Hewligan's Rise of the Runelords: The Skinsaw Murders
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Rhun
First Post
OOC: Oops...give me a couple of hours this morning, and I'll have a post up for Kael, and I'll modify my post for Danth above to look outside and then move to help at the front of the house. Sorry for the confusion.
OOC: I'm back! I hope I haven't slowed you guys down too much.
IC:
"This puppy has teeth and your worm riddled corpse is headed back to the dirt!!"
With an inarticulate howl of rage Jokad explodes into the middle of the pack, Whitefire leading the way.
OOC: Jokad will attack RAGE (free action) and move into a position where he can reach both normal ghouls. He will PA 2 attacking one of the ghouls hoping to kill it and cleave into the other. With any luck he can even up the odds.
AC 17, HP 47
INIT 22, hit AC 28 (possible crit) for 8 sword + 2 fire damge (10 hp total)
Roll Lookup
Crit confirmed! Hit AC 22 for 12 more damage
Roll Lookup
Fiirst ghoul takes 22 hp dmage total!! Hopefully it is dead and here is my cleave.
Hit AC 25 for 9 sword + 2 fire (11 total)
Roll Lookup
IC:
"This puppy has teeth and your worm riddled corpse is headed back to the dirt!!"
With an inarticulate howl of rage Jokad explodes into the middle of the pack, Whitefire leading the way.
OOC: Jokad will attack RAGE (free action) and move into a position where he can reach both normal ghouls. He will PA 2 attacking one of the ghouls hoping to kill it and cleave into the other. With any luck he can even up the odds.
AC 17, HP 47
INIT 22, hit AC 28 (possible crit) for 8 sword + 2 fire damge (10 hp total)
Roll Lookup
Crit confirmed! Hit AC 22 for 12 more damage
Roll Lookup
Fiirst ghoul takes 22 hp dmage total!! Hopefully it is dead and here is my cleave.
Hit AC 25 for 9 sword + 2 fire (11 total)
Roll Lookup
Rhun
First Post
Danth runs to the back window, standing on the now-empty bed once shared by the two, now cowering, children. He thrusts Crimson Dawn outside, casting warm light upon the small back yard of the house. He can see the neat rows of the vegetable patch, with thin sticks and string in place to guide the growth as it develops through spring. It stinks outside. The stink of decaying meat. The same smell as inside, although in truth, inside is worse now, given that the room smells not only of decaying meat, but of burnt hair and barbecued dead flesh.
There is nothing outside. The night is still and cold.
And then the still of the night is broken. Danth hears the front door shatter and swing open. He feels the gust of chill air sweep through the house, and turns towards the noise. The room is filled with the screams of the children and their mother.
"Stay close," says Danth to the children and their mother, in a tone that brooks no argument. "But stay behind me, and do not get in the way." With those words, Danth rushes back out into the main living room, Crimson Dawn in hand, and determined to aid Jokad and Farmer Woldrack against the undead threat.
AC: 19, Hit Points: 31/31
Initiative: 4
Danth uses this round to move back to the front of the house.
[sblock=Current Spells Readied]
- Level 0: Detect Magic x2, Light, Guidance, Resistance
- Level 1: Command, Bless x2, Shield of Faith + (d) Cure Light Wounds
- Level 2: Cure Moderate Wounds, Deific Vengeance (CD), Remove Paralysis + (d) Heat Metal[/sblock]
There is nothing outside. The night is still and cold.
And then the still of the night is broken. Danth hears the front door shatter and swing open. He feels the gust of chill air sweep through the house, and turns towards the noise. The room is filled with the screams of the children and their mother.
"Stay close," says Danth to the children and their mother, in a tone that brooks no argument. "But stay behind me, and do not get in the way." With those words, Danth rushes back out into the main living room, Crimson Dawn in hand, and determined to aid Jokad and Farmer Woldrack against the undead threat.
