Adventures in Cormyr - The Doorway from Everywhere.

[stonegod]

Vardrin is obviously displeased. "By the Barbed Beard of Bezzelbub! Someone close that damn portal!" With that, he quickly barks word of arcane might, and another frozen pea of death strikes from his hand.

[OOC: uttercold fireball to get the 12 rushing us as best as possible, getting as many of the rest as feasible.]

 

[Rhun]

Thodan

"Beshaba's black luck," curses Thodan loudly. Without missing a beat, he calls upon Tempus for aid, directing his prayer against the closest group of orcs to survive Vardrin's spell.

OOC: Cast Sound Burst upon the tightest concentration of orcs still surviving after Vardrin's attack.

 

[D20Dazza]

Glandred is champing at the bit to go through and hack some orcs apart but has more sense than to attack a whole horde by herself "C'mon you yellow bellied curs, let's get out there and teach these orcs a lesson or two" she cries as she waits to see who will follow her through the portal "If'n no one will help me attack can we funnel them through the portal and collect a pile of orc bodies on the doorstep?" she prepares herself to split an orc in two if it should happen to make it through the portal.

 

[Thanee]

Leonara

“If they simply charge in here, they will die, regardless of their numbers,” Leonara says calmly. Then she pulls the string of her bow back, aiming for the leader of the orcs, the one that has given the command.


OOC: Rapid Shot. +9/+9/+4 (1d8+7/x3).

 

[Lord_Raven88]

Vardrin is obviously displeased. "By the Barbed Beard of Bezzelbub! Someone close that damn portal!" With that, he quickly barks word of arcane might, and another frozen pea of death strikes from his hand.

The ball of freezing energy erupts among nine of the charging Orcs, in the wake of the deadly attack all that remains are small frozen hunks of the nine shattered bodies.

Glandred is champing at the bit to go through and hack some orcs apart but has more sense than to attack a whole horde by herself "C'mon you yellow bellied curs, let's get out there and teach these orcs a lesson or two" she cries as she waits to see who will follow her through the portal "If'n no one will help me attack can we funnel them through the portal and collect a pile of orc bodies on the doorstep?" she prepares herself to split an orc in two if it should happen to make it through the portal.

"Beshaba's black luck," curses Thodan loudly. Without missing a beat, he calls upon Tempus for aid, directing his prayer against the closest group of orcs to survive Vardrin's spell.

Clutching their ears in pain two of the orcs collapse to the ground with blood streaming from their eyes and ears, leaving behind one lone very scared orc.

Jack seeing one remaining orc, bravely continuing to climb the hill sights upon him, and releases his arrow at his wounded foe, the arrow buzzes thru the air and strikes the orc a glancing blow, off of his metal helm, leaving him unharmed.

From within the Orcish horde can be heard the ominous sounds of spellcasting suddenly a pea-sized ball of flame emerges from within the horde and streaks towards the portal, in an instance it has passed thru to your side of the portal and you're all engulfed within the fierce flames, in a second the spell has passed leaving everyone with minor burns, Chik and Leonara seemed to have faced the brunt of the assault which leaves Chik unconscious on the floor, and Leonara severely burnt.

Calling upon the forest maidens power, Nira summons a thick cloud of bats to block the Orcs entrance to the portal

Seeing her viewing obstructed by the swarm of bats Leonara painfully makes her way over to the portal and utters the command phrase to close it down.

The portal begins to flicker between showing a veiw from the other portal to being a stone wall.

Initiative
Vardrin 19 (Cast Uttercold fireball for 33 points of damage DC 17, save vs Fireball 17 [11 damage])
Glandred 16 (save vs Fireball 18 [11 damage])
Cressyl 16
Thodan 14 (Cast Sound burst for 6 damage DC 15, save vs Fireball 18 [11 damage])
Jack 12 (Fires arrow at Orc2 13 vs AC 15, miss, save vs Fireball 27 [11 damage])
Tharlock 10 (Cast Fireball for 22 points of damage DC 16)
Chik 9 (save vs Fireball 14 [22 damage])
Nira 7 (Cast Summon Swarm[Bats], save vs Fireball 25 [11 damage])
Leonara 5 (Deactivates portal, save vs Fireball 12 (nat 1*) [22 damage])
Stalker 5 (save vs Fireball 23 [11 damage])
Orcs 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 (Instantly killed by Uttercold Fireball)
Orcs 2, 7, 8 (Save vs Soundburst, [16, 9, 7] 2 failures 1 success)
* At this stage I'm not going to make any saves for Leonara equipement, despite the fact she rolled a natural 1, while it would be realistic, it would also be a mighty pain if Leonara lost the majority of her items, for ease of game play I'll assuming that they made their saves

Conditional Summary
Vardrin 19/30
Glandred 36/47
Thodan 31/42
Jack 33/43
Chik -2/20
Nira 14/25
Leonara 11/33
Stalker 23/34
Orc2 Mortally Wounded

Portal4


Portal Room

 

[stonegod]

Vardrin grits his teeth, and quickly moves of to the side of the filckering portal. While drawing something from his pack, he states, "The swarm will distract them for now, but they know we're here! We need to get to one of their lesser used portals to regroup!"

[OOC: Move to hug the wall near #2, and then dig one of his potions of cure moderate wounds out of his pack]

 

[Rhun]

"Agreed," says Thodan, moving to Chik's side. "It is time for a strategic withdrawal. Do we go back to the Stonelands, or do we temp fate with one of these other portals?" Thodan places his hands upon Chik, and prays to Tempus to heal his fallen companion. As he finishes his prayer, he looks over to Vardrin. "What would happen if I attempt to dispel the magic of that portal?"


OOC: Spontaneously cast Cure Moderate Wounds, dropping Silence.

 

[Thanee]

Leonara

Cursing silently for her slow reactions, while moving into the center of the room, Leonara draws her wand and activates it, to begin tending her wounds. Stalker follows her and stands guard.


OOC: Move to AR9, Draw Wand; Activate Wand. Stalker moves to AP8.

 

[D20Dazza]

Glandred pats at the embers that still cling almost lovingly to her newly charred clothing "Yeah, maybe we've bitten off a huge chunk of agro and our jaws ain't big enough to chew" she mutters as she moves away from the portal "Whoever heard of magic using orcs anyway? It's just not right!" she shouts her axes gripped loosely in her hands "Somehow destroying these portals would be the trick. Something we need to do very quickly, whatever else we do they'll just track us, it'll be a race if we can't destroy this place." she suggests as her eyes sweep the walls looking for any imperfections in the stone that supports the portals.

 

[Amazing Triangle]

"Why are you dispelling it friend? Why not use the close command we learned...it was in orcish was it not?" Jack notches another arrow preparing for another orc to close. "I think it would be, my dwarven friend, in our best interest to wait to kill them all at a later date. There would be nothing I would enjoy more than watching them all die by your hands and my bow."