Tower of London map again for convenience....
The FOs are on top of the White Tower, the central keep. The lookouts are posted on Beauchamps Tower (#14), the Constables Tower (#20), and Broad Arrow Tower (#21), about 70 ft distance from the center of White Tower to any of the outer towers.
Levinson focuses intently as her staff's runes blaze with arcane might causing her outsider to roar with glee as he mystical swells in size.
Scootchin' to this page....
Vash!
Glaza!
Koran!
Levinson!
Grimm!
Nazi submariners!
Yingzen!
Derrik!
Kepler!
Kailin!
Radsworth!
Kate!
Eeeeek! Eeeeek!
After Grimm:
The Nazi crewmates begin firing on the suddenly enlarged avian monstrosity they see through their scopes on the roof of the White Tower....
Against Kepler's flat-footed AC with sniper rifle hits for 6 damage....
Against Kepler's flat-footed AC with sniper rifle grazes the eidolon for 1 damage....
Against Kepler's flat-footed AC with sniper rifle misses....
Secondary shots at Kepler....
Against Kepler's flat-footed AC with sniper rifle misses....
Against Kepler's flat-footed AC with sniper rifle hits for 4 damage....
Against Kepler's flat-footed AC with sniper rifle hits for 3 more damage....
Kepler is getting shot up, and screech-roars his disapproval!
The Kraken is docked along the south side of the White Tower, about 30 ft below the rooftop. A gangplank covered with an armored canopy, like a small covered bridge, connects the top deck of the U-boat near a steel door with an arched entrance in the White Tower opening into the top floor.
Perception checks from everyone, please....
Distracted by the pelting of bullets, it seems unlikely that the arcane duo would notice anything else.
Perception
Kate fails to notice anything else but the deadly hail of sniper fire coming at them from two sides!
[dice=Perception]1d20+12
Derrik hears a metallic clanging from The Kraken below--three quick bangs, as if someone were striking the hull with a pipe....
Also, re: rifles vs touch AC--you're right! Kepler might be hurting more than we thought.... Reviewing Nazi attacks....
Kepler is struck by two more of the shots than at first stated, for 9 and 3 damage respectively!
With a mighty beat of his wings, the roar-cawing eidolon shoots into the air after the closest of the marksmen. The empathic link to Levinson plus the wounds recently accrued have lead the beast to charge the Nazi with unbridled hatred and blantant disregard for his personal safety.
With a mighty beat of his wings, the roar-cawing eidolon shoots into the air after the closest of the marksmen. The empathic link to Levinson plus the wounds recently accrued have lead the beast to charge the Nazi with unbridled hatred and blantant disregard for his personal safety.
[dice=Magic Claw Attack]1d20+12+2
[dice=Damage (plus 1d6 Cold)]2d6+7+1d6
The Nazi submariner screams first in fear as the furious eidolon bears down on him with the beating of mighty wings and razor-sharp talons outstretched, then in pain as one of those deadly talons rakes a triple slash-wound in the man's face!
Derrik rushes down the steps the sound from the Kraken.. intriguing, his Armor glowing once more and he moves down
Derrik rushes down the steps the sound from the Kraken.. intriguing, his Armor glowing once more and he moves down
Derrik gets to the corner tower housing the spiral stair, and about a quarter-turn down the steps, just far enough to see down into the chamber below....and to be seen by four Nazi submariners standing at the bottom of the stairs, aiming submachine guns at the top of the stairs with readied actions to fire on intruders! A hail of automatic gunfire greets Derrik as he appears at the top of the stairs!
Readied submachine gun attack hits for 3 damage after DR....
Readied submachine gun attack misses....
Readied submachine gun attack misses....
Readied submachine gun attack hits for 8 damage after DR....
(Double-check those attacks against Derrik's touch AC with the +3 deflection bonus....an assuming they hit, but that first one might not....)
To confirm: Readied submachine gun attack does not confirm....
Grimm lobs a bomb at the machine gunners and readies his rifle for the next round with his rifle and drow-poisoned bullets.
Grimm lobs a bomb at the machine gunners and readies his rifle for the next round with his rifle and drow-poisoned bullets.
