"We are still here, li'l' one, the lady invoker has robbed the world of our image, but not our form. Lead on, we will follow."
"Yes, we are still here and still would appreciate your leading us to this dragon. Here, we should tie ourselves together with rope so that we don't get seperated." I say and dismiss the invocations. Then I get some rope and tie it around my waist and hand it on to the warforged. "Once we're all tied together I'll use the invocation again.
Laucian, are making hide checks? If your all invisible, can you see each other? I wouldn't think you'd be able to see each other. I don't have my books with me right now.
shadows better then anyone else. Just a thing Laucian does!
I gently poke the halfing on the shoulder and say "lead the way little one, we are all here. You can't see us but we are here."
Jed has been staring at a particularly interesting section of wall paneling. He turns around to find Dahak standing not two feet in front of him.
"GAH!" shouts the fighter as he draws, then quickly holsters his pistols. He then pushes past the warforged, blatantly eavesdropping on the conversation.
The halfling says, "Oh!" and takes the end of the rope and leads you up the large set of stiars that traverses the city (with Jed and Ashur following at a distance). As you step onto the Fifth Tier, you take in the Cathedral of the Silver Flame. The huge gothic building dominates the cliffside. You pass through the North Gate and onto the bare mountian.
The halfling leads you up a narrow pass and after about an hour of climbing, you emerge onto a flat piece of ground. Falling from the cliffs above into a deep lake, is a hundred foot water fall. Behind the fall is an cave. The halfling turns and says, "The dragon supposed' t' live in there. I ain't goin no further. I'm sure you can find yer way back to town." He turns and heads back down the mountian toward the city.
I say "I have another invocation that we might find useful in this situation. It will allow us to see in any darkness, even magical ones." I briefly touch my eyes with my left hand and immediatley the area becomes clear as day to my sight. I proceed to do this to the rest of the group.
"Heh heh... tingly," I chuckle to myself as the enchantment washes over me, perhaps a little more amused at myself than I should be.
"Hangon a second," I say, waving off the others. "Allow me a moment to take a little peek."
I move cautiously forward, until I am very close to the cave entrance. Creeping forward a half-step at a time, I scan the cave mouth for any signs of manufactured defenses.
Revan doesn't see any traps.
Suddenly the water explodes, sending dropplets raining down on you. Seven long snake like heads emerge from the spray.
The heads scan the area, searching for the prey it smells, but cannot see.
When the heads broke the surface of the water, Laucian instinctivly started to hide, but remembering that he was invisible, began to ready his hand crossbow and nunchaku.
I spring back in surprise as the thing bursts out of the water and instantly begin to summon the eldritch power that infuses my soul. I appear about 15ft back from my former position and let a lance of eldritch power fly towards the thing that attacked us.
Ok, the Init order is:
Myrkar
Laucian
Monster
Revan
Dahak
Mykar, your attack hits, but does only minor damage to the scaly beast.
Laucian, it's your turn.
With the crossbow in my right hand, I take aim at one of the weaving heads above me.
"Aim for the heads! We need to cut them all off in rapid succession!" I shout.
I glance about, looking for a suitable spot of cover. A large rock, a thick tree, something that will put a solid object between myself and this overgrown lizard.
I dash towards it, ducking myself down to where I am partially concealed, yet still able to see and fire at the creature.
I then draw my shortbow and load it.
Laucian, your attack hits, piercing the beast's hide, but it doesn't seem to have the affect you hopped for.
bite 1 vs. Laucian: hit, 7 damage
bite 2 vs. Laucian: miss
bite 3 vs. Laucian: hit, 12 damage
bite 4 vs. Laucian: hit, 11 damage
bite 5 vs. Laucian: hit, 11 damage
Laucian falls to the ground at -2 hp.
The hydra then moves toward Myrkar, provoking an AoO from Dahak.
