Rescue at Rivenroar (Game Thread Continued)

[Melblen_Cairn]

Scanning the rubble packed hall, "There seems to be enough space at the top to get through here. Want to give me a lift?" Theo asks dusting his fine clothing off.

[Melblen_Cairn]

Shandien looks back at the others and shrugs while giving a boost to the halfling up the rubble pile. Which the halfling then scales like a child climbing a well limbed apple tree to steal fruit.

"Yes, there is still space at the top if we want to climb over." The halfling says at the top.

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Athletics check (Aid Another) = [1d20+10] = 5+10 = 15
, give Thespias a +2 to his climb.
Thespia Athletics Check (Climb) = [1d20+7] = 20+7 = 27

Map of the Second Level of the Ruins

[Nanshork]

Tanthalus looks at the rubble pile warily.  "Is it safe?"

[bhu]

"I will need help with this."

[Melblen_Cairn]

"Appears so. Only enough space for one of us to get through at a time."

[Inspectre]

"Dunor and I should go first then - try to move through quickly and quietly.  Shandien, you bring up the rear, help the rest of the group up and through.  That is, assuming we're going this way."

Galadren looks at the rest of the group for approval of this idea - going in one at a time seems like a bad idea, but if it was their own way through, well . . . they had had to bulldoze their way into a room before now.

[Melblen_Cairn]

"Faster than going around and I would like to check this last spot and get out of here." Shandien says as he put his hand together and bends over to give the next person  a boost over.

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Aid another rolls for Shandien [1d20+8] = 11+8 = 19, [1d20+8] = 20+8 = 28, [1d20+8] = 5+8 = 13, [1d20+8] = 12+8 = 20, Everyone gets a +2 to climb over.
Athletics Check (Climb) = [1d20+8] = 16+8 = 24

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Dunor did you have a sunrod active on you or retrieve one from previous? Assuming you go over first.

[bhu]

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Rolled 1d20 : 17, total 17

[Inspectre]

Galadren climbs over the rocks after Dunor with considerable difficulty.

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Rolled 1d20+2 : 20 + 2, total 22

  (assuming I get a +2 aid another from shandien, if not subtract 2 from this

[Nanshork]

Tanthalus attempts to follow along.

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Athletics: 16 + 2 from aid another = 18

(I forgot everybody gets +2.)

[Melblen_Cairn]

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Dunor Athletics Check (Climb) = [1d20+11] = 4+11 = 15

Each of you make it over the piled rubble and through the small space at the top without too much difficulty. Even managing to bring the body of the old man through. in an effort to leave no one behind. You are near the bend at the hall which turns off to your left.

You all hear a door click open, and several sets of shuffling feet moving across the floor in the next room before the door swings to a close.

"Quick cover your lights!" the halfling sharply hisses a whisper.

[Inspectre]

Galadren covers his light - but only for a moment.  As soon as he hears the door grind to a close again he steps out from around the bend in the hallway and throws the much abused sunrod down to the end of the hallway, hopefully illuminating the now (temporarily???) closed door.  A door which he covers with his crossbow, waiting to see if it will open again.  He whispers quietly to his companions.

"Get ready - if that door opens like that again let's rush in.  Hopefully we can take them by surprise the next time if opens - if it opens again."

[Melblen_Cairn]

The sunrod sails into the room and over the heads of six rotting corpses standing in the middle of it. The stand on a black mosaic of a large black circle. Four continue to watch the light but two, glare back at the source of the glowing missile and hiss with pointing fingers which draws the ire of the other four who turn and begin to shamble towards you.

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Galadren can make an attack. Everyone give me an initiative roll and a Religion (monster knowledge) check.

[Nanshork]

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Initiative: 5

Religion: 21

[bhu]

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nishutive

Rolled 1d20+2 : 20 + 2, total 22

religion

Rolled 1d20+9 : 18 + 9, total 27

[Inspectre]

Galadren blinked in surprise a bit as the light sailed into the room through the open, non-blocked doorway.

I really had assumed there was a door there.

Galadren groused, mentally chiding himself for making assumptions like that in this place, even as his reflexes took over and he brought the crossbow up to his shoulder, lining up on one of the two intelligent undead's head.  Assumptions like the one he just made could get people killed.  Oh well - he wasn't dead yet.

