Rhon sends another surge of negative energy into the woman, who is starting to look very much worse for wear, but she isn't down yet.
Deciding that Itamar makes for a easier target, the women decide to go for him first.
Two of the women double-team Itamar and bring him down. One of them is even able to turn on Rhon and give him a nasty slash across the face. The third flies around to Matamah to block his retreat, but misses her strike.
Initiative order:
Alden+Naala (panicked 5 rds)
WMa -11
WMb -11
WMc -97
WMd -11
Rand -56 <----------we are here
42 (-63, 19 temp)
Matamah -58, Free
Itamar (62 damage, 5 con damage, free)
BB1: -95+slowed
BB2: -103,
BB3: -
BB4: -129+slowed
BB5: -106+slowed,
BB6: -111,
BB7: -48+slowed
BB8: -103+slowed
Earl (panicked 5 rds)
Rhon (-23,3 con damage, free)
WMc's upper body shrivels as the necromantic energy animating her/it is purged by Rhon's touch. WMb stays to try to finish off Itamar whilst WMd goes for Rand.
WMb takes down Itamar, but is unable to scratch Rhon. Meanwhile, WMd flails at Rand, but is also unable to do any damage. Matamah sees Itamar at the edge of death and rushes to his side to revive the cleric with his wand.
Initiative order:
Alden+Naala (panicked 5 rds)
WMa -35
WMb -11
WMd -
Rand -56
42 (-63, 19 temp) <----------we are here
Matamah -58, Free
Itamar (65 damage, 5 con damage, free)
BB1: -92+slowed
BB2: -100,
BB3: -
BB4: -126+slowed
BB5: -103+slowed,
BB6: -108,
BB7: -45+slowed
BB8: -100+slowed
Earl (panicked 5 rds)
Rhon (-10,3 con damage, free)
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42 digs into his mind and calls back a spell that he just casts to cast again on a tougher target. Hope this time, he can get more health out of this banshee thing.
[dice=Vampiric Touch]6d6[/dice]
He then attacks again.
Rand pummels the undead woman's face till her entire head collapses, but has nothing left for the bugbears after that. With his intended target destroyed, 42 moves on to Rand's intended targets instead, cutting down BB1 and wounding BB3.
Meanwhile, Itamar is brought back to consciousness by Matamah. However, realising that the two undead women are still standing over him, he decides to play dead for the moment, lest he heal himself only to be ripped apart by them again.
With only the two of them left facing Rand, the last 2 bugbears call a hail-Lamashtu and try to get him before they fall.
The bugbears manage to get one more lucky hit in on Rand, though his Jingasa manges to avert disaster for the monk.
Initiative order:
Alden+Naala (panicked 3 rds)
WMa -35
WMb -11
Rand -82
42 (-63, 19 temp)
Matamah -58, Free
Itamar (65 damage, 5 con damage, free, prone, delay)
BB1: -123+slowed
BB2: -97,
BB3: - 10
BB4: -123+slowed
BB5: -100+slowed,
BB6: -105,
BB7: -42+slowed
BB8: -97+slowed
Earl (panicked 3 rds)
Rhon (-10,3 con damage, free) <----------we are here
Rhon channels a surge of positive energy into himself, and then into WMb, searing her flesh with positive energy.
Still pissed off at Matamah for making everyone nearby impossibe to grapple, the women attempt to focus on the bard before the paladin.
They manage to bring down Matamah, and turn to face the pesky paladin that had been giving them so much trouble.
Initiative order:
Alden+Naala (panicked 3 rds)
WMa -35
WMb -41
Rand -82
42 (-63, 19 temp)
Matamah -119, Free
Itamar (65 damage, 5 con damage, free, prone, delay)
BB1: -123+slowed
BB2: -97,
BB3: - 10
BB4: -123+slowed
BB5: -100+slowed,
BB6: -105,
BB7: -42+slowed
BB8: -97+slowed
Earl (panicked 3 rds)
Rhon (-10,3 con damage, free) <----------we are here
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Seeing the bard go down and with it additional protection to his allies. 42 moves through the crown, pulling out a wand of cure moderate and touches Matanah, giving him +4 bonus con from the spell Bear's Endurance. He places the wand in the bards hands and whispers "use it wisely right now."
