DM Zyren's Heart of Runes (Inactive)

Game Master Zyrenity

Agree with Karlan. Here goes a d20 roll if needed: 1d20 ⇒ 11

Actually, I think that Ailetha likely worships Desna as Ailetha is a wanderer and traveller and has lived in Varisia for a good portion of her life. For some reason I have Irori listed which makes a little sense with his tie to knowledge, but not as much as Desna.

Marek you are not allowed - we need someone from the special ops group...also called group no. 1 :)

Desna is nice and all, but she doesn't supply as much beer as Cayden Cailean. :-)

Celestra moves into position very stealthily and waits for her cue.

Stealth: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

Luck Check: 1d20 ⇒ 19 <-- see, I really do worship Desna.

You hear a door opening behind you - fearfully you turn around, but whoever stepped into the corridor quickly enters another door and locks it behind him.

Harry gives a mental thanks to Desna, then continues with the plan...

From inside you suddenly hear shuffling noises and as you look through the crack again, you see the four deformed figures who had formerly been lying in the coffins, walk through the room...their moves are not more than clumsy staggering and you see some old wounds that must have been lethal when they were fresh...no doubt, these guys are zombies...

Harry stops thanking Desna.

Harry pushes forward, regardless, and prepares to move in and unleash cold fury upon the Shaman woman.

Essentially the idea is to continue on regardless, but Harry is quite aware that the chances of any 'peaceful' resolution just vanished and he's probably just going to have to go in for the kill...if Group 1 gets discovered, hes going to jump straight at Mother and start slicing before she gets a chance to get into the fight.

"That's nice Marek. But to be honest I expect the trial to be a great deal of screaming, some frenzied hacking, and hopefully plenty of corpses that don't belong to us. I'm not delusional but my goddess does demand a certain method that needs to be adhered to."

Celestra remains hidden with the second group waiting for their opportunity to strike.

"Be careful, Karlan, you don't want the ogres to find us do you? Let's keep the voice down to a whisper."

Alana stays close to the others, prepared to cast as soon as she knows for certain which way the pendulum is going to swing.

As soon as you enter Mammy's room, the zombies pause, frozen in mid-stride and they all stare at you - as does Mammy Graul!

Half-Ork sayz "WAAAGH!" -charge at Mammy - flat footed sneak attack half charge surprise round baby... C'mon, its favoured terrain and I knows where she is and was planning on ganking her all along :p

We are all invisible and using stealth. I assume that she could see through this?

Give it a sec...

Room Overview

Where in relation to the rest are Celestra, Karlan, and Marek waiting? Where is the door they are to enter?

Next to A1. You caqn reach the porch in one rd.

Give it a sec...

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Now THAT'S a meatgrinder if I ever seen one. Can we see the windows from the outside?

Karlan Bladetwist wrote:

Give it a sec...

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Well are they reacting or just staring? Or at least are they not looking "through" you? You are invisible. I'd look behind me real quick. Just a thought. I mean if I'm right plan goes fine. If I'm wrong you're screwed either way just by looking at the map.

Fair comment, just waiting on clarification... not sure how DMZZ wants to play it, but Harry is pretty set on a charge down hacking spree. If she gets taken out quickly the whole thing could be over fast. Flat-footed, sneak attack, tank and spank.

"Deny your enemy the chance to get a footing in the battle, kill them in their beds, strike them on the toilet, murder them in their seat" called the orcish trainer, lashing Harry once again with his cane. Harry responds in kind...

"WAAAGH!"
Charge Momma, go to work.

Attack 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (20) + 12 = 32
Damage 1d12 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 14 = 15
Sneak 3d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 4) = 7

Crit?

Attack 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28
Damage 2d12 + 28 ⇒ (3, 3) + 28 = 34

56 damage after all that, weak. Always R1 to start... I gotta go to bed though so just thought I'd force the issue

Ailetha looks behind her to see whether there is anything, or anyone following that the crazed ogrepottomus might be looking at.

Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13

If she sees nothing, she will switch places with Alana (5-foot move) and cast Silence on the back wall (Between J1 and J2). She will then begin to dance a provocative dance designed to incite rage against others in the hearts of those who see it.

Move Action: Begin Inspire Courage using Perform(dance)
Standard Action: Cast Silence DC17 centered at J1/J2.
5-foot Move to J7.

I should still be invisible as none of these actions are directed at any enemies.

Like a shadow Harry rushes through the ogre zombies, Mammy's dead sons, jumps on the bed and hacks at the fat ogre diva. The Riddleportian rogues is surprised how sturdy her fat hide is, but his weapon draws blood and Mammy growls in wrath and pain.

