You journey north has been exceptionally eventful. The orc Tisgut, scout for the Red Wolf tribe, has returned your rescue, generosity, and hospitality by attempting to take food from your group, drawing one of the Ice Abominations to your camp, and taking you to an orc tribe that's in the middle of a clan war. Then charging headlong into said war.

Perhaps that's being a bit disingenuous. The Ice Thing was just bad luck. Also, he didn't know that the Hawk Tribe was planning on ambushing and enslaving/killing all of the members of this part of the Rat Tribe.

Also, the Rat Tribe was fairly hospitable, for orcs, and gave you shelter and warmth, which is vital for survival out on the Tundra Plains.

But either way, the Hawk Tribe has surrounded the Rat Tribe encampment, 25 warriors inside, and 50 warriors outside. Also, they made the rather rude statement to Tisgut that he was their guest-hostage and would be traded back to Red Wolf. Also, that you and the Dawnchasers were now Hawk Property. Tisgut is many things, but he is NEVER a hostage, he is NOT a Thing, and NO ONE insults Red Wolf guests. (Which apparently you are, as well as being referred to as the 'Snake Tribe.')

Tisgut's response to the ultimatum that if he behaves calmly he will be treated with respect, and promptly returned to his tribe?

A drawn sword and a charge with a very succinct verbal argument:

"GWWWWUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"

Sweet Lamia quest is a tad early.

Also I have an idea on how to go cloudkill w/ minimal kills:

Get mage to do some sort of filter spell on everyone then saturate the area in cloudkill. Then amplify your voice and tell everyone to settle the fuck down or die a really painful death via cloudkill.

>>25916921
Cloudkill takes multiple factors into account, not least of which being wind and atmospheric conditions. And since I don't think we've made a concerted effort to weaponize this stuff, I don't think Mage has a spell to protect specific people from its effects. Which doesn't mean we can't ask, but the alternative to him having it ready would be him making it up on the spot, which would likely take some time and would be a big risk.

So for the time being, cloudkill may be off the table.

>>25916921
We need to somehow draw the hawks away from the rats before we can use any kind of cloudkill- the history of mage inventing spells on the spot in the past has been near universally lethal.

I say we punch right through the shaman and her fighting men, get behind them, and force them to either focus on us or get killed off from behind.

>>25917048
it'd be quite tricky to use it effectively, yeah. We need to be extremely careful with it, if we use it at all. Though I don't know how we're beating 75 orcs without it, unless they break and run easier than we think.

>>25917048
Echo did say we could use cloudkill without consequence in the last thread.

Also 75 fucking orcs.

>>25917173
I am here to emphasize
>could
We have to be careful to not also kill the rats. Or worse, our friends. Also, if we can resolve this without killing all the hawks, well, that's mercy shown and an enemy that might be a friend one day.

>>25917048
Just so you know, Mage's plan is to generate a massive windstorm to negate the chances of the Hawk archers filling you all full of arrows. This will effect the Cloudkill. Also, as before, to generate enough of all three poisons and mix them together within yourself so you excrete the cloudkill will take six rounds, less if you make a 14+ roll.

You'll be able to make a single action while you do that, so one attack with Beacon or an attack with your tail, not both.

Also, the Hawk orc soldiers have a single long heath bar, which will drop dice as you wipe them out.

The Hawk Warchief and the Shaman have their own separate health bars.

The Rat orcs will be helping, but there's a 3-5 ratio between the two clans, favoring the Hawks.

Tisgut and the Rat Shaman are allies in this fight.

Any other information you would like?

I'm going to have to say that this is a perfect time to use cloudkill.

>>25917194
>any other information you would like?

Can I have a vague formation of how troops and noncombatants are placed? I want to draw up a little MSpaint battlefield sketch.

>>25917194
First off can Mage keep people from inhaling cloudkill via filtration? Secondly the orcs have symbols on them right, like the ratskulls and feathers. Mage said they were being used for the shaman magic, so could he use them to apply that spell?

>>25917221
>Can I have a vague formation of how troops and noncombatants are placed? I want to draw up a little MSpaint battlefield sketch.

It's a circular ambush, there's two rings of orcs, archers behind bladesmen, surrounding the camp. In the center is the war party, they're in a triangle pattern pointing towards the mass of Rat orcs in the center. The Hawk warchief is at the tip of the triangle, and the shaman is being protected in the center.

The rats are in three small circular blobs. One facing the war party. One in front of the civilian tent, and the third by the chief's tent, also protecting the shaman.

You, the Dawnchasers, and Tisgut are off to the side of the triangle by your own tent.

we could probably have mage shape the windstorm so it dost go into the rat settlement, that would wipe out the hawks outside.

>>25917263
>First off can Mage keep people from inhaling cloudkill via filtration? Secondly the orcs have symbols on them right, like the ratskulls and feathers. Mage said they were being used for the shaman magic, so could he use them to apply that spell?

No, he can alter the winds he's summoning, along with the shaman. He CAN use the fetishes that the tribes are wearing as targets for some wide area spells, he could try and haste all the orcs wearing Rat charms, for example.

>>25917194
Well, I'm going to go ahead and give my views on the general strategic and tactical situations.

The arrows can be negated two ways: preventing them from finding their mark via windstorm (screening), or by moving the fight indoors (terrain management). A 3-5 ratio with bombardment out of the question favors the defenders.

My suggestion would be to have Mage do a windstorm screen while we gank the Hawk shaman and warchief. We have the advantage of being inside a village, so once the smaller force closest to us is wiped out the force outside will have to come in closer.

When that happens all we need to do is focus on where the attackers might bottleneck and attack there. Victory without using Cloudkill or taking ourselves out of the fight for several rounds.

