So, all four are taking out the guard on the balcony?
Round 1 :
Everyone but Elrohir flies forward, he stays 120ft away.
Group 80 ft away
Round 2 :
Everyone but Elrohir flies forward, he stays 120ft away.
Group 40 ft away
Round 3 :
Everyone but Elrohir flies forward, he stays 120ft away.
Conner 25 ft away
Reaghar/Alister 0 ft away (at end of turn)
Alister & Reaghar come on like gangbusters as they get closer, and the guard sees the intent in their eyes. He draws a revolver and with a shout fires at Alister, and puts a round into the bulky flyer, who wobbles a little in the air but maintains his forward flight.
Unable to land due to the Astral Construct, both have to hover to attack.
Round 4 :
Holding psionic focus (Energy type=Electricity); Power Points=3; AC=18/14/14; Active Power=Inertial Armor manifested (1 hour duration); wearing spiked gauntlet
21: Cursing at the firearm round hitting his comrade, Connor directed the Astral Construct to attack the guard as the man himself pivoted in mid-air to keep his place. Connor loaded his light crossbow and fired at the guard. "Quickly!" he said under his voice to Alister and Reaghar.
4: Astral Construct (can attack on its' turn, gives a flank if Alister makes a 5-foot step?):
The silvery-transparent falcon beat its' wings as it attacked the guard with its' talons, staying in place on the ledge.
As his comrades go flying off, Flick centers himself, focusing his mind for the shot he is about to take. He then steps forward a few feet, to make sure he's a clear line of sight.
Pausing, he allows Connor time to close the distance and summon his construct. Once he sees him about to, he lets fly an arrow.
Don't forget your round 4 action Elrohir, 6 hp doesn't kill the guard.
The bullet entering his flesh throws Alister into a rage, and he moves to flank, drawing his hammer and taking a swing.
Reaghar takes a shot at his guard with his disrupt pattern ability
ranged touch
The guard five foot adjusts back inside the building (it appears to be a hallway behind the opening), and fires at Reaghar (his only valid target from that position other than the construct). The round misses Reaghar. Alister is then forced to five foot adjust to attack, and he hits (even with the partial cover from the door frame) and kills the guard.
Reaghar and Construct's actions invalidated. Please repost actions.
Alister can tell there is a hallway running the length of the side wall. I've updated the map.
I'll use Connor's init when I start round 5.
Reaghar and construct still to go on 4.
no actions for me, i guess. follow Alister into the building.
Walking up the street a fair distance from Sammark he asks Sammark. "So, how easy do you think it will be for us to squeeze the information from the half orc? Assuming you actually ask a question or two before cramming your love potion in a place where the sun doesn't shine."
Ok, I was trying to speed up the 10-12 rounds of combat by letting the first 3 rounds go in rapid succession, due to most of it being people closing.
I have learned my lesson.
Things will proceed one round at a time, no matter what. If it takes us 4 weeks to handle one combat, so be it.
Alister wipes some blood from the bullet wound, calming down for now. "Well, let's get going, then," he says to the others, panting a bit. "This can wait, for now," he says, patting the wound lightly.
"Frankly? Not very, I never plan on things going easy. He'll probably toss some idle threats around or try to bargain, that's why I'm half planning on killing him and ransacking his belongings. We can make it look like a robbery that went bad and get some information."
Holding psionic focus (Energy type=Electricity); Power Points=3; AC=18/14/14; Active Power=Inertial Armor manifested (1 hour duration); wearing spiked gauntlet
Connor let the Astral Construct dissipate so the others could use the landing. He waved "all clear - come on" to Elrohir, hovering in place.
Connor beat his wings, dropping onto the landing and immediately looking at Alister's bullet wound. He shrugged off his backpack, getting his healer's kit out. "You're hit, never let a bullet stay there." Connor admonished Alister. "Hold still, or I can't dig it out."
Alright, but make it quick. That shot had to have alerted others, and they'll be on their way soon, most likely. I can take another bullet or two like that if I need to, but I'd rather be in a position to return 'em the favor like I did with him."
"Were there guards around the place? Anyone that could give us trouble?"
Waiting on Elohir for round 4. Then I'll start Round 5.
All Mintakia Guild people (Alys, Selvan, Sammark) give me a perception check at a -20, DC 5. If you make it, you heard the gunshot, or noticed the people beginning to flee your target building.
