JoeNotCharles
First Post
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Here are the stats I should have given at the start of combat:
Warforged Hunter: HP 56; AC 20, Fort 17, Reflex 15, Will 14; Basic attack: Longsword +9 vs AC, 1d8+4 damage and target marked until end of Warforged's next turn
Rotting Hound: HP minion; AC 15, Fort 11, Reflex 17, Will 11; Basic attack: Gravebite +4 vs Reflex; 5 necrotic damage
Fell Taint: HP 20; AC 15, Fort 12, Reflex 12, Will 14; Basic attack: Tendril Caress +5 vs Reflex; 1d6+4 psychic damage
Now that I've posted the creature stats, please roll any obvious OA's you take for yourself. (So Mikara would have rolled the two Fell Taint attacks and posted them at the same time she did her action, which would probably have changed what Dextyr chose...
Also, I keep seeing people ask "Which one is Fell Taint 1?" and things like that. You realize their locations are listed in the Status block, right? "Fell Taint 1 at E12" means the one at E12 is Fell Taint 1. Is this hard to follow? Should I do something else?
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[sblock=Mikara]
Fell Taint 1 is the one south of you, at E12. I assume that's the one you're attacking.
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[sblock=Dextyr]
Majestic Word is a minor action, not standard, so you wouldn't have needed an AP for your actions as posted.
However, Fell Taint 3 isn't in your square, its floating 5' above it, so you can't shift as you stand. (The issue isn't just that it's flying, it's that it's not in your square - it's flying in the square above the square you're in.) So you could: use your move to stand, standard to shift to F16, minor to use Majestic Word and shift to E16, AP to attack; or just attack from F16, changing your targets slightly but not using an AP; or you might want to reconsider and use Majestic Word on Mikara instead, since her hp total has changed drastically since you posted your action.
I'm going to just have you go last so I can resolve everyone else's action and still give you a chance to reconsider your actions. (Please use the same rolls as much as possible if you're doing similar actions.) That means Tonk had a chance to move you using King's Castle - if you don't want that, say so and I'll negate it. (It needs a willing ally.)
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[sblock=Blade]
At this point, Fell Taint 1 is dead, so the only one left next to Mikara is Fell Taint 2. Unfortunately it has full cover from you, since there's more than 1 square of trees in the way. Fortunately, it has low defenses so you hit it anyway.
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[sblock=Tonk]
Yeah, your posted action made no sense because Dextyr wouldn't even have been there. But since I'm not doing Dextyr till after you, I'll go ahead and do your action as posted.
However, my reading of King's Castle is that you make the attack first, then shift. So you can't attack the G14 hound from there, the only enemy you can reach is the Fell Taint again. So I'll have you attack that. Also, now that you know their full hp totals you can see that Furious Assault isn't needed to kill it, so I'll let you save it.
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Mikara aims her bow at the nearest floating gasbag, but as she is distracted, both of them dart forward as one and pass their tendrils across her head - through her head! The pain is excruciating as she feels an alien presence physically touching her thoughts. She manages to let her arrow fire before falling face first onto the branch and grabbing at the tree. Her bow slips from her fingers, as does the tree branch... As she blacks out, she is rewarded by the sight of her arrow puncturing one of the creatures and flying through into the sky beyond. The creature melts into an iridescent ooze which rains down onto the forest floor and evaporates into an oily stain. It is Mikara's last sight before she also tumbles to the ground below, landing in a crumpled, bleeding heap at the base of the tree. The other fell taint sinks slowly down to hover over her barely breathing body...
As it moves, Blade catches a quick glimpse of it through the trees and flings a radiant dart at it. He scorches away a piece of its bubbling hide, causing it to jerk away from Mikara. Empowered by the success, he flings himself into the teeth of his enemies. One of the fell taints lashes a tendril at his head, causing impossible colours to bloom behind his eyes, but his momentum carries him out of its reach before it can invade his mind completely. The zombie dogs bite at him, their jaws leaving trails of boiling black energy which melts away as soon as it touches his skin. With every attack, more power surges through him, until at last he faces the Warforged Hunter and raises his axe...
