*Pulls out Battle Axe*
Swing Pain
Gaz: You eat 4 more. 4 attack you.
James: You miss. 3 attack you.
Nesod: You kill 1. 2 attack you.
DEVOUR!!
Back away behind the Gaz cast SM 1
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Nesod: You here a voice from nowhere
*invoke the wand*
BTW - There are between 150 to 200 left. That is why it called a hoard.
Nasty Orc looks around for more little veggies to eat.
"Nay more left? Me still hungry."
So if there are still lots left around him he still attacks.
Grabbing as many veggies as he can put into his mouth. Following it up with smashing others with the battle axe he took from the orc he fought and beat. The scene is as if from a Conon comic battling endless hordes or veggie goblins. Yet with an ugly orc his tongue flying all over salvia splashing over the crowd. The site is revolting as he eats more his stomach distends some but it is not as much as one would expect from eating some many of the creatures. Yet still he does not seem to make too much of a dent on the little vermin.
Nesod: Roll me a Use Magic Device Check.
Nesod: You have activated the wand.
Roll me a Fort Save and a Will Save.
Nesod: The good news is your soul is not sucked into the wand.
The bad news is you are reduced to -9 hp.
The better news is you killed 160 Vegigoblins.
The rest of the Vegigoblins run away.
HRRROOOOOMMMM.
HEAL NESOD.
*I will heal anyone else who is hurt, including myself*
"PRAISE BE THE REBORN ST SWIZAL!!!"
Nasty Orc chases down any of the veggie goblins he can.
Eating them up as he goes.
"Yummie, Mommy always said to eat my veggies."
Mysterious Voice: *You soul was almost devoured by a wand of vampiric horrid wilting.*
After he has chased off and eaten any stragglers he makes it back to the team.
"Everyone okay?"
His regeneration kicking in and healing any wounds he took from the veggies. A finger or two from the veggie goblins are still stuck in his teeth.
"Gazebo did you get some? I have an extra arm here if you'd like."
He hands Gazebo an arm of a veggie goblin he had been using as a club when he lost his battle axe.
Wake up. "What in the Nine Hells happened?"
"Ya blacked out when ya started wavin that stick around"
YES.
Waves the arm at Gazebo. "You want? or more for me."
"Nesod you do magic stuff and killed most of them good job. Can we take the stick now?"
Mysterious Voice: *I am Swizal. My soul has been trapped within the wand for the past 130 years. So long as the wand exists I will be trapped in here. The only way to destroy the wand is to use up all its charges. Every time the wand is use, it tries to draw upon the weilder's life. It uses a persons life energy to supply the spell, almost killing the user. If the user is able to resist it must use its own charge. However, if it can suck the soul of the user, it will get all of its charges back.*
Swizal: *This is the first time it has been used since it recharged itself when it sucked in my soul. And since it used your life energy for its last use, it still has fifty charges left.
I got it from an old man who said he got it from the Tomb of Borrors.
Why would I be a saint?*
Swizal: *No. It kills 10 with each charge or for every ounce of life it drains. The more it drains, the more it kills. It will always almost drain the user, even when there are not enough enemies to kill. If there are not enough enemies to kill, it will find any that are near by to the user to kill.*
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Swizal: *You must rescue your friend, but what ever you do...*
Voice from nowhere: *Give them the wand.*
I walk up to Nesod. "Hey... You okay? Need a marmalade?"
"Here you go, brown mold special for you."
Swizal: *I am tired. I must rest.*
Casts Detect Magic, looking for anything out of place or out of the ordinary, besides the stick
There is a shimmer of magic down the street.
Casts Message spell and sends a whispered bit of speech to our dwarf, James the Bard
Message: "Something has caught my attention down to the road. I'm going to have a look see. Meet me there."
Looks around for his party members.
DEVOUR ARM
PURSUE MAGIC
Am S: Whatever was the source of magic, it is mobile and has moved out of range.
Nasty: You see Nesod, James and Jenny together. Am S is walking down the street. Am H is healing civilians. Babby is nowhere to be found. Gaz is right next to you.
Gaz: You have no clue about the magic.
XP Time - Everyone gets 323 XP.
Pursues the source of magic
Did I get a description of it?
@AMST via message Ok I'll make the party aware*heads down the road*
@anyone near him "The scaled fella might have somethin down the road*