Male Undine Shamen 5 HP 35/38 | AC 20; Tch 13; FF 18 | F +5; R +5; W +12 | CMB+3; CMD 16 | Speed 20 ft/Swim 30/fly 60 | Init +2 | mwk longspear +3 (1d8-1/×3),+1 underwater light crossbow +6 (1d8+1/19-20) Perc +17
With both opponents on the ground Al flies to P16 and activate his Battle Spirit ability granting +1 bonus to attack and damage to allies in 30 ft for 3 rounds.
M Human Astrophysicist 10 / Linux Nerd 4 / Violinist 2 / Dramaturge 1
Jirelle jumps up in a flash and stabs at the woman who attacked her, but the woman's armor protects her from the attack.
Allanen flies overhead and activates an ability giving bonuses to attackk while Waki circles around to flank with Jirelle. Unfortunately, the woman, despite being distracted by the flank, is still able to dodge Waki's attack.
Arion charges the prone gargoyle, swinging his greatsword. Alas, even with the bonus from Allanen, he is just barely not able to penetrate the thick natural armor that the gargoyle has.
Ezren begins thinking that he might have left the firepit on back at his house, and maybe he should run back to check it.
The woman with the red hair, fully aware that she's been ambushed and that this is not a simple matter of collecting another Sarenite priest, begins to make a fighting retreat. She stabs at Jirelle with her dagger before stepping back...
Attack:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
...but Jirelle is able to parry the blow, and stabs the woman on the riposte, drawing blood. She takes a step back.
Note: I've indicated the area of the Silence spell with a blue circle. Those inside there can't hear anything, and no noise comes from anything inside that area.
M Human Astrophysicist 10 / Linux Nerd 4 / Violinist 2 / Dramaturge 1
Will Save:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
The red-haired woman is able to resist Necress' command.
The gargoyle stands up -- provoking an opportunity attack from Arion. Assuming it survives, it takes a five-foot step towards Jirelle and tries to grab her again -- provoking an opportunity attack from her.
Male LG Angel-Blooded Aasimar Holy Tactician Paladin/Warsighted Oracle 2/2- HP 29/29- AC 19/T:13/FF:16 - Perception: +5 - Fort: +9, Ref: +5 Will: +9 - CMB: +7, CMD 17 - Speed 20 ft. - Init. +0
Arion's sword whistles through the air as he tries to take advantage of the gargoyle rising to its feet. Without a moment's pause he swings the blade back around for a second strike.
Crunch:
Notes: (None)
Round 3 action: attack of opportunity
5' step to P15 to flank with Jirelle
attack gargoyle
Alternate Action Condition: if the AoO takes out the gargoyle
Alternate Action: Arion charges at the woman who is trying to retreat, and the last attack roll applies to her instead, with a charging bonus (and AC penalty) instead of a flanking bonus
Active Status effects: Shield, 7 rounds remaining
Divine favor, 9 rounds remaining
Battle Spirit, 3 rounds remaining
M Human Astrophysicist 10 / Linux Nerd 4 / Violinist 2 / Dramaturge 1
Arion's AoO hits, but does not crit. His regular attack does not hit, and Jirelle's AoO does not hit. Arion does a lot of damage, and it all goes through, but it will not take down the gargoyle.
I will post the full update when I have moves from everybody.
Male LG Angel-Blooded Aasimar Holy Tactician Paladin/Warsighted Oracle 2/2- HP 29/29- AC 19/T:13/FF:16 - Perception: +5 - Fort: +9, Ref: +5 Will: +9 - CMB: +7, CMD 17 - Speed 20 ft. - Init. +0
You've confused it a bit Allanen
Prone Condition:
The character is lying on the ground. A prone attacker has a –4 penalty on melee attack rolls and cannot use a ranged weapon (except for a crossbow). A prone defender gains a +4 bonus to Armor Class against ranged attacks, but takes a –4 penalty to AC against melee attacks.
M Human Astrophysicist 10 / Linux Nerd 4 / Violinist 2 / Dramaturge 1
Arion -- yeah, your AoO actually did crit it was against the gargoyle's prone AC. Your regular attack didn't hit. If you guys want to have further mechanical discussion, do it in Discussion.
Waki steps into attack, but his taunt is lost because of the Silence spell; he speaks, but he makes no sound.
The woman is able to dodge all three of his attacks.
Jirelle also moves forward, but the woman is able to dodge her attack as well.
Allanen -- how are you casting the spell? Frostbite has a verbal component, but you're in the radius of silence, so it won't work. Please give me an alternate action, and then I'll update what the woman does.
