I think you mean the charau-ka, which is the only close-ish target, but even it is further than 30 feet (spell range is measured same as movement, with diagonals costing 1.5), but perhaps you have the movement left to get in closer?
The vrock screeches in surprise, pain, and fury, turning both in response to the lance and hearing its native tongue, looking down at Caiten out of intense red eyes.
Seeing the vrock glaring at him, Caiten raises his free hand in a rude gesture and glares back.
Lisi, despite all the distractions and the distance, you notice a small figure briefly emerge from the wooden hut on the other side of the mining pit. It must be the kobold Hezle; you catch a glimpse of cobalt-blue scales from underneath the figure’s cloak. She is small even for a kobold. She opens the door and looks out, and you catch a quick glance at a cluttered low-ceilinged space, and a fire within that produces the wafts of smoke rising from the hut's chimney. Hezle briefly emerges, a staff in one hand, takes something off a wooden table in front of the hut, and goes back inside.
Dario bursts from the trees, fires his pistol at the vrock, and continues to move while reloading. His aim is true and black feathers rain down on Lisi.
Cev also comes running out of the trees and moves to engage with the charau-ka charging the group, swinging at it with his longsword. His sword glances off the creature's hide armor, but he does stop its charge.
ROUND TWO
Initiative
1st Lisi
2nd Mokele-Mbembe
25 Vrock
25 Boggard swampseers
23 Catalina
23 Charau-ka butchers
23 Sabosan
21 Caiten
18 Charau-ka warriors
13 Yasami
Oren
Hezle
Dario
Cev
group one
Lisi, Mokele-Mbembe
group two
Vrock, Boggard swampseers
group three
Catalina, Charau-ka butchers, Sabosan, Caiten, Charau-ka warriors
group four
Yasami, Oren, Hezle, Dario, Cev
Lisi and the Mokele-Mbembe are up! Lisi, you know that if you do not command the dinosaur otherwise, it will attack the vrock, who is currently in range, given the dinosaur's reach.
Wincing at the attack, Lisi raises his shield and makes a pointed gesture with his other hand. A tiny bead of incandescence streaks towards the vrock...
Lisi grunts to the mokele-mbembe. "We need that thing to die."
As Lisi gestures to generate a fireball, the vrock lashes out twice (a special ability) with its talons.
The vrock tears into Lisi's arm (for 11 points of slashing damage, and 3 points of evil damage), but the spell is not disrupted. The fireball explodes directly above the creature (but far enough from Lisi, of course) -- the demon was perhaps too overly focused on its attack to dodge effectively (28 points fire damage).
The mokele-mbembe whips its head around on its long neck and twice snaps at the vrock with its powerful jaws. It then tries to strike the demon with its long tail.
Unfortunately, none of the attacks connect with the treacherous creature.
Enraged, and hovering just ten feet above Lisi, the vrock begins a disturbing dancing and chanting in midair and then electricity explodes around it, engulfing Lisi and the mokele-mbembe. (15 points electricity damage with a DC 28 basic Reflex save.) Lisi feels the mokele-mbembe under him shudder in pain and terror.
The staff wielding boggards look around for the cause of the explosion and at least one of them spots Yasami and starts croaking loudly and pointing in her direction. All of them gesture and chant and their staves grow vines and leaves, brimming with primal energy.
Catalina, the Charau-ka butchers, the Sabosan, Caiten, and the Charau-ka warriors are up!
Enraged, and hovering just ten feet above Lisi, the vrock begins a disturbing dancing and chanting in midair and then electricity explodes around it, engulfing Lisi and the mokele-mbembe.
Caiten watches with emotionless calculation as Lisi battles the Vrock. He makes special note of the quick reactions that the creature has - punishing any lapse in attention such as from spellcasting. He also watches for signs that Lisi is in serious danger and decides that the time has arrived when the Vrock releases an electric pulse.
With a quick twisting motion of his free hand, Caiten rewires the flow of time itself. Lisi remembers the pain of the electricity burning through him, but cannot feel it now.
"Take caution, Lisi," Caiten shouts to him. "That event has happened. I can't hold the moment at bay for long. But long enough for this."
