Charlie quickly repositions himself out of the room and far away from the xulgath leader's deadly blade. He and Goliath both focus on trying to take the massive dinosaur down.
HP 40/80
AC 23 (25 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Snarecraft Snares Used: Biting Snare x3
Focus 1/1
Hero Points 1/3
Goliath
HP 59/62
AC 22
Goliath can't find purchase, but Charlie manages to drill an arrow into a softer part of the dinosaur's flank!
The remaining warrior xulgath turns his bloody attention on Þóðᛞrekkr:
MISS
MISS
MISS
But the canine is too quick!
This time the leader opts for a fireball in the hall!
Meanwhile he directs the massive beast to take out the easiest looking target: Haldan:
for
Haldan hits the ground like an trapeze artists with slippery hands.
for . the wound it leaves is MASSIVE as Haldan starts bleeding out.
Round 2:
Chark (55/62): Searing Flame REF
Charlie (40/80): hit REF
---Goliath (59/62): Miss
Xulgath: Miss
Xulgath Leader: ATK!
Tiny (82/88): REF + Go
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): Go
Haldan (0/60, Prone, Dying 2): Go
Dendillion (55/68): REF + Go
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Leader: 37 (4th: 1, 3rd: 1)
Triceratops: 25
13 damage
Seeing Haldan hit the ground, Dendillion moves forward and opts to bring the wizard back with a bit of bardic song.
Dendillion keeps Haldan alive, at least for now.
Round 2:
Chark (55/62): Searing Flame REF
Charlie (40/80): hit REF
---Goliath (59/62): Miss
Xulgath: Miss
Haldan (6/60, Prone, Wounded 2): TBD
Xulgath Leader: ATK!
Tiny (82/88): REF + Go
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): Go
Dendillion (42/68):Soohte
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Leader: 37 (4th: 1, 3rd: 1)
Triceratops: 25
Chark, distracted by Haldan slumping the ground, ironically takes the full brunt of the fireball.
Round 2:
Chark (29/62): Searing Flame
Charlie (40/80): hit REF
---Goliath (59/62): Miss
Xulgath: Miss
Haldan (6/60, Prone, Wounded 2): TBD
Xulgath Leader: ATK!
Tiny (82/88): REF + Go
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): Go
Dendillion (42/68):Soohte
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Leader: 37 (4th: 1, 3rd: 1)
Triceratops: 25
Tiny avoids some of the fire and then takes advantage of his speed to make it all the way around before flurrying and encouraging the doggy to take a bit out of crime.
Tiny gets in close and manages to pull off a pair of hits. Þóðᛞrekkr can't do the same though.
Round 3:
Chark (29/62): Go
Charlie (40/80): REF + Go
---Goliath (59/62): Go
Xulgath: TBD
Haldan (6/60, Prone, Wounded 2): TBD
Xulgath Leader: TBD
Tiny (69/88): TBD
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): TBD
Dendillion (42/68): TBD
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Leader: 58 (4th: 1, 3rd: 1)
Triceratops: 25
Charlie and Goliath continue to drill into the dinosaur's thick hide. "This thing i..i..is a brute!"
HP 40/80
AC 23 (25 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Snarecraft Snares Used: Biting Snare x3
Focus 1/1
Hero Points 1/3
Goliath
HP 59/62
AC 22
Charlie takes the brunt of the fireball before returning fire.
Another opening, and another arrow from Charlie. This time Goliath gets lucky when the dinosaur is focused more on Tiny, leaving an opening.
Still the brute has a LOT of fight left in it.
Round 3:
Chark (29/62): Go
Charlie (17/80): hit
---Goliath (59/62): Hit
Xulgath: TBD
Haldan (6/60, Prone, Wounded 2): TBD
Xulgath Leader: TBD
Tiny (69/88): TBD
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): TBD
Dendillion (42/68): TBD
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Leader: 58 (4th: 1, 3rd: 1)
Triceratops: 60
Focus on the rider! Chark shouts. And Haldan, get out of the room!
She gathers a ball of yellow-white flame into her hand and flings it at the rider, but it sputters harmlessly off to one side.
In the corner, the xulgath pulls back to focus on Tiny, opting for two big swings of the axe:
MISS
Round 3:
Chark (29/62): Miss
Charlie (17/80): hit
---Goliath (59/62): Hit
Xulgath: Hit
Haldan (6/60, Prone, Wounded 2): Go
Xulgath Leader: TBD
Tiny (69/88): TBD
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): TBD
Dendillion (42/68): TBD
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Leader: 58 (4th: 2, 3rd: 1)
Triceratops: 60
Haldan wakes up and feels his ribs hurting. He assumes he passed out from laughing so hard but then thinks otherwise when he feels how much it hurts to get up. He slinks out of the room and then drops an anvil on top of the leader’s head.
Haldan risks the move and quickly drops an anvil, replete with birdy sounds. The anvil strikes the xulgath, leaving him ever more severely injured.