So my only question is how defensible is the Rat village?

>>25917338
Isn't haste not supposed to be used on humanoids? Could it be cranked up a bit to overwork their bodies and disable them?

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Allright, made a little terribly drawn aid for the fight.

Anyway, my plan stays the same. We bust through the primary triangle hawk formation, and then get to eating them one by one from behind. They've spread their forces out, with the exception of one concentration. If we take that down, then we're individually superior against the remaining forces unless they change strategy and clump up on us, inviting a friendly fire free cloudkill.

>>25917343
>So my only question is how defensible is the Rat village?
It's a collection of hide tents, a penned corral of hind deer, and a bunch of fire pits.

>>25917332
yeah, if we just use the windstorm to keep EVERYTHING out of the settlement, we are free to use poison on the outside.

>>25917508
Move the triangle inside the tent ring

>>25917435
And basically burst the Hawk tribe's hearts?

Sounds like a solid plan, so long as it's preceded by gank the shaman.

>>25917605
Well I was hoping for a less lethal route, but geeking the mage for her foci is probably a needed thing

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>>25917574
Done and done.

>>25917631
Geek the mage is our universal starting plan.

Whether or not she is killed or KOed really depends on how easy she goes down.

>>25917653
That's about right.

Any other information needed?

>>25917546
So in other words, not at all. The fire pits could be used as foxholes if they were big enough, but that wouldn't be sufficient.
>>25917548
Rotating around an eye would work to keep arrows from hitting their targets, but the gas would need a different trick. Maybe moving higher-altitude air down and outward, pushing gas away from the camp in all directions?

>>25917670
Can we use haste for a non-lethal KO on the orcs by overworking their systems?

We might want to go a bit crazy on killing our enemies, like what we did to the undead thing int the druid cabin. A sufficently skillful or gory kill may weaken the morale of the Hawk orcs and force them to retreat or rout if we kill a higher ranked or very strong orc.

>>25917680
from what I remember it's a sinking gas, so that would probably work.

>>25917670
I can't think of any more information I want that wouldn't be metagaming. Like "what's the childhood fear of all those orcs"

>>25917548
Yeah, this seems pretty reasonable. Get everyone into the eye of the storm, spray cloudkill into the storm, and then let the wind distribute it.

>>25917694
that's why I've said now for the third time we should start by tearing into the orc-triangle. It's got their leader AND shaman, and we can get off a beacon shine in there to further the effect, and we can't use the gas until we get rid of them anyway since they're actually inside the rat camp.

>>25917722
Geeking the mage also gives us access to magically effect the other hawk orcs with the feathers the shaman has.

>>25917697
How would that not work? Heavier than air gasses can be blown around from place to place by even a relatively light breeze.

>>25917756
>so that would probably work
I said it would probably work. Literally. It's a heavier than air gas, which means we could push it around without it floating up and being caught in the downdraft of fresh air that the rats need to breathe.

>>25917753
You're cunning. I wonder what mage can do with that. Since it's a stalking spell, he can at -least- make all the orcs polkadot pink.

>>25917812
the stalking spell was ended. The feathers act like mage's staff only suckier.

>>25917829
I assumed it was like, non-expended reagents or something. Whatever, either way.

Rolled 1, 5, 1, 9, 3, 2, 2, 6, 10, 5 = 44

Okay. Roll for initiative.

Rolled 8

>>25917848
I'm working with what Echo wrote, Mage didn't give us a magic babble answer that I could work with
>>25917866
Geek the mage

>>25917680
Ah, so some kind of downdraft cyclone. Suck cold air down in a spiral and push it outwards. We can throw the cloudkill down and let it get radiated out by the wind. We just need to get the rat tribe into the eye.

>>25917876
good enough

>>25917918
We got 3 rolls, might as well shoot for a crit

Rolled 3

>>25917866
geek-geek-geek the mage.

I feel kind of guilty about this, because it means our mage is going to be geeked one day.

>>25917936
Mage knows what he signed up for. Geek the mage has always been a part of the group codex.

Rolled 1

>>25917866

>>25917969
I regret >>25917935

>>25917969
>>25917985
eh, it's fine if we're not first on initiative this time around. We were caught fantasizing about roasted hawks when they snuck around us after all.

>>25917935
... critical initiative is a thing in this system?

>>25917951
did mage actually sign up? We sort of shanghaied him a little. A voluntary kidnapping of some sort.
Does he know he's allowed to leave? We've not explicitly told him yet.

>>25918052
He got dragon servanted, so I'm not sure

>>25918052
>Dragon Brain Ssen
>Letting part of her hoard go

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>>25918071
>>25918072
No wonder he's muttered so much about running away

>>25918105
Too bad he can't

Rolled 12, 5, 9, 8 = 34

The Hawk Shaman takes out her fetish staff and starts to chant. You see the blade, skin, and eyes of the warchief start to glow red.

Lea is fighting the orcs that are keeping her from putting her fist in the shaman's face. (There's about four orcs between your group and her.) She does her double strike Lamia Style.

The warchief matches off against Tisgut.

Mage starts up his windstorm. (All arrows are going to get a penalty, but if he makes his check they all get blown off course.)

>>25918169
>8
Poor mage

>>25918143
>>25918192
he got distracted by whether or not now would be a good time to escape.

He decided against it, as there might be more screaming not-corpse-monsters. If tricia is to be believed.

>>25918169
The wind isn't that great yet. Tisgut blocks. And Lea smashes in the face of one orc and keeps going.

Your turn. Remember, you have to dedicate one action to making the posion, but if you roll 14+ you speed up the process.

Rolled 17

>>25918221
Rolling for poison.

