Giantslayer: GM's Battle Book [GMBB]

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This is my GM's Battle Book for the two-player Giantslayer campaign [IC].

If you are a player in that game, turn back in fear and dread!

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Only a block or two after the PCs leave the Ramblehouse, there is a chorus of higher-pitched, growling voices. Three smaller wolves with signs of obvious physical distress stand, blocking the street as other people carefully back off and away. They stand and snarl at the PCs in front of them.

Begin Round One ...

R1T22: Cici, who was in the front with Aasgar because she knows where to go, says, "These wolves are young, about as powerful as a companion dog. But they seem to be suffering from disease. Go defensive. Don't let them bite you, if you can. But there's no saving them. They need to be put down."

She casts a spell of magical armor about herself that is only seen as a brief bluish-white shimmer before disappearing. She then steps behind Imrijka and Abenor while taking out a strange blade that Aasgar has never seen before.

R1T21: Too diseased for the normal show of dominance and aggression, one of the wolves in the back just closes into the mass of heroes standing together. Aasgar is completely surprised, but his armor holds firm against the attack of the small wolf.

R1T20: Aasgar, you have no weapons in hand (all stowed, walking carefully and nonthreateningly down a town street). What do you do?

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Cici: 22.
* Mage armor for 3 hours.
Red Wolf: 21. (16:16).
Aasgar: 20.
Blue Wolf: 15. (16:16).
Green Wolf: 12. (16:16).
Imrijka: 11.
Abenor: 10.

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R1T20: Aasgar takes on a defensive stance before shouting out instructions of warning to the others. Now that the flow of battle is upon him, Aasgar gets an insight of how to try to read where a wolf reacts to pain to strike a merciful killing blow there.

R1T15-12: The two other wolves close on Aasgar, one of them charging, but his stance and armor keep them at bay.

R1T11: Imrijka steps back and away, taking out her finely crafted composite longbow, and casts a spell upon herself. That done, she looks upon the wolves. "May Pharasma allow me deadly accuracy to end your misery quickly, wolves."

R1T10: Abenor steps into the middle of the street, getting into a lunging stance as he quick draws Ileor in a smooth strike that drops the first wolf (22 on crit) to then continue past to the wolf beyond for 18, dropping that one as well.

End Round One, Begin Round 2 ...

R2T22: Cici casts a spell on her hand, electricity arcing all around it. She steps forward over the first fallen wolf and reaches at the last one. Her touch does 21 electricity, dropping the wolf.

Given that these wolves cannot be saved, the party performs CDGs on the wolves.

Combat Ends ...

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HEROES: +4 morale bonus to AC til R2T20.
Cici: 22.
* Mage armor for 3 hours.
Red Wolf: 21. (-6:16). DYING!!!
Aasgar: 20. Circular stance.
Blue Wolf: 15. (-2:16). DYING!!!
Green Wolf: 12. (-5:16). DYING!!!
Imrijka: 11. Bow in hand. Expeditious retreat til R41T11. Destruction judgment (+2 dmg, not on sheet).
Abenor: 10. Katana in hand.

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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?

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Abenor: 28. Two daggers in hand. Reaching blade stance. READIED to use disarming shot at the first enemy that appears.
FTA (Red): 21. (16:16). Spirit sensing stance. Nothing in hand.
Aasgar: 19. Dagger in hand.
FTA (Blue): 18. (16:16).
FTA (Brown): 17. (16:16).
FTA (Green): 16. (16:16).
Imrijka: 15. Asleep.

Liquid Blade.

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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 ...

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FTA (Red): 21. (16:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison.
Aasgar: 19. Dagger in hand. Circular stance.
Abenor: 19.5. One dagger in hand. Reaching blade stance.
FTA (Blue): 18. (16:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison.
FTA (Brown): 17. (16:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison.
FTA (Green): 16. (16:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison.
Imrijka: 15. Asleep.

Liquid Blade.

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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 for 4. 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 ...

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FTA (Red): 21. (16:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. DELAYING!!!
Aasgar: 19. Dagger in hand. Circular stance.
Abenor: 18.5. Ileor in hand. Reaching blade stance.
FTA (Blue) (m): 18. (4:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade.
FTA (Brown): 17. (16:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. DELAYING!!!
FTA (Green) (m): 16. (16:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison.
Imrijka: 15. Asleep.

Liquid Blade.

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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 ...

