Hekazu

A pleasure to meet you all~

Somebody's been RPing in a mixed setting of mine!

@Lady Selune

>:(

Our setting!

A pleasure to meet you all~

Hello and welcome! Do we know one another?

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Truth be told while I don’t mind doing this campaign again, I kind of want to use different characters. Orchid was fun but I got new ideas I wanna try out.

@Lucius Cypher

I don't know how well I could remove Orchid to put someone in his place, especially in the middle of a dungeon. One of the reasons why Zverda eventually left us too, it was taking much longer for her to get her own character to play than she would have liked. Which is understandable if not that good for the eventual workload it led to.

So, I ask of you, how would you personally see the changing of a character proceeding? Perhaps it can be worked around.

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Well, it took a heap longer than I had expected it to take, but I imagine that I might as well come along here once more. I do have something to say though, before we even consider continuing. I will have time once more for about a month going forward, but after that I will be more on a two or three day response cycle with much lessened activity. The time before that should be enough to kickstart things on their way once more if we are committed to it, but I fear we may alternatively end up chugging at minimal speed and then fall dead as my activity cannot remain high enough to be a sustaining force. But letting things fizzle off in Limbo isn't much better than that fear coming true. After all, it'd be a shame to lose all that has been built so far, wouldn't it?

I await to hear your thoughts on the matter @Ryonara, @Lucius Cypher, @Norschtalen and @The Harbinger of Ferocity. Whether we should continue on, or play the bagpipes in honour to the fallen. Or perhaps you have different ideas altogether?

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I'm afraid that with all the COVID-19 stuff that has entered my very personal life, I simply must set this RP on hold. I cannot handle the DMing process at this time, especially not with Torus back under my command at this time. I'll be back later to see if people are still interested in continuing by then, but I do not know for sure when that will be. I imagine something towards the beginning of next month. I probably won't vanish from the site for that time, but I really need to ration my workload. And DMing is a big big chunk.

@Ryonara@Lucius Cypher@Norschtalen@The Harbinger of Ferocity

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No luck on the save with a negative result. The last of the four kobolds is felled.

Next goes Parum @Ryonara. I've reasons to keep the initiative order going.

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Still grabbed @Norschtalen.

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Another Kobold is killed @Lucius Cypher. Moving on to Kyra who may have made note that this was no glue bomb after all @Norschtalen.

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The counterattack had begun. The warrior freed from the bombs of his foes had rushed forth, and despite the best attempts at the kobolds dropping away from his reach, he managed to slice not one but two kobolds down, leaving only two of them behind. Yet these two seemed to be out of bombs, and now driven to a corner. With their options few, if any, they picked up weapons much finer than most of their brethren, them being swords of some quality even if they happened to be on the shorter side. And with those in their hands, they rose to assault the threat that had taken their brethren down. And fight they would.

One at a time, they came at him, scrambling up the stone with weapons first in their jaws, then taken back into those claws of theirs as they rushed in, the first of the two landing a lucky hit that just so managed to sneak past Brannor's armour and nicked at his flesh. Yet it was the second that truly put up a show, using the attack of the first as a feint of their own, weaving their way past the ferocious man's defences, jamming their blade to a much more precarious position. Both shrieked simple battle cries, but soon a pair of very different shrieks came as four of the tendrils from the sidelines lashed at them, cracking like whips as they stole the freedom of movement away from the scaly creatures.

"Told you to leave this!" the monster growled at them, all of the six tentacles yanking in the direction of their source. The scaly critters were pulled to the edge of the other drop, almost tumbling all the way down, barely able to hold enough of their footing to not slide so far. But with the indiscriminate nature of the manoeuvre, Kyra who was gripped by one of the six found herself dragged past the threshold. An instinctive attempt at grabbing the ledge succeeded, yet she could not find enough strength in her to hold on, falling the fifteen feet down and landing flat on the floor. By the looks of it, the monster was more than ready to reel everything in again very soon… and quite unfortunately seemed to be paying little mind to the pleas about Kyra's release.

The situation was certainly not proceeding quite as would be deemed optimal, and so Torus made the hard decision of having to reinforce the suddenly formed secondary battlefield. The shape of the tiger rushed to the ledge that Kyra had fallen from and leapt on down, stumbling a bit on the landing but managing to keep upright with feline grace. For now, the Druid took up position between Kyra and the rock-skinned monster to intercept possible attacks on his more vulnerable ally.

Mechanics&Rolls

Brannor manages to slay kobolds #3 and #4.

Kobolds #1 and #2 mount a counterattack. #1 attacks with a roll of 22, landing a hit worth 4 piercing damage. With Pack Tactics working in their advantage, #2 attacks with 23 & 9, which lands for 8 damage. @The Harbinger of Ferocity

The tentacular thing proceeds to attack each living kobold twice with a grabbing attack, all of which it lands. #1 was subjected to rolls 15 & 14, while #2 got themselves a 26 and a 20.

Having seen to grappling more targets, the creature proceeds to pull every creature in its grasp closer to itself. The kobolds end up on the edge of the drop, while Kyra who was closer to the edge in comparison ends up falling down. She is struck by 3 bludgeoning damage and is now Prone. @Norschtalen

Torus sees this, and decides to help. With 5 damage to the old (even if transformed) joints, he spends his remaining movement to stand up from the prone position and tries to pick a spot where he could intercept attackers coming at Kyra. Even with Tiger's superior movement, he needs to Dash for this, so he has no readied action in the works.

Next up, Orchid @Lucius Cypher.

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@Norschtalen Could you roll me a STR save? Remember the disadvantage from the tendril.