Obahi winces as the slimy creature takes a bite out of him. Not one to back down just like that, he steps around again to attack in tandem with Avenger, he bends his knees to get lower. Imitating a tooth-filled-maw with his hands, he tears into the creature in retaliation.
Virgil watches the barrage of weapons, magic and wolf Fangs rapidly and repeatedly slice, dice, pure the ugly beastie. Wondering if it has any more friends inside the Spider carcass, the Magus shrugs.
Guess we shall find out soon enough.
◆Casting Shield, the Orc ◆Strides to the beat up beastie and ◆Strikes!
He misses!
Definitely looked taller from back there.
Somehow surviving a direct hit, Solras reloads her Harmona and fires again, backing further away.
Solras cautiously approaches the creature, making sure it's well and truly dead before continuing.
Niall looks around as he stoops to grab more rocks. Big spiders down here...
Avenger of the Green, Niall, Obahi, and Solras do enough damage to the remaining creature to remove it from existence.
Even a cursory examination of the wall of rubble reveals something of note— a number of silver scales lie scattered amid the stones, each about the size of a human man’s palm. You recognize these are Terendelev’s scales, shed as she died, and each one possesses a unique power, infused by her departing soul.
There are six scales you find. These are artifacts!
You recognize four different types.
There are two Cloudwalking scales, two Disguise scales, a Resistance scale, and a Sacred Weaponry scale.
or cold.
Once the adrenaline wears off, Obahi starts patting the residue from the maggots. He reverts back to his walking posture and quickly moves to a more even ground to clean off his wounds. He pulls out his healer kit and gets to work.
"I'll need a moment, everyone. If you're injured, get in line and I'll get to you." as he says that, he looks at the woman with the mangled leg.
He spends a few minutes cleaning the pierced and burned skin, then bandaging.
Avenger will also help, growing various fruits filled with life essence.
After handing them out, he will look over the dragon scales. Being elemental, he's drawn to the cloudwalking scale.
Virgil grins at the Dead ugly beastie. The Magus then indeed takes notice of the Silver scales.
Smiling the Orc begins a thorough investigation of these scales...
"Should we all go via the northern-most path from here? I'll stay behind the rest of the group and cover the rear."
Once the scales are (presumably) identified, if no one else wants it, Solras takes the Cloudwalking scale, figuring concealment and height befits a sniper.
Niall looks at the scales...Fascinating... This one might come in handy as he picks up a scale with clouds that seem to be moving across it.
North sounds good to me, Naill answers to Solras, Let's make sure nothing with 8 legs follows us though. as he searches around.
Paolo murmurs a quiet prayer to Apsu as he takes the Resistance scale.
Avenger accepts North and heads towards the front of the group.
This smaller cavern appears to have once served as a campsite or temporary lair. A torn bedroll lies next to the cold remains of a fire. A pile of bones, broken equipment, and rubble lies just past the campsite.
Three times per day as a standard action, this scale can be used to cast align weapon, but only to make a weapon do holy or spirit damage. This effect can be cast on an unarmed strike or natural weapon.
Virgil gently reaches down to pick up a Silver scale which seems to radiate Divine magic.
I shall honor Him by using this against His enemies!
The Orc then leads the way through the darkness into the Northern cave. Viewing the remains of a camp site, the Magus begins Repeating A Spell, as he enters....
After spending 10 minutes patching his wounds, Obahi stands and pack up his gear. He picks up whatever scale is left over and moves to help the injured woman and the blind man.
"Can you walk? Do we need a stretcher of some kind?“ he asks Anevie before turning to Aravashial. "And you, elf, did you just lose sight, or are you... adapted to darkness?“
Obahi remains near the injured, in case something decides to spring at them.
"Well, at least it's spiders and not demons, right?" he jokes as the survivors move through the darkness.
Arriving at the fireplace, he considers the situation for a moment. "Well, either we uave been knocked out for a while, or someone was here even before the attack. Do people live here? Any of you folk are from around here, or just came for the Armasse?"
Avenger will step up to examine the bones for threats. He'll make sure that the bones aren't undead by sweeping a vine of life energy through them.
Niall picks up a stick casts light on it. He moves closer to Anevia and asks, How is that holding up? Do you need a hand to move around?, as he gestures to the crutch that he made.
Horgus harumphs emphatically, "It looks like you've come for the festivities. We've been here for the longest time. "
Avenger of the Green starts poking at the pile of rubble, and two hostile Giant Cockroaches come out.
➤ Obahi │
➤ Avenger of the Green │
Red cockroach
Paolo Vital │
Solras │
Green cockroach
Niall │
Virgil │
"Oh, snap!" Obahi gasps when the roaches climb out of the debris. He immediately runs at one of them and goes for a double tear.
"Oversized grubs, oversized roaches..." he mutters. "Why is it never oversized raspberries?"
He calls back in a slightly irritated tone, "Somebody find a wet nurse to keep that mewling infant quiet while the adults keep him safe."
He summons his elemental aura around him, striking out at the red cockroach as part of this. But it appears that his annoyance has bot the better of him. He summons his armor and shield, and raises his shield.
