Sleeper in the Tomb of Dreams

Game Master FabesMinis

Hadarai moves carefully off the ice and takes a few long breathes.

"At least they should not be hard to track."

Using 3 surges to get back to full hp.

HP: 61/61
Temp hp: 0
Bloodied: 38
Healing Surges: 8/11
AP: 1

Akahale uses 1 surge and is back up to full hp.

68/68
5/9 surges left
2 AP
Daily used: Crown of Stars

How are you going to pursue the bandits? Running, stealth, or some other way?

Akahale isn't terribly good at either. I think he has visions of advancing with menaces and blowing them apart, really.

So that would be the 'full frontal assault' option? :D

HP: 56/56
Surges: 2/8
AP: 2/3
Enc Used:
Daily Used: Summon Succubus, Summon Magma Beast
Status:

Frontal Assault work for me.

Passive Perception/Insight added, and I vote frontal assault. (Down to 5/11 surges)

OK - will sort out map.

The heroes recuperate and make their way to where the bandits fled to. With grim determination.

Ahead a hill pushes up from the forest within a large clearing. Atop the face of the hill is an enormous carving of a bearded stone face staring skyward with open mouth and empty eye sockets. Two statues stand near it, each a cloaked figure with face and arms raised to the sky. A third one lies broken on the ground near its base. Two leaf less trees grow near the face as well, each looking even more twisted and dark than the other trees you’ve seen in this haunted forest.

Everyone spots some movement behind the statues - your foes have laid an ambush!

Initiative please. This is a surprise round. Everyone can take one action, except Grafire (who can't take any - sorry, your Passive Perception was too low)

1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10 - init inc Grafire bonus.

1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17 - init inc Grafire bonus.

"Rest? We don't need no stinkin' R,...Zzzzzzzz"

Manny promptly collapses into a soggy, snoring pile of robes,...

Short Rest, which lets us use Healing surges, but not regain dailies, correct?

"Oooh boy,... leftovers!" The manic mage cackles gleefully when he sees the movement behind the statues,...

Manny - you have an Action Point, you can use Healing Surges, and your Encounter powers return. Oh, and you need to roll Init.

Initiative: 1d20 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 5 + 2 = 18

Init: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (10) + 10 = 20

Init:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

After the last rest, if we did not use a AP, should we now have 2?

Yes, that's correct. Please roll init as well, old chap.

Excellent.
Init - 1d20 + 7 - 1 ⇒ (16) + 7 - 1 = 22

Initiative
Tiefling Heretics 28
Grafire 22
Shaeryyn 20
Manny 18
Otto 18
Hadarai 17
Tiefling Shadowblades 16
Akahale 10

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The Warwood is difficult terrain and provides cover. The face is difficult terrain. The tree trunks provide cover. The bushes provide concealment. You can zoom in by cliking on the image. You should get an option to view it in its original 1200x1000 size, which will give you a better view.

One action each as we're in surprise mode?

Also, sorry to be a pain, but is the slope up difficult terrain as well?

Yes and yes.

Hamburger Hill...yumm hamburgers must be lunch time.

Grafire - it's you to go first. We have a surprise round before the tieflings get going. One of a move, standard or minor.

Hadarai gestures courteously at his draconic comrade.

As my suprise round minor doesn't affect anyone else, I'll post now.

Suspecting more enemies then they see, Shaerynn weaves a defensive spell and three blades start to circle her.

Utilty spell - Guardian Blades. Until the end of the encounter any enemy, that is adjacent to me, making an attack roll takes 6 force damage.

HP: 56/56
Surges: 2/8
AP: 1/2
Enc Used:
Daily Used: Summon Succubus, Summon Magma Beast, Guardian Blades
Status: Adjacent enemies that make an attack take 6 force damage

Grafire - it's you to go first. We have a surprise round before the tieflings get going. One of a move, standard or minor.

Hadarai gestures courteously at his draconic comrade.

please see above. Grafire does not - he is the only person surprised. He cannot act this round at all.

Apologies. Misread it.

Waving his staff and orb around in a mystic pattern, (Or writing his name in the air,) Manny brings down a chilling freeze upon the area around the nearest statues,...

Will post from home after work tonite, plan to use Wiz Encounter, Winter's Wrath

Winter's Wrath Encounter 7= Area Burst 2, vs Fort, 2d8+10 cold dmg; Blizzard erupts in designated area and continues until end of my next turn. Area is lightly obscured, and any creature that starts it's turn in the storm takes Cold dmg equal to Int mod. (+5) I'll target it between the two nearest statues, 2 X to=hit rolls, and 1 dmg roll;

1d20 + 11 ⇒ (17) + 11 = 281d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 172d8 + 10 ⇒ (6, 3) + 10 = 19

AND a small, contained blizzard springs up between the statues nearest to the wizard, battering the hiding foes!

"Woa, hey hey what every ones so excited about. Ohh....cr@p." Grafire fumbles about for a sec. with his axe.

Otto steps forward. "That ambush didn't work last time, it won't work now."

Lady in the tree's too far to charge.

