I'm really loving Manfred. I hope to see him continue for quite some time. I can't wait to see him kicking ass as a fearless paladin but, until that day, hahahahhahah.
The false priest whispers a hateful sounding utterance in a language the learning of which would corrupt young Manfred.
"Hunh! There'll be enuff o' that!" Orlan growls, lowering his head and charging straight into the chanting priest.
Orlan's overrun attempt... (1d20+7 = 27)...with natural 20 to hit!
Overrun
As a standard action taken during your move, or as part of a charge, you can attempt to overrun your target, moving through its square. You can only overrun an opponent who is one size category larger than you or smaller. If you do not have the Improved Overrun feat, or a similar ability, initiating an overrun provokes an attack of opportunity from the target of your maneuver.
When you attempt to overrun a target, it can choose to avoid you, allowing you to pass through its square without requiring an attack. If your target does not avoid you, make a combat maneuver attack roll as normal. If your attack is successful, you move through the target’s space. If your attack exceeds the DC by 5 or more, you move through the target’s space and the target is knocked prone. If the target has more than two legs, add +2 to the DC of the combat maneuver attack roll for each additional leg it has.
You are skilled at running down your foes.
Prerequisite: Str 13.
Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when performing an overrun combat maneuver. In addition, you receive a +2 bonus on checks made to overrrun a foe.
Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when performing an overrun combat maneuver.
Prerequisites
Str 13, Power Attack.
Benefit
When you attempt to overrun an opponent, the target may not choose to avoid you. You also gain a +4 bonus on your Strength check to knock down your opponent.
Normal
Without this feat, the target of an overrun can choose to avoid you or to block you.
Special
A fighter may select Improved Overrun as one of his fighter bonus feats.
The priest leaps to the side rather than attempting to escape now that Manfred is distracted and he sees an opening.
Falcon grabs the dagger wielding priest.
"By the various gods man! Just accept you are beat and give up! You can either stop and we can talk to you or I can personally make sure you are ended! It's up to you!" She tells the 'priest' certainly, a fierce glow in her eyes. Giving an annoyed sound she fires a ray of fire at the ground near the man to punctuate her point.
The priest attempts to break Falcon's grip but fails. This last possibility exhausted, he drops his dagger and glares angrily at Yin and Orlan.
Yin gives a small sigh of relief before looking off in the direction Manfred fled in "I'm going to make sure Manny doesn't hurt himself, I'll be right back." She promises the others, giving Falcon a tiny thankful smile before running off after the knight to make sure he's alright and that the fearful enchantment on him fades.
Yin gives a small sigh of relief before looking off in the direction Manfred fled in "I'm going to make sure Manny doesn't hurt himself, I'll be right back." She promises the others, giving Falcon a tiny thankful smile before running off after the knight to make sure he's alright and that the fearful enchantment on him fades.
Orlan picks his way back through the crowd after missing the dangerous priest, his jaw tightly set in a grumpy mood.
"Hunh!" he mutters, calling after Yin as she chases down Manfred, "And what be all this ruckus about in the first place?"
He looks at Falcon and then back down the street at his newly purchased goods. "Hey! Yuh be gettin' away from that!" he yells at anyone eyeing or reaching for the stuff. His feet carry him back that way, muttering and grumbling words and partial phrases with every step:
"Paid good coin fer that..."
"Half-crazy witch-woman chasin' ever'body..."
"Can hardly keep up with legs short as mine..."
"Dang kid scared off again..."
"Fool priest oughta know better'n ta mess with us..."
"Nobody better've messed with muh stuff either or I'll..."
"Gimme that!"
Orlan proceeds to gather all of his purchases again, balancing them one atop the other in an encumbrance-defying display. He then carries his things back to Falcon so he can rejoin Manfred and Yin to discuss the captive priest.
"So what be the meanin' o' all this?" he demands, "Why're yuh all interested in apprehendin' this fella?"
From the crowd, Orlan hears, "Is she dead? One of them killed Abotha!"
The priest remains silent.
From the crowd, Orlan hears, "Is she dead? One of them killed Abotha!"
"Hunh!" Orlan grumpily exhales, "The lass should be far from dead." He wanders back to check on the woman.
Trembling and close to weeping with the shame of it, Sir Manfred pulls up and tries to get a hold of himself.
When Yin comes up behind him, he waves his arm at her. "NO! No, I am all right. Just let me catch my breath here. Go back and deal with your... whoever that is."
From the crowd, Orlan hears, "Is she dead? One of them killed Abotha!""Hunh!" Orlan grumpily exhales, "The lass should be far from dead." He wanders back to check on the woman.
