“Now how did I know you wouldn’t stick to the plan?” mutters Beldan as Gittik sneaks off for a little offensive recon, but he has to admit that the small warrior is good and quiet. Halflings get all the cool skill bonuses.
As Bel finishes loading his crossbow, theres comes another profanity laced yell from Granny, and the rogue looks up in time to see two of low-brow’s men fall to the ground with smoking holes in their heads.
“Damn. Swear to Pelor, I’m not taking any of her stuff. But don’t suppose she can take them all … I guess I better do this thing.”
Kneeling half concealed behind the wall, Beldan lines up Swertlow in his sights, adjust his aim slightly, and pulls the trigger.
"Char-garr!" Gittik's scimitar lashes out at the nearest grunt.
Upon hearing the noise, Becton starts to make a charge up the path towards the house. Crossbow is in hand for now.
Stiggy is hot on his heels.
"Goat te stoop drinkin'. <huff, huff> Goat te stoop drinkin'. <huff, huff> Goat te stoop drinkin'. "
Gittik's scimitar lashes out at the nearest grunt.
lol
For the Cleric Becton of Pelor: No climb check; double move gets you up to V17 if you want; run gets you as far as q14 if you want...
For Beldan: Swertlow hits the dirt. The quarrel is embedded in the outhouse. Much running about like chickens is there.
For Gittik: the scimitar slices twixt the ribgroove of the warrior, finds the spleen. He drops, a gouts of red pumping out of his side, then nought.
Stiggy: same move allowance as the cleric; pick a square.
Soon as I have fakey, ragadolf, and vatnisse declare their movements, as well as kruely and alex declare positions, init is as follows:
Granny on the thump gun,
17 Stiggy gettin wiggy withit
16 Riese with the nice
16 Beldan
16 Altai (prolly gonna whip up a beetle)
16 Gittik
15 Elgan
15 Harvak (if he wants in on this beatdown)
14 Becton
Then:
Swertlowe
The 1/2 Orc Apocalypto extra
The Tall dark and ranksome Zombie in black
The ever-ticking away mob of bandits
On those 16 and 15s not sure who wins; that's a lot of character sheets to compare dexes on.
On those 16 and 15s not sure who wins; that's a lot of character sheets to compare dexes on.
On those 16 and 15s not sure who wins; that's a lot of character sheets to compare dexes on.
Attack roll: 1d20+5=11 That's 13 if he charges.
His AC is 18, 16 if he charges.
Tenser stops at the ends of the road and barks like someone's trying to cut his balls off.
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Ok, what Moth said. I'll use that roll whenever my turn comes up.
Gittik drops a second warrior; they both moved up on him; the other one is at L17 now ready to attack at their round one go. Gittik's round one go is used.
Becton got to V15 on the surprise round, and can move andor attack on his round one go.
Stiggy charges the 1/2 orc in hide armor who has bitten his tongue with his filed down sharklike teeth and is oozing bloody foam out of his mouth. Stiggy's 1st round action takes him to p13. His axe slices mightily into the halforc's side. damage r9+4=13. The mighty halforc still stands, but he's seen much better days. That's Stiggy's round one goes.
Granny plugs two more of the warriors, at h7 and i8, who drop. She heads back into the door of her house, cursing up a storm. That's granny's round one go.
Everybody else, again one surprise round worth of movement, then a move and attack on your round one go, then it's their turn.
Beldan looks up from reloading his crossbow, to see that Gittik has downed two of the thugs, but that another seems to be gathering up the courage to charge at the halfling whilst the latter tries to extract his curved dagger from his opponent’s abdomen. Wincing slightly, the rogue fires his crossbow again.
Beldan drops the warrior at L13.
Stiggy's 1st round action takes him to p13. His axe slices mightily into the halforc's side. damage r9+
(still working)
Stiggy's 1st round action takes him to p13. His axe slices mightily into the halforc's side. damage r9+
(still working)
That's cool; you guys can roll your own damage; I didn't know if you were gone for the evening or whatnot.
Becton drops the warrior at L13.Ah, it's so much easier to understand my battlemaps when everyone has a character name starting with a different letter...
Shit. I mean Beldan. Duuh... Edited previously wrong post for accuracy.
Riese moves next to the fence and fires his crossbow at the closest warrior, missing.
1d20+3=4, 1d8=5
Reload and fire for the next, aiming for Swertlowe: missing again.1d20+3=9, 1d8=5
Riese moves next to the fence and fires his crossbow at the closest warrior, missing.
1d20+3=4, 1d8=5
Reload and fire for the next, aiming for Swertlowe: missing again.1d20+3=9, 1d8=5
Gittik and Beldan had scouted ahead, and got to attack in the surprise round, then again at the start of round 1.
Swertlowe's still talking crapola...
"Aaah, Reise,...ha ha! I'm lieing on the ground like a helpless little woodchuck and still you cannot manage to harm me. Why don't you allow me time to tie myself up and put on a blindfold?"
EDIT: I promise that everybody'll get to do a little somethin somethin; sorry fakey, I just get a little carried away trying to expedite stuff.
Still not a 100% certain of where I want to get to, but since I'm behind the rest of the pack, a couple of options:
If I can get a clear shot of this gang after moving withing range:
I'll take a shot at the Zombie guy with my crossbow.
Crossbow Shot (1d20+1=12)
Damage (1d8=1) if that hits.
Otherwise, I'll wait for everyone else to join in the fray, and then see where I am needed.
