Ferit swings at the tower girl in front of him, hoping to drop one of his attackers. He then hops away from them again, planting himself shoulder to shoulder with Radyx. "Oi!" he says by way of greeting.
(Success!)
Charbonardent maliciously grins at the Tower Girl against the wall. He limps toward her trailing blood as his double dissolves. He swings his sword down like an executioner's axe.
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Hoosible stabs at Terisha, piercing her shoulder ever so slightly and causing a small zap of electricity due to Taranna's hex.
Meanwhile Strawflower advances into the mist and tries to maul her with tooth and claw...but the rat nimbly avoids the undead cat.
"Damnit," Radyx says as the goop binds him to the top of the crate. He uses his weapons to cut each of his feet free, then moves closer to his quarry. "Nice try, c*&~s. But it's gonna take more than that to stop the Champ."
Alexin let's loose with his most powerful hex on Karisa, one that can change fate itself. No longer pressed by poison or the need to move, Alexin lets his madness take over, and begins to giggle incessantly, the unnerving sound strengthening his hexes. However, he finds that Karisa was able to resist his hex and her luck has unchanged.
Remiandiv brings his arm up to protect his eyes from the flash but it does no good. Doing his best to position himself with his back to his allies and facing the enemy blockade, he moves his arms into a guard position and strains to use his other senses to identify threats.
Ferit swings at the tower girl in front of him, hoping to drop one of his attackers. He then hops away from them again, planting himself shoulder to shoulder with Radyx. "Oi!" he says by way of greeting.
Charbonardent maliciously grins at the Tower Girl against the wall. He limps toward her trailing blood as his double dissolves. He swings his sword down like an executioner's axe, though she narrowly dodges the massive weapon.
Both Tarrana and Valko, blinded just as Remi is, hold up their arms in defensive positions as well since they can’t see. In addition, Valko stops coughing and appears to have resisted the poison’s effects.
”Flank the tiger! Kill the damn thing before it mangles another one!” Terisha can be heard yelling during the combat as the girls begin to maneuver around Hoosible’s undead tiger.
One of the girls runs past Charbonardent, gracefully avoiding his clumsy blows and gets in beneath Hoosible’s longspear and bites at Strawflower, taking a chunk from the undead tiger’s flesh. ”Ugh, crap that tastes horrible.”
On the other side of Strawflower, Terisha and one of her cronies both attack the tiger with sword an fang as well, but neither are able to deal any damage.
The two girls near Radyx, meanwhile, both slash and bite at him before stepping away from the angry, gooped-up gladiator. Their shortswords cut deep into his flesh and he growls in anger.
”Hah! How you like that you son’s of b#~!+es!” Karisa continues her onslaught and draws yet another pouch of powder, which she flings at Remi. The pouch bursts open and explodes into a flash of bright light, but this time fails to blind Remi, who had blinked at just the right moment. Tarrana, Valko, and Alexin, however, are not so lucky.
As a followup to her flash powder, Karisa draws and chucks another flask of acid, which goes wide and lands at Remi’s feet, splashing him with acid again.
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Radyx grits his teeth to the pain of the girl's attacks. He points his shield at one and says, "You take that one, Snots."
He then sets his eyes on the one retreating down the hall, and says, "You're mine, you fuzzy ass b*@*$!"
He then spins around, flaring his shield up to throw her off balance, and follows up by burying his axe deep in her chest.
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"Got it!" Ferit replies to the gladiator. He hops down from the crate nimble as a monkey, and whacks the tower girl in front of him with burly two handed swing. Her head splatters across the room onto her sister tower girls standing next to Terisha. Despite being heavily wounded, the savage orc shows no signs of slowing down. "Which one of you rat-c@%+s is next?" he asks the nearby clump of wererats.
Hoosible winces a bit as he sees his precious Strawflower bit into by wererats...though the zombie herself shows not the slightest concern. She rips into one of the girls surrounding her with both claws, but the were-rat's nigh-invulnerable skin keeps her from being shredded.
Meanwhile Hoosible tries to stab another of the girls but in the chaos of attacking from tiger-back his spear doesn't even come close.
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Blinded, Alexin cowers in the corner, trying frantically to defend himself against whatever's out there.
