[pnpgm] Game Update #116 - File #817 - Shifter Combat phase 3+4
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` Player DS Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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FH.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Al.. Ma
...Kevin Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....Ma
--.Tobie Bonahoom....YY..Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe
W3.Mark Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma
W2.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human ..Ma
R4.Wout Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe
...Don.Kerr..............Maelorna..........Dancer..Normal/Human....Fe
...Gilbert.Isla..........Mournath..........Sailor..Normal/Human....Ma
R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma
R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe
R3.Fukishtu.Newsome......Npc...............Chief...Normal/Human....Ma
R3.Lucria.Cegra..........Npc...............Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra
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Game Update #116 sequence (file #817)
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[Recap]
From Fremea: [Re: Actions]
Fremea cures in her head that it doesn't seem like the...
GM: Ack.
From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions]
Not having any innate magics Z'leyra is limited to the magic
she is trained in as her magical tools are not in her reach.
Without her drum she cannot cast shamanic spells so she tries
to cast Mind Shield ELmax, then Invisibility EL1.
If she cannot cast spells she will attempt to clear her neck
of any parasite, then go for one of her weapons.
GM: Ack.
From Mae: [Re: Actions]
Maelorna hears the warning from Arawn and before she ...
"I swear, if I survive this, I want a bath." she grouses...
If successful and the creature either falls at her feet or
perishes, she'll lunge at Zylera in order to reach for the
nodule and rip it free from the woman's neck. However, if
the creature resists her embrace, she'll use the dagger in
hand to ram it home as many times as she can into its chest.
GM: Ack. Just FYI I told you once but in case forgot. Doing
words in phases takes tmies. 1 Phase = 3 seconds. That
speech you gave which I assume was vocal not mental would
take almost 3 phases. This would mean time from doing
magic or such. For the future. But not for Innate magic.
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[New Stuff]
[Febris 9th, 1635TH]
[Time: 5:01 pm]
[Unknown Location]
[Audience Room - Current room]
Fremea curses in her head that it doesn't seem like the spell
worked to free anyone else. Maybe those things are not
considered tame, but either way she has to deal with this damn
creature now. She thinks about a spell to use, but really right
now, it would be easier to just use her training to destroy this
creature, who thinks it better than her. A new creature that
has tried, and failed, to contain her, to enslave her once more.
Fremea uses her training in martial arts to make this things
life seem like it wasn't worth going through.
[Phase 3]
Arawn considers his options as he continues to touch
the glowing Cryx. The vibration and energy it seems to
give off is relentless and a bit addictive. Thoughts
flood his mind as he considers the options. He could
use the whistle. At least twice he heard Zin use it
to free Kiet and then the second shifter forcing the
party to move in a line. With his intelligence and the
memorization skills he has he could reproduce it. But
there is a slight risk. But Arawn knows he has spent a
great deal of magical and life energy in the last two days.
He knows he has to escape from this place. He may be
the only one to do so if this Cryx is for him. He
may need to conserve his energy for later. He could
translocate the remaining party to the pile. At least
two of the shifters would be at the pile in seconds
and could shred the party. So even if they get away
some might die still bound by the creatures.
Maelorna hears the warning from Arawn and before she thinks
to warn him to ignore her, realized she hadn't moved as she
remains near the altar with dagger in hand. With a groan of
irritation, she can see Zin ignored her instruction and was
moving steadily towards her. 'By the court, what the hell was
he doing?' she grouses and ignores him as she starts to note
the remaining shifters and those left behind. If Arawn was
able to work magic, he wasn't helpless, the others, she regards
and picks the nearest and sadly it's not the braggart who
warned her to stay away.
"I swear, if I survive this, I want a bath." she grouses while
she fades from view to all but her intended victim and giggles
playfully as she flies at the shifter trying to kill Zylera.
She attempts to latch onto it's back or failing that, land
behind it and pull herself closer into a lover's embrace.
Mae concentrates and tries to become invisible as she
selects her target.
Mae flies toward Shifter #4 and tries to grab onto his
back but the smooth surface is hard to grasp and she slips
off but is now just a half foot behind him.
All four shifters react first. Shifter #2 in bull form
tries to twist his head back and forth to get rid of the
small creature. It reaches up and behind to claw at the
Faerry but both claws fail to reach as she dodges back
and forth on his back.
Shifter #3 rears up his tusk and stabs Unali in the
left side but her armor protects most of it doing only
2 points of damage. But in the process she is lifted up
and off her feet slamming into her stomach still unable
to move.
