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    As the cloaked figure speaks, Nevi notes the difference in scent. Still, he seemed to think more like they did, that was enough for him.

    "Trawlers...? Oh, by sea. By sea..." She turns to Nevi, then Fimbul, then lastly to Dwomak. "Can they carry all of us?"
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    "I believe so, yes; they usually carry a crew of a score or so, so even if you take your pets along you should have room to spare."
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    "Brilliant, I'd be glad to help protect the city from those foul demons! Anything to thin the herd."
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    The elf ignores the others' inquiries, using the mayor's speech as cover. He puts up a scowl as he listens. "No pay but what we can scrounge off the locals. Typical. Oh, well. It's not like I took up this mantle because the pay was so steady..."

    Out loud, he simply asks "How soon can we get those boats out?"
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    The mayor spreads his arms and shrugs. "As soon as everyone is ready, I suppose; we could go now if you wish."
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    The mayor spreads his arms and shrugs. "As soon as everyone is ready, I suppose; we could go now if you wish."
    "I don't have much holding me up. Let me get some supplies, and I could be ready within the hour.
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    "Excellent. I'll have the crew prepare the boat, and once they're ready and crewed you can leave at your convenience." The mayor rises and heads to the door, having a short conversation with one of the servants stationed outside. Returning to the group, he grabs a second glass of wine and seats himself. "Meanwhile, enjoy the rest of the hors d'oeuvre; I don't have another meeting until after preparations are due to be finished, so I'll be here until then in case you need anything else."
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    Gabriel

    Gabriel's eyes narrow dangerously as the mayor informs him that their only reward will be salvage, but after a minute he shrugs.

    "I've got nothing better to do. I'll head to the ship."

    He begins walking toward the boats, having touched none of the food set out.

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    Gonen stand up, walks toward the table, and picks up some food, waiting to see what the other adventurers choose to do.
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    Gathering up his things, Percy walks out towards the boats, still looking a bit uncomfortable about the salvaging, but determined to carry on destroying the demons nonetheless.
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    Not too long thereafter, another servant enters and notifies everyone that the boat is prepared. The mayor takes his leave, and asks the servant to lead everyone ready to go down to the boats. Five of you follow him, Gabriel already having left; the other adventurers still need to finish preparations, and should meet you shortly.

    The path to the docks heads through the market square, and your progress slows to a crawl as you have to negotiate refugees, shoppers, beasts of burden, carts and stalls, and other impediments. You've just about caught up to Gabriel when screams of fear go up from the center of the crowd; cruel laughter from not-at-all-human throats swiftly follows. Several plumes of smoke rise into the air where demons suddenly appeared, and through the panicking crowd you can glimpse more than a score of them terrorizing the townspeople and refugees. Near the center of the marketplace, several feathered demons rise slightly above the crowd, laughing and cawing, and then descend once more.

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    Percy's Initiative: (1d20+2)[20](22)
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    <Giant>
    "By Boat! Why by boat!?"
    "They say its faster it should only take us a few hours..."
    "But we'll be dead if we run into them there, we'll be useless. And if the cities infested then why are we being taken into the middle of it?"
    "These people seem to know what their doing, lets just try and trust them for a bit."
    "Easy for you to say, you couldn't rip their throats off. The 'burrower' thing probably has more fight in it then all of them together. That's not going to help against those things."
    "Hmm... You said something very similar before we left, how'd that turn out again?"
    "Tss... That's different and you know it... I'm just saying I'll trust them when I see them in action, lets just go to the damn dock then..."

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    Gabriel

    Aboard the ship, Gabriel had just finished belting his sword at his hip and making the final adjustments to his dark armor when the cry went up amidst the town square.

    "Damn; they're here already..."

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    "FIENDS!"

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    Map--Round 1

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    The brown areas are carts, tables, etc. that provide cover and can be moved around, knocked over, and so on. The dark gray areas on the sides are storefronts, houses, etc. about one story high that you can jump/climb/fly on top of. The top left opening leads to the docks and the bottom one leads back to the gardens. The Ds are the little clawed demons and the Vs are the birdlike demons; the letters are the PCs, with companions/mounts adjacent. The area is full of civilians, so all unmarked squares are counted as difficult terrain and any area effects will hit a bunch of bystanders.
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    "Well, I told you their numbers were limitless." the elf says with a voice full of the confidence of someone who was just proven right, but those who look at his face see he has a worried frown.

