DM Zyren's Heart of Journeys (Inactive)

Game Master Zyrenity

Jez notices the mayor rallying his insane followers behind him.

Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor, he's no good;
Soon he'll be fertilizer for the wood.

Attack: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 8 + 1 = 12
Damage: 2d4 + 8 ⇒ (2, 1) + 8 = 11

With a mighty swing Jez causes everyone in the vicinity to duck, except her target.

Maintain inspire courage. Also I think Jez forgot to add in Bless. Bless and Inspire courage are up now adding +2 to attack rolls and +1 to damage rolls. Also Gun for the mayor and I've a feeling this will end very quickly.

"Fools! You think you stand upon the holy ground of Ghlaunder?!? Battle is upon you now! And where battle is Gorum is with us! Toss aside your god of pestilence and cowardice and join with me now in the Covenant of Conflict! Let this new battlefield be annointed in blood! Slay all who oppose us!"

Swift: DESTRUCTIVE SMOOOOIIITTTEEEE!!

Attack Cultist at
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

2d6 + 8 ⇒ (2, 6) + 8 = 16

"Gorum good! Ghlaunder bad!"

The stalker just stands still, but Jez had anticipated him evading...bad luck...the strange mutant not attacks himself, aiming for her eyes

Stalker attacking Jez / Longsword1d20 + 8 - 2 ⇒ (15) + 8 - 2 = 21
Damage1d8 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Ragnvald is also so much carried away by his hymns of bloodlust that he messes up the easy things - the cultist somehow manages to parry the massive swing and gets ready to retaliate.

Ow, bad monster.

Waiting for Mobo

Once more Mobo fires at the Mayor with Boomstick

Pistol 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 8 + 2 = 19
Damage 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Mobo reloads. 5 bullets remaining

Again the mayor is hit - but this time it does not interrupt his chanting, it even gets angrier and sounds a bit like a violent plea now...

Now waiting for Nymeria - guys, what's the deal, why is one combat round taking like three days?

Nymeria is travelling across the country - I will post for her to keep the battle moving.

Nymeria

5-foot step back to Z23
Cast Burning Hands
Damage: 2d4 ⇒ (3, 4) = 7
--> should hit X22, X23, W23

R2

Posting early, assume they are still there, otherwise target two adjacent foes for a cleave if possible

Attalas steps forward and sweeps his blade once more
(cleave)

V21
Attack 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 9 + 1 = 18
Damage 3d6 + 15 ⇒ (6, 2, 4) + 15 = 27

V22
Attack 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 9 + 1 = 13
Damage 3d6 + 15 ⇒ (6, 5, 6) + 15 = 32

The three cultists hit by Nymeria's second flame wave aren't killed by the fire, but facing so much arcane power, they decide to flee! Panicked they run left and right into the corn field...setting it on fire here and there.

Attalas steps forward and mauls another cultist, you're not sure if he even realizes that they begin to swarm him. [ooc}AoO?[/ooc]

Cultist attacking Attalas/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Damage1d4 ⇒ 4

Cultist attacking Attalas/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Damage1d4 ⇒ 1

Cultist attacking Attalas/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Damage1d4 ⇒ 3

They also storm over to Ragnvald and Nymeria - surely they want to achieve in Ghlaunder's decaying paradise...

Cultist attacking Ragnvald/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Damage1d4 ⇒ 1

Cultist attacking Nymeria/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Damage1d4 ⇒ 3

Cultist attacking Nymeria/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12
Damage1d4 ⇒ 3

The mayor only keeps on chanting...for good or ill, who knows...

Battle Mat

Rd3:

Jez
Ragnvald
Stalker
Mobo
Nymeria
Cultists
Attalas
Mayor

Round 2
Growling at the annoyance in front of her, Jez once again swings her falchion with two hands, hoping to connect with the enemy and not the nearby corn stalks that took so much damage from her previous swing.

Attack: 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 8 + 1 + 1 = 19 <-- +1 Bless, +1 Bard
Damage: 2d4 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (4, 2) + 7 + 1 = 14 <-- +1 Bard

This time Jez's swing connects (I hope), but without the power she had hoped (no crit).

"Yes! Yes! Join me in this slaughter! Let this field be bathed in blood! Let the might of Gorum come upon you!"

Attacking nearest cultist.
Smite!
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12
2d6 + 8 ⇒ (2, 2) + 8 = 12

Mobo moves up between Attalas' legs V20 and slices at the nearest foe with his dogslicer.

Dogslicer 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 + 2 = 15
Damage 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Jez' attack leaves a deep greenish wound on the stalker's chest, for a short moment the thing is surprised to see its blood flow and then it retaliates

Stalker attacking Jez / Longsword1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
Damage1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

a weak thrust and nothing Jez has to worry about...

The cultist cut by Mobo is so surprised to meet a foe that is physically smaller that he nearly grins, even so he got wounded.

Ragnvald is still too occupied with singing and insulting to hit...

Battle Mat

Nymeria's next

AOO

Attalas keeps on swinging...

