Remaining still in the air, Adelie focuses on the area within his reach that has the most ghouls. If he has multiple options, he’ll focus as close to the rubble pile as possible, and he’ll avoid the wizard. Having chosen a location, he begins casting summon swarm to call a swarm of bats.
His lips and teeth stained red by the concetrated rage contained in the barbarian chew, Lolygert gnashes those same teeth and with a roar charges the nearest three ghouls....
Lolly shatters the nearest ghoul into a pile of dead flesh.
The two ghouls outside of the Web attack him!
They fail to pierce his armor, despite his raging recklessness.
The two ghouls who passed their initial saves vs. Web try to escape and help their Lollicidal friends:
These two, they are the lucky ones. They break free from the web and attack the barbarian!
Eh, maybe not so lucky after all.
Meanwhile, in Webbsville,
...three ghouls break free and try to escape! Two go towards InvisiBigBedlam, one heads towards Lolz.
One escapes the web on either side!
Seeing the ghouls swarming towards Lolly, Tragershen tries to even the odds with another well placed spell.
Casting create pit, trying to catch as many of the ghouls by Lolly as possible. 30' deep, 3d6 falling damage.
Talathel can help in either direction: head down the east side to provide Lolly with assistance from a distance. He can see shoot at the ones holding sand from where he's standing.
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Elementals, bats, webs, pits, mad drunkards all appear out of nowhere, and Anzath knows her komrades have joined the fight. From the safety of the far bank of the river, she continues to pick off the ghouls one by one.
Got'em right where me be want'n dem!
Two ghouls tumble into Tragershen's pit, one of them straight into its second death. Lolly and a third ghoul nimbly leap clear from the hole and remain in combat.
Talathel sends arrows across the river in support with a full attack:
Between his arrows and Anzath's bolts, one ghoul falls.
The one who already has a bolt dangling from its forehead yells, "Let us retreat to the temple and return with the priests!! Stay safe, brethren and sistrennn!!"
It then scampers off down the staircase at full speed.
And now, the moment we've all been waiting for:
Surmising that those nasty ghouls are planning to shower him with sand,
S'poseing ta be rice; stupid!, our fun-loving dwarf grins. Casually creating a Tanglefoot bomb and laughing maniacally, the dwarf tosses a bomb at a foolish ghoul by his Blasting Jelly trap!
Many long-fanged jaws drop when Bedlam apparates out of nowhere, swinging an enormous pick at the fleeing ghoul and tossing a grenade into their midst! Only, their midst is dangerously close to him...
...the picked ghoul dies. Then, the bomb goes off.
FWABOOOOOM goes the bomb! The sudden and deadly combustion of his blasting jelly disintegrates three ghouls at once.
The blast warms the jolly dwarf and one of the remaining ghouls.
The splashghoul steps in for a full attack, and the other staircase ghoul moves in for a swipe as well (it takes an AOO)
Bedlam misses this time.
...Bedlam is hit by a single claw, narrowly avoids paralysis, and takes six more damage for 12 total. Not bad, considering the mayhem.
If there are still any ghouls within crossbow sight, Aurora will take a potshot at one.
It's not looking good.
Clank goes the crossbow bolt.
The two stairside ghouls drop their sand in disgust and enter combat with the big guy! They aim for flanking positions.
A crit! But it barely slows Bedlam down as he shrugs off the paralytic effect of the ghoul.
Lolygert grins at his fellow magical-pit-avoider-ghoul, red juice dripping down into his beard.
With a whoop! he swings his sword, the ghoul certain for a moment he sees Lolygert's visage etched on the swinging blade...
Adelie keeps casting his swarm spell.
Lolly rips the ghoul in twain. There's one more unwebbed, unpitted ghoul on his side of the Web spell.
Adelie finishes casting the Summon Swarm spell and rips a swarm of bats into this world, pulling them from the horrific Plane of Bats. Or somewhere. Plane of Nature? Isn't that the one we live on? We'll have to ask a philosopher. But for now, the leathery wings and squeaky shrieks fall upon the ghoul fighting...
...Lolly. The bats mob the final ghoul.
They seem disappointed that there's no blood to be had.
The webbed ghouls remain webbed.
The batty ghoul Withdraws from combat and dives into the river. Ghouls don't breathe.
Likewise, the ghoul that escaped the Web on its last turn enters the battle with Bedlam.
Dwarfhulk's joints seize up! The enormous warrior is paralyzed in the midst of a mob of 5 ghouls!
Tragershen glides closer to Lolly, readying his wand as he goes. When he feels secure that the massive man can catch any ghouls that try to dart past him, Tragershen levels the wand at one of the ghouls swarming over Bedlam and sends a beam of shimmering white light at it.
Disrupt undead to hit, ranged touch attack into melee
Damage
You, Tal, and Aurora can see, from left to right:
Bedlam swarmed by ghouls in the mouth of the staircase... webbing with writhing forms inside... Lolly surrounded by the double dead, and now Tragershen trying to arc Disrupt past his own Web. Unfortunately, Tragershen, you filled up the entire cave on your side of the river with that 20 ft radius Web, so you can't do much to save Beddy.
...and, on consulting the map, I guess there's also that pile of rubble between you and the stairs, so maybe you can't see much of anything! Bedlam is just over the rubble and Large, so at least you can see that he's not moving.
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"Iz like spider mama all over again," mutters Anzath.
Unfortunately, Tragershen, you filled up the entire cave on your side of the river with that 20 ft radius Web, so you can't do much to save Beddy.
"Hold on to your buttz."
Anzath drops her crossbow, gets a running start, and longjumps over the torrent.
Anzath leaps... then plops into the river. She is swept swiftly downstream, pulled underwater by the current. She will have one more chance to reach shore before she's pulled beyond the cavern into who-knows-what depths.
Bedlam stares blood-shot blue eyes ahead. The dwarfhulk seems to be deep in thought. The torrent of the rushing river seems to hush in respect to the dwarf deep in contemplation. The stale air seeks to tread lightly, as to not disturb the dwarf deep in internal information. Silence beckons to even the terrible ghouls, as their drooling and slathering slithers silently to the floor; as if, in response of the dwarf in deep doo-doo!
Did me leave da stove on!?!
Acrobatics Modifiers DC Modifier
Lightly Obstructed (gravel, sand) +2
Severely Obstructed (cavern, rubble) +5
Talathel launches arrow after arrow at the ghouls surrounding Bedlam, hoping to shift the odds in the alchemist's favour by breaking their flanking.
Talathel kills a ghoul.
A ghoul bites at the frozen Bedlam's throat:
Bedlam is dead! At least he doesn't have Ghoul Fever.
Anzath holds her breath and tries to hang on... she's still in the creek without a paddle, but maybe someone can find a way to help her.
Aurora may act!
Aurora yelps as Anzath is swept into the current, and sets off chasing along the bank after her.
If Aurora can get within 15ft of Anzath with 20ft of movement, she'll cast guidance on herself to trigger and use divine vessel so Anzath gets a +2 on her next skill check (or attack roll, or ability check...)
"Help Anzath!"
It's unclear whether Aurora is commanding her friends or her god, but Nethys smiles on her efforts, and Anzath will have a little extra on her next check!
The next two ghouls don't waste any time retreating down the stairs.
Thiz iz stupid... Anzath chides herself as she plunges into the raging river.
Lolygert sizes up the last nearby ghoul, his red stained mouth a rictus of violent enjoyment.
his sword raises...