Isabel's projectile merely bounces off the great ape's fur and Tung's thrust gets batted aside by a great hairy arm!
The mighty primates attack! Tung is subject to a veritable army of fists, but manages to dodge all but one. Tilver, Dain and Silas are also struck by flailing simian haymakers!
STATUS
Tilver - 42/85 hp
Tung - 46/78 hp
ORANGE - 22 damage
RED - 22 damage
Dain - 72/85 hp
Skarvek
Isabel
Silas - 96/109 hp
Silas launches himself into the room and sends a barrage of attacks at the creature.
Tilver spots an opening as the ape-creature pummels them and he lashes out with his sword to cut a gash in its side. "Tung, now!" Then he rolls back behind the doorway arch.
Tung continues dodging and weaving the fists while trying to hide among them to throw the creatures off guard.
Silas and Tilver lay into one four-armed ape while Tung and Skarvek attack another. One of Skarvek's arrows pierces the monster's cheek!
Meanwhile, Dain's spirits wend their way around Tilver and mend some of his damaged flesh.
STATUS
Tilver - 52/85 hp, Taking Cover
Tung - 46/78 hp
ORANGE - 67 damage
RED - 72 damage
Dain - 72/85 hp, Shield Spell
Skarvek
Isabel
Silas - 96/109 hp
[ooc]Anyone, give me orders for Isabel./ooc]
Isabel raises her shield and sends more pebbles flying.
Once again, the pebbles rain harmlessly off the ape-creature's shaggy hides, unnoticed.
The apes continue their maddened, shrieking assault. Each of them strikes Tung with a crushing blow, while Silas and Dain each catch a single blow, Silas to the ear and Dain to ribs. Tilver is saved by the doorframe he chose to duck behind!
STATUS
Tilver - 42/85 hp
Tung - 17/78 hp
ORANGE - 22 damage
RED - 22 damage
Dain - 57/85 hp
Skarvek
Isabel
Silas - 81/109 hp
Tilver has a bad angle for his sword after ducking behind the doorframe. Instead he lashes out with his foot to kick at the knee of the great ape-thing before him. "Tung, get back!" Then he rolls behind the doorframe again.
Silas sends a flurry of blows at the ape creature next to him.
STATUS
Tilver - 52/85 hp, Taking Cover
Tung - 46/78 hp
ORANGE - 67 damage
RED - 72 damage
Dain - 72/85 hp, Shield Spell
Skarvek
Isabel
Silas - 96/109 hp
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Tilver deftly strikes the huge ape's knee, causing it to lose balance and fall backwards. Seeing his opportunity, Silas slashes out twice with his magic falchion and severs the monster's windpipe. With a bubbling wheeze, it dies.
Tung ducks behind Silas and draws his bow out as his blade falls to the ground. He looses an arrow at the remaining ape.
Sensing that the spirits in the area were growing bored of healing, Dain instead encourages them to hurl debris at the 4 armed ape.
Telekinetic Projectile Shield.
Tung dives out of the way, just escaping the blow of the ape. He fires an arrow into its thigh. Dain's hurled stone bounces off the ape's hairy hide.
STATUS
Tilver - 52/85 hp
Tung - 61/78 hp
ORANGE - 67 damage
RED - 79 damage
Dain - 72/85 hp, Shield Spell
Skarvek
Isabel
Silas - 96/109 hp
Isabel moves to see the remaining creature and sends more rocks at it.
Maddened, the last great ape leaps forward and attacks, battering everyone it can reach, but all avoid its fury.
STATUS
Tilver - 52/85 hp
Tung - 61/78 hp
ORANGE - 67 damage
RED - 79 damage
Dain - 72/85 hp, Shield Spell
Skarvek
Isabel
Silas - 96/109 hp
Silas strikes with a flurry of blows and a guttural roar!
Tilver sees an opening and darts into the room, circling around the ape-creature. He turns at the last second and hacks into its back with his elven blade.
Tilver and Silas bring down the last of the great four armed apes!
COMBAT OVER
The space behind them is simply a series of straw nests. They must have spent a hundred centuries in here, almost certainly in a state of magical sleep until now. But why could they have been here? What was their purpose? A careful check reveals no secret panels or doors in this room.
Tilver winces at the cuts and bites he has, but he walks around the corner of the room, looking at the series of nests. "What a weird place for them to have been for thousands of years."
"I am guessing they were here as a trap. Anyone going through would run into them and they would attack whoever was standing there." Silas says as he looks over the group. "They did a number on some of us though. We need to pause and do some bandaging before we move on."
