Ibrah moves to flank the bug with Verrin while Khartelosch maintains the front and reach withhis hhammer. The bug lets out at Verrin again.
Ibrah moves to flank the bug with Verrin while Khartelosch maintains the front and reach withhis hhammer. The bug lets out at Verrin again.
Again, the bug creature struggles with disorientation as it misses Verrin.
With the flanking in place, Khartelosch lets loose at the bug, swinging his lucerne hammer in a wide arc to profit from his power attack.
This time he connects with the satisfying crunch of cracking chitin .
Verrin continues to aim a flurry of stabs at the giant insect. (or moves over to his cousin)
Silvash fires at the new creature trying to weaken it before it reaches us.
Silvash's arrow flies over the shoulder of the raging bug man, but Khartelosch's hammer followed by the precise strikes of Verrin's sword leave the creature battered and struggling.
Thaane reloads in lightning speed as the next bug approaches from behind.
Thirteen
Thaane takes aim and then lets loose of two slugs.
The bullets shred through the natural armor, but not really into a vital part of the creature causing him to spill his vile ochre in rage.
The large bug creature snaps after Verrin with his two giant claws.
Verrin's torso is sliced open, but not into any vitals, though he begins to bleed profusely.
Round 3
Ibrah
Silvash
Khartelosch
Verrin
The new creature moves forward to flanked Verrin as the old creature tires.
"Verrin, retreat behind me, these things are deadly!" Khartelosch advises and attacks the first bug in rage, hoping to deny them opportunities to flank him and his allies.
oops, it's
Grr... they sting a bit.
Verin sweeps his leg at the insects but it has too many to stand on to fall for his trick. He begins to chant ominously and he strikes at his prior target and steps back away from both foes.
Watch for the opening he leaves, right--------now! Ibrah shouts as he strikes at the bug.
Silvash fires at the first bug to try and take it out of action.
Silvash's arrow goes wide as the first bug creature is dropped by Ibrah's blade. The second creature shrieks furiously and advances toward Ibrah.
At Ibrah's shout, Khartelosch turns and tries to stop the second but from advancing.
Khartelosch's hammer finds it's mark and cracks the hard bug-like shell.
Thaane decides to burn two more rounds in an effort to drop the bug.
More of the bug's shell flies off it's frame as it spills the dark sanguine. Meanwhile, the echo of gunfire in a cavern is starting to pain the ears of the party.
Silvash take another shot at it.
Hoping to put a quick end to the gunfire, Khartelosch attacks again.
Silvash misses the creature as it retaliates agains Khartelosch for the massive damage he inflicted to its shell that is partially hanging off of it's body
Stunned by the blow, the creature clings to life and its massive mandible misses the warrior, Khartelosch.
Ibrah flourishes his blade before driving it once more against the bug's carapace. We have him--press the attack!
Leary of another powerful bite like he had experienced before, Verrin circles the creature and attacks from the side.
Verrin's attack was the last that the beast could handle as it came crashing down with a loud thud. The chamber is pretty dark with just some dim glowing light passing through what appears to be a sturdy portcullis along the back wall. Some sort of faint soft whistling sound can be heard in the cavern, almost like a wheezing.
Ibrah mumbles a few words and makes a gesture--his belt begins to glow, illuminating some of the room. That noise. He tries to locate where the whistling, wheezing sound is coming from.
The whistling is a high-pitched wheeze coming from the back wall.
Ibrah walks up to the back wall and tries to find the exact origin of the sound.
Khartelosch quickly goes back to recover the unconscious deep dwarf, provided he's still there, and brings him back to the larger room where Ibrah is searching.
[B] WEEEEEOOOOORRRKKKNGGGGUNG! [B]
An even larger bug creature appears out of the shadows and strikes at Ibrah.
The giant bug alpha shreds through the might apeman rendering him unconscious and bleeding.
Thaane reacts this time with his blade.
[Dice=Attempt plating. 1d20+3 [/dice]
Thaane hits a particular thick part of the beasts armor with little effect.
Is there no end to these things?
Verrin casts in infernal and his blade is covered in lightning, he then leaps forward and stabs his blade in to a weak point.
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Silvash draws his rapier and advances to flank the beast with Verrin.
Ibrah takes heavy damage as the alpha cuts into him deeply with a bug claw.
Verrin and Silvash's timed attacks seem to catch it off guard. It is at least two times the size of the other bugs, but Verrin's grasp seems to almost stun it for a second as it recoils rhythmically to it.
Thaane is almost paralyzed with fear at the size of this creature as it thrashes about savagely.
Uh, Khartelosch, you had better come here.
Trying to conserve bullets, Thaane holsters the pistol in favor of his blade.
The bug strikes out at Verrin.
His claw rips deeply into Verrin as well who bleeds at the same rate as his comrade Ibrah.
Thaane reaches forth and with an incantation summons forth a cloud of mist around Verrin that shrouds him from the vision of the creature as he lies prone.
When Khartelosch first hears Thaane's comments, assuming they echo enough in the tunnel for him to be aware of them, he stops advancing and listens, picking up the sound of combat. He turns around and hurries back to the large chamber, his weapon at the ready.
Upon seeing the chitinous monstrosity standing over the unconscious Ibrah and heavily bleeding, now partially obscured Silvash, he advances in a rage, swinging his lucerne hammer in a wide arc over his head and attacks.
"Ancestors by my side, for the situation is dire!"
Silvash attacks again.
The mighty bug alpha is startled and damaged by both Silvash's arrow and the thunderous smack of Khartelosch's hammer. Yet in a fury, it fights on.
The bug has found anew foe in Khartelosch. His giant mandible stretches forth like lightning in an attempt to separate Khartelosch from his head.
Khartelosch is caught by the giant mandible.
He joins the unconscious Verrin and the hemorrhaging Ibrah with a deep wound of his own. The gushing blood is not enough to stop his rage.
As yet unwilling to succumb to the overgrown cockroach, Khartelosch again swings his lucerne hammer, hoping the creature cannot take much more beating and that his allies can hold out for a few more seconds.
Khartelosch misses his angry swing with the solid hammer as he endures his fresh wound.
Anxious about dwindling bullets and loud noise, Thaane decides to shoot anyway for the goodof the party.
And fires wide at the half-shadowed beast.
Verrin is stabilized. Ibrah and Khartelosch still have fight in them.
Realizing that Thaane is now a threat, the beast lunges for him.
Thaane is slashed across the chest in the same manner as the others sharing in their pain.
As an immediate consequence, Thaane's blood spray burns the fleshy part of the creature.