Junebug's performance reverberates in the interior of the pyramid, ringing in the air.
The red warrior continues to attack Adora and the blue dinosaur bites and swipes at Orm.
for
for
for
for
for
for
Only the club of the xulgath connects!
~+~Group Buffs: Inspire Courage +1/+1 (3 Rounds)
~+~Combat Round 2~+~
Grey
Junebug
Red
Blue (-7)
Derrikk
--Adora (-8)
Orm (-40)
Yellow
Orange (-15, deafened)
Madame P (-6)
Sap dripping from his many wounds, Orm soldiers on, starting with the xulgath, and switching to the dino if the lizardman drops, his final attack being an assured trip against either if still standing.
Derrick and Adora tear apart the last warrior, but the trained dinosaur continues hasn't fled the fight.
~+~Group Buffs: Inspire Courage +1/+1 (3 Rounds)
~+~Combat Round 2~+~
Grey
Junebug
Red
Blue (-22)
Derrikk
--Adora (-8)
Orm (-40)
Yellow
Orange
Madame P (-6)
~+~Combat Round 3~+~
Junebug
Madame Papillon moves around the long way to get behind the creature, and smacks it with her starknife, while flanking with Orm.
:)
With precision, you take out the remaining enemy before it can do any further damage.
With the moment of respite, you are able to assess your surroundings a bit more. A campfire burns in the southwest corner of this room. The remains of two messily butchered cattle are heaped near this fire. In addition to the staircase leading up to the west, passageways exit from the north and south in this room. Three stacks of heavy stones—each stack about 4 feet tall—stand in the southern opening.
Beyond their clubs, the warriors who attacked wear gruesome trophies harvested from past victims, only one has a trophy of any value: a bloodseeker beak.
The halfling looks about, holding in her vomit at the sight of the butchered cattle. Taking a quick glace at the weapon attachment, "Much too brutal. I don't think Desna would be too pleased if i bore such brutal tactics."
"Well, not really sure what i expected from this place, but i have a feeling it's only about to get more challenging from here on out. Orm, how are your wounds looking?" As she aproaches her friend to heal him slightly. She takes a short break, hopefully allowing for her skills to take affect once again.
- on herself; yikes
- on Orm;
"Unless you can move those stones, i think we should go north." She points into the next hall way, looking to move through this passegeway if her companions are ready.
"Praise Desna!" at Papillon's medical treatments.
"North it is; looks like a village of some kind."
Madame P's healing ministrations surely make up for a little bit of violence in her goddesses eyes--even the Song of the Spheres has been known to take up her starknife against creatures of darkness.
Speaking of which, you continue into the dimly-lit pyramid. To the north, an odd-shaped room is divided by several piles of stacked stones, each stack about four feet tall. Large nests made of sticks and mud are spread around the room on both sides of the stone stacks. (One nest has two eggs in it--each cream-colored and the size of a small vase.) The northwestern corner of the room contains a large hut made of poorly tanned hides and topped with the skull of some enormous fanged beast. The eye-watering smell of xulgaths, animal dung, and unwashed reptiles fills this room.
On the far side of the stone barrier, two Large, agressive-looking dinosaurs lumber into view. They chuff and stomp as they see you, but they seem too big to pass through the stone barrier without aid.
Derrick recognizes the eggs as being from a deinonychus. They might be valuable to the right collector, if they are kept warm and safe.
"Perhaps we move on and come back for the eggs after we survey the rest of the area? No need to tangle with those big beasts if we do not have to."
Papillon nods, "This room looks like one large incubating room. You're right though, we should come back for there. Interesting however, where would these creatures even find dinosaur eggs like this. I wonder what they are plotting."
The halfling follows Orm around the corner and down through the other corridor.
Taking note of the eggs, then continuing down the eastern hallway, you come to an area where a group of three stones blocks your way forward, and a tattered black curtain conceals the passageway leading north.
"Well, shall we see what is behind curtain number one?" Papillon jokes, as she tries to carefully pull back the curtain hoping not to alert anyone on the other side.
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Orm cringes, and prepares for whatever just heard that noise.
Madame P flicks back the curtain and the flimsy barrier breaks free of the doorway, its anchoring rod clattering to the ground.
In side the now-revealed room is a chamber that contains a row of square columns stretching from west to east. The columns are covered in a phosphorescent lichen glowing with a dim, green hue. Tattered black curtains hang between many of the columns, obscuring much of the room.
When you interrupt, three xulgaths were hovering over two turkey-sized dinosaurs, urging them to jump and claw at a basket hanging from the ceiling. When they see you, the xulgaths command the creatures to attack!
~+~Combat Round 1~+~
Madame P
Derrikk
--Adora
Green
Black
Orm
Orange
Blue
Junebug
Red
The small halfling smiles awkwardly and waves, "Room service!" Not sure how the joke will be received, she definitely wishes that she kept her sound burst for this particular encounter.
She quickly weaves and raises a shield spell, and wanders forward slightly.
