The Recollection of the Battle of the Thousand Orcs IC

[Chimaera]

The Battle of the Thousand Orcs

It's has been over six thousand years that the desertic realm of Jalavia began their favored sport: hunting orcs.
King Jairo XII was the one who called the orc hunting, which pretty much turned into a bloody massacre, the orcs once lived in "peace" (fun enough is the fact that there's no word for "Peace' in orcish - there is also no word for "word" or "fun" too) with their several tribes in the vast desert that is now Jalavia.
Why King Jairo XII decided to hunt the orcs is a mystery: the more pious say he received a vision from the deities, claiming that the orcs where a taint in the world and had to be vanquished from the world! Some says the scouts found gold in the desert, a lot of gold and that the King made up the crusade looking for it (which turned to be true: a land rich of gold, but no much for wood, food or water); the more old say it was because the Orc King slayed the Jairo's baby son and he took revenge on the whole race; but only the most courageous talk about the fact Jairo XIII was born half-orc...


The Jalavian army quickly killed the Orc King and put the orcs on the run, killing and capturing them to be used on the arenas for people entertainment: Orc Throw, Fight the Legion, Grab that Stinky Orc being some of the most popular games. Every year there's the Jalavian Tourney and each time more and more orcs are slaved to be put in these shows. But after the last Tourney things got really bad.

The orcs who managed to escape build their homes at the northerns and western boundary of the Jalavian Desert and created their Red Kingdoms: thirteen great orc tribes being lead each by their Red Kings. Because of their chaotic nature, the orcs never managed to cause too much trouble, but eventually incursions turned into entire villages being looted, razed and slaved. But this time they found a leader. A Messiah.

Their so believed Orc Messiah stepped on the world it seems. A son of Gruumsh or even Gruumsh reborn if the legends tell the truth.
With powers beyond this world he alone defeated every one of the Thirteen Red Kings and reunite under a single banner: his own.

It wasnt the first time the orcs managed to find a leader to lead them all, but this Messiah is diferent... Far diferent. Every diviner who tried to locate him and spy on him was found dead in a pool of blood and gore and ever since the word about his coming spread several powerful orcs began to appear. Orcs wielding magic. Near indestructible orcs. Orcs capable of laying waste in several cities. These powerful orcs, when captured revealed only that they were blessed by their god himself.

With hordes and hordes of powerful orcs raiding the northern cities and even managed to reach 10 miles from the capitol city, Escapularia, a call to all the great heroes was send through the realm and everyone of them joined the northern and western fray to stop their menace. Except you.

For whatever reason you ignored or failed to answer the call and stayed in the far southern border at the former city of Verdant Valley, far away from conflict and with only the allied Serpentis Kingdom (a coalization of seven realms who live through trade along the winding Serpentis River) as possible "threats". That's was a huge mistake.

The battle who raged here was so brutal that the ruins of the keep is now called the Crimson Valley, because everyone in there died and the sudden incursion led by the Messiah himself layed waste to everything in its path being only defeated at the Deicidye Battle.

Seven heroes and a handful of too young or too old recruits is all that were in the town and their tales (and deaths) were heroic and they're considered some of the Greatest National Heroes of Jalavia.

This is the recollection of this desperate battle. The last stand of the heroes who were able to fend off the orcs for long enough to avoid the whole kingdom to fall. Their fates are sealed and nothing can change destiny... Or am I that bad in History? Could the small group of heroes be able to change destiny itself and rewrite the tragic ending of this story?

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin breaths a sigh of relief as he watches the troops far down below march off. Flapping his wings once to gain a bit of altitude, he wheels lazy circles in the sky.
Those poor fools. Off to dull the orc's axes.

He turns his eyes back towards the city, several hundred feet below. Some people mulled about, but not many. He was starting to get good at telling folks apart by the tops of their heads.
Wood Elf. Very strong. Syco. The man seemed to be a weapon, without fear or restraint. But maybe that was just his opinion.
Brown hair. Male. Tall. An enchanter of some sort, but he didn't know much besides that.
Blonde hair, thin. Male. Armored. Khan... no, Kanhar? Something like that. He didn't know much about him.
Red hair, long. Muscular. Male. That was the friendly northman.
Blonde hair, short stature. Female. Soalis. She was the woman who was always looking up at the sky. At first it had made him uneasy; he thought he was being watched. But soon he had grown not to mind her so much, eventually taking a bit of comfort that someone knew he was up there.

Eventually he glided down into the city street, folding his wings behind him and feeling a bit of regret that he didn't join the others that went to war.
Nothing a bit of beer won't fix... he thought, as he took a step into the Breaching Whale Pub.

[DrK]

The door to the tavern banged open and unusually a blast of cold air followed. The hulking figure in the doorway paused, a massive red bearded warrior with sword and shield surrounded by a thin aura of swirling snow and ice. The moment of tension passed as the man spoke... Aengrist frozen blessing upon all here. Wench... a round of drinks for all here. Striding in he flicks a few gold towards the nearest serving girl to cover mead. Has the army left already? I have journeyed far to join the troops.

Hearing they have left already he sighs taking a gulp of ale. They have left? No matter I will catch up in the morning. A room please. linking about he spies the elf in the bar and walks towards Syco, Greetings I am Aengrist Ironbirn, son of Jorvik. I have come to slay the orc..

[Vertharrad]

The first thing you see is the gleam coming off his set of mithral fullplate armor. You see pointed tanned coppery tinged with green and brown ears through the cut in the helmet. blonde hair spills out of thehelmet to meet at his houlders. He's almost 6 feet tall for an elf and gives off an air of solitude. The very air around him is even quiet as if too respetful to make a sound. Gliding towards the tavern he takes a moment outside to look back at the receding noise of the army. Shaking his head What fools! They left without one of the best scouts around. Their blood will paint the landscape if the orcs get to them.

Heading into the tavern he takes a seat and quietly makes a gesture to one of the tavern wenches to come take his order. Taking off the helmet Kanhalthar reaches for his pouch to pay for the meal and drink he'll be ordering. When the wench wench shows up he speaks clearly but low enough not to carry. A meal and a spot of ale to slake my hunger. He slides her a gold piece. He looks around taking note of the other oddities in this place; another wood elf...looks familiar, a massive human with sword and shield, a winged creature with the largest bow he's ever seen.

He keeps coming back to the fellow wood elf. Theres a resemblance that will not leave his mind. Then it hits him, this is the famous orcslayer Syco he's heard so much about. Some say he's just as bad as the orcs...a ravenous hunger for blood that no amount of orc bodies has quenched...yet.

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis is going into town today, so she double checks her hair, but she doesn't bother changing out of her robe. There's not going to be anything in town worth changing into a dress. The earrings go in of course. One last look in the mirror - light grey robe properly belted to show off her waist. Just a touch of shadow to draw attention to her eyes. Everything is set, so she puts away her mirror, speaks her standard travelling spells, and starts walking at a brisk pace.

Coming into town she takes her eyes off the clouds and looks around to see if there's anything interesting, then heads for the pub for some fun. There's an energy and confidence as she walks in. Her eyes quickly sum up the elf and the raptoran, but the boy with the cold air is interesting, despite the beard. So, she gives him a friendly smile and walks over. He looks like the type who'd want to start a conversation.

[Chimaera]

@Fauvin: you fly in the skies and watch the troops depart leaving only a few in town. Thankfully it is a border city so far away from the battle that everything should be ok.

From atop your mighty wings you watch them and try to remember each one by the top of their heads, but one of them seems to be also watching for you.

What is that the old lady look so much to the skies?

@Aengrist : this desertic kingdom showed much promise for the ones like you who love wars, but it seems you came here late, as the troops already took the road toward Escapularia and the northern/western frontiers, where the real action is.

The hot wind is cooled by your presence and you quickly order some beer and watch the elf in the corner.
Since you're in this peaceful town why not make some fiends before leaving on the morrow?

@Kanhalthar: you step in the tavern and find it more empty than normal.
This city being a trade passage from the many merchants caravan coming from the Serpentis Kingdoms is usually full of trading and people drinking and partying. Seems that even this far from the battle fray the war took some step here... But at least you are safe here: the city have great walls and is protected by both sides from the mountains of the verdant Valley.

You watch the wood elf in a corner and wonder if he is really the famed orckiller people tell about.
Being so hateful, the army decided to leave him here for fear he could get in a bloody frenzy and start killing everyone in the battles to come: jalavians and orcs.

You approach him and recognize him and also not a tall man, northern with a cold aura approaching the elf as well.

@Soalis: you look yourself in the mirror: you're not eghteen anymore, but you sure way better looking than most of the them (or at least that's what your mirror shows you). You get dressed and put your favorites earings and walk in the city streets and look at the skies and see the raptoran flying high, but it's beyond him taht you are looking.

Clouds. They can tell much things if you are skilled enough to spot it. And that you are.
Omnious clouds in the sky, signs of trouble and peril to come. But it's weird.

You enter the pub and see there are few people around, but some nice and interesting ones at that.
You were approaching them when the wench gives you a glass of beer, "Courtesy of the bigguy there", she tell you as keep moving giving free glasses to the ones present. Two elves stand in the corner as well as the muscular northern man.

Free drinks are good, but you cant shake tottaly the bad feeling you got from the clouds.

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin pulls his goggles up into his hair as he walks into the bar. Almost immediately, he is handed a drink.

Well now, that's what I like to see.

After taking a swig of beer, he makes his way over to the northman that had bought it.

"My thanks sir. Nothing like a drink between acquaintances, no? What brings you to this faraway town?"

[Andrezitos]

Sitting at end of the tavern, smocking a pipe and appreciating a plate of grapes and lettuces embedded cinnamon, fire peppers, salt and dip of sugar sausage, is a gray elf that runs by the nick El Engandor - at your service or vice. In front of him is a woman, gorgeously dressed with one part annoyed, one part depressed expression that reluctantly establishes eye contact with others. In true, this noble woman are trying to hire him to secretly spy her husband, a lord of some notoriety in Jalavia. She hopes this guy could find any prove of adultery, or make it himself. They don't exchange a single word but it seems the deal is made. She hands a envelop to him and depart.

After that, the elf stands his hand and calls for the waitress. "Would you please bring another bottle of wine? But this time you can say for the innkeeper that the senior and most important inspector, I, of the Ministry of Health and Hosteling of Jalavia are here attest this place quality." [roll0] bluff check

Edit: Updated my char description.

[DrK]

As Faunvin approaches the big northman claps tankards together smiling, "I am Aenghir of the North. I have come to hunt down the orc... But alas the gods delayed me and I have arrived too late. Looking at the strange raptoran he shrugs and points at the wings. " What manner of race are you descended from? Are you birthed from the dragons?"

As Soalis enters Anegrist smiles broadly, wiping ale from his thick beard. Bowing clumsily hampered by the armour and weapons he speaks, "Your beauty rivals that of golden haired Sif herself fine lady. Could I know your name?"

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis looks Aenghir in the eye, smiles again, and replies 'Soalis Windguide. My thanks for the drink. It's been a while. Good to have someone to drink with before I go see what the deal is with the sky being all threatening for what reason I don't know. Don't suppose you'd like to come with? Could be trouble.

[Business Scrub]

Another one looking to be in the thick of battle? I guess it's true what they say: War breeds fighters and fighters breed war.

He takes another swig of the beer and ***** an eyebrow at the northman's question.
"Afraid not. We share the gift of flight, but that's about where our similarities end."
He extends his wings a bit and ruffles the feathers to show their difference from dragon's wings.
"In ancient times, my people made a powerful pact with the old Wind Lords, and received this gift. It's said that each raptoran feels a special connection to the wind and sky, whether or not he can actually cast spells." Fauvin says, with a sideways glace at Soalis as she arrives.
"Or so the legends go." He gives a mysterious shrug. "And these gods that delayed you; to whom do you owe loyalty, if at all?"

He turns as Soalis joins their conversation. "A pleasure, Lady Windguide. It is not often you meet someone who reads the clouds."

Is gold text too hard to read?

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: it's seems that the maid as already read your mind as she was with a tankard of beer and handed to it to you "Courtesy of the tall man there", she tells but then she almost shriek when you lie about being a very important person and she quickly run back to the bar and in matter of minutes a small feast is set on your table... Way too much for you to eat yourself.

@Soalis: sitting at a table is a charming young el with silver hair talking with Anastacia, a noble woman who is married to one of the generals of Jalavia. Poor woman, while she's here praying to him, he's probably with a dozen women.

You then keep your attention at the crowded corner where the two elves, the raptoran and the northern man.

@Anegrist: you speak with the raptoran and learn that instead of dragons, this race is more like angels or bird, blessed by the gods of air if what he says is true.

@Faunvin: trouble is the sky? Weird. Things seemed normal so far, but now that Soalis spoke about it, you can feel a chill in your wings and feel a cold wind passing right at your ear, almost as if whispering some bad omen. Or maybe is just the northern and his gelid aura?

@Syco: you stay alone and drinking from the beer offered to you by the viking guy. Seems your solitary corner just began too crowded: a viking, a fellow elf, an old (but still good looking) lady and even a raptoran are now sitting close to you and speaking about weather and other nonsense.

You quietly watch your bear and see its surface shake. Weird.
Then it shakes again.

@Kanhalthar: you keep trying to make Syco, the famed orcbaner, notice you but something else distract you.
You can swear you heard drumming. Like the Orchish War Drummers' drums.

@Neitha-Guruth: war is always good for business, at least for your kind of business: no one miss a few corpses missing when in the middle of the battlefield... as long as its orcs. There are strickly laws about animating jalavians and almost an incentive for the orchish ones.

Coming from the Serpentis Kingdoms, you reach the Verdant Valley city: normally a crowded city, it's now almost empty as the warriors had left this morning to the battle front. Seems you wont be able to get your spoils of war for sometime, if only you knew it you could have paid that conjurer the 2000 he wanted for a single teleport spell.

Oh well... You better get ready to depart on the morning, with a tireless skeleton horse maybe you can reach the army in no time.

With the blazing sun above you decide to some shellter in the local pub: Breaching Whale Pub.

@The Party: you all smell the good food being put at the silver haired elf, but the smell is quickly clouded as a a stranger enter the pub door, folllowed by 4 others covered with heavy black robes... and the smell of death.

Not being jalavians one can walk around with undead, as long as they're dressed that way to avoid causing disconfort of the poeple. That and being orchish ones.

Everybody gaze at each other and then it comes...
At first it seemed like a light earthquake (not too uncommon in Jalavia), but then you hear the drumms. Then the marching steps echoing through the valley.

What is happening? Is the Serpentis Kingdoms so opportunist that decided to invade? It dont make sense!

But then you hear the sound of glass breaking.

@Syco: you drop your glass. Orcs, you can smell them even this far. A lot of them.
A maniac smile is drawn in your face as you begin to laughter like a crazy man.

[Vertharrad]

Watching the scene unfold Kanhalthar slightly smiles at the antics of the other occupants. Still not sure if that one over there is the orcslayer he waits patiently for his food and drink. When the drums started up he got a bad feeling like he's heard this before. Dismissing it he figures the Serpentis Kingdom has decided to take advantage of Jalavias predicament with the orcs. Then it hits him like a runaway horse, the last time he heard these drums was when his own village was attacked. The army barely left. Could they have lost this quickly? Fools should've waited for me. Well guess they did paint the landscape red...

Looking over at syco he sees a maniacal grin that confirms his worse fears. Getting up Kanhalthar redons his helmet and reaches back to draws a rather ornate 6' bow from the quiver on his back. a long but slender sword sits right next to the quiver a testament to his martial abilities. He doesn't miss a step as he heads for the door. Looking at the bar tender. Get as many as you can to safety. Feeling a rush come over him he rushes out the door to meet his destiny and the enemy.

[Andrezitos]

"- Tell your employer that his gratitude will not pass unnoticed by the Ministry and, perhaps, the king himself." :smallwink:

More amused by his own capability of beguiling than by the food, El Elganador takes a single bite of the dish as a rather delightful tough comes to his mind. Such pretty little wench could make a rather acceptable companion this night... but then his elven ears grasp sound. A distinct sound. Like those made by rhythmic beats, wild in some way, but ordered, martial.

In a split second, his mind wash away all unnecessary thoughts and closes around the hypotheses that orc attack right here, at very rear guard of Jalavia Empire, right now, when most of the defenders are away, chasing the main body of the green menace, would be as likely as the outcome of any dawn. "- Humpf, you are as a fool as those you deceive elf." He whisper to himself.

Than he stands and speaks his mind to the others. "- Ladies and gentleman, it seems we are about to become brothers in arms." His countenance shows no fear, no passion. Perhaps some kind of amusement due the small grim in his mouth.

[DrK]

Aenghir paused at the sound of the drums, the horn of mead falling from his hand shattering on the ground. Looking around he scans the inn. "Call to arms... there sounds like a fair few of them. Any of you that wishes to retreat and warn the army I'll understand. I'll head up to the passes to hold them as long as I can... I'd like some company!

Checking his armour and weapons he steps outside into the warm air, looking to the source of the noise and from where the orcs may be coming from...


Is this evening / morning ?
Are the orcs due to arrive very soon?

[Beschoren]

"Ambushing unicorns is bad!" they would say
"Don't chop off the fingers of your neightbors!" they would say
"Why do you punch the elderly in the groin?!" they would say

But they never say "You shouldn't do this kind of things to orcs anymore, you know..."

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As the others come to his corner, Syco greets them politely and chats a very little, keeping his thoughts to himself. He is obviously an adventurer, but does not seem like a madman nor as someone confortable at reciving strangers at his table. He drinks some of his beer, leaving in the air the question wheater he was that orcslayer that accidentally killed his squad captain over a issue with supper or not.

He was.

In fact he did not arrive to late to join the army. He was just kicked out by the army (again) because even him is not worthy the trouble he could create, speacilly with so much people arround. He was digesting that issue, holding back his urge to kill the fools that refused him when he hear the drums, and senses the smell... Orcs... Syco does not care about the village, glory or fame. He does not care if all of Jalavia falls (altought he recognizes the usefullness of allies in battle). All that matters is that orcs are comming, an he is allowed to kill them.

It is impossible to hide his inner self at this moment. His sickned grim shows madness and desire for violence, seldon seen in civilized races. Between his laughts he adresses the other warriors that gathered arround in the tavern, with a perturbed voice "Orcs are coming, now. Time to feed our lust with screams of death and shrieks of pain"

[Chimaera]

@Party: you decide to stepo outside and there it is from the distance you can hear and see a gigantic army of orcs coming to town. They're far, but not that far, maybe ten minutes or twenty tops.

The town cleric hurry to you.
"Please! Everyone calm down I'll Send to the Capitol and soon some reinforcements will be coming here".
He begin casting the Sending spell when the skies become turbulent as dark clouds appear on it, forming an orchish face.

"NONE SHALL LEAVE THIS PLACE! I, THE ORC MESSIAH CONDEMN YOUR POOR EXCUSE OF FLESH FOR ALL THE YEARS OF ORC HUNTING! FOR TODAY IT WILL BE YOUR BLOOD THAT WILL PAINT THIS VALLEY AND ONCE WERE DONE WITH YOU ALL OF JALAVIA WILL FALL! PREPARE FOR YOUR DOOM!".

And then the face burst into several thunderbolts that hit a few houses, the church and the cleric, destroying it as people run screaming only to find gigantic wall of blades cutting your way from retreating.


"NO HELP WILL COME! NO ONE WILL LEAVE HERE!"

What can you do?
To East and West there are the impenetrable mountains.
To the North a gignatic wall of axes and swords and scythes.
To the South a Thousand Orcs, their fists raised high and blood in their faces.

The dark clouds remain above the valley. Sure a dark omen.

@Kanhalthar: the few old and young recruits left in the city step toward you and the party, "You're from the Army, right? Were here to help. We'll delay them as long as needed for the rest to escape. What should we do?"

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin listens to the message with a growing sense of dread. So, the orcs had shown some tactics after all, drawing army away to smash the town. He pushed through the town in a haze, as folks ran left and right. Could he fly out of here? Probably. But that would certainly doom all those who couldn't. Could he fly people out, one at a time? Unlikely. Too many people and too little time.

That left only to fight. Fauvin spread out his wings, and drew his bow to his talons.

"Brave people of this city! There comes a time when the will of man is tested. For us, it is now. If you have gods, pray to them. If you have swords, draw them. If you have shields, hold them high, for today we fight for our lives!"

With that, he pushes off the ground in several powerful strokes, quickly gaining altitude. He pulls his goggles back down and casts his gaze to the South, and to the orcs. Bow clutched in his feet, he knocks an arrow, and begins lining a shot.

They will not take this city. Not on my watch.

Fauvin is flying about 100 feet in the air, provided the weather isn't too dangerous to fly that high.

As soon as orcs get within 3298 feet of the town, he'll start firing. (Doing a bit of Pythagorean theorem to make sure the diagonal distance is in range.)

[Andrezitos]

"- Before you take your post, winged man, let me make a bond between our minds." El Enagandor takes two small pieces of eggs, one red and one blue, and casts Telepathic Bond between him, the raptorian, Syco and any other two people." - I can send as many as three other people, excluding myself, to safety with a Teleport spell, but I doubt I will have the resources to carry all of you."

[Vertharrad]

Getting outside Kanhalthar sees that things as always have gone from bad to worse, there is a massive horde of orcs close enough to be a threat. The cleric starts to placate the populace when a ominous missive is delivered before the cleric, church, and some homes are destroyed. His face remains calm and passive through the whole affair.

A barrier of blades to one side, mountains to either side, and a horde of orcs. Well at least we have a psycho with us...we need to funnel these brutes.

The kid comes up and addresses him and the party. You, you , you, and you...he points to those with ranged weapons. Man those towers, indicating the ones facing toward the orc horde. When they rush in cut from the sides and try to funnel them through here. He's indicating the middle of town. Choose your shots well, look to take out leaders and any casters. Take any thing you can use to drop on them should they break through and you run out of ammunition. Take any extra weapons or equipment you think you might need.

Addressing the other volunteers. Bar the gates. Set yourselves at the building line. Respond to any break in defenses. He splits them into teams of no less than three to defend any breach in the defenses or fight in the streets/house to house should it come to that.

If theres any spots in the towers for another bowman he takes it. Checking over his equipment, he makes sure that it's right where he can get to it easily.

[Andrezitos]

If theres any spots in the towers for another bowman he takes it. Checking over his equipment, he makes sure that it's right where he can get to it easily.

@Kanhalthar "- I can put you up in the sky if want, elf. Out of the harm of melee offenders and fast and mobile as a bird." El can cast fly on you or any other who may want. In fact. he has some very good spells like greater invisibility to fragile ones and greater mirror image to tougher ones.

[DrK]

Aenghir snarls as the grest orc face appears in the sky. Walking towards his horse he holds the animals head carefully Do we have one more great fight left my friend? Our death shall be legend.

Mounting up he watches the massive force bearing down upon them. Eyes scanning looking for what sort of creatures are attacking, if there are any giants or other creatures in the approaching horde.