And as the hunter turns to face Blade's onslaught, Tristan leaps from the shadow of the trees to sink his scimitar into its unprotected back. Tristan hits it twice in quick succession, cracking through its metallic backplate, but it is Blade's massive swing which splinters open its ribcage and drives it to its knees. The red light in the warforged's sunken eyesockets flickers feebly.
As Blade's rush distracts the Fell Taint hovering over Dextyr, Tonk attacks from hiding. His shuriken sinks deeply into the maw that lurks between its tentacles and, as it flails in pain, he jumps down and bashes it out of the air with his mace. It splatters into a tree and explodes into gelatinous gibbets which slowly melt into vapour. Tonk grabs Dextyr and thrusts him behind him, leaving himself facing the circle of undead dogs.
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Tristan moves to C12 and hides. Since the Fell Taint at D13 is 10' overhead, it can't make an opportunity attack. He places his Oath of Enmity on the warforged, shifts a long way to G10 (hey, I remembered Wild Step this time!), and hits it for 17. Then he hits it again with Bond of Pursuit for 9.
Mikara puts her Hunter's Quarry on Fell Taint 1, and hits it for 21, killing it instantly. (Where are you shifting to?) Unfortunately, the OA's are interrupts, so you still take 2: 2 OA's on Mikara (vs Reflex) (1d20+5=21, 1d6+4=9, 1d20+5=25, 1d6+4=8) That second is a critical, so it actually does 10: 19 psychic damage total. She's at -1 hp left, and dying. Which means she falls prone. I will give her a save to avoid falling out of the tree: Save to avoid falling out of the tree (1d20=3) Which she fails.
Mikara falls 10 feet while unconscious, taking Falling damage (1d10=10). That puts her at -11, 1 point from automatic death.
Blade attacks Fell Taint 2 with Radiant Vengeance, hitting Reflex 13 for 7 and gaining 4 thp. Then he puts his Oath of Enmity on the Warforged and moves to H12, drawing OA's from Fell Taint 3, Fell Taint 4, Rotting Hound 2, and Rotting Hound 4: 2 OA's on Blade (vs Reflex) (1d20+5=22, 1d6+4=9, 1d20+5=8, 1d6+4=6), 2 OA's on Blade (1d20+4=21, 1d20+4=24) 1 hit for 9 psychic, 2 hits fo 5 necrotic each (negated by his resistance), and adding 12 to his damage rolls from Censure of Retribution. Yeesh! He hits the Warforged for 33 damage, bloodying it, and leaving Avenging Echoes.
Tonk hits Fell Taint 3 with a shuriken for 17 damage, bloodying it. Then he moves to H16 and attacks it again for 13, killing it. He switches places with Dextyr: he ends up at G15, and Dextyr at G16 (Dextyr can refuse to do this if he wants).
Dextyr needs to post a new action, then it's Lilf and the bad guys again.
Lilf Proudfoot at G18 (17 damage, immobilized)
Warforged Hunter at G11 (50 damage)
Rotting Hound 1 at E12 (0 damage)
Rotting Hound 2 at G14 (0 damage)
Rotting Hound 3 at F13 (0 damage)
Rotting Hound 4 at H14 (0 damage)
Fell Taint 1 at E12, 10' up (21 damage)
Fell Taint 2 at D13, 10' up (7 damage)
Fell Taint 3 at G15, 5' up (30 damage)
Fell Taint 4 at H14, 5' up (0 damage)
Tristan (24/28 hp, Oath of Enmity on Warforged, can shift 5 squares as a free action if Warforged doesn't end its next turn adjacent to him)
Tonk (24/24 hp)
Dextyr (10/28 hp, prone, Stealth 11)
Blade (20/29 hp, Oath of Enmity on Warforged, until end of next turn any enemy that ends its turn adjacent to, hits, or misses him takes 9 radiant damage)
Mikara (-11/24 hp, dying)
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Here are the stats I should have given at the start of combat:
Warforged Hunter: HP 56; AC 20, Fort 17, Reflex 15, Will 14; Basic attack: Longsword +9 vs AC, 1d8+4 damage and target marked until end of Warforged's next turn
Rotting Hound: HP minion; AC 15, Fort 11, Reflex 17, Will 11; Basic attack: Gravebite +4 vs Reflex; 5 necrotic damage
Fell Taint: HP 20; AC 15, Fort 12, Reflex 12, Will 14; Basic attack: Tendril Caress +5 vs Reflex; 1d6+4 psychic damage
Now that I've posted the creature stats, please roll any obvious OA's you take for yourself. (So Mikara would have rolled the two Fell Taint attacks and posted them at the same time she did her action, which would probably have changed what Dextyr chose...
