The Hoverjeep Explodes
With only a split second to think over his options, Dakashi decides that its best to chase after the orc after everyone else is safely out of range of whatever conflagration is to come from pending destruction of the floating construct, this hovering heap, as the half-dragon names it. He dashes out to the winged man and the elf manages to touch both at the same time, and psionically teleport everyone to safety.
What he sees next makes him glade he didn't teleport them into the middle of the street on this side of the gate...
Originally Posted by Deuce Traveler
OOC: Rodan's Research Check
[roll0]
Typo..
(1d20+2)[7]
OOC: D.T., when you post rolls like these on the IC thread, pelase mark them as OOC. For a second, I thought I was in the wrong thread.
Rodan tries to remember the site he read on the InfoNet all those years ago. It explained the physics and dangers of exploding vehicles. There was something about pressure waves that makes his stomach churn now. Is he too close? He wants to run, but he is frozen in the moment.
Then the human with the red hair is standing between him and the female elf. He reaches out and touches both her and Rodan with outstretched fingers. With a wave of mental energy, Rodan finds himself, the human, and the elf all teleported far back on the other side of the inner gate. Rodan knows the explosion won't hurt him here, but the sound will likely be deafening.
Thrak stays with Silhouette, unwilling to leave her side.
Laran understands the danger of the exploding vehicle. He stops singing and heads through the inner gate and ducks down behind the stone wall with his ears covered and his eyes closed. He doesn't hear the sound of approaching hoofs pounding on the city's street.
Two of the invaders lie unconscious near the hoverjeep. The bear sniffs at the air and rumbles low sensing some form of impending doom. It's keen ears also pick up the sound of thundering hooves and clanging metal. The two conscious troopers move away from the jeep as quickly as they can. The nausea doesn't leave the one invader until it is too late for her to run. The other armored orc has better luck even with the magical fatigue holding and slowing him down. He manages to get out of the blast range just in time to look up and see the sight of a dozen armed and armored men bearing down on him with blades ready and a fierce determination in there eyes.
"I surrender! I surrender!" The trooper yells but the sound is eclipsed by the noise of the horses and their riders, soldiers of the the Flaming Fist.
Zugorim laughs as he runs away towards the ruined wall of Baldur's Gate's harbor district. He runs so fast that he covers 90 paces in half a second. His powered boots drive him forward towards freedom and revenge against Lachlan Scaro.
"Metal beasts," one of the Fists yells.
"You will now face Grand Duke Eltan and the Flaming Fists!"
It is the Grand Duke that Shazer'a and Nelalwe came to warn about the Dragon Empire and pending invasion. Nel tries to warn the man off but he cannot hear her. Shaz can only watch through the ruined window as Eltan and his steed trample the retreating and surrendering shock trooper and charge towards the hoverjeep with his lance ready to strike.
Hadyri hears a voice that isn't hers scream for help. The voice begs the Grand Duke to free them. Hadyri finds the voice. In their rush to save the hobgoblin, they had forgotten about the harbormaster in the energy cage. He is pinned down to the ground near the jeep. He tries to get Grand Duke Eltan's attention without luck. Hadyri can do nothing for him.
Mere seconds before the lance would have impacted the jeep's metal and plastiform frame, Shaz hear the sound of laughter rising from the jeep's comm system. The laughter is Lachlan's voice augmented with a tinny pitch and halting pause before continuing on in unnerving laughter.
Somewhere far away, Haspur falls to his knees and prays to dead Mystra.
"He is strong, but he will be scarred. The jeep will start the scaled one's diplomacy for him, if the Grand Duke survives."
Then a red face of death blinks on Shaz's datapad and the hoverjeep explodes. Fire, twisted metal, and burning plastiform erupt in a massive ball of death, The explosion fills a 80-foot space around it, centered on its power core. The explosion hits the Harbormaster's House and makes it implode inward. While Shazer'a is partially protected from the metal projectiles thrown out and up from the sundered jeep, the fire from the explosion acts as a massive fireball. It spreads out to the wall and upward.
Nel watches in horror as the Grand Duke and half-a-dozen of his Flaming Fists are engulfed in the explosion with the remainder of their number being tossed off their mounts by the wave of energy that accompanies the blast. She cannot see anything beyond the flames, which spreads out to engulf one of the shock troopers. It creeps toward her, but she manages to avoid the flames and the flying debris. Luck. She feels the pressure wave hit her, however, and grits her teeth. She hears screaming and does not realize it was her screaming until much later.
Hadyri, as well, watches the explosion. Her eye are transfixed on the harbormaster as the explosion engulfs him. He screams for only a second. She also sees the deadly effect engulf the half-ogre just before she tries to dive into the waters of the harbor. The explosion picks her up and tosses her through the air and onto the edge of the harbor's dock. The flames threaten to engulf her and the hobgoblin but a wave of force blows both of them back 10 feet from the deadly flames. Her head ringing and her eyes watering, she almost misses the a human form being tossed through the air like a rag doll. The man is burning and screaming. The air is charges with electricity.
The others either watch or listen in horror as the explosion erupts in a ball of flame and throws chunks of burning metal and plastiform through the air. Several of the fists and their mounts are completely incinerated in the blast while others are knocked back or tossed into the air. Then an arc of electricity radiates out to the edge of the flames and a blast of force rushes out from the explsoion and slams into the inner wall. It tosses up objects and debris and feels like a painful wind. The world sounds like it's ringing a unending high-pitched bell.
"Gods' sundered. Soldiers' deaths. World's fall." Haspur whispers to the ground.
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OOC: Explosion damage > 6d10+8+3=54
Okay, I decided to amp the damage up slightly since the jeep has a powerful electrical weapon mounted on it plus Azara left her railgun rifle on the back of the hoverjeep after being hit by the nausea. The cannon normally does 8d10 electricity and the railgun rifle does 3d12 piercing, so what I decided to do was add two #s to the damage equal to the hit dice of damage the weapons do (8 points of electricity and 3 points of piercing). I thought about adding half of the total damage the weapons would do (40 electricity and 18 piercing) but that seemed excessive (and a bit cruel). That would be 107 points of damage on a failed save, if I was to modify the roll above.
Damage breakdown > 22 points of fire damage, 24 points of piercing damage, and 8 points of electricity damage on a failed save. Half those values on a successful save. The save is a Reflex save (DC 20). Salthorae, the piercing damage Shazer'a takes (regardless of the result of the save) is reduced by 8 for the hardness of the stone wall that partially blocks the explosion from him. I will roll the saves for the NPCs sometime tomorrow. It's really late. And the plan was always to have Grand Duke Eltan ride in at the end of the third round. The harbormaster automatically failed his save, as did most of the Flaming Fists. There is a bad joke in there somewhere.
DM's Note: The revised higher damage was on the original OOC thread.
