A Season of Bones

[Vertexx69]

[sblock=ooc]We can do 100. That's fine with me - I just wanted to make sure it didn't get slowed down too much. Keep on slaughtering!

PS. I'll do my best to update the Crowd Favor once SG has gone. It's trickier than I would've guessed![/sblock]

OOC: This is why I have a complete damage breakdown (along with crowd favor) in my OOC block each round.

 

[stonegod]

OOC: As do I.

 

[DistractingFlare]

[sblock=Battle Info]
Slaves Remaining: 43

Crowd Favor
Daran 40
Jalaan 35
Ja'Cart 46
Muzdum 30

Thanks for posting the math help, everyone. It's quite helpful![/sblock]

With more than half of the slaves cut down, the other half see that their only chance of survival is to utilize flanking strategies. Still, your skill trumps their tactlessness, and each of you manages to evade a series of untrained blows from the weak and foul-smelling slaves. The crowd roars for each of you in nearly equal measure, but Ja'Cart and Daran seem to be the crowd favorites for now!

 

[stonegod]

Daran laughs at all the slave's feeble attempts. He spins his axe in circles and shoots several feints at the gathered foes, taunting them. It comes close to hitting a few times, and a few almost flee at the theatrics. Then, he spins around and casually lops off the head of one of the stunned attackers. Daran beats his chest and leaves himself open a moment, basking in the fight. C'mon! Hit me![sblock=Actions]Move to taunt the attackers with some daring feints: Taunting Bluff 29. Not trying to get CA, just theatrics.

Then, Brash Strike vs one: Hit for 10 damage..

Minor to kick in 9 THP.

Crowd Favor: 40+2+Flavor Bonus: 42 + Flavor Bonus[/sblock][sblock=MiniDaran]Daran—Male Half-Elf Ardent|Battlemind 4
Initiative: +4; Passive Perception: 11, Passive Insight: 13; low-light vision
HP: 46+9/46, Bloodied: 23, Surge: 11, Surges left: 12/12
AC: 18, Fort: 17, Reflex: 14, Will: 17
Speed: 5
Action Points: 0/1, Second Wind: Not Used, Milestones: 0
Power Points: 0/4

Concussive Spike
Demoralizing Strike
Unnerving Shove
Battlemind's Demand
Mind Spike
Wild Surge
Brash Strike x2
Allies to Enemies
Psionic Vigor
Ardent Surge
Wild Focus[/sblock]

 

[Vertexx69]

Round 3:

As the slaves rush in to surround the monk from all sides he gives them a nod of respect, even though they slip and slide on the deli platter of sliced meat underfoot. "That's more like it! You finally decide to die with honor." Ja'Cart's claws begin to crackle with electricity and a strong breeze swirls up from the ground, stirring the bloody sand over the meat draped around his feet like a low wall.

Reaching out with claws and slimy tentacles, the kreen latches into dirty flesh, around limbs and necks of of all eight slaves. The horrified looks on their faces is short-lived as the energy spiraling and crackling over his carapaces bolts down the many limbs, charring his enemies black before ribbons of blood steam boils out of every orifice they have. His large jaws part to swallow the head of the man before him which collapses like moist paper machette in his mouth. Embers dance over the brickette bodies for an instant until they fall apart into heavy chunks of black coal.

Ja'Cart flips out of the waist-high barricade of meat and charcoal, the wind that seems to be following him whips flakes of ash from the pyre he just left behind.

[sblock=Actions]Free: Speak, Flurry of Blows for 10.
Minor: none
Move: shift 2.
Standard: [url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2690902/]5 Storms (1d20+11=15, 1d20+11=23, 1d20+11=22, 1d20+11=25, 1d20+11=30, 1d20+11=29, 1d20+11=25, 1d20+11=16)[/URL], 5 Storms (1d8+6=11)http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2689766/[/sblock][sblock=Ja'Cart]Ja'Cart—Male Thri-Kreen Monk 4, Reach 1,
Initiative: +7; Passive Perception: 13, Passive Insight: 13; low-light vision
HP: 39/39, Bloodied: 19, Surge: 9, Surges left: 8/8
AC: 21, Fort: 17, Reflex: 18, Will: 15
Speed: 7
Action Points: 1/1, Second Wind: Not Used, Milestones: 0

Stone Fist Flurry of Blows
Dragon's Tail
5 Storms
Telekinetic Grasp
Open the Gates of Battle
Thri-Kreen Claws
Eternal Mountain
Disrupting Advance
Unstable Mind
Masterful Spiral
Supreme Flurry

Ja'Cart[/sblock][sblock=OOC]Changed text color to blue since his appearance has changed.