By the way, if a head count is possible - how many thugs, etc are we left facing after the last couple of shots?
Becton, your shot was dead-to-rights. It seems to glance off of him as if it hit armor of some sort at an unfortunate angle. You shoot from V15, if you want to you can move up to melee with him, or behind the dwarf if that's to your liking.
At this point, there's 4 common warrior thugs, Swertlowe(prone), the halforc maniac who's about to hit the dwarf with his 2-handed maqahuitl
(an aztec/olman club with shards of surgical-grade obsidian embedded in the business end), and the zombie who seems to be incanting some form of magical spell of some kind. He is, however, doing so "on the defensive" as it were.....
Huh? Sounds like the scouts found more than they bargained for. As the cursing and screaming begins up in the fog, Altai jumps off the wagon and sprints towards Granny's house, fumbling through his spell component pouch as he runs.
Elgan reappears from the edge of vision, his bow held ready, glaring at the crowd in general, and the undead abomination chanting in the back.
Elgan leaps forward with a feral snarl twisting his handsome features. It looks like he has tripped,... But in an eyeblink he shimmers, and has been replaced, gear and all, with a hunting cat. The beast never pauses, but dashes around the dwindling combatants, heading straight for the chanting undead.
Elgan's to hit/dmg rolls vs Zombie-caster: (1d20 3=21, 1d6 3=8)
Eltan drops the zombie with one fearsome ripping. Altai, you can put mage armor on round surprise, book up there round one, and at the beginning of round two you're popping the beetle. You're at q14, eltan's at p14 standing over the dead and no longer moving zombie.
Now their turn....
The halforc swings at the dwarf, the maqahuitl crashes heavily on the dwarf's shield but does not find meat for its obsidian fangs.
Swertlow fires a bolt at Gittik, and hits the oak tree to his right.
Then Swertlow stands up.
The warrior at m11 charges Gittik, and with a really horseshit swing of a longsword is at k17.
The warrior at n10 moves to p12 and takes a swipe at the dwarf, missing.
The warrior at L10 moves to o14 where the zombie was, and swings at the cajun druid with a longsword. He strikes for 7 in damage.
The warrior at k8 moves to o13, cannot attack this round.
A crossbow bolt is fired out of a window on the second-story of the house at Beldan. It is fired from a window at square a18. This crossbow bolt slaps into the wall, and ricochets straight up into the air. It arcs off down the hill a ways.
Nothing from Granny. On initiative group's go; I'm going sleepytime.
Eltan drops the zombie with one fearsome ripping. Altai, you can put mage armor on round surprise, book up there round one, and at the beginning of round two you're popping the beetle. You're at q14, eltan's at p14 standing over the dead and no longer moving zombie.
I got carried kinda away there too; sorry for people who felt unincluded and all.
Initiative repost!!!
17 Stiggy gettin wiggy withit
16 Riese with the nice
16 Beldan
16 Altai (prolly gonna whip up a beetle)
16 Gittik
15 Elgan
15 Harvak (if he wants in on this beatdown)
14 Becton
Then:
Swertlowe
The 1/2 Orc Apocalypto extra
The ever-ticking away mob of bandits
The mystery goombah in the second story window
I gotta go to sleep now.
The warrior at L10 moves to o14 where the zombie was, and swings at the cajun druid with a longsword. He strikes for 7 in damage.
Bel ducks for cover as a crossbow richochets with a ~zing~ of the stone wall beside him and arches up over his head.
“No fair! Who was that?” Beldan vaults over the low fence and dashes over to the house, around the corner from the offending window. Pressing himself close against the wall, he re-loads his crossbow, periodically looking around to make sure no-one is sneaking up on him.
Well back from the fight, Tenser lets out an ungodly howl.
"ArooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo!"
Gittik hacks down the guardsman in front of him, and then moves to loom (in a short way) over Swertlowe.
Okay...Gittik drops his combatant and rolls up on Swertlowe. Fakey can fire with only a 25% risk of hitting Gittik instead of 50%; Gittik's short. If Fakey fumbles, though, he hits Gittik.
The halforc also is dropped by the dwarf.
Beldan sees a window on the south side of the house, second story, that should be in the same room the shooter fired from. There's also a first story window underneath he could make; the drapes are dangling out the window like it's open or something.
waiting on Alex Martin, Vatnisse, and Fakey...
Riese loads and fires again but misses Swertlowe. 1d20+3=9, 1d8=2
Beldan sees a window on the south side of the house, second story, that should be in the same room the shooter fired from. There's also a first story window underneath he could make; the drapes are dangling out the window like it's open or something.
Huh! Forgive me; I'm kinda tired....okay, I got my brain wrapped around this one.....
The shooter originally fired from a window on the east wall, US second story, British first story. There's a window on the south wall, same story as that, and an open window on the south wall underneath that one, on the US first story or British ground floor.
Oh, and wrt helping Gittik,...I think Vatters was talking about whipping up a celestial giant fire beetle...just waiting for his confirm; don't know if he wants to help the guys at the gate, or Gittik the scything halfling of doom.
Huh! Forgive me; I'm kinda tired....okay, I got my brain wrapped around this one.....
The shooter originally fired from a window on the east wall, US second story, British first story. There's a window on the south wall, same story as that, and an open window on the south wall underneath that one, on the US first story or British ground floor.
Actually, I try to mix up "meters" and "feet," or "yards," just for shits and giggles, and I like to train my brain to think in other ways sometimes....just didn't think about the floors thing.