Tiera is quick to enhance her weapon and edge forward, though she takes care not to charge too far ahead of her allies. Instead, she directs a blast of missiles at the walking worm in the back, which connect and leave numerous small burns marks in the thing's clothing. As she does this, Guy can feel the earlier magic he cast over you all fade away.
The Ghost Writer slinks over to the northern wall and fires an arrow at Blue Ghoul - but even with having caught the ghoul unawares, the shot misses and harmlessly *plinks* off the far wall.
*HISSSSSS!*
All four of the ghouls move to attack, filthy claws grasping and teeth gnashing in anticipation! Pink and Green head for Tiera while Blue and Orange go for the Ghost Writer...
...but none of them manage to gain purchase with their sharp teeth. Orange spends all his energy just getting up into the Ghost Writer's space to begin with.
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Molos
Bubba
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Walking-Worm-Thing
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Ghost Writer
Tiera
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Ghouls
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Aiden
Guy
Active Conditions: None
Environmental Conditions: None
Aiden, Guy are UP at the bottom of Round 1 and Molos, Bubba are UP at the top of Round 2!
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"Rawr Bubba hungry for BRAINZ!" Moans little Ho-tep as he lurches ahead to stab at the blue ghoul. As always, he's mindful of protecting himself from a counter attack.
Underfoot Assault (Ex): At 1st level, if a foe whose size is larger than the mouser’s is adjacent to her and misses her with a melee attack, the mouser can as an immediate action spend 1 panache point to move 5 feet into an area of the attacker’s space. This movement does not count against the mouser’s movement the next round, and it doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity. While the mouser is within a foe’s space, she is considered to occupy her square within that foe’s space. While the mouser is within her foe’s space, the foe takes a –4 penalty on all attack rolls and combat maneuver checks not made against the mouser, and all of the mouser’s allies that are adjacent to both the foe and the mouser are considered to be flanking the foe. The mouser is considered to be flanking the foe whose space she is within if she is adjacent to an ally who is also adjacent to the foe. The mouser can move within her foe’s space and leave the foe’s space unhindered and without provoking attacks of opportunity, but if the foe attempts to move to a position where the mouser is no longer in its space, the movement provokes an attack of opportunity from the mouser. This deed replaces opportune parry and riposte.
As Pink Ghoul attempts to clumsily strike at Tiera the sylph easily parries the attack and strikes back with one of her own, obliterating the undead menace!
'Bubba' and Aiden move to tag-team Blue Ghoul, knives slicing and dicing wide wounds into the creature's skin, while Guy whips out his rod and delivers a fiery blast directly into the temple!
Blue completely fails to avoid the blast and is incinerated, while Green manages to partially duck the blast - yet the fire is still too hot, too powerful, and Green also collapses in a blackened heap! Molos continues focusing on the wormy spellcaster, delivering another round of missiles to the face.
"Hmm...seems you need something else to occupy your time," the walking worm hisses as he begins casting yet another spell...
It's Summon Swarm.
...and suddenly a swarm of tiny spiders appears, scuttling forward and crawling all over the tiefling, biting him repeatedly! The walking worm chuckles darkly and those of you watching can see that some of the wounds left by Molos' missiles seem to be mending.
Oogh...you suddenly feel nauseated!
Ugh...you feel as though the spider bites are sapping your strength!
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Molos
Bubba
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Walking-Worm-Thing
Spider Swarm
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Ghost Writer
Tiera
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Orange Ghoul
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Aiden
Guy
Active Conditions: None
Environmental Conditions: None
Ghost Writer and Tiera are UP!
While Molos feels some of his strength being sapped by the spidery swarm the Ghost Writer drops his bow and rips into the Orange Ghoul in front of him with his own teeth and claws, tearing the undead to pieces in short order!
Tiera advances on the wormy menace, attempting to trip him using her innate powers of wind but her foe remains standing - for now.