Rolled 4

>>25918221
Cloudkill time

>>25918221
Make poison and stab the fuck out of whoever's between us and the shaman with Beacon.

>>25918221
Geek the mage

>>25918221
I say let's just turn on the clear and get into the fray. We need to fight our way outside the camp, possibly while charging poison if we're feeling zesty about our chances.

Rolled 18

>>25918221
r-r-redemption for the 1?

oh, calling this now.

>prolonged acid and chlorine usage
>armor's strapping and insulation become ruined
>have to use furs and orcish smithing for northern savage adventure

>>25918311
well if we use spines too much yeah

>>25918278
>>25918257

Okay, you manage to get a nice amount of white in your gullet.

You lunge with Beacon at the mass of orcs, working with Lea.

1d20 +1

Rolled 15 + 1

>>25918335
Stabby stab stab.

>>25918332
You forget, we can just sort of sweat acid.
No, I don't know how it works. It's dragon bullshit.

Rolled 19

>>25918335
Stabbity

>>25918335
Stab them right out of the way. We've got a leader to stab, a shaman to also stab, and a mean loogie to hock somewhere. Since I guess we're using that method.

>>25918353
glands and shit, it seems to be on our spine, in our mouth and on our hands.

Rolled 11 + 1

>>25918371
>>25918335
ffforgot my dice

>>25918372
yeah, I'm willing to accept that. It doesn't conflict with anything I've heard thusfar. Well, maybe only a little.

>>25918436
I ain't a biologist

Rolled 4

>>25918335
Its a shame lances aren't really made for sweeping attacks.

>>25918589
We should find a way to attach a blade to the end of our tail.

To put the cleave in CLEAVE AND SMITE

>>25918589
You can still sweep with a spear, it just depends on your spearpoint

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>>25918589
we've got a ranseur kinda deal. Best we can do with it is operate it like a pitchfork, where orcs are the haybales.

Rolled 5, 20, 3, 15, 17, 14, 11, 15, 17, 9, 17, 20, 7, 17, 10, 11, 6, 18, 1, 3, 18, 12 = 266

>>25918369
Beacon rips out the throat of another Orc.

The Rats charge into the surrounding Hawks.

Tisgut slashes at the Warchief.

The shaman starts to chant herself and Tisgut's sword and eyes start to glow red as well.

The Hawks open their initial volley, and charge into the rats. The wind puts the arrows slightly off course, but not enough. Also, you, Peri, Lea, all get attacked.

Tricia attacks the warchief with her mantis sickle arms.

Peri wades into the orc battle, blades slashing

>>25918632
my god look at all those rolls.

Also, now tisgut AND that warlord are both being enchanted with berzerkerness. I assume. Things are going to get real "fun".

>>25918632
>Tisgut got a crit

Rolled 4

>>25918669
Tisgut is kind of a badass.

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>>25918688
eh, we don't know that for sure yet. We have to compare him with his clan mates. He could be the wuss of the group!

>>25918787
In that case, I guess to beat the Phoenix Empire we'll need, say, twenty orcs?

>>25918669
>>25918787
We dont know that he got that crit. How many of those dice are for the Rats?
And how many for the hawks for that matter?

>>25918787
He did say he was a scout

>>25918824
True

>>25918824
You just have to go through like it's a table.

Rats rolled a 5 to charge

Tisgut rolled a 20 to slash

Shaman rolled a 3 to cast berserk

etc etc

>>25918826
We talked about this before.

Theres the possibility that scout is higher position in orcish culture due to how brutal the tundra is.

Rolled 20

I'm more worried about the second 20.

>>25918858
STOP FUCKING ROLLING GOD DAMMIT

>>25918855
Wait, yeah, I'm being a moron. Don't know how many rats there are.

Rolled 13, 7, 15, 10, 20, 10 = 75

>>25918632
The Rats fight with...well...with the fury of a cornered rodent. A few fall to blades, and you see one drop from arrows, but more Hawks end up in the mud than rats.

Tisgut and the warchief lock blades, snarling. Tricia managed to sink an arm into the warchiefs flesh, but she jumps back with a scream of pain as the red glow washes over her. You see one of her arms revert back to normal.

Peri fells an orc as well.

The shaman finishes her changing, and the warchief lets out a roar. You see his eyes are now pure blood red, his muscles swell and throb with power and speed. You see that red energy run all across his body in intricate patterns.

Lea continues to try and fight through the inner war party.

The warchief manages to get three strikes out at Tisgut in a blur of motion that makes your head spin.

Mage tries to call up the winds again to hold back the tide of arrows.

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>>25918858
Welp

>>25918887
GEEK

THE

FUCKING

MAGE

>>25918887
Shit Warchief got a crit on Tisgut


Geeking the Mage is priority

>>25918887
>>25918911
yeah, can we get at the mage yet?

We need to. Damn formation fighting.

>>25918887
Mage's wind is now at a gale enough to keep the arrows for ever hitting their targets.

Unfortunatley Tisgut gets a nasty slash across his chest and a wicked headbutt that sends him reeling back, shaking his head, stunned.

Lea cracks another orc's face in with a solid kick. The shaman is open for attacks.

Roll for poison, and choose an action.

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Rolled 4

>>25918895
>>25918869

Rolled 16

>>25918951
Poison roll

Rolled 2

>>25918951
Rolling for poison

Rolled 15

>>25918951
Hassle that damn shaman. Tisgut should get whatever that red-energy crap is soon as our friendly shaman is done, as long as the enemy one is GEEKED PROPERLY.

>>25918951
Geek. The. Mage.

