[ooc]Just to clarify, that should put us all at 450 xp right? or did I miss a spot?[/oop]
Natty follows the other up, ready with his flail, his feet silent as he seems to disappear and flit momentarily between the darkness of the chambers.
As you head up the second flight of stairs, you come upon a corridor stretching to the north and south. Both ways stretch out into the darkness of the Ossuary.
Perception to detect noise from either direction:
To the north, you hear a very faint sound, almost like the whistling of wind, but to the south, you hear nothing but silence.
Hmm.
"North then folks? Better to know a danger than to have an unknown danger at your backs?"
"North sounds fine to me,"Cilda says. She steps forward into the dark corridor.
North works
Maus Holds the sunrod high in his shield hand and has a dagger in hand and positioned to throw.
Follows the group north.
Natty sniffs the air, his ear listening to the sound of a breeze, "Well it would seems our way is north, given by the divine inspiration. blah" he mumbles to himself, watching as the priest and barbarian lead the party on. He waits back until the light of the sunrod fades, then finding the sides of the passageway, takes to the shadows once more.
You travel down a long and dark corridor and eventually the sound gets louder. You come to a room, The room is a charnel house of blood, bones, and scraps of rotten flesh. Strange runes have been sloppily drawn on the walls using some dark brown pigment. A moss-covered stone monolith stands in the center of the room, wreathed in gossamer wisps of gray mist that seem to congeal around the crumbling stone.
Ralthak wander deeper into the room and approaches the monolith. I do not suppose that any of you know what those symbols mean? My guess is they have some thing to do with the trouble down there. Three gold if anyone wants to bet against me.
"Don't look at me," Cilda tells the inquisitor. "I'm not that familiar with this mumbo-jumbo stuff. But I'm not taking your bet."
Cilda also approaches the monolith.
Natty stays in the darkness of the shadows in the chamber, watching the others approach the monolith, smiling at their efforts to read the symbols.
"They are Thassilonian, just like the Runelords. These particular symbols are for Gluttony and Necromancy," Choztu says while keeping his crossbow at the ready.
Suddenly you hear barking coming from the west passage. Two dogs burst into the room, notice you all, and being to growl and advance. Upon closer inspection, you notice that these beast are no longer living as you can see rotted flesh and large boils of feasturing liquid upon their bodies.
The Festrogs bound forward and attack the closest person they see, Cilda as she is examining the monolith. Both of the Festrogs try to bite her foot to trip her.
Cilda flinches away as they are both unable to trip her.
Points at one of the creatures. "Dissolve."
Natty silently moves behinds one of the dogs drawing his mace as he does, allowing Cilda a flanking position against one of the dogs. Unfortunately for Natty the dog moves and his blow just hisses over the creatures back and it escapes damage.
Ralthak circles around to flank the dog that Natty is not.
Attack He slashes but his falchion goes wide.
Cilda is caught off guard by the two zombie hounds, but recovers almost instantly and begins to powerfully attack Festrog #1.
Maus fades back and flings a dagger at one of the creatures
for
And the now familiar sound of steel on stone rings out again...
"May Pharasma begin to guide my aim...?"
Maus wracks his brain for knowledge about these beasts: Know Religion and realizes he has never heard of this type of undead before...
One of the dogs yips at it gets hit by Choztu's spell, but they continue to trip Cilda
One of the Festrog's chops on Cilda's leg and pull, Cilda goes flying backwards and is knocked prone, the second jumps on top and begins to try to eat Cilda
Cilda is able to fight off the feeding dog.
Ralthak slices at the same dog as before, taking advantage of the fact it was still focused on Cilda. Unfortunately, he miss calculates and is barely able to turn his blade and keep from hitting Cilda.
Attack
Aims his crossbow, aiming carefully, and pulls the trigger.
The bold sails over the beasts head.
Maus realizes that throwing into combat is likely to endanger the fallen Cilda and steps forward, Dagger and shield at the ready slashing at the feeding undead.
Attack and damage Which hopefully distracts the creature to attack Maus instead next round to allow Cilda to stand.
"GET THIS DAMN THING OFF ME!" Cilda yells, as she pushes the rotting hound corpse off of her. She reaches for her hammer and gets back up. She rushes to the dog that Maus slashed at with his dagger and attempts to finish the job quickly.
However, she still seems slightly off-balance, and just misses the hound.
Natty laughs at Childa's misfortune, "It's not a time to sleep lady. Let me finish this one off and I'll give you me hand." Moving to maintain his flanking position, he aims his hammer at the creatures temple, hoping to cave the dogs head in.
Maus slashes at the Festerog and one of it's large boils explodes in his face.
The two festerogs attack Cilda as she is distracted from getting up from her prone position.
The Festerog's lose interest in Cilda and instead focus their attacks on Maus, you agrivated the boil on one of them, which is now oozing all over the creature.
Maus is knocked prone as one of the Festerog's chomp on his shin.
Cilda is in pain from the damage that the undead hounds inflicted. The two clamping their jaws on her is surprisingly harsh. She is furious that these mindless abominations are actually hurting her.
"KILL THEM! KILL!"She yells in an infuriated state, slamming her weapon into the pus-covered one with all her might.
Keeping one of the monsters between him and Cilda, Ralthak roars as he swings.
Attack
The roar turns into a howl of frustration the the half orc once again misses.
Choztu reloads his crossbow, faster than normal, and fire again.
Frustrated by his inaccuracy, Natty growls and tries once more, "Stay still and die!"
Fort Save
Maus scrambles and rolls away from the creatures and then stands ready for the next assault, shield back up and dagger in hand.
One of the festerogs' explodes from Cilda's hit and she is covered in pus and visera from the attack.
The second festerog, robbed of its prey as Maus scrambles across the floor, finally notices Natty trying to whack it with a mace and ties to bite into his flesh
But Natty's quick reflexes take the bite attack out of range.
Maus steps in once again and slashes at the foul beast, keeping his shield up to ward off the yuck that hitting them brings.
+2 if I am able to get a flank with either Natty or Ral?
Damage
Anyway: Fort roll while still enraged:
Cilda screams as the bile covers her. The sudden explosion shocks her, but doesn't slow her down in the least. She swings her weapon with all her might at the other festerog, dripping with bile and pus.
But the bile makes things hard to see, and Cilda swings wide off of her target.
Natty steps aside as the undead dog lunges a him, exposing the creature left flank, such an easy target to cave in the skull and brain. "Here dog, feed on this bone!" as the mace swings in.
Reloads and fires.
The second Festrog explodes from Natty's hit, and pus and visera are flung in every direction.
This room has become covered in the remains of the festrogs and your stomach turns at the ungodly smell of their rotting.
Natty manages to watch the mace crush the undead's head as its brains are turned to jelly inside it's skull, the grotesque skin remaining intact and not splitting under the blow.
I was interested to see what I failed and had a look in the SRD for festrog to see what was about to happen. However, I noted it says the boils explode with slashing or piercing weapons, but Natty uses a mace, a bludgeoning weapon. I'll leave it to you what you want to happen as you mess with the stats a bit.... :)
I'm glad, I saw the penalty for failing and it wasn't pretty for Natty, in fact I'd say devastating for him.
After getting covered in undead goo, Choztu says to Natty, "Hit him hard enough?"