Guys, this is a Tentamort. It's not inherently evil, but it is a hunter. It's pretty sturdy, and it can grab you up and squeeze ya' real hard while it sticks you with poison. If we want to get past it, we may need to take care of it first. Otherwise...I think it'll figure we're... He gulps. ...food.
"Ah wells. Mizzug tried." she offer's with a shrug.
"Toot, ya an I ready ter tack it. Ya peoples with da ranged sticks, blaster it ta get dis statted."
Gripping her magical blade in two hands, she readies for the fight.
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Aventail sights the creature with her heavy crossbow.
Looking through the narrow stone tunnel at the small chamber where the battle will likely occur, Dol thinks better about getting in the way.
"Bumbo! You probably shouldn't be up there on the front lines. Let the warriors be the steel against steel."
Reaching out to Aventail, Dol calls Torag's Guidance into her metal limbs.
The group hunkers down and waits for their enemy to attack. And the Tentamort waits, still and motionless for several moments. Both sides like two wary cats waiting for the first one to move.
"Do you think we can edge past this thing?"
Loth shrugs. "Maybe. We could also double back for now and only attack this thing if we really have to get past."
Bumbo nods and moves back into the previous room. C'mon Toot! Maybe later.
He looks around at everyone else. Well, what do you think - those rooms to the south maybe?
Okay, so you can easily move away from it. It seems to remain frozen in place, probably even after you leave, as though waiting still.
A few choices on doors, which ones would you like to investigate?
With a large smile, Mizzug marches dutifully back and through the door she'd opened. 'Hazzah! Me door es favor-eet!'
Slowing her stride, she moves forward enough to see around the corner. 'Wattcha gots waiter fer us dis time?'
So this hallway leads to the large double doors I mentioned earlier. Big, ornate, heavy, closed.
Further ahead is another door, like the one you came through to get into this hallway, but also closed.
And if you peak around the corner ahead and to your right, ANOTHER DOOR. Also closed. Very sophisticated people live here, no one raised in a barn.
So, you step through one door and are presented with the option of 3 more. Choose wisely...
"So... you guys wanna try the double doors? Double doors usually imply there's something of note behind them."
Toot snorts and stomps forward to stand before the double doors. Two doors mean bigger foes, little one! We shall invite them in, to their doom!
Bumbo shrugs and steps behind Loth, keeping in sight of the door beyond and waiting for the door to be opened and Toot to inevitably charge in.
Razkiv moves forward to be in place for breaching the door, he looks to see that Bumbo is safe behind him.
'What is it about this guy? I haven't known him long, but I already thinking of him as a морьтон'
With a broad smile, Mizzug nods to Toot. "Ya hazz da bestes o ideas!"
Stepping up next to the boar, she yanks his door open, returning her hand to the bladed weapon in her grasp.
The door opens surprisingly easily, the hinges obviously greased/oiled with at least some regularity. Inside....
The thing smoke gives the room a haze, but has no mechanical penalties.
You see into the room, but who knows what could be hidden in the nooks and crannies. Who's first to enter? Toot or Mizzug?
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Following along as quietly as he is able, Dol watches his new friends, trying to observe and understand them.
Peeking around the corner, he glances at the profane images and shudders. "Lahmashtu. Not surprising. Judging by what we have encountered so far, I would expect to find the core enemy here, instead of emptiness.
Something doesn't seem right. Be careful."
Dol casts Detect Magic and attempts to sense magical auras in the room.
Loth carefully eyes the room as well before entering.
"Even if this place is empty, they might've moved to more defensible positions. We did make quite a ruckus upstairs."
Aventail, staying by Dol’s side, stares at the statue for a few moments, then scans the room for threats.
Toot roars and heads in, hoping that the statue animates. Prepare yourself for the beast, creature, for your doom approaches! Bumbo gives Dol a sheepish look, and puts his head in his hands.
Toot, you idiot...
Following Toot through the doors, sword held high, Mizzug stops just inside the room.
'Oh...guess 'e didn't see nuttin after all.'
Waiting for any threat, she glances around.
@Dol: Peering around the corner, you just barely get a hint of magic from the statue. Narrowing your eyes and focusing on it, you determine that the lights coming from the kukri the statue holds are permanent light spells.
@Mizzug: You sense a presence at the back (west side) of the room. Two of them. Up onto the raised part where it cuts sharply into the walls, it creates some blind corners that are great places to hide. You don't know who or what is back there, but you feel it from either side of the room (north and south).
And with Toot's declaration, there is no doubt that anyone or anything in here knows for certain sure of you're arrival.
The creature's seem to be hiding from you. They obviously know you're there, but they don't seem to know that you know that they're there.
They would have surprised you but for Mizzug's preternatural sense of them. What do you do?
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"Creatures hiding? Razvik, didn't you say the Druid was worried about children?"
Moving into the room, he wrinkles his nose both at the room and the thought of rescuing goblins. A deal is a deal, however.
Raising his voice, he calls out
Aventail sights one of the locations with her heavy crossbow.
