Elysium Squad OOC

[Nonlethal Force]

I'm confused, I thought I made my fort save and therefore was not nausiated?

Well, you did. And then you didn't. Ray was subject to two FORT saves - one that everyone was subject to - the cloud. That save was against becoming fatigued. However, any time a player begins a round in the midst of a swarm, they must make a FORT save vs. becoming nauseated. That save Ray failed. It was probably because the saves came in one turn and then in the next turn that it was confusing. One was for fatigue - the other was for naseau.

Sorry if I didn't make that clear in the posts. With all this running, underground lack of visibility, and magical effects going on it has been hard to explain everything to just the people who have knowledge of it.

However, the naseau only lasted until Ray got out of the swarm. So he was only naseated for the round that he began in the swarm.

Is that clear or am I just babbling. I am kinda tired and not sure its making a ton of sense here....

And Engrishonly - I did go back through the posts and Eva was never stated as closing the shutter, so I have been treating it as open. Hence why she has been allowed to run all these rounds.

 

[Bront]

Ok, that makes sense. Just making sure

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Fenris - I hope you didn't mind NPCing Yavarin's attack. I assumed Yavarin would be greatful to receive the honor of doing the final blow.

Ferrix, JonnyFive - I'll get to your actions for Round Five once Eluvan has a chance to post whether or not Cassient wants to use a wandstrike, his magic, or just let the combat go on without Cassient for a round! Didn't want you to think you were forgotten.

Bront - If you would like to alter your action to one of attack instead of helping the dying gnoll in light of these new circumstances, please feel free to do so. If I remember right you did post a conditional, so I am inclined to use that expression of attack against the new threat as well. If that's cool, then no need to worry.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Eluvan:
[Sblock]Okay - I've had a long day so I may be completely wrong. If so, forgive me. But for some reason I have Cassient at a ranged touch attack at +3 (+1 from DEX and +2 from BAB). I don't have him down as having Point Blank Shot ... so what did I miss to get him to +4? (Either way in game it is a miss - so it won't affect the game thread. I just want to double check my numbers.

Also, I am assuming Cassient is casting lesser orb of cold. So his caster level is 5 and it would do 3d8 - That part I am cool with. Just wondering about the +3 or +4 to attack.

Oh - and delay is what I meant, not ready. You taking an action this round is completely acceptable. Thanks for not letting my words confuse you![/Sblock]

 

[Bront]

Bront - If you would like to alter your action to one of attack instead of helping the dying gnoll in light of these new circumstances, please feel free to do so. If I remember right you did post a conditional, so I am inclined to use that expression of attack against the new threat as well. If that's cool, then no need to worry.

You did good. He will not risk his friends to save an obviously evil dying enemy who attacked first. It was more to let you know what he'd do if combat was done by the time it was his turn.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Engrishonly - no need to post yet - unless you are posting for two rounds in advance because you are going to be offline for some reason. In combat, you only need to post a new action after one of my "summary" posts declares the effect of the action you posted last. So, for example, ROUND FOUR (I think - the round when Eva was attacked) had the init order something like this:

Eva (move forward and hold position)
gnoll (surprise attack from the side - not surprise as in flatfooted, just plain old didn't know it was coming)
Cassient (delayed action from earlier in the round)
Geeo (running up and is almost there)
Kiera (Also run forward and is almost there)

After going through Kiera's action, ROUND FIVE began:

Ray (Flurry)
Yavarin - as of yet unposted.

Once Fenris posts Yavarin's action the init order will then be back to Eva where I will post the first of her power attacks. As of right now, however, that action hasn't yet taken place.

Please don't take this as criticism. PbP combat can take a while to get used to - and often many DMs do it differently. The most effective way to figure out if you need to post an action is to find my last "combat summary post" where Eva is mentioned. (A combat summary post is one of my posts with ROUND ____ somewhere in it) If you have posted since that post of mine, you are all set to go for the upcoming round and Eva's next action. If you haven't, then that means I'll have to stop at Eva's init order when I get there. But for right now ... you are good to go.

 

[engrishonly]

Ok, no problem. Wasn't sure if Eva had simply missed the previous round, or if she hadn't acted... so it's good to have this clarification.

In any case, it's safe to assume Eva will be conducting the same attack until this particular gnoll is down and/or a pulpy mess on the ground. There's a lot of Christmas shopping left to do since we got our Secret Santa assignments a little late here so I might be away for a bit.

And I am starting to put together my next campaign right now - the mechanics of it are starting to get too complicated (all set in an asteroid belt, so everything is in motion relative to each other). It's time to cut back right now, set the important parts in motion, and then start adding the other pieces... the shifting geography is a challenge, but maybe I can use it later for extraplanar adventures with D&D...

 

[Bront]

... is down and/or a pulpy mess on the ground. There's a lot of Christmas shopping left ....

There's two sentances that don't belong next to each other.

 

[JonnyFive]

sorry NLF, i was just wating to get in combat range

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Not a problem. Geeo's almost there and may well strike a definitive blow. [Lord knows he's earned it after that long run.]