[pnpgm] Game Update #10 - File #103 - Bandit Combat Phase 3+4
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HT Aliaver/Player DS Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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R1.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar .. Ma
--.Tobie Bonahoom....YY..Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe
R3.Mark Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma
W2R2.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human ..Ma
R4.Wout Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe
W2.Julian.Draven.........Zabyra............Dancer..Normal/Human....Hu
R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma
W3R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe
R3 Npc...............YY..Trihs.Der.........Warrior.Normal/Human....Ma
R3 Npc...............YY..Reddof Nonnac.....Warrior.Normal/Human....Ma
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Squirt (Ferret) Kell
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Game Update #10 sequence (file #103)
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[Recap]
Post from Kiet: [Re: Actions]
Kiet just was going to immediately charge, releasing the reins
of the RH, and drawing his tulwar.
If the 'bad guys' (the larger group) continue to attack the
smaller group, then do not trample...but if they break off,
attempt to trample any that break off to face us. I'll
re-send my specifics.
GM: Ack. I got it. I forgot about the spell. Thanks.
From Kiet: [Re: Actions]
Pyan has low EM? Brother!
GM: Ack. Be nice. :) You were a rookie as well and scared
to fight look at you now. :) Not everyone can have 100
stats. In fact I prefer the low level guys over the
tough guys. :)
From Kiet: [Re: Actions]
Kiet looks over to Kell and smiles. This is more fun than
expected! He turn back to our new little dancer and says "No...
GM: Ack.
From Zabyra: [Re: Actions]
Zabyra, the dancer, waits for anyone else to come forward and
take the sword challenge that Kiet offered. If nobody steps
forward, then she will pick up the sword, testing it's weight
and how it handles. If it can be wielded like a scimitar or
tulwar, then those watching will notice that she can use the
blade with some skill. If not, then those watching will notice
that the dancer seems to have a passing familiarity with bladed
weapons, but that she is clearly not suited for Kiet's enchanted
sword.
OOC:
Although perhaps a few nights sharing a tent with Kiet will
allow her to wield his enchanted sword with skill. *grin*
GM: Ack. At least it would be done acrobatically. But not sure
if he wants you anymore.
From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions]
To get there quicker Z'leyra casts (Balance Spell) EL2 Speed
on her horse as it gallops towards the fight. Since an admiral
is unlikely to be a young man she figures that the older man and
those with him are to be protected and those attacking them
should be subdued and captured.
Relying upon her chainmail to protect her she will attack
offensively to subdue. If it takes long enough to close the
distance she will also cast an EL2 Invulnerability spell on her
horse. [Note the modifiers for mounted combat.]
GM: Ack.
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[New Stuff]
[Western Marentia - Plains]
[Novehas 16th, 1634TH]
[Time: 7:12 pm]
At dinner which is mostly still rations as no town or
roadside inn is nearby. All day Zabyra has been engaging
the party to learn more about their past travel in the
last year or two. Kell seems to give much of the details
as it seems little to hide. Mostly he mentions the
Katai mission but vaguely goes over Climan details since
there are enemies still out there.
As the party rode all day the dancer asks about some of
the others. Cholan and Damon for example. She finds
the tavern owner interesting and the sailor captain Damon
seems suave. Everyone but Arawn and Kiet seem to fill
in the details on Damon.
Now at dinner Zabyra asks about Balrog.
Kell perks up and wonders why. The Thief wasn't even
at the party. How does this person know him? He even
heard a bit about Balrog from Caladan but not spent much
time with the thief.
Kell shrugs knowing that the booze was poring and
stories flowed out mouths. He does seem to recall
someone talking about Balrog once or twice. But
the ale was strong so he can't recall who.
"Don't know much about him. He is skilled in ...
obtaining things. I hear stories from Caladan and
Trembyl. But he is a short guy with a goatee that
seems to make him look like a pirate. I think
Unali and Z'leyra could say more on him. Last I
heard he was there and here in the province. He
does not settle much."
[Time: 8:18 pm]
Zabyra watches the two cousins and the hunter. None seem
to take Kiet's sword challenge. How would they turn up
a free magical sword? Only Jinn seem to do things like
this in her world.
Pyandalgor listens to Kiet go on about his shiny sword.
