Welcome back to Occupied Equestria
Dark Star, Silver, Iron, and Midnight continue their investigation and hopefully, the take down of a group of organized criminals who have taken up operations at an old fortress on the sea shore. They have already rescued a number of creatures and persuaded them to join in their efforts. Now, they most hope that they can strike with enough force, and quickly enough, to destroy the evil that has taken up residence there.
Up in the North, the ponies are waking up, ready for a new day
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>>117749"Okay..."
He gets up, and starts to walk out of the room
>>117750Brie allows him to lead the way
Taking a cue from others, this is probably a good point to stop for the night
Of course, the moment Dark Star gets back is the moment I pass out...
>>117754I don't believe you, I think you're there.
Can't believe I went to bed so late.
Anyways, here is me.
Which ponies will be available today?
>>117761Mehybeh, I'm still waiting to see. But I should be.
>>117761I'll be available for a couple more hours, then I'll be on again around 7.
I'll be on toward the evening
Okay, we can proceed with something if enough players are online
>>117771I'm back.
>>117771>>117772Two questions: what's the order of combat (if there is one), and are we aiming to capture or kill?
>>117776No order as of yet, but Dark Star shot his bow first, followed by Iron slamming against a wall from bad rolls and then Skies shot an arrow, too, I think.
Midnight hasn't attacked so far.
>>117776Capture is preferrable, but from how the griffs can never talk after getting punched so hard they become unresponsive, I dunno if they can be useful unless the last griff surrenders anyways.
>>117776There is not quite an “order.”
There was more than one griffin that came into the boiler room, concerned about the lack of heat, the “lazy” maintenance team, and the gnolls evidently not doing a required job. Iron had Jubilosa and Blue Shekels come and lure the griffins into the hallway all of the creatures are in (which leads from a door in the boiler room). One griffin came through. Dark Star, with his chad email dice, scored a 20 and knocked down that griffin with blue skies following up his attack. Iron, with his virgin in line dice, scored a 1 and hurt himself on a wall.
I’m not going to tell you capture or kill
>>117777>>117778>>117779Is the griff knocked out? Or should Silver treat him with a pommel to the face?
>>117780Heil, Edgy Boi!
>>117781Knocked out/dead.
But there's two more inside the boiler room.
Surprise round is over, and each group is in their respective rooms
>>117781I mean, Silver can always give that double tap he was going to give to Zwolf to the downed griffin
>>117780Hello. That’s a super cute poner
>>117783I'll use this moment to rush into the room and get shot by the other two griffons, with the shield hopefully granting me more than just 10 AC.
Hopefully the other melee troops follow.
They better shoot me and not any of the prisoners. >>117784You already declared your next action after the surprise round: standing up
>>117780>>117785>>117787"Это снова мы...it was probably not best idea to send in griffin they were talking about." He drags the griffin away from the door to tie him up.
>>117786
Okay, just to be clear: the remaining griffins are inside of a big room with plenty of pipes and such in it. The party is in a hallway that connects to a doorway in the very corner of the griffin room. There is not really a line of sight between the two. The griffins know there is an ambush waiting in the other room, and so are not enthusiastic to charge in
>>117788So Silver quickly drags the griffin away from the door
Do paladins get surprise rounds?
>>117795What, am I Han Solo now?
Is it possible for Midnight to get in an attack or should I wait for the normal round?
>>117796Well, now there are no enemies in line of sight
>>117797Then Midnight bides her time.
Soon
Everypony is gone now and I don’t know why
>>117807Oi, don't ye think I'm out of yer sight, ya mumbling horse!
I never left, I’m just waiting.
Eeees in EEEEEE
>>117807I'm waiting for someone to decide to go in so Silver can go in with them.
>>117814Midnight would follow if Silver leads.
Okay, So the Northern Posse can walk out to the broken shovel if they like.
And the griffins do not walk into the trap a second time
>>117817>>117815Well, I suppose Silver is the first to cautiously enter the room, sword at the ready.
>>117818Midnight cautiously follows, her shortsword and dagger held at the ready.
>>117817I can't. Still standing up n shiet
>>117817Does that mean the unicorn isn’t breaking for escape? Alas
“The hell was that?”
“Jurgen?”
“He just got shot...”
“By whom?”
“Either some of the captives broke free, or an incursion by the gangs”
“What do we do now?”
“See if they come out, and get help”
“Good. No way I am going in there”
>>117822Why would he run to escape?
>>117821Woah!
Iron seems to have gotten in the boiler room.
>>117823Can Iron see where these griffs are now?
[1d20 = 18]
[1d20+5 = 15]
[1d20+5 = 18]
Midnight should probably be in first since she was the only one not doing something else. Silver and Iron, who took actions before, should follow.
I’m thinking roll initiative. The griffins get home field advantage
>>117825Wew, that's a lot of good rolls.
18 15 18?
Alrighty. Let's roll back
[1d20 = 1]<The Laws of Probability dictates that Iron's ass is toast [1d20+4 = 19]
Initiative tiem?
Order:
Chad email dice paladin
Grif 1
Grif 2
Grif 3
Edge Pone
Virgin In line dice
Loose a turn: other in line dice
[1d20+8 = 26][1d20+8 = 12]>>117830dabs in superior dice rolling skillsMidnight slashes with her shortsword and stabs with her dagger at the 1st griffon.
>>117823Because if he ran that would make my job a lot easier
>>117832He is seeing no reason to do anything except stand silently to the right of Otis
The ponies roll into the boiler room. Iron rolls a little too much maybe, as he runs into a set of pipes and trips, falling down. The Griffins are three in number and all to the left of the boiler itself, kind of evenly spaced.
