Darque Naia's page

Ok Da-J!

OK. Thanks for the heads up Da-J.

Apparently Dajelly has been out of it with illness and perhaps heavy drinking. Or illness due to heavy drinking. Or heavy drinking to cope with illness. Anyway, he's around, and should hopefully be back soon. :)

OK!

Naia succumbs to the awful moaning, almost losing her grip on her mace and narrowly avoids falling on the the closed beartrap'n'bonedust. The emerging skeleton's leer seems to mock her.

Free Action Fail Will save.
Move Action: Favored Target: Aelfwine the Armless Elf Skeleton...
Standard Action: Power Attack Aelfwine.
Free Action Sway sicken'edly.

Shanng!!: 1d20 + 2 + 3 - 1 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 3 - 1 + 1 - 2 = 5 [BAB, Str, PA, Favored Target, sickened]
SMOKK!: 1d6 + 4 + 3 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 4 + 3 + 1 - 2 = 11 [Str, PA, Favored Target, sickened]

Will DC 15: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6

Okey doke.

Naia screams, half in fear and half in…. more fear - choosing a sarcophagi, she rapidly takes aim and smashes her mace into the nearest opening coffin lid, not aiming for the hand particularly, but attempting to break the arm and batter the occupant inside.

Move Action: Favored Target: Coffin.
Standard Action: Power Attack Coffin.

Wishhh!: 1d20 + 2 + 3 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 2 + 3 - 1 + 1 = 16 [BAB, Str, PA, Favored Target]
BAKKK!: 1d6 + 4 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 4 + 3 + 1 = 10 [Str, PA, Favored Target]

Take 1 off attack and damage if you can't Favored Target an inanimate object. ;) The play test specifically mentions "opponent" and that the effects last until the opponent is "dead". So likely not a coffin lid.

OK. Is it initiative, or are we surprised?….

I too am interested in Ealasaid's question. Darque will immediately sheathe her shortsword and THF her mace.

Naia watches the laying of the traps with keen interest. Once that is done, and the boffins start investigating archaic stonecarved literature she begins to fret. She gets sketchy whenever there is a distinct lack of bloodshed, brainspatter or dust up.

She keeps an eye on the sarcophagi, and anything else that looks too normal.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14

Hearing Ealasaid's plan she smiles at the half elf.

I like her style...

"Undead"?

Naia looks at the slightly charred mace in her hand, and pulls out her shortsword with the other hand.

"Just to be on the safe side. Keep all your options open." she smiles.

She stalks in and looks around, but touches nothing.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Nice one. Always great to be critically blind when the creepchers come…

Naia leaps back in alarm as the geyser of hot fluid jets forth.

She stands over the fountain, fiddles around with her gear, and finding a little used item, experimentally dips her mace in it.

"Channel positive energy? Is that like being nice to it or something?" Naia queries. Seeing the glazed looks from her companions she smiles.

"Just bash the blasted door with the cure wand you knuckleheads!" - she mimes striking the door with a club...

Naia enters stealthily. More of a sauntering stealth, but quiet, and cool. With a fat, throbbing, though very deep and quiet bassline. She sights everything with her mighty dethbow, the relief carved door, the statue in the fountain, the dust and rubble, the spiderwebs in the ceiling corners, even the spirit of a long lost lizardfolk warrior that trespass'd here. She sneers at the damned writing on the door, then drops her bow to her side.

"Clear! she hisses before bringing her bow up again and resuming guard.

Naia follows Rameth, bow drawn, eyes peeled.

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Naia grins mercilessly as her arrow shredded past Rameth's nose and embedded itself in the spider. She sights another and lets fly...

Move action: Favored Target : spider holding Ealasaid, unless Ealasaid kills it, in which case the one that shot at Roland.

Standard Action: Shoot at spider.

Take aim!: 1d20 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 22 [Dex, BAB, Favored Target]
Shawt!: 1d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 3 + 1 = 10 [Str, Favored Target]

Da-J - I shot Rameth's spider, not Namon's, which you seem to remember later in your post (as he needs to make a save or fall prone) but also the spider I shot seems to try to maintain its grapple, unless you meant Namon, or did it fail and he fall?!?!?

At any rate I'm confused. Who is still grappled, and how high are they?

They are actually physically grabbed by spiders. Think of them as having repelled down, grabbed them, and are going back up as opposed to shooting webs at them. So you can see spiders, but not where you thought.

Gotcha! Thx for heads up (pun intended…)

Free Action: Breathes in. Carefully. Watches. Cold as ice.

Move action: Favored Target : spider in C12/Rameth.

