Hatchery - Round 1 -concluded
24 Teela
22 Graham (23/30hp remain)
21 Scarlet (27/34hp remain; shield raised; poisoned)
20 Green larger Centipede
20 Blue larger Centipede
17 Yellow larger Centipede
16 Velas (23/28hp remain)
14 Quintessa
13 Alvis
8 Quoggy mitflit
Graham and Velas fight off the centipede venom, but Scarlet is not quite so fortunate, and he starts to feel the burn inside -- not in a good way.
Velas attacks the Blue Centipede opposite him, driving his dueling sword at the insect along with a claw from his favorite cantrip. Both attacks score massive damage and the blue centipede curls up and dies.
Quintessa discharges and electrical spell that blasts two centipedes. Green avoids most of the damage, but Yellow is not as lucky and takes the full brunt.
Alvis casts a divine spell that fills the air in front of him with a haunting melody causing sonic damage to those nearby. The auditory effect has somewhat limited damage against the bugs.
The one mitflit in the chamber, who seems to be the tender of the creatures and their eggs, watches the large humans tear through his centipedes, and after a moment's hesitation, he turns and runs from the chamber, descending through a hole in the floor on the east side of the chamber.
End of Round 1
save
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critical!
Critical!
12 total
12 total
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fail
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Hatchery - Round 2
24 Teela
22 Graham (23/30hp remain)
21 Scarlet (27/34hp remain; shield raised; poisoned)
20 Green larger Centipede (7hp dmg)
17 Yellow larger Centipede (10hp dmg)
16 Velas (23/28hp remain)
14 Quintessa
13 Alvis
8 Quoggy mitflit (run away)
Teela continues strumming, singing, and blasting. "The whole town needs us here to get down. When I feel it crawling, I feel it just behind my back. Close me off my right and noble track."
She does get a little overzealous with the performance. The flourish messes with her aim and she strikes the tunnel wall.
"I am poisoned ... the centipedes," Bucky says loudly enough for everyone to hear. "I feel it starting to course through me." He doesn't bother to find a way to make a pretty rhyme out of it.
Bucky summons another tree-like club in his hand and strikes out at the Yellow centipede. Twice.
Obviously not feeling so hot from trying to stave off the poison, he holds up his shield again gamely and prepares for any further attacks.
Obviously not feeling well due to trying to stave off the pernicious poison, Bucky raises his shield once again and waits to see if his allies can finish the bugs off.
Graham growls as the mitflit creature bolts. Damn, we're about to have company. While he would prefer to chase after, he can't expose the group to the remaining centipedes here. He positions himself well to reach both, and starts with Yellow.
Hatchery - Round 2 - continued
24 Teela
22 Graham (23/30hp remain)
21 Scarlet (27/34hp remain; shield raised; poisoned)
20 Green larger Centipede (7hp dmg)
17 Yellow larger Centipede (10hp dmg)
16 Velas (23/28hp remain)
14 Quintessa
13 Alvis
Teela is concentrating on remembering what she has heard about giant centipedes and the lack of focus causes her telekinetic attack to fail badly. She does recall that centipedes are venomous, and the poison is generally pretty mild, causing the victim to be dizzy, weary, and light-headed at worst, but not life threatening in most cases.
Scarlet Knight is feeling peaked from the venom, and his elemental power seems to be stifled. He does feel like the venom effect has subsided however, and is no longer poisoned.
Graham moves adjacent to both the bugs, hitting one with a first strike, but missing the second.
Green Centipede steps behind Graham, and attacks from behind. The bug bites Graham once again, but misses the second time. More venom is injected into the fighter and he grunts with the pain of the piercing bite.
Yellow Centipede also makes two bite attacks on Graham. Again, one hits and one misses. Yellow then sidles backwards away from Velas and Scarlet.
hit
hit
The Scarlet Knight holds up his shield and flashes bright crimson-colored light into the green centipede's face. A bright flash of angry eyes scowl down upon the bug, before the centipede is dazzled, and thrown off by the strange vision of ... something otherworldly. Celestial? even a bug knows when it has angered someone It Should Not Anger.
Graham feels less wounded.
Being as the two creatures were so close to each other, Quintessa follows the same motions she did only seconds before. Flicking her wrist she sends another blast of electrical current to arc between them before putting up another protective shield.
◈◈
The Scarlet Knight holds up his shield and flashes bright crimson-colored light into the green centipede's face. A bright flash of angry eyes scowl down upon the bug, before the centipede is dazzled, and thrown off by the strange vision of ... something otherworldly. Celestial? even a bug knows when it has angered someone It Should Not Anger.
Graham feels less wounded.
The Scarlet Knight holds up his shield and flashes bright crimson-colored light into the green centipede's face. A bright flash of angry eyes scowl down upon the bug, before the centipede is dazzled, and thrown off by the strange vision of ... something otherworldly. Celestial? even a bug knows when it has angered someone It Should Not Anger.
