The Undying Dragons - Campaign Thread

(I believe it's still Ethel's turn)

[Oof again.  I missed the 'Ethel's turn' hint.]

Hearing the crowd chanting, Ethel smiles darkly.  She cups a hand to her ear.  "What's that?" she shouts the question.  "Do the people want half price drinks?  I can't hear you!"

She once again balls a hand up into a claw and raises it toward her lips and begins to cast chill touch.  However, she readies the spell and does not release it yet.  Her trigger for the readied action will be if any of the assembled Orcs near their cage steal one of her team's chickens.  She will wait until the Orc has moved away with the chicken and then release the spell, targeting the chicken.

Spell attack for readied action, if necessary:  Attack: 12 Damage: 6

The crowd cheers wildly at the prospect of cheap drinks, causing even Haguur to look up and then over at Ethel with curiosity on his normally stern features.

"No, no, no. That's um, that's not playing right," Gertrude says. She looks around and sees that her mother, Gillian merely raises an eyebrow and shakes her head disapprovingly.

Three chickens remain dead on the orc side of the arena. Ula stubbornly still clings to the dead chicken in her hand. And despite the constant threat of instant death by Ethel, two chickens still live and strut about in the pen on the party's side of the arena.

Marrin continues to hold her grapple on Orc 5, near the northern wall, at least 15' from your cage, but she's not sure if what she said about killing Hargroves has registered with the orc.

Jan stands on guard against chicken raiding orcs, which is likely to be Orc 2 who approaches quickly.

Avaria and Orc 4 are alternating head butts near the center of the arena.

And Ethel looks maliciously at the remaining two chickens.

Ula stands near Haguur, both poised for action.

Orc 3 whimpers in his sleep near the southern wall.

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Avaria's up.

Avaria looks at Ethel with a little concern in her eyes... what game is this girl playing at?

Tired of holding onto the orc, Avaria decides to shove him to the ground, hopefully making him prone.  Then hightailing it back to their chicken cage, hoping to help block the way to the chickens inside.

Athletics  7

Avaria pushes on the chest of Orc 4, but her feet slide in the sand as she does so. Instead of knocking the orc off his feet, she grabs on to him to keep herself from falling. The orc looks down at her hands and then back up at her face, slightly confused.

Some laughter can be heard in the arena viewing area.

When Avaria turns and bolts back towards the chicken pen, the orc takes advantage of her turning away to smack out a fist at her.

Orc 4 Reaction - Opportunity Attack - Unarmed Strike - Attack: 23 Damage: 4 

Haguur looks at Ula standing between him and the chicken pen, growls loudly and lunges forwarding, looking to shove Ula 5' back and into the pen.

Athletics for Shove: 16  

Orc 2 catches sight of what Haguur is doing and lunges forward to try and catch Jan off balance as well.

Athletics for Shove: 19  

Ula and Jan need to roll Athletics or Acrobatics to counter the shove. The results will determine whether Haguur and Orc 2 continue on.

Ula will be up after that.

Jan tries to pivot to the side to keep from getting grabbed while still diverting the orc.

Acrobatics: 24

Ula just stands where she is, to try and take the shove, pretending it’s just another tenday-end night at her parents tavern…

Athletics: 7 

Ula, is probably half Haguur’s height, but her centre of gravity is lower and more stable. And she’s unusually strong, even for a dwarf…

”Okay, okay, we’ll have none of that!… This here is MY tavern and you’ll do what I say around here!… Look we’re all friends, right?! This is all just a bit of fun!!…”. She says this in a way that only someone with the upper hand currently can, ‘We’re friends right now, and you’ll want to keep it that way,…’.

Then she moves quickly and unexpected… suddenly not resisting the shove and getting her hip in the way to attempt to topple Haguur… to hopefully cement her position in this childish contest of strength for dominance…

((can you shove-down or trip in this game? She wants him prone))

Athletics action to knock prone (if possible): 19 

Whether he ends up prone or if they are still tussling, she gets in as close as she can and mock-growls to him so that the audience might think they’re still grappling, but she growls, “Ha!! You’re a right beast, you know that?!… Ha! Haha! Damn you nearly had me over, there!… Oh yeah! I like it! I like your spirit!!..”.

”But I know the ones your really want a pop at!… You want out of here? You want to get back at those pricks?!… So do I! I couldn’t give a flying fig what you do when we’re out… but stick with me! Right?”. She growls loud again, “Rrrraggh!…”, then quiet, “With your strength… and mine… we’ll smash this place into dust!! Are you with me?!”.

((Maybe that’s a lot to say?!!… but you get the gist ;-) )).

Orc 2 stumbles as Jan dances away from his attempt to shove her away. Losing the momentum of his charge, he stumbles forward only a few feet.

Haguur looks momentarily surprised when his attempt to knock Ula aside has about as much effect as if he'd tried to knock the arena wall aside. That surprise makes him susceptible to Ula's counter and he quickly finds himself lying on the ground. A frustrated yell leaps from him, echoing around the arena. Ula can't see his face, as Haguur is face down so she can't judge the impact of her words yet.

The crowd however gives her a huge cheer.

Orc 3 continues to snore loudly at the south wall.

Orc 4, having failed to make contact with Avaria as she headed back to the party's side of the arena, charges forward, looking for a weak link in the wall of bodies defending the pen - Jan, Avaria, and Ula in front with Ethel behind, right against the pen.

He steers well clear of Ula, and throws himself forward against Jan, shoving her hard.

Orc 4 Shove: 16  

If Jan fails to avoid the shove, she's knocked to the ground and Orc 4 charges forward straight into the pen.

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Jan's contest of the shove above.

Then Jan and Marrin are up.

Jan Acrobatics: 15

Jan Marrin will keep moving the orc back another 15'.

She'll repeat what she said before.

Athletics: 9 (1)

Jan is quick and slips to the side as Orc 4 barrels down on her, but his reach still manages to clip Jan, knocking her prone to the ground. He continues on, barreling into the cage, causing chickens to cluck loudly.

(Opportunity Attack is available to Avaria as Orc 4 goes by, and available to Jan, though at disadvantage since she's prone, Ula is more to the north on the other side of Avaria so no OA available to her).

Marrin continues dragging Orc 5 along the northern wall towards the orc pen. She can tell he's listening to her and her suggestions that they kill Hargroves but will need an Insight Check to see more than his glowering anger. 

Jan's up (starting from prone).

Insight: 4

Jan kicks at the orcs feet as he passes.

Attack: 9, 2 damage bludgeoning 

((Forgot DA, but doesn't matter.))

((Is this a closeable cage? Can she lock the orc in there?))

(More like an open pen you can reach over - minimalistic but adequate for a flightless bird to stay contained - not sufficient to contain an orc)

"Haha, Ethel, look! The silly orc is going to try to steal my chicken illusion! Man the crowd's gonna laugh at him when he whiffs and falls on his face!"

Jan extends a hand, towards the chicken the orc is going after, other hand in an exaggerated stage whisper to Ethel while twitching her fingers in time to the chicken walking, clucking, etc.

Deception: 12