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Molos
Bubba
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Walking-Worm-Thing
Spider Swarm
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Ghost Writer
Tiera
Aiden
Guy
Active Conditions: None
Environmental Conditions: None
Aiden, Guy are UP at the bottom of Round 2 and Molos, Bubba are UP at the top of Round 3!
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Guy unloads another offensive spell and attempts to blind and harm the wormy fellow with a DC 20 Burst of Radiance
, since I'm betting this thing has spell resistance.
then he backs up 20', worried that the swarm will come after him.
Surprised but pleased to find the way forward clear of ghouls, Bubba leaves the swarm to those better equipped to deal with such things and hustles forward, drawing out a special vial of holy water as he does.
From back in the back, Guy continues flinging spells into the room, this time conjuring a bright burst of light in Wormy's face! He notes that he doesn't feel any unusual resistance against his magics.
The light burns, but Wormy manages to avert his face quickly enough to avoid being completely blinded. Still, the light is dazzling in its intensity...
...and leaves Wormy shaking his head to clear the floaters in his vision. Aiden is quick to follow this up by throwing a net over the ghastly creature, leaving him entangled!
Also back at the back, Molos double-times it out of the spider swarm, hoping that maybe it won't follow him. Still, the spider venom continues to work in his veins.
"Bah! Enough of this!" Wormy cries out as he attempts to cast yet another spell, which is made difficult by the barbed net covering him...
Displacement.
...and pulls it off, but you don't see any noticeable effect. You do see that his wounds are continuing to slowly mend, though.
The spider swarm continues to swarm, moving to engulf the Ghost Writer as he is now closest to it! He feels the sickening scuttle of many tiny legs and numerous pinprick bites...
Oogh...you feel nauseated!
Ugh...the spider's bites seem to be sapping your strength!
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Molos
Bubba
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Walking-Worm-Thing
Spider Swarm
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Ghost Writer
Tiera
Aiden
Guy
Active Conditions: None
Environmental Conditions: None
Ghost Writer, Tiera, Aiden, Guy are UP at the bottom of Round 3 and Molos, Bubba are UP at the top of Round 4!
A bit alarmed by the woozy feeling that comes from the spider bites the Ghost Writer is quick to pull out an antitoxin and chug it down, hoping to ward off any additional ill effects.
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Molos
Bubba
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Walking-Worm-Thing
Spider Swarm
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Ghost Writer
Tiera
Aiden
Guy
Active Conditions: None
Environmental Conditions: None
Tiera, Aiden, Guy are UP at the bottom of Round 3 and Molos, Bubba are UP at the top of Round 4!
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Seeing the spiders disappear from view, Guy sighs in releif and moves up towards the entrance only to come to an abrupt stop when the swarm comes into view again.
Uh, oh. That was a mistake.
He's no wizard and does not have a bunch of blaster spells available to him, so the swarm is a real threat.
Oh well, nothing I can do about it.
After rummaging through his spell repertoir, he decides he needs to be a little closer and begins moving again.
Seeing an opportunity, Aiden tears into Wormy with his ghoulish teeth and claws...
...but both claw swipes inexplicably miss as Wormy turns out to not be quite where Aiden expected! Perhaps a result of whatever magic he invoked moments ago? Aiden *is* able to sink his teeth into the vile mess but finds that the creature seems remarkably resilient to the attack, shrugging off most of the damage.
Molos fares better though as he shrugs off the spider poison and blasts Wormy with another round of magical missiles!
Back at the back, Guy finally summons up some courage and dashes into the temple, past the writhing swarm in the corner.
Tiera conjures lightning into her hand and moves up to deliver a powerful strike...
...but runs into the same issue that Aiden did and misses!
Bubba races forward and gets up into Wormy's face along with Aiden and Tiera, adopting a defensive stance to bolster his allies.
"You fight well...but it won't be enough!" Wormy laughs as he takes a step away from Tiera and adopts a defensive position as he attempts to cast a spell...
Vampiric Touch.
...and manages to pull it off, somehow! He reaches out towards Aiden...
...grasping nothing but thin air!
