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[Nirur Torir]

((Another interesting point - do not living creatures have soul or substitute for it?))

These skeletons do not. Your spell would be ineffective.

[scapheap]

Still looking for clothes shop

[Nirur Torir]

Boldbold charges into a skeleton, while Marks shoots it. It falls apart at the force of their combined strikes.

Chaun annihilates his own foe with a weak attack.

The lead skeleton catches up with Boldbold, clipping him for two damage.

The charging undead hoard overwhelms Teirra. Her death sets the soul-drinker free on the battlefield. It retaliates against the fools who released it, destroying them.




Debuffs:
Marks - Move speed 2, 1 turn remains
Boldbold - Move speed 3, 2 turns remain
Chain - Move speed 3, 1 turn remains

Spoiler: Guild Actions (click to show/hide)

Begin making contacts with people who might be collectors and/or antiques dealers and/or shady mages and/or other individuals willing to purchase our loot for a fair/advantageous-to-us price.

See if I can keep watching them. Once they're safe, dead, or otherwise out of my vision, go make some more money.

Spoiler: RangerCado (click to show/hide)

Marks Deno
Half-Elven Night Ranger
HP: 1/4
Level 1: 1 more battle until level-up.
Melee attack: 1d4+2 damage
Ranged Attack: 1d5+1 damage, 6 hex range
Defense: 2phys/1mag

Speed: 4 hexes per turn.

Traits: Takes 25% damage from poison, 10% chance to miss in hot areas, +25% damage from fire, 10% chance to miss in bright areas, debilitated by light attacks.

Guild skill: Leather Working I

Weapon: Frost Rapier - +2 damage
Ranged: Longbow - +1 ranged damage, 6 range. 10 arrows.
Armor: Hardened Darkwyrm Leather - Absorbs 2 damage from physical sources, 1 from magical
Misc1: Scroll of Return

Abilities:
2x/dungeon: Owl's Vision - Darkness only. Grants +1 ranged damage and may see foes hiding in darkness. Lasts until end of battle. Dispelled by bright light, with a debilitation penalty.

Spoiler: Harbingerjm (click to show/hide)

Boldbold the Kobold
Kobold giant weasel rider
HP: 6/8 [6]
Level 1: 1 more battle until level-up.
Melee attack: 1d6+2
Defense: 1phys

Speed: 6 [4] hexes per turn.

Traits: +1 speed and damage if passing through single hex cave-like passages, 25% miss chance in bright light, +25% damage from fire, +25% damage from cold.

Guild skill: Giant Weasel Farming

Weapon: Steel and oak spear - +1 attack.
Armor: Hardened leather armor - +1 phys defense.
Misc1: Scroll of Return
Misc2: None.

Abilities:
Rider - May use a giant weasel mount.
1x/battle - Charge! Gain +1 damage per hex traveled (in a mostly straight line) before striking a target.

Current mount:
HP: 5/5
Melee attack: 1d4
Carries 4 items

Granted to rider:
+2 HP
+1 melee attack

Spoiler: Sarrak (click to show/hide)

Teirra Ki'tan
Quarter demon necromancer
HP: 3/3
Level 1: 1 more battles until level-up.
Melee attack: 1d4 damage
Defense: 1phys/2mag

Speed: 3 hexes per turn.

Traits: 50% fire resist, +50% damage from Holy, +50% damage from cold, unleashes berserk soul-eating wraith when slain.

Guild skill: Academic instructor I

Weapon: 4x Wand of Bone Fragmentation
Armor:
Misc1: Scroll of Return
Misc2: None.

Spells:
(Item) 4x Bone Fragmentation - Target takes 2d3 damage. Adjacent secondary target takes 1d3+1 damage. Range of 6 hexes.
1/battle: Evard's Bolt - Deals 2d3 damage to a single target. Range of 5 hexes.
3x/dungeon: Serpent's Venom - Target takes 4 damage per turn for four turns. Range of 6 hexes.
2x/dungeon: Converts a corpse into a zombie, under the caster's direct control. Unlikely to work on targets larger than human-sized. Zombie lasts for one battle per necromancer level, or until destroyed. The zombie takes a player slot in future battles, or may be used to carry three items.
?/dungeon: Soul Drain - Deals 1d3+3 damage to an adjacent target. Gain a semi-random bonus if the target dies this turn. Unsafe.

