The Vanquishers of Reillalt

[Swooper]

Sonia stays behind the others while they handle the talking, using the time while they chat with the old lady to size up the room with her eyes. From an old habit rather than anything else, she takes note of whether any valuables are visible and what possible entrances and exits there are into the room.

[Vazzaroth]

((Thank you.))

Sonia eyes a few choice vintage wines behind the counter that look like imports from Quellnoth, elven wine at it's finest. Probably no one around here could afford that, hence the thick dust on the bottle.

With a few people helping it does not take long to clear the door. You unlatch it, and open it. You see a set of dark stairs descending into darkness. The woman goes upstairs when the door opens.

[JackTR69]

Lance draws his swords as the group prepares to enter the basement.
"So, who wants to go first?"

[Baerdog7]

Hiram Norrell

Hiram enters the house, tipping his hat at the lady as he does so.

Hiram Norrell, wizard, at your service.

He hangs his hat and cloak on a peg before scanning the inside of the house with his detect magic while the others clear junk away from the door to the basement. If he detects any magical auras, he will concentrate on that area long enough to determine their strength and number.

When the door is clear, he returns to the front room and ceases concentrating on his detect magic, instead taking time to cast both shield and [/i]darkvision[/i] on himself and Aemon.

Spell Recharge
0-Level - (1d4+1)[2]
Shield - 30 minutes
Darkvision - 6 hours

[Theeon]

Phaerin AC:18 HP24/24

Not liking to wait around, Phaerin marches down the stairs at Lances question, pausing only long enough to have the shadows wrap around him and Shadow.

"Come let us finish this quickly."

((cast steel shadows))

Spell Duration
Steel Shadows - 30min.

Recharge Timer
Steel Shadows - 6hrs.

[Swooper]

Sonia follows behind Phaerin, shadows wrapping around her form once more. Her blades seem to have found their own way into her hands - no one noticed her draw them.

((Child of Shadow stance, so 20% miss chance while I keep moving.))

[Vazzaroth]

Hiram detects a Faint aura from the far end of the room, but is unable to distinguish the type from such a distance.

The party descends the stairs, they go down quite aways, about 40 feet, using Viktor's light to see.

Before you see them, you hear them. Skittering noises on the ground of the cellar. As you come up to the doorway, you can get a good look. You see a number of huge rats looking in your direction, noses turned up in the air, except that half of them have no flesh, being just animated bones. All of them stop whatever they were doing and face you, squeaking angerly.

Init:
Hiram 23
Sonia 21
Lance 18
Skeletons 16
Dire Rats 14
Viktor 10
Royal 9
Paerin 8

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Map.

[Theeon]

Phaerin AC:18 HP:24/24

When I see the rats I feel the need to act, but think it best to let my compatriot's act first.

((cause I'm always last on init :-( ))

[Swooper]

((This is awkward. Do we all have to delay 'til Phaerin is out of the way now?))

[Baerdog7]

Hiram Norrell

HP: 18/18 AC: 15

Heads down! Hiram shouts, raising his crossbow to his cheek. He aims carefully at the dire rat straight ahead in the room and lets fly a bolt.

Attack: (1d20+2)[22]
Damage: (1d8)[2]

Spell Recharge
Shield - 30 minutes
Darkvision - 6 hours

[Swooper]

Sonia ducks past Phaerin and around the corner to take a carefully aimed stab at the closest rat-thing.

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Huh, for some reason I can't access my sheet now. Doing this from memory.
Move action: Move past Phaerin to a square adjacent to the closest rat, avoiding AoOs.
Standard action: Sapphire Nightmare Blade.
Concentration (1d20+7=11)
If the Concentration check hits the rat's AC, it is flatfooted vs. my attack and takes an extra 1d6 damage. If not, my attack is at -2.
SNB attack roll (1d20+7=25)
SNB Damage (1d6+3+1d6=13)
The second die rolled 5, so the damage is 8 if the concentration roll failed.

