[pnpgm] Game Update #28 - File #158 - Sniper Combat 5+6
Scott Adams
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Sun Aug 7 03:58:03 CEST 2022
Sex.....Character Name...Player..................Type....Not es.....
Male...Klorgar..........Tobie.Bonahoom...Tracker...Human,..........
Female.Varo Mineholder..Bess.Hadley......Merchant..Human...........
Male...Razgor...........Wout.Broere......Guard.....Human...........
Male...Rocky............Alex.Koponen.....Hunter....Dwarf...........
Male...Mournath.........Gilbert.Isla...............................
Male...Veren.Nor.Tarek..Npc..............Employer..Human...........
Male...Jaren............Npc..............Bodyguard.Human...........
Male...Marusk...........Npc..............Guide.....Human...........
Male...Juno.Solace......Ford.............Tracker...Human...........
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Game Update #28 sequence (file #158)
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[Recap]
From Varo: [Re: Actions]
Varo’s (when she wakes up,
whether by near-miss arrows by tent or other
means) will keep the same actions stated in update #26.
(new, subsequent actions):
Varo’s Detect Enemy spell might disclose more
attackers than just from N/NW – which will be
part of her shouted message too the party when she awakens & casts the spell.
In any case, once she determines
that the arrows are coming from the north/NW, &
that their own watchmen had not called out, she
will do her shouted message(s) as indicated in
last update, & once armor donned, start heading
(avoiding the firelight as much as possible &
moving low to the ground) towards the southeast &
the horses, to post herself beyond the horses
(among trees just to south of horses) to watch
for possible attack or effort to steal horses
coming from the southern end of the camp. She
feels suspicious that the arrows might be a
diversion, drawing the party away from the
horses, so aims to help guard the horses. (if
she's already sensed enemies to the south, then
her action is explained easily - lol)
She wants to fight with her
longbow to attack any enemies she might see at
the far north end of camp, but she wants to be
ready to assist protecting the horses, if some
enemy plan to try to steal them. She will use her
rapier if it comes to melee. And if no enemy
appears, she will encourage one of those guarding
the horses (if the guards are still by the
horses) to join the battle to the N/NW, & remain
with the horses, using her longbow toward any
reachable enemy target in the dark.
“This is the best way to attack a camp asleep –
by creating a diversion that pulls us out into
the foorest, then sneaking in to steal the horses
& anything else that can be quickly snatched up &
tied to those same horses. Earth Queen Ernalda,
please guard our friends this night & protect
those who serve the Light & Life. Let me be of
use in this wild idea I’ve had about a possible
non-existent ambush,� she whispers almost
silently as she works her way into the trees away
from the fire, heading south & slightly east, just south of the horses.
(If she has sensed enemies
coming from the south also, she will have called
this out to the party & may have company on her
way toward the southern end of camp.)
[sorry, I'm sure this is way too
much action, but I'm just following my train of
thought here. I'll be glad to drop what's not needed – lol]
GM: Aci. Yes. I basically ignore the
post until you wake up then I'll have to go back
to last update and combine those actions with
this one. So no real need to post if your asleep
aside basic actions unless you need to change them radically.
From Mournath: [Re: Actions]
Believing that he now has a
location for one of the snipers, Mournath will
carefully place himself where he can take care of
the problem with a hail of arrows (preferably
also near a tree that he can take some cover
behind as well). Mournath will fire, then move,
to keep his own location in question.
GM: Ack.
From Juno: [Re: Actions]
Juno in his sleep sees a red
headed spirit. She is singing a song inside a box with a lighted screen.Â
“Â Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abusedâ” He is memorized
by her short hair and beauty,
GM: Ack. Heh a good use of a post as you wait. :)
From Bess: [Re: Song]
Love it! LOL
GM: Ack. Yep good stuff.
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[New Stuff]
[Wildday, Fertility week, Storm Season, 1625, Genertela, Glorantha]
[Time: 5:25 am]
[Round 5]
Mournath aims at the spot he thinks
is the snipers nest. A wild shot at darkest of
night. The arrow flies but whizzes past and no
impact is heard on tree or sniper.
Klorgar is much more unaware of where
the snipers are. He listens and scans the
trees. Then he hears a small crack right above
him only 4 feet away in tree to his left and
up! So close! He aims and fires! Hits the
sniper in the right leg and he hears a grunt and
tissue rip. The form seems to sag but does not
fall from its branch about 5-6 feet up.
The sniper near Mournath fires back
his own bow and hits the sentry in his left arm
but the heavy arm armor deflects the arrow and it falls down to ground.
The sniper hit by Klorgar reacts at
same time and fires back hitting with arrow
Klorgars left arm. But it is good to have heavy
greaves and no penetration is done.
Varo jerks awake. Unsure why the
camp is quiet aside from the crackle of the fire embers.
Varo awakens suddenly & half-sits up.
Had she heard something? A grunt? She turned &
opened her tent flap & saw the fire at low embers
with only a few flickers of orange. She scans
and looks for what is going on. She spots
Klorgar in the north or so with back turned to
her. She does a rough calculation and figures
that Mournath was sentry partner. But she does not see him?
Varo feels alarmed for some reason.
She sends a brief, heartfelt prayer for
protection, 'Mother Ernalda, be with us all now!'
She begins to grab and don her armor
as quickly as she can. She hopes her instinct is
right or else Klorgar may just be watering the
tree. That would be a tad embarrassing.
The sniper near Mournath fires again
hitting him in right arm but the heavy chain
armor does not let the arrow penetrate.
Mournath realizes that the arrows are
light so he could risk a full frontal attack. He
moves away from tree and fires but it goes wild
as Mournath moves further north leaning down to use a bush as cover.
