Castiel whirls about, slashing through the air with his sword, trying to knock the stirge that just whizzed by his head out of the sky, while defending himself against further attacks.
But his swing is wild, easily missing the fast moving blood-sucker.
"Oh for the luv of Osiris! As if the rats weren't bad enough!" Edwin cries as he is dive-bombed by the bat-winged stirges.
"Hah! Missed!" Edwin cries as the first one narrowly misses hitting him and flaps back upwards for another try.
"That will teach you, you magically-mutated-mosquito! Next time try, OW! Oh, oh dear. I don't feel so good. Apparently these things are as dangerous as I've heard,..." Edwin complains as he sags briefly under the blood-draining assault of the second one, who managed to latch on and is happily enjoying his Creme' D'La Detective,...
He takes a breath, makes an angry face, and holding his bow in his left hand, yanks his belt knife with his right and jabs at the pesky parasite,...
Edwin connects; it spatters blood like a gory pinata all over the place, but it still fights on....
q: did you hit the one that's drinking your aqua vitae, or the other one?.....
I guess it would've helped to place the king rat.....e 11.
Myron stabs it hard, this rat the size of a brood sow; it looks hard pressed and sprays filthy rat blood all over it's wounded comrade.
Copious blood spills around its chittering incisors, but it fights on....
Goin to see Conan.........
Rholf stabs his bloody blade out toward one of the stirges .
Attack:
Damage:
With a small shriek, Larissa feels the creature lands on her back. The sensation of the creature's sucking her blood is almost enough to make her knees weak but after a moment she regains her composure and focuses all her attention on the bloodsucker.
Alinya looks round as the stirges swoop, the rats scamper, and the battle lines dissolve into chaos. In response she unclasps her symbol from around her neck and, head bowed, begs Pharasma's blessing for her friends.
Rholf stabs his bloody blade out toward one of the stirges .
Attack: 1d20+2
Damage: 1d6+1
It was pretty damn sweet.
Rholf connects; it's bloody as all get out, but it's still flapping about......
With a small shriek, Larissa feels the creature lands on her back. The sensation of the creature's sucking her blood is almost enough to make her knees weak but after a moment she regains her composure and focuses all her attention on the bloodsucker.
You can attack it with your claws. I don't feel that it's the same as a Gracie brother choking you out with Brazilian Judo....
Alinya looks round as the stirges swoop, the rats scamper, and the battle lines dissolve into chaos. In response she unclasps her symbol from around her neck and, head bowed, begs Pharasma's blessing for her friends.
Right on.....the world for a while feels just a little less bleak.
Nigel; Wod up to bat.
You can attack it with your claws. I don't feel that it's the same as a Gracie brother choking you out with Brazilian Judo....With a small shriek, Larissa feels the creature lands on her back. The sensation of the creature's sucking her blood is almost enough to make her knees weak but after a moment she regains her composure and focuses all her attention on the bloodsucker.
Aww, man.....it's on her back, and she can't seem to reach it.....apparently the thing knows instinctively just where to land to avoid a human(oid)'s reaching grasp.....
Wod; Nigel up.
1d20+6
1d12+7
Wod's mighty blow overkills the rat majorly; it looks like a hairy gory pancake now.
Nigel's up.....
Nigel; Wod up to bat.
Nigel waves his arms theatrically
"Acere respergo!"
An arc of sour-smelling green liquid springs from his bony hands
Ranged touch:
Azulzu sees the large brood rat and decides to attack that one next
Fideulus the Heavenly Pitbull, switches to the next rat near him
CMB:
Nigel splashes the stirge; it's wounded now.
Azulzu finishes the king rat, and the pitbull misses his mark.
their turn;
Edwin, Wod, and Larissa take 1 more Con damage from the stirges on them.
Edwin is hit by the other stirge; 1 more Con damage for him.
Nigel is missed by his stirge, and Alinya is hit by hers; 1 con damage for her.
Rholf is missed by both stirges attacking him.
Azulzu gets critted by one rat; 6 h.p. damage, and hit by another rat for 2 h.p. damage.
Wod gets missed by another rat......
and Larissa is hit by a rat; 3 h.p. and a fort save....
