Dungeon of the Fire Opal, Part VI

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Sollir bites his lip as he tries to ignore his wounds for now, stepping back just before unloading two more arrows.

(5 ft. step back to G9, rapid fire)

 

[Murhid]

Murhid recoils from his immediate foe, the ghoulish toxins taking their toll on the generally nimble monk. Guard up, Murhid takes a swift glance at his companions to see what type of state they are in. He then turns his attention back to his new opponent and attempts to make another sickening ghoul taste dirt.
[Flurry of Blows]

 

[Jalon Odessa]

Bleeding but still standing, Jalon staggers backwards slightly, away from the tide of ghouls.

Still presenting his holy symbol to the undead, the wounded priest succumbs to fatigue and clumsily drops his longsword. In place of his weapon, Jalon hastily pulls a silver wand of healing from his belt, and channels the power of Tyr through it to heal the wounded Kytess.

'Stay strong, young warrior - may Tyr grant you courage and guidance.'

[OOC: Step back to I11, drop masterwork longsword as a free action, draw wand of CLW and use it on Kytess.]

 

[HeavyG]

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)

1) Yeah, trip suxx0rs.
2) It's flavor text. She hit with an AoO and then the ghoul missed its attack roll.
3) Yeah, sure, my bad. You probably should have been affected from more than 10' too. I always forget about Scent, but in that case, you were hearing some ghouls running down that corridor before they arrived, so it wouldn't have changed much, really. Unless I'm missing something.
4) I was just going by the rules, but logically, yeah, sure. The rule-issue will be resolved by avoiding the problem. I'll make Jalon do the 5' step of his action at the start of the round to let Ubaar get up. The lack of rules for occupying the same square is a big hole in 3E rules, IMO.

 

[HeavyG]

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.

The ghoul receives the pair of purple missiles in the chest and is thrown to the ground. It tries to get up but collapses. (8 damage)

Then, Ivellios sends an arrow into the shoulder of the ghoul in front of Murhid, who wails and whistles in pain. (6 damage)

Sollir bites his lip as he tries to ignore his wounds for now, stepping back just before unloading two more arrows.

One arrow strikes the ghoul deep in the leg, then another strikes it in the chest. Foul ichor oozes from its multiple wounds as it steps forward to attack the halfling. Also, Kytess strikes the ghoul in front of her as it turns to flee from Jalon and crushes its head in. (7 and 8 damage for Sollir, 6 for Kytess.)

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."

Bleeding but still standing, Jalon staggers backwards slightly, away from the tide of ghouls.

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

Seeing that Taz finished that ghoul with her purple missiles, Ubaar attacks the tough ghoul in front of Murhid, chopping its right arm off with a powerful blow. (8 damage. Kinda anticlimactic since this would’ve been a critical if you weren’t fighting ghouls, hence the chopped arm.)

Murhid recoils from his immediate foe, the ghoulish toxins taking their toll on the generally nimble monk. Guard up, Murhid takes a swift glance at his companions to see what type of state they are in. He then turns his attention back to his new opponent and attempts to make another sickening ghoul taste dirt.

Right on the heels of Ubaar’s blow, Murhid finishes that weakened and staggered ghoul off with a series of punches and kicks right into its rotten and corrupted body. The monk will certainly need a bath after all this. (6 points of damage but it was pretty weak)

Then, of the two surviving ghouls, one flees running from Jalon’s power, quickly disappearing around the corner to the right. It gets a kick in the back from Murhid but it was a pretty weak attack. The other follows Sollir, three arrows sticking from its body and leaving a trail of black blood behind it. Though the halfling nimbly its attacks, it manages to score a shallow claw wound alongside the archer’s scalp. (Murhid did 4 damage to the turned ghoul and the big ghoul did 1 damage with its claw to Sollir)

Still presenting his holy symbol to the undead, the wounded priest succumbs to fatigue and clumsily drops his longsword. In place of his weapon, Jalon hastily pulls a silver wand of healing from his belt, and channels the power of Tyr through it to heal the wounded Kytess.

'Stay strong, young warrior - may Tyr grant you courage and guidance.'

There is a pale silver flash of light and Kytess can feel her wounds closing. (+9 hit points)





Poison update :
Sollir made 1 save and failed the second (2 points dex damage)
Murhid made his save
Ivellios failed his save vs the spider venom (with a natural 1 ; 6 points of strength damage)
Ubaar esaily made the save
Jalon passed the save



Initiative

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

Link to the map :
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And the status of the party :

(S) Sollir Furryfoot : Hp(16/21) 2 points of dex damage, Ghast poison (10 rounds x2), Ghast Poison (1 round), Ghast Poison (11 rounds)
(M) Murhid : Hp (14/21) 9 points of dexterity damage, ghoul poison (10 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) 11 points of strength damage
(U) Ubaar : Hp (13/28), 4 points dex damage, Endure fire (12 hours)
(K) Kytess : Hp (22/28) Endure fire (12 hours)
(J) Jalon Odessa : Hp (4/24) 9 points dex damage, Endure fire (12 hours), ghast poison (9 rounds), ghast poison (10 rounds)

 

[Jalon Odessa]

Jalon continues to use his wand to tend to the wounds of his comrades, this time turning his attentions toward the hulking form of Ubaar.

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Sollir takes another step back, launching a pair of arrows at the strong ghoul once more, hoping to finish it off.

"Dang, these things just keep going and going and going..."

 

[reapersaurus]

Ubaar looks at the gore-splattered monk, and marvels.
"Wow.
You punch good, Murr-heed.
Can you teach Ubaar to punch fast and hard like that?

That looks fun."

"Hey, you guys - let's go after da ghoul boss before he brings more of those brain-eaters than we can handle."

Ubaar steps into Jalon's square and retrieves his bow from J10 and waits for Jalon's magic healin!
If he has movement left, and the others seem interested in taking off after the boss, Ubaar will follow them.

 

[Murhid]

If the ghoul attacking Sollir isn't down by Murhid's initiative, Murhid will try to kick the livin'/dead ..... out of it.

 

[Murhid]

"Thanking you Tall one, though I will only show you how to hit as I do if you show me how to swing a sword like you do." Murhid finishes with a small smile, quite contrary to his grime covered body.