A discordant shriek fills the air as Ykka ducks. She glares at Rick and then turns to the bushes, flinging one of the fragments of Rick's bomb through the air before continuing her song.
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Rick throws some more fire and maybe a rock for good measure.
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d'Log sees the plants and is reminded of blood, just lots of blood.
Swing d'Hammer d'Ros, I shoot from here
Hide [one-action]
Secret
You huddle behind cover or greater cover or deeper into concealment to become hidden, rather than observed. The GM rolls your Stealth check in secret and compares the result to the Perception DC of each creature you’re observed by but that you have cover or greater cover against or are concealed from. You gain the circumstance bonus from cover or greater cover to your check.
I rolled the dice below for hiding
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Dahros rushed forwards, smashing the base trunk of the viny bush with his hammer. His attack was followed by crossbow bolts and trash, which shredded the plant. Rick threw a ball of flame at the next attacking bush in line, scorching it a bit.
The remaining plants threw out long viny tendrils whish they used as legs, pulling and forcing their spindly trunks across the ground. One approached Dahros, while another made a beeline for the gnome with the fire. Dahros brushed aside the tendrils trying to wrap him up, but Rick was not so lucky. He was hit by a pencil-thin wine, which immediately began wrapping around his legs.
Rick is hit for 7 damage and is wrapped int he vine. Treat as Grabbed without any penalties.
Special: The squares surrounding Rick are now difficult terrain.
Round 2: Everyone, plants
map is updated
current status:
d'log 26/26
dahros 32/32
rick 17/24
skittles 28/28
ykka 28/28
Rick desperately flings fire at the plant grabbing him. "Uhhhh I need some help over here!"
Ykka runs up, continuing her song.
Dahros shreds the next one adjacent to him in rapid fashion.
Dahros smashes apart the viney bush that was next to him, crushing it to pulp. The one wrapping around Rick was burned to a crisp, then shot, and succumbed as well. Looking around, there was no sign of more immediate threats in the area outside the thorn hedge, though you didn't expect that to last.
Rick brushes vines off himself. "Thanks for that team." Looking around at the dead plants, he smiles and says, "Looks like our work is done here!"
"I think what you meant to say was "Thank you Dahros for smashing all of the plants."
He nods to Rick and says "And for that, you are welcome. Does anyone need to rest for a few minutes before we press on?"
Ykka raises an eyebrow and cracks a knuckle, "Can you try and be a little quicker next time Dahros? My wrist was getting a little sore."
Dahros shoots Ykka a glare that makes her want to eat the pudding that killed Bort rather than look him in the eye.
Rick tosses fire at the nearby plants that are taller than the grass, just for safe measure. He wings one past Dahros's ear in the process.
"Whoops! All this wide open space and I still nearly hit your ego. Damn thing is huge!"
"This one's got some sear marks on it, you could probably take a chomp off that. God knows how a goblin's stomach handles half the things you put into it, this couldn't be any worse. Not that I'd suggest eating anything from this place."
Rick looks at both Bort and d'Log, "Don't let that stop either of you from getting a snack though."
Rick eyes Skittles cautiously. "Think you can patch me up without nickin' an artery?"
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Skittles nods her head "Just hold tight you little ginger snap. Ill tend your wounds no problem"
"Unfortunately my alchemy kit got roughed up by all the fire, and it seems I need to repair it. I can try again in a bit. In the mean time, drink this."
Skittles hands over Rick a mysterious bottle which he shoves away. So instead she forces it down his throat, healing him for HP of health.
Thank ya lass for your... kind treatments. I'm ready to keep burning!
Agreeing to move along, you head to the break in the bramble hedge where the path moves through. Well, it looked like a break, but the thorny branches had been woven together to form a kind of door. All of the branches appear to wind clockwise in a broad circle, completely cutting off access to the other side.
One of the branches is wound counterclockwise. If you rotate that branch aside, the others should iris open.
Ykka pauses when she sees the odd branch construction. She raises an eye quizzically at the others, "uhhh."
Dahros places his hand on top of Ykka's head and gently turns her head "Try looking at it this way. You need to rotate that branch aside, I think. Watch."
Dahros moves up and rotates the branch, hoping the iris will open.
dahros
d'log
rick
skittles
ykka
orcs
Dahros grabbed a branch that looked like all the others, but when he rotated it in a circle, the other branches irised open, revealing a narrow gap through the thorn hedge. On the other side of the wall of brambles is a yard dominated by three large, wooden cages and a pool of bubbling sludge. A wretched-looking horse stands in one of the cages, while another cage is filled with a swarm of gigantic rats covered in white blisters. The third pen looks empty, but it appears to be built around a small cave located in the hillside. There is another cave entrance on the north side, near one of the pens.
