The baying of the creature down the hall crashes around the corner and barrels down on Fazgyn. Heart hammering, thought fading, his knees quake beneath him as the primal urges smack him in the gut like a giants club. He takes a step backwards, then another.. before he can stop himself, he flees for the safety of explored tunnels!
Pethjun watches as everyone gets into place, a couple of times buffaloing a few people into more tactical places. She then sets herself up on the this side of the rune trap Vanarog set. With one final check of everyone's position and her rapier and shield, she gives a nod. <<"Ok, let's go.">> She then slaps her tail and the metal blades on it, against the tunnel walls making a loud clanging noise.
She however is completely not ready for the loud, unnatural baying that starts up. Dahak Dammit! I knew that wasn't a natural dog! I can't be here! It's going to eat me!
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Eeek! Both Pethun and Fazgyn panic as the fearsome baying hits them.
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Round 1
Active conditions: Baying
Vanarog
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Hound
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Skyrahk (whatevs...)
Pethjun (panicked — Eek — 2 rounds)
Fazgyn (panicked — Eek — 2 rounds)
Athrax (panicked — Eek — 2 rounds)
Engashez
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Vanarog stands on his floating disk at the back of the group, peering around the corner through the darkness to where the others, and more importantly, his TRAP lay in wait. Ooo this will be glorious, others will see the amazing powers a TRUE kobold holds!
Quickly though an unearthly, panic inducing howl echoes down the hall and chaos erupts in the ranks "Its not that bad, stand your ground!" He whispers to the others as his brain and feet make ready to make a tactical withdraw with great haste. Lets get the hell outta here!
He hops off his disk, drops his dragon staff and rushes back into the pond room towards the ladder, tail between his legs.
Engashez tries to keep her senses when the dog's foul braying begins, but it's no good. Later, she'll say it was the sight of the other kobolds breaking and fleeing all around her that did it, but she knows that the panic drove deep into her soul.
The hound blends in with walls and the smoke, making it tough to see and even tougher to hit. It runs forward to attack the scariest looking kobold, Pethjun...
...but his teeth glance off Pethjun’s armor!
In so doing, he sets off the Rune Trap on himself!
“Aroo?” the dog yelps.
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Round 1 / 2
Active conditions: Baying
Vanarog (panic — Eek — 1 round)
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Hound (-10, Shadow Blend — 50% Miss Chance)
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Skyrahk
Pethjun (panicked — Eek — 2 rounds)
Fazgyn (panicked — Eek — 2 rounds)
Athrax (panicked — Eek — 2 rounds)
Engashez (panicked — Eek — 2 rounds)
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Skyrahk does one point of damage with the doggie smite!
Pethjun attempts to get away, and triggers an attack of opportunity, which causes the creature to trip him! Pethjun lands on his butt, takes five damage, and is prone! The rest of the party runs like hell!
I am going to assume that the cornered Pethjun takes the only action he can, total defense!
The dog misses!
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Round 2 / 3
Active conditions:
Vanarog (panic — Eek — 0 round)
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Hound (-11, Shadow Blend — 50% Miss Chance)
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Skyrahk
Pethjun (-5, prone — panicked — Eek — 1 rounds)
Fazgyn (panicked — Eek — 1 rounds)
Athrax (panicked — Eek — 1 rounds)
Engashez (panicked — Eek — 1 rounds)
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Skyrahk is up again! Those who are panicked may handle their own panicked movement.
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Pethjun gives a gurgle of fear as the hound comes after her, she tries to run but is caught and tripped. Huddling into the smallest ball she can make and she covers herself with her shield. Don't eat me! Don't eat me! Don't eat me! Don't....
Athrax sits huddled in the small Tunnel hoping that the Dog hasn't seen him hoping even more the dog leaves soon.
Where it it! I'm dead, I'm Dead I've died haven't I?
"Very bad dog! Do not eat my fighter minion!"
Engashez continues to flee. Death at the jaws of a giant dog is horrifying enough; she can't imagine what might happen to the soul of one devoured by a smokey spirit-dog.
The smokey spirit dog once again tries to bite the prone and defending Pethjun, and once again its jaws clang off the armor. Then it remembers that it also has a tail attack, and it tries to thump Pethjun with it, missing once again.
Meanwhile, the panic fades from the Kobolds. They may all act normally again.
And Vanarog, I missed that you were free from panic last round. Please reverse last round’s retreat and take a full round of movement coming back before this round’s action!
Pethun as you come to your senses, you realize that all your equipment dropped right next to you. Being unable to run for two turns means you don’t have to go searching for it.
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Round 3 / 4
Active conditions:
Vanarog
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Hound (-15, Shadow Blend — 50% Miss Chance)
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Skyrahk
Pethjun (-5, prone)
Fazgyn
Athrax
Engashez
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After a brief retreat as the group starts coming to its senses, a horrible scream can be heard echoing from the room with the pool "EEeeeek! My PRECIOUS!" Quickly soon after Vanarog runs back into the narrow hallway with the dog, running over and scooping up his precious dragon headed staff, hugging it tightly.
