` 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 #97 sequence (file #689) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Admin Notes: None. ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Recap] From Kell: [Re: Actions] Kell is watching and surviving and fighting, blood covering some of his striking face. This is just odd. Not like most fights. He will protect anyone near him includong Mournath and the healers and Pyan. While doing so he is using all his senses to try and figure. Out what is attacking them, whyn and how to stop it. He wilm kill the naked Pyan if he must and since Mourn is frozen, he watches for a naked Mourn. //OOC. I am traveling for the next 10 days so responses may be delayed. Or none is possible. Back on Dec 18. \\ GM: Ack. Technically you don't know Mourn is frozen. To you it looks like he is either a coward who can't do much or that he just can't hold his gear well. :) Thanks for info on travel. Enjoy the fun! From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions] Relieved that Pyan seems stabilized, Z'leyra's eyes go wide as she sees the dark cloud. She reacts by running for her tent, calling "I need my drum and staff NOW! Keep away... GM: Ack. From Fremea: [Re: Actions] Fremea has no idea what this cloud thing is, but she knows an arrow won't do anything against it. She quickly thinks about her options, she does not really have any options to use on a cloud. This is something they never taught her during her training. She will quickly fly back to make sure it can not get to her and try using Banish to see if it will do anything. GM: Ack. Will assume null and void now after the re-scene. From Kell: [Re: Actions] Kell doesn't know what this is either, but it has to be bad.  Maybe a dispell?  But which dispell? Hearing z cry out he will keep others away from the cloud, and try to help.  Trying to sense it and decide if it is Elder or Chaos orientation..  //mana sensing the whole time so may be a dispell will work...\\ The half elf starts a casting and gathering mana... This may help he thinks... // Cast web at max EL he can cast in 1 phase. Not the physical web the astral flavor. Hoping the web can stop the cloud from moving and give Z time to get her drum.  \\ GM: Ack. From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions] Now regretting that she loaned out her luck ring Z'leyra hastens to grab her staff and drum, casts Orient Self (EL5 to increase casting speed of other shamanic spells) on herself and then casts a shamanic (dispel/)Banish Chaos at maximum EL through her staff at the cloud. [In her studies at Ticasi, Z'leyra had engaged with some casual student conversations about what could be the worst monsters anyone could meet....general consensus was the Soul Daiva, which description fits this dark cloud. Some said only those most skilled at dispelling chaos or equipped with a weapon dedicated to killing Soul Daivas had a chance of not having their souls devoured by the monster, if met and with no very fast way to flee. There were rumors of weapons that contain such beasts constrained within them, weapons that eat the souls of those struck by them. One could fight a Soul Daiva with such a weapon....which would each which faster?] GM: Ack. Casual talk on SDs? I see that unlikely. I mean only2 schools might even know of it. Religion and Magic. Unless you took a Monsters of the Middle World 101 Course I don't see much chance of this. So as I do with such retroactive stuff I'll roll for it via Int. So 2 rolls. First to see if talked about it and second to see if had 'info' on such things. Seems both worked. So fine Since Z has no experience with SDs so had to take rolls. From Dorhak: [Re: Actions] The dwarf, continuing to sing, though roughly startled by the appearance of things even uglier than himself (I didn't know it was possible!), will do his best to help out Unali as he was impressed by her attack on naked Pyan. GM: Ack. From David: [Re: Saving party] I'm just trying to save my frickin' skin!!! The very LAST "thing" Kiet needs to see is a frickin' Soul Daiva!!! GM: Ack. Yet it was a fun reaction. :) You guys have no backbone. It might have taken only at most 4-6 of you guys out before it would leave sated. Party would still be around..technically. From Dorhak: [Re: Song] So, did anyone like Dorhak's song? I was thinking to just add something different to the character. It's not all about hack-n-slash...or crush, in his case. GM: Ack. I like it. It adds flavor. Course in middle of battle its hard based on 3 second phases. :) As GM I do note the role playing and tally points up. These are private points I use for various reasons. So those who post 1 line every 4 weeks might not have as much benefit as say Arawn who posts tons and tons. :) These points may be the difference between life and death literally. So its always good to do as much role playing as possible. This said however, quantity does not mean quality. If you post a good thing like a song or great dialogue that is several lines that's great. If you simply say I ask for a beer from bartender. Not so much. Fleshing to a scene is always preferred. I agree on Wout's comments in email on song. Good stuff. Maybe others will comment on it. ------------------------------------------------------------ [New Stuff] [Febris 4th, 1635TH] [Kameran Lands - Forest South of Kameran capital] [Time: 4:05:27 am] [Phase 9] With the flying creatures only feet away he raises his hand and activates his other ring. The flame shoots out from his ring toward the middle creature. But as the flame hits him it seems to divide up and go in 2 directions as if the being's magic defense deflected the blow. The creature snarling in disgust looks straight at Kiet. Fremea aims and fires her bow at the 3rd beast. The arrow flies swift and sure hitting the beast in the right shoulder doing 23 points of damage as it slices into bone and tissue. Fremea grins that finally its not a tree! The three hovering beings gaze at the party. All three begin to murmur in their own odd tongues as if goading the darkness. The first grabs his spear, second his sword and third pulls out a whip as they dash forward. All three moving about 3 times as fast as any human are so fast it is hard to track them but they dive at their chosen targets. The first moves toward Kell and the spear stabs him on the left shield arm doing 4 more points. But suddenly the half elf can feel something surging through his veins. Then suddenly a jolt of pain hits him and he grits his teeth as the pain is intense. The middle one who eyed Kiet for a target now has a confirmed target when the silly human tries to toast him. He draws his sword and charges. The beast swings his sword but the acrobat ducks, seeing him move by clear intent, avoiding the sharp blade. At the same time as his allies the third beast flies toward Unali for some reason. The being snaps back his whip as he flies and flings it toward the dagger maiden. But the whip snaps over her head missing by inches. Corona dives toward the one holding the whip and blasts it with his fire eyes. The blast of fire hits him on the back but does not seem to penetrate his hide. The summoned beast turns to see this new creature attack one of the ones here. It is hungry for action and wants to feast so it runs and leaps toward the one holding the whip. The beast bites down on the creature's left lower leg and takes a chunk out doing 4 points of damage. This causes the beast to slam onto the ground feet away from Mournath who sees it for the first time, missing their entrance to his back. What the devil is this now? The sailor considers. But the beast slams into the ground and doesn't seem to be moving. Unali moves forward to the downed beast and slices the threat of the beast killing the unconscious beast. Arawn looks up to see Unali kill one and glances at the others. He realizes Pyan seems stable for a few seconds and stands. Grabbing his sword and shield he stands over Pyan to guard him. Mournath tries to move his head to see the beast. It is some kind of black beast. The dog or whatever that just appeared by the red head seems to have taken it down. Man that dog must have a nasty bite! Kell stabs upward at the beast who just attacked him but the pain is intense and seems to interfere with his stab and he misses. Z'leyra runs toward her tent. Fuk exit's Z'leyra's tent with her satchel and sees Z'leyra running his fast. He meets her and gives her the satchel. Then his eyes see the new creatures and he shows sign of surprise. Lucris sees the new creatures and raises his whip and moves toward Kell to attack the one who just attacked him. Since the beast is up there is little chance of hitting others with his whip. The snap of the whip hits sky only to the right of the beast missing him. Kiet realizes he just made this beast very very upset and the way he looks it just made it double if that's even possible. He thrusts his tulwar but fails to hit the talkative beast. Mae directs the summoned beast to the flying creatures in black. Then she sees it take down one and figures that was easy. But then she recalls the arrow out of its shoulder. Dorhak smiles seeing that one is down means they can be killed. That means mace smashing time. He continues is song, "Away with your small, proud thimbles of glasses!" He moves toward the creature attacking Kell. He swings his mace toward the legs of the hovering beast before it zooms away. He hits doing 3 points of damage to the creature. ---------- [Time: 4:05:23 am] [Phase 10] Kiet allocates mana to flame the creature above him. But the creature above him already started his before and and now casts his spell speaking their ugly language. The spell invokes. The entire party is encircled in the spell's diameter. All except Z'leyra is out of range. Dorhak, Fremea, Kell, Kiet, Mae, Mournath, Pyan, Fuk and Lucria are suddenly hit with a massive jolt of pain. Unali and Arawn seem to be unaffected. Kell now feels double the pain and grits his teeth so much it hurts his gums. Kiet who was allocating mana is suddenly distracted by the pain and loses the mana. Mournath feels the pain and can't move an inch to do anything. Pyan who is still knocked out at least feels nothing but is affected. The Gyligi summoned beast begins to howl normally not in his supernatural voice from the pain. Corona is also hit by the spell and suddenly spirals downward into a thick bush. Fremea aims at the last 2 beasts. The first one by Kell is too close to others so aims for the