Loth relaxes the grip on his daggers a little and steps into the room as well. "Someone here, then? If you don't hurt us, we'll be happy to let you be."
"Kiddos? OH write!"
"Hey widdle dudes an dud-debts...cummon out. Wes no 'urt ya!"
Oddly, no response. And I don't mean, hushed whispers but no one calls out to you. I mean, utter silence. But you still can't shake the feeling that someone/thing is back there. But from where you're all at in the room, no one can see those recessed corners. So I won't even make you roll for it; who or whatever is back there, their intentions are most likely hostile.
What do you do?
Seeing no obvious foe and not speaking goblin, Toot is largely unaware of what's going on. He nonchalantly stumps up to the odd statue, then begins to nose through the ash and bone pile, hoping some enemy within reveals itself.
Not to be outdone, Mizzug follows Toot forward. "Watchit Toot. We's may has company."
With what seems like more doors behind than in front Razkiv moves to block the hall the team came down.
As Toot and Mizzug step forward, they can finally see around the corners into the recessed parts of the room. They look over, sure something is there, but see nothing. Mizzug looking to her left, Toot to his right as they progress forward into the room. Then, seemingly as one, they both look up to see a hairless monstrosity of a dog hovering near the ceiling that quickly rockets down towards them, jaws open wide to bite. [ooc]Going to say you're not flat-footed to these attacks, but their long held actions will trigger before Initiative.
Attacks:
vs. Toot
vs. Mizzug
And they, somehow, stumble through the air and utterly FAIL in their attacks.
They will, however, have another try.
vs. Toot
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vs. Mizzug
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So, after a dismal first attempt, the creatures get a good set of bites off, dealing a (un)healthy amount of damage. And though they attempt to tangle up the legs of Mizzug and Toot, they are unable to do so.
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@Bumbo: Toot did not make it to the piles to nose around in. Also, you need to correct Toot's listed CMD. Right now it says it is 117.
@Razkiv: You detect no further or interesting sounds from that part of the hallway.
@EVERYONE: If you don't have your alignment listed on your character bio, it needs to be. Not going to try and pull the whole "You're not acting your alignment" thing, but some things affect certain alignments differently than others and I need to know for mechanical reasons.
@Everyone 2: If you want to check on these guys, it is a Knowledge (Planes) check. General description is...
DC is 13, 1 question for beating it and 1 additional question for every 5 you get over the DC.
Also, please double check your Init. bonuses for accuracy and let me know if they aren't.
@Everyone 3: You are all up. The creatures are hovering off the ground, but only a few feet, putting them well within melee range should you chose to engage that way.
Seeing the beasts attack, Loth moves into the room and tosses a dagger at one of them.
"Guys! Can you lure them into the open area? In a space like this, they'll be easy to flank!"
With a nod to Loth, Mizzug slashes at her foe and steps to the side
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Hearing the commotion Razkiv turns around, he sheaths his scimitar and flames dance from his finger before coalescing into a bolt that streaks toward the red one.
Also, you need to correct Toot's listed CMD. Right now it says it is 117.
Toot roars in fury...refusing to reveal it as pain...and bites and stomps out at the hound near it.
Bumbo moves quickly in the room and calls out at the hound near Mizzug. Oogie-boogie!
@Loth: Your dagger hits one right in the flank, but bounces off without leaving a mark. Must have hit a rib bone.
@Mizzug: Some better success. Your sword scores the flesh of the canine in front of you, leaving a red streak of blood where you expected an open wound.
@Razkiv: Your fire singes the few hairs on the ears of the red hound, but fails to connect.
@Bumbo: Toot misses, then hits twice. But, again, no damage is dealt to these hounds as they fight.
@Bumbo 2: Daze only works on humanoids. How about a different spell.
@Dol: You probably don't need me to tell you that a 7 misses since they're not huge creatures or oozes.
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Just need to let Bumbo cast a different spell and let Aventail take "her" turn. Then they get to go again.
Aventail stomps closer to the creature closest to Mizzzug...
Okay, decent round. But the doggo's still have their targets. And having a decent INT score (for dogs), the blue one moves into flanking before red attacks.
BITES!!
vs. Mizzug...
vs. Toot....
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So the blue hound bites out at Mizzug, but misses her as the long haired woman brushes the jaws to the side.
Red latches onto Toot's flank, drawing out the bloodesque fluid that runs through Toot's body, and then twists itself trying to bring the boar down, but his stout legs barely even budge from this effort and Toot remains standing to confront this creature.
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Loth grumbles as the hounds refuse to move into the more open area. He moves to draw his new shortsword, rushes towards the hound and makes a strike of his own.
Aventail moves into position, switching to her glaive-guisarme. She thrusts at one of the planar terrors...
(+3 Str, +2 BAB, +1 Weapon Focus) (+6 THF)
Toot roars in rage and moves in to bite at the flank of the creature across from Mizzug.
Bumbo winces as he uses his ability, he nearly kneels down in pain as he transfers his very life force to the eidolon.
He then draws his sling, loads a stone, and hurls it!
Raskiv shuffels into the room, . He moves to threaten the creature fighting Loth.