Intimidation:2d20 ⇒ (20, 9) = 29+3 = 23. Not too shabby
After looking over to Dacknar, Marquez grins wishing and washing his rapier back and forth in an intricate pattern.
For a few moments there is silence as the party charges into the room. All eyes focus on Marquez, his blade flashing menacingly toward both guard and thug. And the fighting comes to an abrupt halt, at least for a few seconds.
"Who are you?!" Demands one of the guards. "If you are from the watch, arrest these men. They have assaulted the Lady Gralhund and her house."
Male Rite of Knowing Conrasu Fighter 7: HP:108/108, Spd:25, AC:25, Fort:14, Ref:14, Will:13, Perc:13, 1/1 Focus Points
In the heat of the moment, I judged wrong on who was who. If the following is true, then we should all go see Lady Gralhund together and confirm that they did this. We don't know what is true or not until we ask her to clarify this up.
Marquez does not answer the guard right away. But prods at the Zhent with his rapier. ”Drop de weapon. Your assault es over.”
When the Zhents have complied, Marquez will answer the guard. ”We are not de watch. We are here to help though.”
Either way we look at it, this property belongs to the Lady Gralhund. The Zhents are in the wrong. Let us play this rescue into our favor and maybe we find our suspect that way. As of right now, we could merely be helpful citizens passing by and noticed the assault.
Dacknar, does helping the lady’s guards pose a problem for you? Are you tied to the Zhentarim background wise? I thought about this last night after my post.
M High Elf Rouge (Arcane Trickster) 5 AC 15 HP 23 /31 Passive Perception +17 Saves: S +0, D +7, Co +0, I +5, W +2, Ch +0 Hit Dice: 5/5 d8
No problem at all, I still have the Pirate background. Dacknar has close ties with the Zhents only due to his lady friend. So if they don't tell him to stay away from some area or something, it's free game from him.
"Baa, I will not arrest anyone, no profit in it. But if you still plan on fighting, I could use an easy work out."
Flexing and smiling to both groups.
intimidate:1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21
The men all takes a step back from Dacknar, but none completely lower their weapons.
One of the black clad thugs shouts toward the doorway to the south. "Oy! Urstil, we've got outsiders 'ere." He then turns to Dacknar and Marquez. "You lot best be pissin' off unless you want more trouble than you can imagine." He says. "This is Zhent business and we don't put up with busy bodies nosing in our matters."
As for the guards, the man who seems to be in charge looks back and forth between the thugs and the party. Frustration and concern marks his face as he calculates the odds of keeping his charges safe. Finally, he speaks up.
"If you aren't with the watch, then help us dispatch these thieving trespassers and you'll be rewarded by the lord and lady I'm sure." He says to Marquez, trusting the bladesingers look a bit more than Dacknar.
Moments later the southern door opens and a man steps out into the hall. "What's the trouble...." He starts to ask before interrupting himself upon seeing Dacknar and the rest of you.
He also matches perfectly the description of the man who fled the alley following the blast which is also backed up by the burned and tattered look of his cloak and clothing.
M High Elf Rouge (Arcane Trickster) 5 AC 15 HP 23 /31 Passive Perception +17 Saves: S +0, D +7, Co +0, I +5, W +2, Ch +0 Hit Dice: 5/5 d8
When the man steps out Dacknar smiles at the cloaked person"That be my business there." Then turns to the mouthy Zhent and steps forward to him. "Ye need to learn manors and who your betters are boy." As Dacknar swing an uppercut punch it the Zent.
the one that fled taking something from the body? Not the automaton we are looking for correct?”
Marquez turns to the apparent leader and with magic laced words, instills doubt into their minds. Casting bane on the existing two guards and the newcomer ”As I told jour friends, jour assault es over. Eef jou continue, jou will die. “
Cha Save DC 13. If fail -d4 to all attack rolls and saving throws.
Marquez: Yes, the one who fled, not the automaton.
The man looks to the party and then the guards and then sheaths his sword. "Fine. It is as you say." The man says, grinding his teeth in obvious frustration and anger. "But this is far from finished. Whether you kill me or not, that traitorous wench will pay!" He shouts the last toward the guarded room. Before turning back to Marquez and Dacknar.
"Now will you let us pass and leave or do we fight?" He says gesturing his men toward the stairs down and out.
What do you guys think? Let them go or save them for the watch? I’m inclined to let them go since the party is wounded. Maybe we ask some questions first?
Unmei remains hidden, but her duplicate moves forth and says to the man: ”Didn’t I see you at the explosion earlier? Don’t you know they’re bad for business? Explain to me why you were there then, hm?”
Unmei's question takes the man by surprise, but he recovers quickly. "It's a big city and I've no idea what you are talking about woman." He says sharply. "But it is certain that explosions are always bad for any kind of business, but then so are sword blades." He adds still holding his weapon ready. "Now do you let me and my men pass, or not?"
He moves toward the stairs as do the other three black clad thugs.
