Encounter at Shadow Castle Keep Parts 1 and 2

[smeltdm]

Prost dismisses gaseous form, pats himself down just to make sure he is all there.“This shouldn't be a problem.” He retrieves a potion of water breathing, just in case and stealths into the water.

OUT OF CHARACTER

Assuming Prost can drink potion underwater if needed

 

[ElectroZman]

“Prost, want us to wait here for you or follow close behind?” Tex asks.

[smeltdm]

“I will check ahead and see how far it is wait here I’ll be back” Prost rethinks his plan and downs the potion, then stealths into the water.

[JPetherick]

Worrel waits patiently near the water, ready in case it is not Prost who emerges from the water.

[kabkal]

Lola, with sword in hand, waits by the water as well. She is also keeping an eye out at the exits to make sure nothing else decides to join us.

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You still have that I have the sword dropped listed in the OOC section of DM posts. I have picked it up.

 

[patransom]

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Sorry for the delay. Been a while since I had to create a new map, so I kept putting it off. It really wasn't hard, silly me.

 

Prost dismisses gaseous form and downs a potion of water breathing. He wades stealthily into the water and soon finds that the tunnel does indeed submerge completely. It continues this way for 100 feet, then emerges again. Poking his head cautiously just above the water, Prost sees a dry landing ahead. Standing on the dry ground are two small black-scaled humanoid creatures. They look a bit of a cross between lizards and dogs. They are not paying much attention to the water and don't seem to have spotted Prost.

OUT OF CHARACTER

It took Prost 5 rounds to traverse the submerged tunnel, which was no problem for him with his water breathing potion. Since I'm sure it will come up, the tunnel does not require swim checks, but would require holding your breath per the rules under swim here.

 

ACTIVE EFFECTS

1. Cyrius of the Sudden Blade: sunrod and mind blade readied, 17 bolts left, 4 hp damage 2. Worrel: longsword and shield readied, 0 arrows left, 0 lay on hands left, 1 smite evil left, wand of CLW 21 charges left, uninjured 3. Texudus TreeBender: longbow readied, 46 arrows left, 4 hp damage 4. Evan Prost: short sword and loaded slingstaff readied, 6 +1 bullets left, darkvision 170.7 minutes left, water breathing ~10 hours left, 14 hp damage 5. Lola: short sword readied, 49 bolts left, 8 hp damage 6. Fluffy: 11 hp damage

[smeltdm]

Prost returns to report what he found. He waits a round quietly, just to make sure he misses nothing, before leaving.

[patransom]

Nothing changes as Prost watches, so he returns to the group and reports what he saw...

OUT OF CHARACTER

It took Prost 5 rounds to traverse the submerged tunnel, which was no problem for him with his water breathing potion. Since I'm sure it will come up, the tunnel does not require swim checks, but would require holding your breath per the rules under swim here.

 

ACTIVE EFFECTS

1. Cyrius of the Sudden Blade: sunrod and mind blade readied, 17 bolts left, 4 hp damage 2. Worrel: longsword and shield readied, 0 arrows left, 0 lay on hands left, 1 smite evil left, wand of CLW 21 charges left, uninjured 3. Texudus TreeBender: longbow readied, 46 arrows left, 4 hp damage 4. Evan Prost: short sword and loaded slingstaff readied, 6 +1 bullets left, darkvision 170.0 minutes left, water breathing ~10 hours left, 14 hp damage 5. Lola: short sword readied, 49 bolts left, 8 hp damage 6. Fluffy: 11 hp damage

[ElectroZman]

Tex tightens his belt, straps, pouches and other equipment and gets ready for a swim.

[JPetherick]

Worrel does the same, thinking that he will need to carefully clean and dry his equipment after this. While he waits, he sheathes his sword and secures his gear before entering the water.

[CGM3]

Cyrius prepares to enter the water following Worrel.

[kabkal]

Lola, not looking thrilled at this, readies her gear and gets ready to enter the water following everyone else.

[patransom]

Prost leads the party into the submerged tunnel. No one has any trouble holding their breath.

However, as the group emerges from the water, they find that the black-scaled dog-lizards, apparently alerted by the approaching light, have moved to the edge of the water. They shoot hand crossbows at Cyrius, but miss.