Something about, "show us your long stick." Course that
may be a rough translation. He is still new to this
Marentian tongue. Why does this agile man want me to
show him his most secret parts? What kind of weird group
is this. Then Fremea hands him a written note explaining
the challenge. The hunter nods and realizes he means the
long sword not his equipment.
A few minutes have passed and Zabyra stands. She heads over
and gets the sword form the ground. She twirls it back and
forth trying to assess the weapon. It seems just a couple
more ounces than her own weapons. She'd have to tilt her
hand slightly to the left to adjust. She is not skilled
in sword but can use them if her life depends on it.
She spins and stabs the invisible monster nearby as she
tests the sword thrust ability. Whoever used this before
they had a heavy hand that needed to lower the sword to
make it effective.
The Dancer begins to shadow duel a unseen enemy and she
moves back and forth. The others soon realize she is using
a art form of sword play known in Vahear and a few places
in the south. Raising her free hand she uses it to balance
her body and stab swift and deep cuts into the invisible
beast.
Kiet stands and at nervous times like this he dangles
a rope length between both hands as if playing tug of
war with himself. His ropes that he made himself seem
to make him less stress blocked.
Zabyra begins to weave up and down. Crouching and
jumping like a wild beast herself. She slays 3 then
4 beasts with the sword and there is little sweat showing
on her brow still.
Zabyra twirls and ducks missing invisible strikes.
Then Kiet realizes she may be using a variant of a
Fomorian parry technique. He scowls at that but then
she makes him grin when she uses scarves and throws
them in front of her face but not releasing them. She
uses this as a distraction method. See her face not
you don't. A true warrior watches the eyes for the
next strike.
Then she moves near Kiet and starts using half kicks
to force the invisible bad guys away. She begins to
back up toward Kiet coming within 4 feet. Then she
surges forward 2 feet and impales a beast. She twirls
and swipes the sword high in the air toward Kiet who
is only a few feet away.
She turns around and continues to move backward
toward the acrobat. But Kiet senses this as a tactic
and side steps. Not looking back Zabyra swings and
thrusts high and low. Using her dancing ability
she is quite fluid like a acrobat but could be
better if Kiet trained her in that skill. Now in
less than 2 feet she is to the right of Kiet moving
back a bit more.
But without looking back she turns 90 degrees and
is now back to Kiet again. Kiet begins to step back
but she whirls around. She does a overhanded slice
and cuts the rope in half between his hands missing
his left hand by a full inch. The blade then ends
up pointed straight at Kiet's most prized body part.
Zabyra smiles and bows lowering the sword. She
puts the sword in the ground between Kiet's feet.
She glances at the hunter and wonders if he can do
better. But he seems to be a hunter not a fine master
of swords. Hunters use ranged weapons like his bow.
Kell begins to clap and grins. He notices a bead
of sweat forming on Kiet's forehead. Kiet wonders
if she should still ask her to spend the night in
his tent. Maybe in an hour when he settles down.
Zabyra goes to her gear and pulls out her scimitar
and dagger. She places the dagger in her belt and
begins to swing the scimitar. This time with far
better skill and grace. She begins to move toward
the center again and demonstrates the same dance
fighting style as before. But this time she is
even more aggressive. She slices and thrusts at
the invisible enemy. Near the campfire she destroys
a burning log to pieces sending a spray of fire in
many directions.
She whirls this time with dagger in hand, so quick
the others barely notice it leaving her belt. She
begins to swing and thrust with both weapons. In fact
she is showing skill in both hands.
Unali raises a eye brow and nods. It is good to
see another person who can handle two weapons at once.
Zabyra ends her demonstration by crossing the blades
in a X formation as if to parry a great blow. She
bows making her turban hide her head in the bow. Standing
back up the dagger disappears and she lowers her scimitar.
Fremea flies past Red Shirt as well and he frowns at this
sudden loss of ground. She ends up almost side by side with
Unali's horse.
Kell, Pyan, Red Shirt and his cousin surge forward on their
mounts as well.
[Time: 9:17 pm]
Zabyra comments on Kiet's proposal to help share his tent
with the lovely dancer.
Kiet looks over to Kell and smiles. This is more fun than
expected! He turns back to our new little dancer and says "No.
