Excellent! Everyone within 30' of the skeleton, which I suspect means everyone, please make a Will Save DC 16, as the skeleton begins to move and exudes an aura of despair.
If you have bonuses on Fear saves, feel free to apply them.
Any that fail, please roll yourself a 1d4 and you are paralyzed for that many rounds.
Alessandra shakes her head wearily. If it's not a power-drunk (or just plain drunk?) dwarf, it's a crazy elf witch. With friends like these, enemies are almost a welcome relief. At least she knows how to deal with them.
It may not be the party that needs the good luck.
Alrighty then, the party is up. Well Alessandra at least, we shall see what Gresham gets on the Will save.
Uhh.. HP?
Mrfhmmphh.. Mrfhmmph.. Mrmmmmmmmmpph!
Mrfhmmphh.. Mrfhmmph.. Mrmmmmmmmmpph!
Alessandra grins, evilly, at the undead thing. "You know what, I prefer her like this, you know? So, cos you've done me a favour by shutting her up, I'm giving you a choice: legs first, or arms?"
"Oh, and Doc: in return for me not just leaving you to it, you're swearing by all the dwarfy gods to stop going on about empires. Tell me NOW if you disagree..."
Another grin, possibly more evil than the first. "Glad to hear it. Now, to business."
She swings her twin blades at the skeleton.
Alessandra, those can be your round 2 attacks. In round 1 you moved and studied.
Success!
So Gresham moves on in and does his own study thing. So from round 2, you are flanking.
Ok, so the Ancient Mariner grapples Chaenath effortlessly and proceeds to give her a long kiss, expelling grossly disgusting water into her lungs.
Chaenath, make a Fort Save DC 16 or take 1d4 points of damage and be dazed. You will need to do this for 10 consecutive rounds, unless you make the save 3 rounds in a row.
Alessandra's first two attacks hit, and the sneak attack damage is:
Each of her attacks is lessened though by DR 5/-, so she did a total of 18 damage to the creature.
We'll give Gresham some time to come online and do his round 2 action.
Ancient Mariner - 18
Ok, so the Ancient Mariner grapples Chaenath effortlessly and proceeds to give her a long kiss, expelling grossly disgusting water into her lungs.
Chaenath, make a Fort Save DC 16 or take 1d4 points of damage and be dazed. You will need to do this for 10 consecutive rounds, unless you make the save 3 rounds in a row.
And he snoggeth one of three...
Some quotes just beg to get used, right?
This particular creature is both way cool, and way disappointing. The description of him and his background gives a lot of teasing information, and then makes it clear that while there is SOMETHING going on here, it is left as an exercise for the GM to decide if he/she wants to expand on it and use it in their campaign.
MMMPH!
As an aside, Chaenath, I'm hoping that 10 consecutive failures doesn't drop you below the 0 hitpoint threshold. Bad things if it does, although the group can help to stave those things off.
10 consecutive rolls of less than 11 is hard to do..... we'll see.
Hit
The Ancient Mariner attacks Alessandra...
Miss
Ok, back to the top of the order for round 3!
Gresham attacks...
Hit
Crit confirm:
Confirmed
Ancient Mariner - 47
** Round 3 **
Mph!
Chaenath hits the Mariner with a Misfortune Hex
Success!
On the plus side, with 2 more successes you're no longer suffering from the Curse of the Deep!
On the double plus side, Alessandra didn't get slammed, and so wasn't subjected to a grab/grapple and thus didn't get Curse of the Deep'd herself!
Alessandra nimbly dodges the thing's attack and slashes at it some more. She grins, savagely. She may be underwater, deprived of her bow and her cutlass, but by all the gods, she can STILL kick ass.
Despite the creature's inherent damage resistance, Alessandra's attacks manage to hammer it down. Her second short sword attack missed, but her swing with the dagger finishes the creature off.
Ok, so we're in round 3. In which Chaenath successfully saved. She has a lot more rounds of saves that need made.
However a DC 20 heal check can clear her of the problem.
Doc is still paralyzed, but let's see what Gresham can do in round 4...
Success!
Gresham manages to help Chaenath to expel the remainder of the polluted water from the Mariner's kiss, and she is no longer choking and needing to make saves, although she is paralyzed for a couple more rounds.
Combat is over, and after 12 seconds or so, Doc and Chaenath are no longer paralyzed.
The only loot here is the pendant around the Ancient Mariner's neck.
