[pnpgm] Game Update #164 - File #1225 - Forest Giant Combat Phase 3-5

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    Character Name   Type       Player        Sex           Notes
..Arawn...........Druid...John.Haight........Ma..Alfar/Backup Navigator
..Dorhak..........Warrior.Kevin.Newark.......Ma..Captain/Leader/Dwarf
..Fremea..........Sidh....Tobie.Bonahoom.....Fe..Faerry/Archer/Magician
..Kiet............Acrobat.David.Sanders......Ma..Human/Magician
..Pyandalgor......Hunter..Panthera...........Ma..Human/Hunter
..Raddok..........Miner...Bess.Hadley........Ma..Human/Miner
..Tsia.Phan.......Thief...Don.Ker............Fe..Human/Thief
..Unali...........Ninja...Wout.Broere........Fe..Human/Dagger Maiden
..Upus............Warrior.Gerald.Ford........Ma..Normal/Barbarian Warrior
..Kimis...........Warrior.NPC................Fe..Normal/Diumgi Companion
..Z'leyra.........Healer..Alex Koponen.......Fe..Human/Shaman/1st Mate
..Barbosa.........Warrior.Npc................Ma..Dwarf/Outcast
..Bes (2).........Warrior.npc................Mo..Bes..............

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         Game Update #164 sequence (file #1225)
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         [Recap]

            From Dorhak: [Re: Actions]
                 Dorhak sees the success in dealing with one giant, even if 


                 "Hold!  range weapons only!"
            GM: Ack. Actually Unali is not seen by party yet.

            From Fremea: [Re: Actions]
                 Yes, she will fire on the other giant.
            GM: Ack.

            From Raddok: [Re: Actions]
                 Raddok is surprised that his 
ring doesn’t fire. He doesn’t 

            GM: Ack.

            From Kiet: [Re: Actions]
                 <snicker! About Dorhak’s final comment>

                 Kiet is not happy about the ring 
not activating.  He decides he 


                 OOC...Kiet will fire in phase 
three, and activate boots for speed in phase 
four.  He will also keep the jump spell in mind, 
with thought of using tulwar on the giant's throat.
            GM: Ack.

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         [New Stuff]

         [Ma 9th, 1636TH]

         [Time:  Vily ForestEdge night at camp]

            Pyan had at times scouting ahead 
using his skills as a hunter to avoid normal 
forest creatures and not to get the Vily back annoyed at them.

            That night before they venture onto 
the plains to the north forest mountains he spots 
something special in the dim light as he collects fire wood.

            Pyan stops at a plant and gets very 
excited. He shouts out "A J?d? d? paud?" in his 
native tongue. He recognizes the legendary plant from his peoples mythology.

            He explains it great spiritual 
significances and magical powers. He harvests the 
plant with the proper rituals to ensure it keeps 
it's mystic properties. thou he doesn't have the 
skill needed to prepare it for use. he asked 
Arawn and Z'leyra if they have the skills and 
will enthusiastically tell them in great detail 
about it if they don't seem to have heard about 
it even if they try to avoid his advice about the 
alleged magical plant. He will insist that is 
truly if a J?d? d? paud? no matter how much 
anyone tries to convince him he has mis 
identified the plant or it's magic powers.

            Arawn cautions the hunter to be 
careful as he studies the plant.  He has the 
skills and tools but harvesting has its own methods for each plant.

            Barbosa shrugs, “what does the plant do?”

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         [Ma 10th, 1636TH]

         [Time:  7:02:00 pm LW time]
         [Phase 1]

            Z'leyra moves closer and fires her sling but misses.

         [Time:  7:02:03 pm LW time]
         [Phase 2]

            Z'leyra tries again as she nears 
closer but again seems to miss by a few inches as 
she gets too far away missing the giant.

         [Time:  7:02:06 pm LW time]
         [Phase 3]

             Fremea turns her attention to the 
last giant not aware Unali is on his back.  She 
fires her single arrow which magically duplicates 
into 6 more. Three arrows miss.   Three hit but 
bounce off his tough skin.  One arrow hits in 
upper left chest doing 10 points of damage.

            Pyan fires his bow at the giant and 
hits in the lower left leg doing 6 points of damage.

