Shards of the Titanswar

Game Master EldonG

Perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

Reiko begins pulling his bow out as soon as Tania speaks.
Shall we ambush from range again, or shall we make this fight personal?

Aya smiles at Reiko and whispers: It's always personal, but I prefer range.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Antonion signals the others that the next ogre shift is coming and fades into concealment.
Stealth: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28

Hiding... sounded like a good idea at the moment. Sakuro burrowed down as far as she could...

Stealth: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13

...hoping that this time, she'd be able to take the enemies down fast enough to really help everyone else. With that, she focused her arcane energies into her hand...

Ready Action: Cast Grease of the orcs enter its range (30 feet).

Initiative (when needed): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12

Antonio, belatedly remembering, dashes out to sabotage the signaling device before reestablishing concealment.

Antonio quickly discovers that the flag is sturdy...but 'missing' is just as good.

Aya attempts to hide. Stealth: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14
Initiave: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Reiko slinks back to where he hid the first time, and nocks one of his two alchemical arrows.
Stealth: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

Varuk also tries hiding again, then lifts his crossbow to the ready.

Stealth: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

Tania and Alyra also lay low - there's not much to hide behind, up here.

Within seconds, everyone is rewarded with their first glimpses of the coming ogres as they stomp up the trail. Tania looks over at Sakuro then, and whispers - Hey, cast that greasy spell near the top of the trail, so they have trouble getting to the top!

She then nocks an arrow, and readies herself for combat.

Initiative please.

Tania: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
Alyra: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15
Ogres: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (8) - 1 = 7

Sakuro nodded, whispering a few arcane words under her breath before throwing her hand out and smearing the ground with all the greasy substance she could muster. If pressed, she would admit that the idea of ogres charging uphill, only to slip and roll back down was an entertaining one. ...She was a bad person, wasn't she?

Casting Grease near the top of the trail. 4/5 1st level spells remaining today.

Initiative: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Initiative: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

The spell is done just before the ogres lumber onto the slick surface, and into view.

Ref: 1d20 ⇒ 20
Ref: 1d20 ⇒ 8

One handles it amazingly well, and so Tania picks him out as a first target.

Attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29
Damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

Crit?: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24

Extra Damage: 2d8 + 16 ⇒ (5, 1) + 16 = 22

...and the one that managed to make it to the top falls to the bottom, sporting an arrow through the eye, falling past his buddy who looks like a first time ice skater, skating uphill.

Ooogh! Whut der?!? I's gunna...AH!

- flat on his face.

We're in a surprise round. Single actions only!

Alyra takes the round to touch as many people as she can. (I think she can manage to get everyone in the link, at this point.)

Aya takes aim at the ogre that sees to be handling the grease with her bow and arrow.
Ranged Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
for possible Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 4
Crit?: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
for possible Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 4

That one did fall - Tania's attack did a crit, and dropped him with one shot. Did you want to maybe hit the other one?

Surprise_____________

light crossbow attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22 for a possible 1d8 ⇒ 6 piercing damage.

Initiative: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

Sure

Bwahahahahahaha! Oh gods did she love magic when it worked! Ah, say what you would about the beloved fireball - it was when you did other things that you really had fun. With that, while they were distracted, Sakuro whispered quickly and hurtled a glob of acid through the air.

Cast: Acid Splash
Attack Roll: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6 for Acid Damage: 1d3 ⇒ 2

That crossbow of Antonio's was pretty nice, though... maybe she should see about getting one of those for the moments like this... Especially when her spell went that far away from the enemy. Urk. Next time, perhaps she ought to laugh a little less?

Wordlessly, and emotionless, Reiko fires a regular arrow, saving the alchemical one for a rainy day.
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Varuk, I do believe you have an attack. Moving like greased lightning, even making Alyra look slow this time. ;)

As a touch attack against a floundering beached whale (ok, not quite, but close), Sakuro's 6 actually hits. Because you guys are above him, I'm giving the 'adjacent to prone target' bonus.

sorry, haven been home since Friday afternoon. Just got home about an hour ago.

Varuk aims his crossbow and fires.

