Tina joins the stupid cleric in laughing, but this is definitely laughing at him, not with him. The difference is obvious, because if she were laughing with him, she would be slapping him on the back. Instead she is slapping him on the back with her hands charged.
(Against prone touch AC)
DC 18 Fort against paralysis.
She glances out the cave, and considers if the rest of Lucian’s pets can handle the fleeing halfling. She pulls back from the cleric’s body, making space for the coming orb. Bob’s, if you could do my the favor of maybe only consuming his head right now? He’s bound to have some holy water, and my, ah, reserves are running a bit low.”
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Bob doesn't hear Goldslip, of course, but her mental projections are clear enough...
The pretty flying one tells Bob to get the laughing one. That one there has an open mouth and is emitting high pitched vibrations. Is it the laughing one? Hmmmmm... Bob is hungry anway. He will do. Bob bob bob!
With a leap, Bob plants himself on the laughing cleric's head.
Engulf Head (Ex)
Gelatinous orbs have the uncanny ability to jump up and land on a Medium-sized or smaller creature’s head, completely engulfing it as a standard action. It cannot make a slam attack during a round in which it engulfs. Opponents can either make an attack of opportunity against the ooze, or a saving throw versus the attack, but not both. If the target forgoes the opportunity attack, it may instead make a DC 13 Reflex save to avoid having its head engulfed. If the save fails, or the target instead opted to make an opportunity attack, the target takes 1d4 acid damage, is blinded, deafened, nauseated, and is in danger of suffocating every round that its head is engulfed. Any attack against a gelatinous orb that has engulfed an opponent’s head has a 50% chance of targeting the engulfed opponent instead.
The cleric laughs off Tina's deathly paralysis. Then comes Bob.
The hardy dwarf dodges the orb as well! He tries to shake off the laughter...
And does so! But he catches his breath, surrounded by enemies and still prone.
Outside, the halfling turns on Snowball and attacks!
He stabs the dragon twice with his daggers (2 dam).
Cindy continues to toddle forward out of the cave towards the halfling while racking her brain for what to do. Let's see. Did some stuff for Mommy, then the strangers came...all I have left that I can do is make the little guy hear voices or clean him up. Maybe he doesn't like being clean?
Snowball ignores the meaningless stabbings and tries to manage as much damage as the rogue.
Gorthug looked down at the dwarf. He felt the stirrings of ancestral conflict, a war bred into the very souls of his people. A conflict older than recorded history and longer than memory.
He swung his axe down at the dwarf, and then reached down, grabbed (what was likely the body) and repeatedly slammed it into the stone ground. Again. And again. And again. Until it eventually dawned on him that there was no life left within the shell.
Goldslip loads her tiny crossbow again and levels it at the halfling. "Can't let you get away," she whispers, and then fires the crossbow.
Gorthug finishes off the dwarf with two brutal blows! Snowball fails to land a strike while Goldslip injures the halfling.
Xeria calls to Ripper to hunt down the halfling and do what she does best, rip, "Sic him girl!"
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Xeria meanwhile flies out and stays back watching the two reptiles try to shred the halfling and does a bit of cheerleading herself, "Rip him in the face! Harder! Harder!" And giggles with a bit of sadistic glee, "Take that big job."
Tina sees Bob's engulf the cleric's head, and is satisfied that the dwarf won't be doing much in what is left in his life.
She swoops in around and alongside Gorthug's axe, energizing her hands. As she lightly taps the halfling on the nose, an arc of black travels from her into the halfling's skull. "Boop."
DC18 Fort vs. Paralysis
The rogue stabs skillfully at Piedmontina as she moves in (you have to provoke to touch him since you don't have a 5 ft reach) but though his blow is well-aimed, he can't hit the miniscule attacker. The halfling shakes off the paralysis but is significantly wounded. "Forget this! I'm outta here!" He tumbles away from those threatening him and off into the brush, where you hear nor more sound from him.
Gorthug stood completely still, looking for the last intruder.
Piedmontina looks into the bushes, and can make out the halfling trying to pass himself off as a rock. "There he is! After him" As she points towards the rogue, four orbs of light fly from her fingers, forming a line pointing out the intruder's location, gently hovering in sequence to point him out.
Piedmontina makes the halfling's location very obvious to the others nearby!
"Yay!"
As the remainder of Snowball's wounds close up, she runs over to the halfling and unleashes an icy blast.
The halfling twitches slightly but very rapidly and seems to entirely avoid the cold breath!
He's all the way over there....and moves a lot faster than I do. He's even too far away for me to clean him like I threatened to. I guess I'll just clean something else.
Cindy, frustrated that she lost one of her playmates, just stands in place and starts cleaning the dirt off her dress.
Goldslip loads and fires another crossbow bolt down the line of Piedmontina's lights.
Goldslip fires but misses the wily little halfling.
Xeria directs Ripper to follow the Halfling, the dinosaur runs off after the small figure sniffing as it goes and tries to gut the halfling with a talon.
