[pnpgm] Game update #55 - File #240 - Gar. Combat T2: P1+2
Scott Adams
longshot at darktech.org
Fri Jul 4 06:39:25 CEST 2008
HT Alias/Player Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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R1 John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar Ma
?? Chris Wells...........Ben'dar...........Warrior.Normal/Human Ma
R1 Tom Corckett..........Caladan...........Wizard Normal/Human Ma
W2 Marcel Liberty........Chion.............Sailor..Normal/Human Ma
-- Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....NormalFaerry Fe
Do David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human Ma
R? J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
W4 Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human Fe
R4 Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human Fe
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Boyzdar [Wolf] (Strie'bog),
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[Recap]
From Fremea: [Re: Actions]
Fremea will go a little more to the "ground" to make sure no
one is dead, and when she does, then she will see how many more
there are. She shift tactics to disabling (cutting wings or
whatever will work faster), so that the creatures are not
flying around so much anymore and the party can take them out
faster then.
GM: Ack.
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From Chion: [Re: Actions]
Chion will smile over his shoulder to Ben'Dar, "This brings
back memories. Looks like we know what happened to that mage
who came here alone." Smiling, but hoping they took him prisoner
to eat later... and that time has not come yet.
GM: Ack.
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From Ben'dar: [Re: Actions]
Ben'Dar shouts back, "What do these things want? Are we in
their territory or are they hunting us?" Ben'Dar hopes it's
the latter, because typically hunting packs won't continue to
fight if they start taking casualties.
[Quote deleted.]
GM: Ack.
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From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions]
Z'leyra guards Arawn's back as he guards hers. She continues to
use her staff defensively (unless not attacked - then she will
use it offensively) and relying on her armor to protect her she
tries to attract the attention of the gargoyles towards her (and
away from less protected members of the party) by yelling
"Filthy flying dirt droppings! Were you hatched by a chicken?
Or are you just scared?"
GM: Ack.
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From Raban: [Re: Actions]
<Sorry I was out of town for work longer than expected>
<Raban's actions look fine as before. And yes knowing he punched
out a female doing serious damage will upset him and he will find
out at some point. In general he would have trouble fighting
females, as he would try to minimize the damage he does and try
for just knockouts or even immobilizing in some cases.>
<Some characters have some really good Armor! Raban's armor is
quite pitiful by comparison, but even a tiny amount is useful.>
GM: Ack. Yes. Long character history and magical toys for armor.
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From Arawn: [Re: Actions]
As Arawn moves to a defensive position opposite of the Z'leyra
he quickly says,
"I sense a power protecting them! They should be stone!"
If attacked-
- He will fight with his elven blade using his EL offensively
If he or Z'leyra are not attacked-
- He will attempt to use Mana Reading in hopes of understanding
what magic is protecting the gargoyles
If someone else in the party is overwhelmed- -
He will assist with either his elven bow or his elven blade.
He will try to keep close to Z'leyra if possible but will
move if that is required to save another party member.
Also, though the effects of the spell are short, he will try to
give a warning to anyone in range if he can see a threat.
GM: Ack.
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[New Stuff]
[Marqi 30- Ma 1st, 1633TH. 2nd-4th Days of Adventure #4.
[Location: En route East]
[For the last three days and nights Fremea and Arawn has spent a
lot of time together. Chatting openly and privately at great
length. Bits and pieces overheard en route are things of the
sidh world and the cosmology of the gods. At night they both
sit a good distance away from the campsite. Not far out of sight
but out of earshot. They talk at great length and from camp it
seems Arawn does more of the teaching while Fremea seems eager to
learn and the one to ask questions. To some it seems they are
being rude with a secret chat but to those who can sense deeper
insight its clear the two are just learning from each other. Both
come from unique worlds. One a person of the highest caliber in
Sidh society from the upper world. The other a lowly slave barely
trained in magic and combat. Opposite seem to attract. On the
last night [Ma 1] after the Giant combat and the party settles
into camp the two go off for a intensive chat. Sentries who
patrol the camp in the Chaos domain watch them every so often.