Also, I keep seeing people ask "Which one is Fell Taint 1?" and things like that. You realize their locations are listed in the Status block, right? "Fell Taint 1 at E12" means the one at E12 is Fell Taint 1. Is this hard to follow? Should I do something else?
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[sblock=Mikara]
Fell Taint 1 is the one south of you, at E12. I assume that's the one you're attacking.
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[sblock=Dextyr]
Majestic Word is a minor action, not standard, so you wouldn't have needed an AP for your actions as posted.
However, Fell Taint 3 isn't in your square, its floating 5' above it, so you can't shift as you stand. (The issue isn't just that it's flying, it's that it's not in your square - it's flying in the square above the square you're in.) So you could: use your move to stand, standard to shift to F16, minor to use Majestic Word and shift to E16, AP to attack; or just attack from F16, changing your targets slightly but not using an AP; or you might want to reconsider and use Majestic Word on Mikara instead, since her hp total has changed drastically since you posted your action.
I'm going to just have you go last so I can resolve everyone else's action and still give you a chance to reconsider your actions. (Please use the same rolls as much as possible if you're doing similar actions.) That means Tonk had a chance to move you using King's Castle - if you don't want that, say so and I'll negate it. (It needs a willing ally.)
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[sblock=Blade]
At this point, Fell Taint 1 is dead, so the only one left next to Mikara is Fell Taint 2. Unfortunately it has full cover from you, since there's more than 1 square of trees in the way. Fortunately, it has low defenses so you hit it anyway.
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[sblock=Tonk]
Yeah, your posted action made no sense because Dextyr wouldn't even have been there. But since I'm not doing Dextyr till after you, I'll go ahead and do your action as posted.
However, my reading of King's Castle is that you make the attack first, then shift. So you can't attack the G14 hound from there, the only enemy you can reach is the Fell Taint again. So I'll have you attack that. Also, now that you know their full hp totals you can see that Furious Assault isn't needed to kill it, so I'll let you save it.
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Mikara aims her bow at the nearest floating gasbag, but as she is distracted, both of them dart forward as one and pass their tendrils across her head - through her head! The pain is excruciating as she feels an alien presence physically touching her thoughts. She manages to let her arrow fire before falling face first onto the branch and grabbing at the tree. Her bow slips from her fingers, as does the tree branch... As she blacks out, she is rewarded by the sight of her arrow puncturing one of the creatures and flying through into the sky beyond. The creature melts into an iridescent ooze which rains down onto the forest floor and evaporates into an oily stain. It is Mikara's last sight before she also tumbles to the ground below, landing in a crumpled, bleeding heap at the base of the tree. The other fell taint sinks slowly down to hover over her barely breathing body...
As it moves, Blade catches a quick glimpse of it through the trees and flings a radiant dart at it. He scorches away a piece of its bubbling hide, causing it to jerk away from Mikara. Empowered by the success, he flings himself into the teeth of his enemies. One of the fell taints lashes a tendril at his head, causing impossible colours to bloom behind his eyes, but his momentum carries him out of its reach before it can invade his mind completely. The zombie dogs bite at him, their jaws leaving trails of boiling black energy which melts away as soon as it touches his skin. With every attack, more power surges through him, until at last he faces the Warforged Hunter and raises his axe...
