Cave Invasion
Log Info
- Title: Kobold Lovers
- Emitter: Cryosanthia
- Characters: Tae, Elyanna
- Place: A cave in the Eldwyn Forest and Bendywine River
- Time: Friday, August 28, 2020, 2:25 PM
- Summary: A few days have passed since the pursuit of the kobolds was abandonned. Most of the adventurers returned to Alexandria. Tae remained at the Kobold cave to attempt to mend all the waterlogged books that were recovered from the chest. Shade and Elyanna patrol nearby, not finding anything. Elyanna is resting in the cave, Shade still out, when they are interrupted by an explosion and an order to surrender. A kobold kill-squad has been sent by Alexandria, and they launch their attacks while extending suprious offers of mercy. Three spiderrider Goblins, an Orc beserker and a hobgoblin shaman invade the cave, raging Orc first. Tae quickly scatters caltrops into the entrance as she and Elyanna take up covered positions, while Shade prowls outside waiting for the odds to even up. The orc barrels through the caltrops, injuring himself, then falling to Elyanna's hideous laughter spell. The three goblins dismount and head in, one of them also poisoning himself on the caltrops. Rop Gosh, takes the passage with the adventures, Fup Gosh takes the one with the puddle, while Uggo is telling them to move up. Shade meanwhile, rips into the hobgoblin who was not expecting it. Rop is whipped down by Elyanna, prompting Fup and Uggo to concentrate fire on her. Tae hides, waiting for someone to get close enough to stab. The Orc, Drokk, finally rushes in, hitting Elyanna and seriously injuring her, while the goblins also move up and keep shooting arrows. Vussat meanwhile, badly injured, retreats from Shade onto the caltrops and that overwhelms her system. The fighting becomes close and tense. Drokk drops Elyanna, who barely remains in the fight because of Tae's healing. He tries to knock Tae unconscious while Shade takes down Uggo. Fup finally orders him to kill the panther which is literally tearing into his back. He drops Shade. Elyanna surges forward angrilly, taking her falchion and shattering his spine. Her victory is short lived as Fup puts her down with an arrow. Tae is the last of the party standing, engages Fup, and manages to kill the goblin. She beheads all the attackers and stuffs them in the water entrance, then turns to healing Shade and Elyanna. Outside, the riderless spiders start webbing up things.
- Encounters: CR4 XP1200
- (3) CR1/2 XP200 Goblin Spider Riders
- (1) CR1/2 XP200 Half-Orc Shaman, As a Hobgoblin
- (1) CR1 XP400 Orc Bezerker
A few days have passed.
This has allowed the half-orc druid to work her mending on the books. A few need several passes, they are in terrible shape. It restores them to the point where they won't fall apart. They still can't be read easily, they were underwater too long and the ink is gone. A more powerful spell might be necessary.
The half-orc bard-swashbuckler has less to do, patrolling around the nearby forest in case the kobolds return. They don't. The boat they left near the bridge is retrieved at some point, and the caltrops on the road were picked up, but the perpetrators managed to avoid detection.
The panther also patrols, finding the half-orc to be a competent if somewhat nose-blind co-predator. She's rarely seen except when she leaves or enters the cave.
The cave makes an adequate living space. It still smells strongly of small lizard. Tossing the rotting food out helps. There's only one bed. Torches or a light spell provide enough illumination.
Tae sums it all up with a few curses. "I've managed to perfectly restore these to their previous, utterly useless condition!" she hisses to herself. Shade knows enough to not stay in the area when her mistress is in a tizzy, so the panther is off to hunt. Or pretend to. A nearby rock is picked up by Tae moments later and hurled unhelpfully into the wall. It's not particularly loud, at least. Clearly she throws like a girl, as seen previously.
Elyanna has been largely unable to produce anything of particular note, though the occassional whistling chord to handle certain sanitary needs. There's been a dark, simmering anger in her eyes for days, though it's ben steadily ebbing as time goes on. This, final disappointment brings her to her feet with a disgusted shake of her head, "Then we are done here."
