30 years before the event of Oblivion, the dunmer and the argonian start a civil war all over the Empire,they want to annihilate each other....or is there something else?
Non-specific light and medium armors? Hide and leather? Breastplate and chain shirt? Also, are we replacing Mithril with Elven, or Glass? Are we replacing Adamantine with Dwarven or Daedric? What about cold iron? Having to head out to Mzelchunft to get dwarven ingots as a quest to forge the new Dwarven Breastplate for the Dunmer's new set is always a future possibility... :D I know that Rahn eventually hopes to wear Elven/Glass breastplate for the light-armor best-ness...
The newly found armors may be whatever armor types is best for the character taking one (if Emelia wants a studded leather the light armor is studded leather and so on) of course they are standard quality now.
I was thinking mithril would have been used for elven armors and adamantine for ebony.This means that glass/daedric will be an enhanced version of both materials.
Birard: yes, if you want to fight the rats i'll re-roll initiatives
Rahn hefts one of those medium armor suits, a heavy leather set capped with a thick orcish breastplate. Impressive, really. The pig-children know their metal-craft. He starts tucking into it, strapping it on with hardly a second check for stray flesh and body-parts.
"It's good to be armored again... even heavy as this is. Lend a hand with a few of these straps...?"
Alric can help with the rats if need be, as long as someone can keep the rats off of him so he can use his bow.
Zesaste Torath(Male Dunmer Magus 1 (Archetypes- Black Blade, Kensai))
Zesaste takes a particularly light set of armour, barely even padded leather and offering minimal protection. he raises an eyebrow at the strange conversation.
If they aren't looking to attack us... Why would we waste our time killing rats? What purpose does this achieve? Lets just get out of here, by Talos...
If you let the rats alone, they keep feasting on the goblin bodies, i just needed to know what you were going to do.You'll earn XP for the rats as well.Would like to have the response of Emelia.Freya is to join soon, the next encounter.
Emelia stands over the others, letting them pick through the items at their leisure. "I agree. Let's get ourselves out of here. I'm still curious as to where we are, and why we're here for that matter."
Your pick as who will take potions and scrolls.So Rahn took one orcish medium hide armor, Birard one breastplate armor and Zesaste one padded armor.This leaves Emelia and Alric to be given armors too
Zesaste Torath(Male Dunmer Magus 1 (Archetypes- Black Blade, Kensai))
Zesaste will take one of the cure light potions. He has no interest in anything else.
Moving slowly and keeping distance from the rodents the party manages to resume their run to,hopefully,freedom.
After another half an hour or so of walking the cave suddenly ends in a crumbled wall; this should mean they are now in some ruined bulding.
The air no longer smells of mold and moisture, and the hallway is illuminated from outside.
But voices of humans or humanoids can be heard in this new environment,someone is arguing.
Stealth rolls to keep going please
The big Nord tsks and shakes his head ruefully "Arkay gives you the gift, Divine. Use them as you see fit." before turning down the hall to lead the way. Only when he hears voices ahead does he hesitate and pause...
One day when Rahn is a big boy adventurer he might have perks like being able to successfully sneak with a -6 armor check penalty, but even now he knows better. He halts and waves Emelia up to take a listen, holding his finger to his lips to urge silence from the group. He carefully crouches down and balances himself on his free hand, staying still and silent as possible.
Seeing that no one else picked up the potions and amethysts, I grab them and put them in my pack for later. As I clean up the battle area I rush to catch up with the Nord. As I stay in the back of the party, covering the rear from attack, I almost run into everyone else when the Nord drops to the ground. Trying not to scrap my breastplate against the wall, I drop to my knee and readies my Holy symbol.
When we are in the middle of battle, can everyone make sure to updated their hps on their posts so that I can monitor who needs help?I know I have kinda messed up because going back over the battle while Emelia is back at full, Zesaste is -4 and Rahn is -5. I should have popped a healing channel on us before we had gone any farther
Days at work are becoming rough,cannot say for how many days i'll be able to post daily,in the worst case i'll have to wait after December 24rth,but won't let the game die. For now will wait a bit for Emelia or Alric (the only sneaking PCs of this party) for the current encounter.
Emelia follows the others, giving herself a few feet of distance. She chooses to remain silent, her eyes watchful of what may be ahead as the others work out their newly-found gear.
The young imperial scout have to walk just a few steps when she reaches the room the voices come from. Part of the conversation was already audible when she begun her exploration, and despite the very poor state of the corridor, with debris, old bones and webstings scattered all over, she is sure she isn't producing any sound..... <CRACK>
When she steps over a little bone,she stops and holds her breath, trying to listen better if whoever is talking heard the sound.
"Great idea Tavius , congratulations.First the Daedra, then those hooded bastards, now Hule-Claws and Sergey are gone and we are trapped here with this b&+%$. I say open her throat, wait for the night and leave. We can not continue to drag her behind us, all tied up as she is, and since you and Forsthur refuse to abuse her there is no reason to keep her alive."
