Hakata channels some healing into Valda, then infuses his bow with the spiritual energy.
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The Witch Reacts by casting Hide bound on Valda!
Strongjaw then contemplates casting a Fireball, but unfortunately the last Fireball he cast was a bit hot for folks....oops.
Instead, the Witch casts Haste on everyone!
He then Commands Tanngrisnir to Stride(Climb), Stride(Climb) and Strike the draconian bothering Valda!
Catamoch lets loose a squeal of delight at the dragonkins' impending doom. "Soon we will dance on your bones, your bones."
With a hacking cackle that oddly harmonizes with the demon boar's squeal, Veshka readies herself to fling wrathful lightning into their midst!
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Kadosh critically injures red and provides some cover to Valda against the flanking monks, denying them their advantage. Valda lands a strike and instills some fear into her foe, who is already not feeling well.
The hacking, cackling witch shocks both of her targets, with the redish-skinned one taking the brunt of the attack as the other one seems to evade her as the talking boar brings a quiver to the blueish dragonkin's knees.
Hakata lands his first strike nearly finishing the creature and finding the weak spot, delivers a deadly blow with his second shot, taking red down.
The monks begin rapidly lashing their tails out at the party, but one one strike hits Valda. . After hitting her, it tries to wrap its tail around her leg and knock her down, but fails.
Br: 65 s1
Bl: 33 s1 f1
Valda barely feels the pain from the blow as Strongjaw's magic continues to heal her. She assaults the dragonkin with her blade!
HP 104/104 (plus 5 temp)
AC 25
Fort +15, Ref +14, Will +14 (resolve)
Hero points: 2
Effects: inspiring marshal stance
Moving carefully, Kadosh jumps toward one of the remaining two monks and drives his ax toward its chest!
The Witch seems to be pouting about not having Electric Arc. Instead, the snow goblin uses his Clinging Ice Hex on each of them!
The Beast Master then Commands Tanngrisnir to Strike!
The giant goat then Shoves the Monk down the icy path!
The trio just watch as the Monk flails down the slippery and icy path....
Catamoch and Veshka continue to glower and squeal at the remaining Dragonkin, lashing them with lightning from a safe distance.
Hakata raises a shield of energy and fires off a series of shots at the remaining enemies.
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The paty collapses on the two remaining monks, demoralzing, frightening, piercing, smashing, eletrifying, slashing and shoving them around the icy battlefield. In short order, the battle is over and none of the dragonkin are left standing. One of Venexus’s chosen wears a ring of sustenance.
Once ready, you push forward into a massive, diamond‑shaped that hall has an offering bowl at its center, set before a forty‑foot‑tall ice sculpture of Venexus. The oval antechamber to the west leads back to Lyuba, while two other icy hallways, one to the north and one to the south, lead deeper into the glacial palace. Each of these two exits is blocked by a massive mammoth, clearly dead and rotting, that stands completely immobile.
As you close the distance, they engage, acting first.
The huge northern mammoth rushes forward, the ground shaking beneath your feat as it charges forward into Valda, Kadosh, Catamoch and Veshka, trampling them. Before they can recoverm the mammoth blocking the southern passage charges over them trampling them again!
HP 61/104
AC 25
Fort +15, Ref +14, Will +14 (resolve)
Hero points: 3
Effects:
Completely unsuspecting of a zombie mastodon, Kadosh is brutally trampled, just barely getting out of the way of getting hit by all four legs, instead of only two.
He lets out a pained groan as he sizes up the monster and moves to attack -- but slips and completely whiffs with his ax.
Catamoch rears up to meet the mammoths' charge, goring the first mammoth to charge with a slash of his great tusks. Unfortunately he and Veshka are badly battered by the sheer bulk of the zombies, though any injuries the boar god sustain quickly flow to her.
Already leaking life-giving blood from her nose, mouth, and both ears, Veshka has no shortage of channels as she funnels vitality into her clan and her foes alike!
Catamoch continues to harry the hulking mammoth, trying to slit open its massive abdomen.
Valda cries out in pain as the mammoths crush her under their feet. It would have been enough to kill any normal woman, but Valda is no normal woman, but a mythic warrior. Veshka's healing helps some, and Valda lays hands on her own wounds, feeling fractured bones knitting themselves back together. She moves up beside Kadosh and attacks the mammoth!
Strongjaw (sitting comfortably on top of Tanngrisnir) watches in horror how close they were ending up looking like a cheese pretzel got ran over by an angry anti -pretzel parade.
Mees may need da moment. Dat was extremely gross. Blood. Guts. Glory right Valda!
