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"WHARRGARBL!" cries Storn in the way that he does. He jabs over the wall a few times with his spear.
Storn moved up and jabbed it with his spear in the throat, just under the tentacles. The chuul reared back and cut down at both Chwaer and Sander, but the previous blows had weakened it, and the crustacean missed both of them.
R2: lobster, quill, sander, storn, chwaer, molly
status:
chwaer 46/77
molly 55/55
quill 57/57
sander 62/62
storn 67/67
lobster -71
Chawer is careful to stay out of Storn's spear as she hacks at the lobster's claw. As her blade cracks the shell, she tries to sever the tendons that allowed the chuul to grip so hard.
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Round 2
Quill double swims closer to the immediate danger like a chump as this lobster will surely devour the party.
vs. DC 10
vs. DC 10
AC 21 (23 vs. giants)
HP 57/57
Bless: 0/7 used
Ferves: 1/7 used (3d6)
SacWeap: 1/9 rounds used (swift,+2/shock/flaming/frost)
PoP 1: 0/1 used
To Hit: +6 BAB, +5 Dex, +1 WF, +1 Magic +1 PBS -2 DA =+12
Damage: 1d8 + 1 Str +1 magic + 2 weap spec +1 PBS +4 DA = +9
[ dice]1d20+12-2[/dice] to hit; (-rapid,+PBS)
[ dice]1d8+9[/dice] cold iron damage.
[ dice]1d8+9[/dice] cold iron damage. (manyshot)
[ dice]1d20+12-2[/dice] to hit; (-rapid,+PBS)
[ dice]1d8+10[/dice] cold iron damage.
[ dice]1d20+7-2[/dice] to hit; (-rapid,+PBS)
[ dice]1d8+10[/dice] cold iron damage.
As Molly completes the summons, another shark appears and gives the chuul a hungry look -- and attacks!
Molly starts swimming -- -- to get the chuul within reach of her Evil Eye. If she succeeds, she tries to lower the beast's striking power.
Storn keeps just jabbing away, having decided that standing in place and wildly stabbing at whatever is not his friends is the best possible tactic.
HP 62/62(+18 for extract)
AC 27, touch 18, flat-footed 24
Fort +9 (+6 vs. poison), Ref +10, Will +5 (+2 vs. fear)
CMD 18
Bombs: 0/13; Mutagen: 0/1; Spontaneous healing: 0/20; Blast 0/1
Sipping jacket: displacement 2/9
Effects: +4 Con (+2 Fort saves), +2 AC, -2 Cha; barkskin (+4 AC); clayskin (DR 5/adamantine; 45 pts); shield (+4 AC)
Extracts; Blast Finesse ritual: []
1st (5/day): expeditious retreat [], enlarge person [], shield [][], stone fist []
2nd (4/day): alchemical allocation [][], barkskin [x], perceive cues []
3rd (4/day) fly [], invisibility [], clayskin [x], displacement [x]
Continuing to use his jacket to help keep him safe, Sander continues to thrash at the thing.
Molly's shark appeared and distracted the chuul just long enough for Storn and Chwaer to kill it, with Sander inflicting a little damage of his own for good measure.
Looking over the berm, you could see a ruined fountain against the far wall. Parts of the ceiling had fallen in long ago, and crushed the once magnificent fount.
Chwaer jumps when she sees the shark appear. "Can we send that to scout out the rest of the area?" she asks silently, forgetting nobody can hear her.
The alpha predator swims off obediently...
Using his spear like a weird punt to propel himself along the ground, Storn waits a moment for the shark to confirm there's nothing else ready to eat them before exploring the fount.
The shark moved to that area, the one to the east, and disappeared into the gloom. It didn't return.
Meanwhile, Quill scanned the chuul's nesting room with his third eye and saw a faint glow in the ruins of the broken fountain. Moving in closer, the glow diverged into several magical sources, and in the cracked basin Quill found the chuul's collection of treasures. The hoard consists of a waterlogged suit of +1 hide armor, a masterwork heavy mace, a belt of giant strength +4, an oil of flame arrow, a potion of enlarge person, a scroll of cure serious wounds, a wand of entropic shield (32 charges), three malachites worth 10 gp each, a tourmaline worth 120 gp, 24 gp, 700 sp, and 400 cp.
Chwaer slides down the berm and joins Quill. She holds up the belt and waves to Storn, pointing at it and shrugging her shoulders. When Quill swims off toward the west, she moves east (AQ18) and peers through the entryway.
There are two chambers to the east that you have not yet explored. The shark swam into the northern one, but the entrance to the southern chamber is much closer to Quill and Chwaer.
Chwaer looks back to make sure everyone else is coming and when they're close, moves over to scout around the corner (AR25).
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Sander does his best to join the others , morningstar still raised to defend himself.
When Quill isn't looking, he can't help but roll his eyes at the elf's point, though he doesn't think it's worth letting him know just how much he disagrees with it.
Storn squeals a little in the water as they find the loot before he punts along with the rest of the group, bobbling along in exactly the way a fish don't.
Everyone swims or plods eastwards, with Chwaer taking the time to stick her head into the southeast room. Much of this room has collapsed. Large blocks protrude through the outer walls and several have settled in the middle of the chamber. A giant metal brazier frosted in a green patina stands on its side, wedged in place against the roof. her keen eyes see that the ceiling is precariously balanced on that brazier, and any attempt to move it will likely cause the entire thing to collapse.
