Sedition (4e Dnd IC)

[Incomp]

As far as I am aware, the leader has the standard medium size movement of 6. If I made a mistake earlier, my bad. And the idea is, you're fighting at night in the middle of a raging storm. Saying visibility is poor is an understatement. I didn't fiddle with light and line of sight and such within the battle because, well, I didn't want to. But as it stands, realistically, your line of sight probably extends 4 or 5 squares at the most.

[MCerberus]

Kraagor

With the leader and the other gnolls gone, Kraagor sniffs around the darkened square for any other sign of a fight. Not finding anything, he simply howls loudly in the tempest. This lack of action allows the Druid to regain some of his senses and notice the spirit leaking out of the fallen compatriot nearby. Shifting back into his normal Dwarf-state, he moves over to Bortos and starts ripping the man's clothing apart and using it to apply some pressure to keep his blood in.

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Shift, d5
Heal - (1d20+7)[12] DC = 10

[Dekkah]

Lukas
Lukas, quickly go after the gnoll leader, trying not to let him distance him.

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Move : Move northwest after Gnoll leader (5 squares)

Since we both were on the same row, and that he moved 8 square, the gnoll should be 4 squares away/in front of Lukas (assuming he have gone always northwest).

If passive perception not enough in the conditions (also, remember that there is a 20 light radius glowing sword (Bortos sword) 4 square away from Lukas (8 from the leader) - I am sure the strom do reduce its efficency, just not sure how much, which is your call, but hey, every little bit counts! ;)), here is the active perception.
Minor :Look for the Gnoll leader : (1D20+3)[8]

Only if Lukas cannot spot him (He will keep this option for later if he do spot the leader on his own), Lukas will call out loud,
"Halfling, if you want help, yell so I find you!"

My turn isnt done, I need to now what I see (or hear if he have to resort to yell for Reed - and if Reed do reply.)

Lukas Stone Status

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HP :...37/48...TEMP HP :...5
Surge Value :...12
Surge left/surge per day :...11/12
AC:...22...FORT:...19... REF:...17...WILL:...14...
Main Hand : Lifedrinker Longsword+1
Off Hand : Heavy Shield
Powers :
Combat Challenge
Cleave
Tide of Iron
Action point (0/1)
Second Wind
Furious Assault
Passing attack
Sweeping Blow
Comeback Strike (Reliable)
Boundless Endurance (Daily)
Items powers (1/1):
Acrobat Boots (At-Will)

Effects from Lukas :
Mark :

Effects on Lukas :
Half-Orc Resilience used.
Boundless endurence (regen 4 while bloodied)

[Incomp]

Okay, I'm gonna be nice to you today. The gnoll leader ran Northwest. You chose to run due north. Perhaps a reconsideration is in order?

You don't spot much of anything with that kind of roll. And I'll say, with the storm, you have bright light for 3 squares, dim light for another 2 after that, and beyond that, no line of sight.

[Dekkah]

Lukas

Too dangerous, I cant see a damn thing..., think Lukas before spitting on the ground at the departing gnoll. He then turn around and move back beside Kraagor and say,
"I cant see a thing in this strom, hows your patient?"

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Well I tryed :(
Standard : Move back beside Kraagor and Bortos.

Lukas Stone Status

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HP :...37/48...TEMP HP :...5
Surge Value :...12
Surge left/surge per day :...11/12
AC:...22...FORT:...19... REF:...17...WILL:...14...
Main Hand : Lifedrinker Longsword+1
Off Hand : Heavy Shield
Powers :
Combat Challenge
Cleave
Tide of Iron
Action point (0/1)
Second Wind
Furious Assault
Passing attack
Sweeping Blow
Comeback Strike (Reliable)
Boundless Endurance (Daily)
Items powers (1/1):
Acrobat Boots (At-Will)

Effects from Lukas :


Effects on Lukas :
Half-Orc Resilience used.
Boundless endurence (regen 4 while bloodied)

[Dekkah]

Bortos
Bortos heart seem to still beat weakly.

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Death saving throw :(1D20)[12] whew!