As he watches he begins to pray, drawing out from his scroll pouch two pieces of worked narwhal horn that glows with power. Reading aloud the runes of power written on it he feels the spell take effect as his armour is sheathed in ice and power flows through it.


Use an oil of magic vestment to increase Full plate to +5 full plate for 20 hours.
Use scroll of superior resistance



Status
AC 29 / 34 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 102/102
Turn undead 15/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours

[Vertharrad]

Looking at the silver haired cousin of his people he contemplates the offer of aid. Names Kanhalthar. I'll accept. Any other spells you think could help out?

[raspberrybadger]

This takes all the fun out of investigating what is going on with the clouds. Not to mention taking all the fun out of going to a pub. When Aenghir calls for company Soalis says simply "You got it." and starts moving in the same direction.

When the lightning blasts come she's all practicality - she focuses a mere moment, speaks a word, and she's protected from lightning (resist lightning 30, duration 110 minutes, CL 11). That's just what you do in a lightning storm, and this one is controlled by an enemy no less.

That done, she speaks up and says "Look, I can make a small bastion, but it will be of earth, and not nearly as high as these walls. I can use it to directly guard the gate on our right, and provide a place to blast down the whole length of the wall. Does anyone object, and does anyone have what it takes to guard the thing while I blast orcs from it? I've got wind and snow at my call, and lots of it. Speaking of which, if that is as many orcs as it seems, I may need to drop a killing blizzard. Everywhere. If so, we'll need to get people to safety, unless they can protect themselves or tough it out and then heal up. Short of that, I've got some more controlled, and even more lethal ways of getting the sky to ruin their day. So - who wants to cover gates, and is anyone willing to guard a bastion up close, if it comes to it?"

[Beschoren]

Syco's maniac grim does not face away even for a moment, as they count the resouces and prepare for battle. Now and them he lets a quick laught escape. He's aggitated as hell, using all of his concetration to coordinate the team's efforts. "hurry up with the bastion", he says more often than you'd like, as he fuels his quiver, drink his potions, and double-checks his equipment.

Perhaps not understanding how his toughts could escape trought the telepatic link, El Enganador can listen to TO Syco - KILL KILL KILL MURDER MURDER MURDER DEATH DEATH DEATH

[Andrezitos]

Concerned about the possibility that such wall could be something else, something less lethal, El casts a silent image and make walk trough it. If in fact such wall produces any harm, the image will be affected. The image will resemble a generic human jalavian fighter.

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin nods as El Enagandor places a telepathic bond on them.
"All the better to relay what I see then. I'll keep a lookout for priority targets: mages, bests, anyone with special training. I'll call out their patterns as I see them.

Even with those clouds overhead, I should be able to be high enough to reach any of you from up there with my bow, so send me a message if you need a hand."

With that, he takes to the skies, flying low for the time being. Taking a temporary perch on the tower, he looks to those assembled.
"Archers!" He calls out, as soon as they are placed on the wall. "Take your shots carefully! One good arrow is worth ten lousy ones. I'll point out special targets as they arrive but until then I want you shooting at the nearest orc to the wall. And remember, there's hundreds of them out there and a handful of us: I want you firing at will, but there's not enough of you to afford getting killed being a hero. I don't care if you have a shot on the Orc Messiah himself: if there's an arrow coming at you, you duck down, got it? The bards will sing about us folks, make no mistake. Let's make them pay for every inch!"

Spot check to identify (in order of how hard it might be):
How many orcs. (So I can IC know that there are 1000)
Other monsters they might have.
Marching patterns and any scouting/flanking parties.
Priority Targets: Casters, healers, engineers, leaders.
The Orc Messiah (Where is he, what's he wielding, etc.)

Spot: [roll0]

[Chimaera]

@El enganador: you put the telepathic.link and decide to test how lethal the wall behind is.

The ilusory jalavian soldier march and is dismembered in a gory show.
In your mind your hear Syco's laughter and maniac thoughts and youre not very sure if he enjoyed the illusion get butchered or not.

@Soalis: you look at those clouds and try to read it. The answer is obviously death, vengeance and doom.

You think back and realizes it must be some powerful weather magic, one beyond everything else you have ever know a mortal could handle.

@Aluvin: you fly in the skies but stay not high enough for the crackling clouds do anything at you, the winds here are strong, but not strong enough to hind your arrows.

You took a meticulous look at the Messiah's face in the sky beford it exploded in lightning and try to find him, but theyre so far you cant really see them yet, only a large green mass of orcs, standarts, some heavy machines and what appears to be a great portal from where more and more orcs are coming out.

Seems the Messiah have not only power over weather but also dimension magic. Probably powerful, but youre not one tgat can tell much.

@Kanhaltar: maybe is your aura of leader or the fact you looks like a jalavian captain, but the recruits cone to you and wait for you to order them.

"How many bows and swords you need? Where should we stay?".

Thats when a recruit comes out of the church ruins.

" Captain! I found this in the church! Father Karl probably was keeping it for later".

Seems the lightning struck cleric.had some stuff in case something like this happened.

30 cure light wounds potion (cl 5th);
10 cure moderate wounds potion (cl 10th);
5 cure serious wounds potions (cl 15th);
10 scrolls of panacea (cl 7th)
2 scrolls of break enchantment (cl 15th)
2 scrolls of mass heal (cl 15th)
7 scrolls of revivify (cl 9th)
50 flasks of holy water

[Beschoren]

Syco waits aggitated as the bastion takes form. Any conversation with him regarding the preparations is rash and quick. The elf seems about to snap at any moment... certainly one of the archers is happy that the orcs are about to arrive, and distract that grining abomination.

[Vertharrad]

Taking a look at the treasure trove Kanhalthar starts handing out the clw potions to the Jalavian soldiers. Take these and use them when your injured or another near you is injured. Get the villagers in the best fortified building in town. Make sure they know to barricade themselves in and don't come out till we summon them. When their done with that he takes them to the defenses and starts assigning them their posts. As many archers as can fire from them man the towers. The rest of you archers will be on the wall with me. The rest of you take your spot by the towers for when the defenses are breached and respond as necessary.

[DrK]

Aengir looks on in approval as the bastion forms from the earth and the 20 strong militia close the gates bolting the gates and beginning to stack great piles of rubble behind the two gates to ensure that they could not be opened. Aenghir looks on in approval before bringing Sleipnir to the edge of the bastion and mounting up.

Waiting till the orcs close slightly he bows his head low and intones a few prayers, eye blazing cereluan blue. Before mounting up and racing forward across the desert. Great shield and ancient scroll in hand. Rearing up in a great swirl of sand and Aengir drops behind the horse beginning to read the scroll aloud as grey clouds descend and with a roar a massive white frost hand and the grim face of the winter god Thrym himself can be seen! A massive raging snowstorm descends on the approaching army as the world is reduced to snow and frost that stops abruptly in a whirling vortex some 40ft in front of the walls and the bastion. Aengir leaps to his saddle, the hulking horse beginning to race back towards the bastion through the deep snow.


PLEASE ACTIVATE WHEN ORCS REACH 1200ft :smallsmile:

--- When the front rank of the Orcs are 1200ft away
--- Gallop forward
---- Scroll [Blizzard] [roll0] CL check 9
- Cast 760 feet away, 900ft radius (so should cover 460ft of Orcs!)

DC 19 saves against cold [roll1]


Immediately upon completion of this spell, the temperature drops to below freezing and a powerful blizzard erupts in the area. Visibility is reduced to zero, making Spot, Search, and Listen checks and all ranged attacks impossible. Unprotected flames are automatically extinguished and protected flames have a 75% chance of being doused. Creatures unprotected from the cold must make a Fortitude save or take 1d6 points of nonlethal cold damage. One foot of new snow falls each round. Movement within the area is impeded, depending on the creature's size and depth of snow (for movement in a snow field, see page 12).




Status
AC 29 / 34 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 102/102
Turn undead 15/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours

[Chimaera]

@The party: you prepare to defend this pass.
Rubbles, caltrops, everything have to work.

And then the orc menace enter your sight... Hundreads of them, cant be sure how much though due distance.

And then the northern man ride his massive horse to give them a gelid welcome.

@Aenghir: you ride forward, praying for Thrymm to help you in this last stand.
You step and watch them closer marching quickly through the sands and yelling profanities as you read an anciant text and a single white snowflake fall in the first orc head.

"Snow? On desert? Whathef...!?"

And then snow pour downon them as they curse from the sudden cold.

You smile victorious and ride back, but it seems it was just the time you began riding back that the entire snowstorm dissapears as a few shamans raise their hands and dispel your powerful magic.

@The Party? "Onward! Kill them!", "DIE!", "Attack! Charge!", "OOOOAARRRK!" shouts are heard as the orcs enter the archers range. They're still far, but your archers try the best they can, shooting several arrows fly toward the first wave.

You have 5 rounds before the orcs reach the botton line of the map.
The first wave is composed of orcs in chainshirt carrying great axes, longbows, heavy shields and javellins.

THE MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80761)

[Chimaera]

The jalavian archers raise their bows high and shot several arrows, peppering the orcs with arrows.

The first round end with all arrows missing their targets.
The second round with a single arrow hitting a greataxe orc.
The third round end with five archers hitting their targets, arrows enough to kill the damaged orc.
The fourth round ends with a lucky archer who hit an orc in the eye and six more archers who manage to kill one orc archer dead and leave another damaged.
The last round comes and the archers let loose more arrows and eight archers hitting and killing an archer and leaving one of the javelliners very close to death.

Jalavian Recrutis body count: 3.

[Beschoren]

Syco steps on the bastion wall and takes his bow. A simple, plain longbow he took from a soldier because he lost his old one. Still, it would be enought for a... appetizer


bow at -10 attack vs orc [roll0], damage [roll1]
bow at -10 attack vs orc [roll2], damage [roll3]

bow at -8 attack vs orc [roll4], damage [roll5]
bow at -8 attack vs orc [roll6], damage [roll7]

bow at -6 attack vs orc [roll8], damage [roll9]
bow at -6 attack vs orc [roll10], damage [roll11]

bow at -4 attack vs orc [roll12], damage [roll13]
bow at -4 attack vs orc [roll14], damage [roll15]

bow at -2 attack vs orc [roll16], damage [roll17]
bow at -2 attack vs orc [roll18], damage [roll19]


The string feels good in his hands, so Syco decides to keep the bow until the last moment

statblock
hp: 100/100
AC: 24 (barkskin)
F/R/W: +13/+15/+6 (herosim)
+10 jump/climb/tumble

[Business Scrub]

From high in the air Fauvin watches the orcs rush through the snow and ice, picking them off as they run through. He lets out a savage hawk-like Tseeer! as he rains down a hair of arrows.
Grabbing two or three from his quivers in a practiced motion, he fires with deadly accuracy again and again.



Attack: [roll0]
Damage: [roll1]
Confirm: [roll2]
Damage: [roll3]

Attack: [roll4]
Damage: [roll5]
Confirm: [roll6]
Damage: [roll7]

Attack: [roll8]
Damage: [roll9]
Confirm: [roll10]
Damage: [roll11]



Attack: [roll12]
Damage: [roll13]
Confirm: [roll14]
Damage: [roll15]

Attack: [roll16]
Damage: [roll17]
Confirm: [roll18]
Damage: [roll19]

Attack: [roll20]
Damage: [roll21]
Confirm: [roll22]
Damage: [roll23]



Attack: [roll24]
Damage: [roll25]
Confirm: [roll26]
Damage: [roll27]

Attack: [roll28]
Damage: [roll29]
Confirm: [roll30]
Damage: [roll31]

Attack: [roll32]
Damage: [roll33]
Confirm: [roll34]
Damage: [roll35]

[Business Scrub]

Motivated by several devistating strikes, Fauvin keeps firing down.

Sorry! Missed two rounds!

Attack: [roll0]
Damage: [roll1]
Confirm: [roll2]
Damage: [roll3]

Attack: [roll4]
Damage: [roll5]
Confirm: [roll6]
Damage: [roll7]

Attack: [roll8]
Damage: [roll9]
Confirm: [roll10]
Damage: [roll11]



Attack: [roll12]
Damage: [roll13]
Confirm: [roll14]
Damage: [roll15]

Attack: [roll16]
Damage: [roll17]
Confirm: [roll18]
Damage: [roll19]

Attack: [roll20]
Damage: [roll21]
Confirm: [roll22]
Damage: [roll23]

[Chimaera]

@Syco: you begin showering death on the coming orcs as they begin to fall slowly, but never stop to tend their woundeds.

"One... two... threee... AH! A Headshot! HAHAHHAHA! Four, five, six and sev... It keep walking! Six! Like in the number of the beast! I'm the beast! HAHAHHAHA!"

Six orcs killed and one got pretty much hurt.
Seems like you can do better than 16 archers together.

But then you see several arrows coming from the skies and take 7 orcs, the one you almost killed in the middle of them.

@Fauvil: you shoot with high precision and manage to lay waste on this first wave.
Seven orcs down.

From the distance you can see the psycopath elf looking up. Apparently you killed one of the orcs he was hunting.
You can't help´but hope he dont change the aim away from the orcs and toward you.

[raspberrybadger]

Until the orcs get more numerous or reach the bastion, Soalis is content to use her spyglass to spot large enemy formations in the distance. If they keep coming split up like this, these guys are pretty buff at shooting them down. If they come hundreds at a time, as they surely must, then the winds get to help out.

[Chimaera]

@Soalis: you spy the orcs while remainin gbehind the cover of the rampart.
6 orcs axemen, 6 orcs javelliners and 4 orcs archers.
The axemen wear chainshirt and carry their great axes.
The javelliners wear chainshirt and carry quier of javellins and heavy wooden shields.
The archer wear chainshirt and carry big reinforced longbows.

This first wave seems like easy from what you can tell so far.

You then look behind them and see what is pobably the second wave coming...
10 more archers, 10 javelliners and axemen along with some more powerful orcs...
6 orcs brutes wearing chainshirts and massive heavy hammers and with their bodies carrying body war paints and 1 orc dresed in dark and red robes, carrying a writed balck staff and several skulls as necklaces. Baby skulls. He's the same orc who dispelled the blizzard spell.

[Vertharrad]

Kanhalthar waits patiently at the top of the wall for the enemy to close within a reasonable distance. He smiles fleatingly as the snowstorm hits but frowns when it's gone way too quick. The enemy makes it's battle cry and charges forward. Seeing no better time he knotches an arrow and let's fly...

Round1:
att [roll0] dmg [roll1]
att [roll2] dmg [roll3]

Round2:
att [roll4] dmg [roll5]
att [roll6] dmg [roll7]

Round3:
att [roll8] dmg [roll9]
att [roll10] dmg [roll11]

Round4:
att [roll12] dmg [roll13]
att [roll14] dmg [roll15]

Round5:
att [roll16] dmg [roll17]
att [roll18] dmg [roll19]

[Andrezitos]

Lacking the eye-hand coordination and the strength to pull the string, young El realized early that his mid would be his best bow and his magic, his trustworthy arrows. He has never been that good with bows, or any other weapon to be frankly, but his elven blood lusts for the sight of arrow crossing the sky and, hopefuly, hitting its target.

Looking at all those bows without hands to make they scream, El decides to give a try himself. He climbs the wall for a better sight and takes place besides one of the archer recruits.

" - Did you see, human, those orcs over there? They are here to avenge 600 years of slavery and killing of their people."

"Can you imagine their blood-lust?" He gives a rather depressed smile.

" - I sincerely hope that you and all your kind survive this battle. But be advised that your people are doomed to ever again repeat the same mistakes and today won't be your last of struggle against the green menace."


attacks
[roll0][roll1] -8
[roll2][roll3] -6
[roll4][roll5] -4
[roll6][roll7] -2

[Chimaera]

@Kanhalthar: you let loose arrows and manage to down two orcs axeman and one of the javelliners.

This first wave seems pretty weak so far, which can only eman they're testing your strenght before sending the big guns... Whoever is in charge must have some military lore of some kind...

@El Enganador: you look at the orcs... Such violence because so much violence in the past. So sad.
You then climb the wall and shoot an orc axemen four times, hitting all those times but for little damage.
Well, at least now he's injured.

[DrK]

Aenghir gets back to the bastion and swears angrily as the blizzard is so easily dispelled. Watching more coming he readies fit the battle, 3 valuable potions and and oils of magical potency being emptierd on his shield...

As they close even further hevsends Slepnir back behind the wall where he will be safe from arrows and then he stands ready. Waiting for the inevitable.


Round 1-3: Potions g.magic vestment, g.mighty wallop, g.magic weapon
Round 4: send the horse behind the wall
Round 5: wait patiently

Status
AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 102/102
Turn undead 15/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, For hammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

[Chimaera]

@The Party: the orcs finnaly arrived, several of them died but their presence is enough to send the stranger necromancer and his miniosn running in fear trying their luck at the wall fo whirling weapons.

Those close can see in detail as he and even his shadow minions are desmembered , despite being incorporeal.

The jalavian recrutis gulp seeing a famed hero fleeing in such panic attack, but they keep looking at you with hope and dont give up.

Round 1

@The Party: the orcs hastily move even with their numbers great decreased.
From this close you can see the blizzard did harmed them a little, as they show marks of frostburn, but nothing much.

The four orc axemen who survived the long walk move full speed ahead toward the main gate.

The foue orc with longbows move slowly due the sandy terrain and shoot they reinforced bows toward the archers in the wall, but they all manage to miss their marks. Obviously they arent professionals.

The orcs javelliners move at top speed as they spread to the sides, trying to use the palm for cover.

@Soalis: looking at the spyglass you can tell the second wavewill crash in less than a minute, maybe half.

@The Party: you all can act!

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80800)

[Chimaera]

@Jalavian Army: The get ready as the orcs get closer and you can hear them all take a deep breath as they shoot the archers.

Being this close ten arrows managed to land on the orcs, one of the right throught an orc's throat.
The army kill two archers and bring one close to death.

Remove the z42 and C42 archers.
Also, remove the dread necro.

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis calmly says through the link Next group also has some six brutes, and what may be a somewhat powerful cleric. As its just the one spellcaster, I'll not use wind on them.

Soalis then swiftly decides what she can use instead.

[Business Scrub]

Fifteen shots, seven kills. Not bad... But I can do better.

Fauvin watches as the archer's shots go wide. They may be untrained, but it would only be a matter of time before one of those arrows found their mark.

He knocks again, realizing these were just the cannonfodder, so to speak. Still, it may help build moral in the hours to come. They had to start playing for the long game. Pushing his feet out to draw back the bow, he looses towards the archers.

Attack 1 [roll0]
Damage: [roll1]

Attack 2 [roll2]
Damage: [roll3]

Attack 3 [roll4]
Damage: [roll5]

Focusing on the archers. If one arrow brings an archer down, moving to the next. If I happen to kill both archers, the last arrow goes to a javelin thrower.

Between shots, Fauvin looks ahead, trying to get a feel for what the next few minutes will bring.

Trying to see what the next wave is. [roll6]

If he can, trying to see what's beyond that for wave 3: [roll7]

Implicity trusting Soalis, he responds over the bond.
Right. I'll aim at the caster before he can wreak too much havoc, and see if I can distract him from casting too many spells. What happened to our Necromancer friend?

[Chimaera]

@Fauvin: you grip firm your yoyr footbow and send the two orcs archers to the Nine Hells (or maybe Abyss, not sure which one...).

You then look at a javelliner hidden behind a plam tree an d give it a shot, hititng on his stomach as he howls with pain, but still alive.

You try to see beyond second wave, but it's too far for even your eagle's eyes.

UPDATED MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80802)
The Y36 javelliner is the one badly hurt.

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis replies No way to tell, but I don't think he'll be of any help. I don't think that was the cleric. The prophet perhaps, or his own darkness catching up with him.

[Vertharrad]

Eying the closest orc Kanhalthar draws back his bowstring and fires another volley.

full round action - on b36
att[roll0] dmg[roll1]
att[roll2] dmg[roll3]

[Beschoren]

Syco still holds his grin and losses arrows. He's a bit disturbed that the raptorian fellow is such a better archer than himself - an experienced elven ranger - but it is not time to squabble in that. Anyway, Syco is starting to have fun, but the goodstuff only happens in close-quarters..


bow attacks, focusing on the archers and then on the javalins guys. still with -2 penal due to range

[roll0], damage [roll1]
[roll2], damage [roll3]


He replies on the mindlink The necromancer trew himself in the wall of blades? What a waste!. By "waste" Syco means he would love to slash the necromancer himself, or at least to push him into the wall of blades.

[Chimaera]

@Kanhaltar: you shoot aggainst an axemen, but this one manage to block both arrows with his greataxe.

"DIEEEEE!", he howls to you and keep moving.

@Syco: you look at the bowmen... all of them dead by the raptoran guy.
You take your chance aggainst the javalliner, killing two despite cover from the palm trees.

@Party: only six more orcs remains. If all waves come as weak as this one...


Orcs
Syco, El Enganador, Kanhaltar, Aenghir, Soalis and Fauvin

Those in bold may act (Aenghir)

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80816)

[DrK]

Shield and armour now glowing with power Aenghir looks around to see Orcs close by him! But only a few due to his new found allies' good shooting. Wheeling Sleipnir around he surges towards the stragglers from the first wave mindful of the approaching second wave. As he nears the orc he rears up bringing the shield down with a noise like thunder!


Double move to B35
Attack the orc - foehammer! [roll0] damage [roll1]


Status
AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 102/102
Turn undead 15/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, For hammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

[Chimaera]

@Party: you quickly make some response aggainst the orcs, with Aenghir alone in the very front of battle, who ride and overkill the orc axeman before he had any time to act.

The rest of the orcs howls and quickly surround the northerman with their axes.

ROUND 2
@Aenghir: you ride Slepnnir and manage to hit the orc, killing it. But then you get the surviving ones rush into melee.

Two orcs axemen charge at you, but your armor block all harm from it, while the third axeman have to run through the sandy terrain to reach you, making them all surrond you.

"Fresh meat!", he says with angry eyes.

@Party: The javelliners keep pushing forward... but not before throwing their javellins at the men in the walls and, despite the great distance and cover, both manage to hit the man standing at V8.

13 damage

1st Wave
Aenghir, Syco, El Enganador, Fauvin, Soalis, Kanhaltar

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80821)

Aenghir's Situation:
http://i.imgur.com/4nvArbR.png

[Vertharrad]

Not missing a beat arrows continue to be loosed.

full round action - on c34
att[roll0] dmg[roll1]
att[roll2] dmg[roll3]

quafs his clw potion [roll4]

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin curses as he watches the javlins hit home. Aenghir would have to wait: the men on the walls couldn't take as many hits as the northman could. He pulls three arrows out of either quiver, holding three in his mouth knocking the other three. Pulling back again, he fires at the two javliners.

Attack 1: [roll0]
Damage: [roll1]

Attack 2: [roll2]
Damage: [roll3]

Attack 3: [roll4] - EDIT: This should have been 1d20+13, so should be a 33
Damage: [roll5]

Immediately, he begins knocking and aiming at the melee orcs, knowing his allies would finish them off on the off chance his shots didn't kill.

[Chimaera]

@Kanhaltar: you shoot the javelliners, but they quickly get their wooden shields up and block your arrows.

