CH. 03 - Princenappers!

[MaltholLoth]

Terani lifts his amulet and cries aloud "You have perverted the gifts Elonna has given you. Feel the pain that comes from such misdeeds!"



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Toll the dead damage (dc13wis) - 1d8 / already damaged 1d121d20+2·1d8·1d12

[Matt4]

Poppy takes a couple steps back (2 squares under Blitz), then shoots an arrow at the undead that's being attacked by Kalinda.

Ooc
Initiative: dN6|8sEE1d20+6

Bow: 1d20+5 (readying an action if Poppy acts before Kalinda)

Dmg: 1d6+3 + Sneak Attack: 2d61d20+6·1d20+5·1d6+3·2d6

[GravityEmblem]

April glares at the creatures, shouting "Elonna tells no lies--she watches after her children, in life or death. You live in this cursed state because you rejected her! Now see the power of a true faithful!" She cries out an incantation, holding up her holy symbol to bless the party.

[Initiative: oM_YrYUw1d20+1

April casts Bless on Poppy, Kalinda, and Blitz.]1d20+1

[Daos]

Poppy quickly ducks behind Blitz for cover, drawing out her bow and nocking an arrow on the string, waiting for the right moment.  When Kalinda moves to attack one of the corpses, she looses the arrow, but it misses entirely, striking the stone arch and bouncing off before clattering to the ground.

Terani calls out a challenge to the paladin, praying to Elonna for aid.  The bell of death tolls, but the paladin is already dead, and thus does not fear it.  It seems to shrug off the effects easily.  One of the corpses then rushes up to the cleric and strikes him with a bare fist.  Despite the the fact the shambling creature is falling apart, it has incredible strength and nearly knocks the wind out of Terani with the blow.

"These things...they're dead, and yet...they move!" Blitz remarks, momentarily stunned by the very idea.  "We must destroy this abominations!"  He charges one of the corpses with the intent to knock it down, but it proves far sturdier than he anticipated and remains on its feet.  The corpse swings wildly in retaliation, but Blitz is able to throw up his shield fast enough to block it.

"Salt!" Mizzle swears under her breath.  "What I wouldn't give for a little rain right about now."  She nocks an arrow and looses it at the corpse that attacked Terani.  The arrow pierces the creature's chest, missing its heart by mere inches, yet the corpse does not cry out or flinch, or even seem to care about the arrow sticking out of it.  "Elonna save us," she whispers, reaching for another arrow.

Kalinda moves forward and attacks one of the corpses, first stabbing it in the chest, then kicking it off her blade.  She is certain she felt and heard its ribs crack, maybe even break from the blow, but the corpse seems unphased and retaliates, uppercutting her in the chin.  The coppery taste of blood arises in her mouth.

As the remaining corpses stagger and shamble forward, eager to tear the party apart, April calls upon Elonna's blessing, and Poppy, Kalinda and Blitz all feel a warmth in their chests, emboldening their courage and vigor.

"Your faith will not protect you.  Your false goddess will not save you," the paladin proclaims, drawing its bow.  "She will abandon you, as she did with us, and you will come to understand, as we did."  It fires twice; once at Kalinda and once at Blitz, but both are able to evade the arrows safely.

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Initiative
Poppy:  25
Terani:  22
Blitz:  19
Mizzle:  18
Kalinda:  16
Walking Corpse 01:  13
Walking Corpse 04:  12
Walking Corpse 06:  12
April:  12
Walking Corpse 02:  11
Undead Paladin:  8
Walking Corpse 05:  4
Walking Corpse 03:  -1

Round 01!

