"What is that thing it threw up?" Beldan peers at the spectacle, trying to figure it all out.
A muddy looking humanoid i.e. made of mud,
a slimy looking humanoid,
an animate oozing puddle of black water
and
a flying ball of intestines.
The usual.
"Huh."
heh heh.....
"Some legends of the Namazu say that the gods can force it to excrete money as payment for the damage it causes with its earthquake, but I've never heard of that happening." She points at the quasi-people that the thing vomited up.
heh heh heh.....
Beldan heads towards the village, but he gives the lake, the big fish and its strange issue a wide berth. “Following typical patterns we’ll end up fighting some or all of those things,” he says, “but we might as well wait to see if they start trying to hurt people first. Maybe it’s just a big fish having a real bad day.”
Right on; anybody else want to do anything?
Everybody's got a round worth of stuff they can do, then the catfish and the extradimensional contents of its gizzard will act.
There's a few humans, far off in the rice paddies; they're divided equally between the frozen up in shock types and the running for the woodline types.
Beldan draws his tengu sword and keeps an eye on the catfish and its bizarre gut-children.
The lake is teeming with black swans now.
And the tengusword is thrumming and starts to vibrate like an electric carving knife.
Dok slowly draws his falchion as he approaches the bridge. "I do not have a good feeling about that..."
"Things really are different on this side of the world, aren't they? Let's see how that fish deals with being dropped from about a mile up." Altai begins to cast a spell...
Emrael will draw her sword and stay near Beldan.
Pip shudders and readies Lucille
"once more into the breach dear friends "
Nevermind; I'm around.
right on.
You guys start in the yellow squares p-r 96 or so; make a full round's worth of stuff and call positions if you haven't done so; also somebody can do Elgan's pre combat turn if they like, unless he shows up.
initiative for the catfish and friends:
Initiative
Right on. You guys totally win initiative.
Just on the 16.
Pip starts to play Lucille in quick 2/2 tempo mode
"Fish in the mud
Coughing up crud
Think you're a dud
Soon be drinkin' your blooood."
The newcomers notice that Pip has let go of his odd crystal sword, but it hangs in the air as if still held. The blade seems to be echoing the chords of Pip's guitar, warbling out a counterpoint to his fast-paced tune.
Right on; does Pip want to move up?
Right on; does Pip want to move up?
As she keeps pace with Beldan, Emrael asks, "I do not often fought as part of a team. How can I fit into your strategy?"
Right on; does Pip want to move up?
row 85 and below is wooded; he could get to the edge of the woods there and fire from the side of the river.....
It's not really ideal fortification, but it's better than an "empty plain."
any questions, feel free.
Beldan glances at Emreal’s blade. “Nice sword,” he says. “Looks sharp ... are you any good with it? Well, if so, our friend Stig used to generally just run towards anything that looked dangerous and hit it, I’d usually try to run around behind it and hamstring it.”
There's rails; it's uncovered though.
She nods, "It is very sharp. My teacher said I had some talent, but how good one is is matter of opinion and circumstance. I'll let you decide."
She will confidently stride forward, then, katana in hand, expecting Beldan to do what he needs to do to get into position and hoping to draw attention from him.
Elgan makes a lot of 'Hm' noises as he checks the strange fruit growing from trees they have no business being in. When it turns out to be all good, he shrugs and eats some.
"Jes Cuz it ain't nurmul don' mean it ain't guud." He says sagely.
When they get to the big-@$$ catfish, He looks disconcerted.
"Yeuh, Ah've seen big fish befur. But dat es' ain't riight!" He declares, casing a spell.
I'm assuming R100 for Altai(?)
Just need positions for Dok; Elgan; and Pip.
I'm assuming R100 for Altai(?)
oop, missed that.
Right on; it's dragonfly time; I reckon.
What're the stats on the dragonflies?.....
I put Pip in R89; so he's not behind Claw and all for shooting.
Huzzah!!!
I'm going with "huge" for all intents and purposes.
I got carried away with making it look like a fish.
The dragonflies need chain guns mounted to their eyeballs.
"Heads down, folks", Altai says conversationally. Five seconds later, a pair of dragonflies the size of articulated buses blast past at 15' altitude.
I gotta look at stuff's for a minute;
slimy, for all intents and purposes, is a "blob of black water," and as such he can't really grab slimy and carry him off.
does he want to target either of the other two i.e. the scum noid or the mud noid?
welcome to the Herculoids........again....;)
I got them in ghij 62-65; correct position if you want.
I have to look up combatty/grapply stuff; and also everybody is screaming about crap in the house because they're all going out to the mall or something and getting dressed is such a f+@&ing travesty, so I have to figure out what that's all about and help them with their problems, so I'll be back in maybe a half hour or an hour.
"Heads down, folks", Altai says conversationally. Five seconds later, a pair of dragonflies the size of articulated buses blast past at 15' altitude.
The fish is grappled;
I have it dangling from the roc's talons in EFG 62-64.Scum boy is as well; he dangled from roc 2's talons at IJ 64-65; also, if you want the rocs to be spread out more please say so; I guess one is a little higher than the other with the current coordinates; yay 3 dimensional combat!!! ;)