Not even close." He shakes his head and continues. "I certainly
encourage you to keep a weapon handy at all times you are
traveling on the road...I do!... especially when sleeping.
Way too much happens at night." Kiet's countenance changes
from humorous to serious. "You would do well to understand,
however, that you are no longer 'where you came from', and
some of us simply seek to look out for the other. That being
said, fine! Go sleep with the horses, then. Or freeze. I
care not. I hope you don't get sick from the cold. I, on the
other hand, shall sleep comfortably warm and dry in my tent."
Kell stands and moves toward Kiet. "Kiet Sunan! You know
if Raban was here he'd drop you in a deep hole. " Getting
closer he whispers to the acrobat. "Playing difficult? That
really works?" He smiles.
The trader turns around and looks at the dancer. "Excuse
him he comes from a grumpy place. Now I have a two person
tent. You are free to spend a nice warm night with me."
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[Western Marentia - Plains]
[Novehas 17th, 1634TH]
[Time: 9:22:06 am]
[Phase 3]
Arawn, Z'leyra and Kiet begin to pull magical energy from
their core and fold it into form.
Arawn speaks the magical words and a new magical aura
forms around his body.
Kiet speaks his own words as he forces his horse forward.
To those who look at his exposed arms and neck it seems like
the skin toughness and shines slightly.
Z'leyra speaks her words and touches the horse making a burst
of speed upon the horse.
Z'leyra leans and lets her horse run fast with the boosted
speed. It makes it 80 feet in 3 seconds passing even Red
Shirt who had the lead.
Unali also moves fast passing Red Shirt as well moving
80 feet down the road. She is now only about 20 feet
behind Z'leyra. Her slightly better quality horse just
as fast as the magical boosted mount.
Corona circles higher to see if there are any hidden
bandits in the area.
Kell rides forward and gets about 5 feet behind Unali.
Red Shirt surges past Unali and Z'leyra now ending about
15 feet behind Arawn. Reddof passes Unali and Z'leyra
ending about 5 feet ahead of Z'leyra. Pyan rides forward
as well down the road.
Arawn moves his horse about 30 feet closer but stops just
about 30 feet from the group. He watches and tries to
determine who is the bad guy and good side.
Kiet and Zabyra surge their horses down the road. Kiet
ends about 40 feet behind Z'leyra and Zabyra about 15
feet behind Kiet.
The group of mixed people begin fighting at this point.
Some are faster than others and it goes back and forth.
One guy in yells "Marentians!" Then a couple more words.
The Marentian is understood in any language it seems. But
the other two words are not. But Red Shirt hears "Kill
fast!"
Red Shirt places eyes on that man and assess him as the
bad guy since if they are fighting Marentians they must
be outsiders. That means the others are good guys he
can only assume.
Man #1, #2 and #3 all attack Person #1 and all three
hit with their swords and kill him. Three fight the older
male with 2 missing or he blocks the blow. But the third
one #5 impales his sword into the old man's right ribs
doing massive damage.
Man #10 and #12 both hit and wound Person #4 but he
remains standing.
Of the 5 on one side only one gets a wound on Man #11 doing
a good hit. The others are trying to defend, block, parry
and survive all missing.
[Time: 9:22:09 am]
[Phase 4]
Z'leyra gathers more energy for one more spell before she
gets in melee range. She touches the horse one more time
and casts the spell hoping it worked.
Corona sees one man die at the hand of 3 and dives for
the three. His choice has been made. His magical eyes
shoot his mini flame dart and zaps the ground just in front
of one of the men missing.
Z'leyra rides forward and ends up about 15 feet behind Arawn.
Unali continues westward and ends up about 10 feet to the
left of Z'leyra and 15 feet behind Arawn.
Fremea continues flying westward toward the group.
Kell and Pyan ride hard westward as well as Red
Shirt and Reddof. Red Shirt is now only 10 feet from
the gray haired man.
Kiet rides fast westward as well.
Arawn sees Red Shirt only feet from the battle and realizes
things will get real bloody soon. With one dead and others
wounded he begins to yell out. "Why do you fight!?" in Marentian.
Then he quickly adds in Aratad, "what is going on?"
