[Vile] Puppy-Kicking PCs at Work, part 2

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

*The wizard dealt with, Lydia strides forward to quickly rifle through his pockets.*

"He owes me that much for the pain he gave me," she mutters, feeling her wounds burn. Once that's done, she turns back to her original reason for coming into town. "Where's that blasted dwarf? Come on Sunedliar," Lydia says, going back to the shop.

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

Flashback, Elixanders’ Elixirs
T'aria pulls her eyes away from the golem thing in the corner. Okay, so maybe coming back later wouldn't be the best thing in the world. At least, not without backup. She files the idea away for later reference.

While the elf pulls out his book, she picks up the "Fiend Enhancement" potion and shows it to him. "What does this do?"

Current, outside Boone's shop
T'aria leans down and cleans her rapier on the tunic of the fallen man.
"Well, nothing like a fight to get the blood moving in the morning," she says in a cheery voice, than snickers as she watches the blood flow from the wounds of the downed men.
While rifling through the pockets of the downed men, she hums a somewhat cheery tune under her breath.

 

[Telsar]

Flashback, Elixanders’ Elixirs

Elixander looks at T’aria wearily, perhaps thinking she’ll ask about every potion in the place, even ones she’d have no use for. “Well, if you were the type to have a Fiendish familiar, or the type to summon fiends, you could give that to them to make them stronger. It strengthens theirs claws or bite, toughens their skin against weapons, and increases their ability to hurt those of pure heart. But, you don’t look like that type. If you’re buying it for a friend, I would prefer he come in himself. But it will cost you or him 250 gp”


Current (later than the Boone fight), near Max’s Martial Training School

Alicia steps back and easily reaches for her sword, bringing it up, then down, against the man in white robes. Unfortunately, he seems quite agile, and she misses.

[OOC I was going to disallow stepping away from your sword and still being able to pick it up. That would make disarm almost useless if one didn’t have to stay in the square and provoke an AOO to grab it. But then Alicia’s size came in to account… if she can attack someone 10’ away, surely she can pick up a weapon 5’ away. So… I won’t bother having anyone disarm large characters/creatures anymore unless they have them surrounded.

Alicia’s attack rolled 2+8+2=AC 12, missed.]

The robed man tries to duck and roll to get closer to Alicia. The half-ogre realizes what he’s doing, and brings her sword down trying to hit him, but he’s just too nimble. He gets in close and low, and tries to punch her in the thigh, but he can’t penetrate her armor and newly toughened skin. The man in the doorway yells “I said stop!” and charges Alicia, his pretty sword bouncing off her armor as well.

[Robed man tried Tumble to not provoke AOO to get hand-to-hand. Failed, but then Alicia rolled 6+8+2=AC 16, missed the man. The robed man and handsome man both missed, barely.]

Girdra suddenly stops chanting, and magical fire shoots from her hands to bathe Alicia, surrounding her with a green fire. The fire doesn’t seem to hurt, but Girdra yells “Soulburn! That will burn away your very soul, creature.” She laughs maniacally, adding “Making you weaker and weaker. Every moment bringing you that much close to your death and your soul’s destruction!” She laughs a lot, sounding quite insane, but Alicia is pretty sure the dwarf is wrong… it doesn’t seem to be weakening her at all, although the half-ogre doesn’t think the hide potion is working too well with this green flame all over her.

[Gave Alicia a Wis check to not be so gullible as to believe the spell is hurting her, rolled 15.]

[Characters by initiative, damage:
Alicia, unhurt
One robed man, dying
Other robed man, unhurt
Man with gleaming longsword, unhurt
Girdra, unhurt
Armed man, disabled]


[OOC waiting till more people (Fangor, Accalon, Cepter) post about their next action at the Boone fight to continue there. T’aria and Lydia are taking full rounds searching corpses]

 

[Serpenteye]

The robed man tries to duck and roll to get closer to Alicia. The half-ogre realizes what he’s doing, and brings her sword down trying to hit him, but he’s just too nimble. He gets in close and low, and tries to punch her in the thigh, but he can’t penetrate her armor and newly toughened skin. The man in the doorway yells “I said stop!” and charges Alicia, his pretty sword bouncing off her armor as well.

