Surprise Round
The snakes slither and crawl over each other in a furious mass, several showing fangs in the flash-light of the thunderstorm. The boiling tangle flows over the closest person, Phillip, covering his legs even as the man manifests his particular talent of coating himself in ectoplasm. The snakes bite Phillip's legs from several angles.
Swarm damage:
Round One
Amid the thunder and lightning, the disturbed snakes continued to defend their nest, attacking Phillip again.
Swarm damage:
"Aaahh!" the redhead fairly screamed, drawing her masterwork rapier and curved kukuri, attacking the serpents with both weapons.
Masterwork Rapier attack: Damage:
Kukuri attack: Damage:
Her blades sliced at the snakes on Phillip, cutting a few.
"They've got fangs - they're poisonous!" Sasha declared to the others.
Phillip added his own rapier to Sasha's, cutting one serpent in half at mid-strike.
Ashana screams as the snake swarm appraoches "SNAKES!!!!!" She moves to H-6, drawing a dagger as part of her move and tries to stab at the swarm.
Knife attack:
Ok so Adriano Hoping this will work calls upon Sarenrae and the power of fire and casts burning hands (Starting on 5g send it15ft into the cave that way then all along the 5e&f avoiding the party)
Venomous Snake Swarm = 17
Sasha = 15
Phillip = 9
Ashana = 8
Adriano = 7
37-5-4-8-6-1=13
There's plenty of snakes to go around, as everyone's steel finds reptile after reptile to attack. The venomous snake swarm continued to swarm over Phillip, now wrapping their multiple coils around his legs, going ever upwards. The large mass of snakes had individuals sliced, stabbed, and cut, but there were quite a few jungle killers.
Adriano's magical fire alights the refuse in the cave, giving everyone a few seconds to look around, compared to the instantaneous lightning flashes. The cave you are in has rock to all three sides, with several plant roots dangling from the ceiling. Everyone can smell the stench of old snake skins and regurgitated snake meals. Adriano setting the garbage afire didn't improve the smell.
Thunder crashed outside, the rain still continuing.
Round Two
The snakes, not liking all the steel attacking them, moved from Phillip to Ashana . The movement had a few leaving the swarm to hiss at Adriano, their serpentine bodies swaying as the reptiles follow the cleric's hand and arm movements from his spell. Their long fangs glinted in the fire-and-lightning.
The swarm attacked the cat woman for points of damage.
"Can't trust tiny heads. Poison is cheating, when it's one of my friends!" Sasha muttered, regaining her composure, looking more maniacal. The woman attacked with both weapons again.
Masterwork Rapier attack: Damage:
Kukuri attack: Damage:
The redhead did what she could, whittling down the swarm one by one.
Keep it up, guys!
Ashana cries out as the snakes bite her and she lets out a feril sounding hiss and growl as she swipes at the swarm with her dagger and one set of her claws.
Dagger Attack:
Claw Attack:
Dagger Damage:
Claw Damage:
Fort save:
Adriano seeing the snakes strike and now smelling the waste that had been heated. Decides it might be best it he attacks with his blade.
Scimitar
Damage
Venomous Snake Swarm = 17
Sasha = 15
Phillip = 9
Ashana = 8
Adriano = 7
13-3-2-6-6-7=small "eehh" sound, like in the video games
The four of you manage to chop, slice, and dice the snakes until the entire swarm is nothing more than bloody pieces on the muddy ground. Phillip and Ashana also didn't take any damage from the venom, either. The cave is now cleared of its former inhabitants.
The rain comes to a sudden stop, and a cool breeze rushes through the jungle, including the wide cave you are in. After a few minutes the sunlight brightens the wet jungle outside, and the birds start chirping and squawking again.
Looking outside, the former rivers of rain runoff have begun to shrink, making the ground only soggy, instead of treacherous.
Well, that was unpleasant.
Still breathing hard, the redhead checked the egg in the sack on her hip, then Adriano, Phillip, and Ashana. "Snakes are easier than bugs." she quipped back to Phillip.
Adriano looks outside at the mud " I think we should stay here for a bit and see if the sun drys any of the ground before we get going.
"Glad thats over with...and I for one would like to get out of the smelly cave before something else comes out and surprises ups."
"You've got a point, Sasha. Well, I'm ready to go whenever everybody else is."
"If I am out voted then let's go quick while it is still light.
