S@squ@tch's Against the Giants - Team Gold

[s@squ@tch]

Coliseum

The party readied for action, they take their hiding spots near the sides of the stairwell, eyes and ears trained to any sounds from below.

Moments later, loud thumps can be heard from below, and the ground under your feet shakes slightly.

Dreadnought grips his sword in patient fashion, waiting for his quarry to come into sight.

Morph is the first to see the hulking brute, adorned in tatters and bits of hide with crude shackles holding everything together -- its raw size at least 12' tall. The construct twists his fingers about him, and whispers a word as soft as a gentle rain -- causing a burst of glittery shards encompass the giant -- its arms swinging upwards too late to cover his eyes.

Darv looks at you all and murmurs a prayer to the heavens as he hides behind the dwarf.(Cast Bless)



Surprise round:

Initiative:

22 - Dreadnought - Ready action -- attack giant within range
17 - Void - Hide
13 - Morph - Cast Glitterdust on stairway
12 - Domoris - Ready action - attack giant within range
9 - Darv - Cast Bless
7 - Hudder - Ready action - attack giant within range




Conditions:

Spells active:

Darv: Bless (80 rounds)
Domoris: Jagged Tooth (599 rounds), Barkskin (600 rounds)
Morph: Glitterdust (7 rounds)

Gray AOE is the Glitterdust

 

[stonegod]

Domoris shifts back into Beast form (with extra gore attack) and waits.

OOC: Reading to attack.

 

[Graf]

Hudder reads an attack to attack when dread does

 

[EvolutionKB]

Morph 49/49

Morph whispers words of arcane power, pointing to the ground beneath the giant, and pantomimes pulling a rug out from somebody's feet. A slippery sheen appears near the giant, coating the floor.

[sblock=ooc]Cast grease on floor at (11,13)(11,14)(12,13)(12,14).

Spell Prepared(including bonus spells for high Int and for being a specialist wizard)
(4/7/5/4/3) CL: 7 or 8 for fire spells; DC 15+spell level or 17+spell level for transmutations
0: Detect Magicx2, Read magic, ray of frost
1: Feather fallx2, lesser orb of firex2, magic missle, ray of clumsiness, grease(expended)
2: invisibility, glitterdust(expended), rope trick, incendiary slime
3: haste, slow, fireball, animate weapon
4: flame whips, polymorphx2 [/sblock]

 

[s@squ@tch]

Round 1:

Initiative:

22 - Dreadnought - 20' Move to (11,9)
17 - Void - Hide
13 - Morph - Cast Grease underneath Giant #1
12 - Domoris - Double move to (11,11)
9 - Darv - Dark Knowledge (Giants) - +2 to hit granted to all
7 - Hudder - 20' move to (10,8)
6 - Giant #1 - Attack Domoris - MISS due to concealment
6 - Giant #2 - Move to (-10,18) - throw rock at Morph - MISS
6 - Giant #3 - Move to (-12,15) - throw rock at Darv - MISS


Dreadnought peers around the corner column of the staircase and then moves directly as possible towards the giant -- the debris on the edges of the stairwell impede his movement and force him towards the center -- more well trodden, path.

As the gith sees Dreadnought disappear around the turn, he shrinks back into the shadows of the stonework, almost appearing to meld himself with the stone.

Morph whispers words of arcane power, pointing to the ground beneath the giant, and pantomimes pulling a rug out from somebody's feet. A slippery sheen appears near the giant, coating the floor.

Snarling somewhat, as his pathway to the giant was partially blocked by the walking tin-man, Domoris bounds down the stairwell, closing quickly upon the giant, whose eyes, he notices, have taken on a milky appearance.

Meanwhile, behind the shelter of the others, Darv is busily poring over his teachings of the larger folk -- finally shouting out a laundry list of the vulnerabilities of defending against smaller attackers. Those skilled in martial combat notice that the small gnome actually stumbled upon something they had overlooked -- and put his wisdom to use. (+2 to hit against the giant-type.)

The giant flails around unsurely with his greatclub, which the shifter avoids with ease, while it screams,"Augen dorben ditt!"

[sblock=Giant]
My eyes!
[/sblock]

Suddenly, Morph and Darv hear a couple of large WHOOOSH's and instinctively duck as boulders go flying past -- one rock smashing into the side of the stairwell near Darv, and the other sailing long and skittering against several blocks of stone, sending small splinters of rock flying in all directions. The wizard and gnome both look behind them and see two hill giants closing in -- quickly surmising that they had come from a western staircase/entrance in a flanking manuevre.




Conditions:

Spells active:

Darv: Bless (79 rounds)
Domoris: Jagged Tooth (598 rounds), Barkskin (599 rounds)
Morph: Glitterdust (6 rounds), Grease (7 rounds)

Gray AOE is the Glitterdust and Grease

Map can not be updated until I get home from vacation.

Map note -- sides of stairwell are considered 'difficult' terrain for those of medium size or smaller, due to debris/litter/stone.

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Void will remain hidden until the two other giants will emerge
Then he'll try to sneak past them

 

[Shayuri]

(OOC - I am livid. I had written a very nice, detailed and nuanced post, and then Enworld chose THAT MOMENT to screw up and continually time out for 10 minutes straight. Needless to say I lost the post. It is my growing opinion that Enworld is no longer suitable for gaming. In the meantime, I apologize for the lameness of this post, as it's all I have time left for.)

Dreadnought closes in and attacks the giant.

Attack 32
Damage 29
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1672714/

 

[stonegod]

Beast-Domoris closes in, trying to savage the giant.

OOC: Charge if he can avoid the grease Attack with bite.

 

[Graf]

ooc: Wanted to post more but no able. Hudder will attack the giant, if more appear he'll try to "hold them off".

 

[s@squ@tch]

just a bump to say that I've updated round 1 -- but I can't update the map until I get home.