Although Median's arrow goes wide, smashing into the far side of the chamber, Garen slices through the fungal frog with a powerful blow.
Don't forget your percentile rolls and your Fortv saves. I'll bot folks by end of day tomorrow.
Silvio tries to hold his breath as the moss covered frog sends spores everywhere!
He fires another bullet after seeing the first one was quite effective.
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Winter might want to hold his breath, but he wants to bite frogs even more.
If it's still alive, he goes after what appears to be the more threatening frog--the one sending spores everywhere.
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Silvio swings his sling around and sends another bullet into the fungal frog. It smarts at the blow, and then Winter jumps up to take a bite out of the frog. The frog seems to deflate as the sheepdog wrenches one of its legs off of its body.
For Winter, the leg is tough and fibrous, with an unwelcome metallic taste. As he sinks his teeth into it, he feels an instinct to retch.
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Winter feels an uncomfortable jolt and feels absolutely horrible after biting the mossy frog!
Sledge tries to climb onto a sarcophagus.
Unfortunately, he is not as nimble as some of my other characters, and instead fails to climb. Frustrated, he readies an action to hit any frog that comes within range.
As Winter begins to question his dietary decisions and Sledge struggles to clamber atop the sarcophagus, the adventurers are able to avoid breathing in any of the strange toxic cloud. But the cloud still hangs in the air as one frog remains, uninjured and looking very hungry.
It is not this frog's day, though. Whether its vision is obscured because of the cloud of spores or its undead state makes it less able to control its muscles, its tongue goes wide around Winter, lapping up some water but getting no closer to claiming an oversized meal. The frog dives back under the water and begins to swimming away. Despite trying to twist out of the way, the plagued frog leaves itself open to attack as it swims away from Winter, and then emerges back up next to Garen, looking up hungrily at a more appropriately-sized meal in Silvio...
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When the frog pops up near him, Garen lashes out quickly. The surprised lashing out misses the frog but then he makes a better follow up attack and slices into frog flesh. "Aha! We should have these malignant creatures cleared out soon."
PA was used in my last attack so I assume it would still be active for AOO.
Silvio is delighted as the frog makes its way over to him. "Big mistake froggy--now I'll get you good!"
He draws his dagger and slashes at the frog!
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Winter feels terrible and just tries to get out of the room.
Ugh. It's like a bloody cloudkill. Sledge thinks to himself. He tries again to climb on the sarcophagus, holding his breath as he does so.
Then he moves over towards the frog, pantomiming the entire time a cone of fire shooting out of his hands and burning away a cloud of spores.
It's really not his strongest work.
Silvio foolishly speaks, but fortunately endures the spores!
Sledge shrugs in response to Median's question.
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Although Garen's initial attack fails to penetrate the plagued frog's defenses, his follow-up slash cuts through the hideous undead creature and shows the rotting sinew beneath. Silvio's attack is less effective, though it looks like if his aim had been more accurate that he could have dealt a telling blow. Everyone, Winter included, manages to stave off the effects of whatever the cloud of spores might do. Meanwhile, Sledge engages in some pantomime with Median over whether or not to attempt to use fire on the spores. Unfortunately, Sledge isn't certain about whether or not this might be effective. Natural phenomena were among the subjects that Sledge had not paid sufficient attention to in Master Holgast's rambling lectures. For all Sledge knows, fire might have no effect, might harmlessly burn the spores away, or might make things worse. It will be difficult to know unless Median tries it.
The snake in Median's pack pokes its head up over her shoulder, flicking its tongue out as it stares into the room. Its head seems to turn almost as though in curiosity towards Winter, panting as he treads water towards the entrance. The snake wriggles on the sorceress' shoulder and Winter begins feeling somewhat better.
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The frog skims once again through the water and leaps up to take a bite out of Silvio. The frog crunches around the halfling's armor, enveloping poor Silvio ! Although Silvio tries to pull away, he finds himself locked in the frog's mouth.
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A grappled creature is restrained by a creature, trap, or effect. Grappled creatures cannot move and take a –4 penalty to Dexterity. A grappled creature takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls and combat maneuver checks, except those made to grapple or escape a grapple. In addition, grappled creatures can take no action that requires two hands to perform. A grappled character who attempts to cast a spell or use a spell-like ability must make a concentration check (DC 10 + grappler’s CMB + spell level, see Concentration), or lose the spell. Grappled creatures cannot make attacks of opportunity.
Silvio isn't exactly doing well inside the frog's mouth, though at least he isn't suffering from spores? Winter on the other hand feels weakened and tired.
Silvio is going to try stabbing the awful frog from the inside!
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Winter moves to both get some fresh air and try to save Silvio!
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Damn it Silvo.
Sledge jumps from the sarcophagus, swinging his flail as he does so. He would let out a yell, or something. Perhaps an admonishing remark towards the halfling in the frog's mouth. But the threat of spores led him to keep his mouth closed.
But he gasped a little bit anyway as he hit the water. It had only been 6 seconds, but it was colder than he remembered.
