Baby, It's Cold Outside-A Reign of Winter PbP (Inactive)

Game Master alexgndl

I'm deliberately playing against stereotypes.

Yeah I know, but the fact that the rest of us are complete dickbutts makes it even more ironic.

You don't have to be a total dickbutt :(

For fack's sake, why is the NINJA the most friendly, caring person in this party?

Eh, attitude's not so much important, Jack and Sun Xiao are at least team players, which is what matters.

The ice elemental laughs at Sun Xiao's glancing strikes, and designates him as a non-threat.

On the other hand, he is annoyed at the incessant whining of the prone creature next to him, who he remembers woke him up in the first place.

He grabs Ghulassen by the ankle and starts dragging him towards the stream (provokes an AoO from both Sun Xiao and Ghulassen. Prone Ghulassen has a -4 to-hit with melee attacks, and also has no weapon since he never picked up his rapier again after being knocked unconscious. He may attempt an Unarmed Strike if he so chooses, but would only deal a max of 1d4 nonlethal damage, and it would knock him unconscious from the effort, so it's not important.).

Sun Xiao Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Sun Xiao's attack glances off the creature again.

Drag: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

Ghulassen is dragged backwards 10 feet.

Ghulassen is now lying on the ice, moments away from being plunged into the icy water.

The other elemental laughs as well, and speaks in a bubbling language.

It then turns its attention back to Chloe, attacking her with its fists.

1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16

1d4 + 1d3 + 1 ⇒ (4) + (3) + 1 = 8 Minus 5 Cold Resistance.

Chloe drops to the ground, unconscious, and the creature laughs again, heading over to help out the other elemental with manhandling Ghulassen.

Chloe is at -1 currently.

Guys I'm literally the only redeeming factor for this party so...

Ghulassen gives out a war cry to Inspire Courage.

Perform: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

Godspeed you sexy bastards!

EDIT: Goddamnit. Unconsciousness OP. Nerf.

You can only do one of the two. Unfortunately both are Standard Actions, forgot Bardic Performance wasn't a Move until 7th.

Ghulassen gives a sounding war cry, inspiring his allies!

Unfortunately, the strain is too much on him, and he collapses, unconscious.

Bardic Performance ends.

That's start of next round. Jack's up first.

Jack walks forward and shoots an energy ray at the nearer elemental.

to-hit: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3 plus 1 for melting

DAMMIT DICE

Dibs on spellcaster in the campaign after the TPK.

Sun Xiao charges forward in an attempt to save Ghulassen, though he's not sure why he does so. However, a tree branch springs out from the ether and deflects his sword.

1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Azor, Chloe...last chance to save Ghulassen. If you want to, that is.

Well technically Chloe has no action unless Azor heals her but you get my point.

What would i actually have to do to save Ghulassen? what rolls?

Kill both elementals before their next turn. So roll a super crit and max damage with a big weapon and high Str. Twice.

It's ok if I die. I honestly don't care. Let me die, kill them with your party recovered, and then loot my body. Burn it if you will. Or maybe put it on a stake. Whatever you choose.

You're not allowed to die dramatically until we fight something big!

It won't matter since no one is here to document the adventure anyway if Ghulassen dies.

Figuring that chloe has a better chance of saving Ghul, Azor uses transfer wounds on her so she can hopefully save their friend.
transfer wounds: 1d6 ⇒ 4

On the verge of tears from pain and shock, Chloe does the most rational thing: bolts in the opposite direction.

Double move, so 60 feet.

....... -_-'

I'm on three health. Let's just cut our losses and run.

You know it could be useful to at least take some of my gear (the rapier is nearby. I had some gold and other decent loot.

Ha no.

Chloe skedaddles.

The elemental carries the now unconscious Ghulassen another 5 feet or so and...*CRACK* the ice underneath him breaks open, plunging him in.

There's actually a chance of you surviving this for a bit.

Ghulassen Fort save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19

Ghulassen fights in his sleep, shrugging off the effects of the cold water...for now.

Okay, everyone else, what do? Sun Xiao will follow your suit. Stay and fight, and hope the dice decide to stop f~!%ing you over, or leave and live to fight another day?

Jack notices Chloe fleeing and decides to follow suit.

Sorry Ghulassen, but I didn't come all this way to freeze to death at the bottom of a river. Perhaps I will learn to play an instrument to honor your memory. But not that cacophonous tambourine...something sophisticated, like the violin. I'm sure you'd want it that way.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ICE BATH!

