Try as he might, Dendillion finds himself stuck still!
Round 2:
Charlie: Go | (68/68)
-Goliath: Go | (39/48), Wounded 1
Hostile: TBD
Chark: TBD
Tiny: TBD | 56/79
- Þóðᛞrekkr: TBD | 51/51
Haldan: TBD
Dendillion: TBD | 34/58, Wounded 2
Krooth: 33
End after turn on 7.
Charlie slowly moves in, unsure how this big lizard is going to react. Getting a moment, as Goliath rears up and pounces on it he is able to get a clean shot off.
HP 49/68
AC 22 (24 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Snarecraft Snares Used: Biting Snare x3
Focus 0/1
Hero Points 1/3
Goliath
HP 46/48 (Wounded 1)
AC 20
Neither Goliath nor Charlie's arrow connects. The monster turns on Tiny, chaotically lashing out at whatever target it can reach:
for
MISS
for
Round 2:
Charlie: Miss | (68/68)
-Goliath: Miss | (39/48), Wounded 1
Hostile: ATK
Chark: Go
Tiny: Go | 56/79
- Þóðᛞrekkr: Go | 51/51
Haldan: Go + 2 FORT
Dendillion: Go | 34/58, Wounded 2
Krooth: 33
End after turn on 7.
Hero point.
Haldan scores a light hit, and it's a lucky one at that!
Round 2:
Charlie: Miss | (68/68)
-Goliath: Miss | (39/48), Wounded 1
Hostile: ATK
Chark: Go
Tiny: Go | 56/79 + 2 FORT
- Þóðᛞrekkr: Go | 51/51
Haldan: Hit
Dendillion: Go | 34/58, Wounded 2
Krooth: 47
End after turn on 7.
Tiny claws twice more.
Before commanding Puppy to do the same.
Tiny then backs off, barely holding himself together.
Teeth break off in Tiny's side, but he simply grits through it and smashes them off. Unfortunately neither he nor Þóðᛞrekkr connect with their attacks!
Round 2:
Charlie: Miss | (68/68)
-Goliath: Miss | (39/48), Wounded 1
Hostile: ATK
Chark: Go
Tiny: Miss | 11/79
- Þóðᛞrekkr: Miss | 51/51
Haldan: Hit
Dendillion: Go | 34/58, Wounded 2
Krooth: 47
End after turn on 7.
Wand in hand, Chark is frustrated by what little she is able to do. She invokes a blessing of Sarenrae and its flickering orange flame aura washes over her and the area surrounding her.
She then conjures up a disk of force for protection. Den, if you've any tricks up your sleeve, now would be a good time for one!
"I'm a musician, Chark! I wouldn't know where to start with that magic rune. But it's surely the source of our troubles."
He strums a few notes, the tones soothing. The bard directs the magic to Tiny.
FFS!
There's just enough legitimate fear in Dendillion that his magic lacks. So instead he does his best to steel himself and the others, switching tunes to inspire.
Chark bolsters the party and sees to her own defense in the process. Meanwhile, Dendillion puts the others before himself, despite the dire circumstances.
Round 3:
Charlie: Go | (68/68)
-Goliath: Go | (39/48), Wounded 1
Hostile: TBD
Chark: TBD
Tiny: TBD | 21/79
- Þóðᛞrekkr: TBD | 51/51
Haldan: TBD
Dendillion: TBD | 34/58, Wounded 2
Krooth: 47
End after turn on 7.
Charlie and Goliath both focus their attacks on the large beast and try to drop it before it can harm his friends.
HP 49/68
AC 22 (24 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Snarecraft Snares Used: Biting Snare x3
Focus 0/1
Hero Points 1/3
Goliath
HP 46/48 (Wounded 1)
AC 20
Two arrows strike and stick, but barely. This thing will take a dozen more arrows like that, easily.
