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

Game Master Camris

Whee, come out of delay, do the growth thing for funsies while delivering that epic speech, and then heal TP.

Cure Moderate Wounds: 2d8 + 3 ⇒ (3, 8) + 3 = 14

No second-level healing, one first-level heal, 3 channels left.

Damage, axe vs tanglefoot bag: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Sorry for the slow posting guys, busy week

oops yikes. narrowly avoided. pc hp's accurate on the map now?

fighting defensively
cold iron morningstar @yellow: 1d20 + 5 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (5) + 5 + 1 - 4 = 71d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5 wiff!
will switch justice to AC (@22 defensive)

recap for 95% of round 5

Sorry, thought I had already shot this round.
Wouldn't I still be a 15 hp on the map? I don't think I've been healed yet...

Round 5
Looks to me like Mister Yellow has also advanced through the wind wall.

Rapid shot, precise shot, point blank shot. Attack to Yellow.
shortbow attack: 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 8 - 2 + 1 = 16 for a possible 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 1 = 8 piercing damage.
shortbow rapid shot attack: 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 8 - 2 + 1 = 8 for a possible 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 2 + 1 = 6 piercing damage.
...Fumble confirm?: 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 8 - 2 + 1 = 15

I channelled for 9 one round, maybe you missed that? Seems to add up: you say you're at 15, map says you're at 24.

OK I see it. HP24 now.

Light Blue tries to lash out at gondork, but just hits plate. Yellow fares little better against caladan's defensive stance and blocks.
light blue @ gondork: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 3 + 2 = 111d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
yellow @ caladan: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 71d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Volan slashes at gondork with sword and shield, but doesn't find a chink in his plate as gondork tries to dodge blindly.
volan @ gondork: 1d20 + 5 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 5 + 2 + 2 = 111d8 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 + 2 = 11
volan @ gondork: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 3 + 2 = 91d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Guard1 tries to pile up on gondork too, but a random dodge blocks the blow with his forearm guard. caladan holds them off with his shield
g1 @ gondork: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 3 + 2 = 101d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
g4 @ caladan: 1d20 + 3 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 3 - 2 = 61d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Black slashes at gondork, missing, and stepping back to let green move in and strike. The concerted effort wears down gondork. (-4hp)
black: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 3 + 2 = 151d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
green: 1d20 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 3 + 2 = 221d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

In the back, the light red soldier lobs some kind of ice grenade, its a direct hit on Nadya, the splash doesn't bother caladan. but it injures Gondork, Yellow, and Light Blue 1 cold.
light red: 1d20 + 2 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 2 - 4 - 4 = 131d6 ⇒ 6

[ round 6 ]
[16: blue & light blue], [15: yellow & ochre], [14: jairess & volan], [13: guard 1 & guard 4], [12: Black & green], [12: Mig], [11: light red], [11: Nadya], [9: Arwyn], [7: Caladan], [4: Ten-Penny], [4: Giacomo], [1: Gondork]

fighting defensively too AC 18
axe: 1d20 + 3 - 2 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 3 - 2 - 4 = 01d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
pick: 1d20 + 3 - 2 - 4 ⇒ (2) + 3 - 2 - 4 = -11d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Halp, I've disappeared from the initiative!
EDIT: And it's back. Sorry.

keeping fighting defensively
cold iron morningstar: 1d20 + 5 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 5 + 1 - 4 = 31d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

putz. but still AC 22 for now.

"Screw it, this is taking too long. I'll go and tip the scales a bit."

Start casting Enlarge Person. Main target will be Gondork, but if anyone else feels like they want an Enlarge, go ahead and say so.

Round 6

Rapid shot, precise shot, point blank shot. Attack to Yellow.
shortbow attack: 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 8 - 2 + 1 = 21 for a possible 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 1 = 4 piercing damage.
shortbow rapid shot attack: 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 8 - 2 + 1 = 15 for a possible 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 2 + 1 = 9 piercing damage.

Second choice is Light Blue if Yellow goes down.

(-4)
Yellow goes down. misses light blue.