Charbonardent roars at the tower girl who tumbled past him, He limps over to her and attempts to decapitate her again. His flaming greatsword takes a chip out of the floor to answer his question.
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Valko reels back down the hallway that brought them here, unwilling to find himself ended by an angry hive of rats due to the antics of another. He presses his back to a wall and slides carefully away from the fighting, looking for solid cover from any future projectiles.
Tarrana carefully moves along the wall grumbling about men and their games before nearly colliding into Alexin.
Radyx grits his teeth to the pain of the girl's attacks. He points his shield at one and says, "You take that one, Snots."
He then sets his eyes on the one retreating down the hall, and says, "You're mine, you fuzzy ass b$#+%!"
He then spins around, flaring his shield up to throw her off balance, and follows up by burying his axe deep in her chest and knocking her unconscious.
"Got it!" Ferit replies to the gladiator. He hops down from the crate nimble as a monkey, and whacks the tower girl in front of him with burly two handed swing. Her head splatters across the room onto her sister tower girls standing next to Terisha. Despite being heavily wounded, the savage orc shows no signs of slowing down. "Which one of you rat-c*~+s is next?" he asks the nearby clump of wererats.
Hoosible winces a bit as he sees his precious Strawflower bit into by wererats...though the zombie herself shows not the slightest concern. She rips into one of the girls surrounding her with both claws, but the were-rat's nigh-invulnerable skin keeps her from being shredded.
Meanwhile Hoosible tries to stab another of the girls but in the chaos of attacking from tiger-back his spear doesn't even come close.
Blinded, Alexin cowers in the corner, trying frantically to defend himself against whatever's out there.
Charbonardent roars at the tower girl who tumbled past him, He limps over to her and attempts to decapitate her again. His flaming greatsword takes a chip out of the floor to answer his question.
"You throw well, vermin. But can you catch?”
With a burst of speed the drow charges forward and jumps, attempting to cross the field of caltrops and land on the barricade right in front of Karisa. Another shuriken is in his hand as he flies through the air, launching it at her and trusting his enchantment will protect him from retribution.
Valko reels into the fog bank Hoosible created, unwilling to find himself ended by an angry hive of rats due to the antics of another. He crouches down, hoping to avoid attention and not get attacked by anyone in particular.
Tarrana carefully moves along the wall grumbling about men and their games before nearly colliding into Alexin.
”This isn’t going as well as planned. Lerrisien, go get the rats! We need backup!” Terisha yells as she stabs Strawflower with her blade. The tower girl next to her does the same, while the one behind them, nearest Radyx and Ferit, takes off running out of the fog cloud and down the hallway, sword and crossbow in hand.
Meanwhile, the girl held within Strawflower’s jaws squirms and squeals as she tries to free herself from the undead tiger’s maw, but fails to do so.
”Agh, f&~$ it! This one’s got silver!” Karisa swears in anger as Remi’s silvered shuriken imbeds itself into her flesh. She steps away from the drow and rapidly throws a pair of acid flasks at him. However, she misses with both; one of them lands behind Remi, splashing his back with acid, while the other lands between the two, splashing them both with it. ”Ow! Ow ow it burns!”
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Ferit moves over to the next tower girl, this time getting a flank with Strawflower. He giggles as he lines up his mace with the distracted rat woman's head and swings it with all his strength.
Charbonardent roars in impotent frustration, as the skeleton tiger grabs his kill. He swings again at the grappled tower girl.
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Rounding the edge of the caltrops, Alexin once again fixes Karisa with a maddening stare, this time reducing her physical defenses, rather than magical.
"So you're the boss of this batch of cunnies, eh? Well then, nice to meet ya!"
Radyx slices his shield upwards in a motion similar to an uppercut at the rat woman, hoping to knock her out.
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Hoosible pulls out their recently purchased wand of Infernal Healing and says the command word, causing dark energy to course through the zombie's fetid body.
He then motions for Strawflower to continue mauling the same girl, and the zombie tiger dutifully slashes her belly open, spilling rat guts onto the floor and covering the gnome and his kitten with blood.