Shaking her head a little Yin throws her arms around Manfred and hugs him tightly. "You have nothing to be ashamed of Manny, it was a spell these things are often impossible to avoid" She whispers certainly before giving him a swift kiss on his cheek. Smiling warmly up at the knight she turns and scampers off, running back to help secure and interrogate the 'priest'.
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"Hunh! See?" Orlan calls out to the crowd, "Saved by the grace o' Torag, mightiest protector o' them all! Not even that miscreant could do her harm."
"And just who the hell is that fella anyway?" he bellows, "Yin? Or you there...Fal-Falcon? That yer name, son? What's this fella done...aside from tryin' ta murder a defenseless woman ta make good on his escape? Sure'n I'll be beatin' the bloody hell out o' him if'n he be tryin' somethin' like that again."
He glares angrily at the captive priest to add some steely fire to his words...likely the only warning the man will ever receive from the belligerent dwarf. Once he has his answer, Orlan ministers once more to the hapless young woman on the ground. With another murmured prayer to Torag, he places his hand on her forehead to heal the worst of her wounds.
The priest remains silent.
Orlan bends over the middle-aged Shoanti woman ... an innocent bystander in today's events. The woman's breathing quickens. Her face looks serious and then radiates with warmth and then looks serious again. Her eyes flutter open.
She looks up at Orlan and whispers in awe, "I saw a hammer!".
The crowd breathes a sigh of relief and the few guards that have pushed their way through the crowd ask Orlan, "Is she going to be okay, now?".
"He's not talking," says Falcon, "I'd rather not bring him to my father until he does. ... My father can be ... ummm ... rather persuasive."
Returning to the group Yin pauses and looks at the priest. "You can either talk to us, give us your point of view, or we can search through that bag of yours and I can translate all of your notes and we can draw our own conclusions from them. Which will be far worse thean the truth I'm sure" She tells him with a small weak smile.
The crowd breathes a sigh of relief and the few guards that have pushed their way through the crowd ask Orlan, "Is she going to be okay, now?".
"O'course she'll be okay," Orlan smiles, his demeanor obviously lightened by the miracle of his god, "Torag has reforged her spirit and her body." He glances back at the captive priest. "In the fires of his celestial forge, evil has been undone."
The priest remains silent.
The crowd gets restless and begins to threaten the priest.
The priest remains silent....The crowd gets restless and begins to threaten the priest.
"You there," Orlan huffs at the silent priest, "Yuh got a name?" When he doesn't answer, the dwarf storms closer, glaring at him.
"Don't play deaf with me, boy," he threatens, "Or I can just as easily beat yer head in until yuh are." He gestures back at the angry crowd. "Yuh see these folks?" he says, "They don't take kindly to yer tactics in murderin' a helpless woman ta make yer escape. Can't say as I don't feel the same."
He then grabs a fistful of the man's tabard and yanks him down, despite Falcon's hold, so he's on eye level with him.
"Now yuh can be talkin' ta us and we'll be escortin' yuh ta Lord Kerrigan fer a civilized audience," he states, "Or yuh can be talkin' ta them..." He gestures over his shoulder at the crowd, "I don't think yuh'll be livin' long enough ta get very many words out, though. Not 'fore they string yuh up with a rope somewhere."
He pauses with his beard bristling close enough to almost brush the priest's tabard. "So what's it gonna be?" he threatens, "Yuh wanna stick with the silent crap and test muh patience any further? 'Cause if you wanna match might with a follower o' Torag, yuh better be knowin' full well the Lord Protector ain't gonna stand fer any more o' yer nonsense."
The crowd, in full agreement with Lord Orlan, begins to crowd in around the man.
The man begins to mutter quietly.
The crowd, in full agreement with Lord Orlan, begins to crowd in around the man....The man begins to mutter quietly.
"What's that?" Orlan jabs the priest with a stubby finger to get his attention, "Yuh better speak up 'fore the crowd gets loud enough I can't hear yuh, boy! You better be knowin' if I walk away from here, yuh got no chance left. But yuh talk and we turn yuh over ta Kerrigan, maybe yuh live another day. It's yer choice."
The mumbling is in infernal. Orlan notices the man is reaching into his sleeve and grasping an object.
Dozens of men, women, and children have surrounded the two of you.
Lord Orlan recognizes from his experience with the evil cleric that followed the vampire Azubal that this cleric is about to unleash a wave of negative energy that will quite likely kill most of the children as well as many of the adults who have gathered around.
