Game Thread Act 1: Investigating the Mystery of the Afflicted - Page 115

Evil Pie · #**1711** 06-14-2012, 07:30 PM

Martigan takes a seat and uses his sword for support. he shakes his head repeatedly. He pants heavily and just rests against the wall.
Just call me when your done skulking around. all this time waiting has drained me. his voice is ragged and tired.

FamMedKing · #**1712** 06-16-2012, 12:10 AM

Belnan waits behind his friends for Kolik to return with news. Zombie-buddy's moans had faded out around the corner and now all he could hear were his own fears, echoing inside his head, reminding him of all the horrible things that were waiting just 10 feet away in the impenetrable dark.

Magnai · #**1713** 06-17-2012, 03:01 PM

OOCRemember all of you can still see despite the darkness because you've all activated your special skill.

You all stand there, seeming to wait for your goblinoid companion. You can just hear Martigan's panting from his exhaustion. The girls seem to be still on edge. They don't seem to be comfortable at all here. They are, however, patient. It seems like they are still staying active and prepared for anything.

The silence and calm seems to be so strange compared to the fast paced combat that you are all getting used to. The girls, however, seem to be happy with

FamMedKing · #**1714** 06-17-2012, 05:32 PM

In stark contrast to his more patient companions, Belnan cannot stand the waiting! Inactivity seemed to feed his imagination with more horrific possibilities awaiting them in the darkness, despite knowing full well that his magical "sight" would let him know if there really were anything there. By the end of a full minute, the creature building up in his mind had gone from a fluffy bunny with long fangs to something...well, rather like Martigan with green fur, tentacles, two heads and...pink trousers. It was too much.
He nearly screamed, but managed to restrain himself with much turning purple in the face. "This is too much! We've got to go after him! He could be in trouble while we're just sitting here amusing ourselves by imagining terrible Martigan-like creatures! Come on!" He whispered hoarsely, nudging Kindli in front of him to get moving. He didn't, after all, want to be the first one down THAT hall.

Lord Loco · #**1715** 06-17-2012, 06:11 PM

Evil Pie · #**1716** 06-19-2012, 01:12 PM

Martigan stands but is a bit shaky. I'm going to go up ahead if we are just going to stand around. He moves the left side of the hallways and moves up to R-13the divot in the wall. He peeks around the corner and looks and listens around for any traps or creatures. he moves on if there is nothing of interest. in giant languageAnyone there

FamMedKing · #**1717** 06-19-2012, 10:18 PM

The gnome watches Martigan maneuver forward, torn between following him (for something to do) and doing the wiser thing, waiting. Fortunately, an unexpected surge of common sense temporarily washes over him and he remembers Marty's track record, which causes him to wait.

Magnai · #**1718** 06-20-2012, 01:18 PM

Martigan just hears his own voice echo back into the chamber. Martigan sees that there seems to be a larger cavern down at the end of this hall, just like there is a larger cavern further up the hallway that you are in. The walls of the cavern still seem to be well fashioned. You can see that it appears to be made as compared to naturally formed. You hear some movement in the cavern that is not your own, but you are not able to place where it is. It seems like the walls deceive you.

Kindli and Neira see Belnan's uncomfortable figiting. Kindli places a calm hand on him and says, "It's good for you to learn some patience sometime. The slow and careful one survives in this harsh world. There's clearly something going on down that hallway. Kolik's been down there a little long." Neira nods in affirmation then asks, "How is Martigan doing down there? Is he getting ahead of himself?"

OOCHelpful link to new map

Lord Loco · #**1719** 06-20-2012, 02:08 PM

Evil Pie · #**1720** 06-21-2012, 03:24 PM

Martigan makes his way west down the new hallway with his sword raised. he K-12stops just as the hallway opens up a bit.
If anything spots him he makes his way back to the main group.

Magnai · #**1721** 06-26-2012, 05:35 PM

OOCI was delaying because this is actually an important round, as you see below. Let's hope that FMK is back soon.

Initiatives please.

If you think about something, you might be able to change where this is going drastically.

As Martigan peeks around the corner, he sees two particularly massive orcs standing in front of a larger, seemingly older orc. The older orc seems to be doing something with a cauldron in the middle of the room. Martigan sees that the older orc is dressed in heavy full plate armor and seems to have both of his eyes gouged out. It is also carrying a full tower shield and another orcish double axe. He also seems to have a bloody knife hanging on his belt. Without looking up, the older orc sees Martigan looking around the corner and smashes the axe against the full tower shield three times, causing a loud noise to reverberate throughout the cavern.

Kindli and Neira clearly hear the loud noise. They look at each other then immediately look at Belnan. Kindli asks, If you can still see, you better tell us what's going on. That doesn't sound good. Where's Martigan and what is Kolik doing down there? They clearly seem prepared to fight, but neither of them are orienting to a direction because they have no idea where the noise came from.

Belnan quickly sees another orc appear from the end of the corridor. It seems ready to block your forward progress in that direction. The only way to get out it the way you came, if you are sure that you can get there in time.

Lord Loco · #**1722** 06-26-2012, 07:14 PM

Evil Pie · #**1723** 06-26-2012, 08:05 PM

Martigan makes his way back at full speed trying to pull out a scroll for Neira and or Kindly. he chants the words please don't kill me as he makes his way out of the darkness and S-18into the light near Kindli ad Neira so they don't kill him on sight. 3 big orcs down the hall on your first left,
All huge, I think the older one knows I'm here and alerted the others with that shield and there is a big one right behind me. I need you to use this scroll on me.
I can try and reason with it.

FamMedKing · #**1724** 06-26-2012, 10:33 PM

"Reason with an orc!? You really are mad!" Belnan hefts his staff in one hand and Ingeborg in the other, mentally reviewing a couple of his favorite spells. "If I can get down there, I could unleash an ice storm and do some damage to them all! What do you think?" he asks hopefully, glad to have something with which to occupy his mind at last.

Magnai · #**1725** 06-27-2012, 12:06 PM

As Martigan attempts to move, he finds that his body has been locked in place. The slightest movement takes so much effort. Martigan feels like he's moving through quicksand or something else of that sort. He manages to force himself to get to his desired location by using all of this effort to move.

Kindli and Neira can hear him approaching. They don't seem to notice that he is taking more effort to move. Neira immediately walks carefully over to Martigan and takes the scroll that he has. She looks past him, worried about the dangers that are yet to appear. She says, What's the scroll? I don't know if I can help you unless I know the spell.

Kindli looks towards Belnan and asks, Do we need to stay back here or should we go support Martigan up in front? She seems quite worried about if someone's going to attack them from behind. She also seems hesitant about moving from her current position and allowing the passageway to get behind her.

OOCMartigan has Impede cast on him. I rolled the save (so you can't see the DC to figure out how powerful this orc is). Martigan is unable to move this round (failed the save for this round).

LL didn't give a coordinate so I assumed a position associated with a single move action because there was no mention that Kolik put all his effort towards moving.