19 Alessia Pending
Alessia’s two strokes seem to wither the bat she strikes, the sword drinking in its life force. It flutters down, screeching feebly as it disappears into the darkness
Justin watches the two wings of his target flutter into the cavern below.
"Well. THAT worked better than expected."
He gives his 'Blasting Rod' a wary glance. Shrugs, and says,
"NEXT! BATter up!"
Blayze unloads a barrage against the bat to her left.
Blayze’s three shots drill the huge bat, and its shrieking rises in pitch
Bat Brawl Rd 1
26 Merle [Casting Fly on Hamar]
25 Manhayth [ATK DB5]
20 Hamar [ATK & KILL DB5]
19 Alessia [ATK & KILL DB3]
18 Blayze [ATK DB1]
17 Justin Flame ray kill DB 4
14 Batties ATK Hamar/Justin
14 Mel Casting SW
14 Mel’s SW: [ATK DB1]
5 Karrin Pending
The two final bats attack. One targets Hamar, the other, Justin
Mel casts his spiritual weapon
The bat's bite just misses the flying Barbarian!
Justin screams as the bats fangs penetrate the protection of his mystic armor spell.
"That's what I get for making PUNNY so early in the fight!" Justin growls as he swipes ineffectually at the giant bat with his blasting rod.
"Hey!" The wizard shouts after glancing at his wounds.
"This red stuff belongs on the INSIDE, you Know? Stupid flying rat!"
Karrin will attack the bats swooping in to attack her friends:
Bat Brawl Rd 1
26 Merle Pending
25 Manhayth [atk DB2]
20 Hamar Pending
19 Alessia Pending
18 Blayze Pending
17 Justin Pending
14 Batties Pending
14 Mel Pending
14 Mel’s SW: Pending
5 Karrin Pending
Karrin’s attack is successful, and downs the bat Blayze wounded.
Manhayth draws on the last bat
He is spectacularly unsuccessful
Round 2
Hamar swings around and moves towards the remaining foe swinging both blades at either side of its wing connectors.
Scimitar Keen, Planar - - Damage
Scimitar Keen, Planar - - Damage
Merle unleashes a magic missile barrage on one of the bats
Hamar's acumen is slightly off with his flying condition. He misses his flapping foe. Merle, however, has no issues with her always-hitting magical force bolts. They slam into the creature, send it squealing down into the darkness
As the sounds of battle fade, another sound can be discerned coming from the darkness below. A slithery, crunchy sound that raises the hairs on the back of the party's necks
Justin's eyebrows raise in obvious appreciation of the Sorceress' swift casting of multiple spells. He nods his head in respect to Merle.
"Nice! Out of the frying pan,..."
As the sounds of battle fade, another sound can be discerned coming from the darkness below. A slithery, crunchy sound that raises the hairs on the back of the party's necks,...
"AND into the proverbial frying pan. Time to go!" Justin adds hastily with a pained smile.
"Karrin! Would you be so kind as to lead the way?" Justin asks, bowing her forward in a most gentlemanly manner. (Especially considering the suspiciously fear-inducing noises now headed their way. Particularly if you are a squishy-caster-type-person.)
"Hamar, that fly spell should last a while, Rear guard please? If you get the chance to ID,... WHATEVER is making that noise, please let us know. Just try not to get too close."
"Everyone, Ladies first!" Justin gives a clenched smile as he gestures towards the path again.
"Sounds like whatever's up ahead is on the crawling, slithering side." Blayze says, reloading as she moves forward.
The Barbarian nods, he hovers in place and attempts to peer into the darkness to identify this new threat.
Perception
"Sounds like whatever's up ahead is on the crawling, slithering side." Blayze says, reloading as she moves forward.
Justin nods.
"One of my favorite sides. To avoid!" The wizard says earnestly.
Justin raises back off the ground with his own long-term flight spell, and takes his usual place towards the middle of the group. Using his height, and his flight spell, to give him the best view of his next spells' target.
Alessia doesn't move an inch, keeping her position at the edge of the precipice, sword and shield at the ready.
The Barbarian nods, he hovers in place and attempts to peer into the darkness to identify this new threat.
Perception 1d20+19
Hamar can see the chasm is deep. The sides of it are stained with pale streaks of guano. There seems to be a slowly moving mass farther down. It is just on the edge of his perception, but he gets the impression of a mass of writhing ... something on the chasm floor
"There is something down there... but at the edge of my vision..."
The Barbarian hovers in place, raising his level slightly up and down so as not to be a moving target in case this thing has a ranged attack.
"Great. NOT! Let's get out of here."
Hamar lowers himself and sees a disquieting sight. The bodies of the slain bats have disappeared under an undulating mat of grubs. These maggoty creatures write in a tangle along the bottom of the cave, a carpet of pale wriggling meat.
Along the edges of the cave are drifts of brownish pupae, about several inches long. A few have broken open, and new scarabs similar to the ones that attempted to eat the party earlier flutter their wings in an attempt to harden them
The Barbarian grunts, "The slain foes have become new unslain foes born of some filthy dirt horrors. Why can we not just fight goblins and orcs hey?!"
