Dread's Carrion Crown

Game Master Dread

Balurk moves up to aid Brian Rose with the grappling.

Grapple Aid: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16

Round 1

Lloyd looked at the dimly lit farmer and It looked to him that he was merely a man, half crazed by the look in his eyes, but just a man, so he begins to share what he discovered. That this 'farmer' was wearing a well-made breastplate identifying him as being an ex-soldier, and is carrying a war razor that also looked to be well made. Expect him to be dangerous.

Carla looked at the man and his weapon, declaring the weapon magical and seeing clear signs that the man is under some sort of enchantment.

Lawrence looked out from his pocket and shivered...

Gibs, growled and stepped forward slashing out with his war razor at Balurk who was in the doorway. The first attack sliced Balurks arm open pretty fiercely. The second, the big Orc avoided.

Jack reached down pulling both Kukri's from their sheaths then took issue with not killing the farmer with Carla. However as long as the Ex-Soldier turned Farmer stood in the doorway, unless they went through windows, of found a way to push him backwards, only Balurk could get to him. Tactically, the Farmer had the advantage of terrain.

Barek pulled his Rapier and then used his arcane power to summon a shield of force that hovered in the air between he and this ex soldier.

Briar Rose wanted to tackle the farmer, but couldnt get to him...and even so his movements showed him to be a knowledgeable combatant and she doubts she couldve in this instance.

Balurk tried to grapple the man however, but the ex-soldier deftly fended him off.

start round 2

Initiative
20 Lloyd
19 Carla
19 Lawrence
17 Gibs
15 Jack
14 Barek
13 Briar Rose
5 Balurk

Effects Duration
Carla- Detect magic 18R
All- +1 Insight Bonus to AC, Saves, and Attacks for duration of combat.
Barek- Shield 20R +4 to AC

@Jack: Since you have Two-weapon Fighting, you can draw both kukris with a single move action.

You know, I did not know that. Thanks for the heads up on that.

Carla says "Well use your head, butthead!" She smiles at herself for her clever wordplay. She completes "Get it? Butt him with your head? Haha!"

LOL!!! Oh man, killing me! :D

Jack looks at her through narrowed eyes, pondering her 'joke'. "Oh yeah, I get it. I see what you did there. That's pretty good, Carla. Pretty good." He nods, looking slightly perturbed. I think she just called me a butthead! In kind of a slick way, though. I'm very annoyed. But that's just because I didn't come up with it. Man, that would've been a good one for the ol' Jack repertoire! Dang it!

Returning to the situation at hand, "Oh right! We're fighting. Get him, Balurk! You got this, buddy! Between you and Rose, this chump doesn't stand a chance! You're going down, Gibs! Give up now, Gibs, or else!"

Intimidate: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18 HA! You gotta be kidding me. That's funny.

Carla continues cackling, and it seems a bit excessive to be only about the wordplay. Shen then casts a spell targetting the farmer and steps back.

Using Cackle hex. Casting Daze on him, then 5ft step back. Misfortune is back to 2 rounds.

Gibs Will save DC 14: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10
Misfortune: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

The witch is able to get into the man's mind and confuse it enough to stop acting for a few seconds.

She says "He's enchanted! We need to help him! Balurk, try to pull him so everyone can get to him."

Gibs is dazed for 1 round.

Barek, seeing the predicament everyone is in, calls up his internal magics, enchanting his sword, then punches out with the hilt of his rapier, smashing the window next to him.

Smash!: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Based on the hit point and hardness table, I'm assuming the 2 damage is enough to smash through the glass.

He dives through to the other side before standing ready with his sword and shield out.

Swift - Use Arcane pool to make weapon magic, Standard - Break glass, Move - Climb through window

All the windows are shuttered on the inside with a lock on the shutters. so Hardness 3 3HP because its shutters and not solid wood

for misfortune to hit: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20
damage: 1d4 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

so it still hit and still did 7 points of damage

"Our friend appears to have some military training. Interesting. Be wary. However, remember we're here to investigate, not to kill him."

Following up his original assessment of the man, Lloyd will cast Detect Magic to see if anything obviously magical is on Gibs.

He shakes his head as he sees his new companions smashing through windows just to dogpile one man.

Bardic Performance: 7/9 rounds remaining today
Effects Active: Detect Magic

Briar gives Balurk a chance to grab the guy...

Balurk is ready to rip this guy’s head off after the slash, but he had a brief moment of clairity:

Remember words Doctor once told you.

He decides killing will have to wait. He decides to try and properly grapple the man, this time with some imrpovising.

Using Martial Flexibility to gain the benefits of Improved Grapple for 1 minute

Grapple, Improved Grapple: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 6 + 2 = 21

Lloyd did as Carla had and attuned himself to detecting magical aura's and right away noticed the war-razor he was using radiated magic. as well as the man himself seemed to have an aura about him.

