Pinebrush stows the anti-magic runestone for now, waiting until he has time to hire a crafter to transfer it to his armor (or get Sigourney to do it).
He has trouble resting, eager for the opportunity to explore underwater! He's very careful about casting his water-breathing spell on everyone.
As they travel, he flits and leaps between plants and ruins and other obstacles, staying low and quiet, using his wings for "extended leaps" more than what most would call flying. He has little difficulty traversing the terrain.
Billy activates the Carnival card. He finds himself moving through the, by now familiar, shadowy carnival. He is drawn to the big top once again. Inside a new act is performing, an animal tamer stands in the middle of the tent, dressed all in black with only burning red eyes visible beneath a shadowy hood. Around him dance a mass of snakes, twisting and writhing in a sinuous, even hypnotic, movement.
Billy has a strong sense of malevolence rolling off the figure, they definitely cannot be trusted.
Billy shudders and describes the evil snake charmer with red eyes and a hood. "The snake with a hood gave me cobra vibes. Sigourney, what do you know about cobras?"
Billy helps the group traverse to the lake.
Slick makes a run into the market in Katapesh and sells off all their loot except for the Antimagic rune that he passes over to Pine. Upon returning to the palace, he distributes the cash to his companions, pocketing his own cut of the proceeds for later.
When everyone is ready to proceed again, Slick once again takes the lead position some distance in front of the others and carefully scouts the area ahead looking out for any dangers and to avoid being surprised or ambushed by any potential enemies.
The group makes their way through the broken city without trouble. Reaching the upper city you find yourselves facing the upper lake. A massive pool of dark, still water confronts you. It has clearly flooded a large section of the upper city and you can just about make out the shapes of buildings and streets below you. In the distance you can see a small island, only just protruding from the surface of the lake. It sits several hundred yards away near the middle of the lake and is the location Shanaca suggested that the lights were seen at.
"Well, my favourite cheese is Ustalavian Blue Cheese with a bit of wine. High class stuff. I'm happy with the lute, especially yours. It's saved our lives so many times! You could say that...I'm cheesed to see you. Reginald attempts to tell a joke.
When the party reaches the pond, Reginald helps Sigourney dig out swimming potions from inside Sigourney's sleeves and helps hand them out to the party.
"Don't drink these yet. Sigourney...is going to be occupied for the next hour or so."
Slick looks out over the water to the small island in the distance but it is too far to see any details. "I guess we're going to have to swim over there to see what the deal is." He secures his equipment and prepares to enter the water.
"Cobra? Snake? In a pond? I have no idea if that even is possible. If you all give me an hour, I can ask someone who does."
Once the party reaches the lake, Sigourney gets off the disc, Sustains the spell to have it follow her around, and spends an hour meditating on Billy's question.
With the hour long ritual over, Sigourney hands out the Greater Swimming potions with Reginald's help and explains what it does and how long it lasts.
"Yes, this will taste like swallowing wet, salty sand. Not my problem - that's what the formula says it's intended to do. Why do you think I'm going to just cast this spell on me instead?" Sigourney says.
"Anyway, I think we should just swim to the island and figure out what is happening on it. Drink the potions when you are ready to go."
Edit:
Billy enjoys the chat with Reginald. "What a coincidence, Ustalavian Blue is my favorite too! Naturally, I agree about accompanying it with wine, but ..." Billy grins and asks, "... are you even old enough to drink, Reg?"
Arriving at the edge of the lake, Billy asks, "Can't we just fly to the island?" He continues, "I'd like to avoid any evil cobra sea creatures for as long as possible."
Billy considers and suggests, "I could also perform a quick augury to determine if it would be good or bad to make the swim. But I'm not sure that's necessary."
"Cobra? Snake? In a pond? I have no idea if that even is possible. If you all give me an hour, I can ask someone who does."
"...sea serpent?"