Caiten casts ◆◆ Heal H+2.
"Lisi, are you able to bring the Vrock to the ground?"
Caiten also almost reflexively casts ◆ Stoke the Heart on Dario.
Focus Points (max 3): 2
Hexes
◆ Stoke the Heart
↺ Phase Familiar
◆ Needle of Vengeance
Focus
↺ Delay Consequence
Innate
◆ Time Sense
Cantrips
◆ Shield
◆◆ Haunting Hymn
◆◆ Stabilize
◆ Guidance
◆◆ Divine Lance
1st
◆◆ Bless
◆◆ Fear
◆◆ Command
2nd
◆◆ Heal H+1
◆◆ Shield Other
◆◆ Resist Energy
3rd
◆◆ Heal H+2
◆◆ Phantom Pain
◆◆ Heal H+2
Catalina trudges forward through the jungle to appear at the edge of the treeline, aiming her pistol with what she hopes is deadly precision.
Caiten, displaying his confidence in Lisi's ability to prevent the mokele-mbembe from harming the party, lingers near the reptile's feet, disrupting the flow of time around Lisi as the lighting rains down, and healing the druid and offering inspiration to Dario.
Catalina steps to the edge of the clearing and fires at the vrock, but the demon hears the blast and tips its wing to the side and avoids impact.
The sabosan finally emerges from its slumber and launches itself from its nest in the direction of the combat.
The charau-ka next to Cev ineffectively flails at him with a hatchet. A second emerges from the mine, sees Cev, and charges him in a shrieking frenzy. This second one connects with a hatchet for 8 points of slashing damage. The charau-ka licks Cev's blood off the hatchet and Cev looks down to about his waist level and sees a frenzied look in the primate's eyes.
The four trident wielding charau-ka all start whoooping and shrieking wildy and charge at Cev across the open terrain far faster than the elf would have expected. Cev perhaps wonders how he found himself being surrounded by a group of mad monkeys. But the trident-wielding charau-ka looks especially fierce, and three more are on their way.
A large number (over 10) of naked hatchet wielding charau-ka come running out the bunkhouse, looking around in panic but seemingly failing to spot Yasami. One of the staff-wielding boggards finally gets their attention and points in Yasami's direction in its croaking common.
Yasami, Oren, Hezle, Dario, Cev, and boggard warriors are up!
One club wielding boggard emerges from the mine and moves towards Cev, much more slowly than the charau-ka.
"About time." All this waiting in trees and coming up with plans is not exactly Oren's thing. Slamming Foehammer into cultists is precisely his wheelhouse, however. The big man moves into battle and brings Foehammer down on one of the charau-ka fighting Cev!
"Damn and Hellsfire!" swears Lisi, as the electricity ghosts through him again, or at least, the memory of it.
"I can try grounding him, but I'd better do it from the trees," shouts the injured druid. "The more susceptible it is to spells, the better..."
Oren rushes one of the trident-wielding charau-ka and delivers a crushing blow. The charau-ka cries out in pain and surprise and turns to face Oren. It has a huge oozing dent in its back, but it's apparently much tougher to kill than the hatchet-wielders.
Lisi is surprised by the Vrock's dance and too disturbed and mesmerized to dodge effectively.
Yasami looks at the batallion of creatures that walked out of the building, and then observes her friends in the distance. "So far away... Note to self - leave planning to smarter people." she sighs as the gathering of charau-ka move out of their bunkhouse take note of her presence. She has a little deer-in-the-torchlight moment, then pulls out her blade. "Come get me, suckers!"
After all, it is a dozen less things her friends have to worry about.
She darts into the treeline, and hides behind a tree, her sword ready to strike.
Trigger A foe within your reach critically fails a Strike against you.
You take advantage of an opening from your enemy's fumbled attack. You either make a melee Strike against the triggering foe or attempt to Disarm it of the weapon it used for the Strike.
[ooc]Since Oren crit the charau-ka, it's prone now because of the critical specialization for his Maul[ooc]
Sulee wriggles around a bit and pokes her nose up Caiten's neck over his armor. She watches the battle unfold with a bit of trepidation.
She sees Catalina take a shot, but can't see if it hit or not.
