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ROUND 2
Bofus makes his way, practically invisibly, right alongside the Luchia. As the camouflage fades, he gives Mister Red a big ol' wink, then hops up on the bed next to the Erinyes.
Hang in there, Fran! We have the dragon queen on our side!
Um, no, miss. That would be *my* sword, *in* your side. Like this, see? and Bofus buries his rapier to the crossguard in her kidney.
He stabs again, but his strikes aren't as effective--at least, until Red shifts over for the flank...
<--THREAT!!
<--if this hits, the next allied melee hit is a confirmed crit
Round 2
Hoping to end this faster, Tirion casts a spell and concentrates on his companions weapons.
Cast Badger's Ferocity.
--> Everyone's weapons now have the Keen ability. Not sure how many already have this, but everyone's weapons should not have double crit range.
Fight on all, may your weapons string these unearthly abominations true.
Round 2
• Tirion (hp: 34/36) casts Badger's Fetocity on his companions' weapons.
• Bofus (hp: 53/53) sneaks over around the four poster bed and then jumps up on the mattress and stabs Luchia twice. The hasty stroke goes astray.
• Erinyes.
(Frenchesca has taken 81 damage)
(Luchia has taken 14 damage)
• Red (hp: 49/94)
• Mirrin (hp: 87/87)
• Tomkin (hp: 72/74)
Round 2
"Holy Tiamat, What out of Nirvana is this foul creature?! These half men are popping up everywhere!" Luchia cries.
Frenchesca strikes at Tomkin.
Luchia drops her bow on the bed and pulls out a longsword from under her pillow. The hellish warrior wastes no time and strikes back at Bofus.
"You half men will not take down Tiamat's servants! I think it is time to see you dead."
Round 2
• Tirion (hp: 34/36) casts Badger's Ferocity on his companions' weapons.
• Bofus (hp: 53/53) sneaks over around the four poster bed and then jumps up on the mattress and stabs Luchia twice. The hasty stroke goes astray.
• Erinyes. The female warrior servants strike at the halflings but both miss the small beings.
(Frenchesca has taken 81 damage)
(Luchia has taken 14 damage)
• Red (hp: 49/94)
• Mirrin (hp: 87/87)
• Tomkin (hp: 72/74)
Tom and his dog move to the center of the room (Q25) and Tom unloads three strikes, at the one his weapon can reach effectively, the one threatening Bofus.
Round 2
• Tirion (hp: 34/36) casts Badger's Ferocity on his companions' weapons.
• Bofus (hp: 53/53) sneaks over around the four poster bed and then jumps up on the mattress and stabs Luchia twice. The hasty stroke goes astray.
• Erinyes. The female warrior servants strike at the halflings but both miss the small beings.
(Frenchesca has taken 100 damage)
(Luchia has taken 14 damage)
• Red (hp: 49/94)
• Mirrin (hp: 87/87)
• Tomkin (hp: 72/74) moves to the center of the room and rapidly strikes at Frenchesca. One of his swings strikes true and the winged warrior walls to the ground dead.
"Noooooo!" Shrieks Luchia who sees her companion fall to the ground.
"You vile fiends will pay for this! Mark my words!"
Red steps in to lock down the flank!
Attack
Damage
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Damage
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Add Damage
Attack
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Round 2
• Tirion (hp: 34/36) casts Badger's Ferocity on his companions' weapons.
• Bofus (hp: 53/53) sneaks over around the four poster bed and then jumps up on the mattress and stabs Luchia twice. The hasty stroke goes astray. Critical does not confirm.
• Erinyes. The female warrior servants strike at the halflings but both miss the small beings.
(Frenchesca has taken 100 damage)
(Luchia has taken 38 damage)
• Red (hp: 49/94) steps in to flank with Bofus. With a series of swift attacks he stabs at Luchia, hitting her twice (but not confirming the crit).
• Mirrin (hp: 87/87)
• Tomkin (hp: 72/74) moves to the center of the room and rapidly strikes at Frenchesca. One of his swings strikes true and the winged warrior walls to the ground dead.
Round 3
• Tirion (hp: 34/36)
• Bofus (hp: 53/53)
• Erinyes.
