With the word from Vael, Ham brings forth his hammer, and carefully rolls forward, activating the flames on his way in.
The necrocraft surrounded by the party lashes out with horrific limbs. Lacking a strategy it lashes out at everyone at once!
for
for
for
for
The other charges Whistle Pig!
for
Their giant master moves forward, preparing his scythe for maximum effect.
Round 2:
Enemy: ATK
Whistle Pig: Go
Raen: Go
Ham: Go
Ushyle: Go
Doxon: Go
Vael: Go
Green: 94
Ushyle studies the nearest necrocraft and the tomb giant — You're next, — and attacks.
Ushyle scores a single devastating cut. His heart drops a bit when he sees that the creature continues to hold it together.
Round 2:
Enemy: ATK
Whistle Pig: Go
Raen: Go
Ham: Go
Ushyle: Hit
Doxon: Go
Vael: Go
Green: 134
With a quick prayer, Agrimmosh begins to glow with golden light. Then, Doxon continues to assault the necrocraft.
Life force bleeds from Vael to Ham, Doxon, Ushyle, and Whistle Pig.
"Oh no ye don't..." Vael waves his hands and chants, quickly conjuring stardust around Whistle Pig and whisking the halfling away from danger.
Tulia flits to where she has a clear shot at the giant. She levels her loaded crossbow and lets fly!
Immediately upon being struck, Raen freezes in place, paralyzed for .
Doxon resists whatever foul effect the necrocraft carries and with a single shot lays the creature low!
Meanwhile Vael gets Whistle Pig to a safe spot while Tulia's shot is just a hair's breadth off target.
Round 2:
Enemy: ATK
Whistle Pig: Go
Raen: Paralyzed
Ham: Go
Ushyle: Hit
Doxon: Move Action
Vael: Halfling Rescue Squad
Green: 134
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WP takes the bite from the undead thing just as Vael winks him away.
and feels no effects.
"Tulia, focus on one target at a time. the big ugly undead thing first!"
Pig levels his sling at the closest undead thing:
PBS is active for the attacks. deadly aim, large target, precise shot, Rapid shot and sharp stones
1st attack
2nd attack
3rd attack
4th attack
Unfortunately, only a single sharp stone connects, though the damage is obvious!
Round 2:
Enemy: ATK
Whistle Pig: Hit
Raen: Paralyzed
Ham: Go
Ushyle: Hit
Doxon: Move Action
Vael: Halfling Rescue Squad
Necro: 18
"Slinger... I know my weapon, and know what I'm doing," Tulia replies. "You should talk less and aim more!"
Saving Throw!
HAMILTON SCOFFS AT YOUR SILLY POWERS! SCOFF, SCOFF, SCOFF!
Ham dives down to avoid the right claw, but he's too slow and he takes the swipe right on his ass, and that knocks him into another roll forward. He ignores the pain and the chill in his... lower... Back... ahem... And moves to attack the construct, but finds that Doxon has already brought it down. Ham surveys the battlefield and spits out to his left, narrowing his eyes at the enemy. He activates the powers of his armor...
RIGHTEOUS MIGHT!
And steps forward into melee range, shaking out his shield cloak as he does so.
AC Vs. Giants is 24 Right now. 22 Vs. Everything else.
Ham prepares for an epic showdown while the necrocraft continues towards Vael!
for striking him with a disgusting and necrotic.... thing.
Meanwhile the giant gives a ghostly grin as he begins swinging his massive scythe at the enlarged Roughrider.
THREAT
for
for for
The wounds bleed, but there's more too it....
Round 2:
Enemy: ATK
Whistle Pig: Go
Raen: Go
Ham: Go
Ushyle: Go
Doxon: Go
Vael: Go
Necro: 18
Fort Save:
Current HP: 123/73. Or 63 if his hits are Evil Aligned.
Ham is rocked side-to-side with the pair of swings. The magic of the armor is holding back any real wound for now, but Ham still has his bell rung really well and he is beginning to slow down with some exhaustion and the life drain from the scythe. Ham yells without words and attacks.
Flaming Adamantine Warhammer+1: for and for an automatic miss.
Wounds appear all over the shaman as they knit closed slowly on Doxon, Hamilton, and Ushyle.
He steps back out of reach and quickly chants. "Spirits of Life, bring me life energy back. Let me see me former strength...
His wounds close, and the shaman breathes easier.
Hamilton withstands the blow, though the color drains from his face. He returns with a solid hit from his hammer.
Round 2:
Enemy: ATK
Whistle Pig: Go
Raen: Go
Ham: Hit
Ushyle: Go
Doxon: Go
Vael: Go
Necro: 18
Tomb Giant: 20
Tulia reloads her crossbow and fires another bolt and the scythe-wielding giant.
Tulia continues to struggle with her targeting. Vael reaches deep for curative magic as he tends to his flock.
Round 2:
Enemy: ATK
Whistle Pig: Go
Raen: Go
Ham: Hit
Ushyle: Go
Doxon: Go
Vael: Shaman
Necro: 18
Tomb Giant: 20
Doxon again calls of Torag for a bit of agility and rushes forward to engage the giant.
DC 23 Fortitude save or shrink by one size category, as by heightened reduce person
Divine grace keeps his motion too fluid for the giant to stop.
When the hit lands it rocks the very structure of the tomb itself!
The giant nearly drops, but holds on for the moment.
