Hewligan's Rise of the Runelords: The Skinsaw Murders

[hewligan]

OOC: I need to apologise - I just spent 90 minutes trying to get my new monitor set up and failing. Turns out to be a bug in the Mac OS release I use. Nothing I can do about it, but I have lost the night. I am also out tomorrow night getting as drunk as a skunk, so no update until Friday. Very sorry!!!!

 

[Friadoc]

OOC: I need to apologise - I just spent 90 minutes trying to get my new monitor set up and failing. Turns out to be a bug in the Mac OS release I use. Nothing I can do about it, but I have lost the night. I am also out tomorrow night getting as drunk as a skunk, so no update until Friday. Very sorry!!!!

OOC

No worries, hewligan, we understand and, heck, you've been understanding of us, too...so it's all good.

We'll see it when you post it.

 

[hewligan]

Init Order: Cultists (23, Jovik (21), Danth (21), Kael (14)

The room erupts. They are fast, these men. The first figure at the door who had been called over runs to the back of the room and quickly lifts his weapons. As he turns to face you from the far end of the room, you can see that his face has been covered by a horrific mask that resembles a deformed patchwork face. In his right hand is a war razor, the blade glinting. The whole time, as he ran and as he stands, he shouts and shouts and shouts ..

"Attack! ATTACK!"

The man that Jovik is grappling with stiffens, half turns, and jabs a finger hard at the young rogue. Jovik manages to wrestle and constrain him, but notices the dark magic that courses along the digit that the man tried to thrust into his side.

Jovik, not perhaps unsettled somewhat, cannot find purchase with his own blade, and the cultist wriggles free to face Jovik, weaponless, but with his hands alive with black energy.

His threat doesn't last long. Reacting with the quickness of a serpent's strike, Danth rushes the warrior, drawing his scimitar and he moves. Flames flicker along Crimson Dawn's blade as the young cleric aims a slash of the weapon at the man...

The cultist crumples to a bloodied mess on the floor.

You can hear Kael's magic, and the horrible noise as Jokad plunges several floors to hit the floor 2 levels below hard.

OOC: 8 hp damage

As the heat of the initial flush of battle passes, you notice that the well equipped warrior has retreated into the small side room, shutting the door behind him.

You can hear commotion on the floor below.

Jokad is still invisible, but a cloud of dust and sawdust rises around him, and a couple of cultists are moving fast up the stairs (from the floor he has landed on to the floor above) and thus seem to have missed him. They do glance down but they are wearing masks and holding weapons, and move rapidly on.

OOC: inits and actions please.

 

[Friadoc]

Caution often slays timing, which is why Kael is long to act before finally issuing forth three blasts of force that fly into the war razor-wielding foe. Yet, in addition to firing his attack, Kael also ruins his invisibility, but his faithful familiar is still invisible, guarding his master.

OOC
Kael is firing the magic missile attack at the foe wielding the war razor. Mal is guarding his now visible master, still invisible.
[sblock=Rolls]
Initiative (1d20+2=4)
Magic Missles (3d4+3=12)
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[sblock=Vitals, current]
AC 16, Touch 12, Flatfooted 14; Mal AC 21
HP 25
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[sblock=Spells Per Day, remaining]
0-level 6 of 6
1st-level 4 of 6
2nd-level 2 of 6
3rd-level 4 of 4
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[Fenris]

"Big boy left you all alone huh? Guess there is no honor or loyalty among murderers and thieves." taunts Jovik as he slides over to the man and ducks beneath his war razor and drives Goblin Hook between his ribs stopping only when the hilt is reached.

[sblock]

Init
1d20+4=20

Attack\1d20+9=29, 1d4+2+1d6=7

Possible crit!
1d20+9=20

Hopefully a twenty hits. Crit!
who needs a barbarian around?
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[frostrune]

Jokad rises from the cloud of sawdust like a vengeful spectre. The fools that were already on their way up would be the first to feel the sting of his wounded pride. He only hoped he would not be too late to the real fight above.


OOC: [sblock]Jokad will move up the steps igniting Whitefire as he goes. He attacks the first guard he comes to (and will cleave the other if appropriate).

Roll Lookup

INIT 12, Hit AC 15 (plus possibly a number of bonuses for him being invis and catching them flat footed perhaps?), dmg 13 sword and 6 fire

Cleave attack (if applicable)
Roll Lookup

hit AC 31 (poss crit) for 10 sword + 6 fire

crit confirm
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Hit AC 22 for 7 sword +5 fire

Possibly a redeeming round for poor Jokad[/sblock]

 

[Rhun]

Danth engages another of the cultists, but his strike is not as well aimed as the last one.


Initiative: 14

Attack: 13Damage: 11 total (8 + 3 fire)

 

[hewligan]

Init Order: Jovik (20), Danth (14), Jokad (12), Cultists (10), Kael

IC: You can hear shouts coming from below now, answering the calls. Before long you hear footsteps on the stairs. Things are going to get busy real soon. The door to the room stays closed.

Jovik's cruel taunt is met only with a stream of blood that spouts up through the mouth of the cultist's mask as the man slides back from the blade and collapses in a heap on the floor, a long sigh escaping from him.

Danth, seeing the immediate threat neutralised, moves to block the stairs beside Kael. The first of four cultists is close at hand, and Danth swings, missing.

Jokad, brushing his pain aside for a moment, leaps into action, bounding up the stairs towards his foes. He can see just ahead of them 2 more, perhaps half a flight ahead of him.

They can hear the noise of the barbarian, and perhaps tying this to the loud crash they heard earlier, stop and brace, facing the invisible barbarian. Their grotesque masks are certainly off putting, but not quite enough to stop Jokad from thundering into them with a flash of steel and fire.

It is a blur of blood and motion as the two cultists crash to the floor, gutted and steaming. Jokad, suddenly visible, roars with the passion of the battle. The 2 cultists just above him turn and decide that perhaps this one is their real foe (they have made their maximum move this round, so no attack, and if Jokad wants to attack them next round it will take a move action).

The four cultists who power up the stairs towards Danth (they cannot yet see Kael) flash their war razors and move in for the kill. Only the front 2 can attack due to the narrowness of the stairs, but both make straight for the cleric.

One manages to break past the priest's defences with a light slash to the arm, but it is nothing bad. (2hp damage)

The two behind begin quick incantations that end in them being shrouded in a slight protective sheen.

Kael, perhaps a little slow to react due to the fast movement of combat, sends a stream of magical missiles that blast into the leftmost cultist. They hit him hard in the chest, dropping the man, leaving smoke to rise from the damage to his armour. Kael becomes visible.

OOC: 3 cultists at the top of the stairs, 2 in combat with Jokad halfway between floors 1 and 2. You have no idea if/when the individuals in the room will join.

 

[frostrune]

Jokad carefully steps over the two hacked corpses, his eyes squarely fixed on the two further up the stairs. "You've got about 2 seconds to surrender before you wind up like these poor fools!", he growls as he once more plunges up the stairs.

OOC:[sblock] Jokad moves to engage the next two. INIT 13, Hit AC 19 for 8 sword +1 fire damage. Probably not enough to drop him...
Roll Lookup[/sblock]

Jokad AC 19, hps 47/55

 

[Fenris]

Jovik looks momentarily at the door behind which is the armored man. He decides that an enemy presented is more important. In a flash of genius though, Jovik drags the man he just punctured over to the stairs, and tosses the body down onto the other cultists. Spell or no spell to protect them, a corpse rolling down the steps will slow them down a bit.