In a rage, Shandi absolutely misses her beam of fire, but continues to dance with a dagger in front of the monster and shout at him.
Blaze staggers as the plant-monster-thing hits her with a wallop. She tries to summon the rage that had helped her before, but she's just too tired to find it. Fortunately, the now-familiar touch of Malaya's healing blessing ensures that she'll be able to keep fighting. As Shandi throws herself recklessly at the monster, Blaze cries, "Stop, Shandi! I can take this!"
She swings again, trying to angle upwards at the limb/branch/protrusion that the monster had hit her with. Unfortunately, it's a bad angle, and her attack is too weak to do much damage.
Holding onto the last dregs of her magic in case Blaze is hit again, Malaya sends a bolt of frost towards the creature.
Sven turns his head once and again, watching the creature and his fist alternatively with a surprise face.
Having no other way of dealing with the monster, he decides to stay beside his allies for when they're in need.
Round 2
Mayala 18+ Mayala tries to fire a ray of frost, but misses
Redemption 18-
Blaze 15 Blaze hits again harming the beast
Shandi 14 Another bolt goes wide
? 10 Groaning in frustration the beast flails about attacking randomly and misses its attempts.
Velspira 9
Sven 4
Redemption considered the creature, and decided that cracking it over the head with his staff was the best solution for now.
Mayala 18+ Mayala tries to fire a ray of frost, but misses
Redemption 18- REdemption gets in close and attempts to hit this beast with his staff, but misses.
Blaze 15 Blaze hits again harming the beast
Shandi 14 Another bolt goes wide
? 10 Groaning in frustration the beast flails about attacking randomly Attack vs Shandi: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8 Attack vs Sven: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17 and misses its attempts.
Velspira 9
Sven 4
Round 3
Mayala 18+
Redemption 18-
Blaze 15
Shandi 14 Another bolt goes wide
? 10
Velspira 9
Sven 4
Blaze continued to swing hard at the creature, using her momentum to reverse her swing and come at it with a vicious backhand.
Sven decides to save his last cure for s more important moment, since no one seems too seriously damaged.
With a nod, Redemption tried to hit the undead again.
Round 3
Mayala 18+
Redemption 18- Deals a solid hit on the beast, but it does less damage than expected
Blaze 15 hits the creature with a good hit, but notices it takes less than she would expect
Shandi 14 Another bolt goes wide
? 10 wounded the beast attacks blindly and misses
Velspira 9
Sven 4
The tiefling looked towards Shandi as if she was crazy, asking for her to be hit whatever this creature was. There were a few folks that called her not the most right in the head but wanting to die from whatever it was in a Hell hole like this was definitely way further than her.
"Ya damned idiot, south your damn mouth!" she cried out as she summoned up more fire to throw towards the creature.
Capitalizing from the beast's blind fury, Sven feints and sidesteps a bit to relocate it, at least enough for Shandi to have a better target.
At least this creature, whatever it was, seemed to be having as much trouble hitting anyone as she was having hitting it. Taking a deep breath Malaya focuses once more on the thrashing limbs.
Blaze had fallen into a rhythm of chopping at the great beast. Then it lashed out at her, and she skittered aside to avoid the blow, but then missed her own retaliatory swing.
Round 3
Mayala 18+ Malaya hits the creature and a small piece of plantlike material freezes and falls off of it.
Redemption 18- Deals a solid hit on the beast, but it does less damage than expected
Blaze 15 hits the creature with a good hit, but notices it takes less than she would expect
Shandi 14 Another bolt goes wide
? 10 Attack vs Blaze: 1d1 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8 Attack vs Redemption: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12 wounded the beast attacks blindly and misses
Velspira 9 Velspira's attack misses again
Sven 4 Offers Shandi aid in her next attack
Round 4
Mayala 18+
Redemption 18-
Blaze 15 Attacks and misses the beast
Shandi 14
? 10 Angrily the beast flails widely at Redemption
Velspira 9
Sven 4
Sven manages to help Shandi, so he takes advantage and makes the best vulnerable to Velspira's attacks as he whirls around it.