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Median is happy to see the snake up and moving. She hadn't been sure if it was okay after she collapsed, and maybe it was even helping. :)
Thanks she says to it, smiling a bit.
She isn't sure if fire will help or hurt, but she decides to try.
She angles her hands up towards the ceiling so that she won't actually harm anyone (unless it ignites the cloud and sets everyone on fire), and then casts burning hands.
Silvio's blade arm flails and comes remarkably close to piercing the frog's thick hide. But there is something untoward about this zombified creature, and the dagger bounces off its hide. Winter fares no better, but Sledge jumps back into the water and lands a telling blow. Although the magus' flail was much better suited to fighting skeletons than zombies, he puts enough power behind it that the frog seems to buckle under the smack. And yet it still stands.
Median unleashes a gout of flames above the heads of the group, providing a light show to accompany the battle of frogs, bites, and steel. Unfortunately, the flames seem to do little to the spores other than make them glow.
Garen tries to angle around Sledge and the sarcophagus, but is unfortunately unable to manage to find a good way to strike the foul creature down.
The heavily damaged plagued frog seems intently focused on its meal. With a crunch, it lifts Silvio off of the sarcophagus and to everyone's horror swallows the poor halflng whole.
Garen clambers atop the sarcophagus and strikes down at the frog. He carves through and, through the newly-opened gap in the frog's side, glimpses an unconscious halfling. The frog is reeling near death, but still stands.
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If Garen slices the frog to death, Winter will pull him to relative safety!
Otherwise, he will fight to free his good friend!
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As Median rushes into the cloud of spores, the Nehushtan seems surprised, but does not resist the movement. It also seems unaffected and unbothered by the spores.
Garen and Winter both attempt to cut or bite Silvio out of the frog, but their efforts are in vain as the bloated frog bobs in the water. But with a swinging flail, Sledge ends the zombie threat. The frog lets out one last croak before exploding in a shower of gore that coats all four of the males. Thankfully, enough of the frog remains intact that Silvio, although unconscious, is not in danger of drowning.
It doesn't look like he is breathing at the moment, though he isn't bleeding out either. Winter still looks ill and is coughing up some sort of yellow-green phlegm into the water, but the rest of the party has not yet succumbed to this dreadful cloud.
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Winter seems to be deteriorating further. He tries anyway to drag Silvio to perceived safety.
Winter is not feeling particularly good as he hacks up more pollen into the water , but reaches out to grab Silvio and drag him to safety.
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Garen hops down and offers to take Silvio from Winter. Assuming the dog relents, he takes the halfling in his arms and wades out of the room, "Let's get him out of this nastiness and water." Outside the door, he pauses long enough to lay on hands saying a quick prayer. Then he resumes his walk until he reaches dry ground. There, he will assess Silvio's wounds and do what he can to aid in healing.
Garen makes to leave the room, bending down and grabbing Silvio from the carcass of the zombified frog before he goes. But as the paladin exerts himself, he breathes in a mouthful of the spores and immediately begins to cough. Still, he wrenches Silvio free from the room and then places a hand to the halfling's chest. With a burst of Iomedae's light, the halfling sucks in the musty air of the crypt outside of the bounds of the pollen cloud, and his eyes flutter open.
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Median had decided to risk the spore cloud trying to get to the next door so they could try to revive Silvio... seeing Garen go the other way with him, she wonders what to do.
As she is wondering, she somehow forgets to hold her breath, and breathes in some nice poison spores.
Coughing, she checks the door to see if it opens.
Through the coughing and sputtering, Median finds the far door swollen in its frame like the one at the other entrance. She also sees, stuffed into a nest at this end of the chamber, the bloated, mostly devoured corpse of a human man floating face down in the water.
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Silvio gasps as he returns to consciousness, finding himself outside with Garen. Winter has followed him and is licking his face in an effort to revive him. His tail wags hopefully as Silvio moves once more.
Silvio is disoriented--his last memory having been losing consciousness within a giant frog."By the gods, did you cut me out of that beast, Garen?" He steadies himself and gets on his feet, clearly in bad shape. "Are Sledge and Median okay?" He quickly prays to Erastil for restoration, unsure if threats still abounded.
Sledge ducks his head under the water, holding his breath. It was vile, but Median could dry him later. Actually, he reminded himself as he headed towards the door, I memorized that spell today. How delightfully prescient of me.
The halfling warpriest of Erastil calls on his god's favor and feels rejuvenated after being eaten alive, while Sledge and Median try to figure out how to avoid succumbing to the effects of the poisonous spore cloud. Median tries to burst through the next door, but despite her best effort at putting her weight behind her shoulder, she can't get the door to budge. Sledge tries going underwater, continuing to hold his breath. Although the water is foul, it doesn't seem to be any worse for the plethora of spores that have floated down into it.
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When Garen notices the others have not come back he gets up with a groan and complains out loud. "What are they doing?" Then he stumbles back toward the doorway to see what is going on. Once he arrives at the doorway he does not enter but says, "Come on out and let that stuff settle. We are in no hurry. No sense in getting your lungs fouled."