"Can you shrink me, and make me look human? That way I could walk around some."Make sure you don't shrink his lungs...
heh heh....I didn't think about the short (sic) amount of time the spell would work.....meh, he'll take his grande up front though, and be ready to go.
Everybody ready? For Asgard?
As the ragtag group says their farewells to Sasserine?
Oso's there, as is Gittik. There and ready to go.
Hmm....skis.
Something I know nothing about, being as I grew up in Florida. Heh heh.
huzzah!!!
Everybody ready?....
Can do on the 650gp. Ready to go otherwise.
Oso tells everybody to join hands (or in Claw's case....)
in a circle.
He intones an incantation. Everything goes black, then a nimbus of light as if you are all within a rainbow.
Looking at Oso, he seems enwrapped suddenly by webs of fiber and is pulled away from the circle. Gittik grabs his leg and he too is yanked away.....
And then everything is white.
And red.....
and there is all around you the clangor of battle.
And bestial grunts, screams, oaths.....
the party is as follows:
Claw is at ij 12-13
Stiggy is at k 13
Elgan is at m13
The stone giant at no 12-13
Altai at j 14
Pip at n 14
Beldan at L 15
frost giants:
hi 5-6
no 8-9
st 8-9
ef 12-13
tu 12-13
pq 16-17
ij 18-19
uv 18-19
de 21-22
lm 21-22
and
pq 23-24
bugbears:
g4,j5,k7,
o7,
r7,
c11,f11,d14,
r12,s11,
h17,
o18,r15,
t18,u17,v16,
c20,d20,c21,
q22, r23.
Bugbears and frost giants are a-rumbling in the snow, snow everywhere, snow falling, wind screaming, battle joined.
Welcome to Asgard.
Roll initiative.
That's a 16 for them; mods and whatnot......group wins.
What do you do?
Pip activates his starmantle ability The cascading cloak of stars lights up the field. He starts riffing a power arpeggio off Lucille
"Valhalla the gods await me
Open wide thy gates embrace me.
Great hall of the battle slain
With sword in hand.
All those who stand on shore
Raise high your hands to bid a last
farewell to the Viking land!"
The magic works.....as the air in Asgard is breathable....
the fighting rages on as the halfling plays.
"This way!" Altai points to the northwest. "We need to avoid getting surrounded!"
*ROWR*
Claw lumbers into melee with the nearest giant.
Pip runs after Altai, trying to keep in the group as he keeps his inspiring chorus up. His mantle of shining stars trail away from his shoulders, flapping in the strong Asgardian winds like a neon streamer.
"This way!" Altai points to the northwest. "We need to avoid getting surrounded!"
(It's only half again as much damage...)
the one at tu 12-13 saved for the frost giants;the other two took 1.5x damage.
Amongst the bugbears, only r7 saves;
none fall.
*ROWR*
Claw lumbers into melee with the nearest giant.
Claw walks up and starts throttling the giant. He's getting pretty beat up.
you can stat him up and run him in battle; he's chaotic neutral with good tendencies (that's as good as a giant's gonna be here) but he can have celestial template and wup on evil as normal for that.
He says his name is "Gjetost." But he had a kinda snotty look on his face when he revealed that.
Gjetost, Stiggy, Beldan, and Elgan are up to bat.
There's an area devoid of snow and puddled up with muddy steaming meltoff where the fireball bursted, in a perfect fireball circle.
"Gjetost."
*snicker*
Yeah; what the hell.
Gjetost swings twice, cracking the frost giant in the ribcage, then smashing his helmet halfway around his face as he throttles the allready crispy giant down. First drop!
Stiggy, Beldan, and Elgan are up to bat.
"Gjetost."
*snicker*
well, I was like "f#!@, what do I name this dude?"
well, I was like "f@#!, what do I name this dude?""Gjetost."
*snicker*
heh heh...
huzzah!!!
huzzah!!!
“Shit!” Beldan huddles into his wolf-skin coat, trying to get his bearings in the falling snow and wild melee. Then the fireball explodes. As it clears, he sees his opening, and darts through the melted snow to flank and stab one of the bugbears.
EDIT: crit confirm Damage:
Beldan gives the bugbear one in the spleen; one that's gonna bleed him out eventually.
