"Scrabbler no like eaty plants," the little goblin said, disheartened by the idea of facing off against yet another dangerous vegetable.
In spite of his fear he moved next to Bupkis, opened and readied his beartrap, and waited.
From the compost in front of you the brambles rise to form a 10 feet large creature that swings its thorny appendage at Ivan.
Menrozzar looked to Ivan, then nodded. "We'll do it this way - might be easier." He pulled out the bow, took aim, and loosed an arrow at the bramble.
Bupkis launches his sling bullet at the moving prickly thing.
A fight with something weird! With a silly grin on his face Dasseem rushes in to stand shoulder with Ivan and swung his sword mightily! More like shoulder to waist, but it's the thought that counts.
Scrabbler tapped Bupkis and held up his bear trap. "Do rock throw trick with this?" he asked nervously.
Menrozzar and Bupkis don't find something to hit in that mix of brambles and air between, but Daseem almost cuts it down singlehandedly.
Amira starts chanting an encouraging song. Ivan steps up to axe this abomination into oblivion.
It looks like a mere scratch compared to what Daseem delivered, but it adds to the brambles wounds. The weed lashes out at Daseem in return, But Ivan with his big shield pushes the attack aside.
Excited at Scrabbler's Plan, Bupkis sends the bear trap flying towards the bramble monster.
Ivan slams his hammer down hard onto a mound of bramble vines as if one was trying to juice them.
Menrozzar looses another arrow at the brambles, although it doesn't seem very effective.
With combined effort, you take down the bramble. Between the trap and Ivan's hammer, only a pile of splinters is left.
But just on the next pile of compost the same kind of bramble rises to face the intruders.
"Nasty weeds!", Bupkis cries, as he moves up and fires a sling bullet at the latest threat.
Daseem turned to face the new threat and wound up another thunderous cut, swinging his sword in a great downward arc!
"How many of these cursed things are there?" Menrozzar asks. Suddenly, unbidden, a series of words and gestures comes to his mind. He begins speaking them, weaving magic for the first time.
Scrabbler whined unhappily. He did not like the idea of fighting another plant. He did not like climbing them, or eating them, or stabbing them. Plants were just bad.
He resorted to his sling so he didn't have to get up next to it.
Bupkis and Daseem take on the next weed, but from the look of it that's just a symptom of the disease. The brambleblight sitting at the far end of the room can probably do this all day long. As Menrozzar starts growing, Scrabbler shoots a stone, that doesn't even hit.
"M-maybe we need ta burn it!" Growled Daseem as he hacked at the weed.
We gotta take down tha' main one O' the basterds. Ivan moves to the true brambleblight and swings his hammer up overhead, and downward.
Ivan storms towards the end of the room without caring for the consequences. With him packed in iron, there are probably none, but it is kind of reckless.
The animated bramble reaches for him, but the slam slides off the shield. Same for the brambleblight. But they both follow up with attacks at Ivan . Again without any success.
Noting an opening, Daseem's sword flicks out by pure instinct.
The brambleblight also is a hardy plant and the hammer has nothing on it.
Menrozzar’s spell finishes, and he suddenly stands twice the size. Hefting his Lucerne hammer, he roars and swings at the animated bramble to start clearing the way to the brambleblight.
Swing his oversized sword low like a scythe, Daseem cried "Gorum Fend!" as he tried to hack through the Animated Brambleblight.
Together Daseem and Menrozzar bring down the animated Bramble and clear the path for anyone who wants to go for the source of this madness.
Bupkis moves after Ivan, taking cover behind one of the mounds.
Amira continues to sing her song of proud victory in the highest notes.
Ivan takes the big hammer up again and smashes at the brambleblight. But the brambleblight is not that slow. It lashes out, throwing a volley of thorns at the humanoids.
Daseem as well as Scrabbler have a thorn in their flesh now. The others are lucky, or in case of Ivan, simply behind so much iron, that nothing makes it through.
Menrozzar charges forwards towards the brambleblight, roaring with his newly enhanced size, striking at the creature.
Bupkis peeks around Ivan and sends a small crossbow bolt towards the brambleblight.
As the thorn rips Daseem's flesh the lad laughs almost rapturously, "Gorum!" The faint outline of a ghostly shield appears before him and then he hurries to stand by Ivan's side.
Ivan blocks the wooden stakes with his shield, and tries to hammer the writhing mass of thorns.
A Brambleblight is a sturdy thing and all the hamering and slashing doesn't get through. Only Bupkis manages to get a shot in that has some effect.
Behind Ivan another bramble comes to life and lashes out. This time at Menrozzar. The thorns cause bad bruises, but at least the thing gets no hold of the man.
Taken aback by the emergence of a new threat, Bupkis tries to punch it with his cestus.
Scrabbler yelps as the thorn buries itself in his side. Then he ducks out of sight.
Daseem grunted with exertion as he bring his oversized sword down in a great chop, but his footing was uncertain with all the undergrowth and his attack was wild and uncontrolled.
Second verse, same as the first.
Ivan keeps hammering away, determined to squish some part of this thing. He soams his head into a dead bramble patch out of frustration.
Bupkis punches the new bramble really hard for his size, breaking a branch or two. Daseem has all the range, but lacks the precision to make it count. Ivan hammers into the shrub and deals it some pain. But as he does and butts his head without hurting the plant more, he finds out that it is really painful to hurt that plant.
Menrozzar chooses to ignore the plant behind him to attack the brambleblight, thinking that if he gets rid of it, the little one goes away.
Menrozzar finds it easy to slam with his large hammer into the mess of brambles and does an impressive amount of damage to it.
As it can't reach Menrozzar, the Brambleblight rages at Ivan. Which makes Ivan look like he got pulled through the thorny bush. At least the parts that are not covered in iron.
The animated bramble goes for Menrozzar, but he is lucky and evades the attack.
Menrozzar continues doing his best to smash the plant into twigs.