Sigourney wants to take a long time again. Pine flops down on the ground and pretends not to be paying attention, though he continues listening carefully. If anything comes out of the water, he'll hear it before he could see it anyway.
When Billy mentions flying, Slick slaps his forehead with his palm. "Of course!" He taps his baldric with his hand. "This thing will get me over there without having to get wet. If the rest of you can get over there without touching the water, then I think that's the way to go. No need to give the bad guys a free shot at us if we don't have to, and no need to drink our swimming potions prematurely."
Slick closes his eyes and with an "It's flyin' time", he feels himself getting lighter. "Let me go check out the island." He takes off and flies over to the island and looks it over closely without actually landing on it just yet. He reports back what he finds.
"Hey, look. I was 2 human years old before I became a familiar. In rat years, that makes me 60 years old. I'm definitely old enough to drink. Who knows how old I am now with magic running through my veins!" Reginald counters back. "Besides, are you going to tell on me?"
Noticing that Pine is free and that Sigourney is currently busy, Reginald drags some of Sigourney's spare pens and blank paper over to Pine.
"I'm sorry that Sigourney is taking a long time again...you get used to it though." He pushes over the writing material with his snout. "Fancy a game of hangman or naughts and crosses? You'll have to write for me though, I didn't get Manual Dexterity today from my patron."
Sigourney snaps out of her trance.
"Ok, I spoke to something out there and it tells me that there are no monstrous serpents in this lake. Whatever Billy's vision is referring to, it's not a snake."
When Reginald asks Billy about plans to 'rat' him out, Billy responds, "Of course not, I'm a big fan of staying hydrated." He grins.
Upon hearing Sigourney's conclusion, the halfling muses aloud, "Or ... it's simply not an 'inhabitant of the lake'. Maybe we'll meet this serpent on the island..." When Slick returns from his reconnaissance mission, Billy prepares to cast Fly on himself to cross with the group. "Everyone have a way to get there?"
When the group is ready, Billy grips his staff, brings up some Musical Accompaniment, and sings,
♫"Swimming may cause fright, when crossing this great lake.
Better to take flight. Still mindful of that snake...."♫
Billy casts Fly.
"Well, time to cross then?" Sigourney steps onto the disc with Reginald and snaps her fingers. Nothing happens at first. She snaps her fingers again. "The thing I hate the most about these things is that they start without warn-Ah!" The sudden burst of movement from the disc interrupts her sentence. It takes all her concentration to balance and keep the floating disc moving forward. She tries not to think about the possibility of falling into the black, murky depths below her.
"Hey wait! I need--oh, right."
Pine is still relatively new to having permanent wings. But the others are still faster!
The group make their way across to the island. The surface of the lake is broken only by the outcroppings of rock and crystal in various sizes that poke above the lapping waves. Here, one such stone, hewn flat, juts several feet above the surface. On it lie strewn tools, clay storage jars held in depressions in the rock, a slab or altar, and an iridescent slick of fragrant grease. This oil forms a similar sheen on the lake water around this platform, while deeper down, under the water, an enormous shadow looms to the east of the rock.
Sigourey recognises the tools as being implements for use in a rare form of oil based embalming. They are clearly designed for large sized creatures.
Examining the stone and the tools, it is clear that this place is used for a create undead ritual and this is likely the source of the strange lights Shanaca told you about.
Examining the area you also find various ritual components, onyx gems and other rare materials worth 2000gp total.
Looking into the lake below you can see that the rock you are in descends into the murky waters. The place you want is probably down there, somewhere.
Sigourney looks at the tools thoughtfully.
"These remind me of the embalming tools that one Gebbite professor brought over when he came to teach basic necromancy. I wonder what they could be possibly used for?"
Sigourney realises that she didn't pay much attention during that particular unit in wizard college. She passes the tools to someone more devout to figure out - namely Billy.
"These are being used on large creatures. But why would someone want to embalm in the middle of a lake?"
