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JABARL Wisdom (Save): 17 vs. DC 12
The loud clang causes the man to cup his hands around his ears (OOC: takes 6 necrotic damage)
He scowls as Vaxis' deathly bell fades...and pulls a shortsword from his belt and goes to work on Minsys:
Multiattack (Longsword): 8 vs. AC 16 (Minsys), dealing 4 slashing damage on a hit. Multiattack (Longsword): 20 vs. AC 16 (Minsys), dealing 3 slashing damage on a hit. Multiattack (Shortsword): 16 vs. AC 16 (Minsys), dealing 2 slashing damage on a hit.
Connak will continue to shoot infused force arrows at Syleen.
Attack: 23 Damage: 18
Connak will then shout at the other party, "Assuming you do succeed and kill us, do you think you will be in any shape to fight Cryovain, who appears to be just outside?"
Connak's arrow thunks into Syleen's skull and her body goes limp as her sword falls to the ground. The corpse continues to float mid-air, still under the effects of Tabeshal's levitation magic.
"Surely we would do better to work together to take down the wyrm than fighting each other?" Tink questions as she loads another orange liquid filled vial into her launcher and sends it at Jabarl. At the same time Whisker dashes forwards and attempts to claw Jabarl.
Tink's Turn Action:Fire Bolt at Jabarl Attack: 23 Damage: 13 fire Bonus Action: Order Whisker to attack Jabarl
Whisker's Action Move: To the corner next to Minsys and Jabarl Action: Force Empowered Rend on Jabarl Attack: 17 Damage: 11 force dmg
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Minsys looks about. With two attacks come from each side of him, he's unsure who to attack. So, he splits the attack and swings at each. With a growl he swings it a Jabral and uses the momentum and swings at Runa too.
Minsys literally hammers the two attackers against the wall - an audible "crack" can be heard as Jabarl's skull splits under the force of the massive maul ramming his head against the thick, unmovable stone blocks of the fortress' gatehouse. Runa took Minsys' maul to the gut, and though her cranial bones were still intact, her ribs were not...
Brakkis had already begun to wonder if they had any chance of winning this fight as he loaded another bolt into his crossbow and took aim at the rampaging half-orc the size of a hill giant. He knew that if escape became necessary, his options were few...and dangerous...
Attack (Hvy Crossbow): 10 vs. AC 16 (Minsys), dealing 3 piercing damage on a hit.
He curses himself as his bolt shoots wide of the barbarian, whose position seemed to shift from place to place, as if he was hallucinating. "That's it," he mutters to himself, "might be time to get me coat and hat..."
Move: 30 feet northwest to the square left of Runa
" Companions ! Pay heed to spare yon ruffians, lest we fail to learn of their tidings and the extent of their purpose, I beg thee !" Tabesha'l pleads, before remembering that Minsys is closest in bashing range of the enemy - apparently fulfilling his role as Giant Wrecking Ball a little too zealously, as is his habit - which forces her, as an exceptional measure, to consider rewording her convoluted speech pattern for the half-orc's benefit:
" Minsys ! Do not kill them all ! Knock them out, rather ? Ahm... 'Cheers', I guess ?"
All the while retaining her concentration on the floating corpse that was the dragon hunters' leader, she points her staff towards the remaining two attackers and utters a few sonorous arcane words:
" Nethylarh Thyrg Nydrethyl-Ethrë !"
Instantly a puddle of viscous, dark-blue goo starts bubbling out of the ground underneath the two fighters, as they struggle to maintain their balance in the slippery oily substance.
** Casts Grease covering the spot underneath both Brakkis and Runa, as well as the two 5-feet squares directly soiuth of them. They each require a DEXTERITY Save DC 14 or fall prone. Retains Concentration on Syleen's dead body, to keep it floating like a creepy helium corpse. **
' Rogues Will Be Rogues ' (Circle of Fives Admission Rules, § 6 par. IV) " Put It Down. Now. Or Be Sorry. " (D. Khar-Errendis' Reported Tips For Curing Soul Ailments And Assorted Bad Behaviours, v. LIV p.XIII) " Tween thisThy and yonThou, shall I prove to Thee that these art what thou dost see ? " (Grimoire of The Great Pananthyr) " This One has said enough. Now, we fight. This way please ?" (8th Grade Bronze Disciple Raulnar Drohjo, Way of the Open Palm)
RUNA - DEX (Save): 16 vs. DC 14 BRAKKIS - DEX (Save): 11 vs. DC 14
Runa retains her footing, but Brakkis' goes both feet up and lands prone. "Good luck, old man," she says as she moves toward the western door, stepping carefully over the elder brigand's body.