Ten-Penny left for the bottom of the round, and Gondork-Hellen-Keller.

"Screw it, this is taking too long. I'll go and tip the scales a bit."

Start casting Enlarge Person. Main target will be Gondork, but if anyone else feels like they want an Enlarge, go ahead and say so.

"He's blind! I hope you're going to give him some sight! I think he's deaf too! "

"That's next on the agenda. If I can reach him, that is."
Hint hint.

Gondork blindly trashes about, trying to hit something.

Attack, axe: 1d20 + 4 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (20) + 4 - 2 - 2 = 20
Confirmation: 1d20 + 4 - 2 - 2 ⇒ (17) + 4 - 2 - 2 = 17
Miss chance, high is good: 1d100 ⇒ 86
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Damage2: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

[oo]lol[/ooc]

if he caladan doesn't move, i'll let you squeeze through to touch gondork and then end back in the last legal square

if he grows to large now anyway, i don't know how to resolve the resulting squeezing connundrum besides contested CMB rolls, heh.

lol @ gondork. which direction are you attacking? no, cancel that, you got hit by volan, you know which direction "pain" is. (ignoring the repost / viewing the first post )
(-18) volan goes down.

Wow weird, when I edited my post to add a confirmation roll my nat 20 changed to a 14?

EDIT: and my miss chance changed from 86 to -50 :(

You double-posted, new post means new rolls. First post counts. >_>

Wow weird, when I edited my post to add a confirmation roll my nat 20 changed to a 14?

EDIT: and my miss chance changed from 86 to -50 :(

yeah, it didn't edit it. it re-posted it somehow. n since it counted it as different post, it re-rolled everything. i've seen it hiccup sometimes like that before. its not very common. i saw the first post, so i saw the 20 and the 17 confirmation. and the high-is-good roll.

Better not muck up the frontline by suddenly squeezing myself into it. Besides, people are finally walking through that Wind Wall. Don't want to ruin Arwyn's fun.

Ten-Penny thanks Giacomo for closing her wounds, and then turns around to address the light blue guard.
"You where here from the beginning! You saw me fighting your comrades, even downed some of you, and took some hits. And after all those wounds, I'm still standing! You people have no chance of winning, and we're not letting you go anymore!"
Intimidate: 1d20 + 7 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 7 - 2 = 16

Ten-Penny is deaf though... She might sound strange, but that could be part of what makes it so intimidating?

you can't hear him reply. you might be able to read his lips a little, in the midst of the fight,
"All hail the White Witches!"

your demoralize attempt is successful.

"All hail the Winter Witches!" the guards shout in chorus

[g4:]"The big one's dangerous even blind. take him down! Greggor, Llewyn, on me! Grick! help Barsen! "

amazingly the guards begin to swarm and harry blind Gondork, pulling him off balance, shoving him. The five guards swarm around him and assist as two land solid blows on him and Gondork goes down, though he doesn't seem too badly injured. the sixth guard (light red) moves around the table, drawing his sword and shield as he joins his fellows. (-8), (-8). gondork falls at -2hp

"ice sheets! Gondork!" nadya exclaims, crouching down to avoid light-blue's swing, and dragging the heavy half orc in full plate back out of the frey.

"Enbiggen me Giacomo! move into the garden so you can channel into the corridor and not hit the guards! " Caladan shouts back
( Channel won't go around corners. so y'all could back up and channel from the next room to only hit your guys. there's a lot of bodies within channel range right now. )

@arwyn, Caladan, Ten-penny and Giacomo are up, bottom of the 7th.

[ round 7 ]
[16: blue & light blue], [15: yellow & ochre], [14: jairess & volan], [13: guard 1 & guard 4], [12: Black & green], [12: Mig], [11: light red], [11: Nadya], [9: Arwyn], [7: Caladan], [4: Ten-Penny], [4: Giacomo], [1: Gondork]

"Enbiggen me Giacomo! move into the garden so you can channel into the corridor and not hit the guards! " Caladan shouts back

"I can't, you're not a humanoid!" Giacomo yells out in tears of frustration.

