DM ** spoiler omitted **
Eli continues to shout of the valor of Brebork as he luges left and right trying to confuse the giant as to which way his attack will come.
Tyronel shoots two more arrows at the rampaging giant.
Attack One
Damage
Attack Two
Damage
Round 3
Dumah will cast Grease on Kardswann's greataxe. Reflex DC 15 or drop it, followed by problems picking it up again.
Move action: move the sphere into his square before it winks out of existance. Damage , Reflex DC 16 to avoid.
Bahiyy will channel positive energy, excluding Kardswann from the area. He then starts to make his way stealthy over to Quzman, trying not to draw any attention from Kardswann or the crowd.
They're watching the fight, making sure the 10 gnolls do not get involved.
Summary of Round 2:
Round 3 ** spoiler omitted **
Reflex Save for Grease:
The boar attempts to gore the genie: ..but its attack misses.
Kardswann pulls the arrow from his shoulder and looks at Tyronel. "You like shooting arrows, eh?" He flies over Eli and the boar...
He lands right in front of Tyronel and brings his mighty greataxe to bear on the human with all his might, nearly splitting the archer in two, causing a massive gashing wound on his shoulder The gnolls scream with fervor upon seeing the party getting waylaid, as Tyronel screams in pain!
Tyronel buckled upon being sliced to the core by Kardswann's axe. He dropped his bow, and pulled his sword, swinging at the monster.
Attack
Damage
Seeing that his swing had no effect, Ty yells out, "How about a little help down here, harpy!?"
Bahiyy moves over to Quzman, again, trying not to give away he is around and again channels positive energy, excluding Kardswann.
The heroics of the hero Brebork are now being shouted aloud by Eli as he slashes at an opportune moment.
Eli spins and leaps keeping after the flying genie catching him between Tempest and Tyronel. "Tie him down Dumah!"
Summary of Round 3:
Updated Battle Map..the wolf is the boar!
Kardswann laughs, "The almost dead archer and the wizard are all that are left!" The gnolls cry out his name, seeing the genie's victory as imminent!
Round 4
If Dumah doesn’t believe this would work anchored like that, then he’ll cast Grease instead, DC 15 Reflex save to hold onto his axe.
He will shout Never count out the wizard! He's is feeling emboldened, suspecting strongly that he will not survive the demon fever that still ravages his body.
Quzman, bloodied and in severe pain, gasps quietly as he regains consciousness. He knows that in his current shape, he couldn't take another one of those vicious hits, so he grabs a vial from his pouch and downs the contents.
Then Kardswann screams, "Stop using magics!" and brings his axe to bear on Dumah....and despite the wizard's spells of Mage Armor and Shield, the might swing pierces the defenses, savagely slashing the wizard across the chest, knocking him back 3 feet, to the ground, a blood pool covering the sand where Dumah's body landed. The party, through the strands of the web, is unsure of whether the wizard lives or not!
Eli grabs Tempest and stands up.
"Nooooooo!" is the scream the party hears, as Haleen sees Dumah's body lying on the sand. Her hands glows and she runs up next to him and falls to her knees, touching him. He opens his eyes and sees tears running down her cheeks. "You'll pay for that, you little bi*ch!" As Kardswann's large shadow looms over the battlefield, Haleen turns to him from her knees, screaming, "You won't have him!", wielding the dagger in her hand.
Again the sneaky cleric is on the move, praying to Abadar for help and guidance. This is insane, these thuoghts run through his mind, I hope I can help Dumah. And again, quietly passing prayers to Abadar as he channels positive energy.
Seeing kardswann focus on Dumah for a second, Ty used the opportunity to take a swing with his sword.
Greatsword AoO
Damage
Seeing his last swing actually damaged the leader of the gnolls, Ty was inspired to keep striking.
Greatsword regular attack
Damage
Summary of Round 4:
Dumah is going to try Burning Hands.
Concentration check
Son of a &*^%$
Make that "Dumah is going to flail around impotently while burning a spell slot."
Kardswann ignores the wizard's ineptness and focuses on Tyronel. He swings his greataxe with care and precision, unlike his previous attacks where he swung as hard as he could and connects, slashing Tyronel in the gut, but miraculously, the archer still stands..barely, despite the blood leaving his body! Kardswann smiles and admires the warrior's grit, but decides to end his life anyway, and he swings again, but Tyronel deflects the poorly swung blow!
Eli sees Tyronel about to pass out and shouts words of encouragement as he runs to join the fray, "He's almost down, wait for me to flank him!"
