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Freeport- Part 1: the Problem with Crematoriums
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<blockquote data-quote="Karl Green" data-source="post: 1549209" data-attributes="member: 1467"><p><strong>Update for Round 3</strong></p><p></p><p>Torren – 13.5 </p><p>Group by the south door – 13</p><p></p><p>Torren speaks in an arcane voice and unleashes a sticky webbing that surrounds the creatures by the south door…</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>Reflex saves, creature 1 total 19 makes it; creature two 10 misses it; 10 misses it; creatures you can’t see 1st one 22 makes it; 2nd one 7 misses it</em></span></p><p>…and is rewarded with hisses and hoots of rage from the area (there is at least 20ft of webbing between you and the creatures so they have total cover; Kitsch above they have at least 10ft of webbing up almost to the rafters so they get partical cover against you. The webbing extends almost to the stairs and I give the blind one a 50/50 chance of being next to it – and it is! On its actions it will make a reflex save if it fails to climb falling back into the webs) </p><p></p><p><strong>Round 4</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Outside the Hermitage</strong> </p><p></p><p>Creatures that ready last turn – 22.5 </p><p>Villard – 22</p><p>4-armed creatures outside - 4 </p><p></p><p>Villard pops out to fire again, but the creatures waiting below fire first!!!</p><p><span style="color: red">Villard get +2 Cover bonus; Attack roll of the first fish man total 15, miss; second attack 24, a hit; third attack 12, a miss; fourth attack 21, a hit; damage roll 1d10, first attack 10! Second attack 2!? Villard has now taken 12 points of damage</span></p><p>While two bolts miss, two strike him, one a glancing blow over his right shoulder, while the other leaves a bloody scar across his cheek.</p><p></p><p>Undetered, Villard fires into the closes creature…</p><p><span style="color: red">Attack roll 1! miss <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> I roll those a lot; second attack roll 7 +6 +1 point blank =14, barely a hit! Damage 1d8 +3 +2d6 for 3 +3 +6 +2 =14 points of damage</span></p><p>...the first shot spoiled by the bolt that cut his face, while the second strikes the creature a soilid blow on in the chest… The creature seems stunned for a second as it looks at the wound… then slowly loses its grip and tumbles back towards the ground almost 30ft. screaming in rage it lands with a wet slap. Trashes a bit and then is still</p><p></p><p>The other 4-armed creature continue climbing up the wall…</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>(the creature takes -5 to climb to move up the wall faster); Climb total 19</em></span></p><p>…making it most of the way up, next round it can make a partial action, it is within the reach of its arms with Villard but at the very edge. (Villard could move back 5ft to attack with his bow next round if he wanted and not get AOO; you could also run down the stairs/withdraw without getting attack by it)</p><p></p><p><strong>Inside the Hermitage</strong></p><p>Black Jack – 22</p><p>Zoraster – 17</p><p>Creatures – 15 </p><p>Kitsch – 14</p><p>Creatures by the northeast door – 14 </p><p>Torren – 13.5 </p><p>Group by the south door – 13</p><p>The rest of the creatures – 13</p><p>Fentrith – 8</p><p>two 4-armed creatures - 4 </p><p></p><p>Black Jack fires at the big four armed creature that has made the second barricade… </p><p><span style="color: red">Attack roll 7 +10 =17, a hit; damage 1d8 +2 for a roll 6 +2 =8 points</span></p><p>…stabbing into one of its upper arms. It hisses with rage and lets out a roar that almost sounds human in its hunger!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Zoraster attempts to tumble past the large creature that has made it over the stairs…</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>Tumble check 18 +14 =32, made it</em></span></p><p>…easily rolling under the creatures reach and between its legs to pop up behind it! Stabbing into its flank…</p><p><span style="color: red">Attack roll 11 +11 +2 flank = 23, a hit; damage roll 1d4+4 equals 2 +4 =6. the creature has now taken 20 points of damage</span></p><p>…and slashes it across it left thigh with a nasty gash; yet it seems not to notice staring at Fentrith with bloodlust and rage.</p><p></p><p>The blinded creature down on the first barricade shakes its head again and blinking its eyes seems to be able to see again. It howls and tries to climb over the barricade…</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>Climb total 4! Fails by more the 5; Reflex check 13 vs. DC 15 fails!</em></span></p><p>…but it slips and falls back into the webs! Stuck fast by the sticky strands!