(CSRHoD) Creamsteak's Red Hand of Doom [IC]

[Creamsteak]

Initiatives - Round 5
Amery Vraath 23
Larian 22
Avril 19
Gurguannin 17
Skeletons 15 <- Ending Here
Siobhan 15 <- Starting Here
Tyrla 13
Warren 10

Siobhan: Siobhan moves closer and then, with a prayer, becomes larger.

Tyrla: Tyrla moves to a better position and fires, dealing 14 points of damage to the skeleton in the courtyard.

Warren: Warren runs up the stairs, tumbling carefully. The stairs make it slighly more difficult but he still manages.

Archer: The archer above turns his longbow againt the giant right next to him. He suffers an attack of opportunity for 23 points of damage. His shots against he giant are poor, only one lands, dealing 22 points of damage to the abombination.

Larian: Larian moves forward and triggers his wand, inflicting 6 points of damage.

Avril: Avril commands the wolf's attack, and the wolf's drags the skeleton to the ground as it dies.

Skeleton: The remaining provokes an attack of opportunity from Warren as it moves towards the archer, not paying any attention to the halfling. Warrens attack lands, and deals 2 points of damage. The skeleton then tries to grapple the Archer, moving into his square. Amery isn't armed with a melee weapon, so he can't defend against it. The grappled man takes another 13 points of damage from the claws of the skeleton's hand. The skeleton holds the man over the edge of the tower between his two huge skeletal arms.

 

[Arkhandus]

Warren the halfling, HP 21/33, AC 23, Child of Shadows stance

Warren pursues, and attempts to smack the skeleton's kneecaps again with his club.

 

[Pinotage]

Avril - Human Druid - AC 16 - hp 31/36 - Spot +11 - Listen +11
Scarlet - Riding Dog - Dead

Avril's wolf finally managed to drag down the mighty skeleton, and every movement of the brave creature reminded her of Scarlet. Her brave husky. Strong and powerful, and never afraid to obey her mistress.

Avril shook her head and ran. The wolf bounded up the stairs on its own accord, instinctively going where the danger was and the enemy had fled to. Avril had no idea what was happening on top of that tower, and right now she didn't care. She glanced at Scarlet's dead form with longing as she slipped passed a pillar and made her way to Gurguannin's side. There she poured some of her healing magic into the dwarf in an attempt to stabilise him. Hopefully she was not too late and he would live.

[SBLOCK=OOC]
OOC: Avril moves to M13 and casts Cure Minor Wounds on Gurguannin. Wolf bounds up the stairs towards the skeleton.

Wolf, AC 14, hp 17, Bite +5 (1d6+4), Trip +3, Low-light Vision, Scent

Spells and Abilities Active:

Summon Nature's Ally I (Wolf, 2 rounds)

Spells Cast and Abilities/Items Used:

Summon Nature's Ally III (Call Lightning)
Cure Moderate Wounds
Wild Shape (1 Used)
Metamagic Rod of Lesser Extend (3 Used)
Barkskin
Extended Cat's Grace
Extended Produce Flame
Cure Light Wounds
Bear's Endurance
Enrage Animal
Wand of Snake's Swiftness (3 charges Used)
Summon Nature's Ally I (Entangle)
Cure Minor Wounds

Spells Prepared:

Level 0 (5): Detect Magic, Guidance, Naturewatch, Resistance
Level 1 (4):
Level 2 (3):
Level 3 (2):
[/SBLOCK]

 

[Redclaw]

Larian--Transmuter 5--AC 13--HP 25--Fort +2/Ref +4/Will +4

Horrified by the impending disaster, Larian shouts to his celestial-blooded ally,Siobhan, attempt to catch him if the undead beast drops him!
He then triggers his wand again, out of useful spells.
[sblock=ooc] One more set of magic missiles at this thing. 2d4+2 damage. [/sblock]
[sblock=spells] Spells Prepared
0-Detect Magic, Lesser Acid Orb, Mage Hand, Daze
1-Color Spray
2-
3-Mass Resist Energy

Spells in effect
Rod of Extend--1 uses left
Pearl of Power--used [/sblock]

 

[pathfinderq1]

Tyrla paused for a moment- while there was still one skeleton left, most of her friends were focused upon defeating it. Instead, she wrapped her cloak a bit more tightly and strode to the doorway, ready to assist Avril if any more creatures lurked outside in the storm...

OOC: move to J 14, look around the corner into the courtyard- ready to assist Avril if there are any more beasties out there...

