Red Dead Annihilation: Campaign Thread

Options race through Ran's head. They have no idea whether the running figure is a threat to them. The one killed in the clearing behind them might have been the threat. The one ahead might just be running because they think Ran and Meili were allies of the dead man.

Ran shouts as they run.

"We just want to talk to you," Ran yells.

Not wanting to unnecessarily hurt the person if he can help, Ran uses his hands to provide a blow that might slow the runner down (if they don't stop when he calls out).

AoC 1 - Unarmed Strike: 14  for 5 damage

AoC 2 - Unarmed Strike: 21  for 5 damage 

Meili did not have anything to add to Ran's words and was saving her breath for proper attacks. She hoped to push the creature off course, trying not to harm it (too much).

AoO 1: Attack: 6 Damage: 7

AoO 2: Attack: 11 Damage: 6

(If any attack hits - push 5ft to the side)

Ran and Meili punch and shove the fleeing creature, slowing it down just a little.  Its hood falls, revealing stringy grey hairs on an emaciated, undead head.  The creature is a wight.  It continues to run west, following a creek flowing between two hills.

[The other 4 are able to get 30 feet closer, and Meili and Ran are able to take another AoO each if they like.]

When the hood falls away, revealing the creature to be a wight, any indecision about who the threat was falls away too.

"It's a wight," Ran calls back to the others.

This time he slashes out with one of his longswords.

AoC: Attack: 17 Damage: 5 

"Hope we're not diving head first into a trap," he calls to Meili as they run.

If Nalomanterys is able to get within 60 ft of the undead, he will cast ray of frost. If it hits, it will lower the wight's speed by 10 for a round... I'm not sure of the wight's natural speed, but it might be enough of a difference between the slow and those with longstrider that Ran and Meili might be able to keep pace without using dash for a turn.

Ray of Frost attack: 21 (rolled in game log)
Damage: 5 frost

"This feels like a trap!" He yells out ahead, trying to keep pace after slowing down to cast a spell. "Can you immobilize it?!"

Wight on the bright sunny day?! This place was cursed and rotten to the very core. "It must be. Aren't these things hide from the sun?" Whether or not it was the case, "the thing" had to be destroyed. Meili accepted the mission back in the tomb and intended to see it through. This time she attacked with the sword.

Attack: 17 Damage: 7

"We are trying to slow it down," yelled she back to Nalomanterys but so far was not able to actually do this.

Running after the rest of the group in the back with Hew, Danica pants and gripes as they run, "Oh sure Danica, turn down the lovely idea of sailing a ship, great idea." 

Then she hears Ran's declaration of who it was they were chasing, or rather what, and immediately becomes serious, putting some more energy into her run. But Nal had a point... Throwing a hand out in front of her as she runs, the elf casts [Tooltip Not Found] in front of the Wight. And then calls out a warning to those following it, "Look out, don't get caught in it!"  

(DC 12 Strength Save or be Restrained. Difficult terrain even on pass.)

As Mica hears Ran call out what the group is facing he pulls up short and grabs the longbow off of his back.  He steadies himself against a tree trunk and sends an arrow toward the wight before continuing the chase.

Attack: 11 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll..

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STR 7

Everyone contributes to halting the Wight.  Nalomanterys slows it with a spell, Ran, Meili and Mica wound it, and Danica snares it with vines.  The creature trips and lands prone in the creekbed, restrained by the leafy plants.

Meili and Ran are able to surround and block its way forward, though the others are further behind.

[Nalomanterys, Danica and Mica all used actions so that's 30' of dash movement they didn't use. ]

Hew continues to charge on toward them.  "Behind you!" he hisses.

Further up the creek, 50' past where Meili and Ran stop, there is a blowdown with several fallen trees.  Also piled there is a small mountain of bones and rotting flesh.  A huge ribcage reaches toward the sky and the creek is fouled with the drainage from this mess.  Five grey, vaguely humanoid shapes pick their way through the grisly feast.   With all the commotion. they snap to attention and begin moving toward Meili and Ran.

