[pnpgm] Game Update #85 - File #573 - Hyena Combat Phase 1+2
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HT Player DS Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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FH.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar .. 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
R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma
R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe
...Kevin Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....Ma
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 #85 sequence (file #573)
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[Recap]
From Dorhak: [Re: Actions]
Hopefully I'll wake up a darn site quicker than after the
mutts bite me!
If the dwarf does wake up before everything is over, he will
grab shield and mace. Helmet and throwing axe if he has time.
Not really a time for armor. This will probably be my basic
instruction. Like, anytime in this situation.
"Leave one of the shoggers for me!"
GM: Ack. SOP Notes.
From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions]
Z'leyra grabs and puts on her helm then readies her staff as
she steps out of the tent. She will fight defensively at first,
looking to help party members finish off what are attacking
them.
GM:
Ack.
From Fremea: [Re: Actions]
If anyone mentions that food is running a low for some, Fremea
will hunt the Antelope to help get some food. Using her arrows
and flying skills to make the kills easier and more fun.
When she is awoken by the baying, she only grabs her bow and
quiver, flying into the air. If there are enough clumped
together she will cast multi-arrow in one phase at the
highest EL she can. Otherwise, she will just start taking
shots at the dogs.
GM: Ack. Yeah so far no one asked for the antelope or ordered
it. A small herd and would be easy to kill. So until
ordered or actually going to do so will consider above
as a if-then. :)
From Kell: [Re: Actions]
Ha'Kell yells out "Alarm Alarm! Hyenas attacking" trying to
wake everyone up, as he charges back to the camp to protect
the other horses and fight off the hyenas.
GM: Ack. Second to protect horses. Interesting. Been a few
years since watched nature shows but do Hyena attack
horses more than humans? I suspect they are as a pack
would find the weakest so guess makes sense they'd
attack the horses. I'd not even considered it. Until
you guys posted. :) Too bad war horses and the Fay
horse are there to protect as well.
From Kell: [Re: Actions]
Slight update. Since Kell is so far from the horses, he
will engage the pack of hyenas near him, charging to skewer
and letting his horse attack and stomp the beasts as well.
The first 2 phases are attack, and trying to wake everyone
up. After that, if there is more, he will cast Major Illusion
at max el. The illusion - giant fire elementals will appear
and start attacking the pack. The idea is to scare them off
or do real damage.
GM: Ack.
From Arawn: [Re: Actions]
Janaq 21st, 4:37pm
With the others focused on examing each other for signs ...
[God's Eyes at max EL to scan the Earth Eater and then the
tunnel for anything of interest]
Once things were settled Arawn informed the group, horses
included, that he'd call up a brief rainstorm to cleanse off
the foul remnants for any who wished to partake. [Tempest at
max EL]
Janaq 21st, 7:21pm
"If you're willing and they'd be of use, I can invoke ...
[Arawn will cast Luck at max EL, using Sidh Tongue. If Kell
is a Sidh magician Arawn will also cast Sound Power - Sonata
(to boost magic) at max EL using the Sidh Tongue. He'll also
allow use of his wand until the ritual is done.]
Janaq 26th, 1:32 am
Hyenas -
With a quick warning to Corsaya and the horses to be on
guard he reached out with his empathic abilities, recalling
his previous unusual encounters with wild animals and hoping
this time to connect with the pack and guide them away from
battle or at least stall them for moment. [Elvish Empathic
Communication and Influence Chance/Rhetoric to try and calm
the hyenas/get them to back down. If food is desired he'll
offer to give them food, using the Scroll of Sustenance and
some of his own rations to create a meal fitting for the
creatures. If he does befriend them he'll ask them for news
of any danger or strange activity in the area before they
depart.]
If this fails he'll raise his voice in a screeching howl
that would most definitely rouse those still sleeping.