After pocketing some of the ritual components, she hands out 3 Greater Swimming potions, one to each of the other non-rat party members.
"Ready whenever you all are." She says.
If she sees them drink their potions, she will cast 6th rank Feet to Fins on herself. Her legs and feet fuse together and morph into a fish tail. She slowly bellyflops her way off the disc and splashes into the water below. She instantly regrets it as she feels the chill of the lake.
After Sustaining the disc to follow her and placing Reginald securely on her shoulder, she follows the party as they dive into the lake.
When Sigourney hands Billy the tools, the devout halfling studies them.
He nods confidently, "This stone, with these tools, are used in Create Undead rituals. They often involve glowing lights ... that Shanaca mentioned. Pretty evil stuff." He shudders and considers, "Didn't Shanaca say that tentacled monsters have taken her people who have returned as undead?"
Billy looks at the stone and turns to Slick, "In addition to removing the tools, should we destroy this stone altar while we're here?" He shrugs, "I'd help, but ..." and Billy displays his flabby halfling arms.
When the group is ready, Billy continues his Musical Accompaniment, drinks his potion, and dares to enter the realm of scary tentacled monsters.
Slick muses Billy and Sigourney's findings. "So, oil based embalming, eh? and on large creatures to boot? Sounds like we're going to be running into some big waterproof undead." He looks down into the murky depths. "Probably all swimming around down there waiting for us to drop in on them."
When Billy suggests destroying the stone island, Slick raises an eyebrow. "Not sure that's necessary, plus I'm a warrior, not a stonemason." He pulls his sword out. "I don't think I have the tools required to sink an island, no matter how small."
He takes the swimming potion from Sigourney, and with a deep breath, swallows it in one shot. "Here goes nothing," Slick grips his sword tightly in both hands and steps off the island. With a small splash, he drops into the water and proceeds to sink like a stone.
With Pine's water breathing magic in place and various methods pf swimming sorted out you dive into the murky, yet rather warm, waters of the lake. The lake is placid but the waters are rather murky. As you descend the light also grows dim. You can follow the column of stone downwards and, slowly, the shape of various buildings begins to resolve below you. One however, is different.
The building directly below you seems to be covered by a dome of shimmering, shadowy, bubbling water. It looks like there might be a passageway through it at the base where a crumbling old gatehouse stands.
Before everyone drinks their potions, Billy says, "Hang on... I never know who I might run into, and I like to be prepared to talk to everyone. And everything." He retrieves a scroll and casts Speak with Stones.
Turning to the stone altar, he asks the stone spirits, "Greetings. I'm Billy. What creatures have been here?" After their response, he asks a harder question, "Can you describe what they do here?" And finally, "Is there anything we can do to help you?"
He passes along any other questions the group has, and then he joins everyone in quaffing potions for the swim.
"Sorry, what?" Sigourney is taken aback. "You are...speaking to this altar? Can you ask it...if it is concealing or built upon anything hidden?"
Sigourney casts Light on herself and Reginald so that they can see. "We should probably go through the gatehouse. And by we, I mean the people who are more durable should go first."
As they drop through he water, Slick spots the odd looking building with the dome of shimmering water and sees the passageway at its base. He points to the entrance. Bubbles leave his mouth as he tries to say, "That way." Not knowing if anyone heard him, he kicks and starts swimming in the direction of the crumbling old gatehouse hoping that the rest follow.
The stones answer Billy in a grating voice which shakes his bones.
What creatures have been here?"
The Dark Lord Markish, he shall consume your soul!
Can you describe what they do here?
The Dark Lord reaves the souls of his minions and raises them to serve him forever.
Is there anything we can do to help you?
We need nothing from fragile creatures such as you. The waters will consume you and your bones shall moulder in the dark depths.
Billy shivers as the stone spirits speak. After translating for the group, Billy poses Sigourney's question about the stone altar covering or concealing anything. He nods and says, "Thank you, great spirit."
