Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult" (IC) 2

I'm here as well

Deuce Traveler said:

Nobody nose.

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...The trouble with his seed.

Nobody nose his (wheel-)barrow

The blade of Roderic's longsword catches the nearest zombie underneath its jaw, and the strength of the paladin's muscles ensures the upward path of his weapon continues unceasingly until it cleaves through the creature's brainpan. Without even a moan, the zombie collapses in front of him. Rosalia has a close call, however, as the zombie critically wounded by Tuk's chain stumbles towards her. Before it can slam a fist into her side, it steps on several more caltrops and begins to stumble. The stumble turns into an outright catastrophe for it, as it strikes its knees hard onto the ground, followed by a flop onto its chest. The brittleness from its age and condition results in an absolute disassembling of its body. Pieces of it twitch twice, and then it lays still.

A crossbow bolt is fired from the darkness at Rosalia, however the nimble rogue slips to one side as she hears the twang of the crossbow, and makes its avoidance seem easy. The creature swears in a small, yipping voice that Rosalia recognizes to be a kobold dialect.

The two remaining zombies attack next, one against Tuk and another against Roderic. The one striking Tuk just barely hits the fighter with a glancing blow, which the man is able to shake, although it causes Tuk to hit back with an attack of opportunity. (I believe since the zombie has to close with Tuk, and Tuk's weapon has a increment range of 1 square, the zombie causes Tuk to attack with an AOO. If Tuk hits and kills the zombie, he can ignore the 3hps of damage. If he misses, the zombie's strike does three hps of damage. If I am wrong about this let me know.)

The second zombie absolutely shocks Roderic with a savage side punch to his head which would have made a championship boxer proud. The blow strikes with critical savagery, dropping Roderic to near unconsciousness and opening a gushing wound along his head. The paladin is down and any attempt to move or defend himself would cause him to start bleeding out. The zombie stands over the fallen paladin, teeth bared and ready to feed upon his victim.

Three more crossbow bolts are fired, one at John, one at Grok, and one at Scrag. The first barely misses John and the conjurer can feel the wind from the passing bolt go by. The kobold firing at Grok misses so badly that the half-orc didn't even realize he was targeted. A final bolt was fired well enough to strike Scrag if he had been standing still, but the troll is so happily slaughtering his enemies in battle that he makes a difficult, quickly moving target.

OOC: Roderic is going to need some clerical healing before that zombie chomps into him. Unfortunately for him he will have to wait a bit, for the next turn belongs to the conjurer. John is up!

M1 20 (missed John)
M2 16 (missed Grok)
M3 15 (missed Scrag)
John 13
-2 M4 13
Rosalia 12
-3? (maybe) Tuk 10
-8 Grok 10
-4 Scrag 10
M5 9
-12 Roderic 7 (Killed a zombie, but a second one drops Roderic down to 0 hps)
M6 7 (misses Rosalia)
-2 Z11 1 (caltrops, -1 each round, scored hit vs Tuk for 3 total hps of damage)
-2 Z12 1 (caltrops, -1 each round, scored critical hit vs Roderic for 12 total hps of damage)
Dead Z8 1 (killed by Scrag/John)
Dead Z10 1 (killed by Scrag/John)
Dead Z7 1 (Killed by Tuk/John)
Dead Z9 1 (Killed by Roderic/John)

OOC: Our first IC post in five months! I am taking over DM duties while MasqueradingVampire is retaking over Scrag again (probably). MV is the new handle of Scrag's original creator, crazy_monkey1956.

Tuk

The warrior is quick to react at the approaching zombie. He grins at his superior tactical prowess while lashing at the stupid undead with his barbed chain. The weapon loops around the walking corpse and what's left is to pull. And Tuk loves pulling. A disgusting noise follows the brutal pull.

AoO: 19 to hit, 6 damage, damn, two 1 on the damage roll.

Tuk's attack critically wounds the zombie, but does not stop it as it strikes him.

OOC: Tuk didn't fell the zombie, so he still takes 3 hps of damage, though the next hit the zombie takes will likely finish it. John still up.

M1 20 (missed John)
M2 16 (missed Grok)
M3 15 (missed Scrag)
John 13
-2 M4 13
Rosalia 12
-3 Tuk 10
-8 Grok 10
-4 Scrag 10
M5 9
-12 Roderic 7 (Killed a zombie, but a second one drops Roderic down to 0 hps)
M6 7 (misses Rosalia)
-8 Z11 1 (caltrops, -1 each round, scored hit vs Tuk for 3 total hps of damage)
-2 Z12 1 (caltrops, -1 each round, scored critical hit vs Roderic for 12 total hps of damage)
Dead Z8 1 (killed by Scrag/John)
Dead Z10 1 (killed by Scrag/John)
Dead Z7 1 (Killed by Tuk/John)
Dead Z9 1 (Killed by Roderic/John)

Sorry guys, meant to do this yesterday, but was exhausted from the day's activities.

John draws a crossbow bolt and summons force to launch the bolt from his hand. The bolt flies true to its target: the zombie leaning over to lunch on Rodrick.
1d20+3=18
[roll=damage]1d8[/roll]

ooc: carp! let me try this again . . . . .
[roll0]

John's crossbow bolt flies true, tearing through the skull. The damage dealt to the zombie brings it down harmlessly next to Roderic, ensuring the paladin's safety.

A kobold from somewhere in the shadows now sees the conjurer as a real threat and he fires at John, badly wounding the spellcaster.

OOC: -4 hps to John. He only has three left. Rosalia, Tuk, Grok and Scrag are all up! There is only one zombie left, ready to fall for good. There are six kobolds still standing about 30 feet from you, trying to stay partially hidden in the shadows ahead, and mostly failing as you can see their silhouettes when they stand to fire.

M1 20 (missed John)
M2 16 (missed Grok)
M3 15 (missed Scrag)
-4 John 13 (killed zombie, hit by M4 kobold)
-2 M4 13 (shot John for 4hps of damage)
Rosalia 12
-3 Tuk 10
-8 Grok 10
-4 Scrag 10
M5 9
-12 Roderic 7 (Killed a zombie, but a second one drops Roderic down to 0 hps)
M6 7 (misses Rosalia)
-8 Z11 1 (caltrops, -1 each round, scored hit vs Tuk for 3 total hps of damage)
Dead Z12 1 (killed by John)
Dead Z8 1 (killed by Scrag/John)
Dead Z10 1 (killed by Scrag/John)
Dead Z7 1 (Killed by Tuk/John)
Dead Z9 1 (Killed by Roderic/John)

Scrag charges at the kobolds, playing up the raging, frothing troll image a bit.

OOC: Would someone be kind enough to provide a link to Scrag's most recent stats?

Scrag is here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...-Dragon-Cult&p=4659444&viewfull=1#post4659444

John cries out in pain then, "Kobold, over there!" Blood is dripping down the arm he is pointing with.