Round 2:
Enemy: ATK
Whistle Pig: Go
Raen: Go
Ham: Hit
Ushyle: Go
Doxon: Crit
Vael: Shaman
Necro: 18
Tomb Giant: 108
Ushyle hears the deadened thunk as the Varisian mage falls to the ground from her height of just a few inches. Instinctively he calls on the grace of Milani in hopes that The Everbloom's blessing can restore her.
Ushyle's spell is a welcome relief from the painful rigor mortis that grips Raen's body. "Thank you," she says quietly to the departing half-elf, rising a few feet again off the floor. She locks her gaze on the tomb giant and tugs on the threads of reality, tricking its mind into total stillness.
Whistle Pig's settled approach works much better. A quartet of sharpened stones slice through the necrocraft. It's beginning to fall apart, but with no living flesh, it can fight until it does just that.
Ushyle's divine connection helps shatter the paralysis affecting Raen. She immediately counters with a spell of her own.
, but the spell is no match for the giant.
The necrocraft turns its attention, mostly, to Ushyle. It's appendage still reaches out for Vael. , but the dwarf easily avoids the attack.
The rest focus on Ushyle:
for
for
MISS
Meanwhile, with a curse in Skirkatla's name and a strange word, the giant vanishes from sight, even from Raen!
Not invisible, not teleportation...
Round 3:
Enemy: ATK
Whistle Pig: Go
Ham: Go
Ushyle: Go
Raen: Go
Doxon: Go
Vael: Go
Necro: 88
Tomb Giant: 108
"Hm."
"I dinnae see what the giant did. Do it be invisible?"
Nevertheless, the life link continues to do its work, healing Hamilton...
Vael steps up to flank with Ushyle, and thrusts his longspear twice at the construct.
for
THREAT
for
"I... have no idea what the giant did."
With the giant gone, Tulia calls upon her innate power to heal, and wings forward to place a hand on Vael.
Vael's spear lands twice, but it doesn't look like it had any effect. Tulia meanwhile helps with the healing.
Round 3:
Enemy: ATK
Whistle Pig: Go
Ham: Go
Ushyle: Go
Raen: Go
Doxon: Go
Vael: Hits
Necro: 89
Tomb Giant: 108
Ushyle watches the giant vanish and mouths a silent curse...but he has no time to dwell on it with the necrocraft still active. He takes a trice to study it and then attacks.
Ushyle's work is quick, brutal, and final. The necrocraft collapses under the weight of the blows!
The party searches frantically for the giant, but to no avail. Eventually they give up.
Ugh, that hurt. I think I might throw up. Then a nap.
Vael lets his life force flow into Hamilton before gathering the group and calling up the Spirits of Life to heal them all.
Ushyle watches the necrocraft fall, but remains in his battle stance while he scans the area. When he sees no foe, and when nothing leaps from unseen to attack, he finally relaxes a bit, stealing a glance at the perplexed Varisian and noting with some relief that her wounds are gone.
The half-elf looks about to ask if she is all right, but seems to think better of it, instead turning his attention to the room from which the undead constructs and the tomb giant emerged.
Whistle Pig tries to find a trail but gets nothing.
That's when his ears perk up. He hears a giant-sized cough coming from.... the wall? It's in the northeast... It's not near Raen... it's in the wall...
Is this still combat???
Ushyle: Go
Vael: Go
???: TBD
Raen: TBD
Whistle Pig: TBD
Ham: TBD
Doxon: TBD
Vael sees Whistle Pig's reaction, and immediately begins a chant to summon a creature from the earth.
Moments earlier:
"I suspect the pale giant deployed a contingency spell to whisk him to some unknown location," Raen replies, rising again to her customary position some ten feet above the floor. "I fear he may have absconded with knowledge of our presence and fighting abilities to his giant queen, or perhaps even Volstus."
Vael begins casting a spell to help pin down the sound to the north east.
Is this still combat???
Ushyle: Go
Vael: Cast
???: TBD
Raen: TBD
Whistle Pig: TBD
Ham: TBD
Doxon: TBD
Ham stows his hammer and readies Heartspit
Ushyle moves alongslide Whistle Pig, not knowing exactly what he's looking for but trying to help anyway.
Ham and Ushyle move in.
Whistle Pig quickly finds a secret door to the north! The sound is coming from the other side. Everyone looks at each other, as the door certainly never opened!
Is this still combat???
Ushyle: Prep
Vael: Cast
???: Done
Raen: Go
Whistle Pig: Burgle!
Ham: Prep
Doxon: Go
Seeing Whistle Pig point out where their quarry might have escaped to, Doxon moves a bit closer and considers for a brief moment.
You're not getting away from us.
Doxon plants his feet in a broad stance and rests the head of Agrimmosh on the stone floor. He begins praying, moving Agrimmosh in an ever growing circle in front of him. Finally, at the apex of the swing, Agrimmosh slams into the ground.
Doxon's spell drops the ground out. The door, unable to hold itself up, crashes into the hole!
On the other side the Tomb giant stands, plainly visible. He's rummaging through a large chest. The door crashes just as he finds what he's looking for!
Is this still combat???
Ushyle: Prep
Vael: Cast
???: Done
Raen: Go
Whistle Pig: Burgle!
Ham: Prep
Doxon: Magic!
Raen curses softly under her breath. The unknown contents of the chest are too much to risk. She lets fly her arcane wrath, igniting the northeast corner of the hideaway with cleansing fire.
The first fireball explodes, but the giant withstands the assault. Raen's second fireball though, overwhelms the giant. With a crash he falls into the chest, spilling metallic items all over the floor!
Raen scans the giant, the objects, and the chest from the air.