(Frenchesca is dead)
(Luchia has taken 38 damage)
• Red (hp: 49/94)
• Mirrin (hp: 87/87)
• Tomkin (hp: 72/74)
Round 3
Seeing the first devil fall, Tirion smiles as he continues to concentrating on his magic which makes all blades a little sharper, and a little better balanced so that they strike deeper and harder.
Standard: Concentrate on Badger's Ferocity
-->Everyone's slashing/piercing weapons have the Keen ability (does not stack with other crit increasing abilities)
Round 3
• Tirion (hp: 34/36) concentrates on Badger's Ferocity (making everyone's slashing/piercing weapons have the Keen ability).
• Bofus (hp: 53/53) thrusts his blade into the side of the Erinye devil Luchia wounding her great than expected for halfling's blade. (Crit Confirmed!)
• Erinyes.
(Frenchesca is dead)
(Luchia has taken 65 damage)
• Red (hp: 49/94)
• Mirrin (hp: 87/87)
• Tomkin (hp: 72/74)
Round 3
Luchia strikes back at Bofus is a series of two quick attacks.
"You are now my greatest enemy! May the halfling be smited down forever!"
Her second attack slices into Bofus.
Round 3
• Tirion (hp: 34/36) concentrates on Badger's Ferocity (making everyone's slashing/piercing weapons have the Keen ability).
• Bofus (hp: 35/53) thrusts his blade into the side of the Erinye devil Luchia wounding her great than expected for halfling's blade. (Crit Confirmed!)
• Erinyes attacks Bofus and lands a painful stab!
(Frenchesca is dead)
(Luchia has taken 65 damage)
• Red (hp: 49/94)
• Mirrin (hp: 87/87)
• Tomkin (hp: 72/74)
Tom shifts back to strike at range.
Mirrin doesn't bother to say anything he simply moves over and does the thing that Mirrin does.
Attack
Damage
Round 3
• Tirion (hp: 34/36) concentrates on Badger's Ferocity (making everyone's slashing/piercing weapons have the Keen ability).
• Bofus (hp: 35/53) thrusts his blade into the side of the Erinye devil Luchia wounding her great than expected for halfling's blade. (Crit Confirmed!)
• Erinyes attacks Bofus and lands a painful stab!
(Frenchesca is dead)
(Luchia has taken 65 damage)
• Mirrin (hp: 87/87) steps up and without a word swings at Luchia, but the angry devil ignores the swing.
• Tomkin (hp: 72/74) also tries to strike at Luchia with three swings, but alas all three strikes go astray as the winged outsider prepares to exact her revenge.
• Red (hp: 49/94)
Round 4
• Tirion (hp: 34/36)
• Bofus (hp: 35/53)
• Erinyes
(Frenchesca is dead)
(Luchia has taken 65 damage)
• Red (hp: 49/94)
• Mirrin (hp: 87/87)
• Tomkin (hp: 72/74)
Red just continues the attack "All over I'm afraid. I suppose it is not in your nature to abandon hate any more than it is in my nature to give up liberte!"
Haste/flank/PA
Attack
Damage
Attack
Damage
Convert?
Add Damage
Attack
Damage
Convert?
Add Damage
Red quickly stabs Luchia, the erinye devil, with two quick slashes and in return she glares at him with hatred in her eyes.
"All over I'm afraid. I suppose it is not in your nature to abandon hate any more than it is in my nature to give up liberte!"
"I am never going to give up on hating you! And when I meet Tiamat, I am going to tell her what you've done. Just wait . . . until she hears . . . about this!"
With her last dying words, she falls to the bed bleeding out.
"Tell her the revolution is coming"
Red cleans the blood off his blade.
"Those early blows stung, glad they weren't able to sustain their attack"
"Well, you've just killed the legendary Luchina and Franchesca. You are all very lucky to be alive! These two Erinyes were gifts to Azarr Kul from Tiamat herself. They have served him faithfully for his entire campaign. I have no doubt that he is going to be in a foul mood to hear that he lost such loyal and coveted servants."
Tom discusses his plans with Bofus.
