Four horrific creatures burst from the dense foliage, their roars sounding almost like snippets of terrified screams and cruel taunts. Soundbyte, Alanna, Roskar and Morimoto all notice the eyes just before they pounce.
Even stoic Morimoto is repulsed by the terrifying monsters that jump out of the shadows to surround the company. He has no time for fear though, and steels himself against the coming attack.
Surprise round action = Total Defense
Roskar Likewise takes a defense stance as his scales begin to glow with a golden light.
Soundbyte's hand glides over his staff, held at the ready. His memory burns brightly as he scans and cross-checks the creature, hopefully before it has time to inflict real harm.
Soundbyte's really not sure what these things are. They're definitely extraplanar, but anything else is lost to him.
Bravo, despite not spotting the creatures, is lightning fast once they're spotted.
Bravo snaps off a pair of shots at the monster likely about to rush him!
Bravo's first shot connects with the beast which does, in fact, rush him, leaping at him with a mouth full of wickedly sharp teeth. He's able to wrestle away the creature, however, and it's unable to hurt him.
Mori and Roskar are not so lucky as the other beasts rush in. One sinks it's teeth into Morimoto's leg before pulling the warrior's leg out from under him, knocking him to the ground and dealing 9 damage! Another darts in at Roskar, chomping down on the vesk warrior's arm for 4 points of damage.
Alanna's able to dodge out of the way of the attack at her, and the lack of flesh to bite into keeps them away from Soundbyte.
The disgusting bug penetrates Morimoto's defenses, eliciting a quiet curse; either this foe was among the greatest he had yet faced, or it had been very lucky.
He quickly regains his footing and swings his four-handed curve blade onto the creature.
Bravo fires a single shot at the creature attacking him, trying to preserve ammo for the others and kill it quickly.
"Crikey! Lookit' the size of that beaut'!" Soundbyte exclaims, mustering forward to join his companions in close-quarters battle. Perhaps if it annoyed the creature enough it'd draw the ire from his more fleshy compatriots.
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Wraith giggles at Soundbyte's soundbite. She had seen the entire series of that old vid and always got a kick out of it. "Crikey! It's the third most dangerous screaming newt in the world. I shall now stuff down me pants!"
While laughing she hits a button on her wrist. A pair of dirty, half-buried stabilizers under her yellow attacker's feet short out, zapping it in the ear-lobe, kidney, and finger.
The solar energy forming once more into large, golden hued gauntlets encase Roskar's arms and he leads with two rapid jabs at the beast.
however both miss due to his earlier defensive posture.
Save for Alanna’s blow, the party’s attacks all miss the beasts. The predators continue to press their assault against the party.
Frustrated by the lack of success with Roskar, one of them switches to attacking Soundbyte to no luck, and Mori, too, dodges out of the way of the beast’s attack. Bravo and Alanna are not quite as lucky. One lunges in and bites Bravo’s arm for 4 damage, the other chomps down on Alanna’s leg for 7 damage!
Morimoto squares to his target and takes two fluid attacks at the creature, his curve blade efficiently carving the dense air towards the target.
Bravo, for his part, unloads a burst of gunfire at the creature attacking him.
Turning upon his earlier assailant as it so rudely ignores him, he throws two more mighty haymakers into it.
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"AH!" Wraith screams girlishly as her foe lands a palpable hit. "Oh you fragging trog. I will frag your fragging hoop. You drek-sucking trog I will frag up your drek so fast you'll..." she keeps up a foul-mouthed tirade as her wrist-comp shorts out a long-forgotten multiadaptive sensor net and zaps it in the ribs, shoulder, and index finger.
Soundbyte perks up slightly as the beast tries to get past his tough armor, and focuses on trying to continue drawing it's focus. He readies himself for more successive blows.
All of the party connects with at least one attack, and two of the beasts, the ones attacking Bravo and Morimoto, look quite worse for wear.
Enraged by the attack, Bravo's foe lunges at him, needle sharp teeth piercing into his leg for 9 damage! Bravo keeps his footing, though, and resists being pulled to the ground.
Red -25
Green -20
Blue -13
Yellow -9
Bravo grits his teeth and grunts at the pain of the bite, before firing point-blank at the creature.
Morimoto swings his four-handed curve blade down on the over-sized mosquito with extreme prejudice.
Roskar opts for accuracy over volume of attacks, but that still doesn't help him much.
Bravo's shot at the bug-bird-cat monster misses, though the same can't be said for Morimoto. A mighty swing of his curve blade lops off his opponent's head, and he steps to the side and lands a similarly mighty blow on the one engaged with Bravo. The beast is hanging on to life by a thread. Hanging on until Alanna takes a shot at it. It's a small blow, but just barely enough to push it over the edge. It falls to the ground, unconscious
The creature Alanna had previously tussled with steps back and lets out a horrible, keening wail, pounding the eardrums (or audio processors) of the party and nearly forcing them to their knees.
Seeing Morimoto as the greatest threat, the last one actively engaged in combat runs around the party and lunges at Mori. It's razor-sharp teeth tear into the kasatha warrior for 9 damage, though he manages to stay standing despite the horrid creature's best efforts.
Blue -13
Yellow -11
Morimoto turns and executes another whirling assault on the persistent demon.
Bravo moves to put more space between him and the monster attacking Morimoto and fires off another shot.
Staggering back from the creature's scream, Roskar only makes one strike at it, his star mote turning into a burning golden blade in his hand.
"We need to- / We need to- / We need to-" Soundbyte's voice module stutters, every noise coming with a strange electronic screech accompanying it. His movements and reactions are slow, but he still holds up just enough of himself to put up a half-way decent defense against attack.
Morimoto powers through the howl as he slices into the beast. Roskar, too, powers through the infernal cacophany as he charges towards the other wolf-bug-bird creature but alas, his strike misses. The rest of the party is not so lucky, and they clutch their ears in pain, their attacks, too missing.
The creatures lunge in unison at the warriors attacking them, dealing 5 damage to both Roskar and Mori!
Morimoto spits at the creature for inflicting another hit. There's a sense of déjà vu, but of course that's impossible. He squares and obliterates the oversized pest.
Recovering from the attack, Bravo turns and continues shooting, this time at the creature Alanna zapped.
Soundbyte shakes off the strange effect the creatures had on his sense of balance, taking up his staff and again trying to lash forward and get even one solid hit in.
Roskar retaliates against the creature that struck him. His move of star energy forming a gauntlet around his arm as he slams it into the beast. Pulling back, it shifts and coalesces into a shinning blade, glowing with the light of a star as he brings it down. His scales were now fuly glowing an iridescent golden hue
Morimoto chops yet another one of the monstrosities in half, and the rest of the party puts a hail of fire and cosmic power on the remaining beast. It runs off yelping into the infernal jungle, not to be seen again.
Bravo breathes a sigh of relief as the creatures are driven off. Then he looks to the others.
"Who needs medical attention?"
"By the grace of the goddess, I come to tend to the injured and heal the sick." Soundbyte declares, taking a moment to examine the worst injured of their group. If anything looked deeper then surface gashes he'd be ready to pull from his internal stores of divine energies. If they weren't, perhaps it'd be better to reach the rest-point and recover their breaths more naturally.