Sorry for the wall of text, but I've been meaning to describe the preparation phase for quite a while~ Oh! And shouldn't the gnome be small-sized~?

By the way, if InvisibleCastle registration is still fubar'd we can use http://orokos.com/roll/ instead. It seems just as functional.

There's no interaction with me so no real reason for me to post anything else.

>>3062
Yeah, everybody use this instead of Invisible Castle. Register, use "parlor" without quotes as campaign name, and you should be set.

>>3071
Should all of us use it?

>>3072
Yeah, makes it easier to keep track of rolls.

Just to check: I need to roll every time to notice things? Since you listed Sora as also hearing the conversation on the other side of the door, though my Passive Perception is higher than what I rolled.

It'd be useful to know in advance what is and what is not caught by my Passive Perception.

And I'll be relying on my passive perception to notice further details as I approach the eastern room~

>>3076
>>3077
because I didn't think of that
Because they weren't discussing anything important/worth listening to. Just stuff drunk people find funny.

>>3078
That tidbit I just heard sounded pretty interesting to me~

>>3079
Earlier stuff obviously

If you consider that a Sleight of Hand and I need to roll Thievery instead just subtract 4 from the roll (it's a 31)~

>>3083
Either way it'd pass. The hard DC of a level 11 skill challenge would still be only 27. If you roll that or higher, then you usually succeed, barring special circumstances that increase the DC or penalize your skill checks.

Rolling initiative. This might take a while.

>>3096
There we are. If you have any stuff that triggers on rolling initiative, you can use it now.

To answer your question, Rotho--no, it's not mandatory to group minions under the same initiative check, it's just something I typically do to help combat flow faster~ I mean, just look at the size of that initiative list~

Worst first turn ever

The bright side is that I have Firebird, an at-will Fire attack, and Squitcher has Booming Blade, an at-will Thunder attack.

The not-so-bright side is that the minions can completely ignore our Defenders due to them being unable to enforce their marks, and the Frost Beasts are immune to everyone who doesn't have Fire or Thunder damage and isn't willing to blow a daily on removing minions.

We should probably draft up a plan.

It could have been worse. I could have deliberately placed the minions in inconvenient places instead of rolling dice for their locations.

Also, these are summons, meaning that if the summoner falls unconscious...

Wait wait, Sophie used Illusory orb, not maze of mirrors.

>>3115
Yeah, I'm a bit confused there myself. Did you discuss something with Cirno in IM, Rotho?

>>3110
I believe Squitcher's mark can still render the minions useless by preventing the damage they do, but of course he can only make one creature at a time.

Stratergery: Nareka should stay on the western side of the map and deal with the minions using Thunderwave and Booming Blade. Once he's done with them he can join us in the east. My fire arrows are very limited, I only have 2 left, so I'd rather Sora tried to use Fire Hawk to take care of as many minions as she can. Everyone else should focus on the non-minions. Sophie's got most of them locked down for now it looks like, I plan to unload on one of them with my nova round on my next turn, which should hopefully do a lot of damage and weaken one of them. I'll be using a minor action attack + standard attack with both Assassin's Strike and Sneak Attack, two frost arrows (3d10 + 2d6 + 4d6 cold) and Spotted Toadstool Venom (unless my first hit bloodies my target, in which case I may hold back on the Venom).

Only one of the minions knows where I am, so if you could eliminate that one first, Sora--Brute 1 to be exact--that'd be swell. I should be hidden from all other creatures aside from that brute and the halfling rogue.

Melech, concentrate on the mage and the blackguard. Use your Divine Challenge, but save your mass-sanction abilities for later, we may need them when engaging the larger group to the south. Now's a good time to use Virtue too.

It wouldn't hurt much if Squitcher went ahead and took his turn, right? I don't think what Melech does will influence him very much and they go right after one another.

>>3115
>>3116
fix'd

If someone can help me with the evil minions here, or slide me a bit it would be helpful too. I want the blackguard to attack me so we can use Vengeance is mine against him.

