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

Game Master Paladin of Baha-who?

Kiri, Lydia and Leora are up.

Kiri saw an opportunity to finally punch a hole through the fools trying to keep them in here, the stupid Thrune sympathizers. She once again gathered the air, it took more effort this time as her target was out of her reach with a normal blast. Around her body a veritable tornado began as she pulled in more air than normal, Leroa was close enough to be buffeted by the strong surge of swirling winds. When she had enough air gathered she sent yet another blast at her first target but all of the distractions going on, the chaotic fighting, caused her aim to be way off and she missed her target, the blast plowing into the ground at his feet.

Air Blast at green: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 81d6 + 1 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 3 = 8

Move: Gather Power
Std: Throw an Air Blast modified with extended range (no burn since I gathered power first).

That doesn't target touch AC, just regular, right?

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As it's a physical blast it is regular ac. Unless he's armorless and with a dex penalty it'll miss.

Leora attempts a shield bash as the thug withdraws, but she misses, not used to wielding the shield, let alone using it as a weapon. "Take heart, Kiri! If you did it once, you can get him again!" she insists to her companion.

Noticing that the Chelish sympathizer is moving away, towards a group holding their own near some benches to the north, she lets Kiri know he's escaping. "C'mon! We won't let him get away that easily!" Her bravado is diminished by her slowness - the heavy armor and the thick crowd slow her progress towards the escaping thug.

shield bash: 1d20 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (5) + 1 - 4 = 2
craft alchemy check to disguise casting touch of good: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
DC 10 for Leora to disguise spell, DC 25 to realize the spell is divine

Standard action to cast touch of good on Kiri (+1 to all attacks, skill checks, and saves for one round), move action to move closer to the escaping thug.

EDIT: Wow, I haven't rolled over a 6 during combat yet!

"You attack an unarmed priest with a club, and I'm the coward? I suppose a mind like that is why you're the thug rather than the mastermind." Lydia really wanted to give the brute a taste of Shelyn's power, but she could not cast effectively without giving up her defenses; she had been lucky enough to get off the armor spell, and her attempt to cast an offensive spell fizzles.

Concentration: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11

This would have been Spark, so no spell slots lost at least.

Lydia, any move action or 5-ft step?

I thought I was still in difficult terrain and couldn't 5FS? If I can, I'll move to the square next to Davina.

Oh right, I said that, didn't I? At some point in the rounds, the crowd thins out enough that it's no longer difficult terrain, I need to check how long that is in the book. How about this:

Lydia steps back, and the swinging thug is unable to reach her with his club.

AoO: 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 3 - 4 = 2

Nox, her throat still bleeding from the dagger wound, croaks out, "You two with me; you two find whoever cast that wind spell!" as she ducks into the opera house and two of the dottari follow. The other two begin pushing their way through the scrum, heading generally towards Kiri, whose gathering of wind power apparently attracted a lot of attention.

Jessibel
Lucius
Domitius
Davina
CCG Thugs
Kiri
Lydia
Leora
Dottari

Jessi's breath catches in her throat as she hears Nox bark some order and two of the dottari start in the general direction of herself, Sabrina, and Domitius. Her heartrate goes down a tick when the dottari take a more southerly track, pushing through the crowd west of the trio, their attention apparently on someone else in the crowd. The bard works on the few remaining buckles and restraints, hoping to be free of her creation in time to run from the scene.

Davina stands up from where she had crawled. She'd like to move away, but won't leave Lydia alone with the thug who has shown no respect for a priestess. She tries bluff him into moving away instead. "You heard Nox. Search for the person who cast the wind. She points in the opposite direction of where she thinks the caster is. That's toward the opera house. "It came from that direction."

Using my move action to stand up. If the bluff doesn't work she'll pull out her rapier and ready an action to attack the thug if he attacks either her or Lydia.

Bluff: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
Inspiration: 1d6 ⇒ 2
Bluff Total with my last use of Inspiration for the day 16
Readied Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 41d6 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 2

Domitius grits his teeth, does his best to size up his foe, and swings the sap at him again. Without turning around, he says behind him, ”Ladies, how are we doing…?”

