Louinor calls upon Desna's blessing to unleash a divine fear in the wyrm. As soon as he casting is done the beast unravels from Malleon and attempts to dart between the heroes to escape.
As the snake starts to flee Louinor makes one last swing at the creatures back but with her weakened muscles she just isn't fast enough.
Malleon flails wildly with his longsword as he gasps for breath now that the wyrm is no longer crushing him.
Chalen, caught barehanded when the wyrm breaks for daylight, topples over backwards before quickly righting himself.
Chalen fires a ray of scathing frost at the Wyrm, unfortunately shooting far wide of his mark and splashing the ancient tree with rime, before running over to where he dropped his crossbow.
Somehow the creature manages to break Oso's hold, Desna's fear must have given it renewed strength.
Oso watches as the others take quick attacks but his hands are empty of a weapon.
Oso's hand reacts without thought. He is bloody furious that the worm may escape. He flicks his wrist forwards and a handaxe from his belt spins out at the creature.
Bobek recoils from the nasty thing and swings wide.
Louinor's spell goes off and the wyrm begins thrashing, as it begins to snake free of Oso, his companions take a few shots at the beast. Oso himself manages to get a free hand on his handaxe; he then plants it firmly in the beasts skull, a splattering of blood covers his face. The wyrm falls limply to the ground, it twitches once, tries to rise, then falls stone dead.
"Nice shot Oso!"
"One for all of us. Your magic made it fear us and then it was undone."
Lounior throws down her morningstar and collapses on her bedroll. "Spiders... werewolves... and now giant snake things." she whispers to herself. "I just want to go to sleep and stay that way until day light!! Is that to much to ask!!" Louinor shouts into the forest.
"As you can see I don't do well on little sleep so wake me up if something else decides to eat use." Louinor rolls over and covers herself with her blanket.
"One for all of us. Your magic made it fear us and then it was undone."
Oso looks at the rest when he calms.
"I sleep. This place must be safe now." With that he drops off snoring straight away, all thoughts of watches and the like gone.
The next two weeks will be pretty busy so I am up for taking a break or just expect that my posts will be a little further apart.
Dreamweaver if you win, I am sure you understand that Desna will leave you character and your strength poison will never recover. I am pretty sure that is in the SRD.
Just kidding, congrats and good luck.
As for taking a break. I will post some basic action catching things up to the morning and push us along towards the next encounter. I will start tomorrow; Dreamweaver, don't feel like you need to check in regularly or anything like that; if an encounter comes up we can run her for you.
Thanks again guys. . .I am enjoying this PBP greatly.
I'm fine if you guys want to take a break, or even just slow the pace down. But either way, I've got the RSS feed for this thread on my desktop, so I'll respond whenever there are posts ;-)
Oso sleeps for a full eight hours. He needs it and the rages of yesterday made him bone weary.
Refreshed and alert, the barbarian begins a series of sword katas, gradually warming up to a sweat. Every now and then he winces with the pain of his slowly healing wounds.
Then Oso checks the horses over, feeding them as he goes. He hums happily as he works, eventually using an old rag to curry their coats.
Thankfully, the rest of the night goes by uneventfully. Everyone awakes to a chill morning and an overcast sky. Rain is threatening again
Everyone eats a light breakfast of rations and begins the search for the moss.
Spot Check DC 14
Search Check DC 12
If the strength damage is recovered from the remainder of the night's rest, Chalen will shinny up the tree to search for the moss .
“Anything to get out of this place and get back to those idiot kids. Not looking down….not looking down.”
Louder “Are we sure the moss is here? I’m not seeing anything!”
"I'll climb up and get the moss, unless anyone else feels like tree climbing." Malleon says, as he looks around and stretches his back. Looking over at the dead wyrm from last night, he mutters "I hate this forest."
hmm... maybe I should take some of the claws or fangs as a trophy?
Malleon has a lit torch and his longsword in hand as he peers about in the twilight.
Malleon points with his longsword. "Up there, on the trunk. Is that Elderwood Moss?"
"Um... anyone have climbing gear? I've got a rope and grappling hook."
