"This is it everyone. The winter that has come. The hut that has come. The destiny that has come. Make your ancestors and your bairns proud!"
Davosh pets Liska and holds the crystal in hand.
By now Kappi is well used to Davosh's strange talk. The Varisians are a traveling folk, they don't have barns...
But none-the-less the lad nods in affirmation to the strange Wanderer.
A two-story wooden hut dominates this clearing. The hovel stands on enormous chicken legs that restlessly scratch at the ground, but a gigantic manacle of iron, attached to a huge chain bolted to a spike in the earth, shackles the hut in place. An osseous fence surrounds the structure, and two corpses are impaled upon the sharpened bone pickets. A few ravens hop and flutter over the bodies, picking at the choicest bits of flesh.
The bodies impaled on the fence outside are those of a man with red hair, antlers, and hoofed goat legs; and a white-clad, pale-skinned woman with white hair, still crowned with the remains of a holly wreath.
A crystalline construct, which you recognize as an ice golem, stands silent vigil near the opening where the antilife effect once stood. No other entities can be seen.
I suppose I should thank you for ridding me of this fey incursion, a woman's cold voice says, seemingly from nowhere, but we both know what you've cost me already.
Round 1
Ali
Edward
baddies 1
Kappi
golem baddy
Vojtek
baddies 2
Davosh
"a spike in the earth, shackles the hut in place." You could name a book with that.
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Round 1
As Edward enters the clearing mists start to form clouding, yet sharpening the sights set before him. The Hut looms large, the mists forming black paths leading him to the chain that binds. The chain is pulsing with a swirling red miasma. Everytime the hut pulls against the bond the earth contracts, and the chicken leg sizzles and swirls red. Edward feels the Mantle of the Black Rider pulling him, urging him to complete his task.
Help It! Set it FREEE enters his conscience. Is that the Hut Edward thinks? But then he knows it wasn't, It was a more familiar voice it was his God Apsu blessing his actions urging him to stop the evil Queen of Irrisen by setting free this Dancing Hut.
Understanding that his life link will stay with Vojtek and Kappi Edward acts with the urge and runs straight past the slow Golem and bounds up the bone fence up and over towards his goal. The goal of freeing the hutt.
Vojtek follows!
Edward races past the golem and leaps onto the fence, starting to climb, though he doesn't make any real progress yet.
Eschewing the typical tough-talk banter, Ali pops out her wand of Shield, uses it on herself, drops it, and advances toward the golem.
IF THE DM ALLOWS THE SWIFT ACTION (since I believe both using a spring-loaded wrist sheath, and dropping an item are free actions), her sword bursts into flame
Ali shields herself and moves forward!
[spoiler=GM stuff]Silent Spell, casting summon monster IV
Round 1
Eyes fixed on the very dangerous looking ice golem the lad wastes no time. He moves forward slightly and hurls an Alchemical Fire hoping it will melt away in one round.
Throwing attack
molotov
Awesome. Then my rolls adjusted for Deadly Aim, are
To Hit 22
Damage 10
Awesome. Then my rolls adjusted for Deadly Aim, are
To Hit 22
Damage 10
bazuckingfinga!!
Kappi catches the golem square in the chest, and the explosion of liquid fire seems to damage the golem more than even the rogue thought it might!
What passes for the golem's mouth opens and an arctic blast of cold erupts from its maw, blanketing Ali and Kappi in its wake!
It then five foots closer to Ali, radiating intense cold!
Ali tries to shoulder off the cold blast instead of dodging it...to her peril.
Reflex save
Maybe it was a little awkward looking, tough to tell if the lad was dodging or slipping on the ice a little but either way he somehow manages to totally evade the cold damage.
Posting for Vojtek
Round one
The Barbarian runs forward and hits the ice golem as hard as he can.
Non raging attack
Great ax
The Northman faces the cold aura from the ice golem without flinching...
...and his greataxe strikes the construct, though the damage doesn't appear to fully go through!
Edward hears some chanting to his right, but cannot see exactly from where!
Davosh shouts "There's an invisible foe, blast my wasted magic! She ducked behind the house!"
Davosh opens both eyes wide. In his Big Eye a storm of green and red swirls. He speaks words meant for ancient ears and Liska takes off like a shot!
