Curse of the Crimson Throne: Seven Days to the Grave [IC]

[lostsole31]

R2T6: Allen changes gears. He had blindly fired at one enemy who had all but been defeated, but now he's turning his attention towards the rest of the party. He moves to the northern door, and from just outside the room with the others, but seeing nothing because of an initial alcove, Allen has to check fire.

R2T5: The Gray Maiden is still paralyzed ...

End Round 2, Begin Round 3 ...

R3T29: Harsk recovers from his charge, but maintains full power in his swings. He hits Brown in the head for 11, but recovering his axe from the skull throws off the second attack. Then, Harsk instantaneously grows two incredibly large canines that he then uses to bite Brown in the head for another 9, but Brown still stands. The teeth retract, having the secondary effect of sort of clearing the gore off of his teeth. He looks to Telgarana. "Yuck."

R3T26: Telgarana, what do you do?

Vivino (raging, defensive stance) on deck, Branwyn (about to tie up the Gray Maiden) in the hole ...

[LazarX]

Telgarana charges up her blade. "Reporting in for surgery"

Spoiler: The Deadly Two Step

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Blade is +3 over +2 and keen Telgarana is hasted +1 to attacks

Swift Action Arcane Strike to add 2 damage to each blow.
5 foot step: Telgarana moves 5 foot east to face Purple She will make three attacks if Purple goes down on one or two she will unload the rest on Brown.

First Attack : [roll]1d20+14[/roll] damage [roll]1d8+8[/roll]

Second Attack : [roll]1d20+14[/roll] damage [roll]1d8+8[/roll]

Third Attack : [roll]1d20+9]/roll] damage [roll]1d8+8[/roll]


Total add +1 to hit +3 damage from mechanics

[LazarX]

Spoiler: Horray working rolls!

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Blade is +3 over +2 and keen Telgarana is hasted +1 to attacks

Spoiler: Horray working rolls!

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Swift Action Arcane Strike to add 2 damage to each blow.
5 foot step: Telgarana moves 5 foot east to face Purple She will make three attacks if Purple goes down on one or two she will unload the rest on Brown.

First Attack : (1d20+14)[34] damage (1d8+8)[9]

Second Attack : (1d20+14)[22] damage (1d8+8)[11]

Third Attack : (1d20+9)[19] damage (1d8+8)[9]

[LazarX]

Spoiler: severity roll on crit

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First roll is a crit on a natural 20


Severity roll (2d6)[7]

[lostsole31]

R3T26: Telgarana charges up her blade. "Reporting in for surgery!"

She steps up to the other person in a Queen's Physician outfit. The first shot should have had the man bleeding out as she deals 18. She knows she cut across the brachial artery and yet the man does not bleed. She slashes him again deep down on the right shoulder, and this time, the strange form of "death" occurs. The man sort of crumples down, bubbles, and becomes a black, greasy spot on the ground. But she's not done, enhanced as she is by the dwarf's magic, and she carefully aims her cut high so as not to catch Harsk ... and in doing so she cuts the head off the man's beakered face right at the nose and ears. The "skull cap" flies several feet behind Harsk as this one, too, seems to do a bubbling death. Nobody else is in this room.

Telgarana has the chance for a quick look at the room they're in...

Spoiler: Telgarana

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A number of crates fill this room. A particularly large one has been dragged into the chamber’s center, around which stand four mismatched chairs and stools.

R3T23: Vivino, you are raging, but also in a defensive stance. The doctor appears to be blinded, and stands at a door. What do you do?

Branwyn on deck (action declared), Iluvar in the hole ...

[Moriar]

Vivino eyes the blinded doctor...then he clumsily snaps he fingers off to the left as a distraction and tumbles through his square to pop up behind him. After a brief glance around swings with one claw at the doctor to let him know that his path is now cut off.

Spoiler: Boo!

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Continuing to rage and fight defensively to up his DR

Bluff as a distraction (1d20-1)[1]

Acrobatics to tumble past the blind man and end up behind him opposite the doorway so someone could come up to flank him (1d20+12)[17]

Claw attack (1d20+10)[20] and damage if it hits (1d6+7)[10]

If the acrobatics roll does not let me through his square then after recovering will try to start a grapple with the blind man with CMB (1d20+14)[15]

[lostsole31]

R3T23: Vivino eyes the blinded doctor...then he clumsily snaps he fingers off to the left as a distraction and tries to tumble past, but in getting around the corner and looking into the alcove he sees that the door is shut and nowhere to end up. After a brief glance he swings at the doctor with a claw, hoping to grab him but misses wildly.