Food and Grain:
Arawn will split his food with Pyan and Dorhak, splitting it
three ways. He'll resort to using his Scroll of Sustenance
to supplement if anyone in the party, horses included, run
out. On Janaq 23rd, or the second night after the hyena
encounter if you don't want to backtrack, Arawn will
Translocate back to Cetric's village and bring back enough
stored food to supply Pyan, Dorhak, Unali, himself and anyone
else in need for the remainder of the journey to Kameri. As
to the horse feed, he'll split his feed so that Pyan's horse
is fed. He'll bring back enough grain for both Corsaya and
Pyan's horse for the remainder of the trip to Kameri in
addition to human rations.
If you need me to figure out how bags can you let me know
how many bags we still have on us? I've been juggling a lot
in RL and haven't done a great job keeping track right now.
GM: Ack. Not sure if Kell wants that as its just a Knowledge
spell not a rite or such for enhancing ebony. Sonata actually
might give the gods a headache if its a simple download of
info its sort of like white noise. But interesting way
to use spells for sure. Don't worry on bags that's my
job I'll juggle. You just RP. Sharing food with Dorhak
is being done by Kiet. But you can help Pyan.
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[New Stuff]
[Janaq 21st, 1635TH]
[Zen'da Central Plains]
[Time: 4:37 pm]
With the others focused on examing each other for signs of
injury Arawn decided to look in on the animal companions. Once
this was done he peered at the remnants of the Earth Eater, his
eyes narrowing as he studied it and the ground surrounding.
Arawn casts his vision spell to look under the ground
and around the area. It seems the exposed Earth Eater
about 25 feet is gone. As Arawn looks down and to the
north he can see the body of the worm wind this and that.
At times its near the surface but otherwise its almost 50
feet down. Arawn estimates the creature is about 85 or
so feet but its hard to grasp scale.
There does not seem to be anything of note or merit like
swallowed person or such just digested mush. Arawn
knows the worm will decay and the ground cave in making
the ground alive with material for life. Top side birds
and other carrion will eat for days. Given a day and this
place will smell royally from the decay.
Arawn then warns the group of a coming storm he'll create
and casts a tempest spell to clean bodies, clothing and
gear from the exploded flesh.
[Time: 7:21 pm]
The trio head off so Kell can learn some knowledge.
"If you're willing and they'd be of use, I can invoke a
blessing of Sidh Luck and use of my wand for your ritual."
When the time came for the rite Arawn set himself up as the
eyes and ears of the trio. He walked a circle, scanning for any
trouble that might disrupt the delicate ritual.
Arawn, who seemed distracted with thought the last few
nights, gave a nod.
"The spirit of ebony is powerful, though one I've not
delved into. Perhaps after our adventure we can see to an
exchange of knowledge. Let me know when you're ready and if
there's anything you'll need from me. "
Kell casts his knowledge spell and waits. The wind blows
through the plains and whispers into his ears and seems to
sing a ancient song of nature. Suddenly he hears what could
be whispers of others in his ears and in his mind. The
download of information comes from high. A flood of
information from pictures, runic symbols, gestures and
other words of magic are rushing into his head.
As he finishes the download a grin hits Kell's face.
He begins to pace back and forth. Muttering to himself.
'Of course'. 'It's so clear' and other things. Now
it seems to make sense from the books and pieces all fall
into place. Now he can soon sit and enhance the ebony
and work on it. But he may need another day to plan
an attack of what magic to do on the dark wood.
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[Janaq 24th, 1635TH]
[Zen'da Central Plains]
[Time: 6:17 am]
Before the party packs up as the sun rises, Arawn
warns of his plan. He'll jump to Cetric's village
and get more food for the party and horses. He
knows Z'leyra wants to move on so plans not to stay
long.
[Time: 6:26 am]
Arawn returns with the bags of grain and some fresh
meat and food for the party. The party then packs up
the bags and heads out for the day.
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[Janaq 26th, 1635TH]
[Zen'da Central Plains]
[Time: 1:33:00 am]
At the noise of the Hyenas, Corona takes to the air and
tries to figure out ff these dogs are hostile or not.
As a group the pack of Hyenas who are extremely fast and
small animals enter the camp. They all move at once in
a pack.
