[pnpgm] Game Update #81 - File #400 - Fate plays Trump Card

Scott Adams longshot at darktech.org
Thu Oct 2 05:31:04 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 stands there with a very sour look on her face. Staring
          at the elf over Arawn and him being down on the ground, really
          tips her anger fully. She casts a spell in the Sidh language.
        GM: Ack. 

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        From Ben'dar: [Re: Actions]
          Ben'Dar glares at the metal man.  Clearly it is heavier and
          stroner than him.  He will have no chance at overpowering it
          through brute force.  But there is one in the party who might
          have a better chance. He howls to Raban, "Raban, Help me take 
          this metal man!"  He stops fooling around with the metal man
          and spins his pike to use the butt- end of the shaft to smash
          into the metal man's face.  Perhaps blunt- trauma will work on
          the thing!  If that doesn't seem to have any effect, his next
          action will be to swing his pike viciously to his left, at the
          guard standing next to him.  He'll stay close to Z'leyra for the
          rest of the fight, attempting to defend his seriously injured
          friend.
        GM:  Ack. 

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        From Raban: [Re: Actions]
          <Nasty turn of Fate, but dice love to play tricks. Such a
          confused mess with different people trying to surrender, but I
          did not expect it to occur once the fight started, too hard to
          break it back up in one instant without someone else getting hit.
          Raban is definitely regretting not being healed before this.>

          [For a moment Raban was happier, he final could get back to the
          ladies as his opponents were all down. Then a swish from behind
          instinctively dodged, tells him he is not done here yet. As he
          quickly turns around to face the new threat he gets a quick scan
          of the room and things are not what he expected. Where is
          everyone? Worse that Metal man appears to be threatening Z'leyra
          and Ben'Dar is trying to help her. But first this guard must be
          dealt with and quickly...

          <I was going to add more thoughts for flavor but his Intelligence
          and Eloquence are really too low for a lot of that in combat, so
          that will have to wait.>

          <Options: Try to get rid of the new guard by knocking out of the
          way. But I suspect that does not work well in PnP and he would
          cause more trouble later. So it will be as usual, take the man
          down with punch or  kicks and then try to do something about the
          Metal Man. Thats were  the arm damage will truly HURT>
        GM: Ack.  Yes.  Fate can be fun in these games.  Some events were
            set in motion by other cause and effect actions.  Once A'kril
            died than other things happened for example.  Some planned and
            some not.  Just one of those things how one event can cause 18
            others good or bad.

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        From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions]
          Seeing Arawn in desperate straights Z'leyra defends herself
          while using her Firestone to hit the dark elf with an innate
          fire dart. As she does so she speaks in Younger Chaos to the
          fire "Flame! Shrink to torch size!" She will then finish off
          the guard attacking her (fighting defensively), kick A'kril's
          corpse away from the fire and be calling out in Marentian "Block
          the metal man's vision!".

          Afterward she plans to back off from the metal man, grab her
          staff and ready a spell.
        GM: Ack. 

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     [New Stuff]

        [Ma 2nd, 1633TH. 5th Day of Adventure #4.
        [Location: Chaos domain, Dark Lands, 9 Miles up, Flying Island]

        [Time: 10:19am]

        [Turn 2: Phase 3]

           [Mana Allocation - None]

             [Around the room magical energies are built up.]

           [Missile Fire    - None]

           [Magic Effect    - ]

             [The Dark Elf's ears twitch back and forth...]

             [Fremea stands in the shadow of the room and glares at the dark
              elf.  Who is this being that could attack and betray Arawn?
              Her anger gets the better of her and she speaks the words of
              a spell through the sidh tongue.  She raises her hand and
              points at the Dark Elf...]

             [The Dark Elf jerks his head left straight at Fremea and grins.
              It gives Fremea the creeps and based on the look on his face
              she guesses the spell failed.  But she is not sure why could
              be range, magical defense or something else.  The Dark Elf
              shakes his head.]

             [Kiet casts a Abandon spell onto Guard 12 (P) but it seems
              to do nothing.]

             [The flame wall fades and shrinks back into the fire place
              and soon disappears all together.]

