Dok drops his bow and, with practiced speed, tears his falchion from its sheath, attacking in the same motion.
Falchion attack 1:
Damage:
Fire Damage:
Falchion attack 2:
Damage:
Fire Damage:
Falchion attack 3:
Damage:
Fire Damage:
Falchion attack 2 (CRIT CONFIRM):
Damage:
Dok lays into the thing, and is eerily relieved to "hit" something solid, as the ghostbane dirge's resonations bring the thing into our dimension from terra insubstantia.
It proves hardy though, and stands, even as Dok slices into its neck and down into its lungs. Or,....where a more natural thing's lungs should be,.....
It is close to falling though; hardy indeed......
Elgan ignores the danger to himself, and pumps a little more healing into Beldan, just to be sure.
Elgan stands, turns, and glares at the nearest spirit/demon/whatsit/whocares.
"Chew Jes hurt muh fren. Dat wuz a bad ideer." He growls.
I mean he actually GROWLS, and then shimmers and shifts into his treant-form, filling the tiny space. His branch-arms burst into flaming, sparking torches trailing waves of frost.
"CUHM EN GIT SUM!" The not-so-tiny druid bellows.
Beldan's feeling much better, after two doses of druidic healing.
The kensai's blade continues to flash back and forth through the creature facing her.
Katana attack
Damage
Haste attack
Damage
Katana attack
Damage
If the crit applies, confirmation roll
Damage
Satari-san replies, "Tsk, tsk. Here I am being perfectly serious while you make outrageous statements that you can't possibly hope to carry through."
Damage
Damage
Damage
Damage
Damage
The bard looks around at the foes and decides to give the half-orc an assist as he draws his bow and a demon bane arrow.
Attack
Damage
Pip misses;
Emrael utterly destroys S4,
I assume Satari attacks S1, since he can full attack that shadow demon.
He does S1 in, bashing away until its now solid body flops to the ground.
Alta/Claw........
There's one demon left.
Claw leans over Pip and lays into the remaining demon .
Elgan trree looks sad.
"Awww. I waaaanted to poound ooon iit!" He rumbles.
He looks at the last one that Altai targetted.
"It Wuuz stiil twiitchiing."
Claw and Elgan ro sham bo the last shadow demon, and Altai blasts it in the face with a magic missile, leaving a magic missile sized hole through its head.
It attacks Elly, for....
a roll of 1, 2, and 2 to hit.
Group's up.
It's really messed up now.
"Yeew Wuunt suum moore?!?!"
SLAP! POW! ZOWIE!
:)
"Annd staay Doowwn!!"
Emrael dismisses the haste effect and takes a couple more cuts at the shredded creature.
Katana attack including inspire courage bonus
Damage
Katana attack including inspire courage bonus
Damage
Elgan and Emrael finish the last of the shadow demons, and alll is silent again.....
end of combat.
7,500 experience points each.
Emrael looks around, tense, at the sudden silence. She slowly moves toward the door, magically shining key in one hand, katana in the other.
Pip finishes up his song
"Where there's something strange,
In your neighborhood,
Who you gonna call?
REGULATORS!"
He looks about at the carnage
"Sweeeeet"
He follows Emrael as she heads to the door
After a cursory glance,...there's an ensconced set of massive double doors, at the place now marked in red on the map, behind a pile of skulls.
Who's yerr decorator, Vlad Tepes?.......
Elgantree looks around.
"Awww,... Nooo mooore?"
The tree shimmers back into an elf. He looks around.
"Ever-wun okay?"
He peers at Beldan. "Yew need anudder whack wit' deh happy stick?" He asks, waving one of his cure wands.
"Interesting. I wonder if those shades are from then, or now, or some other time. So, onward to meet the Nereid? I hope she is nicer than the decor suggests."
"Awww,... Nooo mooore?"
The tree shimmers back into an elf. He looks around.
"That was more than enough. Jeez, fire-resistant monsters? What will they think of next?" Altai shakes his had. "Now, the nereid can't be any worse than that lot, can she? Let's move on. Clear the way, Claw."
Claw clears away the skulls, and opens the door with a mighty creak.
It leads to a hallway running south, which empties into a massive mausoleum.
