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[Sir Knight]

Looking back, when I had the rock hydra randomly target John (ziizo) in passing, I neglected to change the combat table for the different armor.  Amnesiac robe and all that.  However, the same roll applied to a different table makes it a little more annoying for you (removed from the table was the defensive power of chain mail, you see), so now you have a -3 to your next damage roll in combat due to the nasty paralytic saliva.

Gary rushes over to lend assistance to Dustan with his rescue efforts.

With or without engaging the enemy in violence?

[Statements!]

Just so long as it's the character doing all this, not the player.  Next update, Solde will probably point out that he wants to see existing fires under control before new ones are made.  Which is fine roleplaying, just that I want to ensure everything that goes into updates is intended.

. . . And soon I will be traveling for fun stuff this weekend.  And then after that I will be traveling for a different batch of fun stuff.  I'll read, write, and update as I can!

[randomgenericusername]

(Tohil is just explaining that the only way to both remove the corpses and give them a burial would be with fire. He hasn't noticed the fires north, as he was distracted by the wall tiger ambush.)

[Coolrune206]

Gary will only engage if he is targeted.

[Starver]

I'm obviously absorbed in the drenching but if the distracted warrior's distractions are distracting enough I shall react to the abstract and be proactive in locating and hydrating the location of such vexation.

[ziizo]

I am fine with the hydra trying a sneak attack to my.

"Move out of the smoke then"
Try Dwain plan AKA: run towards the fire and cast fire-puke at it hopefully killing the non-magical fire.
Scream to the guys in the smoke to move then puke fire in the smoke once I am not risking burning allies.
My proposite this time is attacking unknow thing in the smoke not dealing with it or the fire.

[Rautherdir]

Investigate the building fire, using the stone to protect myself from the heat/smoke

[Starver]

((@ziizo:) That was not actually a Dwain plan, and even *I* am fairly sure it won't work like that and it will likely be awkward, but I'll let the GM work on resolving the result collision of intent. As a character I'll be oblivious until I am not.)

[ziizo]

((@ziizo:) That was not actually a Dwain plan, and even *I* am fairly sure it won't work like that and it will likely be awkward, but I'll let the GM work on resolving the result collision of intent. As a character I'll be oblivious until I am not.)

Ok changing the action then.

[Sir Knight]

Ha, I like how this is turning out.  Thanks for the actions; I'll be in transit soon and will update who-knows-when!  (There should be some downtime along the way.  But this is a lot of dice.)

[Sir Knight]

Previous -- Next

Long fight scene and lots of updates.  I hope people are finding it a satisfactory experience!

Tohil is immediately harangued by Solde.  (Wow, and he seemed so nice before.)  There are words about "Priorities!" with the living still in danger of joining the dead.  Especially, there are words to the effect of "Can you not smell the smoke?"  He makes disbelieving hand gestures back and forth between where you had been planning to build a funeral pyre and where, come to think of it, you can see distant smoke.  He says there's a burning building.  Ahhh, now you get it.  Maybe you can take advantage of that fire and solve more than one problem at once!

(I'm not trying to speak for you; I just thought it would be funny.)

Spoiler: Combat round order, including those not directly interested in combat (click to show/hide)

6, 7, 8, 11, 2, 9, 4, 5, 1, 3, 10

. . . Swordperson C, swordperson D, swordperson E, MYSTERIOUS ENTITY, John, swordperson I, Dwain, Gary, Dustan, Alyssa Alpine, the rock hydra.

(Interesting how the ones with swords have consistently out-maneuvered the ones with teeth.  Maybe they'll live through this . . . )

Spoiler: Grand melee plus firefighting (click to show/hide)

Swordperson combat tables as before, either when in smoke or when not

Swordperson C attack roll: 7, Fail by succeeding!
(Choosing an ally. . . )
Damage roll (1d6+1): 5+1 = 6!
John, HP: 11/19

Swordperson D drenching roll: 5, Succeed greatly!

Swordperson E attack roll: 3, Succeed weakly!
Damage roll (1d4-1): 3-1 = 2!
Rock hydra B, HP: 20/32

MYSTERIOUS ENTITY combat table, target is armored against blunt attacks:

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

MYSTERIOUS ENTITY attack roll: 4, Succeed weakly!
Damage roll (1d4-1): 1-1 = 0!

