DM-Camris' REIGN of WINTER Part 2: The Shackled Hut (Inactive)

Game Master Camris

the courtyard isn't difficult terrain, for once.

still, caladan uses his surprise to move toe to toe with the guard, his claws out.

nadya steps up five ft, and then tries to draw the guard's sword before he can react.

i'm imagining it as a steal combat maneuver, which only doesn't provoke b/c the guard is flat footed.

cmb: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21

she succeeds at drawing the guard's sword.

[round 1]
[20: lt red], [18: giacomo], [18: brown], [17: ten-penny], [16: blue], [16: lt blue], [14: yellow], [14: caladan], [14: gondork (still bound)], [13: ochre], [12: green], [9: nadya], [6: arwyn], [2: black]

light-red, upon the wall, draws and fires his crossbow down below.
1: caladan, 2: ten-penny, 3: arwyn, 4: nadya, 5: giacomo, 6: gondork

1d6 ⇒ 2
xbow: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 2 - 4 = 2 misses.

Giacomo then finishes casting and can move action if he'd like to? Gondork i guess grows into squeezing/sitting on/standing over the dog kennel shack.

the brown guard draws his cold iron longsword and dagger, and moves up next to green, in front of caladan. moving the last square into difficult terrain with the fountain stairs/decorations. he has some cover sharing his square with them (+2 AC)

giacomo can move if he wants (?), ten penny is up after that, then blues and yellow go.

Yes, Giacomo moves backwards to make space for the rest.
Where are our weapons?

"Guardsmen, I'm sorry we have to do this! I promise we won't hurt you if you let us go!"

the cart. i'll make ghost images of you and place them on the map. they'll represent each of your packs/weapons. if you're adjacent, you can pick up both with the same move action.

Do I get a check to break free from my bonds because of my size?

its a standard action, you can take that on your turn and manage to burst the ropes holding you.

Ten-Penny 5-foot steps towards G-Blue and stabs him with her dagger

Dagger: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18 for 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4 and 2d6 ⇒ (1, 1) = 2 sneak damage

[round 1]
[20: lt red], [18: giacomo], [18: brown], [17: ten-penny], [16: blue], [16: lt blue], [14: yellow], [14: caladan], [14: gondork (still bound)], [13: ochre], [12: green], [9: nadya], [6: arwyn], [2: black]

blue slumps to the ground, bleeding out on the packed snow of the courtyard.

light blue fires down on giacomo, and misses
light xbow: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 2 - 4 = 2

yellow moves up, drawing a dark metal longsword and a dagger, slashing with the sword at ten-penny, but failing to come near her.
cold iron longsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 91d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Caladan claws at Yellow twice, scoring a gash across Yellow's shoulder.
claw: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 51d4 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
claw: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 181d4 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Gondork breaks free of his ropes
and can take a move action if he wants?

ochre fires at giacomo, the clearest shot he can take, but its deflected off of giacomo's armor. misses.
light xbow: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (17) + 2 - 4 = 151d8 ⇒ 4

green slashes at caladan, but falls short. misses.
cold iron longsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 71d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

Nadya hacks at Yellow, and he takes a knee, then falls, not getting up, bleeding out on the cold snow next to Blue, in the shadow of the awesome ice sculpture fountain.
blue's cold iron longsword: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 201d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

then Arwyn is up, and black.

ooh, and on nadya's turn.

will save: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (13) + 0 = 13
Green shrinks, shrieking for his life as he suddenly starts compacting, until he's about giacomo's height, though his armor hangs off him like its sized for him still. he seems extremely alarmed, and angry

Hatch appears, standing on the kennel shack, the tiny naked bearded fey reappearing

Then Arwyn leapt forward and viciously attacked G-Purple.
Dagger attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20 for a possible 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

the black guard rushes around the fountain the other way, drawing his sword and dagger as he moves.