Revan, I went ahead and let you take your turn, the only cover was inside the mouth of the cave. It's a DC 20 Str check to remain standing while moving through one of the light blue waterfall squares. The waterfall provides you with improved cover(+8 to AC, +4 to Reflex Saves) from the hydra.
Pending Dahak's AoO, the hydra will finish his attacks then it will be Dahak's turn.
"Abomination!!!"
My flail comes arcing down with all the anger and power I can put behind the swing.
To hit: 20 + 10 - 6 (power attack) = 24
Damage = 4 + 5 + 12 (power attack) = 21
You flail smashes into the beasts flank as it lunges past you. The beast roars in pain.
Myrkar, it's your turn again.
Free action, 5' step left
Free action, Rage
Full attack, full power attack and an action point on the first attack:
While Raging, Dahak Full Attacks, hitting AC 20, doing 27 damage. Then he attacks again, hitting AC 15, doing 12 damage.
"Aim for the heads!" I shout again and move back another 20ft. Once I'm a safe distance away I invoke another blast of Eldritch fury.
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Only your first attack conects with the beasts scaly hide, it quickly dodges out of the way of your second swing.
Myrkar, moving 10ft. back puts you against the cliff wall and does not provok an AoO. The eldritch energy arcs from your finger tips, slamming into the beast's body.
Laucian, roll a d%. If you get 90 or better, you become stable. If not, you lose 1 hit point.
The beast lashes out at Dahak with all seven of it's heads.
attack 1: hit, 5 damage
attack 2: hit, 8 damage
attack 3: miss
attack 4: miss
attack 5: hit, 10 damage
attack 6: miss
attack 7: miss
Dahak is now at 43 hp .
It is now Revan's turn.
Dahak is now at 43 hp
Seeing as my combat options are somewhat limited, I'll reach into my pack and ready a vial of alchemist's fire for throwing, in case a head gets chopped off.
"Does anyone have a means of curing the ninja?" I shout as I step back from the beast.
I continue trying to work my way around behind the creature, as though I am going to make it to a flanking position, then I continue to beat the beast mindlessly.
While Raging, Dahak Full Attacks, hitting AC 21, doing 20 damage. Then he attacks again, hitting AC 17, doing 13 damage.
UUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Continuing in a rage, I proceed to smash each head into pulp...
Somewhere along the line, I start singing the dragon worshiping equivalent of 'I've been working on the railroad' in Draconic
I raise an eyebrow when Dahak starts singing while pulping the remains of the beast. "Destroy all of the heads and then cauterize the necks so they can't grow back. Oh, and we should probably heal the ninja." I say as I look around the chamber.
I raise an eyebrow when Dahak starts singing while pulping the remains of the beast. "Destroy all of the heads and then cauterize the necks so they can't grow back. Oh, and we should probably heal the ninja." I say as I look around the chamber.
"I've got something that may do the trick for that!" I hollar back. "But I haven't yet figured out how to decipher the proper incantations to make the thing work. Maybe you'll have better luck, sorceress!"
"Than hand it to me! Hopefully I can figure it out." I shout back.
I examine the wand for a moment and then hold it over the incapacitated ninja, muttering "I hope I can remember how to work these." before attempting to activate the item.
"Than hand it to me! Hopefully I can figure it out." I shout back.
I examine the wand for a moment and then hold it over the incapacitated ninja, muttering "I hope I can remember how to work these." before attempting to activate the item.
I think you're out of my line of sight at the moment, I'll have to move towards you first on my next turn.
<in draconic>I've been smashing little hydra heads, all the rage duration long... I've been smashing little hydra heads, hope someone with fire comes along...</draconic>
Seeing as the creature has collapsed and is seemingly dead, I decide to politely suggest to the others that we cut the heads off as Myrkar suggested, and then douse the beast with flame to be on the safe side.
Reaching into my pack, I produce several vials of alchemist's fire , hoping they'll be enough to get the job done.
Seeing Revan take out the flasks of Alchemist's Fire I nod and say "Yes, thats an excellent idea. We should do this with haste before the creature regenerates."