[pnpgm] Game Update #94 - File # 663 - Vine Combat Ph 3+4 or how to ambush a tree

Dorhak dorhak at comcast.net
Fri Dec 2 15:26:03 CET 2016


I guess I didn't think about the time involved...maybe just sing while fighting then finish it out afterwards.  It's meant to be inappropriate!

It's not a great song either.  Nor is his voice.  And its in dwarf elder so I doubt anybody really understands it.  But it's what Dorhak does.

Keep on whacking at the shrubbery.


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   HT     Player        DS    Character Name    Type    Status/Notes  Sex
   -- -----------------------------------------------------------------
   FH.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid  .Normal/Al.. Ma
   ...Kevin Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....Ma
   --.Tobie Bonahoom....YY..Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe
   W3.Mark Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma
   W2.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human  ..Ma
   R4.Wout Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human  ..Fe
   ...Don.Kerr..............Maelorna..........Dancer..Normal/Human....Fe
   ...Gilbert.Isla..........Mournath..........Sailor..Normal/Human....Ma
   R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma
   R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human  ..Fe
   R3.Fukishtu.Newsome......Npc...............Chief...Normal/Human....Ma
   R3.Lucria.Cegra..........Npc...............Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma
      Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra

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       Game Update #94 sequence (file #663)
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       Admin Notes: None.
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       [Recap]

         From Kiet: [Re: Actions]
           Kiet will hold up short and thrust his Tulwar into the
           ground. Then try to cast the Infinite Sight spell at Max EL
           once again.  It's hard to fight what he can't see.  Recast
           until it works.

           Then cast max EL Iron Skin once, grab Tulwar and slash away.
         GM: Ack.  There is that burning bush (just no gods using it to
             speak yet).  But yeah vines are hard to target at night.
             I guess no one condones you taking the worthless gem.  :<

         From Dorhak: [Re: Actions]
           Dorhak is shocked to see the shogging plants attacking!  He
           lays about with his mace, wishing he had his axe handy, but
           there wasn't time to grab it.  He'll do his best to help the
           others.

           "The shogging plants are alive!"

           Then he starts singing while he fights!

           Come, come! Saucy wenches and good mannered fellows, That...
         GM: Ack.  Being new I want to explain that song will take time.
             1 Phase to warn others.  Another 13-15 phases to sing the
             rest (42 seconds or so) and combat may be over by then. :)

         From Mae: [Re: Actions]
           In the span of a few heartbeats, Maelorna can see that..

           (Summoning Gwyligi, Max EL).
         GM: Ack.

         From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions]
           Not noticing the vines Z'leyra uses Pyan's shirt to apply
           pressure to the wound, slowing or stopping the bleeding. Then
           (if not aware of being attacked) she will cast EL0 Healing Mist
           heal Pyan to full Health.

           If aware of being attacked she will either deal with the threat
           or heal Pyan depending on the danger she sees in the threat and
           likelyhood of others dealing with it quickly.
         GM: Ack.

         From Mournath: [Re: Actions]
           Standing over his fallen, new companion, Mournath...
         GM: Ack.

         From Kell: [Re: Actions]
           Kell once again says a prayer of thanks.  This is the...

           [OOC - Stay and keep Pyan from death.]
         GM: Ack.

      ------------------------------------------------------------
       [New Stuff]

           [Febris 4th, 1635TH]
           [Kameran Lands - Forest South of Kameran capital]

           [Time: 4:05:09 am]
           [Phase 3]

             Arawn notices Z'leyra's expression and starting the gestures
           for a healing spell.  But Arawn knows that spell will kill
           him for good. He waves a hand and grunts to stop Z'leyra.  There
           is simply no time to explain.

             Arawn kneels down at Pyan's side and casts a energy spell
           to deplete Pyan's energy.  Physical healing would not cure
           his energy loss which is almost completely gone if not gone
           already.  His body may still be around thanks to Kell's wand
           but his spirit may already be preparing to depart.

