Eleanor utilizes her strength and grace to close the distance between the beast with blade in hand. Once in range a dark aura surrounds her form as she attacks the multi-headed beast.
[dice=Attack/Rage/Inspire/PowerAttack]d20+6+2+2+1+3 [dice=Damage]d10+d6+7+2+1+3
[dice=Slam]d20+7 [dice=Damage]d4+5
Move Action: Move
Standard: Attack
Immediate: Combat Precog
Free/Non-Actions: Rage and Spirit Totem Slam
Pre-Combat Actions: Mage Armor and Stance both are active most of the day.
I can't claim him like I wanted so yes I guess I was off.
Stance: This duration indicates that the ability is a stance, and therefore ends only when you will it to end, when you become helpless, or when you fulfill a specific condition described in the stance's description
Round 1
As Greebins prepares for battle, Eleanor skips across the top of the water and assaults the hydra. Despite having the jump on it, it is able to strike out at her as she moves towards it.
- miss
- hit
Reroll for combat precognition:
- hit
One of the heads strikes swiftly and accurately.
She slices into the creature slashing it hard, and her spirit totem slams it with a thump.
The hydra then attacks Eleanor, Greebins and Lotham with its long sinuous heads.
- hit, possible crit
Combat precogniton reroll:
- hit
- hit
Combat precogniton reroll:
- miss
- miss
- hit
- hit, possible crit
- confirmed
- miss
- hit
- hit
- hit
Damage totals:
Eleanor: 18
Greebins: 24
Lotham: 21
Round 2
Eleanor claims the beast with her Ki marking her prey's very soul as she continues to assault the hydra.
Nathan steps 5' closer to to the beast and unleashes arrows at it. "That thing is deadly!
Lotham heals himself as he takes a step closer to the hydra, then he bellows in anger and begins laying into it with his horns, teeth, and claws.
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Round 1 recap/Round 2 part 1
Eleanor 18
Greebins 18 (delayed)
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Hydra 18
Nathan 17
Rechau 9
Lotham 5
Nathan steps up and fires two arrow rapidly, taking aim. The first one bounces harmlessly off of the creature's thick scales, but the second one finds a home
Lotham quickly soothes over some of his wounds, and then steps in roaring a bellow as he tears into the huge beast. While many of his attacks are unable to penetrate its tough hide, he is able to sink one of his claws across the creature.
Eleanor continues her assault on the hydra, she slashes high with her katana, but the creature's tough hide rebuffs the blow, however the dark energy of her spirit totem slams into the beast and it roars in anger as the negative energy rips through it. The hissing croaking roars of its nine heads echoes through the marshy valley. You would expect you could hear this level of noise from miles and miles away.
The hydra, though wounded, has a lot of fight left in it, and the nature of such a creature, heals if very quickly. Even now, some of the wounds you inflicted seconds ago, the blood is congealing and the torn and slashed hide mending together.
Rechau moves over to the creature, risking an attack as he has too far to go to waste time trying to avoid such. Once there he starts attacking the body of the creature.
AC vs AoO- 25
AC after my attack- 29
hp-29/29
status-Crane Stance, Inspired, Panache (5/6)
Nearly disembowled by the Hydra's attack, Greebins steps carefully back through the marshland to get into a better position.
Rechau, the hydra tries to take a chomp out of you as you move up to it.
- miss
Rechau steps within reach and stabs it good, hacking through its scales and leaving a solid wound.
Round 2
Greebins takes advantage of the chaos and withdraws to safety.
The hydra continues its assault against the group, its many heads biting and snapping viciously.
- hit (negated)
Combat precognition reroll:
- miss
- miss
- hit (negated)
Combat precognition reroll:
- miss
- miss
- hit, possible critical
- no critical
- miss
- hit
- hit, possible critical
- hit, confirmed
- miss
Damage Totals:
Rechau: 12
Lotham: 20 (I think you are at -9? )
The group watches in horror as the hydra tears into the big minotaur, several heads biting hard, one of them leaves a massive gash as the minotaur drops from the power of the hit.
Rechau also feels the effects of the razor sharp fangs as the swamp beast gets a lucky strike in and he is unable to parry away the huge creature's powerful chomp.
While having suffered from serious wounds, they are closing slowly, and the hydra fights on fearlessly. Blood taints the murky waters of the bog.
Initiative Order:
Greebins 32
Eleanor 18
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Hydra 18
Nathan 17
Rechau 9
Lotham 5
The rest of the group can finish their round 2 actions, and Greebins/Eleanor take round 3. Lotham roll your stabilize (at -9).
Round 3
Eleanor moves alongside the beast positioning it between herself and her allies.
