Stanley calls out after the others through teeth clenched in pain, "Handle the sleepers, they will not be out for long. I'm sorry, but I must tend my own wounds to continue." With that he says a prayer to Pharasma, forming the spiral over his wounds as they close.
Colgrim uses his boot to knock the sleepers senseless.
"Quickly! Whatever that was, it's getting away!" Dario waves and the grease disappears.
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Colgrim will club down a tiefling so they stay asleep.
Iolana rushes to the door, slipping and sliding, but finding her way to the door, just as Dario dispels the grease.
Dario encourages the others to hunt the Tieflings while watching the remaining combatants fall to the combined might of both Colgrim and Byron.
The eerie barking is still happening, and the Tieflings are not unaware of your presence now.
Leeka makes her way towards the door, holding out the continual flame shuriken.
Drinking a shield extract Barnabas follows the others to chase the tieflings down their hiding place.
The party hears a soft thud against the door and, out of the door crack a greenish slime comes, and hardens within moment. Iolana and Colgrim, in their haste to the door missed the door to the southeast, where some of the baying seems to have been coming from.
The other sound heard is the sound of chains being let loose from behind the door they are own and the sounds of barking getting louder near their door as a door to the southeast is opened, and a Tiefling wielding a rapier is there, but the bigger danger is the three ravenous brownish-red dogs with glowing red eyes that rush into the room at Byron and Dario!
Unfortunately, the dogs weren't successful in their attempts.
Party HP:
Stanley: 8/12
Colgrim: 22/24
Byron: 13/15
Iolana: 13/15
Dario is about to tie up one of the tieflings when the door bursts open and the hounds attack. He yells for the others to return. "In here, they're back in here!"
He whirls to face the hounds, his eyes going wide. He utters a single word and instantly, the Professor is gone.
HP 22/24
AC 19/T12/FF17
Current BaB: +2
Saves: F6(8)R2(4)W3(5 spells)4/6
In Hands:Dwarf axe,Shield
Current effects:
Colgrim steps up and proceeds to engage in animal cruelty on a dog
Hearing the commotion, Iolana turns, and lets out a foul and violent oath. Hurling herself back the way she came, she attempts to take down one of the dogs.
Byron quickly whips his blade around in an arc designed to bisect one of the dogs!
Leeka moves up towards the dogs, trying to blind the one Byron is attacking.
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Dario:
Byron's blow fells the dog nearest to him, while another steps up!
The Tiefling, seeing Dario vanish goes into a defensive position, holding his rapier back, ready to strike at the first appearance of the hero!
HP Tracking:
Colgrim: 22/24
Byron: 7/15
Iolana: 13/15
HP 22/24
AC 19/T12/FF17
Current BaB: +2
Saves: F6(8)R2(4)W3(5 spells)4/6
In Hands:Dwarf axe,Shield
Colgrim hacks away at the dogs.
Leeka tries again to blind a dog for Byron.
Byron takes another swing at one of the other dogs.
Dario thrusts his rapier at the tiefling, instantly reappearing next to the bandit.
Stanley tries to close the distance between he and Byron, all the while wanting to keep Byron between himself and the enemy. Once he gets close enough, he will use the blessing of Pharasma to heal the man. "Do not worry, Byron, Pharasma has not yet prepared a place for you in the Grey."
Iolana swings viciously at the hound she's closest too!
Colgrim slices into another dog, which yelps back in pain . Leeka unsuccessfully attempts to blind a dog for Byron, while Byron's swing goes wide of the dog. Iolana steps in and hurts the dog, but now has a dog on either side of her!
Dario appears beside the Tiefling and thrusts his rapier through the Tiefling's ribcage, only the tiefling's quick reflexes kept him alive!
The tiefling, and now the dog (who is also beside Dario) retaliate. The Tiefling moves into flanking position with Dario, swinging into him with his Rapier with the slow, sluggish swing of the soon-to be dead...
The Dog, for his part also bites at Dario, tearing into his thigh with a viciousness usually reserved for only rabid dogs.
The dog next to Iolana retaliates against her as well, biting viciously into her leg and dragging her viciously to the ground and leaving her prone!
Dice rolls for the actions above:
Dario:
Party HP tracking:
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Stanley: 8/12
Colgrim: 22/24
Byron: 14/15
Iolana: 8/15
Dario 9/15
GM HP Tracking:
Dog 2: 7/13
Dog 3: 9/13
Tiefling 2/7
HP 24/24
AC 19/T12/FF17
Current BaB: +2
Saves: F6(8)R2(4)W3(5 spells)4/6
In Hands:Dwarf axe,Shield
Current effects:
Colgrim whacks at a dog attacking Iolana,moving to flank it
Third time's the charm? Leeka tries again to blind the dog.
That should do it!
Nodding his thanks to Leeka, Byron takes a swing at the blind dog.
"It's some sort of attempt at a Hellhound! And they hurt like it!" Dario yells as the dog bites him. He shifts away from the flank and tries to kill it, but the bite has thrown him off balance.
