pneumatik's WotBS 1 - The Scouring of Gate Pass

[Rhun]

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Is there a window nearby that Hollister can look out and see the mother and her baby? His companions? He obviously doesn't have a way through the door...blasting it down would probably take too long.

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[renau1g]

When Korrin runs into the burning building, the heat is overwhelming. Every step he risks catching on fire, and the superhot air sears his lungs.

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Korrin: Every round in the building you take 1d6 fire damage and have to make a DC 15 reflex save or catch on fire. Your stance will give you +2 to the reflex save. I'm assuming you're going to run up to the room the mother and child are in. It takes seven rounds (navigating the burning building is difficult, and then you have to find the room the mother and child are in. You damage for those seven round are: 1d6=3, 1d6=1, 1d6=1, 1d6=6, 1d6=6, 1d6=2, 1d6=5. If you catch on fire, you damage for each round is: 1d6=5, 1d6=6, 1d6=3, 1d6=2, 1d6=2, 1d6=6, 1d6=3.
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Korrin coughs as he fights his way through the blazing building, "Hollister, where are you *cough, cough*" he calls out as he continues towards the woman's room.

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Note that Korrin currently has Fire Resistance 5 from the stance as well so there are only 4 attacks that'll do any damage (and they only do 1 point)
Reflex: Reflex Saves (1d20+7=23, 1d20+7=21, 1d20+7=20, 1d20+7=27, 1d20+7=9, 1d20+7=27, 1d20+7=18) So he didn't catch on fire for any of the damage that'll break through the resistance.
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[Arkhandus]

Liiros sees what Torrent is doing, and decides it's better than just waiting for the two other people he's known for all of ten minutes or so to find and rescue the woman and her baby. He marches out amidst the mobs, raising his arms, and shouts out "HELP! LISTEN! People of Gate Pass, your kinsmen are in danger of burning! Aid us for just a minute in rescuing a mother and her child! The Ragessians are just trying to stir fear and make you bend to their demands, give up your homes, your freedom, and your hard-earned posessions to craven Ragessians who fear battle! Resist! Fight these paltry fires and save your kinsfolk! Start here! Bring us a blanket with which to catch the infant, form up beside this building, and hoist your fellows into a living tower to rescue them! None need burn if we hurry and work together!" Liiros will resume forming part of the bottom of the living tower/pyramid if enough people gather to help.
[sblock=ooc]I think dropping a baby from 4 stories up would jostle the baby rather badly and maybe cause some damage, even with a cloth tarp/blanket (there are no trampolines here, they're a modern invention). So best we combine the two ideas and form at least a short human pyramid, give the top person or people a blanket, and then call out for the mother to drop her baby the short distance into the waiting blanket.

Diplomacy check = 16. Oh well. Hopefully, circumstance bonuses?
1d20+5=16 [/sblock]

 

[pneumatik]

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Is there a window nearby that Hollister can look out and see the mother and her baby? His companions? He obviously doesn't have a way through the door...blasting it down would probably take too long. [/sblock]

As Hollister heads to a window, over the roar of the flames he can hear Korrin's shouting coming from the adjacent burning building.
[sblock=OOC]I'll do better than that. I was assuming (based on the text in the mod itself) that Hollister wanted to go to the roof and run over the roof to the burning building, and then do something to rescue the mom and baby. If you'd rather go through the skybridge on the fourth (and top) floor, he basically encounters the same situation. There's a door on each end of the sky bridge that's locked from the inside of each building. Hollister can easily unlock and open up the first skybridge door, but the next skybridge door is locked similarly to the door on the roof.
As far as finding a window, yes you can. Getting to it and unlocking and opening it takes two rounds, putting Hollister at seven rounds total.
Now Hollister and Korrin are synchronized - both seven rounds into the encounter.[/sblock]

 

[pneumatik]

Liiros' pleas for aid manage to attract the attention of a handful of people, all those carrying or shepherding children of their own. They appear to be a little torn between getting their own children to safety and helping the endangered mother. Their children are terrified and anxious, though, and if the audience isn't further encouraged to help soon their children will drag them off.

[sblock=OOC]Liiros' speech and gathering people takes three rounds.
I'm using the PHB (well, SRD) rules for diplomacy, FYI.[/sblock]

 

[Rhun]

Hollister Avendri, 7 rounds into encounter

Frustrated by the locked doors, Hollister instead works to find a window, as close to the screaming mother and her child as possible. Finally getting the window open, he pokes his head and shouts across to the woman.

"I cannot get to you, but I can save you and your child. But you must trust me. I am a mage from Gabal's School. My magic can get you safely down, but you must trust me. Can you do that?"


OOC: This post obviously assumes something crazy hasn't happened prior to round 7/

 

[Arkhandus]

OOC: Anyone else gonna help persuade the mob?

 

[Jemal]

*OOC: Rashelle has a +6 Diplomacy check, but I personally have no idea what to say to a mother to get her to leave her child in the middle of a city under siege to save someone else... "Please"?*

 

[Arkhandus]

OOC: We're not really asking them to abandon their children....just hold off on running away for a minute....

 

[Arkhandus]

Squire Liiros Tivaniel

Liiros looks around, and calls out "We need only a moment's aid before you flee with your own children! The Ragessians have already launched their fire attacks in this vicinity, and will need much time to ready their siege weapons again! They will target other buildings to put ablaze! There is still time to save the woman and infant from this one before it burns down! I swear as a Knight of the Aquilline Cross that your children will be safe here for a few minutes while we save the infant!"

The elf sighs mentally, and thinks with both sadness and disdain, 'Elves would not leave their kinsmen to die so ignobly by fire and smoke. Are these humans so short-lived that they value life so much less?'
[sblock=ooc]Another Diplomacy check, of 11. Crudstunk. I can only hope for circumstance bonuses to save me from terrible rolls.
1d20+5=11 [/sblock]