Kings' patron - Worg Hunters

Game Master Mardavig

”Hey! You said boss fight. She's not the boss, leave her out of it. I offered to help you and you still want to fight. I'm right here.”

Raven faces Auchs, no weapons drawn.

ready to trip if he charges..
Trip: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18

If Kazz' diplomacy appears to be unsuccessful, Alexio tries a different approach.

"Maybe you should instead try somebody your own size, unless you are too scared, " he says trying to look as large as possible.

Intimidate: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

Otherwise, he will try to intercept Auchs as he moves toward Raven.

Auchs steps away from Hithil. "No more tricks," he says. "We're going to do a boss fight. One of you has to fight Auchs, or your not boss."

Akiros steps up at this time. "He is right, any bandit may challenge the leader, and the challenge must be answered, otherwise no man would follow you." He gestures towards the assembled bandits who are all in agreement. "The stag mistress or her second must answer the challenge."

Was in a accident yesterday, so will post again after weekend. And yes, I'm okay. Just muscles and such that are sore. :) Can Zartana have the bow? she can use it?

Hope everyone else was alright as well. I'm sure we can work out something afterward, it is exactly what Zartana and Dregan each need so we might need to flip a coin for it.

Glad to hear you are OK, Zartana.

Alexio shifts his eyes around and tries to look at the rest of the group without being obvious.

That guy is quite large, he thinks, Does Raven need to handle it or can one of us do it?

Do we need to have a strategy discussion?

Raven's honor depends on this fight. She will keep that Trip readied as she speaks.

Raven shakes her head. "My friends, Auchs has challenged me and I accepted. If I am found wanting, then let another leader step forth."

She turns to Auchs. "If you want to be boss Auchs, you're gonna have to earn it."

As Raven accepts the challenge, Kazz takes a step back from the situation, his grey features impassive. Bow held loose at his waist with an arrow knocked.

The bandits begin clearing space on the floor for the Stag Mistress and Auchs to have their boss fight. The mood goes from quiet to boisterous as wagers begin flying fast and furious over who will win.

Auchs tries to pick up his club, but find it is too slippery to hold onto. “Tricks,” he mutters to himself. “You can’t fight with weapons if I don’t have my club,” he says, gesturing at Raven.

It only lasts 1 minute.

Seeing the grease disappear from his weapons Auchs scoops it up."Haha," he cries. "No more tricks elfy," he says wagging a finger at Hithil, "or I'll kill you next."

"Alright, let's do a boss fight!" he yells, and the bandits roar in excitement. He comes out swinging, but not surprisingly, Raven is up first in the init.

Anyone want to take a swing at this guy?

I do believe that is up to Raven. As I understand it, the rest of us getting involved would destroy Raven's honor...

Yeah, I already tried that. Thought we would just disarm him and kill him, but guess not.

Raven wants to meet the challenge, I'm not about to deny her that.

Can I still keep that readied trip?

Sure,

Auchs charges towards raven his club swinging. She uses her readied action to trip him, provoking an attack of opportunity. As he falls his club flails and catches raven. She takes 8 damage . He then uses his remaining action to get back up.

Round 2 raven is up again.

Wincing from the solid blow, Raven starts to second guess her decision. Hesitation kills. Recovering from her revery she quickly leaps backwards away from the giant man and her wrist daggers pop out. No AoO for Raven for him attempting to get back up?

"That was a good hit, but you said no weapons. You cheated. This fight is over."

Diplomacy? Diplomacy: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

Alexio looks on and grimaces when the blow hits Raven. I hope she knows what she is getting into, he thinks, then adds to himself, They are honor less bandits, so I could intervene without an issue, I think.

He continues to look on, hand on the hilt of his longsword while waiting for some manner of sign from Raven to intervene.

Back.

Zartana simply looks on, these feuds and traditions were starnge, she understood them, but to her mind it still felt strange

Well he was disarmed a munute ago. Honor is deadly.

Kazz winces slightly as Raven takes a brutal blow, hand twitching on his bow but it remains lowered.

This guy only has the one opportunity attack. Are you sure you didn't want to attack him before moving away? The no weapons argument doesn't seem to hold much weight with the crowd, who are baying for blood and making last second side bets that the stag mistress will go down without a fight.

I think she meant that Auchs provoked when he stood up from prone as a standard action?

If no one is looking, she will cast Dancing Lights, Will o Wisps form, around his head/face

Spell like ability

You know, that's a good point. Take the opportunity attack. And then take another attack if you like.

And if anyone wants to make a sense motive to assess the crowd of bandits please feel free.

In that case...

Kazz's shadowy mentor offers the kayal some insight...

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20

The mood is dark and bloodthirsty. If raven loses these men will turn on all of you.

But what is likely to happen if we intervene on her behalf? Would they not turn on us anyway? That's the impression I got. This is agreed upon single combat...