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FTA (Red) (m): 21. (16:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison.
Aasgar: 19. Dagger in hand. Circular stance.
Abenor: 18.5. Ileor in hand. Reaching blade stance.
FTA (Blue) (m): 18. (0:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade. DDP: 0. DISABLED!!!
FTA (Brown) (f): 17. (16:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. DELAYING!!!
FTA (Green) (m): 16. (16:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. SICKENED til R3T18.5!!!
Imrijka: 15. Asleep.

Liquid Blade.

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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 an enemy down, tapping into a primal fury to give him speed and animal senses. On the other hand, you also have three dead or dying people in front of you.

Abenor's turn ...

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FTA (Red) (m): 21. (-12:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. DYING!!!
Aasgar: 19. Dagger in hand. Circular stance.
Abenor: 18.5. Ileor in hand. Reaching blade stance. RAGE (sheet not updated)!!!
FTA (Blue) (m): 18. (-4:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade. DYING!!!
FTA (Green) (m): 16. (-4:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. DYING!!!
Imrijka: 15. Asleep.

Liquid Blade.

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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?

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FTA (Red) (m): 21. (-13:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. DYING!!!
Aasgar: 19. Dagger in hand. Circular stance.
Abenor: 18.5. Ileor in hand. Reaching blade stance. RAGE (sheet not updated)!!!
FTA (Blue) (m): 18. (-4:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade. STABLE!!!
FTA (Green) (m): 16. (-5:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. DYING!!!
Imrijka: 15. Asleep. Bow in hand.

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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?

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Aasgar: 19. Dagger in hand. Circular stance.
Abenor: 18.5. Ileor in hand. Reaching blade stance. RAGE (sheet not updated)!!!
FTA (Blue) (m): 18. (-4:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade. STABLE!!!
FTA (Green) (m): 16. (-6:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. DYING!!!
Imrijka: 15. Asleep. Bow in hand.

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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?

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Aasgar: 19. Dagger and healing potion in hand. Circular stance.
Abenor: 18.5. Ileor in hand. Reaching blade stance. RAGE (sheet not updated)!!!
FTA (Blue) (m): 18. (-4:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade. STABLE!!!
FTA (Green) (m): 16. (-7:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. DYING!!!
Imrijka: 15. Bow and quiver in hand. Door open.

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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?

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Aasgar: 19. Dagger and healing potion in hand. Circular stance.
Abenor: 18.5. Won't appear again until R18T19.
FTA (Blue) (m): 18. (-4:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade. STABLE!!!
FTA (Green) (m): 16. (-8:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. DYING!!!
Imrijka: 15. Bow and quiver in hand. Door open.

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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?

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Aasgar: 19. Dagger and healing potion in hand.
Abenor: 18.5. Won't appear again until R18T19.
FTA (Blue) (m): 18. (-4:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade. STABLE!!!
FTA (Green) (m): 16. (-9:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. STABILIZED!!!
Imrijka: 15. Bow and quiver in hand. Door open.

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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.

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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?

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Aasgar: 19. Dagger.
Abenor: 18.5. Won't appear again until R18T19.
FTA (Blue) (m): 18. (-4:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade. STABLE!!!
FTA (Green) (m): 16. (-9:16). Spirit sensing stance. Liquid blade + centipede poison. STABILIZED!!!
Imrijka: 15. Bow and quiver in hand. Door open.

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Begin Round One ...

R1T28: "Aasgar, look out!" calls Abenor. He gets into a fighting stance, disappears from his current position, and reappears behind one of the creepy-crawlies, dispatching it in a swift, clean stroke.

R1T25: Cici tosses two small metal projectiles at the remaining creepy-crawly. One misses, but one hits for 4.

R1T22: Aasgar, you just climbed up and you haven't had a chance to take out your axe or get into stance. What do you do?

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Abenor: 28.
Cici: 25.
Aasgar: 22.
Imrijka: 21.
Red: 11. (5:9).

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Surprise Round ...

S25: No sooner does Aasgar hand the knife to Cici, then he sees the reflection of something in that knife towards the ceiling above him. Too late, though, as it moves far faster than himself! Something ugly and hair bites him in his left cheek for 5 DDP.

S7: Aasgar, roll a Fort save vs. poison! This is a surprise round, so you may then respond. Your axe is in your offhand (no action to put two hands on), and while you may make FAs/SwA freely, you may take only a MA or a SA. What do you do?

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Advanced Giant Spider: 25.
Abenor: 23.
Cici: 12.
Imrijka: 10.
Aasgar: 7. DDP (5).

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S7: Aasgar brings both hands to his axe and swings at the bug, hewing mightily for 29! And yet, it still lives...

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Rising zenith strike gained.

Begin Round One ...

R1T25: The spider bites again, hitting Aasgar's armor hard, but not penetrating.