           [Melee & Movement- ]

             [Raban turns around for a split second he was happy to take
              on 3 targets at once and win.  Now he turns around to see
              another guard attacking him.  He doesn't see Fremea, Arawn,
              Caladan right away and sees someone to his right in front of
              the fireplace.  But at this angle its hard to tell.  At this
              point Raban doesn't realize that some like Z'leyra and Arawn
              are in desperate trouble.  Simply can't see them. With his
              weakened right arm he sees the man with the sword as a new
              threat.  He decides to kick the man in the center left of the
              chest.  The man staggers back from the blow and gasps for air
              but doesn't seem to fall.]

             [Unali stabs forward with a undercut toward the man in front
              of her and the magical dagger impales deep in the man's lower
              left abdomen doing the final damage to kill the man.]

             [The Dark Elf turns back to Arawn and walks around to the front
              of Arawn.  With boot near Arawn's head he kneels down and
              stares into Arawn's eyes for a few seconds.  He stares at
              Arawn for a second and reaches out with his hand and taps the
              air.  A blue shimmer of energy sparkles at his touch and the
              dark Elf raises a eyebrow at the energy shield.]

             Dark Elf: "Clever." [He says in Elf Sidh.]

             [Ben'dar takes his pike and twists it around and raises it
              up.  He begins to smash with the hilt of the pike against
              the metal man's head but the hilt just seems to clink and
              clink against the metal with no sign of result.  Ben'dar
              realizes that Raban might be the only one to take this thing
              out so yells for help.]

             Ben'dar: "Raban, Help me take this metal man!"

             [Arawn stares up at the Dark Elf with eyes of confusion and
              betrayal.  He finds it difficult to understand what has just
              transpired.  Why his parents never mentioned these other
              Elves.  He has heard humans have, what was the term, "black
              sheep" in the family.  Maybe this species of Elf is one of
              those strange niches even the gods of the Elves wouldn't want
              to be seen or heard.  Arawn struggles to move from the
              paralysis but fails as his strength is just too low for the
              spell.]

             [Guards 9 - 12 move now at the same time.  They attack their
              various targets...

              Guard 9 (L) thrusts at Caladan and hits digging deep in the
              lower right abdomen area doing a good sized wound.

              Guard 10 (Q) swings at Z'leyra but fails to hit.

              Guard 11 (O) thrusts his sword at Raban and hits him in the
              lower right abdomen for 3 points.

              Guard 12 (P) thrusts at Kiet.  Kiet tries to dodge the blow
              and avoid it but the strike is too swift and the dodge fails.
              The sword impales deep into Kiet's upper left chest.  But
              it goes so deep it seems to impale the heart itself.  Kiet
              takes a devastating 12 point strike.  Kiet jerks at the
              blow and slides off the blade as it is pulled out and hits
              the ground on his back reeling from the damage.]

             [Z'leyra knows if she had let her fire dart out now it would
              only have killed the guard in front of her or worse yet surely
              would've killed Ben'dar just a foot away.  The risk in that
              was too great.  She decides to hold back as both men have at
              least 6 and 8 inches taller than she does and the flame dart
              would just hit their heads.  She notices, or rather feels,
              the flame wall die.  She was going to talk to it and convince
              it to do so but since it fades there is no need for that now.  
              She moves four feet to the west toward A'krill's body.  But
              as she does the flame on his body seems to not be as intense.
              She doesn't notice Kiet fall but twists and using her long
              reaching staff decides to smack the guard attacking her.  The
              staff hits the back of the man and does minor damage.  As she
              does this she yells out in Marentian.  As she yells she sees
              now Kiet on the ground holding his chest and massive blood
              pouring out near his heard area.]

             Z'leyra: "Block the metal man's vision!".

             [Z'leyra glances right and sees Arawn as well but the Dark
              Elf doesn't seem to be killing Arawn for some reason.]

             [Caladan smacks the guard 9 (L) on the left shoulder and
              crushes shoulder bone doing 11 points of damage but the
              man continues to stand.  As he does he yells out.]

             Caladan: "Fremea.  Cold arrow.  Metal Man!"

