Chamak flies down and lands close to the remaining half of a man. "I don't want to rude, but where is the rest of your body? Would it help if we recovered it?"
While Weal and Woe ends the last of the dinos.
Shengo Arashi and Chamak land next to the dying elf.
"We just got here, just, Nrix flow up to look around and said he had got bitten. Millon, Wilt and Drez went to the sounds coming form the jungle. Then they came. A pack of them, teeth and range, they bit me and thow me like a doll"
He must be talking about the half orc and the rest of his group of 6, who you see nothing off.
"The three you meet where the ^(^)- young!!!..."
He tries to cast heal again as blood goits out of his insides.
"young ones!!, the big ones took Millon, Wilt and Drez... just screams, look I don't have long I ask you take a part of me back to Sigil, go back get out of this hell hole, take me with you, my family will pay for the resurrection. The Family Millonron, ask around in sigil you will find them. Take my pack as part payment."
Then more shaking and you can see he is in pain, then He nods at Shengo.
"End this, the pain.... is bad"
He seems very stoic but resigned to his fate.
Chamak takes one of the sticks from his belt and tells the man, "We'll do our best to get you home. Now relax and think of your family."
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Shengo stays where he is for a moment longer, letting the jungle sounds settle back in. As Chamak secures the pack, Shengo closes his eyes briefly, then opens them again as his senses shift, searching for any lingering trace of intent, motive, or presence that doesn’t belong.
His gaze sweeps the blasted ground, the treeline, the scattered remains, not with emotion but with practiced scrutiny. Whatever passed through here did so with hunger and purpose, and he’s looking for the echo of that.
“They didn’t linger,” he says after a moment, voice low. “No guiding will behind them, no watchers hanging back. Just predators moving through.”
He turns slightly toward the jungle.
“Which means the rest of them are either deeper in… or already circling.”
Weal and Woe sticks his sword in the ground, draws his bow, and watches the treeline for any movement.
Niloth was humming appreciatively as the group efficiently finished dispatching the predator dinosaurs, from his perch up on a tree. "If there is one thing you can trust bloodthirsty adventurers with, it's that" he said to himself.
He lets the others handle the mercy killing: he could do it, if there was need, but he doesn't really have the stomach for it; he much prefers saving the world from destruction.
From his high vantage point, he makes sure nothing deadly is coming at them.
@ Chamak
In the pack you find 8 flasks of CMW healing 2d8+10
A wand of CLW 23/50 charges left, and 10 flasks of ant tocxin and 3 flasks of remove poison
And 18 days of hard rations / want of creat water 48/50 carges
As you sense scan there is something something out there watching you, and you feel its hunger. It’s not in any one place it’s just welll everywhere you scan. Just at the limit of your range if you move it’s always just at the limit.
@Niloth
As you hover there something bites your Knick. Then you feel anther bite, looking around you fine you have attacked a swarm of tiny insects. There seems to be a lot of them. But to you the bites feel harmless
What would you like to do?
@ Weal and Woe
You are being watch you can feel it but when you look to where it is nothing nothing there at all,
Just an endless felling of being watched.
And you two feel bites small tiny ones throw your armor, they don’t seem to be that truesome just there
CHamak tells the group the contents of the pack. "Useful. But without our magical packs we need to be careful what we carry...."
He slings the pack over a shoulder for now and launches himself back into the air. No point risking surprise by a snake or some other vermin....
Fei watched in rapt attention as the unfortunate died. Not so much on the death itself, he had seen that happen a thousand times. The emotion was strong, of course, but there was a sort of routine with a man dying. But Chamak? Oh! The sweet lies on his voice. The bitter reality of bringing the only relief possible. That was rarer. And it was fascinating how different people reacted to such a grim task. Intently, he watched as the necessary happened. Only when the spectacle was finished did he turn back to the task at hand.
”A good idea. Height to avoid the insects and to get a lay of the land.” He said cheerfully as he followed.
Slapping at a couple of spots where he'd felt tiny bites, Weal and Woe says "Yeah, insects might become a problem."
Chamak looked at Fei Wan and Weal and Woe. "Insects? I was getting off the ground to avoid things like poisonous snakes or other reptiles. They usually can't fly. But bugs?"
He scans the area for possible swarms forming.
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Shengo glances at the jungle, then back to Chamak, one corner of his mouth twitching.
“Flying helps,” he says. “But whatever’s watching us doesn’t seem impressed by altitude.”
He shrugs slightly, hefting his weapon.
“Snakes, insects… those are details. The real problem is that this place knows we’re food.”
Hearing them, Niloth shakes his small head and calls out from his perch high in the tree: "Insects are up there too! Sliding under my clothes. Damnable things. Perhaps they are xylophages and think me made of wood."
To test his theory that the bugs don't just crawl but fly as well, he flies out from the tree and looks behind him to see whether any tiny fliers take wing after him. Then he anchors his tether to a tree farther away and rapidly swings away, checking whether the critters manage to keep while he's moving at high speed.
the small Insects seem to always be with you, buzzing around, it will be hard to sleep with then aways biting.
