Note to selia & Jubrayl - Nualia's & Tsuto's voices are coming from around the corner. You can't see anyone at the moment.
Red-faced with rage, Tsuto barrels into the hallway, an arrow fitted into his longbow. "Rapist? Beast? Sir, you will recant those words. I will not stand here and have my honor besmirched by Sandpoint riff-raff like yourself."
He loosens the arrow and its head is buried deep into Nicholae's shield, quivering like a sapling blown by a gust.
Behind him, comes another of those unholy hounds, just like you fought upstairs earlier. It races past Tsuto and stands in front of him growling at the lot of you, baring its teeth in a hideous snarl.
Actions?
The hound's readied action goes off. Can I get a Will save from everyone (this is fear based)?
+ any benefits from being close to a paladin, I believe its + 4
If not feared I cast holy weapon on my sword.
Nice catch. Yes, everyone should be getting +4 courtesy of Jubrayl.
I should have done this earlier:
initiative order -
Hakak
Lleidr
Nicholae
NPCs
Ned
Jubrayl
Selia
So ... I need actions for Lleidr and it sounds like Nich isn't doing a move action. BTW, Ned, that roll would be for your readied action. So, after the 1st 3 PCs go and then I resolve the NPCs, then you'll need to give me a new action.
BTW, Selia sees no illusion activity around the Yeth Hound or around Tsuto. However, there is a small magical aura around one of Tsuto's fingers.
Nicholae moves up after Hakak.
Well that narrow little hall's already getting too crowded. Lleidr will stay where he is with the FoE out and an attack readied. He's still keeping a eye on Orik.
That should be bless weapon on my sword.
No bonus to hit. But counts as good and magic for DR and auto confirms crits.
[Afternoon, Thistletop, 8th Day After Goblin Raid, Round 1 Part 1, Thistletop Level Two]
Orik slams his hands over his ears. “Oh, that howl is awful.”
Bounding around one of the hall’s slender columns, Hakak tears into the baying hound.
Lleidr grips the Fang of Elyrium, readying to strike a blow, but all the while, is watching Orik.
Ignoring Tsuto’s assault, Nich closes his eyes in a solemn prayer for divine aid, and soon his unsheathed sword is cast with a brilliant sheen. Lurking shadows which had been creeping over you are thrown back into their dark corners.
The hound tries to bite Hakak, but the half-orc’s armor proves too tough. In fear, it runs and goes back up towards the north door (Hakak gets an AoO).
Tsuto loosens another arrow, this one aimed at Hakak, but it merely gets stuck in the barbarian’s chain shirt. The half-elf rounds the opposite corner of the dog and disappears into south passage.
Nualia’s voice echoes off the stone walls again. “You won’t escape here alive, none of you. Be content with your fate. All of you will be burnt offerings, just like my father was.”
My description of Tsuto's move action made no sense. He fired an arrow, missed, then moved through the southern door and disappeared.
Sorry for any confusion.
Here's the map after the hound runs back. It ran through the north door in the hallway.
BTW, Hakak, your 2nd axeblow also hit. The hound was pretty beat up.
Ned will quickdraw his greatsword, take a 5' step and swing at Tsuto
(power attack)
Ned, I must not have been real clear on where Tsuto went. He's out of sight. He ran through the south door in the room marked E3, so you'd have to go down that hall (the one where Lleidr disarmed a trap) in order to find him.
The map shows Tsuto next to Nicholae, would I have gotten any AoO? Where did he and the hound run to ? The door with Steps? Where is Nuala's voice coming from? E3?
Ned will move down the hallway and take a quick glance through the southern door Tsuto dissappeared through.
Nich, I think you're confusing Tsuto and Orik. Orik is the grey colored dude with a bow. Tsuto was down the hall, E3, and then he went through the south door in that hallway, which you haven't explored yet.
Yes, Nualia's voice is coming through E3, from the north entrance way, whose door is open.
So, now I need actions for Selia and Jubrayl and we can go to round 2.
The map shows Tsuto next to Nicholae, would I have gotten any AoO? Where did he and the hound run to ? The door with Steps? Where is Nuala's voice coming from? E3?
Nicholae moves up up towards E3 as his move action then.
Selia will step back to the east and begin casting summon monster 1.
Jubray will step behind Hakak reading and wait for the dog to be killed before following calling after the fleeing bowman.
Coward not any do you attack those weaker than you you run from the mearest challege even when protected by godless beasts.
If Nicholae has an action cause it's a new round its move up and cast bull strength - if it's still from last round when I cast bless weapon? It's move up,
[Afternoon, Thistletop, 8th Day After Goblin Raid, Round 1 Part 2, Thistletop Level Two]
Ned runs past Hakak to see where Tsuto has landed and is shocked by what greets him. To the south, sure enough, waits Tsuto with his bow drawn aiming right at the ranger. However, the north passage opens into a round room and near the dead center, attending to her wounded pet is a friend you long assumed dead.
