(4) Randall: The Bishop leads you through the monastery, carefully carrying the wand.
** (1) Chtkrilktha looks about, noting any possible escape routes **
** (6) Lae'nial looks about, noting any possible books **
(4) Randall: Eventually he reaches a large room. There are various candles and braziers located around the room and on a table in the centre you can see a small objct wrapped inwhite cloth
(4) Randall: The knife
** (2) Shaorin does NOT use detect psionics **
** (2) Shaorin doesn't want to be blinded **
** (6) Lae'nial examines the structural details of the room. **
(6) Lae'nial: Knowledge: Architecture and Engineering Skill Check: [1d20+8] -> [14,8] = (22)
(4) Randall: "With this wand I will be able to remove the taint. Normally it would take me 4 days, but by using the wand I can do it in half the time"
** (6) Lae'nial wonders how long it took to find the wand... **
(4) Randall: The room is deep within the monastery, the only light is from the candles.
(4) Randall: OC: it took about a week
(2) Shaorin: If you could do it without the wand in four days, why isn't it already done?
(4) Randall: ?
(1) Chtkrilktha: (lets just make it 4 weeks down to 2 days and move on)
(4) Randall: Thou shalt not point oput theDm's plot holes
(6) Lae'nial: (Then don't make them)
(4) Randall: :(
(6) Lae'nial: (Everybody makes mistakes. Criticism is normal. Besides, it's easily patched over. :) )
(4) Randall: "Let me correct myself. With the wand I can remove the taint I would otherwise be unable to"
(6) Lae'nial: ( :) )
(2) Shaorin: (much better, and that's the initial impression I got when he sent us out originally)
(4) Randall: "If you can leave me I will get started. The process requires me to meditate and pray and I need solitude"
(6) Lae'nial: "Do you mind if I look at your library?"
(4) Randall: "If you wish, It is situated down the hallway"
(6) Lae'nial: "Thank you."
** (6) Lae'nial wanders off to find a librarian - With his newfound experience, he thinks it still probably isn't a good idea to wander around un-escorted. **
(6) Lae'nial: (Or something along those lines)
(2) Shaorin: (I expect Homus could find you one pretty quickly)
** (1) Chtkrilktha looks nervous in the presence of so many mammal-creatures **
** (6) Lae'nial asks Homus to find me a librarian **
(6) Lae'nial: "Krilktha, do you want to see the library?"
(4) Randall: "The Bishop usually organises his library, but I am sure one of the junior clerics will be able to help you" Homus explains
(4) Randall: OC: hang on emergency brb
(1) Chtkrilktha: "The flows of the desert do not make much use of books. May be interesting."
(6) Lae'nial: "That seems to depend on who is saying what. And the most usefull book on architecture I have ever read was Holumes Catalogue of Techniques for the Construction, Maintainence and Use of Buildings. Ten volumes of one thousand pages each, covering more than anyone could ever remember. I feel asleep after halfway through book three. It wasn't the first time I had done so, but it was the last time."
(4) Randall: ok back
(4) Randall: Homus calls over one of the junior clerics who leads you to the library
(6) Lae'nial: (Explaining, at least in part, his +8 to Architecture and Engineering)
(4) Randall: :)
** (6) Lae'nial browses. **
(4) Randall: OC: I must say, at risk of derailing the conversation, that is a starnge skill to ahve
(4) Randall: OC: anyway
(6) Lae'nial: (Thought it would round off the character by adding a weird detail.
(4) Randall: You have read in the library for a little when you hear a loud roar outside the monsatery, originating from the beseiging hoard
** (1) Chtkrilktha goes to examine **
** (2) Shaorin heads to the walls to investigate **
** (6) Lae'nial proceeds to the wall with speed **
(6) Lae'nial: (Failed the initiative check...)
(4) Randall: You reach the battlements, to se that the hoard has roused. They are standing outside of arrow range. As you watch a dark figure walks out of the crowd
(4) Randall: In a loud voice soemhow carried across the distance, he calls out "Return the Knife" His voice is oddly dry
(4) Randall: "I know you are attempting to pervert it. Can you not see you have no chance against us. Return the knife and we may let you live"
(2) Shaorin: (hmm, how far away is he?)
