A glabrezu is a big four armed demon (two pincer-like and two normal) with a dog-like head. Its not quite a big as a balor (being only aorund 15 feet tall) and its general aim in life is to corrupt mortals with promises of power and wealth. It generally prefers to avoid fighting but when angry its really nasty. When in combat their battle spells are mostly fairly unsubtle. It can grant wishes though, but generally requires that the wish causes pain or suffering or demands some sacrifice in exchange. I say we try and see if we can get on its good side.

I just described it in my most recent post...and I also recommend that we find a virgin to trade for a wish.

Actually, a Glabrezu is BIGGER than a Balor (Balors are about 12 feet tall), but not as powerful. A balor is smarter, physically stronger, and has considerably more potent magical abilities.

I'm glad you put in that Za'rel didn't drop her guard Dragonsbane, as, even with the fanatical honor-worship, she still dosen't trust deamons. Not to mention, she essentially challenged him first.

Za'rel wouldn't drop her guard, I knew that much, and demons HAVE no honor! ;)

Still...parleying may or may not work. Depends on how things turn out, and partially on whether or not Myrra and Mercury actually join in.

One more thing...a typical Glabrezu has a Challenge Rating of 16, it's not some uber-demon. We can kill it without significant injuries if we move fast enough.

Approximately just-slightly weaker than the CR 17 Modified Progenitor Iron-Golem. Their 13 normally, but, you'd think with all the modifications I gave it, It'd be about 17 or better...

Right, well, if he wants a swift death, he can beg for one. By beg, I mean, attack DB.

who, me?:p

[edit] Well, are you going to post, or what?

Obviously. Aeryn is a level 500 Wizard/50 fighter. He can take him, no sweat.

No... I'm not posting. Unless your stupid enough to think Za'rel is just going to jump in and shred the deamon while your talking to him.
She's assumed to be taking a rather nonchalant, ready-stance, perpared to either leap into combat, or out of the way of a spell.

((DB, finish your DnD char while your at it, will ya?))

Look...I'm not doing any godmoding now, am I? Therefore, cease your taunts!

I meant talking to the demon...unless you'd rather have Aeryn speaking for the entire group, of course. *evil grin*

or is Za'rel Aeryn's official "silent bodyguard" now? :p

((I'm working on it! These things take time, Phoenix...besides, feat-picking is HARD!:( ))

((especially since I usually play as a human or elf wizard...I can pick feats for wizards, but picking them for fighter/monks is much harder.))

For all these CR based arguments I offer my irrefutable counter. This ain't D&D. Thus I mock and deride your logic.

Of course, if you wanted a really nasty challenge, I once came up with a monster called a dice wyrm. It had six heads (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20) with various nasty breath weapons. My favourite probably had to be the cone of dice karma.

Getitng a bit more on topic. If we say the glabrezu's a nasty encounter than it is. Case closed.

You notice I called it a "Stronger-than-average Glabrezu"?

If this WERE DnD, I'd call it an "Advanced Glabrezu". Basically, it's the high-ranking servant of some powerful demon lord...sent here for some purpose that may or may not involve us.

If it does, we won't find out about it until after Myrra's fiance is restored to life.

Whom Myrra is most likely to ditch right after...

*Ahem* Did I just say that?

I was thinking of a slightly warped romance between Myrra and one of the party members. Perhaps one of you would volunteer to be her victim... I mean, new lover?

Damn, that rules Sereg out.

*counts mages on hands*

Huh... right, so we have, A power-tripping Black mage, a Blue mage (Dragon), a Blood mage, and a Rune mage... hmm... interesting.

*Thinks*

Blah, I should have joined as a Card mage, then the circle would be complete ;) I just had that idea. Oh well.

Slightly warped romance? Hmmm...

[edit] it might happen, depends on how things turn out...she and Aeryn haven't exactly talked in a while.

If you want warped, do it with Mercury.

No, I didn't mean it in that way. You all have sick minds for even thinking of it.

What are this deamon's motives? It appears as most others are roleplaying their, or other's characters phrase responses from the deamon, it would be important to know if it actually intends to do it's burning, smiting, corrupting thing on us, or simply leave us alone if at all possible. I'm assuming it wants to kill us just for kicks, but, that might just be me. A lot of you seem to beleive it just popped out of the infenal plane for a chat over a nice warm cup of tea with a group of most-probably evil adventurers.