Grimm's bomb smashes on and ignites one of the submachine gunners at the bottom of the stairs, and splashes an adjacent gunner with flaming liquid.... He shrieks as he's burnt for 14 fire damage!
Reflex save against DC 18 splash damage fails.... The adjacent gunner screams as he's burnt for 8 fire damage!
[dice= perception] 1d20 + 11
Vash also heard the clanging coming from The Kraken docked on the south side of The White Tower....
In addition, he hears the faint tramping of booted feet on the stone floor of the chamber below, and in the covered gangplank joining the U-boat with the top floor of The White Tower....
Yingzen!
Kailin!
Radsworth!
Kate!
Eeeeek! Eeeeek!
After Yingzen, Kailin, and Rad:
Kate falls prone to give herself superior cover against the snipers on the three towers.
Levinson! Your bird-beast looks pretty hurt! Get him closer--no more than 30 feet--so I can heal him!
Yingzen moves into the shadows making his way towards the nearest group of snipers
[dice=perception]1d20 + 16
Yingzen moves into the shadows making his way towards the nearest group of snipers
[dice=stealth]1d20 + 21
The snipers are on top of towers in the wall surrounding the inner yard, numbered 14, 20, and 21 on the Tower of London map (see link at top of this page), which stand about 70 ft away from the rooftop of the White Tower, number 1 on the map, where The FOs are.... The yard is flooded to a depth of about 30 ft, so in order to reach any of the towers the snipers are on, Yingzen would have to dive into the flooded yard below, swim the 70 ft or so to one of the towers, and then scale the tower wall to reach the rooftop.
Another option would be to try sneaking up on the submachine gunners in the chamber below, who are firing at Derrik on the top of the spiral stairs connecting the roof with the levels below.... Yingzen, if he is confident in his climbing skill, could climb down to a window leading into the chamber where the gunners are, and strike from behind while the gunners are focused on Derrik at the top of the stairs....
[dice=acrobatics]1d20 + 14
Yingzen moves 10 ft to the north edge of the roof, sees a balcony about 20 ft below, and successfully drops down onto the balcony, a total of 30 ft movement....
He can see an unoccupied chamber through the arched doorway opening into the White Tower, and can hear automatic gunfire from an adjacent chamber....
He can move another 30 ft across the unoccupied chamber, bringing him to the arched doorway to the adjacent chamber, where four submachine gunners are laying down a blistering field of gunfire at the top of the stairs....
Kailin!
Radsworth!
Round 2!
Eeek!
yingzen moves across the room among the shadows as if he was a shadow himself
yingzen moves across the room among the shadows as if he was a shadow himself
[dice=stealth]1d20 + 21
Indeed, like a shadow among shadows, Yingzen creeps across the chamber to the open doorway....
Perception to hear Yingzen sneaking up....
Perception to hear Yingzen sneaking up....
Perception to hear Yingzen sneaking up....
Perception to hear Yingzen sneaking up....
The Nazis have no chance of hearing the preternaturally stealthy Tengu approach....
Merlin-hawk takes wing and flies to a safer vantage point some 40 ft above the White Tower....
(After Kailin)
Radsworth moves up, behind the now prone Kate and kneels beside her. He chants in the loud, commanding language of evocation, enchanting Travelers chambered round.
He takes aim and lets fire across the gap at the group of snipers, his bullet shattering before impact and engulfing at least a few of them in a fan of flames.
[Reflex Save DC 16]
(After Kailin)
Radsworth moves up, behind the now prone Kate and kneels beside her. He chants in the loud, commanding language of evocation, enchanting Travelers chambered round.
He takes aim and lets fire across the gap at the group of snipers, his bullet shattering before impact and engulfing at least a few of them in a fan of flames.
There is just one sniper on each of three towers, so only one sniper can be targeted....
Reflex save fails! The sniper screams as the flames sear him for 8 fire damage....
Yingzen strikes from the shadows at the nearest Nazi. The sword swings with such quickness and grace.
if successful damage is 42
Kailin begins playing a haunting tune on his flute and attempts to paralyze the guard on top of the tower the tengu just entered.
Yingzen strikes from the shadows at the nearest Nazi. The sword swings with such quickness and grace.