Even as the two undead intelligent enough to identify the light turned to point and hiss at the intruders, a crossbow bolt was following the sunrod into the room, aimed directly at the undead's face.  And if it missed, well - the ghostly insect fluttering alongside it would hopefully redirect the bolt into the second undead's face instead.

"Kill those two first."

Galadren suggested as his hands were already working to get a new bolt loaded.

Sorry boys - you really should have just played dumb.

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I'm assuming that I have a surprise round, and thus CA against everything, including the two intelligent undead.  If not, assume Galadren redirects his attack to an opponent that he does have CA against, if any exist.  If none exist, subtract 2 from the to-hit roll(s), and go against an intelligent undead, and ignore the sneak attack damage.

Biting Swarm vs. Intelligent Undead #1
To-Hit:

Rolled 1d20+11 : 14 + 11, total 25

  (+2 CA)
Damage:

Rolled 1d10+5 : 7 + 5, total 12

Sneak Attack Damage:

Rolled 2d6 : 3, 2, total 5

Hit: Target suffers -2 penalty to-hit rolls until the start of Galadren's next turn.

-IF MISS-
Inevitable Shot, Redirecting to Intelligent Undead #2 (or other CA-able target)
To-Hit:

Rolled 1d20+11 : 20 + 11, total 31

(+2 CA)

-IF THAT MISSES-
Elven Accuracy
To-Hit:

Rolled 1d20+11 : 18 + 11, total 29

Initiative:

Rolled 1d20+5 : 8 + 5, total 13

[Melblen_Cairn]

The bolt dissolves into hundreds of motes of light, biting at the undead creature. It swats at them at first but soon accepts the punishing bites.

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Dunor Initiative Check [1d20+5] = 18+5 = 23.
Initiative Check [1d20+3] = 10+3 = 13
Thespias Initiative Check = [1d20+5] = 4+5 = 9

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Dunor, Thespias, and Shandien Religion checks (Monster Knowledge) [1d20+1] = 4+1 = 5, [1d20] = 11, and [1d20+5] = 7+5 = 12; they know nothing more than these are rotting corpses walking and maybe that the two are more intelligent than the rest.

Honor Guard Fight Round 1!

Map of the Honor Guard's Patrol

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Zombie
Medium Natural Animate (Undead)

Zombie Lore
Most zombies are created using a foul ritual. Once roused, a zombie obeys its creator and wants nothing more than to kill and consume the living.

Ghoul
Medium Natural Humanoid (Undead)

Ghoul Lore
Humanoids that indulge in or resort to cannibalism become ghouls when they die. Ghouls are also created through rituals. When a creature transforms into a ghoul, all the cares, concerns, and goals of its former life are washed away in an undead pulse of ravenous longing.

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Zombie
Medium Natural Animate (Undead)

Slam (standard; at-will)
+6 vs. AC; 2d6 + 2 damage.
Zombie Grab (standard; at-will)
+4 vs. Refl ex; the target is grabbed (until escape). Checks made
to escape the zombie’s grab take a –5 penalty.
Zombie Weakness
Any critical hit to the zombie reduces it to 0 hit points instantly.

Zombie Lore
Most zombies are created using a foul ritual. Once roused, a zombie obeys its creator and wants nothing more than to kill and consume the living. Corpses left in places corrupted by supernatural energy from the Shadowfell sometimes rise as zombies on their own. These zombies have no master and generally attack all living creatures they encounter.

Ghoul
Medium Natural Humanoid (Undead)

Claws (standard; at-will)
+12 vs. AC; 1d6 + 4 damage, and the target is immobilized (save
ends).
Ghoulish Bite (standard; at-will)
Target must be immobilized, stunned, or unconscious; +10 vs.
AC; 3d6 + 4 damage, and the target is stunned (save ends).

Ghoul Lore
Humanoids that indulge in or resort to cannibalism become ghouls when they die. Ghouls are also created through rituals. When a creature transforms into a ghoul, all the cares, concerns, and goals of its former life are washed away in an undead pulse of ravenous longing.