R3T21: Though the Gray Maiden still has sword in hand and shield readied, Branwyn knows the spell that has her held in thrall, and it is better to tie her down now and take the weapon away later. He wraps the rope around the Gray Maiden quickly yet carefully, tying her arms to her sides.

R3T16: Iluvar, in trying to circle around the corner to get past the doctor (unaware at the time that he couldn't, Vivino has unwittingly cut you off from a line of physical attack to the blinded doctor. What do you do?

Adelaide on deck, Lucius in the hole ...

[Tippnick]

Iluvar assesses the situation looking at the Doctor and surrounding area quickly.

Iluvar shouts, "The Doctor is cornered!"

Spoiler: readied action

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If the doctor moves within his reach he will grapple the doctor.
(1d20)[6]

[lostsole31]

R3T16: Iluvar assesses the situation looking at the Doctor and surrounding area quickly. Iluvar shouts, "The Doctor is cornered!"

R3T14: Adelaide, what do you do? The doctor is currently studied.

Lucius on deck, Dr. Davaulus in the hole ...

[H8teradio]

Adelaide steadies her footing, carefully watching how Vivino and Illuvar are moving around the doctor. When there's an opening, she looses an arrow at the doctor.

"Dr. Davaulus you MUST yield!"

Spoiler: Steady shot

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MA: Bullseye shot (+4 to ranged attack)
Std attack: Risky Strike
To hit: (1d20+12)[27]
Damage: (1d8+9)[11]
Sneak: (2d6)[7]

Additional +7 to hit (Haste +1, studied target+2, bullseye feat +4)

[lostsole31]

R3T14: Adelaide steadies her footing, carefully watching how Vivino and Illuvar are moving around the doctor. When there's an opening, she looses an arrow at the doctor. "Dr. Davaulus you MUST yield!"

The arrow skips along the top of his head, cutting the scalp and parting his hair some for 21. The pain must have been something, because no sooner does he get hit than he seems to be able to have cleared his vision.

R3T13: Lucius, what do you do?

Dr. Davaulus on deck, Allen in the hole ....

[Rithryn]

Noticing his companions around the doctor Lucius holds his holy symbol tightly.

"You will not escape this place easily, now HALT!"

He points his holy symbol at the doctor while channeling his spell, than he will move as close as he can towards the doctor.

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Casting command, Specifically the halt one. DC 17 Will.

[lostsole31]

R3T13: Noticing his companions around the doctor Lucius holds his holy symbol tightly, casting a spell and focusing on the doctor. "You will not escape this place easily, now HALT!"

Lucius than moves as close as he can towards the doctor.

R3T12: The doctor takes 2 bleed. He opens the door behind him. Then, using a brilliant acrobatic maneuver, he ducks away from Vivino and into the room to the east, where there are a lot of Queen's Physicians standing and waiting. He looks to them, pointing to the heroes to the west and shouts, "Kill them!"

R3T11-7: A Queen's Physican (blue) moves up to Vivino. But the QP moves strangely, as if wildly drugged or something. Another Queen's Physical (yellow) steps over behind that one.

R3T6: Allen, you already didn't see Dr. Davaulus, but now his voice sounds more distant than before. What do you do?

Gray Maiden on deck (paralyzed, tied up) ...

[meemaas]

Allen will head further into the room, looking for where the Dr is retreating to. If he can tell where he is, Allen will move in that direction, but he will not enter the next room where the enemy appears to have fled. Once he's got a good space, he'll ready himself to fire on any hostile that enters the room.

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Move action:Move further into the room. Based on the other updates, I assume the Doctor has left this room into another room, so Allen will move to a free space that is at least two squares away from the door to the east.

Readied action: Fire Mai'yrs Band at the first hostile to enter our room, if any.

Attack roll (1d20+5)[10]
Damage (3d6+11)[21]

[lostsole31]

R3T6: Allen will head further into the room, looking for where the Dr is retreating to. If he can tell where he is, Allen will move in that direction, but he will not enter the next room where the enemy appears to have fled. Once he's got a good space, he'll ready himself to fire on any hostile that enters the room. He finds he doesn't have to ready, though, as a Queen's Physician has already entered. Allen lets loose with another powerful gout of flame, but he is so nervous about hitting friendlies that he torches the ceiling instead.

R3T5-2: The Gray Maiden (tied) still seems to be paralyzed. There's a lot of commotion in the room to the east as more Queen's Physicans - all with something seemingly wrong with them in the way they move - pack behind the lead that is facing off against Vivino.

End Round 3, Begin Round 4 ...

R4T29: Harsk nods to Telgarana, "Nice bladework," before heading out to the central chamber and picking up his crossbow.

R4T26: Telgarana, what do you do? You're all alone in this room now. And the sounds of battle have moved well away from the next room you were in previously (the central chamber leading to the lift).

