Stauntrum lashes hard into the elemental, nearly destroying it. But it's tough form resists his blows and it raises both fists high in the air to strike back, landing two heavy blows on Stauntram (27 in two hits, yes apply your DR). The mud elemental continues hammering at Fizz, striking him again (8 damage) and attempting to entrap him. But once again, the gnome is too tough and shakes off the grasping mud! The sandman strikes Kaalul (9 damage) but the Dwarf is too upset to fall asleep! The stone maiden speaks something in a low, rumbly tone and the sandman steps forward. She then moves up to close with Martel and Kaalul, striking the arcanist hard (17 damage).
The stone maiden said "Move closer to the large dwarf to make room for me. I will deal with that spellcaster myself."
"Speak in a common tongue to be understood!", Stauntram yells, more irritated by the speech than by the heavy blows.
Those, he understands very well, and returns in kind.
Fizz gets pounded again, which causes some bruises. But a second later, even more wounds appear across his body. He looks at his shamrock, that he previously thrust into the air, questioningly as he also looks to the creature beating him. "C'mon ya dern thing! Yer suppos' to be protectin' me!" he says as he begins tapping the plant with his other hand. After the third tap another thoom! of healing magic emanates throughout the room, healing his allies but not his enemies.
"Good, but not what I was lookin' fer! Ya'll think yer soo funny!" he yells to the air.
Round 3
Stauntram -12 -> -33 -> ->
Fizz -8 -> -16 -> ->
Kaalul 0 -> -9 -> ->
Martel
Round 2
Stauntram -11 -> -24 -> -19 -> -12
Fizz -5 -> -11 -> -21 -> -8
Kaalul 0 -> -6 -> -10 -> -5 -> 0
Martel
Round 1
Stauntram -> -16 -> -11
Fizz 0 -> -5
Kaalul
Martel
Noting that the earth elementals seems to be controlling this battle, Kaalul redoubles his efforts to think out the enemies, yelling in frustration as he does so.
The first time the mud elemental attempted to strike Fizz, his spell forced its mind away from him.
Kaalul's bludgeoning weapon is uniquely effective against the sandman, who falls under the inquisitor's weapon into dust the second time the dwarf raises his weapon.
Kaalul strikes the stone maiden twice, the magic of his hammer dealing serious damage to her. She gazes at him with stony defiance.
Martel follows Kaalul’s lead, and swings his staff at the moving statue with hasted force.
Stauntram strikes down the large earth elemental and then the mud elemental. Kaalul destroys the sandman and lands a blow on the stone maiden. Martel strikes the maiden twice as well. The maiden then steps away from Kaalul and toward Martel and casts a spell.
The soft ground beneath you suddenly hardens! The earth-canny stonelord leaps out of the mud in time for his metal boots to clank down on the newly formed rock. But all the others find themselves trapped by four inches of stone!
Seeing his companions in danger, Stauntram turns, chunks of elemental crumbling in the links of his chain. He sees the remaining elemental.
Grimly, he resumes battering.
Ignoring thee predicament involving his feet for now, Kaal quickly un-holsters his specialized crossbow and slides a cartridge of five bolts into the contraption's side, hearing the satisfying 'click' as the cartridge locks into place.
Martel keeps up the barrage of strikes.
"To determine whether your target has cover from your ranged attack, choose a corner of your square. If any line from this corner to any corner of the target’s square passes through a square or border that blocks line of effect or provides cover, or through a square occupied by a creature, the target has cover (+4 to AC).
When making a melee attack against an adjacent target, your target has cover if any line from any corner of your square to the target’s square goes through a wall (including a low wall). When making a melee attack against a target that isn’t adjacent to you (such as with a reach weapon), use the rules for determining cover from ranged attacks."
Stauntram strikes the stone maiden once and misses it twice. Martel's own attack founders on the maiden, who retaliates with her stony knee and elbow, striking Martel twice (19 damage).
"Her allies are dead. I'm surprised she hasn't fled," Kaalul dispassionately observes as he finally aims his crossbow and fires at the Stone Maiden.
"Then she dies too!", yells Stauntram as he keeps swinging.
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"Yeh! Looks like she's between a rock and a hard place....Eh?" Fizz jests as he remains stuck in the stone.
Stauntram -9 ->
Fizz -11 ->
Kaalul 0
Martel 0 -> -19 ->
Round 4
Stauntram -14 ->
Fizz -6 ->
Kaalul 0
Martel 0
Round 3
Stauntram -12 -> -33 -> -28 -> -14
Fizz -8 -> -16 -> -26 -> -6
Kaalul 0 -> -9 -> -4 -> 0
Martel
Round 2
Stauntram -11 -> -24 -> -19 -> -12
Fizz -5 -> -11 -> -21 -> -8
Kaalul 0 -> -6 -> -10 -> -5 -> 0
Martel
Round 1
Stauntram -> -16 -> -11
Fizz 0 -> -5
Kaalul
Martel
Martel draws on a note of transformative magic to harden his skin.
