Mri'Thas: "Useless primates... " Sheng Zim: "Your existence brings the world out of balance. The chaos I bring shall revert it; unfortunately, your soul will be destroyed in the process."
-------------------------------------- Tuk Heavy Hands Apeldan: "Trolls are afraid to cats. Good to know" (Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult") Cnosos: "I bet there's plenty of wonderful devices in that ship. Let's scavenge them at once!" (Blackrat's "After Earth") Metliz: Sounds like fun! (Arkandus's "The First") Thok: "Thok eats a lot, Thok big. Thok not good at first impressions." (MnL's "Valley of the Dead")
ooc: Sorry, I wasn't aware it was my turn. I'm finding this combat really confusing for some reason. Anyway...
Leng attacks the other bloodied pirate, the one that Shen did not attack, using cleave. Hits AC 27 for 5 damage and an adjacent enemy takes 4 damage. If Shen's target is still alive, apply the 4 damage to it. Mark the pirate Leng hit, if it's still alive.
From inspiring word, Leng heals 9+4=13 hp, and should be full health unless I'm confused. Again.
Mri'Thas: "Useless primates... " Sheng Zim: "Your existence brings the world out of balance. The chaos I bring shall revert it; unfortunately, your soul will be destroyed in the process."
-------------------------------------- Tuk Heavy Hands Apeldan: "Trolls are afraid to cats. Good to know" (Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult") Cnosos: "I bet there's plenty of wonderful devices in that ship. Let's scavenge them at once!" (Blackrat's "After Earth") Metliz: Sounds like fun! (Arkandus's "The First") Thok: "Thok eats a lot, Thok big. Thok not good at first impressions." (MnL's "Valley of the Dead")
Master Jien 23
Shen: 20
Kaoru 15
Leng 14
Go Tao 12
Pirate 1 11 Dead
Pirate 2 6 Dead
Pirate 3 6 Dead
Pirate 4 5 Dead
Pirate 5 Bloodied (-15)
Pirate 6
Pirate 7
Pirate 8 (Cover)
Master Jien moves fast, placing himself between Lucky Leng and the thorny bush next to him. He lunches quick successions of jabs, the helpless bandit (2) tries to shield his face from the punches, and receives the hits in his abdomen. A line of blood starts to run from his mouth.
Shen Impales the already wounded pirate (3), his quiang slicing the man’s heart in two. The nasty fellow falls to the ground, quite dead.
Kaoru channels his chi, sending a pulse of energy to the incoming pirates. One of them (5) receives the ray straight on the chest. The man falls backwards on the others, but quickly stands up again.
Lucky uses his gundao, wielding it in a wide and deadly arc. The blade cuts the bandit in front of him (4), making him scream in pain, and then cuts the other bandit’s (2) throat.
Go Tao comes to the aid too, he steps over the recently killed bandit to deliver a last blow to the man Lucky has injured. The pirate spins in his place due to the hit, and falls on the dry sand.
The pirates from the boat, advance with quick steps up to where the group is; but one of them moves quickly by the shoreline, splashing in the water, he ducks under a thorny bush. The wield daos, not the short jians the defeated ones where using. They spin around, describing wide arcs with their curved blades, cutting Go Tao, Lucky Leng, and even the Nimble Master Jien.
OOC
Pirate 6 attacks Master Jien, but fails. Pirate 7 attacks Lucky Leng using cleave and hits for 2 damage, Master Jien receives 1 point of damage. Pirate 5 attacks Go Tao, hitting for 3 points of damage, Lucky receives 1 point of damage. Rolls
Pirate 8 double moves and gains great cover from Kaoru behind the thorny bush.
The updated map is up btw.
I’ll like from you to tell me your moves and position referring to the numbers and letters on the map, it’s easy for me to understand the place in the map you want to position your PC. Also I’ll like to know what confusions you may have with the combat. I basically post every action in the correct order, but maybe you have suggestions to improve the combats.
Ban Lu
The man looks at you with his good eye, and says, with bitterness. “We were not playing.” He grins and says nothing more.
OOC
Well this another skill encounter: You can use either diplomacy or insight to know what the pirate is hiding. You can also use bluff or any other skill you can justify IC to gain some bonus to your rolls. As before, post IC, make the roll and wait my answer. Luckily I will answer quickly ^^
Oh where’s my head? You must achieve 4 success or 2 failures.
Koryo
“Aye!” The captain exclaims, and turns again. The crewmen fall to the wet wooden floor, and many things fall off the board, but the cannon ball splashes in the water.
4/2 o.o
Z & W
The cave looks creepy. You take some steps into it, to see a natural tunnel entrance, and some rocks, pilled on a corner. There are spider webs everywhere, and sometimes it’s hard not to walk into one of them. There are some strange draws in one of the walls, made in black colors. Ziang can tell its dry blood. The pile of rocks has some bones, scattered among the rocks, mostly animal bones. Some of them have “not so dry” meat attached to them.
