Flick curses a small piece of shrapnel hits him "What was that about being a newbie? I told you, I hardly ever miss"
Sam moves in as well, swinging his mace wildly.
HP taken: 3+1=4; HP 3/7; No psionic focus; Power Points=0; AC=18/14/14; Active Power=Inertial Armor manifested (1 hour duration); wearing spiked gauntlet
Connor flinched, trying unsuccessfully to protect himself from the blast alchemist's fire with the gunpowder. He breathed a loud sigh of relief when the half-orc stopped moving on the floor. Holding his bleeding forearm next to his side, along with his crossbow, Connor replied to Elrohir, "You're new to the team and you took forever following us in here, newbie." His side felt like it was bleeding from the scattergun, too.
Connor looked back down the hallway. "Hey Reaghar!" he shouted. "Kol's dead - but we still have a guard or two to take care of, from that gunfire in the building. Get back in here and finish the job. I'm hit." Connor painfully unstrapped his backpack and got out his healer's kit, taking a bandage roll and wrapping his wounds.
Connor looked up at his psicrystal near the ceiling. As for you, he sent telepathically, get back to Alister and make sure those guards don't double back and come at us from behind. Or the city guard arrives without notice."
Selvan shoves the remaining rogue against the wall and delivers a savage right hook.
Attack
Damage
Alys lies on the floor by the stairs and bleeds
But decides to stop.
Actually, the DC to stop bleeding is 10 + # of HP below 0. So, it would be 14 for Alys. She's still bleeding, and goes to -5.
Sammark can't charge the guard. First, he can't charge over difficult terrain (stairs + body), and acrobatics won't help since he can't charge in a straight line. He can however, move up to the Rogue so he's standing next to him.
Alister ⇒ 0 (Stable)
Alys ⇒ 0 (Bleeding out)
Order : Elrohir, Sammark, Selvan, Rogue 2, Connor, Reaghar
Sammark, Selvan and Elrohir are up first.
Actually, the DC to stop bleeding is 10 + # of HP below 0. So, it would be 14 for Alys. She's still bleeding, and goes to -5.
Sam moves in and swings with his mace.
Selvan attempts murder by fist.
attack
damage
Crit confirm
crit damage
Rogue 2 see's he's surrounded, and having heard explosions, decides he needs to get out. He ducks and dodges and while fleeing.
He manages to beat the CMDs of both Sammark and Selvan.
Ghe rogue runs toward the stairs, jumping the body (automatic success due to Acrobatics Skill level). He then leaps from the top of the stairs to the first landing.
He bounces off the wall and races toward the second set of stairs.
Connor and Reaghar up next.
Reaghar moves up to where Kol fell, seeing no enemies.
"What are you talking about?" he asks of Connor.
Connor stood up, still holding the healer's kit and backpack in one arm and hand, his light crossbow in the other. A series of noises got the better of him, and made him curious. Connor ran to where the thumps had come from, going past the half-orc's body and turning left, which had a short hallway going to a doorway in an open space, showing another doorway. "Well, follow me, guys, let's see what the guards were shooting at here." he jauntily called out.
Meanwhile, a silent but grumbling internally Hero crawled down from the wall and daintily climbed up on Alister's chest. One spiderlike leg prodded at the bandages going across the man's torso, apparently satisfied the bleeding had stopped.
Sammark hears someone else inside the hallway.
Order : Reaghar, Sammark, Rogue 2, Elrohir, Connor
The McIntyre people are wearing different armor from Kol's people.
The McIntyre people are wearing different armor from Kol's people, they have no firearms.
They are wearing Clan Reville colors.
The people in the hallway are not wearing the same armor and clothes as Kol's group.
The people in the hallway are not wearing the same armor and clothes as Kol's group, and they are not wielding firearms.
Reaghar goes out the other door to avoid any area blasts that the enemy might be using. He rounds the corner, seeing Connor with the strangers. Connor wasn't attacking, so Reaghar just waited. "Maybe his lil crystal saw something I didn't"
PErception
Nope, it's a wall, jsut like the one behind it.
It looks like someone took a defensive building and built it into a commercial structure when the military uses were obsolete. The rest of the building doesn't have the heavy reinforcement this half does.
Flick laughs a little nervously, and once again his words kinda tumble over themselves "Uh, yea, sorry about that. This is uh, my first real combat." He keeps his bow out, arrow nocked, ready to let fly at the first sign of trouble. The Elfavian then follows his companions, staying behind them.
Sam ducks across the doorway, glancing inside for a second to see someone coming before stooping to help the unconscious Alys.
"C'mon, Allie don't leave me alone with bug-boy over there," he says, trying to staunch the blood flow.
The last rogue continues running, down the stairs and out the west door of the building.
Sammark finds that Alys is already stable when he reaches her.
