Way of the Wicked (Inactive)

Game Master Aku Warashi

Seren puts on a superficial grin, her magical energies almost fully consumed for the day. She pulls out her mace a small sigh escaping her lips.

"lets find that bloody wizard. With him gone we can take our time clearing the gatehouse. The common soldiers don't seem to be much of a threat"

-Posted with Wayfinder

Yes, let us find the wizard, with them lacking magical assistance things will be easier. Just where does he stay? If we do not know then the gatehouse sounds as good as any other.

I pretty much have to follow you guys around since I have no idea where the wizard is.

"The bedrooms for the important people are in the Keep. That's our best bet. We might be able to draw some soldiers away and divert their attention by lighting the rookery on fire or something."

cut the Lord's head off, and that will be our banner. Show the survivors their fate. We should ascend. That will be where the mage is, and the fools here may simply flee. Give your enemy a golden bridge of escape and they will rout, corner them and they'll fight like cornered rats.

Mysty gestures upward as she speaks.

Rose was moving more easily now. Nahia's wand was truly a godsend. She looked up the stairs.

"Lets use their weapons against them. Upstairs. We could pick off quite a few of them from up there. Hound's polearm could probably hit the ground from any window facing the courtyard, so we could make them afraid to breach the tower too. Instead of hunting he Magister, let's make him come to us."

Nahia nods and adds "I can refresh the growth spell on Hound, if needed, and between his reach and the guards needing to come up the stairs to reach us, we could probably hold them off for quite a while. Especially given their lack of leadership."

Hounds adjusts his gear. So is our mission to kill every soldier in this keep?

no it is to open the gates to the bugbear army. Killing guards is useful, but not our main task. According to the map if we go up one level there is a walkway accross to the gate house. Let us ascend, kill the mage and take the gate house. But whatever we do, lets do it now.

"Tonight isn't the night. The army isn't expecting it to go down right now. We've gotten way off script."

Rose if we take the tower, don't we win this? I never liked that one week plan, to many things could go wrong. Right now they are demoralised, and disorganized. What we know of the mage is he is no leader. With him gone, the troops may rout.

Mysty starts to argue again, as a classical villain, about their plan. In all they seems to never reach an agreement, and as classical villains, they nearly ruined defeat, bickering among themselves.
However, after some stares from the others, the Halfling seemed to give up on her argument, as the party moved upstairs.

No one stands on your way as you move up, the door to the yard, still closed.

You reach the 3rd Level of the tower, to find that two guards had been posted there, to protect the arrow supplies, being disguised as soldiers, they did not stand a chance, as Mysty and Rose waded between then, waving death with their weapons.

This level is a key archer’s strongpoint. Arrow slits adorn its entire outer wall. Wooden racks contain the watchtower’s store of arrows. Four thousand normal arrows neatly sorted into a 200 quivers of 20 arrows each hang on these racks.

From there, you can see the yard, especially when some of the guards move about, carrying torches.
What are your intentions?

"oh please lets rain death down on those pitiful fools." seren asks hopefully, the basically limitless supply of arrows sparking her imagination.

-Posted with Wayfinder

Hound pulls out his bow. Very well, I'll start shooting. Be sure to watch the doors.

In the brief, off-camera fight did I notice anything special or different about the Lord's sword (which I'm currently using)?

Are there bows with the arrow supplies? If there are, I'd like to grab one.

The sword, Steel longsword surmounted with a gold and blue sapphire pommel in the shape of the rising sun, set with a red spinel. The blade bears the inscription “The strong must protect the weak.”
It was shining in a holy light when it was in the paladin hands. Its light died, any magical property seems to have vanished from the weapon.
==/==
There’s no bows stored with the arrows, however, when climbing the stairs you remembered that almost every guard carried a shortbow, and thus each one of you has one for use.

It does not takes much firing to attack attention; the soldiers began to yell desperate orders running about. Not much time later, a different source of light appears, one that any spell caster is able to recognize as the light spell.
Taking advantage of this, you send a volley of arrows in the source direction, and in the instant later, it blackens out, as does the others source of lights.
Mysty and Hound hear a frantic voice, yelling to the soldiers ”The tower! Move, move!”
You were able to kill several guards, from your vantage point, that however changed when the wizard appeared. All source of lights were extinguished, and they were too far away to be seem by darkvision. You can surmise that they are coming to you. How will you greet them?