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Zombie
Medium Natural Animate (Undead)

Immune disease, poison; Resist 10 necrotic; Vulnerable 5 radiant

Slam (standard; at-will)
+6 vs. AC; 2d6 + 2 damage.
Zombie Grab (standard; at-will)
+4 vs. Refl ex; the target is grabbed (until escape). Checks made
to escape the zombie’s grab take a –5 penalty.
Zombie Weakness
Any critical hit to the zombie reduces it to 0 hit points instantly.

Zombie Lore
Most zombies are created using a foul ritual. Once roused, a zombie obeys its creator and wants nothing more than to kill and consume the living. Corpses left in places corrupted by supernatural energy from the Shadowfell sometimes rise as zombies on their own. These zombies have no master and generally attack all living creatures they encounter.

Ghoul
Medium Natural Humanoid (Undead)

Immune disease, poison; Resist 10 necrotic; Vulnerable 5 radiant

Claws (standard; at-will)
+12 vs. AC; 1d6 + 4 damage, and the target is immobilized (save
ends).
Ghoulish Bite (standard; at-will)
Target must be immobilized, stunned, or unconscious; +10 vs.
AC; 3d6 + 4 damage, and the target is stunned (save ends).

Ghoul Lore
Humanoids that indulge in or resort to cannibalism become ghouls when they die. Ghouls are also created through rituals. When a creature transforms into a ghoul, all the cares, concerns, and goals of its former life are washed away in an undead pulse of ravenous longing.

Status
--->Dunor @ M2 | Hit Points = 36/36 | Heal Surge = 6/8 | AP = 0 |  DMI = 2 | Misc : | Cond :
--->Tulugaq @ L1 | Hit Points = 35/35 | Heal Surge = 9/10 | AP = 2 |  DMI = 2 | Misc : | Cond :
Walking Corpse 1 @ K7 | Hit Points = Down 0 | Misc : | Cond :
Walking Corpse 2 @ L7 | Hit Points = Down 0 | Misc : | Cond :
Walking Corpse 3 @ M6 | Hit Points = Down 0 | Misc : | Cond :
Walking Corpse 4 @ N8 | Hit Points = Down 0 | Misc : | Cond :
Intelligent Undead 1 @ L9 | Hit Points = Down 17 | Misc : | Cond : Biting Swarm (-2 to hit SoNT Galadren)
Intelligent Undead 2 @ M9 | Hit Points = Down 0 | Misc : | Cond :
Shandien @ | Hit Points = 34/34 | Heal Surge = 2/9 | AP = 0 |  DMI = 1 | Misc : Resist - 5 (Lightning), 2 (Cold, Fire, and Thunder); | Cond :
Galadren @ | Hit Points = 30/30 | Heal Surge = 4/7 | AP = 0 |  DMI = 2 | Misc : Low-Light Vision (negates concealment in dim light conditions); Wildstep (Ignore difficult terrain when shifting); | Cond :
Thespias @ | Hit Points = 30/30 | Heal Surge = 3/6(7) | AP = 2 | DMI = 2 | Misc : Bold (+5 to save vs. Fear effects); Nimble Reaction (+2 to AC vs. AoO's); Storm Soul Resist - 5 (Lightning, Thunder) | Cond : Filth Fever (Initial Phase - 1 healing surge lost);
Tanthalus @ F2 in Shrine | Hit Points = 37/37 | Heal Surge = 3/7 | AP = 2 |  DMI = 2 | Misc : Low-Light Vision (negates concealment in dim light conditions); Wildstep (Ignore difficult terrain when shifting); | Cond :

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do i know which two are ghouls?

[Melblen_Cairn]

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For a 27 religion check you know the size of their undead undies! 
It is the locations of the intelligent undead.

[VennDygrem]

Dunor rushes in to provide a defensive cover for the group.

"I hear you, but it won't do any good if they swarm us all first. I'll try to hold the foul things off!"

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Dunor moves to L6.

Then, Dual Strike on M6 and K7.

Vs. M6: [1d20+8] = 17+8 = 25
[1d6+2] = 6+2 = 8

Vs. K7: [1d20+8] = 19+8 = 27
[1d6+2] = 6+2 = 8

If neither are minions, they are marked by Dunor.