@Fauvin: you wait for the javelliners to raise their shields to shoot at their stomachs, killing both of them as their blood spread in the hot sand.

@Recruits: fearing hitting Aenghir, they get ready to shot the ones from the second wave, but those are far from range. The one who was wounded by the lucky shots drink his potion and take the javellins out of his shoulder and loins.


1st Wave Orcs
Fauvin, Aenghir, El Enganador, Syco, Kanhaltar, Soalis

MAP
(same as last, but remove the javelliners)

[Beschoren]

Syco keeps up with the arrows, wishing the orcs came more quickly and in greater numbers. He would ams first for the javliners, not wishing the put an arrow in the viking's back.... yet.

However, the others were faster than him. time to shoot axeorcs instead


longbow (-2 penal) [roll0], damage [roll1] (add -4 penal for shooting in melle)
longbow (-2 penal) [roll2], damage [roll3] (add -4 penal for shooting in melle)

[Chimaera]

@Syco: it's seems every orc you put your eye on is killed by the raptoran. You then try your luck aggainst the axemen, but the moving viking's back seems to get on your way. What a shame... his armor is too tough for the arrows to at least draw a little blood, that is.

@Aenghir: surrounded by orcs is not something very nice, but when two arrows hit your armor from behind and you hear a hysterical laugh from behind you wonder if this elf ally isnt a very good orc in disguise. Thankfully your armor and cristal is able to take the arrows away.

[DrK]

I will see Valhalla thus day and drink from cups made of your skulls... Aenghir mocks the creatures as he lays about left and right slamming heads and crushing limbs with the edge of the shield.


Attack orc 1 [roll0] dam [roll1]
Attack orc 2 [roll2] dam [roll3]

Status as before except foehammer is back!

[raspberrybadger]

Seeing Aenghir's mighty strike, Soalis shares That was awesome! You're going to have to finish the orcs by you quickly though, as that spellcaster is coming into range, and I would prefer to deny him the opportunity to show us what he can do.

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: you bash right and left, your heavy shield breaking their bones with a loud thump as the two bloody orcs fall dead at your side.

The last one dont seems scared and even try his luck spitting at your face.
"Stinky filthy human!".

@Soalis: you vibrate witht he mighty blows this great man is doing, alone in the field fighting orcs makes him looks so... manly.
You keep you eye on the second wave, but theyr are yet to reach your range.
But something got your attention.

Make a Spellcraft check and a Spot one
@Party: Only one orcs remains from this first wave. Who shall claim his life?

1st Wave Orcs
Fauvin, Aenghir, El Enganador, Syco, Kanhaltar, Soalis

[Chimaera]

@Soalis: through you spyglass you manage to perceeive somestrange aura around the orcs in the second wave: it's seems that the shaman cast some spells on them, but which spells exactly you cant tell.

This next wave may prove to be a problem...

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: you raise the bow high and try your chances, but the distance is too far and your arrow end up hitting a palm tree... Ther was no palm tree close to the orc... :smallredface:

ROUND 3

@Aenghir: The surviving orc try hacking at you, but his attack hit your armor as he grunts with rage, "Stupid human!"

1st Wave Orcs
Aenghir, Syco, Fauvin, Soalis, El Enganador, Kanhaltar

MAP
(Is the same, but only one orc axemen is alive).

@Party: if the orcs of second wave getting closer and closer, the recruits try their luck, but this time the wind seems to favor the orcs, as only one arrow hit its mark, dealing 3 damage.

@Soalis: you were certain an arrow was right in the way to pierce an orc's heart, but some unseen force redirected it away and avoided the attack.

The orcs are now with your range and they move wide spread, with the shaman being guarded by 3 of the 6 brutish orcs.

[DrK]

With the second wave closing fast Aenghir smashes down his shield upon the skull of the last orc from the initial first wave and spurs on the horse pushing it back through the dust towards his comrades.


Attack orc [roll0] damage [roll1]
Then double move towards the bastion.

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: you swing your shield at the orc, one of Slepnnir hooves sink in the sand making you lsoe balance in the lsat moment, alowing him to avoid certain death.

1st Wave Orcs
Aenghir, Syco, El Enganador, Soalis, Fauvin and Kanhaltar

[Beschoren]

Syco leaves the living axeorc to the recruits, and takes his aims to the orc shaman. Altought he's much more into killing several orcs, he realizes the difficulties of this battle and must consider tactics and that nonsense. at least until he's free to battle in melle...

firing at -2 penal. is that right?
I also noticed I was lacking +1 on attack vs orcs because of enemy spirit pouch
vs shaman [roll0], damage [roll1]
vs shaman [roll2], damage [roll3]

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: after the fiasco, you give the orc your back and leave rush back to the gates, but the bad orc retaliates as you flee, swinging his greataxe at Sleppnir.

Slepnirr took 11 damage.

@Syco: you ignore the lone orc axeman and go fo the shaman, shooting two arrows at him, but they are deflected away as it approach the the shaman.

Yu begin then to insult his filthy orc mother.

The penal was -6 (-2 for every round they are away from the battle, for simplicity's sake)

@Soalis: for a while you waited and now the shaman stand right where you wanted him.
Calling on the natural world, you make one of the several lightning in the sky to fall down at the the shaman chest.

From this distance you cant see what exactly he called you, but you're pretty sure it wasnt "pretty".

damage: [roll0]
If by any chance the damage isnt 3d6, feel free to roll it on OOC

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80863)

1st Wave Orcs
Aenghir, Syco, Soalis, El Enganador, Fauvin, Kanhaltar.

[Vertharrad]

Figuring the caster to be the bigger threat he also aims there firing off 2 shots to gauge the range.

full round action -
att[roll0] dmg[roll1]
att[roll2] dmg[roll3]

[Business Scrub]

Seeing the others aim at orcs in the next wave, Fauvin ensures the orc in front of him doesn't take another step. He sends one arrow through his foot to pin him to the ground. Another through the knee to bring him down. And a third through the head to make sure he stays there.

Attack 1: [roll0]
Damage: [roll1]

Attack 2: [roll2]
Damage: [roll3]

Attack 3: [roll4]
Damage: [roll5]

If any of these kill it, subtract 2 from the next roll's attacks, and aim them at the caster of wave 2.

[Chimaera]

@Kanhaltar: you shot far in the distance but the orcs are so far your arrows cant even land close to them.

@Fauvin: you shot the first arrow and pin the arrow in his foot as he cries in pain, the second one hit where his head would be, was nt for him to falling on his knees but you manage to adjust your aim and hit him right between the eyes.

"12, winner of this round".

MAP
(the same, but with no more orcs closer)

El Enganador may act.

[Chimaera]

@Party: the orcs rush forward, despite arrows and lightning bolts being tossed at them.

The recruits take their bows and make it shower arrows twice on them.

Recruits Round 4
The first arrow storm takes down a few orcs, but they keep on moving.

1 Orc Archer dead and another injured;
One orc axeman badly injured.

Then they reload their bows.

Recruits Round 5
Again they send forth several arrows at the orcs, but this time they have less luck. Or skill.
The fact is that only two orcs fall at the arrows.

The injured orc archer is dead.
The axemen is dead.
No javelliners were hurt.

[Vertharrad]

Exasperated at missing the shaman he aims at the other orcs, loosing arrows at a measured pace.

full round action -
1st greatbow att[roll0] dmg[roll1]
2nd greatbow att[roll2] dmg[roll3]

full round action -
1st greatbow att[roll4] dmg[roll5]
2nd greatbow att[roll6] dmg[roll7]

[Chimaera]

@Kanhaltar: you command the archers and shot with them making in your arrows fly at thw orcs, but the arrows mias their tracks with the exception of one, who went right at a javelliner.

It would be a sire shot, wasnt for some weird effect: you watch as the arrow seems to stop in mid air and fall in in his feet harmlessly.

[Andrezitos]

El keep firing his newly acquired bow.
[roll0][roll1](forgot the +1 from MW weapons)
[roll2][roll3]

On his last turn, El will try to dominate (Dominate Person) the orc shaman (if he can reach the orc's mind this far). DC 27, or 28 in case the orc can't see me (I would hide behind Syco, the rampart, or other thing if I could still see my target somehow ([roll4] Hide check)). If the orc is too far, El will loose another arrow:

[roll5][roll6]

[Business Scrub]

After the introduction of the houserule, Chimaera and I spoke and let me switch the Distance enchancement of the longbow, since it doesn't stack with farshot feat. If anyone's wondering where the sudden extra damage is coming from, that's why.

Until they knew what was effecting these orcs, Fauvin decided he would just have try to punch through whatever effect was saving them.

Soalis! What is that? Why are our arrows falling short?

He thinks of the bond as he fires again.

Round 4:
Attack 1: [roll0]
Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack 2: [roll3]
Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack 3: [roll6]
Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

Round 5:
Attack 1: [roll9]
Damage: [roll10] + [roll11]

Attack 2: [roll12]
Damage: [roll13] + [roll14]

Attack 3: [roll15]
Damage: [roll16] + [roll17]

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: you shot arrows at the orcs, hoping one might find a home in their chest or heads and even manage to hit one of the orc archers, but the damage isnt enough to kill it. The rest just passes by a few yards away from your targets.

You then look at the shaman, but he's far from reach and you try one last shot. A miserable one at that.

Close range.

@Fauvin: whatever power was under effect there it kept making the recruits arrows fail hitting their targets it seems, but not yours! Three out of six arrows managed to punch through whatever protection was deflecting the arrows, two of them hitting weak spots of the shaman who nearly die, as you can see through your raptoran's eyes that he stand firm in his blackened staff barely alive as strange enough one of the his brute bodyguards fall lifeless in the ground even though you havent aimed for him.

"GRUUMSH WILL SWIPE YOU FROM THE SKY, BIRD BOY!", he screams loud enough to everyone to hear, "CHARGE!".

@Syco: you look at the raptoran who seemed to aim for those you left alive to take the kills.
This time it was your turn to take his kills, as you shot the shaman for good in the middle of his throat, making him pay his so beloved Gruumsh a visit.

Then you drink a potion to grant you more power for the incoming battle.

Beschoren PMed me this turns actions since he's kinda busy today.
4th Round: full round the shaman;
5th Round: drink potion of divine favor;


Waiting on Aenghir, Soalis

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis is happy - the little bit of flirting accomplished its purpose, and the lightning made the shaman not happy. Why stop what's working? Still, she should warn people, sending I'll still try to keep this guy from casting, but it seems those thugs already got some of his spells helping them. Defensive ones, if nothing else. I don't know if they are worth keeping - we can see just how nasty they are before deciding on keeping one.

[DrK]

Aenghir hisses a curse as Sleipnir shakes underneath him. Forging back through the sand he urges the horse onwards, as it stamps through the snow he draws a birch wand and taps the horse slightly, ice forming in the wound and as it melts the pain and the injury melt away.


Round 4, 5 and 6
-- Double move each round until I reach the Bastion...
-- Please let me know when its "round 7" OR if I need to do something on round 5 or 6 if I'm attacked :smallsmile:

- Wand: lesser vigour 1 charge on sleipnir

Status
AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 102/102
Turn undead 15/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

[Chimaera]

@Soalis: you was just waiting for the shaman to cast something, but seems the raptoran and the psychopath elf manage to snipe him out.

The thunder above you keep crackling with lightning waiting for your command to strike.

8 archers, 10 javelliners, 9 axemen and 5 brutes is all that remain from the second wave.
Way less deaths this time, maybe this wave will be able to get to the wall.

But what to do?
You then hear a booming sound and give the spyglass a peak and see the third wave rushing forward as well.

You can make a spot check.
What will be your actions for round 4 and 5?

Will keep moving and if you do something other than wait I'll do the necessary modifications

@Aenghir: you ride back to the gates as Slepnnir's wounds close.
Soon enough more orcs come in the near horizon.

Without their leader they probably wont be much of a trouble, right?

Round 6

The orcs make their way in the end of the map.
One of the brutes shouts in orchish, "NO SLAVES! WE'RE TAKING NO SLAVES! LET'S DRINK THEIR BLOODS IN THEIR SKULLS!", and with that the wave move forward.

The archers get in formation and shot at the men in the walls.
The arrows flies and some are dodged, some hit the crenelations, but 4 of them hit their marks, dropping the x7 and damaging J7 archers. Hopefully the x7 archer is still alive, but if no care is given he might bleed to death.

x7 recruit took three arrows for 29 damage and is down at -5.
J7 was hit once for 8 damage but is still standing (16 out of 24 hp)

The javelliners scatter coming to the flanks, their wooden shields put high for better defense.

The brutes then each drink a potion and enlarge in size as they rage ahead, leading the attack.
The axemen charge through the desert, with the brutes raging ahead. No sign of fear in their eyes.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80894)
(If someone can print it and give to DrK I would appreciate, since I'll have to be absent for a few hours)


Those with ranks in spellcraft can make a Spot and Spellcraft check

2nd Wave Orcs
Soalis, Syco, El Enganador, Kanhaltar, Aenghir and Fauvin

[Beschoren]

Syco is much more satisfied with this wave. Maybe he will be able to draw blood for real very soon.
For now he keeps shooting the archers, aided by divine favor (potion he has drunk)


[roll0], damage [roll1]
[roll2], damage [roll3]

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis is happy to see the shaman go down. Plus, she got to do it. She's not entirely clear on exactly why he was on the battlefield, but she's counting this as having removed someone abusing his powers. She's a little surprised that someone who could dispel a blizzard could go down so easily. Perhaps that wasn't him. Or perhaps he got lucky. Meanwhile, she's hoping that means these thugs go down easily enough too. Time to find out, and keep sharp about the next wave.

[Chimaera]

@Syco: you look at your new target: a chubby orc javelliner and with maquiavelic laughter your pierce his stomach as he fall in the ground bleeding slowly to death.

Your second shot was on a skinny orc, but this one was skinny enoguh to avoid getting hit. For now.

@Soalis: now with the orcs closer you can notice better what spells where on effect on them: each of them are being shield by two divine wards: the Shield of Faith and Entropic Shield spells.

In their eyes you can see conviction beyond normal, as the spell known as Conviction.

And their weapons shinny with brown, red and black auras: the Magic Weapon spell.

But to affect all of them... The shaman probably used a mass or legion version of it, so he wasnt such an easy enemy. Good thing the archers took care of him.

2nd Wave Orcs
Syco, Soalis, Fauvin, El Enganador, Aenghir, Kanhaltar

[Vertharrad]

Kanhalthar lets loose more arrows at the javelineers.

full round action -
1st greatbow att[roll0] dmg[roll1]
2nd greatbow att[roll2] dmg[roll3]

y7 will administer x7 his clw potion [roll4]

[Andrezitos]

El will keep atacking the orcs:
[roll0][roll1]

[Chimaera]

@Kanhaltar: you shot a javelliner and almost kill him, he look at you with angry eyes before someone else arrow finish him off.

@El Enganador: you are very good with your tongue and words, making anyone believe in you was so easy it didnt even entertained you anymore. But you were never good at archery, up this fight it seems.

You saw a almost dead javelliner and took your chance, finishing him off which surely made yourself a little more confident on this battle.

2nd Wave Orcs
Fauvin, Syco, El Enganador, Aenghir, Soalis, Kanhaltar

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80932)

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin fires again, prioritizing the archers as usual.

Hey, if we ever get bored of shooting, atleast they have interesting things to say.

He thinks to them sarcastically as he looses.

Attack 1: [roll0]
Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack 2: [roll3]
Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack 3: [roll6]
Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

[Chimaera]

@Fauvin: you shot at three archers as your arrows carry death in their end, but one of the orcs is protected by the ward cast on him, as the wind around him change the arrow direction and save the orc. The other two arent as lucky though.

2nd Wave Orcs
Aenghir, Syco, El Enganador, Fauvin, Soalis, Kanhaltar

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80934)

MAP for DrK:
http://i.imgur.com/cXm2tdV.jpg

[DrK]

Aenghir turns to see the enemy and snarls, disappointed at his impotence until the enemy deign to close with them in melee. Wheeling around he drives Sleipnir back through the sands towards the enemy. THe massive horse striding through the sand as he drives towards the enemy seeking blood!


Move 50ft towards the enemy.
Ready to bash anyone that comes close enough [roll0] dam [roll1]

Status
AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 102/102
Turn undead 15/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Sleipnir
Hps 27/ 37 (lesser vigour 10 rounds to go)


Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

Kills 2

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: tired of waiting, you come meet them alone riding your faithful horse as the orcs take the challenge and shout at you, "WE GONNA SMASH YOU! YOU SMALL LITTLE PIECE OF ****!"

ROUND 7

@Aenghir: the ogres rush toward you, but there's still distance between you and then, as the sand hind their way.
The axemen follow through, but their move is slower than the enlarged brutes.

@Party: The javelliners keep running and hidding in the palm trees. Seems they arent trying any luck shot this time.

The archers slowly move ahead and and send forth several arrows aggaisnt you and the recruits in the wall.

@Syco: one of the little bastards try his luck at you, but you dodge it without problem.

@Fauvin: seems the orcs dont like the birdman in the skies and two of them try hitting you, but their arrows lose momentum and fail to reach you.

@Recruits: the other three surviving orcs aim to take down the hurt man at J7, but only one manage to hit him, dealing some major pain.

Man at J7 took 10 damage and is now at 6hp

The recruits then counterattack.
The y7 run and administer a potion at the dying man, restoring him to consciounsees, if only barely.

Man at x7 is now with 1 hp

The J7 take his own potion and hide behind the creneletion.
[roll0].
He's now at 19 out of 24hp

The rest then unleash a volley of arrows.
Two try to hit a enlarged brute, but one of the arrow miss due the magic on him and the other does only a scracth.
Brute at AB 24,25 took 1 damage

Three try, but only two hit an orc axeman, dealing some damage.
Orc axeman at D32 took 13 damage

Four archers try to get on the archers, but only two get it dealing some damage.
Orc Archer at y38 took 7 damage

The last four archer shoot at the same skinny orc Syco tried later, but the palm tree blocked two arrows, as the other two were blocked: one by his shiled and the other by the magical force around him.

2nd Wave Orcs
Aenghir, Fauvin, Syco, Soalis, El Enganador, Kanhaltar

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80944)

DrK's Map
http://i.imgur.com/JCGJO71.jpg

[DrK]

Aenghir drives the horse forwards more, this time his mouth open wide in a great howl of rage "Aengrist and gloryyyyyy! before he crashes into the nearest of the Ogres, the shield slamming down with incredible force shattering bones as it lands with enough force to shatter stone!



Move to C23 taking the AoOs! (if I get hit I'll dealy 5 damage gaining +1 to hit and damage)
- attack - BONECRUSHER! [roll]1d20+19[roll] damage [roll0]! and DC 17 Fort or +10 to confirm crits against him


Status
AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 102/102
Turn undead 15/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Sleipnir
Hps 27/ 37 (lesser vigour 10 rounds to go)

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

Kills 2

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: you ride through the desert and hit the enalrged orc in the head... but not before two of them attacking you with their enlarged great hammers!

You quickly raise your shield and block the first attack while the second one clumsyly miss you.
Then your hear it, the sound of bones breaking as the orc barely stand on his feet.

Shield block.

2nd Wave Orcs
Aenghir, Syco, Soalis, Kanhaltar, El Enganador, Fauvin

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin watches Aenghir charge at the orcs, wondering if he's as insane as Syco is.

Good gods, that man is going to get himself killed.

He watches the orcs carefully, predicting their swing and fires at the two melee ones closest to the northman, aiming at the hilt of their weapons instead of their bodies.

Ranged Disarm!

Unlike normal disarm, they don't get an AoO against me (obviously) so proceed to step 2.

1st one: [roll0]

2nd: [roll1]

Opposed by their attack rolls. They get a +4 for being large, and another +4 if they are weilding their weapon in two hands.

Unlike normal disarm, they can't choose to disarm me if they win.

[Chimaera]

@Fauvin: you never understood those who stayed in clsoe combat. Being this close of that two brutes he would surely be overwhelmed pretty soon. You then decide to disarm them with a long shot.

The first one (unharmed) drop his large hammer as he shouts, "CRAP!" but the second (almost dead) grip his weapon with all life left in him, his eyes burning with rage and looking to repay his northern friend with caress of his hammer.

@Aenghir: the orc look at you from above, "My turn, little one".

[Beschoren]

Syco is almost jelous of Aenghir's position, free to lay waste in ways much more satisfying thna archery. But the wlf is not jelous of his wits, tossing himself alone in the open. Syco continues to trow arrows, the little appetizer of his vile muderous intents.

He takes a sidestep so the palm tree is out of the way between him and the javaling orc at e32


no range penality, no cover vs e32. secondary target is any of the archers who have no cover agasint me.

normal bow [roll0], damage [roll1]
normal bow [roll2], damage [roll3]

divine favor round 2 of 10

[Chimaera]

@Syco: that skinny orc was making a fool of yourself and the archers. You take a sidestep and put the palmtree away from you and him and lock gaze at him.

The end of your arrow was the last thing the orc saw as you kill him and one of his stinky ally who was too slow to raise his wooden shield.

2nd Wave Orcs
Aenghir, Syco, Fauvin, El Enganador, Soalis, Kanhaltar

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis notes with cynicism that if her flirting had any effect, it didn't last long. She really hopes Aenghir is tough enough to survive this, because this is ridiculous. She briefly considers just using a wall of thorns on the big guys, but doesn't like the shape it would leave on the battlefield. So, she tries to use her spyglass to figure out how many of the next wave and how many of this wave would get hit if she opened up with a boreal wind aimed such that it ought to hit the wave after that too.

[Chimaera]

@Soalis: you quick take a look at the next wave, which are getting quick. By this time the firstw ave was already defeated, but with so much orcs coming is most probable the third wave will get before the second one is cleaned.

This time there's less enemies, but they seem better prepared.
One orc dressed in shamanic robes and carrying a staff made out of fire, an orc dressed in full spiked dark plate armor and carrying a gigantic dark shield with the symbol of gruumsh, two orcs war drummers, each carrying a bloody standart, six orc brutes, eight orcs in full plate armors and greataxes and eight orcs archers dressed with painted leather armors, as if to blend in the terrain.

You then look at the them at at the current wave and think in how best to cast your boreal wind.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80962)
(This map represents where the third wave will arrive at the round 11)

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis sends cheerfully Hey, they brought two casters this wave. Hope this isn't a pattern. I'll see if I can keep the shaman from casting.

[Andrezitos]

El mentally says to Soalis that she should warn him before she casts her most powerful spells. He will try to negate any attempt to dispel her magic (prepared action, counter spell dispel magic). Seeing that the situation may be out of control real soon, El casts Haste to perhaps give a edge to near combatants.

[Chimaera]

@Kanhaltar: This is madness. This is madness, there's no way you can secure this pass.
It's just too much orcs. You were confindent as the first wave didnt even got close to the gates, but now... Look at the size of these orc brutes and the third wave is almost reaching too!

You look and fear for the worst, your faith in justice and goodness utterly destroyed along with your faith that Corellon Larethian was looking at you. It cannot be. It isnt right.