The stone maiden takes another crushing blow from the large dwarf but her thick stone armor deflects his two other attempts. Twice more, she strikes at Martel.
"My duty is to defend this place, not to preserve myself. The worthy will defeat me."
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She strikes Martel hard twice more with her knees and elbows (21 damage).
Finding it difficult to aim properly without adjusting his feet, Kaal takes any shot he can make, even if he knows it won't be fully effective.
Kaalul's shot misses the armored stone maiden!
Martel gives up on trying to hurt the statue, and simply concentrates on defending himself.
Fizz feels the blows that Martel just took and looks to his clover as he holds it up again. "Whelp! We gotta give another go." He then flicks it, sending out another Thoom! of healing magic.
Round 6
Stauntram -4 ->
Fizz -21 -> ->
Kaalul 0
Martel -14 -> -35 -> ->
Round 5
Stauntram -9 -> -4
Fizz -11 -> -21
Kaalul 0
Martel 0 -> -19 -> -14
Round 4
Stauntram -14 -> -9
Fizz -6 -> -11
Kaalul 0
Martel 0
Round 3
Stauntram -12 -> -33 -> -28 -> -14
Fizz -8 -> -16 -> -26 -> -6
Kaalul 0 -> -9 -> -4 -> 0
Martel
Round 2
Stauntram -11 -> -24 -> -19 -> -12
Fizz -5 -> -11 -> -21 -> -8
Kaalul 0 -> -6 -> -10 -> -5 -> 0
Martel
Round 1
Stauntram -> -16 -> -11
Fizz 0 -> -5
Kaalul
Martel
Not noticing that his wounds have fully healed, Stauntram continues to batter at the stone maiden.
With a mighty blow, Stauntram shatters rhe maiden. You find her longsword laying behind (+2). In addition, you note a green glow reflecting off the earthen walls. Looking in the center of the room, you see a green orb hovering several feet above the ground.
You determine that this orb will enhance someone who touches it, either granting their weapons the corrosive property or granting then +1 CL for spells with the acid descriptor depending on whether they touch the orb with their left (corrosive) or right (CL) hand.
Stauntram extends his chain so that it once again has greater reach.
"Do any want the sword? I do not. And what is that orb?"
"Hey there boyos! I don't s'ppose any of yous would be interested in gettin' me out o' this stone?" Fizz inquires innocently as wounds continue to open up on him.
"Certainly."
Stauntram turns, takes aim at the stone, and strikes.
The warriors chip away at the stone with their weapons until they free their feet and can continue walking.
Martel flexes his ankles as he is freed. “Ah! Thanks. Let me look at that light...”
He saunters over and studies the orb, circling it.
He shares what he discovers with his allies.
Once told, Stauntram reaches for the orb with his left hand and grabs it.
Martel touches the light with his left hand as well.
"Oooh, a group fondlin' session? Don't mind if I do" Fizz says comedically as he rests his hand atop his allies'.
"We should go to the rightmost passage. Draw water to quench flames elsewhere."
Emboldened by the others successfully touching the orb unharmed, Kaalul opts for gaining the weapon enhancement from the orb.
"Wait, do we have to go down every passage? They seem to be parallel to each other. If we go through one of them, we are past them all."
"Fair. Let us go and look. But I doubt that we can avoid fighting. I feel it in my bones."
As you leave this chamber through the doorway to the north, you see that a passage leads to the right and to the left. Based on Graniteson's map, you believe that you'd find the watery chamber to your right. You note a passageway to your right that ends in a solid wall with a glowing, transparent gem set in the middle of it. You notice a little farther to the west a passage that leads south.
Stauntram walks slowly up to the solid wall with the gem in it.
As Stauntram steps forward down the corridor, a red and brown glowing rune appears on the stone under his boot. Red-hot stones shoot out of the wall, striking Stauntram.
As Stauntram nears the end of the corridor, the clear, colorless gem in the wall glows brown as one quarter of it changes color.
"OW! Ya wanna watch out were yur goin' Stauntram?" Fizz jokes with his hand on his hips a second after the red-hot stones shoot at Stauntram. "Ya'know I shoulda picked a different color for me clothes," he muses with a smile as blood and bruises emerge once more in the places where they are healing on Stauntram. Fizz then pokes a finger into one of his wounds and giggles a little bit. Soon after most of his wounds heal completely.
Stauntram 0 -> -13 ->
Fizz -24 -> ->
Kaalul 0
Martel -4
“Looks like we do have to face all the elements. And that we should watch our steps.” Martel warns. “Though I don’t think I’ll ever understand why someone would build such hostile architecture.”
Ignoring Gnome once he sees his wounds mostly healed up, Kaalul grunts in frustration as he comes to the same realization as Martel and Stautram.
"Fine. But tactically, we have an advantage over the classic element of air, and it's safe to assume that there will be air-related creatures in the 'air passage.' We don't know how long these acid-based attacks will last, so we should approach that hallway next. These acid attacks may run out or be replaced with lightning, perhaps, once we've cleared that hallway."