He follows up, "Can you describe The Dark Lord Markish? What type of creature is he and what does he look like?"
Billy follows Slick to the gatehouse.
The Dark Lord is the master of the Marid lords of Kho. As stones, we care not about the appearance of impermanent fleshlings.
Sigourney's expression turns into an incredulous grin as Billy translates.
"Are we being threatened by a rock? And what is a Marid anyway?"
She messages Billy subtly. "You said that there was some kind of snake charmer right? This is probably him. I guess whoever Markish is, he is a necromancer and is not to be trusted."
Sigourney swims along behind Slick and Pine. "I can hear you, Slick. Loud, but not clearly. Sound doesn't travel as well underwater."
Sigourney recalls that Marids are powerful water based Genies. In general they are rather fragile (weakest save is fort). They fight with tridents which they can use to skewer their enemies, leaving terrible bleeding wounds.
The rest of the group have no real idea about them.
As you head down towards the Gatehouse a number of creatures emerge from the surrounding ruins to assault you. Three large, tentacled, monsters with rubbery looking grey flesh move to the attack.
Initiative
, +2 item visual/hearing, +2 circ scout
, Perception +24, +1 circ if visual, +2 circ scout
, +2 circ scout, +2 item visual
One of the creatures swims forward, as it does so all of you feel a wave of terror wash over you.
It snaps out with its beak at Sigourney before trying to pierce her with a pair of tentacle jabs! Hitting her twice it also smears her with foul smelling slime.
The second one emerges and attacks Billy, only managing to catch him with a pointy tentacle.
, hit
, hit
, miss
, miss
, miss
, hit
Turn Order
Red
Green
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Slick
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Blue
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Pine
Billy
Sigourney
Bold to act. At the start of your turn give me a Will save
Combat status
Slick 233/233, frightened 1
Billy 165/186, see invisibile, frightened 1
Pinebrush 201/201, frightened 1
Sigourney 140/188, frightened 1
Reginald 105/105, frightened 1
Aquatic Combat:
You are flat footed unless you have a swim speed
You gain fire and acid resistance 5
You take a -2 penalty to slashing and bludgeoning attacks
Ranged piercing attacks have their range increment halved, bludgeoning and slashing ranged attacks are ineffective
No fire spells or effects with the fire trait work underwater
Now that the altar had shown itself to be a total dick, Slick momentarily reconsiders his reluctance to destroying it. He again decides against it. After all, if he were to try and kill everything dickish he came across, he'd have no free time left at all.
As the strange tentacled monsters approach, Slick is caught a little by surprise and is somewhat shocked by their ugly appearance. "Ugh!"
But except for a slight remaining feeling of ick!, he isn't otherwise affected.
With the water affecting his ability to move freely across the battlefield, and with Billy a little slow off the mark with his usual bucking up of the spirits and speeding up of the bodies, Slick finds himself having to get down to basics. He steps in front of Billy to protect his softer friend with his body, and pokes twice at the nearest of the giant tentacled creatures.
Reactive Strike (↺)
Trigger A creature within your reach uses a manipulate action or a move action, makes a ranged attack, or leaves a square during a move action it’s using.
Make a melee Strike against the triggering creature. If your attack is a critical hit and the trigger was a manipulate action, you disrupt that action. This Strike doesn’t count toward your multiple attack penalty, and your multiple attack penalty doesn’t apply to this Strike.
Protector's Sacrifice (↺)
Trigger An ally within 30 feet takes damage
Reduce the damage the ally would take by 24. You redirect this damage to yourself, but your immunities, weaknesses, resistances and so on do not apply.
Warding Tattoo (Fiend) (↺) (1/day)
Trigger An enemy, hazard, or the environment makes an attack against your AC, requires you to attempt a saving throw, or causes you to take damage automatically
Until the end of the current turn, against the triggering effect, you gain a +1 status bonus to AC and saving throws and gain resistance 2 to damage.
