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Checking that the rope is tied tight, Kryolani attempts to descend the shaft after his fellows, directly into the brewing fight.
Shoulder to shoulder with Roksana, the Sorcerer faces the small horde of monstrous Fey.
Before the enemies rush them, Kryolani speaks to the half-orc, "You were right. Even for a Kobold, you were right to not wait. Just wanted to say that before we got stabbed, killed, and eaten."
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Jacobus climbs down the shaft slowly, but efficiently, and places himself behind Roksana. Kryolani quickly joins him and his other companions in this new cave filled with mites. Roksana engages one of the mites in melee soon thereafter, cracking the creature’s skull. Serolt, in the meantime, hits and kills instantly another mite in front of him.
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The mites quickly moves forward, shrieking furiously, wielding their daggers awkwardly. One of them stays behind and appears to be cursing you in his strange tongue.
Two of the dagger-wielding mites try to hit Roksana, but the half-orc cavalier easily parries one attack and dodges the second one. Another mite moves closer to Kryolani and tries to stab the noble man, but the sorcerer is able to jump back and avoid being hit. The cursing mite appears to be focusing on Roksana as well.
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• Kryolani
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Serolt worries, a little, that he’s hiding behind the wizard, but he makes the best of it. He shoots the mite in the back!
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Cold Iron Arrows: 24/30
Cold Iron Silver Blanch Arrows: 10/10
Conditions: Light on belt
longbow: Attack: BAB +1, Dex +4 Damage: Str +2
melee: Attack: BAB +1, Str +2 Damage: Str +2
Spells (Caster Level 2, Concentration +4)
Zero (12): Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13): Cure Light Wounds, Magic Fang
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(point blank, cover) (point blank)
Jacobus moved up and brought his heavy mace down on the mite in front of him.
"See I told you there were lots of them."
Assuming the mites will only be a minor hindrance, he asks, "Can anyone communicate with the kobold?"
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Roksana doesn't understand the Mites language, but something in it's voice send a shiver down her spine and she can't help but stare at the spell casting mite in horror. In her hindered state she limply attacks the mite directly in front of her.
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Jacobus easily smashes the skull of the mite in front of him, and Serolt takes down the curse-spitting mite in the back with his arrow. Roksana fail to hit her enemy.
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The last two remaining mites quickly withdraws and frantically climb down a chasm to the east, shrieking in terror. As soon as you try to chase them, the tied kobold pleads in common with a shrill voice: “Please, stop! Help Mik-Mek! Many treasures! Please, I can help!” says the black-scaled creature in the hope of gaining your attention.
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Hoping his rusty grasp of the dragon tongue was actually understood by the tiny lizard person, "It's ok Mik-Mek, we'll help."
Kryolani looks over the battered little lizard and quickly begins sawing through the bindings that hold him down. "Is there anything you can tell us about this place? These mites are obviously evil, and we'd like to get rid of them."
Serolt moves up past Kryolani looking for mites.
”Cut down the kobold, I’ve got us covered.”
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Cold Iron Arrows: 24/30
Cold Iron Silver Blanch Arrows: 10/10
Conditions: Light on belt
longbow: Attack: BAB +1, Dex +4 Damage: Str +2
melee: Attack: BAB +1, Str +2 Damage: Str +2
Spells (Caster Level 2, Concentration +4)
Zero (12): Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13): Cure Light Wounds, Magic Fang
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With mace held at the ready, Jacobus gives chase to the fleeing mites but stops at the chasm.
He held his lighted feather over the chasm and peered down.
Roksana moves up with Serolt and Jacobus but when she sees Jacobus stop so does she. She looks at the Kobold and frowns.
"You really want to cut this thing down? Is this what we're reduced to? Hunting treasure for a kobold?"
As soon as you untie the kobold, the scaly creatures starts hissing frantically at the dead mites, kicking their dead bodies with anger shouting insults in his draconic tongue. Then, after a few seconds, he falls to his knees and thanks you in chirping Common. “Thankss! Many thankss! Chief Ssootsscale ssent me here. Retrieve the ssacred sstatue. Sshaman ssayss bad thingss happen if we don’t get the sstatue back. Help me retrieve the sstatue! Many treasuress for you if you help me. Many trasuress! Mik-Mek can fight! But they sstole his weaponss!” The kobold pauses, trying to say something, but apparently unable to translate the notion in Common. He turns to Kryolani and explains in Draconic: “Xhan Darath var zukarish sar vas mashktam shrak krem!”
