"Your pathetic goddess is weak!" Nylithati says as the song of Desna once again fills the chamber, but there is nonetheless strain in her expression as she says it.
Urza once again fires off his spell, and this time, the ray catches Nylithati right in the side of the head. She hisses in pain.
To the north, the paralysis on Makoa vanishes. He immediately turns on the ghoul with him .
Unfortunately, he is still a bit disorientated from the paralysis and he bites only air.
As Mahjik remains paralyzed, Nylithati cries out. "Now feel the bite of my god!" As the chamber fills again with the sound of slithering snakes, Nylithati's wounds start to close over.
Next Up: Ghoul #8, Pezock, Douena, Urza, Makoa, Mahjik, Nylithati.
"I know what it's like to be on Desna's bad side...believe me, crazy lady, you don't want her as an enemy." Lorenz says, gritting his teeth against the negative energy pouring out of the creature.
He steps a little closer as he draws two more arrows and fires them at the terrible woman.
Lorenz sighs as the first arrow goes wild. "Damn it, Desna, I'm only trying to help!" As if to show the Goddess understood, the second arrow stays true.
He steps a little closer as he draws two more arrows and fires them at the terrible woman.
Lorenz's second arrow slams right into Nylithati's chest. She stumbles momentarily.
To the north, ghoul #8 hisses and attacks Makoa.
One claw slices nastily down over Makoa's ear and into his shoulder.
"Your god keeps biting me and it hasn't stopped me yet!" Pezock cries as he launches another attack.
Unfortunately, Nylithati avoids him with little difficulty.
Next Up: Urza, Makoa, Mahjik, Nylithati, Lorenz, Ghoul #8, Pezock.
Douena dashes in between Pezock and Lorenz. "Show her how 'weak' Desna is, Pezock!" she says, touching his back and imparting a bit of luck.
"Go to Pharasma's embrace, slitch!"
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Urza fires off a final spell before running to aid his friend. "Here I come, Makoa. Just hold on. Here I come." move to T20
Lorenz smiles as his last attack strikes the evil creature hard. "For Desna!"
Is that Makao I hear? Irori, I've not had chance to ask much yet - I'm still searching for my path to you, but I am ready if it needs to be. But my companions, I ask you guide their hands and minds. Steady their hearts.
Pezock cackles with glee as Desna's luck fills him.
Urza fires off one last shot, which unfortunately misses again. Nylithati isn't oblivious to it this time, however, and you think you notice her cringe a little as the beam goes past her. Urza heads north into a large sea cave and then the next passage. He gets just far enough to notice Makoa around the next corner. It is quite apparent that Makoa is no longer paralyzed as he bites at his opponent.
Although Urza can't yet see Makoa's opponent, he does hear the sound of shattering bones as Makoa rips apart the ghouls neck. Makoa turns around. "It's down," he says to Urza. "Back to the others." He moves down the passage .
There is clear desperation in Nylithati's eyes as she realizes the battle is turning against her. With her eyes carefully watching Pezock, she raises her arms and calls out, "Lord, hide me from these worms!" Mist begins to spray out from her hands, spreading out through the cavern and impairing vision. She completely vanishes from Douena's and Lorenz's sights, and Pezock and Mahjik can only just notice her outline. She immediately darts away.
"Oh no you don't!" Pezock cries and swings at her as she goes.
"Blast!" Pezock yells as his swing is not wide enough to catch her escaping form.
Nylithati disappears from Pezock's and Mahjik's sight, but a split second later, everyone in the cavern hears a hiss from her, as she runs right towards Makoa.
She pulls away from Makoa to somewhere in the mist.
Next Up: Pezock, Douena, Urza, Makoa, Mahjik, Nylithati.
Urza will move up to Makoa and use the Wand of Mirror Image on him, creating an additional images of him. "Find her. Kill her. I will stand sentinel here." Urza's claws extend.
Urza will move up to Makoa and use the Wand of Mirror Image on him, creating an additional 1d4+1 images of him. "Find her. Kill her. I will stand sentinel here." Urza's claws extend.
I should have known that.
