Vyshael swings past the pain, cutting the hag hard across the forearm, if only the water hadn't slowed the swing, he could have almost taken her hand off at the wrist.
Neva continues to swim toward the larger group, and when there she casts bless on the group, bolstering their morale.
Felgar slashes hard at the shark, drawing a thin red line across its large underside, but just a step shy of actually breaking through and spilling its guts into the water.
Rutter, thrashes about again in the water, the environment truly causing the halfling problems.
Raliscar swims a little closer and up to get a vantage of the hag behind the shark, firing off a bolt to pierce her shoulder.
The big shark's single-minded focus remains on Felgar, as the big beast snaps again at the dwarf. With all the people around it, and the wounds on the hag and Vyshael as well, the shark gets a little mixed up and snaps at empty water instead.
The hag swims closer, striking first at the elf, switching focus to the dwarf that is giving her shark so much trouble, before slapping at the woman that just approached. Her bravado pays off, as she draws blood from all three, putting Vyshael that much closer to out of the fight, she seems actually surprised that the elf is still conscious.
Raliscar grimaces as more and more of his allies' blood begins to cloud in the already murky water. "Quit makin' me do all the work an' kill th' ugly tart already!" He grunts as he reloads his crossbow, hoping the shark and the hag are dropped before he needs to take another shot.
HP: 56/56
AC: 13 (13 T / 10 FF)
CMD: 19
F/R/W: +8/+9/+4
Ranger's Focus (+4/+4): [X] [ ]
Level 1 spells prepared (1+1): gravity bow [ ] [ ]
Necklace of Fireballs: 6d6 [ ] // 4d6 [X] [ ] // 2d6 [ ] [ ]
-Ongoing Effects-
Favored Terrain (underground/dungeon): +2 to Initiative, Perception, Stealth, & Survival for ALL party members
Focus (watery tart): +4/+4
Bless: +1 to hit / +1 morale vs fear
Felgar again attacks the Shark!
Vyshael winces at the wounds, wishing that he'd used his wand of shield before rushing headlong into battle... or that the rage could burn away his doubt. Seeing no line of escape, and realizing just how much power the water leeches from his attacks, he wills his flesh to change again, regrowing the wicked horn that allowed him to gore the hag, and throws his rage-fuelled strength into what he can only hope is a killing blow... before she succeeds in landing one against him.
Neva blurbled a shout into the water as the hag closed and stabbed her. Desperate to heal the others (but determined not to provide succor to the hag) her hands groped for the slender wand stored at her belt. Her eyes darted away from the hag for an instant to find the damnable thing.
Drawing it forth, Neva jabbed it rudely at Vyshael, calling "Densa" to activate its magic.
Rutter swims closer to the hag that's doing so much damage, drawing a second dagger as he gets some momentum to pass through the bloody water. He jabs at her with a dagger, putting all of his strength into it.
Vyshael once again adopts the long spiral horn, ramming it into the thigh of the hag, but it is not the final blow he was hoping for.
Neva throws caution to the wind, or the waves per this environment, to draw forth her wand of healing. This action draws the attention of both the hag and the shark biting Felgar. The hag was caught unawares, and just misses the woman by a hair, but the shark is able to nip the edge of Neva's arm, drawing a few jagged tears along the flesh.
Felgar thrashes wildy at the shark about the same as it has back at him, the two of them missing one another much more than they probably should have been.
Rutter finally manages to make more forward progress, but it's not enough to let him get past the hag's defenses. Meanwhile, Raliscar goes through the process of loading another bolt into his heavy crossbow.
The big shark maintains its focus on Felgar, not giving up on the meal it had already had a good taste of earlier. Alas, it cannot seems to dig its teeth past the hard exterior of the dwarf.
The hag also keeps her attentions on her latest targets, confident in her ability to wear all three of them down. She jabs Vyshael, a decent gut shot, before prodding Felgar next. The dwarf she thrusts the spear hard into, sticking a little on the extraction, and causing a large pulpy hole in his thigh. The tug needed to withdraw her weapon was just enough of a problem to cause her to miss Neva with her claw.
"Hold on Vysh, Rutter and Raliscar are coming to help!"
Raliscar swims a bit closer to the bloody fracas beneath him and sends another bolt spiraling through the murky waters toward the hag. "Stop sittin' there gettin' bit an' stabbed and cut somethin', cousin! Show tha' overgrown fish Stoutaxes bite back!"
HP: 56/56
AC: 13 (13 T / 10 FF)
CMD: 19
F/R/W: +8/+9/+4
Ranger's Focus (+4/+4): [X] [ ]
Level 1 spells prepared (1+1): gravity bow [ ] [ ]
Necklace of Fireballs: 6d6 [ ] // 4d6 [X] [ ] // 2d6 [ ] [ ]
-Ongoing Effects-
Favored Terrain (underground/dungeon): +2 to Initiative, Perception, Stealth, & Survival for ALL party members
Focus (watery tart): +4/+4
Bless: +1 to hit / +1 morale vs fear
I be tryin', cuz!
