There is little Elizabeth can do since veryone is blocking her way, so she moves to G-21 and draws her bow.
Gunder! Durnolf looks like he is coming out of it! He has the best chance to damage the thing!
The snake once again lashes out at Gunder.
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The halfling holds up his shield and just barely manages to deflect the blow.
Round 8
Tina will move to B25
Elizabeth aims at the snake thing and fires.
If Durnolf can make it to i25 and attack then he will, otherwise he'll wait for finder to move, then step up and attack. He'll drop his iron potion vial. In the current square and point finder towards it.
"Just a second, Elizabeth! There's something else I need to do first."
Gunder takes a poorly aimed swing at the snake before stepping aside to let Durnolf and Ruckus do some real damage.
Garuneh moves to flank and slashes at the beast with his scythe.
If it is a construct, it would have been immune anyway. :p
Aldous touches Durnolf and grants him his diviner's touch.
Elizabeth's shot goes wide as Gunder also misses with his attack. Durnolf slams it with his hammer. The blow is by far the most effective thing you've done to the creature thus far. Garuneh also manages to land a blow, but the effect is less than desired - it doesn't appear that the beast even felt the attack.
The snake, seeing its mounted prey back in front of it, lashes out towards Durnolf.
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The blow is devastating, but it's hard to tell - Durnolf appears to be frozen in his saddle.
Round 9
Tina moves to F-27
Tina attacks the necrophidius.
Elizabeth shoots once more Gunder! Try healing Durnolf!
Gunder casts cure light wounds on Durnolf.
"Wake up, Durnolf! This isn't the right time to sleep. It's lunch time, and you are the special guest!"
"Quick, Ruckus. Get your master out of here!"
He hurries back (to H22) and urges Ruckus to follow him.
Garuneh moves to flank the snake-thing and blocks behind his scythe.
So it looks like it is all up to Tina and Garuneh damagewise
"This is most distressing," Aldous gripes as he draws his bow, steps back, and let's fly. damage
"Garuneh, dump it down the well again, if you can!"
Crit confirmation damage
"Guter Junge, komm!"
All of the attacks against the snake are ineffective - either missing or bouncing off its hard skeleton harmlessly. That is, however, until Aldous lets loose an arrow. The blow lands perfectly and the snake reacts in pain - it is by far the most effective attack you've landed so far, and the construct collapses on the stone rim.
A portion of the creature is hanging off the edge of the rim and as a result, the body is carried over the edge in the pit below.
"Well done, Aldous! Let's get Durnold patched up and take a look at this other door."
Garuneh starts humming 'my heart beats on the left...' to a Vudrani tune.
"A fortuitous shot, indeed. I have a potion available if that becomes necessary," Aldous moves to Ruckus and Durnolf, removing his cure light wounds potion as he goes.
"What was that thing, anyways? Some kind of construct-snake-skeleton?"
Elizabeth pants. Yes. I don't know the constructione xactly but it is something like a golem.
Elizabeth helps pull Durnolf out of the room. If this thing wa sguarding the necromancer, he must be powerful. Golem creation requires a skilled spell caster.
"Well at least it's gone."
So how does everyone feel? Elizabeth splashes a little water on Durnolf's face. I am a little wary of continuing through the door that snake was guarding.
When Durnolf eventually comes around, he awkwardly falls off of Ruckus and goes to pick up the iron potion vial he dropped and then quaff the contents.
"That was a fine shot, Mor'esti, one in a million! We'll make a fine warrior of you yet. Why, I might even consider taking you on as my squire!" He works through some still stiff movement as he scrambles up on the wolf. "After I work out these stiff joints, that is."
Do you feel up to continuing,Drnolf?
"If by 'the door that snake was guarding' you mean this pit, then I fully agree, Elizabeth. Lets not go down there. Not until we eliminated all other possible hiding places for the necromancer."
I mean the door on the other side of this pit to the east. I will check it out, although a keener set of eyes will be of great assistance.
"So you think it was guarding the door and not something living at the bottom of the pit?"
"I'd be lying if I said I'm not still stinging a bit from that snake monstrosity, and lying is unbecoming of a knight. Take note of that, Aldous. You shouldn't besmirch your honor over trivial little things. I believe I'm capable of continuing on though, and I'd certainly prefer to head through the door than down the hole."
Elizabeth detects nothing out of the ordinary when inspecting the door.
"Lying is unbecoming of a knight. Duly noted," Aldous makes a quick jot in the margins of his spellbook. "I agree that my previous arrow was quite the lucky shot, I would not like to rely upon a repeat of that action in the future."
Offering the cure light wounds potion to Durnolf, "Do you require further healing, Ser Banderswel? If so, do not hesitate to use this potion."
Readying his bow again, "Yes, I believe the door is the way to go. That pit feels most distressing."
The door appears safe, Elizabeth presses her ear to the door.
I don't hear anything, let us get into position. Who will enter first?
I hear soemthing behind the door, everyone get ready.
Garuneh frees up a hand from his scythe to ready a spell. "If something comes at us, I will turn the lights on very quickly," he says.
Who will be in front rank? if there are creatures in there, having Tina and Durnolf up front might be a good idea, perhaps with me and Garuneh behind them.
When Durnolf feels stable enough in the saddle, he makes his way to the door and holds his hammer at the rday.
Opening the door, you see a long hallway stretching ahead of you. Walking cautiiously down it, you come to a room that is a charnel house of blood, bones, and scraps of rotten flesh. Strange runes have been sloppily drawn on the walls using some dark brown pigment. A moss-covered
stone monolith stands in the center of the room, wreathed in gossamer wisps of gray mist that seem to congeal around the crumbling stone. The mist feels cold and clammy.
In addition, you see two foul creatures fighting over something in the corner of the room. They haven't yet noticed your group.
Tina signals for everyone to be quiet, and whispers
"How do we want to handle those things?
Have Three or Four sneak up to the stone monolith and the rest giving support at a distance?"
That sounds like a good idea. Elizabeth whispers back.
"I may be able to pull them to the corner, if that would help," Aldous whispers. He prepares to cast silent image of a wounded human stumbling north from the tunnel south of the monolith.
"If anyone can make the sounds of moaning or shuffling feet, that may help sell the illusion," he whispers as he readies his bow again.
"They likely have a good sense of smell to overcome the illusion...but let's try it. And I wouldn't touch that monolith," whispers Garuneh.