Party v. Party Arena, Round 1, Match 1

[Duke of URL]

Team Goody-Goody vs. Team Evil

Arena Size: 58 x 61 (squares) [290' x 305']
Lighting Conditions: Daylight

Map (http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u119/kevkrom/map1.jpg)

Starting Positions:

Maynard: 3, 1
Fenris: 3, 2
Emil: 2, 1
Stormhoof: 2,2
Tom: 58, 61
Larry: 57,61
Bob: 56, 59
Jack: 57,60


All grid coordinates are given width first, then height. The top-left square is position 1,1 and the bottom-right is position 58,61. Blue squares indicate starting position for Team Goody-Goody, green for Team Evil, black are obstacles (assume made of stone).

All players, please roll initiative.

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Posting Conventions

Please start each post with the character's name, in bold, followed by a description of the character's actions (if applicable) and include any specific mechanics in a spoiler block, e.g:


Frodo

The halfling moves to a position where he can snipe at Nazgul with his sling.


Move action: Move 20' to 42, 42
Standard action: Sling 1d20+8, 1d3

[Armads]

Initiative
[roll0]

[Zyks]

Luke Fenris
initiative-[roll0]

[faithfreebible]

initiative for stormhoof:

[roll0]

[Duke of URL]

Just a reminder... include character names with all posts or DM-inspired untyped damage in ever-increasing quantities will start raining down.

[Lazlow]

Initiative for Brother Maynard:
[roll0]

[Lazlow]

Initiative for Brother Maynard:
[roll0]

:smallconfused:

Let's try that again:

[roll0]

Edit: Dangit, that should be +2, for 21 total.

[Manir]

Bob Initiative
[roll0]

[Lazlow]

Brother Emil

Initiative: [roll0]

Note: Hank has no computer access on the weekends, so I'll NPC him for now to get the ball rolling.

[Armads]

Jack


Initiative:[roll0]

I'm NPCing him because he can't post on weekends too

[Ragna]

LARRY

Gah, doublepost because of roll screwup

[Ragna]

Larry

[roll0]

[Duke of URL]

Okay... action begins. Initiative order is (and will remain as such unless delay actions, etc., change it):


Jack (24)
Brother Maynard (21, +2 modifier)
Brother Emil (21, +1 modifier)
Luke Fenris (19)
Larry (18)
Tom (16)
Stormhoof (14)
Bob (11)

[Hank Pym]

Brother Emil

Holy cow, I got a 21 initiative!

Members of the Good-Goodies are free to look at this spoiler, but not you evil-doers! :smallyuk:


Duke, you say that we can assume we've cast all buff spells with durations of longer than 10 minutes/level?

If so, Brother Emil will cast Scroll of Magic Stone (on my sling bullets).

I'm not used to 3.5 (we still use 3.0 at home), so I didn't notice that all the Bull's Strength type spells are now only one minute/level :smalleek: . I had expected to cast all those, but if I cannot then I guess I won't. (also, could I swap those scrolls out after this fight for something else? It was my mistake, so I'll understand if not -- dang 3.5! :smallannoyed: )

In the first round of actual combat, Brother Emil will throw Shield of Faith, Mass (+3 to everyone's AC's) on the party; and move to keep up (as well as he can with a 20' move) if the rest of the party moves (otherwise he'll stay where he is).

He'll also say, "If we can stick close together for another moment, I can request AID from Ilmater for all of us."

[Zyks]

Well when its my turn I move to 9,2

(Originally at 3,2 30ft movement, each square is 5 ft right?)

[Duke of URL]

Each square is 5', yes. If the only thing you're doing is moving, you may take two move actions. (I.e., a second move action as your standard action.)

[Zyks]

oh of course, in that case, to 15,2

[faithfreebible]

Stormhoof


(on my initiative)
The Centaur announces (in elvish) that he will make a quick scouting check.
move action to 2,12. continue to 2,17 if no LOS established.
if at any point LoS IS established, rather than attacking, he will remain silent and head back up toward the rest of the goody goodies. (can do this mid-move, base speed is 50, taking the full movement for the first and only half for the second to enable at least partial return.)
move silently: [roll0]

[Zyks]

is it too late to cancel my decision? Having second thoughts and since round isn' resolved yet would that be ok?

[Armads]

Tom

All of Team Evil delays to act on Initiative 11.

Duke: How high are the obstacles? Is the ceiling infinitely high (and the obstacles infinitely high?)


Tom swiftly unstoppers a little blue jar and quaffs it's contents. Black wings spread out of his body and he lifts off the ground, hovering high in the air


Drink potion of fly, fly 20ft up (using up all 40ft of my fly speed)

[Manir]

Bob

Bob mutters a few eldritch words under his breath and pauses suddenly, glancing around.

Readies an action to cast Solid Fog once an enemy enters within range (180 ft.)
Mount readies and action to retreat to 49,49 if an enemy gets within 10 ft., avoiding other enemies.

[Duke of URL]

Duke: How high are the obstacles? Is the ceiling infinitely high (and the obstacles infinitely high?)


The ceiling is 20' (sorry, I thought I had mentioned that, my bad). The obstacles are floor-to-ceiling, and are, for all purposes that matter, made of stone.

[Duke of URL]

Round 1

Brother Emil casts shield of faith, mass, granting all members of Team Goody-Goody a +3 deflection bonus to AC (does not stack with other deflection bonuses).

Luke Fenris hears a rumble of DM thunder, warning him to put his character name on each post, and moves off in one direction, while Stormhoof attempts to move silently, but quickly in the opposite direction. Neither of them can spot anything around the arena obstacles.

