Atar prepares his strike. 'Come on, Atar, timing is everything. Repeat to yourself. Timing. Is. Everything.' Unfortunately, he focusses so much on getting the right timing that, when the moment comes, his stab comes more than a few second late.
The two insects leap forward and lash out in all directions the one on the right attacking Atar while the other attacks Brightberry and Trakas.
The hail of claws as they pounce are slow, much slower than you expected and most of them are easily dodged. Though they do catch Atar and Trakas once. For 3 and 4 damage respectively.
Heroes are up!
Disgusting. Wouldn't want to punch one of those either. Immana keeps her distance and continues blasting away with her water jets.
Somehow caught completely off-guard, Atar looses balance and fumbles his counter attack. "S~~! in your father's ghost," the swashbuckler curses.
Bob moves to the other side of Atar, attempting to get a clear shot.
You both attack but the small creatures seem pretty hardy as an arrow bounces off one and the skewer slides without piercing the carapace of the bug.
Trakas steps back from the attack and attempts to send one back of his own. Seeing that the creatures have attack with so much aggressiveness..give him pause. He keeps the blade in front of him as he tries to fight back.
Trakas takes a defensive stance and sends a forceful cut but misses just shy of the insect. Also the water from Immana’s blast simply slips off doing no damage to the little creature.
Brightberry is left.
"Redleaf, assist the humanoids! These are not friendly plants. I don't even think they are completely plant."
Brightberry assist Trakas
Redleaf assists Atar
Brightberry and Redleaf jump in helping to the creatures, helping to open up future attacks. The final crawlers lash out one focusing at Atar the other spreading its attacks out to the redleaf, Brightberry, and Trakas.
Atar you take 5 damage, and DC14 fort save for 1 strength or 2 con damage
Redleaf takes 6 damage
Trakas you take 4 damage and for DC14 fort save for 2 strength and con damage.
The right one has 10 damage on it, you all may go!
Trakas feels the burn of the poison as it races through his body and gives on final strike in hopes of killing his attacker.
The poison is too much for him as he misses his target and falls to the ground. Blood freely flowing from his wounds.
"Careful!" Immana's warning comes too late as Trakas falls to the ground. Unable to do anything about the situation on the far side of the battle, though, she continues blasting away at the closer bug, but she's off the mark.
Gritting his teeth as Trakas falls, Bob sends two arrows at the injured cricket, attempting to draw its attention away from the Magus.
Brightberry and Redleaf both move away from the deadly rickets. Brightberry takes a five good step back and casts cute light wounds on Trakas.
"Get up."
Readleaf makes a full withdrawal, after taking a staggering hit. His first wound.
The attacks miss the crickets seemingly to durable, though Bob’s anger carries through as the first arrow hits its jaw before the second lands with a sick thud in its eye and the creature falls back dead.
Atar is up!
Atar begins to blink as his vision becomes blurry and dark. "Is…is someone messing around with the torches?" His speech slurs a bit as the poison makes its way into his muscles. "Guys…I'm not feeling great. Perhaps it's best to retreat…? I'll hold down the line!"
He stays put, focussed completely on defence.
The last cricket let’s out a sickening chirp before going to attack Atar.
The first claw catches Atar but he manages to stop it from knocking off his feet and blocks the last two attacks with swift kicks to the creatures head. Atar you are disabled until you regain more health.
All PC’s are up.
A character with 0 hit points, or one who has negative hit points but has become stable and conscious, is disabled. A disabled character may take a single move action or standard action each round (but not both, nor can he take full-round actions, but he can still take swift, immediate, and free actions). He moves at half speed. Taking move actions doesn’t risk further injury, but performing any standard action (or any other action the GM deems strenuous, including some free actions such as casting a Quicken Spell spell) deals 1 point of damage after the completion of the act. Unless the action increased the disabled character’s hit points, he is now in negative hit points and dying.
A disabled character with negative hit points recovers hit points naturally if he is being helped. Otherwise, each day he can attempt a DC 10 Constitution check after resting for 8 hours, to begin recovering hit points naturally. The character takes a penalty on this roll equal to his negative hit point total. Failing this check causes the character to lose 1 hit point, but this does not cause the character to become unconscious. Once a character makes this check, he continues to heal naturally and is no longer in danger of losing hit points naturally
Bob moves to the other side of Atar, looking for an opening. Not finding much, he takes a shot anyways.
Brightberry will move behind Atar and lay his tendrils on him as well.
This is not going well...
Darkness and nothing...
Cold and silence.
oh f*#~ me...What...
A jovial voice speaks out of nothing.
Get off the floor you drunken idiot. You have not earn the right to be in my mead hall...not yet!
He can hear a voice familiar to him but very distance.
Get up
Blinking his eyes a few times brings Trakas back to the living. Feeling the pain and feeling the blood still flowing from his wounds brings his attention back to the current situation.
Rolling to his side, grabbing his weapon as he rolls. The wiry swordsman stands to his feet and immediately casts a spell.