AC: 19, Hit Points: 31/31
Initiative: 4
Danth uses this round to move back to the front of the house.
[sblock=Current Spells Readied]
- Level 0: Detect Magic x2, Light, Guidance, Resistance
- Level 1: Command, Bless x2, Shield of Faith + (d) Cure Light Wounds
- Level 2: Cure Moderate Wounds, Deific Vengeance (CD), Remove Paralysis + (d) Heat Metal[/sblock]
Rhun
First Post
Seeing the ghoul below him, Kael speaks the words of his most potent spell, and points a finger down at the creature. A fiery ray streaks from the sorcerer's digit to strike the ghoul, searing into its flesh...
Initiative: 8
Cast Scorching Ray
Ranged TOUCH attack: 16
Damage: 11
[sblock=Spells Per Day]
0-level 6
1st-level 6
2nd-level4 3
[/sblock]
Initiative: 8
Cast Scorching Ray
Ranged TOUCH attack: 16
Damage: 11
[sblock=Spells Per Day]
0-level 6
1st-level 6
2nd-level
[/sblock]
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Friadoc
Explorer
OOC
Notification of return, formerly a place holder.
Also, as I posted in the OOC thread (I think), I'm sorry for being so out of touch these past few weeks, I've been under the weather and barely getting school work done, let alone anything else.
Folks, thanks for covering my backside, especially Rhun who is more than welcome to NPC Kael's actions when I'm not around. It is much appreciated and nicely done.
I'm back, all shall be good again. *knocks on wood*
I'll take over from here on, Rhun did some dang fine things with Kael. Thanks.
I'm glad to be back, too.
Notification of return, formerly a place holder.
Also, as I posted in the OOC thread (I think), I'm sorry for being so out of touch these past few weeks, I've been under the weather and barely getting school work done, let alone anything else.
Folks, thanks for covering my backside, especially Rhun who is more than welcome to NPC Kael's actions when I'm not around. It is much appreciated and nicely done.
I'm back, all shall be good again. *knocks on wood*
I'll take over from here on, Rhun did some dang fine things with Kael. Thanks.
I'm glad to be back, too.
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Rhun
First Post
Fenris
Adventurer
Jovik flings Gulls' Wing down a the walking corpse below him.
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Jovik Init (1d20+3=13)
Jovik attacks (1d20+7=20, 1d4+2=3) [/sblock]
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Jovik Init (1d20+3=13)
Jovik attacks (1d20+7=20, 1d4+2=3) [/sblock]
hewligan
First Post
Initiative: Ghouls in house (22, Jokad (22), ghouls in barn (19), leader ghoul (Roll Lookup), Jovik (13), Kael (8), Danth (4), farmer Woldrack - note that Jokad and the ghouls tied. I had to roll a tie-breaker and Jokad lost, so comes second.
"TAKE HIM!!!! KILL HIM!!!!" The leader screams, his snakelike tongue flicking stench and spittle in your direction. He clearly means Jokad, his eyes burning into the barbarian, one of his long pointed fingers stretched towards the Shoanti.
They throw themselves into battle like starving wolves, all claws and teeth, and uncoordinated frenzy.
The first ghoul gets a kick in the gut as it approaches, and is sent sprawling onto the floor, taking a chair with it (OOC: It misses with all attacks). The second is just as uncoordinated as the first. Perhaps it is the remnants of the once-farmer in them that makes them so useless in combat. This one manages to keep its feet, but Jokad has little trouble in blocking it as it tries to grab him and sink its teeth forward.
Jokad turns its attack against it. He cracks his head against its nose as it dives forward, hearing a satisfying crunch as the bone there shatters. It reels back, moving to clutch the mess that is its face, before Jokad slams Whitefire through the face, feeling the blade sink straight through to the back of the skull.
Twist, foot, push, and free.
