Aurexil, a little too impatient and confident for her own good, pushes off of the wall and lets go of the vine/cable, spreading her wings as she drops to slow her fall.
But her wing strikes one of the dangling cables, and before long she's tumbling down the shaft, desperately trying to slow her fall before she crashes into the bottom in a heap, groaning.
As much as AefPakka wants to get down as quickly as possible to help others, seeing Aurexil's crash gives him pause. His heart tugs at him to risk his own life to help others, but his mind tells him that it may very well make the situation even worse. He had no idea how bad Aurexil was hurt and could imagine losing his grip and landing on top of her, hurting her even worse.
The kasatha kept climbing down to a relatively safe distance before trying to drop with a tumble.
The fall knocks the wind out of Aurexil's sails and makes a crunching, wet thumping sound. The Bahgra wince in sympathy but keep their bows trained on the whole, while others begin the climb down properly cautioned against impatience.
Aurexil winces as she carefully gets up to a sitting position. She does a quick self-inventory and discovers, amazingly, that while she's bruised in places she didn't know could bruise, she doesn't seem to have broken anything.
She carefully gets to her feet and gets her glaive out, then looks up. "Ég held ekki að neinn þurfi að segja mér hversu heimskur sem var. Meta það ef einn af þú gætir plástur mig upp, þó," she wryly states.
Neve, when she makes her way down, makes a face at the dragon thing.
Artirian slowly climbs down.
As does Jaxel.
Aurexil nods her head at Neve deeply enough it could almost be called a bow, figuring that's the best she can do for thanks without waiting for the chain of translations. Feeling a bit better, she cautiously looks in where the centipede-thing went, glaive at the ready.
It takes a few rounds for people to get down, and once Neve heals Aurexil a bit, you peer towards the hole in the top of the lift. A whimpering sound issues from the darkness beyond. The Bahgra above maintain their post, watching the group on top of and above the hole as best they can.
Fraejia made her way carefully back down with her companions and found the hole where the Baghra had been taken. Her blood, or at least what passed for blood in her people, was boiling and she was spoiling for a fight now. Realizing she was probably the most difficult to harm of the group Fraejia decided that waiting to save the dogman was unacceptable, it'd take too long already. Instead she simply dropped through the hole and was ready to attack the bug if she saw it.
Peeking down, you can see that the elevator door has been torn through/ripped apart. Beyond the door, you can see an irregular hallway, the ceiling of which is out of sight from your angle. Towards the western side of the opposite wall stands a slender workbench with a cabinet set in the north wall A large door-panel, ten feet wide, covers the southern wall at the east end with red, spiky runes painted on the door's exterior.
The Bahgra lies in a heap on the floor in front of the door. The whimpering sound echoes through the hall chamber.
Peeking down, you can see that the elevator door has been torn through/ripped apart. Beyond the door, you can see an irregular hallway, the ceiling of which is out of sight from your angle. Towards the western side of the opposite wall stands a slender workbench with a cabinet set in the north wall A large door-panel, ten feet wide, covers the southern wall at the east end with red, spiky runes painted on the door's exterior.
The Bahgra lies in a heap on the floor in front of the door. The whimpering sound echoes through the hall chamber.
Map updated
missed Fraejia's post somehow. Will respond in moments.
From the elevator car, Fraejia can see the Tauslek on the ceiling above the Bahgra (as indicated by the brown box.) While the 15' high ceiling puts the creature out of Fraejia's reach from the elevator car, it luckily puts her out of reach of it as well from this distance (It could attack the squares around the brown square and under it, while it would take someone going under it to attack with a 5' reach.)
Yes, you may drop from the top of the car to the bottom without taking damage (it's about 7-8 feet.)
Aurexil jumps down beside Fraejia, her glaive at the ready.
With the creature out of reach Fraejia changed her tactics after her claw swiped through thin air. She raised her sights ans a swirl of cold began around her, a swirl which she promptly flung at the thing on the ceiling as she yelled, "Come and get me you damned dirty bug!"
Since a few of you are in its sight now, I will roll up initiative before any further aggressive moves are allowed, but will allow a little time for others to indicate if they also dropped down into the car.
