*poke*

I know. I'll have something soon. Work has been, well, work. I've been slacking in all my games. Hang tight.

It's funny, too. This should be the easiest of the games I'm DMing.

Sigh...

Don't worry about it, recall: headed out to see family and get some serious fishing in on Friday, just wanted to know if we're continuing. Hope work slows up a bit!

I am going to pick this up here:

Round 3:

The major domo has recalled his mojo with a little timely help from his friend: It looks like in the blink of an eye that the fighter dude miraculously went from a near death experience to full health. He attacks the monk with rigor x2: Once again, the fighter is stymied by defensive posture of the Monk and Olaf working in concert!

As the warrior tries to recover, Olaf and the Monk go on the attack:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the monk gets 6 attacks, Olaf 4.

The monk attacks, hits 2x out of six for 15 points damage.

Olaf follows with 16 points on a perfect swing - it was his only hit, but he made it count.

Kal: Let me know what your gonna do!

Elora fires a storm of magic missiles at the second armored foe - 7 pts of dmg on the second foe, who shrugs it off like no big deal.

Beldame casts Lightning Bolt at the secondary. To her surprise, the spell fizzles out!

Agrax follows the Beldame, charges forward to attack the original warrior with her new found sword: The scrappy fighter adds an additional 9 to the warriors pain - the wounds start to accumulate once again!

Pious makes ready to heal when necessary.

The dogs attack in pack formation and go after the second warrior: He roars his rage and laughter at the pups, who's only recourse is whine in fear (as an aside, I rolled single digits to hit for each dog. Love the dice roller...
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Round 4:

The warrior attacks the monk: he finally finds a hole in their defence. Rolled a natural 20 on the first hit, rolled an 18 on the second. The monk gets battered for 31 points of damage.

The monk recovers quickly: she attacks six times in succession, manages to hit twice for 16 points of damage.

Olaf attacks as well and has 4 attacks: The first does 18 points of damage, but then he falls short on a critical roll and loses his grip on his sword. He has to reach down to pick it up and loses the other half of his turn.

Agrax got her feet under her: she hits the baddie 2x for 12 points of damage. Seems comfortable with the bastard sword at this point.

Elora fires off another magic missile, this time at the other feller for 7points dmg.

Beldame gathers her summoned dogs, whispers to them, then set them off again to take on the other member of the bad guy's party. They all miss their attack...again. LOL!

For her part, the Beldame begins to chant a spell...she has a fierce determination in her eyes, but the spell looks to be a ritual of some sort.

Finally the 'other' guy gets a chance to wreak havoc: A wall of flame comes down from on high directed at both the monk and Olaf(Flame strike!). Olaf saved, but still took 17 points dmg. The monk also tries to dodge out of the way: she also saves for half dmg but takes 17 points of dmg as well.

Kal - you attacked the secondary figure last time. Let me know what you are going to do this round.

Kal will attack (I thought I had posted that for the last round like a month ago...)

Round the first:
21:15, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 6 using 1d8+5.

21:15, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 7 using 1d8+5.

21:14, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 17 using 1d20+3.

21:14, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 14 using 1d20+3.

This round:

21:15, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 6 using 1d20+3.

21:15, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 4 using 1d20+3.

21:15, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 12 using 1d20+3.

21:15, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 17 using 1d20+3.

21:15, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 10 using 1d8+5.

21:15, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 8 using 1d8+5.

Kal will continue to hack at the secondary guy to keep him busy while the others kill Badass.

By my best reckoning, Kal does 17 points damage on two hits on the other guy.

Next round: The warrior takes lead, still has some moxie left in him. Putting all of his effort into the monk, he scores 27 points of damage to her. She is down!

Olaf attacks from flanking: Both attempts clang off the warrior's armor to no effect.

Agrax is not as successful as her prior efforts: her attempts are also foiled by the warrior's armor.

Elora leaves the magic missile for the nonce in favor small, rock like missiles that burn: the 'rock' hits her target for two points of damage which then burns the second terminator's surcoat. (that would be the warrior) and follows up with a magic missile in the same round for a total of 15 points dmg. (nifty).

The Beldame has dispelled the dogs in lieu of a fire elemental that charges toward the main warrior. He hits the Gith warrior for 10 points of damage! The warrior does take a bit of damage, but not as much as the Beldame hoped.

Kal - you are up. This is a good fight. They're making you work for it!!! LOL

00:34, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 7 using 1d20+3.

00:34, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 8 using 1d20+3.


Er...hmmmm.... misses....

At least Kal will keep the guy tied up!

The party's attack stalls: the warrior notes the fall of morale and moves quickly to take advantage. He sizes up Olaf, and lands a devastating blow with his first swing! Critical hit! The second is a near miss, but Olaf is severely wounded after the first. Barely standing, he gamely swung his sword in return at the warrior x4 (haste still in effect). Only one hits, but it's a solid blow: 9points dmg Staggered, but unbowed, Olaf readies his next attack.

