War of the Burning Sky IC

[Quxelopqr]

Garret follows along silently, trying to watch if the elf is sneaking off without them.

[Methates]

Van Veranti

Holding still for a moment, Van takes in a breath and continues sneaking towards the open doorway, looking first for a window to peek in, and if none is found he'll try to take a quick peak through the door. He keeps his bow ready to fire.

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Hide - (1d20+9)[27]
MoveSilently - (1d20+9)[15]
Spot - (1d20+3)[10]
Listen - (1d20+3)[4]

[bchilders]

Duglan

Duglan starting to get a little anxious, began riciting battle songs in his head to keep himself from running through the door and ruining their surprise. But soon after, he begins he realizes that battle songs are the last thing he needs to calm him down, so he takes a few deep breaths and watches as Van creeps towards the door.

[druid_grif]

Van get tries to see in the barely open door just to realized that the door opens in such a way as to see a wall. You hear low guttaral whispering in what you think is Ragesian Orc. You cannot make out what is being said. They do sound like they are in the room the door opens into.

As Van goes through the gate, the rest of the group quietly comes up to the gate to keep an eye on Van.

[Methates]

Van Veranti

Van searches high and low for any other ways into the room and then sneaks back to the group.

"As best as I can tell," he whispers, "it sounds like there are two Ragesians holding a child hostage in that room there. It's fortuitous that we decided to follow them here, but I'm not sure what the most ideal method would be to save the child. Does anyone have any suggestions?" Van looks around hopefully, then back across the courtyard.

[druid_grif]

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There is a window on the second floor but no obvious way to get to it. You would assume there is a front door, but there may be more eyes there too. No windows because this is a pretty cold place most of the time, and windows let in cold.

[Quxelopqr]

"If there's only two, we outnumber them pretty well. Do you think we could just bust in and beat them?"

[bchilders]

"Now thats my kind a thinkin'. I can be first in and take the brunt of any retaliation...doesn't feel like a good day of action yet if ah haven't shed a drop of blood."

[gareth]

Rex thinks for a moment.
I can only charm one of them, and we'd have to delay the attack for it to work. It'd be safer just to fight.
He draws his crossbow.

[Methates]

Van Veranti

"My primary concern is for the child...it would be easy enough to defeat them but we have to take extra measures to ensure that the child is unharmed."

[Silverkiss]

Claire

"We must not wait for too long... The child, if there is one, must be protected, but we can't afford to lose too much time. Let's go in at once, if it is truly only two ragesians, we must be able to win this fight."

Claire prepares her weapon, ready to enter the house, eager to fight any ragesian, specially if it's an orc.

[gareth]

Rex nods.
We have to get the orcs in melee as fast as possible, so they can't do anything to the child. Garret, Duglan, Claire, kick in the door and charge them. Van, you should grab the child at the same time, bring it back to Torrent and me. We can use spells to protect it without attacking.

[Methates]

Van Veranti

"Sounds like a plan. Let us hurry, we might not have much time."

[bchilders]

Duglan

"Always ready fer some action," Duglan says, and he sets him self up ready to run in the door as soon as the others kick it in.

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Figured one of us should run straight in, but if you need the help with the door I can lend a hand

[Quxelopqr]

Garret

Garret draws his greatsword and prepares to charge the door, either in front or behind Duglan.

[druid_grif]

With the plan in place everyone gets ready for battle around the door.

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Torrent init - (1d20-1)[3]

Door is open slightly so kick it in and go. Whoever get's the highest initiative. Everybody roll and take a guess at an action if you want.

[gareth]

Rex lets the others go ahead of him, then points his crossbow at the door, ready to fire into the room if he gets a clear shot.

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Initiative (1d20+4)[17] (I'm not readying an action, I'll just fire when it's my turn).

[Methates]

Van Veranti

Van keeps his weapons stowed and prepares to run in and grab the child.

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Initiative - (1d20+5)[24]

[bchilders]

Duglan

Duglan keeps his weapons at ready and follows the first person in.

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Init:(1d20+4)[13]
If no one has gone by his turn, he will rush in himself

[Quxelopqr]

Garret

HP:10 AC:18 (14/14) (16 if charging)
Garret charges the door with greatsword drawn, kicking it open and swinging at the nearest enemy (attack if someone else gets door open first).