In a desperate move you throw yourself from the wall, breaking your ankle as you fall and run toward the whirling baldes at north, "Protect me Corellon!", you shout as the blades chop your fingers, arms and torso and you lie lifeless in ground dead. You stare blankly as a young elf come close to you and grip your hand and take you away from this madness.

"I expected more from you, Kanhaltar", your deity say as you leave together the battlefield and back to Arborea.

@Party: you alll watch in awe as one of the more prepared man for war panic due to the iuncoming orcs. A gruesome scene as his limbs are scattered in the streets. Two waves and two men fell down due to panic. You can t help but wonder who will be next?

@El Enganador: and you thought you were the coward here. Ironic how things are.
You then tell Soalis that you wont let the shamans save them from her winter spell like they did with Aenghir's blizzard.

You then cast a transmutation spell, making time goes slower for your allies.

Affected: El Enganador, Syco, Soalis, the melee in the rampart and four archers (k7, l5, m5, h6).
Some of them moved to get in range of the spell.

[Chimaera]

ROUND 8

@Party: The orcs keep marching and the drumms from the third wave getting closer and closer. The archers in the wall gulp as they see the enemies drawing closer and closer, specially now without their leader, Kanhaltar.

@Aenghir: the large orcs clsoe to you decide the pay you in the same coin.
The disarmed one get down and reach for his hammer, allowing you to strike him.

Aoo aggainst the unharmed and disarmed barbarian

He then try to stomp you with his hammer, but you dodge it.

The half dead one try to stamp you into the sand but there's too much blood on his face and he cant see very good and miss.

A third brute move toward you and, now surrounded, you would expect to get hit, but your armor prove true and the attack only shake you for no damage.

The two other brutes shout. "BRING THE GATES DOWN!", and run toward the wall followed by the axemen.

The archers keep their slow march and give the man in the wall a hard time, managing to hit three arrows on J7 archer, who can endure no more pain and is brought to a point beyond salvation.

Archer J7 is now dead

The javelliners, now closer to the wall try move forward and try their luck.

@Soalis: the last one on the left side of battle dare attacking you despite distance and, was not the rampart, he would have ruined your silk dress. He then move behind a palmtree, affraid of gettting attacled by Syco.



@Recruits: the five javelliners in the right side move and let their javellins fly toward the man at V7, but the distance and the crenels prove to be at your side and he escape unscratched.

The wall then take their chances and begin their assault.
The archers turn at the brutes who are getting too close, focusing on the one of the left and making him look like a porcupine after they finished launching arrows at him.

Orc brute LM 14 15 took 35 damage.

More concerned on how Aenghir is doing, a hasted archer shot the near dead orc briute in the heart and slay it.
His second arrow goes for another brute close to Aenghir, dealing minior damage.

The other hasted archers goes for this same orc, hitting him on arms, legs, shoulder, dealing more pain at him.

On the one who took an Aoo from Aenghir.
He took 53 damage.

Depending on Aenghir's AoO he may be dead now.


@Party: the waves keep getting closer, with two brutes close at the gate.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80986)

2nd Wave Orcs
Syco, Soalis, El Enganador, Fauvin, Aenghir

[DrK]

Aenghir spins shouting angrily at the archer killing the wounded orc! Seconds later he see's an opening and whirls the shield round slamming into the beasts head with bonecracking force. Kicking the beast back he slams the nearest flat before stepping forward to the next bowling it over and crushing it to death against the sand.



AoO [roll0] dam [roll1] heal 2 to the horse

Attack the Nearest Orc [roll2] dam [roll3] heal 2 to the horse
If it dies 5ft and attack a new one, otherwise smash it! [roll4] dam [roll5] heal 2 to the horse


Status
AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 102/102
Turn undead 15/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Sleipnir
Hps 30/ 37 (lesser vigour 9 rounds to go)

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

Kills 2

[Beschoren]

Syco takes another step adjusted and aims his shots at the advancing brutes. they are still too far to join in melle combat...

The suicidal fear of another warrior makes him double pissed, again. another life wasted like this! also, waste on his boots - so expensive and so quickly outperformed by El Enganador's spell.


hasted arrowshots VS forward brutes, no cover and -2 range penal. when they are dead, swich to archers.

[roll0], damage [roll1]
[roll2], damage [roll3]
[roll4], damage [roll5]

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin grimaces as the archer goes down. But they had to expect casualties. Almost directly overhead, he fired down on the orcs near the gate, determined to bring them down.

Attack 1: [roll0]
Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack 2: [roll3]
Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack 3: [roll6]
Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: angry at the archers for taking down your victim, you smash the orc and kill it, before looking at the other who came to join you and gve him a hard bash, this one isnt down yet.

@Syco: you watch the porcupine orc and give him piercing punishing. It took all three arrows to kill it.
These large orcs are rpomising to be much more fun.

@Fauvin: this large orc came the further and you wont let him get in the wall.
You shower death from the stormy skies as the creature cries in pain, but keep alive.

That monster took three arrows and survived? :smalleek:

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=80990)

2nd Wave Orcs
El Enganador, Soalis, Fauvin, Aenghir, Syco

[Andrezitos]

El speaks mentally: There is anybody here that thinks he would be greatly improved by a extra edge on your combat technique (Heroics spell)? If no one clains interest about EL offer, he will shot twice the best available target(I really should cast Haste a long time ago when everyone could be put together in side a 30 ft radius circus, as a matter of fact, what poor caster I am that doesn't used his spells when the best moment appeared (hint, before the battle had started)).

[roll0][roll1]
[roll2][roll3]

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: you shoot the large orc brute close to the walls and manage to bypass his protections, dealing some damage, but this brute is strong enough to resist them pain despise being pierced by several arrows.

ROUND 9

@Party: the orcs from the third wave are almost at sight and so are their bloodstained standarts.

The orcs from the second wave keep marching and screaming, "FILTHY JALAVIANS! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE IN THESE SANDS!".

From the wall then you watch as the northernman is surrounded by the axemen.

@Aenghir: you stand your ground as four axemen and the brute surround you and attack you with hammer and axes.
You block the axes away, but one of them managed to cut true, as your blood is spilled in the ground.

Natural 20. You took 14 damage.

The bitter pain is enough to distract you as the brute bring his hammer down.

You took 28 damage.

@Party: seeing the viking being attacked, the archers begin to ready to their arrows, but the orc archers are faster and bring down an archer before he can do anything.

Three arrows hit. One was a critical.
x7 is now dead.

The javelliners also try, moving forward and throwing their javellins at the men in the wall, killing one and damaging another.

Javelliner at V7 is now dead.
Javelliner at P7 took 9 damage.

@Soalis: the daring javelliner get out of his hidding palce and try again, hittting you right in the shoulder and making blood stain your dress, "YOU'LL DIE! BITCH!", he shout at you as he move forward, this time with no palm trees to protect him.

You take 9 damage

@The party: you then watch as the orc brute get close to the wall and hammer it with great strenght.
The hammer leaves a crack in the wall.

The wall section P7 took 29 damage

The situation is quickly getting out of control it seems.
With archers peepering you with arrows and a brute that can take several arrows without diyng what should you do?
Maybe Kanhaltar was right and this is madness.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81042)

[Andrezitos]

El mentally speaks to Syco: Someone must put that brute down. I will grant you wings and a cape of invisibility elf. Use it with wisdom, if you will. Than he casts greater invisibility and fly in Syco (El will use his belt of battle). After that he will move out the rampart and close to the wall (j8)

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis takes a break from covering the opposing casters to pull out a wand of lesser vigour and set her wounds to healing.

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: you cast two spells in quick sucession, amking the psycopath orc-killer into an invisible flying psychopath orc-killer.

Which good could come from this you can only imagine...

@Soalis: you tap yourself with the wand and watch as the wounds begins to slowly close, but that dress is now ruined.

@Party: the archers shout hesitate for a moment, waiting for orders, but once none came, they decide to take action.
The ones in the tower (missing line of sight from the orc brute due to the wall) aim at the archers, killing an orc archer and dealing some damage to another who was hurt already and died too.

Two orc archers dead

The ones in the wall aim at the brute one, which protections allow him to remain on his foot, if only barely.

Orc brute close to the gates took 26 damage

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81134)

2nd Wave Orcs
Syco, El Enganador, Soalis, Aenghir, Fauvin

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin swears as he sees Soalis take a few javelins, but is relieved she's still standing. The northman brought this upon himself by charging into battle, and he expected he could take quite a bit more punishment.

Soalis, are you alright? I-- damnit. I need to get them off the wall.

Prioritizing the ones attacking the wall, Fauvin fires with haste.

Attack 1: [roll0]

Damage: [roll1]

Attack 2: [roll2]

Damage: [roll3]

Attack 3: [roll4]

Damage: [roll5]

[Chimaera]

@Fauvin: you look at the situation and shot at the great monster at the wall.
Your first arrow is send spinning away, as the ward on him protect him, but the second one put the foul beast to rest.

You then look at the orc who hit Soalis and send your arrow right at him, as he dies and his blood begins slowly to get into the small lake.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81142)

2nd Wave Orcs
Fauvin, Syco, El Enganador, Soalis, Aenghir

[DrK]

Aenghir grunts in pain as the hammer and axe thud into him and red blood joins the pool of green! Chanting an ancient prayer to Aengrist the power flows through him as his body is coated in a layer of blue ice. Snarling at the injured brute he seeks to crush him before spinning round slamming the shield into an axeman.



Swift: divine armour. DR 5 for a round
Attack injured brute [roll0] dam [roll1] if hit heal 2
Attack axemen [roll2] dam [roll3] if hit heal 2

Status
AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 69/102 steely resolve 5 (this round healing included)
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Sleipnir
Hps 31/ 37 (lesser vigour 9 rounds to go)

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

Kills 3 + 2 from thus round I hope

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: you coat yourself in ice and bash the big orc, making him fall dead on the sand. The orc axemen get ready to get another piece of you, but you hit them hard with your shield and make another kill.

Syco may act.

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis replies I'll have this healed in a minute. These guys aren't even worth wasting a wind wall on. And Aenghir looks like he'll make it out all right too.

[Beschoren]

"BWAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

Syco drops that lame bow and advances quickly as a stealth bomber. He could not be any happier!!! Screw his position, screw leaving the wall, screw every sad jalavian that stupid barn earth - DEATH was coming to the orcs in a terribly slashy way.


Double move to C22
draw both my swords as part of the move action
swift: action: activate amulet of tears to get 12 temporary hp

AoO is likely:
[roll0], damage [roll1]+[roll2], power attack 8
clave:
[roll3], damage [roll4]+[roll5], power attack 8

+2 herosim, +2 invisibility, +1 divine favor (round 3)

[Chimaera]

@The Party: you shiver as you hear a evil laughter as Syco's dream are fullfilled and watch as two orc axemen is cut in half for an invisible threat. How long it will take for him to get bored and prey on jalavians?

@Aenghir: surrounded by orcs was a problem, but then your hear a maniac laughter right at your back. You have time to raise your shield, but the attack never come... Not at you that's.

@Syco: you fly straight to the orcs close to Aenghir and deliver death with smile in your face. An invisible face at that.
You then turn laughter into slaughter, as you kill two of the orcs clsoe to the viking. No more you'll envy the northman from being in the middle of the battle.

ROUND 10

@Party: the orc brutes are now neutralized, but the third wave is already at close, their drumms begining to shake your bodies.

"KIIIIIIIIIILLLLLL! KILL THEM ALL!", you can hear a full armored orc shout all the way to the wall as the orcs join "KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!".

Renewed with a morale boost, the orcs keep their attacks.
The single surviving orc close to Aenghir give up on bringing the viking down and attack at his steed as the others split toward the right and main gates.

@Aenghir: the orc finally found out he couldnt bring you down, so he decide to kill your loyal steed and attack with brutish strenght.

Slepnirr take 23 damage!

@Recruits: the surviving archers and javelinners move forward and attack the men at the wall.
Two arrows hit P7 archer, leaving him barely standing.

P7 took 12 damage and is now at 3 out of 24 hp

The javelliners then finish the job.
A javeliner give him a power throw and take him down, bleeding and unconscious, but still alive.

P7 took 11 damage and is now at -8 and will die Round 12 if noone heal him.

The other javelliners aim at the dd5 archer, also bringing him down, but not dead yet.

dd5 archer took 25 damage and is at -1 hp

The recruits then look at the downed archers and shout at the melees to rescue the downed ones.
They move forward and begin to climb the walls, ready to deliver potions to the ones who went down.

The archers look at orcs and aim to revenge. Their desire to avenge their friends so strong all of them managed to ounch through the chaotic ward around the archers. Strong enough to kill two archers.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81158)

2nd Wave Orcs
Syco, Fauvin, El Enganador, Soalis and Aenghir

[DrK]

Aenghir shakes his head, Ah, Syco, the impressive invisibility is a boon no? before he chops down with the rim if the blood splattered shield on the last axemen. Healing energy following the blow.


Crusader strike [roll0] dam [roll1] dam
Crusader strike heal [roll2]

[Beschoren]

Syco's voice is nothing elvenlike. There's no doubt he's a chaothic evil psychopath whose only lust is to murder whatever he can catch "Yees, I think the invisibility also messes with my mind!.... because I AM ENJOING THESE MURDERS SOOOO MUCH! WAAAAAAAAA!!!"

Aenghir can sense the elf moving away, leaving scandalous footprints as he went to fly to the other side of the battlefield.

"YES!!! BATTLE!! BLOOD!!! DEATH!!!"


Charge attack vs X23, landing at W23 so I can cleave W24
power attack 10
[roll0], damage [roll1] + [roll2]

cleave?
[roll3], damage [roll4] + [roll5]

AoO?
[roll6], damage [roll7] + [roll8]

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: knowing now it was your ally and not some crazy invisible orc, your bash the last orc close to you, his life force joining yours.

@Syco: you dart past the battlefield like a children on Grab That Stinky Orc's day.
You bring your sword at the closest javelliner, who try to block your attack with his wooden shield, ending with wooden AND orc sliced in half.

You then enjoy momentum to kill the other javelliner.
By your counts you know are tied with the birdboy in the total score, and leader in this wave so far.
That alone gives you more will to win this battle.

@Soalis: you watch and wait for the third wave to get in and peek at the fourth wave.

Seeems they're sending the waves in half minutes delay.
The fourth wave is made mainly of barbarians it seems: 10 brute orcs with their big hammers along with seems to be two siege machines and its engineers.

A huge catapults that with necromantic runes all over and a ballistae that looks more like a darkened wooden scorpion, also enchanted with necromantic might. Four engineers and an orc with dark robes and bone staff seems to be manning the siege weapons.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81163)

2nd Wave Orcs
Syco, Aenghir, Fauvin, Soalis, El Enganador

[Business Scrub]

Good gods above. I guess I'm glad he's on our side in all this...

Motivated by the most recently killed orcs, Fauvin fires at the javliners.

Attack 1: [roll0]

Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack 2: [roll3]

Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack 3: [roll6]

Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

[Chimaera]

@Fauvin: you shoot at three javelliners from above, killing two as one is quick enough to raise his shield and avoiding death.

@Syco: the bird boy again, taking the enemies close to you... One might even suspect he's trying to make you run low of targets...

El Enganador may act!


MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81174)

[Andrezitos]

Through his metal link, El offers an invibility spell to the raptorian archer. He adds that if he could fly ahead and test the third wave defenses, the group would have important informations about it. Mainly the prowess of those maning the siege weapons and that orc necromancer.

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: you send telepathically to Fauvin and wait.

ROUND 11

@Party: them you hear a booming sound getting closer and closer, till you see you can see them... The third wave finnaly reached the end of the map, even though a few remnants of the second still linger.

With the sounds of drumms this close they shout with renewed morale.
The axemens all reach the walls, two storming the front gate and three trying to break open the path the large brute attacked before.

@Syco: The lone javelliner try hitting the place he saw the attacks coming from, but your invisibility is enough to make him miss. He then keep moving towards the wall.

@Aenghir: the last two orc archers try bringing Sleppnir down, to amke sure you wont be able to return to the safety of the wall.

Hit by both arrows, Slepnir takes some mderate daamge.
Slepnirr took 22 damage

Then the keep forward.

@Party: the third wave them appear and begin moving toward the walls, mocking and screaming obscenities.
The orc champion, full armored and carrying a gigantic shield with Gruumsh's symbol scream to you, "WE GONNA EAT YOUR FLESH TONIGHT! YOUR FILTHY FLESH!", and you feel a menacing aura radiating from him, you feel threatened by this orc, even he being so far away.

Everyone get -1 on AC despite the distance between you and the orc.

The orc brutes move forward as they drink potions and increase in size, much similar to the ones in the second wave, brandishing furiously their great hammers in the air.

The drummers begining drumming even louder as the morales of the orcs receive a considerable boost.

It affect all orcs giving them some bonus

The orcs soldiers move with their iron shields prepared to protect them from incoming attacks.
The orc scouts, dressed as if to lend with the terrain drink potions that make their silhouetes blur and they move with crossbows in hands.

The shamnic orc, with his fiery scepter then begin chanting as his hand is covered in dark flames but then...

@Soalis: it took sometime, but you waited patiently and once you see the caster begin casting you zap him but you never thought of what could happened.
The wardrummer carrying the bloody standart redirect the lightning as it it hit him for some minor damage, but yet some pain as he cries.

Left wardrummer took 6 damage.
Pretty ****ty rolls I rolled

The shaman look at you and decide he wont let you meddle with his magic as he raise his fiery hand balst the wall on your back with huge fireball.

Reflexes save DC 16 or take 42 damage.
Targets: Soalis, El Enganador

The explosion is enough to harm partially the wall and scorch two hasted archers to beyond death, as two dodge it in time, but barely manage to survive.

The melee in the rampart duck right before the explosion, but got seriously burned.

Archer m5 and e4 are now dead.
The melee on the rampart as well as archers l5 and k7 are now with 3 hp out of 24.
The wall took 21 damage and the left gate took 42 damage

@Party: being blasted and hevily damaged, the surviving archer and melee ffrom the fireball attack each drink a potion to heal themselves.

l3 archer is now at 14 hp.
k7 archer is now at 13 hp.
e12 melee is now 15 hp.

The melees who climbed the wall heal the damaged archers that were dying.

P7 archer is now at 4 hp.
dd6 archer is now at 11 hp

The remaining archers shot the archers and javelliner, hoping to finish off the second wave before they do the other way around, killing the last javelliner and damaging seriously one archer.

Orc javelliner is now dead.
Orc archer J26 took 15 damage and is almost dead.

Situation is quickly getting out of control.

2nd Wave Orcs (green)
3rd Wave Orcs (red)
Soalis, Fauvin, Syco, Aenghir, El Enganador

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81215)

[DrK]

The crude black fletched arrows thud into Slepnir hitting his chest and throat, Aenghir howling with rage as the horse dies. Rolling to his feet he stomps through the sand. Magical vanguard treads not impeded by the dust as he races forwards before leaping through the air bringing the shield down with a terrifying smash.


Ride [roll0] DC 15 to not go prone
Charge the near archer [roll1] - should be +20, so total of 23

damage [roll2]

Status
AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 88/102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

Kills 5

[Andrezitos]

Harmed by magic fire, half his face charned deeply, El realize how pointless is the defemce of the wall. The hasted elf moves away the rampart in direction of the another end of th city. As he moves he yells to the remaining jalavians to get together everyone, every woman, every chield and every man to where the wall is. Thoose to frail to go should man the gates and defend it to the very end. "Call your tribe human. If there is any way to escape this doomed city, i will find it." He keeps his thoughts for hiimself: "if not, at least a lesser horrrifing death."

Edit: Seeing that the recruits and the other jalavians are paralysed with fear, El stops before reaching the wall (o3, I think) and casts great invisibility on himself. As Fauvin hadend't responded, El casted fly on that turn.

Status:
59/80 HP
Haste
Fly
Greater Invisibility

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin gritted his teeth, raging silently. He was safe in the air, for now, but the people on the ground were dying. And though he loosed arrow after arrow, there didn't seem to be an end in sight.

Attacking the orcs closest to the wall. After that, the ones operating the seige weapons.

Attack 1: [roll0]
Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack 2: [roll3]
Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack 3: [roll6]
Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

[Beschoren]

Syco trows a ragefull glare at the birdboy, that keep interupting his kills. he rants something and then sets off for the 3º wave. it is likely that that caster would be his doom, supressing his glorious invisibility with a gesture... but BOY! there are SO MANY ORCS!! It would be awesome!

The excitment of him right in the middle of the orcs with the invisibility buff is enought to supress his mad laughter for a second. He know that if he hands over his position just like that not even the full concealment will save him. Syco will keep flying just one feet over the ground to avoid letting his footprints over the ground, while weeping tears of joy.


Syco flies (move) to R36, attack on the giant one
hide/move silent if aplicable: [roll0]/[roll1], -4 for moving at full speed

power attack 5
charge [roll2], damage [roll3]+[roll4]

AoO?
charge [roll5], damage [roll6]+[roll7]

cleave?
charge [roll8], damage [roll9]+[roll10]


edit: this will be my action for the round, no friednly fire from boreal wind

[raspberrybadger]

All this waiting and her lightning doesn't even work. The fire hurts, but at least she was right about needing to stop that guy. If she can't shut down that caster with lightning, she'll have an excuse to drop some serious wind on these guys. This guy doesn't just get to fireball her. No way. Boreal wind time. Drawing cold winds into her hands, she directs them at the shaman and his allies.

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: very angry with the death of your loyal friend Slepniir, you charge clumsyly at the desert sand and bash to death one of the orcs archers as the other look at you and spit in your beard, "YOU WEAK ******! WANT TO TAKE A PIECE OF ME?".

@El Enganador: you order the melee recruit to gog ather the villagers and he does so quickly, but the commomners are so terrified that they are paralyzed with fear. They wont fight even for their own lives. What cowards.

@Fauvin: you shoot at the three orcs close to the gate, but their wards seems to be still on, as two arrows miss completely due a wind change. One is not as lucky and is pinned dead to the ground.

@Soalis: damn caster! His fire messed up all your hair and dress, but he'll pay for that, oh yes, he'll pay.
You channel an artic wind toward the mid of their ranks and this time the standart magic dont redirect it.

The strong icy wind blows and everybody is pushed away as the sudden cold burn their skins.
You cant hear the obscenities they scream due the wind, but you're pretty sure it rhymes with "witch".

@Syco: you fly and strike as silent as you can, dealing some considerable damage to the brute, but the brute still stand relatively well.


ROUND 12

The 2nd wave orcs begin hacking at the gate and wall.

The main gate took 41 damage

The wall section took 16 damage

The last 2nd wave archer try shooting at Aenghir, but he iss by a large margin.
with the wild wind blowing, the shamanic orc raise high his flamming staff and try to dispel the magic, creating a very hot wind that destroy your magic completely. He then move forward along with those with who were pushed.

The 3rd wave orcs begin their turn.
The scouts move forward shower death on the remaining men in the towers and walls, killing three of them.

k7 archer is now dead.
l5 archer is now dead.
q7 archer is now dead.