Connor saw someone race past the open doorway.
Up next : Connor & Selvan
Connor, still running, got to a doorway that branched off both left and right. Looking to his right,
Connor saw a half-elf bending over the bleeding form of a blonde elfavian with butterfly wings pretty enough to turn heads in a crowd. The half-human wasn't in the colors of Kol's guards. Still holding his backpack, healer's kit, and crossbow, Connor addressed the man in a lowered voice. He echoed the words spoken with the psicrystal link in his head. "Hey Wingless, if you're trying to help her, and I think you are, I've got a healer's kit here. But I've also got a crossbow, if you're with the magic-selling idiots on this floor. So you tell me which to use." He shouted over his shoulder, back inside Kol's hideout, "Hey Reaghar! You call for friends on busting this dealer and not tell us?"
Connor is an unassuming young man in his early twenties. He has pale skin, brown hair with red streaks, an average size for a Humavian, and is light on his feet. His McIntyre wings are white, indicating his heritage. Connor usually wears a thick pale shirt with brown trousers, a leather belt with belt pouches, and heavy boots (explorer's outfit).
He is holding a backpack for winged humanoids and a healer's kit in one arm/hand (arm is wrapped in fresh bloody bandages), his ribs are wrapped in bandages, and is holding a light crossbow in the other hand.
The light crossbow is unloaded. The hand holding the healer's kit has a spiked gauntlet.
There is a typo above. You can make the Knowledge (Local) check (Mintakia Trio) if you made the Perception DC 10. The 20 is not required to make that check.
"I didnt call for anyone."
Alright, unless someone initiates hostilities, we're out of combat, since nobody's attacking anyone. I declare this an free RP zone until someone ticks someone else off enough to open hostilities.
Sam looks up and fixes Connor with a look that is simultaneously unimpressed and annoyed. Sam had been threatened by things far scarier than this newcomer.
"Sorry, what was that? I don't speak Pigeon. Why don't you try again? Preferably after learning to use your eyes." Unless the newcomer makes any sudden moves, Sam promptly begins ignoring him in favor of trying to keep Alys alive. Alys he liked, certainly more than Selvan. Out of the three of them, she was the only one he figured had a decent chance of a new life.
Connor laughed. He leaned over and let the healer's kit drop next to the half-elf. "Here. There's plenty of bandages left." Connor offered. "It looks like Kol the illegal-contraband-dealer had more than one person gunning for him." The humavian went to the other side of the fallen woman. He looked over the gunshot wounds on the elfavian.
"She looks pretty bad. We have a guy in the back who took several shots as well." Connor told the half-elf quietly. Looking back at the doorway he had come from, Connor shouted "Hey Red-eye and Newbie! I figure we got twenty, thirty minutes before the town guard responds to the gunshots. Start searching. See if we have enough magic items to call for help turning them in." Connor focused on his internal link. Get us a view of the street, just in case. he ordered Hero.
Connor flexed the wing that had been hit by the scattergun. It hurt. Carrying Alister was going to be trouble. He turned to face the half-elf again. "We're not a rival gang, by the way. We just decided to get rid of anyone selling magic items in the city. Because, you know, magic blows up on these islands. So what's your story with the young lady, here?" Connor asked, his eyes going from the half-elf's attire to the elfavian's clothing.
The Slums, as the Southern District is known, is a really bad place to live.
The Slums, as the Southern District is known, is a really bad place to live. There's little in the way of law there.
The Slums, as the Southern District is known, is a really bad place to live. There's little in the way of law there. There's almost no guard coverage, most people living there pay gangs to protect them.
The Slums, as the Southern District is known, is a really bad place to live. There's little in the way of law there. There's almost no guard coverage, most people living there pay gangs to protect them. Kol's gang was powerful enough it was probably the closest thing to the Guard in this part of town.
If you've lived in the Southern District for any length of time (Only Sammark would fit this), you get a +5 on the Kn(Local) check, and can make it untrained.
"So you charge into a den of heavily armed criminals and get them shooting in every direction? Great plan," Sam says, wiping bloody hands on his pants legs. He pointedly does not provide the newcomer any information about himself and his goals here.
Elrohir goes over to check Kol for anything useful
Reaghar searches the bad guys, particularly Kol first. He will leave any magical things to the side for Connor to mess with. He will go for things in the order of: (Coin/gems; Alchemical substances; Weapons/bullets/powder; Other). He is making no attempt to hide his grabbing of the coins, and will divide them later away from the prying eyes of the newcomers.
Connor forced himself to smile at the half-human. "This from the guy who came up the front way, right into Kol's guards. At least my group did reconnaissance, and found the ledge on the second floor." he shot back. Connor glanced at the blonde elfavian. Connor couldn't tell if the half-elf had staunched her bleeding or not. Pity.