             [Kiet gasps for air and puts pressure on the massive damage
              done to his chest with his left hand. He knows he may only
              have a few seconds to live.  He just hopes that someone can
              get to him to save him.  With his right hand he tries to pull
              a dagger up but the weight is too much as his strength drains
              as the heart begins to go into emergency mode.  The dagger
              hits the carpet with a soft thud and Kiet wonders if he
              should've risks staying with the folks in the Citadel.  Black
              spots begin to fill his vision and he fears he could lose
              consciousness in a few seconds.]

             [The metal man sees Z'leyra is some distance away and turns
              to throw punches at Ben'dar but fails to strike as his
              pike's magic seems to help.]

             [A'kril's body suddenly shifts in form.  Within the span
              of this phase the face of A'krl ages and his body does
              as well.  Skin fades to pale white.  Then hair falls off
              to turn to dust.  Face sinks in and eyes dissolve.  Bones
              and muscles fade and shrink to dust.  In the span of this
              phase it is as if the man is released from some ancient
              sleeping spell of time and he ages in a lifetime in the
              span of seconds.  At the end there is nothing of the body
              but dust.  His clothing also seems to rot to shreds but
              remains scraps of itself.  A'kril's armor, sword and 2
              daggers fall to the ground into the dust pile.]


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        GM: Wow.  Ok.  Unfortunately Alex hasn't been in ICQ for a month
            or two now.  Those times when we could discuss things like
            this live seem to be over.  To get a shift in plans.  If
            he was here now I could go on a backup plan to save Kiet.
            So as a GM I must figure out what characters would do to
            help a fellow person.  I have the benefit of knowing what
            is planned and can alter some plans but go on what was
            previously planned.  So I hope the below works out.  


        [Turn 2: Phase 4]

           [Mana Allocation - None]

             [Now that Z'leyra has a good line of sight she builds up
              life force energy for channeling.]

           [Missile Fire    - None]

           [Magic Effect    - ]

             [Z'leyra channels the life force energy into her Firestone.
             She decides in the flash to fire on the Dark Elf who seems
              to be staring at Arawn and doing nothing to him or the man
              over Kiet or the metal man.  Her instinct kicks in to save
              a life.  She knows Kiet would only have a few seconds at best.
              Arawn has only a light wound.  The fire might do nothing to
              the metal man.  Sure Fremea could attack the man but she
              could miss and he could kill Kiet beyond hope.  Her oath
              as Healer kicks in and she aims her head and helmet toward
              the man over Kiet and her angle is good.  She releases
              the built up fire energy.  She knows this man is a human
              and the Dark Elf seems to be like Arawn.  If that is the
              case the Elf might've simply detected the magic attack
              and moved away.  So her attack might not have done anything.
              The flame dart fires and sizzles past the guard she just
              smacked and over the chair, past the couch and toward the
              man.  The hit is good and the flame splats directly on the
              left cheek of the man.  Instantly eyes, cheek and brains
              fry to shreds.  The man is dead before his brain could
              detect the damage.  His head basically explodes and shatters
              from the flame into burning shards flying in every directions.
              Making the room a gory mess of wet and steamed blood, brains
              and tissue.  The headless human falls forward and rolls to
              the left (east) of Kiet and tumbles.]

             GM: Wow.  Hit location was head.  60 points to a head!

             [The flying statue looks for a target as its stone ball is
              now glowing yellow again.  All targets like Caladan, Raban,
              Ben'dar, Kiet and Arawn are either down or engaged.  So
              it decides that Z'leyra is the only target in the open.
              It flings the magical ball of energy toward her.  It
              flies past the Dark Elf and hits Z'leyra but splashes
              off doing nothing as her magical defense prevents it.]

             [At the same time the fire dart goes off suddenly the Dark
              Elf begins to scream as he bursts into flame.  He begins
              to stand and fall back trying to bat out the flames.]

