Oorgatch moves in, but Steps the last 5’ to prevent that glaive from giving him a bad day.
He then tries to finish the foul thing.
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Oorgatch heads in, duking under the glaive and lannding a solid hit, although the damage is somewhat mitigated by the fiend's defenses.
Sendoski retreats as the infernal maggots in his wound work on devouring him.
The little fly devil vomits out more rats, seemingly happier to do this than be engaging in melee
Yan 69*/99 Smiting (Ref 17, Ref 17)
Scarred One
Bearded Devil -45
Sendoski (26/57) IW 1d6
Oorgatch
Blue Dash Zebub
Yan and Scarred One are up!
Scarred One limps towards Ruindelver "Hold on boy! I will patch you up, next time devil shows up next to you, block the strike with that car of yours!"
He grabs the bandages and tries to restore some vitality into Sendoski.
Than he smashes the swarm with his shield still empowered by trinity geode
He swings his shield decently hard to make some harm
Yan then moves in to protect Sendoski, strking then
Yan avoids some of the bites some of the times, but can't manage to land a blow on the Devil.
Scarred One has a much better time, smashing all the rats and healing Sendoski.
Despite Yan's lack of offensive prowess the bearded devil sees its window of opportunity closing and disappears into a puff of smoke and brimstone.
Initiative:
Yan 63/99 Smiting
Scarred One
Sendoski (51/57) IW 1d6
Oorgatch
Blue Dash Zebub
Sendoski and Oorgatch are up!
Sendoski obliterates the fly devil with debris. Eventually even the infernal wound stops bleeding.
Status:
Yan 63/99 Smiting
Scarred One
Sendoski (44/57)
Oorgatch
Scarred One hangs his shield on his back and goes to heal Yan and stops the bleeding on Sendoski
"Just give me couple of minute to patch you up."
Then he starts to search the room.
"It will probably be back... and likely at the worst time for us." grumbles the younger orc as he searches the room
There is a morlock corpse in the iron maiden.
The weapon rack holds a variety of infernal goodies though:
Two +1 glaives, a bloodletting kukri, a standard-grade cold iron shield, and three moderate acid flasks.
Oorgatch grabs the flasks, just in case. The rest he is unconcerned about. He does check the corpse to see how fresh it is.
The corpse is a couple of days old. Does not smell great but is mostly covered up by the stench of brimstone that infests everything in this chamber.
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Yah will help the tortured Morlock's soul find its way to the beyond, to rest, and when ready move on.
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Oorgatch moves up with the others, blade in hand, not worried if he messes up more diplomatic chances.
Opening the door reveals an angled chamber with anchored shackles and fetters that line the north and west walls, bloodstains obscure the stone floor. At the east and south, two sets of double doors lead out of the room; two steep staircases beside each of them lead further below.
A horrible tentacled creature, of which Oorgatch suspects is most likely some sort of fleshwarp unleashes a garbled mess of syllables and begins slithering your way.
Initiative:
Oorgatch
Yan
Fleshwarp
Scarred One
Sendoski
Oorgatch and Yan are up, this thing does not look friendly.
Yan enters his stance.
=> Stance is a 20' aura.
Success As critical success, but your aura's size doesn't increase.
Failure You fail to enter the stance.
Critical Failure You fail to enter the stance and can't take this action again for 1 minute.
And hen holds his bladed scarf at the ready:
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Oorgatch drops into a dueling parry and readies an attack.
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Yan inspires his allies and readies an attack while Oorgatch takes a more defensive posture but also readies.
It slithers up slowly, only making it about 15 feet closer before its tentacles unfurl to an impossibly long length and assault the party with a storm of tentacles from here.
Thanks to Oorgatch's parry he narrowly avoids getting crit.
Yan and Sendoski also get smacked while Scarred One suffers a crit unfortunately.
Yan does manage a counterattack as the sickening disgusting moist tentacles not only bruise your bodies but corrupted images of your own life ruined overwhelm your minds.
Stunned 2 (or stunned 4 on a critical failure)
Initiative:
Oorgatch 67/87 Will DC 26
Yan 79/99 Will DC 26
Fleshwarp -10
Scarred One 60/96 Will DC 26
Sendoski 40/57 Will DC 26
The tentacles continue to writhe, threatening any wrong move with a smack.
Scarred One looks at the creature and curses it "Your wounds will bleed, bleed until you can bleed no more!"
As he casts the creature strikes him
Then he moves in to be next to the creature
Yan grits his teeth. He refuses to believe in images of his own ruined life, though the vision of Sendoski crying over his ruined book is compelling. But no, it can't be true.
Yan moves in, smites evil, and attacks:
Scarred One curses the horrible felshwarp but does get lashed for his trouble.
Yan fights to keep the tortured visions out of his head and smites evil on the creature. A light sizzle to accompany his blow shows the good damage working, although not exceptionally so.
A moment after Yan's scarf slices by though, an extra splurt of blood follows as well.
Initiative:
Oorgatch 67/87 Will DC 26
Yan 79/99
Fleshwarp -33 | Bloodspray(10/2d6)
Scarred One 45/96
Sendoski 40/57 Will DC 26
Sendoski and Oorgatch are up!
Somehow, Oorgatch takes comfort in his past failures, realizing that there are always more to come.
He then tumbles into a flank with Yan.
and he then stabs hard with his 'branch'.
