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Jozan of Pelor
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posted 08-15-2001 10:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jozan of Pelor     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Jozan glances from Vadania to Alhandra to the bear and back.

"Did I say that out loud?"

The firelight is turning his skin a nice shade of red. He shifts his grip on his mace. "Ahem. Where are those Pelor forsaken skeletons, anyway?"

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"In an adventuring party, the Cleric is everybody's friend."

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Vadania
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posted 08-15-2001 11:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Vadania   Click Here to Email Vadania     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
*Vadania turns back to burning skeletons.*

Arrogant Clerics

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Vadania

Protector of Nature.

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Piratecat
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posted 08-15-2001 12:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Piratecat   Click Here to Email Piratecat     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Vadania's initial thrust that set the web aflame was a fine one ~ right through the web into a bony ribcage. The skeleton redoubled its efforts to reach her with its sword, but as the web flares up she manages to get in one more shot, slashing across its neckbone in a blow that completely severs the head. The skull drops to the ground as the webs burn back, rolling down the stairs to land at Tordek's feet. Tordek grunts, wishing there were room for him at the top of the stairs.

Eberk and Regdar are at the top of the stairs as Vadania inches forward and to the side to give them room. Eberk strikes first with his warhammer, shattering an exposed shoulderblade as another undead covered with burning web slinks forward. Regdar follows up with his greatsword in the exact same spot, and while his weapon is less effective against fleshless creatures, he still manages to shatter through both its bony body and the body of the creature behind it. Both skeletons tumble apart as their old scale mail falls to the floor ar Regdar and Eberk's feet.

More skeletons advance, though, and attack even while their bones and armor blacken from the flame. A spear jabs out from back in the flaming web, catching Vadania in the belly for 6 points of damage. A longsword sniks directly over Eberk's head, but a second longsword wielded by a tall skeleton in old plate mail clangs off of Regdar's great sword and slides down his wrist, peeling away a length of skin before it is stopped by his armor. The wound *hurts*, and blood starts filling his gauntlet as he repositions his sword (8 pts). Another short spear pokes backwards towards Alhandra and Jozan, but can't reach them where they are standing.

Then from the back of the burning web a shape suddenly hurtles forward. Barely clearing the ceiling, a skeleton in chainmail with a longsword leaps *over* the front line of warriors. Although the front line all try to swing at it, only Alhandra actually catches it with her sword, clipping off part of its left foot. The charred creature, still on fire, lands fairly agilely and launches itself towards the spellcasters. Its left foot skids a bit on the stone floor as it notices Alhandra's damage.

Crossbows *twang* and Kazak's pierces its armor. Naull's and the rogues' miss, though, and Naull readies her wand for next time. The creature draws a short sword and swings both weapons, ripping the front of Mialee's tunic (1 pt dmg) but just scratching the skin, and then burying the longsword in Naull's upper arm (4 pts dmg). Naull sees it pull back its teeth in a rictus of a smile as it pulls the blade free.

Then Perea swats it from the back, knocking it off balance while flanking it. Jozan would have done the same, if the bear hadn't been in his way.

Kerwyn and Ma'Varkith, guarding the other door, you see faint charred lines across the right hand side, as if something tried to claw its way in and was burned for its trouble. The door seems solidly closed, and you can't hear any noise coming from it.

So, there is one skeleton in the midst of the party, and some four more still at the top of the stairs engulfed in clinging flame. Actions for next round?

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Ma'varkith
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posted 08-15-2001 12:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ma'varkith   Click Here to Email Ma'varkith     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
(ooc: Ma' will pounce on the skeleton, trying to position herself to provide flanking bonuses for anyone else who engages it)

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Vadania
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posted 08-15-2001 12:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Vadania   Click Here to Email Vadania     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
*Vadania swings her Flame Blade (Melee touch attack +2 for 1d8+1 damage) at the undead horrors that are still in the web.*

Ouch, you things, that hurt! Don't do that again. Your dead, go lie down and behave.

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Protector of Nature.

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Regdar
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posted 08-15-2001 01:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Regdar   Click Here to Email Regdar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Regdar lets out a wide roar. Oh you bastards!!!

Regdar will grab it by the legs and hoist him up, then slam it against the wall, over and over till it dies then use the body as a club against others.

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I'm not Iconic, I'm Ironic!
Regdars House of Ale and Whores

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Mialee
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posted 08-15-2001 01:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mialee     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I will withdraw from melee combat as best I can, shrieking girlishly... or is that elvishly? Elvenly girlish? Yes, that sounds about right.

OOC: Pcat, great descriptions of what's going on!

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"Ugh, a spider!"
~Mialee

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Alhandra
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posted 08-15-2001 02:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Alhandra     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hey, Mialee - you sure you don't want to take time out in the middle of battle to mend your shirt?
That looks like an awfully brutal-looking tear in your clothes, and it's really putting a dent in your fashion style.

For myself, I will turn to finish off the dread 2-weapon weilding monster attacking our mage friends.

"Come, monster, I don't think you got a good enough taste of my blade the first time!

