[IC] Wandering Star : Heroes of the Middle Reaches (Part One)

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The hafling's eyes widen in surprise as Varilar swiftly steps from the shadows and thrusts the point of his short sword between the little thief's ribs. He grunts in surprise and shock and looks down at his wound, already weeping a fair amount of blood. He turns towards Varilar and grimaces while flipping his dagger end to end a few times as if considering his options.

[sblock=Varilar]The hafling thief kindly granted you combat advantage for that standard action. He has subsequently taken it back. [/sblock]

[sblock=Zarathas]Moving to that square will provoke two opportunity attacks, one from each drake. Please let me know if this is what you want to do.[/sblock]

[sblock=Horto]If Zarathas provokes OA's, you'll get to lay down the smack on one of the Drakes in the form of a basic attack. You pick which one. That'll use up your one immediate interrupt for the round, though.[/sblock]

[sblock=OOC]Now that it matters, please note that any square that is visible but "gray" is dimly lit. Anything in a dimly lit square has concealment against creatures that do not have low-light or darkvision. A -2 penalty applies to any melee or ranged attack made against a target with concealment.[/sblock]

 

[nerdytenor]

[sblock=DM]
I'll swing at the northernmost drake if it comes up - you can roll it (1d20+8 vs AC, 1d8+4 dmg)
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[The Digger]

Suspicious of the halflings comparative inaction Charlie decides to delay acting for a moment or two. The thieves are obviously waiting for their elven companion to show up to help them out. The question is from where?

Will he arrive in the room? Or will he come round the building from the rear?

Charlie decides to stand very close to the window, in the shadows, and be prepared for either eventuality, although she has a sneaking suspicion that the elf will come around the building.

[sblock=Stealth]roll 21: Roll Lookup[/sblock]

 

[Blackrat]

[sblock=OOC]Yeah, I'll move to U23 taking those opportunity attacks, and then use Dragon Breath to cover R-T 21-23 getting the halflings in the doorway and one of the drakes.
Breath (1d20+5=16 vs Ref, 1d6+2=3 Cold) Hopelessly doing minimum damage.[/sblock]

Seeing the halflings enter and hesitating Z' grins and ducks low under Horto's arm, between the drakes and tumbles to the porch, knowing very well that the drakes have easy time biting him. Getting back up the inhale he takes is clearly audible and frozen "steam" can bee seen gathering in his nostrils. Then a frozen hell breaks loose as he releases a blast freezing energy engulfing two of the halflings and one of the drakes in it, barely leaving Horto out.

 

[helium3]

As the Dragonborn passes through the drakes, he is forced to let his guard down for a moment. Both creatures snap and bite, but only one is able to gain purchase on the Paladin's flesh.

Horto returns the favor, slicing off a chunk of the creature's hide with his blade.

[sblock=Zarathas]One guard drake misses, but the other hits and does 14 points of damage.[/sblock]

[sblock=Horto]Horto's basic attack hits and does 6 points of damage.[/sblock]

 

[helium3]

Having withstood the onslaught, both guard drakes now lunge out at their foes, snapping wildly. The beast menacing Zarathas snaps at air as the Paladin deftly sidesteps it. Horto is not so lucky. The creature grabs onto and savages his forearm, whipping his head back and forth several times before letting go.

[sblock=Horto]It deals 15 points of damage with its bite.[/sblock]

 

[Blackrat]

[sblock=OOC]How about that breath? Did it have any effect or did they all dodge it?[/sblock]

 

[helium3]

The paladin's blast of freezing cold catches the guard drake and one of the hafling thieves within its frigid clutches. Sadly, the drake is still able to wriggle out of the way of most of the frigid air and shards of frozen condensation, but the hafling is not so lucky. He takes the full force of the blast in his chest.

[sblock=OOC]The first guard drake that everyone's been smacking on was bloodied after Zarathas' attack with his breath weapon.

When I re-rolled the attacks for the haflings, I critted with one and missed with the other.[/sblock]

 

[helium3]

The wizard's conjured cloud of spectral bats swirls about Horto's drake, distracting the beast and sapping its will to fight with confusion.

Charlotte patiently waits in the shadows for the supposed Elf to come around the corner of the building. He doesn't, near as she can tell.

[sblock=Charlotte]Your turn.[/sblock]

 

[The Digger]

Charlotte desperately tries to sort out just exactly what is happening, and where that elf might be, but the darkness around her is just too dark and the noise of the battle around the corner just adds to her confusion.

[sblock=perception]Natural 1 rolled for perception!![/sblock]

A feeling like claustrophobia descends upon her. The breath catches in her throat and a hot flush rushes to her face and neck. She can feel the sweat upon her hands as she tries to draw a weapon. The flight instinct is strong within her but she tries hard to breath evenly and recover her composure.

She pushes back against the balustrade and tries to will herself into crashing through the barricaded window.