He turns with the blade in a single motion, blood trailing through the air behind him as he slams it down upon the slowly rising ghoul on the floor. It gasps, an almost human noise, as the force of the blade opens a long, thick gash across its chest. Its face screws up in rage and disgust as it spits in pain.
OOC: 1 ghoul dead, one badly injured.
The leader watches the barbarian dispatch with ease his two foot soldiers.
"The pack will have you!" it rasps, its voice thin like paper. It opens its hideous jaw wide and bites forward. Jokad shrugs and offers some crude Shoanti insult under his breath and he uses the butt of Whitefire to slam the disgusting creature in the side of the head, following up with two blocks in its errant swipes. (OOC: The dice are cursing me tonight, and this darn ghoul misses too!)
Out in the barn, the first ghoul has broken cover and is rapidly scrambling up the ladder. Its face stares hungrily at Kael and Jovik, as it slavers and grunts in hunger. The second ghoul remains out of sight below, although you can hear it grunting and muttering in a thick local dialect that doesn't suggest an overly quick mind.
Jovik sends his dagger flashing down and into the ghoul. It bites into its shoulder, leaving a deep wound before wiggling itself free and spinning back to its owner's hand.
Kael doesn't leave anything to chance. He steps forward, moving within a few feet of the rapidly approaching ghoul, and sends a frightening wave of roiling flames over the thing.
It keeps climbing as the flesh drips from it, as the flames catch around it, as the hair singes to nothing, as the clothes consume in a thick wash of fire. It manages to reach Kael, stretching out a long blackened arm, as if to touch the man that has destroyed it, before halting there, slowly burning, slowly melting and boiling.
The stench is disgusting. Kael and Jovik cannot help but recoil, trying to catch some breath. When they return their gaze, the ghoul has slumped, half up the ladder, half still on it, its arm outstretched in death.
And then below them they hear the crackling whoosh of a hungry fire catching. It takes a second or two before they catch the first hint of smoke. It appears that the ghoul below has used its time to set something below them alight.
The smell of oil carries to them. A lantern, perhaps, thrown on some hay?
Back in the kitchen, Danth runs into the room, his scimitar flashing. He sees the injured ghoul between himself and Jokad, he sees he corpse, he sees the uninjured ghoul wearing what appears to be fine clothing. He sees farmer Woldrack lift a shovel above his head and crack it with the rawest noise of wet flesh upon the head of the leading ghoul.
(OOC: He hits for 3hp damage - the maximum from his improvised weapon). The ghoul turns its head as if observing the farmer for the first time, perhaps confused that the simple man chose to enter the fray. Farmer Woldrack offers up a coarse "Eat it, you unholy SCUM!", as he prepares his spade for a second attack.
OOC: Round 3 coming up, actions and inits please.
"TAKE HIM!!!! KILL HIM!!!!" The leader screams, his snakelike tongue flicking stench and spittle in your direction. He clearly means Jokad, his eyes burning into the barbarian, one of his long pointed fingers stretched towards the Shoanti.
They throw themselves into battle like starving wolves, all claws and teeth, and uncoordinated frenzy.
The first ghoul gets a kick in the gut as it approaches, and is sent sprawling onto the floor, taking a chair with it (OOC: It misses with all attacks). The second is just as uncoordinated as the first. Perhaps it is the remnants of the once-farmer in them that makes them so useless in combat. This one manages to keep its feet, but Jokad has little trouble in blocking it as it tries to grab him and sink its teeth forward.
Jokad turns its attack against it. He cracks his head against its nose as it dives forward, hearing a satisfying crunch as the bone there shatters. It reels back, moving to clutch the mess that is its face, before Jokad slams Whitefire through the face, feeling the blade sink straight through to the back of the skull.
Twist, foot, push, and free.
He turns with the blade in a single motion, blood trailing through the air behind him as he slams it down upon the slowly rising ghoul on the floor. It gasps, an almost human noise, as the force of the blade opens a long, thick gash across its chest. Its face screws up in rage and disgust as it spits in pain.
