Assaulted by who knows what kind of nightmares, C4 stabs wildly at Brujo and misses. Mirth's brain curdling visions render it almost helpless. C6 is undaunted and strikes low and vicious, wounding the swordmage once more.
The kobolds looks from Snaggletooth to Mirth, as conflicting suggestions briefly confound them.
C4 v Brujo (1d20 11=14, 1d4 5=6, 1d6=3).
C6 v Brujo (1d20 13=31, 1d4 5=6, 1d6=5).
Brujo scream in rage, his body erupts in more azure light
Fire engulfs Brujo and Leo. In less than a secon the two have swapped places.
Mirth's temper gets the better of her, seeing the kobolds paralyzed with indecision.
draconic:
1d20+10=15, 1d20+8=23, 1d6=4, 1d8=4 1d6=4
Fairwind leaps to her feet and stabs at one of the ettercaps, "Damn spider-freaks!"
Back in the combat mix, Fairwind immediately makes her mark on E5. Ichor and squeals accompany her prettily placed attacks.
Startled Leo glares at one of the creepers his eyes flicker with silver light as he does so.
Leo then shifts so he's closer to Caine and Cronin.
"Sneaky little so and so!" Leo laughs now that his initial shock has passed he can see the humour in the swordmage's action.
C4 blinks rapidly as Leo appears in front it and then as quickly disappears from its sight, accompanying the movement with a burst of psychic pain.
Despite everything, Kneebiter continues to drift away ...
K1, emboldened by his successful bite at Devlin's ankle, pursues the warlord up the stairs. Faint sounds of swearing in common and draconic float down, but luckily the words are too indistinct to distinguish.
K3 belts hopelessly at E5, meeting only air.
K4 tries to take advantage of his allies and misses badly damaged C4.
K5 pummels effectively at E5, breaking through the chitinous layer.
K7, Kneebiter's self appointed combat medic, pounds frantically on his hero's chest screaming in Draconic. Either his screams or his ministrations get through to Kneebiter as K7's efforts finally succeed.
Draconic
"STOP BEING DEAD!"
K8 looks at the shortsword in his hand and grits his teeth. "I will kill him slowly." he announces before also vanishing up the stairs.
K9 tries to smack C4 into oblivion and misses horribly.
K10 goes grimly after C4 as well, and also misses. Something in the shadowy aura of the creepers seems to be scaring the kobolds.
K11 shifts next to Snaggletooth and punches E5 to no avail.
Kneebiter's death save (1d20=9).
K3 v E4 (1d20 3=8, 1d4=4)
K4 v C4 (1d20 5=14, 1d4=1)
K5 v E5 (1d20 5=22, 1d4=4)
K7 - Heal check to stabilise Kneebiter (1d20 3=15)
K9 v C4 (1d20 3=8, 1d4=2)
K10 v C4 (1d20 5=7, 1d4=4)
K11 v E5 (1d20 5=9, 1d4=3)
K1 v Devlin (offscreen) (1d20 3=15, 1d4=2)
K8 v Devlin (offscreen) (1d20 6=17, 1d8 1=5)
Draconic-(as he gets up)
Snaggletooth gets up, stabs the Ettercap in the ribs, and shifts back carefully.
"I go get weapons for kobolds now. Keep monsters busy for a minute."
Snaggletooth leaps to his feet and in a flurry of blades shows his comrades just how to demolish an ettercap. Jabbing with precision at the creature, he all but takes it apart on one simple action. The insectoid shudders and screams as its tormentor slips back through the open door.
Caine shifts and smites once more, bloodying C6. The tide of battle seems to be turning at last.
E4 slams an axe towards K11, and the unfortunate kobold winces as the blow misses by inches.
E4 v K11 (1d20 9=10, 1d12 5=7).
E5, thwarted and badly injured, seeks vengeance on the nearest kobold it can see. The blow is huge, not so the wound, which although horrible merely bloodies K11. The kobold's mouth opens, clearly not sure how it survived the onslaught.
E5 v K11 (1d20 9=26, 1d12 5=6)
Invoking Selune, Cronin targets C4, calling to the surrounding kobolds to duck. Blinding light flares across the room, but the creeper heeds Cronin's warning an dips away.
Cronin v C4, Lance of Faith (Ref). (1d20 7=15, 1d8 6=13)
With the departure of Devlin and the revival of Kneebiter, the kobolds dismiss Mirth's words.
Draconic
Mirth continues to stoke the rampant nightmares of the creeper who languishes in the grip of her phantasm.
Mirth's tail lashes with satisfaction as her latest nightmare vision topples C4. The surrounding kobolds yelp with triumph that turns swiftly to consternation as the creeper explodes in an all-too-familiar black cloud and blinds them.
C6 glances around, looking for the most promising target and eases its way through the room towards Brujo, hoping to finish the work it started earlier. The blade slides away without harming the swordmage and the creature hisses in frustration and possibly fear as well.
Leo's blade flashes as C6 eases past him. Kelemvor has not more liking for the creature of shadow than the rest of the party.
Brujo dodges out of the way of creepers blade
He swings his blade in a wicked arc, sending a wave of blue warping fire at the creeper.
Brujo's sizzling blue flame obliterates the last creeper. Sooty darkness envelops Fairwind and E5 as well as K3.
Fairwind curse the creepers and slashes at what she hopes is an ettercap.
Rev
Draconic-
oh and what can Snaggletooth see as he looks at both the weapon racks and around the north room?
Blinded though she is, Fairwind strikes a vital spot and the ettercap collapses with an ear-searing shriek of pain.
"Dang, waddya know!"
