”Sorry, I have no idea what that thing is, but I don’t doubt that it don’t like us”
”Let’s see how it likes this - අම්ලය!”
Norm cast acid splash with the acid flask focus
DC=N/A
You fire a small orb of acid at the target. You must succeed on a ranged touch attack to hit your target. The orb deals 1d3 points of acid damage. This acid disappears after 1 round.
Acid flask focus: +1 damage
Cliff goes in for a full attack against the creature.
Quiary wanting to help out realizes that if he squeezes through the good Father will be left without assistance, choosing to stay back with Zantus Quiary hopes his new companions can deal with this threat.
Frustrated by the near miss Cael strikes out again and drives his blade deep into the monster. With satisfaction Cael draws his rapier out of the beast.
This should do it...
Ansgar swings his blade again, frustrated at his near miss.
Normornigan splashes acid in one of the creature's eyes, while Clifford bites and claws at it. Ansgar tries a strike, but misses. The creature turns its attention to Caeldren, who just badly wounded it.
Caeldren gets out of the way, and the creature bleeds out from its wounds, falling from the ceiling with a thud.
Norms walks over to the dead thing and pokes it with his foot.
”That is a nasty creature! Are you okay, Cliff? Good boy! Nice poking, Pretty boy! Seems you can do something else then talk"
Norm grins and stretches his arm to pat Cael on his lower back, as he can’t reach higher.
Norm continues, mostly just talking to himself
”I really would like to see if there was something from this that could be used for my spells. Maybe those tentacles or the stinger. Maybe there is some poison we could get out of it. Don’t think I’d like to eat it, though. Well, we can come back later, must find Shalelu first"
Norm then gives the room a quick look, to see If there is anything interesting
”So, where to next? There’s a door inhere or we could go back to the first room and see where does sounds came from”
"Ok Father sounds like we are good to go through, you go first I will take up the rear." QUiary says as he squeezes through last, looking the creature over and the room.
"Where does this water lead too?" Quiary looks in the room.
Seeing that the creature has been dealt with, Zelinda takes a step and peers around the corner to see what might be ahead.
Hearing Norm's compliment Cael lets loose a hearty laugh, "Haha, I told you I was good with a blade." With a grin on his face he continues, "you and Stripes here didn't do bad either. This thing is disgusting though, I'm glad no one got hurt while we dealt with it."
To Zelinda he says, "my apologies, I don't think any of us meant to keep you from the all the fun. Next time I'll do the proper thing, ladies first and all that." he finishes with a wink.
"So Stoneface, where to next?"
Man, I'm getting pretty good at this hero stuff. I should have started doing this years ago.
I'm glad Shortstuff is a good sport, I need to come up with something better though, Shortstuff is just so... easy. There's no depth to that name. Hmmmm. Also what should I call the elf? Grumpface fits, but I don't think he'd appreciate it. And then there's Zelinda, she's a good sport, but I just don't know. Blondie? weak, need something better. She's awful cheery. Hmmmmm.
I hope Stoneface is alright, He looked pretty frustrated there while we were fighting that...thing. Maybe I should lay off for a bit. Oh but it would be so much fun to tease him about missing, especially that last swing. Best not though...
To Zelinda he says, "my apologies, I don't think any of us meant to keep you from the all the fun. Next time I'll do the proper thing, ladies first and all that." he finishes with a wink.
Zelinda glances back at Caeldren, a bit of a wicked gleam in her eye to offset the quirky smile on her lips, "You start with that 'ladies first' garbage, and I might just have to use this blade on you, sir." She gives him a moment to process the information as she glances around the corner again before looking back. He expression looks a little more sincere and friendly. "I'm a warrior and adventurer first and foremost. Don't you doubt that I'll have more than my fair share of chances to prove my worth, and I'm not afraid to push my weight around, if needed."
She examines the pensive look on his face a moment before adding, "Also, don't you dare start with your nicknames on me. The same result applies," she emphasizes that last comment with a quick swipe of her blade.
