Currently... The party is huddled down around Flutterdew, who has just returned from her quick look over the next row of Mausoleums.  This area of the field seems to have a more orderly burial arrangement, and marked graves and Mausoleums seem to be the rule instead of the exception.

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Brigitte may start off in the red area.  A~E / 1~2

The rest of the characters may start off in the areas marked in green.   A~I / 1~5

Further more, characters may travel 5' for every bonus modifier they have for Stealth (keep in mind armor check penalties for armor)

There is NO STACKING.  So no more than one character may start from any particular location.

It's a 10' climb up the side of the Mausoleum if you want to get on top of them, or over them.

The Mausoleums are made of stone.

There are 'thugs' (Leather/large wood shields/spear) around the edge of the human camp.

Near the center, are a few 'cultist' Quarterstaves, talking to what might be a 'party' of humans.  Also in this party are two men armed with shortbows.

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The party is free to roleplay how among themselves preparations before the fight in character, or ask things out of charter in the OOC thread to discuss things person to person.
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Starting M9 sneaking forward
surprise action cast obscuring mist ( no range center M9 20' radius 1 min/level)

Boy there sure are a lot of these humans  do you think we can manage to win this?

I might suggest that i try to put up some mist and give some concealment which might direct their movement and provide some protection from arrows.

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The young Taur had been wearing armor since their adventure started and it was obvious she was still a bit unused to the studded leather. Normally she didn't wear armor, honestly she preferred that, but her family had put their hooves down on skipping out on armor. The Machete on her back had gone untouched the entire journey here as well. She was obviously out of her depth, even having managed to snag the small little spikes on her bracers on her bag several times. It had only gotten worse as they approached not just a group of humans, but a group of humans preparing for a ritual. Fear was obvious but so was a small amount of anger as her hands clenched tightly into fists. Glad her horns had grown in black unlike white like some, the usually cheerful Taur crept slightly ahead.

"I... do we have a choice? I'd rather run but humans in the valley are bad enough, let alone performing rituals. There's no one else here to stop them either."

Maybelle would certainly prefer to just leave, but she was far too stubborn to walk away now that she was involved. Her head dipped forward lightly, not just a nervous gesture but a baring of horns in a slight sign of aggression.

"Do you think we can lure the guards away in small groups while they perform the ritual? I dunno much about magic but aren't they easily disturbed? Maybe have someone ready to mess it up while we take down the guards?"

Maybelle wasn't good with magic, she had tried learning some when younger since druids where highly prized in her community but honestly it just gave her a headache. She had seen rituals performed, usually to help grow crops, and had been told often enough not to interfere. Interference could only help here, right?

Location: H2

Nisor had kept to himself, largely because he was miserable under the light of the sun that they had to travel in to reach the graveyard. All the same when they reached the destination and he was able to find some reprieve under the shade of a mausoleum he was decidedly more useful.

"I am sure we could interfere with the ritual. We only need to break the concentration of the mages performing it. As for what the ritual is I fear that their chose of location points to the raising of the undead. That said I'll likely not be able to tell until we get closer."

He shielded his eyes from the sun with his hand, hoping it would allow him to regain a degree of focus.

"That said I'm a fairly novice wizard so my spells are quite constrained in their utility. I can augment a fighter with better armor and give a fighter better defense from harm should I enemies be evil."


Location: G2

Nisor starts his quiet mutterings, weaving spells quietly about himself.  They had a bit of time so really there was no reason why he couldnt work some divination to gather information.

OOC: Starting with the upper left corner of my portrait at D1. I have a negative stealth modifier (go figure) so can only move backwards :-)

Brigitte crouched down in a squat, which brought her down to being not much taller than Maybelle. She watched, unsure of what to do.

She picked up and hefted a few stones to ready them to hurl if needed, stashing a couple away in a big pouch. She whispered to anyone who was close enough to hear her, "I can throw some of these rocks at them, but not if I can't see them through a mist.  But it'd be good to know what they are up to first. Smashing them with rocks from a distance when we don't know what they are doing here doesn't seem very sportsmanlike."

Ahh Bridgette it just means they cant all see you at once and sling their mighty arrows into a pin cushion.  stand over there and you can see some of them just fine.

No really sneaking up and clocking people over the head is the new sporting trust me...

As a giant who throws rocks, I am compelled to quote Fezzik often and repeatedly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-EyfRqKGP4

If I have counted right.

Andrew can move quietly up to or start in F5.
Then first round move and attack human in O5>

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Brigitte has a negative stealth, so she cant 'move' forward any.  But she can certain stand still in the starting area for her, which is red.  Using her Upper left hand corner as a guide, she can get to D-1, and pretty much claim all four boxes she's in unless Flutter wants to sit on your shoulder or something.


Andrew can start anywhere that's green.  So he can start in I5.

You only have a Standard Action though, so you can only 'charge' 30' (not 60')

From I5 the guy in O5 is 30' away, so you can charge him with 30' of movement.
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Having said his piece Nisor turns to identifying more about his foes and relaying that information his allies.

"From what I can tell the people nearest to us are not currently using magic or in the procession of magical items.Also if anyone was wondering they are not undead either. I tried to make sense of their chanting but it doesn't sound very familiar."

