DM NomadSage's Curse of the Crimson Throne (Inactive)

Game Master nomadicc

Melianthe moves to Seren's side after her target falls asleep. Cherias steps up and calls out a prayer that invigorates your party. Seren then casts his obscuring darkness spell, shrouding the nearby area in hazy twilight.

Segang shifts, earth breaker swinging at the Gray Maiden. She deflects the attack with a trained shield parry, and the heavy hammer careens onto an adjacent cot, crushing its invalid occupant.

Segang miss hits patient?: 1d100 ⇒ 27

The Gray Maiden retaliates, but takes an off-balance step and misses Segang's neck by a few inches. "Fall back, out of this sorcerous mist!" she commands, stepping into the gloom away from Segang (and by chance, closer to Cherias).

GM1 vs Segang (PA): 1d20 + 11 - 2 ⇒ (6) + 11 - 2 = 15; Miss Chance: 1d100 ⇒ 79; Miss hits patient?: 1d100 ⇒ 81

Remember you cannot see beyond 5 feet, and don't forget miss chance in the twilight haze...

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Initiative Order (Round Two):
[20] Segang
[17] Gray Maidens
[13] Absinthe <<<
[13] Queen's Physicians
[11] Melianthe
[10] Cherias
[05] Seren

Absinthe's turn...

S+#$, is the patient dead?

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21 points of damage? Probably

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And the iterative attack?

Yeah, I was thinking cleave for some reason... Miss Chance?

Miss Chance first swing: 1d100 ⇒ 18

Miss Chance second swing: 100 = 100

Absinthe moves fluidly in the magical haze, maneuvering to put one of the physicians between herself and Segang before she lashes out again.

5-ft. step up and left, putting a doctor between me and Segang. Acrobatics if needed: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (3) + 13 = 16. Flanking blessed unarmed Nightmare Fist sneak attack, GO! 1d20 + 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 4 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 22 for 1d3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 3d6 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 1 + 2 + (1, 1, 5) = 13 damage.

Segang's follow-through strike barely misses, passing through a hazy silhouette.

Absinthe miss chance? Also, sneak attack doesn't apply against targets with concealment.

Blergh. :( Okay, miss chance: 1d100 ⇒ 93

Segang's follow-through strike barely misses, passing through a hazy silhouette.

Absinthe miss chance? Also, sneak attack doesn't apply against targets with concealment.

I always go high is good for the party. My misses are always low. I pretty much thought everyone chose this standard.

Absinthe rolls to flank the physician, jabbing him in the kidney. In the gloom, she struggles to find a precise vulnerability.

The physicians silently withdraw into the twilight haze, out of sight.

Absinthe gets an AoO on her target as he leaves the second threatened space...

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Initiative Order (Round Two):
[20] Segang
[17] Gray Maidens
[13] Absinthe
[13] Queen's Physicians
[11] Melianthe <<<
[10] Cherias
[05] Seren

Melianthe's turn...

Melianthe hexes Segang with Fortune and begins to cackle.

Someone gonna kill that sleeping dude? :)

Absinthe viciously lashes out at the masked figure scurrying past her, then reaches for the hilt of her new scimitar.

Unarmed blessed Nightmare Fist Attack of Opportunity, GO! 1d20 + 4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 4 + 4 + 1 = 19 for 1d3 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 1 + 2 = 4 damage.

... Absinthe Miss Chance: 1d100 ⇒ 85

Absinthe clips the retreating physician before he disappears into the gloom. After casting her hex upon Segang, Melianthe starts cackling. The sound is eerie amid the hazy twilight.

Cherias's turn.

If I'm not mistaken, no one else has taken damage since the previous round. So Segang's damage goes down to 21, Absinthe's to 12, and Cherias now has 20 damage. With the healing below, Absinthe is at full, Segang is at 7, and Cherias is at 6.

Cherias channels warm, healing energy, excluding the foes nearby, but not excluding the patients lying in the beds. So if that one that Segang hit happens to still be alive somehow, this will heal them.

channel energy: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 4, 4) = 14

"Stop this violence! We're all on the same side here, right? We want to cure this plague!" he says to the Grey Maiden, before backing away closer to his friends.

Continuing active buff: Prayer: +1 to attack/damage, skill checks, and saves for allies, -1 to all of that for foes, 5 rounds remaining.

If you channel I believe you will heal the enemy if you cannot see them to exclude them. Of course you will also heal a number of the patients.

I channeled before moving so that I could exclude the two that are right next to me, since I can see them. The others are out of range I think.

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On his turn Segang 5' steps following the Grey Maiden and full attacks her.

Adamantine Earth Breaker: 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 12 + 1 = 212d6 + 13 + 1 ⇒ (3, 2) + 13 + 1 = 19

Adamantine Earth Breaker: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 7 + 1 = 212d6 + 13 + 1 ⇒ (3, 4) + 13 + 1 = 21

EDIT: Forgot my fortune re-rolls.

Re-roll 1: 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 12 + 1 = 22

Re-roll 2: 1d20 + 12 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 12 + 1 = 27

For now, Seren will stay where he is and continue to concentrate on his haze. He will draw his extend rod from his belt.

Cherias heals the group and nearby patients, specifically excluding the two Gray Maiden foes. Seren continues concentrating on his spells. Segang steps through the haze, finds the Gray Maiden and attacks. Unfortunately, his first strike gets parried into an adjacent sick bed. The second misses, its aim thrown off by the gloom.

Miss Chance 1: 1d100 ⇒ 26
Hit Patient?: 1d100 ⇒ 6
Miss Chance 2: 1d100 ⇒ 5
Hit Patient?: 1d100 ⇒ 53

The Gray Maiden withdraws out of sight.

