[Eberron] The Forgotten Forge

Startled by the call of the human, Flawed reaches for its axe, but realizes its mistake and readies the crossbow instead. "Where? And what about the person that jumped off the bridge?" Not noticing the glance of the gnome, it slowly moves to the part of the bridge where it saw the other person vanish, hoping to notice anything through the heavy rain, but cautious for any sign of the murderer the human had mentioned. Though I am not seeing where it might be...
 
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Gannon, Flawed, Rawhide, Khashana: You turn to see a wooden hand with metal joints and reinforcements grab the opposite ledge. There's a strange, almost mechanical grunt and you see a female warforged climb up onto the ledge. She wears a cloak and basic clothing, a battle axe hangs at her side. Snarling, she unslings the axe...

Plonk: The warforged next to you starts to grab his axe, only to ready his crossbow -- the hardware's nice and well made, but it's slightly aggressive apparently. Then you hear the snarl coming from directly behind you...

OOC: Surprise round. Plonk is caught off guard and is flat-footed. The rest of you get to act during the round. If you could all post three full rounds of actions, not including the surprise round, that'd help me resolve the combat quickly -- maybe even in the next post. Initiative is listed below. The white "C" is the female warforged. She will act first, but I'm leaving it out to keep things clean; I'd like to handle all combat actions at once.

Initiative and Conditions
Female Warforged 20
Gannon 19 (roll of 19 on d20, +0 Init)
Flawed 15 (roll of 14 on d20, +1 Init)
Khashana 10 (roll of 10 on d20, +0 Init)
Rawhide 7 (roll of 5 on d20, +2 Init)
Plonk 5 (roll of 4 on d20, +1 Init) [flat-footed]
 

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Plonk gasps. "What this be..." he says. When he can act he takes out his crossbow and fires at the hostile Warforged. If he does not have a clear shot and the warforged is busy, he will try to flank the warforged with the others and cast a inflict light damage and make a touch attack on the warforged.
 

Rawhide drops down to all fours, hunched down more like a beast than a man. Never having seen a creature such as this before, the shifter waits to see what it will or can do. He keeps one hand on the haft of his throwing axe just in case it came his way, however.

OOC:
Round 1: Delay until threatened, then attack with ranged weapon (throwing axe) or melee (greataxe) as appropriate.
Round 2: Shift and Rage, wade into combat with greataxe
Round 3: Rinse, and Repeat. ;)
 

When Gannon sees the warforged, he fastens the morningstar in his belt again and starts to make strange gestures and speaks in a strange tongue. He then points at the warforged. After that he draws his morningstar once again and attacks the presumed murderer.

OOC:
Round 1: Sheathes the morningstar and casts doom on the warforged. He does so defensively, if the warforged ever threatens him. The Will save DC for doom is 13.
Round 2: Draws morningstar once again and tries to get within threat range, preferably flanking the warforged together with one of the others. If the warforged is already within his threat range, Gannon attacks it.
Round 3: Keep hitting the warforged until it doesn't move any longer.
 

Just as it realizes that the person that "jumped" off the bridge and the murderer might be the same person, Flawed catches the sight of warforged climbing up on the other side of the bridge. As Flawed shoots a bolt at it, it wonders about the significance of the clothes the other warforged wears...

(Round 1: Shoot a crossbow bolt at the warforged. [attack +1;damage 1d10; critical 20/x3]
Round 2: If the warforged is not in melee with one of the others, shoot another bolt. Otherwise, enter melee as well [slam attack +1; damage 1d4+1]
Round 3: Repeat as appropriate.)
 

Surprise Round

The female warforged hops off the ledge and charges at Flawed. "Flesh-loving traitor!" However, her small jump from the ledge onto the bridge causes her to lose her balance, and Flawed easily dodges.

Gannon sheathes his morningstar [No AoO, as Gannon's at a safe distance from the enemy warforged].

Reflexively, Flawed drops his crossbow and throws a massive fist at his attacker [Melee attack, roll of 11 on d20, +1 slam, total 12, miss], which she blocks with her forearm, causing a dull, metallic thud.

Khashana does nothing. Cries of "Murder!" and "Call the Watch!" echo from nearby towers.

After careful observation, Rawhide draws his greataxe, continuing to observe [Ready until the second round, count 9].

Round 1

"How dare you live among humans? After all they've done to us and ours?" The warforged swings her axe at Flawed, but her grip is too loose and the axe flies out of her hands and off the bridge, falling into the city below.

Gannon takes advantage of her momentary confusion to cast doom, which appears to succeed, and then redraws his morningstar [Duration of doom: 10 rounds remaining].

Winding up, Flawed throws another punch, catching his adversary in the chin [Melee attack, roll of 17 on d20, +1 slam, total 18, hit; Damage, roll of 2 on 1d4+1, 2 damage]. Although she seems like she ought to be a capable combatant, she's certainly not the most practiced.