RUNA Action: disengage Move: through the door and up the stairs arriving at a point 5 squares west
Jabarl puts a hand to his face as if trying to survey the damage done by Minsys' maul, and then jerks his hand back seemingly in fear as the reality of his injury is revealed to him. He looks over at Syleen's eerie floating corpse and Brakkis and Runa both frozen in place as if time for them had simply stopped. The writing was on the wall and he knew it....even running away meant crossing the magically goo-covered floor.
The man dropped his sword, fell to his knees and waited for the coup de grâce, which he was sure would follow only seconds later.
Connak will shake his head at the senseless aggression of the other group as they begin to run, then seeing Vaxis's spell take hold, will pull off his 50' of hempen rope from the backpack and run next to Runa (Movement + bonus action Dash with Cunning Action for a total of 70' of movement). Connak then hog-ties Runa with one end of the hempen rope (with his action).
DC 14 DEX save (in case I'm going through the grease): 25
Most of the enemies under control, Tink focuses on Jabral. She continues to fire flaming liquid filled vials at Jabral while Whisker also tears into him.
Tink's Turn Action:Fire Bolt at Jabarl Attack: 10 Damage: 7 fire Bonus Action: Order Whisker to attack Jabarl
Whisker's Action Move: To the corner next to Minsys and Jabarl Action: Force Empowered Rend on Jabarl Attack: 25 Damage: 8 force dmg
Though Tink's cantrip misses her target, W.H.I.S.K.E.R.'s attack completes the damage to Jabarl that Minsys had started...his skull collapses and the man falls dead...
Minsys brings his maul down on the helpless robber and literally flattens the man against the floor from his chest to his head. A second later, Vaxis' magic wanes from the corpse and the frozen hand opens allowing his sword to clang loudly against the cold stone.
Minsys then pushes forward to try an wedge himself through the doorway, but it is too small given the current size of his body.
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" Hum. Lights of Iluvatar ! That was... so positively murderous, it did in fact reach a certain level of discomfort, quite frankly," Tabesha'l reflects as she releases her spell's hold on the cadaver of the group's leading fighter woman, the one they'd called Syleen. The scarred features were now even more deformed by Connak's fatal arrow, the elf magus noted as she approached the body and started to riffle through the clothes, hoping to find a clue as to who these people were and if they possibly represented other, more powerful interests.
She realized she also felt a little miffed by the fact that her clever sound illusion had been trumped by the actual dragon's roar. They would have to hurry here, before the beast decided it had a taste for horses... or freshly deceased adventurers.
" Friends ? Canst one amongst thee have a look outdoors, perhaps in a somewhat discrete manner ? I do believe there be our actual White Wyrm on the loose, and our little altercation may have attracted its attention, which would certainly not serve our present plans. Oh, and Vaxis ? Do be a dear and mayhaps refrain from killing any more of yon unfortunate souls, if thou wouldst ? One never knows when an extra pair of hands can come in handy, after all. Also, I do grow weary of the sight of blood so..."
She turned to look at Minsys and was about to reiterate her request for clemency, but the sight of the half-orc's face still contorted with rage as he pummeled his opponent's head into his shoulders taught her better. She decided to concentrate on searching Syleen's body instead...
