The normal jovial Jax is visibly not happy when he gains the brute's attention and is struck twice. He focuses his attention on defense. Total Defense and switching Judgement to Healing. At 6/26 HP.
Now that she has more movement to angle her spell so as to speak, Kala concentrates and wills color out of her hands!
A gushing spray of warbling colors fly out of hands to engulf the creature!
Casts color spray. Will hit Frost and the Sahuagin.
Will Save VS DC 14
Color Spray:
A vivid cone of clashing colors springs forth from your hand, causing creatures to become stunned, perhaps also blinded, and possibly knocking them unconscious. Each creature within the cone is affected according to its HD.
2 HD or less: The creature is unconscious, blinded, and stunned for 2d4 rounds, then blinded and stunned for 1d4 rounds, and then stunned for 1 round. (Only living creatures are knocked unconscious.)
3 or 4 HD: The creature is blinded and stunned for 1d4 rounds, then stunned for 1 round.
5 or more HD: The creature is stunned for 1 round.
Sightless creatures are not affected by color spray.
Molos’ bolts of force puncture the sahuagin’s scaly hide! Seijiro misses his target, as Jax shields and heals himself. The sorceress attempts to disable the foe with a Kala spray (see what I did there?), but the brute shrugs it off!
Oddler swings his mace again at the last sahuagin standing! The sahuagin continues to take the fight to Jax, attacking with his harpoon and mouthful of shark-like teeth!
The sahuagin is unmoved by Seijiro's words, and unharmed by the attempted poke. Molos' ice missile, however, elicits a grunt of pain as it stabs into the brute's shoulder! The sahuagin's teeth clench in rage, but it is clearly badly hurt!
Kala swims closer and thwacks the sahuagin with her staff, but the water makes her blow much less effective. Bludgeoning weapons do half damage underwater.
The sahuagin, surrounded and suffering many injuries, fights on! Finding Jax a difficult target, he turns on the one who just thwacked him, stabbing and biting at Kala!
Actually I think the second attack missed.
Shield +4
Mage Armor +4
AC 22?
Frankly all those hits hurt!
Which also means Kala is unfortunately still up at 2hp.
I healed on the round I got attacked to get rid of bleed.
Kala - thanks for the reminder on the AC, and for updating it in your stat line. I got myself a bit mixed up on the attacks, and have updated my post. Kala is at 2 hp, as you say, and Seijiro was not attacked and can have those hp back.
Seijiro continues to struggle to connect his blade with the fish-man's skin!
Man that thing hits hard!
Fort Save vs DC 14
on save half of 1d6 ⇒ 1
2 of the party down adn it doesn' look good for us.
Ear Piercing Scream:
You unleash a powerful scream, inaudible to all but a single target. The target is dazed for 1 round and takes 1d6 points of sonic damage per two caster levels (maximum 5d6). A successful save negates the daze effect and halves the damage.
Badly hurt, Kala steps back and unleashes scream at extremely high frequency targetting the Sahuagin!
Kala - I don't mean to be difficult, but without a swim speed, you can't take a 5-foot step. Do you have a swim speed at the moment? If you don't, you can choose to do something other than cast the spell, or to cast defensively, or make a check to avoid an AoO when you move away - that would normally be an acrobatics check, but I think a Swim check would be more appropriate in this case. On top of all that, you're not standing on anything, as the blue on the map represents open water - so you need to make a Swim check to not be off-balance, per the underwater combat rules. Sorry to heap it on, but underwater combat can be rough.
I'll make a Fort save, just in case:
Fort:1d20 ⇒ 20Hmm. Something is happening with my dice in this game, and the opposite seems to be happening with the players' dice.
Is it still in melee, or has it knocked down everyone melee'ing with it? I'm going to post as if it is still in melee, but if not, please add +4 to my roll.
Molos uses another point from his arcane reservoir to throw an ice missile at the sea creature.
Still in melee, but you hit anyway! And since Molos acts before Kala in initiative, my questions about her spell and movement are moot - and she can keep the spell.
Molos' little spear of ice strikes the sahuagin in a soft spot under his chin! He goes limp and drifts to the bottom, his blood swirling in the water above him like a wisp of smoke in a breeze.
Combat over, and none too soon! I was afraid at several points that I was going to kill one of you.
Oddler disrupts her own spell as the brute goes down and begins searching them for any clues as to their employer or design - Clearly theyre still planning something if they were here to recieve a mission - something stinks
I was pretty sure you'll have killed us. Damm it that was rough!
I have a wand of Infernal Healing (31 charges), though i can use a wand of Cure Light Wounds.
I use two charges on myself.
Anyone else needs it just holler.
Kala heaves a sigh of relief as that beautifully casted spear ends their foe. Taking out a wand and notcing how much more battered it looks like, begins to use it.
I assume you all will heal up in various ways, just include that info in your next post as we move along.
Seijiro makes certain that the fierce sahuagin warrior is not just mostly dead, as Oddler searches the bodies. Along with their combat gear, the defeated sahuagin have maps marking various places around Vialesk’s Glass Pit, the city’s massive central forge. In addition, they carry a number of hollow metal bars which, when bumped against each other in the search, make a clanging sound.
Gear found: +1 elf bane bolts (6), +2 human bane bolts (5), potion of cure light wounds, potion of cure moderate wounds (2), potion of air breathing (2), cloak of resistance +1, feather token (anchor) and a masterwork harpoon covered in the blood of several party members.
Okay, you've got some clangy metal bars, a map with locations marked around the Glass Pit, and still one person to visit on the list originally provided to you. Where will your investigation take you next? For reference sake, you have been at this for 8 hours since you arrived in Vialesk, and the trip back to the city will take you an hour.
Once everyone is patched up – and Seijiro has checked a couple more times to be sure the sahuagin brute is really, really dead – the party makes their way to the workshop of Yuka Kannamen, the selkie engineer and alchemist who provided the submersibles for Zahra’s troubled mission. Yuka, a handsome dark-skinned man, greets the party on arrival. He wears goggles, gloves, and a thick eelskin jacket lined with many pockets. ”Hello, hello, how can I help you?” he asks with a charming smile.
New map is up, but not because I’m expecting a fight. I just like the map.
”It is a fine day, my friend, a fine day indeed,” Yuka replies to Frost. ”Interested in submersibles are you? I’ve got some fine machines, please, come take a look.” Laying a hand on the side of one machine, stroking it along one of the steering fins, he says, ”I’ve got some nice ones available to rent, if you have the need. I could let you rent one for 50 gold.” Moving to another machine, he continues, "Zahra recommended me, did she? That's nice to hear, after what happened on her expedition."
Knowledge (engineering), DC 16:
You can tell that all the submersibles here are indeed in good working order and there is nothing suspicious about them.
Pal 9, HP92 - AC 24, T 12, FF 23/ F +14, R +10, W +12 (+2vEvil)/ CMD 26, CMB +13/ Per +15(Dk Vis), Init +5, Move 20ft
Ragnar:
Celestial Horse, HP76 - AC 25, T 12, FF 22/ F +10, R +9, W +6/ CMD 26, CMB +13/ Per +5(Dk Vis), Init +2, Move 50ft
"Seems a fair price for benefits they offer" the Paladin remarks whilst staring at the marvellous contraptions "The expedition didn't go so well, but she didn't say the submersibles were at fault - what did you hear?"
Seijiro seems fascinated with the submersibles... and examines each one in detail... "THese are so ... so... oh my, I don't even know how to describe them... rent one??? Oh yes, I'd like that a LOT... " But when Frost speaks up, he's reminded of their mission and adds "Perhaps later.. I'll come back... I'd LOVE to ride in one!"