Khashana, still unsure of what to do, recalls her experiences at the hands of the quori and lashes out. A low hum is quickly followed by a loud snapping sound, and the female warforged cries out [Mind thrust; Damage, roll of 9 on 1d10, 9 damage]. She then ducks away from the combat, towards the bushes [3 pp remaining].

Snarling, Rawhide rages and, hefting his greataxe, wades into combat and brings the axe down at the warforged in a heavy, overhand arc [Melee attack, roll of 8 on d20, +5 greataxe, total 13, miss]. The axe hits the stonework of the bridge, tiny sparks flying off of it upon impact.

Plonk, after gathering himself, moves quickly to an advantageous position, opposite to Flawed. As he moves there, he finds himself the focus of a large, round fist, which he ducks under carefully. He then casts inflict light damage and waits...

Round 2

The female warforged screams (a tinny, grating scream) and launches herself at Flawed, fists out. She connects with a sharp left hook, nearly dropping him [7 damage, Flawed is disabled].

Gannon rushes forward, morningstar out, attempting to reach a spot somewhere on the far side of the raging warforged. Ducking a fist, he slides past Pronk and Rawhide into a space next to the gnome. He then swings his morningstar, bringing its weight into the warforged's side [Melee attack, roll of 15 on d20, +2 morningstar, total 17, hit; Damage, roll of 1 on 1d8+1, total 2]. You can see wood and mental splinter and dent.

Flawed starts to cast a repair light damage spell on himself, but catches a one of her feet in his midsection [2 damage, Flawed is at -2 and inert]. He falls to the ground. "Traitor!," she screams, "You get what you deserve!"

Khashana, seeing Flawed fall, tries another mental attack, but she can't breach the warforged's defenses.

Rawhide swings his axe again, missing wildly [Melee attack, roll of 2 on d20, +5 greataxe, total 7, miss].

Seeing the opportunity present itself, Plonk reaches forward and grabs ahold of the warforged [Melee touch attack, roll of 13 on d20, -1 touch, total 12, hit; Damage roll of 3 on 1d8+1, 3 damage].

[Duration of doom: 9 rounds remaining.]

Round 3

Staggered, but still conscious, the warforged reaches behind her head and brings her open hand towards Plonk, swinging wildly. The gnome dodges easily.

Gannon attacks with his morningstar again, missing almost as wildly as she had missed Plonk [Melee attack, roll of 1 on d20, automatic failure; Possible fumble, DC 10 Ref save, roll of 1 on d20, +0 Ref, total 1, failure]. He slips on some blood, falling prone next to the corpse of the old man.

Khashana moves forward, hopeful that she might be able to help someone, or at least move them out of harm's way -- Flawed proves too far, however, and she's forced to wait a bit longer.

Frustrated, Rawhide slashes at the warforged with his axe, cutting open her chest and exposing some the gears inside [Melee attack, roll of 15 on d20, +5 greataxe, total 20, hit; Damage, roll of 15 on 1d12+4, 15 damage]. She falls to the ground, face down, inert...

Cries ring out from some of the nearby towers, "Murder! They've murderered that person!" The shrill whistles of the City Watch can be heard from beyond Delannan Tower. From the sounds of it, they're not far away.

OOC: Here's the situation: Flawed is inert [-2 hp], there's a dead body on the ground next to Gannon, and the City Watch is a short walk away, more than likely. If you have comments or questions about how I've handled combat, we can chat in the OOC thread. :)
 

Plonk looks at the others. "This does not look good. Are women of any type always this temperemental?" Plonk grabs at the satchel that the corpse had. "Herein may lie a clue to our predicament. And I think we better be off swiftly," he says to the rest. The gnome waits for the shifter's rage to pass. Never was a race one would want to be around. Particularly bad after losing at card games. he thinks to himself.

If the party dallies longer he will inspect the fallen warforged.
 
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Gannon looks around at the assembled people and says: "Nice work, people. We have obviously just killed this man's murderer, but this warforged looks rather smashed up, so I'll try and tend to him, if you don't mind?" Gannon walks over to the inert warforged, mumbling a few words and making more strange gestures he touches the warforged whose dented metallic hide starts to repair itself.

OOC: Gannon converts his divine favor spell into a cure light wounds spell and casts it on Flawed.
 
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Rawhide, his rage made all the worse because of his misses, continues to wail on the fallen body of the warforged, hammering it again and again with his greataxe. The shifter is foaming at the mouth and snarling incoherently.

"Raaaaggghhh...aaaaaAAAarr....ggggooobbb....RAAAWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGG!"

OOC - KL:
Just FYI, if anyone approaches Rawhide, he WILL attack them while he is in this state. He knows none of these people any better than the warforged he just ripped up, and he is in no mental state to deduce otherwise at this point...
 
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