Those that do notice Arawn just sits sit as if in a trance from
10pm or so until 4am the next morning. The sentries become
concerned and are tempted to approach. But every so often Fremea
returns quickly to camp to stretch her legs and stop any nosy
sentries. The last sentry of the night Z'leyra notices at around
4am Arawn wakes up from his trance and gulps down water from a
skin. Then speaks quietly to Fremea. Fremea stands and waves her
wings as if in an excited tone. She begins to pace back and forth
as she listens to Arawn. Then several minutes later she settles
down and watches Arawn. On a 3rd patrol pass Z'leyra notices
Arawn cast some spell and then moments later on a 5th pass the two
begin to talk quietly again. Around 4:30 that morning the two
return to camp to catch up on some much needed sleep. But its
clear to Z'leyra Fremea seems too excited to sleep. Arawn
seemingly drained falls asleep quickly. In fact Fremea's excited
nature carries over to the next morning and events at the Castle
land area.]
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[Ma 2nd, 1633TH. 5th Day of Adventure #4.
[Location: Chaos domain, Dark Lands, 9 Miles up]
[Time: 9:29am]
[Turn 2: Phase 1]
[Mana Allocation - ]
[Kiet reaches down with his left hand and places it on a piece
of rope on his belt. He begins to build mana for another rope
spell.]
[Missile Fire - ]
[Kiet knows the large gargoyle M#6 is nearby and he has a
chance of throwing his rope at it. He pulls the rope off his
belt and throws it toward the wings of the fleeing gargoyle.
But the rope misses by a half foot and drops to the ground.]
[Magic Effect - ]
[Kiet curses mentally to himself but since he has the mana
energy allocated he casts the quick entangle spell onto the
rope nearby. He knows he could always use it in melee or
another few seconds. The rope jerks indicating the spell
worked. Kiet notes it for the future.]
[Melee & Movement - ]
[Corona dives toward F#3 again who he hit previously and wounded.
He fires another set of fire energy out from his eyes but
the bolts miss the female entirely.]
[Fremea, invisible, swoops down to about 8 feet off the ground
and checks on the party. Finds all seems well and then chooses
a target. In her quick sweep she finds F#17 is nearby and
chooses her. She flies toward her but at the last second a
gust of wind hits and Fremea is pushed to the left and the
gargoyle to the right. Fremea misses her target by a good 2
feet.]
[Male #2 thrusts his sword while still on the ground toward
Chion but fails to strike the wizard entirely.]
[Male #4 swings from a quick fly over his sword at Unali but
fails to hit her as well, the sword going wild.]
[Male #5 lands to the side of Arawn and thrusts his sword.
The sword slams against Arawn's Elven buckler with a loud
thump. But the shield and his magical armor aura protect
him from the damage.]
[Male #6 lands in front of Raban and as doing so his sword
slices down and hits Raban's left shoulder doing 2 points
of cutting damage to the tall man.]
[Now the female gargoyles all act and fly toward new random
targets...]
[F#4 dives toward Ben'dar again but her claws fail to even
get within a foot of him.]
[F#12 decides Z'leyra is too well defended and chooses now to
attack Caladan. Her claws strike at Caladan's right shoulder
but fails to penetrate his armor.]
[F#18 dives toward Chion but strong gust of winds sends her
spiraling just out of range as she flies back up.]
[F#3 changes from Ben'dar to fly toward Kiet but her claw and
wing attack does nothing as he is able to duck just in the
last second.]
[F#6 and F#9 dive toward Raban but both in their coordinated
attack fail to make contact at all.]
[F#14 and F#15 dive toward Unali, her dagger gives her
warning and she dodges the first strike easily. But the
second one has very sharp claws or something in her hand.
The slashing blow penetrates her chainmail and draws blood
on Unali's left rib cage under her heart area.]
[F#11 and F#17 dive toward Z'leyra. The first tries to use
her wings to hit and distract Z'leyra. Z'leyra's head
turns to see the attack but takes no damage. The second one
stops in mid-flight and tries to grab Z'leyra's staff away
while doing so she kicks at Z'leyra's right arm but she
takes no damage. The fragile female gives up and tries to
take to the air.]
[F#1, F#7 and F#10 converge on Corona at one time figuring
for an easy target this time. The first and third land
claws on the bird. The first swipes at the eagle's under
side just under its left wing and draws blood. The third
from above claws and swipes a mark against the eagle's neck
and draws blood. The second creature fails to hit. But the
eagle still seems in good shape from the minor cuts.]
[The Firesnake comes to help Corona and comes behind the
gargoyle (F#7) and under her arm and bites the left side of
the leathery creature in the middle of her left side. The
damage does 9 points of damage and the acid of the snake's
bite causes the creature to yell in pain a terrifying howl.
It begins to spiral down in pain and impacts on the ground
near Ben'dar wiggling in pain.]
[Raban upset that he got wounded growls and charges the
sword carrying gargoyle (#6). With his right hand he grabs the
hilt of the sword and yanks. With his left foot he pushes
forward against the creature, pulling away the sword and
throwing the gargoyle to the ground. Raban tosses the
sword to the side and charges the downed creature. But
the creature is able to roll to the left right on top of
the magically attuned rope left on the ground by Kiet.]
[Unali leaps up toward M#4 who just tried to attack her but
her dagger misses its legs by inches.]
[Ben'dar swings at F#3 but fails to hit the agile female.]
[While M#5 thrust high, Arawn's reflexes kick in and his
magical sword dives low and impales the creature for 5
points in the middle left rib cage area.]
[As Arawn stabs the creature he yells over his shoulder to
Z'leyra in hopes to inform her of something.]
Arawn: "I sense a power protecting them! They should be stone!"
[Chion tired of the gargoyle trying to pick at Chion like some
heithir beast. Chion twists and spins to the left arcing
to the left of the male gargoyle and then coming to face the
side of the beast. Bending Chion thrusts his sai toward the
creature's right side just ahead of the wings. The dagger
penetrates ribs and goes in deep doing massive damage. The
creature howls in pain and then slides to the ground dead.
As Chion does this he speaks out loud to Ben'dar.]
Chion: "This brings back memories. Looks like we know what
happened to that mage who came here alone."
[Chion smiles knowing that if the party is taken to be eaten
at least Raban should be first then Chion. Might give
him time to escape. That poor Faerry would only be a light
midnight snack.]
[Z'leyra sees the one creature fly off that tried to get her
staff and turns as she hears Arawn's words back to the
one who tried to buffet her with her wings. She swings at
the nearby creature. The staff hits the creature in the
right arm breaking the arm and sending the creature spiraling
into the ground. The arm damage, previous damage and now
crushing damage from fall kills the creature.]
Z'leyra: "Filthy flying dirt droppings! Were you hatched by a
chicken? Or are you just scared?"
[Kiet sees from the corner of his right eye Raban wrestle one
male creature to the ground, landing on or near his thrown
rope it seems. Kiet smiles but has another male creature
in his vicinity to deal with. Defending himself he swipes
at F#3, the dagger slices the middle of her left wing as
she flies away doing massive cutting. She lands on the
ground in pain as her wing is too damaged to fly.]
GM: Good news is no one died. Bad news is I fear I may
have goofed somewhere. I hate it when my GM-sense
kicks in on this but can't touch it. Maybe I goofed
on which creature was where. But I think its safe. :)
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[Turn 2: Phase 2]
[Mana Allocation - None]
[Missile Fire - None]
[Magic Effect - ]
[Kiet seeing the danger directly in front of him gone, turns
to the male creature Raban tackled. Using his free hand he
moves his fingers around and then into a circle and tightens
the circle. Under the creature the rope encircles it's right
wing strut and the creature's neck. Then the rope begins to
brace and tighten around the creature's scaled neck. The
creature begins to claw at his throat to loosen the rope.
Kiet tries to nod at Raban to do something but doesn't
want to lose his concentration by voicing it.]
[Melee & Movement - ]
[Corona quickly dives to the right having been attacked by
3 females. Corona then dives down in a semi-circle and comes
up in a right arc toward F#10 which Fremea previously injured.
Two red small fire lances burst from his eyes and hits the
creature in the left arm setting it on fire. the creature
howls in pain and falls down among the clouds with a wet splat
near Arawn, but not moving.]
[Fremea sees F#5 fly past her and decides to go after the
creature. She flies straight toward the creature going for
her wings. but the dagger swing comes short by a few
inches as the creature swoops down into the mist.]
[Male #4 dives up and around back toward Unali. Her dagger
warns her in time preventing a deadly hit to the head to
a severe hit. As her duck saves her the sword dips to
a lower portion of her back and impales just slightly in
her left side back drawing blood and 2 points of damage
past her chainmail. But she figures it could've been far
worse without the dagger.]
[The firesnake flies toward F#17 trying to help Z'leyra out
but the creature is too swift for the smaller snake.]
