The Iron Rebellion (Inactive)

Game Master Signore di Fortuna

Shouldn't Oswin be at G5 from his move action in round 2?

Yes, I missed that.

Oswin moved around the corner into the next car. "Try to stay behind me Sam!" he barks as he passes through the doorway. He was faster than the others, and his speed paid off.

Move Action to M4

As he ran he held his weapon alongside him. It left a deep scar in the floor, sparking as it met the metal below the carpet. He dodged past Kisako, arriving at the goblin and using the momentum from his dash to bring his sword into a brutal upward swing.

Standard Action attack against G4
Attack Roll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

His charge had been anything but subtle, and the goblin had seen him coming. As Oswin swung the creature ducked to the side letting the weapon sail past it harmlessly. It cackled madly as his swing took out one of the overhead lights in the ceiling.

The goblin takes a step back from Oswin and begins teasing the barbarian with a mixture of fanny smacks and tongue-wagging. You see it keeps one hand on its blade for when an opponent approaches. After a loud bang, you see the car ahead has gone dark and it falls eerily silent, save for the goblin's taunts.

Round 3: Cyean, Kisako, Oswin, Goblins, Sam

"Hey...hey, wait just a damn minute!" Sam shouts in annoyance, following them into the second car. The gunslinger makes it next to Oswin, before aiming at the goblin blocking their way forward.

30ft Move to M5.

Revolver (Touch AC attack): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

Revolver Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

This time the firearm thunders appropriately, a satisfying boom combined with the muzzle flash as it propels the slug at the offending creature.

Hopefully that hits its touch AC.

The goblin looks concerned as Sam levels her revolver at it, but breathes a sigh of relief as the bullet misses it by no more than a hair. It grins again, now directing its taunts and insults toward the gunslinger.

Round 4: Cyean, Kisako, Oswin, Goblins, Sam

Missed it by 1.

So does that goblins taunting reveal its location or is it still stealthed?

That one wasn't stealthed.

Kisako does a little running start, his feet pattering unusually quietly as he runs, and moves to leap over the goblin.

Acrobatics to move through its space: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24 The DC for this is equal to its CMD+5

Soaring over the creature's head, Kisako tucks into a tight ball on the other side of it and does a half-roll, stopping himself with his feet and pushing himself upward, spinning and sweeping his blade around to meet the goblin.

Attack Roll vs. Goblin: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 3

The blade strikes the goblin in the back, drawing blood and leaving a thin line of riven flesh. Kisako smirks a little smugly, satisfied that he's ended the creature's bragging spree so well.

Okay, so I'm ending up in P4. Remember, folks, that if you go to attack it, you get a +2 flanking bonus because I'm on the other side.

Sorry, I misunderstood that then

Oswin steps after the Goblin, hounding it as it attempts to gain distance.

5-foot step to N4

Kisakos attack had distracted the goblin, leaving an opening for Oswin. "Damn things are tough!" he shouts as he brings his sword down on top of it.

Standard Action attack against G4
Attack Roll: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
Damage Roll: 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (1, 6) + 7 = 14

Fighting through the pain the goblin made a last-ditch effort to save itself from Oswins assault. It hastily raised its shield to meet his attack, but to no avail. The weight of Oswins sword easily carried it through the wooden slab and then through the goblins shoulder. The blade only stopped once it met the floor of the train, leaving the goblin in two bloody halves. "No more jib from you." spits Oswin. He looks into the darkness of the next car. "Watch your back Kisako! Could be more in there somewhere!"

Cyean looks about before heading to the other goblin with the others.

Move to N-3

Cyean moves forward as Kisako deftly makes his way behind the goblin, taking a chunk of its flesh off with his blade. Before he can realize it, the two other goblins on the other side of the door strike with the blades.

G5's readied action: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 + 2 = 24; Confirm: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 2 = 6; Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4
G6's readied action: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 + 2 = 23; miss

One blade manages to strike the surprised kitsune. Oswin finishes off the goblin at the door and sees the ambush the goblins set up. They strike again at the unarmored target.

