Ihrin Ardlean Dracul wrote:
Ihrin's barrage of blade strikes hacks the hezrou off of Ogon Fox! It collapses in a stinking, oozing heap!
Lord Perpireen McGibel wrote:
Lord Perpireen telekinetically sends his coin ripping through the wounded hezrou's left eye, into its brain, and it falls with a croak and a heavy thud!
The pair of hezrous to the right side of the glabrezu leap upon Sir Alphonse Veritas, one shifting a single stride to reach him, the other leaping like a horse-sized frog to land next to the paladin... #1 bite 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (7) + 17 = 24 deals 4d4 + 8 ⇒ (1, 4, 3, 1) + 8 = 17 damage and grab 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (5) + 23 = 28, #1 claw 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (4) + 17 = 21 bounces off Alphonse's breastplate, #1 second claw 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (4) + 17 = 21 misses... *SPROING!!*...*FLOP!!* The second lands near Sir Alphonse and attacks... #2 bite 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (20) + 17 = 37 threatens 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (3) + 17 = 20 not a crit, deals 4d4 + 8 ⇒ (4, 1, 3, 1) + 8 = 17 damage plus grab 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (16) + 23 = 39 clamps Alphonse in his jaws, grappled, unless he has freedom of movement
The wounded hezrou retaliates against Ogon Fox with snapping jaws bite 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (12) + 17 = 29 hits for 4d4 + 8 ⇒ (2, 2, 3, 1) + 8 = 16 damage plus grab 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (18) + 23 = 41 and slashing claws claw 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (5) + 17 = 22 hits for 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12 damage plus grab 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (1) + 23 = 24 and claw 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (19) + 17 = 36 misses... Does Ogon Fox have a ring of freedom of movement?
The Ogon Fox wrote:
Ogon Fox pummels the wounded hezrou with a blindingly fast flurry of blows! It groans and grimaces in pain. UUUNNNGH!!
Johann Kaltgeboren- Cobra! wrote:
Cobra Johann's first bite sinks into the hezrou, drawing black stinking ichor in twin jets! It roars in alarm, and dodges the next two strikes with grace belying its hulking form...
The Ogon Fox wrote:
Ogon Fox leaps upon the wounded hezrou with a relentless barrage that falls the foul demon! It roars a final death shriek before collapsing in a twitching heap...
The hezrou engaged in melee with Johann and Ihrin, bleeding from Johann's bite and Lord Perpireen's telekinetic projectile coin, turns on the big cobra coiled on the stairs level with the top of its froglike head (about 10 feet above the chamber floor) and savagely unleashes a flurry of bite and claws! Bite vs Johann 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (3) + 17 = 20 is dodged, claw vs Johann 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (3) + 17 = 20 is also dodged, and claw vs Johann 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (16) + 17 = 33 deals 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15 slashing damage and attempts to grapple Cobra Johann 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (11) + 23 = 34, but the slippery serpentine Werebeast slips out of the demon's claw!
The pair of hezrous on the other side of the glabrezu from Johann and Ihrin both wave their froglike claws and croak unholy chants... Both cast unholy blight on Sir Alphonse, Lord Perpireen, Mwikali, and Kiku, dealing 5d8 ⇒ (4, 2, 4, 7, 4) = 21 plus 5d8 ⇒ (4, 6, 4, 2, 5) = 21 unholy damage, and sickens those PCs for 1d4 ⇒ 2 rounds or 1d4 ⇒ 3 rounds (overlaps but doesn't stack), DC 21 Will save halves damage and negates sickened effect...
Lord Perpireen McGibel wrote:
The coin rips into the oozing flesh of the hezrou with deadly results, sending a spray of Black ichor from the wound! GGNNAAAAGH!!!
Johann Kaltgeboren- Cobra! wrote:
The Werebeast of the Black Forest slithers up to the nearest hezrou and locks onto the foul froglike flesh with rapier-sharp fangs! GGRIIBIIIIITTT!! croaks the fiend in pain and shock!
Ihrin Ardlean Dracul wrote:
First two strike, no crit, dealing a total of 73 damage (fire damage soaked by resistance)... Hezrou #2 has taken 124 damage total so far... The remaining hezrou croaks in agony as Ihrin splits open its oozing, mottled hide with two swift strokes of Tiger Fang, and the fiend barely dodges Ice Tusk... GGGRRRROOOAAAAKKK!!! It stumbles, spilling black ichor all over the pile of rubble it is standing on...
Alphonse Veritas, Oathkeeper wrote:
That's 2 hits on AC 25 for 51 total damage to hezrou #2... Sir Alphonse begins to mow down the remaining hezrou with strong strokes of Foereaper, landing two solid blows... UGH!! AAARRGG!!
