Pavok is un able to find seige equipment on defenders nor was the results of his skill check sufficient enough to yield anything effective.
Mus'ad is trying to climb the wall but for some reason can't quite seem to get up it.
The anubites in the fort are moving to try to halt Mus'ads climb. One thrusts a spear at him but it scrapes against Mus'ad's armor doing no damage to him.
Keep trying guys. This is really kind of funny to image.
Mus'ad you can try again to climb. You made it really close with the 14
Mus'ad attempts to climb atop the wall once more...
Climb:
...standing astride it if possible, if not he will drop into the midst of the anubites with elven blade out and ready.
Jen's cat slinks up to the top of the wall, peering over and staying out of the way. After the anubites notice and engage Musad, Jen will use a slumber hex by pointing her hands at one of the holes in the grated door (DC 15), then making sure she can't be hit by a spear or something by backing up.
If it succeeds, Whiskers will sneak along near the slumbering anubite (since she's a cat, and there's a big scary elf fellow too) and the next turn, digs its claws into the slumbering anubite's throat, dealing 6 damage and requiring a DC 16 Fort Save.
Giving up on creating a siege weapon he looks towards his friend and says, "I left a long spear in the melee so when I hop over this fence back me up hehe." The Paladin cracks a smile at the dwarf, then the holy warrior starts bolting for the wall and leaps onto it to try and get up the barrier a little faster. As he leaps towards the wall he prays to Torag in hopes of grasping the foot and hand holds as he lands from his jump.
"Tegan!" Catalina's voice carries the falcon's name clearly and the bird of prey fries over the wall to back up the Elf and Paladin. Hovering over the enemy he strikes at them with his talons.
Catalina readies herself by Jen at the holes in the door. When Jen steps away from after preforming her magic, Shaonti steps forward and fires an arrow through the hole towards the enemy.
Okay Mus'ad does one of those awesome leaps over the wall right into the mess of gathered Anubites bellow. The each get AoOs against the brave but Reckless elf. Two hits are scored dealing a total of 11 damage combined to the cavalier
Pavok then vaults the wall and gains no attention from the foes. From here it is an easy move to flank with Mus'ad if he is still standing.
The sleep hex fails to knockout and anubite Cat made it the the other side of the wall this round.
Tegan moves in to aid and one talon scores on the back of an anubite.
Then Catalina herself makes one heck of a trick shot through one of the holes in the fort landing an arrow in the side of Tegan's target dropping one of the beasts. Nicely done
There are three anubites left
Pavok, Mus'ad, Tegan, and Whiskers are all in range to move and attack.
Catalina and Jen can attempt to use their abilities again from afar.
And Samal and Arik will cheer from the sidelines YAY!
Your go guy, you could easily finish it this round
Mus'ad attacks:
Curve blade: for
Pavok steps behind the the enemy and slides out his shortsword and a sap in his off hand. He lets out his flurry on the unexpecting creature.
Jen tries using slumber on a different anubite that wasn't targeted by her or Musad before. (DC 15)
Whiskers will attempt to coup de grace any slumbering anubite, or just stays around in the area if not.
AoOs negated as you dive past their spears. Carry on with your next round actions Mus'ad
When Jen backs away from the hole in the wall Catalina jumps in again and aims another arrow firing at an enemy.
Tegan flies down striking the anubites.
Pavok: No they aren't flat footed but you do score a very nice hit on one. He turns to attack you and misses
JenAnubite fell asleep, Whiskers moves up but cannot Coup de Grace this turn. Next turn he can attempt.
Mus'ad One Foe on you attempts to attack and misses.
Catalina FAIL! Drop and give me ten push ups.
Arik Things are pretty quiet where your at, quite peaceful....inspite of your injuries.
Samal Grooming herself and licking her wounds.
OKAY IT IS YOU GUY'S TURN
2 Anubites are standing, one is hurt.
1 Anubite is sleeping unaware of the danger now creeping up on him.
You can finish this guys. Once these three are done, you win!
Jen moves to use slumber on one of the standing anubites, while Whiskers digs his claws into the sleeping anubite to try and finish him off.
"If you dogs were smart you would surrender NOW!" With that yell the paladin lets out a another flurry of his blade and sap onto the creatures.
Mus'ad continues the assault with his curved blade, hoping to end the combat quickly:
Curve blade: for
Crit Conf: for
Okay all hits and whiskers successfully coup de graced the sleeper. All the anubites are dead.