Graham feels less wounded.
Velas draws some magical energy used to attack the previous creature to conjure a shield to protect him, and the magical energy continues to swirl around him as he hops lightly from one foot to the next.
In a flash, he disappears and reappears near Graham with a centipede between them.
◆ Shield
◆ Arcane Cascade
◆ Dimensional Assault
Hatchery - Round 2
Alvis is a bit disappointed at the results of his hymn wondering if this is the path his god wishes him to follow. He changes tactics, lifting his shield and strides besides Graham, taking a swing at the creature before him.
(Versatile P)
Hatchery - Round 2 - concluded
24 Teela
22 Graham (23/30hp remain)
21 Scarlet (27/34hp remain; shield raised; poisoned)
20 Green larger Centipede (7hp dmg)
17 Yellow larger Centipede (10hp dmg)
16 Velas (23/28hp remain)
14 Quintessa
13 Alvis
Blinking out and then back in at a new location, Velas gets the drop on Yellow Centipede and is able to finish it with a flourish, even in the cramped space.
Quintessa continues her electrical cantrip, but with just one target this time. The full effect fries a bit of the Green Centipede.
Alvis rolls forward, shield raised, but he cannot hit the slippery insect with his melee attack.
End of Round 2
fail, full damage
Hatchery - Round 3
24 Teela
22 Graham (20/30hp remain)
21 Scarlet (27/34hp remain; shield raised)
20 Green larger Centipede (13hp dmg, off-guard, dazzled)
16 Velas (23/28hp remain)
14 Quintessa
13 Alvis (shield raised)
Bucky moves forward next to Graham, then tries to hit the remaining centipede once again with a treetop-like club in his hand, an elemental blast gifted from the plane of Wood.
(hoping the -2 to its AC comes into play to help me here)
Bucky then raises his shield again, prepared to Shield Block ... or lash out with another protective Flash of Grandeur.
"It's weakened! Everyone, to arms!"
◆ Stride
◆ Melee elemental blast
◆ Raise Shield
Hatchery - Round 3 - concluded
Beating on the remaining centipede with a small tree, Scarlet Knight pummels it into submission and the last foe dies weakly in one of the streams of effluence.
End of Combat
"Let us heal quickly before more arrive.
A single spell could help we many thrive," The Scarlet Knight says as he looks to Alvis for healing assistance.
Hatchery - Round 3 - concluded
The end of the fight with the creatures comes quickly. Alvis looks around as Sir Scarlet calls for healing. Alvis replies, "Maybe, if Abadar so wishes. Gather around me and I'll call forth his boon."
After they gather Alvis prays, "Bring your divine will forth, my lord, so that civilization may arise in those lost lands"
Heal as 3 actions. 30 foot emanation.
Graham wobbles a bit. I don't feel so good...
I look a little worried at Teela, as Graham seems to not be doing well. The armored man moves quickly -- always a bit too quickly for a guy in that much gear -- to stand behind Graham and offer to help keep him upright, without actually suggesting he can't stay upright, thus besmirching his pride.
"Does healing training include poison's cure?"
"Can you and Alvis try ... just to be sure?"
Without waiting to be asked, the Scarlet Knight puts a hand on Graham's shoulder and infuses him with a small amount of healing.
Knowing that his wounds are less grievous than Graham's and that he knows next to nothing when it comes to healing, Velas stays far out of the way and keeps guard for other inhabitants of the tree's underground. "Stay strong, Graham. Alvis and the others will help get that poison out of you."
Teela pulls out her healer kit. "Alright. You, you, and you." she points to Graham, Velas, and Bucky. "Come sit down and I'll take a look."
Teela then takes 30 minutes to look at, clean up, and stitch the wounds on them. She notices Graham being a little pale and gives him some funky mushrooms and leaves to chew on for a little pick-me-up.
Graham feels slightly dizzy, and as Teela gives him mushrooms to chew which settles his stomach a bit.
The healing prayer from Alvis, and the paladin vitality from Scarlet helps the group. Then, Teela is able to stitch and salve the wounds for the others, thought it does take some time to do so. After she is done, Velas and Scarlet Knight are fully healed.
The Scarlet Knight will draw a crude little picture of a centipede on the wall and stab the drawing several times for 10 minutes as part of his Refocus activity, before or after he's tended to by Teela.
Bored of watching the surrounding area, Faen ambles over to the hole that the others had entered. Crouching at the lip of the hole, she cocks her head listening to the noises of the others slowly fade away.
She turns on her heels, looking back at where the horses were tied up. Even from here, it was hard to see them.
She picks up a piece of hardened dirt, and slowly crumbles in into the hole.
It's then she hears the obvious sound of her friends fighting....something.