The giant, crispy from the fireballin's, giggles creepily as it happens.
A giggle like a goat, or like a man possessed of goaty Belial.
That's Elgan and Stiggy's cueue.
Elgan looks as excited as you've ever seen him as you all prepare for the journey. He is practically bouncing up and down with anticipation as you all gather with Oso for the ceremony. :)
When Oso and Gittik vanish into teh maelstrom of magic during the transportation, Elgan almost let go of the group to jump after them, when they arrive in the midst of a battle, the elf just shakes his head as if he knew better.
"Whah am I suur prised? I KNOWED dat 'civilized' fo'k is crazee! Don' mattuh whar yeh arh, Sasserine, Asgard,... Dey is ALL crazee!" He grumbles as he tries to figure out what's going on.
He shifts into his 'Dreadwood DireBear' form, his dark fur standing out like a beacon on the white battleground. He moves to stay next to Altai and protect him until he can figure out who the bad guys are.
Right on; I'll put Elgan in lm 13-14, and slightly shift Stiggy to....n13.
The giants look somewhat awestruck; one says, "birsarkr!" The bugbears just look hungry and insane.
STIGGY!!!!!
On the eastern sky, the thunder pulses once....twice....silently.
Giants make warding symbols, their equivalents of Catholics crossing themselves.....in not entirely superstitious fear of the thunderer.
Even Gjetost does it.....
and the snow plummets in weighty, wet gobs en masse from the sky that pelts heads with surprising, audible "thaps."
Beldan gives the bugbear one in the spleen; one that's gonna bleed him out eventually.
Beldan gives the bugbear one in the spleen; one that's gonna bleed him out eventually.
No wonder they’re cool with fighting frost giants.
N.O. 8-9 got kilt allready by the stone giant;
S.T. 8-9 is northwest and is reachable without any aoo's...
The frost giant is pretty effed up after stig hits him; stig to r9, but he's still in the fight.
Their go:
Giant at HI 5-6 kills the bugbear at g4, then gets hit once by bugbear at j5.
the bugbear at k7 five foots it to k8, takes an aoo from the giant, and hits claw once for 21 h.p. with a +1 magic weapon; greataxe.
bugbear at o7 moves to m9, hits claw for 18 h.p. with a +1 magic weapon; two handed; greatsword.
r1 bugbear hits stiggy's giant, stiggy's giant hits stiggy missing once hitting once, 24 h.p to stiggy.
Three bugbears drop the giant at ef 12-13, and leer at Altai.
Beldan's bugbear misses beldan, and is cut down by the giant at tu 12-13. The bugbear at s11 hits that giant.
The giant at ij 18-19 kills the bugbear at h17.
The giant at lm 21-22 moves up on Elgan, hits the elf for 23 h.p. and is now at lm 15-16.
The giant at pq 16-17 kills the bugbear at q15, and hits the bugbear at o18, which moves to n15 attacking Pip once; 12 h.p. in damage; remind self to look at Pip's star powers and adjust.
Okay....Pip gets a reflex d.c. 15 to save vs. that hit or take half.
The bugbears against the giant at uv 18-19 hit him; he hits them; none fall.....
The giant at de 21-22 fells the bugbears at c20 and c21, and is wounded by the one at d20 somewhat.
The bugbears at q 22 and r 23 run ; that giant swats one of them; they get to k 14 and k15. That frost giant laughs.
15 hostile bugbears, and 9 giants yet stand. Group's attack.....
Beldan gives the bugbear one in the spleen; one that's gonna bleed him out eventually.
No wonder they’re cool with fighting frost giants.
They're drooling a lot and look all crazy like Gittik when he was raging.....
Sorry; letters across the top; numbers down the side;
so like "X1: would be "northeast" direction wise.
Two weeks widdout no combattin's has left me addle coved.
The giant at pq 16-17 kills the bugbear at q15, and hits the bugbear at o18, which moves to n15 attacking Pip once; 12 h.p. in damage; remind self to look at Pip's star powers and adjust.
Okay....Pip gets a reflex d.c. 15 to save vs. that hit or take half.
Ooops...trixy hobbitses! yeah, he'll hit Elgan then.
Since I forgot the roll by now, rolling again, he hit elgan; same damage 12 h.p.