[4e] Random Banter Buddies DnD Campaign Part 2!

[Blue Ghost]

"Dine on my flesh? That's just gross. You diabolical villains have no sense of decorum, do you?" Juniper remarks casually as he strikes at the drake.

Guiding Strike.

Attack: (d20+10)[11]
Damage: (d8+5)[10] and target takes -2 AC for one round.

If the drake is killed, move to B5.

[LaZodiac]

Unfortunately, you are unable to finish the drake off.

Next is the Eladrin's turn. (1d20)[19]

Ah. How unfortunate. The Eladrin Guard looks up at you, Juniper, seemingly looking past Bast as if she's not even there. A deadened look in his eyes. He picks up his sword, and uses Fey Step, teleporting to A9. He swings his sword at you, ablaze in flame (will roll next post).

[LaZodiac]

Eladrin Guard's attack on Juniper, Diabolical Strike.

Juniper: (1d20+9)[28] vs Reflex

(2d8+5)[16] fire damage if you are hit.

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The Eladrin's motions seem too mechnical. It appears he is under some sort of internal hypnosis, possibly magical in nature.

Tiefling Ruffian's turn, gonna put HIS attack in the next post because I forgot to. Le sigh.

[LaZodiac]

The ruffian fighting Teodor makes his attack!

Teodor: (1d20+7)[20] vs AC, 5 damage if hit, 3 if missed.

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Carric's turn!

[Teddy]

And once again I'm reminded that I really need to retrain Diplomacy for Insight. Diplomacy isn't quite Elden's thing, but I always have at least two things I want to retrain at the same time, making me postpone it...

[MoonCat]

How do you retrain something?

[Teddy]

Basically, every time you level up, you may swap 1 feat, power OR* skill for any other feat, power or skill, respectively. It's on page 28 in the PHB.

*I would have written XOR here if it wasn't for the fact that not everyone knows the logical operations, and for the fact that it wouldn't be correct anyway.

[Ranger Mattos]

Carric feints at the Guard Drake, then attacks with Strike From Shadow.

(1d20+11)[12](23)
Damage: (2d4+5)[10], plus weakened and marked, and shift to C8.

If it's dead, move to A10.

[LaZodiac]

You go to strike the Guard Drake, but for some reason it's focus seems to be were you were, and not were you are now. Your falchion tears through the Drake, finishing it off. A soft glow drifts from the wound you cut.

Teodor's turn, and he'll attack the Ruffian!

(1d20+8)[9] vs AC, and it's a minion so if I hit it goes down, woo.

Oh Teodor, why you so silly.

Bast's turn!

[MoonCat]

Bast is forgoing the flank bonus by not attacking the Drake, since Elden'll probably kill the Eladrin if I don't knock him out first.

Bast stays put.

Attack:(1d20+9)[20]

Damage: (1d10+7)[14]

If that hits, Dual Weapon Attack:

Attack: (1d20+9)[23]

Damage: (1d10+7)[10]

Deleted my Power Attack. non-lethal, BTW.

[LaZodiac]

Ok MoonCat, another thing of note. The first attack DOES drop him. However, if you follow through with the secondary attack and the power attack, you're attacks are going to do enough damage to strait up kill him completely. I'm going to assume you do not wish to do this, and instead you just knock him out.

Bast swings her broadsword in a wide arc, clobbering the Eladrin on the back of the head. He falls with a groan.

Elden's turn!

[Teddy]

Elden moves over the table (which I assume is difficult terrain) and around the ruffian to E3, an invokes Sun Strike against him:

Attack vs. Ref: (1d20+8)[20]

Non-lethal radiant damage: (1d10+4)[8]

Consider yourself lucky.

[LaZodiac]

You'd be correct in that it is difficult terrain. Also, at this proximity, you can sense something about the meats on the table.

Elden:

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It's all tainted like the meat before, perhaps even more so

Anyway, the ruffian falls, and the encounter is over! Everyone gets 103 XP, which will bring everyone up to 1950 XP.

Anyway, everyone is unconcious and the encounter is over. What shall you do? There is still rope left over from the drake pens downstairs, incidently.

[Teddy]

Elden disarms the unconscious enemies.

He also tries to discern if anything they have is magic:

Arcana check: (1d20+9)[29]

And he inspects the last wound Carric inflicted on the drake:

Religion check: (1d20+9)[26]

Holy... I'm all made out of awesome rolls in this encounter, apparently.

[LaZodiac]

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Elden:

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You can determine that other then a minor enchantment on Kalindale's longsword, to make all his attacks deal fire damage, there is nothing magical.

As for the wound Carric inflicted, you're sure that it is shadow powered. The attack itself does involve draining a bit of their life energy, allowing him to do that shift after the attack and weakening the target, but it doesn't seem evil to you. You're still not sure why Carric can tap into these powers, though, but you'd guess he came into contact with something from the Shadowfell, the realm of darkness.

