Realizing his bow is nigh on useless against these armoured Kuo-Toa, Juraan stays where he is casts a spell:
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And aims his spell at the Kuo-Toa who just hit Marigold (Red):
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As the two Kuo-Toa continue to try and push him over the rail, Ryan retaliates with a hit to the side of greens hip, with a horrible follow up swing.
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AC = 22
HP = 51/74
Weapon Equipped = +1 Dwarven Greataxe
Condition(s) = None
Kikinnin takes another bolt to the back, in the place where a slung shield might have helped glance it away. He makes a small promise to take to the stairs and slay some froggos with crossbows.
The black beard presses his attack against Red, not interested in another linking of lightning. "Ay, ay, ay no more of that hand-clasping, you grunts."
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JJ steps forward, frustrated by the slimy creatures tough armor.
"No holding hands... go get a room." he snarls, although probably not in an understandable language!
Marigold blinks, bright flashes of light from Maxim's shot still dancing across her vision. She shakes her head and staggers off towards the stairs, wondering if maybe she should do something about the archers shooting at everyone instead of remaining in the way of Kikinnin and the others.
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A powerful blast of acid emerges from Juraan's hands, striking in the middle of the kuo-toa chest. The acid splashes all over his body leaving him very badly wounded.
Kikinnin steps over the fleeing red and furiously cuts him in two pieces with a glorious strike of his axe.
JJ follows up over the blinded kuo-toa. Despite its lack of sight his skin is overly thick, which in addition to the heavy armor makes JJ's strike to be a vital one. The kuo-toa roars in pain nevertheless.
Marigold moves as fast as she can to try help Ryan.
As he recovers sight, the kuo-toa join his hands and let's a lighting bolt emerge from them. An arc of light jumps from the statue improving the power of the blast that covers JJ, Kikinnin and Juraan!
The lighting bolt is clearly less powerful than the one with the four Whips joined.
Bolts keep coming from up the western balcony. This time only at Kikinnin as JJ is covered by the balcony itself.
Both bolts are easily stopped by the dwarf's shield.
Meanwhile, in the second balcony, Ryan continues his struggle against the kuo-toa that try to push him down.
They hold him strong and place him on the verge of falling, but the cleric is strong and resolved. Ryan hits the soldier trying to push him and leaves it unconscious with a powerful hit on the neck.
Maxim holds to reload his pistol with bullet and powder , before moving to the edges of the watery chamber .
The gun-mage then draws a bead on the Kuo-Toa climbing the foot of the stairs and enchants his weapon
Maxim blinks once with a scowl and fires;
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Before loading up with another Flare Cartridge
Marigold continues hustling to help Ryan, finally reaching the nearby set of stairs and huffing and puffing up as quickly as she can manage without falling.
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With the first of the two soldiers he faces falling to the floor Ryan rolls his shoulder to bring his shield back into proper position and launches a vicious back-swing against the Kuo-toa soildier with red harness.
AC = 22 (No Shield)
HP = 42/74
Weapon Equipped = +1 Dwarven Greataxe
Condition(s) = None
Kikinnin sees the frog fighter clasping his own hands, and doesn't give it much thought, figuring it needs to grab another webbed hand, not only its own. He's proven wrong, as the lightning still comes.
"What kind of power gives these vermin support?!" He looks over his shoulder at the statue, and gives thought to the purpose of their infiltration.
Then he remembers, and his anger is flamed again.
He steps up to Orange, stepping over the frog body, and swings again and again.
"Where's Ryan?"
JJ sees the bolt coming and calls out a quick warning before diving to the side. Still, his hair stands on end and new burns appear where he wasn't quite quick enough.
He steps sideways, trying to get into a flanking position to finish off the heavily armored foe.
Neither of his blows look good enough to get through its armor.
Maxim shot is too fast and the Kuo-toa is able to dodge the bullet.
Marigold quickly jumps up the stairs trying to help Ryan.
Ryan crashes his mace on the remaining soldier in front. Blood splashes in all directions as he breaks the frog-like's skull.
The remaining Whip blocks the terrible might of Kikinnin's axe with his shield.
JJ maneuvers around the kuo-toa and attacks with both his swords, but the well armed Whip blocks them once and again.