Why not have seconds?

What - Don't you like my cooking?"

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Born to beat bad.

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Hennet-
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posted 08-15-2001 03:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Hennet-   Click Here to Email Hennet-     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The creature draws a short sword and swings both weapons, ripping the front of Mialee's tunic (1 pt dmg) but just scratching the skin, and then burying the longsword in Naull's upper arm (4 pts dmg). Naull sees it pull back its teeth in a rictus of a smile as it pulls the blade free.

!!!!!Magic Missle

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Kazak
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posted 08-15-2001 03:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kazak   Click Here to Email Kazak     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Piratecat:
Crossbows *twang* and Kazak's pierces its armor.

Kazak looks mildly surprised. "Thank Moradin, I've hit something at last! Have at ye, spawn of hell!"

He swipes at the skeleton with his shortspear.

OOC: Good stuff PC! /OOC

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Eberk
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posted 08-15-2001 04:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Eberk   Click Here to Email Eberk     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"COWER before the Fire of the Renewing Forge! FLEE from the Redemption of the SoulHammer! KNOW that I am the Hammer of Moradin! DOOMawaits! GNAAAAAARRRRRR!"

OOC: Turning Undead, 2nd for the day.

Eberk takes a single step back and slams his warhammer against the floor, while brandishing his holy symbol. He is bathed in the Fires of Renewal and casts them at the mindless undead.

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"I am the Hammer of Moradin! Doom Awaits! Gnarr!"

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Jozan of Pelor
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posted 08-15-2001 04:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jozan of Pelor     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"Vadania, what happened to that nice, compact wolf you used to have? This bear is making things difficult!"

Jozan will use his mace wherever he can fit to swing it--perhaps stepping by Eberk as he pulls back to Turn.

"By Pelor's Charred Whiskers! Fourteen Iconics in a single hallway is ten too many!"

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-Tordek-
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posted 08-15-2001 05:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for -Tordek-   Click Here to Email -Tordek-     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Watch it Woman! Tordek moved into position in the tight quarters to try and give Alhandra some assistance in smacking the skeleton that picks on the spellcasters around

OOC: I'm sharing a square with Alhandra and taking a -2 to hit because of it. I'm not power attacking this round because of it.

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"I am Dwarven, Hear me roar!

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Naull the Wizard
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posted 08-15-2001 06:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Naull the Wizard     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well you can freely talk all you want, just focus on this before Jozan whispers sweet nothings to you.

Naull pulls back grow the grinning skeleton and narrows her eyes and blasts him with her wand, trying to get as many as possible.

You dare lare a hand on a Suel!

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'Kerwyn
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posted 08-15-2001 06:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 'Kerwyn     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
to Ma'varkith: Looks like that door is solidly closed and needs some careful examination before we can proceed there. Let's help our spellcasters!

Kerwyn moves in to take Mialee's square after she left and block the skeletons further approach. From there (if possible with flanking, even though sneak attacking won't work) he will stab it with his rapier (+8 to hit (Cat's Grace), +10 with flanking, 1d6+1 piercing damage), Dodge focused on that skeleton (for AC 20).

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Mialee
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posted 08-15-2001 06:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mialee     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks Kerwyn. I'm not made for melee combat.

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Alhandra
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posted 08-15-2001 09:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Alhandra     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
silently humming while battling..."It's my combat and I'll flirt if I want to..."

[OOC] tick....tick....tick...
it's been almost 8 hours since last post....

Hey, does anyone have any info on Naull?
Maybe a picture, or religion, etc? [/OOC]

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Vadania
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posted 08-15-2001 09:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Vadania   Click Here to Email Vadania     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Jozan, how exactly would a medium sized wolf be more compact than a medium sized bear? Stop your complaining.

Alhandra, here is a pic of Naull.

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Alhandra
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posted 08-16-2001 12:45 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Alhandra     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
ahh! I recognize that wizard!

So why did she say "How dare you lay hands on a Suel?"

And Vadania - we're lucky you don't have a medium sized elephant, or we'd ALL be getting trampled!

j/k

*Alhandra takes the opportunity between milliseconds of the battle to sit down and have a nice "get-to-know-you-session" with Perea.
Scratching under the chin, between the shoulderblades, playing a game of fetch with the bear (using the undead's foot I just hacked off, of course).*

Wow... it's seeming a little like Reboot in here, with Piratecat playing the user and we're all in sprite-time, where it seems like an eternity between sessions, just waiting for him to lay another game-cube on us.

"Stay frosty, people..."

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Perea the Bear
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posted 08-16-2001 08:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Perea the Bear     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
*Grrowllll? Erummmph!*

Perea seems to take to Alhandra, and rubs her body up against the paladin in a show of friendliness. Then she remembers herself, and trots back to wallop skeletons.

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Piratecat
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posted 08-16-2001 09:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Piratecat   Click Here to Email Piratecat     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
As greasy smoke rolls out of the guttering web, obscuring vision and filling lungs, Vadania reaches in with her flame blade and jabs it down through the overlarge neck opening of an attacking skeleton's plate mail. It appears that the combination of flame has done its trick, as she severs something important; the skeleton tries to swing its spear around but fails as its arm separates from its body and clatters to the floor. The bone-filled breastplate slides slowly off of Vadania's sword of flame.

