Aelspeth and Autumn tumble into the abyss after Arradon barely missing the elf and taking a hard tumble on the sloped stone below. Aelspeth's ioun torch lights up the lower room: like many of the rooms previous the debris of kobold living is scattered about. The light also reveals a tiny creature, a blood-shot eye encased in a cage of sharp-edged armor and dangling chains.
The creature darts forward with chains flailing at Arradon's face. A bladed chain catches Arradon along the jaw and he feels blood pouring down his neck. The attack readied for the kobold is easily turned to this creature and as the mithral blade scores the eye-creature's armored cage it makes a sound like grinding metal parts clashing. As the creature attacks and is attacked the kobold on the wall net continues down to the floor.
Rak'tan, despite his encumbering armor, skillfully drops down between a pair of kobolds. His blade chops brutally into one of the kobolds and it falls in a spray of blood. The three remaining kobolds on this level draw long knives and move up to chop and hack at Rak'tan. Two manage to finds gaps in his armor and draw blood.
[sblock=Erin]Erin didn't particularly like her neighbor, Migli. He was puffed up with self-importance and liked to brag about his acceptance into the Tower of Chains as the apprentice of an important wizard. And he changed for the worse when he summoned that chained eyeball thing as a familiar. And yet, he came to her when he had to leave town. He asked her to hold a note for him and open it if he didn't return within a week.
Seven days later she opened it. It simply asked her to find his mentor at the Tower of Chains. It cost Erin a good gold coin to get a boat ride to the island but since she was still flush from her last job it wasn't a hardship. She eventually got in to see Migli's mentor, a wizened, halfling woman named Ungalla who didn't seem particularly worried about Migli since she said she had already hired another tiefling to track down Migli but she agreed to hire Erin to go to the fallen tower he was supposed to scout and report on his condition.
So, with the promise of gold, Erin traveled the day away to the farm of one Jezz who gave her perfect directions to the tower and told her to watch out for 'devil dogs'. Erin arrived at the tower apparently on the heels of Migli (just like him to take a vacation in a tavern somewhere before doing the job he was supposed to do and inconveniencing Erin to boot).
It seems the wizard had set off a couple of traps as he entered the tower to battle kobolds (not devil dogs, whatever those might be). Although by the looks of the corpses cleaved nearly in half Erin was beginning to wonder if it was Migli at all or maybe this other tiefling. And the tower was baffling in its layout. It had clearly collapsed, fallen neatly on its side and yet still somehow intact enough to be sound and used as a kobold lair.
As she navigated several rooms and a spiral staircase that stretched from bottom to top of tower and acted as a convoluted hallway she heard battle ahead. Hurrying along she came to an opening partially blocked by a large treestump that might possibly serve as a bridge across the gap (a 30 ft drop off) that loomed immediately beyond the door. A pair of elves and a human was down below fighting a chained creature much like Migli's familiar though the creature seemed crazed with bloodlust and Migli was nowhere to be seen. The male elf was profusely bleeding from the face and didn't look well at all. The other two also looked pretty battered.
The room ahead, across the gap, had a few battle hardened kobolds and one kobold corpse with a familiar looking wound that had obviously been dealt by the large, male tiefling with a greatsword, apparently the warrior sent to find Migli, now fighting kobolds.
As Erin watches the kobolds converge on the tiefling.
OOC: Check out the map (sblock below). It's confusing but that should help. And I know that's not the picture you have for Erin but after all this writing I was lazy and used a token I already had. Sorry.[/sblock]
| GM: | Round Three: Everyone (including Erin) is up.
Need AoO from Arradon & possibly from Aelspeth and Autumn. |
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Combat map
[sblock=maps]Starlight Keep level one
Starlight Keep level two
Starlight Keep level three
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Merry, I think it's the difference between a deliberate jump and a deliberate jump with a successful Acrobatics. 1d6 is negated, 1d6 is converted to nonlethal but the third still is lethal. This is the same as the third example in the text. So, Merry takes 1d6 nonlethal & 1d6 lethal. And it means I totally screwed up Arradon's damage even after a correction but I'm going to leave it as is.
Francis, a softer landing but still painful. Autumn takes the same damages as Aelspeth (explanation above).
non-lethal / lethal: 1D6 = [2] = 2; 1D6 = [2] = 2
Trogdor, Rak'tan still has to make an Acrobatics to avoid the damage. In the interest of not prolonging this round any longer I'll make the check for you:
Raktans jump: 1D20-1 = [20]-1 = 19 Lol, lucky!
Ealt, I've counted Arradon's readied attack against the creature but he also gets an AoO.
If Aelspeth and Autumn have melee weapon in hand they can take an AoO as well.
Aelspeth: hp 17/18 [5 non-lethal]
Arradon: hp 15/26 [5 non-lethal] + 1d2 Bleed
Autumn: hp 14/16 [2 non-lethal]
Rak'tan: hp 8/13 [4 non-lethal]
Kobolds: AC 17/T 14/FF 14; 12; 12; 12; 12; 0 hp
Note: all kobolds in this room have same AC & hp
Kobold attacks vs. Rak'tan:
1D20+3 = [8]+3 = 11
1D4 = [4] = 4
1D20+3 = [15]+3 = 18
1D4 = [1] = 1
1D20+3 = [19]+3 = 22
1D4 = [2] = 2
Eye Creature AC 17/T 15/FF 14; 19 hp: dmg taken [1]
Action: Moves into Arradon's square (provokes AoO from Arradon) and attacks:
Augur attack: 1D20+4 = [16]+4 = 20 for
Augur dmg: 1D4-1 = [3]-1 = 2 dmg and 1d2 Bleed.
[sblock=K Planes DC 12]The creature is an Augur Kyton[sblock=DC 17]The Kyton are evil beings from the planes susceptible to good magics and silver[sblock=DC 22]The Augurs are sometimes taken as familiars by wizards of less than scrupulous nature[/sblock][/sblock][/sblock]
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Aelspeth watches her companions spring into action. Autumn fires away at the kobolds, Arradon sails through the air and then disappears into the void, and Rak'Tan makes his way up and across the massive log. The sounds of Rak'Tan's scale mail clinking, of the kobolds' hissing and scurrying about, forms a distracting cacophony inside Aelspeth's head. She hesitates, unsure what to do next. After a moment that seems to stretch for minutes, she shakes her head to clear it. It seems there's nothing to be done but take the plunge. Poor choice of words...