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After giving you some time to decide what to do, and assuming you allow him to follow you, Mik-Mek points toward a chasm in front of you, the one the mites used to run away.
A deep and ominous chasm splits the passage. The chasm is a few yards wide, and twice as deep, but thick ropes of tangled roots fill the entire area. The passage continues on the far side of the chasm, and between the two ledges, numerous loops have been tied into the roots to serve as hand- and footholds.
“Hurry! Hurry! We need to go! Retrieve the holy sstatue for the sshaman!” hisses the kobold as he points you to the chasm. Of course, he doesn’t appear to be willing to go first!
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Jacobus looks at the kobold and the cramped surroundings, "Hold it up here. We're not used to being underground and it's quite... unsettling."
He looks at Kryo, "What's he saying?"
The seeing that nothing threatened them from within the chasm, the inquisitor prepared himself to climb across.
He's careful and takes his time, his lighted feather, now behind his ear, lights the way.
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After exchanging a few words with the Mik-Mek, Kryolani responds, "Cold Iron. He says that Cold Iron weapons cut their flesh easily enough." He chirps something back to the Kobold, and makes his way to the chasm.
The cavern here smells earthy and dank, but also somehow comforting. As Kryolani gets more used to being in the cave, he is becoming more relaxed. It's an unusual reaction, he knows, but there's not much time to think about it. There are Mites to chase down.
After the last pit had a solid half-dozen of the little buggers, Kryolani doesn't trust this chasm at all, tossing his light-pebble into it and readying a burst of flame for any Mites that could by waiting to poke at people crossing the makeshift bridge.
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Roksana rubs her face as she shakes her head and mutters curses in every language she knows under her breath.
"Alright, alright, I guess we really are doing this. I don't have any cold iron unfortunately but if it looks like he'll have a few extra weapons when we find them."
Against her best judgment she puts her hammer and shield away and is the first to climb once the group is ready, moving while they all cast their light spells.
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Mik-Mek quickly answers Kryolani’s question in Draconic: “Xashfravlar shennor mur nosk fariesken! Shark as rustash shana nash?”. In the meantime, Roksana begins the climb down the chasm, followed soon thereafter by Jacobus, while Serolt keeps an arrow nocked in his bow.
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Just when you think you’ve everything under control, something unexpected happens. Serolt hears something hissing, deep in the chasm, and he soon informs his allies. The hissing comes from the north of the chasm, and everyone now is able to hear it. But in a matter of seconds, you start hearing also something slithering in the chasm, and…slithering towards you! You lighting spells allow you to see the creature producing those eerie noises: an immense, 25-foot-long giant whiptail centipede slithering towards your from the northern end of the shaft. The creature has two whip-like tendrils that thrash at the end of its tail and its eyes glow red. Fortunately, the creature is too big for this chasm and its movements and hopefully its attacks as well might be somehow hindered.
As he sees the creature, Mik-Mek jumps in both surprise and terror and hurries towards the dead bodies of the mites, grabbing one of their knives.
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The chasm is only 20 feet deep and Roksana and Jacobus have already climbed down 15 feet, which places them at a distance of 5 feet from the ground below. Jacobus and Roksana are adjacent. The giant centipede is advancing right towards them. Currently, the creature is 10 feet away from Jacobus and 15 feet away from Roksana.
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• Jacobus
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• Serolt
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"No, no, no, no, no, no, no!" Roksana shakes her head aggresively as she lets go and just drops the last few feet to the ground before moving up toward the centipede, weapon and shield at the ready. "Oh you've got to be f*#%ing keeping me." She sets her shield up in front of her and forces her self to watch the terrible bug as it creeps toward the party.
"Come on then! Let's get this over with!" She shouts her challenge, psyching herself up for the combat ahead.
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"Abadar, protect your humble servant."
Jacobus drops down the last few feet and steps up to strike the somewhat hindered giant vermin.
"Serolt! Kryo! We need your help here!"
He swings his mace trying to hit the thing and perhaps make it crwal back where it came from.
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”So we’re hired by kobolds now? I don’t know that I’m eager to turn over this item to this little guy. Let’s see how it goes before we commit to such largess shall we?” He eyes the dirty little creature suspiciously.
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Serolt, hunting for mites, is surprised by the centipede. He looses his knocked arrow though and prepares another one.
