The Bear Necessities (OOC)

[GranspearZX]

A thread for GMing!

Ask if you want in; relatively open occupancy. Claremonters, specifically, as this is a tutoring/study session with the promise of later violence!

Currently featuring:

Arcturus

Warp

[GranspearZX]

Marcus takes 10 on a Knowledge [arcane lore] roll, since he can smell the magic in the air (and since Skill Mastery). Discovers that they're dealing with a lightning elemental.

And now, initiatives!

The elemental's initiative: Initiative: (1d10+7=16)

Arcturus's initiative: Initiative: (1d10+5=11)

[Curious Key]

Kat's Initiative: (1d10+4=12)

[GranspearZX]

Alright! so here's what we're looking at:

== Round 1 ==

16 :: Lightning Elemental -- Unharmed

12 :: Warp [1HP] -- Unharmed

11 :: Arcturus [2HP] -- Unharmed

And the elemental turns and fires a lightning bolt at Warp! (Blast 10):

Ranged Attack (Blast 10, lightning): (1d20+10=15)

The lightning bolt misses, making it Warp's turn!

[Curious Key]

Kat is going to try to hit the elemental with a disintegrate. That's a full action for her, so nothing more this turn.

Attack: 1d20+13=20

[GranspearZX]

Fortitude Roll [DC17]: (1d20+6=9)

And it fails, dropping its toughness in the process. Ow.

TOU check: (1d20+2=19)

-7 for the TOU drain, and we're looking at 12, making the elemental Bruised.

Arcturus can't physically harm it and he knows it... so he uses a Hero Point to stunt a spell off of his Enhanced Strength:

Will Check [DC19]: (1d20+12=16)

He fails his Will check and his spell fizzles. Ouch.

[GranspearZX]

== Round 2 ==

16 :: Lightning Elemental -- Drain TOU [-7]; Bruised x1

12 :: Warp [1HP] -- Unharmed

11 :: Arcturus [1HP] -- Unharmed

The lightning elemental, attracted by the attempt at magic, attacks Arcturus:

Ranged Attack (Blast 10): (1d20+10=19)

Which narrowly misses. Warp's turn!

[Curious Key]

Second verse, same as the first.

Attack: 1d20+13=31

I'm assuming that's a hit. For the record, living things cannot have their toughness reduced more than five below zero. So at most, the drain would be taking -5 from elemental. Unless this is considered an object, I guess, which would make it -10.

[GranspearZX]

It does, in fact, hit. And elementals ARE living creatures, so...

That said, Fort and TOU saves are in order:

Fortitude Check [DC17]: (1d20+6=17)

TOU Check [DC17]: (1d20+2=22)

(Forgot the -1 from the Bruise. But still...)

It actually resists the drain AND the damage. Hoo. ^^

Marcus concentrates, and attempts to use his magic one more time (since he still has the power active from last round):

Will Check [DC19]: (1d20+12=25)

Success!

Ranged Attack roll (Blast 9, Accurate): (1d20+11=21)

And a toughness check for the elemental:

TOU check [DC19]: (1d20+2=15)

And again, I forgot the -1 from the bruise. FFFFFFFFFFFFF...

But, having failed the check by 5, the elemental is stunned and takes another bruise.

IC post forthcoming!

[Curious Key]

Eventually I'm going to run out of ways to describe an entropic bolt.

Attack: 24

[GranspearZX]

Fort Save:

FORT check [DC17]: (1d10+7=16)

And TOU save (which I believe is now bottomed out at -5 from 2 -7 drains and a -2 Bruised penalty):

TOU check [DC17]: (1d20-5=11)

So it's now Bruised (x3) and Stunned again.

Arc's up next.

[GranspearZX]

Ah! Before I forget, I need a Notice roll [DC15]!

[Curious Key]

Notice: 16

[GranspearZX]

Arc doesn't see it, but Warp does: as the figure was running, he dropped a small yellow cube, about 2 inches on either side.

[Curious Key]

So should I post or should we keep order . . . ?

[GranspearZX]

Sure, go ahead and post again.