"So, left-hand rule?"
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Works. "Sure. Called it The Maze. Assume the first choice will be wrong."
"You don't really believe that nonsense about damaging the Wardstone, do you? If there's naught else to stop down here, we may as well go back out. But there's no chance we need to rush because this Hosilla told us a story."
Meh. I think he should have it for story reasons and am far less concerned about the accounting.
"Simple. I like simple."
The cat begins looking at the weapons, seeing what kinds there are, and if any seem of better quality. Or if any are actually useable.
"Thank you for the continued healing. I hope to need less of it as time goes on, though I imagine I will always be needing it." His voice is almost laughing, btu he doesn't quite chuckle. "Yes, we should keep moving, keep disrupting these plans when and where we can."
NOT Surprise Accuracy, Accurate Stance. Takes a Move to initiate, and then is in place until explicitly cancelled. Not available to Barbarians, only available to Unchained Barbarians. And that may be the kicker as to the stated preferences. Reckless Abandon may have won the competitions until Unchained made the Stance Rage Powers available? Long term, Trok's Shifter abilities are going to let him keep a better AC than a barbarian usually gets. And they will get him Pounce and multiple attacks . . ..
Think I'm done. Didn't add any ranks for the Army Training, just the Adventuring and Background skills. Get half my Wisdom to AC now and that first DR1/-. Took the Accuracy Rage Power, but everything recommends Reckless? Which appears to have the same advantage but at greater cost? Am I missing something? Edit: Just realized I got my languages wrong at creation. Fixing it means I need another language now. Any preferences? I get 2 languages per rank in Linguistics, BTW. I see Draconic, Dwarven, and Elven (x2) in the group. And I am SO SORRY I forgot we had a character down. I could claim Trok was being cold-hearted, but, honestly, I literally forgot we had one down. Double Edit: Okay . . .. +1 BAB, Fort, Ref
Shifter: Defensive Instinct, Rage Power (Accurate Stance)
+1 Acrobatics, Climb, Knowledge (history), Linguisitcs, Perception, Stealth, Survival, Swim, Wild Empathy Languages: Common & Celestial by race, Sylvan by Int, Abyssal, Hallit, Infernal, +1 by Linguistics ranks
Trok sits down, leaning on one of the outer walls, trying to get his breathing back under control. "Only some training exercises, really. Nothing where I was likely to get dead. Still very likely to get injured, though. We train our youth for war, not sparring."
The cat gains a feral grin as he simply steps up inside the reach of Hosilla's glaive and swings his Earthbreaker again, this time aiming for her hip.
"Could use some help over here!" The cat calls out as he steps to slightly adjust his position before attempting to beat the stuffing out of this Hosilla person . . ..
The tiefling sees the cat swell and hears a short cry or feline challenge come from his mouth as the Earthbreaker swings in a large arc, intending to make solid contact with the dark-spawn's torso . . ..
<snicker> Needed to see it to see that I probably don't want to change anything myself . . ..
Getting a 502 Bad Gateway when I try to see the combat map?
Activating his Minor Aspect of Tiger, Trok attempts to follow Elliaria's example.
Trok will attempt to SMASH the least armored (opposition) target he is next to, regardless.
Just wait until you're talking about the grandkids instead . . ..
"On three?" He give a quick glance at the others before continuing. "Three!"
Give the room a quick once-over in case anything seems important, but then move up to that Eastern door and give a quick listen.
The cat snorts. "Inspirational is rarely wise. If this Hosilla or whatever is planning something for today, leaving for help would be like giving him permission. Not interested."
So, generic posting of warning. My wife reports for surgery in roughly 12 hours. Her surgeon has asked me to take 2 weeks from work to be at home to provide assistance. That will also mean corralling the two grandchildren, keeping them entertained and fed while their Mom works, and keeping them out of Grandma's hair. Can't say that I'm positive what my posting habits will be like until I can return to my normal schedule. Thank you for your understanding, and go kill something evil, will ya?
The cat keeps his back to the prisoner, trying to hide the entertained grin growing on his face. But he keeps bashing the unholy symbols, working to make them as unrecognizable as possible under the conditions.
There's a reason we all choose a fantasy escape hobby. Actually kind of impressive to see a group this small with so many massive life events at about the same time. As for loot? Meh. As a player, I'm big on assigning things where they do the most good for the group, doing hand-me-downs, and not really too worried about keeping things as close to even as possible. The number and type of things that will be good.for Trok long term are far simpler than the things that will be good for Alessandro. They just are. That's not his fault.
