"Let the vermin come to us, since darling Malize has found a source of something useful."
Ovid, given your 25 init, are you going to want to just stay down and hidden until baddies are inside the temple?
Ovid, given your 25 init, are you going to want to just stay down and hidden until baddies are inside the temple?
Init =
As the living come into thier awareness, the skeletons react like a well honed machine. The drow archers stop, nock, and fire at the two in the doorway.
Both arrows score as well, the barrel nearly, but not quite, deflecting the shot on Vernal.
The swordsmen advance, then, and shove at the two with thier shields.
Corpus avoids the attack on himself, but Vernal is struck and staggers back.
Corpus swings his axes at the skeleton's heads, one foe each (duel strike).
SS1, attack vs ac, , damage =
SS2, attack vs ac, , damage =
Corpus' Axes whistle in at the skeletons. Vernal's parries with his shield and Corpus' own foe dodges the attack.
"Terribly uppity, aren't they?" Vernal looks disgustedly at the arrow sticking out of him and loses concentration long enough for a skeleton to shovel him unceremoniously backwards.
"Terribly uppity, aren't they?" Vernal looks disgustedly at the arrow sticking out of him and loses concentration long enough for a skeleton to shovel him unceremoniously backwards.
"'Tis most unsporting, I say," Kevaras says.
Malize calls forth a ball of force to send against the undead.
Vernal advances on SS1 and stabs, twisting his knife and smiling.
"There are some who say that the pain isn't the knife at all. It's your own head. Let's find out."
The lifeless eyes of the skeleton do not show any pain even as the drow's power stabs into it. It does seem to stagger for a moment.
Kevoras can attack from G27 or J27 as well, though he and skeletons would get some cover from one another. Damage total updated.
Kevaras moves to F23 and with his standard action charges to G25 and uses Ardent Strike. At SS1, not Vernal.
Cha vs AC (+1 for charging, –2 for cover)
Damage (+2 from Malize's awesomeness)
If he hits, SS1 is subject to divine sanction until EONT.
He issues a divine challenge to SS2 with his minor action.
Kevoras charages into the battle and strikes the grimlock skeleton hard. The undead thing staggers, but does not fall.
The skeletal commander advances up behind his undead troops.
Santander darts forward to another pew, both to bring himself within range of the enemy, and to prevent any archer fire, then flames shoot out at Corpus' swordsman.
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The grimlock skeletons' old bones crackle and burn under those flames and the thing staggers but does not fall.
Ovid finally darts out from behind the pew and rushes towards the skeletons.
Even as the swordsman reels under the flame attack, Ovid darts in and finishes it and the grimlock dies for the second time.
However, the enemy is far from done. Again arrows arc in at Vernal and Corpus, though this time the dead drow archers advance after firing.
The shot against Vernal careens off the shield of the enemy swordsman and sticks into the barrel. However, the revenant is hit.
The swordsman is drawn to Kevoras by the power of the divine and it lashes out with it's shield once more.
The shield smashes the paladin back, and the skeleton advances.
And it's Kevaras with two A's, but not Kevaraas like it says on my headstone. :)
And it's Kevaras with two A's, but not Kevaraas like it says on my headstone. :)
Move to I26 and use duel strike first strike on B and the second on SC.
1st Attack vs AC, , damage =
2nd Attack vs AC, , damage =
Corpus is bloodied.
HP: 11/31
Surges: 11/12
AP: 1/1
Status: none
Move to I26 and use duel strike first strike on B and the second on SC.
1st Attack vs AC, 1d20+7, damage = 1d6+7+2
2nd Attack vs AC, 1d20+7, damage = 1d6+7+2Corpus is bloodied.
HP: 11/31
Surges: 11/12
AP: 1/1
Status: none
Ignoring his own wounds, Corpus steps into the doorway and attacks the skeletal commander. His axes bite deep into the undead creature and send bone fragments everywhere.
Malize stays where he is and throws a ball of force at the remaning swordsmans.
The force ball slams into other grimlock skeleton, vaporizing it, and the resulting energy heavily damages the commander.
Yes, B is the barrel and the space can be shared. Yes, Corpus is still bloodied.
Note that while undead, the archers are not stupid. As long as people nicely make them themselves targets, the archers will stand and shoot at them.
The temple is on top of a barren, rocky, hill.
Going out the window would require a str check to break it, and an acrobatics or athletics check to avoid being cut by glass. However, leaving the temple would negate your temple bonuses for this wave.
Do we get a concealment bonus for standing behind the barrel?
Vernal smiles blissfully at Corpus and his tougher, buffer brother feels the better for this beneficence.
"Let the vermin come to us. You're so tempting, Corpus."
No longer bloodied.
HP: 23/31
Surges: 10/12
AP: 1/1
Status: none
Going out the window would require a str check to break it, and an acrobatics or athletics check to avoid being cut by glass. However, leaving the temple would negate your temple bonuses for this wave.
I use my standard action to use Second Wind, then move four squares to H26. Minor action to heal Corpus with Lay on Hands and Corpus regains HP as if he had spent a healing surge. I spend an action point to Valorously Smite Commander Skeletor.
Cha vs AC for a critical (8, 8) + 4 + 2 = 22 damage.
And SC is subject to divine sanction until EONT.
SITREP
HP: 30/30
Surges: 8/12
Lay on Hands 1/2 (per day)
AP: 0
Status: none
Keveras not only channels the power to fully heal Corpus, but he slices the head off the commanders body and the bones fall to the ground.
Santander forfeits the cover of the pew and comes forward to provide covering fire, literally covering the skeleton archers in radiant glowing embers as well as surrounding them.
The burning embers fall from the sky, lighting the ground with flame and badly burning one of the archers.
"Useful as well as appealing. Do get out of the way before they decide you're a more tempting target than my brother."
Vernal nods approval of Santander's tactics.
Ovid steps behind Corpus and tosses a shuriken at the archers.
The shuriken flies past the head of one of the archers. The twin undead things fire again, and they target those that attacked them.
Arrows fly from within the fiery arc and both Ovid and Santander feel arrows thud into them. Then the archers emerge from the flames, gleaming short swords in hand, with wisps of smoke coming from thier bones.
Corpus uses duel strike again.
Attack on SA1, attack vs ac, , damage =
Attack on SA2, attack vs ac, , damage = .
Both axes slam into the remaining skeletons, but neither of them fall.
"Malize, sweeting. Can't you do something?" Vernal casts a languishing glance at his twin and watches her reaction in the reflective blade of his knife.