[round 2]
[20: lt red], [18: giacomo], [18: brown], [17: ten-penny], [16: blue], [16: lt blue], [14: yellow], [14: caladan], [14: gondork (still bound)], [13: ochre], [12: green], [9: nadya], [6: arwyn], [2: black]

the light red guard reloads his crossbow and fires at Gondork, the biggest thing he can see, the bolt slices through a chink in his armor, scoring him for 8 hp.
light crossbow: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (20) + 2 - 4 = 181d8 ⇒ 8
confirmation: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 2 - 4 = -11d8 ⇒ 1

the green guard takes an aoo on Arwyn as she moves over the yellow or blue guards's bodies

small cold iron longsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 161d6 ⇒ 3
just misses.

Sorry for not responding. Easter stuff.

Giacomo rushes past the guard blocking him towards his backpack, hoping to get his items in time to help in the fight.

I provoke from G-black. Could you also move me (double move)? I don't really know what's accessible on the map and what isn't. My movement is 30.
This could end badly, but I have to try this.

black aoo: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 61d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
the black guard misses as you feint and run past him fifty feet to your bags. From there, you can see that the sound of combat is quickly drawing attention. The red guard, and the ice troll are maybe a round from joining the frey.

the brown guard steps ahead of Caladan, whirling to hack at him with his longsword. lacking his sheild, Caldan takes a heavy swing, the gash cuts open his thigh pretty badly.
brown: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 171d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9

ten penny's up

Ten-Penny steps to the side (5ft step) to flank with Arwyn, and then tries to stab G-Brown between the ribs.

Dagger: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 6 + 2 = 15 for 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3 and potential sneak: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 3) = 8

the guard twists out of your grip, rather he tries to twist, but seems more used to fighting with a shield that he didn't have time to draw, and you score a hit, knocking the breath out of him. He grabs his side and all but collapses in front of you.

[round 2]
[20: lt red], [18: giacomo], [18: brown], [17: ten-penny], [16: blue], [16: lt blue], [14: yellow], [14: caladan], [14: gondork], [13: ochre], [12: green], [9: nadya], [6: arwyn], [2: black]

Blue and Yellow guards are still down on the ground bleeding. Light Blue,up on the wall , tries to fire at Gondork.
light crossbow: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 2 - 4 = 51d8 ⇒ 5

Caldan activates his healing judgement, and slashes at Brown, cutting him down, and digging in for a more powerful backswing on Green, but misses the shrunken guard.
claw: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 191d4 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
claw: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 71d4 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Gondork is up

Strength check: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16

you're successfully free last turn. free to do what you want this round, you have your +1 cestus, speed, and size.

probably be a while before you check back in, its a slow week. i'll put you in delay, which may help you guys group up and coordinate since i zanily tried putting them on their own init instead of grouping them.

Ochre fires at gondork, missing
light crossbow: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 2 - 4 = 131d8 ⇒ 6

Green steps into the flank between Nadya and Arwyn, trying to take advantage of Arwyn, slashing at her for 4 damage.
small cold iron longsword: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 3 + 2 = 211d6 ⇒ 4

Nadya swings at green, dealing 6 damage.
blue's cold iron longsword: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 4 + 2 = 261d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
confirmation: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 4 + 2 = 251d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

purple will save: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (1) + 0 = 1
Purple shrinks down to Giacomo's size as well.

Brown, Yellow, and Blue were cluttering the battlefield, so i put little body markers, and moved their hp off the table. they're shrodinger's guards (unconscious/dead) , i'll keep track for after, or if anyone checks.

Gondork and Arwyn are up, otherwise its Black, Light Red, and then Giacomo at the top of the third round.

and when gondork goes, at the moment Black will provoke an AoO from gondork, so you can roll that yourself if you'd like,

Arwyn desperately dodged rolled and tumbled free of her melee...
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (12) + 12 = 24
... to double move to the baggage cart and grab her shortbow.

Free at last!