((By the way, if a post is going to equal an amount of time equal to, or greater, than the casting of a spell, drawing of runes, ect-skill-that-takes-awhile, Would it also be logical that a fighter could make a series of attacks equal to that amount of time? Certainly I'd let all of them do whatever the defender wants, but it's got to take long enough to cast a spell for a dexterious fighter to take a number of attacks greater than just one or two.))

((((That may be why I've been using a lot of pseudo-magic, eh?))))

PS: Unless we're using an FF battle system where a fighter takes one slash, then walks back to his position, waiting an hour or two for the cinema spell-caster to hit him, and then it repeats. Even then though, Time bars people, Time bars.

lol, i completely forgot about this thread.

Yesh... warped romance with Mercury it is, then.

Phoenix, according to my calculations you can slash about 4 times (maximum, not counting off-hand attacks) in the time it takes to cast a spell. This is just your normal Attack instead of a Full Attack.

Of course, the metamagic feat Quickened Spell allows a spell to be cast instantaneously, but the maximum number of spells per round is 2, and a round is approximately 6 seconds.

Myrra and Mercury? Awww....half-dragon babies are so cute! :p

[edit] the demon's motive is to cause destruction, corruption, and chaos

I took three in a suprise attack. I assume Mr. deamon would be quick to react, so I didn't take any more.
Edit: All attacks do not deal physical damage. They deal spritual damage. Any resistances the deamon may have are ignored. That's what makes Reavers so darn dangerous. First attack has a curse/poison/weakness one-shot enchantment.

Oh well. I wanted to kill Tiral too. I've got a great plan for him also. I could have my own Enserric-the-intellegent-smart-guy-sword, just need to trap Tiral's soul in one of my swords. Ah! the possiblities!

ohhh....so YOU can ignore the demon's resistances, even after I modified my Cone of Cold to do less damage to it, :p

Of course, the demon isn't taking the stab wound so well...

Cones of cold aren't Aether. besides, they have range too, a shortsword can only hit something within about 3 feet. besides, with enemies teleporting around every time you hit them, it's hard to wound them.

Secondly, he's extraplanar, so he'll take physical damage no matter what I do. Darn.

Seriously, Glabrezu can teleport.

Also, it's entirely corporeal at this point...it's a demon, not a ghost. It is fully on this plane, and fully damageable by stuff. Meaning your original attack hit because Za'rel has good aim, not because of a bonus vs. Aether creatures.:p

[edit] the bonus would apply against Ethereal creatures, however.

I was under the impression those were different ways of saying the same thing. Oh well.

Ah yes, but he's still an extraplanar creature, meaning that with all those unknown rules of sorcerorous magic, weird things can happen. reallybad weird things, and some really good ones too.

Edit: Rhyia's gonna schwap you with a +5 maul of anti-Dnd game mechanics, you know that, right?

Oh, would that be for the comment about baby half-dragons, or game mechanics in general?

What really badweird things? Confused is me! :p

The Glabrezu is weakened, from the spell on the blade, but you haven't done anything that would run into its resistances yet...unless one of your weapons was coated in acid?

The poison thing...meh, I think it counted as a curse, so a demon could be affected by it.

Dragonsbane its kind of hard to notice a THIEF sneaking up and attacking you while throwing a fighter at a mage because of rage dont you think?

Did you miss Za'rel casting Etheral blade while we were waiting on the deamon? Same time Aeryn casted stoneskin? Last time I checked, that converts phyiscal damage --> spiritual damage. M'well, I'm just saying it dosent affect him because he's a BBEG.

*responding to secretskull's post* This is a DEMON and Will is sneaking around from the FRONT! Besides, you notice I mentioned it having a dog-like head? It can smell you.

This is why you don't underestimate denizens of the Abyss...

*responding to Phoenix*

erm...you're right. Sorry, what do I need to edit?

[edit] wait...remind me of what Ethereal Blade does again, I'm pretty sure it could get through the demon's resistances anyway (due to enhancement bonus). However, if you think spiritual damage will hurt it more, then go ahead.

Acually he's been hiding in the tree's behind you for quite some time and Aeryn probably smells alot worse (spell components) and the whole area probably semells alot like burned flesh as salamender battle grounds tend to :).

