Night's Embrace: Part 1--A Touch of Darkness

[Boddynock]

Kel continues to run towards the sound, flailing his arms wildly.

OOC: Hoping that he may bump into or brush against the spellcaster. RA, the lack of a map is frustrating - it means that we have to keep asking you "how far?" and "are we there yet?". So, how far? Is he there yet?

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: It looks something like this--this is just a quick sketch though, and this doesn't display even close to WSYIWYG, so it is probably distorted)

        T
             
      XWXKXX
      XXXXXX
B     XXXXXX
      XXXXXX
      XXXXXX
          S

 

[Boddynock]

OOC: Thanks, RA. T XWXKXX XXXXXX B XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX S So, does this show the disposition of the PCs at the beginning of the round? And if so, has Kel just had his move action where he runs flailing his arms, or is that still to happen?

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: It is directly before Kel moved)

 

[Legildur]

Blunt tosses another 2 shuriken, but this time at the newly arrived wolverine attacking his friend. If possible, Blunt will start to make his way down the boxes (taking a 5ft step each round, or, if possible, he'll throw a single shuriken and use a move action to descend further)

 

[Boddynock]

Kel pauses for a moment to try and pinpoint the spellcaster's position before launching himself at him.

OOC: Modifying the previous post - trying to use a listen check to improve his chances of finding this guy - before Godzilla appears out of thin air to step on him! Listen +6.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Blunt still has the same choices on going down as he's always had--climb, jump, or both, but no walking. That map probably belies the fact that Blunt is up high--another failure of the simplistic map )

*Blunt tosses two shuriken and hits the wolverine with one. Of course, in so doing, he has arguably lowered his companions' chances of surviving the next attack, since the wolverine immediately launches into a maddened raging frenzy, easily making up for the minor cut from the shuriken with its adrenaline-pumped boost in power. Meanwhile, Kel tries to listen as he steps carefully off the boxes and onto the ground, moving to near where he thinks the enemy is and stabbing with his dagger to find only empty air.*

*The chanting stops briefly and restarts as a fiendish wolf with wicked jaws slavering and red eyes glaring appears just next to Shan--apparently the summoner is not keen on whatever Shan is concentrating to do.*

*The wolverine can't charge on the spotty footing it has now, but it still makes its way to Titus and brings a maddened claw to bash in his skull--if the doughty ranger hadn't been focusing entirely on defense, that would have been his end, but he manages to deflect the attack with the back of his pick and push the enemy away for the moment. Meanwhile, the newly-arrived wolf tries to rip Shan's heart out from behind, but the Paladin blocks the attack with his shield and works desperately on his Detect Evil and...it works! He can't get to the wolf behind him, but he senses the exact location of that moderate aura from before (its just the wolverine) and the minor aura, which is located just barely north of the spot Kel attacked just previously.*

(OOC: Wolverine takes 6 Damage, but now he's mad!

Wolverine can't charge, but he can attack Titus once--barely misses due to full defense.

Wolf misses Shan

Shan detects stuff--let me know if he's okay to fall)

 

[Legildur]

(OOC: Wolverine takes 2 Damage, but now he's mad!)

(OOC: That wasn't part of the plan RA, note that Blunt's shuriken and sling bullets both do 1d4+4 damage, so I think that 2 damage is missing the strength bonus component. And if the same problem existed with the sling bullets, then maybe the boar would have dropped sooner).

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Did it with the sling bullets (note the higher than 4 results) but somehow forgot with the shuriken because I'm too used to 3.0 shuriken flurries--d'oh! Add 4 Damage to the wolverine, but the boar was done right.)

 

[Boddynock]

OOC: This assums that Shan will yell out something like, "Kel, he's just in front of you."

Hearing the chanting start again, and knowing that this time it's his turn, Kel screams at the top of his lungs and charges forward, arms flailing, determined to knock the summoner off his feet and spoil the spell.

All his desperation at being helpless, all his rage and hatred, flowing from a lifetime of abuse by his stepfather, is focused on finding that mage and beating the life out of him.

OOC: Grapple +1