The frost giant screams and topples over with a thunderous crash as it succumbs to Fredrick's magnetized hydrokinetic blast!
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The invisible ninja's blade is turned by the staggering giant's thick hide armor!
The last giant stumbles and bellows in agony as the shining reaper plies his holy scythe, mowing away beard and throat, but not quite decapitating the great savage!
The giant moans and collapses with a thunderous *BOOOM!!!*.... A torrent of blood gushes from multiple wakizashi wounds in its great carcass....
A slash of the greataxe Vs Nacht whistles overhead... An iterative swing likewise whiffles.... The other giant glowers at Alphonse and swings wide.... Then tries again to no avail....
The giant roars as Hisao's invisible stab plunges into his flesh! GGRRRRAAAAARRRR!!!! The other giant rumbles something in giant-speak: Giantish: Jotunheim awaits us brother! Fight to the death, and Thrym will reward you in the afterlife!!
The penultimate frost giant dodges Frederick's EM bolt....
Again, the wounded giant twists in pain as unseen blades pierce and slash his flesh! GGRRRRAAAAAARRRRKKK!!!!
GreenThorne sinks into the frost giant's lower back, pricking its kidney.... Paddy's next thrust bends the springy magic steel against the thick hides armoring the brute.... YYYAAAARRRGGHHH!!!
The wounded frost giant collapses in a cloud of red mist as Nacht bores into its flesh with a flurry of sawtoothed steel! KEE-RASHHHH!!!!
The frost giant stumbles unexpectedly just enough to the side that Hisao's strike glances off an iron stud on its leather belt instead of piercing its belly....
The wounded frost giant swings at Alphonse , hacking into the English aasimar for slashing damage.... Backswing slashes Alphonse for more damage! The fourth frost giant swings at Nacht , missing.... Backswing also misses the agile Beetle Man! The fifth frost giant turns back to face deeper into the Glacial Rift, and lifting a great, curved, mammoth tusk horn to its bearded mouth, sounds a long and mighty blast that reverberates through the icy tunnels.... HHHHOOOOOOOOOONNNNKKK!!!!
Alphonse's strike cuts a bloody slash in the giant's great thigh.... The giant's bellow of pain echoes like thunder in the icy ravine.... RRAAAAAWWWWRRRR!!!
Again, Hisao's leading strike falls short by a fraction of an inch, slicing the furs layered over the giant's pale blue flesh, but not the flesh.... But the follow-up strike opens the wounded giant's femoral artery, releasing a torrent of icy blood that anoints the invisible ninja, briefly leaving the impression of a crimson ghost crouched in the snow behind the toppling giant! UUUUGGGHHH!!! *KA-THUD!!!*
The wounded giant swings his massive greataxe at Paddy! a clumsy miss! He swings again at the Irishman.... missing again! The third frost giant emerges from the icy tunnel, stands over the fallen body of the first giant, and swings at Nacht.... slashing for damage! Backswing misses the Beetle Man.... Two more frost giants roar Thrym!!!! in the tunnel, unable to emerge past their kin in the tunnel opening....
Seeing that his stealthy allies are quickly slaying the first giant that rushed out of the glacial rift, Fredrick aims his empowered charged water at the second to emerge, and the electrified water blasts the giant full in the face! His great body jerks, skeleton briefly illuminated in X-ray by the undine's lightning magic! YYYEEEEOOOOUUUCH!!! The giant staggers on, still alive and fighting....
Suddenly slipping on a patch of ice underfoot, Hisao's leading slash at the giant's femoral artery misses by an inch, but quickly regaining his highly trained sense of balance, he opens the artery with his backslash.... UUUUUNNNNNHHHH!!!! With a mighty death-groan, the lead giant collapses in the snow with a great THUD!!!
The wounded giant, struck from the shadows and frost mist by a sawtoothed blade in one of the four hands of the Beetle Man, roars again in outrage and mortal fear, for the blood is gushing from his wounds now! YYYOOOOWWWW!!!!
The first frost giant to emerge from the glacial tunnel jerks in surprised agony and lets out an ear-splitting roar as the unseen ninja sinks VenomFang into its thigh, and Paddy appears out of nowhere with GreenThorne sticking in its low back, while his "shiv" sticks in the giant's side.... RRRRAAAAARRRRR!!!!! A second frost giant pushes past the first, bursting out of the glacial tunnel with massive greataxe held poised to strike a thunderous blow........ It is clear that a few more at least are bunched up in the tunnel behind these two.... Perhaps five in total....
Initiative
The thunderous rumble of armed and armored frost giants grows nearer and louder, echoing in the great glacial rift....
From deeper within the glacial tunnel echoes the braying of bestial war horns.... Booming basso voices rumble in the icy deeps, and the clank of iron echoes off the icy walls as giant figures in giant mail hauberks take up giant axes and swords....
