change back and move 15' to the right.
Yousef's eyes glaze over as he slows his charge, and deliberately starts to make his way up the slope towards his friend. "Of course, my friend. I am sorry. I don't know what overcame me." When he reaches the top, Yousef will turn his back on the man, draw Tempest, and declare. "Please, let us be civil here."
Init
Lavender blinks a few times. "I, uh, er... WEB!"
Lavender casts web, trying to aim it so that Kardswan is near the front of the web, if possible. If allies are in the way, she instead throws a tanglefoot bag at the fiend!
Spellcraft
Sense motive
If Lavender goes after Yousef and if that spell craft check is enough to tell that Kardswann used a charm person spell...
"S&**, Yousef's been charmed!" and she adjusts the web to hold Yousef as well...
Rashid frowns as 'Kardswann' does something to Yousef...
We can't have that!
He then purposefully double moves towards the 'genie', trying to bring him within reach of Rashid's scimitar...
channel o.mist into s.a.1-eagle.
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As Bahram's summoning concludes, at the sorcerer's command the three-foot tall whirlwind he's brought forth hurtles towards where 'Kardswann' floats in the air, even as Bahram himself strides confidantly forwards, unleashing his mystic might as he goes! 'Kardswann' ceases his rasping chuckling as first the whirlwind slams into him on its way past then, moments later, Bahram's twin glowing missiles impact on his chest!
"Wipe that look of your face monster! Maybee if you beg we'll kill you quickly!"
'Kardswann' begins...
"I, uh, er... WEB!"
As Lavender snaps out of her fascination and casts there's a sort of dull Fwump! sound as a spread of sticky spider-web strands erupts accoss the entire upper portion of the cave, engulfing the flying genie as it does so...
... A few moments later 'Kardswann' bursts out of the bottom of the web, landing in front of Bahram with some impact (enough to cause a web of cracks to spread across the cavern floor at that point), on one knee, with his greataxe clutched between his hands. Slowly standing to his full height, until he towers over the human sorcerer, the seven-foot tall genie glares down at Bahram, eyes glowing a deep red,
he declares... raising his axe high...
As hyena-Keldar moves off to one side and changes back into regular dwarf-Keldar , Yousef heads back towards 'Kardswann' and Bahram, drawing Tempest as he moves, his eye seemingly glazed over as he says...
"Of course, my friend. I am sorry. I don't know what overcame me... Please, let us be civil here."
Meanwhile, Rashid moves over to place himself between Bahram and 'Kardswann', and Felliped joins him...
Bahram takes an invoulentary step backward as Kardswaan thumps into the ground before him, blinking his eyes in disbelief at the awsome power displayed by the evil genie. Relieved that Rashid and Felliped both move to guard him he shoots a ray of electricity at tha genie.
"Yousef, what are you talking about! He's about to attack Bahram!" Lavender says, waving her hands in an attempt to prevent Kardswann from doing just that!
Lavender casts Grease on Kardswann's big scary axe!
Rashid frowns.
"Creature, we cannot allow you to leave. Your evil must end here; you shall not be allowed to darken the countryside with your foulness!"
He then moves purposefully up to the creature, and takes a swing at it...
"Don't hurt him!" Shouts Yousef as he steps to the side of Kardswann, directly opposite of Rashid. He then lets loose with a flurry with Tempest.
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Spinning down from the webbed ceiling, Bahram's small whirlwind makes another pass at 'Kardswann', but seems to glance off the genie's hide with no real effect...
Unleashing a crackling arc of lightning (and making sure to miss his allies) Bahram fires high, the lightning sailing over 'Kardswann's' head...
"Yousef, what are you talking about! He's about to attack Bahram!"
Lavender casts her spell - there's the usual sloshing noise... but nothing seems to happen...
'Kardswann' laughs his rasping laugh out loud at the efforts of the sorcerer and sorceress, then swings his axe towards Felliped and Rashid...
... As he does so, his image seems to flicker a couple of times, then fade to a translucent outline - underneath is a camel-sized insectile fiend with huge claws, multiple eyes, slavering mandibles, and a long serpentine tail tipped with chitinous blades - the daemon Xulthos. The vaguely scorpion-like Xulthos is covered in glistening black chitin which seems to reflect light in a dazzling display, and sports insectile wings which it unfurls and sets to buzzing, creating an irritating and distracting sound. Hanging around the thing's neck is what looks to be an amulet of black iron and silver, and on the tip of one of its claws is wedged what appears to be a golden ring...
