Ihrin shakes her bead."I think a boat might be better. If we can get it up off the floor and to the surface. I mean there is alot of distance between where we were and were we were to end." she pet that sink in before she followed up.
[B]"And I doubt we all would have the stamina to keep ourselves aloft, let alone us spells to fly or command items to control to fly[.]
heads into the center.
"Come on we best get to the center and see whats there"
Led by Lord Perpireen, the Knights Champions make their way inward toward the great, mountainous palace that rises above the rest of the Lost City of Atlantis, on the central isle.
Crossing over the canals, they can see coral reefs teeming with life. A school of cod fish swims past the party going the opposite direction, and Zagathoth overhears their conversations as they pass:
Fish-talk: Look at that! A whole school of airbreathers! What in Poseidon's name are they doing down here? And how come they aren't drowning? I don't like the looks of that long, scaly, fanged one those others are hitching a ride on... looks like a fishkiller to me!
Mwikali will look around the area as she takes in the sights as well as look for any inherent dangers.
Ihrin is ready her fingers itching to draw steel and attack. Her instincts always more comfortable in the deadly dance of life and death. In fact, it was almost the most thrilling to see if she would come out dead or alive?
Ever alert the swarthy woman let her eyes dart about as well as focused her other senses out to see if she could feel or sense any incoming threats.
Mwikali and Ihrin, scanning the surrounding waters for signs of danger, both catch sight of approaching predators...
A massive sea serpent trails the adventurers, and Ihrin and Mwikali spot it coming from about fifty feet behind the party...
... Accompanied by three giant sharks!
Just as the monstrous predators are sighted some fifty feet behind the party, a band of six merfolk--comely blue-skinned humanoids from waist up, scaly fish tails from waist down--swim up from a barnacle-encrusted building about thirty feet ahead of the party, armed with bronze tridents and fishing nets!
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INITIATIVES:
COBRA JOHANN
SARGASSO THE SEA SERPENT
3 DIRE SHARKS
LORD PERPIREEN MCGIBEL
6 MERFOLK
ALGORAL THE DRUMMER
IHRIN ARDLEAN DRACULA
EMIR ZAGATHOTH THE DRAGONSLAYER
RABBI ALEXEI ORLOVSKY
CARDINAL LUCIUS D'BORJA
MWIKALI WITCH OF AFRICA
HABIBA AL-SAHIM
BATTLE OF BLOODY WATER, PART II!! EEEEK!! ROUND 1! FIGHT!!
SARGASSO THE SEA SERPENT!
LITTLE LORD PERPIREEN MCGIBEL!
COBRA JOHANN!
GOOD WITCH OF AFRICA MWIKALI!
CARDINAL LUCIUS D'BORJA!
3 DIRE SHARKS!
DRUMMERFEY ALGORAL!
PRINCESS IHRIN ARDLEAN DRACULA!
RABBI ALEXEI ORLOVSKY!
HABIBA AL-SAHIM OF MANY LIVES!
6 MERFOLK!
EMIR ZAGATHOTH THE DRAGONSLAYER!
OOH OOH AH AH AAAAH!!
Sargasso the Sea Serpent perceives Cobra Johann as the biggest, tastiest morsel, and torpedoes toward the shifter with gaping jaws full of sword-like teeth!
*CHOMP!!*
Lord P sees what it did with east to Johann, he could see the great Serpent aura and the power it had. He know the chances of them dealing with this monster was slim. He was to old and clever to be court out by a beast like this, ever!. He needed to change the battle field, one on which they could win.
"We can't best this beast with our physical selves, we need to fight its mind, join me if you can and we shall brake its will to fight."
With the he flies up and starts to shine as bright as a star, as he dose complex fey patterns from the 1st world seem to stream out of him and rap the head of the great Serpent and those of the others.
Lord P sees what it did with east to Johann, he could see the great Serpent aura and the power it had. He know the chances of them dealing with this monster was slim. He was to old and clever to be court out by a beast like this, ever!. He needed to change the battle field, one on which they could win.
"We can't best this beast with our physical selves, we need to fight its mind, join me if you can and we shall brake its will to fight."
With the he flies up and starts to shine as bright as a star, as he dose complex fey patterns from the 1st world seem to stream out of him and rap the head of the great Serpent and those of the others.
