Karek hurled himself through the lightnings, which played across his body and sent his muscles into convlusions. He arrived staggering at the far end of the metal tunnel, badly burned but alive.
Taking a deep breath, Rikal charges through the lightning. Once past, he slaps the card into the slot to try and open the door.
Taking a deep breath, Rikal charges through the lightning. Once past, he slaps the card into the slot to try and open the door
Rikal charged forward, lightning tearing through him. He arrived at the far end on his last legs and slammed his card into the doors. They opened just as the lightning found Karek again. It left him barely standing and sure he could not endure another strike.
The doors slid open to reveal the chamber where the Sworn Band battled the gargoyle, now home to two burly half-orcs and four ratfolk, who hurriedly reached for their arms.
Spidre rushes to the door to see if Karek and Rikal made it, only to see enemy creatures on the other side. "Look out!" She calls, firing an arrow into the chamber and commanding her elemental to fight.
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Groo calls out to the half orcs:
SuvwI'! mamej may' laSvarghDaq veS-DevwI' Chotka! 'etlh muv 'ej mamej 'ej Ha'DIbaH 'Iw SoH ghaH!
warriors! War-leader Chotka has given us much battle! Join his blade and he will give you much blood and meat!
Groo calls out to the half orcs:
SuvwI'! mamej may' laSvarghDaq veS-DevwI' Chotka! 'etlh muv 'ej mamej 'ej Ha'DIbaH 'Iw SoH ghaH![dice=Groo's actually trying.. diplomacy?]1d20+0
** spoiler omitted **
Karek drinks his extract of CLW.
He takes a 5' step to the side to clear the way for the others.
Spidre rushes to the door to see if Karek and Rikal made it, only to see enemy creatures on the other side. "Look out!" She calls, firing an arrow into the chamber and commanding her elemental to fight.
Karek drinks his extract and cleared the way for the others as his wounds closed.
Groo calls out to the half orcs: "SuvwI'! mamej may' laSvarghDaq veS-DevwI' Chotka! 'etlh muv 'ej mamej 'ej Ha'DIbaH 'Iw SoH ghaH!" They ignored him and closed on Spidre's elemental, one dealing it a heavy blow with a long metal beam. The ratfolk on the balcony opened fire next, three of them striking it with metal bolts that exploded in bursts of lightning as they impacted. The lightning played harmlessly across the elemental, but the final impact dispersed it all the same. The last fired on Karek, the bolt striking the wall behind him with another brief web of lightning.
miss
Karek's step was either going to be into the room or into the lightning more. I assumed he'd rather the room. :)
Rats go a-shooty.
immune to another thing.
immune to another thing.
immune to another thing. Gone.
miss
Chotka rushed forward to join his companions on the opposite end of the hall of lightning, readying his axe as he ran.
Rikal speaks strange words, and fog suddenly engulfs the enemies, billowing from the ratfolk and filling the room to cover the half-orcs as well. Rikal then steps to the side to ensure the lanes are open for Groomahk and Chotka to charge the enemies, and retrieves the wand.
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Groomahk lifts his mighty bone-beak above his head and roars. Froth drips from his great tusks as he charges through the lightning past his war-cheif and the half-bloods to strike at the ratfolk inside the room
charging through elec field to attack ratman
-3 to AC
Spidre fires two more arrows, trying to avoid all the allies in between.
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But there are just too many variables.
Spidre fires two more arrows, trying to avoid all the allies in between.
** spoiler omitted **
But there are just too many variables.
Chotka rushed forward to join his companions on the opposite end of the hall of lightning, readying his axe as he ran. The lightning burned him and threw his aim, sparing the hostile orc his life.
Rikal speaks strange words, and fog suddenly engulfs the enemies, billowing from the ratfolk and filling the room to cover the half-orcs as well. Rikal then steps to the side to ensure the lanes are open for Groomahk and Chotka to charge the enemies, and retrieves the wand.
Spidre fires two more arrows, trying to avoid all the allies in between. But there are just too many variables, even before the fog.
Karek stepped up to the cloud's edge and swung his fist, but the orc pulled back and he missed. The two orcs struck at him and Chotka, but both missed thanks to Rikal's fog. Within the cloud, the ratfolk were silent.
, 9
Orcs for Chotka and Karek.
Misses both.
The ratfolk do something you can't see.
Chotka thumped his chest and snarled as he swung his axe at his half-blood opponent.
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He missed terribly, but was able to follow it up with a quick bite...
...which only managed to startle the half-orc as he twisted away.
Groomahk lifts his mighty bone-beak above his head and roars. Froth drips from his great tusks as he charges through the lightning past his war-cheif and the half-bloods to strike at the ratfolk inside the room. Though burned by the lightning so badly it would slay a lesser orc, he emerged on the far end and cut deep into the nearest. The half-breed died before he could scream.
Groo steps forward, froth dripping from his tusks. His muscles heave as he raises his mighty bone-beak over his head. He swings at the other half-breed, and then clamps his teeth about the creature's neck.
Ferocious action: standard action at the cost of 1 hp per round while in rage (groo's in a rage)
Rikal steps forward, clearing himself from the lightning coursing through the hallway. He taps himself with the wand to restore some much-needed health.
Karek swings at the Orc again.
Spidre continues to fling arrows into anything that looks like an opening, desperate to strike an opponent's flesh.
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Chotka thumped his chest and snarled as he swung his axe at his half-blood opponent. He missed terribly, but was able to follow it up with a quick bite...which only managed to startle the half-orc as he twisted away.
Rikal tried to step clear from the lightning, but it struck and felled him just as his foot left the ground. He collapsed, bleeding and smelling of cooked meat.
