romania ♔ in the end of the night i can feel you breathe

[pickyourbattles]

♬ Night - Zola Jesus

WHO || Willow, Paige, Nathan, Henry, Aurelius, Dovan [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights travel to Romania to investigate a mysterious, magical fog
WHERE || Romania
WHEN || April 11th [back dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

February in Romania isn't very comfortable, so hopefully everyone bundled up for this little trip into the countryside.  The appearance of a mysterious bank of fog into which several locals have gone inexplicably missing upon entering, has caused Wynn to speculate that it might be connected to the mist that appears when the Veil brings people from other worlds.  Could this be the first instance of a door going the other way?  If so, here's hoping it's a round trip...

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[count_strahd_von_zarovich]

[The Deathlock and one of the carcass eaters are left smoking husks thanks to the combination of Nathan's grenade and Aurelius' magic. The zombies seem a bit more durable, taking the magical blow, and shuffling onward. Willow's strike hits, but Henry narrowly misses.]

[Two more doors from beyond the intersection swing wide, and another pair of undead stumble into the street. The dead surge towards them, luckily zombies can only more or attack each round, so there aren't going to be many attacks.]

[The zombie willow slashed strikes back with a Slam Attack 22 for 9 Damage Another zombie goes for Henry with an Attack of 21, for 7 Damage. And the last Carcass Eater will also edge in and claw at Henry with a pathetic Attack of 7.]

[Updated Map]

[autorevive]

[using an action point bc we don't have time for crit fails rn ok, nathan tosses another frag grenade basically ... at the cart, 3 squares past the zombie in the middle of the X-shape. (ranged atk 19) HE'S TRYING NOT TO BLOW UP HIS FRIENDS. and that will be 16 slashing dmg without a 15 ref save.]

[pickyourbattles]

[ aurelius moves up to willow's shoulder, raising another hand and blasting a scorching ray towards the one in front of her (ranged touch 14; dmg 10 if it strikes) ]

[olreliable]

[IS IT DEAD YET??? If not, Willow will slash at it again. If it is dead, she'll go after the one beside it which I think is also in front of Aurelius now. attack 17, damage 15 because she penetrated the shit out of that thing. Wait. No, I'm leaving it.]

[somepagesturn]

[Paige is over here, kinda panicking like a little girl, because once she gets her blade out, she has to stand there and think about it... and look a little frightened and squeamish, because HAHAHA she doesn't... do this sort of thing. Poor Paige. She was badass last fight.]

[wanttobeahero]

[ Henry manages to avoid the rat thing again, but the zombie strikes him, though he's fighting back (fort save 13). Well - at least everyone else is sort of safe for now... ]

[count_strahd_von_zarovich]

[The Fortitude save DC is actually exactly 13. Willow and Henry both feel a sickening wave of revulsion wash over them, but it quickly fades. Paige and Henry, since you both essentially held your actions, you can take double next time your turns come around.]

[The grenade blasts all the zombies full on but they're still coming! Though shrapnel does drop that little rabid rat-dog. A fiery ray to the face drops one of them, and Willow's slash brings down another, but there's two waiting just behind to surge forward and fill those gaps!]

[The undead continue to stomp forward, though luckily no more seem to be pouring out of the nearby houses. The one directly in front of Henry swipes at him again Atk 15, 7 Damage and another Fort save if that hits]

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[autorevive]

[we have now reached the point in the juncture where if he threw another grenade, he might accidentally blow up his friends and he already almost accidentally blew up his surrogate father figure of the week, so MELEE IT IS. he dashes over to the zombie closest to paige and strikes at it with his shortsword. (atk 21; 5 whole damage s-so scurry)]

[pickyourbattles]

[ aurelius stands his ground, directing a magic missile at the zombie in front of willow (3 dmg), and one at the zombie directly in front of him (2 dmg) ]

[olreliable]

[So... Willow rolled a crit on the zombie in front of her. Apparently she's channeling her inner Buffy right now. 10 damage. Slice and dice!]