As Devis recites obscure poetry from somewhere in the back, Eberk flings the manifestation of his faith at the undead, and it sinks into all three of the remaining skeletons atop the stairs like acid into metal. As the holy energy dances across their bones and into their eyesockets, all three turn and start to move backwards, but not fast enough to escape Regdar. He drops his greatsword, swoops in, and grabs the ankles of the nearest undead. The creature hammers Regdar across the back with his pitted long sword, but it bounces off his armor in almost *exactly* the same way that the skeleton's head bounces off the wall seconds later. Bone chips scatter across the floor, and Regdar follows the retreating skeletons, his makeshift club still twitching as he drags it behind him.

The retreating skeletons on the stairs are too consumed with holy energy to attack, but that doesn't hold true for the skeleton with two swords down in the middle rank. Ma'Varkith reacts before it does, springing forward and swinging her sword low across its body as she flanks it. She hears her swordblade scraping deeply against bone as she hews through the rusty chain, and the skeleton's head swivels silkily to look at her.. deep, cavernous eye sockets.. lost, falling downwards and downwards...

She snaps to, just as the skeleton yanks its sword from Naull's arm and attacks.

Its short sword comes around smoothly in a successful feint as its long sword slides under Ma'Varkith's guard and buries itself, hilt deep, in her belly. She can smell the rank scent of the creature, charred bone mixed with carrion and the hot coppery scent of her own blood, as it lifts its arm and jiggles it, sliding the sword even a little deeper into her. (crit! 17 pts of damage)

Mialee draws back as the others move in. Perea the bear swings a paw, misses, and at Alhandra's urging backs away. Alhandra has more luck, her sword coming in at its side while she desperately tries not to step on Tordek; it doesn't react to her hit, although the paladin felt her blade hit bone.

Hennet's hands are suddenly holding two spheres of bitter green energy, which fly like hawks from his extended hands to strike the skeleton. It twitches, and twists its wrist to dump Ma'Varkith off of its sword, swiveling its head around for a glimpse of the sorceror.

Instead, it sees Kazak jabbing a spear into its gut.

The spear pierces the rusty armor and catches on something within - the hipbone maybe - holding it in place just long enough for Naull to jam her wand almost directly into its jaw. She has to go that close, or risk burning her friends, but as she releases the fiery energy the thing has no way whatsoever of dodging. Flames bathe its head, and its bony hands release its swords as it falls backwards, only to be nearly severed in twain by Tordek's axe as it hits the ground.

Jozan and Kerwyn mount the stairs together, heading for the remaining skeletons that Regdar is.. err.. cornering. They pass the concentrating Eberk as they do, and they get there in time to attack the injured skeleton Regdar is using as a club, which was scrabbling a skeletal arm out for a weapon, even while Regdar held its feet. Jozan and Kerwyn strike simultaneously, and now Regdar's makeshift club is nothing but dead weight.

Next round: who does what?

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Regdar
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posted 08-16-2001 10:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Regdar   Click Here to Email Regdar     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Alhandra:
ahh! I recognize that wizard!

So why did she say "How dare you lay hands on a Suel?"

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The suel are from the Scarlet Brotherhood aren't they, maybe she is too, Regdar does not know.

Regdar will throw what's left of Regdars club at the cornered skeletons, teeth clenched. Regdar will then go over and perform a patented Noggin Knocker maneuver.

Hopefully after Regdar will retrieve Regdars sword.

Bah hit Regdar will you?

OOC: PC this is way too cool, great job. Regdar wishes the DM Regdar gamed with could be as involved. /OOC

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Ma'varkith
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posted 08-16-2001 11:12 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ma'varkith   Click Here to Email Ma'varkith     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ma'varkith rises, trembling, to her feet. Her shield lies discarded on the floor as she tries to put pressure on the wound.

Looking down at the remains of the skeleton that gutted her, she spits on its shattered remains. Wiping the blood from her lips, she picks up her shield and staggers into a position to protect the nearest spellcaster.

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Alhandra
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posted 08-16-2001 12:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Alhandra     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
-to Ma'Varketh-
"Good woman! We have dispatched the beast which did threaten us -
please, lie down a momemt .. let me tend to that terrible wound with what help I may.|"

*Alhandra insists on healing Ma' (can't have her runnin around bleedin on everybody! What would happen if she got Jozan's robes bloody?!), using her Lay on Hands ability to cure 9 points of damage.*

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Vadania
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posted 08-16-2001 12:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Vadania   Click Here to Email Vadania     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
*coughing*

Guys, How's it going? It's getting a bit dense in here, can't see.

Ma'varkith, looked like you took a nasty hit, you ok?

OOC: PC, Must be all the smoke, I'm a bit unclear our remaining opposistion. If it's just that one skel left, I withdraw trying to get clear of fire and smoke, and make sure Perea is ok.

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