Bortos Highpeaks Status

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HP :...-3/55...TEMP HP :...0
Surge Value :...13
Surge left/surge per day :...11/12
AC:...21...FORT:...18... REF:...16...WILL:...17...
Main Hand : Sunblade Longsword+1
Off Hand : Heavy Shield
Powers :
Warden's Fury
Warden's Grasp
Strength of Stone
Weight of Earth
Action point (0/1)
Second Wind
Stone's Endurance
Thunder Ram Assault
Earthgrasp Strike
Form of the Fearsome Ram Attack (Form attack)
Form of the Fearsome Ram
Agile Recovery (At-will)
Items powers (1/1):
Sunblade Longsword +1 (Daily)
Viper Belt (heroic tier) (Encounter)

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Effects on Bortos :
DEATH SAVE FAILED : 2
Bloodied
Dying
Prone
Form of the Fearsome Ram (+2 move, +2 to hit with charge, At-will attack push 1)
Radiant damage activated (Sunblade)
Sword provide 20 square radius bright light (Sunblade)

[Incomp]

Bortos, you're fine. My rule on stabilizing after combat is that, barring special conditions, it just works. You can each make 3 checks per turn...you're not in a dangerous/stressful situation, (besides the patient itself) plus it's not the best way to die, bleeding out after the fight. So you guys can go ahead and take a short rest if you want.

[Dekkah]

Bortos
A couple minutes after the combat, Bortos finaly regain conciousness.
"Wha.. What happened? Where are the others that fought alongside us?"
He then painfully move to a sitting position and take time to recover from the multiples wounds.

[Incomp]

Overhead, the storm starts to break up, and you can finally see more than a few feet. And what you see, or rather what you don't, horrifies you. The civilians are gone. All of them. Not a single survivor or even a corpse remains behind to show what happened scant few minutes ago. The only trace that there were other people here at all is countless footprints of gnolls, wolves, and men churned up in the mud. In a single night, Mittegarve has been transformed into a ghost town.

[Dekkah]

Bortos
As he looks around, Bortos, stand up, looking for people,
"What the ...."
Bortos then yell loudly,
"Is there anyone around?"
He look at the only two others left with him,
"Thanks for taking care of my wounds. I am Bortos. I guess you guys dont know what happened to the others, every others...", finish Bortos looking around the apparently empty town."How long have I been out cold?"He then start to walk around, inspecting the area.

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Bortos will look around, seeking for some traces of survivors and if Bortos can find where the gnolls have gone..
Also, is there traces of blood (beside the fight we did)? I want to know if other fough them or where simply all taken easyly.
Perception :(1D20+9)[24]

[Incomp]

Bortos: if there was any blood, the pouring rain has washed it all away. However, the gnolls made no attempt at stealth leaving, and you could follow the wolves' tracks in the mud without much difficulty.

[HeroComplex]

Lukas

Lukas sighs in resignation and catches his breath as the storm clears. That could have gone better...

Noticing the missing villagers he shakes his head and mumbles under his breath, "Good luck getting paid now." He turns to the yelling Bortos.

"No need to shout. I'm standing right here. The name's Stone, Lukas Stone." He nods his head in greeting. "None of you happened to see which way they went, did you? I lost them in the rain."

Lukas begins to scan the ground for tracks or any signs as to how to track the assailants down.

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Perception: [roll]1d20+3[/roll]

[HeroComplex]

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Blargh! Still not working... Perception:(1d20+3)[6]

[Dekkah]

Bortos
Bortos nod at Lukas.
After loking around the tracks, he says,
"I can follow these scum easyly enough."
Allies would be nice now...
"Do you plan on trying to find out what happened to these poor villagers? If so, wanna join forces?"

[HeroComplex]

Lukas

"Considering how badly we just got beaten, that's not a bad idea."

Surveying his new ally, Lukas comments, "Are you OK to travel? It looks like you took quite the beating."

Only half listening to the reply, Lukas begins to take stock of his resources. I'm sure these villagers won't mind if we help ourselves to some supplies and equipment. Especially, if we use it to save them. That is, if there's anyone left to save. Can't get paid if there's no one left.

