Chivivit conjures up 3 bolts of magical force which he fires at the fiend.
Pazur doesn't pull his blade back fast enough, and some of the fiend's acidic blood spills on him .
Meanwhile Chivivit adds some magic to the mayhem, further wounding it.
Round 2:
Ferrun (59/92): Go
Pazur (76/80): Go
Holton: Go
Heyou!: Go
Hostiles: ATK
Chivivit: TBD
Red: 53, 3 Fire
Black: 30
Ferrun tries to ignore the pain from the attack as he fights the Black fiend. The struggle is great!
For his third action he lays on paws to heal some of his own wounds.
Wanting a little more room to play, Pazúr ducks and rolls between the two fiends, popping back on his feet behind the same fiend he's already stabbed! He stabs the evil horror again, nearly breaking his blade in the process!
Ferrun continues his attack, but also spends a precious moment seeing to his own wounds. He connects with the fiend!
Pazúr finds his opening and tumbles through! His thrust is quick and he pulls his blade back just before raising his shield for a reprisal!
Heyou! tosses a bomb perfectly! Fire and mayhem erupt everywhere (including a bit on his friends.) The dagger misses the mark yet again though!
Round 2:
Ferrun (75/92): Hit and heal
Pazúr (74/80): Tumble and hit
Holton: Go
Heyou!: Boom!
Hostiles: ATK
Chivivit: TBD
Red: 85, 3 Fire
Black: 55, 6 Fire
Sir Holton slides into the only remaining space in the scrum. He scores a single hit with his hammer, but it's telling, and the fiend is clearly desperate! Working separately, the fiends attack their own opponents, both looking to push their way out of the room - teeth first.
for and
MISS
MISS
The other fiend, not quite as injured, lays into Ferrun with a carefully placed bite:
for and
MISS
He nearly kills Ferrun!
Round 2:
Ferrun (27/92, Frightened 2): Hit and heal
Pazúr (74/80): Tumble and hit
Holton (61/78): Hit REF
Heyou!: Boom!
Hostiles: ATK
Chivivit: Go
Red: 103, 3 Fire
Black: 55, 6 Fire
Having added some magic to the mayhem, Chiv decides to add some mayhem of his own.
He gives an evil glare twisted with dark magic to the fiend before creating a metaphysical needle of pain to jab into the demon's psyche should it attack Sir Holton.
Locked in battle like two phalanxes, both sides push. Chivivit lays into the more seriously wounded fiend with a pair of witch-spells!
Round 3:
Ferrun (27/92, Frightened 1): Go
Pazúr (74/80): Go
Holton (61/78): Go
Heyou!: Go
Hostiles: TBD
Chivivit: TBD
Red: 103, 3 Fire, Frightened 1
Black: 55, 6 Fire
With his own wounds taking a toll, Ferrun taps into his own inner reserve of strength and fights to take down Black!
For his third action, he raises his shield to protect himself.
The line of the fight is bloody and severe. Ferrun's claws twice find flesh. It's not enough to drop the fiend, but it's clearly bloodied.
Round 3:
Ferrun (27/92, Frightened 1): Hits
Pazúr (74/80): Go
Holton (61/78): Go
Heyou!: Go
Hostiles: TBD
Chivivit: TBD
Red: 103, 3 Fire, Frightened 1
Black: 82, 6 Fire
Pazúr moves as if he's going to join Ferrun in striking at the black-eyed fiend, then suddenly shifts his aim and pierces the filthy hide of the red one!
Pazúr's quick rapier thrust nearly drops the burning fiend, and he think he just might fall without any new wounds.... might.
Round 3:
Ferrun (27/92, Frightened 1): Hits
Pazúr (74/80): Hit
Holton (61/78): Go
Heyou!: Go
Hostiles: TBD
Chivivit: TBD
Red: 119, 3 Fire, Frightened 1
Black: 82, 6 Fire
Heyou! lends some support, as does Sir Holton who also delivers a killing blow!
The remaining fiend gives some ground as it desperately fights for its life. It retreats carefully back, and switches to its weapon on Pazur:
for
MISS
PASS
Round 3:
Ferrun (71/92, Frightened 1): Hits
Pazúr (59/80): Hit
Holton (61/78): Kill
Heyou!: Heal
Hostiles: ATK
Chivivit: Go
Black: 88
Following the action, Chivivit heads into the room to try and finish off the fiend with a magically empowered rock to the head.
chivivit's rock strikes hard, as does Sir Holton's blessed hammer. the fiend is rocked, waivering, and nearly dead!
Round 4:
Ferrun (71/92): Go
Pazúr (59/80): Go
Holton (61/78): Go
Heyou!: Go
Hostiles: TBD
Chivivit: TBD
Black: 117
Ferrun moves up and strikes with both of his claws on the fiend!
"You make a nice scratching post!"
Ferrun's quip about a scratching post is delivered to a decapitated fiend!
Once the party looks up from the body, the room gives everyone a sense of hope, and a reminder for the purpose of the adventure...
This storage room is jammed with lumber, pieces of broken old stone, and a variety of strange lumps of metal. A large soapstone statue of an eland-headed humanoid, wrapped in chains and locked to the floor, leans against the south wall while holding a small shield close to its chest in one hand. The chains around it crackle with bursts of magical energy.
The chains cross at the statue’s chest with a round iron plate 3 inches thick. The plate bears an indentation of the Aspis Consortium’s coiled serpent symbol, and a matching symbol is clearly designed to fit within the indentation.
Pazúr studies the iron plate holding the chains together, tugging on his whiskers with a fuzzy paw as he thinks. "Hmm," he muses aloud, "didn't we find some Aspis badges with this same symbol on them a long while back in Kibwe?" He fishes around in his pack and pulls out a bronze badge.
