case, your...manservant may join you in this fight."
it grins
Atticus: "How did you rope this most unusual creature into participating today?"
DevilMaster (GM): "Does it matter?"
Atticus shrugs "I suppose not. It will be dead soon anyways, it's life story is pointless."
DevilMaster (GM): "Very well."
it pulls out a small stick
arcana id's
Atticus: Fazij 22
DevilMaster (GM): rod of familiar metamagic
"If you have made the necessary preparations, I shall transport you there."
"Are you ready?"
Atticus makes the necessary preparations
Atticus: "Yes."
DevilMaster (GM): Fazij: "Yes."
DevilMaster (GM): Kal-Ghul: "Then so be it."
casts a spell
Atticus: Fazij 12 Atticus 9
DevilMaster (GM): nope
Atticus: wow
DevilMaster (GM): you are transported
ok
this is a floating island
in the middle of nowhere
you see a devilish creature on the island
it turns and faces you
Atticus: "That is an unusual Imp."
DevilMaster (GM): and roars
planes id's
it has a glowing symbol on its forehead
Atticus: 27
DevilMaster (GM): it is
an eidolon!
BAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAAHAHHA
ok
evil laugh done
roll init
DevilMaster (GM): 21 10
FanaticRat: Oh god, floating islands in the middle of demiplanse
are where all the bad shit happens
Atticus: Atticus Init 6
Fazij Init 23
"THE IMP IS A SUMMONER?!"
DevilMaster (GM): "So...we kill two of them?"
COMBAT TIME
DevilMaster (GM): fazij turn
Atticus: Deadly Dodge, charges
take your aoo
DevilMaster (GM): ok
oh and also
its form appears
wavy and indistinct
Atticus: gdi
DevilMaster (GM): 11
misses by a mile
Atticus: misses
DevilMaster (GM): with its flaming claws
Atticus: deadly dodge
+1 Rapier 33 does 9
DevilMaster (GM): roll to confirm
Atticus: +1 Rapier 18 does 12
+ stuff
DevilMaster (GM): confirms
._.
Atticus: 21 damage
DevilMaster (GM): its multiplier is x2 right?
ok
Atticus: yes
now charge attack
+1 Rapier 33 does 11
hahahaha
DevilMaster (GM): FUCK YOU
Atticus: +1 Rapier 28 does 12
DevilMaster (GM): CONFIRMS
ASSHOLE
Atticus: ok end turn lol
DevilMaster (GM): wait
roll 2d100
Atticus: oh
DevilMaster (GM): b/c miss chance
Atticus: 72
43
DevilMaster (GM): ok both hit
>:(
DevilMaster (GM): ok
Eidolon seems to heal up a bit!
you also hear the casting of a spell
8
Atticus turn
the spell seems to come from behind eidolon
Atticus: ok first let me look up a spell
use inspired spell to cast
DevilMaster (GM): no
Atticus: INVISIBILITY PURGE
DevilMaster (GM): gdi
will save I presume
DC?
Atticus: no save
DevilMaster (GM): oh
fuck you
Atticus: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/i/invisibility-purge
35 feet radius
invisibilty is negated
DevilMaster (GM): well
that hoses most of my strategies
lol
Atticus: ok, that was my standard
my move is
Channel 16 halved, make 2 DC 22 Will saves if not mythic or be dazed for 1 round
Atticus: if mythic, 1 save
DevilMaster (GM): 21 29 imp
lulz
Atticus: 8 damage then only
DevilMaster (GM): 18 17 eidolon
nope
Atticus: no action for him
DevilMaster (GM): :<
Atticus: no other bonus though
DevilMaster (GM): quit roflstomping my plans
DevilMaster (GM): Hezzenbeneth turn
DevilMaster (GM): go fuck a landmine lol
Atticus: lol
DevilMaster (GM): fazij turn
Atticus: Deadly Dodge, charges imp
want to take an aoo with eidolon?
DevilMaster (GM): oh right
aoos aren't an action!
well guess waht
he has
combat reflexes
Atticus: k
FanaticRat: Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
DevilMaster (GM): 28
23
Atticus: nope
nope
DevilMaster (GM): gdi
Atticus: deadly dodge
DevilMaster (GM): GDI
Atticus: +1 Rapier 29 does 12
+1 Rapier 16 does 12
DevilMaster (GM): second misses
shoulda pumped a few more levels on them....
Atticus: +1 Rapier 27 does 10
add 2 to attack roll also
for charge
on this last one I mean
DevilMaster (GM): ok
does less dmg than it should
imp turn
Atticus turn
Atticus: move action
17 halved, make 2 DC 22 Will saves if not mythic or be dazed for 1 round
8 damage to both
DevilMaster (GM): eidolon vanishes
24
11
dammit
Atticus: I cast Spiritual Ally
DevilMaster (GM): remind me of deets?