The spiders continue to swarm over Ghost Writer, biting and biting...
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Molos
Bubba
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Walking-Worm-Thing
Spider Swarm
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Ghost Writer
Tiera
Aiden
Guy
Active Conditions: None
Environmental Conditions: None
Ghost Writer, Tiera, Aiden, Guy are UP at the bottom of Round 4 and Molos, Bubba are UP at the top of Round 5!
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Guy moves up a bit closer and activates what he likes to call his 'share the glory' ability which produces an Aura of Heroism that affects everyone within 30' of him and provides the benefits of the spell of like name.
Hoping to bolster his allies against Wormy, Guy edges a bit closer to the melee and calls upon Sarenrae's glory to bless all those around him!
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Molos
Bubba
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Walking-Worm-Thing
Spider Swarm
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Ghost Writer
Tiera
Aiden
Guy
Active Conditions: Aura of Heroism (30 ft. aura centered on Guy)
Environmental Conditions: None
Tiera, Aiden are UP at the bottom of Round 4 and Molos, Bubba are UP at the top of Round 5!
Eager to escape the annoying swarm the Ghost Writer unfurls his wings and takes to the air!
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Molos
Bubba
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Walking-Worm-Thing
Spider Swarm
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Ghost Writer
Tiera
Aiden
Guy
Active Conditions: Aura of Heroism (30 ft. aura centered on Guy)
Environmental Conditions: None
Tiera, Aiden are UP at the bottom of Round 4 and Molos, Bubba are UP at the top of Round 5!
Realizing that his more melee-oriented companions are having some trouble Molos continues blasting away with his magical missiles, leaving Wormy full of holes and appearing on the verge of collapse.
Luckily, a bit of teamwork from Aiden and Bubba finally puts an end to the mess - Aiden's blade connects and manages to do just enough damage to finish the nasty spellcaster off for good!
"Heh...no matter," he laughs weakly as he staggers and drops to his knees. "You will perish, just as the Society will perish, when the Great Worm arrives! Listen! It comes..."
The creature collapses into a pile of individual worms that writhe and wriggle weakly before slowly growing still; his summoned spider swarm also dissipates. An eerie silence falls over the temple...but as you listen, you become aware of a rumbling sound that grows louder and louder...and comes from below the stones beneath your feet.
The tremors grow both more violent and more rapid until suddenly the earth bulges up and explodes in a shower of dust and mud! Rising from the hole is a nightmarish creature made of putrid flesh and noxious fluids. Vaguely wormlike, this huge creature's mouth is made of rows of teeth and retracting mandibles. Unable to sense the one that summoned it, the worm rears back...
...and moves to attack!
It's a ghoul worm - definitely an undead creature!
The worm has an abundance of targets within its reach and it lunges after...
...the sylph!
But Tiera manages to parry against the oncoming mass of teeth! She attempts to make a retaliatory strike against her attacker but the worm pulls back just in time and blade narrowly misses!
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Molos
Bubba
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Big Worm
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Ghost Writer
Tiera
Aiden
Guy
Active Conditions: Aura of Heroism (30 ft. aura centered on Guy)
Environmental Conditions: None
Ghost Writer, Tiera, Aiden, Guy are UP at the bottom of Round 5 and Molos, Bubba are UP at the top of Round 6!
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Aiden takes a small step back as the worm engulfs the ground. Seeing the group surrounding it, the undead Chelaxian smirks. "Small worms or big ones, I think you'll die the same!" He frenzies the worm with claws and fangs.
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Not-Worm Guy tries to figure out what Worm Guy is and has absolutely no luck at all.
He keeps that aura up and going, as everyone could use a boost right now.
Guy if frozen stiff with fear for a second, and then starts sidling backwards to get away.
Having no idea what the reach of this thing is he opts to cast a simple spell defensively and hope that it is at partly undead.
"If this works, do not attack it or it will break the spell..."
It goes off and let's see if it is susceptible to a DC 18 command undead.
"Hold still creature of death!"
