Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

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Mar 12, 2025 3:54 am

Mar 12, 2025 3:54 am

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

OOC:

Oof. Sometimes you set up an easy encounter, and it goes as expected. And sometimes you set up an easy encounter where half the characters have serious weapon advantages...and the rolls are really unlucky.

@WanderOne - I wasn't going to have the skeletons go after you as long as there are other PCs still standing. But if you are saying that you would rather roll up a new character than try to save Manthis, I suppose I can oblige. What do you think?

@DireHalfling, you said Rosemary moved after her last attack. Where was she moving?

This is what the map looks like now (before Rosemary's move):

https://i.imgur.com/QIfaJS3.png

Mar 12, 2025 1:14 pm

Mar 12, 2025 1:14 pm

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

OOC:

North one space

Mar 12, 2025 4:55 pm

Mar 12, 2025 4:55 pm

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

"Why won't you die... uhh... again?" the barbarian baker cries, swinging her paddle at unseen enemies in the fog. Rosemary blindly steps to the north, and Undead Four, unable to perceive the movement, does not use its reaction to attack. It is unnerving for the heroes, moving in the thick fog, knowing that the completely silent undead are in there with them...somewhere. Confident that the blinding fog will conceal her even if she makes noise. Rosemary faces the approximate direction where she last saw Jonel and says "Follow Mother Arkon. I'll get Mantis (sic)."

[ +- ] The Fog hides

20 - Manthis (0/11) DYING one failure
9 - Rosemary (3/13) Raging, blind
9 - Undead One (-16) Two, Three, Four, Five
6 - Arya (7/10)
1 - Jonel (2/7) blind, concentrating

Rosemary Flitwhistle

Mar 12, 2025 5:52 pm

Mar 12, 2025 5:52 pm

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

Rosemary looks over her shoulder in Jonel's direction. "Follow Mother Arkon. I'll get Mantis."

OOC:

I'm not sure how you want to handle this, but Rosemary is going to stow her baker's paddle and try and find Mantis to pick him up and carry him away.

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Mar 12, 2025 10:18 pm

Mar 12, 2025 10:18 pm

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

Jonel nods and slowly makes his way north through the fog.

Mar 13, 2025 12:15 am

Mar 13, 2025 12:15 am

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

Round three, continued...

OOC:

So this is how I'm going to handle the undead turns.

If an undead can see one or more PCs, it will move to attack the closest PC it can see.
If an undead is not in the fog and cannot see a PC, it will move into the fog and proceed in a random direction.
If an undead is in the fog, it will attack in a random direction.

If an undead finishes its move in the fog or is in the fog when it starts its turn, I will roll to determine which space they are targeting. If that space corresponds to a space with a target, then I will roll an attack for DISADV. If that space has no target, I won't bother rolling, since the attack won't hit in any case. If the attack misses and the undead hasn't moved yet, it will finish its turn by moving in a random direction.

Mar 13, 2025 12:27 am

Mar 13, 2025 12:27 am

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

Round three, continued...

Enveloped by the fog, Undead One strikes out blindly in a random direction.
It savagely slashes the fog directly south of it...right where Undead Two stands! Unfortunately, it misses!
Undead Two, unaware that it was just attacked and standing at the very edge of the fog, chooses a direction to enter the cloud (there are four possible directions. 1 is west, moving clockwise). Moving directly towards Rosemary, it stabs with its dagger at the barbarian when it feels resistance! Rosemary is stabbed, her rage reduces the damage, but it is still enough to drop her in her tracks!
Rosemary takes 3 damage (reduced by Rage from 6) and falls, dying. Jonel hears the meaty slice and the thud as something heavy falls to the ground nearby.
Undead Three enters the fog in a random direction (there are three directions: 1 is northwest, moving clockwise), moving 10' to the northwest. It bumps into the cliff face and attacks it savagely with its club. Jonel can hear the thwacking of wood on stone nearby.
Undead Four moves north toward the fog, and then chooses a random direction just as Undead Three did before it (3 possible directions, NW is 1, moving clockwise). Running into Undead One, Undead Four blindly attacks with its short sword. The sword catches Undead One unawares!
Undead One takes 5 piercing damage and is destroyed!