Frowning, she again looks to the horses...and listens. No horse noises....nothing scary around.
nodding to herself, she climbs down the hole to follow her friends. Pausing she looks left and right, then hears the tell tale sound of Bucky wacking something in devotion to his Patron.
She ambles into the centipede nursery, makes a face of disgust and says, "I heard a ruckus...seems I missed all the fun."
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While still engaging in his devotion to Arazni, The Scarlet Knight says to the rogue,
"'Twas no fun at all, Faen, no grand affair.
These bugs bite with venom, so you beware.
This den is dank and hostile, I declare --
The low, close ceilings do our strikes impair.
We'll march 'til Svetalana's ring we ensnare;
Weapons out, young Faen. Heed, hark, and prepare."
Maybe its the mushrooms from Teela, maybe its just his heroic constitution, or maybe the centipede's poison isn't very virulent, but whatever the case, Graham is able to power through the ill effects, and come out the other side just as Teela finishes stitching up the last bite.
With the foes all dead, and the allies patched up, and wtih Faen joining the crew, the room here is full of nests of what you assume are centipede eggs, there is a descending spiral of a tunnel on the far east wall the the lone mite escaped down before. No other passages are visible.
Alvis says, "Treating poison mundanely takes time, I'll stand guard to see if more of these mites choose to attack."
After Teela sure hand takes care of the afflicted and helping a bit while keeping a close watch on the stairway, Alvis speaks, "I like not those stairs, it's perfect for traps and ambush. These mites have a reputation for such and are not noted for being kind. Perhaps someone familiar with traps could tell if there is such trouble ahead?"
Velas nods to Faen when she arrives. "Someone of us had more fun than others - Graham least of all. What do you make of our options to explore deeper down under the tree?"
Without waiting for Faen to join, Velas creeps forward and peers down the hole where the mite escaped.
The creatures are mitflits also known as mites. They are small version of fey creatures, and as such are mildly weak against cold iron. They are known to be cruel tricksters, pulling pranks that actually cause harm at times. They have some natural magical abilities but only minor things like speak with animals
Without darkvision, Velas cannot see down the spiral tunnel, or what he can see, is only more spiral tunnel more precisely. He does not see any threats from his present location, but the light is still surrounding him, not sent down the spiral.
Alvis finally thinks about his companions limited vision joins Velas and looks down. He scans looking and listening to note any activity below. If needed, he'll shield his eyes from the light in order to see better. "You can't see anything in that gloom I suppose, Velas, do you hear anything?"
Alvis can see the spiral to the east turns around once and ends entering the room below from the north. There is no light from below, and even with darkvision, the hallway/spiral appears to empty of threats. Listening instead of squinting to see, Velas hears the chittering speech of mites from below along with hushing sounds from time to time. There appear to be more than one voice, though how many exactly is really hard to make out.
"Let us descend from the other room,
They may expect this less, to their doom."
Bucky puts his short sword away, having finished his internal musings on the power of revenge and the folly of forgiveness.
"Huh...what?" Faen mutters, having been unsuccessfully trying to pry her vision from staring at the pulsating centipede eggs with disgust and fascination.
Then realizing that the others were moving on, hurried to keep up , shaking her head, thinking "That's what you're here for ! Scouting! "
Velas quickly agrees with Bucky. "The other way down may be advantage. Let's double-back and head down the other tunnel."
The Scarlet Knight steps close to Graham and tilts his head slightly.
"Are you well enough to continue?" He asks quietly enough for no one else to hear. It's not an inquiry of worthiness; it's genuine concern.
Teela looks at Faen. "We're just getting started, I'm sure." She also offers a helpful dose of a mote of light travelling with whoever wishes to have an illuminating experience. She creates five floating orbs and starts juggling with them. "No? No? Yeees?"
"Oh, and if anyone has cold iron... It helps."
Alvis looks over the party saying, "If anyone wishes more healing I can provide, the way ahead will be no easier. Going another way may help but either way expect many tricks, care will be needed. But if you think it a better path, I'm agreeable."
Replying to Teela he says, "No, such special weapons I do not have, maybe we need to gain some if fortune comes our way soon. I pray that happens, though I doubt this den will provide such."
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The Scarlet Knight steps close to Graham and tilts his head slightly.
"Are you well enough to continue?" He asks quietly enough for no one else to hear. It's not an inquiry of worthiness; it's genuine concern.
Hale enough, Graham replies with a grin. Felt a little touch-and-go there for a bit, but now I'm...well, not exactly right as rain, but set to press on. Svetlana's ring won't find itself, after all.
"Agreed. Let’s come at them from the other descent. If they’re waiting here, let them wait for ghosts."
She cocks the crossbow and nods. "On your lead. Slow and steady, please. Let’s make this clean without any unecessary incidents."