[pnpgm] Game Update #172 - File #1202 - Fremea's strike
Scott Adams
longshotgm at netzero.com
Fri Jun 17 08:59:15 CEST 2011
HT Aliaver/Player Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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R1.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar Ma
??.Chris Wells...........Ben'dar...........Warrior.Normal/Human Ma
R4.Tom Corckett..........Caladan...........Wizard Normal/Human Ma
W2.Marcel Liberty........Chion.............Sailor..Normal/Human Ma
W3.Ryan Torres...........Farseeker.........Warrior.Normal/Human Ma
--.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry Fe
R2.Mark Murtha...........Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human..Ma
R1.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human Ma
R4.J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
W2.Robert Maxwell........Strie'bog.........Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human Fe
R1 John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma
R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human Fe
R1 NPC...................Zhou Kiwat........Noble...Normal/Human..Ma
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Tef'wo (Horse) Ben'dar,
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[Recap]
From Fremea: [Re: Actions]
OOC: Sorry Keit since Will did not follow his predetermined plan
I can only assume that he was just to fast... something to
remember next time!
Speaking of predetermined plans Will is planing on ambushing in
consultation with who ever is scouting for our group using
whatever skill required. He is planing on doing that after the
Captain is engaged if at all possible. I will also keep an eye on
him in case I have to kill him as well. I was actually hoping
to keep the Captain alive but....
GM: Ack. It was fun for Kiet nothing personal. :) This is the problem
with some plans and sub groups. Now that ZL is off the second
group it makes things more difficult for having to make note
of times, spell durations and other things rather than
just 2 separate groups.
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[New Stuff]
[Augado 10th, 1634TH]
[Location: Middle Katai Plains]
[ Mountains west of Pamau]
[Time: 12:50:20 pm]
While Unali makes her move to the north and west, Fremea scouts
her initial area. She finds her first major concern the torch
against the wall (R57). This torch gives a wide lighted area
20 feet even to the point of the edge of the water. Making
passing this torch very difficult. She glances north and sees
no other obvious Vong aside the Shaper Unali is trying to ambush.
Fremea turns to speak to Will, Chion and Raban nearby. Some
of the others are a bit further behind trying to distract
Captain Lin asking how Raban got out so quickly. Zhou urges the
Captain away from the tiny side cave so the warrior doesn't inspect
the rock face. Quietly she says to the group, "Hunting is something
my 'trainers' have taught me to do very well. Until there is a need
to start hacking at stuff, let me do my killing quietly."
Fremea glances back to see Captain Lin approaching with Zhou
and Kiet in tow. She frowns that she can't use her natural
form yet. But soon she will do it even if Zhou has a stroke
Fremea turns away and approaches the torch edge. Lucky in the
direction of the other Vong they are north or north west. The
growth of Vong Orbs (Q41) seem to be as just as tall as her. There
must be a selection of orbs growing on stalks of some kind that
number 30-40 in total. The Orbs wave slightly in the pond but do
not seem to be alive. From what Fremea knows of them they must
be rubbed to use.
Using the orbs to block the view of the torch she grabs her
cloak and wraps it around her. Ducking down to be below the
height of the orbs she waits. Glancing toward the west she
spots the Shaper. The Shaper doesn't seem to be wearing a
snake head but is at the edge of a Amphistaff growth. The
small area of Vong growing weapons are about 50 or so that
are tall maybe 6 feet off the grown. They wave slightly and
the staves look docile at this point but that could arm a
small army.
Z'leyra in hidden form slips past Fremea having exited the
cave and catching up. She goes west toward the Shaper and
Warrior (L7). As she moves she glances to the south wall to
ensure there is nothing hidden there.
Fremea sees the Warrior in the distance some 200 feet away
looking away. The shaper is also looking north at the actual
stave growth. Fremea slips past the torchlight and quickly
gets into darkness. Fremea sees another torch further away
(S41) but finds the light is a few feet away against the shore.
This will give her a 5 foot or so corridor to work with.
Fremea makes a straight line south west ending up just
east of the stream that feeds the pond itself. She figures
this must go to the outside underwater cave and spring. She
is still in the darkness here as the torch (S41) is just out
of its reach to her. Fremea glances at the stream and finds
it moving a bit fast and spans about 10 feet in some places.
