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

[Redclaw]

Using the opening created by Horto's attack, Varilar moves swiftly behind the halfling.
[sblock=ooc] shift to P31, if Horto's attack hits and grants me the opportunity. [/sblock]

 

[helium3]

Horto's swipe at the beshadowed hafling hits and the rogue's face grimaces in pain. Then his eyes widen in shock as Varilar swiftly pads behind him and into a flanking position.

A look of fear on his face, the hafling shifts to the south at the same time that the hafling to the north shifts into a flanking position on the fighter.

[sblock=Horto]You get a basic attack against the hafling you marked as an immediate interrupt if you haven't already used your II this round. -2 penalty to your attack because it has concealment.[/sblock]
They both vainly attempt to stab at one of the fighter's kidneys and then move off to the south while avoiding his attempts at riposte. They cannot avoid lowering their defenses against Varilar and Ranver.

[sblock=Ranver]You get an opportunity attack against the northern hafling as it moves past.[/sblock]
[sblock=Varilar]You get an opportunity attack against the southern hafling. After that, it's your turn.[/sblock]

 

[Redclaw]

[sblock=Opp. Attack]
hits AC 21 for 7 damage[/sblock]

Varilar smirks slightly as his sword cuts into the halfling, then he moves behind the enemy, sword ready to take advantage of any opening.
[sblock=ooc] Move Action: move S, S, SE, S, S, SW, NW, ending at U30.
Standard Action: Ready to attack halfling with piercing strike once he is flanked, hits Ref 19 for 7 regular and 11 sneak damage.
If southern halfling is down, he'll instead move to R28 to set up a flank on the other one.[/sblock]

 

[nerdytenor]

[sblock=Combat Challenge attack]
hits AC 25 for 5 damage
[/sblock]

 

[helium3]

Only moments before the hafling was smirking and barely breathing hard. Now he's a sobbing, bleeding wreck with a number of deep gashes in his flesh.

[sblock=Ranver]You still have the OA against the hafling to resolve if you'd like. After that it's your turn.[/sblock]

 

[Redclaw]

[sblock=ooc] If Horto's attack hit, as part of Combat Challenge, the halfling should have stopped his movement. If that's the case, Varilar will just move around to flank him and use the piercing strike roll above, rather than readying. [/sblock]

 

[helium3]

[sblock=OOC]

[sblock=ooc] If Horto's attack hit, as part of Combat Challenge, the halfling should have stopped his movement. If that's the case, Varilar will just move around to flank him and use the piercing strike roll above, rather than readying. [/sblock]

I responded to this in the OOC thread. The upshot is that the hafling wasn't stopped by the basic attack provided by Combat Challenge. So, you'll need to move first and you won't be able to flank with Horto.[/sblock]

 

[nerdytenor]

[sblock=Ignore]
Helium covered it in the ooc thread.
[/sblock]

 

[Sparky]

Ranver makes a deft stab at the halfling as the slippery little man darts past. He grunts, thinking with a trace of irony, Perhaps I missed my calling as a warrior... He eyes the halflings and their movements and turns and with a few strides is standing on the stairs. He turns to face the halflings, backlit by the cheery light spilling out of their ramshackle hideout.

He raises his spear again and levels it at the nearer halfling, his blaze with the passion of his faith as he looks deep into the halfling's wide eyes, "The Goddess knows the secrets of your heart, defiler."

Ranver blinks surprise at the depth and timbre of the words as they leave his lips, stronger... heavy.

[sblock=ooc]
Move to S26 (base of stairs)
Standard: Cause Fear encounter power, WIS vs WILL, 21, target runs his speed + clercic's CHA mod (0) away from the target, suffering OAs as he does[/sblock]

 

[helium3]

The priest of Ioun's pronouncement fills the air and the leveled head of his spear flickers with light. For the hafling thief, it's as if every terrible sin ever committed is revisited upon him in a single instant. All the old stories parables he heard as a kit come flooding back and he realizes that he has a very special place reserved in hafling hell. His hands spasm and his dagger falls from his hand, clattering on the cobble below. He let's out an impossibly large scream of horror, turns and scampers away from the cleric as fast as his short legs can carry him.

[sblock=Ranver]You didn't say whether or not the OA hit. No OA's from the Cause Fear, btw. The target only enters dangerous squares if he has no other choice.[/sblock]

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