What color were the dragonborn at the inn? (I didn't see it explicitly mentioned in the posts...but I might have missed it.)

Orange!

So everyone's char sheet is in my sig. I'll be updating the battlemap per battle and for encounters and such from here on out. Full disclosure: thaen rolled a 6 for one of Aregano's stats, and I've bumped it to an 8 since I didn't know you can't actually have a stat below 8 in 4e.

I think Nolan has some words to say to Lucian. Or at least some spits to be made.

I'm fine with moving along - just so everyone knows...I'm without power, likely until Sunday (hopefully earlier!) so, won't be able to post much aside from when I'm at work (assuming work doesn't lose power as well).

The conversation with Lucian will create the motivation for Nolan to continue in the mission, but it can always be resumed later if necessary.

However in my opinion since it is close to the end of the week, probably it is better to start the encounter only on monday.

Let me add - if people do want to RP, I'm 100% fine with it (it's why we're here, after all). Just assume that Tovar is walking along, playing with his sword and humming off-key

I agree with True_Believer. With Neo's power situation getting into combat right now may be a little tricky as we could end up waiting for long time between each move. In addition rstnme is unavailable during weekends so it would probably be better to start the next combat encounter on Monday anyway. Just my thoughts.

S'okay with me. I'll actually be around more tomorrow night and Saturday. For now I'll post a generic post and you guys can RP it out.

Er. Looks like I already did that. Need coffee.

"Only fools would fall to such pathetically predictable creatures"

Hahaha!! *We* almost did fall to them...and Lucian himself DID *fall* to the ground. : )

Yeah I expect that line to come back and bite me when we fight the goblin chieftain or something and he kicks us all about the place.

I think you can move to next encounter now.

hokay

I don't suppose you will consider letting those of us who need to spend a healing surge or two and regain our encounter powers? I meant to do it before now but got caught up arguing pay deals with Jason. We had to have spend more than 5 minutes talking and getting our breath back after that last fight.

Nah, the benefit of time-lapses is that it's entirely reasonable you'd put on a band-aid. Want me to top off your HP then?

Encounter powers restored. I usually consider these refreshed after about 15 minutes or so.

Yeah I'll spend a single surge to go up to 22 hit points. No reason to waste anymore topping that up. Thanks for that.

Initiative Roll


Battle Strategy
Okay we have something of a rare situation here - the element of surprise. The gobbo's don't seem to know we're here which gives us an immediate advantage. Regardless of initiative order I'd recommend anyone who acts before Aregano to delay there actions - with the way the goblins are clustered a single spell and a few lucky rolls and we could half there numbers with a single action. After that stick to the trees and let the enemy come to us - the crossbow men will be all but useless with that much cover and Libi can take exceptional advantage of the cover provided to start slitting throats and ruining days.

I've updated my surges/HP/encounter powers. (2 surges used)
HP is full (31/31)

Init:
18

Just getting that there now, I'm going to add something to the IC thread beforehand...hopefully, soon.

OK, I've expanded the map a bit too. Let's assume everything outside of that is dense forest and impassible snow drifts.

Additional
For those unfamiliar with the system there is a thing called a 'ready action'; effectively rather than performing a action now you set one up to trigger later. You seen the Lord of the Ring's movies? You know that bit in Balin's Tomb where Legolas aims his bow at the door and the second a Orc comes into sight he shoot it? He basically readied an action there.

For example, Neo you got Initiative 18 (good going). Since letting Aregano go first to blast the gobbo's while still clustered is a good idea you could use your turn the move towards the main pass (preferably behind a tree) and take a ready action to hit the first thing that comes running round. Yeah it means there is a chance it wont trigger but its better than just standing there doing nothing.

For formatting sake it would look something like this;



Since you already rolled your attack and damage Rstnme can just deal with the attack when it triggers without having to slow the game down.