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Cold Iron Arrows: 23/30
Cold Iron Silver Blanch Arrows: 10/10
Conditions: Light on belt
longbow: Attack: BAB +1, Dex +4 Damage: Str +2
melee: Attack: BAB +1, Str +2 Damage: Str +2
Spells (Caster Level 2, Concentration +4)
Zero (12): Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13): Cure Light Wounds, Magic Fang
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Pleased that the Kobold seems to actually be a sociable type, Kryolani replies "Kralaskash monnurishk nosk Drakin. Kish nash xirrosh kirrik." then he turns to his team members and continues in common. "Obviously we'll make certain of any deal we might make with his people, but I'm loathe to dismiss him out of hand. The information his people might have about the region could be very useful."
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Looking down on the enormous creature, Kryolani's eyes widen in shock. The monster is too far away for his flames to help, but he might just be able to weaken it. Kryolani weaves arcane energy through his fingertips and fires a Ray of Enfeeblement at the centipede.
"Quick, kill it before it gets out of the chasm!"
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Kryolani is able to hit and weaken the giant centipede, and just a moment after the creature gets hit by Jacobus mace! Serolt misses its target though.
In the meantime, Mik-Mek continues stealing knives from the dead bodies of the mites.
The giant centipede reacts, venting its fury against Jacobus, trying to bite the Brevic man and then, when its first attack proves unsuccessful, attempting to trip the Abadaran with its tail. Both of the centipede’s attacks though are easily avoided by Jacobus, who can move far more nimbly in the chasm compared to the giant centipede. The creature slithers back, hissing at Jacobus furiously.
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Squeezing out of the way of Kryolani to avoid mucking with his aim, Serolt tries his own tight shot at the centipede. He susepcts it’ll take Jacobus’s efforts to fell it though.
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Cold Iron Arrows: 22/30
Cold Iron Silver Blanch Arrows: 10/10
Conditions: Light on belt
longbow: Attack: BAB +1, Dex +4 Damage: Str +2
melee: Attack: BAB +1, Str +2 Damage: Str +2
Spells (Caster Level 2, Concentration +4)
Zero (12): Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13): Cure Light Wounds, Magic Fang
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Seeing Jacobus score a hit against the bug spurs Roksana into action and she trades her defensive posture for an aggressive one as she closes in and swings her weapon.
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Trying to keep those mandibles away from him and bolstered by his friends, Jacobus once more strikes at the giant centipede. Strength aided by fear and desperation.
"I don't want to die in underground hole full of mites..."
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As he gets a good long look at the monster, it takes his mind to comprehend a creature, usually so small, grown to such immense size.
"Holy gods, that thing is huge!" shouts Kryolani as he pulls more evergy from the ether, this time formed as offensive magic. A small dart of acid lances towards the centipede.
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As Roksana moves forward, the giant centipede tries to bite her, but the half-orc has learned through years and years of service among the mercenaries how to avoid such an attack and does so efficiently.
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Kryolani is able to hit the long creature with his acid splash, and just a moment after the creature gets hit by Jacobus mace again! The hit is so strong that almost breaks the creature’s carapace, but still the giant thing survives. Roksana finishes the job quickly though: with a powerful swing of her warhammer, the half-orc manages to smash the creature’s worm-like head in a triumph of red ichor spraying around and on Roksana’s and Jacobus’s clothes and armors.
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With the beast defeated, Kryolani, Serolt and Mik-Mek soon climb down the chasm and then, along with their companions, climb up the chasm in order to reach the other side. As always, the first one to attempt the climb is Roksana, who easily manages to take advantage of the handholds and climbs her way to the other side of chasm.
Rows of wooden pegs line the earthen walls, some hung with tiny, filthy cloaks. In the center of the room stands a rickety table held together with twine, covered with a filthy redchecked tablecloth and heaped with mounds of dirt and twigs and gravel, apparently arranged to form some sort of map. Sitting at the edge of the map, weighing down a scrap of paper, is a bloodstained ivory statuette of what looks like a crouching reptilian devil. A bulging burlap sack sits under the table.
A mite with a particularly large gap between his teeth and a particularly unsightly scattering of pimples decorating his face and tongue stands near the table, mounted on a stocky tunnel tick the size of a bugbear named Tickleback. Along with him there are 6 more mites, and it seems like they’ve been waiting for you. As Roksana steps in this cave, she’s targeted with tiny darts thrown by the furious mites. Two of these darts actually hit the half-orc cavalier, causing only superficial wounds though.
