The giant turns his attention to the half human, half dwarf ranger.
The deadly fists leave Magnum badly bleeding on the ground as he takes a left, a right, and then a two-handed finisher. Hon is still staggered having slipped the finisher.
Party up.
Pito steps up to the giant, his eyes red with fury. He lets out chant in perfect dwarven: 'Heart be true, and axe will be true'.
His blow is aimed at the towering behemoth.
Unfortunately the axe fails to connect.
The Giant shouts: "Pito, you traitor, your next."
Continue the assault
Attack Waraxe
Damage
The banner belatedly triggers an echo of Nar's healing.
Kragg groggily wakes up pulling a wand of cure light wounds from his pack. Activating it on himself he heals and just lays there for a moment.
In the confusion, both Joan and Luilfr make a poor showing.
Gallak's roar reverberates across the walls with pitch and volume uncommon in a dwarf. His white beard blows in an impossible wind, his normally blue eyes a decided yellow, slitted black and seething with uncontained rage.
Form shifting, as if seen through the lense of a broken glass, he levels his father's axe with his scowl, sighting across the mirror polish as his features distort into a sneer revealing needle-like teeth.
Supernaturally enhanced speed carries him with the force of a cannonball into the giant, his feet leaving the ground in a leap as he swings the massive axe in a wide arc.
With Magnum injured on the ground and Gallak advancing, the giant continues his devastating pummeling. He starts with Hon and Pito, the wisecracking dwarf and renegade gnoll.
Hon defends himself as best he can (+4 to defensive)
and possibly a bluff bonus
The first fist hammers Hon bleeding to the ground
The next blow hits Pito, and the devastating two handed finisher leaves Pito coughing up blood but still standing. The giant retreats a few huge steps up leaving him towering even higher above the dwarves. As Gallak approaches, Pito hands him the enchanted axe and falls to the ground in an exhausted heap.
From down the stairs, you can hear some shouts in dwarven. "Free us. Free us. We are imprisoned below."
"Luilfr! HEEL!" Joan barks out as she steps over Pito. Though the wolf snarls at the giant, he obeys.
"You're either brave, or foolish." She tells the gnoll as she lets off a shot.
"I'm not sure which, but I hope you still have enough wits to tell me why I hear a couple of Dwarves calling for help." She continues as she lines up another shot.
Nar pulls out and uses a cure light wounds wand on Hon
Kragg stands up still bleeding and heads to the group with his urgrosh in tow. Hopefully he can stop some of the bleeding on others before it is too late. He saw Nar heal Hon, now if he can just heal Magnum then everyone else will have a chance at surviving this.
The giant takes a massive blow from Gallak after throwing a two handed punch at the advancing dwarf. Joan connects with another arrow that strikes the giant through thick hide.
The giant retreats around the corner quickly withdrawing up the steps. He is bleeding from a many wounds.
Nar Channels , then advances 20 feet towards the giant
Kragg moves to where the giant was and reaches out with the wand tapping the immobile Hon on the head healing him for
Up you go Hon. No dying on me today.
Gallak shrugs off his gnomish backpack, the healing light washing over the crumpled Kib to no avail. With a scowl, he takes off at a pace that would shame the northern winds, racing after the wounded giant.
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Bleeding ears, headache, HEY Who ripped up me clothes?" Hon takes a moment to stare at the ceiling, until Gallak leaps over him taking the the stairs by two and three. "Oh. Oh crap. Here we go again," as the memories return in a rush.
Still prone, Hon turns his head to assess the scene of his almost death. Spying Kibs form and gear, "I really need some better tools, Kib was smarter than me. I would've told him that but... eh. We've got pissed off giants running about."
Stumbling upwards, Hon walks to Kib to do an inventory check.
Gallak continues to rush up the steps, and steps inside the giant's reach and takes another shot from the giant to swing at him. The giant dispels another figment.
Magnum struggles to his feet and drinks a potion.
Joan follows the giant up. Luilfr at her heels. She pulls up just out of reach and looses another arrow.