The Witch then Life Boost Hex for Valda Veshka and Kadosh!
Tanngrisnir Strides away from any groupings....
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Hakata hunts prey on the red mammoth, then bathes the cavern in a blast of spiritual power, one that passes right though his allies but tears at the undead creatures.
As Kadosh finds out, it's not that difficult to land a hit on these huge creatures. His flash of insight reminds him that these beasts benefit from negative healing, and are immune to death effects, disease, mental, paralyzed, poison, unconscious. They are weak to positive 10, slashing 10.
Catamoch rips into the hulking mammoth, tearing exposing a section of its abdomen.
Valda finds her feet after being trampled and still manages to damage the mammoth!
Strongjaw heals his companions, lessening the damage from the trampling.
Hakata's channels divinity against the mammoths, catching both of them unready and sickening both of them.
These huge undead creatures continue to dish out a beating to the party, reinforcing that this battle is going to be quite difficult.
Both the mammoths employ similiar attack tactics. They swing their powerful necks towards their targets who are next to each other. Each swing allows their tucks to independently strike a different target in the attack! The northern mammoth attacks Kadosh and Valda, with the souther attacks Catamoch and Veshka.
Both Valda and Kadosh are struck twice in the three attacks, despite Kadosh's attempt at using the bell to distract it. One of he tusks pierces Kadoshs's chest, critically wounding him.
On the southern side, Veska and Catamoch are each only hit once, but both are critically impaled as well.
B: 68 S1
R: 68 S1
"By Sister Cinder's light!" Hakata gasps. He channels as much healing power as he can handle into his following-mates, scorching the undead in the process.
HP 14/104
AC 25
Fort +15, Ref +14, Will +14 (resolve)
Hero points: 2
Effects:
Kadosh reels as the monster hits him even harder, barely keeping his feet .
Realizing he doesn't have long to live, Kadosh chops furiously
The Witch winces as Kadosh is pierced and smashed! Strongjaw--Reacts-- by granting the Thaumaturge Hidebound .
The Songsinger then points his Staff of Healing at the battered orc!
Tanngrisnir Strides to within 30' of the most injured dead mammoth.
Strongjaw then Clinging Ice Hex it!
Valda slashes the mammoth twice.
If it falls, she moves to the other mammoth. If not, she makes another attack!
Veshka wrings every last drop off vitality out of her blood as she barely keeps her feet
Catamoch is hardly daunted by the undead malignities before him, but the sheer concussive force they bring to bear has scrambled his senses a bit.
The scouts put up an impressive offensive performance, taking advantage of the slashing weakness of these huge creatures. Valda and Kadosh work together to deliver multiple critical hits, hacking enough of the creature apart that it topples to the ground with a tremendous cavern-shaking thud.
Catamoch slashes the remaining mammoth which Veshka, Hakata and Strongjaw do what they can to keep everyone on their feet as they flood the room with healing.
The mammoth continues to viciously swing its tusks at Catamoch and Veska. He hits Veshka twice and Catamoch, each strike landing with tremendous force!
120 S1
HP 83/104
AC 25
Fort +15, Ref +14, Will +14 (resolve)
Hero points: 2
Effects:
Almost fully healed by his companions, Kadosh lets out a cry as Veshka falls. "No, I'm sorry, this is all my fault!" he moans, rushing back into the fight. His blade cuts deep once more, slashing apart the zombie mammoth.
The Witch worries that his Healer Role is being stretched out like a pair of baby socks place on a hill Giants foots.
He points his Staff at Veshka!
The greedy goblin then Commands Tanngrisnir to Flank the Big Beastie and Strike it!
With Strong Jaw healing, Hakata whispers to the spirits of battle, then looses a trio of arrows at his hunted prey.
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Valda slices and dices!
Catamoch vanishes as Veshka falls, with a vaguely thwarted look on his face. Still, even as her blood spreads new shoots of grass and weeds in the earth around her, it is not long before Strongjaw sees her back on her feet.
Staggering up, she backs away from the great beast, granting Guidance to Valda's first strike before bowing her head in readiness to invoke her god once more.
The second mammoth gives way to the relentless onslaught from the scouts as they cover Valda's retreat. The second mammoth hits the ground with a loud thud, sending another tremor through the ground.
The offering bowl contains 100 gp worth of offerings given to Venexus by Sutaki supplicants. Hidden beneath a loose hunk of ice in the corner is a pair of greater bracers of missile deflection.
Strongjaw sits on top of Tanngrisnir meditating.