INITIATIVE:

• Ran:  13
• Meili:  7
• Mica:  10
• Danica:  22
• Nalomanterys:  18
• Hew:  10
• Wight:  10
• Ghouls:  17

[I will work on getting a map up soon.  If you picture Ran and Meili at the center, the Wight is at their feet.  50' past them are 5 ghouls.  30' behind them is Hew, and another 30' behind Hew are the other 3...]

Hew dashes past the others, ignoring the Wight for now and taking up a position just past Ran and Meili, rapier drawn.

"This is a bad spot!"

Danica joins Hew in dashing up to join the group gathered around the prone Wight.

1. Hew
2. Danica
3. Ghouls
4. Ran 
5. Meili
6. Wight
7. Mica
8. Nalomanterys

[The water, logs, and the area inside the green square (entangle) are difficult terrain.  The Wight is prone and restrained.  Meili and Ran are in the green area but I am waiving the STR save... so they have difficult terrain but are not restrained.]

The ghouls burst forth from their carrion den, leaping over logs and broken bones to surge toward you. 

[One comes within 5' of Hew but the others are all 15' back due to negotiating the terrain.]

Ran looks from the ghouls to the wight, back to the ghouls before shaking his head, getting his breath under control from the long chase.

"Whether it was planned or not, this isn't great," Ran says.

He slashes downwards at the wight with both blades.

Action - Longsword - Attack: 20 Damage: 7  

Bonus Action - Dual Wield - Long Sword - Attack: 19 Damage: 10  

Between ghouls and the wight, the latter was at least right here. Meili did not think twice attacking the thing.

Action: sword Attack: 14 Damage: 7

BA: Flurry of Blows: Attack: 25 Damage: 10
                                    Attack: 9 Damage: 7

Any chance Nalomanterys might know / remember if sleep can work on undead? Arcana: 23

If it he thinks it will work, or if he isn't sure, he will cast sleep on the clump of ghouls. If he knows it won't work, I'll try something else.

Nalomanterys moves 30 feet closer to the fray, picks a pinch of sand from his pouch, and flicks it into the air. "Obdormisco!" he shouts, and the particles of sand transform into a shimmering curtain of sleep dust, that weighs heavily on the eyes of his enemies. Sleep lvl 2: 27 hp of sleeping enemies.

Edit: For goodness sake, it says in the spell description that undead are immune. I assume Nalomanterys would know how his own spell works, to the extent that the information is in the spell description. With DM approval, I'll change my turn:

Nalomanterys rushes 30 ft closer to the fray, and sprays the [enemy]* with a blast of cold wind from his finger. "Gelo!" he yells, as rime quickly builds up around his outstretched index finger and then shoots a ray of frost that bites deep into the pallid flesh of the undead.

*((target will be wight if it's standing up (so i don't get disadvantage) or otherwise one of the ghouls)).

Attack: 19
Damage: 7 frost & -10 movement

Ran and Meili dispatch the Wight.  It ceases its struggles against Danica's vines.  

After a moment's hesitation, Danica maintains her concentration on the spell, in case you need to use the difficult terrain to slow down the ghouls.

[Mica's up]

Mica grimaces as he sees the ghouls break out of the brush in the distance, things were quickly going from bad to worse.  As Ran and Meili strike the entangled Wight, Mica moves thirty feet closer, then pulls up again and sends another arrow toward the lead ghoul. 

Attack: 13 Damage: 3.

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Hew launches a furious rapier attack against the ghoul that has closed upon him.

Attack: 26 Damage: 16

Attack: 23 Damage: 13

"They can paralyze with a touch!  Fight from a distance if you can!" he shouts.

Danica, aware that her elvish ancestry grants her immunity to the paralytic touch of this particular brand of undead, steps south and then unleashes a thorn whip at the ghoul closest to Hew.  She aims to draw at least one of them away from the rest of her allies.

Attack: 15 Damage: 5