Gallak halfheartedly tries to dodge the punch, instead letting it hit his figment as he and his remaining duplicates swing their axes as one.
Striking with the force of many, the white dwarf drives the blade of the axe deep into the giant's chest and pulls down as he feels it crush bone, driving a torrent of acidic salts deep into the giant's flesh. He roars a victory scream, more bestial than dwarf.
The giant falls after acid surges through his body.
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Much muttering to only himsilf, "Kib's Bandolier O'Wands... Not here. Well. Hope someone has it. Rifling through the haversack. "What the? More space within than out, I gotta git me one of these. Heh. I do now." Looking up from his inventorying, Hon takes in his surroundings, with an eye for threat assessment. Still heavily bruised, Hon strecthes out his limbs wincing at the feedback.
Nar lets out a long breath, "Well he was a tough one. Now gather everyone together for one last burst of healing and lets free those prisoners!"
Channel
"Oh this ain't over yet, there's another giant about, and I aim to kill it."
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Nar lets out a long breath, "Well he was a tough one. Now gather everyone together for one last burst of healing and lets free those prisoners!"
Hon stumbles over to get within the range of effect, grabbing Pito alongside him.
Channel 2d6 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5
Common: I know I feel better already... And Thanks Pito, you've begun the first step to being your own bossman.
Walking with a looser stride, Hon heads back to Kib. Grabs the Handy Haversack and starts stuffing gear into it. His and Kibs until stuffed. Then he swings Kib over his shoulder and follows along with the others, pausing briefly to admire his own blood splatter on the steps. "I hate this job...
Kragg joins the others when Nar decides to channel. When the healing energy washes over him Kragg decides to liberally use the wand as well to get everyone up and ready if another giant is present. Thanks Nar now lets top off before we continue forward and find any prisoners they may have kept.
If we aren't pressed for time Nar will use some of the cure light wand as well
From around the corner, there comes a horrific chopping sound. The sound of steel on stone, rhythmic as the forge. The giant's head, like a soft boulder, turns the corner and gently bounces down the stairs, but the noise remains. As the group rounds the corner, they find Gallak, skin steaming, his features covered in blood from the mangled body of the giant. Again and again he drives the axe into its body, as tears wash lines of blood from his face.
From up the stairs, another giant advances and stands over the fallen giant. She swings a two handed sword of amazing size at Gallak.
Another figment disappears.
Ah hope yer tougher than this slack-jawed dolt, broad. He ran like a child to your bosom!
[occ]Don't know the distnace of separation between Kragg and Gallak. Once i know i will ppost accordingly.[/ooc]
Joan tsks as the shot doesn't go as deep as she had hoped.
Gallak is sixty feet of movement up the steps. There is a ten foot wide spiral stairway around a five foot square column.
Below is the dungeons where the shout of gnoll and dwarf prisoners are heard. Their voices are faint as they are far below.
Kragg double moves up the stairs then 40 ft ahead. Let's move it guys. More trouble by the sounds of it. Or more fun depending on how you look at it.
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Hon trying to inventory Kibs stuff, talks to Kib, "See? Fun stuff? Ya got anything useful. Gallack has yer wand bandoliers. Spear? Yeah Thats a throwable pointy thing. Not getting up close again. Headband? Sure. Do I look purty in it? Aahh Scrolls. Talk to me, what do these do... Please tell me you wrote in plain dwarf. Of course not. All squiggly lines that move. Nice. This might be a moment... He ignores the fight that just resumed up the stairs.
Nar moves 20 closer then shoots a ray of fire
Ranged touch
Damage
Gallak chased the giant up the spiral staircase. After dropping the large frost giant, the giantess appeared with long hair streaming from a chain helmet and a large greatsword. The giantess is wearing a large chain shirt and has a horn slung on her side. As Nar and Joan approach, the giantess seems very angry. In the crowded stairwell it will be difficult to attack the giantess without someone suffering some sort of reprisal.