"These bracers could save one of our lives," Kadosh says with excitement. "Maybe Hakata should wear them!"
The wide path winds up hundreds of feet through Venexus’s glacial palace. The ice walls are shaped in images, some clearly depicting Venexus, Lost Mammoth Valley, and her subjects, and others are more abstract and stylized, with entire walls shaped like crashing waves, rippling water, roaring flames, flower petals, spirals, and other patterns reflecting the natural world. A recurring theme among the ice art is a simple bone and hide lamp containing a flickering flame.
After ten minutes of climing, the wide ice tunnel levels out, then narrows, transitioning into a long ice bridge only five feet wide and over seventy feet long. It spans a wide chasm at least sixty feet deep. In the corners of the chamber, each positioned slightly higher in elevation than the ice bridge, are four raised ledges.
Appreciating the icy decor, the Winter Witch Snow Goblin seems quite content traveling it's halls, corridors, ledges and bridges.
Wees bees moving in after Wees kicks the ice snot out of Venexus.
Peering across the 70' expanse of open bridge terrain, the Songsinger points upwards.
Wees no bees likes da ambushing. Wees goes up?
The grinning goblin waits for more hearty folks before climbing up the closest ice wall, pillar, icy raised ledges....
The White Rabbit is seen wearing a complete spelunking outfit....
Kadosh drinks his winterstep elixir and carefully heads out over the bridge.
Hakata puts on the bracers, then follows Kadosh.
Party across the bridge, the scrape of claws across ice and a cruel, hissing laughter mark the appearance of four small white dragons, one on
each raised ice shelf and each no bigger than a pony. The dragons are discolored—ruddy beige and cream rather than true white, with curving horns and stunted frills.
One of the dragons cackles, splaying its frills with interest. "People! And not the one we’re forbidden from eating! It’s a gift!"
A second dragon licks its snout. "Good! I’m starving! Mother’s been away too long."
"You always say that," a third one counters. "And you’re always hungry. We’re sharing these ones!"
"No!" a fourth whines. "Don’t eat them! Not yet! I want to play with them first!"
"Deal," the dragons chime in unison, stalking forward with hungry eyes.
HP 104/104
AC 25
Fort +15, Ref +14, Will +14 (resolve)
Hero points: 2
Effects:
"Dragons!" Kadosh cries. "RUN!"
He rushes forward, sizing up one of the horrors that are certain to eat him as he glares, preparing to attack it (unless it eats him first).
"Dragons! Charge!" Valda shouts. With a fierce grin, she runs forward alongside Kadosh before veering away and leaping across the gap to the nearest ice shelf! She swings her sword at the dragon, missing, but quickly bringing her blade back up to prepare for another attempt!
Hakata moves to the center of the bridge, then hunts prey on the dragon Valda attacked and looses two arrows into it.
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While Kadosh dashes forward down the bridge, Valda leaps over the chasm and lands adjacent to a wyrmling. She swings too soon, not collecting her footing and allowing her swike to slice too high.
Hakata takes his time and lands a beautiful shot on Valda's enemy.
Two of the four dragons take flight and move to the flank the bridge, about thirty feet away, while Valda's stays to fight her where she is.
Kadosh knows these frozen creatures are weak to fire . He glares at the one approaching him and frightens it for a moment before it swoops in to engage him directly. It rakes its claws at him, scoring a critical hit! .
All three attacks Valda miss.
The occupants on the bridge are not so lucky. From both sides an explosion of ice pummels them!
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BR: 7
Veshka and Catamoch emerge through the blizzard chilled but not frozen thanks to their fiendish resilience. Veshka tears open a wound in her palm as she moves towards Kadosh and Hakata, Blessing them for battle and slaughter.
Catamoch chimes in, squealing in menace at Kadosh's prey.
HP 76/104
AC 25
Fort +15, Ref +14, Will +14 (resolve)
Hero points: 2
Effects: Blue exploited
Kadosh's ax quickly flickers with a small flame as he strokes it across his bell before slashing the nearest dragon once, and then a second time!
Valda lashes out at the dragon and shifts her immanence back to her blade.
Hakata heals himself, then channels the energy of the spell into quick attacks against the dragon.
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Strongjaw watches two of the Whites reposition themselves for optimal performance. The Snow Goblin sighs. The Goat shrugs.
He sighs twice. The Goat shrugs twice.
The Beast Master and his Animal Companion seem a bit frosty now.
The Witch casts Life Boost Hex on Tanngrisnir.
Tanngrisnir then Strides them so each Dragon is within 30'.
Strongjaw casts Fear(3)!