CONGRATULATIONS! You finally won this skirmish. You five have slain about a good 40 foes this day and the fort is yours.
Now that you are safe, what do you do now?
"I'm starting a fire. I'm cold and hungry. Someone find out what we have to eat. After food, I'm going to sleep for a month."
Catalina scans the carnage before addressing Arik with a smirk, "Well, we have plenty of dog meat." Tegan lands on her shoulder and squawks hungrily. She then kneels beside a fallen foe and begins searching the body for anything useful while also trying to recover any arrows she can.
After seeing the gate of the fort opened so that those outside can join those within, Mus'ad tends to Al Gasreed and gives him a grooming. Afterwards he will move through the grounds seeing what might be seen and taking what might be found.
Jen cackles and picks up Whiskers to congratulate him. Who's a good cat? YOU'RE A GOOD CAT. She pauses momentarily to pick up a random scrap of cloth to clean the blood and gore off Whisker's claws. Then Whiskers scampers up to her shoulder.
Well, we should probably get this place cleaned up. Anubites don't smell good when they're alive, but smell even worse after being dead for a few days.
"The Forge Father has smiled on us today, I am glad we made it through this victory." Pavok smiles as he looks at his comrades. Before he does anything Pavok will offer to bandage his friends wounds so they can recover faster as they rest. "You all keep resting I'll take inventory of what we got here."
Then will move through the fortress taking an inventory of what they in this fort.
Upon you quick inspection of the base you notice a really nice looking spear on one of the weapon racks. It is a lot cleaner and nicer than anything else around here.
You all take your time looking over the fort.
There are two noteable structures other than the walls. One looks like a bunk house and the other is a jail.
Those of you who inspect the jail will here snarling and growling from within. You cannot make out what is inside and the door is locked.
there are also four watch towers in the corners of the fort.
You see several weapon racks and armor stands
Majority of the weapons and armor seem to consist of:
Longspears
Javelins
Scimitars
Falchions
Quarter staves
Clubs
and mostly wooden armor with a couple of leathers here and there.
Upon hearing the growling Mus'ad takes a better look at the structure of the jail...
Perhaps it is time to bring some soldiers of the nearby villages to station this fort, incase we need to move onwards.
"Let me know if you need any help over there Mus'ad, since your better with animals then I." Pavok comments, he really wants to help the elf with whatever is hiding in the building but his crafting tools are calling him. He moves to the weapon racks and gathers a few long spears and a couple of flachion. He takes them to a corner in the main area near the fire. The paladin withdraws his tool set from his backpack setting each aside then looking to the weapons he gathered, and Torag starts to give the human inspiration on what to do with these mundane weapons. As he works on sharping and cutting down, his hands flow as they are possessed by another force.
I barely got touched in that fight, I was there to bring back my battle brother and sister back to health. I was there to protect this group and defeat there enemies. Torag is this the purpose I have been searching for, I believe you have sent me here to watch over this group and help them fulfill this quest worthy of your greatness Forge Father. He holds his head low and finishes the prayer and looks onto what he created while he was enthralled in thought.
Take a flachion and grind down the blade and balance out the weapon so it can be used as a one handed weapon but this would take down the damage to 1d8 19-20 x2 crict.
Just a few ideas let me know what you think, also I was thinking about during a wooden breastplate into a sheild.
Would take 20 on both the weapon craft(30) and armor craft(27)
In Catalina's look around she comes across something interesting on one of the weapon racks. She retrieves it and continues observing the area with the others.
When the creature grows from the locked room, Tegan cries out with a flap of his wings. "Hey hey! Tegan. Calm yourself..." she coos to her friend. She waits on the elf's investigation. "What do you believe it is?"
Feeling bored of this discovery, the dark skinned woman makes her way back to the camp fire that Arik made. She sits and starts inspecting the striking features of the spear she found before asking, "Have any of you skill with a spear?"
Arik snorts and rolls over in the yard.
Okay, unfortunately there is no way to see what is inside the jailhouse. You can hear the rattling of chains and the sounds of snarling beasts.
Samal wanders in looking over the place but doesn't say anything.
Suddenly you here the sound of thunder and a black essence appears in the fort enterance. There standing before you all is the lich, Senessees whom you had met earlier.
"How dare you meddle in affairs that are not your own. You weren't suppose to wipe those anubites out! No matter. I will wipe you out before the village even realizes the threat is gone!"