** Releasing concentration on Levitate spell. Movement to where Syleen lands, and Investigation to find clue, notes or any other interesting items on her body: 25 **
' Rogues Will Be Rogues ' (Circle of Fives Admission Rules, § 6 par. IV) " Put It Down. Now. Or Be Sorry. " (D. Khar-Errendis' Reported Tips For Curing Soul Ailments And Assorted Bad Behaviours, v. LIV p.XIII) " Tween thisThy and yonThou, shall I prove to Thee that these art what thou dost see ? " (Grimoire of The Great Pananthyr) " This One has said enough. Now, we fight. This way please ?" (8th Grade Bronze Disciple Raulnar Drohjo, Way of the Open Palm)
Syleen's floating corpse drops to the ground with an audible (and somewhat gruesome) "THLUMP!"
Searching the body, she finds a crudely drawn map indicating a path from Amn far to the south all the way to the Sword Mountains where an "X" showed the approximate location of Icespire Peak accompanied by a notation in Common that said: "Here be dragons..."
Minsys tried to move into the door way again and when he could not he resigned himself to wait. "Need to get my trophies..." he says dejected, at least until he returns to normal size. When that happens he's all over looting the bodies. More for a weapon or such from each he killed.
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Both attacks miss the nimble rogues; high above, the group hears another roar of a dragon...
(OOC: it is now Vaxis' turn)
Pointing at Jabarl, Vaxis utters a short prayer to Bahamut.
"Great Wyrm Bahamut, bring low these heathens!"
(Casting Toll the Dead on Jabarl. DC 12 Wis or take 6 necrotic damage, 6 if preciously injured)
DM - Saturday and Tuesday: Eberron
Player - PBP: (Vaxis, Dragonborn Cleric of Bahamut, DoIP), Discord: Byron Bojengles III (Dragonmarked Half-Elf Rogue/Warlock Hexblade)
Other games: (Aardwolf MUD, Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, Pokemon, Borderlands {all})
JABARL
Wisdom (Save): 17 vs. DC 12
The loud clang causes the man to cup his hands around his ears (OOC: takes 6 necrotic damage)
He scowls as Vaxis' deathly bell fades...and pulls a shortsword from his belt and goes to work on Minsys:
Multiattack (Longsword): 8 vs. AC 16 (Minsys), dealing 4 slashing damage on a hit.
Multiattack (Longsword): 20 vs. AC 16 (Minsys), dealing 3 slashing damage on a hit.
Multiattack (Shortsword): 16 vs. AC 16 (Minsys), dealing 2 slashing damage on a hit.
Connak will continue to shoot infused force arrows at Syleen.
Connak will then shout at the other party, "Assuming you do succeed and kill us, do you think you will be in any shape to fight Cryovain, who appears to be just outside?"
Connak's arrow thunks into Syleen's skull and her body goes limp as her sword falls to the ground. The corpse continues to float mid-air, still under the effects of Tabeshal's levitation magic.
"Surely we would do better to work together to take down the wyrm than fighting each other?" Tink questions as she loads another orange liquid filled vial into her launcher and sends it at Jabarl. At the same time Whisker dashes forwards and attempts to claw Jabarl.
Tink's Turn
Action: Fire Bolt at Jabarl Attack: 23 Damage: 13 fire
Bonus Action: Order Whisker to attack Jabarl
Whisker's Action
Move: To the corner next to Minsys and Jabarl
Action: Force Empowered Rend on Jabarl Attack: 17 Damage: 11 force dmg
Active Characters
Tink - Elf Artificer Nicholas Meloncreek - Human Fighter
Thurkear - Lizardfolk Warlock Bjorn "Whitewalker" Akannathi - Goliath Ranger
Minsys looks about. With two attacks come from each side of him, he's unsure who to attack. So, he splits the attack and swings at each. With a growl he swings it a Jabral and uses the momentum and swings at Runa too.
Attack: 17 Damage: 17 + 3
Attack: 24 Damage: 12 + 4
Minsys literally hammers the two attackers against the wall - an audible "crack" can be heard as Jabarl's skull splits under the force of the massive maul ramming his head against the thick, unmovable stone blocks of the fortress' gatehouse. Runa took Minsys' maul to the gut, and though her cranial bones were still intact, her ribs were not...
Brakkis had already begun to wonder if they had any chance of winning this fight as he loaded another bolt into his crossbow and took aim at the rampaging half-orc the size of a hill giant. He knew that if escape became necessary, his options were few...and dangerous...