Four charge toward Kell in the north. Hyena #1 leaps
straight for Kell and is so anxious it leaps to far to
the right and goes falling to the side. Hyena #3 slams
into Kell's shield and slides off. Hyena #4 tries to
bite but fails to hit. But Hyena #2 comes in below
Kell's shield arm and bites him in the lower right
just above his hip doing 6 points of damage.
Hyena #5 and #6 charges from the south and divert for
Arawn/Fremea's tent. Both seem to sniff Fremea and
enter the tent. This startles Fremea before she can
get her gear seeing two dogs charge through the tent
flap for her. If she hadn't woken up she might've
been shredded to death. Both leap toward her as she
sits up but she quickly rolls to the side of the
tent forcing herself against the taunt tent wall.
She desperately reaches for her dagger. But lucky
for her both fail to bite her.
Hyena's #7-#9 charge from the south toward the tied up
horses baying. First two go after Kiet's and Kell's horses
but they are warhorses so might be able to defend themselves.
But the third charges Z'leyra's horse which is not a war
mount. All three Hyena fail to bite the horses as they
move and dodge.
Hyena #10-12 charge from the south west. They avoid
Fremea's tent and the Ticasian men. Seems they notice
movement from Unali and Z'leyra's tent. So all three
charge and enter the tent. All three enter the tent and
charge just for Unali. The first two fail to get close
as Unali rolls and weaves. The third does bite but
the jaws miss her by a half inch in the arm.
Hyena #13 charges from south west and races toward
Kiet's tent who is still sleeping. As the animal enters
the tent it tries to bite Kiet but actually seems to
connect with the shield which is to Kiet's right. The
dark tent makes it more difficult to find flesh.
Hyena #14-#17 all charge from the dark north moving
south toward the camp.
Finally as the others move at the same time the last
Hyena #18 moves from south east passing the horses and
Arawn and enters Pyan's tent. The animal lunges for
the sleeping Pyan and bites him in the right shoulder
doing 4 points of damage.
Unali saved by waking up from the magical scabbard
rolls over and grabs her dagger. She unsheathes the
magical dagger and grabs a normal one. Three dogs
attacking her during her sleep time, bad dogs! She
stabs toward two of them with both daggers. Each one
strikes and kills #10 and #12 out right.
Arawn yells to Corona and the horses to be wary as the
animals approach. But the small dogs are so fast that
the warning is too late. Then from his side vision
he notices one go into Pyan's tent. He rushes to
help Pyan who last time was asleep. He knows the horses
should be able to defend themselves. He bends down
and tries to thrust his blade at the animal but misses
to help Pyan.
Kell is horrified to see all these Hyenas coming from
the north. At least 8! He yells out "Alarm Alarm! Hyenas
attacking" trying to wake everyone up.
Kell worries about the horses but it is too late. Four
pounce on him and one bites him! He stabs #3 with
his spear doing 8 points of damage.
Z'leyra reaches for her helmet. She knows firing inside
a tent of cloth would be dangerous. She reaches for
her staff as Unali takes out two. She can't use the
staff in a small space as the tent so uses it to push
the animal outside. She crawls toward the entrance
and exits.
Fuk and Lucria hear the noise, wake up and grab their
swords. They rush out in their underwear. Fuk notices
one animal in Unali's tent and moves toward there. As
he rounds the corner of the tent he sees Kell fighting
a whole bunch. Fuk thrusts at the last animal in Unali's
tent but fails to hit.
Lucria moves south toward Fremea's tent and thrusts his
sword at #5 hitting for 7 points of damage.
Pyan wakes up from the bite and startled by the beast
over him. He reaches for his dagger he keeps on the
side of his blanket and stabs the beast doing 4 points
of damage.
Kiet wakes up as he is attacked. He stares at the creature
who has slobber hanging down. He considers frying the
beast but inside a tent with clothing, tent, blanket
and other things that catch fire is suicide. He reaches
for his shield and tulwar. But at this angle on his
back it is a wild swing. But the swing is true and good
and does 12 points to the hyena pup killing him. Blood
splattered all over Kiet, tent and blanket. Kiet curses
for that and knows the smell will be bad.