Also, if someone still is wondering about how close and bursts attack works, you can read it here.
http://20ftradius.blogspot.mx/2012/02/lets-have-blast-dont-burst-my-bubble.html

>>3121
what's that image from

>>3122
It's a shop from Chuunibyou.

Let's focus fire on the mage, it's a controller, not an elite and if he dies the minions dissapear

>>3126
Oh the minions disappear if it dies? That would have been handy to know earlier~! Well, I think that decides who I'm going to focus my fire on~

>>3129
That's how summons work.

Action Point to blast one minion seems like a waste so going with heavily obscured. IIRC this means Tainya can make a Stealth check and hide, right?

>>3133
Whoops it's a burst 2! Focus P-21 then.

>>3134
Yes, though I have to wait until I actually move to do so~ Should be okay though since I'm already hidden from most of them and the dazed/can't charge guys can't do anything~

>>3136
If there's any chance, please try to stay within 5 squares of me, so I can direct the strike you. If you can't at least make it 7, if the minion fails to immobilize me I can try to shift or something with my boots power.

>>3137
I was planning on moving towards you provided nothing is blocking my path/line of sight. I need to get within 5 squares of the frost mage to utilize my assassin's strike~

I think Choco or Squitcher can probably post without need to wait for Astaroth to update. You can wait if you prefer though, but it means less work for him.

Anon you get a +5 bonus, not -5 penalty for being in Verdant Bounty's AoE.

>>3149
He takes a -5 penalty because he moved more than 2 squares, however.

>>3149
>>3150
I was already adding the Stealth bonus in the roll, but I didn't know about the penalty

Not only did you manage to target the one enemy with 19 will defense, but you immobilized him while he couldn't use his immediate reaction power to undo his immobilization.

>>3154
Surprising, this is the first time I actually see a 2 hitting.

>>3155
Combat advantage helps.

>>3154
omg yisss

I think Nareka should not be immobilized anymore~

>>3159
I thought I fixed that.

And the furry story begins

>>3167
I didn't specify WHICH warlord. >:(

>>3168

Didn't you reduce my HP by 26 just now? 66 -> 40? Shouldn't it be 50?

>>3172
Rogue has +10 extra damage to furries
ok that was a joke, don't kill me

>>3173
Okay, okay, that's enough of that.

Nareka should use Dimensional Vortex to interrupt the warlord, if it hits you can make it attack the blackguard instead. Now that all the enemies are bunched Melech should use Paladin's Wrath when her turn comes up too.

A number of things can happen. Any enemy that bloodies me for the first time suffers 3 force damage, to start.

Cloak of Displacement also allows me to make one of them re-roll their attack roll and let me teleport 1 if they miss, so there's that.

Since it's a Daily power, we best look at DimVort first. Let's hope it does more for Squitcher than it did for me.

btw half-werewolf here
if you're going to change my token for every shape
gotta find a doggie woggie for dog form '3'

huh that looked a lot fiercer in-- whatevs. '3'

I don't actually have a lot of furry stuff. I think dogs are cute so I save pictures of that it's not like I want sex with them.

>>3179
>>3180
Already did that.

>>3180
pets are cute ok

Squitcher, please roll Dimentional Vortex ok.

Dimensional Vortex missed.

>>3184
Blame mehican-chinese dice rollers.

>>3184
Personally, I blame the leader for not giving us as many accuracy boosts as he should~

>>3186
;_;

>>3187
Actually, I shouldn't have moved back, but it would have been weird to order Tainya to attack with words unless I was close to her.

>>3177
Well, it doesn't quite work that way with monster classes, the rogue is probably a skirmisher and a non-elite and the warlord is an elite soldier I think, the brute is the monster class that has higher damage (along with the lurker after its setup round)~

Anyways, Tainya has no useful interrupts for this, and I think Gogo's only work if it's marked by her. No one has the Knight Hospitaler theme so we may just need to have anon burn a heal to get Sora back up, unless you wanna use the cloak daily.

