Edward should have taken of fire damage at the start of the round. Ty, on his turn, takes
I don’t see a post from Ty, but he was online and moved himself on the map, so I’m guessing a withdrawal.
Braxton casts another spell, this one on his sword.
Richard took fire at the start of his turn.
damage on Edward
Blue
Red
Orange
Having been damaged already by Conri’s magic missile, the orange skeleton explodes.
Round 5 Edward and Conri are up. The skeletons are very shaky now, but so is Edward.
Ty's resulting swear from taking a blast of shrine fire to the face would definitely raise a few eyebrows if they were back in the church to Iomedae. Desperate and angry, he darts forward and stabs at the nearest skeleton.
I don’t see a post from Ty, but he was online and moved himself on the map, so I’m guessing a withdrawal.
Oops. That’s what I get for impatience. I’ll say you delayed until after Richard.
The purple skeleton explodes in fiery death. fire Reflex DC 12 for half.
Oops. That’s what I get for impatience. I’ll say you delayed until after Richard.
Ty's curse is easier on the eyebrows this time.
Edward remains steadfast as he tries to take down the last skeleton.
"Back up big guy I don't wanna see you die."
I would describe it as Conri uses his ability to shout, ”Get out of there!” and his field presence is such that you automatically obey the tactic, subconsciously moving away from the skeleton with supernatural grace.
That just leaves the decision on facing Braxton now or trying to get away (please run).
Braxton casts another spell, again on his sword and then walks down towards you. He moves slowly, even though his clothing is just a white robe and red cloak. As he steps forward, however, the white robe ripples and becomes a full suit of plate mail!
Everybody’s up.
Torn between fighting and retreating, "Dismiss the spell, Conri! Quickly, my good man!" He then looks to the rogue, "Ty! We are retreating!" Waiting for Ty to move out, Edward then himself reluctantly retreats to the stairs.
You can all make it to the stairs, Edward squeezing through doors, Ty just squeaking by Braxton. He hisses in rage as he sees you fleeing before him, but weighed down by his heavy armour, he can’t stop you or get to you. From the room with the murals, he screams in rage, hurling vile insults and obscenities against Iomedae the so-called Goddess of courage and her cowardly representative.
But he doesn’t enter the stairwell.
How far down do you go and where?
Heading all the way to the ground floor, the screaming above fades, to be replaced with the sound of men’s voices from outside the tower. You can’t make out what they’re saying from inside the stairwell, but they don’t sound happy.
As they hustle down the stairs, Ty pipes up. "Hey look! He's not following us! You know, I think there was a crap load of stuff in that room I ran through to come up from behind. I bet this tower is full of stuff we can use against him. His burning skeletons weren't so tough. I bet we could get more things from this tower and come back to him stronger than we--Hey, who's that?"
Ty has heard the voices from outside, and starts creep carefully forward and see if he can tell who they are without being seen.
Ty cracks open the stairwell door and doesn’t see anyone. The voices are coming from the northeast doorway, so he peers around that corner. The storeroom looks to be a bit more looted than when you left it, and also a bit more occupied. Two half-IRC’s, whom you recognize from the bandit ambush, are using the doorframe for cover, while one fires arrows, looted from this room, and the other hurls insults. You hear a twang of bowstring from the wizard’s study as well.
”Come out, you little goblin, and fight us.”
”Perhaps a bit later, when you’ve run out of arrows,” another voice, slightly familiar, calls back. ”Though your aim is so terrible, I mightn’t bother waiting. A little more afield and you might be the first bowmen to ever shoot yourselves with a longbow!”
"HEY, SIR ROLLINS! IS THAT YOU?! YOU NEED ME TO GET THE GUYS AND GIVE YOU A HAND?"
As he talks, Ty sheathes his daggers and gets out his bow and an arrow.
"WE WIPED THE FLOOR WITH MOST OF THESE GUYS YESTERDAY. A FEW MORE WON'T BE A BIG DEAL."
Well with the element of surprise well and truly shot, the two half-orcs turn. The one with the bow prepares to target Ty instead.
Round 1 Ty, Sir Rollynd, Enemies, everybody else
Ty ducks back inside the doorway and presses himself against the wall so that an enemy passing through the door won't be able to see him until the last possible moment.
”Indeed, they are very mop-like, are they not?” Sir Rollynd shoots back. He gets up from behind the debris, happy for the distraction. He’s slow though, being a halfling in full plate walking over difficult terrain.