Spidre continues to fling arrows into anything that looks like an opening, desperate to strike an opponent's flesh. Neither of her arrows found a home.
Karek swings at the Orc again, this time making contact and bruising force.
Groo steps forward, froth dripping from his tusks. His muscles heave as he raises his mighty bone-beak over his head. He swings at the other half-breed, and then clamps his teeth about the creature's neck. The half-breed was just too fast for both attacks. He fled into the murk. Somewhere inside it, machinery came to life and whined briefly. It sounded like a door opening. As it fell silent, a louder rumbling took its place in the air.
Rikal gets tickled on his action.
, 12 Rikal at -3 and dying.
Round 9
First shot from Spidre is a miss either way. Second:
miss
Karek, having hit his target happily continues pounding on him.
Spidre lowered her bow and pulled up her hood. "Are they gone? Can you open a different way?" Suddenly she sounded concerned. "Is Rikal okay?"
Chotka kneeled down and rolled Rikal over onto his back, then struck him in the chest hard enough to force the air from his lungs and the new shaman gasped but remained incapacitated.
Groo savagely attacks the nearest fie
Ok, something's whack because these are the same rolls i've made 2x in a row!
Chotka kneeled down and rolled Rikal over onto his back, then struck him in the chest hard enough to force the air from his lungs and the new shaman gasped but remained incapacitated.
Spidre lowered her bow and pulled up her hood. "Are they gone? Can you open a different way?" Suddenly she sounded concerned. "Is Rikal okay?"
Karek, having hit his target happily continues pounding on him. The fallen orc makes no protest as Karek further batters his body. Groo savagely attacks the nearest foe, the same as Karek chose. By the time the two are finished, only parts remain of the orc.
From the fog, nothing came.
Still seething with battle-lust, Gromahk sniffs the air for more foes..
[spoiler=if he doesn't detect anything, he'll grab Rikal and pull him into the room. THEN drop rage[/spoiler]
Groomahk can scent something beyond the fog, but he's not sure what. Karek takes up the wand and drags Rikal from the lightning, then heals him to consciousness.
"Alive?" Karek asks Rikal, handing back his wand. "End the fog. It's blinding us now." He moves to back up Groo.
With a rawr, Groomahk launches himself into the fog, axe and teeth bared, ready to taste blood and part life from flesh
"Ugh. Fog gone. How badly hurt is everyone? Are the rat folk and half-orca dead?"
Chotka grunted and shook his head.
Groomahk, heedless of his many wounds, charges into the fog. He runs up steps and through the concealed door. He bursts out the far side to find himself surrounded by panels of blinking lights and machinery. Before him rises a massive machine of metal, looming against the far wall on a ten foot high platform. Two immense cylinders of pulsing violate light throb at the machine's core, while above a thin cylinder extends through the ceiling. Ladders to the north and south give access to the platform. At the center, a smaller machine with several metal spikes protruding from its heart extends from the larger one. The entire room vibrates with roaring thunder, and the air feels strangely alive, almost as if it were vibrating as well.
On the platform and around the open door stand a small horde of foes, including one of the flying robots and two hulking metal men such as the sworn band have never seen before. Above it all stands a woman with purple hair and odd-colored skin, holding some sort of metal rod in her hand.
The half-orc swings at Groo, missing widely, but the robot nearby steps up to him with great clanking steps and speaks. He suffers a bone-breaking blow that leaves him reeling.
The other robot says the same, thumping past Groomahk into the chamber with the rest of the Sworn Band. The flying robot trained its metal rod at Groo and emitted a burst of light that struck with the force of a thunderclap, dazzling the orc. He fell unconscious to the ground, bleeding freely.
The purple-haired woman spoke strange words
and a gout of ravening flame shot through with strange geometric lines raced from her hand to severely burn Karek and leave him in the stink of brimstone and cooked meat.
Immediately she spoke again.
Words of metal bored into Chotka's skull, accompanied by visions of him going mad and turning on the Sworn Band. His brain burned with their heat, branding themselves inside him...but then they grew too complex for his mind to understand and faded to nothing.
"That orc is too stupid to enchant! Destroy him!" the woman shouted in Hallit.
Inits
So there's a lot of surprise actions. Just doing them in order of proximity to Groo because that's momentarily easier. They'll be in proper order for next time.
miss
Other guy moves, provoking.
miss
Hover shoots Groo
Groo now has nonlethal in excess of his current hp total, which looks like it knocks him out.
Rats. Only one of them really has a shot. For Chotka
nope
Gun casts searing light on Karek
And for her next trick:
Chotka roared as his warrior fell and swung his greataxe through the air. A rift appeared where the axe tore through reality and the bloodied Groomahk tumbled through just before it closed.
Chotka roared as his warrior fell and swung his greataxe through the air. A rift appeared where the axe tore through reality and the bloodied Groomahk tumbled through just before it closed.
The half-orc rushed up with its section of conduit and panel, slamming the assembly into Karek's head and felling him. The two heavy robots clomped and clanged their way up in his wake. The flying one buzzed ahead and shot Chotka as it had Groo, with a stunning burst of noise. The orc kept his feet. Far back, the ratlings begin reloading their crossbows.
Ok so I said I would do the bad guys in their init order...and they have one init. Obviously did not think that through. :)
Half-orc goes up on Karek
hit
Robots. 1 doubles up, other follows
Hoverbot flies up and shoots Chotka
Rats reload and/or don't have shots.
Though in poor shape himself, Rikal grabs the wand and taps Groomahk with it, trying to get the powerful warrior back on his feet.