ROUND 1
All hell breaks loose within Lord Burne's audience chamber:
Ragnok pulls the gemstone from his pouch and raises his fist high overhead, flames dripping from it like blood, even as Dara begins to cast her spell. Kurt, Trevor, Coraine and Burne all leap from their respective seats, Verdis pulls out a scroll, and two guards rush into the chamber.
Trevor, reacting quickly, brings his warhammer into a guard position, whispering sweet nothings to the weapon.
Dara draws her falchion as she approaches Ragnok, saying:
“I hope we will come to the point where you can thank us for this...” Then she slams her mighty weapon down against the dwarf, but she does not aim for his body, but for his hand. The dwarf is unable to react in the face of Dara's speed, and her blade strikes the gem, sending it bouncing across the heavily carpeted floor of the chamber!
Kurt rushes forward and dives to the ground, grabbing hold of the gem. As his hand closes around the gem, you can see him grimace, and a bead of sweat breaks across the cleric's forehead as he struggles with the forces within the stone.
[sblock=For Legildur]
The gem shows Kurt the promise of power; all the cleric has to do is embrace the fire! Images bombard Kurt's mind: him standing amid a burning town, raining fire down upon the place from the sky while flaming, demonic forms do his bidding. Power.
But there is no Justice in this. No honor, no valor. None of the things to which Kurt has devoted himself and pledge his life to. The gem was evil, there was no doubt, and Kurt was strong enough, bolstered as he is by his faith, to push away the images. In the flash of a silver lightning bolt, the image is gone, and the gem is safely cradled within his hand.
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Unfortunately for Kurt, he is now lying defenseless at Ragnok's feet, before a dwarf that wants nothing more than to reclaim the gem and strike his foe's down with fire!
[sblock=For Boddy]
Although being relieved of the gem allows for another save vrs its influence, Ragnok failed again. So right now he wants to reclaim the gem and blast his companions.
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Wailing, the dwarf flings himself at Kurt. He aims a vicious kick at the cleric's head before stooping to wrest the gem from him. He then stands, exultant, and turns back to Dara with a snarl on his face, ready to blast her from existence. Distracted by his struggle with the gem, Kurt can't do much to avoid Ragnok's attack except cringe in expectation. Despite the dwarf's greater strength and ferocity, somehow (through sheer determination and luck) Kurt manages to maintain his hold on the gem.
Burne chants the words to a spell, and points his hands at Ragnok. As the arcane words are spoken, Ragnok finds himself frozen in place, unable to move.
Between Coraine and Burne's two guards, the dwarf is soon in custody, disarmed and bound.
COMBAT IS EFFECTIVELY OVER
Guys, please repost your actions, or simply make a post confirming your above actions. With things moving into combat round, I want to make sure that those that stated actions still want the same actions...
(FYI, I don't normally like Player vrs Player combat in my game, but this is sort of special circumstances.)
Initiative
24 Trevor - Full Defense
20 Dara - 5' step + draw falchion, disarm attempt Dara 30 (natural 20) vrs Ragnok 6 (natural 1)...lol. Well, that got him! (SUCCESS)
14 Kurt - [NPC] move, grab gem
12 Ragnok - disarm attempt vrs Kurt: Ragnok 21 vrs Kurt 22 (Natural 20) (FAILURE); Will save vrs DC20 17 (FAILURE)
11 Burne - hold monster vrs Ragnok (DC20)
11 Verdis
07 Coraine
04 Guardsman 1
01 Guardsman 2
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