The Battle of Nightstone - The Tenth Round - {Vark, Norgra, Happy, Meiva, Sleepy, Grumpy, Njorman, Toruun, Jaylen, Fiddles, Devin, Xolkin, Beedo, D.O.R.K., Gentle, Orcs, Tiny, Kella & Guards} 1)At the beginning of the round, five Orcs had managed to clamber out of the Moat. 2) From his position in the Vark opens fire on the group and manages to wound one of them (see Post #627). Given the clustered nature of the Orcs it is not readily possible for Vark to pick out a particular target as most seem to be carrying wounds of some sort. 3) As D.O.R.K. pounds her way towards the Orcs a spear magically appears in front of her and strikes at her (Attack: 15 Damage: 10) but she is able to duck under it. 4) From the Bridge, Happy takes a shot at the Orcs and hits (see Post #628) and drops another Orc - there are now four left. 5)Sleepy takes aim at the Orcs milling around under what seems to be unrelenting missile fire but a gust of wind just nudges the crossbow bolt of alignment that it misses. 6) For the first time in the combat, Grumpy having run the length and breadth of the Village takes a bead on the Orcs and manages to hit one. 7) Njorman takes aim at the Orcs (Attack: 20 Damage: 9) and whilst an Orc now has a crossbow bolt protruding from its chest it is still standing. 8) Fiddles congratulates Njorman on his shot and says "I see you've got the range down pat" as he takes aim and hits (see Post #629) one of the Orcs and hits him. The Orc falls back down the muddy slope of the Moat's bank and lies in the water unmoving. As the Orc goes down, D.O.R.K. notices that the Spear which had been menacing him flashes out of existence. 9) Devin launches another firebolt at the orcs but it falls into the moat about 20 feet short where it fizzes and hisses. 10) Xolkin fires off two shots in quick succession at the Orcs, however only the first bolt strikes home but it is sufficient to cause the Orc to collapse to the ground with a crossbow bolt sticking out of its left eye. 11)Beedo then pops up and looses an arrow at the two remaining Orcs hitting the same Orc that Vark had just peppered with an arrow but still not sufficient to drop it. 12)D.O.R.K. arrives on the scene and her two rapid strikes are sufficient to drop the Orc that Vark and Beedo had already wounded. 13) The one remaining Orc then swings at D.O.R.K. with its Great Axe (Attack: 25 Damage: 15) and hits with a mighty blow that staves in D.O.R.K.'s chest piece as she struggles to stay upright. 14) Kella then looses a bolt from hand crossbow and despite the almost extreme range manages to hit the Orc fighting D.O.R.K. 15) The three guards on the Bridge then also line up the Orc and depress their triggers - First (Attack: 9 Damage: 8), Second (Attack: 15 Damage: 7) & Third (Attack: 5 Damage: 2) but only Lara manages to hit the Orc. Despite the fact that it has three crossbow bolts each of different sizes (Hand, Light and Heavy) embedded in its chest, left arm and right leg, the Orc is still standing and growling at D.O.R.K.
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A simultaneous call of "Boss!" is met with a shout of "FOCUS!"from the construct, fighting to get her shield in, and push the wedge out of her chest. For all of her "bravado", the sparks and shaky stance was clear enough from a distance. Vark puts on his "Grr" face and takes another shot at the Orc. "I'm coming, Boss! Hang on!" Then to Beedo's surprise, he jumps into the river and starts gunning for the bank.
Vark's Action: Shortbow Attack: 6 Damage: 8 at ze Orc.
"Dat... Dat... He's gone nuttier than a Vemric!"Beedo says, tugging at his ears. Following a string of goblin curses, he takes up his bow again fires a shot at the remains Orc (if he's stills standing) before diving over into the river after a probably fast sinking Vark!
Beedo's Action: Shortbow Attack: 18 Damage: 5 at ze Orc's knees.
If the Orc still hasn't fallen by the time D.O.R.K has pushed the axe away, she readies to cut down the Orc. "I wi-wi-wi-will.. persevere... for Mother.." She whispers softly before aiming to cut the Orc off at the leg, then attempting to embed Heartbreaker into his head.