He looks at the offending dog with scorn "Damn dog, you not so scary now are you!" He waves his hands and a pair of green glowing darts zig zag their way between and around the other Kobolds, striking the smoky dog.
“ARRROOOO!”
The doggy looks up, as the green glowing missiles hit him squarely on the nose!
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Round 3 / 4
Active conditions:
Vanarog
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Hound (-23, Shadow Blend — 50% Miss Chance)
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Skyrahk
Pethjun (-5, prone)
Fazgyn
Athrax
Engashez
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Pethjun, cowering behind her shield takes a second to realize the mind-blanking fear is gone. Angry with herself and even moreso the dog in front of her, she takes a moment to ensure her shield is in place before adjusting to get her feet under her, and stand up. "Stupid Smoky Dog!"
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Shaking her fear off, Engashez begins a song to inspire the kobolds.
"Dark wispy spook dog,
Yap underground.
Stone tunnel smoke dog,
Look what we found!
Sewer pipe sneak-stalkers,
Vicious dragon bite,
Swamp night, dead dog!
Done! Done, done, done!"
Inspire Courage (Su): A 1st-level bard can use his performance to inspire courage in his allies (including himself), bolstering them against fear and improving their combat abilities. To be affected, an ally must be able to perceive the bard's performance. An affected ally receives a +1 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +1 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls. At 5th level, and every six bard levels thereafter, this bonus increases by +1, to a maximum of +4 at 17th level. Inspire courage is a mind-affecting ability. Inspire courage can use audible or visual components. The bard must choose which component to use when starting his performance.
Engashez shakes off the dog's foul influence, and begins running back to the other kobolds. She'd never meet a true dragon if she ran from dogs.
Fazgyn, terrified beyond belief, barrels down the tight corridor away from the horrific doggie. Finally, the baying lets loose its iron grip on his manhood, and he realizes he has just been chased out of new tunnels like a vermin little goblin, scared of a dog! He stamps his foot, and turns back the way he came.
Athrax finally looks about seeing that the dog did not come into his hiding tunnel. Uncurling from the ball on the ground he scampers back arround the corner of the tunnel and comes up behind the dog chasing Pethjun. This beast doesn't know what its getting itself into now.
"Bombs away!"
The rest of the team runs back!
Deciding to take her chances with the ‘stupid smoky dog’, Pethjun gets up, dodging the entire time!
Smoky misses!
Meanwhile, Athrax throws a bomb at the smoky doggie.
Alas, the bomb misses the dog, but the dog still takes the five points of splash damage!
Then Skyrahk chides the bad dog again!
”Yipe! Yipe! Yipe!” The doggie, a tough customer, makes his will save AGAIN, but he still takes four points from the channel, and so he starts to run away through the small tunnel! This triggers an attack of opportunity from Pethjun!
Then Athrax and Pethjun hear something! You can’t see them yet, but there are big foot people approaching! “Hey, Sewer Maintenance! What the HELLS is going on? There some kind of rabid dog here?”
They’re excellent liars, but Sewer Maintenance? Seriously? You guys know when Sewer Maintenance has its shifts, and this is not that time.
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Round 4 / 5
Active conditions:
Vanarog
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Hound (-32, Shadow Blend — 50% Miss Chance)
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Skyrahk
Pethjun (-5) + Attack of Opportunity
Fazgyn
Athrax
Engashez
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Yahoo, the whole team can act again.
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Engashez continues running back, finally finding herself back where she started!
<<"Ack Sewer Maintenance is here.">> Athrax whispers along.
Thinking to protect the others and himself from the dog and what ever else he sets a bomb trap just outside the tunnel.
With a small gleam in her eyes, Pethjun watches as the evil aura washes over the dog and it starts to yip and yelp. She stays still for a moment, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. "Yes, yes that's a good, stupid Smoky!"
But with all of the dodging she'd done earlier, she realizes with a sinking feeling that she is completely off balance and couldn't swing her tail weapon around if she'd wanted to! Taking a moment to readjust, she watches as the dog disappears down the hall. "I'll, uh, Let you go. Yeah, you were, umm... too pathetic an enemy to fight seriously!"
When then sewer maintenence starts to resound down the tunnel, Pethjun grabs her rapier makes sure it's okay before sneaking closer, hanging back from Athrax's trap.
A chance to redeem myself after that terrible Smoky! Also, they have sewer maintenance? Ha, these haven't been maintained at all! Obviously true dragons are better at ruling sewers than bigfeet!
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Vanarog watches the dog run away, his claws twitch a bit as he's denied the chance to show the others who the most powerful kobold is. Dammit! Ack big feet! Hide from their bright lights and big, powerful muscles!
Vanarog ducks into a nearby small passageway, hoping up on his hoverboard and hugging the wall to hide.
Fazgyn runs back down the tunnel and joins back up with the rest of the group. Caught between the main tunnel and the tunnel with the retreating dog, he pauses, drawing his shortswords.
