The gear is all on its host, which you guys have to decide to actually dig for.
The daemon itself is a Olethrodaemon who exchanged five of its HD for Fiend of Possession Levels. It also has two epic feats. I would call it CR 22 20 HD
Oh, damn, that's a dangerous PRC. Some very neat abilities packed in there.The gear is all on its host, which you guys have to decide to actually dig for.
The daemon itself is a Olethrodaemon who exchanged five of its HD for Fiend of Possession Levels. It also has two epic feats. I would call it CR 22 20 HD
Done. I've got Bone and Bearded Devils plugged into the plan for now. On top of being tough and capable, the Bone Devils can use their Wall of Ice SLA at will. They can barricade the manse in order to slow reinforcements, since the spells will last long after their Summoned duration expires.@Goldfish, aldo summon some low-level Daemons as a distraction in order to torment, but not to kill.
There's no way that this kerfuffle didn't cause an alarm and it's much more useful when the guards will talk about Daemon incursions then hostile strike teams from the Imperium.
Edit: On a second thought, make it Devils. A few imps to cause havoc and some Merregons who will fight to delay the guards. It will be obvious that the summons are a distraction, but with Devils, they will be more inclined to look for the presence of other fiends trying to false-flag this, thus hopefully having them stumble over the traces of Daemon taint.
A dry read, no doubt.Good night guys, see you tomorrow with looting and probably daemon bookification.
So the current plan has 5 Jannies, 1d4+1 Bone Devils, and 2d4+2 Bearded Devils serving as lootbots and distractions. We might end up accidentally convincing Ibben that they've got a serious Devil problem.
It's not exactly comparable. That's a mid-level Black Book vs a CR 22 Olrethodaemon that has unique necromancy knowledge.We already have a Deamonic Grimoire, guys.
We looted it after it got smuggled out of Tyrosh.
It's not gonna be special enough.
Better feed the Daemon straight to Yss and ask for something more... unique.
Shadow!Tor-grade unique, I think.
They're not going to leave the mansion and their purpose isn't to kill anyone, just to serve as a distraction to cover for our short-lived fight with the Olethrodaemon and for our subsequent looting. Remember, the Olethrodaemon is a Gargantuan-sized, so when it left its host and assumed corporeal form, it made a hell of a lot of noise, along with damaging the structure. The Daemon has been working in Ibben for at least a short while, and it's been riding around in someone with no small amount of wealth or power within the city, so muddying the waters here with Surprise!Devils is to our advantage in that it covers for potential Daemon shenanigans and provides a convenient excuse for why the Daemonhost is missing, if we can't fix him up and return him for some reason.So wait, you guys are planning to summon up a bunch of minor devils and unleash them on the local populace as a distraction when you could just as easily teleport out? I thought Viserys was Lawful Neutral, not Chaotic Neutral?
I would also prefer to sacrifice it sooner rather than later. It's a CR 22 Daemon, and those aren't easy to come by. Yss would probably appreciate it, but the Ferryman is more likely to give the better boon due to his Death aspect and how much Daemons in general and the Void-tainted Others in particular fuck around with that.We already have a Deamonic Grimoire, guys.
We looted it after it got smuggled out of Tyrosh.
It's not gonna be special enough.
Better feed the Daemon straight to Yss and ask for something more... unique.
Shadow!Tor-grade unique, I think.
Ideally, we could extract that and still sacrifice the Olethrodaemon. It's better for everyone if this thing gets the True Death treatment, IMO.It's not exactly comparable. That's a mid-level Black Book vs a CR 22 Olrethodaemon that has unique necromancy knowledge.
Most of them will last for at least 2 minutes, give or take a couple rounds depending on who did the Summoning. It's not that we want them to accomplish much, but rather that we want them to be seen in the mansion in non-trivial numbers on an apparent mission while distracting everyone from our looting efforts and those of our Jannis.Can the devils do all that with the spell duration time in rounds/level?
So wait, you guys are planning to summon up a bunch of minor devils and unleash them on the local populace as a distraction when you could just as easily teleport out? I thought Viserys was Lawful Neutral, not Chaotic Neutral?
All I really care about is stuffing it.Ideally, we could extract that and still sacrifice the Olethrodaemon. It's better for everyone if this thing gets the True Death treatment, IMO.
That's the point. Since they are summons, not called, everyone with a marginal amount of arcane knowledge will see that they were a distraction. Thus, by using Devils, we make it look as if someone was trying to blame us for this.But aren't we employing devils, and isn't that kind of common knowledge to people with the right contacts?
We could bookify it, tear out the relevant pages and sacrifice the rest.Ideally, we could extract that and still sacrifice the Olethrodaemon. It's better for everyone if this thing gets the True Death treatment, IMO.