L1: Strange Doings (Erekose13 Judging)

[Erekose13]

[sblock=Jallembo&Garrit]Jallembo and Garrit head back towards the barn. With little to show for it, the two are looking forward to just getting some rest. When they get back to the barn they find their companions missing. Out of the corner of his eye Jallembo sees movement out in one of the fields past a few trees or at least he thinks he does. Its a bit hard to tell from this distance.[/sblock][sblock=Ximix,Manon,&Rezin][Round 1]
Razin moves out towards the skeleton taking his time as he is the first out of the stand of trees.

Ximix moves out to follow. As he is still too far away to turn the skeleton he maintains pace with Razin.

Spotting movement the skeleton picks up the pace to intercept the pair heading towards it. The skeleton raises its darkened claws as two pinpoints of red light glare from empty eye sockets. The rapid tick tick of bones sliding across one another floats across the field.

Manon decides that if Ximix isn't going to do his stuff right there, then heck with it and takes off running, overtaking the other two quite easily. He is still a good 380' away from the skeleton.

ooc: with a range on turning undead of only 60' Ximix will need to get a lot closer. With Razin and Manon intent on moving out, he'll need to follow suit to be of use. His turn check will stand when he gets into combat unless you want him to do something else. I decided to stick with Manon's other action of running rather than wait behind his comrade because of that change as well. Feel free to let me know if you'd have done something differently.[/sblock]

 

[corcio]

"damn" manon curses quietly as he realizes the skeleton has noticed him. he will wait for razin to catch up and steadily moves towards the skeleton at a steady pace. looking around to make sure the skeleton is alone.

ooc - if the skeleton appears to make any sort of ranged attack manon will duck behind cover of a tree
otherwise simply move steadily up to it until within melee range

should be interesting. glad we all decided to stick with it . i was worried there for a moment

 

[Amaury]

"Hey, where are they??... Something must have disturbed them" wonders Jallembo.
He looks around before noticing something in the dark. "Ho, ho.. something's happening
over there.. I can't see properly but there's definitively something out there!" he says
pointing in the direction of the noise.

Is it some kind of trap? thinks Jallembo. "Garrit, I propose that you check it out.
In the meantime I'll hide here and make sure no one is doing anything in the village, ok?"

If Garrit agrees, Jallembo will then hide by the barn in a place where he has a good view of the village.


OOC: take 20 to Hide.

 

[JonnyFive]

As he clears the trees, Razin will pick up his pace.

 

[Ximix]

[sblock=DM]OOC:First let me say that I appreciate you taking the time to run this adventure. It is certainly nothing we have earned or payed for.
There does seem to be an issue for me personally however. I seem to be having a hard time communicating. I've posted three separate times that Ximix was moving around behind the figure, way back when it was an unknown figure in the dark. I kept moving even though the others stopped at the edge of the barnyard. If sblocks do not work then I will be more open with my posts and not bother with RP aspects, however I have used sblocks for the DM, like this one, to keep the movements/actions of my character hidden from the other players who simply could not know what I was doing out in the dark on the other side of the area we were supposedly in.

That brings up my second issue, it seems like the area of this encounter just exploded by a factor of 3 to 4 times...

[sblock=Ximix,Manon,&Rezin]You find a spot from which it is possible to observe the figure. The gaunt figure is very obviously a skeleton wearing armor, the type of which is obscured by the darkness. It does not seem to be aware of the adventurers.

OOC: The three adventurers are among some trees some 150 ft away from the skeleton. A rail fence 30 feet in front of the adventurers seperate them from the monster. There are no animals visible. The nearest building is the home of the Nams, about 600 feet away from the party on the same side of the fence as the adventurers.[/sblock]

I think if you read back, all three of the characters are behaving as though they are closing to melee quite soon.

I propose that since the other player/characters are not necessarily going to be affected by it and since there has been no indication in story that anyone acknowledged my earlier movements that it just simply didn't happen.
This would fit with your current write up, and I'll just go back and edit out my sblocks and rp movements/actions.

So... Ximix is with Manon and Razin now, perhaps a bit off to one flank, he'll just follow along and try to help out when he gets in range...[/sblock]

Ximix notes the increased pace of his fellows and charges headlong towards the fell creature as well, trying to keep pace with the others.
He will attempt to turn undead when within range.

 

[Animus]

"Hey, where are they??... Something must have disturbed them" wonders Jallembo.
He looks around before noticing something in the dark. "Ho, ho.. something's happening
over there.. I can't see properly but there's definitively something out there!" he says
pointing in the direction of the noise.

Is it some kind of trap? thinks Jallembo. "Garrit, I propose that you check it out.
In the meantime I'll hide here and make sure no one is doing anything in the village, ok?"

If Garrit agrees, Jallembo will then hide by the barn in a place where he has a good view of the village.


OOC: take 20 to Hide.

OOC: I'll go along with that.

 

[Erekose13]

[sblock=Jallembo&Garrit]Jallembo remains in the barn waiting patiently with an eye towards the village in the opposite direction of the shadows he saw outside. Garrit meanwhile heads out of the barn towards the trees that Jallembo pointed out on the far side of the farm. How he could have seen that far in the failing light is beyond Garrit (who will be getting his own sblock soon ).[/sblock][sblock=Ximix,Manon,&Rezin][Round 2]
Razin continues forward. He is still a good 300' away.

Ximix follows along behind Razin moving out to the left flank intending to approach from the side.

The skeleton continues to run towards the group, malicious intent in the undead eyes visible at even that range.

Manon slows his pace up a bit to allow Razin and Ximix to keep up.

From the far (far) side of the clearing Ximix spots 3 more skeletons breach the tree line. They are far away but have definitely spotted the party.[/sblock]

[sblock=Ximix]I apologize, this has been a difficult game to step into as DM because I have no notes on where LB was going with this. I promise that I won't miss your intentions next time and I appreciate that you will work with me on this one. Don't worry about rewritting you previous posts, we'll pick it all up from here and move forward together.[/sblock]

 

[Amaury]

[sblock=DM]Jallembo hides quietly listening and watching around. He'll check in the direction of Garrit from time to time as well, but he is mainly concerned with what is happening in the village, he expects to see the Tays turning up or something.
OOC: do you want me to roll Listen and Spots or do you do it yourself? btw, thanks again for DMing [/sblock]

 

[Erekose13]

[sblock=Amaury]I'll be running the spot/listen checks no worries.[/sblock]

 

[Ximix]

Head jerking towards the new enemies, Ximix tries to gauge the tactics... how fast will each group meet each other? Are the new group armed or advanced in any way?
OOC: Spot check = 9 must have dust in my eyes :-(

Ximix slows and points his fellows towards the new threat. "More enemies, three skeletons, There!"

[sblock=DM]Cool, thanks! I really do appreciate you jumping in on this, I hope my tone wasn't to whiny. Just for the books I am usually afk over weekends. Oh, and Ximix is totally out of spells, having not had time to rest and pray. =-P [/sblock]