Age of Ice and Blood: A Pathfinder System Heroic Fantasy Quest
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Vote closed. Let's see how Esha does... and what Unke will do in response.
Arc 12 Post 52: By Frost and Flame
By Frost and Flame
Sixth Day of Elnu-Hamba (Elnu Descendent), 1349 A. L. (After Landfall)
Over the din of battle, over the sounds of the damned and the dying leashed only for the moment one cannot hear Esha's words. Still somehow you feel them, a hiss of power like onto the door of a long abandoned crypt opening: Sleep be with you, death's own kin. And so falls Unkethe Red if in truth be be the king of old, a mountain of metal and flesh, of will unbending brought to heel, he sinks first to his knees, then inexorably falls face first onto the body of his fallen vanquished foe. A shroud falls him 'white as death' the Anwa would calls it, for it was woven from the hand of Inge, Servant of Ikomi.
All about the field before the gates of Noromo the silence of the grave as the living face now the hollow eyes of the dead. What will they do you wonder, without the hand of their master?
Die, you hear Durendal clear as if it had been whispering in your ear, but before you can raise your sword, before you can speak another word from amidst the carrion host an inhuman screech rises high and dreadful. Terror is in it and a foul purpose that warriors who before had held their shields high to ward against the dead or who had sought to recover the body of their lord now flinch and flail. You watch in horror as seeming victory turns to slaughter upon the jagged edge of ancient blades.
"Hang on," you say even as Silver surges forward, you do not have the time to set Inge down now, but you have to reach the Redman to slay him before he finds his feet. Some part of you flinches from the thought... it is not the part that lifts the sword and holds the shield high.
The weight of the corpse is all, skin and gristle and bone under the bronze, but also still moving still turning to cut into you even as Durendal severed his spine. Then again, another as Inge called out a prayer, fire that cut and ice that pierced like arrows. Finally on the second pass as the warriors of Lirman start to close again almost too late you come upon the foe. The shroud is breaking, tearing beneath the terrible grip of black Iron, but just as he manages to get himself wholly free you sweep the blade under his arm, trying to cut the whole limb loose.
Alas that he is girdled in more than bronze. A knot, perhaps a flower on the back of the shoulder guard that you had taken for some fancy of the smith unfolds into an eye of molten flame. At the sight of it your writs turns and with it the blade strikes metal, glances off.
"Ah... a proper challenge I see," the man says as he turns, sounding for all the world as if you had met him on a sparing field and not on bloody ground surrounded by hosts. "A pity I shall not have a chance to face you." He turns to one of the dead, in men and manner no different from any of the others, but in bearing now you see distinct, the thing is not shambling in step with its fellows, it does not seem to even may that much attention to the man with the heavy war-club charging towards it...
"Kill him!" commands Unke.
Words of ruin and violation spew forth from a lipless mouth mouth you feel them boiling in your blood and crawling over your flesh, you feel them shaking your bones form the inside as though the hand of some unseen giant had fallen on you and was shaking and shaking.
The runes upon you shield burst into light brighter and and more fierce than you had ever seen them. They should have been blinding, some distant part of you insists, but they are not. You can see the face of Unke clear enough to count the scars on it, the shock and something else, respect perhaps.
"So, he has spoken then, let there is a challenge and sport for the eye of the Lord of War." As Unke speaks you watch his beard grow black as the iron of his gauntlet whipping about him almost as a thing alive of its own power. All about him is now blackness deeper than night as though the new risen sun had chosen to flee over the horizon rather than meet his eye.
Yet for all the boldness of his tongue and the dread power he seems to breathe and embody you still spy the place where his armor had been dented by the touch of Ikomi through Inge speaking. Magic can still harm him... and it can harm you.
Looking about you cannot tell which of the dead had cast that spell and you begins to suspect that is with a purpose, that it is not some corpse that near smote you, but a dark spirit or wizard hiding among them.
What do you do?
[] Offer a fair deal, Inge shall not aid you with battle spell or healing and neither shall Unke be so aided (Diplomacy DC ???)
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[] You cannot trust a man who deals with daemons, make an end to him as swiftly as you may (You get the First strike)
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OOC: Sorry this took so long guys, it was a combination of being busy and there being a lot of things to juggle in the fight.
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That would not have been a coup, by the time you made it though the first undead he had been woken by the screech spell, now if Roland had better initiative and could avoid the guards, probably with some kind of ride check then he might have been there in time for a coup
I am doing my best not to write enemy leaders being fools, hence the magician and the guards.
Goldfish
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I wouldn't trust anything Unke agrees to, nor for his allies to adhere to it either.