Agrax moves forward, attacks 2x vs the warrior for another 7 points dmg.

Elora does the same trick she tried before to similar effect: 14 more points of dmg to the warrior. A stumble in his stride shows the strain.

Beldame sends the fire elemental against the second attacker and scores for 12 points dmg Pious, having waited for the right moment, runs forth and touches Olaf on the arm and cures him for 15 points of healing. The light grows stronger in Olaf's eyes.

Kal, your turn - you still have haste and I believe you are attacking the newer assailant.

With a renewed sense of purpose, Kal leapt forward and screamed his defiance to the sky and went Ginsu on the man!!

21:43, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 12 using 1d8+5.

21:43, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 8 using 1d8+5.

21:43, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 8 using 1d8+5.

21:43, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 11 using 1d8+5.

21:43, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 17 using 1d20+3.

21:43, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 16 using 1d20+3.

21:43, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 16 using 1d20+3.

21:43, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 19 using 1d20+3.

For a grand total of 39!!!

Wow, that was a nice round for you...to say the least - nicely played!

ooc: You're saying the guy is still up? DAyUM!

39 pts dmg is pretty spectacular. Another one like that and this one might be over. Unfortunately, the other guy gets a shot back at you (sometimes a low initiative isn't a bad thing...)

In this case, the other attacker tries to cast a dispel magic on the fire elemental, but he fails.

Next round forthcoming.

Round six begins!

The Warrior fails to hit twice. Is his doom at hand?

Olaf scores 2x out of four: 14pts total damage to the Gith warrior. He's staggering, but still up.

The monk is down, and either dead or unconscious.

Agrax takes her shot, but misses 2x.

Elora attacks the warrior with her wand of Magic missiles: 3 charges: 9 points of damage to the warrior who is now prone on the ground.

Seeing the warrior fall, the Beldame instructs the elemental to attack the other opponent: the elemental hits for 15 pts dmg.

Kal is up now, face to face with the remaining bad guy.

20:12, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 6 using 1d6.

20:12, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 13 using 1d8+5.

20:12, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 10 using 1d8+5.

20:12, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 12 using 1d20+3.

20:12, Today: Kalmus the Grey rolled 17 using 1d20+3.

(Init and attacks for Kal, I believe the first one hit for ten hp damage)

Noting the odds severely in the party's favor, the priest casts a spell of sorts and disappears. The warrior has fallen prone, as has the monk. And Olaf took a couple more wounds as well.

What's your course of action?

Assuming the priest, up to now not mentioned, was Kal's dance partner, Kal walked over to the badass and beheaded him,  yelling for Pious to get his ass in gear and tend the gravely wounded Monk. He knelt beside Olaf to render aid with a look of appeal towards the Beldame for more aid.

Just to clarify: The second antagonist was a priest. If you recall, he called down a flame strike sometime in the middle rounds. I did my best to delineate between the original bad guy and the Gith priest. In simpler terms: The warrior was the pack leader, the priest was his sidekick.

Make sense?

Yes, OK, that makes more sense. I was unaware the Gith had gods or priests!

You make a great point - the Githyanki have a Lich Queen of terrible powers. The Githzerai also have a similar figurehead, however he is a pale shade to the Lich Queen. Still, he's powerful in his own right. The Githyanki are more invested in their Lich queen than the Githzerai.

That is how I take it, anyway.
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So, counting the cost: the priest fled.

The Githzerai monk is dead.
The Giothyanki warrior is dead (finally). And you have some decisions to make.

Olaf and the rest of the gang are still alive - Olaf's HPs sit at 15 (full health he's 48).

What decisions? The monk and her antagonist are dead, I'm guessing we actually failed at our mission, whatever that was. The Beldame was not super clear on that.

I beheaded the warrior, Olaf should survive.

I don't recall anything except coming here to aid the Monk, the warrior is dead, that was about the extent of what I knew.

Thanks!

There are still questions that are lingering. Are you going bolt directly back south? What if the Beldame asks you to stay for a couple days at least, until she can get an idea of what that fight was really about. Also, the concern that we've killed a number of lower level Gith, along with the big guy. And then, what do we do with the bodies? Leave them there?

If you drop everything and head south, what are the ramifications? For may part, there's still the trinket you got from the winter wolf to examine...anyway, I know this wasn't as fluid as I wanted it to be, but it was still a pretty good scrap.

Let me know if you want to retreat south, stay up here for a few more days/weeks to see what kind of scrying the Beldame will get to. Or maybe you just want to conclude on a high note on this campaign. Your call. I'm good either way.

I think we hang around. Obviously, there was more to it and yes, I would certainly like to know what it was all about. Besides, if it's cold, Elora will want to snuggle.

Terminate the campaign? I thought Agrax was leaving but we were going to keep going on some other adventure or maybe even return to the haunted house to take care of the ghoul and her unwelcome neighbor...

I'm happy to play as long as your happy to play. Let's keep it going.

Well, alright then, let's hang around and see what the Beldame can dig up...