Dargrak shows up
Subject Takeing a stand
Surin, gasping for breath at the exertion, says to Ran "I be of no use to ye if ye' stay to fight. I'll ride off with the Lady and head us in the right direction." Surin runs on, slowing slightly as he covers that last few feet. As he passes Harp, he gasps out "Your cousin back yonder is none to pleased with us. Why don't you go teach him some manners". With that, Surin scrambles on his pony and looks around to decide which way Rochelle went.
OOC: Mark, will Surin be able to do a double move and also mount his pony this turn, or will he have to wait until next turn?
Harp sees the little halfing stumble by, breathing heavy, saying something about the 1/2 orc being a relative. He frowns at Surin, wondering how the little rouge could think that he and this beast were related. Harp looks up and sees Ran and Kal still running away from the 1/2 orc, but slowing down as they stop to turn and make their stand, only 20 or so feet away. Harp thinks to himself, this is what I was trained for. He moves up to be behind Kal, looks skyward, and calls upon the power of Heironious to grant this elf his protection (cast Protection from Evil).
OOC: Mark, this assumes that Kal and Ran have moved slightly from where they are and are within a normal move action from me (they are currently 40 feet - if I move 20, and they move 20, we should meet in the middle, still 20 feet from where the rest of the group is). If they do not move, I will do my 20 foot move and then take another shot with my crosss bow.
From: Mark
Subject Surin
Surin will not be able to mount this round. Next round he can.
However, since he is not running he will not take any more non-lethal damage.
From: Kevin
Subject out of town
OOC: Just FYI, I will be out of town Tuesday thru Friday, but should be able to check e-mails, though not as often - I know you are all crushed. I will continue to write for Surin until I hear otherwise, and Harp will continue to be his big, lovable self.
From: Karl
Subject spell
Salix will pray to Produce Flame and immediately cast the first flame at the brute. If he needs to and he can, he will move closer to the brute before casting.
From: Kevin
Subject Taking a stand
Mark, just realized that Kal is behind Harp in the initiative order. In that case, if my initial scenario is not possible (in some of the earlier write ups, you had Ran, Surin and Kal all together) Harp will take a 5 foot step toward the 1/2 orc, reload his crossbow, and take another shot at the 1/2 orc.
Sorry about that, too much to remember today.
From: Mark
Subject Harp
You can hold an action so that you have the same initiative as some one else. This is a permanant action, meaning that your initiative is now the same as the person you wanted to match.
From: Kevin
Subject Harp
OOC: Oh, OK, then I will do that, since I am already behind the 1/2 orc, it will not make much of a difference.
OK, so here are the two options - 1) Kal (and or Ran) move back within a normal move action of Harp. Harp will move up and cast a Protection from Evil on Kal, holding his action until Kal is in range.
2) If Kal and Ran do not move back, Harp will reload his crossbow and fire at the 1/2 orc. If this option happens, I do not want to hold my action.
Make sense?
From: Mark
Subject Harp
Actually your crossbow it loaded. You reloaded after you shot two rounds ago.
You can move and shoot or move and cast.
Either or.
From: Kevin
Subject Harp
OOC: If Kal is in touching range, I want to cast protection from evil. If I have to move 20 feet to do it, do so. If he is out of range (i.e. he does not move this turm), then I will move my normal 20 feet and fire the crossbow at the 1/2 orc. I will then drop the crossbow and pull my sword (those should both be free actions for me).
From: Mark
Subject Harp
Actuall the way the rules are written pulling the sword would be part of a move action.
So you could shoot the crossbow, drop it and advance 20 feet while pullling the sword.
From: Kevin
Subject Harp
OOC: If that is the way to get it all done, go ahead. Again, this is only if I cannot get within touch range of Kal.
From: Randy
Subject Taking a stand
Ran will follow Kals request and continue to retreat approximately 15 feet back. He will then turn and prepare to face the 1/2 orc in combat.
"Let us circle him when he gets near!" Ran calls out to his companions
From: Jason
Subject Cai
ooc As far as I can tell, Cai still doesn't really know what everyone else is planning on doing. She'll stick to shooting arrows until he closes with some of the figher types, at which point she'll summon her wolf to flank him (unless the half-orc tries to run past to the horses, in which case she'll try to block him with the wolf.) That'll probably happen this round, since Cai goes after him.
She wonders if they will stay to confront the brute, or if they will follow quickly after Rochelle. For now, she'll continue to fire as quickly as possible. If the other members of the party close with the orc, she will summon a wolf to aid them, trying to place it so that it will block the orcs path, if this is necessary, or flank it if he stops to fight.
From: Mark
Subject Feats
The fight comming up will be a serious test of the groups abilities.