Tom quaffs a potion of fly while Bob waits to see an opponent, but none come into sight.

Brother Maynard, Jack, and Larry all seem distracted by the grandeur of the arena, and fail to act.

Begin Round 2

[faithfreebible]

Stormhoof


If no LoS has been established, Stormhoof returns to the party, to wait for some strategy discussion

[Zyks]

Luke Fenris

Luke moves back to the group, unsure of what needs to be done, since he can't see opponents.

[Lazlow]

Brother Maynard

Brother Maynard continues to bide his time, patiently waiting for his fellow clergyman to cast his spells. As he waits, he whispers to his compatriots...

[Manir]

Bob
Bob continues looking around, waiting for the opportunity to strike.

Readies an action to cast Solid Fog once an enemy enters within range (180 ft.)
Mount readies and action to retreat to 49,49 if an enemy gets within 10 ft., avoiding other enemies.

[Armads]

Tom

Tom swiftly uncaps and glugs another potion. A ring of black energy surrounds him, twisting the flows of air around him away from him. He floats down from his flying position.


Drink potion of shield of faith +3, fly 20ft down

[Duke of URL]

Round 2

Little happens as both sides seem to be playing a waiting game.

Begin Round 3

[Hank Pym]

Brother Emil

Brother Emil throws Eagle's Splendor (scroll) on Brother Maynard.

[Manir]

Bob
Bob sighs, obviously bored of the lack of action. He continues waiting for one of those goody-two-shoes to do something.

Readies an action to cast Solid Fog once an enemy enters within range (180 ft.)
Mount readies and action to retreat to 49,49 if an enemy gets within 10 ft., avoiding other enemies.

[Armads]

Tom

Another potion is drunk. This time, Tom's skin seems a little scaly.


Barkskin +2. AC is now 28

[Uthug]

Jack

Jack stares around, preparing a retort to anything the other team might come up with.
Readied action to manifest dispel psionics if enemy is seen

[Duke of URL]

Round 3

The spectators yawn as both sides continue to stall.

Begin Round 4

[Hank Pym]

Brother Emil moves forward and casts another spell.


Move 20' (diagonal) to 5, 4; and then cast Bless (me and all my allies in 50' (everyone, I believe) gets +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effect.

[Lazlow]

Brother Maynard

Brother Maynard saunters forward alongside Brother Emil for the time being.


Moving diagonally to 6,4 and 7,5

[faithfreebible]

Stormhoof returns to his original position with the others, reporting no sign of the enemy, and waiting for either buff spells or the signal to move out

[Zyks]

Luke Fenris

Luke pretty much gives up on waiting. Hoping his team will move with him once he gets going, he starts heading down the battlefield.

move to 6,7 I think. correct me if I'm wrong (moving 30ft diagonally towards the left and down.)

[Duke of URL]

Round 4

Team goody-goody seems to tire of waiting and starts moving forward, somewhat tentatively.

Begin Round 5

[Hank Pym]

Brother Emil


Brother Emil throws either Bull's Strength or Bear's Endurance on Stormhoof (his choice, both off a scroll). And then, he will use his move action to continue diagonally to 9, 8.

[Lazlow]

Brother Maynard

Brother Maynard continues sauntering forward.


To 10,8 and 11,9, facing SE (Assuming up is N)

[Lazlow]

*ahem*

I said, "Brother Maynard continues sauntering forward."

[Lazlow]

Is this game still on?

[Zyks]

Luke Fenris

We seem to have run out of evil posts...

anyways, Luke Keeps on moving right and down diagonally towards the middle.

[Duke of URL]

It's going to be an awful boring match if the other side never posts... :smallsigh:

[Lazlow]

Well, if you wanna put Team Goody up against another team, I'm sure we wouldn't mind.

[Hank Pym]

Brother Emil

With a savage war cry, Brother Emil charges continually diaganol toward what MIGHT be an opponent . . . somewhere . . . over there.


Brother Emil will triple-move to 17, 16, screaming like a maniac the whole time.

[Uthug]

Jack
Jack continues standing where he is waiting for something to happen. (Just tell me what Jack sees, hears etc.)
Maintain readied action, guess that the same goes for the rest of the team.
OOC: For all goodys out there, whatever we do shouldn't have any effect on what you do at all, you're not really supposed to know what we're doing anyway, right?

[Armads]

Tom

Tom is really bored now.

"Should we got out and kill them all?"

[Uthug]

Jack
"Well we could do that or we could just sit here and wait for them to come round the corner."
Ignore actions listed in previous post.
Edit: Waving his hands in front of Tom's face, he shouts out, " Its only been 30 seconds, just sit tight and they'll come to us. ...Oops"

[Lazlow]

Jack
OOC: For all goodys out there, whatever we do shouldn't have any effect on what you do at all, you're not really supposed to know what we're doing anyway, right?

You still have to, you know, post.

[Uthug]

Well yeah, I thought that we'll be assumed to be standing around talking about the merits of being evil.

[Hank Pym]

Well yeah, I thought that we'll be assumed to be standing around talking about the merits of being evil.

HA! :smallsmile: A worthy debate! On the next round, Brother Emil will continue to charge forward to join it!

. . . when there is a next round.

[Uthug]

Well he would be charging to his certain demise but yeah, carry on.
Maintain readied actions!

[Hank Pym]

Aaaaaaaaaaand I'm officially done with this game. Thank you anyway to the couple of people who participated.

[Lazlow]

Same here. It saddens me that this was allowed to die the slow death.

See y'all around.