[ +- ] Undead One destroyed, Rosemary dying

OOC:

It is now Arya's turn, followed by Jonel. Arya can't see anything except fog, though she did hear the sounds of combat in the fog. Her friends are fighting (and maybe dying) without her!

20 - Manthis (0/11) DYING one failure
9 - Rosemary (0/13) DYING
9 - Undead One, Two, Three, Four, Five
6 - Arya (7/10)
1 - Jonel (2/7) blind, concentrating

Rolls

Undead One's attack direction (starting with 1 as north and moving clockwise) - (1d8)

(5) = 5

Undead One attack on Undead Two (DISADV) AC13, slashing damage - (2d20l1+4, 1d6+2)

2d20l1+4 : (614) + 4 = 10

1d6+2 : (2) + 2 = 4

Undead Two direction - (1d4)

(2) = 2

Undead two attack on Rosemary (DISADV) AC13, piercing damage - (2d20l1+4, 1d4+2)

2d20l1+4 : (189) + 4 = 13

1d4+2 : (4) + 2 = 6

Undead Three direction - (1d3)

(1) = 1

Undead Four direction - (1d3)

(3) = 3

Undead Four short sword attack on Undead One (DISADV) AC13, piercing damage - (2d20l1+4, 1d6+2)

2d20l1+4 : (1615) + 4 = 19

1d6+2 : (3) + 2 = 5

Mar 13, 2025 1:31 am

Mar 13, 2025 1:31 am

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

Arya's mind reeled, unprepared for the brutal carnage unfolding before her. Each sickening tear of flesh, each agonizing death cry, amplified her terror, trapping her in a suffocating fog of anxiety. The swirling mist obscured everything, rendering her healing magic useless, her warhammer a useless weight. Charging back into the fray, where four undead still lurked, would be a death sentence. Her instincts screamed for her to flee, to fulfill her grim duty of warning the nearby town. Yet, a stubborn ember of courage flickered within her, holding her back, forcing her to wait a little more.

With trembling hands, she channeled Pelor's light. Then, she unleashed a desperate cry, her voice a beacon in the swirling fog. "Follow my voice!" she screamed, her words echoing with urgency. "We can't defeat them now! We have to retreat, regroup, and fight another day, with reinforcements!"

OOC:

Cast light on her shield so that she can run in the night without tripping if needed
Move 30 feet around the fog, to be in the direction of the nearest town, ready to flee like a chicken if her companions doesn'T come out

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Mar 13, 2025 4:24 am

Mar 13, 2025 4:24 am

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

Arya moves around the fog at a safe distance, looking hopefully to see someone emerge from the fog. Then her eyes alight on Manthis, lying on the ground, writhing and gasping weakly at the edge of the fog. Their eyes meet.

Mar 14, 2025 12:17 am

Mar 14, 2025 12:17 am

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

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There is quite enough blood already present to indicate that dying Manthis (Mantis) isn't doing well and by the anguish present, tomorrow's lunch doesn't have an upcoming point. (No snackers for him.) Seems all current strength is totally drained from him as he isn't even moving/trying to hinder the bleeding killing wounds. Just currently now waiting for his troubled eyes to give that deathly blank appearance. His current wounds issue the point that he has received rather moral wounds that surely may/will lead to terminal state as he sprawled there totally prone and his favored great sword cast aside currently laying upon the nearby ground but still laying in easy grasping range as he tumbled over very much like a useless sack of potatoes now just laying before the concealing white fog.

Was bad enough that dying him was powerless to save himself that all light vanished further to drive him mentally away. He didn't even have to close his eyes. It appears while in the darkness as the fog concealed the fire's illumination that Manthis has giving up nearly all to the ghost.

Only sounds to be heard are those hidden away in the presenting fog. All is just shadowed now from the clerical light upon Arya's shield. Barely breathing Manthis does even turn more to walking sounds and the new illumination of approaching returning Ayra as she can barely see his still holding on life telling eyes. His raspy breathing is very troubled and terminally shallow.