The tielfing was honestly running out of ideas as this point against such a creature, not wanting to get too near it for any long measure but getting more and more annoyed at the fact that her firebolts continued to miss and miss such a strange and terrifying creature that was before them. A thunderwave spell was good if cornered, but she was from that. So, she threw another one at it. This time with Sven's aide doing far better than before.
Round 4
Mayala 18+
Redemption 18-
Blaze 15 Attacks and misses the beast
Shandi 14 Shandi focuses with the help of Sven and is able to do minor damage to the creature
? 10 Angrily the large beasts finally makes purchase with Redemption
Velspira 9 Velsipra is able to do some damage with Sven's assistance, though fire does not seem to have the effect you would expect on a plantlike creature.
Sven 4
Redemption was caught totally off guard, and wasn't able to fend off the horror. This was awkward, the warforged considered as it began to engulf him.
Round 5
Mayala 18+
Redemption 18- Redemption struggles again against the beast's grasp and fails
Blaze 15
Shandi 14
? 10 The large creature engulfs Redemption, completely covering him in thorny vines and plantlike structures.
Velspira 9
Sven 4
Round 5
Mayala 18+
Redemption 18- Redemption struggles again against the beast's grasp and fails
Blaze 15
Shandi 14
? 10 The large creature engulfs Redemption, completely covering him in thorny vines and plantlike structures.
Velspira 9
Sven 4
Blaze, seeing that Redemption was being crushed by the vegetative abomination, splashed closer and tried to tear him from the creature's grip.
Redemption struggled against the thing, but of the many thing the Warforged druid was, 'strong' was not one of them. Almost all the offensive ability shown so far had been magic in nature.
There was a sickening sound of creaking metal and cracking wood as the Warforged was compressed. Redemption groaned pitiably at the incessant pressure.
Sven goes quickly to help Blaze, else Redemption might be eaten whole.
Seeing the monster literally devouring Redemption, Shandi is overcome with rage. Noooooo
No one else will die in front of me! I'm not that scared little girl anymore!!
You may not know this, but right now she is fighting a completely different monster from her memory and her past...
Seeing as how her own magic was up to snuff to kill the overgrown weed, Velspira took to her crossbow. On its frame a crudely carved word Smile had been put there by its owner as she fired the prepared bolt. She wasn't the best shot, but she knew she had to be able to hit something with it eventually with how big it was. Anything would have to do in order to kill this thing, given how it took the strange contraption in its clutches and consumed it as it appeared. She wasn't wanting to be next, keeping her distance.
Round 6
Mayala 18+
Redemption 18-
Shandi 14
? 10
Velspira 9
Sven 4
Round 5
Mayala 18+ attacks the creature with a guiding bolt it but it misses
Redemption 18- attempts to break grapple and fails
Blaze 15 Is able to tear Redemption out of the creature, harming it in the process. It makes a howling moan as parts of its plantlike body are displayed in the process.
Shandi 14 More fire damage, still does less than expected
? 10 The large creature engulfs Redemption, completely covering him in thorny vines and plantlike structures. Redemption is Blinded and restrained. Must make a DC 14 Con save at start of turn or take 2d8+4 bludgeoning damage
Velspira 9 Hits the creature with a bolt, it does not do as much damage as expected.
Sven 4 Sven is able to help tear Redemption out completely and the beast takes more damage.
Is Redemption actually still engulfed, if Blaze managed to help tear him out?
Sven helps Redemption once more, kneeling beside him and gently laying his hand on him. The cold touch of a stone with a rune carved transmits some positive energy into the follower of nature.