Swordperson I attack roll: 5, Succeed!
Damage roll (1d6+1): 5+1 = 6!
Rock hydra B, HP: 14/32

John's combat table with a firebreath attack is unaffected by smoke

John's attack roll: 4, Succeed greatly!
(For completely unexplained reasons, I do not show you any rolls after this success, but I'll still remove your paralysis penalty)

John's completely-unexplained-secondary-success roll: 5, Succeed greatly!

Dwain's drenching roll: 4, Succeed!

Dustan's get-away-from-there-you-fool roll: 1, Fail terribly!

Gary's likewise-you-fool roll: 4, Succeed!
Rock hydra B's hey-I-was-mangling-him roll: 2, Fail!

With Dustan's poor result, the rock hydra will apply the first attack to him

Rock hydra B attack roll: 8, Succeed greatly (with paralysis)!
Damage roll (1d6+6): 4+6 = 10!
Dustan, HP: 9/19
Paralysis roll (1d6+9)/2: (4+9)/2 = 7!

Continuing to attack uses the weakest combat table by now

Rock hydra B attack roll: 7, Succeed weakly!
Damage roll (1d4-1): 2-1 = 1!
Swordperson I, HP: 7/10

Spoiler: Unlabeled observation rolls (click to show/hide)

Result: 3, Succeed weakly!
Result: 4, Succeed!
Result: 3, Succeed weakly!
Result: 3, Succeed weakly!
Result: 4, Succeed!

Okay, you know, this has been a rollercoaster ride

The smoke continues to spread rapidly, obscuring the view out of the north.  The rock hydra continues to push south, into the crowd of combatants.  The combatants continue to assail the beast as well as they can, but they are matched in number by people now trying to get them to back away; Dustan and Gary arrive to get them to retreat for their own health.  The efforts are half-successful: Gary pulls away a warrior, but Dustan's struggle brings him into range for a brutal series of sawing bites, complete with paralytic saliva!

Dustan now has -7 to his next damage roll in combat!

You can feel your muscles weakening.  Oh yeah, it's totally worth it to save these people.  From here, you wonder whether the rock hydra were even interested in predation, or if it were just trying to get people out of its way.  For Gary, it clicks: the beast is just as afraid of fire as any of the other creatures you've seen down here, and south--through all the warriors--is the first way out it can see.

John goes in pursuit of the alleged unseen entity in the smoke.  Both you and Dwain think you can see something; something bipedal.  Your arrival is greeted by the flailing sword of the swordperson who had announced the problem; ouch, watch where you're swinging that thing!  You bellow for all present to get out of your way and call upon the glowstone still burning within your veins.



Fwoosh!  You can hardly see a thing in the layers of smoke upon smoke, but that had to make an impression.

Everyone who matters is out of the way.  Alyssa, passing through the walls, heard the warning and has ascended slightly above the level of the conflict.

(I've been vague about how tall these tunnel areas are.  In the graphic, I say that Alyssa is at "z+1," though we're not talking about one of those wide-open quarry areas so I suppose it's more like "z+1/2" or "z+3/4," but those aren't as nice to fit onto the map.  Eh.)

From there you're afflicted by roiling clouds and heated air, but you can see that those in the east are making progress on the fire.  The swordperson who dropped a keg is trying again.  She has much greater success with water-keg-aim this time, dousing a large patch of flames!  Dwain continues at work; you finish emptying the keg you first grabbed, creating what you think should be a broad enough area of wet thatching to keep the remaining fire under control.  Progress!

(I'm pleased with how the gout of flame looks within the cloud of pre-existing smoke.)

[Coolrune206]

"Dustan! Do you want me to pull you out of there, or should I instead prioritize fighting the Hydra?!", Gary shouts.

[ziizo]

"Probably done. Now stop attacking me and go to kill the hydra"
Attack the rock hydra with my pickaxe.

[Dustan Hache]

Holy cow, -7 damage roll? That's absurdly high!
quickly run away before paralysis sets in, I don't particularly want to die here! If it pursues me with intent to kill, fend it off with my healknife as best I can.

[randomgenericusername]

Run to where the others are!

[Starver]

I have a job to finish, but pay attention to anything bipedal (or sword-swinging) and once I can safely see what's on the other side of the conflagration...