[tonberryking]

(Sorry!! Sorry... I've been having job interviews left and right and work you wouldn't believe. Also my 3e profiler crapped out on me)

Royal
HP: 33 AC: 17

Having a smashing weapon versus the skeletal vermin seems to make her even more eager to take to another battle as Royal leaps into action... or at least just tries to get into the room and smash something.

(Full movement action with a breastplate leaves me unable to smash.. Sadness...)

[JackTR69]

Ac17 Hp25/30
Lance runs forward to destroy the undead creatures without so much as a shout of anger, just the steely face of an efficient killer.

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Attack roll: (1d20+6)[19]
Damage roll: (1d10+2)[9]
Moving 4 squares west and 2 south, adding +2 damage for favored enemy.

[Vazzaroth]

Hiram's bolt flies straight and nails the beast square in the side. It recoils and squeals loudly.
Sonia's specialized strike is not executed perfectly, but she still manages to stick one of the skeletons, but she finds her shortsword connecting with less effectively than she's used to on the open-ribbed undead.
Lance darts forward moving past Sonia's fight, but her enemy suddenly leaps forward to bit Lance's shin as he passes with unnatural speed (natural 20, not a crit, 1 dmg). The one he is moving towards is able to lash at him as well, inflicting more scratches on the Ranger (1 more dmg) To retaliate, Lance brings his sword to bear on it and can see his attack shatter a good amount of bones.

The Undead rats fight wildly, Lance's rat tries to attack, but it's broken structure seems to hinder it enough to allow him to dodge. Sonia's continues to bite accurately and she can feel the sting of it's bite on her thigh through her armor (3 dmg).
The living rats rush forward, the first at Sonia. He leaps and snaps his jaws at her, but misses by a good foot. (natural 1 :D) The other skampers past both Sonia and Lance to get to them, but he does not make it that far. Lance lops it's head and shoulders off as it enters his range. (6 dmg from AoO to rat)

Almost in response to the Dire Rat's death, you can hear more skittering. You can start to see what is producing it as it enters your visual range: A flood of smaller skeleton rats! These ones look like the household variety, but there are hundreds of them! Their red dots in their eye sockets are giving off an unsettling glow as they move toward Lance and Sonia.

((Resume combat. Swooper and Jack, you can post next round actions if you'd like.))
Init:
Skeletons 16
Dire Rats 14
Bonerat Swarm
Viktor 10
Royal 9
Paerin 8
Hiram 23
Sonia 21
Lance 18

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[Visturon]

Viktor AC:16 HP:30/30

Viktor moves forward past Phaerin and steps to Sonia's left while hefting his morningstar, his glow gives off a surge like it had done in the fight in the graveyard as he holds his right hand up toward the ceiling commanding "Die beasts of evil!"

[move to square south of Sonia; turn undead turning check(1d20+4=7), turning damage(3d6+5=17), damage to any affected(3d6=14)]

Holy Radiance-(1d4=2)

[Baerdog7]

Hiram Norrell

AC: 15 HP: 18/18

Hiram hustles down the hallway and slides into the room between Lance and Sonia. Pulling a pinch of multicolored sand out of his spell component pouch, Hiram blows it toward the rat swarm and skeleton threatening Lance. As it flies through the air, the sand erupts in a dazzling multicolored spray.

((Moving between Lance and Sonia and casting color spray, trying to catch the rat skeleton and as much of the swarm as possible in the 15 foot cone. Will 15 negates.))

Concentration: (1d20+9)[16]

Spell Recharge
Shield - 30 minutes
Darkvision - 6 hours
Level 1 - (1d6+1)[2] rounds

[Vazzaroth]

Viktor moves past Sonia, and his holy power causes the two skeletal rats to dissolve, leaving only a the mass of smaller ones and the living giant rat.
Royal maneuvers past her comrades and gets in position to take on the swarm creeping closer.
Phaerin moves past Sonia as well, and slashes the last large rat to death, spilling innards on the floor.