This room is is sized for small creatures such as the mites. Ceiling height is about 4 feet high, with much of the upper foot a tangle of roots and thin stalactites. Medium creatures in these cave are forced to stoop over or adjust the swing of their weapons, and suffer a –2 penalty on all attack rolls made within this chamber as a result.
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Jacobus steps up and starts swinging at mites left and right, "Cold iron my ass! My mace seems to be smashing them just fine."
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Serolt shrugs as the centipede dies. ”Good job you two.” he calls down into the crevasse. He digs around in his pack for a few more arrows and carefully replenishes the supply in his quiver. He takes a quick drink of water from his waterskin and wipes the back of his hand over his mouth. He replenishes the light on his belt as well.
Putting the skin and bow away, he carefully starts climbing over the chasm when the new mites show themselves. He climbs across the rest of the way and draws his bow.
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Cold Iron Arrows: 30/30
Cold Iron Silver Blanch Arrows: 10/10
Conditions: Light on belt
longbow: Attack: BAB +1, Dex +4 Damage: Str +2
melee: Attack: BAB +1, Str +2 Damage: Str +2
Spells (Caster Level 2, Concentration +4)
Zero (12): Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13): Cure Light Wounds, Magic Fang
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Kryolani complete the climb just after Roksana, and scowls at the ranks of evil fey as they pepper Rok with darts. Crouching up to the front lines, the sorcerer tries casting a gout of flames into the room to roast a few of the little cretins.
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Roksana moves up toward the mob of mites and swings her mace, snarling. Still not entirely over the centipede fight.
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Roksana’s swing is inaccurate, and due to the low ceiling, she’s forced to strike without her usual accuracy. The mite avoids her swing, amidst the shrieking screams of its little blue fellows.
Serolt, who’s still at the bottom of the chasm, hears the noise of fight coming from above and tries climbing up the chasm as fast as possible, in order to help his ally before it’s too late. The Shoanti archer had already prepared for the climb and had stowed his bow on his back already. Looking up, he begins his climb. Quick as a dwarven miner, Serolt climbs up the wall taking advance of the numerous hanging roots and manages to get in position behind Roksana, ready to draw his bow and attack as soon as possible.
Kryolani was already climbing up the chasm, but he had just begun his climb when he heard the sounds of battle coming from above. As a consequence, the noble man tries to climb up as quickly as possible, although his body is anything but athletic. Fortunately, the climb is not that hard if one understands how to use the hanging roots as handholds. In a matter of seconds, Kryolani emerges on the edge of the shaft and quickly positions himself at Roksana’s side with a single step, unleashing a cone of magic flames from his right hand right after. The mites caught in the flames begins moaning pathetically as the fire devours them. Unfortunately, two of the mites caught in the area of flames manage to jump away just at the last second. Their blue skin gets burned and turns in a strange, darker hue, but the two are still standing, although critically wounded. One of the three has been completely devoured by Kryolani’s flames though, and its dead and burned body lies still on the ground.
It’s now Jacobus’ turn to attempt the climb. As Kryolani, the Brevic man had already begun climbing up the wall, but he was forced to stow his mace in the process, in order to have two free hands for the climb. Very unfortunately, as he climbs up, Jacobus clings to a false knot, maybe a trap from the mites to slow down the enemies. The fact remains that Jacobus loses his hold on the root. The rigged knot tears loose, but thankfully Jacobus is able to grab another hanging root and avoids falling down. Once the danger is passed, Jacobus stubbornly tries to climb up again, but he runs into a false knot again. This time, the Abadaran is not so quick to react and can’t avoid falling down the chasm: the inquisitor hits his head against the solid ground below and must begin his climb from the beginning.
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One of the mites squeezes to his right to allow for his captain to join the fight and engage their foes in melee. The mounted mite does little more than riding his mount, but it’s the mount itself the real threat. The strange, giant tick moves forward and tries to bite Kryolani, who’s guilty of having burned down several mites in a single strike. The giant tick bite is quick and powerful, and horribly delves in Kryolani’s throat, causing the Brevic noble man a deep and bleeding wound. Then, the captain’s mount also tries to grab Kryolani, but even though he’s staggered and shocked, the sorcerer somehow manages to avoid being grappled.