[dice=attack]1d20 + 11 [dice=damage]1d10 + 4 + 3d6
[dice=confirm]1d20+ 11 if successful damage is 42
Yingzen must move another 10 ft into the chamber the Nazis are in before he can attack, and must make another Stealth check.... If he succeeds in closing the distance undetected, he lands a sneak attack that deals 19 damage (crit does not confirm)....
yingzen slowly moves towards the Nazis moving fluidly
Kailin begins playing a haunting tune on his flute and attempts to paralyze the guard on top of the tower the tengu just entered.
Will save succeeds! The willful Nazi sniper resists Kailin's paralyzing pavan!
Round 2!
Vash!
Glaza!
Koran!
Levinson!
Grimm!
Nazi submariners!
Yingzen!
Derrik!
Kepler!
Kailin!
Radsworth!
Kate!
Eeeeek! Eeeeek!
yingzen slowly moves towards the Nazis moving fluidly
[dice=stealth]1d20 + 21
After the Nazi submariners (and several of The FOs before them):
Yingzen strikes without warning from the shadows, dealing 19 slashing damage to the nearest Nazi submachine gunner!
AAAAAACH! Ein schwartzenvogel-teufel hast mir!!
"Hang tight, Kate. I am going to need you in a second, but I have a plan first..."
Levinson holds her action until after Kepler's turn.
If Kepler takes enough damage to banish him during this time as an immediate action Levinson sacrifices hit points to prevent an equal amount of damage from affecting Kepler
On the eidolon's turn he swings full bore on the Nazi sniper with a series of power attacks:
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Levinson then begins to manipulate the fabric of reality itself opening an inter dimensional door to pull Kepler immediately to her, so the cleric can heal him.
"Do what you do best Kate, then let's head below to save the others."
The three snipers on the rooftops of the towers continue to fire on Kepler, the man harried by the eidolon taking a 5-ft-step back, but still provoking an AoO from the fierce avian outsider with its extraordinary reach....
Sniper rifle misses....
Sniper rifle clips Kepler for 2 damage....
Sniper rifle punches into the eidolon for 9 damage....
"Hang tight, Kate. I am going to need you in a second, but I have a plan first..."
Levinson holds her action until after Kepler's turn.
If Kepler takes enough damage to banish him during this time as an immediate action Levinson sacrifices hit points to prevent an equal amount of damage from affecting KeplerOn the eidolon's turn he swings full bore on the Nazi sniper with a series of power attacks:
[dice=Magic Claw Attack]1d20+10 for [dice=Damage]2d6+11+1d6
[dice=Magic Claw Attack]1d20+10 for [dice=Damage]2d6+11+1d6
[dice=Magic Claw Attack]1d20+10 for [dice=Damage]2d6+11+1d6
[dice=Magic Claw Attack]1d20+10 for [dice=Damage]2d6+11+1d6Levinson then begins to manipulate the fabric of reality itself opening an inter dimensional door to pull Kepler immediately to her, so the cleric can heal him.
"Do what you do best Kate, then let's head below to save the others."
Badly wounded and enraged, Kepler shreds the Nazi submariner, tearing off his left arm, then his right, then his left leg, then his right, and finally ripping the torso asunder with an explosion of viscera!
(That Nazi's dead, in case anyone wasn't certain....)
Crowing to the heavens, Kepler is suddenly yanked through an extradimensional wormhole to his mistress' side....
After everyone else:
Mother Nature, heal your children!
Kate channels to heal Kepler and Derrik of damage....
Vash takes deadly aim at one of the snipers as he makes his way over to the u-boat
Vash takes deadly aim at one of the snipers as he makes his way over to the u-boat
[dice=deadly aim] 1d20+11; 1d8+13
Seeing Radsworth's burning bullet blaze to life, Vash targets the same sniper, dealing 17 piercing with his longbow! The Nazi screams as the arrow pierces his Kevlar vest and sinks into his flesh!
Gloza soars towards the u-boat to give Vash a better look at its guards
hunters bond let's Vash see through her eyes.
Gloza soars towards the u-boat to give Vash a better look at its guards
[dice=perception] 1d20+5 hunters bond let's Vash see through her eyes.
The covered gangplank linking the U-boat to the White Tower is moving slightly, suggesting that crewmates might be moving from U-boat to tower or vise versa....