With a quick look to see if anyone in the party wants him not to indulge his curiosity, Pazúr places the badge into the indentation on the iron plate, then steps back to see what happens.
Pazur places the badge in the indentation. Immediately the chains loosen a bit and the padlock opens for a key.
Unfortunately, you don't have a key... so someone will need to try and pick the lock.
"Well, that's a bit disappointing," Pazúr observes. "Still, there's more than one way to skin a...never mind." He pulls his thieves' tools from his belt and sets to work on opening the lock.
On his second attempt, Pazur gets the lock open. Before he can do anything, the statue begins to move! Cursebreaker stands up with a sudden grinding of stone, its narrow horns grazing the ceiling 10 feet overhead. It swivels its head from side to side to assess its surroundings, and its shield briefly flares with the same stylized sun symbol as the floors in Kibwe’s Archive of the Sun, then fades. The statue looks east and squints, as though trying to see something far away, then trundles out of the room with a slow but determined gait.
It's headed... in the direction of Kibwe!
”Maybe it’s on its way to break the curse of those oozes and jellies! Let’s follow it. Grab any treasure you see, but I don’t think we have time to dilly dally.”
Cursebreaker walks in a direct line back to Kibwe, diverting only to go around or over any obstacle it can’t determine how to push through. Although it doesn’t stop to rest, its single-minded detours mean it moves at the same overland speed as a character with a Speed of 20 feet—16 miles per day. Given your speeds, and now that you don't need a wagon, you can stay with it or beat it there by a day.
Indeed, it does turn to tedium. Cursebreaker is loud and unstoppable enough that even the more dangerous fauna stay away. Once you return to Kibwe, you find the city has changed dramatically. The slithering has spread since the heroes left. Fortunately, the city’s healers have determined that the curse spreads by touch, and have encouraged people to remain apart from each other to attempt to contain the curse. Few people leave their homes or shops. The people whom you see out on the streets move with purpose and avoid touching others.
”It looks like we got the cursebreaker here just in time. Let’s see if it will do what it is supposed to do. I mean, it will break the curse won’t it?”
While you are moving through one of Kibwe’s wide streets, you see a human merchant tugging on the reins of his beast of burden, a surly triceratops with garish stripes painted along its frill. The wagon behind the dinosaur is plainly overloaded, even for such a strong animal, but the merchant is anxious to move away from Kibwe as quickly as possible. As you turn the corner on the approach, the man strikes the dinosaur in obvious anger, then quickly transforms into a sewer ooze! The thrashing triceratops snaps its harness and tramples the ooze, releasing a filth wave that covers it and only makes it angrier.
It roars as it moves towards you and Cursebreaker!
Round 1:
Triceratops: Trample and close
Ferrun: Go
Sir Holton: Go
Chivivit: Go
Pazúr: Go
Heyou!: Go
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"We've worked too hard to free curse breaker for it to be taken down by a dinosaur! Let's finish this thing off!"
The cat leaps forward head on and strikes at the triceratops.
Ferrun finds that his attack, although well executed, only barely lands with enough force to draw blood, and even then, this triceratops is tough. His follow up doesn't even come close.
Round 1:
Triceratops: Trample and close
Ferrun: Hit
Sir Holton: Go
Chivivit: Go
Pazúr: Go
Heyou!: Go
Triceratops: 11
Not even the size of the dinosaur's foot, Heyou! doesn't seem fazed in the slightest. His bomb causes some light burning, and it lingers, but it doesn't seem to do much.
Round 1:
Triceratops: Trample and close
Ferrun: Hit
Sir Holton: Go
Chivivit: Go
Pazúr: Go
Heyou!: Hit
Triceratops: 18, Fire 3
Chivivit shoots an evil glare at the triceratops before firing a magic rock at it.
"We've no quarrel with this creature, would be a shame to kill it," Pazúr remarks as he tumbles nimbly forward. "Still, Ferrun the Fuzzy is right, we can't let it stop Cursebreaker." Once in position, he stabs at the massive creature's flank!
Chivivit finds its like hitting the broad side of a barn, but you've got to get the right angle to hurt it. His spell and projectile both bounce.
Pazúr just BARELY tumbles well enough to vex the dinosaur. His rapier finds a soft spot and sinks in!
Round 1:
Triceratops: Trample and close
Ferrun: Hit
Sir Holton: Go
Chivivit: Hit
Pazúr: Hit
Heyou!: Hit
Triceratops: 41, Fire 3
Sir Holton also finds out that just because you connect, doesn't mean it hurts.
The burning dinosaur rears up and charges forth, trampling over Pazúr and Ferrun!
BURN
Round 2:
Triceratops: Trample
Ferrun: REF + Go
Sir Holton: Go
Chivivit: Go
Pazúr: REF + Go
Heyou!: Go
Triceratops: 44, Fire 3
Unable to avoid the trample, Ferrun strikes hard with his claws against the giant reptile!
3rd Action to raise his shield.
Ferrun gets banged around a lot, but stays in the fight. Unfortunately he doesn't hit the dinosaur hard enough!
Round 2:
Triceratops: Trample
Ferrun (81/92): Miss
Sir Holton: Go
Chivivit: Go
Pazúr: REF + Go
Heyou!: Go
Triceratops: 44, Fire 3
Heyou! tosses a pair of bombs that do little to wound the triceratops, but they certainly discombobulate it!
Round 2:
Triceratops: Trample
Ferrun (77/92): Miss
Sir Holton: Go
Chivivit: Go
Pazúr (74/80): REF + Go
Heyou!: Bombs Away!
Triceratops: 58, Fire 3, Frightened 2