[13th Age] Crown of the Lich King IC/OOC: The New Seven Scoundrels

bss

Too bad no bugs got zapped, it would have been just like back home on a boring night...

Still though, good chunk of damage to the vrock. And the escalation die is now at 2! And @Grog is up!

Keep in mind that you are all technically engaged with bugs, but no matter how many are around you, just treat it as one enemy for purposes of disengaging.

As the battle continues, everyone is briefly shaken as a low rumble from below crescendos in a minor quake of the earth. Small chips of stone crumble from the ceiling and pillars, and you hear what is perhaps a collapse somewhere distant behind you in the dungeon...

Grog

Tembo tries to best to hack his way through the swarm and get to the real prize. "All these crawlies can't be good for the foundations." He hollers over the vrock's din, only to have his prediction eerily confirmed by the distant rumble. One thing at a time, Julius, one thing at a time.

33/36hp
Standard action: MBA vs the bug swarm. Post roll edit: That's 2 miss damage and I'll use Grim Intent to get +WEAPON damage to my next melee miss damage.

Minion, roll "1d10+8;2d10+4" for MBA Vs Bugs

Minion, roll 1d20 for Disengage

Move Action: Engage with Vrock

MBA Vs Bugs:

1d10+8 10 [1d10=2]

2d10+4 9 [2d10=3, 2]

Disengage:

1d20 17 [1d20=17]

wildwood

Geth roll 1d6 for Elven Grace

Elven Grace:

1d6 4 [1d6=4]

wildwood

Currently at 14/32 hp, going to try to disengage to get some room from the bugs.

Geth roll 1d20 for disengage check

disengage check:

1d20 15 [1d20=15]

wildwood

Bugs! Bugs! Bugs bugs bugs bugs!

Mitch manages to get control of his screaming monkey brain just enough to come up with an escape plan. The plan essentially amounts to "stop, drop and roll", which the rational corner of his mind is pretty sure is for a different situation, but all he really cares about is that the bugs don't seem to follow.

He takes a moment to collect himself and re-connect with his inner awesome. Pure, bug-free awesome.


Move: disengage from bugs
Standard: Rally

Geth roll 2d8+1 for Gooooo Mitch!

Next: @Leper

Gooooo Mitch!:

2d8+1 7 [2d8=5, 1]

DevoutlyApathetic

I'm super confused, pretty sure @Poshniallo follows Grog, I follow Posh and wildwood follows me.

wildwood

Sorry, my bad. Not sure what I was thinking.

bss

Well, we'll keep that queued up unless the situation changes drastically enough that you want to do something other than escape from drowning in insects with people faces.

poshniallo

Geth roll 1d20+6 for Shadow Walk.

Shadow Walk:

1d20+6 23 [1d20=17]

poshniallo

Tomas is nowhere to be seen.

@DevoutlyApathetic.

DevoutlyApathetic

Digging deep, Darian tries to muster the drive to carry on.

Minion roll 1d20t11 for Going to rally?

Edit: NOPE.

Going to rally?:

1d20t11 0 [1d20t11=2]

poshniallo

Are you rolling because that's your second time to Rally? I forget how that works.

DevoutlyApathetic

Minion roll 1d20t11 for The Song Goes On...
Minion roll 1d4 for This many colors...

The Song Goes:

1d20t11 1 [1d20t11=12]

This many colors:

1d4 4 [1d4=4]

DevoutlyApathetic

Darian grimly smiles, knowing the poison will shortly finish it's deadly work, and puts forth his all to go out with style.

Minion roll 1d20+5+2+1 for Vrock Pride
Minion roll 1d20+5+2+1 for Insect 1
Minion roll 1d20+5+2+1 for Insect 2
Minion roll 1d20+5+2+1 for Insect 3
Minion roll 2d8 for This much Color

Insect 1:

1d20+5+2+1 13 [1d20=5]

Insect 2:

1d20+5+2+1 22 [1d20=14]

Insect 3:

1d20+5+2+1 10 [1d20=2]

This much Color:

2d8 5 [2d8=2, 3]

DevoutlyApathetic

Minion! Why do you do this to me!

Minion roll 1d20+5+2+1 for Vrock Pride

Edit: On second thought I'm not sure I mind if you keep apologizing like that.

Vrock Pride:

1d20+5+2+1 28 [1d20=20]

DevoutlyApathetic

Darian watches the bursts of color searing the minds of the demons as the darkness closes in on his vision and he slumps to the ground.

So all those rolls are hits, I'm not sure what the deal is with the swarm and how many an area spell hurts them, I figure I'll let bss figure that out.

A crit against the vrock deal and additional
Minion roll 2d8 for Bonus Vrock

Unsure if saves still happen while down but I'll roll and let @bss figure that out too.
Minion roll 1d20t11 for Damage 1
Minion roll 1d20t11 for Damage 2

So 11 damage to the Vrock, 5 to the Insects for each effective hit. Anything with less than 10 is weakened until end of next but I doubt anybody is there. I make one save so I'm at ongoing 5 now but still at -3 hp. Should probably look up how this deal with negative HP.

