Rise of the Runelords [The Skinsaw Murders] (IC)

[DrK]

Martin Bevuk

Feeling a heavy blow to his side Martin winces and hunkers down arms up defensively as he tries to focus on the ki of those around him to allow him to ward off blows

Spoiler: OOC

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Swift: Spend a ki point to initiate combat precognition for 1 round
Full: Total defence action

[lostsole31]

R3T26: Feeling a heavy blow to his side Martin winces and hunkers down arms up defensively as he tries to focus on the ki of those around him to allow him to ward off blows.

R3T21: Steingott, what do you do?

Norton on deck, Brown in the hole ...

[TooterfishPopkn]

Steingott takes a few steps north to get a better view into the melee. He punches into the air as if he were in a match, but yet another chunk of rock erupts from his fist and flies into the scuffle.

Spoiler: Action

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Move action to step five feet to the north.

Standard Action:

(1d20+7)[14] to hurl a rock at Green

(2d6+7)[15] damage upon success

[lostsole31]

R3T21: Steingott takes a few steps north to get a better view into the melee. He punches into the air as if he were in a match, but yet another chunk of rock erupts from his fist and flies into the scuffle, and smashing into the wall behind his target.

R3T20: Norton, what do you do?

Enemies on deck/ in the hole ...

[meemaas]

Norton sees a great opportunity all of a sudden, and takes a deep breath, focusing on a spell, launching a burst of color directly in front of him to attempt to disable almost the entirety of the enemy group at once, using a defensive strike with his Rapier to try and deflect a possible retaliation from the bat-thing. Once he's succeeded, he'll slide back a bit, putting a little bit of distance between him and his foes.

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Full Round action: Spell Combat (Color Spray)

Casting Defensively (1d20+12)[17] vs DC 17 (Additional +4 bonus applied from sacrificing attack roll with Spell Combat)
Will Save DC 15 vs various conditions.

Attack roll vs Bat-Thing (1d20+4)[21] (-2 penalty from Spell Combat, -4 Penalty from sacrificing attack roll with Spell Combat) (Penalties from attacking an aerial creature not applied.)

Damage (1d6+7)[12] (Penalties from attack an aerial creature not applied)

[lostsole31]

R3T20: Norton sees a great opportunity all of a sudden, and takes a deep breath, focusing on a spell, launching a burst of color directly in front of him to attempt to disable almost the entirety of the enemy group at once. The cone of kaleidoscopic colors washes over the big bat, all of the patients, but also Draegra. The big bat-like creature seems to be flying runny right now - affected, possibly, but it's hard to tell how. Amazingly, none of the patients seem affected. An annoyed (but unaffected) Draegra calls out, "Watch it, Norton!"

Norton takes a quick jab at the creature with his rapier to do 8 vs. the bat-like creature before stepping back a few feet to put a little bit of distance between him and his foes.

R3T18: Patient Brown shambles forward. Zada stabs them in the left lower arm for 8 mod .... it should be more, but the patient's skin seems unusually resistant to weapons! Alvor likewise stabs them in the right upper arm for 4 mod, with Alvor sensing the resistance as well. The patient, who looks like death not-warmed over, gets to Al and Norton, but its strange gait keeps it from having anything left with which to attack.

R3T9: The big bat-thing flaps about and lands erratically. In doing so it provokes from Zada and Martin, but they both miss.

R3T8: Alvor, what do you do?

Zada on deck, Patient Green in the hole ...

[rypt]

With the large bat seemingly compromised by Norton's spell, Al focuses his attention on the shambling form to his right, hoping to begin clearing a path to the spellcaster harrying the party from the far side of the room. Having taken notice of the patients' resilience against the sharp end of his spear, he attempts to bash the decaying man with his shield. He then adjusts his footing, prodding with his spear more aggressively now in order to hinder the movement of his foes.

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Free Action: Al uses Tactical Flanker to designate the square to his southwest as occupied by him for the purposes of flanking.

Standard Action: Al uses Distracting Strike targeting Patient Yellow. He will make this attack as a shield bash. If successful, Patient Yellow is flat-footed until its next turn.

Attack: (1d20+8)[19]
Damage (1d4+3)[5] plus (2d6)[6]

Swift Action: Al adopts the Vigilant Keeper's Stance. Enemies treat all squares he threatens as difficult terrain though they may still charge through his threatened area.