The "yellow" is a raised area, and the "darker yellow" is stairs that run down from the entry; they're not a stairwell, just stairs down from a raised area that wrap around said area.....i.e. they all slope away from the raised area; let me know if that doesn't make sense.
the black rectangles represent raised sarcophagi; stone, with stone reliefs on top of warriors in repose, armed and armored;
There is a large pool of eerily lit water, blue like the Caribbean, blue like heaven's Oceans.
On the other side of the pool, a throne carved ornately from a single massive chunk of jade, and pebbled with gemstones.
The throne appears empty.
'Niaace Place." Elgan mutters deadpan.
"If'n dis' iz how dey set up dere gues's, Ah'll take muh chances campin outside. Weeerd tahme-shifts 'en all!" He states firmly. You get the sense that Elgan might be just a teeny bit claustrophobic, his being used to the outdoors and all.
"Nice enough if you like your furniture hard and unyielding. Let's check out the pool; the quicker we're done down here, the happier I'll be."
"Raight yew areuh." Elgan mutters, hopping up on Claw's broad shoulder and peering ahead,...
Perception
Beldan addresses the empty room from the raised entry, "So, uh, the emperor sent us to talk to you. He thought you might have some information about this sword." He looks over his shoulder at Altai, "That's what he said, right?"
Holding the key before her like some sort of magical ward, Emrael waits at the edge of the landing for any signs of life within the room.
Emrael sees....the lid to the northermost of the coffins raise and crash soundly to the ground.
A woman's head floats up out of the sarcophagus, a head trailing entrails........entrails which hold six katana in their snaky grip.
When this crap goes down, the party's standing there in the "yellow."
"Penanggalan!" Pip shreiks
He rips a power cord from Lucille
"Blood sucking creatures of the night
Nocturnal spectre hiding from the light
Cries screaming out every fright
Eagerly awaiting plight
Apparitions from the pits of Hell
Death plagues the streets in which they dwell
Demented lust, the secrets they must keep
Addicted to your blood
At dawn they sleep "
Initiative......
A loop of bowel holds two katana at the side; lungs arc up and hold two of the swords in high guard.
Two kidneys drag their katana on the ground, making an eerie shrill grating sound......
Elgan makes a face. A combination of disgust and horror.
"Dat. Jes'. Ain't. Right!"
Mwahahahaha!!!
"Indeed. That is no way to treat a fine weapon. Why, that single sword could the culmination of a life's work."
She tucks the key into her belt and takes a defensive posture.
Initiative
Group wins initiative.
She.....doesn't seem interested in a nice chat.
"Huh. Kidney pie, coming up. Now, what in the Nine Hells is this thing?"
She's a Penanggalen. They pull their heads and guts out of their body; a sort of vampire....you've never heard of one using its entrails to wield weaponry though.
DR 5/silver and slashing.
Resist cold 10, fire 10
fast healing 5.
Light sensitivity. Staggered in sunlight if outside of body.
Blood drain 1d4 con; disease filth fever; bile withers; fort or take 1d4 dex and 1d4 charisma........
no spell resistance
"Huh. Kidney pie, coming up. Now, what in the Nine Hells is this thing?"
"Iz TOAST! Daz whut dat iz!" Elgan replies from his perch atop Claw's shoulder pad.
heh heh.....more like bologna....
"Is that a look of recognition? Do you know how best to defeat such a creature?"
"This is a..... Well, think of it as an unusually disgusting vampire. Try to not let it bite you. It is killed by pounding it into paste, preferably with silver swords."
"Poundin' inteh paste? DAT we kin arrange!" Elgan chuckles mirthlessly. He begins waving his arms and chanting, calling upon the power of nature surrounding him even deep in the crypts,...
Altai thuds a Melf into the creature's innards, and it shrieks horribly.
Pip; Altai/Claw have gone; everybody else is up.
Speed enhanced by Pip's spell, Emrael launches herself toward the creature, striking like a viper and returning to the platform .
Attack
Damage
BAM!
She ain't chaotic neutral......
Emmy slashes the thing but good, and it seems blunted somewhat, due to the lack of silverness of her blade....
Nonetheless, there's some innards that got gouged pretty good.
Dok; Satari; Elgan; Beldan are up to bat.......