[Eberron] The Forgotten Forge

[Old Fezziwig]

Assumptions: Rawhide, having received Gannon's permission, charges the warforged along with the human cleric. Plonk keeps his crossbow trained on it, and Flawed shoots a bolt. I'm assuming that Plonk and Flawed will not shoot until after the two others have charged. Initiative (rolled for the beginning of the first round) at the end of the post.

Surprise Round

The barbarian and cleric go barrelling down the stairs, making a huge racket, but (fortunately) one that their victim only notices too late [Attacks: Rawhide with great axe, roll of 4 on d20, +3 melee, +2 charge, +2 circumstance (higher ground), total 11, miss; Gannon with morningstar, roll of 12 on d20, +2 melee, +2 charge, +2 circumstance, total 18, hit; 4 damage on 1d8+1]. The shifter charges with too much zeal and swings far too late to do much, if any damage, his axe glancing off the wall behind the warforged and glancing off its metal body, with the force of the swing bouncing rawhide down the stairs one step further. Gannon is far more successful, catching the warforged square in the shoulder with a satisfying thonk.

Flawed's bolt sprays high, going over the warforged's head [Ranged attack, roll of 13 on d20, +1 ranged, -4 shooting into melee, total 10, miss]. Plonk holds fire until he has a better view of the situation.

Round 1 Initiative Order
Warforged 21
Plonk 19 (roll of 18, +1 Init, Dex 13)
Flawed 19 (roll of 18, +1 Init, Dex 12)
Rawhide 14 (roll of 12, +2 Init)
Gannon 9 (roll of 9, +0 Init)

Round 1

You can all hear a sudden, brief rush of water.

The warforged, although somewhat surprised by the charge, reacts quickly, catching Rawhide in the side [2 damage] with its rapier. "It's not how things were supposed to happen, but there's more of us than just me here. You have the provost's journal. Hand it over."

 

[Krug]

Plonk, seeing the warforged, can't quite bear to do damage to it. "Why? What do you need with it? Where are the others?" He seems actually eager to see more Warforged.

 

[MadMaxim]

"You could have started by not trying to ambush us and ask us nicely instead, but you obviously want it the hard way" Gannon says while trying to get into position to hit the warforged again.

 

[Knight Otu]

"If you give up now and tell us what you know, you might continue your existance... Malfunctioned entity." Flawed directs towards the other warforged (Intimidate +0).

 

[Ashy]

Rawhide gasps as he feels the steel bite into his side. but then he loses himself in the red haze of anger that constantly simmers just beneath his psyche. The shifter howls, his mouth foaming, his eyes rolling back in his head - his form changes, becoming fuller and more muscular. His claws and teeth lengthen and all over his body he sprouts more thick, coal black hair.

The greataxe, which seems to better suit this new form somehow, whirls in his hands and Rawhide wades into the warforged, heedless of the words being bantered back and forth. There is no doubt to his companions that the shifter is now in that dangerous place wherein he is lost to all reason and words...

 

[Old Fezziwig]

The warforged smirks at Plonk's excited questioning and ignores Flawed's threat [Intimidate, roll of 10 on d20, +0 unskilled, total 10, failure] as it squares itself to receive the blows from Rawhide and Gannon. The cleric swings his morningstar again [roll of 16 on d20, +2 melee, +2 circumstance (higher ground), total 20, hit; roll of 7 damage on 1d8+1] and smashes the construct's head in. It collapses to the ground, lifeless. Rawhide, in his usual frenzy, starts to dig in, hacking at the metal and wood of the erstwhile warforged until it is only so many individual parts.

Plonk:

Spoiler

Above the din, you think you hear the sound of multiple creatures — the other warforged? — running away.

 

[MadMaxim]

OOC: Kajamba Lion, doesn't a greataxe do 1d12 points of damage? Just wondering, because Rawhide has been dealing damage with 1d8 in all our encounters. And now back to the game...

"That ought to teach him not to mess with us!" Gannon is still pretty worked up over the combat, but his rage doesn't quite reach the levels of the shifter's.

 

[Krug]

Plonk tells the others "Sounds like the other warforged are running away," says Plonk. Plonk wants to help the defeated warforged but isn't going ANYWHERE near the shifter's axe. "It didn't put up much of a fight," continues the Gnome.

 

[Knight Otu]

If it were capable of mimicking, Flawed would frown. "Stay away from the shifter for a while." It states the obvious first.
"The other warforged ran away? Why would they do that?"

 

[Old Fezziwig]

OOC: Yeah, I knew that, but I misread Ashy's character sheet and didn't even think about it — he has a heavy mace listed first, which does 1d8 damage. Thanks for the heads up (it may have been better that he was doing 1d8 when he was attacking the party, though...). As for it not putting up much of a fight, it didn't have an action in the surprise round (it was surprised), and y'all killed it before round 2.