Arena Tournament, Round 74: Zema Eloon vs. Rainbow Ninja

[Ganurath]

Ref:

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What's Zema wielding?

Balance - (1d20+8)[16]

[Sallera]

Rainbow:

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Wielding a bow.

[Ganurath]

Rainbow Ninja

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Excellent, ranged weapon means no attacks of opportunity. I'll ready an action:

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Blast him with Color Spray if he's within range of the spell at Initiative Count 20.

Stats:

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HP: 6/6
AC: 17 Full, 13 FF, 13 Touch, +4 Armor, +4 Dex, -1 Aggressive
Saves: +0 Fort, +4 Ref, +0 Will
Location: T18
Special: Invisibility 6 rounds

Turn Complete, assuming a Ref can confirm the legality of my action.

[vollmond]

Zema Eloon, Turn 16

Refs/LoS:

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Standard: ready an action

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to attack if i get LoS with Rainbow

Hide (1d20+8)[22]
Move Silently (1d20+8)[28]
Reactive Spot (1d20+9)[23] (including +2 for Favored Enemy(Elf))
Reactive Listen (1d20+9)[24] (including +2 for Favored Enemy(Elf))

Turn done. I'll grab LoS and your ref confirmation.

Statblock:

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Position: U-17, on top of the wall
Hp: 7/7
AC: 18, Flat-Footed 13, Touch 15 (+3 armor, +5 dex)
Remaining Consumables:
20 regular arrows
10 masterwork arrows
7 dragonsbreath arrows
1 oil of magic weapon
1 hunk of cheese

Burning Blade maneuver unused

[Sallera]

Rainbow:

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As far as I know, that's not a legal action. Nobody acts on initiative count 20, and thus there is no way to perceive it.

Rewind to Rainbow's turn.

[Ganurath]

Rainbow Ninja

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In that case, I'll go with the Plan B I came up with after the post. Ready an action:

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Blast him with Color Spray if he readies an action within range of the spell.

Stats:

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HP: 6/6
AC: 17 Full, 13 FF, 13 Touch, +4 Armor, +4 Dex, -1 Aggressive
Saves: +0 Fort, +4 Ref, +0 Will
Location: T18
Special: Invisibility 6 rounds

Turn Complete again.

[vollmond]

I'll keep my turn the same, unless LoS warrants a revision.

[Ganurath]

LoS doesn't warrant a revision, but your readying an action triggers my readied action to blast you with Color Spray. Make a DC 16 Will Save or take a violent nap.

[vollmond]

will save is go: (1d20+2)[12] edit: ahhh crap

wait - does that count as a sleep spell or effect? i'm immune to those.

edit2: hmm upon reading, i assume "immunity to sleep spells and effects" actually just means the spell "sleep" and a similar SLA, right? damn.

[Ganurath]

Not sleep, just unconcious.

Rainbow Ninja

Coup de grace!

Autocrit - (3d8)[16]

Let's see how long you're out:
Unconcious - (2d4)[6]
Blind - (1d4)[4]
Stun - 1d1 [1]

Stats:

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HP: 6/6
AC: 17 Full, 13 FF, 13 Touch, +4 Armor, +4 Dex, -1 Aggressive
Saves: +0 Fort, +4 Ref, +0 Will
Location: T18
Special: None.

Turn Complete.

[vollmond]

Wait, are you up on the wall with me?

[Ganurath]

Ah, apologies. I'm in T18, top of the tree. Having an opposite wall really helps those Climb checks.

[vollmond]

You're out of range of a CdG, aren't you? You're at +10 feet, I'm at +20.

edit: and yeah, I happen to love the chimneys :-)

edit2: also, nice rolls on the color spray. you probably have me even without the immediate CdG, but we'll see how it goes, assuming my measuring was right.

[Ganurath]

Well, in that case, I need to beat a DC 15 Climb check. I have 6 rounds of unconciousness for me to climb 5ft, so just ignore anything after the first 15... Or roll under 11. Didn't make any progress, so it doesn't matter.

Round 1 - (1d20)[9]
Round 1 Move 2 - (1d20)[16]
Round 2 - (1d20)[13]
Round 2 Move 2 - (1d20)[7]
Round 3 - (1d20)[18]
Round 3 Move 2 - (1d20)[5]
Round 4 - (1d20)[7]
Round 4 Move 2 - (1d20)[19]

[Ganurath]

Rainbow Ninja

Once I'm up high enough, I can draw with one hand free (another thing I overlooked, and make a standard attack against... -2 untyped each from stun and blind, Dex 0 from unconcious, and I get a +4 bonus.

Attack - (1d20+4)[11] against 1+Armor+Shield
Spear - (1d8)[4]
Confirm - (1d20+4)[10]
Critical - (2d8)[7]

If neccesary, it'll be a coup de grace the following round.

Finisher - (3d8)[15]

Stats:

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HP: 6/6
AC: 17 Full, 13 FF, 13 Touch, +4 Armor, +4 Dex, -1 Aggressive
Saves: +0 Fort, +4 Ref, +0 Will
Location: T18
Special: None.

Turn Complete.

[vollmond]

The attack misses, but the CdG will finish me. and by misses, i of course mean "hits"

In the interest of staying alive, I'll be nitpicky and say: Shouldn't your roll of 9 in that first climb check have dropped you to the ground, for 1d6 damage, and then your second climb bring you to +5? Unless you only dropped to the top of the tree...

If that's valid arena RAW, then I congratulate you on being the first to kill Zema :-) and GG

[Kyeudo]

GM Kyeudo

Since it appears that I have to make a ruling one way or the other, and since the RAW don't seem to have any clear statement about where you fall to when climbing in such a manner, I'll rule with common sense.

Climbing the wall from the tree and failing would have put you on the ground. However, you would have been allowed a reflexive Climb check to catch yourself at the wall's Climb DC +20.

If this necessitates a rewind, that's the way the cookie crumbles.

[Ganurath]

Climb - (1d20)[17] will not work, so
Tumble - (1d20+8)[21] against
Falling Damage - (1d6)[5]

Assuming that doesn't kill me, I have three 1st level spell slots and more than that many rounds left. Let's hit him with three castings of Whelm, using move actions between to stow my spear and get out my hand crossbow.

Nonlethal - (1d6)[4], Will negates
Nonlethal - (1d6)[5], Will negates
Nonlethal - (1d6)[3], Will negates

Let's see results after that.

[vollmond]

What is Whelm?

(1d20+2)[7]
(1d20+2)[10]
(1d20+2)[16]

[Ganurath]

A 1st level enchantment spell from PHB II, which with my Int has a DC of 16. The +2 for being an elf doesn't help the short saves, though. So, with 9 nonlethal damage total you should stay out. I win?

[vollmond]

That would appear to do it. Good game.

Sorry for the delay at the end there, though after seeing the refs confused, too, I'm glad I brought it up.

[Sallera]

High Ref Sallera

Rainbow Ninja proves falling out of trees isn't nearly as bad as it looks, and takes the victory.