The Taldan bites his lip as a wave of drowsiness comes over him and manages to stay awake. "Talk to me, mate! Where's the edge, and where are the enemies?"
Corliss uses the dispel magic from his magic amulet to chase away the darkness. He also conjures a copycat Corliss for safety's sake.
In response to Jim's question. Kaul gives an anticipatory hur as he charges back.
Jim follows through the dark honing in on the sound of combat.
Closing on the sounds, the Taldan strikes.
Jim takes a stab in the dark, but feels nothing interrupt his thrust. He hears a grunt nearby as his target tries to evade attack and a curse from Kaul as an arrow hits the bosun.
"A-Hole dark elves... Sunrise is coming boys... be ready".
Dingus brings forth the mangy claw to equal things out a bit. (Daylight)
Bright light erupts from Dingus' bad hand and blasts away the darkness. Jim can clearly see the scarred elf that he and Kaul have cornered. Two other elves armed with bows keep their distance to either side of the large cavern.
Corliss and his clone close on the southern elf, stabbing with his enchanted rapier.
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Jim takes a quick step northeast to pin one of the archers between him and Kaul, then stabs the other one repeatedly.
Repeatedly, but fruitlessly.
Kaul ignores the arrow imbeddd in his scarred hide and shifts to allow a better flank with the besieged archer;
"Hur. Now yer fir it longears!"
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The sudden bright light leaves the elves cringing and blinded for a moment. Jim dances around his foe and wounds her twice before she regains her vision. Kaul chuckles as he readies a death, stroke, but falls over snoring.
Corliss heads for another elf and wounds the near defenseless cave dweller.
The white-haired elf falls dead under a lightning flurry of blows from Storm-Eye's, now Jim's, blade . The elf Corliss hit, draws his rapier even before his bow hits the floor and thrusts with his eyes closed, narrowly missing the sea priest. Jim hears another arrow whiz past as the last elf blindly releases a shot.
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Dingus scoffs at the Elf closing his eyes. "Not the smartest thing to do huh"? Dingus points his fanged ring and lets loose a flurry of bolts.
Vapor Viper at the squinting Drow.
VV from Force Fang ring.
The Corliss twins keep up the pressure on their elven opponent, weaving, stabbing, and grinning. The grin falters just a bit when their strike proves to be but a scratch.
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Dingus' viper rounds blast the archer leaving him bloodied. The two remaining scarred under-elves squint in hatred as their eyes adapt to the bright light.
The Corliss twins keep up the pressure on their elven opponent, weaving, stabbing, and grinning. The grin falters just a bit when their strike proves to be but a scratch.
Jim shoves the snoring half-orc. "ALL HANDS ON DECK, MISTER!"
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Kaul stirs awake after Jim pulls out the poison arrow and gives him a shove. The dark elf shakes his head as Corliss doubles again, but just stabs one. This time the real slim shady is hit. as blood is spilt. The archer fires at Jim this time. The arrow hits, but apparently the dark elf is out of poison.
Dingus senses a presence behind him and turns to see a horrible thing drift into the light across the chasm. It is a huge spider, which is bad enough, but in place of a head, a female elf emerges from the waist up. The elf's flesh is armored in the same shiny black chitin as its spider body, the cruel face bears the same long white hair, red eyes and purple scarred sigil on its forehead as the other elves.
It floats about ten feet above the edge of the cliff as its abdomen twerks and a stream of webbing wraps the skinny sorcerer.
Concentration (Plus whatever other bonus I have for playing P6)
"Richard! Why didn't you tell me someone was sneaking up on me"?
Lightning damage
Dingus' hair stands on end as he almost, but not quite discharges a lightning bolt from his silk bound state.
"Ow! Damn you, you're a dead elf." Jim closes with the archer and strikes.
A groggy Kaul stands then collects Lopper from the cavern floor.
His bleary beadies settling on the lone longears;
"Hur. Yer fir the Lop matey!"
"Well, this can't be good!" the Corlisses tell one another as the spider-elf joins the fight. The priest takes a defensive step to the southwest, putting his back to the stone column to better defend against attacks from the new arrival. Trusting that his copycat and/or armor will protect him long enough, Corliss begins chanting a complex spell.
As Kaul recovers from the mild poisoning, Jim sidesteps over to attack the archer. Jim's blade... Stormy?, Jim's Jolter?, Shocking Retort?, Flash Point? flashes twice piercing the elf once and glancing off his armor once. The scarred elf looks gravely wounded. He steps back and into something that growls Gom!. The elf spins and stabs the fungal friend with an arrow, but doesn't appear to hurt it.
