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

[Arkhandus]

Warren the halfling, 47/47 HP, AC 27, Haste, Island of Blades stance

"EVERYONE AND MANDLA GET BACK!" Warren shouts, seeing Mandla wounded and his target, the barghest, moving around closer. The halfling stabs quickly at the dragonspawn twice, then steps quickly around it. He needed folks further back if he was going to make any serious assault on the barghest.

In Elven, he shouts "I can't blow up the barghest if everyone's so close! The blast'll be like Larian's!"

[sblock=ooc]Full attack with Haste, so two attacks against the dragonspawn. So Warren makes 2 attacks at +16 to hit, for 1d4+6+2d6 damage each, since he's effectively flanking.

Also, Mandla is considered to be flanking the dragonspawn next to Warren this round.[/sblock]

 

[Pinotage]

Avril - Human Druid - AC 21 - hp 46/55 - Spot +15 - Listen +15
Mandla - Riding Dog - AC 26 - hp 18/57 - Spot +5 - Listen +5

Mandla was hurting. As was Pender, the great warrior. One of them needed to move, and the other needed to be healed. Options raced through her mind as Warren at least made one decision easier for her. Calling to Mandla, she withdrew the dog from the battle, bringing the wounded canine to her side - pleased that it was not yet going to suffer the same fate as Scarlet.

Guarding the dog from the battle, she steps forward to Pender, and instantly calls on the spirits to heal him. His many wounds knit as the blood stops flowing. "Be strong," she whispers as she looks to the skies and the battlefield. The threats were becoming stronger and more powerful. She hoped Warren and the others could clear those around them before the dragon arrived.

[SBLOCK=OOC]OOC: I'm back for a little while at least, so posting for me should return to normal.

Avril commands Mandla to Withdraw from the battle and come to her side (Handle Animal +15, moving to AG6). She then casts Cure Serious Wounds on Pender, moving up to touch him to AH8. Pender heals 3d8+8 hp of damage.

Spells and Abilities Active:

Barkskin (Avril, Mandla, 160 minutes)
Enrage Animal (Mandla, 5 rounds)
Entangle (8 minutes)
Produce Flame (5.8 minutes, 2 Used)
Haste (Mandla, 10 rounds)

Spells Cast and Abilities/Items Used:

Barkskin
Enrage Animal
Entangle
Lesser Metamagic Rod of Extend (1 Used)
Produce Flame
Cure Serious Wounds

Level 0 (6): Cure Minor Wounds (3), Detect Magic (2), Guidance
Level 1 (5): Cure Light Wounds, Faerie Fire
Level 2 (4): Barkskin, Bull's Strength, Cat's Grace
Level 3 (4): Call Lightning, Cure Moderate Wounds, Greater Magic Fang, Protection from Energy
Level 4 (3): Air Walk, Flame Strike

Avril's Character Sheet [/SBLOCK]

 

[Creamsteak]

Initiatives
Tyrla 22
Avril 21
Siobhan 20
Warren 13
Larian 13
Pender 8
Hobgoblin 8
Everything else...

Tyrla's blast is poorly timed (nat 1) and misses the beast despite its size. The dragon is visible, 2 rounds from arriving on the field (so after this round, you will have 1 more before he's in range, and he's now within range of some attacks at roughly 300 feet.).

Avril calls mandla back and moves adjacent to Pender. Her heal is very effective (32 hp healed, maximum rolled).

Siobhan fails to escape the vines (nat 1 rolled, there seems to be a theme here).

Warren is not currently flanking the target (nor is there any way to set up a flank until after Pender's action). If you go with the same action...

[sblock]1 hit for 6 damage.[/sblock]

Larian fires two bolts of flame at his targets, both dealing damage.

Pender moves around the blackspawn and swings with a powerful slash across the creatures abdomen, but it narrowly dodges the predictable powerful swing.

The hobgoblins move out again and each fire a shot into Mandla's side. Both hit, dealing 5 and 1 points of damage to the already wounded dog.

The massive hound marches up to Avril avoiding the other attackers. He swipes at the druid and fails to hit.

The blackspawn try to move, both closing the gap with the nearest target (Warren in this case). One lands a hit for 7 points of damage on Warren.

The other spawn, with Pender engaged, also fails to hit.

 

[Redclaw]

Larian steps away from the barghest, wary of its bite despite his invisibility. Clear for the moment, he calls on one of his earliest spells and sends glowing bolts of force toward the evil planes-traveler.

[sblock=ooc] 5' step to the NW.
Cast magic missile at big W. [/sblock]

[sblock=spells]Spells Memorized
0--Mage Hand, Read Magic, Detect Magic, Detect Magic
1--Mage Armor, Magic Missile, Magic Missile, Protection from Evil, Color Spray, Enlarge Person (Trans)
2--See Invisibility, Knock, Bull's Strength (Trans), Scorching Ray, Scorching Ray
3--Dispel Magic, Fly, Fireball, Mass Resist Energy, Haste (Trans), Fireball (from Rary's ME.)
4--Greater Invisibility, Dimension Door, Evard's Black Tentacles, Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer (Trans)

Spells in Effect
Mage Armor--16 hours from breaking camp
Greater Invisibility--4 rounds
Haste--Larian, Pender, Mandla, Warren, Siobhan--13 rounds

Metamagic Rod of Extend--1 uses left
Pearl of Power--available
Disspelling Chord--5 knots[/sblock]

 

[Arkhandus]

Warren (flippin' out!), HP 40/47, AC 27, Haste, Child of Shadow

Warren winces at the light wound he suffers, but is annoyed that the barghest has just passed him by to go harass the others. "Hey, I'm over here, dogbreath!" he calls out after the barghest. He decides that with everyone moving so slowly to clear the area, he's never going to blow up the barghest at this rate.