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Any chance we could get an idea of places/homes/shops to search for some equipment or items that may help us in our quest to save the villagers? Specifically, I'm looking for something like an arms/armor shop, blacksmith, outfitters, or apothecary. Stables might be nice too. Following them will be faster if we're on horseback.

[Dekkah]

Bortos
Bortos streching his muscles painfully reply,
"Give me a couple minutes and I shall be god to go."
When Bortos is ready, he take a look at the few enemies corpses and search them.

[Incomp]

Hahaha, Dekkah, you filthy scavenger you. :D

On the gnolls' bodies you find surprisingly little. They wore few clothes, and you wouldn't want them anyway. As for gear, the carried only spears, nets, and a backup dagger much like the leader used for Reed, though less ornate. At their belts are pouches filled with the vile sludge you saw being applied to your fallen comrades.

Hero: The town is fairly large. (population 1500-ish) Therefore, you could find any of the facilities you mentioned. In addition, if you *completely* lack morals, you might be able to scrounge up some magic items in the more expensive shops.

At the edge of the Annulus, you see a man wandering around in confusion. When he sees you, he approaches. He gulps as he gets close, obviously cowed by your arms and armor. "E-excuse me sirs? Can you tell me what happened here? I was at the Festival with e-everyone else, but I went home when it started to rain. Now I c-came to see where every...everyone is, since the storm stopped...and they're all gone..."

[Dekkah]

Bortos
Bortos pick up the bags with the ooze. That can become handy later...
Seeing the man, Bortos tell him,
"Wolfmens attacked under the storm. They captured everyone else. Only us three were able to not get captured. You should look around in case some have been left or been able to hide and need help. I plan to try and track the monsters and see if I can help those who survived, possibly with these two capable fighters."
Noding at Lukas and Kraagar.

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Bortos spend 4 healing surges to be full health.
Bortos pick up his own gear (sword) on the floor.
Unless some items look magical, Bortos ignore them. He pick up the vile sludge.

Bortos Highpeaks Status

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HP :...-3/55...TEMP HP :...0
Surge Value :...13
Surge left/surge per day :...11/12
AC:...21...FORT:...18... REF:...16...WILL:...17...
Main Hand : Sunblade Longsword+1
Off Hand : Heavy Shield
Powers :
Warden's Fury
Warden's Grasp
Strength of Stone
Weight of Earth
Action point (0/1)
Second Wind
Stone's Endurance
Thunder Ram Assault
Earthgrasp Strike
Form of the Fearsome Ram Attack (Form attack)
Form of the Fearsome Ram
Agile Recovery (At-will)
Items powers (1/1):
Sunblade Longsword +1 (Daily)
Viper Belt (heroic tier) (Encounter)

Effects from Bortos :


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[HeroComplex]

Lukas

"Bortos is right. It seems that most of them have been carted off by the gnolls." Seeing the fear in the man's eyes, he tries to calm him, "But we'll do our best to take care of it. Have you seen anyone else since you left the festival? What about in the rest of the city? Is there really no one else?"

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Diplomacy:(1d20+2)[3] - To calm him down, make him easier to talk with
Insight:(1d20+3)[22] - to see if he's lying/not telling the whole truth as we speak

And, Lukas isn't amoral, he's pragmatic. He'll be sure to include anything he takes as part of his "services rendered" fee after he saves the town.

Point of clarification: is the entire 1500+ pop. town deserted/kidnapped? That would have taken a LOT of gnolls.

[Incomp]

(Heheh, nice diplomacy roll.)

Your questions manage to jitter him up more, though you do sense he is being truthful.

"I..I don't know! I saw a few people on my way home...but when I c-came back out...I don't know. N-nobody's here. And now you say...now you say they were taken by monsters..Pelor preserve us...they have my wife and children..." The man's eyes light up suddenly. "You! You're going to save them! You have to save my family! Please, sir, I'm begging you, and at this point he begins to cry, "these wolfmen, they have my little girl! You have to get her back!" At this point the man is unable to project his thoughts coherently anymore, and he sobs uncontrollably.

And yes, Hero, to the best of your knowledge, almost everyone has been abducted.

[MCerberus]

Kraagor

Nearly a collapsed heap from the fight, Kraagor spends the moments directly after the storm passed catching his breath and trying to come to terms with what happened. The storm had clouded his connection to the spirits of the wild, and even now all he could sense before him are the departing shades of the fell creatures he killed in the fight.