Then she watches Dario as he also takes aim at the Vrock in front of them.
Then using the kick of the weapon, he spins around facing the prone Charau-ka that Oren hit. Somehow already having another round chambered into his weapon, he fires again.
Sulee hears him mutter something under his breath, but can't quite make it out. But she sees him fiddling with his firearm a bit more carefully than before.
Despite the large number of boggards and charau-ka bearing down on her, Yasami decides to stay and fight, tucking herself behind a tree trunk to defend against ranged attacks.
Dario's shot at the vrock fails to penetrate its tough hide, but his attack on the prone charau-ka lands true, adding a hole in its chest to the dent in its back. Although it has lost a lot of blood, it looks up at Oren and Dario with fury in its eyes.
A brave boggard moves up to Oren and swings its club but it bounces off the barbarian's breastplate.
Lisi, who noticed Hezle before, sees the kobold emerge from the hut carrying a staff and wearing a backpack. She moves south alongside the mining pit.
We just need Cev's post to finish up round 2.
Cev strides twice to put some distance between him and the hordes of charau-ka and other approaching opponents, and to get close enough to target the vrock.
The charau-ka on the ground takes the opportunity to strike at Cev as he passes. It gets lucky and plunges its trident into Cev's calf for 17 points of damage
GM fiat no crit
Passing close to Caiten and the mokele-mbembe, Cev unleashes a litany railing against the vrock for attacking such a virtuous soul as Lisi.
But the vrock merely looks down at Cev and squawks in mocking abyssal.
Lisi is up!
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But the vrock merely looks down at Cev and squawks in mocking abyssal.
Caiten listens mildly fascinated at the creative description of the very improbable events that the Vrock implies either already has, or will shortly happen to Cevendyll's family members.
He calls out to Lisi, "I would still recommend moving out of immediate range."
Lisi falls off the mokele-mbembe, looking bloody and charred.
He heroically runs to hide behind Cev...
And turns around to cast at the vrock. "I hope this is the right move..."
ROUND THREE
Initiative
1st Lisi
2nd Mokele-Mbembe
25 Vrock
25 Boggard swampseers
23 Catalina
23 Charau-ka butchers
23 Sabosan
21 Caiten
18 Charau-ka warriors
13 Yasami
Oren
Hezle
Dario
Cev
group one
Lisi, Mokele-Mbembe
group two
Vrock, Boggard swampseers
group three
Catalina, Charau-ka butchers, Sabosan, Caiten, Charau-ka warriors
group four
Yasami, Oren, Hezle, Dario, Cev
Lisi and the mokele-mbembe:
Lisi wisely concludes being atop the mokele-mbembe made him too much of an attractive target to the vrock, and he allows himself to tumble off the reptile, while being careful not to leave an opening for the vrock to attack in a moment of distraction . He falls to the ground at a safely moderate pace, landing on his feet. He begins chanting and gesturing first at the earth and then at the vrock, trying to bring the bird demon to ground.
The vrock at first seems ready to laugh, but then what seems like it must be an expression of surprise crosses its ugly face as it finds itself drawn to the ground.
The mokele-mbembe takes the opportunity to attempt to bite and stomp on and tail-whack the demon suddenly at its side. Although the foot and tail fail to break through the creature's defenses, the reptile chomps on the vrock's wing for 17 points of damage.
The vrock:
The vrock, enraged to find itself pulled to the earth, lopes around the mokele-mbembe and emits a furious and shrill screech, making promises of retribution in abyssal.
The mokele-mbembe shudders at the sound, shaking the ground around it, but it otherwise seems unaffected.
The vrock then emits a cloud of rust-red spores from its body.
The spores deal 14 points of poison damage to Cev, Lisi, and the mokele-mbembe. The mokele-mbembe appears unaffected by the lingering impact of the spores.
The vrock laughs in malicious pleasure.
In the meantime, three of the boggard swampseers move to engage with Yasami.