The beast is damaged severely
Round 6
Mayala 18+
Redemption 18-
Blaze
Shandi 14
? 10
Velspira 9
Sven 4 Casts a cure spell on Redemption
Redemption nodded thanks to Sven as the magic mostly restored his ravaged form, rising up with an undignified scramble and a groan of freshly repaired wood. The Warforged lashed out with the stave again. So long as it was focused on crushing him it would leave the others alone, perhaps.
Round 6
Mayala 18+
Redemption 18-Hits the beast with his stave. The beast is starting to falter.
Blaze
Shandi 14
? 10
Velspira 9
Sven 4 Casts a cure spell on Redemption
Blaze was gratified to pull the Warforged free, and took her axe up again. The creature looked like their attacks were starting to weaken it, so she did the only thing she could, and kept whacking at it.
Round 6
Mayala 18+
Redemption 18-Hits the beast with his stave. The beast is starting to falter.
BlazeAttempts to hit this creature with her axe, but it falls short
Shandi 14
? 10
Velspira 9
Sven 4 Casts a cure spell on Redemption
With the strange contraption of what she could only assume was some sort of man or creature freed from the beast, she only did what she assumed was a logical course of action, "Come on Smiley, do your thing," she spoke hurriedly as she reloaded and fired again as quick as she could.
Round 6
Mayala 18+ Says a prayer and attempts to cast a spell the beast takes damage as radiant light burns through the plantlike flesh.
Redemption 18-Hits the beast with his stave. The beast is starting to falter.
BlazeAttempts to hit this creature with her axe, but it falls short
Shandi 14
? 10 Angrily tries to push past Redemption and Blaze to get to Mayala
Velspira 9 Velspira fells the horrible beast just before it makes it to Mayala.
Sven 4 Casts a cure spell on Redemption
The caverns start to shake and quake beneath you. You encounter a series of challenges as you run out of the house as furniture and things come alive and try to prevent you from leaving. You eventually make it out. You no longer see the two children outside and the fog is lifted revealing a gothic town setting before you.
Breathing strongly, half-bowed and with his hands on his knees, Sven has a short look around.
"Where are we now?"
The artificial humanoid trembled in exhaustion, as Warforged did not need to breath and panting didn't seem needed. "Unknown. I do not recognize this place." Then again, Redemption still wasn't certain how they'd arrived in this place. 'Fog' didn't seem like a great answer, but it was currently the only one they had.
Blaze stomped her hooves and breathed deeply, glad to be out in the open air once more. The run had been invigorating, but she was thankful to be out of the haunted house.
She looked around at the town; she had never seen anything like it before. "I'm glad the fog is gone, I didn't like that," she said, shaking her hair and mane. "But I had hoped that maybe we would come out and be home again. I am guessing that none of you live here?"
"I don't."
Sven tried to glimpse any detail that night trying a bell, but he doesn't remember being in a place similar to that one.
"Maybe we should ask. There must be a tavern or something here."
Trying to appear amicable, Sven starts walking through the town in search of someone.
Shandie is breathing heavily, but still finds the strength to say:
I'm not completely sure where we are to claim that I'm not at home. But so far it wasn't very similar to Cyre.
"I am uncertain where home was. I was...asleep? Or not quite alive? For a while, anyway. I was with the Fey when I became me, and I am just as happy to no longer be there. Wherever this is, it is an improvement." Redemption sounded quite firm on this idea. Given the ghosts seen so far that might not be a good thing.
"How ya like them bolts do ya, ya big ugly! the Tiefling shouted in triumph as her bolt collided into the creature and slew it before it could reach Malaya.
In a furious dash, avoiding evil home furniture and other terrible things that could befall her, the rest of the group and her escaped by the skin of their teeth. She could finally rest easy but she couldn't, surveying the land around them. Even with the lifted fog, it was still rather desolate and weird.
"Town over there, could use a bit after that scruff now. A pint or two maybe then and a good clean. Nothin' but dust in there... well now it should be suppose so," she'd point tot the Town before looking back to the house.
Ready to leave the haunted house behind, Blaze nods and begins to walk towards the town.