Sir Batman sniffles.
I may be catching something.
The Champion of Mazludeh then begins to Lay on Hands.
The rest of the day passes uneventfully, as do the following two. On the fifth night of your journey across Sarkoris, you find a good stand of trees to make camp. The evening is particularly cold, and Innumma starts a campfire to keep the group warm.
A few hours after sunset, as you sitting around the fire, Ravenna and Sylva hear a gurgling noise. Innumma hears it too, cocking his head. "What was that?" he asks.
A second later, a horrid demon bursts out of the undergrowth! The lanky fiend’s mouth is filled with sharp fangs, while great bat-like wings stretch from its scaly hide. It hisses at you, its stomach gurgling with hunger!
Sylva hides!
The bronze-colored bat-shaped sprite snores through the demon inspired ruckus.....
The demon surges forward, snapping its jaws at Batman and trying to gobble him up!
Its baleful gaze threatens to drain your life force!
Ravenna fires as she retreats from the monster's sudden appearance, scoring a telling hit.
Sylva comes out of hiding, and ▶️dashes to Sir Bat’s aid!
“Eat my feet!”
Her battlecry needs work, but her kicks—
—pack a punch!
Startled by the furious focused bite, the bronze-colored bat cries out in frustration!
I almost had that fish!
The Sprite Raises his Shield, Enters his Stance and Shield Bosses the demon in the face!
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Ravenna scores a critical hit, stunning the demon as the ooze eats at its flesh! Batman bashes it with his shield, while Sylva delivers two powerful kicks! Nox hastens Ravenna. Innumma waves his torch around in the demon's face, aiding Batman's defense.
The demon recovers from the stun, shrieking as it critically bites Batman again and tries to consume his essence with its gaze!
Sylva kicks the demon where it counts—in the lips and fingers!
“Oooooh, you felt that one! Now feel these ones!”
She whiffs her tiny limbs. The demon doesn’t feel a thing from the impotent combo.
Ravenna, quickened by Nox's magic, keeps up her assault, squeezing off two more shots at the monster.
Sir Batman closes his eyes for a critical nap!
Sir Batman--Reacts--quickly bringing his most bestest of sturdy shield's around to Block a bit of that boisterous bite!
The Champion of Mazludeh then Lay on Hands himself!
The Bronze-colored sprite then decides to Shield Bash the Snot puss off this demons farce of a face!
And again!
This is so much fun! Someone get this gut a breath mint
The demon reels as Ravenna clips it with a bullet and both Sylva and Batman deliver battering blows. It shrieks and attacks Batman again, but this time the sprite holds off the fiend with his shield!
Ravenna’s fake-out gives Sylva an opening—which she capitalizes on!
But again, the demon is quick to evade most of the sprite’s attacks. Only the first hits
The first is enough! The brutal kick sends the demon sprawling to the ground, where its body bubbles and boils away, leaving only a foul stain of corruption on the ground!
Sylva watches in surprise as the terrifying creature melts away!
“Oh… Sir Bat!”
She takes out her med kit…
…and her healing barely surfaces a scratch on Sir Batman.
“It’s amazing how much of a beating you can take… I just wish I could do more.” She knows Sir Bat can self-heal just fine. That little bandage might not even have made a difference, but she wants to help him.
After all, his bronze armor protects her too!
Sir Batman watches the where its body bubbles and boils away, leaving only a foul stain of corruption on the ground! He kicks the foul ooze!
Turning a satisfied smile at Sylva, the bronze-colored bat-shaped sprite shrugs.
I eat my vitamins every morning, do my exercises and have reliable friends that put all my stuffing back in when the play dates are done.
The Champion of Mazludeh then Refoces for 10 minutes by doing some jaw exercises before beginnhis Lay on Hands retinue.
Sir Batman pats the band-aid from Sylva fondly.
After recovering from the battle with the demon, you rest and resume your journey. Several more days of grueling travel pass. Finally, after over 200 miles of trudging through the Sarkoris Scar, you finally catch another glimpse of your celestial objective. As the group sets up camp for the night, Sakuachi points toward the horizon and shouts, “Look!” In a dense forest of twisted trees and thorned brambles many miles away, a glowing green light emanates from a conspicuous clearing.
The green glow on the western horizon persists through the next day and evening, making it easy for you to determine the direction of your destination. By the next morning, however, the glow has vanished. Nevertheless, Sakuachi grows excited at the prospect of her quest coming to an end. Innumma warns her to temper her expectations, as there is much about the land of Sarkoris they don’t understand. “Could it be a god?” Innumma asks. “Perhaps. But it could also be something much more dangerous...”
Trudging though the terrible terrain, bewildered by the bullish brutality, firmly faithfully filled, Sir Batman stands upon a blasted trunk surveying the sick sights.
Reminds me not to come here for my next vacation.
A couple days later, you finally reach the edge of the forest where the fallen star is located. A panicked whinny sounds from ahead, preceding the arrival of a wounded riding horse. The horse staggers out of the woods, a dead half-elf in tattered leather armor slumped in its saddle. As the bloodied and exhausted horse stumbles towards you, an enormous ambulatory plant emerges from the woods! The plant has a thick, knotted trunk festooned with fanged blossoms. A gaping mouth sits at the top of the trunk.
The plant moves closer before releasing a pulse of bright light!
Success: The creature is unaffected.
