Agrippa sniffs the potions and says Healing here. Best to parcel these out to Momijii and Lizzie.
Filbert looks Momijii over as she gets back up to her feet, "You know your still not looking too well, perhaps you should take that potion 'grip just gave you. I can apply my healing but it's gonna make you tired if I do." Thinking about it a moment, "perhaps that is best held for a last resort."
Looking back at the others...
"The counts been busy, lots of new places, yet the barn calls to me. Not sure why but it keeps coming up. I'm going to check it out."
As the wand touched her Momijii suddenly gasped as the energy brought her back to the land of the breathing and conscious. She lay there and allowed Lizzie to heal her, the wand touching repeatedly, it didn't heal her completely but it was a start. She then felt Filbert slam power into her again stitching her wounds better but bruising her around the massive axe wound that had mostly closed up with the last bit of healing. She wasn't in perfect shape but she was better than she had been and rose. Turning to her friends Momijii gave her normal bow, though lower this time, and said, "My thanks."
Approaching the barn Filbert waits near the door looking inwards to try and discern what drew his attention here of all places. As Agrippa comes up behind him,
"The mist in Briarstone had a cause, what's the chance the same is true for here. If so we can at least combat it."
once the others have caught up he enters the barn, still searching for the spark of a memory that has eluded him. as well as anything else untoward that may appear.
Lizzie takes that 5nl, save the potions for the emergencies.
As Filbert walks towards the bard, he notices evidence of neglect lies strewn across this once magnificent garden.The grass grows tall and yellowed, and weeds choke flowerbeds along the sides of the estate’s buildings, leaving only a smattering of color from the few flowers that survive. A few overgrown bushes once trimmed to look like humanoids stand in a rough circle around a brick well in the center of the estate. Suddenly there's movement among the hedges as several seem to animate and move to surround the party!
SURPRISE ROUND
The Topiaries surround Filbert and attack!
<--- MISS
<--- MISS
<--- MISS
Filbert however has little trouble fending off their feeble attacks, to him they where almost comically slow and predictable...
Luxina Tenebris <----- WE ARE HERE
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Spoiler:Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2950 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2949 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are up.
Agrippa knows what these things are....and he draws a vial of Alchemists Fire from his belt.
They are Plants. Burn them down.
Agrippa tosses a Vial of Alchemists fire at a nearby Topiary.
Luxina loads and fires her crossbow at one of the moving bushes, but the on her haste the bow hadn't been loaded properly and the bolt falls harmlessly out of the slot.
Heinrich throws a bottle of Alchemist's fire which spontaneously combusts, making a FWOOMF noise as it hits the closest Topiary. Burning liquid splatters everything in the vicinity, singing Filbert, Momijii and another bush. The bush hit by the bottle reacts with surprising speed and rolls over, putting out the fire.
<--- PASS
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit <----- WE ARE HERE
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Spoiler:Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2950 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2949 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Filbert Springbit, Lizzie "beads" Tamar', Momijii, Luxina Tenebris and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are up.
Agrippa pulls another flask of Alchemists Fire from his belt and tosses it
and REFDC15 or catch fire for another 1d6.
Lizzie steps 5ft closer to blue.
"Momiji, with me? We can take them out faster ogether."
Nodding in agreement with Lizzie Momijii set her gaze on the same target as Lizzie and then lashed out with a pair of quick, sharp, attacks. They weren't her most accurate of blows but they were the best that she could do for the moment as she moved through her kata shakily with the recent near death experience.
Taking hold of the strands of Aether surrounding him, a slender sword extends from his hand. "Grip!" Filbert calls out as the fire splashes him as well, jerking his hand to the right as he tries to avoid the flames.
Luxina drops her crossbow and draws her torch as she moves towards green. She then blows a mixture of chemicals on her torch that enlarges the flames on it.
Filbert summons his blade and tries to lay about with it. Should it hit it would inflict fearful damage, but the animated Topiary was way more agile than it had any right to be and nimbly dodged aside.
Lizzie tries to smash the bush in front of her, but it too dodged aside, as her weapon smashed harmlessly into the ground.