Standard Action: Shoot at spider.

Sight and Release!: 1d20 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 14 [Dex, BAB, Favored Target]
Schwitt!: 1d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 3 + 1 = 12 [Str, Favored Target]

So that leaves Quartle and Naia?

Naia, keeping watch outside the room as usual hears the strange sound of her companions' surprise. Lightning fast she whips out her mighty longbow, arrow quickly drawn soon after and very carefully peers in, careful not to enter any part of her body into the room.

Can I see anything above the ascending adventurers? i.e. any spiders/ettercaps/attercops/?

'Quartle - what say - we burn the lot of them and split the loot" she remarks casually out the side of her mouth, eyes flickering over the ceiling's darkness in an attempt to case the offending predators...

I don't know, it looks pretty cool

Ermagerd. Nice.

Naia waves it around.

"Well, I do tend to use a shortsword. And it is in my hand…" she adds with a wicked smirk.

Naia wields a scimitar and shortwsword when TWF

Naia inspects the shortsword. She waves it around experimentally, then points with it to the leather armor.

"Anyone able to see if this stuff is enchanted?"

K, thanx Rameth...

So Fast progression and 3,300 for 3rd level. Sweet. Thx.

Anybody tracking XP? From my memory, after the first bunch of rats, we leveled, then returned to the Mayor (XP there?), then bypassed Ird and his horde (XP?), slew three drow at the door (XP?), and then this latest bunch of rats (250 xp).

Nicely played Da-J. The Society for Improving Appreciation of the Fourth Wall applauds your efforts. As does Michael Moorcock. Naia and Vai are totally different. Completely.

Actually they are. Naia is notnice. Vai, on the other hand, while being a dire lock, is actually nice.

Um, no, don't go taking my crit away. He fumbled and ate himself, not in F10

I Cornugon-net Smash'd a completely different SSEW (Super small evil weakling), in F10.

Great - I brokorzd tha internetz. For a measly rat.

Huh. Remember I was born the year DnD released young whippersnapper. You and your highfalutin teckanogickal doodads can get offa my treant!

(Also I just learned that if I select it all, then CTRL-click it will offer the go to address option. Takes a lot more effort than just clicking. Maybe if I HAD a more than one-button mouse I would, but I don't. I blame it being a Mac.)

I think I will need two replacement for my "red hand of doom" campaing. You have been pretty consistent posting, so if you are interested here are the character creation rules

Ealasaid's Red Hand of Doom Recruitment

Linkified!

Ah yes. I actually was going to comment on how perfectly rat-like that was. Must be in honor of Zee….

I only see two rats, one in F10, the other with a green bar in E9!?!?

Naia moves like a panther to strike a new diabolically…. tiny… yet diseased foe.

Move Action: move round Rameth to F11, attack rat in F10.
Standard Action: ScimAtttttttttttackh!

Schang!: 1d20 + 2 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 2 + 3 + 1 = 24 [+2 BAB, +3 Str, +1 MWK]
Shplap!: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5[+3 Str]

Crit Confirmation: 1d20 + 2 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 2 + 3 + 1 = 26
Hamburger: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Do I tear a rent in reality with my blade for rolling a natural twenty on my crit confirmation?

Free Action: Dispense with bow via letting go.
Swift Action: Slo-mo superstar quickdraw of masterwork scimitar and regular shortsword
Move action: Study le rat.
Standard Action: Slice with masterwork scimitar...

Sching!: 1d20 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 2 + 3 + 1 + 1 = 20 [+2 BAB, +3 Str, +1 MWK, +1 Favored target]
Slaszch!: 1d6 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 3 + 1 = 5 [+3 Str, +1 Favored Target]

Naia sights down the length of her arrow, and studies the rat-person. Then lets fly.

Free Action: Be's incredibly cool. Like icy hot. Fro-o-o-o-ozen.

Move action: Favored Target on rat-guy.

Standard Action: Shoot thistle arrow at rat guy.

Twang: 1d20 + 3 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 3 + 2 + 1 = 21 [Dex, BAB, Favored Target]
Thungk!: 1d8 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 3 + 1 = 11 [Str, Favored Target]

Let me know if there is a miss chance due to bad light. Also, don't forget bleed damage from thistle arrow.

Naia immediately crouches, breaks out her bow and readies an arrow.

Heh, I picked a page kinda at random, kinda guessing. Page 9!!! First try!

Link to
Room Description

Naia accepts the wooden holy symbol from Roland with a curt nod.

Did those three albino cave-elves have any loot on them?