Whichever mob moved

Attack 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 9 + 1 = 12
Damage 3d6 + 15 ⇒ (1, 1, 3) + 15 = 20

Nymeria posted in the Elsir Vale campaign this morning, but not here, so I will post for her again.

Round 3 - Nymeria

Suddenly realizing that she is a little more on the front line than she wanted, Nymeria 5-foot steps back to Z22 and again cast burning hands at the villagers.

5-foot step to Z22.

Standard Action: Cast Burning Hands - straight east, should get Y24, Z24 and Z25.
Damage: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (4, 2) + 2 = 8 - DC15 save <-- forgot the +1/die from draconic bloodline - Gold is Fire I believe.

Round 4 - Jez
Seeing her companion trying to burn the enemy for all its worth - or perhaps just thinking this would be a good time to barbecue corn, Jez shifts to the size and continues her assault on the Stalker.

5-foot move to AA22
Attack-falchion: 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 8 + 1 + 1 = 30
Damage: 2d4 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (3, 1) + 7 + 1 = 12

Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 8 + 1 + 1 = 28 <-- not sure whether you allow repeat crit attempts if the crit confirm is a crit.
Crit Damage: 2d4 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (3, 4) + 7 + 1 = 15

Jez smiles an evil demonic smile and then throws back her head and cackles as she sees her blade bite deeply into the Stalker (with that hit I probably sliced it in half). Foolish followers of a false god. This world is ruled by real power - steel and magic.

Thanks Jez, I was on the road today and didn't get to post till just now!

No, no double crits.

Attalas misses the attacking villager and only mows some corn down.

Meanhwile Nymeria burns another three cultists, but they remain at the side of their master and even though their faces are soothed, they attack with great ferocity.

The stalker won't attack anymore...Jez unbelievable strike nearly cuts the stalker in two and green blood sprays on her face...

The mayor chants and chants...

Rd4:

Jez (resolved)
Ragnvald
Stalker
Mobo
Nymeria
Cultists
Attalas
Mayor

Battle Mat

!! Missed my actual turn after Nymeria? That was only my AOO :)
R3
AC 20 (18 - Cleaving)
hp 26/30

Attalas keeps swinging again in wide arcs...

W22
Attack 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 9 + 1 = 18
Damage 3d6 + 15 ⇒ (1, 3, 5) + 15 = 24

V22
Attack 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 9 + 1 = 19
Damage 3d6 + 15 ⇒ (2, 1, 1) + 15 = 19

blah blah blah swing swing hurt.

Destructive smite on nearest cultist.
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
2d6 + 8 ⇒ (1, 2) + 8 = 11

Angrily Mobo sings his own song while cutting at his foe again. Cultist at V21

Dogslicer 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Damage 1d4 ⇒ 3

"Hear the chanting of the sheep,
We the scythe have come to reap,
With Zarongel these humans sleep,
You smell that? This cult in deep."

"Chanting mayor sounds a bleat,
While the others take a beat.
Attalas cut them like wheat,
Mobo stabs and slices feet!"

I will be out of town this weekend at Larp (running the whole event this month!) and will post again on Sunday!

Rd4:

Jez (resolved)
Ragnvald (resolved)
Mobo (resolved)
Nymeria
Cultists
Attalas
Mayor

More villagers are flung through the air as Attalas strikes again and again. His body is dyed with blood now, but the oafish grin only gets wider...Even Ragnvald guts the first cultist now and the rows are really thinning...

Battle Mat

Nymeria keeps a stream of flame pointed at the cultists to the east, burning them to a crisp.

Burning hands:2d4 + 2 ⇒ (2, 1) + 2 = 5 DC15

Another cloud of flame is more than the cultists can take - they double over, there body covered with blisters...

The other cultists ignore their dying comrades, for them only the glory gained by defeating Ghlaunder's enemies counts

Cultist attacking Nymeria /Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Damage1d4 ⇒ 4

Cultist attacking Nymeria /Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Damage1d4 ⇒ 3

Cultist attacking Ragnvald/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Damage1d4 ⇒ 2

Cultist attacking Ragnvald/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Damage1d4 ⇒ 2

Cultist attacking Mobo/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Damage1d4 ⇒ 1

Cultist attacking Attalas/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
Damage1d4 ⇒ 1

Confirm 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
Damage1d4 ⇒ 2

Cultist attacking Attalas/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
Damage1d4 ⇒ 4

Slowly the amassed onslaught of the willing toys of the mayor begins to bear fruits! He only keeps on singing...

Battle Mat

R4
AC 20 (18 - Cleaving)
hp 23/30

Attalas keeps swinging again in wide arcs...starting to grow angry at the small dagger wounds he is accumulating

v21
Attack 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 9 + 1 = 21
Damage 3d6 + 15 ⇒ (3, 2, 1) + 15 = 21

u21
Attack 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 9 + 1 = 24
Damage 3d6 + 15 ⇒ (4, 6, 4) + 15 = 29

Round 5

Nymeria - back up and quit getting hit.

I 5-foot step to AA22 and swing at AA23.

