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"Ah, you bastard!" hisses Cadwyn. Ignoring the pain, he lashes out with both his weapons.
1d20+3
1d6+31d20+2
1d6+1
The rapier strike finds its mark deep into the Hellknight's left shoulder. The swing of the shortsword was not as accurate as Cadwyn pulled back his sword shy of the mark from the pain across his abdomen.
The Hellknight hisses, "I hope the Dark Prince has a particularly nasty fate picked out for you!" and swings his longsword at Cadwyn, landing his strike in nearly the same location the first swing hit.
Are these regular, human Hellknights?
Asking since the Negative Energy didn't hurt them, so that would imply Positive Energy could?
Or were they hurt by the Negative Energy? Which ones would be the most hurt in that case?
What weapons/armor are they using versus the sergeant?
"Guys", Valeron calls out, "we need to take out that sergeant fast, or get out of here!"
Damn, I was really hoping you wouldn't say that.
Guys - with a 16 Cha, this sergeant has up to 5d6 more damage to do to us! I'll need to see folks saves and actions before I can comment on what Val does next.
Will save:
"Aaargh!! I say we get out of here." He picks up his crossbow from the ground at his feet and moves towards the southwest passage to help Cadwyn.
Round 4 Action (with the new information I now have)
Will Save-
Morghrim (hopefully) shrugs off most of the negative energy, and instead of moving to the edge etc. moves into the sewage with a grimace, ending his move action at O3, threatening one Hellknight and their leader with his Glaive. He makes a mighty swing with his glaive from the sewage, hoping to cleave the sergeant in two.
Fort Save-
Jumping into the muck in order to reach the Hellknight, Morghrim brings his glaive around in an upward thrust very nearly splitting the lead Hellknight in half.
Round Four:
Addie glares at the Hellknight standing next to Morghrim . The air along the witch's sightline seems to shiver and strike the Hellknight in the face. A sense of forboding doubt creeps into the armored warrior's mind, momentarily filling him with a sense of dread.
Nearly blacking out from the pain, Cadwyn grimaces and regains his composure. With strength born of desperation, he lashes out wordlessly at his Hellknight opponent.
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Nearly blacking out from the pain, Cadwyn grimaces and regains his composure. With strength born of desperation, he lashes out wordlessly at his Hellknight opponent.
With a determined strike, Cadwyn drives his rapier through the Hellknight's throat, ending the threat.
Addie gives a hellknight such a look that the poor bastard is driven to distraction.
Not sure if Kev can change his action, now that the commander is down. If he can, he'll drop to the floor grab his crossbow and load it. If his movement has happened already, he'll stop at the entrance to passage SW and load and fire from his position of cover.
Valeron's jaw is slightly agape as he watches the dwarf's heroic leap into the sludge and his fatal blow delivered to the sergeant.
"Wow, that's faster than I expected!" he exclaims.
Seeing the shock on the remaining Hellknights faces, the Iomedan, inspired by Morghrim's deeds, boldly steps forward through the sewer current, swinging at one of the remaining adversaries.
Attack:
Damage:
Move action to Q3. I don't think any of the Hellknights can AOO now they all are holding crossbows. Attack vs Hellknight in R3.
Fort Save:
If they flee, or move, assuming I get an AOO on the Hellknights action, I'll try my best to use it for the one in R3. Here's that roll:
Attack:
Damage:
I should still be AC19 for 3 more rounds from Shield of Faith.
As a free action at the end of my round, I'll give them a chance to surrender.
"Last chance boys, I know they aren't paying you enough to die today. Put your weapons down." Valeron delivers this request almost pleadingly, as if to convince them they are about to waste their lives.
Diplomacy:
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Valeron bravely crosses the muck and marches into the middle of his adversaries, striking one in the leg with a swing of his sword.
Not caring all that much for such a thing, the knight takes the smallest step back and fires a crossbow bolt at Valeron, narrowly missing the cleric.
Another knight steps away and attempts to shoot the dwarf, Morghrim anticipated the Hellknight's move an lands a strike of his glaive on the Hellknight. In retaliation, the Hellknight fires the crossbow, sinking a bolt deep into the dwarf's shoulder
The final Hellknight, directly in front of the dwarf, drops his crossbow and lashes out with his sword, trimming a few whiskers off of the dwarf, but not taking any flesh.
