Herman jumps back as the club hits his head, though there doesn’t seem to be any bruising from the impact. Stepping between the dwarf and the deer, he snaps his fingers and begins to gag as hundreds of spiders pour forth from his mouth. The arachnids hit the ground with dull plops, then swarm over the troglodytes to the south-east!
The spiders cover the troglodytes, biting with venomous fangs.
Rhyna's herbs work their magic, and Herman's mouth remains minty fresh! he then return some of that freshness towards his stinky foes by vomiting forth a multitude of aromatic spiders upon the troglodytes! the vermin themselves appear unaffected by the stench! MINT DOES HAVE POWER!! ... ...was Barzillai Thrune on to something?!? <in Kintargo, one less revolutionary freedom-fighter goes for a drink that evening... he stares at the Temple of Asmodeus with utter despair, and decides to tidy up his house instead... THEN SHOWS UP EARLY FOR WORK THE NEXT MORNING!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!>
The trogs appear annoyed by the spider bites, but their rugged outdoors bodies shake off the side-effects.
Round 10 - bold may go
TROGS!!! [green -6; yellow -12; Red -4; Purple -4; Teal -4; others fine]
Arthur [sickened round 1 of 10]
Jestyn [sickened round 1 of 10]
Dommer
Herman [false life 2/7]
Spider Swarm
Luke -4 [FORT REQ'D]
Fizzle [FORT REQ'D] // Biter [FORT REQ'D]
Grenwold -8 [FORT REQ'D] // Ringo [FORT REQ'D]
Luke start atacking the yellow one.
Luke eviscerates the trog northwest of him. It falls to the stones, lifeless. Luke then breathes in the stench fearlessly, and smiles. They call that stinky? I eat stinky for breakfast! think many troglodytes near Luke, as they somehow see a brother in this human for a split-second.
Round 10 - bold may go
TROGS!!! [green -6; Red -4; Purple -4; Teal -4; DEAD: yellow]
Arthur [sickened round 1 of 10]
Jestyn [sickened round 1 of 10]
Dommer
Herman [false life 2/7]
Spider Swarm
Luke -4
Fizzle [FORT REQ'D] // Biter [FORT REQ'D]
Grenwold -8 [FORT REQ'D] // Ringo [FORT REQ'D]
Both badger and master are immediately affected by the stench, which renders the animal unable to attack.
Round 10 - bold may go
TROGS!!! [green -6; Red -4; Purple -4; Teal -4; DEAD: yellow]
Arthur [sickened round 1 of 10]
Jestyn [sickened round 1 of 10]
Dommer
Herman [false life 2/7]
Spider Swarm
Luke -4
Fizzle [sickened round 1 of 10] // Biter [sickened round 1 of 10]
Grenwold -8 [FORT REQ'D] // Ringo [FORT REQ'D]
Grenwold and Ringo try to shake off the effect.
Gren is sickened, so he drops his glaive, and adopts a defensive posture for himself, readying his shield, and then trying to strike the closest one.
Free (Grenwold) - Drop glaive in left square
Move (Grenwold) - Ready Shield
Move (Grenwold) - Draw Longsword
Swift (Grenwold) - Activate Turtle Focus on Self
5-foot Step (both)
Realizing that he and Ringo can't fight every enemy, and that being flanked would be very bad, he and Ringo step over slightly, and wordlessly.
Ringo snorts as he smells the bad smell, stamping his feet indignantly.
Grenwold and his pet are also sickened, taking defensive positions.
The melee rages on!
Behind the last troglodyte to the west, a robed troglodyte rounds the corner and casts a spell at Jestyn.
A greasy coating begin to form around Jestyn's weapon, but the elf's reflex allows him to swiftly pull the weapon out of harm's way while not lowering his defense. The new type of stench carried by this newcomer rolls over Jestyn, Luke, Herman, Fizzle and Grenwold
To the east, most of the enemies reposition with a sidestep while others stand their ground. The large female begins to rage, frothing at the mouth, and advances on Herman, seemingly very annoyed with the insect bites!
plus POISON
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Most of the enemies miss, but Luke and Arthur get nicked, and the large female manages to land her raging blow upon Herman!
