(IC) Against the Giants PBP Group 1

[Shadowedeyes]

Focused on the hill giant, Valda doesn't seem to register the chaos around her, including Jack's stray bolt. She continues swinging and stabbing her sword.

"Just die already you dumb oversized lout." She says through gritted teeth.

OOC: +1 Longsword Attack Rolls: 1D20+9 = [6]+9 = 15 1D20+9 = [17]+9 = 26 +1 Longsword Damage: 1D8+7 = [1]+7 = 8 1D8+7 = [5]+7 = 12 Valda AC19* HP 53/83 THP 0/8 HD 8/9 PP15 AS 0/1 2W 0/1 RNdc15 2/3 GM 3/4 RS 3/4 Ind 1/1

 

[FitzTheRuke]

It was time for Cordit to pull back. Though she wanted to rescue her friend, she was used to following Bible's orders. She shook her shaggy ape-head and bounded away, leaping over Quinn as he ducked into the room and flung fire at one of the orogs.

Bible would save herself. As Eoghan insulted the giant and gave Bible hope with an inspiring riff on his bando, the sailor thrust her longsword into the giant's side as he lifted her toward the blazing furnace. The giant let out a bellow, dropped his tongs, stumbled into the forge, and then fell to the ground. Bible, freed from the hot grip of the tongs, rolled clear as the giant's heavy weight came crashing down.

The fight between the heroes and the giant had ended, but the fight between the orcs, orogs, and dwarves grew in ferocity as the orogs killed two of the rebel orcs, and the dwarves turned on their keepers, hitting them with anything on hand - their now-broken chains, smaller work-tools - whatever they could get their hands on.

OOC: Eoghan did 6 psychic to FG & Bible did 25 to FG (killing him); Cordit disengaged; Quinn burnt Orog2 for 13; Orog1 killed Orc5 & Orog2 killed Orc8; O1 did 5 to Orog1; Dwarf5 did 3 to Orog2.

Spoiler: Rolls

Orogs
Orog1 Axe vs O5: 1D20+6 = [9]+6 = 15 for 1D12+4 = [11]+4 = 15
Orog1 Axe vs O2: 1D20+6 = [9]+6 = 15 for 1D12+4 = [5]+4 = 9
Orog2 Axe vs O8: 1D20+6 = [3]+6 = 9
Orog2 Axe vs O8: 1D20+6 = [12]+6 = 18 for 1D12+4 = [12]+4 = 16
Orcs
O1 morningstar vs Or1: 1D20+5 = [14]+5 = 19 for 1D8+3 = [2]+3 = 5
O2 morningstar vs Or1: 1D20+5 = [6]+5 = 11
O8 axe vs D2: 1D20+5 = [2]+5 = 7
Dwarves
Dwarf2 clippers vs Orog1: 1D20+4 = [4]+4 = 8
Dwarf4 chain vs Orog1: 1D20+4 = [4]+4 = 8
Dwarf5 hammer vs Orog2: 1D20+4 = [19]+4 = 23 for 1D6+2 = [1]+2 = 3

 

[FitzTheRuke]

In the torture chamber, Jack had a quarrel go astray, but Tenibor continued to issue durge-notes that signified the hill giant's doom. As the giant tried once more to stuff the struggling Tamanar into an iron maiden, he left himself exposed to Valda's sword, and she finished him off with a deep thrust between ribs. The giant fell, and the elf knight leaped free.

With the giants in both chambers felled, it wasn't long before the orogs were dispatched as well, and the rooms fell to relative calm.

