Welcome to the Wolves' Den Gameplay Thread. Things will start to move more quickly once I'm sure the map is behaving properly.
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One by one, the locals say goodnight to whoever is paying attention and make their way out the door. The merchant heads up to bed, and the two hunters follow not long after. The hobgoblin and the innkeeper engage in a brief but heated discussion over the bill, that leaves both of them smiling as Vadzik heads upstairs with his pups. As the hour grows late and the common room empties out, one by one the staff exits through the kitchen. Finally, only Jonah, the innkeeper remains.
"Unfortunately," he says, stifling a yawn. "I've only one room left. The good news is, it's clean and fresh and got four beds, so everyone has a place to sleep. It comes to five silvers apiece for the bed and the food and drink."
Sjora hands the poor tired innkeeper her share of the room fee, after the place is emptied out, and looks to the others to see if they are coming as well. It's late and there's nothing really left to do here. One last time, she warms her hands by what remains of the fire in the hearth, then heads upstairs to claim a bed, taking her pack with her. She is more than glad to get out of her chain shirt and into a comfortable shift for sleeping.
"Well, isn't that convenient?" Duraelo pays the innkeeper, grabs his belongings, and heads up to the room. He changes into more comfortable sleeping clothes and flops down onto the bed. He takes out his book, inkpen, and inkwell, writing down several notes about everything that happened that day. When he finishes, he falls asleep almost instantly.
"Very well." Etienne pays the innkeeper and heads upstairs. After making sure that Isabeau has everything she'll need for the night, he takes a corner bed farthest from the door and falls asleep.
"I have no problems with that." After his last drink of the evening, Rufon pays the innkeeper and goes to bed as last, taking the closest bed to the door with Thrace lying down next to him. If somebody would come through the door, he'd find a sleeping tiger waiting.
One by one, you all go to bed and drift of to sleep.
Rufon
Sjora
Etienne
Duraelo
In the small hours of the night, the smell of smoke wakes the tiger. He emits a low, rumbling growl. Rufon wakes immediately on hearing the familiar sound, with Etienne and Duraelo lifting their heads at the noise. Sjora sleeps soundly.
Black smoke seeps through cracks in the floor and under the door, and you hear a roaring, as of a fire blazing somewhere. Is it hot in here?
Rufon immediately gets out of his bed as he sees the black smoke creep under the door.
As he packs his things, which isn't too much since he didn't unpack or whatever, he walks hastily to the door, feels the doorknob and listens for a moment. If he doesn't have an idea that the fire is right outside the door, he will open the door and look around.
Thrace however is alerted, but doesn't seem to want to approach the fire directly. Hesitant at first, he looks around the corner of the opened door. His first reaction is to get away from the fire and would probably go the shortest route possible to flee it.
Sjora stumbles out of bed, glad she fell asleep in her clothes, what with being in a roomful of strange men she barely knew, nothing less would have been proper. She looks around trying to get her bearings as she blinks tiredly.
Isabeau Perception
EDIT: Etienne is awakened by Isabeau's landing on his head and squawking. As he blinks the sleep out of his eyes, he hears Rufon's warning of a fire.
As you emerge into the hall.
Thick smoke pours down the corridor from the direction of the exit, obscuring vision, but you can see an orange glow of flame ahead, and a humanoid shape stumbling towards you out of the smoke.
Sjora stumbles to the door and looks down the hall... she immediately calls on her connection to the gods and creates 2 gallons of water centered on the orange glow, hoping to help put out the flames, or at least protect the human coming toward them.
"Huh? What's tha...what's going OH MY GODS FIRE!"
Duraelo quickly jumps out of bed, grabbing his clothes and belongings and running out with the others.
"What the hell is going on?" he yells. He sees Sjora douse the orange glow with water and decides to help out, casting Ray of Frost to ensure that the fire gets out.
Rufon steps outside the room, walking towards the figure, all the while knocking on the doors of the Hobgoblin and the guards, then kicking them in.
He takes a quick peek in the rooms he kicked the doors in of to make sure none are there.
Thrace will stay at the hall, ready to react to anyone who comes close; if he seems hostile attack, a friendly face/scent he will not react besides laying low on the ground.
Sjora runs back into the room and grabs her pack, slipping it on so her hands are free... She grumbles as she fumbles about a bit in the darkness, and then slips back out into the hall... She casts another 'create water' into the glow, hoping to help put out the flames.
