The towers are not crenelated, and end in a peaked roof well overhead.
One of the dire corbies sees Rory jumping up and down on the ramparts and screeches to his kin - pointing.
Round 1
Mukluk stays hidden and out of line of sight. He takes total defense.
Durgan waits.
Kisaiya looks to her comrades and sees they are all staying put, so she decides to do likewise.
Orange shifts north to what looks a bit like a large cage door - which he flings open! The other two begin their approach, but in no particular hurry from the looks of it.
They seem to be more interested in what the bat is going to do. What bat do you say? Oh, the big damn bat that flies out of the cage door, spins around in the air to get its bearings, before bearing down on the group with great speed and agility! This bat has a wingspan the length of two humans, over-sized ears, and a squat, upturned snout with rows of needle-like teeth.
Mobats are magical giant bats with wolfish grins and immense wingspans. Survivors of a lost era, they are rarely seen beyond the dark forests and deep caves they haunt. Although mobats are omnivores, they vastly prefer the flavor of fresh meat over that of other prey.
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You can’t hear the ogrekin over the screeches of the dire corbies. But the dire corbies are always screeching, so maybe they don’t care…
Know (Arcana) -
”Oh, that sound like a mo’bat! Much different than a less bat, I’ll tell you what,” Mukluk mutters as shit starts to get real. ”Ayep, he’s what I know…”
Screech (Su) Once per day as a standard action, a mobat can produce an ear-splitting screech that stuns non-mobats in a 20-foot-radius burst. All creatures within the area must make a DC 15 Fortitude save or be staggered for 1d3 rounds. Other mobats and urdefhans are immune to this effect. This is a sonic mind-affecting effect.
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Round 2
Mukluk casts Bless and moves back a bit.
"Okay now and y'all, keep Moose in mind as we fight these big birdies! Moose believes in you! Moose knows you can do it!" Mukluk offers encouragingly.
”You all should move back a bit. If it moves up it might squawk up a storm. Best to make it really move up, I tells you.”
Kisaiya takes a few steps back but otherwise stays her ground for the moment. ”The rest of you move back behind me.” She is antsy, not liking this waiting.
HP: 31/31
AC: 21/12/19
Saves: F5/R3/W5
Hero Points: 2
Smite Evil Used: 0/1
Lay on Hands Used: 0/3
Second Chance
Spells/Effects Active: Shield Gauntlet Style, Bless
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
Durgan casts Shield (2 encounters) and moves back towards Mukluk, dropping his buckler as he moves.
Rory mounts up onto Storm who moves out and readies an attack which does not occur. Mukluk backs off a bit after blessing the party. Durgan shields up and drops back with Mukluk. Kisaiya readies an attack, but it does not occur.
The Mobat flies up and screeches loudly! Everyone but Mukluk please made Fort DC 15 saves or be staggered 1d3 rounds.
The corbies close a bit, but seem to be willing, for now, to watch the fun (and they didn’t want to get screeched).
Durgan resists the effect, then moves up and strikes at the bat with his axe.
Kisaiya stands strong through the screech. She steps forward and slashes upwards at the bat creature with a powerful, swift swing.
HP: 31/31
AC: 21/12/19
Saves: F5/R3/W5
Hero Points: 2
Smite Evil Used: 0/1
Lay on Hands Used: 0/3
Second Chance
Spells/Effects Active: Shield Gauntlet Style, Bless
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
Round 3
Mukluk looks for an opening that he can reach, and, unable to find one, he moves up a bit and readies a spell if another foe shows up.
Rory closes with the bat and hits as does Storm. Mukluk looks for an opening, and other opponents. Durgan connects, shredding a portion of the bats giant wings. Kisaiya also slashes the bat with a heavy blow. A strong round for the party!
Spurred on by the dire corbies, the Mobat strikes back at those who have injured it, starting with Kisaiya.
Somewhat stunned by the onslaught so far, the bat bites poorly and doesn't manage to connect with anything but air.
Meanwhile the dire corbies edge forward, adding their own screeches to the mix as they goad the giant bat on!
Durgan continues his attack, striking again with his battle-axe.
Kisaiya steps forward and slashes up at the bat, leaving a space open behind her for Mukluk.
HP: 31/31
AC: 21/12/19
Saves: F5/R3/W5 (+1 vs fear)
Hero Points: 2
Smite Evil Used: 0/1
Lay on Hands Used: 0/3
Second Chance
Spells/Effects Active: Shield Gauntlet Style, Bless
[ dice]1d20+7+1[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
Round 4
Mukluk declines to move up and attack this round, instead tries to offer Kisaiya a reprieve from the corby gang.
He does one of Moose’s finest jokes, greasing the ground under the empty square and green.