As far as potential counters are concerned, Al will use an immediate action for the first of the following to occur.

(A) The large bat attacks Al, in which case he will use Iron Shell to attempt to negate it.

Spoiler: Shield bash, if necessary

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(d20+11)[14]

(B) The small bat attacks a member of the party other than Al, in which case he will use Warning Roar to attempt to negate it.

Spoiler: Diplomacy check, if necessary

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(d20+11)[29]

(C) Al is required to make a Fortitude save, in which case he will use Enduring Shell for a +3 bonus.

[lostsole31]

R3T8: With the large bat seemingly compromised by Norton's spell, Al focuses his attention on the shambling form to his right, hoping to begin clearing a path to the spellcaster harrying the party from the far side of the room. Having taken notice of the patients' resilience against the sharp end of his spear, he bashes the decaying man with his shield right in the nose, breaking it and likewise caving in the right cheekbone for 6 mod. Either the man is too stupid to notice the pain, or the pain is a sense-sharpener, but the staggered man does not seem to be taken off-balance as well. Alvor then adjusts his footing, prodding with his spear more aggressively now in order to hinder the movement of his foes.

R3T7: Zada, what do you do?

Green patient on deck, Draegra in the hole ...

[digiman619]

Zada attacked the nearest patient before taking a step back, their mindblade returning to its ranged form as they try to assess the situation.

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SA: Attack the patient southwest of me. (1d20+6)[21] (1d20+3)[10]
5 foot step northeast
SWA: Change roles (and thus mind blades)
MA: More enemies have shown up, so I'm allowed to try Adept Analysis again. Legendary Roles (Living Legend) | Library of Metzofitz Wiki | Fandom

[lostsole31]

R3T7: Zada attacks the nearest patient for 5 mod before taking a step back, their mindblade returning to its ranged form as they try to assess the situation.

R3T6: Patient green shambles north to attack Draegra, its fist slamming hard against Draegra's fine quality scale mail. It is likely the impact would have been effective if the patient didn't lose momentum attacking around a corner.

R3T4.5: Draegra takes a good look at Patient Purple,and then shouts something in a language nobody understands. He then speaks that same unknown language right next to Martin. Martin doesn't know what it means, but he guesses it's meant to be calming .... or warning.

Draegra then steps back and chants in another unknown language, his left hand glowing as he touches Martin for 8 healing.

R3T4-1: The raven flies a little lower, and then forward some. Purple patient swings so wildly that it seems to move around in its square, confused (and not threatening)! Patient Yellow, on the other hand, slams Martin in the gut for 6. The caster in back moves up to where his raven is, casts a spell, and an arrow appears and shoots towards Martin. The arrow hits Martin in the stomach as a follow-up to where he was just punched. It doesn't hit with an impact, but a sizzle, as it does 3 acid.

End Round 3, Begin Round 4 ...

R4T26: Martin, your combat precognition has ended. What do you do?

Steingott on deck, Norton in the hole ...

[DrK]

Martin Bevuk

Martin staggers as the blow sends him reeling and the shouts out in pain as the acid sizzles on his chest. "Help, where can I step..." he shouts out to others, "Its burns, someone stab that swine thats hitting me." Throwing up a defensive arm across his face he steps away from the perceived source of the attacks

Spoiler: OOC

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Swift: Spend a ki point to initiate combat precognition for 1 round
Full: Total defence action
5ft Step away from the direction of the punch that him

[lostsole31]

R4T26: Martin staggers as the blow sends him reeling and the shouts out in pain as the acid sizzles on his chest. "Help, where can I step..." he shouts out to others, "Its burns, someone stab that swine that's hitting me." Throwing up a defensive arm across his face he steps away from the perceived source of the attacks.

R4T21: Steingott, what do you do?

Norton on deck, Patient Brown in the hole ...

[TooterfishPopkn]

Steingott brings both hands down to his knees and dramatically lifts them up above his head. As he does this, a thin wall of earthen material rises between Martin and the patient to Martin's south. He nods in approval of his work and walks into the melee, joining Alvor and Norton.

