CH 8: Elvenhome

[Nuke]

So which way did the wyvern with Tanis on it go?

[JadedDM]

(OOC: It is currently taking off now, not going in any direction except up at the moment.)

[Jerrard]

Watching the Wyverns take off, Sturm makes a tough choice, they were alive, at least for now, you don't take prisoners just to kill them, he had no ranged weapon, thus he was powerless. So, those who were dying were his priority.

Running over to Tika and Laurana, "We need to get those Elves away from the creatures, they need to realise they will die if they engage them like that! Laurana cover me, I am going to try to help them."

He does not say that Tanis and Gilthanas had been taken, not yet, not to Laurana anyway.
(Assume that takes his round? If not he moves towards Elf #1)

[Jenara]

Laurana nods in agreement, moving around the trees she yells: "Fall back, they turn to Acid!" to the Elven woman, letting loose two arrows as she moves clear.

1d10=2, 1d20+3, 1d8=[17, 3], [4], 1d20+3, 1d8=[13, 3], [8]

Init 2, Hit AC 0 for 4 damage and AC 3 for 8 damage.

[Kafen]

Tas misses on his attack when he throws a stone at the wyvern. The order of his attack is a moot point.

(( Not using castle roller, again ))

[HorizonsDream]

Tika still remains in full defense. "You need to back away from them if you can," she shouts out to the elves near the draconians.

[Nuke]

Riverwind turns and fires two arrows at the wyvern.

init, hit and damage wyvern (1d10=3, 1d20+1=17, 1d8=5)
hit and damage arrow 2 at wyvern (1d20+1=4, 1d8=1)

[JadedDM]

Sturm, Tika and Laurana all yell at the elves to abscond, but the kapaks won't let them. For every step back they take, the kapaks take one step forward.

Sturm hurries forward in hopes of reaching one of the elves to help. But Laurana's arrow beats him to it. It sinks into the kapak the elf was fighting, killing him. The acid pool he forms drenches the elf, burning off his skin. He screams in agony before finally finding relief in death.

Meanwhile, Riverwind and Tasslehoff ignore the kapaks altogether to focus their fire on the wyvern as it passes over. Only one arrow hits, though, and it doesn't even slow the creature down.

Goldmoon approaches the last surivving female elf, and yanks her out of the acid. She takes exception to this, as she was going to step out of the acid on her own. She didn't need to be pulled out like some kind of moron. Her complaints die on her lips, though, when Goldmoon's divine power heals her of all her wounds. She is stunned, but only momentarily. She quickly whips out her bow again and starts firing at another kapak.

Toede, unsatisfied with his two prisoners, pilots the wyvern across the battlefield. He tosses over a net, which ensnares both Flint and Raistlin in it. The wyvern then lifts higher, taking the two entangled companions with it. Toede then begins piloting the wyvern away.

"Hey!" the kapak who had been fighting Flint shouts. "Where the Abyss are you going?!"

"Your loyalty is touching, my little kapaks! To give your lives is all that my grandness could ask of you!" the hobgoblin responds.

"Toede, you son of a bitch!" the draconian roars upon realizing he and his companions are going to be left behind.

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Initiative
Goldmoon (1d10+3): 13
Sturm (1d10): 1
Laurana (1d10+7): 9
Tasslehoff (1d10+11): 13
Tika (N/A)
Riverwind (1d10+7): 10
Magpie (N/A)
Caramon (N/A)
Raistlin (1d10): 5
Flint (1d10+7): 12
Elf 01 (1d10+5): 15
Elf 03 (1d10+5): 9
Elf 04 (1d10+7): 15
Kapak 02 (1d10+3): 13
Kapak 04 (1d10+3): 11
Kapak 05 (1d10+3): 8
Kapak 06 (N/A)

Round 3!

Tika remains in full defense.
Caramon is paralyzed.
Magpie does nothing.
Sturm moves 120 feet toward Elf 01.
Raistlin moves 10 feet to get behind Flint.
Kapak 05 attacks Elf 01 with his short sword (1d20): 6, miss.
Laurana fires a sheaf arrow from her short bow at Kapak 05 (or so the DM assumes, as she neglected to name her targets again) (1d20+3): 20, hit for (1d8): 4 damage. Kapak 05 melts into a puddle of acid.
----Elf 01 takes (1d8): 7 damage. Elf 01 dies.
Elf 03 attacks Kapak 02 with his long sword (1d20+1): 15, hit for (1d8): 1 damage.
Riverwind fires a sheaf arrow with his short bow at the wyvern (1d20+1): 17, hit for (1d8): 5 damage.
Kapak 04 attacks Flint with his short sword (1d20-1): 13, hit for (1d6): 4 damage.
----Flint makes a save vs. poison (1d20+5): 15, pass. Flint is not paralyzed.
Flint makes a non-lethal attack against Kapak 04 with the flat of his blade (1d20-3): 4, miss.
Kapak 02 attacks Elf 03 with his short sword (1d20): 11, miss.
Goldmoon moves 50 feet and then uses Lay on Hands on Elf 04. Elf 04 is fully healed.
Tasslehoff fires a sling stone with his hoopak at the wyvern (1d20+3): 10, miss.
Elf 01 is dead.
Elf 04 fires a sheaf arrow from her short bow at Kapak 02 (1d20+1): 5, miss.
Laurana's target is already dead.
Riverwind fires another sheaf arrow from his short bow at the wyvern (1d20+1): 4, miss.
Elf 04 fires another sheaf arrow from her short bow at Kapak 02 (1d20+1): 9, miss.
Wyvern flies 100 feet, swoops down, and Toede scooping up Raistlin and Flint in a net! It then flies another 20 feet north.

