Servants of the Thrallherd IC [3.5, high speed]

Round 5, Part 1

RexThaun wanders in limbo.
Grassis moves behind the gargantuan beast, striking it with a blast of energy.

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Hit for 23

Joas successfully Dimension Doors himself and ZrabHas out of the beast’s claws. He hides behind his horse, while the Githzerai moves and makes a leaping attack at the creature.

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ZrabHas ends up next to Joas, so she has to move up to make her leaping attack. This triggers an AOO. I’m going to assume (for the sake of avoiding madness) that AOOs don’t trigger snatch/improved grab/etc.

AOO is still a power attack for -2/+2
Attack [roll0]
Damage [roll1] hit for 24

ZrabHas leaps and hits the Roc in the air for 32 points of damage.

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R 130 damage

ZrabHas 24 damage
RexThaun 19 damage, temporally displaced 15’ up.
Joas 30 damage
Psicrystal 4 damage

Round 5, Part 2

The creature turns to the right, clawing at ZrabHas again as it does, and flies northeast.

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Power attack for -2/+2
Attack [roll0]
Damage [roll1]

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http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/h...83/roc%205.jpg
R 130 damage

ZrabHas 47 damage
RexThaun 19 damage, temporally displaced 15’ up.
Joas 30 damage
Psicrystal 4 damage

=> Party

Spoiler: misread rules, corrected

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When the bird claws at her, ZrabHas responds with Fiery Reposte as an immediate action, using her Kukri
[roll0]
[roll1](fire damage)

When the claws slash at the Githerzai, she retaliates with clawing attacks of her own, delivering the melee touch attack of Fiery Riposte kata through an unarmed strike.

Spoiler: I feel like chicken tonight!

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[roll]1d20+9[/roll]
[roll]1d8+2[/roll]Unarmed strike
[roll]4d6[/roll](fire)
[roll]1d6[/roll](stance)

ZrabHas hurls another large javelin at the bird as it moves away.

Spoiler: still good, but I should have a -1 to the attack roll

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[roll2]
[roll3]

ZrabHas tags the bird’s leg with a flaming hand, scorching it further.

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R 141 damage

ZrabHas 47 damage
RexThaun 19 damage, temporally displaced 15’ up.
Joas 30 damage
Psicrystal 4 damage

Grassis


Grassis watches the terrible bird turn in the air again and does his best to get behind it. He fires off yet another blast. "Shhhhhhhoooo-shhhhhhhhooooooo"

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Move action: Move due west to EI37 (50 feet - 2nd round of xeph speed)


Standard action : Blast the bird.

Ranged Touch attack : [roll0]

Damage : [roll1] (4/5 mortal bane )

Joas

"Is it leaving? Hmmm....better safe than sorry." Joas stays behind his horse, and readies a Dimension door should the bird turn and attack him again.


Joas opens up an extradimensional pocket, and eyes the bird, ready to step in should it return.

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Well, like it says :smallsmile:. 3 PP.

(just noticed it has a Manifesting time of 10 minutes, sorry).

Round 6

ZrabHas tosses a javelin that hits, and Grassis also tags the creature with another blast of energy. It continues to fly away, slowly gaining altitude.

The group watches the bird as it flies out of sight; RexThaun reappears and falls to the ground with a painful *thump* [roll0]

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R 163 damage

ZrabHas 47 damage
RexThaun 21 damage, temporally displaced 15’ up.
Joas 30 damage
Psicrystal 4 damage

=> Party
About 3 riding hours left in the day

Rex was glaring at several wolves that had appeared below him, they prowled below him, as if expecting him to fall any moment, and why wouldn't he, things in the air always dropped.

Then he fell, with a blink of his eye, things appeared, as how he had almost forgot, it had only been half a minute or so, but the scene came roiling back to him just as the hard earth smacked into him as he fell.

Getting up, finally able to move by his own two feet, he glared at the large bird flying away, then, he turned to Joas, glaring at him. "Next time you do that, let me know what in the Nine it does!"

He then stomps off to collect Richard and any gear that fell out during the scuffle, muttering about psions and their misuse of their powers.

Joas

Joas smiles at Rex. "There was not much time, Rex, but you´re welcome. I merely collapsed a minor strain of time to save you from the claws of that beast." He dusts off his equipment and inspects his wounds. "We should take some time to recover. Heal our wounds. Could you keep an eye out while we get our bearings back, Grassis?"

Spoiler: OoC: Wand of vigor

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Who could operate that wand again?

ZrabHas curses and shakes her fist at the bird monster, then shrinks back to her normal size and starts moaning in pain.

Rex, would you be so kind as to turn on that nice aura that keeps me from bleeding out? That rook hurt me badly. I didn't know you got things like that in this plane. At least, not naturally, in the middle of no where.

Grassis


"... Merely collapsed a minor strain of time." Grassis repeats. "That was ... impressive." he says finally. "Rex you have no appreciation for art."


Grassis turned invisible and shifted his focus to the horizon, to make sure the bird didn't return - or anything else.


"ZrabHas did you want to use your belt to help heal up or should I break out the wand ?" Grassis asks

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1.Turn invisible
2. Use detect magic to scan for anything of value dropped in the field.
3. help heal people up.

I think we are better off using up the heal belt charges for healing first as they replenish every day.

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Healing belt charge on ZrabHas : + [roll0] hps
Healing belt charge on Joas : + [roll1] hps
Healing belt charge on Rex : + [roll2] hps


Wand charge on : { TBD pending ZrabHas' action}

Detect Magic finds nothing, unless a party member dropped a weapon during the fight.