With the faint image of Kardswann still looking like it's swinging the axe, beneath that image the all-too-real Xulthos attacks Felliped and Rashid - one claw and its manibles rip bloody wounds across Felliped's body in mere moments, dropping the Chelish Magician to the floor - either unconscious or dead, it's hard to tell... The other claw tears a glancing wound across Rashid's shoulder, whilst the tail lashes, scorpion-like, from above, but is turned aside by the dwarf's armour and toughened skin...
Keldar's Will save=
Yousef's Will save=
Rashid's Will save=
Confused, Keldar abandons casting his spell, and instead charges Lavender to attack her! But his wild swipe misses...
Yousef is confused, but manages to shake it off long enough to unleash a devestating series of blows against Xulthos, ripping through the daemon's chitin and causing it to scream a high-pitched scream... but still a long way off slaying it...
Having fought off the bout of confusion, Rashid takes his swing, expertly slicing another wound into the exoskeleton of the daemon...
next round this form sucks whack to self
Confustion
Yousef blinks for a second, staring at the insectoid creature, then at Lavender, then at his sword, then at Lavender's figure, then at Tempest again. Then he sees a reflection of Xulthos on the falchion's shiny surface.
"Gahhh!" he exclaims in surprise, then punches Tempest.
Yousef manages to slice his wrist across the sword, streaming frozen shards of blood across the fight.
"Yow! It bit me!"
Sticking a finger in his ear and rubbing furiously at the anoying sounds of Xulthos's wings Bahram begins a growl that ends in a scream. "ghhrrrAAAA Summoning arcane power into his hands he steps up to the bug, his hands crakling with electricity, and reaches to touch it.
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Will }+2 vs enchantment
Lavender doesn't seem fazed by the drone, despite it's distracting affects, and in an attempt to stop it, throws a tangle foot bag at the thing's wings.
Ranged (Touch): Tanglefoot bag / rounds }+1 bless, -1 daemon
Seeing Felliped fall, and both Yousef and Keldar start acting... oddly Rashid purses his lips.
Dawnflower, grant us the strength to defeat this evil! We need your protection...
He then steps up to Felliped, and, making sure to keep his shield between himself at the insectoid monstrosity, and attempts to return the Chelish man to consciousness...
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Bahram's summoned whirlwind once more assaults Xulthos, but appears to simply deflect off the giant daemonic bug. Meanwhile Bahram steps closer to try to fry the daemon with the lightning contained in his hand... only for the thing to skitter nimbly out of the way...
Pulling out one of her alchemical collection, Lavender hurls it at Xulthos, aiming for its maddening wings... but faces the same problems as Bahram as the creature appears to bely its own bulk in the speed that it moves, and the flask sails overhead to smash somewhere in the distance...
Focusing all its attention on Rashid, Xulthos lunges at the dwarven priest with mandibles, claws, and his lashing tail... Rashid heroically deflects both claws, but the daemon's mandibles score a deep wound across his chest, whilst the tail arcs over Xulthos's body to pierce right through the dwarf's stomach!
Rather than save the day as their friend drops in a fountain of his own blood, Yousef and Keldar seems content to punish themselves in their ongoing confusion...
Looking at his falchion angrily. "You sonavab%+@@. You think you are sneaky. Well then, I'm gonna get you " Yousef bobs and weaves, trying to get a drop on that pesky sword. Then he headbutts Tempest.
"AAAGH! That bastard bit me again!"
"Rashid!" Bahram chokes a scream as the dwarven priest falls in spurt of blood. Dodging and weaving he tries to grasp the medalion swinging from the creatures neck, hoping it will work as a conduit for the shock he wants to sent the damned thing.
Lavender pulls out her potion of cure mod wounds and empties it into Rashid's mouth.
"Bahram, be careful!" Lavender says as she watches him get into melee with the creature.
confusion cast CLW and move to Rashid. if can get there this round than heal him for
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Bahram's whirlwind makes one more pass, this time missing Xulthos completely, before vanishing...