She glances back and sees no one around. She decides to
lift the dress and do a quick flying leap to the other side
of the stream and then lets her dress back down.
Fremea creeps up against the side wall (R35) and peers around
to watch the Shaper. The Shaper is bending down and using some
kind of tool to tend to the Amphistaves. She has the usual
gown like dress but doesn't seem to have a weapon obvious at this
angle but she is 30 feet away.
Fremea finds that distance a bit hard to deal with. She notices
the Shaper is in direct light from what has to be a torch around
the corner of the rock wall (R31). Fremea glances right and
finds the small wooden bridge over the stream entrance by the
pond itself. Fremea glances back and tries to figure out how best
to get to the Shaper without being seen.
Almost due north across the pond is a couple of other Vongs
(C37) but there is another Amphistaff growth in their view to her.
Fremea considers her bow but figures it might not kill right away
and that could not end well.
Fremea bends down and picks up a large boulder and tosses it
toward the stream to her right. The cave itself is rather
lacking and the splash is enough to hear about 30 feet away
but not elsewhere. Fremea then pulls out her dagger. She
waits and ducks back around the darkened corner. But the
Shaper doesn't showup.
Fremea hasn't planned magic yet so figured she'll try a simple
deception for now. She tosses another rock into the stream and
the splash is not as loud but waits. Fremea with her perky
ears can hear some noise in the dirt and she figures it to be
the Shaper approaching.
Fremea hopes the others, especially Raban, are hiding in the
area hidden by the other rock wall. As soon as Fremea sees
the Shaper pass by she reaches out to stab with her right hand
and with her left hand grab the gown to yank the female Vong
toward her. Her strength is a bit light compared to Raban but
she can at least try.
Fremea's dagger stabs to the right side of the Shaper but it is
not a good ambush as both are a bit on guard. The dagger does
about 8 points to the Shaper. Fremea curses to herself that the
blow is weak and not effective. But she uses that energy to
trip the Shaper off her feet and onto her knees.
Fremea slashes forward to try to stab the Shaper in the neck and
it connects but just slightly below the neck doing 11 more points
only this time.
The Shaper tries to recover and grabs a Coufee dagger from her
belt and swings it wildly at Fremea but fails to strike.
Fremea swings again the at the Shaper but fails to land.
The Shaper tries to get to her feet and swings but doesn't
adjust for the height and misses Fremea by inches.
Fremea lunges again and stabs the Shaper full in the chest.
The dagger penetrates hard and does over 20 points of damage.
The blow finally kills the Shaper.
During the fight that lasts less than 10 seconds, Z'leyra tries
to relay through her mind to Will about the fight. But Z'leyra
warns the Warrior has turned back to the east and would spot
them all moving. Will curses that he can't help Fremea at this
point but is happy that she is fine and kills the Vong.
Fremea breathes and figures the warrior will be a bit harder
to kill with his armor. Z'leyra does the same and floats
toward the warrior. The warrior finally turns to the north
and the pond and stares as if bored at the growing areas around
the pond. Will takes his cue from Z'leyra and quickly passes
the same corridor Fremea does and jogs over the small wooden
bridge.
The others quickly follow and the group joins on the other
side of the stream with Fremea. Raban pretends to wade in
the stream which is only about 3 feet thick. He wants to
see if the steam goes further. But in fact he tries to
hide from Lin to use his ability again. This time he pushes
through the wall and ends up on the other side ending up
in a cubby hole (S28). The torch is bright in this area
and so he creeps to the other side. But then moves to
the other side to where the view of the torch is blocked.
He knows the others will have to get past but the torch
will reveal them. He decides to inspect the torch and find
it hanging by some leather like strap, probably Vong like.
Before waiting for others he decides to snap the strap and
the torch falls to the ground. Then the giant smoothers it.
Zhou would yell at him for making such a unstealthy move but
the giant doesn't really care.
The torch light fades. This brings the warrior to notice
this and Z'leyra warns Will. The warrior doesn't look too
concerned though as he walks slowly toward the east. Then the
warrior notices the Shaper gone and draws his amphistaff into
a diagonal stance.
