Round 1_____________________
Variel Whitestorm_____
Variel moves up and past Flynn to the right of the creature as he hopes to make solid contact with his rapier. As he moves he uses Cheshire and Flynn for cover to keep the thing from attacking him as he moves.
Celest Slysword _____
Celest waits for an opening up front.
Cheshire Silvanshee_____
Cheshire goes down clutching at wound to his gut.
Fuzzles moves forward lunging at the creature.
Celest Slysword_____
When you say forward would you by any chance mean 5-feet north? *Hint Hint*
Cheshire Silvanshee_____
Yessss! . . . What she said.
Celest Slysword _____
Notorious Flynn Ryder_____
"Hummm, hey I could unlock this with----Waaaaagh! What the f!!!! Is everything in this place hostile?!"
Flynn leaps to join the frey.
"Flank it! Flank it people!"
(npc) Lilly_____
Lilly, unable to close with the scrum of people about it, fired her crossbow at it.
but it deflected off its unnaturally hardened flesh.
Doctor Rhaym_____
Doctor Rhaym made his way up to Cheshire and administered an Cure Light Wounds potion to him.
He is healed points of damage.
ENEMIES__________
Hurt by Celest, it turned to her and attacked with everything it had!
for a possible piercing damage.
for a possible piercing damage.
for a possible piercing damage.
for a possible piercing damage.
Round 2_____________________
Players take their turn in order of posting, enemies will go last.
Fuzzles roars in defiance and attacks.
Cheshire spits a spurt of blood and groans likely still unconscious.
Magic Rapier attack for
Crit confirm for
Variel gets beneath the guard of the creqture and plunges his rapier into a soft spot drawing forth ichor and certainly drawing its attention from the women in the party.
"Err! Well I got his attention! See if you can keep your blade up long enough to finish it off Flynn, otherwise Variel will be the man that all the ladies will like to flank with!"
"Here's the thing toot's dead guys don't flank anyone, so let's focus on staying alive here first then we can worry about who pulls more ass than an outhouse seat."
Flynn tries to find an opening for his slender blade.
"Oh yeah? What about all those four-armed dead guys that came at us from all sides two rooms back, huh?"
"That was more of a skeleton gangbang than an artful flanking maneuver."
"I suppose you'd be the expert." *Smirk*
Round 2_____________________
Cheshire Silvanshee_____
Fuzzles roars in defiance and attacks.
Cheshire spits a spurt of blood and groans, still unconscious.
Variel Whitestorm_____
Variel gets beneath the guard of the creqture and plunges his rapier into a soft spot drawing forth ichor and certainly drawing its attention from the women in the party.
Celest Slysword_____
"Err! Well I got his attention! See if you can keep your blade up long enough to finish it off Flynn, otherwise Variel will be the man that all the ladies will like to flank with!"
Flynn you get +2 to hit.
Notorious Flynn Ryder_____
Flynn tries to find an opening for his slender blade.
(npc) Lily_____
Lily fired her crossbow into the creature, but it simply hung up in the creatures scales for no effect.
Doctor Rhaym_______
Doctor Rhaym took out one of his remaining bombs, wound up to throw and put a careful backspin on it so that it landed on the creature so that the explosion blew away from Variel, Fuzzles, Celeste and Flynn.
fire damage.
Enemies________________________________________
The creature hissed and attacked both Variel and Flynn at the same time.
for a possible piercing damage.
for a possible piercing damage.
for a possible piercing damage.
for a possible piercing damage.
Kasathra:7
Round 3_____________________
Players take their turn in order of posting, enemies will go last.
If that is a no go I will keep trying.
Variel continues to work at attacking the creature. Hopefully they will be able to put it down quickly so that Rhaym can attend to Cheshire and they all can get some healing.
attack for
"Ow. Just ow! Damn it this thing hits hard. Stupid, crazy multi armed...well whatever this thing is!"
Celest: Yes, the doors behind the creature are wide open. Every few seconds you see them start to close, but somehow the presence of the fight seems to force them open again.
Flynn disengages,
"Lily, hit this thing. I gotta bandage up."
Fuzzles harasses the creature trying to create an opening for Celest.
Round 3_____________________
Variel Whitestorm_____
Variel continues to work at attacking the creature. Hopefully they will be able to put it down quickly so that Rhaym can attend to Cheshire and they all can get some healing.
Notorious Flynn Ryder_____
Flynn disengages,
"Lily, hit this thing. I gotta bandage up."