            Arawn selects one of his special 
arrows and fires his bow at the giant but it bounces off his tough skin.

            Kiet is not happy about the ring not 
activating.  He decides he must try the other 
one, though.  Unali could be out of her league 
alone out there.  He decides to aim at the lower 
torso of the giant, hoping to keep Unali as much 
out of the line of fire as possible. Kiet also 
decides to move toward Dorhak and Raddok.

            The ring on his other hand does 
nothing again!  Rather it does seem to activate 
he can see a spark flare up but it seems to be 
negated or resisted by the giant.

            Raddok is surprised that his ring 
doesn't fire. He doesn't see a beam from Kiet's, 
either.  Did the ring use its power or not? Does 
he have 1 shot remaining or still have the 2? 
What happened? He's very concerned & decides to 
hold his fire for the moment, hunkering behind a 
tree with Dorhak, until the giant in the 
log-walled fort's entrance is close enough to try 
to smash the giant's toes, Achilles tendon or 
another foolish (to him) attack that may or may not get him killed.

            At least he wouldn't be alone & 
something helpful might yet give him a better 
chance at actually hitting the creature. He 
missed out on the last fight, since it resolved 
before any melee came his way, so he would like 
to get in a few good hits, if he can avoid both 
the tree trunks the giant is wielding, and any kicks the monster might make.

            But he's still too far away to try 
anything, unless he wants to risk using the ring 
again - & he's gonna wait to see if any fire beam 
from a ring works before he tries his own ring again.

            So Raddok waits and lowers his hand.

            Unali deftly grabs the animal hide of 
the giant and reaches the shoulder of the 
giant.  She reaches up and over to try to 
straddle the collarbone.  But she reaches for 
what is the loose string and fumbles trying to 
stab the giant's neck. Oddly enough her magical 
dagger gives her clairvoyance warning to realize 
she will fumble but not enough warning to prevent 
it.  Instead of preventing it she slips forward 
and over the side of the giant.  Sliding down the 
front of the giant.  She stabs the giants to stop 
her descent as she slides inside the front animal 
hide shirt.  Her left dagger stabs into his chest 
doing 1 point but enough to stop her 
descent.  With her right hand, dagger in palm, 
she grabs the loose string.  She stops a few 
inches more and sees the end of the string is 
indeed a necklace.  In the dim light of the awful 
smelling animal hide she sees a round object that 
looks like a talisman.  Giants are too dumb to 
use such.  She realizes this must've been 
collected and used.  Maybe its some protection 
even the giant doesn't understand or just a 
'shiny object' to wear.  God this giant smells!

            The giant drops his tree trunk in his 
left hand used to bash his back and reaches 
toward his front.  He grabs the necklace and 
yanks.  The full strength of the giant pulls 
Unali upwards with it.  As the giant pultls 
necklace, talisman and Unali out he grabs her and 
tosses her to the right like a rag doll.  She 
lands 12 feet on the ground but her dagger warns 
her of the danger and she flips in mid air and 
lands and rolls onto the ground.  She amazingly 
takes no damage because of her tough chainmail as 
she rolls onto the forest ground from the 8 foot fall.

            As the giant is doing this he charges 
and lifts the tree trunk with his right hand.  He 
sees Kimis as she peers over a bush and he swings 
on her.  The giant hits with his large tree limb 
square into her upper right chest doing 6 points.

            Z'leyra belts her sling and grabs her 
great sword rushing toward the giant with her 
speed boosted boots.  She tries to get in front 
of the giant but a large bush is there and so can 
only get to his left.  She swings at the giant but fails to hit him.

            Pyan shoulders bow and grabs his 
spear the time for missile weapons are over.

         [Time:  7:02:09 pm LW time]
         [Phase 4]

            Fremea frowns the giant is near 
others so firing on him is harder. But she flies 
out and toward his back and fires on his back 
maybe if she fires over the height about 10 feet 
up and higher she'll miss folks.  Maybe.


            Upus sees Kimis attacked and sees her 
not seriously hurt. Angry he rushes around the 
bush coming to the right rear and swings his 
battle axe at the giant's lower leg.  He hits but 
the tough hide blocks his damage.  The last one 
hits deep doing 16 points in his back.