Heartbreaker Attack: 16 Damage: 7.
Bonus Action: War Priest Feature(2/3) Heartbreaker Attack: 13 Damage: 11.
As her axe starts to go wide, D.O.R.K doesn't waver in her resolve. Rather, she shuts down her eyes, trusting the mother to guide her next movement.
(Using Channel Divinity Guided Strike to add +10 to the last roll's to Hit.)
The Battle of Nightstone is Over! 1) Vark was highest in the imitative order and whilst his arrow shot shows his complete mastery of his weapon as it drops the Orc, his diving skills are less than skilful as he does not so much dive into the water as plummet. The smack of his belly hitting the water can certainly be heard by D.O.R.K. on the far bank, and probably by the others on the Bridge as well, as can the "ooof" of the air being driven from his chest as he takes 3 hit points of bludgeoning damage. 2) After what can only be described as falling into the water, Vark disappears from sight. This prompts Beedo to gracefully dive - including 3 somersaults and one and half twists into the water - near to where Vark landed. As Beedo easily executes his compelx dive, Vark surfaces and the two of them make their way to the far bank and clamber out.
So now what?
710 XP for all of you. As this was a battle with limited scope for role-play there are no additional RP awards this time.
Seeing Orc make a mighty swing at D.O.R.K, Torunn can only look in shock. "You idiot.." he mutters. Knowing that he is a terrible swimmer and he can't afford for his tools to he get wet, he raises his voice (Thaumaturgy) "Stay there Red, I am coming!"
He turns to Tiny and Gentle, "I will need you fellas to re-lower the bridge so I can see to Red."
He will run to the bridge and once it is Lowered make his way to D.O.R.K as quickly as he can.
Jaylen's duplicate continues to float toward Dork. As the warforged cleric watches, the floating form of Jaylen reaches out and touches her metal shoulder. Those on the bridge hear Jaylen say a prayer to Tymora as she fingers her amulet. A surge of healing energy flows into Dork before the floating Jaylen disappears with a slight waver.
Cure Wounds: 10
Jaylen turns toward the guards and gives them a wry smile. "You're welcome." She then once again attempts to cross the broken bridge after praying for guidance.
Though she lacked the need to breathe, or was no mere creature of flesh, seeing the Orc caused even her to sway on the spot. But D.O.R.K catches herself, and ignored her deeply dented in cavity to start looking around for more enemies. Noting the illusion, the warforged warily allowed the contact. Only after the small miracle at least mended what few parts of her were genuinely organic does the her eyes return dim light of yellow.
A thumbs-up next along with a shouted "Understood" is all she had to offer her brother. In the interim, however, she made a point of fussing over Vark and Beedo once the reached her. Try to, anyways, before the duo pointedly called her out on being reckless. To which, Dork curled into a ball and started tracing her finger in the bank. "Now look at 'er! Ya'd think the world was suddenly end'n."Beedo chides, eliciting rolling eyes out of Vark. "Oh, forget both of ya."He says as goes about checking over the orc bodies. Which Vark gets around to helping with.
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The Battle is over - 7:00 AM, Day 4, First Ten-day, Month of Eleasis (High Sun) in the Year 1494 ‘The Year of Twelve Warnings’ 1) It actually only took D.O.R.K. and his entourage about 5 minutes to make their way back from the far side of the bridge which included another swim for Vark and Beedo and a bottom wade for D.O.R.K. across the Ardeeep River where it joined the Moat at the northern end of the Village. 2) Tiny and Gentle move to the Drawbridge and send it rattling down at about the time that D.O.R.K. and his entourage arrive back at the far side of it. 3) Xolkin smiles at Kella and says "see we can easily defend this village" he then wanders around to all of his troops and individually congratulates them, Devin hears hims say to Fiddles "great shooting there!" before they all congregate back in the Village Square 4)Sydiri and the three guards return to the Keep - all the time Sydiri is berating Torem for managing to break the string on his crossbow. 5) The party is now doing what....
"More wasted time," Jaylen comments to no one in particular. "We need to follow the giants," she says in an uncharacteristically frustrated tone. "I say again we should abandon this foolish errand in the mountains pursue the castle in the clouds."
