Grymp's Way of the Wicked Campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan

sigh. Ill chalk it too the fact its the first time using a bow

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Blame the spell!

How far are the enemies? Within 30 feet?

Gertrart takes a falchion to the watery creature.
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6, 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (1, 4) + 4 = 9 also blame the spell? :)

Having dodged the bolt headed his way, Taeral finishes casting his sleep spell centered to encompass two of the triton mooks.

DC17 Will

Round 2

Taeral shifts around on the boat to get some cover from one of his allies and begins casting another sleep spell, while keeping an eye on the elemental.

Tumble: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24
Cast Defensively, DC17: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25

Edit: Argh... now I wish I would have made an attack. Oh well.

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On Going Effects: Iron Circlet, Surface Elf in garb similar to the sailors;

Sorry, late to the party on this, doing Round 1 and Round 2 together to save time

Vosil has dispensed with Shade's services, as she doesn't swim and it seems that they need to attack the tritons, not merely repel the summoned minions.

From the powers of darkness and shadow, he summons forth creatures of air to attack the water-dwellers (not the leader - he can see that he has some sort of protection), calling 1d3 ⇒ 2 shadow eagles

The things slash at the triton with beak and claws.

Round 1

Bite, Eagle 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Claw, Eagle 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Claw, Eagle 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Bite, Eagle 2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Claw, Eagle 2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Claw, Eagle 2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Round 2

Bite, Eagle 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Claw, Eagle 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Claw, Eagle 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Bite, Eagle 2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Claw, Eagle 2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Claw, Eagle 2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

OK, that was pretty terrible - I'm giving Shade fly asap!

Mordecai, yes, sorry about 25' off your beam. I'll get an update post out shortly.

Ok, so in round 2, Nerianus cured T1, the tritons fired. Gertrart engages E1 but misses. Modecai delays.

Solomon will again throw a bomb at T1:

To Hit vs Tch AC: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10 Hit
DMG: 2d6 + 5 ⇒ (4, 5) + 5 = 14

That should splash the other two tritons as well as Nerianus for 5 damage each, reflex save for half.

T2 Reflex: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18 success
T3 Reflex: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16 success
Nerianus: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11 fail

Xeram magic missiles Nerianus

Taeral casts sleep on T3

Will: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5 Fail. T3 falls asleep.

Taeral starts another spell.

Vosil's Eagles beat up on T2 a lot.

Malleck fires at but misses Nerianus.

Round 3 starts.

Nerianus will CLW on T1.

CLW: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
turns out I'm a dynamite healer too!

T1 and T2 reload.

T3 snores.

The party is up.

Gertrart continues uselessly chopping a falchion into the outsider.
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9, 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (3, 4) + 4 = 11

It's definitely the spell!

WS: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21
Attack: 1d20 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 + 4 = 23
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

This time Malleck hits the creature!

Vosil directs one of the eagles to CDG the sleeping triton; the other eagle continues to attack the current triton - it also gets an extra attack as the triton reloads. (Reloading provokes an AoO, yes?)

AoO, Eagle 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Beak, Eagle 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Claw, Eagle 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Claw, Eagle 1: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Unfrigginbelievable

"Now that you have reloaded your weapon, would you kindly shoot your leader" Mordecai commands one of the tritons.

Murderous command on T1, DC16

Xeram starts a sleep spell (DC14), aimed on a square to catch Nenarius as well.
No will check needed since i'm not actually targeting the guy, correct me if i'm wrong.

Completing a second casting of sleep, this instance targeting an area to include Nenarius, but not an eagle, he watches the results of his spell.

DC17 Will vs sleep

@Vosil: What HD are your eagles?

Round 3

Seeing the area becoming a little crowded and not wanting to catch the eagles in this sleep spells, Taeral will begin to shoot the tritons with his bow.

Shortbow @ T1: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17
Damage, Shortbow: 1d6 ⇒ 3

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On Going Effects: Iron Circlet, Surface Elf in garb similar to the sailors;

How does Vosil relay his desire to the eagle to coup? You must be able to communicate with them.

Gertrart swings and misses.

Mordecai attempts a spell on T2.

T2 Will Save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16 Success!

