Paddy is first to see a frost giant, watching the party's progress through the treacherous alpine passes from a ledge some 80 feet above them.... The rogue spies the stealthy giant through a bird-like eye on his tunic of eyes, not giving away the fact that Paddy noticed him to the frost giant stalker....
A few hundred feet away from The Lusty Fools, concealed from their view on an overlooking mountain ledge across a ravine, Flinga the frost giantess observes her brother Einar observing the band of mountaineering adventurers as they traverse an icy ridge far below....
Turning to her monstrous companion, an abomination like a bipedal chimera in nature and form, she grins....
In Giant: Ha! Now we shall get to see you in action, my weird, three-headed friend! Get ready to do what the Beast, the Devil, and the Anti-Christ bred you to do! There's fresh meat for the stew pots down yonder, and we aim to be the ones to taste it!
Don't you fret, my great, big beauty! Ye shall soon see what we chimerians were bred for! GRRRR!!! BAAAAA-ah-ah-ah!!! HISSSS!!!
The Lusty Fools have entered the Duchy of Savoy, in the Piedmont region of the Italian Alps....
As The Lusty Fools are moving single file along a narrow, icy mountain ledge , some 90 ft long and 5 feet wide, running from west to east, with a sheer mountain wall to the north and a sheer drop (some 200 ft into a misty ravine) to the south, they are suddenly ambushed by a band of alpine frost giants and their chimerian allies!
There are two frost giants standing on a ledge some 80 ft above the heroes on the mountainside north of them, and another two stand on another ledge, 140 ft above the heroes and 60 ft south of them across the deep ravine.... All four giants begin to pick up icy boulders to hurl down at their prey....
A pair of chimerians back the frost giants up, circling on the wing some 120 ft over the heroes' heads like great buzzards!
On your guard, lads....there is something big up ahead...very big....they might be giants....
On your guard, lads....there is something big up ahead...very big....they might be giants....
[dice=init]1d20+10
Initiative! Eeeeeek!! Eeeeek!!
"Bowling For Alpine!" Round One!
Paddy!
Alphonse!
Chimerians (2)!
Frost Giants (4)!
TBD: Iommi! Nacht! Hisao!
OOOH!! OOOH!!
No worries, buddy, work comes before play. Whenever you get the time.
Paddy sneaks up on the closest opponent and strikes with his blade.
Paddy sneaks up on the closest opponent and strikes with his blade.
[dice=shank you very much]1d20+9; 1d6+9; 1d6; 3d6
The Giants are on ledges above the ledge the PCs are on, two on a ledge 80 ft directly above the PCs, and two on another ledge on the far side of the ravine to the south, 140 ft up and 60 ft across a 200-ft-deep ravine from the PCs; the two chimerians are flying 120 feet above the PCs.... Therefore, Paddy must scale 80 feet of sheer mountainside to reach the nearest foes--the two frost Giants on the ledge 80 ft above the PCs....
The mountain wall leading up to the nearer pair of Giants is treacherously sheer....
The narrow ledge on which the PCs now stand leads some 80 feet to a northward bend that disappears from sight around the mountainside to their north.... Perhaps it leads to a switchback or other means of reaching the ledge 80 ft above....
Alphonse begins to hustle and bustle his way around the bend.
Paddy vanishes from sight as he dashes ahead of the party up the ledge....
Alphonse clanks along as quickly as he can in his shining full plate....
The rumble of boulders falling from higher ledges echoes throughout the Alps, accompanied by the roar of frost giants and the monstrous cacophony of roaring, hissing, and bleating that erupts from the chimeras' triune throats!
This monstrous sonic assault causes an avalanche to cascade down the mountainside upon the Lusty Fools!
[dice=Ref]1d20+13
God apparently has more work for Alphonse to do.... Miraculously, no boulders or ice chunks larger than a chicken strike the young paladin as he slides and shuffles along through the slide zone of the avalanche, and he finds himself no worse for wear at the end of the harrying ride!
[dice=reflex]1d20+19
Alphonse nimbly evades the avalanche, giving a demonstration of Olympic-level snowboarding skill some 600 years before the sport is invented....
It feels cold....
So cold....
Hisao goes invisible, ethereal, and with a climb speed of 20 feet moves as fast as he can up the wall more like an ascending mist than anything human.
[dice=Init]1d20+13
Hisao goes invisible, ethereal, and with a climb speed of 20 feet moves as fast as he can up the wall more like an ascending mist than anything human.
Invisible and ethereal, Hisao ascends halfway up to the overhead cliff (80 ft above, so the ninja is halfway there at 40 ft up) as a cascade of snow and boulders tumbles past and through his ghost-like form!
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Rd 1:
Iommi-Tyr Magnusson drinks a potion of Fly and flies up around 120 feet to any wide ledge or available area, putting himself about 35-45 feet (depending on available spaces) above the Frost Giants.
[dice=Initiative]1d20 +7
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Rd 1:
Iommi-Tyr Magnusson drinks a potion of Fly and flies up around 120 feet to any wide ledge or available area, putting himself about 35-45 feet (depending on available spaces) above the Frost Giants.
"Bowling For Alpine!" Round Two!
Paddy!
Hisao!
Iommi-Tyr!
Alphonse!
Chimerians (2)!
Frost Giants (4)!
TBD: Nacht (and Round 1 actions)!
OOOH!! OOOH!!
Paddy continues up the slope towards the giants.
Rd 2
Do the Chimerians have any kind of Breath Weapon or other ranged attack; what do I know about their Breath Weapon AoE, if they have one?
Iommi-Tyr Magnusson Readies an Action to throw a Bomb at a Chimerian when they fly within 30' of me they have a Breath Weapon.
If they do not I throw a Bomb at a Frost Giant that is adjacent to as many other Frost Giants as possible.
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