To fight the dead - round 4

[tomcat]

Situation: The companions have entered the barrows with Ceawin. The Master of Sunstead has been waylaid and the companions now face those that inhabit hallows...

BARROW-WIGHTS

Combat Advantage dice:
• Arbogast, Bandy, Esgalwen, Grimbeorn, Idunn, Rorin - all have 1 Success die to use on ANY check while in the barrow.
• Bandy 2 Success dice to use against Corruption or Fear; may extend these dice to other players, through inspiration of their own.
• Grimbeorn 2 Success dice to use against Corruption or Fear; may extend these dice to other players, through inspiration of their own.

Situation Modifiers:
• Company has initiative

Physical Modifiers (complications):
• none

Tactical Situation
• Grimbeorn has the token from Mother Leyna

PC/NPC	PARRY	ARMOUR	HOPE [HATE]	ENDURANCE
Arbogast Bandy Esgalwen Grimbeorn Idunn Rorin	6/9 [woodcrafty] (shield +3) 9 (shield n/a) 6/9 [skirmisher] (shield n/a) 6/9 [great strength] (shield +4) 6/9 [woodcrafty] 4 (shield n/a)	1d (headgear +1) 1d (headgear n/a) 1d (headgear n/a) none (headgear +1) 2d (headgear n/a) 5d (headgear n/a)	9/16 15/18 10/11 6/12 12/15 8/10	5/26 [WEARY] [WOUNDED] 22/22 25/25 21/31 25/25 34/34
Wight-King Wight 1 Wight 2	7 4 4	2d+10 2d+8 2d+8	6/9 5/6 4/6	0/70 [DEAD] 47/54 40/54

STANCE	TN (+parry)	PC / LMC	Options...
Forward - action order 1 Close combat	TN 6+	Esgalwen, Grimbeorn	Forward Stance maneuvers
Open - action order 2 Close combat	TN 9+	tbd	Open Stance maneuvers
Defensive - action order 3 Close combat	TN 12+	Arbogast	Defensive Stance maneuvers
Rearward - action order 4 Ranged combat Must be 2 other PC's in Close Combat May not use if outnumbered 2:1	TN 12+	Bandy	Rearward Stance maneuvers
Any Escape combat Must start in Rearward or roll TN 10 + highest attribute level of opponents		none	May safely flee from the scene of combat

[tomcat]

"NO!" shouted Esgalwen when Arbogast hit the ground. He did not move and his blood blackened the soil even more. "NO!" she repeated, the word hissing out full of anger. She swung her blade at the wight before her.

TN 10 longsword 3d, shadow-bane +1d

1d12 : 12, total 12
Rolled 4d6 : 5, 5, 4, 2, total 16

7   edge: 9   injury: 18

[tomcat]

Well there is a nice , but do you think I could get any !! Oh well, still a great roll.

• BW3 takes 7 END loss and must make a TN 18 protection test
TN 18 armour 2d+8

1d12 : 4, total 4
Rolled 2d6+8 : 6, 1 + 8, total 15

Let's hope the Light of Elbereth are shining down.

[tomcat]

 

So damn close...

[Eclecticon]

The world shifts beneath him as Arbogast struggles back to his feet.  His mind cannot hold a clear thought, and Esgalwen's shout sounds further away than the barrow could possibly allow.  Still, there is a warrior's work to be done.  Someone (a man.  A kinsman? A friend?) must be defended.  Must be taken from this place.  To home, where someone with golden hair and a sweet voice await...


I'm shifting into defensive stance and sacrificing all four success dice to fight defensively. 

Token attack roll in case of :~g~::

Rolled 1d12 : 12, total 12

[Eclecticon]

HOLY SHIT! 

[tomcat]

Protection test TN 20
TN 20 armour 2d6+10

1d12 : 1, total 1
Rolled 2d6+10 : 3, 1 + 10, total 14

[tomcat]

Pretty freaking awesome, Paul!

Go ahead and describe how Arbogast takes out the Wight-king.

[Eclecticon]

In a second.  First:

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAH!  FUCK YES!  THAT'S!  HOW!  IT'S!  DONE! 

[GandalfOfBorg]

I'm shifting into defensive stance and sacrificing all four success dice to fight defensively. 

Token attack roll in case of :~g~::
This dice roll has been tampered with!
Rolled 1d12 : 12, total 12

Well if that's not heroic, I don't know what is

[Eclecticon]

The wight-king's corroded sword glints a dim, infernal red in the firelight as it strikes once and again at the Woodman.  Arbogast takes one blow and then another on the haft of his axe, leaving deep notches in the hardened wood.  A third strike batters him down to the floor.  He tries to lift his axe again, but can barely raise the head above where a dry and withered leg emerges from a bronze greave, green with verdigris.  Above him, the sword of the wight-king begins to descend in a motion as inevitable as the setting of the sun. 

Accepting his doom, Arbogast lets the axe head drop.  He barely comprehends as he sees it bight through skin, knee-bones and brittle tendons, sending the body of the ancient king tumbling like a dropped stone.  He does not hear the sword break in twain upon the stone of the sarcophagus. 

With an unearthly shriek, the wight-king attempts to stand.  But Bandobras' oil pot has splattered the stones, leaving them dark and slick, and dead hands find no purchase upon it.  Arbogast does not hear as the unwholesome thing calls to its master, pleading for aid.  All he knows is the sudden brightness and warmth as the flames on its robes reach the oil, and the creature is entirely enveloped in flames.  The spirit within - a thing of darkness and cold - cannot withstand, and cannot escape.  Within moments, it is no more, and what was the wight-king of the East Bight shines bright. 

Arbogast finds the fire pleasing.  He will watch it a while. 

[Eclecticon]

I'm shifting into defensive stance and sacrificing all four success dice to fight defensively. 

Token attack roll in case of :~g~::
This dice roll has been tampered with!
Rolled 1d12 : 12, total 12

Well if that's not heroic, I don't know what is

I don't think I've ever been so pleased to have screwed up basic subtraction. 

[tomcat]

that was very cool! I now just need Matt and Tom to post, and we'll see how this round ends.

[GandalfOfBorg]

Grimbeorn is emboldened by his friend's frenzied attack and sweeps the others with his ancestral axe.

  Grimbeorn changes to Forward Stance.
Action: Sweeping Attack, removes 2 dice
 

Axes -  1d12 : 2, total 2
Rolled 2d6 : 5, 3, total 8

[GandalfOfBorg]

  I'll use a Hope if that will improve things....