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Bubba hisses at worm guy as he curses the group, pausing for a few moments as he listens/feels the ground beneath his feet. "Big worm!?! Bubba doesn't eat worms!" He waves at Aiden to come closer so he can help shield him from harm.
Do worms have brainz? Maybe! Best as Meredith later.. or Denny.. they'd know! Bubba continues to dance side to side in his odd imitation crab/monk shuffle before stabbing out with his dagger.
The Ghost Writer glides to the ground in sort of a sliding roll maneuver, attempting to position himself opposite Bubba. He's quick...but the worm is just a little quicker and snaps at him with rows of sharp teeth.
While the tengu suffers a painful bite, he's at least able to slip free of the teeth that attempt to clamp down on him! But man, the teeth are pretty gross and grimy-looking.
Now in position, the Ghost Writer slashes at the worm with a powerful claw, taking advantage of his position to do a little extra damage in the process.
Aiden, not afraid, also rips into the worm with his illusion-granted teeth and claws. While all three of his strikes hit home, he can't seem to blind the thing!
Molos decides to stick with what works and directs MOAR MISSILES against the worm, which seem to land with full effect, burning numerous tiny holes in the beast's rotting hide.
TieraBot hesitates, waiting for a good opening, while Bubba sticks the worm with his dagger, opening up another good-sized wound on the thing.
Having waited to see how his companions fare against the beast, Guy adopts a defensive position and casts a spell...
...but the beast seems to shake off the priest's attempts to control it!
Though quite noticeably injured at this point, the worm mindlessly continues to attack...
...by snapping Aiden up in its' teeth and attempting to slam its' huge bulk into Bubba! Bubba easily evades the slam attack and rolls into the worm's space.
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Molos
Bubba
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Big Worm
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Ghost Writer
Tiera
Aiden
Guy
Active Conditions: Aura of Heroism (30 ft. aura centered on Guy)
Environmental Conditions: None
Ghost Writer, Tiera, Aiden, Guy are UP at the bottom of Round 6 and Molos, Bubba are UP at the top of Round 7!
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"Bubba the Flash Ho-tep has you now ya big ugly!" Frankie crawls all over the oversized maggot like a similarly oversized housefly, stabbing into some soft spots as he goes!
Underfoot Assault (Ex): At 1st level, if a foe whose size is larger than the mouser’s is adjacent to her and misses her with a melee attack, the mouser can as an immediate action spend 1 panache point to move 5 feet into an area of the attacker’s space. This movement does not count against the mouser’s movement the next round, and it doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity. While the mouser is within a foe’s space, she is considered to occupy her square within that foe’s space. While the mouser is within her foe’s space, the foe takes a –4 penalty on all attack rolls and combat maneuver checks not made against the mouser, and all of the mouser’s allies that are adjacent to both the foe and the mouser are considered to be flanking the foe. The mouser is considered to be flanking the foe whose space she is within if she is adjacent to an ally who is also adjacent to the foe. The mouser can move within her foe’s space and leave the foe’s space unhindered and without provoking attacks of opportunity, but if the foe attempts to move to a position where the mouser is no longer in its space, the movement provokes an attack of opportunity from the mouser.
Dodging Panache (Ex): At 1st level, when an opponent attempts a melee attack against the swashbuckler, the swashbuckler can as an immediate action spend 1 panache point to move 5 feet; doing so grants the swashbuckler a dodge bonus to AC equal to her Charisma modifier (minimum 0) against the triggering attack. This movement doesn’t negate the attack, which is still resolved as if the swashbuckler had not moved from the original square. This movement is not a 5-foot step; it provokes attacks of opportunity from creatures other than the one who triggered this deed. The swashbuckler can only perform this deed while wearing light or no armor, and while carrying no heavier than a light load.
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Stepping back a little more, still not sure if he is out of reach. As a result he does not cast a spell but uses his blessing of the faithful ability to grant Aiden a +2 sacred bonus to AC for 4 rounds by expending a use of one of his channels.