OA v C6 (1d20 9=25, 1d8 4=9)
Leo's blade flashes as C6 eases past him. Kelemvor has not more liking for the creature of shadow than the rest of the party.
Leo heads straight for the last ettercap and divine challenges it before bestowing a holy strike upon it.
"No offence but you're in the way!" Leo tells his opponent as he swings into it.
Leo strides through the mass of blinded allies and hits E4 solidly, defying it to attack anyone else with his divine powers.
The blinded kobolds stand still, sensing that walking towards an ettercap or worse would be stupid.
K5 however takes courage from Leo's example and kicks the ettercap hard on the shin.
K7 gets revenge for the fall of his fellow kobolds and bites at a chitinous arm.
K8 skitters back into the room, still clutching Snaggletooth's shortsword,
"He killed one of us and went into the dark," he spits venomously.
K11 misses, but keeps a watchful eye on the room behind him, and beckons to Snaggletooth to help out.
Of the blinded kobolds, only K10's sight clears. He grins wickedly. "Just in time to help!"
K5 v E4 (1d20 5=22, 1d4=3)
K7 v E4 (1d20 5=24, 1d4=3)
K11 v E4 (1d20 5=12, 1d4=4)
Saves v blindness for K3, K4, K9, K10 (1d20=7, 1d20=2, 1d20=3, 1d20=10)
Snaggletooth swiftly heads for the weapon racks and to his relief and joy sees the kobolds own weapons and armour stored there for safe keeping. Scarcely able to keep triumph out of his voice, he calls to his comrades
Draconic
brothers, keep fighting, I bring more weapons, as I promised, big spidermen will be dead soon, and kobolds will be FREE!!!
The room is a basic guard room. It contains two weapon racks, one full of kobold sized gear, plainly taken from the prisoners, the other containing human sized gear, but nothing looks particularly interesting at first glance.
Caine shakes his head and moves purposefully forward, chipping more flakes off the ettercap's carapace.
Either unaware or uninterested in being the last foe standing, the insectoid continues its mission to reduce the kobold population. Turning with venom on blinded K3, a single axe stroke is enough to kill the scaly menace.
E4 v K3 (1d20 11=15, 1d12 5=14)
Cronin steps forward, softly chanting a prayer to Selune, invoking her grace on his companions. Light floods from his holy symbol and the ettercap cringes back, unable to avoid the assault. Fairwind feels herself inspired to try and clear her sight.
Cronin. Sacred Flame (Ref) v E4 (1d20 7=17, 1d6 6=9)
"Hey arachnid! I've already divinely challenged you and the best you can do is take it out on someone else! Leave those blind kobolds alone you're only embarassing yourself!" Leo taunts the ettercap growling with distaste at the monster's actions.
At Leo's words, divine flame erupts around the insect, futher damaging it. Ichor now drips from between the armoured plates.
Mirth ignores the remaining ettercap, moving towards the far stairway.
Brujo once again swing his blade in an arc. Firing another wave of energy toward his victim.
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Brujo takes off in a rage after Devlin.
Tail lashing in rage, Mirth sprints across the room towards the next staircase, followed closely by Brujo.
Battered and bloodied, the ettercap screams as Brujo's attack scrunches what's left of its mind. Dazed it may be, but the creature still stands.
Note for Fairwind:
Fairwind grits her teeth and stabs the Ettercap. Hard.
Fairwind grits her teeth and stabs the Ettercap. Hard.
Leo cuts loose upon it with another holy strike
Fairwind's latest attack is enough. The last ettercap falls with a resounding thud, leaving you and your newly acquired allies breathless, but triumphant.
The nearest kobold pats the ranger on the back. "Very sneaky." he comments approvingly, "you would make a good kobold."
"Y'all okay?" she asks the kobolds.
"Snaggletooth?" Leo asks looking around for the kobold.
"I saw two kobolds run after Devlin and I think that one over there is his missing friend," Leo nods across towards Kneebiter.
"Whats' through there?" Leo asks Caine as he takes a peek into the room behind Caine which seems to be wide open.
"Through where?"
"Through where?"
"There," Leo turns Caine around as he moves past him to glance inside the room.
"Snaggletooth!" Leo exclaims as he sees the kobold."The fight out here seems over for the moment, two of your comrades have rushed after Devlin and your friend Kneebiter is out here... what is this place?" Leo begins to explain then notices what else in the room and looks around.
"Oh. Sorry about that. I had a lot of things on my mind that moment."
Caine follows Leo, "Let me help you there."
"You know this might be a good place for your friends out there to rest up if they don't want to proceed any further at the very least they'll want their stuff back after all," Leo notes to Snaggletooth.
"So where did the rest of that stuff come from?" he wonders aloud as Leo steps back to glance back outside.
"Fairwind you might want to take a look, say where's Brujo and Mirth?" Leo asks Fairwind.
"Oh!" Leo waves his hand over at the pair who are attentively looking up the staircase.
"I wonder if they can see that pair who chased after Devlin?" Leo asks Fairwind and then glances at Cronin."I think we ought to get the injured in here before anything else arrives," he asks Cronin.
Leo and Caine explore the weapon store. It is, as it appeared to be, a basic guard room.
The kobolds gather their dead and revive the injured. Kneebiter rushes towards Snaggletooth and embraces him.
Draconic
"YOU are a mighty hero and I am Kneebiter the Thrice-Hatched!"
The kobold who returned from the futile Devlin chase approaches Mirth.
Draconic
"He escaped into the dark and he killed one of us. We need the money you promised."
This little speech is accompanied by the beguiling showing of teeth and the offer of a not-unfriendly claw.
Cronin moves among the dead, offering prayers for the save passage of the kobold souls to whatever form of afterlife they prefer.
Leo looks through the room.