Racing at the other side now in darkness Raban waits for the
warrior to approach. Z'leyra alerts Will of the situation
and Fremea plans her move but Lin is still nearby. As the
warrior approaches the threshold to the cubby hold (Q37) he
turns and looks around. The warrior says something but is
probably asking where the Shaper is at this time.
Then Zhou begins to sniffle and crinkle his nose as if ready
to sneeze. Kiet panics and even tries to place his finger to
the man's nose. But it is too late as Zhou gives a muffled
sneeze. Kiet almost is shocked to find it like a baby
sneeze. He hopes Zhou isn't allergic to all this dust.
The warrior turns to the east and moves that way figuring
the Shaper is there. Z'leyra makes Will wave the others back
so they aren't seen. Will and Fremea prepare their weapons.
The warrior almost reaches the corner where the Shaper was
attacked (S (R34) and sees the Shaper on the ground as well
as other figures. The Warrior lunges and draws his amphistaff.
But Will's tulwar misses the warrior by a few inches.
The warrior lunges further around the corner and Fremea smiles
but doesn't raise her dagger. She raises both hands as if
in a sign of surrender. The warrior looks confused and Fremea
points behind him. The warrior on his own planet must all be
the same type here. They don't seem to believe that old trick.
The Vong speaks something and backs off as if in gesture of
victory. As he turns to yell to others, Raban is towering over
the warrior behind him and grab's the man's left arm and neck.
Raban slams the Vong against the side of the wall and gives
now a full backside view to Fremea and Will.
Fremea thrusts her dagger down and to the side of the Vong's
left shoulder where the armor is weaker. The blow is excellent
and does 26 points to the Vong.
Will thrusts his tulwar and hits the back of his armor but was
trying for the neck. The blow is light through his armor and
does a few points. But with the devastating body slam by
Raban the warrior falls down dead.
[Time: 12:51:23 pm]
Z'leyra finds that her spells ends just a few seconds after
the warrior dies. She seems to still have time for the sending
but her other spells fade away.
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[Time: 12:52:50 pm]
Unali ends the Shaper at her location.
Actions? Comments?
Next Update....Monday...
GM: I tried to move folks as best I could to incorporate active
folks who might try to get a change. Z'leyra got as far
as Q3 or so but hasn't scouted the west wall. Keep in
mind the Unali group is still active. Fremea's group
ends at 12:51:23 and Unali's time frame actually has
ended at 52:50 almost minute longer. So Fremea will
have a bit more time to catch up to Unali's group before
they move again. Problem with more than 1 group at times.
I will assume Unali's group will move north to that area
and scout the Vong there. Fremea's group will continue
to move silently on the west wall and moving north. Unless
something changes. Ran out of time tonight or would have
moved it a bit further.
GM: I like doing story oriented updates. But this time I included
coordinates of things happening. It is good if you are
wanting to trace your movement. If you guys rather avoid
that I can. But I can include it if needed. It looks
bad for story format but it adds info for tracking.
GM: For this cave groups divided up
With Unali: Farseeker, Caladan, Strie'bog, Ben'dar, Kell
and Arawn
With Fremea: Raban, Kiet, Zhou, Chion, Will, Captain Lin
and Z'leyra
GM: Map of Growing Area
1 Row = 10 feet
1 Column = 10 feet
1 2 3 4 5 6
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/}\= Water source?
% = Rock/cave wall
` = Party's inner cave = [R60]
s = Amphistaff growth fields
o = Orb growth fields
. = Actual water/pond surface
+ \ Torches set along the wall
Vong =
Shaper - #1 - [Q32] #2 - [O22]
#3 - [???] Dead #4 - [D35]
#5 - [C37] #6 - [???] Dead
Warrior - #7 - [A2 ] #8 - [C2 ]
#9 - [L7 ] #A - [???] Dead
#B - [B38] #C - [C22]
#D - [D22] DE - [D23]
Party -
L55-L57 - Unali's group near east wall
Fremea's - roughly R35 between stream and wall
Light by torches go as far as 30 feet but usually 20 feet around
the torches. Diameter wise or about 3 rows/columns.
Light at R31 is actually out.
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