Dungeon of the Fire Opal, Part VI

Ubaar stifles his immediate instinct to rush headlong amongst the hideous undead.

If anyone was looking close, they'd see a fire light up in his eyes, and then, with a flash of insight, stifled again.

"Taz - how good you gotten with that stinger-wand?
;)
Murhid - hope you don't mind getting your hands dirty again.

REALLY dirty, from the looks of it." :eek:
 
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Sollir moves quickly to the front, jumping over the feet of Ubaar as he shoots a single arrow towards one of the ghouls.

(Moving to I18, taking diagonal steps, moving through Ubaars's squares then firing at the ghoul on K16)
 

Taz moves 20' diagonally to I19, hoping for her companions to advance as well. There she readies her wand on the ghoul priest again, trying to interrupt any spellcasting attempts made by him.
 

OOC: I'm wondering about the range for Turning.
If the bad things can't get close to us this round, Ubaar would try his best to use the power of the Thunderbeast to scare away the spineless ghoulies.

Heavy - how are you planning using Ivellios this combat?
or not using, as the case may be. :(


Ubaar reaches for the Thunderbeast totem he keeps with him for emergencies...
he palms it, pondering whether to whip it out. ;)
 

reapersaurus said:
OOC: I'm wondering about the range for Turning.
OOC:
OOC:

60 feet




reapersaurus said:
If the bad things can't get close to us this round,

Highly unlikely, given that some ghouls are very close-by.

They most likely won't all reach you, though.


reapersaurus said:
Heavy - how are you planning using Ivellios this combat?
or not using, as the case may be. :(
reapersaurus said:

He's certainly not going to be very effective with an effective strength of 7. I don't remember if he raged during the last battle with the witch outside the dungeon, though. If he didn't, he can rage and bring his strength to 11 !!!



reapersaurus said:
Ubaar reaches for the Thunderbeast totem he keeps with him for emergencies...
he palms it, pondering whether to whip it out. ;)

I'll take that as a turn attempt, then. :)
 
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As soon as he sees the undead horde, Ivellios releases an arrow from his bow. The arrow thunks weakly into the gnoll zombie with the metal shield. (1 point of damage)

Sollir Furryfoot said:
Sollir moves quickly to the front, jumping over the feet of Ubaar as he shoots a single arrow towards one of the ghouls.

The arrow hits the ghoul in the leg. It hisses in pain and looks at the halfling with hunger. (4 points of damage)


Taz said:
Taz moves 20' diagonally to I19, hoping for her companions to advance as well. There she readies her wand on the ghoul priest again, trying to interrupt any spellcasting attempts made by him.



reapersaurus said:
Ubaar stifles his immediate instinct to rush headlong amongst the hideous undead.

If anyone was looking close, they'd see a fire light up in his eyes, and then, with a flash of insight, stifled again.

"Taz - how good you gotten with that stinger-wand?
;)
Murhid - hope you don't mind getting your hands dirty again.

REALLY dirty, from the looks of it." :eek:


reapersaurus said:
Ubaar reaches for the Thunderbeast totem he keeps with him for emergencies...
he palms it, pondering whether to whip it out. ;)

Quickly, the barbarian focuses on his holy totem and a wave of positive energy rolls out from him and hits the undead in front of the party. The nearest ghoul looks up from wrenching out Sollir’s arrow and turns to flee. Likewise, a zombie a bit further down the room starts shambling back to avoid the holy power of the Thunderbeast.

Then, I’ll assume Ubaar will move to cover the two advanced halflings, who are to the front of the party once again :), possibly while readying his sword ?

CRGreathouse said:
(If given the opportunity, Kytess stops 10-15 feet from the creatures and readies an attack; otherwise, she advances as needed to hit the first and attacks side-by-side with Ubaar.)