New round

Hiram moves forth and holds his hands in front of him and shoots out a scintillating pattern of colors around the tiny undead rats... and nothing happens...

Init:
Hiram 23
Sonia 21
Lance 18
Skeletons 16
Dire Rats 14
Bonerat Swarm
Viktor 10
Royal 9
Paerin 8



Ignore the H on the right. I forgot to delete your old position, and I don't want to re-load. It'll be gone next time.

[JackTR69]

Lance Hp25/30 Ac17
Lance takes a step forward and begins wading into the mess of demonic skeletal vermin, his swords working furiously to keep the creatures off of him.

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5ft step forward, full attack action.
attack roll1: (1d20+3)[10]
attack roll2: (1d20+3)[11]
Damage roll1: (1d10+5)[11]
Damage roll2: (1d10+3)[5]
As always working on the crazy assumption that something made out of bones with glowing demon eyes is undead. You can take away 2 damage if you don't agree

[Baerdog7]

Hiram Horrell

AC: 15 HP: 18/18

Crap.

Hiram spews a few arcane syllables while gathering arcane energy around his hands before releasing it toward the rat swarm in a fiery blast.

Casting scorching ray on the bone rat swarm.

Attack: (1d20+3)[11] vs. touch AC.
Damage: (4d6)[11]

Spell Recharge
Shield -30 minutes
Darkvision - 6 hours
1st Level - 1 round
2nd Level - (1d6+1)[4]

[Swooper]

Sonia AC 19, HP 21/21

Frustrated at the inefficiency of her swords against the skeletal rat, Sonia raises one blade high and brings it down quickly with surprising force.

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Initiate Mountain Hammer, targeting the skeletal rat.
Mountain Hammer attack roll (1d20+7=23)
Mountain Hammer damage roll (3d6+3=15) Ignores DR and hardness.

IF (rat dies from this blow) {
After dispatching the creature, she moves to engage the swarm.

Move to I6. }

ELSE {
She takes a step forward.

5' step to J5. }

[Vazzaroth]

((The skeletal big ones were already dead. Did you want to initiate your manuver on the swarm? I'll retro this.))

Sonia moves up to where the swarm is now. (and maybe more)
Lance swings his large swords at the little beasts, but connects with the floor more than anything.

The swarm moves in on the party, and Lance, Hiram, Viktor, and Sonia all flail to try to get them off.

(AoOs for them entering your square. L:16+3; 2 dmg H:15+1; no dmg V:Nat. 1 S:10+7; no dmg)

Lance swats one rat across the room in two pieces, the rest of you have a hard time hitting one of these things. The swarm and claw and bite you many times as they begin to try to engulf their enemies.
( Damage taken: L 2 S 5 H 4 V 3)

Make a Fort save if you start your turn with them on you, DC 15. IF fail, you are Nauseated for a round.

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Experiencing stomach distress. Nauseated creatures are unable to attack, cast spells, concentrate on spells, or do anything else requiring attention. The only action such a character can take is a single move action per turn.

Hiram 23
Sonia 21
Lance 18
Bonerat Swarm
Viktor 10
Royal 9
Paerin 8

[Baerdog7]

Hiram Norrell

AC: 15 HP: 14/18

Ugh, get off of me! Hiram cries as he attempts to fend off the swarm of rats climbing up his person. He stumbles backwards out of the swarm, still swatting off rats.

Moving in a 20 ft. diagonal to the northwest out of the swarm.

Fort Save: (1d20+4)[15]

Spell Recharge
Shield - 30 mins
Darkvision - 6 hours
2nd Level - 3 rounds

[Swooper]

((Gah! Yes please, I read the "R" as "Rat" instead of "Royal". My bad.))