Chwaer pantomimes what she sees, waving anyone off if they try and go near the brazier. She doubles back and peers into the room that ate the shark (AJ28).
Quill sees the precariously balanced ceiling that Chwaer was pointing to...and not much else. Sure, the brazier might be worth something, but was it worth bringing down the whole ceiling on your head?
Sander lets the brazier goes, following along with Quill before heading in Chwaer's direction.
Molly just swims along in everyone's wake, and periodically renews her cantrip to make sure there are no magical traps.
Storn continues to punt along, understanding that knocking out vital supports in the temple for loto is a bad thing. They can loot other stuff.
Chwaer
Molly
Quill
Sander
Storn
ogres
While the others were still studying the brazier and the collapsing room, Storn swam over to the room where the shark disappeared into. The room wasn't that big, but as Storn stuck his head into it, he came face to face with what appeared to be an ogre with flippered feet and gills! The ogre lunged at Storn, raking it's claws across the big man's arm. From the dark recesses across the room, another one swam easily up to Storn, but this time the warpriest managed to avoid the blow.
These are aquatic ogres, also known as merrrows.
Storn is hit for 9 damage
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R1: storn, chwaer, molly, ogres, quill, sander
status:
chwaer 77/77
molly 55/55
quill 57/57
sander 62/62
storn 67/67
ogre (white) -0
ogre (yellow) -0
"BWAH! FISHOGRE!" shouts Storn as he is stabbed. He quickly shimmers with a protective spell before he gets to stabbing.
Sander hesitates as he can't quite figure out what he's seeing ...
Electricity Spells: While normal electricity, such as that from a natural thunderstorm, tends to disperse in all directions underwater, magical electricity spells hold their integrity enough to have normal effects underwater, with one exception: visible and audible lightning bolts and sparks are the result of combusted air, and they don’t happen underwater. Because of this, creatures that fail to identify an electricity spell that requires a ranged touch attack are flat-footed against the first such ranged touch attack during a fight, as they don’t realize they need to dodge the invisible projectile (unless they otherwise have reason to expect it, like a spellcaster who can cast such spells). This doesn’t apply to melee touch spells like shocking grasp, since the creature can still see the spellcaster’s hand moving towards it.
Wow. That's a deep dive into the rules! :)
Chwaer tries to swim to rejoin the others but doesn't make it far.
Storn jabbed out at one of the merrows, but was unable to get a good thrust in. He called out in rage, burbling his speech for all to hear...or not. Chwaer struggled to close, while Molly cast a lightning bolt. The water robbed the destructive bolt of electrical energy of much of its power, but the target still shook and juddered with the damage. Quill closed the gap.
The merrows struck back, each raining claws onto Storn's unarmored form. Both raked their claws into Storn's exposed body, and the white one managed to get one claw sunk into Storn and was wrapping him up in a bear hug when Storn's stunning barrier went off, stupefying the aquatic ogres mind.
Storn is hit three times for 28 damage
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R1: storn, chwaer, molly, ogres, quill, sander
R2: storn, chwaer, molly, ogres, quill, sander
status:
chwaer 77/77
molly 55/55
quill 57/57
sander 62/62
storn 39/67
ogre (white) -18 (stunned)
ogre (yellow) -0
Chwaer "runs" along the floor She sees Storn and the creatures and gestures back at the others to hurry.
Hoping his companions get there soon as he has no chance of outswimming the merrows, Storn heals himself while still attacking.
Sander runs across the floor, trying to get close to help .
HP 62/62(+18 for extract)
AC 27, touch 18, flat-footed 24
Fort +9 (+6 vs. poison), Ref +10, Will +5 (+2 vs. fear)
CMD 18
Bombs: 0/13; Mutagen: 0/1; Spontaneous healing: 0/20; Blast 0/1
Sipping jacket: displacement 2/9
Effects: +4 Con (+2 Fort saves), +2 AC, -2 Cha; barkskin (+4 AC); clayskin (DR 5/adamantine; 45 pts); shield (+4 AC)
Extracts; Blast Finesse ritual: []
1st (5/day): expeditious retreat [], enlarge person [], shield [][], stone fist []
2nd (4/day): alchemical allocation [][], barkskin [x], perceive cues []
3rd (4/day) fly [], invisibility [], clayskin [x], displacement [x]
As the others tried to close the distance, Storn jabbed his spear into the guts of the merrow that wasn't stunned. The serrated spear ripped deeply, slicing through several organs as Storn jerked it back and forth. The big warrior ended up having to practically scrap the merrow off the spear when he was done, for the creature was quite dead. Molly squinted and flashed the stunned ogre a look of such revulsion that even its stunned brain flinched back, and the monster twitched, though the look appeared to have no further affect.
Molly used evil eye to lower AC to no effect.
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R2: storn, chwaer, molly, ogres, quill, sander
R3: storn, chwaer, molly, ogres, quill, sander
status:
chwaer 77/77
molly 55/55
quill 57/57
sander 62/62
storn 39/67
ogre (white) -18 (stunned)
ogre (yellow) -73 (dead)
Storn quickly turns to attack the other merrow as the rest of the group continues swimming up. Through the bubbles and the mist of blood everywhere you think you can hear him singing as he works.
Chwaer bounds across the floor, waving her arms, trying to draw the attention of the merrow.
Sander continues to run closer along the ground to try to help .