R1T23: Abenor begins giving tactical advice as he steps forward with his long-armed stance. He quick draws his shorter blade and ALSO crits, this time killing the spider.

Combat Ends ...

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Advanced Giant Spider: 25.
Abenor: 23.
Cici: 12.
Imrijka: 10.
Aasgar: 7. DDP (5).

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Abenor sniffs the air, saying, "I smell the stench of burning flesh. It wasn't here a minute ago."

Suddenly, the burnt corpses of plague victims appear on the bedframes, sitting straight up and screaming, their mouth full of fire and ashes!

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Imrijka: 26. SHAKEN til R1T10!!!
Aasgar: 20.
Abenor: 17. SHAKEN til R1T10!!!
Cici: 11. SHAKEN til R1T10!!!
Restless Plague Victims: 10. (6:6).

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"Well, it's pretty obvious that the chilly wind tunnel is the big hole in the ground we saw on the surface," says Imrijka, shivering some as her previous resist energy seems to have ended. "Still, I recommend--"

S22: "Aasgar, look out!" calls Cici. In a flash she is right beside the dwarf, with a strange, small type of blade in one of her hands.

S17-6: Something closes on Aasgar, something small, but Abenor cuts it down with his sword. Something else closes and he does the same thing again. In both instances, whatever was at Aasgar's feet seemed to erupt - not burst into flame - so much as heat from inside, turn to ash, and leave a vague silhouette on the ground.

Combat Ended.....

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Abenor: 28.
Cici: 22. Waveblade in hand.
Imrijka: 16.
Aasgar: 10.

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As Aasgar moves into the chamber and around he sees something that very easily could have been real trouble if he weren't paying attention. It would have surely have been nearly impossible to see if he hadn't noticed the floating, armored skeleton and bits of various detritus held in place in the middle of what seems to be a large, cubical shape of transparent gelatin.

Begin Round One ...

R1T21: Abenor must've caught the corner of some distortion from a sliver of light from Ileor, but apparently that is all he needed to recognize the potential for danger, or at least heightened awareness as he rushes past Aasgar, taking out Kyadrimme (his wakizashi) as he goes. In doing so, he uses both blades to create a sort of protective circle around him. He then creates a dizzying defensive spin where he stands and calls out, "It's a 10' cube of some type of gelatin. I don't know if it is an animate protoplasm or some sort of trap!"

R1T25: Imrijka moves in and to the southwestern corner, looking north. "That looks like depictions I've seen of gelatinous cubes. I know it's an 'animate protoplasm' as you called it. Destroy it quickly, and don't let it touch you!"

She sends out what looks like a terrible shot, but the thing in question is so big and so slow that the arrow hits it, tearing into it for 10, and even showing the "path" the arrow takes before it stops inside the thing.

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Not that Aasgar would have experience, but for your visualization, think of shows where they use ballistic gel?

R1T21: Aasgar, what do you do?

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Abenor: 27. Ileor in hand.
Imrijka: 25. Bow in hand.
Aasgar: 21. Greataxe in hand.
Cici: 14. Waveblade in hand.
Gelatinous Cube: 5. (54:64).

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R1T21: "Hmmm... It's been a long time but..."says Aasgar as he draws his short bow, drops his greataxe with a heavy clang, and fires while adjusting his footing. He isn't skilled at shooting into a combat situation and Abenor's head is in the way, but this thing he is shooting is the broadside of a squishy barn and the arrow still hits for 8.

R1T14: Cici casts a spell on herself for protection and then moves forward. "Wut."

R1T5: The thing glurbles forward slowly, and Abenor deftly manages to shimmy past it. It continues on to the end of the chamber as Imrijka and Cici allow themselves to be moved back rather than be engulfed by the mass. It continues farther, and threatens to engulf Aasgar.

Aasgar, roll a Ref save!

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Abenor: 27. Ileor in hand.
Imrijka: 25. Bow in hand.
Aasgar: 21. Greataxe in hand.
Cici: 14. Waveblade in hand.
Gelatinous Cube: 5. (46:64).

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Aasgar deftly takes a page out of the others' books and rolls past it just as it tries to engulf him, finding himself on the other side.

No that Aasgar is on the other side, he sees that his axe is engulfed.

End Round One, Begin Round 2 ...

R2T27: Abenor moves right up to the cube, and then strikes (17) while teleporting back farther up the chamber from whence he came.

R2T25: Imrijka casts a spell on herself, and then steps back.

R2T21: Aasgar, you see your greataxe engulfed, but it doesn't appear to be ruined or anything ... just inside the thing. What do you do?