Spoiler: Propman (click to show/hide)

Chaun Chauner
Leprechaun spearechaun
HP: 3/3
Level 1: 1 more battles until level-up.
Melee attack: 1d5+2 damage
Defense: 50% dodge vs. non-magical.

Speed: 5 hexes per turn.

Traits: Gold carrier, 100% extra damage from cold iron, dangerous greed

Guild skill: Shoemaker

Weapon: Faegold Spear +2
Misc1: Bag.
  Bag1: Knife +1
  Bag2: Knife +1
Misc2: Bag.
  Bag3: Knife +1
  Bag4: Knife +1
Misc3: Scroll of Return
Gold1: None.
Gold2: None.
Gold3: None.

2 gold

Abilities:
1x/dungeon: Detailed search - Find a secret cache of treasure left behind after winning a battle.

Spoiler: Enemies (click to show/hide)

Ice Adept

3/3 HP
Melee attack: 1d4 damage
Defense: 1mag

Speed: 3 hexes per turn

Spells:
3x/dungeon: Frost Mist - All creatures in the area move at half speed (rounded up). Duration: 3 turns. Affects up to three contiguious hexes.
2x/dungeon: Ice Cone - Deals 2d2 cold damage to everything in a conical area. Affects an area three hexes wide at its furthest point. Range of four hexes.




Skeleton Warrior

4/4 HP
Melee attack: 1d4+1 damage
Defense: 1mag

Speed: 4 hexes per turn.

Traits: Takes 50% less damage from physical ranged attacks.




Soul Drinker

10/10 HP
Melee attack: 1d3+2 damage
Defense: 50% physical

speed: 3 hexes per turn

Traits: Auto-collects souls from adjacent dying targets with a priority of 4. Collects souls of defeated foes with a priority of 2.

Spells:
2 souls: Absorb spirit - Grants a bonus, based on the first soul. Soul must be from a creature stronger than the caster.
x souls (min 1): Death Spiral - Strikes all adjacent foes with melee+x damage.
x souls: Soul Feast - Heals for 3-5 damage per soul used. Combat spell.
x souls: Ray of Decay - Deals 1d4 damage per soul used. Range of 4 hexes.

3x/dungeon: Claim soul - Claim the soul of a target that died last turn. Range of 6 hexes. May immediately consume the claimed soul for a bonus.

Spoiler: Guild Stockpiles (click to show/hide)

14 Gold
2x servings of weasel treats
40x standard rations

1x spicy peppers

Chaun: 25g
Alice: 3g
Sarrak: 4g

[RangerCado]

((...Well, it was nice playin... I guess... As we all get killed for indecision... great...))

Move north 2, shoot nearest enemy cause I really don't care anymore...

[scapheap]

((...Well, it was nice playin... I guess... As we all get killed for indecision... great...))

((Don't see anything in the op against waitlisting with a new character. Or the same one, maybe want to patch that out.))

[Sarrak]

((Yeah, that was fun indeed, but my character didn't have a chance from the beginning of this assault. I suggest you to recruit mages who can use teleports, speed thing up and change timeflow a bit now and then.))

((Oh, guys, you're closest living things to my soul-devouring specter. Have fun!))

[Nirur Torir]

((Yeah, that was fun indeed, but my character didn't have a chance from the beginning of this assault.

((Actually, it would have been possible if you'd gone straight north and had Chaun or Boldbold acting as a meat-shield for a turn.))

[RangerCado]

((Yeah, that was fun indeed, but my character didn't have a chance from the beginning of this assault.

((Actually, it would have been possible if you'd gone straight north and had Chaun or Boldbold acting as a meat-shield for a turn.))

((Single solution survival situations brought about by not just getting the players to choose a direction or face the consquences aren't fun. Especially when the doom situation occurs with no warning.))