(OOC: The Wyvern is at 92% HP. Good luck! Actions for Round 4?)

[Breila]

Goldmoon looks around. There were two kapaks left near the paralyzed Caramon, but everyone else was closer to them than her. So she decides to run over towards Kapak 2 - in an arc so the freshly healed elven warrior would have a clear line of fire - and fire her sling at him from short range.

INIT 14, would hit AC 7 for 3 dmg

[Jerrard]

Sturm rounds behind the unconscious Caramon staring up at the Wyvern above and engaging beside the elven warrior. "Fall back, you have seen what happens when they die."

1d10=5, 1d20+5=13, 1d10+6=8
Init 5, Hit AC 1, 8 damage.

[Jenara]

Seeing the Wyverns fly over she lets loose two arrows at the creature above her.
1d10=2, 1d20+3, 1d8=[2, 3], [7], 1d20+3, 1d8=[19, 3], [3]

Init 2, Miss and hit AC -5 for 3 damage.

Magpie reacts finally, the fear she had been feeling slowly subsiding (ok I forgot her!) she too fires at the Wyvern if she can.
1d10=8, 1d20+2=5, 1d4=4 (Missing completely)

[Nuke]

After seeing the effect his arrow had on the wyvern, or lack thereof, Riverwind switches target, firing at the fat hobgoblin.

init, hit and damage to Toede (1d10=10, 1d20+1=14, 1d8=8)
hit and damage arrow2 (1d20+1=18, 1d8=4)

[Kafen]

Tas briefly considers the Elven Generostiy from the previous day and targets the wyvern with Tanis on it!
1d20=4 Init
1d20=11 To Hit

[HorizonsDream]

Tika remains in full defense.

[JadedDM]

"Damn Toede," the kapak grumbles. "If we're going to die, we'll take as many of you with us," he says. He looks around for a new target, now that Flint and Raistlin are gone. The nearest one is Tasslehoff. The kapak walks up to the kender and stabs him, dropping him into unconsciousness again.

Sturm moves northward, engaging the kapak there and allowing the elf fighting him to withdraw and ready his bow safely. Sturm also manages to cut into the kapak pretty badly, wounding him significantly. So much so, the kapak actually drops his own sword in the process.

While Laurana and Magpie fire at the wyvern, Goldmoon engages the same kapak as Sturm, but her stone flies overhead and hits nothing.

The elf maiden that Goldmoon just rescued turns her bow on the kapak that just took out Tas. However, both of her arrows miss. This is probably just as well, for had the kapak died, his acid would have drenched the unconscious handler.

Riverwind ignores the draconians and the wyvern, and instead focuses his ire on the fat hobgoblin piloting the wyvern. Toede shrieks in pain at the arrows bite and quickly starts snapping the reins. "Get going, get going!" he cries. The wyvern begins flying upward, higher and higher into the night sky.

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Initiative
Goldmoon (1d10+6): 14
Sturm (1d10+4): 9
Laurana (1d10+7): 9
Magpie (1d10+7): 15
Riverwind (1d10+7): 17
Tasslehoff (1d10+11): 15
Tika (N/A)
Caramon (N/A)
Elf 03 (1d10+5): 15
Elf 04 (1d10+7): 14
Kapak 02 (1d10+3): 10
Kapak 04 (1d10+3): 4
Kapak 06 (N/A)

Round 4!

Tika remains in full defense.
Caramon is paralyzed.
Kapak 06 is asleep.
Kapak 04 moves 15 feet and attacks Tasslehoff with his short sword (1d20+2): 20, hit for (1d6): 2 damage. Tasslehoff falls.
Sturm moves 60 feet and attacks Kapak 02 with Brightblade (1d20+5): 13, hit for (1d10+6): 8 damage.
Laurana fires a sheaf arrow from her short bow at the wyvern (1d20+3): 5, miss.
Kapak 02 attacks Elf 03 with his short sword (1d20): 1, critical fumble! Kapak 02 drops his sword.
Elf 04 moves 25 feet and fires a sheaf arrow from her short bow at Kapak 04 (1d20+1): 12, miss.
Goldmoon moves 60 feet and fires a sling stone from her masterwork sling at Kapak 02 (1d20+1): 11, miss.
Elf 03 parries and then withdraws twenty feet.
Magpie slings a pretty rock from her sling at the wyvern (1d20+2): 5, miss.
Tasslehoff is unconscious.
Riverwind fires a sheaf arrow from his short bow at Fewmaster Toede (1d20+1): 14, hit for (1d8): 8 damage.
Laurana fires a sheaf arrow from her short bow at the wyvern (1d20+3): 22, hit for (1d8): 3 damage.
Elf 04 fires a sheaf arrow from her short bow at Kapak 04 (1d20+1): 12, miss.
Riverwind fires a sheaf arrow from his short bow at Fewmaster Toede (1d20+1): 18, hit for (1d8): 4 damage.
Wyvern flies upward 240 feet, leaving the map.

(OOC: Note that the wyvern is now so high up, that if you kill it, the prisoners will crash to the ground and take 20d6 damage from the fall. Actions for Round 5?)