"I'm starting to agree with you Jaylen. This village and it's issues are not our concern. We've put our lives at risk for this village and the guards who remain of the town simply walk away. This is not the mission that I was sent on. We need to follow the giants, that was our mission. I am not sure what else we can learn here."
D.O.R.K comes out of her funk after a short time, and sets about aiding Vark and Beedo in dredging bodies from the river to be looted of their possessions. At Beedo's approving look and Vark's maybe slightly confused one, she claims whatever they find as spoils of war. Although before going quite so far as to take, she teaches them how to check for life using her javelin... and where to bury it as needed to send the dying quickly on their way.
"Some in the order call this practice 'Throat Cutting'. A ritual to grant peace to the noble fallen suffering near their end. As we cannot afford a similar intimacy, we must use spear or javelin. And take care while you do so. Tactically speaking, it is not so unsound or uncommon for the 'dead' to enact one last bit of revenge, or slip away to fight again another day. An enemy that undermines what should've been lasting victory either way."
(Ok so apologies but after a chat to the DM about how I wasn't thinking, Torunn will be waiting in the village. D.O.R.K when you done teaching you acolytes, he will fuss over you when you get back.)
Torunn listens to what Devin and Jaylen are saying, "I have to agree with you guys. I didn't leave the comfort of my forge and workshop to help ungrateful guards. We are here to investigate the Giants so let's get back to it."
After all is said and done, there is a nice pyre going on outside the walls for the orcs, costing only time and some of D.O.R.K's personal reserve of oil. Whether or not she returns in time to hear, or receives a recap after about the group's considerations, the warforged is silent for a time. "Hey! Where's da girl?" Beedo asks, stirring from her thoughts.
Looking at first to Devin to confirm her suspicion, she turned and shook her head to Beedo. "Eh, good rid--Ow! What?"He glares at Vark for the elbow jab. While the two go on to argue in goblin, D.O.R.K looks again to the others. "I am of agreement with the Servant of Silvanus. Personal feelings aside--" She seems to give Jaylen a pointed look. "Remind me. Have we acquired any further clues upon where we should go next to continue our search? If not, I see no reason we should not stay to our original course and see to the villagers. Time is of the essence, but we can ill-afford to blunder anywhere without a plan or further insight."
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When D.O.R.K arrives, Torunn hurries over to her, spurting out multiple questions and statements, "What were you thinking? You better not start to rust now. What would Al think if he saw that? I am going to have to delay my project now." As he says this, he is inspecting the spot where the Axe hit, making mental measurements and notes before moving to her joints and doing the same. He then does a final look over for any other signs of damage.
Once Torunn has finished fussing, he will answer her question, "If the Castle floated east, lets go that way. Maybe we will find another boulder thats fallen from the sky."
D.O.R.K had not complain, but neither did the fussing registered in any visible way. Her immediate focus as usual went straight to planning the moment talk started of moving on. As for the damage, any water in here had long since been purged or dried away via a few emergency functions built inside. Everything else, well... nothing an hour (Short Rest) worth of repairs couldn't at least temporarily fix. That, and a few liberal uses of Mending in some places.
"That still isn't much to go on. But if you are all insistent, I will offer no further objections other than that we should inform our would be allies of the circumstances, and at least rest prior to moving out. Query: Who has a map of the greater area again? We will need to consider potential targets for the giants as well."
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"Let's head east then. We know there are elves in the forest to the east. Perhaps they have information about the cloud city. We can rest for a short time and then head out. We'll let the others know we are leaving."
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Round 10 actions
Sleepy will follow the movement of the orcs to remain within 80 foot range and continue to attack.
Attack: 12 Damage: 12
Devin launches another fire bolt hoping to get one last shot in.
Attack: 25 Damage: 7
Fiddle feeling confident from his last long range shot tries again.
Attack: 14 Damage: 9
The Battle of Nightstone - The Tenth Round - {Vark, Norgra, Happy, Meiva, Sleepy, Grumpy, Njorman, Toruun, Jaylen, Fiddles, Devin, Xolkin, Beedo, D.O.R.K., Gentle, Orcs, Tiny, Kella & Guards}
1) At the beginning of the round, five Orcs had managed to clamber out of the Moat.