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He them parries.
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Oorgatch gets around and lands a critical blow!
Sendoski follows up by cursing the fleshwarp with his evil eye, then smacking it with debris.
Surrounded, the creatue lashes out with tentacles in every direction again.
But it can't connect.
With blood in the water, it tries to lash out once more, seemingly more interested in your demise than a tactically stronger position.
Initiative:
Oorgatch 67/87 Will DC 26
Yan 79/99 Smiting
Fleshwarp -86 | Bloodspray(10/2d6) | EE-1 | Enfeebled 2
Scarred One 31/96
Sendoski 19/57
Party is up!
Yan strikes twice, taking advantage of the flank!
Choose:
- The ally is unharmed by the triggering damage.
- The ally gains resistance to all damage against the triggering damage equal to 9. After the damaging effect is applied, the enemy becomes enfeebled 2 until the end of its next turn.
- Yan will make it stupefied 2 for the same duration if it's a caster or looks like one
Yan manages to land not 1, but 2 blows!
Surely this thing must be slowing down, it's hard to tell with these horrible fleshwarps though!
Scarred One steps north and strike the creature with his shield
Than he raises his shield
Oorgatch attempts to tumble through again, and succeeds easily.
He then stabs with his 'branch'.
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And then he parries.
Scarred One steps into the flank and barely connects with the distracted creature.
Oorgatch tumbles though, and gets chomped on by a critical bite
After that though his branch stabs deep and ends the horrifying creature, that lets out one last sickening scream as it dies.
Other than a set of stairs leading deeper and a key with mismatched teeth that could likely open a door you've already opened, not much of interest here.
The fleshwarp was most likely another defense against the infernals below. You begin to wonder how things might change with so many fleshwarped defenses defeated.
Status:
Oorgatch 21/87
Yan 79/99
Scarred One 31/96
Sendoski 19/57
As they heal up Yan searches the room for clues.
What was that ting?
Oorgatch has to sit down after that, having had almost all of his life ripped out of him. At least he was accurate with his strikes, enough to finish the deed. ”Scarred One, I think I may be catching up.”
An Irnakurse, a surface elf subjected to particularly cruel and humiliating fleshwarping practices. The process of crafting an irnakurse involves twisting an unfortunate elf into a deformed mass of misplaced limbs, loose flesh, and bony protrusions—parts that should be internal are often left on full display to the world. Irnakurse are subject to mental conditioning that causes them to hate their prior forms, and these creatures prefer to attack surface elves over all other targets.
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So, more likely fleshcrafted by drow rather than Seugathi, and a particularly gruesome fleshwarp, not that any have been pleasant.
Oorgatch shudders as he recalls the details of this rather vile fleshwarp.
Do you think they voluntarily subjected themselves to such horrors!? We must stop this fleshwarper.
Scarred One looks at the wound of the young one "Aye, this will leave nice scar!"
The orc spends the time healing others before looking through the room
Let's stop this fleshwarper. Maybe we can show them he error of their ways. Anyway, our mummy friend wanted him gone.
This room doesn't see a lot of traffic and at least for the moment is safe enough to rest up for a few hours, almost as if up until recently some sort of particularly horrific creature attacked and ate any non-seguthi who wandered in here.
Only treasure here is access to the stairs down, and a key for the double plinth jelly room that Oorgatch picked the lock for.
After a couple of hours, the party is feeling much better.
Where to next?
Yan reiterates. We have to visit this fleshwarper.
"Sounds good to me. We need to have words.
"And by words, I mean, I will let my branch do the talking."
Heading back to the south and through the arena the sludgy remnants of the behemoth still linger and stink up the black.
Coming through the far door is a rather well armed orange and purple Seugathi who just be Jafaki, accompanied by a drider armed with a glaive.
They look at you across the arena, past the corpse of the behemoth and you hear the echoes of a mental command to the Drider.
"Kill them."
Jafaki draws a wand and reaches out its thoughts, drawing out Yan's greatest fears. Naught hides even deeper among Sendoski's posessions, seemingly scared of whatever magical effect has targetted Yan.
It's Phantasmal Killer! (range 120 on this spell for some reason)
Critical Success: Unaffected.
Success: and frightened 1.
Failure: and frightened 2.
Critical Failure: Attempt a Fortitude save; if the target fails, die. On a successful Fortitude save, take and fleeing until the end of your next turn, and frightened 4. This effect has the incapacitation trait (4th level spell, so not relevant).
The drider then casts a spell and begins to levitate up.
Initiative:
Jafki (Wand)
Drider (Glaive, Levitating +15)
Scarred One
Sendoski
Yan (Will DC 26)
Oorgatch
Oorgatch starts running towards the stair, ending with a handspring to mount the first level of stairs. He is less than impressive with his attempts at derring-do.
He pulls his rapier, and enters a dueling parry.
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Yan has a vision of Sendoski finding his book… he'd just DIE.
He shales his head… no. He can be inspiring!
Critical Success Your marshal's aura increases to a 20-foot emanation and grants you and allies a +1 status bonus to attack rolls and saves against mental effects.
Success As critical success, but your aura's size doesn't increase.
Failure You fail to enter the stance.
Critical Failure You fail to enter the stance and can't take this action again for 1 minute.
The dusk walker moves grimly forward.