            Dorhak sees the success in dealing 
with one giant, even if temporarily. Still have 
to determine that.  But this second giant has 
already gotten clubs in hand.  "Hold!  range 
weapons only!" he doesn’t waste time trying to 
tell everyone not to hit Unali.


            At least that is what he had planned 
to say.  So fast how things change. Now he sees 
Unali appear from his back and be thrown off and 
it charge a group.  The idea of missile weapons 
is over. It will be too close.

            Dorhak sighed and draws his weapon 
and charges toward to help Z'leyra. He swings and 
hits doing 14 points to his left leg. Three 
arrows miss. Two bounce off.  One hits doing 4 points to his back.

            Kiet is right in front of the 
giant.  He activates his Jump spell and leaps up 
and swings his tulwar at the giant's neck 
hitting! But he does not break skin as he lands back on the ground.

            Unali shakes off the shock and daze 
and stands and charges the giant.  She swings 
both daggers at the right leg with one missing and one doing 10 points.

            The giant roars in rage and swings 
his tree to sweep away the pesky humans around 
him and instead of humans – the tree limb goes 
flying out of his hand 30 feet crashing into t a 
tree as it slips from his hands in a fumble.

            The giant in a rage kicks out toward 
Z'leyra and hits her in the chest with his foot 
but she is only knocked back a couple feet taking 
no damage from the blow due to her chainmail.

            Pyan tries to get in a position but the group is in the way.

            Z'leyra's breath is knocked out and 
she tries to gasp knowing her luck was in 
place.  She prepares to fire her helmet dart as soon as she can.

            Upus swings on the giants ankle 
hitting with battle axe doing 12 points. The 
giant begins to sway hurt from the damage.

            Raddok moves to help the others.

            Kimis swings her own axe but misses.

            Dorhak swings but also misses.

         [Time:  7:02:12 pm LW time]
         [Phase 5]

            Fremea fires more arrows and the 
final hit point is done to kill the giant.  It 
falls between Kiet and Kimis.  Kimis takes a left 
arm to her back and is knocked down but not hurt more so.

            Kimis is helped up and the party 
notices she is the only one hurt but mildly. 
Weapons and sheathed and cleaned as they ensure 
the giants are dead.  Unali goes to find the 
necklace and discovers it broken.  Arawn notices 
the talisman is damaged and seems to have some 
protection magic which is probably why the rings failed?

            The King notices the talisman and 
sighs.  “A Bes item!  Probably made in ancient 
times and from that cave.  That means I hope we 
find our escape from this world undamaged.  These 
markings show Bes artistry with a touch of Elven runes.”

            The party moves into the fort as Kiet 
warns of the tumble spell to move far to the side 
and around.  The group ponders how to get the 
large trees away from the threshold.  Each tree 
is maybe 200-400 pounds or more.  They can be 
toppled easily but dragging them away from entrance will be tricky.

            The King speaks to Dorhak, “once we 
enter we may want to leave a guard at entrance 
maybe my guard and that Red fella?”

         GM: Actions? Comments?

             Next update....Friday?

         GM: I added the Pyan thing on plant now 
that I understand the context from Discord. I 
also included the ZL sling retro as I did not do 
that.  All in all a good fight for party sigh the 
giants got no good licks in! Upus I keep saying 
Opus I'm sorry!  Fixed now.  Rushed experience 
below should be all.  I work longer Saturday so I 
can work on update Wednesday or Friday depending 
on what you do now.  Once you enter the 
cave.  You will see 2 Fumbles.  Unali's acrobatic 
attempt (thus the slide) and Giant tossing tree away.


         GM: Experience

                 Player          MEP CEP    Expertise     Skill / Notes
             Fremea               -  635      (120)     Bow x12       -4 Arrows
           Pyan                 -   30        10      Bow x1 +1 EL! -3 Arrows
             Arawn                -   30        10      Bow x1 +1 EL! -4 Arrow
           Arawn               20    -        20      Translocation
           Unali                -  120       (40)     Dagger x4
           Unali                -    -         5      Two handed fighting
           Dorhak               -   75        10 
     Sword x1 +1 EL +1 OCV/DCV!
             Upus                 -   60 
10       Heavy Axe x1 +1 EL, +1 CEL!

         GM: Player Damage -

                   Player    Damage
                 Kimis     -6













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