Bahram himself tries his best the grasp the medallion around the daemon's 'neck' (for want of a better word)... but once more Xulthos proves too elusive and the sorcerer fails to connect...
Finding her potion, Lavender rushes over to the side of the fallen Rashid...
announces Xulthos in his rasping voice as his mandibles and one of his claws manage to rake across Bahram's flesh, spattering Lavender and Rashid with the sorcerer's warm blood...
Lashing its tail towards Lavender, even as Bahram falls, Xulthos slices the tail's chitinous blades across the sorceress's face, opening a painful wound...
As Yousef continues his (losing) struggle with Tempest, Keldar shakes off his confusion just long enough to cast a curative spell and rush to Rashid's side - the dwarven druid's touch reviving his clerical colleague... just...
confusion looks like i have 2 targets to choose from, so 1-3 BBEG, 4-6 LAV
no fooling me girlie attack LAV-
"Babb-bbaa-baa. Pork chop sandwiches. My oh my what a wonderful day. We wish you a Merry Mead day...bubbles. pflbpflbpflbpflb." He looks at his companions lying and bleeding all over the floor. "Hey guys. This ain't know time for lolligagging. HI-hooooooooo. Hi-ho! If off to work we go. Chaka kahn. Simmah down na! boing boing boing boing boing boing boing."
Lavender pours the potion into Rashid's mouth anyway, hoping to keep the dwarf alive for more healing.
Assuming that is a standard action she takes a 5 foot step back from the creature.
Returning to consciousness with a groan, Rashid quickly takes-in the scene around him; Yousef and Keldar acting insane; Bahram, and Felliped bleeding-out, and the insectile monstrosity standing over him...
Although it might be his last breath, Rashid vows to make it a worthy one, doing his best to protect himself and his comrades!
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confusion yea for low rolls-HP is 36.
attack BBEG
"You!" Yousef growls angrily at his sword. "That's it. This time, we're playing for keeps." Then he initiates a grapple with Tempes, which cause him to cut up his chest and arms pretty badly.
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With Rashid stirring, Lavender concentrates on carefully pouring her restorative potion down Bahram's throat... leaving herself open to the daemon's attacks as she does so! Snapping at the sorceress with its mandibles, Xulthos opens a fresh wound across her back... but the impact and the pain only cause her to spill a little of the precious magical liquid she's applying, and Bahram's eyes flicker open as he returns to the land of the living. Lavender (sensibly) backs a little away from the powerful Xulthos...
With Yousef and Keldar indisposed, and Felliped, Bahram, and Rashid all prone, Xulthos rounds on the retreating Lavender, the faint image of Kardswann (still vaguely visible overlaying the daemon) smiling as the insectile creature skitters a pace to keep up with the sorceress,
comments Xulthos in his inhuman, rasping, voice...
Momentarily overlooked as Xulthos menaces Lavender, Rashid, noting that Felliped is indeed near death, crawls over to let the Dawnflower's healing flow into the Chelish man... who coughs, blinking, then winces...
'What in the nine hells is that noise?' he asks...
With Xulthos now, technically, the closest to him (out of those still standing), Keldar takes a swipe at the daemon... and opens up another slash across one of the daemon's back legs - Xulthos screeches, rounding on the dwarven druid as he does so...
As Yousef descends into some heartfelt philosophy, Felliped scrambles to his feet, snatching up his sword as he goes,
'Damn it all!' he curses, 'I've no power left for useful spells!'
Rashid goes total defense (taking his AC to 24), and weakly staggers to his feet, 5' stepping to try to bring himself closer to a flank...
Will }+2 vs enchantment
Lavender takes another step back and does something risky.
She pulls out a thunder stone and throws it near Yousef and Keldar, hoping that the sound is what is driving them insane.
Lavender tries to aim it so that they are the only two in the area of effect, unless she can get the Daemon as well in the area. Lavender does not want to get any of the non confused allies into the mix.
Regaining conciosness is an unplesant experience at best by Bahram's estimate, the sound of battle over the droning of Xulthos's wings make him wish it was all just a dream. With the sweet tase of the healing potion in his throat Bahram nevertheless gets to his feet and, carefull of not opening himself up to an attack by the daemon, casts asnother pair of force missiles at him.