>>25918959
The Black is ready...ugh...you didn't notice this in your craw, but when you force the White, Black down the back of your throat and into your tail, and start the Clear within your tail's glands...it causes your stomach to have a MASSIVE acid reflux attack.

Geek the Mage with Beacon.

1d20 +1

Rolled 6

>>25919008
Echo, we want to kill the mage, not the Mage.

Rolled 6 + 1

>>25919008
stab that mage. Also, we need to communicate to mage in some way to direct the wind outwards, but our mouth is full. Have we considered this?

Rolled 5

>>25919008

Rolled 14 + 1

>>25919008
Rolling for mage geeking.

>>25919066
>>25919070
>>25919075
....

Really?

so do we have a plan on where to put the cloud kill? if not we could probably have mages windstorm carry it into the hawks that are still outside the village. if so we should probably give him some heads up so he can make sure to channel the gas properly.

>>25919066
>>25919070
>>25919075
Goddamnit dice.

>>25919092
I know. That last faggot was so close to proving we're the devil and he blew it.

>>25919094
Yeah, we need to tell him to throw it towards the archers.

Rolled 10, 3, 5, 16, 20 = 54

>>25919070
The bitch is ready for you and dodges out of the way, and pulls out her own spiked club. Her Hawk fetish is still glowing, hanging from her neck.

The Rats continue their attack.

>>25919066
>>25919070
>>25919075

Orc Shamans too tricky
> "Shaman. Women RESPECT Shaman."

now we know why

>>25919094
>>25919129
but HOW do we give him a heads up?

Are we going to be talking with gouts of poison and gurgles coming out?

>>25919174
Bestial Roar?

>>25919174
Dragon bullshit?

>>25919174
You don't think the poison gurgles will be enough of a heads up that we're about to use poison?

pantomime? point at our moth, then point out at the archers maybe?

>>25919211
Garbled shouting and pointing at the archers.

Hope he gets the idea before we vomit death on everything.

Rolled 14, 19, 5, 19, 8, 10, 6, 12, 12 = 105

>>25919131
The rats are doing damn well in their fight. A few more fall.

Tisgut shakes off the stun, just as the shaman's own berzerk spell hits him, and he lots out a bellow as the magic washes over him.

The Hawks attack. The arrow men fire helplessly, but the other half of the war party attacks the rats. But you, Peri, and Lea have to deal with the closer group, who are making things VERY difficult for you. Five of the orcs forego attacking, just to make sure that the damn shaman is once more out of your reach.

>>25919230
well, he needs to know to change the wind to push-it-out style wind.

>>25919243
we could have thought this through perhaps one iota better. But this is out best plan now.

>>25919244
>Five of the orcs forego attacking, just to make sure that the damn shaman is once more out of your reach.
Fuck you orcs. What happened to individual strength, huh? Why are you protecting your great esteemed shaman like a baby?

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>>25919246
>push-it-out style wind.
>snickering

>>25919447
well, we ARE like four times the size of the shaman. Assuming a petite ork lady is roughly 200 pounds.

>>25919467
We might be able to just snake train bumrush through the orcs, leaving them nothing but spine induced wounds seeping with venom

>>25919499
I wonder if echo would allow us to just shove-on-through. It's worth a check, I think.

>>25919521
Trashing our tail at leg level would put them out of the game wouldn't it?

>>25919533
What else would happen if they get whacked in the chest with half a ton of angry snake lady?

>>25919589
Or legs. I cannot into reading comprehension.

>>25919499
What kind of shield do we have again?

Buckler?
Tower Shield?
That weird Triangle Type Shield that I forget the name of?

I mean we could do shoulder-bash but depending on our shield type it'd be more effective to just shove through

>>25919589
we just sort of bounce off, and look kind of silly.

Orks are trollish, that's happened last time we tangled with a trollish thing.

>>25919603
We could also just pick out the toughest looking orc and give him a mess wrapped end.
>>25919617
No clue

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>>25919617
I always imagined a big old round shield.

>>25919617
>That weird Triangle Type Shield that I forget the name of?
Kite shield.

Rolled 7, 9, 11, 5, 9, 2, 11, 14, 13, 17 = 98

>>25919244
The Hawks have no chance against you, as you all dart and bob out of the way of clumsy attacks.

The Rats do well also. However, the sheer number of opposition means that they do lose a few more. They're still good, but you can see that soon things are going to go in the Hawk's favor.

Tricia swipes at the warchief with her good mantis arm and reforms her other, you also see her chanting.

Peri is still in the battle with the orcs.

The shaman points her spiked club at you and a bolt of electricity leaps out from it.

Lea continues to fight the horde.

The warchief continues to assault Tisgut with his flurry of strikes and blows.

Mage tries to force the wind to keep up a bit more so he can be of more help.

>>25919689
A kite shield is actually of a quadrangular form of sorts, not triangular.

>>25919780
It's a brawl of fits and blades, but no-one hits the mud this time.

Mage's storm spell is picking up speed. It's enough to blow away the arrows for this turn and the next, letting him cause some more havoc.

Roll for poison and pick an action.

>>25919780
Poor echo, managing way too big fight scenes.

We've got to signal to mage somehow to get the wind blowing out, instead of around. Do you think we can do it with simple pointing?

Rolled 3

>>25919816
Ram through the 5 blocking orcs to get to the shaman.

Rolled 9

>>25919816
Poison roll, lets wrap the biggest orc in the way and crush+lacerate him with spines

>>25919818
Didn't we have some form of telepathy with him due to his bound servitude?

Rolled 5

>>25919816
Charge at the mage with all our QuickQuick and massive bulk. The orcs in the way are irrelevant.

>>25919837
no, we tried it and it just made us look silly.