Momijii had better luck, her fist smashing through the foliage, smashing twigs and exiting with a shower of leaves.
Luxina mixes up a batch of unstable chemicals which she pours on her touch causing it to flare up.
Heinrich ignoring Filbert, throws another alchemist's fire but his foot snagged on a root ruining his aim. The vial landed a little south of the middle one, singing it and it's neighbor!
The topiaries having surrounded Filbert continue their assault on him. He manages to dodge one of them, but the other behind him smashes into him with terrible force, breaking ribs and leaving great welts on his chest and arms!
<--- HIT
<--- HIT
<--- MISS
<--- MISS
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit <----- WE ARE HERE
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Spoiler:Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2949 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2948 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Filbert Springbit, Lizzie "beads" Tamar', Momijii, Luxina Tenebris and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are up.
Remembering he was not supposed to be in the front of a fight, that was what the Lizzie and Momijii trained to do, Filbert beats a hasty withdraw as Mommijii completes one of her specialized attacks.
WITHDRAW!!!
Agrippa draws Red Destiny and skulks around, attempting to flank the Red Bush.
He lashes out with Red Destiny at the creature
Unfortunately he misses.
Luxina whacks the blue topiary with her flaming torch.
If, during the process of withdrawing, you move out of a threatened square (other than the one you started in), enemies get attacks of opportunity as normal.
Filbert wisely realizes that discretion is the better part of valor, and withdraws but one of the animated Topiaries manages to rake the small of his back as he runs away!
<--- HIT
Lizzie tries to smash the bush in front of her, but her weapon just gets tangled up in the foliage...
Momijii feints high before twisting into a sidekick, which impacted powerfully causing the Topiary to shed handfuls of leaves. A thin piping sound emits from the bush!
Luxina's torch flares up greatly, as the unstable compounds react violently. She smashes the burning brand into the centre of the bush and a thin stream of dark smoke rises as it catches fire!
Heinrich moves to flank but Red Destiny gets lost in the foliage, and fails to hit anything vital.
The Topiary Luxina set on fire makes a thin piping wail before moving away from her and then it vanished in a shower of leaves! Likewise the one Momijii had been beating on moved away north east and vanished.
The remaining Topiary turns on Heinrich and a great root suddenly rips out of the ground to smack him painfully in the fruits, followed by another one pounding into his ribs as he was knocked back. It was only the warding spell he'd cast and luck that had prevented it from smashing his ribs...
<--- HIT
<--- CRIT?
<--- NO
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit <----- WE ARE HERE
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Spoiler:Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2948 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2947 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Filbert Springbit, Lizzie "beads" Tamar', Momijii, Luxina Tenebris and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are up.
Lizzie moves along the south into flank with Agrippa.
"It's between us now, maybe it'll go down faster."
As the limb rakes his back, Filbert feels the main part of the branch catch him across the base of his skull, blackness creeps in from the edges of his vision as he falls forwards in a clump of his own on the ground. "Oh what pretty birds...umph!"
With only one shrubbery left Momijii stepped forward and delivered a pair of strikes to it. Her confidence was much greater this time and she struck fast and hard. The first blow easily broke through any resistance the plantthing had against her strikes and the second connected with even greater ease.
Agrippa says OOF as the tree lands a blow and then another.
He decides to defend himself, and give the tree something to worry about so that the others can destroy it.
Luxina blows another set of chemicals on her torch and then advances towards the last topiary fighting Lizzie.
Poor Filbert sees tweetie-pie circling round his head and for a time all is dark. Lizzie however manages to smash her weapon right into the centre of the animated bush and is rewarded with the sound of wood snapping. Momijii lands a pair of lightning fast blows which cause leaves to rain down like confetti, rocking the bush back several steps. Luxina readies her torch, hoping to set the bush on fire. Pummeled and bruised, Heinrich focuses on dodging all blows.
The remaining hedge up north continues to focus on Heinrich, but the Investigator had anticipated this and contrived to block and dodge every blow.