With and earnest smile on his face Cael raises his hands in a placating gesture. "Haha fair enough, I don't fancy getting cut up. Nothing says ladies can't be adventurers and stuff though. Some of the best stories I've heard are all about a lady warrior like yourself. I was just teasing. I've seen you with that shield of yours, you're like an avenging Valkyrie. Still if it bother's you so much I won't mention it again.
More quietly he continues more to himself than Zelinda, "I can't promise no nicknames though."
Quiary listens to Caeldren and Zelinda banter back and forth for a bit, looking at Norm and his cat, then to Ansgar, lastly to Father Zantus.
"Odd group indeed. Might be what I need though, less evil stares and feeling like I am going to be stabbed in the back which is nice."
"Father and Ansgar you never came down here? I don't see a trail from Shealu."
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May as well lay down my blade with that showing... Best keep my head up and stay in front...
"No, we didn't even explore the entire first floor last time." Ansgar says to Qiary while listening to the others... bicker? "If your gonna cut him, get it over with Zelinda so we can move on." Ansgar keeps his face blank as he says this, more to mess with Cael than anything else.
Ansgar goes down the new hall way, and inspects the door.
If the door looks fine, Ansgar will either open it or ask some one else to if its locked.
Zelinda gives Caeldren a knowing, smug look, like she might be considering doing just that. Then, suddenly, she throws back her head and laughs. "Maybe next time. We've got goblin's to slay."
She takes up position behind Ansgar, waiting to move through the door.
The floor of this cavern seems strangely polished and smooth. To the east, a thick curtain of vines and nettles hangs down over a wide opening overlooking the Varisian Gulf.
The door open into a corridor that ends in double doors. The corridor also has an intersection with a door south that wraps back to the room you've been before and another door to the north.
Zelinda looks around the corridors, getting her bearings, and says to the others, "I think this is the area where the sounds were coming from earlier. Maybe we should go straight through those doors." She points to the double doors at the end of the hallway.
"Sounds good to me!"
"Sure, let's get to it," Cael says.
If nothing else this will be a change of topic from cutting up dashing heros. You'd think killing weird tenticly things in such a grand fasion would be worth something...apparently not.
Stone fonts containing frothy dark water sit to the north and south of the eastern entrance to the room, and twin banks of stone pillars run the length of the long chamber. At the western end, shallow stairs rise to a platform about two feet off the ground. The walls surrounding this platform are lit by hanging braziers that emit glowing red smoke, giving the place an unnerving crimson lighting that throws the bas-relief carvings of countless monsters feasting on fleeing humans into lurid display. A black marble altar stone, its surface heaped with ashes and bone fragments, squats before a ten-foot-tall statue. The sculpture depicts a very pregnant but otherwise shapely naked woman who wields a kukri in each taloned hand and has a long reptilian tail, birdlike taloned feet, and the snarling head of a three-eyed jackal with a forked tongue. The left kukri flickers with fiery orange light while the right one glows with a cold blue radiance.
You also see two emaciated, hairless canine creatures hovering close to the ceiling, as they see you, they start howling and flying towards you to attack!
Hound(White)
Zelinda, Caeldren, Normornigan, Zantus
Hound(Black)
Ansgar, Quiary
One of the hounds hovers closer to you and lets out a fearsome howl that echoes through the corridor, and possibly the whole complex.
A panicked creature must drop anything it holds and flee at top speed from the source of its fear, as well as any other dangers it encounters, along a random path. It can’t take any other actions. In addition, the creature takes a –2 penalty on all saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks. If cornered, a panicked creature cowers and does not attack, typically using the total defense action in combat. A panicked creature can use special abilities, including spells, to flee; indeed, the creature must use such means if they are the only way to escape.