Dain examines the apes' 16 lifeless hands for signs of bone rings under the skin.
Looks at his empty quiver with a bit of sadness. "Well my friends, looks like it is just the blade for me till we make town once more. Unless we find a fletcher down here around some lost corner."
After picking up his dropped blade, Tung moves in the room, stopping to nudge one of the unmoving beast with a booted foot.
"I must say, I was never expecting to fight an ape down here so it definitely worked as a surprise. Luckily we gained the upper hand." He comments as he walks through the room.
Tung uses his boot to scatter the straw beds in search of something interesting.
Dain examines the apes' 16 lifeless hands for signs of bone rings under the skin.
Nope. Nothing like that.
Tung uses his boot to scatter the straw beds in search of something interesting.
Not even gorilla poop. Nothing.
"There has to be something here. Something that they were guarding. Someone check for magic, please." He begins from the back of the room, sweeping from side to side, up and down, moving forward back to the entrance.
There's nothing in this room. It's a bare cubicle of stone and straw.
"Well, unless we want to open that Vault door on this level, I'm out of ideas." Tung says with a final scuff of his boot through a straw bed.
He makes his way to the entrance of the room and stands with his arms crossed, waiting for the others. He takes a moment to wipe some dried blood from where the ape slammed a fist into his jaw.
"Perhaps we have succeeded in clearing the vault once more and it is time to shut it down." Silas says.
As they exit the room, Tilver is still bothered by the guardianship of the apes here. He brushes his hand along the wall, trying to check of any inconsistencies. "There's also the area with the wooden structure..."
Tilver finds a secret door.
The walls, ceiling, and even the floors here are coated in faded, chipping paint. An elaborate mural still shows blue skies and white, fluffy clouds, giving the impression of flight high in the air—or, in fact, in a place with no ground at all. Near the north end of the room, about 15 feet from the wall, a folding screen hides a portion of the chamber. Its cloth panels are also painted, depicting a violent whirlwind.
The three doors to the left are Vault doors.
Dain looks down the long, blue, secret hallway. "Hmmm." He & Magill make their way, slowly and carefully, down the hall towards the painted screen.
Tung readies his blade and follows his companions toward the new room. A smirk appears on his face as the door opens.
Move your tokens to where you want to be.
If they are not interrupted by an attack, or a trap, Dain & Magill slowly walk until they reach the point where the room widens. There they pause and take a better look at this end of the room.
Silas follows behind Dain in case he gets attacked.
Tilver walks in warily. "Maybe this is what they were defending. But they were completely cut off from it."
He walks down the length of the room, ignoring the vault doors for the moment. He goes to move the folding screen.
As you enter the room with the screen, the storm depicted on the screen moves and becomes real. A whirling torrent of wind flies out of the screen and attacks!
The vaguely humanoid storm blasts Tilver with enormous gusts of air, but the doughty warrior holds on and is not harmed.
+2 Initiative if Perception, wins ties regardless of which skill is used.
+2 Initiative
STATUS
Wind Creature
Isabel
Tilver - 52/85 hp
Tung - 61/78 hp
Silas - 96/109 hp
Skarvek
Dain - 72/85 hp
Tung attempts to slice up the gusty humanoid as he ponders its origin.
Silas rages and then moves to strike at the creature.
Surprised by the windy onslaught, Tilver can't quite get his best bearings for a good attack. Instead, he barrels ahead, lashing out at the screen, hoping that perhaps the creature is tied to it and that destroying the item will end it.
Dain rushes forward while Magill hangs back and chitters encouragement. Dain calls upon spirits for protection, then stikes!
From his position guarding the rear, Skar finds he must quickly cover the ground lost. Thankfully his elvish legs carry him at a speed most would call a dead run and he would term an amble. Blade drawn he calls up the magic inherent in his tune.
Tung recognizes this as a rare form of air elemental known as a Storm Knight. Storm Knights feature very high winds, such that it is hazardous to fly near them. Small creatures might also be tossed about. They can use lightning and can disappear and reappear like gusts of wind. While they don’t have anatomy per se, there are nodes of elemental energy that can be attacked (they’re not immune to precision damage).
As Skarvek plays a martial air, Silas, Tilver and Tung attack the Storm Knight, killing it. Dain smashes the ancient screen that summoned it. The winds swiftly disperse.
COMBAT OVER
STATUS
Isabel
Tilver - 52/85 hp
Tung - 61/78 hp
Silas - 96/109 hp
Skarvek
Dain - 72/85 hp
Tung wipes some debris from his face and moves over to inspect the doors in this hallway.
All three are Vault doors and appear undisturbed.