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    Delaying, want to know where you guys end up before moving. My squishy self does not want to be within charging distance of that horde.

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    Sir Gonen


    Gonen mutters something under his breath, before walking into the midsts of three small, clawed demons, shadows clinging to him in an obviously supernatural fashion. As he walks into the fray, he pulls out the long, spiked chain he carries with him at all times. He swings the chain around, and attempts to hit the fiend to the right of him with it.

    Meanwhile, Dwomak lumbers in the direction of another small demon, before biting at it.

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    Gonen activates Child of the Shadows as a swift action,walks diagnally north-west one square, straight north another two(move action), and attacks the fiend to his right.
    (1d20+23)[40], (2d4+13)[20]+(2d6)[3]+(2d6)[8] damage.
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    Dwomak walks in between the demon that Gonen attacked, and the one on the far right, hitting it with a bite attack.
    (1d20+16)[30], (2d8+8)[14]damage.
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    Percy
    "Into the fire we go, my friends! Let's give these demons a rosy outlook on life!" With that, Percy draws the Sword of Roses and moves toward the closest demon, flickering briefly before skewering the fiend on his blade.

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    Action: Activate Assassin's Stance as a swift action, then move 2 spaces up northeast, then attack the demon. (Dashing Strike: Rosy Outlook. (Cha to damage, 2d6 sneak attack from Assassin's Stance.)

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    Attack: (1d20+17)[5](22)
    Damage: (1d6+12)[5](17)
    Crit Confirm: (1d20+17)[10](27)
    Crit Damage: (2d6+24)[4][2](30)
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    Gabriel

    Gabriel swears as he draws his longsword. The weapon gleams a dark blue in the midday sun, and as it emerges fully from the sheath, it seems to hum softly--as if anticipating a feast of demon blood to come.

    Gabriel mutters a few quick words of power, and his eyes begin to change as arcane energy infuses him--one eye becomes impenetrable black, the other blinding white. The air around him seems to shift, as if Gabriel himself is now moving out of sync with the world around him.

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    Cast Haste--Free Action, due to Swiftblade level 3
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    <Giant>
    "You got you're wish Fimbul, come on!"
    "There's too many damned lowlanders!"
    "Well move around them, and don't hurt them!"
    "Hope on, lets go."
    "Arrg, move you stupid... Grr...!"
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    The larger of the wolves lets out a bloody curdling growl. It carries threatening words in common, clear enough to be understood even if the accent is a bit rough. "Get out of the way!"

    As its starts pushing its way through the crowd, Seri just shakes her head. In an instant, she grabs on to Nevi and draws her axe. "Come on!" The pair move forward as well.

    Fimbul simply makes her way forward and savagely bites at one of the demons, small whiffs of frosty air making their way out of her snout. Seri and Nevi are a bit more organized though. The other wolf also tries to take a bite out of one of the demons, but its rider is ready to strike the moment the attack makes the demon drop its guard.

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    Seri will attempt a quick mount on Nevi. Fimbul attacks the demon directly in front of her, to her right. Seri and Nevi move past the pair in front of them but attack one of them from the flank. If Nevi's attack hits, then Seri gets an AoO against the demon thanks to Monstrous Tactics and if that's enough to drop it, then Seri will attempt a quick dismount and land on the the square that belonged to the demon, in order to attack the demon in front of Nevi. If it wasn't then she'll us a standard action attack to try to finish it and then drop to its square.

