HT Player DS Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FH.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar .. Ma --.Tobie Bonahoom....YY..Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe W3.Mark Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma W2.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human ..Ma R4.Wout Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe ...Kevin Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....Ma R3.Fukishtu.NEwsome......Npc...............Chief...Normal/Human....Ma R3.Lucria.Cegra..........Npc...............Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra Game Web Site - http:/nrgcomputers.com/pbem/ Public posts/actions to pnpgm@list.powersandperils.org (mailing list) Private emails (not public actions) to pnpgm@comcast.net Game Update #85 sequence (file #573) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Admin Notes: None. ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Recap] From Dorhak: [Re: Actions] Hopefully I'll wake up a darn site quicker than after the mutts bite me! If the dwarf does wake up before everything is over, he will grab shield and mace. Helmet and throwing axe if he has time. Not really a time for armor. This will probably be my basic instruction. Like, anytime in this situation. "Leave one of the shoggers for me!" GM: Ack. SOP Notes. From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions] Z'leyra grabs and puts on her helm then readies her staff as she steps out of the tent. She will fight defensively at first, looking to help party members finish off what are attacking them. GM: Ack. From Fremea: [Re: Actions] If anyone mentions that food is running a low for some, Fremea will hunt the Antelope to help get some food. Using her arrows and flying skills to make the kills easier and more fun. When she is awoken by the baying, she only grabs her bow and quiver, flying into the air. If there are enough clumped together she will cast multi-arrow in one phase at the highest EL she can. Otherwise, she will just start taking shots at the dogs. GM: Ack. Yeah so far no one asked for the antelope or ordered it. A small herd and would be easy to kill. So until ordered or actually going to do so will consider above as a if-then. :) From Kell: [Re: Actions] Ha'Kell yells out "Alarm Alarm! Hyenas attacking" trying to wake everyone up, as he charges back to the camp to protect the other horses and fight off the hyenas. GM: Ack. Second to protect horses. Interesting. Been a few years since watched nature shows but do Hyena attack horses more than humans? I suspect they are as a pack would find the weakest so guess makes sense they'd attack the horses. I'd not even considered it. Until you guys posted. :) Too bad war horses and the Fay horse are there to protect as well. From Kell: [Re: Actions] Slight update. Since Kell is so far from the horses, he will engage the pack of hyenas near him, charging to skewer and letting his horse attack and stomp the beasts as well. The first 2 phases are attack, and trying to wake everyone up. After that, if there is more, he will cast Major Illusion at max el. The illusion - giant fire elementals will appear and start attacking the pack. The idea is to scare them off or do real damage. GM: Ack. From Arawn: [Re: Actions] Janaq 21st, 4:37pm With the others focused on examing each other for signs ... [God's Eyes at max EL to scan the Earth Eater and then the tunnel for anything of interest] Once things were settled Arawn informed the group, horses included, that he'd call up a brief rainstorm to cleanse off the foul remnants for any who wished to partake. [Tempest at max EL] Janaq 21st, 7:21pm "If you're willing and they'd be of use, I can invoke ... [Arawn will cast Luck at max EL, using Sidh Tongue. If Kell is a Sidh magician Arawn will also cast Sound Power - Sonata (to boost magic) at max EL using the Sidh Tongue. He'll also allow use of his wand until the ritual is done.] Janaq 26th, 1:32 am Hyenas - With a quick warning to Corsaya and the horses to be on guard he reached out with his empathic abilities, recalling his previous unusual encounters with wild animals and hoping this time to connect with the pack and guide them away from battle or at least stall them for moment. [Elvish Empathic Communication and Influence Chance/Rhetoric