Move action to use Studied Target on this clown, Standard to take a swing at him.

sap: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 5 + 1 = 25
sap damage: 1d6 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 4 + 1 = 10

Jessibel unconsciously winces and looks up from her work at the sound of Dom's sap connecting with the skull of the threatening thug.

"Almost got it...I think."

Domitius knocks his foe to the pavement with a powerful blow. The unconscious thug is bleeding from his mouth and a nasty abrasion on his temple, but he'll probably live.

"Almost got these laces undone!" Sabrina says through clenched teeth.

Only 2 more full-round actions are required to free Jessibel from the costume. Presumably, that will be complete next turn. Either Sabrina and Jessibel or Sabrina and Dom could spend those actions, giving Dom or Jessibel the chance to act, respectively.

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"Miss Jessibel, if you ever do this again, remember: if it can't be dropped, it's not a good prop!" Dom chuckles to himself. "My first verse..."

Lucius glares at the man in front of him. He almost wanted to offer one final warning before firing, but looking behind him he saw two ladies being threatened by a few more thugs Lucius decides to stand his ground. He'd warn the man after he'd had a taste of gunpowder and iron. Aiming his musket at the man Lucius smiles for a split second before firing.

attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
damage: 1d12 ⇒ 3

Seeing the wound on the man Lucius snarls out a warning. "Now back off or die!"

Intimidate: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

As Davina tries to stand, the cruel man in front of her takes advantage and swings his cudgel, dealing her a painful blow to her side. "Don't try getting all smart with me, you stuck up bint," he growls as she staggers to her feet. 7 nonlethal damage to Davina.

As Lucius sets up his Musket, the thug takes advantage of the momentary inattention this requires, belting him across the chest just as the gunpowder explodes, driving the musket ball into his assailant's shoulder. "Bloody hell!" he groans as he clutches one hand at his wound. 7 Nonlethal damage to Lucius.

Davina's attacker knocks aside her rapier and rams his weapon into her gut, knocking the wind out of her and causing her to fall back down to the cobbles, blacking out from pain and lack of air. 5 NL damage, 3 of which becomes lethal. Davina's total damage is 9 NL and 3 Lethal; she is unconscious but not in danger of death.

Lydia's magic shield blocks another attack.

Lucius is not so lucky. The thug yells at him, "F+$# orders, you're dead you little shit!" and swings for his head, dealing him a glancing blow that still rattles him, doing more serious injury than before. Lucius takes 3 Lethal damage (total: 7 NL, 3 L). He then backs away, leaving an opening for Lucius to hit him if he wants to use his musket as an improvised club. "We gotta get this guy, he's got some kind of magic staff that hurts like hell! he mutters to his compatriot.

The two that Kiri blasted are still fleeing her power.

While studying his opponent, Domitius noticed a few things: he is wielding a light mace, has a bronze pendant in the symbol of the House of Thrune around his neck, and a pair of manacles looped through his belt next to his coin purse. His studded leather armor is outfitted in black and red, matching the colors, though lacking the sense of style, of Sabrina's and Jessibel's.

Kiri
Lydia
Leora
Dottari
Jessibel
Lucius
Domitius
Davina
CCG Thugs

May I ask if it was orange or aqua that did the AOO on Lydia before my turn? If it was orange does he get another on me in the same round? And ouch that hurts.

It was orange, he took an AoO your previous turn when you tried to walk away (tripped you) and then on this turn when you stood up. Then he attacked you normally as a standard action.

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Kirri realize they were going to be in trouble now, the guards were beginning to block off the exit and they might need numbers to get away. While she normally wouldn't go out of her way to help others this time it was in her own best interests. She saw one person dropped by the goons in a cluster that was fighting well against the thugs and figured they'd be the best bet at helping her get out of her in one piece. She moved over to get in range and said, to Leora, "We need them if we want out of here alive." With that she sent a burst of wind at the thug that knocked the woman unconscious.