Klorgar aims at the sniper he seems
to have hurt and hears a grunt as the arrow seems to hit in a vital area.
That same sniper pulled another
weapon and lashed out with his Whipstaff. He
reacts the same second as Klorgar fires his arrow
and slashes out with his half staff half
whip. But the whip misses Klorgar by
inches. Then the sniper seems to tumble off the
branch and land on the ground on his back.
Varo casts a spell but detects no
danger? But she just heard something fall like a
thud? She hesitates is this all for nothing? She figures the spell failed.
[Round 6]
Varo is about halfway getting her
armor on. She casts the spell again. This time
her senses ring with awareness. There are indeed
3. Two in the north / NW area which would
explain why Klorgar is there and probably
Mournath? The 3rd is actually to the SE and
seems to be moving closer to camp. All 3 seem to
be high up as much as 15-20 feet up.
Varo begins to shout “Awake! 3
ambushers! 2 North West 1 South East!” and begins
to say that two more times. (This will take 12
strike rank periods or 1 full run dot say it 3
times so start of next round it'll end.)
Sniper 1 fires on Mournath but misses.
Mournath gets even closer and could
go melee soon but returns fire and he also misses with his bow.
Sniper 2 thrusts his whipstaff at
Klorgar and misses as he rolls to the side.
Klorgar at same time as sniper 2 acts
smiles and aims at the form and should be a easy
hit. But as the form rolls to the side the arrow misses the being by a inch.
Rocky jerks awake. He looks around
and sees to his right there is some being on the
ground near Klorgar. He can see Mournath moving
to some tree but cant' from this angle tell for
what purpose Then he hears Varo yell about the
south one. He grabs his arbalest and quiver. He
crawls Varo's tent and loads his arbalest. Varo
may not have time to mention distance yet but he may get 1 shot out.
Sniper 1 and Mournath return fire at
each other but misses each other.
Sniper 2 tries to slash with his
whipstaff but is too weak and fails.
Klorgar walks up and stand above the
form. Some humanoid form maybe human? He aims
and fires at point blank at the sniper and hits
doing 10 points to his abdomen. The being slumps and dies.
Varo grabs her bow and quiver. She
peeks out the tent flap as she continues to
yell. From behind she hears a grunt that can
only be Rocky moving behind her tent. She peers
outside and toward the south east. If she had
left she might've been a easy target. Based on
the last known location of the spell – knowing
the begin was moving – she aims. But hears
impact on a branch but no sound of torn tissue.
Rocky moves to side of the tent and
aims. It doesn't take long to spot a form in the
trees some 15 or so feet away about 14 feet
up. No wait. Did it just jump from one tree to
another? Now its only 12 or so feet away and 8
feet up or so. He aims and fires! The bolt hits
in the left leg doing a massive hit. The Form
slips but grabs a branch and does a nimble
somersault to land on a lower branch as the left
leg seems to have been hurt badly.
Razgar wakes up.
Tarek wakes up in his tent and listens.
GM: Actions? Comments?
Next Update: Tue/Wed?
GM: A week late but not a month ;) So
Varo, Tarek and Rocky are awake. Others will be
as well as odds are higher now. I do need to
sign up for vacations next week for my 35 days
off sept-dec. Takes about 5 min per so 3
hours. So that may delay the update a day or
so. But will try Monday night. So far group is
doing well in this combat. Good rolls for pcs
but bad for snipers. Map updated only Rocky sees
the 3rd sniper so far. Varo has his general
location but not directly seen him yet.
GM: 130 Miles out – personal note for me. To be updated.
Damage:
Jaren: 2 to abdomen
GM: Map
1 Hex = 10 feet
1 2 3 4 5
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/ \__/ \__/ \_X/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ A ** [K26]- Campfire
\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/
\__ B Light - 8' around
/ \__/ \__/ \__/
@N__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ C Dim 10-20% - 9-12' out
\__/ \__/ \__/ \_@/ \__@ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__ D
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/@@\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ E V- [J23] - Varo in tent
\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/
@\_@@ \__/ \__/ \__ F J- [L23] – Jaren [in tent]
/ \__/ \__/ \__/@
\@_/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ G J- [L23] – Varen [in tent]
\__/ \__/ \__/ \K_/ \__@ \__/ \__/ \__/
\__ H M- [M31] – Marusk [in tent]
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \_R/ \__/@ \__/ \__/ \__/ I R- [I24] – Rocky
\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/V \__/ \X_/ \__/ \__/ \__ J U- [M26] – Juno/Bedroll
/ \__/ \__/ \__/
@\__/**\__M \__/ \__/ \__/ K N- [C22] – Mounath sentry
\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/J
\__/HH\__/ \__/ \__/ \__ L K- [H20] – Klorgar/Sentry
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \_@/U \HH/ \__/ \__/ \__/ M
\__/ \__/ \__/ \@_/ \__/@ \_@/ \__/ \__/ \__ N @- Trees
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \_@/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ O as tall as 80-100'
\__/ \__/ \__/ \_@/@@\__@@ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__ P 5-15/ in diameter
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ @\__/ \__/@@\__/ \__/ \__/ Q
\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/
@\__/ \__/ \__/ \__ R HH- Horses tied to bush.
/ \__/ \__/ \__/@ \@_/@ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ S
\__/ \__/ \__/ \@_/ @\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__ T X- [A18] – Sniper 1
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/
U [H19] - Sniper 2 (dead)
\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/@ \__/ @__/ \__/ \__/ \__ V [J32] – Sniper 3
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ @\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ W
\__/ \__/ \__/ \@_/ @\__/ \__@ \__/ \__/ \__ X
/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ Y
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