Poe sighs, taking a moment to sit down and rub his ankles. "Ah need ta take ah break." he grumbles. "Been trundling along fer hours now."
The reptile would give a heavy sigh after such long travel. "Agreed. A rest might do us all some good," Yizzik would agree, glancing a round for a spot for them to rest. Having been stranded alone in the wild desert before, a place filled with dangers, he figured the best place for them to rest would be a spot within these caverns where they could put their backs to a wall or two. Anything to keep from being surrounded and give them less sides to watch out from.
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Poe manages to find a small side tunnel twisting out from the main path. The tunnel leads to a cozy cavern with an elevated stone platform - as cozy as anything could be down here - with a good vantage point to see anything that might approach as you rest. You take turns keeping watch, and the night passes without incident.
In the morning, you pack up your things and continue down the dark, twisting tunnels. After another seven hours of travel, the tunnel opens up to a massive cavern. Long ruts are worn into the floor of the cavern, as if it saw heavy traffic, but the roads have no apparent destination. The sound of chirping cave crickets and water trickling into the chamber's large pool seem deafening compared to the silence of the surrounding tunnels.
The pool is crystal clear and filled with transcluent, eyeless fish. Two cat-sized crickets lap up fish at both ends of the pool, and at the center is an elk-sized insectoid whose rear limbs loop into a large, chitinous sphere. They turn as you approach in an attempt to protect their larvae and food supply.
Poe moves forward into the cavern and opens fire on Blue.
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Vingold recognizes the strange wheeled cricket as a Spiroskek, a particularly rare monster. It doesn't have DR. It can use its wheel to charge through difficult terrain and overrun its opponents, and its wheel is barbed thus making whatever it hits bleed.
He recognizes the crickets as fungal crawlers. Their bites are poisonous and they can leap through the air next to enemies as if they were charging.
Poe blows a decent hole through the Spiroskek's solid wheel, which now looks more like a doughnut.
It charges at Poe, biting his arm on the way through and poking him with its wheel barbs, then continues charging through him, knocking him prone. The creature stops next to Poe.
The red-shelled fungal crawler moves up next to Poe, now prone, and bites his ankle.
Poe (-15, bleed 6, pending DC 14 fort save)
Spiroskek (-21, staggered)
Hinata moves forward with her spear trying to stab at the creature that knocked Poe over (Spiroskek) from behind Yizzik.
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Hinata can't quite see through Yizzik's massive size and misses the creature.
The remaining cricket charges at Yizzik, leaping through the air and landing next to him, then furiously scrapes at him with its claws.
... None of which hit the lizardman.
Poe (-15, bleed 6, pending DC 14 fort save)
Spiroskek (-21, staggered)
Keeping the squirming, clawing insect at bay with his shield, Yizzik would actually let out a laugh from behind his bulwark. He couldn't help but laugh at the irony, even the audacity that such a creature would attack him. The cricket had assumed size would help it but the end result would be no different than that of a normal lizard and cricket fighting, Yizzik bringing his axe down hard in two savage swings, attempting a bite right after.
Lilly moves past Vingold, and activates her wand of shield of faith n herself.
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Vingold begins to speak of a grand tale of a Dwarven miner he once knew. The party finds it mightily inspiring!
Yizzik slashes the green-shelled cricket into oblivion with two swipes of his battleaxe.
Poe bleeds for six damage.
Poe (-21, bleeding, pending DC 14 fort save)
Spiroskek (-21, staggered)
Green fungal crawler (dead)
Poe, injured and bleeding, struggles to get to his feet, cursing all the while. (if successful) he limps away from the insect, trying to get some distance to use Olivia.
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Poe endures another bite from the wheeled insect as he gets to his feet. He quickly limps away from the creatures.
Still staggered from its earlier freewheeling charge, the spiroskek manages to lurch forward and bite its next nearest target - Yizzik, but his tough skin and heavy armor proves to be impenetrable.
Red does the same, with futility.
Poe (-29, bleeding)
Spiroskek (-21)
Green fungal crawler (dead)
Lilly puts on an angry glare at red.
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Now that the creatures have grouped up on Yizzik they were perfect bomb fodder and Hinata was going to take full advantage. She hurls one of her explosives at the creature making sure to catch the other in the blast while keeping Yizzik safe.
Vingold uses his whip to assist Yizzik's AC!
Yizzik would show no fear of the flames, instead using them as he lashed out at his enemy.
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The fungal crawler opportunely chomps at Hinata's foot as she prepares her bomb but gets a mouthful of dirt. Hinata tosses a bomb, fumbling last minute and tossing it into the wall next to her.