Felgar again attacks the Shark!
Felgar swims back 5 feet towards his cousin after the swing.
Rutter jabs at the hag with each dagger, managing to find enough leverage in the water to put strength behind his blows.
Vyshael, desperate, pushes his mental walls back down, locking away the righteous fury and wincing as he feels its strength leave him, making his limbs feel a little leaden. He pulls upon the magic of his blade, causing it to burn a spell into his mind, and he carefully casts it, trying to keep himself safe and not expose himself while he whispers the words... This had better work, or I'm one dead frog-shaped elf.
He whispers a quick prayer of thanks to Ragathiel in his mind as he finishes the spell and electricity begins to crackle around his hand, Wish I could take the time to shape a claw to shred her with it... but I need to do this as quickly as possible.... With that, he reaches out his heavy arm to touch the hag, hoping to discharge the spell.
Neva knew that Felgar was bleeding as much as Vyshael, and she felt a growing sense of desperation. She jabbed the wand at Vyshael.
Vyshael is able to fight through the pain and danger to focus his arcane energies into an electrically charged hand, which he then uses to viciously shock the hag. She seems somewhat even more 'shocked' by his effective attack against her.
Neva maintained her intentions, and once again applied healing to Vyshael, who seemed to be losing life almost as fast if not faster than she could return it to him.
Felgar, possibly at the nagging of his cousin, was finally able to level a solid strike on the shark. It wasn't as much as it could have been, but it was still better than what he'd accomplished thus far.
Rutter was finally able to through the water enough to turn both blades against the hag. Alas her preternaturally tough hide turned one of them away, and prevented the other from successfully hitting a major artery.
With the big shark in his way while so close to the fight, Raliscar shoots at the thing instead of the hag, punching a bolt hard into the side of the thing. It thrashes in pain and turns on the new threat.
The Big shark whips its tail once, hard, and easily get right up close to Raliscar to take a nice-sized chunk out of the dwarf. What it hasn't seemed to yet grasp, is just how hard it seems to get a good bite out of either of the dwarves.
The hag, for once, actually looks concerned for her well-being. That doesn't last long as the wan, warty flesh turns to a snide grin of self-satisfaction. With a thrust of her free hand and finned feet, she slides back in the water and casts a spell from a safe distance. The electric burn fades, and some of her small wounds cease to spill green blood into the water.
Vyshael also backs away slightly from his face-off with the Hag, and begins to cast a spell, keeping himself safe from the shark as he does.
With the shark taking a sizable chunk out of his leg, Raliscar growls as he realizes he can't swim away quickly enough to reload his crossbow. Slipping his crossbow over his shoulder, he draws his sword with practiced ease and slashes at the toothy engine of destruction.
"Bah! Jus' die already, ye big dumb fish!"
HP: 45/56
AC: 13 (13 T / 10 FF)
CMD: 19
F/R/W: +8/+9/+4
Ranger's Focus (+4/+4): [X] [ ]
Level 1 spells prepared (1+1): gravity bow [ ] [ ]
Necklace of Fireballs: 6d6 [ ] // 4d6 [X] [ ] // 2d6 [ ] [ ]
-Ongoing Effects-
Favored Terrain (underground/dungeon): +2 to Initiative, Perception, Stealth, & Survival for ALL party members
Focus (watery tart): +4/+4
Bless: +1 to hit / +1 morale vs fear
Neva gave a short jab of the wand to Felgar, desperately hoping to keep him alive.
Glancing quickly at the hag, she tried to swim back a bit, hoping to get out of the creature's reach.
Vyshael swirls, with a kick of his polymorphed limbs, to a safe place in the water floating just above Neva. It is here that he decides to risk casting a spell.
Neva taps Felgar with the wand this time, giving him a little bit of a reprieve from the looming threat of death by shark or hag, before she also swims backwards a little.
Rutter drops the daggers in his hands and pushes forward through the water like a natural swimmer for a change. He tries to avoid the hag's attack as he reaches for her.
Felgar quaffs a potion of Cure Moderate Wounds.
Felgar takes a risk with the shark, and pulls a potion from his belt. The big shark snaps at him when he does so, gnawing more into the already wounded arm of the dwarf. When he drinks the potion, however, it closes the new wound and a little more.
Rutter manages to zip forward through the water and grab the hag while she recently recovers from casting her spell. Sadly, he doesn't come close, likely due to how strong and agile the thing is in the water. It doesn't help that, as he swam at her, she stabbed him hard with her spear.