"He's right you know, all too many haven' been gutted from the living world afore their time. Inaction would lead ta yet more slaughters and unnatural storms that make this look like a drizzle."

[Dekkah]

Bortos
Bortos gives a nod to Kraagor.
"Sir, take a look around if you can find any others, we will look into this."
Turning around to his two new partners, he tell them,
"I can follow their trail easyly enough, but we better be carefull. If they managed to capture everyone who were here, we will be probably overpowered by much. I am not particulary good at being stealthy, anyone of you want to be the scout?"
Bortos then adust his packages for travel and wait for Lukas and Kraagor to be ready.

[HeroComplex]

LUKAS

Ugh, real good, Stone, you look so much the monster yourself, you scared him even more

"Listen, we'll try to find your little girl. Along with everyone else."
Lukas turns to Kraagor and says, "You're right. We need to go after them. But I'm not going unprepared. It took a very large force to abduct an entire villiage, and I don't mean to underestimate them again. That's how you end up dead. We should search some of the shops, gather any supplies we may need, find some horses, and head out after the tracks, but we have to hurry. I don't want to give them any more of a lead."

He nods to Bortos and Kraagor. "Let's do it then," and heads off toward the mercantile district.

While they're walking, Lukas tries to strike up some conversation, [color=Blue]"What do you think the gnolls wanted with an entire villiage? Have you ever heard of them kidnapping so many before?"

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History:(1d20+2)[11] - to see if Lukas know anything about why they did this or if it's been done before

[Dekkah]

"Bortos"
Bortos nod to Lukas,
"Your right, let gather some horses and supplies that can help us. I dont supose anyone fo you have healing capacities, so some more potion might come in handy. And anything magical we might find to help them can be returned to them when we manage to save them I guess."
Bortos ponders Lukas question for a moment, while picking up any items that the others fghting along their side sooner might have droped.

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Borots pick up the weapons and stuff that the other players lost whe they got captured (in hope to give them back and possibly use them to help).
Before I anwser Lukas question, do I know anything about this kinds of events and about the wolfmens.
History :(1D20+3)[19]
Nature :(1D20+11)[22]

[HeroComplex]

Lukas

Lukas gives Bortos a sideways look, "Do I look like the religious type to you? I live by my sword. I'll probably die by it too.

Return them... right.

[Dekkah]

Bortos
Shruging at Lukas,
" Of course I have seen in the last battle that your a front liner, probably a fighter by the way you weild your sword. Our new friend here is a druid, that is quite easy to guess as well. But, we never know what people are capable of. As a warden, I was trained to use the nature forces to protect others, but during my travels, I also learned a few other tricks. I've teamed up with a barbarian a while back who taught me to forcus some of my agressivity and let it loose on my enemies."

[Incomp]

Bortos and Lukas: As I've said, scant little is known about the gnolls. In fact, you've never heard of them outisde their own lands-- they're blocked off from the rest of the world by massive, frigid mountains, and the sprawling Fort Harrows blocks the only known pass through.

You reach the mercantile district. Anything in particular you're looking for or will general looting do?

[HeroComplex]

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Healing Potions, Improved Arms/Armor, Mounts

[Incomp]

There are stables where you could find three mundane mounts easily.

A quick rummage through an alchemist's store turns up five healing potions.

At a fancy, expensive outfitter you are able to find a shining amulet marked "Dhurke Harr's Amulet of Mournful Speech."

In the back room of Emburg's Lacerators (Your one stop shop for all your murder needs) you find a well-polished and finely crafted longsword, marked "The Master's Blade." It beats the personal stamp of Emburg, the Lacerator himself.

Finally, you locate a craghammer in a small weapon shop that just...feels sturdy.

[HeroComplex]

Lukas

Lukas surveys the haul. The sword catches his eye and he gives it a few test swings. "Oohh. I like the way this feels. I think I'll use this one." He also selects a couple of healing potions and adds them to his bag.

Settling his gear on his back for the ride, mounts his horse, and asks, "Which way? I want a chance to test out this new sword!"