Selter recognizes the medium sized creatures as morlocks, subterranean humanoids knows for their adaptation to the depths and prodigeous physical abilities. They are immune to disease and poison and suffer light blindness.
Not-Trixie maneuvers to the side before unleashing a blizzard of golden sparkles on the morlocks swarming Bo and Selter. "Don't let them gang up on you!" she suggests helpfully.
Two of the morlocks manage to avoid the glittering particles, while the rest paw at their eyes, snarling loudly. More morlocks continue to crawl and leap and climb into the melee, swinging their clubs at Selter. Leaping into the glittercloud causes their attacks to miss wildly however.
Green Club on Selter:1d20 ⇒ 6 Black Club on Selter:1d20 ⇒ 5
Round 1 Initiative wrote:
28 Bo
27 Purple (Blind)
25 Orange
23 Yellow (Blind)
18 Red (Blind)
17 Harbinger
17 Pink
16 White
15 Cyan
15 Gray (Blind)
15 Not-Trixie
14 Selter (Damage: 12)
13 Green
13 Black
13 Vendalfek
11 X
10 Blue
9 Narayan
GM loading....and done, stupid site timeouts. Vendalfek have anything?
Determined to hold the line, the monk stands his ground and opens fire. He decides to invoke the wrath of The Path, empowering his bow to be more effective against these would-be ambushers.
Male LG Nagaji Scaled Fist 12 | HP 90/90 | AC 23(27)(32)(36), T 22 (26), FF 20(24)(29)(33) | CMD 41, FFCMD 38 | F +13, R +14, W +14 Init +3/7 | Perc +2/4 | Stunning Fist Uses 13/13 | Ki Pool 13/13 |
I'll do my best! Provoking three opportunity attacks
Narayan hurls himself into the fray, limbs flying in all directions as he plants himself in the middle of the morlocks!
Even without the Medusa's Wrath attacks, they are all down.
AoOs on Narayan:3d20 ⇒ (5, 4, 3) = 12
Narayan collides with the massed morlocks and leaves not a one standing in his wake! The remaining morlocks lash out blindly at Selter, only one lucky hit landing on the airy form of the druid.
Buffs:
Shield Other - dur 4 hours
Longstrider - dur 4 hours
Airwalk - dur 8 minutes
Wild Shape - Medium Air Elemental - dur hours
Mage Armor - dur 1 hour
Displacement - dur 8 rounds
AC = 23 and HP = 42 of 75
Selter slams at the Morlocks. Starting with white. slam att 1:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (1) + 12 = 13, if hits, slam dam 1:1d6 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14 slam att 2:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (9) + 12 = 21, if hits, slam dam 2:1d6 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
Male LG Nagaji Scaled Fist 12 | HP 90/90 | AC 23(27)(32)(36), T 22 (26), FF 20(24)(29)(33) | CMD 41, FFCMD 38 | F +13, R +14, W +14 Init +3/7 | Perc +2/4 | Stunning Fist Uses 13/13 | Ki Pool 13/13 |
Morlocks raining from the walls behind him, Narayan leapt once more into the scrum, lashing out with scaly fists to batter the Morlocks to the ground!
If there's still a Morlock up, then he'll spend a ki as a swift for an Atemi Strike:1d20 + 19 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 19 + 1 = 34 MLGCISB* + Holy + Acid:2d8 + 9 + 2d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (6, 1) + 9 + (6, 5) + (3) = 30
As the fallen morlocks lay still and the sounds of battle subside, the faint grumbling of more subterranean dwellers can be heard from the waiting tunnels.
Not-Trixie gives Bo a thumbs-up before floating after him across the pit. "Sounds like more of them up ahead," she offers. "Those ones weren't much of a threat, but in large numbers they could become overwhelming. We should be careful."
Male LG Nagaji Scaled Fist 12 | HP 90/90 | AC 23(27)(32)(36), T 22 (26), FF 20(24)(29)(33) | CMD 41, FFCMD 38 | F +13, R +14, W +14 Init +3/7 | Perc +2/4 | Stunning Fist Uses 13/13 | Ki Pool 13/13 |
Narayan bounds along, his exuberance easily carrying him over the pits. Take-10 of a 30 for jumps
Narayan and Selter find the tunnels split into smaller branches as they proceed, but as the druid pauses by the small pit, he notices a wooden chest at the bottom, banded with corroded bronze straps.
Not-Trixie floats down after Selter. "You're right - let me take a look..." After scanning the chest for magical auras and searching for mundane hazards, the wizard carefully opens the container from what she hopes is a safe distance.
Casting detect magic and looking for traps (Perception Take 10 of 33. If no hazards show up on either of those, she'll use Ranged Legerdemain to try to open it from a distance.
Still cautious, Not-Trixie carefully moves the coins and gems to a side pocket of her handy haversack without touching them directly. "Sorry this takes so much longer - I"m just really nervous about something trying to take us by surprise," she whispers to her companion.
Buffs:
Shield Other - dur 4 hours
Longstrider - dur 4 hours
Airwalk - dur 8 minutes
Wild Shape - Medium Air Elemental - dur hours
Mage Armor - dur 1 hour
Displacement - dur 3 rounds
AC = 23 and HP = 42 of 75
Selter examines the smaller box.
detect magic and detect poison perception:1d20 + 15 ⇒ (9) + 15 = 24
If he finds nothing, he just picks up the box and hands it to Harbinger. Open later. Move now.
Male LG Nagaji Scaled Fist 12 | HP 90/90 | AC 23(27)(32)(36), T 22 (26), FF 20(24)(29)(33) | CMD 41, FFCMD 38 | F +13, R +14, W +14 Init +3/7 | Perc +2/4 | Stunning Fist Uses 13/13 | Ki Pool 13/13 |
Naryan hops along after. "Is thiss ssimply poor craftssmanship? Thiss is not much of a barricade..."
As Narayan lands on the opposite side of the pit, he notices morlocks swarming out of the passage to the left of the pit. He quickly learns the point of the pit as the push and claw at him, a lucky shove managing to send him tumbling into the pit!
Unfortunately for the darkness dwellers, his leaping flying kick from the bottom of the pit returns the scaly monk to the fray, dispatching the horde of morlocks in a blink of an eye!
Handwaving the morlock fights because they're CR4 and Narayan and Bo cannot miss them or do less damage than their total HP.
Male LG Nagaji Scaled Fist 12 | HP 90/90 | AC 23(27)(32)(36), T 22 (26), FF 20(24)(29)(33) | CMD 41, FFCMD 38 | F +13, R +14, W +14 Init +3/7 | Perc +2/4 | Stunning Fist Uses 13/13 | Ki Pool 13/13 |
Insert cinematic battle of arrows and fists felling waves of morlocks here.
The broken ruins spread out here into a larger space. The floor is clear of rubble, as if deliberately swept clean. In the center of the chamber stands a silver bubble that rises up to touch the ceiling of broken stone 30 feet above. It appears to be formed from liquid silver, with ripples and eddies continually flowing across its surface. All manner of animal and humanoid bones—each picked clean—are stacked around the base of the dome.