I think I am ready to leave this place
I think I am ready to leave this place
[dice=Appraise pendant]1d20+7
Excellent!
The pendant around the ancient mariner’s neck is made of deep platinum with queerly shaped blue-and-black whorls. The pendant is cast to resemble a chaotic cluster of tentacles and fluke tails, and though it does not radiate magic, anyone who examines it for a full round must succeed at a DC 15 Will save or be shaken for 1d4 rounds (this is a mind-affecting fear effect).
So throw us down a Will save, or be shaken!
The pendant is worth 2000gp
Alessandra nonchalantly scoops up the pendant and loops it round her neck. "Mine, I think. Spoils of war and all that."
I think I am ready to leave this place
She leers at the elf. "You sure? Don't need some time to say goodbye to lover here?"
With a grin wide enough to split her head, she starts to sing:
"Chaenath and the skelly,
Underneath the sea,
Kay eye ess ess..."
She's laughing too hard to be able to finish the rhyme.
You are just jealous he picked me first Chaenath retorts haughtily.
Is there any healing and other stuff to do before we move on?
You are just jealous he picked me first Chaenath retorts haughtily.
"Witch, puh-lease..." is all Alessandra can manage by way of reply, before starting to hiccup with laughter.
Alright, so back into the room with the hammerheads. A long room and at the far end a passageway that goes out to the NE.
And with that, you come to a room that is wider (60') than it is long (20'). Within this cavern you spot two sahuagin and a creature that resembles a cross between a turtle and a crab, with flippers instead of legs, a snapping beak, and two pincers.
Doc is up! If he isn't too busy mapping out the plans for his empire's growth and eventual takeover of the world!
I really need to learn Aquan! Chaenath complains I cannot talk to the tojanida! It is going to bite and claw and ink us all!
Gresham says, "Aquan? I speak Aquan! I am fluent in over ten different languages, and Aquan is one of them!"
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"NO PARLAY! We kill 'em an' hang their skulls on me throne!"
Mr. Spleen gets the idea, and swims towards one of the sahuagin. The familiar has enough sense of self-preservation to stay clear of the clawed creature, while it tries to get the sahuagin in it's own claws.
Rogar the Conqueror King stays put, brandishing his spear, and ready to strike anyone coming too close.
[ooc]AoO if enemy moves adjacent (since reach from longsper)
Mr. Spleen successfully attacks and constricts his opponent.
The large turtle-crab creature does swim towards Doc, who hits with his crit, but misses with his AOO.
The creature attacks Doc...
Anyways, an inky blackness begins to exude from the creature, and as it engulfs each of you, you don't know just how wide it has gotten.
Alessandra is up, she does have a decent idea where the turtle-crab creature was before the blackness came about. However, there will be no "studying" of things in the darkness.
S1 - 9
S2 -
T - 20, charged (AC -2)
The half-orc girl snarls; a sound that starts somewhere deep in her throat and and ends in the bit of the brain marked 'primal terror'. She's tired, she's absolutely steeped in salt water, and her ribcage is still recovering from being used as a pincushion.
In short, she is no longer amused. "Right, screw this. I ain't fightin what I can't see. Gresham, you talk to 'em - tell this thing from me that we've killed every mother&*&$^£&%$*^& thing in this place, an if they wanta live they'll get the **%^&%^&^*&$%£^ out of my ^*%&^%*^&*& way!"
In the mean time, the Sahuagin are outside of the ink cloud, only Mr. Spleen knows this, who is also outside of it.
The one that Spleen attacked will full attack Spleen...
The other one will swim over and attack Mr. Spleen...
Chaenath swims away from the ink and seeing Spleen beset Hexes the AC of one of the saughin.
Hit that one Organ!
We're waiting on Gresham, because he speaks Aquan, and can possibly Diplomacize this.
"Excuse me but I do not know your name gentle tojanida. If you are a captive of these sahuagin, my captain wishes you to know that we have slain the rest of their number and these two are the only ones which remain. You may rebel and with our help once more be free to roam the oceans as you see fit."
I'll say that's good enough to bring the creature to "Indifferent."
"Tell me more land creature, do you demand my service, or will you let me go free?"
"Whether you wish to serve aboard our vessel or go free that is of course your prerogative."
Alessandra grins as she hears Rogar's voice. "Now THAT'S my language..."
Emperor Rogar Demands Death! DEATH!
"Kill those intruders!" You hear from one of the sahuagin in Aquan.
What actions will Doc and Spleen take?