After the Charnal Lord

Teramotos wrote:...there aren't any rats left alive, is the encounter over?
...or are we in combat mode until we find the others?

Still in combat mode for a while... (every second may count...)

What will the remaining four PCs do?

Will all the PC go check the water?

Currently the initiative order is
Thia
Candelos (Candelos' turn...)
Miri
Sonya

Yep, Dept of Defense.

I will head back to look in the water.

Use One-Heart-One-Mind (utility daily) minor action
move and a move back to Shauguin room.

Nice power

Candelos moves back into the sahuagin room and sees the following:




It looks like the east/west bridge has been cut down. There are no signs of Quinn or Kaddim (the water looks pretty calm, no splashing about like when there was a battle under water).

Next up... Miri

delay... (to cross room together with everyone else)
"Let's all cross the room at the same time & hopefully we'll spring the same trap and meet up with our boys."
Yell, "Boys! Where are you?"

Miri, Candelos, and Sonya saw where Quinn was when he triggered the trap.

In order to all be sent together everyone needs to be in the affected area, then someone needs to trigger the trap.

Is the party going to wait a full turn for Candelos to get back into position?

Currenlty Sonya's turn...


Note:
This is currently round #3.

Dwarmaj wrote:
Is the party going to wait a full turn for Candelos to get back into position?

Split up into 2 groups sounds better than split up into 3. I say wait for Candelos.

Free Action: Yell - "Candelos, we're thinking of triggering the same trap, should the rest of us go now withoug you or wait for you?"
Question for the DM - How many hits am I down and if I were underwater would I be able to use "Inspiring Word" on myself? If I'm wounded enough right now, I'll use either Inspiring Word or Second Wind, I'll like to save my Inspiring Words as they give back more hits and are quicker to use in a tense battle but will use Inspiring Word over Second Wind if Inspiring Word can't be used underwater.

Move Action/ Standard Action - depends on Candelos' answer and the DM's answer to the above...

Sonya, no need to yell. With Candelos' last power the four of you can communicate telepathically for the rest of the encounter.

Current PC status
Candelos 65/65hp 10/14 surges
Miri 46/50hp 7/9 surges
Thia 45/60hp 1/7 surges
Sonya 38/56hp 5/9 surger


I'm going to say yes, you can use Inspiring Word underwater.
But, you'll need to make a skill ckeck immediately to avoid loosing a healing surge due to drowning.

The normal rules are that you need to make a DC20 Endurance check at the end of your turn if you take damage or once per turn (need to receck the DMG) if you don't.

To me...
Using a power that states it uses spoken words will cause you to make an immediate skill check. Still only one skill check per round so if you do use it and make a skill check, you wouldn't have to make a second check later.


PC status for Quinn and Kaddim before the trap was triggered:
Quinn 67/67hp 5/11 surges
Kaddim 69/71hp 8/10 surges

...okay,
Standard Action: Second Wind (note, gain + 2 def)
Move Action: Run if necessary to get to the trap area, if I'm close enough to make it in a move action, I'll move.
Done...

Teramotos wrote:...okay,
Standard Action: Second Wind (note, gain + 2 def)
Move Action: Run if necessary to get to the trap area, if I'm close enough to make it in a move action, I'll move.
Done...

A move of 5 squares will put you on what you think is the eastern edge of the trap area. 7 squares will put you just shy of where you think Quinn triggered the trap.

I've moved Sonya west 5, let me know if you wanted to run or be farther north.



I've also marked the area that Candelos, Sonya, and Miri saw pivot.

Yeah, west 5 w a move action is good. If I could be one more square north w/o expending any additional movement that would be better (1 square of mvt might have been NW instead of W). Don't want to run if I don't have to in order to keep my + 2 to defenses this turn.

If you guys are going to wait for Candelos, then I need to know which squares each PC will be in and who will attempt to trigger the trap.

Sonya is now in the area she saw pivot
Miri and Thia can get to the area with a single move, but one of them will have to trigger the trap since it will take Candelos two move actions just to get to the area.

When Thia takes her turn it will be the start of round #4...

...might be good to have one person (Candelos) on the "outside", he can always follow us next round...

Dwarmaj wrote:Miri and Thia can get to the area with a single move, but one of them will have to trigger the trap since it will take Candelos two move actions just to get to the area..

Miri will move up to the trigger and ready action to trigger it as soon as Candelos is in place (or says he wants us to go without him).

Candelos communicates to the others "I think it would be better to wait for me"

Mick wrote:Candelos communicates to the others "I think it would be better to wait for me"

"On your mark..."
(ready action to trigger room as soon as Candelos gives the word)

How's this for where everyone will be?




Then we can see what Quinn and Kaddim have been up to...

...yeah, looks good to me...
Since I had to wait for Candelos to get there, I'll stow my Waraxe so I can swim better if I have to. It's only a minor action to draw it out again.

Im ok with that.