one near Kiet. There is a chance she could hit Kiet but the acrobat is not a tree. So she fires even through the pain and hits through the tough hide doing 7 points of damage. The Mer'Daeva Warden of Hell snarls but Kiet can almost see a faint smile of pleasure. It dives toward Kiet with his sword eager to end this early. But Kiet is barely able to life his shield and block the down thrust from the hovering beast. blocking any damage. The creature attacking Kell tries to use his spear but the half elf is able to dodge it. The Gwligi charges toward the one attacking Kell and leaps trying to reach it. But the leap is wild and he misses. Unali notices some of the others seem to be in some form of distress. Pain or bad food that night? She moves toward the one attacking Kell. It seems Arawn is standing over Pyan so he should protect him. She does a running leap swinging both daggers at the beast who is 3 feet off the ground but misses with both daggers. Mournath considers his death. A painful death standing around watching others. Why couldn't it have been last night during the shipwreck? Kell recoils from his attack with strong determination, or just stubborn trader's sense, stabs at the being over him doing 2 points of damage to his middle right chest. Z'leyra oblivious to things by the others reaches her tent and enters. She scrambles for her drum and staff. Fuk tries to help Kell with his sword but fails to hit or the pain is too much to distract him. Lucria though has trained with pain and distractions and snaps his whip at the beast over Kell hitting him in the lower back doing 3 points of damage with his whip. Kiet growls not from the pain but also that the pain forced him to lose his spell concentration. He thrusts the tulewar at the creature but misses. Mae feels the spasms of pain. But this is nothing new to her. Gniled beat and did things like this. She ma not be purely immune but her determination to not be distracted by the pain is enough. Dorhak swings on the 1st creature near Kell but misses with his mace as he continues his song, "Of wines humans and elves do supply." [Time: 4:05:26 am] [Phase 11] Actions? Comments? Next Update..Monday... GM: Consider this the Friday update. Since things prevented me (late start etc) doing it Monday. Phase 11/12 I may start actually on Saturday if enough posts. But if not enough posts I'll do it mostly Monday. Pain technically gives no damage. But it does cause action modifications (ie roll modifiers). Eventually in probably 12-15 seconds those affected will not be able to move due to the pain in general. I removed other trees from map for ease of reading. Basically Flyer #1 is surrounded by many. Though being able to fly surrounded is relative. Kiet is only fighting #2. Flyer #3 is dead and off map. Reminder of scale: When a spell says Range EL+1" this is 1" = 1 hex = 10 feet. So EL2 is EL2+1=3 or 30 feet/3 hexes. This is for new folks using spells. GM: Kiet - Sorry spell made you lose the mana. Technically its not damage. But I see it as a concentration lost thing. Sadly your the only dealing with this one being. You can try the spell again or use a ring. Now that you are aware of the pain would not lose concentration. Mae - Since could not reach you in Skype could not warn you that Gwligi will turn on you next phase. This means if you don't banish it before he cmoves (spell then movement) better be prepared. :) Z'leyra you are about 4 hexes from nearest or around 6 from Kiet's flyer. GM: Affected by Pain Phase 9: Kell Phase 10: Dorhak, Fremea, Kell x2, Kiet, Mae, Mournath, Pyan, Fuk, Lucria Not Affected: Unali, Arawn, Z'leyra Affected by Howl: Pyan, Mournath GM: Spells Duration end Spell Kiet Phase 13 Iron Skin Pain #1 Phase 29 To Kell Pain #2 Phase 30 To those affected GM: Necklace Use Feb 4 - Z'leyra Dwarven Feb 5 - Kell Kameran Feb 6 - Kiet Kameran 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 [K26] = Unali \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ F B [J25] = Mournath Facing West/Frozne / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ G N [N21] = Mae facing north \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ H A [J23] = Arawn Facing east over Pyan / \__/ \__/ \__/ \ _/ K2__/ \ I F [M23] - Fremea 10' up hovering \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ATB__/ ##__/ J K [I27] = Kiet facing East / \__/ \__/ \__/ \_G1U \_## \ K D [L26] = Dorhak facing north \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ CND_/ \__/ L T [J24] - Kell Facing SE / \__/ \__/ \__/ \V_/ \__/ \ M N [L25] - Fuk Facing North \__/ \__/ \_Z/ \_M/ \__/ \__/ N C [242] = Lucria facing NE / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ O ## = Burning Tree \__/ \__/ \_ / [*]_/ \__/ \__/ P @@ = Trees / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ Q Z [N15] = Z'leyra kneeling north \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ R P [J23] = Pyan [Under Arawn] / \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \ S \__/ \__/ \__/HHH__/ \__/ \__/ T G [K24] -Gwligi Facing East / \__/ \__/ \HHH \__/ \__/ \ U 1 Flyer #1 [K25] - 4 feet up \__/ \__/ \__/ \_@@ \__/ \__/ V 2 Flyer #2 [I28] - 4 feet up / \__/ \__/ \__/ \@@@ \__/ \ W 3 Flyer #3 [Dead] \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ X