The stench of death around Smiler is nearly overwhelming. Even the stout dwarf feels an urge to vomit. It doesn't stop him from striking the creature twice! and it rocks the undead.
The stench picks up with the heat of battle as everyone's breathing intensifies.
Round 2:
Smiler: ATK
Charlie: Go (Goliath needs new FORT and gets new fort at end of turn.)
Tiny: Go + FORT
Undead: TBD
Dendillion: TBD
Chark: TBD 5 FORT saves
Haldan: TBD FORT save
Smiler: 25 (17 arrows remaining)
Red: 4
Goliath Next save DC -1
Tiny feels a foul smell rumbling from his tummy big digs deep and holds it in.
Charlie groans as he watches Goliath lock up. "C..c..careful of them!" Charlie draws his bowstring back and begins firing at smiler.
HP 36/41
AC 20 (22 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Focus 0/1
Hero Points 0/3
Goliath
HP 26/32)
AC 17
Smiler ducks under Charlie's arrow, but a moment later a slightly sickened Goliath comes back into the fight!
The ghouls close in and surround Tiny, who quickly finds himself in a world of trouble:
MISS
MISS
MISS (Not flanked yet)
MISS
MISS
Desna smiles on the dwarf!
Round 2:
Smiler: ATK
Charlie: Miss
Tiny: Slashes
Undead: ATK
Dendillion: Go
Chark: Go 5 FORT saves
Haldan: Go FORT save
Smiler: 25 (17 arrows remaining)
Red: 4
Goliath Next save DC -1
Halfling Luck!!
[ooc]BOOM!!!
Haldan shakes off the stench, drains more energy out of Hermann and launches another Sudden Bolt at Smiler. Not skipping a beat, he also uses Hand of the Apprentice to launch his staff at him.
"Let's see if that knocks the smile off his face. Chances are this will not make things smell better though."
Hands on his knees and drained of his energy, Hermann instinctively grabs his crown as he feels he's going to double over but breaths his way through it.
"Couldn't possibly smell any worse though, could he?"
Dendillion curses as he realizes that he simply doesn't have the time to figure it out. He sprints back down the corridor, catching up to Charlie. (Stride x3)
Dendillion runs around the long way as the battle rages.
Haldan shouts some of his groceries. He still pulls off his spell . Smiler almost dodges the entire spell, but gets caught by some of it. It's enough, "Smiler" shakes and shudders form the spell and drops to the ground in a smoking and putrefied pile.
The other two look at each other, and redouble, knowing that no quarter will be offered.
Chark doesn't think she's been exposed to any undead diseases, but finds her body locking up like Goliath's had done.
Round 3:
Charlie: Go
Tiny: Go
Undead: TBD
Dendillion: TBD
Chark: TBD
Haldan: TBD
Red: 4
Unable to see anymore Charlie lowers his bow and runs into the room. He watches as Goliath begins to move more and more, taking some time for his muscles to loosen up completely.
HP 36/41
AC 20 (22 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Focus 0/1
Hero Points 0/3
Goliath
HP 26/32)
AC 17
Tiny steps to the side and away from the second ghoulish creature before clawing at the one that remains nearby.
Tiny then raises his clan dagger to protect himself.
Charlie and Goliath reposition for the fight to come as Tiny strikes hard twice at the undead monster. While it make lack blood, the strike stuns it a bit!
it fights back, twice trying to bite Tiny twice!
and can't get through his defense.
The other goes after Charlie in the corner!
getting him on the neck! for
MISS
Round 3:
Charlie: Move
Tiny: Crits
Undead: ATK
Dendillion: Go
Chark: Go
Haldan: Go
Red: 4
Black: 15 (Stunned 1)
Action 1: Stride
Action 2: Inspire Courage
Action 3: Stride
Dendillion moves into the room. He quickly sees the dangers before them, and with his instrument stowed opts to inspire his friends to greater heroics with the instrument he always carries: No, not that one. His VOICE.
You think you’re safe
Without a care
But here in the temple
You’d be wise to beware
The pike with the spike
That lurks in your drawers
Or the flying drake
That will fill you with horror
Need Old Nan the Hag
To stir up a potion
So that your lady
Might get an abortion
Dendillion follows his words in, rushing to get in behind the foe fighting Charlie.
Like a Chelaxian opera singer, the vocal presage the appearance as Dendillion urges the party to new heights.
Round 3:
Charlie: Move
Tiny: Crits
Undead: ATK
Dendillion: BARD!
Chark: Go
Haldan: Go
Red: 4
Black: 15 (Stunned 1)
Chark easily fights through the paralysis, regaining control of her body!
Round 3:
Charlie: Move
Tiny: Crits
Undead: ATK
Dendillion: BARD!