Poppy moves 10 feet southeast and 5 feet east.  She then readies an action to attack the first creature that Kalinda attacks.
Terani casts Toll the Dead on Undead Paladin, who saves vs WIS [DC 13] (1d20+1):  17+1 = 18, success.  No effect.
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Blitz moves 15 feet northeast and then shoves Walking Corpse 05 with an Athletics check (1d20+4):  3+4 = 7 versus their Athletics check (1d20+1):  14+1 = 15; fail.  No effect.
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Mizzle looses an arrow from her short bow at Walking Corpse 04 [AC 8] (1d20+3):  13+3 = 16, hit for (1d6+1):  5+1 = 6 piercing damage.
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Kalinda moves 5 feet northwest, then stabs her short sword at Walking Corpse 06 [AC 8] (1d20+5):  10+5 = 15, hit for (1d6+3):  4+3 = 7 piercing damage.  As a bonus action, she then makes an unarmed strike against Walking Corpse 06 [AC 8] (1d20+5):  12+5 = 17, hit for (1d4+3):  4+3 = 7 bludgeoning damage.
----Poppy, as a reaction, looses an arrow from her short bow at Walking Corpse 06 [AC 8] (1d20+5):  1+5 = 6, critical miss!
Walking Corpse 01 moves 20 feet south.  As an action, it then dashes another 20 feet south.
Walking Corpse 04 moves 15 feet southeast.  It then slams against Terani [AC 18] (1d20+3):  17+3 = 20, hit for (1d6+1):  5+1 = 6 bludgeoning damage.  Terani is moderately wounded.
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Walking Corpse 06 slams against Kalinda [AC 15] (1d20+3):  19+3 = 22, hit for (1d6+1):  3+1 = 4 bludgeoning damage.  Kalinda is lightly wounded.
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April casts Bless on Kalinda, Poppy and Blitz.  They receive +1d4 to all attacks and saving throws.
Walking Corpse 02 moves 20 feet south.  As an action, it then dashes another 10 feet south and 5 feet southwest.
Undead Paladin looses an arrow from its long bow at Kalinda [AC 15] (1d20+4):  5+4 = 9, miss.  It then looses an arrow at Blitz [AC 15] (1d20+4):  9+4 = 13, miss.
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Walking Corpse 05 slams against Blitz [AC 15] (1d20+3):  10+3 = 13, miss.
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Walking Corpse 03 moves 15 feet south and 5 feet southeast.  As an action, it then dashes another 5 feet southeast.



(OOC:  Actions for Round 02?)
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[HorizonsDream]

Kalinda plants her feet on the ground and strikes out her fist as hard as she can towards undead #3.

OOC: Spending 2ki points to use Fist of Unbroken Air.

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[MaltholLoth]

"Back to your graves foul things!" Terani proclaims as he holds aloft the symbol of Elonna before giving off a glow.



[ooc]
Channel divinity turn undead, dc 13 wis
BA, cast Shield of faith

[Matt4]

Noticing the undead approaching Mizzle, Poppy throw her bow on the ground and unsheats her rapier. - "Oi, don't come any closer ya stinker!" - she shouts, advincing and trying to stab the walking dead.

OOC 

Move forward next to the zombie / under the stone arch.

Atk with Rapier: 3m29vU5H1d20+5 + Bless 1d4

Dmg: 1d8+3 + Sneak Attack (thanks to Rakish Audacity) 2d61d20+5·1d4·1d8+3·2d6

[GravityEmblem]

"You dare besmirch the name of Elonna? No wonder she withdrew her protection--you failed to give her the honor and respect she deserves," April practically snarls at the paladin as she moves behind Kalinda. She slashes her glaive at the zombie attacking Terani, keeping a safe from the two.

[OOC: April moves 5 ft north and 5 ft west. She makes a glaive attack on Walking Corpse 4. f|391rv31d20+51d10+31d20+5·1d10+3

[Daos]

Unsheathing her blade, Poppy rushes forward to protect Mizzle, easily dancing around the corpse's awkward shuffling and landing a strike, piercing it in the stomach.  But again, the creature barely seems phased by it and strikes her in the face with its fist in retaliation.

