As the faintly transparent creature moves up to attack Sunny, Hideo reacts without thinking. Rushing forward he draws his Katana and in one smooth strike brings it down onto the beast.
(w/ Power Attack):
As his companions spread out around the edges of the strange creature, Nicat moves so he is on the opposite side of the creature from Hideo . He then studies it for a moment to see if he can figure out what it is, or find any weak spots or vital organs.
Nicat then shrugs and says, "Well, let's see if this hurts it." and strikes with his shortswords.
The blob already looks quite cut up.
[blob, HP 8 (of 42), AC 7]
Gorag trys to ge in a flanking position with Zeema and strikes with his walking stick.
As Gorag strikes it the blob collapses into a puddle of ooze.
As the aggressive blob collapses under the force of Gorag's attack, Nicat moves quickly over to the edge of the pool and squats down. He begins to wash the blades of his swords, telling the group "That was some kind of ooze, I don't know exactly what sort. But I do know that the way they digest their victims - like smiling Sunny here, if it hadn't missed her - is with really strong digestive juices. It's some kind of acid, you'd know more about it than me, Gorag. But it won't do our weapons any good, and if we leave it on it could destroy them. Hideo, you probably want to get your father's sword there cleaned off quickity quick."
Nicat finishes cleaning his weapons as well as he can, and stands up. He looks around the ooze's cavern, looking for other exits or anything unusual.
Aloria watched as her companions jumped into action to battle a large "ooze" whatever that was... It was a strange being to the gnome, having never encountered one before. I suppose that is how it is... seeing those thing you do not know about... fighting things that no normal person would.
The gnome shrugs off her thoughts and approaches, "Anything else?" She looks at the puddle of goo.
Current AC: 21 (19 Flat-footed / 13 Touch)
Current HP: 18 / 18 remaining
Current Weapon in Hand: morningstar +2 (1d6/x2) and shield
Spells (0-level, DC 13, at will) Create Water, Detect Magic, Spark, Guidance;
(1st level, DC 14) Bless©, bless, bless, longstrider(d)
Channel Energy (1d6, DC 14) 6 of 6 uses remaining
Bit of Luck (Sp) 6 of 6 uses remaining (Any time the target rolls a d20, he may roll twice and take the more favorable result) (6/day)
Agile Feet (Su) 6 of 6 uses remaining (ignore all difficult terrain for 1 round) (6/day)
You're right, I heard of them, but I never saw one of them. But the water should neutralize this acid.
Gorag washes his walking stick in the pool. When he is finished, he goes around in the cave, looking for something remarkable.
The only remarkable thing in this cave besides the blob are the crytals on the island. You believe you would most likely be able to taken them with you.
Sunny sits up alertly as the Ooze....de-oozes into just simply...ooze and slime...and listens intently to Nicat's explanation.
Then, as Nicat and Gorag and others begin to clean their weapons, Sunny simply flips herself over and crawls/scurries back to the now puddle of slime and peers intensely at it. (Going so far as to even lean forward and sniff experimentally)
"So...that's a 'Oooze', then?" She asks/exclaims. Then scuttles sideways to the edge of the pool and peers intently at its surface.
"So...be they common?" She asks "Like, do they sneak in't people's homes an' stuff?" She looks to Nicat and the others, obviously awaiting any more information about 'Oozes'.
"I mean. T'is it safe ta paddle over ta tha' shinys, over yonder?" And she points at the crystals. "They's rilly pretty." (^_^)
Oh, these crystals seem precious. I'll try to harvest them.
Walking towards the pool with a sense of urgency Hideo dips his blade into the stagnant water. Quickly withdrawing it, he gives the blade a flick of his wrist and rivulets of water arc off the blade and back into the pool. Then kneeling at the waters side he withdraws from his bag a old piece of horse blanket. Carefully he wipes off any remaining moisture from the blade. There wasn't much resistance from the creature, so thankfully no damage to the blade. Hideo thinks to himself after a close inspection. Satisfied, Hideo sheaths the Katana before trudging upto Gorag, Hideo kneels down to give him a hand, only to watch as the elderly half-orc rips the crystals from the ground, with ease. Why am I even here? Hideo thinks to himself. Everyone can do such amazing things... Cerana and Zeema can call upon magic, Gorag can grow to twelve feet tall, Alora has the power of her god. It's like me and Nicat are the only "normal" ones here. Even Sunny seems touched... not sure by what, but something. Rising from the crystals, Hideo looks around before nodding reassuring towards Nicat. Alright, let's keep going. But be careful, something might have heard the racket we were making just now.
Sunny stands up from where she was dabbling her bare feet in the waters of the pool and happily skips over to join in the 'line' again as every one gets ready to continue exploring the caves. She leans over and whispers to Cerana,
Zeema, slightly embarrassed at her initial failure, says nothing and continues to move on with Hideo.