Tae sighs and turns back to the books, "I'm going to take these to the city. I imagine there are others who can do more, but.. I don't really know what great secrets I hoped to find, anyway. Likely this is all a dead end, a distraction. Yet, it's all there is near at hand." She crosses her arms, tossing her head like a moody horse, her braids whipping about from the violence of the motion. "I'm angry, but I will not give up this whole thing as a loss. I've wasted too much time already to let it stay a waste."
Elyanna turns to regard the half-oruch for seceral seconds in simmering silence, then turns to collect the wayward crossbow, "As you would." Foot in the stirrup, she draws it back to proper cocking and slides a bolt into the track. That done, she spares the woman a last look and starts to make her way out of the cave.
- >>>>BOOOOM<<<<
An explosion rocks the cave entrance, echoing throughout the small lair. Dust and small pebbles fall from the ceiling. It was LOUD! As pebbles are still clattering to the ground, a voice with an orc-ish accent taunts loudly.
"Come on out Kobolds! Surrender now! We'll let you live!"
'Tink!' 'Clink!' 'Spang!'
Three arrows bounce off the rocks near the entrance.
The explosion certainly gets Tae's attention. She didn't fall down from it, but nonetheless, she does nearly fall, just barely catching herself on the cave wall. "Oh by the Hells, who bloody is it now!" she shouts angrily. A moment later, "I don't care. I don't bloody care who it is. I've had it!" Her scimitar is out and she's leaning towards counting enemies with it and finding out who they are after.
"Ready the second volley," Someone commands, in goblin-talk.
"RWAAAARRRR!" Oh, that sound. The sound of an orc raging. That can't be good.
Kobold Cave Legend .clear 'scrub, *tree #rock Each row/col, . etc, is 5' -..A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.P.Q.R.S.T. 05|'''''......**''''''''...'''......''''*** -.|***......''''''''.......'''''...'''''''* 06|*'''''''''....................'''''''''' -.|##''...'''...''..............****###***. 07|####*****###''.......''****'''####*''**# -.|#####**########\.\###################### 08|################|.|##################### -.|#################/./#################### 09|################|.|##################### -.|################\.\##################### 10|################/./##################### -.|###############|....|################### 11|##############/./##\.\################## -.|#############/./####|.|################# 12|############/...|###\....\############## -.|###########|.....\###\.../############## 13|############\.....|####|..|############# -.|############/..../#######\.....|######## 14|############/.T/##############\.\####### -.|############\.C|##############\......O## 15|##############|...|##################### -.|##############/O/#######################
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+6: (16)+6: 22 (Enemy perception) GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (7)+3: 10 (Shade Stealth)
With few necks to slash at the moment, Tae will dedicate her moment of action to laying out a nice covering of caltrops just north of the cavern split. Hopefully these new enemies are at least half as stupid as they sound and act. It's easier to stab people who can't walk. She wishes she could get some means to breathe under water. Hiding might prove helpful. Though.. there is that other door to consider as a last resort.
Taara's paying attention to her, now, clearly.
Elyanna curses in goblin at the explosion, then looks back to the druid, in Oruch, "There's no end to fools, here. You ready?" moving to take of a position behind a lip of rock to cover the inlet with the crossbow. As the half orc starts spreading the caltrops an absolutely wicked grin bares the red woman's interlocking fangs, "You're nasty!" she approves, then, "Get cover, I'll draw them in." Taking one hand from the crossbow to curl it before her mouth, she starts to hum a particular soft chord of notes. when, off by the entrance of the cave, the demands of the fool's beyond are met with overlapping sounds of childish giggling and hissing snickers.
'Clink' 'Tink' 'Plink'
Three more arrows bounce off the walls near the entrance.
