DM Bloodgargler's Heroes of the Shiv

Game Master BinkyBo

.....and mine is the 3000th post!!!! What do i win ?

How about a hug?

Before leaving the room Mugambi asks Eve while pointing at the painted scene on the wall.

Have ya seen dose standing stones before? Do ya know where they are?

Making a rough guess, is the small pyramid in the picture the same size of the object missing from this room?

Mugambi follows the others after receiving the islander's answer.

Truk approaches as quietly as he can and then flings a spike at the flesh-eating monsters.

Stealth: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

Surprise!: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Damage: 1d2 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Eve nods grimly with the realization leading the group there is implied with the question... She then follows behind Mugambi.

>map of south chambers

One action each after Truk's throw before Round 1 starts...

Initiative: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Iolana draws her blade and waits for her occasion.
how is the terrain? is the tunnel large/tall enough to walk normally?

There is some debris, but no difficult terrain, and no squeezing in these two south chambers or connecting tunnels.

Garborn will take no action at first, too unsure about what to do.
Initiative: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18

Gatherine made a face and went to join Truk.1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11Initiative

Mugambi limps forward as fast as he can into the room where his friends are.
Moves 20ft forward getting near Garborn. Which system are you using DM Blood, are you rolling initiative or are we? Just in case...
Init: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

(still surprise round)

The iron spike thunks into the ghoul's back. The creature whips around, peers through the short tunnel toward you, and lets out a dry hiss.
The other blue-tinged ghoul cranes its neck to see past its injured roommate.
Curiously... they do not immediately charge...
ghoul initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Gatherine shrugged when the dry hiss answered when Truk's spike hit,lifting Twinbellows and firing into the tunnel with two quick squeezes of the trigger.

1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 5 - 4 = 19Deadly aim
1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9Both barrels at once
1d8 ⇒ 6Extra dmg

Syndlara hustles forward to meet their latest opponents, scimitar drawn.

Move to Q14.

Initiative: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

Round 1

Syndlara
Truk'tosh
Garborn + pets (just realized Gorba and Fleek sounds like "Zorba the Greek")
Gatherine - action posted?
Mugambi
Iolana
Ghouls

Truk init: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21

>map<
Guessing on some placement based on weapon range increments.
Iolana and Garborn... you can add a move action in there as part of your surprise round action.

Yep.Action posted.

Gatherine's double shots reverberate throughout the chambers, and shred the lead ghoul.
It drops to its side, and is likely finished.

As the ringing echo of the pistol shots fade, you hear a female sibilant voice come from the chambers yet to be explored to the north. "Sssuumeli vir dreth anurresss" ... you also hear the faint sound of a gentle surf from the same direction.

Iolana moved near Syndlara then, in the first available square.

Wary of the voice from the north, Syndlara rushes past Truk, diving over his shoulder into a roll. She fluidly rises to her feet as the roll ends, slashing at the remaining ghoul with her scimitar.

"You know, Gatherine, your weapon of choice makes sneaking about almost pointless," she hisses quietly.

Move to Q9.

1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
1d6 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Mugambi uses his momentum to keep going.
Double moves to P18

Something else comin'

Truk is surprised when the elven maid springs over him. With a laugh he follows after her bringing his heavy staff to bear.

Smash: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
Damage: 1d6 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10

Syndlara's blade flays a strip of bluish dead flesh.
Truk's lack of follow-through leaves the ghoul visibly staggered, but still standing.

To the north you start to hear slowly repeated deep grunts, along with the "churr churr" sound Truk'tosh heard earlier.

Syndlara... I will take a will save

>map< before Iolana and Garborn's rd1 actions.

Will save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7 (+2 if it's an enchantment...not that it likely matters...)

"Gorba, Fleek, Heel!"

Unsure of what he can do, Garborn moves to follow Mugambi for now.

Move to O18, with Gorba and Fleek behind him.

....What else am I supposed to do? I already took one out! Without catching whatever nasty diseases it might have.Gatherine hissed back,waving her arm ,on the verge of a tantrum without Tol there to curb it.

I take it Iolana has no means to notice if Syndlara had to do a will save,or if there is something else incoming.

