I'm here! I think I need to fix my character sheet up slightly, at least to make it easier to read. Other than that I'm ready for an adventure!

The port city of Antur is a city-state member of the Bolevur Empire Mallesova Protectorate Pelartia Alliance - one of the largest, wealthiest, and most unstable nations in the world.  Just last month the former regime was overthrown and replaced and renamed.  Not long before that, the same had happened.  Over and over since before memory or historical record.

The real power around here is money.  Those with rule those without.  Racism doesn't exist - money has a way of making people overlook racial prejudices.  For a time.  Corruption doesn't exist - because it's simply a way of life.  Bribe?  What's that?  Doesn't everyone slip money to law enforcement to have them look the other way?  In such a city, opportunity abounds.  But opportunity is valuable and usually a closely guarded secret.

The adventurers may or may not have met one another, but at the present time are out of work.  That's why they find themselves on the outskirts of the city near a trading post waiting for a chance to hear about an opportunity for easy money.  Well...  insofar as guarding a overland delivery of valuable commodities is easy money.  Several other hopefuls are there, each one armed, armored, or in some way ready for combat.

An orc wearing chainmail steps out of the guard shack.  Attached to his belt is an impressive looking whip.

"Alright you sorry excuse for a rabble!" he bellows, "The application is simple.  The last five standing get the job!"

(( Map: https://spreadsheets.google.co...aGUwZVE&hl=en_US
Initiatives are listed on the map.  Defenses listed too.  Was having issues with inserting comments, so complete monster entry for some of the monsters are on separate tabs of spreadsheet. ))
This message was last edited by the player at 22:55, Tue 26 July 2011.

Akemi looks around, looks at the orc, then assesses the situation. She is never surprised, so this comes as no surprise to her.

Chant seems prepared as she immediately holds her shield up.

Morthos grins as he brings up his sword and shield.

Skylar seems distracted with his thoughts when he suddenly snaps out of it, looking confused.

Initiatives:
Akemi: 16 +4 = 20
Chant: 18 +0 = 18
Morthos: 13+0= 13
Skylar: 4 +5 = 9

Zekk Reaver: If you aren't familiar, there is a "Dice Roller" Click up at the top of your screen between ScratchPad and The Cast. From there, you can roll dice and even add in your initiative as part of the roll. Or you could just roll a d20 and add the initiative manually. Whatever you like. :)

Zekk stands among the other in the area, weapons at the ready, as he looks at his latest opponents.

Initiative. 7+6=13
This message was last edited by the player at 16:33, Wed 27 July 2011.

Christof looks over at the large half-orc and nods his head. Some may find it strange that the two travel together, but those that look harder notice the similar qualities and can tell that the two are brothers. They work well together, Zekk using brute force to ensnare the enemy and Christof dishing out the pain from afar.

Initiative: 3

A gruff looking human takes a step toward Akemi and swings his mace at her head, but she is able to evade the attack!

(( Move: from i6 to j5.  Standard: Dazing Strike misses.  Free action: drop his d20 on the ground.  Minor: get a different d20 in hopes he'll hit next round.  Next in initiative order: Akemi ))
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:09, Wed 27 July 2011.

Akemi uses the duck to side-step, almost like a slithering snake. She whips around with some wrist action and throws a bola at the bandit's feat, causing him to trip and fall. The weighted balls on the bola smack the bandit's legs. Between that and the way he fell, the bandit takes some serious damage.

(Move: Shift from K4 to J3)
(Standard Action: Bola Takedown. Hit(25)!)
 dmg: 8
(No Action: Assassin's Strike)
 dmg: 8
(Minor Action: Not taken.)

Bandit HP: 37 - 16 = 21 <-- prone

The three kobolds all chuck their javelins at Morthos, and one of them penetrates his defenses!

(( Minion 1-3 Javelins vs Morthos:  miss, miss, hit.  4 damage.  Morthos HP: 27  Minion 1 move from f11 to c11.  Minion 2 move from g13 to c13.  Minion 3 move from h15 to c15. ))

The goblin rushes to the human that Akemi knocked down, and taking advantage of the off-guard enemy, strikes with his shortsword!  He takes a guarded stance, ready to jump out the way of an attack.

"I help you with this one, red hair."

(( Move from k9 to j6.  7 damage to the human bandit.  Human bandit's HP: 14.

