Look here, Mr. Ugly, would ye just die already? We have more important things to do you know....
As he says that, Paddy slashes at the creature with his sword.
[dice=attack] 1d20+7+2; 1d6+1; 2d6
The Deep One snarls and parries Paddy's thrust with its trident!
CLANNNG!!!
Rd 2
Iommi-Tyr Magnusson loads and fires his Crossbow:
[dice=Attack]1d20
[dice=Damage]1d4+1
Rd 3
Iommi-Tyr Magnusson loads his beat-up, scavenged crossbow one more time and, not believing in the futility, fires again into Melee!
Hisao continues slashing at the creature.
Hisao continues slashing at the creature.
[dice=Flank blade]1d20+8;1d6+1+2d6
The wounded Deep One spins to deflect Hisao's backstab with its trident haft....
CLANG!!!
The Moray
The Deep One, in a blood frenzy at the taste of its own blood leaking from a busted snout into its fang-filled mouth, thrusts its trident furiously at Nacht , rending the Beetle Man's carapace for piercing, and snaps at his face , chomping on empty space where the nimble Nacht's head was a split second earlier!
Hisao continues to slash at the creature a bit frustrated that he can't hit a completely surrounded fish man out of water.
Alphonse winds up and swings...and a miss.
Hisao continues to slash at the creature a bit frustrated that he can't hit a completely surrounded fish man out of water.
[dice=Flank slash]1d20+8;1d6+1+2d6
The ninja sinks his wakizashi into the Deep One, blade inserting beside its dorsal fin, which he notices is accomodated by the scaley mail it wears, and the blood-red tip of his blade appears through the Deep One's chest! The beast screams a bloodcurdling scream and falls dead!
The strange coat of fish scale-like chain mail seems to whisper to Nacht in his head.... It seems to make sibilant sounds that seem to mean, "I am for you"....
Nacht pulls the trident out of his carapace with a squelch as a sizzling sound comes from his body. The wounds seem to.. close themselves up as Nacht's arms start losing bulk. He inspects the garb of the creature and simply strips it from it much like the man before... and takes a fin to begin munching on. As he holds up the armor it is almost automated in his ideal to don the protective piece.
How strange? This had never happened before, were the voices coming back?
The skin of scales fits Nacht's unique anatomy perfectly, sleeves forming as if the armor were a liquid, polymorphous thing to accommodate Nacht's multiple limbs....
It is celestial armor: light +3 chain mail, max Dex bonus +8, armor check penalty -2, arcane failure 15%, wearer can cast fly as 5th-level caster once per day
Hah! Sushi! Hisao exclaims as the fish man finally dies and Nacht chows down. You look good as fish. he comments after Nacht dons the armour. He bends down to rifle through the rest of the Moray's possessions.
"Yes. Very shiny, Nacht. That mail looks familiar somehow, now I think of it."
Ah, good riddance to that nasty little bugger. He sure took a good bite out of me hide....I'm gonna have to invest i some new clothes when we get back up to the streets....I think something more refined is in order. Now, speaking of said wounds, I need to have a drink....feeling a little battered around...
With that, Paddy takes out two bottles and swigs them both.
Ahh, the nectar of the gods...and some stuff that closes wounds too...
current hp 14/27
"Paddy, you're still looking hurt. Do you want my potion? God has granted me the power to heal myself, so I have less need of it."
I have two Potions of magical healing -- take them if you need them; just try to purchase me a replacement when you can.
{b] I still have 2 more potions, guys. Thank you both though. I just wanted to use as little as possible...you know, because we still have the big nasty beasty to go at yet. Hang on to them....[/b]
Paddy pulls out another flask and downs it, followed by a swig of some alcohol.
Gotta chase it with some of the good stuff..leaves a nasty aftertaste....
Hisao removes a necklace of blue-tinged electrum with pearl and aquamarine settings from the Deep One's slimy throat, and a bracelet of verdigris-tinted copper inlaid with moonstones....
The trident doesn't seem to be anything special, being of common quality....
The Lusty Fools stand around the fallen corpse of the Deep One, pondering their current dilemma: they appear to be trapped inside a dome surrounded by a water filling a larger outer cistern.... Fortunately, some abjuration prevents the inner domed chamber from flooding....
Perhaps the hidden niche or the suspicious circular seams in the floor and ceiling will provide some escape?
Hidden doors need opening Hisao says pointing up and down.
Before that though Hisao checks the niche for traps or anything of that nature
Paddy goes to the hidden niche to check for any means of escape.
My vote is "hidden niche" first, followed by "suspicious circular seams."
Iommi-Tyr Magnusson spends these few minutes manipulating, testing and mixing some of the various chemicals, alchemical regents and base liquids (including some bloody ooze from the Deep One)....
I think I'm close to a breakthrough!
The niche appears to be free of traps, and a panel slides to the right to reveal a secret space about ten inches high, by a foot wide, by a foot deep, in which a pouch, a scroll case, and a dagger are hidden....
Hisao checks the items for traps and then pulls them out
As Hisao is about to reach in for the pouch, his ninja training kicks in, and he gently touches the hollow slot running the width of the top of the front of the niche.... The slot from which, no doubt, a razor-sharp guillotine falls to sever an over eager hand....
Tricky Hisao mutters and attempts to Disable the Trap.
The ninja uncoils a length of thin but sturdy spring steel from a pocket of his outfit, clips it to 10 inches, straightens it with an alchemical reagent known to the Yellow Reed clan, and wedges it in place to prevent the guillotine's fall.
He can now safely retrieve the items hidden in the niche....
The Monkey King hoots joyously and claps his hands!
Clever Mister Hisao! I like him more and more!
As the objects in the niche are removed, it becomes apparent that there is also a lever in the back of the niche....
Paddy checks the seams in the floor for any hidden surprises.
Paddy checks the seams in the floor for any hidden surprises.
[dice=perception] 1d20+8
Looks all clear to Paddy!
This way looks clear. I'm gonna find out about these seams. Say, I wonder if they are connected to that lever. Hisao, pull that lever, me boyo. It might lead us out of this bloody mess.
Will Hisao resist the urge to pull the shiny, candy-like lever!?
Nope
Hisao yanks the lever.
As Hisao yanks the lever, a gasp of escaping air can be heard from the floor as the circular 10-ft diameter center of the floor pops up and swivels on a hidden axis to reveal a circular hole or pit 10-ft in diameter....
Simultaneously, the circular seam in the ceiling becomes a round trap door that drops several inches and swivels aside to reveal a circular shaft in the ceiling overhead, corresponding to the hole in the floor....
A rattle of chains and the clicking of cogs and gears echoes through the underwater cistern....
A great, verdigris-stained copper diving bell emerges from the hole in the floor of the inner domed chamber, raised up and out of the floor on telescoping rods! The outside of the bell is decorated with relief images of hippocampus-drawn seashell chariots in which tritons and mermaids ride....
The diving bell ascends toward the shaft at the apex of the domed chamber, and stops when the top of the 10-ft-diameter-by-10-ft-high copper bell passes through the opening at the ceiling. The bottom rim of the bell now hangs 10 feet over the floor, and four rope ladders unroll and hang from the interior of the bell to the floor of the domed chamber....
Another muffled rattling of chains underwater echoes from outside the domed chamber, and a loud CLANK! reverberates from the top of the diving bell....
As Hisao inspects the interior of the diving bell, he sees yet another lever inside the diving bell near its inner apex....
The lever inside the diving bell can easily be reached by climbing any of the four rope ladders that hang from inside the top of the bell....