"Go over!" Lym shouts at Thordak. "You can fly! Just hug the wall and you should be alright! Hurry, before it gets its fangs on the rats!"
Lym spreads wide her arms and intones Words of Power. Five darts of pure force fly forth from her hands, zip over the wall and impact the frenzied constrictor!
Tomaru sends the air elemental to aid Kellen onto the ferry. Then to rescue the folk in the church.
He has Gialla to get the ferry and its passengers to the safety of land. If that means going through the snake, then so be it.
includes Augment Summoning
includes Augment Summoning
He then casts Fly on himself and hurries over to the church.
hasted
Seeing Kellen rescued by the air elemental, Praxim continues to fire at the snake.
Rhianni's words of slumber take a deeper and more meaningful tale of darkness and night, the sounds of the words make their way towards the snake. The words seem to magically assault the snake's will to attack the villagers as its brain is numbed by the darkness of sleep.
Thordak nods, "Okay! Will try!" He then heads straight for the wall until he runs into it and then attempts to go over it.
Totally missed the haste spell...
The previous attacks each had another +1 then.
Tomaru sends the air elemental to aid Kellen onto the ferry. Then to rescue the folk in the church.
Tomaru's air elemental lifts a sputtering and coughing Kellen to the steps of the cathedral while the orca begins pushing the ferry against the current towards the higher part of the village.
The celestial rats and the snake continue to tangle when Praxim's arrows hit it. It rears to full height with a loud hiss, only to drop unconscious in a deep sleep.
Thordak slams headfirst into the force wall with a 'bang!' and starts crawl/flying his way over to Lym's side of the barrier. Once over, he lands with a thump.
Somewhere out in the flooded river, you can see what appears to be a gargantuan log twisting in the torrent, headed straight for the center of town...
"Incoming!!" Praxim shouts, pointing at the log.
Rhianni's eyes follow Praxim's finger to see the log, "By the gods, the river means to destroy the town, perhaps I can...No the creature is too small, if I were a dolphin I couldn't alter its course, could I!"
"Hell's bells!" Lym growls as she rises up into the air and draws a bead on the log. The Wizard starts to chant, hands moving through the intricate gestures of spellcasting, and she fires a tiny bead of hot light at the log.
When the bead touches the log, it erupts into a sphere of roaring flame.
Rhianni tries desperately to divert the log by casting a spell to disrupt its path, but nothing seems to be appropriate in her repotoire.
Tomaru sighs at the addition of yet another problem, but he pushes on. "Get yourself together, Kellen. We have work to do." He instructs the air elemental to begin ferrying people to safety. "Everyone tie yourself or grab hold of the rope" Tomaru pulls hands over his rope. "The elemental will drag you through the water to safety." He figures that this is the best way to get the most of them to safety. "We'll help the sick and try to save as much of the religious items as we can."
Waterlogged Kellen gives Tomaru a wave of acknowledgement before going around to seeing if he can help the people in the church. With the elemental dealing with ferrying people to safety, he does his best to aid with equipment or religious items or carry the sick to the elemental for transport.
Catching sight of log he mumbles: "I ain't no lumberjack , so not much I'll be able to do 'cept get you folks out onto dry land. If it becomes a problem...we'll cross that bridge later."
Lym's spell bursts in a blast of super-heated steam, and the log dips under the surface of the water...
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Suddenly the celestial whale is yanked under the surface, screeching with an alarm that is cut off instantly. The ferry with all of the children, the schoolteacher, Lym and Thordak, ceases forward progress and starts spinning back toward the lake.
A second later, the flooded square erupts in a massive geyser of debris and water! A gargantuan creature rears up out the flood to tower over the ferry and its inhabitants. The children and their teacher scream in terror as the water from the beast's eruption pours over them. Lym and Thordak are knocked on their backs by the lurching ferry. The beast snaps its jaws, and the celestial whale is severed in two, the bloody halves of its carcass falling in the water with a great splash.
From somewhere high up in the church a woman can be heard screaming: 'She's come! Black Magga has come!"
Can I make any checks to identify this critter?
Can I make any checks to identify this critter?
Activate smite evil. He uses thistle arrows until 1 of them hits. If any hit, he inflicts bleed 1 on the beastie. Also, if he's within 30 feet of it, each attack has +1 to attack and damage.
Rhianni touches Tomaru, aiding his defences against the creature.
To the people in the church, Kellen asks as he continues to help them: "What's a Black Magga? Have you seen that thing before?
Once the people that need help have been loaded up, Kellen hitches a ride on the air elemental's improvised transport to move closer to the beast's location. Once he spots a good building (thinking #3 on the map), he'll try and climb as high as he can to take a shot at it.
Seeing the utterly massive creature pop out of the water, Thordak's eyes go wide. "Ya gotta be freakin' kiddin' me! I did NOT sign up for this! No one told me I was signin' up for this! Blast!" Thordak stands up, drawing his ogre hook as he does.
"For the love of Desna. Really?" Tomaru sighs and shakes his head. "Desna, save us." Cast Prayer. "That damned thing killed Gialla like it was nothing. I'm going to kill that thing. I'm gonna kill that thing then I'm going to dance over its grave."
The village folk scramble back up the steps into the church, screaming in terror. "Black Magga is...was...a legend in these parts," says one old woman through sobs of fear, we used her to scare children, that sort of thing. It was always rumored she lived in the Storval Deep, on the other side of the dam at Skull's Crossing. If she's here, then something has gone wrong with the dam!"