Girdra suddenly stops chanting, and magical fire shoots from her hands to bathe Alicia, surrounding her with a green fire. The fire doesn’t seem to hurt, but Girdra yells “Soulburn! That will burn away your very soul, creature.” She laughs maniacally, adding “Making you weaker and weaker. Every moment bringing you that much close to your death and your soul’s destruction!” She laughs a lot, sounding quite insane, but Alicia is pretty sure the dwarf is wrong… it doesn’t seem to be weakening her at all, although the half-ogre doesn’t think the hide potion is working too well with this green flame all over her.

[Gave Alicia a Wis check to not be so gullible as to believe the spell is hurting her, rolled 15.]

[Characters by initiative, damage:
Alicia, unhurt
One robed man, dying
Other robed man, unhurt
Man with gleaming longsword, unhurt
Girdra, unhurt
Armed man, disabled]

Alicia roars at Girdra in false rage.
"Your stupid magics do not work, you hairy furball-woman! Stupid enemy! I will shave your hairy ears with my sword!"
Alicia turns to the man with the sword and smiles, "Pretty boy, I will enjoy you good. Now down, boy!" she cries out, takes a step out of his reach and swings the sword against his legs, attempting to trip him. (Full PA and RA).

[OOC I was going to disallow stepping away from your sword and still being able to pick it up. That would make disarm almost useless if one didn’t have to stay in the square and provoke an AOO to grab it. But then Alicia’s size came in to account… if she can attack someone 10’ away, surely she can pick up a weapon 5’ away. So… I won’t bother having anyone disarm large characters/creatures anymore unless they have them surrounded.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Accalon Darcanda: Human/Male (Unholy Warrior)

Accalon rolls his eyes as he watches the dark haired beauty ravage the barely dead wizard’s pockets, his voice sounds slightly hurt at her ignorance of him, “You're welcome in all…” but quickly turns to a small teasing smile, “but I guess we can add it to the favor that you already owe me.”

Accalon quickly answer’s Lydia’s question in the hopes of appease, “Dwarf? Don’t know, though I heard more screaming and the sounds of battle from down the road… What do you need him for anyhow?”

OOC: Obviously not done with the flashback but I forgot the next question I wanted to ask…

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

Aligor Thunderaxe - Soon to be undead Fighter/Barbarian

Aligor, hearing Hex's words of begging and so forth quickly turns his attention around to him. "Beg? BEG?!? WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU SCARFACED LITTLE BASTARD! KILL MY DOG, WILL YA? NOW IT"S YER TURN! BAAAANNNNE!!!" His anger takes over him as he places his back against the counter where he stands next to his box of potions. (Assuming the box is on a counter, therby granting him something to put his back against and not let them get behind him to flank him)

If agreed to have the counter behind him to somewhat watch his back from sneak attacks, then he immediately rages, eyes focused into narrow slits of piercing glances at the two near the doorway. He grabs his Urgrosh and readies it for the two to come at him. (Standard action to ready the Urgrosh for a charge. If charged, then Aligor will strike the opponent first, and take a 5 step move farther down the counter, to keep his back to it and put 5 foot between himself and Hex/Leeza. If you don't allow the 5 step move, ok, but since he didn't move any distance, he is allowed to make a 5 step move as an extra part of his readied action as per the rules of readying an action.) His move action will be to grab the cure light wounds potion in his off hand.

He then looks over at Hex, and grins while taking the potion. "LOOKS LIKE YER THE ONE TRAPPED NOW, SCARFACE! YER WIZADS DEAD BY NOW, AND THE OTHERS ARE ABOUT TO SHOW UP AND TEAR YER HEART OUT SO I CAN FEAST ON IT! IF I DIE, YOU DIE! DOESN"T MATTER TO ME!" (Just letting him know that once he's in the door, his ass is toasted, as the back door is still locked, and he will be trapped inside here with the others soon to flank him.)

AttBon +9, 1d6+5dmg, two times the damage for readying against a charge IF I hit...

OOC - I sure hope this works!!! While screaming, Aligor will make sure EVERYONE nearby would be able to hear him! THAT MEANS EVERYONE!!!

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

Flashback, Elixanders’ Elixirs

T'aria reluctantly replaces the potion on the shelf. Too bad, might be useful - but healing is more important right now. Maybe later. She glances at the golem again.

"Okay, you said you give discounts on large purchases? What do you consider a large purchase?"