[F#9 and F#15 dive toward Arawn in sequence. Both try to
claw Arawn and distract him from the male he is attacking.
The first fails to strike anything. The second one
slams her fist into Arawn's raised buckler doing nothing.]
[F#14 and F#18 dive toward Caladan. His clairvoyance spell
helps though and the first fails to strike entirely. The
second however, hits Caladan's left side drawing a deep
line of blood doing 5 points of damage.]
[F#12 dives toward Chion seeing him take down one male and
with a sharp rock in her hand swipes it across his left
chest middle section cutting through his chainmail and doing
3 points of damage.]
[F#5 dives toward Kiet and tries to hit with both her claws
at the nimble man but fails to land them.]
[F#4 sees Raban on the floor and his back wide open. She
dives toward the tall man Not seeing her she swipes
across Raban's back and draws blood doing 4 points of damage.]
[F#1 and F#17 dive toward Unali Her magical dagger made
by Z'leyra alerts her to this. She lifts her non-magical
dagger in defense and deflects one of the female set of
claws. The second one however goes around the dagger and
slices up her left arm doing 1 point past her armor.]
[Raban growls at being touched on the back. But he didn't
see her. He just hopes the foul creature has no disease.
He sees the male creature on the ground choking by the
magical rope and heads toward it on his knees a few feet
away. Raban draws up on fist and slugs the creature in
the fist knocking him out. As the creature loses vision
his arms fall and the rope continues its tightening and
chokes the creature to death.]
[Unali swings at Male #4 again but fails to hit.]
[Ben'dar smiles and swings his long pike at F#12 which just
tries to attack Chion. The pike hits the fleeing creature
in the left arm and slices it completely off below the
elbow area. The arm impacts on the ground with a squish
doing 8 points of damage.]
Ben'dar: "What do these things want? Are we in their territory
or are they hunting us?"
GM: Had to post this phase rather than last since Chion
spoke AFTER Ben'dar last phase. Ben'dar is faster so
replies now in order.
[M#5 is still on the ground near Arawn so Arawn thrusts his
magical sword again at it. The sword hits the creature's
upper chest where a human heart might be doing 8 points of
damage past its tough hide. The creature staggers but
amazingly remains upright.]
[Chion smiles back at Ben'dar grimly and sees Ben'dar wound
F#12. Chion tries to join in the fun and lunges at the
back of the creature as well. Chion's sai hits the back
of the creature hind quarters and does the final damage to
kill the gargoyle. She plops to the ground dead. Chion
turns to see he and Ben'dar work well together.]
[Caladan swings his staff at the fleeing F#18 but fails
to hit the fast creature.]
[Z'leyra finds no targets near her in fact none attacked
her this last couple seconds. Protecting Arawn she turns
and swings the staff at Male #5, who Arawn just wounded.
The staff smacks against the right side of the creature
doing 8 points of damage finally killing the creature.]
[Kiet tries to do a wild swing at F#5 but fails to hit.]
Actions? Comments?
Next update...Monday...
Status: Gargoyles - Males - Injured - 1 [#4]
Killed - 5
Unhurt - 0
Total - 6
Females - Injured - 3 [Moderately]
Killed - 8
Unhurt - 7
Total - 18
Total Alive - 11
Allies - Corona [Injured]
Players - Ben'dar [None]
Damage Arawn [None]
Z'leyra [None]
Raban [Minor]
Chion [Minor]
Fremea [Minor]
Unali [Minor]**
Caladan [Minor]
Chion [Minor]
Fremea [Minor]
Kiet [Heavy]
* Killed - Can be Knocked out or killed
** Unali's kidney strike could be additional damage if
not repaired soon?
GM: Male #4 with sword has been attacking Unali. He is still
alive but hurt. The other 5 males are now dead. A decrease
of 6 more dead. Leaving 11 of 24. At this rate might
be done in 2 updates. Two females are on the ground
#3 with ripped wings near Kiet, #7 in pain and unable
to act from Firesnake. So potentially only 9 that
can fight back.
GM: The battlefield is clearing. At this point it looks like
Chion/Ben'dar can move to new locations. Arawn/Z'leyra
are clear as well. Right now it seems Caladan/Unali
are embattled and can't move. Of course new random targets
may change all this. I assume little change on actions
unless stated otherwise.
GM: Happy Independence Day!
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