Lord Perpireen buzzes around near Bear's snout and lands on it, touching him with his wand of cure moderate wounds...
That's the way, Johann! Crush him under your immense girth! Heehee!!
BATTLE 'GAINST THE BANDERSNATCH!! ROUND 2!! FIGHT!! OOH OOH AH AH AHHH!!
BANDERSNATCH! (Lashes out against multiple targets)
OGON FOX! (Flurry of blows)
DIRE BEAR JOHANN! (Pins the bandersnatch)
LORD PERPIREEN! (Cures Johann)
LADY IHRIN DRACUL!
MWIKALI & KIKU!
ALPHONSE VERITAS!
EEEEKK!!!
Fort Save
Ihrin suddenly shrinks down to gnome size and vanishes down the bandersnatch's throat! A second later, the beast's eyes widen and it howls in pain! AAARRRROOOOO!!!
Fort Save fails...
GO ALPHONSE, GO!! KILL IT!! KILL IT!! EEEEK!!
"I'm...not sure I should attack the beast while Ihrin is inside of it, I could harm her." he ponders for a moment, then shrugs.
"But I suppose getting digested is worse."
"I'm...not sure I should attack the beast while Ihrin is inside of it, I could harm her." he ponders for a moment, then shrugs.
"But I suppose getting digested is worse."
[dice=Snicker]1d20+14
[dice=Damage]2d4+18[dice=Snack]1d20+14
[dice=Damage]2d4+18
Alphonse wheels his holy scythe around, sinking the glowing blade into bandersnatch hide with the first hit, but glancing off the beast's quills with the back stroke...
YARROOOOOOCH!!! howls the beast...
BATTLE 'GAINST THE BANDERSNATCH!! ROUND 3!! FIGHT!! OOH OOH AH AH AHHH!!
BANDERSNATCH!
OGON FOX!
DIRE BEAR JOHANN!
LORD PERPIREEN!
LADY IHRIN DRACUL!
MWIKALI & KIKU!
ALPHONSE VERITAS!
EEEEKK!!! SQUEEEAAAKKK!!!
Feeling pained from within and without, the desert bandersnatch suddenlybbecomes nauseous, and forcefully vomits Lady Ihrin out of its gut, sending her flying like a cannonball out of a cannon to slam into the cavern wall!
The wily beast attempts to break free from Johann's crushing pin... ...but The Bear is not going to let this rascally bandersnatch escape!
It oggles Bear eyes-to-strange-eyes...
FOX!! THEN BEAR!! YADDA YADDA!!
Ihrin feels convulsions and tumbles.
Ihrin feels convulsions and tumbles.
[dice=Reflex]1d20+10
As she tumbles to a safe stop, Ihrin finds herself next to a skeleton of a past victim of the bandersnatch. It still wears shreds of moldy clothing, and a rather fine-looking pair of leather bracers on its skeletal arms...
Trying to keep Johann healthy as he pierces himself with the bandersnatch's quills, Lord Perpireen taps his big companion on the snout with his wand again...
Haha! Make him eat gravel, Johann! That's it!!
Irhin notes the bracers and rushes into the grappled Bandersnatch and then strikes.
Mwikali will cast Enlarge Person on Johann
Mwikali will cast Enlarge Person on Johann
You can only be affected by one polymorph spell at a time. If a new polymorph spell is cast on you (or you activate a polymorph effect, such as wild shape), you can decide whether or not to allow it to affect you, taking the place of the old spell. In addition, other spells that change your size have no effect on you while you are under the effects of a polymorph spell.
Mwikali will cast Enlarge Person on Johann
The Fox continues his barrage of strikes, but his aim is thrown off by that last set of injuries from the bandersnatch's quills!
Ihrin and Fox both fail to penetrate the bandersnatch's prickly hide, the lady's wakizashi and dagger not quite long enough to strike without subjecting herself to more painful quill ripostes herself, and Fox encountering the same difficulty... It is hard to fight the urge of self preservation, to avoid sharp, impaling pain...
Though pressed hard by Johann, it still manages to mock them with its crazy blue eyes, googling at them ridiculously!
...h-wakka...h-wakka...wak...ka....*gasp!!*
It's beginning to actually turn from beige to purple!
ALPHONSE! TGEN ROUND 4! OOH OOH AH AH!!
Alphonse uses his God given insights to determine whether this is a simple beast, or something more sinister...
Alphonse uses his God given insights to determine whether this is a simple beast, or something more sinister...