The orc brutes move forward, with the exception of the one who got attacked by Syco, but he fails miserably due invisibiliy.

The orc soldiers move forward, with those close to Syco trying to pinpoint and hitting him.
Two fail, but one manage to take a hit on the murderous elf.

@Syco: a small laughter escape your lips allowing one of the to hit you with his handaxe.

You took 16 damage.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81272)


2nd Wave Orcs
3rd Wave Orcs
Syco, Soalis, Aenghir, El Enganador, Fauvin, Recruits

(If anyone want to order the archers around, feel free to do so)

[Andrezitos]

El moves (hovers) to A2 and sends a piercing insult at the orc near the main gate.
[roll0][roll1] (I am invisible).

[Beschoren]

Syco does has some fame. People tell he hate orcs to the limit of the defnitions of hatred...

That's a lie

Syco loves orcs


Fulll round! I'll keep attacking the brute until he drops
main hand
[roll0], damage [roll1] + [roll2]
[roll3], damage [roll4] + [roll5]
[roll6], damage [roll7] + [roll8]

off hand
[roll9], damage [roll10] + [roll11]
[roll12], damage [roll13] + [roll14]

cleave?
main hand [roll15], damage [roll16] + [roll17]
off hand [roll18], damage [roll19] + [roll20]

AoO?
main hand [roll21], damage [roll22] + [roll23]

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: you decide to protect the main gate, and so you give an arrowm in the chest. Not enough to kill it, but at least inconvenience him.

@Syco: you spin in place as a hurricane of love. Nothing hurt more than love, right?

The brute resist some slashes before dying and then you turn your attention to the soldiers ones, leaving only one alive.

Killed 3 orcs ftom 3rd wave

[DrK]

Aenghir smiles at the massed slaughter where the invisible elf has vanished. Shouting back to his companions "Slay the beasts by the gate. The elf and me will hold back these scum! Putting words to actions he strides across the bloodied sand before smashing the life out of one of the orc warriors and kicking the body at its comrades taunting them!

Glancing about he shakes his head looking for the orc warlord to challenge!

Charge to C31 and unleash a vitaslising strike [roll0] damage [roll1] heal [roll2]

Syco: what are the AoO rolls for?


Status
AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 90/102 (+ above heal)
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

Kills 6

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis barely has to concentrate at all to pull the winds to bear on the casters, while using her next to last lightning bolt on the standard bearer.

Edit, since we posted at the same time.

She sends to the group I've got to keep the winds on that shaman or he's going to cast. When I can spare a moment I'll flick the winds to sweep away the ones at the wall.

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: you move clumsyly in the sandy terrain and attack the attack the last soldier, killing it outright.
He killed Sleipnir, he deserved a much more brutal death.

Since the sand is considered dificult terrain you cant charge.
Since you cant reach and attack the C31 Soldier, I moved you to an orc within your reach (last archer from 2nd wave).


Difficult Terrain: Difficult terrain, such as rubble, an uneven
cave floor, thick undergrowth, and the like, hampers movement.
Each square of difficult terrain counts as 2 squares of movement.
(Each diagonal move into a difficult terrain square counts as 3
squares.) You can’t run or charge across difficult terrain.

@Soalis: damn shaman! He completely nullified your powerful magic.
You then concentrate and bring down a lightning strike on the damaged war drummer which corpse is turned into a crackling pile of ashes.


@Recruits: with no one shouting orders, they decide to focus on the ones close to the wall.
The archers close to the main gate shoot down the orc who was trying to break it and the rest shot down one of the orcs at the creaked wall section.

Two orcs from the second wave dead


MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81358)

Waiting on Fauvin

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin swears as his arrow misses. It looked like a nice shot, too. He decides to switch tactics and give Soalis an edge against the Shaman.

Attack 1: [roll0]
Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack 2: [roll3]
Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack 3: [roll6]
Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

[Chimaera]

@Fauvin: you look at the shaman and affraid he might try and blast someone again, you send three arrows at him.
The first hit his knee as he cries in pain.
The second one hit his Shield spell.
The last one goes in the guts.

He hold on his fiery staff and try to resist the pain, but he fail and fall unconscious on the sand.

ROUND 13
@Party: the last orc axemen keep hacking at the stone.

The orcs break the P7 section of the wall, forcing the P7 archer to jump to Q7 to avoid falling.

The third wave then acts.
The orcs scouts move unhindered by the sand terrain as they recharge their heavy crossbows.

The orcs soldiers move forward, with the one close to Syco swinging blindly his handaxe hoping to hit him, but failing. Another soldier move to get close of the invisible threat.

The orcs brutes keep moving, one engaging in melee with Aenghir and another swing his heavy hammer at the spot where Syco is.

@Syco: the great orc move and in his blind rage he manage to actually hit you. Ouch.
You took 26 damage

The orc champion move toward you, but his heavy armor make his progress kinda slow.

@Party: The orc war drummer, seeing the shaman falling unconscious, double move toward the shaman, but is unable to reach him this round.

Your recruits then begin their attacks, trying to kill the orcs who breached the wall.
One of the orc axeman is now dead and the other took 13 damage.

The jalavian melee then step in the crack and swing his longsword at the survivng orc, killing it and removing the last orc from the second wave.

Damaged orc is now dead.
2nd Wave Vanquished!

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81366)

3rd Wave Orcs
Soalis, Aenghir, Syco, El Enganador, Fauvin

[Andrezitos]

El flys to A10, takes three pieces of nut shell from inside his magic component pounce and casts the Confusion spell centered at C28 forcing two brutes and two orc soldiers to save agaist it (DC 27, cloaked casting). Seeing how effective was his offensive, El mentally explain to the others the obvious: "Let those four fight each other to the death and focus the rest."

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: you cast a powerful enhantment and smiles as you recognize a dementia look in all orcs affect as they begin to babble and laugh and cry. You just love your job.

[DrK]

Aenghir ducks under the shield, the wall of steel reverberating under the great impact of the hammer. Raising his head he smashes at the creature twice to send it smashing it to the ground. Pointing at the orc champion he roars a challenge "Come coward. Meet your doom. I shall squeeze the green blood from you like piss from a bladder."


Status
Full attack the brute beside me
[roll0] Dam [roll1]
[roll2] Dam [roll3]

If one hit kills it then I'll stomp 20ft to I27, otherwise 5ft towards the Orc champion
- As before. If I'm hit by 4 or less I'll shield block as an immediate action

EDIT: Never mind. Once more the dice curse my attempts at being cool.

AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 102 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

Kills 8

[Beschoren]

Syco holds his ground, the stolen life of the orcs revitalizing his own. Obviously this was due to the lesser lifedrinking crystals of his 2 wepons, but often he tells people it is not. He knows that the orc champion is trouble, so he keeps his Dodge on him (+1AC, was forgetting this so far ¬¬).


siwft action: amulet of tears for 12 temporary hp
hitting 6 attacks I heal 18hp due to the lesser lifedrinking crystals
I will attack S38 until he drops, then cleave on Q37. once Q37 falls I take a 5 foot step to Q36 (with some help from fly) and land the remaining attacks on the brute

haste main hand [roll0], damage [roll1]+[roll2]
1º main hand [roll3], damage [roll4]+[roll5]
1º off hand [roll6], damage [roll7]+[roll8]
2º main hand [roll9], damage [roll10]+[roll11]
2º off hand [roll12], damage [roll13]+[roll14]

cleave? depends on wich attack delas a killing blow
1º main hand [roll15], damage [roll16]+[roll17]
1º off hand [roll18], damage [roll19]+[roll20]
2º main hand [roll21], damage [roll22]+[roll23]
2º off hand [roll24], damage [roll25]+[roll26]



After a wonderfull whirlwind of love, syco looses his mind a little further and laughts maniacly, screaming "YES!! YES!! COME FIGHT ME!! YES!!!"

The orcs could kind of be thankfull he was invisible - their immortal souls would not have nightmares about the mad face of their crazy killer, until the end of times.

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: you plana glorious strike at the ogre, but he spit in your eye making you temporary blind and miss the first one, but the second one hit solid as he groans in pain, but remian on his feet.

"YOU'RE A PILE OF DOG'S CRAP! AND I STEP ON PILES OF DOG'S CRAP!".

@Syco: you look waryly to the champion, but decide to strike where you can do the most damage.
You swiftly slash at the two soldiers, hitting them even after they're dead for extra fun.

@Soalis: not wanting the shaman to be brought back to consciousness, you zap the wardrummer he almost die due the eletric charge. Almost is not good enough though.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81467)


3rd Wave Orcs
Syco, Soalis, Aenghir, Fauvin, El Enganador

[Business Scrub]

Not wanting the drummer to keep up his encouragement, Fauvin sends a couple of arrows at him, through the drum itself.

Attack: [roll0]

Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack: [roll3]

Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack: [roll6]

Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

Then, assuming the abomination died, he sends his remaining ones towards the orc Aenghir just struck.

[Chimaera]

@Fauvin: you snipe the orc wardrummer from afar killing it as the the shaman gives his last breath and die too (was at -9).

You then look at the enemies closer to death, like a vulture flying in circles over their prey.

@Aenghir: the damn orc who spite in your eye... He will suffer your great vengeance! No one can do such a thing without feeling the power of the north, your frozen rage will quench his life flame, your determina... Swosh! An arrow fly from the raptoran's bow feet as he takes your prey and he fall dead in the sand, ithout ever knowing the pwoer of the north, or your frozen rage or your deter... Damn it. Now you know how Syco feels.

@Syco: "not my orc... not my orc...", you think as the raptoran send an arrow and, thankfully he aimed at one of the brutes who got hit pretty bad by the men in the wall and the boreal wind, killing it.

He's taking out the weak ones, making sure he's the one who get the kills... Maybe you should fly there and show him some love. Love.

ROUND 14
@Party: with no one to heal him, the orc shaman draws his last breath... and die.

@Syco: you laugh and goad the champion and the nearby orcs... with a cost. A painful one.
The champion moves close and close his eyes as he strike you unerringly.

Ignore miss chance from invisiblity.
You took 20 damage

"YOU'RE A WASTE OF EFFORT, ELF", he say to you as his shield shine with with unholy strenght.

His AC just went up!

The orc brute follow his master's move and strike you, hitting you as well.

You took 23 damage

@El Enganador: youw atch the crazy ones babbling and moving randomly and laughs.
One of the orcs brutes laugh and cry.
The other manage to keep his mind under control... until one of the soldiers attack him screaming "I GOT YA ELF!".

The orc brute took 60 damage and die.
This kill will be put into El Enganador count.
Also, all fear the axe triple critical

The last soldier try looking at the caster and failing to find you he insults your dear mother terrible and despicable things. Some even true in fact :smallconfused:.

@Aenghir: the soldier close to you move and bring you his hand axe, but fail by a small margin. But not small enough to activate your Shield Block.

Another orc soldier then move and get into melee with you, but the desertic terrain force him to double move to get close enough.

@Soalis: the arbalests on the left move and cluster themselves between the lake and a palm tree as they send three bolts darting your way.
One miss the attack, the second hit the rampart and the third hit you for some pain.

You took 38 damage

@Recruits: the arbalest on the right, gather close to each other and shot down the men in the towers, but only one manage to hit due cover. But he makes it count.

Archer H6 is down at -5 hp

@Aenghir: the last two arbalest move toward you and give you a try, but your crystal proves true and blocks both deadly arrows.

@Party: The G6 heal the H6 for some healing.

Healed him 6 hp, making him be back at 1 hp out of 24hp

The rampart melee get ready to heal Soalis with a potion. Double moving to her side.
The other melees begin gathering rubble to put on the crack in the wall, but the weight weight them down, making their progress slow.

The archers then retaliate the arbalests in kind:
One of the arbalests that attacked Soalis took 43 damage... and is standing.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81519)

3rd Wave Orcs
Soalis, Fauvin, Syco, Aenghir, El Enganador

[DrK]

Dissapointed by the champion's cowardice Aenghir spins trying to brush the two soldiers out of the way with unenthused blows....


Attack the sodliers
[roll0] dam [roll1]
[roll2] dam [roll3]


AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 102 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

Kills 9

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin breaths a sigh of relief as the orcs start to push back. He had no idea how many there would be, but atleast they seemed to be keeping pace now. He knocks three more arrows, pulls back the bow and fires at the arbalasts from up high.

Attack: [roll0]
Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack: [roll3]
Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack: [roll6]
Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

[Chimaera]

@Syco: as the ogre moved in he noticed you sliced him for some damage, but he refused to die.

He took 69 damage from previous OOC discussion

@Aenghir: pissed that the champion ignored you and went to Syco instead, you bash the two soldiers to death, leaving your shield shinning with orc blood.

@Fauvin: you see the scouts assaulting Soalis and decide to protect her.
The first arrow missed due their camouflage, but the second one hit right in the heart instantly killing him.
The third arrow goes to a already damaged one and put an end to his miserable life.


MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81619)

Waiting on Soalis, Syco and El Enganador

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis is shocked - she wasn't expecting to get hit, and she wasn't expecting to get hit that hard. She'd duck down to heal, but then others would simply be targeted. She considers using a wind wall, but she's worried it would interfere with the raptoran. So in the end, she gets out a scroll of shield, and uses it to provide herself a little more protection.

[Beschoren]

The blood flowing in his body is like a display ot the kind of love orcs return to him. But syco was SO needy today, he would need a lot more love before he's done. It is afterall... give and take...

"YES! BLOOD! DEATH! MURDER!! I WILL STAB YOU SO HARD YOUR GRANDMOTHER WILL FEEL THE PAIN IN HER ****Y!



swift: casts burning blade, adding 1d8 fire damge per melee hit
Full attack, starting with the big orc, cleaving in the champion, and then continuing to attack the champion

haste main hand [roll0], damage [roll1] + [roll2] (orcbane) [roll3] (sneak attack) +[roll4] (burning blade)
1º main hand [roll5], damage [roll6] + [roll7] (orcbane) [roll8] (sneak attack) +[roll9] (burning blade)
1º off hand [roll10], damage [roll11] + [roll12] (orcbane) [roll13] (sneak attack) +[roll14] (burning blade)
2º main hand [roll15], damage [roll16] + [roll17] (orcbane) [roll18] (sneak attack) +[roll19] (burning blade)
2º off hand [roll20], damage [roll21] + [roll22] (orcbane) [roll23] (sneak attack) +[roll24] (burning blade)

cleave? depends on wich attack delas a killing blow

haste main hand [roll25], damage [roll26] + [roll27] (orcbane) [roll28] (sneak attack) +[roll29] (burning blade)
1º main hand [roll30], damage [roll31] + [roll32] (orcbane) [roll33] (sneak attack) +[roll34] (burning blade)
1º off hand [roll35], damage [roll36] + [roll37] (orcbane) [roll38] (sneak attack) +[roll39] (burning blade)
2º main hand [roll40], damage [roll41] + [roll42] (orcbane) [roll43] (sneak attack) +[roll44] (burning blade)
2º off hand [roll45], damage [roll46] + [roll47] (orcbane) [roll48] (sneak attack) +[roll49] (burning blade)




on a sidenote, Syco wonders if he was called elf because he was spoted or it was just an assumption of the orc

[Chimaera]

@Soalis: bleeding profusely you wonder if you should hide behind the wall and heal yourself but decide to use a defensive spell instead, granting you with a invisible force shield. Hopefully they wont be able to break it.

@Syco: maybe it was from the accent. Maybe this champion was just like you: hated elves so much he could smell them from miles away. But you'll never know as you kill the large orc in a single blow and cleave both of them with a single strike.

The aura is gone and everybody AC is back to normal

Dissapointing. Really.

Killed both with a single attack, so you may or may not want to use your move action to do something else.

Waiting on El Enganador (and maybe Syco).

[Beschoren]

Syco takes two more orcs ot their graves, but maybe this was too easy? and ilusion? or the whole thing was a fluke? was that a cunning plot by the orc messiah leadership?

Well, these are the kind of thoughts that never went into the psycophats head. Instead he justs drops a short and loud laughter and flies to Q24, hoping to take the crosbowrcs by their backs

AoO?
[roll0], damage [roll1]+ [roll2]+[roll3]

[Andrezitos]

After deciding that he would not take the chances of loosing another ally, El casts a gigantic (10ft * 10) wall of iron besides Soalis protecting her from both front and left attacks. (for those able to see him, they might realize that in fact such wall is no more than a silent image, created to lure the arbalests to give up on their attempt to kill the she-mage). "Soalis, this wall is just a decoy. Stay behind it and heal yourself."Mentally say the gray elf.

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: you bring forth a powerful wall of iron. Except it isnt that powerful. Or even iron.
Maybe with this trick Soalis might be able to get back on her feet in no time.

ROUND 15

This last wave wasnt as bad as it seemed it would be.

The scouts curses in orchish as they see the new wall of iron blocking their target and each move, scaterring through the desert and looking up.

"LET'S TAKE THAT PIDGEON DOWN OR ELSE HE'LL KEEP ****TING IN OUR HEADS!"

Then they recharge their heavy crossbows and point it up.

@Syco: all but one, that is. The scout began moving and you make a large cut in his chest.
Not enough for him to die, but enough for him to unfriend you on Facebook.

@El Enganador: The confused bunch keep doing their crazy things...
The orc brute looks wildly at an orc soldier who keep trying to divide 413 by 17 with a scared look at his face.
The orc bring down his hammer, killing the poor mathematician orc.

This kill go to you

The other orc screams like a little baby and run, tripping and getting up as you can see he wet his pants... or worse.

You let out a sharp laughter, but then an archer point two heavy war machines approaching and your laughter stop.
The third wave is almost here (reach next round).

The archers decide to take down the orcs scouts before they can fire again, filling one of them with so much arrows his corpse wont even cast a shadow.

One orc scout dead.

@Soalis: your wood wose keep looking for any interesting loot but so far he found nothing.

What is your wood wose speed, sensing abilities and statisticis?
Can he detect magic, for example?

The melee then close in range with you and offer you his potion to heal your wounds (1d8+5) while the other melees keep moving rubble to the opening in the wall.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=81659)

You can act.
Next round comes the 4th wave.

[DrK]

The cleric of the North spits at the nearest Orc, disappointed by their cowardice before he stops and pulls forth a very small horn of mead from his pocket, the mead glittering and glowing with potent power. Drinking it he can feel new violent power raging through his system. THat done he takes a step towards the brute cursing it loudly. Shouting to the elf "Elf.... fight alongside me. My powers will heal your wounds"


Drink potion of heroics (cleave)

@ Syco: I've got healing strikes but you need to be w/in 30ft. Do you become visible and unhasted and unfavoured this round or is it still a few more?

AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 102 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours
Heroics [Cleave] 30 minutes - ends round 315

Kills 11

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis turns to the task of healing herself, taking out her wand of cure light wounds and applying it.

[roll0]

The wood wose has no detect magic capabilities. So really, the thing would be looking for written matter, stuff in vials, rod shaped things that aren't clubs. If it can't find anything, eh, it's a first level spell. As for its speed, it has a fly speed of 15', perfect, and also a land speed of 15'. It can't be hurt except by area attacks, but it can't attack either.

[Business Scrub]

Uh oh... That doesn't sound good.

Fauvin tries to pick off as many arbalasts as he can before they return fire.

Attack: [roll0]

Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack: [roll3]

Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack: [roll6]

Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: you watch the siege weapons coming and decide to prepare accordingly.

@Soalis: you heal yourself a little and the jalavian melee close to you decide to heal you as well, helping you drink a potion. Wanting or not. He seems very intent in keeping you alive.

You healed [roll0]

@Fauvin: you gulp as you see the scouts attention turn to you and decide to kill them before they can do anything, but the only thing you can do is to remove the one Syco attacked, for the elf's frustation.

The second arrow damaged one of the scouts, but the last missed due to the shifting colors.

3rd Wave Orcs
Syco, El Enganador, Soalis, Aenghir, Fauvin

[Beschoren]

This would be a good time to take a healing potion, or perhas drinking a shield of faith or divine favor... But Syco has hes morals! This is not time for drinking! there is much more fun things to do!

Ovejoyed with the boons on invisibility and flight, he rushes to one of the arablest, slashing it harshly.


charge VS S28, power attack 5
[roll0] [roll1]+[roll2]

AoO? power attack 5
[roll3] [roll4]+[roll5]

kills: 22
buff lenght:
dif fav round 16
haste round 19
invisibility round 20
fly: several minutes


"very well Slepnir!" he talks back between a laught and another "if we team up they will go straight at us! more orcs! MORE ORCS!"

[Andrezitos]

El will keep his wall up a little longer. "Raptorian, can you start laying arrows into the third wave?"

[Chimaera]

@Syco: you move and slay the wounded scout as you call to Aenghir by the dead horse's name. Why? I dont even want to know why.

@Fauvin: the illusionist send telepathically to you to begin shooting the third wave. Maybe the concentration of his illusion messed his mind, he dont like your work so far (even though you're winning the compettition), he meant fourth wave or he dont know how to count. Pick one.

ROUND 16

Finnaly the fourth wave of orcs come to battle: 10 orc brutes, 8 orc engineers, 2 orc necromancers, 1 catapult and 1 ballista.


You take a pause, looking at the horrors to come, the silent face on the clouds shaping once again:
"YOUR STRUGGLE IS IN VAIN! NOTHING CAN SAVE YOU! NOT EVEN YOUR GODS WILL HELP YOU! MUAHAHAHA!", and with that the winds begin to raise in power.

The 3rd wave then acts.
@Aenghir: The confused orc look with madman's eye at you, "I'M NOT AN ELF OR A FRIEND, DEAD LITTLE MAN!", apparently his confusion made him forgot the invisible threat that was Syco. He move toward you and bring his hammer down.

This lunacy may have goven some strange insight as he hit you true, trying to smash your skull.
You raise your shield quick to defend you, but the impact is almost enough to make you be thrown in the ground.

Natural 20 and critical threat.
Spent your Shield Block to avoid critical confirmation.

You took 30 damage (instead of the 126 you would take)

@Fauvin: The four arbalests look at you and decide to take him out, moving as they attack.
Four bolts fly toward you, but the winds blocks two, but the other two find a home in your chest.

You took 31 damage

@Party: the maddened soldier stop and snap out his confusion, as he run back to the fray.

The fourth wave then reach the end of the map.
The ten orc brutes drink potions and shout thundering roars, as they grow in size and march forward. But these arent raging like the others. Four move ahead while the rest stay close to the siege weapons.

Now close you can finnaly see the siege weapons: the mangonel is filled with what appear to be dead bodies: humans, elves, dwarves, halfling and orcs. No matter gender or age, with even a few babies. A rotten smell comes from it and you can see that the engineers close to it dont look very pleased with it, despite the orcish fortitude.
The orc necromancer shout orders to them as they begin aiming toward the main gate as he cast a necromantic spell in the mangonel's cargo.

@Soalis and Aenghir: you look at this monstruosity of siege weapon: bone white in color several runes shine with evil magic. Necromancy.

Everyone who see the necro can try to spellcraft.
Spot DC 15
Spellcraft DC 18

@Party:The ballistae group receive orders from the second necro as this one point in the sky toward Fauvin.