42 moves behind the two banshee and attacks the one that looks weakest. Sending shocking grasp through his sword.
Rand drops BB3 and bloodies BB7, but the bugbear remains standing. 42 moves up behind the undead women attacking Rhon and cuts at WMb. The women's flesh seems nigh-impervious to his scimitar and he does little more than a scratch, but he does also manage to send a jolt of electricity coursing through her.
Meanwhile, BB7 makes a desperate final stab at Rand.
But it looks like the bugbears will have no more lucky strikes... or will they? As Rand prepares to finish off BB7, he notices that BB2 and BB8 are beginning to stir...
Initiative order:
Alden+Naala (panicked 2 rds)
WMa -35
WMb -61
Rand -82
42 (-63, 19 temp)
Matamah -120, Free
Itamar (65 damage, 5 con damage, free, prone, delay)
BB1: -120+slowed
BB2: -94,
BB3: -95
BB4: -120+slowed
BB5: -97+slowed,
BB6: -102,
BB7: -76+slowed
BB8: -94+slowed
Earl (panicked 2 rds)
Rhon (-10,3 con damage, free)
Rhon sends a powerful surge of positive energy into WMb, and is surprised to see that she is still standing. Despite missing half their bodies, these women appear to be tougher than they look!
With Matamah and Itamar seemingly out of commission, the women decide to try to deal with Rhon and the invisible 42.
But the women are beginning to find themselves out of their depths against these more elusive opponents.
Initiative order:
Alden+Naala (panicked 2 rds)
WMa -35
WMb -99
Rand -82
42 (-63, 19 temp)
Matamah -120, Free
Itamar (65 damage, 5 con damage, free, prone, delay)
BB1: -120+slowed
BB2: -94,
BB3: -95
BB4: -120+slowed
BB5: -97+slowed,
BB6: -102,
BB7: -76+slowed
BB8: -94+slowed
Earl (panicked 2 rds)
Rhon (-10,3 con damage, free)
Rand take down the last bugbear, then stomps on the recovering ones around him to keep them down for good measure. 42 channels a chill touch spell into his scimitar and slices at the woman.
She does not flee, but she does take some damage from the scimitar and the electricity running along its blade. 42 notices however that whilst his second hit did some physical damage, his first strike did not cut into the woman's undead flesh at all.
Meanwhile, Matamah bleeds a little more... and then Itamar channels a surge of positive energy across the battlefield. Whilst this brings some much-needed relief to his allies, he also notes with some concern that some the not-quite-dead-yet bugbears are now even less not-quite-dead! BB1 and BB4 in particular regain consciousness immediately!
BB1 sees Rand standing over him and uses his flight to take a 5ft "step" away whilst retrieving his spear. BB4 on the other hand, being a little further, is able to pick up his spear without intereference from Rand, but being slowed is unable to strike just yet.
And as if Rand didn't have enough problems to deal with, BB3, BB5 and BB7 open their eyes once more...
Rhon reaches out for the woman flanked by himself and 42, but the sight of the recovering bugbears distracts him, and he messes up, touching only air instead.
Seeing that Itamar is conscious once more, WMb screeches in anger and tears into him again, determined that the cleric will not channel any more energy before this fight is done. WMa meanwhile goes for Matamah.
Itamar is quickly torn and beaten into unconsciousness once more by WMb, and WMa does the same to Matamah.
Initiative order:
Alden+Naala (panicked 1 rds)
WMa -35
WMb -111
Rand -53
42 (-34, 19 temp)
Matamah -92, Free, prone
Itamar (72 damage, 5 con damage, free, prone, delay)
BB1: -88+slowed
BB2: -101,
BB3: -92, prone
BB4: -88+slowed
BB5: -94+slowed, prone
BB6: -99,
BB7: -94+slowed, prone
BB8: -97+slowed
Earl (panicked 1 rds)
Rhon (-0,3 con damage, free)
A white flash lights up the twilight dimness as 42 sends a crackling bolt of lightning through the reviving bugbears, and brings them to the ground once more. Rand steps towards BB1 and knocks him out too, then stomps on him, BB6 and BB8 a few more times to ensure they they also don't get up in a hurry.