** (6) Lae'nial , being nearly out of spells, proceeds to watch and wait. **
(4) Randall: OC: lets just say he is out of range
(2) Shaorin: (aww, no replying with energy missile... :( )
(4) Randall: The hoard comprises mostly goblins but also a few larger monsters and one large creature that looms over the others. It has dark blue skin and wear assorted furs and wears a horned helmet. It wioelds a large axe
(4) Randall: Homus joins you at the wall "The knife is an abomination, we will nbot release it till it is cleansed"
(4) Randall: "So be it, Paladin" the figure replies. At an unseen signal the hoard rushes the wall
(2) Shaorin: (the pile of treasure rushes the wall??? :P)
(2) Shaorin: (you mean horde)
(4) Randall: OC: oh right, my bad
(6) Lae'nial: (I don't think I used my magic missile spells)
(2) Shaorin: (I can still do some serious goblin blasting - 37 remaining PP is enough for 7 energy cones)
(2) Shaorin: (or should I make them falter on a whole lot of grease?)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (lets not be nit-picky about spelling :P)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (7??? ok, psionics is officially unbalanced)
(6) Lae'nial: (Told you)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (but that is for another time...)
(2) Shaorin: (but that's without augmenting them, and leaving nothing for lower level stuff)
(4) Randall: There are a few novices on the wall with you, as well as Homus
(1) Chtkrilktha: (which no other class can do... stuck with all of those low level spell slots)
(4) Randall: The wave of Goblins surges across the snow, the giant figure following up behind
** (6) Lae'nial shoots at them as soon as the're in range. **
(4) Randall: OC: I don't think I will shoew the goblins as it would take too long to place them all.
(4) Randall: OC: just say they are running in front of the Giant
(2) Shaorin: (let's just assume they die in droves. If they don't, I can help the process along quite nicely)
(2) Shaorin: (I believe the giant is in energy cone range (60 ft))
(4) Randall: the Clerics unleash waves of arrows cutting down many goblins.
(4) Randall: Yes, you have 1 round befire the giant reaches the wall
** (2) Shaorin unleashes firey doom :D **
(2) Shaorin: Shaorin Trannyth uses Energy Cone ( level 3, "Deal 5d6 energy damage in 60-ft. cone. (Augment: +1d6 damage/PP and +1 DC/2 PP)" )
(2) Shaorin: Shaorin Trannyth uses Augment ( level 1, "Increase the effect of another power by 1 PP" )
(2) Shaorin: [6d6+6] -> [4,5,4,6,3,2,6] = (30)
(2) Shaorin: Reflex DC 19 for half
(4) Randall: [1d20] -> [7] = (7)
(6) Lae'nial: Longbow Attack Roll: [1d20+6] -> [7,6] = (13)===> DMG: [1d8+0] -> [4,0] = (4)
(6) Lae'nial: (On the giant - Miss, I presume?)
(2) Shaorin: (A huge wedge of goblins in front of it should also be cooked)
(2) Shaorin: (60 ft cone)
(4) Randall: The arrow misses, the cone blasts many goblins and the giant roars as it beats off some of the flames
(4) Randall: OC: cht has no ranged weapons?
(2) Shaorin: (hmm, with 4 arms, could a thri-kreen dual-wield bows?)
(4) Randall: OC: I don't think so, they would get in the way
** (1) Chtkrilktha has some chatkchas, but they arent too long ranged, and wasted on goblins **
(4) Randall: next turn
(1) Chtkrilktha: (could do crossbows, maybe, since they require a lot less effort, but meh)
(4) Randall: I think you get an AoO when the Giant moves into a threatened square
(2) Shaorin: (no, only when moving out)
(6) Lae'nial: Dex check: [1d20+4] -> [11,4] = (15)
(4) Randall: OC: ok, just checking
(2) Shaorin: (we'd need greater reach than it to get an AoO on its approach)
(4) Randall: [1d20] -> [8] = (8)
(2) Shaorin: Initiative: [1d20+2] -> [20,2] = (22)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (if it moves in to attack, no AOO; only if it just moves there and twiddles its thumbs)
(1) Chtkrilktha: Initiative: [1d20+6] -> [20,6] = (26)
(4) Randall: The goblins place assorted wooden ladders trying to climb the wall the various guards engage them. Meanwhile the Giant makes for you
(2) Shaorin: (are there battlements on the wall I can hide behind?)
