Dungeon of the Fire Opal, Part VI

[reapersaurus]

Ubaar looks at the unsuccess of both the back-up-and-shoot strategy and the ineffectiveness of his mighty bow attacks, and concludes, "Cripes! This bow sucks!
That'll teach Ubaar to hunt when he should be stompin'!"

Ubaar throws down his bow beside Taz, pulls out his greatsword and roars as a True-Born while charging past Jalon, Overrunning the ghast at I12 and stomping him if successful, while continuing over it to I14 and attacking the ghoul at J15.

OOC: enough stuff in one round? it's legal... Oh - a free-look down the hallway to see what's coming...

 

[HeavyG]

(I'll wait for a fourth post before updating.)

 

[Murhid]

We're only waiting for Jalon, maybe you overlooked CRG's and my post above your poison update.

 

[reapersaurus]

[channeling Ivellios] The savage elf hears the din of combat and advances to G11, engaging the ghast with his usual furious assault. [/Ivellios]

 

[HeavyG]

We're only waiting for Jalon, maybe you overlooked CRG's and my post above your poison update.

You're right.

I'm on it now.

 

[HeavyG]

[channeling Ivellios] The savage elf hears the din of combat and advances to G11, engaging the ghast with his usual furious assault. [/Ivellios]

I don't think so. He's not feeling well, remember.

 

[HeavyG]

Non-iconics versus the undead legion - round 2

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

Ivellios, still weakened by the spider venom in his veins, looks out to the east to check the adventurers’ back. He tries to shoot a ghoul near Sollir but misses it.

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.

The ghoul dodges the first arrow, but Sollir sends another into its shoulder, lightning quick. (9 points of damage)

Kytess attacks the advanced ghoul.

The warrioress strikes another blow on the undead, the third now, and it keeps attacking, slowing down a bit but not much. (7 points of damage)

Ubaar looks at the unsuccess of both the back-up-and-shoot strategy and the ineffectiveness of his mighty bow attacks, and concludes, "Cripes! This bow sucks!
That'll teach Ubaar to hunt when he should be stompin'!"

Ubaar throws down his bow beside Taz, pulls out his greatsword and roars as a True-Born while charging past Jalon, Overrunning the ghast at I12 and stomping him if successful, while continuing over it to I14 and attacking the ghoul at J15.

The ghouls see Ubaar coming and brace themselves. They try to slash him as he pushes past Jalon (and swallows down the great foul stench surrounding those monsters), but only manage to strike his chain mail. Ubaar hits the undead ghoul with great force, but it’s well braced and brings the barbarian to a stop. Ubaar reels back, but hits Jalon and falls down to the ground. (Nobody managed to trip anybody, but Ubaar backs down 1 space and, since it’s occupied, falls down. I really had to look up what happened. Amazing.)

Oh - a free-look down the hallway to see what's coming... [/ooc]

From his prone position, Ubaar cannot see much further down the corridor than he could normally.

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

The monk strikes the turned ghoul with a pair of powerful punches to the upper body. Then, the ghoul turns to flee and Murhid finishes it by breaking its neck. (7 and 6 damage, then 7 on the attack of opportunity)

Then the ghouls surge forward. One, with two short arrows sticking from its body, steps towards Sollir and slashes at him, hitting the poor halfling on the right arm and on the left shoulder. Also, the one in front of Jalon is trying to cut the hated priest down. It scores a claw wound alongside Jalon’s sword arm and bites the priest in the other arm. Also, one ghoul charges at Murhid, but the monk easily dodges its clumsy attack. (Sollir got 2 and 2 damage from claws, Jalon got 4 damage from a claw and 2 from a bite)

Also, another pair of ghouls charged, one at Kytess and the other at Murhid, but Kytess intercepted her with her chain, wounding both and ruining their attacks for now. (7 and 8 damage on the two ghouls)

Finally, Jalon recovers from the beating he’s receiving to channel his holy power into his symbol once again. Two of the new arrivals cower before the might of Tyr and turn to get away. (Jalon manages to get past that turn resistance once again.)


During all that, some poison is affecting the adventurers. Murhid and Taz were each feeling the effect from some ghoul poison, while Jalon is having trouble moving. ( Murhid : 3 dex damage, Taz 2, Jalon got 3 and 3 dex damage from two failed saves. The other saves were made.)



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 :

(S) Sollir Furryfoot : Hp(17/21) Ghast poison (1 round x2), Ghast poison (11 rounds x2)
(M) Murhid : Hp (14/21) 9 points of dexterity damage, 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), 2 points of dexterity damage
Sheela : Hp (9/9),
(I) Ivellios Nailo : Hp (16/35) 5 points of strength damage, Spider venom (1 round)
(U) Ubaar : Hp (13/28), 4 points dex damage, Endure fire (12 hours), ghoul poison (1 rounds), prone
(K) Kytess : Hp (13/28) Endure fire (12 hours)
(J) Jalon Odessa : Hp (4/24) 9 points dex damage, Endure fire (12 hours), ghast poison (1 round), ghast poison (10 rounds), ghast poison (11 rounds)

 

[HeavyG]

Here's the map :

http://groups.msn.com/JFspicturestorage/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=89

 

[Taz]

Seeing Jalon badly wounded, Taz sends a volley of magic missiles into any ghoul threatening him (more precisely the one at I12), since the ghoul priest doesn't seem to show yet.

 

[reapersaurus]

OOC: wow. Group Battle Royale. I love it. various questions: 1) Heavy - you see why Overrun kinda is hard to make effective? 2) How did Kytess "spoil" the ghouls's charge? 3) Would Ubaar have been able to smell the ghasts coming, with that overpowering stench, and he with Scent? 4) Would it have been logical for Jalon to have backed up 5' after Ubaar fell in his square? Now we've got a big rules-issue with he and Ubaar in the same squar (penalties? cover bonus? etc)

Ubaar sees how dire the war-priest's wounds are, and beseeches him to give him elbow-room: "Jay-lon - back up outta tha melee.
We need you to heal, and do tha holy thing."

Ubaar stands up from prone and slashes at the ghast in front of him, snarling ferociously and girding himself for the vicious counterattack(s).