Alphonse does not detect evil from the beast...
Alphonse casts Blade Tutor's Spirit to improve his chances of hitting next round.
BATTLE 'GAINST THE BANDERSNATCH!! ROUND 4!! FIGHT!! OOH OOH AH AH AHHH!!
BANDERSNATCH!
OGON FOX!
DIRE BEAR JOHANN!
LORD PERPIREEN!
LADY IHRIN DRACUL!
MWIKALI & KIKU!
ALPHONSE VERITAS!
EEEEKK!!! SQUEEEAAAKKK!!!
The bandersnatch suddenly wheezes a final breath before falling limp in Bear's grip...
[dice=sense motive]d20+7
Nice try, you monster bastard.
Johann laughs in a bearish growl and continues to tighten his hold.
[dice=maintain grapple/pin]d20+30
Can't blame a 'snatch for trying...
WHAT!? No way.
Lord Perpireen buzzes down to poke at the limp bandersnatch with a tiny sprite-forged rapier... *doink-doink!*
Is it really trying to play opossum?? HAHAHAHAHAA!! O, bandersnatch, me boyo! That's rich! HOHOHOHOHO!! Now why don't ye be a good beasty, and jump through this wee portal to a happier place I'm about to open for ye. Aye? Wiggle your ears if ye agree!
"Johann," the Fox taps on the Bear's shoulder, "Don't you see it's dead now? Take a breath and stop piercing yourself on those quills!"
Ihrin watches and waits to see if the Bandersnatch complies, if it doesn't she'll strike it. Until then she'll move to get into a great position to stab the creature.
Suddenly, the cavern is filled with a brilliant golden-turquoise radiance and a sweet scent like Frakinscence and sandalwood.
The gold-green glow and inviting fragrance originate from a tall angel with burnished golden-turquoise wings and halo, armed with a greatsword that blazes with a green fire and hums like a hive of bees that buzz in major harmonies...
In English: Oh, let the stupid beast go! I will not suffer it to do thee further harm, I promise thee, mighty Johann Von Schwartzwald! Johann of the Black Forest! Oh, do not thou strangle unto death the wily desert bandersnatch, for is it not, like thee, one of God's great and mighty creations? Therefore, art thou not like brothers of the wild, thou and the beast? Thine little friend, Lord Perpireen McGibel, hath a worthy and noble plan...
Addressing then the bandersnatch under Johann: Tis a fair deal Lord Perpireen offers thee, bandersnatch of King Solomon's Mines! Thou wert wise to heed mine advice and go peaceably into that green and happy realm!
Suddenly, the cavern is filled with a brilliant golden-turquoise radiance and a sweet scent like Frakinscence and sandalwood.
The gold-green glow and inviting fragrance originate from a tall angel with burnished golden-turquoise wings and halo, armed with a greatsword that blazes with a green fire and hums like a hive of bees that buzz in major harmonies...
In English: Oh, let the stupid beast go! I will not suffer it to do thee further harm, I promise thee, mighty Johann Von Schwartzwald! Johann of the Black Forest! Oh, do not thou strangle unto death the wily desert bandersnatch, for is it not, like thee, one of God's great and mighty creations? Therefore, art thou not like brothers of the wild, thou and the beast? Thine little friend, Lord Perpireen McGibel, hath a worthy and noble plan...
Addressing then the bandersnatch under Johann: Tis a fair deal Lord Perpireen offers thee, bandersnatch of King Solomon's Mines! Thou wert wise to heed mine advice and go peaceably into that green and happy realm!
Looking not only like an opossum playing dead, but also like a goose that sees the pot boiling nearby, the bandersnatch sighs and waggles it's ears in agreement to Lord Perpireen's offer.
Lord Perpireen squints at Cassiel, annoyed. I had it well in hand, good Archangel Cassiel! There was no need for ye to butt in--er, lend thine aid, as it were...
Producing a satchel from the bundle he carries between his wings, Lord Perpireen retrieves a silver and cold iron torc, ring-shaped neck ornament of the Celts and the Seely Folk... He begins to spin it, causing it to expand slowly but surely until the open space in the center is as big around as the front portals of a cathedral... Within can be seen another land, a wilder, brighter land...
The bandersnatch looks one last time with its crazy, blue-glowing, googly eyes at Johann, but does not attempt to peek him mad with his uncanny gaze attack... It seems to be waiting for the mighty Bear to release it...
Wakka wakka?
