Dirk looks about the sewer, unimpressed and completely unfazed by the stench. "Not much like the rest of this place, is it?"
For a few moment, Hanna is able to resist the assault of the noisome sewage, but it suddenly hits her hard and she ends retching, putting hand on the damp wall to steady herself.
Ubaldo quietly asks:
"What is wrong back there?"
The chittering noise stops as you move further into the chamber. Shadows seems to be moving in the dark corners of the space.
Make an Average (+20) Perception Skill Check
Jarvey smirks at Ubaldo's question;
"Sounds like the Prof is chuckin' up a perfectly good spot o' grub!"
The smile falls from his face as his keen halfling eyes catch a glimpse of something far more wretched causing his tone to drop from jocular to most grave...
"Ah.. Scheisse... We have company ladles and gentlemen!"
As he speaks the halfling's gloved hand drops toward the handles of his pistols...
Hanna spits to the side, "No 'chuckin'' just yet, Herr Glintloque...but do not be surprised if I do..." she comment wryly.
"Yes... I see them. There in the dark!" she says, pointing with the head of her halberd...
"Figures swarm all around us. Be ready!"
Ubaldo's sword and shield are in his grasp!
"Yeah? I don't see anything. And that noise stopped." He holds up his lantern higher.
”Here we go again...” She wondered if she had time to get her shield out?
You all hear a high-pitched voice cry out, "Quick, quick, strike, strike, kill, kill," and a swarm of monstrous creature come running at you from the shadows. A total of five charge at you and another hangs back in the shadows shouting instructions.
Two of the creatures are roughly man-sized, being between four and five feet tall covered with brown fur, with eyes of pink and a long hairless tail that looks like a giant worm. Their body posture is hunched forward. They are dressed in mouldering leather with scraps of rusty and tarnished metal embedded serving as makeshift armour. Both carry rusty, notched cleavers.
Two more of the creatures are taller, at least six feet tall with solid black fur. Their bodies are covered in black lacquered armour and they wear rune-encrusted helms of black iron. They follow the two smaller rat things jabbing at them to make the smaller ones move faster. The each have several human skulls tied to a belt around their waists.
Most disturbing though is a far larger rat shaped beast. It seems to combine the worst features of Ogre and Rat. It's fur is patchy revealing horribly scarred skin. It has a long stabbing blade attached to one of it's arms and it's very long tail is studded with dangerous looking spikes. It is foaming at the mouth and roaring in rage as it charges. It quickly passes the smaller rat things and splashing through the bubbling stew reaches you first.
The huge monster will reach you in Round 1 with the smaller monsters arriving in Round 2. Who knows that the shadowy figure will do?
Monster Initiative Rolls
Ubaldo readies himself to meet the charge, of a sight straight out of a musophobic's worst nightmare!
"Stick together! Do not allow them to pick us off one by one!"
Hannah is unsurprised by the sudden appearance of the ratlings,, mustering the mystical Winds of Light, at least one ray of blinding light striking out. She's confident her allies can handle the smaller rats, so she concentrates her magic on the brute charging their position.
[dice=Initiative]1d10+26
Correct, can do no action in Round 1 but can defend in Round 2
[dice=Initiative]47+1d10
Initiative Order
Ubaldo
Hanna
Black furred rat men
Small rat men
Shadowy rat man
Giant rat man
Adela
Jarvey
Dirk
Round 1 Combat
Ubaldo goes defensive, +20 to Parry
Hanna - needs to decide targets 2 and 3 and 4
Hanna demonstrates her amazing skill at the Arcane arts and summons 4 blinding rays of light. One of the rays strikes the giant rat man in it's right arm penetrating it's thick hide and causing think green blood to ooze. The giant rat man screams in pain and rubs its eyes, not used to such bright lights.
Damage = 6 + 5 - 4 (TB) - 1 (AP) = 6 Wounds
Damage against:
Black furred rat man = 11 - 3 (TB) - 4 (AP) = 4 Wounds
Smaller rat man = 11 - 3 (TB) - 2 (AP) = 6 Wounds
Shadowy figure = For some reason your dart fizzed out of existence before it reached the shadows.
Round 1 - Rat Man Revenge
The two smaller rat men, prodded along by the black furred rat men continue their charge, closing the distance with the group.