Air Blast at Orange with point blank shot: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 3 + 1 = 131d6 + 1 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 + 3 + 1 = 10

Leora looks up at the sharp crack of the musket just in time to to see a thug knock over a young woman she suddenly recognizes as Davina! Making her way to the woman, she quickly mixes something in her flask, then bends down to lift Davina' s head and pour it down her throat. "Alright Davina, let's get back in the fight! "

craft alchemy to disguise cure light wounds: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
CLW healing on Davina: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

DC 12 alchemy for Leora to disguise the spell, DC 26 spell craft to recognize divine spell.
Leora moves 1 square diagonally and 1 square up to be next to Davina, I'll move the marker when I get home tonight.
Actions: move to get next to Davina, and standard to cast CLW on her.

As the leering thug looms over the fallen Davina, a sudden burst of compressed air smashes into his chest, knocking the wind out of him, and causing an audible 'crack' that sounds like he's broken a few ribs. He groans in pain, staggering back a foot.

When Leora administers her disguised spell, Davina's eyes flutter open, only a few second after closing. Davina heals 7 real and 7 nonlethal damage, putting her now at only 2 nonlethal. I moved Leora's icon for you.

Lydia is still up.

Woops, sorry about that, lost track of the turn order.

Lydia is grateful to see she and Davina are not the only ones resisting the thugs, though her saviors were rather odd; a strix capable of creating great gusts of wind and a heavily disguised man wielding some sort of large, explosive wand is not the sort of company Lydia usually keeps but they were quite welcome at this time.

"I do not know who you are, but I hope I can assume allies? We will have to speak further when these ruffians are dealt with."

Lydia manages to get off a spell; now that she knows there are some people capable of creating wounds she can instead focus on making that process simpler. "Power Word: Wrack."

Concentration: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

DC 15 fortitude save on blue, sickened for 1 round if he fails.

The crowd is thinning out now. Though there are plenty of people lying on the ground -- hopefully just unconscious -- and many others are still fighting, a sizable minority are getting away, pushing past the dottari and the thugs to escape down alleyways and sidestreets. 5-ft steps are now possible, and moving at full speed is possible with a DC 10 acrobatics check.

Lydia's spell sends wracking pain through the thug's muscles, causing him to groan in pain. "Bloody... spellcasters..." he growls through clenched teeth.

One of the Dottari continues towards the site where Kiri gathered power before, but the other sees her use her magic again and dodges through the crowd nimbly. "You! You're under arrest!" she barks at Kiri, drawing her heavy mace and readying her shield, emblazoned with the Thrune crest.

Jessibel
Lucius
Domitius
Davina
CCG Thugs
Kiri
Lydia
Leora
Dottari

Sabrina will continue to help Jessibel out of her costume. This turn, either Jessibel finishes removing it, leaving Dom to take a normal action, or Dom removes it for her, allowing Jessibel to act. We'll assume she has enough clothes left on to deal with the cold weather for the moment.

Dom glares with satisfaction at the fellow who hit him with the truncheon, now a crumpled heap on the ground. "Next time, Miss Jessibel, maybe don't use the adamantine straps. Miss Sabrina...?"

EDIT: ah, okay, I thought he was disabled (staggered, but still conscious). In which case, a 5-ft step as seen on the map, and a readied action to give a crack to any guards or thugs that come into range.

Red is unconscious. He's taken more than his max HP in NL damage, so he's out for at least a couple hours before NL damage heals itself and he can come to. Dom is certainly familiar enough with defeating foes to perceive this.

"Miss Jessibel, if you ever do this again, remember: if it can't be dropped, it's not a good prop!" Dom chuckles to himself. "My first verse..."

"...and your worst! There--free at last! Domitius--did that Thrune-Goon have a weapon I might borrow?"

With Sabrina's help, Jessibel finally gets the frame free from her complicated harness and tucks it beneath the folds of her large cloak (full-round action). The bard unconsciously takes a few steps (5-foot step) away from the Opera House and the implicit threat of Nox inside it.

"He had a truncheon, or I've got a spare knife in my belt," says Domitius, continuing to look for trouble.

Lucius looks over at the woman who causes a thug to just groan in pain from a simple word. At her question Lucius nods not wanting to make a mage of any sort angry. "I'm on your side miss." Having affirmed his partnership Lucius steps backward away from the thugs while quickly loading another alchemical cartridge into his gun. He aims his musket at the two thugs near the ladies. Trying to make himself seem like the biggesst threat Lucius threatens them. "Want another taste? Then come and get some."

