Fomiel casts, and grease appears to his far right (bottom of map) under three of the mongrelmen. Then Fomiel retreats back ten feet to let the others get in the room.
Grease
School conjuration (creation); Level bard 1, sorcerer/wizard 1
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, M (butter)
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target one object or 10-ft. square
Duration 1 min./level (D)
Save see text; SR no
A grease spell covers a solid surface with a layer of slippery grease. Any creature in the area when the spell is cast must make a successful Reflex save or fall. A creature can walk within or through the area of grease at half normal speed with a DC 10 Acrobatics check. Failure means it can't move that round (and must then make a Reflex save or fall), while failure by 5 or more means it falls (see the Acrobatics skill for details). Creatures that do not move on their turn do not need to make this check and are not considered flat-footed.
The spell can also be used to create a greasy coating on an item. Material objects not in use are always affected by this spell, while an object wielded or employed by a creature requires its bearer to make a Reflex saving throw to avoid the effect. If the initial saving throw fails, the creature immediately drops the item. A saving throw must be made in each round that the creature attempts to pick up or use the greased item. A creature wearing greased armor or clothing gains a +10 circumstance bonus on Escape Artist checks and combat maneuver checks made to escape a grapple, and to their CMD to avoid being grappled.
Round 1
Drakra will bravely remain outside of the doorway and out of sight of anyone with something dangerous, like a bow. He will begin to comment on the traitor's poor choice of tactics and their general lack of hygiene.
Standard: Start Inspire Courage (+1 competence bonus on attack/damage and some saves)
Godwin raises his falchion and closes his eyes to mutter a quick but fervent prayer to Iomedae.
Then with eyes snapping back open Godwin lets his Halo blaze forth and steps through the doorway and into the room beyond.
He then attacks the mongrelman in front of him.
With Fomiel out of the way, Vardan rushes forward, wincing as he moves carefully saying his companions and through the stones, No chance to build up momentum... and tries to drive his lance into the traitor through the open doorway.
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Sidonia will wait and calculate.
Godwin moves into the room, amidst the howling and shouting of the Mongrelmen and takes a swing at the one traitor foolish or brave enough to be in the forefront. The swing goes wide of the mark. Vardan moves he and his wolf into the door, and jabs his lance deep into the Mongrelman's side, but the traitor remains standing.
Fomiel casts his grease spell, and one of the Mongrelmen looks down with a puzzled look before his feet fly out from under him. The other two are still kneeling behind overturned tables with their crossbows leveled in the party's direction.
One of the crossbowmen from where Fomiel laid his grease spell fires, but the bolt sails off target. Another Mongrelman behind the second set of tables fires and the bolt strikes Godwin in a space between where his armor covers, but barely manages to reach skin.
Initiative Round 1: Lizard, Godwin, Vardan, Fomiel Traitors 1,4,5, Sidonia, Drakra, Selindra, Traitors 2,3,6
Initiative Round 2: Lizard, Godwin, Vardan, Fomiel Traitors 1,4,5, Sidonia, Drakra, Selindra, Traitors 2,3,6
Status:
Mongrel 1 0 damage greased
Mongrel 2 7 damage
Mongrel 3 0 damage In Grease
Mongrel 4 0 damage In Grease
Mongrel 5 0 damage
Mongrel 6 0 damage
Cave Lizard 0 damage
Round 1
With a warcry, Sidonia flies into the room leading with her shield. She pushes in toward the enemy facing her ally and swings with her blade. for slashing damage. She aims high, cutting across the front of the mongrelman while calling to Godwin. "We must make room! They have the advantage of numbers and we need space to maneuver!"
Drakra posted above. He is cowering behind the door bravely protecting the party's rear, while shouting insults at the enemy to inspire his companions.
Standard - Begin Inspire Courage --> +1competence bonus on attack/damage for all (and +1 morale on some saves)
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**************Combat Round 1 ***************
Sidonia charges forward, longsword flashing out quicker than the traitor can react and takes him from collarbone to ear. The Mongrelman looks confused for a moment as his limbs refuse to obey his wishes and he drops to the ground with a low moan.
Drakra lets out a string of invectives that seem to incite the enemy to the point that they make mistakes and leave themselves open to your attacks.
One of the mongrelmen in Fomiel's grease takes aim, and fires at Godwin. The mongrelman near the lizard fires at Sidonia. Again, Godwin's armor takes most of the blow from the bolt.
