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Night's Embrace: Part 1--A Touch of Darkness
- Thread starter Rystil Arden
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Rystil Arden
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(OOC: Blunt's spot is about 20 feet from Kel, mostly through boxes, which are difficult terrain, so it would be a bit too far)
*Blunt slings another stone, but once again concern for his allies causes his attack to go wide. Titus closes in and smashes at the boar, bringing it nearly to its knees. However, it remains standing just barely until Shan swings at it, only to have his attack barely deflected by the boar's tusks at the last instant, as Kel seizes the moment and plunges his dagger deep into the boar's brain, causing it to collapse to the ground with a death squeal and a spurt of blood and grey matter before vanishing with a puff of acrid smoke. Meanwhile, a dark quiet chanting has resumed from somewhere around where Blunt pointed, but maybe a bit farther--likely too far to reach over the difficult terrain and still attack.*
*Blunt slings another stone, but once again concern for his allies causes his attack to go wide. Titus closes in and smashes at the boar, bringing it nearly to its knees. However, it remains standing just barely until Shan swings at it, only to have his attack barely deflected by the boar's tusks at the last instant, as Kel seizes the moment and plunges his dagger deep into the boar's brain, causing it to collapse to the ground with a death squeal and a spurt of blood and grey matter before vanishing with a puff of acrid smoke. Meanwhile, a dark quiet chanting has resumed from somewhere around where Blunt pointed, but maybe a bit farther--likely too far to reach over the difficult terrain and still attack.*
Titus Farrab, human ranger
Titus flushes, gritting his teeth as he moves with quiet deliberation toward the sound of the chanting, focusing his still-mounting anger on finding this wizard and putting his pick in his skull.
[sblock=OOC]Listen check (+5/+7), then move as close to the sound as possible with the time remaining in the round. If he makes it out of this alive, Titus is totally carrying a bag of flour with him from now on. Ugh.[/sblock]
Titus flushes, gritting his teeth as he moves with quiet deliberation toward the sound of the chanting, focusing his still-mounting anger on finding this wizard and putting his pick in his skull.
[sblock=OOC]Listen check (+5/+7), then move as close to the sound as possible with the time remaining in the round. If he makes it out of this alive, Titus is totally carrying a bag of flour with him from now on. Ugh.[/sblock]
Jolmo
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Adrenaline fading as the immediate threat is gone, Shan can feel his body wavering at its extreme limit, clearly unable to go after the mage.
"Let me see the cause of suffering," he quickly intones instead and begins concentrating.
(OOC: Detect evil. I assume using that damages me only in the first round, not while maintaining it. If not, there's no point to start. HP -13 after using ability.)
"Let me see the cause of suffering," he quickly intones instead and begins concentrating.
(OOC: Detect evil. I assume using that damages me only in the first round, not while maintaining it. If not, there's no point to start. HP -13 after using ability.)
Blunt attempts to discern the location of the invisible foe (Listen check at DC22 (20 base +2 for distance) should pinpoint square), and then throws a flurry of shuriken (2) at the spot he thinks most appropriate (-2 range penalty, -2 atk penalty from flurry). (OOC: of course, if he gets targeting instructions from someone else, then he will rely on that as well)
Rystil Arden
First Post
(OOC: Correct on the hit point loss--only for standard actions, not move actions. Bags of flour won't help very much, by the way. Flour that covers an Invisible character simply vanishes, though by looking for the vanishing flour, you might be able to spot a moving target for the short while that a lot of flour remains in the air)
*Titus moves towards the sound of the chanting, as Blunt throws shuriken down, unsure as to whether he has hit his target, though it seems unlikely, as they would vanish if they hit and stuck in him.*
*Shan begins to concentrate and senses the presence of evil in a 60-foot cone arcing forward.*
*Kel follows after Titus over the boxes.*
*As the chanting briefly stops and then starts again, a wolverine appears just next to Titus and attacks with two claws and a vicious bite. Although the attacks are all pretty pathetic, thanks to the unsteady footing of balancing on the crates, Titus takes a minor blow from one of the claws.*
(OOC: Titus takes 3 Damage)
*Titus moves towards the sound of the chanting, as Blunt throws shuriken down, unsure as to whether he has hit his target, though it seems unlikely, as they would vanish if they hit and stuck in him.*
*Shan begins to concentrate and senses the presence of evil in a 60-foot cone arcing forward.*
*Kel follows after Titus over the boxes.*
*As the chanting briefly stops and then starts again, a wolverine appears just next to Titus and attacks with two claws and a vicious bite. Although the attacks are all pretty pathetic, thanks to the unsteady footing of balancing on the crates, Titus takes a minor blow from one of the claws.*
(OOC: Titus takes 3 Damage)
Titus Farrab, human ranger
[sblock=OOC]On flour: when an invisible character picks up items after the spell is cast, he has to put them in his pockets / under his clothes in order to make them disappear. Wouldn't that suggest that mere contact with an invisible character's surface doesn't extend the effect? In any case, spreading flour all over would certainly allow for footprints.
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Titus grunts, yelling at the beast on his side. His first instinct is to lash out at the beast, but he knows he's already weak--having never fully healed from the disastrous first battle. Instead, he concentrates on trying to stay alive as he continues to move toward the sound of chanting.
[sblock=OOC]Total Defense and move toward sound again.[/sblock]
Rystil Arden said:
[sblock=OOC]On flour: when an invisible character picks up items after the spell is cast, he has to put them in his pockets / under his clothes in order to make them disappear. Wouldn't that suggest that mere contact with an invisible character's surface doesn't extend the effect? In any case, spreading flour all over would certainly allow for footprints.
[/sblock]Titus grunts, yelling at the beast on his side. His first instinct is to lash out at the beast, but he knows he's already weak--having never fully healed from the disastrous first battle. Instead, he concentrates on trying to stay alive as he continues to move toward the sound of chanting.
[sblock=OOC]Total Defense and move toward sound again.[/sblock]
Jolmo
First Post
Shan remains quietly in place.
[sblock=OOC]Concentrating on detect evil.
When anyone manages to attack the mage, consider grappling. It is harder to pull of, but if you succeed the spell he is casting is guaranteed to fail, he won't benefit from the invisibility to avoid your unarmed attacks and he can't get away if the battle turns against him. Of course, that also means you lose your dex bonus to defend against his beasts.
[sblock=OOC]Concentrating on detect evil.
When anyone manages to attack the mage, consider grappling. It is harder to pull of, but if you succeed the spell he is casting is guaranteed to fail, he won't benefit from the invisibility to avoid your unarmed attacks and he can't get away if the battle turns against him. Of course, that also means you lose your dex bonus to defend against his beasts.
The SRD actually uses the opposite as an example:Rystil Arden said:
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Rystil Arden
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(OOC: Ah, it looks to be so--I've not actually had a party actually try the flour before. Weird that it affects their gear, then, though)
*Titus still can't pinpoint where the chanting comes from exactly, but he defends himself as best he can.*
*Shan determines that there is a moderate evil aura and a faint evil aura.*
*Titus still can't pinpoint where the chanting comes from exactly, but he defends himself as best he can.*
*Shan determines that there is a moderate evil aura and a faint evil aura.*
