"I will go wherever is needed. Guard Sirinus or Ludivine? Pick off isolated bandits?"
Sirinus listens to Actaeon's proposal, resonding That may work too. My only concern is that if the sleep does not take hold we will in fact have all of those on the ground chasing after us. The one in the perch will hear my spell words. However, if you believe we can be ready for that, I am agreeable to try it!
The group Tries to execute on Actaeons plan, everyone except Emerald & Ferric sneaking into the camp. At first it seems everything goes as planned but then there is a loud crack followed by in a woman's voice."Get em' boys!
The Bandit on the east platform lets an arrow loose at Ludivine.
"Ha! Hit the pretty un'. If she don't die I call dibs. Says the bandit on the east stand with a devious smile.
Emerald moves up next to Sirinus and readies to stab anyone who gets too close to the pale wizard.
Hopefully she will also give him cover against arrows.
”Ludi, NO!” Actaeon shouts.
Anger fills him and he marks the bandit by gauging his movements. Then fires an arrow.
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Actaeon fires an arrow in reprisal to the vile bandit in the tree. His anger makes him shake and the arrow only slices along his shoulder.
Ludivine:"Beep boop I cast Bless!"
Each ally gains a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects.
The east most bandit moves to be partially behind the logs and takes a shot at Hadin
The arrow comes close but just misses flying by Hadin and Ludivine and thunking into the log behind Acteon.
The mage looks back and forth at the foes to their East. He holds up his hand and closes one eye, trying to gauge distances. Frowning he grunts before committing to one target and beginning the incantation.
None of them are close enough with each other... I'll have to settle for one.
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The spell goes off almost automatically. After casting it Ludivine looks down to see a slight scratch on her forearm.
"It's just a slight scratch!" she calls back to Actaeon.
The bandit in the tree stand shoots at his nearest target.
Afterwards, the female bandit yells. "Idiot! Shoot one of the finger wigglers. After shouting the female bandit moves around the tree.
Hadin tries to shoot the closest bandit, the one on the wooden platform on the tree, but his aim is lacking precision
The first bandit following orders shoots at the nearest spellcaster Sirinus.
Gonna need a DC 16 Concentration from Sirinus
Sirinus grunts every-so-slightly in the middle of one line, deep amidst his incantation. He's aware of it at first in the periphery of his mind and quickly sorts it alongside the other environmental factors that he's ignoring.
The mage frowns deeply and visibly doubles down on pushing out all external stimuli as blood runs from the arrow wound.
Not only that, but the party notices odd, fine-lines running throughout the skin of his forearms, neck, and face that begin lighting up brightly. Very bright.
Bandit one is far west. I considered weather the log would still be cover with the bandit being 20ft. up. The log can't be more than 5' high because that is about how wide it is on the map. If we say it is partial cover(+2 AC) the badit still hits. If we say it is normal cover(+4 AC) it is a miss. I don't want to do geometry atm but I think with the higher ground the bandit should see most of him. So I am leaning toward partial cover but if the group thinks this is an unfair call I am willing to roll back.
Discuss
Emerald maintains her position, guarding Sirinus and preparing to run through anyone who gets too close.
Well, that's no good, but may still get an AOO.
It's hard for Ludivine to know what to do in a fight. She's been in one before by now, but it didn't really count because it was over before she'd done anything.
Looking at her spear, what she does know is the man up in the tree is quite safe from her spear, while she is not safe at all from his bow. Given this, and her strong feeling that if she were to run off looking for someone who isn't safe from her spear (assuming she could even find someone who wasn't) Actaeon would completely freak out.
She best thing that comes to mind is to run over to stand directly below the man's tree stand. It should made things hard for him, especially if she chooses a place where there are some tree branches or undergrowth for some extra cover.
Besides, that will give her a minute to untie the sling she wears around her wrist like a bracelet. With it, things might be a little more even.
Actaeon loses focus on his target when he catches his sister's movement out of the corner of his eye. 'Where is she going. She's supposed to stay by Hadin for protection.'
Bandit 3: The bandit moves a bit closer to get a clear shot, upon getting between the trees he can see Hadin easily and takes aim.
The bandit lands a good shot but luckily Hadins armor does its job and the damage is barely a scratch.
Round 2
Sirinus seems to come to, opening his eyes and ceasing his incanting as some puff of energy manifests and surrounds the bandits leader.
Already safe behind Emerald, he issues a briefer incantation that results in weaves of arcane force appearing and converging on his body in a tight pattern that resembles a breast plate.
The bandit leader falls asleep from Sirinus' spell, standing in place. The Bandit above curses under his breath and takes a shot at Hadin who he thinks is the greatest threat to his leader.
The bandit in his anger misses
Hadin you are up to finish off round 2.
Hadin trades arrows with the bandits, but without any success.
Maybe it's time for him to rethink his strategy
(nat. 1 crit. Fumble drops weapon)
The bandit tries again to shoot the mage behind the log but his bowsting catches on his glove at the release sending the arrow tumbling end over end and casuing him to lose his grip and drop the bow. He moves to climb down the ladder.