[somepagesturn]

[Paige gets a hold of herself, and lunges forwards towards the zombie in front of Henry, slicing at it with her dagger (atk 19, dmg 2)]

[wanttobeahero]

[ Seeing Paige beside him, Henry's even more determined to try and take down this zombie, not wanting her to get hurt. So he attacks with his dagger again (attack 10, damage 10). Unfortunately, the zombie also manages to strike at him again, but he's not going down without a fight (fort save 9). Maybe... ]

[count_strahd_von_zarovich]

[The constant barrage of blades and magic seem to be working. The zombie in from of Henry crumples with a sickening popping noise. Henry becomes Sickened taking a -1 to all D20 rolls. Willow manages to cleave an arm off of the zombie in front of her, but it's still standing.]

[Attacks: Willow is attacked, with a 14 for 9 damage | Paige is attacked, with a 10 for 6 Damage | and Nathan is slammed with an atk of 24 for 10 Damage. If any of those hit, please make a fortitude save as well.]

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[autorevive]

You can't zombie me! I'm immortal! [nathan's fort save is 15. annnd he just keeps on going with the zombie in front of him, attacking with the shortsword again. (atk 21; 6 dmg)]

[pickyourbattles]

[ aurelius has one more magic missile, so he'll hit the one in front of willow for 2 dmg, and the one in front of paige for 3 ]

[olreliable]

[Willow gives the zombie in front of her another mighty slash! (attack 17, 12 damage with penetration).]

You're what?!

[She says as she hacks and slashes at the baddies, because did she just hear Nathan right??]

[somepagesturn]

[Paige slashes at her zombie again. (atk 16, dmg 5)]

You don't have to talk tough to them, Nathan. They're dead. They don't care.

[she totally assumes he's just... being all brash.]

[wanttobeahero]

[ Immortal. Wow, that's...something. He's too focused to react much, and seeing Paige and Willow helped off to his left, Henry focuses on the zombie in front of Nathan, attacking with his dagger (attack 10, damage 9). ]

[count_strahd_von_zarovich]

[The zombies ponderously slump to the ground, finally all falling to the relentless barrage of attacks. Blackened blood oozes into the street, mingling with the moist cobblestones. End of Init!]

[Damage Recap: Willow 9 / Henry 14 + Sickened / Nathan 10]

[The low, distant moans of the dead ring throughout the streets around them. They stand at the intersection, near the overturned cart. The town square should be directly ahead, but they may also investigate the area, or take another route]

[olreliable]

[As the battle ends, Willow lowers her sword and takes a deep breath, examining her wound and wincing. It's not terrible, but it still hurts, okay.]

There's probably more. [Y'know... since there were distant moans of the dead and all. Totally not creepy :| ] If anyone's still alive around here, I'm guessing they're probably holed up somewhere in the center of town? Somewhere easy to board up and defend. At least, that's probably what I would do.

[somepagesturn]

[Paige is gonna tend to Henry's wounds first, since he's the worst off. cure Light wounds, healing six damage, though she has nothing for the effect, so she just reaches up to mom him a little bit and smooth back his hair to make sure he's okay. : (]

Maybe they'll know what caused this. [She turns to Willow.] Sweetie, do you want me to take care of that? [she gestures to her wound.]

[pickyourbattles]

[ aurelius puts a hand on will's arm, concern clouding his features, as he nervously looks down the street ] What if we head into the center of town and find ourselves surrounded?

[olreliable]

[Looking between Paige and Aurelius, Willow tries to give a reassuring smile.]

I think it's okay? I mean, if you don't mind, I wouldn't say no?

[To some healings from Paige, she means. She glances back out at the street, distracted by their options and the very real chance that more zombies could pop out at any time.]

I don't think any of us know this place well enough to know for sure that we wouldn't be surrounded no matter where we went. [Which... isn't at all reassuring. Oops.]

[autorevive]

I'm not talking tough! I'm really immortal! So if I die, just wait a few minutes for me to pop back up. No viking funerals or any of that shit. [so delayed but so is nathan ok. he got distracted. maybe there was a squirrel or a butterfly...]

[somepagesturn]

[Heals coming your way, Willow. Cure Light Wounds for 12 hp.] There you go. We're going to need all the strength we can get. Whatever we do, we can't just stand here. We have to keep going before something happens to Dovan.

[She turns to Nathan and gives him a scrutinizing glance, before sighing.] Well, that explains a lot.