One of the mites, the one who has squeezed to allow for the giant tick to move closer and attack, now tries to steal the glory of the kill by piercing Kryolani’s belly with his small dagger. Quite surprisingly, the little blue creature succeeds and his hit is enough to knock Kryolani down, bleeding and unconscious. As a sort of retaliation, the mites falls unconscious and dying just after hitting Kryolani, due to his effort.
A similar fate awaits another mite, who manages to hit Roksana with his knife before collapsing to the ground, unconscious. The other mite in front of the half-orc similarly tries to pierce Roksana’s belly with his knife, but his miserable attempt fails.
The two mites in the back starts cursing at Roksana in their unintelligible language, targeting her with the same fear effect as before.
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Mik-Mek slowly attempts to climb as well, but the kobold is very wary due to the accident previously occurred to Jacobus, and takes its time as he tries to climb up. The black-scaled kobold manages to avoid all of the false knots as he climbs up, but he moves only 10 feet upwards.
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Serolt, seeing his man go down, quickly heals him*. He then draws his sciimitar, and steps over the wizard and into the fray.
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Cold Iron Arrows: 30/30
Cold Iron Silver Blanch Arrows: 10/10
Conditions: Light on belt
longbow: Attack: BAB +1, Dex +4 Damage: Str +2
melee: Attack: BAB +1, Str +2 Damage: Str +2
Spells (Caster Level 2, Concentration +4)
Zero (12): Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13):
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The battle passes in a blur, one moment standing, and then a hideous pain in his neck and belly. Then darkness.
Kryolani comes to laying on the cold dirt floor of the tunnel, staring at the underside of the viscous giant tick that ripped open his throat. Casting carefully, the sorcerer tries to call for more flames without calling attention to his movements...
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With his air suddenly pushed out of his lungs, the inquisitor gets up and once more starts the climb up to the surface.
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Roksana feels the false sense of fear that had effected her earlier trying to creed it her mind, but she's just faced actual fear in the form of a giant centipede, and she shakes off the magical suggestion as she moves in to help her friends.
Her swing however is awkward as she attempts to strike the mounted mite and she roars in frustration.
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Roksana aims for the mounted mite, but her swing is inaccurate once again, and the mite easily dodges the strike.
Serolt successfully heals Kryolani and wades in the fray with his scimitar.
Kryolani manages to cast his spell although being prone and hindered by Serolt, who’s just above him. The sorcerer succeeds in a very difficult challenge, that of casting his spell without allowing the giant tick to attack him as he does so. A cone of flame spreads from his palms and invests both the giant tick and its rider. Both manage to jump away just at the right time and avoid being consumed by Kryolani’s flame, although they both get burned nonetheless.
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The giant tick tries to bite Roksana, as commanded by its mite rider. Fortunately, the half-orc interposes her warhammer between herself and the monstrous tick, fending off its attack.
The mite in front of Roksana attacks her again with her knife, but its efforts is useless as the half-orc pushes the blue creature away with a kick before she could even hurt her.
The two mites in the back start to shriek and shout desperately as they continue spitting curses against Roksana.
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Mik-Mek slowly continues climbing up the wall, clinging to the hanging roots and praying in Draconic to not grab a false knot. Slowly but efficiently, the kobold reaches the edge of the chasm and crawls up on it.
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• Jacobus
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Roksana feels an overwhelming sense of déjà vu as she swings again at the mounted mite for the same result.
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Serolt, pleased at the flames enveloping their foes, stands guard over Kryonani’s prone form as he strikes out at the enemy. Sadly his aim is off a little as he gets the feel of the weight of his sword. He wishes he had his bow in hand for this battle...
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Cold Iron Arrows: 30/30
Cold Iron Silver Blanch Arrows: 10/10
Conditions: Light on belt
longbow: Attack: BAB +1, Dex +4 Damage: Str +2
melee: Attack: BAB +1, Str +2 Damage: Str +2
Spells (Caster Level 2, Concentration +4)
Zero (12): Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13):
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Huffing and puffing, the inquisitor makes the treacherous climb up to the where his friends were fighting.
He then draws his mace and strikes down with all his might.
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After standing up again, Jacobus starts to climb the wall. Unfortunately, one of the knots Jacobus is using to climb tears loose again. The Brevic man falls down the chasm again and is forced to start the climb from the beginning once again.
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Jacobus stands up stubbornly and attempt to climb the wall once again. This time he's luckier and he manages to avoid false knots. He has currently climbed 15 feet.
