Gizmo finishes packing his gear, and motions for the others to lead the way back to this cavern.
After the resting, Bastien leads the group back to the caves!
You pack up and head out to the mines that serve as a chocker nest. You enter and come back to the room were you fought the crystal scorpion.
"I'm guarding our backs this time," Diomedes says, rubbing the spot on his chest where the creature had impaled him before. He nods to the better armored Bastien. "You're welcome to go first."
I'll scout. Deranthil offers. He conjurs dancing lights and keeps them well ahead of the groups location as me moves quietly forward.
Gizmo pats Diomedes on the back. "Be careful, friend."
Joshua looks around and says "Cave systems are much different those I'm used to, but no less a natural system." He studies the room looking for things that don't belong in the cave.
Jordy holds his crossbow at the ready, wary for another rush of chokers. "The little ones came at us on the ground, but watch high. Chokers are known for hiding in niches in the walls."
In the next cavern josha and Jordy notice some creature moving along the ceiling. They aren't chokers but rather black squid like creatures.
Joshua points to the ceiling "Look out! There is something up there!" He then prepares to use his sling.
Deranthil, as a free action darts his dancing lights up to the ceiling as he brings his crossbow to bear. 4 globes of light spread out 10' feet from each other move up to 100' feet to illumine the creatures. Unless they look quite friendly or harmless he fires before backing up.
Jordy snaps his crossbow up to aim at the closest of the creatures but holds his shot for the moment.
"What in the world are those? Land squids? Spiders?"
Gizmo stands ready to see what unfolds.
"Ugly beasts, but they bleed. And what bleeds can be killed!"
Bastien chirps in.
Jordy recognise the creatures as darkmantles cave dwelling scavengers that like to ambush prey by dropping on them from above. He doesn't know any other details about them.
I'm assuming you continue to attack them? If so Jordy will attack and hit one of them.
one of them uses his darkness spell like ability on a peddle and tosses it down while the rest will try to move directly above the group.
Would be your go now. After they will drop down.
Diomedes casts a light spell on his morningstar to counter the darkness.
The darkness is a 20 feet radius you can move out of the area. Any spell that produces light which is a lower level than the spell darkness (2) has no effect in the darkness.
Joshua backs out of the darkness and readies his sling for when he sees one of the creatures. He looks to Albert and tells him to guard.
Jordy backs out of the magical darkness. "Watch out, they're moving right over us!" He starts to slap another bolt into his crossbow, intending to shoot again.
"Well, rats," Diomedes sighs. With his weapon at the ready, he begins to slowly back out of the darkness.
Gizmo also backs out. "Magical darkness? That must favor these creatures over us."
He backs up , but doesn't bother to fire his crossbow in the dark.
You move out of the darkness as the darkmantles move into position above you and drop down trying to grab on to you with their tentacles.
+ grab
+ grab
+ grab
+ grab
Your go
Diomedes body seems to flow away from the creature's attack. As the darkmantle sweeps by, he swings his spiked mace at the thing.
Bastian moves forward and attacks the closest darmantle.
Hit but not grapped Deranthil steps back and fires at his attacker.
Seeing the beasts out of the darkness, Joshua fires at the one on Deranthil.
Bastien drops one darmantle and derantil and joshua drop another.
Gizmo and Jordy are up
Gizmo, reeling from the attack, let's his instincts take over and chucks a bomb up at the creature, making sure to exclude his friends from the blast.
Jordy drops his crossbow and pulls out his new longsword, the magical weapon's glow tinting the torchlight an unnatural green. He stabs at the creature that had tried to grab him.
Gizmo drops another darmantle and jordy misses the last one.
The last remaining one moves into the area of darkness attempting to hide. (provokes and attack for jordy)
The rest of you can post as well if you want to run in after it to finish it off.
"It's on the run!"
Gizmo aims hi crossbow at the darkness, and waits to follow the others in.
I'm useless in there. I'll try and block any escape.
Joshua circles around opposite of Gizmo his sling at the ready to attack.
Diomedes heads to the edge of the darkness and starts swinging wildly with his morningstar.
"Come on outta there, dammit."
The creature reaches out to grab Dio from inside the darkness
[dice=grapple if hit]1d20+5/dice]
While it's in the edge of the darkness you can see it but attacks against it have a 50% miss chance if you don't have darkvision.
Deranthin reloads his crossbow and readies a shot. When then creature shows itself he fires.
"Bastien, perhaps you could do better here."
Bastien darts in and thrusts his blade towards the enemy.
As the thing appears even slightly, Gizmo takes the shot.
You manage to drop the remaining darkmantle and the darkness fades away.
Looking around at the now fallen enemys Bastien wipes the gore off his blade. "Let us check the cave for other monthers and then return!"
Perhaps these creatures has some treasure? At least let me recover my bolts. Deranthil says as he searches the ares, looking up as much as on the ground.