Stiggy has to row; the drow is no longer coherent. He's pretty much comatose. He rows on, and the lagoon goes on and on through a long wide hallway of cavernway. He rows for a goodly half an hour.
Up ahead, finally, the cavern opens up into a wide underwater lake. There's an islet in the middle; he can hear a fluting music coming from a single solitary form on the islet.
Dancing green embers like great fireflies light the promontory in the middle of the lagoon. It's about 250 feet across the lagoon to the islet.
<Stig rows to the islet.>
Oso looks down at Gittik with a ghoulish grin, "you wanna fly up there?"
"Yeah, me have calamari tonight. You make me fly."
“You want to do what to it?”
Beldan doesn’t know what calamari is (he’s not a big seafood eater) but he thinks it sounds dirty.
"Heh, you got lemon?"
<Stig rows to the islet.>Stiggy has to row; the drow is no longer coherent. He's pretty much comatose. He rows on, and the lagoon goes on and on through a long wide hallway of cavernway. He rows for a goodly half an hour.
Up ahead, finally, the cavern opens up into a wide underwater lake. There's an islet in the middle; he can hear a fluting music coming from a single solitary form on the islet.
Dancing green embers like great fireflies light the promontory in the middle of the lagoon. It's about 250 feet across the lagoon to the islet.
The islet is a small step pyramid/platform. Looks somewhat Olman.
Lobster head motifs along the sides; lobster heads and claws. The fluter, garbed in a robe, stops fluting; reveals her face from the cowl. Looks down at Stiggy.Beautiful face; human; crystalline green eyes and fiery touseled red hair; she speaks....."you don't look like I would have imagined, Charon.....(you've heard of Charon).....mayhap he's so busy he takes on contractors? So, where am I to go for my final rest then?"
Guessing Oso pops a fly on Gittik(?); Gittik and Pip still up to bat.
Pip strums Lucille
"A vegetable should stay on a plate,
Not run around all crazy trying to hate.
You can step up Carrottop and give it a try,
'Cause the Regulators make a mean stir-fry."
Oso casts the flight of the valkyries on Gittik and watches the little fella take off.
The islet is a small step pyramid/platform. Looks somewhat Olman.
Lobster head motifs along the sides; lobster heads and claws. The fluter, garbed in a robe, stops fluting; reveals her face from the cowl. Looks down at Stiggy.
Beautiful face; human; crystalline green eyes and fiery touseled red hair; she speaks....."you don't look like I would have imagined, Charon.....(you've heard of Charon).....mayhap he's so busy he takes on contractors? So, where am I to go for my final rest then?"
<Stig scratches his belly and stares at her. He's gonna see where this takes him.>
Sorry Heath, I’ve been adding +2 to hits and damage this fight … its probably too late to retcon tapir lady back to life, but if you want for that last vegepygmie I took down to still be standing, that’s cool.
Meh....you pretty much critted the hell out of tapirlady, and it's a simple enough thing to say Pip started his music before you knifed up Chia Pet Boy in the same round; I'll let it lie.
Gittik pokes the aberrant thing once good with his snickersnee, flying about like a mad Peter Pan.
The mindflayer backs up to c5, and it's tentacles splay open widely, erect, and a resonant thrumming prefaces a blast from it's mouth that looks like a flickering mirage and sounds like a dragon roaring, it envelops and wracks Gittik in an awesome mental barrage.
mind blast, Gittik; wil save d.c. 19 or stunned for 5 rounds;.....
The vegepygmies also attack. They're fast.
The one at f2 swings on Elgan 5 times with it's psionic knife.
Elgan's hit twice; 15 h.p. in damage.
The one at v2 stabs at Pip five times.
Pip takes 4 psychic knives in a horrifically fast barrage;
20 h.p. damage to the bard.
Finally, the one at v3 moves to d2 and attacks Beldan once.
And misses.
New round; everybody can attack; Gittik to make a d.c. 19 wil save vs. the mind blast
(oh, and I remembered a conc. check for the acid damage.....)
<Stig scratches his belly and stares at her. He's gonna see where this takes him.>The islet is a small step pyramid/platform. Looks somewhat Olman.
Lobster head motifs along the sides; lobster heads and claws. The fluter, garbed in a robe, stops fluting; reveals her face from the cowl. Looks down at Stiggy.
Beautiful face; human; crystalline green eyes and fiery touseled red hair; she speaks....."you don't look like I would have imagined, Charon.....(you've heard of Charon).....mayhap he's so busy he takes on contractors? So, where am I to go for my final rest then?"
"Don't you know? Can't you read my aura or something? Decide which underworld I belong in?
Is there a heaven that could use another angel then?....."
“Oh, bad mistake fungusmidgit.” Beldan shifts his stance so that he’s once again flanking the little guy with Elgan, then goes into his own flurry of stabs with his rapier.
The first two stabs hit.
The veg' is pretty badly hurt, but is still fighting.
Altai steps away from the scrum before blasting the mind flayer with crackling lightning.
You wanna do a roll for spell resistance?
The electricity courses around the mindflayer, harmlessly stabbing into the roof.
It looks down at you, serpentine pupils tightening in concentration; you hear it's voice in your head:
"You are powerful, cattle. The power you display bespeaks an ordered mind.....a rare delicacy indeed."