to try and calm the hyenas/get them to back down. If food is desired he'll offer to give them food, using the Scroll of Sustenance and some of his own rations to create a meal fitting for the creatures. If he does befriend them he'll ask them for news of any danger or strange activity in the area before they depart.] If this fails he'll raise his voice in a screeching howl that would most definitely rouse those still sleeping. Food and Grain: Arawn will split his food with Pyan and Dorhak, splitting it three ways. He'll resort to using his Scroll of Sustenance to supplement if anyone in the party, horses included, run out. On Janaq 23rd, or the second night after the hyena encounter if you don't want to backtrack, Arawn will Translocate back to Cetric's village and bring back enough stored food to supply Pyan, Dorhak, Unali, himself and anyone else in need for the remainder of the journey to Kameri. As to the horse feed, he'll split his feed so that Pyan's horse is fed. He'll bring back enough grain for both Corsaya and Pyan's horse for the remainder of the trip to Kameri in addition to human rations. If you need me to figure out how bags can you let me know how many bags we still have on us? I've been juggling a lot in RL and haven't done a great job keeping track right now. GM: Ack. Not sure if Kell wants that as its just a Knowledge spell not a rite or such for enhancing ebony. Sonata actually might give the gods a headache if its a simple download of info its sort of like white noise. But interesting way to use spells for sure. Don't worry on bags that's my job I'll juggle. You just RP. Sharing food with Dorhak is being done by Kiet. But you can help Pyan. ------------------------------------------------------------ [New Stuff] [Janaq 21st, 1635TH] [Zen'da Central Plains] [Time: 4:37 pm] With the others focused on examing each other for signs of injury Arawn decided to look in on the animal companions. Once this was done he peered at the remnants of the Earth Eater, his eyes narrowing as he studied it and the ground surrounding. Arawn casts his vision spell to look under the ground and around the area. It seems the exposed Earth Eater about 25 feet is gone. As Arawn looks down and to the north he can see the body of the worm wind this and that. At times its near the surface but otherwise its almost 50 feet down. Arawn estimates the creature is about 85 or so feet but its hard to grasp scale. There does not seem to be anything of note or merit like swallowed person or such just digested mush. Arawn knows the worm will decay and the ground cave in making the ground alive with material for life. Top side birds and other carrion will eat for days. Given a day and this place will smell royally from the decay. Arawn then warns the group of a coming storm he'll create and casts a tempest spell to clean bodies, clothing and gear from the exploded flesh. [Time: 7:21 pm] The trio head off so Kell can learn some knowledge. "If you're willing and they'd be of use, I can invoke a blessing of Sidh Luck and use of my wand for your ritual." When the time came for the rite Arawn set himself up as the eyes and ears of the trio. He walked a circle, scanning for any trouble that might disrupt the delicate ritual. Arawn, who seemed distracted with thought the last few nights, gave a nod. "The spirit of ebony is powerful, though one I've not delved into. Perhaps after our adventure we can see to an exchange of knowledge. Let me know when you're ready and if there's anything you'll need from me. " Kell casts his knowledge spell and waits. The wind blows through the plains and whispers into his ears and seems to sing a ancient song of nature. Suddenly he hears what could be whispers of others in his ears and in his mind. The download of information comes from high. A flood of information from pictures, runic symbols, gestures and other words of magic are rushing into his head. As he finishes the download a grin hits Kell's face. He begins to pace back and forth. Muttering to himself. 'Of course'. 