If we can't get to the shaman, we should signal to mage and point and/or fan outwards while gurgling/shouting. Hope he gets the message that we want wind going that way.

>>25919853
>>25919831
>>25919829
Guess poison don't need to be sped up after all

thanks dice

>>25919816
Quick Question

Is the direction of the wind pushing -Towards- The Shaman and group of guardsorcs?

this is important

We probably wanna expel our poison and get Rout Tisgut out of the area

>>25919892
also uh forgot.

If we choose to charge at them with the winds at our backs, that'd push us a little you know.

>>25919892
>Is the direction of the wind pushing -Towards- The Shaman and group of guardsorcs?

Mage is actually trying for a circular wind. He doesn't want any one side of orc to have the wind with them. It's centered around the large fire pit in the center. The wind is going counter-clockwise. (Widdershin winds are...well...magic babble aside, it's the easiest wind spell)

The clear is a pain to generate.

So you want to not do a combat swipe but just a huge sweep of your tail to try and push enough orcs out of the way to get to the shaman?

Okay, target roll with 3d20.

>>25919873
I think we skipped two turns of poison preperation.

So two more, if you count this turn.

Rolled 4, 4, 9 = 17

>>25920024
Push through time

Rolled 19, 19, 5 = 43

>>25920024
Rollan

Rolled 1, 16, 17 = 34

>>25920024

Praying for target number.

Rolled 18, 3, 20 = 41

>>25920024
Get them

Rolled 16, 12, 9 = 37

>>25920024
Rolling

Rolled 2, 4, 12 = 18

>>25920024
Okay, let's get to their shaman.

I wonder how long we can hold active-poison-gas in our mouth.

Rolled 17, 10, 20 = 47

>>25920024

Though personally I'd rather keep using beacon. I think a fully charged beacon could help some of these orcs see the light

>>25920063
We need to geek the mage, these other guys can sod off for now and if we get some blocks off we'll charge up.

Speaking of charges, what are we at?

Rolled 3, 8, 11, 11, 2, 1, 15, 6 = 57

>>25920055
WHAM! Orcs go flying and the shaman is exposed. Her eyes go wide with surprise and a little terror. You realize that she's just finally noticed that you're a lamia.

The Rats continue their assault.

Tisgut now shows the warchief his OWN three slash fury.

The shaman points her club at Tisgut and you see his bleeding cuts clot over and seal.

>>25920057
Do crits and critfails apply on target number rolls? ((I really hope the answer is no.))

>>25920134
>she hadn't noticed
oh dear, what a thing to miss.

Rolled 7

>>25920135
Nope

>>25920134
Okay, what is going on with this shaman? Are these the actions of two separate shaman? Is she trying to get her own warchief killed?

Anyway, let's ask her this *after* we stab her into unconsciousness.

>>25920165
finally, someone with worse perception rolls than we used to get.
>>25920175
There is a rat shaman and a hawk shaman

>>25920175
there's a hawk and a rat shaman.

Rat shaman supports tisgut. Hawk shaman supports hawk chief.

>>25920175
There are two shamans, one Hawk and one Rat.

Rolled 16

>>25920175
There is the Hawk Shaman, and the Rat Shaman.

Rolled 5, 11, 3, 5, 14, 17, 12, 8, 6 = 81

>>25920134
The rats are starting to hit a wall. They make no progress, and Tisgut had the warchief for a moment, but there's that damn magic feedback again that blasted his blade out of his hands.

The Hawks attack, once more the archers fire to no avail, but the others and the ones dealing with you attack.

>>25920210
I wonder if we're getting any quick-quick counterattacks off.

>>25920232
Nope focusing on cloudkill, cant quick-quick.

Rolled 13, 9, 5, 15, 20, 14, 5, 7, 2, 5, 1 = 96

>>25920210
OW! One of the bastards stabbed you in the tail!

Other than that, you're amazed to see that the Rats are still holding. The Hawks seem amazed as well.

Tricia swipes her scythe arms at the warchief.

Peri goes for the shaman.

The Hawk shaman tries to club Peri with her spiked fetish club.

Lea's continuing to fight the mob.

The warchief continues his fight with Tisgut.

Mage looks at you and sees the stuff oozing from your tail. You make eye contact with him, and he nods. He then starts to gesture and the wind begins to shift.

>>25920310
Mage, you're getting a scooby snack. What is that in this scenario? A potato? A powerful older woman?

Rolled 7, 5, 5 = 17

>>25920310
Please, please let that 20 be ours and the 1 be theirs.

>>25920310
Lea's doing well. Who rolled the 1, Tisgut?

>>25920359
One might just be for mage

>>25920310
"Ah, SHIT!" Mage swears. His attempt to shift the wind so it surrounded you like a vortex so that you could direct the gas like an aura, backfired. The wind is starting to die down.

Tricia got a light cut in, and Lea dropped another.

Peri also connected, but the Hawk Shaman slammed her club into Peri's head. She staggers away, bleeding and seeing stars, stunned.

Your turn. The poison will be ready next turn to activate whenever you wish. You have full actions available.

>>25920417
GEEK THE MAGE!!! KILL THE FUCK OUT OF IT!!!

>>25920417
How many charges we got on beacon?

also geek the mage with as much stabbing as we can manage with beacon, forgo the shield if necessary.

Rolled 10

>>25920417
Kill the shaman. Stab the shit out of her

>>25920417
Stab + tail whip shaman.

>>25920417
Attack their shaman

>>25920345
>A potato?
Sweet Potato
>A powerful older woman?
You funny guy

>>25920494
>>25920486
>>25920483

Stab with Beacon and a barbed tail whip on the shaman.

2d20 +1

Rolled 9, 3 = 12

>>25920510
Stabby stabby.

