Malgrim tries to escape the grapple.
Malgrim struggles against the tentacle but cannot free himself. He looks a little panicked.
The lion and Father Jackal close with Gnasher and attack. Fortunately the pillar prevents them from slipping into a flank.
56 damage less 3 for fast healing
Ongoing effects not mentioned below: DC 20 will save or take 2 damage if you start or end within 30' of the aberration. DC 15 will save or take a nap if you start or end within 30' of Father Jackal. See rules on Gaze Attacks for how to avoid the gaze.
Bold may go.
Seif (-0 HP, sleeping, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Shadow (-0 HP, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Aberation (-40 HP, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Rayhan (-0 HP, casting spell, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Air elemental(-2 HP, save vs doom gaze but immune to sleep)
Malgrim Gryh (-15 HP, grappled, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Gnasher (-57 HP, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Round 4
Lion (-0 HP, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Father Jackal (-66 HP, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Shadow manages to resist the effects of both gazes, yowling in anger.
Still waiting for Shadow to take an action.
The many armed monster maneuvers Malgrim inside it's gelatinous body and begins to consume him using the swallow whole ability and Malgrim takes 8 points of acid damage.
Rayhan finishes with his spell and summons another creature, this time eagle that promptly falls asleep in the middle of the battle.
So he casts an unseen servant and has it wake up Seif. Wakey, wakey.
The air elemental, having noone else to wake up, attacks the abomination but fails to connect.
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That reminds me. I forgot to make a will save for the lion last round.
The lion is asleep and Gnasher gets back 16 HP.
Ongoing effects not mentioned below: DC 15 will save or take a nap if you start or end within 30' of Father Jackal. If still awake then a DC 20 will save or take 2 damage if you start or end within 30' of the aberration. See rules on Gaze Attacks for how to avoid the gaze.
Bold may go.
Seif (-0 HP, sleeping, prone, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Shadow (-0 HP, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Malgrim Gryh (-23 HP, swallowed, no gaze attacks will affect you inside the creature at least)
Gnasher (-41 HP, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Round 4
Lion (-0 HP, sleeping)
Father Jackal (-66 HP, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Aberation (-40 HP, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Rayhan (-3 HP, remember to make doom gaze save, out of range of sleep gaze)
Unseen Servant (immune to sleep)
Air elemental(-3 HP, save vs doom gaze but immune to sleep)
Malgrim tries to punch it!
Yea, that didn't help much. If this were F2F I would offer you a new set of dice.
Awaking up, Seif-al-Din sees that the conscious world is equally full of nightmares (getting a bit of a headache in the process).
"Shadow! Shambulio!"
He then casts a spell defensively...
...enveloping Father Jackal and his pet lion in a Burst of Radiance.
Shadow then charges the thing...
Seeing Seif-al-Din rise to his feet and soak the jackal in radiant light, Gnasher smiles a wolfish smile. Then promptly falls asleep.
Yea, that didn't help much. If this were F2F I would offer you a new set of dice.
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or take a nap
Finding himself feeling dopy Gansher hears Seif-al Din casting a hex, instantly he feels himself again. He gives the Jackal a tooth grin. "Your cat asleep, ours no longer." Then stepping into the creature he attacks with tooth and nail.
Unfortunately (pun intended) you were out of range. Gnasher is 35' from you.[/ooc]
Unfortunately (pun intended) you were out of range. Gnasher is 35' from you.[/ooc]
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Malgrim is unable to claw his way out of the abomination, but there is success elsewhere on the field. Seif tries his tiried and trusty spell to try to blind and harm, and it is partially effective. Father Jackel is able to throw off the blinding effects but still takes some damage. The lion sleeps right though it unharmed.
Shadow paws at the thing and does a fair bit o fdamage. Nonlethal, but damage nonetheless. (42 damage)
Gnasher is about to collapse when the misfortune proves itself to be aptly named (if you are Father Jackal) and Gnasher shakes himself awake and attacks viciously until Father Jackal goes down! (56 damage) He even heals a bit.
The abomination sucks on Malgrim (8 damage), and lashes out at Shadow (11 damage).
Ongoing effects not mentioned below: DC 20 will save or take 1d6 damage if you start or end within 30' of the aberration.
Bold may go.