If you have not taken a look at your character in a while please do so. There may be a feat that you have forgotten about that might help you. Things such as dodge, combat expertise, power attack, or any number of things. IF you have a feat you must mention it to me when you write up your turn.
For example if you have combat expertise you can take points off of you attack bonus and apply it to your AC. However you must tell me that you want to do this and how many points you want to move.
Or if you have the dodge feat you should tell me that you want to apply your dodge point to the 1/2 orc.
If you don't tell me then your character did not do it. :)
From: Derrell
Subject spell
When the beast is in range, Fal will cast his Grease spell in an attempt to get the enemy off its' feet.
From: Mark
Subject Dargrak shows up
Round 17 Initiative Surin 24, Fal 20, Bel 18, Ran 16 Dargrak 16, Harp 16, Cai 13, Kal 12, Rochelle 11, Eagles 6, Salix 4.
Almost completely out of breath Surin stumbles into where the horses are. He has never run so fast for so long. His chest is burning and it feels like he might vomit at any moment. He can barely see the other party members around him in the moonlight. Still gasping for air he looks for his pony and attempts to get into his saddle.
Bel nods at Ran's order and firs off one more shot. (AC9,5+6=11, hit, damage 3) The arrow hits Dargrak again but the ? orc barely seems to notice. Bel then moves to where Surin is and grabs him by the back of the neck, lifts him into the saddle on top of the pony. ?East!? he yells and turns to move towards his own horse, just a few feet away.
Ran decides that if they are going to give Rochelle some lead time they had better turn and fight before Dargrak gets to the horses. He shouts to his companions ? We need to give Rochelle time to get away. We stand and fight. Let's circle him when he gets near.? When he is about 20 feet from where the horses are he does what looks to be a complicated maneuver. He shifts his crossbow to his left hand and starts to turn. As he does so he draws his sword with his right hand and fires a bolt at the on rushing ? orc.(AC9, 8+5=13,hit, damage 4). The bolt seems not to slow the brute down, but it is obvious that all the missile fire has hurt Dargrak. He then tosses his crossbow to the side and faces the on rushing ? orc.
Dargrak, seeing more of a crowd and the form of Rochelle on a horse, continues to charge the party. He ignores the eagles, and as he runs past the each rake at his back with a talon. ( AOO moving out of a threatened square,AC 9, 3+3=6, miss, 11+3=14, hit, damage 4).
Fal, who had waited until Dargrak was in range. Taking a 5 foot step towards the brute, he grinds a bit of pork rind between his fingers and chants the words that can not be remembered. The ground in front of the ? orc glitters in the moonlight, the grease glinting in the moonlight.
Harp, hearing Ran say that they will make a stand, nods in grim satisfaction. He moves towards Dargrak firing his crossbow as he does.(AC9, 17+5=22, hit, damage 2) The bolt barely wounds the ? orc. Harp throws his crossbow to the ground and pulls his sword.
Cai hears Ran order the party to stand. She tosses her bow to the side and chants the prayer she had learned. A wolf appears a few feet away from Dargrak and attacks. It snaps at the ? but misses.(AC9, 4+3=7, miss) She too pulls her sword and advances, trying to flank the brute.
Kal pulls up just short of where Ran is. He thinks for a moment that he might try his caltrops He grabs his bag and tosses them out away from himself and between himself and Dargrak. He hopes no one else steps on them in the fight that is about to happen. He then pulls his rapier and faces the oncoming ? orc.
The two eagles fly to catch up with the brute and both rake at Dargrak's back.(AC9, 5+3=8, miss, 4+3=7, miss)
Salix touches the symbol on his armor again and chants the prayer to Obad-Hai that summons fire. A glowing ball of flame appears in his hand but does not burn it. He throws this at the ? orc. (AC9, 8+5=13, hit, damage 9) The ball of flames hits and burns flesh, searing a spot in the skin of Dargrak's chest.
OODM: OK I have included a map of every ones positions. Fal held an action so that Dargrak would be in range. He now has an initiative of 16, but he will go before Dargrak.
From: Mark
Subject map colors
I forgot to list what the colors are. The big green thing is the tree Harp was hiding around.
The small blue square is the grease spell and the small red square is the caltrops.
From: Josh
Subject Plan
Grease him right onto the caltrops Kal is dropping this turn. ;-)
From: Josh
Subject Map question
OOC: I'm not 100% clear on this map:
K = Kal
R = Ran
H = Harp
C = Cai
F = Fal
Sa = Salix
D = Dargrak
W = Wolf
E = Eagles?
SuB = ??
And which square is which? Red is caltrops blue is grease?
Thanks.