One moves at a lumbering pace across the open ground. Halfway there, it unleashes a terrifying croak. A second approaches from the right and swings at her with its magically massive staff, striking her for 11 points of damage (against AC 24). A third approaches from further to the right, makes a massive (perhaps magically aided) jump to land 10 feet away, and then strikes out at her with its slimy tongue. It misses miserably (against AC 28), and its tongue strikes the tree with a wet thwack.
As the boggards approach from the right, they yell out to the naked charau-ka to join the attack, croaking "Ggget hherr!", pointing in her direction with their staffs.
The other three staff-wielding boggards move North in the direction of the rest of the combat.
Catalina, the Charau-ka butchers, the Sabosan, Caiten, and the Charau-ka warriors can post! Please remember all the required saving throws.
Catalina aims her pistol again, gritting her teeth and hoping for a strike.
She makes a loud sound of frustration as the bullet goes wide and decides to take the risk of reloading quickly and striking again.
Feeling invigorated by her success, she reloads her weapon again and trains it on the vrock, daring it to make a move.
Implement's interruption (evocation, magical, thaumaturge)
Trigger: The target of your Exploit Vulnerability uses a concentrate, manipulate, or move action, or leaves a square during a move action it's using.
Requirements: You're holding your weapon implement and are benefiting from Exploit Vulnerability against a creature. The creature must be within your reach if you're wielding a melee weapon, or within 10 feet if you're wielding a ranged weapon.
The guttural noise from beyond the trunk gets Yasamina's mind imagining things much worse than they actually are. Shallow breaths, cold sweat, adrenaline rush. And then, from out of nowhere, she gets slammed by a stick.
Caiten realizes he has been spending way too much time and attention listening to what the Vrock has been saying when the shriek has entirely too much effect on him. He eventually manages to shake off the mental chaos that the shriek causes and quickly looks around reassessing the changes in the ongoing battle.
Up in the Northern part of the mine.
Cev's trained eyes notice the vrock flinch as it unleashes the spore on the group, assuring him the litany had some effect despite the vrock's mockery.
Also, as the vrock unleashes the poison spores, Cev causes visions of redemption to play in the demon's eye, which it finds rather confusing.
Catalina finally connects with a satisfying bullet to the vrock's belly. The demon bird is looking fairly beaten up at this point; its wings are tattered and its body oozes black blood.
Caiten looks severely rattled by the vrock's screech. Still need the 2 fort saves from Cev and Lisi.
More in the Northern part of the mine.
The charau-ka butcher on the ground screams what sound like wild curses in Mwangi (), its eye roll back in its head, and a wild look crosses over its face. Without bothering to stand, it twice slashes at Oren with its trident. The first severs an artery in Oren's ankle, a devastating blow causing 52 hit points of damage!
Two other charau-ka butchers, also with crazed expressions, run up to Oren and attack with their tridents, one flanking with the boggard warrior. The first jabs its trident into Oren's thigh for 26 points of damage and, as Oren is distracted by the waggling tongue of the boggard next to him, the second thrusts its trident deep into Oren's side, for 44 points of damage .
The prone charau-ka licks blood from his trident and offers Oren a deranged smile. Oren collapses, unconscious, under the ferocious assault.
A fourth crazed-looking butcher joins the crowd around Oren but does not attack, having arrived from further away. Two of the hatchet-wielding charau-ka join the fray and almost complete the circle around the barbarian. It appears the last three arrivals were unaware of Oren's collapse. The last two thwack at Oren with their hatchets but are unable to penetrate his armor.
Oren is dying 1 and we will need a recovery check.
More hatchet-wielding charau-ka emerge from the mine, two of whom screech and run towards Dario and Caiten...
In the meantime, to the South...
The naked charau-ka all screech and charge into the jungle, surrounding Yasami, and two climb a nearby tree and others look poised to climb another tree.
Most of the charau-ka expended their actions in running to reach Yasami, but one climbed a tree quickly enough to throw a rock at her, but it harmlessly bounces off a branch and doesn't reach her.
Yasami, Oren, Hezle, Dario, Cev, and the boggard warriors are up. We still need two fort saves each from Cev and Lisi.
With Caiten's focus on the Vrock, Sulee has a grand view of the South as she peeks from Caiten's back over his armor. What she sees is not good and Caiten gets a wash of apprehension and concern from their emotional link. Dario fires a shot at the Vrock...
while Oren gets absolutely swarmed with enemies and goes down.