Rayhan (-3 HP, remember to make doom gaze save)
Unseen Servant (immune to sleep)
Air elemental(-3 HP, save vs doom gaze)
Seif (-0 HP, prone)
Shadow (-11 HP, save vs doom gaze)
Malgrim Gryh (-32 HP, swallowed, no gaze attacks will affect you inside the creature at least)
Gnasher (-38 HP, save vs doom gaze)
Round 5
Lion (-0 HP, sleeping)
Father Jackal (-131 HP, KOed)
Aberation (-40 HP, -42 NL, see ongoing effects for saves you need to make)
Shadow keeps tearing into the aberration.
Meanwhile, Seif-al-Din defensively casts a spell...
...enveloping Shadow in the defensive cladding of Shield Companion.
Releasing a guttural laugh as his enemy falls, Gnasher steps over the jackal's fallen body and picks up his bardiche. Shifting his feet he turns towards the aberration and lifting the bardiche's blade, chops at the creature.
Malgrim tries to punch a thing.
The doom gaze ends up harming Seif for , Shadow for , and Gnasher for .
Shadow lands all three blows (48 NL), Gnasher hits with his (25 damage), and Even Malgrim tears into the creature (5 damage) and breaks free (and proptly falls into the purview of the doom gaze so make mw a save)!
Rayhan is out of useful spells and hopes for the best in the background. His elemental attacks the tenticular beast and hits this time, adding to the perfect core of all hits and no misses.
Almost simultaneously Rayhan calls out "company from the rear!" and a swarm of wasps descend on the group, enveloping Rayhan, Shadow, and the beast. None of you can see through the swarms to find out where they came from.
Rayhan received 20 points of magical healing, and you found him at death's door, so this leaves him pretty weak, though he bustles his way out of the area so he shold be safe for a bit.
Combat card to follow...
The creature collapses, the damage just too much, and the PCs are free to deal with the threat from the north.
Ongoing effects not mentioned below: Swarms in play
Bold may go.
Air elemental(-3 HP)
Seif (-0 HP, prone)
Shadow (-21 HP, save vs doom gaze)
Malgrim Gryh (-32 HP)
Gnasher (-35 HP)
Round 6
Lion (-0 HP, sleeping)
Father Jackal (-131 HP, KOed)
Aberation (-77 HP, -90 NL, KOed)
Rayhan (-12 HP)
Unseen Servant
With a yowl of surprise, Shadow moves away from the swarm.
Meanwhile, Seif-al-Din stands and does the same thing.
Seif is not in the swarm, but knowing swarms, moving away is not a bad idea. Seif still has a standard action as does Shadow. I assume you are not taking one since all the enemies in the room are down?
Feeling his blade cut deep into the aberation, Gnasher smiles a wolfish smile, just as Rayhan calls his warning. Looking up he see's Rayhan and the others dodge out of the way of the swarm. Furrowing his brow he tries to figure out who sent the swarm and how to defeat it. Out of frustration he releases the bardiche with is right paw and reaching down wraps his clawed digests around the jackals throat and squeezes, splattering more of the jackals blood on the stone tiles. Giving a light grows he steps back, asking, "How tribe kill swarm?" Looking towards the alcove the aberation came from he adds, "Maybe find another way out in alcove?"
Malgrim steps back and throws an empowered spindle of water at the swarm.
The swarm does not move and Synn is long gone by the time you wipe it out. Gnasher dispatches Father Jackal for good and the lion sleeps off its summons. The abomination still lives thanks to all the non lethal damage inflicted.
Releasing the dead jackal from his grip, Gnasher grasps his bardiche and chops down into the middle of the unconscious aberration intent on not letting it get back up. As the lion dissipates Gnasher releases his rage as he draws out his wand. Calling to the scholar "Rayhan do you still live?"
As the fatigue sets in, he uses the wand of infernal healing to restore some of his strength. As the wand does it's work Gnasher moves around the 'temple' looking for anything interesting
Besides some gems that decorate the statue as eyes, there is Father Jackals magical bag, a +1 breastplate, +1 battle axe, and magical gauntlets. You find the lair (B20) of the Emkrah (what the tentacular thing is called) but nothing else.
Moving slowly intentionally to regain his strength, Gnasher removes the eyes from the statue and inspects the items they'd found. Carefully storing the magical items in or on his pack, he opens Father Jackal's magical bag he looks inside. Moving through the Emkrah's lair he exits the door near where the scholar was hiding. Finding himself back in the chapel's foyer, he gestures towards the eastern door, "Tribe search for more wealth?"
Not waiting for a response, he inspects the door. If he believes it to be clear he will attempt to open it.
Malgrim will say, "Does anyone know how to finish this thing off permanently?" He will blast it now and again to keep it deeply unconscious.
