As the first Rakk comes down Jack takes a hefty swing at it.
Jack hopes that initial hit takes down the Rakk. Jack then weathers at least a single attack from the other, him not being quick enough to attack the both of them as they reach him. He then fights defensively attacking the second one.
Elo hesitates and keeps climbing.
Jack slices the first rakk in half, the other one gets into range and does a double attack with its talons and fly-bys.
talon attack, damage.
talon attack, damage.
As the Rakk comes back for another fly-by, two more rakks are coming in at this point. So a total of 3 rakks are diving to attack you.
Balthe, Jack, and Elo are up on top. Ida is just 10 feet below the cliff edge. Jack and Balthe both get a round to prepare before attacked.
During this Five sends his silver raven back down to the goblin.
Balthe does a rapid shot with his hand crossbow at the Rhak
for
for
Rakk
Rakk
Rakk
Balthe
Elo
Ida
Jack
Round 1
18 Rakk*
16 Rakk*
10 Rakk*
15 Balthe*
14 Jack
10 Elo
3 Ida
The first two rakks attack Jack and the third goes after Balthe. They dive down and do fly-by attacks. Provoking Jack. They fly off and begin to circle around.
On Jack:
talon attack, talon damage.
talon attack, talon damage.
On Balthe:
talon attack, talon damage.
talon attack, talon damage.
Confirm crit. talon attack, talon damage.
Jack takes a gouging on his shoulder, though Balthe takes the brunt of the talons on his head. Now as they fly off, you can retaliate.
Blathe's shots seem to bounce off the rakk's tough hide.
As they fly off the first time Jack readies an attack against the first one to get into reach. The previous attack from them doesn't seem to have phased him much. As the pair swoop down on him his first attack comes up then he swings back down as the opportunity arose.
Round 1
The first swing cleaves the Rakk in two while the downswing falls short and it gets a pair of talon attacks on Jack causing him to draw blood for the first time this fight. As it flies off he unleashes his full flurry at the one he missed the first time. Not worrying about the rope now that he has more friends to help defend it.
Though only one of his tentacles seem to connect.
Ida takes a move action to continue climbing, followed by a stanard action to add Jack back to the collective.
Swift blinks his eyes for a moment. Where did he end up? Good question. He had assumed he had simply landed in the river or something but he wasn't quiet sure. He looked about and answered then.
"I dunno, floating above the river it seems. There's rocks but you can see that f..."
Oh, he forgot. It wasn't the bird that asked him that question it was the person that send the bird who asked the question. Bird was just the messenger. It had rules or something. Its name first he believed, so that the bird knew you were talking to him.
"Purple Fixen," then came the message. "Tell him I am floating above the river, in some kind of magical stream. I see the cliffs on both sides, but with purplish mosses on it. There's some strange fishies here too, seems like they swim in the air, but theys really just floatin'in the magic stream too. I am floating... Northward, sun at my back it seems. All I did was believe real hard that the riddle was true and that the protectors would somehow catch me and all would be okay. Forget the ropes and safety stuff, only blind faith can save your butt."
And finally, the person you wanted the message send too. Now go find Five and tell him.
Once the bird is back, Five nods to the bird and jumps off. Using a psychic burst to send a message to Ida reconnecting the telepathic bond.
Will save DC 10
Swifty raises his eyebrows. If memory served him, he had been playing with the thought of offing this grey bozo just minutes ago. Or was that hours? Hard to say, the stream seemed to have some slightly intoxicating effect on him. What ever it was it was at least very relaxing. He smiled.
Oh, right he asked me something. What do I want?
"Ehm, hows about an amulet that makes my fists somewhat more... efficient in their strikes? Would that be possible?"
"Yes I could create something like that, how do you strike foes, with your strength or dexterity?" Five asks, as he floats and relaxes.
Ida nods as she hears Five's voice, continuing her ascent. As she reaches the top, she takes her remaining standard action to add Jack back to the collective.
Creating her bow, Elo sights and shoots in a single, smooth movement.
"Like viper" Swiftstab grins, staring upward at the bue sky above the chasm "Fast like and precisely where I want. Dexterity if you like that word. Granite was all about strength. He was rare. Us Goblins, we mostly use reflexes. Be faster then the tall-folk. Move faster and fight smarter. Stonefists is like falling rock, gyou not see coming till he splits yer skull."
He felt something stroke his bare foot and looked. A fish was inspecting his toes to see if they were edible. Swiftstab kicked, but as soon as he pulled his foot back, the fish already jumped and swam away.
If he does see the rock, he moves out of the way...
Swiftstab shrugged and relaxed again.
The rakks have attacked, one is at Jacks feet. Two others fly off but soon turn around, each of you get another round before they will do their flyby attacks again.
Take round 2 actions and state any readied actions for round 3.
Balthe mkes sure he is loaded
RD 3
Rapid shot for
Rapid shot for
to confirm Rapid shot for
to confirm second attack Rapid shot for
Concentrating, Elo launches two more phase arrows at the Rakks.
Jack stands at the ready and waits for the Rakks to swoop back down. If any enter his reach he will take his attack of opportunity then smack them again with his readied weapon.
Ida channels energy, once the rakks have left, healing damage to the four on the cliff, a total of 16 HPs healed. She directs 4 points of the healing to Jack, and the remaining 12 points of healing to Balthe.