Alphonse falls to one knee and bows his head in reverence at the archangel's appearance, though does address it openly.
"I had not expected the presence of one of the Heavenly Host here of all places, particularly not one of your esteem, Archangel. Are we not meant to trespass here, or may I ask if you have appeared for some other purpose?"
"Once again mighty spirit intervenes, I think they lack faith in our abilities" Mwikali says unphased by such an intrusion. She looks to the paladin and shakes her head.
'You can stand in this...Archangels as you put it presence I doubt it would bare us harm after saving us. It seems not a trickster luring us in, or a serpent waiting to strike." She says looking at Cassiel.
"I will say thank you Cassiel for the intervention, but I am growing a bit intrigued as to why you keep interfering? Do you lack faith in our ability? Does this so-called God?" She says asking not to offend but out of curiosity.
Ihrin stumbles a bit and falls forward, not only in reverence but in pain as her adrenaline begins to lower and she begins to feel all the pain and soreness grip her. She doesn't say anything just stares at the Archangel and its beauty a bit taken aback as if seeing something similar before.
"My lord, Cassiel," the Ogon Fox says as he makes a deep bow, "we are enlightened by your presence. Do you bring some tidings to us?"
She looks to the paladin and shakes her head.
'You can stand in this...Archangels as you put it presence I doubt it would bare us harm after saving us. It seems not a trickster luring us in, or a serpent waiting to strike." She says looking at Cassiel.
Alphonse looks scandalized at the implication.
"I bow my head and take the knee of respect and reverence, not of fear, Miss Mwikali. I know that no angel would intentionally bring harm to us unless we were truly deserving of it, and the Archangels are even less capable of making such a mistake as the lower Choirs."
Alphonse falls to one knee and bows his head in reverence at the archangel's appearance, though does address it openly.
"I had not expected the presence of one of the Heavenly Host here of all places, particularly not one of your esteem, Archangel. Are we not meant to trespass here, or may I ask if you have appeared for some other purpose?"
Archangel Cassiel smiles fondly at the noble paladin.
Fear thee not, noble Champions of Rome. I have not come to hinder thee in thy quest, for it is a just quest. Thou art not common thieves come to rob the mines of good King Solomon, but thou art warriors of Divine Providence, seeking that which shall aid thee in thy war against the Ancient Adversary!
Holding his gloriously humming fiery greatsword Greenstar in both hands, he gently taps Alphonse on the right shoulder pauldron, then the left... *clink*...*clink*
In the name of the Great I Am, and of Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel, and Saint George the Dragonslayer, I dub thee Sir Alphonse, First Knight of the Silver Scythe! I charge thee, Sir Alphonse, with a divine task: to found and be master of a new knightly order--The Order of the Silver Scythe! Thou shalt train young Christian knights in the art of scythe fighting, and all shall wield silver scythes, which shalt be made holy when possible! The Knights of the Silver Scythe shall defend the Faith in Africa and Asia.
"Once again mighty spirit intervenes, I think they lack faith in our abilities" Mwikali says unphased by such an intrusion. She looks to the paladin and shakes her head.
'You can stand in this...Archangels as you put it presence I doubt it would bare us harm after saving us. It seems not a trickster luring us in, or a serpent waiting to strike." She says looking at Cassiel.
"I will say thank you Cassiel for the intervention, but I am growing a bit intrigued as to why you keep interfering? Do you lack faith in our ability? Does this so-called God?" She says asking not to offend but out of curiosity.
Cassiel laughs at the witch's perturbed expression.
Be of good cheer, lovely daughter of Africa! I'll not hinder thee.
Ihrin stumbles a bit and falls forward, not only in reverence but in pain as her adrenaline begins to lower and she begins to feel all the pain and soreness grip her. She doesn't say anything just stares at the Archangel and its beauty a bit taken aback as if seeing something similar before.
Smiling with benevolence at the Lady Dracula, Cassiel radiates positive energy to ease her pains and soothe her companions.
[dice=Knowledge (religion)]1d20+5
"My lord, Cassiel," the Ogon Fox says as he makes a deep bow, "we are enlightened by your presence. Do you bring some tidings to us?"
King Solomon hath bound me to observe his mines, and adjudicate in his absence when adventurers like thee come to plunder. If they be not worthy in the eyes of the Lord who cometh to plunder King Solomon's riches, then shalt they be stricken with Greenstar, mine fiery blade. But thee and thine hath been deemed worthy, noble Ogon Fox. So, thou shalt pilfereth as thou pleaseth!