Caln and Arwen, inside the pit you are greeted by visions of your own failure - the reason you now have the shaken condition. You see the temples of your goddess cast down, your friends scattered and broken, as a result of your failures. You know mentally, somewhere, that this is the result of a spell cast on you, but the emotion drags you down regardless.
Up top, Arthur and company struggle and strain to lift the two men out of the pit.
I can't, i can't i just Can't let myself get dragged down like
Caln ! I am going to climb those 15 ft and push you toward the top. you can use me as a stepping stone
"Think ye selfs thinner!" Suny yells to encourage people to use the reality to their advanrage.
Caln barely hangs onto the rope as his very beliefs are under attack. Hanging there limply he's roused to motion by Arwen pushing him and he slowly begins to pull himself up the rope.
Slowly, carefully, Caln and Arwen struggle up the lip of the pit, finally managing to escape...barely. Only by working together do they escape...when Caln's fingerhold slips and he slides a foot or so down the rope, it is Arwen that steadies his grip and helps him climb all the way up.
All of you can detect movement, just outside of clear vision radius in the fog. Indistinct shapes that disappear and reappear elsewhere.
Slapping Caln on the shoulder Great Teamwork, Thank you every one He grins a big Grin So there is physical strength in these arms in you Arthur. Haha from someone sitting all day in a walking Chair. Hahaha Great Gods Arthur!
He seems positively happy even though that great drops has shaken him
Alright lets move forward.
Suny gives Caln and Arwen a reassuring hug after their ordeal. (^_^)
"Okeys...whut's next?" She whispers, mindful of the shapes looming in the mists.
Arthur is on his back, breathing heavily.
"*huff*Never*huff*Again*huff*Ever...."
oozula flies out of the rope.
"First, i don't advise we touch the during any longer."
What is next is that we keep exploring this place Suny. he says.
Arwen stands at the lip of the pit as he addresses the elf, Oozula floating alongside in ethereal form. Arthur feels exhausted but rejuvenated from being the hero of the moment.
As you look around you, a chorus of hissing from all around you erupts. It's loud, aggressive, and chilling...like being in the middle of a nest of angry vipers. However, no shapes can be seen.
Suddenly, a shape erupts out of the fog! It flies through the gathered party, slashing at Oozula and darting back into the enclosing fog before any of you can react. Luckily, with a surprised yell, Oozula is able to dart out of its path.
Arwen will ready an attack at any shape that are attacking the party.
(>_<)
Suny scrunches her eyes shut and thinks 'happy' thoughts rilly, rilly hard, like!
oozula readies and action to cast Glitterdust on whatever attempts to attack anything in the party. (On the square behind it, so it doesn't hit a party member)
Suny becomes more ghostlike as she ascends a few inches in the air to join Oozula. She is suddenly slashed at by the fog! Only her catlike elven reflexes allow her to throw her head back like she's doing the limbo to avoid the strike. Arwen lunges with his longsword and Oozula makes for her spell, but whatever it was that is attacking them is in the fog and out of sight again in a breaths' span.
"We should just leave. It obvious we shouldn't be here... It makes attempts to trap us on the ground, and attacks us in the sky."
Initiative?
Arthur fumbles for the knob around his neck, activating his Shield as he stands up.
There's a click and a green forcefield surrounds him in a sphere.
No initiative.
Oozula will save:
Oozula, you see an opening in the fog, letting you see a gray stone wall with a door in it about 10 feet away. As she exclaims and points it out to her comrades, the path is revealed to them as well - roll a DC20 Will save. Suddenly, she and Suny are attacked again! The kobold is able to take a rolling dodge to the left to avoid it, but Suny is caught from behind, and a frighteningly cold lash of pain streaks up her spine!
"If this place keeps trying to kill us, why take directions from it though?"
oozula draws and lights a tar bomb.
"Ooo! You're so gon'a get it!"
"Okeys...next round we's try somat different!"
Suny ducks and dodges, throwing a few kicks and punches here and there, but she hits nothing but air.
The hissing sounds intensify...and the ceiling makes a sound that chills your blood. A grinding noise of stone on stone heralds the descent of the ceiling. Every second it gets slowly lower.
"Every one think floaty!" Suny calls as the sound of the ceiling begins, even as she continues to keep looking for the other flying attacker.
Caln shakes off the effects of the place and then makes his way to the door. Jaxx, any traps on the door?
Door? You see a door? Bugger!. Jaxx checks.
No traps! Go, go, go!!!
oozula sighs, and follows after them.
Arthur was already running towards the door, not trying his luck any more.
If he is met by any resistance from the door, he takes no hesitation in blasting the knob/lock area.
"This place tries to kill us at every turn, and then a door suddenly appears? Why should we trust it?"
"Would you rather stay here?!"
"Well, perhaps we can do what we came here,to do, then die, instead of just walking through an obvious trap to our deaths.
Door? You see a door? Bugger!. Jaxx checks.
No traps! Go, go, go!!!
[Dice=Perception, traps]1d20+8
And through the door Caln goes.
arwen tied to the safe rope as caln and jaxx quickly follow
Caln opens the door. As soon as the door is pulled wide the doorknob fades into mist in his hand. Laughter sounds all around the deputies as the door fades away into nothingness.
All around you, the mist begins to swirl. Whirling around you like a top, the door begins to spin as well, in an opposite direction. As the world around you spins, the mist begins to coalesce, forming a pack of wolflike shapes that snarl and slaver.
Roll a DC 15 Will save and an Initiative roll. If you fail your Will save, you automatically go last.
Surprise round:
Arwen, Oozula, Arthur, Jaxx and Caln, roll DC 14 Reflex to not be tripped.
(that's three rolls total - Will save, Initiative, Reflex save)
Will
Reflex
....
Oozula is tripped up by the sudden appearance of the wolves, and unable to properly react.
Will
Initiative
Reflex
While caught off guard by the door, Arthur manages to keep his footing as the apparition moves through him.
"Dammit! I hate it when I'm wrong!"
And Suny's reaction is "Doggy!" As she tries to hug the critter in return,
(^_^)
And Suny's reaction is "Doggy!" (^_^)
Caln, your faith steels your nerves and your will, and you stand - well, you got tripped, so you lay prone - alone among the whirling misty maelstrom in which your comrades are stricken. The wolves surround you, snarling. Though they are as ethereal as Oozula and Suny, their bites hurt just as badly as real wolves...as the injuries your party has sustained prove. The will of Pharasma fills your blood and bones with a divine elation - you feel Her presence as Her champion as you stand among your enemies.
Initiative:
Caln
Wolves
Deputies
Battlemap updated.
From his prone position, Caln pulls a wand and with a quick flick of his wrist Casts Summon Monster II (specifically a giant spider hoping that will prove a more desirable target for the wolves). The spider should appear in the midst of the biggest clump of wolves.
Arthur discharges his gun at the nearest wolf and 5ft steps towards the right.
Fire damage
Sonic damage
Arthur's gun discharges with a loud BANG! Though the wolf manages to avoid the worst of the flames, the fog whirls and whips all around you in reaction to the sound and the wolves howl in answer. The wolf that was nearest to the muzzle blast shakes his head, growling, but dazed.
*GLOMP*
"DOGGY!" (^_^)
Are you grappling the wolf Suny?