           [Melee & Movement- ]

             [Raban who is staring at the man who just stabbed Kiet sees
              this strange flame beam hit the man in the head and his head
              exploding.  Raban cringes at the sight and has seen many
              things but nothing like that.  He is unsure who did it or
              where it came from.  He sees Kiet on the ground but is unsure
              if Kiet is bad off or not.  He can see Kiet flinch so seems
              alive.  But Ben'dar is also in desperate danger.  Raban
              knows Fremea is near Kiet and maybe she can get to him to
              heal him.  So that leaves the metal man who likely he will
              be the only one to take him out.  Raban roars in anger and
              decides enough is enough.  He crouches and uses his strong
              right shoulder and rams the guard in front of him.  With
              his good left arm he pushes the guard to the left and
              turns his body to the left.  Glancing fast he sees the back
              of the metal man and runs forward, pushing the startled
              guard with him.  The guard is pushed into the back of the
              metal man and hits hard.  The man's head clanks on the
              metal head and the man's eyes cross and he is smashed into
              a sandwich by Raban.  The blow knocks the man out and
              moves the metal man forward a couple feet.]

             [Unali moves down the hallway to get a better view.]

             [Ben'dar sees Raban on the scene now and turns to handle the
              guard attacking Z'leyra.  But now he sees Z'leyra a few feet
              away and the guard free for attack.  He swings on the guard
              and hits slicing through the center right part of his chest
              doing 11 points of damage.]

             [Guard 9 (L) weak from a crushed side collar bone raises the
              sword with his only good arm and swings it and hits Caladan
              doing a minor cut of 1 point to his right chest area.]

             [Guard 10 (Q) swings back against Ben'dar and hits as the
              sword thrusts toward his lower left abdomen but the blade 
              doesn't penetrate past his armor.]

             [Z'leyra looks at Arawn and Kiet.  She sees Arawn only has 
              a light wound and little blood it seems.  But Kiet seems to
              be gushing blood and from the location of it looks to be a
              critical mortal heart wound.  She moves past the guard who
              attacked her, Ben'dar and toward Kiet.  She kneels down to
              inspect him and her quick assessment is correct.  A heard cut
              that seems to have knicked the heart.  She figures he has 10
              seconds to die at best.]

             [Caladan swings his staff at guard 9 (L) and hits him in the
              side ribs doing enough damage to finally kill the guard.]

             [Kiet looks up at Z'leyra with desperate hope for help.  He
              begins to feel cold numbness of his fingers from the wound
              and can only move slightly from the adrenaline.]

             [The Metal Man turns around surprised that something could
              move it.  It glances only briefly at the knocked out man
              below its abdomen and looks up at the giant in front of him.
              No emotion is seen but he tries a pulled back punch at the
              giant and misses.] 

        Actions? Comments?

        Next Update...Monday...I hope...

        GM: Wow.  What a combat this has turned out to be.  It could've
            been a lot worse though.  :<

        GM: Arawn - Your shield is up but looks like you'll have to
                    wait till duration of paralysis ends unless something
                    else happens.  At least you took out the Dark Elf.
                    Expect a Email however!

            Fremea - Sorry the spell failed.  But the Elf detected it.
                     
            Kiet   - Sorry man.  Your abandon spell failed and then so did
                     the dodge attempt.  He just got a very good hit in and
                     took you out.  Bad dice. :<

            Raban  - Your not at the Metal Man.  But with a weak arm you
                     can still use it just not 100%.  So you'll need to 
                     figure things out on how to attack him.  Guard 11 is
                     not on map but is in the same location as you are.  He
                     is knocked out at your feet between you and metal man. 

            Z'leyra - Your firedart would've been detected by the Dark
                    Elf.  Arawn dodged the firewall A'krill setup and
                    so could likely the Dark Elf.  So would've been
                    wasted without the change of actions.  But now you
                    have lots of wounded folks.  

        GM:  At this point there are only four targets left:

             Guard #10 (Q)    near Ben'dar - Wounded
             Swordsman #2 (6) near Arawn   - On fire but still alive
             Metal Man        near Raban   - 100%
             Statue           near door    - 100%

             The Dark Elf could die on his own maybe and Ben'dar will
             probably take out the guard in a phase or two.  So at
             this point the two hard targets are left.  Too bad Chion
             isn't here to help - wherever he is - dead or alive!


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  Legend -           North /|\
           1 Row    = 2 feet
           1 Column = 2 feet
                ° = Solid wall or earthen rock
           / or \ = Door
           ,,     = Stone Steps
           I      = Stone wall

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  [1st Floor]

        [Ceiling here is about 10 feet high.]