The megalodon sharks are enchanted and entranced by the fairy lights of wee Lord Perpireen McGibel, and hesitate to attack, fascinated by the glorious, colorful fireworks display the fey Lord conjures up!
Two of the megalodon sharks are ensnared in the psychic duel, but one resists, driven by pure primal, physical hunger and bloodlust...
Lord P sees what it did with east to Johann, he could see the great Serpent aura and the power it had. He know the chances of them dealing with this monster was slim. He was to old and clever to be court out by a beast like this, ever!. He needed to change the battle field, one on which they could win.
"We can't best this beast with our physical selves, we need to fight its mind, join me if you can and we shall brake its will to fight."
With the he flies up and starts to shine as bright as a star, as he dose complex fey patterns from the 1st world seem to stream out of him and rap the head of the great Serpent and those of the others.
Sargasso enters a torpor as its mind is locked into a psychic duel with fey Lord Perpireen McGibel!
The waters where shallow, blue and warm, throw the water came sun beams winking down from above, but bellow the water is darker and deeper. Now about come forms, odd shapes that look out of place in the waters. curved from sandy drown and covered with barnacles. The a splash, things entered the water from the shames, falling down all around. Vast nets that fended out filling the water, dragging all that was on the sea bed up and the shapes high over head.
Lord P was invisible, swimming around the great serpent.
"You know this place, this is your fear great one, its why you hunt them, the air breathers, the net throws, the fish hunters. Thouse that come and come, pulling all they wish from the sea. Your fear is one day they will come for you."
More nets fall, more boat hulls can be seen, more and more and more, and then clear water, colder and fresher.
"But I know a safe place, this place, where there are no nets, where there is a hidden door to the land of the fey. So the air breathers can never find you if you wish. Where you can come out to hunt all the seal and man you wish. This place is called loch-ness, would you like me to take you there, there is food there."
Behind lord P A gateway comes into being.
"throw it Seals can be seen basking on ice"
"Blurg Grug Blrp"Mwikali says as she looks to the others then gestures to the Merfolk.
"Quick follow the Merfolk" She translates as she begins to cast a spell.
Ihrin Slides back and Stabs at the sea serpent
** spoiler omitted **
Prodded by Ihrin's thrust into its side, Sargasso accepts the tempting offer Lord Perpireen proposes, and darts into the great portal to the First World beyond!
Lord P sees what it did with east to Johann, he could see the great Serpent aura and the power it had. He know the chances of them dealing with this monster was slim. He was to old and clever to be court out by a beast like this, ever!. He needed to change the battle field, one on which they could win.
"We can't best this beast with our physical selves, we need to fight its mind, join me if you can and we shall brake its will to fight."
With the he flies up and starts to shine as bright as a star, as he dose complex fey patterns from the 1st world seem to stream out of him and rap the head of the great Serpent and those of the others.
The megalodon sharks are enchanted and entranced by the fairy lights of wee Lord Perpireen McGibel, and hesitate to attack, fascinated by the glorious, colorful fireworks display the fey Lord conjures up!
Two of the megalodon sharks are ensnared in the psychic duel, but one resists, driven by pure primal, physical hunger and bloodlust...
Lord Perpireen's quick thinking and psychic duel have removed the greatest threat from the battlefield, leaving only the three megalodons!
Johann reels from the horrible blow of the sea serpent... but just like that the Serpent... disappears?
"Hisss...hisss...fisss!!" That's right! Only room for one serpent in Atlantis, and that is me!
Johann swims toward the sharks and strikes at whatever is closest.
[dice=Bite Attack 1 & damage]d20+13; 3d6+8+d6
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AoO if appropriate[dice=Bite AoO 1 & damage]d20+15; 3d6+8+d6
[dice=Bite AoO 2 & damage]d20+15; 3d6+8+d6
[dice=Bite AoO 3 & damage]d20+15; 3d6+8+d6
Cobra Johann bites one of the megalodons on its sensitive snout!
The mighty Sargasso, Sea Serpent of Atlantis, passes through the Fey Lord's gate to Loch Ness, a magical lake in Scotland with its own deep gateway to the First World of the Fey! There, he would join and mate with a female lake monster, the legendary Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, creating a hybrid of sea serpent and freshwater lake monster that would inhabit the mystical lake for centuries to come!
