[Adventure]: Land Ho! FWBTHW (DM:H.M.Gimlord,Judge:Ozymandias79)

[Iron Sky]

OOC: The easiest way is if we can just roll his saves whenever we try to push him to keep from having to wait for the DM every time. That quick 1d20+5 roll could cut days off of the combat-turn length.

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[H.M.Gimlord]

GM: In this case, I'll accommodate a little more quickly

The bolt of force slams into the minotaur, but he manages to hold onto the rocks, denying the churning seas their quarry.

 

[H.M.Gimlord]

OOC: Did Sheng's attack brought the guy to the edge.

GM: @Voda Vosa : *EDIT* I'm going to assume you're going to allow your turn to stand unchanged. Unfortunately, Rhagast is a rather tenacious foe. It's late, and I'm sick, so I'll post an update tomorrow.

 

[Voda Vosa]

OOC: But Sheng hit him twice, that's two push 1, so he needs to make another save.

 

[H.M.Gimlord]

OOC: Alas, still not falling. I blew all my free time today updating The Missing Professor. Need another day.

 

[H.M.Gimlord]

Rhagast climbs to his feet under the forceful barrage of magic, "Ye won't be holdin' ole' Rhagast down so easy as that maties!"

Charging ahead, he tramples into the group. Careful to avoid the ball of flame suspended in the air, the minotaur plows into Riardon, Sheng, and Gensai, knocking all three of them to the ground. Gensai's protective magic prevents Riardon from injury, but the force is so great that the eladrin is knocked off his feet.

Rhagast, realizing that his attack lacked potencey, turns on Riardon once more, kicking him across the stone.

Then he rounds on Gensai, "Yer magick won't protect you swab!"

With the flat of his axe, Rhagast golfs the prone ronin back, slamming him into the wall of the lighthouse.[sblock=Rhagast's Actions]Move: Stand
Standard: Trample
Movement: (per Rhagast's Northwest corner) J25-I25-H25-G25
Riardon gets an OA: 1d20+17=33 vs. AC for 1d8+11=18 damage
Target 1: Riardon
Attack 1: 1d20+18-2(AoS)=28 vs. Reflex for 2d8+6-14(AoS)=0 damage
Continued movement: F25
Sheng gets an OA: 1d20+9=21 vs. AC Miss
Target 2: Sheng
Attack 2: 1d20+18-2(AoS)=28 vs. Reflex for 2d8+6=13 damage
Continued Movement: E25-E26
Gensai gets an OA: 1d20+16=17 vs. AC Miss
Continued Movement: D26
Target 3: Gensai
Attack 3: 1d20+18=31 vs. Reflex for 2d8+6=14 damage
Continued Movement: E25

AP: Double Attack
Target 1: Gensai
Attack 1: 1d20+19+2(CA)=38 vs. AC for 2d8+7=17 dmage and Gensai is pushed to C26
Target 2: Riardon
Attack 2: 1d20+19-2(AoS)+2(CA)=29 vs. AC for 2d8+6=16 damage and Riardon is pushed to H25[/sblock][sblock=Status]Gensai: C26 35/94HP 12/12HS AP 0, Bloodied, Prone
Riardon: H25 39/75HP 8/9HS AP 0, Prone
Sheng: F24 52/79HP 9/9HS AP 1, Prone
Phoenix: G21 38/57HP 7/8HS AP 1
Max: E20 46/46 HP 6/7HS AP 0

Flaming Sphere: F22
Stang: H23

Rhagast: K25-J26 538/624 AP 0, prone, Marked by Gensai's AoS[/sblock][sblock=Map]

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GM: And I'm sure that a flurry of immediate interrupts will ensue. @Tenchuu : You are prevented from using IAs since I activated your AoS to spare Riardon 14hp of damage. If you wish to apply it to Sheng instead, let me know and I can retcon. BTW: It didn't look like you (Tenchuu) included Gensai's +4 Con Mod damage last turn, so I applied it to Rhagast

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[/sblock][sblock=The grand History of Land Ho!...Unabridged]
[sblock=Story Outline]
If you want to do this quickly, just click on the links below and read ALL spoilers. New stuff is in yellow.

• Original Party enters a bewitched cellar door that
  • Talon (Shifter Druid/Ranger) (Phoenix8008)
  • Rujah (Dragonborn Warden) (Theroc)
  • Riardon (Eladrin Warlord) (Walking Dad)
  • Jin (Human Swordmage) (Tenchuu)
  • Fenwick (Orc Barbarian) (BenBrown)

1. Bewitched cellar where party finds a secret entrance to a thieves' den
   • The group finds weapons with lightning powers
     
   • The group finds a box engraved with dwarven and draconic script
   • The box contains documents in dwarven script
2. Back at The Hanged Man
   • Talon deciphers the dwarven docuements and discovers that a man named Hankel Mast Gimlord is heir to the throne of Rioc Parvel, a dwarven mine and stronghold.
     
   • He is overheard by a sailor dwarf named Fargo who recalls the legends of Rioc Parvel and offers you sea passage to Avenroc
   • The lightning weapons found by the group have a dwarven inscription that reads "When it's my turn, I'll show you my power."
   • Unscrewing the pommels of their weapons they discover a small blue crystal in each that appears to encapsulate a small storm.
     
3. The ocean voyage
   • Fargo's ship is attacked by a flotilla of drowned ones
   • A storm portal opens and swallows the ship
   • Talon challenges a crewmember to a sparring match
   • Fargo drops the group off in the harbor of a city called Rioc Alair
4. The Crystal Mug inn
   • The group meets Firebyrne an apprentice blacksmith to a dwarf named Hankel Mast who has been missing for some time
   • The group discovers that the bewitched cellar of their prior experience is the cellar of the Crystal Mug
   • The group is ambushed when they attempt to expose the thieves' ring
   • Mervin (Human Wizard) (evilbob) materializes in a barrel
   • The group reveals the thieves' den to authorities
   • Mervin discovers a dagger of lightning power
     
   • Riardon finds several rituals
   • Jin learns that Hankel has, in fact, been kidnapped by a man named Lars Hallmaster, whom Firebyrne had described as a "Friend". A wizard named Shear seems to be directing Lars' actions.
   • Jin opens up a cursed chest and is mortally wounded by flaming skulls
   • Jin's body is resurrected (using one of the rituals found by Riardon), but is possessed by an ancestor of Jin's named Gensai
     
5. The city of Rioc Alair
   • The group meets a university professor named Amatalystan Shea Aramista who fills the group in on the history of Rioc Parvel
   • The group gears up at a black market shop in the cellar of a gear store
   • The group uses another ritual found by Riardon to generate a portal that leads to a remote, wooded location
     
6. Iguyo Di Wer Grovisv
   • The group chooses to join sides with a green dragon to defeat a band of blue-dragonkin kobolds
   • The group learns of the existance of a blue dragon named Wer Vhisar who Iguyo Di Wer Grovisv blames for driving her mother aunt from their lair, and charges the group with destroying Wer Vhisar
     
7. The entrance to Wer Vhisar's lair
   • The group navigates a pit trap
     
   • and disables a glyph of warding powered by an electric crystal
     
   • that guards a library containing some curious items
     
8. The hall
   • The group is met by a kobold welcoming party that temporarily separates the group. Gensai and Fenwick fall into a prison cell. Rujah falls into the river below and is swept out to sea. Mervin stays behind to cover Riardon's retreat.
     
9. The prison
   • The group meets Tikchik (Thri-Kreen Ranger) (renau1g) and Sheng (Human Mage) (Voda Vosa)
   • The group discovers a dwarven prisoner and a kobold prisoner
   • The group decides to look for Rujah and Mervin
     
10. The hall part deaux
    • The group learns the fate of Rujah and Mervin
    • The group realizes that Iguyo De Wer Grovisv has lied to them
    • They find a hiding kobold who grants them an audience with Wer Vhisar
      
11. Wer Vhisar's Lair
    • Wer Vhisar reveals to them his version of the feud story between himself and the three green dragons
    • Wer Vhisar offers the group an opportunity to seat Hankel Mast Gimlord on his rightful throne in return for three tasks
      • Transplant the diffusion of Wer Vhisar's father
      • Turn over a large gem called the Moonstone
      • Destroy Iguyo Di Wer Grovisv's mother and aunt
        
12. The Library Again
    • The party finally meets Hankel Mast, but, though he's aware and eager for the quest, he doesn't seem to know that he is the heir to Rioc Parvel
    • Hankel provides several documents, in particular, a map shoing the location and nature of their first task.
    • TikChik returns Hankel's knife
    • Sheng finds a source of arcane magic.
    • The party is given a boat and provisions
      