</p><p></p><p>The creature in the middle of the stairs tries to climb the upper barricade as quickly as possible…</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>(creature takes a -5 to climb)Climb check total 12, makes it!</em></span></p><p>…and scrables over quickly, standing near to (50/50 Frentrith/Zoraster side or Torren/Black Jack’s side) Torren and within 10ft of Black Jack. </p><p></p><p></p><p>The creature that hit Torren with a flying star fish last round, and is under the stairs does something…</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>Kitsch spot 10 +5 =15</em></span></p><p>…it looks to Kitsch that he is poring some liquid into a blow, and mixing it up with something else. A strange smoke is rising from the blow…</p><p></p><p>Kitsch notices that the creature can’t see him and quickly fires a bolt at it…</p><p><span style="color: red">(it is not in PB range) Attack roll 7 +11 =18 a hit; damage 1d8 +3d6 = 4 +4 +2 +1 =11 points of damage oh and plus 2 =13 points</span></p><p>… catching the creature in the neck. It falls back, trying to scream but only making gurgling sounds as it trashes and dies. The evil smoke that it started seems to hang in the air a second…</p><p></p><p>The additional group of fishmen at the northeast double door split, four of the creatures races towards the lower barricade (double moves to get there, that is more or less their round as they are avoiding the web); while the other two make normal moves to cover behind some of the support beams and fire their spearguns… </p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>spot checks 14 and 14</em></span></p><p>…at Kitsch as he is the only one not in melee at they just saw his bolt!</p><p><span style="color: red">(Kitsch gets +2 cover bonus for beans and stuff; AC 23) Attack roll 15 miss; second roll 25! (almost a crit!) taking 7 points of damage</span></p><p>…one bolt stick in the rafters near by harmlessly, but the second stricks the finch a glancing blow in his leg. His mail and reflexes saving him from a broken bone! Gritting his teeth from the pain…</p><p></p><p>Torren takes a five foot step back from the creature that just came over the barricade, draws his antitoxin and downs it in one smooth moiton. The creauture hisses at him but can’t get him right this second. </p><p></p><p>The other group by the south door are behind webs with total concealment for most of the party but they can hear them hissing and growling down there, but not sure what they are up to…</p><p></p><p>Fentrith slashes at the brute in front of him with <em>Cutter</em>…</p><p><span style="color: red">Attack roll 3 +6 +2 for flanking =11 a miss</span></p><p>…but it fails to penetrate the creatures scally hide and simply slids along the things right shoulder.</p><p></p><p>For which the creature goes into a bit of a freeze, slashing at Fentrith with all four arms that end in long sharp claws and trying to bite him with a mouth full or ravor sharp teeth…</p><p><span style="color: red">Attack roll 16, a miss; 10 a miss; 16 a miss!? 11 a miss?! (man these pluses only go so far) Bite 21 a hit; damage total from the bite 8 points of damage</span></p><p>…and while he is able to avoid the full assault the creature is able to catch part of the clerics arms. Luckily for Fentrith he is able to pull away before the creature removed it from his body. </p><p></p><p>The creature below bellows also and tries to quickly race over the barricade…</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>(takes -5 to climb check to try and get over) Climb total 16, makes it</em></span></p><p>…and springs up over the barricade near Black Jack…it hisses at him (right now if Black Jack wanted to step back 5ft he could and still attack with his bow as the creature is now 10ft way but it could also attack him if he stands there. At least next round!)</p><p></p><p>Actions as the battle gets desperate??? </p><p></p><p>Villard has take 12 points damage (has 19 left) and is "startled" (3rd round)</p><p>Black Jack has taken no damage</p><p>Torren has taken 5 points of damage and is ‘weakened’ </p><p>Zoraster has taken 2 points of damage (from the last battle not yet healed)</p><p>Kitsch has taken 7 points of damage (has 20 left)</p><p>Fentrith has taken 8 points damage (has 29 points left)</p><p></p><p>One big fishmen outside is dead the other is unwounded at in the Bell Tower. </p><p>There are four spear-gun shooters outside who are all unharmed.