Dungeon of the Fire Opal, Part VI

[HeavyG]

OOC: 1) I thought Ubaar last was placed opposite the diagonal corridor, bow drawn, readied action to fire if he sees movement coming down the corridor (movement other than Sheela)

OOC:

OOC: No. Immediately after I posted a map with the exact same position for Ubaar, your next two posts were : Ubaar holds his ground and readies to put an arrow in the first thing that comes out the corridor that Sheela is flying out. Ubaar keeps his bow drawn and aimed at the opening of the corridor. "What did Shee-la see, Taz? She left hall in big hurry-like." 2) Would there be a surprise bow attack called for here? No because the ghouls expect you around the corner. But I'll give them a penalty to initiative before I'm a nice guy. 3) I see our "back-up-and-shoot" plan is already a no-go.

Hey, don't look at me. I didn't choose where people wanted to be. It surprised me too when Thanee wanted Taz to be so advanced.

 

[HeavyG]

lol

Look at the initiative. Crappiest rolls ever. Including a negative initiative for Jalon, which I've never seen before.

And the dex poison doesn't help.


Taz : 22
Ivellios : 20
Sollir : 12
Kytess : 9
Ghoul : 6
Ubaar : 6
Murhid : 6
Ghoul : 2
Jalon : -1

 

[HeavyG]

The party vs the Undead hordes - round 1

Taz readies her wand to fire at the ghoul priest when he shows and starts casting a spell in hopes to interrupt him.

The halfling woman points at the passage mouth with her wand, trying to spot a priest amongst the ghouls. Meanwhile, Ivellios weakly puts an arrow to his bowstring and shoots the nearest undead. The arrow strikes the ghoul in the shoulder but it keeps coming. (5 damage for that ghoul)

He’s quickly followed by Sollir, who puts a pair of arrows in the same ghoul, sending it to the ground twitching. (9 and 6 damage)

G11

Kytess readies herself for the onslaught of undead...

"Here they come, guys!
Pick yer ugly target."

Guard up Murhid stands fast, ready to hurl a fist into any ghoul who dares come near.

As the ghouls charge, Ubaar releases an arrow at the leader and Murhid gets ready for them. The barbarian’s arrow flies into the floor, probably because of stiffening fingers from the paralytic poison.

'Stay strong, halfling. Find strength in your lord - through faith and courage …

It was while the priest was telling this motivating speech that the ghouls came charging, catching Jalon completely out of balance.

…shall we triumph on this day.'

The four ghouls charge at Murhid, Kytess and a flat-footed Jalon. As they approach, a stench of death and corruption comes to the heroes, much worse than anything they have ever smelled before, making them gag and making it hard to breathe. Most of the heroes get over it but Taz starts to have trouble breathing. (lucky on those saves, only Taz is nauseated. Also, Ivellios and Ubaar weren’t in the area and will have to save if they approach.)

The exchange is furious. Kytess uses her chain’s reach to slash a ghoul across the legs as it charges and then kills it with a head blow, and Murhid manages to punch a ghoul, but the undead manage to score slashes on the priest of Tyr as he tries to put up a defense and on the monk in their fearless assault.

(Kytess, 7 and 10 points of damage, Murhid 4. Murhid got a slash for 1 point of damage and Jalon got a nasty belly scratch for 4 points of damage)

The close-in fighters can see that some of those ghouls look tougher than the others you have fought so far.

Then the priest recovers from his unprepared state and focuses the might of Tyr on the undead.

Upon spotting the ghouls charging the party, Jalon takes a bold step forward to meet them head-on.

'Feel the light of Tyr's justice and tremble, foul beasts!'

His gaze unwavering, the priest presents Tyr's silver icon to the ghouls, hoping to drive them back with divine power.

The ghouls look at Jalon’s holy symbol in fright. Two of them hesitate for a moment before turning on the priest, intent on killing that servant of Good. The other backs away and tries to put its arm in front of its eyes. (The turned ghoul is indicated on the map)

And then another trio of the things come running and gibbering in sight.