OOC: 1 ghoul dead, one badly injured.
The leader watches the barbarian dispatch with ease his two foot soldiers.
"The pack will have you!" it rasps, its voice thin like paper. It opens its hideous jaw wide and bites forward. Jokad shrugs and offers some crude Shoanti insult under his breath and he uses the butt of Whitefire to slam the disgusting creature in the side of the head, following up with two blocks in its errant swipes. (OOC: The dice are cursing me tonight, and this darn ghoul misses too!)
Out in the barn, the first ghoul has broken cover and is rapidly scrambling up the ladder. Its face stares hungrily at Kael and Jovik, as it slavers and grunts in hunger. The second ghoul remains out of sight below, although you can hear it grunting and muttering in a thick local dialect that doesn't suggest an overly quick mind.
Jovik sends his dagger flashing down and into the ghoul. It bites into its shoulder, leaving a deep wound before wiggling itself free and spinning back to its owner's hand.
Kael doesn't leave anything to chance. He steps forward, moving within a few feet of the rapidly approaching ghoul, and sends a frightening wave of roiling flames over the thing.
It keeps climbing as the flesh drips from it, as the flames catch around it, as the hair singes to nothing, as the clothes consume in a thick wash of fire. It manages to reach Kael, stretching out a long blackened arm, as if to touch the man that has destroyed it, before halting there, slowly burning, slowly melting and boiling.
The stench is disgusting. Kael and Jovik cannot help but recoil, trying to catch some breath. When they return their gaze, the ghoul has slumped, half up the ladder, half still on it, its arm outstretched in death.
And then below them they hear the crackling whoosh of a hungry fire catching. It takes a second or two before they catch the first hint of smoke. It appears that the ghoul below has used its time to set something below them alight.
The smell of oil carries to them. A lantern, perhaps, thrown on some hay?
Back in the kitchen, Danth runs into the room, his scimitar flashing. He sees the injured ghoul between himself and Jokad, he sees he corpse, he sees the uninjured ghoul wearing what appears to be fine clothing. He sees farmer Woldrack lift a shovel above his head and crack it with the rawest noise of wet flesh upon the head of the leading ghoul.
(OOC: He hits for 3hp damage - the maximum from his improvised weapon). The ghoul turns its head as if observing the farmer for the first time, perhaps confused that the simple man chose to enter the fray. Farmer Woldrack offers up a coarse "Eat it, you unholy SCUM!", as he prepares his spade for a second attack.
OOC: Round 3 coming up, actions and inits please.
Jokad grins madly fully engaged in his frenzy. His blade is everywhere. His vision focused balefully on the foppish ghoul. He does not notice the farmer's aid or Danth's entrance.
He casually drops his flaming blade on the head of the badly wounded ghoul turning the motion into a surprise attack on the leader.
OOC: Jokad attacks the wounded ghoul in hopes finishing it off and CLEAVE into the leader.
INIT 20, hit AC 27 for 7 sword + 6 fire damage (13 hp more total)
Roll Lookup
Assuming this kills the creature here is my CLEAVE attack
Hit AC 24 for 8 sword and 1 fire (9 hp total)
Roll Lookup
If for some reason the wounded ghoul is already dead before my turn comes up, please use my first set of rolls for my attack on the lead ghoul.
He casually drops his flaming blade on the head of the badly wounded ghoul turning the motion into a surprise attack on the leader.
OOC: Jokad attacks the wounded ghoul in hopes finishing it off and CLEAVE into the leader.
INIT 20, hit AC 27 for 7 sword + 6 fire damage (13 hp more total)
Roll Lookup
Assuming this kills the creature here is my CLEAVE attack
Hit AC 24 for 8 sword and 1 fire (9 hp total)
Roll Lookup
If for some reason the wounded ghoul is already dead before my turn comes up, please use my first set of rolls for my attack on the lead ghoul.
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