Initiative Round 1: Lizard, Godwin, Vardan, Fomiel Traitors 1,4,5, Sidonia, Drakra, Selindra, Traitors 2,3,6
Initiative Round 2: Lizard, Godwin, Vardan, Fomiel Traitors 1,4,5, Sidonia, Drakra, Selindra, Traitors 2,3,6
Status:
Mongrel 1 0 damage greased
Mongrel 2 17 damage dead
Mongrel 3 0 damage In Grease
Mongrel 4 0 damage In Grease
Mongrel 5 0 damage
Mongrel 6 0 damage
Cave Lizard 0 damage
Godwin 17/19
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Selindra springs into action, her eyes calming, going to cold steel, as she surveys the battlefield. She brushes back her reddish mane, and reaches to her hip for her sword. The prayer, normally unspoken is now audible.
"Herbis etiam hoc die. Viscera autem lumen terebramus acuto et iudicium adversus possidentem qui faciant malum in conspectu."
When she gets into position, she scans the room and sees the last one to the back wall. She quickly sizes the man up.
Slightly unsure of the man, she starts to rap the side of her metal shield with her blade and calling over to him. "Oi, ugly! Get your lousy traitorous hide over here before I run my blade through it!"
Fomiel Round 2
Fomiel steps back into the door and looks to cast again.
He casts a spell, and clouds the mind of the mongrelman in the rear (K7).
His target having fallen, Vardan drops his lance and directs Thorne into the room, drawing his Lucerne Hammer and heading toward the lizard.
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[spoiler=GM Rolls]
**************Round 2**************
The lizard moves up to Selindra and takes a bite at her, and the teeth screech off the scales of her armor, and she can feel it try to grab hold, but fail.
Vardan guides Thorne through the traffic and lays into the lizard with an overhand strike from the large hammer dealing a terrific blow to the thing side, with an audible crack.
Fomiel tries to cloud the mind of the Mongrelman nearest Selindra, but the mind of the traitor is too foreign, and he shrugs it off.
The Mongrelman that had slipped in Fomiel's grease tries to get up, but with a loud thud, slips and falls back to the ground.
One of the Mongrelmen that is behind the cover of the table fires at Vardan, but misses wildly.
The Mongrelman behind the lizard also fires at Vardan, and misses.
Muttering another prayer Protect me from these vile creatures Inheritor Godwin steps towards the lizard and, as a swift action, casts Shield of Faith on himself and swings hard with his falchion at the beast.
*************Round 2**************
Godwin slides into the spot where the Mongrelman was dropped and with a mighty swing of his Falchion, cuts the head of the lizard clean off.
Initiative Round 2: Lizard, Godwin, Vardan, Fomiel Traitors 1,4,5, Sidonia, Drakra, Selindra, Traitors 2,3,6
Initiative Round 3: Godwin, Vardan, Fomiel Traitors 1,4,5, Sidonia, Drakra, Selindra, Traitors 3,6
Status:
Mongrel 1 0 damage greased
Mongrel 2 17 damage dead
Mongrel 3 0 damage In Grease
Mongrel 4 0 damage In Grease
Mongrel 5 0 damage
Mongrel 6 0 damage
Cave Lizard very thoroughly dead.
Godwin 17/19
Round 2
Wanting to make sure that he appears brave, yet stays as far from the combat as possible, Drakra struggles for a moment before managing to pull out his crossbow. With a great deal of difficulty, and several un-gnomelike words, he manages to get a bolt dropped into the device, and even manages to pull back the string without somehow shooting any of his companions or himself.
Move: draw crossbow (not sure if I can draw it and cock it as a single move action or not)
Standard: load the crossbow
Oh those mongrels their so brine;
They taste like salt and look like swine.
Drakra continues his mocking between catching his fingers in the string and avoiding poking himself with a bolt.
Bardic Performance - 2 rounds used of 10
Round 2 Fomiel
Fomiel tries to master the mind of an archer behind cover, casting a cantrip.
Selindra focuses, stepping over the Lizard that lies on the ground dead, and moves in, her blade cutting a wide arc at the Mongrelman against the back wall
Round 2
Press onward! Let none escape!" The silver-haired cleric moves around the rubbish, to attack Selindra's target and subsequently block the door off. She comes from the side, avoiding provoking by moving through the bed area. "Gloria Nobiscum!" she yells out before slashing with her blade.
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Unfortunately for the cleric, her blade is easily deflected by her opponent.
Drakra's words continue to bolster the group's morale. His biting wit making the enemy seem less than they actually are.
Fomiel reaches out for the Mongrelman's mind and its features slacken.
Selindra and the mongrelman exchange passes, with Selindra eventually creating an opening and scoring a biting hit along the traitor's leg.
Sidonia wades through the bedrolls to Selindra's side, but misses her opportunity, as the Mongrelman sees the blow coming and turns it aside with his club.