He raises his sword ready for battle but before you guys can begin your clash another dark cloud appears. in this cloud you see a skuill wearing an egyptian headdress and he has two firy red eyes. The face slowly turns human.
"Behold for I am Amun-Ra. Sennessees! You have violated the agreement of tombs by getting involved with the living. You will return to Hamunatra and meet with me in person to discuss your punishment!"
Sennessees drops his sword and drops to his knees hands clasped together as if to beg. "Please Lord Amun! Forgive me! I was only trying to help us gain more followers!"
"Silence!" Amun-Ra shouts. "You have been building a harem and using wittless villagers for your own personal gain! No More! You will return and service us proper. Now report to Hamunatra at once or we will hunt you down like the traitor you are!"
Sennessees kowtows before the mighty figure. "At once your excellence." The cloud containing the head of Amun-Ra vanishes and Sennessees too stands and quickly teleports out of sight also.
The area is quiet. Your turn.
Arik lays sprawled in the yard clutching at his heart.
"What in Torag's bowels was THAT!"
Mus'ad turns his attention from the jail to the arrival of Sennessees and his muscles tighten in remembrance of their last meeting. The subsequent arrival of the one that makes him kowtow raises more questions than it answers...
He moves from the jail and leads Al Gasreed near to Arik "Whatever is in the jail is not going anywhere tonight. It would be wise to rest, and then deal with it in the morning." avoiding talk of the liches as to explain them would be to drag his previous weakness back into the light.
Jen helps Arik up, having seen stranger after being conceived by a demon.
"I really have to learn how to do that. Seems useful for the future."
"You don't know how to what? Be scared? What happened lass, that you can't get scared?"
Pavok to engrossed with his work, is oblivous to the whole conversation that just accured.
The jail is 40x40 feet. It is walled and roofed with two layers of Palm wood. There are a few peep holes. If you could somehow get a light in there you would likely be able to make out most of what is inside. However peeling apart the jail would take some tools and time.
The modifactions you chose to make are possible but will take a day to do for each item. The double spear you wish to make would end up being a lethal quarterstaff. That would take a couple of hours,
The faclchion to longsword deal would take a day and there is a risk of breaking it in the process which I will roll for.
The shield would be the easiest only taking about an hour.
The important require ment is going to be tools. There is a grindstone present which you can use but if you do not have artisan tools, you will not be allowed to make your craft skill checks. I can't see it done without tools.
"Ah, fear is something that I know all to well, but I was referring to the effect of flashing in so quickly. It would certainly be more convenient than riding around on camels all day."
At the loud entrance of Sennessees, Tegan cries out and flaps threatening at the intruder. Catalina tenses nearly falling off the log bench she was sitting on. She could hardly believe what she was seeing.
When the creature was pulled away by the cloudy head that also appeared out no where and all went to silence, Catalina looked around to make sure she didn't have a freak hallucination from the heat of the desert. She grew concerned when Pavok seemed oblivious, but calmed with some relief when Arik and Jen began discussing the strange encounter. She does note, however, that they seem less effected by the incident than she was, so she quickly tries to regain her composure while still interested in investigating, "Seemed rather familiar with us, although I know I've never seen... it before." She looks to Jen, "Have you previously come across this creature?"
"Yes. I almost fought it: A decision I am glad my friends here talked me out of."
Arik gives an affectionate nod to those present for their first encounter with Sennessees.
After missing the grand show of the two creatures Pavok finally looks up when he over hears the dwarf talk about a fought. "Did I miss something my friend?"
Mus'ad is silent as Catalina brings up the previous encounter with the lich, though he does rub the spot where the lich touched him and paralyzed his form. Grimacing beneath the cover of his tagelmust, Mus'ad approaches Jen "Are you able to conjure light onto a stone? I would see what is within the jail, but my eyes cannot pierce the dark."
"Why yes, but be careful not to provoke the beasts inside. I have heard tales about some that I do not wish to witness first hand." She picks up a nice palm-sized stone, casts light on it, and hands it to Musad.
"Nothing worth mentioning at length Pavok. Catalina asked why we all were not as surprised by Sennesees as she. I was telling her that we had almost fought the creature."
Mus'ad thanks Jen for the stone, and moves to the jail, forcing the lit stone into the dark within and trying to get a better idea for what is within...
Perception: