DM NomadSage's Curse of the Crimson Throne (Inactive)

Game Master nomadicc

Half of the damage to segang will go to Cherias due to Shield Other, but the question is, is that before or after damage reduction? I think it's after, which would mean we both take 1. Otherwise Cherias takes 2 and Segang takes 0.

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As the rat approaches, and before he is bitten Segang's readied action should go off.

Earthbreaker: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 8 + 1 = 172d6 ⇒ (5, 6) = 11

What readied action? Your input didn't specify that. I assumed you meant to withdraw and avoid an AoO... unless you want to take the AoO from moving anyway.

Move Back Absinthe when you can. Let me take point.

Letting his rage fall from him Segang readies his hammer and steps back and out of the sewage.

He is taking -4 to hit around the rogue while being forced to stand in the sewage. I would much rather let them out where we all can be effective.

Here is where I thought he was readying. I was positing from my phone while camping. At the time Segang could only reach with his spear. He was not threatened as far as I knew. If he was then he could reach the enemy too and would have attacked. As I intended he dropped the spear after missing due to cover from Ab, moved back pulling his Earthbreaker, and readied to hit an enemy as it came out. Otherwise he just wasted his standard and would have at least stabbed before moving back.

Well, we'll settle it this way: Essentially we're back to the post above, with Segang killing the first rat instead of Seren. (Using the roll above) Segang kills the threatening rat before moving. The second rat runs through and bites him.

So Segang and Cherias each take 1?

Correct... 4 damage - 2 DR / 2 = 1 each.

Acrobatics 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25

"Vermin," Absinthe growls -- and she leaps into action! Somehow, the tiefling manages to bounce from one side of the narrow tunnel to the other, she manages to somehow get on the opposite side of the rat without kicking anyone in the head.

As the tiefling's hooves splash down in the water seeping along the floor, her mace whistles down towards the giant rat's skull.

Absinthe uses Acrobatics to move to J7 and attacks the rat. If this position invokes flanking rights, please add +2 to her attack roll, and 2d6 ⇒ (1, 2) = 3 sneak attack to damage.
Standard attack roll: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21 for 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5 damage.

Melianthe will delay until that rat is dead, then Slumber a wererat (once she has a meatshield in front of her. Segang, my hero!

I have lost track of who is up. Segang took a readied action so now I believe he should act in initiative right before the rats. Correct?

Yes, you all act before the rats. The initiative order is at the top of the combat post.

Having a rat in front of him, Segang tries to bash it with his hammer.

Earthbreaker: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 8 + 1 = 202d6 + 4 ⇒ (2, 6) + 4 = 12

Cherias draws his crossbow and loads a silver bolt.

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Melianthe steps over the dead I assume rat and Slumbers the wererat in the chamber.

Seren will delay to follow Segang in and then will cast sleep at any wererat not already sleeping

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Slumber! Slumber! Slumber cast, hoooo!

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Round Four
Initiative Order: Melianthe [13], Cherias [5] \\ Absinthe, Segang [23], Seren [15], Rats [14]

Melianthe waits for the right time to act, while Cherias takes up and loads his crossbow. Absinthe flips across the room, coming up beside the dire rat and slamming it hard with her mace. Segang finishes it off a moment later, leaving only a bloody smear on the sewer floor.

Melianthe then steps into the gap, calling a hex onto the only visible foe. The wererat fires his readied crossbow, missing wide before the curse takes hold and he crumbles to the ground.

The shrieker continues to drown the area with its piercing wail.

@ Seren's action (the other wererats are out of LoS unless you enter the room)... Inputs for R5?

Slumber! Slumber! Slumber cast, hoooo!

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*snort* ^^ Heh heh heh!

Will delay for Segang

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Segang goes in at full speed looking for a non-sleeping target. Even if every step is difficult terrain he should be able to reach the WR to the south. Raging again he swings at the thing, power attacking.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29

Earth Breaker: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 192d6 + 7 + 6 ⇒ (2, 5) + 7 + 6 = 20

Acrobatics 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

Absinthe leaps into the room right on Segang's heels -- and springs away from him, bringing her mace to bear against the wererat to the north.
'One should endeavour to prevent them from outflanking us while we struggle to outflank them,' she thinks, suppressing a sigh as she fights to block out or ignore the shrieker's hideous din.