"I already mentioned that we have enough problems to add the charge of murder of an imperial officer on our heads.We can always use her as hostage, and I never told i wasn't going to use her to warm my bed sooner or later. Now we only have something else to think of. If the others do not come back by this evening we will try to slip away under cover of darkness, and the girl comes with us, I will not repeat it, Ma'harruk."
Tavius and Ma'harruk keep their talking when a third voice interrupts them, probably the one they called Forsthur
This one specks with a thick northern accent "Hey, what waz that? Zomeone iz here?"
I'm feeling better, but would like to hear from Emelia.
The imperial girl quickly turns back and makes it safely amongst her team mates, just in time as three men, all clad in chain shirt and leather, begin to check the hallway. There is a nord (two hand hammer), an imperial (sword and board)and a khajiit (longbow), the imperial and the nord advance side to side claiming "We heard you, show yourself before we come and get you"
Emelia winces when she hears the crack, cursing herself for not keeping her eyes moving while attempting to keep silent. She stops, stock still, to listen to the voices ahead. She backs up to hopefully keep herself from being seen, nodding her agreement to Birard and Alric's assumptions, she draws her bow and takes aim.
She'll take an attack if everyone is ready for a fight.
Not sure what "visable" means, or is that "visible"?
It is passed only one round since Emelia turned back, and they are moving with caution, so they haven't done more than another 9-12 foot, which should take them to little more than 50 foot from you. I haven't a map yet, will draw one only if combat begins, but it is a straight corridor 9 foot wide
Emelia waits for her companions, disliking how close the men were getting with each passing second. She looks around, finding little exit then heading back. Captivity not being an option, she fires an arrow at one of the men approaching the party.
Is everyone busy with pre Xmas stuff, like me :( ? This wasn't mean to be a combat encounter, but thanks to Emelia it became one :) will get ready asap, or when the others come back
The enemies knew there was someone, but thanks to the difference in illumination levels between the corridor and the cave you are still partially in they have hard times seeing you yet, as long as they stay afar,but now they will charge toward the direction the arrow came from.You have one surprise round, and Birard already acted casting Shield so Emelia, Alric, Zesaste and Rahn can take actions.
Zesaste Torath(Male Dunmer Magus 1 (Archetypes- Black Blade, Kensai))
DM Ankoku DaiShogun wrote:
Is everyone busy with pre Xmas stuff, like me :( ?
This wasn't mean to be a combat encounter, but thanks to Emelia it became one :) will get ready asap, or when the others come back
Yeah i'm swamped at the moment sorry.
Seeing that a fight is inevitable, Zesaste moves towards the new enemies and imbues his blade with power once more.
Rahn hears the shout of panic and roars in response, the thunder ripping from his throat as he rushes down the corridor making a gods-awful racket. "FOR TALOS! AND GLORY!" Footfalls strike like hammers and his bulk comes crashing through like an avalanche, approaching the captors with a vengeance.
Move action. :D Hard to make one of those interesting. Try to close with the nearest guy, or with as many as possible if possible. The more badguys he's in contact with while they can't make AoO the better.
Neither sides is in melee reach unless everyone does a full round of double move, and since the enemy were already charging we can assume the next round close combat will take place.If Alric doesn't come back i'll GMNPC him, is options are limited to fire an arrow then inspiring courage i think.
The khajiit shoots an arrow at Zesaste, opening a small hole in the dunmer's abdomen 3 piercing damage on Zesaste
The other enemies run until they are in melee range with Rahn and Zesaste.
I may have posted in a little too much hurry, but you needed that round to reach melee range.During the surprise Rahn and Zesaste charged, Birard cast Bless, Alric shot an arrow and missed.Only Emelia seems to be missing, and she should have another range attack opportunity, since her first was out of round
Maybe the enemy archer could have waited the first regular round to fire, but he was alerted by Rahn's shout, so i thought he can fire during your charge, but let me know if i'm wrong, he'll use that attack in the first regular round
The nord has a large two hand weapon but it has no reach, he can use it in melee, but he has little room to swing it now, so i'll give him a permanent -2 to attack rolls
Zesaste Torath(Male Dunmer Magus 1 (Archetypes- Black Blade, Kensai))
Whether someone shouts or not, a surprise round is a surprise round. If the enemy are acting, its not a surprise round :/.
Had the doubt. His action remains, it is only postponed.Also, telling you right away, i didn't want this encounter to resolve with a combat, and i'm eager to end the game intro (your escape and meeting Freya) so will help the players for this time[/ooc]
I think we're plenty happy with just narration, or them scarpering! We won't chase them. A screaming nord and a whole party of unfamiliar guys including a vicious Dunmer warrior with red eyes come screaming out of the dark and I know -my- first reaction is to run away wetting myself, dunno about you. :D One guy jumping and whipping off an arrow before turning tail and fleeing is perfectly justifiable. Not a planned combat, doesn't need to be a fight scene. ^.^
