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[PaPaj]

Let Ragnarek go loose and go after the ants

[Starver]

Off my own back, I'd edge forward to the western slope, until I illuminate no more than a half a dozen critters, or have to fight the initial handful I have seen.

If anyone charges past me with their own light, though, I'll provide support. (As I think I'll need to do with Alyssa, who I think I already have practice entering fray with..? Sword and hammer, again?)

Either way, be wary of the cracks.

[Sir Knight]

That's everybody!  I won't post twice in a day since I should show some time management skills, but I'm putting together things for the next update.

(It seems like weekdays are just faster for this sort of thing.  I'm really glad you seem to be enjoying it.  Pity I need to hurry up and kill you so some other players can have a turn, but, you know, that's just old news.)

Edited P.S.: John (ziizo), you said you would stay in the back.  A glance at your character sheet shows that I last recorded you having your sling in hand.  If you wanted, then you could try to fling a rock past other people, but for now I'll just assume you wait and see what happens.

[ziizo]

Yes right now john is occupying the only way between the ant and the people. He wants to move out of there to someplace where the ants have more targets to choose from.

[Sir Knight]

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Whee, charging headlong into danger!

Spoiler: Combat round order (click to show/hide)

6, 3, 1, 5, 2, 4

. . . The ant lemmings, Alyssa Alpine, Dustan, Ragnarek, John, Dwain.  And there are 24 of the enemies in a mass.

Spoiler: Complex little interweaving actions (click to show/hide)

The ant lemmings go much earlier than John, but John seems to have detected them first; so do they charge up at him before he can get away?

The hive's aggression roll: 5, Succeed greatly!
John's aaaaaaaaagh roll: 2, Fail!

And what of the other exiles attacking from behind?

Alyssa Alpine's stealth-charge roll: 6, Fail by succeeding!

So I'll say they counterattack you, but not Dwain behind you

Spoiler: Grand melee (click to show/hide)

Ant lemming combat table, venomous, you have no immunity, fighting as a group based on hive size (24):

1: Fail terribly
2: Fail
3: Succeed
4: Succeed
5: Succeed greatly
6: Fail by succeeding

Alyssa Alpine's combat table, iron sword, same as Dustan's combat table with workstone knife and Dwain's with iron war hammer:

1: Fail terribly
2: Fail
3: Succeed weakly
4: Succeed
5: Succeed
6: Succeed greatly
7: Fail by succeeding

Ragnarek's combat table, iron pick:

1: Fail terribly
2: Fail
3: Succeed weakly
4: Succeed
5: Succeed greatly
6: Fail by succeeding

First is an attack against John, but they're a hive so they keep attacking the others who charge up at them:

Ant lemming hive attack roll: 5, Succeed greatly!
Damage to John (1d6+6): 1+6 = 7!
John, HP: 10/17

Alyssa Alpine's attack roll: 6, Succeed greatly!
Damage to ant lemming hive (1d6+6): 2+6 = 8!
Ant lemming hive size: 16/24

Counterattack to other exiles after some of the hive struck earlier targets:

1: Fail terribly
2: Fail
3: Succeed weakly
4: Succeed weakly
5: Succeed
6: Fail by succeeding

Ant lemming hive attack roll: 3, Succeed weakly!
Damage to Alyssa Alpine (1d4-1): 2-1 = 1!
Alyssa Alpine, HP: 10/11

Dustan's attack roll: 1, Fail terribly!

Ant lemming hive attack roll: 3, Succeed weakly!
Damage to Dustan (1d4-1): 4-1 = 3!
Dustan, HP: 14/17

Ragnarek's attack roll: 4, Succeed!
Damage to ant lemming hive (1d6+1): 3+1 = 4!
Ant lemming hive size: 12/24

Ant lemming hive attack roll: 5, Succeed!
Damage to Ragnarek (1d6+1): 3+1 = 4!
Ragnarek, HP: 7/11

Dwain's attack roll: 6, Succeed greatly!
Damage to ant lemming hive (1d6+6): 5+6 = 11!
Ant lemming hive size: 1/24

The ant lemmings are on the warpath!  Before John can make a strategic retreat, filthy insect/rodent bodies swarm up the slope to dig pincers into your legs.  You fall back, leading the mass through the battle-ready midst of Dustan and Ragnarek.