Absinthe acrobatically moves to H10 and attacks with her mace! Attack roll 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23 for 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3 damage.

Someone hurry over and coup de grace the sleeping wererat? ^^;

Segang, that wererat is asleep...why not move and then coup de grace?

Melianthe moves into the room and casts Ill Omen on the wererat that Absinthe is attacking.

Cherias establishes a lifelink with Melianthe, and moves forward to just behind her.

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Segang, that wererat is asleep...why not move and then coup de grace?

Melianthe moves into the room and casts Ill Omen on the wererat that Absinthe is attacking.

Segang moved to the first enemy, which I do not be believe to be asleep. Maybe I am confused about what you are saying. Coup will provoke too. So if Absinthe is on one and I am on the other perhaps someone else can make it to the sleeper in the back while we keep the other two busy.

... and coup is a full round action, so you gotta get there and hang out

I thought I...you're right, Segang, wrong wererat. Kill away.

Round Five
Initiative Order: Segang, Absinthe, Melianthe , Cherias [23], Seren [15], Rats [14]

Seren waits for an opportunity. Segang leads the second charge in, moving carefully through the muck channel and swinging his maul at first wererat. The foe is waiting and clips Segang's arm before his attack lands. The earth breaker hits with crushing impact, but the wererat's resistant hide absorbs much of the blow.

Absinthe follows nimbly, coming through the break and smacking the second rat with her mace. It recoils from the silver weapon, snarling. Melianthe moves up, casting a minor curse on the northern wererat, and Cherias establishes a life-link with Melianthe.

The shrieker finally ceases its wail, leaving your ears ringing but able to make out sounds again. From the east, you make out shouts of alarm, and a chorus of squeaking rats to the north heralds the entrance of a massive swarm of rats pouring through narrow cracks in that wall.

Seren still has a go. Actions for R6?

Absinthe slams her mace into the wererat's face again.
"One would appreciate it if someone could do something about the annoyance approaching us from the north!" she shouts. "Something conclusive! Also, healing is surely about to become an issue!"

Attack roll 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20 for 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4 damage.

I may still make a move action, depending on the others' actions and input...

6-2=4, 4/2=2, Cherias and Segang take 2 HP damage each. (This really is a brilliant spell.)

Cherias, peeking around the corner, sees the rat swarm forming. He can't hear Absinthe, but sees her distress, and pulls out a glass bottle of a thick oily liquid.

Do I have LoS to any part of the rat swarm?

Round Five

Initiative Order: Segang, Absinthe, Melianthe , Cherias [23], Seren [15], Rats [14]

Seren waits for an opportunity. Segang leads the second charge in, moving carefully through the muck channel and swinging his maul at first wererat. The foe is waiting and clips Segang's arm before his attack lands. The earth breaker hits with crushing impact, but the wererat's resistant hide absorbs much of the blow.

Absinthe follows nimbly, coming through the break and smacking the second rat with her mace. It recoils from the silver weapon, snarling. Melianthe moves up, casting a minor curse on the northern wererat, and Cherias establishes a life-link with Melianthe.

The shrieker finally ceases its wail, leaving your ears ringing but able to make out sounds again. From the east, you make out shouts of alarm, and a chorus of squeaking rats to the north heralds the entrance of a massive swarm of rats pouring through narrow cracks in that wall.

Seren still has a go. Actions for R6?

** spoiler omitted **

A couple things to retcon. 1) Segang's armor class is currently 18 so the 17 misses. The Shield Other Spell bumps it by 1. So Cherias, I have to agree; brilliant. :) And 2) Segang had applied a silver Alchemical wash onto the earth breaker so that his first hit would be bypass DR/Silver. Future hits will be plain ol' hammer, but the rat guys may not know that. :)

Melianthe moves through the drainage area past Segang, inclines an eyebrow at the rats, and opens her mouth to let an impossible flood of arachnids flow onto the sewer flooring. She wipes her lips with an almost sensual smile.

Seren will move in behind the train of folks bottlenecked in the corridor and sigh ... still not having line of sight on anyone.