Midnight and one of the griffins fun at each other, with midnight landing the first blows
I’m only granting the first one as landing at the moment
[1d20+5 = 16]
[2d20+4 = 24]
Alright
Midnight’d sword slashes into the breast of the griffin before her, while the second is dodged, grading the feathers of the creature. The creature strikes back, however, with a short sword of his own.
A second one charges over at Iron, who is prone on the floor
The third charges at the fluffy silver pony
1 For midnight
2. Fir Iron, who has -2 AC because he is in the pipes
3. For silver
>>117836Nice. Good thing Shield is here to save the day!
>>117836I do believe Silver is hit.
[1d6 = 2][1d6 = 3]>>117818>>117835I believe Silver and Midnight are hit. Iron’s attacker fares no better with the pipes than he does
1. Midnight
2. Silver
[1d20+5 = 20]>>117840Dark Star moves to the door frame
And shoots the griffion standing over iron
[2d6 = 8]>>117841The arrow hits the griffin in his side, sending a pink shockwave
>>117839Fluffball’s turn
>>117833Alright, well he's supposed to be in the process of leading the way to show the industrial shovel.
Its not arbitrary that Brie is insisting either. He's got an ace up his sleeve yet.
>>117843Why would the unicorn lead?
Otis gets up, not quite eager to walk in front of Brie
>>117843Onyx is following the bat.
>>117842Power Attack: [1d20+4 = 9] Silver intends to reciprocate his newfound slash-mark in his chest by giving one to the griffin attacking him.
>>117846Silver put his faith in the in line dice, and the in line dice failed him
The sword goes wide off to the side
>>117844Well, we ended here
>>117749>>117751>>117845We're still in the office, but just as they're not putting their back to Brie, he's keeping them in front of him.
[1d20+7 = 9][1d20+7 = 8]>>117848Good enough
>>117847Oh yeah. My turn.
Midnight glares at the griffon who just swiped her, and slashes back with her sword and dagger.
[1d20 = 3][1d20+2 = 4][2d20+3 = 30]And now, from the other room, in bursts help.
Jubilosa takes the lead, charging in with a short sword taken off of the other griffin.
Khoi follows closely, calmly charging with silver’s hammer.
Mala jumps out, wielding a scimitar in his mouth
Blue Skies rolls out with her bow, staying in the rear
Jubilosa and Blue Skies +3
Khoi +2
Mala +1
Though Iron stumbled at first, he is now up and ready to fight.
Iron should roll initiative
>>117848“Oh... Kay”
Otis slowly gets up from his chair in what is turning out to be a very tense moment
>>117850>>117849Observe how the oppressed native rises up!
[1d20 = 17]<Thankfully, Probability should help me this time. >>117850Brie sighs. "Look, I'm quite confident that you're not telling me everything. I'm also confident that if what you weren't telling me weren't incriminating, you would just tell me. You claim that the machines were sabotaged, fine. Show me the machines. I'm not just going to start stabbing ponies without cause." he says with an exaggerated wave of his hoof (the one not holding a throwing knife). He's still looking at the Unicorn. "Show me some sabotaged equipment and I can conclude that that as well as issues with the PLA - is it PLA or PLF? I never could get that straight - are the cause for the unsatisfactory production and consumption of resources. Otherwise,...."
The order for round 2 is:
Midnight
Grif 1
Grif 2
Jubilosa
Iron
Blue Shekels
Edge Pone
Silver
Khoi
Mala
>>117852The Unicorn has the dead eyes of a mackerel
He blinks
>>117854"Ahhhh, I get it. You're protecting somepony else." Brie says tapping his chin
>>117855If those are the dice rolls you want to go with...
>>117856He nods, slowly
>>117857"This other pony, let's call her Matilda. Is what Matilda is doing urgent? I mean, are lives at stake if she and 'whomever else' were to lay low for a while?"
[1d20+5 = 13][2d20+4 = 35]>>117858Midnight misses. She misses pretty well.
One of her short swords hits a pipe, and bounces out of her wing-claw
The griffins are now more than a little frightened at the small horse coming at them, but neither does a clean retreat look possible. They fight on
1. Midnight
2. Iron
3. Silver
>>117859Who is Brie talking to and who is the other pony
>>117860Brie is giving a hypothetical name to the pony(ies) the unicorn is theoretically trying to protect with his silence.
>>117861Talking to the Unicorn still. Not excluding Otis, but Otis is clearly as oblivious to what is going on as Brie is, relatively speaking.
>>117860Your call: either the griffon misses Silver with that 11, or he crits with that 20.
>>117861He shakes his head
>>117864Well, the center dice is for Iron, as it was last time.
But that’s a +4 on that 11, so I’m not convinced it’s a miss
>>117862Unless she’s wearing armor it’s a hit
>>117865Wait, does a 13 on an AC of 13 hit or miss?
>>117865"We're making progress then! Come, let's look at the machines shall we?" He bounces forward and then - with a spring in his step - leaves the room, headed for the exit. "Come come!"
>>117866If attack roll >= to AC, attack roll wins.
>>117865His armor + his Dex bonus puts him over 15 AC, so it's a miss.
[1d20+4 = 22]>>117866It’s the first one that hits
Otis gets up to leave, and the unicorn more slowly after the two others
>>117869What armor is he wearing
>>117868Speaking of which, rolling to confirm crit on Iron