As you are investigating this Neela's had landed to also try and help the elf. But could only wait has his pain was ended but Shengo. His pack looted and the other start talking about the small Midges biting
everyone. Neela goes to a blacked tree stump and taking out some anti-bug ointment was just about to aply some to his arms.
Picture poor Neela standing there, He stops as waves at you all as he was just about to put the ointment on, his pack by his feet as he gives you all a big smile and a wave, and then a THUD!! Where the camera shows a wide of Neelas waving there is now a large Boulder, A shock waves of air hits you, as the ground shakes a little. Neelas is no more, a rock and fallen form the sky and Neela's is gone under its massive wight .
Looking up you see a number of large raptor like Birds, some small but 5 of them large, 4 of them are carrying large stones like the one that just fell form the sky. That seems to have from a 5th now flying off to the left. Height wise they are around 500' over you as a flock. As you look up you see one of the 4 making a whats to be a run to drop its stone.
Surprise round is over, and one of you poor souls is no more.
We are into round 1,
the Birds
Big bird 1 Coming into drop its Rock
Big bird 2 Flying with stone
Big bird 3 Flying with stone
Big bird 4 Flying with stone
Big bird 5 [Rock Dropped/Flying]
Seeing the big birds and seeing the huge rock that just killed one of the group, Chamak goes invisible and flies off to one side. He gains altitude to get closer and possibly identify the species?
Weal and Woe moves away from the rest, stowing his sword and drawing his bow as he does so.
Niloth takes flight once more, cursing the height at which their newly appeared foes are flying at; though he has wings, he is more at ease closer to the ground, and his abilities do not have a long-enough range to reach the creatures.
"Can anyone teleport us closer?" he asks; the lack of answer determines his next action: he turns invisible before flying up circuitously.
Fei Wan broke up laughing at the absurdity of it all. He had truly befriended Neela, and he had been looking forward to whatever experience that might come from it. The true joy of seeing her dreams come true. The crushing guilt of letting her down. The look of despair when she died. But he got none of that. She had just died to a boulder. It was so random. It was so *absurd*. And he drunk the moment in, committing it to one of his memory stones. Such an experience was new, and as such it was treasured.
Flying through the air, the vines that covered him grew into a pair of blades that covered his arms. Still grinning, he tore into the closest bird, lest he fall prey to its rocks.
Initiative_monkey
"Bird Attack Round 1"
Chamak Init=36
{waiting for Action}
Niloth, the Inexorable Knight Init=24
{waiting for Action}
*Big bird 2 Init=21 Flying with stone
{Now flyes at Fei Wan Flying
To Hit DMG {B}}
*Big bird 1 Init=18 Coming into drop its Rock
Onto Shengo Arashi
{Now flyes at Shengo Arashi Flying
To Hit DMG {B}}
Shengo Arashi Init=17
{waiting for Action}
*Big bird 5 Init=14 [Rock Dropped/Flying]
{Now Flying
Weal and Woe Init=12
{waiting for Action}
Big bird 4 Init=9 Flying with stone
{Now flyes at Chamak Flying
To Hit DMG {B}}
Big bird 3 Init=8 Flying with stone
{Now flyes at Chamak Flying
Fei Wan Init=1
{waiting for Action}
They are Giant Eagles, but wrong, they are all jet black like crews
They look Aberrant
Might Giant Eagle {Aberrant}
NG Gigantic Mythical beast
Init +6; DV120 Senses low-light vision; Perception +15
DEFENSE
AC 25, touch 25, flat-footed 10 (+10 Dex, +8 natural, –3 size)
hp 400/400
Fort +15, Ref +17, Will +13
Defensive Abilities evasion
OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft., fly 140 ft.
Melee 2 claws +15 (3d8+9), bite +15 (3d6+9)
Space 20 ft.; Reach 20 ft.
STATISTICS
Str 28, Dex 28, Con 24, Int 10, Wis 22, Cha 08
Base Atk +15/+10/; CMB +19; CMD 42
Feats Alertness, Flyby Attack/HOVER/THROW ANYTHING 90'/MILTI ATTACK
Skills Fly +12, Perception +15, Sense Motive +3; Racial Modifiers +4 Perception
Languages Auran (cannot speak)
Chamak, AC30, sees the huge rock come entirely too close for comfort and wonders how the bird was able to detect him. Maybe it just guessed when he disappeared? He turns quickly to the side just trying to avoid the very fast, huge bird. Well, obviously calling it a bird was a stretch as these things were about as natural as a pit fiend!
Grinning, Fei Wan launched himself up in the air. Flying as fast as he could, he decided that his best bet was to get higher than the birds could fly. The rocks couldn’t land on him if they couldn’t get above him to drop them.
Swift to go Invisible then double move up and to the side
As you fly up at the Birds you spook them, the few still with rocks drop them and fly off, "250' a round.