<--- MISS
<--- MISS
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit Unconcious
Lizzie "beads" Tamar' <----- WE ARE HERE
Momijii
Spoiler:Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2948 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2947 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Lizzie "beads" Tamar', Momijii, Luxina Tenebris and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are up.
Agrippa continues taunting and defending himself from the shrubbery.
"Guys, not to distract too much from fighting, but i see a couple more over there in the bushes. Looks like they're -eating- the bushes."
Lying on the ground Filbert remembers happier?!? times here at the estate.
The smell of hay permeated every inch of the loft and the dust created by it threatened to cause the gnome to sneeze it seemed every other minute. And that would be no good as Filbert tortured the stable boys from his hidden perch. He constantly moved the items behind them, sometime subtly and others quite a bit.
He came here to practice, the horses scared him to death, even the pony's hooves were as big as his head, while the big draft horses, their hooves were near the full size of his chest. But that terror helped him to learn to focus his skills or was it just simply power, he wasn't sure. He was a jeweler after all not magic user, regardless of what Grip said.
Anyways he reached out with his power to grab the reins behind Joseph and move them to the other side of the walkway between the stables, depositing it on a hook quickly. Joseph turned around to grab the bridle and finding it missing, a look of consternation mixed with fear crosses his face. The stable boys had whispered among themselves that the barn was haunted.
Suddenly several multiple sharp pains made their way into Filbert's consciousness, and the gnome found himself flying from the loft to land in the stable floor face first. Turning he finds Momijii standing were he once was, pitchfork in hand. "One should always be aware of their surroundings when attacking the enemy, Master Springbit" she says solemnly......
Momijii hear Lizzie and said, "Stop them, I bet they're healing themselves or something!" That said Momijii unleashed another pair of blows on the plant before her. The strikes came in hard, fast, and accurate as she smashed at the plant thing with brutal force.
"Easy girl, steady now!" you call reaching down to pat the horses neck while maintaining pressure on the reins, turning towards the movement captured in the corner of his eye. "Now what in the name of Davy Jone's locker is going on here?" The hand he'd patted the horse neck straying back towards the sword he now carried. What's going on here…
Startled you turn to look, but there's nothing there! For a long moment you pause, your heavy backsabre a comforting weight in your hand. The moment passes and you curse yourself for being so twitchy, for jumping at shadows. The pair of you make your way to the fort and you sense the great relief of Black Perl as you hand her to the Ostler and things fade.
After an indeterminate length of time the dream repeats itself exactly like this and then the third time you see things from the perspective of Black Perl. You are tired, your coat lathered, your rider had been heavy with the crop. This wasn't normal, usually he was kinder than that but you could sense something was upsetting him. You were passing down the lane when you smelt something rotten like the sea. Something moved, it frightened you and you nearly threw your rider. Then it simply wasn't there and half an hour later you where in your stable and the ostler had a sugar cube.
Time passes, day turns into night and the other horses in the stable wicker softly. Suddenly you are alert, that smell again mixed with something else - blood! Visceral panic starts to take over. You have to warn the men - but how? You snort in frustration, that smell, bad things go with that smell! Despite whinning and rearing the smell won't go away and pawing at the door and neighing at the handlers wasn't working either, for some reason they wern’t answering! Turning around Black Pearl lines up with the door and let loose a tremendous kick with both hind feet, shaking dust down as the rafters rattled. A second kick resolved the issue of the door as the splinters covered the handler coming to see what the commotion was about. Rearing up and neighing loudly Black Pearl rushes out past the handler towards the offending smell. It takes several attempts, but your determined hooves burst the door open. You rush out to see what the commotion is, only to see half a dozen of your fellow horses butchered! Wild eyed you see the stallion Jet battling with a lumbering creature, a gray-green thing glistening with moisture that smells of the sea! It's wicked cleaver flashes out and Jet screams and falls down thrashing! The cleaver lashes out again, spittle dribbles the thing's fishlike maw. It glances at you and the torch light glinting of the accursed cleaver fills your equine heart with dread!
