Sharing the love.....
Hnoss is hit and tripped; 33 h.p. damage by head one.
Head two attacks Stiggy, hits a.c. 40, does 35 h.p. damage, and trips cmd 32.
Head three attacks Claw, hits a.c. 35, does 33 h.p. damage, no dr penetration, and trips cmd 36.
Head four attacks Gjetost, hits a.c. 39, does 38 h.p. in damage, and trips cmd 34.
Head five attacks Elgan, hits a.c. 32, does 34 h.p. in damage, and trips cmd 39.
IF you weren't hit by the bite attack, there's no way the trip succeeded, no matter what the cmd roll
and
there's no aoo's against these trip attacks; just like with wolves.
GROUP'S ATTACK!!! ATTACK AT WILL!!!!!
Pip casts the haste spell, his magical singing sword keeping his morale song rolling
Stig shrugs off the trollwolfthings attack and returns its assault with equal fervour.
Claw topples over. He clambers back to his feet and continues to advance on the monster.
Gjetost gets swept off his feet. As he climbs back up, he clobbers the trollwolfthing once.
Pip casts the haste spell, his magical singing sword keeping his morale song rolling
1d20+19;1d8+11
Pip cues Benny Hill sax on his teammates, and they switch into high gear.
His arrow, though, skims the beast at a bad angle, ricochets somewhat like a skipping rock, and thunks against a wall.
Stig shrugs off the trollwolfthings attack and returns its assault with equal fervour.
Claw topples over. He clambers back to his feet and continues to advance on the monster.
Gjetost gets swept off his feet. As he climbs back up, he clobbers the trollwolfthing once.
Stiggy hits all four times, and the beast looks hard ridden, broken bones in many places.
Claw moves up, unhindered, and mighty Gjetost harrows the foe hard, looking at Stiggy with respect, possibly fear.
Happy with a retcon, seeing as this thing has been going on so long IRL and all.
I guess I'll put Bel at f10;
he jams his scimitar up into the thing's ribcage behind the clavicles, going for a lung gouge. A small squirter is caused by the thin rapier, spraying Beldan's face with wet warmth.
Elgan; Vilya up to bat, then Hnoss, and.....it. Again.
Elgan takes a hit from the wolftrollthngs barage of bites, and even his stoneyskin charm only takes the edge of the behemoths' bite.
The beast's blow knocks the elvish druid right off Gtehost's shoulder, but the nimble druid-hawk spreads his wings and takes flight, circling above the ugly bugger with a gleam in his eye,...
The avian druid warbles a chant, and hacks a fiery lugie at the behemoth.
(It's not like he can really MISS a thing that big!?!)
Altai moves a little closer before blasting the beast with rays of fire.
The bird and the wizard blast the thing with fire; after a full frontal assault from Stiggy and co. the creature is nigh o'erwhelmed and falls spasming in the bones.
End of combat.
10,900 experience points each.
Again, there's a hallway out of this ossuarial entryroom, going north, and it's about 10 feet wide.
Hnoss is able to heal everybody up to max.
"Wow. That thing was ugly."
Beldan looks at the grotesque corpse, then at the hallway ahead.
"Keep going?"
Far off, something.....bellows horribly.
"Ooooh. That sounds like... this thing's ugly mother! Or some sorta dinosaur. Take your pick."
At the bellow, Beldan sighs. “I guess I’ll scout ahead,” he says.
He grabs the edges of his cloak and turns into a bat, then flaps off down the corridor to scout ahead.
"Ooooh. That sounds like... this thing's ugly mother! Or some sorta dinosaur. Take your pick."
Pip laughs
"Well, I name this thing Grundel, so bring on Grundel's mother!"
At the bellow, Beldan sighs. “I guess I’ll scout ahead,” he says.
He grabs the edges of his cloak and turns into a bat, then flaps off down the corridor to scout ahead.
Beldan creeps forward into the hall north.....
Beldan/whoever rolls with him;
Suddenly,....up ahead, you can hear metal striking a stone wall. Multiple....metal things. Striking stone wall. You see nothing else, as of the first time you hear this.
Everybody, including Beldan, who's scouting ahead.....
You can now hear the "tink tink!!! tink tink!!!" sound of (presumably) miners, up ahead, going at the stone caverns with their picks...
"So, what do you think it is? Miners or ninjas practicing with their throwing stars?"
No ninjas in Asgard. I promise.
I haven't read any of the playtest; been busy this last month...
"So, what do you think it is? Miners or ninjas practicing with their throwing stars?"
Pip pauses
"Knowing this plane, I vote for Crystalline Ice Spiders with Adamantium claws on all eight of their legs."
Ponders some more
"Oh with a purple worm attached to their backs too."
hmmmm......
No ninjas in Asgard. I promise.
;P
heh heh. heh heh heh....
I just got a f$@%ed up idea.
