Kharn begins the trek up the spire to find his little rogue for whatever reason he was needed.
Argan keeps moving towards the hole on the wall, but he wonders if Grumblejack is gonna fit through it.
His mind clouded by fear, Argan walks inside the room, fleeing the moondogs only to enter another nasties lair!
As soon he steps inside, the air enters his nostrils, his mind blanks for a moment.
He takes a half step inside, before passing out.
Grumblejack does the same, following the rogue inside the room…
Only to fall asleep as well.
Round 2
Ordered Initiative-
Enemies: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27
Argan: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
Kharn: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Lil: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17
Vlad: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
Grumblejack: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (7) - 1 = 6
Active Effects-
Argan | Fear 10/12 | Sleep 9/9
Grumblecjak | Fear 10/12 | Sleep 9/9
Map-
Notes-
Narrative-
The moondogs continues bitting their way thru the mob of fleeing villains, little caring which one they are attacking. Everyone is an enemy. Every one of them should die!
Argan will remain sleeping because he can afford to!! He's a mighty villain and can do whatever he wants.
While the others moves to find what’s the matter to which Argan summoned them, the Oozes slowly craw their way towards the sleeping man and ogre. The moondogs continues their rampart attacking the fleeing followers.
That same situation continues, when Lil appears in the second floor, a few moments later an unkempt Vladamir and lastly a panting Kharn.
At the same time, the Ooze finally manages to get a hold in the sleeping man.
waking him up not that gently, as the ooze tries to engulf Argan.
But it fails miserably.
Vlad double moves and get in view of the moon dogs thing.. He smites the one to the south as a swift action..
Kharn runs forward and makes it to the door this turn.
Awakening suddenly; the man is at loss of that do to, when the Oozes attack him once more.
The oozes though don't give chance to the man, attacking and grabbing him.
==//==
The moondogs, noticing bigger prey closing in, prepare to attack as well.
They move back and seems prepared to do something. But you cannot guess what.
Lil moves south until she had line of sight, then points at the northern creature and barks a spell.
Vlad moves up roughly half the way to the beast and casts a spell..
Kharn moves up behind Vlad while pulling out his hammer.
Argan finally realizes the room was not as clean as they wanted it to be, and thus he needed to get away from this filthy creatures. If he was the one to put them here he couldn't remember, but he would avoid killing them if he could. He tries to get hold of his weapons and to back away from the creatures' grasp by sheer strength.
@Argan
It is surprisingly easy to break free from the creatures grasp , and putting distance between you and then is enough to halt their attack. The Oozes don’t leave the room in pursuit.
@Lil
The Minotaur strides forward carrying the gnome, while she cast a spells at the moondogs.
, but the spells seems to have no effect on the enemy.
@Kharn, Vlad
Moving forward, the duo prepares to engage the enemy.
@Enemies
One of the dogs howls and a cloud of roiling smoke shot through with white-hot embers. The smoke obscures all sight, and burns everything in its path.
The obscuring cloud of fire, was there to hide yet a greater threat!
Suddenly an explosion of acid, splashing all around burning more than the fire!
Take 65..
Vlad moves out of the fire cloud and attacks the dog.. Swift heal as well..
...
Realizing that a conflict is taking place nearby, Zoe quickly drops what she is doing in the throne room and heads towards the large doors at the end of the large room
Argan leaves the room where Grumblejack is in, leaving the Ogre to his own fate. There was battle outside and two dogs to be tamed. At the hall he points his sabres to the dog away from the mist and tries to fascinate it so he would be left out of the battle for now. "Time to die!"
Lil looks at the pretty creatures and gasps. What an excellent friend it would make! But first it needed an attitude adjustment...
Lil frowns at the burning cloud. This won't do at all. With a hand she tries to dismiss it.
Kharn's not too happy with the dogs for their magic and he gets angry about that. Kharn moves to get within range of where he remembers the dog being and then takes a swing at the last place he saw that mangy dog.
@Argan
Leaving the ogre to his fate, Argan moves to engage one of the enemies, while the other members of the knot deal with the other.
And the dog stands there, mesmerized by the villain guiles.
@Vlad
Vladamir, the vampire moves out of the cloud of fire, but is taken by surprise by the enemy, standing there, preying at anyone leaving the incendiary cloud.
... and thanks to the spell cast earlier, the man is able to avoid being tripped. He is only bitten instead.
Then, the man attacks, but misses.
@Kharn
The barbarian moves inside the incendiary cloud, attacking where he remembered he though the dog might be.
The sword goes down in a deadly arc, but fails to hit the enemy, that nimbly steps to the side, evading the attack.
@Lil
Lil matches wit with the moondog and… loses.
The spell used isn’t powerful enough to cancel the incendiary cloud.
@Zoe
Run Zoe Run! That’s what the woman has been doing for the past minutes, running to help her allies against the enemy threat.
@Enemies
Being fascinated by the assassin, the Bethaniel Dandra completely forgets about the battle and the spells she’d invoked. Without the mind behind it, the cloud drift away, towards the Gnome and the minotaur.
But still puzzled why her magic didn’t work, Lil fails to notice the illusion, fully believing in it.
==//==
Darus Dandra does what it does best, and put to work attacking the evil doers near her. The effects of her previous spell still taking it’s toll on the enemies.
The acid coated in their body, still burning.
Then, it attacks again.
And this time, the man falls down with a sickening thud. Hurt and almost turning to mist.
