Can You Hear The People Sing? (Hell's Rebels)

Game Master Paladin of Baha-who?

No objections to the attempt from Lydia.

I want to pull out and load my crossbow first if there is time before Leora's action. I can't think of what else to do. I didn't actually "see" the wall in the back we could break down just rolled high enough for the check. From the map it looks like it might go to a different room. Open the doors and try to push the dogs out from that side? I have no objection to Leora's action.

Kiri saw the crumbly wall so presumably she brought it to the party's attention.

"That's not a bad idea Leora, there's a crumbled wall we can break through to enter while they're distracted."

As Jessibel stands at the ready just outside the livery doors, myriad thoughts and ideas dance gracefully inside her head.

Gotta be brave, Jessi! Just hold the mutts at bay...protect Kiri, Lydia, Mrs. Eradon, and Lucius long enough for them to kill the beasties....

We really could use a leader...someone to make a plan and then give the order to execute that plan....

That Leora's smart as a whip! Maybe I should suggest her as leader instead of Lydia...assuming she doesn't get eaten....

What are some good, popular dog names? Let's see...there's Rover, Rex, King, Spot...um...Lassie...and Harcule.... No--not Harcule....

I REALLY hope Kiri doesn't order me to try to sneak inside. I told her I didn't like the thought of being chased by a pack of feral dogs....

Now what rhymes with those dog names I picked? Over, Neck (sort of), Sting, hmm...SHOT! I can work Lucius into that stanza.... Um...yeah, glad I discarded Harcule....

Wait! BAR STOOL!!

Break through a wall??!! Mightn't that bring down the whole place? Well, at least that would rid us of the dog problem....

"If we're gonna force our way in, it sounds like I'd better help on that." Domitius comes around to the weakened section of wall to get ready to supply the muscle to this effort.

Move your icons on the map to where you want them to be for your action, please, or let me know if you can't do so because of platform limitations.

I'm fine where I am. Mind if I pre-buff before the encounter starts?

Just in case the dogs go violent Lydia casts a force shield on herself.

Kiri went with Dom to the south wall, he may not be able to handle it alone and she definitely wasn't letting him go alone. ""I'll help if I can but remember, you're the muscle."

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Davina readies her cross bow. She hopes that the food distracts the dogs. She really doesn't want them or her party to get hurt if it can be avoided.

I'm good where I am.

Leora steps into the Livery, blinking as she tries to adjust her eyes. She tosses the meat, and one of the two large dogs sniffs, and slowly walks over to it, stiff-legged, hackles raised and growling as if to say, "Don't you come in here, this is my territory!" The dog lowers his muzzle to the jerky, biting it, never moving his suspicious gaze from Leora.

They haven't attacked yet, but they're clearly threatened by your presence.

Well, that's a start, but I don't have any more food handy Leora thinks, seeing she's making some progress. She raises her shield in an attempt to look bigger and more intimidating. Changing her tone from the sing-song voice she'd used earlier to something stern, she advances towards the dogs slowly. "Back off, mutt. I'm coming in here to look around. " Leora keeps eye contact with the dog as she opens the door wider and moves east further into the room.

handle animal: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Basically Leora wants to slowly move 10 ft towards the dogs and see if she can keep them from attacking while anyone waiting at the door can follow her in to look around.

Domitius doesn't hear sounds of dogs and men locked in mortal struggle, so that's a good thing, but he's starting to wonder what's happening. In a low voice, he says to Kiri, "I don't hear anything from up there, do you?"

As Leora tells the dogs to back off and tries to step further into the abandoned building, a confused look crosses Jessibel's face. Was this part of the plan?

"Leora!" Jessi whispers tersely. "Don't go in there alone!"

Kiri shook her head, "No, the barking has stopped, maybe Leora's plan worked."

"No, the barking has stopped, maybe Leora's plan worked."

Domitius nods and shrugs. "So, you think I should...?" He mimes pushing a shoulder into the wall.

Kiri nodded and gestured for him to go ahead.

Just make a strength check, Dom.

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Dom puts his shoulder to the wall, braces his feet, and pushes as hard as he can.

Strength check: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10 Oh, for the love of...!

Davina moves to the door, and pushes it open while taking a look around. She continues to point her cross bow at the dogs.

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9 Dark Vision

I probably don't see more than before.

Lydia notices something in the dog's posture... she's pretty sure it's about to attack! I rolled sense motive and Lydia is both aware the dog is going to attack, and has a high enough initiative to do something about it. Specifically, Red looks like he wants to take a bite out of Leora as she enters his territory.

Seing that Dom had failed to get the wall broken open Kiri decided to give it a try herself. She looked at him and said, "Stand back." She followed her own advice and began to gather energy, the air swirling around her faster and faster before she let loose a blast of air to slam into the wall.