Change that to:
Urza uses the Wand of Mirror Image and moves into the fog "It's time to hunt. Let's find her. Let's kill her." He moves to Y20 and unsheathes his claws.
Lorenz curses and drops his bow, drawing his scimitar as he stumbles off into the mist, trying to remember where Makoa had been.
Lorenz easily finds his way to Makoa, and realizes that Nylithati must have retreated from Makoa's position. He, too, pulls back away, using the cavern wall as a reference and quickly stumbles on Nylithati hiding in the mists.
Nylithati easily ducks away from his swipe. "She's here!" Lorenz calls.
Following Lorenz's voice, Pezock moves directly towards Nylithati. As soon as he spots her, he swings at her.
"No escape, cowardly beast!" Pezock yells as his blade cuts into Nylithati's flesh. She roars in pain.
Next Up: Urza, Makoa, Mahjik, Nylithati, Lorenz, Pezock.
Douena steps toward the sound of battle and immediately sees Pezock's feathery shape looming out of the mist in front of her. She stops and holds up her butterfly. "I may not be able to see you, but Desna can!" she shouts triumphantly.
Nylithati screams as the song of Desna reverberates around the chamber once more. Mahjik, Lorenz, Pezock, and Douena benefit from its healing energies.
Urza strides into the mist just too late to benefit from the channeled energy, but he quickly locates Lorenz and Pezock. Although he can't yet see Nylithati, he can see where Lorenz and Pezock are attacking. Makoa follows him and moves past him . Once he has Nylithati in his sight, he attacks.
Unfortunately, Nylithati easily avoids him.
Mahjik feels his muscles loosen just as Nylithati cries, "Ydersius! Save me!" Once more, you feel the bites of tiny snakes. Nylithati relaxes a little as some of her wounds close over.
Lorenz swings again at her and this time, Nylithati is not able to move aside quickly enough. His sword slices off a chunk of her upper arm.
Pezock shifts his position slightly and attacks.
Nylithati dodges each of his attacks, however.
Next Up: Urza, Makoa, Mahjik, Nylithati, Lorenz, Pezock.
Douena grits her teeth against the biting energy and reaches out to touch the nearest ally. "Makoa! Bite her! We've got her; we have to end this now!"
Suddenly the thumb on Mahjik's left hand twitches. YES! I can feel it. Just - a - little - bit - mooore...!
Douena grits her teeth against the biting energy and reaches out to touch the nearest ally. "Makoa! Bite her! We've got her; we have to end this now!"
In short, Douena successfully uses bit of luck on Makoa. :)
Next Up: Makoa, Mahjik, Nylithati, Lorenz, Pezock, Douena.
Urza follows the shadows that are his friends to (Z19) in an attempt to box in the undead priestess.
If that still counts as a 5' step I'll make two claw attacks
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Claw:
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The second hit roll wasn't too terrible. Alas, it still misses.
Urza lashes at Nylithati, but she ducks aside of his first swipe. His second comes closer, but doesn't get past a deflective force around her.
Makoa tries to bite at Nylithati as she dodges away from Urza's attacks. He, too, almost gets her, but just ends up biting mist.
Next Up: Nylithati, Lorenz, Pezock, Douena, Urza, Makoa.
Mahjik bursts back into action, his moves are swift as he closes in on the group . "It is good that you like your god so much, you'll meet him soon," Mahjik grins at the ghoul as he tucks in his arms and makes little flapping moves with his hands, rising on his toes as he does so to imitate ascension to heaven. A performance that is marred a bit by his uncertainty of whether snakes have an afterlife.
"We'll see about that," Nylithati says. While she may not have seen Mahjik, she clearly heard what he had to say. She looks about her and then turns and attacks Pezock (perhaps because he's out of the mist and easier to hit, perhaps because he's the most hurt, perhaps both).
Her attacks are borne out of desperation and are ill-aimed, so Pezock easily steps aside of the first two. Unfortunately, as he avoids those two, he moves straight into the path of her left claw, which scrapes across his side. He suddenly goes rigid.
Next Up: Pezock, Douena, Urza, Makoa, Mahjik, Nylithati.