Cici on deck, gelatinous cube in the hole ...

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Abenor: 27. Ileor in hand.
Imrijka: 25. Bow in hand. Divine favor til R12T25.
Aasgar: 21. Greataxe dropped; bow in hand.
Cici: 14. Waveblade in hand.
Gelatinous Cube: 5. (29:64).

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R2T21: Aasgar goes full defense and tries to tumble north away from the creature, but he's not particularly good at doing that. The gelatinous cube jiggles into Aasgar (Delayed 4 mod + 1 acid).

R2T14: Cici casts a spell, and a wave of flame rolls over the cube for 5 fire. She then backs up into the corner with the door.

R2T5: The Cube now begins moving back towards the mass of critters to the north. It trundles foward to possibly catch Aasgar.

Aasgar, roll a Ref save. If successful, do you wish to be pushed back into the empty square, or shimmy to the other side of it?

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Abenor: 27. Ileor in hand.
Imrijka: 25. Bow in hand. Divine favor til R12T25.
Aasgar: 21. Greataxe dropped; bow in hand. DDP.
Cici: 14. Waveblade in hand.
Gelatinous Cube: 5. (24:64).

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R2T5: Aasgar handily darts past to the other side of the gelatinous cube.

End Round 2, Begin Round 3 ...

R3T27: "Cici, open the door!" calls Abenor as he drops his wakizashi, then draws and power tosses a dagger into the thing for 11.

R3T25: Imrijka, now having Pharasma's favor, asks the Gray Lady to give her the power to destroy those who oppose her. She then takes deadly aim and shoots a volley at the cube, and the two arrows - powered by a goddess of death - shriek into the cube, discorporating it as it bursts gelatinous (and now non-acidic, harmless) goo everywhere in the room and onto everyone. Cici takes the least of it around the doorway alcove as she was.

Combat Ends ...

Aasgar feels the pain from the wounded that was delayed. As Aasgar recovers his axe (and Abenor his dagger and wakizashi), Cici takes out a wand and touches it to Aasgar for 6 healing, and then again for 4 healing. She puts the wand away, and while that happens, Imrijka's short-duration buff is expending.

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Abenor: 27. Ileor in hand.
Imrijka: 25. Bow in hand.
Aasgar: 21. Greataxe dropped in hand.
Cici: 14. Waveblade in hand.

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Surprise Round ...

S20: As Aasgar gets to the top of the stairs, an R.O.U.S. is there to nip at him, but the dwarven armor holds fast.

Begin Round One ...

R1T22: Abenor hears the sounds of battle, but delays because of his position.

R1T20: The R.O.U.S. bites again, its position on the stairs helping it to secure a hit on Aasgar's hairy chin, but not really hurting him at all.

R1T18: Imrijka delays...

R1T11: Aasgar, your greataxe is in hand. What do you do?

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Abenor: 22. Ileor in hand. DELAYING!!!
Green: 20. (9:9).
Imrijka: 18. Bow in hand. DELAYING!!!
Aasgar: 11. Greataxe in hand.
Red: 10. (9:9).
Blue: 5. (9:9)

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R1T11: Aasgar reasons that sometimes, the simplest way is the best. Grabbing his axe with both hands and swinging it up over his head, he brings it down on the creature right in front of him, bifurcating it from head to tail along its back. He gains strike of the infinite protector.

R1T11.5: Abenor moves up the stairs and past his friend, and into the space of the dead rat while in reaching stance. He unsheathes his blade and strikes both of the other rats down.

Combat Ends...

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Abenor: 22. Ileor in hand. DELAYING!!!
Imrijka: 18. Bow in hand. DELAYING!!!
Aasgar: 11. Greataxe in hand.

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Round One ...

R1T21: Cici calls out, "Nonlethal until we know who they are!"

Cici ducks inside, taking a dizzying route to get on the far side and casts a spell. Electricity envelopes her fingertips as she then tries to affect a man's nervous system instead of stopping his heart. She touches his right upper arm and the energy discharges to do 9 NL electricity to Blue.

R1T19: Abenor runs in and purposefully puts him self in a multi-flank position, both swords now out. He goes right up to the biggest man there, the half-orc. He attacks with his deadly katana, attempting non-deadly strike, but it only slides off the brute's hauberk. At the same time, Abenor suddenly disappears from that position 10' away as he gets into a martial stance. He notices something behind the bar and says, "Hey, barkeep is down behind the bar. Not sure if he's dead or not!"

R1T18-13: The big brute ignores the elf that just tried to fake him out and instead charges the dwarf standing outside. It is clear from the wild swing that the half-orc is drunk ... not just tipsy, but well in his cups. A man standing in the corner moves forward to attack with a longspear, the point barely scraping against the elf's mail.