So, who wants that spell? Ten-Penny, are you DEX-based? In that case, it might not be smart to accept it. If there's no other candidates, I'll just throw it on myself and become Medium for a bit. Means I'll take a -2 on my AC for that time.

Giacomo retreats into where the Mandragora once was and Channels as if his life depended on it. Which it does.

Channel Energy: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 1) = 3

Are you kidding me‽
Also, don't really know where to stand so I can include Gondork. Could someone put me in the right position?

i also realized gondork's battleaxe is a x3 weapon.
damage 3: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

d'oh. they totally should've made them humanoids (planetouched) =P

i five ft you through the door, move action open both, you're in that corner and channel , hitting only your party. 3hp is enough to raise gondork back to hellen-keller status.

updated hp on map: Giacomo 27, Caldan 25, Gondork 1, Ten-Penny 14, Nadya 20, Arwyn 27

"Sheet Cakes! screw it! "
cold iron morningstar @g4: 1d20 + 5 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (14) + 5 + 1 - 2 = 181d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8

"Nadya fall back so Arwyn has a clear shot!"

Penny is indeed Dex-based. Nadya might be a good target, if we trust her enough.

Ten-Penny sees that for some reason the guards seem to step up their game, and hopes it wasn't her fault. She takes Gondork of Nadya's hands and drags him into the room with the dead plant (Room B).

Round 7

"Nadya fall back so Arwyn has a clear shot!"

"Nah, it's OK." Said Arwyn tightly. "I can shoot around."

Rapid shot, precise shot, point blank shot. Attack to G4.
shortbow attack: 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 8 - 2 + 1 = 25 for a possible 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 2 + 1 = 9 piercing damage.
shortbow rapid shot attack: 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 8 - 2 + 1 = 15 for a possible 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 1 = 8 piercing damage.

Second choice is Light Blue if G4 goes down.

gm: wait what, you can? you got a trait like Giacomo? i've been deducting -4 cover on some of your shots due to friendly soft cover interfering with the ranged attacks. do you have a mechanic to avoid this? if you do i'm sooo sorry i missed it on your sheet.

fyi, nadya seems finesse based as well. obvserving her she strikes with Weapon Finesse training.

(-9) G4. he drops. pivoting n shooting light blue, it chinks into the remains of the ice statue missing.

light blue attacks caladan, guard1 steps up, setting caladan off balance. Black steps up carefully over guard4's gasping body to attack, slashing over caladan's defenses, close to his neck. Green rushes in, caladan swings but misses, but so does green. Light red advances, provoking from Nadya, who reflexively brings her axe down , but he steps ahead of it, and it slices down his jaw instead of shearing his ear off and into his jugular. Light red pivots and sinks his sword into caladan's back in flank, he shifts and it doesn't land square on his breastplate. (black: -6dmg to caladan) (nadya: -4dmg to light red)

Nadya shifts into flank herself, but her still shaking hands don't help her land any direct hits to red, but does ger her out of the way for Arwyn to shoot if she steps back.

[ round 8 ]
[16: blue & light blue], [15: yellow & ochre], [14: jairess& volan ], [13: guard 1 & guard 4], [12: Black & green], [12: Mig], [11: light red], [11: Nadya], [9: Arwyn], [7: Caladan], [4: Ten-Penny], [4: Giacomo], [1: Gondork]

well, can't turn down a flank. especially since it'll clear my own flank... will keep fighting defensively since i'm surrounded.

cold iron morningstar: 1d20 + 5 + 1 - 4 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 5 + 1 - 4 + 2 = 201d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Bammo! Caladan clocks light red, off guard from his headwound, and smashes him into the doorjam. (-7dmg, drops)

and then five ft. step to close ranks so i won't get surrounded again...

i've been deducting -4 cover on some of your shots due to friendly soft cover interfering with the ranged attacks. do you have a mechanic to avoid this? if you do i'm sooo sorry i missed it on your sheet

Oh, sorry no. I was thinking of a feat I don't have yet. Apply cover as usual.