The Paladin (↺) (1/day)
Trigger You fail or critically fail a saving throw
Adjust the result of your saving throw up by one degree of success.
Talisman: Snapleaf (↺)
Trigger You begin to fall.
This small, crystalline carving takes the shape of a tree leaf and attaches to armor or clothing with a simple strap. When you activate the snapleaf, you gain the benefits of feather fall and a 2nd-level invisibility spell for 1 minute or until you stop falling, whichever comes first.
Skeptic's Defense (↺) (1/day)
Trigger You are targeted by or are in the area of a mental spell or effect.
You don't believe in any mental twaddle, and you're certainly not afraid of it. You scoff and verbally refute the triggering effect, attempting a counteract check using your Intimidation modifier with a counteract level of half your level rounded up. If you succeed, you ignore the triggering effect, though any other creatures that were also targeted or in the area are still affected. If the source of the effect you successfully counteracted understands your language and has an Intelligence modifier of –3 or higher, that creature becomes stupefied for 1 round.
Blessed Denial (↺)
Trigger An ally within 30 feet would become Frightened, Drained, Enfeebled, Sickened, or Stupefied.
You exude peace and protection, lessening a harmful condition as it falls upon an ally. Reduce the value of the condition your ally would take by 1 (to a minimum of 0). If the ally takes more than one condition at the same time, choose one to reduce.
Shield Block (↺) (extra reaction from The Paladin)
Trigger While you have your shield raised, you would take damage from a physical attack.
You snap your shield in place to ward off a blow. Your shield prevents you from taking an amount of damage up to the shield’s Hardness. You and the shield each take any remaining damage, possibly breaking or destroying the shield.
Slick swims forward, as he does Green jabs out at him with a tentacle but it goes well wide. His first blow goes wide but the second pierces something vital.
Blue swims forward and snaps out at Pine. It crunches into his little body with its massive beak and then slaps him with a tentacle. He is thoroughly covered with disgusting oil.
, crit
doubled for 58
, hit
, miss
, both fail
Also, a slight retcon, the second tentacle attack on Sigourney also hit.
Turn Order
Red
Green
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Slick
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Blue
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Pine
Billy
Sigourney
Bold to act. At the start of your turn give me a Will save
Combat status
Slick 233/233, frightened 1
Billy 165/186, see invisibile, frightened 1
Pinebrush 113/201, frightened 1, Slimed, no current effect
Sigourney 114/188, frightened 1
Reginald 105/105, frightened 1
Green, 56 damage, FF end Slick turn 2
Sigourney is so disgusted by these creatures that she is unaware of the mind-altering effects that come with them.
"Ugh, this is disgusting. Reginald, remind me to cast Prestidigitation on myself later."
Sigourney realises that she and Pine are in an incredibly bad situation. Surrounded by 3 beasts that lash out whenever given the opportunity? Not good, especially when two of these creatures are within reach of her and Pine. She considers her options and eventually goes for the least bad one.
Her Patron acts first, as usual and commands Reginald to do his thing.
"Well, hit me I guess. I'll probably be fine, but I really need to get this spell off at a safe distance." She reluctantly swims away.
At a safer distance 30 feet away, she casts a spell.
"This should hopefully cause them to miss a few of their hits, but we need to focus one of them down at a time. Get dazzled by my Revealing Light!"
Reginald splits into strings. Although aware of Sigourney's directions that the party focus their fire, he chooses to target the one furthest from the party.
"Eeep! Get these things away from me!"
Edit: Apologies, forgot about him.
Billy wasn't bothered by the altar's seemingly aggressive attitude. The bard understood that stone spirits are not often blessed with diplomacy and tact, like he is. The tentacled creatures, however, are likely the monsters that Shanaca described as killing her people. And they hurt!
This is normally the part of Billy's act where he sings out inspiration, but since he just got stabbed, he courageously opts for discretion over valour. He sings a song to haste his friends.
♫"The tentacles must go. There's no more time to waste.
