Lwazi swiftly picks himself up off the ground and keeps attacking the creature's nearby head with claws and horns, trying to finish it off while it's vulnerable.
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Lwazi yowls in pain and rage, dropping his falchion and attacking wildly with claws and horns as the beast picks him up in its jaws.
Lwazi is caught off-guard by the mist from the leg, but dodges the worst of the creature's breath. Growling against the pain, he moves to another leg on the same side of the beast and focuses his attacks on it. "Bring it down!" he snarls as he does so.
Lwazi little likes the look of the beast now, but he thinks their best chance still lies in killing it quickly. Which means charging back into melee with it. He does so, aiming at its most-injured leg as he does so, hoping to cripple the creature enough to at least slow it down.
So does that mean it's our round again?
Small parties are *very* different--any kind of temporary disabling effect becomes much more dangerous, and of usual "parties have more actions than enemies" assumption can be turned on its head. Basically, we'll need to be cautious and careful about our engagements if we want to survive. ...it'll also be interesting role-playing to have our party reduced so much. The idea of being trapped here was bad enough with five or six people. With only two, how will we keep our own morale up? (Tormenting your characters is fun sometimes, what can I say?)
Hmmmm... for me, I mostly want Lwazi to slowly be mutated into a cool hybrid monster. (Poor Lwazi :D) Obviously we've got that set up with his corruption, but I certainly wouldn't mind having some unexpected twists at some points on top of his corruption. I do like the idea of the more unusual boss monster battles, too, particularly as Lwazi becomes more of a boss monster himself. :D
Unfortunately that's often what you have to do with play-by-posts. My Hydra game has gone through stages like this--I think only one player in it was in the starting group.
It'd be kind of interesting if it were just the two of us. :D That could make for a rather different game.
I don't know about that--*lots* of games seem interest dwindle over time, no matter how active the GM. I would still like to continue if there's a way.
Who's up right now?
Suspecting it will be bad to be near the creature shortly, Lwazi takes one last slash at its nearest appendage and then retreats as far as he can.
Lwazi growls through the pain of stabbing himself on the creature's spines and slashes at it again.
Eh, it's fine. Lwazi will just make another slash.
I doubt it would get *stuck* in the tree, but I'm sure it would inconvenience it for a moment unless is makes a save or something.
When the beast gets close, Lwazi strikes at one of its legs with all his savagery.
Lwazi warily watches the beast circle, trying to position himself to be ready for its next attack.
You might need to communicate that in-character. :D And no problem Icehawk! I know misplacing things like that can be a pain, hopefully it's not too hard for you to reconstruct.
Lwazi easily keeps his feet, and he warily circles around to one side of the beast, trying to keep from being too clumped together. He roars a challenge at it as he does, a surprisingly leonine sound that somehow strengthens the will of his allies.
I believe that was one of the stated campaign inspirations. :D
Hmmm... while I'm thinking about it, are we going to have any special rules for this battle? Something to let us do Colossus Climb-type antics or the like?
Lwazi casts shield on himself. He doesn't plan on getting close if he can help it, but... best to give himself the best chance of not dying he can. "With this storm, we may not be able to use bows," he calls to his companions. "But I little like the idea of melee with that thing."
Yeah, I'm not sure that frost gel is worth waiting three days for. It'd probably either get wiped out by the storm or turn out to not help much against our target. Hopefully some resist energy's will be enough.
Lwazi doesn't really have much magic that would help. :D
"We have no time contraint beyond how long we can..." Lwazi hesitates a moment, then decides on saying, "...remain here. Perhaps it would be best to allow Luca to prepare the appropriate spells."
Lwazi eyes the storm suspiciously, surpressing the sudden urge to charge into it. "It seems we may have difficulty seeing... and that we shall need protection from cold and ice," he comments. "Do any of you have magic to aid with this?"
I don't think Lwazi has anything more to contribute.
Lwazi shrugs slightly. "It is likely we can rest a day, though the longer we are here the more..." He trails off, then shakes his horned head slightly. He reaches up and taps one of the horns. "We do not know... how long we will remain ourselves."
Uh-oh, are we down to just a couple people?
"In the morning, perhaps we should set out to seek this creature the undead lord spoke of," Lwazi suggests as they settle in for the night. "I little like following his advice, but we seem to have few remaining options in this area."
So I suppose we need to decide on our next plan of action. We've investigated most of the nearby points of interest. Is it time to find this beast our... dubious 'friend' mentioned?
I believe I'm done leveling up. I'm very glad for Herolab, because Lwazi gets complicated with the whole switching-spirits thing changing large numbers of modifiers on his character sheet. I've got him channeling Lion starting the next day--this is the bard-like spirit, which allows him to give other party members bonuses as long as he's nominally the 'leader'.
"I agree. It would be good to have more allies."
After a moment of silence, Lwazi shrugs. "There is nothing more to do here. Let us return to our camp."
We seem to have been handling things pretty well regardless. :D
Lwazi glares at the thing, tired of these enemies that don't leave good meat when killed. "That was easier than I feared," he comments aloud.
Lwazi snarls and slashes at the thing with his falchion, but he doesn't think it wise to attack with his horns.
Lwazi warily circles the thing, slowly drawing closer, ready to strike if it got in range.
Yeah, just rolling initiative for the group at the beginning of combat would speed things up.
Lwazi hesitates a moment, looking around, before drawing his falchion and baring his teeth.
No problem, hope you get some good rest!
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