[Nirur Torir]

((Single solution survival situations brought about by not just getting the players to choose a direction or face the consquences aren't fun. Especially when the doom situation occurs with no warning.))

((Yeah, I slightly overcompensated for the first mission being a cakewalk and not wanting the first level-ups to be gained without a decent chance of someone dying.
I didn't actually plan much about this mission, and just made sure there was at least one way for most of the party to survive, expecting scroll use after the battle.))

((Don't see anything in the op against waitlisting with a new character. Or the same one, maybe want to patch that out.))

((I don't want to patch out the players rejoining.))

[RangerCado]

((Well, when none of us took any damage, what did you think we were going to do? I was waiting for the others to vote for going north or south to explore 1 more area. And then we're given a situation where we have to all do EXACTLY the right moves, or atleast 3 of us die. It went from cake walk to slaughter and we weren't given any warning or chance to escape.))

[Nirur Torir]

((Well, when none of us took any damage, what did you think we were going to do? I was waiting for the others to vote for going north or south to explore 1 more area. And then we're given a situation where we have to all do EXACTLY the right moves, or atleast 3 of us die. It went from cake walk to slaughter and we weren't given any warning or chance to escape.))

((You're not dead yet. The soul-drinker can't really outrun you before you get off the map. Remember the lack of casting after moving.

I would have made the next map hard enough to have a decent chance at killing one of you. The punishment for indecisiveness was A) Panic with a map that looks very difficulty at first glance, B) No loot for you, and C) Possibly make you lose enough combat effectiveness that you need to burn the scrolls getting home. The latter two hurt the guild more than they hurt you.))

[Harbingerjm]

North 3 hexes.

[RangerCado]

A) Still ZERO warning that this could happen at all. The speed debuff make it garunteed that most wouldn't survive as we couldn't get into melee range. We also do not have ANY AoE, so woohoo, we get outnumbered 3.333 to 1 and lose any ability to do anything as we can't get close enough to kill a caster or do our major hits to the skeletons.

You also stated that the only escape was all of us running north while 2 people tank a hit. The ONLY apparent solution without losing 3 people. I doubt any of us will survive this. It IS as scary as it looks.

B) THAT is just cruel, and a jerk move. No way around that, jerk move not giving us loot if we even managed to survive at all.

C) ...THEY WORK OUTSIDE OF COMBAT!?!? WHEN DID YOU SAY THAT!? And see A for why that move hit killed us all.

All in all, poorly thought out with no chance of survival, and being punished without warning for waiting for everyone to reach a decision to move on to TRY and find loot for the guild. Seriously, you gave us nothing for the first encounter, then kill us for not returning to the guild or searching another area you stated would likely be about this difficult.

[Ochita]

((Actually, let me lay down some things from the first post, RangerCado.

For A), consider the fact that in the opening battle, there was a lone ice mage with 4 skeletons, of which I think we can all assume that were produced by someone other than the ice mage, considering that there was nothing necromatic about the ice mage, which suggests that there's more people there than just the ice mage. Considering that your entrance was also loud, it would make sense that people would converge on the location you're at. Also, remember that you are the leader of the group for the time being, so you should be able to override stalemates or otherwise foolish choices.
Also, considering a battle like that, it would make sense to just run away, its clear that you were outnumbered and that you could escape into the relative safety of the forest, where there were the least number of foes in your path.

There are three main ways to get out of dungeons: Happen upon a fixed return point, which usually quickly draw monsters and cannot effectively be cleared ahead of time, use expensive single-use single-person planar travel items which cannot be used in a fight, or just bring someone who can teleport everyone out, even during a battle. I suggest the latter.

That explains C.

In any case, maybe it is best if you took a breather and took a small break from thinking about this?))

[RangerCado]

Explain how our entrance was loud?

Explain why our characters sat there for an hour according to the post and didn't even see them coming or hear them?

And we were and still are running away. Nirur stated that the only way ALL of us would get away and survive is by running north, and two guys tanking a hit each. Since we all didn't ONLY go STRAIGHT up, we die.

And in all honesty? Would you have used the veto power of being called leader? And why wasn't the higher level character given leader status instead?

Too many inconsistancies and unfair situations at all.