Attack (Hvy Crossbow): 10 vs. AC 16 (Minsys), dealing 3 piercing damage on a hit.
He curses himself as his bolt shoots wide of the barbarian, whose position seemed to shift from place to place, as if he was hallucinating. "That's it," he mutters to himself, "might be time to get me coat and hat..."
Move: 30 feet northwest to the square left of Runa
" Companions ! Pay heed to spare yon ruffians, lest we fail to learn of their tidings and the extent of their purpose, I beg thee !" Tabesha'l pleads, before remembering that Minsys is closest in bashing range of the enemy - apparently fulfilling his role as Giant Wrecking Ball a little too zealously, as is his habit - which forces her, as an exceptional measure, to consider rewording her convoluted speech pattern for the half-orc's benefit:
" Minsys ! Do not kill them all ! Knock them out, rather ? Ahm... 'Cheers', I guess ?"
All the while retaining her concentration on the floating corpse that was the dragon hunters' leader, she points her staff towards the remaining two attackers and utters a few sonorous arcane words:
" Nethylarh Thyrg Nydrethyl-Ethrë !"
Instantly a puddle of viscous, dark-blue goo starts bubbling out of the ground underneath the two fighters, as they struggle to maintain their balance in the slippery oily substance.
** Casts Grease covering the spot underneath both Brakkis and Runa, as well as the two 5-feet squares directly soiuth of them. They each require a DEXTERITY Save DC 14 or fall prone. Retains Concentration on Syleen's dead body, to keep it floating like a creepy helium corpse. **
' Rogues Will Be Rogues ' (Circle of Fives Admission Rules, § 6 par. IV)
" Put It Down. Now. Or Be Sorry. " (D. Khar-Errendis' Reported Tips For Curing Soul Ailments And Assorted Bad Behaviours, v. LIV p.XIII)
" Tween thisThy and yonThou, shall I prove to Thee that these art what thou dost see ? " (Grimoire of The Great Pananthyr)
" This One has said enough. Now, we fight. This way please ?" (8th Grade Bronze Disciple Raulnar Drohjo, Way of the Open Palm)
RUNA - DEX (Save): 16 vs. DC 14
BRAKKIS - DEX (Save): 11 vs. DC 14
Runa retains her footing, but Brakkis' goes both feet up and lands prone. "Good luck, old man," she says as she moves toward the western door, stepping carefully over the elder brigand's body.
RUNA
Action: disengage
Move: through the door and up the stairs arriving at a point 5 squares west
Vaxis stands stoic and says, "Halt! Stand and face the consequences of your actions!" As he incants a spell to stop two of them in their tracks.
(Casting Hold Person on Runa and Brakkis using a 3rd level slot, DC 14 Wisdom save ***This drops the concentration on Shield of Faith***)
DM - Saturday and Tuesday: Eberron
Player - PBP: (Vaxis, Dragonborn Cleric of Bahamut, DoIP), Discord: Byron Bojengles III (Dragonmarked Half-Elf Rogue/Warlock Hexblade)
Other games: (Aardwolf MUD, Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, Pokemon, Borderlands {all})
Wisdom (Save) vs. DC 14:
RUNA - 6
BRAKKIS - 16
Jabarl puts a hand to his face as if trying to survey the damage done by Minsys' maul, and then jerks his hand back seemingly in fear as the reality of his injury is revealed to him. He looks over at Syleen's eerie floating corpse and Brakkis and Runa both frozen in place as if time for them had simply stopped. The writing was on the wall and he knew it....even running away meant crossing the magically goo-covered floor.
The man dropped his sword, fell to his knees and waited for the coup de grâce, which he was sure would follow only seconds later.
Connak will shake his head at the senseless aggression of the other group as they begin to run, then seeing Vaxis's spell take hold, will pull off his 50' of hempen rope from the backpack and run next to Runa (Movement + bonus action Dash with Cunning Action for a total of 70' of movement). Connak then hog-ties Runa with one end of the hempen rope (with his action).
DC 14 DEX save (in case I'm going through the grease): 25
EDIT: meant Runa, not Brakkis.
