Poison Bringers - Round 1 - concluded
Miriani begins by sending an electrical bolt bouncing from one Burning Mammoth hunter to another. Somehow the first target resists any damage,, and the second only takes a bit.
Kheyji moves to close the distance and support all her allies better, before conjuring a magical shield barrier for protection from those sling bullets.
Red Hunter moves into the scrubby brush, but also fires a sling bullet at the sorcerous cat folk, but it bounces at her feet.
Green Hunter also moves ahead while readying his sling. He launches a bullet at the crouching bard, but it also misses.
End of Round 1
Poison Bringers - Round 2
26 Diurn/Wolf
24 Hurik
24 Blue Hunter (4hp dmg)
24 Yellow Leader (shield raised)
23 Miriani
21 Kheyji (shield up)
17 Red Hunter
8 Green Hunter
Diurn enchants and extends his hands and a fountain of colors reaches to engulf the two closest to Diurn.
Source Core Rulebook pg. 324 4.0
Traditions arcane, occult
Deities Pulura, Shelyn, Thisamet
Cast somatic, verbal
Area 15-foot cone
Saving Throw Will; Duration 1 or more rounds (see below)
Swirling colors affect viewers based on their Will saves.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected.
Success The creature is dazzled for 1 round.
Failure The creature is stunned 1, blinded for 1 round, and dazzled for 1 minute.
Critical Failure The creature is stunned for 1 round and blinded for 1 minute.
Hurik reaches for his next Javelin then moves north easterly hoping to still have some cover while getting a clear shot. And he throws again.
Poison Bringers - Round 2 - continued
Diurn again unleashes the dazzling display of lights, colors, and patterns, immersing two of the Burning Mammoths in the magical lights. One is able to avert his gaze with just a flash dazzling him, but the other takes the full brunt and is blinded and stunned.
Hurik launches his second javelin at the enemy shield bearer. The throw is on target, but the foe interposes his shield to absorb some of the damage, still taking a wound from the javelin.
Despite his wound, yellow shield bearer moves into melee with Hurik. He smashes the shield boss into the barbarian's chin, bloodying him a bit. The follow up spear attack is off target, but the Yellow leader ends up with his shield raised again also.
Blue follows his leader, dropping his sling, raising his spear, and advancing with an attack also at Hurik. The spear tip slides into the flank of the dragon-blooded hero, causing a bit more damage.
success
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Kheyji, seeing the Burning Tusks lay into her friend, growls. "Sister, brighten Hurik's inner fire!"
Light shines from Hurik's wounds, searing them closed and renewing his vigor.
With a smirk, Kheyji raises a hand, again conjuring her shimmering shield.
"You idiots actually closed with him. The only thing keeping you alive was distance. You may surrender now, should your hubris allow it."
Well, one of the two coming forward was stumbling and shaking his head. He didn't seem to be much of a problem. But the other one was just blinking hard. Since the dog wasn't doing it's duty and biting the bastard, she unleashed the northern winds on him.
Poison Bringers- Round 2 - concluded
Kheyji mends all the wounds suffered by Hurik in one simple spell. This seems to dismay the Burning Mammoth fighters as much as her brave words. She then re-conjures a shimmering shield of protection for herself.
Miriani focuses her elemental magic on the Red Hunter, first blasting him with a cone of wind. The enemy hunter takes the blast as well as can be expected, a little blood on his face from the buffeting. After that the sorceress flicks more wind damage at him, scoring a hit. In addition to being dazzled, the warrior looks pretty hurt.
Green Hunter is simply too stunned by Diurn's spell to do anything. He only stands blinking and rubbing at his eyes.
The Red Hunter is hurt, but not out of the fight. He shakes off the spots before his eyes, and moves forward to attack Diurn, dropping his sling, and grabbing a spear instead. The hunter is able to skewer Diurn, wounding him mildly.