The man is lying about the explosion and not being there, or at least he certainly didn't answer your question in a meaningful way.
The man starts to move just as Bhoors' magic hits him causing him to stumble slightly.
"More treachery!" He shouts. "I suppose your in this with that old #@$!$ wherever she scurried off to." He adds brining his blades to around to defend. "So be it. Common you lot. Let's put and end to this!" He hollers to the other thugs and they resume their fight against guards and your party.
TotM: I'll give the party initiative to go first do to Bhoors attack and a bad save, but no surprise since everyone was certainly waiting for an attack of some kind. Party is up, then thugs, then guards.
Unmei follows Dacknar like a shadow amd strikes at the leader, saying: "We know you’re lying about the explosion. And we know you come in here with thugs to kill! By Lathander, we see through your darkness!"
Marquez shakes his head at the developments but shrugs and grins. He has no love for Zhents, and the world may be a better place without a few of them.
The bladesinger moves in to support his allies.
Rapier:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21 for Piercing:1d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Male Rite of Knowing Conrasu Fighter 7: HP:108/108, Spd:25, AC:25, Fort:14, Ref:14, Will:13, Perc:13, 1/1 Focus Points
Rakdon will do nothing, since the guards are always up our backs, he is secretly the thugs will overpower the guards and then we handle what is left. In waterdeep the guards are trouble, not as bad as Hillsfar, but you gotta be careful casting spells, like a level 3 spell is a no no and whatnot, which is why I don't like waterdeep guards.
Dacknar lands a solid blow against the lead Zhent, while Marquez punctures the shoulder of one of the other thugs. The Zhentarim thugs easily dodge swipes from both Unmei and Bhoors.
Growling with frustration and anger at the sudden attack, the leader slashes Dacknar with two quick strokes of his short sword leaving nasty trails of blood dripping along the half-orcs arm and leg.
The other two gangsters also land blows, one against Bhoors and the other against Marquez.
The guards remain standing in the doorway catching their breath from the earlier fight and waiting to see who gets the upper hand between the newcomers and the Zhent intruders.
TotM: Dacknar takes 15 points of damage from the Zhent leader. Bhoors takes 7 and Marquez takes 5. Party is up. Round 2.
Unmei curses when she notices the guards step aside and let the fight unfold. She turns to them and shouts, threatening: "You damnable pigs, you better join this fight or your lives will be forfeit once we've dealt with these thugs!"
Unmei: I've always considered 'talking' to be a free action, so you still get your full actions. Unless someone sees something in the rules that says otherwise.
Marquez looks at the flesh wound delivered by the thug and smirks. ”Try this again” Lunging forward once again, he prepares himself to demoralize his foe. shield spell if they connect again.
Green flame Blade on the Rapier.:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7 for Piercing:1d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7 plus 3 fire damage to an adjacent enemy.
Dacknar carves another deep cut into the leader while Bhoors attempts to put one of the other thugs down with his blade. Unmei misses as does Marquez.
The leader lands two more hits on Dacknar to answer the half-orc's deadly blade. The first thug does the same to Bhoors. The last Zhent is distracted trying to find a way out of the room and misses both of his attacks against Marquez.
In the meantime, the house guards whisper together and you see they are watching the fight with intent and interest.
Insight DC10:
The guards are clearly betting on the outcome of you fight with the Zhentarim and don't seem to have any interest in entering the fray at this point.
ToTM: Dacknar takes 12 points, Bhoors takes 11 damage. Party is up.
M High Elf Rouge (Arcane Trickster) 5 AC 15 HP 23 /31 Passive Perception +17 Saves: S +0, D +7, Co +0, I +5, W +2, Ch +0 Hit Dice: 5/5 d8
Dacknar taks 6pts. due to rage
Roaring in anger from being hit...twice. Dacknar's rage takes on a live of it's own as he goes in to a frenzy.
Dacknar swings his sword in a wide arc at the leader.
Rage attack with Two Handed Sword:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13 Damage, slashing:2d6 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (4, 1) + 3 + 2 = 10
Then in a blink of an eye he is able to turn the blade to strike again at the leader.
Frenzy Rage attack with Two Handed Sword:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10 Damage, slashing:2d6 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (5, 5) + 3 + 2 = 15
Frenzy
Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you can go into a frenzy when you rage. If you do so, for the duration o f your rage you can make a single melee weapon attack as a bonus action on each o f your turns after this one. When your rage ends, you suffer one level of exhaustion (as described in appendix A).
