[Adventure] The Second Day of Mourning (Judge: renau1g)

[hornedturtle]

Occ: um I'm pretty sure Masumi moved last turn to K9 fudged now to K8

Actions:
Start of turn: 2 fire damage & 5 Poision damage
Hp down to 1 (one is the loneliest number)
Standard action: Second wind (2 healing surges since she's bloodied) gains 18 hp and +2 to all defenses (does that affect saves?)
Minor action: Sustain Curse of the Dark Dream (if he hasn't successfully saved yet) sliding tracker from where ever he is
Move action: none

Save vs Poison 1d20=15

Occ: I think I can fix those runes (arcana + 90gp of residuum to work with)

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Changeling Warlock 4
Medium natural humanoid (Changeling)
Initiative +2; Senses Passive Insight 19, Passive Perception 12
HP current 13 (max 39), Bloodied 19, Surge Value 9, Surges 4 (max 7)
AC 20; Fortitude 14, Reflex 18, Will 20
Speed 6 AP=1 Second wind= used (can use 2 surges if bloodied)
Dagger +4 vs AC 1d4-1
Eldritch Blast (ranged 10) +8 vs. ref 1d10+6
Eyebite
Change Shape
Misty step
Warlock's curse
Summon Armor
Witchfire
Beguiling toung
Otherwind stride
Quickcurse Rod
Curse of the dark dream (used)
Skills Arcana +11, Bluff +19, Insight +9,Stealth +7, Streetwise +12

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[TwoHeadsBarking]

Alexia blanches and looks away from the bloodied bandit. Noticing the situation in the front, she vaults over vegetation and seats as she makes her way to the engine. Her heart sinks as she sees the broken runes.

No no no ok think. Runes are down, even if we put out the fire, it will just start up again because the engine's still hot. So we need to cool down the engine. So we need to either vent the heat or turn the engine off. Can't do the former without cooking us, can't do the latter without a considerable source of power. Which I have. Oh, mother would be so proud, I'm sure.

Alexia puts her hand to the wound taken earlier in the battle and her palm comes back red and damp. Using her blood, Alexia writes over one of the shattered runes. Through it she attempts to reach out and establish a connection to the elemental powering the engine.

[sblock=Actions]Move: Move to K12.
Standard: Arcana for Skill Challenge 1, 24.

It doesn't look like anyone is too badly hurt, so I'll save my second Majestic Word for later. So you can get hurt, but I'd prefer it if you didn't.

I don't know who's going to be bloodying whom, but if it happens within 5 squares of me then Virtue of Valor it up.[/sblock]

[sblock=mini-stats] Alexia Madgearu - Human Bard 4
Initiative: +2 | Passive perception: 19 | Passive Insight: 19
AC: 19* | For: 16 | Ref: 15* | Will: 18
*Currently doesn't have her shield equiped.
HP: 34/43 | Bloodied: 21 | Surge value: 10 | Surges: 7/10
Speed: 5 | Languages: Common, Dwarven
AP: 0 | Second Wind: not used
Basic Attack/Opportunity attack: +10 vs AC, 1d8+5, +d8 on crit
Powers: Cutting Words, Guiding Strike, Warsong Strike
Blood Drain
Majestic Word (1/2)
Words of Friendship
Inspiring Refrain
Dissonant Strain
Stirring Shout Used in Kill the Messenger.
Concerted Effort
Harsh Songblade
Skald's Chainmail[/sblock]

 

[Kalidrev]

[sblock=Results of Garrick's Actions (Masumi: please read as well)]

Decree of Khirad vs Bandit 1: Hit; The bandit makes a Mace Attack vs Tracker and misses. This means that the bandit takes 13 damage.

Decree of Khirad misses Tracker and Bandit 4 (Bandit 2 is outside the range of the closeblast 3, but 4 is not. I figured you meant 4) , so they each take 13 damage as well.

Eldritch Strike vs Tracker: Hits for 18 damage, HOWEVER please read below for more info:

STAGGERING WEAPON PROPERTIES AND POWERS:

The Staggering weapon property adds the enhancement bonus of your weapon (in this case 2) to the number of squares that you slide a creature when you use a power that already slides the creature. This allows your Eldritch Strike to slide someone 3 squares (as you have done all along).