Beldan heads back to the main group, on foot, scanning the passage for traps as he goes.
When he gets back he reports, “passage seems clear ahead for at least 100 feet or so, around a few twists and turns. Then I heard something. Yeah, maybe miners Altai … I don’t know what a ninja is to be honest. It sounds like it’d be pretty pansy though, throwing stars around like that. Does it throw rainbows and unicorns as well? Anyway, we’ll head back to where I got to and then I’ll scout ahead again.”
So Beldan will head towards where he heard the sound, on foot this time:
Altai tiptoes after Beldan, bazooka staff at the ready.
Beldan's able to get to where the cavern hall spills into a massive room; it swings left about 30 or forty feet, then heads north, like the bottom of a "C." Around the corner to the north he can hear many "tinktink.....tinktink's."
Definitely miners; and not fiendish rockpeckers or something that ludicrous.
Does Beldan want to go forward, and peek around the corner?
Anybody else want to do anything?
I'm calling that Beldan and Altai are, at the moment, at the tip of the bottom of the massive "C" shaped cavern where the hallway enters it, and cannot see up the north/south running body of the "C." Bel doesn't see any traps, and at his position, cannot see any "miners." He can, however, see that there appears to be some modicum of fragile light source coming from the north/south wing of the "C", but that's about it.
Definitely miners; and not fiendish rockpeckers or something that ludicrous.
too low of a CR.....
...
Pip sneaks after Beldan, arrow nocked
Stealth:
Elgan turns into a (normal-sized) cat, and tippy-toes after Beldan.
stealth:
Elgan is the loudest housecat. Ever.
That's crazy; hope you get somewhere groovy soon.
Today, lawnmowing turned into lawnmower maintenance, then that turned into replacement of a doorknob, the old one actually required hacksawing through metal to remove. It was either that or remove the door from the hinges, and that looked like a bigger mess.
I'll be back in a bit, for now, I have to go get some groceries. If I don't get called in on call, maybe I'll be back in a little while.
First, though, I have to get the grungy black oily crap off my hands from the doorknob.
That might be in the works, after a fashion. They run sortuva gamut if memory serves.
You got "Durin" who seem tolkieny, then there's "Modsognir," gnarly little goombahs who make non weapon magic items. Durin make weapons....
Setup.....a-l across the BOTTOM, 1-6 UP the side; (as of yet, from your vantage point you can't see the entirety of this room).
Beldan's advance at k1.
K1-L1 is the northward running hall you're in; you can count it negative integers and backwards if you want to position partymembers behind Beldan.
The bottom wing of the "c" shaped room is a5 down to a2, then the south wall goes from a2 to j2; the passage in is at k and l. the east wall is L2 to L6, then the north wall stretches the top of L5 to F5.
So it curves around at A6-f6, but you guys can't see around that corner. You can HEAR miners, though, around that corner.
What do you do?
Is everybody coming forward? What's Scouty Mr. Beldan up to?
Beldan stealths across to G5, then peers around the corner.
Beldan:
He sees miners; little sloppy, wiry, greasy and disheveled dwarves, with lanterns on their heads, and pickaxes going at the walls, at f22,f19,f17,f15,f12,a21,a18,a15,a12,a9, and a7.
He also sees 2 massive multilegged (10 or 12 legs) long, reptilian, dragonlike things, clinging to the walls 20 feet above the floor, at def 19-21, and abc 16-18. The two multilegged drakes each have two riders. None of these seem to see Beldan. He has them all dead-to-rights at the current moment.
Also, centered at d24, a 10 foot radius half globe of shimmering energy seems to be apparent.
What's everybody else doing?.....
Beldan tiptoes back to the others and whispers. “There’s a bunch of depressing dwarf-looking fellows with pick axes and lanterns on their heads hacking away at the walls. About ten of them. Then theres two things that look like big lizard, dragon things but with lots of legs, clinging to the walls. Each of them have two riders. Ah, and kind of in the middle of the place theres this dome of shimmering energy.”
Everybody can read the spoiler, in the interest of less confusion regarding the map.
The riders were two humanoids on each lizard, can't tell for sure between the distance and the crappy lighting and parts of the lizards in the way. All you know for sure is "medium sized humanoids."
The dwarves seemed to be shacked about the feet; couldn't move their legs too dextrously.
Yes; the half globe was a indeed a dome, rising up from the floor.
“Those lizard things look evil to me,” whispers Beldan, “or at least unfriendly. I say we take them. If the dwarf guys don’t attack us we should leave them be, I think they’re slaves. Maybe they’ll help us if we set them free?”
...
“Those lizard things look evil to me,” whispers Beldan, “or at least unfriendly. I say we take them. If the dwarf guys don’t attack us we should leave them be, I think they’re slaves. Maybe they’ll help us if we set them free?”
<Stig sneers at Beldan.>
"Ay coorse they will, an' ay coorse we ur. Ur we nae dwarves?"