After the shard begins to move the creature dies before it knows what is happening erupting into a red mist and the soul is sucked up by Min's Cacodaemon friend.
Out of the trees north of the map three very large humanoid creatures erupt from the bark. They are slow but purposeful equipped with large bows that they draw back and begin firing on the party.
50% chance to hit my double instead of me 1-50 misses me, 51-100 hits me.
Aurelie giggles from her perch on the Big Pappy's shoulder, waving her arms and saying, "Let's get them, Mister Jingles!" A wave of energy moves from her to the eidolon, and the scratches across its armor disappear.
Aurelie giggles from her perch on the Big Pappy's shoulder, waving her arms and saying, "Let's get them, Mister Jingles!" A wave of energy moves from her to the eidolon, and the scratches across its armor disappear.
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Kodo and Podo exchange glances and grin wickedly.
Kodo flies to join Mr. Jingles. Podo flies to join shard.
They'll act as flanking buddies and strike with their crystal tail spikes. They're hoping to get the killing blow or shortly thereafter. The idea being to suck out souls to empower their weapons. Since everything is immune to poison their damage is hardly worth noting. The soul sucking is the main purpose of their actions.
The snarling, black as night, large tiger stands above it's latest kill, watching the arrows fly towards his allies. He sees Pytha-Gora trying to snatch the arrow out of the way, only to be a little too late.
The arrow found a soft spot just below his arm, his protective shell not yet damaged, still the humanoids aim at the other side of the battlefield was impressive.
He tries to figure out what kind of things fired those arrows.
Pytha-Gora glances stoically around him, keeping an eye out for the second plant-like flying thing close to him.
The shard and Min both realise these things are Wood Golems but they aren't acting like normal ones.
Min hasn't seen or heard of these types before. They seem to have been altered, maybe it is something to do with the forest? This golem type seems rare.
The golems are nimbler than normal and are proficient in weaponry whereas normal ones wouldn't be. Min realizes that two of a normal wood golems abilities are still intact with these creatures. It has the same magical immunity and can make splinters explode from its body.
A wood golem is immune to any spell or spell-like ability that allows spell resistance, with the exception of spells and spell-like abilities that have the fire descriptor, which affect it normally. In addition, certain spells and effects function differently against the creature, as noted below.
Warp wood or wood shape slows a wood golem (as the slow spell) for 2d6 rounds (no save).
Repel wood drives a wood golem back 60 feet and deals 2d12 points of damage to it (no save).
A magical attack that deals cold damage breaks any slow effect on a wood golem and heals 1 point of damage for every 3 points of damage the attack would otherwise deal. If the amount of healing would cause the golem to exceed its full normal hit points, it gains any excess as temporary hit points. A wood golem gets no saving throw against attacks that deal cold damage.
Vaklam casts a spell, calling upon his deity to boost Malakai's defenses
Malakai then moves to attack one of the flanked golems.
Enemy 1
Leonard
Kitty
Min
Jingles
Vaklam
The Shard
Enemy 2
Aurelie
Leiara
"Vaklam you're shadows can't hurt these golems. They are constructs. Their strength can't be damaged"
"Well, that's no fun. Bye"
He then assumes gaseous form, and begins to fly away.
BOT: Leiara shifts into the form of a Bear and attacks the still standing Mi go. Zoom follows swiftly after her.
Leiara and zoom manage to quite badly damage the creature but not kill it outright. It then retaliates against both of them.
However only one of the attacks connect, damaging Leiara and attempts to grab her and manages it.
The imps are still flanking with their respective buddies. Their attacks aren't terribly effective, but they may or may not add anywhere between 1 and 4 damage plus absorbing a soul as it their respective flanking buddy kills it.
Leonard will hold his action to see how the round plays out.
Min will fly to the tree in the north and hide in it's Braches and behind the trunk.
Min takes out his spell book and starts reading up on haste to prepare it again.
The cat skeleton charges forward at one of the new enemies, leaping up to bite at it.
Following this closely, the Big Pappy charges in with its spike, striking the same creature.
Pytha-Gora flanks the remaining Mi-go with Leiara and attacks it with its bite.
The Shard and Podo both vanish from sight, reappearing only moments later at the middle Wood golem taking it completely by surprise and Shard unleashes a barrage of attacks together with Podo as flanking buddy.
Ki-Pool 1/3
All the frontline fighters move in and attack their respective targets. Shard manages to turn the wood golem into bits of splinters. The golem itself being purely an artificial construct does not release a soul however.
The other two golems retaliate. The one adjacent to Mr. Jinles unleashes a splintering cloud or razor-sharp shrapnel.
All of Aurelie's crew seems ready for it though and they don't take the full brunt of the splintering.
The golem then splits his bow into two swords and makes two attacks against Mr.Jingles.
Despite the splinters not doing much it really lays into Mr Jingle's with its attacks.
The last remaining golem moves up into the fray and sees the now unguarded spell caster and The shard, it makes an attack against each.
It manages to hit leonard despite the cover in the way.
From Mister Jingles' back, Aurelie lets out a scream. "Stop hurting us!" The wave of negative energy pours forth again, healing the trio and any other undead within thirty feet.
BOT: Leiara tries to finish off the Mi-go in a single strike.
She manages to just about do it leaving the Mi-go crumpled on the floor, she then moves to engage the Golem close to her. The soul is absorbed by Kodo.
Zoom comes charging in to attack the Wood golem as well.
Vaklam flies north, with Malakai right behind him. They land about fifty yards ahead of the battle, though he does not revert form. He looks around for anything out of place
The Shard pounces on the most right Wood Golem, this time not disappearing from sight, but charging at a high speeds towards the the construct. Podo quickly climbs back on Shard's back as the big tiger darts towards the construct.
Pytha-Gora stays pretty silent and moves towards Leonard to guard him, at the opposite side of Zoom.
Both of Aurelie's servants launch into a flurry of attacks, Kitty biting and raking its claws, the Big Pappy grabbing the golem in a clenching fist and running it through twice.
Kitty and Mr Jingles destroy the golem they are fighting with relative ease. The shard's with his charge lane blocked moves over to fight the other golem, with him and Leiara the last golem is destroyed.
The dust settles with the Evil overlords comfortably victorious from the first response of the forest.
The group hears a voice again. "Looks like we finally might have someone to free us from our oppressive 'master'. The king wishes you luck in taking one such as he down."
Vaklam meanwhile sees what looks like a moving shape nearby to where he landed, it isn't invisible but he can clearly see an outline of a humanoid. It is trying to hide near a tree but the colour of the bark refracts through the outline to make the moving shape more obvious.
"ether this was the best he had in which case I don't think much of him or he sorely underestimated us"
After finishing my reading I fly down to the last Mi-Go.
"Seems we have a prisoner"
To make sure it stays that way I rip it's wings I could always heal them later. Then I put on the Shackles of Compliance and masterwork fetters. Then I load it up onto the floating disk.
"Also seems like we have gotten some nice loot"
I pick up the unicorn horn. Then I start loading the golem parts onto the floating disk as well. I hope to have a chance to examine them properly later. I also search the Mi-Go's they have anything on them?
"Shame I can't reuse the programing making golems that can use bows is quite impressive the complexity in using a bow is huge even more then throwing things. Especially for golems lacking a sense of touch."
I look at the hands of the golems. Do them seem to have any sort of touch sensors or nerve endings?
Still in gaseous form Vaklam says "Come out, come out wherever you are."
If there's enough light, Malakai will mime her brother's real shadow, making her less noticeable as a separate entiy. Its a technique they've done many times in the past.
That last part isn't intended to have much of a mechanical benefit. Just that when people look at Vak and Mal, they generally only see just Vak. I'll let you decide if its foiled by the hidden creature, or if it provides any actual benefit/bonus
There is some quickly shuffling and the entire outline is pressed up against the tree. The outline shambles around when some more when it seems to have noticed the gas around him. The first thing that happens is faerie fire spell envelopes Vaklam showing his outline. The outline then whispers "What in the name of..?"
Vaklam then hears the sound of a sword being drawn.
The golem hands just look like carved wood and bark, there doesn't seem to be much to the hands other than that.
The Mi-gos do not have anything on them, however there is a mark on each of them. A sigil of what looks like a noble house.
Min however does not recognize where or what the house is, just that it is a noble house and this branding usually denotes property.
"Well so far this has been a rather successful mission. The problem is we already have more loot then we can carry. You know what they say give a man a fish and you feed him for a day take the fish away and tell him he's luckly to be alive and he get another fish for you to take tomorrow."
Shard reverts to his own shape after the battle and casually walks over to the others, using his katana again as a walking stick, knacking his neck and relaxing his muscles after this 'training exercise'.
"Say where is Vaklam off too? I don't see him anywhere around. He wouldn't have chickened out right?"
He pats Pytha-Gora on his back, the large humanoid turtle seems a bit disappointed.
"At ease my friend, you have done well to guard Min and Leonard, you couldn't protect all sides so don't worry."
"It's not that Master, I would have loved to have seen a bit more combat and fight the ways like I have been taught. Perhaps next fight I can prove my worth Master."
He speaks in a slow voice, normally pretty silent, Pytha-Gora seems pretty troubled with something, else he wouldn't have spoken his mind so.
The Shard walks over to Min standing over the dead Mi-Go's and sees the marks as well.
But has absolutely no idea of the mark until Min tells him.
Min after thinking a little more realises that the noble house branding on the Mi-gos is of the Eladrin household 'Firewood'. One of 7 major households that rule the borders of the Feywild connection to the plane of Otervia (this plane). They are well known amongst planar travelers for their distinctive red leaf armour. Their closest allied house is the 'Sandrunners' a group of Eladrin who have adapted their magic so they might skate on virtually any surface and run as fast as their primary prey, Crimson Worms.
The figure in front of Vaklam now becomes visible, he is wearing leather armour with red leaves making up a breastplate and shoulder pads. The creature looks like an elf though Vaklam can tell it has a few features different, namely the eyes are a deep red. The 'elf's' skin is also far paler than that of an already pale elf. The elf has a rapier with a small red spark on the end of it. Strapped to his waist there is a cord that looks like is made of bark and a book fasten securely. The 'elf' quickly reaches down and flips the book open and the pages start to turn by themselves. A page flies out and he catches it with his free hand.
The elf then swishes his sword and yells out "Rayon Ardent!" and bolts of flame shoot forth from his sword blasting the mist in front of him.
The rest of the group hears those words and see two bolts of fire fly out 50ft away from the battlefield.
Kodo and Podo turn invisible and fly toward the disturbance.
"good thing I read up another haste"
I cast haste on me (unless the last one has not worn off) , Leonard, Leira, Aurelie, The Shard, Nini [ooc if she is here[/ooc], Mister Jingles and Pytha-Gora. So as to give them all +30 movement sped.
Then I start flying though the canopy towards the disturbance. A sort of tree hop, but I'm flying.
Vaklam resumes his normal form, and flicks his wrist towards the elf. A bolt of purplish black energy fires forth from his hand and strikes the man