Zeladiel takes to the ceiling while moving forward and readies to cast create pit under the first enemy to enter the room.
Grall tries to put his back to the wall so the creatures can not get on either side of him again and then strikes out twice striking hard...
Linah grabs the scimitar next to her bedroll and dashes into the room where she's met with the darknened tunnel. "What is happening? Where are you?" she calls out to her companions who was swallowed by the darkness.
Linah dashes past Zeladiel who readies to cast. With Grall and Khalid in the darkness though it seems your attackers have no shortage of closer targets...
Sajan moved through the darkness and emerged out on the other side.
By the time Nuveril looks up from grabbing her shield, she is just in time to see the last glimmer of Linah's cantrip swallowed up by the darkness. "We will charge to our deaths," she growls. "We cannot fight what we cannot see. Either make more light, or we must fall back and draw them out of the darkness."
The hasted Sajan rushes to Grall's aid, the agile monk avoiding a stationary Khalid and easily keeping his feet despite his lack of sight.
His light is entirely swallowed as he goes, leaving Nuveril, Linah and Zeladiel in darkness and stopping the halfling short.
Recalling what he can of the angle of the passage, the monk senses whatever is attacking Grall directly in front of him.
Further noise from the darkness indicates Grall is still up and fighting hard.
A fast moving Sajan stops just short of your target, providing enough of a distraction for you to land two quick, horizontal slashes to the creature's torso. Your damage is definately over powering its healing and black blood is starting to leak down its legs but it shows no sign of slowing just yet. You step sidewise trying to avoid the flank.
Enemies in the Dark
Round 4
Initiative
Khalid 24
? 16
Linah 13
Zeladiel 7a
Sajan 7b
Grall 6a
Nuveril 6b (delaying)
Effects
- Haste (Zeladiel, Linah, Nuveril, Sajan) expires round 7
- Light (on Sajan but see below)
Notes
- Note the light situation. Assume you have a small banked fire in the tomb room providing a little light. Darkness everywhere else. Light spell on Sajan currently cancelled by darkness sphere.
- Darkness sphere extends to M,N,23 on the map.
In areas of darkness, creatures without darkvision are effectively blinded. In addition to the obvious effects, a blinded creature has a 50% miss chance in combat (all opponents have total concealment), loses any Dexterity bonus to AC, takes a –2 penalty to AC, and takes a –4 penalty on Perception checks that rely on sight and most Strength- and Dexterity-based skill checks.
Sajan it is dirrrectly in frrront of you...don't let them get on eitherrr side of you, they arrre verrry effective of sensing yourrr weak points.
"Zeladiel, we are in need of light!" Linah calls out to the wizard. She extends her hand into the nothingness and utters a prayer trying to lift the unnatural darkness from the tunnel.
Sajan manages to locate his target but isn't able to land any telling blows against its tough leathery skin.
Khalid delays while Linah prays desperately to dispel the sphere. The priestess can't see the effect but knows where it is and that seems enough to try.
In the dark, the creatures continue their assault. Only Grall can see the further one eyeing him and running a long raspy tongue along its wicked teeth as it closes seemingly intent on finishing him, while the closer launches a frenzied attack on Sajan, apparently trying to down the blinded monk before he can set himself.
Grall is hit again and again, the creature working its way inside the reach of his blade and cutting him left and right. Its mouth snaps for his throat, a fight ending strike if not a killing one. But at the last second the barbarian pulls back, the creature's teeth finding his shoulder instead. Grall is left barely standing but well standing.
Claw vs Grall hit
Claw vs Grall hit
Bite vs Grall hit poss crit, oh oh
Crit? !!! no crit
Unable to defend himself effectively in the dark, Sajan takes several punishing strikes as well, the other creature raking him repeatedly with its claws and oppening deep and painful cuts to his torso, arm and thigh.
Claw vs Sajan hit
(sneak attack as denied dex while blinded)
Claw vs Sajan hit
Bite vs Sajan miss
Linah continues to pray as she hears her allies grunts of pain. For a moment though the priestess doesn't think it is going to work. Whatever the creatures are, their magic is ancient and potent. Linah can feel the malign taint as she struggles with it.
But from deep inside a surge of divine power fills the priestess near to bursting. Her prayer becomes a command. And that the sphere cannot stand against, the thing blowing apart to be replaced by the priestess' light. 17 was the DC :)
The two creatures are revealed fully to Khalid and Sajan, emaciated figures which look like horned human skeletons smothered within a bone-tight hide of slimy leather, red liquid dripping from their bodies. The closer one looks like it has taken a fair bit of damage from Grall but looks no less dangerous, the further one looks unharmed. Grall himself looks in very bad shape, the barbarian bleeding freely.