[ dice=Trepanator]1d20+1[/dice] to hit;
[ dice=]1d6[/dice] cold iron piercing damage
[ dice=MuleBite]1d20+2[/dice] touch to hit;
[ dice=Divine]1d4[/dice] damage
[ dice=MuleKicks]1d20+2[/dice] touch to hit;
[ dice=Force]1d4[/dice] damage
AC: 12/12/10 + 1 w/shield
Fort/Ref/Will: +2/+3/+7
HP: 17/17
Focus: 0/3
Hero Points: 0/3
Speed: 20'
Luck? 0/1 used
Mule bites: 0/7 used
Rory manages another pair of hits! He doesn’t quite bring down the bat however. Mukluk greases up the walkway, and though you’d think dire corbies could fly… they cannot. Durgan and Kisaiya both miss the bat, flitting about. It is however clearly on its last, uh, wings.
vs DC 16
The Mobat clearly wants to leave, but commanded by the corbies it remains and strikes at Rory.
The dire corbies push forward, trying to get past the grease - a comedy of messes!
vs DC 16
vs DC 16
vs DC 16
Green gets up and closes.
Purple falls as he moves in and gets back up.
Orange does the same.
The grease cost their attacks for the round, and delays the assault!
Rory connects and staggers the bat, leaving Storm to gnaw on the creature's skull bringing it down.
Kisaiya laughs at the corbies tripping over themselves and landing in a pile of grease. She dodges the falling bat and shifts her focus to the corby that was able to get through.
HP: 31/31
AC: 21/12/19
Saves: F5/R3/W5 (+1 vs fear)
Hero Points: 2
Smite Evil Used: 0/1
Lay on Hands Used: 0/3
Second Chance
Spells/Effects Active: Shield Gauntlet Style, Bless
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
Durgan moves back and uses Total Defense.
Round 5
”Oh Moose is gunna love this when I tell him about this! HAW! HAW! HAW!“ Mukluk guffaws joyously. ”That’s good Durgan. You stand back and regain your breath. I’ll get in there and show them how it’s done.”
Mukluk moves up to attack green.
to hit (bless);
cold iron piercing damage
[ dice=Trepanator]1d20+1[/dice] to hit;
[ dice=]1d6[/dice] cold iron piercing damage
[ dice=MuleBite]1d20+2[/dice] touch to hit;
[ dice=Divine]1d4[/dice] damage
[ dice=MuleKicks]1d20+2[/dice] touch to hit;
[ dice=Force]1d4[/dice] damage
AC: 12/12/10 + 1 w/shield
Fort/Ref/Will: +2/+3/+7
HP: 17/17
Focus: 0/3
Hero Points: 0/3
Speed: 20'
Luck? 0/1 used
Mule bites: 0/7 used
Rory and Storm tag-team to bring down the giant bat! Mukluk underswings and the corby deftly avoids it. Durgan moves back, perhaps concerned about ogerkin, and takes total defense. Kisaiya stabs the green corby.
Green, not quite out of the fight, slashes Rory.
Rory is hit once, for a slashing wound in his side!
Purple moves up on Kisaiya.
Orange tries to manage the mess and close out of the grease.
vs DC 16
Orange falls and gets up waiting on the others to advance.
Durgan goes into the tower and readies to attack any foes climbing the ladder.
Round 6
Mukluk delays for Rory/Storm, and then attacks green (hopefully tripped).
to hit (bless);
cold iron piercing damage;
”I’ll get you sometime! Just hold still, you bastard!”
[ dice=Trepanator]1d20+1[/dice] to hit;
[ dice=]1d6[/dice] cold iron piercing damage
[ dice=MuleBite]1d20+2[/dice] touch to hit;
[ dice=Divine]1d4[/dice] damage
[ dice=MuleKicks]1d20+2[/dice] touch to hit;
[ dice=Force]1d4[/dice] damage
AC: 12/12/10 + 1 w/shield
Fort/Ref/Will: +2/+3/+7
HP: 17/17
Focus: 0/3
Hero Points: 0/3
Speed: 20'
Luck? 0/1 used
Mule bites: 0/7 used
Kisaiya holds her sharpened scabbard low, trailing behind her body. ”Okay, Kisaiya, two down. You got this.” She aims a diagonal slash right from hip to nape.
HP: 31/31
AC: 21/12/19
Saves: F5/R3/W5 (+1 vs fear)
Hero Points: 2
Smite Evil Used: 0/1
Lay on Hands Used: 0/3
Second Chance
Spells/Effects Active: Shield Gauntlet Style, Bless
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
Rory and Storm drag down the corby - in multiple ways! It’s tripped, and staggered. Mukluk brings the hammer down and finishes the prone corby. Durgan watches the back in case of assault - though it does not yet occur. Kisaiya skips green (who’s down by now) and takes on a fresh corby slashing it deeply - feathers fly everywhere!
