Sharptalon was getting a bit more used to this mind-talking-thing now. He gave a slight nod.
::Yes, not get shot. Not fly now.:: He thought back.
::Oh, there's enough sky for darkness that does not involve you. I'll circle around to the right, you circle to the left.::
::"Right have a dozen men manning makeshift barricade down here, our guys are keeping thire heads down. Right I see our bug target wandering behind a shield wall that forms our enemy's front line. There are at least a dozen shock troops between me and it. They have tower shields and light maces by the looks of it, so expect armor. Like like ten or so have formed said shield wall and are looking restless. I think they will be coming our way soon."::
She ducks down.
::"Here is the plan, Canaana, your get to a place, soon as they make thire move wait till they are close then start snipping the hell out that shield wall. I want that advance stalled so me and Griffin can get into the middle of them. They will be nice and bunched up. Soon as we make out move Weave and Akumu, go for the target, blind it, or what ever you need to do. Once we have the shock troops running we all zero in on the target and take it down. I would like the thudder intact if we can. Any questions?"::
Canaan will go into the blasted tower since his options are minimal. Better hope it's not too obvious.
::"I can try to take down the shield wall as ordered. If they aren't too durable, should be easy enough. "::
then he finds a good hide with a view of the battlefield and makes himself hard to see.
She looks at the men behind the Blockade with her.
"When they make their move to come at us, hold till I give the order to counterattack."
She looks through one of the cracks to see of the Shield wall is advancing.
::Noted.:: he responds as he moves in. He will dip down to scoop up a handful of gravel and tucks it in his pouch. Within the pouch, he'll touch a few and start them spreading darkness. For now, the dark will be contained in the pouch. but soon it will spread.
As expected the shield wall advances slowly. The two troopers behind the main line produce reinforced bags from which they draw vials of Alchemists Fire. Those at the barricade soon feel the effects. Not much fire gets through, but it is an extremely effective form of cover fire.
The monster is behind them and starts firing over their heads. A few miss, but those that hit nearly punch holes in the sturdy wood of the wagon.
Is it possible to try and shoot one of the alchemist fire throwers while they do it, so it drops or hits allies?
Ducks out the way as the thudder shots blast holds in the cart.
She looks to the troops with her and Sharptalon.
"Sharptalon when our sniper starts hitting them, do you think you can fly skip over this cart and the shield wall to get into them from behind. IF you can I will lead this lot out past the part and at them."
She looks at the troops.
"Where going to hit them from all sides. Sharptalon here will punch a hold from behind in that wall of shields. I will lead you and we ill hit them from the front. Don't worry about the big %£%£^ with the thudder. I have support in the air that's going to give that thing a shock. Get yourselves ready. I'm going to aid you but it will cost a little blood on your post, but your going to be braver than you have ever felt. trust me. So don't fight it, go with the feeling and you will hit truer and harder. So on my mark we attack."
She then go's back and looks thought a hole waiting to see what Canaana can do to the attackers. She pulls a officer baton out of her pouch. Looking very much like a WW1 officer she waits for the attack to start.
::"Soon as Canaana stalls them we go"::
She projects to the others.
She will start untouchable-aura just as Canaana starts combat. 6 rounds DC17 will 1pp
The line marches forward... Canaan sees his opportunity. The far man is throwing in a predictable rhythm.
Sharptalon seems nervous. ::Fly not get shot? Not arrows not Thumper?:: It's clear he's been trained to recognize the danger of flying near enemy lines.
Seeing his opportunity, Canaan takes his shot.
grit for sharp shoot (thus vs. touch AC)
confirm
Canaan's shot is a thing of beauty. In spite of the rain, in spite of the moving arm, in spite of everything, he places the shot straight through the far trooper's wrist. The bottle of explosive sails straight into the backs of the men in front of him. The explosion knocks several of the men on the right to their knees and creates just the hole Incendia needs.
That's not all, however, the man stumbles and falls on his bag of Alchemist's Fire! His entire bag of fire breaks, and the reinforced bag holds the ensuing firestorm in to produce an explosion that blows the man clean in half! Not only do you now have a hole, but a momentary distraction to boot!