OUT OF CHARACTER

The water is waist-deep and counts as difficult terrain (2 squares per square)

 

ACTIVE EFFECTS

Round 1 Begins: 1. Evan Prost: short sword and loaded slingstaff readied, 6 +1 bullets left, darkvision 169.4 minutes left, water breathing ~10 hours left, 14 hp damage 2. Texudus TreeBender: longbow readied, 46 arrows left, 4 hp damage 3. Black-scaled dog-lizards (K) --> Intermediate Validation Round 1 Continues: 1. Worrel: longsword and shield readied, 0 arrows left, 0 lay on hands left, 1 smite evil left, wand of CLW 21 charges left, uninjured 2. Lola: short sword readied, 49 bolts left, 8 hp damage 3. Cyrius of the Sudden Blade: sunrod and mind blade readied, 17 bolts left, 4 hp damage 4. Fluffy: 11 hp damage Round 2 Begins: 5. Evan Prost: short sword and loaded slingstaff readied, 6 +1 bullets left, darkvision 170.0 minutes left, water breathing ~10 hours left, 14 hp damage 6. Texudus TreeBender: longbow readied, 46 arrows left, 4 hp damage 7. Black-scaled dog-lizards (K) --> Full Validation

[ElectroZman]

Tex fires twice at K1, but fumbles the second shot.

OUT OF CHARACTER

Looks like both are point blank. New format above, shot and damage on same line.

 

[CGM3]

Cyrius charges his mind blade with psychic energy and flings it at K1.

[JPetherick]

Worrel holds his shield in front of him as he wades through the water towards the kobolds, holding his sword up out of the water.

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Double Move - to 3805 (if possible)

 

[kabkal]

Lola moves up just past were Worrel was standing (4103 I think it reads, just in front of Prost) and while moving puts her sword away, draws her crossbow and fires (if possible).


to hit (should be +5, not +4, so add one to roll)
if hits

[patransom]

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Waiting on Prost

 

[smeltdm]

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Waiting on Prost

 

Sorry, I will post momentarily.

[smeltdm]

Prost attack K1 with sling staff...

sling staff damage...thou I think this is a miss...

Prost reloads sling staff...

[patransom]

Prost attacks K1 with his slingstaff, but misses. He stows his short sword in preparation for reloading his slingstaff.

OUT OF CHARACTER

...You can fire, but not load, a halfling sling staff with one hand. Loading a halfling sling staff is a move action that requires two hands and provokes attacks of opportunity... Let me know if you'd rather keep the short sword out, instead of getting ready to reload.

 

Tex looses a shot at K1, its high-pitch song singing an aria of pain [9 hp damage]. His second shot misses.

K1 scurries back into the darkness. K2 stands its ground, reloads its hand crossbow, and fires at Prost, missing. Then it takes a step back.

OUT OF CHARACTER

Now we get a full round where everyone acts. Since the situation has changed (slightly), please post even if you just want to keep the same action you already posted. The water is waist-deep and counts as difficult terrain (2 squares per square)

 

ACTIVE EFFECTS

Round 1 Continues: 1. Worrel: longsword and shield readied, 0 arrows left, 0 lay on hands left, 1 smite evil left, wand of CLW 21 charges left, uninjured 2. Lola: short sword readied, 49 bolts left, 8 hp damage 3. Cyrius of the Sudden Blade: sunrod and mind blade readied, 17 bolts left, 4 hp damage 4. Fluffy: 11 hp damage Round 2 Begins: 5. Evan Prost: unloaded slingstaff readied, 5 +1 bullets left, darkvision 179.3 minutes left, water breathing ~10 hours left, 14 hp damage 6. Texudus TreeBender: longbow readied, 44 arrows left, 4 hp damage 7. Black-scaled dog-lizards (K): K1 9 damage, K2 uninjured --> Full Validation

[smeltdm]

Prost attacks K1 with his slingstaff, but misses. He stows his short sword in preparation for reloading his slingstaff.

OUT OF CHARACTER

...You can fire, but not load, a halfling sling staff with one hand. Loading a halfling sling staff is a move action that requires two hands and provokes attacks of opportunity... Let me know if you'd rather keep the short sword out, instead of getting ready to reload.