Group's attack.
Castiel once again stabs at the stirge flying around near him, buoyed by Alinya’s blessing.
"IOMEDAE!" Castiel cries as the stirge is splattered across the landscape.
Rholf quickly steps out of a decidedly disadvantageous spot on the battlefield , and slashes once again at the stirge he just managed to hit seconds ago.
Attack (with bless):
Damage:
"Blasted thing." he manages through clenched teeth as the stirge flits easily out of the way of his strike.
Castiel once again stabs at the stirge flying around near him, buoyed by Alinya’s blessing.
"IOMEDAE!" Castiel cries as the stirge is splattered across the landscape.
He cleaves it neatly in twain with a perfect slice.
It was the one sucking the blood of Wod,......and he made it suck no more of the halforc's fluid.
Rholf quickly steps out of a decidedly disadvantageous spot on the battlefield , and slashes once again at the stirge he just managed to hit seconds ago.
Attack (with bless): 1d20+3
Damage: 1d6+1"Blasted thing." he manages through clenched teeth as the stirge flits easily out of the way of his strike.
Aye, they're tricky, these stirges.......
Myron, Alinya, Larissa, Wod, Edwin, and Nigel left.
"Oh, these things are just horrid!"
Alinya takes a small step backwards from the stirge that attacked her to get room for a crossbow shot.
She pops the stirge, and it careens into Wod before it flops to the ground dead.
Under attack by the bloodthirsty little parasite, and feeling just a little weak from the sudden blood loss, the normally nimble detective stumbles, becoming easy prey for the second stirge looking to make his acquaintance.
"Ow! Oh this is bad. Definitely bad!" The skinny detective curses as he jabs again at the creatures making a soup d'jour of his vital fluids.
But the little buggers have crawled onto his back, and he looks like a scarecrow flapping around trying to get at them.
He starts feeling woozy; his aim is off, and he swats ineffectively at the thing parasitizing him. It's abdomen is the size of a grapefruit, and purple like a plum.
"Yes!" Alinya exults, "I told mother crossbow practice was more important than needlework!"
"Edwin! Do something - there are two of them on you!" she calls to the detective in a tone of mild concern, as though he has perhaps failed to notice some regular mosquito that has landed on him.
Heh heh.....
Larissa is already looking a little pale . "Rhol.. Father Kastigarr! I can't reach the one on my back! Can you strike it?"
Fort save from the rat bite
She claws at the ones hovering around overhead, trusting in someone else helping her with the one on her back.
Myron finishes one more of the rodents.....
Larissa is already looking a little pale . "Rhol.. Father Kastigarr! I can't reach the one on my back! Can you strike it?"
Fort save from the rat bite 1d20 + 1
She claws at the ones hovering around overhead, trusting in someone else helping her with the one on her back.
1d20 + 3
1d4 + 21d20 + 3
1d4 + 2
She swats it out of the air and it's dead now...
Wod; Nigel left to attack.
Nigel waves his arms theatrically again
"Acere respergo!"
More acid sprays from his outstretched hands
Ranged touch
Azulzu looks for a target
Fideulus the Heavenly Pitbull looks for a likely target
CMB:
Nigel finishes his foe stirge;
Azulzu picks up two rats and smashes them together repeatedly, to their doom.....
and Larissa has a bit of a fright when the pitbull runs over, jumps on her back,....and pulls the stirge off of her, shaking it like a squirrel to death.
And then there was Wod....
That one's dead;
the two stirges on Edwin suck 2 more points of con out of him;
the remaining rat bites Wod and misses.
Group's attack; two stirges feasting on Edwin and 1 wounded rat too dumb to flee from Wod are all that remains.
“Hang in there Edwin, I’m coming!”
Wod attacks the rat: Damage: [/ooc]
Wod destroys the last rat.....huzzah!
Edwin looks up at Castiel; it's horrid.....he looks waxen as a vampire!
Edwin blinks, slowly. His mouth opens, and for a moment, no sound comes out.
"Be a sport, and swat this for me, would you? There's a good fellow,..." Edwin mutters woozily.
He makes another feeble attempt to stick at least one of the bloodsuckers on him,...
4 or 5 I guess.....;)