;P
Oso steps away from the villainous Altai.
"We go?"
If yes then he is will match Gittik's foot speed.
"Let's do it. One factor that helps us is that we do't need to worry about traps as we chase thm - in their panicked, mind-addled state, they will have set off aything that might have been there."
You guys.....do you run up the stairs?
if yes.....
You crest the staircase; it ascends a good 100 feet, girdling the shaft as it goes. (heh heh....)
it climbs up to.....
mno1,curving to o2-4, then switching back to mn4 and onto a platform at kL 3-5. This platform overhangs the shaft of the stairway.
It opens into a big room; a-j2-6; the entire platform's west wall is open to the room (15 foot opening).
At a4 on the opposite wall there's a hall continuing west.
In this room.....
at ab 5-6 is the last red slaad.
at cd 2-3 is a beauteous crimson haired giantess with skin like midnight, in form-fitting mail body suit wielding a mighty two-handed sword.
And at e5 is a frog-headed bullywug in a breastplate made from the hide of a black dragon, wielding a wicked greataxe.
He looks hard and scarred, and he looks like he's been around the swamp and cut himself out of a few things in his day that made the misstep of swallowing him whole.
You guys can pick a spot from k to o on the platform or on the stairway, and roll initiative. Their roll is a 13.
If no, then.....I guess I need to know what.
Elgan shifts to wolf form (medium sized) and keeps up with the others.
As they ascend the,... staircase, Elgan;s canine and druid senses seem drawn to the black-dragon clad bullywug.
"Mine." He growls out, briefly in his elf form while shifting between his common garden-variety wolf form, and his Dire-Wolf-on-Bulls Strength form, now that he has the room to grow that large.
"Bloody hell. No wonder you were hiding behind that corner, Grobnar, looking like that." Altai makes a theatrical face. "So, Ulga, is Grobnar here still not speaking for you? Just help us chop his ugly mug off, and we'll let you go on your merry way."
"Oh, after you gassed me half to death? Then made me a lunatic for a minute? Now you'll let me go."
"Yeah, lady. Grobnar treat you right. Stick with him."
"Hey, the room was smaller than I thought." Altai shrugs apologetically. "Anyway, I suspect that was still nicer than anything Grobnar has done for you."
"We kill these guys, then Grobnar buy you diamonds. Show you gooooood time."
Ulga just gives Altai the look-of-death.
"Whatever you say, ma'am. I'm sure the Horns will love it when we put your head in a box and give it to them as a souvenir." Altai shakes his head with mock sadness and prepares to fight.
She's kinda fatigued looking, and a few flesh wounds.
The bullywug is the least hurt.
The slaad isn't wounded in the least, but he looks under the weather. sick.
"Hey, me like big girl. How about we no fight, we get jiggy instead? It big shame if me have to kill you."
"Take it all off and come on over then, big boy," she hisses through a cruel faux smile, taking up a high guard stance with her zweihander.
"Meh, me don't like aggressive woman. Me think maybe you lesbian."
"Pauggh....I have enlarged pores that would swallow you whole, weeman."
Now that's roleplaying.
Pip strums Lucille at the the sight of their foes
"A frog, a toad and a princess dire,
All cornered in their lair.
Their minds confused,
Their lungs abused,
I guess we don't play fair"
"Hey, maybe you virgin. You no worry, Gittik be gentle."
Grobnar:
"Hey, dumb short stupid guy. Why you talk about self like you somebody else. Why you not say, "I be gentle" or "I suck own butt?" You think you king of something? We am not amused? Or you just mental uncompetent? Me think you really immature."
"You can say whatever about Gittik. He don't care. Just don't dis his girl, Jane or else."
Surreptiously Oso casts dimensional wanker on Grobnar.
EDIT: should have been dimensional anchor
I'll let you reconsider the dimensional anchor spell; I just wanted to make sure you guys know Grobnar is a bullywug, not a slaad. There is a slaad in the room.
Unless you think Grobnar is a shapeshifter of some kind......
Grobnar:
"Hey, dumb short stupid guy. Why you talk about self like you somebody else. Why you not say, "I be gentle" or "I suck own butt?" You think you king of something? We am not amused? Or you just mental uncompetent? Me think you really immature."