Etheral blades makes the weapons intangible on the prime material, doing 0 Physical damage. They also lose any enchantment bonus. however, they are tangible on the etheral plane/spirit plane, what have you.

Thus, they damage the relatively weaker soul of the target, seeking to tear it asunder. Target's armor and physical resistances are ignored, and base weapon damage + strength + misc modifiers (Rage, ect) is delt directly agaisnt the target, who gets a will save for three/quarter damage instead of his AC bonus. (Exceptional saves may negate more damage. Target takes a negative will modifer unless they have 5 ranks in Knowlege: Shamanistic Arcana.)

This is generally far more effective. (The total rules take about 5 pages. that's a sum-up.)

Against a monster...it's fine.

Yes, that would work, I guess. *shrugs*

Behind Aeryn and Za'rel. The demon is on the other side of the clearing from them, therefore Will is approaching from the front.

Actually, Aeryn's spell components wouldn't do anything of the sort. They're in sealed containers, and BM just blames his spell components because he supposedly doesn't bathe much. Stop dissing my hero :bmage:

The deamon just got his rear quarter turned into a rather irrecognisable hunk of deamon-meat. Of course, he can still act like the tough little ******* he is, and just get up and sling Za'rel 15 feet backwards, but, It might be hard to do that after being slashed a prodigious amount of times. Soft targets = :)

DB: Nothing personal, I can understand why you'd want to fling a fighter into a mage. Fighters weigh a lot with their armor on. Mages crunch easy.

Secretskull: Yes! awsome. Mob-stabbing o-licious :bmage: :fighter: :thief:

DB: Deamons aren't that stupid. He would have teleported away from Za'rel, behind Aeryn, grappled him, and used him as a meat shield against the rest of the party whilist using his other claws to cast spells. [Dm-Premonition Off]

Oh well then that makes much more sense DB thanks for clarifying. ANd admit it mob stabbings are fun especialy the looting part.
On an unrelated note where are Rhiya and IHMN.
And has anybody wondered what happened to inferno?

grappling mages is only fun when they don't know Contingency and Elemental Shield...think about it. It would burn it's widdle pincers off. :p

Still...I meant the fact that the demon I was controlling called your character a "wench", as well as the tossing and the leering and all. If it helps, that's what an actual Glabrezu would do.

[edit] Aeryn is annoyed at Za'rel...egotistical little half-drow! Just accept that she isn't going to accept you as an equal! *is mean to his own character*

*Eyebrow* Spells cannot be casted while grappled. Your a Wizard too, which means Quickened spells would probably not be prepared for that sort of thing. He could feasibly use a dagger, if he drew it beforehand.

Luckily for Za'rel's taunters, the clan reaver does not have those words in her vocabulary.

As for the rest, oh yes, It's sufficiently vulgar in clan society too, if not more so. But, it matters not. Za'rel is the type that see it's easier to hate everyone than like certain people. Why do you think she rages so much? Not to mention why she absolutely hates Aeryn, Will, Sereg, Myrra, and, to a lesser extent, Mercury.

I think I get it now. It's all IC. I've learned long ago not to take IC stuff personal. That's why I can be so evil IC.

I thought you said she hated Aeryn less, because he was willing to hate her back or something? Something about it being a better kind of hate...

Shouldn't she hate Mercury more than the others, since he was the one who, indirectly, caused her to be injured in the first place?

Everyone loves the dragon...:(

[edit] Well...Za'rel became noticeably more sarcastic towards Aeryn after the demon threw her at him. I kinda wondered if you had taken the demon's behavior a bit personally...

Mercury is the only person in the group with the slightest shread of honor.

Aeryn hates everyone the same way too. It's good, honest, human hatred. She likes that, but hates his attitude. He had a chance, but, Aeryn's too sarcastic and joking. Sarcasm is looked down upon in her society. Only reason she's being sarcastic to you is kind of like saying curses at people in a different language. Spiting them without them knowing, that sort of thing.

You could always invoke the rite of surkai... but Aeryn would never do that.

Aeryn is sarcastic because he's cynical, and he's cynical because he hates everyone else. Life never treated him well, so he sees no reason to act better towards anyone else...usually.

What is the rite of surkai?

[edit] actually, now that Aeryn is a superior being, he'll probably stop being so bitter-humorous. He'll go back to being more seriously evil, and less petty and vindictive.