As long as we're going "Oh, BTW . . .." My wife is going in for surgery on Friday. Surgeon says that depending on what he finds inside her thigh bone DURING the surgery, he might have to do different things . . .. The "good" path is remove her improperly installed artificial knee and install a new one. This includes quite a bit of rehab to get used to the new knee and learn to walk properly again. The first alternate path is to remove the current knee, install a spacer and immobilize her leg completely for an indeterminate period of time while she has an anti-biotic drip going into her thighbone. THEN have another surgery to put a new artificial knee in place, and start rehab to not just learn how to walk again but also to rebuild the muscles in her leg . . .. Another alternate path is to identify the nodule he wants to check out as cancerous. Nobody's told me what that path will entail. Heck, nobody has said this optional leg exists, but when he doesn't know what the nodule is and it hasn't behaved the way he expected it to if it were a simple infection . . .. Maybe I'm just being a worry wart. Once she's home, I should have plenty of time to keep posting, though I have no idea what my schedule will look like! I'll be caring for her and watching the grandchildren while their Mom works. Were we 30 years younger, I would think having a child a much better use of the time. Not being 30 years younger, I don't want to have to chase a teenager in another decade and a half or so! As for moving . . .. I hope to be done with that. 8 more years to full, permanent retirement. We plan to do quite a bit of traveling, but no more moves!
The cat kicks the unholy symbols into a corner, then he uses his earthbreaker to smash them into the floor repeatedly, stopping now and again, to lean them on top of each other to help distort them faster. After a couple of good whacks, while restacking. he looks over at the one who surrendered. "You might want to cooperate. There's not enough of us to care for a prisoner as we move deeper into territory where people want to hurt us. Simple rule of war to not take prisoners you can't watch." And he pummels the unholy symbols another couple of shots.
I didn't declare a move action. I have been chewing on my lip trying to decide if I should risk another tumbling attempt or not. In case I blow it, the team will be better served if I do it next round, before anyone else move, so at the worst I can consume the AoOs . . .. I figure I move E 1, N 1, THEN tumble NE2 for my full 40' of movement. Ends adjacent to Green. NW instead would put me adjacent to Yellow, of course.
Knowing that the group is going to suffer if they can't get through that choke point, Trok moves to reduce the enemy's options . . ..
"On 3. 1. 2. 3." As he says 3, Trok throws the door open.
The cat follows the bird into the darkness . . ..
"Works."
"Want me to go first?" Trok heads that way, ready to do exactly as offered.
The cat looks confused at the question. "You can only have fun when and where you are. Any day, any blade could be your end. Would you rather end smiling, or so, so serious?" As to the second question . . .. "She's probably got enough of a lead that anyone that way will be waiting for us. Let them wait longer. They will be less prepared if we don't show up immediately. May even start relaxing again if we take long enough. Want to try the door to our left as we came in?"
"I like your guts..." "Hey!" "But try to keep them and your brains on the inside of your body." "You don't." "The next time you feel like getting surrounded - think twice." "Have to." after giving the battle-cat one more non-magical poke for good measure. "Do it like that! And the next time we've got a melee line protecting a ranged attacker, including spellcasters, don't let the melee guys win by protecting the person behind them. Never let the enemy dictate the rules of the fight. And thank you for the healing."
Putting a furred hand to his head as he lifts it from the ground, Trok has to state the obvious. "I guess we won? I do NOT recommend taking a club to the head, in case anyone is curious." He looks about at the strange opponents. "Two got away, hunh? Well, the rest of their organization knows we're here, now, then." He grabs his Earthbreaker before rising to his feet.
Meh. Not upset at being left on the floor. Depending on how far the team runs into the enemy territory while I lie there might change my feelings on the matter . . .. <grin>
No, I never declared rage. Trok's down clean and honest. I was just noting that even if he had raged, he really wouldn't be significantly better off.
Hey! I call foul! You're supposed to PET the cat, not try to kill it! <grin> Having raged would just leave me at staggered, so, not a much better position really . . ..
"Go big or go home, right?" Trok activates his minor Form as he moves into the room, tumbling around the lizard to reach the archer, whom he tries to strike.
Trok follows standard protocol, and focuses on the injured opponent, attempting to remove him from the battlefield. He swings the Earthbreaker from low, up and over his form and back around full circle to connect with the opponent as a higher momentum uppercut. But he telegraphed the attack clearly enough for the target to simply step out of the way.
Trok moves up into position for combat, (probably provoking AoOs, but I have no real path choice) but has to move too far and can't make an attack when he arrives.
Trok shrugs and swaps weapons again, pulling the Earthbreaker back out. "Do you want me to hang back with you, or go ahead and let some space build between us?"
As they prepare an ambush at the door, Trok climbs the mound, taking a position above the door, his Earthbreaker ready to smash down from above. When it becomes obvious nothing will come of that precaution, he comes around the door to the others. "Too narrow for two abreast, especially if we need to fight. Let me go first and if it becomes important I can try to move past their front man" You know from the training exercises that Trok CAN do what he's proposing, but you also know he's not that good at pulling it off.
Trok starts by identifying where the wagon had been before they drug it out of the way. Then he begins examining that area, looking for tracks where the attackers had come from and gone to. After (hopefully) identifying the tracks of those leaving, the cat will point them out so the others can avoid disturbing them. Then he will take some time looking over the wagon itself. Dice chuck: Doing several, in case.
The cat grunts. "So, they could have been after supplies, could have been simply harassing the supply line, or it could have just been an opportunity harassment and had nothing to do with the supplies at all. Or they could have been on a different mission entirely and were trying to prevent reports identifying their presence. Not much actually known, here. Guess it is about time to see what the tracks will tell us. This Daeran going to lead us back to the wagon?"
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