'It's so clear' and other things. Now it seems to make sense from the books and pieces all fall into place. Now he can soon sit and enhance the ebony and work on it. But he may need another day to plan an attack of what magic to do on the dark wood. ------ ------------- [Janaq 24th, 1635TH] [Zen'da Central Plains] [Time: 6:17 am] Before the party packs up as the sun rises, Arawn warns of his plan. He'll jump to Cetric's village and get more food for the party and horses. He knows Z'leyra wants to move on so plans not to stay long. [Time: 6:26 am] Arawn returns with the bags of grain and some fresh meat and food for the party. The party then packs up the bags and heads out for the day. ------ ------------- [Janaq 26th, 1635TH] [Zen'da Central Plains] [Time: 1:33:00 am] At the noise of the Hyenas, Corona takes to the air and tries to figure out ff these dogs are hostile or not. As a group the pack of Hyenas who are extremely fast and small animals enter the camp. They all move at once in a pack. Four charge toward Kell in the north. Hyena #1 leaps straight for Kell and is so anxious it leaps to far to the right and goes falling to the side. Hyena #3 slams into Kell's shield and slides off. Hyena #4 tries to bite but fails to hit. But Hyena #2 comes in below Kell's shield arm and bites him in the lower right just above his hip doing 6 points of damage. Hyena #5 and #6 charges from the south and divert for Arawn/Fremea's tent. Both seem to sniff Fremea and enter the tent. This startles Fremea before she can get her gear seeing two dogs charge through the tent flap for her. If she hadn't woken up she might've been shredded to death. Both leap toward her as she sits up but she quickly rolls to the side of the tent forcing herself against the taunt tent wall. She desperately reaches for her dagger. But lucky for her both fail to bite her. Hyena's #7-#9 charge from the south toward the tied up horses baying. First two go after Kiet's and Kell's horses but they are warhorses so might be able to defend themselves. But the third charges Z'leyra's horse which is not a war mount. All three Hyena fail to bite the horses as they move and dodge. Hyena #10-12 charge from the south west. They avoid Fremea's tent and the Ticasian men. Seems they notice movement from Unali and Z'leyra's tent. So all three charge and enter the tent. All three enter the tent and charge just for Unali. The first two fail to get close as Unali rolls and weaves. The third does bite but the jaws miss her by a half inch in the arm. Hyena #13 charges from south west and races toward Kiet's tent who is still sleeping. As the animal enters the tent it tries to bite Kiet but actually seems to connect with the shield which is to Kiet's right. The dark tent makes it more difficult to find flesh. Hyena #14-#17 all charge from the dark north moving south toward the camp. Finally as the others move at the same time the last Hyena #18 moves from south east passing the horses and Arawn and enters Pyan's tent. The animal lunges for the sleeping Pyan and bites him in the right shoulder doing 4 points of damage. Unali saved by waking up from the magical scabbard rolls over and grabs her dagger. She unsheathes the magical dagger and grabs a normal one. Three dogs attacking her during her sleep time, bad dogs! She stabs toward two of them with both daggers. Each one strikes and kills #10 and #12 out right. Arawn yells to Corona and the horses to be wary as the animals approach. But the small dogs are so fast that the warning is too late. Then from his side vision he notices one go into Pyan's tent. He rushes to help Pyan who last time was asleep. He knows the horses should be able to defend themselves. He bends down and tries to thrust his blade at the animal but misses to help Pyan. Kell is horrified to see all these Hyenas coming from the north. At least 8! He yells out "Alarm Alarm! Hyenas attacking" trying to wake everyone up. Kell worries about the horses but it is too late. Four pounce on him and one bites him! He stabs #3 with his spear doing 8 points of damage. Z'leyra reaches for her helmet. She knows firing inside a tent of cloth would be dangerous. She reaches for her staff as Unali takes out two. She can't use the staff in a small space as the tent so uses it to push the animal outside. She crawls toward the entrance and exits. Fuk and Lucria hear the noise, wake up and grab their swords. They rush out in their underwear. Fuk notices one animal in Unali's tent and moves toward there. As he rounds the corner of the tent he sees Kell fighting a whole bunch. Fuk thrusts at the last animal in