Most of the enemies under control, Tink focuses on Jabral. She continues to fire flaming liquid filled vials at Jabral while Whisker also tears into him.
Tink's Turn
Action: Fire Bolt at Jabarl Attack: 10 Damage: 7 fire
Bonus Action: Order Whisker to attack Jabarl
Whisker's Action
Move: To the corner next to Minsys and JabarlAction: Force Empowered Rend on Jabarl Attack: 25 Damage: 8 force dmg
Active Characters
Tink - Elf Artificer Nicholas Meloncreek - Human Fighter
Thurkear - Lizardfolk Warlock Bjorn "Whitewalker" Akannathi - Goliath Ranger
Though Tink's cantrip misses her target, W.H.I.S.K.E.R.'s attack completes the damage to Jabarl that Minsys had started...his skull collapses and the man falls dead...
(INITIATIVE: Minsys)
Minsys looks at the dead man by him and moves for the guy held fast. He winds up on the immobile target and swings hard.
Attack: 19 Damage: 18
If that is a crit it's 32...
If that killed him he continues to move forward and tries to get to R with an attack. If not 2nd strike to B
Attack: 28 Damage: 27
Minsys brings his maul down on the helpless robber and literally flattens the man against the floor from his chest to his head. A second later, Vaxis' magic wanes from the corpse and the frozen hand opens allowing his sword to clang loudly against the cold stone.
Minsys then pushes forward to try an wedge himself through the doorway, but it is too small given the current size of his body.
" Hum. Lights of Iluvatar ! That was... so positively murderous, it did in fact reach a certain level of discomfort, quite frankly," Tabesha'l reflects as she releases her spell's hold on the cadaver of the group's leading fighter woman, the one they'd called Syleen. The scarred features were now even more deformed by Connak's fatal arrow, the elf magus noted as she approached the body and started to riffle through the clothes, hoping to find a clue as to who these people were and if they possibly represented other, more powerful interests.
She realized she also felt a little miffed by the fact that her clever sound illusion had been trumped by the actual dragon's roar. They would have to hurry here, before the beast decided it had a taste for horses... or freshly deceased adventurers.
" Friends ? Canst one amongst thee have a look outdoors, perhaps in a somewhat discrete manner ? I do believe there be our actual White Wyrm on the loose, and our little altercation may have attracted its attention, which would certainly not serve our present plans. Oh, and Vaxis ? Do be a dear and mayhaps refrain from killing any more of yon unfortunate souls, if thou wouldst ? One never knows when an extra pair of hands can come in handy, after all. Also, I do grow weary of the sight of blood so..."
She turned to look at Minsys and was about to reiterate her request for clemency, but the sight of the half-orc's face still contorted with rage as he pummeled his opponent's head into his shoulders taught her better. She decided to concentrate on searching Syleen's body instead...
** Releasing concentration on Levitate spell. Movement to where Syleen lands, and Investigation to find clue, notes or any other interesting items on her body: 25 **
' Rogues Will Be Rogues ' (Circle of Fives Admission Rules, § 6 par. IV)
" Put It Down. Now. Or Be Sorry. " (D. Khar-Errendis' Reported Tips For Curing Soul Ailments And Assorted Bad Behaviours, v. LIV p.XIII)
" Tween thisThy and yonThou, shall I prove to Thee that these art what thou dost see ? " (Grimoire of The Great Pananthyr)
" This One has said enough. Now, we fight. This way please ?" (8th Grade Bronze Disciple Raulnar Drohjo, Way of the Open Palm)
Syleen's floating corpse drops to the ground with an audible (and somewhat gruesome) "THLUMP!"
Searching the body, she finds a crudely drawn map indicating a path from Amn far to the south all the way to the Sword Mountains where an "X" showed the approximate location of Icespire Peak accompanied by a notation in Common that said: "Here be dragons..."
(OOC: OUT OF INITIATIVE)
Minsys tried to move into the door way again and when he could not he resigned himself to wait. "Need to get my trophies..." he says dejected, at least until he returns to normal size. When that happens he's all over looting the bodies. More for a weapon or such from each he killed.