Two orcs are moving about in the yard, not really paying much attention to anything, but as Dahros opens the gateway, one looks up and spots you on the other side. It cried out and the other's head snapped up. Weapons were drawn and the fight was on!
R1: d'log, ykka, rick, skittles, orcs, dahros
Ykka scowls when she sees the rats. She tries to tell (from afar) if the blisters are similar to anything they've seen. She hears \houts and shuffling but cannot see anything else so she begins to play.
"In or out? Anyone else in there?"
As Dahros held the door open, Skittles moved in as Rick and Ykka prepared to receive attackers. d'Log tried to climb into the hedge, only to be deterred by the 2-inch thorns, which stuck him painfully. One of the orcs moved in and hurled a javelin at Skittles, who ducked. The other one reached into a pouch and pulled out a small glass flask, ehih he hurled at Skittles. The orc's aim was off, but the fiery liquid in the bottle still splashed on Skittles and Dahros as the flask shattered.
Skittles takes 1 fire damage
Dahros takes 1 fire damage
d'Log takes 1 piercing damage
R1: d'log, ykka, rick, skittles, orcs, dahros
R2: d'log, ykka, rick, skittles, orcs, dahros
Rick steps in and around the entrance and begins by tossing a ball of flame at the nearest orc.
Groaning from the fire annoyance, Dahros lets go of the branch and dashes up to the closest enemy and tries to bury his warhammer in their chest.
Ykka slips in before Dahros closes the opening, continuing her song. She winces as d'Log tries to mate with the wall and seizes the opportunity when he pulls some thorns out of his face. Flicking her wrist, she fires them over the sludge at the orc.
The lead orc perished under a hail of warhammer blows and d'Log's slicing from behind. The other orc backpedaled quickly as it was pelted with fire and a poisoned crossbow bolt. It finally fell as thorn's pierced it neck.
At that point, it looked like the combat was likely over...until you notice the gates to the various pens standing open. The rats that you sw when you first looked through the open door boiled out of their pen, gnashing teeth in a boiling mass of fur and boils. From another pen, a giant horse that looked to be made of stone bolted out and reared high, coming down on d'Log with its rock-hard hooves. The little goblin dashed to the side and avoided the crippling strike, but it was a close thing.
R2: d'log, ykka, rick, skittles, orcs, dahros
R3: d'log, ykka, rick, skittles, orcs, dahros
Dahros breaks out his smoldering glare for the horse before he dashes forward and attempts to bury his warhammer into it.
Ykka moves up so she's not on the edge of the group. When the horse breaks free, she gasps and tries to remember anything that might be useful. "Guys! Follow Dahros's lead and hit that horse with something blunt!"
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Rick steps up to get in range of the nearest rat, lobbing fire at it.
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d'Log feeling a little warmed up, tumbles out of the horse's way and through Dah'ros' legs.
d'Log trys to throw the rat off balance with a really bad juke, then attacks with the other dogslicer!
wet ratdog here. legs mine!
Dahros' glare does nothing, but his hammer hit hard, cracking the stone horse's mane clean off, along with a chunk of its back. d'Log started the fight with the rats off with a feinting attack, and while the first strike missed, it did distract the rat enough to land the second. Then came Rick's fireball, blasting into the icy rat and burning it to a crisp. The rat exploded, sending icy shards in all directions, pelting d'Log with the missiles.
Skittles had to adjust her aim to throw at the other at, and bobbled her throw. The vial of alchemists fire landed short of the vermin, and only a little bit splashed onto the creature. It shrieked in pain, though, as the tiny drop of liquid fire expanded into a bloom of fire on its back. It charged the gnome, biting and tearing at her with its teeth, but Skittles jumped back quickly and avoided being bitten.
d'Log takes 7 cold damage (DC14 basic reflex save)
R3: d'log, ykka, rick, skittles, rats, dahros
R4: d'log, ykka, rick, skittles, rats, dahros
current status:
d'Log -8(?)
dahros -1
rick
skittles -1
ykka
Ykka watches the rat explode and yelps when the other one starts running toward them. She wonders if there's a way to deal with them that won't make them explode but still sends a handful of rocks toward it while the rat is far enough away it shouldn't affect her. Meanwhile, she keeps playing her uplifting music.
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