Celest Slysword _____
Cheshire Silvanshee_____
Fuzzles harasses the creature trying to create an opening for Celest.
(npc) Lily______
Lilly stepped up and attacked.
But missed.
Doctor Rhaym_____
Doctor Rhaym administered a cure potion to Flynn.
He is healed .
Enemies__________________________
Creature
The creature hissed and attacked both Variel and Lily at the same time.
for a possible piercing damage.
for a possible piercing damage.
for a possible piercing damage.
for a possible piercing damage.
Kasathra:2
Round 4______________
Players take their turn in order of posting, enemies will go last.
"Damn! This thing has as many lives as it does arms. Thanks for the healin Doc! Alright bone bag, pucker up, cause here comes the Flying Flynn overhand superman lunge!"
"Huh . . . Well I hit, but I guess it isn't as effective on people who are already dead."
"Fantastic."
It seemed like flynn hit something important, since the creature suddenly dropped like a puppet with his strings cut.
This battle is over.
A quick search of the creature yields:
javelins (2),
mwk short sword,
mwk short sword,
cloak (enchanted),
40 gp various coinage
"Oh hey! Would you look at that? I mean outstanding, right?! Heh heh heh the ole Flying Flynn finishing move gets them every time."
Flynn starts looking around to make sure their isn't anymore danger before moving to apply first aid to his companions.
A large metal table is surrounded by odd-looking chairs in this room.
To the west, what appears to be a transparent wall looks out over a strange desert valley.
Four pillars support the fifteenfoot-high ceiling, while dozens of crude images of a pickaxe made of a skull and bones have been painted onto the walls with some sort of ivory pigment along with several phrases in an unrecognizable language.
You identify the images of the pickaxe as representations of Zyphus, god of accidental death and tragedy, yet the images seem crude and somehow off, as if they were created by someone who had never actually seen a real unholy symbol of Zyphus.
The writing on the wall belongs to no language any of you know, or even have heard of.
The writing on the wall sheds a bit more truth— it is numerous prayers to someone the writer refers to as “The Shadow in the Sand” or “The Poison in the Plant” or “The Final Father” and the like.
The prayers themselves are a strange mixture of awe, adoration, frustration, and anger toward Zyphus, and anyone who reads the bulk of them comes away with the impression that the writer has been cursed by Zyphus and both hates and loves the god for it.
While searching the table and chairs you discover a single black striped access card—it looks just like the brown striped cards you all have except for the color.
Variel gives flynn a pained look. Yes, yes. Next time use that first if it works so well. In the meantime we need to seriously reconsider our ability to press on. Each and everyone of these things hits more often and harder than we do. Not only that but they resist our weapons damage. Let us rest here in this room keeping watch while we recover. Hopefully by then Cheshire will awake and the good doctor will be able to heal us all come morning.
Variel hauls Cheshire into the room and sets him in on a table to allow Rhaym to work on him. Once tha is done then Variel looks at the hea that is dropped, the words on the wall and for anything else of note.
Spellcraft
Perception
That cloak is interesting. It provides a modicum of magical protection against spells and effects. However to this point such protections have not been needed. I would rather a few healing potions or wands to get us all up healthy. Still it may come in useful later.
"Another one of those card thingys. Let's see if I can get the doors locked. If we can then this place may be a good place to lay up. We can all use the rest and chance to heal up."
Flynn looks out across the desert.
"Up until now we have barely made progress before we have to retreat . . . Now I am afraid we've made enough progress that we can't retreat. Not with a man down at least. All those things out there waiting for us."
He turns back and claps Varial on the shoulder with sincerity in his eyes.
"I am glad you are with us. If you hadn't joined up, I think we would all be dead. Honestly man, thanks."
"Alright, I have three more infusions for today. Who is injured?" Asked Doctor Rhaym, waiving a full potion bottle.
"And I want those empties back for refilling!"
Infusion 1 heals for
Infusion 2 heals for
Infusion 3 heals for
Doctor Rhaym also breaks out a couple of healing potions just for Cheshire and Celest.
healed.
healed.
"And you Celest, you are proving yourself pretty wicked with that dagger. You interested in something a little bigger though? This shortsword looks pretty damn sharp. Well made too."
Celest lays there unconscious.
Worried, Doctor Rhaym gives another potion to Celest.
"She should be awake by now. What happened to her? I thought she was undamaged!"
The potion heals Celest .
Variel declines the potions and extracts until all of the others are up and conscious at least. Only then would he accept a healing draught. He cringes slightly at the smack from Flynn. Thank you but hold off on your praise for the moment. We still have to get out of here and I am in no condition to accept any heartier praise right now. I do say that a strong wind would blow this party over and scatter us to the four corners at this rate. We need to rest and recover. I will take the first watch and let the others sleep. They need the rest more than I do.
Worried, Doctor Rhaym gives another potion to Celest.
"She should be awake by now. What happened to her? I thought she was undamaged!"
The potion heals Celest.
At the first mention of sleep Celest seemingly falls unconscious again.
Fuzzles paces around nervous and grumpy.
"Aw shoot! Celest? Hey girl, stay with us now."
Flynn kneels down and scoops the rogue up into his lap.
"The little guy and the badger look hurt bad too. Gods! I'm such a dickhole sometimes. Lily? Lily! You hurt?"
Concerned that you were all more damaged than he thought, and reaching the dregs of his potion supplies, Doctor Rhaym ordered you all to rest now and take the entire next day off as well.
"No other exits out of here, and a lockable doorway, this seems a decent place to rest." He declared, staring down anyone who objected.
Between the two points healed this evening, the two next evening and his daily infusions dedicated entirely to healing, everybody is healed up to max by the morning of day three.
The only downbeat moment is when you realize you are down to one third of the water you started with. You only have one more day of exploration before you have to retreat back to the Skulk caverns at least for more water.
During the downtime, you have plenty of time to study the strange writings on the walls.
You identify the images of the pickaxe as representations of Zyphus, god of accidental death and tragedy, yet the images seem crude and somehow off, as if they were created by someone who had never actually seen a real unholy symbol of Zyphus.
The writing on the wall belongs to no language any of you know, or even have heard of.
[spoiler=If you use Comprehend Languages]
The writing on the wall sheds a bit more truth— it is numerous prayers to someone the writer refers to as “The Shadow in the Sand” or “The Poison in the Plant” or “The Final Father” and the like.
The prayers themselves are a strange mixture of awe, adoration, frustration, and anger toward Zyphus, and anyone who reads the bulk of them comes away with the impression that the writer has been cursed by Zyphus and both hates and loves the god for it.
While searching the table and chairs with more leisure you discover a single black striped access card—it looks just like the brown striped cards you all have except for the color.
"Hmm. It's slim enough you could use it to squeeze between a a door's bolt and the frame." She goes to add it to her thieves' tools kit.
Cheshire gets more antsy as he recovers. "Thank you for the healing Doc. I am about ready to move."
When he notes the card "Keep the card handy they operate the doors. The stripe might suugest which doors or different functionality."
Perhaps Flynn should hold onto the card then as he is typically up front. Once he checks for traps then he can try to open the doors up. Stretching and loosening up Variel graps his rapier and heads to the door. Ready to head out everyone. We may still have a long way to go.
"Wait just a minute, isn't anyone else concerned that we were locked in here---and a freaking skeleton just up and disappeared?!"
"Well perhaps but I was mostly dead so I am focusing on the fact I'm back. When did the skeleton vanish."
Honestly, if that is the first thing to give you pause then you might have some other issues as well. The first sign of something strange going on around here was when we passed through the door a few days ago and arrived on this strange landscape. After that everything has been weird.
Variel says this all matter of factly as he checks to make sure his rapier is free and this mind is clear and ready for the coming day.
"Yeah well nuthin' really surprises me down here."
Moving around the complex you find no trace of the Kasatha's body. It's puzzling, since the entrance you used to get in is still closed and locked.
Playing around with the card with the black stripe, you find out it can lock and unlock all the doors that the cards with the brown stripe can, plus the one eastern door that would not unlock at all for the others.
That door led to another long parallel hallway that curved north-south. The southern end petered out after sixty yards, filled with debris.
The northern end ended in a larger double door. It too was only unlockable by the black stripe card.
Beyond is a double wide corridor leading you some sixty yards to another locked set of doors. These too only unlock to the black card.
Beyond is a larger room than you have seen yet.
A large metal desk with blinking lights and strange glowing panels sits atop a raised area on the east side of this room near a circular table. Two couches covered with black material sit to the south a pair of black metal pillars.
Splatters of dried blood stain the floor and walls near a pair of doors to the north, while here and there patches of rust-red mold and fungus cling to the southern wall.
The room itself is brightly lit by glowing panels on the ceiling.
Flynn signals for quiet as he attempts to move across the room to inspect the blood and door. He looks for traps as he goes.