[Teddy]

Nothing of interest here. Nothing that will help us, at least.

[LaZodiac]

I will mention again, juuust incase it was missed, that the meat here seems the same tainted meat that the scouting party had.

Anyway, your enemies are all unarmed and still unconcious, you've got some rope left, and there is a door to your right. Also a door at the bottom of the room, but you know that is the traped door from before.

[Blue Ghost]

Juniper walks over to the fallen eladrin guard. "Did anyone notice? This blaggard was possessed by something in the battle..."

To try to figure out what it was:

Arcana: (d20+8)[11]
Religion: (d20+4)[23]

[LaZodiac]

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Juniper:

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You can tell, though you aren't 100% sure, that the Eladrin was under the effects of the tainted infernal drake meat. Your guess is that once he started to doubt his actions, the effects of the meat kicked in and turned him into a near mechanical slave.

[Blue Ghost]

"Looks like it was that tainted meat, guys."

Any way to break the spell?
Arcana: (d20+8)[12]
Religion: (d20+4)[13]

[LaZodiac]

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Juniper:

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You think and think, but are not sure how you could break this spell. You imagine he will be sensible when he awakens, but he could trigger at any moment. You do think Elden may be able to cure him though

[Blue Ghost]

"Elden, would you be a dear and take a look when he wakes up? For now though, we'll have to restrain him. Who knows what the poor villain's liable to do when possessed."

[LaZodiac]

Ok, the Eladrin Guard is tied up. I will note that you have enough rope to tie up two more people. I will ALSO note, however, that there are those chains and shackles downstairs, and Bast may be able to make some sort of binding out of them for the remaining two prisoners, with a good enough thievery check.

[Teddy]

I will mention again, juuust incase it was missed, that the meat here seems the same tainted meat that the scouting party had.

I didn't skip that part. I just assumed that no one would be stupid enough to eat it anyway.

"Elden, would you be a dear and take a look when he wakes up? For now though, we'll have to restrain him. Who knows what the poor villain's liable to do when possessed."

I'd prefer to do it right now, actually.

Arcana check: (1d20+9)[19]

Religion check: (1d20+9)[18]

[LaZodiac]

I didn't skip that part. I just assumed that no one would be stupid enough to eat it anyway.

I'd prefer to do it right now, actually.

Arcana check: [roll0]

Religion check: [roll1]

Ok, just making sure you know (paranoid DM is paranoid)

Elden:

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You think you know how to purify him, but it will be a little risky. It involves enveloping him with your flames and basically sweating the magic out of him. It would require another Religion check, but with a +2 bonus. You're fairly confident that it'll work though.

[Teddy]

It seems this is it for him. I'm either going to be the one to save him, or the one to exact his punishment, and only fate can tell the outcome.

Elden raises his staff in both hands, and the flames flare up to a bright white glow with hints of green. He closes his eyes and strikes the ground between him and the eladrin with the lower tip of Staff, spreading the flames our in a circle, covering both him and the prisoner with blistering hot fire. In the bright veil of the flames, a lush and verdant landscape with a great forest surrounded by fields and mountans can be seen, but behind it, vague shapes can be discerned from time to time as Elden carefully manipulates the fire to burn where he need it to.

After a minute, the flames settle once again, and Elden stand up, watching the eladrin lying motionlessly on a thick patch of perfectly white lichen, surrounded by peculiar ferns with black-tipped leaves.

It's done.

Religion check: (1d20+11)[28]
Yes, that was a very melodramatic way to describe a single Religion check.

Also, I really need to look up about a dozen or synonyms to "fire" and "flame" for the next time I'm going to describe everything Elden does in this detail. It quickly become a bit repetive when I only have two words to work with.

[LaZodiac]

May I be the first to say *applauds* because that was epicly written.

Elden:

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You are confident that he is cured. As an aside, the rope he was tied up in is NOT, infact, so much as burnt, showing a sign of your skill.

Additional note, the ropes on the Eladrin are unharmed. Speaking of which, anyone gonna deal with the other prisoners

[Teddy]

He's alive, and the taint is gone from his body. He has a lot to answer for, though.

Elden takes out the piece of cloth he once used to hide his powers with, and use it to blindfold the eladrin. He then turns over to Kalindale, and with his dagger, he cuts loose a ribbon from Kalindales clothes to blindfold him too.

Also, worth mentioning is that Elden is immune to damage from his own fire, no matter how hot he makes it, but it's physically taxing on him to flare it up like that. He's quite fatigued right now.

[MoonCat]

who's left besides those two?

Would those chains downstairs be of any use?

[LaZodiac]

Technicaly, only the Eladrin has actually been tied up with rope. Kalindale and the three Tieflings are still free. You have enough rope for two more people, and you figure you could use the chains downstairs for the last two, with one chain and shackle combo left over.