The two Mongrelmen behind the barricade let loose with another volley of bolts, one finds a spot through Vardan's armor, but the other bolt flies wide of any mark.
The last Mongrelman takes a two handed swipe at Selindra with its club, but she turns it away with a dull thud on her shield.
Initiative Round 3: Godwin, Vardan, Fomiel Traitors 1,4,5, Sidonia, Drakra, Selindra, Traitors 3,6
Status:
Mongrel 1 0 damage greased
Mongrel 2 17 damage dead
Mongrel 3 0 damage In Grease
Mongrel 4 0 damage In Grease
Mongrel 5 0 damage dazed 1 rd
Mongrel 6 6 damage
Cave Lizard very thoroughly dead.
Godwin 17/19
Vardan 14/20
Fomiel reaches out to cloud another weak mind (3 in grease). Trying to help suppress the arrow fire.
Godwin steps up to stand with his fellow Iomedean warriors and swings at the mongrelman pressed against the back wall.
Round 3
Cursing under his breath at whatever force caused him to end up in this position, Drakra takes a step forward and then fires the bolt precariously set in his crossbow.
Attack @ mongreman standing in grease: <-- probably hits
Damage: <-- +1 Inspire Courage (competence)
Without waiting to see whether his bolt struck home, Drakra takes a second small missile, almost placing it backwards in his weapon before reversing the direction. Once more he cocks the device, with its aged strings giving a creak in the process, as he continues to belittle the mongrelmen.
Run away, run away you worthless punk.
Flee like bugs before you lose your junk.
Selindra advanced. Her body and mind in tune with steel, a song of steps and slices. She spun on her heels, drawing her blade in a wide arc, splitting a space between the two mongrelmen on her, and pushed through them, clearing the path for the others that wait behind her. For the Blade, For the Heart. Guide my blade, Inheritor, that I may shield my allies. Blade, be true this day, and sever the cords of the evil doers.
She steps through, but her blade misses her mark, flying wide of the intended target. She falls back to a defensive posture, allowing the others to advance on her position.
Vardan points Thorne at the mongrelman between the paladin and the cleric, the wolf rushing forward to attack...
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...while Vardan takes advantage of the momentum to swing his long hammer in a wide arc, trying to slam the mongrelman to the south of him into the table he was using as a barrier.
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Assuming that Vardan, Godwin and Selindra clear the way, Sidnoia moves forward. She does not charge, but moves around corpses to to attack from the back of the cave, giving her companions plenty of room to maneuver. "If you do not drop your blades to surrender, then each and every one of you will be laying in a matching pool of blood soon enough!" She gives them no time to respond, laying into the closest mongrelman. for
***************Round 3*************
Godwin advances and cuts down the Mongrelman on the back wall leaving a garish wound on the thing, but not quite dropping it.
Vardan pushes Thorne forward, and reaches out with his hammer, striking out at the Mongrelman to the south, leaving it reeling but still on its feet as Thorne tears at the Mongrelman between the cleric and paladin. That Mongrelman drops to the ground.
Fomiel sends a flurry of sensation to a Mongrelman kneeling behind the table to the south, and the creature stops what he was doing with a dazed look on his face. The Mongrelman to the south of him continues to flounder around in the grease.
The other Mongrelman behind the table looks at his two compatriots with a mild look of disdain and fires at Vardan. The bolt takes Vardan high in the chest, near his throat.
Sidonia moves around the battlefield, and easily dispatches the Mongrelman who was floundering in the grease.
Selindra, seeing that her original target was dispatched by Thorne, turns to the Mongrelman Vardan hit, and lays him out.
Drakra, much to his (and everyone else's) surprise, hits the non dazed Mongrleman, despite the creature having cover, with the bolt fired from his seemingly ancient crossbow.
Status:
Mongrel 1 6 damage greased
Mongrel 2 dead
Mongrel 3 0 damage In Grease Dazed
Mongrel 4 dead
Mongrel 5 dead
Mongrel 6 6 damage
Cave Lizard very thoroughly dead.
Godwin 17/19
Vardan 8/20
Initiative Round 4: Godwin, Vardan, Fomiel Traitors 1, Sidonia, Drakra, Selindra, Traitors 3,6
Godwin moves to the closest traitor and brings his blade to bear again with a wide swing.
Round 4
Seeing his shot actually strike a foe, Drakra jumps with glee, forgetting to continue to offend his enemies in the process (stop Inspire Courage). He then fires his crossbow at anyone that he can see who is still standing.
Attack-crossbow:
Damage:
However, unlike the last show, this one, probably because he put the bolt in backwards, spirals through the air before slamming sideways into the table in front of one of the archers.