The flaming-oil-fried frost giant, in a fury of pain, swings wildly at the Beetle Man , missing.... His backswing also fails to connect with the nimble Nacht!
With a final cut, the fleeing giant falls under the ninja's lethal, unseen blade.... It collapses in a heap on the ledge....
Reflex fails, takes full damage! Reflex fails, takes full damage! Round 7: Reflex saves, takes half damage! Reflex fails, takes full damage!
The fleeing giant yelps as Nacht's magic blade brings it ever closer to death.... YYYOOOOLLP!!!
VenomFang slices deep, drawing more blood from the fleeing giant....
The giants on the higher opposing ledge chuck another volley of boulders, at Alphonse , which bounces off the mountain wall.... ....and at Iommi-Tyr , also missing....
After fresh cuts from Alphonse and Paddy, the frost giant seems to have changed his mind about attacking.... Alone with his miniature assassins on the lower mountain ledge, he bellows for aid and tries to retreat, provoking attacks of opportunity from Alphonse, Hisao, Paddy, and Nacht.... They be tryin' ta kill meeee!!!! The wee little devils is tough as iron!
OOOWWWWWCHHH!!!!
YEEEOOOOWWWWCHH!!!
On the higher opposing ledge, a frost giant hurls a chunk of ice at Iommi-Tyr that flies far afield....
The last frost giant on the lower ledge roars in frantic rage and swings it's great axe wildly about, striking out at Alphonse that slices through the young aasimar's full plate armor, dealing slashing damage! The backswing whistles over the ducking paladin's head....
The giant he'd been flanking with Hisao and Alphonse fallen into the misty gulf below, Paddy joins Hisao in moving on to the next giant....
A blossom of red sprays from the next frost giant's underbelly, rent by some invisible force (the magic blade of Hisao the Renegade), and it bellows in fear and pain.... YAAARRRCHH!!! That HURT, by the gods! I can't see what be a-killin' me!!
The frost giant groans its last breath as VenomFang opens its aorta with a deep stick.... RRRRNNNNNRRRRGGGGHHH!!!! His great, blue body plummets into the mists of the ravine below....
The other frost giant hurls a boulder at Alphonse missing.... On the higher ledge across the gap, a frost giant tosses a boulder at Iommi-Tyr , narrowly missing him!
The wounded and bleeding frost giant being assassinated by the invisible ninja and now invisible Irishman makes a desperate attempt to escape his unseen slayers by scrambling in a giant, mad panic up the mountainside to the north, provoking attacks of opportunity from Alphonse, Hisao, and Paddy!
The great, big fellow makes no progress up the icy mountain wall, but pants and whimpers in a deep voice! [ooc]2nd move action attemp to Climb With a bit more effort, he clambers 15 feet up the mountainside!
The frost giant facing Paddy swings it's great axe WIFF!!
Edit: Hisao the invisible ninja evades both of the giant's swings!
The frost giant beset on by Hisao swings frantically to try and connect with the invisible assassin at his back misses due to invisibility on 01-50 misses!
Hisao definitely has the frost giant's attention now! AAAAAAIIIEEEEE!!!! Somethin' unseen be a-killin' me!!!
The frost giants begin to hurl boulders down onto the Lusty Fools they can see down on the ledge below, or approaching along the switchback ledge.... At Iommi-Tyr from a giant on the ledge 80 ft above strikes the Norseman for bludgeoning damage! At Nacht from the other giant on the ledge 80 ft above misses the Beetle Man! At Alphonse from a giant on the 120-ft-high ledge across the ravine misses the aasimar paladin! At the now-visible Paddy from a giant on the higher ledge across the ravine clips the Irishman on his shoulder for bludgeoning damage!
Hisao begins the ninja's deadly dance of death, invisibly slashing the hamstrings of the near giant, freeing a shower of red into the white snow! YYYEEEAAAAAAAOOOOOWWWWRRRRGGGG!!!!
There are two frost giants standing on a ledge some 80 ft above the heroes on the mountainside north of them, and another two stand on another ledge, 140 ft above the heroes and 60 ft south of them across the deep ravine.... All four giants begin to pick up icy boulders to hurl down at their prey....
Paddy is first to see a frost giant, watching the party's progress through the treacherous alpine passes from a ledge some 80 feet above them.... The rogue spies the stealthy giant through a bird-like eye on his tunic of eyes, not giving away the fact that Paddy noticed him to the frost giant stalker....
They look like tasty sorts.... thought Einar the frost giant as he spied first the tracks, and then the makers of those tracks on the snowy alpine pass through the French Alps.... Might need a bit of tenderizing with avalanches and boulders, and whatnot....
It must be your birthday, Ray, so Happy Birthday to you! ;)
The cart and riders ride on....
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