>>3188
No, you need to stay far away from Tainya unless you want me to blind you with Cloud of Darkness. Because it will blind allies that are adjacent to her and block your LoS.

>>3190
Can't be that far away, Direct the Strike is ranged 5. Anyways, I'll be using Rousing word in you, it should be more than enough.

>>3191
That wasn't me. That was Rin. Anyway, I have a cloak daily power that lets me make him reroll his attack so uh, I'd kind of like to use that as I said here:
>>3177

Make Warlord reroll his attack roll. Methinks 50 damage is a pretty significant thing to try and dodge with a well-placed teleport and reroll, so I'll be evoking that displacement cloak's power to make the Warlord reroll his attack! If he misses I teleport 1 square to the left.

>>3194

>>3195
>flip table
There's your 20, Rin.

>>3195
>>3196
... well you are up and with 45hp at least.

>>3197
Did you remember that Tainya adds +2 HP per surge spent if you're within 5 squares? If not that's another 4 HP. It's the Gadgeteer's Garb set bonus~

>>3198
Also, my tattoo makes an enemy take 3 force damage when they first bloody me so the Warlord should take 3 force damage. '3'

k is sophiws turn now
halfelfrogue can't do nothing

o an blackguqrd ded

It's looking like the battle is going our way, but best not to get complacent~

My recommendation for Melech would be to use Valorous Smite, and if it misses follow with Paladin's Wrath. Nareka can move up to the grouped enemies and hit them with Sword Burst. Then we'll apply a mix of AoE and directed attacks to burn them down. Those Maze of Mirror attacks should all be hits which means they are pretty screwed for the next round.

Reminder that Warlord takes 3 force damage from my tattoo.

By the way, the rogue will take damage from divine sanction for violating it by attacking the warlord~

Charm Beast dominates, how does domination work again, domihime?

>>3226
Enemy becomes dazed, you can move by him, or something.

>>3226
I happen to know how it works too, you know.

>>3226
>>3227
They don't technically become dazed, but it's similar. They can't take any actions except that which you command them to take, and they grant combat advantage and can't flank. The only actions you can command them to take is one of the following, on their turn: a minor, a move, or a standard. They can't take free actions, immediate actions, or opportunity actions, and you can only command them to use at-will powers~

>>3229
Actually, they can take free actions, but it'd be the only action they're allowed to take.

>>3230
Oh, right, I should amend that: you can also order them to take a free action on their turn. But by the rules compendium they can't actually take free actions on their own--it just flat-out says "the creature can't take actions voluntarily," and free actions are still actions (only "no actions" are not actions, which should be obvious)~

For my turn I intend to give Melech a saving throw if he hasn't saved by then and use Charm Beast to make one of the rogues attack the Warlord, or else Daze one.

-212? There's a chance than the Warlord is a goner already!

This should be over soon, Squitcher, moving ahead and using Booming Blade against the bloodied one should be enough.

The halfling rogue just hit Narerka with a counter attack. It doesn't invalidate his hit, but it does deal some damage to him and turns the rogue invisible. So if Melech wants to use Price of Cowardice to punish it, he can. I'll say right now that if Price of Cowardice hits, the rogue's attack will miss and it will not turn invisible.

Don't kill this guy, just let him bloodied, I will intimidate him. We can get some information about the attack if he is left alive.

>dominate him
>make him tell us what you want to know
Well, I actually want to make him run around us so he provokes an OA from everyone.

>>3246
>>3251
Tainya has no objections at this point, I was hoping to make him surrender but that act is totally in-character for Tainya~

Some of us weren't even hit. I believe Sora spent 2 surges (Rousing Words) and Melech also spent 2 (Virtue + Inspiring Word). I don't know if anyone else actually spent any in combat.

