"Do you know what would be fun?" Douena remarks, apropos of nothing. "A decanter of endless monkeys. We should get one of those."
Both of us should still have Mage Armor active from the first fight with Douena's pet monkey.
-- hit
As Urza moves away, the water elemental strikes him again, this time pounding his arm and right side.
-- pass
But the half-orc then lets loose another ball of fire. As before, many of the flames are doused, but steam rises away from the elemental as they vanish.
The elemental then floats a short distance forward and attacks Mahjik.
-- miss
-- miss
Mahjik easily avoids both clumsy attacks.
Next Up: Urza, Water Elemental.
Makoa moves in and tosses an axe right into the long body of the giant snake, tearing a deep gash.
The two slightly smaller (but still big) snakes slither forward to attack.
-- miss
-- miss
Both snakes miss their targets, Tar'kanas being saved by the bit of wall between him and the snake.
The giant snake gives up on waiting and moves forward to attack Makoa .
-- miss
It snaps at empty air.
Next Up: Makoa, Medium Snakes, Large Snake.
-- confirm
= 1 nonlethal
-- fail
Con
#2 bites at Tar'kanas's shin. Almost instantly, he feels poison course into him, weakening him.
"Do you know what would be fun?" Douena remarks, apropos of nothing. "A decanter of endless monkeys. We should get one of those."
Jask frowns. "I'm remembering the Screaming Jungle. I'm not sure a decanter of endless monkeys would be good for our ears. Especially mine. They're more sensitive in this new body."
Ignoring the pain as best he can, he takes a step back and fires at the larger snake.
Mahjik trusts in his speed and defense to keep him safe, and perhaps draw aggression away from Urza. He quickly closes the distance between himself and the creature; his hands fold together to form a hammer and he uses them to smash into the liquid as hard as he can.
Urza retreats to J50 and channels his elemental fury into a jet of flame.
Scorching Ray: RTouch
to hit damage
-- miss
As Mahjik moves forward, the water elemental attempts to pummel him. However, it's attack rebounds off Mahjik's magical protections. He then plummets his fists into the water. It's a strange feeling attacking water. Although he meets resistance as he would from a normal creature, the water also gives way more than skin and bone usually do. He knows he's hurt the elemental, but not as much as he might have expected to hurt something flesh and blood.
Urza sends more flames jetting at the water, but this time, the elemental bends aside, allowing the flames to pass harmlessly.
-- hit
-- miss
The water elemental goes for Mahjik again. This time, its first watery fist makes it through his defences, hitting him solidly in the chest. The second attack once again rebounds off his magical defences.
Next Up: Urza, Water Elemental.
Target the elemental again.
Scorching Ray: RTouch
to hit damage
Mahjik unleashes a series of brutal kicks and punches - but finds that the elemental form practically shows no effects. He frowns and wonders if he should switch to a purely defensive stance and let Urza deal damage.
Tar'kanas fires off a pair of arrows simultaneously, both of which slice through the bottom of the snakes throat and go straight through. It topples over. Tar'kanas then quickly fires another shot at the snake directly in front of him, catching it right between the eyes. This snake also falls over.
Next Up: Medium Snakes, Tar'kanas.
Seeing that just one snake remains, Makoa turns it's own attack method against it by biting at it's scaled flesh!
Makoa draws another axe and bites at the snake in front of him. Unfortunately, the snake dodges aside and his teeth catch only air.
-- miss
The snake bites back at him, but the crumbling bit of wall in the way is Makoa's saving grace. As it does so, two more snakes appear from around the corner at the far side of the room. They slither slowly over the body of the giant snake towards the two of you.
Next Up: Makoa, Medium Snakes.
Mahjik's first two strikes manage to have a small effect on the water elemental, but his third strike goes wildly astray.
Urza sends another ray of fire shooting at the elemental, but just misses again.
-- miss
-- miss
The elemental pounds again at Mahjik, but the nimble monk dodges aside of each blow.
Next Up: Urza, Water Elemental
"Mahjik, back up. It may not follow us or at least we could take advantage of the bottleneck."
"Do you know what would be fun?" Douena remarks, apropos of nothing. "A decanter of endless monkeys. We should get one of those."Jask frowns. "I'm remembering the Screaming Jungle. I'm not sure a decanter of endless monkeys would be good for our ears. Especially mine. They're more sensitive in this new body."
"Think what a good distraction they'd make, though," Douena points out. "With the monkeys going one way, no one would notice even the most not-sneaky of all of you going the other way." She regards Jask appraisingly for a moment. "I bet you're more sneaky than you used to be."
"Wise man would heed the advice of a pyromaniac..." Mahjik's body follows suit and his torso begins to move in waves as he switches to a defensive posture and he carefully retreats closer to Urza with a series of somersaults and tumbles. His final posture has a hand held up towards the elemental as if to ward it off, "Best you stay back Aquarius!"
Urza tries one more time to boil away the water elemental before retreating anther 20 feet.
Scorching Ray: RTouch
to hit damage
Tar'kanas pulls out more arrows and continues to fire away.
-- miss
Mahjik tries to slip away from the water elemental without drawing an attack from it, but the elemental reacts too quickly. However, Mahjik remains nimble enough to dodge its attack and still make it safely away.
Urza sends more flames at the water elemental and this time hits it right along its side, causing steam to billow out from the creature.
The elemental slides forward after Mahjik and attacks.
-- miss
Its watery fist is unable to make contact with Mahjik's form.