 

[Creamsteak]

Initiatives - Round 5-7 tie up
Amery Vraath 23
Larian 22
Avril 19
Gurguannin 17
Skeletons 15
Siobhan 15 <- Starting Here, doubling over
Tyrla 13 <- Ending Here.
Warren 10

Siobhan: Siobhan moves to a location just below the dangling archer.

Tyrla: Tyrla moves to peer through the opening in the wall.

Warren: Warren gives it the old halfling kneecaping dealing another 3 points of damage.

Archer: The archer grabs onto the skeletons wrists trying to pull it off. He is unsuccessful. Larian and Warren become aware of an odd fact: each time that lightning strikes and makes the area visible, the archer is not there and the skeleton looks to be holding nothing.

Larian: Larian steps up and fires two more bolts from his wand dealing 7 points of damage.

Avril: (My measurements put you at a double move to reach Gurguannin) You arrive at the barbarian's location, he's slick with rain and soaking into the mud. Due to the darkness and circumstances, you have trouble discerning his exact situation (heal check result of 12). It doesn't look good though, most of his skull is caved in on one side and his heart is running on rage-based adrenaline. The wolf moves up the tower as fast as it can, arriving at the top. The skeleton doesn't pay any attention.

Skeleton: The skeleton provokes attacks again with it's wide clumsy movement. Warren and the wolf both attack, combined they do 7 points of damage. The skeleton shakes the man violently, then hurls him not unlike a stone, in the direction of the tower where the manticore was. The mans body flies, striking against the stone. Avril and Tyrla are witnesses to that much. The body falls into the mud below, but as it does it seems to sink into the mud more quickly than it should. Within a few seconds the body of the archer isn't there at all.

Siobhan: (Siobhan either goes outside the tower or up it. Either way she can't really get into a position to attack properly yet.)

Tyrla: Tyrla steps outside the building and into the rain, and fires another blast at the skeleton in the tower. The blast deals 17 more points of damage, enough to finish off the battered skeleton.

The combat ends. Update post to follow.

 

[Creamsteak]

Gurguannin's situation is too severe. Even after the cure minor wounds, he dies when his rage runs out the following round. He may have been dead regardless of the healing that went into him, but his Barbarian heart kept him ticking longer than a normal man would have. I'm sure he'll enjoy his personal Valhalla wherever he ends up.

Scarlet is also dead. Her spirit passes on to another world. Avril certainly can feel the ebb and flow of nature giving her a last goodbye.

The lightning stops, but it's still raining endlessly. This torrent just won't stop. The entire place is full of leaks, and the rain doesn't help anything except to wash away some of the blood scattered all over the courtyard.

As Warren and Larian descend the tower stairs, they spot something clearly out of place. A large set of stones have been displaced within the tower, leaving a hole with a ladder in it (it's approximately at square C20). This leads into a 5 ft. wide vertical shaft that descends 40 feet down. There's no way to tell what's below from the vantage of the room, as it's clearly very dark down there. Throwing a stone takes a second to sound, but it clacks like stone on stone when it finally lands below.

Between the two battles fought in the keep in the last 24 hours, things look like hell. Every wall is more damaged than the previous day. Johr apparently soiled himself and is on his way out of the keep briefly to dispose of the old pants and put on his spare pair. He seems a bit embarrassed about it, but at the end of the day he's too old to worry about it.

Also note that the battle constituted an interruption for anyone that was resting. I think that doesn't mean much for most characters, but for Larian it means he's going to have to put extra work into preparing his spells. The best room to do it now that it's raining would be the map room, as it remains dry there and the table provides a nice place to work.

 

[Arkhandus]

Warren the halfling, HP 21/33, AC 23

Warren sighs and suggests "Let's go rest for a while and then check this shaft later." Heading out to the map room, he sees Scarlet's and Gurguannen's corpses, frowning. "The dwarf was a strong ally. And Scarlet was a good dog." He sighs again, and mutters something quietly in Halfling before going to seek shelter in the map room. After folks have filed into there, he adds "I'll keep watch for a few hours. Tyrla, can you take second watch?"

 

[Creamsteak]

Assuming the whole group wants to follow that lead, the period goes by uneventful. You end up at he keep until the early afternoon. The sun comes out and things start to look a little less dreary, but the whole show is otherwise the same.

 

[Dalamar]

After it seems like the situation has calmed down, Siobhan dismisses the magical effect on herself. She recites a prayer over both Gurguannin and Scarlet. "The two proved their strength. They can enter the afterlife with their heads held high."

After a moment, the cleric retreats to a quiet spot to ask for Kord's blessings for the day.