Taunk thumps onto his back with only a handful of loose soil for his effort. He gets up and dusts himself off and goes to try again.
Taunk is up the wall taking his time and even testing the handholds better this time not putting his full weight on one until it is tested. He gets up ontop of the boulder...
Now triumphant, Taunk climbs down from the boulder and starts examining it more closely.
With no explosives off-hand he would have to resort to brute strength. Luckily, that was something he had a great deal of. He firsts tries to simply push the rock over.
Failing that he draws his shield and starts smashing away at the ground below, hoping to dislodge the rock before any of the goblins below take notice.
Hopefully Ethos was ready to take advantage of the coming confusion and the skags were hungry. It seemed a shame to have all of this effort go to waste.
Taunk hefts the boulder and the thing topples from its location down upon the vehicle and sharpened scrap metal.
Taunk falls after the boulder down the cliff side luckily it slows his descent by a few seconds as the boulder slams into the vehicle which explodes. Metal shoots every direction but up. The scags all get hurt and the goblins are even more surprised by what just happened. The goblins bolt for their dens.
The dust begins to settle and Taunk lays on top of the boulder banged up from the drop, . The scags move around the boulder and charge into the goblin lair and chaos ensues.
No
5 ft.
10 ft.
20 foot drop.
A tap on Taunk's foot and you look up to see Ethos with his free hand touching it. His off hand holding a short sword and looking around for threats. He says one word, "Ready?"
Claptrap is up early in morning working hard on repairs for the outpost (or at least it seems that way. Claptrap never stopped working), installing piping in a seemingly haphazard and random fashion.
Once people start waking up and milling about, Claptrap starts asking around for Taunk.
Have you seen the green Fleshling that goes by the name Taunk? I had wanted to ask him about that immovable rod I had noticed he had acquired. I figure that would make an excellent emergency brake for the buggy we are working on. I imagine if I installed it, the buggy could stop on a dime!
Sledj enjoys his night sleeping in the doctor's hut, breaking his fast with some lovely roast Pork Chop.
"Nope. Ain't seen him since he went after them gobbos."
"Uuugh..." moans Taunk as he rolls off the boulder. He reaches into his hip pouch, pulling out an iron flask and downing the bitter brew within.
He responds to Ethos while his poor ribs stitch themselves back together "Not really, but we may as well get on with it. You're taking point Smiley."
With shield at the ready Taunk prepares to follow Ethos into the goblin den.
You find Taunk peacefully asleep under a pile of sheet metal near the town gate. Apparently he spent the night outside of the wall. He doesn't wake up when you approach.
Ethos actually breaks a smile and off he goes following the scags into the chaos.
Ethos is a killer and in his actions you can see it. His blade slices here and there, using a fight always to his advantage flanking and cutting vital parts of scag and goblin alike. He takes a few strikes as he creates a wave of blood in his path. He even disappears once in a while to reappear somewhere else to create a final stroke impaling the target upon his blade.
Whereas Ethos is an elegant dance of blades, Taunk is more akin to a raw engine of destruction. He follows closely into the fray, relying on his massive bulk alone to guard him from blows. In return he sends goblins with his own strikes. He keeps an even pace with the experiment at all times though with far less in the way of restraint. Even when the goblins inevitably find their target he carries on with his rampage; leaving the unfortunate creatures disarmed by way of having their weapons lodged in the half-orc.
In the aftermath Taunk finds Ethos once more. He is breathing heavily but otherwise still alive. "Had your fill yet, friend? Didn't think you'd keep up as well as you did, but I think I won in the end. Got about eighteen of 'em, big counts as two." he says with a sense of pride. Surely there was no way the other man would be able to match his mighty kill-count!
Ethos walks up not breathing much at all, then he breaks a smile "Only eighteen? Thirteen goblins and eight scags counts up to twenty-one. Fill of blood, never, I was made for this by my parents and then by the corporation. This is what I live for." With that he runs off to the side cutting down another goblin, a helpless child. Then he jumps into the darkness beyond. An echo of a word can be heard soon after, "Twenty-Two."
Taunk you can find some items that might work but with the vehicle smashed and then the resulting explosion nearly nothing is recoverable, anything salvaged would need to be repaired. 3 crystal relic staffs for Taunk and 2 for Ethos.
Taunk you don't think Ethos shadowed you back to the camp but you didn't know he shadowed you in the first place.
"I'm bored! Someone point me towards some baddies what need bashin' and burnin'! Don't wanna sit on my duff stirring up fire-juice all damn day!"
"that sounds fun, is over there"
She comes over and points at the computer display.
"Bandit country, we could go get one, bring them back and ask them tactical questions"
"Hell yeah! Mebbe get some more barbeque while we're out."
Sledj grabs his blades and gear, ready to b head out with Aanra
"Boss man V, where heading out to do a recon of the bandit town, and see if we can nab some one for Intel, back seen'"
Checks her blaster, slips her knife in her boot, and is ready to go.
"come on then let's see who we can snag"
"Mebbe not a big 'un, or one a dem Psychos. Dunno how much useful we'd git outta one a dem. Do they have boss-brains bandits? Smarty pants what give us intel?"
"we see one telling others what to do, that's the one we nab"
She says with a grin,
Aannra and Sledj head out and soon get to the outskirts of the bandit camp. There appears to be only one path leading into the camp.
"You wanna sneaky sneak or call em out and say 'Boo!'? I enjoy both. Mebbe I kin challenge their boss and be boss bandit againn?"
"Snicky is best, "
Her skin changes color to match the background
Using power comelion stealth now 24
"Ok sounds fun."
Sledj drinks his mutagen (+4 Str, +2 NA, -2 Int), drawing his scimitar.
"After you..."
