As Aedalis waits with the others to launch the ambush, he turns to Nim.
Are you familiar with the "Enlarge Person" transmutation spell? With your permission, i'd like to place it upon you just before we launch the attack.
Nim nods his head. I am familiar with it... And yes it would be a good idea. Thank you.
After the others leave Mihai turns to those that remain with a smile on his face "We must do our part one and all. Trust in the Walker, he will see that we walk on." moving around the group to clasp arms and provide encouragement. His voice is firm and true... but his heart quavers with the coming affray.
Diplomacy:
Anton speaks up. "All things considered, I think that it would be better for me to circle around by myself to the other side, to wait a short ways south of their likely path. If I'm wearing my breastplate, then I can't move quickly -- even with these awesome boots -- but I can still find a good hiding spot, and hit them from a third direction. Besides, it would be more comfortable for me to take the position of a hunter waiting for his prey."
Anton speaks up. "All things considered, I think that it would be better for me to circle around by myself to the other side, to wait a short ways south of their likely path. If I'm wearing my breastplate, then I can't move quickly -- even with these awesome boots -- but I can still find a good hiding spot, and hit them from a third direction. Besides, it would be more comfortable for me to take the position of a hunter waiting for his prey."
initiative strings:
Order of Combat: Cannibal Wars Round 1:
Anton 23
Aedalis 21
Nim 20a
Wic 20b
Gelik 19
Tragershen 17
Corbrius 14a
Mihai 14b
Aerys 12
Cannibals 4a
Sasha 6
Jask 6
Klorak 4b
Surprise Round:
Mihai looks up to see the mass of cannibal flesh moving towards them... his heart grows hard, but his voice remains soft "Hold my friends, the others will come and bring with them righteous fury" he then takes a warded stance looking to the East.
[ooc]You are not sure when they were going to arrive, I assume you waited until you saw them through the jungle?
I will allow you to cast it just before the suprise round since you had indicated that you wanted to get it on him but Nim would have to change his position to be located behind the building D,E/-8,-9 in the jungle to not be seen and ruin the surprise round.Nim assuming you are okay with the shift you are now large sized and at that position.
I will adjust the map tonight, no maptools at work.[ooc]
Surprise Round: Tragershen will cast Mage Armor on himself.
Surprise Round-
Aedalis recalls his Mage Armour spell using his new cloak.
Revised Map:
Surprise Round
Anxious to reinforce the ones who stayed behind, Anton immediately begins moving directly toward the invaders, drawing his lucerne hammer as he goes.
Nim does a double take when he sees Anton spring from hiding and charge straight at the advancing cannibals. Too soon! They aren't close enough! They may flee if they realize we have all doubled back!
Seeing the ambush has been sprung, Nim and Wicewakan break from the jungle and move swiftly towards the wall of the ruins directly to their east. Keeping to the blind side of the ruins, Nim advances out of sight of the natives, hoping Anton's sudden reappearance is not enough to scare them away.
Seeing Anton break from cover far too early Corbius shakes his head. So much for surprising them.
Seeing Nim move up under cover of the ruin Corbius holds position hoping that Anton's appearance alone does not scare away the cannibals and takes out his potion of shield of faith.
Gelik, Sasha, Aerys, and Jask appear to start waiting for the Cannibals to charge, Sasha has her blade and axe out, and Aerys seems to just have her fists ready cracking her knuckles in a satisfying manner.
The building should be high enough to hide Nim you guess...
Order of Combat: Cannibal Wars Round 2:
Anton 23
Aedalis 21
Nim 20a
Wic 20b
Gelik 19
Tragershen 17
Corbrius 14a
Mihai 14b
Aerys 12
Sasha 6a
Jask 6b
Cannibals 4a
Klorak 4b
Anton is up, revised map is here:
Round 2 Map
Anton suddenly feels very exposed, walking out there all by himself. Wait. What am I doing? He eyes the distance to the treeline, then looks over at the ruins where they made their camp. Right. Can't leave them defenseless, and no way I can make it in time otherwise.
The diminutive ranger breaks into a jog, trotting across the open ground with ground-eating strides -- well, if only his legs were twice as long. Ground-nibbling strides, perhaps; but a lot of them. Furiously ground-nibbling? Scarfing small bites of ground? Anyway, he's jogging, yet not really moving that fast.
His polearm carried casually, Anton looks over at the ruins and calls out cheerily. "Hallo the camp! Forgot something, be there in a sec."
Aedalis steps out to K -4, accompanied by his faithful familiar, producing a loaded crossbow as he walks. Without ceremony, he aims and fires at one of the cannibals.
(Range penalty included)
Nim watches as Anton attempts to disguise his misstep... only to see Aedalis step forth and fire upon the cannibals. And here we go... hope they are hungry enough to want to stick around and try their luck against us all.
Nim hesitates, hoping the cannibals move forward to attack, planning to make retreat difficult via entangling vegetation behind them either way.
Round 2:
Mihai continues to hold warily watching the East for the breaking of the human mass through the jungle.
Gelik and the ohter castaways continue to delay in the ruin.
Aedalis releases a bolt...it soars quite a distance and even though there is some jungle cover it sinks into one of the "others". He cries out in pain as it strikes him in the shoulder.
Tragershen is up.
A calm washes over Tragershen, feeling comfortable now that he has arcane protection against these cannibals. He focuses and begins a spell that he hopes will tip the odds in their favor.
Starts casting Sleep, a one round action. (Using Bonded Object call to cast.}
The others start hooting and making other noises as soon as they see Anton and to a lesser degree Aedalis.
The red headed one barks out a warning once he sees Anton, Wait, the others have come back! but it seems too late.
As soon as another one yells out, The little one for the pot, must be good eatin!, the other men rush out of the woods drawing Javelins as the they move up.
Maybe it is the appearance of the two of them and possibly the others standing in the woods, but the warriors don't advance with complete recklessness. The ones that can see Anton launch a volly of Javelins at him...hoping to make him into a human pincushion...
1st range increment:
2nd:
Red Head:
The hooting stops when not a single Javelin scores a hit...they seem almost stunned at the little mans speed and agility in dodging the weapons, a more serious look comes across their faces. The red headed one spits on the ground obviously frustrated...
Map after their move:
Round 2 After Cannibal move
Satisfied that the cannibals are intent on attack, Nim shifts into the open with Wicewakan at his side. As he moves into view Nim focuses his attention on the terrain under and behind the charging cannibals. Rolling a bit of holly between his fingers, he gestures and speaks an incantation, causing the jungle vegetation to spring to life. The plants grasping and grabbing at the cannibals, hindering their every movement.
Corbius seeing the cannibals break from cover, quickly quaffs his potion and dashes forward towards the onrushing cannibals
Anton huffs in relief at making it through the hail of javelins unscathed. The mundane ranger's eyebrows rise when he sees the plants near the cannibals begin to writhe and wrap around them of their own accord; then he smirks when he realizes that this must be the entangling magic that Nim mentioned. Moving up onto the stairs to the ruins, the sharp-eyed halfling stands sentinel and waits with his long polearm at the ready, silently watching the red-headed leader for a subtle weakness or unconscious pattern of behavior that he could exploit.
I consider the surprise Round as Round 1 for future reference.
The only changes were movements from Nim, Corbrius and Anton to move up.
NP Nim on the update, I will get both in tonight when I get home.
Round 3 Action-
Aedalis reloads his crossbow and moves a little closer to the fray, remaining cautious in his approach.
Order of Combat: Cannibal Wars Round 3:
Anton 23 *gone
Aedalis 21 *gone
Gelik 19
Tragershen 17
Mihai 14b
Aerys 12
Sasha 6a
Jask 6b
Cannibals 4a
Klorak 4b
Nim 4c
Wic 4d
Corbrius 3
Gelik begins to climb part of the ruined building until he gets to a section of the roof where he can see the battlefield...he drops prone so it is harder for any cannibals to target him.
Tragershen is up and can let me know which enemies to target.
Round 3:
Mihai awaits the coming wave of flesh...
Tragershen will drop the Sleep spell at the intersection of K/L 23/24.
Tragershen will then draw his rapier and advance to I12.
Saves vs. Entangle:
Cannibal 1
Cannibal 2
Cannibal 3
Cannibal 4
Cannibal 5
Cannibal 6
Cannibal 7
Cannibal 8
Cannibal 9
Cannibal 10
Cannibal 11
Klorak
The entangle is effective and wraps up 7 of the Cannibals.
Save vs. Sleep:
Cannibal 7
Cannibal 8
Cannibal 11
The sleep drops 2 of the Cannibals, both of whom are also entangled.
The Red Headed leader yells out, Kill them quickly! You wake the others, they has used some kind of magic on them.
pointing at the Cannibal in M24.
The remaining Cannibals move out of the vines and brush attempting to grab them, draw Scimitars and attack screaming and yelling as they do!
One draws an AOO from Anton as he moves up
Two attack Anton:
The others try to break out of the entangle:
Cannibal 1
Cannibal 2
Cannibal 4
Cannibal 6
Cannibal 10
Cannibal 11
Three break free and move out of the Entangle, drawing weapons as they go.
Updated Map:
Round 3 Map after Entangle and Sleep.
The Cannibals are scattered into chaos by the spells, although they seem to recover a little as some of them escape including their leader.
Sasha Aerys and Jask continue to delay,waiting for the battle to be joined by the larger group...
Mihai, Nim/Wic, Corbrius to go!
Anton takes advantage of his weapon's longer reach to swipe at one of the cannibals as he closes.
However, it's a poor swing that is easily dodged.
The leader happens to have seen this spell many times...he couldn't fail to make the perception check that they are asleep and not stuck rigid...
@ Anton
Seeing the cannibal rushing towards Aedalis. Corbius roars out a challenge Aedalis flashing as he charges the cannibal and thrusts his rapier deep into the cannibal.