"WhaaaaaaaaT?!?!?" Justin drawls out slowly as he stops his urging of the others to move along.
The wizard slowly turns to look back towards Hamar, clearly having trouble deciding whether to follow his innate wizardly desire for self-preservation, and leave the immediate area post-haste,...
,...OR to satisfy his intense wizardly curiosity, and go examine exactly WHAT Hamar is talking about!
Memnon floats into Justin's field of vision. The crystal skull peers at the wizard, then rotates to look towards Hamar, then back to Justin.
"You have GOT to be kidding me!" The mimir declares.
"You have the intelligence IF you can call it that! to understand and memorize the intricate and delicate shaping of interplanar forces into a 6th level Merlinscale Evocation. But NOT enough Intelligence to realize that when you see something odd, in an previously unknown and hostile environment, You DON'T go and poke it with a stick!"
Justin shakes his head, as if to clear it.
"Memnon. When you're right, you're right." He tells the floating mimir.
The wizard turns and gestures grandiosely towards where they entered.
"OK! NOW we know the source of the smell. Curiosity satisfied. All those who do NOT want to tangle with more of the,... Scarab-Grub-Bat-things, back the way we came! We passed a split in the tunnel. We'll try THAT direction!"
Hamar hovers, "Is there a way to know the right way?"
Hamar hovers, "Is there a way to know the right way?"
Alessia wordlessly wheels around, pushes roughly through the middle of the group, and marches back down the hallway toward the other path.
Hamar hovers, "Is there a way to know the right way?"Alessia wordlessly wheels around, pushes roughly through the middle of the group, and marches back down the hallway toward the other path.
Justin shrugs, and points after Alessia.
"Follow the leader?"
The wizard turns and does exactly that.
"Eh works for me."
Merle also following
"Works for me too!" Blayze replies, following.
Hamar hovers behind the rest of the group, enjoying the weightlessness. He stays in the rear allowing the undead tank that is Alessia to take the lead in this place.
Alessia whirls and stalks away from the ledge, headed back into the frescoed tunnel the party had emerged from. The others form up and follow the implacable warrior
K(dungeoneering) 20:
As the team forms up behind Alessia as the undead warrior stalks back the way they came, Justin blinks, and squints at the walls and floor of the hall he floats through.
"Huh. Hey Memnon. Remind me to get the name of their cleaning service. This is the most immaculate underground tomb-tunnel-(insert your favorite underground lair name here)-etc that I have EVER seen. I use cleaning spells that don't do this good. If I didn't know any better,..."
Justin blinks. "Hoo-Boy."
Memnon pauses in his flight, and turns his floating skull-self to look around, then up and down as well.
"Huh. Not bad monkey-mage. Your perception of the obvious is quite acute. For a change."
"Hey! Alessia!" The wizard hisses, ignoring Memnon's jibe. Justin gestures, sending his floating candle-mage-lights scooting ahead to catch up to the warrior.
"Slow down a bit! And watch where you're going! This MIGHT be benign. Maybe the resident Mummies are just clean freaks. But if there IS a 'Gelatinous Cube' around, you do NOT wanna walk straight into it!" Justin tries to stage whisper so Alessia can hear him, without raising his voice to 'Here I am! Come and get me!' levels of volume.
Hamar flies over, "A what cube?"
"Slow down a bit! And watch where you're going! This MIGHT be benign. Maybe the resident Mummies are just clean freaks. But if there IS a 'Gelatinous Cube' around, you do NOT wanna walk straight into it!" Justin tries to stage whisper so Alessia can hear him, without raising his voice to 'Here I am! Come and get me!' levels of volume.
Alessia doesn't acknowledge him and keeps walking.
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Hamar flies over, "A what cube?"
"Gelatinous Cube." Justin repeats, adjusting his own flight spell so he is even with Hamar.
"Basically a big, living blob of acid. Destroys and eats anything organic, like flesh and leather, but usually leaves metal, glass and such alone. Called a 'Cube' because it's usually large enough to fill an entire section of tunnel or hallway. ,..."
"Like the one we're in now!" Memnon interjects cheerfully.
",...AND the result makes it looks like a cube. Sometimes. Certain tomb and dungeon designers actually place them in their constructions on purpose once completed. To help keep the place 'tidy'. I guess."
"And they are transparent. SO they're Easy to walk into, and Hard to get out of without help."
Hamar mutters, "Civilized people are the true barbarians...".
"How then do we see this invisible monster?"
"There is always room for jello"
Hamar mutters, "Civilized people are the true barbarians...".
"How then do we see this invisible monster?"
"It's not invisible, just hard to see in dim lighting. So don't go rushing headlong into the dark,... Alessia! Wait up!"
The wizard flicks his fingers, sending half of his floating magic candle-lights speeding ahead to catch up to the armored, undead warrior-ess.
"There is always room for jello"
"I hope you're hungry. What am I saying, you're ALWAYS hungry!"
Manhayth follows Alessia down the corridor, as does Mel. The warrior wight strides past the raised dais of spikes she had fallen on. She strides through the four-way intersection, going striaght
She comes upon yet another raised dais of spikes in the tunnel. Looking up, she sees a dark shaft. She assumes this is yet another pit trap from the upper level
