Apologies. Things happened. I haven't been on lately and I've misplaced my notes on the next bit. Long weekend, though, so the plan is to have a post up this upcoming monday.
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Woo! Thank you all for sticking around. :)
I can I get a sound-off from everyone? I think I'm getting settled pretty well in my new job and that I can get this back up and running again. I've been mulling over what to do, and I think I have a fun dungeon planned. It'll be a bit before I am ready, so the plan is to get the ball rolling again on the 17th. Thank you all for your patience. I know that this has not been the best run game, but I am grateful to all of you for sticking it out and putting up with my flakiness. It has been a joy and a pleasure to play with all of you, and I'm looking forward to seeing how things play out as we finish up this goblin war.
Hey all, I know this game has stalled, and that it's my fault. I think part of it was burnout due to stress (work-related and game-related), but a lot of it was wanting to not just keep doing the same thing over and over. I've been reading up a bit on dungeon design and I have some ideas, but I haven't been able to sit down and focus on them because I have been focusing on starting my new job this Thursday. New tires, new suit, off-boarding, finding out I need like a dozen signatures before I can call it quits from the university that's technically my employer (long story) and trying to leave on good terms with my coworkers, even if I don't think they really ever saw me as part of the team and I am happy to be leaving this job. Long story short, I've been busy, but I hope to come back to this game soon. Please forgive me for the unscheduled and longer than expected pause. I don't have a date, yet, but I will as soon as I get a feel for how this new job will go.
Oof. That reminds me of the time I woke up and panicked because I thought I was late to my first class in college. Turns out, it wasn't until the next day.
Good luck. Hope things go well.
We will be moving on. I'm just not up to making that post tonight.
"And our best fighter, it seems." Emerald looks around before motioning for Grobradon to lean close. "It's always good to know one's mate can take care of themself," she whispers in his ear.
"Do you think they came from a camp," Emerald asks. "They were following us it seems."
Emerald looks around to make sure that no more enemies are coming their way, but it seems that, for the moment, the Heroes of Kassen are safe. Moon: You skin the winter wolf and now have a rare pelt worth at least 500GP, possibly more to the right buyer.
In a swift and brutal display of prowess, the Heroes of Kassen dispatch the party that was tailing them.
Betzolte finishes the wolf that Emerald had sorely wounded off.
GM Screen:
Blue Wolf: Dead Worg: 3/44 HP Red Goblin: 14/30 HP Red Wolf: 1/20 HP
Emerald begins to sing, bolstering the heroes' spirits, as most of the hunting pack goes down to Betzoltes's spell. Erigga kills the wolf facing her with one blow. Grobradon and Maidie land solid hits on the only goblin still on its feet, and Moon and Histya nearly fell the worg before it has time to react. Emerald steps out and sinks an arrow deep into the only wolf not affected by Betzolte's spell, nearly killing it when it snaps at the dwarven wizard. The other wolf attacking Erigga and the goblin attack Grobradon are equally ineffectual. The worg, seeing how this fight is going, turns to flee, doing it's futile best to avoid the ranger's deadly blade and her companion's painfully bite.
Seeing Erigga and Betzolte out in the middle of the path, the worg howls. "Kill them," it bellows as the wolves and goblins snarl and growl. They get up to the two shorter than average warriors when...
The worg and a couple of the goblins that had escaped have been joined by a couple more goblins and a few wolves.
Sorry, not post tonight. Got slammed at work. Hoping to have what I need done tomorrow and then I can post them. And Betz, that was from Wednesday! :D
Apologies. No post tonight. Brain is mush.
Despite their caution, Maidie finds those stalking the Heroes of Kassen easily enough. She recognizes the worg and the handful of survivors from the earlier fight. A few more goblins and wolves have joined them, but it appears they are not eager to tangle with the party again.
As the sun peaks, clouds gather and deepen the gloom of the wintry wood. The heroes walk along the bank of a creek that is still flowing, though the channel is beginning to choke with ice. The feeling of something watching from the shadows grows as midday passes into afternoon. You are being followed, but from a distance.
Thanks to Moon's keen senses and Grobradon's wisdom, the Heroes of Kassen avoid breaking through the ice and falling into the chilling water beneath. An hour passes before the path leads out of the gully and onto less treacherous ground.
As the heroes continue towards the Bloodmoon camp, they follow a winding path into a gully. The bottom is covered in deep snow and rather flat. While the going is slow, the pace is better than trying to climb out of the gully and find a path that links up with the one your are following. Survival or Knowledge(Geography) DC 20:
The bottom of the gully is filled with a frozen over stream Perception DC 25: You hear a muffled cracking sound as you walk along the bottom of the gully
We are. I'm just being slow. Sorry about that.
Wounds mended and breath caught, the Heroes of Kassen resume their march on the Bloodmoon camp.
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Cragg-el and his brothers give chase, but after a little while, it becomes clear that they are far less successful than they had hoped. Before they return to the elemental plane of earth, Maidie can feel their frustration at having failed to hunt down more than one of the fleeing pack.
