By "finish" I meant "complete the AP," but I'll go whichever way the wind blows. Even if this wraps early, that just frees up Brainy to run something else, muahahaha! :)
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I'm fine with finishing it off, how are our players doing? I was sick all weekend but I'm recovering now.
Tobar is all set to continue missing, but manages one dramatic hit.
Tobar shifts his attention to the spellcaster, now that she's rushed forward.
Tobar is numbed by the magic and can barely manage to get off a single shot with his crossbow, once again trying to fell the foe that he struck dead-on before. Unfortunately now they're in a straight line past Terana and he has to work to keep his aim careful to shoot past her.
Tobar wastes no time in firing at one of the ranseur-wielders before it can react.
"So does this tell us that we're on the right track?" says Tobar as he finishes re-winding his crossbow and adjusting the tension. "Deep merfolk druid - now where?"
"Huh. That explains things a bit," says Tobar as he starts reflexively cleaning and checking his crossbow. "Thought it was a little weird for an octopus. But they are pretty smart."
"Thank you for clearing the fire lane," says Tobar as his hands blur and reload the crossbow in continuous fire.
"Ya shouldn't aughta have done that," drawls Tobar as he carefully aims his shots to avoid hitting Terana.
Tobar does as instructed and gets out of the way in a hurry.
Tobar looks a bit incredulous. "An octopus with spikes and stoneskin? All right." With a slight frown he goes about his usual business.
Yeah, I'm all right with that too.
I can spare the 10k. I presume we don't have time to actually get stuff enchanted right now, so I'll deal with upgrades later.
"What's the alcohol content on that?"
"So uh... anyone got a spell to find people? I dunno how to track a mermaid who's swimmin' underwater," says Tobar sheepishly.
"Welp, that solves our issue of figgerin' out what we were gonna do next."
I think we're gonna go looking for a missing deep merfolk delegation.
”Sounds like we better find the menfolk,” drawls Tovar.
Tobar shrugs. "I dunno, are the folks lying in wait for us nice people? Did I do something to deserve being ambushed?"
"Well, could we take your body from this tomb and give you a burial at sea? Or, maybe even find a way to flood this tomb?"
Tobar says to the spirit, "Is there any way to relieve you of that burden?"
Tobar's ready to lob some more bolts downrange, but he hesitates to see if it's even necessary. Given his current track record it's not as if he'd hit.
Tobar doesn't waste time in filling the naga with holes.
Tobar lowers his crossbow and starts checking the tension again, as he's been missing far too often recently. "Why would someone torture a squid? That's bizarre."
Tobar shakes his head several times, like he's experiencing some kind of episode. Then he just raises his crossbow to his cheek and fires a fusillade at the naga attacking Terana.
Tobar, charmed by the nagas, immediately shifts to trying to kill Arianda to save his new friends.
Tobar creeps up to the edge of the room and waits for the chaos to start, then lobs high-velocity slivers in that general direction.
Tobar creeps along behind Gideon, crossbow at the ready, waiting for the next lurking bad thing. They always showed up just around the corner...
Thunk. Thunk. Tobar's aim seems to be doing a little better.
Tobar decides to just finish off his initial target.
Tobar covers left to right, then launches his crossbow bolts at the rightmost foe.
Tobar advances and stands over the body of the fallen coatl. Given what his friends said in the heat of battle, he feels a pang of regret for having to fight such a magnificent creature, tinged with the pragmatic realization that it was probably trapped in torment for eons. Still, he feels ambivalent about his part in this.
Tobar snarls a bit, angry that this thing is such a bother, as he redoubles his fire efforts.
Tobar delicately holds his crossbow to one side, leans over, and barfs.
Tobar isn't sure what to do as people seem to have mixed reactions, but once Gideon shouts out that the critter is crazed, he stops hesitating, raises his crossbow and starts his usual fusillade.
Tobar keeps up his regular fussilade of fire, hoping that something will get through and stick.
Tobar keeps up the constant barrage, thinking to himself that since draugr are a kind of vampire, it would sure be nice if a bolt through the heart just did the trick in one shot.
Tobar mutters something about needing a way to put some curve on his bolts as he reloads and fires.
"Nice to be fightin' things big enough that I don't have to worry 'bout shootin' around m' friends."
"It's true. I don't like getting hit. Might shed a single tear." Tobar shifts sideways to get a clear line of fire on one of the draugr before unleashing his fusillade of bolts.
Now cranking his crossbow with extra haste, Tobar's hands are simply a blur as he empties a quiver with unnatural alacrity.
"That... will not fit in the stew pot." Tobar keeps cranking and unloading his crossbow in a rain of bolts while he says this single line. He shifts slightly to one side to keep a good line of fire without having to shoot directly past Terana.
Tobar lifts his crossbow to his shoulder and slows his breath. Then finally he breathes in, steadies his aim, and fires for the tiny protuberance. Dead Shot:
Dead Shot (Ex): At 7th level, as a full-round action, the gunslinger can take careful aim and pool all of her attack potential into a single, deadly shot. When she does this, she shoots the firearm at a single target, but makes as many attack rolls as she can, based on her base attack bonus. She makes the attack rolls in order from highest bonus to lowest, as if she were making a full attack. If any of the attack rolls hit the target, the gunslinger’s single attack is considered to have hit. For each additional successful attack roll beyond the first, the gunslinger increases the damage of the shot by the base damage dice of the firearm. For instance, if a 7th-level gunslinger firing a musket hits with both attacks, she does 2d12 points of damage with the shot, instead of 1d12 points of damage, before adding any damage modifiers. Precision damage and extra damage from weapon special abilities (such as flaming) are added with damage modifiers and are not increased by this deed. If one or more rolls are critical threats, she confirms the critical once using her highest base attack bonus –5. For each critical threat beyond the first, she reduces this penalty by 1 (to a maximum of 0). The gunslinger only misfires on a dead shot if all the attack rolls are misfires. She cannot perform this deed with a blunderbuss or other scatter weapon when attacking creatures in a cone. The gunslinger must spend 1 grit point to perform this deed.
Tobar peers into the water to try to spot the crab's hideout and see if he can take a few pot-shots at it from a distance.
"Thanks," mumbles Tobar simply. He seems grateful for the assistance but also quite laconic. Essentially... bland.
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