I'm blind, can't take AoO's. How would pinpointing an enemy work?

and suddenly a hoard of gerbils consume you before you can AoO!

pinpointing, i'd say DC 0 to pinpoint an adjacent square, dc 10 within your reach to attack into. The -4 to perception is mostly visual, so you can reduce it to -2 from the weather and wind. callouts from allies can help you target higher value targets. like "there's one bleeding in front of you". i'm not going to distinguish/care about using metagame directions or in character directions. North/South or Left/Right (from our perspective), etc.

if you're hit, you largely know exactly which square it came from if its adjacent.

moving while blind is half speed or you risk the acrobatics Dc 10 check or you fall down

nadya could direct you to hit the little green one's square. you get -4 from her for soft cover, and the 50/50 miss chance from being blind. if you wait for black to close in on y'all, you could let others direct you at where he's standing and attack him.

they could even direct you to walk around the wall until you bump into Black, and then try and hit him.

arwyn avoids attacks and manages to grab her weapons in the cart this round

summary of round 2

After the lucky hot by the light red guard sinks a bolt into Gondork's shoulder, giacomo rushed past a hostile Black guard who missed, and made it to the wagon with the gear. He saw the Red guard and the Ice Troll rushing over, they'd be here within seconds.

Ten-penny stabbed the Brown guard in the ribs, while the light-blue guard missed gondork with his light crossbow from the wall. Caladan brought the brown guard down, slashing his guts open with his claw. Another bolt rains down from the wall, pinging off Gondork's enormous and hellish orc-battle pate. The bandage still wrapped around his eyes, his arms free, but his head tilts, listening to whats going on, arms held up defensively, unsure what to do.

The Green guard slashes at Arwyn, throwing her off guard from behind, Nadya hacks back at him, retaliating. Suddenly the purple guard yelps as he shrinks down to Giacomo's size, Hatch nearly gleefully yipping on the dog shed, as he starts waving his hands at black.

Still small, but deadly, Purple hacks at Arwyn from below and gets past her defenses. Damaged and unsatisfied with the dagger, she tucked it into her gauntlet, and Arwyn lept away from her attackers, dashing back across the fountain and into the bed of the wagon, snatching her bow and quiver, quickly gaining her footing and drawing arrows.

Black rushes up, charging Caladan with his sword, but missing and throwing himself off balance. Three guards are down and either bleeding or worse, two shrunken guards are still trying to bring you down, with another guard and and Ice troll with enormous ... ears, is rushing to the gate with her axe in hand.

Black charges Caladan, missing and off balance
cold iron longsword: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 3 + 2 = 141d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

[round 3]
[20: lt red], [18: giacomo], [18: brown], [17: ten-penny], [16: blue], [16: lt blue], [14: yellow], [14: caladan], [14: gondork (in delay)], [13: ice troll], [13: ochre], [12: green], [9: nadya], [9: Red], [6: Purple], [6: arwyn], [2: black]

Gondork, Giacomo, Ten-Penny, and Caldan are up before the Ice Troll's turn. Brown, Blue, and Yellow are down and bleeding or dead. Light Blue will rain down a bolt and reload on his turn.

Light Red reloads and fires at Gondork
light crossbow: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (7) + 2 - 4 = 51d8 ⇒ 1

Light Blue fires and reloads at Gondork
light crossbow: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (13) + 2 - 4 = 111d8 ⇒ 1

heals 1hp from judgement
claw @black: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 171d4 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
claw @black: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 231d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Cladan rends black, with two debilitating slashes, he's left standing there while the black guard collapses, blood gushing everywhere and spraying over Caladan as the guard collapses, geisering onto the snow and splattering the fountain.

Giacomo grabs his gear, five-foot steps, then fires at G-Red on the ramparts.

Assuming grabbing my bow and quiver is a move action.

"I'm sorry I have to do this, but you just won't listen!"

Arrow at Red: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 191d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

"Er, guys, the troll is coming really close now! I hope you've finshed whatever you're doing over there, we'll be busy soon!"

Ten-Penny moves towards her gear, and takes possession of it.

"Oh short swords, I really missed you..."

