Game: Blades of Git'riban : Primal State

'Benyamin' wrote:

Oh, sleet storm doesn't do any damage. However, anyone who tries to walk in the area (say Vivec and Gy) now can't see very far as slush swirls around them. The floor instantly slicks, making anyone walking have to make DC 10 balance check. Failure means no moving...miss by five, you fall...and nat 1...well, that's up to the [Evil]DM :twisted: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/sleetStorm.htm

Cool!

Nah.

Gy-Nath of Ironrock locks eyes with Jhank'kor the Dark. The warlock feels first the giph's emotions, an utter calm and focus of purpose, then he hears Gy's voice in his head.

"Jhank'kor, hear me, heed me. I have no doubt whatsoever that you speak truth, chal, or at least what you believe to be the truth. But that's the rub, isn't it? For what it's worth, I am not absolutely sure of your thralldom, for I saw you slay a ghaik in the Heart of the Void. Still, you bear several marks of a thrall, Jhank'kor, and not just a physical one. You are obsessed with ferreting out traitors, which may be a subconcious implant to make sure you remain one yourself. You have hidden your mark from others, purposefuly I wonder? Or were you programed to hide it? You have poor control of your emotional state, as I noticed from the first.

From where I stand there are four possibilities; First, that you are indeed a thrall of the ghaik, whether you realize it or not. If this is the case the safest thing would be to slay you right now, but I am not sure enough of this at the moment to take the life of a brother.

Second, that the ghaik tried to brainwash you but did not complete the job. This seems likely to me, but we will never get to the truth unless you calm down and start trusting me.

Third, that you are not brainwashed at all, just marked. If this is the case then you are not being influenced by the flayers, but are instead mentally unbalanced in your own right. This too makes sense if you went through what it sounds like you have, for the mark goes deep, I know.

Lastly, and the most disturbing possibility, is that you are completely enthralled, but the ghaik saw fit not to avert you from slaying their kind. If this is the case it turns what I know of the enthralled, and indeed of the ghaik, on it's head.

Hear me, Jhank'kor, heed me. Let me bandage your wrist. I must do so in a manner that keeps you from casting most spells. By taking the blade of your power, I pledge my blades to you. You shall not come to harm while my hands can hold a blade, nor while the blade of my mind remains sharp. Should you turn false my blades will meet yours. Choose."

On the balcony, Ar'dru and Du'minh continue to try to subdue the remarkably fierce Grazz. The job is complicated somewhat by the sudden blizzard. Grazz uses the slickness of the floor to finally be able to wriggle out from under Ar'dru. He uses his newly freed hand to jab at Ar'dru's eyes with his thumb. The attempt fails to poke out an eye, but it loosens the duthka'gith's jaw-lock on on Grazz's shoulder enough for the slippery zerai to escape with some tearing of flesh. Du'minh, meanwhile, pounds on Grazz's face and ribs. The wind goes out of the githzerai's lungs, but none of the fight seems to leave him.

A strike with the dagger is turned aside by Du'minh's armor. Ar'dru continues to wrestle with Grazz, who is now bruised, battered, and bleeding. His right shoulder is soaked in blood, and he winces with pain, but a fierce look of defiance fills his stare, a look as unlike a thrall's vacant determination as can be.

I think it's one check (his 1st attack) that has to beat everyone else's grapple. But I'll check again, just to be sure.

Edit: Thanks, post edited above.

[DMing - Rey passed his balance check, so he can stay upright and move at half speed. Grazz is currently still grappling with Ar'dru, though no longer pinned down. Du'minh no longer has a hold on him, but is still pummeling Grazz with armored fists and elbows. Rey can make a melee touch attack vs a touch AC of 16 to bestow the spell on Grazz, due to the fact that he must bypass the two big warriors to do so.

Edit: or Rey can turn himself back invisible to try and escape Du'minh's ire.]

[D, does Du'minh have quickdraw? Because the flail was not in his hand when he was grappling with Grazz. Most likely, he crashed through the wall with it, but dropped it on the floor in the balcony when he and Ar'dru started wrestling Grazz. So, for your AOO, you can draw a secondary weapon and attack (if you have quickdraw), or just punch Vivec and try to disrupt the spell. T, Rey will succeed in bestowing the spell, IF he can pass the concentration check]

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[Trias, Rey,arteb needs to make a DC 24 concentration check.]

[Edit: Gy-Nath's ballance check a nat 20! He supports an otherwise unsteady mage]

A spiked elbow to the face ruins Vivec's spell, but Ar'dru loses his hold on the Accursed as the slippery 'zerai twists out of his cloak and sprints for the door. The duthka'gith's claws rake his opponent, but he is left with bloody paws full of nothing save a torn grey robe.

Du'minh snatches up his flail from the floor and swings at the fleeing Grazz. The Rish-i-chal is a few steps behind, and the blow is glancing, but it catches the githzerai in the back of his unprotected skull, and Grazz drops his dagger. He stumbles out into the hallway only to get stuck in the shoulder by a crossbow bolt from Daraz. Grazz pitches forward towards the stairs, and crashes directly into the bartender, at the head of a brace of gith pirates running up the stairs. The group of gith collapse like dominoes down the stairs, with Grazz trying to swim over the heads of the falling gith. The bartender yells Sigilan obscenities.

"Rrraggh! Unhende fhorge! Get'm lads! Giv'm the rope! Stinking slaad spit'll pay! What're you doing? Grab him, you berks!"

[Yea, just the left , but it is totally immobilized.

Edit: spellcasting is not IMpossible. Any spell without somatic components can be cast. You can try to cast somatic spells, but must make a concentration check AND a spellcraft check, both DC 22 (remember pain mod for that round)]

[O.K. the scene is thus: Vivec tries to follow Grazz and cast darkness. Du'minh whacks him with his flail, a follow-up swing to whacking Grazz. Daraz reloads and advances down the hall aiming his crossbow into the pile-o-gith. Jhank'kor, supported by Gy-Nath, shuffle down the hall after Daraz. Everyone is moving into a position where they can see what's going on.

The hallway, however is not much over 5'wide, so it's pretty much single file for everybody. So it goes from stairs-up: Pile of gith pirates and Grazz; Bartender; Vivec; Du'minh/Ar'dru (coming out the open doorway of the balcony); Daraz; Jhank'kor/Gy-Nath.

So far, the Bartender's full attention has been on Grazz.]