Cadwyn strikes twice in rapid succession, doing his best to drop the foul undead creature as quickly as possible.
Wart is going to ready an action to attack any visible threat that harms an ally.
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M's Damage:
Valeron calls upon the light of Iomedae's justice to punish the foul undead creatures, causing a sizzling sound as the light seers the rotting flesh of the zombies, but not enough to stop them.
Cadwyn's quick strikes with his blades find home, but seem to do very little if anything against the beasts.
Having already dispatched one of the undead, Morghrim steps forward and slashes at a zombie with his glaive narrowly missing the creature.
The zombie in front of Cadwyn rears back and swings wildly at Cadwyn with an attack easily dodged by the young warrior.
The second zombie shuffles back into the cesspit a takes an easily dodged swing at Morghrim.
Initiative Order:
Addie 21
Cadwyn 19
Morghrim 18
Valeron 16
Wart 15
Creatures 7
Kev 3
"Blast it and damn it, it had to be these soggy, soft bastards," growls Cadwyn. "At least I'll keep it occupied with me while you all bring it down."
Round Three:
Feeling totally ineffective due to the tight confines of the passageway, Addie curses softly in several different languages.
Round 3
Valeron watches as the dwarf cleaves through the zombies like a baker slicing bread. Seeing that Iomedae's energy wasn't enough to destroy the creatures, he glances at the longsword in his hand. Let's give you a chance to get some practice in here next he thinks.
Round 2 Readied Actions
Wart looks up suddenly, seeing aggressive enemy movement in the corridor ahead, and instinctively grabs a familiar looking vial and lobs it into the room, moving forward 5 ft from the momentum.{J11}
Bomb Attack: vs. AC 5
Splash Damage: 4 fire Reflex DC 13 for (1/2) damage to {I8} and {K8}
Used 2 bombs of 4 today.
If you ready an action, don't you then go before the character/creature that triggered your preset condition for the rest of the fight? This is what I got out of that entry in the Core on page 203. Am I reading it wrong?
EDIT: 5 ft step and tactics
My round 3 action at the moment is just to defer to Morg, which means Kev and Morg get their full round actions before I need to worry about what Valeron might do next - its very possible both zombies will be dead to 12+ damage hits with these guys around.
Round Three Action
Seeing that the zombie has inadvertently made it hard for his long blade to strike it, the veteran Dwarf quick-steps to his right onto the bridge to square K9 and swings his blade towards the head of the zombie threatening Cadwyn, shouting at Valeron simultaneously-
Come Manling, this one in the sewage is all yours and the Inheritor's. muhaha!
Kev is continuing to delay and keep watch. With all the jovial shouting from up ahead, things there can't be going too badly, and he'd prefer to not have a pile of Hellknights, attracted by the sound of combat, come up on them unawares.
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Round 2 Readied Actions
Wart looks up suddenly, seeing aggressive enemy movement in the corridor ahead, and instinctively grabs a familiar looking vial and lobs it into the room, moving forward 5 ft from the momentum.{J11}
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EDIT: 5 ft step and tactics
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Wart steps up and hurls a vial in between the zombies. The vial cracks on the stone edge of the cesspit, exploding and blowing small bits of fetid flesh off of the undead.
Morghrim step on to the bridge to get a better swing at the creature attacking Cadwyn, but did not account for how slippery the bridge would be as his swing goes wide missing the zombie as he tries to regain his footing.
Valeron steps into the fray sword in hand.
"So you've finally decided to share then, dwarf?" Valeron teases as he steps forward and swings his longsword at the zombie threatening Cadwyn.
Missing his swing, he grunts in disappointment.
"Well, I've run out of witty banter," Cadwyn sighs, "so just please go ahead and die again."
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Both of Cadwyn's strikes land home as more chucks of rotting flesh fall off of the zombie, but yet the creature still stands.
The undead creature in front of Cadwyn tries to return the favor, and the zombie in the cess pit lashes out at Morghrim, but both creature's attacks bounce harmlessly off of their target's armor.
Both of Cadwyn's strikes land home as more chucks of rotting flesh fall off of the zombie, but yet the creature still stands.
The undead creature in front of Cadwyn tries to return the favor, and the zombie in the cess pit lashes out at Morghrim, but both creature's attacks bounce harmlessly off of their target's armor.
Kev still keeps an eye out on the back, rather than force his way in where people are handling things fine.
Perception:
Perception Check:
Round Four:
Addie steps up behind Wart and calls out to the warriors battling the zombies, "Gentlemen! We're about to have some company back here!"
Hearing the clanking of the armor just moments after Black Addie calls out a warning, Wart looks up to the combat ahead, and then glances back in indecision. He loads his sling with a little metal bullet, and steps forward scanning the ceiling.
He speaks in a hushed tone, less than a full voice, but more than whispering.
"We need to get out of here! If we can find the exit, let's just charge right on by...leave these nasties for our friends in armor!"
While not one to back down from a fight, the halfling's suggestion to leave the zombies for the Hellknights sounds like a pretty good one, although Valeron considers the zombies would likely strike out at the others as they pushed past... and pushed past to go which of three ways?
The cleric glances around the room, desperately searching for the symbol of Aroden for guidance.
Perception:
Knowing at worst case, they had suggested always turning left, Valeron swings at the zombie engaged with Cadwyn before moving past it, using his shield to cover his advance as he moves.