Round 11 - bold may go
TROGS!!! [green -6; Red -4; Purple -4; Teal -4; DEAD: yellow]
Arthur -5 [sickened round 2 of 10]
Jestyn [sickened round 2 of 10]
Dommer
Herman -12 [false life 0/7][Fort Req'd]
Spider Swarm
Luke -5 [Fort Req'd]
Fizzle [sickened round 2 of 10] // Biter [sickened round 2 of 10]
Grenwold -8 [sickened round 2 of 10] // Ringo [sickened round 2 of 10]
Luke attacks the red one.
Dommer steps back, pulling his arrows as he moves, and again lets his orcish ranged weapon sing.
Gren and Ringo simply lash out against the raging female troglodyte, hoping to maybe take it down quickly.
Gren then puts away his sword.
Standard (Grenwold) - Attack Barbarian (Grey?) attacking Herman
Move (Grenwold) - Sheathe Sword.
Ringo tries to use his gore attack on the enemy attacking Herman.
Arthur lashes out at the troglodyte who had hit him, attempting to return in kind.
Jestyn misses the lizard, unaccustomed to fight a foe with its belly to the ground.
Luke becomes sick to his stomach from the new stench coming from the west, but he still decimates one of the troglodytes advancing from the east. It falls to the stones, its thoracic cage opened wide.
The badger-mount nearly takes the head off of the trog that was attacking Luke from the west, but the reptilian warrior stands. Fizzle casts a spell at the trog leader, which triggers attacks from the leader's minions nearby!
The ball of flames roll towards the large female, which is rather slow on her feet in terms of avoiding things...
...amazingly, she bats the flaming sphere away with that menhir-sized warhammer of hers!
Dommer puts that bow of his to work and kills the monitor lizard with two extremely forceful shots!
Gren and Ringo exchange blows with the female barbarian, but she has extremely thick skin.
Arthur manages to land two blows on his attacker, but there's no force behind the strike as he tries to hold on to his lunch through waves of nausea...
Round 11 - bold may go
TROGS!!! [green -8; Red -4; Purple -4; Teal -4; Light Blue -4; DEAD: yellow, red, black]
Jestyn [sickened round 2 of 10]
Luke -5 [sickened round 1 of 10]
Arthur -5 [sickened round 2 of 10]
Dommer
Fizzle [sickened round 2 of 10] // Biter [sickened round 2 of 10]
Grenwold -8 [sickened round 2 of 10] // Ringo [sickened round 2 of 10]
Herman -12 [false life 0/7][Fort Req'd]
Spider Swarm
Herman gags as the force of the blow knocks some of the herbs into his throat and has to cough repeatedly to clear his windpipe, filling his lungs with the sickening smell of troglodyte in the process. What a stench! Unable to take another blow from the hammer, he steps away and points at the brute who hit him. He focuses his thoughts carefully...
...before speaking a single word in the language of scaled creatures that rings with power.
The large female flees down the east passage, compelled to do so by Herman's spell. She hisses and spits every involuntary step of the way!
The melee rages on!
The robed troglodyte casts another spell at Jestyn.
The new stench from the west reaches Dommer's nostrils...
To the east, the enemies reposition with a sidestep to advance on the invaders!
plus POISON
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Most of the enemies miss, but some manage to get past the defenses of Luke, Jestyn and Herman!
Round 12 - bold may go
TROGS!!! [green -8; Red -4; Purple -4; Teal -4; Light Blue -4; DEAD: yellow, red, black]
Jestyn -5 [sickened round 3 of 10][Will save req'd]
Luke -16 [sickened round 2 of 10]
Arthur -5 [sickened round 3 of 10]
Dommer [Fort save req'd]
Fizzle [sickened round 3 of 10] // Biter [sickened round 3 of 10]
Grenwold -8 [sickened round 3 of 10] // Ringo [sickened round 3 of 10]
Herman -18 [sickened round 2 of 10]
Spider Swarm
Arthur steps between the two Troglodytes in order to gain advantage from Herman's positioning, "There's so many of these things!"
Luke attacks the frog.
Jestyn flees from the robed troglodyte, suddenly taken by unnatural fear!
round(s)
Several trogs batter him with their clubs on his way out of the cave! Jestyn finally comes to a rest about 15 feet from the large trog female that's in the same exit passage. She turns towards him with a growl!
Luke smears the stone floor with a frog. It is paste now.
Arthur backhands a trog with his shield.
