Aubrey's Rise of the Runelords campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Aubrey the Malformed

"Lets smoke the bastard out." Alwyn points his sword at the shielding pillar; suddenly it is boiling with stinging wasps.

I'm casting Insect plague. It's an overrated spell, but kinda usful here. The swarms fill the F-G 31-32, F-G 33-34 and H-I 33-34.

Also, Dravite and I are in wrong positions. The dwarf's in K13 and I'm in O12.

Map updated.

Initiative
Alwyn 15
Giant Warrior 14
Sefayll 13
Camlo 9
Hudak 6
Giant Wizard 2

Having recovered his sight, the giant warrior heads down to mess up the opposition with his club.

Double move. Sefayll.

Dravite switches targets to the onrushing fighter.

Dravite's on initiative 13+. No move. He's firing on the stone giant using Deadly Aim and Multishot.
Attack 1 (w/Multishot): 12+9+4(favoured enemy)+1(Big Game Hunter feat)+2(Giant Bane bow)-2(Deadly Aim)=AC 26, damage 2d8+6+8(Favoured enemy)+4(Big Game Hunter)+8(Deadly Aim)+4d6(Giant Bane bow)=10+6+8+4+8+12=48.
Atttack 2: 11+4+4+1+2-2=AC 20, damage 1d8+3+4+2+4+2d6=3+3+4+2+4+8=24.

Sefayll, then Camlo.

Initiative
Alwyn 15
Giant Warrior 14
Dravite 13+
Sefayll 13
Camlo 9
Hudak 6
Giant Wizard 2

The giant staggers on as Dravite's arrows hit him.

Sefayll.

Camlo will ready an action to fire at the warrior as soon as it gets within 30ft of me. Presuming I don't need another stealth check to stay hidden, but have one anyway ;)

[stealth=1d20+25[/dice]

Sefayll changes the focus of her detect thoughts to the warrior, confident that the warriors could handle him and wanting to conserve resources for anticipated battles to come.

stealth: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (2) + 25 = 27 even

Hudak.

Holding action; soon as that giant comes out from behind that statue I'll lay into him with some arrows.

Hello,

I'm kinda having a bunch of craziness atm; might be back on in the next few days. Nothing too bad.

I guess it's giant wizard's turn....

Just bot me and have me shoot him if he comes out from behind the statue......

Yeah; I'm....gonna be real busy this weekend.

Lotta work to do.

The giant wizard escapes the gnawing swarms by flying forwards. He fires four magical bolts at Alwyn.

Magic Missile damage to Alwyn 4d4 ⇒ (4, 3, 2, 1) = 10. Hudak gets his readied shot.

Map updated.

Alwyn.

Damage noted. I'm zapping him back with Searing light. Attack roll 12+8=touch AC 20, damage 5d8=24, with no save.

Two arrows on the giant wizard that came out to play.

1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

damage

2d6 + 7 ⇒ (6, 3) + 7 = 16

arrow 2
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

damage
2d6 + 7 ⇒ (3, 5) + 7 = 15

Hudak's arrow is wide. But Alwyn's ray of light isn't, scorching the giant wizard's flesh.

You only get a single action with a readied action, you can't prepare a full attack.

Initiative
Alwyn 15
Giant Warrior 14
Dravite 13+
Sefayll 13
Camlo 9
Giant Wizard 2+
Hudak 2-

The giant warrior charges at Dravite.

Club 1d20 + 16 + 2 - 3 ⇒ (20) + 16 + 2 - 3 = 35 to hit, damage 2d8 + 12 + 9 ⇒ (2, 5) + 12 + 9 = 28
EDIT Crit confirm 1d20 + 16 + 2 - 3 ⇒ (7) + 16 + 2 - 3 = 22, extra damage 2d8 + 12 + 9 ⇒ (6, 6) + 12 + 9 = 33

Map updated.

Dravite.

Ouch! Thankfully he didn't confirm the critical.

Dravite drops his bow and draws his ogre hook in one smooth motion. He then proceeds to bury its blade in the giant's side.

5' step to K14. Single attack only, unfortunately. We gotta get rid of the regular giant to Dravite can get back to peppering the wizard with arrows. Attack roll 12+11+4(Favoured Enemy)+1(Big Game Hunter)+2(Favoured Terrain)=AC 30, damage 1d12+7+4(Favoured Enemy)+2(Big Game Hunter)+2(Favoured Terrain)=25.