"Quickly my pretty, out the window. Meet me outside." Etienne tells Isabeau as she flies out the window. He then grabs his gear and exits the room. In the hallway, seeing Rufon kicking down doors, Etienne begins to do the same, working on the rooms on the other side of the corridor and heading towards the figure.
Rufon gets up and goes to the door. Everyone else is yawning. Except Isabeau, who is pecking Etienne's ear.
Sjora stumbles into the hall, casting create water. The first casting goes up in steam, putting out a few spreading flames. It seems the spell does not create enough water to extinguish the flames where they have really caught hold, but perhaps to slow the spread?
Duraelo follows, casting Ray of Frost. This spell in too tightly targeted to have any real effect. It extinguishes a tiny area (a few square inches) of burning material, but the effect is reversed almost as quickly as it is seen.
Rufon pounds on doors. He hears growling and grumbling as the wolves and people wake up.
Sjora runs back into the room, grabs her pack, fumbles in the dark, goes back into the hall and casts a spell.
Rufon would be in front of the guards' door. (H-10)
Thrace at his heels
The rest would be outside your door. (C-10, C-11, D-10)
Isabeau is either out the window or sharing space with Etienne.
A few patches of flame extinguished by Sjora's spells were in the main corridor, but you see that the main source of the fire is in the narrow hall to the staff's quarters. (S-10, VWX-10)
The humanoid figure is a few feet away from Rufon, (J-11) and appears as a dessicated, partly decomposed corpse. As it lumbers towards you, you see low blue flames licking over its shoulder. The fact that it is on fire seems to have no effect on it. A second similar creature lumbers around the corner from the stairs. (P-10)
A character who breathes heavy smoke must make a Fortitude save each round (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or spend that round choking and coughing. A character who chokes for 2 consecutive rounds takes 1d6 points of nonlethal damage. Smoke obscures vision, giving concealment (20% miss chance) to characters within it.BUT
Any character can hold her breath for a number of rounds equal to twice her Constitution score. If a character takes a standard or full-round action, the remaining duration that the character can hold her breath is reduced by 1 round. After this period of time, the character must make a DC 10 Constitution check every round in order to continue holding her breath. Each round, the DC increases by 1.
Assuming everyone is holding their breath at this moment.
Zombies
Rufon (and Thrace)
Sjora
Etienne (and Isabeau)
Duraelo
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Initiative Order
Rufon
Sjora
Etienne
Zombies
Duraelo
"Quickly my pretty, out the window. Meet me outside." Etienne tells Isabeau as she flies out the window. He then grabs his gear and exits the room. In the hallway, seeing Rufon kicking down doors, Etienne begins to do the same, working on the rooms on the other side of the corridor and heading towards the figure.
On his turn, Etienne will fire an arrow at the nearest zombie.
Attack +1 if within 30ft
Damage +1 if within 30ft
Rufon seeing the scorched humanoid shambling about, takes a step closer to investigate.
What on earth is this? A man that doesn't screa..
Not even time to finish his own thought as he looks onto the (wo)man's face and sees the lifeless expression. He doesn't hesitate to attack the thing with his scimitar.
five-foot step towards I-10, Attack the thing with my scimitar, default weapon for him at this level.
Able to get a slight cut in the creature, trying to aim at it's neck. The smoke obscures his aim, though he manages to slice a wound across its chest. (assuming 4 damage isn't gonna take a zombie down yet)
Thrace growls at the sight of the walking dead, he can smell the unnatural stench upon them. After the low growl he pounces at the creature and try to rip it's neck off (if it still stands).
Charge the abomination, +2 attack -2 AC till next turn, landing on I-11 after the charge.
Thrace loses his focus as he nears the thing, backing off before he even got close enough for a bite attempt.
Apparently startled at its sight, having never faced the undead before, he only growls slightly.
It can't just be a simple little journey, nooooooo, there has to be a fire and oh gods damn it all IS THAT A ZOMBIE? Duraelo thinks as he surveys the hallway, holding his breath to counteract the smoke.
Duraelo makes sure his morningstar is with him, and tries to hit the nearest zombie with Ray of Frost.
Attack
Damage
(As I see it, it says Con score, not modifier, hopefully this is correct)
Rufon slashes at the dead man and Etienne lodges an arrow in its heart, which unfortunately does not seem to affect it, though it does seem to look down, as if curious what made that sound.
With a groan that reveals embers burning inside its mouth, the dead man swipes at Rufon with his fingers curled into a claw.
Catching the man a hard slam on the shoulder.
The other zombie shuffles along the corridor towards him. (arriving at L-10)
Duraelo flings a ray of frost at the second zombie, which seems to affect it more than expected.