Failure: The creature is dazzled for 1d4 rounds.
Critical Failure: The creature is blinded for 1d4 rounds.
Sylva glances at Sir Bat, and seeing he’s ready for action as always, she rushes the plant—
Her first attack is all too obvious, but she lands her second!
Feeling rested, relaxed, readied, the bronze-colored bat-shaped sprite trudged through the haunting Scar. Seeing the edge of the forest where the fallen star is located, Sir Batman unslings his shield and begins more trudging.
As the bloodied and exhausted horse stumbles towards you, an enormous ambulatory plant emerges from the woods!
What's ambulatory?
Entering his Stance, Raising his Shield, the Champion of Mazludeh Strides forward!
He blinks.
Fancy light show, bro!
Blinking furiously against the blinding flash, Ravenna shoots off a fiery bullet at the plant monster, even though it seems very blurry.
Ravenna misses due to the spots in her eyes. The gunslinger recognizes the creature as a moonflower, an extraterrestrial carnivorous plant possessing a rudimentary intellect! Though moonflowers can't speak in the conventional sense, they communicate telepathically with other moonflowers. They are immune to electricity but weak to fire. They resist physical damage except that from slashing weapons. They also heal rapidly!
Batman and Sylva move in. Sylva kicks the moonflower, but it resists the bludgeoning blow. Then, the injury heals almost completely before your eyes! The plant chomps down on Sylva, grabbing a hold of her, but she resists its efforts
“OW! Let go of me, you WEIRDO!”
Sylva finds the big plant’s hold to be impossibly strong, and she does NOT want to get swallowed!
Sylva is suddenly at Ravenna’s side. And she recalls Ravenna had kept her blades, so she takes one!
▶️
"Use slashing weapons and fire!" Ravenna shouts, firing off another blazing bullet as she backs away from the monster.
Sir Batman Reacts quickly granting poor Sylva his Liberating Step !
Sylva!
The bronze-colored sprite Raises his Shield and....
Fire? I can do fire!
The Champion of Mazludeh then burns the Sheet in The Wind!
Blasting Beams (Fire)
The Fire just keeps burning!
Burn! Burn!
The sprite looks around.
Too much?
All your attacks miss save for Nox, who manages to score a critical hit! The plant turns towards him as the wound starts to heal, snapping its jaws! It grabs the sorcerer-turned-ooze and quickly slurps him down, swallowing him whole! A moment later, the plant extrudes a tight cocoon from its body, Nox trapped inside of it!
Sylva rushes the creature with Lemonsbane in hand!
“Good call on keeping my blades, Ravenna!”
She tries to slice the belly of the (botanical) beast!
Ravenna takes careful aim this time, waits for the right moment, and then fires an explosive bullet!
The bronze-colored bat-shaped sprite pukes!
Slowly opening his previously shut blue eyes, Sir Batman pats himself.
Not dead yet!
Raising his Shield, the Champion of Mazludeh Strides into the Big-Mouth Plant!
Pick on somebody your own size punk!
Sylva slashes the plant twice while Ravenna shoots it with a burning bullet! Though Sylva dodges its initial attempt to bite her, its second strike is a critical hit! It grabs the sprite in its maw once more.
Sir Batman Reacts quickly granting poor Sylva his Liberating Step !
Sylva!
Sir Batman Raises his Shield!
The bronze-colored bat-shaped sprite then grins.
You enjoy giving hugs right!
He hugs it!
Sir Batman sighs.
All out of hero-neess now!
Sylva tries to escape with Sir Bat’s help!
But failing that, she tries again!
She then steps over to Sir Bat and slashes at the plant!
Ravenna charges yet another blazing bullet, this time aiming for something that looks particularly sensitive.
Ravenna scores a critical hit with her burning bullet, and Sylva slashes at the moonflower, finishing off the badly burned and wounded monster! It releases the rogue as it withers and collapses in on itself.
The panicked horse the monster was chasing tosses its head and whickers as it stomps about anxiously. You are able to calm it down, allowing you to examine the dead half-elf woman slumped in its saddle. A religious symbol of Desna hangs about her neck. Unfortunately, it is far too late to lend aid to the woman.
Sir Batman races to the 1/2 elf woman, slumped life-less looking like Travis Kelsey after he realizes it is him dating TS!
I shall lend aid to....s!#!!
The bummed Champion of Mazludeh does begin to Lay on Hands those not actually dead as Travis Kelsy's relationships distance future.
Sakuachi shakes her head sadly. "There's nothing we can do here. Let's press on. We're close now."
The dead horse rider encountered on the edge of the forest left a trail of blood and trampled brush through the Needleglens. The trail lines up with the direction of the fallen star, so it’s a fairly simple matter to reach the spot where the meteorite struck ground. Innuuma leads the way, following the tracks.
Eventually, you reach a strange clearing with some unusual features. A steep mound of dirt, like an oversized insect nest, looms in the middle of this clearing. Much of the mound is covered with weeds and compacted from years of settling, but the eastern half is much looser and made of fresher soil. Above, scorched tree limbs suggest something recently came crashing down into the clearing, hot and fast. According to Sakuachi’s calculations, the meteorite should have landed roughly in this clearing.
A forty-foot-wide stone well punctuates the earth west of the mound. A trail of fresh blood spans the ground between the well’s western edge and the forest to the west. The well’s interior is lined with a rickety wooden spiral staircase.