Snarling from the ground Vlad smites the dog next to him and attacks twice..
Lil gasps at the fire, but she knows she needs to get to the other side to help her allies. Cowbell plows through the fog until they reach the far side, then Lil quickly drops a haste spell on Vlad, Kharn, Cowbell, and herself.
His technique too powerful for the pitiful creature, Argan enjoys the moment and slowly approaches it, maintaining its grasp on the monsters mind. He would let the others deal with the second, but this one was his!
Continuing on her path towards the commotion, Zoé finds herself square on the wrong side of a churning cloud of smoke. Halting in her tracks, she quietly curses to herself "Damnit!"
Kharn shifts back and takes a couple of swings at the dog in front of him.
@Argan
The assassin moves closer to his enthralled enemy, preparing to finish it off.
@Kharn
The barbarian rage isn't enough. He attacks, but none is able to hurt the dog.
@Lil
The gnome mage wades thru the mist of fire and once free of it, cast a spell to bolster her alive and dead friends.
@Vladamir
To hit:
BAB + 7
Str: +8
Weapon: +1
Cha: +5
Power Attack: -2
Prone: -4
Haste: +1
Damage:
Smite +7 (14 on first hit)
Str: 8 (12 holding with two hands)
Weapon: +1
Power Attack: +4 (+6 holding with two hands)
Totals:
To hit: +15
Damage: 26
Without even trying to get up, the almost true vampire attack, bolstered by Lil’s magic.
The sword lashes out and the dog cry in pain, hurt, but not dead.
@Zoé
The cleric moves until she is very near the incendiary cloud. She stops there considering what to do next.
@Enemies
One of the enemies is still enthralled by Argan and does nothing this time around, but the incendiary cloud still moves away from its caster, hitting Zoé, buring all the way.
The second moondog, after suffering a terrible wound, steps back (5ft), the dog starts to fade, as if it were about to disappear, but then it howls in fury as nothing happens.
But that doesn't prevent the lingering acid to affect Vladamir and Kharn once more.
Kharn shifts closer to the dog while making sure to properly aim his strikes instead of focusing on pure power.
Vlad lies sizzling on the floor.. He looks double dead but to Lil's trained eye he might not be..
Lil frowns as Vlad starts fizzling. That will be annoying to repair. She whips out a dark whip of energy to the nearest creature!
But misses!
Argan keeps approaching the enemy, calmly but steady, to prevent it from breaking free of the fascination. A couple more steps and the dog would be no more.
Unable to see past the illusion, Zoé chokes and coughs as the incendiary cloud fills her lungs. Realizing quickly the danger the cloud poses, Zoé steps back out into the hallway on the far side of maelstrom, and waves her hand while impatiently whispering in the infernal tongue "Nomen kas!"
@Argan
The assassin continues moving towards his prey, confident he’ll finish it off.
@Kharn
Kharn attacks and attacks and attacks.
Only one of the attacks is a hit, and it barely hurts the monster.
@Lil
Lil looks annoyed at the other corpse, thinking how much work she would need to fix that.
She is so annoyed, that she even cast a spell without looking at the target, missing it completely.
@Vlad
Dead.
More to ones that another’s.
@Zoé
The challenges the moondog’s spells and where Lil failed, she succeeds.
The fiery cloud ends, as the woman finish to cast her dispel spell.
Since the dog cannot run, it attacks.
It bite Kharn legs, but is unable to trip the big man.
The other dog, keep staring dumbly at Argan, unaware his life end may be at hand.
As the cloud dissipates, Zoe is finally able to see clear through towards the conflict. Some kind of canine creatures appear to be engaged with the others; Vlad is unconscious and Kharn appears to be tiring as he struggles with one of the two beasts.
Her metamagic rod in hand, she makes a quick incantation; the rod momentarily appears to glow with a crimson energy which quickly leaps out and embraces the large warrior.
Argan solves half the problem by finishing off one of the puppies who dared trespass their territory. He hopes they learn a lesson!
Kharn roars out in anger and pain as the dog bites him. In his pain fueled rage he barley recognizes when Zoe casts her healing spell, but his anger makes him attempt to resist it all the same.
But her healing magic is too powerful for him to resist and he receives full healing. Stepping back once again Kharn swings out thrice with his hammer once again trying to go for more aimed shots rather than waste time putting power behind them.
Argan moves and crave his saber in the creature's eyes.
The magic protection it had wasn’t enough to prevent the damage. The celestial being stared at death, until death claimed it.
The other dog is dealt with with Lil’s Zoé and Kharn’s help.
It took some more attacks and bites, but it finally lays dead.
To lay undead until healed lol..
Seeing the final Moon Dog breath its last, Zoe herself breathes a sigh of relief. Moving more calmly into the room, she quickly triages the wounded. "Well, it appears Vlad received the worst of it." Kneeling down beside him, she observes his present state a moment and nods and grins "Those no longer walking in the light of the living, they are the easy ones to restore."
Holding her hands above Vlad, a sinister energy gathers about Zoe's body that glows a sickening black and green. With a quiet prayer to the Dark Lord, the energy seeps into the corpse of the dhamphir warrior.
Once undeath returns to Vlad, the young Cleric folds her hands on her lap and smiles "Welcome back Vlad."
Vlad stands up.. "Thanks Zoe.. Got pretty torn up there. What were those dam things?"
Lil almost pouts. I could have done a lot with that body... But she moves on, taking out her wand to do some damage control.