Carla wove her magic carefully and overcame his mental defenses causing the farmer to stand shaking his head for a bit.

Lawrence looked upon the farmer looked up at Carla and nodded his furry head.

Gibs, in the middle of a combat routine, suddenly dropped his arms and shook his head. That guttural voice came out of his mouth, not at all sounding like the farmer You think to stop my machinations. You are foolish to believe you are strong enough

Jack looking at Gibs, urged Balurk on with words of encouragement and a look of doubt appeared in the eyes of the farmer.

Barek shattered the window and cut partially through the bindings of the shutters within.

Briar Rose stands on the steps looking on, waiting for an opportunity to do something.

Balurk wraps his big arms about the soldier, holding him tight.

Start round 3

Initiative
20 Lloyd
19 Carla
19 Lawrence
17 Gibs-Grappled
15 Jack
14 Barek
13 Briar Rose
5 Balurk-Grappled

Effects Duration
Lloyd-Detect Magic 20R
Carla- Detect magic 17R
All- +1 Insight Bonus to AC, Saves, and Attacks 7R.
Barek- Shield 19R +4 to AC
Gibs- Misfortune 1R
Gibs- Dazed 1R
Gibs- Shaken 1R

"The power of Sarenrae compels you to... stop being evil!" Briar Rose bonks the man on the head with her scimitar.

Scimitar: 1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (14) + 5 - 4 = 15
Nonlethal Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Jack, with his kukris still in hand, remains at a loss on what to do but finds himself looking curiously at Gibs. "Okay, voice guy, who in the Abyss are you? Tell us! Because you aren't Gibs. I'm actually curious if you've already killed him and taken over his body."

Balurk isn't one for intimidation, but he tries his best.

"Yes, little demon man, tell us who you are, if you are not Gibs!"

Intimidate Gibs: 1d20 ⇒ 7

Unfortunately his intimidation is no different than a request.

Not wanting to get in the way if everyone else, Lloyd stays back.

"Alright, fiend. We'll give you one chance to vacate that poor man's body while you still can..." Lloyd addresses whatever is piloting the farmer, sounding relatively disinterested, before tilting his head forward menacingly and speaking in a much, much more serious manner, "Because if we have to exorcise you the hard way, you are going to [u]wish[/u] we had merely killed you."

Intimidate: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (7) + 10 = 17

Not great, but who knows how powerful this demon/devil/whatever is.

Barek tries punching through the window once more.

Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

He cracks through a few more boards, but not enough to open the way fully. "Keep him steady Balurk, I'm trying to give us more angles to stop him!"

Carla, unsure of what to do next, just continues cackling. She says "Balurk, pull him closer so the others can help knock him out!"

Cackle as a move action.

fyi. I posted the next round and the ether ate my post. It will be tomorrow night before Ill get the time to redo it. Im sorry.

Stay strong.

Such is life on the boards. We've all had it happen at one point or another, I'm sure.

Round 3

Lloyd threatens what he thinks may be a fiend possessing the Farmer, only to hear a long guttural laugh. The voice said. Thats rich. Ill wish youd killed me....so very funny

Carla cackles as only a witch can in response extending the Misfortune on Gibs as before and suggests to Balurk to pulll Gibs out of the house and onto the porch.

Lawrence hides in the pouch and looks at Carla with fear in his eyes...Like he knows something now.

Gibs was locked arm in arm with Balurk, but instead of trying to escape, he turned the war razor so he could slice into the Orcs arm saying The better to cut you Orc. The Razor sliced into his bicep, then slashed across the Big Orcs chest. pushing him to the side bleeding, with a grin saying evilly Next

attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
misfortune attack: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23
damage 13 hits 11 ac after -4 for grappled condition: 1d4 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7
2nd attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
misfortune attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
damage 18 hits: 1d4 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

Jack tried to engage the possessing entity into conversation trying to ascertain who he is.

Barek finished slicing through the shutters and climbed through the window.

Briar Rose moved up and smacked the hilt of the scimitar into the forehead of Gibs, who chuckled.

Balurk lay on the ground breathing shallowly, the bleeding stopping.

stabilize dc 13: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14

Start round 4]

Initiative
20 Lloyd
19 Carla
19 Lawrence
17 Gibs (5 Non-Lethal)
15 Jack
14 Barek
13 Briar Rose
5 Balurk-(Unconscious)

Effects Duration
Lloyd-Detect Magic 19R
Carla- Detect magic 16R
All- +1 Insight Bonus to AC, Saves, and Attacks 6R.
Barek- Shield 18R +4 to AC
Gibs- Misfortune 1R

@GM: Checking the grappled condition. Attacker gets -2 to attack. Also, the AC reduces by 2, not 4 (it's -4 to Dex which means -2 to AC). Maybe the 1st attack doesn't hit then?