(4) Randall: Yes indeed, you all have cover from the battlements
(4) Randall: chts turn
(2) Shaorin: (I think that should mean I can move along the wall with provoking AoO's from the giant)
** (1) Chtkrilktha does some full attack **
(1) Chtkrilktha: Gythka (MW), double wield Attack Roll: [1d20+7] -> [7,7] = (14)===> DMG: [1d8+4] -> [4,4] = (8)
(1) Chtkrilktha: Gythka (MW), double wield Attack Roll: [1d20+7] -> [19,7] = (26)===> DMG: [1d8+4] -> [4,4] = (8)
(1) Chtkrilktha: Gythka (MW), double wield Attack Roll: [1d20+7] -> [17,7] = (24)===> DMG: [1d8+4] -> [4,4] = (8)
(1) Chtkrilktha: Gythka (MW), double wield Attack Roll: [1d20+7] -> [18,7] = (25)===> DMG: [1d8+4] -> [1,4] = (5)
(4) Randall: yep, cover emans no aoO
(4) Randall: your gythka bites intot he giant 3 times
(2) Shaorin: (but I think Chtkrilktha would just about have to jump on top of the battlements to attack the giant with melee)
(6) Lae'nial: (Jump on the club, run up the giants arm, cut it's throat, change name to Drizzt)
(2) Shaorin: (wrong race, I'm afraid)
(4) Randall: OC: I think I have to check for the Gythkas reach
(6) Lae'nial: (More of a humourous comment than any real intent)
(1) Chtkrilktha: OC: Oh? I can leap on its sholder and stab its neck or something :P
(1) Chtkrilktha: OC: Only get two attacks then, but oh well
(2) Shaorin: (with your jump bonus, you could probably jump all the way over it and maybe even past the goblin horde all in one leap)
(2) Shaorin: (use its head as a launch platform)
(6) Lae'nial: (Change name to Spiderman)
(4) Randall: OC: I'm unsure what the reach of a large weapon is. What I had in mind was that you can hit the Giant and it can hit you, but you are in cover
(1) Chtkrilktha: (dont want to leave teh soft fleshies to be squashed ;))
(1) Chtkrilktha: (lets just play the game... we check the rules too much)
(2) Shaorin: (whatever works, let's not get too picky)
(2) Shaorin: (my turn?)
(4) Randall: yes
(2) Shaorin: let's see how many ladders I can roast
** (2) Shaorin aims along the wall with one edge of the cone **
(2) Shaorin: Shaorin Trannyth uses Energy Cone ( level 3, "Deal 5d6 energy damage in 60-ft. cone. (Augment: +1d6 damage/PP and +1 DC/2 PP)" )
(2) Shaorin: Shaorin Trannyth uses Augment ( level 1, "Increase the effect of another power by 1 PP" )
(2) Shaorin: [6d6+6] -> [6,6,3,3,6,4,6] = (34)
(2) Shaorin: same DC
(4) Randall: like this
(2) Shaorin: (yes)
(4) Randall: ok
(4) Randall: [1d20] -> [12] = (12)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (me wonders if he should point out that Shaorin technically provoked an AoO)
(2) Shaorin: (I have cover, remember?)
(4) Randall: You blast many goblins off their ladders, and burn the giant
(4) Randall: LAenials turn
(2) Shaorin: (with that hot a fire, I'd expect the ladders themselves to burn up, too)
(4) Randall: well yes of course
** (6) Lae'nial backs about thirty feet away and shoots again. **
(6) Lae'nial: Longbow Attack Roll: [1d20+6] -> [12,6] = (18)===> DMG: [1d8+0] -> [2,0] = (2)
(4) Randall: no luck
** (6) Lae'nial stares at his hands in concern **
(4) Randall: giants turn
** (1) Chtkrilktha prepares for doom **
(6) Lae'nial: (I suggest becomings a marine, and never being the first one in)
(4) Randall: The Giant moves along the wall and attacks Shaorin
(4) Randall: [1d20] -> [6] = (6)
(2) Shaorin: (AC 23 with the cover :D)
(4) Randall: OC: then it just makes it
(4) Randall: [3d100] -> [88,75,17] = (180)
(4) Randall: never mind that
(4) Randall: [3d6+13] -> [6,5,3,13] = (27)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (I was gonna say... 3d100? eek!)
** (2) Shaorin screams in pain **
(4) Randall: next turn
(2) Shaorin: Initiative: [1d20+2] -> [11,2] = (13)
(4) Randall: [3d20+13] -> [8,10,20,13] = (51)
(6) Lae'nial: Dex check: [1d20+4] -> [8,4] = (12)
(4) Randall: oops
(4) Randall: [1d20] -> [3] = (3)
(1) Chtkrilktha: Initiative: [1d20+6] -> [20,6] = (26)
(2) Shaorin: (right, 51 init...)
