Post from Freme aon helping Unali... Subject: Re: [pnpgm] Game Update #94 - File # 663 - Vine Combat Ph 3+4 or how to ambush a tree Fremea will notice that Unali is working on the source and will switch over to killing it there instead of the vines. Sent from Outlook From: pnpgm on behalf of pnpgm Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2016 2:14:23 PM To: pnpgm@list.powersandperils.org Subject: [pnpgm] Game Update #94 - File # 663 - Vine Combat Ph 3+4 or how to ambush a tree HT Player DS Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FH.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Al.. Ma ...Kevin Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....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 ...Don.Kerr..............Maelorna..........Dancer..Normal/Human....Fe ...Gilbert.Isla..........Mournath..........Sailor..Normal/Human....Ma R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe 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 #94 sequence (file #663) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Admin Notes: None. ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Recap] From Kiet: [Re: Actions] Kiet will hold up short and thrust his Tulwar into the ground. Then try to cast the Infinite Sight spell at Max EL once again. It's hard to fight what he can't see. Recast until it works. Then cast max EL Iron Skin once, grab Tulwar and slash away. GM: Ack. There is that burning bush (just no gods using it to speak yet). But yeah vines are hard to target at night. I guess no one condones you taking the worthless gem. :< From Dorhak: [Re: Actions] Dorhak is shocked to see the shogging plants attacking! He lays about with his mace, wishing he had his axe handy, but there wasn't time to grab it. He'll do his best to help the others. "The shogging plants are alive!" Then he starts singing while he fights! Come, come! Saucy wenches and good mannered fellows, That... GM: Ack. Being new I want to explain that song will take time. 1 Phase to warn others. Another 13-15 phases to sing the rest (42 seconds or so) and combat may be over by then. :) From Mae: [Re: Actions] In the span of a few heartbeats, Maelorna can see that.. (Summoning Gwyligi, Max EL). GM: Ack. From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions] Not noticing the vines Z'leyra uses Pyan's shirt to apply pressure to the wound, slowing or stopping the bleeding. Then (if not aware of being attacked) she will cast EL0 Healing Mist heal Pyan to full Health. If aware of being attacked she will either deal with the threat or heal Pyan depending on the danger she sees in the threat and likelyhood of others dealing with it quickly. GM: Ack. From Mournath: [Re: Actions] Standing over his fallen, new companion, Mournath... GM: Ack. From Kell: [Re: Actions] Kell once again says a prayer of thanks. This is the... [OOC - Stay and keep Pyan from death.] GM: Ack. ------------------------------------------------------------ [New Stuff] [Febris 4th, 1635TH] [Kameran Lands - Forest South of Kameran capital] [Time: 4:05:09 am] [Phase 3] Arawn notices Z'leyra's expression and starting the gestures for a healing spell. But Arawn knows that spell will kill him for good. He waves a hand and grunts to stop Z'leyra. There is simply no time to explain. Arawn kneels down at Pyan's side and casts a energy spell to deplete Pyan's energy. Physical healing would not cure his energy loss which is almost completely gone if not gone already. His body may still be around thanks to Kell's wand but his spirit may already be preparing to depart. Being a priest he is able to handle the spirit if needed. But he needs to act fast and give Pyan some energy from Arawn. He places hands on Pyan's chest and speaks the words learnt long ago. A dull brown energy flow leaves the druid's hands and soon begins to spread into Pyan's body. The energy turns from a dull brown to a dark brown to orange and then pale to show that it begins to give substance to Pyan's body. Arawn hates to stop Z'leyra but if she had healed at the same time his death chance would've climbed. He needed energy not physical help at this point. Once the wand is removed then Pyan will probably be critical again. Kiet recasts his infinite Sight spell and the darkness shrinks away revealing the landscape as if day. So this is how the elves see. It is not perfect night vision but it is good enough. He looks to the ground and sees the green and red vines. They are small at tips but thick as a sausage for the most part so shouldn't be too hard to hack. Fremea casts her Fire Arrow spell and sees the bow knock glow slightly from the magic. In the span of a few heartbeats, Maelorna can see that two of her new companions are hurt. One still upon the ground, while the other still up on his knees. Both with sundered armor revealing ruined flesh underneath dripping blood. Then the motions of the plant catch her eye as she can just make them out and follow their movements. 