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Hoosible
HP 11/11
Spells 4/5 1st level spells
Strawflower
HP 26/44 (-13 previous round, -6 this round, +1 IH (round 1/10))
Acrobatics
Rushing across the boxes spear in hand Tarrana menaces the acid girl against the wall with it.
"Hey big guy why don't you come over here and crack bottle b&%%* in half? Let the cat have its rats."
Ferit moves over to the next tower girl, this time getting a flank with Strawflower. He giggles as he lines up his mace with the distracted rat woman's head and swings it with all his strength.
Charbonardent roars in impotent frustration, as the skeleton tiger grabs his kill. He swings again at the grappled tower girl, but misses.
Rounding the edge of the caltrops, Alexin once again fixes Karisa with a maddening stare, this time reducing her physical defenses, rather than magical; however, this too proves to be ineffective.
"So you're the boss of this batch of cunnies, eh? Well then, nice to meet ya!"
Radyx slices his shield upwards in a motion similar to an uppercut at the rat woman, hoping to knock her out, but the fog messes with his vision and he misses.
Hoosible pulls out their recently purchased wand of Infernal Healing and says the command word, causing dark energy to course through the zombie's fetid body.
He then motions for Strawflower to continue mauling the same girl, and the zombie tiger dutifully slashes her belly open, spilling rat guts onto the floor and covering the gnome and his kitten with blood.
Rushing across the boxes spear in hand Tarrana menaces the acid girl against the wall with it.
"Hey big guy why don't you come over here and crack bottle b@~+# in half? Let the cat have its rats."
The drow is truly feeling the pain from all these acid burns and realizes he has to move this along faster. Using his position on the top of the barricade he targets the wererat again before dropping down to block off her escape.
As one of the tower girls attempts to flee, Ferit, Radyx, and Strawflower all swing at the woman; only Radyx lands an attack, however, and he sends the nearly-unconscious woman sprawling across the floor with a slam to his shield. She doesn’t get up.
Terisha, meanwhile, uses her ally’s failed escape to her advantage and begins to flee the scene. ”Retreat! Regroup with Ayala!”, she yells as she runs down the southern hallway.
Karisa, not quite willing to give up so soon, dodges past Remi and Tarrana and pulls out a flask of acid and chucks it at Remi, hitting him in the chest with the acid and splashing Tarrana with it as well. ”Yeah, yeah I gotcha, but its a little more difficult for me Ter!”
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Ferit charges across the room after Karisa, swinging his mace at the back of her fleeing head.
Radyx turns after the fleeing leader and limps after her.
"Oh no you don't b%*+$, not if I have anything to say about it."
He grabs his spear and prepares to give it a mighty heave, but his foot comes down directly on the spot where the caltrop cut him, and he winces and drops it instead.
"SON OF A B+&&!! YOU'RE GONNA DIE B+~@$! YOU HEAR ME!?!?"
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"Think you're being cute huh? At least pull a knife if you're going to fight me." Stepping forward Tarrana's fist crackles with the power of the storm as it slams in the direction of the acid tossing woman.
Free: Let go of longspear and use spirit power.
Touch Attack
Electricity Damage
Free: GRip Longspear again. Still using Cestus mind so still threatening.
Charbonardent rages in impotent frustration. He can't believe nothing has died beneath his blade. He steps over to the last opponent and swings his flaming greatsword, which grounds again in the floor. The giant cannot believe his fortune.
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When Terisha tail, Hoosible pats Strawflower on her dessicated rump, sending her off on a chase. The zombie tiger catches up with her in a blur and snaps Terisha up in her jaws.
Meanwhile the pallid gnome holds on tightly with a pleased-as-punch look on his face. "Wheeee!!"
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"I SAID SIT!" Alexin screams, lashing out at Karisa's mind with arcane power.
Ferit charges across the room after Karisa, swinging his mace at the back of her fleeing head, nearly knocking her out and making her see stars momentarily.
Radyx turns after the fleeing leader and limps after her. "Oh no you don't b@!%~, not if I have anything to say about it." He grabs his spear and prepares to give it a mighty heave, but his foot comes down directly on the spot where the caltrop cut him, and he winces and drops it instead. "SON OF A B@+~~! YOU'RE GONNA DIE B%%~#! YOU HEAR ME!?!?"