Oh, and Song of Heroes should grant +1 to everybody for one more action, I think. I maintained the song this round so it says until the beginning of my next turn. I'm down so we definitely don't trigger Final Verse effects.

Bonus Vrock:

2d8 6 [2d8=3, 3]

Damage 1:

1d20t11 1 [1d20t11=15]

Damage 2:

1d20t11 0 [1d20t11=4]

DevoutlyApathetic

poshniallo wrote: »

Are you rolling because that's your second time to Rally? I forget how that works.

Yep. Every rally after the first needs to succeed on a normal save first. On the plus side failure doesn't carry an action cost.

For some reason I'd been checking up on those rules lately...

bss

Alright, very nice last gasp attack.

Game stuff: the swarm gets hit three times, taking that damage each time; you continue rolling your saves when down, though you automatically succeed when the battle ends, justified by whatever means you can come up with; negative HP works like in 4e: you're down at <=0 hp and dead at negative half-your-max, you heal starting at 0 (same as in 4e), and you have death saves to make - 16+ you can spend a recovery, 15 or lower you fail and if you fail four times you die, and rolling a natural 20 lets you act that round. As always, people can roll healing-themed Wisdom checks to stabilize you, or feed you a potion/cast a spell/etc.

Damages all noted. You dropped three mook-units of the bugs, and did a number on the vrock as well.

Darian goes out like the encore in an Archmage-sponsored concert in Horizon, music and pyrotechnics and all. A number of beetles fall unceremoniously to the ground the exact moment that Darian does, and the vrock's face takes an even more horrific look as it momentarily reels from the kaleidoscope of pain. It might have had a stroke.

bss

Unless @wildwood would like to revise his actions, I'll update after work in the evening.

bss

Hey, your disorganized GM again. Posting to say that I also forgot the initiative order, it's actually @Leper on deck and then me.

wildwood

Mitch will stay curled up in a ball this turn (sticking with the turn I made earlier), and will see to Darian before he gets too many skulls on his character sheet.

bss

We'll give @Leper a bit more time (half a day or so?) and if we don't hear back I'll count him as delaying and I'll resume with my turns.

bss

The vrock curses at Tembo and Cullen, who are holding the line and keeping it from the weaker, vulnerable types in the back. It'll just try to claw its way through.

Geth roll 1d20+11 clawing vs. Tembo's AC
Geth roll 1d20+11 clawing vs. Cullen's AC

clawing vs. Tembo's AC:

1d20+11 22 [1d20=11]

clawing vs. Cullen's AC:

1d20+11 26 [1d20=15]

bss

7 damage and 5 ongoing damage for each of you. I don't get my trigger stuff, so...

Geth roll 1d20-1 attempting to disengage

attempting to disengage:

1d20-1 10 [1d20=11]

bss

The vrock tries to maneuver its way around the line, but is hampered at every turn. It's going nowhere!

Swarm time. Again, those near the vrock get the brunt of this.
Geth roll 5#1d20+5 bugs everywhere! vs. Tembo's AC
Geth roll 5#1d20+5 bugs everywhere! vs. Cullen's AC
Geth roll 2#1d20+5 bugs everywhere! vs. Darian's AC
Geth roll 2#1d20+5 bugs everywhere! vs. Gog's AC
Geth roll 2#1d20+5 bugs everywhere! vs. Mitch's AC
Geth roll 2#1d20+5 bugs everywhere! vs. Shar's AC
Geth roll 2#1d20+5 bugs everywhere! vs. Tomas's AC

Edit: whoops, I forgot Darian's already down. Let's spread those out to Tembo and Cullen.
Second edit: Tomas is shadow walking, what am I even doing in these notes.

bugs everywhere! vs. Tembo's AC:

5#1d20+5 5 # 24 [1d20=19] 14 [1d20=9] 25 [1d20=20] 16 [1d20=11] 8 [1d20=3]

bugs everywhere! vs. Cullen's AC:

5#1d20+5 5 # 10 [1d20=5] 13 [1d20=8] 7 [1d20=2] 14 [1d20=9] 6 [1d20=1]

bugs everywhere! vs. Darian's AC:

2#1d20+5 2 # 21 [1d20=16] 25 [1d20=20]

bugs everywhere! vs. Gog's AC:

2#1d20+5 2 # 11 [1d20=6] 12 [1d20=7]

bugs everywhere! vs. Mitch's AC:

2#1d20+5 2 # 11 [1d20=6] 10 [1d20=5]

bugs everywhere! vs. Shar's AC:

2#1d20+5 2 # 22 [1d20=17] 25 [1d20=20]

bugs everywhere! vs. Tomas's AC:

2#1d20+5 2 # 14 [1d20=9] 23 [1d20=18]

bss

Looks like:
Tembo: three hits, 9 damage
Cullen: two hits (one crit), 9 damage
Gog: no hits, no damage
Mitch: no hits, no damage
Shar: two hits (one crit), 9 damage

Hopefully I'm finished screwing this up. Please check your results in case I'm not. @Ardent is up!

