Sundered Heart's roar of triumph echoes through Estered's Square, unnerving the aberration and giving it all the more incentive to seek softer meat.
Setil yells out over the din, "Blind Deva!! There is a creature on top of you! Wait and I will try to pull it off!!"
Setil nods at the dragonborn, "Do you have a couple more in you? I'll see if I can pull that one closer for you, then I'll get the leader." Setil then crosses the storm of energy and once outside of it sends tendrils of lightning towards the grell threatening the other deva.
After the grell is pulled away, Galad shakes the beads and the spirit appears next to the grell and sinks its blade into the grell's flank. The haze around the spirit clears slightly, and it's expression can be briefly seen. You have now seen a deva consumed with blood-lust. Hope you never see it again.
Galad waves his beads, and the spirit reappears in the space the grell vacated.
Madda's frantic efforts to save her friend are for naught - it falls to a stranger to spare the shaman.
Snaring the grell with crackling, searing lightning, the stranger yanks the twitching horror about, pulling it to within reach of the consecrated blade he wields.
Galad, still lacking sight, summons his ancestral protector to his side with a pained gasp.
Grasping Claws v G4 (on hit G4 is slowed) (1d20 13=17, 1d8 8=14)
Racing around Galad to attack G4, Madda flinches away from the taste of tentacles as the last second. Disgusted at her own weakness, she shifts back into human form, gagging slightly.
"Sweet gods. Don't bite those things." she gasps.
Madda's frantic efforts to save her friend are for naught - it falls to a stranger to spare the shaman.
Snaring the grell with crackling, searing lightning, the stranger yanks the twitching horror about, pulling it to within reach of the consecrated blade he wields.
Galad, still lacking sight, summons his ancestral protector to his side with a pained gasp.
Karrn rushes the philospher
Karrn rushes the philospher
Karrn rushes the philospher
"STOP!" Upon seeing the half-elf charging towards swirling energy Setil screams, "I'll try to pull it out."
Karrn begins his run, but the sound of the Deva brings his movement to an end before it truly begins. "STOP!"
"Ok, then how about this!" Karrn forms an orb of energy and launches it at the grell
Karrn's tiny chaos mote explodes into the philosopher, wracking the beast with synaptic disjunctions. It screams in fury; soon it will have a reckoning!
Maneuvering swiftly, Sundered Heart launches himself howling into the fray. Flashing warm sunlight and cold fury, his spear bites deep into grell flesh, spattering gore and ichor in a sweeping arc.
An agonized hoot erupts from the stymied, bleeding grell. It lashes out furiously, grabbing the swordmage, swiftly biting him to administer its paralytic, and retreating into the roiling swirl of energy, using the helpless deva as a ward against its many foes.
Sidling quietly closer to the throes of the melee, the Philosopher unleases a potent burst of manifest, poisonous hatred. Madda and Sundered Heart are overwhelmed by the careening onslaught while Galad and the entangled Setil manage somehow to fend it off. Pleased with the chaos it has wrought, the ancient grell gabbles happy doggerel in its horrid tongue, rotating to face the chaos wielding upstart who has so vexed it.
Deep Speech:
Two more Blue Shields arrive, swiftly shouldering crossbows and advancing along the periphery of the square. Three of them now have clean shots, but only one displays steady hands. His bolt drills into the philosopher's flank with a meathy thwack, and he wisely slides out of sight behind a market stall, reloading as he goes.
Thanking her stars she's human and doesn't have to bite the grells again, Madda clicks gently at the cobbled ground, willing it to fry the aberration, before backing uneasily away.
"Sundered, the grells, go for the grells. Ignore what it's telling you."
She tries desperately to shake the philosopher's insidious suggestions from her mind.
Save v Venomous Mind (1d20=10) and succeeds.
Madda:** spoiler omitted **
Grumpysauce
As she backs off, hoping against hope that her attack did something useful for once, she yells at the philospher.
Deep Speech
"Your scansion is horrible. Even if you weren't demolishing my town, I'd call what you do to words a crime."
It's a pointless gesture, but it makes her feel better.
Madda retreats to the safety of the surrounding storefronts as her flame seed ignites several paces beyond the grell, an anticlimactic bit of spark and a puff of smoke the only reward for her efforts.
Setil, unable to purge the grellish venom from his system, twitches feebly in the creature's grasp, while Galad's sight finally returns in a dizzying rush.
Karrn stnds by the statue fuming. Just what in the Pit is it going to take to put the brains down.
He forms another puny orb of enery and let's it fly.
DM
I just want to make sure you check the above link before I post the follow up attacks and bonus damage. Especially with all the rolls Karrn can make in a round, I don't want there to any questions over the roll.
Better to take it slow after the last fiasco then rush head long into questions over the rolls.
Karrn stnds by the statue fuming. Just what in the Pit is it going to take to put the brains down.
He forms another puny orb of enery and let's it fly.
DM** spoiler omitted **
The orb explodes on impact; Shattering and piercing into it's soft flesh
Reforming it bonuces off the philosopher, like a cueball, and heads for the next Grell
The cascading explosions of Karrn's chaos orb shred the grell philosopher's flesh, sending it reeling crazily earthward as it tries desperately to regain its spatial awareness. The lightning halo it boasts is now fitful, sickly, a match to its physical state. The vicious creature's beak clacks slowly open and closed, though no noise emerges as it struggles to right itself and rise.
The caroming chaos bolt sizzles into the mass of tentacles that writhe around Setil as well, narrowly missing the helpless swordmage before detonating in a shower of grellish fleshy matter.
Howling Strike Attack 1d20+15=35, Damage 1d10+10=18, Extra Damage 1d6=5, Save Ends 1d20=11
SH whirls Kill Point. He shuts his eyes as competing voices inside his head fight for his attention. He screams his rage and strikes blindly.
With a roar reminiscent of his mighty draconic ancestors, Sundered Heart plunges Kill Point neatly into the open beak of Setil's captor, the weapon emerging on the far side of the pulsing brain tissue in a rain of gobbets. The grell spasms once, then goes limp, collapsing to the cobbles as the fatal spear is yanked back. Setil tumbles free of the inert coils, still motionless from the paralytic venom, rainwater and oily grellish ichor pooling around him.
Gibbering incoherently the Philosopher slowly gathers itself and rises into the rain, its lightning nimbus flickering only fitfully, lashing tentacles displaying its vexation at being forced into cowardly retreat.
The scattered Blue Shields scramble to new vantage points, loosing futile bolts in the vague direction of the fleeing aberration.
"You go nowherrrrree!"
Hurling herself back into her favoured wolfhound form, Madda throws caution and sense to the winds and charges at the grell, leaping high into the air to pull it back to the ground.
DM
Bracing herself for more of the great taste of grell, Madda latches onto a mouthful of tentacles and yanks it to earth.
Galad strides towards the grell, raising his holy symbol high. "You shall be stopped" Suddenly, a bolt of lightning comes down, right through the grell.