Orla looks at Thanis with a horrified expression on her face. "Just what kind of experiment did they do to you?!?"
Nirifanya moves to the top of the steps just under Savi. With a sigh of relief he is finally able to call on the spirits for help.
"Spirits of Lamannia, come to our aid!".
A spectral tiger jumps forms up from the ground between Savi and the skeletons. Thunder erupts on Savi's target, nearly bloodying it.
I'd like to move up to N4.
Seeing Zvia run up the stairs, the rest of your fellow prisoners being to file forward as well...
The skeletal guards continue their attacks, but you seem to have a defensive foothold and easily parry their assaults. Alester and Savi calmly absorb every attempt to drive them back down the stairs.
In the middle of the skeleton melee, Thanis stands up. A strange look covers his face. He seems just as shocked as everyone else that he is standing, he looks at the hole in his chest that has healed somewhat. Unfortunately, in the middle of his dazed state, the nearest skeleton stabs him again nearly sending him back to the realm of the dead ().
Savi is in the room at D4 (above the stairs and free to move)
Zvia is on the stairs at Green4 (can only see Green3 and Green5)
Niri is at Green2 (just below the top of the stairs and able to see into the room)
NPC allies are on the stairs and down the hall, behind Zvia
On the sideview of the stairs. You must move from green# to green# sequentially. Once you're at green1 you will be at D4 on the normal map and can move normally. It costs 2 moves to enter ANY green# square, 3 moves if you are moving through an ally.
If you're at green2 you can see the room and can attack targets nearby (you can also be attacked -- and those in the room will get a +2 bonus as if you're prone!).
If you're at green3 you can see D4 only (and it that square has cover from you)
Otherwise you can only see adjacent green#s
If you move from green2 to green1, the skeletons will attack you (OA) because you are moving through their threat-zone (and no, you cannot shift on the stairs -- unless you're able to shift more than one square of movement).
Total Damage to PLAYERS:
none
Alester: chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED)
Orla: suffering imprisonment effects (-2 to all skill checks and lose 1 Healing Surge per day); completely free of chains and cuffs
Savi-Kai: suffering imprisonment effects (lose 1 Healing Surge per day); chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED).
Thringorn: chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED)
Zvia: suffering imprisonment effects (-2 to all skill checks and lose 1 Healing Surge per day); completely free of chains and cuffs.
**Imprisonment effects last till you reach 2 milestones.
Assuming the same type of skeletons...
Skeletons == AC: 17, Fort: 14, REF: 13, WILL: 12
**They explode with Necrotic Energy when Bloodied or Killed
The exit to the West. There are two other doors to this room (North and East)
Stairs squares are difficult terrain.
If someone is prone on the stairs, you need to make a DC14 Acrobatics Check to step over them, or you fall prone too and end your movement.
The ally npcs are colored green (lettered A-H).
Rallnik, Thanis, and Nirifanya are labeled with thier first initial.
RED DOTS indicate bloodied npcs (ally and enemy, players are NOT indicated).
ORANGE DOTS indicate Savi-Kai's mark.
PURPLE DOTS indicate Thringorn's mark.
BROWN DOTS are NPC marks.
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INITIATIVE -- bold shows who's turn it is
Skeletons
1: Marked by Rallnik, Bloodied! (near dead)
2:
Alester: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied?
Thringorn: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
4:
Rallnik: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Savi: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Orla
Zvia
Nirifanya
Rallnik's men (A-D) (all weakened, D is SLOWED (se))
Thanis's men (E-H), (E is not weakened, the rest are)
5:
6:
Thanis: Bloodied!
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Steel Serpent's Strike vs. AC
+2=11
HP: 17/42 Temp HP: 12/15 Surges: 8/10 AP: 0/1
5: Attacks Savi: 1d20 + 6 vs AC, *major miss*
When S5 misses Savi, Orla uses the Virtue of Cunning to slide her to E3.
I will attack the skeleton at B3
Alester drives his blade through the skeleton that has been harassing him. The necrotic energy holding the undead together explodes out catching Thanis and Savi at the edge of the burst..