Dorhak is awoken by the noise next to his tent. Sounded
like a dog inside Pyan's tent. Then barks and grunts. He
sits up and sees shadows all over the place. Then he
hears the baying. He grabs his shield and mace and exits
the tent. He sees Arawn standing outside Pyan's tent
for some reason. But then glances north and sees Kell
surrounded by dogs. Dorhak growls and plans to charge
the beasts.
Fremea grabs her dagger and stabs the Hyena at the tent
flap and with Lucria's last blow kills the beast. She
then reaches for her bow and quiver.
[Time: 1:33:04 am]
Arawn tries to feel the creatures but he knows they are
hungry and hunger drives intent. But it is too late
to talk and stop the creatures. Already at least two
are wounded for his allies. If he could locate the
Alpha Male maybe he could stop this but the camp is
pure chaos and it would be difficult to find the Alpha.
So he casts a spell to scare the animals.
The Sonic Boom echoes at 100 feet around him in every
direction as Arawn yells a half yell/battle cry. Certainly
if anyone is still asleep they are no longer.
The horses mainly the riding horses are affected by
the same sonic yell and become startled tearing at
their ropes to flee. But the warhorses who have heard
such battle cries only act. Those around Hyena's 7-9
attack. The horses en masse who are not startled by
the battle cry kick the animals who seem to be startled.
All three are damaged in the kick and trample attacks
doing 6, 5 and 6 points
Corona dives toward one of the animals north of Kell
and fires but the fire beam from his eyes only impacts
on the ground near one.
Nine of the 14 remaining Hyenas recover from the noise
made by Arawn and act at the same time.
Hyena #1 and #3 around Kell attack again but the other
2 are startled by the noise and disoriented. Both
attacks fail.
Hyena #6 turns away from Fremea and attacks Lucria biting
him on the leg doing 6 points of damage.
Hyena #7-9 lunge as one at Kiet's horse to take it down
and drag it away. Two of them attack Kiet's horse doing
6 and 4 points while the third fails to bite on.
Hyena #11 turns to attack Fuk but fails to bite him.
Hyena #14 charges forward and attacks Kell He clamps
down on his left leg doing 2 more points.
Hyena #18 turns and leaps at Arawn. But at the last
second Arawn draws his shield and he slides off it.
The other Hyenas are startled by the noise and do
nothing for now.
Unali exits the tent and attacks the animal attacking
Fuk and stabs it. Hyena #11 is killed.
Arawn thrusts at Hyena #18 and kills him with a single
strike.
Kell considers backing up but that would bring him a bit
undefended in the retreat. He just prays that others will
be helping him soon. He thrusts at Hyena #2 but fails to
hit the beast.
Z'leyra exits the tent and looks around. She sees
Kell being surrounded and moves to help. She swings her
staff at Hyena #1. The staff swings fast and slams into
the beast's side doing 8 points of damage.
Fuk runs to help Kell thrusting his sword at Hyena #4
but fails to hit.
Lucria steps past Fremea and charges #6. With whip now
in hand he swings his whip at the animal knocking the
Hyena off his feet doing 6 points. Then rushes in and
stabs the beast for 7 more points killing it.
Pyan feels his shoulder wound but knows he has had worse.
He grabs his bow and quiver and exits the tent.
Kiet exits the tent with his shield and tulwar. He looks
around and in the north sees a bunch of the beasts
attacking Kell and others. But to his right and closer
he sees them attacking his horse! Kiet rushes forward to help
his horse. He stabs Hyena #8 doing 5 more damage to it.
Dorhak sees Kell and others being attacked. He yells out
"Leave one of the shoggers for me!" He then charges and
passes Fuk. He swings his mace at Hyena #14 doing 9 points
of damage and kills it.
Fremea takes to the sky and begins to scan for targets.
[Time: 1:33:06 am] [Phase 3]
Actions? Comments?
Next Update..Friday??
GM: Overall a good start for a ambush. Of 18 of them 8 are
dead. Five more are wounded or near dead. I will
do phase 3 and 4 next update. If it comes down to
only 1 or 2 I may finish the combat entirely then.
Since everyone is up and out of tents I'll remove tents
from map to prevent clutter. All dead Hyenas are off
the map now.
