The Kolloseaum: Team Go Hard or Go Home (DM: Iron Sky, Judge: Luinnar)

Faraque · Oct 11, 2011

"ARRRGH!" yells Rilissa as she is hit by an arrow. Her blood boils as an errant bolt flies by. Summoning the power of her people, she looses herself to the ether and teleports beside the goblin, becoming insubstantial doing so. "Send your regards to Mother," and she swings her blade in a fury of green flame, burning leaves off the trees nearby.

Her first blow being not enough to down the foe, she summons a burst of power from within to finish him off. Her blade strikes true one last time, and as the goblin falls to the ground, Rilissa also falls to her knees, clearly exhausted.

[sblock="Actions"]Move - Shadow Jaunt to A2. (teleport 3, insubstantial TSoNT)
Minor - Aegis of Assault
Standard - Greenflame Blade vs. Rikroc (+7 vs AC 18, 1d8+4 Fire damage)
Critical Hit! - Ignore the unlabeled damage roll, deals 14 damage
Action Point - Greenflame Blade vs. Rikroc (+7 vs AC 18, 1d8+4 Fire damage)[/sblock]

[sblock="Stat Block"]Rilissa Shandalar - Female Shadar-kai Assault Swordmage 1
Initiative: +1 Passive Perception: 9 Passive Insight: 9
AC: 19 Fort: 14 Ref: 14 Will: 14
HP: 14/27 Bloodied: 13 Surge Value: 6 Surges left: 9/9
Speed: 6 Languages: Allarian, Imperia
AP: 0 Second Wind: Unused

Powers: (Underlined is used)
Aegis of Assault, Lightning Lure, Greenflame Blade
Shadow Jaunt, Flame Cyclone
Frost Backlash[/sblock]

Medina · Oct 11, 2011

Corragan steps further into the town, heading towards the north-west to bring the last standing goblin into his range. Corragan calls the nature spirits and the fires answer his call, a flaming hawk appearing in the skies and striking down at the Warmonger.

[sblock="Actions"]Move Action: Move to G7
Standard Action: Fire Hawk on the goblin warmonger. If he does anything that would provoke an OA then I can make an additional attack.[/sblock]
[sblock="Stats"]Corragan - Elf Druid (Unaligned) Level 1
Initiative +3
Passive Insight 15; Passive Perception 22; Senses Low-Light

HP 28 Bloodied 14 Surge Value 7; Surges Per-Day 7

AC 16 Fortitude 11 Reflex 14 Will 16
Speed 8; Size Medium
Str 13 (+1), Dex 16 (+3), Wis 20 (+5)
Con 11 (+0), Int 10 (+2), Cha 8 (-1)

AP: 1, Second Wind: Unused

Powers:
Wild Shape, Savage Rend, Fire Hawk, Grasping Tide
Thorn Spray, Elven Accuracy - USED
Summon Giant Toad

HP Remaining 13/28
Healing surges remaining 5/7[/sblock]

Son of Meepo · Oct 11, 2011

OOC:

w00t! Looks like that's the match. Great job everyone. Hopefully we didn't burn through too many resources.

OOC:

Faraque, what did you spend that AP? Everyone else in the group still had an action to bring down the last goblin who was at single digit hp after your crit. (Corragan would have finished him on his action). I really hope blowing that AP isn't going to come back to haunt us in the next battle. It's usually a bad idea to AP once a battle is well in hand.

Faraque · Oct 11, 2011

OOC:

Character based decision: I promised to send him to meet the Raven Queen, and I wasn't about to let him squeak out .
OOC based reason 1: People miss, frequently, and he had a non-insignificant AC to beat.
OOC based reason 2: We get an AP after the next match, so I'll have one for round 3.
OOC based reason 3: That recruitment DC was too low for my liking, I wanted no chance that he'd get to roll it again and stretch this out longer.

Son of Meepo · Oct 11, 2011

Faraque said:
OOC: Character based decision: I promised to send him to meet the Raven Queen, and I wasn't about to let him squeak out .
OOC based reason 1: People miss, frequently, and he had a non-insignificant AC to beat.
OOC based reason 2: We get an AP after the next match, so I'll have one for round 3.
OOC based reason 3: That recruitment DC was too low for my liking, I wanted no chance that he'd get to roll it again and stretch this out longer.

OOC:

I understand, but I still disagree.

Character: Normally I'd be all for this. But I feel like based on our choice of difficulty we set this adventure up to be a tactical/roll-playing exercise rather than a role-playing adventure. So I guess I'm more sensitive to people making what I consider suboptimal choices for their actions. That's why I spent so much time trying to coordinate our actions during the first round. I felt like we should have all agreed on our course of actions for round one before anyone posted a turn.

Heck, I built this character around role-playing considerations. Divine Secretkeeper is completely suboptimal choice for a feat. But I wanted him to be a ritual caster and also be an invoker for character reasons as well as Paragon Path choice. When you all decided to go as hard as possible, I almost backed out of participating in the adventure.

But anyways, back to your other points:

1. Most people had about a 50% chance to hit, chances are 1 attack in 4 was going to connect.

2. But now we have one less for the next one. We have 2/5 AP remaining, I believe, which means we have fewer total accessible resources for the second encounter than we did for the first.

3. I thought reinforcements were a random bonus. Making that check meant we got a free AP. I didn't see anything that explicit said more monsters appeared. I assumed that it meant reinforcements for our side, represented by the free AP. If that's not what it meant, then it could have been made more clear by the DM.