Kev fires his crossbow at a Hellknight, the bolt sails wide missing its intended target.
Round Five:
Addie glares at the Hellknight that shot Morghrim . The air along the witch's sightline seems to shiver and strike the Hellknight in the face. A sense of forboding doubt creeps into the armored warrior's mind, momentarily filling him with a sense of dread.
Wart furiously loads the crossbow, attempting to get ready to shoot the thing, while taking a few steps backwards towards the NW exit.
- Full Round Action:Load Crossbow
- I am assuming that since this is a medium sized light crossbow, I treat it mechanically as a small sized heavy crossbow? If so, I am loading the whole round, if not, I aim to fire a shot at the Crossbow wielder in Q5.
- 5ft Step to {L10}
Round 5
The Dwarf does his best to ignore the pain of the crossbow bolt, and slowly but purposefully grabs the bolt, and wrenches it out of his chest, grinning at the Hellknight he struck.
Now you've REALLY started to PISS MORGHRIM OFF! he roars, as he swings his Glaive at the Hellknight in Q5.
You have ONE chance to flee, fools; before I cut ye bastards in half and piss on yer corpses!
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Wart fires the crossbow at one of the remaining Hellknights, narrowly missing as the bolt bounces off of the chamber wall.
Morghrim, obviously offended by the Hellknight that dared shoot him, attacks with a mighty thrust of his glaive, impaling the Hellknight. Blood pours out of the dying Hellknight's mouth as his lifeless form slumps over.
Addie glares at the Hellknight that shot at Valeron. The air along the witch's sightline seems to shiver and strike the Hellknight in the face. A sense of forboding doubt creeps into the armored warrior's mind, momentarily filling him with a sense of dread.
Cadwyn takes out the potion of cure light wounds given to him by Janiven as he staggers back towards the group. After quaffing the liquid, his stumble turns into a determined trot as he tries to reach the rest of the party before they leave without him.
Valeron shakes his head sadly, amazed that the Hellknights continued to press the attack without their sergeant.
Seeing the Hellknight has the best chance of escape, and seeing that he holds only a single unloaded crossbow in his hands, the Iomedan steps forward, swinging his shield low in an attempt to trip his adversary.
5ft step forward.
Trip Attack vs his CMD:
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Cadwyn chugs down a potion, and moves back toward the group.
Valeron's attempt to trip the Hellknight was unsucessful.
The Hellknight engaged with Valeron drops his crossbow, pulls his longsword, and swings at Valeron. The Hellknight's blow bounces harmlessly off of Valeron's shield.
The Hellknight other drops his crossbow, pulls his sword and swings, wildly missing Morghrim.
Reload and fire: ; damage
Wart reloads with as much speed as he can muster, and takes aim at the Hellknight next to Morghrim and fires.
Morghrim squints at his stubborn enemy, steps back further into the sewage, and begins to taunt him.
Heh, someone wasn't exactly top of fencing school eh? You've yet to score a hit on me, ya useless knight; yer a disgrace to the soldiers of Westcrown! If ye want me, come get me- dance in the sewage with Morghrim, ye fecking piker...
As Morghrim finishes his tirade, his Glaive sweeps out in a horizontal arc, aiming for a gap in the man's armour near the collarbone.
Actions-
5 foot step to N3
Move Action to taunt the Hellknight, while shifting his buckler away so he can strike unobstructed.
Standard action to strike with Glaive
Roll to confirm-
Damage if confirmed-
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Wart fires his borrowed crossbow at a Hellknight, but the bolt sails wide as Wart is still having difficulty adjusting to the size of the weapon.
As Morghrim steps back to line up an attack with his glaive, the Hellknight swings wildly at the dwarf, an attack easily dodged by Morghrim. The inquisitor then returns the favor of the attack with much more successful results, separating the Hellknight's helmed head from his body.
Round Six:
Addie draws her sling and a bullet from a pocket. Silently asking The Gentleman to grant his favor, she looses the projectile toward the Hellknight battling Valeron.