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Kryolani continues to pour on the flames, hoping the giant Tick and it's master will drop, but in taking care not to allow an opening, the spell fizzles in his fingers.
Unable to move without being slain again by the monster, the nobleman grits his teeth and hopes his allies can overcome the beast.
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Roksana aims for the mounted mite, but she misses again, just like Serolt, whose slicing hit fails to connect with the time riding the giant tick. In the meantime, Kryolani fails to cast his spell in the attempt to try to do so defensively.
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The giant tick tries to bite Roksana once again, but this time the creature’s razor-sharp teeth pierce through the half-orc flesh. Fortunately, Roksana manages to at least kick the creature away, not allowing it to grapple her.
Right after, the mite in front of the half-orc attacks her again with her knife, but she fails to connect again, sending out a desperate shrill.
The two mites in the back continue spitting curses against Roksana.
But the worst is yet to come. From above this cave, six more mites comes climbing down a shaft and take position in the room, starting to spit curses in their strange tongue against both Serolt and Roksana.
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In the meantime, Mik-Mek has finally reached the edge of this chamber, but as soon as the kobold sees the situation he screams in desperation and climbs back down the chasm!
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Before Serolt even faces the new saves he calls out, ”Flee! Everyone fall back - we cannot take this lot. Fall back!”
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Cold Iron Arrows: 30/30
Cold Iron Silver Blanch Arrows: 10/10
Conditions: Light on belt
longbow: Attack: BAB +1, Dex +4 Damage: Str +2
melee: Attack: BAB +1, Str +2 Damage: Str +2
Spells (Caster Level 2, Concentration +4)
Zero (12): Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13):
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Roksana holds up honorably against the relentless mental assault, even as she nears the limits of her physical endurance, but a crack in her mental armor allows the mites foul curses through and she starts to shake where she stands. She cries as she turns away from her foes, withdrawing from battle without even a second thought to her companions as the magical fear takes over her every thought.
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With Roksana fleeing, and the disadvantageous terrain, Kryolani scrambles to his feet and then down into the chasm as rapidly as possible. They can take these guys, but not all at once. Still, depriving them of the giant centipede minion was a good day's work, if they can survive disengaging.
As he moves, he draws the wand of Burning Hands from it's sheath. It's nearly drained, but still more effective than tossing globs of acid, especially if the mites get bunched up trying to chase them.
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Seeing Rok seriously hurt retreating and Serolt screaming to get away, the inquisitor sped his way down to the ground.
He then touched the half-orc and blessed her in the name of Abadar.
"C'mon, let's get out of here!"
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Seeing the front line fall back, Serolt joins them. He drops back, and jumps across to the other side quickly, sheathing his scimitar as he does so to provoke the giant tick.
"Kryolani, now! "
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Cold Iron Arrows: 30/30
Cold Iron Silver Blanch Arrows: 10/10
Conditions: Light on belt
longbow: Attack: BAB +1, Dex +4 Damage: Str +2
melee: Attack: BAB +1, Str +2 Damage: Str +2
Spells (Caster Level 2, Concentration +4)
Zero (12): Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First (13):
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Roksana partially climbs down the chasm, and she’s now at a 5 feet distance from the ground, quickly followed by Serolt and Kryolani. The Brevic noble man grabs Serolt’s belt and the two try to climb down the chasm together, Kryolani on the Shoanti archer’s back, as the latter desperately tries to climb down the chasm without falling. Although weighed down by Kryolani, Serolt heroically manages to climb down the walls, using the hanging roots as makeshift handholds. Fortunately, Jacobus has already broken all the false knots on this wall. The two don’t go far though: it’s a hard task to climb down with Kryolani on his back for Serolt already, and he can’t climb down more than 10 feet.
Jacobus, in the meantime, draws his wand of cure light wounds and heals Roksana while the half-orc is still struggling to climb down the wall.
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As they see you fall back, the mites start to exult loudly, spitting insults and curses at you as you flee. One of them is bold enough to move to the edge of the chasm, determined to throw a dart at you as you try to climb down. However, as soon as he spots Mik-Mek climbing the opposite wall of the chasm, addresses his dart at the kobold, screaming nastily.
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Mik-Mek is hit in the back as he climbs up the chasm and screams whiningly, but the kobold is able to reach the edge of the chasm nonetheless.
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• Roksana
• Serolt
• Kryolani
• Jacobus
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↔ Accelerated climbing: 5 feet