Also, shouldn't I get another +5 for that check? I'm assuming that I'm fighting cold, and I have that cold-weather outfit.

It helps against cold weather, yes. It does not help against being immersed in 6 feet of freezing water in the middle of an unnatural winter. TBH, even if it did, it doesn't help you much. Your options are freeze or drown if nobody helps you, which it looks like is not going to happen. Statistically speaking you'll fail enough saves eventually that the nonlethal cold damage will kill you (since it converts to lethal once it hits your current HP...which is -1 at the moment, so immediately), if you don't drown first. Which reminds me, you need to make a Con check to avoid losing another HP. If you fail that Con check, you will drown next round.

DC 10: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

You are not currently drowning, and are stable at -1. Next round the DC goes up to 11, and another plus one each round after that. Failing ANY of these Con checks means immediate death in the proceeding round.

Edit: Also forgot, you need to make a Con check to Stabilize and stop losing HP every round starting next round. If you fail enough of those in a row you die.

Have you given any thought as to what your new character is going to be?

I was going under the assumption that we were doing a hardcore permadeath thing here. Guess I'll be a less useless piece of shit. Maybe go for a Psi-Warrior and become a sniper?

That could be neat.

And no, hardcore permadeath is not a thing I enjoy. Especially when talking level 1 characters. As you can see, things can go south super fast.

So it seems like "Run away!" is the plan of the day?

The group flees from the seemingly invulnerable ice monsters. For a moment, they feel as though they might miss the slight jangling of Ghulassen's tambourine...but the moment passes swiftly, and with much confusion as to why it came in in the first place.

Alrighty then. How far do you run away? All the way back to town? The last safe clearing?

To wherever we camped last night. Not much sense in going any further than that.

They run until they reach the place where they stopped to rest yesterday before feeling safe.

Jack speaks up after taking a moment to catch his breath.

"Perhaps we could look for another path across the stream? Otherwise we may have to find some help against those things."

Chloes sinks to her knees with a whimper as she desperately tries to hold back tears.

Just throwing this out there but you might want to come back as something beefy, Evil.

He's coming back as a Psionic Warrior Archer. So should be pretty decent. However, he won't be able to make that for at least a couple of days, so we should move on for now. That fight really wasn't very tough, the RNG just decided to say "F@** you guys". If Sun Xiao and/or Chloe had hit even once they would have been severely damaged. Ghulassen also probably could have almost killed both with his Burning Hands SLA but he was a doof and forgot he had that.

Using skills is for scrubs.

Jack hesitantly puts his hand on Chloe's shoulder.

"There was nothing we could have done for him." Probably.

Using skills is for scrubs.

I coulda sworn I turned off gravetalk. =p

As the group enter the clearing Azor flops to the group. Laying on his back he says
"Well there definitely isn't now. I felt that he was on the verge of death when he dropped from my collective."

After taking a deep breath, Chloe says "So... what do we do now?"

"The only way forward is through those elementals. I think we can handle them as long as nobody tries to recklessly charge at them."

"In the meantime, perhaps we should rest for the day. Azor can heal us as much as possible, and then by tomorrow morning he and I will have replenished our psionic energy reserves."

"Agreed. When my psionic powers first awoke, it was because a friend was killed in front of me. I then ripped the life force out of his killer. And I'm starting to feel the urge to do that to those ice elemental. But we should rest up first."
With that Azor stands up can cast natural healing 5 times. he then starts to set up camp.
15 healing is up for grabs. 10 to Chloe and 5 to Sun. what time of day is it? anyone still got wounds?

I need 4 healing. And it's probably still morning or early afternoon - we didn't exactly cover a lot of ground today.

Mid-morning ish, noon at the latest.

"We do still have a mission to take care of."

"So should we just try to fight those elementals again? Or maybe find another way across the stream? Azor and I won't be much use if we run out of energy in the middle of the fight."

Besides Azor's healing, did you guys even use any of your resources? That was the first encounter of the day after you rested.

I only have 4 power points total, so I tend to burn through them pretty quickly. I used one for mage inertial armor, and another for an energy ray, which missed. I'm starting to think that wasn't the best offensive power I could've taken. :I

Aside from that, my crossbow is my best means of offense right now. I do have Bolt, which gives me some slightly better ammo. It might be the better option for sheer point-to-possible-attacks ratio.

In any case I've got 2 points left, so I'm fine with trying again today if you guys are.

Let's just juke them.

You don't really have any option besides staying here for an entire day and night. You can't just take a short nap and get all your stuff back.

Can we do some grinding? :P

I have no issue with that ;)