I'll hit next time! I know I will!
Has Sunny taken an interest to me just because I'm an elf? I'm not sure what to think about that.
Cerana falls with the rest of the group trying to stay in the centre. Getting cornered by monsters in this place would likely get her into quite a bit of trouble. With her darkvision she continues to look ahead hoping to see what might be coming.
Sunny laughs (^_^)
Cerana giggles a bit.
After breaking out the crytals you move back to the main tunnel which, after some more meters, opens into a bigger cave. All around you see human skeletons, some still in tatered remains of ancient armor. You count 5 of them, yet they all lie still. On the other side you see the cavern leading into yet another small cave.
Zeema uses her spirit sense ability, and immediately tells her compatriots in a hushed voice, "These five skeletons up here are undead, but they're being controlled by something from the next room. Also, there are three more under the water. We must tread carefully here."
Sunny luaghs along with Cerana, then Zeema's words bring her back to the dank, darkness of the caves they are in.
Sunny stops and peers into the gloom, trying to ascertain the water Zeema mentioned.
She frowns in thought, absently shifting to stand on one leg....
"Here....if'n these things be undead-ies...An' that somat whut's even a-scared teh Gobbies be around th' corner..." Her whisper trails off as she continues to ponder the turn of events.
"Bah! I can't even see tha puddle Zeema be talkin' abouts..." Sunny's frown grows darker,
"We need some way ta render these here skellingtons down in't itty, bitty bits whuts not gon'a hurt us fer when what ever be aroun'tha' corner gets motivated, like..."
Aloria notices all the skeletons as well. She clutches a silver butterfly about her neck and whispers,"Do we want to deal with them before we see whomever is in the next room? We may be attacked on more than one front."
Current AC: 21 (19 Flat-footed / 13 Touch)
Current HP: 18 / 18 remaining
Current Weapon in Hand: morningstar +2 (1d6/x2) and shield
Spells (0-level, DC 13, at will) Create Water, Detect Magic, Spark, Guidance;
(1st level, DC 14) Bless©, bless, bless, longstrider(d)
Channel Energy (1d6, DC 14) 6 of 6 uses remaining
Bit of Luck (Sp) 6 of 6 uses remaining (Any time the target rolls a d20, he may roll twice and take the more favorable result) (6/day)
Agile Feet (Su) 6 of 6 uses remaining (ignore all difficult terrain for 1 round) (6/day)
If we leave them here, we will have 8 skeletons in our back. If we attack them, we might have several enemies behind them. Both cases are not the best, but I think the second is preferable.
Gorag holds one of his potions on near his libs.
Ready when you are.
I agree States Hideo, taking a deep breath and steeling himself. Better to have to deal with several waves then get caught between both of them at once. Moving up next to Gorag, Hideo eases his blade from the scabbard and holds it in front of himself in a two handed grip. I am ready as well.
Seeing every one's stance Sunny draws her long, Elven Curved-blade and takes a stance beside the pool. Once braced and ready she nods.
"In that case... go!"
Zeema grows in size and charges the nearest skeleton, attacking it from a safe distance.
@Sunny The water is very brackish and there seems to be no flow. It most likely sweeps in during storms and then just lies there.
The skeleton just bursts under Zeemas blow, spraying bone splitters everywhere.
The other skeletons also silently get up, ready to tear you to shreds.
Initiative Zeema
Initiative Sunny:
Initiative Hideo:
Initiative Aloria:
Initiative Nicat:
Initiative Cerana:
Initiative Gorag:
Initiative enemy:
Bone shards fly into Zeema's face as she utterly destroys the skeleton. She's able to duck out of the way of the vast majority of them, but a few still graze her stony flesh. Where they strike, instead of blood, cracks and scrapes appear across the surface of her marble skin.
Zeema charges another skeleton. Seeing how easily the first one burst, she doesn't bother to renew her size change. Her scythe whistles through the skeleton's marrow, destroying it as well.
Cerana covers the current area they're in with Obscuring fog for those that want to be in a defense position if things get hairy. She won't move away from the fog for now. The area is at the opening to the room with the skeletons.
The gnomish woman almost smiles as she calls to her Goddess... "Return to your endless slumber, and dream the dreams you were meant... by Desna's will!" She presents the silver butterfly. At the Aloria's command a wave of positive energy bursts forth from her, ripping at the darkness that controls the dead.
She then readies herself, knowing she is now the target of the foul things.
Current AC: 21 (19 Flat-footed / 13 Touch)
Current HP: 18 / 18 remaining
Current Weapon in Hand: morningstar +2 (1d6/x2) and shield
Spells (0-level, DC 13, at will) Create Water, Detect Magic, Spark, Guidance;
(1st level, DC 14) Bless©, bless, bless, longstrider(d)
Channel Energy (1d6, DC 14) 5 of 6 uses remaining
Bit of Luck (Sp) 6 of 6 uses remaining (Any time the target rolls a d20, he may roll twice and take the more favorable result) (6/day)
Agile Feet (Su) 6 of 6 uses remaining (ignore all difficult terrain for 1 round) (6/day)
While Zeema grows in size and charges, Gorag drinks an extract of shield.