Alister will be fatigued round 5 and 6 for dropping rage (if I misinterpreted that, please correct me).
"Never mind the last question I just remembered there are guards. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to attempt this again since it's us three versus however many guards will end up popping out of the walls. And no complaints about being inside your head. As I said your inside mine. And not even a proper part of it, more like a compartment a carved out of my will purely to house awareness. You want to know what I was doing before falling into this gutter heap? I was training to coordinate and empower through sheer thought alonelegions."
Since the others took out the guard, Elrohir speeds to the building, alighting on the ledge. "Told ya I would hit him. I almost never miss"
"If it's as useful as you make it out to be...", Alys, even now finely dressed and without any obvious combat gear, accepts the psychic link Selvan established.
Elrohir flies in and ends his movement next to the Banister.
Connor, too distracted by ordering his construct to attack and firing his crossbow, drops 10 feet and lands roughly on the ground outside the building.
Reaghar on the other hand, flips his wings with almost negligent ease, and maintains his position next to the ledge.
Connor dismisses the astral construct, and flaps his wings hard and flies up at a 45 degree angle to land on the landing to attempt to check on Alister, but all he can really do is confirm that Alister isn't dying anytime soon.
Reaghar can't land, so he'll have to hold until Alister can move.
And again, Reaghar hovers in place as if it were no more difficult than standing on one foot.
Elrohir can't land, for the same reason Reaghar can't.
The youngsters wings are beating so fast it's harder for him to avoid flying up and away than it is to maintain his position, bouncing back and forth from wing to wing.
A human jumps out into the hallway from a doorway that's barely in Alister's line of sight, something in both hands, but then sight is lost.
Mintakia Guild people, still waiting on Sammark's perception.
If he makes it, you can all speed up your movements on round 5, if not, you'll get another perception chance on round 5 to speed up on round 6 if you choose to. Or to break off once you realize there's combat, up to you.
You usually use first aid to save a dying character. If a character has negative hit points and is losing hit points (at the rate of 1 per round, 1 per hour, or 1 per day), you can make him stable. A stable character regains no hit points but stops losing them. First aid also stops a character from losing hit points due to effects that cause bleed (see Conditions for rules on bleed damage).
"Well that training has obviously paid off for you," Sam says, accepting the link this time. There is a subtle change in the air around him as he appears to trail shimmers of heat distortion.
"I hear gunshots. Hurry up," Sam says running toward the building now.
Selvan keeps pace not commenting.
Alister, seeing the human pop out, rushes into the hallway. "It can wait, he calls back to Connor, grappling the human once he closes, dropping his hammer to do so.
The human, with a readied action, fires off a round from his double barreled shotgun. The shotgun fills the hallway with buckshot.
Alister, fatigued, still manages to duck down low as the shotgun blast goes off. The entire corridor fills with bits of wood as the blast goes just over his head, peppering his wings painfully with small bits of wood and a few pellets, but nothing permanent is done to him.
The shotgun wielder ducks his grab attempt. Alister can see deeper into the area, and see's more combatants.
EDIT: Corrected for valid AC on Alister.
Reaghar lands and moves in against the wall next to the dead guard. He will take a shot at the guard on Alister.
A black beam shoots from his hand, but misses the guard.
Flick lets loose another arrow at the man with the big gun
Yep, and that's fine. Just confirming what you're doing is all.
I'll finalize the round and post next round in a bit.
Elrohir flits down on the landing, and moves into the hallway so he can shoot at the shotgun wielding human. He manages drop an arrow into the shotgun wielder's thigh, the arrow passing between Alister's legs close enough to leave a mark on his pants.
Reaghar then lands on the balcony and rolls into the hallway, but his attempt to duplicate Elrohir's accuracy fails and the black energy splashes harmlessly against the back of the hallway.
The dwarf in the hallway steps back 5 ft, and raises his revolver and fires at Alister. A roar of gunpowder flashes in the hallway and a ball of led the size of a thumb slams out into Alister.
May Post Now : Conner, Selven, Alys, Alister, Elrohir
Will then be posted : Dwarf, Kol,
May post After : Reaghar, Sammark,
Will post at the End : Human
Alister grits his teeth as the second ball of lead in 30 seconds pierces his flesh. He grabs the handle of his hammer once more, turns to the dwarf who shot him, and steps forward, bringing the hammer down (hopefully) right onto the dwarf.