 

At what point did Prost draw his short sword? I believe he has only had sling staff equipped ... I will look back thru threads, but don’t recall Prost drawing his sword.

Never mind. Found it...Prost will stow his short sword...

[CGM3]

Having apparently missed his attack on K1 (or did the time-space continuum blink ?), Cyrius re-materializes his mind blade in its longsword form and flings it at K2.

OUT OF CHARACTER

smeltdm, to append a comment to a Rolz roll, use # as the delimiter, ie.: #1d20+1 #this comment will be included

 

[patransom]

Having apparently missed his attack on K1 (or did the time-space continuum blink ?)...

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The previous post was to validate actions for the first half of Round 1, covering Prost, Tex, and the kobolds. Cyrius did not act in this partial validation because he was lower down in the initiative order. The point of the partial validation was to allow people who go after the kobolds to adapt their actions to the changing situation. I was not trying to ignore actions. Apologies if it seemed like that. I did try to make it clear in the active effects list at the start of combat. And also with this note in the last post: "Now we get a full round where everyone acts. Since the situation has changed (slightly), please post even if you just want to keep the same action you already posted."

 

[ElectroZman]

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I'm a little unclear too but...

 

If K2 is still standing by the time Tex goes, he fires twice at it, otherwise he'll move as far as he can toward dry ground.

[JPetherick]

Worrel splashed forward in the water towards the remaining kobold.

OUT OF CHARACTER

Double Move - 2 x 20 ft - which might get him to 3805

 

[kabkal]

Lola will keep her actions as posted, putting sword away, getting crossbow out and firing (if possible) 22 to hit, 2 damage.

[smeltdm]

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Ok, this is Prost second attack

 

Prost reloads his sling staff and attacks K2

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Opps, should I reroll? I used the wrong modifier, 2 should have been a 10. Which would make roll a 29

 

[CGM3]

Having apparently missed his attack on K1 (or did the time-space continuum blink ?)...

OUT OF CHARACTER

The previous post was to validate actions for the first half of Round 1, covering Prost, Tex, and the kobolds. Cyrius did not act in this partial validation because he was lower down in the initiative order. The point of the partial validation was to allow people who go after the kobolds to adapt their actions to the changing situation. I was not trying to ignore actions. Apologies if it seemed like that. I did try to make it clear in the active effects list at the start of combat. And also with this note in the last post: "Now we get a full round where everyone acts. Since the situation has changed (slightly), please post even if you just want to keep the same action you already posted."

 

Okay, then Cyrius will fling his mind blade at K2.

[patransom]

Round 1 Continues

Worrel splashes forward in the water towards the remaining kobold.

Lola moves forward, drawing her crossbow, then puts her sword away.

OUT OF CHARACTER

That's two move actions: (1) a move, during which you can draw, but not stow, a weapon, and (2) stowing a weapon. No action left to shoot, unfortunately.

 

Cyrius charges his mind blade with psychic energy and flings it at K2. He misses.

Round 2 Begins

Prost reloads his sling staff and attacks K2. The magical bullet stops dead as all force is transferred into the creature, driving them backwards [7 hp damage]

Since K2 is still standing, Tex fires twice at it. His first shot misses, but the second arrow's hurtling flight is interrupted as it buries itself in the target, snuffing out their life [7 hp damage kills K2]

OUT OF CHARACTER

The water is waist-deep and counts as difficult terrain (2 squares per square). Note that it is dark here and Cyrius is carrying the only light. A light source will need to get to at least 3507 to shine around the corner and reveal much more of the cave.

 

ACTIVE EFFECTS

Round 2 Continues: 1. Worrel: longsword and shield readied, 0 arrows left, 0 lay on hands left, 1 smite evil left, wand of CLW 21 charges left, uninjured 2. Lola: loaded crossbow readied, 49 bolts left, 8 hp damage 3. Cyrius of the Sudden Blade: sunrod readied, 17 bolts left, 4 hp damage 4. Fluffy: 11 hp damage Round 3 Begins: 5. Evan Prost: unloaded slingstaff readied, 4 +1 bullets left, darkvision 179.2 minutes left, water breathing ~10 hours left, 14 hp damage 6. Texudus TreeBender: longbow readied, 42 arrows left, 4 hp damage 7. Black-scaled dog-lizards (K): K1 9 damage, K2 dead