Red Dead Annihilation: Campaign Thread

"Bollocks," Ran mutters to himself as he sees one of the knightly types trying to steal one of the canoes.

"Canoes it is," he says, again to himself.

Ran disengages (if necessary) from the creatures near him and turns and runs back across the length of the pedestal, jumping off the end when he reaches it.

(If the scale is one square = 5', I think that gets Ran due south and off the pedestal).

Reroll of STR contest due to silvery barbs : 8

The results remain the same, as Hew is unable to dislodge the foe from the canoe.  

[Velan, who do you intend to extend advantage two with the 2nd half of Silvery Barbs?]

Danica strides as fast as she and Inete could manage with the injured knight between them up until she sees the suspicious dwarf from early run straight to their canoes, attempting to make off with them. "Bastard!"  The elf called out before pulling away from the injured man and telling Inete, "Get in the other canoe." Before sprinting down the pier and reaching her right hand back behind her head. With a crack, her arm extends out towards Throndell, a Thorn Whip lashing out from her grasp to try and wrap around him and pull him towards her and hopefully off the canoe entirely. 

Attack: 20   Damage: 4

Thondell is ensnared by Danica's Thorn Whip and is yanked off the boat and 10' closer to shore, landing near the bank.  

He sits up, spitting out a mouthful of sandy mud which collects in his beard.  "NO!" he howls.  "I won't die out here!"  He spends half his movement to get up, then wades back out to the canoe but he is not able to pull himself back inside this turn.

Dominick turns his attention to the monster that Meili wounded with her furious melee attacks.  He attempts to bring a two-handed chop with his longsword down on its snout.  Attack: 15 Damage: 10

 But his blade glances of its nose horn and does no harm [original attack roll was 7].

The juvenile Ceratosaur approaches from the rear of the ones engaged with Meili and Dominick.  The beast wounded by Meili turns its head and snaps at it, and the juvenile backs off again.  

The wounded Ceratosaur then brings its head low to the ground and sweeps it toward Meili, trying to bludgeon her its nose horns.  Attack: 20 Damage: 6

The other Ceratosaur engaged in combat sees the opening of Dominick's missed attack on the other dino and darts in to bite at his exposed back.  Attack: 17 Damage: 13

The dinosaur that failed to leap onto the pedestal now has a gash on its face and an arrow in its belly.  It rises slows and then backs off making a low squealing sound.  

The wounded Ceratosaur fighting Meili also backs off 10'.

(Top of round 3 now?)

[Yes, back around to top of the order.]

(Any chance for Attack of Opportunity when the Ceratosaur ran off? If so, here is the AoO: Attack: 7 Damage: 4)

The horn plunged into her side  (Meili felt ribs cracking and lost her wind) but did not knock her off her feet. The commotion on the beach seemed dangerous, but should the dinosaurs join it, the situation would become worse. While Meili could still stand she would do her best not to allow it.

She attacked the monster engaged with Dominick, sparing just a moment to mack a couple of very precise touches to stop the bleeding:

Attacks: sword: Attack: 7 Damage: 9

1 ki for FoB: Attack: 19 Damage: 4

replace of on of the FoB attack with Hand of Healing (self) for 6 HP

Mica remains where he is standing by the hut, intending to serve as a rear guard of sorts as he encourages the others to move away from the dinosaurs and back to the beach.  He notices the two wounded dinosaurs pull back and hesitate and shouts to his companions “Pull back toward the boats. I will cover you.”

He leaves his bow at half draw, making ready an attack toward the next dinosaur that attacked one his companions or moved forward toward them.

Attack: 20 Damage: 3.

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Instead of holding the boat Hew had the admittedly better idea of pulling the other dwarf out of it. Unfortunately, the guide seemed less than able to do so. Velan did his best to help, chanting arcane words while picturing Thondell being surrounded and strangled by thorny vines made of pure silver light – the man’s uncertainty made a literal obstacle. Even then the coward endured. It was Danica’s strike, another theory vine, a corporeal one, that pulled the deserter in the water. Some day Silvery Barbs will make a difference, the hexblood said with the voice of his mind, channeling the remaining energy of the spell into Hew.

“Look around, your idiot. Count how many of us are around. Do you honestly think we will let you escape alone?” The wizard asked rhetorically while moving towards the other canoe. “We will kill before you have the chance so if you don’t want to die here, stop your stupidity and help the wounded board because either we escape this or we butcher you out of spite before becoming dinosaur food.”

Velan had no faith his words would make anything to stop a man so frightened but it was the best he could do while trying to push the other boat further in the water.  

Notes: Velan starts moving the other canoe deeper into the water. In case doing so does not cost his action there is a charisma check bellow (Velan has +0 in all charisma skills so a check in any of them have the same bonus).

Charisma: 20

Velan:

 Inete finishes help the sick man into Velan's canoe before it puts off into the water.  She then stands tall, clutching her holy symbol, and once again asks for Savras' protection.  She casts bless, targeting Hew, Velan and Danica.

Hew splashes through the water toward the other dwarf, determined to separate him from the crew's canoe.  Huffing and gasping as he treads through the chest deep (for a dwarf) water, "Get gone from here... you slappywag!"  He tries to shove Thondell again, this time trying to knock him off the side of the canoe and prone into the water.  

Hew: 20

Thondell:  10

Hew succeeds [as the combination of the Hex on Thondell and Silvery Barbs bonus on Hew results in a crit vs crit smackdown.] !  Hew strikes Thondell like a charging bull, sending the cowardly dwarf tumbling backwards and temporarily out of sight below the murky surface of the river.

Ran sprints across the ground from the pedestal to the canoes, calling out to Mica as he passed behind the ranger.

"Don't get caught out here," Ran calls.

The as he gets close to the river he angel northward, turning as he gets there to put himself between Inete and the dinos.

Movement: 30'

Action: Dash 30'

[Botting Danica to keep the combat going.]

Danica stands on the short dock, watching the waters for Thondell.  She readies another thorn whip in the event the mad dwarf makes another move for their canoe.

When Thondell does resurface, he does not resume his attempted thievery.  Instead, he turns his back on all of you and swims toward the shore on the southern end of the camp, where some of the poorly built goblin canoes are tethered.  

Dominick renews his determined assault on the dinosaur that hasn't yet retreated, still swinging his longsword with both hands.

Attack: 10 Damage: 4

The Ceratosaur deftly pulls its head out of reach of Dominicks blade.  Of the three larger dinosaurs, this one alone is uninjured and still aggressive.  It looks to the other two hunters and makes an angry sounding squeal, then turns back and attempts to bite down on Dominick's dominant arm.

Attack: 25 Damage: 14

The Ceratosaur in the pen ignores the goading of its pack-mate.  Instead, it collects the corpse of the axe beak in its jaws and limps back into the jungle foliage.

The other large hunter heeds the call, however, and charges back into the fray.  It joins its sister in trying clamp its savage teeth down on Dominick.

Attack: 11 Damage: 13

The juvenile also assumes a more aggressive posture.  Unlike the adults, it is attracted to the activity near the shore.  It strides toward Ran, stopping 10' away from him.  It doesn't charge, instead shaking its head back and forth and trying to determine if he is prey or not.  It also readies an attack in case Ran approaches.

Dominick parries the bite from the first Ceratosaur but is left vulnerable to the second.  A vicious bite is all it takes to remove his left arm at the shoulder.  Dominick grabs at his missing limb and collapses to the ground.  "Helm... forgive me..." he gasps, as the two dinosaurs fall upon him.

Mica's readied arrow flies in and sticks into the shoulder of one of the beasts, but it scarcely seems to notice.