2) From his position in the Vark opens fire on the group and manages to wound one of them (see Post #627). Given the clustered nature of the Orcs it is not readily possible for Vark to pick out a particular target as most seem to be carrying wounds of some sort.
3) As D.O.R.K. pounds her way towards the Orcs a spear magically appears in front of her and strikes at her (Attack: 15 Damage: 10) but she is able to duck under it.
4) From the Bridge, Happy takes a shot at the Orcs and hits (see Post #628) and drops another Orc - there are now four left.
5) Sleepy takes aim at the Orcs milling around under what seems to be unrelenting missile fire but a gust of wind just nudges the crossbow bolt of alignment that it misses.
6) For the first time in the combat, Grumpy having run the length and breadth of the Village takes a bead on the Orcs and manages to hit one.
7) Njorman takes aim at the Orcs (Attack: 20 Damage: 9) and whilst an Orc now has a crossbow bolt protruding from its chest it is still standing.
8) Fiddles congratulates Njorman on his shot and says "I see you've got the range down pat" as he takes aim and hits (see Post #629) one of the Orcs and hits him. The Orc falls back down the muddy slope of the Moat's bank and lies in the water unmoving. As the Orc goes down, D.O.R.K. notices that the Spear which had been menacing him flashes out of existence.
9) Devin launches another firebolt at the orcs but it falls into the moat about 20 feet short where it fizzes and hisses.
10) Xolkin fires off two shots in quick succession at the Orcs, however only the first bolt strikes home but it is sufficient to cause the Orc to collapse to the ground with a crossbow bolt sticking out of its left eye.
11) Beedo then pops up and looses an arrow at the two remaining Orcs hitting the same Orc that Vark had just peppered with an arrow but still not sufficient to drop it.
12) D.O.R.K. arrives on the scene and her two rapid strikes are sufficient to drop the Orc that Vark and Beedo had already wounded.
13) The one remaining Orc then swings at D.O.R.K. with its Great Axe (Attack: 25 Damage: 15) and hits with a mighty blow that staves in D.O.R.K.'s chest piece as she struggles to stay upright.
14) Kella then looses a bolt from hand crossbow and despite the almost extreme range manages to hit the Orc fighting D.O.R.K.
15) The three guards on the Bridge then also line up the Orc and depress their triggers - First (Attack: 9 Damage: 8), Second (Attack: 15 Damage: 7) & Third (Attack: 5 Damage: 2) but only Lara manages to hit the Orc. Despite the fact that it has three crossbow bolts each of different sizes (Hand, Light and Heavy) embedded in its chest, left arm and right leg, the Orc is still standing and growling at D.O.R.K.
DM - Stopping a god in his tracks
Grumpy fires again!
Light crossbow attack: 10; damage: 7 piercing damage
Jaylen continues to send her duplicate (another 30 feet) floating through the air toward the last orc. She doesn't fire another crossbow bolt.
Xolkin fires two more bolts at the final orc.
Light crossbow attack one: 12; damage: 6 piercing damage
Light crossbow attack two: 8; damage: 8 piercing damage
A simultaneous call of "Boss!" is met with a shout of "FOCUS!" from the construct, fighting to get her shield in, and push the wedge out of her chest. For all of her "bravado", the sparks and shaky stance was clear enough from a distance. Vark puts on his "Grr" face and takes another shot at the Orc. "I'm coming, Boss! Hang on!" Then to Beedo's surprise, he jumps into the river and starts gunning for the bank.
Vark's Action: Shortbow Attack: 6 Damage: 8 at ze Orc.
Acrobatics: 18.
"Dat... Dat... He's gone nuttier than a Vemric!" Beedo says, tugging at his ears. Following a string of goblin curses, he takes up his bow again fires a shot at the remains Orc (if he's stills standing) before diving over into the river after a probably fast sinking Vark!
Beedo's Action: Shortbow Attack: 18 Damage: 5 at ze Orc's knees.
Acrobatics: 25.