Connor collected the healer's kit and stuffed it back into his backpack. "Well, to the victors go the spoils." the man jauntily rebuffed. "I won't deny you kept, what, two or three? Of those goons off of our backs while we killed the dealer himself. Now we're going to search this place and see just how many arcane or divine items we need to turn over to the Magical Disposal Bureau before the stupid stuff blows this city block up sky high. I think you have your hands full getting your friend back to whatever place you call home."
Connor stood up, cradling his wounded arm, hooking the light crossbow back onto his backpack and then wincing as he struggled to put the backpack back on with his nicked wing. "If you want to see if there's any healing magic that works, you're welcome to join us. My guy's too heavy for me to lift, so I need a potion or two for him. If not, look us up at the Sotted Oyster later. It's in the Clan Reville section, so mind your p's and q's, Wingless. Or the Teranafiel Sal'van'Tieltha, Connor's tongue slipping around the Elven words, "in the Southern Quadrant, if you don't like the rowdy barhops." Shaking his head in disbelief at the man's neutrality, Connor stood up to leave the corridor and go back inside Kol's area for assistance in the ransacking.
If so Selvan will chase him and if given a chance will manifest Entangling Ecotplasm at him (DC16 reflex save to negate). IF he manages to get outdoors Selvan has a 50ft. fly speed.
If Selvan had taken off after him immediately, he might have caught him, but having stopped to deal with Connor (if necessary) gave the guy a lead. When Selvan looks outside, he can't find the guy. He must have ducked into another building, the entire area is like a maze at street level, and crowded (think Bangalesh).
None of the doors off the hallways are locked. Kol only has the shotgun on him (damaged by the explosion), the last explosive device, and some MW studded leather armor (also damaged by the explosion). No coins, no jewelry, nothing.
Everyone can pick a room or body to search, and give me a perception roll. It's basically a free for all at this point.
"It ain't my 'p's and 'q's that need minding, pigeon," Sam said coolly, "Hurry up with your looting. I'm after information, not goods." With that he pulled Alys into an out of the way corner and did what he could to make her comfortable while he did some looking. He was sorely tempted to set the pigeon on fire to prove a point but he did not like his odds against the man's associates.
"Not our concern." Selvan says his coldness matching Sammark's. "Kol is dead so we'll have to make best with what we can find."
Kneeling over Alys and pulling up the sleeve of his shirt Selvan transfers and activates a pair of tattoos onto Alys. "Come on you stupid girl you're not dead yet. I would know if you were dead."
healing to alys.
And one more.
Really wish they had some kind of wand equivalent. This is going to get expensive fast.
If those are tattoo's of Natural Healing, it's just 3 per hit, not 1d3. So two would have Alys at +2, 3 at +5.
Elrohir moves to a doorway, and enters carefully, but there's only stacked up crates inside. Searching the room quickly, he only finds the crates. The crates are nailed shut, and require a hammer or crowbar to open.
Sammark moves Alys into the interior hallway, get's her comfortable, and then goes searching. He enters the room next to that one, and also does a quick search. He too finds a pair of crates stacked up in the corner, but nothing else. Again, a hammer or crowbar is needed to open the crates.
Reaghar searches Kol, finds the gun (damaged), another powder/alchemical combo bomb (as noted earlier), and damaged armor. He also found a belt pouch containing lead balls, packets of buckshot, percussion caps, and a powder horn. The door next to Kol's body is open, and Reaghar notices a fireplace and what looks like a sitting room.
Selvan heals up Alys (see above), and Connor follows along, talking and insulting at various points. The two seem to have the same capacity to irritate people on first contact, and are honing their abilities on each other.
Alys wakes up to Selvan antagonizing a person she's never met, a not uncommon occurrance.
Connor saw an elfavian, tall and wiry, with blue eyes, come up to them. When the half-elf gave no guarded response, Connor relaxed, concluding the armored man was with the half-elf.
Watching the male elfavian heal the blonde female elfavian with the tattoos, Connor whistled appreciatively. "And here I thought shield tattoos were enough. I've got to get some like those." he told the two men.
Selvan heals up Alys (see above), and Connor follows along, talking and insulting at various points. The two seem to have the same capacity to irritate people on first contact, and are honing their abilities on each other.
"But enough about our battle plan and second guesses." Connor finished. He saw the blonde elfavian stir. "Our beauty awakes!" Connor said cheerfully. "Don't worry, we're not the bad guys. But if you'll excuse me, I need to find some major healing for one of my own compatriots in the back of this hideout." he told the two elfavains. He stepped into the inner hallway. Connor focused his mind as he walked away.
"Found some new friends?", the weak, whispered voice coming from Alys is followed by a slight chuckle quickly turning into a cough.
"W-what happened?"