             Being a priest he is able to handle the spirit if needed.
           But he needs to act fast and give Pyan some energy from
           Arawn.  He places hands on Pyan's chest and speaks the words
           learnt long ago.  A dull brown energy flow leaves the druid's
           hands and soon begins to spread into Pyan's body.   The energy
           turns from a dull brown to a dark brown to orange and then
           pale to show that it begins to give substance to Pyan's body.

             Arawn hates to stop Z'leyra but if she had healed at the
           same time his death chance would've climbed.  He needed
           energy not physical help at this point.  Once the wand is removed
           then Pyan will probably be critical again.

             Kiet recasts his infinite Sight spell and the darkness shrinks
           away revealing the landscape as if day.  So this is how the
           elves see.  It is not perfect night vision but it is good
           enough.  He looks to the ground and sees the green and red
           vines.  They are small at tips but thick as a sausage for
           the most part so shouldn't be too hard to hack.

             Fremea casts her Fire Arrow spell and sees the bow knock glow
           slightly from the magic.

             In the span of a few heartbeats, Maelorna can see that two of
           her new companions are hurt.  One still upon the ground, while
           the other still up on his knees.  Both with sundered armor
           revealing ruined flesh underneath dripping blood.  Then the
           motions of the plant catch her eye as she can just make them
           out and follow their movements.

             'Do it little one, after all flesh is only fleeting, after
           all, you want to help them.' the sibiliant voice in her head
           purrs and taunting with delight as it reveals the image of what
           might help.  The hint of a terror inducing howl and baleful gaze
           as glowing crimson eyes glare at her hungrily in the darkness.
           Maelorna starts to utter the first phrases of summoning and
           binding to her will.  She hopes the spell worked but knows it
           will take a few seconds to find out.

             With the light of the burning bush to guide him again Corona dives
           toward the vines.  This time there are more around so he tries to
           target the far east part of the vines about 10 feet to east of
           those around Pyan.  His eyes unleash a magical blast but the
           eagle's fire dart only impacts the ground sparking a few sparks.

             Hovering only 10 feet away, realizing the vines could probably
           reach her, Fremea fires his bow at one of the green vines hitting
           it with luck doing 10 points of damage.  The arrow enhanced by
           the fire magic.  The vine is severed in half and dies.

             Unali who exited her tent in cover of darkness and in her dark
           black clothing took the opportunity to flank the area.  As she
           moved north west she saw the vines moved and realized it has to
           be a creature or a plant.  She scans to the far east tracing the
           red colorful vines, using the burning bush as light, to a tree
           some distance away.  The tree is tall and thick with bushes all
           around the base.  But she notices fat wobbling vines moving this
           way and that. If she can cut them at the base it would stop the
           vine ends doing damage.  Hoping Z'leyra's magical dagger will
           give her warning of any attacks she moves and pulls now both
           magical daggers.  She wonders how does one ambush a tree? Do
           you sneak up and attack or can it sense you?  Maybe the tree
           senses heat or energy from victims like a plant sensing a fly
           coming nearby.  If that is the case she will be a big target.
           But she has to prevent more damage.  But wait Kell did say
           the new earth bridge dagger he made has defense against mana
           sensing?  Maybe that means she is blocked from the tree
           detecting her?  The magical dagger hits the base of the green
           vines slicing a bit of bush with it.  The dagger does 14
           points to the vine severing the vine from the tree.  The
           earth dagger does 21 points of damage to another green vine
           base cleaving it in two with the force of Unali's blow.

             Standing over his fallen, new companion, Mournath scans
           the treeline.  He senses the motion but can not clearly see
           the beast that has attacked. "For the sake of all our lives,
           move the fallen and wounded back to the light!" He shouts.

             Mournath sees the flaming arrow impact on one vine and realizes
           that is where the attack is coming from.  He counts six in
           total half green and half red.  But the green seems to all be
           motionless.  Is that a trick to lull them into false bravado/

             Kell once again says a prayer of thanks.  This is the second
           time his life was saved by his helmet.  This time he stayed
           conscious too!

             Kell stands as he sees Arawn and now Z'leyra over Pyan.  But
           it seemed the Priest stopped Z'leyra from healing Pyan but
           why?  Kell may not see all the vivid aurae like the pure Sidh
           do but he can tell that whatever Arawn just did was not physical
           healing. Maybe that is why the shaman was stopped?