Goliath, unable to flank with Dendillion, fails to get the creature in its teeth:
Eager to to Charlie, it goes though Goliath to get there:
for
V. Charlie
MISS
MISS
Round 3:
Charlie: Hits | (68/68)
-Goliath: Miss | (0/48), Dying 3
Hostile: ATK
Chark: Go
Tiny: Go | 21/79
- Þóðᛞrekkr: Go | 51/51
Haldan: Go
Dendillion: Go | 34/58, Wounded 2
Krooth: 61
End after turn on 7.
Interact to take out my thieves tools, Disable Device. Reaction from Hermann to use Partner in Crime to Aid.
Haldan sees the opening, and takes it. He rushes in and with a simple swipe of his foot, disrupts the anchor rune for the summoning spell! In a flash the krooth vanishes!
It takes longer than normal for everyone's heart rates to return to normal. Death was coming...
Chark glances about frantically, making sure the danger is indeed past as the krooth vanishes, then audibly exhales. She lowers her guard, saying, Well done, Haldan! as she moves over to Goliath and casts stabilize on the great bear.
Satisfied they will not lose him this day, she sets about tending the wounds of Tiny and Goliath.
Chark tends to the severely wounded party.
Charlie (68/68)
-Goliath (18/48), Wounded 3
Chark (53/53)
Tiny (35/79)
- Þóðᛞrekkr (51/51)
Haldan (51/51)
Dendillion (34/58), Wounded 2
Chark next takes out her wand and taps its head on the ground, sending a burst of bright whitish flame emanating from her, the warmth from the flame licking over every wound and knitting flesh together.
With a frown, she sighs. That will have to do, for now.
Chark continues to administer succor to the banged up party.
Charlie (68/68)
-Goliath (29/48)
Chark (53/53)
Tiny (46/79)
- Þóðᛞrekkr (51/51)
Haldan (51/51)
Dendillion (45/58), Wounded 2
Charlie takes the next few minutes healing Goliath up as best as he can as he comforts the small bear. "It'll be alright pal." He soothes the bear with a quiet tune.
"This delve is kicking our ass. Let's make sure everyone is healed up before moving on."
Not seeing any immediate dangers, the party takes an hour to recover.
Charlie (68/68)
-Goliath (48/48)
Chark (53/53)
Tiny (88/88)
- Þóðᛞrekkr (51/51)
Haldan (51/51)
Dendillion (58/58)
"Where too? Th..th..this is a big building?" Charlie heads towards the southern set of doors.
Haldan starts working on the double doors at the end of the hallway.
"Looks like we've got a couple of options right here."
Tiny scratches Þóðᛞrekkr under the skin and keeps up with Haldan.
The party moves to the doors on the southern wall.
These two identical rooms look like they were once mundane closets, likely for items used routinely in worship services. A few moth‑eaten priests’ robes still hang from brass pegs in both areas, and shelves stocked with metal pendants, candelabras, and bells line the walls. Empty spaces on the shelves suggest that some items here have been removed, and a broken bottle of scented sacramental water on the floor of the western storage room hints at the intruder’s disrespect for the site.
There's an impressive looking shield resting against the wall in the eastern room.
Chark is visibly unhappy by the broken bottle of sacramental water, but casts a detect magic to get a sense of anything supernatural here, and moves on to inspect the impressive-looking shield more closely.
The shield is, in fact, magical.
Chark takes the shield, but isn't willing to spend time to study it just yet. Instead, she motions to the double doors. I expect those are next, yes?
Charlie nods. "Let's clear them out."
This chamber has towering ebony doors to the east and west. A stone statue of a human man clad in a flowing robe has one hand raised in a gesture of warning and a burning brazier held in its other hand. The statue looks as though it has been broken and reassembled several times. It stands directly in front of the western door. Other than several chunks of stone and black wood scattered across the floor, the room is bare.
Tiny peeks in and throws a rock that fits nicely into his hand into the room towards the foor of the statue to see if anything horrible happens.
the rock bounces off the statue.
Seeing the statue unmoving Charlie moves in to look around the room. "Why rebuild a b..b..broken statue."
Chark recognizes Aroden when she sees him, but more than that would be a Religion check.