M Human Astrophysicist 10 / Linux Nerd 4 / Violinist 2 / Dramaturge 1
Yes, OK. You can cast the spell, and then circle around and descend to get behind her.
Note that because of Allanen's bonus, one of Waki's attacks (the off-hand one) actually did hit, doing a bit of damage to the woman.
Allanen casts a spell high in the air, and then circles around while descending to end up behind the woman. He touches her, and the chill overtakes her, draining her endurance and leaving her fatigued.
The woman takes a five-foot step to the side of Allanen, getting just outside of the radius of the silence spell. When she begins to hear again, she starts casting a spell defensively.
Concentration check:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Unfortunately for her, she isn't able to maintain concentration on the spell while keeping up her guard against Allanen.
Ideally, Waki would wait for the woman to fall, but since the spell has no sound nor visible component I do no see how he would know.
I do not believe she is flat-footed etc, so no sneaks on these.
Waki will step east under Allanen (assuming he is 5' up) and flurry on the woman.
M Human Astrophysicist 10 / Linux Nerd 4 / Violinist 2 / Dramaturge 1
Housekeeping:
I did forget to move Arion to A15.
Note that the woman will not fall until it's her turn, so she's not prone yet
Also, Allanen landed, so Waki can't step under him. I'll assume he steps to the side. I don't see how Allanen can step into a flank. However, he still hits her touch AC.
Waki steps closer to the woman and attacks, but fails to hit. Jirelle also finds that the armor of the gargoyle hovering above her is too thick, and she fails to find a gap. Arion steps in closer, but also isn't able to penetrate the gargoyle's natural armor. Allanen, however, reaches out and touches the woman, the cold of his hand draining her energy further so that she starts to look really tired.
The guys don't seem to like you guys....
On her turn, the woman falls over thanks to the command she received from Necress.
Prone, she tries to cast a spell defensively....
Concentration:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
This time successful, she casts a spell and targets Waki.
Waki: Make a DC13 Will save. If you fail, you are frigtened for 1d4 rounds and will run away from the woman. If you succeed, you are merely shaken for 1 round.
M Human Astrophysicist 10 / Linux Nerd 4 / Violinist 2 / Dramaturge 1
Will Save:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16
The prone woman now also finds herself deaf! This abduction is not going well for her. (Necress, how long will the deafness last?)
The gargoyle, also recognizing that things do not seem to be going his way, flies off, gaining about 20 feet of altitude and flying to the north. (He takes the Withdraw action, so does not provoke from Jirelle as he flies away.) As you watch, you see that he's got a fly speed of 80ft, so it will be very difficult to keep up with him... although following him, you might be able to figure out where he's going. I don't think even Allanen has the fly speed to catch up and take him out, but he may fly fast enough to get a destination.
I've moved the Gargoyle to the north edge of the map; he's actually quite a bit farther away than this, as where he is right now it's just one move action. So, he's another 80ft to the north of the edge of the map.
Male LG Angel-Blooded Aasimar Holy Tactician Paladin/Warsighted Oracle 2/2- HP 29/29- AC 19/T:13/FF:16 - Perception: +5 - Fort: +9, Ref: +5 Will: +9 - CMB: +7, CMD 17 - Speed 20 ft. - Init. +0
if each PC is the center of a 15' cube of threatened area and the gargoyle was on the ground level adjacent to two PCs, how does he move through 10' of threatened space without provoking; withdraw for the first 5' not withstanding?
M Human Astrophysicist 10 / Linux Nerd 4 / Violinist 2 / Dramaturge 1
Arion Duvamil wrote:
if each PC is the center of a 15' cube of threatened area and the gargoyle was on the ground level adjacent to two PCs, how does he move through 10' of threatened space without provoking; withdraw for the first 5' not withstanding?
Male Undine Shamen 5 HP 35/38 | AC 20; Tch 13; FF 18 | F +5; R +5; W +12 | CMB+3; CMD 16 | Speed 20 ft/Swim 30/fly 60 | Init +2 | mwk longspear +3 (1d8-1/×3),+1 underwater light crossbow +6 (1d8+1/19-20) Perc +17
Well, Jirelle posted about the same time I did and I totally missed it. Sorry for my delay.
Seeing the gargoyle retreating Al reaches out and tries to touch the woman one more time before taking to the air to follow the gargoyle.
Touch Attack on prone fatigued target:1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 6 + 1 = 161d6 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 5 + 1 = 10Again, this is non-lethal. His departure will provoke from the woman but she has prone and fatigue penalties to her attack.
