I definitely think the exophthalmic left eye gives everything he says a little more "oomph."
Stiggy!!! ;)
Heathy:
"Ye talk too much, ye jobby git." Stig grabs his axe and throws himself at the barghest like a belligerent bearded butterball of doom.
Oww, f$#+!!! ;)
Stiggy wails on the Wolfthing, leaving a big, gaping wound in it's flank flaying muscle, exposing a grill of ribs, and the vascular lining of the thing's lung if lungs are indeed what it has.
Stiggy is mauled by the barghest for 9 h.p in damage.
Riese is attacked by ratthing 1, who moves to H12, and misses with a longsword.
Ratthing 2 stands to, and swings at Gittik, who is stabbed for 10 h.p. in damage.
Ratthing 3 moves up to L7, stabs Beldan for 8 h.p. in damage with a longsword.
C.E. throws handaxes down his tree, and Jody starts shooting arrows down his tree; the action of this is out of view for everybody, though K.C. exclaims, "how ya like a f*~@ing axe in your head, b~!+#!!!" with a manic glee, and Jody just fires arrow after arrow like some automaton.
Round 2!!!
Momentarily put off by trying to work out what Riese actually was saying, Gittik misses with his scimitar His second strike with his kukri is more telling
Stig's next attack:
(lol) I was going to have the barghest feign wounding unto unconsciousness, then turn invisible and knock somebody off the platform, but...
The viscious three-way attack from a kukri to the neck, a barrage of magic missiles to the back, and an axeblow to the skull drops the thing in it's tracks; it pumps warm steaming brimstone ichor out of its wounds in it's death throes.
Riese; Beldan; Elgan!
meanwhile....
C.E. "Jody! I hit this sumbich in th' head with a damn axe! He's still climbing!"
Jody "My arrows hardly phase this f#%@er either."
"What the hell are you guys talking about? What's climbing up the trees?!"
Jody, nonchalantly:
"Morrem rathead f*#&nuts. One on every tree."
"Well, at least their boss is dead. They'll join him soon enough."
C.E. "If therr's a girl rat head, see if you kin go kinda easy on her."
"Dammit, I can't keep slinging spells all day....only a couple left.....Caustural fletchina Morat!" 5' step back and cast Riese's Acid arrow at the critter before me. 1d20 6=22 ranged touch, 2d4=3 damage this round, 2d4=5 damage next round. Riese starts eyeing up the trees to his left and right, readying to face that challenge when it comes.
The rathead bastard is hit by the arrowspell. He shrieks, and in goblin, "aaah! Burns me! Burns me!!!"
the acid effect bubbles and gobs of flesh drip off of him in rancid splapping chunks, he flails about scratching himself, and a cloud of flaky dander wafts into the air like a poison snowglobe.
Nope. They're nekkid.
Nope. They're nekkid.
Elgan finishes chanting, his final words carrying up in a cacophony of animal noises, which seem to swirl into a whirlwind of leaves and tree detritus. When the swirling refuse settles, there is a large, black-furred humanoid standing behind the remaining rat-critter. The mighty simian drools, angry-eyed, as it looks for someone to take out it's anger upon.
With a roar, the great ape tears into the nasty rat-faced creature with wild abandon.
Ape's attacks: (1d20 7=18, 1d20 7=8, 1d20 5=6)
The ape rips into the critter with a roar, his first blow sending it skittering away from being injured by the rest of it's attacks!
As the ape begins his rampage upon the soon-to-be-sorry rat-critters, Elgan moves a step closer to Altai and Riese, and conjures forth a ball of flame in his open palm.
“Gah!” Beldan shrieks in pain as the rat-things sword bites into him. He manages to draw his cold iron rapier and stabs back at the thing.
The ape pummels (rat #2) once, it harms the rat but not as bad as it should have been.
Beldan's blow doesn't even draw blood.
Rat 1 moves to h13, swinging at Riese, hits for 9 h.p in damage.
Rat 2 misses Gittik entirely.
Rat 3 misses Beldan.
C.E. throws another axe, and exclaims, "got you that time, you ratf*#~er!!!"
Jody keeps plinking arrows downward.
two more of the ratmen appear, at f15 and m15.
NEW ROUND!!! EVERYBODY'S GO!!!
Beldan stares in horror at the rat-goblin. "The weapons ... they do nothing!" He feints towards the creature - then turns tail and runs, around between Stiggy and Gittik and scrambles up the body of the wolf-fiend, seeking higher ground.
When he steps on the thing's ribcage, there's an artificial sticky wet exhalation that, for an instant, makes Beldan think the thing still lives.
Get your hands off of me you damned, dirty rat! *concentrates for a moment while stepping 5' back...* Imbelia furtion de'flar!!! 5d6=12 damage, DC18 reflex for half.
Is Kruelaid back yet? If not:
The thing shrieks, and it takes full damage from the fiery bolt. It's still fighting, but it's pretty well hurt.
Yeah; I'll give him some time to go ahead and post...
Is Kruelaid back yet? If not:
** spoiler omitted **
Again, it doesn't hurt it as much as it should have. But it hurts it enough. It flops to the ground in a bloody splapple of gore. The disfigured form starts changing. Into. A. Dead. Goblin.
Oh, and that was rathead #1 that took a splap nap.
2-H weapon: -1 Attack = +2 damage.
Crunch!
....aaaah....put the shield down, and go at it with the bastard sword....
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Maybe Stig needs to lose the shield.
....aaaah....put the shield down, and go at it with the bastard sword....
(Or get a buckler - you can attack 1 handed and you get the AC, or attack 2 handed, lose the AC but get the damage bonus. Thing is, with a buckler you can choose round by round since a MW buckler has no impact on your attack roll if you have one and a 2 handed weapon. So you can enjoy the flexibility of a bastard sword as a 2 hander or sword and board.)
(Is it my go yet?)
As soon as the rat-face appears over the top of the platform, Elgan hurls the ball of flame in his hand straight into it.
Elgan's Delayed Fire attack: (1d20 6=25, 1d6 5=7)
As the ball of flame re-appears in the elf's hand, the ape roars his fury at the puny creature that dares to still stand before it.
Ape full att: (1d20 7=22, 1d20 7=17, 1d20 5=7)
Ape's Dmg, if attacks hit: (1d6 5=8, 1d6 5=10, 1d6 2=3)
Watching the battle, the elf pulls out his slim, polished willow wand with his other hand.
"Er yeh alrigh'?!" He asks the casters over his shoulder as he tries to keep an eye on everyone at once.
Yeah; delayed action was last round; so you got one more. The fire hurt him but did not destroy him.
The ape is working the other one, but it's still got some juice. The ape hit twice. The ratthing seems moderately resistant to physical harm.
Re Gittik: yeah; it's your attack; I'll prolly have to wait a few hours til I can post mine when you're done, but it's your attack.
Elgan's Produce flame att: (1d20 6=26, 1d6 5=11)
Without waiting for an answer to his inquiry, Elgan hurls another ball of fire at the ratman on his side of the platform,...
Gittik sees the rat thing drop and turn back into a goblin, thinks fast (for him), drops his kukri and, drawing his silver dagger, plunges it into the rat-goblin beside him.
Gittik's dagger drops the foe with a viscious slice that parts its flesh like butter.
The one Elgan burns still lives, but he is looking shabbily.
C.E. pulls more axes out of his clothes, moves next to Jody, and the two of them continue pummeling the one that is climbing up that tree (C.E. moves to space L4.)
Ratthing 3 moves to K8, slicing Gittik with it's long sword for 9 h.p. damage.
Ratthing 6 moves to h14, and stabs at Riese, missing the mage.
Wererat 7 strikes Elgan for 7 h.p. damage.
NEW ROUND! EVERYBODY'S ATTACK!!!
Gittik sees the rat thing drop and turn back into a goblin, thinks fast (for him), drops his kukri and, drawing his silver dagger, plunges it into the rat-goblin beside him.
As it dies, it morphs into a goblin, staring at you the whole time...
Fine, rodent erectus, you have forced my hand. Manus de'flar repellin! 1d20 11=19 casting defensively
A large fist of roiling fire forms and lunges at the ratman before Riese, slamming into the beast and vanishing in a forceful pop.
He doesn't make his save, the roll is a 14. He takes the damage, and whatever the bullrush does; not sure where that spell is...the vicious creature takes a big forcefist right in the breadbasket; he's still fighting but the wind is knocked out of him...
(edit) you beat his bullrush roll by 6 points; ergo he's knocked back 5 feet to g14. I got the hang of this, man.
He doesn't make his save, the roll is a 14. He takes the damage, and whatever the bullrush does; not sure where that spell is...the vicious creature takes a big forcefist right in the breadbasket; he's still fighting but the wind is knocked out of him...
(edit) you beat his bullrush roll by 6 points; ergo he's knocked back 5 feet to g14. I got the hang of this, man.