13. Rioc Stang
    • The party is set upon by undead guardians of the lighthouse
    • Their captain bestows upon Gensai the knowledge that they are a remnant from Rioc Parvel tasked with keeping safe a beacon encouraging other dwarves to return to their long-lost home
    • The captain gives Gensai Arkus Gimlord's famed weapon, Stang, charging him with returning it to Arkus' heir
    • Gensai informs the others of the guardians' origins, and reveal Hankel Mast Gimlord to be the true heir of Rioc Parvel
    • Gensai gives Stang to Hankel
    • The adventurers proceed to relight the beacon, and in doing so are rewarded with magic items given by the captain's ghost.
    • As the captain takes his leave for the etherial realms, A minotaur named Rhagast materializes in a well on the first floor. He has evidently been here before and wants no part in undead guardians. He quickly finds the party's boat, and before Hankel can stop him, proceeds to unmoor it and row it east toward the shore.
    • As he is rowing away, Phoenix (Tiefling Sorcerer) (Iron Sky) materializes at the bottom of the well, and climbs out too late to catch Rhagast, but just in time to meet the rest of the group.
    • As they are getting to know each other, three green dragons approach from the east. When they land, they destroy the beacon and grab Hankel.
    • One of the green dragons is Iguyo Di Wer Gorvisv, a dragon that Gensai, Riardon, and Fenwick bargained with a while ago. Under duress, they promised to destroy Walryn (Wer Vhisar) , but the party soon learned that Iguyo Di Wer Grovisv is the daughter of Sylvantrix, one of the other two green dragons, who lair at Rioc Parvel.
    • In either a laps of judgement or an act of fate, Gensai activates Phoenix's ring and disappears, replaced by Max, who arrives to menacing dragons and falling megaliths.

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• Rituals in Riardon's Pack:
  
  • Raise Dead Used to raise Jin from the dead (got Gensai instead)
  • Knock Used to open the chest that killed Jin
  • Linked Portal Used to get to the green dragon encounter
  • Object Reading
  • Vistani Passkey
  • Precise Forgery
  • Decipher Script
  • Wizard Sight
  • Arcane Lock
  • Diffusion Transplantation (illegible at the moment)
    
  [*]Those of you who found lightning weapons still have them.
  [*]Mervin still has the dagger (but he's still on the floor of Wer Vhisar's lair)
  
  [*]Quick Plot summary
  
  • Setting: An interior island on the continent of Avenroc
  • Old blue dragon destroys a dwarven mine and dwarven king dies
  • Dwarven heir exiles himself and dies leaving a son who is clueless as to his heritage
  • Old blue dragon is killed by two sister green dragons, who now have a daughter (that's three green dragons on the loose).
  • The old blue dragon's son wants to avenge his father's death, but doesn't want to take the risk, so he offers the job to the adventurers.
    
  • Hankel (the clueless dwarven heir) is being held in the prisons below the blue dragon's lair
  • Wer Vhisar has pressed you into his service to light the dwarven lighthouse, kill the green dragons, re-seat Hankel on the throne at Rioc Parel, and transplant Wer Vhisar's father's diffusion.
  • Hankel has been freed and the party meets him in the trashed library that apparently was used by Shear on his visits to Wer Vhisar.
  • Hankel has only recently discovered that he is heir to the throne of Rioc Parvel
  • While extracting herself from the well on Rioc Stang, Phoenix finds (and still has in her possession), a strange, gold, coin struck with dwarven runes and the emblem of a greataxe.
  • The lighthouse was lit for a small time, but was destroyed irreparably.

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[Iron Sky]

OOC: I'll wait until after the barrage of forced movement this time so I can get maximum use out of my Sphere.

 

[Walking Dad]

OOC: When the minotaur stops next to Riardon, he teleports away to I23 as an Immediate Reaction and ends outside his reach. This is his Blink Away utility encounter power.

 

[H.M.Gimlord]

GM: @Walking Dad : Technically, Rhagast does not end his turn adjacent to you. His move into I23 is part of his Trample attack. When his turn ends, he is at E25-F26, and Riardon is 1 square away due to the push from of Rhagast's Double Attack power. Because of this, Riardon cannot use Blink Away at this time. [sblock=Compendium quote from Blink Away power] Trigger: An enemy ends its turn adjacent to you. Effect: You teleport up to 2 squares. [/sblock]

 

[Walking Dad]

OOC: Alright, I see, but I now don't understand when to use this powers. Alright, waiting for other possible interrupts before posting my turn.