The Laughing Wolf Inn

Game Master Thomi Gallowshade

Flug mutters something incomprehensible, makes an obscure motion with his hands, and using a spider casts a spell on himself.

Nastrod, Thorgrim and Gezzo all move toward the tower, with Gezzo moving into the entrance astride Lryhla. He snaps a shot with his crossbow while enroute, but the bolt sails wide and arcs high over the tower into the surrounding jungle.

As Gezzo enters the tower, arrows strike at him from overhead!
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15 1d6 ⇒ 6
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21 1d6 ⇒ 4
One shaft misses, but the second hits for four points of damage!

Two figures are waiting inside the tower entrance, and they immediately attack Gezzo as he enters the tower:
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Blades whirl and slash, striking Gezzo for 8 damage, as the figures groan...Feed me...feed me...so hungry!

End of Round 4

The Map is Updated.

Start of Round 5

Group 1: Celif

Hampered by the weight of her backpack, Celif continues towards the tower at a slower pace as several of her compatriots rush by her. She quickens her steps as best she can and, once closer to the tower, (MA to N8) sends forth another burst of holy energy.

Figuring area of effect in three dimensions is always "fun." :o) Story Master, anchoring from an upper front corner of the 5' square ("cube") Celif occupies, a 30' radius sphere will include opponent A on the roof (but not opponent B). I can draw out the details and upload the diagram if you need to verify that. The field will of course include both of the zomboids attacking Gezzo. Based on where it seems the murder holes must be, it would likely encompass those two shooters on the second floor as well (but I can't say for sure).

Channel Energy, harm undead intent: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 1) = 7 DC 16 Will save to half

Nästród, Oracle of the Dasun wrote:

"Our destiny awaits!" Nästród cries as he hustles to the entrance of the ominous octagon.

Please designate an ending coordinate.

I'm note sure where the entrance is by looking at the map.

Calling "up" on your screen north, center of the southeast face of the octagon. First step in is K9, right behind Gezzo who is at J8. Is it possible you don't have the most recent version of the map? Story Master "took the roof off" for us.

Story Master wrote:

Nästród, Oracle of the Dasun wrote:

"Our destiny awaits!" Nästród cries as he hustles to the entrance of the ominous octagon.

Please designate an ending coordinate.

I'm note sure where the entrance is by looking at the map.

Square K-9.

K-10

"We are ready outside, Gezzo!"

1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12
1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24

Celif invokes the power of her deity, and a pulse of positive energy bursts forth, enveloping the creatures manning the tower!

Group 2: The Tower

The skeleton warriors on the tower roof continue to launch arrows towards Celif:
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10 1d6 ⇒ 4
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15 1d6 ⇒ 3
However, both of them miss, and the arrows go skittering across the wharf.

Two more arrows are shot at Gezzo from above the entrance to the tower:
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19 1d6 ⇒ 6
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22 1d6 ⇒ 2
Both shafts hit him for a combined 8 points of damage!

The two figures inside the entrance to the tower continue their attacks on Gezzo with swords and daggers:
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
1d6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
The blades slice and slash with effect, causing 15 points of damage!

The map is updated.

Group 3: Everyone else...

Rudy and Fener rush in to help Gezzo, both risking attacks of oportunity. Trying to dodge

Rudy to H7 and attacking creature at I8.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

Bite: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Trip: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

Fener moves to J6 and attacks Creature at I8

Acrobatics: 1d20 ⇒ 6

Bite: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Claw 1: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
Damage: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
Crit Confirm: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15
Crit Damage: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Claw 2: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Damage: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

I go into stealth mode and sneak around through the door to K-7 then sneak attack the creature at J-7 with my 2 Masterwork shortswords.

Stealth: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24

Sneak Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2 2d6 ⇒ (3, 5) = 8

I hope this works . . .

Yes, that would put me at -2 and unconscious.

75% to stay in saddle: 1d4 ⇒ 2

Lryhla whimpers as Gezzo falls slumped and bloodied in the saddle. She leaps out of the immediate combat.

Acrobatics to avoid AoO: 1d20 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 3 + 1 = 11

Move to M10.

Rudy runs so quickly through the tower entrance that the creatures inside don't have time to react! He attacks the creature at I-8, successfully grabbing it in his teeth and chomping down with his bite! The creature stumbles and falls prone!

Fener moves into the entranceway, and arrows fly down at him from above:
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12 1d6 ⇒ 5
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21 1d6 ⇒ 4
One of the shafts plunges into him for 4 points of damage!
Fener rips into the prone creature causing critical damage, with a bite and a claw, and he tears the creature in two! The creature in I-8 is destroyed.

1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22
Imowen tries to sneak around behind the creature at J-7, but it spots her (Natural 20) and attacks as she is maneuvering:
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23 Possible Crit
Crit Confirmation: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13 No Crit
Damage: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Imowen is struck for 6 points of damage! She tries to retaliate but misses with each sword!

Lryhla exits the tower entrance with the unconscious Gezzo slumped in the saddle.

Double move action to get to the top of the roof.

The humanoid wolf dashes to the wall of the tower and places its paws on it. It starts climbing up, with nothing supporting it and no handholds visible.

Flug scrambles to the tower and climbs to the roof.

Wow, that's a lot of arrows coming from those murder holes.

Move to I-6 and power attack the zomboid with my sword

Someone get Gezzo to safety!

attack: 1d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (2) + 10 - 2 = 10
damage: 2d6 + 7 + 4 ⇒ (5, 5) + 7 + 4 = 21

Thorgrim rushes into the tower and attacks, but the creature is able to parry the blow!

Nastrod - you still have a move/action to close out the round.

Celif - go ahead and take your turn, and we'll sort out the end of this round later.

Sorry, had to turn in early last night.

I don't see a map update since the 28th, but I presume/it looks like I can get to Gezzo's current location in a move action.

Seeing Gezzo slumped unconscious in his saddle, Celif rushes over and taps him with a wand.

Cure Light Wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Bah.

Celif, You should be casting 1d8+4 for cure light wounds. its 1d8+1/level, max +5. Gezzo got 6HP. A little better anyways

True, but she's burning through Channel Energies like mad, and if I drain her spell slots too she'll be useless... and we don't know what else is going to come down on us "right now." Using the wand leaves all her offensive/defensive/healing options intact. Plus I figured the minimum possible heal from the wand would at least bring him up to zero -- stabilized and conscious, if disabled.

OTOH I have very little experience running a healer and zero with clerics, so... noted! :o)

End of Round 5

The map is updated for the Tower.

Start of Round 6

Celif rushes over to Gezzo, touches him with a cure wounds wand, and heals him for 3 points.

Group 2: Enemy

The creature inside the entranceway continues to attack Imowen 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20 and slices her with a dagger for 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6 six damage points!

Arrows rain down on Fener from above 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10 but they narrowly miss!

Flug manages to climb up on the roof of the tower, where he is met by two skeleton warriors who move in and attack with swords:
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
In their haste the skeletons each miss hitting Flug.

The Tower Map is updated again.

Group 3: Everyone else...

Nästród quickly hobbles quickly past Fener and Imowen to flank the undead abomination at I6.

In an overhead chop, he brings the flaming falchion down on the wretched thing.

Attack: 1d20 + 7 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 7 + 1 + 2 = 19
Damage: 2d6 + 5 ⇒ (6, 3) + 5 = 14
Fire Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Nastrod moves into the tower, provoking an attack of opportunity from the undead creature 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12 but is misses with both cutlass and dagger!

Nastrod whirls and brings his flaming weapon down on the head of the nasty thing...and the blade smashes it, carving the thing in two with one mighty stroke! The second enemy in the entrance is destroyed.

The ground floor of the tower is bare of furnishings or other large debris. The entranceway and flooring have dirt, sand and bits of plant debris scattered about, with a path of footprints and scuff marks evident leading to the stairway on the western wall. In the central part of the tower, a crumpled tricorn hat spattered with dried bloodstains is pinned to a crack in the wall by a dagger.

Celif - my mistake- I thought you cast not used the wand

OH! And I thought you were suggesting a personal cast rather than using the wand, haha!

Fener moves to the stairs, and up to the top peering around the corner so that he has cover. ( if there is one). Rudy follows behind him.

(Double Move)

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27

Scent: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31

Story Master - My AC when I am a cat is 14 so I would have been hit by an Arrow unless I had concealment

Story Master - My AC when I am a cat is 14 so I would have been hit by an Arrow unless I had concealment

You did not have concealment: 1d6 ⇒ 6 Six points of damage.

I power cut the zombie up, and move to D-6

attack: 1d20 + 10 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 10 - 2 + 1 = 18
damage: 2d6 + 7 + 4 ⇒ (5, 1) + 7 + 4 = 17

Flug draws his weapon and swings it at the nearest skeleton.

Attacking the skeleton at L-18, directly to the south of me.

MW Morningstar: 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 6 + 1 + 1 = 19
Damage (B&P): 1d8 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 2 + 1 = 9

I power cut the zombie up, and move to D-6

Nastrod already destroyed the zombie. Try something else.

Flug twirls his morningstar, and it smashes into the skeleton, which breaks apart into a pile of bone fragments! It is destroyed.

The map is updated again...

I move to R-6 facing the skellies.

I'm having a hard time keeping up in this fight

Thanks for the heal, Celif!

Gezzo's head rolls to a somewhat upright position after the healing effects of Celif's magic wash over him. Taking Gezzo's regaining of consciousness as a queue, Lryhla bolts for the last place of safety.

Lryhla moves to T6.

Once out of the view of the undead archers, Gezzo mumbles a foreign incantation hoping to bring more relief to his beaten body.

Cast Cure Light Wounds.

CLW: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Thorgrim charges up the stairs, weapon ready to smite the skeleton warriors on the second floor of the tower!

Gezzo moves into the central warehouse and casts a cure spell upon himself.

I go into stealth mode and with Fast Stealth move upstairs to P-7 and remain very, very quiet.

Stealth: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19

Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (11) + 10 = 21

Finding Traps: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14

I go into stealth mode and with Fast Stealth move upstairs to P-7 and remain very, very quiet.

Stealth: 1d20+11
Perception: 1d20+10
Finding Traps: 1d20+12

You can add the +2 to your existing Perception roll for traps, giving you +23 for traps.

Imowen sneaks up the stairs to the second floor of the tower...

End of Round 6

The map is updated. Gezzo, I moved you to the edge of the Tower map, for convenience.

Start of Round 7

Group 1: Celif...

Lryhla takes off with Gezzo before Celif can invoke additional healing so instead, she steps closer to the tower (L9) and pushes out another wave of offensive energy. (Which should encompass every enemy within the tower as well as any lurking nearby.)

Channel Energy, harm undead intent: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5 DC 16 Will save to half

Celif powers another wave of positive energy...

Will Saves:
A 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
C 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15
D 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
E 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
F 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12

The skeletons recoil as if struck by a blunt instrument, and skeletons C and E shatter into a hundred bone fragments! C and E are destroyed.

Group 2: Skeletons

On the roof, Skeleton A attacks Flug with its long sword 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17 and slashes him for 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4 four points of damage!

On the second floor, Skeletons D and F see Thorgrim enter the room, and they snap off arrow shots at him:
D 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12 1d6 ⇒ 4
F 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10 1d6 ⇒ 1
Both arrows fly wide and miss!

The map is updated - again! :)

Group 3: Everyone else...

I stealthily move to T-6 and sneak attack Skeleton D with my Masterwork Mace.

Melee Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

Imowen sneaks up on Skeleton D, winds up, and smashes it solidly with her mace! The creature shatters, bones and fragments flying across the floor! D is destroyed. Only F is left on the second floor.

Move upstairs to S6.

Fener and rudy move in on the last skeleton. Rudy to U6 and Fener to V6.

Rudy:

bite: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Trip: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

Fener:

Bite: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Claw 1: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10
Damage: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Claw 2: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
Damage: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Fener and Rudy pounce on the last skeleton on the second floor, and a flurry of teeth and claws rends it to pieces! It is destroyed.

Flug retaliates, swinging his morningstar at the skeleton.

MW Morningstar: 1d20 + 6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 6 + 1 + 1 = 26
Damage (B&P): 1d8 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 1 = 5

Gezzo's looks around with clearer eyes as his magic heals his wounds. He realizes his mount has lead him to relative safety, but away from the battle.

Lryhla! Back to the fray! Our team needs us!

He pulls the reigns and the two set quickly out of the building. Gezzo draws his greatsword in route. He nods as he passes Celif and pauses once inside. Passing his hand across his blade, he assesses the battle on the first floor before moving up.

Lryhla shouldn't have any issue getting to the first floor with a double move (move to H7). Gezzo casts True Strike on his blade.