Appears dying him forcefully received the deadly wounds that dear Arya might have endured when he stepped guardingly and protectively before her. Unfortunate him wasn't able to precure at least back some/any dear damage in return. Priestly Arya might soon have the very first person to die for her in an unusual way.

OOC:

Manthis Canabal still has one more death saving throw to make. And has a 5% chance to still perish. That would be rolling a '1' and receiving two death saving hits instead of one to give him the dying number three. Still awaiting Jonel's turn.

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Mar 14, 2025 4:57 am

Mar 14, 2025 4:57 am

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

Jonel walks toward the sound of Arya's voice. He is still walking slowly so as to not alert the undead to his location. He is trying very hard not to think of the dying man they are leaving behind.

Mar 14, 2025 11:18 am

Mar 14, 2025 11:18 am

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

Death Saving Throw. Just sliding further with a 6.

Last edited March 14, 2025 11:19 am

Rolls

DC10 - (1d20)

(6) = 6

Mar 14, 2025 4:52 pm

Mar 14, 2025 4:52 pm

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

Round three, continued...

Arya calls upon Pelor's might and shines his light in the darkness. But it does little to soothe her panic, as she's all alone. Moving cautiously around the fog bank, she screams into the night, hoping the living will hear her and somehow the undead won't: "Follow my voice! We can't defeat them now! We have to retreat, regroup, and fight another day, with reinforcements!" To her horror, she sees two things: the decayed, moldy boots of one of the undead half-seen in the mist (Arya can see a little bit of Undead Two, though it cannot see her), and her stalwart companion of many days, Manthis, dying just a few paces from her. He's clearly in desperate need of healing or at least stabilization.

Hearing Arya's voice, Jonel creeps cautiously through the fog toward her...and his toes bump up against Rosemary, writhing at his feet. He cannot see who it is, but he can tell it is one of the living women, as she is still audibly breathing. It's probably the one who was protecting him, and told him to follow 'Mother Arkon.'

OOC:

@KidEnnui - you ran into Rosemary after moving 5'. You still have the rest of your move and your action for your turn in round 3. Normally dragging another PC would halve its movement, but since Rosemary is a size category smaller than Jonel, Jonel could pick her up and carry her onward with no movement penalties. What do you do?

https://i.imgur.com/WXTfv3V.png

20 - Manthis (0/11) Dying one failure*
9 - Rosemary (0/13) Dying
9- Corpse One Two Three Four Five
6 - Arya (7/10)
1 - Jonel (2/7) blind, Concentrating

* - the second failure is for next round

Mar 14, 2025 7:08 pm

Mar 14, 2025 7:08 pm

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

Jonel looks down at this lady that very clearly tried to protect him. His inner lone wolf tells him to leave her to die and save himself, but if there be gods, he could never face them with this on his conscience. He very awkwardly grabs the lady's legs and attempts to move her toward the loud one.

Mar 14, 2025 8:14 pm

Mar 14, 2025 8:14 pm

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

End of round three...

Jonel retrieves Rosemary's dying body, first dragging, then, when he emerges from the fog and sees her condition, picking her up in his arms. He staggers over to Arya, whereupon he, too, sees Manthis in a similar state. The dying warrior is brightly illuminated in the light of Pelor's shining from Arya's shield.

There is still a clash and clang of weapons from within the fog. The night air is chill on Arya's exposed skin, and the halfling's hot blood soaking into Jonel's robe does not show up on the black fabric, but it does begin to cool.

https://i.imgur.com/dDvnOhZ.png

OOC:

This ends round three

20 - Manthis (0/11) Dying one failure
9 - Rosemary (0/13) Dying
9- Corpse One Two Three Four Five
6 - Arya (7/10)
1 - Jonel (2/7) concentrating

Mar 14, 2025 8:30 pm

Mar 14, 2025 8:30 pm

Round four: the dead Adventurers

Round four
(this was preceded by round three)

[ +- ] Two up, two down (until they're helped)

Manthis feels his life ebbing, and thinks with some satisfaction that at least he protected the others. Then blazing bright light brings tears to his eyes, and he sees a form standing behind a shield shining like the sun...it is Arya. He looks at her and regret flares in his heart, to think that Arya might have to watch her companion die...