The light from Linah's cantrip spills around the corner of the passage revealing the way for Nuveril, Linah and Zeladiel (if not their immediate vicinity).
Stripped of their preferred conditions, the creatures howl, the first sound they've made, but in anger it seems not fear. With Grall's state and Sajan wounded they still seem to like their chances. Neither show any sign of backing down.
Able to see his friends just around the corner, Zeladiel races forward along the ceiling to help them and fires off an arrow at the creature before Sajan.
+1 Longbow (precise shot, point blank shot)
damage (point blank shot, focused shot)
As soon as light gleams from the darkness ahead, Nuveril dashes forward.
The creature block's Khalid's strike with its arm as Nuveril dashes forward toward the fray empowered by Zeladiel's magic.
The creatures are babau, assassin demons not from your plane. You can't quite recall their special abilities although casting darkness is obviously one of them. .
Zeladiel's arrow finds his targets forearm, although the creature quickly yanks it out, the wound partly healing over.
Sajan moved into a flank with Khalid and steeled himself as he grabbed onto the foe.
Barely standing but not willing to leave his friends, Grall attempts to pound on the grappled? creature...
Now able to see, Sajan lunges forward and takes a firm grasp on the wounded creature's shoulder. It pulls back but the monk moves with it, holding it in place. The thing is difficult to grab though, the slime dripping from its body burning like acid.
Grall moves quickly to finish it off but is hampered by his substantial wounds. A stumble and his first strike misses wide although the follow up drives a deep cut in the thing's thigh.
Round 5
Initiative
? 16
Linah 13a
Khalid 13b
Nuveril 13c
Zeladiel 7a
Sajan 7b
Grall 6
Effects
- Haste (Zeladiel, Linah, Nuveril, Sajan) expires round 7
- Light (on Sajan)
Notes
- Note the light situation. Assume you have a small banked fire in the tomb room providing a little light. Darkness everywhere else. Light spell on Sajan.
The further creature grins as it moves to finish Grall, its leading claw raking deep into his belly and the mighty barbarian finally falls, bleeding out from a dozen wounds, his falchion clanging against the stone.
Not content with dropping him, the evil thing hits the barbarian again for good measure with its claws and teeth as he falls, opening up yet more wounds to Grall's unmoving body. It finishes by stepping over the barbarian's prone form , its smile now wide indeed. Its not clear if Grall is alive or dead....
Claw vs Grall hit
Claw vs Grall hit
Bite vs Grall hit on helpless
With Sajan also heavily wounded, the grappled creature attempts to break the monk's hold by dropping him, lurching forward to bite and claw. With him focusing on the defensive, the monk is able to keep the thing back though, shoving it away and maintaining his grip.
Claw vs Sajan miss
Claw vs Sajan miss
Bite vs Sajan miss
Linah rushes forward just in time to see Grall succumb to his wounds and hit the ground. "No!" she cries. "Push them back so i can get to him!". The air around the priestess tremble as she channels the last of her healing.
Grall twitches as the positive energy washes over him, the gnoll apparently still breathing and now conscious if barely.
As the wounded of the two creature struggles in Sajan's grip, Khalid takes advantage, the inquisitor's blade glowing almost painfully bright. Something approaching fear shows on the demon's face but by then Tempest is already sweeping forward. A *swick* sounds at the impact and the creature's head falls to the ground, seperated from its body.
As Khalid steps back, having ended one threat, Nuveril sees her opening to slip into the fray. She ducks past Sajan and the suddenly limp and lifeless body dangling from his grip to bring her hammer to bear on the foe standing over Grall.
The remaining demon screeches as its companion falls, Sajan casually dropping the now headless thing. The parts do not vanish as you have come to expect from a summoning but you have little time to puzzle out such things now.
Nuveril's hammer passes an inch or so from its torso, the demon just able to pull itself back in time from the hasted strike.
Hissing, it looks to fall back on its demonic magicks, gesturing with a claw while it moves back before the halfling's chopping hammer.
SLA defensive success
Another sphere of darkness is summoned in the same area as the first, blinding everyone but Grall.
acro
From the ground you see the demon dart backwards through the sphere and start jumping across the posts before you lose LOS.
As Nuveril rushes under him, Zeladiel unleashes two arrows in quick succession at the remaining creature.
+1 Longbow (precise shot, point blank shot, haste)
damage (point blank shot, focused shot)
+1 Longbow (precise shot, point blank shot, haste)
damage (point blank shot, focused shot)
Hearing Grall's cry, Zeladiel races along the ceiling to the mouth of the cavern, pulling out his diamond topped elemental rod. He hurls a bright blue bead 35' into the cavern and it explodes in a white flash of cold.
fireball (Ref DC 17, cold)
Acrobatics
Linahrrr...help... Grall lays there barely alive, only his inner anger keeping him conscious....starts delaying...