Spotting six of the Pugwampi's, Apollo sighs once more.
Do I really have to kill you all? Your friend we faced yesterday didn't stand a chance, so you better hope luck's on your side!
Within a flash, the over-confident man charges 15ft forwards, twisting 90 degrees, bringing his weighty hammer down with a brutal ground smash, narrowly missing his target!
Kori is eager to fight, rushing up the stairs straight at the closest one to her. Her Nine-ring sword ringing out as she grabs it in both hands and swings hard at the nearest creature. Even with the cover of the nearby bench, Kori easily drops the little thing.
Finally seeing something he's completely allowed to kill, he sees Apollo run past him, missing his target with the hammer. Dmitri sees the one closest to him
He eyes it for a moment, grinning, and with a hearty amount of laughter he charges into the group.
(Winner winner)
As he lands and sees the grimacing creature's eyes grow wide, Dmitri's tongue is practically out of his mouth and his face is wild, eyes, wicked. With all of the strength he potentially posesses he swings the scythe in a wide arc, cleaving the small enemy in twain.
His smile widens as the creature wails out in pain and screams, ever enjoying the lust of battle as always. His scythe, soaked in crimson at the feat, drips slowly on the floor, prepping for another cleave through a being.
He points to the Pugwampi in J9, hand upside down and foreboding.
Keth, scythe in hand, quickly scans the room and perks up before a grin appears on his face and he charges forward eager for battle
Keth swings wide barely missing the Pugwampi and grunts quietly, Damn.
Angmar heads into the battle slow and steadily as would a Dwarf. He's aware of the fact that he'll be exposing himself to the Pugwampi's first wave of attacks and thus closes carefully as he makes his way down the stairs. When in position he aims a deft swing of his mighty axe at the feeble creature before him and just as he is bringing down what surely would have been a deadly blow a ray of late sunlight shining through a crack blinds him momentarily and his large axe hacks viciously into the stone floor.
The pugwampis scamper about in a slight panic due to their unexpected "guests". When the intruders charge forward, one by one, and two of the pugwampis are cut down, they snarl in anger.
Taking quick stock of the situation, Sabeen snarls in a flash of outrage, making complex gestures in the air. . One of the pugwampis falls to the ground snoring. .
The three remaining standing pugwampis snarl. The pugwampis in H7 and J9 draw tiny bows, nock, and fire on Dmitri. In their surprise, they don't draw back far enough, and the shots clatter to the ground before even reaching him.
The pugwampi in front of Keth and Apollo, , draws a dagger and thrusts it at Apollo, but fails to penetrate Apollo's well-forged armor.
Angmar up close and personal with a pugwampi tries to find an opening in the creatures defenses but luck is not on his side this battle and the creature can slip past his cut with surprising ease.
Dmitri, following through with his foreshadowing, charges the Pugwami in J9 with his scythe dragging across the floor menacingly as he rushes the creature whilst it reloads.
A small spatter of blood has graced his face, making him seem rather uncouth in the situation.
In his moment of bliss, Dmitri loses himself in his swing, completely arcing the blade in a wide swath. The Pugwampi seems to duck a little, barely missing the blade.
This amuses Dmitri, however, as long battles are his primary favorite. After all, they hadn't even had a chance to wound him yet.
Hefting his Hammer out of the crater he'd just created, Apollo swings upward with immense strength into the little creatures face, sending him flying high into the air, blood splattering all over his and Keth's face, as the Pugwampi's skull explodes from impact, before marching forwards to the next Pugwampi!
Kori moves forward into the space beside the sleeping one and the archer, only giving a half-hearted swing at the awake one, as her attention is on Apollo. "Am I to kill the sleeping one for you? Since honor won't let you do it?"
These things don't understand the meaning of honour, and as we're already engaged in combat, if we don't kill them they'll only damage the weaker of us. Though, they're hardly worth bothering with. It's a shame their deaths are so meaningless.
As I understand it, this is the current map:
The pugwampi located at I10 on this map is unconscious (sleeping).
EDIT: also, AoO against Dmitri-
miss!
I think we're mostly in different time zones, actually. You might need to be a bit more patient.
A short set of wide ceremonial steps leads down to a cavernous chapel in which the congregants would gather for sermons in happier times. The vibrant orange and red starburst of Sarenrae still stands behind a film of rusted rainwater and dirt along the north wall overlooking the collapsed altar. Between the stairs and the altar stand dozens of old marble benches, many overturned and even more broken into two or more pieces. A wide walkway bisects the pews, leading directly to the raised altar. Here and there a few clumps of the original red carpet along this thoroughfare
hang on against rot and neglect. Above the center of the chapel, dangling about ten feet from the floor, hangs a cluster of gnoll skulls in various stages of decay. Strung together like a ghoulish candelabra of twine and bone, the boulder-sized ornament hangs from the wooden rafters about twenty feet above the ground.