</p><p>Inside, the big four armed fishman at the top of the stairs next to Fentrith and Zoraster has taken 20 points of damage</p><p>The other big four armed fishman at the top of the barricade near Black Jack has taken 8 points of damage</p><p>The now un-blind fishman at the bottom of the stairs has taken 11 points of damage and is entangled (reading the spell and entangled I would say yes they lose their DEX bonus to AC and are vul to SA)</p><p>The flishman hiding under the stairs that was doing something is dead. </p><p>The normal fishman over the stairs next to Torren is unharmed </p><p>Four of the fishmen from the northeast door have made it to the base of the stairs, and are unharmed</p><p>Two speargun shooters have partical cover and or unharmed</p><p>The group by the south door are hidden in the webs, and while they are angry don’t seem to be doing anything that anyone can see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Karl Green, post: 1549209, member: 1467"] [b]Update for Round 3[/b] Torren – 13.5 Group by the south door – 13 Torren speaks in an arcane voice and unleashes a sticky webbing that surrounds the creatures by the south door… [size=1][i]Reflex saves, creature 1 total 19 makes it; creature two 10 misses it; 10 misses it; creatures you can’t see 1st one 22 makes it; 2nd one 7 misses it[/i][/size][i][/i] …and is rewarded with hisses and hoots of rage from the area (there is at least 20ft of webbing between you and the creatures so they have total cover; Kitsch above they have at least 10ft of webbing up almost to the rafters so they get partical cover against you. The webbing extends almost to the stairs and I give the blind one a 50/50 chance of being next to it – and it is! On its actions it will make a reflex save if it fails to climb falling back into the webs) [b]Round 4 Outside the Hermitage[/b] Creatures that ready last turn – 22.5 Villard – 22 4-armed creatures outside - 4 Villard pops out to fire again, but the creatures waiting below fire first!!! [color=red]Villard get +2 Cover bonus; Attack roll of the first fish man total 15, miss; second attack 24, a hit; third attack 12, a miss; fourth attack 21, a hit; damage roll 1d10, first attack 10! Second attack 2!? Villard has now taken 12 points of damage[/color] While two bolts miss, two strike him, one a glancing blow over his right shoulder, while the other leaves a bloody scar across his cheek. Undetered, Villard fires into the closes creature… [color=red]Attack roll 1! miss :( I roll those a lot; second attack roll 7 +6 +1 point blank =14, barely a hit! Damage 1d8 +3 +2d6 for 3 +3 +6 +2 =14 points of damage[/color] ...the first shot spoiled by the bolt that cut his face, while the second strikes the creature a soilid blow on in the chest… The creature seems stunned for a second as it looks at the wound… then slowly loses its grip and tumbles back towards the ground almost 30ft. screaming in rage it lands with a wet slap. Trashes a bit and then is still The other 4-armed creature continue climbing up the wall… [size=1][i](the creature takes -5 to climb to move up the wall faster); Climb total 19[/i][/size][i][/i] …making it most of the way up, next round it can make a partial action, it is within the reach of its arms with Villard but at the very edge. (Villard could move back 5ft to attack with his bow next round if he wanted and not get AOO; you could also run down the stairs/withdraw without getting attack by it) [b]Inside the Hermitage[/b] Black Jack – 22 Zoraster – 17 Creatures – 15 Kitsch – 14 Creatures by the northeast door – 14 Torren – 13.5 Group by the south door – 13 The rest of the creatures – 13 Fentrith – 8 two 4-armed creatures - 4 Black Jack fires at the big four armed creature that has made the second barricade… [color=red]Attack roll 7 +10 =17, a hit; damage 1d8 +2 for a roll 6 +2 =8 points[/color] …stabbing into one of its upper arms. It hisses with rage and lets out a roar that almost sounds human in its hunger! Zoraster attempts to tumble past the large creature that has made it over the stairs… [size=1][i]Tumble check 18 +14 =32, made it[/i][/size][i][/i] …easily rolling under the creatures reach and between its legs to pop up behind it! Stabbing into its flank… [color=red]Attack roll 11 +11 +2 flank = 23, a hit; damage roll 1d4+4 equals 2 +4 =6. the creature has now taken 20 points of damage[/color] …and slashes it across it left thigh with a nasty gash; yet it seems not to notice staring at Fentrith with bloodlust and rage. The blinded creature down on the first barricade shakes its head again and blinking its eyes seems to be able to see again. It howls and tries to climb over the barricade… [size=1][i]Climb total 4! Fails by more the 5; Reflex check 13 vs. DC 15 fails![/i][/size][i][/i] …but it slips and falls back into the webs! Stuck fast by the sticky strands! The creature in the middle of the stairs tries to climb the upper barricade as quickly as possible… [size=1][i](creature takes a -5 to