As lump successfully retreats, Grobly will also make his withdrawal, using the brush and cliff face behind him to his advantage as he attempts to circle back around to the group.
Lump also heads back to the group cautiously, ready to be rid of these giants.
Lump and Grobly make it back to the group successfully. Your stealth skills and distance, and noise by the giants basically ensure success. Once back at the group, it is a waiting game.
The two giants remain sleeping for a while yet, almost an hour passes during which the remaining giant busies himself with various inane activities. He eats, disappears into the bushes to relieve himself and returns to the fire. He takes a few swigs from the waterskin and eats more of the charred goat meat, crunching bones and gristle.
He looks at the skin funny, as if notices the odd taste. He looks inside the skin but as one may predict he can't really see into the dark skin, and the laxative added pretty much dissolved or coated the sides, so he notices nothing. He grows bored after a bit, and then gets a strange look on his face, holds his hands over his stomach and scrunches up his face.
The giant stands and stumbles awkwardly toward the brush. He looks pale if that is possible considering the filth and sunburnt skin. he doesn't make it to the bushes in time and you hear and see the results of your laxative potion on the giant. You are happy you cannot smell it.
"we should look to do what we want soon." Grobly whispers. "maybe we follow that one when he goes to clean himself? If he does so.." Grobly adds as an afterthought.
"We should strike now, either trying to coup de grace the sleepers while giant McPoopypants deals with his brown-trousers, or we take down the awake one. We can also wait for the others to wake and drink and get sick, but I don't know if we would have a better chance until they went to sleep. I wonder when they will leave this site. It doesn't seem like they will stay long. If we do attack now, we need a few moments to cast some battle spells."
My plan for battle:
Mage armor from Taya
Shield extract
Expeditious Retreat extract
Long Arm extract
Mutagen enabled
Lead blades spell
Primal Transformation - tentacles
Tumor for protection
Stance of Aggression
Cheetah's sprint if needed
Summon Nature's Ally for flank if needed
Maneuvers as the situation requires
I would need about 6-7 rounds to get spells ready.
"I think we should target the sleepers and kill them while they sleep. Attacking the awake one could result in the sleepers joining before he is dead."
Grobbly nods at Karkorans tactical advice. "I too could use a few moments to prepare for combat. "
Grobbly is looking to prepare with:
Enlarge person extract
Expiditious retreat extract
Mutagen
Magic fang spell
Any other buffs the others can share.
Grossly makes it clear to Bazzt to stay out of range of the Giants attacks. Vast will take to the air and keep an eye on the awake giant.
"I can protect myself and the minotaur with mage armor spells." Taya says.
"Is the plan to sneak up and try to kill the two sleepers before they wake?" she asks.
"Yes, I think if we sneak through the brush, and take them out quickly, hopefully while the one is distracted, we should be able to do it fast enough. We can even coup de grace them simultaneously."
"Two of us can attack each of them and then the other can run interference with the sick one. We do need to try to be sneaky on the approach."
Taya casts mage armor on herself and Karkoran.
"I can bite them hard! And be sneaky. Maybe I bite one and Kark smashes the other... The rest help us?"
"OK, lets do this!"
Ashe will assist with spellcasting as well.
Shield(self), Shield of Faith(Ashe, Kark), Enlarge Person(self), Long Arm(self), Bouncy Body(self)
"Taya do you have a mage armor to spare? I didn't memorize it today. Also, if things go badly, I think I can probably grapple one of them to keep him busy. I hope."
Ok, let me know when you are all prepared and what your plan and positions will be and we will see how this goes down.
Taya will Mage Armor Ash as well.
I've placed Taya on the map.
roll to sneak there.
Lump will sneak with the others, his resolve hardened after seeing the waterskin, clearly the work of someone who would not be negotiating with them.
With my reach, I can coup de grace the southern giant from within the cover of the brush, and not risk being seen due to my poor stealth.
The group spends a quick half minute getting their spells in order, and then forms up trying to be stealthy. You will probably manage to get through the brush ok, but once in the open keeping your entire gang from being noticed by the giant may be a challenge.
Grobly and me on the northern giant, Ash and Karkoran on the southern giant?
Grobly will sneak up with the group after he has buffed himself. Beyond the magical, the Goblin will also find some mud and paint some rather primitive war marks on his face.
Active effects:
Enlarge Person: +2 str, -2dex, -1 attack, -1 ac
Expiditious retreat: +30 speed
Mutagen: +2 ac, +4 str, -2 int
Magic Fang: +1 attack, +1 damage
Lump will try to sneak 30ft separate from whichever group is most likely to need his help.
Tayanella Stealth 14
DC +10 due to sleep, lowest DC is 29
- fail to wake
- fail to wake
DC +5 due to distance, +5 Distraction, lowest DC is 29
- fail to notice
Ok, the group moves into position stealthily. You get there unnoticed while the awake giant is voiding his bowels. This isn't something that would take forever though. You had to cover 120' at 30'/round (half speed stealth), so it takes you 4 rounds to get into place, after the rounds casting your spells. Please take that into account for order of spell casting and remaining durations. All total we will say 11 rounds, a little over a minute, the giant has been 'distracted'.
