E-mail turn, Oct 13, 2000

Summary:

Since it’s been about two weeks since anything happened, I’ll review each character’s situation one by one along with what I have as your intention for the next round. As always, keep your IC and OOC knowledge separate.

Matar: Fighting both Groznyj and Thump. Negative and bleeding. Not looking good.

intent: attack Thump, hope to take him down and get lucky with Groz

Katrina: up on the ledge, bow out and ready, down about 1/2

intent: attack Fara, +3, +3 returning, +2

Sane: blurred, but badly injured

intent: fireball trying to catch both Prentyss and Fara, call on Corelleon

Shadow: paralyzed

Ariessus: gone

Diana: unconscious but not bleeding, will be walking wounded

Castinar: unconscious but not bleeding, will be walking wounded

Hunter: flying around watching Crys

intent: waiting to dive and try to disrupt spells

Amber: badly injured, charmed by Dac

intent: healing potions for herself and Dac

Nikki: Paralyzed

Thengal: down about half but still fighting

intent: drink potion of extra-healing, put Finslayer in Castinar’s hand

K’harn: half-crazed

intent: attack Groznyj

Thump: still very badly injured, but getting better

intent: take out Matar

Prentyss: bow out and ready to fire

intent: take Sane out

Dac: very badly injured

intent: drink Amber’s potion and stay low

Farayenal: flying in sylph form, down about 1/2, can hear again

intent: call for a retreat, fly north

Groznyj: down about 2/3rds, but still fighting

intent: help take Matar down, then hit K’harn

Crystenna: slightly singed

intent: use Wand of Negation against Sane’s Wand of Fire

Quad: gone

Harag: in human form now

intent: direct skeletons to grab Diana, takes others to grab Castinar

Umlith: waking up, badly damaged

intent: stand up

Skeletons: obeying Harag

Initiative: Party wins once again, 6 to 7

The events:

Very Fast:

Matar realizes he’s rolling some seriously difficult dice here. Not only does he need to take Thump out with his first strike, he then has to be lucky enough to avoid Groznyj’s attacks. But his body has other ideas. As he turns to swing his knees buckle and he falls to the ground.

Thump blinks, wondering why the human with the sharp blade just fell. He shrugs and starts looking around. “Fara! What now!” he yells out.

Farayenal is rather surprised to find that she can hear again. She takes quick stock of the situation. Yes, the battle could turn out in favor of her people, but it could just as easily go the other way. Better to retreat and fight another day. Using her spell she sends to everybody “Retreat! Head north! Crys and Prentyss, cover us!”

Fast:

Katrina knows what she wants to happens next. She pulls out one of her most powerful arrows and lets it fly at Farayenal. The missile flies true and Fara is hit again.

Sane has ideas of his own. Seeing Prentyss and Farayenal so close together he uses his Wand of Fire again, aiming the fireball between the two. As the fireball blooms Prentyss hits the deck while Farayenal attempts to fly up and away. They both manage to avoid the full force of the blast, but that isn’t enough to save Farayenal. She screams in pain as the flames scorch her. She tries to remain conscious long enough to land, but the waves of agony are too much. With another scream she passes out and plummets to the ground. Prentyss clearly hears the sound of bones shattering when Farayenal hits the rocky floor of the tunnel.

Sane’s eyes crinkle. That went better than he had planned. Still, more of his team is down than the others. Well, desperate times call for desperate measures. He calls out to Nikki, encouraging her to call out to Corelleon with him. Opening his mind, he sends <Great Corelleon, you do not know me, nor count me among your people.  But Priestess Ariessus, a worthy follower of yours, is taken.  Only the Truth Seekers can save her.  If we fall, she is lost.> [OOC: you’ll have to finish this next round]

Amber moans in pain when her blackened skin cracks when she turns to find her potions. She pulls out two, one for herself and one for Dac. She hands the handsome half-elf one as she begins to work on the cork stopper of the other.

K’harn sees Matar go down. She growls in frustration but continues her attacks on Groznyj. This time, however, she is unable to get through his armor.