R1T8: Imrijka closes on the half-orc and puts her hand on his right shoulder. The man seems like a great weight is bearing down on him - not enough to drop him, but affecting him somehow.

R1T5: Blue steps back and stabs at Cici with his longspear, and the latter has to do a very hard deflection to not get stabbed.

R1T4: Aasgar, you have a big, drunken half-orc with a greataxe in hand in front of you, seemingly feeling some kind of weight and wearing a chain shirt. What do you do?

Cici on deck, Abenor in the hole ...

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Cici: 21.
Abenor: 19. Reaching blade stance.
Rishka: 18. SICKENED!!! Charged. STAGGERED til R2T8!!!
Thug Red: 13. (13:13). SICKENED!!! Longspear.
Imrijka: 8.
Bariswort: 6.
Thug Blue: 5. (13:13, 9 NL). SICKENED!!!
Aasgar: 4.

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R1T4: Aasgar shifts his footing and then grabs his axe with both hands and jabs the head towards the orcs midsection, hitting him hard for 21 NL, knocking the wind out of him.

End Round One, Begin Round 2 ...

R2T21: "Anyone recognize where these guys are from?" calls Cici as she steps within the longspear's reach with a defensive flurry that gets countered by the man's spear haft.

R2T19: Abenor launches himself over the small thicket of spears to charge Red in the corner with a low roll to smack his foot for 16 NL, causing excruciating pain as the man's head jerks back against the wall to knock himself out. He answers, "They look like hired thugs from Freedom Town. Same place those assassins that came after us came from."

R2T18: The big half-orc recovers from the charge, but not the strange feeling inflicted by Imrijka. He slurs something drunken and particularly insulting to dwarves at Abenor. He steps out of the doorway and attacks. This time, his greataxe bites solidly into the armor.

R2T8: Imrijka says, "We don't have time to make nice with paid mercenaries, Cici. Put them down as best you can."

She then steps behind Aasgar and prays to the Lady of Graves and touches Aasgar's back, "Dear Mother, they say your prophecy is askew since Aroden's death. I beseech thee, show my ally-dwarf that your glimpse of the future can still aid us mortals in our endeavors. Aasgar, bring this gift to bear as quickly as needed to end this fight. Do not hoard it 'just in case.'"

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Within the next minute, any time you want to get a +1 bonus to pretty much any d20 roll, mention that you are going to use Imrijka's guidance.

R2T5: Blue drops his longspear and draws a longsword, attacking Cici (who dodges).

R2T4: Aasgar, you have a guidance you may use. What do you do?

Cici on deck, Abenor in the hole ...

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Cici: 21. DS.
Abenor: 19. Inner sphere stance.
Rishka: 18. (32:32, 21 NL). SICKENED!!!
Thug Red: 13. (13:13, 16 NL). SICKENED!!! Longspear. UNCONSCIOUS!!!
Imrijka: 8.
Bariswort: 6.
Thug Blue: 5. (13:13, 9 NL). SICKENED!!! Longspear dropped, longsword in hand.
Aasgar: 4.

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R2T4: Aasgar grins at the orc at Imrijka's words. Grabbing his axe again with both hands he brings it up over his head and swings down in a powerful overhand strike. The brute tries to block but Aasgar cuts through much of his right elbow and into his chest for 20, dropping him.

End Round 2, Begin Round 3 ...

R3T21: Cici steps back but the thug steps up to her as she does so, so she maintains her defensive stance. Protecting her head as she brings the forward part of her body down towards the man she strikes him in the wrist with her elbow for 3, then wards him away with a defensive kick.

R3T19: Abenor steps into the flanking position provided and with multiple strokes cuts the man down.

Combat Ends ...

Now what?

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Cici: 21. DS.
Abenor: 19. Inner sphere stance.
Rishka: 18. (12:32, 21 NL). SICKENED!!! UNCONSCIOUS!!!
Thug Red: 13. (13:13, 16 NL). SICKENED!!! Longspear. UNCONSCIOUS!!!
Imrijka: 8.
Bariswort: 6.
Aasgar: 4.

DEAD
Blue.

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Begin Round One ...

R1T11: Aasgar, what do you do?

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Green Dog: 20. (10:10). DELAYING!!!
Cici: 17. Unaware ...
Orc Beast-Tamer: 13.
Abenor: 12.
Aasgar: 11.
Imrijka: 10.
Red Dog: 9. (10:10).
Blue Dog: 8. (10:10).
Lucette: 4.