The evil spell having subsided, Sir Manfred feels well enough to straighten up and start walking back to where the crowd has gathered around the suspect. The shame of having fled yet again still burns across his face.
Lord Orlan recognizes from his experience with the evil cleric that followed the vampire Azubal that this cleric is about to unleash a wave of negative energy that will quite likely kill most of the children as well as many of the adults who have gathered around.
For DM:
Spoiler:
For DM:
Orlan:
Great minds think alike.
I'd decided to give you two choices:
(1) A 'sunder' attempt using the object's hardness. You haven't seen the object yet -- he will need to present it to discharge the electricity though.
(2) The other possibility would be a 'ranged disarm'. This would not involve overcoming the object's hardness.
These both feel really weird as ranged attacks without changing the rules a bit. They are more powerful as the attack of opportunity wouldn't necessarily be provoked. I will be using a dex-based CMB for either of these. You are using a ranged attack, so your strength bonus should not apply to your combat maneuver but your dex should. Likewise, his dex would apply as it affects his ability to move the object out of the way.
Or, you could change your plans and try to sunder his holy symbol using your hammer.
Or, something else.
Anyhow, here goes ...
The evil priest breaks free from Falcon's grasp, pulling a five pointed red star from his sleeve. As he does so he shouts: "Asmodeus ejepes upit eperta". A ball of flaming red mist begins to gather around his hand.
Yin moves to comfort Manfred but then hears the call to Asmodeus, her heart catching in her throat as she suddenly remembers the priest in the spires who she'd ended for fear he's do what this priest is about to. Praying the others won't hate her for her actions she casts a spell out of fear for the lives of the people around the priest.
The evil priest breaks free from Falcon's grasp, pulling a five pointed red star from his sleeve. As he does so he shouts: "Asmodeus ejepes upit eperta". A ball of flaming red mist begins to gather around his hand.
Orlan snarls angrily as he sees the priest's duplicity, as well as the infernal source of his power. Once the five-pointed red star makes an appearance, he reflexively gestures with his own hand. A ball of smoky green mist forms as well, and Orlan quickly hurls it straight at the symbol of Asmodeus.
Sir Manfred sees the crowd surrounding Falcon, Lord Orlan and the suspect grow unruly, so he starts making his way towards the middle.
"Excuse me, pardon me, make way, coming through..."
Orlan:
Falcon attempts to grab the priest again but fails.
Manfred recovers from the spell and begins to move back towards Orlan, Falcon, the priest, and Yin.
Yin decides that fire is a girl's best friend and hopes her friends won't hate her for this.
The priest stumbles a bit as he is hit by Yin's blast of flame but unleashes a wave of negative energy throughout the crowd.
All around you, men, women, and children scream. The lucky ones stumble back. More than half of them fall to the ground.
Rulecheck:
The priest laughs in triumph and makes an attempt to run.
Sir Manfred is stunned for a moment at the horror of the negative energy burst. Enraged he lunges forward at the man who turned a chase into a mass murder.
Sir Manfred is stunned for a moment at the horror of the negative energy burst. Enraged he lunges forward at the man who turned a chase into a mass murder.
Falcon swings one of his huge fists at the man but it whistles by his ear.
Then, the rogue priest slips to the right and dodges the wrathful Sir Manfred.
Falcon swings one of his huge fists at the man but it whistles by his ear....Then, the rogue priest slips to the right and dodges the wrathful Sir Manfred.
Giving an annoyed and upset sound Yin thanked Nethys she'd prepared a second Scorching Ray today and fired another at the priest, determined to stop him one way or another.
Giving an annoyed and upset sound Yin thanked Nethys she'd prepared a second Scorching Ray today and fired another at the priest, determined to stop him one way or another.
And with that, the nasty little bugger, is brought to ground. He collapses not very far from many of his victims.
The ground around you is littered with bodies. The ones who are moaning are the lucky ones. A lot of the bodies are lying still and breathing shallowly. The negative energy that brought them down may be the death of them yet.
There are a handfull of spells/effects that can be cast on someone elses turn; I forget what the D&D term for it is, but it's just like the old Magic the Gathering Interrupt mechanic. I would figure those might qualify for an attack of opportunity by a generous DM. But strictly speaking I agree: it's for melee only.
"What in the world happened?!?!" said Kornelius shocked.
"Manny!" "What are you doing here!?!"
"And who the stars are you?" said Kornelius pointing at Yin.
"Do you know Manny through business?" said Kornelius still pointing at Yin.