The xulgaths inside don't seem to have much of a sense of humor. One of them commands the murderous-looking turkey to attack, then slips behind the one of the curtains draped across the room.
The dinosaur speeds over to Madame P and makes an attack with jaws and claws!
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for
The small creature seems excited to make a meal of the cleric.
~+~Combat Round 1~+~
Madame P (-10)
Green
Black
Derrikk
--Adora
Orm
Orange
Blue
Junebug
Red
Orm re-enters our old friend Mountain Stance, springs forward to flank the dino and give Adora a lane, and flurries the turkey reptile.
Green takes quite a bit of damage from Orm and Derrikk.
The orange raptor leaps through the air to attack Orm.
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for
for
Another of the xulgaths slip behind the curtain
~+~Combat Round 1~+~
Madame P (-5)
Green (-11)
Black
Derrikk
--Adora
Orm (-12)
Orange
Blue
Junebug
Red
The red xulgath slinks behind one of the curtains hanging in the room.
Orm and Junebug lose track of him, but Madame P and Derrikk know where he has gone.
Group buffs: Inspire Courage +1/+1 (3 rounds)
~+~Combat Round 2~+~
Madame P (-5)
Green (-11)
Black
Derrikk
--Adora
Orm (-12)
Orange
Blue
Junebug
Red
"Orm, lets quickly deal with these dinos, and then follow those ones back ito their lair!" She says, as the halflig does her best to attack the creatures with her starknife.
Madame P's best is just good enough, and she takes out the green raptor. The black xulgath darts across the room and ducks out of sight behind another curtain.
Group buffs: Inspire Courage +1/+1 (3 rounds)
~+~Combat Round 2~+~
Madame P (-5)
Green
Black
Derrikk
--Adora
Orm (-12)
Orange
Blue
Junebug
Red
What game are these creatures playing at?!”
Orm flurries the remaining dino, gives a follow up jab, and then darts a distance away, keeping an eye on the curtains.
+4 if STR, +8 if athletics
Orm's flurry leaves the dinosaur stunned (1) and almost dead. The burly ghoran moves over and rips down the sturdy curtain, revealing a very surprised-looking xulgath.
Group buffs: Inspire Courage +1/+1 (3 rounds)
~+~Combat Round 2~+~
Madame P (-5)
Green
Black
Derrikk
--Adora
Orm (-12)
Orange (-18)
Blue
Junebug
Red
Derrikk downs the raptor with his arrow.
The blue xulgath strikes out at Orm with his dagger.
for
for
Then it slips back away from the monk and big cat.
Group buffs: Inspire Courage +1/+1 (3 rounds)
~+~Combat Round 2~+~
Madame P (-5)
Green
Black
Derrikk
--Adora
Orm (-12)
Orange
Blue
Junebug
Red
Pappilon moves forward, to fire her moonbeam onto black.
Junebug's flying debris scores a critical hit on blue, and Madame P blasts black with a well-aimed moonbeam.
With their plans of ambush in disarray, the xulgaths move to attack.
Strides up to Orm.
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for
Strides up to Madame P.
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for
The creatures miss Orm, but black lands a blow against Madame P, despite the light in its eyes.
Group buffs: Inspire Courage +1/+1 (2 rounds)
~+~Combat Round 3~+~
Madame P (-12)
Green
Black
Derrikk
--Adora
Orm (-12)
Orange
Blue (-18)
Junebug
Red
Orm flurries on the adjacent red xulgath . . .
... and then moves to pursue the blue one, doing an assured trip.
Between attacks from Derrikk, Adora, and Orm, the red xulgath is knocked out of the fight. The blue enemy is able to evade Orm's Trip attempt, and it strikes back at the monk with its dagger, finally scoring a single hit.
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for
It then moves back toward the group, willing to brave Adora's jaws for the safety of numbers.
Group buffs: Inspire Courage +1/+1 (2 rounds)
~+~Combat Round 3~+~
Madame P (-12)
Green
Black
Derrikk
--Adora
Orm (-15)
Orange
Blue (-18)
Junebug
Red
That will take down blue.
Group buffs: Inspire Courage +1/+1 (1 rounds)
~+~Combat Round 4~+~
Madame P (-12)
Green
Black
Derrikk
--Adora
Orm (-15)
Orange
(-18)
Blue
Junebug
Red
"Nice work! Last one!" says the cleric, as she takes her starknife and slashes away at the final creature in the room.
Pleased with her work, Papillon looks around the room curiously. "Do you think they are breeding these creatures? For what purpose, to what end? It's like someone wants to bring back the prehistoric era back to life. A time before Aroden."
Madame P wounds the creature, but doesn't quite take it out.
Alone and outgunned, the last xulgath makes a run for the east side of the room, rushing past Orm.
Group buffs: Inspire Courage +1/+1 (1 rounds)
~+~Combat Round 4~+~
Madame P (-12)
Green
Black (-8)
Derrikk
--Adora
Orm (-15)
Orange
Blue (-18)
Junebug
Red
Orm strides in pursuit of the last xulgath, and flurries, ending with a final wild haymaker.