@Soalis and Aenghir: this ballista seems diferent than normal. Several necromantic runes cover its surface and the wood seems rotten and irradiate an almost paubale aura of evil.

Everyone who see the necro can try to spellcraft.
Spot DC 15
Spellcraft DC 19

@Fauvin: you watch the siege weapons begin aiming at the city and at you.

Gulping you see the engineers pointing the blackened wooden thing toward you before the shaman touch it and make it gleam with dark power. Bad news.

Several arrows fly at you and some manage to pierce your armor, dealing keen pain as you begin to feel weak due the evil magic on it.

You took 26 damage and you took 3 negative levels

@Party: the men at the wall look toward the siege weapons and decide to put the engineers down before them manage to shoot whatever damned ammo it got.

One engineer from the mangonel took 30 damage.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=82007)

3rd Wave Orcs
4th Wave Orcs
Fauvin, Syco, El Enganador, Aenghir, Soalis

[DrK]

Aenghir grunts under the impact if the blow, arms and shield cracking with the force of the orcs hammer. Pushing upwards he channels divine spirit into his strike seeking to inspire a second wind from the orc.


Revitalising strike [roll0] dam [roll1]
Heal [roll2]

If it dies then I'll advance towards the enemy (20ft)

AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 94 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours
Heroics [Cleave] 30 minutes - ends round 315

Kills 12

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: you look at the mad orc and bash him.
dazed by the confusion he fell on his neck and died, but not before babbling some nonsense.

@Soalis: you watch the necromancers cast each a necromancy spell: the one on the mangonel cast Undead Torch as a few orcs on the mangonel's "spoon" get aflame while the one closer to the ballista cast Enervation on the ballista shot.

Waiting on Syco, Soalis, El Enganador and Fauvin.

[Beschoren]

Syco sees the group of giant orcs, coming in a spaced row. He goes straight for them, laughting like the madman he is.

all for love

moves to L34
attacks brute, power attack 7
[roll0], damage [roll1]+[roll2]

AoO?
[roll3], damage [roll4]+[roll5]

Cleave?
[roll6], damage [roll7]+[roll8]

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis sends a warning I am about to drop the sky on the recent arrivals, plus the next bunch. That's sufficiently literal that you might not want to be standing next to them.

She then casts Call Avalanche

[Chimaera]

@Soalis: You take a look at your spyglass toward the next wave: 8 soldiers, 8 scouts, 4 champions and two shamanic figures. One holding what seems to be a rock shaped in a great staff and the other with what appears to be a spear with a human head on it.

You then begin casting a powerful spell, making your body feel numb with the sudden cold you're drawing.
Once all incantation is done your whole body feel cold. But it feels good.

An avalanche then falls from the sky burying the orcs in 20ft of snow.

The Third Wave
The confused ones (brute and soldier) as well as the wounded scout are dead by the avalanche, their bodies buried under tons of snow.

The other three scouts manage (Thor know how) to escape it and and stay on top of the snow, unharmed.

3 dead and 3 unharmed

The Fourth Wave
The whole wave is deep down in sh1t snow, even the siege weapons which probably wont be a threat anymore now that all eight engineers are dead.

8 deads, 12 buried alive and 2 buried siege weapons

The Fifth Wave
With the blizzard coming at them, you watch the shaman with the rock staff raise it quickly and make himself along with two champions and the other caster away, appearing inside of the city walls, dazed and confused apparently.

The rest of the wave tries to resist the blizzard.
Five out of eight scouts manage to dodge it and remain unharmed, but the other 3 are buried alive.
Two out of eight soldiers manage to avoid being buried, but the other six are deep in snow.
The two champions are buried in snow while the other two are safe in your city walls along with the casters.

No deads, 11 buried alive.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=82143)

[Andrezitos]

From A8 El fly's to R7 and casts Dominate Person at the T1 Orc Shaman (DC 27 or 28 if unaware of my presence). Due the fact that El no longer is focusing on his silent image (the iron wall), the spell ends. "I will try to size control of the mind of one of those orc shaman. Be ready to stop attacking him." Mentally speaking.

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: you assault the shaman's mind but he resist your alluring spells.

4th wave orcs
3rdnwave orcs
Syco, Fauvin, Aenghir, Soalis, El.Enganador
5th wave orcs

[DrK]

Smiling at the massive fall of snow Aenghir blesses the gods of the sky and ice before beginning to move back towards the gate in response to the panicked cries as orcs appear in the town! The first to breach the wall...

As he walks he summons forth the snow, swirling ice and snow surrounding him in a great cloud.



Move 20ft towards the wall
Cast obscuring snow - 30ft snow cloud around me.

AC 32 / 37 vs ranged
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 96 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours
Heroics [Cleave] 30 minutes - ends round 315
Obscuring snow 7 hours

Kills 12

[Business Scrub]

Self preservation begins to kick in as Fauvin takes a helping of vile arrows. Mumbling a swear and doing his best to ignore the tainted strike, he fires at the orcs who found their own way into the city before they can get up to too much mess.

Attack: [roll0]

Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack: [roll3]

Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack: [roll6]

Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

[Chimaera]

One hour is too much time I guess :smalltongue:

@Aenghir: you move back to the gate and surround yourself in obscuring snow.

@Syco: you wanted to show the big ones some love, but sadly they are buried, so you decide to charge one of the scouts, cutting him in half as you do so, but it was only his blurred silhouete, as he managed to avoid your attack.

@Fauvin: you look at the shamans and decide that you dont like the one carrying a human head in his staff and shower him with arrows and see the same wild wind ward trying to deflect your arrows, but all prove true and arent redirected: one on shoulder, other on his arm and the other in the chest. The last one hit his armor and couldnt pierce it. Apparently he wear a heavy armor under is several robes and human skull necklace.

He took 39 damage

@Party: the ones from the fifth wave then act.
The shaman with the rockshaped staff recovers from daze while the other shaman (the one with a human head on his staff) look at the melees and shout to the champions, "KILL ALL OPPOSITION!".

And so they do.
The first champion step closer to the jalavian melee and raise his sword as a feeling of opression and helplessness fills the air.

Everyone takes a -1 penal to AC as long as the champions are on the map

He bring the sword down, crackling with unholy energy, bringing it down twice and killing the jalavian melee.

The second one charge with his sword coated in unholy flames and end the finish the life of another jalavian melee.

The shaman smiles with evil glee as he see the two champions carrying his murderous intent.
He then look at the flying ones: El Enganador and Fauvin, but decide to ignore them for a moment.

"THERE'S NO HOPE OR SALVATION FOR YOU! CAUSE YOU ARE FACING THE CHOSEN ONES! I AM GRUUMSH'S WRATH OVER TOO MUCH TIME OF PAIN AND SLAVERY!", he shouts and point at the main gate's tower and raise his clenched fist as a gigantic flame fist appear in the sky and mimic his own hand.

He look at the tower archers and punch the ground as the gigantic one repeat its move and descends scorching the two archers and the tower, putting it in flames.

The archers on that tower were all killed.
The tower took 64 damage

@Soalis: you watch as the whole legion stop its march and the 6th wave advance to rescue the buried of the 5th wave. You watch as one of the soldiers manage to escape the freezing tomb you put him on and begin shouting around and looking for ways to help his allies.


ROUND 17

The third wave scouts, the last of their wave decide to die taking some with them.
The one close to Syco tumble away from him him and shoot the man in the wall, killing him.

Q7 archer is now dead

The second scout move and shoot at dd5 throwing a javellin at his bladder, killing him.

dd5 archer is now dead

The last scout look at the Iron Wall dissapearing and at the defenseless Soalis.

@Soalis: the illusion wall who protected you is now gone and the scout decide to take his luck with you, but the rampart cover proves true and you manage to duck behind it.

@Party: the fourth wave is entirely buried and try their best to dig out of the snow.
You then watch as three enraged barbarians crawl from the snow and shout.
Enraged as they are they dont even think in rescuing the others as they move forward

The 3 orc brutes beyond the blizzard line arent buried

The snow close to the siege weapons begins to slowly melt, like a small flame was lit under it.
But not hot enough to melt it at once. But in a few rounds maybe...

The few archer recruits then decide to kill the scouts close to Soalis, but only two manage to actually hit him. Dealing small damage.

Orc scout near Soalis took 10 damage

The melee ones slash at the champion but his defenses are so high that... wait what? One managed to hit him.

The Orc Champion close to the melees took 7 damage


MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=82313)

3rd Wave Orcs
4th Wave Orcs
Soalis, Syco, Fauvin, El Enganador, Aenghir
5th Wave Orcs

[DrK]

Aenghir smiles, lost in the swirling blizzard all around him. Then cursed inwardly as he spoke a cantrip that left his eyes glowing blue and his ability to peer through snow perfect, just in time in fact to see the dark flames lash from the sky. Growling he turns to the orcs crawling free and shouts to the fast moving elf who is "somewhere". Fly back, save the town, I'll take these! before he trudges towards the nearest brute singing loudly about the death of the Orc!



Cast snow sight, walk towards brutes

AC 32 / 37 vs ranged -1 debilitating aura?? What's the range?
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 96 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours
Heroics [Cleave] 30 minutes - ends round 315
Obscuring snow 7 hours

Kills 12

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis decides that letting this guy with an arbalest keep shooting at her is silly. That thing hurts. So she draws on the air right around her, just what she can get to freeze on its own without tiring herself, and throws it at that annoying orc.

Move to j10, standard action to use reserve feat on him.
[roll0] cold damage, DC 22

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: you begin moving toward the large orc and singing a song to provoke him, but it seems he's already enraged and on a rampage.

@Syco: save the city! Screamed the viking guy. Seriously? You being the savior must be some kind of satyrical joke for the gods. Well, at least you got to slay orcs.

@Soalis: You focus the cold in your hands and hurl an orb of utter cold at the scout, but this one dodge it completely.
No wonder he was able to survive unharmed from your blizzard.

3rd Wave Orcs
4th Wave Orcs
Soalis, Fauvin, Syco, El Enganador, Aenghir

[Andrezitos]

El casts a dispel magic in the center of the orc group.

[Business Scrub]

Fauvin glares down. His shots hadn't been enough to finish off those shamans, and that wouldn't do. With another war shout he fires again, plunging arrow and and feather into orc skin.

Attack on human head shaman: [roll0]

Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack: [roll3]

Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack: [roll6]

Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

[Chimaera]

@Fauvin: you aim straight at the shaman, but the chaotic winds around him block even the arrow aimed at his guts.
Can it be that luck (and so fate) be on the orc side? Would the gods allow you here to die in this hopeless battle?

What are the odds?
3 numbers under 20%.... 0,20 * 0,20 * 0,20 = 0,8% :smalleek:

@El Enganador: you surround the orc force with shimmering sparks, as their enchantments are removed.

Champion 1 (left): lost Legion Magic Weapon;
Champion 2 (right): lost Mass Shield of Faith;
Shaman: lost Magic Vestment;
Summoner: lost Mass Shield of Faith.

@Syco: you follow Aenghir advice and fly at top speed, ending close to the shamans.

[roll0]

You try the best to contain you laughter, being able to fool the champions, but the shamans are way too smart and can sense your presence close to them.

To avoid getting attacked, each step away from you and each other.
The orc summoner then clap his hands together and you feel a sudden breeze around and with swoooosh! sound the orcs dissapear and reappear at other places: the champion on the right reappear inside the tower and bring steely punishment to the unlucky archers.

Two attacks to kill one of the archers.

The second champion, the one on the left, reappear 5ft tep away, being flanked by both jalavian melees.
This way he can get to hit them both...

One melee is brought to -2 hp and the other is takes 16 damage, now he's at 8 hp

EDIT: apparently I "mirrored" a jalavian melee.
So both attacks were directed at him, killing it and leaving only one jalavian melee alive (the one close to the rampart)

The summoner dissapears and reappears on top of the gray building, balancing on the roof.

The shaman is also brought on top of a house, but not the same as the summoner.
He then look at Fauvin, who kept sending arrows his way, "I'LL REMOVE FROM THE SKIES LIKE YOU WERE A MERE FLY! A FLY!", he then open his hand like it was a claw creating a small dark energy orb in the tip of each finger, launching them all at you as they turn each into a dark ray.

Three out of five rays hit you.
The first one dealt 3 damage.
The second one missed.
The third one dealt 24 damage.
The fourth dealt 13 damage.
The last one missed.

You must make three Will saves DC 19 or be stunned and (probably) plummeting to the ground.
Failling in more than one save will do nothing extra.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=82686)

(End of Round 17)

[Andrezitos]

El decides that the orc summoner may be the bigger threat and casts a spell at him. He takes a handful of clay, crystal, glass, or mineral spheres from his component pouch and squeezes within his fist. After that a powerful wave of arcane energy engulfs the summoner's mind and attempts to obliterate his wit. In fact, El arcana made this powerful spell even deadlier due his keen knowledge about orc neurology and humanoid behavior. He custom designed a specific strand of letter to decode the orcs mind and hit where it hurts. Such strands takes the four elemental particles that control verbatim components in common spell casting (Argen, Citon, Timin and Guanim) and fires each one of then alliteratively, in pairs, in harmonic and ordered way.
(Febblemind spell on him, DC 27 or 28. He has -4 on this save due his arcane spellpower)

[Chimaera]

ROUND 18

@Party: the thrid wave scouts keep moving and recharge their heavy crossbows.

The fourth wave orcs then acts.
Two more brutes manage to dig out of the snow and move away from the snowy area.
The snow close tot he necromancers continue melting and may be completely melted soon.

@Aenghir: the brutes who escape earlier move toward you.
One of them fight his way throught he sand as the other manage to get close enough to swing his hammer at you, but his blow is absorbed by your armor.

@Soalis: one of the brutes move at great speedthrough the small oasis and closer to you. Way too closer for your liking.

You watch the fifth wave try to break free of the snow tomb you throwed at them, and grit your teeth as you see the ones who managed to escape manage to dig one of the soldiers and one of the scouts out of the snow.

Well at least they wont be a problem for now.
The entire horde came to a halt, so at least your avalanche bought you more time.

This takes place on the end of round 17, but I forgot to post earlier :smalltongue:

The few archers alive try to attack the scout clsoe to Soalis, but one of them draws an oportunistic blade at his ribs and couldnt resist it.

Archer on the tower with the orc champion dead due Aoo

The archers shot the scout for some damage.

The scout close to Soalis took 11 damage

The last jalavian melee run back to the rampart and shout to Soalis, "Come inside! We need to bar this gate before the barbarian get in!"

@El Enganador: you cast a power enchantment to assault the summoner before he can pull any more tricks.
He tries to resist it, but get an idiotic look on his face as all content in his head become butterflies.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=82688)

3rd Wave Orcs
4th Wave Orcs
El Enganador, Syco, Fauvin, Aenghir, Soalis
5th Wave Orcs

[DrK]

Aenghir smiled within the snow as brutes, scouts and other orcs began to climb out of the snow around him. Snarling he smashes at the nearest one seeking to crush its thick green skull as he glories in the snow fields that are his home.



Attack [roll0] dam [roll1]
Attack [roll2] dam [roll3]


AC 32 / 37 vs ranged -1 debilitating aura?? What's the range?
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 96 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours
Heroics [Cleave] 30 minutes - ends round 315
Obscuring snow 7 hours (as obscuring mist but snow. 20% miss at 5ft total concealment if further)

Kills 12

[Beschoren]

Syco curses the orcs lack of teamwork and cooperation. If only they would walk arround more closely together! then he could stay more time playing anatomist and less time running after friends to play!


flies to attack the shaman in Y1
Power attack 5
vs shaman [roll0], damage [roll1]+[roll2]

AoO?
Power attack 5
vs shaman [roll3], damage [roll4]+[roll5]

buff lenght:
haste round 19
invisibility round 20
fly: several minutes

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: you take a step closer to the brute who missed you and smash him in the face, killing him outright.
The avalanche did a lot of damage to them apparently.

@Syco: damn orcs! always moving alone! This way they cant let you play with them all together.
You then look at the idiotic summoner, who failed to El Enganador spell and fly on the roof and slash at him, who shouts something incoerent.

@Fauvin: those rays were made of evil energy and your body is filled with sudden coldas your senses fail and you find yourself falling slowly, thanks to your racial heritage. Your wings stiffen as you begin to glide towards the ground slowly.

You fall 20ft from the height you were

@Soalis: not wanting to have the scout aiming at you again, you shot a cold blast at his face and this time he cant dodge it.

He took 17 damage

@Party: The fifth wave then acts.
Far away from the city, the orcs works together and manage to dig up another soldier, blue from the cold.

@Syco: The idiotic shaman try to slam at Syco with his stoneshaped staff, but hit through sheer luck, right between your legs!

You took 15 damage

He almost fall from the roof, but his luck keep him on his feet.

Since he must make Balance cehcks every round he acts he dont get his Dex on AC and is subject to sneak attacks

@Fauvin: your dazed descend is turned way more dangerous as the shaman see your wings stiffening, "YOUR STUPID BIRDBOY! I WANT YOU TO BE ON THE GROUND! NOW!", but apparently his offensive spells are running short, at least those that can affect you.

He then look at the summoner being slashed by the invisible Syco and decide it's time to take care of them. Both of them.

@Syco: you watch as ground shatters and the house you and the summoner are in shatter and a sudden molten lava eruption destroy it, harming you two.

Both Syco and the summoner takes 33 bludgeoning damage and 17 fire damage (no save).
The summoner fall from the house and break his neck.
This kill will be from Friendly Fire

@Party: The champions then move toward the other tower: the right one double move through the city while the other double move to get out of the tower.

ROUND 19

@Party: the last members of the 3rd wave move around and do some shooting.

@Soalis: frostburnt by your winter blast the orc scout run and jump the rampart, as he point down his heavy crossbow at you and have a clear shot. But he miss.

@Fauvin: you watch as a bolt pass close to you and grit your teeth in pain as a second hit your left wing.

You took 12 damage

@Party: the fourth wave then acts!

@Aenghir: three orc brutes surronds you, as two take their chances aggainst your armor, but all fail.

@Soalis: you watch in horror as one of the brutes manage to jump over the rampart, stepping in your safe zone.
He dont seem content with the whole avalanche issue...

Under the heavy snow you hear as both siege weapon break under so much height on it.

The whole avalanche was enough to "kill" both the Corpse Thrower Mangonel and Dread Ballista.
These kills goes to Soalis.

@Soalis and Aenghir: The snow then finnaly finish melting as both necromancers come back from the snow with their bodies burning with unholy flames.

Aenghir and Soalis can make a Spellcraft check DC 18

@Party: you watch as another orc brute break through the snow and move slow, but is unable to get out of the snowy area.

The two remaining archers shot the scout in the rampart, attempting to protect Soalis, but the archer that manage to hit does a minor wound.

The scout takes 2 damage

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=82755)

3rd Wave Orcs
4th Wave Orcs
Soalis, El Enganador, Syco, Fauvin, Aenghir
5th Wave Orcs

*Fauvin is not stunned anymore!

[DrK]

Grinning savegely Aenghir whirls around in a fury bashing and slamming with wild abandon as he sees the nearby necromancers! Truly dangerous foes... Worryingly he sees Syco's position caught up in a great explosion of fire and Fauvin falling from the sky... Things were beginning to get desperate!



Attack [roll0] dam [roll1]
Attack [roll2] dam [roll3]
Cleave Attack [roll4] dam [roll5] (if second attack 5 less on attack roll)


AC 32 / 37 vs ranged -1 debilitating aura?? What's the range?
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 100 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours
Heroics [Cleave] 30 minutes - ends round 315
Obscuring snow 7 hours (as obscuring mist but snow. 20% miss at 5ft total concealment if further)

Kills 13
[/QUOTE]

[raspberrybadger]

Things are getting bad all over, and Soalis can't afford to waste time with the orcs already in the bastion. She'd hoped to save this for later, but it's time to make this bastion into one big wall of thorns. That will teach them to hop into a bastion she controls.

[Beschoren]

Syco gets seriously hurt this time. cursing his bad choise of having protection from electricity, he must take a moment to recover, or else he could die too soon. He takes a healing potion, activates the last use of his amulet of tears, and siletly glides behind the champion at W4.

hide-and-seek time is almost over. he feels the powerfull invisibility spell sliping away from him

Drinks potion of cure serious wounds: [roll0]
activates amulet of tears: 12 temporary hp
moves to w3 at half speed (move silent) [roll1]

AoO?
[roll2], damage [roll3] + [roll4]

buff lenght:
haste round 19
invisibility round 20
fly: several minutes

[Andrezitos]

"Fauvinir! Get down a bit further to me grant you my cloak of nothingness (Greater Invisbility)!" El will move 60ft towards the raptorian and cast greater invisibility on him.

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: you make a powerful whirlwind attack, killing all three of the orc brutes surrounding you.
Normally they would need at least two hits to die fro your shield, but the call avalanche spell did some considerable damage on them.

@Soalis: wanting to make the bastion more secure, you create an arch of wall of thorns, hoping it will be enough to protect the city a little further and remove the threats who got past.

The brute and scout skin are thorn in shreds by the thorns. But they resist.

The brute tooks 10 damage while the scout tooks 13 damage

@El Enganador: you shout to Fauvin, mispelling his name justa little and fly towards him hoping he descends for you to cover him in invisibility.

@Syco: too weak to keep acting reckless, you decide to stalk one of the champions and heal yourself a little bit.
Ready to slash him when he keep moving.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=82808)

Waiting on Fauvin!

[Business Scrub]

Hearing the enchanter shout, Fauvin flies over to him, waits until he is invisible, then takes a shot at the shaman again.

Attack: [roll0]

Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

[Chimaera]

@Fauvin: you fly downwards and closer to the trickster guy. He touch you and cover you in nothingness.
You then look at the shaman and send an arrow straight at his feet making him curse you in orchish, "FELADAPUTA!".

"Sonofabitch!"

@Party: The fifth wave then acts.

@Fauvin and El Enagandor: from your flying position you can see the soldiers dig and rescue another soldier and... Something weird... Apparently two new holes appeared from the snow but nothing came out of it... Unless... Invisibility?

Your wounderings are stopped as the shaman begin casting again.

@Recruits: the last archers were taken by a sudden rain of stones. Boulders in fact.

18 bludgeonig damage plus 18 slashing damage (no save allowed).
Both archers are now dead and that tower took 28 damage

You then watch as a whole section of the wall breaks.

A 20ft lenght of wall is destroyed (it was already damaged by an empowered flamestrike

@Syco: the champions keep on moving toward the left gate, giving you enough time to slash at one's back, who give up on moving away and get back, striking you with unholy might, but you dodge him.

ROUND 19

@Party: Two of the last three scouts double move toward the breached wall, reaching the city.

@Soalis: the scout get out of the wall of thorns, but the thorns are too much and he end up dying before being able to leave it.

Then you watch as the barbarian stuck in the thorn wall tries to move away, but remain stuck as the thorns slash at him dealing some damage.

The brute took 10 damage and is close to death

@Aenghir: the brute keep moving away from the snow and begin get in close range to you, but is still far to reach you (40ft away from you).

