C1 explodes in a shower of darkness, blinding Caine and Fairwind. Leo breathes deeply and gathers his strength for the coming battle.
"Gorram creepers..."
Fairwind stabs at where her honed senses tell her another creeper should be. Her first blow misses, but the second draws a satisfied grunt from the half-elf as it lands true. She shakes her head hard and her vision clears.
"Y'all just wait up a second. We're not done," she adds grimly.
Twin Strike at C5 (1d20 5=13, 1d8 2=10, 1d20 5=24, 1d8 2=3).
Creeper 2 takes advantage of Leo's absorption in the illusory butterflies and stabs hard before shifting towards Mirth, still smouldering.
Creeper 2 v Leo (1d20 9=26, 1d4 4=6, 1d6=1).
Creeper 3 tries to follow suit and misses, as the paladin shifts his weight to follow one of the insects with his eyes and unknowingly avoids the blow. With a faint hiss of annoyance, the dark one backs away and swats out the flames from Mirth's attack.
Creeper 4 immolates as the flames from Mirth's spell devour it. It explodes upwards into black nothingness, blinding both Leo and Brujo.
Creeper 5 risks an attack from Fairwind as it sidles towards Commander Caine, hoping gain an advantage over the wily warlord. . To her unconcealed annoyance, the ranger misses. "Gorram."
Creeper 5 v Caine (1d20 11=31, 1d4 4=5, 1d6=1).
OA on C5 (1d20 10=18, 1d8 5=9)
Catching a glimpse of the cloud of darkness blinding Caine and Fairwind jog the elfs mind. "Hells if I'm gonna get caught in that again", but before anything can be done the creeper is devoured in flame coateing everything in darkness.
With that he falls away and closer to the entrance
"To think I'd have to rely on this" Focusing his mind flames creep up the left side of his body and he lanches a a wave of energy back at the creeper.
Snaggletooth moves around the chests, torches and allies to get into position to hit a creeper in the back. "Where is Kneebiter?" He yells at the creeper. "Where is my friend??"
Snaggletooth moves around the chests, torches and allies ...
The creeper hisses as Snaggletooth's dagger sinks into its back.
"Your friend is ettercap food. They like to play." it rasps spitefully in response to the kobold's question.
The gnomes giggle hysterically and fire more bolts of scintillating butterfly-laden doom. Gn 1 aims at Fairwind, but the ranger shrugs away the illusion. Snaggletooth, alas, cannot drag his eyes away in time and sways helplessly as he looks at the pretty circling patterns in the air.
Scintillating bolt (Fort). On hit target is dazed. Gn2 v Snaggletooth (1d20 9=24, 1d6 4=7).
"Ettercaps are not the only ones with a taste for play, little child of darkness. Tell me, dost thee die as a guttering torch, or as a coward beset and gnawed by thine own nightmares?"
Taking a step away from the smouldering creeper, Mirth smirks scornfully at him and, with a casual gesture, takes his own fears and turns them against him.
Mirth's taunts and the nightmares she conjures are too much for the creeper, which explodes in the now familiar shower of darkness, blinding Snaggletooth.
"Do they never learn?" From behind Mirth, Cronin sounds resigned. It's not entirely clear if he's referring to the creepers or his companions.
Brujo doesn't allow his blindness to impair his aim as corruscating blue flame jets into C3. As his mutating light leaves his blade, his sight clears.
Cronin moves alongside the tiefling and aims a blast of divine fury at C5, looking around at his variously stricken companions before waggling a finger at Snaggletooth. "Trust in Selune little one."
Fairwind
Leo - blind, save ends
Creepers
Snaggletooth - dazed and blind (two saves needed, unless one condition is ended by Cronin's intervention now)
Gnomes
Mirth
Brujo
Cronin[/ooc]
Leo fingers sightlessly at his holy symbol and it suddenly blazes with light!
Snaggletooth looks over at Cronin as his eyes clear, "I can see again! You thank the Moon Lady for me, Cro-nin. But I still feel woozy from nasty gnome's spell. Room is spinning."
Blindness condition ends 1d20=10
Caine blinks away the darkness and sees his opponent. He wastes no time hacking away at it.
Warlord's Strike Attack 1d20+8=25, Damage 2d10+4=17
Kelemvor clears his servant's sight and Caine continues to clobber the nearest creeper. Fairwind shifts out of range and deftly hurls two daggers at the creeper, bloodying it.
Twin Strike v C5 (1d20 10=17, 1d4=4, 1d20 10=26, 1d4=1)
Leo sidesteps quickly before leaping towards one of the gnomes hoping by clearing the way to the creeper he had been fighting would allow the others to engage the creeper with ranged attacks.
Leo's attack startles the gnome and it can't evade the blow.
The remaining creepers move with the swiftness of their shadowy world as they maneuver into positions where they can do the most damage.
C3 manages to sneak past Snaggletooth but his aim is poor and his attack misses.
C5 eases around Caine's bulk and attacks Fairwind with much greater success.
C3 v Fairwind (1d20 11=20, 1d4 4=8, 1d6=1).
Snaggletooth, still seeing stars, swings and misses horribly at the Creeper next to him. He takes a minute and clears his head.