Then the maintenance workers come out. They looks a bit funny. Instead of wearing the orange oiled leather suits that you expect from Sewer maintenance, they are dressed in ash-colored garments that appear a bit wispier than what you would expect of maintenance.
The one with green eyes steps forward to address Pethjun. "Hey! Lizard! Get out of here before we smoke you!" As he moves forward, he pulls a weapon and...
...he lands on Athrax's trap bomb, and explodes, bits of him landing all around like confetti.
"Oh crap!" One of the 'sewer workers' says. "They've made us! Shadow time!" Their guises drop, revealing very shadowy like creatures that smoke and waver before you.
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Round 1
Active conditions: 50% Concealment
Vanarog
Engashez
Skyrahk
Pethjun
Fazgyn
Atrax
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'Sewer workers'
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THE WHOLE TEAM IS UP!
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Arriving just in time to see one of the false workers explode into bits from Athrax's bomb trap, Engashez calls out her warning. "They're fetchlings! From the plane of shadow!!!" Her excitement at meeting such strange creatures, even if as opponents, burbles up as she begins to sing a song.
"Come stumble my dark shadow worker
I’m Engashez the dragon yapper
We're made out of scale like the true ones, so nice
The wind blows your shadow
Your smoke will expire
More willingly, you'll die in the sewer"
Inspire Courage (Su): A 1st-level bard can use his performance to inspire courage in his allies (including himself), bolstering them against fear and improving their combat abilities. To be affected, an ally must be able to perceive the bard's performance. An affected ally receives a +1 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +1 competence bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls. At 5th level, and every six bard levels thereafter, this bonus increases by +1, to a maximum of +4 at 17th level. Inspire courage is a mind-affecting ability. Inspire courage can use audible or visual components. The bard must choose which component to use when starting his performance.
"Ah hahahah. Did you see him, did you Pethjun. Just like confetti, BOOM!" Athrax is most pleased with the explosive end to the fake Maintenance worker.
Moving forward he Steps up in front admiring the carnage brought on by his latest explosion pulling the ingredients for another bomb he winds up and pitches this one at the Fetchling with Blue eyes yelling "Hey you! Catch!
Engashez inspires courage! She also thinks about what she knows about Fetchlings, and knows the following. They can blend into shadows, literally using them as cover. They also have resistances to cold and electricity!
Athrax attempts to blow up Blue, but the fetchling fails to catch the bomb! He flickers in and out, and only gets hit with the Splash damage.
Meanwhile, Skyrahk turns Pethjun invisible.
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Round 1
Active conditions: 50% Concealment on Fetchlings, Inviibility on Pethjun.
Vanarog
Engashez
Skyrahk
Pethjun (invisible)
Fazgyn
Athrax
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'Sewer workers'
Green - DEAD
Blue (-7)
Red
Orange
Pink
Purple
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Vanarog, Pethjun and Fazgyn are up!
Vanarog moves forward! Pethjun and Fazgyn are up!!
Pethjun gives a sharp bark of laughter as the "maintenance worker" in front of her goes up in a fiery explosion. "Weak, oblivious, not worth my time!"
She then sidles up the sewers, shield and rapier at the ready, to the nearest fetchling-bigfoot. "Hopefully one of you can be more of a challenge, or I might fall asleep on my feet."
Reaching the man with the pretty blue eyes, she flourishes her rapier around before trying to bury it in his stomach. While she does she goads the rest of them on. "You know that 'maintenance worker' wouldn't convince anyone. First they're completely the wrong color. But even that aside, this place is an unusually gigantic mess, it hasn't seen maintenance in years if not decades!"
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Pethjun strikes with deadly accuracy, but misses the Fetchling as it flickers in and out of existence!
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Round 1
Active conditions: 50% Concealment on Fetchlings, Inviibility on Fazgyn
Vanarog
Engashez
Skyrahk
Pethjun
Fazgyn (invisible)
Athrax
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'Sewer workers'
Green - DEAD
Blue (-7)
Red
Orange
Pink
Purple
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Fazgyn is up!
Click. Whirr.
Fazgyn watches, impassively, as the dog continues to flee down the tunnel. Ha! Who’s running now, little cur?
Walking invisibly, he creeps through the tunnel to slay the Fetchling with the blue eyes!
The fetchling silently falls, dropping into the sewer!
Then the fetchlings act! Flickering in and out of concealment, Orange and Red throw daggers at Athrax and Pethjun!
“In the face, Lizards!” Orange calls. “Crawl home! These are our sewers now!”
Pink and Purple have readied daggers to strike at anyone who dares come near their portal!
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Round 2
Active conditions: 50% Concealment on Fetchlings
Vanarog
Engashez
Skyrahk
Pethjun (-9)
Fazgyn
Athrax (-8)
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'Sewer workers'
Green - DEAD
Blue - DEAD
Red
Orange
Pink - Guarding
Purple - Guarding
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The whole team is up!