You peer into the tunnel, it seems to have a slight slope down. You can see no corner, it seems to keep going the same direction for a long stretch.
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Mri'Thas: "Useless primates... " Sheng Zim: "Your existence brings the world out of balance. The chaos I bring shall revert it; unfortunately, your soul will be destroyed in the process."
-------------------------------------- Tuk Heavy Hands Apeldan: "Trolls are afraid to cats. Good to know" (Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult") Cnosos: "I bet there's plenty of wonderful devices in that ship. Let's scavenge them at once!" (Blackrat's "After Earth") Metliz: Sounds like fun! (Arkandus's "The First") Thok: "Thok eats a lot, Thok big. Thok not good at first impressions." (MnL's "Valley of the Dead")
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Kaoru, surprised by the tenacity of the stricken pirate, tries again, realizing that he has to reduce the number of the foes. The chi focuses in his hand, and it slowly turns green. Startled, he realizes that the madness is starting to gather again, as he hears mental whispers. The ray shoots out of his fingers, pointing at the standing pirate, but misses him narrowly. Grimacing, Kaoru tries to ignore the mental messages from unfathomable entities.
Ban Lu crosses his arms and fixes the mutineer with his best stare. The one that always broke his student's will. As he tries to weaken the man's resolve he considers carefully what might have been the man's purpose. Better first to carefully consider things before speaking and giving away his own ignorance.
“HA! Ye salty searat! Ye know nothin’ of sight loose.” The captain points at his eye patch. “Unfold the main sail again!” the captain shouts right on time. The cannon ball passes whistling above your heads.
5/2 uhhh diciding roll! OOC: That’s the charm of the dices isn’t it?
Ban Lu
The man shifts uncomfortably in his chair. “Stop lookin’ at me like that!” he cries out loud, nervous.
You think this man was working with the others, planning something. Maybe the captain’s decision of sailing to Singing Island wasn’t part of these men plans and they decided to kill him for good.
You’ll have a +2 in your diplomacy check in this round.
1/0
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Mri'Thas: "Useless primates... " Sheng Zim: "Your existence brings the world out of balance. The chaos I bring shall revert it; unfortunately, your soul will be destroyed in the process."
-------------------------------------- Tuk Heavy Hands Apeldan: "Trolls are afraid to cats. Good to know" (Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult") Cnosos: "I bet there's plenty of wonderful devices in that ship. Let's scavenge them at once!" (Blackrat's "After Earth") Metliz: Sounds like fun! (Arkandus's "The First") Thok: "Thok eats a lot, Thok big. Thok not good at first impressions." (MnL's "Valley of the Dead")
Phew! Well now... That... that... Oh, well that one is definitely out of target... Says Koryo, relieved. The ship is now clse to the shore and he gets ready for battle, securing his leather protections, trying the handle of his dao in the grip of his hands, and finally warming his hands with the relaxing exercise known as the Nine Cutting Fingers...
Perception 19 OH, YES! it is called charm when you succeed, indeed !!
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“That’s good, now we are on they tail…” the captain narrows his eye, and he quickly maneuvers the ship, to turn from the shore. The “merchant” ship is now in collision trajectory with the pirates ship, and under the risk of it’s cannons. “We’r severing tha’ ship in two men! Praise to the gods, fer this be a great battle!” Upon your quizzically look, the captain explains. “Ye see, the front keel of this ship is made of solid iron, covered with wood. Ye don’t know how funny is this going to be! Ha Ha!” The pirates ship gets in motion, trying to avoid the collision. They sail next to the shore, hoping the more heavy merchant ship to run aground. Unfortunately for them, they run aground, and the captian is able to easy hit their ship.
The wood crushes under the pressure of the iron Keel, sending showers of spindles everywhere. The deck shakes like if there was an earthquake and you were in the middle of it. Chaos everywhere, shouts of pain, salty water covering everything….
By the time you got yourself together, the merchant ship has ram through the pirates smaller ship, severing it in two parts, until the captains vessel ran aground too.
“To the weapons! To the fight!” The captain shouts, running through the deck and jumping from the board, followed by the crewmen. You ran and jumped too, unsure of how strange it would be to fight in the water.
Combat!!
The good guys moves first and have a surprise round. Koryo begins the onslaught.
Beeing covered with water, almost up to the chest, hampers movement. You can move only two squares per move action.
Initiative order:
Koryo
Captian
Sailor1
Sailor2
Sailor3
Sailor4
Pirate1
Pirate2
Pirate3
Pirate4
Pirate5
Pirate6
Pirate7
Pirate8
Pirate9
Pirate10
Pirate11
The map is here under “maps” sblock
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Mri'Thas: "Useless primates... " Sheng Zim: "Your existence brings the world out of balance. The chaos I bring shall revert it; unfortunately, your soul will be destroyed in the process."