It's time to start the show. Let's all attack with haste."♫
Then, as the proverbial coast is clear thanks to Sigourney's bravery, Billy takes advantage and swims to a more strategic distance.
Eh, ouch. Pine lets his whip fall (or drift slowly downwards). It's not very useful underwater anyway. He tries to quickly patch his wound, but doesn't quite manage it and resorts to using the magic healing from his gloves.
He then darts through the water towards the giant monster that Slick was already attacking. "You think you're so tough just because you're so much bigger than me? Well, little things can sting!"
Oh hey, he has a new name for his sword. Which is good because it isn't spicy any more.
He stabs the beast in what he assumes is its most vulnerable spot.
If crit, double damage and add , and it triggers Reactive Strike as though it had used a manipulate action.
◇ Debilitating Strikes. If the attack hit, it can't use Reactions, or flank or contribute to its allies' flanking.
Reginald shrugs off whatever unpleasant aura these things posses and unravels himself at them! Green becomes horribly tangled!
Sigourney swims away, taking a pointy tentacle for her trouble! She then engulfs two of them in bright lights. Blue seems not to notice but red starts blinking its many jet black, soulless eyeballs.
Billy also seems unconcerned by the fear radiating from the things. He hastes the party and bugs out.
Pine feels his limbs begin to stiffen but is able to shrug off the effect. He gives himself a little healing and then swims up to green and stabs him.
Green objects to Pine's closeness and snaps at him with its beak but just goes wide. It promptly jabs him with a pair of pointy tentacles, piercing his little body and then tries a wild slam with another which goes well wide.
Red jets through the water at Sigourney. The beak snaps shut just in front of her nose and one tentacle goes wide due to the strange lights playing across the soulless dark orbs the thing has for eyes. The second tentacle however impales her leg, causing a great deal of pain and, perhaps more worringly, covering her in slime!
, fail
, miss
, hit
, miss
, hit
, hit
, miss
, miss
, hit
, fail
Haste 1/10
Turn Order
Red
Green
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Slick
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Blue
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Pine
Billy
Sigourney
Bold to act.
Combat status
Slick 233/233, frightened 1
Billy 165/186, see invisibile, frightened 1
Pinebrush 77/201, frightened 1, Slimed, no current effect
Sigourney 58/188, frightened 1, Slimed, no current effect
Reginald 105/105, frightened 1
Green, 169 damage, Immobilised, FF end Slick turn 2, no reactions or flank, Pine turn 2
Red, dazzled 1 minute
Red seethes in rage, entangled by Reginalds strings. He tries to escape, eventually breaking out and swimming after Sigourney.
I am leaving the previous rolls as they are and rerolling for his new actions. If he manages to make any attacks I will use the rolls above.
Haste 1/10
Turn Order
Red
Green
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Slick
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Blue
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Pine
Billy
Sigourney
Bold to act.
Combat status
Slick 233/233, frightened 1
Billy 165/186, see invisibile, frightened 1
Pinebrush 77/201, frightened 1, Slimed, no current effect
Sigourney 88/188, frightened 1
Reginald 105/105, frightened 1
Green, 113 damage, Immobilised, FF end Slick turn 2, no reactions or flank, Pine turn 2
Red, 56 damage, dazzled 1 minute
As the nearest tentacled monstrosity ignores him and goes after Pine, Slick notices that Sigourney is not so fortunate. When another of the creatures strikes her, he reaches out with his mind and redirects some of the damage to himself.
With Sigourney taken care of, Slick returns his now sped-up attentions to the creature before him. He pokes at it a few times looking for a soft spot.
Slick hacks away at green, which, with Pines extra stab, finally tears the thing apart!
Blue, incensed at Slick, unleashes at him! Its beak crunches down on his arm then a tentacle stabs and smacks him! He finds himself coated in slime.