Andrew had traveled along with the group.
He was at home in the wilds and seemed to know a lot about land around him.
He seemed happy to talk to anybody in group.
Well more he start talking and if other person was not careful they find themselves telling him load of stories.  He seemed willing to listen.

One thing that was little unsettle is about an hour before sundown he just run off.
For no reason.  He then return about an hour after sunset.
He would come back out of breath and little sweetly.
Wash himself using his magic and lay down to bed.

As they get close to the camp and find out it humans.
Humans up to no good again.  We used to dealing with them.
They our one of our favorite creatures to deal with when comes to protecting the land.

He also studies what the humans are up to try to learn more about the ritual.

OOC:
Start at I5 or (or G5 as I have move of 40).
I will charge the first human.
22:17, Today: Andrew Turner rolled 18 using 1d20+4.  Spellcraft (+2 if add favored enemy.


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Daubra bows he head touching her warhammer to her forehead and holding out the wooden symbol representing Gaia as she intones. "Here and now, I invoke the elemental forces of Earth, deep cavern, soaring mountains, steady foundation, sustaining soil, holy Gaia I call upon you, bless us and sustain us, as we defend our home."

Surprise Round
Going to start at E5
Standard action cast Bless

I think I've arranged that so I can target all of us. 50' burst so plenty of places Gar can start and still benefit.

As the party starts to stir into action Daubra blesses them all in the name of Gaea, and a quiet sense of purpose and confidence settles on them.

Daubra, this falls under 'preparation', presumed to happen before the swords and spells start swining and will not consume your Surprise Action.

Andrew creeps up and leans against the wall and leans closer, sharp ears perked towards the murmer of chanting and makes and effort to discern what exactly is happening.

Andrew returns to the group quiet and he face looks upset.
His ears twitch.  It is at this point the group realize Andrews normally covered with his long hair stick out.  His ears are not human but look like an elves.
Humans.  Stupid humans.  We looked at what they are doing.
The ritual they are doing is a summing spell.  Not nature summoning spell at that.
I am not sure if it will be undead or something from another plain, but what ever it is can only be bad for everybody.  We need stop this and stop it now.  I don't think they will be interested in talking to us or will agree to leave.  We going have take them down.

It clear that inspire of his wolf like look and teeth and claws Andrew does not really hurting other intelligence creatures.
He goes back to place ready to attack nearest human one others are ready.

Starting in I5.

As part of preparation, Gar slung his shield over his back so as not to interfere with his movements. With a Stealth of +5 (after ACP) he is able to stealthily move from I6 to J10. With natural climbing and Acrobatics +5 he is able to scale the crypt beside him and leap to the adjoining roof. From that rooftop he listens and prepares to charge towards the group surrounding S11.
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Preparation Phase.

Abyss Flutterdew has a quick discussion with the party and states her intentions and flit out to get into position after receiving Daubra's Blessings.

Andrew stays low to the ground and moves forward quietly listening to the sounds of human chanting.  His ears are perked forwards a little to listen carefully.

Brigitte finds are few good sized rocks.  Perfect for lobbing over the 'short' building to land on a few squishy humans.  It wouldnt be hard for her climb one of these short buildings to get to the roof at all, though doing so would give her a good view of things, would also give everything a good view of her.  She has (3) rocks (small sized 2d6+6 damage) stacked near her at the moment, and has pocketed a few nicer sized peebles (softball sized, d4+6 damage) that are easy to carry around and hurl as needed.

Daubra calls upon the earth divinity, blessing her companions in their mission to expel these filthy humans from the Misty Valley.

Gar advances are far forward as he can safely move before pausing to wait.  A glance over his shoulder shows the rest of the party moving into position which was good he couldnt wait to spring forth and stomp some humans.

Maybelle went forward, pausing a little to make certain she wasn't alone.  Flutterdew had indicated there were a lot of humans out there, but they were spread out and they had the element of surprise on their side, certainly that counted for something didn't it?

Nisor moves forward, a glare of sunlight catching him in the face breaking his concentration as he tries to listen in on what the Cultist are doing.

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The world was spinning, and Victoria suffers disorienting Vertigo on a scale she couldnt imagine possible.  When the world finally decides to stop spinning, the abrupt halting of motion and feel of firm ground beneath her feet is too much for her, and she feels her knees buckling.  Firm hands keep her from taking a nasty spill.

She's having the mother of all hangovers at the moment, and feels the uncomfortable sensation of her tummy heaving and with a shudder of shame she empties the contents of her tummy to spill out on the dirt floor.

What was it that she was doing again?  She was having a conversation with someone, wasn't she?  That was the last thing she vaguely recalled before the world went inside out.  What was it that they said?

Be careful what you wish for?  Wanting was much more fun than having?  What the hell did that mean?

There was a miserable groan, and it took her a moment to realize that it was her making that noise.  A blurry look about finds that she's surrounded by acolytes of some sort?  They were all dressed alike though not in clothing she had ever seen before.

She really needed to get herself together to act in a manner befitting her station.