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Standard Action: Use Kinetic Cover talent to put a wall on the southern face of Martin's square. This should be just between Martin and the yellow patient. This talent costs 0 Burn.

Move Action: 15 feet to the south, tucking Steingott in with Alvor, Norton, and Patient Brown.

[lostsole31]

R4T21: Steingott brings both hands down to his knees and dramatically lifts them up above his head. As he does this, a thin wall of earthen material rises between Martin and the patient to Martin's south. He nods in approval of his work and walks into the melee, joining Alvor and Norton.

R4T20: Norton, what do you do? The big bat creature recovers from being stunned.

Patient Brown on deck, Big bat creature in the hole ...

[meemaas]

Norton focuses his energy and then launches a direct strike into the patient in front of him. He calls out to Draegra. "Sorry about the spell, I didn't realize you were in its range."

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Swift action: Reallocate 2E from Boatmans Ferry into Armlets of the Shaitan
Standard action: Attack roll (1d20+10)[24]
Damage (1d6+7)[9]

No bonuses from Armlets of the Shaitan are applied to these rolls

[lostsole31]

R4T20: Norton focuses his energy and then launches a direct strike into the patient in front of him, stabbing it in the neck for 6 mod. He calls out to Draegra. "Sorry about the spell, I didn't realize you were in its range."

R4T18: Responding to the stimulus, Brown slams Norton in the face for 5, more grazing actually, a testament to his strength.

R4T9: The big bat attacks Al, but Al stops it with his shield.

R4T8: Al, what do you do?

Zada on deck, Green in the hole ...

[rypt]

Seeing few options to reach the spellcaster across the room, Al lowers his shield, and with a roar of effort, slams it into the line of diseased patients.

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Free action: Al uses Tactical Flanker to designate the square to his southwest (currently occupied by the large bat). Allies treat that square as occupied by him for the purposes of flanking.

Swift action: Al will activate the Gatecrasher Gambit, adding a +2 luck bonus to his next bull rush attempt.

Standard action: Al will use the Shoulder Rush strike to attempt to bull rush Patient Yellow. The maneuver itself (+4), the gambit above (+2), and the Powerful Maneuvers feat (+2) combine to add a +8 total bonus to Al's CMB, which is cancelled out by the -8 penalty imposed by attempting to bull rush 3 creatures. If the bull rush is successful, he recovers his 3 expended warlord maneuvers -- Hunting Party, Iron Shell and Pride Movement. If the bull rush is successful, Al will not move with the enemies. If the bull rush fails, Al will only recover Hunting Party.

Bull rush: (d20+7)[9]

Free action: If the bull rush was successful, Al will take a 5-foot step to the west.

If Al deals damage with any attacks of opportunity before his next turn, he will mark the enemy hit with Armiger's Mark. He will mark a maximum of two enemies.

With respect to counters, Al will use an immediate action for the first of the following to occur.

(A) The large bat attacks Al, in which case he will use Oaken Shield for +4 to his shield AC.

Spoiler: Ignore

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(d20+11)[25] (Note that a gambit rake will impose a -2 penalty to this roll)

(B) The small bat attacks a member of the party other than Al, in which case he will use Warning Roar to attempt to negate it.

Spoiler: Diplomacy check, if necessary

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(d20+11)[16] (Note that a gambit rake will impose a -2 penalty to this roll)

(C) Al is required to make a Fortitude save, in which case he will use Enduring Shell for a +3 bonus

[lostsole31]

R4T8: Seeing few options to reach the spellcaster across the room, Al lowers his shield, and with a roar of effort, slams it into the line of diseased patients, but the press of bodies is too much to overcome and his target doesn't move anywhere.

R4T7: Zada, what do you do?

Green on deck, Draegra on deck ...

[lostsole31]

R4T7: Zada steps down a little to make sure that Patient Green doesn't get to hide behind the corner. She puts one hand on her holy symbol of Gozreh, calling out to her Shoanti ancestors to quiet the unquiet dead. A burst of light flashes forth from her. Brown, Green and Yellow only take 1 PE; Purple takes 3 PE.

R4T6: Green comes around the corner to face off against Draegra and Martin.

R4T4.5: Draegra drops his morningstar, takes out a dagger, studies Patient Green, and then slashes powerfully against his target for 12.

