Fergus will attack the sinspawn.
The magic Maddie weaved to help her allies is tugged along even further, and she grasps the threads of mana, twisting them and reversing their effect, reappearing as time outside the bubble of her friends seems to slow even more.
"Sinspawn again!"
Flik will activate Naturalist (+2) and move to a position where he is more able to heal the party.
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Fergus is also able to take out one of the sinsnpawn, but the rest flurry at the group.
Round 2
! Sinspawn (yellow, red, pink, green blue all slow)
@ Maddie (MA, Invisible)
@ Borgol -5 lethal (REF (20)) X2
@ Fergus (REF (20))
@ Remy -5 lethal (REF (20), Total Defence)
@ Flik (Invisible)Everyone may act!
Remy continues to assault the sinspawn!
Fergus will turn his attention to the next sinspawn .
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The group quickly dismantles the slowed enemies. As the limbs fly in all different directions, the corpses of the sinspawn do not disappear. The red lights flicker more violently, as the bodies of the fallen enemies start to wriggle and coil, moving back to attach themselves into a larger mass.
You don't feel like this is over...
Round 3
! Sinspawn (yellow, red, pink, green blue all slow)@ Maddie (MA, Invisible)
@ Borgol -5 lethal (REF (20))
@ Fergus (REF (20))
@ Remy -5 lethal (REF (20))
@ Flik (Invisible)Everyone may act! Prepare for the next round please!
Remy once more drops into a defensive stance, presenting herself as a target for the next monster to appear.
Again? Fergus asks in disbelief as the enemies re-form!
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As the group gets ready, they watch the flesh reforming. This spectacle is both new and familiar to you, can sinspawn really reform like this?. Some of the creatures turn back to familiar shapes, while others take a more gruesome spider like form - an oversized, eight-legged monstrosity stares ravenously from its three beady eyes, its gaping maw dripping with green venom.
The sinspawn rush forward, while the spider creatures spit their webs at the group.
. Fergus
. Remy
. Borgol
. Remy
. Borgol
. Maddie
Remy slips past the attacks, but Borgol and Maddie are caught in the webs!
Round 3
@Maddie, @Borgol and @Flik may act!Round 4
! Sinspawn wave 1 (yellow, red, pink, green blue)
! Sinspawn wave 2 (green, blue, pink)
! Shriezyx (red, yellow, l blue)@ Maddie ([IW]MA[/I])
@ Borgol -14 lethal (REF (20))
@ Fergus (REF (20))
@ Remy -5 lethal (REF (20))
@ Flik (Invisible)Everyone may act!
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"Heads up! Watch out for those webs!" Remy calls as she twirls away from the sticky projectiles.
"They don't like fire, huh? Well, let's heat things up," the monk declares. She focuses her ki, and flames erupt around her fists and feet. She pummels the sinspawn near her before launching herself through the air towards the nearest spider-monster.
Fergus attacks his new-old foe!
Borgol smiles at Remy's comment, adding, "I knew this sword was useful", flourishing the blade burning with both red and silver fires.
He quickly strikes at the sinspawn blocking him from reaching the more dangerous opponents.
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Flik will make the knowledge check for the shriezyx, but he'll keep up Naturalist on sinspawn.
Maddie fights against the venom in vain, it burning through her enhancement magics despite her best efforts. She retaliates with her favorite spell, the barrage of force homing in inerringly on the spider-monster that hit her.
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The group swiftly dismantles the sinspawn blocking their way to the spider creatures. The spiders make a horrible shriek, one engagened in combat with Remy recoils and bites her, while the other two go straight for the magic caster.
The spiders bite down on both the girls.
Round 5
! Sinspawn wave 1 (yellow, red, pink, green blue)
! Sinspawn wave 2 (green, blue, pink)
! Shriezyx (red -16 shacken 1, yellow -18, l blue)@ Maddie -13 lethal ([IW]MA, Invisible, no Haste[/I])
@ Borgol -14 lethal (REF (20))
@ Fergus (REF (20))
@ Remy -12 lethal (REF (20))
@ Flik (Invisible)Everyone may act!
The shriezyx lands some lucky hits, and Remy grimaces as more bite marks appear on her body. Though she feels the venom burning in her veins, she remains resolute, attacking with flaming fists!
Flik will continue to use Naturalist and will heal Maddie.
Fergus will move and attack
Maddie's personal enchantments overpower the attempt to weaken her with ease, and in revenge she blasts the spider that bit her with a full barrage of missiles.
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With some well aimed attacks, the group is able to quickly take out the next wave of enemies.
The space around you continues to shake, this time more violently, as the spider bodies begin to bloat and expand.
Round 6
! Sinspawn wave 1 (yellow, red, pink, green blue)
! Sinspawn wave 2 (green, blue, pink)
! Shriezyx (red -52 shacken 1, yellow -49, l blue -48)@ Maddie ([IW]MA, no Haste[/I])
@ Borgol -14 lethal (REF (20))
@ Fergus (REF (20))
@ Remy -12 lethal, -1 STR (REF (20), Poisoned 2)
@ Flik (Invisible)Everyone may act! Prepare for the next round please!
This time, Remy manages to resist the venom. She returns to the group and assumes a defensive stance again. "Stay together. It's not over yet!"
Why don't these things stay dead?! Fergus says with a determined expression on his face.
Borgol releases another burst of holy energy even as he tightens his grip on his weapons.
Remy’s wounds tingle as the warm healing energy washes over them and seals them up. She spares a smile for Borgol before turning back to the churning body parts.
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The warm light from Borgol's curing magics washes over the party, as they prepare for another wave of enemies.
Mostly, the shriezyx creatures reform, however, the torrent of other corpses forms into a larger bulbous, green-skinned spider, as large as a horse, its toothy maw smiling beneath three glowing eyes. The smaller ones look bolstered by their queen's presence.