Raliscar takes the opportunity presented by his cousin holding onto the shark's teeth, and quickly stows his crossbow. Drawing his bastard sword, he is able to slash at the shark's gills. Despite the hindrances of the water, it is the last straw for the shark and the thing stops moving.
Soon after, the shark just vanishes.
The hag, feeling angered at the audacity of the halfling and the threat of losing her summons while so injured, focuses all her attentions on Rutter. She stabs violently twice, and lashes out with her claw, causing grevious wounds about the little man's body.
Grimmacing as more of his allies' blood clouds the already murky waters, Raliscar still grunts with satisfaction as the blasted shark vanishes from view. "Stupid fish!" He stows his sword before snap drawing his crossbow again and slamming a bolt into the cradle. "Yer next, ye ugly tart!"
HP: 45/56
AC: 13 (13 T / 10 FF)
CMD: 19
F/R/W: +8/+9/+4
Ranger's Focus (+4/+4): [X] [ ]
Level 1 spells prepared (1+1): gravity bow [ ] [ ]
Necklace of Fireballs: 6d6 [ ] // 4d6 [X] [ ] // 2d6 [ ] [ ]
-Ongoing Effects-
Favored Terrain (underground/dungeon): +2 to Initiative, Perception, Stealth, & Survival for ALL party members
Focus (watery tart): +4/+4
Bless: +1 to hit / +1 morale vs fear
As he finishes his spell and grows larger, Vyshael sideswims slightly, hoping to set up an opportunity for his companions to flank. He lashes b our work both the now-massive sword in his hand and the wicked barbed horns that he grows, and using his newfound reach to attack the hag while keeping out of its range.
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Screaming with anguish and rage as Rutter went slack in the water beneath the furious blows of the hag, Neva forced herself to focus on Vyshael.
Keep him going, then you can save Rutter.
Yer turn, hag!
Felgar moves up and attacks the haq.
Vyshael swims aside, leaving an opening for both Felgar and Raliscar to get into the fray. He sings his, now very big, sword at the hag but it has a hard time slipping through the water fast enough to catch her effectively. His newly grown horn, however, doesn't have that same problem. He manages to stab her with it right in the arm.
Neva once again uses the wand at her disposal to keep Vyshael on his feet. His presence may just allow her to get to Rutter before it's too late, but only if he remains a threat.
Felgar tried to get at the hag, but was only able to flail about in the water. Instead he holds until she comes near, allowing her to close the distance he can't.
The devestating strikes that Rutter was dealt were vicious indeed. The wounds continue to spill blood into the waters of the Jeggare, much to Neva's dismay for not being quite ready or able to help him yet.
With the big, toothy, fishy obstacle out of the way Raliscar returns to his preferred weapon. He returns his blade, and draws the crossbow once again, preparing to fire on the hag.
The hag, feeling confident over both how quickly she removed the halfling and having regained some of her health, does indeed swim toward both Felgar and Vyshael, so she can hit them both. She wasn't expecting the dwarf to have a mighty swing held in waiting for her. Committed to her intentions, it's too late to back down at this point, so instead she focuses on the dwarf that so handily just hurt her. She manages to bring all of her weapons to bear, just missing a weak spot in his armor that could have been disasterous, but seems dissatisfied with why her attacks were not as effective as before.
Vyshael and Felgar can just manage to make out what appears to be the faint visage of Zellara holding the hag back. She reaches out for Rutter, but he is too far from her. It is here that Felgar is reminded of the seer's message when she did their reading, "You will find yourself in unforgiving landscapes, full of danger and hardships, but you emerge from the other side triumphant, and stronger for having made the journey.”
Raliscar lets a bolt tear through the murky waters as the hag closes on his cousin. "I'm puttin' the next one between yer disgustin' eyes an' inta yer diseased brain, ya soggy hag!"
HP: 45/56
AC: 13 (13 T / 10 FF)
CMD: 19
F/R/W: +8/+9/+4
Ranger's Focus (+4/+4): [X] [ ]
Level 1 spells prepared (1+1): gravity bow [ ] [ ]
Necklace of Fireballs: 6d6 [ ] // 4d6 [X] [ ] // 2d6 [ ] [ ]
-Ongoing Effects-
Favored Terrain (underground/dungeon): +2 to Initiative, Perception, Stealth, & Survival for ALL party members
Focus (watery tart): +4/+4
Bless: +1 to hit / +1 morale vs fear
Deadly Aim: -2/+4
Neva was beginning to gag in the blood-clouded water, frantically trying to keep her friends alive while they ganged up on the hideous hag.
Her knuckles ached from gripping her wand so tightly in the cold river. Swimming with one clenched hand made it hard to get into position to flick the want at Felgar.
Felgar attacks the hag.