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As the water rushes out of the tank, Faliana gives a frown of concentration, trying to ride the waves out safely. As the water rushes over and past her her face changes into a look of glee. With a laugh, Fritannia shouts out, "Now this is a combat! Now where is that b&!#~ calling all these creatures? We need to spend some time together!"
A smile still on her face she takes a few moments to get her bearings on the new battlefield, trying to find her spear and her target. Spotting something behind Dale, she gives a shout and points. "Look, over there! She's right behind Dale! Faliana then rushes up to the ripples in the water.
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Brady tries to look around and follow Faliana (Fritannia?)'s directions, but just can't make Lura out amidst all of his own splashing as he tries to extricate himself from under the table. Standing, he focuses his mind to try to focus on finding the invisible druglord.
In melee, every time you miss because of concealment (see Combat), you can reroll your miss chance percentile roll one time to see if you actually hit.
An invisible attacker gets no advantages related to hitting you in melee. That is, you don't lose your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class, and the attacker doesn't get the usual +2 bonus for being invisible. The invisible attacker's bonuses do still apply for ranged attacks, however.
You do not need to make Acrobatics skill checks to move at full speed while blinded.
Normal: Regular attack roll modifiers for invisible attackers trying to hit you apply, and you lose your Dexterity bonus to AC. The speed reduction for darkness and poor visibility also applies.
Special: The Blind-Fight feat is of no use against a character who is the subject of a blink spell.
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Dale puts up his hands and his spoon to help ward off the wall of water headed his way, however it pushes him back. Weeeeee! The sheer force of that much water! Like a mini ocean tsunami!.
Once it subsides a bit he shakes his now soggy and soaked hair like a slow motion 80s flick. As he does he notices some concentric circles in the water beneath... "Ouch! Damn you ... fiendish macaws? Stop smiting me with your claws! Call off these damned feathered beasts woman!"
He takes a step back behind her and draws his dagger with his other hand and waves it and his spoon around him like a half drunken Jackie Chan. "Nobody move unless they want a beating!"
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As everyone recovers from the chaos of the tank breaking, the reason for breaking it quickly bears fruit as Faliana and Dale both spot the tell-tale indicators of Lura's invisible presence in the standing water covering the floor.
Faliana, feeling some exaltation at the result of the tank breaking, has that dampened slightly as she realizes she has lost her spear in the aftereffects. Undaunted, she moves to confront Lura with the lucerne hammer in hand. Despite a lack of technique, she still manages to swing it properly, but can't quite connect with the invisible woman in front of her.
Dale draws a dagger and steps away from the nearest bird that is trying to peck his eyes out. He concentrates on not letting either of the fiendish creatures scratch him anymore... and seems to have success, despite his unusual technique. Though both birds continue to hover over his head, neither is able to get past the spoon/blade defensive posture he has taken up.
It takes Monty a moment to figure out where Lura is, but once it becomes obvious, he quickly moves over to confront her. Dru, after fighting to extract herself from beneath the table, does the same.
Under the nearby table, the reefclaw snaps at anyone that gets too near its current sanctuary. One pincer nips at Monty, though the vanaran easily dodges it, the other at a random person in the crowd on the far side. The people there quickly scramble away from the table to give the beast room.
Brady, recalls some earlier training that will hopefully help better fight an invisible opponent, as he gets back to his feet.
Tad, starting to feel a little woozy from all the creatures trying to kill him, uses his wand once more, healing himself this time. The colorful bird attacking him slashes at him with its wickedly curved beak, then takes flight over the room, making a tight turn before diving at him again.
The crowd around them seems to have cleared out somewhat, creating some open space.
You hear Lura curse, as you close in on her... then again as she realizes its the water on the floor that is giving her position away.
"The wrath of the entire Consortium will come down on your heads, soon enough." She snarls. "I merely need occupy you long enough." You can almost hear the smirk on her face.
Once more, you hear her saying arcane words, and see the magical motes in the air, before she splashes away from you all. Her path is easy to follow through the water though, as she seems to be heading towards the back side of the tank.
- Round 9 -------------------
Brady (4 nl), Dale (-5), Tad (-3), Monty (-7), Faliana (-6), Dru (-8, 3 nl) <---- We are here!
red bird, yellow bird, blue bird, reefclaw (pink), Lura Ichon (-1, invisible)
Party is up again!