Keldar takes a swipe at the daemon... with his scimitar, I assume? In that case, I'll take his second posted attack roll as a failure to confirm the critical threat...
So, will drop club and draw scimitar. If still alive- confusion EEERRRRR, HHEEEHHHH, RRUULLFFF rulf. SREEEECHHHH.
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Rolling to his feet Bahram, with a quick gesture and some incanted words, generates a pair of glowing mystical bolts which blast across the short distance to Xulthos, slamming into the daemon's back and causing it to howl in pain and rage once more...
Rummaging once more in her bag of alchemical tricks as she backs away from the threatening insectile form of Xulthos, Lavender produces a thunderstone, hurling it past the daemon to impact the floor between Yousef and Keldar. There's a deafening BANG! as the strange little stone strikes the cavern floor...
A rasping hiss escaping the daemon's maws it starts to lash out at everyone around it! As Felliped steps in to attack, Xulthos's mandibles scissor shut around the Chelish magician's neck - taking his head clean off in a gurgling fountain of blood! Vicious claws strike out, ripping open wounds across Lavender's thigh and Keldar's chest... Finally, the fiend's flexing tail whips a stroke across Bahram's face, the chitinous blades mounted on the tail's tip raking bloody slashes across the sorcerer's face...
As the mayhem continues, Rashid retrieves his scimitar and gets to his feet...
"Felliped! NO!!" Bahram takes an invoulantary step toward the beheded magician, intent on helping him in some way but...
Yelping in pain at the deamons slash Bahram curses the pain beeing caused by the blasted thing, with tears of anger streaking down his face he does the only thing he can think off; take a step back from the vicious appendages and send forth another pair of missiles. "Die monster! Go back to the abyss!"
A wave of sadness crosses Rashid's face as he notes Felliped's passing...
Felliped! NO!
...but then his features become suffused with rage, as he turns upon the beast responsible, and does his best to skewer it on his scimitar.
"You will pay for that, and for all of the other deaths that you have caused, you miserable creature!"
Lavender clenches her fist in rage, lightning crackling uncontrolled around it, as she see's Felliped's decapitation. She yells in rage!
However, before she can act out her fury, the beast rips a wound into her thigh, causing a burst of blood to spurt out onto the ground, and forcing her to one knee. Gasping in shock, she crumples to the ground into the pool of her own blood...
Stabilization check
[/bigger] AC-20? HP-29
attack BBEG with scimatar die outlandish fiend
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With Lavender's timely thunderstone deafening them to the maddening drone of Xulthos's insectile wings, Keldar and Yousef leap into action!
A swift slash of Keldar's scimitar opens yet another wound on one of the daemon's legs... it staggers a little and, seeming to have finally had enough, starts to lurch towards doorway out of the cavern...
... but Yousef is having none of it! With a powerful two-handed overhead stroke, the half-orc brings Tempest down, the frosty blade slicing through chitin, ichor, and flesh as it cleaves Xulthos's head from its body! There's a final inhuman scream (which even the deafened Keldar and Yousef 'hear' as it seems to echo through their heads...) as the legs of the daemon's decaptitated body skitter and convulse for a few moments before, finally, it lies still and dead.
With the passing of Xulthos, the translucent image of Kardswann fades... as does the image of the dark cavern, revealing instead a larged worked chamber, maybe forty feet square. Two rows of three marble columns flank the main walkway leading from east to west. A series of low, curved stairs at the opposite side of the room leads to a large concave recess in the western wall, with an elaborate throne perched at the top of the stairs.
With the infuriating drone of Xulthos's wings gone, an eerie silence falls over the scene...
HP +5.5 (4,5 level +1 favored class) = 25
Skills: Diplomacy +1, Knowledge (Arcana) +1, Knowledge (Plains) +1, Spellcraft +1
Bloodline spell: Invisibility.
+1 2nd lvl spell/day
+1 1st & 2nd lvl spells known (Undecided, I'm thinking of Protection from Evil at first level and Scorching ray, acid arrow or glitterdust for 2nd. It would help if me and Lavender would discuss what might be the most effective combination of our spellcsting. I'd rather avoid any spell that need a dice roll though;)
Feat; undecided, maybee skill focus (knowledge (plains)), toughness or augment summoning.