Joas

Joas smiles and nods serenely at Grassis when he acknowledges his feats.

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Aura brings me back to 21 hp, Grassis´ healing to 31 and use 1 charge of my own belt [roll0] edit: at 41 hp, or 1 damage atm

After conducting the utterly boring task of stopping the bleeding, the group continues on in their ever-dirtier, ever-more raggedy and bloodstained clothes and armor. As the horses begin to tire, Joas spends ten minutes sitting and staring at nothing before opening a door in mid-air and stepping through it.

The group rests with no incident.

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Anything else occuring this evening or overnight?
What items does Grassis identify?

ZrabHas takes a well-needed rest and thinks no more about why being attacked by monsters trying to horribly eat her was less disquieting than her normal daily life.

Joas

Joas is visibly happy that the day came to an ending without further troubles. While he is usually very composed and balanced, you notice that be becomes edgy when he has used a lot of his power reserve. When the group gets to settle in for the night, he turns towards Rex: "Just to get my information correct, Rex...I deduced that it was a good thing to temporally extract you from the current flow of events. Tho...I imagine that must have been an unsettling experience. Anyway, from your words after the fact I deduce you prefer that next time I do not intervene. Is that correct? Because I will gladly abstain from intervening in the future if that is your wish. In that case I apologize for drawing the wrong conclusions." He shrugs while he polishes his psicrystal: "Please recognize I chose to do so because I regard you a friend."

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Heal up my Psicrystal and pump 1 power point into my cognizance crystal.

Rex scowled as they made their war further, the scene had annoyed him, he had been of little use. But it was a great opportunity for his companions so shine, and he was thankful they were up to the task.

Each new encounter shone a light upon them, what to improve, and what already works.

He was glad things worked out.

He regard Joas as he once again, created some kind of tear in the fabric of space, and they relaxed 'inside' it. IT didn't make sense to him, but, not much did. He accepted them for what they are.

He nodded as Joas spoke, he had calmed down, and had a toothy grin out. "No Joas, you did as you thought was correct, I was merely surprised by the affect. I think I may have been that birdies food if you hadn't." he said, frowning at the thought.

Grassis

Grassis wakes in the morning with a start. He looks around with some concern and a little paranoia. He catches his breath and begins packing up his gear to move out.

"I think we may have attracted attention by injuring the monstrous bird. A powerful being invaded my dreams last night - well no - it was more than a dream. It noticed the injured Roc and magically searched for us. It wants us to come visit his town and promised us power and said we would fail our quest if we didn't make the journey. "

Spoiler: Healing / Identify

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Grassis will use 2 charges of the healing wand on Rex and one on ZrabHas. This should bring everyone to full hps after resting (and using Rex's aura etc)

Looks like we only have 3 items left that need identifying. Let's go with the lawman's vest and chain shirt.

Rex frowned as he ran a whetstone down the blade of his bastard sword.

"This troubles me. Did this being say where his village was?"

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Going to swap out the +1 greataxe for the +1 Maul of impact as my backup weapon.

Grassis


"It's a mite more than troubling. The image in my head was a head of a skeleton with gems for eyes. As you can imagine, I have some reservations about its... benevolence. "

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OOC: Not sure if Grassis got a sense of where the town actually was.

Grassis identifies a Chain Shirt +2 and a Vest of Resistance +1.

Joas

"If this being that sent you this message was not our master, then I think we do not have to heed it. It may have been just a dream, of course."

Grassis

"It definitely was not our master, the supreme leader - praise be his name! I don't think it was just a 'dream' but I'll go along with the consensus. I see wisdom in avoiding a dark power like this."

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Grassis equips the +2 chain shirt

AC increases +1

Joas

Joas nods. "The way I see it, if there is a benevolent entity or person seeking to aid us in our endeavors, it would seek other means of contact than birds of prey and threatening dreams." He ponders a bit more. "If there is a person that sends predators our way and tries to force us to him by threatening the success of our quest, it must be someone we want to avoid."

"Or it is an idiot..." he adds after a short silence. "In which case we want to avoid him or her."

Grassis


"The dream seemed to imply 'it' didn't send the giant bird, just that he noticed it was badly injured and was curious how it happened. " Grassis shrugged. He found it difficult to explain the dream. He waited for others to chime in as he prepared the horses for travel.

Joas

"Oh...right. Well, anyway. He´ll contact us again if it is urgent."

You ride for a couple of hours, continuing to talk. The wind is from the north today, but appears to be blowing some weather in – dark clouds are on the horizon. You hear a deep rumbling and thudding that seems to vibrate the ground under you. Joas thinks it’s coming from behind, and sounds like some large animals.

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Feel free to keep up the conversation if it’s not done. Hard to judge when people have more to say or not on PBP. Joas rolled a 19. Everyone else rolled…poorly.

Joas

"Well," Joas says while riding, "we should consider a strategy should a bird like that tries to grab us again." He looks over his shoulder. "Or .... a herd of .... bizons? He looks at his companions: "Did you hear that?"

Rex pulls Richard you short, he had been thinking about the undead skull following them.

"What are bizons?", he asks in all seriousness

Don't ask me. About any of this. I wasn't having any dreams, prophetic, communicative, or otherwise. And I hope you know better than to ask me about animals. As a general rule, though, "herds" aren't predatory. But that might just mean they are being manipulated. Animals in this world are foolish and weak-willed.

I am sorry if this sounds arrogant and pedantic to you. Before I realized the importance of serving the Great Leader, I came from a rather different culture than any of you. Back in Limbo, they taught us that stating the obvious ensures everyone is aware of the context you are seeing the problem.