Total Damage to Players:
Savi: 8 (minus 3 from the spectral tiger) = 5
Rallnik moves around the outside of the room and positions himself to help his karrnathi brother and takes a piece of bone out of his target.
The skeleton that is nearest the stairs, makes a grab for Savi, but just bearly misses her ().
Zvia is on the stairs at Green4 (can only see Green3 and Green5)
Niri is at Green2 (just below the top of the stairs and able to see into the room)
NPC allies are on the stairs and down the hall, behind Zvia
On the sideview of the stairs. You must move from green# to green# sequentially. Once you're at green1 you will be at D4 on the normal map and can move normally. It costs 2 moves to enter ANY green# square, 3 moves if you are moving through an ally.
If you're at green2 you can see the room and can attack targets nearby (you can also be attacked -- and those in the room will get a +2 bonus as if you're prone!).
If you're at green3 you can see D4 only (and it that square has cover from you)
Otherwise you can only see adjacent green#s
If you move from green2 to green1, the skeletons will attack you (OA) because you are moving through their threat-zone (and no, you cannot shift on the stairs -- unless you're able to shift more than one square of movement).
Total Damage to PLAYERS:
none
Alester: chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED)
Orla: suffering imprisonment effects (-2 to all skill checks and lose 1 Healing Surge per day); completely free of chains and cuffs
Savi-Kai: suffering imprisonment effects (lose 1 Healing Surge per day); chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED).
Thringorn: chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED)
Zvia: suffering imprisonment effects (-2 to all skill checks and lose 1 Healing Surge per day); completely free of chains and cuffs.
**Imprisonment effects last till you reach 2 milestones.
Skeletons == AC: 17, Fort: 14, REF: 13, WILL: 12
**They explode with Necrotic Energy when Bloodied or Killed
The exit to the West. There are two other doors to this room (North and East)
Stairs squares are difficult terrain.
If someone is prone on the stairs, you need to make a DC14 Acrobatics Check to step over them, or you fall prone too and end your movement.
The ally npcs are colored green (lettered A-H).
Rallnik, Thanis, and Nirifanya are labeled with thier first initial.
RED DOTS indicate bloodied npcs (ally and enemy, players are NOT indicated).
ORANGE DOTS indicate Savi-Kai's mark.
PURPLE DOTS indicate Thringorn's mark.
BROWN DOTS are NPC marks.
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INITIATIVE -- bold shows who's turn it is
s2: Marked by Rallnik
Alester: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied?
Thringorn: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied! GETS AN OA!
s4: Marked by Thringorn
Rallnik: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Savi: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Orla
Zvia
Nirifanya
Rallnik's men (A-D) (all weakened, D is SLOWED (se))
Thanis's men (E-H), (E is not weakened, the rest are)
s5: Marked by Savi
s6:
Thanis: Bloodied!
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AOO vs. S4
Damage
= 3
HP: 17/42 Temp HP: 12/15 Surges: 8/10 AP: 0/1
I recover from the blast of the fallen skeleton and move in an intricate pattern around S4, just barely stepping outside of his grasp. As I whirl around, I use his stumble to strike.
Lightning Clash on S4 vs AC
= 4
With a sizzling flash a bolt of lighting flies from the skeleton (s4) to his brethren (S6).
Lightning Clash pt 2 on S6 vs Ref
= 4
I pull the sword back over my head, wiping smudges of char onto my prison garb.
"Poor little skeleton, marked by Thringorn; die again today, with all of our scorn."
Vicious Mockery on S4 vs Will
damage and -2 penalty to any attacks until Orla's next turn
PS Zvia would like to hold her action until Nirifanya has had a chance to get out of the way.
Orla's mental attack on the skeleton has it loosen its grip on undeath, and a portion of its necrotic energy bursts out. The shockwave knocks into Thanis and Orla.
Total Damage to Players:
Orla = 4
Nirifanya then sends out waves of healing energy from his tiger before trying to find a better location in the room -- moving to the far corner (). Both the skeletons ringing the stairs swing at Niri. And then his spirit tiger strikes back.
Healing on Players:
Alester gains 4 real hp.
Orla gains 3 temp hp (after taking the damage from above).