Of course, it could just be that cannon-arms immediately make me think of Samus Aran. =P Anyway, Sharptalon isn't much for independent tactical thought, so he'll follow whatever Incendia says.
Seeing the man fall and the Blast, then the brake in the shield wall.
Incendia brings up her power and gives the command.
::"NOW ATTACK!"::
"NOW CHARGE THEM!"
She jumps moves past the cart and Charges at the brake in the shield wall.
Dark evil shadows form around her, things evil things move in them.
Aura of Fear (Su)
At 3rd level, a dread radiates a palpably daunting aura that causes all enemies within 10 feet to take a –4 penalty on saving throws against fear effects. Creatures that are normally immune to fear lose that immunity while within 10 feet of a dread with this ability. This ability functions only while the dread remains conscious, not if she is unconscious or dead.
Untouchable Aura
[Fear, Mind-Affecting]
Duration: 6 rounds
Saving Throw: Will DC17 save (see text); [Above means they also have a -4 to that roll]
Power Resistance: Yes
DESCRIPTION
You manifest an aura of nightmares around you which reacts to anyone trying to attack you in melee, forcing the assailant's worst nightmares to consume their thoughts. Anyone trying to make a melee attack against you must succeed on a Will save or lose their attack action as they recoil in fear from the images inside their mind. If the save succeeds, the opponent can attack normally and is unaffected by that manifestation of the power. Power Resistance applies at the same time as a Will save.
As the chaos begins, a spread of darkness drops down among the right side of the shield wall. The possibilities of confused and frightened men in close proximity over broken terrain in pure darkness bring a smile to his face. At the least it will slow and scatter them, breaking their coordination. At the best they kill each other in the dark.
Sadly, he doesn't have time to enjoy this as he moves on towards the leader, concealing himself in the sky.
Rosala shakes her head as she sees Darkness hit the other side of the shield wall.
::"Weave you had one job, blind the big %^£&£ thing with the Thudder, not the shield wall!, now get at it!."::
She made a mental note to explain things in simpler words to weave from this point out, seemed he was on the dumb side.
Sharptalon shrieks a challenge as he takes to the air, flying over the shield wall before suddenly wheeling and diving down, landing behind the other alchemist's fire-thrower.
Weaver seems amused, ::And yet you also asked Akumu to join in, which would not work if I had done so.:: He would have to explain about tactics to her later, as she seemed not to get it.
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Hearing his tone, she know at once the type. She wanted this mental joking around to end and for them to get back to the job. Real funny that one, real funny in the way that gets others killed. Flashed throw her own mind.
::"Shut it Weave, and stop sounding so smug with yourself"
She shot at him before he had fully finished.
"You knew what had to be done, stop the big ^"&(er shooting at us, Unblinded, me, Sharptalon or Canaan are all in range and exposed! all because you thought, next time DO as asked! that is if we survive past your %"&&" up!."::
She sounded miffed at his joking about.
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Then she let it go, no point berating him more. What was done was done. She now had other things to deal like killing.
As she ran to the fight the form of Lady Incendia Anisha Rosala shifted, her black uniform was still there but her flesh far less human looking. Blue in hue, her features more striking as she took on her true kyton look. Aark shadows wove around her, forming and reforming horrors, horrors reaching out to the ones still standing in the shield wall. As total Darkness fell on one side and flame on the other she spotted Sharptalon over head and his shriek of challenge as he came down behind the shields. she hopped the troops where behind her and the two in the air could deal with the Thudder users until this lot where delt with. It was all a big risk but it was the best plan she could come up with give time and what she knew. As she came close to the shock troops her anger grow, now it was time for killing. she started to sing her song of darkness.
An invisible Akumu flies within 50 ft of the creature with the thudder.
Incendia charges the wall followed by what's left of the squads on the front. Thankfully, the darkness and the chaos sown by the party has the shield wall in disarray and youall aren't immediately slaughtered.
Several men swing at Incendia as she breaks through the line, and all recoil as fear grips their minds.
To their credit, the line doesn't completely disintegrate, but the area does turn into a general melee with no clear front line. Sharptalon engages the bomber while Akmumu flies in toward the Thudder.