You watch as another brute get away from the snow and move closer, but he is still far from you (20ft away).

The necromancers, now free from the snow look at the snow surrounding you and attempt to remove it.
The first one fails, but the second one remove the refreshing snow around you.

They look at you with evil eyes as they begin to laugh with some evil intentions.
"YOU WONT BE HIDING ANYMORE, OUTLANDER! AND SOON YOU'LL BE FIGHTING FOR US! MUAHAHAH!".

Whatever they plan next dont seem like it will be a pleasant walk in the woods...

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=82827)

3rd Wave Orcs
4th Wave Orcs
Fauvin, Soalis, El Enganador, Syco and Aenghir
5th Wave Orcs

[Beschoren]

Syco know he should take a few more healing juice before the invisibility spired... but tehre's an orc just so close to him! looks like syco is gonna be later for dinner because he's to busy with his friends.

His madneed laughter is replaced by a childish giggle as he creates new openings in the orc champion


Fullround!
haste main hand [roll0], damage [roll1] + [roll2]
1º main hand [roll3], damage [roll4] + [roll5]
1º off hand [roll6], damage [roll7] + [roll8]
2º main hand [roll9], damage [roll10] + [roll11]
2º off hand [roll12], damage [roll13] + [roll14]

[DrK]

Aenghir hisses and tuts under his breath as the pair of evil necromancers dismiss his circle of flying snow leaving him standing there atop the three bodies dripping fresh green blood. Seeing the pair of them with beady black eyes looking at him he grins somewhat amusedly. Shouting at the nearest brutes he taunts them "Come join your sisters." Emphasising the insult as he stamps down upon the groin of one of the bodies. Seconds later he is engulfed in a second swirling snowstorm before he moves towards the nearest Orc...


Cast my second Obscuring snow
Move 10ft towards the nearest Orc

AC 32 / 37 vs ranged -1 debilitating aura?? What's the range?
Saves +18/10/18
HP's 102 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
Superior resistance 24 hours
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours
Heroics [Cleave] 30 minutes - ends round 315
Obscuring snow 7 hours (as obscuring mist but snow. 20% miss at 5ft total concealment if further)

Kills 16

[Chimaera]

@Syco: you cant control your self and cut the champion in several pieces while laughing really hard.
So much fun!

@Aenghir: you goad the barbarians and step on a dead one groin just to notice they are indeed women.
The Orc Barbies, the rageful orc barbarians elite.

They look at the snow covering you and roar. It seems it wouldnt even be needed to goad them to atatck you, since that was their plan from the start.

3rd Wave Orcs
4th Wave Orcs
Aenghir, Soalis, El Enganador, Syco, Fauvin
5th Wave Orcs

[Andrezitos]

(Ps. El doesn't need to speak. Fauvin, El, Syco and our shaman are all conected by the Telepathic Bond.)

El touchs the ratorian again and casts see invisibility on him. "Keep an eye on then and warn the others of what you see winged man."

[Business Scrub]

Will do. Stay safe down there.

Fauvin flies forty more feet in the air, and fires at again at the shaman, eager to take him down.

Attack: [roll0]

Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis laughingly taunts the remaining orc in her thornwall and turns her attention to the necromancers. She itches to throw icy winds at them and win a duel of caster against caster. But she'd be hitting only one necromancer, and there are many more orcs to come. Seeing Aenghir protect himself gives her a reason to make the smart choice. She drops down below the wall and applies her wand of cure light wounds again. That arbalest hurt

Prone and behind cover again.

Curing for [roll0]

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: you touch Fauvin and make his eyes shine with a silver aura... at least it should, but since he's invisible now you cant tell for sure.

@Fauvin: as the trickster touch you you can see a whole new world. At the distance you can see there are more orcs than you first saw... Six orcs with ninja outfits digging in the snow, trying to rescue more buried from the avalanche. They're from fifth wave.

You then look at the shaman and shoot the house's door for a warning. How could you miss that bad? You blame the winds.

@Soalis: you laught at the orc trapped in the thorns and lay on the rampart, heling yourself a little bit.

@Party: the orc champion keep on running toward the left gate, but since he got a fullplate armor on it will take him sometime to reach it.

Without any targets in sight the shaman look at the main gate and shouts, "DESTRUCTION!" and create a powerful shattering vibration and destroy the main gate.

Did 49 sonic damage to the main gate, destroying it

@Fauvin: at the distance you watch the orcs pulling up their allies from under the snow: 2 orc champions, 2 orc assassins, two orc scouts and two orc soldiers were rescued, leaving no more 5th wave orcs buried. They shout and get ready to keep on advancing toward the wall.

They'll arrive at Round 23

But it seems the 6th wave and the rest wont be moving.

ROUND 20

@Party: the orc scouts move quickly towards the left gate.

@Aenghir: You watch as three more orc barbies break the ice and crawl away from the snow, leaving no more buried orc from 4th wave as well. The orchish sisters move toward you, one getting close, but not on melee (she's a 5ft step away from you) and another getting on melee, swinging her brute hammer, but missing.

The necromancers clearly annoyed by your second casting of obscuring snow summon several greenish flying skulls that slowly begin eating away your snow and enchantments.

First necromancer manage to remove your Obscuring Snow.

The second one then give you a targeted dispel magic removing both Heroics and Superior Resistance

"DO YOU FEEL NAKED NOW, HIDEOUS HUMAN?".

@Soalis: the orc brute struggle to get away from the thorns but fail, her body being thorn to pieces.

One less brute in the game

The recruit close to you get ready to attack anyone coming your way.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=82981)

3rd Wave Orcs
4th Wave Orcs
Soalis, Fauvin, Aenghir, Syco, El Enganador
5th Wave

[Beschoren]

With the invisibility effect abou to leave him, Syco decides to play safe one more time: he takes another healing postion and flies to P1, hoping to take out the shaman by surprise if he casts a spell


drinks potion of cure moderate wounds [roll0]

AoO?
[roll1], damage [roll2]+[roll3]

last round of invisibility! next round I'm visible!

[Business Scrub]

Now hopefully out of range, Fauvin closes one eye and promises to himself to take this shaman down before he can do any real damage.

Attack: [roll0]

Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack: [roll3]

Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack: [roll6]

Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

[DrK]

Aenghir curses as the snow vanishes once more. Dammed necromancers. Undeterred he looks up at the beast looming over him and proceeds to crush it's skull before beginning the long walk back towards the walled village.



Hit the closest one with a foehammer [roll0] dam [roll1] plus [roll2]

Walk 20ft towards the village, if I drop off the snow I'll stop and use that as cover against the nasty necros.

AC 32 / 37
Saves +12/4/12
HP's 102 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

Kills 16

[Chimaera]

@Soalis: you get ready to disrupt the orc necromancer if he cast anything, the winds slowly rising around you. Cold northern winds.

@Fauvin: you shot three arrows at the shaman, but only one manage to hit him, as the other two land each 1ft away from Syco's feet. You then watch as his mouth begon to turn into a grin and he quickly put a potion on his mouth to stop the laughing surge.

The shaman cries out, "NO MORE FARMVILE TO YOU!".

@Syco: you fly behind the shaman and dput a potion in your mouth to avoid laughing and revealing yourself. This time it would be the raptoran who would get his target taken down. Maybe he can learn that all orcs belongs to you.

@Aenghir: you stomp one of the brutes, killing it and move away from the snow, but not before the remaining orc to swing his hammer at you. And miss.

"YOU CAN TRY AND HIDE FROM ME! BUT YOU'LL SEE THAT THE PRICE FOR YOUR COWARDICE IS THE LIFE'S OF THE OTHERS!", the necromancers shout as you get out of their sight and look toward the bastion, where Soalis and a single recruit remain.

Waiting on El Enganador

[Chimaera]

Cant remember your character's name, can you psot link to sheet on OOC?
@Sonderjye: it was a wild night! You drunk more than everybody else and went to bed with two elven girls.
You wake up sweating, damn this desertic land wasnt it for all the gold and glory here youw ould be far far away on the verdant forests of the Serpentis Kingdoms.Maybe one day when you retire.

You then feel a handful of dust fallin gin your face.
What in the seven heavens is happening?

As you step outside the house you were staying you feel a sudden heat coming from it as the ground it was break and lava pours from itdestroying the house, missing you by a fraction of second.

You then watch as two orcs enter the city through a hole in it.

And to get things worse, you got terrible headache and bad taste in your tongue from all the drinking.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=83091)

3rd Wave Orcs
4th Wave orcs
Soalis, El Enganador, Sonderjye, Fauvin, Aenghir
5th Wave Orcs

[Andrezitos]

El flies upward and casts Invisibility on himself. (I was at R2 if I'm not wrong and after this last round I will be somo 60ft in the sky).

[Sønderjye]

Umgh Cro grunts as he, suprised by the dust rolls out of his bed, hits the floor of his house. His head was hurting like someone was using it as a drum and he felt like the sun was shining too bright. Still lying on the floor he moves one hand to the bedtable and starts searching for some ale. He finds a cup and drinks it. Or rather he tries to do so. You see drinking while you are lying down requires a finer motoric that Cro doesn't possess in his current state. He manages to drink half of it, the rest is spilled all over his face. He sighs and reaches for the second cup on the table but when his finger touches it he redecide. I'll save it for later. His way of getting dressed isn't very elegant but the cloth and armor get's equiped nontheless.

Cro steps outside and inhales the fresh air and enjoys a breeze.This might not be such a bad day after a.. He stops as he hears a loud burning noice from behind. He slowly turns, the heat hitting him in the face. He stands silently looking at the disappearing building until he spots the orcs crawling from the hole.

The sun hits his holy symbol as he draws his weapon and tries to cut the head of one of the orcs with a terrifying elven battlecry MY ALE!!

Swift: Entering punishing stance
Move: Draw weapon
Standard: Initiate Nightmare Strike
Concentration vs AC to make them flatfooted and +1d6, if fail give the following attacked -2 to hit. [roll0]
to hit, using power attack 4 [roll1]
damage [roll2] in addition to [roll3] 1st is pushing stance, 2n3 is bane, 4 is acid dmg from crystal, 5 is in case concentration check beat their ac
If he isn't in range he will ready an action to do the above.

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: knowing the perfect timing for your spell to end, you cover yourself in a lesser version of the invisibility spell, masking your presence and giving you the edge to play your tricks.

@Cro-Magnon: you dont really know what's going on, but what you DO know is taht whoever started this mess will suffer greatly over the spilled ale.

You look at the orcs and, lacking reach, get ready to cut them down.

@Party: the Fifth Wave then acts!
At the distance the now unburied wave march through the snow, but they're still far to reach you.

@Cro-Magnon: from the roof of a near house you hear an orchish voice, "Great! Finnaly someone not invisible! Die horribly, elf!" and his hands get a dark glow as he get ready to shoot dark bolts of evil at you, but then he stop and the energy fades. You watch as his upperhalf slowly slide and fall off as a blood covered maniac elf appear behind him laughing histerically.

@Syco: your waiting was rewarded.
As the shaman begin to cast a spell to get rid of the newcomer, you cut him in half as his magic fails him and watch his body roll off the roof and hit the ground below with a joyful splaaaash! That just made your day.

You then look the last champion running toward the bastion's back door.

ROUND 21

@Syco: the last orc scouts take a look as you reappear bathed in orc blood and decide to take you off.
They move around and shot you for some real pain.

One of them hit you for 20 damage

@Aenghir: three brutes move toward you. One is clsoe enough to swing his hammer at your face, but you block it with your shield almost being pushed back due the impact of the attack.

Lose shield block maneuver or take 17 damage

http://i.imgur.com/d3zeZT1.png

You then watch as one of the brutes rush through the small oasis, in blind rage toward Soalis' Rampart of Nature.

You then hear a crackling voice, "SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR FRIENDS, VIKING! THIS IS FOR YOU BEING A COWARD!".

@Soalis: you watch as the necromancers move forward and begin casting evil magic.
The western one was about to summon a murderous mist at the bastion, but you disrupt him bringing forth an utter cold wind, freezing his bones and sending him a few feets back. He is still alive (in case, undead) but his spell was completely disrupt.

You watch as the wind goes through the battlefield and freeze some enemies, even killing some.

The Boreal Wind did 27 damage.

3rd Wave: none;
4th Wave: killed the brute who was coming your way and dealt some damage to the western necromancer;
5th Wave: 3 Orc Soldiers were targetted (1 resisted the effect, the other 2 died), 3 Orc Scouts were targetted (1 was damaged and the other 2 died), 3 Orc Assassins were target (even though you didnt saw them, but they all suceed on the Fortitude save)

Total: 5 orcs killed.

The second necromancer was about to attack the archers in the tower, but after such display of magic he change his target to cover the whole bastion with black rubbery tentacles that grab your body and try to crush it.

Grapple check DC 37 or be grappled.
If you fail, please read the grapple section PHB to see what you can do while grappled.

No matter how much the recruit near you try, he cant escape the grapple.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=83189)

3rd Wave
4th Wave
Soalis, Aenghir, Fauvin, El Enganador, Cro-Magnon, Syco
5th Wave

[DrK]

Raising is shield he rocks under the block, grateful for the training that allowed him such skill with the great, now blood smeared, disc of metal. Spinning he smashes it against the first orc before ducking under a hammer and stepping up to the next one shield uprised to bash it under the chin. Looking around he cannot see the necromancers above the bank of snow but he can hear their evil cackling.

Looking back to his friends a long 100ft or so feet away he shouts "Comrades... how fares the battle. Where shall I go!"


Attack [roll0] damage [roll1]
5ft step to the other one
Attack [roll2] damage [roll3]


AC 32 / 37
Saves +12/4/12
HP's 102 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike
-- recover [roll4] 1= foehammer, 2= shield block

Spells active
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

Kills 17

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis sees that her strategy is working. The one necromancer is disrupted, and the other wants her dead. There's nothing like the thrill of making an enemy just fail. Speaking of which, those tentacles are going to be a problem in a second. The secret of water she's got running through her provides the answer to that. And the winds provide the answer to whatever the orcs to the west have going this time.

Swift action, lose Heart of Water to gain a Freedom of Movement effect for the next 11 rounds. That means she loses her swim speed and the light fortification she had.

Readying a move action to move the Boreal Wind to center on the western necromancer if he casts. If he doesn't cast, the wind will continue to go in it's current direction.

[Sønderjye]

Ah a fellow elf, perhaps they also destroyed his ale Cro matches the elf laugh at the stupidity of the orcs, they should know better. Maybe it will be a good day after all The massive wood elf thinks as he charges to M3 and throws his weapon at the orc at the nearest orc while screaming You will pay for my ale in blood orc!

Swift Action: Thunderous Throw. Throws count as melee attacks for the rest of the turns
Full-round: Charge using pounce. Full power attack, asigning all of the penalty to AC instead of to hit as per shock trooper.
Attack1 [roll0] n damage [roll1] [roll2] 1st roll is acid dmg.
Attack2 [roll3] n damage [roll4] [roll5] 1st roll is acid dmg.
If the first orc dies at the first attack I will take on the next one. I didn't calculate range penalties or similar into the above to hit because I am a bit unsure of how and how much.

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: with both brutes away from you and away from each other, you choose one of them and bash the life out of her, looking at the surviving one wary of her hammer.

@Soalis: you get as slippery as a fish in the water and escape the balck tentacles, who keep trying to grab and crush you for no effect. You then watch the necromancers, ready to disrupt him again should he cast.

@Cro-Magnon: in a drunken fury you hurl your axe at the arbalest who seemed more injured, killing him with an axe in the head you look at the second one and throw it again and hit his shoulder, opening a blody wound, but he is alive, of only barely.

Since you werent here when I announced it let me tell you here:
Every orc you kill goes for your score in the OOC OP.
When everyone is dead and the story ends the winner will get... well, honor!
There are two counts: the total score and the wave score.

If you are the winner of a certain wave you get an inerent bonus to one ability score.

You also only gain XP after all orcs of a certain wave are killed.

So far you got 1 kill (from 3rd wave)

In the map:
Fire means third wave;
Acid means fourth wave;
Necro means fifth wave;

UPDATED MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=83369)

3rd Wave
4th Wave
Soalis, Cro-Maginon, Aenghir, El Enganador, Syco, Fauvin
5th Wave

Since Business and Beschoren are kinda busy with some things RL, I'll post for them if they dont post till tonight

[Sønderjye]

What happens if I die?
Do you keep track of the kills or do we?
Are we expecting to die or do we have a slim chance of survival?

[Andrezitos]

El will flies to where Fauvin is and he will cast Heroics on him granting the Woodland Archer (http://dndtools.eu/feats/races-of-the-wild--84/woodland-archer--3165/) tactical feat (fighter bonus feat), in case he hasn't it. Otherwise, he will prepare to dispel the next spell that one of necromancer cast. (Now I kinda of lost about the whereabouts of my char, so from now on he will stay besides Fauvin)

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: you touch the raptoran and give with a mere touch the trainning that elves takes year decades to master.

@Fauvin: with the new power granted by the mesmerizer upon you you cant shake the feeling maybe it's just a trick to make you feel stronger, but be it illusory or real, you decide to take on it as you aim for the necromancer far away from the battlefield, shooting thrice at him.

The first arrow hit him in the skull, which would kill a living being, but this one is clearly an undead.
The second arrow hit right the first arrow, piercing it and his head.
The third arrow pierce the second, the first and his skull, finnaly piercing thorugh and ening in the snow behind as the necromancer can take no more punishment and die, his flaming body slowly melting the snow and make him sink in it.

@Syco: you watch as the last orc scout shot at you and smiles.
This will be your round.

You fly charge him, cutting him in half as you laughter and shoutt o Fauvin: "I won this round! Can you hear me bird boy? BWAHAHAHHAHAHHA".

The last 5th wave orc that had come with the shamanic ones, give up on fgetting on the bastion's gate and, watching the laughting elf he moves forward at you with a menacing glance as he to you and then to himself, "YOU AND ME! NOW!"

It's known you lvoe orcs, but you have never been asked for a date by one of them.

@Party: the remaining fifth wave is getting closer and will be here soon.

ROUND 22

@Party: With the whole 3rd wave dead you all take a deep breath and feel inspired to keep fighting.


The surviving recruit got 7135 experience, leveling up twice!
You got yourselves now a 4th level fighter recruit :smallsmile:
(His sheet will be updated tomorrow or so)

Syco: 2983 EXP
Fauvin, Aenghir, Cro-Magnon, Soalis, El Enganador: 1983 EXP


You then hear a grunt, as the black tentacles constrict and try to break the last recruit neck, but he survive it.
If no one saves him, your last recruit may be dead soon.

@Soalis: you watch as the necromancer move away from your boreal wind and begin chanting a spell to summon a murderous haze around you and decide to move your powerful wind blast at him, freezing him over as he turn into a undead orc statue, his flaming aura being quenched by your wind spell. Sadly the wind's direction change dont get any from the next wave on it as they move away from it.

@Aenghir: the brutes come for you, trying to avenge their friends, if there is such a thing an orc can call a friend.
Both attack you, but your armor remain proving true and block the blows, but then you see someone coming out of the small oasis, sword in hand.

@Motto: you was been trained by the best swordsman in the whole kingdom. You were stubborn and did all the crazy stuff he asked you to do.

Some would say he didnt like you or was trying to get rid of you, but you almost maanged to accomplish every ridiculous task he demanded you (be it to take a gold coin for a known man-eater dragon without using your sword or harming the creature, fighting twelve of his disciples using a blindfold or meditating and fasting while under a far far away oasis).

But the fact you managed to travel this far from the war front and stay underwater for almost a week made you reflect that in fact, Master Spada of the White Sands was in fact affraid your skill would someday bypass him and you would reach greater fame than his own, so he sent you away from the path to fame: the greatest jalavian battles so far. But for his surprise, as you finnaly reach the surface to catch air, you see a horde of orcs coming through Verdant Valley's Pass.

Weak and hungry you catch up your orkatana and smile as destiny proves even more stubborn than you and your master. You'll meet glory and fame and your name will be forever added to the Jalavian History.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=83736)

4th Wave Orcs
Fauvin, El Enganador, Syco, Aenghir, Soalis, Motto, Cro-Magnon
5th Wave Orcs

5th wave orcs will reach at Round 23.

[DrK]

Surprised by the other two sword wielding heroes to appear Aenghir is happy. Even happier as he is ambushed by a pair of brutes who he is happy to assail with mighty blows of his shield.


Attack [roll0] dam [roll1]
5ft step to the other one
Attack [roll2] dam [roll3]


AC 32 / 37
Saves +12/4/12
HP's 102 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours

Kills 18
XP 2540

[Sønderjye]

With his initial anger somewhat dulled Cro-Magnon look around, trying to comprehend what is going on. When he sees Syco cut the orc it is decided. One of Corellon Larethian's primary goals is to protect elves in all appearences. He charges forward to A2 and try to finish the last necromancer.

Swift: count as melee attacks
Full power attack, all penalty to AC

Attack1 [roll0]
Dmg: [roll1] and [roll2] . 1st is punishing stance, 2n3 is magebane and 4 is acid.

Attack2 [roll3]
Dmg: [roll4] and [roll5] . 1st is punishing stance, 2n3 is magebane and 4 is acid.

[Chimaera]

@Aenghir: you watch as the brutes take steps close to you and smile. Their rage and chaotic tactics are going to be their doom.

You step close to them and give them the best of your shield, killing them both and putting an end to the 4th wave for good.

@Party: with yet another wave falling your heart once more fills with hope. Maybe you can turn the tide and protect this place.

Soalis is the indisputable winner of the 4th Round with 13 kills!
Soalis: 2844 XP;
Aenghir, Fauvin, El Enganador, Syco, Motto, Cro-Magnon: 1844 XP;
Surviving Recruit: 5900 XP!

The recruit once again level up reaching 5th level (almost 6th level)


@Cro-Magnon: you rush toward the orc champion (champion, not necromancer :smalltongue:) and throw axes at him till his body falls to the ground.

You then look at your fellow elf and was about to let a "No need to say thanks, man", but then watch as the elf look through your eyes and into your very soul, hatred almost materializing. What's the chances this is Syco, the psycopath orc killer?

@Syco: you was ready to charge and enjoy your date when the newcomer get your prey, killing it.
What's wrong with him and birdboy?

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=83823)

@Party: with no more enemies on map, what will you do?
The fifth wave reach at the end of the map at round 23 giving you one round of preparation (Cro-Magnon and Aenghir) or two round preparation (Syco, Fauvin, Soalis, El Enganador, Motto).

Those who plan to ranged attack them be aware of the -4 and -2 penal to attack for Round 22 and 23.

2x Soalis, 2x El Enganador, 2x Fauvin, 2x Motto, 2x Syco, 1x Aenghir, 1x Cro-Magnon;
5th Wave

[Andrezitos]

1st round
El will use a healing potion on himself (don't remenber what type I have o/)

2nd
He will cast haste. To be affected one must stay inside a circle of radius 15ft centered on El. Move your asses and lets get this right this time.