Attack:
Damage:
Valeron, Round 6
Valeron swings away with his longsword, hoping to finally end matters.
Attack:
Damage:
With a solid hit, he adds ".. told ya, you should have surrendered."
His wounds still not completely closed, Cadwyn hurries back to the group, trying to get in position to attack someone as soon as possible to end this confrontation. We have to get moving, he thinks, or we won't leave these sewers alive!
..but the strike feeblely bounces off of Valenar's armor.
Kev will reload and fire again.
Morghrim moves up behind Valeron, and makes a swing for the last Hellknight.
However, Morghrim can't find an easy path for his Glaive to strike without obstructing Valeron.
Valeron, seeing the knight faltering, but not seeing a way to tactically make the situation any better, without giving the man a decent chance to get away, swings his longsword again.
I'll be away until tomorrow morning, so here's my Round 7 rolls so as to not hold us up.
Attack:
Damage:
Looks like I missed, so hopefully the DWARF OF DOOM can finish him off!
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Wart reloads and fires the crossbow at the lone remaining Hellknight.
Attack: (modified for firing into meele)
Damage:
The bolt flies through the air, buzzing right past Valeron's ear and right into the forehead of the last Hellknight. The Hellknight then slumps to the ground as his blood oozes out along the floor.
Appraise checks:
Longswords
Light Crossbows
Scale Mail
Shields
Breastplate
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Appraise checks:
Longswords 1d20+5
Light Crossbows 1d20+5
Scale Mail 1d20+5
Shields 1d20+5
Breastplate 1d20+5
Kevorin after looking through the gathered weapons and armor had determined all of the item are of standard quality except for the sergeant's sword which he has determined is of masterwork quality.
Morghrim has eyes only for the breastplate armour, muttering that someone else can have the sword.
Appraise on breastplate-
Regardless of the result, Morghrim takes the time to don the breastplate armour, removing his scale mail.
I'd like to take the time to patch my wounds, but I fear that the time it will take will allow other Hellknights to find us. Can any of ye provide me with some assistance? I daresay I've earnt it... says the Dwarf, blood all over him; much of it his but even more his enemies.
Wart looks around, keeping a watch for anything coming out of the passageways, whilst picking his way over to some of the fallen Hellknights.
Acrobatics Check:
Wart pays particular interest to the crossbows held by the Hellknights and the other equipment.
Seeing the potions bandied about, Wart clears his throat,"Perhaps I may be of some assistance here? May I attempt to identify them for you?"
- Potion 1:
- Potion 2:
- Potion 3:
- Please remember, this is a class ability that allows me to identify them as if using Detect Magic, but using a Craft(Alchemy) Roll. It takes 1 standard action per identification.
Seeing to it that he tried his best checking the potions, Wart looks to whomever starts to search for the Eye symbol again, noting that the party came in through the southeast passage. .
Once the party is grouped up, Valeron calls everyone over, and channels the healing energies of Iomedae. They wash over the others, reinvigorating everyone and mending their wounds.
Masterwork Longsword... yoink!
Channel Energy - twice for good measure
First Channel:
Second Channel:
Everyone heals the above amount.
"Well I didn't expect to be squaring off with eight Hellknights when I woke up this morning," Valeron offers, as he checks the others for any long-term injuries.
"I guess on the bright side, we didn't leave any to run off and reveal who we are..."
He kicks about the helm of one of the Hellknights. "Anyone know which Order this is that we seem to have pissed off by meeting with Janiven?"
I'll also use Detect Magic on everything in the room, just to be extra sure we don't miss anything.
One roll I forgot before I head to bed.
Perception for Mark of Aroden.
Perception:
Thank ye laddie, my wounds are almost fully healed. Heh, i've not enjoyed a fight that much since crossing the border... Did you see what I did to their leader? Cut the big bastard in half, hehe...
Two checks- the first is Knowledge (Religion) about the Order they might belong to, the second is Perception to spot the Eye of Aroden.
+3 extra to this roll if Monster Lore applies
Cadwyn is mostly oddly silent during the exchange. When opportune, he politely suggests they move on.