My cohort is Righty. It's the one with class levels, and no I don't mind sending it on missions.
Personally, I think we should keep focusing on capturing guard beasts. We have plenty of space.
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Xanos's hand continues to throttle the priestess until she's thoroughly unconscious.
The hand retained it's deathgrip on the cleric's throat, holdign her in place for the oncoming horde.
Xanos' disembodied hand continued to throttle Marta.
Marta's struggles were in vain. The disembodied hand had a grip like steel.
With unearthly strength, the severed hand clamped down on the priestess' neck with a barbed grip that caused her ears to ring, her vision to swim and her strength to ebb. The almost imperceptible image of a tall man made of shadows with a ripped spiral where his face should have been glared down at her and lent a supernatural weight to the terrible claw.
It's supposed to magically have the strength and leverage of a Medium sized creature, as if it were still attached to a person. That's the entire gimmick of the monster. Yeah, its a little silly, but it has pretty deep horror movie roots so I kinda like it as a concept. Honestly, I find the super dangerous animated hand more palatable to my sensibilities than the original version of this build, which involved a Kitsune in Fox form, or a halfling transformed into a sparrow.
A scuttling, armored hand leaped out of the shadows and hit the priestess, clamping down on her throat with a force that belied it's size.
Poor Marta: Stunned (drops everything held, can’t take actions, takes a –2 penalty to AC, and loses its Dexterity bonus to AC (if any). Attackers receive a +4 bonus on attack rolls to perform combat maneuvers against her) Grappled (Can't move, -4 dex, -2 to all attacks and MD checks other than Grapples. Can't take 2-handed actions. Must make Consentration checks to cast spells) Strangled (can't speak or cast Verbal spells while grappled) Total of -10 penalty to attack Lefty (on top of Grappled penalties) Marta grants Lefty Cover against other foes. Marta is considered Flanked by any enemy who threatens her.
On the other side of the portcullis, a spiked gauntlet scuttled into a slightly closer position.
One more quick note. I've added "ninja" markers to all the guards and critters that spend most of their time hiding. Interestingly, this includes Golgotha. Now that Al's loyal steed has been improved, he has a climb speed and a burrow speed.
GM, I need a clarification- The larder on the first floor is enchanted, so nothing in it goes bad or rots. Since the Minotaur that was killed in that room is perfectly preserved, could Rose bring it back to life with Breath of Life?
Okay, thanks for clarifying all of that. Seems much more reasonable. Though now I really wish I would have taken Leadership. I'd really like to make an organization of corrupted Mitran sisters. Retraining is an option. We have quite a bit of downtime coming up. Or, you could just wait until 9th level.
So how much time to we have before the first wave of adventurers shows up to check out the giant beacon in the sky that we just lit?
He said shorthanded *snicker*
There was no shuddering, no twitching to motion. One moment it was a dead thing, shriveled with rigor mortis. The next it rolled it's fingers gracefully and flipped itself palm down, standing on it's fingers and then leaping to the nearby table. It crawled into the metal reinforced glove that waited for it. Then it and it's mate worked together to help Xanos shrug into the harness he had made and tighten the straps. It was a pair of sleeves that attached to the bracers the Mitrans had locked to him to drain away his power. They were different now. He had altered them. Now they were attached to metal caps that covered the stumps of his forearms. Inside them, instead of the meat of Xanos' arms were coiled chains and a surprisingly powerful clock-spring. The manacles' silver runes were stained red and re-written. They were his now. The sleeves ran beneath the bracers up to a pair of pauldrons. The straps criss-crossed over his chest. Attached to the back was a long cape and hood. When he was finished, both hands clicked into place on their wrist caps.
I went ahead and used the NPC Elite Array to build Righty. That seems to be the standard. It's a 15 point buy. To figure out a Crawling Hand's attributes I subtracted either 10 or 11 to figure out the racial modifiers. A Crawling Hand gets +2 Dex, +4 Cha. So here's Righty's attributes with adjustments annotated. Str 10
The rest is in the alias ready for perusal. |