He lowers the weapon at Incendia, the clear leader of this sudden charge, and fires. The bolt seems to rip it's way through the air as it moves, almost like the fabric of the world is moving aside to grant it passage. Slams into Incendia and she is sent flying through the air straight back behind the cart, a full 15 feet!
Sharptalon - the grenadier steps back and hurls a flask of his fire in your face!
Canaan will try to snipe away at the Thudder.
master sniper for 2 shots on a snipe
and hide
The bolts impact his shoulder and he roars in rage. He looks around...
but fails to discern exactly where that came from.
Getting alchemist's fire thrown in his face makes Sharptalon mad. Really mad. With a wrathful war-shriek he slashes and bites at his foe, seeking to rend him limb from limb.
It has been going so well, the shock troops had broken before her. The troops behind had go into the shield wall and where doing well. Sharptalon was even taking on the bomb thrower. So well, then a brick wall hit her and she was flying back the way she had just come, Crashing over the Cart and landing on her back in the mud.
Pain, lots of pain and a ringing in here ears. She felt like she had been kicked by some great best.
She shuck her head a moment, taking time to get her head strait and the ringing to die down.
::"£%%£^! that hurt"::
Comes a angry thought, then its gone.
::"lets see if that £^^£er can do that again"::
The she is back, seemingly unhurt, and claiming up onto the cart and pointing some kind of long gun like thing at the thudder shooter.
"FIGHT MEN! THEY CAN'T STOP US!"
She bellows to her troops, rallying them.
"COME ON YOU ^%^£&ER TRY THAT AGAIN!!
she shouts at it the thunder user.
Then the large gun like thing she is holding fires, but it clear she must still be a little shaken as the shot seems to go a little wide. Standing there on the cart she starts to reload her odd long weapon.
Akumu moves into flanking position with Sharptalon, drawing the grace and power of a dragon, before ramming into the creature with the thudder.
Disoriented: The target takes a –2 penalty on attack rolls. In addition, the target takes an additional –2 penalty on all attack rolls it makes against the rogue.
"I am your worst nightmare, manifested in front of you."Akumu says with a chilling voice.
He swoops down to thudder-boy, drawing another bit of gravel as he moves and dropping it 10 feet ahead of him, moving onward to avoid being where he last saw.
[ooc]and now he is in deeper darkness. Unless he has exotic senses or daylight, he's a bit screwed.
Sharptalon immediately disassembles the man before him as the group focuses on the Monstrosity. Akumu is able to get a strike in before everything goes pitch black. The beast roars and retreats out of the darkness. Aparently he isn't as stupid as he looks.
He retreats to the back of the connective trench you're fighting in, puting him in square in the middle of his own territory, and square in the middle of his own forces.
Canaan will snipe again, though it may be a bit more tricky now. He will try to hit the biggie once more.
master sniper
But apparently the luck wasn't with him this time.
Sharptalon leaps at the shield wall and continues dismantling his enemies.
"We could play this game all day long. Weaver, you know what to do."
She could see from her vantage point the Large thunder pull back.
"I THOUGHT SO! RUN YOU BAG OF "%"^"
She Calls to it.
::"Keep hitting that thing, keep it on the back foot, weave you have any other means of attacking it? Ranged best. don't worry about that thing hitting me, I want it to try. Akumu keep flying you will come out the other side of the darkness and swing round behind it. Ill get the troops here going some more see if we can't get this shield wall on the run."::
Then to her troops.
"Their support has gone lads, KILL ALL!"
She calls to the troops and starts to sing, her voice is odd like there is more than one, but as her song comes out over the battle ground any close fell there blood rise, pain and anger and the need to show Courage.
Compel Courage (Ex)
An ostiarius can inspire courage as a 5th-level bard using bardic performance, granting a +2 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +2 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls. This ability has a range of 50 feet and affects those creatures the ostiarius chooses who also willingly accept the benefits of the effect (no saving throw required). The ostiarius's performance compels creatures to perform at dangerous extremes. Any living non-outsider that benefits from this ability takes 1 point of bleed damage. A creature that accepts these benefits for multiple consecutive rounds gains additional points of bleed damage that stack with one another (to a maximum of 5). This is an audible, mind-affecting effect and can be countered by a bard's countersong class feature.