Dungeon Raiders: The Wolf's Den

[Kobold Stew]

Seeing his comrades ready to act, Bartleby readies an action, poised to strike upward in an upright slice, if any of the stirges come within reach of his blade.

[If any does, he rolls 1d20+4= 17; assuming that's a hit, it will be for 1d6+3=9 (!) points damage.]

 

[tuxgeo]

Aeiyan draws his bow taut and looses an arrow at the nearest of the stirges, for the sake of a clear shot.
That's 14 to hit; and if it does hit then it deals 5 damage:

1d20+4;1d8+3 -> [10,4] = (14)
1d20+4;1d8+3 -> [2,3] = (5)

Link http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4419288/
BBCode 1d20+4=14, 1d8+3=5

He tries to think of something either witty or tactical to say, but he comes up empty.

 

[Li Shenron]

Aeiyan draws his bow taut and looses an arrow at the nearest of the stirges, for the sake of a clear shot.
That's 14 to hit; and if it does hit then it deals 5 damage:

1d20+4;1d8+3 -> [10,4] = (14)
1d20+4;1d8+3 -> [2,3] = (5)

Aeiyan's arrow pierces the stirge in flight, and it kills it square. The others keep buzzing around with indifference... One down, eleven to go.

 

[wedgeski]

OOC: On Rejik's turn he'll move into position to cover as many of his comrades as possible, then Ready an action to swing at the first stirge to move within range.

 

[Shayuri]

Sulannus backs up a step or two, to make sure she stays behind at least one of the others, and directs a blue-white ray of winter's chill at the oncoming stirge menace!

[sblock]Sorry about the mixup! I thought her magic missile was THIS round's action, but it seems that's not the case! So Ray of Frost time! 12 to hit for 8 damage! http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4428944/ [/sblock]

 

[Li Shenron]

(OOC - Okay! I reread the magic system, and boy I had it wrong before. You prep spells, which you can then cast freely with any of the slots you have available to you by virtue of level. You don't have to prep each casting individually anymore. Big difference! When Su awoke from the long rest, she prepped Magic Missile and Burning Hands instead of Mage Armor. And now she's casting Magic Missile. Three missiles, with one going to any wounded bird, and another two focusing on a single unwounded.)

Damage: 2 missiles do 5 damage. 1 missile does 2.

Sulannus backs up a step or two, to make sure she stays behind at least one of the others, and directs a blue-white ray of winter's chill at the oncoming stirge menace!

[sblock]Sorry about the mixup! I thought her magic missile was THIS round's action, but it seems that's not the case! So Ray of Frost time! 12 to hit for 8 damage! http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4428944/ [/sblock]

OOC: [MENTION=4936]Shayuri[/MENTION] I am so sorry, I didn't notice at all you had edited your previous post! Now we have a small issues at hand. Good that you've re-read the spells preparation rules (yes, they are very different in practice from the classic vancian rules!), but I think you've already cast Mage Armor (I've been including it in your current AC score all the time!) and Burning Hands today, and we only had a short rest so far. To change your prepared spells you need a full rest, i.e. typically a night's sleep. Thus I don't think you can change to Magic Missile yet. OTOH, I assumed you wanted to use Arcane Recovery during the short rest to get back a "spell slot". You had 2 spell slots today, you used the first for Mage Armor and the second for Burning Hands so you were out of spells, but Arcane Recovery got you one of those spell slots back. This means that for the rest of the day, you can cast one more spell, either Mage Armor (tho the previous casting is still ongoing, and will continue for perhaps 6-7 more hours) or Burning Hands again. Also remember that if Sulannus later learns some spells that can be cast as Rituals, basically you can cast them without preparing them and without using a slot (however, they take a longer time to cast, i.e. you can't cast them in combat). Ray of Frost and other cantrips are at-will, so no problems with that. In lieu of all this, I can't let you cast Magic Missile today, but you can cast Ray of Frost (as many times as you want) or Burning Hands (once). If that's ok with you, I'll go on with Ray of Frost in this first round. BTW if I wrote something wrong, please someone correct me

 

[Jimmy Disco T]

Seeing that Bartleby and Rejik are poised to strike at any oncoming Stirges, Tock similarly readies himself to fend off any of them that approach. His eyes dart back and forth as he tries to keep track of a dozen flitting, buzzing creatures filling the air of the cave.

Aware that Sulannus and Aeiyan are engaging their enemy at range, he moves closer to them in order to better protect them if any of the Stirges close to melee.

[OOC: ready an action as per Bartleby and Rejik, moving to try and cover both Aeiyan and Sulannus with my Protection fighting style if possible]

Edit: Pre-emptive attack roll in case it comes in handy:

Attack 1d20+4, damage 1d10 +3 = attack 12, damage 5

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4429225/

 

[Li Shenron]

Sulannus' Ray of Frost almost hits one of the flying beasts but ends against one of the stalagmites, and causes a small puff of icy flakes to scatter around.

The stirges seem to get more irritated, and four of them leave the flock and try a diving attack, two of them flying straight at Sulannus, one at Aeiyan and the last one at Tock.

Basically the five of you are close enough so that we can say anyone who readied an attack has a shot at a different stirge (even if he was not directly attacked). Bartleby immediately cleaves one of the stirges in half with his scimitar.

[MENTION=75746]wedgesky[/MENTION] can also make an attack roll for Rejik's readied attack.

[MENTION=6749529]Jimmy Disco T[/MENTION], if I understand right Tock's readied attack will use his reaction, but also the Protection ability (impose disadvantage on one stirge's attack) requires the use of a reaction. However you only get one reaction per round, so you have to choose: which one of the two ways do you want to use it for, to get the readied attack or to impose disadvantage? (This is quite a small oddity of the rules, am I reading it right? For later, remember that if you attack regularly, you'll still have your reaction available for the Protection ability).

 

[wedgeski]

Rejik swings his warhammer in a carefully calculated horizontal arc, memories of old crowball games rising unbidden from his childhood.

OOC: Attacking the stirge: 1d20+3=10 (man! my rolls have gone to crap!)

OOC2: If that happens to hit (shyeah), warhammer 1H bludgeoning damage: 1d8+2=9

 

[Jimmy Disco T]

No problem, Tock will use his reaction to attack this turn as per the pre-rolled attack:

Attack 1d20+4, damage 1d10 +3 = attack 12, damage 5
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4429225/

If we're now within melee range and I can attack normally, Tock will use Protection preferentially on an ally at whichever point you feel suitable