"I'm feeling a little woozy," Emerald says as she reappears. The dragon-turned-human certainly looks worse for wear. "I still have most of my magic, though."
GM Screen:
Winter Wolf: DEAD! Orange-Blue Wolf: 7/20 Blue Wolf: 9/20 Yellow Wolf: 3/20 Red Wolf: 8/10 Blue Goblin: DEAD! Orange Worg: DEAD! Cyan Wolf: DEAD! Green Goblin: 22/36 Goblin Wolf Fangs Rage: 4/8 rounds left
With their leader dead, the wolve break and run. With the advantage of numbers turned against them, the remaining worg and pair of goblins follow suit.
GM Screen:
Winter Wolf: DEAD! Orange-Blue Wolf: 7/20 Blue Wolf: 9/20 Yellow Wolf: 3/20 Red Wolf: 8/10 Blue Goblin: DEAD! Orange Worg: DEAD! Cyan Wolf: DEAD! Green Goblin: 22/36 Goblin Wolf Fangs Rage: 5/8 rounds left
Charged -2 AC
Fear shows in the winter wolf's eyes as it sees Moon charging it. It begins to protest it's coming death, but its denial of reality dies on its tongue as its head flies from its neck in a spray of blood. Histya leaps upon the wolf that had attacked Erigga and tears the life from it with fang and claw.
GM Screen:
Winter Wolf: 4/84 Orange-Blue Wolf: 7/20 Blue Wolf: 9/20 Yellow Wolf: 3/20 Red Wolf: 8/10 Blue Goblin: DEAD! Orange Worg: DEAD! Cyan Wolf: 3/20 Green Goblin: 22/36 Goblin Wolf Fangs Rage: 5/8 rounds left
Charged -2 AC
Cragg-el and Maidie sorely wound the wicked winter wolf, causing it to howl in agony. The goblin to the south screams as its ribs are shattered and it crumples into the snow as rage, the will to fight, and consciousness leave it. Meanwhile, one of the transformed goblin werewolves yowls as the third elemental slams into it.
Meanwhile, Erigga, rips out the throat of one of the worgs.
GM Screen:
Winter Wolf: 31/84 Orange-Blue Wolf: 7/20 Blue Wolf: 9/20 Yellow Wolf: 3/20 Red Wolf: 8/10 Blue Goblin: 17/34 Orange Worg: 15/44 Cyan Wolf: 3/20 Goblin Wolf Fangs Rage: 5/8 rounds left
Charged -2 AC
Betztole's attack does little to affect the worg, other than fanning it with a warm breeze. Meaanwhile, Histya's best efforts fail to get through the wily winter wolf's hide, but Moon's blade drinks deeply of it's blood. Sensing how dangerous the ranger and the druid, are, the winter wolf steps back and blasts both with it's wintry breath. It then howls, heralding the charge of the rest of the pack. The elemental to the south clobbers one of the wolves as it leaps away to flank Erigga with the worg, Despite the mighty blow, the wolf still has some fight and nips at the halfling, failing to do more than act as an ineffectual distraction. The worg tries to avenge its hurts, but fails to do more than annoy the halfling. The other wolf fails to do more than mar the leather of Betzolte's boots, but that only allows the enraged goblin a chance to land a solid blow.
The other wolves run in and attack Moon, Grob, and Emerald, most of their bites fail to find purchase, but one wolf does get a solid hold on Emerald's leg and pulls her to the ground.
The goblin werewolf to the north withdraws from melee with the elementals, wanting to get at prey with more flesh and blood. AoO vs. Emerald:
Realizing how bad of a position she's now in, Emerald scrambles to her feet, kicking the snapping maws of the wolves and worg away from her as she does so. She steps back and weaves magic into her song before turning invisible.
GM Screen:
Winter Wolf: 48/84 Orange-Blue Wolf: 7/20 Blue Wolf: 9/20 Yellow Wolf: 3/20 Red Wolf: 8/10 Blue Goblin: 17/34 Orange Worg: 15/44 Goblin Wolf Fangs Rage: 6/8 rounds left
Grob's strike lands with enough force, if only barely, to get through the winter wolf's hide and hurt it. Icy blue eyes filled with hate fix on the druid, promising pain and suffering before a slow death.
GM Screen:
Winter Wolf: 59/84 Orange-Blue Wolf: 7/20 Blue Wolf: 9/20 Yellow Wolf: 3/20 Red Wolf: 8/10 Blue Goblin: 17/34 Orange Worg: 15/44 Goblin Wolf Fangs Rage: 6/8 rounds left
Maidie and Grobradon manage to hurt the winter wolf, but it is far from done. More worryingly, the two elementals fail to do more than ruffle the goblin werewolf's fur. However, the goblin to the south lets out a scream of pain as it takes a blow from the remaining elemental. The worg that rushed up to Erigga howls in agony as the blade sinks deep, but fails to kill the worg.