Intentions:
Goblin Tactics (immediate reaction, when missed by a melee
attack; at-will)
The goblin shifts 1 square. ))
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:50, Thu 28 July 2011.

"This is an opportunity..." Chant comments to herself before rushing in next to the other tiefling she can see. "We must stick together. Those kobolds are showing teamwork that the rest of us should be using." She calls out in a surprisingly booming voice, "Those who gather to me, I shall aid you to victory! For mine are the powers of uniting a team!"

(Move: From O14 to J13)
(Standard: Full Defense)
(Minor: Words of Friendship. +5 diplomacy)
 ...good thing. Rolled a 1. But that's a total of 15!

Chant is a melee-focussed bard who was far from the others and has a speed of 5. The kobolds have ranged attacks. Seemed full defense was best. Then rolled diplomacy to reflect her attempt to pull a team together.

"You got it, beautiful!" the halfling says, rushing to be by her side, "This is insanity!  I never thought a job application would put me in mortal danger!  Let's survive this together!"

(( Double Move from g8 to n15 j14.  Next in initiative: Zekk. ))
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Zekk realizes he has spent to long out of the action and rushes to meet a foe. He saw the human take a few hard hits and the goblin now has his back to him. 'Perfect,' he thinks and rushes towards them.

He comes up behind the goblin with a good hit and in a quick motion lands a second hit on the human who is still on the ground.


Move: From O10 to K6
Whirling Rend: 7 damage to goblin, 6 to human

With a BIG grin on his face, Morthos says, "Can't we all just get along?!" as he seems to become blanketed in shadow and rushes headlong towards the kobolds! "Wheeeee!" He holds his sword out and smacks one with it while running. Then smacks another as he is still running. If the other kobolds don't get out of Morthos' way, they'll be knocked out like the last guy.

(Minor: Shroud of Shadow.)
 Partial concealment. +5 temp HP.
(Move: K12 to F9)
(Standard: Charge to D10! Hit(24)!)
(ACTION POINT!)
(Standard: Charge to D12! Hit(15)!)

Morthos HP: 27 (+5thp) = 27 (32)
Kobold 1: KO
Kobold 2: KO

I was reminded that a charge ends your turn. So charge, action point, charge is not possible.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:24, Thu 28 July 2011.

Skylar points at the farthest kobold, shooting what looks like a green arrow and the kobold falls unconscious. As Skylar shot the arrow, he twirls his finger clockwise quickly. Then the kobold closer to Morthos has a magical green arrow enter him as well, seemingly out of nowhere. "I'm with the tiefling lady." he claims.

(Standard: Magic Missile v Kobold 2.)
(ACTION POINT!)
(Standard: Magic Missile v Kobold 3.)

Kobold 2: KO
Kobold 3: KO

Irony, the kobolds might have joined Chant if given the chance to speak up before knocked out. Then again, speaking is a free action, so they could have claimed fealty with her. Missed their chance.

Christof sees the kobalds go down and decides to help Zekk out. Seeing the goblin, he says a few words and a curse is laid on him followed by a blast of infernal energy. When the energy hits him, he also feels the effects of the curses damage

Minor: Curse
Standard A: Eldritch Blast + curse damage-> 8+3=11 dmg

"OwowOW!" the human bandit complains, "Dangit!  Jeez!  Why's everyone ganging up on me?!  Alright, alright!  I surrender!"

He drops his weapon, and crawls away.

"It's a crime to murder an unarmed guy, right?  Right?!"

"Yeah," the orc answers, "Just don't expect to be hired, pansy."

"Least I'm still alive.  Jeez."

(( free action: drop weapon.  Move action: shift 1 square from j5 to k4.  Standard action: Full Defense.  +2 to all defenses to compensate for his still being prone. ))

Akemi doesn't say anything to the bandit, but seeing him move closer makes her move away. Akemi would prefer to continue until the guy doesn't move, but makes a mental note of the legalities and goes for a knockout. She picks up the bola from the patch of ground where it was and swings her bola at the guy, who evades it.

(Move: Shift from J3 to I4.)
(Minor: Pick up bola)
(Standard: Bola Takedown. Miss(9).)

"I'm hit!" the goblin shouts, "Human no threat now.  Help me with half-orc, red hair!"

The goblin swings, but his sword bounces off Zekk's armor.  He then backs away.