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Initiative Order (Round Three):
[20] Segang
[17] Gray Maidens
[13] Absinthe <<<
[13] Queen's Physicians
[11] Melianthe
[10] Cherias
[05] Seren

Absinthe. Other than the sleeping doctor by Cherias, no one can see any of the enemies.

I am confused. If I make the miss chance I can still hit a patient? Does that mean there are in effect two miss chances?

Absinthe skips and twirls through the magic fog, following her ears to navigate and brief glimpses of vision to dodge. She finds the doctor close to Cherias and tries to get past him unhurt and into position to deal a grievous attack. Silver briefly gleams...

Acrobatics-move into position: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (8) + 13 = 21. Drawing mithral scimitar.

I am confused. If I make the miss chance I can still hit a patient? Does that mean there are in effect two miss chances?

Negative. You have a chance of hitting patients with a stray attack. I explained it at the beginning of combat.

Battlefield Note: The cots surrounding you are full of sick patients. Stray attacks have a chance of hitting a nearby patient, unless you take care to swing safely, incurring a -2 penalty to hit.

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Absinthe moves.

The physician is sleeping. You don't need Acro to avoid attacks.

The Gray Maidens and doctors remain out of your sight.

Melianthe's turn.

Segang wrote:

I am confused. If I make the miss chance I can still hit a patient? Does that mean there are in effect two miss chances?

Negative. You have a chance of hitting patients with a stray attack. I explained it at the beginning of combat.

DM NomadSage wrote:

Battlefield Note: The cots surrounding you are full of sick patients. Stray attacks have a chance of hitting a nearby patient, unless you take care to swing safely, incurring a -2 penalty to hit.

And a 22 was a stray attack?

And a 22 was a stray attack?

Correct. She has an AC higher than 22.

"Sound the alarm! Bring the others!"

"Suggest we just grab this one and retreat," Abby says, indicating the sleeping doctor.

I think we need to fight and win this fight. Failure here lets these Grey Maidens spin our entry here the way they want it and we may very well have a price on our heads. We need to find and expose some wrong doing on their part I think. So I see retreat as a critical error.

I can hold this haze indefinitely if you want to keep using it as a fallback or what have you. If we stay and fight, recommend we not conserve resources other than trying not to smack patients.

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Still at Melianthe's action, though I'm intrigued to know if you're going to stay and fight or retreat.

Sorry, was at NAMM and then caught NAMMthrax.

I can't do much in the haze except Fortune y'all up. After that it's EPS for me, or Barrrow Haze to reach them from afar...

"Drop the cloud..." says Melianthe, while continuing to cackle and float.

Melianthe hexes Cherias with Fortune as well.

Go to the edge of the haze. Otherwise we are gonna be pincushions in the open.

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Unsure what to do in this darkness Saphren lets his rage fall from him, moves up to the sleeping enemy and thumps him senseless .

Nonlethal: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 182d6 + 10 ⇒ (5, 2) + 10 = 17 -4 for non-lethal but +4 for prone.

Back, but without HeroLab for the nonce.

Melianthe passes a beneficial hex onto Cherias, continuing her haunting cackle.

Cherias then Seren.

Do we have zero ranged capability?

"Move slowly to the edge of the haze, but stay in it. You should be able to see out but have protection from them. Otherwise, let's retreat to the door."

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Cherias takes out his crossbow and loads it. Someone else can take it if needed.

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Seren is continuing to hold the haze until someone comes up with a better plan than let it dump and all get throttled with arrows.

That's fine, Seren--Mel will float to the edge next round, maintain Fortune, and start after the other combatants.

Cherias takes out and loads his crossbow, while Seren continues to maintain concentration on the twilight haze spell. Segang steps over and thumps the sleeping physician, eliciting a grunt from his target, who remains unconscious.

You hear movement from the Gray Maidens outside of the haze, but none come into range to see or attack. Besides the groans and sick noises coming from the surrounding patients, you can only hear the nurse from the foyer calling, "What is going on back there?"

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Initiative Order (Round Four):
[20] Segang
[17] Gray Maidens / Queen's Physicians
[13] Absinthe <<<
[11] Melianthe
[10] Cherias
[05] Seren

Everyone can act...

Segang says quietly Mel, can you get a rope secured up on the balcony? If I could get up there...

"I'll move to secure the door so we don't get any assistance from the Nurse"

Seren will take a move action to head that way while maintaining the haze.

Melianthe floats down to Segang, bumping along in the haze, while continuing to cackle like a completely unhinged elf. She nods at the rope in his 'barbarian kit', apparently a little too preoccupied with laughing and flying to say anything.

Segueing offers the rope and grapple. Of can you levitate me up? I guess the levitate from your flight hex is self only?

I forget the rules. It's as per Fly...

Flight hex is self only.

Anything for Absinthe or Cherias?

I don't really have anything I can do, so I'll just delay. I was waiting to see if anyone else did something I could help with.

Same for me. :-/ I could try to stealth out of the haze, but I'm fairly sure they're watching us too closely.

Alright, since you guys have zero plan to use this to our advantage (read: use ranged weapons from the edges, I'll drop the haze. Be ready to flee when this turns south on us. Try not to kill any more patients

Seren will take a standard action to end the haze.

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Melianthe takes the rope and grappling hook from Segang. Absinthe and Cherias wait, and Seren begins to shut down his spell.

"Are they still in there?" you hear one of the Gray Maidens ask.

"Yes, I can hear them moving," their sergeant replies. "Stand ready for anything."

Melianthe, Absinthe and Cherias have one more turn before Seren cancels the mist... Segang too if he delays a step. Any inputs?