And as the hunter turns to face Blade's onslaught, Tristan leaps from the shadow of the trees to sink his scimitar into its unprotected back. Tristan hits it twice in quick succession, cracking through its metallic backplate, but it is Blade's massive swing which splinters open its ribcage and drives it to its knees. The red light in the warforged's sunken eyesockets flickers feebly.
As Blade's rush distracts the Fell Taint hovering over Dextyr, Tonk attacks from hiding. His shuriken sinks deeply into the maw that lurks between its tentacles and, as it flails in pain, he jumps down and bashes it out of the air with his mace. It splatters into a tree and explodes into gelatinous gibbets which slowly melt into vapour. Tonk grabs Dextyr and thrusts him behind him, leaving himself facing the circle of undead dogs.
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Tristan moves to C12 and hides. Since the Fell Taint at D13 is 10' overhead, it can't make an opportunity attack. He places his Oath of Enmity on the warforged, shifts a long way to G10 (hey, I remembered Wild Step this time!), and hits it for 17. Then he hits it again with Bond of Pursuit for 9.
Mikara puts her Hunter's Quarry on Fell Taint 1, and hits it for 21, killing it instantly. (Where are you shifting to?) Unfortunately, the OA's are interrupts, so you still take 2: 2 OA's on Mikara (vs Reflex) (1d20+5=21, 1d6+4=9, 1d20+5=25, 1d6+4=8) That second is a critical, so it actually does 10: 19 psychic damage total. She's at -1 hp left, and dying. Which means she falls prone. I will give her a save to avoid falling out of the tree: Save to avoid falling out of the tree (1d20=3) Which she fails.
Mikara falls 10 feet while unconscious, taking Falling damage (1d10=10). That puts her at -11, 1 point from automatic death.
Blade attacks Fell Taint 2 with Radiant Vengeance, hitting Reflex 13 for 7 and gaining 4 thp. Then he puts his Oath of Enmity on the Warforged and moves to H12, drawing OA's from Fell Taint 3, Fell Taint 4, Rotting Hound 2, and Rotting Hound 4: 2 OA's on Blade (vs Reflex) (1d20+5=22, 1d6+4=9, 1d20+5=8, 1d6+4=6), 2 OA's on Blade (1d20+4=21, 1d20+4=24) 1 hit for 9 psychic, 2 hits fo 5 necrotic each (negated by his resistance), and adding 12 to his damage rolls from Censure of Retribution. Yeesh! He hits the Warforged for 33 damage, bloodying it, and leaving Avenging Echoes.
Tonk hits Fell Taint 3 with a shuriken for 17 damage, bloodying it. Then he moves to H16 and attacks it again for 13, killing it. He switches places with Dextyr: he ends up at G15, and Dextyr at G16 (Dextyr can refuse to do this if he wants).
Dextyr needs to post a new action, then it's Lilf and the bad guys again.
Lilf Proudfoot at G18 (17 damage, immobilized)
Warforged Hunter at G11 (50 damage)
Rotting Hound 1 at E12 (0 damage)
Rotting Hound 2 at G14 (0 damage)
Rotting Hound 3 at F13 (0 damage)
Rotting Hound 4 at H14 (0 damage)
Fell Taint 2 at D13, 10' up (7 damage)
Fell Taint 4 at H14, 5' up (0 damage)
Tristan (24/28 hp, Oath of Enmity on Warforged, can shift 5 squares as a free action if Warforged doesn't end its next turn adjacent to him)
Tonk (24/24 hp)
Dextyr (10/28 hp, prone, Stealth 11)
Blade (20/29 hp, Oath of Enmity on Warforged, until end of next turn any enemy that ends its turn adjacent to, hits, or misses him takes 9 radiant damage)
Mikara (-11/24 hp, dying)
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Ooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuch!
. I have a few 'tenets' that I like to hold (I don't always hold them, but I've found that things go better when I do).