Ready to rush the creature battling his stablemate, Black Pearl stomps his front feet in preparation for his rush. Skidding to an abrupt stop as Jet is savagely brought down. The creature's attention sends a bone deep chill running down the horse back, flight finally winning out against fight. Eyes rolling he turns and runs out the other end of the barn, searching for his rider, but instead you spot a trio of strange swarthy muscle bound man-things dressed in rags with red warpaint and teeth filed down to points. They seem to be directing the other grey things that smell of the sea.
You experience a sudden wrenching sensation and your perspective abruptly changes. You see Black pearl screaming as it bolts, it's perused by numerous gray-green abominations. They slowly corner the proud horse, ignoring it's kicks and bites. The one with the cleaver butchers it and they drag it's twitching corpse to the stables. They callously pile it next to nearly a dozen other horses. The one with cleaver places it point first into the corpse of a stallion and laughs viciously as it departs. Something about that final act fills you with revulsion and things go dark as the dream fades as the sense of deja vu becomes overwhelming. Despite this somehow you are sure the dream wasn't quite the same as before...
Lizzie manages the strike the animated bush solidly once more, shattering wood and tearing a clump of foliage away. Thin and reedy, the bush shrieks!
Momijii however came in hard and fast and her blows shattered the bush, sending large lumps of it flying. The thing shrieks once more before falling silent. From the south a pair of mournful piping calls answer the death of the topiary.
Luxina Tenebris <----- WE ARE HERE
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit Unconcious
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Spoiler:Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2947 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2946 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are up.
Agrippa will move to Filbert and administer a flask of medicinal tonic
Get up Master Filbert, we still have need of your talent.
Luxina storms off after the blue topiary in the bushes with her now flaming torch.
"You come back here you son of a hedge."
Agrippa pours an infusion down poor Filbert's neck, some of the blunt trauma vanishes and he awakens spluttering.
With her torch leaving a trail of super bright sparks, Luxina sprints towards the nearest topiary and thrusts the unstable mixture into it's innards. A thin wail precedes a WHOOMPH as the bush spectacularly catches fire!
Burning strongly, the bush wails as it blunders towards Luxina who easily side steps it's feeble attack.
<--- MISS
<--- MISS
The other topiary starts gobbling up the hedge.
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit <----- WE ARE HERE
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Spoiler:Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2947 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2946 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Filbert Springbit, Lizzie "beads" Tamar', Momijii, Luxina Tenebris and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are up.
With the savage roar of a rampaging dragon Momijii charged after Luxina to help destroy the remaining plants. She focused her fury on the same target with a sold, shattering, blow of her clenched together fists.
Lizzie double moves south towards the shrubberies.
Agrippa moves south, watching the buildings for any movement.
Filbert picks himself up and realizing the bushes are out of range, he moves closer. Likewise Lizzie and Agrippa move south towards the shrubberies. Momijii however was closer and she smashed into the shrubbery, ripping it in twain!
Luxina gasps at the suddenness of it's demise while the last one lashes out at Momijii, she sidesteps one blow but the other smashes painfully into her ribs.
<--- HIT
<--- MISS
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit <----- WE ARE HERE
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Spoiler:Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2946 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2945 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Filbert Springbit, Lizzie "beads" Tamar', Momijii, Luxina Tenebris and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are up.
Filbert takes a step towards the hedge attacking Momijii and sends a blast winging it way.
Luxina blows another batch of chemicals on her torch, setting up again to singe the topiary the next time.
Lizzie moves along the north and alongside the house, to join Momiji in attacking the shrubbery.
Filbert sends a powerful blast which misses, causes the encircling hedge to shiver as it pass through shedding armfuls of thorns and leaves!
Lizzie's morningstar smashes right into the center of the bush and out through the other side in a shower of broken twigs and leaves. From within the bush the thin wail becomes increasingly shrill!
Luxina Tenebris Action posted
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii <----- WE ARE HERE
Spoiler:Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2946 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa False Life (2945 rounds)
Topiaries
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Momijii and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa are up.
Agrippa holds, waiting for the others to finish off the shrubbery