Saddened from his state of glee, Drakra grumbles and once more inserts a bolt into the crossbow, making sure that the pointy end is actually facing in the direction it will fire this time.
Standard: Attack
Free Action: Stop Inspire Courage (should still be in effect for Godwin, Vardan and Fomiel.)
Vardan winces, I need to take my vows, to learn to focus the beauty of the song to heal... that is an ugly looking wound...
He turns Thorne to the south and points him at the Mongrelmen in the grease, picking up speed and charging forward, smashing out with the hammer as soon as he has the reach to strike the crossbow-weilder, then keeps riding foward, getting Thorne's teeth into range, ready to strike at the beast if he tries to reload or fire...
He turns Thorne to the south and points him at the Mongrelmen in the grease, rushing to stand over the now-fallen Mongrelman, directing Thorne to attack the Mongrelman, while he stands in the saddle and swings his hammer at the crossbowman in the back...
Fomiel moves into the room and casts another cantrip, trying to challenge the mind of a mongrelman untouched by his charismatic power.
"Stop!!"
Godwin makes a thrust at the Mongrelman which skewers the creature and pins it to the wall briefly. It slides to the ground in a heap after Godwin removes the Falchion.
Vardan guides Thorne to the greased Mongrelmen. The agile wolf staying just out of its area of effect. Thorne tears into the dazed Mongrelman leaving a garish wound in its side. At the same time Vardan smashes the head of the other Mongrelman that had been shooting him into pulp.
Drakra fires another bolt, spinning it into the table, the Mongrelman was behind cover, after all.
Status:
Mongrel 1 dead
Mongrel 2 dead
Mongrel 3 0 damage In Grease Dazed
Mongrel 4 dead
Mongrel 5 dead
Mongrel 6 dead
Cave Lizard very thoroughly dead.
Godwin 17/19
Vardan 8/20
Initiative Round 4: Godwin, Vardan, Fomiel Sidonia, Drakra, Selindra, Traitors 3
Selindra takes a few quick steps, and shores up her position with Vardan, trying to push forward and catch the creatures attention as she comes in with a high slash.
***********Combat Rnd 4 ****************
Selindra slashes the dazed, sprawled out mongrelman.
Status:
Mongrel 1 dead
Mongrel 2 dead
Mongrel 3 4 damage In Grease
Mongrel 4 dead
Mongrel 5 dead
Mongrel 6 dead
Cave Lizard very thoroughly dead. The Mongrelman shakes off his dazed condition.
Godwin 17/19
Vardan 8/20
************Combat Rnd 5*************
Initiative Round 4: Godwin, Vardan, Fomiel Sidonia, Drakra, Selindra, Traitors 3
Vardan growls, "Yield, or perish. "
Fomiel moves in and speaks quietly.
"Will you be the one survivor?"
The Mongrelman turns and swings a club, 2 handed at Fomiel.
You made your choice, traitor
Godwin says with finality as he tries to move into a space where he can swing his sword. If he can get to the last mongrelman he will swing his sword.
As the mongrelman tenses to swing his club, Godwin brings his Falchion across in a swing which slices open the creatures midsection. The traitor falls to the ground, trying in vain to hold in his insides which are trying to escape. It lets out a soft groan, and falls still.
Cleaning his blade Godwin turns to the rest of the group. That is the last I think. Is everyone alright? There may be more foes behind these doors.
Moving to her halfling companion, Sidonia places a hand on his shoulder and recites a prayer to the Inheritor. As she does a soft golden light shines around her hand, refreshing his energy and knitting together wounds.
Shell sacrifice protection from evil to cast it spontaneously.
Selindra surveys the battle scene ominously. She stares for a long time, almost as if the battle seems to be replaying itself back in her head. After several long moments, the blood of the mongrelmen draining off her sword onto the ground, she finally wipes the blade clean, turning to the others and sheathing her blade. Victory won, justice given. May the Heart and Blade find strength.
After a few moments she finally seems to come back to herself looking at the others. Having made it through without a scratch she blinks a few moments when she sees Sidonia casting a spell, and then notices Vardan's wounds. "Lady's breath, is everyone alright?"
Drakra steps out, puffing his chest proudly while pointing his crossbow at the single bolt sticking out of one traitor.
All is well. Well fought all. You did a great job with a minimum of wounds. He gestures toward Vardan. Except for him. Looking now directly at Vardan. You really need to work on avoiding getting hit. It really hurts and tends to leave nasty red stains on our clothes.
Looking across the room and past the overturned tables.
So, shall we continue? Continue and see what else these mongrels have in store that will fail to overcome the might of my . . . our group.
He will then cast Detect Magic and search the corpses for anything of value.