Knowledge local?

Knowledge(Local): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Lol, I'd hoped to get at least the 10 I max out at untrained but that's really not going to do it. Summoners, not known for their knowledge skills...

Kazz has no idea what these bandits will do.

So then a little retconning...

Wincing from the solid blow, but satisfied that he is on his face, she leaps on top of him as he begins stands up. They will kill my companions if I fail.

Her wrist dagger stabs at him as he stands back up.

AoO attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14
AoO damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

"We can play by your cheap rules if you want, Auchs, but remember, I've offered them a chance at a new life. What do you have?"

Her other hand draws her shortsword and slices down at him.

Regular Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Regular Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Lo.. the dice gods have seen fit to end my reign as quickly as they give it..

The wrist dagger gives Auchs a tiny cut on his face as he gets back up.

As Raven swings the short sword Auchs just knocks it aside, and roars. "Dovan was Auchs friend!"

Club Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 211d6 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9

I am typing the following without knowing the result of the above dice roll. Let's see what the result is.

EDIT:Wow, Raven takes a hit and goes down. The bandits are all on their feet roaring. I'll let you react to that and tell you what happens next in a few hours. Looks like everyone will be getting a chance to fight after all.

Wish we would have killed that brute when he was unarmed. This is going to get nasty, really fast.

Hithil moves about to the back of the tavern, ready to cast a acid splash.

Yeah, Raven is really not built for combat...looking at it now there was only one way this was ever going to go. Aside form substituting one of our other members though I'm not really certain what else we could have done?

Initiative: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23

As Raven falls under the huge man's club, Kazz's black bow comes up in one smooth motion, firing before Auchs can finish his opponent.

Longbow: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Crit. Deck 1: 1d52 ⇒ 33 Double Damage + Filth Fever DC 13
Crit. Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Crit. Deck 2: 1d52 ⇒ 8 Normal Damage +1d8 Bleed
Bleed Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 4

Edit 2 : This is correct for crits, yes?

Dregan shouts across the crowd and yell "Staglord I chalenge you to single combat for leadership." Without waiting for a reply he lets lose the arrow he has had ready.

Attack Rapid shot and focus: 1d20 + 6 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 6 - 2 + 2 = 19 point blank not included (+1 to hit and damages if within 30ft)
Damage: 1d8 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 3 + 2 = 8
Attack Rapid shot and focus: 1d20 + 6 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 6 - 2 + 2 = 21
Damage: 1d8 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 3 + 2 = 11

Since everyone is shooting, Hithil gets in on the act and launches an acid orb at the big brute just in case.

Ranged TOUCH Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
Damage: 1d3 ⇒ 3

Whether Auchs falls to one arrow or three, Kazz pulls another from his quiver and looks at the gathered bandits, "Anyone else?"

Welcome to the cluster party. Who here thought that this had been too easy? Most of you sat in a stairwell while Raven did all the work. Sometimes an easy win doesn't last.

Raven goes down, that brutal nail spiked club bashes her in the head.

Kazz, Dregan and Hithil all fire simultaneously on Auchs, killing him.

The other bandits roar again, drawing their weapons. "KILL THEM!" they shout.

This entire time you've been in this room, Z5. As usual the map does not do justice to the scene described within it. So I've done my best to array things as best suits us. There are only 20 bandits on the map, there are 40 in the fort total, plus a few leftenants. Akiros and Kenaniah are on your side, but you are pretty solidly outnumbered. I've put you at the back so that you have a defensible position.

initiative

• Group A Alexio, Akiros, Zartana, Raven, kenaniah and Dregan
  
• A ton of bandits
  
• Group B Hithil, Kazz

Let's do this

I click on the link, no map.

Since you all would have seen it I should add there is a captive owlbear in Z6.

I can't see the map, either.

Alexio draws his longsword and grips his shield, looking for a defensible position.

"Look for an spot to defend and get behind me. If we can minimize how many bandits can engage at once it minimizes their advantage of numbers."

Ideally, we'd find a choke point and defend that while archers and magic users cast over the top of us. Another option would be to try to grab Raven and try to get back to the tunnel. Until I see the map, I'm not sure if that is even feasible.

My bad, how does this look for you guys.

My bad, how does this look for you guys.

The map link works. But, how does it look? Like we're about to die. Ha!

Kazz adds his voice to Alexio's, "Pull back, we can hold them at the entrance!"

"Shoot any that go for me" Dregan says to Kazz as he rushes forward, grabs Raven's wrist and drags her back towards the party as fast as he can.

so my dancing lights did nothing it seems?

Nice job guys... so how about escape plan? We run? We have darkness to help us...

Dregan grabs raven and hauls her back behind the Darkness ranks.

Anyone else?

Dregan grabs raven and hauls her back behind the Darkness ranks.

Anyone else?

Do you mean, anyone in initiative group A, or anyone?