Round 2
AC 17, hp 5/14
Seeing his master and friend take a claw at his shoulder he roars loudly in defiance at the zombie in front of him, before tearing into him with tooth and claw.
Thrace rips apart the zombie, tearing out his neck as he mauls at the things chest with his claws. (hopefully this kills him)
Rufon feels the throbbing pain at his shoulder, blood seeping from under his armor onto the floor.
Blasted thing. What are the undead doing here in Gozrehs name?
Seeing Thrace rip apart the blasted undead, he steps up to protect his friend despite his wounds.
Seeing Rufon with a bad rend to his flesh, Sjora looks at the zombie a moment.... to heal or attack? Tough decision. Suddenly from her hands a lucerne hammer grows, as if from her flesh itself, and moving up behind Rufon, she reaches out beyond Rufon and strikes at the zombie .
Odd, an arrow to the heart usually kills them. Maybe because they're already dead? Etienne nocks another arrow and fires at the remaining zombie
Arrow +1 if attacking the closer zombie
Damage +1 if attacking the closer zombie
Percentile Dice
EDIT: ... and misses terribly. Blasted smoke!
That...that look like it hurt it. A LOT. Well, if fire doesn't hurt it... Duraelo moves forward and blasts the same zombie with another Ray of Frost.
Miss chance:
Ray of Frost:
Damage:
Duraelo looks around, trying to see how everyone else is doing. He can see Rufon bleeding, even in the smoke, which instantly makes him think that maybe running might be a better idea. He also sees that Sjora has pulled a massive lucrene hammer out of nowhere. Note to self: if I survive, ask how where she got that.
Edit: He misses the zombie completely, the ray moving right past it and harmlessly hitting the wall behind it.
Thrace rips the first zombie apart with claws and teeth. As a raking claw opens the innards of the creature, it bursts into flames, spraying flaming gobs of flesh over the tiger and his master.
Rufon and Thrace both manage to spring back, avoiding the worst of the fire, taking 3 hps apiece.
Sjora advances to J-11, bringing the second zombie into reach of her hammer. A heavy blow that would have killed a man seems to shatter the thing's arm, which hangs limp as it shuffles foreward, reaching for her with its free hand.
Duraelo's ray and Etienne's arrow miss.
At this point, a hobgoblin in his underwear steps into the hall with a crossbow leveled to attack. A moment later, he vanishes back into the room.
"COME ON EVERYONE, MOVE MOVE MOVE! OUT OF THE GIANT FUNERAL PYRE!" Duraelo's had enough of this. He moves forward to behind Sjora, making sure that neiter she doesn't accidentally hit him with her weapon, or the zombie attacks him like it did with Rufon and his tiger. "Hurry it up, Sjora! Just bash its head in and let's get out of here!
Miss chance:
To hit:
Damage if hit:
Round 3 AC 17 hp 2/14
Rufon hastily removes the burning flesh and embers from his arms and face. Hurt pretty badly, and some of his long hair smoldering, he wished he had some healing potions with him.
Thrace whimpered a bit after the blast of burning flesh hit him, one of his paws covered his face, but the searing fleshy bits of the zombie singed his fur. Now some parts are blackened instead of striped.
Thrace moves next to Sjora at the silent nod of his master. He tries to rip out its throat, having witnessed the exploding innards of the last thing he killed.
Rufon himself goes over to his friend and pats him on the head after, worrying about the burns on his fur, not his own wounds.
He bashes in the door of the hunters if the way is clear now, standing at N-11
The tiger opens the second zombie's belly in another eruption of fire.
The flames spread quickly (R-10 also on fire) and the cook emerges, half dragging Caylin through the flames. Both are burned but alive, and the other guests appear at their doors, carrying what they can grab, hurrying towards the stairs.
Duraelo shouts loudly "EVERYONE OUT! LET'S GO!" He rushes past everyone, making his way to the first floor via the stairs.
Rufon and Thrace race past doors that have been opened, trying to make sure everyone got out before they did. If they don't find/hear anyone, they will both make haste towards the first floor and exit.
Edit:
If the flames blocking the last couple staff rooms don't look too strong, Etienne will rush there to make sure everyone got out. Then he'll run downstairs after everyone else, exit the building, and call Isabeau.
Sjora runs for the stairs and sees Etienne's attempt at braving the flames to make sure the staff got out okay. She pauses at he top of the stairs and creates water, drenching him so he doesn't catch on fire himself as he braves the flames.
"Sorry about the water, Etienne, but that should help keep you from burning."