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[FR][PBP] Against the Storm Game Thread

garyh said:
I believe this round is Akharos' "Be kicked when someone moves over me" round.
ROFL! that's hilarious stuff...

Ubaar will continue with the melee stuff, since it seems to work for him.
He savors the battle-rage and visions, seeing them as further validation of a life lived well.
 

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Frian reads his scroll and touches Elone. She lies there for a moment, starts moving, mumbles something about woodchucks, and opens her eyes. It takes her a bit to figure out where she is and what is happening. (She missed her initiative this round. She gets a partial action at the end of next round, and will be back to normal on the following round. I will assume that the partial action will be the move-eq action of getting up, but feel free to post otherwise.)
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The drow secure Rysian, and the guarding him drow fires his hand xbow at Calain, the dart hitting him in the shoulder (2 dmg, no poison effects)

The drow sniper squad that just took out the HOrc continues to target Calain and Frian (who they now consider a significant threat after seeing him cure Elone, and who are not in melee). They are each shot twice, but are not poisoned (25 to Frian, 41 to Calain, whatever he was casting was disrupted, but the blades and the balls are still acting).

The second sniper squad keeps concentrating on those two targets as well. Calain is shot yet again (8 dmg), and falls, succumbing to the poison. Frian is shot twice as well (22dmg...down to 10 hp). Calain's dagger does a small bit of dmg to a mage, but his spell is not disrupted. A bolt of lightning shoots from one of the boxboats at Calain (It was too late for him to change targets) and Frian. Calain is struck and burned badly (HP -> -7). Frian dives to the ground to avoid certain death but it burned quite a bit anyway. hp -> -2).

Calain's Lightning keeps shocking both sniper squads (8 dmg per drow)

Alex, Ubaar, and Alcar are the only ones still standing now, with a woozy Elone rising to her feet to join them.

The Drow around Alcar try to swarm him, and one of them stabs him in the stomach. He gathers his strength yet again, and (OOC: Wow, 2 20s in a row!) brings his Maul down hard upon the other drow fighter, smashing his head in, and then goes on to smash one of the lesser-armored drow hard in the chest.(18 dmg). Alex again jumps onto a rope, swing-attacking a drow on Alcar and piercing his neck. With both drow on Alcar barely standing, Ubaar charges towards them, slices one of them in half at the chest with his sword, and then turns and throws the other overboard (and probably to his death) with a swipe of his tail.

The other mage finally falls back into the trap door he is using for cover after being shocked again with Calain's lightning.

Summary: This round saw the deaths of three fighting drow and one mage. Calain and Frian are dying. Ubaar, Alcar, Alex, and Elone remain standing. The three drow warrior who tied up Rysian are still active, as are all 4 snipers and one mage. There are six sauhugan below the ship. One of the four box-boats has been destroyed.
 

On Elone's partial action, she's going to burn her divine power domain spell (4th level) to cure Friar in repayment. Hopefully he'll be able to heal Calain, or Elone might be able next round.

She's not going to get up yet - the -4 penalty to attacking isn't that bad, and you get an ac bonus against ranged attackers if you're prone, so for now, the ground is her friend, especially since she's just casting this turn.
 

Rather than getting up, Elone reaches over and touches Frian, channeling holy energy into him. (-2 + 31 = 29) She wakes up rather revitalized.

The drow who tied up Rysian shouts in drow (those who speak elven can understand it pretty well) "Reinforce and regroup. This has been costly, my brothers. We have no choice but to get what we came for."

He and his two companions move over a little to guard the snipers, dragging netted and bound Rysian by a rope.

The remaining mage boards the ship by the other group of snipers.

The snipers open fire yet again, one focusing on Frian (19 dmg, two hits, he falls back down, poisoned), one on Elone (she is shot twice, and drifts quickly back into a contented slumber(16dmg, 67 total, running on endurance hp now)) and two on Ubaar.(two hits, 18 dmg...65 dmg taken...running on rage)

Calain's lightning wounds the snipers more, and the mage fails to dispel then.

The leader steps forward. He is larger than most of the other drow, and while unarmed, his hands glow with unholy energy. "Your strength is waning, defenders. You cannot hold out against us much longer. Surrender Rufus and his machine and I will let you all leave this place alive! (delays his combat action for the round)

Now what?

Only Ubaar, Alex, and Alcar are still standing. You all have yet to go this round.
 


OOC: crud. :(
This is a tough situation.

I've gotta decide whether to have Ubaar duck to a safety spot that I don't know whether is there or not (while he's in Rage, even - and no guarantees the others will follow, and many are dying, 1 is captured) or have him attack the drow group head-on, probably alone and die.

Bright spot : he's only taken 16+18 damage by my count = 34 (out of 91 hp's while enraged) and has a couple options - to Charge & Trample a drow, then slice with greatsword and club with his Tail (w/reach - possible AoO), or Grapple the leader and threaten to kill him unless they leave us alone.

Cripes - Ubaar still has the net on him, right?
So no charging. :(

Is there a place Ubaar could back off to and heal/buff up this round?
Do we know anything about Rufus' machine?
Who is in eminent danger of dying?
 


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