Blocking all of the terror bird's attacks, Ghirrak continues to hammer away at the vicious bird, seeking to take it down.
Bryson tries to maintain his composure as he directs both balls of lightning to the dinosaur next to him. He then casts Call Lightning to strike at the dinosaur attacking Ghirrak.
"Get off him!"
Ball Lightning
Call Lightning
Burian and Sunny probably had their bird handled between them. With that in mind, Marius directed his thundercloud to go and harry Bryson's bird. With a bit of luck that would free the druid up to cause trouble elsewhere.
Meanwhile, Marius himself was free of hostiles. Perhaps somewhat against his better judgement, he began circling around the front of the big lizard, intent on doing something about the remaining birds.
Burian squeezes the terror bird in his grasp, releases, then whips again.
Round 3 completed_____________________
Sunny tumbles closer,
And under Burian's hair as the large bird tries to peck at her freind.
"We is gon'a be havin' chick-ann tonight!" Sunny exclaims as she tries to thump away at the feathered menace. It's feathered bulk resisting her enthusiastic efforts.
Blocking all of the terror bird's attacks, Ghirrak continues to hammer away at the vicious bird, seeking to take it down.
Iron Limb Defense. Start and end in same spot. AC increases 2 points to 26, spend 1 Ki pt to gain +4 Dodge bonus to AC. Total AC this round 30
Bryson tries to maintain his composure as he directs both balls of lightning to the dinosaur next to him. He then casts Call Lightning to strike at the dinosaur attacking Ghirrak.
"Get off him!"
Burian and Sunny probably had their bird handled between them. With that in mind, Marius directed his thundercloud to go and harry Bryson's bird.
Meanwhile, Marius himself was free of hostiles. Perhaps somewhat against his better judgement, he began circling around the front of the big lizard, intent on doing something about the remaining birds.
Burian squeezes the terror bird in his grasp, releases, then whips again.
Terror bird’s one and two gave a warbling shriek of triumph as the young Diplodocus collapsed with an earthshaking crash, blood fountaining high into the air.
Terror bird five spent another round both sickened and nauseous.
for maybe .
for maybe .
for maybe .
Round 4____________________
Players take their turn in order of posting, enemies will go last.
The fall of the diplodocus nearly takes Bryson over the edge. Instead of raging, he rushes over to it and casts Cure Light Wounds.
Burian dashes over to the sickened terror bird, and spears it with a hardened lock of hair.
Leaving the thundercloud in place, Marius continued circling around and hurled a blast of telekinetic force at the closer of the two birds.
Sunny is confused and troubled. The giant lizard has keeled over. most of the big chickens are rady to be plucked.
But now, with the fates of the battle changing, there are still two chickens threatenin Ghirrak while Mr Bryson has scampered over to the big lizard leaving one big chicken all alone.
She quickly runs to Burian's other side. The better to help her freind against the staggering threat as well as to prevent it from charging through and it trying to eat some of the crew huddled in the forest behind them.
Effortlessly blocking and deflecting every one of the terror bird's attacks, Ghirrak delivers one final devastating blow, before immediately racing over chewing gauge one of those that had taken down the dinosaur.
Round 4 complete_____________
The fall of the diplodocus nearly takes Bryson over the edge. Instead of raging, he rushes over to it and casts Cure Light Wounds.
Burian dashes over to the sickened terror bird, and spears it with a hardened lock of hair.
Leaving the thundercloud in place, Marius continued circling around and hurled a blast of telekinetic force at the closer of the two birds.
Sunny quickly runs to Burian's other side. The better to help her freind against the staggering threat as well as to prevent it from charging through and it trying to eat some of the crew huddled in the forest behind them.
Effortlessly blocking and deflecting every one of the terror bird's attacks, Ghirrak delivers one final devastating blow , before immediately racing over chewing gauge one of those that had taken down the dinosaur.
Round 5___________________
Players take their turn in order of posting, enemies will go last.
With all the chickens expired, Sunny gleefully glomps Burian in a quick, celabratory hug before scampering back towards all the crew and helping them emerge from the trees, the better to maybe set up camp. Or begin preparing chicken for dinner... Or making sure nothing's done something to people hiding amongst a bunch of trees...
Deftly stepping over the fallen dinosaur's tail, Ghirrak takes the fight to another of the terror birds.
Bryson launches himself over the deceased dinosuar and focuses his rage on the one terrorbird. For the time being, he forgets about his active lightning balls.
Scimitar +1:
Miasma still active:
The fight, in Marius' estimation, was almost over. Not wanting to burn through any resources which might be required later, he repositioned himself so he could better see what he was doing before moving the thundercloud closer to the fight.
Round 5 complete___________________
With all the chickens she can see expired, Sunny gleefully glomps Burian in a quick, celabratory hug before scampering back towards all the crew and helping them emerge from the trees, the better to maybe set up camp.
Deftly stepping over the fallen dinosaur's tail, Ghirrak takes the fight to another of the terror birds.
Bryson launches himself over the deceased dinosuar and focuses his rage on the one terrorbird. For the time being, he forgets about his active lightning balls.
The fight, in Marius' estimation, was almost over. Not wanting to burn through any resources which might be required later, he repositioned himself so he could better see what he was doing before moving the thundercloud closer to the fight.
Terror Bird 1 screams in berserk rage in turn, and launched a blizzard of claws and teeth on Ghirrak.
for maybe damage.
for maybe damage.
for maybe damage.
Terror bird 2, stumbles about, sickened and nauseous.
Round 6___________________
Players take their turn in order of posting, enemies will go last.
Bryson continues to slash and bite at the terror bird.
Scimitar +1:
Bite:
Burian strides up to the terror bird engaged with Ghirrak, and whips his hair again.