A couple things to retcon. 1) Segang's armor class is currently 18 so the 17 misses. The Shield Other Spell bumps it by 1. So Cherias, I have to agree; brilliant. :) And 2) Segang had applied a silver Alchemical wash onto the earth breaker so that his first hit would be bypass DR/Silver. Future hits will be plain ol' hammer, but the rat guys may not know that. :)

Yup and yup... I was still thinking about the spear. Wererat is still standing after the full damage.

Round 6: Spells active - Shield Other: +1 AC and saves. 10 of 12 rounds of rage remaining.

Segang will 5' step out of the sewage and next to the shrieker and attacks the rat man again.

Earth Breaker: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 142d6 + 7 + 6 ⇒ (2, 2) + 7 + 6 = 17

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend!

Round Six
Initiative Order: Seren, Segang, Absinthe, Melianthe, Cherias [23], Rats [14]

Seren sighs and continues waiting for an opening in the battle.

Segang shifts, stepping out of the sewage channel while swinging his hammer again. The wererat spins with him, nimbly dodging the heavy blow. Calling out a warning, Absinthe bashes her foe again, who spits and snarls at the silver contact.

Melianthe vomits up a mass of crawling spiders, sending it charging into the oncoming rats. The two swarms merge and clash, spiders crawling and biting into the larger rodents, while the rats gnash and stomp the vermin in return.

Cherias takes out a glass bottle, but cannot yet see the rat swarm to use it.

The wererats fight back. Segang's target sees and opening and steps across from him and into a flanking position by Absinthe. His attacks miss the tiefling, but the second wererat stabs Absinthe and bites her viciously.

Two more wererats run in from the eastern portal, moving up to and attacking Melianthe. Now sandwiched between two foes with little room to maneuver, the witch earns a bloody wound.

Cherias is soaking up some wounds here... Actions for R7?

Finally!

Seren casts sleep on the rear wererat. DC15

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Still raging Segang presses the attack, but almost drops his weapon.

Earth Breaker: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 92d6 + 7 + 6 ⇒ (3, 5) + 7 + 6 = 21

Ok, that's 5 damage off Absinthe and 5 damage off Melianthe. So Absinthe is at 31 and Melianthe is at 17. Mel, why are you in Melee? Eek!

Cherias feels the pain of Absinthe's and Melianthe's wounds, and casts a spell of protection on Absinthe. Shield other. Move to I9. Casting it on Absinthe because I can't reach Melianthe.

Quick reminder, Bless is active, I hope everyone's including the +1 on attacks! Also, DM, shouldn't the rat swarm need a save against the spider swarm's poison?

So... I was up to 31, then Cherias casts his Shield Other spell on me, then I take 21 damage, divide by two... I'm currently at 21 hp? Have I got that right? ^^;

Spitting and snarling, Absinthe recoils from the blade and the teeth spilling her blood -- and she whirls. There is no other appropriate word for the sudden, explosive movement. When the black blur comes to a stop, it is with the wererat that just attacked her sandwiched between her and Segang, and her mace is coming down.

Flanking the wererat at I11 with Segang and attacking. Attack roll 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19 for 3d6 + 1 ⇒ (2, 3, 3) + 1 = 9 damage, sneak attack included. Acrobatics to avoid AoO: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

Hmm, actually, make that shield of faith, we don't have the rings needed for shield other. So, just raises your AC by 2.

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So I'm at 10 hp. ^^; Alright. Good to know.
Help!

OK, I didn't realize you were that badly hurt. In that case, Cherias would have healed you instead of casting shield.

Cure Moderate Wounds: 2d8 + 4 ⇒ (8, 1) + 4 = 13

Thanks! ^^

"Oh dear," says the witch, realizing she has gotten herself in the thick of it. Melianthe focuses and rises into the air above the fray.

Levitate hex. Please tell me these are 15' high rooms! o.0 Maintaining concentration on the spider swarm. Attack, my minions!

Unfortunately, these are pretty confined quarters... 10 ft ceiling max. Would you like to change your action?

do they have reach weapons? If not, I shall keep the action.

Hate to be a pain in the ass about the particulars, but concentrating and casting the hex are both standard actions. 2nd note, even if you levitate to the ceiling, they will still be able to attack you. Change of plans?

Rat swarm should not be able to attack. But movement would likely provoke.

Swarms don't really attack nor do they threaten, they have a reach of zero. They just do damage every round to someone in their square, plus all their various saves

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ok, they should not be able to be in her square. How is that?