Two archers in the other room fire at the halfling, but even with the better equipment, cone nowhere near hitting the halfling.
The two half-orcs draw swords and take up refuge behind some crates.
Everybody is up!
Edward the lay on hands was fine. It’s a swift action for yourself so you could easily do it while descending the stairs.
Feeling many of his wounds heal, he nods to Richard. "Thank you, my good man! Now let's see if we can fare a bit better against these brigands," he says as he moves in and attacks.
As he misses horribly, he smiles. "Apparently not."
Not wanting to expose himself to the second orc, Ty runs up to Richard's right side and jams his dagger into the half-orc's stomach.
Following the others and aiming his wand at the half orc.
I should point out, they are both half orcs. The basic brigand is the guy you’re all attacking; Scarface (actually Scarblade but I don’t think you know that yet) is the guy in the corner.
Brigands
HP: 18 (This guy is now down to 8)
AC: 16/11/15
F/R/W: +3/+1/-1
Scar Blade:
???????
Ty and Conri do some serious damage to the half-orc who keeps looking for aid from his boss. Scarface, however, shoves his way through the crates to come at Conri. He’s just not fast enough to get an attack in with his wicked-looking great axe (sorry not a sword), which is probably good.
The other guy swings with his sword at Ty.
Gotta finish the update later...
and a miss!
Everybody’s up!
Ty easily dodges the half-orc's wild swing with a cheeful, "Nice try!", and responds with two wild strikes of his own. One attack misses, but it sets up the other attack to make a nasty slice along the half-orc's side.
Sir Rollynd, meanwhile, has scrambled through 15 more feet of stone debris.
Edward and Conri left.
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Edward continues the attack...
...and continues to roll 3's.
Conri, seeing this massive half-orc with his massive great axe descending upon him, is very worried. He backs up 5 feet, holding his hands out, and wishing he could hide. Mist pours from his outstretched hands, and quickly fills the room, providing concealment (20% miss chance) within 5 feet, and total concealment beyond that.
Scar Blade swings his axe at Richard, while his flunkie stabs through the mist at Ty. Scar Blade's wild swing is completely foiled by the mist.
So too is the attack on Ty.
You hear arrows continue to fly at Sir Rollynd, but have no way of knowing if they hit.
Everybody is up. Please roll a 1d100 before your attack roll and 1-20 is a miss.
Ty lets out a surprised "Whoo!" when the half-orc's blade comes out of the mist unexpectedly, even though it wasn't that close to striking him. But then he uses the weapon to home in the orc's location with his daggers.
Slightly taken aback by the mist, "Well this should help me considerably in my endeavor," he says with a slight bit of sarcasm.
Actually, Ty’s hits when combined with the hit from last round, was enough to take him down. So instead of butchering some must, Edward could have moved left through the most towards the sounds of the other battle.
Conri left to go.
[smaller]"Opps."[smaller] Gripping the wand tightly and stepping forward cautiously until he sees a shape that doesn't look like the three he knows.
There’s no miss chance for magic missile. At only 5-feet away, you can sort of see Scarface, which is enough. The tiny magic dart, however, doesn’t even seem to faze the grizzled warrior at all, as he brings his axe down on Richard, the enormous blade digging in with a sickening crunch.
You’re all up.
Ty quickly darts in and out of the barrels in the room while Scarface is occupied with cutting Richard in half. He comes up behind the hulking orc and shoves both of his daggers into his back.
Edward takes a step over to aid in flanking Scarface as he takes a strike at the half-orc.
Hooray! Edward hit something!! Scarblade is starting to look injures now. You are wearing him down.
Conri left to go.
Conri will probably plink him with another magic missile.
Annoyed that his preferred targets keep fading into the mist, and at the impudent little boy with the daggers, Scar Blade brings his axe around at the nuisance at his back.
There’s a sickening crunch and a spray of blood adds to the magical mist as Ty catches the blade full in the stomach. His daggers drop from numb fingers and his body soon follows. Given your positions in the mist, while you can hear his body hit the floor, you can’t actually see it happen.
Everybody’s up (except Ty...he’s down—bah dum tsss)
Richard’s fire bolt sears into the half-orc. He howls in pain and fear as his wounds pile up.
"No!" Edward yells as he swings hard at the half-orc, hoping to strike true.
And as usual, his swing is wide of the mark.