She then turns around, and yells.
"Gondork, there are some small pests in front of you, listen for tiny footsteps and squeaking voices and then whack em!"

ten penny's not tumbling... and not much room to avoid, so i guess green and purple will try and swipe at you.

green: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 221d6 ⇒ 1 1 dmg
purple: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 141d6 ⇒ 1

the green guard manages to scratch ten-penny as she rushes past Green and Purple to grab her weapons back

Ah, you can't walk on the square/icicle thingies, thought they were part of the floor design. It's all good though, I can survive 1 damage.(for now)

arrow at light red, up on the walls with the light crossbow? AC 15 with the snow/ranged penalty, just hits. 3 dmg to light red.

the ice troll rushes up very fast, squeezing up onto the sled, nearly tipping the thing over, battleaxe in one hand.

Ochre fires from the tower, missing again, kinda ducking from the bolt fired up near him at the last second. he reloads and sets his sights on Giacomo.
@gondork: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (10) + 2 - 4 = 8

Green slices at Nadya, getting under her defenses easily, his long dagger sized blade cutting a gash along her leg.
cold iron longsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 191d6 ⇒ 4

Nadya fights back, but missing, his short stature making him more agile and quick
blue's cold iron longsword: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 151d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

the Red guard from the back, rushes up, hesitantly squeezing past the troll as she half climbs and precariously walks over the sled, seeming to count himself lucky to make it through. he shouts up at the wall. "Alert Jairess! Fire at the Aerie! Attend a mirror! The prisoners are free!"

Arwyn is up

Ah, you can't walk on the square/icicle thingies, thought they were part of the floor design. It's all good though, I can survive 1 damage.(for now)

they're difficult b/c of the ornaments, statue parts, and stairs of the fountain. the guards used them for a little cover when they rushed up, at the cost of difficult terrain.

oh! and on Nadya's.

Hatch finishes casting sleep up on the wall, and the light blue and ochre guards slump to the floor. the tiny fey then bounds and jumps onto Gondork, climbing up him to his shoulder. [/ooc]

"Soft! Kitty! Friend! Kitty!"[i]it says soothingly as it climbs the suit of armor, and grabs the cloak by Gondork's shoulder, before proceeding to pull and tug at the cloak, and make vroom vroom noises, saying"left left, around fountain? right right over fountain?

he'll serve as a personal "guide" fey for the moment, letting gondork have some idea which way to go when moving, though still at half speed for now.

lt blue @ will: 1d20 ⇒ 6
ochre @ will: 1d20 ⇒ 1
lt red @ will: 1d20 ⇒ 15

and sorry, forgot purple had adjusted before arwyn.

he steps up to slash at Caladan. missing
small cold iron shortsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 61d6 ⇒ 1

since black is down and bleeding, there's just Arwyn at the bottom of round three, and then Light red, before its back to Giacomo, Ten-Penny, and Caladan. Gondork is free to insert at any time he'd like (with his new guide)

the angle's enough that lt-red doesn't have cover, but there's still the snow/wind throwing off ranged attacks. -4

The lt-red guard rasies his crossbow to a high arc, aiming at the giant maw opening in the tower about thirty feet above him.

[round 3]
[20: lt red], [18: giacomo], [18: brown], [17: ten-penny], [16: blue], [16: lt blue], [14: yellow], [14: caladan], [14: gondork ],[13: ice troll], [13: ochre], [12: green], [9: nadya], [9: Red], [6: Purple], [6: arwyn], [2: black]

[round 4]
[20: lt red], [18: giacomo], [18: brown], [17: ten-penny], [16: blue], [16: lt blue], [14: yellow], [14: caladan], [14: gondork ],[13: ice troll], [13: ochre], [12: green], [9: nadya], [9: Red],[6: Purple], [6: arwyn], [2: black]

There's a snow penalty inside? Okay.

Giacomo hops a step backward out of the reach of the troll, then lets loose on poor Red.

Another arrow at Red, calculated the -4: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 211d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

EDIT: Whoops, spoke before my turn. Consider this my action unless something terrible happens.

you're not inside a building yet. you're in the inner courtyard of the pale tower, the wind and snow outdoor effects ya still. the courtyard's inner gate is the ring with the kennels, and walls that are clear as ice, held aloft by rigid spiky supports. you can see through them almost like glass though they're about five ft thick. the wall to the north is lowered, in a 15ft x 15 ft opening in the five ft. wall. with the sled and the troll in it .

the inner gate area isn't difficult terrain, except by the fountain, because it sees enough use and is tended after daily.

a rendering of the tower.