Solomon Delays

Xeram commences casting sleep

Taeral drops sleep on only Nerianus

Nerianus Will Save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20 Success

Taeral shoots T1 for 3HP.

Vosil's first eagle whiffs, still trying determine eagle 2's actions.

Malleck shoots Nerianus for 8 DMG.

Solomon dives in and hurls a bomb at T1:

Bomb: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26 Hit
DMG: 2d6 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (2, 6) + 5 + 1 = 14

T1 stops moving.

It splashes Nerianus and the other two Tritons for 5, reflex for half.

Nerianus Reflex: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (3) + 0 = 3 Fail
T2 Reflex: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (10) + 0 = 10 Fail
T3 Reflex: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (15) + 0 = 15 Success, oops, asleep, so he can't reflex.

T3 is awake though now, but we'll see about the Eagles.

Eagles both need reflex DC14 to take 2 DMG vice 5.

Dolphin:
Nerianus: CLW on T1
Triton: Reloading crossbows
Gertrart: Swings menacingly at the elemental
Mordecai: casts spell
Solomon: Delay
Xeram: starts casting sleep
Taeral: drops sleep on Nerianus
Vosil: Eagle 1 completely whiffs!
Malleck: Shoots Nerianus
Solomon: Lobs a bomb

Alrighty then, so the wisest course of action for Nerianus, is likely to be CLW on Nerianus, so let's go with that.

CLW: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

T1 is now a bit under the weather. T2 will shoot, thus provoking some AOOs. T3 just woke up, so he starts to reload.

T2 shoots at:

Random: 1d8 ⇒ 7 Xeram!

Crossbow: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
DMG: 1d10 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

The elemental will attack Gertrart.

Slam: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
DMG: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

The party is up!

WS: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13 sigh

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Xeram's sleep spell goes off, he aims another MM at Nenarius.
MM: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (3, 1) + 2 = 6

Taeral takes another shot with his bow at the previous sleeping triton (T3)

Shortbow: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15
Damage, Shortbow: 1d6 ⇒ 2

"Is someone going to take care of this elemental on deck with us, or just watch Gertrart be pummeled?"

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On Going Effects: Iron Circlet, Surface Elf in garb similar to the sailors;

[dice=WS]1d20+7 sigh

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You made it earlier, you can now attack freely.

Vosil looks mildly put out by the utter ineffectiveness of the two eagles. He spends another use of his power to call something from the vasty deeps: a squid (the eagles vanish into mist as he does this).

The squid attacks! (same triton as before)

Bite: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Damage: 1d3 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

Tentacles: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Grab, free grapple check if tentacles hit (targets CMD): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

Xeram's sleep spell resolves, and Nerianus must make a will save:

Nerianus Will Save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18 Success
Xeram then hits Nerianus with another magic missile spell for 6HP DMG

Taeral shoots T3 for 2 DMG and complains a little!

Vosil summons a squid which hits and grapples T2, only to realize T2 is now out cold as well.

Only E1, T3, and Nerianus are still active combatants, except for the dolphins, who are no threat right now.

Gertrart, Mordecai, and Malleck are still up!

Dolphin:
Nerianus: CLW on self
Triton: sleeping, reloading, shooting
Gertrart:
Mordecai:
Xeram: Completes sleep, casts magic missile
Taeral: Shortbow
Vosil: Summons a squid
Malleck:
Solomon:

oh cool.
Attack: 1d20 + 4 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 + 4 = 24
Thud!: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

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Malleck thumps Nerianus, and knocks him unconscious.

Gertrart slices with the big blade again. 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21,2d4 + 4 ⇒ (4, 4) + 4 = 12
"I'm holding my own for now. Keep at that protected fishy.

"Good work, Malleck!" Mordecai rejoices. With the primary threat knocked down, the tiefling turns onto the nuisance onboard. Shooting flames from his fingertips he hopes to vaporise the elemental.

Burning hands, DC 16: 3d4 ⇒ (1, 3, 3) = 7

Gertrart's blade bites deep into the elemental, and Mordecai finishes it off.

In the new round, T3 takes a shot at Random: 1d8 ⇒ 8 Shade's not here, so roll again, Random: 1d8 ⇒ 8, Shade again! Random: 1d8 ⇒ 7, ahh, Xeram!