Male Rite of Knowing Conrasu Fighter 7: HP:108/108, Spd:25, AC:25, Fort:14, Ref:14, Will:13, Perc:13, 1/1 Focus Points
Rakdon will join in moving towards the closest thug hit:4 + 1d20 ⇒ 4 + (16) = 20 warhammer dmg:1d8 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6See, I joined in, now it is your turn guardsdiplomacy:1d20 ⇒ 1
Male Half-Elf Bard 4 College of Blades HP 14/29 | AC 14 | Passive Perception 11 I Inspiration 1 |ACP 2 | TCP 2 Current Picture of Bhoors
Rakdon Tripus wrote:
Rakdon will join in moving towards the closest thug [dice=hit]4+1d20 warhammer [dice=dmg]1d8+2 See, I joined in, now it is your turn guards [dice=diplomacy]1d20
LOL. I think that means they turn on us too!!!! LOL. Which is hilarious. Bhoors might not think so but I do.
The guards simply laugh at Rakdon's attempt to draw them in. When one of the thugs falls as Marquez pierces his heart, the lead guard laughs again. "It looks like your doing just fine." He says then nods his head toward Bhoors with fake concern written all over his face. "Although the skinny one there is bleeding an awful lot."
The second thug is pummeled by Unmei and Rakdon. Bhoors misses with his blade, but manages to confuse the Zhent momentarily with his insults. But the thugs fights through the magic and still hits the bard, creating another small wound.
Dacknar battles the leader. The half-orc trying to overpower the Zhent with strength and one or two powerful blows, while the Zhent uses his quickness and fast, retaliatory strikes to try and slow the enraged barbarian down. This time the Zhent wins out as he is able to parry and duck away from both of Dacknar's attacks. He then follows up with a flashing attack that slices across Dacknar's thigh causing him to stumble and take a second blow as well.
Ooooh. That's gotta sting." Laughs the captain again before turning to one of his companions. "A silver says the traitor drops loud mouthed one."
"You're on! Cries his companion who then starts shouting encouragement to Dacknar.
Thug 1 is dead. Bhoors takes 3 damage. Dacknar take 9 from a crit, and 4 more from a second hit. Party is up.
Male Half-Elf Bard 4 College of Blades HP 14/29 | AC 14 | Passive Perception 11 I Inspiration 1 |ACP 2 | TCP 2 Current Picture of Bhoors
Attack:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24 Using Bardic Inspiration on myself Defensive Flourish. The Opponent takes extra 1d6 Damage and I add that same amount to my AC.
M High Elf Rouge (Arcane Trickster) 5 AC 15 HP 23 /31 Passive Perception +17 Saves: S +0, D +7, Co +0, I +5, W +2, Ch +0 Hit Dice: 5/5 d8
Dacknar takes 5 pts. due to rage
Finding that he over swung his sword Dacknar strike back with a furry of blows
Rage attack with Two Handed Sword:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7 Damage, slashing:2d6 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (1, 3) + 3 + 2 = 9
Dacknar's faints his first attack for a deadly second strike
The second Zhent thug drops under the combined strikes of Unmei and Bhoors after Rakdon successfully distracted the unwitting gangster. Their leader falls for Dacknar's feint and blocks his first blow, but doesn't see the second coming. The half-orc's blade strikes true and sinks deeps into the Zhent's side unleashing a river of blood and a pained scream from the man.
"Tsk..tsk...too bad boss. I think your man is going down." The house guard says to his commander with a slight grin on his face at the possibility of winning a coin.
Aye, you may be right." Adds the leader with a frowning nod. "Common Floxin, you bloody traitorous coward. Can't you beat a simple street hooligan?! I thought you Zhents were supposed to be unstoppable." He shouts by way of encouragement.
Bleeding furiously, the leader tries one last attempt to drive the half orc out of his way so he can escape down the stairs. His blades flash and strike an enraged Dacknar drawing more half-orc blood, but not doing enough to knock the big warrior aside.
Seeing his half-orc companion has things under control, Marquez chooses to stand aside and wait to see what the guards decide to do.
TotM: Dacknar takes another 7 and 8 points of damage. Thug 2 is dead. Party is up.
M High Elf Rouge (Arcane Trickster) 5 AC 15 HP 23 /31 Passive Perception +17 Saves: S +0, D +7, Co +0, I +5, W +2, Ch +0 Hit Dice: 5/5 d8
due to rage Dacknar take a total of 8Hp
"RRROOAAARRR, TIME FOR YOU TO DIE!!!!"
Rage attack with Two Handed Sword:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18 Damage, slashing:2d6 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (4, 2) + 3 + 2 = 11
Dacknar slashes with an over hand cut, then fallows with a back hand slice.
Stay tuned readers will Dacknar fall, or will he survive the onslaught of the Zhent's attack? If Dacknar wins will he turn on the guards who are just betting on the outcome? Come back soon and read the exciting next round of hoe Dacknar becomes the most feared pirate in Waterdeep.
Ok, I double-checked the second hand damage, and it should only be the dice. No bonuses. I amadjusting from now on. Sorry about that. On the other hand, I just figured that the duplicate I could use in combat to gain advantage!
Unmei breathes a swift word to Mask, presenting him the death of the thug as an offering: "Look, Master, look and KNOW who is your true servant!"
She then moves on to support Dacknar, followed by her duplicate, which she uses to confuse the Zhent.