Prentyss watches in horror as Farayenal falls to the ground beside her. “Fara?” she says softly. Her only answer comes from Fara’s unseeing eyes and the bones poking through her skin. “I’m outta here!” the thief says, concentrating briefing and turning invisible.

Thump is stunned as well. Fara was the only one who was nice to him. “Thump save Fara!” he yells.

“NO!” Haragswarld shouts, “She is dead! We must follow her last order and retreat! Grab the golem and follow me!” The cleric then leads his skeletons towards Diana.

Thump looks back and forth between Fara and the golem. “Set-man not nice to Thump. Fara nice! Thump save Fara!” he yells again and runs forward to Fara’s body.

Grozynj doesn’t need to be told twice. Keeping a wary eye on Thengal he backs away from K’harn, then turns and moves north, away from the battle.

Umlith groans and sits up. He looks around and sees the party he has been traveling with in disarray, and worse, no sign of Venom. “The priestess” he says, rising slowly to his feet.

Crystenna considers what she should do. She could still use her Wand against the kenku’s, as she was intending to do. Or she could get away from this place. Ah, that sounds like a better idea. She turns around and begins running north. (OOC: by the end of the round she is about 14 squares off the map.)

Average:

Katrina curses as the thief below her goes invisible. She looks around for another target. Ah, how sweet, the halfling is tending to the badly burned half-elf. Realizing she has to hit the half-elf before he drinks his potion Kat doesn’t take time to zero in her shot. She pulls back and lets loose, hoping that Amber doesn’t get in the way. The arrow catches Dac dead in the chest. He coughs in surprise once and looks down. “NO!” Amber cries out. Dac tries to say something to her, but only blood comes out. He stiffens once and then relaxes.

“No, no no!” Amber says, putting her own potion aside and taking Dac’s from his hand. She carefully pours a little of the liquid around the arrow, then carefully pours the rest down his throat. Dac moans, but doesn’t awaken.

Thengal is in need of a little healing himself. He digs back into his bag and pulls out the potion with the triple Xs on it. Unscrewing the lid he tosses the potion back, feeling the cold, clean magic of the potion wash away his aches and pains.

Prentyss moves north, angling towards the wall. She watches in amazement as Thump comes running towards her. She considers warning him off, but the archer up on the wall above her makes her decide it’s time to take care of her own skin first.

Haragswarld gets his skeletons over next to Diana. He instructs them to pick her up, watching both K’harn and Thengal as they do so, holding his staff in front of him, the head of the staff hissing.

Slow:

Satisfied that the half-elf is out, Katrina looks around for another target. Lo and behold, here comes the trollkin running towards her! As he stops and bends over to look at Farayenal Katrina pulls back and shoots at him. It’s a perfect shot. [OOC: 20, but Thump makes ST to avoid critical damage] “Ow” the trollkin mutters as he falls face-forward over Farayenal’s body. He lays there, although he is still moving slightly, as if trying to get back up.

Thengal tosses his empty potion container to the ground. Seeing Finslayer laying next to Castinar the dwarf decides that maybe the sword can do something for Castinar. His hand goes around Finslayer’s hilt, his intent to place the sword in Castinar’s hand. But as soon as he touches it he hears a voice in his head. <Don’t leave me with him! He’s out of the fight! Take me and let’s go take that drow out!! Look, he’s getting back up! I’ll guide your strokes. Come ON!> [OOC: Thengal, let me know what you do before we start chatting this evening.]

End of Round

So, the general situation:

Most of the Truth Seekers are down, although enough remain up and dangerous that the Others have decided to pull back. Sane, Kat, and Thengal are all unthreatened and able to act freely. K’harn and Hunter are still active as well. Amber is badly injured, but still overly concerned with Dac.

As for the Others Fara is dead. Dac and Thump are both unconscious, although Thump won’t be for long. Quad has disappeared. Crystenna has disappeared into the darkness. Prentyss and Groznyj are both pulling back. Only Haragswarld seems unwilling to leave without some kind of prize. His six skeletons are now carrying Diana. Umlith is looking around, still a little confused by the sudden turn in events.

We’ll pick up here at the start of the chat session tonight. Hope to see you all there.

Saif