If the Orc still hasn't fallen by the time D.O.R.K has pushed the axe away, she readies to cut down the Orc. "I wi-wi-wi-will.. persevere... for Mother.." She whispers softly before aiming to cut the Orc off at the leg, then attempting to embed Heartbreaker into his head.Heartbreaker Attack: 16 Damage: 7.Bonus Action: War Priest Feature(2/3)Heartbreaker Attack: 13 Damage: 11.As her axe starts to go wide, D.O.R.K doesn't waver in her resolve. Rather, she shuts down her eyes, trusting the mother to guide her next movement.(Using Channel Divinity Guided Strike to add +10 to the last roll's to Hit.)When you realize you're doing too much: Signature.
The Battle of Nightstone is Over!
1) Vark was highest in the imitative order and whilst his arrow shot shows his complete mastery of his weapon as it drops the Orc, his diving skills are less than skilful as he does not so much dive into the water as plummet. The smack of his belly hitting the water can certainly be heard by D.O.R.K. on the far bank, and probably by the others on the Bridge as well, as can the "ooof" of the air being driven from his chest as he takes 3 hit points of bludgeoning damage.
2) After what can only be described as falling into the water, Vark disappears from sight. This prompts Beedo to gracefully dive - including 3 somersaults and one and half twists into the water - near to where Vark landed. As Beedo easily executes his compelx dive, Vark surfaces and the two of them make their way to the far bank and clamber out.
So now what?
710 XP for all of you. As this was a battle with limited scope for role-play there are no additional RP awards this time.
DM - Stopping a god in his tracks
(If Torunn saw D.O.R.K almost fall)
Seeing Orc make a mighty swing at D.O.R.K, Torunn can only look in shock. "You idiot.." he mutters. Knowing that he is a terrible swimmer and he can't afford for his tools to he get wet, he raises his voice (Thaumaturgy) "Stay there Red, I am coming!"
He turns to Tiny and Gentle, "I will need you fellas to re-lower the bridge so I can see to Red."
He will run to the bridge and once it is Lowered make his way to D.O.R.K as quickly as he can.
Jaylen's duplicate continues to float toward Dork. As the warforged cleric watches, the floating form of Jaylen reaches out and touches her metal shoulder. Those on the bridge hear Jaylen say a prayer to Tymora as she fingers her amulet. A surge of healing energy flows into Dork before the floating Jaylen disappears with a slight waver.
Cure Wounds: 10
Jaylen turns toward the guards and gives them a wry smile. "You're welcome." She then once again attempts to cross the broken bridge after praying for guidance.
Acrobatics: 18 + 4
Though she lacked the need to breathe, or was no mere creature of flesh, seeing the Orc caused even her to sway on the spot. But D.O.R.K catches herself, and ignored her deeply dented in cavity to start looking around for more enemies. Noting the illusion, the warforged warily allowed the contact. Only after the small miracle at least mended what few parts of her were genuinely organic does the her eyes return dim light of yellow.
A thumbs-up next along with a shouted "Understood" is all she had to offer her brother. In the interim, however, she made a point of fussing over Vark and Beedo once the reached her. Try to, anyways, before the duo pointedly called her out on being reckless. To which, Dork curled into a ball and started tracing her finger in the bank. "Now look at 'er! Ya'd think the world was suddenly end'n." Beedo chides, eliciting rolling eyes out of Vark. "Oh, forget both of ya." He says as goes about checking over the orc bodies. Which Vark gets around to helping with.
When you realize you're doing too much: Signature.
"I misjudged the range in that last shot eh Fiddles? Nice shooting with that crossbow though. Very effective"
Devin laughs as he looks around from the height of the windmill to see what else is out there.
Perception 17
Meiva breathes a sigh of relief.
"Thank you, Silvanus," she prays, "for granting to us this victory over these servants of destruction."
And that's all I have to say about that.
The Battle is over - 7:00 AM, Day 4, First Ten-day, Month of Eleasis (High Sun) in the Year 1494 ‘The Year of Twelve Warnings’
1) It actually only took D.O.R.K. and his entourage about 5 minutes to make their way back from the far side of the bridge which included another swim for Vark and Beedo and a bottom wade for D.O.R.K. across the Ardeeep River where it joined the Moat at the northern end of the Village.