G5: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 2 = 5; miss
G6: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 + 2 = 21; Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Another blow lands on Kisako, disabling the foreigner.

Round 4: Cyean (still have another action), Kisako, Oswin, Goblins, Sam

Sam steps forward to try and do something worthwhile, spotting as the foreigner got slashed by the goblins. "Withdraw, you nutter!" She hollered, heading through herself.

Acrobatics to avoid AoO: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

Move to R4.

The gunslinger rolls past the swordsman and the two goblins, coming back up on her feet and aiming at the one on her left, that revolver recoiling with another potent shot.

Revolver at G5 (-4 for shooting into melee): 1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (19) + 5 - 4 = 20

Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

The bullet flies true, but only grazes the goblin's cheek. What was wrong with her today?

That was all I was planning on doing for this round.

Round 5: Cyean (plus one action from round 4), Kisako, Oswin, Goblins, Sam

Well, how about Round 5 then? :)

Cyean sees most of the combat going on in the other car rushes forward even though he knows that it might not be the wisest thing to do tactically. With his sword before him, he goes attempting to brush aside any attacks to him while he makes one of his own.

Attack and Damage Rolls:
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
1d8 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Moving to Q-4, yes I know I take AoOs. and the dice likes those 5s.

Cyean wades into the fray, failing to hit an enemy. The goblins swipe at the passing half-elf.

G5: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15; miss
G6: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14; miss

The little creatures fail to hit Cyean, as well.

Round 5: Cyean, Kisako, Oswin, Goblins, Sam

Perhaps I should wear armor in the future.

Acrobatics to leave the space without provoking an AoO: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

Staggering from the pain of multiple dagger wounds, Kisako desperately leaps past Oswin and back into the car from which they came. He holds the biggest wound, a gash across his ribs, as he moves, and heavily sits on the carpeted floor of the traincar.

And that's it. I only get one action because I'm staggered. Kisako is heading to L3.

Cyean already provoked AoO's from both goblins with his move, so you didn't need the acrobatics check, which is good because that wasn't enough to beat their CMD+5

Kisako retreats safely to the other car, leaving an opening.

Round 5: Cyean, Kisako, Oswin, Goblins, Sam

First of all, that was a different move. My jump IN was last round, and I attacked a goblin last round. This round, I'm jumping out. To move through a square actually occupied by an enemy, the DC is their CMD+5. To move through a threatened square, the DC is their CMD.

Kisako had taken some punishment from the goblins, blood dripping from his wounds onto the train floor. Luckily the half-elf had moved into the next car, drawing their assailants attacks and giving Kisako the opportunity to withdraw - and Oswin the chance to rush in.

Move Action to P4

Oswin stood above on of the Goblins, having forced it back into the corner of the car. He raised his sword, preparing to stab into the small creature:

Standard Action attack against G6
Attack Roll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
Damage Roll: 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (3, 2) + 7 = 12

As Oswins shadow engulfed the creature it began to panic. Maybe it had realized that death had finally found it? Regardless, Oswins blade entered its chest, easily punching through its armor and ramming into the train wall behind it. Oswin took a moment to plant his foot in the dead goblins chest and wrench his blade free. He raises his sword again while bracing himself in the doorway between cars. "Don't worry!" he yells "I'll keep it off ya! Just catch your breath!"

In any case...

A lone goblin remains, its confidence gone as Oswin slays another of its brethren. Despite this, it attacks the barbarian with its blade.

Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18; Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2

It seems to take a little solace that it injured the massive warrior that has killed quite a few goblins thus far.

Round 5: Cyean, Kisako, Oswin, Goblin, Sam

"Oi!" Sam lets out a sharp whistle, getting the goblin's attention as she levels her firmarm at its beady little eyes.

Revolver: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

The shot hits the train car's floor, the gunslinger cursing again at being so off the ball today.

Useless gunslinger is useless...

Round 6: Cyean, Kisako, Oswin, Goblin, Sam

Cyean looks down at the last goblin. He changes the grip of his sword before attempting a downward slash on the little creature.

Attack and Damage Roll:
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21
1d8 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

Cyean dispatches that last goblin. You continue hearing sounds from the next car.

Oswin moves towards the entrance to the next car. As he moves past Cyean he says "Nice work, now let's finish off whatever's left." He takes a moment to wait for the others and check his wound. The goblins sword had left a gash across his left leg, but it was shallow and easily ignored. He raises his weapon once again, prepared if any goblins decide to attempt an assault before the rest of the group was in position.

Move Action to U4
Readying a Standard Action attack in the event that a goblin enters V4.

"Wait just a damn minute," Sam tells Oswin before he can get too far ahead. She glances back at Kisako - Injured, but alive. She couldn't worry too much about him right now. Didn't know what he was thinking rushing ahead like that.

The gunslinger moves forward, opening up the car door and stepping in front of Oswin, revolver leveled into it. It was frustrating being the only one to have not pulled their own weight here, and she was going to make up for that.

Move action to V4, opening up the doors and looking inside.

Kisako limps back to the entrance of the car he's in, weakly calling "Wait!"

MA: Move to N4/

Grasping the silver icon of the sun with the sword crossed over it hanging around his chest, Kisako closes his eyes tightly, holds his breath for a moment, and then releases his breath. Accompanying his breath is a flash of light energy, billowing out from him.

Channel Energy: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Sam opens the train door to see one more goblin standing there kicking at the door into car two. It spins around as it hears the door behind it open. You notice that it wears a pair of goggles on its forehead and carries a powder horn. It levels a blunderbuss in your direction.

"Theez eez mah boom-steek!" the goblin proudly declares. It grins viciously, awaiting your approach.

Round 7: Cyean, Kisako, Oswin, Goblin, Sam

As his wounds knit together from his positive energy, Kisako continues to move forward To T4, moving slowly and with caution. As he moves, he grabs his holy symbol yet again, and a shimmering wave of light bursts out from his body, further healing those around him.

Channel: 1d6 ⇒ 1

3 channel energy remaining.

Sam doesn't get a standard action for her turn?

Yes, you do. I'm just keeping it going. I think I need to adopt a different way of handling initiative with this group: any suggestions?

"And this is Susannah," Sam retorts, leveling the revolver at the goblin and taking her shot.

Revolver: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21

Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

"Noisy b@$#$, ain't she?"

I have a few suggestions. First is to, as long as our turns are in an unbroken stretch, allow us all to act at the same time. (for example, you've been separating Sam's turn and everyone else's turn, even though the rest of us go right after her). Second of all, I think us players ought to put conditional actions in our posts so that everyone doesn't have to wait for the GM to post what happened and the player to post his reaction. Pre-emptively guage your reaction to what might happen, I think.

Sam drops the goblin with a fatal shot. The door beyond slides open a crack and you hear a male voice. "Are they all gone?"

Combat Over.

What's the damage and body count look like for the other passengers?

In the other cars, you've found between 10 and 15 bodies. There's no telling since car seven was blown off right before the attack.

"I'll let you handle this hotshot" Oswin says to Sam. He lowers his weapon and drops his combat stance, moving back into the fourth car. He starts kicking over the bodies of the dead goblins as if searching for something. "Aha!" he announces as he crouches down to one of the corpses. He grabs the white cloth from one of the goblins arms and rips it off. "Just what I needed." He drags the cloth over his greatsword, wiping off the goblin blood that accumulated from the battle.

Three things to say. One, Sam gets a grit point back. Two, that was an awesome way for her to end the combat, with a one-liner. Third, I agree mostly with what Kisako said - I could have saved two posts if I'd just said Sam would roll to hit whatever goblin she saw after opening the door.

The gunslinger blows off the wisp of smoke coming from the barrel of the gun, stepping forward towards the doors, gun still drawn as she starts ejecting spent cartridges and reloading. "Pretty much, unless you're one of them. In which case I should point out the hunk carrying a slab of iron behind me should you get any funny ideas," Sam commented as she proceeds to liberate the goblin of its armaments, prying the blunderbuss from its cold, dead hands.

"Anyone else left alive up there?" She asks, taking a look at the goggles, wondering if they'd fit on her.

Cyean shakes his head at the group as he whips his sword at a goblin's body causing the blood to fall away. As he puts his blade away. He rolls his shoulders slightly as he turns waiting for the answer to Jakobs' question.

Kisako rubs his remaining wounds. "Ouch." he says, plaintively. "Nobody is hurt, I hope?"

"You don't get to say that when you're the worst injured!" Sam fires back at the foreigner, pausing as she notes Kisako's wounds look less worse than when he got them. "Oswin I can understand rushing off like that since he's got armor, but you weren't wearing s%*+ - do you have a death wish or something? Charging ahead like that and running straight into an ambush - you were lucky they didn't kill you outright," The annoyed gambler chews him out as she continues to raid the goblin she felled.

"I've at least got some armor on, so even I'm better protected than you are right now. You act before thinking like that, I guarantee you're going to get yourself killed in the future," Sam finished her tirade against him, pausing as she glanced at Cyean.

"...honestly, I've got nothing bad to say about your performance, so I'll keep my damn mouth shut." The half elf hadn't acted recklessly or tried to coddle the gunslinger, so she couldn't complain to him. Theirs was an emergency alliance. Though she couldn't help but admit to herself that for a couple of swordsmen, they were pretty good - even if one was more reckless.

"Oi!" Oswin yells from the other car,"Don't be so harsh Sam, half the time you were running in ahead of anyone else remember?"

Kisako purses his lips and lowers his head at Sam's tirade. "I am sorry." he says, softly. "I had not thought that we would be attacked. Armor is in bag."

Kisako begins to look about the car, and about the next car. Nobody's answered him about whether or not they're hurt, and now he sees why. The bodies heaped here and there surprise him, if nothing else. He hadn't seen the goblins as any more than a cursory threat.

"These ones did not have faith to protect them." His voice is still soft as he kneels to close a dead woman's eyes. "If only we had finished the green things off sooner."

Cyean looks about at the bodies shaking his head as he listens to Jakobs go on at the other two about what happened in the fight. "No reason to be so hard on them. Not like you would expect to be attacked on a train. Only reason I had my armor on is I do so to help with my training. As for being reckless that is a problem, might not end so well next time. As a whole though good job."

"...Well, so long as you remember to know your limits next time something like this happens around you, things should be fine," The gunslinger tells Kisako. Seemed that understood that he'd acted a bit recklessly. "Hey, don't fault yourself for the dead. Count how many we've saved instead," Sam tells him, pointing to the back door and swinging around to look at whomever was cowering behind it.

"Hey, hey, why exactly are you still cooped up in there? All the goblins are dead, you know! It's safe to come out, all right?"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

Oswin looks up from where he is kneeling in the train. Seemingly he remembers something and paces back into the sixth train car. There he stoops over and collects the scattered cards of Sams deck that had been spilled when the battle began. They have been stepped on a few times and some have goblin blood on them, but other than that they seem fine. After grabbing his bag from the overhead as well, he returns to the rest of the group, handing the deck back to Sam. "Here you go, they're a little messy though. Sorry."

"Yeah, we all moved up here when the shooting started," you hear the voice say. "Just a minute..."

You hear the sound of something heavy being moved away from the door. A man in a immaculate grey uniform with a silver badge steps out. "I suppose thanks are in order. The quartermaster is going to have my neck for this. Damned hooligans."

Sam holds up the goggles and determines they are worthless, merely for show. After righting as much as the staff can and providing you all with a free meal and beverages, the train makes its way into Coldglass, its spires towering over the massive wall that encircles the city.
The steam engine pulls into the station and you step on to the platform, the Great Cathedral merely a stone's throw away from you. A large stand sits near the benches with a map tacked up on it. People begin to shuffle toward the train until an imperious man moves them aside and approaches you.

"I am Inspector Klimt. The engineer says you know what happened to the train," the man asks tersely, gesturing at the damage towards the back of the car you were sitting at.

Edit: Changed link to the city map since Dropbox is being dopey.