The mighty Sargasso, Sea Serpent of Atlantis, passes through the Fey Lord's gate to Loch Ness, a magical lake in Scotland with its own deep gateway to the First World of the Fey! There, he would join and mate with a female lake monster, the legendary Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, creating a hybrid of sea serpent and freshwater plesiosaur that would inhabit the mystical lake for centuries to come!
Nessie, The Loch Ness Monster, is also the Lady of the Lake who guards the legendary +5 holy vorpal longsword Excalibur, keeping it safe in her watery grotto until King Arthur (or another equally worthy and just) returns to reclaim it...
Come my friends let us follow the merfolk! I'll see what I can do to help!
Algoral attempts to befriend one of the Megadalons! Charm Monster DC18
If it works, Algoral begins an interpretive dance to indicate to the shark that he wishes it would just swim away and look for food elsewhere!
Come my friends let us follow the merfolk! I'll see what I can do to help!
Algoral attempts to befriend one of the Megadalons! Charm Monster DC18
If it works, Algoral begins an interpretive dance to indicate to the shark that he wishes it would just swim away and look for food elsewhere!
Charmed by Algoral's interpretive dance, the megalodon swims away from the combat to seek easier and less rhythmic prey!
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Nessie, The Loch Ness Monster, is also the Lady of the Lake who guards the legendary +5 holy vorpal longsword Excalibur, keeping it safe in her watery grotto until King Arthur (or another equally worthy and just) returns to reclaim it...
The Cardinal watches as the calm sea descends into a flurry of blood and thrashing reptiles. Seeing that Johann has taken a mighty blow he glides closer and taps the mighty snakes flank, intoning sonorous latin as he does so.
One of the megalodons goes for Zagathoth chomps for damage! It tries to hold Zag in its mouth, but the magic of Crabpincer prevents the orc brawler from being grappled!
A second megalodon attacks Cobra Johann dealing damage! It attempts to grab the cobra in its mouth and it does! Johann is grappled in the monster's jaws!
The third would have eaten Mwikali had Algoral not charmed it away...
The brave merfolk charge the megalodons with tridents, three on each shark!
One of the sharks is bleeding from two trident wounds!
Johann hisses in pain! He is grievously injured, not to mention stuck.
Zagathoth hears the two sharks "talking" to each other as they dine...
Shark-talk: Where'd Larry go off to? ... NOM! NOM! NOM!... I don't know, I guess he had somewheres to be?? ... As soon as this little moth or whatnot started dancing, he swam away with a smug look on his chomper... NOM! NOM! NOM! ... This snake's too chewy... How's the green guy taste?
"Blurg Grug Blrp"Mwikali says as she looks to the others then gestures to the Merfolk.
** spoiler omitted **
"Quick follow the Merfolk" She translates as she begins to cast a spell.
Alexei cringes at the sight of the giant sharks biting into Johann and Zagathoth. As Lucius weaves a spell over the snake, the rabbi casts his own on the orc to help even the odds.
Suddenly the emir doubles in size!
Zagathoth howls in rage as his blood clouds the water. He shifts into his dragon stance as he finishes growing to his new size and unleashes a flurry of angry blows on his attacker.
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Zagathoth howls in rage as his blood clouds the water. He shifts into his dragon stance as he finishes growing to his new size and unleashes a flurry of angry blows on his attacker.
[dice=attack 1]1d20+12, [dice=for]2d8+24
[dice=attack 2]1d20+12, [dice=for]2d8+24
[dice=attack 3]1d20+7, [dice=for]2d8+24
[dice=attack 4]1d20+7, [dice=for]2d8+24
The sharks hide is as tough as any chainmail, and only his final blow does any damage...
Algoral is shocked (SHOCKED I SAY!) by the thundercloud but avoids the damage.
The Royal Palace of Poseidon lies some five hundred feet away to the east...
And lord P is nowhere to be seen.
Having gazes at the megalodons in faint fear, noting how easily they're tearing through her allies.
She throws a more powerful version of the attack she, fittingly, used on the smaller sharks, assaulting one of the megalodon's mind and frying its brain.