Post got eaten.
What's going on?
Zaza tries to break out of the creature's hold but can't manage it.
Hadha rushes over to Zaza and feels some sort of tentacle wrapped around her neck. He grips the tentacle hard and pulls it away from Zaza! Then the invisible tentacles strike Zaza again (7 damage) but this time they don't manage to get a hold on her!
One of your arrows struck the creature but the other missed due to Zaza obscuring your shot. The tight doorway isn't helping either...
Calming his breath instead of wasting it on a useless curse about the environmental situation, Amari continues his battle rhythm, sending arrow after arrow at the tentacle beast.
Feeling the need to get out of this crazy plane as fast as possible, he reaches deep into his reserves and speed up his draw-aim-fire sequence even more.
- 5 damage
Lo'Laan uses his wand to heal the last of his wounds.
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Not seeing anything else to throw onto the barricade that would be too helpful. Agaban instead stops to search the false "Elder" for anything before moving him into a corner away from the doorway.
Got anything to tie him up just in case he comes around on us Lo?
Afterwards if there is still time Agaban will take a moment to bless everyone in the room in preparation of the coming fight.
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Hadha moves out of the way and Zaza tries to do so but is grappled by the creature! Your arrows still have to fire past her and miss! It squeezes her twice, knocking her unconscious. It drops her and moves into the room looking for more prey!
You see Zaza try to move away then be grabbed. She makes a choking noise then falls unconscious to the ground.
The invisible thing strikes you as you move away, grabbing you and pulling you back. It squeezes around your throat again and everything goes black.
Agaban finds a wand on the unconscious man as well as a scroll.
"Zaza!!"
A moment of seething hatred appears on the usual calm and focused face of the black monk, then a steely expression drowns that out and the archer draws three arrows at once and sends them at the enemy.
You bury two arrows into the monster, wounding it seriously!
You see Amari aim for something immediately south of you that seems to be hanging on the ceiling. You can't see it but you hear two of his arrows land in flesh then they disappear.
= 5
The creature seizes the opening created by your bow and strikes out at you with its long tentacles but you dodge and fire into it. Hadha also fires and misses. The creature then tries to strike you but you barely knock the tentacles away with your bow.
Amari fires three arrows and you fire your ray but it hits the wall. Then you see Amari dodge something twice.
Agaban finds a wand inscribed with demons and wolves on the fallen Elder. Then he and Lo'laan hear a banging on the door.
The door is struck four times in rapid succession and nearly splinters into pieces. But the barricade behind it still holds.
= 5
= 5
Amari takes another step away from the monster, this time to the south-west, then opens up with another volley of arrows at the monster.
Seeing Amari fire another two shafts hard into the creature, Hadha fires a ray that connects with something. A thump on the ground is heard.
Zaza continues slipping away into darkness.
The creature falls to the floor, dead.
The monks continue striking quickly at the barricade, breaking through the door and damaging the wardrobe! It's barely holding together.
Lo prepares for a flood of monks to enter the fray.
Amari looses no time and hurries past Hadha, signing fast, then drops beside Zaza and produces his small bag filled with medical gear from his backpack.
<It is dead.
I will look after Zaza.
You check out the area.
Do not trust your eyes.>
Examining the strange maze, the door Zaza opened seems to be the only way forward. Hadha steps through the doorway and examines the hallway beyond.
You come to in the strange maze but still do not feel feel. Concerned, Amari and Hadha stand over you examining the maze. Seeing you are well, Hadha steps through the doorway and examines the hallway beyond.
Examining the area around you, you feel walls everywhere except for the door Zaza opened. You step through the hallway and it appears to be clear up until a corner.
Lo'laan's threat seems ineffective.
As the monks continue to beat at the barricade, Agaban sends a flood of water under the door. The monks cry out in alarm but, other than a moment's hesitation, it doesn't slow them down much. They break through the door and most of the wardrobe. The bedframe is most of what holds them back at this point and it likely won't hold long.
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Taking another 5 ft step back Agaban readies his longspear unwilling to attempt their earlier practice of nonlethal take-downs with how badly outnumbered they are now.
While he steps back trying to see if there is anything else he can use to delay the onrush; he remembers Zaza's wand and figures now would be a good time to use the summon one to bring forth a hyena in the space between him and the door.
Looks like a dead end here. The only way forward I feel is that way.
You look around the bend and see a strange, small frog-like creature with glowing white eyes. It turns them on you and looks at you in surprise.
The monks continue beating very rapidly on the barricade and finally destroy it. One steps forward into the room but there are clearly more behind him in the hall.
You recognize the creature as a blindheim and duck behind the corner just as it begins turning its eyes on you. You believe its blinding gaze will have little effect on those who cannot see it but you realize you must be careful yourself.
Amari only growl in frustration. Hitting something he could not see is a real annoyance. The drawn bow is already traversing in the direction Zaza mentioned, then stops and with another grunt, Amari has to resort to whispering, to get a good draw an the thing.
"Range and height?"
Following Zazas descriptions, Amari sends to arrows at the presumable frog-thing with some spacing between them, hoping to increase his chance of hitting anything.
He then steps around with Amari and fires in a slightly different spot.
Your arrows go skittering down the hallway without seeming to hit anything.
You see Hadha's magical ray strike something then hear something moving toward you. Hadha then gives a cry of pain!
You recognize Zaza's description as that of a blindheim, a small frog-like magical creature. Your magic seems to strike it effectively! But then you hear something move toward you and suddenly you feel a stabbing pain in your lower leg!
You move back to relative safety then you hear Hadha give a cry of pain.
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Gripping his longspear tightly; Agaban launches an attack over the head of the hyena he just summoned at the first monk to enter through the door.
Need to keep them there Lo...hopefully it wont take the rest too much longer to break this spell.
Yipping as it forms out of the air the hyena launches its own attack at the monk attempting to pull him to the ground.
Lo and Serenity lunge at the first Monk through the doorway.
Together, Lo'laan and Agaban knock out the first monk. Serenity can't manage to take down the second. Another monk rushes past Serenity to strike at Lo and Serenity.
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Seeing Lo still willing to use the flat of her blade instead of lethal blows...Agaban feels a twinge in his head about which is the better path before launching another thrust at the next monk attempting to move through the room.
If there is a break in opponents rushing the door then Agaban will attempt to Stabilize any of the fallen monks but not at the cost of the groups safety.
Amari rolls to the right to get some distance between himself and Hadha, such that the for may not be able to hit both of them at the same time, then, using the momentum of the roll, he fires two arrows towards the location Hadha seems to aim at.
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