Chark: Free!
Haldan: Go
Round 4:
[b]Charlie: Go
Tiny: Go
Undead: TBD
Dendillion: TBD
Chark: TBD
Haldan: TBD
Red: 4
Black: 15 (Stunned 1)
Stride. Produce Flame.
Haldan cartwheels into the room and lets loose a flaming card.
Haldan's card strikes the undead between Tiny and Goliath! The flames are enough to overwhelm it. Its scream is cut short only by its true death.
Round 4:
Charlie: Go
Tiny: Go
Undead: TBD
Dendillion: TBD
Chark: TBD
Haldan: TBD
Red: 4
Tiny moves up and assaults the final undead with all his might.
Charlie quickly commands Goliath onto the remaining undead. As the bear does so Charlie releases a single arrow at point blank range.
Status:
HP 36/41
AC 20 (22 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Focus 0/1
Hero Points 0/3
Goliath
HP 26/32)
AC 17
Tiny, Goliath, and Charlie gang up on the final undead, overwhelming it. When the weapons go silent the party is safe once more.
Chark rubs her stiff joints with a slight smile. Well done, all! she says. Sarenrae will be pleased that these undead have been put to rest.
"Always nice when we can make ole Dawnflower happy."
Healed up and ready to go, the party returns to the main hallway.
This wide hall leads into the cliff face at an angle. A double door at the west end of the room is carved from blue and green marble and depicts a magnificent abstract pattern that evokes both the wind of a tornado and the water of a whirlpool. The handles are green-enameled metal leaves, each bearing a drop of water. Smaller doors lead out of this hall to the north and south directions. You have just returned from the north.
Chark eyes the door. We should check that out, then be ready when it opens. I suspect we'll face a host of folks like the guards we dispatched before we find out who's behind all of this.
Tiny nods to chark as he rolls up his sleeves, changes his clan dagger between hands a few times and prepares himself for battle.
With that Charlie and Goliath move to the set of double doors and begins pushing them open. "L..l..let's take a look."
As Charlie pushes on the door, a powerful female voice emerges from the otherside, "NOW my pet! Bathe in the blood of the heretics!"
Charlie finishes the opening the door, reveling a room of an entirely different look than the previous areas. This magnificent gallery glows with light from magical spheres set into eight twisting pillars that stretch from the floor to the ceiling twenty feet above. That ceiling depicts a cloudy, storm-tossed sky with remarkable realism. The floor is covered with mosaic tiles that portray the depths of the ocean, complete with coral reefs, seaweed beds, and schools of fish. Corridors lead away from the gallery to the north and south, and the hall ends in a massive bronze double door sculpted in a fantastic diorama of animals of all kinds: fish swimming in the sea, beasts walking the earth, and birds soaring in the sky.
The voice is coming from a wide-eyed and crazed looking hermit. Her "pet" is the same kind of vermlek demon that inhabited the bodies of the Lindell brothers.
(Scout)
(Search)
(Detect Magic)
(Avoid Notice)
(Search)
As the vermlek advances the priest summons forth a Flaming Sphere right between Charlie's legs!
The demon slithers forth trying to bit Goliath: for
Round 1:
Priest: ATK!
Haldan: Go
Dendillion: Go
Tiny: Go
Chark: Go
Charlie: Go
Charlie feels the burn as the magical fire ignites between his legs. "I..ii..isn't there an ointment for this!" He stumbles back as Goliath roars, standing on hind legs and leaping at the vermlek.
HP 19/41
AC 20 (22 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Focus 0/1
Hero Points 0/3
Goliath
HP 6/32)
AC 17
Charlie springs to action after a rough opening. Goliath's jaws clamp down on only air, but his follow up is a solid wound on the disgusting worm demon!
Round 1:
Priest: ATK!
Haldan: Go
Dendillion: Go
Tiny: Go
Chark: Go
Charlie: Hit
Vermlek: 12
Chark dips into the last of her healing font to address Goliath's wounds.
Even as the magic takes effect, she works with lightning speed to try and salve Charlie's wounds as well.
Chark quickly patches the party together for the fight ahead!
Round 1:
Priest: ATK!
Haldan: Go
Dendillion: Go
Tiny: Go
Chark: In the remaining 2 seconds takes out the correct first aid equipment and administers it. Have you ever tried putting a band-aid on someone in 6 seconds when they're squirming a little bit? Nothing unreasonable at all about doing it in the middle of combat. Even in the best of situations it takes 5 seconds to aim a band-aid even when they're NOT moving.
Charlie: Hit
Vermlek: 12
Tiny drops low into his stance as he circles into the room attacking the foul creature from behind.
Tiny's angle is perfect, cutting a solid slash across the body! though it's not stunned.
Round 1:
Priest: ATK!