Oso pays little or no attention to the moss gathering, unless required.
When Chalen begins to climb, Oso does remind him that..
"In my tribe the woman and children gather the roots and herbs. Not the men. They hunt."
He shakes his head at Malleon if he volunteers.
Chalen calls down, "Consider me to be "hunting" for moss then. With our luck, it's probably man-eating moss anyway."
“I just know this worthless moss is going to give me a rash.”
"Man eating moss? Then you will be safe I think. HAH!"
Oso giggles to himself as he goes about his business.
Yeah guys I hate to do this, but I do need to put the game on hold . . .It is not just the open call, I am also a Senior English Major . . . I have 3 short stories I need to edit and begin shopping around, 1 short story I need to write; 5 poems I need to edit by the 19th, and a script that needs to be as good as I can get it by the 13th of December. Throw in an open call (which, not surprisingly is the #1 priority) and a girlfriend who is doing a medical internship and things are busy. Thankfully I love writing.
So let's put the game on hiatus for a bit. Sorry again guys.
* I am going to post this in my other games as well.
Aside from the real world stuff, I'm pretty sure that within the gaming spectrum, Open Call outlines (and hopefully full manuscripts) trump PbP games ;-)
Anyways, good luck and I'll be ready to pick this up whenever you are able to DM. Hopefully not till January though, cause that means you won the Open Call ;-)
Aside from the real world stuff, I'm pretty sure that within the gaming spectrum, Open Call outlines (and hopefully full manuscripts) trump PbP games ;-)
Anyways, good luck and I'll be ready to pick this up whenever you are able to DM. Hopefully not till January though, cause that means you won the Open Call ;-)
Oh I imagine just a week or two really. Lets me knock out the outline and some school work . . .as for the game I really like it. Probably the most enjoyable PbP I've done. I want to take you guys past Falcon's Hollow at some point.
EDIT: Oh, and thanks!
Bump . . . sorry for the continued delay guys -- I plan on submitting my final outline tomorrow and with some of my other business simmering down, I WILL post a recap and resume the thread tomorrow.
Bump . . . sorry for the continued delay guys -- I plan on submitting my final outline tomorrow and with some of my other business simmering down, I WILL post a recap and resume the thread tomorrow.
Don't worry about it. I personally wasn't expecting you to have your plate cleared until mid-november or so.
Besides, I'm busy thinking of the most awesome magic item ever for the RPG Superstar contest ;-)
Bump . . . sorry for the continued delay guys -- I plan on submitting my final outline tomorrow and with some of my other business simmering down, I WILL post a recap and resume the thread tomorrow.Don't worry about it. I personally wasn't expecting you to have your plate cleared until mid-november or so.
Besides, I'm busy thinking of the most awesome magic item ever for the RPG Superstar contest ;-)
Good luck on it. OK PBP stuff -- keep making promises and they don't pan out, so I took the time today to write out a recap of our adventures of late and will use that as the key to kick start everything. I am at work now, but I will post it soon, late, late tonight or tomorrow. Sorry for the wait.
ETA (estimated time of adventure) -- 6-7pm Eastern tonight. FInally!
The party awakens to autumnal sunlight pouring down through the forest canopy. The memories of the battle with the serpentine wyrm seem a fresh nightmare still. Bobek, most agile of the team, scampers up the tree to gather the moss.
Spot Check DC 14
Oso notices the gruesome sight and murmurs a small prayer to their loved ones.
Louinor enjoys the morning oblivious to anything happening around her.
Chalen looks around, grumbles, then drops back to sleep.
"Can we move on? I do not wish to stay near the worm and its hanging meat, " says the barbarian pointing into the trees.
The blood has dried over his wounds and the bruises are turning yellow on his arms and legs. He is not looking as fresh as a daisy.
"Yes, lets get going. We still need to find more ingredients for the cure, and maybe those kids too. And the sooner we can get out of this hell-hole of a forest, the better. I bet there are dragons guarding the next ingredient."
"Can we move on? I do not wish to stay near the worm and its hanging meat, " says the barbarian pointing into the trees.