Attack:
"Our position here is much better than up above, however," Kevorin suggests. "We might be able to ambush them ourselves."
Kev sneaks back slightly towards whichever passage the sound emanates and tries to peer around the corner for a look on how many Hellknights are coming.
Stealth:
"Not that I'm against a good fight, but do we really want to face a legion of Hellknights?" Cadwyn says breathlessly, desperately trying to destroy the creature in front of him. "No shame in fleeing if it's a fight you can't win."
Though Cadwyn says this, he continues attacking the zombie, doing his best to drop it while glancing around for the Eye of Aroden.
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For Kevorin:
You peer around the corner and by your best guess 75 ft down the spillway you see what appears to be four soldiers
Again for Kevorin, give me a Knowledge(Local) if you have it, DC12
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"Not that I'm against a good fight, but do we really want to face a legion of Hellknights?" Cadwyn says breathlessly, desperately trying to destroy the creature in front of him. "No shame in fleeing if it's a fight you can't win."
Though Cadwyn says this, he continues attacking the zombie, doing his best to drop it while glancing around for the Eye of Aroden.
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1d6+31d20+2
1d6+1
Cadwyn's shortsword seems to do little if anything to the zombie, but his strike with his rapier is true, driving the blade through the creature's mouth as its arms go slack and its body falls back into the cesspit.
Valeron, since you had to go into the cesspit to complete your move, give me a fortitude save. Cadwyn and Morghrim are up yet before the zombies.
Knowledge (Local):
"There are four of them," Kev rasps back at the rest. He will settle down in the darkness, peering just around the corner, ready to sneak attack with his crossbow as soon as the lead Hellknight is within 30'. Light crossbow:
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Valeron, since you had to go into the cesspit to complete your move, give me a fortitude save. Cadwyn and Morghrim are up yet before the zombies.
5 ft. Step to be able to use the glaive, directly in front of Cadwyn, after Valeron moves through.
Attack:
Damage:
Morghrim rears back with his glaive and with a downward chop splits the remaining zombie in two.
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Knowledge (Local): 1d20+5
"There are four of them," Kev rasps back at the rest. He will settle down in the darkness, peering just around the corner, ready to sneak attack with his crossbow as soon as the lead Hellknight is within 30'. Light crossbow: 1d20+1
The bolt flies by the Hellknight's head, but misses. Having been attacked, the Hellknight shouts, "There they are...bring me the filthy dogs, dead or alive, it doesn't matter to me!"
Kev attempts to rehide himself sniping style: Stealth:
Kev will drop his crossbow and switch to great ax next round.
Morghrim will cast Shield of Faith once more and strap his buckler to his arm while moving towards the Hellknights. AC21
Addie moves into the chamber with the others, raising the sunrod high to aid in the search for the Eye of Aroden.
Perception Check:
Valeron
"While squaring off with four hellknights sounds like a helluva party, you'll need to get a couple beers in me first before we try that", Valeron jibes.
Another standard action searching, this time an Aid action to Addie: Perception
"Ugh" the cleric grunts, "I'm not seeing any symbol in this room"
He then has a thought. "Hey if we can get out of here quick enough, I can see what Iomedae thinks about making it *really* foggy in this room - might give us enough of a lead to lose these fellas"
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Cadwyn =
Morghrim =
Addie =
Valeron =
Wart =
Kev =
Hellknight Armigers = 19
Hellknight Sgt. = 7
So the order is:
Hellknight Armigers 19
Kev 18
Addie 14
Wart 13
Cadwyn 8
Hellknight Sgt. 7
Morghrim 5
Valeron 3
Following their commander's orders the Armigers move to engage their target. [ooc]Move the front 3 hellknights to F-H22, and they will be waiting to engage.
Wart nods vigorously, "Iomedae is sure to like it REALLY REALLY foggy in this room!"
: Aiding Black Addie in search for Eye of Aroden: :
:Readying an action to move behind the front line melee allies if the Hellknights get within 20 ft of Wart.
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Wart nods vigorously, "Iomedae is sure to like it REALLY REALLY foggy in this room!"
: Aiding Black Addie in search for Eye of Aroden: : 1d20+6
:Readying an action to move behind the front line melee allies if the Hellknights get within 20 ft of Wart.
With Wart's aid, Addie finds the Eye of Aroden in the room.
Heh... These Hellknights aren't going to move any faster than I do in their armour. Half-Orc, get back here!
The veteran Dwarf is still enjoying his battle lust, and decides to buy the group some time to retreat, moving to block the corridor once Kevorin is clear.
These filthy Hellknight's won't easily get past me! Get down the next corridor, i'll buy you some time and catch up. I'll retreat into this mist of Iomedae's and vanish like a ghost if ye catch it Valeron. But, eh, which way should I retreat when I do?
"Look! There!" Addie says, pointing to the second passage on the right. "The Eye of Aroden marks that passage!"
Addie makes her way across the bridge, stepping carefully on the slime-slickened surface.
Seeing as how the other heavies are covering the door where the Armigers are approaching, Cadwyn elects to stay by Addie in case more dangers present themselves down the next passage. Moving slowly to avoid slipping, he stays by the black-veiled woman's side and stepping into the tunnel before her should she allow him.