Sefayll, then Camlo.

PS: In his new spot, Dravite allows for Camlo to sneak attack the giant, right? Or does that only apply to melee attacks?

Only to melee, I believe, but if Camlo surprises him it'll work (assuming he's within sneak attack range).

Dravite hooks the giant and rips, a look of grim satisfaction on his face as the warrior roars in pain.

Sefayll.

That's the plan.....

Sefayll (know you are busy, more to stop the thread falling into oblivion).

Could someone take Sefayll's turn please?

I think she'll fireball the giant wizard.

8d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 6, 4, 2, 5, 2, 1) = 23 I think it's 9th level casting so another 1d6 if that's true;

1d6 ⇒ 4

dc 19 ref save

Reflex save 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

After the whoosh there's a thud as the giant wizard collapses.

Wizard down.

Camlo.

Map updated.

sweet

Huzzah! *fist pump*

Move to P18 stealthily, then fire.

Stealth: 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (15) + 24 = 39
Atk: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (16) + 16 = 32 DMG: 1d3 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5sneak Attack Damage: 5d6 + 5 ⇒ (2, 5, 1, 2, 5) + 5 = 20

Camlo fires his tiny dart into the giant's side.

The warrior turns and snarls....

Giant:

.... sways, and then slumps to the ground.

Warrior down, end of combat.

4,800xp each.

Nice. How much xp did we get for the previous ogre fracas?

Huzzah!

"Let's lookem over for jink!"

Used spell noted. Yeah, she casts at ninth level.

Sefayll climbs up to where the wizard fell to see if he carried anything she might make use of, either magic or informational.

The warrior just carries junk. The wizard has a wand, a ring, a Sihedron medallion (though somewhat large), a bag of black onyz gems and his spellbook.

I'll cast Detect magic and see if I can ID the items. Wand: 11+14=25. Ring 13+14=27. the medallion 8+14=22.

"Heh. He has a Sihedron Medallion... Hellknight, take his spellbook and look through it at an opportune time. Anyone badly hurt? If not, let's keep moving. We can toss the whole complex once all the ogres are dead."

Oh, and

How much xp did we get for the previous ogre fracas?

Man, you're like a broken record. 3,200xp each for the ogre mash.

The wand is a Wand of Enervation (20 charges remaining), the ring is a Ring of Cold Resistance. The medallion is a standard Sihedron Medallion, albeit a big one.

Cool. How powerful is the ring - 10, 20 or 30-point resistance?

10 point.

cool. heh heh

Whither now?

The group head up the leftward passage, leaving the carnage of the entrance corridor behind. After about forty feet, the passage splits left and right at a T-junction. To the left is darkness, to the right is a glimmer of daylight.

Right led us to this throne room. Wanna go left?

"Left sounds good." As the party leaves the throne room, Alwyn keeps tapping the wounded with a healing wand.

Wand of CLW time! Two charges fixes me up, another 5 takes care of Dravite. Anyone else hurt?

Not me.

Not I. She tucks the spellbook into her pack, if possible, and the wand in her belt.

The adventurers check out the room to the left. A shrine bearing the feral visage of a brutally beautiful monstrous maiden with the head of a three-eyed jackal and the belly of a pregnant young woman leans against the far wall.

No prizes for guessing this is a shrine to Lamashtu.

Meh. I could have used a prize of some sort right now.

"We'll break the statue and consecrate the chapel afterwards. Let's secure the rest of the caves first."

Back to the initial fight area? From there, we can go south or east, if I remember correctly.

south!

Things tend to go south around here which ever way we go.....

Fire and thick black smoke reign here, spewing from black pits in the bedrock where forge fires glow. Anvils loom throughout this enormous cavern. This is where the ogres now lying stacked like firewood in the corridor came from. A number of narrow works tunnels branch off from here. Down them in the distance can be heard the distant sound of picks on rock and the rumble of ogrish voices.

Do we like to go and waste more ogres?

"What kind of question is that? Of course we want to waste more ogres! Both to safeguard places like the Black Arrow fort and Turtleback Ferry, and because killing ogres is always the right thing to do." Alwyn cracks his knuckles theatrically before leading the way towards the ogrish voices.

"But before the fun starts - Dravite and Camlo, please go and find out how many of them there are."