The gnoll crowd goes quiet, knowing the warriors have the bloodied genie in an advantageous position. The harpy, Garavel, and the archers watch with bated breath, as the warriors prepare to strike. Kardwann is indignant and eyes both opponents, hoping to block their blows, still in shock he could not bring the archer down.
Eli screams "For Brebork!" and moves to impale the genie with Tempest in his back. He thrusts the rapier forth and the blade punctures the genie's abdomen, coming out the front! Kardswann screams in pain and falls to his knees, gasping for air, as he drops his greataxe.
Eli says in an otherworldly voice, "Rest now brother!" As he pulls the blade out, a wave of cold seeps from the blade, tinting the genie's skin blue and he falls face first down to the sand. When Eli looks at the blade, it seems sharper than before () and also constantly emits an aura of frost.
The remaining gnolls gasp when they see Kardswann's giant form fall to the arena floor and shrink. They run in terror from the Battle Market. Garavel and the archers shoot them down and in the end, only a couple manage to escape the slaughter, possibly only long enough to be victims of the cruel desert.
Undrella flies down and congratulates the party on its victory and awaits the town's verdict on whether she can stay or not in Kelmarane.
Garavel congratulates the party immensely for their bravery and immediately leaves with the archers to let the caravan know of the good news.
Bahiyy casts his Locate Object spell, which leads him to his old equipment and the tribe's treasure trove which includes the following, which over the next days, the party identifies:
Silver masterwork flute (worth 130 gp)
4 large garnets worth 400 gp each
3459 gp
Ring of protection +1
Cloak of resistance +1
Masterwork chainmail
+1 dagger
Wand of bull’s strength (8 charges)
4 applications of silversheen
Amulet of natural armor +1
Cloak of Charisma +2
Ring of Feather Falling
Slippers of spider climbing
+1 splint mail
Cold iron heavy mace.
2 potions of cure moderate wounds (on Kardswann)
Masterwork breastplate (on Kardswann)
+1 lawful outsider bane Greataxe (on Kardswann)
Potions: Mage armor, Magic fang, blur, cat’s grace, invisibility, spider climb, and haste
With the combat being over, his hriends still alive Bahiyy becomes visible again. He sighs in relief that no-one has died. "Praise be to Abadar," he calls out, "who protected us against our enemies." Happy it is over he runs over to Haleen, in disbelief he mutters,"Haleen, it is really you? What happened, how did you get caught by them?" So many questions, and he cannot grasp the fact to meet his sister here.
Later on he will approach the princess, "your highness, I want to thank you for your generosity in entrusting me your holy symbol of Abadar. Thanks to your help and the blessings of Abadar we were able to free this village." With this Bahiyy takes out the holy symbol and hands it back to the princess.
Clutching his robes around himself tightly, Dumah will go back to Haleen. You had been gone for stints before, but never that long. I asked everywhere, and no one knew where you'd gone. I thought I was ready and so I can to look for you...
Haleen happily hugs Bahiyy once she sees him. When she has a chance to speak, she says "Unfortunately, despite what my little brother and my charge may believe, I am far from perfect. I incurred some gambling debts in Katapesh that followed me to Solku. I heard there was some gold to be made fighting in the arena here so I left you, not wanting to put you in danger. I did well at first but the ogre defeated me and instead of eating me, kept me as a prize, but thankfully, my music soothed him so he kept me as a trophy and was quite enamored with me, but I was a prisoner. Thank you for saving me!"
Bahiyy gives her a big hug, then looks at her:"Gambling debt? You? No way!" He cannot believe that Haleen has gambling debts. What's more to come....?
"And I guess, you still are in debt? How much?"
She sheepishly says, "It was 2000 gp but it increased to 3000 gp with interest and I've paid 1000 gp back already! It's some awful unsavory guild in Katapesh, led by someone they call Father Jackal."
Dumah is momentarily stunned by the amount, but quickly recovers. We will deal with it, do not fear. Perhaps if we wipe out another maurading gnoll tribe or two we'll recover enough to cover that and then some!
"Ouch, but yeah, we will deal with it, seems now we have to take care of you." Bahiyy adds with a smile.
When the time comes to disucss Undrella's future Bahiyy will step up for her, that he wants her to stay. She has chosen them as her champions, and intervened so it was an arena combat, a full combat with gnolls in between could have ended disastrous.
"I agree about the harpy. She has lived up to her end of our agreement. She could help protect the town from any unknown assailants as well."
"Thank you all for vouching for me. I will definitely protect the village when its guardians are away."