Atticus: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/s/spiritual-ally
um dood that acts as flank buddy
standard action cast time
can make an attack now
DevilMaster (GM): remember: it has a amce
Atticus: yes
damage is the same always though
DevilMaster (GM): this is true
Atticus: 29 7 Force Damage
DevilMaster (GM): fazij turn
Atticus: +1 Rapier 25 does 12
9 Sneak Attack
DevilMaster (GM): ok
imp still dazed at how it is being obliterated
atty turn
Atticus: as move
14 halved, make 2 DC 22 Will saves if not mythic or be dazed for 1 round
DevilMaster (GM): 25 18
Atticus: dazed
I cast Prayer
thing attacks
16 7
DevilMaster (GM): nope
sorry was drinking
Atticus: oh hey Ullar, what is SR?
DevilMaster (GM): but no liquor
so
Atticus: 16 22
DevilMaster (GM): getting high on water
no SR
Atticus: do either of those make it?
oh
FanaticRat: You don't get high on liquor..
DevilMaster (GM): ik that
Atticus: ok, fazij turn
DevilMaster (GM): thatsthejoke.jpg
Atticus: +1 Rapier 16 does 12
DevilMaster (GM): nope
Atticus: +3 to hit
DevilMaster (GM): still nope
Atticus: surge then
1
DevilMaster (GM): lul
nope
Atticus: aww
my turn then?
DevilMaster (GM): why did I not go with erinyes
erinyes woulda been cooler
flyin around
shootin its arrows and shit
Atticus: move channel
16 halved, make 2 DC 22 Will saves if not mythic or be dazed for 1 round
DevilMaster (GM): also fallen angel duel
13 26
would be cool
give it levels in ranger too
favored enemy native outsiders
Atticus: um... Idk what else to do so end lol
oh
thing
DevilMaster (GM): spiritual ally
Atticus: 17 12
sigh
Fazij then
+1 Rapier 27 does 12
+1 damage
10 Sneak attack
Atticus: Atticus channels
8 halved, make 2 DC 20 Will saves if not mythic or be dazed for 1 round
DevilMaster (GM): 22 18
Atticus: dazed
sa attacks
14 12
nope
fazij
+1 Rapier 24 does 12
DevilMaster (GM): down
Atticus: +1 damage
12
DevilMaster (GM): killed
congrats you asshole
Atticus: blame mythic lol
DevilMaster (GM): mythic channel broken!!!!1111!!!!!1111!1111!
but yeah
Atticus: mythic improved channel is borken imo
DevilMaster (GM): you get transported out
"I see."
"You are more powerful than was anticipated."
-imp speaking
Atticus: "Your boss has the same power, does he not?"
DevilMaster (GM): "...He does."
"Then again, I should have expected no less..."
"From one of your kind."
Atticus: "If you mean Aasimar, I will pay no heed to your 'compliments'."
DevilMaster (GM): he grins again
"Let me ask you a question, Atticus."
"How and why was Baalzebul stripped of his celestial being?"
Atticus: "He lost it to the traitorous intentions of his creator, Asmodeus."
"Or... so I was told."
DevilMaster (GM): "Let me tell you a story, Atticus."
the imp begins pacing
"Many years ago, soon after the dawn of time..."
"There was a war in the heavens."
"Asmodeus had chosen to rebel, decrying that all mortal life was chaotic in nature and that it must be destroyed."
"Baalzebul was his head general in this matter."
DevilMaster (GM): "The two fought, and eventually broke away."
"Asmodeus founded his new regions of Hell, as Baalzebul trained the other archdevils."
"When Baalzebul joined his master in Hell, he expected to rule at his master's side."
"Btu this was not to be."
"Asmodeus had created Mephistopholes to be his new second-in-command, a creature birthed from Hell itself."
DevilMaster (GM): "Baalzebul was furious."
"He expected a greater reward."
"He went to Asmodeus, demanding that he be given a greater realm than Cocytus."
"Asmodeus simply asked why, and Baalzebul listed all the thing he had done in his master's service."
"The Prince of Darkness responded so:"
DevilMaster (GM): "'You are as I made you and have done only as I will.
Yet, if you imagine yourself lord of the multitudes,
so be it.'”
"And Asmodeus stripped him of his celestial being, transforming him into nothing more - and yet still more - than a swarm of flies."
"So Baalzebul fled."
"But Asmodeus could not destroy this being entirely."
DevilMaster (GM): "So he cast it to the cosmos, so that Baalzebul could never regain it."
"Many fragments came to rest on various worlds."
Atticus: "I...had not heard that part."
"They took many years, but eventually..."
DevilMaster (GM): "They were able to form a new life of their own."
"This is my story."
"Now."
"Shall I think for you, Atticus? Or will you arrive at the conclusion on your own?"
"Why has Baalzebul never fully withdrawn his powers?"
Atticus: "I believe I get the gist of it..."
DevilMaster (GM): "Good."
Atticus: "Then why... how did I end up in the Dark Cathedral?"
DevilMaster (GM): "Baalzebul sent his following to guide you in his ways."
"He hoped that if you fulfilled a crusade against chaos..."
"Seeing as you were once him, it might curry some small favor with the Prince of Darkness."
Atticus: "...This is why he ordered me to die in the crusades too..."
DevilMaster (GM): "So that he could have one bit restored to him."
"He has pined for many years for his form."
Atticus: "And through all his machinations, Asmodeus just watches him, unphazed?"
