Battle Thread 1: Raoul & Alarian attempts to reenact the murder of Wynsar Haldin

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Thinking about it I feel bad for anyone who has to wrestle with Aurum, with his spiked gauntlets and razor sharp edges/spikes his armor. Aurum continues to try to restrain him and pull him away.

You swine. I'll have to work out if any of the damage Aurum did was lethal (and reroll loads of it since it probably uses different dice now :().

[Fabian]

Bugger! We have to get him away from here! Anyone have sleep, hold person? What about Alex and his plucky gnome? We need some input from him before we proceed, I feel.

[Custom_Hobby]

Thinking about it I feel bad for anyone who has to wrestle with Aurum, with his spiked gauntlets and razor sharp edges/spikes his armor. Aurum continues to try to restrain him and pull him away.

You swine. I'll have to work out if any of the damage Aurum did was lethal (and reroll loads of it since it probably uses different dice now :().

I am surprised you forgot he had them. I made him one hell of a tough front line fighter, despite the class being intended as a second line. I am also going to switch his power aura so he gets +1 on his attack rolls.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

I'll remember them next time they're needed. No point in making the aoopp fest any more complicated than it already was :).

[Custom_Hobby]

I can just take off the gauntlets so I dont hurt a team mate, but taking off the armor would take too long. Plus his strength will help with restraining him.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Okay, so bungling on, that was only Raoul & Alarian's actions (yeah, all those aoopps and stuff were free stuff).

So next up we have:

Rogan: 17
Ivor: 16
Kiaphas: 10
Aurum: 6


I'll assume Rogan prepares to bless and purify him once he's subdued.

Ivor probably watches (where is Alex at the moment?)

So Kiaphas and Aurum may now try to grapple once more. Here we go again......

Believe me, it all goes a lot quicker when people can roll dice simultaneously.

Kiaphas' touch attack = 21 (he does 3 subdual damage)
Kiaphas' grapple roll is a 10 and Raoul's resistance is a 10.

Aurum's touch attack roll is 27 (natural 20), he deals 6 subdual damage and fails to deal damage with the spikes (spike attack roll 9)

Aurum's grapple check to grip: 15, Raoul's check to resist: 7

Aurum has got Raoul restrained.

At the end of this Raoul gets his second willpower save to snap out of it due to the distractions: 11 (nowhere near even close :().

Fortunately there is a random duration on the vision, and he'll come to his senses when it ends. Unfortunately the willpower save for him to snap out before it finishes is 23 and his willpower save of -1 ain't going to make it unless he gets a natural 20 (ouch).

However he has taken another 9 subdual damage. 4 more and he'll be too tired to struggle. 5 more and he'll be out cold.

[Custom_Hobby]

Aurum will continue to hold him until it passes.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Okay, so now we have Round 3:

Raoul: 24
Alarian: 17
Rogan: 17
Ivor: 16
Kiaphas: 10
Aurum: 6


Because he's pinned Raoul's options are somewhat limited. He may:

attack Aurum
try to break free
attempt to move towards Alarian (dragging the dwarf with him)

Considering the fact that he's ignoring Aurum I think he'll either try to break free or simply attempt to move towards his foe (since he doesn't even notice that he's held that much).

I'll let keeper decide on this one (surely he's due a little control by now).

[Fabian]

Alarian takes free 5' step and withdraws away from Raoul.

[Keeper]

I think "move towards his foe" is the thing that seems most in keeping with the whole situation!

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Raoul's grapple check is a mere 12 whilst Aurum's is a 24. He's not getting any closer :(. So now we're assuming Rogan's going to wade in, right?

[Custom_Hobby]

"Brother would you like to help me here?" Aurum continues to hold him and not let him get any closer. He tries to move he further away.

[Fabian]

You seem upset that Raoul isn't choking Alarian, Mr B! Anyway, Alarian should be about 30 feet away now.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

You seem upset that Raoul isn't choking Alarian, Mr B! Anyway, Alarian should be about 30 feet away now.

I'm trying to decide if people should be slipping up, falling down and bashing their knees and elbows more. I've been using standard grappling rules and not applying the "fighting knee deep to waist deep in water" rules on top of that (I couldn't be bothered to look them up but considered improvising - after all, all that subduaul damage has got to come from somewhere, right?)

[Custom_Hobby]

Good point, it is a good thing Aurum is at home in the water.