[LPF] Ryall's Estate

[Qik]

OOC: I don't think that's a confusing way to do things, I had just missed/forgotten that part of the gig. Clarified.

 

[jbear]

Hearing Daylillies comment about eating the birdies suddenly doesn't add up with two brawling farmers. The fact the alchemist has hauled out a fiery cocktail adds to the sum of things that spell madness.

What the hell is going on for Luck's sake? Will someone tell a nearly blind old man what they see? Birds? What birds???

 

[InVinoVeritas]

Kazanto looks up into the sky, the two peasants becoming angry, and notices the beings approach. Her face lights up, as if her eyes and mouth were lit from the inside by red hot embers, and she shouts, "鳥の火山爆発!"

The other party members' muscles suddenly feel infused with warmth, as if an invigorating hot fluid poured within their veins.

[sblock=actions]
Kazanto casts Bless.
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[jkason]

With all the shouting, Roug and Ryall are both startled into stopping, and look to see what three of the party have responded to, and now Relic and Quioan see, as well: a quartet of hawks making a fast approach to the clearing. As Daylily draws his sling, it becomes obvious these aren't casual gliders, but that the birds, now nearly atop the party, are turning to dive them. One each angles toward Relic and Quioan, while the remaining pair, blue leather jesses snapping in the wind, both open their talons and swoop in toward Kazanto.

[sblock=crunch]I realized that the hawks won't be close enough to trigger Hlaalin's readied action until they're out of actions in the surprise round anyway, so it doesn't much matter what Hlaalin's initiative is; he'll attack on theirs.

Initiatives:

Quioan: 21
Daylily: 13
Hawks: 12
Hlaalin delays
Kazanto: 10
Relic: 9

Surprise Round

Quioan and Relic are surprised and can't act.

Daylily: Draw sling
Hawks: Move
Kazanto: casts Bless
Hlaalin: Ready action: throw bomb at 20' (condition not yet met)

Round 1

Quioan is up. Hopefully this map works. Hlaalin didn't have a picture on the wiki so I just took the Alchemist from the SRD. The magenta square is Roug; the purple one is Ryall. The brown strip at the bottom is the road, the light square the dirt foundation, and the darker strip the garden. There's no terrain penalties, though.

Note that the hawks are 30' in the air in addition to their horizontal distance from you at the moment.[/sblock]

 

[Systole]

OOC: My bad. I didn't realize it was only one action during a surprise round. I'm still a bit weak on the rule-y bits.

 

[jbear]

OOC: : I can still talk out of turn, right? If so I'm going to shout at our farmers to get away. They might need to be added to initiative as well, because at the moment they Ryall is right in the way.

As the hawks finally come into Relic's range of vision he understands the immenent danger. He also realises that Dane is way to close for him to use his Shocking Burst if the hawk swoops down at him.

"Ryall! Rogue! ... Away with you! Away from me and the others ... MOOOOOOVE!" Kazanto, it might be wise for you to step away from me as well, dear.

 

[Qik]

Having been focused on the arguing men, Quioan is surprised at the seemingly sudden appearance of a quartet of rather aggressive hawks in the sky. As the hot liquid of Kazanto's blessing runs through him, he deliberates for a split second on whether to cast protection magic on himself or to draw his bow and attack; as the hawk rockets towards him, he decides he doesn't have enough time for both, and draws his weapon, knocks an arrow, and lets it fly.

[sblock=Actions]Drawing my bow and firing at the hawk coming towards me (I assume it's the one in N13).

Attack roll: 1d20+7=16
Damage roll: 1d8+2=3

All this is assuming the two men are no longer tussling; I'd hate for them to beat each other up while we're rumbling with the hawks.

Also, by mine and jbear's utter confusion at the parties actions, it's clear we're not reading each others' stat blocks. I was really confused at everyone's aggression in the surprise round.[/sblock]

 

[Systole]

Aggressive and predatory wildlife? A smile comes to Daylily's face -- it's almost like home. However, the happiness is tempered with a little concern over protecting the Snake Daughter.

OOC: 1. Five foot step to N16. 2. Attack: Sling @ one of the southernmost hawks -- probably O 13. For Daylily, the bigger concern is getting the hawks nearer to the squishies, specifically Kazanto. 3. Free: Drop sling. 4. Standard: Draw BFH. EDIT: Oops, didn't see the Bless. That's a 12 to hit.

 

[jkason]

GM: Qik: heh. Yeah, I sort of anticipated one of the others would warn Quioan and Relic, but between Hlaalin's taciturn nature, Daylily's unique point of view, and Kazanto's curse, that kind of couldn't happen. The hawk diving toward Quioan is actually the northern-most one (M13). Since your intent was to take out the one targeting you, I'm going to apply your attack there. Systole, I don't see any reason to waste the previous attack roll you made. I'm assuming you won't mind, since this newest roll was a miss.

As the hawks screech and dive in unison (and the peasants do an appreciable facsimile, screaming and diving for cover), the party acts in efficient fashion. Quioan's arrow lances through the bird attacking him, and while blood and feathers fly, it stays its course, diving toward the bow-wielding elf.

Daylily's sling stone is even more effective, lodging in the avian chest. Both bird and stone drop like the latter. Satisfied, the barbarian drops his sling and draws his ominous hammer just as Quioan's target reaches its talons for his attacker's face.

GM: Daylily can make an AoO against the hawk

The taciturn Hlaalin tosses two vials together then waits patiently until one of the birds reaches some unspoken distance. He lobs the bubbling concoction at the hawk, and it bursts into flame, its charred body falling beside its sling-slain kin.

The only unassaulted hawk dive-bombs Kazanto, though the merfolk is able to dodge enough that the talons only leave a painful scratch on her shoulder.

[sblock=Crunch]

Two hawks down, two to go.

Kazanto takes 1 damage:

Hawk attack vs. Kazanto (1d20+7=24, 1d4-2=0, 1d20+7=12, 1d4-2=2)

Daylily has an AoO he can take. If he hits, he'll kill that hawk. If not, Quioan will take 2 damage.

Hawk attack Quioan (1d20+9=26, 1d4-2=0, 1d20+9=28, 1d4-2=1)

Once the AoO is resolved, all PC's can act again before the hawks. We're into first-post time now that no one's flat-footed anymore.[/sblock]

 

[Systole]

As the hawk comes screeching out of the sky, its talons reaching for Quioan's face, Daylily's giant sledgehammer whistles down mere inches from the archer's nose and pulverizes the bird.

Daylily laughs. "Make squish! YAH!"

OOC: EDIT: Wow, that's some boneless chicken. Please tell me that Q gets sprayed with poultry puree. I'll wait on my next round action for a couple posts, so that other people have a chance to play. The map doesn't reflect Daylily's 5 foot step, by the way. Also, I think it's 2 damage to Kaz, and 1 damage that didn't happen to Q.