Vivino on deck (raging), Branwyn in the hole, Lurk delaying ...

[LazarX]

Telgarana grimly acknowledges Harsk's praise. She wonders a bit about these strangely combusting foes but other things command her attention.

Since it sounds like there are sounds of battle still going on elsewhere....

Spoiler: On the Move

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Telgarana moves towards the sounds of ongoing battle, presumably this means a double move. Since I can't see anything that's going on. When she arrives she will make a quick assessement.

Mechanics: Swift action, maintain Arcane Strike. Blade remains at +3 and she is still hasted.

[lostsole31]

R4T26: Telgarana grimly acknowledges Harsk's praise. She wonders a bit about these strangely combusting foes but other things command her attention. The strong smell of death that wafts up from the scorched areas of where those bodies are gives her a clue.

Since it sounds like there are sounds of battle still going on elsewhere, she darts forward into the northern room, taking a "long way" around a table to make sure that if Iluvar should fall - if the enemy causes a breach - he isn't alone on that side of the table. She sees several Queen's Physicians moving like those in the room to the south, so it is likely that they have the same "ailment" as the ones she just fought. She gets up close enough where she could feasibly attack, but around a corner it might be a little difficult.

R4T23: Vivino, you are in defensive stance, raging, and "holding the breach." Of course, that means that all allies have to deal with a big lummox (you) in the way of their attacks getting through as well. Still, if you are comfortable in a breach-fighting position it's tactically sound. What do you do?

Branwyn on deck, Lurk delaying ...

[Moriar]

"He is getting away! I will try to create some space for you all. But if you are able to get past these things quickly then do so and go slow down that Doctor," Vivino growls out to his companions.

Spoiler: Hopefully one less maiden

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Maintaining rage
dropping defensive stance (normal)

Please include haste bonus and rage to attacks
Claw 1 Reckless attack (1d20+12)[16] and damage (1d6+11)[13]
Claw 2 Reckless attack (1d20+12)[29] and damage (1d6+11)[14]
Claw 3 from haste Reckless attack (1d20+12)[32] and damage (1d6+11)[14]
Bite Reckless attack [roll]1d201d20+12[/roll] and damage (1d4+11)[15]

If the maiden in front of him goes down then he will step up to the next one

[lostsole31]

R4T23: "He is getting away! I will try to create some space for you all. But if you are able to get past these things quickly then do so and go slow down that Doctor," Vivino growls out to his companions. He turns back to the Queen's Physician in his way and does a powerful slash across the chest for 13, and with the other claw tears off the man's right hand. The whole body seems to crumple and turn into a dust, leaving rumpled clothing behind! That is bizarre, but Vivino doesn't process it. In fact, it helps out, as a body makes footing difficult and now it is easy for him to simply step forward and slam the next Queen's Physician in the head for 14, and he finally bites the thing in the arm and worries it back and forth until it, too, does that weird crumpling to gory dust.

Meanwhile, Vivino gags and coughs, realizing that he was NOT biting into warm, blood-bearing flesh! He was biting into death!

R4T21: Branwyn, you are back in the first room. Harsk is to the south and heading north towards you, likely to go past to join with the others. You tied up the still-paralyzed Gray Maiden. She has her sword and shield in hand, but her arms are tied to her sides. The double doors to the east are closed, and everyone else headed into the room to the north. What do you do? Lurk is also still delaying, hiding in the lift.

Queen's Physician (brown) on deck, Iluvar in the hole, Lurk delaying ...

[Askamot]

Motioning for Lurk to follow him, Branwyn takes off towards the doctor, drawing a handful of shuriken from his belt.
Running at max speed to get into range to throw...

[lostsole31]

R4T21-20: Motioning for Lurk to follow him (which includes an empathetic prod since they can't see each other), Branwyn takes off towards the doctor, drawing a handful of shuriken from his belt. He moves as quickly as he can to get into range to throw. He gets past everyone, Vivino as well even, right to a wall of Queen's Physicans, and he lets loose with a shuriken at the doctor on the other side of the room. As he does so, two of the Queen's Physican's slam Branwyn - left elbow for 7, and upside the head for 10. Meanwhile, the shuriken sails well off target. Lurk flies out of the lift, past everyone else, and is at Branwyn's back and shoulder.

R4T19: Queen's Physician (Brown) clambers on the bed, looking down at Branwyn and Lurk.

R4T16: Iluvar, your readied action did not go off. What do you do?

Pink on deck, Adelaide in the hole ...

[Tippnick]

Iluvar heeds Vivino's advice and presses the attack. "Watch you heads, going in!", he announces.