Over his shoulder, he says, "Oh, I can get you some wonderful raspberries."
Obahi's first attack hits the 'green' cockroach, but it manners to scurry away.
Avenger misses the remaining cockroach.
The 'red' cockroach next to Avenger of the Green, will attack Avenger.
None of its three attacks hit.
Obahi │
Avenger of the Green │
Red cockroach
➤ Paolo Vital │
➤ Solras │
Green cockroach
Niall │
Virgil │
Paolo conjures a bolt of spirit energy and targets the wounded creature, then casts a helpful spell on the catfolk to steady her aim.
Solras mumbles to herself, "Cramped caves, I swear if-..." before hastily going into the middle of the fray to actually get a clear shot, reloading, and firing at the cockroach
Paolo misses the insect, but Solras manages to kill the 'green' cockroach before it even gets a chance to act.
➤ Obahi │
➤ Avenger of the Green │
Red cockroach
Paolo Vital │
Solras │
Green cockroach │
➤ Niall │
➤ Virgil │
Obahi runs up again, and goes for two strikes with his tearing 'claws'. After his strikes, he steps away to make space for others.
He looks at the giant leshy. "Oversized raspberries, you say?" he flashes a smile entertaining the thought.
Virgil places two hands on his Earthbreaker.
The Magus Strides to the Red cockroach.
He then Strikes!
Raspberries.
He will step to flank with Virgil and take a big swing at the scuttling insect. (The cockroach and not their rescuee).
"The Raspberries of Life"
Obahi runs up and his flurry of blows is very fast. Inaccurate, but fast. Virgil's earthbreaker also misses, but Avenger of the Green accurately hits the insect.
Obahi │
Avenger of the Green │
Red cockroach
Paolo Vital │
Solras │
Green cockroach │
➤ Niall │
Virgil │
Niall moves a little closer and flings some rocks at the cockroach.
Niall's rocks smash into the cockroach. It scurries away, but takes a nearly enough damage to kill it.
The cockroach attacks Niall.
It's first attack tears into Niall.
➤ Obahi │
➤ Avenger of the Green │
Red cockroach
➤ Paolo Vital │
➤ Solras │
Green cockroach │
➤ Niall │
➤ Virgil │
Avenger steps up. with a gesture, Niall suddenly finds a bunch of fresh, juicy raspberries in his hand. Avenger then whacks the cockroach before it can steal the raspberries.
Obahi sighs with frustration. "Kenabres burning, and we're chasing roaches in a cave."
He chases after the cockroach and attempts to end it.
Avenger of the Green produces some delicious, healing raspberries for Niall to eat, and then does the killing blow to the cockroach.
A thorough search of the room turns up a torn bedroll, three candle stubs (each can burn for 30 minutes), a bent fishhook, 10 feet of badly frayed hemp rope, and a copper brooch depicting a bat perched on a mushroom — both of the bat’s eyes are tiny amethysts.
What are you going to do?
Niall pops the berries in his mouth and mumbles, Thanks!, as he chews.
Obahi moves further into the cavern, and waits at the tunnel entrance. "Well... It's this way, or backtracking. We don't know where either way leads to. Move on?"
Virgil takes the copper brooch depicting a bat perched on a mushroom — both of the bat’s eyes are tiny amethysts, placing it in a pouch. The Magus then looks forlonly at their choices of egress.
We follow the openings best accessible to our injured. Looks like it's the tunnel entrance.
Virgil grins his Earthbreaker with both hands, as he shares the lead with Avenger of the Green.
What you think is the tunnel entrance just leads you to another cavern.
Several mounds of rock lie in heaps in this cavern, recently fallen from the walls and ceiling. Now and then, bits of dust settle from cracks in the stone above.
As you approach the rubble, Solras sees a snake, the size of a pony, hiding, waiting to strike.
➤ Solras │
Snake
Avenger of the Green │
Obahi │
Niall │
Paolo Vital │
Virgil │
Solras mumbles something to herself in Amurrun (i.e. no one understands it) about needing a clear line, before attempting to run ahead of everyone and loading her Harmona. "I swear these cramped caves are going to be the death of me," she mutters as she fires, the bullet and gun buzzing like the fey creature from her homeland that it is named after.
The snake takes the full brunt of Solras' shot, then strikes at Avenger of the Green.
It misses, then moves, and then coils up as if it were preparing to strike.
Solras │
Snake
➤ Avenger of the Green │
➤ Obahi │
➤ Niall │
➤ Paolo Vital │
➤ Virgil │
Avenger raises his shield and moves into position. He strikes out with his wooden club at the serpent.
The coiled snake has a reactive strike against Avenger of the Green as Avenger moves in.
Its strike misses, but Avenger gets a solid hit.
Solras │
Snake
Avenger of the Green │
➤ Obahi │
➤ Niall │
➤ Paolo Vital │
➤ Virgil │
Virgil grins at the sudden appearance of lunch!
I vote we barbeque it!
The Magus cast ◆Shield, before ◆Entering his Arcane Stance and ◆Striding into Flank with Avenger!