GM Screen:
Orange-Blue Wolf: 7/20 Purple Wolf: Dead Blue Wolf: 9/20 Yellow Wolf: 3/20 Red Wolf: 8/10 Western elemental Readied attack on first target in range Goblin Wolf Fangs Rage: 7/8 rounds left
Success
Success
Success
To the west, one of the wolves breaks free and is able to catch up with its fellows as they get out of the area of Grob's spell. The elemental to the north misses as it tries to clobber the wolf that runs by it to join up with its leader. The southern elemental proves a better fighter as it shatters the ribcage of the wolf it had already clobbered when it tries to join the other two nipping rather ineffectually at Betzolte's legs. Then the wolves get within reach of the western elemental. Two loud, pained yelps ring out as literal rock-hard fists slam into the pair that came into range on their way to join up on the far shore of the river. Meanwhile, the goblins and worgs move in, the goblin to the south managing to get in close to Betzolte and swing its axe at her with both hands, though it fails to even bruise the dwarven wizard. Much more deadly and effective is the winter wolf's breath that washes over Moon, Emerald, and Histya after it pushes past Grob.
Emerald's song falters as the frigid air tries to freeze her lungs, but she manages to avoid the worst of it, if only barely.
Deciding that the ice breathing wolf is the biggest threat, she moves to put some distance between herself and Moon to keep the wolf from having a bunched up target again. As she does so, she draws and takes aim.
Unfortunately, her arrow skates off the beast's fur and flies off into the forest.
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Western elemental Readied attack on first target in range Goblin Wolf Fangs Rage: 7/8 rounds left
One of the wolves [ooc](blue) yelps as Moon's arrow sinks deep into its flank. Realizing how dangerous this prey is, the winter wolf skirts around the elementals to get into a better position while also keeping the icy stream between it and the Heroes. Meanwhile, Emerald begins to sing a rousing tavern tune favored in Nirmathas. She puts arrow to string, steadying her nerves as she picks out her first target.
GM Screen:
Passed
Orange-Blue Wolf: 17/30
Western elemental Readied attack on first target in range Goblin Wolf Fangs Rage: 7/8 rounds left
Magic flies beside the arrow Moon looses. Fortune does not favor the Heroes, however. Two of the wolves and the worg escape Grobradon's spell while the goblin werewolf and the other two wolves snarl and howl as they are held fast by the vines and roots that erupt from the snow around them. To the south, a kaleidoscope of coruscating colors washes over three of the wolves, only for the spell to put one down for the moment.
GM Screen:
Blinded Duration: 4/5 Rounds left Orange-Blue Wolf: 17/30
Western elemental Readied attack on first target in range Goblin Wolf Fangs Rage: 7/8 rounds left
The two goblins to the north try to shake the dust from their eyes, one managing to do so, while the other two goblins pull out strange javelins and hurl them at the elementals. The one aimed at the western elemental sails over its craggy head while the other, aimed at the southern elemental, bounces off with too little force to do anything.
GM Screen:
passed
Blinded Duration: 5/5 Rounds left
Goblins and wolves howl in anger and fear as they are blinded by Maidie's spell. The winter wolf snarls and shakes it's head before fixing the tiny fairy wizard with a hateful glower.
Initiative:
The Heroes of Kassen are not kept waiting long after they have done what they can to prepare themselves. Over a dozen wolves, three of them looking particularly large and vicious, and four howling goblins come charging down the paths. As they spot you, the large wolf to the north howls and brings the pack to a halt. "Khalakakan told me there would be good hunting and fine sport," the large, white wolf growls something akin to a chuckle from it's fang and ice lined maw. "I see that I shall not be disappointed, little heroes." The two other large wolves and the goblins snicker and laugh. "Oh look, they have a little pixie with them. I've been craving some fey blood, so I guess she'll do," the large wolf on the western trail cackles as it fixes Maidie with a predatory grin. "Too little meat, brother mine," the third large wolf, the one approaching form the south, says. "Look at the male of the pack. He has some meat on him. A tough meal to be sure, but filling." The goblins giggle as they ready their axes and wolves growl and snarl, hungry for the feast to come. GM Screen:
Hola! Wanted to give y'all a heads up that I'll be kicking the game and combat off tomorrow. Please make sure that you're where you want to be for round 1. Also, let me know if y'all have any questions about the map.
Hey all. First off, apologies for how slow things have gotten, and it's not going to get better. Between having the flu and recovering from that I wasn't able to post much last week, and I won't be able to post at all over the nest two weeks at least due to work and Christmas stuff. Second, given that this is the case, I'm officially putting this game on hiatus until January 5th. That will hopefully give me some time to recharge so we can hit the ground running. Again, apologies for the delay and the recent slowness.
It soon becomes clear to Moon that they will need to find and prepare a battlefield soon. Howls can be heard in the distance as the would be hunters seek to make the Heroes of Kassen the hunted. As swiftly as the ranger is able, she finds what looks like a good enough spot, a place where two game trails merge by a frozen stream as it wends its way through a gully. The howls are closer now, maybe a minute away at best.
"Prince Kernan didn't gift me one, no," Emerald says, she tries to put on a brave face, but it's clear that she's frightened by the potential dangers of this coming fight.
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