[DnD 4e PBP] God is dead. (Lorrum (un)Death March!)

adventfalls · August 2011

As Azael sent a ball of acid into the river, she held her breath. 'C'mon, c'mon, I know you're in there...'

A second or so after hitting the water, an unnatural scream of death shouted from the depths of the river. "JACKPOT! Got one!"

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Lyssa!

Kay · August 2011

"NOOOOOO!"

As Caleb falls, Lyssa breaks her cover, and crouches at the edge of the bridge. She yells, wordlessly - a primal scream of rage and vengeance, punctuated by a brilliant beam of coruscating light that spears the ghoul skulking on the bridge through the chest, incinerating it with cold starflame.

"I will protect him," she shouts to the others. "Finish the one behind me, I have the one down here."

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Corpses!

hippofant · August 2011

Lyssa's continued yelling only attracts the ghouls' attention, as they begin to turn their projectiles upon her now!

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The sides of the bridge give cover, unless you're standing at the edges firing off.
Entering or starting your turn in the river, you must make a DC 13 Athletics check or be knocked prone.
Starting your turn prone in the river, you will be pushed downriver 4 squares.

Caleb!

ironzerg · August 2011

Caleb's leg twitches, then goes still...apparently he's not all dead. Yet.

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hippofant · September 2011

Lyssa's attentiveness allows her to continue deflecting these necrotic projectiles with her shield as they come in, alert as she is to their deadliness now.

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The sides of the bridge give cover, unless you're standing at the edges firing off.
Entering or starting your turn in the river, you must make a DC 13 Athletics check or be knocked prone.
Starting your turn prone in the river, you will be pushed downriver 4 squares.

Iados!

deadonthestreet · September 2011

Iados decides that the creatures are less dangerous on land, and decides to try to get them there. Iados rushes to the edge of the bridge and takes aim at a corpse. He rips the sothernmost corpse from the water and deposits it firmly in the forest.

"Kill it before it gets back to the river!"

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adventfalls · September 2011

The acid orb Azael cast went so wide that it befuddled the laws of time and space. "A bit late for that!"

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Lyssa!

Kay · September 2011

Lyssa throws herself at the disoriented zombie that suddenly finds itself out in the open. Her sword slashes at the thing's throat, sure to decapitate it, but the corpse stumbles in confusion at the last moment, and the strike goes high.

The soft glow that surrounds the thing's head, threaded through with the vile purple of a bruise still connects, however. Lyssa's divine favor has the thing in her thrall.

While the battle rages on, the Warlord of Klatcholme's lifeblood continues to flow from his wounds, dripping down through the cracks in the bridge and into the corpse-fouled river below it.

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Corpses!

hippofant · September 2011

Removed from its aquatic environment, this ghoul's horrid countenance is revealed: a putrid combination of blackened dead flesh both consuming and being consumed by a thick covering of dark green algae, it literally drips the putrescence with which Caleb is so familiar. It lunges clumsily at Lyssa, and though less formidable an attack, it nevertheless rattles the Star-Paladin inside her armor.

Its compatriot, however, has no such issues, and continues merrily flinging its deadly projectiles, now aimed at Iados instead!

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The sides of the bridge give cover, unless you're standing at the edges firing off.
Entering or starting your turn in the river, you must make a DC 13 Athletics check or be knocked prone.
Starting your turn prone in the river, you will be pushed downriver 4 squares.

Iados!

Kay · September 2011

As the corpse lashes out at the Star Paladin, her symbol flashes with an ugly, dark red light. The thing pulls back an arm scorched and blackened by Lyssa's divine patrons, though the withering nature of their protection seems largely ineffective against undead foes.

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Iados!

deadonthestreet · September 2011

At the last second, Iados is able to form a wall that the incoming mote splatters on. It falls dead at the feet of Iados, leaving him unharmed.

He then slides over to Caleb, kneels down, pulls him up by the front of his tunic, and slaps his face repeatedly. "Get up, we need you here! This is no time to die, stop being selfish."

Much to the surprise of everyone Caleb awakes from his nap with a start, gasping.

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Az!

ironzerg · September 2011

Caleb's eyes snap open with the startling realization that he was just mostly dead.

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adventfalls · September 2011

Azael smiled as her latest spell hit the corpse no one was paying attention to. "Hope you had a nice nap! Now bail our asses out of this, ya pillock!"

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Lyssa!

Kay · September 2011

Lyssa stands her ground, and strikes the land-locked corpse with another shaft of burning starlight, forcing the thing to move away or suffer the strength of her faith in full.

She spares a glance for Caleb, and seeing him start to stir, gives a sigh of relief.

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Corpse 2.

hippofant · September 2011

The still waterborne ghoul does not smile as it continues to ignore the woman on the riverbank, focused as it is on the figures on the bridge.

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The sides of the bridge give cover, unless you're standing at the edges firing off.
Entering or starting your turn in the river, you must make a DC 13 Athletics check or be knocked prone.
Starting your turn prone in the river, you will be pushed downriver 4 squares.

Caleb who?

hippofant · September 2011

Double post.

ironzerg · September 2011

The Warlord rolls onto his stomach and pushes himself up into a low crouch, his hand finding the hilt of his longsword just as the ghoul prepares to launch another attack...