The voice sounds kinda nerdly like Marvin th' Martian.
"Bah! Not quite what I had hoped for. I ... uh, what?" Altai looks rather surprised as the voice resonates in his head. "Well, I don't know about 'rare', squidling. Then again, you surround yourself with ambulatory vegetable matter, so your standards must be quite low."
"Aaaaaah....I see you appreciate our servitors...
it will be exquisite the first githyanki to die under the knives of these pets......who are nigh invulnerable to the powers of the mind."
"Githyanki? Perhaps you should put your glasses back on."
"Aaaah....a feisty one. I think that perhaps you will make a good hostmother for one of my pollywogs.....yessssss....."
"Don't you know? Can't you read my aura or something? Decide which underworld I belong in?
Is there a heaven that could use another angel then?....."
<Stig holds out his hand.>
Oso puts his hand across the bastard sword and pushes the whole thing towards the mind flayer casting as he mouths to the Prince of Swords.
“Oh, bad mistake fungusmidgit.” Beldan shifts his stance so that he’s once again flanking the little guy with Elgan, then goes into his own flurry of stabs with his rapier.
Elgan-bear simply roars in agreement, his own paws moving pretty darn quick themselves as he snaps and claws at the persistent weed caught between him and Beldan, tearing at it like a furry weedwhacker,...
<Stig holds out his hand.>"Don't you know? Can't you read my aura or something? Decide which underworld I belong in?
Is there a heaven that could use another angel then?....."
"I don't have a coin for you, Death. Will a song be adequate payment?" she queries, fluttering her fingers on her flute. It makes a palpable, comforting thooping sound as she quickly works the keys.
Oso puts his hand across the bastard sword and pushes the whole thing towards the mind flayer casting as he mouths to the Prince of Swords.
Mr. Tentacles fwaps to the ground, not dead, but prone, and gets 4 h.p. worth of a sprained ankle for his troubles; now on the ground in c5.
“Oh, bad mistake fungusmidgit.” Beldan shifts his stance so that he’s once again flanking the little guy with Elgan, then goes into his own flurry of stabs with his rapier.
Elgan-bear simply roars in agreement, his own paws moving pretty darn quick themselves as he snaps and claws at the persistent weed caught between him and Beldan, tearing at it like a furry weedwhacker,...
1d20+14; 1d8+10; 1d20+10; 1d6+8; 1d20+10; 1d6+8; 1d20+14; 1d8+10
Elgan's able to land one blow out of all that; it's almost dead, but damn it's a fast little spinachboy, flashing in a blur to dodge the ursine swats.
Gittik crumples to the floor, stunned; c4. He takes 3 h.p. damage from the 15 foot fall.
Next round roll save again; maybe get up...
And Pip is up to bat.
Gittik crumples to the floor, stunned; c4. He takes 3 h.p. damage from the 15 foot fall.
Next round roll save again; maybe get up...
ghosty posty!
Gittik crumples to the floor, stunned; c4. He takes 3 h.p. damage from the 15 foot fall.
Next round roll save again; maybe get up...
I was trying to take the "fly skill" deal into consideration; I was gonna call him for a fly skill roll to hover and fight, but it seemed that he was stunned, so couldn't make a fly skill roll, and thus would fall(?) Does that seem wrong to you guys; the fly skill stuff kinda doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I thought it made sense.
Oh yeah; I'll be back in an hour or two.....
Pip casts a Dispel magic on the latex-clad squidbilly.
Dispel rolls:
Pip strums Lucille
"Once knew a squidface
Who liked to fly high
'Till the Regulators
Shot him from the sky
Thought he was a king
Till we knocked him off his throne
Pureed his veggie comrades
And left him all alone .."
I was trying to take the "fly skill" deal into consideration; I was gonna call him for a fly skill roll to hover and fight, but it seemed that he was stunned, so couldn't make a fly skill roll, and thus would fall(?) Does that seem wrong to you guys; the fly skill stuff kinda doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I thought it made sense.
1d20+9;1d8+1
Pip casts a Dispel magic on the latex-clad squidbilly.
Dispel rolls:** spoiler omitted **
Pip strums Lucille
"Once knew a squidface
Who liked to fly high
'Till the Regulators
Shot him from the sky
Thought he was a king
Till we knocked him off his throne
Pureed his veggie comrades
And left him all alone .."
Nothing visible happens. Pip, however, does feel a "pop" in his ears, like the pop when a needle finds it's way into a vein.
The mindflayer, prone,
bursts out another blast, catching Altai and Elgan in the cone.....shimmering mirage, like heat flickering off of a road in hell.....d.c. 19 wil save for the elfbear and the mage.
Elgan's foe vegepygmy slashes at him; hitting 3 out of 5 times....one gets him in the neck for a critical.....17 h.p. damage total to the druid.
Pip takes 4 stabs from his attacker. 20 h.p. on damage.
Beldan takes an unconfirmed critical...the rogue's a.c. is too high for the pygmys it seems. 7 h.p. in damage.
Groups' attack.
Aub can make a d.c. 19 wil save to get back in the battle in a prone state.
Oh; and Pip barely missed the vegepygmy with his a.o.o.
"Blublublub..."
ghosty posty!