Aoo vs. S4
Damage
=3
HP: 17/42 Temp HP: 12/15 Surges: 8/10 AP: 0/1
I move to the position Nirifanya just vacated (N2), and throw one of my bra-rocks at skeleton S4, invoking
Flicking Arrow (errr, Rock) on S4 Wisdom vs AC
My rock slips through his ribs, but my throws are inevitable, and the rock whirls back around at S4's neighbor.
Inevitable Shot on S5 Basic ranged attack versus AC
And it missed him, too. *sigh*
Frustrated, I throw Encaging Spirits at S4 and S5, pushing them one square away from the top of the stairs and slowing them.
Rallnik's men charge up the stairs, one of them is even able to squeeze past Zvia and into the room (). The rest of your fellow cellmates end up in the stairwell ()...
The skeletons continue their standard strategy of trying to push people back into the stairs while one activates the trap.
Thanis shifts away from the group and tries to gather his wits, but just can't seem to shake his confusion ().
One of the skeletons continues after Thanis, trying to kill him (again), but Rallnik draws his attention.
Zvia is on the stairs at Green2 (just below the room, she can see everything)
NPC allies are on the stairs and down the hall, behind Zvia
On the sideview of the stairs. You must move from green# to green# sequentially. Once you're at green1 you will be at D4 on the normal map and can move normally. It costs 2 moves to enter ANY green# square, 3 moves if you are moving through an ally.
If you're at green2 you can see the room and can attack targets nearby (you can also be attacked -- and those in the room will get a +2 bonus as if you're prone!).
If you're at green3 you can see D4 only (and it that square has cover from you)
Otherwise you can only see adjacent green#s
If you move from green2 to green1, the skeletons will attack you (OA) because you are moving through their threat-zone (and no, you cannot shift on the stairs -- unless you're able to shift more than one square of movement).
Total Damage to PLAYERS:
none
Alester: chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED)
Orla: suffering imprisonment effects (-2 to all skill checks and lose 1 Healing Surge per day); completely free of chains and cuffs
Savi-Kai: suffering imprisonment effects (lose 1 Healing Surge per day); chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED).
Thringorn: chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED)
Zvia: suffering imprisonment effects (-2 to all skill checks and lose 1 Healing Surge per day); completely free of chains and cuffs.
**Imprisonment effects last till you reach 2 milestones.
Skeletons == AC: 17, Fort: 14, REF: 13, WILL: 12
**They explode with Necrotic Energy when Bloodied or Killed
The exit to the West. There are two other doors to this room (North and East)
Stairs squares are difficult terrain.
If someone is prone on the stairs, you need to make a DC14 Acrobatics Check to step over them, or you fall prone too and end your movement.
The ally npcs are colored green (lettered A-H).
Rallnik, Thanis, and Nirifanya are labeled with thier first initial.
BLUE CORNERS on ally's are reminders to me that they are effected by something special (like slow)
RED DOTS indicate bloodied npcs (ally and enemy, players are NOT indicated).
ORANGE DOTS indicate Savi-Kai's mark.
PURPLE DOTS indicate Thringorn's mark.
BROWN DOTS are NPC marks.
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INITIATIVE -- bold shows who's turn it is
s2: Marked by Rallnik
Alester: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied?
Thringorn: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
s4: Bloodied! Marked by Thringorn, -2 to attack (TEoONT), slowed (TEoZNT)
Rallnik: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Savi: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Orla
Zvia
Nirifanya
Rallnik's men (A-D) (all weakened, B is SLOWED (se))
Thanis's men (E-H), (E is not weakened, the rest are, E is SLOWED (se))
s5: (almost bloodied), Marked by Savi, slowed (TEoZNT)
s6:
Thanis: Bloodied! Dazed (se)
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Wicked Strike vs. AC
"Return to the graveyard you foll beast!"
Alester's anger fuels his strike. The blow weakens the skeleton's hold on his necrotic energy, and most in the room are washed in the undead's power.
Total Damage to Players:
Orla = 5
Alester = 5
Zvia = 8
The skeletons switch strategies and now just engage their targets with blades. Thringorn is easy able to counter the attacks and moves.
Rallnik takes up a better position, but he misses his target...