 

[Telsar]

Flashback, Elixanders’ Elixirs

Elixander’s smile seems a bit more real as questions about bulk purchases make it seem more like T’aria is buying, and less like she is browsing. “I can sell you 10 Light Wound Curatives for 500 gold, or 20 for 800. 1500 gold would get you 5 Moderate Wound Curatives. Those would be considered large purchases. I’m afraid the Burn Salve and Fiend Enhancement are my own special concoctions. The prices for them are already as low as I can go; I like to encourage the purchasing of those you can only get here by keeping their prices down. If you tell me your name, what you want, and your reason for purchase, I can fill out my record book.” T’aria knows its highly unusual for business owners to keep so much on record. In fact, she’s never heard of anyone asking, except informally, why you’d need a particular potion.


Current, Outside Boone’s Antiques

T’aria searches through the two thugs’ clothes; on the dead man, she finds a small pouch with 50 gold and two “special visitor” passes to a festival of Fharlanghn, which is to be held early next week. On the dying man who refused to attack her, she finds 30 gold and half of a heart-shaped platinum medallion that looks very expertly made, with intricate design work. Probably be hard to sell without the other half, though.

Meanwhile, searching Azallin the wizard, Lydia finds a scroll tube on him, inside which is a rolled up scroll that she finds has three arcane spells on it. Only one is automatically decipherable to her, the spell being “Gaseous Form”. She finds a pouch with 10 platinum and 20 gold, and, hidden in his shoe, was a small golden key.

[Rolled 3 Spellcraft checks to identify the spells, only one, rolled 17+7=24, succeeded. All are arcane spells, unusable by her (or anyone else in the party, I think). Search rolled 19+1=20, to find the key]

While looting, the party does here the muffled vague screams of an enraged dwarf, coming from the vacinity of Boone's, where they were all originally headed.

[Note, if Accalon decides something he wants to do, or Cepter posts, their actions occur while the girls are doing the looting. See the OOC thread for why no update on Alicia and Aligor]

 

[Cepter]

Sunedilar al Hazir, Human/Male Fighter

(OOC: Sorry about the delay. God-awful head cold, comnined with Freshman orientation oming up tommorow, made for bad times.)

Sunedilar simply nods at Lydia's comment, heading towards Boone's shop as quickly as he can while partially mired in the wizard's foul sludge. He keep s a careful eye as he enters, sending his chain crashing left and right inside the doorway to flush out any ambushers.

(moving full speed for the door every round until I make it, and attacking blindly into the doorway when I get in chain range)

 

[Telsar]

Current (later than the Boone fight), near Max’s Martial Training School

Alicia steps back, and swings her sword at the handsome man with all of her might, cutting such a deep gash into the man’s chest that Alicia can hear air escaping from his lungs. The man clutches at his wound and stumbles back into the training school, and even Girdra looks taken aback by the damage the half-ogre caused with one blow. The robed man, looking determined but understanding that this fight is probably unwinnable, tries to circle around Alicia and head back quickly to the front of the wagon. Alicia responds with a swing of her sword, but it goes over the agile man’s head. While he’s running, the man barks a quick command to the horses in front of the wagon “Trot, ladies, trot!” and the two animals begin pulling the cart away, the robed man following beside it, about ready to grab the side and let it carry him. The robed man has the rack of vials he pulled out earlier under his arm.

In the direction the cart is traveling, up farther ahead, Alicia can make out three more horses, each with two riders, coming this way, fast.

[Alicia’s attack rolled 19+8+2=AC 29, critical threat rolled 4+8+2=AC 14, normal hit. Damage rolled 17+13=30 points of damage. This 4th level Fighter just had 30 HPs. He makes a fortitude check and is disabled. Robed-guy moved away (not withdrawing) provoking an AOO, Alicia rolled 5+8+2=AC 15, missed. The robed-man and cart are 30 feet away and continuing to move, the three horses are 250 feet away and will take just over one round to get here (traveling 150 feet/round at a run)]


[Characters by initiative, damage:
Alicia, unhurt
One robed man, dying
Other robed man, unhurt
Man with gleaming longsword, disabled
Girdra, unhurt
Armed man, disabled]


Current, Outside Boone’s Antiques

Sunedilar circles around the west side of the crystal shop, and heads slowly for Boone’s, glue hindering him at first, but by now, hardening so much that the warrior’s violent motion shakes it off.

[This was the last round for it to work, rolled a short duration. A run will get Sunedilar right up to Boone's open door (or even inside if he wants, but by his description that doesn’t sound like what he wants) next round, but of course, with a run, no other action that round.

Waiting to hear from Fangor in the OOC post to resolve his and all the NPC actions.]