Victoria is located in currently in S-11, and is 'incapacitated' and helpless from summoning sickness.  She needs to make a Fortitude or Willpower save throw to improve her state to 'staggered.'
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Surprise Phase ...

Flutterdew starts to work her magic and smoke starts to billow out from her, quickly enveloping the area around her in a thick for providing some cover for those that follow.

Flutterdew - Std Action, Cast Obscuring Mist.

Andrew, Seemingly on some unspoken signal, the party springs forward to act.  You're moving along at a running charge, and you're upon your target (O-5) before he even notices you.  Arms outstretched, claws extended, it's time to get dirty.  You notice he starts to turn around, you must have been noisy in your charge not that it matters now, his eyes wide in horror as he sees death charging towards him a cry of alarm is made.

O-5 is caught flat footed and only has his Leather Armor to help him stay alive.  Armor Class 12.

Brigitte notices the others have sprung into action and decides it's time to get into the fun too.  Standing up she notices the three humans east as the most notable and easy to deal with.

Brigitte you may take a 5' step and hurl your rock (standard action) at one of the humans east of you Q-4 or Q-6 would be best.  O-5 is in combat with Andrew and you dont want to inflict collateral damage.

Daubra, you've cast Bless on the Party to prepare for the coming struggle, and hope that's enough but it probably wont be.  Time to get busy.

Daubra has a Standard action, since i've already ruled that her Bless was cast the previous turn as a prep. spell.

Gar Moves forward to get himself into position (It takes all his stealth to get to I-10, so he doesnt get to climb the wall just yet).  As he's about to climb the wall he hears a cry of alarm go up, and a thick fog starts to envelope him, someone (from Gar's point of view) was jumping the gun, and he needed to decide if he was still going to climb to attack from above or just charge into them and start swinging away.

Gar has NOT climbed the wall, and my take a STANDARD ACTION (not full round action) from where he is.

Maybelle Maybelle sees everyone get busy in a hurry.  They were always in a hurry, more action and less talk it seemed.  Andrew was a blur as he passed and the cry of terror that followed shortly hinted that it was time to get busy or stay lazy.

Maybelle may take a standard action from where she is.

Nisor Nisor blinks, irritated that they had all decided to tromp out in the middle of the day, which was immensely inconvenient to him.  It was so bad, he could barely make out what the cultist were saying, what was that they were going on about...?  Summon a Fairy God Mother?  The Dark One's Avatar?  The Loonie Moonies?  None of it made sense and then they were all dashing forward again to... kill stuff.  Meh.  He knew from first hand experience that dead was over rated.

Nisor you may take a standard action.

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Daubra ducks down and jogs from the cover of the mausoleum to the cover of the next mausoleum. "I'll make sure we aren't flanked."

Move to I6.
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Having already spotted his potential targets (surrounding S11), Gar Silently climbs quickly atop the masoleum (20' climb speed) and starts running forward. He would need the momentum to jump out of the fog from above to attack those Bastards trying to summon undead.

Climb 10', move forward 15' to L11.
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"Oh Gaea, they're summoning more humans? Not good... "

Maybelle was horrified that of all things they where bringing through the ritual it was more humans. Was this an invasion? Summoning an Army? Albeit.... She had to admit, something else bothered her. Primarily the fact they where out in the wilderness and summoning a woman into a group of men. She hated humans but that seemed off to her and put her even more on edge.

As people started to move she realized she could worry about it later, the men where definitely 'bad'. Or at least invaders and summoning more humans. Either way she wouldn't hold back. Honestly she was fairly annoyed they where here in the first place, Humans had so much land. Why couldn't they stay on it? Almost stomping forward her cheerful eyes dulled slightly as she gave a quiet snort of anger.

"Guess I'll go back up Gar?"

Move to F8

Victoria was clearly not having a good day...

Although dressed very well in what could be described as expensive traveling clothing, she was anything but well as she hung helpless from the hands holding her. Her mind whirled with confusion and she struggled to do anything at all. Well, at least she wasn't getting sick again.

Moaning softly, she closed her eyes, trying to shake the weakness and utter helplessness she felt. Truly, it would not do for her to be sick again!

"Help?" she whispered.

Today: Victoria Edenburg rolled 5 using 1d20+3.  Willpower.

Brigitte took her step to the SE, and raised her arms overhear, holding one of the tombstones aloft. She hurled it at one of the men-at-arms near Andrew, the one it seemed would be more likely to sneak behind her ally. She snarked at Maybelle once the action started.

"Hey! You know, some of us have parents that were human. Words hurt you know. Not as much as rocks, but they still hurt."

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Five foot step to E2 and hurl rock at enemy at Q4. Hits AC 19 for 10 damage (Q4)

08:57, Today: Brigitte Morndottir rolled 19 using 1d20+4 with rolls of 15.  Attack Q4 with thrown large rock (2d6).
08:57, Today: Brigitte Morndottir rolled 10 using 2d6+6 with rolls of 1,3.  rock damage.

Move to Q8 so partially obscured in the mist
Standard: See if i can determine what is causing the distraction and how i/party could take advantage of it.


Abyss moves to the edge of the mist to gain some height and see the action going on.  She takes a special interest in the now stopped chanting.