Gorag charges #3 and tries to slams his walking stick on the skeletons head.
Sunny tries to swing at a skeleton
Bones flie everywhere as most skeletons are taken out quite swiftly.
Nicat has never been in a cavern full of exploding skeletons, and he is momentarily stunned by the experience, causing him to move a bit more slowly than he would normally. He recovers, however, and moves through the battle toward one of the skeletons that is still intact, drawing his shortswords as he does so. He knows he’ll have to move quickly out of the way of the skeleton if he destroys it, to avoid the spray of bone fragments, but his companions seem to have weathered it without undue damage.
Reaching for one of the skeletons near the edge of the water, Nicat stands on the edge of the pool and strikes with both blades, dodging quickly away to avoid the explosive aftermath.
Seeing Nicat swing both of his blades in a frenzy, chipping shards of bone from the skeleton rising out of the pool Hideo gives a loud cry and rushes in to assist his friend.
After Nicat only managed to scrap it a little further, Hideo brings down his sword on the last skeleton who stands nearby and shatters its skull, triggering yet another explosion of bones.
The last lonely skeleton charges Sunny and gives her a small cut with his claws.
(>_o)"Owies!" Sunny exclaims as skeletons are not only dismembered but 'EXPLODED' all over the place. Shaking her head and trying to clear the bits of grit from her eyes/face etc she fails to see the last of the animate undead reach out to strike her.
"OWWIE!" She exclaims louder as its claws strike home.
Stumbling back from the exploding shards of bone, Hideo wipes the blood out of his eyes and surveys the scene around him. All around him the skeletons have fallen to pieces, brutally hacked down or blasted apart by the divine energy of his companions.
Recalling the warning from Zeema, Hideo rushes away from the edge of the pool, water flying away from his boot falls, as he moves towards the mouth of the corridor and the last remaining skeleton. As he moves behind the undead monstrosity he raises his sword and brings it down towards the abomination.
Only to miss as the blood dripping from the cut above his eye ruins his vision at the last second.
Cerana enters a defensive stance, thinking she best not enter the fray. Most of her companions seem to be wrapping that up anyway.
Nicat charges after his friend, hoping to strike more truly than Hideo, blinded as he seems to be by skeleton bits and his own blood. Nicat swings both his blades, wishing he had something at hand that served better to break the creatures, as they have so little flesh to cut. One blade misses wildly, the other striking true but seeming to do minimal damage to the bony monstrosity.
Gorag makes a 5 foot step towards the remaining Skeleton, lets his walking stick fall and attacks it with his natural weapons.
And with that the last skeleton breaks down in a hail of bone splitters.
As you prepare to move on you come upon another small tunnel leading to yet another small cavern. But this tunnel is slightly different, as it is not empty. On it's whole length of more than 20 foot you see the broken and skeletal remains of things which, while humanoid, clearly weren't human. Upon closer examination you are quite sure that you have found the remains of bigger and more healthy specimen of the thing in Walthus house.
Yet those, you count at least 6, are dead at least as long as the human skeletons you just fought and even on those rotten bones you see clear marks of violence. One, half way trough the tunnel, still has the remains of a Katana stuck in its head, broken in two by the force of the impact.
At bit further on, the cave seems to be the end of this cavern system. On the far end you see a lot of more or less rotten treasure and equipment, dominated by a large and expensive looking jade and cherry wood chest. On this chest sits another skeleton, heavily armored in rotten, but high quality steel Lamellar. Both its hands grasp a Wakizashi, stuck deep in his now empty bowels.
Cerana goes to approach the chest cautiously. She tries to creep forward to get a better look still wary at the prospect of more undead by the looks of all the bodies.
She whispers behind her "Friends, we have a body over here who has committed suicide over what looks like a very expensive chest. Shall we try to take a look at what might be in this chest?"
Cerana has her staff at the ready expecting the worse.
Hm, this sword looks like your's, Hideo. Maybe this is the sharp weapon that killed the spider. We should be cautious. I would sugest, that we melee combatants surround the skeleton an attack him simultaneously before he can pull his weapon out of his chest.
Hideo, Nicat and myself in the first line, Zeema in the second line.
Nicat looks at the strange scene before them, musing aloud "I wonder what the story is with this place? And I wonder what's in that chest? Treasure or more horrors? Well, guess we won't find out until we deal with this already dead fella."
With that, Nicat moves up near the skeleton, in line with Gorag and Hideo and says "Which of you wants to pull out that sword?