Purple presses Kisaiya harder fighting for its life!
Orange steps up to Rory and tries to end his reign of terror.
Sadly the corbies' luck runs out. Is this the end?
Kisaiya slashes again, feeling emboldened.
HP: 31/31
AC: 21/12/19
Saves: F5/R3/W5 (+1 vs fear)
Hero Points: 2
Smite Evil Used: 0/1
Lay on Hands Used: 0/3
Second Chance
Spells/Effects Active: Shield Gauntlet Style, Bless
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
Round 7
Mukluk delays for Rory/Storm, and then attacks orange (hopefully tripped). He will then step back in case Durgan wants to engage.
to hit (bless);
cold iron piercing damage
[ dice=Trepanator]1d20+1[/dice] to hit;
[ dice=]1d6[/dice] cold iron piercing damage
[ dice=MuleBite]1d20+2[/dice] touch to hit;
[ dice=Divine]1d4[/dice] damage
[ dice=MuleKicks]1d20+2[/dice] touch to hit;
[ dice=Force]1d4[/dice] damage
AC: 12/12/10 + 1 w/shield
Fort/Ref/Will: +2/+3/+7
HP: 17/17
Focus: 0/3
Hero Points: 0/3
Speed: 20'
Luck? 0/1 used
Mule bites: 0/7 used
Durgan sees that his allies have things well in hand, so he keeps guarding the ladders.
Though Rory is a little bloody, the combat ends without serious injury. Which is good as the dire bat could have dug deep. Alas, it failed, as did the corbies.
As the screeching falters and quiets, you hear the ogrekin still wrestling. However, how long will it be before they too notice the silence?
We're not in rounds, but keep your actions shortish...
Mukluk will do the smart thing, and drive his pick into the heads of the foes that might only be bleeding out, not dead.
”In case they get back up. We don’t want them back up,” he mutters as he checks each for anything of interest.
coup d’jerk
coup d’jerk
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Kisaiya reaches out to try seeing if her healing would work on Rory. She focuses and tries to channel the energies into him as she does when she lays on hands on herself, but nothing happens. It refuses to move from her to him. ”I’m sorry, Rory. It just doesn’t work for some reason. Maybe I’m doing it wrong.” She feels deeply that she is not doing it wrong, though. It’s just her.
Durgan moves up and heals Rory.
"I cannot explain it, Kisaiya. Other than to say that the gods have given you different blessings than they have given me. And it falls to each of us to use our gifts as we see fit."
Mukluk ends the life of many, but finds nothing of particular value.
Rory is healed of all his injuries.
The wrestling stops for a moment, but apparently just to catch the breath. It continues again.
Durgan nods to Rory. "Lead the way. I will take rearguard position."
”I’m sorry, Rory. It just doesn’t work for some reason. Maybe I’m doing it wrong.”
Mukluk listens in, but declines to offer anything lest he get murdert. Oysters. Fresh river oysters. That’ll fix that problem. That’s what ma’dad used to do.
Mukluk follows after Rory, thinking the double doors are the way to go.
Kisaiya nods as the others offer some consolation. ”Thank you.” If her healing only works on herself, then that’s just all the more reason she needs to be on the frontline.
She goes up to the double doors with Rory.
One of the ogrekin points up at you as you move to the double doors, "Hey..." The other takes advantage and smacks him as he's wrestled to the ground. You are, temporarily, forgotten.
You open the untrapped, unlocked door.
Dozens of paintings of a towering humanoid figure with four wings, a bird’s head, and a scorpion’s tail decorate the walls of this room, seemingly painted in blood. Old pews sit in a line facing the eastern wall, where a hideously defaced statue of a winged woman stands - once a statue to Desna from the looks of it. Her wings have been hacked down the middle to give the impression of having four wings instead of two, her head removed and replaced with a crude carving of a leering bird’s head, and a long, barbed tail made of braided dried nettles hanging from her posterior.
A creature dressed in filthy robes caked with blood - filth that mats her feathers and smears her beak and talons, stands from prayer. She speaks in Abyssal.
”હું જોઉં છું કે મારા મિનિયન્સે મને નિષ્ફળ બનાવ્યો છે. મારે તમારી જાતને સંભાળવી પડશે.”
”રક્ષકો!”
She draws her sword and faces the party (image) - another dire corby!
Kisaiya scowls as she realizes the extent of the blasphemy done to the statue of Desna. ”Such desecration will not go unanswered.” She enters her battle stance and advances on the corby.
HP: 31/31
AC: 21/12/19
Saves: F5/R3/W5
Hero Points: 2
Smite Evil Used: 0/1
Lay on Hands Used: 0/3
Second Chance
Spells/Effects Active: Shield Gauntlet Style
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.