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initiative: (d20+4)[10]
attack: (d20+3)[17] (+2 if I can charge an enemy) damage: (2d6+3)[10]

[druid_grif]

Garret kicks open the door and charges into the living area of the small apartment. Jumping over a squat table, Garret brings his greatsword around, catching a half-orc on the shoulder, biting between the layers of his full plate armor. He does not fall, but slowly and cautiously turns around and stands up. He looks bumped and bruised and is now holding his right arm. The other half-orc was rummaging through a pantry cabinet, and, after the door slams open, drops some jars and reaches for his axe at his hip.

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Ragesian's Init - (1d20+1)[7]

Everyone has a surprise round. Do two actions if you beat thier init.

[Silverkiss]

Claire

Claire enters the room quickly after Garret, following his movements. She quickly reaches the orc that was wounded by him, swinging her heavy morningstar against the creature. Quickly trying to connect her attack, she turns and takes a second swing at the monster, trying to kill him.

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Initiative - (1d20)[19]
Attack - (1d20)[10]
Damage - (1d8)[5]
[roll=Critical?]1d20[/roll]
[roll=Critical Damage?]1d8[/roll]

OOC: Sorry, I had a troublesome week until now, only had time to read quickly what happened, and not to post anything of worth.
Edit: Critical rolls got messed up, they won't be used anyway, but I'm gonna roll the tests for the second action on the OOC thread.

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* post roll count doesn't match database

[Methates]

Van Veranti

Van rushes in directly after Garret and seeing no child there to grab instead takes out his bow and fires at the farthest half-orc.

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Assuming there is a clear shot, pretty sure Van has good enough initiative to get in before the other party members. Also assuming that he's within range of his point blank feat.

Attack - (1d20+6)[23]
Damage - (1d8)[6]
SneakAttack - (1d6)[6]

[bchilders]

Duglan

Duglan runs in and makes for the half-orc by the pantry. With a grin on his face he unleashes a series of vicious ax blows.

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Attack:(1d20+5)[15]
Damage:(1d10+3)[5]

Second Round-Full Attack
Attack1:(1d20+3)[21]
Attack2:(1d20+3)[4]

Damage1:(1d10+3)[9]
Damage2:(1d10+1)[4]

[gareth]

Rexpeers into the room, puzzled.
Where's the child?
He shrugs and fires at the orc by the pantry, just before Duglan charges him. Once Duglan is in melee he puts his crossbow aside and casts a spell on the other half-orc.

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Attack roll (1d20+4)[19]
If it threatens: (1d20+4)[17]
Damage: (1d8)[7]
Critical hit damage (1d8)[5]
Second action: casting Daze on the closest half-orc.

[Quxelopqr]

Garret

Seeing that his swing didn't bring the half orc down, Garret takes another shot at him (or the other enemy if this one gets dropped before his turn)

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attack:(d20+3)[8] damage: (2d6+3)[9]

[druid_grif]

Van steps through the door next and sidesteps five feet. Looking for the kid at the same time nocking an arrow, he lets the arrow fly toward the Ragesian at the pantry. The arrow hits it's mark in the neck of the half-orc. He drops with a look of supreme shock on his face. At that point Van hears a frantic, muffle wailing come from the pantry. Claire wades in with her weapon whirling but not connecting with the dodging half-orc. Duglan charges in uses the squat table as a launching board, he is level with the half-orc's head as his axe drives into his skull.

Coming out of the adrenaline high, everyone notices the horror before them. The kid is tied and gagged in the pantry closet. The parents are dead, stacked like firewood along one wall. Torrent walks over to the dead and blesses them, she yanks the curtain off the windows and covers the bodies. A curious neighbor glances in the door, woken by the short but loud fight. She deduces what happened by the bodies, runs over to the now untied child and comforts him as he cries. She explains,"I will get my husband to find the guard and explain what has happened here. I will also find a good place for the child. You have done a great service dispatching these butchers."

[gareth]

Rex freezes at the sight of the bodies. He remains silent, staring at them even after Torrent covers them, ignoring everyone in the room.

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Rex's alignment is now True Neutral.

[Quxelopqr]

"No problem ma'am." After the woman leaves with the child Garret says to the group "We should probably get out of here now."

[bchilders]

"Sounds good. Where to now," Duglan says with a grin on his face happy to have finally put his axes to a good use.