In retaliation he fires off a potent Acid Arrow at Chark
for and .
The dinosaur keeps on Tiny:
for
Round 3:
Chark (2/62, 1d6 Acid): Miss
Charlie (17/80): hit
---Goliath (59/62): Hit
Xulgath: Hit
Haldan (6/60, Prone, Wounded 2): Anvil (The Story of Anvil)
Xulgath Leader: ATK[b]
Tiny (49/88): Go
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): Go
Dendillion (42/68): Go
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Leader: 76 (4th: 3, 3rd: 1)
Triceratops: 60
Tiny spends a moment to tend to his own wounds.
Tiny then lays into the flanked leader.
With a whistle Þóðᛞrekkr follows up with some chompage from the other side.
Tiny sees to his own wounds and then he and Þóðᛞrekkr focus on the leader. The attacks are brutal! The xulgath's wounds will be fatal any second with the amount of blood flowing!
Round 3:
Chark (2/62, 1d6 Acid): Miss
Charlie (17/80): hit
---Goliath (59/62): Hit
Xulgath: Hit
Haldan (6/60, Prone, Wounded 2): Anvil (The Story of Anvil)
Xulgath Leader: ATK
Tiny (70/88): Crit
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): Hit
Dendillion (42/68): Go
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Leader: 114, Bleed 1d4 (4th: 3, 3rd: 1)
Triceratops: 60
Concerned about the rapidly appearing wounds on Chark now, the great bard plays a soothing song for her.
He then takes a careful step forward.
Chark feels life returning as Dendillion soothes her wounds!
Round 4:
Chark (28/62, 1d6 Acid): Go
Charlie (17/80): Go
---Goliath (59/62): Go
Xulgath: TBD
Haldan (6/60, Prone, Wounded 2): TBD
Xulgath Leader: TBD
Tiny (70/88): TBD
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): TBD
Dendillion (42/68): TBD
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Leader: 114, Bleed 1d4 (4th: 3, 3rd: 1)
Triceratops: 60
Every joint in Charlie's body aches as his skin is crisped by the fireball. The movements bring excruciating pain but he needs to get through the dinosaur to that caster.
HP 17/80
AC 23 (25 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Snarecraft Snares Used: Biting Snare x3
Focus 1/1
Hero Points 1/3
Goliath
HP 59/62
AC 22
Trusting that the leader will succumb any second, Charlie turns Goliath on the dinosaur. Both bear and bow find their targets.
Round 4:
Chark (28/62, 1d6 Acid): Go
Charlie (17/80): hit
---Goliath (59/62): hit
Xulgath: TBD
Haldan (6/60, Prone, Wounded 2): TBD
Xulgath Leader: TBD
Tiny (70/88): TBD
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): TBD
Dendillion (42/68): TBD
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Leader: 114, Bleed 1d4 (4th: 3, 3rd: 1)
Triceratops: 77
Chark lets fly with a jolt of fire-red electricity, targeting the leader and the dinosaur.
She then evokes a disc of force for protection.
The leader laughs heartily at the pathetic attempt to finish him off! The axe-wielding xulgath swings repeatedly at Tiny, hoping to bring him down:
for
Round 4:
Chark (27/62, 1d6 Acid): Super Miss
Charlie (17/80): hit
---Goliath (59/62): hit
Xulgath: ATK
Haldan (6/60, Wounded 2): Go
Xulgath Leader: TBD
Tiny (44/88): TBD
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): TBD
Dendillion (42/68): TBD
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Leader: 114, Bleed 1d4 (4th: 3, 3rd: 1)
Triceratops: 77
Haldan doesn't really care for the laugh. He strides into the room and tosses a tiny ball of fire to the other side of the room.
Haldan leans in to see if he's still laughing...
In the second after Tiny shudders from the hit, Haldan opens with a banger.
Indeed! The leader laughs as hard as ever, spitting blood as he does so! With one final act of defiance he casts a spell on the dinosaur. The creature speeds up to a blur!
and with that he falls off to his death.
The dinosaur lashes out chaotically:
MISS
for
MISS
for
Round 4:
Charlie (17/80): hit
---Goliath (59/62): hit
Xulgath: ATK
Haldan (0/60, Dying 3): Dying THREE
Chark (0/62, 1d6 Acid): Dying 2
Hasted Triceratops: ATK
Tiny (44/88): Go
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): Go
Dendillion (42/68): Go
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Triceratops: 101
Þóðᛞrekkr takes a bit out of dinosaur crime.
Enfeebled, Tiny retreats to heal his allies.
Some more successful than others.
Dendillion plays yet more soothing music, this time funneling the magically-enhanced sounds to close Haldan's constantly reappearing wounds.
He then transitions from the lilting tones to a more upbeat jig, the sound inspiring the group to greatness.