A thin balcony hangs over the chapel floor some twenty feet above. Two rows of tall-backed wooden choir chairs dominate the southern reach of the balcony, which hugs the chapel’s concave walls. The balcony falls away—collapsed for a span of perhaps fifteen feet—just on the other side of the choir area. To the east, rickety time-worn wooden rafters stretch across the whole chapel. Two huge sections of these rafters have been engulfed in a sort of nest comprised of a patchwork of random bits of cloth.
To the western side of the room is a rickety wood and iron ladder that leads up into the balcony.
Keth raises his hands, creating a small ball of acid in between them, and flings them at the pugwampi in area K12.
miss!
The bolt isn't even close, hitting the remnants of a pew and melting a small wooden section.
A fourth pugwampi falls, and the others snarl and yell into the rafters. Sabeen pulls a small crossbow from her pack, pre-loaded, and fires it at the pugwampi in area K12.
miss!
The crossbow bolt flies wide, skittering on the tile floor at the other end of the chapel.
At the behest of the pugwampi's screeches, four more show themselves in the rafters above, hefting tiny bows. They fire at Dmitri, Apollo, and Kori.
miss!
miss!
hit!
miss!
The pugwampi in area K12 takes a step to area K13 and snarls while making a few gestures in the air.
Your move! MAP
Dmitri's scythe, waving through the air, suddenly becomes brittle and flakes through the air. As he swings it back down, he looks at it as it dances through the air, a mixture of blood and metal dancing against the lights as they fall through the air.
Dmitri's scythe had been one of only 2 things that his godmother, Avalni, had ever given him that he was to cherish. It was a birthright, and a religious symbol to his church. A symbol for reaping those that disagreed. Now it hung defeated, shattered, and worst of all... a holy symbol had been tarnished.
He stopped for just a moment to look at the Pugwampi snarling in the pews and simply walked toward it with tears in his eyes and unfathomable fury.
Everything it was related to would die this day.
He raised the tattered weapon high with a rage only a barbarian could fathom, and swung it down, mercilessly and full of unadulterated fury.
Alas, he misses, and this doesn't do anything except fuel his fury. This wasn't about sadomasochism, or enjoyment anymore. This was unholy retribution.
With an arrow just catching the side of Apollo's cheek, the man looks up to see more of the little dog like creatures up in the rafters.
Not bothered by the attempt to harm him, and ignoring the one Pugwampi unconscious on the ground, Apollo focuses his full attention on the one between he and his white haired ally.
Kori, you can take the downed one if that's what you wish, while I'll deal with this!
Apollo smirks at the woman, before ramming his hammer straight into the chest of the creature in front of him with an arching uppercut, catching the pugwampi in the solar plexus, carrying it overhead with full force, only to slam it back down again, through one of the pews behind him.
Apollo then heads towards the ladder , ready to climb up to the rafters.
Kori thinks nothing of attacking the sleeping one. It shouldn't be much more than the drop of the blade, and wham, one less gnoll imp. She gets a decent grip on her blade and puts it under it's chin, pressing down on the handle and back of the blade to snip the thing's head clean off. She doesn't quite get why Apollo and Dmitri are awash with emotion over the fight. The little things haven't even upset her yet.
Keth moves up to J9 and swings at the Pew in I10 and misses
Keth after this seems very frustrated and annoyed at his horrible luck
Angmar is still up close and personal with a pugwampi and the powerful Dwarven warrior will not let it stand at that and thus in an attempt to drop the pugwampi for good he aims another methodically placed axe swing at it's head.
=5 damage
Angmar's axe slices through the pugwampi, which staggers around a bit with its overlarge wound, but it remains standing.
Sabeen, spotting the pugwampis above, quickly reloads her crossbow and takes a shot at one. Unfortunately, her shot flies right past it into the chapel ceiling.
miss!
The pugwampi that Angmar slashed moments ago panicks, knowing that its badly wounded, and runs around the pews towards the back of the chapel, and makes it to area O19.
Two pugwampis above take aim again with their arrows, while two make a familiar set of gestures in the air.
hit!
miss!
failure!
success!
One arrow weakly pierces Kori's shoulder, drawing some blood, while the other bounces off of the wall near Apollo with a *clack*.