Terani holds aloft his holy symbol and calls upon the power of Elonna.  Oddly, she feels very distant here.  Is the abomination correct, and she's abandoning them?  Or is the corruption of this place holding her at bay?  Regardless, her power does manage to make it through, but far less than he hoped.  There's a flash of light, but only two of the corpses seem affected.  The one fighting Terani holds up its arms to shield its eyes, moaning in pain as it quickly shuffles away in terror.  One of the two fighting Kalinda does the same.

Blitz, meanwhile, has his hands full.  He cuts and slashes at the corpses, to no avail.  As a garden guard, he has no experience fighting those who are already dead.  He avoids the fists of the two corpses, but takes an arrow in the shoulder from the paladin, causing him to falter.  Mizzle looses an arrow at one of his opponents, seeing that he needs help.  The arrow sinks into the corpse's thigh, but they don't even flinch in pain.  "How do you kill the dead?" she wonders aloud in frustration.  She casts a glance at the waterskin on her belt in doubt, then reaches for it.

Faced with fighting two corpses at once, Kalinda calls upon her recent training.  Of the four elements, Air is the element of evasion and freedom.  And as someone who has spent her recent years running from the past, it was something she was intimately familiar with.  Calling upon the ki flowing through her body, she summons a massive gust of wind, pushing it toward the remaining corpse facing her.  Surprisingly, the corpse holds its grown, perhaps empowered by the dark corruption festering in this grove.  Although the winds buffet it, tearing away some of its flesh, it remains standing in place, and swings at Kalinda in retaliation, although she's able to duck to avoid it.  She also evades another arrow from the paladin.

Taking umbrage with the paladin's blasphemous words, April moves forward to attack the corpse fighting Terani.  But it has already fled in terror at her goddess' might, so instead she aids Kalinda by slashing the coral blade of her weapon across the corpse's neck.  No blood comes out, and it hardly seems to even notice.

"Pathetic," the undead paladin sneers as two of its corpses shuffle toward it in fear.  Turning back to the party, it says, "Lay down your arms and embrace the gift of eternal death.  You only delay the inevitable by fighting."

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Initiative
Poppy: 25
Terani: 22
Blitz: 19
Mizzle: 18
Kalinda: 16
Walking Corpse 01: 13
Walking Corpse 04: 12
Walking Corpse 06: 12
April: 12
Walking Corpse 02: 11
Undead Paladin: 8
Walking Corpse 05: 4
Walking Corpse 03: -1

Round 02!

Poppy moves 15 feet north. She then stabs her rapier while blessed (+1d4 to hit) at Walking Corpse 01 [AC 8] (1d20+5+1d4):  15+5+4 = 24, sneak attack for (1d6+3+2d6):  3+3+4 = 10 piercing damage.
Terani uses Turn Undead.  As a bonus action, he casts Shield of Faith on himself.  His AC improves by +2.
----Walking Corpse 01 saves against WIS [DC 13] (1d20):  18, pass.  No effect.
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----Walking Corpse 03 saves against WIS [DC 13] (1d20): 19, pass.  No effect.
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----Walking Corpse 04 saves against WIS [DC 13] (1d20): 12, fail.  It is turned.
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----Walking Corpse 06 saves against WIS [DC 13] (1d20): 4, fail.  It is turned.
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Blitz slashes his long sword while blessed (+1d4 to hit) at Walking Corpse 05 [AC 8] (1d20+4+1d4):  1+4+4 = 9, critical miss!
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Mizzle looses an arrow from her short bow at Walking Corpse 02 [AC 8] (1d20+3): 9+3 = 12, hit for (1d6+1): 2+1 = 3 piercing damage.
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Kalinda spends 2 ki points and uses Fist of Unbroken Air for (3d10):  17 bludgeoning damage on Walking Corpse 03, who saves vs. STR [DC 12] (1d20+1):  13+1 = 14, pass.  It is not pushed away and takes half damage (8) bludgeoning damage.
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Walking Corpse 01 slams against Poppy [AC 14] (1d20+3):  14+3 = 17, hit for (1d6+1):  5+1 = 6 bludgeoning damage.  Poppy is moderately wounded.
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Walking Corpse 04 is turned and shambles away from Terani in terror; it moves 20 feet northwest and then dashes another 20 feet north.  (Terani may take an AoO if he wishes.)
Walking Corpse 06 is turned and shambles away from Terani in terror; it moves 20 feet north and then dashes another 20 feet north.  (Kalinda make take an AoO if she wishes.)
April moves 5 feet northwest and slashes her glaive at Walking Corpse 03 [AC 8] (1d20+5):  15+5 = 20, hit for (1d10+3):  4+3 = 7 slashing damage.
Walking Corpse 02 slams against Blitz [AC 15] (1d20+3):  6+3 = 9, miss.
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Undead Paladin looses an arrow from its long bow at Kalinda [AC 15] (1d20+4): 6+4 = 10, miss. It then looses an arrow at Blitz [AC 15] (1d20+4): 17+4 = 21, hit for (1d8+2):  5+2 = 7 piercing damage.  Blitz is seriously wounded.
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Walking Corpse 05 slams against Blitz [AC 15] (1d20+3): 5+3 = 8, miss.
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Walking Corpse 03 slams against Kalinda [AC 15] (1d20+3):  10+3 = 13, miss.
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(OOC: Actions for Round 03?)
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[MaltholLoth]