Since the only thing you can really be sure where they are, are her feet... that is exactly where Monty aims, as he rushes forward and sweeps his staff in low. His weapon makes contact, and there is a splash of water and cursing, as the invisible Lura's feet are knocked from under her and she crashes to the water-covered floor.
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Brady (4 nl), Dale (-5), Tad (-3), Monty (-7), Faliana (-6), Dru (-8, 3 nl) <---- We are here!
red bird, yellow bird, blue bird, reefclaw (pink), Lura Ichon (-1, invisible, prone)
Everyone, not named Monty, to go.
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Faliana quickly springs into action and runs around the remains of the tank and takes up a position behind the giant puddle where Lura's body supposedly is. She menacingly waves her bulky lucerne hammer at the open space. She gives a look at Dale and says, "Boss, ya're goin' to have to stop playin' with the pretteh birds and help us. We need to surround her so she doesn't run off."
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Dale takes a step back away from the macaws knowing they'll likely disappear soon just like the elementals did, and he keeps up his full spoon and dagger defensive position. "Fine feathered birds they are, too bad they seem a bit crazed for my blood! You all are doing a fine fine job here!" He says as he sloshes around in the standing water doing his best imitation of knowing what he's doing.
As she falls to the water-covered floor, Lura's form slowly comes back into sight, as her invisibility seems to finally fade.
The Pathfinders are quick to take advantage. Faliana hurries around the far side of the tank, to cut her off should she keep trying to retreat. Dru moves up and tries to strike her a quick blow around the corner of the tank, but can't quite clear the edge to make solid contact, despite Lura laying on the ground.
Brady, his mind suddenly clouded by magic, can do little but shake his head as he tries to clear the cobwebs.
Dale continues his patented defensive technique, trying to fend off the evil macaws intent on pecking his face off. Unfortunately, they seem to be figuring it out. The first manages to land a nasty bite past the spoon, and another talon claws at his forearms while Dale reels back from the first blow . The second bird slashes at him with its beak, then flaps away and comes in from a different angle to continue its attack.
You're not sure if you will last long enough to see it end.
Tad steps away from the crowds trying to sidle towards his companions, also trying to fend off the bird. He is not nearly as successful, as the bird swoops in and slashes his arms with its sharp beak, before flying by and swooping around for another pass.
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Lura glares up at Monty, murder in her eyes, before scrambling quickly back to her feet.
"Outta my way!" She yells, as she elbows and pushes her way through the nearby spectators towards the bar. She clambers over the counter, kicking bottles and glasses everywhere, rolling over to the far side, and coming up with a spiked mace in hand that she pulls from under the bar.
The crowd splits, as they scramble to either side. Others start pouring towards the far side of the bar, to get a better view of the action.
"I don't know who you bastards are working for, monkey man" Lura spits out. "But we will find out, and burn you... all of you... to the ground!"
- Round 10 -------------------
Brady (4 nl), Dale (-14), Tad (-10), Monty (-7), Faliana (-6), Dru (-8, 3 nl) <---- We are here!
red bird, yellow bird, blue bird, Lura Ichon (-1)
Party is up!
Tad and Dale are beset, both one hit from down! (Tad would be down if I could make a hover check, and Dale would be down if he wasn't in total defense!) I remembered the Augment Summoning this time =)
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The vision--Brady standing over the concentric circles that indicated the invisible woman in the water--fades. Brady finds that his mind somehow got ahead of his body, and that he is still standing amidst the still-draining wreckage of the aquarium.
I moved; I chased her! I saw it? Why didn't it happen; why am I still standing here like a buffoon?
He shakes off the final daze and pushes past his confusion, knowing there is no time to dwell.
He turns to the double doors near him, and pushes through the crowd, trying to get outside. "Make room; make way!" He calls as he moves.
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Glad that her target is finally visable, Fritania quickly closes the distance between her and Lura. The spirit gives the other woman a smirk and disdainfully looks at the other woman's spiked mace. With a cutting bark of laughter she comments, "Oh, Honey, that's just pitiful. Let me show you what a real woman's weapon looks like." With this she brings her larger hammer to bear against and tries to smack her a good one.
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Brady quickly pushes his way through the onlookers and out the side door onto the dock. He rushes along the outside of the building, jumping over a man passed out against the wall, trying to reach one of the side doors in case Lura tries to flee.
If they are, the lay of the land means they will have to go the long way around to get to the tavern... and thus are still probably a few minutes out.