The arcane fire seems to calmly burn on and arounf the moon elf. Almost as if he's in control of it...
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If you need to amend just don't target the gnomes. As seen in the past Brujo tries to spare certain people.
The tiefling woman gestures again, fingers flickering in patterns of arcane geometry, attempting to assail the creeper that bedevils Fairwind with his darkest fears.
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Although his attack misses, Snaggletooth manages to clear his mind of illusory butterflies.
Tutting with annoyance, the gnomes shift around.
Gnome 1 darts between the torchstand and the open chest to fire more illusions at Fairwind. Large, multicoloured rats assail the ranger and she swats unavailingly at them.
Scintillating Burst(Fort) - on hit target is dazed (save ends) (1d20 9=27, 1d6 4=6).
Gnome 2 chuckles as an impossibly huge hornet appears out of nowhere to attack Leo.
Scintillating Bolt (Fort) - on hit target is dazed (save ends) (1d20 9=23, 1d6 4=7).
Mirth shakes her head and responds in kind, sending an image of flaming doom towards C5. The creeper can't avoid it and hisses slightly as illusory flame engulfs it. The room is now filled with illusions for those who care to believe in such things.
Brujo adds his own all-too-real flame to the battle, wrapping tendrils of blue energy coursing into C3.
Cronin's response is even simpler. Holy symbol held high, he invokes Selune once more and divine light sluices into C5. Warily, the cleric backs himself through the door, after a brief nod at Fairwind to indicate that Selune's blessing is with her.
Lance of Faith(Ref) v C3 (on hit ally gains 2 bonus on next attack v target) (1d20 7=24, 1d8 6=8).
Bracing himself, Commander Caine hacks down hard and is rewarded, briefly, with the sight of a familar exposion of darkness before his vision goes again.
Fairwind struggles across the battlefield, and slashes vainly at the last creeper.
Fairwind struggles across the battlefield, and slashes vainly at the last creeper.
rev
"Magic gnomes very bad and don't explode when you kill them."
rev
also if you need it, OA, d20+10 vs AC, 22, d4+4, 8 hp and he averts his eyes as he hits to avoid being blinded.
Infuriated Leo gazes straight at the gnome even with the illusions swarming the room his eyes narrow with rage.
"To Kelemvor with you!" he growls as unseen to everyone other than the gnome Leo's eyes blaze with light shining directly at the gnome as waves of divine power flash out in an instant and disappear almost immediately...
The gnome looks startled as Leo vanishes from his sight. Clearly this is unfair tactics on the part of the paladin.
The last creeper hisses and moves to where it can do most damage, stabbing viciously at illusion wielding Mirth, fanaticism writ large on its face followed shortly by satisfaction as the blade drives home.
C3 v Mirth (1d20 11=22, 1d4 4=7, 1d6=1).
Snaggletooth abandons his pursuit of the creeper in favour of attacking Gn2.
(d20+10, 23, d4+4, 7hp, setup for an interrupt)
"Magic gnomes very bad and don't explode when you kill them."
Horribly injured, Gn2 backs away from the oncoming foes and makes the fatal error of sending more butterflies towards Snaggletooth. The illusion is useless this time, and even worse, opens him up to another attack from the infuriated kobold.
Gn1 sees that there is little chance of survival in the present conditions. Sidling towards the door, he looks over Cronin's head and teleports to just behind the cleric.
Mirth grunts softly as the creeper's blade scores a line across her belly. She steps back a pace, the blaze in her eyes rising again. She holds her left hand to her wound, her right gesturing with her charred staff.
Brujo vanishes, reappearing behind the gnome. He takes his blade and places it near the gnomes thoat, "I think NOW would be opportune time to surrender. My commrades don't take well to being attacked, and I have thing about killing other people. So save yourself the pain"
Mirth's threats make no difference to the creeper and it easily shakes off her illusion.
The gnome looks from the carnage in the room to Brujo and nods very carefully.
"Good point. I'll just be leaving now shall I?," he asks hopefully.
Cronin ignores everything but the creeper and sends more divine fire towards his natural enemy. "Do what you like with the gnomes, but the creepers die." For all his words, his aim is off this time and the dark one still stands, pallid eyes glaring at the companions, dagger twisting in the paddy hands.
"This is getting ridiculous!"
"Charge!"
as the gnome is dying, Snaggle grabs him by the robes and says, "Where's Kneebiter at? Where did they take my friend? Tell me or you're dead!" then realizing that the gnome is unconscious and cannot answer him, he drops him to die. He also coldly searches his pockets and belongings for anything of value or interest.
Scintillating Burst(Fort) - on hit target is dazed (save ends) (1d20 9=27, 1d6 4=6).
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Bracing himself, Commander Caine hacks down hard and is rewarded, briefly, with the sight of a familar exposion of darkness before his vision goes again.
Snaggletooth's reactive attack is too much for Gn2. The kobold's fury drives the blade into a vital spot. Caine's sight clears long enough for him to see the final creeper and he hurtles across the room to attack the last of the dark ones. An all too familiar blackness engulfs him as his greatsword smites the creature into the ground.
Where you all are at the moment - MAP -