Stealth (oh right, not trained in that)
Sledj heads for cover, looking to stay behind solid objects and decent hard cover.
Aanra practically vanishes, as far as he can tell.
to get close
Slips ahead with her stealth on, looking for any one to target for a kidnap.
Aannra and Sledj approach the bandit camp without being seen. Up front there looks to be a few candidates for being grabbed. A raider has ventured off a separate path down to the left. A bandit with a pink Mohawk appears to be sitting off on his own to the right of the camp but has moderate visibility to the camp itself. Finally there is a look out up on one of the walls though you will have to climb up a makeshift ladder of scrap metal to get to him otherwise the 20 foot climb would require a DC 20.
Take 10 climb +11 = DC 21
Spotting the lookout up in his perch, Sledj stalks over and starts to quietly climb up.
Once within striking range, he grabs him from behind in a stranglehold, looking to choke him out before anyone notices.
unarmed strike, damage, Grapple
confirming crit; damage
Post up and waits while Sledj deals with the look out.
She looks out for others who may have seen them.
DC 10
Sledj gets halfway up and the look out notices a noise, he looks around and before Sledj can get to him he spots the orc climbing up to him. He yells out and the camp becomes alive as they look for the threat.
Once Sledj does make it up, the lookout is ready for him with scimitar out.
Michel again lifts heavy things the next day
Looks on as the orc gets in engaged in combat on the top of the wall. As the camp comes alive. Her combat mind kicks in, all play is gone, she runs over combat imprinting to find options. One springs to mine over and over.
She moves back and to the left, leaving the Orc as a distraction, and getting ready to enter the Camp away form that area or try and take a target alive if one comes to light.
Sledj realizes it's about to get real ugly real fast, and smashes his foe.
to hit, damage
Some ways off she gos up and over the wall.
The lookout looks at the orc in disbelief with the bolt in his shoulder and a good slash of his weapon at the orc's head and it is still coming!
He takes another hit from the Orc then retreats, out of range and jumps, landing prone taking some damage and getting up to see the rest of the camp coming to his help, or just for the kill.
Aannra slips off unnoticed and soon finds her prey. The raider with the pink mohawk is still sitting off to the side from everyone else and enjoying a smoke.
With the bandit off to the side in the pink mohawk out cold he seems to be floating and moving away from the camp.
Sledj yells out in heavily orc-accented common: "Ninja, Vanish!" before tossing a smoke bomb at the front of the Guard post platform he stands on.
takes the unconscious pink mohawk back to town to see what Velden wants to ask him. Forgets complicatedly about
Sledj
After calling out such a dramatic exit line, Sledj stands where he was, relying on his smoke bomb to provide cover.
Climes over the wall and down the other side while floating the Sleepy head over.
Claptrap finds Taunk sleeping under some sheet metal outside the gate in the early morning hours and rolls up to him.
Good morning sunshine!
But when that fails to wake him, Clappy pulls out a detonator cap and some wiring, and fiddles around with it a bit before placing it by Taunks ear...
fssssss....
Goood Morning Sunshine!
I desire to do negotiations with you. I had originally wanted to intigrate your immovable rod into the Buggy as a braking system but a projected analysist shows that may not be the best idea...
So. Would you be willing to trade? Eridium, slave labour, my left kidney?
Four of the bandits can still see him and they each take a shot even with the concealment. Two of the shots miss due to concealment, but the other two hit Sledj, only one of them hit as a bolt from a crossbow slams into Sledj's shoulder,
Some of the bandits simply stand in awe at the display and then wonder as the smoke begins to dissipate why the orc is still there. Meanwhile Aannra has gotten scott free away with the pink mohawk bandit.
As the detonator goes off inches away from his face Taunk is brought abruptly from his deep sleep. Unfortunate, as the first thing he is met with is the solid piece of sheet metal sitting just above his head.
He rubs the sleep from his eyes with one hand and the growing welt on his head with his other. "I don't have much bud, though I haven't turned in for my last bounty yet. Right now I got some weird weapons and junk that I ain't using; you can have them if ya want. Speaking of the buggy: how's it coming? Did it survive the night alone with you?"
His eyes light up though as he realizes something that the Claptrap had said. "Wait...did you say 'Eridimum'? What's that?"
Ah. Thats fine! say, among that "junk" you have, would you happen to have a 2 foot long-ish metal pole with a button on the end? It is that I seek, and i would be willing to trade my left kidney for that! Its still preserved!
Or, maybe some of this.Claptrap pulls out a glowing purple block, it looks like a bar of gold, but purple and glowing...
Eridium is a type of elemental stone that is found only on Pandora, being both rare and powerful, it can be used for a multitude of things! It can be used as a universal power source, highly explosive, can enhance weapons or simply used as another form of rare currency. I like it cause its purple. and Explodes!
Ethos can possibly be seen stalking around town, but he is working reconnaissance right now so it might be pretty hard to see him.
Sledj downs an extract of CLW and jumps from the platform.
healed
Acrobatics
He hits with a heavy thud damage (14/38 hp)
Sledj is not prone but not for long as he can hear the mob of bandits coming down the path. Off he likely runs and when the bandits get to the entrance of the way into their camp and give up and head back to their camp.
Soon everyone is back into town.
Taunk goes to visit the dwarven gunner he had seen before. He knocks heavily on what he assumes is the workshop.
"Helloooo? Anyone in there?
Running away, totally not because of fear of imminent death or some such nonsense, Sledj tosses a few empty threats and epithets over his shoulder as he goes.
comes into town with a knocked out bandit, ties him up and waits for Sledj, As he comes in she smiles.
"Good plan, you distract em while I nab one."
Then she calls the others to see who is good at getting intel form a sleepy head.