Round 12 - bold may go
TROGS!!! [magenta -4; green -8; Red -4; Purple -4; Teal -4; Light Blue -4; DEAD: yellow, red, black, frog1]
Jestyn -18 [sickened round 3 of 10][frightened round 1 of 1]
Luke -16 [sickened round 2 of 10]
Arthur -5 [sickened round 3 of 10]
Dommer [Fort save req'd]
Fizzle [sickened round 3 of 10] // Biter [sickened round 3 of 10]
Grenwold -8 [sickened round 3 of 10] // Ringo [sickened round 3 of 10]
Herman -18 [sickened round 2 of 10]
Spider Swarm
Dommer holds his breath in the midst of all the bad smell, and try to focus on the task at hand. He sings around shooting, using his aligned ki to be able to push himself to the limit.
When he completes, he does a small side step to a more protected position between his comrades.
Dommer puts two arrows in the trog north of Herman, killing the creature. His third shot misses as he tries to make sure Biter doesn't receive friendly fire...
Round 12 - bold may go
TROGS!!! [magenta -4; green -8; Red -4; Purple -4; Teal -4; Light Blue -4; DEAD: yellow, red, black, frog1, gray]
Jestyn -18 [sickened round 3 of 10][frightened round 1 of 1]
Luke -16 [sickened round 2 of 10]
Arthur -5 [sickened round 3 of 10]
Dommer
Fizzle [sickened round 3 of 10] // Biter [sickened round 3 of 10]
Grenwold -8 [sickened round 3 of 10] // Ringo [sickened round 3 of 10]
Herman -18 [sickened round 2 of 10]
Spider Swarm
Herman steps away from the troglodyte brutes, clutching his side. Spitting blood from his mouth, he points at the reptiles blocking the western passageway. "Get them," he hisses, and the spiders scurry to obey!
The spiders scurry around the survivors, some of them startling Ringo as they walk over his hooves and crawl up his legs. But the deer is only a stopping point on the way to their true destination - the troglodytes!
Now that Gren and Ringo aren't completely surrounded, he breathes a little more easily. He switches Ringo's focus to improve his strength now, at the expense of his armor. Ringo swings and strikes out at the orange troglodyte.
Swift (Grenwold) - Switch Ringo's focus to Bull
Standard (Grenwold) - attack orange
Standard (Ringo) - entangling attack on orange
Ringo tries to gore Gren's foe.
Luke keeps his sword moving past the first trog and cleaves a second one with his mighty sword, exposing his flank.
Fizzle moves the flaming sphere towards the trog threatening Arthur.
The trog luckily avoids a fiery death.
Biter moves north of Dommer to finish the job.
The trog is still standing, but the severity of the badger's bite indicates that this may not be for long...
Herman sends his swarm upon the troglodytes to the west. They bite the reptilian warriors viciously, which - along with the commands of the robed trog behind them - spurs them to move forward and end the source of the verminous threat, angling forward towards Herman!
Grenwold and Ringo unleash a beautifully coordinated attack upon the the trog threatening Luke, their movements and strikes complementing each other!
Down in the east passage, you hear a mighty roar as the female regains her wits and charges Jestyn!
She lands a devastating blow upon the elf's skull, sending Jestyn's thoughts spinning... blood flowing down over his eyes, and his ears ringing heavily, Jestyn's breath becomes labored, and all of his instincts tell him to make combat with this deadly reptilian female the last of his priorities at the moment...
Back in the meat cave, the trogs continue their relentless assaults on Luke and Arthur, and the three previously in the west passage finally emerge into the cave proper to attack Luke and Herman!
plus POISON
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One of the frog's poisoned skin finally affects Luke, who begins to suffer wracking pains in his right leg...
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One of the trogs clocks Herman across the head. He falls to the stones, bleeding. The trog tries to finish him off with a claw and a bite, but Herman's mage armor spell protects him, the spell still active as it can still cling to the life force still present in the witch's body.
A second trog arrives from the west passage, and tries to show his brother how to properly killing a witch, and brings his club down viciously on Herman's helpless form!
...to the amazement of both trogs, the mage armor spell still clings to the witch's helpless form... the rugged wilderness man is still alive!
The robed trog advances to the entrance of the cave, surveying the situation, and casts a spell at Dommer!
The spider swarm holds its ground for a few more seconds, chews on the last remaining trog nearby, (who cannot stands the onslaught no more... it falls to the ground, screaming in agony!) then dissipates like wisps of smoke rising from the ground...