With some speed he moves most of the way down the ladder to retrieve his weapon
Emerald will remain where she is, protecting Sirinus.
Actaeon takes a deep breath as he draws another arrow. 'He hurt my Ludi. Have to take him out.'
With the bandit distracted on the ladder, he becomes an easy target. Actaeon grins when he hears the man wail.
Ludivine can't believe her luck when the man begins climbing down the ladder after his bow. She lurks under the platform, waiting with her spear ready. Once he's within reach, she stabs... very poorly only hitting the ladder.
The only fairly safe thing Ludivine can think to is to stay put, so she does.
The bandit on the ladder takes an arrow to the back from Actaeon and drops to the ground dead. His ally seeing their leader is affected by some kind of magic and runs to her side to try to do something.
Don't let that bandit wake up the leader! Sirinus yells as he draws and loads his crossbow.
Knowing he can't outrun the bandit, Hadin tries to hit his target, ashaming his god once more...
Round 4
- Bandit 1 Dead
- Emerald
- Ludivine 10/11 HP
- Actaeon
- Bandit 3 AC 13 HP 9/9(next to leader)
- Sirinus
- Bandit 2 AC 13 HP 9/9 (in eastern tree stand)
- Kressle AC 15 HP 17/17 (Helpless, Asleep)
- Hadin 7/12 HP
Emerald, Ludi and Actaeon are up.
Emerald rides up to the leader and spears her before the other bandit can wake her.
Bad roll, but may hit even so - helpless characters are treated as having a Dex of 0 (-5 AC penalty).
That will hit because of the helpless condition but it will also wake her up. Allowing her to act at the end of the round.
Ludivine is committed to remaining out of clear sight of the archer up above her, but gives up on waiting for him to come down from the stand. Instead she sneaks around through the brush to stab the bandit who has come over to see about his leader. She doesn't hesitate to totally stab him in the back without warning.
With the archer dead, Actaeon looks for his next target. He moves to an opening in the trees and finds another bandit up in the trees. He tenses when he realizes that Ludivine is no where to be seen, throwing off his shot.
Bandit 3 AC 13 HP 4/9: The bandit drops his bow and turns and draws his shortsword while stepping toward(draw a weapon as part of a move for bab +1 or higher) Ludvine to return her strike.
This should trigger an AoO from Ludi.
Crit threat
NOT confirmed
Round 4 Cont.
- Sirinus
- Bandit 2 AC 13 HP 9/9 (in eastern tree stand)
- Kressle AC 15 HP 13/17
- Hadin 7/12 HP
Sirinus cranes his next to see the leader... and moreso that she's still left alone. He darts to the left to get a clearer shot at the bandit that intends to wake her.
Old Deadeye, guide my hands, and strike for justice!
Hadin shoots at the bandit in the trees
Sirinus takes a shot but misses. However as as the bandit turns to swing at Ludvine, she holds steady and shoves her spear deep into his guts taking him down.
Hadin takes his aim to the trees and shoots the bandit in the tree stand glancing an arrow across his cheek where blood begins to pour out.
The Bandit in the tree returns fire at Hadin
miss!
The bandit leadet awoken from her slumber by Emeralds lance moves in to retrun the favor. She swings at Ferric as not to have to swing up.(I believe Emerald gets both an AoO and a ride check)
Miss even before ride check.
Round 5
- Bandit 1 Dead
- Emerald
- Ludivine 10/11 HP
- Actaeon
- Bandit 3 Dead
- Sirinus
- Bandit 2 AC 13 HP 7/9 (in eastern tree stand)
- Kressle AC 15 HP 13/17 (before results of Emerald AoO)
- Hadin 7/12 HP
Emerald,Ludi, Actaeon and Sirinus are all up after Emeralds AoO
Sirinus trusts that Emerald has the now-awakened leader well in hand, so he points his crossbow into the trees to attempt to take down their sniper.
Emerald stabs at the bandit leader as she tries to rise. It isn't a very accurate strike, however.
Ferric will full attack Kressle.
Emerald will then direct him to 5' step back so she can strike again.
The only condition Sleep causes is helpless not unconscious. The spell doesn't do anything it doesn't say in the spell block. So simply the crature is magically asleep and can't act until awoken or wounded and gains the helpless condition(which is nasty since it allows coup de Grace) So the leader didn't use any actions other than move to approach and standard to attack.
There is lots of arguments for years on the sleep spell but in lieu of any faq I run it without it giving anything that the spell doesn't say it does. I feel slightly vindicated in this as in Pathfinder 2E the sleep spell specifically calls out that it does NOT cause the target to fall prone or drop held items(at least not until heightened to 4th level). For this reason I still like the sleep spell as it causes a tactics change to take out those unaffected first so that you can coup de grace or capture the sleeping target.
All that said that means only Ferric's hoof lands out of that wall of rolls. :(