"Hey, me chief of Kneecapper tribe. Me talk any way me like. You shut big mouth. Me maybe be nice and no kill big girl, 'cos she have issue and need love from me to feel better. But you, you me kill. 'Cos you big ugly and no one want get jiggy with you, not even the ugly monster that have big tongue that suck anything. But it no suck you! Hah!"
<to Oso>
"Me make sense there?"
Oso will use the spell on the slaad if he is still alive.
One solemn nod to Gittik with a sniff for the bullywug.
Grobnar:
"Hey, dumb short stupid guy. Why you talk about self like you somebody else. Why you not say, "I be gentle" or "I suck own butt?" You think you king of something? We am not amused? Or you just mental uncompetent? Me think you really immature.""Hey, me chief of Kneecapper tribe. Me talk any way me like. You shut big mouth. Me maybe be nice and no kill big girl, 'cos she have issue and need love from me to feel better. But you, you me kill. 'Cos you big ugly and no one want get jiggy with you, not even the ugly monster that have big tongue that suck anything. But it no suck you! Hah!"
<to Oso>
"Me make sense there?"
"PAUUUGH!!! My God Wastri does not know your Kneecapper tribe. Why you put hats on your knees? Oh,...never mind. Me see why.
You got real pretty mouth, boy. Bet you got prettiest mouth in tribe. Why they make you chief."
Oso will use the spell on the slaad if he is still alive.
One solemn nod to Gittik with a sniff for the bullywug.
Right on......he shines with a shimmering green light. Pukes a little bit into his throat wattle at the disconcertment of it all.
Bel; Gittik; Elgan; Altai left to attack.
"You're doing fine, Gittik", Altai mutters. "Or at least no worse than normal." Altai points at Grobnar, and a flash of electrcity arcs towards him.
The smack talking bullywug reacts to it. He gets hurt, but more like singed by it instead of full-on juiced.
The slaad takes the full brunt of the electrical discharge. It crumples in a blackened heap. This and the gas were too much for it's delicate constipation.
"ooh! that feel good, kobold! hit me again!" shouts Grobnar, even as he loses command of his bowels on the floor. his cloaca releasing it's contents.
"Nice. Just what I've come to expect from a follower of the Hopping Prophet."
Well, he was in a bit of the Sasserine background materiel so....
I get that "Sooty" feel from him.
Grobnar: "Hey, stupid kobold. Me glad you a dumbass human in all actually.
More meat on you that way."
Beldan is having to clap a hand over his mouth to stop himself giggling like a schoolgirl at some of Gittik’s comments.
The Dire-Druid leaps forward with a roar as the rest are still blinking Altai's lightning flash from their eyes. He attempts to bulldoze over the frog-demon and turn it into roadkill,...
"Aww, Wastri dammit!"
He stands firm to the charge; it misses and can't penetrate his black dragon hide armor.
Guessin Elgan ends at f5.
Gittik; Beldan left to attack.
I'm out for a few hours; Christmas play wot wot.
Seeing the dragonhide armoured bullywug as a good enemy, Oso prepares to charge too.
Pip gets his lightning gun ready as he plays some satire towards the bully of a bullywug.
"Froggie went a fightin' he did try,
Uh huh uh huh.
Froggie went a fightin' he did try,
uh huh uh huh.
Froggie went a fightin' he did try,
'Til the Regulators made him cry,
Uh huh uh huh uh huh."
“You no worry, big girl. Me show you how me powerful, then you no want fight, get jiggy. You see. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!”
Gittik scores a nasty blow on the frogman. The frog's eyes bulge massively and his throatwattle swells prodigiously as the frog enters his own battle frenzy.
Beldan's left to act, then them.
"Hahahahaha! Am that best you got, hobniz? You almost tough as my little sister."
"Me only just get started, froggy!"
Just recapping positions:
Altai: L3
Gittik: F4
Elgan: F/G 5-6 (he is Large)
Pip: ?
Oso: ?
Beldan: ?
Grobnar: E5
Ulga: C/D 2-3