Round 8

Rapid shot, precise shot, point blank shot. Attack to Green.
shortbow attack: 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 8 - 2 + 1 = 18 for a possible 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 1 = 5 piercing damage.
shortbow rapid shot attack: 1d20 + 8 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 8 - 2 + 1 = 20 for a possible 1d6 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 2 + 1 = 9 piercing damage.

Second choice is Light Blue if Green goes down.

I think I have enough space so I can channel without hitting baddies. If not, move me, please.

Channel Energy: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 6) = 9

"STOP HURTING MY FRIENDS, YOU BASTARDS! WE'VE COME TO FREE YOU FROM YOUR OPPRESSION!"

1 channel and one Cure left. Better make this count.

(-5dmg to green)
(-9dmg to green, goes down)

Green takes two arrows to the chest and collapses, Caladan crushes light red, and Giacomo channels, avoiding those he needs to.

(+9 healing, updating map)

Gondork you can tell things are going better, you had woken up on the ground, felt yourself being dragged around but not overly-harmfully. And you can feel Giacomo's waves of healing burst over you again. A series of taps on the forearm, and you think its ten-penny who'se got you.

light blue: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 61d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
light blue: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 101d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
caladan aoo: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 181d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
light blue: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 141d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

arwyn: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 251d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 71d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 71d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
caladan: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 121d8 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
nadya: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 201d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 31d20 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 1 = 151d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

3 vs you guys at nearly full health, if you're ok i'll call it in your favor.

the guards advance, trying to close and take caladan down, loosing formation again, one steps past and gets whacked by caladan, only to take an arrow to the face a step later and go down, the other two don't fare that much better.

In the wake of things up here, as you're helping Gondork up, Nadya and Giacomo realize: Hatch! You check downstairs, it does seem like someone came in from outside, you scour the place and find hatch's ... unconscious ? body on the floor. Setting gondork down by the fountain, you check the tracks in the snow outside, the storm still black and swirling overhead, blotting out the stars, a truly black night for elves even, heavy snow falling with numbing speed and survey the area

cure light wounds: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

"So what, he's deaf now too?"

Ten-Penny helps Gondork on his feet, and when he is sure and standing, pats his shoulder and moves towards the door, checking if someone needs to tag out.

"Oh no, Hatch, fellow tiny-person, what happened?"

Heal check: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

I'm tempted to blow my last Cure through him, but let's see what's happened to him first.
I feel sorta bad for resting up before the boss fight. Do you think we stand a reasonable chance with our current resources? I have one channel and a Cure left.
Also, do we get double XP for defeating those guys twice? >_> And what are we going to do with them? I know we can't trust them to sit quietly, but executing them feels harsh as well.

So are we out of initiative?

yeah, out of initiative. figured you'd check on Hatch first. if you wanna check bodies upstairs and then join downstairs you can split up for a few minutes. either way you all end up downstairs.

heal check determines hatch is definitely dead. looks like they broke in and jairess and volan overpowered him, then healed up the injured.

any other healing you guys want? most are at or near full. i've been bad keeping track today but i think caladan has two more spells, he could cast another heal on gondork. you have a few minutes to rest after the last combat.

it was an exhausting combat, and in the aftermath you realize they must have another way to get around, but now there's only you and whoever's in charge of the tower, this Radosek, if Mig is right and Nazhena isn't here right now.

So... we're off to meet fight the wizard?

As Nadya and Giacomo race down to see if Hatch is okay, Ten-Penny turns to Caladan and Gondork.

"Listen, I know Giacomo does not want to shed any more blood then necessary... But if we keep these guys alive... Well, I'm not up for round three. I'm gonna finish the job and make sure they don't stand up anymore while Giacomo is downstairs. We just say that we no longer could save them from bleeding out, and Giacomo does not have to see this... Any complaints from your side?"

When there is time, I would also like to re-loot them. They most likely have the gear that we left down there with them (because we couldn't carry everything), but Volan should have new stuff.

You sneaky devil.

caladan keeps quiet