The giant ogre size rat though splashes through the sewage and reaches the group.
Numbering of the party for random choosing:
1) Ubaldo
2) Hanna
3) Adela
4) Jarvey
5) Dirk
Seeing the monster looming over you is fairly terrifying and can shake anyone's confidence.
The horrid ogre rat hybrid picks out Adela as the best looking meal choice.
Ogre rat thing has +1 Advantage for charging.
Adela has a -2 SL to using Melee to defend. Dodging does not suffer from a penalty.
Success with SL +2
In addition the Ogre Rat thing's tail comes scything through the air at Adela. Spends Advantage 1
Failure with SL -4
Hanna feels Chaos magic beginning to gather around the shadowy figure.
SL +3
SL+1
SL+5 Before advantage
Adela raised his axe to parry. Doing so sent shockwaves coursing down her arm, but at the very least she blunted the blow. Holding her ground, she knew that she didn’t have the time to call upon Ulric for aid. Instead she just launched herself into a furious assault, meeting the rat ogre’s savagery with her own.
Ubaldo gulps, his face growing pale.
"M-m-monstrous t-t-thing!", he stammers, slashing wildly. However, his fear lends fuel to his strike, and Ranald lends the lawman a hand!
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dice=Cool]1d100
dice=Defend 75-20=55]1d100 SL +3
dice=Attack Rat Ogre]1d100
SL+1** spoiler omitted **
dice=Attack Rat Ogre with move action]1d100
SL+5 Before advantageAdela raised his axe to parry. Doing so sent shockwaves coursing down her arm, but at the very least she blunted the blow. Holding her ground, she knew that she didn’t have the time to call upon Ulric for aid. Instead she just launched herself into a furious assault, meeting the rat ogre’s savagery with her own.
The spirit of Ulric is much more powerful than any fear generated by a rat, no matter how big the rat is.
Adela won the first opposed check versus the Rat Ogre (SL +3 to SL +2) and therefore gains Advantage 1 and the Rat Ogre now has 0 Advantage
Since the Rat Ogre no longer has an Advantage to spend, it cannot make a Free Attack with its tail.
Adela rolled a 66 to hit which is a Success with SL +2 (with Advantage)
Failure with SL -6
Adela's roll of 66 is a Critical Hit
Critical Hit Location Right Arm
Critical Hit Effect Your arm is jarred in the attack. Drop whatever was held in that hand. Take 1 Wound. Rat Ogre weapon is attached to arm so is not dropped
Calculation of Non-Critical Damage from Axe (6 + SB) for weapon
Damage = 6 + 5 (SB) + 8 (SL diff) - 4 (TB) - 1 (AP) = 14 Wounds for Axe Hit + 1 Wound for Critical Hit + 6 Wounds from Dart Spell = 21 Wounds which stunningly doesn't cause the beast to fall
Adela now has Advantage +2
Adela has Talent Furious Assault which gives second melee attack if first is hit by using Movement or Advantage
Adela rolled a 26 to Hit which is a success of SL + 7 with Advantage
which is a failure with SL -1
Hit Location is Left Arm
Damage = 6 + 5 + 8 - 4 - 1 = 14 Wounds for a Total of 35 Wounds
Adela's successful parry both stunned the creature because it never had an attack stopped by a puny human and put it's blade arm out of a defensive position. Adela has been trained for years to take advantage of an opening like so she slammed the shining edge of her Ax into the exposed arm, ripping easily through the tough skin to delve deep into the Rat Ogre's Muscle. It's squeal of pain filled the chamber. Faster than any rat man had ever seen a human move, Adela immediately switched her attack to the Rat Ogre's other arm. Again she slammed the shining edge into the monster causing another massive would. All of this was too much for even the gigantic rat thing to withstand and it fell dead at Adela's feet. The stink of musk fear from the surviving rat men wafts over the group.
[dice=Cool vs Fear 68]1d100
[dice=Cool vs Fear 68]1d100
Ubaldo gulps, his face growing pale.
"M-m-monstrous t-t-thing!", he stammers, slashing wildly. However, his fear lends fuel to his strike, and Ranald lends the lawman a hand!