Rolled 20, 7 + 1 = 28

>>25920510

>>25920417
Let Mage try the vortex again, if he does MELT HAWKS

If not stab that orc who stabbed our tail with Beacon

Or both if possible

Rolled 15, 14 = 29

>>25920510

Rolled 15, 1 = 16

>>25920510
This time we will actually hit you, shaman.

Rolled 13, 8 + 1 = 22

>>25920510
No more shaman!

>>25920521
... well at least it wasn't a 1 this time. Still. I think I'm going to stop rolling at this point.

>>25920545
dat success

>>25920441
that poor, poor mage.

>>25920538
>>25920545
That'll do, Beacon, that'll do.

>>25920417
Geek the enemy mage, hope Mage gets his shit together before we gas our own side.

Rolled 11, 10 = 21

>>25920659
could just hold it and if no opportunity presents itself swallow it or something. acid reflux is nothing compared to gassing everyone

Rolled 13, 8, 5, 1, 15, 5, 3, 17 = 67

>>25920538
She's damn fast, she dodges your tail, but like aways, people spend too much time focusing on the tail, and not enough on Beacon. And your blow hits a sweet spot right in her chest, you slide it right through her ribs and rip it away, causing a huge amount of black blood to drip down her front. Of course, that's not fatal to an orc...but Beacon seemed to like it, bloodthirsty thing that it is.

Beacon has three charges now.

The Rats make their assault.

Tisgut grabs his blade and does two attacks on the warchief.

The shaman chants and points her club at the storm clouds that Mage summoned.

once we can FINALLY talk, we should start shouting something about "Get out of here or feel a terrible death. I'm not even joking. I'm COVERED in poison right now."

>>25920724
Which shaman?

Can you please differentiate them from now on?

>>25920724
next chance we get, let's slap that club out of her hand. It seems to be a staff.

Also, just flee you stupid shaman, you got stabbed in the chest.

>>25920724
She is not even phased by the gaping hole in her chest. She just carries on casting random weather magic.

>>25920766
Yeah, this was confusing me for a while. Is that the Rat Shaman helping out with the storm clouds, or the Hawk Shaman trying to dispel them?

>>25920768
Tail disarm+ beacon stabbing?

Rolled 12, 17, 17, 1, 13, 15, 2 = 77

The Shaman restores the winds to their earlier gale force, keeping the archers out of play.

Tisgut tries, but the warchief is his equal, at least with the spell he is.

The Rats continue to do quite well...but a few over extend themselves, they break formation to charge in and slaughter their target, only to find that it was a feint and they get wiped out by the Hawks. Still, the Hawks might have given up too much for too little.

The Hawks resume their assault. Though they're still not getting any traction with the arrows. You see that only some of the arrow men are firing, others are drawing out hand to hand blades. The Rats will be VERY outnumbered when that happens.

Also, your group of fellows is still giving you problems.

Can we tail disarm and swivel into a sweep on the asshats behind up, giving them a taste of whatever the club does to them?

>>25920858
oh boy we need to shift the balance here soon.

If mage can't get the magic together to contain it, we could TRY using the gas in a cone. Or just slipping/crashing through hawk lines to make sure they are the ones affected.

Rolled 6, 10, 4, 3, 11, 6, 12, 15, 19 = 86

>>25920858
The Rats are starting to get outnumbered, however, the new arrivals aren't in best formation with the others, so, as what can happen in a crowded, muddy fog-of-war,, a few Hawks end up killing other Hawks.

Lea also takes a blow.

Tricia continues her assault on the Warchief.

Peri shakes off the blow to the head.

The shaman shoots another lightning bolt off at you.

Lea continues to deal with the mob, honestly, aside from when she's in her meditative bliss state, this is the happiest you've ever seen Lea.

The warchief continues to battle Tisgut.

Mage swears under his breath as he tries to master the winds again.

You know the worst part of committing to our gas plan?

we've had to keep our greatest weapon in reserve

our puns

Should we just throw caution to the wind and expel it out while hoping for Mage to get it together

>>25920962
Mage seems to have his shit together now

Rolled 18, 4, 4, 18, 13, 11, 11, 15, 10 = 104

>>25920958
Tisgut takes another wound.

"THERE WE GO!" Mage hows. You feel the air around you quiver and twitch, you see that Mage hasn't stopped the massive windstorm, but put part of it around you in a second mini-storm-within-the-storm. A vortex of wind two meters wide centered around you.

None of your friends are within two meters, but there are still plenty of hawk orcs.

Your turn.

>>25920958
Ssen: try your hardest to resist the urge to throw up/kill everybody.

In this case, it is the same urge.

>>25921023
Release the cloudkill in the shaman's face and flurry with beacon using both hands

>>25921023
CLOUDKILL TIME

If Mage can control that two meter vortex, he can just keep the cloudkill inside it and move it through the Hawk ranks.

>>25921023
Unleash the cloudkill. And charge towards the shaman if she's not within two meters. And stab her if we can do attacks while unleashing poison.

>>25921023
Time to cast cloudkill. We may be able to give the archers a chance to surrender (or run, or whatever it is Orcs do) if they're suitably horrified.

>>25921023
HAHAHA, TIME FOR POISON!

>>25921023
Gas the fuckers.

>>25921073
Seconding that last half

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>>25921023
And they said we didn't have a breath attack. At this point, we can just start talking for the attack to work.

"All of you who wish to live, to see another fight, flee. I am COVERED in poison!"

>>25921064
The hawk shaman is already quite wounded, I think we should just plow into the hawk formation, shouting for them to retreat.

>>25921073
You release the poisons within you, and they're picked up in the air.