** (1) Chtkrilktha is quick on his feet today **
(2) Shaorin: (extremely)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (we keep forgetting facings)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (ooh flanking)
(2) Shaorin: (which don't actually matter in D&D 3.x)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (yes they do.. you get attack bonuses in flanking and rear attacks)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (or at least, they get no dex or some such)
(6) Lae'nial: (No rear attacks that I can remember in 3.5)
(2) Shaorin: (flanking, yes, but that's defined by having an ally on the other side, not by attacking from the side)
(6) Lae'nial: (Flat-footed may cover it, under 'not being able to respond')
(4) Randall: shaorins and laenials init
(6) Lae'nial: (12)
(2) Shaorin: (13)
(4) Randall: OC: oh sorry, missed them
(4) Randall: Chts turn
(1) Chtkrilktha: (not flanking... sorry. loss of shiedl bonus, not that he is using one)
** (1) Chtkrilktha unleashes desert fury **
(1) Chtkrilktha: Gythka (MW), double wield Attack Roll: [1d20+7] -> [16,7] = (23)===> DMG: [1d8+4] -> [5,4] = (9)
(1) Chtkrilktha: Gythka (MW), double wield Attack Roll: [1d20+7] -> [11,7] = (18)===> DMG: [1d8+4] -> [2,4] = (6)
(1) Chtkrilktha: Gythka (MW), double wield Attack Roll: [1d20+7] -> [18,7] = (25)===> DMG: [1d8+4] -> [6,4] = (10)
(1) Chtkrilktha: Gythka (MW), double wield Attack Roll: [1d20+7] -> [14,7] = (21)===> DMG: [1d8+4] -> [6,4] = (10)
(4) Randall: Cht unleashes a flail of blows on the Giants head, taking him out
(2) Shaorin: (so, are there any goblins brave enough to climb over the piled burnt corpses of their comrades, or is the giant the only one in range for energy cone?)
(4) Randall: OC: laenial, is you mini on?
(6) Lae'nial: (I don't know where it is)
(2) Shaorin: (oh, giant's dead already)
(6) Lae'nial: (Somewhere around there. Big wall, kinda hard to tell)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (you can do facing by right clicking on the mini)
(6) Lae'nial: (Thirty feet thataway)
(4) Randall: I'm starting to think psionics is too powerful. Cause it could be all the fire vs ice creatures
(4) Randall: :)
(2) Shaorin: (well, energy vulnerabilities do make things weaker against flexible energy attacks)
(4) Randall: Anyway, while you ahve been fighting the giant, the others have been fending off the goblins.
(6) Lae'nial: (You know, real adventurers would be munchkins)
(2) Shaorin: (goblins, what goblins? All I see are big stretches of burning corpses :P)
(4) Randall: Once they see the Giant fall the goblins fall back in panic
(4) Randall: OC: you said last time that real adventureres would tool themselves out as mucha s possible since their lives depend on it
(6) Lae'nial: (Oh. Wasn't sure if I had)
(2) Shaorin: (IC, adventurers wouldn't know the rules well enough to really munchkinize themselves)
(6) Lae'nial: (IC, there are no rules)
(2) Shaorin: (exactly)
(4) Randall: The assault beaten off, night begins to fall
(6) Lae'nial: (Yes. So the warrior does not learn Power Attack; he learns how to attack harder, while leaving himself vulnerable - And he learns when this is a good trade-off or not very precisely)
** (2) Shaorin seeks healing **
(6) Lae'nial: (But feats that let you do things anyone could do are...Silly)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (feats are supposed to represent being able to do that thing extremely well)
(1) Chtkrilktha: "Should we flow forward and take the advantage, before they regroup?"
(6) Lae'nial: (Yes...But can someone without Power Attack trade AC for Accuracy?)
(2) Shaorin: (it's base attack for damage, and I don't think the rules cover it)
(4) Randall: Homus moves over to the injured Shaorin. "Let me tend your wounds" he says. He pulls lays his hands on the wound and heals 21 dmg
(2) Shaorin: (combat expertise, however, does have a non-expert version known as "fighting defensively")
(2) Shaorin: thank you very much
(6) Lae'nial: (But no 'fighting offensively'?)
** (2) Shaorin 's giant bruise fades to something much smaller, but isn't gone **
(4) Randall: OC: I'm at a bit of a loss how to continue. I DO have some stuff palnned, but am not prepared to do it at the moment. I had a hard enough time thinking up stuff for this week
(6) Lae'nial: (I've heard the're going to make 4.0 soon - Just a rumour, though)
(4) Randall: I'v eheard that rumour a while ago, it was a prank
(6) Lae'nial: (Ah, thanks)
(6) Lae'nial: (Well, the dust is getting to me anyway...)
(1) Chtkrilktha: (damned WOTC sapping away all of our money... how long was it between AD&D and AD&D 2nd? Like 12 years or something?)
(4) Randall: I think it was an aprtil foold day joke by WoTC
** (1) Chtkrilktha damnes WOTC anyways **
(4) Randall: OC: ah well if NArf is starting to get affected by dust I say we stop
(2) Shaorin: ok
(4) Randall: OC: Hey Narf, are you canadian?
(6) Lae'nial: (Yep)
(4) Randall: OC: you'll have to excuse me, I'm sorry, but I always assumed you lived in utah
(1) Chtkrilktha: Not all Mormons are in Utah! ;)