"You just pop up with my dog and anchor a rope. He can pop down and pick me up. The bigger people will have to find their own way up, but an anchored rope should help."
Poppy gflies up to help them secure the rope.
Red climbs the rope
Bofus, the two tapestries on either end of the room weigh about 100 pounds each, but you estimate to be worth 800 gp each. The bejeweled water pipe weighs 50 lbs and is worth 1400 gp. During a search while examining the bed uncovers a set of five bone keys, each painted with a different color (blue, red, green, black, and white), hidden in the bed's lower mattress. Each of the erinyes wielded a +1 Longsword and a +1 Flaming Composite Longbow (Str +5).
Bofus takes a swig of a potion of CMW and uses the staff of life on Red.
• Tirion (hp: 34/36)
• Bofus (hp: 51/53)
• Red (hp: 94/94)
• Mirrin (hp: 87/87)
• Tomkin (hp: 72/74)
So, I'm still a little unclear on how this next part goes. Depending on how it unfolds it could trigger initiative. However, this is what I am gathering.
• Bofus blinks up the shaft to the nearest available space which at this time is unknown or unseen. He looks around for a place to attach his rope of climbing. If he does not find one, he will begin hammeriing pitons into the ground so he can attach the rope. Then Red climbs up the knotted rope. What do Tomkin, Tirion and Mirrin do in the meanwhile?
After drinking your potion of spider climb, you begin scaling the walls. The cylindrical shafts extends for one hundred feet when you emerge into a brightly lit chamber.
Five brilliant geysers of crackling energy light this large room. Each of these sprays of liquescent light plume from the upturned maws of five draconic heads, themselves emerging on long necks from the edge of a low platform in the center of the room. The light gathers in the domed ceiling above, pooling in an upside down lake of glowing energy that ripples like water and periodically drips long, stringy strands of thick light down on the ground below to flash and sizzle away instantly in a blast of acrid smoke. Strange ghostly shapes seem to writhe and dance in the light pool above - twisted, nightmarish fiends and grinning dragons with great glowing eyes.
The room itself is roughly oval. The walls, inscribed from top to bottom with a scalelike pattern, arch upward gently, almost giving the chamber the appearance of being inside a gigantic dragon egg. The pool of light shimmers fifty feet above, and only twenty feel below that a five foot wide balcony encircles most of the room's perimeter. Five oval alcoves are arranged in the room's walls at this level, and looming in each one is a magnificent stone statue of one of the five chromatic dragon kinds.
Azarr Kul stands in all his glory in the center of the room atop the central pedestal. The half dragon hobgoblin is nearly seven feet tall, his body covered with brilliant blue scales and a magnificent horn jutting from his brow. He sports a beardlike growth of scales on his chin, and his eyes and teeth shimmer and dance with electricity.
In the four balconies above, four blue scaled creatures that resemble gothic gargoyles glare down. They each stand a head taller than humans, with a draconic muzzle, leathery wings and powerful claws. They have a long prehensile tail tipped with a yellow bone sting crackling with electricity.
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If Bofus can (quietly) command his Rope to secure itself on a rock somewhere, he'll do so. If there is nothing to secure it, he'll use a hammer, muffled with a rag (which he had during the Competition so long ago!) to secure a piton or two and anchor the rope that way
Then he'll climb down, and make a full report on the room and its occupants So, how do we handle this?. The thief is bouncing on the balls of his feet in eager anticipation
The circular shaft has a short wall of stone that rings around the entrance. Hiding behind the back side of that wall, Bofus carefully and quietly hammers a piton into the floor. Due to the infernal wailing of the energy and spirits coalescing into the portal above, the High Wyrmlord and his gargoyle shaped blue dragon devils up in the balcony do not appear to notice you. Your first task is accomplished: piton secure. You are able to descend and report out to your companions.
"I think we need l the help we can get. Potion time."
Tom drinks the potent shield of faith potion.
He prepares to pop up high on his dog.
Mirrin casts Lead Blades and Protection from Energy (Electricity). He also has his animal companion's figurine in hand.
When everyone is ready, Tirion will cast Haste using the Rod of Extend - for 18 rounds