Granny choked and was made lightheaded by the poisons, make her throat burn and eyes water. She's also a centuries old Naga and tougher than rocks.

These orcs? Honestly, they don't know what's happening. They don't see the yellow fumes like you can, all that they know is that the lamia simply gazed at them, and they choke and die.

Roll 1d6

Rolled 1

>>25921141

Rolled 5

>>25921141

>>25921023
Gee, I wonder what to d-RELEASE THE POISON UPON THE HAWKS.

Rolled 6

>>25921141
"I am the leader of the Snake Tribe and I am poison. Flee or surrender if you wish to live"

Rolled 5

>>25921141
Oh man we should really be telling them to run fast. Hopefully they'll get the message.

We need to get barney to invent loud speakers.

>>25921156
>>25921157
>>25921162
Good enough

Rolled 5

>>25921141

>>25921141
"Get back! I'm poison! Get WAY back!"

>>25921162
take surrender out of that sentence, the poison will kill them if they get close weather or not they throw down there weapons.

>>25921187
Maybe an order to get them out of the direct path of the air currents to surrender?

>>25921187

We are a paladin. Gotta give them the option of surrender.

>>25921213
in this case, that option is an easy-chance-to-leave.

>>25921213
Besides, they would probably want to be as far from us as possible if they were surrendering given the current evidence, and Mage can keep the air current from poisoning prisoners

>>25921213
We may want to be intimidating them. These are bloodlust-driven orcs in the heat of battle. Nothing but soul-crushing fear is going to break them, I think. I suggest cackling loudly, claiming to be some manner of killing wind, and suggesting they find mercy on the ice.

>>25921281
fun, but a bit much. Also, we don't know their language.

Hope they know ours, because I -am- for shouting how poison we are. I already said that once though, so don't doublecount my vote.

Rolled 3, 3, 4, 9, 20, 17, 17, 7 = 80

>>25921162
Six orcs choke and drop. Blood dripping from their eyes, snouts, and mouths. One of them goes down twitching and vomiting.

"I am the leader of the Snake Tribe and I am poison! Flee or surrender if you wish to live!" You shout over the howling of the wind.

The Shaman shakes her head and shouts something over the howling wind, and the warchief does the same.

The orc snarl at you. As long as their leaders are there, they will fight to the end, and they've moved to keep themselves between you and them.

The Rats continue to attack the masses.

Tisgut continues to assault the warchief.

"Please Chief of Snakes and Crafter of Poison, I must insist that you go forth and help my kinsmen with their struggle upon the horde!" The Shaman shouts as she attempts to continue to maintain the winds that are around you.

Rolled 9

>>25921364
Go forth and help them against the horde.

>>25921364
>the (hawk) shaman shakes her head and shouts
>the (rat) shaman shouts as she attempts to maintain

Okay, solved. Anyway, we're already helping the rats out, so let's get moving through the hawk's people as fast as possible. Starting with passing by the hawk shaman. If we pass over them quickly, they might simply be wounded, and not killed. Maybe. I've no idea.

>>25921364
>>25921395
I agree. She's sharp as a tack and clearly knows Orcish warfare better than we. So i say we follow her command with a touch of Dawnchaser flair. Why don't we dive and dart through the horde, tripping up a dense bundle of Hawks as we murder them with our gas?

Rolled 16, 13 = 29

>>25921364
The rats are hitting a wall.

Tisgut has had ENOUGH. With a scream he shoulder checks the warchief, he allows the Hawk orc's sword to cut into his upper arm, and then he places a hand on the hawk warchief's shoulder, and then using it as leaverage forces his blade upwards, inwards, through, and then he shoves hard with his hand.

The warchief's head flies one way, and his body goes the other.

He belts out a mighty roar and grabs the head and holds it up for all to see. The wind howls and he says something, pointing at you, and all the dead Hawks.

>>25921364
Start sharing the poisoned love throughout the hawk ranks. Chief and Shaman will get a talking to later.

>>25921457
>Chief and Shaman will get a talking to later.
>Chief
Li'l late, broseph.

>>25921457
>Chief
That talk anit coming, son. Not after >>25921449

>>25921475
Correction the shaman and the chief's replacement will get a talking to.

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>>25921449
Let's go zipping about the hawk lines, giving them a bit of unpleasant air and moving on. Hopefully they can take a little of the exposure. If not, well, geez.

>>25921457
So, in addition to being satan, we're hexxus?

>>25921481
Maybe... We are Leviathan brain. I can see a Lamia-Orc Hamlet scene a'coming.

>>25921506
look, we need to try not to be crazy all the time so that we don't wind up talking to shrubs and bushes.

>>25921506
Assuming Tisgut lets us touch his head

>>25921506
>Hamlet
Personally, wasn't a fan of it so I'll pass on that.

>>25921493
Well, remember the forest of spiders we just incinerated, and that mountain ecosystem we annihilated like 62 threads ago?

>>25921528
We also the various citadel lands and the orchard the elves got

>>25921449
>The orc snarl at you. As long as their leaders are there, they will fight to the end
Chief's down. Full speed charge at the shaman. All the orcs in between will just get pushed out of the way and choke to death, they can't stop us.

>>25921554
well, they could. If they had some longspears.

It's why I fear mass combat so.

>>25921574
Billhooks...

>>25921554
Seconding this

Rolled 2

>>25921449
The orcs start to run. The warchief is dead, and the rats refuse to die...plus there's a monster who causes death just by her presence, and one seriously SERIOUSLY pissed off orc from Red Wolf.

There is nothing here but more death, and the Rats will give no slaves, no tribute, nothing, just a burnt ground and the few left will die when the night winds come.

So they run. They have no choice. To stay and fight is death, and orcs honor strength, but there's a difference between strength and stupidity.