Perhaps we can smoke the drow out, find the nest and then pile enough wood in front of the entrances and set them alight. The smoke will in these cramped tunnels travel fast and fill the air, the drow will either flee ino our waiting trap or they will die from inhaling the smoke...

I don't know what it is about fire, but in two PbP's we are burning the buildings (one, oldskool Against the Giants G1 meets DnD Next, my half-orc monk suggested we set fire to the Steading, the other, a PF Dark Sun the party Preserver just set fire to a Defiler's hut; in a third PbP, my social idiot Gondsman (Warforged) Druid in Baldur's Gate meets DnD Next also suggested smoking out a warren of goblins.

As for "nest", Naia was merely being poetic. I'm pretty sure the stone citadel will resist the vagaries of fire, and the drow will merely withdraw into the Underdark and "resurface" later…. I obviously heartily approve of such outside the box thinking Namon…

Yeah that's why I said it wouldn't work for you. That and the fact that you are a walking frog.

Naia realises she put greed before Roland's wellbeing, and remembers Rameth's care when she was similarly knocked out by drow poison. She hides her shame with characteristic bravado.

"Damn I'm tired of the drow and we're entering their newly prepared nest! If only we could continue to draw them out as we did before, or somehow trick them further. "

She idly balances her foot on a drow helm.

"I guess dressing up as drow won't work for Quartle or any of you talk folk."

Did I cut the drow's outstretched arms off? Geysers of blood and bloodcurdling screams?

Naia wipes the spray of blood from her face, gathers up her discarded blades and kneels down to rifle through the amputee drow's gear.

Naia laughs at the drow's mistake and hacks down at the hapless creature's outstretched arms...

Standard Action - Hack at drow!

Chop: 1d20 + 2 + 3 - 1 ⇒ (12) + 2 + 3 - 1 = 16 [BAB, Str, PA]
Splott!: 2d6 + 7 ⇒ (3, 2) + 7 = 12

Naia screeches twice in a most un-ladylike fashion as she both drops her scimitar and gets cut. She throws her shortsword after the scimitar, and draws her greatsword with lightning speed...

"F*(k this. Time to get serious." she murmurs through gritted teeth.

Swift Action - drop shortsword
Free Action - quick draw greatsword
Free Action - swear moodily

Standard Action - Attack drow aggressor

Chop: 1d20 + 2 + 3 - 1 ⇒ (7) + 2 + 3 - 1 = 11 [BAB, Str, PA]
2d6 + 7 ⇒ (1, 2) + 7 = 10

Naia whips out her scimitar and short blade, lunging at the drow nearest Roland's recumbent form.

Free Action: Draw Masterwork Scimitar
Free Action: Draw Shortsword

Move Action: Move to Engage

Standard Action: Two Weapon Power Attack

Whip!: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4 [+2 BAB, +3 Str, +1 MWK, -2 TWF, -1 PA]
Whap!: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5 [+2 BAB, +3 Str, -2 TWF, -1 PA]

Rip!: 1d6 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 3 + 2 = 7 [+3 Str, +2 PA]
Slash!: 1d6 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 1 + 2 = 9 [+1 Str, +2 PA]

Awesome, I crit fumbled my masterwork scimitar. Do I cut my own head off? ;P

'So from here on in I expect the drow at every corner, door and cranny."

Naia pauses for full effect before waving a hand palm up toward the door as an usher and favors the assembled adventurers with a sickly sweet smile.

"So. Who wants to go first?"

Helm and buckler strapped to her pack, Naia likewise scuttles through the fog...

Stealth: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (18) + 7 - 4 = 21 [armor]

Naia is not convinced b Namon's reasoning.

"Bringing the drow mistress and goblin chief into close proximity is not a likelihood I forsee. The drow are deep in the citadel, the goblins camped without - the former scare the latter who refuse to enter.
I say we deal with the goblins later - they represent little threat to us while we seek their Orb. Once we have it we can also just leave as we did the first time to "get more supplies" - remember Ird is scared of Roland even more than they are scared of the drow!"

I don't see a need to stir them up now, and we have plenty more opportunities to find more powerful treasures within the citadel.
However, if you do wish to "strike first"... Lob plenty of pots of flame at them I say...Keep our distance and wipe them out - if we can take out Ird the rest will crumble... Or at least need quite a while to regroup...

Okay:

+3 rated composite longbow = 400 gp
1 x splintercloud arrow = 25 gp
1 x trip arrow = 25 gp
1 x raining arrow = 30 gp
10 x thistle arrows = 10 gp

2 gp left. ;)

Will get +3 rated composite longbow for 400 jeepers. Still looking at the other 92 gold…