Giantslayer: Battle of Bloodmarch Hill [IC]

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar mouths "Open the door."

[lostsole31]

As the sounds of someone trying to pick the lock renew, Abenor mouths, with the slightest bit of noise coming out, "What?"

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar waves his hand negating everything since they have started to pick the lock again and holds his hand out indicating to wait.

[lostsole31]

"Ohhhhh, wait!" he says in revelation. "You want me to open the door! Yeah, we snow elves aren't used to talking with our hands like you humans and dwarves and gnomes. You lose too much body heat taking your arms away from your body like that."

There is a sudden halt just as Abenor cups a hand to his mouth.

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar rolls his eyes and jumps over to the door, throwing it open…

[lostsole31]

Aasgar moved to the door, but unlocked it from this side (not yet open).

Begin Round One ...

R1T28: Abenor looks at Aasgar and smiles, shrugging to show the two daggers in his hand, meaning a) Aasgar is the only one with an open hand, and b) he would have had to drop a dagger to open the door previously, anyway. He steps behind Aasgar while getting into his reaching blade stance and readies an action to stab past Aasgar if needed when the door opens.

R1T19: Aasgar, you have a dagger in hand. Do you open the door? What else might you do?

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar nods to Abenor and shifts his footing before looking back and swinging the door open focusing his mind on dazing the opponent on the other side.

Spoiler: Technical Information

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Enter Circular Stance.

Open the door and utilise Diadem of Dazing.

[lostsole31]

R1T19: Aasgar nods to Abenor and shifts his footing before looking back and swinging the door open. There is nobody directly there, but two to each side of the doorway that he sees. Aasgar focuses on the one to his left (south), and there is a flash from the diadem. It doesn't look like it did anything, as most of the flash was caught by the wall.

R1T18-16: "Bollocks!" says one, but being careful not to shout. Though Aasgar doesn't see the ones around the corner too well, it seems that they do adopt a combat stance. One steps forward into view, but as soon as he does, Abenorthrows a dagger but it goes high so as not to reach his otherwise stubby friend. The one that moved in front of the doorway attacks Aasgar with what looks like a canister held as a hilt, and a short blade (like a short sword) sized, irregular patch of ice just forth from that canister. He stabs at Aasgar, who blocks it with his own dagger. The one around the corner that Aasgar tried to daze tries to stab at him with a similar weapon, but has a hard time of it because of the wall.

End Round One, Begin Round 2 ...

R2T21: There is a strange bubbling sound coming from around the corner and to the north.

R2T19: Aasgar, what do you do?

Abenor on deck, enemies in the hole ...

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar perceives the one wielding the ice weapon as the most dangerous so attacks that one with his dagger, hoping to open a space to step into so Abenor can join him in the hall.

Spoiler: Technical Information

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Attack action: Using Risky Strike (1d20+6)[25]
Damage: (1d4+8)[11]

[lostsole31]

R2T19: Aasgar perceives the one wielding the ice weapon as the most dangerous so attacks that one with his dagger, hoping to open a space to step into so Abenor can join him in the hall. He stabs his dagger into his right upper arm, likely in the artery, for 8.

R2T18.5: Abenor normally prefers to unsheathe his Ileor in combination with an attack, but he needed the light and hadn't picked up his scabbard, so he does what he can, but misses wildly attacking over Aaasgar.

R2T18-16: Blue seemed to not take all of the damage Aasgar laid on him at first, but now the rest of the wound is felt (4). He stabs Aasgar in the left elbow, pain that he ignores for now. Aasgar feels a momentary sting of a poison that was delivered, but otherwise doesn't sense anything else. Blue then steps north out of the way. Green attacks Aasgar from around the corner, but the wall again fouls his attack.

R2T19: Aasgar, there is a gap there to step into, and you prepared for just this sort of fight with circular stance. What do you do?

Abenor on deck, Enemies in the hole ...

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar steps out into the open spot and strikes again at Blue.

Spoiler: Tecnical Information

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MA: Step north into the gap

Attack: Risky Strike: (1d20+6)[24]

Damage: (1d4+8)[10]

[lostsole31]

R2T19: Aasgar steps out into the open spot and strikes again at Blue, stabbing him in the chest for 6.

R2T18.5: Abenor reaches out and past Aasgar to thwack Green in the nuts with his hand, causing Green to double over ... still fighting, but feeling it.

R2T18-16: Blue does something that you've seen Abenor do (though he no longer favors this attack), and that is to stab at you, but for a split-second step out-of-and-back-into reality so that when his weapon lands, Aasgar isn't ready for it. He hits Aasgar where he did earlier, in the right elbow, but the dwarf shrugs it off. Blue steps back, but the pain of his wounds catches up to him (4) and he is now disabled. Aasgar notes a woman to the south, waiting; she has one of these ice-blades. So does Green, in fact; he tries some fancy footwork (that doesn't avail him) and stabs at Aasgar, missing.

End Round 2, Begin Round 3 ...

R3T21: A different (man), also with ice-blade, moves south to engage Aasgar, but Aasgar blocks his attack.

R3T19: Aasgar, what do you do?

Abenor on deck, Enemies in the hole ...

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar mutters "Should have grabbed my axe. We'd be done by now..." and swings at blue again with his dagger in a stylized maneuver.

Spoiler: Technical Information

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Attack action: Hunting Party (Success = dmg + 1 adj ally may make AOO against target.) Risky Strike: (1d20+6)[8]
Damage: (1d4+8)[10]

[lostsole31]

R4T19: Aasgar mutters, "Should have grabbed my axe. We'd be done by now..." and swings at blue again with his dagger in a stylized maneuver, missing, but getting inspiration (strike of the infinite protector). His action done, he begins to feel the previously withheld pain (14).