Feeling pressed the kuo-toa goes into a full defense strategy while shouting desperately in his language. He then moves up the stairs.
More bolts keep coming for Kikinnin.
Both strike true in the dwarf's arms while he is focusing on the fleeing kuo-toa.
Up in the balcony the remaining soldier drops his crossbow and readies a trident against Ryan.
The monstrous humanoid strikes true opening a wound in Ryan's right arm.
Kikinnin doesn't let an opportunity go by, slashing at the retreating frog man, but he swings too hastily for it to count in the weight of the battle.
AC = 22
HP = 49/74
Weapon Equipped = +1 Dwarven Greataxe
Condition(s) = None
Feeling the worse for wear, Kikinnin waves JJ up the stairs first, figuring the boy to be easily more agile than himself, especially with his 'quills' still bleeding from his back. He does take cover from the damnable bolts raining down from above, while healing himself again.
"Go on, JJ, and clear the stairs. I'm getting winded. Aye, Maxim. You might want to get under the balcony, before the frogs start their work on you." The black beard waves his axe near his back, pointing obviously to the pointy bits.
He also sets himself up against the wall, protecting himself from whatever might still leap at him from the darker corners of the room.
JJ stabs at the Whip as he heads up the stairs, drawing blood at last.
Then, he quickly follows, stabbing as he moves.
It's hard to tell if the blow lands, as the creatures slimy skin masks the blood.
Grimacing as the trident catches his arm, Ryan retorts
"Not so nice when you're on the receiving end huh?" before swinging once more at the trident wielding frog man.
Continuing to huff and puff, Marigold makes it up the stairs and spots Ryan battling with one of the creatures as well as two others across the way firing bolts down on her friends below.
"ರಯಾನ್! ಹೋಲ್ಡ್ ಆನ್!"
"Ryan! Hold on!"
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The kuo-toa scapes Kikinnin's axe, but not JJ's sword. The young man opens a deep gash on the humonoid's left leg as he climbs up the stairs.
While Kikinnin let's JJ up, his wounds heal by the mystery of his celestial bond. JJ's attack is not enough this time and results deflected by the kuo-toa armor.
Up in the balconies, Ryan stamps his mace on the soldier in front. His strong arm knocks down the soldier who, unconscious, loses the grip of the balcony rail and falls down to the temple floor breaking himself in a splash of bones and dead meat.
Marigold pufs as she reaches the first balcony.
Maxim and Juraan do something heroic.
The Whip fighting with JJ, very damaged retreats with effort from the stairs, while trying to cry for help.
The kuo-toa crossbowmen grumble as they see their targets hide below the balconies. They look at the two remaining targets below and shot at both.
Maxim is surprised by one of the bolts that stabs deep into his left shoulder.
Not wanting to waste any time celebrating, Juraan races up the stairs and gets just past Marigold.
Juraan then tries to shoot one of the Kuo-Toa on their level (Orange, map 3)
Startled to see a lone kuo-toa on the opposite side as she reaches the first balcony, Marigold draws her crossbow and attempts to fire before continuing towards the next set of stairs!
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JJ rushes up the stairs, stabbing at the Kuo-Toa'n as he catches up with him again.
But again his sword can't get through the creatures thick armor.
Maxim grimaces as the kuo-toa bolt bites into his shoulder.
The dwur raises his pistol and enbues it with arcane energy before firing it at one of the sniping fish-men;
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The gun-mage then moves to the foot of the stairs, holstering his pistol as he goes. .
At the foot of the stairs, Maxim nods to his fellow dwur, then moves up towards where JJ engages a fish-man, drawing his shortsword as he goes...
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Juraan avoids some of the lighting bolt damage while he races up the stairs.
Maxim shots at the snippers but they are too far and his aim misses.
Juraan shots at the snippers and his arrow strikes true at the first kuo-toa head's front. The kuo-toa shrieks in terrible pain.
Marigold's prayer wears off. The halfling also shots her crossbow, and her bolt also finds the same kuo-toa as Juraan, now with two bolts at his head's front.
JJ moves up and attacks, but the Whip is ready and blocks the sword with his shield.