End of Round 2
success - half dmg
Poison Bringers - Round 3
26 Diurn/Wolf (20/26hp remain)
24 Hurik
24 Blue Hunter (4hp dmg)
24 Yellow Leader (shield raised; 4hp dmg)
23 Miriani
21 Kheyji (shield up)
17 Red Hunter (dazzled 1, 10hp dmg)
8 Green Hunter (dazzled 5 rounds, blind, stunned)
Diurn directs his dog to flank attack his tormentor and puts up a magic shield >. With his shield in place, he watches his loyal dog attack.
Wolf strides to flank with his human partner. He fails to get a good bite in and avoids looking at Diurn after his poor attempt to defend him.
Hurik almost smiles at Kheyji's praise. At the healing, he does, "Sister Cinder and her God's mouth have my back. You SHOULD be afraid."
He draws his maul, and swings twice, once at the leader, the other time at his ally.
(If that hits, dmg is)
Poison Bringers- Round 3 - continued
Diurn commands his dog to rush the melee combatant his is locked in with. Wolf does his best, but the Burning Mammoth hunter avoids his bite.
Hurik takes out his maul, ready to mash. His first strike is at the leader of the group, but that foe turns aside his bow with his shield, resulting in no damage.
The other target is the hunter. With no shield, Hurik is able to hit and damage that foe, crushing the hammer into his clavicle with bone-jarring force.
Wounded, the Blue Hunter moves his hurt arm away from Hurik, but then attacks twic with his spear. Hurik dodges the spear-tip at first, but the follow up attack scores a hit.
Working off his soldier, Yellow leader steps around Hurik, into a flanking place. Then mashes at him with his shield boss, following up with his spear. The knob on the shield breaks into Hurik's back, but the spear thrust is turned aside. Hurik grimaces a little at the pain, but its ultimately nothing major.
Unimpressed by the dog's performance, she sighs and callc lightning down on the two by them. She does spare a quick glance over her shoulder to see that they haven't finished any on their side either.
Electric arc on red and green. Reflex DC 18
damage: 1d4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 4 + 1 = 7
Poison Bringers - Round 3 - concluded
Kheyji tries to burn the Blue Warrior, but if when she digs deep down, her spell misses, and the man remains in the fight. She then steps up behind the Yellow boss, trying to distract him and give Hurik advantage in melee.
Next, Miriani sends an arcing bolt of energy on the foes on her side of the scene. Red Hunter takes the full brunt of the damage, and falls unstirring into the dust. Green Hunter, still dazzled, manages to avoid all the damage, but takes his first wound from the spell.
Green Hunter sees his ally fall, and instead of attacking, he turns to the travois with a large cage atop it, and begins fiddling with the lock clearly trying to open it and free whatever is inside.
End of Round 3
fail
success
Poison Bringers - Round 4
26 Diurn/Wolf (20/26hp remain)
24 Hurik (28/38hp remain)
24 Blue Hunter (10hp dmg)
24 Yellow Leader (shield raised; 4hp dmg, flanked)
23 thing in the cage
23 Miriani
21 Kheyji
8 Green Hunter (3hp dmg; dazzled 4 rounds)'
Diurn attempts another lingering composition.
He inspires courage in his friends, but cannot get the song to last.
Diurn invokes some biting words and flings a sonic barrage at the enemy opening the cage.
Wolf looks at Diurn for the attack command that doesn’t come. At least he feels inspired.
"Someone keep that fool from opening whatever is in the... oh" As Diurn is already on it. He would have attended to it himself, but he's a bit busy.
Seeing Kheyji risk herself for his sake, Hurik focuses on the leader hoping to find a shot past that shield and take him down in a flurry of blows.
Poison Bringers - Round 4 - continued
Diurn moves to inspire more courage from his allies, but his performance does not linger this time, only lasting for a few seconds. After the song, he sends a sonic attack at the man trying to open the cage carried on the travois. The sonic blast hits Green Hunter, but does not drop him.
Even flanked, the yellow leader is able to deflect the first blow from Hurik with his raised shield, resulting in a miss. The second blow clangs off the shield, which absorbs some of the damage, but still hurts the leader of the enemy tribesmen. His third attack misses.
Blue Hunter stabs at Hurik, who is also flanked, twice. One stab scores a hit, though minor against the barbarian. He then moves away from Hurik, and towards Miriani, though scrub brush holds him up a bit.