Seeing Blitz having a rough time, he starts moving over. "Hang in there Blitz!" Again he calls to Elonna to bring the foul creatures down.


[Ooc] moving down one and towards blitz.
Cast toll the dead at either facing blitz

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[Matt4]

"Terani don't you have any holy light-like powers you could use? Ugh, I doubt they are too bothered by other necro stuff." - Poppy says, swinging her rapier against the rotted corpse in front of her.

OOC

Rapier: _m71TjDQ1d20+5 + 1d4

Dmg: 1d8+3 + SA 2d61d20+5·1d4·1d8+3·2d6

[GravityEmblem]

April swings her glaive over her shoulder at the corpse Kalinda is fighting, staring furiously at the paladin.

[OOC: If Walking Corpse 3 is still alive, make a glaive attack against it. qkskc3IJ1d20+51d10+3 Otherwise, dash and move 45 feet north towards the paladin.]1d20+5·1d10+3

[HorizonsDream]

Kalinda continues her fight with her zombie.

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[Daos]

With a mighty stab of her rapier, Poppy manages to pierce her opponent's skull, going right for the brain.  This attack manages to remove the head entirely, causing its body to drop lifelessly to the ground while its head snarls and groans as she uses her boot to slide it off her sword and kick it away.

Terani raises his voice again to call for aid of his goddess.  Again, an ominous bell rings, this time near one of the two corpses fighting Blitz.  Black, necrotic energy spreads over the creature's body, but what effect it has on something already dead is unclear.  Still, it seems to have done some damage.

"Looks like this calls for some DE-FENSE!"  Holding up his shield, he weathers the blows from his two opponents and the paladin, as he tries to catch his breath and regain his
vigor.

Mizzle opens her waterskin, and gesturing causes the five gallons of water within to snake out and begin to circle around her in a loop, constantly moving about.  "Blitz, fall back!  I'll hold them off!" she offers, preparing a spell now that she has access to her element.

Kalinda wordlessly stabs her opponent in the chest with her sword, then gives a roundhouse kick to the head.  The corpse's skull partially collapses with a sickening crunch sound, and it staggers a bit...but amazingly, it remains on its feet.  Kalinda then ducks as April stabs the corpse in the heart with her glaive, and yet still it persists, refusing to fall.  It swings at Kalinda, but she manages to dance aside.  Just then an arrow whizzes right toward her, but with her monk reflexes, she catches it just before it hits.