Lightning runs up and down his blade.
ok so let us kill these s~*! berry shrub and be done with.
I'm glad we spotted them before going in. If they got the jump on us, we'd be dead, Immana thinks as she continues to shower the combatants with spray from her errant water jets.
Bob narrowly weaves the arrow right by Atar and it hits a patch of fleshy fungus. The water continues to stream past the creature just unable to catch a solid piece of the insect.
Atar starts crawling when he feels a sudden rush of energy filling him, not realising Brightberry's presence at first. He kips up, yells a curse in abyssal and stabs the creature with rage.
The tiefling continues brandishing his weapon quickly and menacingly, trying to both attract and confuse the monster.
Atar stabs the creature in the jaw, then gets ready twirling the rapier. Then it jumps forward to claw and bite angrily trying to eat it’s prey.
Atar deflects the claw stabbing out of of the creatures eyes. But as he does he’s caught in the side by the claw and is knocked unconscious. The cricket them looks to Brightberry hungry and ready to spring.
Heroes are up!
Bob quickly sends two more arrows at the creature
Bob seeing his old ally go down sends an arrow into the functioning eye of the cricket. It shutters and moves before it falls to the ground dead. You all are left breathing heavy as your ally lies on the ground bleeding out.
Brightberry will move to Redleaf and heal him as well.
Not going well at all.
Trakas looks to the surrounding area, looking from shadow to shadow in search of unseen enemies. When he is certain that all is well, he looks to Atar. The lightning from his blade casts the swashbuckler into odd shadows.
OK now...time to wake up you lazy s~$$. You can not pass out on us just yet.
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Heading back into the room, Bob examines the statue, then looks down the opposite hallway.
Atar opens his eyes, looks at the monster lying next to him and closes his eyes again. "Five more minutes." Then, with a moan, he gets up. "Hey, you passed out before me. Gods be damned, this hasn't been a good day."
The tiefling checks his sword, puts it back in the scabbard and drinks the potion. "Thanks, guys. I'd be literally dead if it wasn't for your magic."
"Hey, you passed out before me.
True..but I still look good where as you look like s~&$.
He reaches out a hand to help the swashbuckler up.
Immana breathes a sigh of relief as the last cricket-shroom falls, no thanks to her futile splashing. Approaching the wounded, she says, "Does it still hurt bad? I could try something I learned before. Don't worry, it's safe." As she puts a hand over the worst of the wounds, they begin to close up just a little more than before, though this time she feels the drain on herself more noticeably than when she tried on herself.
"Now...I think I saw something earlier..." Moving back to the doorway, Immana glances around the room again for a moment before she remembers, pointing at the statue. "There, on the statue's chest. I think there's something hidden there."
@bob you noticed what Immana mentioned, the slagged door to a hidden compartment in the statue’s chest 15 feet up. You also notice what presumably were the eyes of the statue are fine jewels with slagged metal around them, though still held by the metal to the statue some 18 feet off the ground.
"This is probably just as bad of an idea as prying the eyes out of that devil statue.... still, a hidden compartment needs to be investigated."
Bob attempts to clamber up the statue to investigate the door.
You are are able to climb up. It takes a few minutes but you eventually make your way up. You tie a rope onto the top dangling it down to the floor. You pull and it isn’t locked but the door is covered with slagged metal making it hard to open.
"Anyone bring a crowbar?"
Brightberry shakes his head no and shrugs his shoulders. He then holds his spear up to Bob.
Tying the rope around his waist, Bob allows himself to dangle in front of the statue. Bracing his feet against the statue, he grips the door and attempts to wrench it open.
Atar accepts Trakas' hand. "Yeah, all that blood really brings up the colour of your eyes."
He watches Bob climbing the statue, yelling suggestions every now and then. "I think we should be fine. This one doesn't have the spooky aura of silence, plus if those things vomiting acid on it didn't set off whatever curse/trap it, I'm sure some banging and pushing won't do much to it either." Just to be sure, however, Atar still tries to prepare to catch the human in case he falls.
Shrugging as he brings his small spear back to his side, Brightberry casts detect magic on the statue that Bob is climbing.
Trakas keeps watch around the area to make sure that are not interupted.
You pull as hard as you can but can’t seem to get the door to budge.
Brightberry after you cast the spell you do detect magic, and after a moment of concentrating you sense that it is near bob and a faint aura. You can try to identify it if you wish with an arcana check.
You know that the aura is evocation.
"Hmm. There is magic coming from that thing. Not sure what though."
Sighing, Bob unties the rope and drops to the floor. Coiling it up again, he hangs it from his pack and turns to the exiting passage. "Maybe we can find a crowbar and try again later.
What now? Should we continue to see what this structure holds or perhaps go and speak to the Mayor the way some of you wanted?"
I have no magic that will help with the statue. Perhaps if we continue on...maybe we will find something that will help.
Readying his bow again, Bob proceeds to the next hallway.