Manthis fails his second death save.

OOC:

Manthis has two failures, but someone could stabilize him with a Medicine check or just heal him with a spell.

Dying, Rosemary twitches in Jonel's arms, her hands grasping for the comfort of a baker's paddle that isn't there.
Rosemary succeeds her first death save.

Undead Two is confused by the sounds of fighting next to it and the yelling behind it. It chooses a random direction to attack (there are four possible directions to attack in the fog, with 1 being west and moving clockwise). Its attack passes through the space where undead one had been.
Undead three knows that it has been hitting the cliff. It stops and listens, but all it hears are Arya's screams. It moves in a random direction and attacks (there are four possible directions it can move: 1 is NE, moving clockwise). Undead three moves northeast ten feet and attacks the fog harmlessly.
Undead four knows that it destroyed something with its last attack. After that it hasn't heard anything other than screaming. It moves 10' in a random direction (1 is north, moving clockwise), trying to find the living targets. Moving east, Undead Four bumps into Undead Two, and lashes out with its short sword in an attempt to kill it.
Undead two takes 6 piercing damage.

[ +- ] The Dead Adventurers attack the fog

Arya hurries over to her dying companion Manthis, kneels down, and prays Cure Wounds softly over him. Pelor's might flows through her and into the warrior's battered body. Miraculously, his gaping wounds knit together and his eyes clear again.
Manthis regains 5 HP and is prone, no longer dying.

20 - Manthis (5/11)
9 - Rosemary (0/13) Dying one success
9- Corpse One, Two (-6), Three, Four Five
6 - Arya (7/10)
1 - Jonel (2/7) concentrating

Mar 14, 2025 8:37 pm

Mar 14, 2025 8:37 pm

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

round four, continued...

Meanwhile, the undead take their turns.

Undead Two is confused by the sounds of fighting next to it and the yelling behind it. It chooses a random direction to attack (there are four possible directions to attack in the fog, with 1 being west and moving clockwise). Its attack passes through the space where undead one had been.
Undead three knows that it has been hitting the cliff. It stops and listens, but all it hears are Arya's screams. It moves in a random direction and attacks (there are four possible directions it can move: 1 is NE, moving clockwise). Undead three moves northeast ten feet and attacks the fog harmlessly.
Undead four knows that it destroyed something with its last attack. After that it hasn't heard anything other than screaming. It moves 10' in a random direction (1 is north, moving clockwise), trying to find the living targets. Moving east, Undead Four bumps into Undead Two, and lashes out with its short sword in an attempt to kill it.
Undead two takes 6 piercing damage.

[ +- ] The Dead Adventurers attack the fog

Rolls

Two attack direction - (1d4)

(3) = 3

Three movement direction - (1d8)

(1) = 1

Four movement direction - (1d8)

(3) = 3

Four attack on Two AC13, piercing damage - (2d20l1+4, 1d6+2)

2d20l1+4 : (1818) + 4 = 22

1d6+2 : (4) + 2 = 6

Rosemary Flitwhistle

Mar 14, 2025 8:48 pm

Mar 14, 2025 8:48 pm

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

OOC:

Let's see if this little lady will come to.

OOC:

Gyott dayum.

Last edited March 14, 2025 8:48 pm

Rolls

Death Save - (1d20)

(19) = 19

Mar 14, 2025 8:59 pm

Mar 14, 2025 8:59 pm

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

Round four continues...

As the sounds of weapons striking decayed flesh continue inside the fog...

OOC:

@Nebula and @KidEnnui - take your rounds four turns now.

Mar 14, 2025 10:09 pm

Mar 14, 2025 10:09 pm

Chapter 2.1b: Search Party (Hochoch)

WIP... healing Manthis

Rolls

Cure wound - (1d8+3)

(2) + 3 = 5

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