Air Blast w extended range by gathered power with PBS: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 111d6 + 1 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 3 + 1 = 9

"Leora, back away! It's not working!" Unsure as to what to do, Lydia steps forward and uses a spark cantrip at the closest dog's feet, hoping that it would respond better to fear than it did bribery.

Lydia, need an attack roll, against AC 5 if you're just aiming at the square, not trying to hit the dog, or against touch AC if you're aiming at the dog itself.

Kiri's blast shakes the bricks, but doesn't dislodge them. It's possible it loosened them, and Domitius might find his next attempt to break through more fruitful.

We're in initiative. Just need to resolve Lydia's action, then NPCs will act, and I'll list the order for PCs.

Woops, sorry about that. Been really busy this week. This is targeting the square, not the dog.

Attack Roll: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12

The dog yelps as a jolt sizzling of electricity hits the ground at his feet. He looks rather nervous and slightly cowed by this sudden, unexpected noise and the smell of ozone rising from the burn mark. He does not advance, but makes clear from his growling and body language that anyone approaching may be in for a bite.I'm going to assume this was aimed at the red dog, since there's better line of sight to it from Lydia, and I will further assume this has the effect of a demoralize.

The other dog charges forward, trying to defend her territory. Her powerful jaws lock onto Leora's leg and pull the cleric over onto the ground. Leora is tripped and now prone.

Initiative order:
Davina (Davina and Lucius actually beat the dogs in init, but had the two of them delay since they didn't guess that the dogs were about to attack.)
Lucius
Domitius
Kiri
Leora
Jessibel
yellow/green
Lydia
Red/Blue

Davina sighs. I really didn't want to hurt those dogs, but Leora can't be hurt either. She fires her crossbow at the dog, and reloads.

I want to shoot at Blue, but if I can't see him clearly I'll shoot at Red.

Crossbow: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 111d8 ⇒ 3

Kinda waiting on Dom since I don't have a clue what I'm doing just yet.

Lucius seeing one of the dogs attack his ally quickly brings his musket up and fires at it angry at it's attack on his companion, but in his haste he forgets to check the firing pin and looks down in horror as his gun's firing pin breaks.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 - 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 - 4 = 2 That's a misfire so it automatically misses, and my gun has the broken condition now.
Damage: 1d12 ⇒ 8

Kiri, in the absence of a better idea, wanna push with me? I know you're not exactly built for this, but even if you hit a DC 10 on a Str check, that'll give my effort a +2. Again, only if you have no better idea.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14
Strength check: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15

"Grrrr-HNNNGH!"

Hearing the sounds of weapons and snarling dogs, Domitius renews his effort to push through the section of wall that Kiri had battered, also glancing about for anything that might be useful to batter through the wall.

Davina: the door is still halfway closed (no one has mentioned trying to push it open) and you only have line of sight to the red one. In any case, that misses.

Dom is able to push the loose bricks free, and they tumble to the floor, opening a makeshift doorway into the building. Shielding his eyes, his half-orc's keen eyes can see a narrow hallway, closed off with a gate at the end, and a loose door half falling off its hinges on the left wall.

Dom laughs, attempting to downplay the effort they had to exert.

"Heh. Nothing that couldn't be solved with a mini-hurricane and every ounce of muscle I had, eh? Shall we?" Sword in hand, Domitius makes his way down the hall toward the gate, to see if he can help with the fracas inside.

If I still have any movement available to me, I'll head up to the gate and check it out.

Kiri bobbed her head in agreement and followed Dom as he entered the hallway. She was ready to hit anything that threatened with a sudden mass of air should it become necessary.

Waiting until Dom fins out if he can move still and does so before I move myself to follow but I am readying an attack should something threaten us.

Readied Air Blast (+1 atk and damage if PB applies, not added in to the roll): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 101d6 + 1 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 3 = 10

Leora was taken completely by surprise as the dog lunged towards her and yanked on her leg, knocking her to the ground. She's startled back into action as Jessi shouts at her to get out of the way. "The plan? I thought this was the plan?" she mutters, though Jessi probably can't hear her.

Seeing a spark - probably from Lydia - and a crossbow bolt - probably from Davina - shoot past, Leora scrambles to her feet. The armor makes it awkward, giving the dog a chance to bite at her again. She hadn't really want to hurt the dogs until one had nearly chewed her leg off. Still, she decides to back away towards the door and the safety of her allies.

Move action to stand up and 5-ft step. Blue gets an AOO on Leora when she stands up

Jessibel sees the large dog take down Leora and tear into the woman's leg. Even as Leora tries to stand and retreat, the dog again snaps its savage jaws at her. Lucius's shot seems to have missed the mark. Jessi weighs waiting an instant so Lydia can fire another spell into the fray but decides Leora may not have that instant to spare.

Jessibel enters the livery (pushing the half-opened door fully open if it doesn't cost her an action), moving bravely to Leora's defense.