Praxim's arrows bounce harmlessly off of the beast, it's scales are as hard as adamantine. Then Black Magga rears back and inhales...she thrusts her huge head forward, exhaling a cloud of foul-smelling putrid smoke. The cloud catches Lym, Thordak, and everyone on the ferry.
"That explains the noise and the avalanche...the dam's broke," mutters to no one in particular as the wheels turn in his head. With a sort grim determination, he says to the folks: "We'll do what we can."
He turns to get closer to Black Magga, if needed he yells to Tomaru:"Priest - get your elemental to get me closer! These folks ain't going nowhere with that thing here."
Once he's in range, he'll start firing with his crossbow.
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Rhianni starts to make her voice carry to her allies, "remember the saga of the of the grey company. The time they entered the caverns of the ancients, home to the great worm of Quaria, the gargantuan purple destroyer of life. The Rangers of the grey, humans, elves and assorted race, came together to pepper the tough armoured hide with arrows to rain down in a cloud of death. Blood streaming in red rivers of foul smelling liquid, before the dwarves of the grey, did bring their hammers down in a continual battering, their blows resounding and echoing through the cavern like a battle of thunder gods. Yet the worm did not go down, it's mandibles crushing its foes, mangled bodies of dwarves, lying in a sea of blood and gore. It seemed like days, but was in just that evening the.cabavern gave up its occupant, and the purple worm lay dead at the feet of the grey, their triumph and glory forever sung through the halls of Golarian, their names remembered long after their days passed, Sebastian of Magnimar whose sword did cut so deep, Tagnuk dwarves Lord of the deep, whose hammer lay shattered from its mighty blows..." and so Rhianni listed the heroes of the grey company, inspiring her companions to greater feats.
"Fine! Just kill that monster." Tomaru casts Bless.
+1to attack and damage if within 30'. If any hit, the creature also suffers 1 point if bleed damage from thistle arrow
Lym gags on the creature's foul exhalation, but manages to overcome its effect. She searches her memory for any information about this creature but, finding none, resorts to a favourite old standby.
'It's a bottom-dweller. It might be well-defended against the cold. But not...'
A bead of fiery energy shoots from the chanting Wizard's hand and expands into a sphere of roaring flame!
Lym's fireball explodes high up near Black Magga's head, only to have the magical flame dissipate on contact!
Praxim's barrage continues to bounce from the beast's iron-hard scales, the arrows glancing high into the air and arcing out of sight.
Finding himself not dead after breathing in the rancid smoke, Thordak glares at the oversized snake and swings angrily.
Kellen's shot misses much like Praxim's, while Thordak's ogre hook isn't having much more effect.
Black Magga shifts her massive bulk to the east, reaching out with her tentacles to grasp nearby citizens and heroes alike! One grabs Lym out of the air, twisting around her. Another snatches up Praxim, while the third and fourth grab screaming citizens. The monster snaps her jaws, biting Thordak on the leg!
Kellen continues firing at the beast, and yelling obscenities at it to see if it can get his attention. "Hey you bastard child of a lamia, come get me!"
Tomaru casts Spiritual Ally.
Spiritual Ally: threatens and can flank
Lym tries to cast Magic Missile...
Can Praxim still fire his bow with tentacle girl giving him a squeeze?
Rhianni casts an arcane spell, directing a stream of brown liquid towards Praxim.
Thordak grimaces and growls through the pain from the bite. And now realizing he can't quite reach the beast with his current weapon, he drops it at his feet and he grabs his longaxe, giving it a good swing in hopes to find his mark.
Black Magga is living up to the legendary status she holds. Bolts, arrows, spells, axe...nothing seems to get through to harm her. She flexes her tentacles, squeezing those she holds in her grasp. The two villagers scream in agony, then are silent...
Then Black Magga strikes again at Thordak, putting all of her considerable strength behind the attack. She clamps down hard on the dwarf, huge fangs sinking deep into flesh. She whips her neck back, throwing the dwarf from the ferry where he stood and sending him flying back towards Rhianni, only narrowing missing her.
Black Magga lifts her head and roars in triumph.
Suddenly a shout comes from the north...
The three Black Arrows, led by Shalelu, vault from their horses into the flood waters to join the attack. Shalelu and Jakardros let a barrage of arrows fly at the monster's head, having little effect but causing her to shake back and forth as the barbs sting at her eyes. Vale wades into the flood, axes waving menacingly as he makes his way to where Thordak lies.
"Circle her! Keep it up!" the ranger yells. Clearly she doesn't know quite what she's gotten herself into...
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Continuing to get pierced by the teeth of the beast, Thordak roars in pain. Upon hearing Shalelu, he furrows his eyebrows. "Is she mad?! Keep it up?! Keep what up?! Losing?! That must be what she's speakin' about because that's what we're doin'; and quite well I might add. And you know what else, if we were havin' a good strong drink about now, we'd be able to move a little better in the water while we fly. Because from what I'm thinkin', these things don't really like to dance seein' they've no legs. Now if I only had about a 100 gold." He taps his chin, not exactly sure why he needs coin at this moment.
Tomaru sends the Spiritual Ally after Black Magga (to no effect due to that stupid spell resistance) and commands the air elemental to help Praxim escape her clutches, while he rushes to assist Lym.
If he can reach her in a move action with haste, Tomaru will then use the Dimensional Hop ability to get Lym and himself away from Black Magga. What is her reach? I want to go 15' past that up to 90' away.