Again, her sword merely creates a shower of sparks, like steel on flint.
Satari tries to quiet his mind among the clamoring pain of his wounded flesh. Should he return to the fray, or should he conserve his strength for greater challenges within the temple?
Looks like Claw, Pip, and Elgan are up.
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Pip nudges Zippy
"Go do your wind thing Zipster!"
Zippy nods and turns into a whirlwind, heading for the aberrant elephant
The Zippy tornado splits into images
The images round on the aberration and fire a lightning bolt
Pip sights the nightmare pachyderm and pulls a glowing green arrow out
"Time to clip Dumbo's wings"
Attack 1 (manyshot also)
Attack 2
Attack 3
Attack 4
Additional damage for Manyshot (if ATK 1 hits):
Ok,...
Elganelemental throws up his arms, and a thundercloud forms over the godlings head. A single, bright flash stabs downwards, the echo of thunder in the enclosed space is deafening.
Elgan the elemental flies a little closer,.... (but not withing striking distance until next round. Then it is ON!)
The good outsider's lightning bolt does a little bit to the pachyderm from hell, but not much.....
and Pip's arrows all glance off the thing for no effect.
Claw's turn; also Elgan if he wanted to recant per Altai's wishes and heal the unfortunate kung fu master......
Claw's up to bat.
The elephantine horror goes after poor wee Gjetost.
It hits with two claws and rends him, and hits with the eerie disk on the end of its proboscis.
Gjetost takes 122 hp and 2 points of constitution, which I guess costs another 18 hp.
Group's attack!!!
Pip brightens as he rummages in his quiver. He pulls out a gnarled ebon-shafted arrow graven in blasphemous runes
"Let's see if ol' Dereleth here does anything"
Attack 1 (manyshot also)
Attack 2
Attack 3
Attack 4
Additional damage for Manyshot (if ATK 1 hits):
Zippy tries his lightning trick again
reflex DC 17 for 1/2
Gjetost shakes his head, tarry blood trickling from his nose and little pieces of gravel rolling out of his shirt cuffs. "Good one. Now, it is my turn."
As a swift action, the paladin chooses one target within sight to smite. If this target is evil, the paladin adds her Cha bonus (if any) to her attack rolls and adds her paladin level to all damage rolls made against the target of her smite. If the target of smite evil is an outsider with the evil subtype, an evil-aligned dragon, or an undead creature, the bonus to damage on the first successful attack increases to 2 points of damage per level the paladin possesses. Regardless of the target, smite evil attacks automatically bypass any DR the creature might possess.
In addition, while smite evil is in effect, the paladin gains a deflection bonus equal to her Charisma modifier (if any) to her AC against attacks made by the target of the smite. If the paladin targets a creature that is not evil, the smite is wasted with no effect.
The smite evil effect remains until the target of the smite is dead or the next time the paladin rests and regains her uses of this ability.
Emphasis mine on interesting bits.
Emrael frowns at the amount of damage the thing is doing and her lack of success in damaging it. She draws upon her magic to prepare an attack, but remains out of the creature's reach.
Pip's heinous arrow does a woeful wound to the thing......his arrows and Gjetost's blows lay the brother low. He falls into bouldery chunks that turn into balls of squirming worms.
End of combat. 35,000 exp each character.
Huzzzah!!!!!
Not too quickly.
Elgan, eloquent as ever, sums it up nicely.
"Ewww,... Dat ain't raight,..."
Elgan starts tapping the wounded monk and samurai with his wands.
Huzzzzah!
Elgan starts tapping the wounded monk and samurai with his wands.
4d8+16; 4d8+16; 4d8+16; 4d8+16
mwahahahahaaa!!!
What next?.....
"Damn."
"Well fought, all. I have no idea what that was, and I'm not entirely sure I want to know. Now, let's search the temple. I have a sneaking suspicion we'll need to enter that pit, but let's try all other alternatives first, shall we?"
Where you searching?
The four orange fields are wooden doors. They sound like they're breathing; they are sculpted with frescoes of morbid scenes.
The statues are ornately armored humanoids with curling pig tusks and curved swords with rings on the blade.
The pit is cold, and dark. You can't see too far into it.
Right on
Throwing the bones for Satari.....
"Hmmm,....these are interesting carvings in this door; I don't recognize the style though....seems like the mountain people....."
add 24 percep for 33;
"It doesn't appear to be trapped."
"Well, in that case, I'd say we open it."
The room is massive, and opens out on a wide wide river lazily flowing by.
This doesn't make sense.....
It's warm as well; on the other side of the river it looks like a desert.
A raised platform sits before the river. A woman reclines asleep on it, on her back, perfectly still.
Odd pictograph writing is on the walls; people and people with animal heads.
Huzzzzah!!!!!
Wind comes off of the river, you smell the reeds waving in the breeze, and there's sand in the wind.
A single waterbird flies lazily over the lazily flowing river. You hear grunting; a pod of these massive things that look like fat, grey, bald......horses maybe, or the bastard child of a horse and a pig splashes into the river.......massive, grey piglike things.
A harp starts up from somewhere, accompanied by sombre flute music and a metal rattle of some kind.
"What."
"The."
"F~!*?"
Exactly
The elven kensai looks through the door, a puzzled expression plain on her face. Eyebrow raised, she looks at the wizard who seems to know a little of everything and a lot of most things. "Someone's dreamscape, perhaps?"
"Must be."
*long pause*
"Not the dream I expected, though."
*even longer pause*
"Let's peek through the other doors. After that we'll make a decision about what to do next."
"Yeh. Shuure. Dat soun's guud." Elgan adds in an oddly muted voice, staring at the scene before them.
"DAT ain't natch'rel," he adds, pointing at the animal headed persons.
"At leest not whar ah'm frum. But DAT might be. Hard teh tell frum here." He adds, pointing at the strange pig-horse things frolicking in the water.
Huzzzah!