"I know we shouldn't be doing this, but we do what we must, when the need drives." He apologizes to Aurexil, as he taps her with his wand.
Aefpakka
Artirian
Aurexil
Fraejia
Neve
Andretta
Bahgra
Tauslek Matriarch AND [-20] = 15
Order:
Tauslek Matriarch
Artirian and Bahgra
Tauslek Matriarch's second turn
Everyone else
The Tauslek scampers over the ceiling, reaching down with it's mandibles to attack the dragon at the door.
She is currently on the opposite side of the wall as the shaft, above the doors to the elevator car, able to strike at Aurexil or Fraejia with her reach of 10'. The wall/car provides Aurexil and Fraejia cover vs the Tayslek and vice versa, but provides total concealment/cover to and from those on top of the car or in the shaft.
Bite the mandibles are unable to get around the car doors properly and snap ineffectively.
Artirian orders Jaxel to bite the nasty spider lady.
Jaxel goes down to bite Spider Lady.
AoO miss
Follow up bite vs Jaxel
Snapping her jaws without success.
Everyone else's turn.
Jaxel begins to savage the nasty spiderlady.
Artirian cheers his good doggy on!
Aurexil shudders a little bit as Artirian's magic takes hold. It feels wrong, even as it mends her bruises.
But she doesn't have time to pay attention to that just now. Not when there's a... whatever this thing is to kill. She watches its movements for a moment , focuses her draconic heritage on her glaive's blade , and then sweeps her glaive upward, aiming at the creature through the open door.
Aurexil's blow is deflected by the door frame, making it unable to penetrate the thick hide of the creature.
Neve, not being able to see anything readies an action to fire at something that does pop out.
Angered by the thing's actions Fraejia focused and sent a blast of cold at it once more. The slew of icy energy shot forth and looked like it would slam into the creature successfully.
Having cover prevents AoOs, so you're ok where you stand. You could step back afterwards to try to help prevent regular attacks.
Trying to judge distances and layout - would it be possible (maybe with some acrobatic tumbling) to get past the others and to the bahgra on the ground in a move action? I do realize this would open me up to attacks.
You can make the distance as a move action, yes.
AefPakka weaves his lean form through his companions and drops down through the opening, drawing his starknife. Hurrying to stand over the bahgra, AefPakka hisses up at the bug creature, his weapon held defensively in front of him. Although the sight of the large bug creature takes some of the fire out of the kasatha, he still lowers himself to a fighting stance, ready to dodge any attacks from the creature, but hoping to shield the bahgra.
While he does this, faint blue wisps drift through the air from AefPakka up to the creature.
The Tauslek bites at Jaxel, who has gotten up close and personal.
Bite for plus grab plus poison Jaxel Fort
Confirm Nope
Poison: Wisdom Drain
Jaxel vs Mesmerizing Stare: Will The Eidolon begins to drool, staring helplessly fascinated by the prismatic eyes of the bug matriarch.
"Jaxel, she is NOT your friend." He sends a blob of acid at Jaxel, trying to break him out of his trance.
The beast snaps its jaws at Jaxel again, but the eidolon is ready and dodges.
Aurexil tries another slash at the creature with her glaive.
The slash cuts deeply in the creature's side, and it hisses angrily at Aurexil.
The Tauslek snaps its jaws towards Jaxel, missing. Then it crawls up the wall to the ceiling to get out of reach of Aurexil. (This provokes from Jaxel and Aurexil.) As it moves, its wounds begin to close.
It barks out in Bahgra.
Aurexil slashes at it as it retreats.
She frowns as it barks. "AefPakka, gerði það sem talað bara í Bhangra tungumáli?" she asks.
"Já ... kallaði okkur mannræningja eða eitthvað."
AefPakka clears his throat and tries reasoning with the creature.
AefPakka tries to glance quickly at the bahgra on the ground by him to see if he or she might be well enough to speak at all.
AefPakka checks the Bahgra, finding her to be dead. The Tauslek, meanwhile, takes a defensive position on the ceiling, speaking once more in the Bahgra language.
"Remember darkness, scared. Pain. We too. It took us, took our children."