Darkhawk: The Horror Begins

[airwalkrr]

As Balin and Allister seem to hold back, Sir Jonathon, ever the brave knight, charges headlong in the room and confronts the torturer with mace in hand. He heaves the mace towards his foe but the torturer barely sees him in time and dodges the blow. Balin, seeing that the torturer is slow to react to Jonathon's moves dives into the room after him and attempts to strike the man with the back of his hand. Having unbalanced himself from Jonathon's strike, the torturer is unable to deflect the blow from Balin. Balin strikes him square in the back of the head. He lets out a grunt and swings the hot iron towards Balin in retribution. Balin's quick reflexes allow him to deftly dodge the swing and he avoids the attack with ease.

The woman chained to the rack, clearly suffering from multiple wounds and great stress breathes several heavy breaths before passing out completely.

Balin wins initiative, delays.
Allister readies an action.
Jonathon moves to D2 and attacks with the mace hitting AC 7 (miss).
Balin moves to D3 and attacks with unarmed strike hitting AC 17 (hit) for 6 points of nonlethal damage (damage value 2).
Torturer suffers nonlethal hit.
Torturer attacks Balin with iron hitting AC 10 (miss).

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

My mortar does only unlethal damage?! - Uh-oh...

Balin will do his best to jump out of the torturer's range and try to repeat his technique once his companions hopefully distract the enemy...

 

[dave_o]

Gritting his teeth against the flame held so close, Allister runs to meet the torturer. Let us see how strong your will is. Allister jams the flaming end of the torch toward the torturer's face, trying to drive him off balance.

Move action to get close, making a Feint attempt. Bluff +4.

 

[Jemal]

Jonathon steps to the side to make room for his colleagues, and reverses his mace's trajectory, arcing it backwards into the guards chest, attempting to call his attention "You will pay for your sins!"

5' diagonal step to C1, swing again, and declare Dodge against Torturer

 

[airwalkrr]

[sblock=Ivid]I judged it was more advantageous to use an unarmed strike since it would not provoke an attack of opportunity (the torturer was flat-footed) because the mortar gives you a -4 penalty on attacks.[/sblock]

 

[airwalkrr]

Allister charges into the room flailing the torch about wildly. As he moves to an open place in the room the torturer swipes at him with the iron, but Allister easily manuevers out of the way. Allister attempts to thrust the burning torch into the torturer's face in retribution but the torturer proves equally adept at dodging. However, as he turns to face Allister, he loses sight of Jonathon who steps behind him to perform a flanking maneuver and clocks the torturer in the back with his mace as Balin makes a false strike to throw the man off guard. However, the torturer, now bruised and bleeding, falls to his knees.

"Oh please!" he begs, "Don't do me in now. I only do what I'm told. I...I...I haven't a choice! Please, have mercy!"

As you observe him looking for signs of deceit, you come to the conclusion that he seems quite sincere in his regret.

Allister wins initiative, moves to C3, provokes AoO from torturer who rolls AC 5 (miss), Allister rolls AC 5 (miss).
Jonathon steps to C1, flanking, rolls AC 25 (hit) for 8 damage (dv 2). Torturer is disabled.
Balin attempts to feint with a Bluff roll of 20. The torturer is flat-footed to him.
The torturer falls prone, pleading for his life. Each character makes a Sense Motive check, and none detect falsehood.
Kyros delays.

 

[Blind Azathoth]

Kyros moves in closer, eyes still fiery with anger. He looks over the room as he does so, for two purposes: first, he looks to the torturer's victim, making sure she is still breathing; and second, he quickly glances around the room for any nearby object that might serve as a makeshift melee weapon.

"Answer our queries and perhaps we will let you live, filth," Kyros spits, glaring down at him. "If you know, then tell us: why were we being held in this place? And--just where is this place?"

Kyros has, by the way, no intention of letting this man live once he has served his purpose; "perhaps we will let you live" is an outright lie on his part, for purposes of any Sense Motive check the torturer might decide to make.

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

[sblock=Ivid]I judged it was more advantageous to use an unarmed strike since it would not provoke an attack of opportunity (the torturer was flat-footed) because the mortar gives you a -4 penalty on attacks.[/sblock]

Thank you for the clarification. With the rules in mind, I would have chosen as you did.

Balin maliciously grins at the torturer.

"You will get what you give, bastard."

However, he will not focus on the fallen enemy, but try to get the poor woman away from the rack. He will smile at her as friendly as possible, and calm her if she cries.

Balin has a special plan for the torturer... He doesn't want to him, but frighten him...

 

[airwalkrr]

The torturer continues to grovel, clearly not appeased by false promises of life. "Please, sirs! I beg of you. Show me mercy. In this dark world it is kill or be killed. I am only trying to do my job so that I can earn enough to survive. Have pity on this wretched soul."

The woman lies passed out on the rack. She is shackled to the device, although a proper key would probably open it. As luck would have it, the torturer has a ring of keys on his belt.

 

[dave_o]

The torchlight flickering off his craggy face, Allister looks down at the grovelling torturer with wells of blue, some specie of sadness creeping into them. Merely doing a job, there is something I can understand. As Balin grins his unsettling grin again, mouthing "You will get what you give," Allister turns his gaze to the elf. "Are you no better," Allister gestures to the torturer grovelling on the floor, "than this?"

He returns his gaze to the torturer. "Give me your keys, and your armor, and you may live to escape as well."