So I feel a little idiotic, but perhaps within this group, you all will understand and forgive. At a table this wouldn't work, and you would use the d8, but obviously there's nothing stopping one from Random: 1d7 ⇒ 2 on these forums!

Crossbow: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
DMG: 1d10 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

The party is up!

Last lvl 1 of the day.

MM vs triton shooter: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (3, 1) + 2 = 6

The squid's tentacles throttle the life out of the triton, doing 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (3, 3) + 2 = 8 damage.

CDG: Fort Save DC 18 or die

Last lvl 1 of the day.

[dice=MM vs triton shooter]2d4+2

Which is enough to thump him out.

Combat over!

So, we now have 4 tritons floating and bleeding out in the waters to the side of the ship.

What's the plan?

The squid's tentacles throttle the life out of the triton, doing 2d4+2 damage.

CDG: Fort Save DC 18 or die

No fort save required, that additional damage puts him at -CON, so he dies.

we go fishing

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If Nenarius is 'alive', i reckon we want a word with him. Probably have shade snack upon him after we're done, unless we come up with something evil (we are after all) to do to him instead.
Maybe tie him to the mast to dry?

Xeram carefully removes the bolt that landed in his arm.
"Hmpf, well he didn't get away this time. I propose a 'friendly chat' to find out more from this Nenarius.", he looks at the others.

Charismatic quartet scene 2?

Alright, let’s see here, T2 is dead, so no concerns there.

T1 had a total of 24 damage and got knocked out in round 3?

T3 had a total of 20 damage and got knocked out in round 4

Nerianus had a total of 38 damage and got knocked out in round 3

So, sure enough, T1, T3, and Nerianus all managed to stabilize, so you can haul them onboard.

If needed Gertrart ties a rope around himself and jumps in the water. He will get Narius first, not too worried about retrieving the others.

So, how are we getting those bodies out of the water?

How far from the ship are they?
How close can we get?
Do you want a jump check?
Swim check?

If needed Gertrart ties a rope around himself and jumps in the water. He will get Narius first, not too worried about retrieving the others.

How far from the ship are they?

How close can we get?
Do you want a jump check?
Swim check?

Gertrart aka Blood Desecrator wrote:

If needed Gertrart ties a rope around himself and jumps in the water. He will get Narius first, not too worried about retrieving the others.

We'll go with 25' from the ship. No need to jump, Gravity will handle that, but swim checks, yes. Call it DC10 to swim at half speed on the way out. DC 12 if you're trying to haul one of them back to the boat.

Sound reasonable?

take a rope or 2 with. Tie them to the others and those on the ship can haul them in. Abd tie a rope to yourself. Dont want you drowning on us

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Aye, rope around me. Throw two more with grappling hooks over the tritons. Gertrart jumps over the rail & disguises himself as a triton, then swims to the shaman. Grabbing the recurring pain in our buts, "Haul me now," he swims back.

swim: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10swim: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

"Physical labour is a wonderful thing - I could watch it for hours..." Vosil muses, half out loud.

"This little skirmish does throw up some tactical lacunae in our arsenal - namely, our inability to be deadly at range. As my power increases, I can summon more dangerous beasts, but I will never have the magical firepower that some of us have already. Something to think on, perhaps - how can we improve our ranged effectiveness?"

Ok, so I had debated screwing with you using the two dolphins still swimming about, but I'm going to avoid that temptation.

Ok then, so you have the four tritons bodies onboard, three of which are technically still alive.

Not for long, Shade looks happy at the prospect of sushi.

I was expecting trouble from the dolphins, cold water or both. :) I planned to focus on retrieving their leader. Would they one-shot me?

Not at d4+1 damage.

What's the plan? We killing them? Looting? (loot list given above) Torturing? Healing them up and setting them on their way?

my suggestion stands. Hang them to dry

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I believe we already know why they where attacking us... some crazy Mitra vision for Nerianus. Should never trust these 'Good' gods. They just lead you to your death against the 'Evil' guys.

Until 5th level (7th?) I can't use his blood to power your weapons. Do what you will. Anyone able to identify?