Faliana moves into position, the trickster spirit in her spouting off bravado as she does, only her skill at using the weapon does not back up the words as it strikes the tank behind her on the back swing, and then nearly takes off the head of a nearby patron on the fore.
Lura only sneers at her and doesn't even bother trying to duck out of the way of the poorly aimed weapon. "Judging by how you handle that haft, I doubt you know anything about being a real woman, b@~&&." She snarls back.
Drusilla hesitating for a moment, unsure whether to help Dale with the birds, or confront the woman that summoned them. Finally she decides to go after Lura, quickly moving forward, and scrambling up on the counter. Looming over the much smaller woman, she easily bats aside Lura's attempt to strike her with her morning star, and instead brings her own morning star to bear! Landing a crushing blow on Lura's shoulder. You can almost hear the sound of her clavicle snapping beneath the force of the blow, and blood starts to flow freely down her arm.
Monty follows Dru over the counter, moving around to flank with Faliana, and tries to upend the woman once more. This time though, despite being in obvious pain from Dru's attack, Lura manages to barely shift her feet, but it is enough to knock Monty's staff aside.
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Behind them all, Tad and Dale try desperately to heal themselves while continuing to get assaulted by the evil-tainted macaws... but the birds finally get the upper hand in the war of attrition.
Tad manages to heal most of his wounds... he then is just able to duck his head to avoid the vicious beak, only to have both of the bird's talons claw into his neck. The grippli collapses to the floor under the onslaught, and the bird finally comes in to land on his body, intent continuing the assault on the unconscious cleric.
It takes everything Dale has to avoid one of the birds, and still heal himself, but without his spoon on defense, he finds himself suddenly open to the other. Just like Tad, two sharpened talons rip at his flesh, and he too collapses to the water-covered tavern floor. Both birds land on him, just as intent on pecking him apart as the one on Tad.
Behind the bar, Lura smiles grimly as she steps back away from the counter.
"You've no more help now." She snarls, noticeably favoring her left shoulder, barely able to lift that arm at all.
"You brought so many, yet have done so little... and it's taken you so long..." She spits out a bit of blood contemptuously. "I sent for backup the moment you showed yourselves. How long do you think you have left? If you flee now, perhaps you'll live."
She does not say anything, or make any gestures, but you see the slight magical motes whirling around her once more as she performs magic as if by pure thought alone.
"But I doubt it." She adds as she completes her spell. Behind you, the three birds give a last aggrieved squawk and suddenly disappear.
Those still standing instantly start looking around for whatever replaces them... but only Faliana thinks to look up in time, as three snakes drop from above. Two of them are bright green, the third a yellowish color, though all three have the same evil red eyes as the birds.
Although her weapon is too long to be of use, Faliana is able to quickly step aside, as the snake lands in the water at her feet and lashes out at her with fangs dripping poison.
Monty and Dru however, do not notice the tiny creatures in time, through all the chaos. One of them lands on the bar counter and Dru suddenly feels a sharp prick on her calf.
The yellow snake lands right on Monty's shoulder, and sinks its teeth into his left forearm, before it too drops to the floor at his feet, hissing dangerously.
The patrons nearby start to scramble back a little more, many of them recognizing the snakes and not wanting to be anywhere near them.
Lura then pulls a small vial out of one of her pockets.
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Brady (4 nl), Dale (-19, dying), Tad (-12, dying), Monty (-10, poisoned?), Faliana (-6), Dru (-10, 3 nl, poisoned?) <---- We are here!
red snake, blue snake, yellow snake, Lura Ichon (-14)
Party is up!
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Faliana, unable to do a thing about the snake about her feet, Faliana jumps up onto the bar. On the bar she takes a moment to get her bearings and then launches an assault at the other woman. With a knowing smile, her spirit continues it's taunting. "Everyone who's worth their shit knows ya start slowly with a haft. Apparently ya ain't worth shit."
She takes a look back at the rest two people who hung back and gives everyone a quick look. "Finish this b%#*~ off now, or I say we run. Don't want to have to deal with reinforcements."
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Dru kicks out the serpent right after it bites her ankle. If the poison has weakened her, it doesn't show.
Getting of the bar the bar, she gets close to the summoner, and taunts her before the strike.
And you think I'll stand there while you send creatures on my friends from who knows where? And more importantly, where's my beer? What kind of pub is this place? And by the way, this ain't the way to swing a morninstar, girl...