[tonberryking]

Royal
AC 17 HP 33

Royal has a big hammer. And she's facing off against a small horde of tiny rats. The math seems to solve itself with the arc that Primus the warhammer makes coming down on top of them.

Attack! (1d20 5=9)

Only it doesn't seem to be as effective as she added up...

[JackTR69]

Lance Hp 23/30 AC17
Sickened by the skeletal swarm, Lance remains in the thick of it hoping to regain his stomach before he is clawed to death.

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Fort Save: (1d20+5)[9]
Attacks if not nauseated:
Attack roll 1: (1d20+3)[18]
Attack roll 2: (1d20+3)[23]
Damage roll 1: (1d10+1)[4]
Damage roll 2: (1d10+1)[4]

[Visturon]

Viktor AC:16 HP:27/30

Viktor is overcome in the rat swarm(1d20+5=6) and can only try to get out by running forward farther into the room, he stops with the swarm just in his glow, turns, and gasps a rasping cough before standing straight and tall.

Holy Radiance-(1d4=3)

[Vazzaroth]

Hiram moves and shoots his ray of fire, but all of the action must have thrown of his aim, it hits and quickly burns a flimsy looking stool in the corner.
Sonia initiates her learned maneuver and it hits, but she is having a hard time fighting so many small creatures. (1/2 dmg from slashing and piercing)
Lance Caughs and feels like he is going to puke, he tries to take a moment to compose himself.

The Swarm shifts a bit, both Lance and Viktor are feeling too sick to take a swipe as they do. It seems to be making its way to Royal and Paerin.

Viktor is sick as well, but stumbles out of the rats, shaking a few off of his legs as he goes.
Royal swings Primus and it lands loudly on the ground next to the little undead vermin.
Paerin takes a slash with his sickle, and it is a near perfect slice through two bone beasts.

Viktor's holy aura sizzles and vaporizes another few critters.
The party is starting to thin their ranks, but there are still many to deal with!
Lance and Sonia take 4 damage each.

Hiram 23
Sonia 21
Lance 18
Bonerat Swarm
Viktor 10
Royal 9
Paerin 8

[Baerdog7]

Hiram Norrell

Hiram, more composed now that he's out of the bonerat swarm, opens his spellbook and begins reciting a holy prayer. Golden light gathers around his free hand before he fires it off into the swarm.

Casting disrupt undead

Ranged Touch: (1d20+3)[9]
Damage: (1d6+1)[7]

Spell Recharge
0-Level - (1d4+1)[5] rounds
2nd Level - 2 rounds
Shield - 30 minutes
Darkvision - 6 hours

[JackTR69]

Again Lance is overcome with disgust. Something feels dreadfully wrong...

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Fort Save: (1d20+5)[6]
Attack roll1: (1d20+3)[19]
Attack roll2: (1d20+3)[23]
Damage 1: (1d10+1)[4]
Damage 2: (1d10+1)[7]

[Swooper]

Sonia grits her teeth and shakes off a few of the skeletal rat-creatures that had been crawling up her legs. She keeps a level head, and with a step to the right, she quickly sheathes the shortsword in her left hand and draws the Vanquisher dagger given to her by Reiner in it's place. Continuing the same fluid movement, she spins and brings both blades down into the throng of rats, the dagger glowing with a faint golden light as she slashes with it.

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No action: 5' step to H6.
Move action: Sheathe MW shortsword and draw Sacred Dagger +1. I'm assuming here that since I have TWF, I can sheathe one weapon and draw another with one move action. If you disagree, I drop the sword in my square (H6) as a free action instead of sheathing it.
Standard action: Initiate Wolf Fang Strike.
Attack Rolls (1d20+5=23, 1d20+5=23)
Short Sword damage (1d6+3=5)
Sacred Dagger +1 damage (1d4+4+1d6=8)

BTW, you haven't posted results from the retconned action last round (Mountain-Hammering the swarm instead of Royal, whom I mistook for a rat )