Below, Alyssa Alpine descends into the depths to attack the mass from behind.  It works!  If not for expecting them all to be along the ground, when here the cracked and jagged walls provide easy perch.  Many ant lemmings are cut down by your sword, but others score deep punctures in your sword-arm.  Argh, the venemous sting of the bites!

Dustan and Ragnarek fight in the cramped space, weapons swinging.  Dustan's knife goes wide!  Your arm bumps into a wall and you drop your weapon down the nearby crevice!  Ragnarek violently eviscerates a few of the scuttling enemy, but both of you receive injuries.

Dwain, watching for enemies along the broken terrain, shows expertise again at crushing ant lemmings via the tried and true method of "hammer to the skull," and you follow up behind Alyssa, mopping up the horde . . .

Ant lemming has been struck down! x23



. . . Until just one little beastie remains crawling around, looking for something to stab.

. . . You should probably be able to stamp out that last one.  (Though I'd love to see it torment you.)  To keep the game moving, please tell me what you'd do next after the deed is done.

And a GM note . . . or, perhaps, artist's note: perspective is wacky.  I want to draw slopes so that you see an "up" or a "down" arrow from your present location.  Here we have some people who can see one side of a slope, then some people on both sides of another slope.  Whatever, I put z-level markers on the map for you.

[Rautherdir]

"Well, we are getting the hang of this."

Explore the west tunnel

[ziizo]

Kill the last one

[Starver]

Alyssa looks like they have a purpose, continue to support, perhaps scoop up skulls first if I've got better initiative and time to spare. Perhaps even try for that last one if I'm enough ahead of ziizo to not get in the way, because you never know who it might get a last ditch drop on. But ultimately I'm sticking to the same role.

However, I think it'd be interesting to make note of the clues of the vanilla smell and slime freshness (or not?) as we go.

[Dustan Hache]

bludgeon it to death with my buckler, then retrieve my knife and as many corpses as possible before leaving.

[Starver]

OOC: On the general principle of "kill it, kill it with fire!", I think as many of us as possible should try to target thst last one, so that the one person it inevitably gets the drop on doesn't end up being overwhelmed by it just because of anyone else who could have helped ignoring it entirely, but bear in mind the GM's end note:

To keep the game moving, please tell me what you'd do next after the deed is done.

(Semi-IC: And if Dustan just wants to grab corpses, as that free move, that's fine with me. I've got that supporting to do, and we can haggle over things at any time prior to emerging back out into the town and trading them. Assuming we don't get lost down here, though, my character thinks we have plenty of time and yet to confirm that we've finished the job. Wouldn't it be awful if dead ant-lemming icor contained a pheromone that attracted soldier ant-lemmings to someone who, say, had loads of corpses in their bag... I'm taking a risk, if there's time enough, but knowingly so... Or as knowing as someone who has doubtless had (possibly even sanctioned!) opportunity to studied the habits of the ant (if not the lemming!) in the overground life.)

[Starver]

(Just to be clearer, here's a proper sequential desire for my actions: 1) If nobody gets to do it first, (try to) kill that last creature, but don't clash with anyone else doing that; 2) If nobody is doing anything with the corpses, yet, start to take maybe some of my personal kills, but not to the exclusion of everything else going on, and 3) both of these tasks are to be abandoned/unstarted the moment I realise Rauth/Alyssa is making sure the job is complete/marching to their doom and that I should assist...)

[PaPaj]

Rip the pincers out of one of the ants,and then stab the ant with the pincers,and maybe some other ants aswell

[Sir Knight]

bludgeon it to death with my buckler, then retrieve my knife and as many corpses as possible before leaving.

Leaving in which direction?  Alyssa (Rautherdir) is striking out boldly (north-) west.

[Dustan Hache]

Preferrably back to town. That was all the lemmings, right?

[Rautherdir]

Preferrably back to town. That was all the lemmings, right?

(We don't know. I'm checking for more lemmings.)