Kenji steps to the side, taking another pair of swings at his opponent.
Lyraesel steps forward, pressing her attack, unable to penetrate the man's defenses.
Vivnick glowers at the creepy red nosed man as he avoided her last attack and she slashes at him again.
Shalelu fires again...
...missing once, and with her arrow bouncing off the spinning weapon the second time.
The red-nosed man steps back (5') and shouts, "You're ruining EVERYTHING! This isn't how my play was supposed to go!" Then he vanishes!
Kenji smacks the wasp around a bit, but it keeps trying to sting him.
Dimension door. He went somewhere
Morgrym moves over to get a line on the wasp
Morgrym moves to support the team against the wasp and swats it with his axe, ending it.
Shalelu growls in frustration as she collects what arrows she can salvage. "No doubt he is off somewhere planning how out next encounter will play out," she says angrily.
Spivey says, "No, this is good! You all defeated several of his minions and you drove him off! If we can catch him before he can get help, or if we can find him alone after we get some rest, we can finish him!"
"And we finish him." Lyraesel growls. Catching a hold of herself, she take as a few deep breaths, closing her eyes as she visibly calms herself, the more feral cast to her features softening, her fangs reverting to normal.
Bernard reappears with a sigh, disappointed that he can't drop an arrow from invisibility, and then he gathers his arrows and follows along with the group.
"Everyone okay? Anyone need healing?" Kenji does a quick check of the party. "Lyraesel, Shalelu, any idea where he went?"
Shalelu shakes her head ruefully. "No tracks. He is either flying or he teleported away somehow."
He dimension doored away. He could be anywhere. Just not sure where.
Haskyll lets the blessing run out. On his axe as he looks at the others.
But i need a rest before we go hunting him
If you say so, Morgrym. We have to determine if we're in a better or worse position than he is if we fight again today, he may be in worse shape than we are. He did run away.
"No way to tell," says Shalelu, "Since we don't know what he was. Seemed to heal very, very fast from conventional strikes, except your acid-etched axe, Morgrym. Good chance that by the time we find him, he will have recovered from almost everything. We should be ready to hit him with everything we've got at once, next time we fight him."
Spivey says, "Well, if we can sneak back out of the castle before he alerts any more of his allies, we can rest at the old shrine of Desna. The corbies don't come there any more, and after you wiped out this latest batch they probably won't want to leave the castle at all!"
"We need to press on a little further. Morgrym, you just need a breather?" Kenji asks. "We see that guy again, I'll get on him with my flames and see if that helps lock down his healing."
Kenji will move to the east end of the great hall where the man was originally directing the corbies. He'll look for doors in this side of the room.
"It's random where he is and meanwhile we could be facing other corbies, chipping away at us while he heals. We stay here too much longer, we fight on his terms. He attacks when we are weakest." Lyraesel adds.
He ran. That means he's weak, no?
"A canny hunter lures prey to his strong point. We encountered him when he was unprepared and barely harmed him. Next time he will be ready."
I agree with Lyrasel. We should not try to fight him on his terms. We have to try and figure out how to fight him on ours.
Morgrym cleans off his axe and looks at the others.
Besides, there is no sense in us killing ourselves trying to find him while he prepares for us.
Kenji checks the door on the northeast side and notes that it opens into the fetid garden and lake that you saw earlier.
Kenji closes the door and grimaces. "Something tells me he's not exactly sane." he says. "Didn't you hear him? Weird."
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"He is certainly not human," says Shalelu wryly.
"Absolutely, he healed from practically all regular damage. He probably already fully recovered from the fight." Lyreasel agrees.
Vivnick frowns, looking around, "Let us continue then. He has to be around here somewhere. I'd rather end this before we rest tonight, but I could use a touch of healing."
"There's only two areas we haven't been to on this level yet. Do we want to go for the front or back first?" Lyraesel asks.
"front." Kenji votes.
Alright, lets go.
Morgrym ambles off in the direction indicated, expecting the others to follow along.
Heading toward the front, you find a small passage with doors on either side. The left side is a latrine, but to the right Lyraesel recognizes the strong scent of those towering humanoids that you previously fought in the courtyard - the ones you caught wrestling.
"There's either more of those ogre-things in here, or this is a place they spent a lot of time. Be ready for something nasty."Lyraesel says approaching the right door.
Lyraesel can hear some kind of grunting and shuffling noise from beyond the door - somebody's home. Nothing like the voice of the weird little red-nosed man, though.
Kenji will stretch, and get ready for the encounter.
Bernard lights an incendiary arrow and waits for Morgrym and Viv to open the door.
Lyreasel chants softly in druidic, a glow enveloping her body momentarily as her muscles become more sharply defined.
Morgrym calls upon Torag to imbue his Urgosh with acid.
With preparation done, you smash open the door.
Four stone pillars support the roof of this large hall. What appear to have once been wooden cages lie in shambles throughout the room. A heap of rags and furs in the middle of the room seems to be some sort of makeshift bed, while a large heap of partially eaten birds, squirrels, and wild turnips mounded nearby reeks with the stink of compost.
A tall, lanky humanoid occupies the room, sitting on the furs and gnawing on some kind of rib. As you smash open the door she grunts, then shrieks, and continues shrieking as she prepares to stand and face you. She has a pungent, meaty odor, milky white eyes, knotted misshapen muscle, and her legs are digitigrade, like a dog's. She wears a spiked gauntlet over one overlarge hand.
Bernard moves into the room and launches his incendiary arrow and a permanent one.
The huge woman(?) shrieks in anger as Bernard sinks a flaming arrow into her, and snatches up a flail and stands.
Kenji moves within 15 feet of her, dropping into a low leg sweep that sprays fire up like a wave of water.
Lyreasel dashes into the room, moving fluidly around Kenji to bring her dagger slashing deep at one of the foul giantess' legs.
Viv moves cautiously into a position where she can strike, though this takes up several seconds.
The creature catches a blast of fire in the face as she stands, then takes a gash across one of her oddly-shaped legs. She lets out a low growl and swings her flail over her head, then screams, "Tasty ears!" as she brings it around at Lyraesel. Then she swings a backhand with her spiked gauntlet to add insult to injury!
The flail forces Lyraesel to jump out of the way, nearly smashing her head in, but at least she avoids the gauntlet.
Shalelu moves into the room and takes a snap shot, firing past Viv.
Her arrow whizzes past the melee.