Granta's Evergreen Arc #9 (Inactive)

Game Master Granta

Recognizing the foul creatures, Dragos glances ruefully at his arrows. "Really need to get some blunt arrows..." Instead of using his bow, he instead reaches into his pack and draws out the holy water he took from Janira's bag. He throws it at the skeleton right next to him.

@Brady: Please hide your rolls behind a spoiler.

Maps

Round 2-3
Effects bless

• Yellow - 1 damage
  
• Purple -
  
• Dragos -
  
• Valtyra -
  
• Liao - 2 damage
  
• -----Round 3-----
  
• Brady - 6 damage
  
• Grazet - 15 damage, dying

Dragos' flask of water somehow separates the undead abomination from whatever evil force had animated it, but Valtyra's spell is far less effective. Liao spell brings a fortunate blessing to his companions, though.

Brady takes out one more of the beasts, while Grazet almost drops his sword. And things only get worse, as both skeletons begin ripping the half-orc into green and red ribbons of flesh.

Everybody is up. Keep in mind that I resolve in initiative order, so if somebody brings Grazet back to consciousness, he can take a full round on his turn.

Seeing Grazet fall, Dragos' eyes widen and he immediately reacts. His hand shoots back into his pack, withdrawing another item Janira had given him, a wand. "Really glad she left us this stuff!" he says, as he takes a small step forward and activates the wand, touching the tip to Grazet's fallen form.

Grazet's AC was 16 for fighting defensively. I don't think purple hit. If they did, Grazet will use his Orc Ferocity to stay standing.

Grazet looks down at the scratch on his chest, then swings his falchion at yellow with a snarl.

@Dragos, thanks for healing either way

Liao steps forward with his longspear, attempting to strike the remaining skeleton, catching a bone squarely with a lucky hit, doing some damage before the spear deflects off the hard surface.

I stride forward and send another bolt of cold lancing out against the nearest creature.

I'll give it a day for retcons, since my mistake on Grazet's AC potentially affects multiple actions. And remember that Brady needs to be botted.

Can I just use the same action (and same roll) from the wand of CLW, but target one of the skeletons instead?

@Dragos: Yes, but that requires an attack roll. And Brady still needs to be botted.

Touch Attack, bless: 1d20 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 + 1 = 18

Boting the bot of the bot-times
Brady lunges at the nearest skeleton with a quick punch.

Attack, bless: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 5 + 1 = 20
Damage: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

The magic from Dragos' wand explodes the nearest skeleton in a brilliant flash of light. Liao spears the remaining creature, but the point of his polearm skips off the bones and through the ribcage, doing little damage.

However, Brady easily batters the skeleton into individual bones.

Heal up, and let me know what/how you want to search.

"That was fine work by you all." Valtyra sifts through the remains of the skeletons and casting glances into other parts of the room in hopes of spotting something useful.

"I could use a touch of the healing magic, if you have it."

4 damage

Liao examines the wounds and grabs some things from his pouch. He crushes some herbs and pours water into the mixture. He applies some of the resulting mixture onto the wounds. "This should help."

lay on hands: 1d6 ⇒ 1

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second lay on hands: 1d6 ⇒ 4

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Dragos stows Janira's wand back in his pack, then walks over to investigate the fallen dhampir.

Identify and divide up the loot, then choose a path: secret tunnel or backtrack to the one you skipped earlier?

Valtyra spends a short time concentrating over and studying the two found objects.

Holding up the first object. "I am unsure of this objects purpose but this ring will provide a protective aura to its wearer."

Dragos holds out his hand for the ring. "Can I have a look?" He examines the ring to see if he can tell anything about it.

He frowns, as if struggling to grasp a thought just out of reach...

Liao looks at the aura of the object in an attempt to help Dragos identify it.

Grazet turns his magical gaze to the amulet, "Wearing this will toughen your skin, providing a small measure of protection against attack."

Brady is still down 6 hp.

Brady rubs his raw knuckles, embracing the low pain from pummeling bone to bits. He then rubs the shoulder that was hit by the skeleton. "I took a good hit there; I could use some healing. Janira left us a wand in the bag, didn't she?"

When the items are identified, Brady expresses his interest. "I'm only ever going to be fighting on the front line. That amulet sounds mighty nice to me. Wouldn't mind wearing that ring either, though I'd hate to be greedy. Anything helps."

When the party attempts to determine which way to go, the brawler expresses little interest directly, but seems to have a little more enthusiasm for the secret path.

"Let me see if I can make this thing work for you Brady."

Valtyra will hand off the wand to someone else for them to try it. Turning to her companions. "That tunnel sounds like as good an option as any to go explore. Let us see where it leads."

Dragos will use the wand to heal Brady.

The wand is CL3, so it is 1d8+3. Using Brady's roll, that would be 6hp healed, bringing him back up to full, yeah?

"Makes more sense to go forward than back now, I'd say. Tunnel sounds good to me. Anybody else need healing before we go?"

Brady is at full health and wearing both items, since nobody else spoke up.

Maps

Round 1
Effects none

• Brady -
  
• Minotaur -
  
• Janira -
  
• Grazet -
  
• Dragos -
  
• Valtyra -
  
• Liao - 2 damage

The light of the surface world above provides a welcome reprieve from the blue and green fungus of the caverns below, and the light illuminates a stream whose water is hastened by runoff from a recent storm further up the mountains. A ledge to the west rises up to the nearby forest canopy.

Janira and the minotaur suddenly appear again, obviously exhausted and still fighting each other.

Brady is up.