             Kell stands and raises shield turning around to see the burning
           bush starting to fade and now a flaming arrow in one vine.

             Z'leyra is confused by the druid's actions.  But she realizes
           that he knows and sees things she doesn't.  So she continues
           to strip Pyan's shirt and make wraps to stop his bleeding.  She
           can't recall what the wand Kell places in the hunter's hands
           does, but it must be helping.  Around her she can hear others
           casting spells including the new red head.  What could she
           be doing now?

             Fuk realizes the danger from the flaming arrow and burning bush.
           He moves forward slicing his sword down at one of the red vines.
           But the vine is too agile and the sword misses it.

             Pyan begins to stir a bit as his eyes flutter.  A low groan
           is heard from his mouth.

             Kiet raises his shield and while the others are watching the
           vines he scans the trees all around him as best he can.  Then
           he can see Unali in the distance up against a...black tree?
           Is that tree really black or is his new magical eyes messing
           with him?  She is leaning over against the bush of the tree
           and doing something.

             Dorhak can feel the adrenaline.  He sees the vines and
           was hoping for actual monsters.  He yells out, "The shogging
           plants are alive!"

             To some it sounded like tree is alive? or was that active
           not alive?

             Dorhak tries to swing his mace at one of the red vines
           but it moves away just in time.

             By instinct alone not intellect the tree senses the danger
           to itself.  With half of its vines gone or useless it tries
           to strike out to save itself.  The dead green vines do nothing
           but the 3 Red ones act.  One moves toward Kiet and Dorhak while
           the last vine draws backwards toward Unali.  The one going
           against Dorhak misses as the small man ducks just in time.

             The Red vine hits Kiet in the upper left chest below the
           shoulder so hard it does 5 points of damage.

             The magic of the dagger helps to prevent a much worse level of
           damage to only 5 points to Unali as the Red vine strikes her
           in the arm slicing a bit of her skin clear off.  The dagger
           maiden grits her teeth but does not scream.  Her training in
           stealth that from happening.  But she does feel oddly more
           tired all of a sudden.


                                 -----------

           [Time: 4:05:12 am]
           [Phase 4]

             Kiet casts a Iron skin spell to prevent the vines from
           doing more damage to him.  He can feel his skin toughen
           up so the spell must be working.

             Fremea fires another flaming arrow at another Red vine
           hitting it and causing it to stop moving as it begins to
           burn a bit.

             Unali notices the green vines stop moving.  She moves toward
           the red ones and sees one not twitching.  She uses her magical
           dagger to try to slice one up while using the dagger to deflect
           any other attacks.  As the dagger slices down it catches up on
           the bush next to it and falls out of her hand.  She hopes no
           one saw that fumble.

             Arawn glances up at Z'leyra and gives a apologetic frown.
           But the healer realizes that Pyan could still die maybe a 50/50
           chance at this point if they do another healing.  But he helps
           Z'leyra to stop the bleeding.  He can hear Mournath's suggestion
           to move him but that could be risky as well.

             Mournath stabs outward at one of the red vines but misses.
           He continues speaking, "Tend to them there, least we all fall
           on this spot!"

             Kell tries to stab one of the red vines but also fails to hit.

             Z'leyra's own assessment is that the hunter may have a bit more
           than 50 maybe 40% chance of death.  But this is based on whatever
           that wand is doing.  Once it is removed it might go higher.
           She helps the druid stop the bleeding on most of the wounds
           but two to go.

             Fuk swings his sword at one of the red vines and slices it in
           half causing it to go inert just as the burning bush fades
           into darkness.

             Mae waits for her summoned guardian but watches as the man
           named Fuk somewhat of a constable she understands, strike one
           of the red vines.  Then she realizes where is that poor
           bounty hunter Lucria?

             Dorhak tries to slam his mace down on one of the red vines
           and misses.  He begins to sing, "Come, come! Saucy wenches and
           good mannered fellows,..."