Her Round 3 action will be to ready an action to manifest Disruptive Touch on a Rakk if it comes within reach of her, expending her psionic focus to do so.
"ہم ان لوگوں کی دیکھ بھال کر لیا ہے ایک بار، ہم جا ملتا ہے، اور دوسروں کو پکڑنے ہوگا. ہم جمپ میں اعتماد تو ہم ٹھیک ہو جائے گا ," Ida says, oblivious once more to the fact that she's speaking another language.
After the groups many attacks, in the two rounds, the two rakks join the first on the ground in pieces. A longsword and rapier drop with the rakks, as well as 13 gp, 8sp, and two bundles of $50.
marking the loot on my sheet
Balthe replaces his bolts grabs the loot and leaps off
Ida breathes out a sigh of relief, refocusing and spending her focus on Detect Psionics twice.
This sword's got fire magic in it, but I can't figure out the other one, she says, as Balthe grabs it and jumps.
Now, let's get going, she says, leaping off the edge of the cliff now, herself.
Elo rolls her eyes and somersaults off the cliff.
As Jack has been up here on his own, having no idea what the group is doing he yells at them. "The hell are you guys doing?"
Jack do you want to drop your weapon as a free action and take an AoO to snag one or two of them?
I forgot we didn't know that already. Sorry I thought five had explained it. Sorry.
Ida yells back at the others, We've got to catch up to the others! Five's going to meet us at the city.
Well Jack you got one AoO that you can grab one of them. Then you might as well follow. Considering all but that one would have jumped off.
Will Save DC 10, don't fail it will be bad.
Once you save and almost hit the river after a 300 foot drop; you find yourself underwater. Swimming up to the other figures you come out of the water, slow moving river of some kind but it is very easy to float even in armor. Strange animals fly around, scurry around the trees, lots of fauna, and the water is multi hued let alone the filtering of the sun through the trees is like through a prism.
Swifty if you want to add anything about what you see or feel. Feel free to elaborate, actually anyone can.
You can see Swiftstab, and Five further down, but not much perhaps 100 feet.
Jack is confused at all the people jumping off, he tries to swipe after one of his friends but misses. He the jumps off himself after them trying his best to catch one, his idea he will grab a couple and then shapeshift grabbing a hold of the wall. Unknown to him something else is happening here. So as he falls.
He finds himself underwater. Jack is still bewildered at the sudden change in scenery. He could've sworn there was no river at the bottom of the chasm when he last checked. Jack focuses calming himself then rights himself under the water looking for the surface. He surfaces opening his mouth wide gasping for air.
His fur wet Jack wraps his tentacles around his body, it might not be skin tight but in the frigid water he wanted to keep as much warmth as he could. Jack's eyes scan the length of the river spotting the others that jumped off. He smacks his hand against the water trying to grab their attention, in a bit of a rage with a little worry in his voice he yells at them. "The hell was that?! What if there wasn't a river down here?! I commend the bravery but what is with this folly! I don't want to make a habit of all of you leaping into the maws of death for no reason!"
Balthe enjoys the calm of the water. So rarely in his life does he come across true calm. Then he breaks the surface and looks at Jack who is slapping the water and shouting.
Five yells back at Jack, "Trust me there was no river at the base of that free fall! Calm down, our little goblin showed us a better way! If I had known it would have been much easier to just jump."
Ida smiles foolhardily. "We made it just fine. Five told me it was alright, and lo and behold, it was."
"So after analyzing this place for a bit of time, I think it be a Vault, one where you just had to trust the Ancients, feel free to exit when you choose. I am sure there will be other surprises, just not forsure if they will be good or bad. Now it did tell of a vault near the town, though I did not think it would be part of its defenses. Though through my sacrifices with a few books, I really don't want you to go through the same things Swiftstab." Five seems to be rambling.
Five! Focus!
"Right, focus, well think about what you want and make it as clear as possible, then you will find a reward or a threat and reward, or something like that. I would ask each of you to venture forth first, please." Five stops rambling and focuses on the 'problem' at hand.
"Oh well, I guess I will go first." He grumbles a bit as he begins to swim out of the river to the shallows.
Bah didn't show up
Balthe follows focusing on dry land and a place to sleep
Five gets out of the water first, there seems to be a steam or mist that blocks your view of him, Balthe and Five do not even see this mist. Balthe following Five out of the water...
Five kneels down at a chest of some kind with an intricate lock.
A bedroll with a comfy pillow, and a few extra silk blankets are nearby.
Balthe curls up and sleeps, the first comfortable sleep in years
A few minutes later the mist passes, leaving an open glade on either side of the river. No sign of Balthe or Five.
Forever left in the dark here, these mystical beings are going to get me killed... oh well, let's see what will happen next.
Balthe and Five disappear in the fog as they swim across. "So this is 'safe' and 'alright'. At least I know with a monster it is easy to perceive that my blade cleaves flesh. This is beyond my knowledge and just lots of illusion and bizarreness. Jack mutters.
Ancestors protect me. He dives into the water, not wanting to waste more of his resources on shape changing he decides just to swim normally.
Ida swims towards the edge that Five and Balthe went to. "Uhhhh.... Five? Hrmmm..... This is outside my knowledge, too, I think."