After a few minutes you venture out from the snake cave, a cool breeze adding to the bright sunlight. Making your way around the hill, on the other side several familiar jungle trees indicate you are only a few hundred yards from your campsite.
The four of you hack-and-slash your way through the thick underbrush, making it down to the forest floor again from the hill. It is getting late, perhaps four o'clock or four-thirty in the afternoon by the time you push your way through the thick jungle to your campsite area.
Varash Ironskull meets you on the northeastern side of the campsite. He is carrying a burlap sack full of mushrooms and dirt-crusted tubers.
"Well met." the half-orc greeted the explorers. "I was about to head back myself, if the afternoon rainstorm had not stopped me." The man nodded his head towards the hill all of you just left. "Shevan warned me this morning he saw snakes in the trees on the hill yesterday. Possibly poisonous ones." Varash looked at Sasha's muddy leggings and unkempt hair. "Did you run all the way back?" he asked.
"We can tell you all about it after I get this egg wrapped up, maybe near the firepit." Sasha said back, swatting a large fly that tried to land on her forearm. "Then a bath in the sea. Maybe some new clothes."
I think we may have found them. In any case, all I want to do is cool off right now, and get cleaned soon after. It's been a tiring day.
Unconsciously, Phillip begins salivating at the sight of the mushrooms.
Those are all good to eat, then? Excellent.
Adriano looks at his friends that have been wounded by the events of the day and calls forth Sarenrae's healing energy.
Channel Positive Energy on Phillip, Sasha, Ashana and himself and anyone else that is wounded. Rays of sun shine on those healed
"Thanks, Adriano. That feels much better," the blonde says as he rubs his shoulder.
Ashana makes her way into camp pushing past the rest of her comrades as they stop to talk to Varash. She's hot, tired, and wet and just wants to get off her throbbing feet. She takes a seat by a log near the fire.
The archer paladin greeted the explorer party. "I've been making stake traps all day." he told the four. "As well as working with our Tian friend." Shevan's eyes shift to the other side of the camp, nodding where the trail to the beach began. "He likes to watch the horizon for ships for some reason."
The ravenhaired warrior took Adriano aside.
Shevan says "Ishirou is almost as bad off as the drunk - he puts up a good front, but his hands shake when he thinks no one is looking. Maybe you could help cheer him up? You've spent more time with him, I've been hunting or trap making all this time."
Around the camp the others appear to be working hard to either get food or repair what equipment they have. Jask Derindi and Gelik Aberwhinge are tending to the fishing net, with several fish on sticks around the firepit. Varash Ironskull has been gathering food, Shevan Risa and Ishirou have been guarding the camp, and a weary Aerys Mavato is keeping bugs out of the tents and equipment.
fishing Survival: 1 person for 8 hours = 8 meals
vegetable gathering Knowledge: Nature Survival: 4 meals of mushrooms and tubers
add:
8 meals of smoked, cured fish
4 meals of mushrooms and tubers
subtract:
1 meal each for Aeyrs, Gelik, Ishirou, Jask, Noel & girl, and Shevan = 7
Varash Ironskull was on hunt and provided for himself.
Gelik was quick to notice the adventurers returning. He jumped up from where he was repairing the net with the cleric, skipping over to where Varash was lowering his sack of mushrooms and roots. "Ah, mushrooms. Not the poisonous type, I hope!" he asked the half-orc. "I think I might remember a good sauteed mushroom recipe from Magimar, but we have no saucepan! Hmm...let me think, let me think." the gnome muttered, one hand on his goatee.
Turning to the others, Gelik saw the large burlap sack the redhead Human was carrying. "Or an omlette! Alas, saucepan, I remember thee fondly." the little blonde man joked.
Sasha moved to where the firepit was crackling, lowering the sack. "We got an egg - my egg! It feels heavy, and it just needs to stay warm until it hatches. You try to crack it and I'll make an omelet out of you." she threatened.
"Another mouth to feed." Gelik said under his breath, looking away. He caught Phillip's eye. "So!" Gelik asked. "Find anything interesting that can help us on this island? Or was it a fool's-, er, just a walk in the jungle?" The gnome changed his tone when Sasha turned to glare at him in mid-sentence.
The middle-aged cleric greeted Ashana when she sat down nearby. "You look wet - does rain bother you, with all that, uh, fur?" Jask asked, a tad nervous at the catwoman's potential response. His hands started to roll up the fishing net in front of him.
Phillip surveys the camp, before cracking his back loudly.