Round 13 - bold may go
TROGS!!! [orange -7; magenta -11; green -8; Red -4; Teal -6; Large female -4; DEAD or dying: yellow, red, black, frog1, gray, light blue, purple]
Spider Swarm round 4 of 4
Jestyn -30 [sickened round 4 of 10]
Luke -16 [sickened round 3 of 10][poisoned round 1 of 6; CON: -1][Fort save req'd]
Arthur -9 [sickened round 4 of 10]
Dommer [Will save req'd]
Fizzle [sickened round 4 of 10] // Biter [sickened round 4 of 10]
Grenwold -8 [sickened round 4 of 10] // Ringo [sickened round 4 of 10]
Herman -29 [sickened round 3 of 10][Dying: Negative 7 hit points; -7 penalty on stabilization check][Unconscious][Helpless]
Even lying on the ground with his blood mixing with the remains of whatever else the troglodytes have slaughtered here, Herman is a stubborn, spiteful man who refuses to die yet.
Round 13 - bold may go
TROGS!!! [orange -7; magenta -11; green -8; Red -4; Teal -6; Large female -4; DEAD or dying: yellow, red, black, frog1, gray, light blue, purple]
Spider Swarm round 4 of 4 dmg to Purple before dissipating: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Herman -30 [sickened round 3 of 10][Dying: Negative 8 hit points; -8 penalty on stabilization check][Unconscious][Helpless]
Jestyn -30 [sickened round 4 of 10]
Luke -16 [sickened round 3 of 10][poisoned round 1 of 6; CON: -1][Fort save req'd]
Arthur -9 [sickened round 4 of 10]
Dommer [Will save req'd]
Fizzle [sickened round 4 of 10] // Biter [sickened round 4 of 10]
Grenwold -8 [sickened round 4 of 10] // Ringo [sickened round 4 of 10]
Arthur lashes out at the trog that had hit him before:
Then he steps in the direction of the Trog Queen. "Can anyone still see the queen? We cannot let her escape!"
Arthur misses, and does a minor bump on the trog's shoulder with his shield.
Round 13 - bold may go
TROGS!!! [orange -7; magenta -11; green -9; Red -4; Teal -6; Large female -4; DEAD or dying: yellow, red, black, frog1, gray, light blue, purple]
Spider Swarm round 4 of 4 dmg to Purple before dissipating: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Herman -30 [sickened round 3 of 10][Dying: Negative 8 hit points; -8 penalty on stabilization check][Unconscious][Helpless]
Arthur -9 [sickened round 4 of 10]
Jestyn -30 [sickened round 4 of 10]
Luke -16 [sickened round 3 of 10][poisoned round 1 of 6; CON: -1][Fort save req'd]
Dommer [Will save req'd]
Fizzle [sickened round 4 of 10] // Biter [sickened round 4 of 10]
Grenwold -8 [sickened round 4 of 10] // Ringo [sickened round 4 of 10]
Luke tries to destroy both frogs.
Luke's eyesight grow dim for a second, but he steels himself against whatever bad trip about to occur from these frogs, and the malaise passes. However, the temporary discomfort is enough to make his miss his mark.
Round 13 - bold may go
TROGS!!! [orange -7; magenta -11; green -9; Red -4; Teal -6; Large female -4; DEAD or dying: yellow, red, black, frog1, gray, light blue, purple]
Spider Swarm round 4 of 4 dmg to Purple before dissipating: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Herman -30 [sickened round 3 of 10][Dying: Negative 8 hit points; -8 penalty on stabilization check][Unconscious][Helpless]
Arthur -9 [sickened round 4 of 10]
Luke -16 [sickened round 3 of 10][CON: -1; Max HP: 36]
Jestyn -30 [sickened round 4 of 10]
Dommer
Fizzle [sickened round 4 of 10] // Biter [sickened round 4 of 10]
Grenwold -8 [sickened round 4 of 10] // Ringo [sickened round 4 of 10]
Go for Jestyn and the queen, lad! We'll catch up with you. - says Dommer to Arthur, as he swings his bow against the enemy closer to the swashbuckler. He repeats his three shots routine once again.
Gren curses slightly and tries to threaten the trogs in Draconic,
"hey, you idiots, fight me. I'm a tasty gnome, and this deer is even tastier!"
Swift (Gren) - Switching Gren to Bull
Standard (Gren) - Attack Red
Standard (Ringo) - Attack Red
Gren then swings at his enemy, one of the trogs attacking Herman.
Gren and Ringo move up then to keep Dommer from getting flanked.
Ringo follows up, trying to hit Gren's target
"rah rah"