If Ja'Cart takes dmg, he'll use Unstable Mind: TENT anyone that enters an adjacent square to Ja'Cart or ends their turn there takes 5 psychic dmg.[sblock=Fluff for when hit the 1st time]Ja'Cart roars as he is hit, spreading his large jaws fully over a foot and a half wide as he sinks into a low stance, and putting one of his lesser hands to the side of his own spike-covered head. Unstable cerulean energy crackles down his limbs and over the slimy black tentacles seem to writhe with a life of their own.[/sblock]
Damage Totals:
unlucky slave 11+10=21 (dead)
slaves X7 11 (dead)

Crowd Favor: 46+17=66+round 3 flavor bonus[/sblock]

 

[Walking Dad]

Jalaan

Jalaan tarhets the biggest available slave group, using this time finesse instead of power... overwhelmed by (false) shameful memories and knowing that they have been exposed the slaves knew that the most painless and honorable way to die is through ritual suicide. Circling to the crowd, the slave unison knee down, sab their own swords into their bellies and cut up, the faces contorted in terror as they realized in the last moment that they were tricked. Jalaan chuckles hateful.

[sblock=OOC]

Dishearten (1d20+8=17, 1d20+8=22, 1d20+8=11, 1d20+8=10, 1d20+8=10, 1d20+8=20, 1d20+8=28, 1d20+8=14, 1d20+8=10)
Dishearten Damage (1d6+7=11)

kills up to 9 slaves dead by more than 10 damage. One critical.

I knew the power only deals psychic damage, but I thought the above would be a cool discription.

Immediate Reaction: Intellect Fortress

Old Crowd Favor = 35

[sblock=Mini stat block]
Jalaan
Perception: 17 Insight: 12 Low-light Vision
AC 19 Fortitude 15 Reflex 17 Will 18
Initiative: +2
Hit Points: 43 / 43 Bloodied: 21
Temporary Hit Points: 0
Resist: Fire 7
Saving Throw: -
Action Points: 1 Second Wind: 1
Healing Surge:10 Surges per day: 8 / 8
At-Will Powers: Thought Projection, Dishearten, Mind Thrust, Psychic Anomaly
Encounter Powers: Infernal Wrath, Psychic Surge, Distract, Send Thoughts, 0/4 Power Points, Intellect Fortress
Daily Powers: Mental Trauma

Condition:

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[Voda Vosa]

Muzdum hacks and slashes at the nearby slaves, keeping an eye on their attacks. This whole acting and inciting the crowd was not his thing after all.

Attack: hit
AoO attack just in case: hit

 

[DistractingFlare]

[sblock=Battle Info]
Slaves Remaining: 23

Crowd Favor
Ja'Cart 70
Jalaan 58
Daran 44
Muzdum 32[/sblock]

With the slaughter nearing its end, the slaves throw themselves at you with a suicidal fervor. Their eyes betray a tremendous fear, as if they are no longer in control of their actions. You feel the palpable weight of their terror as they leap toward you, screaming.

The crowd roars in delight as the action reaches its crescendo. They scream for blood, and above all, they scream for Ja'Cart to "eat his head."

[sblock=Skill Checks]
[sblock=Insight or Arcana][sblock=DC 12]These slaves are being controlled psionically.[/sblock][/sblock]
[sblock=Perception][sblock=DC22]Dictator Andropinis watches this event extremely closely.[/sblock][/sblock][/sblock]

 

[Voda Vosa]

"Hey! Someone is controlling dis guys mentally or somethin'!" alerts Muzdum.

Insight 22

 

[stonegod]

[sblock=Rolls]Arcana; Insight; Perception (1d20+1=2, 1d20+3=11, 1d20+1=13). Pathetic[/sblock]Daran, oblivious to his companion's warning, continues to bathe in the exultation of the crowd. Sure, he could no more win then he could dance on the kreen's new carapace, but blood was blood. He took another swipe at a nearby slave with a brash strike, spilling open the man's belly before turning to the crowd once again.[sblock=OOC]As I don't have an at will burst, I should just concede, but that'd be no fun.

Brash Strike hits for 21 damage.[/sblock][sblock=Crowd Favor]44+3=47[/sblock]