After the chief roars for a bit in anger, getting his apes worked up nearly into a frenzy, he moves to advance forward out from the cave. He advances slowly, casing rage-filled eyes back and forth through the foliage.
His smaller minions move out from their leader along a line in what looks to be a practiced formation. They move in pairs - one armed with a club and another with a crossbow and a sack of what look like rocks at its waist.
The more quickly moving and smaller apelike creatures cast wary glances left and right.
One of the pair to the north seems to catch sight of something. It raises its crossbow towards your position and, with a snarl, begins to advance to the south.
Gawlee damn, gonna slam you round. Bring it up, bring it down, gonna you put you knuckle draggers in the ground.
Jack leaps from his concealment in the bushes, and attacks the first creature he sees, and misses his mark horribly.
After Tap begins his rhyme, the Charau-ka on the flanks sets sights on the group, howl, and rush in! One of each pair wields a club and seems to go into a shrieking frenzy as it approaches the group. The other two move forward to line up a shot with crossbows.
One rushes forward from the southeast, intent upon bludgeoning Sunyata.
Another rushes from the north, and is able to get off an attack with its club on the captain.
Two others take up position and pepper the group with bolts from their crossbows.
Rush will move south his full movement speed (still invisible which would negate the AoO). At the end of the movement, he begins to activate his wand (splitting a full round action across two rounds using the standard action from both).
Tap takes a 5 foot step back into the shade for the tree, then fires two arrows into the beast that came upon him. The arrows burst into flame as they fly out of the bow on which he had applied the fire rune.
Jack attacks with more earnestness than skill.
Jack slashes across, scoring a wicked hit on one of the creatures. The Charau-Ka howls with agony as a line of red appears on his upper chest, dangerously close to his throat. The line begins to weep blood immediately.
Sunyata defends herself with a very fancy shmancy combat maneuver towards whatever smelly ape is attacking her trying to bludgeon her.
fer goodness sakes, why do they have to smell so bad...??
Sunyata slips inside the ape's guard and slams the inside of the creature's arm with a single knuckle punch, punishing it for swinging at her. It shrieks and clutches its arm back to it, leaning back as it does. Luckily for the little beast, it just slips out of the way of Sunyata's follow up elbow, which would have flattened its wide nose.
The chief stands tall and watches his minions begin the attack. With a snarl, he drops the chain leashes holding back his minions, and the dire apes roar, then charge at the group, loping quickly on hands and feet.
The chief moves along behind, more slowly, waiting to watch a slaughter.
Charau-ka
Jack
Sunyata
Rush
Chief
Dire apes
Tap sends two flaming arrows at the ape behind Jack's back.
Take that monkey boys! Tap continues his Inspired Courage.
Tap fires his arrow into the back of the smaller Charau-ka, and the smaller beast falls with a pitiful howl, trying ineffectually to claw the arrow out of its back as it scorches his flesh.
His fellow ape to the north rushes down to the south, pulling a rock from a pouch on his belt as he does. Once closer, he hurls the rock at Tap, which hits the captain squarely in the chest.
The Charau-ka that had come in from the east rush to attack Sunyata - one with a club and his teeth and the other with a rock from distance. though both attacks are ferocious, Sunyata is able to duck and parry the closer ape. The rock, though, strikes a glancing blow off of her hip.
Charau-ka
Jack
Sunyata
Rush
Chief
Dire apes
Rush completes his summon spell and a large wolf appears near Sunyata and Jack, attacking immediately and biting into one of the monkey men.
And fails to get past the fur.
Rush himself will move towards his captain, stowing the wand as he goes. When he gets there, he will cast a cure light wounds spell.
Struggling to muster enthusiasm for this fight, Ulave takes on the nearest creatures, and spears it through.
Struggling to muster enthusiasm for this fight, Ulave takes on the nearest creatures, and spears it through.
[dice=attack]1d20 + 10
[dice=damage]1d6 + 8[dice=crit-confirm]1d20+10
[dice=critdamage]1d6+8
May want to review this one, my dude. There's a lot here that doesn't make sense.
Jack dashes forward and impales the ape in front of him, but the blow is a bit off center and seems to miss its major organs. The ape howls in pain and seems to redouble its efforts.
As Rush's spell finishes, one of the dire apes locks onto the wolf, perhaps seeing a natural enemy, and charges towards it.
Jack does a little dance and calls out:
Come on you, and taste my steel. Or are you as cowardly as you are ugly?
Sunyata uses her trained abilities as a monk and summons her ki to afford her swift feet and hands.
She then targets the reeling ape that Jack had just stabbed, and whirls her hands about in wicked attacks, her fingers curled and tight to mimic the claws of some great feline.