Maps

Round 1-2
Effects none

• Minotaur -
  
• Janira - 30 damage
  
• Grazet -
  
• Dragos -
  
• Valtyra -
  
• Liao - 2 damage
  
• -----Round 2-----
  
• Brady -

Startled to see Janira still running from the minotaur, Brady freezes up a moment in shock. Just then, the beast cuts Janira twice with its axe, dropping her in a bloody pool that looks like it might have left the halfling in more than one piece.

Everybody is up.

Sorry about that. I thought I'd posted my action, but it appears not. My bad.

Brady quickly recovers and charges towards the minotaur, uttering no sound or cry.

Dragos tracks south at a quick pace, going for the high ridge. As he goes, he smoothly pulls out an arrow. Anger lights up his eyes, as he begins to call out "Vile beast! Your needless violence will hurt no more people!" He lets loose a long shot, sending his arrow streaking toward the huge creature.

Grazet takes off toward the stream, "Janira!"

"This does not look favorable." Liao moves out of the cave and begins throwing some kind of herbs into the wind.

"Well, well. This is an interesting turn of events." Valtyra steps out of the cave tunnel and into the light of day pulling a scroll out as she does so. I hope this works.

@Liao: What happened to your tag line?

Maps

Round 2-3
Effects bless

• Minotaur - 5 damage
  
• Grazet -
  
• Dragos -
  
• Valtyra -
  
• Liao - 2 damage
  
• -----Round 3-----
  
• Brady - 7 damage

Grazet rushes forward, heading for melee combat, while Dragos hangs back a little and feathers a shaft into the minotaur's hide from a safe distance. Valtyra tries to active one of Janira's scrolls, but can't quite remember the correct pronunciation of several words.

Liao blesses his companions, and Brady charges forward with Grazet. The enemy beast charges up to the river, launching a javelin at Brady.

Everybody is up.

With a huff Valtyra drops the scroll and refocuses her efforts on the beast. Valtyra points her finger towards the minotaur. "Take this you beast."

Dragos continues to head up to the high ground, while drawing out another arrow. He looses again, the new arrow streaking off to try to join the old one in the beast's hide.

Grazet steps forward, drawing falchion. He levels his gaze at the creature and and assumes a defensive stance. "Come and get us, buddy!"

AC 18

Brady hustles up onto the log, trying to stay upright as he completes his move towards the minotaur. He let's his momentum carry through into a powerful punch at the large beast's gut.

Liao moves around the periphery of the field, looking for the best location to cross and attend to Janiera...if se is somehow alive. He finds the cover of a tree a short distance from a narrow part of the river.

Grazet flinches as Brady crosses to the minotaur, but keeps his eyes on the beast's.

Maps

Round 3-4
Effects bless

• Minotaur - 14 damage, -2 Will
  
• Grazet - 12 damage, dying
  
• Dragos -
  
• Valtyra -
  
• Liao - 2 damage
  
• -----Round 4-----
  
• Brady - 18 damage, dying

Grazet goes on the defensive, while Dragos grazes the minotaur with another arrow, and Valtyra hits it with a translucent missile. Liao takes a sweeping path around the battle, toward their downed mentor. Brady takes the more direct approach, and looks poised to drive his fist deep into the beast's gut. Unfortunately, he can't keep his guard up while rushing in so fast, and the axe drops him unconscious. The minotaur then draws a javelin and throws it clear through Grazet's body and several inches out his backside.

Everybody is up. If anybody knows dice voodoo, now is the time to curse my dicebot.

Watching in horror as the beast almost casually drops two more of his companions, Dragos continues to circle around as he sends yet another shot sailing in towards their large enemy.

Brady moved up to attack because he thought the minotaur--having just thrown a javelin with no description of drawing another weapon--was unarmed and couldn't AoO.

CON DC 10, stabilize: 1d20 + 2 - 6 ⇒ (5) + 2 - 6 = 1

Seeing the Minotaur so easily working it's way through the party, Liao sprinkles some flower petals into the wind, blowing them in the direction of Grazet, before finding another tree to take cover behind.

@Brady: He never dropped the axe from round 1, he just held it in the other hand while throwing the javelin. I will confer with some other GMs before deciding though, as this is a pretty significant factor in the fight.

"Noooooo!" Valtyra screams out in horror at seeing so many of her companions drop so quickly.

Valtyra points once more at the beast and a shimmering arrow sails unerringly at it.

Grazet stays conscious long enough to inflict one more sting of pain on the beast, then drags himself closer to Liao before collapsing.

@Brady: I'm converting the attack to a gore, so you're not negative by quite as much.

Maps

Round 4-5
Effects bless

• Minotaur - 24 damage, -2 Will (2/3 javelins)
  
• Dragos -
  
• Grazet - 13 damage, stabilized
  
• Valtyra -
  
• Liao - 2 damage
  
• -----Round 5-----
  
• Brady - 14 damage, dying

Dragos hits the minotaur yet again, but just can't get enough force behind the arrows. Grazet drags himself over to Liao before collapsing, while Valtyra hits the beast with a magical energy, and Liao makes sure Grazet won't die just yet.

Everybody is up.

Liao quickly removes the javelin from Grazet, grabs some a large leaf from his pouch, and rubs a sticky gel on it before applying it to the open wound. "This should help. It is a deep wound. I hope it is enough. " Cure light wounds for 2 healing

Obviously torn for a moment between the minotaur and Brady's fallen state, Dragos glances back and forth between the two for a moment. Liao is close enough to help if Brady gets worse, better to try to end this quicker... His eyes snap back to the beast, and he lets another arrow fly.