Þóðᛞrekkr takes some flesh from the dinosaur's leg! Meanwhile Tiny heals Chark, but accidentally wounds the dying Haldan even more. Thankfully Dendillion comes in to bring him back from death's door with an upbeat jig to boot.
Round 5:
Charlie (17/80): Go
---Goliath (59/62): Go
Xulgath: TBD
Haldan (13/60, Wounded 3, prone): TBD
Chark (21/62, 1d6 Acid, Wounded 2, prone): TBD
Hasted Triceratops: TBD
Tiny (44/88): TBD
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): TBD
Dendillion (42/68): TBD
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Triceratops: 111
"T..t..tear it down!" Charlie and Goliath put everything they have inot the massive beast.
HP 17/80
AC 23 (25 w/ shield)
Wooden Shield 12/12; [AC Bonus +2: [Hardness 3] [HP/BT 12(6)]
Snarecraft Snares Used: Biting Snare x3
Focus 1/1
Hero Points 1/3
Goliath
HP 59/62
AC 22
Only a single arrow penetrates the dinosaur's defenses, though it sinks deep.
The singular warrior swings his axe repeatedly against Tiny:
for
MISS
MISS
Round 5:
Charlie (17/80): Hit
---Goliath (59/62): Miss
Xulgath: TBD
Haldan (13/60, Wounded 3, prone): Go
Chark (21/62, 1d6 Acid, Wounded 2, prone): TBD
Hasted Triceratops: TBD
Tiny (36/88): TBD
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): TBD
Dendillion (42/68): TBD
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Triceratops: 124
Haldan, still on the ground, launches a trio of bolts at the triceratops. The creature's wounds are devastating, and it must be near death. Chark can see that a gentle breeze would drop it.
Round 5:
Charlie (17/80): Hit
---Goliath (59/62): Miss
Xulgath: ATK
Haldan (13/60, Wounded 3, prone): MM
Chark (21/62, 1d6 Acid, Wounded 2, prone): Go
Hasted Triceratops: TBD
Tiny (44/88): TBD
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): TBD
Dendillion (42/68): TBD
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White:
Triceratops: 136
Chark, fresh out of gentle breezes, does have other magic at her disposal. She scrambles to her feet and sends a jolt of fire-red electricity at both the dinosaur and the remaining xulgath.
Chark lobs a spell forth:
CRIT FAIL
Fail
And it electrocutes the dinsoaur! With a crash the massive beast falls to the floor.
Round 5:
Charlie (17/80): Hit
---Goliath (59/62): Miss
Xulgath: ATK
Haldan (13/60, Wounded 3): MM
Chark (19/62, 1d6 Acid, Wounded 2): Kill!
Tiny (44/88): Go
---Þóðᛞrekkr (54/60): Go
Dendillion (42/68): Go
-----------------------------
Location: Lower Moonstone Hall
White: 24
Triceratops: 136
Tiny leaps back into the fray, first sending Þóðᛞrekkr to take a bite out of crime, before following up by vaulting over a coffin and flank the remaining Xulgath.
With the triceratops dead, the party closes in. Tiny and Þóðᛞrekkr combine to drop the final foe!
"Shelyn's sweet teets, that was a harrowing experience," Dendillion sags as the adrenaline leaves his body. "Why is everything so insistent on killing us?"
The acid dilutes on Chark's skin as she manifests some healing.
Shall we search what remains here?
As if answering Chark's question, the ghost of Ulthadar appears over his grave site and says, Indeed Chark Torefi. My worldly possessions are yours, in gratitude for your aid.” The lid over Ulthadar’s grave moves smoothly and silently aside. “But I ask that you respect my peers in the way these trespassers would not. Sanctify and shelter their remains.” Ulthadar then fades away.
Of course, Chark says at once, setting to the consecration at once.
Leaving the bodies for others, Chark moves to the first tomb. She intones a prayer of consecration, and moves the slab over the tomb. A greater sense of peace permeates the air.
Dendillion takes a moment to look over what worldly possessions Ultadar had in his tomb.
Dendillion Ulthadar’s grave contains a moderate antidote, a magical tourmaline sphere that he can't identify, an amethyst necklace worth 20 gp, and a silver athame worth 30 gp. There's more magic here, likely on the xulgath leader.
Chark finishes the consecration ritual (refocusing, if time permits) and notes Dendillion's finds.
With nothing else of interest in the chamber, Chark returns to the natural cavern with the ramp to search there.
Have we driven off all of the xulgath? she asks.
Dendillion will repeat his study on everything the xulgath leader had.
"I can't say I recognize everything here, but let's make sure we take advantage of the instruments left behind by our foes."
"Not sure anything could truly drive them o..oo.off." Charlie looks around perplexed himself. "Seems we have cleared out this p..p..place though."
"There are some doors we missed, though we'd need to backtrack to them."
Tiny nods "Hopefully they are full of wonderous treasures and not more Xuls"
The leader was armed with a +1 Spiked Gauntlet of Striking.