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While the dino runs over to the halfling, Xeria shoots a small blob of acid at him.
The halfling dodges all attacks, twisting and somersaulting out of the way and again rushing off toward safety!
Her dress now clean, Cindy starts to wander in the direction Ripper went, having no idea what's going on and often getting distracted by the foliage.
"Meat?" Snowball asks, sitting down and looking around to no avail.
Goldslip tries to keep an eye on the halfling...
But when she loses sight of him now she gives up without reloading her crossbow this time.
"He's a tricky one. Still, we did what the master ordered--none of the intruders got to the zombie pit. Let's go home."
Hearing the nice little flying lady, Cindy stops and turns and begins wandering back towards the cave, small bits of porcelain flaking off as her motion aggravates the cracks from battle. Those are the first strangers I've seen. I should collect up things to remember them by
Ripper continues after the halfling and again tries to slash him with her talon while Xeria hovers above and tries to drop acid on his head.
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With his work done and orders fulfilled, Gorthug trudged his way back to his post. The watery pits would wash off the gore on him well enough, though it wasn’t a consideration that registered at all.
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As Bob finishes up the second leg, he sense Goldslip reenter the cave. He thinks at her.
"Flying one, Bob is getting full. Bob would like to share this food with you and then you visit him in his door cubby. This adventure has been so exciting and Bob maybe thinks door cubby not so fun anymore. Bob needs friend."
Piedmontina starts to pursue the halfling, but then remember that the dwarf's body was left alone with the all-consuming orb. Xeria's got this. And how often does a cleric show up anyway? I need to secure that pack." She rushes back, and is pleased to see that Bob has been busy with appendages, but has left the cleric's pack alone. "Thanks Bob, clerics are dangerous beasties, especially to Gorthug and myself. They have a habit of standing back up when you don't expect it." Her tiny foot kicks the clerics body, the faintest knock on his armor. "It'll take more than a few prayers for this one to get up again though."
She scans the cleric's body, and rummages through the his pack, frantically searching.
Piedmontina finds the following on the cleric:
Acolyte ale x 10
Holy water x 2
Silver holy symbol of Torag, necklace
Backpack
Bedroll
Belt pouch
Candle x 10
Flint and steel
Holy text of Torag
Mess kit
15 silver and 50 copper
Pot
Chainmail
Heavy steel shield
Mwk warhammer
The other monsters move back to the cave but Ripper and Xeria are determined. Ripper moves after the halfling and closes the distance with him (but also used a move to smell so can't attack) while Xeria splashes the halfling with acid. Determined to escape, the halfling rushes away desperately and tries to hide very quickly in the woods.
"Aww, Bob," the nixie thinks back, "That's so sweet! Of course, I will visit and be your friend."
Goldslip smiles at the odd little gel-ball. This is much more exciting than the fish back at my old home in the stream!
Goldslip begins to look over the gear carried by the human fighter.
Cindy, seeing the flying lady searching the cleric and the swimmy lady searching the sword guy, heads over to the firey guy to see what he brought with him.
Snowball leaves Xeria and Ripper to do their usual scouting thing and returns to the cave. She very quickly lands next to whats left of the fighter and begins freezing his remains.
After taking a few crunchy bites, she notices it's wearing something shiny.
"Shiny? Mine!"
She begins tugging the armor off of the corpse.
Goldslip finds the following on the fighter, all somewhat frozen:
Mwk greatsword
Lamellar (stone) armor (currently being chewed by Snowball)
Backpack
Bear trap x 3
Caltrops x 3
Marbles x 3
134 gp
Rope x 2
Trail rations x 5
On the wizard, Cindy finds:
Dagger
Light xbow
Candle x 2
Chalk
Hammer
Hooded lantern
19 gp
Oil x 5
Piton x 4
Rope
Sack x 2
Spell component pouch
Scroll case (not empty but can you read the spells?) x 4
Spellbook (lmk if you need to know the spells)
Tindertwig x 4
Torch x 2
Ring of resistance +1
Wandering from corpse to corpse, Cindy grabs a couple items as souvenirs. First a bag of fancy things from the wizard , then some shiny balls from the fighter , and a shiny necklace from the cleric along with a bag to keep her treasures in . From each corpse's clothing she also uses her dagger to cut off some scraps of cloth.
Putting all of her new things into her new bag, she sees a large metal pot. ooOOH!! I want to learn to cook, and this looks perfect! She looks inside it and sees that it has a thick liquid in it. She tries to smell it to see what it is, but wasn't successful as she forgot that she no longer has a sense of smell.
Running outside to grab a small stick from the foliage, she returns and pokes it tentatively into the liquid to see if someone is already using this pot for cooking something.
As you are looking over the loot, the quasit, Lucian's familiar, flies back into your cavern. "I see you are done. Let me see what's valuable here." She begins sorting through the items and picks up the ring and the scroll cases, storing them in a tiny handy haversack. She then pauses as if hearing something in her ear, then nods to herself and speaks to the rest of you. "Pull these three corpses close together!"