As for healing, looks simple enough to me. Have Kuro plant the battle standard of healing and use his remaining Inspiring Word on Sora. That should more or less get everyone up to almost full. Melech could spend a surge but it honestly seems a bit wasteful. I'll hang around to give my +2 bonus to surge value until Kuro uses inspiring word~

>>3257
It was a pretty easy encounter in terms of resources used to win, wasn't it? At worst you spent an item daily, a consumable, and a couple action points.

>>3259
Consumable? You mean the spotted toadstool venom? That was a freebie, I can make another with a short rest.

>>3260
Oh, right. There are those.

>>3261
I don't contest that it was easy, but I thought that was your intention, since you used enemies that were lower level than us exclusively~

>>3262
Fair enough. I guess I was surprised by just how easy it was!

So, Squitcher, is my faux-French annoying yet~? I got the idea from the live DnD game where Chris Perkins had the drow woman occasionally speak French~

>>3277
Heh, I guess I should have reacted waaaaay sooner, but laziness and shit.
Is it annoying ? You should probably try to speak to Narerka to see ~

>>3278
Why would Narneka know about a strange language called French?~

>>3279

Why would Tainya ?~

>>3279
>>3281
It's obviously the equivalent of some obscure common dialect~

>>3279
>>3281
It's obviously the equivalent of some obscure common dialect~

>>3285
>>3281
Clearly it's some obscure Drow language. Narneka should use this hint and some others to reveal Tainya identity at the end of the campaign ne.

>>3286
Drow don't have a language, they speak Common and Giant~ Well, in Eberron they speak Giant, default is Elven.

>>3287
They clearly talk French in this campaign.

Um, I'm not intentionally trying to make this whole section drag on needlessly, but until people start showing interest in the train getting here I can only assume you want to know more about what that group was doing there rather than get the whole game started. Sorry.

>>3292
I'll start posting more when I have my PC issues settled, hopefully no more than a week!

If nobody has anything else to say, I'm going to move stuff forward by tomorrow.

>>3294
I wanna talk with that bastard at least

As far as Tainya is concerned, leaving that matter to the local authorities is most wise. She has other objectives~

I contacted Gogo yesterday. She has been kinda busy lately with some tests and homework.

>>3320
That's understandable. I can give her until tonight.

Okay, with no word from Choco, I'm going to move on a little and believe that her character would do the same. While I did say before the game started that I wouldn't be happy with people who couldn't pop in every other day, I feel that's a bit too harsh when things happen.

Before anybody asks, Lance d'Orien is a level 16 greatweapon fighter who specializes in polearms and has taken the Polearm Master paragon path.

If he's 16th level, why doesn't he just get someone to cast Cure Disease on him~? It's like a level 6 ritual~

>>3330
Because I didn't think of that and you're not supposed to depend on him in fights? Maybe it's a magic level 40 disease.

brb getting cure disease this is ridic

>>3332
From where?

I feel like we've gone off on a tangent. Are you guys ready to search the cars?

>>3334
See, this Venn diagram should help you understand the situation~

>>3335
My worst nightmare is that the train never gets to leave the station.

>>3337
That was probably under "Reiyasu use a summoning flying thingie ritual and everyone join him as air pirates"

>>3339
Maybe if you could accomodate everyone else, though you'd still have to make it in time for the summit. At a speed of 30 mph/60 squares a round/720 miles a day, the Lightning Rail's pretty much the fastest anything in D&D. Airships only go at 20 mph/20 squares a round/420 miles a day. Air travel is slower than the Lightning Rail and can't even keep up with it.

>>3340
Huh, Reiyasu is not even playing in this campaign, silly.

>Ze spider seems like it'll stay there if left alone, perhaps ze beast-people should come first?
>yfw the spider is a level 10 rogue solo with a +30 in thievery and can open doors with a natural 1

So, after healing Sora once using inspiring word (healing her for 17 + (7+7)/2 + 2) 26hp, our hp totals should be
Kuro (N/25) 62/69 HP
Melech (P/27) 67/79 HP
Sophie (P/19) 59/59 HP
Narerka (O/26) 81/87 HP
Tainya (M/27) 69/69 HP
Sora (N/24) 71/71 HP

You should really zoom out the map so people can actually see their characters~

>>3372
It's actually a seperate map. Thing is that they're not really compatible since the pixels per square for each one are different. It's one reason why I wanted you guys to just hop on the train together, so I wouldn't have to deal with this sort of situation.