Of course, there are always those who refuse to run. A fifth of the hawks that are fighitng the rats remain. They stay because they choose to, to prove that they aren't cowards, to let their fellows escape, or that they knew that this would be their last raid and wanted to go out like warriors.

Still it's seven against eighteen.

Also, the ones you're fighting, some turn and run, but at the screams of the shaman, some stay. It seems that bitch doesn't want to go down without a fight.

>>25921616
Wrap the bitch and squeeze as hard as we can

>>25921616
Well, let's give that bitch a fight then.

>>25921616
Give here all the Cloudkill she wants, then.

>>25921616
How are the slaves their wargroup came with?

We should perhaps break off to free them. If they weren't abandoned in the orcish flight.

>>25921659
Yeah, just move the cloudkill over the shaman.

Rolled 17, 11, 18, 10, 20, 2, 11 = 89

>>25921616
It's almost pathetic. Only the two orcs she manages to physically restrain are the ones that stay.

The shaman launches a lightning bolt at the shaman.

The last two hawks attack.

Tricia attacks the shaman.

Peri goes for the last two orcs.

The Shaman starts to chant. You see red runes start to cover her flesh. These aren't like the ones on Tisgut though. They're...alive...like fire under her flesh, fire building hotter and hotter and the runes glow brighter and brighter.

>>25921685
suicide explosive runes.

>>25921685
Let's just back off from her. That seems like some bad shit she's doing.

Let's back off from all the orcs and wait for the poison/windcloud to disperse. This will settle itself.

>>25921727
no, wait, we have arrows. Fuck what I just said, simply shoot her.

how many charges does beacon need to the laser thing? because dispelling her suicide bomb magic would be really nifty.

>>25921735
5, we were at 3 last I checked

>>25921735
oh, also good thinking. We took a hit, which is a beacon charge, had a few from fighting orcs... I dunno.

>>25921685
The Hawk Shaman continues to chant though the lighting bolt, and through Tricia's slice that rips open her stomach, spilling her guts out on the dirt.

She hits the ground, bleeding out...but she's still chanting.

Peri looks at the runes and the chanting orc, she spins on her heel and runs, only slowling down slightly as the last Hawk hits her with his blade, she still runs.

Lea also bolts from the shaman.

Mage has already been running since Tricia gutted the orc.

The two last hawks aren't running, they haven't looked at the Shaman yet. They're trying to figure out to either attack you or Tisgut.

The shaman's chanting continues, even as she bleeds out, and her runes glow brighter still.

>>25921685
Shout to the Dawnchasers to keep clear of the Hawk Shaman and retreat our selves.

>>25921784
>Everyone is bailing out
I say follow them.

>>25921784
Let's grab Tisgut and get him clear of the blast.

>>25921784
>tricia hasn't run yet
Avoid the temptation to charge in and save her, since we're COVERED in poison.

"Tricia, RUN!"

>>25921784
Take her throught. Try chanting with no vocal chords!

>>25921784
If we can apply arrow to the face, or Cloudkill to the lungs quickly enough, it may help. Otherwise, get mage to throw the shaman out with wind.

>>25921784
Time to gtfo, make sure Tisgut runs as well

>>25921850
Good point, grab her and run.

>>25921872
Well I mean yell... as the grab bloody hell.

>>25921872
no, don't do that, it will kill her. Just... get her to run.

>>25921893
see
>>25921887

yell for Tricia to run, and get clear ourselves.

>>25921784
Anyone else think the Enemy Shaman is trying to pull a suicide bomber?

The Red Runes stuff is basically super-mode..

Think Extremis or Trans-Arm Heat Overload..

>>25921784
Maybe Spit poison at the shaman's mouth?

>>25922000
Burning her tongue out with Clear would probably stop her. Would be a tricky shot though.

>>25922037
If Tricia's going to be caught in the blast, we need to help her.

Also, we REALLY need to have our core allies get gas-masks or something.

>>25922037
We've done harder before

granted they were with a bow.... but still

"Tricia, Tisgut, RUN!" You shriek and streak away, keeping away from the others.

Tisgut and the Shaman take off, and you see the Rats running, taking the women and children that were not fighters with them.

Tricia finally shifts her arms and (now you notice) her eyes back to normal and takes off.

You're all clear when the runes go off.

You're all knocked to the ground from the impact.

"Everyone okay?" Tricia groans as she gets up. "Ssen?"

"I wanna go home." Mage says. "And don't get near Ssen, she's still covered in that poison gas stuff."

"Holy shit." Peri says.

"I don't know why I'm even surprised that we helped cause that size of a crater." Lea says. "Ssen, do you know how to stop...oozing?"

if killing the shaman would ruin the spell at this point I don't think peri would be running, if we want to try and stop it our best bet is using beacon, followed immediately by using its dispel magic function.

>>25922066
"Yeah, just give me an hour so the fumes can dissipate."

>>25922066
Frown sheepishly.
"No..."

>>25922066
"Yeah just... Just give it a bit to dry off. In the tundra cold. I think I'm going to go for a slither. Maybe find some slaves, direct them from a good distance to wait at the cart for freedom."

>>25922066
"I know how to *start* oozing."
Tricia has healing pollen or something in her scythe though, right?

>>25922066
"Not really, give me a bit."

>>25922066
>takes off
Tricia can fly?

>>25922160
Wings... :3

>>25922066
"Er? No.

Maybe we should invest in gas masks."

>>25922160
Take off as in fuckin legs it

>>25922160
I think he meant "takes off" as in runs like hell.

>>25922213
Legs... :C

>>25922066
"I'm... not sure. Probably. Give me an hour or so."