Sofia's sword bites into the trunk of the dead tree, and the vine starts to move.
As the fire from Phedran's bomb sizzles out, the vine slithers along the ground before striking out in a whip-like manner at Sofia.
However, she is able to deflect it away with her shield.
Tiny shoots burrow up from the ground, wrapping around your ankles and making it extremely hard to move.
Phedran and Cammy are able to keep themselves from being tied down, but Hank and Sofia are caught unawares and a vines begin to entangle their legs up to the knees, and they find themselves unable to move.
As vines swarm up over his floating disk, Hank finds himself stuck to his camp chair chariot. "Oh heck, eat our way out of this, Cammy!"
Hank attempts to cast Guidance on Cammy:
...but his magic sputters.
Cammy casts a baleful glance at the assassin vine, as if to say "You've tangled (literally) with the wrong herbivore, sprout!"
...but Cammy is late for a meal for the first time in his life.
Sofia swings at the vine.
Belliken looks about uncomfortably.
Oi I get too close n'that thing'll grab me right up too.
He loads his crossbow and takes a shot with his Halfling luck. into the fray.
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Evading the whip-like vines as they surround the area, Phedran deftly leaps around the swirling mass of roots and cordvines until he has cleared the whole mess. He looks back at his compatriots, who are struggling with the verdant beast, and figures he has a good angle to toss yet another of his incendiary concoctions.
[ooc]fire damage, DC 15 Reflex halves/ooc]
Dozens of hand-shaped leaves fall burning to the ground as the vine continues its assault on the nearest target.
The vine lurches forward at Sofia with surprising speed, and manages to wrap itself around her torso, partially pinning her arms.
Hank tries again:
"Guidance for you, Cammy! Or... not."
"SKROOONK!"
As Sofia tries and fails to free herself from the plant, Cammy rears up and severs a large chunk of the vine. The remaining portion is still attempting to hold Sofia down.
Belliken aims his crossbow again hoping to get shot into the vine.
Phedran whips out another vial, and when the smoke clears, there is little more than a few charred leaves left on the ground.
Well good thing we've taken care of that, who knows what it would have done to other traveller's!
After the fight, you manage to pick up the trail again fairly quickly, and follow it for another twenty minutes or so. After a while, the pathway opens up into a much larger clearing. Here, the trees are much sparser, but the ground is covered in large pools of stagnant, murky water.
Phedran recalls learning about swamp gas bubbles, which can surface from water and emit nauseating, though usually not fatal, gases.
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Phedran holds a handkerchief to his nose, and gestures at the murky pool.
"Your intuition serves you well, Miss Sofia; stagnant pools like these can often emit gas bubbles, which can emit nauseating gases. I don't believe them to be fatal, but it would be a completely unpleasant experience if you were to inhale one directly."
Is there another way 'round then?
Hank ponders the situation. "I reck we might should look for that way 'round but also know that it's not always good to leave a path in a swamp. Mayhaps we should stretch our line a bit, so as to less the chance we all get caught in gas?"
looks solid enough for me, send me across
As Belliken hops up onto the floating disk of force, Hank attempts to maneuver it across the clearing. However, before he makes much progress, a bubble rises from a nearby pool of water, and after it bursts, Belliken is hit by a wave of noxious fumes.
Belliken's eyes water, and he starts retching and coughing .
You have rounds to act. The green area on the map is still gas-filled for 5 rounds.
Oi this is right nasty ill tell ya. Just set me down on the other end and I'll gather meself up. Phedran me learned friend, so you know if'n this gas is flammable at all. I could light it.
Swamp gas is indeed highly flammable. However, igniting this much could be very dangerous, as well as start a potential forest fire.
You're right, bad idea. Must be the Gass gettin' to mah head.
Belliken waddled to the edge of the swamp gas and sits to look around.
Hank does something he rarely likes to attempt: he mounts Cammy.
"Sorry ol' boy but I gotta get up above the muck. Time to push through this, I reck."
Belliken is still sickened for rounds, but as he looks around, he thinks he can see something moving just beyond the tree line and hears some twigs snapping from the north-west.
Sofia and Phedran are able to skirt the gas cloud and avoid its effects, though the area still smells terrible.
I'm not at me finest but I'll hold in there. We got some trouble headed our way
As Sofia challenges the mysterious noises in the distance, she hears something yelled back in a different tongue, but one she recognizes.
With that, two humanoid creatures leap out from the trees. They are covered in green and brown scales, and wield javelins, though each also has a wooden club strapped to its hip.
Belliken stands up slow and casts sleep on the lizard folk.