"Drokk! You raged too early. Hold back." Their apparent leader, hobgoblin, calls out in goblin-talk, snickering, "We have to give them a chance to surrender."
'Sorry Boss, I just want to kill Kobolds', is what Drokk thinks in reply. But what comes out is "RWAAARRR!!"
- >>>BOOM<<<
A second explosion rocks the entrance, more dust is shaken loose and falls. Could the cave come down, is that even a possibility?
There's the sound of an axe hitting rock, just outside, as a raging orc takes out some frustration on the environment. Soon, soon, soft targets to turn into bloody pulps.
Tae settles into a bit of a hiding place as the eager kobold killers continue whatever it is they are trying to do. It's a bit uncertain what their point is. She just hopes that the time for stabbing comes soon, cause this is just really doing nothing for her temper!
With all eyes on the cave, the patch of shadow that is the panther moves ever so slightly closer. She knows that Tae is still in there, but there's no easy way through this mass of enemies. At least nothing yet. Considering their rather explosive sets of weapons, it's simply too risky to try for more at this point.
<OOC> SpiderRider's Perception GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+5: (16)+5: 21 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+5: (17)+5: 22 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+5: (12)+5: 17
"Your information is outta date!" Elyanna snarls out in Goblin, "The lizards slithered outta here days ago!" She shifts her position slightly to keep her leg from cramping, but she holds her line of aim even as the giggling continues.
The hobgoblin commander hears Elyanna, and of course, she understands. She thinks things over, as far as she's concerned, the attack has started. Might as well see it through. It's probably a trick anyhow.
"Kobold lovers surrender too!" <Goblin-talk>
She can't help but laugh again as she switches to trade, "Last chance little kobolds. Give up that gun, we'll let you live!"
"After the boom, Drokk." She orders, speaking goblin once more. "Rop, Fup, Uggo, off spiders and follow Drokk in."
- >>>BOOM<<<
The front of the cavern is rocked again by another explosion.
<OOC> Caltrops Attacks GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20: (17): 17 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20: (14): 14 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20: (13): 13 <OOC> Orc Fort Saves GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+7: (17)+7: 24 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+7: (8)+7: 15 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+7: (20)+7: 27
'I love this!' Drokk thinks, which he expresses as "RAWRRRRR!"
He runs into the twisting, winding passage, and onto the caltrops. All the caltrops. They should slow him down, but they don't. He makes it to the top of the Y.
'Ow! My poor feet!' The orc thinks, it comes out as, "RAAARRGRRRRRGRR!"
GAME: Elyanna rolls ranged: (18)+5: 23 GAME: Elyanna rolls 1d10: (6): 6
Yep. These guys eat broth with a fork. As the first child of the mind rushes into their ambush, distressingly plowing through their hated caltrops, Elyanna has an answer for him. There is the squeeze of a trigge, a click and a bassy twang sshTHUNK! of the bolt slamming hom into the orc's body.
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20: (5): 5 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20: (20): 20 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20: (19): 19 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (4)+3: 7 <OOC> Cryosanthia pages: Fup fails Fort Save GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d2: (2): 2
The goblin riders pack in after Drokk. Rop avoids the caltrops, Fup is not so lucky, and drives one deep between his toes. As the poison takes hold, he feels woozy and sways.
Tae will hold her position, waiting for the enemy to get just a bit closer so she can introduce it to her scimitar. Hearing the roaring, it's unclear to her what is happening, but she has hopes that it's paid at least a bit for interrupting her work.
Shade will stick to cover, moving slowly closer to where Hobbo is. The panther's idea is simple: get within striking distance should the time be right. It's seen Tae in worse spots than this, and she's not alone in there. Not to mention the spiders are a possible issue.