The cricket doesn't seem to care for Lilly's stare, but Yizzik wastes no time at all and shreds the last fungal crawler to pieces with his axe and teeth.
damage
Poe (-33, bleeding)
Spiroskek (-21)
Green fungal crawler (dead)
Red fungal crawler (dead)
Yizzik (Needs reflex save)
Hinata (Needs reflex save)
Poe scrambles to staunch the bleeding.
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Poe manages to quickly seal the worst of his wounds while the spiroskek continues its onslaught on Yizzik, but one does not simply penetrate a full plate with a set of teeth and claws.
Poe (-33)
Spiroskek (-21)
Green fungal crawler (dead)
Red fungal crawler (dead)
Yizzik (-8)
Hinata (-4)
Yizzik would only meet its aggression with his own, roaring loud in battle to his unknown god while seeking to hack away at his enemy.
Lilly whistles a tune that sounds like an eerie lullaby, while looking straight at the bug.
"Sorry!" Hinata calls out at her blunder. She tries to correct her mistake by moving forward with her spear to stab at the creature again, at least this time she wouldn't hurt her friends.
Poe lifts Olivia and attempts to retaliate against the thing that ran him over.
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Vingold aids Yizzik's attack, and Yizzik manages to swipe it once across its waxy shoulder. Hinata misses, though just barely, and Poe's shot flies wide.
The spiroskek wheels back as Lilly manages to scare it with her strange, otherworldly tune.
Now five feet from Yizzik, the spiroskek opens its mouth and breathes a spray of colorful dust on Yizzik and Hinata.
Poe (-33)
Spiroskek (-35, shaken 2 rds)
Green fungal crawler (dead)
Red fungal crawler (dead)
Yizzik (-8, pending will save)
Hinata (-4, pending will save)
[dice=AoO "Damage"]1d8+1[/dice]
Poe racks the slide on Olivia and fires two shots, trying to get a solid hit on the bugger .
As some of her blonde hair flows in front of one eye, Lilly's other turns to that of a mad woman.
Her speech becomes erratic, and her iris turns pitch black, as she chuckles faintly.
is should ing soon. Let me share some with you."
Gift of madness, the creature gets to make a DC 15 willsave, or suffer from a round of confusion.
Snarling loudly from the dust blasted in his eyes, Yizzik was forced to swing wildly at his target. He remembered seeing it leap back before it hit him with the strange dust, and stepped forward after it, swinging and hoping its size would still be easy to strike even if he couldn't see.
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Poe's first shot blows through the spiroskek's left claw. His second shot bounces into the wall.
It avoids Lilly's stare, and Yizzik's aim is way off due to his blindness.
Poe (-36)
Spiroskek (-51, shaken 1 rd)
Green fungal crawler (dead)
Red fungal crawler (dead)
Yizzik (-8, blind)
Hinata (-4)
While the creature was technically at a safe distance from her bombs having friendly fire she wasn't going to risk it, she'd do what she could to keep the thing distracted so her allies could finish it off.
Unfortunately even her spear was such a small threat it could basically ignore her.
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Vingold aids Yizzik's AC while Hinata fails to do so.
The spiroskek unleashes another attack on Yizzik.
It catches a small break in Yizzik's armor and tears a superficial scratch through his scaly skin.
Poe (-36)
Spiroskek (-51, shaken 1 rd)
Green fungal crawler (dead)
Red fungal crawler (dead)
Yizzik (-13, blind)
Hinata (-4)
[ooc] the same number! Forever blind! Come on dice roller, no more 3's[/dice]
Snarling at his wound, Yizzik would swing wildly once more at his enemy to retaliate, still blinded though from its earlier attack.
Poe continues to try to bring down the giant insect before it manages to ping Yizzik down with little cuts.
Yizzik would swing again at what he heard was the thud from the creature falling dead, burying his axe within its corpse.
After, Yizzik would try his best to get the dust from his eyes but it continued to prevent him from seeing. All he could do was growl and whisper horrible curses under his breath in his native tongue.
As soon as the creature fell Hinata would Rush to Poe's side digging into her bag and pulling out various liquids before finally deciding on one and handing to him with haste.
"Who else needs one? I can make more but it will take a few mintues."
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Yizzik's blindness eventually wears off, or perhaps he uses the questionably clean water in the pool nearby to wash the glitterdust out.
Upon searching the cavern, you find a pile of ancient remains that look to have been used as a nest for the wheeled cricket. Amongst the remains is a ring of sustenance.
Continue on, then? Poe's at -21, everyone else is almost full.