'Do it little one, after all flesh is only fleeting, after all, you want to help them.' the sibiliant voice in her head purrs and taunting with delight as it reveals the image of what might help. The hint of a terror inducing howl and baleful gaze as glowing crimson eyes glare at her hungrily in the darkness. Maelorna starts to utter the first phrases of summoning and binding to her will. She hopes the spell worked but knows it will take a few seconds to find out. With the light of the burning bush to guide him again Corona dives toward the vines. This time there are more around so he tries to target the far east part of the vines about 10 feet to east of those around Pyan. His eyes unleash a magical blast but the eagle's fire dart only impacts the ground sparking a few sparks. Hovering only 10 feet away, realizing the vines could probably reach her, Fremea fires his bow at one of the green vines hitting it with luck doing 10 points of damage. The arrow enhanced by the fire magic. The vine is severed in half and dies. Unali who exited her tent in cover of darkness and in her dark black clothing took the opportunity to flank the area. As she moved north west she saw the vines moved and realized it has to be a creature or a plant. She scans to the far east tracing the red colorful vines, using the burning bush as light, to a tree some distance away. The tree is tall and thick with bushes all around the base. But she notices fat wobbling vines moving this way and that. If she can cut them at the base it would stop the vine ends doing damage. Hoping Z'leyra's magical dagger will give her warning of any attacks she moves and pulls now both magical daggers. She wonders how does one ambush a tree? Do you sneak up and attack or can it sense you? Maybe the tree senses heat or energy from victims like a plant sensing a fly coming nearby. If that is the case she will be a big target. But she has to prevent more damage. But wait Kell did say the new earth bridge dagger he made has defense against mana sensing? Maybe that means she is blocked from the tree detecting her? The magical dagger hits the base of the green vines slicing a bit of bush with it. The dagger does 14 points to the vine severing the vine from the tree. The earth dagger does 21 points of damage to another green vine base cleaving it in two with the force of Unali's blow. Standing over his fallen, new companion, Mournath scans the treeline. He senses the motion but can not clearly see the beast that has attacked. "For the sake of all our lives, move the fallen and wounded back to the light!" He shouts. Mournath sees the flaming arrow impact on one vine and realizes that is where the attack is coming from. He counts six in total half green and half red. But the green seems to all be motionless. Is that a trick to lull them into false bravado/ Kell once again says a prayer of thanks. This is the second time his life was saved by his helmet. This time he stayed conscious too! Kell stands as he sees Arawn and now Z'leyra over Pyan. But it seemed the Priest stopped Z'leyra from healing Pyan but why? Kell may not see all the vivid aurae like the pure Sidh do but he can tell that whatever Arawn just did was not physical healing. Maybe that is why the shaman was stopped? Kell stands and raises shield turning around to see the burning bush starting to fade and now a flaming arrow in one vine. Z'leyra is confused by the druid's actions. But she realizes that he knows and sees things she doesn't. So she continues to strip Pyan's shirt and make wraps to stop his bleeding. She can't recall what the wand Kell places in the hunter's hands does, but it must be helping. Around her she can hear others casting spells including the new red head. What could she be doing now? Fuk realizes the danger from the flaming arrow and burning bush. He moves forward slicing his sword down at one of the red vines. But the vine is too agile and the sword misses it. Pyan begins to stir a bit as his eyes flutter. A low groan is heard from his mouth. Kiet raises his shield and while the others are watching the vines he scans the trees all around him as best he can. Then he can see Unali in the distance up against a...black tree? Is that tree really black or is his new magical eyes messing with him? She is leaning over against the bush of the tree and doing something. Dorhak can feel the adrenaline. He sees the vines and was hoping for actual monsters. He yells out, "The shogging plants are alive!" To some it sounded like tree is alive? or was that active not alive? Dorhak tries to swing his mace at one of the red vines but it moves away just in time. By instinct alone not intellect the tree senses the danger to itself. With half of its vines gone or useless it tries to strike out to save itself. The dead green vines do nothing but the 3 Red ones act. One moves toward Kiet and Dorhak while the last vine draws backwards toward Unali. The one going against Dorhak misses as the small man ducks just in time. The Red vine hits Kiet in the upper left chest below the shoulder so hard it does 5 points of damage. The magic of the dagger helps to prevent a much worse level of damage to only 5 points to Unali as the Red vine strikes her in the arm slicing a bit of her skin clear off. The dagger maiden grits her teeth but does not scream. Her training in stealth that from happening. But she does feel oddly more tired all of a sudden. ----------- [Time: 4:05:12 am] [Phase 4] Kiet casts a Iron skin spell to prevent the vines from doing more damage to him. He can feel his skin toughen up so the spell must be working. Fremea fires another flaming arrow at another Red vine hitting it and causing it to stop moving as it begins to burn a bit. Unali notices the green vines stop moving. She moves toward the red ones and sees one not twitching. She uses her magical dagger to try to slice one up while using the dagger to deflect any other