Zed frowns up at the creatures. "Can we fight them at this disadvantage? Or try talking?"
Grork, I be! the meanest looking Troll shouts back. An' we're talking this place for ourselves!
"From whom are you taking it?"
Well.... uh.... scary dog keeps us out. But Grork is smart and he will think of a way in. Then we take place for ourselves! the Troll replies, raising a massive crossbow and levelling it at the investigator.
Speaking in a lower tone, not toward the trolls, Constantin says, "At a guess I think someone was experimenting with troll blood - hence the hounds - and some of it wasn't as inert as expected."
The sight of the trolls sets off an animal growl from deep within Vermundr's chest. "Out of our way monsters! We have business with the castle's master and you'll find no children to bake into your bread among us."
Upon hearing Vermundr's words, the lead troll becomes incensed and he fires his crossbow bolt at the warrior, the bolt almost the size of a javelin!
Following his lead, the others begin raining down rocks at the group.
Miss
Miss
Miss
The attacks miss but the group know now that the trolls aren't going to give up their 'prize' without a fight.
Kaz sends a rock - albeit a much smaller one - back at the trolls.
Vermundr tries the gate.
Vermundr runs over to the two heavy doors that sit in the wall of the gatehouse and gives them an almighty shove with his shoulder. To his surprise, they actually swing open!
The gates open on a broad chamber with a vaulted roof. Two large fires burn in the room, and spiral stairways climb up in each corner toward the ceiling. The gate on the far side of the room is barricaded on the inside with timber and furniture.
A pair of goblins, a male and a female, cower in one corner of the chamber.
Zed watches as Vermundr simply pushes open the door. You have got to be kidding me. He shakes his head and moves in.
"Let's use our speed while we have it!" suggests Constantin as he follows Vermundr.
KAz has not used a move action yet - he will follow VermundR in...
Vala rushes up to Zed as the group spills through the gate and nods to the top of the gatehouse where the troll with the crossbow lurks. "I can get you up there in an instant, Zed. That troll looks like trouble!"
HP: 39/39
Negative Energy Resist 5
AC: 14 (10 T / 14 FF)
CMD: 14
F/R/W: +5/+2/+9 (+2 vs death effects, energy drain, negative energy, & necromancy)
Monstrous Insight used: 0/7
Wand of CLW: 14/50 remaining
Heaven's Leap targets:
Current Wandering Spirit: Heavens
Stardust used: 1/7
Prepared spells
Orisons (4) | DC 14: dancing lights, disrupt undead, identify, read magic
Level 1 spells (3+1+1*) | DC 15: color spray* [ ], inflict light wounds [ ], magic missile [ ] [ ], produce flame (CL7) [ ]
Level 2 spells (3+1+1*) | DC 16: hypnotic pattern* [ ], glitterdust [ ], spiritual weapon [ ] [ ] [ ]
Level 3 spells (2+1+1*) | DC 17: daylight*[ ], fly [ ], lightning bolt [ ] [ ]
Ongoing Effects
haste (4/6 rounds): +1 to hit, +1 to AC and Ref, +30ft movement
Zed half-turns with an inquisitive glance, them bends his knees and nods. Pitched combat is not the time to question your allies.
The Trolls cry out in alarm as the pale-skinned man appears in the tower with them in a glittering arc of magic.
However, they soon regain their composure and launch at the inquisitor with tooth and claw. He defends himself manfully but in the pressed quarters it is inevitable that some attacks break through
Hit
Miss
Miss
Hit
Meanwhile the troll in the other tower stomps down the stairs and into the courtyard, ripping the door off at it's hinges as it appears in the doorway, snarling and furious.
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Zed quickly switches into his defensive stance, going for quick jabs. As he does so he is surrounded by a faint black energy, stitching together his wounds.
/2 = 8
/2 = 7
As the other troll lumbers down to the door, Vala lightly taps Vermundr on the shoulder, steering him through a shimmering disc of air to appear up in the tower with Zed and trolls, opposite of the dhampir. "Help Zed, we'll deal with this one!"
HP: 39/39
Negative Energy Resist 5
AC: 15 (11 T / 14 FF)
CMD: 14
F/R/W: +5/+3/+9 (+2 vs death effects, energy drain, negative energy, & necromancy)
Monstrous Insight used: 0/7
Wand of CLW: 14/50 remaining
Heaven's Leap targets: Zed, Vermundr
Current Wandering Spirit: Heavens
Stardust used: 1/7
Prepared spells
Orisons (4) | DC 14: dancing lights, disrupt undead, identify, read magic
Level 1 spells (3+1+1*) | DC 15: color spray* [ ], inflict light wounds [ ], magic missile [ ] [ ], produce flame (CL7) [ ]
Level 2 spells (3+1+1*) | DC 16: hypnotic pattern* [ ], glitterdust [ ], spiritual weapon [ ] [ ] [ ]
Level 3 spells (2+1+1*) | DC 17: daylight*[ ], fly [ ], lightning bolt [ ] [ ]
Ongoing Effects
haste (5/6 rounds): +1 to hit, +1 to AC and Ref, +30ft movement
Vermundr steps through Vala's bridge in space arriving adjacent the trolls. Unlike Zed, the big northerner is a wrecking ball bristling with anger over generations of warfare with trollkind.
Still bolstered by Constantin's psychic spell, he cleaves into the giants.
Kaz launches a spread of magic missiles against the troll in the courtyard.
Hazel finds herself almost face to face with the slobbering troll and armed with a shortbow rather than hr favoured weapon. Nevertheless, she raises it and fires, sending an arrow gleaming with holy power at the horrid thing before her.
Hit
and
The troll in the courtyard lumbers out of the doorway and snaps it's jaws out at Hazel. It peels away a strip of flesh from her arm before she is able to deflect it's pair of claw attacks.
Hit
The assumed leader of the trolls meanwhile throws himself at Zed but the inquisitor is ready for it and dodges a trio of deadly attacks.
Miss
Miss
Miss
With the tide of the battle turned Zed switches back to the offensive with big loping swings.
Vermundr climbs atop the fallen troll to hack at the next.
Vala skates back a few steps from the hideous troll in their midst and calls an orb of scintillating fire to her hand.
HP: 39/39
Negative Energy Resist 5
AC: 15 (11 T / 14 FF)
CMD: 14
F/R/W: +5/+3/+9 (+2 vs death effects, energy drain, negative energy, & necromancy) (includes +1 from haste)
Monstrous Insight used: 0/7
Wand of CLW: 14/50 remaining
Heaven's Leap targets: Zed, Vermundr
Current Wandering Spirit: Heavens
Stardust used: 1/7
Prepared spells
Orisons (4) | DC 14: dancing lights, disrupt undead, identify, read magic
Level 1 spells (3+1+1*) | DC 15: color spray* [ ], inflict light wounds [ ], magic missile [ ] [ ], produce flame (CL7) [X]
Level 2 spells (3+1+1*) | DC 16: hypnotic pattern* [ ], glitterdust [ ], spiritual weapon [ ] [ ] [ ]
Level 3 spells (2+1+1*) | DC 17: daylight*[ ], fly [ ], lightning bolt [ ] [ ]
Ongoing Effects
haste (6/6 rounds): +1 to hit, +1 to AC and Ref, +30ft movement
produce flame (1/7 minutes)
Constantin points and flares with psychic energy as he launches ectoplasmic bolts of force into the still-standing troll.
Hazel will drop her bow, draw her Starknife and strike once!
Hit