(( Miss.  Move: shift from j6 to i6. ))
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:31, Sat 30 July 2011.

This is a rare instance where Chant feels she doesn't really have to do much. Three have taken her offer. She nudges her head for the halfling to follow and she walks to the center of the battlefield. "I have three takers on my side. Who else is with me? I am now not just one, but four. Men! To my side!" she holds her shield up, sword at the ready. But she is standing defensively of the halfling. "Quickly, what is your specialty?" she asides to him, keeping her eyes on Zekk and the goblin.

(Move: J13 to J8)
(Diplomacy roll: 15)
(Intimidate roll: 25)
(Standard: Full Defense)

First I think I've done full defense twice in a row, but I as a player and her as a character both honestly don't know who to attack. She was tempted to go after the goblin because he's in bad shape. But she can't get to him with her poor move speed and if she could, it's doubtful she could do the damage she'd need. Plus she is trying to win without having to fight for Sun-Tsu reasons.

"I'm a slinger," the Halfling answers, moving to be behind the tough sounding Tiefling lady, "I hit folks from a distance with rocks.  Preferably when I'm hidden, but sometimes I don't have that luxury.  So we going with the 'If they're not for us they're against us' rule?  What happens if more than 5 team up?  The orc said the last 5 standing get the job..."

As if to demonstrate, he starts winding up his sling, ready to let a rock fly!

(( Move from j14 to j9.  Standard action:  Readied attack - will attack with his sling the first confirmed threat to himself or his new allies.  Rolled ahead of time: 17 + 6 = 23 to-hit.  Will deal 7 damage if it hits the threat.  Next in initiative: Zekk. ))
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:35, Sat 30 July 2011.

Zekk follows the goblin and swings at him in a downward attack, which the goblin dances around. With a quick movement, Zekk comes around with his other weapon, but achieves the same results. In the background  Zekk hears someone talking, but isn't paying attention to it right now. He can tell it isn't Christof's voice so he continues his fight.

Zekk K6 to I6

Morthos heads over to the goblin and swings and misses. "Impressive, Goblin! You are one nimble guy!"

(Move: D10 to H7)
(Standard: Ferocious Strike v Goblin. Miss(11))

Skylar waves a hand and the goblin looks sluggish before collapsing to the ground. Zekk can sense he was also targeted, but the spell didn't effect him somehow. The goblin is alive, not that someone checks that sort of thing mid-fight. Skylar says, "I think all the people who are going to join you have, miss. So it's really us vs them now, until 5 remain."

Skylar then heads over to use Morthos as a shield in case Zekk decides to retalliate against him.

(Standard: Stone Blood v Goblin and Zekk. Hit(19)! Miss(11)!)
 dmg to goblin: 10
(Move: E4 to G8)

Just realized that with current setup, 6 player characters means PvP has to happen in this encounter eventually, regardless.

Goblin HP: 7 - 10 = KO
This message was last edited by the player at 03:49, Tue 02 Aug 2011.

As the goblin drops, Christof feels a surge of energy and feels stronger than normal.

Christof seems the human trying to limp away a decides that that wont do. He is here and should have been ready to fight to the finish. He lines up his shot and almost misses, but the human moves right into the blast, which knocks him to the ground.

Immediate: Dark One's Blessing (+1 temp hp)
Attack: Human (hit) dmg 13: KO

Akemi eyes the downed human, the downed goblin, and the fact the others are getting ready to turn their attention on each other. Akemi finds there are 7 remaining, herself included. 4 are teamed up; The two tieflings, the human wizard and the halfling. There are 3 not teamed; Akemi herself, the half-orc, and the half-elf. The half-elf has proven to be too ruthless to fall for a fake surrender tactic. The half-orc has proven to be a person of action and not words, like Akemi. If she were to team up with the 4, that would make 5. If she were to team up with the two, that would only make 3 vs the 4. The math isn't hard.

Akemi looks Chant in the eyes and says, "I am with you, tiefling." in an oriental accent. With that, she throws her bola at Zekk's face, smacking him good! The string from the bola swings the other weight around, throwing the already off-balance half-orc to fall to his back and fall hard.

(Move: I4 to J4)
(Minor: Pick up bola)
(Standard: Bola Takedown v Zekk. Crit!)
 dmg: 12 and prone
(No Action: Assassin's Strike.)
 dmg: 8 (1d10)

Zekk HP: 29 - 20 = 9