>>3374
How would we hop on the train together, exactly?

>>3377
Pretty much, yes.

Are you going to post that long list of conditional effects on EVERY POST~?

>>3381
It's for the benefit of everyone, so yes.

>>3382
Ease of retyping is not the point, the point is that I think it's really intrusive~ But do as you like I guess~

B-But tiny magic shields are supposed to be indestructible !
Mmh... Doushiou ?
I was thinking using Beguiling strands to finish that bastard while also damaging the other son of bitches, since I don't think it would lead to an opportunity of imm int.

>>3391
Think of it this way : they didn't get destroyed, but failed to deflect the attack.

Is there a specific reason Squitcher refuses to shift to avoid provoking opportunity actions?

>>3393
Because I'm a huge noob, that's why.

>>3394
Not your fault, actually the DM should advice you as well seeing you are just starting to play.

>>3395
Don't worry, I already bother the poor lad about it pretty often.

>>3395
>>3396
I think the DM mentioning your move is possible without provoking attacks would be fair, especially when you're new. I thought there was maybe some good reason for this (actions that trigger or whatever) but if it's just because you didn't know you could shift to avoid the OA then uhhhhh why didn't Saku just mention that and treat it as that?

It'll hardly do much aside from avoiding completely unnecessary damage.

>>3397
As another curiosity I haven't seen their plague affect anyone yet? Did Saku remove it? I'd be okay with that since to me it seems it punishes melee characters for engaging in melee, defenders for threatening their charge with OAs and ranged characters for getting attacked by the meazels but if he just forgot then I'm sorry everyone, I reminded him of something dangerous.

>>3398
It only affects people who start their turns in an aura. Which means I probably should have dealt an extra 5 damage to Narerka.

>>3399
I knew about it beforehand so I totally deserve it.

>>3399
>words everywhere Trimmed my post. Basically I'm not a fan because it punishes melee characters and defenders for being adjacent to enemies which they usually tend to be at the start of their turn, and it punishes people who are being melee attacked by a meazel for being melee attacked and not moving out-of-turn.

>>3400
Derp. :(

>>3401
I didn't make them up to punish you. I picked them out of one of the monster manuals because they looked interesting. I understand that it looks bad, but remember that you haven't used any daily powers yet whatsoever, nor have you spent any surges this encounter, and most of you still have your encounter powers. If you start spending those resources, then this thing'll be over before you know it.

>>3403
I've used a daily power kinda-sorta!

>>3404
I guess they do.

>>3405
And sugoi magic shields are daily power.

>>3406
I meant daily attack powers.

Sophie's Visions of Avarice with my awesome heals should be enough to change the flow of the encounter.

There's a little problem Cirno. It seems I misread the power and the zone the attack creates is only in the origin square, and we need them to be adjacent to it to get immobilized. So I recommend the following:

Use Visions of Avarice instead in B-94
Slide bravo 2 to B-94
Slide bravo 1 to C-94
Slide hunter to C-95
And with your minor action use light on Kuro's armor, there's dim light inside of the train. Melech should also use a minor action to activate the light from his Viligant Blade next turn if possible.

Feh, "light." My drow with darkvision needs no such thing~

>>3412
I need it ok, -2 to attacks ain't good.

If Tainya clears away I can thorn spray.

I'll move very slightly away, trying to keep your close blast 5 in mind. I do want to take advantage of my cloud of darkness and use it to hide.

>mfw only Kuro doesn't have low-light vision

>>3426
I only noticed it after I made the decision. It wasn't anything personal!

>>3426
Tainya doesn't have low-light vision. She has darkvision~

>>3427
I know it wasn't, and it's no big deal thanks to Sophie's light.
>>3428
That's even more powerful!