             The last two red vines rip up and down.  One moves upward
           toward Fremea but she is agile enough she dives and weaves just
           at the last second.

             The other Red vine hits Mournath in the left neck doing 3 points
           of damage as it strips skin from his neck.  Mourntath also suddenly
           feels exhausted as if running for hours.


           [Time: 4:05:15 am]
           [Phase 5]

           Actions? Comments?

           Next Update..Monday...

           GM: Four of the six vines are dead or inactive.  Leaving two
               Red ones left.  Hopefully once vines are all dealt with
               things will go easy.  Will work on update Monday afternoon.
               For those who see the vines (all but Z'leyra) most can
               estimate the range is 3 hexes so folks like Mae are
               out of range.  But its only a estimate.

           GM: Dorhak : Will sing that song over several updates. :)  When
                  1 phase = 3 seconds that long will take time.

               Fremea - Can try to fire on the vines or go to help
                  Unali at the tree maybe fire on the bush or tree
                  itself?

               Kell - Same as Fremea or back away since hurt?

               Kiet - Same as fremea.

               Unali - Will assume 1 dagger offense and 1 defense for
                 the next update

               Mournath - Hurt you can back out of range or help
                  the others.

               Mae - Reminder no magic while summoning.   If no vines
                  left will need to convince the summoned to do something
                  else.

               Pyan - Still no comment on your wounds? Wow.  So you are
                 at 50/50 for death if you get a new healing spell.  The
                 thing that is keeping you around is that Wand.  It is
                 giving you +4 (positive 4) hit points.  Do you want a
                 new healing spell or risk it later?  I consider sunrise
                 as the 'new' day.  This means about 2 hours to go
                 as you bleed or drip bleed.  But it is your decision.

               Z'leyra - Still unsure on vines yet.  As they don't make
                 much noise.  If you had healed first before Arawn then
                 Pyan would probably be dead for good (80%).  So he had
                 to restore his energy before he could do physical.
                 So hope this is acceptable.

          GM: Necklace Use
              Feb 4 - Z'leyra Dwarven
              Feb 5 - Kell Kameran
              Feb 6 - ???
              Feb 7 - ???

              Based on walking not riding there will be more travel
              time so Feb 7 should allow 2 more slots to use the
              language necklace.  Sign up!

          GM: Battle Map

              /I\ = North
              1 Hex = 10 Feet
              1 Column = 5 feet
              1 Row = 5 feet

                                                                                                                       40
          1         2         3
1234567890123456789012345678901234
/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \ A  [*] = Campfire
\__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/ B        Light 3 hex radis
/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \ C  HHH = Horses under pavalion
\__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/ D
/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \ E  U [L30] = Unali's
\__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/ F  B [J25] = Mournath Facing East
/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \ G  N [N21] = Mae facing north
\__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__F  \__/ H  A [K22] = Arawn Facing NE
/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \ I  F [H28] - Fremea 15' up hovering
\__/  \__/  \_@@  \__/PTB__/ @@__/ J  K [L23] = Kiet facing North
/  \__/  \__/  \_@@  AZ_D  \_@@  \ K  D [J25] = Dorhak facing east
\__/  \__/ @@@_/  \__/K \N_/ U\__/ L  T [J24] - Kell Kneeling West
/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \ M  N [L26] = Fuk Facing North
\__/  \__@@@\__/  \_M/  \__/  \__/ N  C [P22] = Lucria's Tent (Lucria)
/  \__/  \_@@  \__/  \__/ @@__/  \ O            (sleeping)
\__/  \__/  \_ / [*]_CC \__/  \__/ P @@ = Trees
/  \__/  \@@/  \__/  \__/  \@@/  \ Q  Z [K23] = Z'leyra kneeling north
\__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \@@/  \__/ R  P [J23] = Pyan
/  \__/  \_@@  \__/  \__/  \__/  \ S
\__/  \__/  \__/HHH__/  \__/  \__/ T
/  \__/  \_@@@ \HHH  \_@@  \__/  \ U
\__/  \__/  \__/  \_@@  \__/  \__/ V
/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \@@@  \__/  \ W
\__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/ X





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