[LPF] Ryall's Estate

[Qik]

OOC: I'm going to slightly rework my action now that Systole's responded.

Quioan smiled at Daylily's incredulousness. "Trust me: now is the perfect time." With those words, he began to concentrate on Daylily's form. As the incantation ended, he put his hand on the elf's shoulder, and Daylily rapidly expanded to an incredible size. With that, Quioan readied his bow. "Let's see what this boar does with an 8-foot tall barbarian," he shouted gleefully to the group.

From the eastern edge of the clearing, Roug and Ryall look on with equal parts shock and awe.

 

[jbear]

Relic's nimble fingers open his spell component pouch in the blink of an eye, taking from it a pinch of sand, a rose petal and a cricket that wriggles in between his fingers, his lips mouthing the words of his favourite spell, preparing for the boar to show itself through the trees.

OOC: Relic prepares Sleep spell

 

[InVinoVeritas]

At the sight of the boar, the light flashes again into Kazanto's face, her hair rising like smoke, and she calls out, "豚の丸焼き!"

Once again, the feeling of quickening fire, as if healing magma were injected into everyone's veins, appears, giving strength and bolstering morale.

She raises her crossbow, and her tail flaps back and forth, ready to strike.

[sblock=ooc]
Cast Bless, draw crossbow.
[/sblock]

 

[maquise]

Hlaalen readies a bomb if his allies have trouble.

 

[jkason]

At Quioan's touch, Daylily swells, his frame becoming massive as the magics surge through him. Ryall and Roug, upon seeing the giant-sized barbarian elf, dive back into the woods for cover. Daylily as well as the others all feel the charge of energy from Kazanto, as well as the crashing, snorting sounds quickly grow closer.

[sblock=a boatload of mechanics and math]Initiatives:
Daylily: 20
Relic: 12
Kazanto: 12
Quioan: 10
Boar: 3

I'm going to give [MENTION=6666944]maquise[/MENTION] until tomorrow morning to post before moving things along, but the buffs shouldn't throw him off at all, and especially in the case of Daylily, I wanted to get the math worked out. Here's my math on all the effects. Let me know if I'm missing something:

Raging: +2 attack, +3 damage (2-handed weapon), +2 will, -2 AC, +2 thp
Enlarged: +0 attack (+1 str, -1 size), +(1d6+1) damage, -2 AC (-1 dex, -1 size), 10 ft reach
Bless: +1 attack
Charging: +2 attack, -2 AC

Totals: Attack +10 (+5 base, +2 rage, +1 bless, +2 charge)
Damage 3d6+10 (2d6+6 base, +3 rage, +1d6+1 enlarged)
AC: 9 (base 15, -2 rage, -2 enlarge, -2 charge)


Secondarily, since both Daylily and Relic are delaying until the boar's turn, I need to adjudictate how their actions 'go off.' Here's how I'm doing it, and it may effect how Relic acts, so I figured we'd throw this out now while we're waiting, anyway:

Since both characters delayed, they act at the same initiative point (3), but we all know there's no such thing as genuinely simultaneous actions in turn-based combat, so someone has to go first. Since Daylily actually rolled higher than Relic, my inclination is to resolve his action first. That means, however, that he'll have to make a Will save along with the boar when the Sleep spell goes off because he'll be in the area of effect. As far as I can tell, anyway, the spell isn't selective, but affects all relevant creatures in its area, of which Daylily would be one.[/sblock]

 

[jkason]

Hlaalen readies a bomb if his allies have trouble.

GM: Gah! Ninja'd. Maquise, see above post for readied actions going off: if you're delaying along with Daylily and Relic, your bomb throw happens after both of their actions, which would put Daylily in the splash zone, just as an FYI. I'm assuming in that case you'd hold off tossing it, but I'll let you decide. Real round update a little later, guys. This one's turning out to be trickier than I'd imagined (surprise ).

 

[Systole]

OOC: I can't really justify Daylily not making a suicidal charge as soon as possible. As far as Hlaalin and Relic's actions, they both have an area of effect, but center of the burst can be targeted so the burst hits the boar and not Daylily -- it doesn't have to get dropped right on the boar. Alchemists can attack a square at a DC 5, in which case all adjacent creatures take minimum damage with appropriate Reflex saves. Otherwise, the math works out for the stacking buffs as far as I can tell. Although I have this terrible feeling a 1 is coming.

 

[Qik]

OOC: The only thing worth mentioning is that Quioan still has mage armor active (+4 AC) - just wanted to make sure you were aware of that. Just FYI, everyone, I'm actually flying from England to the States tomorrow. I'll keep a watch tonight, so that hopefully I can throw a post up for this round, and may try to issue actions for the next round as best I can. May get internet access at the airports tomorrow, but otherwise will be delayed until I either get in, or the following day.

 

[jkason]

OOC: I can't really justify Daylily not making a suicidal charge as soon as possible. As far as Hlaalin and Relic's actions, they both have an area of effect, but center of the burst can be targeted so the burst hits the boar and not Daylily -- it doesn't have to get dropped right on the boar. Alchemists can attack a square at a DC 5, in which case all adjacent creatures take minimum damage with appropriate Reflex saves. Otherwise, the math works out for the stacking buffs as far as I can tell. Although I have this terrible feeling a 1 is coming.

GM: Sounds reasonable. Since Relic's spell isn't weaker 'at the edges,' I'll assume he's centering the sleep blast as you suggested. I'll let maquise decide where he wants to aim, though, since the damage is different in that case. In any event, Daylily's attack will be the first action in our 'everyone delays' round, so go ahead and make your attack roll whenever and I'll try to get a partial round update in a little later today with what info I have.

 

[Systole]

As Daylily finds himself growing larger, a look of absolute bewilderment crosses his face. "What the f--" he starts to say, just as the boar crashes through into the clearing. In that moment, the barbarian's doubt and confusion drop away into a mad grin, and he charges forward with a booming warcry.