2) Tiny and Gentle move to the Drawbridge and send it rattling down at about the time that D.O.R.K. and his entourage arrive back at the far side of it.
3) Xolkin smiles at Kella and says "see we can easily defend this village" he then wanders around to all of his troops and individually congratulates them, Devin hears hims say to Fiddles "great shooting there!" before they all congregate back in the Village Square
4) Sydiri and the three guards return to the Keep - all the time Sydiri is berating Torem for managing to break the string on his crossbow.
5) The party is now doing what....
DM - Stopping a god in his tracks
"More wasted time," Jaylen comments to no one in particular. "We need to follow the giants," she says in an uncharacteristically frustrated tone. "I say again we should abandon this foolish errand in the mountains pursue the castle in the clouds."
"I'm starting to agree with you Jaylen. This village and it's issues are not our concern. We've put our lives at risk for this village and the guards who remain of the town simply walk away. This is not the mission that I was sent on. We need to follow the giants, that was our mission. I am not sure what else we can learn here."
Devin nods in agreement.
"It's time to move on."
D.O.R.K comes out of her funk after a short time, and sets about aiding Vark and Beedo in dredging bodies from the river to be looted of their possessions. At Beedo's approving look and Vark's maybe slightly confused one, she claims whatever they find as spoils of war. Although before going quite so far as to take, she teaches them how to check for life using her javelin... and where to bury it as needed to send the dying quickly on their way.
"Some in the order call this practice 'Throat Cutting'. A ritual to grant peace to the noble fallen suffering near their end. As we cannot afford a similar intimacy, we must use spear or javelin. And take care while you do so. Tactically speaking, it is not so unsound or uncommon for the 'dead' to enact one last bit of revenge, or slip away to fight again another day. An enemy that undermines what should've been lasting victory either way."
When you realize you're doing too much: Signature.
(Ok so apologies but after a chat to the DM about how I wasn't thinking, Torunn will be waiting in the village. D.O.R.K when you done teaching you acolytes, he will fuss over you when you get back.)
Torunn listens to what Devin and Jaylen are saying, "I have to agree with you guys. I didn't leave the comfort of my forge and workshop to help ungrateful guards. We are here to investigate the Giants so let's get back to it."
Meiva nods in agreement with Devin.
"Though I do not believe our time to have been wasted, spent as it was combating forces of wanton destruction, our true mission awaits."
And that's all I have to say about that.
After all is said and done, there is a nice pyre going on outside the walls for the orcs, costing only time and some of D.O.R.K's personal reserve of oil. Whether or not she returns in time to hear, or receives a recap after about the group's considerations, the warforged is silent for a time. "Hey! Where's da girl?" Beedo asks, stirring from her thoughts.
When you realize you're doing too much: Signature.
When D.O.R.K arrives, Torunn hurries over to her, spurting out multiple questions and statements, "What were you thinking? You better not start to rust now. What would Al think if he saw that? I am going to have to delay my project now." As he says this, he is inspecting the spot where the Axe hit, making mental measurements and notes before moving to her joints and doing the same. He then does a final look over for any other signs of damage.
Once Torunn has finished fussing, he will answer her question, "If the Castle floated east, lets go that way. Maybe we will find another boulder thats fallen from the sky."
D.O.R.K had not complain, but neither did the fussing registered in any visible way. Her immediate focus as usual went straight to planning the moment talk started of moving on. As for the damage, any water in here had long since been purged or dried away via a few emergency functions built inside. Everything else, well... nothing an hour (Short Rest) worth of repairs couldn't at least temporarily fix. That, and a few liberal uses of Mending in some places.
"That still isn't much to go on. But if you are all insistent, I will offer no further objections other than that we should inform our would be allies of the circumstances, and at least rest prior to moving out. Query: Who has a map of the greater area again? We will need to consider potential targets for the giants as well."
When you realize you're doing too much: Signature.
"Let's head east then. We know there are elves in the forest to the east. Perhaps they have information about the cloud city. We can rest for a short time and then head out. We'll let the others know we are leaving."