Hound draws his great sword. We should try to keep out of direct line of sight of the doorway, so the wizard cannot target us directly.

Hound will get to one side of the door and ready himself when the soldiers burst in.

"Not here. We're in a pinch on this floor. If we get cut off from our escape route we'll regret it. Downstairs. We want to hold them at the hall and the stairs. Hound, grab the biggest chunk of that barricade. We might be able to use it against them. Go. I'll follow."

On the map, the downstairs entrance is right next to the staircase. We can use that as a great bottleneck and it's right next to our exit point just in case we get swamped. Hopefully we'll be able to control their approach and keep the wizard from getting line of site on us.

Once the group is clear I'm going to use Channel Energy to light the archer's nest on fire. There's enough wood in here to turn it into a serious bonfire that will make it hard for them to maneuver in, and it will take out a lot of their supplies.

Hounds grunts and picks up the barricade, following the others.

Abandoning their defensive point, Rose points the others to get back into the forge, as she stays behind, to light a fire into the arrow storeroom.

Mysty, Nahia, Hound, Seren and skeletons move stair bellow, but before they can cross the room, the door burst open, and soldiers pour inside.

Remember that the barricade is in the hallway after the room 2, and that you were at the room 38. You need to cross room 32, 2 and then get to the hallway to pick up a broken piece of barricade.

Hound: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Mysty: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
Nahia: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Rose: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Seren: 1d20 ⇒ 10

Soldiers: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19

The Reckoning 3.

Round 1-

Ordered Initiative-

Mysty: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

Soldiers: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19

Hound: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Nahia: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Rose: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Seren: 1d20 ⇒ 10

Active Effects-

Hound Enlarge person 44/50

Map-

Link

Notes-

Map updated.

Action-

Mysty you are up.

Mysty moves up to the nearest guard and strikes, to allow the others to clear the stairs. Her blade gleams as she moves it into a deceptive pattern. Then she strikes

Activate combat expertise, +1 AC, -1 attack

rapier: 1d20 + 10 - 1 ⇒ (4) + 10 - 1 = 13

damage: 1d4 + 2d6 ⇒ (4) + (5, 3) = 12

Hound will AoO anyone getting into his 10' reach(3 AoOs from Combat reflexes)) with his Greatsword +1 (+9 hit 3d6+8 damage)

Mysty rapier glean with death, her attack however is deflected by the soldiers armor.

The soldiers that were entering, had a confused look on their faces, they were expecting evil looking enemies, not guard looking enemies and giant guard looking enemies, however at Mysty attack, something seems to have snapped, as the nearest soldier yells ”The enemy! They are attacking!” the others, behind him, mustering their courage do the same ready for putting their life in danger.

Soldier number one, attacks the enemy just beside him.
Atk: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Dmg: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6 however, it's not enough to bypass Mysty agile movements, as he dodges the blow.

Soldier number two, moves on engage Hound...

Hound AoO: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
Dmg: 3d6 + 8 ⇒ (5, 6, 1) + 8 = 20 and almost has his head sliced by the giant attack, but that don’t stop him as he gets near and attack with his longsword.

Atk: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
Dmg: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8 however, the big one attack scared the aim out of him, and the blow go astray.

Soldier number three, confident that the Giant already played his cards, stride into the room…
Hound AoO: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28
Dmg: 3d6 + 8 ⇒ (1, 1, 6) + 8 = 16 only to have his head cut in half by a powerful blow from Hound's sword.

Soldier number four and five, seeming that approach the big one is a dangerous business, resort to their bow.

Atk Soldier 1: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24
Dmg: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Atk Soldier 2: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26
Dmg: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

critical confirmation: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Dmg: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (1, 5) + 2 = 8

Both arrows find's target, as pain explodes in hound chest and shoulder, places where the arrows found home.

Hound, Seren, Nahia and Rose you are up.

Seren glares at one of the soldiers with a bow, striding down the stairs to let her companions join the action. "wrong target darling."

cast murderous command.

-Posted with Wayfinder

Her two skeletons charge the soldier attacking mysty, red eyes gleaming with deathly intent.

i hate posting combat from wayfinder. Aku taking most of these values from memory, pleasr adjust as necessary.

samuel: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
dmg: 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (3, 4) + 4 = 11

father: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
dmg: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

-Posted with Wayfinder

--Nahia Round One--

Seeing the arrows bury themselves in Hounds chest, Nahia moves towards him, the wand dancing in the air with her approach. After a quick touch, Hound can feel a warmth as the arrows begin to push out of his chest and his wounds begin to heal.

Moving and using the wand of Infernal Healing on Hound (4 charges left).

Hound, Heal 1 hp per round for 10 rounds.

HP 38/62
AC 14 (AC 12 due to Enlarge)
Base BaB +5
Weapons in hand:Greatsword +1
Rage 3/15
Current effects:Enlarge 44/50,Infernal Healing 1/10

Hound snarls and moves 5' hacks at guard 5' with the shortbow
Greatsword+1: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 123d6 + 8 ⇒ (6, 5, 3) + 8 = 22

But his sword clangs off the wall

Was I able to channel energy before combat started, or is that what I'm doing with my first round?

Rose came down the stairs training smoke. The sounds of quickly, spreading fire came from the archer's nest they had just left.

Rose moves down the stairs as far as she can. I'm pretty sure I can get to just behind Mysty.

Mysty moved near the closest soldier and attacked, but missed her target.

The Soldiers attacked Mysty and Hound

Seren used a spell to force the guard attack his friend.

Will: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22

"getoff my head b@#&@!" the guard yells as he resists Seren command.

The skeletons charge at their target, but only Don is able to hit.

Nahia use her almost empty want to set a infernal healing on Hound

Rose moves down to join the fray.

The Reckoning 3.

Round 2-

Ordered Initiative-

Mysty: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

Soldiers: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19

Hound: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Nahia: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Rose: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Seren: 1d20 ⇒ 10

Active Effects-

Hound Enlarge person 45/50 / Infernal 1/10

Map-

Link

Notes-

Map updated.

Action-

Mysty you are up.

Mysty grins as she fences with the guard. it that really the best you can do? Mysty still fought with defense in mind (expertise still running)

bluff: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29

rapier: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9

damage: 1d4 + 2d6 ⇒ (1) + (5, 1) = 7

I can stop taking it easy on you if you like attempting to make her poor blow look like choice.

"Eat this!" the guard facing Mysty yells as he attacks

Atk: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
Dmg: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8 It’s not enough to hit her, however.

Guard two, four and five attacks Hound
Atk 2: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9 "I'm not afraid of your size!"
Dmg: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Atk 4: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22 "He is about to fall!"
Dmg: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Atk 5: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14 "Bring him down and we won!"
Dmg: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

The sword bearing guard, still imtimided by Hounds size, miss the target.
The bow bearing ones, don’t waste the change, and two more arrows find home in Hounds muscular body.

Nahia, Seren, Rose, Hound, you are up.

HP 29/62
AC 14 (AC 12 due to Enlarge, 10 from rage)
Base BaB +5
Weapons in hand:Greatsword +1
Rage 4/15
Current effects:Enlarge 45/50,Infernal Healing 1/10,Rage

Hound rages yet again, his wounds making his blood boil (+10 hp) and he hacks at solider 2

Rage,GS+1: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 273d6 + 8 ⇒ (3, 5, 5) + 8 = 21

The two skeletons continue to pummel the guards. samuel: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12 dmg: 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (3, 4) + 4 = 11

don: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
dmg: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

While her minions distract the guards seren decides to change her approach, rushing the guards with the bows. She lifts a finger on her left hand and shakes it "if only you had any idea of real power" she states jabbing the finger at one of the guards, energy cackling down her arm.

deaths touch: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20
dmg: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10

-Posted with Wayfinder

"You think he's the one you need to worry about? You boys are so cute." Rose said moving off the stairs and around the skeletons to close on the archers.

Moving 20 feet from behind Mysty to in front of the archers. That provokes from soldiers 1 and 2.

Attack soldier 1, flanking, power attack: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 6 + 2 = 23
Damage, sneak attack, murderer: 1d8 + 4 + 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 4 + (4) + 1 = 15

Cleave to soldier 4, power attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
1d8 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

--Nahia Round Two--

Not much time... The Magister will be here soon. And my spell won't last for much longer...

Nahia takes a step back, distancing herself from the conflict, as she pulls out a small blue orb from her pouch. She grips it tightly in her hand as small symbols in the orb begin to glow. Finally, she smiles as her eyes briefly take on a blue iridescence.

5' stap back, move action to retrieve my Pearl of Power, Standard to activate it to get Enlarge Person back.

Hound chop some more heads, as Seren finish the soldier that Mysty was unable to kill.

Rose, since you turn if after Seren and Hound, both soldiers are dead, and no AoOs
Rose moves and attack one of the archers, hurting him badly, but not enough to disable him.

Nahia, anticipating that the wizard, was some distance away, and they are fighting not the guards with the wizard, but the ones that were guarding the door, recovers her pearl of power, and use it to regain one of her spells.

Both remaining soldiers, take a step back and shoot at Rose.

Atk: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25
Dmg: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Atk: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15
Dmg: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

One of the attacks don't miss, and a piercing pain makes her growl in rage.

The Reckoning 3.

Round 3-

Ordered Initiative-

Mysty: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

Soldiers: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19

Hound: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Nahia: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Rose: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Seren: 1d20 ⇒ 10

Active Effects-

Hound Enlarge person 46/50 / Infernal 2/10

Map-

Link

Notes-

Map updated.

Action-

Mysty you are up.

does the door to this room open in or out?

Mysty advances ten feet to the door and tumbles between the last two guards.

acrobatics: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (20) + 15 = 35

wow, circus solei ear your heart out

Mysty flips between the guards, still using her blade to parry any blows that come near

she strikes at a guard

rapier: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28
damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

crit confirm: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
damage: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Mysty tumbles outside the tower, in a performance that would make any acrobat envious
And with a swift movement, brings her rapier in the soldier throat, cutting and piercing, as the guard falls to the ground, kicking and agonizing.

The second soldier takes a step back and fire an arrow at Rose, missing it.

Now that both Mysty and Rose got to the door, they can see the yard, and more guards approaching, they are, she is sure, the ones that were with the wizard before. Rose takes a careful look at the door, and see it open in.

Seren, Rose, Nahia, Round you are up.

HP 30/62
AC 14 (AC 12 due to Enlarge, 10 from rage)
Base BaB +5
Weapons in hand:Greatsword +1
Rage 5/15
Current effects:Enlarge 46/50,Infernal Healing 2/10,Rage

Hound moves up some. Rose, down. He says as he strikes over the diminutive anti-paladin and uses his 10' reach to cut down guard 5
Greatsword,Rage: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 203d6 + 8 ⇒ (1, 4, 1) + 8 = 14

Rose took a knee just long enough for Hound's enormous sword to pass over her head. Then she stepped forward and reached out to Mysty.

"Back inside!" she hissed

5' adjust. With my standard action I'd like to Reposition Mysty back inside (if she allows it). With my move action I'd like to pull the door shut.

Reposition (unopposed?): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

no problem at all, rose
Mysty slips back inside. Before doing so she tries to quickly see if anyone is giving orders amongst the guards.

I won't resist the reposition

--Nahia Round Three--

Nahia sees the group quickly approaching, and bites her lip.

Ok, we can do this. This is the big one. Probably the last big one. I wish I had time to get to Rose to heal her...

Taking a step to try and get out of view of the door, Nahia places the, now dull, blue orb back into her pouch and readies herself for the enemies to come within range.

5’ step, move action to put away the Pearl of Power, readying an action to cast Glitterdust out the door when the enemies are grouped together in front of it. Since Rose is probably going to shut the door, if they manage to open the door again during their turn, that would be a great time to target them.

Rose grab Mysty hand and throw her inside again, after that, closing the door.
Nahia prepares to cast a spell, if anyone opens it.

The Reckoning 3.

Round 4-

Ordered Initiative-

Mysty: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

Soldiers: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19

Hound: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
Nahia: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Rose: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Seren: 1d20 ⇒ 10

Active Effects-

Hound Enlarge person 46/50 / Infernal 3/10

Map-

Link

Notes-

Map updated.

Action-

You hear outside noise of voices and such, but no one tries to open the door.

You are up.

Rose steps to the side and puts her back to the wall, ready to attack the first soldier who steps between her and Mysty.

Stealth (you roll this, right?). Readied Action, swing at first soldier who steps through the door and into the flank between Mysty and I.