LG vs. N: Lawful Good Victorious!

[Gansk]

Round 29

The jackal charges into the bhuka's square. The bhuka takes an AoO and clocks the jackal with his club. (Rolled 15) 6 points of damage! The jackal falls to the ground, helpless and dying.

The LG crowd gasps as they realize the small jackal had the potential to push the bhuka out of the arena and win the combat in one stroke.

The bhuka, too busy trying to save his skin to worry about the crowd, moves back to 0N0E, drops his club, and picks up his bow.

Round 30:

Alas, it was not to be. The jackal is teleported away.

Next up for neutral: a small monstrous spider (webspinner)

 

[GuardianLurker]

The black widow, peering into the arena from the edge, realizes that the walls are too smooth to climb, and the ground too bare to conceal it (or anything else). Unable to use it's normal tactics, it is extremely reluctant to enter, but mystical forces compel it.

Desperate, the black widow runs into the arena, running straight to 40N0E.

Edit: Coordinate correction

 

[Gansk]

Round 30

The bhuka fires and hits! (Rolled 19) 4 points of damage! The poor spider is already disabled.

 

[GuardianLurker]

Disabled spiders do nothing.

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Dang it. I'm semi-glad the forces of LG are finally going to get a win, I just wish it could have been on my watch. It's incredibly frustrating to keep missing despite my best efforts. I hate bad die runs.

 

[Gansk]

So no dying bite/web? The spider can help the next guy coming up.

 

[GuardianLurker]

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Nope. The Bhuka's 40' away. Certainly out of range for the spider's bite, and I believe out of range for a tossed web. Doing either would take the spider negative while not gaining him anything - since even if they hit, neither attack would be lethal, and the spider would end up negative.

From a roleplaying perspective, the spider's main concern is not dying, and it doesn't really care about the next guy up.

 

[Gansk]

The maximum range of a web is 50 feet, with 10 foot range increments. If the spider doesn't want to die, it needs to move out of the arena using single move actions.

 

[GuardianLurker]

The spider crawls to 40N-5E, leaving the arena, and saving it's chitin.

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Hunh. Just learned something - I could have sworn that *any* action put you negative, but 3.5 SRD says you can move. I wonder if that changed from 3.0?

 

[Gansk]

Desperate, the black widow runs into the arena, running straight to 40N0E.

Edit: Coordinate correction

I'm sorry I should have noticed this earlier, but the spider should have been 0N40E, not 40N0E.

The south side of the arena has a wall, so it would take 4 move actions to go east and three move actions to go west, towards the bhuka.

 

[GuardianLurker]

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Nope. I got it right. The coordinate correction I mention was due to the fact that I had flipped East and West, having it run to 40N120E - which is actually where it entered.


Spider enters at 40N120E, in the middle of the east "wall".

It then runs due west, 120' across the arena (4x30') as a full round action.

That takes it to 40N0E.

It then gets pierced by an arrow for 4 hp, disabling it, and preventing it from using any of it's planned tactics.

The spider then crawls out of the western edge of the arena, conceding the battle.

Which is where we are now. Next victim to the Bhuka, please.