Spoiler: Crunch for Iluvar

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If i can get my full movement for flying kick then
Swa: Judgement Protection if not already on
MA: 5' step to the East
FRA: initiate flying kick to be just east of purple QP
Risky Strike kick to Purple QP Flurry of Blows (d20+13)[26]
damage from kick (d8+6)[11]
only changing targets if to pink if purple falls
Back hand punch (d20+13)[24]
damage (d8+6)[8]
elbow to neck (d20+8)[28]
damage (d8+6)[7]
If not i will move to the doctor
SWA: Judement Protection if not already in use
if already in place with use defensive stance
MA 30' ish to doctor
SA: Combat maneuver improved trip
(d20+14)[25]
also remember my lenses let know if creatures are injured or undead

[lostsole31]

R4T16: Iluvar heeds Vivino's advice and presses the attack. "Watch you heads, going in!", he announces while mentally calling on the Lady of Graves to protect her servant. He rushes into the room, sees a bed hops up on it, blocking attacks from all of the Queen's Physicians. He jumps from bed to bed, to the floor, and past a locker to then trip the Doctor yet again!

Spoiler: Iluvar

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All of the Queen's Physician's register as undead.

R4T15: Pink swings twice .. once when Iluvar was getting into position, and then after the trip.

R4T14: Adelaide, what do you do?

Lucius on deck, Dr. Davaulus in the hole ...

[Tippnick]

Iluvar shouts, "They are undead!"

[H8teradio]

Adelaide moves into position, focuses her aim, and begins chanting as she nocks two arrows and pulls back the string of her bow. The runes on the limbs of her bow glow as they're infused with magical energy. When she finishes the brief incantation she unleashes a volley of arrows at the Queen's Physicians.

Spoiler: Crunch

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Free: 5ft Step North
SwA: Arcane Accuracy (+5 to all attacks)
FrA: Spell Combat/Spell Strike - Casting Disrupt Undead (-2 to all attacks)
Many shot, Rapid Shot(-2), Risky Strike (-2)

She starts targeting purple and if they fall she switches to pink, if pink falls she'll stop firing.

1st Shot (free Spell Attack/manyshot): Hit (1d20+10)[25] Dmg (2d8+18)[27] Spell (1d6)[6]
2nd Shot (Rapid Shot): Hit (1d20+10)[16] Dmg (1d8+9)[17]
3rd Shot(hasted): Hit (1d20+10)[25] Dmg (1d8+9)[16]
4th Shot: Hit (1d20+10)[18] Dmg (1d8+9)[10]
5th Shot: Hit (1d20+5)[20] Dmg (1d8+9)[13]

[Moriar]

Iluvar shouts, "They are undead!"

"That explains the taste!"

[LazarX]

"The ......taste? Never mind, I don't want to know!"

[lostsole31]

R4T14: Iluvar shouts, "They are undead!"

Adelaide moves into position, focuses her aim, and begins chanting as she nocks two arrows and pulls back the string of her bow. The runes on the limbs of her bow glow as they're infused with magical energy. When she finishes the brief incantation she unleashes a volley of arrows at the Queen's Physicians. The first doubleshot hits Purple in the chest enough to destroy it! Definitely not what woul have been expected of a living creature as it combusts into embers and ash and becomes a grease spot on the floor.

"Explains the taste!" responds Vivino to Iluvar.

"The ......taste?" Adelaide asks disgustedly as she looses an arrow into Pink's chest for 12 mod, and having seen the effect of her first target being destroyed. "Never mind, I don't want to know!"

A final shot to Pink's neck for 11 mod is enough to destroy that one as well.

R4T13: Lucius, what do you do?

Dr. Davaulus on deck, Allen in the hole ...

[Rithryn]

Hearing that the foes are undead Lucius walks in confidently.

"That makes this a whole lot simpler, these foes no longer pose a threat."

Holy symbol in one hand he holds out another pointed towards any remaining undead,

"Poor lost souls, come towards Iomedaes light so you may find rest."

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Moving into the room as close as he can to the doctor, provoking as needed. Than channeling to harm undead. (4d6+7)[20] DC 17 Will for half, they do not add channel resistance to this.

[lostsole31]

R4T13: Hearing that the foes are undead Lucius walks in confidently. "That makes this a whole lot simpler; these foes no longer pose a threat."

Holy symbol in one hand he holds out another pointed towards any remaining undead, "Poor lost souls, come towards Iomedaes light so you may find rest."

All three of the remaining "Queen's Physicians" in here take 20 positive energy, though they are all still standing.

R4T12: Doctor Davaulus takes 2 bleed. The doctor defensively casts a spell, and then disappears from view.

R4T6: Allen, what do you do?

Enemies on deck and in the hole ...