She watches as Dario spins around to fire another shot at the enemies to the south and hears him shout, "Oren! G#*da&!it." He quickly fires his hastily reloaded weapon again anyway at the closest enemy.
Sulee notices a steely glint is his eye as he ◆draws his short sword and prepares for the coming attacks. "Come and get it."
Lisi looks pretty battered.
Lisi is knocked almost senseless by the screech and is horrified to see vines growing out of his exposed skin.
Dario barely fails to pierce the vrock's tough hide. He does, however, strike the charau-ka running at him, who in its frenzy seems to barely notice the gaping wound in its shoulder.
A boggard warrior moves up to Dario and twice strikes at him with a club, missing twice.
Hezle, unnoticed by most of you, continues her slow move around the mine.
Still need Yasami's post and Cev's two fort saves and his post to end the round.
"Well hello there, boys and girls." Yasami smiles as she finds herself surrounded by charau-ka. She tries to weasel away from the centre of the crowd.
Cev sees the desperation of the situation and heroically resists the stunning effect of the vrock's screech. He does however feel the spores his skin and growing into thick, green vines (2d8 persistent piercing damage).
Caiten does a quick assessment of Lisi. "Cevendyll, can you heal Lisi since you are right there? Also, Lisi, do you have any healing spells prepared? I hear that Oren could use some help."
He glances down at the bottle still held in his hand and then glares up at the Vrock. "I'll see if I can take down the flying demon."
Time stops for Cev as he realizes the desperate situation the group, and particular himself and Lisi, find themselves in, and his trained mind plays out all of the scenarios. He can try to carefully drag himself and Lisi back a few feet, but that will leave both of them vulnerable to the vrock's vicious attacks, and Cev can tell that Lisi is too stunned to make a careful retreat to safety on his own before the vrock attacks.
Cev realizes the only option that will guarantee safety for Lisi is if Cev can distract the vrock and draw an attack. But Cev looks at the vrock's blood soaked claws and knows there's a strong likelihood that the vrock will strike him down, maybe even with a single strike.
Cev thinks to himself, Yuelral brought me to these people to use all of my abilities to aid them in their journey. And, most fundamentally, he realizes that he can save Lisi even if it means sacrificing himself. If he fails to do so he will be responsible for the harm done to Lisi through his inaction. That realization makes Cev's path clear.
Cev looks the vrock in the eye and says in a steely voice in his deity's tongue, "You may kill me here today, but you will not kill my friend and you will not prevail." Although Cev doubts the vrock speaks elven, Cev has no doubt the vrock understands his general meaning.
With that, Cev makes the gestures in the air to generate a blast of freezing air, and gets ready to make the incantation that will deliver the spell...
... but the vrock lashes out with a claw as Cev gestures, slicing the champion's throat, interrupting his words and sending a spray of blood on both the vrock and Lisi. Critical hit for 54 points of damage.
As Cev sees the vrock react to his gestures, and before he speaks the words for the spell, he glances at Lisi will an expression of transcendent calm and mouths clearly "RUN!"
As the champion lays on the ground, spores continue to pierce through his skin and grow into thick vines.
Damage was actually 50 because vrock is enfeebled 2.
ROUND FOUR
Initiative
1st Lisi
2nd Mokele-Mbembe
25 Vrock
25 Boggard swampseers
23 Catalina
Oren
23 Charau-ka butchers
23 Sabosan
21 Caiten
18 Charau-ka warriors
13 Yasami
Hezle
Dario
Cev
boggard warriors
group one
Lisi, Mokele-Mbembe
group two
Vrock, Boggard swampseers
group three
Catalina, Oren, Charau-ka butchers, Sabosan, Caiten, Charau-ka warriors
group four
Yasami, Hezle, Dario, Cev, Boggard warriors
Lisi and the Mokele-Mbembe are up!
The mokele-mbembe appears extremely agitated, both from all of the vrock's actions (the dance/electricity, the screech, the spores) and from seeing its apparent tormenters (the charau-ka) appear close by. It seems liberated without Lisi whispering in its ear (so to speak), and the huge reptile goes on a rampage, trampling the vrock and then heading down and trampling two charau-ka warriors and two butchers.