THIS is the way to swing a morningstar.
As Faliana crawls up onto the bar, Drusilla hops off the far side. The snakes attempt to strike both women as they leave, though neither manages to connect.
Faliana once more seems unable to get her lucerne hammer to work the way she want, her words not quite having the weight without the weapon. To add insult to injury, Lura seems to start ignoring her as a threat entirely, not even bothering to answer her commentary this time as she seems more concerned about Drusilla.
Dru seems intent on proving that concern warranted... As she leaps off the bar, she brings her morning star down in a mighty overhand blow. Despite being ready, Lura has no chance at all to avoid it, and the sound of pulping flesh and shattering bone accompany the thud of her motionless form hitting the tavern floor. The small vial she drew clinks to the floor beside her, quickly enveloped by the rapidly expanding pool of blood.
The snakes do not disappear and still seem intent on Dru, Faliana, and Monty. You think Lura might still be breathing, despite her wounds.
Chaos breaks out among the crowd as Lura goes down.
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Brady (4 nl), Dale (-19, dying), Tad (-12), Monty (-10, poisoned?), Faliana (-6), Dru (-10, 3 nl) <---- We are here!
red snake, blue snake, yellow snake, Lura Ichon (-34)
Bold to go. Just the summoned snakes to worry about at present.
Fort save pending from Monty (and a 2nd, if you fail the first)
Will need a stabilization roll from Dale
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Dale looks up and sees doom in the form of some really really angry birds sinking their beaks and talons into his body, things go blurry then black as the loss of blood finally catches up with him This must be how the pigs feel... I'm too young to die!
He utters a gurgle has he collapses to the floor with a sloppy thud.
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Brady hurries through the open doors and pops into the bar area just in time to watch Monty stomps on the yellowish snake at his feet, then step towards the bar and bring his short staff down on the one biting at Dru. Both of those snakes quickly dissolve into a greasy black smoke and disappear.
The last remaining snake slithers up the side of the bar, over the counter, and lashes out again at Faliana, biting her on the right shoulder.
That is all it gets to do, as it is quickly dispatched after that.
The bar breaks down into a cheering frenzy! Some of the staff start grabbing whatever is in the till and under the counter, and carry what they can off into the night.
One of them, who you saw acting as bartender earlier, a tall balding man with greasy black hair and broken nose, starts kicking and beating at them until they stop, then comes over to you grinning crookedly.
"Well... guess I just got promoted!" He says, taking off his apron. He snags one of the bookies, shouts at him for a bit, then takes a purse from the man.
"Here, ya earned it! He says, tossing it to Dru. The clink of coins is obvious. "Can't say any of us is gonna miss that b+*$&. But sure was good for business! Made a killin'!" He pauses for a moment, then laughs. "Quite literal, like!"
He then goes back to yelling at the remaining staff members.
Across the room, a new betting pool seems to be starting, involving the reefclaw, still hiding under the table, and various drunk patrons.
A number of the crowd start offering to buy you drinks as well, though most of them are speaking in Polyglot, so it takes a moment to realize what they're on about.
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Faliana gives a smirk as Dru's Morningstar hits home. "Now that's how a real woman does it, if ya can't do it distract so someone else can! Good job Dru, ya've earned ya drinks for the night." She starts to take a look around the place but completely misses the viper until it latches onto her shoulder.
She quickly pulls the snake off, tosses it away and smashes it with her hammer, but not before some of the poison works into her system. Feeling a little feverish, she wavers a bit, but quickly tries to stay resolute. She looks over to Dru and gives a short nod, she digs around in her bag and pulls out a bottle with a softly glowing blue liquid. "Don't tell me ya forgot the backup hail-Pharasma? But I'm not feelin' so good after that snake. Mind helpin' me?"
With a glance at the rest of the bar, she calls out to Monty and Brady. "Hey, Boss, Guide, think ya can get what we came for? I'm not likin' the idea of more enemies."
With this she turns and walks along the bar, a bit before jumping down and moving up to Dale's prone form. She takes the bottle and Uncorked it, slowly applying it to the unconscious man.
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Faliana really stumbles badly as she jumps off the bar, and gestures to Dru to come over and instead of trying to go over herself she hands the younger woman the bottle. "Let's get Tad on his feet, I might need some attention too." She waves the other woman away. With a glance to see if anyone isn't looking too closely, she couches down as small as she can beside the bar and, as gently and silently as possible, pukes.