An edge of annoyance creeps into the fallen paladin's voice.  "You are only delaying the inevitable by fighting.  What is dead cannot be killed!" he warns, nocking another arrow.

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Initiative
Poppy: 25
Terani: 22
Blitz: 19
Mizzle: 18
Kalinda: 16
Walking Corpse 01: 13
Walking Corpse 04: 12
Walking Corpse 06: 12
April: 12
Walking Corpse 02: 11
Undead Paladin: 8
Walking Corpse 05: 4
Walking Corpse 03: -1

Round 03!

Poppy stabs her rapier while blessed (+1d4 to hit) at Walking Corpse 01 [AC 8] (1d20+5+1d4): 3+5+1 = 9, sneak attack for (1d8+3+2d6): 7+3+4 = 14 piercing damage.  Walking Corpse 01 makes a CON save [DC 19] (1d20+3):  5+3 = 8, fail.  Walking Corpse 01 re-dies.
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Terani moves 5 feet south and 15 feet east.  He then casts Toll the Dead on Walking Corpse 02, who makes a WIS save [DC 13] (1d20):  6, fail.  Walking Corpse 02 suffers (1d12):  4 necrotic damage.
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Blitz dodges.  As a bonus action, he uses Second Wind to restore (1d10+1):  1+1 = 2 HP to himself.  He improves to moderately wounded.
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Mizzle casts Shape Water and empties the five gallons of water from her waterskin, causing it to loop around her.
Kalinda stabs with her short sword while blessed (+1d4 to hit) at Walking Corpse 03 [AC 8] (1d20+5+1d4):  12+5 = 17, hit for (1d6+3):  5+3 = 8 piercing damage.  As a bonus action, she makes an unarmed strike while blessed (+1d4 to hit) at Walking Corpse 03 [AC 8] (1d20+5+1d4):  3+5 = 8, hit for (1d4+3):  2+3 = 5 bludgeoning damage.  Walking Corpse 03 makes a CON save [DC 10] (1d20+3):  7+3 = 10, pass.  Walking Corpse 03 remains standing.
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Walking Corpse 01 is dead, again.
Walking Corpse 04 is turned so dodges.
Walking Corpse 06 is turned so dodges.
April slashes her glaive at Walking Corpse 03 [AC 8] (1d20+5): 5+5 = 10, hit for (1d10+3): 4+3 = 7 slashing damage.  Walking Corpse 03 makes a CON save [DC 12] (1d20+3):  11+3 = 14, pass.  Walking Corpse 03 remains standing.
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Walking Corpse 02 slams against Blitz with disadvantage (dodging) [AC 15] (1d20+3): 8+3 = 11, miss.
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Undead Paladin looses an arrow from its long bow at Kalinda [AC 15] (1d20+4): 13+4 = 17, hit for (1d8+2):  6+2 = 8 piercing damage.  As a reaction, Kalinda attempts to deflect the arrow, reducing damage by (1d10+3+3):  10+3+3 = 16; she takes 0 damage and can throw it back.  Undead Paladin then looses an arrow at Blitz with disadvantage (dodging) [AC 15] (1d20+4): 6+4 = 10, miss.
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Walking Corpse 05 slams against Blitz with disadvantage (dodging) [AC 15] (1d20+3): 5+3 = 8, miss.
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Walking Corpse 03 slams against Kalinda [AC 15] (1d20+3): 10+3 = 13, miss.
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(OOC: Horizon, if you wish to spend 1 ki point, you can throw the arrow at a target with a range of 20/60 feet; you can add your proficiency and the arrow counts as a monk weapon.  Although note the only enemy within 20 feet right now is next to you, so you'd have disadvantage.  If you don't, you can just drop the arrow as a free action.

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[MaltholLoth]

"Unfortunately... Not really..." He replies to Poppy as he continues on his way over towards Blitz.




[Ooc] continue to Blitz, then holding action to either give help action in their attack, or cure wounds should they be downed.