Sabeen's crossbow buckles and cracks under the weight of the arcane magic, and Keth's scythe begins to shed fragments of metal, although only for a moment.
Not feeling like wasting time trying to climb up to the little bastards, Kori moves to where she's just in range, to throw the javelin she pulls while moving. With a slight grunt, she chucks the thing in their direction, and it looks like a solid throw.
Apollo begins to climb the ladder at the side of the chapel wall.
Dmitri's uncouth fury is not Audible. He is silent, furious, and focused. His unfortunate misses have all been by hairs, and silly mishaps by his enemy. Tears stream down his face as he tries to pierce the creature in front of him with his broken weapon.
Needless to say, anger may make it easier to miss, but he remains cultured in his methods of using the weapon to strike at the creature, arcing it over his body, having the weapon dance across his back as he grabs it with his right hand to bring a wide cleave around, attempting to hit the bastard. The weapon misses, though barely, and Dmitri's disappointment and fury deepen.
Pugwampis-25
Kori-17
Keth-11
Apollo-11
Angmar-10
Dmitri-9
Sabeen-9
Sabeen, Keth, and Angmar's attacks on the pugwampis all miss, attacks whistling through the air. Keth's acid bolt slams into the ground, sizzling while Angmar's axe strikes sparks where the pugwampi's leg was a moment before and Sabeen's crossbow bolt thuds into the rafter below a pugwampi. With a grunt, Kori's spear takes a pugwampi squarely in the chest, and its eyes widen in surprise at its poor luck.
miss!
miss!
miss!
miss!
miss!
The pugwampi taken in the chest by Kori's spear staggers around in the rafters, trying to reach one of the balconies, but its foot slips on a piece of wood and it falls to the chapel floor beside Keth with a splat. The three remaining pugwampis in the rafters attempt to hit the intruders with more tiny arrows, but the small points fail to pierce armor. The pugwampi in front of Dmitri snickers at his rage and swipes at his ankles, but the point goes in between his legs.
Apollo climbs to the top of the ladder and has a look around.
Grabbing the haft of his scythe, Dmitri lunges the weapon forward, behind the pugwampi, twisting the blade to reap it on it's return. He pulls back with all of his might, barely missing the pugwampi's neck.
[i]Blood, at this point, has began to trickle from the left bit of his mouth. Not because of internal damage, but merely because he's been biting the inside of his mouth this entire time, and he just recently cut it.[/dice]
Apollo, you find yourself in the area reserved for the choir booths. The rotting wooden “booths” are inscribed with religious symbols, but the whole apparatus is in terrible shape and literally crumbles to the touch. When you reach the top, the pugwampis perched on the choir booths and on the rafters that crosscross the room screech at you angrily.
Wooden balconies hang from the wall along the east, west, and northern faces of this ovoid chapel. Wooden beams cross the room between the three balconies, wide enough to accommodate a humanoid creature but damp and creaking. You emerge on the westernmost balcony.
On the easternmost balcony is a room of sorts, knit together like a nest composed of interwoven tapestries, sackcloths, sheets, blankets, and other bits of loose cloth. Similar material has been used to create “walls” along the north and west sides of this habitat, as well as along the rafters in the area, and the room extends away from the balcony with cloth flooring over thin air. More pugwampi chattering issues from this "chamber".
By the northernmost balcony is a broken window that spans the entire wall. From here, you can see the village of Kelmerane over rugged hilltops.
With one Pugwampi having fled from his might Angmar still has afoe nearby and attempts to cut it in Zwei!
As Apollo reaches the top, he looks around quickly, taking note of the poor conditions that surround him.
Stay down there everyone! The floor up here doesn't look as though it can take much weight! says the man, as he shouts to those he travels with.
Kori wonders why the others are taking so long with the one little gnoll imp. She would like to just get rid of the thing, but Pain-lover seems obsessed over his revenge, and she'd rather not get around that blade with him all seeing red. She knows what it's like to be so enraged at an enemy that you don't think straight.
Instead, she decides that with Lizard-friend's big, heavy, human weight above warning that it doesn't look to hold much, she'll try to bring more of those little buggers down. She draws another javelin, hurling it at the next closest imp, moving wherever she needs to get a clear shot. Sadly, her shot is so far off, one of the little imps would have to be unlucky enough to move into it to take the hit.
Keth twirls his scythe around waiting for more action. Due to his disappointment of the previous encounter Keth seems frustrated with Apollo telling them to stay back and slightly pouts.