Alas, as the creature reels back, her attacks both miss their mark.
The chief and his bestial pets move into range, and begin their assault on these trespassers.
One dire ape roars and charges at Jack, taking the man's challenge. It swings wildly with massive claws and leans in to try and bite his smaller opponent's face.
It's fellow ape charges to the north to attack the swift Sunyata.
The chief looks down at the feral wolf before it, and attempts to smash it to the ground with its giant club.
It then leans down to attempt to pull a chunk off of the canine with its sharp teeth.
The ape attacked Jack draws blood with one of its claws, but the quick pirate escapes the bulk of damage. Sunyata seems nearly to dance as she gracefully dodges the attacks of the other ape. The wolf, however, is not so lucky, as it is flattened to the ground by the chief's massive club.
Tap continues his song (+1/+1 inspre courage), but stamps hard in the middle of it, a beat out of rhythm. Suddenly glittering particles fill the air with blinding brilliance.
Take that you bugger monkeys!
Rush blinks for a minute at where the wolf was until so recently, disappointed that it was dismissed so quickly (but glad that the wolf took that damage and not his allies). Recovering quickly, he begins the incantation to summon another one.
The gathered apes try to blink away the dust from Tap's spell.
As one, they're able to shake off the effects.
The Charau-ka howl with fury and attack!
One hurls another rock at Tap.
Another swings its club at Sunyata, though it seems to be a swing of desperation as the creature is at the end of its rope.
The last moves forward, careful to avoid the glittering cloud, and attempts to hit Jack.
Shrugging off the pain from his bleeding wound, Jack whirls around to try to deal a deadly blow to the leader of the pack, and look dangerous doing it.
The Chief blinks away in an attempt to clear his vision, but to no avail. He roars in anger as he is effectively blinded by the dust.
Tap fires two arrows at a big gorilla and then steps back 5 feet.
A seemingly inhuman rage surges through Sunyata as she arm-grabs the apeman closest to her. She elbows him in the face to stun him while bringing him to the ground and in a single movement, she pulls him off balance and mounts him from the back to clinch his neck in her arm and choke him to sleep.
Now we are talking!
Jack moves with unnatural swiftness, slashing away at the dire ape with a perfected form that is dazzling to watch. The cut across the ape's massive chest sparks with electricity before it begins to weep blood. The ape seems to shrink back, its natural ferocity cowed.
Sunyata stuns the smaller Charau-ka she had been battling, then swipes a hairy arm to the side with a well timed pull, drawing the creature into a rear naked choke as she forces it to the ground. Perhaps her rage is too much to restrain, for the creature's neck snaps like a twig as it falls to the ground.
The ape shaken by Jack's attack makes his own, perhaps mostly out of desperation. His attacks lack the raging anger they had preciously.
The other ape tries to catch Sunyata as she stand, ripping and clawing with its natural weapons.
The chief, still unable to see, takes a wild swing at where Sunyata had been...as far as he can remember.
Jack deftly slips aside as the ape attacks, making each swipe or bite miss with just slight movements and redirects.
Sunyata gets back to her footing, as the ape tries to lunge in for a bite. She stuffs him with an elbow to the chest, creating space. As the ape roars and claws away, she ducks, only to crouch too short, taking a swipe on her shoulder.
The chief swings a mighty slashing strike and Sunyata, only to miss terribly as he swipes empty air well above her head.
Jack deftly slips past the ape's wild attack, and makes a swift and electrfying counter-attack.
Tap lays back and fires two more arrows at the ape flanking Sunyata.
Jack's riposte is vicious, skewering the lunging ape nearly dead center in its chest. The beast roars in pain and slips back off of the blade with rumbling growl. It still stands, but only barely.
The captain's arrows fly true and slam into the ape, even after the deft archer adjusts so as not to his his companion. The smoldering arrows send acrid smoke up into the breeze as the ape's fur burns. It howls in agony, providing a fine accompaniment to his fellow's growls.
The smaller apes continue their rock barrage on their opponents, trying to make some sort of impact as their larger cousins seem to be in trouble.
One rock hits Tap solidly, but the other, thrown through a cloud of glitterdust, is way off mark.
Jack laughs to see such fun, and pokes his stick to a tune.
For the kill.
Tap fires off several more arrows at whichever ape is hurt.
Jack poses before launching his deadly strike. His blade plunges into and through the Ape's eye, immediately shutting down connections to his brain. The beast twitches sporadically as it falls to the ground, fully and completely dead. Sparks from Jacks blade illuminate its one-eyed dead gaze in disturbing portrait.