Endur's Expedition to Castle Ravenloft

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

"Deathlock!" Lia cries, pointing an arrow at the robed undead, and following the pointing with a loosing of said arrow. "Muthary ikao sushenda!" she exclaims, an elven prayer to invoke the Mother of Mercy.

OOC: Single shots, Deathlock first, keeping distance from all baddies if possible, Lia has no interest in entering melee. She would have brought her horse with her, left her just outside the door, and had Sikilar aloft above the church to warn of ambush or other trouble from outside. Does Lia know anything specific about Deathlocks? Powers, weaknesses? Just what's in Libris Mortis?

 

[Endur]

Does Lia know anything specific about Deathlocks? Powers, weaknesses? Just what's in Libris Mortis?

Lia knows that a Deathlock is a undead spellcaster and most of what's in Libris Mortis concerning Deathlocks. She has no idea what spells the Deathlock knows, although she knows that the Deathlock in life was an evil spellcaster of some sort.

 

[Endur]

Round 2

A wave of necromancy erupts from the pages the man reads out of the book, words in a language you do not understand (except for Nikolai, who recognized it as Circle of Death). Allesandra's horse, Strider, Sikilar, and Ricven Spellhand fall dead from the foul words.

18: Nikolai (sick, False Life (+2), Mage Armor) casts Magic Missile at Danovich (dmg 11)
16: Skorl Darkskull (-5, sick, shaken) overcomes his sickness and fear to step forward and strike the Deathlock with a powerful blow from his great sword (9+11-4=16 vs. ac 15, hit, dmg 15), cutting the already heavily wounded mystical cadaverous creature in half
14: Lia Nailo shoots an arrow at Danovich, but it bounces off his shield (5+ miss)
14: Lia’s horse waits
14: Sikilar (dead)
12: Willow (-5) begins summoning a viper
12: Slithergleam (-5) hisses
11: Deathlock (destroyed)
11: Dareios (mounted on Dammerung) (will save 3+, shaken) rides Dammerung straight at the Spellcaster, leaping over the hole in the floor (Dareios ride check 2+, Dareios loses his grip and falls off Dammerung but luckily doesn't fall down the hole)
11: Strider (dead)
11: Dammerung (will save 2+ shaken) bull rushes Danovich, knocking him back from the book (touch attack 9+, opposed str checks 19+ vs. 1+, successfully moves Danovich back)
10: Alessandra Exaultiacien (-2, sick) draws her weapon and moves closer
10: Alessandra’s horse (dead)
8: Danovich (-11) scrambles away from Dammerung and jumps down the hole in the floor, leaving his book behind on the altar (dmg 11 from the fall)
6: Cedric (-8)
6: Ricven Spellhand (dead)
6: Boo (-5) mourns
4: Jack Morrow fires two arrows, one of which hits the now stationary book (20+ hit, 5+ miss)

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

"Strider! NOOOO!"

Tears spring from Dareios' eyes as he sees his dog fall among the dead...

"YOU - won't leave with life!"

And the young soldier leads his horse against the necromancer with full force...

[Power attack! That one is mine to slay!]

 

[industrygothica]

Willow screams in horror as her friends fall. Not again, she thinks.

Almost without thinking, Willow again calls on the powers of nature to conjure a small viper to appear on the very pages of which the foul man is reading.

Any thoughts she had of saving him have long since passed.

ooc: Summon Nature's Ally I, replacing Hide from animals

 

[Voadam]

Jack will shoot at the book again, trying to stop the dark magic.

 

[Rhun]

Although feeling sick and fearful, Skorl growls and tries to push the feelings away, striking at the Deathlok with his greatsiwrd.


HP: 42/47, sickened, shaken
Attack +11 (2d6+9)
Endur, I'll let you take the penalties into account.

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

Alessandra drops her holy symbol to hang back around her neck and moves up to engage the man with the book, drawing her mace as she moves.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Lia screams as she feels Sikilar's death in her own heart. Tears begin to run down her face even as she draws back her bow and fires at the heartless magician whose foul magic killed her friend.

OOC: Single arrow attacks on the magician, unless any of the other enemies close with 10 ft., then switch attacks to them.

 

[Endur]

Round 3

The man (who you presume to be Danovich the village priest) has jumped down the hole in the floor. His book, the Libris Blaspheme, lies upon the desecrated altar with an arrow sticking through it. Nikolai, Skorl, and Allesandra no longer feel sick.

From below you hear a mad voice cry out, "Awaken my son! They seek to take your life!"

18: Nikolai (False Life (+2), Mage Armor) readies to blast Danovich with Magic Missile
16: Skorl Darkskull (-5, shaken) moves to the edge of the hole
14: Lia Nailo moves to the edge of the hole and shoots at Danovich (17+ hit, dmg 8)
14: Lia’s horse waits
12: Willow's Viper appears and bites at Danovich (3+ miss)
12: Willow (-5) moves to the edge of the hole
12: Slithergleam (-5)
11: Dareios (shaken)
11: Dammerung (shaken)
10: Alessandra Exaultiacien (-2) creates a ray of Searing Light that burns the abomination (8+3=11, touch attack hits, dmg 26)
8: Danovich (-30) gets blasted by a magic missile from Nikolai while trying to cast a spell (dmg 11) and his body falls apart, revealing beneath his skin, terrible corruption of his internal organs
7: Abomination (-26) picks up Willow's summoned viper and bites it in half (20+/9+, critical hit, dmg 33)
6: Cedric (-8) moves to the edge of the hole
4: Jack Morrow moves to the edge of the hole and shoots the abomination (13+, hit, dmg 12-5dr=7)