Attack-AA23: 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 8 + 1 + 1 = 30
Damage: 2d4 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (1, 2) + 7 + 1 = 11

Confirm Crit: 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 8 + 1 + 1 = 27
Crit Damage: 2d4 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (1, 3) + 7 + 1 = 12

The evil demonic look in Jez eyes gets even brighter as she feels her blade slice clean through another cultist.

I don't know what your crazy mayor has convinced you of, but your laundry god has left you out to be dried.

Rd5:

Jez (resolved)
Ragnvald
Mobo
Nymeria
Cultists
Attalas
Mayor

Cultists die now like flies and the battle seems almost won...almost, since know one what the mayor is up to...

Battle Mat

Someone shut up that annoying mayor and his chanting, it is starting to remind me of the pathetic miserable men who used to come praying to the demons of the Worldwound. They usually ended up dead too.

"This foolish cult is at its end! Your unnamed one is but another corpse upon the pyre to Gorum's might! Flee cowards! Flee with yoour lives!"

1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
2d6 + 7 ⇒ (3, 5) + 7 = 15

Waiting for MObo

Ragnvald buries his sword deep under the ribs of another cultist and pushes it up into the man's heart...only three followers of Ghlaunder and the mayor remain now...

Once more Mobo fires his pistol towards the mayor.

Pistol 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
Damage 1d8 ⇒ 2

Nymeria steps back away from the cultists and their daggers. 5'step west

HP: 14/17

C'mon Culties! Atty wants to hack yer to pieces!

We need to give Attalas a large club, then he can be Atty the Batty.

Another bullet hits the mayor at his hand, but you are most worried to notice that underneath the pink skin is some strange purplish-black flesh, pulsing and bubbling dreadfully...

The cultists don't notice that and keep on attacking you

Cultist attacking Ragnvald/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
Damage1d4 ⇒ 3

Cultist attacking Ragnvald/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
Damage1d4 ⇒ 1

Confirm 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Damage1d4 ⇒ 1

Cultist attacking Jez/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
Damage1d4 ⇒ 1

Cultist attacking Mobo/Dagger 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Damage1d4 ⇒ 3

Even though the attacks of the cultists are quite dangerous, you suddenly have only eyes for the mayor - his strange chant reaches a climax and as the final note reaches glass-shattering heights his head just pops off his neck...as you are about to laugh, the rest of his body also falls apart, but something remains...: A human-sized, mosquitolike creature with a long flexible proboscis that ends in a murderous stinger is hovering where the mayor just stood...

The cultits nearly stop fighting and shout in awe and reverence

The Unnammed One!

Battle Mat

R5
AC 20 (18 - Cleaving)
hp 23/30

Attalas ignores the bug man for the moment, stepping over to the other cultists and swings a in wide arc.

X23
Attack 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 9 + 1 = 21
Damage 3d6 + 15 ⇒ (4, 1, 1) + 15 = 21

Cleave

Y23
Attack 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 9 + 1 = 18
Damage 3d6 + 15 ⇒ (2, 3, 3) + 15 = 23

Round 6

Jez looks at the mayor-now-bug and simply shrugs. Seen worse growing up in the Worldwound.

She then swings at the cultist standing before her before the mayor-bug is able to use the cultist for any flanking.

Attack-2handed: 1d20 + 8 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 8 + 1 + 1 = 19
Damage: 2d4 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (1, 1) + 7 + 1 = 10

This swing is nowhere as devastating as the prior one, but seems to cause the cultist some discomfort.

go go Ragnvald!

Hey hey Ragnvald;
he's our man;
He can slice cultists;
like no one else can.

"Oh, that must be the Clan leader of Applesauce."

Uh, Ragnvald? Someone else take over?

Rangvald is highly appreciative of Attalas' contribution to the cargnage and advances on Mayorbug...

"WET MY BLADE!" he screams as he swings for the creature!

Attack 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
Damage 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (1, 6) + 7 = 14

He can't reach the mayor because of the cultists (you won't risk 3 AoOs, right?). We use his attack for one of them then - blood sprays and the cultist falls on his back with a belly-opening wound!

Battle Mat

Rd6:

Jez (resolved)
Ragnvald (resolved)
Mobo
Nymeria
Cultists
Attalas
Mayor

According to the map he wouldn't get one from any of them seeing as none of them are in reach of hitting him. There is this brief instance of getting one aoo from the cultist next to me.

Destructive smite!
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
2d6 + 8 ⇒ (2, 3) + 8 = 13

Sigh who still manages to pull it off as I fumble.

Attalas has already RCed you and the map looked different before you removed the cultist north of - with the roll Attalas made for you.

ah nevermind then.

As soon as a gap opens in the fighters, Nymeria fires an arrow at the Mayorbug, hoping to pop him.

Bow:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Damage:1d3 ⇒ 1

Nymeria - I think you have a longbow, it should do 1d8 damage, not that it matters since I assume a 9 misses,

Mobo slices at the cultist in front of him so Attalas can worry about squashing the bug.

Dogslicer 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
Damage 1d4 ⇒ 4