So instead he twirls his short sword around in a flourish, jabs and slashes a few times just in front of the dragonspawn he was facing, then skips forward a moment to thrust into the draconic abomination's heart, burning a mark across its chest in the pattern of his earlier strokes. The mark explodes outward, a low roar of flames washing over the dragonspawn, its companion on Warren's side, and the barghest's rear-left flank.

By the time the flames burn out, Warren has changed his footing and raised his sword into a different posture, as he flips backward a few times to approach that darn barghest. As he moves, his own shadow and that of the burnt dragonspawn flows around him, swirling about in a veil of fog-like darkness. "I need a little help to finish this thing off! Pender? Avril?"

[sblock=ooc]Actually, Warren's minimum damage is 7 points presently. 1d4+6 (+1 weapon, +5 Dex with Shadow Blade feat, since his 8th-level Dex increase). Unless the thing has some wierd 1-point DR.... But yeah, somehow it slipped my mind last round that Mandla would be moving before Warren struck, so he wouldn't get much benefit from Island of Blades. No matter, at least he hit once.

Warren stabs the same dragonspawn as last round, the one just a bit further north, with Death Mark, which has a 10-foot burst with the Medium target instead of the larger barghest. This catches both dragonspawn by Warren, and the barghest. Afterward, Warren changes stances to Child of Shadow, tumbling 10 feet northeast to AK-6 to get behind the barghest. The movement gives him concealment (20% miss chance for enemies) until his next turn.

I really, really wish I had been able to safely target the barghest this round without blowing up the rest of the party. ^_^;;

Attack roll was a natural 20 (woo!) for 10 piercing damage. And 35 fire damage to both dragonspawn and the barghest, with a Reflex save versus DC 16 for half (I forgot to add his Wisdom bonus to the Death Mark's damage roll on InvisibleCastle, from Discipline Focus). That was a freaking awesome set of rolls for a change! ^_^ Rolled a total of 20 to confirm the critical hit, for 8 additional piercing damage to the first dragonspawn.
1d20+14=34, 1d4+6=10, 6d6=32
1d20+14=20, 1d4+6=8

Rolled a total of 17 for the Tumble check to move without AoOs from the first dragonspawn, so that succeeds. Rolled a 27 to Tumble past the second foe unmolested, so that's good. I highly doubt the dragonspawn Warren stabbed has survived the likely-critical-hit + big BOOM, but on the off-chance that it did somehow remain conscious, then my third Tumble check to avoid AoOs is a 28, so no problems there. Warren flips out like a ninja successfully! ^_^
1d20+15=17
1d20+15=27
1d20+15=28 [/sblock]

 

[renau1g]

Thanks to the healing touch of Avril, Pender's wounds begin to close and the human warrior nods his thanks to his comrade. As he launches another fury of swipes at the dragonspawn in front of him, Pender's still unable to adjust to the newfound speed and fumbles around with his greatsword like some new recruit into the Brindol militia.

Hearing the halfling's words, Pender calls out "I'm a bit tied up here, be there in a minute" despite his ineffective martial prowess.

[sblock=OOC]
Move: 5 ft step North to AH10
Attack: Full Power Attack AI10 (-3 to hit, +6 damage)
1st Atk; dmg; 2nd Atk; Dmg; Hasted atk; Dmg (1d20+14=15, 2d6+15=23, 1d20+9=10, 2d6+15=22, 1d20=4, 2d6+15=24) ...I screwed up the last roll and forgot the +14 to hit, not that it likely matters, hits AC 18 for 24 damage.
Well rolling two 1's on attack rolls is pretty sweet

*Includes +1 from Haste*
[/sblock]

[sblock=Mini Stat Block]
AC 24, Touch 14, Flat-footed 22 *(Incl. +1 dodge bonus from Haste)
HP 46/67
Fort +9 Ref +6* Will +3
Speed 20 ft.
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[Pinotage]

Avril - Human Druid - AC 21 - hp 55/55 - Spot +15 - Listen +15
Mandla - Riding Dog - AC 26 - hp 20+2d8/57 - Spot +5 - Listen +5

The enemies refused to fall, and still they came closer, pestiring them with arrows at the same time. As two more arrows graced Mandla's flanks, she started to grow more annoyed with herself, in particular because she hadn't taken care of the hobgoblins earlier. Cursing herself silently, she concentrated on taking care of the more pressing moments and healed her wounds at the same time as allowing the spirits to touch her animal companion. Then, seeing the strength flow back into the dog, she commanded it forward, and watched it leap towards the barghest, powerful jaws biting with supernatural magical speed.