    Alright, kinda complicated, but here goes:

    Ride for quick mount (DC 25): (1d20+25)[27] (Auto succeeds with Nevi)

    Fimbul's attack:
    Attack: (1d20+15)[33] (PA for 3)
    Crit Confirm: (1d20+15)[27]
    Damage: (1d8+13)[18] + (1d6)[5] Cold
    Crit Damage: (1d8+13)[16]
    + Trip: (1d20+11)[14]

    Nevi's attack:
    Attack: (1d20+12)[14]
    Crit Confirm: (1d20+12)[24]
    Damage: (1d8+7)[10] + (1d6)[5] Cold
    Crit Damage: (1d8+7)[15]
    + Trip: (1d20+9)[11]

    If Nevi hits, then Seri's AoO:
    Attack: (1d20+17)[20] (+1 for being mounted against a smaller foe)
    Crit Confirm: (1d20+17)[26]
    Damage: (1d8+5)[10] + (1d6)[3] Cold
    Crit Damage: (2d8+10)[23]

    Ride for quick dismount (DC 25): (1d20+25)[27] (Auto succeeds with Nevi)

    Seri's attack:
    Attack: (1d20+16)[30] (if she couldn't dismount then +1 for being mounted against a smaller foe)
    Crit Confirm: (1d20+17)[22]
    Damage: (1d8+5)[6] + (1d6)[3] Cold
    Crit Damage: (2d8+10)[21]

    That should do it, here's a quick map for how I figured the trio would end up:



    Nevi's Blue on the left, Fimbul's Gray on the right. Nevi attacked and hopefully killed (with the AoO) the demon that Seri is standing on. Fimbul attacked the demon above her, next to Seri. Seri attacked the demon in front of Nevi.
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    The elf draws his bow, and assumes a sniping position.

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    Swift action: Activate Punishing Stance.
    Standard action: Shoot my bow at the closest living demon. Fires twice due to Splitting, +1 on attack rolls from being Haste-ed, +5 on attack and damage from Point Blank Shot and Knowledge Devotion.
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    Focused on tormenting the surrounding civilians, the demons don't see your approach, and your first attack is executed almost flawlessly. The demons Seri and Dwomak struck are barely managing to keep themselves in one piece with their wounds, but the other demons fall quickly in a flurry of swords, arrows, and teeth. Snarling in alarm, the smaller demons give up on the civilians for the time being and start to swarm you; the panicked common folk are starting to make their way out of the marketplace, and the demons take advantage of the openings in the crowd to rush up to you and slash you with their wicked claws.

    The birdlike demons, meanwhile, are making no move to attack you. Instead, they have joined hands in groups of three and are cawing an abyssal melody--if a tune discordant enough to shatter adamantine could be called a "melody"--and moving their legs in a parody of dance.

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    Dwomak
    Attack: (1d20+4)[6]; Damage (1d6+1)[6]
    Attack: (1d20+4)[18]; Damage (1d6+1)[7]
    Attack: (1d20+2)[16]; Damage (1d4)[4]
    Attack: (1d20+4)[20]; Damage (1d6+1)[5]
    Attack: (1d20+4)[6]; Damage (1d6+1)[7]

    Percy
    Attack: (1d20+4)[11]; Damage (1d6+1)[5]

    Nevi
    Attack: (1d20+4)[12]; Damage (1d6+1)[3]
    Attack: (1d20+4)[20]; Damage (1d6+1)[4]
    Attack: (1d20+2)[5]; Damage (1d4)[1]

    Seri
    Attack: (1d20+4)[16]; Damage (1d6+1)[7]

    With the crowd clearing up a bit, all squares are no longer difficult terrain; white squares are normal terrain, pale yellow are crowd squares.
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    Map--Round 2
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    Gabriel

    Raising his blade, Gabriel moves deftly through the remaining crowd to place himself beside one of the large, winged demons.

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    Movement speed: 70 (40 + 30 Haste)
    AC: 26 (10 + 6 enhancement + 4 armor + 4 DEX + 1 Haste + 1 Class)
    AC vs. Opportunity attacks: 30

    Attack Roll vs. closest Vrock: (1d20+16)[25]
    Damage Roll: (1d8+6)[14]
    Critical Confirmation Roll: (1d20+16)[30]
    Outsider Bane Damage: (2d6)[12]
    Swift Surge Damage: (1d6)[5]

    Knowledge (Planes) check to identify both kinds of demons and the ritual the winged ones are casting: (1d20+15)[19]
    Knowledge (Arcana) check to do the same as the above, if it fits better: (1d20+15)[33]

    Gabriel also speaks Abyssal, so he should know what they're saying.