[X] You cannot trust a man who deals with daemons, make an end to him as swiftly as you may (You get the First strike)
-[X] Roland used his Challenge against Unke as a Swift Action and Charges him with Silver if there is enough space between them, or simply attacks if there is not.
-[X] If she hasn't already, Inge uses her Fortune Hex on Roland to improve the likelihood of his attack landing or resisting an ene!y spell (whichever comes first). If she has used it on him already, she instead targets Unke's Undead minions, and the magic user likely hiding within the group, with another Web spell.
-[X] Silver will attempt to strike Unke with a Power Attacking kicks.
-[X] Esha will attempt to Blind Unke using her Blindness/Deafness spell.
-[X] If Inge does not use her Web spell, Zaia will target the group of Undead from which the Screech seemed to originate with a Tanglefoot Firebomb. If she does use her Web spell and Roland and Silver are able to move out of range after attacking, Zaia will instead target Unke.
[X] You cannot trust a man who deals with daemons, make an end to him as swiftly as you may (You get the First strike)
-[X] Roland used his Challenge against Unke as a Swift Action and Charges him with Silver if there is enough space between them, or simply attacks if there is not.
-[X] If she hasn't already, Inge uses her Fortune Hex on Roland to improve the likelihood of his attack landing or resisting an ene!y spell (whichever comes first). If she has used it on him already, she instead targets Unke's Undead minions, and the magic user likely hiding within the group, with another Web spell.
-[X] Silver will attempt to strike Unke with a Power Attacking kicks.
-[X] Esha will attempt to Blind Unke using her Blindness/Deafness spell.
-[X] If Inge does not use her Web spell, Zaia will target the group of Undead from which the Screech seemed to originate with a Tanglefoot Firebomb. If she does use her Web spell and Roland and Silver are able to move out of range after attacking, Zaia will instead target Unke.
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- Germany
Pretty sure we are too close for charging.
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- Germany
DragonParadox: How about a fair fight without cheating?
Goldfish: I bet I'm better at cheating though.
Goldfish: I bet I'm better at cheating though.
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@DragonParadox , I assume that Inge/Zaia did not managed to use Web/Tanglefoot bomb, did they?
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Inge did use web, but Zaia wasn't supposed to throw the bomb if Sleep succeded, and it did.
Goldfish
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Wasn't sure about battlefield positioning. Edited plan slightly to account for that.
Not really sure how much a combat maneuver will help here. Would rather just insure our first attack lands or Roland resists a save-or-suck/die spell effect. Roland has a pretty decent chance to Crit, which could be really helpful here.
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But of course!
Indeed, also Zaia did not have a cleat shot. Unlike web he has to make an attack roll and that one would have been impeded by all the other people close to hand.
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-4 to AC and attack rolls is relevant, quite relevant
Goldfish
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It only makes sense to be able to use certain combat maneuvers while mounted if you have an appropriate weapon. Disarm someone while attacking them from horseback? Yeah, that could work. Trying to trip someone with your longsword while fighting from horseback? I don't see how that could work, just based on reach and positioning.
That said, Silver has a nice CMB of his own and could attempt a Trip attack, though it would provoke an Attack of Opportunity, and against someone like Unke, I don't think we should risk giving him a free shot like that.
Do y'all think Roland should Power Attack? He's going to have a +10 attack bonus since he's fighting from horseback against someone who isn't. Power Attack would reduce that to +8 but increase damage by +4. With Inge's Fortune Hex, he would still have a pretty good chance to hit.
Yeah I am going to say you need a reach weapon of some kind to trip while on a horse, though the horse himself could trip since he is sapient.
Well you cannot see them now, at a guess they are on one of the army's flanks and there is likely fighting if they have not come to reinforce the fight at the gate already.
One thing to keep in mind is that you are not playing from a dragon's eye view these days. All you can see is what Roland can see.
Goldfish
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I wish we knew Ohun's spell loadout. Even if we cannot dictate how he uses his spells, it could give us an idea of what else he is capable of in this fight.
Any chance we can see what he has remaining, @DragonParadox, assuming he trusted us enough to share that information with us.
Huh, I just had a thought. I wonder if Ansefu wasn't killed out of revenge, but was instead sacrificed to restore Unke to life? If this really is Unke.
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[X] Goldfish
Eh... you would have had some time to ask him about his spells sure:
Spells (Druid CL 4):
Cantrips: Detect Magic, Guidance, Light, Stabilize
1st: obscuring mist(D), Cure Light Wounds, Entangle,
2nd:
Struck through things are used. Buffs were used on himself.