Yes, indeed, both of the opponents are a bit messy right now and would require some hefty magic to revive. As for the room next door, it is a bit of a mess serving as a latrine as well as a lair. You search of that area proves messy (assuming you are thorough) and not at all fruitful. While the search goes on Rayhan emerges from his hidey hole and joins the group, a bit beat up but still kicking.
Gnasher decides it is time to move on and heads towards the next unexplored door. The rest of you join him, though Rayhan hangs back, looking a bit nervous. "You sure we can't return to the villa for a break. I'm afraid I am not suitable for this adventuring stuff. And, besides, I feel like crap."
Pausing at the door, Gnasher looks back over his shoulder at Rayhan, asking, "Scholar know reason tribe not finish looking? Tribe not expect scholar to fight." He looks towards Malgrim then Seif asking "Keep going or go back?"
Not hearing any objections from the other two members of the tribe, Gnasher shrugs at Rayhan. Shifting the bardiche to one paw, he attempts to open the door.
He opens the door just to find another short hallway, so. of course, he marches down and opens the next door. This room seems to be a study or lounge of some sort. The floor is covered with thick, red carpeting, and the walls hang with deep purple curtains. Strangely smokeless braziers flicker in the corners of the room, radiating a pleasant warmth. Two long benches sit against two walls, while in the opposite corner stands a small round table and a large chair occupied by a strangely still humanoid who's form is mostly hidden inside a voluminous and luxurious yellow robe.
As the PCs enter the room the creatures eyes open to regard them with a strange and unsettling stare. When he speaks, his voice is strangely deep. “And so you are the ones to have vexed my puppet so. Have you come to deliver the Scroll of Kakishon to him? What do you imagine the jackal would do if he were to learn that what I truly wanted was his humiliation and defeat—that I gave to him two impossible tasks so that when I returned he would be ruined with the shame? You fleshy fools are so much more useful to me when your own minds break your spirits before I tend to more… visceral pursuits.”
"I have a deal for you, should you care to listen."
"Yeah, you don't seem to be someone I want to deal with." Malgrim says with a shake of his head.
Seeing the 'humanoid' hidden in the voluminous and luxurious yellow robes, Gnasher moves into the room, hoping to get close enough that when he rages he will catch the creature unawares. Then, remembering that mute girl had sent the swarm, he wonders which way she'd fled to. She was aware of his and Malgrim's abilities, but not Seif's, nor had she met Shadow yet. Trying to string the speaker along, Gnasher, shrugs, wondering if this fellow was the evil jinn from the desert. "Be not so hasty Ghost." He looks towards Seif asking, "What say Catman? Hear offer?"
Seif-al-Din shrugs.
"At the very least, I can be cordial enough to hear you out. Being an ally of that Jackal, however, is hardly a point in your favour."
Not knowing that you have already dealt with Father Jackel, he proposes, "Father Jackel has a creature bound to him. I have here," the creature produces a small vial of red liquid and holds it out for the PCs to take, "a vial of dreams. If you feed the contents of the vial to the hatchling of the Rough Seed, it will turn on him and consume him. If you do not, then he will summon the creature and you will have to deal with both of them at the same time. In return, I ask nothing, for you will be doing my master's will."
"What is the Rough Seed?" Malgrim asks as he considers just attacking depending on the answer.
The captain indirectly answers Malgrim by saying, "Rovagug is known as the Rough Beast."
Shaking his head, Gnasher asks, "You are here in our enemies hideout, you have offered us nothing. Why should we treat with you instead of killing you and moving on our way?"
Surprised the conversation has lasted as long as it has, Gnasher looks to Malgrim, as he steps closer to the yellow garbed talker.
"In other words, the Jackal and the beast are already dead, so try and become more useful quickly." Malgrim says.
Seif-al-Din winces at Malgrim's remark.
"Well, I was trying to *not* mention that, but yes, as it happens, one of them has been eviscerated, and the other rendered into goo, so it would be difficult for us to acquiesce to that particular request."
"Well, well. You have suitably impressed me. I must verify."
Unless one of you stop him he will march right on over and examine the bodies.
His eyes widening as the cloaked humanoid starts to move past him, Gnasher Bristles, "You have no manners." Enraged he begins to enlarge his paws grow into overly large claws, his eyes glow red, his fangs enlarge and he begins to froth at the mouth. While his brown hide takes on a red-orange cast to it, giving a peculiar laugh. Dropping the bardiche he attacks the cloaked humanoid with tooth and claw.