Seeing Diomedes fall, Bastien moves forward into melee range and attacks.
"Holy sh...." Diomedes chokes out as he falls to the ground, quite unconscious and with a large spike protruding from his chest.
Deranthil runs to try to stop the bleeding.
Jordy quickly rushes to dio's side hitting him with some healing magic.
The healing magic takes effect and stops the bleeding.
Seeing the potential damage from this threat Deranthil casts Snowball at it before drawing his crossbow.
Bastien missed and Derantil hit but the creature is not staggered.
It tries to sting Bastien with his tail.
Jordy will try to heal Dio some more.
Your go
Diomedes regains consciousness under the touch of Jordy's spell. He rises to his feet more than a little unsteady. "Wow, we may need to make a tactical retreat here. That creature really means business," he says wearily as he casts a further healing on himself.
Bolstered by his hit with Magic Deranthil tries his crossbow.
Feeling the sting penetrate deeply Bastien riposts.
You notice the stinger on it's tail is slowly regenerating. You get the feeling that it can use it's ranged attack very often and that using it actually weakens his melee attack until it fully regenerates.
Derantil missed and Bastien hit but didn't do much damage (dr 5 / ?? you need to guess lol)
It attack Bastien again.
Jordy begins his inspire courage song granting you all +1 to atk and dam.
Your go again.
Seeing Bastion take the creature head on, Diomedes moves in to help (flanking if possible).
Relan reloads and fires again.
Bastien feels the bang on his shield and attacks again.
With a notable crunch Diomedes finds his weapon very effective against the creature landing a solid blow and making a crack it's in crystal body.
Derantil fire and lands his shot right in the crack. The creature it badly injured and Bastien goes for the killing blow the creature avoids it and tries to sting him once more.
Jordy will hold back for now (delay action)
Your go again.
Deranthil reloads and launches another missile at the crystal arachnid.
Diomedes moves to flank the critter with Bastien, swinging his morningstar.
Bastien grunts as the stinger bashes the shield.
Bastien strikes a decisive blow and the creature shatters into pieces.
"Nicely done, Bastien. Might I suggest we head back to get some rest before we continue trying to clear this place out. I, for one, could use it," he says, pondering the large bloody hole in his tunic.
Bastien shrugs."Have we explored the area? Fully?`And we should check for any clues or valueables. "
"We have not, but I'm not sure if we'll survive without adequate healing capabilities. We can come back. It's right down the road from the colony."
Might as well look for valuables and useful items here. Perhaps some of the crystal from the body of this thing is even valuable?
Deranthil begins to look.
Derantil manages to find a number of loose valuable crystal and gathers them up (~500 gold worth)
For now you decide to return to the town and get some rest so you can come back tomorrow and finish the job. Tonight extra guards will be on duty to watch for chokers.
Let's assume you get the night to rest and the next morning you are gathering up. The captain Gathers you up and mentions that Jordy, Quelth and Vinnick have gone out on a scouting mission toghter.
A few others from the colonist (Jushoa and Gizmo) have volunteered to join in the mission to the choker tunnels.
"Good, we need all the help we can get," Diomedes says, rubbing his chest which is still sore from the previous days impalement.
"Sounds like you all have been having some... well, it sounds like it hasn't been easy. So I will do what I can to help."
Joshua approaches the group, "I'll be happy to do what I can to make things safer around here. If any of you are injured I'll do what I can to heal you."
Good to have you lot with us. There is this den of chokers we need to deal with today. So far we have just run into what we think were the juveniles and they were plenty tough.
Jordy grimaces. "Chokers and worse. Some kind of crystal creature was living among the minerals."
And I got a piece of it. Check it out. Deranthil proffers the crystal.
"It was a foul creature, but alas no match for our blades!"
the young fighter adds.
"Think it's worth anything? Doesn't seem like much to me."
Giving some thought to the situation, he then asks "If it turned away your blades, what are you planning to different this time around?"
I wanna help, but not looking to die today...
"Maybe some acid? Mind if I run a few tests?"
The crystal seems resistant to both fire and acid and while it turned away blades a bludgeoning weapon seemed effective.
Hey! These crystals are valuable. I bet I can get at least 500 gp for them, if you don't scar them up. Anyway, I'd wager we won't find another of these. Its a choker's den. This was, well just random. At least I think so.
"Ah, my mistake. But it does tell us, we need to be prepared for anything. I am not so sure what 500 gold will do for you out here, but here are your crystals back,"
Gizmo scratches his head. "So, should we go back and take another look at this place?"
"Damn right. They caught us a bit unaware the first time. Now we have an idea what to expect."
[b]"Do we get the coin together for a wand of cure light wounds?[/ooc]
We have these crystals. That is more than half the cost. Deranthil offers.
I have 23 gold to contribute as well. Wish I had more, but didn't really expect to need much gold here. Guess I should have known better."