Grease her up! Woooo! Calistrian contortionists...
"But Mommmmmm! It itches and the kids all laugh!"
Manos remembers that the creatures seemed to spy on them even when hidden and forgoes the delay in the hope that piling on the damage while he still can.
for
for
Manos first shot leaves a nice smoking hole in the creature but his second shot flies wide of the mark.
The creature tries to cast another spell on Duardlara and Manos in the back hoping it can concentrate enough to get past Greta's whirling greatsword.
concentration Unfortunately for it but highly beneficial for the party the spell fizzles as it is too worried about the greatsword to get the spell off.
"Pardon me, Madame, but is your burrito well-read? I find my socks irresistible!"
Zzz ababababababababa Zzzzz
...
Orgar snaps out the confusion long enough to come after the Leng denizen, with murderous intent:
• Issar is a +1 cold iron keen scimitar
• He is adding +2 of his +3 bonus to hit and damage
• He is adding the other +1 to adding +1d6 acid damage per attack
• He also gets +5 for the Dervish Dance and +3 damage for Arcane Strike
• And there's a +1 to hit bonus from Helgash's Bless spell
Organ steps up and under the compulsion of the creature lays into Cynehelm. The blows land hard into the confused cleric as all he can do is stand there and babble incoherently. Duardlara cast vanish on Manos who promptly fires again at the thing...
both hit for
as all he can do is stand there and babble incoherently.
Organ steps up and under the compulsion of the creature lays into Cynehelm. The blows land hard into the confused cleric as all he can do is stand there and babble incoherently. Duardlara cast vanish on Manos who promptly fires again at the thing...
2d20 both hit for 2d8+6
Helgash fumbles with his weapon, and accidentaly cuts himself in one leg.
Helgash raises his longsword as he prepares to advance and slam it into the moon-beast. Then it almost falls from his grasp as he fumbles for it cutting himself in the process.
Greta gets a wild look in her eyes as she is determined to attack the closest creature to her. Smelling blood in the air she turns on Helgash and strikes him once with her greatsword locking them into confused mortal combat!
Helgash:1 Moon Beast:2
The moon beast laughs silently as its mental machinations are working to undermine everyone. To add to the fun it notices Duardlara and Manos at the entrance and tries to cut them off by casting a wall of fire upon them!
This is actually a shadow evocation spell that mimics an evocation spell. Thus the fire wall is only partially there meaning you take only 1/5 the damage.
This is actually a shadow evocation spell that mimics an evocation spell. Thus the fire wall is only partially there meaning you take only 1/5 the damage.
damage from wall of fire
The invisible trickster shares with her new ally, "The fire is not truly real. Let's see if we can take the fight directly to the monster. You take him head-on and I will circle around behind. Give me a five count..."
Short sword in hand, Duardlara double-moves down the hall, avoiding her allies in their confused combats, and comes up behind the creature.
Shaking his head at what he's apparently gotten himself into, Manos switches his pistol to his other hand, takes up his adamantine rapier with the first, and glides into the room, intent on seeing the creature bleed.
He attacks with the sword, either with benefit of invisibility or benefit of flanking with Duardlara, obviously depending on whether the creature can see invisibility or not.
Greta attacks Helgash.
Helgash steps back and attacks Greta.
Greta attacks Helgash.
AS Duardlara moves forward to circle around the moon beast she is startled to see a claw whip out at her invisible form.
AOO for
Suffering the hit she is still able to make it around to flank the creature.
Manos then moves up to it and strikes out with his rapier. The blade finds purchase in the creature but the unknown anatomy makes it impossible to land a more telling blow.
Greta and Helgash trade blows, or better swings at each other as they pretty much decide not to inflict any damage on the other except once on Helgash.
Consider him your enemy and do what you think is best in the situation.
Helgash steps back and attacks Greta.
Greta steps forward and attacks Helgash.
Orgar, still not in control of himself, attacks Cynehelm (again):
• Issar is a +1 cold iron keen scimitar
• He is adding +2 of his +3 bonus to hit and damage
• He is adding the other +1 to adding +1d6 acid damage per attack
• He also gets +5 for the Dervish Dance and +3 damage for Arcane Strike
• And there's a +1 to hit bonus from Helgash's Bless spell
The moon-beast excitedly sees one member of the team fall and looks forward to another 1 going down. Hopefully that member is not Orgar as it has many plans and uses for the dominated man thing. It does direct the man thing telepathically to try and take out Helgash however. This means that it can focus its attacks on Manos!
claw attacks for
crit confirm for no crit
claw 2 for miss
tentacle attacks...
for miss
for miss
for miss
for hit
Again Helgash fumbles with his weapon, dealing damage to himself.
Greta steps forward and attacks Helgash.
Duardlara states what is already obvious to the human rogue, "Engaging it up close doesn't look like a successful strategy!" Manos nods and feints as though pressing his attack, but dives to the side in an attempt to get past the monster.
As he rolls, he lets go of his rapier in favor of the pistol, drawing it as he moves and reloading it.
Likewise, Duardlara backs away from the creature to have room to cast a spell. Looking down the hall, she continues a debate that has raged in the back of her mind for several seconds, but she makes her decision. Weaving a spell to nullify magic, she targets Greta.
Duardlara moves back and casts a spell removing the debilitating confusion effect that is causing so much havoc.
AOO claw for
The moon beast,enraged at Duardlara’s meddling, turns to her and fully attacks her with tentacles and claws until she drops. Then he focuses on Manos.
Claw 1 for hit
Claw 2 for hit
Tentacle 1 for hit and drops Duardlara unconscious
Tentacle 2 for miss Manos
Tentacle 3 for hit Manos
Tentacle 4 for miss Manos
With a primal grunt, Greta moves away from Helgash, and engages the monstrosity - "You will pay for this..."
AOO on Greta for
Greta then turns around and decimates the creature with a brutal hit. Even though it is immune to cries the shear power that she brings is enough to drop the creature to the ground bleeding out!
"Enough" - Greta stands over the bleeding mess, making sure it is dead.
With a nod at Greta to make sure their foes are definitely dead, Helgash urgently steps amidst his companions, and channels holy healing power - "Stand fast brothers, the light of Iomedae will assist us"
He then moves to check on Cynehelm.
Looting the corpses you see that moon-beast possesses an eye of the void (Ultimate Equipment 296) and the denizen of Leng carries a pouch of gems containing 15 small rubies worth 150 gp each and a single larger ruby worth 6,000 gp. A small, moving humanoid figure is visible inside the large ruby, as if it were trapped inside the gem.