Kytess advances to stand besides Ubaar, her chain ready. She gets in position just in time to strike when the zombies advance, awkwardly yet clumsily. She strikes the first one twice with a lighting-quick attack routine, slashing and piercing and breaking some bones, but yet it comes. Another comes to the right of Ubaar but she can’t get a good attack angle and misses. The next one she strikes, breaking a kneecap and sending it to the ground (it quickly gets up again though). Finally, she hits the last zombie to come, a human one this time. (7 and 10 damage on the first one (K18), then a miss on K19, then 11 damage on K17, then a hit for 7 damage on K16)

At the same time, while the two large skeletons flanking the altar take up a defensive stance, ready to attack anyone who comes near, the priest started casting a spell, but Taz quickly interrupts him with a pair of magic missiles. (7 damage)

Finally, a ghoul comes at Kytess from her left. She tries to hit it with her chain, but the undead dodges by ducking very low and then lunges forward and slashes her on the left leg. The wound immediately starts to feel numb, a feeling that starts spreading from the slash. At the same time, the pair of ghouls behind the altar approaches and the smell starts getting noticeable for everyone, not just Ubaar. And the turned ghoul flees in panic. (Miss on the AoO, ghoul did 3 damage)

Then, fighting through the paralytic haze of the ghoul poison saturating his system, Jalon finally steps forward, raises the Scales of Justice of Tyr and commands the undead abominations back from his companions. The three nearest zombies, two gnolls and the remaining human, step back and turn to flee. Murhid also steps besides him and pummels the ghoul that is attacking Kytess. (Jalon turns 8 hit dice of undead, Murhid hits for 4 damage)

At this moment, the party hears Ivellios shouting “Guys ! I heard some things trying to attack our backs. I’ll take care of them.” And he takes off to the west.


Initiative

Sollir : 20
Taz : 19
Ubaar : 18
Kytess : 17
Large skeletons with stingers and glowing silver runes : 16
Zombies : 14
Undead priest : 12
Ghouls including tougher ones : 8
Jalon : 6 (that dex of 1 hurts)
Murhid : 3

Map :
http://groups.msn.com/JFspicturestorage/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=94


And the status of the party :
(I was just consulting the party's stats and I realized that Jalon's wand was made at caster level 2, so I just gave Jalon 2 hps and Ubaar 1 hp. Is that the only 3 charges you used recently ?)

S) Sollir Furryfoot : Hp(16/21) 2 points of dex damage, Cat's Grace (+4 dex, 3 hours), Ghast poison (4 rounds x2), Ghast Poison (5 rounds)
(M) Murhid : Hp (14/21) 9 points of dexterity damage, ghoul poison (4 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 (21/28), 4 points dex damage, Endure fire (12 hours)
(K) Kytess : Hp (19/28) Endure fire (12 hours), ghoul poison (1 round), ghoul poison (11 rounds)
(J) Jalon Odessa : Hp (17/24) 9 points dex damage, Endure fire (12 hours), ghast poison (3 rounds), ghast poison (4 rounds)


Miscellaneous game effects :

There is a desecration spell in the area.
 

Taz readies again, hoping for the trick to work at least once more. Anyways it's the best she can do, this way there's at least the chance, that the ghoul priest's nasty spells will not affect the party. God (and Heavy G) knows how many hold persons that one has left.

OOC: ...and god (and Heavy G) knows how many charges the wand has left... ;)


[more OOC] BTW, what spell did he try to cast? Could Taz make it out with her mediocre spellcraft? [/OOC]

[even more OOC] Uh oh, Jalon will collapse in 3 or 4 rounds most probably, unless he finally makes some of his saves! [/OOC]
 
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Ubaar has many thoughts swirling in his head, now that it is not filled with the razor-keen clarity of Uthgar's rage.

. o 0 (That gnoll with emblam on shield - wonder what that symbol represents? Were gnolls willing parti-ci-pants in their undead-ness, or were they forced to?)
. o 0 (Why one of them so skinny?)
. o 0 (Why there raggedy-looking humans here? Were they slaves?)
. o 0 (Where Ivellios running to? Wonder if he run into some undead orcs, like he always feared? Can't say Ubaar'd miss 'em. We could use his Strength, but it seems he has lost his...)
. o 0 (Oh, well. Guess I'd better smash this undeady-gnoll before he hurt me or my friends.)


Ubaar swings a wide stroke with his greatsword, hoping to cut the gnoll (K19) in two.

. o 0 (Wow. Head too full in bat-tle if not angry. Too much time to think.)
 


Feeling his energy slowly draining away, Jalon nevertheless remains resolute before the evil priest.

'Surrender and repent, evil one, or you shall be made to stand before the true face of judgement.'

And with that, the priest forces his way to the front of the party [J19] and lashes out with his longsword at the zombie not driven away by his strength of faith[K19].

[Note that if the turned undead at K16-18 have not moved more than ten feet from J19 before Jalon's initiative, then he will simply stand his ground and refocus for the turn, not wanting to break the effects of his turning.]
 
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