Yellow leader turn his attacks on Kheyji, who seems a bit more squishy than Hurik. It slams its shield boss into the cleric and then follow up with a spear thrust. The shield rocks the cleric, bloodying her nose, but the follow up spear misses. The leader then side steps moving away from both foes.
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critical
Miriani moves into the woods, yelling over her shoulder, "Stop stabbing my friends!" to the leader. But she focuses on her target.
Poison Bringers - Round 4 - continued
After the hunter opened the cage last round, something awful comes pouring out of captivity. It appears to be a greyish oozing thing that seems to have sticks, stones, bones, and even an odd assorted weapon stuck inside its protoplasmic form. The stench emanating from the thing is gut-wrenching even from this distance. While the hunter freeing the oozing thing was likely trying to have it attack your group, instead he becomes a victim, as a semi-liquid, but definitely foul pseudopod strikes the hunter, who cries out in surprise and pain.
Success
She looks over at this thing they were trying to capture. She doesn't even know where to begin to understand something so awful. For the moment green seems occupied, so she turns to help free up Kheji and Hurik.
"You fools! Now we have to kill you and this abomination you harvested!"
Poison Bringers - Round 4 - concluded
Blue Hunter cringes under the words of Miriani, knowing they have done something abhorrent in releasing the ooze. The hunter then quickly succumbs as her anger is channeled into a furious wind that buffets the man to his demise.
After taking a hit, Kheyji goes back to flinging fire from a distance, its safer that way. Her fiery attack hits the leader of the tribal warriors, burning the target but not fully immolating it like she had hoped.
The Green Hunter flees from the oozy thing it just released as fast as it can. He ends up next to Diurn after moving, and stabs at the bard once for good measure. "Hope you enjoy the taste of that thing!" he screams when closing in. The spear catches Diurn in a soft place, and pierces his side with a painful wound.
End of Round 4
Poison Bringers - Round 5
26 Diurn/Wolf (15/26hp remain)
24 Hurik (24/38hp remain)
24 Yellow Leader (shield raised; 15hp dmg)
23 Ooze
23 Miriani
21 Kheyji (16/24hp remain)
8 Green Hunter (19hp dmg; dazzled 3 rounds)
Diurn begins to play a lingering song to inspire his friends again, as the ooze is still a problem.
The last of his focus slips away as he manages to inspire courage and sustain it yet again.
Then Diurn makes a strike with his own rapier at the releaser of the ooze. His rapier bites deep.
Then Diurn invokes a magic shield.
"You struck a daughter of Sister Cinder? You blasphemous Burning Mammoth dog!" Weapon still in hand he strides forward to take two more swipes.
Poison Bringers - Round 5 - continued
Diurn sings his inspiring song once more, keeping the morale-boosting song going even as he makes a devastating rapier attack against his adjacent foe. The rapier skewers clean through the green foe, poking out his back side. The internal damage is just too great and the last of the hunters succumbs, falling face down into the ground.
On the opposite side of the battle, Hurik advances and attacks the Yellow leader. The first strike is blocked a bit by the foe's shield, but it still slips through crushing the shoulder. The second attack misses as the shield-man leaps to the side.
"You may win this fight, traitor, but I hope you enjoy our gift. We have already poisoned the stream with its foulness, so good luck finding water for your following. If I die, I die with my mission fulfilled."
He then makes a series of attacks against Hurik, but both the shield bash and the spear thrust miss the barbarian. Then the Yellow leader moves away, towards Kheyji, a softer target.
The rime sludge moves in an undulating way over everything in the way, ignoring the difficult terrain of the scrub-brush and closing on the closest living thing, which is Wolf. It pushes a disgusting pseudopod at the canine. But the beast is no fool, and it gets out of the way of the slow-moving goo quickly, avoiding any touch.
Miriani goes still for a moment. In her mind she sees a enevershifting form attacking some dogs. For a moment there is a loud beast with six wings in the air, then she returns to the moment. She suommons a ball of wind and batters it.
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(includes bard bonus) for potentially fire damage.
Kheji calls up another mote of fire and tries, essentially, to slap the bandit closest to her with the flame. It... does not go great.