Shifter #4 smiles at Z'leyra and draws back both of
his claws and lunges for her throat. But Z'layha yells
something Z'leyra doesn't recognize and seems to distract
the shifter. The claws rip at Z'leyra's throat doing 1
and 5 points of damage. But the distraction was just enough
to prevent her carotid being sliced open. So she can
feel blood flowing down her neck but she would be gasping
for air if it was her main artery.
Zin frowns seeing Mae fly away. Why would she do that?
Zin turns around and looks. Then moves toward Mae who
has landed behind Shifter #4. Zin reaches and now stands
a foot behind Mae waiting.
Arawn curses the distraction. The Cryx seems to be
drawing her inward to itself. Arawn withdraws his hand
and brings the whistle up. He begins to blow it hoping
it is the correct tune. In the last few second she
glanced at it and knows it only had 2 holes. The
odds are good compared to a flute or some other complex
musical instrument.
All around the room spiders on necks begin to vibrate
and then drop to the ground in a few drops of blood.
Kell suddenly feels his arms move and lurches toward
Kiet. "Get a grip!" He begins to shake the acrobat
back and forth.
Mournath is relieved to be free for the second time in
days he is forced to not move. But now he bends down
and grabs his spear and shield.
Z'leyra feels her arms dangle and realizes she has now
full control. With her left hand she reaches up to check
her throat and confirms it is a bad slice but she will
survive. With her right hand she does a forceful slap
against Shifter #4's chest.
Fuk glares at Kiet and bends down to pick up his sword
from the pile then turns to face the shifters.
Pyan bends down to retrieve his spear.
Dorhak bends down to gather up his mace and shield.
Z'layha moves toward Z'leyra to help her sister. Not
with any weapons though she tries to punch the shifter
but does little effect. As she does she glances at Mae and
frowns at the new form she is in. Then she sees the
thing holding her dagger!
[Phase 4]
"You know, a girl might become jealous, bring her to dinner,
then ignore her and go for a prettier girl." Maelorna gives an
evil grin as the voice finally for once isn't egging her on,
rather, it was singing in jubilant elation as weeks of denial
are put to rest. She coos softly and caresses the shifter like
an infatuated lover as she attempts to draw greedily the first
of all it's energy she can sunder from its shell, wanting to
see it waste away and fall to her feet dead or dying.
Mae reaches toward Shifter #4 and touches his back and draws
energy from the creature.
Unali rolls over and does a acrobatic move to thrust
her feet up and down to repel her body upwards. She
does a side kick at one of the beasts four legs. Making
the tusked four legged beast-shifter fall forward. Unali
then grabs the tusk and holds on looking up to the others.
Shifter #2 figures can't shake the thing off her back so
turns and charges the west wall. Hoping to slam her into
the wall itself. Fremea notices this at the last second and
tries to fling backwards but she is too late and slams into
the rock wall. She takes one point of damage and falls to
the ground south of the creature.
Shifter #3 flings Unali away using great stregnth. It
realizes the party by the weapons pile has weapons now
and roars. It charges past Unali straight for those
at the pile with weapons but ends up only about 12 feet
away or so.
At the same time as the other 3 shifters, Shifter #4
now is fighting 3 targets. It grows 4 more arms and hands
with claws. It begins to swing and claw all 3 wildly. The
two claws at Mae, by two weird arms in his back, miss her
as she dodges. Both claws do hit Z'leyra but her chainmail
protects the blows. Both claws at Z'layha fail to strike the
woman.
Zin stands behind Mae waiting.
Arawn puts down the whistle as it is not needed. He
considers his options. To get his weapon but realizes
it is gone to the lava. He then realizes Z'leyra is
weaponless but it would take time to get her weapon and
move that way. He then recalls the piece of shifter-metal
created by Zin and glances down. it is still there In
the form of a finger shaped object. He glances at the
Cryx and grabs the shifter-transmuted-metal-thing. He
places it onto the Cryx and the finger long tube reforms
into a long dagger sharp object. Does this mean the
object could transform any Shifter live or dormant? He
could throw at the tusker-shifter or run to help Arawn but
considers the Cryx and its mystifying nature.
Kell sees the tusk-thing charge and releases Kiet turning
his back on him and leans down to grabs his own spear
and shield hoping it is his and not the others like Pyan
or Mournath. He braces his feet and raises his shield.