Allanen has one trick if he thinks he will loose his quarry. After taking a full move following he can have his familiar, a hawk who normally travels with him, take a full move to close some distance. Its no my intend for the hawk to attack; only to follow.
Male LG Angel-Blooded Aasimar Holy Tactician Paladin/Warsighted Oracle 2/2- HP 29/29- AC 19/T:13/FF:16 - Perception: +5 - Fort: +9, Ref: +5 Will: +9 - CMB: +7, CMD 17 - Speed 20 ft. - Init. +0
With the gargoyle beyond his reach and the woman still fighting, Arion goes to wrestle her into submission. grapple, cmb, divine favor, battle spirit:1d20 + 7 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 7 + 1 + 2 = 27
M Human Astrophysicist 10 / Linux Nerd 4 / Violinist 2 / Dramaturge 1
Waki flees, frightened off by the woman's spell.
Ezren flees for no adequately explained reason.
Jirelle tries to skewer the woman, but despite being prone and fatigued, she just barely manages to roll out of the way. No such luck, however, when Arion barrels in, and he's easily able to get ahold of her.
Allanen pursues the fleeing gargoyle. Although the gargoyle will outpace him, between him and his hawk familiar he thinks he will be able to get an idea where the gargoyle is flying to.
At this point you have the woman grappled, and Allanen is following the gargoyle off. Let's go out of combat rounds; let me know what you do with the woman. Allanen will be back in a few rounds to report on where the gargoyle went. Waki will be back in a few rounds once he's no longer frightened. Arion, Jirelle, and Necress are present with the grappled woman.
Human Oracle 1 | HP 11/11 | AC 19; Tch 12; FF 17 | F +2; R +2; W +1 | CMB+1; CMD 13 | Speed 20 ft | Init +0 | Bone Club: +1 (1d6+1) | Perc +3 (deaf)
Necress removes a coil of rope from her pack, which she uses to secure the woman.
The oracle gives the woman a devious smile, having subjected the red-head to her magic without giving her any clue who was casting it, except for her creepy stare.
"She will not be able to hear us for another few minutes," the deaf oracle says. "Then you should be able to question her."
M Human Astrophysicist 10 / Linux Nerd 4 / Violinist 2 / Dramaturge 1
As you wait, eventually Waki comes back, and Allanen flies back. In between the flying Undine and his hawk familiar, he saw that the gargoyle flew off to the Shadow district, a district that remains shrouded in the dark of twilight even during the day. This district lies in the shadow of the massive Irespan, the ancient Thassilonian bridge that emerges from the edge of Magnimar and juts out over the ocean where it ends in ruins.
(For a picture of Magnimar showing the massive Irrespan, which dominates the skyline, see here.)
If you cannot get the information as to where the gargoyle was flying out of the captured woman, knowing the district might be enough for you to learn likely locations from Kasadei or other contacts you have. Indeed, as the combat ends and your wayward companions return, Kasadei and the others in the guard who were standing back return.
On the woman, you find masterwork studded leather, a buckler, a +1 dagger, a cloak of elvenkind, and a brass key that is in the shape of the holy symbol of Sarenrae.
female human cleric 7, HP 59/59, AC 21, T 11, FF 19, F +7, R +4, W +10, Init+0 Perc. +4
No apologies needed, Waki. You were overwhelmed by some kind of magic. We are just going to try to see what kind of information we can get from her. At least she won't be cutting the hearts out of any more priests or priestesses.....piece of filth! Jirelle spits as she talks about the captured murderer, barely controlling the urge to run her through with her rapier.
Tell us what we need to know! It might save you from the hangman...unfortunately...
Male Undine Shamen 5 HP 35/38 | AC 20; Tch 13; FF 18 | F +5; R +5; W +12 | CMB+3; CMD 16 | Speed 20 ft/Swim 30/fly 60 | Init +2 | mwk longspear +3 (1d8-1/×3),+1 underwater light crossbow +6 (1d8+1/19-20) Perc +17
Speaking to the others out of earshot from the woman Al offers I fear I am not very diplomatic or intimidating. But I have found that I can often tell when someone is lying. So I recommend my role to be to listen to what the woman says and attempt to discern the truth of her words.
Human Oracle 1 | HP 11/11 | AC 19; Tch 12; FF 17 | F +2; R +2; W +1 | CMB+1; CMD 13 | Speed 20 ft | Init +0 | Bone Club: +1 (1d6+1) | Perc +3 (deaf)
Necress moves quietly and stands in front of the woman.
"I suggest that you cooperate," she says. "I have shown you only a few of my tricks," she says. "I have more...death would be a kindness should you not tell us who you are working for."