The Staggering weapon DAILY power simply lets you slide a creature 2 squares regardless of the power. This does NOT stack with the weapons property and does NOT add an additional 2 squares to a power that already slides a creature.

Because of this, I will consider Garrick as having NOT used his weapons daily power (since it's completely redundant with the base property of the weapon + Eldritch Strike).

Garrick: Please let me know where you want Tracker to be slid to. (3 squares from O-9)

Masumi: After Garrick picks where he wants Tracker slit to, go ahead and post where you want to slide tracker to. (1 square from where Garrick slides Tracker) [/sblock]

[sblock=Losing Posts] I HATE it when that happens! That's why I try to remember to either type it up in Word/Text Edit/Notepad FIRST, OR I will Right-Click > SELECT ALL > COPY before I submit, so that if I DO, for one reason or another, lose my post, I still have it once I paste it back in. If you find the time/energy to retype it in, I'd love to still see what you had for me, as it sounds like you did something cool![/sblock]

[sblock=Fixing the Runes] You will need to have the Ritual Casting feat and will need to have mastered the Make Whole ritual (to fix the runes that are already there). The ritual cost is 20% of the base cost, which was 1,000 gold per rune (there are 2 runes, one on each side of the engine). It would cost you a total of 400 gold to fix the engine using Make Whole) [/sblock]

 

[TwoHeadsBarking]

ooc: Just to clarify, I'm not trying to fix the engine. I'm just trying to turn it off.

 

[Kalidrev]

[sblock=OOC] Just to clarify your clarification: You want to turn off the elemental engine while the train is still moving? I'll let you do this, but as a hint to what would happen, I give you this analogy:

Drive a stick shift car about 30 miles per hour, in first gear. Slam on the breaks and keep your foot off of the clutch. The results would be somewhat the same.

Nevermind, I wrote this before reading your first post, lol. I have something that will work with this.[/sblock]

Alexia writes a rune in her own blood, a dangerous practice. However, her risk pays off and she is able to temporarily establish a mental connection with the elemental. The air elemental within is raging in its "cage", wanting to break free of its slavery. It felt the breaking of the runes and is trying desperately to get out, which is causing more electricity to surge through the engine, thus creating more heat, which the runes are no longer protecting against.

[sblock=Skill Challenge]
Skill Challenge 1: Successes: 2 Fails: 0
Skill Challenge 2: Successes: 0 Fails: 0

Alexia, your connection with the elemental has opened up the use of Diplomacy and Bluff. Only one success (in Skill Challenge 1) can be gained from Diplomacy and Bluff (each). Only YOU can communicate with the elemental right now, so only YOU can use these skills in this skill challenge. [/sblock]

 

[nerdytenor]

OOC: Might I trouble our busy DM for a status update? Not sure what I want Gurdan to do - depends on the status of the baddies.

Thanks

 

[hornedturtle]

Occ: I'm waiting for Garrick to update his action before deciding Masumi's slide

 

[Kalidrev]

[sblock=OOC] Sorry for the hold-up, guys. I'll post a status update tomorrow when I'm at my work computer with all of my notes. I can say that nearly all of my baddies (if not all of my baddies) are bloodied. I think only one or two of you still have the ongoing poison, and the fallen bandit is still trying to catch up. I'll post everything witih more accuracy tomorrow! [/sblock]

 

[Otakkun]

[sblock=Slide] Thanks for the clarification on the weapon's ability. That does make more sense after all.
Well, Garrick will just move him 3 sqaures left instead of 5. [/sblock]

 

[Kalidrev]

[sblock=Status Update]

Tracker - 80 damage; Marked by Grryth; Cursed by Garrick; Bloodied

Bandit 1: 28 damage; Bloodied

Bandit 2: 46 damage; Bloodied

Bandit 3: 47 damage; Bloodied; runnin' his @$$ off! lol

Bandit 4: 27 damage; Bloodied

Masumi: 20 damage (of 39); Bloodied

Lo-Kag: 21 damage (of 45); Marked by Tracker

Alexia: 7 damage (of 43)

Grryth: 26 damage (of 52); Bloodied; Marked by Tracker; 5 Temp HP; Regeneration 2

Garrick: 16 damage (of 40)

Gurdan: 9 damage (of 57)

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