Intimidate: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

Davina, you're up both in initiative, and in terms of being conscious again.

Davina opens her eyes and sees Leora. It's nice to see a friend, even if it is in this mess. She smiles. "What a lovely elixir. I need to learn how to make that." She glares at the thug looming above her. Enough of these shenanigans.

She pulls a small vial from her belt and quickly drinks it. She then rolls toward the opera house to bring herself in line with the thug.

I want to move one space toward the Opera House to be in line with the thug using an Acrobatics Check. If he misses his AOO, I want to spew Firebelly in such a way to hit him, wrap around Lydia, and hit the other two thugs. If he makes his AOO, and I'm still up. I want to spew the Firebelly at him in a way that gets him, but misses all my allies.It's a 15 foot cone.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
Concentration Check for Firebelly DC15: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 121d4 ⇒ 1

The thug doesn't try to swing at Davina as she drinks an extract and stands. He seems to regret his forbearance when she suddenly opens her mouth and breathes fire in a toasty cone, hitting him and the other two thugs behind him. He falls to the ground, overwhelmed by his injuries. The others are singed, but still standing. "Screw this!" one cries out, swinging angrily at Lydia who cast a spell on him. Unfortunately, his anger gives him strength, and he breaks through her force shield. He's not pulling his punches, either, and the spiked ball hits her right in the face, crushing her nose, left eye socket, and left cheekbone, and knocking her down. Confirmed critical to Lydia for 15 lethal damage. Lydia is at -7 and needs to make a stabilization roll on her turn.

"Guards! This woman attacked me with magic! You should take her to jail while she's knocked out!" he calls to the Dottari as he steps back.

The other thug runs over and attacks Davina, but she dodges easily.

Sabrina draws her rapier from her belt, holding it in a defensive posture as she guards Jessibel's back. "Well, we wanted adventure, didn't we?"

Kiri
Lydia
Leora
Dottari
Jessibel
Lucius
Domitius
Davina
CCG Thugs

They found her and were far too close for comfort. She looked at Leora and said, "I need some help here, keep him off of me." She took a step back and sent a burst of wind at the dottari that had gotten in her face in the hopes of doing enough harm to make her back off a moment.

air blast on nearest dottari green with PB: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 3 + 1 = 231d6 + 1 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 + 3 + 1 = 10

Doh! So close to a crit.

Even without critting, you've been consistently the highest damage dealer, Kiri.

Yeah, but I also didn't have an enemy in my face then either. Just wait til I can get kinetic blade and iterative attacks going, I do that same damage on a melee attack per hit, it's nasty. Granted I have to hit first which can be a problem, just not in this fight. Besides, it'd be bad ass to do a crit already in this combat.

Well, I kinda figured that would happen when I got plopped right in the face of two enemies... And I just checked my spell list again and it looks like wordcasters don't get ANY of the good defensive spells on the sorc/wiz list so this isn't going to get any better as I level. Welp.

Stabilize: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15

She grins seeing that Davina is okay, looking forward to talking to her later, when things aren't so hectic. "I'm here to-" Leora's response to the spellcaster's question is cut short as she's dropped by a vicious blow from the thug. "-help."

The grin vanishes as Kiri calls for help at the same moment. If only I could be in two places at once. "Be right there!" she calls to her friend as she repeats the ruse of giving a healing potion to Lydia.

craft alchemy to disguise CLW: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
CLW healing on Lydia: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

DC 12 alchemy for Leora to disguise the spell, DC 26 spell craft to recognize divine spell.

Since Lydia failed her stabilization roll, that healing puts her at exactly 0.

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Correction! I forgot to apply the penalty from sickened to the damage rolls. So Lydia is actually at 5, because the 15 did stabilize her, so she was only ever at -3.

The Dottari converge on Kiri, one coming from around the trees, drawing his mace, while the one she hit with an air blast moves to flank her, and she strikes out with her heavy mace. 10 lethal damage to Kiri.

Jessibel sent me instructions to bot her:

Jessibel kneels down by the fallen Chelish Citizens' Group thug, quickly grabbing his bronze Thrune symbol and the light mace, which she is able to use.

