Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 2878210" data-attributes="member: 11146">The bloodsucker affixed to Grotzkoshter increases its pressure this round and with a great and mighty pull, drains Grotz of 4 points of Constitution.  Detaching itself and obviously getting ready to fly off, its gut full of its bloody gorge, Grotz finds himself with an opening to attack.  In a flash, Grotz tries to grab the bloodsucker.  Though he gets a hand on one of the creature's eight pincers, the bloodsucker wrests itself free and flies unsteadily off across the open chasm opposite the edge of the sandy ledge.  40 feet away by the end of its flight, the creature looks to be ready to dip down into the depths of the cavern below.Grotz grasps the haft of his axe from his back and, ignoring the blood trickling down the back of his neck, swings at Rat 3.  With a crunch and a snap, the greataxe cleaves through Rat 3, instantly killing the beastly rat.  Using the momentum from his cleave to swing at Rat 2, Grotz's balance is unfortunately thrown off just as Rat 2 skitters backward, out of harm's way.Karl, still clinging to the rope on his climb down, finds that the rope swings to the side for some reason.  Denied the benefit of both the rope and the rocky wall of the ravine, Karl makes no downward progress this round.Rolled a 2.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  At least Karl didn't fall.Dire Rat 2 circles wide then comes back in just at the lip of the ledge to try to bite at Kiaphas, the sweeter meat.  Snarling with yellowed incisors and a feral gleam in its eyes, the rat misses Kiaphas.Finding that he needn't move other than to ready his buckler, Kiaphas swings his longsword at Rat 2, connecting for 9 points of damage.   Dire Rat 2 hisses and keels to the side, falling off the ledge and landing with a wet splat 30 feet down on a craggy precipice.Dire Rat 1, larger than the other two rats but obviously wounded, rushes in to bite at Kiaphas's leathered legs.  Sharp fangs sink into muscle as the rat bites Kiaphas on the side of the calf, dealing 2 points of damage.   Already the wound feels hot and a weakness seems to spread from the bite mark upward.Elyan launches into a voluminous battle song that readily echoes off the ravine walls to reach the ears of Karl, Grotz, and Kiaphas down below.  Inspire courage for +1 morale bonus to attack and damage rolls, as well as a boost to saves vs. charm and fear effects.  Please add this bonus in to your characters' actions.Korgrave launches a stone at Rat 1.  The shot from the sling is a very narrow miss but fails to hit the beast and instead joins the pile of rocky rubble strewn about the ledge.InitiativeGrotz 19Karl 13Kiaphas 10Dire Rat 1Elyan 6Korgrave 5</blockquote>

Verification