Grobly sneaks up to his target and likes his lips, a stream of saliva running down his chin. He waits to ensure Karkoran is in position and then opens his jaws wide and bites down on the Giants neck.
Free action: rage
Attack: Bite: +16= 2(BAB) + 10(STR) + 1(Weapon Focus) + 1(Magic Fang) + 2(rage)
2d6 + 15(1.5xSTR)+1(Magic fang) + 2 (rage)
Active effects:
Enlarge Person: +2 str, -2dex, -1 attack, -1 ac (1/2 minutes)
Expiditious retreat: +30 speed (1/2 minutes)
Mutagen: +2 ac, +4 str, -2 int (1/20 minutes)
Magic Fang: +1 attack, +1 damage (1/2 minutes)
Rage: 4tHP, +2 attack, damage, will (1/11 rounds)
Mage armor from Taya: +4 AC (2 hours)
Mutagen enabled: +4 Str, -2 Int (-1 AC), +2 AC (20 minutes)
Stance of Aggression: +1d6 damage, -2 AC (always on)
Shield of Faith from Ashe: +2 AC (20 rounds)
Expeditious Retreat extract +30' move (20 rounds)
Shield extract: +4 AC (20 rounds)
Long Arm extract: +5' reach to 15' (20 rounds)
Lead blades spell: Aklys attacks do 4d6 (20 rounds)
Primal Transformation - tentacles: grow two tentacles (20 rounds)
4 rounds to cast the personal spells with short duration. Some spells come from others. One effect is a swift action.
Total AC Mod: +9 (25)
New Str adds +2 hit/damage
Aklys: 5d6+8 main/5d6+4 offhand
Coup de grace attempt on sleeping hill giant:
DC 64 Fort save.
- fail
Grobly chomps down hard on the neck and blood sprays, there is a crunching as he bites through the jugular and the giant twitches and lurches slightly the blood fanning out in a fine mist to coat the camp. It gurgles and quickly dies, a massive pool of blood forming on the ground.
- fail
Karkoran swings his aklys down on the other giant's face at the same time. There is a sickening crunch as the giant's snoring is cut off abruptly, its face smashed in like a pancake, brain oozing and pieces of skull and skin forming a bloody mush.
The remaining giant notices a disturbance and turns his head to look over his shoulder. While some of the group is still stealthy, he notices the blood and gore, and sees Karkoran in the scrubby brush.
"Graaarrr!"
The group will have a surprise round. Roll initiative for combat.
Remember surprise round actions are a single standard action (plus free/swift).
Surprise Round:
Charge giant moving 35', weapons already drawn and have quick draw.
AC -2 due to charge.
Mage armor from Taya: +4 AC (2 hours)
Mutagen enabled: +4 Str, -2 Int (-1 AC), +2 AC (20 minutes)
Stance of Aggression: +1d6 damage, -2 AC (always on)
Shield of Faith from Ashe: +2 AC (20 rounds)
Expeditious Retreat extract +30' move (20 rounds)
Shield extract: +4 AC (20 rounds)
Long Arm extract: +5' reach to 15' (20 rounds)
Lead blades spell: Aklys attacks do 4d6 (20 rounds)
Primal Transformation - tentacles: grow two tentacles (20 rounds)
4 rounds to cast the personal spells with short duration. Some spells come from others. One effect is a swift action.
Total AC Mod: +9 (25)
New Str adds +2 hit/damage
Aklys: 5d6+8 main/5d6+4 offhand
Taya shoots the giant with her longbow in the surprise round.
Grobly tears his teeth away from the dead giant and roars his name. "Grobly!"
"Oooh! Got them, one left!"
Spells:
Mage armor: +4 ac
Shield(self): +4 ac
Shield of Faith: +2 ac
Enlarge Person: +2 str[+1 hit, +1 dam, +1 cmb/cmd], -2 dex[-1 ac, reflex, init, -1 cmd], size[-1 hit, -1 ac, +size damage dice, +1 cmb/cmd]
Long Arm: +5' reach
Bouncy Body: +2 cmb/cmd - grapple
New armor class 29
Surprise Round action:
Move up by Karkoran. Handle animal, velociraptors flank around other side of giant but don't engage.
Taya shoots the giant with her longbow in the surprise round.
[dice=composite longbow(deadly aim)] 1d20 + 8
[dice=damage] 1d8 + 4
Your arrow hits, striking the giant in the back of the thigh, going deep into his meaty haunch. He howls in pain as he is quickly trying to stand straight from an awkward situation.
huh, I was aiming a little higher....
Surprise round: Grobly will charge the Giant, just behind Karkoran.