She channels her martial prowess into her blade and strikes the beast from it's flank.
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"We need to drop this thing now or we're all going to die! Lotham move to me!"
He then lets two arrows loose toward the beast.
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Round 2
Rechau grasps his sword in both hands, giving up on trying to parry anything from the large beast and instead concentrates on damaging it. His stance also morphs as he combines another style with his first.
AC-29
hp-17/29
status-Crane Stance, Monkey Stance, Inspired, Panache (5/6).
Greebins stalks up behind the badly wounded Lotham and gives him a dose of much needed healing magic/
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You are correct, I had forgotten the heal and also your extra bloodrage HP. Carry on!
Round 2
Nathan rapid fires a pair of arrows, but both of them bounce harmlessly off of the thick scaly hide of the huge beast.
Rechau goes on the offense and drives his sword deeply into the creature, inflicting a powerful wound.
Round 3
Eleanor attacks the giant scaly beast, it having been a long long time since she was in the presence of a large scaled creature...
She slashes hard, cutting a large open wound in the belly of the beast. The power of her ki focuses and the supernatural strike confuses the creature. The hydra seems to be quite badly wounded now.
- fail
Greebins steps up to heal the badly wounded Lotham.
"In the name of all that is good, BE SLAIN!" Lotham's powerful voice bellows at the Hydra, and he begins furiously slashing and clawing at it with his horns, teeth, and claws. The powerful sight is awe-inspiring.
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Round 2 (Lotham)
Lotham calls upon holy power and attacks the huge beast, unfortunately the holy power doesn't seem to be aiding him like he had hoped. Rather than a servant of evil, the creature is merely a huge hungry swamp beast.
Round 3
The staggered hydra snaps viciously at Eleanor as she hits it with her venom prana. Reeling and dizzy most of its heads bobs about as it tries to regain its bearings, but one of them close enough takes a snap at her as blood pours from its many wounds.
- hit, possible crit
Combat precognition reroll:
- miss
Eleanor 18
Greebins 18 (delayed)
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Hydra 18
Nathan 17
Rechau 9
Lotham 5
"Let's end this now!" Nathan shouts as he looses two more arrows.
Lotham bellows in rage again and begins tearing and clawing at the hydra with his claws, horns and teeth.
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Rechau continues to strike at the creature hoping to finish it off.
With renewed vigor, the team strikes at the heavily wounded and staggered hydra, hoping to finish it before it regains its full senses.
Although Nathan's first arrow misses the second one strikes true and sinks deep in the hydra's chest.
Despite its ability to heal quickly, the group's continuous onslaught is outpacing it.
Rechau and Lotham attack and between the two, delivers the final dead blows to the creature, sending it to a murky grave. The heads slump and with a huge crash and a splash that covers all of you in bloody, muddy swap muck, the hydra falls, its heads flopping and slamming along side with multiple thumps and splashes in the mud, water and reeds.
The group stands quietly for a second catching their breathes.
The battle is over.
Lotham's shoulders rise and fall as he catches his breath. "Is everyone okay?"
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Greebins ends his performance and assess the situation. It takes a second before he masters language again. "Mrrow... hmm... phhfft! Ack, who needs healing?" and he casts a pair of healing spells on himself.
"I think I'll be alright as long as their aren't more of these things around." Ellie answers.
"Well, I would think it unlikely another one would be so near to another hydra's territory, I still think we'd be better off on drier terrain," says Greebins. He adds, a touch enviously, "I think Eleanor is the only one of us that can walk on water."
The group tends to their wounds as a still settles over the marsh. The soft incantations of healing magic sooth some of the results of the battle. The group is a mess, bloodied, battered, muddy and soaking wet, but alive.
You take stock of the situation and try to determine how something so big got so close in a marsh that is for the most part not that deep. Sure there are some deeper boggy spots, but for a huge creature this size to surge from the muck there must be a deeper pool right here.
Nathan sighs as he looks at the group, "That was a tough fight brothers. I can offer a good deal of curing magic. First let us gather together and I can heal everyone at once. Then I can use some of my other magic if needed."
Eleanor's wounds stitch themselves together under Nathan's holy radiance. "Thank you, brother."
"Does anyone want to see where this this thing came from? I think there might be an underwater path nearby." Ellie asks.
" You are most welcome sister.
We should probably try and investigate it's lair to see if it grabbed any of the giant's people and see what we can learn from their bodies. Does anyone need cleaned up or their clothes repaired?"
Nathan then casts prestidigitation to clean himself and mending as needed to fix things.
"Hmm, not much point in cleaning up if we're going for a swim." Greebins shudders at the idea of getting even wetter.