Of the 12, 7 hit their targets doing more damage to their
last 4 victims. Man #4 swings his sword and beheads the
old man. The head goes flying to the ground and spouts
of blood go flying everywhere. Person #4 is killed by
two of the bandits. Person #5 is badly wounded by 3
other bandits. But both of the last 2 fail to make
contact with their own swords.
Now it is 12 versus 2.
Rather if the party joins the two it will be 12 to 12.
Actions? Comments?
Next Update....Friday..
GM: A small update compared to last time. But it was mostly
getting folks closer. Will do 2 more phases. Now it
starts a bit slower to do for me as melee is longer to
process. Sadly its not going well for one side. Three
dead leaving the Female and one other. Of the 12 some
are wounded but not dead.
Most will be in melee range by end of next update. Some
who are at 120 feet or so away may not. But if the
group either charges or flees it might depend. If
they charge then they will close that distance.
It all is the quality of the mount on PMRs from 4
to 8 so some are slower. I work Thursday so will try
to work on update Wednesday afternoon or so. I know
this is short notice but I generally have actions already
in place for most folks. Next week I'm off Thursday
so can delay it till Thursday night. I hope all but
Wout had a good Labor Day.
GM: Arawn - Did as emailed. Since your action was avoid unless
attacked had you remain on horse. If had dismounted
might've helped the old man. I assume next phase you
will dismount as they do not seem to respond to your
questions.
Fremea - It is possible to get in some bow action if you
get into the right angles. But if not I'll assume
you dive and try to knock folks out. Since unsure on
who is good/bad.
Kiet - Phase 6 might be in melee range so will do as posted.
Unali - Will dismount and go melee as emailed.
Zabyra - Same as Kiet due to range.
Pyan - You might get one shot off with bow if you fire on
the clumps in the rear but still a slight chance of
hitting the last 2. So will assume you close to melee
range.
Z'leyra - Based on actions I assume you fight from horse.
GM: Updated Adventure #7 Timeline file/link. With new IBT
choices form folks.
GM: Spells -
Player Cast Ends Spell
Arawn Ph 3 Ph 23 Armor
Kiet Ph 3 Ph 7 Iron Skin
Z'leyra Ph 3 Ph 27 Speed (Horse)
GM: First Leg of Trip
Slowest Horse - 22 MR (+25% Road- +6)
Speed - 28 MR MPH/day on road
Per hour- 2.3 miles/hour
To Malnon -200 miles 100 by Plains, 100 by Hills
Nov 16 - 1030am-7pm - Plains - 15
16 - 7am-7pm - Plains - 28
17 - 7am-7pm - Plains - 28
18 - 7am-7pm - Plains - 28
19 - 7am-7pm - Hills - 28
20 - 7am-7pm - Hills - 28
21 - 7am-7pm - Hills - 28
22 - 7am-240pm- Hills - 17
~240-Enter Malnon
[Assuming no delays]
This is mostly a reminder to me.
GM: Map -
1 Hex = 10 feet
1 Column = 5 feet
1 Row = 5
/I\ = North
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Legend -
C - Corona [D3 ] - 30 feet high
A - Arawn [J23]
F - Fremea [H22] - 50 feet high
K - Kell [K23] - On horse
T - Kiet [I42] - On horse
U - Unali [L17] - On Horse
Z - Zabyra [K43] - On Horse
P - Pyan [K37] - On Horse
L - Z'leyra [J17] - On Horse
R - Red Shirt [I10] - On Horse
Y - Reddof [K16] - On Horse
1-5 - Side 1 (2 is the Gray Haired man) (3 is Female)
- Dead - 1, 2, 4
- Alive- 3 (Female), #5
G - Side 2
#1 - [G5 ] #7 - [I7 ]
#2 - [G6 ] #8 - [J4 ]
#3 - [H5 ] #9 - [J6 ]
#4 - [H7 ] #10 - [K4 ]
#5 - [H8 ] #11 - [K5 ]
#6 - [I4 ] #12 - [L5 ]
Notes:
Road is Rows F-M - 40 or so feet wide
No other terrain like trees only small shrubs at most knee high.
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Seems some have visual issues with the hexes, so here is without the hex
edges around the main group. Maybe this will help.
As always if map messes up in email see website as it shows up
fine there. This is the best place since emails mess up maps.
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