Round 5 complete___________________
With all the chickens she can see expired, Sunny gleefully glomps Burian in a quick, celabratory hug before scampering back towards all the crew and helping them emerge from the trees, the better to maybe set up camp.
As the sound of wild combat drifts faintly over the landscape Sunny turns and peers through the trees...
"Bugger-it!" She exclaims, before ushering people to move towards the clear spaces. She brushes past them, scampering back towards the large fallen beasty the better to see what's still going on.
Sunny indicates for people to start getting ready to collect stuff for tonights dinner.
Marius simply stood back and directed the thundercloud to engulf and zap the last two birds before it finally dissipated.
Ghirrack retaliates with equal if silent fury.
Between Ghirrak and Burian, the fight is brutal but eventually Ghirrak stands triumphant over the corpse of the Terror Bird 1.
With Marius' thundercloud and Bryson's miasma, Terror Bird 2 is unable to withstand Bryson's ferocious attack. It breaks and runs away bleating in terror.
Bryson slashes at the fleeing bird
Scimitar +1:
He tries to resist going after it, staying to protect his charges instead.
As the last axebeak turned to flee, Bryson swung right through where it used to be.
The savage fury filled Bryson impelling him to go after the Terror Bird; but he remembered his companions. With enormous effort of will, he strangled the impulse to pursue and destroy.
Now that the area around you all seems to have been pacified, the rest of the castaways emerge from the tree line. They blink at the harsh sunlight, and the presence of the enormous creatures moving about the central lake not that far away.
Professor Forol knelt at the corpse of the diplodocus and wept.
"It looks like the attack was too much for the dinosaur." Ghirrak says solemnly. "Start harvesting meat from the birds"
Sunny does her best to console Professor Forol.
"There there. T'is tha' way of tha' wild...."
Before helping pitch in and prepare the fallen chickens for tonights dinner.
While the rest of the castaways pluck and dismember the fallen axebeaks for food, Sunny leads the effort to build a fire to cook the meat.
While Professor Forol wept for a while at the missed opportunity, he is soon distracted by the grasses and flowers in the clearing. Accompanied by an energetic Tavey Nask, he began to categorize the plants and large flying insects that attended the flowers there.
It hits you that two of them are diving down on Professor Forol and Tavey!
So we've had time for some healing? Bryson has one Cure Moderate Wounds and three Cure Light Wounds spells.
Bryson has a 60' fly speed. Can he fly up and intercept the pteranodons? If he can, Bryson will Charge one and try to Grab them.
Grapple: charge
and don't forget Miasma.
Marius had found he wasn't able to contribute terribly well to the day to day business of travel and survival. Fighting off attackers was one thing, but finding a path through the wilderness, helping keep the group fed and dealing with the jungle's plethora of mundane hazards was simply beyond him.
As such, he was keeping watch for any hostile wildlife which might be attracted to the rather large dead animal.
The first Pteranodon squawked in terror/rage as Bryson plowed into it from below to place it into a grapple/bite plus Misasma.
It tries to shake free from Bryson as it tries to climb out of the plummeting dive due to the extra weight.
Feathers flew free, but the pteranodon could not shake free from Bryson's clawed grasp.
They both plunged to 50ft above ground level.
Pteranodon 2 reacted
Pteranodon 2 took fright; it pumped its wings and soared off over the jungle out of sight.
Without concern for the impact of the fall, Bryson continues to savage the dinosaur.
Grapple to Pin
Bryson is just able to pin the Pteranodon's wings and claws, and both plunge from about 50ft up straight down to the grassy ground.
Both take fall damage.
Bryson make another grapple check to maintain the Pin after impact.
Bryson is just able to pin the Pteranodon's wings and claws, and both plunge from about 50ft up straight down to the grassy ground.
Sunny continues to help people with the making of, if not camp, at least dinner. (^_^)
After the damage in the fall, The pinned Pteranodon can be killed in one round of damage as you wish.
Taking prime cuts of meat, the party moves around the outside of the great clearing before making a camp to cook their bounty away from the swarm of scavengers inevitably attracted by the large dinosaur.
Making camp under the eaves of the jungle, you are unmolested due to a vigorous watch.
The next couple of days are hard work hacking your way through jungle undergrowth, brambles with inch long thorns, quicksand pools, thin streams that drain the daily jungle rainstorms, swarms of regular insects, and giant sized versions of same.
Towards the end of the fourth day of travel, the jungle begins to thin. Eventually, it opens up to reveal an area littered with ancient stone ruins.
Up high, you can glimpse mountains directly to the south; not particularly tall, but Urol points out that their best chance to find a pass lies in that direction.
These ruins are infested with spiders you see when you poke about in them, although those of the monstrous variety seem to avoid you and skitter off into dark holes when you draw near.
Spider webs caress the ruins, hanging between old walls and carpeting the floor.
At first, Bryson hopes to rest in the ruins for a day or two. He's at home in this jungle, but they had not stopped since the shipwreck and just spent a week blazing a trail. Then he took note of the spiderwebs and realized this was not a place for them to stop.
Bryson points out the throne of bones and web to Ghirrak. "We ought to keep moving."
Sunny does her best to help people as every one continues to traips through the tangled greenery.
Upon comming to the ruins Sunny's eye grow wide with wonder.
"Oooooo... Big..." Sunny exclaims.
She steps carefully along amongst the ruins seeming to want to see everything.
Upon seeing the structure with some one couched on it. Sunny skips forwards a step and points.
"OH! Looky! There be a peoples over there!" Then she looks to the webs again.
"I wonder if'n we can be makin' anythings out'a all'a this silky stuffs....?"
She ponders quietly, her mind sqirreling away again.