(IC) Against the Giants PBP Group 1

[Hriston]

First checking in to see that everyone's ready, Bible cracks open the door to the hallway, peeking out to see it's clear, and waves forward Jack and Valda. She then crosses the hallway to take up her position in front of the door, axe in hand, looking to see which way the door is most likely to open.

Mentally signaling to the other group that she's ready to begin the attack as soon as they are, she counts them in to coordinate their efforts and synchronize the opening of the doors.

~Haul-in—haul-two—haul-belay!~ she sings out in thought, heaving the doors open and throwing her axe at the first giant she sees.

 

[TerraDave]

Tenibor is behind her. With a gap, a reasonable one, but he will try to position himself to have some visibility inside the room when the Reeve opens the door.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

When Bible was about to throw open the door, Eoghan came up wearing a glamour that made the tall Firbolg appear as an orc. Tenibor and Bible gave the orc the lead as they opened the door, ready for action.

To the south, Jack had let Quinn through the door from the stone giant's room into the hallway, and Valda stood ready at the guard room's southern door, ready to join at the sound of battle.

When the north door opened, the hill giants inside took little notice of the orc that came through. One was sleeping, while the other two sat at the foot of their beds, bored.

GM: Encounter: Western Guardroom

Spoiler: Map

(General Features) Difficult Terrain: Beds; Visibility: Dim (Braziers); Cover: Beds

Spoiler: Allies

Name * AC * HP * Hit Dice * PasPrc * Spells (Etc) * (Notes)
(PCs)
Bible AC19* HP 79/85 THP 0/8 HD 3/9 PP16 AS 1/1 2W 1/1 Ind 1/1
Eoghan AC15 HP 74/75 THP 8/8 HD 3/9 PP19 SSdc17 0/4 0/3 1/3 2/3 1/1 BI 5/5
Jack AC17 HP 66/66 THP 8/8 HD 9/9 PP20 LK 2/3
Quinn AC17* HP 60/62 THP 8/8 HD 9/9 PP19 SSdc18 3/4 1/3 1/3 2/3 0/1 WS 1/2 GB 0/4 CO 2/4 ET 1/1 DS 1/1 H 1/1 MS 0/1 Ba 1/1
Tenibor AC13(16) HP 56/56 THP 8/8 HD 7/9 PP16* SSdc16 2/4 0/3 1/3 2/3 1/1 WoMM 4/7 LK 2/3
Valda AC19* HP 80/83 THP 0/8 HD 8/9 PP15 AS 1/1 2W 1/1 RNdc15 3/3 GM 3/4 RS 3/4 Ind 1/1
(NPCs)

Spoiler: Enemies

Name * AC * HP * PP * (Notes)
(BGs)
Hill Giant AC13 HP105/105
Hill Giant Schlubs AC11 HP59ea PP8
-HGS1 59/59; HGS2 59/59;

GM: Begin Round One.

 

[TerraDave]

OoC: Are those log things in the room walls? Is it basically two rooms?

 

[Lidgar]

OOC: @TerraDave , yes, that's what it looks like to me - a subdivided room with a 10' opening that connects the two areas.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

OoC: Are those log things in the room walls? Is it basically two rooms?

OOC: It's segregated to "schlubs" (who are slightly lower on the Ordening due to not being big, fat, strong, and/or ambitious enough to be higher placed) in the north room, and standard hill giants (bigger, fatter, more ambitious) in the south room. Both are lower ranked than the chief's family, who live in the east wing. The steading is overpopulated ATM (or at least was before you started killing giants), so some were sleeping in the mess hall in the north, and some most likely sleep in the great hall too, or at their posts. Tenibor will have figured this all out by now, being clever like he is.

 

[Hriston]

Seeing Eoghan stepping first into the room, Bible figures the firbolg must have a plan and stays her axe to see what happens next.

~We can keep these three palookas from comin' out through these doors,~ she thinks to the others, ~but somebody needs to keep 'em from excapin' down the stairs too, or they might raise up whatever's down in the baskemenk againgst us, and we'll have another battle runnin' out o' control.~

 

[Blue]

OOC: Um, Eoghan wouldn't have stepped in first - with the planned pincer movement there was no deception he was trying. The Disguise self was more a precaution for later, done when I could see a specific orc to copy.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Eoghan realized that he would be first against his intent and stepped back, allowing Bible to make the first move. She rushed past him through the doors, and threw her axe at a giant.

OOC: Apparently I misunderstood your deception intent. We'll just go with @Hriston's first post (well, both posts happened, but she glanced at Eoghan and after a brief, unimportant pause, took the lead). Bible can throw her axe, which will be enough for @Shadowedeyes Valda to hear and open the doors to the south. If she's still large (which I think is possible for, let's say three more rounds), then she can do it as an object interaction. It's an action for a medium or small creature.

 

[Lidgar]

Jack carefully snuck up and positioned himself to look through the door Valda just opened. Seeing the giant in the corner, he leveled Darling at him and fired.

OOC: Jack moves up to N64 and attacks HG1 through the open door. Stealth Check with PwoT: 1D20+23 = [13]+23 = 36 Sneak attack with light crossbow: 1D20+10 = [14]+10 = 24 1D8+6+5D6 = [1]+6+[3, 3, 2, 5, 2] = 22