Mournath turns around and sees the scene around him. What
are these things? One with a tusk and one attacking poor
Fremea and Z'leyra. He then sees Kell raise his shield
and does the same. Maybe both men can deflect the creature
and get it close enough to attack.
Fuk watches Mournath and Kell act as shield bearers and
realizes this is a good tactic and waits for the tusk
thing to move close. Then he recalls on the pile below
is Unali's ornate sheath with dagger in it. He spots
another dagger but is unsure if it's hers. But the ornate
sheath is good. He reaches down picks it up and throws
it at Unali's feet. "Unali!" It lands at her feet still
sheathed.
Z'leyra grabs her sister and yanks her away toward the
north west to get her gear. She knows she has left Mae
but the girl can fly away. Both end up just south of
the altar.
Mae stabs Shifter #4 with the dagger once again and does
a deep stab to his back.
Pyan leans down and finds his bow, quiver, sling.
Dorhak looks around and sees Fremea dazed but knows she
can just fly away. Then he also raises his shield to
figure out his next move.
[Phase 5]
Actions? Comments?
Next Update.. Saturday?
GM: This was a sloppy update sorry guys. I was a bit
rushed and some plans had to be redone. This is not
how I was going to do it but it works for now. Keep
in mind the shifters move fast so they were able to
hurt Z and Unali before they could react. Nothing
good avoiding that. I need to do a project that will take
a good amount of time. Maybe a week or two. So this
will take time away from update. Thus I can't guarantee
when the next one will be out. If I have time I will try
Saturday but don't keep hope alive. This project needs
to be done fast so I'm sorry. I'll try to get a head's
up on it later. For now I've run out of time tonight and
this is as best I can do. All members can move freely.
GM: Arawn - Will try to email you on things tonight since
emailed actions changed as warned. Stay tuned. I
could not figure out what for phase 4 what to do.
So hope it works.
Fremea - You could fly to get/find your dagger or continue
to grapple? You are so fast that you could probably
fly find dagger if lucky and fly back to attack the
shifter?
Mae - Will assume you stay to continue to leech but
you are now there with a 6 armed shifter alone with
only Zin and a small dagger. :)
Z'leyra - I was going to do the mind shield but figure
based on the posted actions to get the great sword was
the bigger concern? Did not have time to chat on this
sorry.
GM: Map - Audience Chamber
1 Hex = 10 feet
1 Row = 5 feet
1 Column = 5 feet
/I\ = North (Maybe)
1 2 3
123456789012345678901234567890123456789
/###################################### A # = Rock/Cave wall
\#_```\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \## B @ = Altar (Arawn on top)
/# ``ERP \__/ \_A/ \__/ \__/ \__/ # C
\#_/`DKG_/ \__/@@@__/ \__/ \__/ \_# D A = [C18] - Arawn
/ \__/ \__/ \@@@ \__/ \__/ \__/ # E D = [D6 ] - Dprhak
\ _/ \__3 \__Z \__/ \__/ \__/ \_ F F = [K3 ] - Fremea
/# \__/ \__/ \N_/ \__/ \__/ \__/ G K = [D7 ] - Kell
\#_/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \## H E = [C6 ] - Kiet
/# \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ # I U = [J15] - Unali
\#2 \__/ \_U/ \__1M4\__/ \__/ \_# J M = [J23] - Mae
/#F\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ # K R = [C7 ] - Mournath
\#_/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \_# L P = [C8 ] - Pyan
/# \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ # M Z = [F16] - Z'leyra
\##/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \_# N G = [D8 ] - Fuk
/# \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ # O N = [G17] - Z'layha
\#_/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \_# P ` = Pile of gear
/##\__/ \__/ \__/ #### \__/ \__### Q
\###################################### R
Stone 'window' [A11/A12] - Closed
Altar - 15x10 feet, Arawn's head toward West in center
Exit - E2/E3 - Passage to ?
Exit - F39/G39 - To Lava room assumed
Ceiling - 8-12 feet high in places
Lighting - mostly from lava room glare for eastern
party of room. Western side of room is darker but not
pure dark.
Shifters
1 - Zin [J22]
2 - #2 [J3 ] Bull Creature
3 - #3 [F10] Tusk Creature
4 - #4 [J24]
Cyrx - D17 Not shown but NW corner of table. Think of
a snowglobe glowing white/gray with a small pedestal a
half inch or so under it.
Whistle - Arawn's hand
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