, crit
, crit
, miss
, hit
, piercing, doubled for 50
, piercing, doubled for 44
, bludgeoning
120 total
, pass, fail, pass
Haste 1/10
Turn Order
Red
Green
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Slick
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Blue
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Pine
Billy
Sigourney
Bold to act.
Combat status
Slick 91/233, frightened 1, Slimed, no current effect
Billy 165/186, see invisible, frightened 1
Pinebrush 77/201, frightened 1, Slimed, no current effect
Sigourney 112/188, frightened 1
Reginald 105/105, frightened 1
Green, dead
Red, 56 damage, dazzled 1 minute
"No you don't!" Pine's wings open, and then fold over him, covering him with their magic.
Now invisible he sweeps through the water towards the injured whatever-it-is. Might these things be able to tell where he is through displaced water? Probably not, they're much larger than he is. But it doesn't really matter, because he gives away his location with a sharp announcement.
◇ Debilitating Strikes. If the attack hit, it can't use Reactions, or flank or contribute to its allies' flanking.
When Pinebrush starts to take action, Billy calls out, "Maybe wait for some of my fabulous inspiration, my friend?"
Billy sings out,
♫"Attacked far beneath the blue sky.
By three very large octopi.
.....We'll cause them great harm.
.....And slice off each arm.
Let's do this! And watch them all die."♫
Billy then strides along the lake bed closer to Slick and sings,
♫"Slick just took some hits. Which sent the fighter reeling.
It's usually he who crits. I'll offer up some healing."♫
Sigourney notices that the monstrosity in front of her is so distracted by a (presumably invisible) Pine that it can't disrupt her spellwork. "Thanks Pine!" She yells out into the water. "Fall back, everyone! I'll take it from here."
She murmurs a few words in a language that is definitely not Taldane.
Sigourney's thin and wry shape buckles and expands. Her white skin hardens and greys, forming into scales. Her hands elongate and sharpen into claws as large as a grown halfling. Vicious looking horns, wings and fangs sprout from her body as it stabilises into the likeliness of a Huge Adamantine Dragon.
- the Dragon trait,
- hands and can take manipulate actions,
- a Huge form,
- 15 Temp Hit Points,
- AC of 21 + 15 = 36,
- Speed of 40 feet, fly speed of 120 feet, burrow speed of 20 feet,
- [two-actions] Dragon Breath of a 30 foot cone of Bludgeoning that does 14d6 damage (basic Reflex save),
- Resistance 10 against the damage type of Dragon Breath (Bludgeoning),
- Darkvision and Imprecise Scent of 60 feet,
- Athletics +28,
- Tradition Resistance 5 to physical damage (as Adamantine Dragons are Primal and match the spell tradition from which I cast this spell),
- The following unarmed attacks with a modifier of +28 and damage bonus of +12, Melee [one-action] jaws (reach 10 feet), Damage 2d12 piercing plus 2d6 Bludgeoning; Melee [one-action] claw (agile) (reach 10 feet), Damage 3d10 slashing; Melee [one-action] tail (reach 15 feet), Damage 3d10 bludgeoning.
With a great roar, the now huge Sigourney starts chomping away at the many tentacles of this creature. Her maw both pierces and grinds whatever she can chew on into bits.
I don't think I can cast spells in this form so my reactions have been cut down to these.
Activate—Antimagic Armor [reaction] (concentrate); Frequency once per day; Trigger A spell targets you or includes you in its area; Effect The armor attempts to counteract the triggering spell with the effect of a 7th-rank dispel magic spell and a counteract modifier of +26.
Reginald squeaks a sigh of relief as Dragon-Sigourney and an invisible Pine engage the squid thing in front of him.
"Nice work, everyone! I'll take my leave now, if it's all the same to you."
He attempts to swim away, but lacks the physiological means to do so efficiently. His desperate doggy-paddling only gets him so far.
Slick barely has time to celebrate the destruction of one enemy when the next one is upon him. The ferocity of the new creature's attacks surprises him. "Wow! These guys do not mess around." When the final tentacle stabs him and covers him in slime, he recoils slightly in disgust...