"Die, you crazy-tongued dead lady!"
Lorenz attacks with his scimitar for all he's worth.
"Die, you crazy-tongued dead lady!"
Lorenz attacks with his scimitar for all he's worth.
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Nyltithati turns away from Pezock just in time to see Lorenz's blade come crashing into her chest. She glares at him and hisses mockingly, her tongue twitching about. "You could have had immortality," she says, and collapses in a heap.
Douena barely waits for the ghoul to hit the floor. "Is everyone here?" she asks into the mist, as she raises her butterfly. She sighs as Desna's song whispers faintly through the mist. "We need to get out of here and get to Jask. Do you think they've had time to make it to the village yet?"
Lorenz lowers his sword and lets out a sigh of relief. "Cayden's teeth, I thought we were doomed. That creature is...was...horrible."
"Is everyone still alive?"
"We need to get out of this mist," Douena sighs. "Should we go back to the central cave with the pool? Oh, wait, I think Pezock got paralyzed again; we'll have to wait for him." She smiles at Lorenz, though he probably can't see it. "He'll definitely have to give you a better nickname now. Mahjik?" She blinks into the fog. "I heard you. Are you okay now?"
A sort of gurgling sound comes from Pezock in response to Lorenz's question. After a few more seconds, the tengu stumbles forward with a yell.
"Haha! A great battle! Of course we're still alive! We are unstoppable!"
Despite his enthusiasm, he stumbles a couple more times as he moves, and clutches at a wound in his side. He is clearly badly injured .
Makoa is also clearly exhausted and badly injured . "The pool," he says with a nod.
Douena reaches out to help support Pezock as they feel their way along the wall out of the mist. "Jask," she says firmly. "I'm about out of healing after all that. Makoa, did you get a look at all at the cavern where the other ghoul took you? Anything interesting in there?" She pulls another bone chip out of her pocket and lights it up, letting the other one on Mahjik's ledge go out.
Urza stays in back in case there's more trouble coming.
"I still have these (5) healing potions. This would be a good time to use some."
"I cannot remember.. little one, I had a ghoul to worry about." Makoa says before he looks at everyone and then limps over to Mahjik. Shakily, he places a on his performer friend's shoulder and growls something in a language that sounds like leaves being shook in the wind. From the look in his eyes, it seems he doesn't even he's even noticed he said anything in a different language.
Mahjik feels like something is licking his wounds, soothing the pain from all the phantom snake bites.
"I think I'm.. starting to hate caves.."
You retreat to the cavern with the pool and the rising ledge without any difficulty. The mist extends a bit into the cavern, but it soon starts to dissipate and is gone within a couple of minutes.
Douena's not leaving without checking to see if Nylithati was carrying anything of value. She'll go back to search the body. :)
Mahjik comes grinning out of the mists, "Wise man would follow the path of the scorpion, if he wishes to master the way of paralysis. Not bad Pezock, you were fighting like a demon. And thank you Makao and Douena for the healing... I don't think I would've made it out of there without Desna's help. Though..." he looks to Makao, "that was new to me. Did you lick my wounds?"
Douena's not leaving without checking to see if Nylithati was carrying anything of value. She'll go back to search the body. :)
Pezock follows Douena back to Nylithati's body. He remains alert in case of trouble while she searches. There is little on the body apart from tattered clothes, but there are two items of interest: a silver ring and an amulet made from polished bone.
Mahjik comes grinning out of the mists, "Wise man would follow the path of the scorpion, if he wishes to master the way of paralysis. Not bad Pezock, you were fighting like a demon. And thank you Makao and Douena for the healing... I don't think I would've made it out of there without Desna's help. Though..." he looks to Makao, "that was new to me. Did you lick my wounds?"
"Irori didn't do too badly, either," Douena tells him loyally. "We were in a lot of trouble until you managed to take down those two ghouls at once. After Urza burned them, of course," she goes on, giving credit where it's due. "And Makoa, you took one of them out of our way by getting paralyzed and dragged off into the other room, so good job there, too; it let us focus on that awful priestess."