Seeing that her attack failed, Kheyji again summons her shield.
"You may die with your mission fulfilled, but you need not die at all," she tells the enemy leader. "As I said before, you may still surrender, if you value living."
Poison Bringers - Round 5 - concluded
Miriani brings her powerful wind spell to bear on the offensive oozy-thing and sees that ripples and tears in its surface showing the damage it took.
Kheyji tries to mash magically conjured fire in the face of the opposing leader, but she only manages to get the fire started, and can't cause any damage from it.
End of Round 5
Poison Bringers - Round 6
26 Diurn/Wolf (15/26hp remain)
24 Hurik (24/38hp remain)
24 Yellow Leader (shield raised; 17hp dmg)
23 Ooze (8hp dmg)
23 Miriani
21 Kheyji (16/24hp remain)
Diurn commands Wolf to attack and fires a blast of his own sonic destruction at the creature.
Diurn launches his biting words attack.
Then the bard raises a shield of magical energy.
Wolf tries to bring down the ooze with his jaws.
"Traitors? You seek to poison women and children with your slimes. You would stalk and kill elders and think yourself hunters?" a scowl, "If only your honor matched your shield work, though the latter will not save you." Swinging rapidly, he hopes to finish this foe off so he can help with the slime. Perhaps he'll break this man's spine on the back swing if he can bypass that shield.
Poison Bringers - Round 6 - continued
Diurn commands his pet to attack the rime sludge, and Wolf complies, biting at the foulness as his master ordered. The bite seems to take another toxic chunk off the mess. The bard follows up with his own sonic attack which also blasts a hole in the ooze. Finally Diurn get a shield up to protect himself from a counterattack.
Hurik finally gets a powerful stroke in on the Yellow Burning Mammoth. The blow shatters the remains of the defender's wooden shield and continues to crush the man's face, smashing a hole where none was before. The leader of the raiding party reels and falls, dead.
The mindless sludge senses two life forces nearby, and slides over horrifically so that it can make lunging attacks at both Wolf and Diurn. The attack smashes into the bard, deflecting only slightly off the magical shield, and crashing into Diurn who cries out as the poison covers him as well.
Wolf fares a bit better, still taking the beating and poison damage.
Critical!
16 total dmg
Diurn grunts as his magic shield keeps him barely conscious blocking a nasty strike. His loyal dog companion provokes the next strike.
Diurn shepherded mammoths and wondered what it would feel like to be run over by one of them. Probably like he felt now or maybe even worse.
Mirani throws lighting at the disgusting thing, hoping to get it beofre it can do too much more to Diurn. This was unnatural and even a dog didn't deserve this.
[damage]1d4+4[/damage]
Poison Bringers - Round 6 - concluded
Kheyji moves closer to the fray, spinning up a healing prayer for Diurn who is restored to most of his vitality after the slime looked like it was taking him down.
Miriani sends a blast of electrical energy sizzling at the slime, which takes the hit, leaving a hole in its gooey texture that slowly fills back in with a little smelly steam coming off of it.
End of Round 6
fail
Poison Bringers - Round 7
26 Diurn/Wolf (20/26hp remain)(14/20 for Wolf)
24 Hurik (24/38hp remain)
24 Yellow Leader (shield raised; 17hp dmg)
23 Ooze (31hp dmg)
23 Miriani
21 Kheyji (16/24hp remain)
Wolf follows Diurn’s direction to flank attack the ooze.
Diurn shoots his last sonic blast at the ooze.
Poison Bringers - Round 7 - concluded
Wolf follows commands and tries to bite the bad-tasting sludge, but it cannot get a good grip with jaws only.
Diurn, however, sends his last sonic blast at the sludge. The sound overpowers the disgusting creature, which dies, but smells no less bad.
End of Combat
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"Only in my nightmares." says Miriani as he helps Diurn over to the sister. She does look over at the dog. But luckily we have a brave skald over here. And an ... acceptable dog."
Diurn examines the corpses trying to get a clue about their origin then refocuses his mental energy. As a studious bard he had picked up the ability to know many things about many things.