R4T4-1: The raven delays. Purple attacks Martin, and somehow Martin knows the right time to get out of the way. Martin's awareness does him little good against Patient Yellow, however, smashes apart the earthen bulwark meant to protect him, but for Martin, the area where that acid arrow hit burns again for another 2 acid before the acid seems to finally seem neutralized. The enemy spellcaster? He casts a spell, and every living creature in the room (except himself, his raven, and the bat creature) suddenly finds themselves in a roiling, thick, sickly green fog. Sight beyond 5' is impossible, even for darkvision, and it makes everyone want to GAG!

Everybody ... here in the IC and NOT in Discord ... roll a Fort save vs. poison!

[rypt]

Spoiler: OOC

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Fortitude save for Al, including a +3 bonus for expending Enduring Shell: (d20+9)[18]

[DrK]

Spoiler: Martin Fort Save

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(1d20+6)[19]

@Lostsole31 - Does Martin lose his Dex bonus for being blind? he's got uncanny dodge so I thought only lost his dex bonus when immoblised or feinted?

[digiman619]

Spoiler: Fort save

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Extra text! (1d20+5)[14]

[TooterfishPopkn]

Spoiler: Steingott Fort Save

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(1d20+10)[19] for the fort save as fog fills the room

[meemaas]

Spoiler: Fort Save

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Rollin rollin rollin. (1d20+8)[15]

Also, does Norton recognize the spell?

[lostsole31]

Nauseated: Zada, Norton, & Granite!

End Round 4, Begin Round 5 ...

R5T26: Martin, you are in a cloying miasma, and the worst part is that you don't see its limitations. And you're blind. What do you do?

Steingott on deck, Norton (nauseated) in the hole ...

[DrK]

Martin Bevuk

Martin coughs and staggers as more blaws land, blood and burns hurting and his nostril burning. Cursing his luck and the mage that had blinded him he shouts out to the others. "Where is the way out, which way do I move..."

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Swift: Spend a ki point to initiate combat precognition for 1 round

Delay: Wait for one of the party members to tell him which direction (relative to his own body (i.e left, right, backwards) is the way away from the combat and the cloud and then take a full withdraw to stumble out of the cloud and keep going till he can't go further

[lostsole31]

R5T26: Martin coughs and staggers as more blaws land, blood and burns hurting and his nostril burning. Cursing his luck and the mage that had blinded him he shouts out to the others. "Where is the ...."

R5T21: Steingott, what do you do? Please roll a Fort save vs. poison first.

Norton on deck, Brown in the hole ...

[meemaas]

Norton can't see and can't really do much while trying not to puke his guts out, and so he tries to escape the cloud, heading north to hope to find the edge.

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Move action: Move north

Nauseated says only a move action. If that's not true, for whatever reason, then Norton will use hi swift to reallocate essence into Boatmans Ferry for extra move. I don't believe he gets one, I'm just covering all bases.

[TooterfishPopkn]

"Son of a...!"

Having just moved in to throw some punches, Steingott changes his mind and shifts focus after getting caught in the stinking cloud. He takes a few steps back and sends a cluster of earth speeding towards the caster.

Spoiler: Action

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Move Action: Two spaces north just above Zada on the map.

Standard Action: (1d20+7)[14]

(2d6+7)[12] damage pending success

[lostsole31]

R5T21: "Son of a...!"

Having just moved in to throw some punches, Steingott changes his mind and shifts focus after getting caught in the stinking cloud. He takes a few steps back and sends a cluster of earth speeding towards the caster's last known position, now hidden by this green fog.

R5T20: Norton can't see and can't really do much while trying not to puke his guts out, and so he tries to escape the cloud, heading north to hope to find the edge. He thinks he sees the edge, but can't quite make it.

R5T18: Patient Brown's fist slams off of Al's breastplate, nearly having gotten through.

R5T17-15: Both Granite and Destroyer McGee appear to be undergoing GI distress in their individual familiar satchels.

R5T9: The big bat likewise impacts Al's armor.

R5T8: Al, you have no SwA this round (enduring shell) was used. Your failed gambit also means that you will be a little wonky with whatever action you might commit to. You can only see a maximum of 5' in all directions, and staying in this cloud is a bad idea. What do you do?

Zada on deck, Patient Green in the hole ...