OOC: Tenibor did 11 & Valda did 26 to HG2 (killing him); I'm not going to bother running another round just to kill two injured Orogs, I think you'll understand. Let's keep going! Here's where everyone is at, if my lines are correct now:

GM: Encounter: Forge & Torture Chamber

Spoiler: Map

(General Features) (General Features) Difficult Terrain: bed; Visibility: dim (braziers); Cover: anvil, barrels, forge, torture racks

Spoiler: Allies

Name * AC * HP * Hit Dice * PasPrc * Spells (Etc) * (Notes)
(PCs)
Bible AC19* HP 51/85 THP 0/8 HD 3/9 PP16 AS 0/1 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 1/3 0/1 BI 4/5
Jack AC17 HP 55/66 THP 0/8 HD 9/9 PP20 LK 1/3
Quinn AC17* HP 57/62 THP 8/8 HD 9/9 PP19 SSdc18 2/4 0/3 1/3 1/3 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 53/83 THP 0/8 HD 8/9 PP15 AS 0/1 2W 0/1 RNdc15 2/3 GM 3/4 RS 3/4 Ind 1/1
(NPCs)
Cordit AC12 HP 11/11 PP12
-GiantApe AC12 HP 41/157 THP 8/8 PP14
Guards AC13 HP11ea PP12
-G1 11/11; G2 11/11;
Orcs AC13 HP15ea PP10*
-O1 12/15; O2 2/15; O3 dead;
-O4 dead; O5 dead; O6 2/15; O8 15/15;
Olwen AC10; HP 4/4 PP10
Tamanar AC12* HP 36/52 PP12*
Zandor AC11 HP 9/9 PP12
Dwarves AC10 HP5ea PP10*
-D1 1/5; D2 5/5 THP 8/8; D3 5/5;
-D4 5/5 THP 8/8; D5 5/5;

Spoiler: Enemies

Name * AC * HP * PP * (Notes)
(BGs)
Fire Giant AC18 HP 0/162 PP16* dead
Hill Giants AC13 HP105ea PP12 dead
Orogs AC18 HP42ea PP10* dead
Orc7 AC13 HP15ea PP 10* dead

GM: End of Combat

 

[TerraDave]

We have a squad of allies, but what can we really do with them?

Tenibor investigates the two chambers for anything of interest.

(Yes, again, this is where I get the crit. Investigation 28).

 

[Blue]

Eoghan, still as a fellow orc, called to them: "You're free now, no longer to be bullied by the giants. But the route above may see more of them. Is there any other way out of the steading from down here?"

OOC: Persuasion on Orcs: 1D20+13 = [12]+13 = 25

 

[FitzTheRuke]

While the orcs were proud of the victory over the fire giant, they were not quite ready to declare victory. They had lost all but two of their number, and those two moved to the torture chamber, where they freed a third orc from a rack. That orc turned out to be their leader, a chief's nephew named Javok. After some moments he recovered from his ordeal enough to speak to Eoghan.

"There are yet more of our kin," he said, "Some work as guards for the dwarves, others as laborers. Two stone giants force work to dig out a buried chamber to the south."

While Eoghan spoke with Javok, the dwarves freed another captive chained to the wall, a middle-aged balding dwarf. With the torture chamber getting crowded with dwarves and orcs (who, based on their side-long looks, mistrusted one-another), Tenibor moved down to the forge.

Here he found the thing that interested him the most: The forge-room held no possible fuel for the fire, and yet the forge burned very hot. Tenibor came to the conclusion that it must hold a captured elemental. To support his theory, he found engraved in the bars of the iron grate, binding runes that would prevent the creature from escaping its prison.

 

[TerraDave]

To the group, with his mind...~we may go deeper and deeper, or try to finally make our exit~

 

[Lidgar]

Jack searches the bodies of the giants while listening to the conversation.

~Aye, those are our choices. Maybe these dwarves know a little more about this level, including other ways out? Otherwise it back through the kitchens and up the chimney we go.~

 

[FitzTheRuke]

The dwarves were surprised to find their kin who was shackled in the torture chamber, saying, "Harmock! We were sure ye were dead!"

The dwarf shook his balding head and answered, "They dinnae get me yet."

When speaking to his rescuers, he told them, "There're tunnels to th'east that lead further unnerground. Mayhap we find a way oot there. I can show ye."

The other dwarves seemed dubious, saying, "Those tunnels have nae been seen for an age. Who can say if they're passable or what now lives innem?"

 

[TerraDave]

~Or we combine the two.~

Tenibor is open to exploring the tunnels.