The long limbed monstrosity that rose just moments earlier from the bubbling pool roars and gives chase.
"Hurry!" Jessa encourages Magazin to keep up. Her heart is lifted to see Kenzo with him. At least the monk managed to get away from the horrible beast from the well. She hears the roar of the creature behind them and hesitates. Turning, she draws another arrow, hoping to slow it down.
Jessa's ranged attack with longbow... (1d20+3 = 21 to hit, 1d8 = 2 damage)
As soon as she fires, Jessa resumes running, knowing full well the folly of trying to stay behind and face such a creature on her own.
The creature stops a moment as the third arrow slices across him. The few precious seconds allows Jessa and the others to outdistance him. Soon they are back in the room with the red marble staute and Gyorgy and Eugen are suddenly much calmer.
Eugen and Gyorgy both realize they dropped the weapons they had been holding somewhere along the way, likely in the room where they first started running.
Thopugh Jessa slowed the pursuit, a roar from the hallway to the south would seem to indicate the creature spawned from the strange bubbling pool will soon be among them.
...a roar from the hallway to the south would seem to indicate the creature spawned from the strange bubbling pool will soon be among them.
"Arm yourselves!" Jessa shouts as she takes up a position behind the red marble statue. Then she spots the ivory and gold ranseur in the statue's hands. "Eugen! Use this!" she urges, tugging the ranseur free and tossing it to the warrior, "We've got to make a stand somewhere. That thing will catch up to us eventually...and if it heals like the others...it's better if we cut it down now while it still has a few of my arrows in it."
She looks over at Gyorgy. "You ready? Hit it with your best spells," she advises, and then Jessa intones words to create her own magic, "Vraieja grevas..."
:D
With a little tugging, the ranseur does come free from the statue's grasp.
The monster comes around the corner and into view. It roars once more in anger and then charges forward...
You can't help but notice that some of its wounds are already healed.
"uh," i say, catching my breath and dreadfully embarrassed at my behaviour, "thanks. i don't know what came over me."
I examine the ranseur and turn to face the enemy, readying to charge when it comes into view.
:D
I examine the ranseur and turn to face the enemy, readying to charge when it comes into view.
It's in view.
I try to pretend that i have a "most powerful spell" and send another blast of arcane fore toward the beastie.
Kenzo moves to attack the creature, but makes sure not to block Eugen's strikes. He places himself so that if the creature progresses any further in to the room, it'll be between to of them.
I move to center myself amongst my friends and cast Bless on the group.
As the creature appears and Eugen and Kenzo rush forward to deal with it, the thing focuses its attentions on Kenzo, who is closest. Kenzo's attack and Gyorgy's blast seem to have greatly injured it and though it is ferocious in it's onslaught, the monk manages to avoid both claws and teeth.
Drawing upon the arcane energy summoned by her divination, Jessa closes her eyes and nocks another arrow. She turns and fires, seemingly a blind shot, but it unerringly flies true.
Jessa's ranged longbow attack with true strike... (1d20+3+20 = 33 to hit, 1d8 = 8 damage)
with the thing between kenzo and myself i back slightly to give myself the necessary room and attack again. "this has been a long day!" i yell to focus my energy, but the unfamiliarity of the weapon and the fatigue seem to be getting to me.
Jessa's arrow zips past Eugen's ear, right over Kenzo's shoulder and into the throat of the monstrosity. Perhaps it was the tickle of the fletching on Eugen's ear that causes his strike to miss the mark.
I move up behind Eugen and ask Desna to give him luck.
Bit of Luck (Su):
a creature, giving it a bit of luck. For the next 3
rounds, any time the target rolls a d20, he can roll
twice and take the better result. The target must
decide to use this ability before rolling the dice.
This effect fades after 3 rounds or when the reroll
is used. Once a target has been affected by bit of luck,
he can gain no further benefit from it for 1 day.
"Die, Demonblood!"
Gyorgy's blast drops the creature to the ground, where it thrashes, in pain and oblivious to the world.
Gyorgy's blast drops the creature to the ground, where it thrashes, in pain and oblivious to the world.
Jessa follows up Gyorgy's fiery blast with the numbing coldness of an icy ray to try and still the creature's death throes. "Make certain it doesn't rise again!" she shouts to the others.
Ray of frost damage and critical hit... (1d3, 1d3= 2 damage, 3 damage) ... for a total of 5 damage.
The ray of frost stills the creature.
Drawing near, it is obvious that the creature's wounds are beginning to slowly close.
I slice it to pieces as best i can.
Eugen, once more the butcher, insures that the bizarre creature remains dead.
"What now?" Jessa asks, catching her breath. She looks around at everyone. "It's obvious now where these creatures are coming from..." she wonders aloud, "If we're going to protect Sandpoint, we'll have to destroy that pool. But it still has that odd, twisted little creature. A quasit, I presume?" She looks askance at Magazin.
"Well, what options do we have? Can we fend it off long enough for me to destroy the pool and maybe send this little demon back to wherever it came from?"
An angry screech echoes from the passage to the south. It is hard to tell the distance involved but one gets the feeling that the little winged thing is coming nearer.
"What now?" Jessa asks, catching her breath. She looks around at everyone. "It's obvious now where these creatures are coming from..." she wonders aloud, "If we're going to protect Sandpoint, we'll have to destroy that pool. But it still has that odd, twisted little creature. A quasit, I presume?" She looks askance at Magazin.
"Well, what options do we have? Can we fend it off long enough for me to destroy the pool and maybe send this little demon back to wherever it came from?"
"How do we fight something invisible? And how do you plan on destroying that pool?" Kenzo quickly asks,
"Are we out of our depth here? It's invisible!"
"I guess we'd better decide what we're gonna do pretty fast, does anybody have an inkling of a plan?"
"I think we're about out of time," Kenzo says, taking up a position across the doorway from Eugen.
"in that case, my plan is to flail around wildly with this here thing and try not to hit anybody friendly," i say, mostly to kenzo.
"Do we need a bag of flour and a lasso?"
"hah, that was my other plan Gyorgy, too bad we didn't bring a cook."
Kenzo: "How do we fight something invisible? And how do you plan on destroying that pool?" Kenzo quickly asks...
Jessa frowns. "I won't know until we can get close enough to it for me to examine it...."
Gyorgy: "Are we out of our depth here? It's invisible!"
Eugen: "I guess we'd better decide what we're gonna do pretty fast, does anybody have an inkling of a plan?"
Gyrogy: "Do we need a bag of flour and a lasso?"
Eugen: "Hah, that was my other plan Gyorgy, too bad we didn't bring a cook."
"Flour? A cook?" Jessa hesitates for a moment and then her eyes widen. "I have a plan!" she announces, "A bit of magic I know...both for cooking and cleaning...or, in this case, soiling..." She gestures at the doorway. "Whatever you do, try and pin it down to a small area. I can only affect a small space, but I may be able to mark it and make it easier for everyone to see."
The seconds continue to pass.
Lim sits on my head, and nervously pecks at my ear.
No one hears anything until suddenly a hideous spider appears from nowhere right besides Gyorgy. It's about a foot wide, bright red and sulphurous spittle dribs from its oversized mandibles.
Despite his surprise, Gyorgy, mainly because of his arcane protection, manages to pull his leg back just in time.
A cry echoes up the hallway..."Die!"
"Aargh!"
I nearly jump out of my skin and instinctively blast it with divine fire.