Zvia is on the stairs at Green2 (just below the room, she can see everything)
NPC allies are on the stairs and down the hall, behind Zvia
On the sideview of the stairs. You must move from green# to green# sequentially. Once you're at green1 you will be at D4 on the normal map and can move normally. It costs 2 moves to enter ANY green# square, 3 moves if you are moving through an ally.
If you're at green2 you can see the room and can attack targets nearby (you can also be attacked -- and those in the room will get a +2 bonus as if you're prone!).
If you're at green3 you can see D4 only (and it that square has cover from you)
Otherwise you can only see adjacent green#s
If you move from green2 to green1, the skeletons will attack you (OA) because you are moving through their threat-zone (and no, you cannot shift on the stairs -- unless you're able to shift more than one square of movement).
Total Damage to PLAYERS:
none
Alester: chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED)
Orla: suffering imprisonment effects (-2 to all skill checks and lose 1 Healing Surge per day); completely free of chains and cuffs
Savi-Kai: suffering imprisonment effects (lose 1 Healing Surge per day); chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED).
Thringorn: chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED)
Zvia: suffering imprisonment effects (-2 to all skill checks and lose 1 Healing Surge per day); completely free of chains and cuffs.
**Imprisonment effects last till you reach 2 milestones.
Skeletons == AC: 17, Fort: 14, REF: 13, WILL: 12
**They explode with Necrotic Energy when Bloodied or Killed
The exit to the West. There are two other doors to this room (North and East)
Stairs squares are difficult terrain.
If someone is prone on the stairs, you need to make a DC14 Acrobatics Check to step over them, or you fall prone too and end your movement.
The ally npcs are colored green (lettered A-H).
Rallnik, Thanis, and Nirifanya are labeled with thier first initial.
BLUE CORNERS on ally's are reminders to me that they are effected by something special (like slow)
RED DOTS indicate bloodied npcs (ally and enemy, players are NOT indicated).
ORANGE DOTS indicate Savi-Kai's mark.
PURPLE DOTS indicate Thringorn's mark.
BROWN DOTS are NPC marks.
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INITIATIVE -- bold shows who's turn it is
s2: Bloodied! Marked by Rallnik
Alester: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied?
Thringorn: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied! OA vs Skel4
s4: Bloodied! Marked by Thringorn, -2 to attack (TEoONT), slowed (TEoZNT)
Rallnik: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Savi: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Orla
Zvia
Nirifanya
Rallnik's men (A-D) (all weakened, B is SLOWED (se))
Thanis's men (E-H), (E is not weakened, the rest are, E is SLOWED (se))
s5: (almost bloodied), Marked by Savi
s6:
Thanis: Bloodied! DAZED (se)
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HP: 17/42 Temp HP: 12/15 Surges: 8/10 AP: 0/1
"Silly skeleton, by now you should know, it's well past time for your life force to go."
Vicious Mockery on S4 vs Will (again)
HP: 23/29 Surges: 4/8 AP: 0
The skeleton looks up at Orla as if almost comprehending her words, its empty eye socks glow as it stares at her... and then the instant passes as Orla's arcane power causes its skull to explode!
Total Damage to Players:
Savi-Kai = 3 damage
HP: 17/42 Temp HP: 12/15 Surges: 8/10 AP: 0/1
Seeing my allies moving into the room causes me to forget the sharp splinters of bone dotting my side and I whirl my blade at the skeleton in the alcove.
Lightning Lure on S6
vs Fort
1/2 Max Dam
1d6+6 (12) plus =9 total
AND
S6 is pulled across the room until he is before me. (F4)
Time to play, Old Boney. My hair dances wickedly and a bit of a maniacal laugh escapes before I can stop myself.
HP: 12/37, Surges: 9/11(-1), AP: 1/1
Savi's chains glow as they try their best to weaken the energy of her attack, it saves her skeletal foe... but it's doesn't prevent him from being pulled to her side.