[dice=Sword vs Huge Rat 61]1d100
** spoiler omitted **
** spoiler omitted **
[dice=Cool 40 vs Rat Ogre Fear]1d100
It turns out that your fear only lasts as long as it takes Adela to strike the Rat Ogre down.
Just need Jarvey to post to finish Round 1
Jarvey momentarily baulks at the Rat-Ogre's charge, then steels himself as it is downed by Adela in spectacularly brutal fashion...
Round 2 Order
Ubaldo and Hanna in any order
All the Skaven
Jarvey and Dirk and Adela in any order
Everyone except Ubaldo, go ahead and roll your attack and defense rolls for Round 2 and who you’re attacking. Ubaldo, I assume you want to use your rolls that you’ve already made and that you want to hold your action until the end of the round...of course, the other option is you could jump into the stew and charge the Skaven by yourself.
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Updated Round 2 Initiative
Hanna
Skaven
Everyone else
Giving Hanna a bit longer to post her attack. After that, I can bot it for the round.
Hanna smiles in satisfaction as the large rat creature falls, but the gets back to the matter at hand...focusing her magic on the next largest ratman, "Let us finish off these minor Slaven...the one in the shadows is gathering its strength for a larger more dangerous magical act..." she warns her friends.
Hanna smiles in satisfaction as the large rat creature falls, but the gets back to the matter at hand...focusing her magic on the next largest ratman, "Let us finish off these minor Slaven...the one in the shadows is gathering its strength for a larger more dangerous magical act..." she warns her friends.
[Dice=Language(magick):68]1d100
Hanna's Magick is again successful.
Another Advantage for Hanna so +2 now
Hit Location 63 is body
Damage done = 3 (SL) + 1 (Inst Diction) + 1 Advantage + 5 (Will Bonus)
The black furred Skaven continues to charge but is clearly hurt.
The smaller Skaven, being now hit by Darts twice, falls face forward into the stew and lies motionless.
Numbering of the party for random choosing:
1) Ubaldo
2) Hanna
3) Adela
4) Jarvey
5) Dirk
Black furred 1 (Stormvermin)
Black furred 2 (Stormvermin)
Small Skaven (Clanrats)
One of the Stormvermin rushes Dirk while the smaller Clanrat and the Stormvermin that Hanna has targeted twice both move to engage her, attacking from her left and right side.
From the shadows comes a high pitched voice yelling, "Quick quick, kill kill!"
All 3 skaven have +1 Advantage for Charging. Hanna has +2 Advantage
Success with SL +4 with Advantage
Success with SL +3 with Advantage and is a Critical Hit
Success with SL +5 with Advantage
Need 2 defense skill checks from Hanna, either Dodging or Melee and 1 defense roll for Dirk.
With the Skaven ignoring her, Adela stepped over to the stormvermin attacking Hannah. Given the order of march, it was but a mere step over the rat ogre’s corpse.
Her axe lashed out quickly, the rat ogre’s blood following it in a red arc. She hadn’t even finished screaming ”Ulric!” before she was on the Skaven.
Having mastered his surprise at the skaven attack and relieved that the monstrous sized rat was no longer threatening them, Dirk stepped to the side, avoiding the creature's attack.
"You look like a tough one!" he says as he readies to strike the creature with his axe.
dice=Dodge:68]1d100
dice=Dodge:68]1d100
dice=Dodge:68]1d100
The stormvermin swings it's modified halberd at Hanna scoring a devastating hit.
Critical Hit Location = Left Arm
Critical Hit Effect + Which is Brutal Dismemberment - Your arm is severed, spraying arterial blood 1d10 feet in a random direction, before the blow follows through to your chest resulting in instantaneous death.
This calls for spending Fate:
You may spend a permanent Fate point to avoid death and survive even the most unlikely situations. When you do this, choose one of the following two options:
• Die Another Day: Instead of dying, your character is knocked out, left for dead, swept away by a river, or otherwise taken out of action; your character will survive, no matter the fatal incident’s circumstances, but takes no further part in the current encounter.
• How Did That Miss?: Your character completely avoids the incoming damage by some extraordinary fluke, such as slipping just as a blow is about to connect, a weapon mysteriously jamming, or an unexpected source of light blinding an opponent; your character can continue on
without penalty, but has no guarantee of survival in later rounds.
Holding on determining the damage from the Clanrat depending which Fate option Hanna selects