[SBLOCK=OOC]OOC: Avril takes a 5 ft. step back to AG7, and casts Cure Moderate Wounds on herself, sharing it with Mandla. Avril and Mandla heal 2d8+8 hp damage each. Avril commands Mandla to attack the barghest (Handle Animal +15, moving to AH6). Mandla bite attacks with Haste and Enrage Animal: +12/+12. Damage: 1d6+8/1d6+8.

Spells and Abilities Active:

Barkskin (Avril, Mandla, 160 minutes)
Enrage Animal (Mandla, 4 rounds)
Entangle (8 minutes)
Produce Flame (5.7 minutes, 2 Used)
Haste (Mandla, 9 rounds)

Spells Cast and Abilities/Items Used:

Barkskin
Enrage Animal
Entangle
Lesser Metamagic Rod of Extend (1 Used)
Produce Flame
Cure Serious Wounds
Cure Moderate Wounds

Level 0 (6): Cure Minor Wounds (3), Detect Magic (2), Guidance
Level 1 (5): Cure Light Wounds, Faerie Fire
Level 2 (4): Barkskin, Bull's Strength, Cat's Grace
Level 3 (4): Call Lightning, Greater Magic Fang, Protection from Energy
Level 4 (3): Air Walk, Flame Strike

Avril's Character Sheet [/SBLOCK]

 

[pathfinderq1]

Tyrla shot another glance in the dragon's direction- the beast was uncomfortably close now, and there were still far too many enemies active on the ground. She hurled another bolt at the barghest, and got ready to move.

OOC: Another eldritch blast at the barghest- she has to hit sometime. Ranged touch +10, 5d6 possible damage

 

[Creamsteak]

Initiatives
Tyrla 22
Avril 21
Siobhan 20
Warren 13
Larian 13
Pender 8
Hobgoblin 8
Everything else...

Tyrla blasts the barghest dealing 9 points of damage.

Avril casts cure moderate wounds and heals herself and Mandla for 11. Mandla engages the large wolf and strikes a bit of damage. Mandla's bite deals 9 points to the barghest.

Siobhan manages to get out of the vines finally and moves outside of the entanglement. Once out she calls back "This is meaningless! No-one benefits from this!"

Warren flips out and a wreath of fire explodes out from the dragonspawn he strikes. After the burst, the dragonspawn he strikes directly is cut in half. The other dragonspawn took full damage, while Siobhan and the wolf-creature took only half damage.

Larian launches a volley of magic missiles into the barghest dealing another 10 points of damage.

Pender assaults the dragonspawn he's facing against, but to no avail. His attacks are useless against his chosen opponent this round.

The hobgoblins take this opportunity to fire more shots into Avril. One hits for 1 point of damage.

One of the blackspawn (the one hit hardest by Warren's burst) moves into flanking position against the halfling and makes a powerful strike. He hits, and deals 19 more points of damage to the halfling in retaliation.

The other blackspawn remains engaged with Pender, unable to adjust his footing due to the entanglement effect around him. He hits the warriors once dealing 18 points of damage.

The remaining barghest, bloody and battered, chooses to assault Warren with everything he has. He hits twice even through the miss chance and Warren's higher AC. The attacks deal 12 and 5 damage respectively.

The dragon speeds onto the field, arriving on the map. If you are on squares 6-9 he has total cover due to the trees, 2-5 he has partial cover, and 1 (or flying in Tyrla's case) he has no cover.

Tyrla:[sblock]This dragon looks to be the one you encountered at the Bridge north of the Witchwoods.[/sblock]

 

[Arkhandus]

Warren the near-dead, HP 4/47, AC 29, Haste, Assassin's Stance

Warren cries out in pain, as both the dragonspawn and the giant-wolf-beast pierce his shadowy fog and inflict vicious wounds on the halfling! He staggers, blood spurting from the large patch of torn and ragged flesh where the dragonspawn bit, and looks about in a haze of pain.

After a moment, he croaks out "I'm dying!" and lurches to one side, trying to get a bit away from the dragonspawned abomination and get into position, seeing Mandla leap back into the fray.

Warren grits his teeth and focuses for a moment, shifting his feet and blade back into his deadliest stance, thrusting twice at the barghest's face but hastily bringing the short sword back up, in a defensive position, skipping back and desperately trying to avoid retaliation.... "Die you ugly mongrel!" he hisses out amidst the pain that is his world.

[sblock=ooc]OUCH!!! 5-foot step north, or up or whatever you wanna call it, to flank with Mandla. Then changing back to Assassin's Stance, and executing a full-attack on the barghest. Fighting defensively this round for -4 to hit and +2 AC, because Warren just can't afford to be hit again. He's out of maneuvers and is in no position to waste time recovering them.

In total, 2 attacks at +12 to hit for 1d4+6+4d6 damage each. And it just figures that, as usual, it's the low attack roll that gets the high damage rolls..... 24 to hit for 22 damage, then 16 to hit for 28 damage.
1d20+12=24, 1d4+6+4d6=22, 1d20+12=16, 1d4+6+4d6=28 [/sblock]