DevilMaster (GM): "He amuses the Prince of Darkness."
"But Asmodeus has seen fit to put him in his place this time."
Atticus: "I can see why... He had an 'amusing' plan to say the least."
"How so?"
DevilMaster (GM): "You no longer owe any allegiance to the Lord of Flies."
"You have forsaken him."
Atticus: "Yes, but that was my decision not his."
DevilMaster (GM): the imp grins
"Think what you like."
"But."
"You wish to be independent of the gods."
"You wish for power of your own."
Atticus: "I will... Though now that you mention it, I would not be surprised if the Prince of Darkness had a hand in events that have come to pass."
DevilMaster (GM): "I can see this."
"Or rather, I have been informed."
Atticus: "And who does not wish for their own power?"
DevilMaster (GM): "The oaths of a cleric are to devote themselves to service, Atticus."
"Service to their deity."
"But no matter."
"We can quell these rebellious urges."
he brings out
an odd-looking scroll
DevilMaster (GM): "You wish for power of your own?"
"And still to be in service?"
"I have it right here."
he opens it
planes check
Atticus: 22
DevilMaster (GM): it is
an infernal contract
Atticus: "I see... is this part of the initiation process or something special?"
DevilMaster (GM): "Feel free to take it and peruse it. I require no answer now."
"You know very little of Hell, it seems."
"Most dedicated to Hell have little to offer."
DevilMaster (GM): "But you have something Asmodeus would like."
DevilMaster (GM): "Total, unswerving devotion."
Atticus reads over the contract
DevilMaster (GM): "As a fragment of an archdevil, who knows what you could become?"
Atticus reads the document
Atticus: "This is not a contract to Asmodeus. It is a contract to you."
DevilMaster (GM): "Do tell."
Atticus: "Under the clause about punishment, it allows Asmodeus' servants to allot punishment if they see fit... Do you really think the Prince of Darkness would allow his goons so much control?
DevilMaster (GM): "Note the 'appointed' part."
he rolls his eyes
"You are merely a speck in the Lord of Hell's eye, Atticus."
"But you are still a speck."
Atticus: "There is another question I have about it... If this form I have is part of my inheritance of Baalzebul's celestial being, why would he wish to change it?"
DevilMaster (GM): "To convert you, body and soul, towards his cause."
"To prevent Baalzebul from having even a scrap."
"I do not know the precise answer."
Atticus: "You must also think me a fool. Why would I trade my form, my will, my very being for something as trivial as a wish?"
Atticus: "A wish is nothing. Fleeting."
"I do not ask for wishes to be granted. I fulfill my desires on my own."
DevilMaster (GM): "Very well."
"Then go fulfill them."
he rolls up the contract
"You are still a part of the Gate."
"And you still answer to Torchia."
"Keep this in mind."
Atticus: "I beseech you send him my regards."
DevilMaster (GM): he suddenly speaks with a different voice
"I have received them."
the imp's eyes become shrewd, inquisitive
Atticus: "Do note that my refusal of your familiar's contract does not negate my intentions to receive training by your order."
DevilMaster (GM): "Certainly. We are all masters of Hell, after all."
DevilMaster (GM): "I shall arrange for your transportation to the Worldwound, and you shall receive training on the way."
DevilMaster (GM): "I will tell you this, however:"
"I have heard some things from the front."
"Very interesting things."
"Especially regarding a certain succubus."
"Arueshalae is her name."
Atticus: "It will be nice to catch up with old 'friends'."
DevilMaster (GM): "Apparently, she has gone against her demonic nature."
Atticus: "How so?"
DevilMaster (GM): "This is what I wish for you to find out."
Atticus: "Why are we concerned for an errant demon's behavior?"
DevilMaster (GM): the imp rolls his eyes
Atticus: "We would kill it all the same, no?"
DevilMaster (GM): "If one outsider can change their colors - even becoming a self-indulgent worshipper of Desna - perhaps any can."
Atticus: "I see... you want me to attempt to convert her?"
DevilMaster (GM): "Perhaps, if the oppurtunity presents itself."
Atticus: "She WOULD be an invaluable ally to us..."
DevilMaster (GM): "But for the moment, simply learn about her and the method by which she 'ascended'"
Atticus: "Understood."
DevilMaster (GM): Fazij has no clue wtf is going on
jsyk
imps talking funny
weird paper
Atticus: "Fazij is particularly good at finding out things from the peasants."
DevilMaster (GM): Fazij nods
DevilMaster (GM): "Very well. I shall send further instructions as they are warranted."
the imp reverts to his old pose
Atticus: "That was enlightening."
"I suppose we should head towards the Worldwound on the morrow."
DevilMaster (GM): Kal-Ghul: "I certainly hope so. He will contact you through me at a later time."
he flies out of the temple doors
btw
the priest wasn't in the room
when you returned from fighting summoner
Atticus: "Let's find the priest and explain the situation. I am sure given the circumstances, he can be persuaded to give us something for the road..."
DevilMaster (GM): priest gives you 3500 gp to spend in the town
after he hears of the things that happened
"Use it wisely."
DevilMaster (GM): "You'll need it."