Move three squares east.

Hadarai moves purposefully towards the base of the hill.

Akahale allows his eyes a pre-battle whirl and sends a sneaky blast of dark energy towards the tree-hugger.

Spiteful Glamor (Will) v Heretic 1
1d20 + 12 ⇒ (13) + 12 = 25
1d12 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Heretic attacks Grafire - misses horribly. Shaeryyn - blades up. Manny - there's no way that your spell can hit either of the guys behind the statues - it has a range of 10 and is an area burst 2. Would you care to reconsider? All - Please could you all lay out the attack and damage rolls of your power in your profile please? I know it's a pain, but it's really helpful in the long run. Otto - moving? Hadarai - done. Akahale - hit.

Akahale's attack hits home eliciting a squawk of pain.

Initiative
Tiefling Heretics 28
Grafire 22
Shaeryyn 20 Guardian Blades - any enemy adajcent takes 6 force damage
Manny 18 - awaiting reconsidered surprise action
Otto 18
Hadarai 17
Tiefling Shadowblades 16
Akahale 10

I think my profile is good to go now.

In lieu of any response - Manny will Magic Missile the Heretic - she is now Bloodied. TH1 attacks Hadarai with Balefire 28 vs Ref - Hadarai takes 11 fire damage and ongoing 5 fire damage

A ball of flame erupts from the bush at the top of the hill, engulfing Hadarai

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Initiative
Tiefling Heretics 28
1 - Bloodied
[b]Grafire 22
Shaeryyn 20 Guardian Blades - any enemy adajcent takes 6 force damage
Manny 18
Otto 18
Hadarai 17 ongoing 5 fire
Tiefling Shadowblades 16
Akahale 10

Corrected init.

Initiative

Grafire 22
Shaeryyn 20 Guardian Blades - any enemy adajcent takes 6 force damage
Manny 18
Otto 18
Hadarai 17
Tiefling Shadowblades 16
Akahale 10
Tiefling Heretics 28

Hadarai moves purposefully towards the base of the hill.

. . . and bursts into flames.

Shaerynn moves forward, then sends a magic missile into the heretic.

Six squares east, then 8 points of magic missile affection to heretic 1

HP: 56/56
Surges: 2/8
AP: 1/2
Enc Used:
Daily Used: Summon Succubus, Summon Magma Beast, Guardian Blades
Status: Adjacent enemies that make an attack take 6 force damage

"Aaarggg" Grafire lets loose his battle cry, Draws his battle axe and double moves straight up the hill to the E. towards H1.

Argh! Sorry, been busy at work (Show on stage NOW, actually) ;P MM would have been my default response, thx DM!

Manny stays where he is, partially shielded by the brambles. (Possibly because they are snagging his clothes!) The elderly mage mutters something about "Rassin-Frassin too fresh robe-grabbers!" as he sends another volley into the woman behind the tree.

MM on Woman #1, auto-hit, force dmg 15 points

"Invaders!" cries the tiefling as she's pummelled with force energy.

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Initiative

Otto 18
Hadarai 17
Tiefling Shadowblades 16
Akahale 10
Tiefling Heretics 28
Grafire 22
Shaeryyn 20 Guardian Blades - any enemy adajcent takes 6 force damage
Manny 18

Otto charges up the hill and swings at the woman in the tree.

Move-charge with Forward-Thinking Cut(each ally adjacent to me gains +1 attack until my next turn): 1d20 + 15 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 15 - 4 = 291d10 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

Hadarai ranges alongside Otto, striking at the lurking tiefling.

Move (if possible to get adjacent to Otto for bonus. Move and charge is need be for the same result.
1d20 + 12 ⇒ (19) + 12 = 31
1d8 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14

The flames seem to be inspiring rather than impairing, unlike the ice of the river.

1d20 ⇒ 16 - save v ongoing fire damage.

Nonetheless, the warrior is not unhappy when they die away.

Hadarai - hit and down. Kill or unconscious?

Hadarai storms up the slope with Grafire, overtaking his draconian colleague, and cuts the tiefling down. As he does so, one of the warriors from the battle at the river emerges from hiding behind a tree and charges him in turn!

B2 charges Otto and misses. Hadarai - going to use your attack on B2.

Hadarai races forward and deflects the attack, and makes one of his own.

Initiative

Tiefling Shadowblades 16
Akahale 10
Tiefling Heretics 28
Grafire 22
Shaeryyn 20 Guardian Blades - any enemy adajcent takes 6 force damage
Manny 18
Otto 18
Berserker 18
Hadarai 17

Unconscious. Want to talk to one of them.

Ack. Sorry, I meant Otto. He took down the Heretic. Your choice, Otto.

Unconscious. There's still plenty of time for killing.

Initiative

Akahale 10
Tiefling Heretics 28
Grafire 22
Shaeryyn 20 Guardian Blades - any enemy adajcent takes 6 force damage
Manny 18
Otto 18
Berserker 18
Hadarai 17
Tiefling Shadowblades 16

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You forgot to move Shae her 6 squares east :)