Sabrina says, "Domitius, you have my permission - nay, my order - to help those folks against those nasty little thugs in the same gang as the one who tried to beat us up. Some people just have no class at all."

Jessibel
Lucius
Domitius
Davina
CCG Thugs
Kiri
Lydia
Leora
Dottari

I thought I saw a post from Domitius asking about difficult terrain conditions, but now I don't see it. Anyway, 5-ft steps are now possible, and moving at full speed is possible with a DC 10 acrobatics check, due to the crowd thinning out some.

Spellcraft: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Jessibel sees the blonde half-elf take a horrific belt to the side of the face from one of the Thrune Goons and hears the man call out to the dottari to arrest the young woman while she's 'knocked out.' Knocked out??!! She's dying! Jessi determines that saving the half-elf's life is worth risking arrest herself, but a dottari's potentially blocking her way to the fallen lady.

Before she can react, though, another woman uses magic to revive the downed half-elf and the nearest dottari heads southeast for some reason. The peaceful protest she'd expected to attend had become a riot, and she was unarmed and unarmored, so she shifts to the fallen Thrune thug and grabs his mace. Acting on impulse, she also snatches up his Thrune pendant for later examination.

She keeps the mace tucked under the folds of her cloak to maintain the illusion that she's unarmed.

Davina cries out as Lydia falls. "How dare you attack an unarmed priestess. She notices the dottari surrounding a woman in a cloak a short distance away, and wants to help her. She needs to do something about the thug next to Lydia before she can help anyone else. She swings her rapier at him. At this point she doesn't care if she does him lethal damage. This whole event has gotten out of hand. "We should make our way out of this park as soon as we can. The crowd is thinning, and we might be detained if we don't remove ourselves soon."

Attack on Gold Thug: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 91d6 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 2

If my attack hits and the gold thug is still standing, I want to 5 foot step toward Leora. If it hits and he falls, which I doubt, I want to move my full movement toward Kiri. Acrobatics to move my full speed: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18

Lucius seeing some allies appear in the press decides to move through the crowd trying to get behind them to better support them with his wounds. Finding the press of the bodies too much Lucius finds himself unable to get very far behind his allies. As he ends up next to the ladies he turns to regard them. "You should run. I'm no mage, so I should be fine. I'll do my best to cover you until then."

Acrobatics to take a full move: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9 Failure, so Lucius has to take a full round action to move.

I think you misunderstood, Lucius. If you fail the acrobatics check, you can still move at half speed normally, and you only moved 3 squares, which can be done as a move action at half speed. So you can still take a standard action or another move action.

Ah, I thought it became a full round action to move at half speed if you failed the acrobatics check.

Lucius having offered his help to the ladies next to him turns to the Strix woman surrounded by Dottari, and he takes careful aim at the Dottari who seems to be wounded. He focuses on the warrior hoping to bring them down with one shot to conserve his ammo.

Activating Focused Aim to add Lucius's charisma bonus to his damage roll this turn.

Attack versus Touch on Green: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
Damage plus Focused Aim: 1d12 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

Since you lack precise shot, please remember to apply a -4 when shooting into Melee. However, even with that penalty, you still hit touch AC.

Another thundering shot echos through the air, and Lucius feels exultant as the ball blasts through the dottari guard's chest, knocking him to the ground. You regain 1 grit from reducing a target to below 0.

Dom’s face hardens, ”I’d be happy to, Miss Sabrina...”

OK, first off, Acro check to see how I do getting through the crowd...

Acrobatics: 1d20 - 2 ⇒ (20) - 2 = 18

...great! I'm not sure I can move my piece on the map from my phone without catastrophe. But my intent is to come into the space north of Davina, and sap the yellow CCG jerk.

sap attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
sap damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Ugh, not so much...

Moved Domitius.

The thugs wounded by Kiri earlier are long-gone.

Domitius dodges a return strike from his target, the two glaring at each other.

The man wounded by Lucius's earlier musket shot swings at Leora, but his wounded arm weakens his attempt.

Kiri
Lydia
Leora
Dottari
Jessibel
Lucius
Domitius
Davina
CCG Thugs