Unali's tent but fails to hit. Lucria moves south toward Fremea's tent and thrusts his sword at #5 hitting for 7 points of damage. Pyan wakes up from the bite and startled by the beast over him. He reaches for his dagger he keeps on the side of his blanket and stabs the beast doing 4 points of damage. Kiet wakes up as he is attacked. He stares at the creature who has slobber hanging down. He considers frying the beast but inside a tent with clothing, tent, blanket and other things that catch fire is suicide. He reaches for his shield and tulwar. But at this angle on his back it is a wild swing. But the swing is true and good and does 12 points to the hyena pup killing him. Blood splattered all over Kiet, tent and blanket. Kiet curses for that and knows the smell will be bad. Dorhak is awoken by the noise next to his tent. Sounded like a dog inside Pyan's tent. Then barks and grunts. He sits up and sees shadows all over the place. Then he hears the baying. He grabs his shield and mace and exits the tent. He sees Arawn standing outside Pyan's tent for some reason. But then glances north and sees Kell surrounded by dogs. Dorhak growls and plans to charge the beasts. Fremea grabs her dagger and stabs the Hyena at the tent flap and with Lucria's last blow kills the beast. She then reaches for her bow and quiver. [Time: 1:33:04 am] Arawn tries to feel the creatures but he knows they are hungry and hunger drives intent. But it is too late to talk and stop the creatures. Already at least two are wounded for his allies. If he could locate the Alpha Male maybe he could stop this but the camp is pure chaos and it would be difficult to find the Alpha. So he casts a spell to scare the animals. The Sonic Boom echoes at 100 feet around him in every direction as Arawn yells a half yell/battle cry. Certainly if anyone is still asleep they are no longer. The horses mainly the riding horses are affected by the same sonic yell and become startled tearing at their ropes to flee. But the warhorses who have heard such battle cries only act. Those around Hyena's 7-9 attack. The horses en masse who are not startled by the battle cry kick the animals who seem to be startled. All three are damaged in the kick and trample attacks doing 6, 5 and 6 points Corona dives toward one of the animals north of Kell and fires but the fire beam from his eyes only impacts on the ground near one. Nine of the 14 remaining Hyenas recover from the noise made by Arawn and act at the same time. Hyena #1 and #3 around Kell attack again but the other 2 are startled by the noise and disoriented. Both attacks fail. Hyena #6 turns away from Fremea and attacks Lucria biting him on the leg doing 6 points of damage. Hyena #7-9 lunge as one at Kiet's horse to take it down and drag it away. Two of them attack Kiet's horse doing 6 and 4 points while the third fails to bite on. Hyena #11 turns to attack Fuk but fails to bite him. Hyena #14 charges forward and attacks Kell He clamps down on his left leg doing 2 more points. Hyena #18 turns and leaps at Arawn. But at the last second Arawn draws his shield and he slides off it. The other Hyenas are startled by the noise and do nothing for now. Unali exits the tent and attacks the animal attacking Fuk and stabs it. Hyena #11 is killed. Arawn thrusts at Hyena #18 and kills him with a single strike. Kell considers backing up but that would bring him a bit undefended in the retreat. He just prays that others will be helping him soon. He thrusts at Hyena #2 but fails to hit the beast. Z'leyra exits the tent and looks around. She sees Kell being surrounded and moves to help. She swings her staff at Hyena #1. The staff swings fast and slams into the beast's side doing 8 points of damage. Fuk runs to help Kell thrusting his sword at Hyena #4 but fails to hit. Lucria steps past Fremea and charges #6. With whip now in hand he swings his whip at the animal knocking the Hyena off his feet doing 6 points. Then rushes in and stabs the beast for 7 more points killing it. Pyan feels his shoulder wound but knows he has had worse. He grabs his bow and quiver and exits the tent. Kiet exits the tent with his shield and tulwar. He looks around and in the north sees a bunch of the beasts attacking Kell and others. But to his right and closer he sees them attacking his horse! Kiet rushes forward