As Leora tries to stand up, the dog takes advantage and lunges forward, biting her neck and leaving her bleeding profusely, in mortal danger of death. However, Jessibel's healing closes the wound and brings Leora out of danger, though still wounded. 8 damage from the AoO, healed for 5, leaving her at 2/10 HP.

It should be clarified that, unless someone gets a light going, the inside of the livery is dim light for anyone without low-light vision or darkvision. Therefore, anyone without those will need to roll a miss chance against concealment (20%).

Dom moves up to the gate, followed by Kiri. They can see glimpses of their friends fighting the dogs on the other side through the slats in the walls of the stalls, but can't get through yet. The gate appears to be locked, and despite its age, the bars and lock of the gate have mostly escaped rusting away -- perhaps they are made of some kind of rust-resistant alloy. There is a small opening in the gate, but none of you are thin enough to wriggle through it. With a better view of the inside of the building, Kiri and Domitius can see the remains of an old wagon, and a few old doors, mostly fallen to splinters, in the northeast corner.

Kiri could still take an action, but I don't think it'll affect what happens next because she has no line of sight on the dogs.

The two smaller dogs run up to Jessibel, growling and snapping. She pulls one of her legs out of the reach of one, but the other sinks its sharp teeth into her calf. 4 damage to Jessibel.

Lydia
Red/Blue
Davina
Lucius
Domitius
Kiri
Leora
Jessibel
yellow/green

Lydia grits her teeth as the situation deteriorates. This revolution will not be stifled by a pack of stray mutts, she thinks to herself. The lighting will make it difficult to aim a damage spell, but she has plenty of options that require no aim at all.

"Power Word: Wrack," she calls out, her sharp voice echoing in the mind of one of the dogs.

DC 15 will save or sickened for 1 round on the blue dog.

Lydia, you have low-light vision and therefore no miss chance.

Lydia's spell takes hold of the dog and causes her muscles to cramp, causing intense pain.

The dog, angered by the pain, moves to snap at Jessibel, but misses.

Davina
Lucius
Domitius
Kiri
Leora
Jessibel
yellow/green
Lydia
Red/Blue

Jessibel yells, "Domitius! We could use some help in here!" and stabs at the mutt who bit her, but can't make it connect. "Cast a spell if you need to, Leora, I'll help keep them off you!"

As both Leora and jessibel have Shielded caster, either gets a bonus of +5 to concentration when they are adjacent.

"Ah, crap. Working on it, Jess!" Over his shoulder to Kiri, Dom says, "Check those rooms behind us, see if there's a way into the main livery. Be careful!"

"Hey! HEY!" Domitius yells and whoops as much as possible, throwing humself against the gate as forcefuly and noisily as possible, both to test the gate (sure, the lock might have held, but maybe the wall didn't hold up so well) and in hopes of making enough racket to draw off a dog or two.

I'll throw a Str check in right off the bat, if there's anything else I need, say so.

Strength: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12

Davina grabs one of the crossbow bolts, and casts Daylight on it. She gently tosses it a few feet into the room as not to break the bolt apart.

She then reloads her crossbow.

Leora feels dazed after the last few moments. This time, when she opens her eyes, she's on the ground next to Jessibel and surrounded by snarling dogs. Her leg still hurts from the dog's bite, so she shouts a quick "Thanks! " to Jessi before murmuring a prayer to Cayden for healing.

concentration check: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17
clw on Leora: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Leora is currently at 7/12 hp . Traveling and posting from my phone so hard to edit my signature right now.

Kiri ignored Dom's request for her to check the doors, she heard the fighting and wasn't going to leave her companions deal with the dogs alone. She looked at the gate, the stupid thing was a pain and in the way. She decided to try and do something about that. She sent a blast of air slamming into teh gate in the hopes that, while the gate was in good shape, maybe it's anchor points weren't.

Air Blast w/ PB on red: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 3 + 1 = 211d6 + 1 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 3 + 1 = 11

Nice! Maxed damage.

The gate is locked closed, and goes floor-to-celing. Dom feels that the metal bars are firmly anchored and would be difficult for a single person to break through.

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If that was less than a full-round action, I'll go poke my head into that side room, on the off-chance there's a way into the main room from there.

Ability checks are usually standard actions, I think. In any case, you can do so.

After pushing on the gate, Dom goes and pulls open the door to peek inside. There doesn't appear to be a way to get to the main floor from this room, which appears to be a cluttered tool storage room, full of the remains of decayed farrier's tools. He notices teeth make in the wood and leather bits, suggesting rats may be present, and a trap - door that's been propped open leading down.

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With the issues at hand Kiri decided that maybe checking the hall was wise, who knew, maybe someone left the key around here somewhere. She began to examine the floors and walls for anything of interest.

Perception (dim light): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6
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Finding nothing of interest she said, "Dom, we need to go back to the front, I can't find anyway through here except that locked gate." With that she began to make her way back outside to head to the front of the building once more.

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