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Zachary's joints stiffen up as well as the gorgon's gas works through his lungs and into his system!
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Jennix continues attacking the oni, hoping to bring it down, then sets to work on the gorgon.
Jennix digs his blade into the oni and sends him dropping to the floor and then sticks the gorgon in the side! The gorgon turns its metallic horns upon the archeoninja!
Terflynn calls down ill fortune upon the beast.
Zachary is still petrified but Terflynn is able to bring misfortune down on the gorgon!
The gorgon is quite angered and again attacks Jennix!
Miso spend a ki point for an extra attack during flurry and tries to bring the gorgon down!
Terflynn launches a fireball towards the creature.
Miso's powerful punches and kicks combine with Terflynn's fire to take the gorgon down!
"Well, that was nearly tragic. Excellent work, Miso. You two as well, of course." The weathered elf says, gesturing to Zachary and Jennix. "What do you fellows make of this talk of being the 'chosen'?"
To the left of the bridge is a room which must have served as the oni's quarters. A huge, lice-covered bed squats in the center of the chamber. Hundreds of beetles form a living carpet on the floor. The chamber is also cluttered with objects the oni has clearly kept from many years past: a headband of alluring charisma +2, an offering bowl decorated with gold leaf and set with a pair of poor quality rubies (worth 300 gp), a gilded elephant tusk (worth 125 gp), a fine jade and silver rooster funerary figure (worth 100 gp), and a superb 10-panel painted landscape screen depicting the House of Withered Blossoms in a much better time (worth 750 gp).
Across the bridge is a stone ledge overlooking a cobbled stone plaza in a huge chamber. Forty feet above the ledge, a vaulted ceiling soars over the room, supported by great columns, some of which have collapsed. At one time the stone bridge crossed the chamber to the opposite wall, but both the span and the enormous archway it led to have collapsed, leaving a pile of shattered rubble on the floor twenty feet below. Frescoes depicting blinded ettins pulling obscene creatures on vast golden wagons, surrounded by slaves averting their eyes, cover the walls in a riot of extravagant colors.
Connected to this hall (once you lower yourselves in) is a small chamber in which water slowly dips onto the damp floor. However, a small, wilted bonsai tree in a simple pot sits in the middle of the floor. The endless drip of water from the ceiling has kept the tree barely alive thus far, but it will likely die without more light.
Past this small chamber are the remains of a broken bridge lying shattered in the waters of the underground river. Across the torrent, an open archway beckons.
Leaping over the rough water and through the archway, you come to another spacious hall: innumerable columns depicting writhing oni feasting upon fleeing peasants support this magnificent arched corridor, which vanishes into darkness to the east.
"Maybe he was Munasukaru's champion or mate..." Zack muses while stretching his once again normal limbs.
You carefully make your way to the end of the long hall and see ahead that the pillared corridor ends in a board stone platform overlooking a series of crude stone steps descending towards another waterfall. The mangled, rotting corpses of hobgoblins litter the floor and four hunched, reptilian beasts lope on two clawed feet, their eyeless heads dominated by a huge circular maw filled with jagged teeth. They hiss and spit as you near them...
The creatures move to prevent your entrance to what they clearly have assumed as their lair and each of them lets out a terrible shriek!
Terflynn manages to dodge impressively, covering his ears. "Don't be fooled! They're clever and don't need eyes to find you!" He calls out, knowing that the others may not hear him after the sonic assault.
Miso tries to dodge the effect of one, only to get hit full force by the other, which knocks him back in to the first.
The draconic Kellid manages to avoid the stunning effect of the first blast, but is not so fortunate on the second; his ears hurt as they ring inside his head, and he cannot focus for a few seconds...
Miso stands shaking his head, trying to rid himself of the horrible sound now echoing in his mind.
Zack stands stunned after the initial assault of the creatures.
Terflynn decides not to wait around for his entire party to be slaughtered defenselessly. He interposes thick ice between his companions and the creatures, water crystallizing rapidly from the air and hardening into a cohesive barrier.
Jennix is frozen in place alongside the others but Terflynn springs into action cutting the party off from the creatures.
Terflynn draws a potion and drinks the contents greedily. "Tend yourselves." is all he says as he discards the empty vial.
Breathing heavily, Miso merely nods to the elf as he draws his own potion bottle and quaffs the contents.
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Miso will draw his wand of flame arrow and tap Zachary's arrows, then (if time permits) also draw his wand of elemental touch and use that on himself.
Terflynn finishes his potions, then steps off the ground into the air and flies behind a pillar.
After spending a few moments healing yourselves, Terflynn then steps behind a pillar and dismisses his wall to reveal the nasty eyeless creatures again!
Zack looses with his now flaming arrows at the nearest creature.
Zachary lets loose a volley of arrows which takes down one of the beasts!
Miso, choosing electricity damage, uses a Swift action to enter Dragon Style and charges forward to attacks Red!
Miso and Jennix charge in and start beating up on one of the mounted reptilian creatures, which begins to fight back against Miso:
The other one lets loose a blast of destructive harmonics which washes over Terflynn, Jennix, and Miso:
The third pushes past Miso and lets off another blast which hits Terflynn and Zachary:
red: 35 dmg
Miso is caught by the blast of the first, but the clangor somehow allows him to avoid the other entirely . He desperately strikes at Green on its way past...
...and renews his assault on Red (switching to Blue if Red drops).
The Kellid barely notcies that the elemental touch spell is spent after his attack.
Miso hits the green monster as it goes past and then lands two punches on the other!
red: 74 dmg, staggered
grn: 17 dmg, staggered
Terflynn attempts to put the furthest creature to sleep.
The blue monster fights off sleep as it snaps its jaws at Terflynn.
red: 74 dmg, staggered
grn: 17 dmg, staggered
Zack stands through the blast and counterattacks.
Zachary's first set of arrows takes out the nearest beast and his last arrow wounds the further one. Meanwhile Jennix slips and is unable to hit it with his katana. The two monsters attack Miso and Jennix:
red: 74 dmg, staggered
blu: 20 dmg
Terflynn throws a fireball beyond the creatures, burning them from behind.
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Miso will flurry on Red if it remains standing after Terflynn's fireball, or will do so on Blue if Red falls.
Terflynn's blast of flame takes down one of the monsters and Miso puts quite a few bruises on the other!
blu: 70 dmg