"I heard that voice Mugambi.It said we disturbed the nap of someone."

move in P8 and slash at the ghoul
attack w/+1 scimitar: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

i'm starting to be a little pissed off you know?

Round 1 (Ghoul)

While remaining squatted down, the ghoul recovers enough to slash out at Truk'tosh with one swipe of a clawed hand... .
The strike comes nowhere near Truk'tosh.

ABCTarget: 1d3 ⇒ 3
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14
1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Round 2

Syndlara
Truk'tosh
Garborn + pets
Gatherine
Mugambi
Iolana
Ghoul

just hit AC14 for at least 1 point of damage please

Will save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
1d6 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

Hissing in frustration, the elven bladedancer hacks at the remaining ghoul, biting deep into its torso. The blade sticks in the ghoul's body as it 'dies.' Syndlara plants a foot on its chest and kicks as she savagely tears the scimitar free, flicking ichor in an arc over her right shoulder.

"Fffffffff-" she says, flicking her blade again to clear it and wiping it off on a convenient cloth surface that she is not wearing. "That really pisses me off."

HP 20/31; AC 19; battle dance 3/10; enraged

Garborn whimpers a little, then he finds some steel in his spine and stands up straighter.
"Time...time to end this no? What comes now may be the last of them..."

Will save: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

The final ghoul in the chamber falls. The gentle sound of lapping waves increases, and the warm briny air comes in gusts in time with the waves... it slowly wins over the stench of rot and mildew.
There is a dim glow coming from the chamber to the north. It pulses as well with the same rhythm.

As you move through the north tunnel to the chamber, you can faintly see the waves from the west lapping into the sloped underground shore, the dome shaped ceiling which spans over the grotto, and is open to the west. The water of the incoming tide is just a foot below the top of the cave mouth... Each crest of every wave breaks against it, and turns the yellow band of sunlight into a thin ribbon of warm light.

As each wave recedes, the amber glow of the sun reflects off the water, and dimly illuminates the entire chamber... like what glow of a sunny day gets through an eyelid shut.

The sound and light continue to pulse in time.

On the east side of the chamber, a large silvery ape sits... it is doting on a broken and twisted ghoul which it holds in its arms.

On the far side of the chamber is a high and narrow archway, which is framed by two snakes facing each other at the top. The voice seems to emenate from this archway.

"I hear the wordss of the old world, yesss?... Taldane? Decades sssince itss passsed thessse lipsss."

As you move this chamber in which the two ghouls were killed, I will take a will save from the rest of you, please. (other than Iolana and Syndlara)

1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 3 + 2 = 14Will Save

Urgh....more undead and apes.Awful!

Will save: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

"Scary...but We've come TOO far to stop now!"

Nowhere to run now, I HAVE to fight!

"Gorba, here!"

Casting cure light wounds on Gorba: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

Will: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

>red grotto<

Are we rolling initiative?

nothing is attacking you, but if you care to/think you would charge the silverback take a single action and we will roll initiative. Also Truk.... you are starting to feel angry...

I will take perception rolls too if you care to roll a check.

Truk begins to breath heavily as the primal rage fills his heart.

He glares at the big ape and beats his chest, offering it a challenge.

I wasn't sure if it'd noticed us or not.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26

"S...something is wrong with...the g...girl.
The...NEW girl I mean."

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10 (Assuming that that was a general call for Perception rolls, and not aimed at Garborn specifically.

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15Perception

As Truk'tosh steps forward, the silverback gorilla looks up. You can see dead flesh and bare patches of bone in its face. It snarls, and grips the ghoul body in one hand... dangling by the ankles as the zombie ape stands to its full height, and accepts the challenge with a forward jut of its scraggly jaw.

Init: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

A formless miasma of darkness moves into the serpent archway from the north tunnel... the same sibilant female voice comes from it.

"Ssso many... cut down before they were ripe. Fought hard to come sssee me... and you bring an offering?"

The silverback glances at the dark cloud, and she speaks again "Break their spirits Dignin"
The gorilla turns back to face Truk, and appears intent on flogging him with a dead ghoul.

Truk'tosh and Gatherine can see the humanoid form in the cloud of darkness which fills the 5' square of C,7

ape and darkness init: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

roll initiative please if you haven't... map update in 5 min