All attacks and targets are random including horses it
is not personal just random.
GM: Arawn - The item to calm them down with Empathy would have
worked but with this large a pack its hard to target
one or two. If you can locate the alpha male, maybe
but the chaos is hard. The Boom did distract and
prevented them for actions. Did you want to just
scream or say something in the boom? It should last
the entire combat I believe.
Fremea - Will assume fire on lone ones as firing on
those near allies could be dangerous. Will assume
fire on Row B ones first using Multi Arrow now.
Kell - Got some help now. It'd have been really bad
if no help came. :) Will assume Major Illusion on
phase 3?
Kiet - Assume no ring in a tent. Very bad. I assume
you defend your horse.
Unali - Will assume help Kell or do you want to help
the horses?
Pyan - Bow will be limited action. So do you want
to use another weapon like sling if can't fire
to endanger allies? if able to will fire on Row B
ones if they don't move.
Z'leyra - Will assume help Kell.
Dorhak - Same help Kell I assume.
GM: Map
1 Hex = 10 feet
1 Row = 5 Feet
1 Column = 5 feet.
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123456789012345678901234567890
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__A /I\ = North
\__/ \__/ \__/ \hhh \__/ B (*( = Campfire
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__C
\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ D
/ \__/ \__/ \hh D \__/ \__E A = [K19] -Arawn
\__/ \__/ \__ZhKh__/ \__/ F F = [ ] Fremea 30' high off map
/ \__/ \__/ \__C \__/ \__G K = [F18] -Kell
\__/ \__/ \U_/ \__/ \__/ H E = [O19] -Kiet
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__I U = [H14] -Unali
\__/ \__/ L(*) \P_/ \__/ J P = [J20] -Pyan
/ \__/ \__/ \__A \__/ \__K Z = [F16] -Z'leyra
\__/ \__/ \__/HHHH_/ \__/ L D = [E20] -Dorhak
/ \__/ \__/ \HHHH \__/ \__M C = [G19] -Fuk
\__/ \__/ \__/ hhh_/ \__/ N L = [J13] -Lucria
/ \__/ \__/ \__E \__/ \__O R = [ ] -Corona 30' High off map
\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ P [*] = Campfire
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__Q h - Hyena
\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ R
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__S H = Horse
\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ T Horses - L/M 17-20
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__U Inside Horse pavailion
h - [E17] Hyena #1 -8 h - [ ] Hyena #10 Dead
h - [E18] Hyena #2 h - [ ] Hyena #11 Dead
h - [F17] Hyena #3 -8 h - [ ] Hyena #12 Dead
h - [F19] Hyena #4 h - [ ] Hyena #13 Dead
h - [ ] Hyena #5 Dead h - [ ] Hyena #14 Dead
h - [ ] Hyena #6 Dead h - [B20] Hyena #15
h - [N18] Hyena #7 -6 h - [B21] Hyena #16
h - [N19] Hyena #8 -10 h - [B22] Hyena #17
h - [N20] Hyena #9 -6 h - [ ] Hyena #18 Dead
1 2
123456789012345678901234567890
/ \__/ \__A /I\ = North
\__/ \ hhh / B (*( = Campfire
/ \__/ \__C
\__/ \ _/ D
/ \__/ hh D \__E A = [K19] -Arawn
\__/ \ ZhKh / F F = [ ] Fremea 30' high off map
/ \__/ C \__G K = [F18] -Kell
\__/ \ U / H E = [O19] -Kiet
/ \__/ \__I U = [H14] -Unali
\__/ \ L(*) P / J P = [J20] -Pyan
/ \__/ A \__K Z = [F16] -Z'leyra
\__/ \ HHHH / L D = [E20] -Dorhak
/ \__/ \HHHH \__M C = [G19] -Fuk
\__/ \ hhh / N L = [J13] -Lucria
/ \__/ E \__O R = [ ] -Corona 30' High off map
\__/ \ / P [*] = Campfire
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__Q h - Hyena
\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ R
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__S H = Horse
\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ T Horses - L/M 17-20
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__U Inside Horse pavailion
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