Aieltha has meanwhile realized that nothing is behind you, but the zombies somehow are able to see through the invisibility spell - luckily they were too slow to stop Harry.

Harry's Initiative1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
Alana's Initiative1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26
Ailetha's Initiative1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18
Mammy's Initiative1d20 - 3 ⇒ (20) - 3 = 17
Sons' Initiative1d20 ⇒ 17

Alana
Ailetha
Sons
Mammy
Harry

Alana, please feel free to drop any area of effect blasts - ie a fireball or the like. The bigger the bang the better. Harry has Evasion, it will all work out perfectly fine.

Did I get to cast the Silence and start the Inspire Courage last round? Or will that be this round?

Hopefully you got a standard action on my gllant charge surprise round, and dropped the silence in. I rather stupidly forgot to use my Cav's Challenge ability too or that damage would have been higher - posting before bed can do that!

Really need Celestra here to blast a few Channels. Alana does not have Fireball, Lightning bolt may get a few though.

Alana will cast Lightning Bolt at the graul directly across from the door once Harry has rushed in.

7d6 ⇒ (2, 6, 6, 2, 5, 3, 4) = 28

Whatever you have, throw it and the kitchen sink at momma bear, once shes down work on the patsies. If we don't sink her fast she's probably going to wreck our day really badly.

Reflex save from Harry vs the inbound lightning.

Ref 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22 passes!

"Right, I think now's long enough to havelet things drop down the midden heap." And with that KArlan ill rush his way to the door weapons drawn.

You knwo assuming we hear an orcish war cry followed by a crack of lightning.

"I am with you, Karlan!"

Celestra runs after the paladin with her rapier in hand!

Yeah Celestra can start the AoE Channel festival, and thats gonna be funny, but for now, ruininating Mothers Day is number 1 ;p

You heard the initial cry from the orc, and then nothing, complete silence, although you may be smelling charred ogre and wood before long.

Marek jumps in at a moment's notice, eager to deliver his long-awaited vengeance upon the monsters.

He uses a swift action and 1 point from his Arcane Pool to provide his already +1 scimitar with the keen and shock properties.

Yes, one standard action in the surprise round. So either Inspire or silence, what is it?

Silence

I kill you!

The lightning bolt ripples forth from Alana's hand and hits poor undead Rukus Graul right between the eyes. His remaining grimy hair stands on end, but otherwise he does not look very impressed - which is quite surprising since he has a fist-sized hole now in his forehead.

Reflex save1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Ok, then normal rd1. Alana starts while group two rushes to the porch.

Alana
Ailetha
Sons
Mammy
Harry

Seeing Harry mostly surrounded by Mammy and her undead brood, Ailetha begins an alluring dance which she knows will get the menfolk's blood boiling, and in this crew likely the womenfolk as well.

Move Action: Begin Inspire Courage; +2 att/damage/fear saves

Ailetha then calls upon her knowledge of the arcane and causes a thin layer of grease to form under the feet of three of Mammy's kin.

Standard Action: Cast Grease-DC16 centered at H3/I4 <-- this should catch 3 of the zombies. I think that Harry is at J4, but I cannot tell which is Mammy. From the yellow, I assume it is the one in the SW corner of the map.

Yeah I believe that yellow is Mammy's bed.

Again Alana unleashes a Lightning Bolt at the graul in front of her.
7d6 ⇒ (3, 5, 5, 2, 2, 6, 5) = 28

Harry sighs as his companions get caught up targetting the weak opponents whilst leaving the highly dangerous one alive. Sadly, he can already see she will be a fraction of a second faster than him at responding and braces for the worst until he can get back into hacking her to death.

Seeing Harry mostly surrounded by Mammy and her undead brood, Ailetha begins an alluring dance which she knows will get the menfolk's blood boiling, and in this crew likely the womenfolk as well.

Not if Celestra is not there to see it!

Not being cheeky, but seriously, can we just get Mammy Dead? We had a golden opportunity to kill her before she even got time to act, and instead we have done anything but.

Would help you out buuuuuttt....

Sorry love, I'm only working at about a third brain power these days. I read the first time that we should go for Mammy and meant to on my next turn but then by the time it got back to my turn I had forgotten again. :/

Thats ok, DMZZ hasn't seen it yet so maybe retcon :p Hope you are feeling better!

I don't have much offensive - she will have to make a Will save to beat the Silence, and then either eat an AoO or cast defensively to get a spell off if she does save. I want to cast Haste, but since I only have one, I was waiting until Karlan and Marek arrived.