"Think you're being cute huh? At least pull a knife if you're going to fight me." Stepping forward Tarrana's fist crackles with the power of the storm as it slams in the direction of the acid tossing woman. The electric jolt causes Karisa to twitch and shudder as it wracks her body, and she falls on the ground, unconscious.
The pain of the acid burns spark a memory in Remi, of a warrior named Valas who had fought beside him on his first surface raid. Valas had taken several small wounds, none of major consequence on its own, but refused to leave the front line and battled on. When the next blow he received gut him completely the patrol's priestess did not even cast a single spell. "Can't cure stupid." she had said.
Refusing to let that happen to him Remiandiv backs away from the combat and grabs his cestus before putting his arms up in a defensive posture, planning to wait out the rest of the battle at a safe distance.
Charbonardent rages in impotent frustration. He can't believe nothing has died beneath his blade. He steps over to the downed lieutenant and swings his blade down, granting her the kiss of death with a coup de grace. With the fire searing her flesh as his blade impales her, he finds his caltrop wound healing by the grace of the fire god’s blessing.
When Terisha turned tail, Hoosible pats Strawflower on her dessicated rump, sending her off on a chase. The zombie tiger catches up with her in a blur and snaps Terisha up in her jaws, crushing her unconscious.
Meanwhile the pallid gnome holds on tightly with a pleased-as-punch look on his face. "Wheeee!!"
And with that, the Tower Girls’ ambush is crushed.
Charbonardent has no containment of his rage. Everyone even Radyx wants to give the giant more space. After a couple dozen seconds, the flames enveloping his greatsword extinguish, which effectively snaps him out of it.
If Hoosible approaches within 15 feet with his dire tiger, because the giant won't shout, Charbonardent offers to repair the skeleton tiger acknowledging its effectiveness in battle.
Basically unharmed after the fight, Alexin uses one of his many scarves to drag caltrops out of the way, clearing a path through them. He grabs a few of them and stuffs them into one of the pockets on his pocketed scarf.
"It's not finished yet, one ov 'em got away!" Ferit growls, taing off after the escaped tower girl.
Radyx watches as Ferit bolts off and calls out, "Hold up Snots! This b+~&~ tried to run this way when she wanted to regroup with the others. So her boss lady must be this direction!"
He then picks up his spear and makes his way over to the woman that had nearly evaded them, and spits on her unconscious face when he arrives. "Didn't get too far this time, did ya you rat tailed cunny?"
Ferit stops in mid stride, twitching physically against his compulsion to continue chasing his prey. "Didnin one o' them birds say release the rats or some s%*~e? We need ta hurry, Oi don' loike the sound of tha'."
Radyx turns to the orc and replies, "Yeah. And the b%&@~ ran off that way," pointing a thumb towards the eastern hallway.
"Then, let's go. Maybe we kin get the slag before she sets her pets on us!" Ferit says emphatically, nearly jumping in place.
"Boys, boys, boys. How about you get those wounds healed up before we go chase death some more?" Alexin asks in a mocking tone. "I don't want to lug your ugly corpses out of this rat infested pile." Though he does his best to sound as though he's taunting his two new companions, an undertone of something else, perhaps fear, an old trauma resurfacing, or, even more strange, actual concern.
The pale dry gnome starts to reply in a matter-of-fact tone, "Oh, Strawflower can lug any corpses, and I'll make sure they don't go to waste--"
Then with a startled expression he shifts gears and says, "But you're right of course. Healing first would be wise."
With that, Hoosible has Strawflower lope over to Ferit (with Terisha still dangling limp from his jaws). The creepy gnome leans down and zaps the orc with infernal energies, causing his wounds to grow shadowy and then dissolve.
"By the way, Terisha is likely still alive, if anyone wants to talk to her. The Wendo animating Strawflower here doesn't really need to eat, and perhaps we have questions to ask of her."
Alexin skips through his newly made path and kicks one of the lifeless bodies. "If the pretty kitty needs a snack, we've got plenty of meat on the menu," the insane man says.
When Strawflower submits to Charbonardent, the giant blesses it with negative energy from the divine fire of Zursvaater. After some chanting, the giant's arms ignite, and the flames ripple across the hold of his hands to envelop the skeletal tiger.