As you hear the cries of the fleeing mega birds, all sound falls back to the buzzing of the Jungle and a screech now an then from the canopy.
Your alone once more with he small bugs biting you
Once the birds are chased off, Niloth lands next to Neela. He is distraught; he didn't expect to lose someone so soon. "We don't have the means to bring her back here, not with that's left of her. When we head back, we should collect her remains and see if a powerful priest can bring her back."
There is the other problem of how they're going to activate the Gate on the way back, but Niloth leaves it for another day. First, they have a mission to accomplish. "I couldn't see any specific landmark. Should we strike out in a random direction? I do believe Fate will be with us."
Chamak flies down to join Niloth. "I think we need to avoid fighting if possible. We don't want to be worn out if we ever locate our target. Can we all fly?"
Weal and Woe turns his head first to one side, then the other, just fast enough for you to realize he is shaking his head, rather than looking for threats.
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Shengo glances at the crater for a brief moment before offering a respectful nod, acknowledging Niloth's statement, and then he turns his attention back to the jungle.
He rolls his shoulders like he's prepping for a workout, because let's face it, that's exactly what this is.
"No landmarks? Great, we're already winning at doing this the hard way," he quips dryly. "So just pick a direction. Try not to zigzag unless something starts chewing on us."
At Chamak's question, Shengo emits a soft snort.
"I don't do the flying, at least not without help" he replies, a smirk creeping onto his face. "If you decide to take to the skies, keep me in sight. You might feel safer up there, but the ground might just be where the fun happens."
He glances up at the dense canopy, and then back to the group, trying to stifle a grin.
"I can be your trusty guide on the ground. Let's keep moving before this place decides to throw something else our way, preferably not a giant carnivorous plant."
Chamak launches himself back to the sky. "Guide on the ground and eye in the sky. Not knowing if we're going the right way or not, what could go wrong? It's not like we need to search the whole plane to find the guy...."
Niloth sets an arbitrary "North", then plays "spin the twig" to determine where they head next.
(1 = North, then clockwise, so NE, E, ...) => SW
As you head SW you enter the jingle true, its dark and full of plants that look like nothing you have seen before. If your flying you
Auto get 6 or you can roll and say you landed.
Your flat footed
You get close 10' to a strange green plant suddenly it's an acid pray at you. Area affect 30' cone, Ref save DC18 for 1/2 DMG
Damage is Acid
Your flat footed
You get close 30' to a strange Blue orange puff ball that suddenly pops and releases a cloud spores. Area affect 30' Radeus,
For save X2 DC18 over two days or become infected with a wasting sickness, coure disease removes it. If you fail save lose 1d4 Con temp each day your infected.
Your flat footed
You get close 20' to a strange yellow and pink tree, as you do the bark explaodes with darts, Area affect 20' Ref Save DC22 for half Piercing Damage, + it takes 10 mins per 5DMG to remove the wood darts
Your flat footed
You walk on some odd orange grass, and suddenly your sucked into the ground, its dark, wet and you can not breath.
Take 1d2 points of Con DMG a round until you work out hot to get out,
Movement is reduced to 1' and to move you have to make a STR check of DC16 per 1'
Your flat footed
You get close 10' to a strange tube like thing, something like a snakes head shoots out to bite you. Hits on a 26, If it gets its teeth into you its causes no Damage but starts to pull you into the tube.
CMD 30 or more, to brake off or it has HP200 at zero hp you cut it.
You are NOT flat footed you see them coming.
You get close 100' to nest of insects that swarms you.
Large swarm take DMG a round.
Each swarm has HP60
If you live you know what to look out for and the same Jingle event can not effect you again.
Using prescience: He learns how to not fail the saves.
A blue/orange puffball explodes in front of him....
He flies around the cloud, glad that he isn't breathing.
Approaching the tube he discovered, against all common sense, Niloth has a prescient vision of something coming out of there: he sees it a mere fraction of a second before it actually happens, but this is enough for him not to be completely surprised by it. He sidesteps the initial attack and, tethering himself to a tree behind him, flies out beyond reach of the strange creature. Since it doesn't seem to pursue, he guides the group around it.
The pink tree near Weal and Woe explodes, but him nimbly dodges. Only a few of its woody darts penetrate his tough hide. "These are going to take a few minutes." he says, already working to pry one of the darts loose.
Fei, being next to Shengo, breathed in the spores. It felt horrible, and if it were not for his powers it would have been debilitating. Still, he paused to savor the sensation, for the pain and discomfort was a new one, even if it was but a new take on an old flavor.
Its been a few hours when you come across your 1st ruin, A broken building sits before you, The 400' trees around it, shape most of it. You can see through its broken walls a huge hallway where holds inthe roof a vast dome at the end of it. There seems to be some kind of device covered in vines at tyhe domes center,
The Building is about a 1//4 in lengths with rooms heading off from the main dome. To see whats there you will have to enter.