Playing the 3.5ed D&D adventure, "Rise of the Runelords," published by Paizo

Chp2: The Skinsaw Murders

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Sinspawn Ambush - Round 2 Results

Seeing that her would be ambusher is now beset on all sides, Sasha grins and thinks to herself that this teamwork thing might not be so bad. She takes two steps up the stairs to get into the thing's blind spot, and then with a flourish, spins and pierces the spawn's right side with her rapier, leaving a deep seeping wound. Badly wounded now, the Sinspawn howls and throws itself at the rogue with the last of its strength. Sasha deftly steps out of the way of its first frenzied swipe, but the creature grabs her with its other hand, sinking its claws deep into her arm and wrenching her forward. It dives in and savages her with its mandible like bite. Sasha swoons with pain, and then her mind is overwhelmed with feelings of wrath, anger, and rage induced by the spawn's poisonous bite.

The creature does not get a chance to press its attack against Sasha however, for as the thing rears up for another bite, Yola thrusts the tip of her polearm through its back and drives it twitching and squealing to the ground.

Poot sees the immediate threat go down, and gestures to Seoni and Gerund. "Ok, on the count of three," he whispers, and and counts down with raised fingers while reaching the other hand around for his bow. "Now!" The mesmerized sinspawns beady read eyes go wide as the threat of Poot raising a weapon to it overwhelms the magical charm and it ducks out of the way of the halfling's hasty bow shot. But as it avoids this attacks, it leaves itself open to Gerund, who gets a good cut in on the surprised spawn as her charges back up the stairs and steps protectively in front of Seoni. Unfortunately Seoni's own attack on the creature, a Daze spell, proves ineffective against the now fully alert sinspawn.



Since no actions were posted for Gerund or Seoni for round 2 by the deadline, I improvised. And I maximized Poot's action based on what happened in the round before his turn - hope no one minds. Sinspawn 1 goes down - good group effort! But Sasha gets roughed up quite a bit in the process. She has 8/18 HP left, and the poisoned bite induced rage has left her sickened for the next couple of minutes. While Sinspawn1 is down, Yola notices that its seemingly fatal wounds are even now slowly healing...

Please post actions for round 3

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

OCC: If Sasha is physically able and not sickened too badly she will continue stabbing and hacking apart the sin spawn as best she can due to the rage.

If unable to do this she will take a moment to rest and assess the worst of her wounds.

James said...

For the next round, Poot will try and get another bow shot at spawn no. 2 before anyone closes into melee with it. If someone gets to it with a melee attack before him he won't risk the shot but instead will make his way over to spawn #1 and attempt to light it on fire with his lantern kit.
((sorry guys but Poot is near useless in melee and will always avoid it.))

Anonymous said...

Yola runs up to the stairs and using her freaking long polearm she stabs the SS#2.


Mich

Rachelle said...

[Dammit! Why aren't my messages getting through?]

Greg Stewart said...

Rachelle: I don't know, I've checked and rechecked the settings on my end, and everything shoughld be working. Last post I have from you is this one fromt the thread below:

Seoni said...
Seoni uses her Magic Missile to attack the SinSpawn threatening Sasha.

[Greg, this is my last MM spell, yes?]

have you tried to post something since then?

Anonymous said...

Since he's the closest, and Seoni is behind him, Gerund presses the attack, taking a step forward to sword-swinging distance and tries to separate sinspawn #2 from itself.

Rachelle said...

[Actually, that was my last post. Huh. Okay, never mind. Can I use my Magic Missile spell now?]

Seoni waits a moment to ensure Gerund's attack will be effective. She prepares to help him if needed with her final Magic Missile spell, hoping the daggers of light and fire will fell the wretched Sinspawn quickly.

Greg Stewart said...

Uh yeah, I applied that last MM spell to your Round 1 Action. See Dec 3 post, paragraph 4. So, so far:

Round 1: Seoni casts last Magic Missle ( as per Rachelle)
Round2: Seoni casts Daze ( as per Greg)
Round 3: Waiting for action.

Sorry Rachelle, don't know where it all got confused.