The Corlisses step away from their foe and stretch their arms upward to stir the air within the cavern. The elf follows them and thrusts! The blade hits and a Corliss disappears.
Dingus struggles in the webbing a moment before the arach-taur yanks the strand toward her and Dingus teeters at the edge!
"Shipmates...Richard... Help I'm dying".
Dingus then pulls forth his anchoring rod and firmly places it against his abdomen to keep from being pulled forward... hopefully...
Dingus then pulls forth his anchoring rod and firmly places it against his abdomen to keep from being pulled forward... hopefully...
Thinking fast, Dingus manages to activate the anchor just as he topples over the precipice to end up slightly suspended in silks, but safe... for now.
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Kaul mugs a lopsided grin as Jimmer and Gom have one longears handled. The Corlisses seem to have their foe under control, the the scarred nugget turns his attention to the eight legged freak...
Hefting Lopper he lumbers toward the chasm, then halts about 10ft from the edge before sprinting and leaping at the opposite side.
"HURRRONIMO!"
"Tsk, tsk. Not that easy, hey?" Jim follows, his blade leading the way. Once again he only manages a single effective strike. It is, however, extremely effective.
In a surprise move, Kaul hurrrls himself over the chasm to land not far from the floating spiderwarped elf. Jim makes short work of the archer. Gom gives an appreciative Gom and then lays upon the fresh corpse making obscene sounds as tiny filaments emerge from the defiled creature and grip the dead elf.
Corliss is hard pressed by the swordself as he completes his spell.
"HEY! Cut that out! I'm startin' ta get the feelin' you don't like me very much!" Corliss admonishes his elf opponent who'd just popped another of his handsome copycat doubles. Hoping to draw the elf in, he starts to summon another Corliss-cat, taking the chance that his foe might try to interupt that spell-like ability. Successful or not, the priest then tries to call down the first strike of lightning upon the fellow.
Corliss feels a stalagmite at his back and suddenly tries to dart away! It's a good effort, but the elf is quicker and the rapier slashes. Only to skitter off the mithril links of Corliss' armor.
At a safe distance, Corliss points back at the elf and an improbable lightning bolt arcs from the mist shrouding the cavern's low roof to strike at the elf just as he sidesteps to avoid the worst of it. The last elf on this side of the chasm looks somewhat beaten up now and definitely does not like Corliss. He chases after the sea priest and impales him with a savage thrust.
Meanwhile the spider-elf abomination floating over the chasm drops the strands connecting it to Dingus and twists its elf part to face Kaul. The sigil on its forehead glows with an angry puce light as Kaul feels his body grow rigid.
Dingus casts levitate, then uses the anchoring rod to row himself back to safety.
”Don’t worry Kaul! I’ll speed you up in a bit”.
Still shrouded in sticky silk, Dingus manages to cast a spell and floats upward and awkwardly and very slowly pulls himself from the edge of the precipice.
Corliss carefully steps north, away from the elf swordsman, then summons into existence another copycat Corliss before calling down a second bolt of lightning, this time targeting the spider-lady.
Kaul feels his muscles cramp momentarily before he shrugs off the spidelf's fell magicks.
With a leering grin he hefts Lopper;
"Hur. Eight legs an' one 'ead... Plenty fir us tae Lopp..."
Jim turns around and casually strides towards the remaining elf, whipping his blade to one side to clear some of the cauterized blood off of it before striking. "Got your back, mate. See to the big one."
Kaul shakes off the spell and considers his approach. The scarred elf only has time for a momentarily look of uncertainty before Jim's blade darts in for a death thrust.
Kaul launches himself at the spidelf, with naught but a flex of his meaty thews;
As he lands on the eight legged freak, his Crimson Claw snaps onto the carapace with an iron grip;
Corliss' lightning bolt strikes the monstrous elf, seeming to catch her by surprise and causing her to drift just low enough for Kaul to make a jump for it. Thankfully, her altitude low enough that Kaul barely catches a foreleg and his claw locks onto it. The elf bows to bite at the dangling half-orc, but her fangs snap over his head as Kaul grapples the smooth carapace. Fuming in Elvish, her bulbous abdomen twists and a stream of silk flies from her spinnerets tangling her attacker.
Escape Artist (W/Amulet of Serpents bonus)
Dingus attempting to escape from the clinging webs only pulls himself deeper into the webbing.
I hate to do it but looks like I'm going to have to burn myself out of this.
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Corliss calls down a third bolt of lightning, again targeting the elf-spider.