Enlarge Person: +2 str, -2dex, -1 attack, -1 ac
Expiditious retreat: +30 speed
Mutagen: +2 ac, +4 str, -2 int
Magic Fang: +1 attack, +1 damage
Rage: 4tHP, +2 attack, damage, will (2/11 rounds)
Attack: Bite: +18=2(BAB) + 7(STR) + 1(Weapon Focus) + 1(Magic Fang) + 2(rage) +2(charge)
2d6 + 10(1.5xSTR)+1(Magic fang) + 2 (rage)
Active ac=15
Charge:
Edit: Crit confirm..
Tayanalla burns a point of ki for an extra attack and shoots three arrows
Lump moves S-S-E 30ft (just between the southernmost dead giant and its sleeping fur) and breaks into song.
(bard song on all)
Round 1:
Grobly will bite into the giant again, his eyes small daggers of red rage.
(All mods the same as surprise round save flank and bard song)
Surprise Round
Lump song kicks off for a rousing melody to inspire all.
Grobly charges the giant, inspired by the song. His short legs take him swiftly across the field, augmented by magic. His huge maw, even larger when enlarged, opens midair as he launches himself at the creature. It locks on to the giant's neck, in similar fashion to the first one he bit. You hear a savage tearing as blood flies, and Grobly comes away with a chunk of meat in his mouth. The giant reels in pain staggering around.
Round 1
Tayanella 27
Karkoran 23
Lump 20 - readying action
Asheranthi 16
Raptors 15
Grobly 13
Hill Giant 9
Tayanella takes careful aim and rapidly fires three arrows at the giant from her black lacquered bow. The arrows rain down on the giant, but the giant's tough hide prove to deflect several. Bolstered by Lump's song, one of them hits, piercing the giant's shoulder. "AAaaahhhh!" it howls in pain as it comes under attack.
round 1
Delay until velociraptors move in so I can flank (flank bonus and sneak attack).
Swift action, Leaping Dragon maneuver. Leap into air.
divided by 4 is 9' vertical leap.
Full round action, full attack. flank + higher ground.
Lump will maintain song, and double move to the spot south of Ash and West of Kark.
Round 1 Actions
Flank sounds good, will get my velociraptors to move and then attack together.
(hit modifiers -1 size, ,+1 from str, +1 song, +2 flank)
Hope they hit:
(+1 song, +1 str, larger die)
+ grab
(+2 bouncy body, +1 song)
if successful, swift action to constrict.
Veolciraptor 1:
Veolciraptor 2:
Round 1
Lump moves up and inspires the slaughter to continue.
Asheranthi and her raptors surround the giant. She slashes out with a claw, raking the giant, leaving a huge gash. Going for blood she sinks her teeth in deep and bites hard and the giant blubbers in misery. His thick hide takes the brunt of the other blows and her other claw, tail and hair fail to find traction. (no grab/constrict).
The velociraptors strike for the kill ripping and rending with talons and teeth. The first hits with talon and bite, and the second with both talons and bite.
With the onslaught the giant stumbles and topples over succumbing to his wounds "Gaaooaoaaahhh.....", and then Karkoran and Grobly turn him into a red unrecognizable paste.
The group has bagged their bounty successfully, without so much as a scratch, which by some accounts may be a small miracle. Patience, timing, tactics, coordination and magic paid off.
A quiet comes over the canyon except for Grobly's snarling and raging. The raptors feed on the kill, and at least three of you are coated head to toe in blood, luckily not your own.
Taya will poke about the camp to see if the giants had anything of value.
Grobly will dive into the dead carcass for a few moments. When he realizes the giant is dead, the goblin will stand and look around, almost confused. His eyes begin to refocus and his rage ends. "We won?"
Effects: fatigued.
2 rounds of rage used for the day
"Careful, quiet." Lump says, stopping his song. "Others could be nearby. Let's escape, get the heads."
Tayanella searches the giants, which turns up nothing of value. She goes through their filthy sacks of possessions and finds many more interesting items. Here is what she finds:
Cooking pot
Hand-held chopper
Knife
Sewing needle
Chunk of wood, whittled or carved
187 feet of strong rope
Container of grease
Bones
Bowl and spoon
Bag of salt (1 pound)
Tankard
String
Bone Dice
Some fruit
Bowl and spoon
pouch full of gems
some gold and silver ingots
a bunch of jewelry
"Lets find something to carry the valuables in." Taya says to her compatriots.
"Preferably something not made out of a dead little person."
"Yeah, best if we bury that. It's gross, profane, and we don't want an innocent animal drinking water from it."
"Maybe we burn it? Him? How many dwarveses do you think would have lost their shins to these big'uns?" Grobly will look around for something that might be used to hail the winnings away.
"We were told we can keep all the treasure for ourselves. I think keeping the ingots is best. We can always keep them and sell them at some other town or place. The dwarves have already been stingy and barely tolerant, I say we owe them no favors. They sent us on this mission that Marshal told us was almost a death mission. Unless we can identify a specific mine or group that lost them, I don't see turning them over to anyone."