[Beschoren]

Syco gives a wicked smile to Cro-Magnon, while pluking out the arrow from between his ribs. Cursed kill stealers, Syco still wants many orcs to murder and this guys are cutting off his fun by half!

Still, a moment of respite from all this play would be wellcome

He drinks a potion of lesser vigor and then a potion of shield of faith

[DrK]

Aenghir looks about seeing himself so far out in front of the others. Raising his shield to the nearby armed man he turns and races back towards the fortification. Massive spiked boots not bothered by the snow, desert sand or the rubble of the gate as he scales the pile and hops over. Reaching the Fortification he skids over the border. A massive circle of spinning metal blades springing into existence around him in a spinning crescendo of death.



Round 1: Full run to the gate
Round 2: Move 20ft over the rubble and cast Ring of Blades! (and take total cover relative to next wave)
-- Hopefully join in the Haste party :smallsmile:

AC 32 / 37 vs ranged, maybe +1 haste
Saves +12/4/12
HP's 102 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours
Ring of Blades - round 103
Haste - round 33

Kills 20
XP 4384

[Dudu]

Motto has nothing to ready. Except the maneuvers.

If the DM permits, I'll keep the mechanic of crusader maneuvers we used in previous campaigns. To sort the maneuvers orders at the beginning of the day.

His Swordsage maneuvers don't need any order. They are:

( ) Burning Blade 1d6+7
( ) Saphire Nightmare Blade 1d6
( ) Sudden Leap
( ) Rabid Wolf Strike +4tk +2d6dmg -4AC


His Crusader will be.

1 Revitalizing Strike 3d6+8
2 Iron Heart Surge
3 Mountain Hammer +2d6
4 Cloak of Deception
5 White Raven Tactics
6 Steel Wind
7 Battle Leader's Charge

( ) Mountain Hammer +2d6
( ) [roll1] Cloak of Deception
( ) [roll2] Battle Leader's Charge
( ) [roll3] Iron Heart Surge
( ) [roll4] White Raven Tactics
-( ) [roll5] Steel Wind
-( ) Revitalizing Strike 3d6+8

His stance is Island of Blades, so both him and Anghir will flank their enemies.
And if that counts as "preparation", he'll move to his side.

edit: So Aenghir did the smart thing and ran towards the remaining group. In that case Motto will run towards the remaining group, as well as the casting of Haste. His stance is Absolute Steel at first, so he base movement is 50ft.
In the mid of running, he jumps the Rubble.

Jump Check: [roll]1d20+31

Then he changes his stance to Island of Blades.

[Sønderjye]

If El calls on Cro he will move to whereever asked to go. Will switch stance to leading the charge.

[Business Scrub]

With an angry determination, Favuin accepts the archery prowess from El Engor, sets out a rain of arrows upon the orcs below.

Attack: [roll0]

Damage: [roll1] + [roll2]

Attack: [roll3]

Damage: [roll4] + [roll5]

Attack: [roll6]

Damage: [roll7] + [roll8]

If I miss, add +4 to the following shot attack rolls.

Attack: [roll9]

Damage: [roll10] + [roll11]

Attack: [roll12]

Damage: [roll13] + [roll14]

Attack: [roll15]

Damage: [roll16] + [roll17]

If I miss, add +4 to the following shot attack rolls.

Attack: [roll18]

Damage: [roll19] + [roll20]

Attack: [roll21]

Damage: [roll22] + [roll23]

Attack: [roll24]

Damage: [roll25] + [roll26]

If I miss, add +4 to the following shot attack rolls.

Attack: [roll27]

Damage: [roll28] + [roll29]

Attack: [roll30]

Damage: [roll31] + [roll32]

Attack: [roll33]

Damage: [roll34] + [roll35]

If I miss, add +4 to the following shot attack rolls.

[Chimaera]

@El Enganador: you heal yourself and then land on ground, shouting at everyone to get close before you cast a new spell.

@Syco: you drink two potions in a row, getting close for the whole Haste spell.

@Aenghir: you rush as quick as you can, getting through the shattered main gate and is once again back at the city.

@Motto: you rush inside the city, jumping over the rubble that was used to bar the gate, who is now destroyed by who knows what happened here.

@Cro-Magnon: you watch as the trickster land close to you, ready to cast his spell.
You just wait as the wave is coming closer and closer.

@Fauvin: you quickly shoot six arrows, aiming always to the invisible stalkers, since you're the only one capable of hitting them. You shot for the weak ones, killing four of them with four arrows.

You then take your time aimming and shoot an arrow at a ninja at his throat, almost killing him.
So to make sure, you shot another at his belly. Killing it.

Killed 5 Orc Assassins

After that you drop to the ground level.

@El Enganador: once all that would come closer get near you you make the time pass slower for them, making their movements faster and more fluid.

Syco, Aenghir, Cro-Magnon, El Enganador, Fauvin and Motto are hasted

@Soalis: you watch as all enemies are close to the city walls are dead and think what to do, as your hear another grunt of pain, as the last recruit body is cosntricted by the black rubbery tentacles.

He's at 26 out of 60 HP.
His chances toe scape the grapple are pretty slim and will probably need help

So, what to do?

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=83913)

Waiting on Soalis.

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis feels bad for the poor recruit, but she doesn't have a way of stopping the tentacles. She'd like to heal herself, but this guy was trying to help. So she directs the wind back at the orcs and slips through the tentacles to help the guy with a healing potion.

The boreal wind should go back where it was at first, or if Soalis can see the next wave well enough to aim it better, wherever it needs to be to hit a bunch of orcs. She's using a cure moderate potion, presumably next round.

[Chimaera]

@Soalis: you let the boreal wind swipe on the western side of the wave and rush to help the recruit, giving him some healing.

Affected:
1 Orc Soldier: he saved and took no damage/effect;
1 Orc Scout: he took the damage and was killed by it;

ROUND 23

@Party: you then watch as the remaining orcs from the fifth wave reach the end of the map:
6 Orc soliders, 5 Orc Scouts, 3 Orc Assassin (which only Fauvin see) and 2 Orc Champions.

The orc champions grip their swords and shout "GEOOOOOOOORGE!" and their shield begin to shine with a reddish glow.

"CHAAAAAAAAAAARGE!"

That's when you feel an uneasy aura at you, a menacing presence endangering your very lives.

Everyone get -1 AC as long as there are Orc Champions on the map.
Unlimited range.

The scouts shot at the ones closest to the shattered gate.

@Aenghir: the one scout shot a bolt straight at you, and you feel a painful bite as his precision proves true bypassing all your defenses.

Natural 20, but didnt confirmed critical.
You took 10 damage

@Motto: one scout try his luck at you, hitting between your ribs for some damage.

You took 16 damage

@Party: the other orcs just move faster through the snowy path.

And then you hear the sound of bones being broken, as the tentacles dont let go of the recruit.
He's at 38 otut of 60 hp

ROUND 24

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=83947)

Soalis, Aenghir, Fauvin, El Enganador, Motto, Cro-Magnon, Syco
5th Wave Orcs

[raspberrybadger]

Perhaps this guy can last out the duration of the tentacles before dying? Or get lucky and escape? Soalis hopes so, because there are still orcs out there. She goes back to the southeastern corner of the bastion and continues her work with the icy winds.

That's round 4/7 of the boreal wind.

Going back to J12 and aiming the boreal wind diagonally now to hit the guys at C 35, E 35, D 36, H 36, J 36, K41, and anyone stupid enough to walk into it.

cold damage [roll0], still fort save DC 23 or be knocked back too. Also, sand kicked up should provide some cover against missile fire.

Listen check to spot squares of the invisible guys, [roll1]. They aren't yet in detect magic range, so Soalis hasn't yet pinpointed them that way. I tried to plan the boreal wind without taking them into consideration. Or are we considered to be noticing footprints in the sand or something so we know where they are?

[DrK]

Aenghir ducks down behind the rubble as spinning blades of ice begin to surround him, his body energised with energy as he readies to sally forth once more. The tiny wound nothing to bother him.


Taking total cover from wave 5 apart from left flank ones where its 9/10ths cover
Cast ring of blades

AC 32 / 37 vs ranged, +1 haste, -1 aura
Saves +12/4/12
HP's 92 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours
Ring of Blades - round 103
Haste - round 33

Kills 20
XP 4384

[Dudu]

HP: 106/112
Speed: 40ft
AC: 26 Touch: 21 Flat: 24
Save: Fort: 9 Ref: 6 Will: 10
Melee Rod attack: +17/+17/+12 (+19/+19/+14 vs Orcs)
Damage: 2d6+10 (4d6+10 vs Orcs)

Delayed Damage: 10
Furious Counterstrike: +2

Stance: Martial Stance
Spells in effect: Haste I


He looks at the bolt, boldly placed at his ribs.

"Oh, you've got to be KIDDING me!

A scratch. Motto decides to move behind the pilar and take total defense. Raged battle will do him no good.

He also changes his stance to Martial Stance.



Swordsage:
( ) Burning Blade 1d6+7
( ) Saphire Nightmare Blade 1d6
( ) Sudden Leap
( ) Rabid Wolf Strike +4tk +2d6dmg -4AC

Crusader:
( ) Mountain Hammer +2d6
( ) Cloak of Deception
( ) Battle Leader's Charge
( ) Iron Heart Surge
( ) White Raven Tactics
-( ) Steel Wind
-( ) Revitalizing Strike 3d6+8

[Sønderjye]

Cro picks his nose while waiting for the orcs to come closer. He gives the reqruite a distasteful look: ​Weak human

[Beschoren]

Syco carries on his drinking sphree, by ingesting a potion of blurr. He moves to A6 and attempsts to hide from the orcs - suprise attacks are so cool!

hide [roll0]

[Chimaera]

@Soalis: you make your gelid spell blow at the orcs, blowing two soliders and two scouts away, killing a soldier and leaving the rest damaged. The orc champions though take the wind and dont even flinch, as they manage to ignore all of it.

The distance cause some increased DC and they're ninjas! You couldnt listen them and cant target them, but with such a big area spell you may end up hitting some with it and, since both you and Fauvin are conected with Telepathic Bond and he can See Invisibility he may give you rough coordinates to hit them: "There are one hiding behind the palm tree!", for example

@Aenghir: you surround yourself with a wall of blades and wait.

The rubble isnt tall enough to grant cover, only to hinder movement :smallwink:

@Motto: not wanting to be filled with orc arrows, you hide behind the wall.

@Syco: you mimic the other newcomer, hiding from the arrows and waiting for any unaware orc to come through the gate. That would make your day even better.

@Cro-Magnon: you despise the weak human, helpless being slowly crushed to death.
You then watch the other city's protector and see how they hide behind the wall like cowards, even Syco, a fellow elf and famous orc slayer known by his brutality. Fear seems to be a trigger to break even the strongest hero, but not you.

You just cross your arms and wait for the orcs to come, not interested in hiding.

@El Enganador: you watch the orcs coming and decide to wait and see what's going to happen.
Invisible as you are, you dont bother hiding.

@Fauvin: not wanting to be caught on ground, you soar back to the sky invisible.

@Recruit: he tries to break free from the tentacles' grip, but it keep holding him and break yet another bone.

Recruit took 9 damage

@Party: the fifth wave march forward.
The soldiers rush forward through the snow and sand.

The champions keep moving with their full plate armors.

Unseen by all but Fauvin, the orc assassins swift and silently move through the desertic terrain, some hiding close to palmtrees.

The scouts move forward unhindered by the terrain.
Three of them try their luck at Soalis.

@Soalis: you watch as one scout shot at the palm tree between you and then and two amange to get through palm tree and bastion altogether.

You took 25 damage

NEW MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=84188)
(since the other wasnt working)

Fauvin, Soalis, El Enganador, Syco, Aenghir, Motto, Cro-Magnon
5th Wave Orcs

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis does not like these repeated shots at her, and she doesn't like the assassins closing. She sends to the others in the telepathic bond I will need to switch to the invisible one closing on me soon, as it is likely to be able to dodge my short range blasts. Could someone deal with the others?

She then cures herself yet again.

Cure light wounds [roll0]

Round 5/7 of the boreal wind.

[roll1], still fort save DC 23

Should be angled to hit the assassin u 20 and the 5 guys 27 and 28 P to V.

The champions will walk into it if they walk forward much at all.

There's some scouts south of it that might walk through it as well. If he doesn't he's got to shoot through it if he wants to shoot, taking the -4 wind and possibly a sand penalty as well.

[Sønderjye]

Jackpot Cro thinks. He pulls out a big fat nose pick and looks at it with a questioning look before his lips make it disappear. Mhh, ale He mumbles.

He looks through the opening at the incoming orcs before selecting a target. You He says as he moves to F1 so that he has a clear shot for when the right orc champion comes within range

[Chimaera]

@Cro-Magnon: Hmmmm, tastes like chicken.
The sand is difficult terrain, can Cro be able to cross that much distance in dificult terrain?

@Soalis: you aim the winds at the more crowded orcs to great effect.

3 soldiers were hit: one saved, the other failed and was pushed and damaged and the last failed and was killed.

2 scouts were hit: both failed, with one of them dying and the other being pushed away and damaged.

1 assassin was hit: he was damaged and pushed, even though you cant see him

I forgot to add [invisible] to their tokens in the map, but all assassins are invisible.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=84247)



Soalis, Cro-Magnon, Fauvin, Syco, Aenghir, Motto, El Enganador

[DrK]

Aenghir waits, pulse racing with the haste infusing him. Soon... He thinks watching the orc champions. Almost in reach! Casting more divine power into himself he summons Aenghists blessing upon himself.



Cast divine favour... Wait till champions come within 100ft

AC 32 / 37 vs ranged, +1 haste, -1 aura
Saves +12/4/12
HP's 92 / 102
Turn undead 14/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours
Ring of Blades - round 103
Haste - round 33
Driven favour (+2) - round 34

Kills 20
XP 4384

[Andrezitos]

El will fly to yz tower and await for the moment.

[Dudu]

HP: 96/112
Speed: 40ft
AC: 26 Touch: 21 Flat: 24
Save: Fort: 9 Ref: 6 Will: 10
Melee Rod attack: +17/+17/+12 (+19/+19/+14 vs Orcs)
Damage: 2d6+10 (4d6+10 vs Orcs)

Delayed Damage:
Furious Counterstrike:

Stance: Martial Spirit
Spells in effect: Haste III


Motto takes his time to review his maneuvers and change one of them to Shadow Jaunt (fullround), in case he gets grappled, stuck, or something alike.

Emptying his mind, only now he notices Cro-Magnon is right in front.
"Can... can someone explain me what he is doing?"

He was hoping they could hold the orcs in the ruble, where he would have an advantage (Step of the Wind stance)


Swordsage:
( ) Burning Blade 1d6+7
( ) Shadow Jaunt
( ) Sudden Leap
( ) Rabid Wolf Strike +4tk +2d6dmg -4AC

Crusader:
( ) Mountain Hammer +2d6
( ) Cloak of Deception
( ) Battle Leader's Charge
( ) Iron Heart Surge
( ) White Raven Tactics
( ) Steel Wind
-( ) Revitalizing Strike 3d6+8

[Chimaera]

@Syco: you remain hiding and plannin ghow better to slaughter them. Bwahaha.

@Fauvin: you decide to snipe the invisible stalkers.
3 arrows, 3 assassins: sadly the boreal wind get in between the last target (even though he was pretty far from the boreal wind, but better blame the wind than your archery skill, right? :smallwink:)

2 assassin dead.

@El Enganador: by now you decide to get into a tower, choosing the burnt one.
There you find a happy wood spirit content in looting the dead archer recruits.

@Aenghir calling on Aenghist's Favor, you wait for the orcs to come.

@Motto: blaming the orcs for being too slow, you refocus and wait.

@Party: then the orcs take action. The last assassin rush and close in the wall, drinking a potion as he finish his movement.

The soldiers keep marching forward, with wind or without wind.

@Soalis: you watch as the orc champion march unscatched through your dead cold winds.
The other scouts follow and manage to sprint over the desert decided to short drastically the distance between them and the wall.

One is a daredevil and run through the wind frostburning his skin as he get close enough to try a shot at you... But stop as the cold finnaly take his toll on him and he stay frozen in place like a green popsicle.

ROUND 24

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=84411)

Soalis, El Enganador, Syco, Aenghir, Cro-Magnon, Motto, Fauvin
5th Wave Orcs

[Sønderjye]

Cro steps slightly to the right(to B1) to have a clear shot of the champions when they get closer.
Just a little closer He says more so to himself than anyone else before licking his lips.

[DrK]

Aenghir grins to himself, blades spinning and rotating with dreadful crunching noises as he watched the enemy creep closer. As the nearest champion closed he burst into action, massive runic boots stomping through rubble, snow and sand alike as he raced at the champion, a massive smiting blow to crush the foul orc!



Charge 75ft champion, smite [roll0] dam [roll1]
Spinning blades [roll2]
-- if hit by 4 or less use shield block to negate hit


AC 32 / 37 vs ranged, +1 haste, -1 aura
Saves +12/4/12
HP's 94 / 102
Turn undead 13/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours
Ring of Blades - round 103
Haste - round 33
Driven favour (+2) - round 34

Kills 20
XP 4384

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis sends Aenghir, you aren't by chance immune to cold? If you aren't, I suppose the orcs in the middle are all yours.

[DrK]

Soalis sends Aenghir, you aren't by chance immune to cold? If you aren't, I suppose the orcs in the middle are all yours.

Aenghir sends his thoughts back, a tinge of concern about what the spellslinger is planning. I feel the cold. My blood still runs hot...

Has 0 cold resistance

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis smiles and sends Then I should make sure to keep it that way.

Unless the next wave is visible and can be hit by directing the boreal wind straight south, the best Soalis can do is to direct the boreal wind at the trio of scouts out front, after Aenghir has passed.

[roll0] cold damage.

Also, she's curing herself again.

[roll1]

[Chimaera]

@Cro-Magnon: you wander around. Closer... Just a little closer...

@Aenghir: you and Soalis communicate and after coming to an agreement you charge the champion smiting his face and smile as you see the orc die instantly.

Then you hear a whooooosh-ing sound just behind you as the spellcaster redirect the cold winds.

@Soalis: you send your wind to wipe out the scouts.
Two of them are wiped away and die a gelid death.

The ast of the trio manage to stay alive, but is dragged a few feets away, as he roll in the sand.

@Motto, Syco, Fauvin and El Enganador: you stay in place, watching as the others fight, too distant and distracted to do anything on your own...

Strike One!

@Party: the orcs then act.
The orc soldiers close in.

@Fauvin: you watch as the last assassin jump over the 20ft tall wall and run along it, drawing a handful of shurikens.

@Aenghir: the surviving champion charge you, "DIE JALAVIAN DOG!".
You dont even get time to rise your shield, as he smack you in the face.

You took 29 damage and must make a Strenght check DC 20 or fall prone.

@Syco: the last scout move closer to the gate and get a glimpse of you.
With a roar he send a bolt straight at your shoulder, for some major pain.

You took 29 damage

ROUND 25

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=84765)

Soalis, Syco, Fauvin, Aenghir, Motto, Cro-Magnon, El Enganador
5th Wave Orcs

[raspberrybadger]

Soalis sends the winds back south again, and cures herself yet again.

Cold damage [roll0]

On the map it only hits one soldier, but perhaps there are targets from the next wave that she can hit - preferably casters if she can see them already.

Cure [roll1]

[DrK]

Aenghir grunts from the heavy blow that managed to penetrate even his prodigious defences! Grunting he snarls a curse "I will tear you limb from limb you pathetic green skinned weakling..." Aenghir puts words to actions as the spinning blades chop and tear at the orcs smashing both the orc champion and the orc soldier into tiny pieces of broken bone.



5ft Step to G17.

Attack Soldier [roll0] damage [roll1]
Attack Champion [roll2] damage [roll3]
Attack anyone standing [roll4] damage [roll5]

Then --
Spining blades to all adjacent [roll6]

EDIT: If anyone hits but gets 33-36 then Shield block to negate the blow

AC 32 / 37 vs ranged, +1 haste, -1 aura
Saves +12/4/12
HP's 69 / 102
Turn undead 13/15

Stance: martial spirit stance
Moves: Bonecrusher, crusader strike, shield block, Foehammer, revitalising strike

Spells active
G.Magic Vestment 20 hours
G.Magic weapon 20 hours
G.Magic wallop 20 hours
Ring of Blades - round 103
Haste - round 33
Driven favour (+2) - round 34

Kills 21
XP 4384

[Beschoren]

Syco erupts in frustation as his little scheme gets countered by some dumb orc. The elf just got pissed!

he flies to the scout, screaming and trying to chop off his penis on the attack


move and attack VS N10
vs scout [roll0][roll1]+[roll2]

[Andrezitos]

For now El will stain in the bush, waiting for the best opportunity to wreak havoc in the orc army. (Fight my minions)

[Chimaera]

@Soalis: you aim the winds at the orc soldier, but he hold himself and resist the powerful winds.

The whole orc legion came to a pause away from range from your spells and attacks.
It seems they are pausing the attack for the moment... Or planning something bad. Probably both.

@Aenghir: you get yourselve surrounded by both soldier and chapion, smashing each once as you watch the whirling blades around you chop them into tiny green meat pieces.

@Syco: that damn orc! He frustated you and even draw your blood.
But he'll pay... Oh yes, he'll surely pay... With his penis!

You charge him aiming low and get a little less frustated as you see him piss blood as he grab his little frienddown there and die in the sands.

Are you still invisible?

@El Enganador: you keep hiding in the tower.
You're better having them fight the orcs than trying to be all hero-ing.

MAP (http://pyromancers.com/media/view/main.swf?round_id=84795)

Soalis, Syco, Aenghir, El Enganador, Fauvin, Cro-Magnon, Motto
5th Wave Orcs

[Sønderjye]

Aw isn't he cute, playing with his toy Cro thinks as Syco cuts the littleman of the orc.

He is annoyed that the fight is taking so long to come to him and decides to go to the fight. Double move to D10

Edit: Blastedhe says as his feet sink into the sand. He had been hoping to be able to charge after passing the destroyed wall.

The first 4 squares are normal terrain and the next ones are difficult right? So spending all my turn moving toward the orc army would bring me to F9 right?

[Dudu]

HP: 96/112
Speed: 40ft
AC: 27 Touch: 22 Flat: 25
Save: Fort: 9 Ref: 6 Will: 10
Melee Rod attack: +17/+17/+12 (+19/+19/+14 vs Orcs)
Damage: 2d6+10 (4d6+10 vs Orcs)

Delayed Damage:
Furious Counterstrike:

Stance: Step of the Wind
Spells in effect: Haste IIIII


Motto changes his stance to Step of the Wind, moves to F12 and goes Fulldefense.


Swordsage:
( ) Burning Blade 1d6+7
( ) Shadow Jaunt
( ) Sudden Leap
( ) Rabid Wolf Strike +4tk +2d6dmg -4AC

Crusader:
( ) Mountain Hammer +2d6
( ) Cloak of Deception
( ) Battle Leader's Charge
( ) Iron Heart Surge
( ) White Raven Tactics
( ) Steel Wind
-( ) Revitalizing Strike 3d6+8