Endur's Expedition to Castle Ravenloft
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Goddess FallenAngel
Explorer
"I agree with Nikolai. We should try to meet up with the others - the more of us there are together, the safer we all will be." Alessandra grasps her horses reins, and hopes the others will listen.
industrygothica
Adventurer
Willow shudders at the thought of even more undead. She knows she is in Barovia, whatever wretched place that is, but her mind retreats back to her homeland, seeing the same shambling things overrun the druids' grove. Wave afer wave, the onslought was never-ending, and Willow, treed and helpless, could only watch.
She wouldn't watch now, and she's far from helpless, though her weapons still aren't as effective as she'd like. Still, she draws her magical half-spear and readies it against the things. While she'll do her best to help ward them off, she'll also study them, study their methods, and the methods of her party to decipher what appears to work the best, other than divine power of Alessandra's god, of whom Willow has much respect.
She wouldn't watch now, and she's far from helpless, though her weapons still aren't as effective as she'd like. Still, she draws her magical half-spear and readies it against the things. While she'll do her best to help ward them off, she'll also study them, study their methods, and the methods of her party to decipher what appears to work the best, other than divine power of Alessandra's god, of whom Willow has much respect.
Endur
First Post
The direction that Mathilda and her followers traveled in coincidentally happens to be the same direction from which the party heard more shambling undead.
As the party carefully bypasses the one non-moving body they have found so far, they see several zombies walking in the street (where z is in the street on the map) and several more zombies coming out of buildings (other places where z is on the map).
Suddenly there is a flapping of wings, and winged horrors fly through the fog, screeching at the party. The winged horrors look like horrible demonic heads with wings attached. Skorl panicks, drops his sword, and runs out of sight from the rest of the party (will 9+1=10).
Nikolai and Rick Sword hand are paralyzed in fear for 7 rounds. Dareios, Dammerung, Boo, and Lia's warhorse are paralyzed in fear for 5 rounds (Fort DC 12x2: Jack Morrow 17+, 14+; Nikolai 5+5=10 fail, 2+5=7 fail; Rick Swordhand 9+2=11 fail, 7+2=9 fail, Boo 3+ fail, 17+; Cedric 10+4, 11+4; Dareios 19+, 3+6=9 fail, Dammerung 10+, 1+, Strider 18+, 9+5=14; Willow 11+5, 19+, Slithergleam 9+, 12+; Allessandra 7+6=13, 8+, warhorse 9+, 19+; Lia 17+, 14+, warhorse 9+, 2+ fail)
The zombies plod forward towards the party.
Round 1
24: Dareios (paralyzed for 5 rounds)
24: Dammeraung (-1, paralyzed for 5 rounds)
24: Strider barks
20: Willow fires her crossbow at a Flying Bat-Winged Demonic Head, wounding it (17+ hit, dmg 2)
15: Alessandra Exaultiacien readies her mace
14: Wounded Flying Bat Winged Demonic Head flys towards Dareios, but Strider intercepts the creature before it can kiss Dareios (19+ hit, dmg 8, slaying it). Another Flying Bat Winged Demonic Head flies towards Ricven, dodges a blow from Alessandra's mace (4+ miss), and kisses Ricven on the face (touch attack 9+3=12 success, DC15 Fort 15+2=17 Ricven saves and avoids a horrible fate as a Varghouille)
12: Lia Nailo shoots at the last flying bat winged demonic head, but in trying to avoid slaying Ricven, misses the bat winged horror (1+ miss)
12: Lia's horse (paralyzed for 5 rounds)
12: 12 Zombies plod forward and surround the front and sides of the party
11: Skorl Darkskull (panicking for 4 rounds, dropped sword, fled out of sight) flees
10: Jack Morrow fires two arrows at the last Bat Winged Demonic Head (10+ hit missed due to fog, 17+ hit, dmg 5, disabled the Bat Winged Demonic Head)
9: Cedric (-3) moves forward and attacks a zombie adjacent to one of his helpless friends (18+ hits, dmg 3)
6: Nikolai (False Life, Mage Armor, Protection from Evil, paralyzed in fear for 7 rounds)
6: Ricven Spellhand (-2, frozen in fear for 7 rounds)
6: Boo (paralyzed in fear for 5 rounds)
As the party carefully bypasses the one non-moving body they have found so far, they see several zombies walking in the street (where z is in the street on the map) and several more zombies coming out of buildings (other places where z is on the map).
Suddenly there is a flapping of wings, and winged horrors fly through the fog, screeching at the party. The winged horrors look like horrible demonic heads with wings attached. Skorl panicks, drops his sword, and runs out of sight from the rest of the party (will 9+1=10).
Nikolai and Rick Sword hand are paralyzed in fear for 7 rounds. Dareios, Dammerung, Boo, and Lia's warhorse are paralyzed in fear for 5 rounds (Fort DC 12x2: Jack Morrow 17+, 14+; Nikolai 5+5=10 fail, 2+5=7 fail; Rick Swordhand 9+2=11 fail, 7+2=9 fail, Boo 3+ fail, 17+; Cedric 10+4, 11+4; Dareios 19+, 3+6=9 fail, Dammerung 10+, 1+, Strider 18+, 9+5=14; Willow 11+5, 19+, Slithergleam 9+, 12+; Allessandra 7+6=13, 8+, warhorse 9+, 19+; Lia 17+, 14+, warhorse 9+, 2+ fail)
The zombies plod forward towards the party.
Round 1
24: Dareios (paralyzed for 5 rounds)
24: Dammeraung (-1, paralyzed for 5 rounds)
24: Strider barks
20: Willow fires her crossbow at a Flying Bat-Winged Demonic Head, wounding it (17+ hit, dmg 2)
15: Alessandra Exaultiacien readies her mace
14: Wounded Flying Bat Winged Demonic Head flys towards Dareios, but Strider intercepts the creature before it can kiss Dareios (19+ hit, dmg 8, slaying it). Another Flying Bat Winged Demonic Head flies towards Ricven, dodges a blow from Alessandra's mace (4+ miss), and kisses Ricven on the face (touch attack 9+3=12 success, DC15 Fort 15+2=17 Ricven saves and avoids a horrible fate as a Varghouille)
12: Lia Nailo shoots at the last flying bat winged demonic head, but in trying to avoid slaying Ricven, misses the bat winged horror (1+ miss)
12: Lia's horse (paralyzed for 5 rounds)
12: 12 Zombies plod forward and surround the front and sides of the party
11: Skorl Darkskull (panicking for 4 rounds, dropped sword, fled out of sight) flees
10: Jack Morrow fires two arrows at the last Bat Winged Demonic Head (10+ hit missed due to fog, 17+ hit, dmg 5, disabled the Bat Winged Demonic Head)
9: Cedric (-3) moves forward and attacks a zombie adjacent to one of his helpless friends (18+ hits, dmg 3)
6: Nikolai (False Life, Mage Armor, Protection from Evil, paralyzed in fear for 7 rounds)
6: Ricven Spellhand (-2, frozen in fear for 7 rounds)
6: Boo (paralyzed in fear for 5 rounds)
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Goddess FallenAngel
Explorer
Alessandra curses and readies her mace for either one of the bat-things or a zombie to come within reach, moving up to it as needed, wishing she had prayed to the God to grant her the ability to remove fear.
industrygothica
Adventurer
Willow takes up her hand crossbow and fires it at the closest of the bat-winged heads.