...and manages to wipe most of it off before it can affect him.
Pine vanishes and swims into red, poking it!
Billy inspires his companions and bolsters Slick, who may well need it.
Sigourney transforms into a massive dragon and takes two disgusting bites out of the monster. It also leaves an opening for Pine to stab it but somehow the bulky thing is still moving!
Red, furious, unleashes at Sigourney. In its fury it fails to land a single blow!
Haste 2/10
Inspire 1/10
Turn Order
Red
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Slick
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Blue
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Pine
Billy
Sigourney
Bold to act.
Combat status
Slick 159/233, frightened 1
Billy 165/186, see invisible, frightened 1
Pinebrush 77/201, frightened 1, Slimed, no current effect
Sigourney 112/188, frightened 1
Reginald 105/105, frightened 1
Green, dead
Red, 193 damage, dazzled 1 minute, no reactions or flanking
Slick nods to his friend in appreciation for the healing ditty. "Thanks, Billy. These things can really do some damage when they puts what's left of their minds to the task."
He then sees that Pine and Sigourney almost managed to finish off their tentacled opponent. He decides to join in the fun and hopefully finish the creature off. He swims over and with Pinebrush's distractions, pokes away with his sword.
Reactive Strike (↺)
Trigger A creature within your reach uses a manipulate action or a move action, makes a ranged attack, or leaves a square during a move action it’s using.
Make a melee Strike against the triggering creature. If your attack is a critical hit and the trigger was a manipulate action, you disrupt that action. This Strike doesn’t count toward your multiple attack penalty, and your multiple attack penalty doesn’t apply to this Strike.
Protector's Sacrifice (↺)
Trigger An ally within 30 feet takes damage
Reduce the damage the ally would take by 24. You redirect this damage to yourself, but your immunities, weaknesses, resistances and so on do not apply.
Warding Tattoo (Fiend) (↺) (1/day)
Trigger An enemy, hazard, or the environment makes an attack against your AC, requires you to attempt a saving throw, or causes you to take damage automatically
Until the end of the current turn, against the triggering effect, you gain a +1 status bonus to AC and saving throws and gain resistance 2 to damage.
The Paladin (↺) (1/day)
Trigger You fail or critically fail a saving throw
Adjust the result of your saving throw up by one degree of success.
Talisman: Snapleaf (↺)
Trigger You begin to fall.
This small, crystalline carving takes the shape of a tree leaf and attaches to armor or clothing with a simple strap. When you activate the snapleaf, you gain the benefits of feather fall and a 2nd-level invisibility spell for 1 minute or until you stop falling, whichever comes first.
Skeptic's Defense (↺) (1/day)
Trigger You are targeted by or are in the area of a mental spell or effect.
You don't believe in any mental twaddle, and you're certainly not afraid of it. You scoff and verbally refute the triggering effect, attempting a counteract check using your Intimidation modifier with a counteract level of half your level rounded up. If you succeed, you ignore the triggering effect, though any other creatures that were also targeted or in the area are still affected. If the source of the effect you successfully counteracted understands your language and has an Intelligence modifier of –3 or higher, that creature becomes stupefied for 1 round.
Blessed Denial (↺)
Trigger An ally within 30 feet would become Frightened, Drained, Enfeebled, Sickened, or Stupefied.
You exude peace and protection, lessening a harmful condition as it falls upon an ally. Reduce the value of the condition your ally would take by 1 (to a minimum of 0). If the ally takes more than one condition at the same time, choose one to reduce.
Shield Block (↺) (extra reaction from The Paladin)
Trigger While you have your shield raised, you would take damage from a physical attack.
You snap your shield in place to ward off a blow. Your shield prevents you from taking an amount of damage up to the shield’s Hardness. You and the shield each take any remaining damage, possibly breaking or destroying the shield.