R4T18.5: Abenor's anger at seeing his friend surrounded causes him to give over to the Hunter. He puts two hands on his katana and strikes at Green with a crit to the groin for 16, instantly disabling him. Abenor, takes advantage of Aasgar's temporarily lower profile from his dagger strike to swing through to Red to crit him as well with a weapon strike that does 19 and drops Red and completely shatters his ice blade. Abenor moves past Aasgar to stand over the now downed opponent.

R4T18: Green withdraws south and east, but a second later there is a tumbling noise and the sound of heavy ice shattering. Brown, who was chilling out this whole time, wants no part of this and heads south and east around the corner after Green. Blue feels previous wounds overcome him, and he falls as well, ending any active enemy combatant action.

End Round 4, Begin Round 5 ...

R5T19: Aasgar, what do you do? You know Abenor well enough that when the Hunter takes over, he will run a fleeing enemy down like a predator, tapping into a primal fury to give him speed and animal senses. On the other hand, you also have two dead or dying people in front of you.

Abenor's turn ...

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar bellows at the top of his lungs, "Cham!!! Send for the militia and a doctor!!! There's been an attack!!!" and goes to the closest downed person to attempt to stabilize them as best he can.

Spoiler: Technical Information

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MA: Close to nearest wounded person.
Use Heal check to attempt to stabilise them.

[lostsole31]

R5T19: Aasgar bellows at the top of his lungs, "Cham!!! Send for the militia and a doctor!!! There's been an attack!!!" He goes to the closest downed person - the man that Abenor stands astride - to attempt to stabilize them as best he can. Even with his help, Red still seems to be bleeding out.

R5T18.5: Abenor changes into his Hunter's stance. He steps off of Aasgar's back as Aasgar is bent down to help the fallen and he races south, smashing through the window. Other than glass, Aasgar doesn't really hear the sound of bodily impact, so either he just didn't hear, or that is a good sign.

End Round 5, Begin Round 6 ...

R6T19: Aasgar, your patient isn't doing well. What do you do?

[BuckGodot]

Feeling at his head he mutters "Why can't these things heal! Damn!" and then dashes to his bandolier and grabs the two potions of curation.

Spoiler: Technical Information

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MA: 2 squares south and 2 squares east to his gear

Grab potions of CMW

[lostsole31]

R6T19: Feeling at his head he mutters "Why can't these things heal! Damn!" He then forgets he is outside his own room - probably because he is still sleepy - and dashes south to a stairwell, down which he sees an unmoving assailant. He realizes he went the wrong way and heads back, finishing right back where he started, and looking east into his room.

End Round 6, Begin Round 7 ...

R7T19: Aasgar, what do you do?

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar will shake his head to clear the cobwebs and dash into his room to grab the potion.

Spoiler: Technical Stuff

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MA: Enter room
MA: Get potion of CMW

[lostsole31]

R7T19: Aasgar shakes his head to clear the cobwebs and dashes into his room to grab a potion.

End Round 7, Begin Round 8...

R8T19: Aasgar, you have a dagger in one hand, and a potion in the other. What do you do?

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar returns to the downed man and attempts to administer the potion.

Spoiler: Technical Information

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MA: step out of the room to fallen foe.

MA: administer the potion

[lostsole31]

R8T19: Aasgar returns to the downed man and attempts to administer the potion. He guides the potion down the throat, but nothing seems to happen. The wounds don't close or anything.

End Round 8, Begin Round 9....

R9T19: Aasgar, what now?

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar moves to the next downed person and will check to see if they can be stabilized, doing so if possible.

[lostsole31]

R9T19: Aasgar moves to the next downed person and will check to see if they can be stabilized. As it turns out, this person (Blue) is already stabilized.

R9T15: Aasgar is pretty sure he hears a woman's voice casting a spell somewhere to the south, likely down the stairs.

End Round 9, Begin Round 10 ...

R10T19: Aasgar, you aren't really in circular stance anymore. It is hard to be in a martial pose while doing a health check on someone. Then there's the sound of casting to the south and likely towards or down the stairs. What do you do?

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar rises and enters Circular Stance dashing back into his room to grab his axe.

Spoiler: Technical Information

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MA: move 3 squares to room
MA: Pick up axe and drop dagger.

[lostsole31]

R10T19: Aasgar re-enters his stance and heads back to his room, finding the bodies in the hall and his stumpy dwarven legs slow him down.

Spoiler: OOC

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A downed body creates difficult terrain so it took you a double move to get to your bed. I did not have him drop his dagger yet because that would be a whole round without protection before his next turn.

R10T15: Aasgar hears someone approaching in the south corridor.

End Round 10, Begin Round 11 ...

R11T19: Aasgar, your dagger is still in hand, and you are in stance. What do you do?

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar quietly moves to the south side of the doorway to the room and stands with his back to the wall, peering between the door and the frame, waiting to strike if an assailant enters.

Spoiler: Technical Information

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MA: Move to the wall back against it on the south side behind the door, stealthily.
Holding dagger at the ready to strike.

[lostsole31]

A familiar half-orc female's voice calls out, "Aasgar? I can hear you breathing behind the door. Likely to knock the next unfortunate down with an axe ... no, wait, those guys dropped from something smaller, so ... a dagger? But if that isn't you? If you aren't Aasgar but a creepy person with an ice blade? I'm going to shoot you in the face before you ever have a chance to come out from behind that door."

Aasgar, what do you do?

[BuckGodot]

Aasgar breathes a sigh of relief and says"It's me. I'm stepping out now..." and steps out from behind the door towards his gear glancing in her direction to insure it is her.

[lostsole31]

It is Imrijka, with her bow trained on you, which she then relaxes. "I just stabilized someone at the bottom of the stairs, and there are these two. What happened? Where is Abenor?"