The wounded hezrou, seeing its death at hand, attempts to evacuate... Concentration check to cast defensively 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (19) + 15 = 34 succeeds, greater teleport is cast... *POOF!!* The wounded hezrou demon vanishes in a puff of sulfurous smoke! The other hezrou lunges at the hated paladin who wields the dreaded Foereaper... Biting the holy knight 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (7) + 17 = 24 and dealing 4d4 + 8 ⇒ (1, 4, 4, 1) + 8 = 18 damage... clawing at Alphonse 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (16) + 17 = 33 for 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9 damage... and clawing again 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (14) + 17 = 31 for 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16 more damage... The remaining hezrou's attempts to grab the noble paladin are foiled by his magical ring of freedom of movement! GRRAAAGHH!! SLIPPERY MEAT!!
Alphonse Veritas, Oathkeeper wrote:
That punches the demons' SR... Highest level SLA is 7th level, so 7d8 ⇒ (6, 7, 5, 7, 3, 3, 7) = 38 damage, #1's Will 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24 succeeds, so he takes half... #2's Will 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21 also succeeds, so it also takes half damage... The hezrou demons croak in rage and pain as Sir Alphonse wracks them with damnation... GGRRRAAAARRRGGHHH!!!
Ihrin Ardlean Dracul wrote:
Ihrin lands a cut on the wounded hezrou with Ice Tusk, drawing more vile ichor from its flesh... GGRRRAAAARRRGGHH!!!
Johann Kaltgeboren- Dire Bat! wrote:
AC 25; with flank bonus from Fox, all three bites hit hezrou #1... The hezrou with snout smashed and bleeding from Fox's flying kick, now flanked by Fox and Bat, roars in dismay and pain as Bat lands three powerful bites on the demon's thick neck, right shoulder, and right forearm... 126 total damage on #1 already! WTG, Johann and Ogon Fox!
ROUND 1, after Mwikali: Already smarting and dripping black ichor from Dire Bat Johann's bite and Ogon Fox's flying dragon kick and flurry of blows, the lead hezrou demon savagely croaks in pain and fury, and unleashes a barrage of attacks on Ogon Fox... Bite 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (18) + 17 = 35 deals 4d4 + 8 ⇒ (3, 2, 3, 4) + 8 = 20 damage plus grab 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (10) + 23 = 33 fails to grapple Fox... claw 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (4) + 17 = 21 deals 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13 damage to Fox plus grab 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (1) + 23 = 24 also fails to grapple the wily Fox... second claw 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (18) + 17 = 35 deals 1d8 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12 damage to Fox, plus grab 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (19) + 23 = 42 succeeds in grappling Fox! That's a total of 45 damage to Fox, who is now grappled by the foul, slimy fiend, and must succeed on a DC 24 Fortitude save each round of being grappled to avoid becoming nauseated! The first hezrou sinks its nasty fangs and claws into Ogon Fox, and the second claw attack seizes the agile kitsune in a one-armed hug, pulling him close and coating him with a nauseatingly foul ooze!
The Ogon Fox wrote:
Fox's memory of Master Centipede instructing him to defy gravity and kick an opponent out of the saddle comes back to him and he leaps, crushing the nasal bones of the lead demon under his furry heel, landing behind the hezrou and pummeling it with fists and knife-hand strikes that soften the corpulent hulk's oozing flesh! It grunts in pain: GGRRAAAK!!
Johann Kaltgeboren- Dire Bat! wrote:
GRIIIIBIIIIIITTTT!!! GRIIIIBIIIIIITTT!!! CRRROOOOAAAAKKK!!! Abyssal: OOOOOUUCH!!! DAMMIT!! WHY ARE THIS GIANT BAT'S TEETH FRICKING HOLY!? OH SHIT!! THESE ARE THOSE ONE GUYS...
Thanks to warnings from those who heard the snapping bone in the darkness of the westbound tunnel, no one is surprised when two large, hulking, bipedal toad-like demons emerge from the shadows to the west! Their mottled gray-green skin oozes foul slime, and their wide, fang-filled maws drool in anticipation of fresh meat... For convenience, MAP OF LEVEL 5 OF THE CATACOMBS... The two hezrou emerge from the westbound tunnel that leads to the hewn stairs (area 34) down to LEVEL 6 OF THE CATACOMBS... Because the two demons are Large, they are forced to approach single file, and had to squeeze through the tunnel... The foremost hezrou begins combat about 10 feet west of the fallen column (area 32), and the second hezrou about 20 feet. I will try to link a photo of the battle mat and minis soon... Dire Bat Johann, Ogon Fox, Lady Ihrin and Sir Alphonse are closest (10 to 15 feet away) to the foremost hezrou...
Hezrou demon wrote:
A pair of hezrou demons from the caverns below are drawn by the sound of the Nalfeshnee Gravegobbler's dying roars... As they both teleport to the top of the rough-hewn stairs (area 34 on the map), the nalfeshnee falls against the limestone column, shattering it, and causing the collapse that threatens to bury the adventurers! Creeping closer to investigate, the first hezrou demon moves in relative silence despite its large, hulking body... but the second hezrou demon accidentally snaps a humanoid femur bone under its big clawed foot... *SNAP!!* Both demons pause for a second, the first glaring with scorn at the clumsiness of the second, before continuing to stalk the adventurers... |