THREAT
Confirmed
target takes and FORT DC 19 for half damage each round.
Liska enters the aura of cold and takes...
She also provokes!
plus
So 11 all day, and she critically delivers the spell!
The spell does quite a number on the golem, but it remains intact!
Ali gasps in chagrin at seeing Liska get injured. her eyes flash in anger at the golem, a flash that is intensified by her bringing up fire on her blade, and bringing it down on the golem.
Enchant blade to +1 Flaming
(4 is fire damage)
"We've got spellcasters about! Find them!"
Round 2
Ali
Edward
baddies 1
Kappi
golem
Vojtek
baddies 2
Davosh
Edward finds some of the words familiar, but without being able to see the gestures he can't quite place the nature of the spell! He manages to get over the fence and moves to the back of the area, where a large, thick bluish-white chain of some unknown metal shackles both legs together and is connected to a sizable column of granite protruding a few feet out of the permafrost. Edward's presence seems to have agitated the Hut, as it shifts from one chicken leg to the other, almost pacing.
Ali's blade blazes forth, and while her sword doesn't seem to cut as deeply as she thought her strike would, the fire certainly does! The construct appears to be on its last legs!
Edward hears a curse word uttered in Hallit from above him, but has no time to search for it as a horrid mass of eyes, mouths, and formless flesh materializes near him!
It begins to babble incoherently, and all creatures within 60 feet must resist the insanity it inspires!
It launches a full-attack on Edward!
Suddenly appearing about 30 feet int eh air is a white-haired woman dressed in fine furs and wearing a circlet. She laughs aloud as the glitterdust rains down!
"I'll finish the golem! Get the woman!"
alchemical fire damage in round two
Round 2
Will Save
Heading Davosh's words the lad runs out of the GlitterDust area blinking and rubbing his eyes furiously. He pulls out a javelin on the move and hurls it at the flying spellcasting woman.
throwing attack deadlyaim
Javelin
The burning alchemist's fire on the golem is enough; it collapses under the blaze, exploding into a thousand jagged shards of ice around Ali and Vojtek!
kroikey, lots of saves!
<--addt'l +1 if this is an evil arcane spellcaster
<--addt'l +1 if this is an evil arcane spellcaster
<--d'ooooooohh
Ali nods to acknowledge Davosh's suggestion, but then glances at her flaming blade, snorting in frustration that she doesn't have a good wayto reach the spellcaster...yet. instead, she hustles over and takes a swipe at the crazy eye-thingy.
Will save
Confusion DC is 13.
Glitterdust DC is 17.
dammit. So Ali is Blinded.
umm...may I change my action then?
Cast Mirror Image, then move closer to the eye-mouth guy.
Kappi and Ali are blinded!
Vojtek is confused!
[dice=CONFUSION CHART]1d100[/dice]
He does nothing but babble incoherently (well, more incoherently) and can make another save at the beginning of his next round!
Suddenly a pair of hideous creatures pop into existence alongside Ali and Kappi, each a roiling wave of corpulent flesh gushing forward with half-formed limbs and a dripping tumorous face!
They attack the sightless Ali with flank!
Davosh walks up to Vojtek, drawing is rarely used morningstar and swings.
Davosh ends round 2 with a morningstar to Vojtek's head!
Round 3
Ali (blind)
Edward
baddies 1
Kappi (blind)
Vojtek
baddies 2
Davosh
Ali makes a blind swing at one of the things attacking her
<--WHIFFFFFF
<--WHIFFFFFFFF
Edward the Oradin!!!!
Grappled by the super gross gibbering monster, the Oradin casts Liberating Command and does his best to escape the disgusting clutches of said monster.
Escape Artist
Round the Third
Vojtek looks around slowly at Davosh incredulously. He touches his hand to a rapidly growing lump just below his hairline on his forehead and winces a bit. Vojtek avoids looking at The Eye, and with a wariness borne of his revenance for the ancestors, puts up his defenses... just in case. But in his confused state, the barbarian cannot let the assault go by unanswered. Vojtek winds up and delivers a quick kick to Davosh's snowcone (tundra speak for junk)
for non-lethal damage.