@Gkirkhan. Yes. ;)
Gkirkhan moves up to the wraith-spawn boy, towering over the others. The calm facade begins to slip and a deep growl reverberates off the walls.
Magic crackles as the hammer clumsily passes through the apparition.
Wood hides behind the inquisitor.
AC 15, touch 15, flat-footed 14
hp 37-10
Vertielle is pointedly calm as she quietly recites to herself what appears to be scripture, ducking under the wraith's attack to position herself behind the wraith, with a looming Gkirkhan directly behind Rova. She swings wildly, keeping the hilt of her sword close and her center of balance low, knocking the child into a precarious low-guard. Fortunately for the phantom child, it know little of tactics and is not taken in.
Damn, I really ought to work on that...
Eva, Wood: actions?
Zhiden joined the group in the room and was planning on sneaking around the ghost's back to attack with his swords, but decided it was a little too crowded. Instead he took a shot at it from the side of the room.
"This is not good, I've only got a Cure Mod Wounds left and a few channels."
She casts Bull Strength on Gkirkhan or Imrijka.
Wood activates his wand to grow Rova.
"Let us have two giants."
OK, round 2:
Gaard
Eva
Zhiden
Vertielle
Rova
Gkirkhan
Imrijka
Wood
Eva=1, Gkirkhan=2, Rova=3, Vertielle=4, Wood=5, Zhiden=6, Imrijka=7
Gaard moves to attack the newly enlarged Rova.
Imrijka responds swiftly, swinging on the wraith.
Gkirkhan shifts his grip and brings the hammer down again.
His aim is surer and magic once again crackles as the hammer passes through.
"Go en peace. Hyu, Hy have no quarrel vith."
The half-orc's expression is one of sadness, but his eyes are windows to a soul filled with a white-hot fury.
Brother Spawn may wish he had chosen death instead.
Rova is quite happy the fight is not taking place indoors, as his enlarged form pushes 15' in height..
He is less happy at the incorporeal poke he just took..
Attack:
Damage:
10 after halving..
Rova's blade, huge under normal circumstances, now towers as high as a house. Rova simply hefts it over the shade of the boy, and lets it fall, it's size making 'missing' more of a concept than a reality.
The small form is still there.
[spoiler=Gaard]
AC 15, touch 15, flat-footed 14
hp 37-10=27-6=21-5=16-10=6-1=5[/dice]
Round 2 actions:
Gaard = hits Rova
Eva =
Zhiden =
Vertielle =
Rova = hits Gaard
Gkirkhan = hits Gaard
Imrijka = hits Gaard
Wood =
Wood decides it is crowded enough, no new giants. He taps Rova with his other wand.
"Time for another boost"
She casts Bull Strength on the one she did not boost the previous round, Gkirkhan or Imrijka
Vertielle buries her longsword into the child's stomach, careful not to touch it herself. She twists the blade slightly, then rips it out with finality.
The poor child is still there, though obviously fading, he still has enough strength left for one more attack.
Round 3:
Gaard
Eva
Zhiden
Vertielle
Rova
Gkirkhan
Imrijka
Wood
Eva=1, Gkirkhan=2, Rova=3, Vertielle=4, Wood=5, Zhiden=6, Imrijka=7
Gaard moves to attack Eva.
Imrijka, as upset as the rest, strikes powerfully in an effort to end this horror.
With a sense of finality, Gkirkhan brings his hammer down in a powerful two-handed chop that leaves a crater in the dirt. He turns and walks several yards away, his jaw clenched and his eyes like burning pits.
"Come, my hammer wishes to feast on hyur fear."
The half-orc throws his head back, his hat falling to the dusty street as he finally gives full reign to the fury that had been building since they first encountered the child-wraiths.
His shouts echo across the darkness. They slowly fade until the only sound is the barely restrained snarl that issues with his every breath.
Imrijka turns to the group. "You enlarged ones, meet me at town center. I check girl's room. Who come with me?"
As you move to the town square, though, the immediate search of Ellsa's room becomes moot.
Rising from the well in the center of town is a horrific cloud of glowing red eyes and ghostly hornets, a tempest of shadows given form. The buzz of hornets fills the air as does a sickly sweet stench of decay.
Brother Spawn has arrived.
Evangline
Gkirkhan
Rova
Vertielle
Wood
Zhiden
Imrijka
Brother Spawn
Round 1:
Gkirkhan
Brother Spawn
Imrijka
Wood
Rova
Zhiden
Vertielle
Eva
Eva=1, Gkirkhan=2, Rova=3, Vertielle=4, Wood=5, Zhiden=6, Imrijka=7
Brother Spawn attacks Rova immediately, almost as if mocking Gkirkhan's challenge.
plus
Imrijka responds almost as fast.