attacks. As the dagger slices down it catches up on the bush next to it and falls out of her hand. She hopes no one saw that fumble. Arawn glances up at Z'leyra and gives a apologetic frown. But the healer realizes that Pyan could still die maybe a 50/50 chance at this point if they do another healing. But he helps Z'leyra to stop the bleeding. He can hear Mournath's suggestion to move him but that could be risky as well. Mournath stabs outward at one of the red vines but misses. He continues speaking, "Tend to them there, least we all fall on this spot!" Kell tries to stab one of the red vines but also fails to hit. Z'leyra's own assessment is that the hunter may have a bit more than 50 maybe 40% chance of death. But this is based on whatever that wand is doing. Once it is removed it might go higher. She helps the druid stop the bleeding on most of the wounds but two to go. Fuk swings his sword at one of the red vines and slices it in half causing it to go inert just as the burning bush fades into darkness. Mae waits for her summoned guardian but watches as the man named Fuk somewhat of a constable she understands, strike one of the red vines. Then she realizes where is that poor bounty hunter Lucria? Dorhak tries to slam his mace down on one of the red vines and misses. He begins to sing, "Come, come! Saucy wenches and good mannered fellows,..." The last two red vines rip up and down. One moves upward toward Fremea but she is agile enough she dives and weaves just at the last second. The other Red vine hits Mournath in the left neck doing 3 points of damage as it strips skin from his neck. Mourntath also suddenly feels exhausted as if running for hours. [Time: 4:05:15 am] [Phase 5] Actions? Comments? Next Update..Monday... GM: Four of the six vines are dead or inactive. Leaving two Red ones left. Hopefully once vines are all dealt with things will go easy. Will work on update Monday afternoon. For those who see the vines (all but Z'leyra) most can estimate the range is 3 hexes so folks like Mae are out of range. But its only a estimate. GM: Dorhak : Will sing that song over several updates. :) When 1 phase = 3 seconds that long will take time. Fremea - Can try to fire on the vines or go to help Unali at the tree maybe fire on the bush or tree itself? Kell - Same as Fremea or back away since hurt? Kiet - Same as fremea. Unali - Will assume 1 dagger offense and 1 defense for the next update Mournath - Hurt you can back out of range or help the others. Mae - Reminder no magic while summoning. If no vines left will need to convince the summoned to do something else. Pyan - Still no comment on your wounds? Wow. So you are at 50/50 for death if you get a new healing spell. The thing that is keeping you around is that Wand. It is giving you +4 (positive 4) hit points. Do you want a new healing spell or risk it later? I consider sunrise as the 'new' day. This means about 2 hours to go as you bleed or drip bleed. But it is your decision. Z'leyra - Still unsure on vines yet. As they don't make much noise. If you had healed first before Arawn then Pyan would probably be dead for good (80%). So he had to restore his energy before he could do physical. So hope this is acceptable. GM: Necklace Use Feb 4 - Z'leyra Dwarven Feb 5 - Kell Kameran Feb 6 - ??? Feb 7 - ??? Based on walking not riding there will be more travel time so Feb 7 should allow 2 more slots to use the language necklace. Sign up! GM: Battle Map /I\ = North 1 Hex = 10 Feet 1 Column = 5 feet 1 Row = 5 feet 40 1 2 3 1234567890123456789012345678901234 / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ A [*] = Campfire \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ B Light 3 hex radis / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ C HHH = Horses under pavalion \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ D / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ E U [L30] = Unali's \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ F B [J25] = Mournath Facing East / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ G N [N21] = Mae facing north \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__F \__/ H A [K22] = Arawn Facing NE / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ I F [H28] - Fremea 15' up hovering \__/ \__/ \_@@ \__/PTB__/ @@__/ J K [L23] = Kiet facing North / \__/ \__/ \_@@ AZ_D \_@@ \ K D [J25] = Dorhak facing east \__/ \__/ @@@_/ \__/K \N_/ U\__/ L T [J24] - Kell Kneeling West / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ M N [L26] = Fuk Facing North \__/ \__@@@\__/ \_M/ \__/ \__/ N C [P22] = Lucria's Tent (Lucria) / \__/ \_@@ \__/ \__/ @@__/ \ O (sleeping) \__/ \__/ \_ / [*]_CC \__/ \__/ P @@ = Trees / \__/ \@@/ \__/ \__/ \@@/ \ Q Z [K23] = Z'leyra kneeling north \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \@@/ \__/ R P [J23] = Pyan / \__/ \_@@ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ S \__/ \__/ \__/HHH__/ \__/ \__/ T / \__/ \_@@@ \HHH \_@@ \__/ \ U \__/ \__/ \__/ \_@@ \__/ \__/ V / \__/ \__/ \__/ \@@@ \__/ \ W \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ X _______________________________________________ pnpgm mailing list pnpgm@list.powersandperils.org http://www.powersandperils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pnpgm _______________________________________________ pnpgm mailing list pnpgm@list.powersandperils.org http://www.powersandperils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pnpgm