Masterwork Heavy Crossbow: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Damage: 1d10 ⇒ 2

Round 1_____________

Is the second one down as well now? If not, Antonio reloads.

Down, as in wallowing in the grease. Not terribly damaged. Otoh, Tania's turn:

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
Damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10
Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10
Damage: 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

The first arrow buries into the shoulder, making it howl. The second deflects off of the tough armor.

Alyra whips a slingstone at it...

Attack: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

...and another.
Attack: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (2) + 11 = 13
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

Just an fyi...surprise round is over...we're in round 1.

From her place as far back as she could manage, Sakuro hurled another glob of acid towards the ogres. They should still be a bit off-balance and all, so hopefully the group's continuing barrage would be enough to keep them down...

Cast: Acid Splash
Attack Roll: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16 for Acid Damage: 1d3 ⇒ 2

Aya takes aim at the remaining ogre.
Ranged Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
for possible Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 7

The ogre gasps, his mouth working like a dying fish, as he paws at the last arrow, then goes slack.

Nice shot. Glad I got you that bow.

Tania looks satisfied.

Aya smiles at Tania. You make great bows and arrows. Thank you.

Antonio swears under his breath.
"I guess we better drag these guys out of sight now."

Aya helps Antonio drag the dead ogres out of sight.

They are enormously heavy. The grease helps, for a while.

He'll be wondering what happened when the first shift doesn't return. Hard to say what his response will be. Staying might give us another easy group...or...

Tania shrugs, looks thoughtful, and waits for responses.

Aya busies herself locating and checking the arrows she shot. Then looking around at the group says, I agree that the ogre leader might send a few to investigate or might end a large group. Hard to say which. But I think our best bet is to hide here and wait.
Then she attempts to hide. Stealth: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

Eldon, How do you intend to handle recovering arrows?

Sakuro shrugged slightly - she didn't know the area well enough to suggest strategies. All she could really do was help out as much as possible in her own ways, though she did check the bodies of the ogres just to see if they had anything that might make everyone's lives a bit easier. One never knew what sorts of things beings of this type might collect...

Antonion nods, gasping for breath after moving such huge dead weights.
"Yeah... We'll ambush the next bunch as well. Just make sure we have easy routes out of here. The leader is supposed to be brighter than the average ogre, and he might realize what's going on faster than we like."

Arrows are recoverable 50% of the time.

Recover arrow: 1d100 ⇒ 47
Recover arrow: 1d100 ⇒ 67
Recover arrow: 1d100 ⇒ 8
I found 1 still in good shape.

Don't worry 'bout runnin' out. I have plenty of those. Still, recovering 'em isn't a bad idea. Now...those bolts...I can make 'em, but got no more right now.

Tania looks around at everyone.

If we're staying, be prepared for 'most anything.

This time, you don't have nearly as long to wait. Within the hour, there are two more trundling up the twisting trail - but something is different.

These two are carrying axes that make the one Lunk had look like a playtoy.

Crap.

Tania looks concerned.

He sent two of his warriors. Be ready. This could hurt.

OK. Should I try to sleep them or should I keep the spell for later? I'm thinking there may be a bigger group later.

I don't know enough about magic...I've only ever cast a couple of spells...if you think it might stop, or slow down one or both...I mean, those axes would cut one of us in half!

Tania's rushed, and looks concerned.

When the two ogre warriors get to 100 ft. from Aya she starts casting a sleep spell targeting the closest one.
If they are already within 100 ft., she starts casting the sleep spell now.

Reiko hides, and readies the last alchemical arrow in case Aya's spell fails and one remains awake.
Stealth: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19

Sakuro crouched down low, focusing on her own arcane powers - ready to cast another Grease if the enemies got within range and could threaten the rest of their group. For now, though, she was doing her best to remain hidden and away from negative attention.

Stuff: 1d20 ⇒ 4
Stuff: 1d20 ⇒ 20

As one jabbers aimlessly, the other stops and stares right at the place bodies are hidden. They've reached the first switchback.

Anybody taking actions, roll initiative.

Init: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19

Init: 1d20 ⇒ 15

The spell, unfortunately, fails to affect either of them. Too high HD.