Nualia is there, her face little changed in the intervening years, but her body betrays an infernal transformation. Her abdomen is exposed and is streaked with horrendous scars. Even worse, her entire left arm is a hellish red and ends in a demonic claw. “Hello, Ned. You can have the honor of being the first to die today. It’s the least I can do for you, given how you all abandoned me in Sandpoint. I can see the rest of them being so thoughtless, but you too, Ned? At least, now I can hurt you the same way you hurt me.”
Jubrayl shouts a challenge after Tsuto. Oddly, Jubrayl’s voice isn’t muffled to the same degree as Orik’s. His voice booms off the stone, and the echoes ring in your ears.
Unable to bear the hound’s awful baying, Selia tears past everyone else and charges up the staircase.
Orik says, “Should I go after her? Nualia’s in a tight place and it’s gonna be tough for all of us to reach her.”
Sorry for the delay in getting update out. I had a nasty headache last night. Nich, you already submitted an action, but if you want to reconsider, given Ned’s revealing of the map, feel free to post something else. So, next up for round 2: Hakak, Lleidr and Nicholae.
In response to Orik, Lleidr will say, "Nualia's not the only foe. Besides Tsuto, that mage woman, Lyrie, could be around. Do whatever Jubrayl says, but I think you should stay here. I can send Arg to follow, and he can warn me through our link if she runs into trouble." With that, Lleidr will direct Arg to follow and guard Selia, and the little monkey will dart off after her.
Lleidr will weave his way past our chanting cleric and raging barbarian, trying to position himself with his back to Ned, facing Nualia, whom he will attempt to Daze (1 humanoid, 4 HD or less, Will save DC 15).
So, we're waiting on actions for Hakak.
Dot
Hakak, you've got enough movement to reach the hound, but you didn't me a standard action. Ned can see the room that the hound is in, and it's adjacent to Nualia. Do you want to give me a standard action too?
[Afternoon, Thistletop, 8th Day After Goblin Raid, Round 2 Part 1, Thistletop Level Two]
Lleidr’s monkey familiar scampers off after Selia. Lleidr runs behind Ned and casts Daze on Nualia. She doesn't appear affected by the spell.
Hakak charges into the north room after the wounded hound. The beast possesses a canny instinct, wounded though it be, and neatly jumps away from Hakak’s swing. The axe-head lands, biting into a nearby chair and rendering it little more than scrap wood.
Nicholae casts a divine spell upon his drawn sword.
Nualia grimaces at Hakak’s attack on her pet. “I never cared much for you, Hakak.” In a terrific rage, she plunges her sword at the barbarian, but the half-orc dodges the blow with ease. Her demonic claw hand lashes out, but merely scrapes his armor to no effect.
The hound however latches onto Hakak with a ferocious bite (9 hp dmg plus Will Save, please). The hound drags Hakak down onto the floor.
Tsuto laughs. “Ah, yes, the halfling! At this close range, even you, my friend, are an easy target.” Another arrow slices the air, which then nicks Lleidr (4 hp dmg).
Lyrie peers around a corner from behind the south door. “Good shot, love. Watch this!” With a flash of arcane energies, a volley of yellow viscous liquid sails towards Lleidr. It misses by mere inches and spatters the adjacent stone wall. Steam rises and the stone boils and bubbles from the acid as it streams towards the floor.
Orik runs into the north room (double move). “Enough of this, Nualia! It’s time to end this.”
Nualia smiles. “Oh, you’re quite right about that.”
Here’s a description of what you folks see in the room marked ‘E4’: Wide stone ledges of red marble line the curving walls of this room, which is well lit by four burning skulls that sit in each corner. Three chairs rest in the room, and both stone ledges are covered with old books, scrolls, teeth, bones, scrimshaw artwork, jars of deformed creatures soaking in brine, taxidermied animals and limbs, and other strange objects. To the north, a large round fountain filled with frothy blue water fills the room with the gentle sound of bubbling.
Next up: Ned, Jubrayl, and then Selia, who is still running. She'll make it back to the surface this action.
Nicholae casts bull strength on himself and move to Beds sq, or failing that? The E3 sq.
Ned will move into the room to the space to the right of the hound and take a swing at it.
"Bad doggy, no cookie!"
(power attack,monster hunter)
Ned, I think that you're going to be subject to an AoO if you move through Hakak's square to get to the right of the hound. Am I off-base in that?
he double moves in front of Tsuto pausing briefly as he passes by his old friend, and smites him ac vs him 20
Well I would like to see you try and hurt my friends you rat bastard.
[Afternoon, Thistletop, 8th Day After Goblin Raid, Round 2 Part 2, Thistletop Level Two]
Ned hops over Hakak and attacks the hound. The dog’s AoO misses Ned, but Ned’s blade doesn’t bite nearly as deep as he expected.
Jubrayl runs to Tsuto and challenges him. A fiery light shines from his eyes, and you see his face twist in despair for a moment.
Unfortunately, you’re also now right next to Lyrie.
Selia keeps on running, with Arg right on her tail.
Next up: Hakak, Lleidr, & Nich