The smaller shriezyx weave their webs at the group, while the larger queen cast's resist energy on herself.
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Once again, Remy manages to slip under the web as it flies over her head, but Maddie and Fergus are not so lucky.
Round 6
Maddie and Flik may still take their actions for prep round!Round 7
! Sinspawn wave 1 (yellow, red, pink, green blue)
! Sinspawn wave 2 (green, blue, pink)
! Shriezyx (red -52 shacken 1, yellow -49, l blue -48)
! Shriezyx (red, green, l blue)
! Shriezyx Queen@ Maddie ([IW]MA, no Haste[/I])
@ Borgol(REF (20))
@ Fergus (REF (20))
@ Remy -1 STR (REF (20))
@ Flik (Invisible)Everyone may act!
Maddie takes a fighting stance before vanishing. Once the spider reforms and attacks her again, she grumbles to herself quietly, then rises into the air and hides near the ceiling, invisible.
"Borgol! You go left, I'll go right!" Remy calls out. She rushes past Flik and Borgol, leaping through the air to kick the shriezyx queen, then jabbing at her torso.
Borgol nods, "Got it.", and rushes the Queen from the other side, holy blade burning as he does.
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Flik makes to identify the weaknesses of the shriezyx and share the knowledge with the team.
Fergus easily sidesteps the web and attacks the queen.
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Remy goes flying forward, into the great queen, but not before she takes a swipe from the beast's claw as she makes her way through her threatened area.
Maddie floats upwards out of the web that tried binding her, going invisible in the process. Flik maintains his support of the group, while Borgol and Fergus race in after the monk to land good swings on the creature.
Your fire seems to be eaten away by whatever spell she has cast upon herself, and the fire does no damage.
The smaller spiders move to defend their queen. One steps forward and strieks at Fergus, while the other two throw their webs at the attackers.
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The queen full attacks Borgol, and then tried to step away from the flank.
Round 9
! Sinspawn wave 1 (yellow, red, pink, green blue)
! Sinspawn wave 2 (green, blue, pink)
! Shriezyx (red -52, yellow -49, l blue -48)
! Shriezyx (red, green, l blue)
! Shriezyx Queen -85 +5@ Maddie ([IW]MA, no Haste[/I])
@ Borgol -25 (REF (20))
@ Fergus -8 lethal (REF (20))
@ Remy -1 STR (REF (20))
@ Flik (Invisible)Everyone may act!
Remy steps to pursue the queen and continues attacking.
Fergus again dodges the web, but he is bitten! He suddenly feels weaker!
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Remy final combination of blows are enough to cause the huge spider to fall. But to everyone's surprise, the creature does not flip over and shrink up, and you see it's wounds slowly closing.
The rest of the spiders, enraged by the fall of their queen, move to do as much damage as they can.
Round 10
! Sinspawn wave 1 (yellow, red, pink, green blue)
! Sinspawn wave 2 (green, blue, pink)
! Shriezyx (red -52, yellow -49, l blue -48)
! Shriezyx (red, green, l blue)
! Shriezyx Queen -122 +10@ Maddie (MA, no Haste) X2
@ Borgol -38 (REF (20)) X2
@ Fergus -19 lethal (REF (20), Poisoned 2)
@ Remy -1 STR (REF (20))
@ Flik (Invisible) X2Everyone may act!
Remy turns her attention to the smaller shriezyx!
Flik searches his memory for any clue as to what might stop the queen's healing.
Maddie, feeling that this battle is worth the effort, casts a powerful spell on Remy, doubling the monk's size, then switches tactics and meshes her magics together, the blue and green combining into a vivid turquoise and exploding out from where she floats, creating massive amounts of cracks in the space around the queen.
Where the cracks touch the floor, inky, strange tentacles stretch out from beyond time, grasping the spider queen and one of its underlings, engulfing the hall behind the monsters as well.
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Remy's blows are not enough to take out the spider, but the ethereal tentacles from Maddie's spell deal the last little bit of damage to know the red creature over. Fergus turns around and lands three strikes on the one behind him, while Borgol finish off his one, and helps eliminate the one harassing the paladin.
The queen's wounds are still healing.
At Flik's urging, Remy takes off her cloak and wraps it around the shriezyx queen's head, holding it tightly to cut off her flow of oxygen. She makes sure the others keep stabbing the creature's body occasionally to keep it from regenerating fully and waits until it expires from aspyhxiation.
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With a final flash of red, the walls stop vibrating and the endless droning around you is no more. The flesh from the three waves of creatures seems to disappear into nothingness, as if it was never there.
Azlanists' voice echoes all around you. "Well done, emerge, my soldiers, and accept your reward!" In Thassilonian, of course.
A single runestone appears, floating in the air four feet off the ground in the middle of the room. A circular stone etched with the
seven-armed sigil of the Abyss.
If a chaotic evil outsider eats an Abyssal runestone, the runestone is destroyed and the outsider permanently gains the advanced creature template. A creature that already has this template, or is above CR 20 in power, gains no benefit from eating an Abyssal runestone.
Abyssal runestones may have several other uses as components in rituals and powerful magic, particularly in quickening the effects of afflictions associated with the Abyss.
Remy grimaces at the morbid means of dispatching her foe. Fortunately, Maddie's enchantments keep her cloak from being befouled, and she shakes it out before donning it once more.
The monk cautiously reaches out and takes the runestone from the air. "This is it. We'll be able to reach Thybidos now. I think that pool portal in the previous room leads to him. We could go there now, or explore the rest of this level first. There's still the wizard door and the other portcullis we bypassed. Or, if the rest of you need to recharge your magic, we could try to find a safe place to rest."