Next Up: Urza, Water Elemental.
Tar'kanas fires off another pair of arrows simultaneously. Both of them pierce snake #1 at virtually the same spot, digging in deep and dropping the snake to the floor. The elf then fires a third arrow at #3, but it falls too early and takes out a couple of the harmless little snakes slithering about on the floor.
Next Up: Medium Snakes, Tar'kanas.
"Think what a good distraction they'd make, though," Douena points out. "With the monkeys going one way, no one would notice even the most not-sneaky of all of you going the other way." She regards Jask appraisingly for a moment. "I bet you're more sneaky than you used to be."
Jask looks down at him/herself, shrugs, then nods. "I think you might be right, but I haven't really tested it. I am definitely more agile than I used to be. There are a lot of things that I'm physically better at than before. In fact, there are times that I find myself thinking that it's not fair to humans that elves seem to be physically superior, but then I remind myself that this body is also younger than my old body--well, I don't actually know that. It's probably older actually, but because elves age more slowly it's developmentally younger. Or something like that. At any rate, I remind myself that youth accounts for much of my physical gains."
I should have backed up more. Urza thinks before changing tact and casting Magic Missile at the water elemental.
Mahjik slowly retreats a little more but keeps up the defensive dance. "If it doesn't get the place all wet and slippery I can keep it standing there for a while. Do you think you have enough glowythrowywireefiery to take it all out?"
Oh I forgot to say back up another 30 feet too.
"Probably not, but that never stopped us before has it?"
With just one snake remaining, Makoa throws his axe at it.
-- pass
Makoa's axe slices along the body of snake #3, leaving a wide cut, but not enough to kill it.
It continues moving forward over the body of #1 to attack Makoa . #4 moves up to Tar'kanas .
-- miss due to cover
The snake is unable to hit Makoa.
Next Up: Makoa, Medium Snakes.
-- miss
Mahjik backs away from the elemental, which tries to strike at him again as he retreats, but misses him.
Three bolts from Urza shoot out at the elemental, sending spray out as they pierce its watery body. Urza backs up past Mahjik again.
It then slides angrily forward, pushing itself into the thinner part of the passage. .
Next Up: Urza, Water Elemental.
Tar'kanas keeps the attack up, paying no mind to any action taken by the snake.
Mahjik grins, "Well who knew? When wise man said Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. ...he didn't account for angry water."
Tar'kanas sends another pair of arrows slamming into the snake directly in front of him, shredding the snake's neck. A third arrow then fires towards the remaining snake, but just misses.
Next Up: Medium Snake, Tar'kanas.
Makoa growls and tries to bite again, aiming for whichever part of the snake he can get.
Urza backpeddles 30 more feet. "My power is ebbing. We may need to just run." He casts another Magic Missile.
"How do you judge how wounded this thing is? Does the water become more jittery near death?"
Makoa bites into the snake in front of him, tearing out a large chunk of its neck. The snake collapses.
Apart from the hundreds of small, harmless snakes slithering about on the ground, Makoa and Tar'kanas see no further threats approaching.
Mahjik continues to defend against the elemental.
In terms of what he can tell about its state, it's incredibly difficult to tell just how damaged it is. However, he has observed steam rising from it when Urza has hit it with flame attacks. When it has been hit with physical attacks, it has seemed to lose some of its water. That water has formed puddles on the ground. Nonetheless, it continues to have lots of water left to it. It's doubtful, though, that killing it requires getting rid of all the water.
Urza backs up further and fires more bolts at the elemental. They impact and send more water splashing about the walls, floor, and ceiling of the tunnel.
-- miss
-- miss
The elemental tries to attack Mahjik again, but is clearly having difficulty in the more confined space.
Next Up: Urza, Water Elemental.
Lowering his bow, he looks at the carnage around him. "We should return; Douena will be mad we did not keep one alive for her to keep," he states as a matter of fact. A thought then crosses his mind and a confused look forms. "Odd. I actually find myself curious as to what 'name' she would generate for these creatures. 'Snake' doesn't strike me as interesting enough for her."
Makoa can't help but chuckle once. "She knows what snakes are. She'll be mad we left and had excitement without her!"
He's just about to question Makoa's statement before he abruptly stops. Looking to the half-orc, "It is probably best you tell her."
Noting the greatly reduced mobility and capacity of the water elemental to hit him and dodge his attacks, Mahjik tries to go all out with a blistering series of kicks, spins and strikes. For a moment his body shimmers as he uses inner reserves of ki to unleash an additional attack.
Seeing Mahjik going on the attack, Urza continues with his magical assault.
Magic Missile
Mahjik moves up to the elemental and unleashes several rapid attacks. The first fails to make contact with the creature, but the rest land, sending splashes of water all about, soaking everything. When he's finished, the elemental is still standing, but it somehow looks just a little thinner and a little less cohesive. It shudders in rage.
More bolts shoot out from Urza, crashing through the watery form, leaving gaping holes that actually take a second or so to fill over with the creature's remaining water.
-- miss
-- miss
The elemental punches feebly at Mahjik, but is unable to do anything more than get the monk a little wetter from dripping water.
Next Up: Urza, Water Elemental.
After waiting what seems like ages, Douena and the NPCs glimpse light down the eastern tunnel, flickering amidst the tree roots and rubble. It still takes awhile for the source of light to reach the group, but eventually they can see that it's Makoa and Tar'kanas returning at last.
"About time!" Pezock growls. "Where have you been?'