Carla watches Balurk be sliced down and opens her eyes wide. She dashes forward, but is unable to reach the orc. She continues cackling also.

Move and Cackle. Misfortune back to 2 rounds.

Lets amend that. Balurk is up and they are still grappled. but Balurk only has 7 HP.

With Balurk getting pummeled badly, "Screw this!" Jack follows Barek through the window, past him, and flanks with Rose, before slicing at the psychotic Gibs.

Move 25'; Attack. (Just ignore if I can't actually attack).

Kukri: 1d20 + 4 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 4 + 2 = 11
Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Not that it matters with that pathetic roll.

AC 15; Hp's 17/17

Whoa! 6th level fighter! Man, we may have to retreat. Don't think we're gonna beat this guy.

We could, not with those rolls, though...

Maintaining Grapple, Improved Grapple: 1d20 + 6 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 2 = 17

Balurk finally loses his cool and tries to smack the guy, but he’s not experience with holding a guy and smacking at the same time.

Unarmed Strike: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11
Damage Nonlethal: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

"Hmph..." Lloyd grunts at how surprisingly difficult it's being to take down a simple farmer, "I can't tell if his resilience is natural from his training, or supernaturally the result of whatever's possessing him."

"We may have to mostly kill him," he gives his assessment while drawing his crossbow. Turning to whomever isn't currently in melee with Gibs he asks, sotto voce, "You lot have healing magic, right?"

Briar continues to try and nonlethaly down the man. At least it looks like Balurk has things handled.

Scimitar: 1d20 + 5 - 4 ⇒ (12) + 5 - 4 = 13
Nonlethal Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4

Barek thrusts with his rapier, looking for an opening. "We'll heal him after he's unconscious and bound, he's too experienced with that razer to not go for blood!"

Stab (with enhancement)!: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 4 + 1 = 20
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

With Balurk holding the man in place, Barek finds his angle, blade slipping past his armor and leaving a deep puncture behind.

Forgot to mention the enhancement lasts 1 minute. There should be 8 rounds of it left.

round 4

Lloyd pulls his crossbow out and loads, beginning to think death was necessary to stop Gibs.

Carla gazes on becoming worried for Balurk and continues to laugh, causing Gibs to be distracted.

Lawrence keeps bobbing his head up, and peeking before ducking down and hiding repeatedly.

Gibs was having a difficult time with this orc holding him, he was puzzled why it was taking so long to slice him up. He once again tries to cut the orc. Finally he sliced open his abdomen, and pushed him to the side, the big orc landing on the floor as he spun to face Barek.

attack vs AC14: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19
misfortune roll: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15
damage: 1d4 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

Jack moved tumbling through the window just as Gibs spun and the farmer slashed out at Jack. It was his misfortune though to slice the air above the Trapper as Jack got into position and stuck out at the farmer from flanking with his Kukri, also hitting nothing but air.

attack vs A16: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26
misfortune roll: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14

With an opening, Barek thrusts his rapier into the shoulder of the ex soldier. He cant help but notice the crazed look in the mans eyes.

Briar Rose sees Balurk fall to the ground and still tries for the non-lethal approach. He scimitar hilt missing the man easily.

Balurk groaned on the ground as the bleeding stopped, though he was unconscious

I used the roll for stabilizing previously

to round 5

Initiative
20 Lloyd
19 Carla
19 Lawrence
17 Gibs (5 Non-Lethal)
15 Jack
14 Barek
13 Briar Rose
5 Balurk-(Unconscious)

Effects Duration
Barek- Arcane enhancement on blade 8R
Lloyd-Detect Magic 18R
Carla- Detect magic 15R
All- +1 Insight Bonus to AC, Saves, and Attacks 5R.
Barek- Shield 17R +4 to AC
Gibs- Misfortune 2R

Barek grits his teeth as Balurk falls, red filling his vision as he stabs at Gibs.

Stab!: 1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 4 + 1 = 7

His anger is much misplaced, leading him to stab deep into the floor between Gibs' legs. He pulls his blade back with a grunt of effort and a jerk.

Carla continues cackling but can't do anything else. She walks to be able to reach Briar Rose and Barek if she needs to.

Can't reach Balurk now. So Cackle and move.

Lloyd takes aim with his crossbow, only to lower his weapon once more, "Can't quite get a good shot in with you all up in his face," he murmurs to himself, "Let's try this, then."

Grabbing a ten-foot length of rope from his bag, Lloyd casts Tripvine on it. Tossing the now-animate rope into the house, he mentally commands it to 'guard' the 10-foot-square area around Gibs in a way that would stop the rope from targeting the party.