Dendillion follows Charlie in, surveying the scene before them. He's heard tales and stories galore, shared from minstrel to minstrel. Mayhap he's heard a tale or two.
This guardian has been defeated many times before, and it rebuilds itself... though clearly it doesn't do it perfectly.
Charlie is Scouting
(Scout)
(Search)
(Detect Magic)
(Seek, Keen Eyes)
(Search)
As Dendillion joins Charlie, the statue animates and moves to attack!
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Round 1:
[b]Chark 53/53: Go
- Þóðᛞrekkr (51/51)
Statue: TBD
Haldan (51/51): TBD
Tiny (88/88):
- Þóðᛞrekkr (51/51):
Dendillion (58/58: TBD
Charlie (68/68): TBD
-Goliath (48/48)
Chark bestows some divine guidance on Tiny.
Chark, a bit oeverwhelmed, isn't sure what she's looking at beyond a very large statue with an actual lit brazier in hand...
It reaches out to crush Charlie:
for
It then grabs him and then shoves him into the lit brazier:
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Round 1:
Chark 53/53: Guidance
Statue: Ouch
Haldan (51/51): Go
Tiny (88/88): Go
- Þóðᛞrekkr (51/51): Go
Dendillion (58/58: Go
Charlie (11/68): Go
-Goliath (48/48): Go
Tiny drops into his stance as he tumbles forward and slashes.
Þóðᛞrekkr independently comes running in afterwards.
Tiny's follow up strike is enough to "wound" the statue, but he leaves no appreciable mark on it!
Chark, a bit oeverwhelmed, isn't sure what she's looking at beyond a very large statue with an actual lit brazier in hand...
It reaches out to crush Charlie:
for
It then grabs him and then shoves him into the lit brazier:
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Round 1:
Chark 53/53: Guidance
Statue: Ouch
Haldan (51/51): Go
Tiny (88/88): Hit, no DMG
- Þóðᛞrekkr (51/51): Move
Dendillion (58/58: Go
Charlie (11/68): Go
-Goliath (48/48): Go
Haldan strides over and launches a card.
Charlie whistles as he sends an arrow into the statue just as it sets him ablaze. He screams in pain patting at the flames as Goliath barrels past into the stone wall.
HP 3/68; 1d8 Persistent Fire
AC 22 (24 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Snarecraft Snares Used: Biting Snare x3
Focus 0/1
Hero Points 1/3
Goliath
HP 46/48 (Wounded 1)
AC 20
Action 1: Inspire Courage
Action 2-3: Slow
Dendillion launches into an inspirational tune with his lute, channeling magic into each note as it washes over his friends.
He adds a few staccato sounds to the tune, each note getting further and further apart. Dendillion once more makes magic from sound, hoping to slow the massive construct.
Haldan's card bounces off the target to no effect. Then Charlie misses. Then Goliath too. The party begins to worry, another fight to the death so soon after the last...
Dendillion hits a singular wrong note, but then tries to slow the statue: and it completely ignores his spell.
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Round 2:
Chark 53/53: Go
Statue: TBD
Haldan (51/51): TBD
Tiny (88/88): TBD
- Þóðᛞrekkr (51/51): TBD
Dendillion (58/58: TBD
Charlie (11/68): TBD
-Goliath (48/48): TBD
Chark's heart sinks as the moving statue shrugs off everything thrown at it. This bodes ill...
She says a silent prayer to Sarenrae and tries a different spell.
Chark's spell chips some stone off the statue, but it's laughably small.
It continues to hold Charlie in the flames: When he passes out, he drops the body and goes after Tiny with a fist:
fo r
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Round 2:
Chark 53/53: Arc
Statue: ATK
Haldan (51/51): Go
Tiny (24/88): Go
- Þóðᛞrekkr (51/51): Go
Dendillion (58/58: Go
Charlie (0/68, Dying 1): Go
-Goliath (48/48): Go
Tiny unleashes a fierce strike with both hands.
Tiny then tries to treat his own wounds as Þóðᛞrekkr takes a bite.