Sunny desperatly tries to free her freind from the bony critter's grasp.
Which doesn't seem to do too much. Sunny des[peratly looks about then jumps off the lid of the box, dropping onto the flor and positioning herself such that her back is braced and she prepares to KICK the lid closed on the extended arm.
Bryson-Demon Ape (Dire Ape, large) HP 82/82| AC 22 FF 20 Touch 12| Fort +9 Ref +4 Will +10| LLV, Scent| Str 24 Dex 14 Con 18| CMB +12 CMD 25| Spd 50, Climb 30
Bite: gtr magic fang
Claw: gtr magic fang
Claw: gtr magic fang
Seeing Marius in the grip of the undead enrages Bryson. He surges as his form changes and expands into his Demon-Ape form.
By this point, Marius was reduced to feebly trying to prise loose the dead hands choking the life out of him.
It was really not going well.
Ghirrak hammers away mercilessly at the mummy, stomping it into the ground.
Round 8 completed________________________
Sunny desperatly tries to free her freind from the bony critter's grasp.
The mummy is sitting up in the sarcophagus now. It is not flat footed.
Which doesn't seem to do too much. Sunny desperatly looks about then jumps off the lid of the box, dropping onto the flor and positioning herself such that her back is braced and she prepares to KICK the lid closed on the extended arm.
Seeing Marius in the grip of the undead enrages Bryson. He surges as his form changes and expands into his Demon-Ape form.
By this point, Marius was reduced to feebly trying to pry loose the dead hands choking the life out of him.
It was really not going well.
Ghirrak hammers away mercilessly at the mummy, stomping it into the ground.
The mummy continued its crushing grip on Marius…
crush damage.
Marius sagged unconscious in the mummy's grip.
Round 9____________________________
Players take their turn in order of posting, enemies will go last.
With a roar, Bryson reaches over and tries to free Marius from the mummy's grasp.
Grapple Check: gtr magic fang
You have got to be kidding me!
Sunny cries as poor Marius goes limp.
She flails away at the evil thing hurting one of her freinds.
Ghirrak continues his unrelenting attack, trying to destroy the mummy quickly so they could save Marius.
Burian pulls a wand from his belt. He begins to wave it.. and reaches out to Welt.
The extraplanar black cat springs across the sarcophagus and paws at the strangled wizard's cheek.
Round 9 complete____________________________
With a roar, Bryson reaches over and tries to free Marius from the mummy's grasp.
"NNooooooo!" Sunny cries as poor Marius goes limp.
She flails away at the evil thing hurting one of her friends, .
Ghirrak continues his unrelenting attack, trying to destroy the mummy quickly so they could save Marius.
Burian pulls a wand from his belt. He begins to wave it.. and reaches out to Welt.
The extraplanar black cat springs across the sarcophagus and paws at the strangled wizard's cheek.
The mummy, distracted by Ghirrak’s attacks, drops Marius to the floor, then turned its implacable gaze towards Ghirrak and reached out….
But missed.
It stood up and shifted around to face Ghirrak.
Round 10____________________________
Players take their turn in order of posting, enemies will go last.
[ooc]Bryson-Demon Ape (Dire Ape, large) HP 82/82| AC 22 FF 20 Touch 12| Fort +9 Ref +4 Will +10| LLV, Scent| Str 24 Dex 14 Con 18| CMB +12 CMD 25| Spd 50, Climb 30
AoO
Claw: gtr magic fang
Bryson-Demon Ape again tries to grab hold of the undead.
Grapple
This is nuts.
Seizing upon the opening, Ghirrak strikes with the force of a sledgehammer.
Still in a panic and badly bruised, Burian whips his hair ineffectively at the final mummy.
Sunny scoots under the melee and tries to drag poor Marius to safety... Well, to some where safer than right next to the Mummy, least ways.
Round 10 complete____________________________
Bryson-Demon Ape again tries to grab hold of the undead.
Seizing upon the opening as the mummy moved out of the sarcophagus, Ghirrak strikes with the force of a sledgehammer.
Ghirrak then continued his unrelenting attack, trying to destroy the mummy quickly so they could save Marius.
Missed.
Hit for
Hit for
Still in a panic and badly bruised, Burian whips his hair ineffectively at the final mummy.
Sunny scoots under the melee and tries to drag poor Marius to safety... Well, to some where safer than right next to the Mummy, least ways.
The mummy turned its attention to Ghirrak.
for a possible bludgeoning damage.