Ardent

I'm not sure. You have me annotated as hit twice, crit once, but I'm not seeing any hits against my AC at all there. I only ask because Cullen would need to rally if he did take 9 damage.

bss

Sorry, I accidentally made some attacks against Darian (dying) and Tomas (among the shadows) so I just allocated the first of each (21, 14) to Tembo and the second (25, 23) to Cullen.

Ardent

Now I see it. No worries. So yes, Cullen is going to rally. I don't think I need to roll this time, do I?

bss

Yup, you haven't rallied yet this fight, so you're all clear.

Ardent

Cullen snarls at the vrock as its claws scrabble along the repaired and reworked surface of his leather armor, gouging new wounds in the tattered leather. A new look of determination enters his eyes as the bugs swarm over him.

Done and done.

Geth, roll 2d8+2 for rally!

rally!:

2d8+2 5 [2d8=1, 2]

bss

Just in case: it only costs you your standard action, so you could still try to disengage if you wanted to slip out or anything.

bss

Poke poke, @tzeentchling

Just about everybody is on deck; the escalation die will be 3 after Shar.

tzeentchling

bleh! been super busy with worky stuff. post incoming!

first check if power recharges. Geth roll 1d20.

tzeentchling

Geth roll 1d20 dammit.

OK, no recharge. Damn.

dammit.:

1d20 8 [1d20=8]

tzeentchling

Shar grins as the bugs surround her. Thick in the action, exactly where she wants to be! Her blood sings as blue fire bursts from her hands at both the swarm around her and the vrock itself. The fire itself is weak, but damages both.

Burning Hands at bugs, vrock.
Geth roll 2d20+5+3+1 for Vrock, Bugs
Geth roll 1d6+1 fire damage

Man, I haven't rolled a single even die to hit, ever. Both do hit, but do a piddly 2 damage. Can I say that my attack against the bugs misses? I'd actually do 5 damage on a miss, versus 2 on a hit. And I'm not sure if I'm rolling damage right - the sheet says 1d6+1, but that seems really low. Should I be adding to that any bonuses or level or something?

Vrock, Bugs:

2d20+5+3+1 31 [2d20=15, 7]

fire damage:

1d6+1 2 [1d6=1]

bss

No worries on the busyness.

And yeah, Geth is keeping the haterade flowing. Spells scale differently than weapon attacks, so the 1d6 part is right, but someone did mess up on the sheet though: burning hands is 1d6 + Cha so that should be 1d6+3 for you. So if you're alright with the 1 damage discrepancy we'll keep both of them hits. Actually, where's the +3 bonus to attack from? I gotta run to work but I'm not immediately recalling the source and you'd miss without it. Oh, derp, escalation die, of course.

That's actually enough to both drop another mook-unit worth of bugs, and stagger the vrock!

The vrock reels from the gout of flame, suddenly cognizant of its own demonic versions of "mortality" and "self-doubt".

The escalation die is now 3! And @Grog is up!

Grog

Blood's on both sides of this fight, but the tables are turning. Tembo exerts a bit of brute force to help the furniture on it's way.

Take 5 ongoing for 12/36hp

Minion, roll "1d20+10;2d10+4" for MBA vs Vrock - That's a miss, to which I can add [WEAPON] damage to. Both the rolls are 4, so I guess it's 6 damage.
I'll use Carve an Opening to expand my crit range by +1 until I crit. Because Geth'll be that generous I'm sure.
Minion, roll 1d20 for Ongoing Save

@poshniallo

MBA vs Vrock:

1d20+10 11 [1d20=1]

2d10+4 12 [2d10=4, 4]

Ongoing Save:

1d20 11 [1d20=11]

bss

Grog wrote: »

Blood's on both sides of this fight, but the tables are turning. Tembo exerts a bit of brute force to help the furniture on it's way.

Take 5 ongoing for 12/36hp

Minion, roll "1d20+10;2d10+4" for MBA vs Vrock - That's a miss, to which I can add [WEAPON] damage to. Both the rolls are 4, so I guess it's 6 damage.
I'll use Carve an Opening to expand my crit range by +1 until I crit. Because Geth'll be that generous I'm sure.
Minion, roll 1d20 for Ongoing Save

@poshniallo

Unfortunately, a critical miss has no effect, including no miss damage. I think, but am not certain, that you still get the flexible attack benefits, though; either way I'm going to say that you can, so, opening carved.

bss

Pinging @poshniallo in case he hadn't been pinged, otherwise we'll put Tomas is the holding action queue in a day or so.

By the way, we're approaching the end of the session. Any thoughts on taking the opportunity to shuffle up participants, if there are additional people still interested and others want/feel the need to tap out?