Initiative order:
Alden+Naala ()
WMa -35
WMb -111
42 (-34, 19 temp)
Rand -53
Matamah -121, Free
Itamar (72 damage, 5 con damage, free, prone, delay)
BB1: -153+slowed
BB2: -120,
BB3: -112, prone
BB4: -108+slowed
BB5: -114+slowed, prone
BB6: -139,
BB7: -134+slowed, prone
BB8: -139+slowed
Earl ()
Rhon (-0,3 con damage, free)
Rhon touches WMb, who shrivels up as the positive energy purges the necromantic energy animating her from her rotting flesh.
The last undead woman sees that she is the last one standing flying, and withdraws from combat, flying over the wall and back into the compound.
Initiative order:
Alden+Naala ()
WMa -35
42 (-34, 19 temp)
Rand -53
Matamah -121, Free
Itamar (72 damage, 5 con damage, free, prone, delay)
BB1: -153+slowed
BB2: -120,
BB3: -112, prone
BB4: -108+slowed
BB5: -114+slowed, prone
BB6: -139,
BB7: -134+slowed, prone
BB8: -139+slowed
Earl ()
Rhon (-0,3 con damage, free)
A detect magic from Matamah or Itamar will reveal that the bugbears each have 3 magic auras on them (2 faint 1 moderate) as well as one more lingering aura on their spears that is quickly fading away. The magical auras on the bugbears are all of the transmutation school.
The gear on the bugbears comes up to a very uninteresting 1 masterwork studded leather, 1 spear and 3 javelins each.
Rhon can see as he searches them that their wounds are definitely still closing even though some of them have wounds that should be fatal.
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Matamah sticks his Wand of Cure Light Wounds in his mouth and starts bleeding it of magic. He puts one away half-way through and gets out another.
He then tries to identify whatever is happening.
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Once informed of this, 42 grabs his main weapon of the ground and starts to separate their heads from their bodies. "Can someone make a small bile of wood... make that large. I don't want these guys to come back again."
He also hands his wand to the paladin to heal everyone up. Most likely using up the lesser of the two wands.
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When Alden returns to the group, he hands his head in shame. "Naala and I were not injured, as we ran before any injury could take place. I apologize for my reactions to the creatures. I do not normally run from a fight in that way. It must've been magic..."
Alden will help dismember the creatures' bodies in whatever way the group decides to. They are obviously not normal, and he wishes to take no chances on fighting them AGAIN.
If fire shuts down their regeneration, a burn from a torch will do as well as a maximised meteor swarm. If fire does not shut down their regeneration, they will eventually recover even if they are hit by 100 maximised empowered meteor swarms (though it will probably take them a long time).
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"Yeah guys, I've seen this kind of regeneration before.. If we don't destroy their bodies, they will come back... and back.. and back.." He looks around for a good place to start the fire and sets the bodies on that pile. He takes some 3 sky rockets and empties them of their black powder, then he messed with some paper and makes something that will sustain a high temp blaze for a short period of time.
He joins the fuses and lights the end, and steps back.
They were not really bugbears, but a rare type of outsider that happened to possess both the regeneration and shape change properties. Because shape change functions as a supernatural ability (cannot be dispelled) that acts like polymorph with an indefinite duration, it's really hard to discover what they really are without accidentally killing them by applying the correct type of damage at the right time.
As it turns out, there were 2 types of damage that would have worked. Fire is one of them. =)
42 takes a moment to light a fire using his sky rockets, taking advantage of the lighting mechanism for the rockets to start the flames. The smell of charred meat fill the air as day breaks over the island. As far as you can tell, none of the bodies appear to be regenerating any more.
Alden+Naala ()
42 (-, 19 temp)
Rand -
Matamah -121, Free
Itamar (6 damage, 5 con damage, free)
Earl ()
Rhon (-0,3 con damage, free)