Gkirkhan bellows as his anger burst forth like a flood breaking a dam.
Reckless Abandon
Power Attack
Enlarge Person
Bull's Strength
His hammer hits the cobbles with a crack like a thunderclap. His voice a snarl filled with hatred and rage booms from his lungs.
"Komm, Feigling. Ich bin dein Untergang."
"Sorry ta point dis out again, but iffn ya don' enchan' m' weapon, I *CAIN'T* hurt it. Ya said yer' gonna, an' then ya don'."
Upset no-one seems to do what they say they will, Rova cracks open his last oil of magic weapon, and applies it to the blade. [standard action]
OK, reset time:
The last child-wraith falls and Gkirkhan delivers his challenge. Imrijka says to the group. "I go check girl's room. Who come with me?"
By the time you return to Ellsa's home your buffs have worn off. In her room, under her bed, you find a small, flat box containing drawings. She was quite talented. The town is recognizable, as is the beast, drawn in at least two of the pictures. Some of them are labeled, in a childish hand; the ones of the Beast name him 'freind'.
One of the other pictures, however, is rather telling. It shows a field, with a scarecrow on a pole siting on some sort of rise. A boy is standing next to it, pointing at a dark spot near the bottom of the hillock. It is titled 'Maartin found a cave'. In the background, in the far left corner of the picture, is what looks like the church steeple.
"Wow, she was pretty good. Zhiden said, looking at the pictures. "We should take these with us, that she considered the beast her friend can only help." Finally Zhiden looked at the last one, called 'Maartin found a cave'. "This one looks familiar, if that's the steeple, then I think I remember seeing that field, we should check it out."
Zhiden pointed out where he thought the drawing's perspective was, and offered to lead them there. He kept the bow in his hands the entire time.
Imrijka pulls a box from her pack and opens it to reveal six potions.
"I come ready, I thought. Bring 3 cure moderate wounds potions and 3 restore potions. Who need which more?"
Wood points to the three restore.
"All those are not wasted on me. But I plan on being invisible soon. I will drink after the others."
"Hy'm fine. Rova looks like he could use vun though."
"'m as weakin'd as any udder guy whose been tapped. Only go' hit once, doh. Minor or less'r do me fine."
Imrijka nods and hands Rova one of each of the bottles.
"This one Restore. Take first, then cure potion. You front line, need to be top condition. Gkirkhan, sure you OK?"
She looks around at the rest of the group. "Who else?"
Once everyone is as restored and healed as possible, she says "Zhiden? You think you can find spot? Should go. Light weakens creature. Try find before sundown, then enchant weapons where needed and strike. Bring this monster down! Send to Pharasma for judgement. Anyone else have plan?"
"Jah."
Gkirkhan looks out over to the area Zhiden indicated earlier. He was calmer now, but his rage was far from sated.
"Ve find dis bastard den ve send et to the deepest pit ov hell."
"All right," Zhiden said, his enthusiasm apparently dimmed somewhat. He wasn't sure what he though of leading the rest of them, and thus, being the first one to come face to face with Brother Spawn. Then again, with luck someone else would take the lead before battle broke out. He looked out ahead, apparently a little flustered, and then led the way to the field he'd seen in the picture.
When they'd arrived, Zhiden stopped, "I think this is it," He said, looking toward the church steeple to make sure the angle was right. "It looks like the cave in the picture should be around there somewhere." He pointed in the direction the picture had shown the cave.
You find the cave after a bit of searching. The sickly sweet stench of decay wafts from it, and you hear coming from below, a buzzing sound, like a swarm of hornets.
Imrijka nods, and casts magic weapon on Rova's huge weapon.
"One more." she whispers. "Who else want?"
Gkirkhan moves to the fore with his hammer and his axe in hand. He still moves with the same careful, calm gait as before, but the faint sound of grinding teeth hints at his slipping control. He stops a few steps into the cave and almost whispers to the darkness.
"Come coward. My hammer hungers for hyur bones, and my axe vishes to sup on hyur fear. Come and meet hyur doom."
"'ang on, you said 'restore', no' lesser? Cuz I t'ink we got bunchs o' da lesser uns from back in 'Arrowstone. Lemme dig tru' m' pack 'ere"
Rova digs out a big bundle from Harrowstone..
"Lotsa it's labled, jus' a bit faded."
"Best use this. Lesser not work for drain."
GM note: Restoration
Wood casts and promptly disappears. He then casts and portals form. When the 3 celestial dogs arrive, Wood's voice says, "let's go"
Who's best with a bow? These arrows are a little large for Hiben, I think, but they'd let him use his accuracy.