Hound(White)
Zelinda, Caeldren, Normornigan, Zantus <- Can act
Hound(Black)
Ansgar, Quiary
Quiary turns tail and runs
”What are those things? Anyone? No matter, they are not friendly! Cliff, go around and flank!”
”අම්ලය!” Norms cast Acid Splash with his acid flask as focus
Cliff runs in to the room, trying to use his agility to avoid the creature, before trying to bite the white one in the back.
The druid may cast a spell with a target of “You” on her animal companion (as a touch range spell) instead of on herself. A druid may cast spells on her animal companion even if the spells normally do not affect creatures of the companion’s type (animal). Spells cast in this way must come from a class that grants an animal companion. This ability does not allow the animal to share abilities that are not spells, even if they function like spells.
Cael, recognizing the dogs for a story he hear from an old adventure turned caravan guard calls out, "They're Yeth hounds! Use silver if you've got it. Try not to let them scare you." Then Carl moves up to flank the closest hound with Cliff and strikes landing a light blow.
+2 flanking
Then he takes up a parrying stance and yells out. "Come and get me you slobering mutt!"
+2 if flanking is applicable
Zelinda feels the terror from the Yeth Hound's cry seep into her mind and take over. She drops her sword and flees back down the hallway.
Caeldren strikes at the creature and hits, but the hound doesn't seem to react to the attack. Normornigan splashes some acid on one of the hounds, lightly injuring it.
Cliff tries to make his way into the room, but gets attacked on the way.
He dodges, then turns back to bite, but is unable to hit.
Zantus waits to see what happens.
The second hound flies down and tries biting Cliff.
The dog bites Cliff and knocks him on the ground.
Quiary then runs away.
Hound(White)
Zelinda, Caeldren, Normornigan, Zantus <- Can act
Hound(Black)
Ansgar, Quiary <- Can act
Zelinda continues to run, the fear in her mind overriding her training and common sense.
"Cael, step to the side so I can enter." Ansgar says before chanting a prayer.
Cael hears Ansgar call out and moves to the side to let the priest through. Then he strikes again at the dog who ignored his first blow.
Again he prepares to parry if he's attacked.
Seeing Cliff getting hit and fall over, Norm feels afraid for his furry friend.
”I have to get to him! But they are in my way! It has never work before, but I have to try it”
As Norm starts to move his hands and finishes off with the word ”අදෘශ්යමාන“ he feels more magic flow through his body then ever before and without another sound, he vanishes from sight.
Unseen by the others, he moves forward.
Cliff feels the fear stating to take hold, but shakes it off.
Cliff jumps up and attacks the white dog
Quiary runs away further till he is out of the room then he hunkers down to hide
Ansgar blesses the party with a spell. The howling Hound turns its attention to the prone Clifford, trying to bite him.
The hound lands a powerful bite near Clifford's neck, leaving him unconscious.
While Zelinda and Quiary keep running away, Caeldren strikes, finally drawing blood. Normornigan becomes invisible and walks near Clifford.
Zantus steps closer to the battlefield and channels positive energy.
The other hound sniffs the air, catching scent of Normornigan and trying to bite him!
But all he bites is empty air.
Hound(White) [-5 hp]
Zelinda, Caeldren, Normornigan, Zantus <- Can act
Hound(Black) [-3 hp]
Ansgar, Quiary <- Can act
QUiary continues to huddle outside the room.
"Damn it! These things are tough! Stoneface, get the huge chunk of metal you call a sword in here. I can barely hurt these monsters!"
Frustrated Cael begins calling out advice while in a defensive stance. "In the story of Jode he has to fight dogs, it said he distracted them by keeping something in front for them to bite on, maybe it will work here. Also..." Cael continues a steady stream of thoughts, advice and general encouragement as he prepares to block the hounds' attacks.
His spell out of the way, Ansgar happily rushes into battle, swinging his blade at the hound in front of him.
Norm reaches out to touch his friend as he says “පලිහ” and then steps back.
Cliff tries to get up to attack the white dog.