>>3429
Back in the day, drow had penalties for being in bright light.

Hey Squitcher, can you go and visit that damn archer? Melech should be able to defend us of those guys for now. It's a bit far from you, but you can move + teleport to reach him. If you aren't satisfied with just marking him you can AP to Booming Blade it.

>>3434
It's at a higher elevation. Booming blade can't hit it from where it is. It has a tactical advantage as long as it's out of your reach.

>>3435
The teleport is supposed to bring him on the same elevation. Unless you tell me the archer is flying, I assume he's over the skulls.

>>3436
He's up on the wall.

>>3437
Change of plans then. Move, then use beguiling stride to push him to the floor and then AP to charge!

Beguiling Strands is a push, not a slide. So you can't move him closer to you. Therefore, from E/98, you can't reach Meazel Hunter 2 with your Aegis of Shielding, which is a close burst 2.

Thunderwave or Total Defence if you're set on attacking that meazel, otherwise attack another one. Leave flying meazel to ranged characters.

>>3441
Other meazels have -5 penalty to defences btw so you're almost guaranteed a hit, no reason not to take advantage of that imo

>>3442
well maybe my suggestion was bad

>>3443
Goddamnit anon, to think I took you for an experienced player, I'll just let someone else take care of that rascal.
I completely forgot about the push thing of this mofo psychic shit.

>>3444
That's what I recomended you to charge him.

>>3448
frindzon :(

>>3449
Original text was slightly different, I had to censor because it was lewd.

>>3450
it wasn't lewd ok it was pure rabu

we have to keep the brotherly figure act going ok

I forgot to link the other two rolls so here they are:
http://orokos.com/roll/86252
http://orokos.com/roll/86253

Oops, I meant C93. Is it too late to change that now? :S

>>3461
i'll fix it next update

You didn't include that I saved against ongoing necrotic damage in the update.

Where'd the 23 damage come from? I rolled 20 damage. O_o

>>3477
Bonus from anon's buff and your MBA enhancements.

>>3478
MBA enhancements were already factored in. The +5 damage wasn't though, so it'd be 25.

>>3479
Where're you getting 25 from?

>>3480
Nevermind, I think I got it. Enraged Boar Form adds an extra 2 damage.

I'll charge across on my turn to prone and move the fleeing Meazel, so don't worry about that one.

I was wondering if Melech could use lay on hands on tainya

I'm going to have to confirm that Melech really wants to overwrite the mark that Narerka set, since Narerka's mark lets him use a power that prevents the enemy from escaping.

A reminder that you can spend healing surges while taking a short rest.

>mean to post in discussion
>post in main thread
Whoops.

Anyway, can't I get my sensing eye into the car so that I can look about the entire car? Can I look under the tables?

>>3521
You might need to move up a bit first. As for the second part, I neglected to mention that the sheets don't quite touch the ground, so you can already seem under them. And thus far, nothing suspicious to be found.

If Melech, Tainya, and Naerka all spend a healing surge, that should be sufficient for healing. Remember I boost surge value by 2 and I think anon has a battle standard~

>>3523
I'll formerly propose this plan of healing~

>>3527
So everybody's in agreement, then?

>>3528
Sounds good, but I wonder where's the rest

>>3528
Sounds good to me

meta about being meta

seriously guys

seriously

Here's your post-short rest stats :
Healing Surges Spent :
Sora : 3 of 9
Melech : 5 of 12
Kuro : 1 of 9
Narerka : 3 of 12
Tainya : 1 of 8
Sophie : 0 of 7

New HP totals
Kuro : 62/69
Melech : 79/79
Sophie : 59/59
Narerka : 85/87
Tainya : 69/69
Sora : 69/71

>>3538
The cargo's two cars down, past the dining hall and the kitchen. It's the last car before the caboose.

Update's coming sometime tomorrow. There'll be a new thread for OOC and the next chapter posted.