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

Game Master Paladin of Baha-who?

Lucid puts away his musket and instead pulls out a club unwilling to risk his firearm in this engagement.

Move action to put away musket and then another to draw the club.

Kiri takes a moment to look around, but sees nothing of importance in this narrow hallway.

Note that with Davina's action, the inside of the Livery is now normal light and no miss chance applies.

The two smaller dogs snap and growl at the intruders. One sinks his teeth into Jessibel's other leg, while the other snarls and tries to bite at Lucius, who puts his club between himself and the small creature's teeth. 4 damage to Jessibel. Ouch!

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

Lydia snaps her fingers and a jolt of electricity flies towards the dog that bit Jessibel. It flies wide, leaving a small burn mark on the floor.

attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

One of the bigger dogs, hearing Kiri and Domitius, runs over to the gate and starts snarling and barking at them.

The other snaps at Jessibel, but her armor blunts its teeth enough that her skin is not broken further.

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

Kiri had just heard the dog come running over to bark at the gate as she stepped out of the hallway to the alley again. She knew the dog couldn't get to Dom and that their compatriots needed help. She felt she was kinda obligated to keep her apprentice alive at least so she ran as fast as she could to try and get to them.

I frogot to move myself last round so I took care of that. this round I took a run action, I can move 120 feet in a straight line but unfortunately I can't turn so I went to 85 and stopped for this round.

"Hey... whoa! Hyah! Ahhh! Whoa... Yahhh!" Dom is both startled and pleased to see his plan actually seemed to work. Somewhere along the line, he notes that Kiri left, hopefully to go help the others. In an attempt to keep the dog's attention, he goes back up to the gate, whooping, snarling, and in general making himself as tempting as possible without putting himself in real danger.

OK, so, moving back to the locked gate (also as part of the move action, drawing a dagger). I'm gonna bang on the gates, clang on them with my sword, and keep on making what I hope to be a dog-attracting ruckus. If the gate's spacings are wide enough to get an arm through unhindered (e.g. it's more like a jail-cell door than, say a chain-link fence), I'll even think about sticking my arm through to try and give it a swipe with my knife. But only if the opening is wide enough that I can take a swing without taking too much of a penalty.

Davina fires her crossbow at the snarling dog standing next to her and Lucius. She drops her crossbow, draws her rapier and carefully takes a step toward the dog. "Lucius let's see if we can get on either side of him. That should at a least keep his attention off of Jess and Leora."

Crossbow Shot to Yellow: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 191d8 ⇒ 8
Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 31d8 ⇒ 6

Dropping my crossbow after the shot and pulling out my rapier as I 5 foot step toward yellow as my move action. My hope is to give Lucius a flank opportunity if he wishes to take it.

Domitius: There is an opening where you could throw a dagger through, though the dog isn't close enough to hit with a melee attack.

Davina: Crossbows crit on 19-20, not 17-20. That actually drops the dog, though. How do you want to change your action?

No, I'd rather not throw at this point. I'll just rattle the gate, taunt him, maybe even stick an arm through to try and entice Fido to stay over here (pulling it back if he tries to nom-nom-Dom).

Kirri took the chance to quickly move up and reach her compatriots at the doors. Sadly it took her much longer than she though it would and she found herself bereft of a shot at the dogs.

Sorry read the die roll wrong looked at the total. I'll reload the crossbow and stay where I'm at instead of dropping it, and moving forward

Though it's clear that Leora is no dog expert, she has figured out they'll bite her as soon as she tries to stand. She shouts "In Cayden's name, we will claim this stable!" It seems silly since she's still sprawled on the floor, but the prayer works just the same.

Casting bless on everyone, except Dom who is out of range (+1 to all attack rolls for the next minute).

concentration check: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16

Lucius steps forward and attacks the green dog.

Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13
Damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 2

Jessibel hears Dom shouting from somewhere deeper inside the livery and hopes he's providing some sort of distraction and not being mauled by another pack of dogs himself. In any event, the girl realizes he won't be coming to her rescue and a cold knot of fear forms in her gut and starts to spread throughout her body, threatening to paralyze her.

Only when Davina's able to cut dog one of the smaller dogs with a well-placed crossbow bolt does Jessi see any hope of surviving the battle. Lucius entered the scrum with a club in hand, further upping the odds. The girl tried to think strategically, but there were too many possibilities, most of which hinged upon her actually being able to hit one of the curs with her damned rapier.

Doubting she could take out the larger dog with one thrust, the girl opted to target the smaller mutt, hoping a hit might take one more set of jaws and sharp teeth out of the fight.

Rapier attack on Green: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10 for piercing damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Knowledge (Nature): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

But, of course, her shaky stab missed the mark. She knew she could shift behind the smaller dog, giving Lucius a flanking opportunity...but that would mean leaving the larger dog either a clear path to the gunslinger or an easy chomp at the fallen Leora (though dogs sometimes considered creatures in the prone position to be showing submission...but the cleric's shouting and spellcasting seemed anything but to her). Gritting her teeth, Jessibel stood her ground, screaming something most unladylike at the larger dog to bait it into attacking her and ignoring Leora.

The remaining small dog bites at Jessibel again, but the young aristocrat's luck stays with her as she blocks it with her buckler.

Lydia is up.

"Well, let's try that again." Lydia fires another spark at the green dog, hoping to finally incapacitate it.

touch attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
damage: 1d3 ⇒ 3

That doesn't hit, because of the penalty for shooting into Melee.

Jessibel finds her dancing moves work to avoid the mastiff's powerful jaws.

The other big dog runs up and tries to bite Dom through the bars of the gate, but can't get past it to reach him. Both Dom and the dog have improved cover vs. each other for melee attacks, and the dog has cover (not improved cover) against Dom for ranged attacks.

Davina wants to cry as she looks at the dog she killed. I really didn't want to do that but Jessibel and Leora are hurt. I don't want to do this either. Sadly she takes aim at the dog next to Jessibel, and fires her crossbow.

Crossbow on green: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 181d8 ⇒ 2

She reloads.

Sorry, forgot the init order list.

Davina (fired the crossbow)
Lucius
Domitius
Kiri
Leora
Jessibel
green
Lydia
Red/Blue

Domitius takes a few awkwardly-aimed swipes at the dog from through the grate. The only saving grace of the situation is the knowledge that the dog’s not going to have any easier a time attacking as he is.

Move action for Studied Target on the dog, then with my Standard I’ll try and attack with the dagger.

Attack dagger: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26 Target has improved cover for +8 to AC, was not reflected in my attack roll.

Damage dagger: 1d4 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Crit threat dagger: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20
Crit dmg dagger: 1d4 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

Would it be any harder to use the falcata rather than the dagger? For simplicity’s sake I’ll stick with the latter for now.

Seeing that Jessibel has been bitten too, Leora calls upon Cayden's power to heal the two of them. The holy energy quickly binds some of her wounded leg back together. What was she thinking, laying on the ground while her friends got attacked by the dogs? She's the one in heavy armor, with a shield after all. Clambering to her feet, she prepares to aid Jessi and Lucius in melee.

channel positive, selective channel to not heal the two dogs: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Leora is provoking AOOs from blue and green when standing.

9 rounds of bless remaining (+1 to to Jessi, Kiri, Lucius, Lydia, Davina, and Leora's attacks)

Kirri was annoyed, there was no clear shot at a dog, in fact the only one she could see was largely obscured. Still the strix decided it was time to help and sent a blast of air at the chosen dog before saying, "Clear the way." the burst of air went barreling towards the dog and seemed to be right on target as it went.

Air Blast w PBS and Bless at green: 1d20 + 3 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 3 + 1 + 1 = 221d6 + 1 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 3 + 1 = 7

Lucius attacks the dog again with his club bring the battered piece of wood down in an arc towards the dogs head.

Attack: 1d20 ⇒ 18
Damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1

When shooting into melee, please apply the penalty to your shots if you don't have precise shot. Cover applies to AC so do not apply that.

Lucius and Davina wound the remaining smaller dog with club and crossbow, then Kiri's winds smash into it, tumbling it arse-over-teakettle and leaving it battered and unconscious, out of the fight.

Domitius waits for the dog to snap at the bars, and stabs through them to hit its throat, wounding it terribly and leaving it bleeding on the ground.

Leora, you can only exclude one of the dogs at a time, because your CHA mod is only +1. However, the big dog hasn't even been hit yet, so you don't need to exclude him. There are two smaller dogs, both of whom were injured to the point of unconsciousness, but aren't dead. The yellow one was more injured than the green. Healing them will keep them from completely dying, but will only bring them to consciousness if the healing exceeds their negative total. Which one do you want to exclude, if any?

Leora heals herself and Jessibel, and tries to stand up. The big dog bites her arm painfully, but she manages to get to her feet. 4 damage to Leora, but he couldn't trip you again because you were already tripped.

Just Jessibel still up.

Whoops, sorry bout that, I always thought that was the cover bonus not an additional penalty. I'll make sure to do that till I get precise shot in a could of levels.

Jessibel feels hope pulse inside her when a pained yelp sounded from the other large dog she assumed was harrying Domitius and then Kiri's wind blast finished off the second smaller mutt that Davina and Lucius had managed to wound; Leora's healing buoys her confidence as well. Still, the girl winces when Leora tries to stand up and again the big mastiff makes her pay dearly with its teeth.

She's feeling just like I do, Jessi realizes. Leora knows that we've got to do our share of hand-to-hand fighting to back up Domitius, and neither of us is putting in a very memorable performance.

Keep its attention off Leora and move to flank the cur, Jessibel thinks, her nerves calming a bit. She stabs at the mastiff (standard) before moving a few steps north (5-ft. step).

rapier: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11 forpiercing damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

And here I thought Sabrina sucked at fencing! I'm even worse.

Thanks for clarifying, GM. I had forgotten about the small dogs and that they were only unconscious. I'll exclude the green dog then. For some reason, I had it in my head that selective channel just excluded two targets, but you are correct!

Barking angrily, the big dog tries to take another bite out of Leora. This time, in a proper defensive stance, the cleric is able to swing her shield in to block the attack.

As Domitius is getting his bearings after putting down the other dog, he sees a chunk of masonry suddenly raise up into the air, on its own, float over his head, and then fall down onto him, crumbling to bits as it lands and getting old plaster dust in his hair. He faintly hears a malicious giggle, and wonders if the stories about this place being haunted are true.

"I can't afford to waste any more spell slots on this pack of mutts... I'll just have to hope this feeble amount of electricity I can produce does something this time. Ugh." With her sympathy for the canines waning significantly in the wake of her frustration, Lydia shoots another Jolt at the blue dog, hoping to hit something of value.

attack: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (20) - 3 = 17

attack: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (19) - 3 = 16

damage: 2d3 ⇒ (3, 3) = 6

Lydia, that will hit if you go inside the building where the others wouldn't be blocking your shot. Do you want to do that?

sure, let's go with that. went ahead and moved myself somewhere appropriate.

You'd really have to be more on the other side where neither Leora or Jessibel would be blocking you.

The dog yelps in pain as its hair sizzles with the jolt of electricity from Lydia's bolt.

All other PCs are up!

Kirri had a chance to get a better shot at the remaining dog and moved into the room, circling the battle, until there was no one between her and it. She still had to take care with her aim but that didn't dissuade her as she sent a burst of air at the dog.

Air Blast w/ bless and pb: 1d20 + 3 + 1 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (14) + 3 + 1 + 1 - 4 = 151d6 + 1 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 3 + 1 = 7

Domitius stood at the grate, taking stock of his handiwork. He took no satisfaction from having killed the dog, but if it was between the dog and one of his new two-legged friends, well that wasn't anything he would lose sleep over.

"What the...?" Dom is mystified as bits of debris rain down on him without apparent cause. He whirls around, both trying to pinpoint where the sounds might have come from, and to keep something bigger from getting dropped on his head without his seeing it coming.

Hearing that the other end of the fight with the dogs is wrapping up, Dom calls out to his allies, keeping his voice calm. "Uh, guys, nothing urgent just yet, but definitely odd. When you get a moment, could you get back over here?"

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
Will one roll cover both trying to locate the source of the sound and keeping my head in one piece?

That locked gate is gonna be a pain; I do plan on getting some ranks in DD, but that doesn't help us right now.

Davina seeing the fight is just about wrapped up. Keeps her crossbow readied as she moves toward Dom worried something else might be headed the groups way. "Odd? What do you mean odd?" She asks.

Perception with inspiration : 1d20 + 2 + 1d6 ⇒ (16) + 2 + (3) = 21

She looks around for anything odd.

"Honestly, I'm not sure what I mean yet, Miss Eradon," Domitius shrugs as he replies, scanning the room warily. "Could just be some well-hidden joker hiding out with cantrips, but wasn't there rumor this joint is haunted? This gate's locked; you're probably gonna have to come outside and around like I did."

Lucius steps forward and attacks the dog with his club swinging down towards its side in the hopes of knocking the wind out of it.

Attack: 1d20 ⇒ 9
Damage: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0

"Going around the building will take a long time. I don't move very fast. I'll look around this room." Davina looks like she expects something to jump out and grab her at any second.

If the blue dog is still standing:
Now that she's finally on her feet and free to attack, Leora draws her rapier and slashes at the last mutt standing.

attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
dmg: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

If all the dogs are unconscious:
Hearing Domitius's call, Leora heads towards the gate and looks around. "Haunted? What kind of ghost would hang around to scare some feral dogs? Maybe you just knocked some dust loose when you busted through that wall." Leora scoffs at the idea at first, though she reconsiders when she sees how frightened Davina looks. "I'm gonna see if there's anything useful around here, or if the mutts chewed up everything valuable."

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16 to look around A1 area

8 rounds of bless (+1 to attacks) remaining.

Kiri's blast smashes into the dog, again resulting in it collapsing in the dust.

The dogs could be revived if you want to, by the way. The larger ones look like they would qualify for the bounty for live, large dogs proclaimed by Thrune.

A gleam of metal on a rafter catches Leora's eye.

If you manage to climb up to the rafter somehow:

Davina notices the two doors in the back look mostly intact. There might be something there that has withstood the passage of time.

Jessibel thanks the others for coming to her rescue and taking down the pack of canines. Then she leans lightly against the wall near the doors, lifting one leg at a time up to view the damage to her legs and the legs of her armor's pants, casting prestidigitation to clean away the blood and dog slobber and mending to close the holes the dog's teeth put in her armor.

Turning to Lucius, she asks if there's something wrong with his musket and offers to try to fix it with magic.

Mending: hps restored: 1d4 ⇒ 1

"Is everyone alright"? Davina asks as she continues to look around the room. "There are a couple of doors back here. Dom is there anything of interest in your room?"

She walks over and picks up the bolt she cast daylight on. She looks at her clothing and gear trying to figure out where to put it so the light can continue to shine. Finally she shrugs and sticks the dull end in her hair's bun like a Tien style hair stick.

"My legs both still hurt when I put my full weight on them," Jessi replies to Davina's question before giggling when Mrs. Eradon sticks the glowing bolt deep into her hair bun, making it look like perhaps she got shot in the head. "I could probably do with a tap from that wand we traded for."

She can cast multiple mending spells on Lucius's musket if necessary.

"Hey, there's something shiny up there in the rafters. " Leora points at the gleam that caught her eye.

As long as nothing is happening immediately:
"Yep. Jessi, I feel the same way. Phew. Nearly getting my leg chewed off taught me a few thing. I definitely know nothing about dogs. If something might come after me, I should make sure everyone is nearby, not exploring another part of the building. And last but definitely not least, listen to Lydia. If I'd been quicker to get away from the dogs, I might not have gotten mauled like that. " Leora reflects on the battle with the dogs and what could have gone better if she hadn't ran into the livery so hastily.

Kiri nodded, "I'm fine." The strix woman began to examine the room as the others took care of their injuries but was pulled up short when Leora called out that she saw something shiny up in the rafter. Kiri began to look for a way up there to try and get to the key and finally came to the conclusion that jumping may be her best bet. She moved back to get some distance and then got a running start, jumping at the last instant to try and grab the key.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19

For simplicity's sake, given that the wand is a communal resource for the PCs, as long as the wand is available and someone is present and conscious who can use it, just roll healing for yourself and make note of how many charges were used.

Kiri doesn't quite jump high enough. She might need some help.

Lucius nods in thanks as Jessibel fixes up his musket. "Thanks, for the fixing. How'd you learn that little trick?" Lucius looks around at the dogs, but he felt no desire to bring these dogs to House Thrune. He shakes his head and instead focuses on the fact that something was up in the rafters. Seeing Kiri try jumping up Lucius decides to assist with that.

acrobatics to assist: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17

Jessibel gives Lucius a quick smile once she's got the firing pin functional again. "Oh, that was nothing--just a basic cantrip that most theater-based bards learn early in their careers. You'd be surprised just how many costumes, props, and stage gear a troupe of alleged professionals can tear, damage, or break in the course of a single production."

Figuring that Leora and Kiri can get whatever they've seen up in the rafters (or that whatever it is can wait), Jessibel carefully moves deeper into the run-down livery after casting a light spell on her rapier. Seeing the corpse of the large dog near the barred gate, Jessi raises an eyebrow and asks Domitius, "Through the bars? Nice!"

After a short pause during which she gives the gate a cursory once-over, the girl fails to keep a straight face as she casually lies, "Not to worry--I took out the other three."

CLW from Wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 (32 charges remain).

Lucius uses his hands as a step for Kiri as she makes a jump up to grab the ring from the nail.

Closer inspection of the slender ring reveals that it is platinum, not silver, and has a crest on it, like a signet ring.

Davina, are you going into the smaller rooms in the back?

"Not to worry--I took out the other three."

Domitius doesn’t even try to hide the amused look on his face. “Oh, is that what I heard? Phew, for a second, I thought you were in trouble over there.” The smile drops to a more serious face. “Jokes aside, I’m glad you didn’t get too chewed up. Wouldn’t do to have you gettin’ mauled because I was pushin’ through the wall over here.” Domitius gives the gate one more frustrated slam with the heel of his hand. “There’s no release or nothin’ on that side, is there?”