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INITIATIVE -- bold shows who's turn it is
s2: Bloodied! Marked by Rallnik
Alester: weakened (1/2 dam)
Thringorn: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Rallnik: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Savi: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Orla
Zvia
Nirifanya
Rallnik's men (A-D) (all weakened, B is SLOWED (se))
Thanis's men (E-H), (E is not weakened, the rest are, E is SLOWED (se))
s5: (almost bloodied), Marked by Savi
s6: (almost bloodied)
Thanis: Bloodied! DAZED (se)
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Time to play, Old Boney.
I step off the staircase and head toward the exit, stopping on D1, whirling around, flinging a bra-rock at skeleton S2, and calling on the spirits to smite him and hold him in place.
Grappling Spirits on S2
is a hit!
damage
Nirifanya joins Zvia at the exit and commands his spectral tiger to attack her target. Finishing off the skeleton.
The rest of your fellow prisoners continue to run up the steps, and try to help where able (). One of them even manages to grab hold of one of the skeletons ().
The skeletons attack with thier blades...
Thanis moves away from the combat and continues to try and shake off the unease of rising from the dead.
Total Damage to PLAYERS:
Orla (gained 3 temp from Niri) (lost 5 from the dying skeleton) = 2
Alester (gained 3 temp from Niri)
Alester: chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED)
Orla: suffering imprisonment effects (-2 to all skill checks and lose 1 Healing Surge per day); completely free of chains and cuffs
Savi-Kai: suffering imprisonment effects (lose 1 Healing Surge per day); chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED).
Thringorn: chains broken, still cuffed (WEAKENED)
Zvia: suffering imprisonment effects (-2 to all skill checks and lose 1 Healing Surge per day); completely free of chains and cuffs.
**Imprisonment effects last till you reach 2 milestones.
Skeletons == AC: 17, Fort: 14, REF: 13, WILL: 12
**They explode with Necrotic Energy when Bloodied or Killed
The exit to the West. There are two other doors to this room (North and East)
Stairs squares are difficult terrain.
If someone is prone on the stairs, you need to make a DC14 Acrobatics Check to step over them, or you fall prone too and end your movement.
The ally npcs are colored green (lettered A-H).
Rallnik, Thanis, and Nirifanya are labeled with thier first initial.
BLUE CORNERS on ally's are reminders to me that they are effected by something special (like slow)
RED DOTS indicate bloodied npcs (ally and enemy, players are NOT indicated).
ORANGE DOTS indicate Savi-Kai's mark.
PURPLE DOTS indicate Thringorn's mark.
BROWN DOTS are NPC marks.
======================================================================
INITIATIVE -- bold shows who's turn it is
Alester: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied?
Thringorn: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Rallnik: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied (near dead)
Savi: weakened (1/2 dam), Bloodied!
Orla
Zvia
Nirifanya
Rallnik's men (A-D) (all weakened, Ally-A is GRABBING skeleton5)
Thanis's men (E-H), (E is not weakened, the rest are)
s5: (almost bloodied), Marked by Savi, GRABBED by Ally-A
s6: (almost bloodied)
Thanis: Bloodied (near dead)
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Wicked Strike vs. AC
Damage
= 5
HP: 17/42 Temp HP: 12/15 Surges: 8/10 AP: 0/1
Thrin's strike bloodies the skeleton and the familiar explosion of necrotic energy erupts from the undead.
Total Damage to Players:
Savi-Kai = 3
Thringorn = 3
Zvia = 3
HP: 17/42 Temp HP: 9/15 Surges: 8/10 AP: 0/1
Alester's fury overtakes him as he attacks the skeleton!
Current HP 17 = 17 - 5 + 3 Temp = 12 + 3 Temp Surges 8/12 AP 0/1
Sir Redwyne's anger gets the better of him... or perhaps he was just trynig to be too cautious and not hit his ally. Either way, Alester's blade sails through the air hitting nothing.
Rallnik decides to spend a moment to try and catch his wind... ().
Orla looks at skeleton 5. "Rotten bones, your time is done; finishing you off will be quite fun."
Vicious Mockery on S5 vs Will
and that mockery utterly fizzles.
Buoyed by my last success, I try the same trick on Skeleton 6.
Grappling Spirits on S6
... but my rock slips through its ribs without hitting bone.
HP: 17/28 surges: 6/7 AP: 0/1