Maxim follows up after JJ.
The kuo-toa observes man and dwarf persecuting him and dashes back into the stairs trying to defend at his best.
The snippers shot fire back at the group bowmen, Juraan and Marigold.
But they seem nervous by the continuous approach of their enemies and the bolts go far from their targets.
AC = 22
HP = 49/74
Weapon Equipped = +1 Dwarven Greataxe
Condition(s) = None
Kikinnin takes to the first set of stairs , then takes off again to reach the base of the second set of stairs , oddly grateful that the frog folk decided to meet them half-way. He doesn't give it much thought as to whether this bow-frog is the one who stuck him so many times. He just decides he is.
JJ moves up behind the retreating frog man.
"Just stand and fight. It'll end the same way." he mutters, striking out at the creature as it retreats.
<- I keep forgetting the prayer or was JJ out of range of it?
He then moves up behind, attacking again, but weakly.
Eyeing the frog-men on the far side of the room, Ryan presents his shield to them calling out "And Abadar grant your servant the ability to walk on the wind"
Then stepping on the rail that had protected him earlier he walks towards the other balcony, stepping down behind the Kuo-toa in pink.
Juraan moves slightly to get a better shot at the same Kuo-Toa (Orange, map 3)
Although she's pretty sure that the lone kuo-toa is about to be overwhelmed, Marigold decides to fire off one last bolt at it before turning and continuing up the last set of stairs!
Kikinnin climbs up stairs and more stairs.
The kuo-toa is ready and blocks with his shield JJ's opportunistic attack, as well as his following attack.
Juraan and Marigold shot at the kuo-toa in the stairs, who despite his numerous wounds, uses his shield in a defensive way to a good result, blocking both bolts after JJ's attack.
The kuo-toa stays at place, fighting defensively.
Meanwhile the soldiers shot back at Marigold and Juraan.
Both strike true!
Maxim moves in behind his fellow dwur, sheathing his sword as he goes
Grimacing at the constant changing of weaponry, the dwur draws his pistol [ooc](Move Action).
Maxim loads the weapon with powder and bullet then readies himself for a potential shot...
Faced with a determined defence, JJ concludes that an overwhelming flurry of attacks may be his best chance. Bringing to mind the combat so long ago with the dark stalker he sets to work.
After seeing no success he steps back to give Kikinnin a try.
Sorry 'bout that, posted early morning before leaving out for work. Ryan did cast fly on Round 8 and the moved to the far balcony. Spell will last for 6 minutes
Ryan continues to harass Pink before both can gang up on him.
AC = 22 (No shield)
HP = 49/74
Weapon Equipped = +1 Dwarven Greataxe
Condition(s) = None
Kikinnin takes a quick suck of air before heaving his Greataxe about. "<huff> Three floors, huh? <puff> Wasn't expecting <huff> vertical runs... <puff>"
If the frog-foe gets to benefit from soft cover on the stairs from a railing or somesuch, Kikinnin politely accepts JJ's offer of moving to the base of the stairs before he swings on it. Otherwise, he maintains his current position, and lets fly.
The black beard looks across the way for signs of struggle on high, but his view seems cut off at the worst time.
"Excuse me, Marigold. I think JJ and the Dwarves have that pesky Kuo-Toa in hand..."
Juraan dashes up the stairs, past Marigold to the top most level, to be able to be at level with the two kuo-toas with bows.
With another burst of speed, Marigold finally manages to reach the top of the structure and spots Ryan and Juraan squaring off with the last two kuo-toa across the way. She takes aim at one of them with her crossbow and fires...
...but doesn't quite manage to hit her target.
Ryan casts a spell, his feet suddenly start to float and the cleric darts on a fly all over the gigantic room, clashing with the kuo-toas there.
Maxim exchanges weapons again, readying his pistol.
JJ unleashes multiple attacks, but the kuo-toa makes a good job of covering with his shield any spot not already protected by his armor or magic.
Kikinnin takes place when JJ steps back. The dwarven axe is blocked by the kuo-toa shield, but it doesn't matter, Kikinnin strikes with all his strength and the shield splits in two parts taking by surprise the kuo-toa behind. The axe continues his way unhindered, striking true in the frog-like skull. The sigh of pain and death, quickly followed by the sigh of final victory of the Cauldronites.