Initiative

Taz : 22
Ivellios : 20
Sollir : 12
Kytess : 9
Ubaar : 6
Murhid : 6
Ghoul : 6
Ghoul : 2
Jalon : -1






And the status of the party :
(The poison delay aren’t up to date, I’ll update them tomorrow morning and if any poison was supposed to take effect this round, it’ll be delayed one extra round.)

(S) Sollir Furryfoot : Hp(21/21)
(M) Murhid : Hp (13/21) 6 points of dexterity damage, ghoul poison (1 minute x2), ghoul poison (1 round), ghoul poison (11 rounds)
(T) Taz : Hp (16/19), nauseated (-2 penalty to attacks, saves, and skill checks for 7 minutes, ghoul poison (1 minute)
Sheela : Hp (9/9),
(I) Ivellios Nailo : Hp (16/35) 5 points of strength damage, Spider venom (1 minute)
(U) Ubaar : Hp (13/28), 4 points dex damage, Endure fire (12 hours), Spider poison (1 minute), ghoul poison (1 minute x3)
(K) Kytess : Hp (13/28) Endure fire (12 hours)
(J) Jalon Odessa : Hp (10/24) 3 points dex damage, Endure fire (12 hours), ghoul poison (1 minute x3), ghast poison (1 round), ghast poison (11 rounds)

 

[HeavyG]

Oh, nearly forgot the map.


http://groups.msn.com/JFspicturestorage/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=88

Weird. Maximum attachment size went from 200k to 10k. Oh, well, no matter.

Edit : What an awful pic quality too. Well, the turned ghoul is the middle one, in case you can't tell.

 

[Murhid]

Murhid lunges forward at the nearest ghoul, whilst doing so delivers a series of swings.
[Flurry of Blows]

edit: Also, HG, I think you took one extra hit point off Murhid.

 

[CRGreathouse]

"Next time, *I* go in front." (C'mon - spiked chain, Dex 18, Combat Reflexes, and Cleave!)

Kytess attacks the advanced ghoul.

 

[HeavyG]

"Next time, *I* go in front." (C'mon - spiked chain, Dex 18, Combat Reflexes, and Cleave!)

I'm sorry, CR, I must have been really tired yesterday night because I forgot all about the Combat Reflexes and Cleave !

I'll run all those extra attacks this afternoon.

(You were in front, BTW)

 

[HeavyG]

edit: Also, HG, I think you took one extra hit point off Murhid.

You're right.

Also, when the ghouls charged, Kytess also attacked the two other nearest undeads. She missed the far one, but hit the nearest "tough ghoul" for 7 damage. The cleave attack missed too.



I've also put in the exact poison delay below :



(S) Sollir Furryfoot : Hp(21/21)
(M) Murhid : Hp (14/21) 6 points of dexterity damage, ghoul poison (2 rounds), ghoul poison (1 round x2), ghoul poison (11 rounds)
(T) Taz : Hp (16/19), nauseated (-2 penalty to attacks, saves, and skill checks for 7 minutes), ghoul poison (1 round)
Sheela : Hp (9/9),
(I) Ivellios Nailo : Hp (16/35) 5 points of strength damage, Spider venom (2 rounds)
(U) Ubaar : Hp (13/28), 4 points dex damage, Endure fire (12 hours), Spider poison (1 round), ghoul poison (1 round x2), ghoul poison (2 rounds)
(K) Kytess : Hp (13/28) Endure fire (12 hours)
(J) Jalon Odessa : Hp (10/24) 3 points dex damage, Endure fire (12 hours), ghoul poison (1 round x2), ghast poison (1 round), ghast poison (11 rounds)




Lastly, I can't reach my picture archive, so I'll assume you can't see the map either. I did work yesterday, of that I'm sure. Maybe it's only the site being down or something. I'll check it out from my home comp tonite. (Edit : Nevermind, it works now.)

 

[Taz]

Taz feels a little dizzy, but tries hard to concentrate on the task at hand and continues to ready.

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Sollir stands tall, well, as tall as a halfling can get, and unloads two more arrows, sending them flying at one of the larger ghouls.

(Rapid fire at the ghoul on G12)