Vertielle drinks her potion of detect undead once we are out of the town, sweeping from side to side in the thick grass. She'd rather not be surprised. She keeps her bow knocked with one of the ghost touch arrows, and her sword loose in its scabbard. A scroll is tucked into her belt within easy reach. She tosses Gkirkhan a potion, a hazy green color in a small crystal vial. On it is a single word, scrawled with spiky black ink across a faded parchment label: "Brummer"
Drink that when you see him coming... and be ready to run him down. He will know fear.
Rather than risk overcrowding the cave with giants, Wood sends his dogs into the cave racing after Brother Spawn. He grabs the warden's badge and intones calmly: "Remember Harrowstone!" as he follows the dogs inside.
The cave is but 10' in diameter, a rough circle that may once have been the den of some animal. Now it is a place of horror as you see four small skeletal forms and hovering over them, powerful in the darkness of the cave, is a horrific cloud of glowing red eyes and ghostly hornets, a tempest of shadows given form. Brother Spawn wastes no time or effort on words or taunts.
Eva=1, Gkirkhan=2, Rova=3, Vertielle=4, Wood=5, Zhiden=6, Imrijka=7
Evangline
Gkirkhan
Rova
Vertielle
Wood
Zhiden
Imrijka
Brother Spawn
save DC 17 Fort
Round 1:
Wood
Imrijka
Gkirkhan
Rova
Brother Spawn
Zhiden
Eva
Vertielle
Imrijka shrugs off the undead creature's strike, but is distracted enough to miss it.
AC 18, touch 18, flat-footed 15 (+5 deflection, +3 Dex)
hp 47
Channel resistance +2
There's little pleasant about the toothy smile Gkirkhan gives Vertielle as he reads the label.
"He vill beg for death."
Gkirkhan stows his hammer for a moment and holds out the axe.
"Does enyvun vant dis? Et is pretty goot against ghosties."
"Le's dispose o' dis trash more properly - an' permanently."
Attack:
Damage:
Damage 9 after halving..
Rova runs 'brother spawn' through, then deftly rends the blade out through the top of it's phantasmal form.
Gkirkhan gives the thing a feral grin and chugs the potion while his axe falls to the ground. His muscles bulge and his already looming frame towers above the rest of the party as he once again.
"Hello Brudder Spawn. Are hyu ready to beg for hyur pathetic existence?"
Gkirkhan moves closer to the thing, pulling his hammer from his belt.
"Brother Spawn, we're here to put you to rest."
Not wanting to hurt anyone else in the cramped quarters, Vertielle slinks around the side of the cave with her bow drawn, readied to shoot at the first clear opportunity.
AC 18, touch 18, flat-footed 15 (+5 deflection, +3 Dex)
hp 47-9=38-5=33
Channel resistance +2
Brother Spawn flinches at Rova's strike and as Eva's channel washes over him, everything stops for a moment before the shadows churn again.
Wood sends his celestial creatures to pack behind the horrid creature and attack him, they are attempting to smite the evil creature.
After the attack of the celestial dogs, Wood holds the Warden's badge and uses his power to create a ghost busting web to hold the spawn and restrain his skeletons in the back.
Two dogs hit for -->8
Then the web sticks around brother Spawn, the dogs behind him, and most of the rear of the cave.
School conjuration (creation); Level sorcerer/wizard 2
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, M (spider web)
Range medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect webs in a 20-ft.-radius spread
Duration 10 min./level (D)
Saving Throw Reflex negates; see text; Spell Resistance no
Web creates a many-layered mass of strong, sticky strands. These strands trap those caught in them. The strands are similar to spiderwebs but far larger and tougher. These masses must be anchored to two or more solid and diametrically opposed points or else the web collapses upon itself and disappears. Creatures caught within a web become grappled by the sticky fibers. Attacking a creature in a web doesn't cause you to become grappled.
Anyone in the effect's area when the spell is cast must make a Reflex save. If this save succeeds, the creature is inside the web but is otherwise unaffected. If the save fails, the creature gains the grappled condition, but can break free by making a combat maneuver check or Escape Artist check as a standard action against the DC of this spell. The entire area of the web is considered difficult terrain. Anyone moving through the webs must make a combat maneuver check or Escape Artist check as part of their move action, with a DC equal to the spell's DC. Creatures that fail lose their movement and become grappled in the first square of webbing that they enter.
If you have at least 5 feet of web between you and an opponent, it provides cover. If you have at least 20 feet of web between you, it provides total cover.
The strands of a web spell are flammable. A flaming weapon can slash them away as easily as a hand brushes away cobwebs. Any fire can set the webs alight and burn away one 5-foot square in 1 round. All creatures within flaming webs take 2d4 points of fire damage from the flames.
Web can be made permanent with a permanency spell. A permanent web that is damaged (but not destroyed) regrows in 10 minutes.