Pezock follows Douena back to Nylithati's body. He remains alert in case of trouble while she searches. There is little on the body apart from tattered clothes, but there are two items of interest: a silver ring and an amulet made from polished bone.
Douena pockets her treasue with a satisfied smile. "Have to have Urza take a look at these and see what they are," she tells Pezock. "I wonder ... how much cave is left that we haven't seen? Do you think I should just sneak in and see where they were trying to take Makoa?" She jumps up and begins carefully to move through the tunnel.
The floor of the first chamber slopes down to a small, sandy beach. Seawater sloshes along the shore. The passage north also slopes downwards slightly, though not as deeply as the chamber. The passage then splits . To the east, it slopes back upwards to the northwest ledge of the pool chamber. Because of the slope, only a small amount of light from Mahjik's lantern (which is in his possession) makes it through. She needs to bring her light chip with her to see to the west.
To the west it enters another chamber. The floor here is scattered with bones, body parts, and bits of seaweed. There is no west wall to the cavern. Instead, there is just a drop to the water below (no beach here). Just before the drop, there is a hole in the floor, which would also appear to drop down to the water below.
Douena sees no sign of more ghouls or any other creatures in these caverns.
Douena returns to Pezock and then back to the group. "No more monsters that I saw, unless they're in the water. The undead ghouly had these," she says, showing the ring and amulet to Urza. "Are they magic?"
"Heh, thanks," Mahjik smirks at Douena, "Irori's teachings primarily prepare us for situations; he generally does not interfere that much when a situation actually happens. 'Why aid an attack with divine inspiration, when your attack could instead be guided by having attacked a thousand times each day for the last ten years'. ...but..." Mahjik's smile is about ready to bridge the divide between the two ears, "I'm pretty sure once or twice my body moved nearly of its own accord. I think that is good."
"So... if you didn't spot any more undead, maybe we should take a closer look at their lair; there might be a few more clues or useful items."
Lorenz looks at Makoa. "Hey, when did you become a priest? For that matter, who do you worship?"
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No one wants potion of clw?
"Maybe, if no one wants, I'll keep it with me. But I don't think I need it right away. Jask and the others should be here soon; I'll wait for him - or use the potion in an emergency."
"Should we search the cavern where the ghouls were taking Makoa now, or go back to the surface? Personally, I'd rather clear this place out and not have to come back down, although I don't know how deep the water in there is or what might be in it or if we have to swim...."
"We should search this place and ensure there is no more evil in it," Pezock declares. "Wizard, I will take one of those potions. We should improve our strength as best we can before we go on." He holds out his hand for Urza to hand him a potion.
Assuming Urza does, he gulps it down.
Pezock looks much better afterwards.
I agree with Pezock. Let's continue our explorations.
"I am well enough to continue. I just hope we don't stumble on ugly's uglier sister in the progress."
Lorenz picks up the sunrod he'd dropped earlier, finds his bow and returns it to its proper place over his shoulder and readies himself to follow after Makoa with sunrod in one hand and the scimitar in the other.
Douena takes her lighted bone chip. "I can drop it in the water," she explains, "to see how deep it is ... and if there's anything swimming in it."
Lorenz looks at Makoa. "Hey, when did you become a priest? For that matter, who do you worship?"
"Wolves," she answers for Makoa. "Or whatever wolves worship? I don't know. There's invisible puppies involved."
Lorenz looks at Makoa. "Hey, when did you become a priest? For that matter, who do you worship?""Wolves," she answers for Makoa. "Or whatever wolves worship? I don't know. There's invisible puppies involved."
"Wolves, yes," Makoa says distantly. "There are wolves. But I am not a priest."
You move through the passages to the cavern that slopes down to the small beach. Moving further in than previously, you can see that the sea water enters here through a couple of wide passages from the west. The roof on these quickly slopes down so that the passages become completely submerged. Presumably, the water enters here through a couple of underwater caves along the cliff side. Apart from a few bones and rocks, there doesn't seem to be anything else here.
Moving to the northern cavern, you find little else. Although there's no beach, it's only a short drop (less than 10 feet) into the water. There is, however, another passage lead out of this chamber at the north side. The passage slopes downwards and curves round to the east.