climb)Climb check total 12, makes it![/i][/size][i][/i] …and scrables over quickly, standing near to (50/50 Frentrith/Zoraster side or Torren/Black Jack’s side) Torren and within 10ft of Black Jack. The creature that hit Torren with a flying star fish last round, and is under the stairs does something… [size=1][i]Kitsch spot 10 +5 =15[/i][/size][i][/i] …it looks to Kitsch that he is poring some liquid into a blow, and mixing it up with something else. A strange smoke is rising from the blow… Kitsch notices that the creature can’t see him and quickly fires a bolt at it… [color=red](it is not in PB range) Attack roll 7 +11 =18 a hit; damage 1d8 +3d6 = 4 +4 +2 +1 =11 points of damage oh and plus 2 =13 points[/color] … catching the creature in the neck. It falls back, trying to scream but only making gurgling sounds as it trashes and dies. The evil smoke that it started seems to hang in the air a second… The additional group of fishmen at the northeast double door split, four of the creatures races towards the lower barricade (double moves to get there, that is more or less their round as they are avoiding the web); while the other two make normal moves to cover behind some of the support beams and fire their spearguns… [size=1][i]spot checks 14 and 14[/i][/size][i][/i] …at Kitsch as he is the only one not in melee at they just saw his bolt! [color=red](Kitsch gets +2 cover bonus for beans and stuff; AC 23) Attack roll 15 miss; second roll 25! (almost a crit!) taking 7 points of damage[/color] …one bolt stick in the rafters near by harmlessly, but the second stricks the finch a glancing blow in his leg. His mail and reflexes saving him from a broken bone! Gritting his teeth from the pain… Torren takes a five foot step back from the creature that just came over the barricade, draws his antitoxin and downs it in one smooth moiton. The creauture hisses at him but can’t get him right this second. The other group by the south door are behind webs with total concealment for most of the party but they can hear them hissing and growling down there, but not sure what they are up to… Fentrith slashes at the brute in front of him with [i]Cutter[/i]… [color=red]Attack roll 3 +6 +2 for flanking =11 a miss[/color] …but it fails to penetrate the creatures scally hide and simply slids along the things right shoulder. For which the creature goes into a bit of a freeze, slashing at Fentrith with all four arms that end in long sharp claws and trying to bite him with a mouth full or ravor sharp teeth… [color=red]Attack roll 16, a miss; 10 a miss; 16 a miss!? 11 a miss?! (man these pluses only go so far) Bite 21 a hit; damage total from the bite 8 points of damage[/color] …and while he is able to avoid the full assault the creature is able to catch part of the clerics arms. Luckily for Fentrith he is able to pull away before the creature removed it from his body. The creature below bellows also and tries to quickly race over the barricade… [size=1][i](takes -5 to climb check to try and get over) Climb total 16, makes it[/i][/size][i][/i] …and springs up over the barricade near Black Jack…it hisses at him (right now if Black Jack wanted to step back 5ft he could and still attack with his bow as the creature is now 10ft way but it could also attack him if he stands there. At least next round!) Actions as the battle gets desperate??? Villard has take 12 points damage (has 19 left) and is "startled" (3rd round) Black Jack has taken no damage Torren has taken 5 points of damage and is ‘weakened’ Zoraster has taken 2 points of damage (from the last battle not yet healed) Kitsch has taken 7 points of damage (has 20 left) Fentrith has taken 8 points damage (has 29 points left) One big fishmen outside is dead the other is unwounded at in the Bell Tower. There are four spear-gun shooters outside who are all unharmed. Inside, the big four armed fishman at the top of the stairs next to Fentrith and Zoraster has taken 20 points of damage The other big four armed fishman at the top of the barricade near Black Jack has taken 8 points of damage The now un-blind fishman at the bottom of the stairs has taken 11 points of damage and is entangled (reading the spell and entangled I would say yes they lose their DEX bonus to AC and are vul to SA) The flishman hiding under the stairs that was doing something is dead. The normal fishman over the stairs next to Torren is unharmed Four of the fishmen from the northeast door have made it to the base of the stairs, and are unharmed Two speargun shooters have partical cover and or unharmed The group by the south door are hidden in the webs, and while they are angry don’t seem to be doing anything that anyone can see. [/QUOTE]
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