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Sodden Corruption Corpse, the choice is yours!

hippofant · September 2011

... except Caleb, obviously still woozy from the previous shot to the back of his head, has badly misinterpreted the ghoul's intent. Instead, it drags its disgusting algae carapace back to the water's edge and dips into the current before gathering another projectile to toss in Iados' direction.

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The sides of the bridge give cover, unless you're standing at the edges firing off.
Entering or starting your turn in the river, you must make a DC 13 Athletics check or be knocked prone.
Starting your turn prone in the river, you will be pushed downriver 4 squares.

Iados!

Kay · September 2011

"No!" Lyssa shouts, causing the halo around one undead's head and shoulders to explode in a shower of radiant light. The divine retribution strikes the zombie hard, and it shambles deeper into the water, clutching at its face.

Iados gives Caleb a reassuring pat on the shoulder, and moves swiftly to share Azael's cover. Once there, he reaches into what the other corpse calls a mind, and thoroughly squashes its conviction with his mental might.

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Azael!

adventfalls · September 2011

Azael grinned as she pointed a hand to the stars and grinned. "Enough of this acid! Taste the radiant light of the arcane!"

A familiar sight of light bearing down upon a corpse made itself known on the riverbank, and the zombie's flesh practically burned at its touch. It seemed to disintegrate under the harsh light, eliciting a laugh out of the sorceress. "Thanks for the assist."

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Lyssa!

Kay · September 2011

Lyssa continues to pepper the remaining zombie with lances of cold starlight, covering the party's retreat to the treeline.

Somehow, it withstands the onslaught.

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Kay · September 2011

Lyssa continues to pepper the remaining zombie with lances of cold starlight, covering the party's retreat to the treeline.

Somehow, it withstands the onslaught.

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hippofant · September 2011

Despite the barrage of magicks aimed at their bobbing heads, the floating undead seem oddly focused on the heavily armored human on the bridge, downing him once again with projectiles coming from two directions.

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The sides of the bridge give cover, unless you're standing at the edges firing off.
Entering or starting your turn in the river, you must make a DC 13 Athletics check or be knocked prone.
Starting your turn prone in the river, you will be pushed downriver 4 squares.

Caleb!

ironzerg · September 2011

"Welcome back, Caleb." says God. "Here, try my dice."

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hippofant · September 2011

As Caleb goes down, so does one of his attackers, dipping below the surface of the river away from sight.

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The sides of the bridge give cover, unless you're standing at the edges firing off.
Entering or starting your turn in the river, you must make a DC 13 Athletics check or be knocked prone.
Starting your turn prone in the river, you will be pushed downriver 4 squares.

Iados!

deadonthestreet · September 2011

Iados moves to the edge of the bridge, and takes aim at the only visible corpse. He blasts a hole in the weak mind of the zombie, and watches it sink to the bottom of the river.

"Someone get that thing off of Caleb before it eats him!"

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adventfalls · September 2011

Another blast of light shot out from the sky.... and was nowhere near as effective as the first.

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Iados!

hippofant · September 2011

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The sides of the bridge give cover, unless you're standing at the edges firing off.
Entering or starting your turn in the river, you must make a DC 13 Athletics check or be knocked prone.
Starting your turn prone in the river, you will be pushed downriver 4 squares.

Azael! Again!

adventfalls · September 2011

"Get back up, you lummox!" Azael was still cursing as she reduced the mote on Caleb to a pool of acid, dissolving skin, and generally unpleasant shenanigans.

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Iados! Lyssa! Someone get that bloody stump named Caleb a medic!

Kay · September 2011

Seeing the waterbound zombies drop back into the water, dead or hiding, Lyssa moves to Caleb's side and shields him with her body, while attempting to staunch his wounds. Unsuccessfully.

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ironzerg · September 2011

Lyssa inadvertantly kneels on the dying Warlord's throat, causing him to die a bit more.

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hippofant · October 2011

Maybe it was because Lyssa was distracted by yet further deadly projectiles being lobbed Caleb's way, as though he were a magnet for them.

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The sides of the bridge give cover, unless you're standing at the edges firing off.
Entering or starting your turn in the river, you must make a DC 13 Athletics check or be knocked prone.
Starting your turn prone in the river, you will be pushed downriver 4 squares.

Iados!

deadonthestreet · October 2011

"There you are you little bastard." Iados moves towards the recently surfaced zombie and turns its mushy brains more mushy, re-killing it.

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hippofant · October 2011

Azael!

adventfalls · October 2011

Azael rushed up to Lyssa, a glob of acid on Lyssa's shoulder rapidly dissolving into its base components. "Now heal him before we lose another one!"

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Combat Over?

Kay · October 2011

Lyssa continues to staunch the Warlord's wounds, seeming to get somewhere at last.

"I'm trying!"

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hippofant · October 2011

VICTORY!

deadonthestreet · October 2011

"All right, lets get the caravan across the bridge as quickly as we can. I don't want anything else floating down the stream while we wait."

Iados then stands at the edge of the bridge staring upstream, looking for any floaters.

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ironzerg · October 2011

While his breathing is shallow and his skin a sickly pale, it looks like the Warlord has escaped the cold clutches of death yet again.

hippofant · October 2011

Depending on what sort of "floater" Iados is looking for....

No, no, he doesn't find any, regardless. The bodies of the monsters attacking them have been rapidly pushed downriver.

Short rest and such!

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[DnD 4e PBP] God is dead. (Lorrum (un)Death March!)

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