    Movement path:

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    Gabriel
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    Gabriel knows that the D's are dretches and the V's are vrocks, but not much about them: he knows dretches are mostly harmless, with no particular special quirks above and beyond the usual demon abilities, and vrocks have the Dance of Ruin, which is the ritual they're currently using:
    Dance of Ruin (Su)
    To use this ability, a group of at least three vrocks must join hands in a circle, dancing wildly and chanting.

    At the end of 3 rounds of dancing, a wave of crackling energy flashes outward in a 100-foot radius. All creatures except for demons within the radius take 20d6 points of damage (Reflex DC 18 half). Stunning, paralyzing, or slaying one of the vrocks stops the dance. The save DC is Charisma-based.
    Their chanting is part mystical gibberish, part variations on "KILL MAIM BURN" etc.
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    Seri

    The dretches are nothing, just numerous, but the vrocks... What are they doing?

    The wolves toss the remains of the demons aside. A mix of dodging, a tough hide and chain barding make the attacks against Nevi fail while a quick shove from her shield keeps the Dretch's claws away from her face.

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    "Is that it Seri? Hehe, yours is still standing."
    "Shut up and charge, we'll be right behind you!"
    </Giant>

    Like before, Nevi crouches for an instant enough time for Seri to leap on its back. Her shadow stays in place though, at least, most of her shadow. It quickly takes the form of another wolf, but in an inky, featureless black and a lower scale. It opens a pair of red, shining eyes, visible only to the dretches beside it. The dark creature causes them to flinch, an opportunity that Seri takes to try and finish her dretch.

    Nevi attacks the dretch in front of him as the dark companion stares at it too. As before, Seri looks for an opening as soon as the bite connects. Once the two in front of them have been cleared, the trio and the dark companion rush forward, Fimbul trying to take down another dretch along the way.

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    Alright, now that there's some room, I'll try to get some help from the Dark Companion. It moves at Seri's speed (30ft, since Seri isn't wearing her armor at the moment) and acts on Seri's turn. As long as it doesn't share its space with anyone else, enemies adjacent to it take a -2 penalty to AC and Saves. It is and is recognized as an insubstantial illusion though, so it won't cause flanking or provoke attacks.

    Now for the turn:

    Quick Mount on Nevi, should auto succeed but here's the roll just in case.
    Ride (DC 25): (1d20+25)[43]

    Seri's attack on the damaged Dretch (Which takes a -2 Penalty to AC)
    Attack: (1d20+17)[27]
    Crit Confirm: (1d20+17)[27]
    Damage: (1d8+5)[12] + (1d6)[5] Cold
    Crit Damage: (2d8+10)[20]

    Nevi's attack on the remaining Dretch (Which takes a -2 Penalty to AC)
    Attack: (1d20+12)[18]
    Crit Confirm: (1d20+12)[18]
    Damage: (1d8+7)[12] + (1d6)[5] Cold
    Crit Damage: (1d8+7)[8]
    + Trip: (1d20+9)[11]

    Seri's AoO if the nevi connects and doesn't kill it:
    Attack: (1d20+17)[35]
    Crit Confirm: (1d20+17)[36]
    Damage: (1d8+5)[12] + (1d6)[3] Cold
    Crit Damage: (2d8+10)[20]

    Now everyone moves forward, I'll have a quick map edit of the position (and hopeful result of the turn) as soon as I can get into photobucket.

    Lastly Fimbul's attack on one of the dretches adjacent to the Dark Companion (Again -2 AC)
    Attack: (1d20+13)[25] (PA for 5)
    Crit Confirm: (1d20+13)[32]
    Damage: (1d8+15)[20] + (1d6)[5] Cold
    Crit Damage: (1d8+15)[20]
    + Trip: (1d20+11)[26]

    Movement:
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    Sorry; meant to hit preview. Just ignore this post.

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