Haldan: Go
Dendillion: Go
Tiny: Crit
Chark: Heal
Charlie: Hit
Vermlek: 20
Action 1: Inspire Courage
Action 2-3: Telekinetic Projectile
With his lute still away and rapier in hand, Dendillion lends his voice again to an inspiring song. The familiar beginning of Toss a Coin to Your Ranger echo in the acoustic-friendly environs.
[ooc]Cast Inspire Courage]
He then hums the refrain, letting his magical music infuse a loose tile. With startling violence it flies at the vermlek!
If that misses, have a hero point.
Stride forward and launch a card.
With a sense of urgency the party pushes to keep the battle going their way. Dendillion gets a smile from Desna as he strikes the vermlek with some of the detritus left in the hallway from the fight against the retainers.
Haldan's joker sets the vermlek aflame!
Furious at Haldan's unprepentent heresy, the priest rolls the sphere over him!
To Tiny "INSOLENT DWARF! YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND POWER!" The words are strengthened by a spell.
The Vermlek continues its death match with Goliath:
for
for
Blood catches fire as the wounds on the vermlek continue to harm it:
FAIL
FAIL
Round 2:
Priest: ATK!
Haldan: Go
Dendillion: Go
Tiny: Go
Chark: Go
Charlie: Go
Vermlek: 51
Tiny grimaces at his new deep wounds and hesitates. He takes a moment to patch up his own wounds.
but finds them frustratingly festering.
Tiny then looks back to the demon in front of him and gathers as much courage as he can.
The spell takes its toll on Tiny, but he manages to strike the fermlek with enough force to kill it! He then moves to the caster, ready to see this done.
Round 2:
Priest: ATK!
Haldan: Go
Dendillion: Go
Tiny: Kill
Chark: Go
Charlie: Go
Goliath drops from the brutal blows of the Vermlek. Charlie reaches out pouring some of his own energy into the bear as Goliath momentarily regains consciousness.
Goliath rises once more rushing at the priest.
HP 36/41
AC 20 (22 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Focus 0/1
Hero Points 0/3
Goliath
HP 24/32; Wounded 1)
AC 17
Charlie gets Goliath back up. The bear, in his short life, has seen more action than most see in a lifetime. Goliath strides forth for more!
Round 2:
Priest: ATK!
Haldan: Go
Dendillion: Go
Tiny: Kill
Chark: Go
Charlie: Healbear
Chark draws her scimitar and moves in confidently. You shall fall this day, demon summoner!
"I shall fall one day peon, but not at your hands!"
Round 2:
Priest: ATK!
Haldan: Go
Dendillion: Go
Tiny: Kill
Chark: Closes!
Charlie: Healbear
14/27 HP
Stride forward, launch a new card. Do no forget the persistent damage.
[ooc]Nice damage.[/dice]
"I wouldn't worry too much about the power, Tiny. I think it's about to get shut off.'
Haldan's card strikes her with a flaming card. It doesn't catch fire, but the burns are serious!
Round 2:
Priest: ATK!
Haldan: Hit
Dendillion: Go
Tiny: Kill
Chark: Closes!
Charlie: Healbear
Preist: 12
Action 1: Stride
Action 2: Stride
Action 3: Strike
Uncomfortable with the proximity of the flaming sphere, Dendillion strides into the room. With a pregnant pause added to his inspirational tune, he rushes to give Chark a distraction to their foe.
He punctuates things with a thrust of his rapier!
Crit? Double and add
Dendillion moves into the action, punctuating his arrival with a thrust of his rapier!
The priest reaches out with her magic, pulling the flaming sphere onto Haldan! .
She jabs wildly at Dendillion with a basic looking trident:
MISS
for
Her strikes seem to be far more powerful than they should be!
"DEFILERS!"
Round 3:
Priest: ATK!
Haldan: Go
Dendillion: Go
Tiny: Go
Chark: Go
Charlie: Go
Priest: 14
Charlie focuses on the priest as he sends in an arrow while Goliath swipes at her legs.
HP 36/41
AC 20 (22 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Focus 0/1
Hero Points 0/3
Goliath
HP 24/32; Wounded 1)
AC 17
Goliath's assault is too strong for the priest to avoid. Charlie's arrow strikes as well. Suddenly the priest's odds seem very, very, slim.
Round 3:
Priest: ATK!
Haldan: Go
Dendillion: Go
Tiny: Go
Chark: Go
Charlie: 3 hits!
Priest: 37
"I shall fall one day peon, but not at your hands!"
Your arrogance unravels even as you speak, Chark says firmly.
The priestess conjures a ball of white-yellow flame, which she slams into the demon summoner.
With abundant caution, she steps over opposite Tiny to aid the dwarf's attack.