Colgrim just barely misses the dog, but both Leeka and Byron's team-up finish the dog (quite permanently!). Dario's swing at his dog is unsuccessful! Barnabus, suddenly remembering he is deathly afraid of dogs begins running out of the temple the way the party came!
Stanley needs to get to Iolana, but she is amidst the heart of the fight and he would not be able to tend her safely. Instead, he returns his attentions to hindering the enemys' confidences and making them falter. "Your end is nigh, and it is best that you give yourself over fully to facing the Lady of Graves sooner than you had expected."
The words for a prayer for protection from evil beings rise instinctively to Iolana's lips when she hears that these are hell-hounds, but then she sees how well the group seems to be doing against them and grins. The Everbloom favors us even when unasked, she thinks, the pain from her recent bite not dulling her fervor. Rather than provoke the dog's ire by standing, she takes a swing at it from the ground!
Since Iolana is incognito (just reread her post in OOC... going to do a bit of retconning. The good news is her attack would not have hit, but she can (and will) move into flanking position.
The Tiefling's will save:
The tiefling falls to the ground, fast asleep! The dog, remaining quite angry, attempts to bite Dario, narrowly misses his attempt to gnaw his other thigh!
Party HP Tracking
Stanley: 8/12
Colgrim: 22/24
Byron: 14/15
Iolana: 8/15
Dario 9/15
Enemy HP tracking
Dog 3: 9/13
Tiefling 2/7
HP 22/24
AC 19/T12/FF17
Current BaB: +2
Saves: F6(8)R2(4)W3(5 spells)4/6
In Hands:Dwarf axe,Shield
Current effects:
Colgrim flanks with Iolana and whacks at the dog
Byron moves over, and calmly takes-out the Tiefling.
With most of the enemy dispatched, Stanley moves over to help the wounded Iolana.
So which way will we be headed? Colgrim points at the door to the south east where the doors came from and the door that seems to be stuck.
Dario brushes himself off and winces at the dog bite. "These Bastards are doing some dangerous experiments. Unholy ones too perhaps." He shakes his head. "Lead on, Colgrim."
Colgrim will lead the party through the door where the dogs came from, not the doors as he originally thought.
Colgrim takes out the rabid, hell-hound-like dog, and then Byron completes the ending of the tiefling. The tense silence holds for a few moments while they enter the next room.
The room that the party enters is a crypt. On the Ceramic and Marble coffins lie four canine skeletons, each with a small piece of onyx by their heads and runes carved into their bones. There is also a small vial of oil by each piece of onyx as well. All holy symbols have been scratched apart, and the area feels of desecration, it hangs terribly in the air here.
Party HP tracking:
Stanley: 8/12
Colgrim: 22/24
Byron: 14/15
Iolana: 12/15
Dario 9/15
Iolana picks herself up heavily, panting as her wounds smart. When Stanley does...whatever he does, though, she blinks, feeling surprisingly better even though she doesn't sense any presence of a god or goddess. "My thanks, Stanley. Truly, you are a useful friend to have!"
When the party discovers the crypt, Iolana goes straight to the sarcophagi, examining the runes, the holy symbols, and the oil.
She frowns as she glances over the skeletons. "I don't know what the fools were trying to do in here, but I believe that Dario is right about their unholy experiments. This place reeks of death and foulness..."
Well we hve that blocked door to check out. No doubt the remainder are rallying. Shall we kick down another door?
Colgrim hrumphs at the slackers. Well no time like the present! Let us get those rascals!
Colgrim sets him self and charges at the door, trying to sunder it.
Stanley will fuss over Dario's injuries as they examine the room, trying to keep track of who has received his goddess' blessings so far today.
Leeka makes her way towards the remains of the door.
"Be careful, those are necromantic runes! They raise the dead against the living!" Dario shouts out his warning.
The door gives a little as Colgrim slams into it, with the sound of more barking coming closer... and chains... loose chains. The door really only needs one more strike like that, but you're all certain more of these 'hellish dogs' will be on the other side.
Colgrim attempts to break down the door and get down on the floor.
Using power attack
Seeing Colgrim preparing to strike the door again, Iolana glances at Dario. "Interesting. I suspect that those won't be too dangerous without a necromancer actually here to activate them...but what do I know, I had no idea what they are...in any case, we're about to have bigger problems!"
When the door opens, Iolana charges the first foe she sees!
Immediately upon smashing through the door Colgrim is beset by FOUR of the devil dogs, with no sign of your Tiefling prey.
Unfortunately, they are rabid and wish to attack the first thing they see and strike in an uncoordinated fashion. Unfortunately for the dogs, Iolana comes in and slams one of them in the face with her mace!
There is a corridor that curves to the left and then to the right, but first, you have to get through the door and through the dogs!
Enemy HP tracking
Dog 1 6/13
Dog 2 14/14
Dog 3 12/12
Dog 4 16/16
Party HP Tracking:
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Stanley: 8/12
Colgrim: 22/24
Byron: 14/15
Iolana: 12/15
Dario 9/15
Leeka 18/18
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Byron charges forward into the breach, slashing at one of the dogs besetting Colgrim!