This kills one of the warrior and gravely injures another and causes a generalized panic among the charau-ka.
Lisi is up!
Lisi steps behind the fallen Cev, stumbling in a haze.
Lisi calls out to Caiten. "I can heal...once I'm more able..."
Ahem, that is to say that Lisi strides boldly forth, into the jungle.
The vines then grow from his skin...
And Lisi writhes in pain.
Lisi calls out to Caiten. "I can heal...once I'm more able..."
"Then can you be in charge of Oren? I'll see about keeping Cevendyll alive once the Vrock is dead." Caiten watches warily as the Vrock stands over Cev with both himself and Catalina nearby.
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"...need to not die first..."
The vrock, which had periodically shot wicked glances at Caiten, makes a short hop to get in range, stretches out its long neck, and rips a chunk of flesh off the android's arm with its beak, for 31 points of damage, 5 of which are evil.
The vrock then launches itself in the air, stopping to hover just over Caiten's head.
The vrock swallows the piece of Caiten's arm without chewing and addresses him in abyssal, roughly translating to "puny mortal, and you thought you could challenge me," but much more rageful in the original tongue.
meanwhile, to the south...
The three boggard swampseers near the fire pit point at Yasami and croak at each other. All three move towards the left side of the fire pit, and all three conjure and target Yasami with acid arrows, and all three miss.
The three boggard swampseers at the treeline to the south start to move in Yasami's direction, and all three fire acid arrows, one of which slams into Yasami's back for 18 points of damage and 1d6 persistent acid damage.
Catalina, Oren, the Charau-ka butchers, the Sabosan, Caiten, and the Charau-ka warriors are up.
Yasami is being chased by a horde of eleven screeching small naked hatchet-wielding charau-ka.
Five charau-ka warriors surround the mokele-mbembe and repeatedly and furiuosly attack with their hatchets. Only one hits once, for 4 points of damage, which the dinosaur hardly notices.
The four charau-ka butchers similarly arrange themselves around the mokele-mbembe and deliver much more effective attacks with their tridents. Screeching and tearing long gashes in the poor creature's hide.
The cruel primates inflict a total of 90 hit points on the once majestic beast, now a bloodied mess. It still stands, but its resolve must have greatly weakened after such an onslaught.
The Sabosan finally arrives at the main scene of combat, having moved to avoid the mokele-mbembe and the trees, it is 15 feet above Dario.
Catalina, Oren, and Caiten are up!
"...need to not die first..."
"Indeed." Caiten looks at the Vrock hovering over him. "Recalculating."
Caiten nimbly and quickly walks to the south to get out of the Vrock's range, then casts Phantom Pain on it.
"Catalina, if you have some time to spare, can you see about helping Cevendyll?"
Focus Points (max 3): 2
Hexes
◆ Stoke the Heart
↺ Phase Familiar
◆ Needle of Vengeance
Focus
↺ Delay Consequence
Innate
◆ Time Sense
Cantrips
◆ Shield
◆◆ Haunting Hymn
◆◆ Stabilize
◆ Guidance
◆◆ Divine Lance
1st
◆◆ Bless
◆◆ Fear
◆◆ Command
2nd
◆◆ Heal H+1
◆◆ Shield Other
◆◆ Resist Energy
3rd
◆◆ Heal H+2
◆◆ Phantom Pain H+2
◆◆ Heal H+2
The vrock looks quizzically at Caiten, a bit confused about what is happening, and then an expression of distress briefly passes over the vrock's visage, replaced with even greater fury displayed than before, and Caiten didn't think it was possible for the vrock to look any angrier...
Catalina is up.
"No point in helping Cevendyll if the vrock is still right here, waiting to hit any of us again," Catalina calls out in reply to Caiten, aiming her implement once more and praying to Pharasma for guidance.
Her prayers go unanswered and the shot goes wide again. The thaumaturge reloads quickly and makes another attempt, frustrated beyond words.
Catalina curses at her implement in her native tongue, working to clear the misfire as quickly as she can.