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                           _________________/\__                W
                             <-Hallway->                        X
                                                                Y
        I         _/\__/ ______________/ __/\_____              Z
        I        I   I  C    \~~~*/       I                     aa
        I        I   I   L      MR       @I <Cabinet            bb
        I  Hall- I   I        *QB*       @I                     cc
        I   way->I        *          *    I                     dd
        I        I   I       [====]   ZK  I--/\-I               ee
        I        I   I   *            P     *  *I               ff
        I        I   I  ###  6  R         IF    I               gg
        I        I   I  ###               I    *I               hh
        I        I_8\I   *      $  [=====]I  ###I               ii
        I        I   I_________/ _________I  ##*I               jj
        I        I   I     I              /  ## I    I     I    kk
        I        I   I     I               _____I    I     I    ll
        I        I   I     I        $$               I     I    mm
        I        \   I___/\I        $$               I     I    nn 
        I        /                        Foyer      I     I    oo
        I        I                                    [[[..I    pp
        I________I_____________/\_____________________[[[..I    qq 
                                                              
                           Main Door

     R  - Arawn       [gg34] [Facing Ceiling, Wounded, on ground   ]
     B  - Ben'dar     [cc24] [Facing West]     [Fighting Guard 10  ]
     C  - Caladan     [aa16] [Facing S.E.]     [Fighting no one now]
     F  - Fremea      [gg35] [Facing East]     [Fighting no one now]
     K  - Kiet        [ee31] [Facing Ceiling, Wounded, on ground   ]
     N  - Raban       [bb25] [Facing West ]    [Fighting Metal Man ]
     U  - Unali       [????] [Off map] 
     Z  - Z'leyra     [ee30] [Facing East]     [Kneeling, Helping Kiet]
     H  - Chion       [????] [Somewhere in Foyer - Last known spot ]


               ---* On Map - Current Enemy around     **--

     Q  - Guard  10   [cc25] [Facing East ]    [Fighting Ben'dar   ]
     6  - Swordsman 2 [gg21] [Facing Ceiling]  [on Fire, On ground ]
     M  - Metal-Man   [bb24] [Facing East]     [Fighting Raban     ]
     $  - Statue      [ii24] [Facing North]    [Hovering in air    ]


               ---* Off Map Last Known Body Locations **--

     4  - Bowman #2   [Y 32] [Knocked Out,         On ground       ]
     G  - Guard   7   [bb32] [Knocked Out,         On ground       ]
     3  - Bowmen #1   [Y 16] [Knocked Out,         On Ground       ]
     O  - Guard  11   [bb25] [Knocked Out,         On Ground       ]
     9  - Guard   3   [Y 15] [Knocked Out, Asleep, On ground       ]
     1  - A'kril      [bb21] [Dead, Body now dust  On Ground       ]
     2  - Bodyguard   [cc19] [Dead,                On Ground       ]
     5  - Swordsman 1 [dd11] [Dead,                On Ground       ]
     7  - Guard   1   [nn17] [Dead,                On Ground       ]
     A  - Guard   4   [Z 16] [Dead,                On Ground       ]
     D  - Guard   5   [Z 31] [Dead,                On Ground       ]
     E  - Guard   6   [Z 33[ [Dead,                On Ground       ]
     J  - Guard   8   [ff34] [Dead,                On Ground       ]
     8  - Guard   2   [ii11] [Dead,                On Ground       ]
     P  - Guard  12   [ff30] [Dead,   Headless     On Ground       ]
     L  - Guard   9   [bb17] [Dead,                On Ground       ]

   GM: All Doors in room are now open as are the 2 secret doors. 

   GM: Stats -

          Total Players     - 9
            Alive - Wounded - 8
            Alive - Fine    - 0
            Dead            - 0??
            Unknown         - 1 [Chion]

            Wounded         - Ben'dar [Light   ]    Arawn   [Light   ]
                              Unali   [Light   ]    Fremea  [Moderate]
                              Z'leyra [Heavy   ]    Caladan [Heavy   ]
                              Raban   [Heavy   ]    Kiet    [Heavy   ]


          Total Enemies     - 20
            Alive - Wounded -  1  
            Alive - Fine    -  2  [Metal Man, Statue]
            Alive - KO      -  5
            Dead            - 11







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