Rolling some attempts at hitting stuff in advance, moving to a new house so posting will be slow

Gondork plays whack-a-mole, the silliness of his movements offset by the deadlyness of his blows.

Attack roll, gauntlet: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
Miss chance, high is good: 1d100 ⇒ 36
Damage: 1d4 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
Attack roll, gauntlet: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Miss chance, high is good: 1d100 ⇒ 50
Damage: 1d4 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10
Attack roll, gauntlet: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
Miss chance, high is good: 1d100 ⇒ 63
Damage: 1d4 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8

for now i'll put you in with Hatch steering you around to help fight the troll. your speed with expeditious is 40 ft?

i finally came across the official pale tower sketch by the artist or reight of winter team: pale tower
so i was pretty close =D

Nice! It hadn't dawned on me yet that it was a courtyatd. You might've said earlier, but I must've missed it. >_>

Arwyn yips a little as the troll appears, takes a step to the East, then shoots at Guard Green (then guard purple if green goes down.) Rapid shot, point blank shot, weather penalty.
shortbow attack: 1d20 + 8 + 1 - 2 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 8 + 1 - 2 - 4 = 4 for a possible 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 1 = 4 piercing damage.
rapid shot attack: 1d20 + 8 + 1 - 2 - 4 ⇒ (4) + 8 + 1 - 2 - 4 = 7 for a possible 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 2 + 1 = 7 piercing damage.

Nice! It hadn't dawned on me yet that it was a courtyatd. You might've said earlier, but I must've missed it. >_>

happens. i try and repeat myself.

shots on green and purple miss.

lt red aims up at the ma, enough to get it in the maw. you see a flutter of ravens from the maw, but it otherwise doesn't seem to have alerted anyone.
light crossbow: 1d20 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (9) + 2 - 4 = 7

Giacomo shoots lt-red for 5

heals 1hp
caladan steps up to reach purple and green.
green: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 111d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
green: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 171d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

2nd claw attack connects, and green drops.

[round 4]
[20: lt red], [18: giacomo], [18: brown], [17: ten-penny], [16: blue], [16: lt blue], [14: yellow], [14: caladan], [14: gondork ],[13: ice troll], [13: ochre], [12: green], [9: nadya], [9: Red], [6: arwyn], [4: Purple], [2: black]

The sudden arrival of the big ugly snappes Ten-Penny back to her senses. She is a little too big to play with, especially since she first has to crawl over the sled to get to the monstrosity. Then from the corner of her eyes, she sees a little guard being occupied Caladan. Perfect opportunity for a kidney stab, if she can get away unscathed from the troll.

Tumble, Half Speed: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23

She draws her Msw Short Sword with her free hand while she moves into flank position and lashes out at Guard Purple.

Short Sword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14 for 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7 damage and 2d6 ⇒ (3, 5) = 8 Sneak damage

Edit: Forgot about the ornaments, cannot get into flank position... Damn you, ornaments...

its only 20 ft. you can go through the spikey bits, they're just difficult. and you only need to tumble the first square to get out of the troll's reach. means you get the flank and sneak attack. 15 downs the purple guard.

the massive troll lumbers into the cart, and hefts her battleaxe, swinging at Arwyn, but her foot slips on gondork's bag, and the axe chunks through the side of the sleigh, splintering some off the back.
battleaxe: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 122d6 + 4 ⇒ (3, 4) + 4 = 11

Nadya moves up 20 ft. to her gear and grabs her weapons, dropping blue's longsword.

the Red guard charges, rushing Gondork, as Hatch starts screaming in Gondork's ears about where Red is, and to hit him, hit him, hit him, but not before the Guard can get underfoot, slashing up through a seem in Gondork's armor.
cold iron longsword (AC 18 blind): 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 3 + 2 = 181d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7