Unfortunately, we didn't really find much. There's a small islet off the coast, but there wasn't anything useful that I could find. You guys can bring over anything else that's busted up, and I'll get to it in a bit, if you want.
Phillip sits by the fire as well, inspecting his weapons for any wear, and begins cleaning/fixing them.
She sighs and looks at the older cleric. "It does...but with the heat of the day it feels good. More troubled by being trapped here...and the fact that we killed two defenseless birds today for that egg and we can't even eat it...an large omelet does sound good."
He nods a Shevan keeping that in mind so to deal with thing a little bit later.
Adriano then walks up behind Phillip and mumbles a pray of healing to cure the rest of his wounds.
Cure light wounds
Adriano then turns to address the group "though we did not find anything but the birds and the egg which means that part of the island is probably safe so, we can start heading south tomorrow." he then looks around at the group "I wish we were safely in a port so we could all be on our way to where we needed to be. But the gods had a different plan for us I do not claim to know what that reason is. But I would like to help everyone's time here pass with ease, so let me know if while we are out on the island searching if there is something we can get for you. he will wait for responses hopefully none that he said is taken poorly.
Diplomacy
Thank you very much, Adriano. I'm in tip-top shape, now. And Adriano's correct. If you'd like anything specific that wouldn't necessarily be on the "Survival top 10", ask, and if we find some, we'll be sure to at least try to bring it back.
"I heard that." Sasha told Ashana. The woman finished with the makeshift nest near the firepit, the large egg prominently surrounded by twigs, grass, and heated rocks. "I can feel the chick inside the shell - it's too late to eat." "I can't be sure, but it could hatch in another day or two." she mused. Sasha looked up, happy again. "Nothing now but to wait!" the redhead said enthusiastically.
"Now for a wash." Sasha told everyone. She went to her tent, removing her equipment and armor. Sasha went by Gelik on her way east, following the trail to the beach. "Gelik," the redhead called out, "anybody touches that egg, and I'll cut your beard off with my rapier!". The threat was made in the same tone as one of the gnome's many jokes.
A few minutes later, Phillip gets up, saying, I need to wash as well. Phillip places his armor and equipment in his hammock, except for his rapier, and proceeds to leave towards the beach. If asked regarding the rapier, he replies, "These jungles can be dangerous, and I don't know if you remember, but the beach can as well."
"I am not a babysitter!" Gelik sputtered. He turned back to Adriano, scandalized. "What does she expect me to do, sit on it?" he asked. Shaking his head, Gelik told the cleric, "Hm. Well, if the north is uninhabited, save for that trapped ship, then perhaps going south tomorrow won't be as bad as I thought. In any case, Ishirou and now Shevan have spent quite some time putting traps all around us, so I would be loathe to move the camp right now. Unless it was to a more defensible area, like a hill."
Gelik looked around. "Ach, I can read a map - but have yet to be forced to draw my own! Still, as this group's only official Pathfinder, I must be flexible. I shall see what I can do with your reports and parchment and ink tonight."
Just to see what would happen Ashana gets up and knocks the egg on its side out of the nest when Gelik wasn't looking. She had never seen a gnome with out a beard, and while she was pretty sure that Sasha was kidding she wanted to find out.
"Now, now." Jask admonished the black-furred cat girl. "Best to let sleeping eggs lie." He smiled at the weak joke. "I'm not sure if you realize it yet, but if Sasha stays behind to hatch this egg, you'll be one short tomorrow."
"Hm! Yes!" Gelik added, looking at Ashana, Adriano, and Phillip. "Only three of you. I will have to decide who goes with you tomorrow. No sense in drawing straws - this is a leader's decision." the gnome declared.
A few minutes later, Phillip gets up, saying, I need to wash as well. Phillip places his armor and equipment in his hammock, except for his rapier, and proceeds to leave towards the beach. If asked regarding the rapier, he replies, "These jungles can be dangerous, and I don't know if you remember, but the beach can as well."
The taciturn Tian looks back from his view of the beach, shaded by the jungle treeline where Ishirou was standing. In a gruff voice, he replied "It is unexpected here on the island, cleric. I am a mercenary, a sailor. We have been luckier than most, no? But I cannot shake this feeling of dread for us." The man sighed, crossing his arms. "We are all still alive. Maybe in the morning I will feel better."
Adriano looks at the mercenary "I would like to talk to you in the morning to see if the feeling of dread is still there. Adriano bows to the mercenary "If you need any thing please let me know"