I still can't see the map on Roll20, so I don't know exactly where it would go. If there isn't a way to only get Gibs in the area of effect, put it somewhere where it'd minimize the number of allies it would try to trip.

Trip: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

"Fine!" Briar Rose huffs as Balurk falls. "Have it your way!" She slices at the evil man with her keen scimitar.

Scimitar: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
S Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
Crit Conf: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13
S Damage: 1d6 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

Jack swipes at the farmer with both blades this time, hoping to be as successful as Rose.

Kukri: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 2 = 9 +2 is for flanking
Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Sneak Attack Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 8

Kukri: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 + 2 = 19
Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 2
Sneak Attack Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 5

Unfortunately, he manages to only land one strike against him.

AC 15; Hp's 17/17

lloyd, you should be able to see the map now. if you cant try refreshing. I checked all settings a few times, further when I do the control L feature that lets me see what a character sees, I can look through Lloyds 'eyes'

Lloyd set the crossbow down and pulled out a coil of rope, casting a spell upon it he tossed it into the room, unfortunately with everyone around Gibs, there was no place to throw it that wouldnt hit members of the group. The rope wrapped around Balurks legs as he lay on the ground.

Jack felt the rope wrapping around his and he went to the ground hard, but held onto his Kukri's as he saw the rope wrapping around Gibs' ankles too and the farmer came down eye to Jack.

Carla moved up on the porch. Lawrence was peeking out of the satchel and squeaked when he saw Gibs was down. and she laughed with witch like glee

Gibs attacks Jack 1-2/Barek 3-4/Briar Rose 5-6: 1d6 ⇒ 6

Gibs, with that crazed look in his eyes, looked up at Briar Rose and smiled wickedly...saying Oh look...a holy maiden. Ill cut you up next and lashed out even from his prone position. Both slashes with his war-razor just waved in the air as luck had turned against the ex soldier.

attack vs Briar Rose AC 19: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21
misfortune attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
2nd attack vs Briar Rose AC 19: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
misfortune attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20

Jack, prone as he was from the tripvine, swung his kukri's and one would have struck true, but laying down caused it to just not do it.

Barek stabbed out, but misjudged as the man writhed on the ground.

Briar Rose however sliced down at the the crazed farmer and cut deep into his chest with the scimitar she bore.

Balurk lay on the ground, unconscious but not dying the rope wrapping him up.

start round 6

Initiative
20 Lloyd
19 Carla
19 Lawrence
17 Gibs (5 Non-Lethal)- Prone
15 Jack- Prone
14 Barek
13 Briar Rose
5 Balurk-(Unconscious)

Effects Duration
Barek- Arcane enhancement on blade 7R
Lloyd-Detect Magic 17R
Carla- Detect magic 14R
All- +1 Insight Bonus to AC, Saves, and Attacks 4R.
Barek- Shield 16R +4 to AC
Gibs- Misfortune 2R
Tripvine-10' area (gibs/jack/balurk)-300R 1d20+5 vs CMD.

Man, this guy is a jerk. If I'd realized he was a boss I would have used Smite Evil already...

He is a jerk! We need to drop this fool.

"Crap!" Jack exclaims as he hits the deck. He works to get back up and strikes again at Gibs.

Stand up(Move); Attack

Kukri: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26 Boom!
Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Sneak Attack: 1d8 ⇒ 7

Crit confirm
Kukri: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17 Crud. So close.
Damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2 Not that it matters with that crappy roll.

Slicing Gibs neatly across the body, "HA! Take that, freak! Jack is on the attack, bay-bee! Oh yeah!"

AC 15; Hp's 17/17

Briar Rose drops her shield and goes full offense, the fire of Sarenrae filling her heart and limbs as she swings down at the evil guy.

Drop Shield. Smite Evil. Attack. I think there's like +4 more accuracy from flanking and the guy being prone but IDK.
Scimitar: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
S Dam: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Carla continues cackling, then touches Barek through the window, giving him divine guidance.

Cackle hex + Guidance spell on Barek

I just now noticed the insight bonus from Lloyd. Doesn't change anything, but it is nice to have.

Stab with magic, insight, and guidance!: 1d20 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 19 Until it does matter I guess.
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Barek stabs at Gibs once more, the bit of divine guidance from Carla twitching his blade ever so slightly to find a soft spot in the man's armor.

If he stands back up, I take it you'll be rolling AoOs GM?

"Ah, yes, you may want to step out of the way of the rope," Lloyd gives a belated warning as he reaches down to retrieve his crossbow, "As you can see, the spell I cast on it is quite indiscriminate in what it attacks."

Not really much else Lloyd can do to be of help.