[Pathfinder] Hewligan's Rise of the Runelords: The Hook Mountain Massacre

[Friadoc]

AC 20 (mage armor, shield); HP 36

"What tongue is that," Kael asks softly as he positions himself and Mal near his allies. Kael and Mal seem to just instantly accept that they're protecting a bear, however that could be due to the fact that human/animal friendships just make sense.

Deep within Kael, his arcane energies draw to a ready, preparing a bolt of fiery energy to lash out at trouble with.

[sblock=OOC]
AC is now 20 from Mage Armor and Shield (which took the two rounds to cast), which puts Mal's AC at 28.

I've 5 1st level, 6 2nd level, and 4 3rd level spells left for the day.[/sblock]

 

[frostrune]

OOC: Jokad doesn't speak giant but would he recognize it since they are his species enemy? The post below assumes yes. His actions would be different if you rule he doesn't recognize it. He would probably shout out a warning to the hunter to move on.


IC: Jokad notices his companions filter in out of the corner of his eye. He speaks in a low growl without taking his eyes off the approaching sounds.

"Be cautious, this bear has been trained and is used to humans BUT he is hurt and afraid. If there is to be a fight I would give him wide berth."

"Picket your horses back a bit but leave Mist free. He is a fierce creature and will fight if it comes to it."

He seems to want to say more but his speech suddenly stops when he hears the guttural voice of the would-be hunter. You see the muscles on his left forearm tense and bulge and his knuckles whiten on the stout ash longbow.

"Giant," he growls.

"Spread out and be ready for a fight. This will not be a pleasant exchange."

His new spear is thrust into the turf near at hand and ready for a quick grab.

 

[Fenris]

OOC: Jovik does indeed speak Giant. The boy is full of surprises.

Jovik nods to Jokad. "Yeap" is his only response. Gull's Wing seems to hover in midair as Jovik spins it in his fingers. His eyes are still a little red, but they stare unblinkingly towards the sound of the dogs as he slides forward and behind a tree.

 

[hewligan]

OOC: Jovik does indeed speak Giant. The boy is full of surprises.

Jovik nods to Jokad. "Yeap" is his only response. Gull's Wing seems to hover in midair as Jovik spins it in his fingers. His eyes are still a little red, but they stare unblinkingly towards the sound of the dogs as he slides forward and behind a tree.

Jovik recognises the words:

"Wide, boys. Wide. Time to snack on bear. Mamma is going to be soooo happy!"

The voice is rough and uneducated - either a hill giant or ogre - not a higher-bred giant (unless it is a very low-intelligence specimen).

All other commands are just short shouted words to order the dogs into position, things like "keep up", "move left", etc.

 

[Fenris]

Jovik looks at Jokad and whispers "ogre, or maybe a hill giant, with four maybe five dogs, either way very close. Oh and the thing has a Mamma, so this won't be the end"

 

[Friadoc]

A wicked grin forms on Kael's face, his inner thoughts causing Mal to grow more ready and alert.

"Oh, really," says Kael as Jovik tells Jokad of the Ogres. "Don't rush them...let me fire the first shot."

With that, Kael wraps his thoughts and blood around pulling so much arcane might into an area that it will explode with a fiery might upon the first dense group of foes he sees.

[sblock=OOC]Kael is readying a fireball that he will drop on the first group of foes he sees, laying it down for the most effect and impact. Basically, he'll want to get the most of the lumbering ogres into it that he can, as well as the dogs.[/sblock]

 

[Fenris]

"Aye" replies Jovik as he slinks to a tree a little farther back.

 

[hewligan]

You wait in near silence for the last few seconds. Jovik can hear the last few words as the crashing sounds of the beasts come close.

"I smell manflesh" it offers, hungrily, as if from a mouth full of saliva.

And then the forests bursts open with activity. Five large, black hounds leap and bound over fallen logs. Their matted black fur and strong stench hints at a squalid life, but they appear well fed, albeit feral and frightening. Their green eyes dart about as if absorbing the situation as they rapidly close the gap to you.

Behind then, some twenty yards back, the massive hulk of a ogrekin lumbers through the trees and into view. A huge, muscular creature with a wide mouth, red eyes, strange warts and twisted masses of flesh mottling his incredibly muscular (and fat) form. He is almost bald, apart from a few scraggly clumps of hair, and weilds an huge spear in one hand. The other hand is empty, but you can see the strangely distended finger, about three times the size of a normal finger, probably making that hand hard to use.

"I's huntin bear!" He shouts in coarse common. "Guess I's hunting peoples now too!".

OOC: You have a free round for ranged attacks (or other non-close-combat manouvres), and then next round it toe to toe. Kael, taking account of the distance between (5 hounds are spread out over 5 squares in a line, ogrekin stands 5 squares back (4 square gap) in the middle) - please resolve the fireball attack.

 

[Friadoc]

"Fire,"says Kael with a touch of gallows humor in his voice. From the tip of a pointed finger, which is aimed at a space between the ogre and his hands, a tiny red ball, the size of a marble, flies forth with it's deadly capacity held within until the point of anticipation is no more.

[sblock=OOC]If I'm reading it right and laying the 20-foot radius right, I should be able to drop a 6d6 fireball between the ogre and his hounds and hit all of them. A 20-foot radius is 8 squares across, upward and downward, with a nice area of coverage within. Fireball DC is 16.

Init is 1d20+2[/sblock]

 

[frostrune]

Jokad calmly stands near to the bear, Bruthazimus' powerful bow drawn taunt to his ear. His focus is solely on the great mishapen brute and he looses two arrows before dropping the weapon to the springy turf and preparing to meet the monster head on with the Impaler of Thorns.


OOC:INIT 14, Roll Lookup

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2340851/; both attacks are at +2 to hit so hit AC 17 for 6 dmg and AC 18 for 11 dmg

As a free action he then drops his bow as a 2nd free action he draws his spear (quick draw).