to help his horse. He stabs Hyena #8 doing 5 more damage to it. Dorhak sees Kell and others being attacked. He yells out "Leave one of the shoggers for me!" He then charges and passes Fuk. He swings his mace at Hyena #14 doing 9 points of damage and kills it. Fremea takes to the sky and begins to scan for targets. [Time: 1:33:06 am] [Phase 3] Actions? Comments? Next Update..Friday?? GM: Overall a good start for a ambush. Of 18 of them 8 are dead. Five more are wounded or near dead. I will do phase 3 and 4 next update. If it comes down to only 1 or 2 I may finish the combat entirely then. Since everyone is up and out of tents I'll remove tents from map to prevent clutter. All dead Hyenas are off the map now. All attacks and targets are random including horses it is not personal just random. GM: Arawn - The item to calm them down with Empathy would have worked but with this large a pack its hard to target one or two. If you can locate the alpha male, maybe but the chaos is hard. The Boom did distract and prevented them for actions. Did you want to just scream or say something in the boom? It should last the entire combat I believe. Fremea - Will assume fire on lone ones as firing on those near allies could be dangerous. Will assume fire on Row B ones first using Multi Arrow now. Kell - Got some help now. It'd have been really bad if no help came. :) Will assume Major Illusion on phase 3? Kiet - Assume no ring in a tent. Very bad. I assume you defend your horse. Unali - Will assume help Kell or do you want to help the horses? Pyan - Bow will be limited action. So do you want to use another weapon like sling if can't fire to endanger allies? if able to will fire on Row B ones if they don't move. Z'leyra - Will assume help Kell. Dorhak - Same help Kell I assume. GM: Map 1 Hex = 10 feet 1 Row = 5 Feet 1 Column = 5 feet. 1 2 123456789012345678901234567890 / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__A /I\ = North \__/ \__/ \__/ \hhh \__/ B (*( = Campfire / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__C \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ D / \__/ \__/ \hh D \__/ \__E A = [K19] -Arawn \__/ \__/ \__ZhKh__/ \__/ F F = [ ] Fremea 30' high off map / \__/ \__/ \__C \__/ \__G K = [F18] -Kell \__/ \__/ \U_/ \__/ \__/ H E = [O19] -Kiet / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__I U = [H14] -Unali \__/ \__/ L(*) \P_/ \__/ J P = [J20] -Pyan / \__/ \__/ \__A \__/ \__K Z = [F16] -Z'leyra \__/ \__/ \__/HHHH_/ \__/ L D = [E20] -Dorhak / \__/ \__/ \HHHH \__/ \__M C = [G19] -Fuk \__/ \__/ \__/ hhh_/ \__/ N L = [J13] -Lucria / \__/ \__/ \__E \__/ \__O R = [ ] -Corona 30' High off map \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ P [*] = Campfire / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__Q h - Hyena \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ R / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__S H = Horse \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ T Horses - L/M 17-20 / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__U Inside Horse pavailion h - [E17] Hyena #1 -8 h - [ ] Hyena #10 Dead h - [E18] Hyena #2 h - [ ] Hyena #11 Dead h - [F17] Hyena #3 -8 h - [ ] Hyena #12 Dead h - [F19] Hyena #4 h - [ ] Hyena #13 Dead h - [ ] Hyena #5 Dead h - [ ] Hyena #14 Dead h - [ ] Hyena #6 Dead h - [B20] Hyena #15 h - [N18] Hyena #7 -6 h - [B21] Hyena #16 h - [N19] Hyena #8 -10 h - [B22] Hyena #17 h - [N20] Hyena #9 -6 h - [ ] Hyena #18 Dead 1 2 123456789012345678901234567890 / \__/ \__A /I\ = North \__/ \ hhh / B (*( = Campfire / \__/ \__C \__/ \ _/ D / \__/ hh D \__E A = [K19] -Arawn \__/ \ ZhKh / F F = [ ] Fremea 30' high off map / \__/ C \__G K = [F18] -Kell \__/ \ U / H E = [O19] -Kiet / \__/ \__I U = [H14] -Unali \__/ \ L(*) P / J P = [J20] -Pyan / \__/ A \__K Z = [F16] -Z'leyra \__/ \ HHHH / L D = [E20] -Dorhak / \__/ \HHHH \__M C = [G19] -Fuk \__/ \ hhh / N L = [J13] -Lucria / \__/ E \__O R = [ ] -Corona 30' High off map \__/ \ / P [*] = Campfire / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__Q h - Hyena \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ R / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__S H = Horse \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ T Horses - L/M 17-20 / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__U Inside Horse pavailion