-------------------------------------- Tuk Heavy Hands Apeldan: "Trolls are afraid to cats. Good to know" (Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult") Cnosos: "I bet there's plenty of wonderful devices in that ship. Let's scavenge them at once!" (Blackrat's "After Earth") Metliz: Sounds like fun! (Arkandus's "The First") Thok: "Thok eats a lot, Thok big. Thok not good at first impressions." (MnL's "Valley of the Dead")
ooc:it's a surprise round so i'm only entitled to one action right?
Koryo quickly assesses the situation and takes the chance to attack the nearest, still confused enemy. But he aims to knock him unconscious, not kill him.
He jumps out of the water, reaching him, and in a fluid motion he unsheates his dao, swinging it in a deadly arc. (charge vs 5, 16 vs AC, 9 dmg, non-lethal damage)
ministats
Koryo, human ranger 1
Init:+5 Speed:6 Insight:13 Perception:20
AC:15 For:17 Ref:15 Will:14
Hp:34/34 Surge:8 Surges/d:7/7
Basic/opportunity attack: scimitar +7,1d8+4 dmg
Powers: Twin strike, hit and run, careful attack Two-fanged strike, Unbalancing parry, Channel Chi Jaws of the wolf
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OOC: I'm at work now (Should be working right? :P) so I just post a comment: Remeber to state at which square do you move (leter and number) and which enemy you attack and whit what power. In this case you can only attack one enemy, it's just to let you know for future encounters.
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Mri'Thas: "Useless primates... " Sheng Zim: "Your existence brings the world out of balance. The chaos I bring shall revert it; unfortunately, your soul will be destroyed in the process."
-------------------------------------- Tuk Heavy Hands Apeldan: "Trolls are afraid to cats. Good to know" (Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult") Cnosos: "I bet there's plenty of wonderful devices in that ship. Let's scavenge them at once!" (Blackrat's "After Earth") Metliz: Sounds like fun! (Arkandus's "The First") Thok: "Thok eats a lot, Thok big. Thok not good at first impressions." (MnL's "Valley of the Dead")
The young soldier draws his sword, and holding the torch high,leads the way cautiously into the tunnel. He speaks softly as he goes. "ZIang, why did that bandit say you had 'proven yourself' to him?"
"I'm not sure. Perhaps because I was willing to fight the demon. Maybe they said to them that I were an unhonorable assassin. But I'm a scholar and it was only a mistake!" Ziang says following Wang.
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New image in the RG thread.
Mini stat block
Ziang Yu Perception: 17 Insight: 14 Normal Vision AC 18 Fortitude 15 Reflex 16 Will 14 Hit Points: 31 / 31 Bloodied: 15 Temporary Hit Points: 0 Action Points: 0 Second Wind: 1 Healing Surge: 7 Surges per day: 9 / 9 Encounter Powers: Healing Infusion (Restorative Formular, Curative Admixture) 2/2, Repair Object, Spike Wire Daily Powers: Caustic Rampart, Restoratve Infusion
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"The kind of mistake that incudes a man exploding on his chair... I voted for a test first. Never rush a man of science work." Ziang says smiling back as he retrieves his crossbow.
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New image in the RG thread.
Mini stat block
Ziang Yu Perception: 17 Insight: 14 Normal Vision AC 18 Fortitude 15 Reflex 16 Will 14 Hit Points: 31 / 31 Bloodied: 15 Temporary Hit Points: 0 Action Points: 0 Second Wind: 1 Healing Surge: 7 Surges per day: 9 / 9 Encounter Powers: Healing Infusion (Restorative Formular, Curative Admixture) 2/2, Repair Object, Spike Wire Daily Powers: Caustic Rampart, Restoratve Infusion
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Shen eyes the battle closely, these men were better trained and armed. He turns and studies the man on the shoreline momentarily..... that was his target. Shen walks toward the man, his sword sitting easily in his hand. He sits his feet firmly in the sand, ready for the forthcoming battle.
ooc: Shen will move to d9, hopefully attracting the attention of 8. He will use total defense until he is engaged. +2 to all defenses.
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Shorrin- Male Dragonborn Fighter 1
Passive Perception: 11, Passive Insight: 11
AC:20, Fort:16, Ref:13, Will:11 -- Speed:5
HP:33, Bloodied:16, Surge Value:12, Surges Per-Day 13
Initiative +1
Action Points: 1, Second Wind: not used
Powers: Reaping Strike, Tide of Iron, Spinning Sweep,Dragon Breath, Villian's Menace
Leng gives a whoop of excitement. To be fighting alongside Master Jien in defense of their home, fills his heart almost to bursting with pride. His pride is reduced, however, when his careless swing hits only sand.
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