Anyways, let's figure out how long we have to rest and how we are going to heal up for the next encounter.

Faraque · Oct 11, 2011

Son of Meepo said:
OOC: ...to be a tactical/roll-playing exercise rather than a role-playing adventure.

OOC:

RPG's, the last place where you can have your cake and eat it too. Also, our future matches are actually supposed to be a bit easier. The first one was the hardest.

Son of Meepo said:
OOC: 3. I thought reinforcements were a random bonus.

OOC:

You know... my bad on that. You are right, and I fail at reading.

Son of Meepo · Oct 11, 2011

Faraque said:
OOC: RPG's, the last place where you can have your cake and eat it too. Also, our future matches are actually supposed to be a bit easier. The first one was the hardest.

OOC:

Maybe I misremembered. I though we chose to go as hard as possible for all 3 encounters. I think my point was that when we choose to go hard, we're choosing to play a game of chess with D&D rules rather than a role-playing game. That tactics should come first, playing the character second. But maybe I'm in the minority on that opinion.

Faraque said:
OOC: You know... my bad on that. You are right, and I fail at reading.

OOC:

We could both be right. It could just not be clear and it never came up.

Faraque · Oct 11, 2011

OOC:

Our arena hazards are harder, but the enemies are easier in both of the next encounters. As for the reinforcements, he doesn't say anything about reinforcing the enemies, and he specifically mentions that we get an AP to burn, so its more likely that you were right and it was just reinforcements for us, to represent more people coming to help the city defense.

Iron Sky · Oct 12, 2011

Match Two: The Jade Tomb, Round 0

As Rickroc is cut down, the crowd goes wild, cheering for the "Heroes of Anakabar."

After the cheers die down, the forcefield is dropped and the group is allowed to leave. A goblin is there waiting for them. "You just cost me five silver. You'd better die in the next match. Anyway, you go that way. Your next match is in Arena Three, starting in about half-an-hour. Someone will yell at you when it's time to go."

The group heads the way he pointed, walking past a glass wall where goblins with long hooks are fishing three dead goblins off the bottom of a boiling water hazard.

Before long, a crudely painted "3" is before the group, along with an arrow pointing at a set of stairs going up with a portcullis blocking them off.

As the group rests and prepares for the next fight, the sounds of rocks rumbling from somewhere up the stairwell seems ominous. The crowd noises slowly grow louder as well until a voice booms out from upstairs.

"The Jade King had vast wealth indeed, but nothing matched the three treasures he had buried in his personal tomb, hidden away on a remote mountain on a floating isle. After a decade of searching, following the trail of a thousand scraps of thousand-year-old maps, a group of tomb-robbers finally found the tomb. But did they survive its dangers, evade the un-killable and escape with its treasures...?"

With that, the portcullis rises, rumbling up into the ceiling. The stairs stand open, the crowd cheering above.

GM:

I rolled 6 for your number of short rests. Feel free to take them. Be sure to track your resources spent in the first encounter and during this short rest.

I'll try to watch the thread pretty closely as you explore the tomb. This sort of thing is rarely done because of that requirement, but I'll give it a go. It takes a move action to enter the map, then you can move from there where you will.

No initiative rolls necessary, nothing activates in the tomb until you enter.

[sblock=Combatants]-Party-
Corragan: I11, 13/28hp
Sha'kar: N9, 20/30hp
Rilissa: M10, 6/27hp
Ignatz: K17, 22/30hp
Dina: K8, 18/24hp

-Enemy-
Goblin Warmongers Killed: 1
Goblin Sorcerers Killed: 2
Goblin Snipers Killed: 4
Goblin Assaulter Killed: 8
Goblin Shield Bearers Killed: 8

Effect Key: location, hp/max hp, damage related, TenT or TsnT, conditional, save ends, encounter[/sblock]

[sblock=Terrain]Stairs: The stairs take a move action to ascend (enter the map) or descend (leave the map).

Walls: The walls are fairly rough, DC 18 to climb. The arena is 2 squares tall with a forcefield shimmering over the top to keep the gladiators (read: you) in the arena.[/sblock]

[sblock=Special Rules][sblock=Appease the Crowd]
*As a minor action, a PC may make a skill check to wow the crowd. If they succeed at the check, they gain +2 to their next d20 roll if they beat the DC, plus +2 per 5 by which they beat the DC. If the check is failed, the PC takes a -2 penalty to their next d20 roll, -2 more per 5 by which they miss the DC.

I.E, if the DC is 15, 1-5 would be -6, 6-10 would be -4, 11-14 would be -2, 15-19 would be +2, etc.

*All skill DCs will start at 15 and each individual skill's DC goes up by 2 per time the skill is used as the crowd gets more jaded. The DCs go up at the end of the round in which they are used. The DCs do not drop between arena rounds.

*Any skill can be used, as long as the player can provide relevant character action to back up the roll.

Current Skill DCs:
Athletics: 17
History: 17
Perception: 17
Others: 15[/sblock]

[sblock=The Jade Tomb]Treasures: To win, the group must find, collect, and escape with the three treasures.[/sblock][/sblock]

Faraque · Oct 12, 2011

OOC:

I could use some healing, if Dina wouldn't mind. 2 Infusions from her would be equal to 3 of my surges in healing.

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