Round 11____________________________
Players take their turn in order of posting, enemies will go last.
Bryson's frustration grows as the mummy proves exceedingly difficult to get hold of, so he stops trying and instead just tries to put it down.
Bite: gtr magic fang, flank
Claw: gtr magic fang, flank
Claw: gtr magic fang, flank
The battle is over.
Bryson-Demon Ape lets out a roar before looking for someone else to kill. As he looks around, though, he sees only friends. It is Marius' prone form that brings him out of it, though. He changes back to his more human form before going over to cast his last healing spell on him.
Cure Moderate Wounds
Marius spent a bit of time sucking in deep, painful breaths, trying to replenish the air in his lungs.
"Thank you all," he said finally, in heartfelt fashion, "Can we move on before any more turn up?"
Sunny fiercly hugs poor Marius.
Inside the sarcophagus rests the skeletal corpse of an olman high priest. The long dead shaman holds a blue stone rod in one hand and a masterwork silver dagger in the other. Around his neck is a golden medallion inset with a shining pink pearl.
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Take it all and burn the body.
The blue stone rod actually looks like it might be part of a mechanism you saw in the gate room to the East.
Sunny does her best to help poor Marius as well as the folks they're traveling with.
Returning to the Great Gates room, you play around with the red and blue rods, and they seem to fit perfectly in the ratchet pillars mechanism.
When you decide to try, pushing the rods rotates the pillars with a stone and metal clattering, and slowly the great doors unseal and grind open.
Brilliant sunlight and blue skys appear, making your dark adapted eyes water. Fresh salt air and the cry of seagulls from the world outside floods in.
Even through slitted and shaded eyes Sunny staggers outside. Greatfully basking in the day's warm sun shine.
Descending the last seaweed choked stairway, you find yourselves on a slick stone platform a couple feet over the sea level.
You are facing south. The cliffs behind and over you lead around to the left and north out of sight. To the right, they lead east and south to form a shallow bay.
Sunny rests in the lee of the entrance. Taking in the sights of this new outside. Enjoying the sunshine after so many hours (Days?) in the dark and musty underground.
As others gather beside her the tanned Elf tries to watch for ripples in the deeper weater's surface, seeing if there's any indication of larger creatures swimming about beneath the surface.
Helping everyone back to the room after making sure that the body is destroyed, Ghirrak finally breathes a sigh of relief as the path of the mountain pass opens before them. "Get patched up, then we get back to everyone else and get them through. There's water and places to rest before we move on."
Helping everyone back to the room after making sure that the body is destroyed, Ghirrak finally breathes a sigh of relief as the path of the mountain pass opens before them. "Get patched up, then we get back to everyone else and get them through. There's water and places to rest before we move on."
At Ghirrak's words Sunny deftly slips into the shallow waters simply to get back to her nature and relax......
As Sunny dives into the water, she sees something she didn't think possible. A crab the size of a house rose slowly into view, turning towards her...
(_o)
Sunny jumps out of the water as if she'd been possesed by a startled fish.
"Is HUGE !" Is her immediate exclamation, even as she waves her arms back at the ocean for emphasis.
"Damn it! If it isn't one thing it's another." Ghirrak mutters moving to the water;s edge and preparing to engage the giant crab.
At the very least everyone would eat well after this.
With nothing food like in the offering, the monstrous crab submerged out of sight.
Sunny sags against the rock wall/cliff face (Having ended up as far away from the water as she could).
"Goin' swimmin' in't gon'a be tha' bestest thing here abouts." She opines.
I dun't like bein' bait." :(
"Ah could go fishin' if you want?"
Sunny looks dubiously at the area where the crab went down.... Then at Master Bryson.
She's unsure if there's enough Bryson to match that amount of crab.
"If we can get across without a fight, that would be ideal, but we might still need to warn it off," Marius observed.
He appreciated being out in the sunlight. Less so the prospect of fighting a giant crab.
You have time to rest up and bring the castaways further forward. That crab doesn't seem to be in a hurry to attack.
Bryson can be really big too.
"Get some rest, then we'll go back and gather everyone and bring them in." Ghirrak says, finally relaxing slightly.
Over the next few hours, you bring the castaways up the tunnels you've cleared right up to the open doors. There they all wonder at the sun and fresh air, and you have to manually prevent them from charging right out onto the ancient docks. (Tavey and Prof. Forol)
Once someone with mechanical experience fixes the fountain, eveyone has fresh water.
Some of the experienced ones sit on the bridgeways and try fishing for the blind fish down below.