The flying Ryan waves his mace against the kuo-toa just in front, but it is well armored and the hit is deflected.
Juraan and Marigold move over the last balcony, the halfling landing a shot on the wall behind the remaining kuo-toa soldiers.
Run out of bolts, the kuo-toa soldiers drop their crossbows and move over Ryan, readying their tridents to attack him!
The second attack takes Ryan in the back and causes him a large wound!
The sounds of battle below lesson as JJ, /Kikinnin and Maxim whittle the odds into their favor but Ryan hears none of it. His focus on the soldiers surrounding him.
Pretty sure that it was now just a matter of time until they finished off the two remaining kuo-toa, Marigold attempts to hasten the proceedings by moving to a better position and firing another shot!
With the whip defeated, JJ charges up the stairs, past Kikinnin and lunges at the frog-man in purple robes!
AC = 22
HP = 49/74
Weapon Equipped = +1 Dwarven Greataxe
Condition(s) = None
Kikinnin takes a moment to breath deep, then bolts up the stairs a second time, following JJ to the top.
Getting to the second floor, he sets eyes on the priest for the first time in a while. "Hello there, Ryan. You been good? Rushing off to engage in greater numbers, looks like you weathered the assault pretty well."
Now that the Watchers outnumbered the snippers up top, the black beard can see a rest coming up shortly, and he heartens.
Having contributed little to the battle and bereft of ideas and magicks Maxim instead remains on the lower level and moves along the corridor wary that it may hold more foes seeking to flank the group..
The gun-mage scans the area as he goes watching and listening for potential secret passages or threats;
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"Just trying to protect your back oh bearded one, you were beginning to look a bit like a porcupine" Ryan replies while dodging the spines from the nearest trident.
Ryan swings his mace but it's blocked by the soldier.
Marigold's bolt is deflected by the kuo-toa soldier armor.
JJ tries to charge but he discovers it is rather much more difficult than he thought stairs up.
Kikinnin moves up into a menacing place for the kuo-toa. Still his head just at the height of their feet.
Maxim looks around with interest and arcs an eyebrow while looking at the statue.
It is almost unperceptive, but you do observe a shimmering light accumulating in a large plate at the feet of the statue, just on your level.
The soldier try to fight Ryan back.
Just by an inch, Ryan is able to parry both soldiers' trident this time!
JJ, slowly tiring, continues to beat on the blue trident wielding frog-creature.
"How many of these are there?" he pants.
AC = 22, no shield
HP = 49/74
Weapon Equipped = +1 Dwarven Greataxe
Condition(s) = None
Kikinnin looks up at Pink, and decides that he's got enough vantage on the frogman's nethers to take a couple of swings, hoping to harrass the hopper.
"Can't seem to catch his leg, JJ. See if you can't move through, and open up some room." Mild frustration in his voice, mixed with quiet optimism that they're almost through securing this massive chamber.
Ohhh, I hope there aren't any more of them coming after us right away...
Marigold pushes the thought away as she raises her crossbow and continues to fire upon Pink!
"Their friends on the far side wanted to see me fly, these two did"
Happy to have the help Ryan continues to try and press then advantage they now have.
pink first, if not the one harassing his back
The soldiers pose no stand to the combined assault of the group. Ryan and JJ display a specially focused fury that end up with both kuo-toa unconscious on the balcony floor.
No more enemy stands on foot in the room.
"Well, apart from killing a lot of frogs that may well have been acting in self defense... I'm not sure what we have achieved here.." admits JJ.
He starts piling the bodies together, wondering if any had potions on them.
"You realise that with crossbows and tridents any half rate necromancer would waltz into this place with a small troops of skeletons and they couldn't do a thing about it."
"True, granted they did have a dead dwarf in the cellar and a mummy, sounds like they may have a necromancer of their own somewhere." Looking around he eyes the statue the 'frogs'; as JJ so eloquently called them, were worshipping. "Think I'll lower the bridges here if I can. They put them up to hide something"
Stepping over the rail he walks to the section in the middle and looks for a way to lower the draw bridges.