GAME: Elyanna casts Hideous Laughter. Caster Level: 2 DC: 14 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+1: (2)+1: 3 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20: (9): 9
Letting Alexandria's misallocated crossbow hit the floor as she rises, Elyanna reaches for the fanglike punch dagger at the small of her back, a cruel and jagged thing. Even as that hapens, she points with her buckler hand, making a boneless, fluttery gesture with her empty hand as she assures him in Oruch, "You're lucky that when your parents seperate they're still brother and sister!" which doubles the raging lummox over in herniating laughter, spiling him amongst the caltrops, though this to no further injury. Pity.
"HURRAHAHAHAHURRRAHAGRRRRRRHAHURRRHURRHURR!" Stepping on caltrops is funny, really funny. In Drokk's rage addled brain this is just how he expected his day to go. The first real fight and he's taken out by little pointy things. He was hoping the little pointy things he would be facing would be kobold spears. Instead, caltrops!
Imagine! Taken out by caltrops! It's so absurd he falls down, clutching his sides and rolling in them. It's simply, absurd.
Also, that joke hurt. Mumma and Dadda's relationship was complex. Non-orcs just wouldn't understand.
"Wuzzat?" One of the goblin spiderriders calls out. Actualy, it's 'Vussat', but they have an on-going joke where they pretend they can't properly pronounce their party leader's name. "Wuzzat, Drokk just fell down and won't stop laughing."
"Oh GET IN THERE you... wonderfully brilliant little gobbos. Slap him out of it."
"Um... okay boss." The goblin in the lead says, and a little quieter, "Fup, you slap."
"I'm not slapping, Uggo, you slap."
"The slapping stick is for you, not Drokk."
The goblins jump on the laughing orc to move past him, a Gosh twin peeking down each passage, while Uggo carefully moves up through the caltrops and tries to slap some sense into their mirthful compatriot.
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (14)+3: 17 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d4: (1): 1 GAME: Rup Gosh damaged Elyanna for 1 points. 26 HP remaining.
Rup fires a shot, scoring a scratch on Elyanna's arm.
Vussat moves up to the cave entrance. She doesn't enter, only peering in. She looks around, there's nothing to command except spiders. She waves at them, "Get over here."
They don't listen.
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+1: (13)+1: 14
Rolling around on the floor in the middle of battle isn't the best thing to be doing. Laughing is also on the list. Drokk is a strange contrast, his eyes bulging with rage, his forehead pulsing, and his stomach heaving as he belly laughs for all he's worth.
"Snap..." >wack< "Out..." >wack< "Of..." >wack< "It!" Uggo commands, beating him with the beating stick. Fortunately the orc finds this kind of amusing also, or the spiderrider would be in danger of having her head popped. However, enough smacks to the orc's head does seem to clear it.
'Hey Uggo, it's okay you can stop now.' Drokk thinks, saying, "GRAAAAAAAAHH!"
It must take these guys a few hours just to find their way out of bed each morning. Tae is losing her patience, but she holds fast, her weapon raised, just waiting for someone's head to come into view so she can stab her sword into it.
GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+5: (14)+5: 19 GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+5: (16)+5: 21 GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+5: (2)+5: 7 GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+5: (11)+5: 16 GAME: Tae rolls 1d6+1: (5)+1: 6 GAME: Tae rolls 1d4+1: (1)+1: 2
While all manner of chaos is taking place in the cave, Shade notices the bossy creature talking to the eight-leggers. When they ignore the bossy creature, the panther attacks, biting deep and scoring a glancing swipe with one of its sharp claws.
Kobold Cave Legend .clear 'scrub, *tree #rock Each row/col, . etc, is 5'
-..A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.P.Q.R.S.T. 05|'''''......**''''''''...'''......''''*** -.|***......''''''''.......'''''...'''''''* 06|*'''''''''....................'''''''''' -.|##''...'''...''..............****###***. 07|####*****###''H......''****'''####*''**# -.|#####**########\.\###################### 08|################|.|##################### -.|#################/./#################### 09|################|.|##################### -.|################\3\##################### 10|################/O/##################### -.|###############|1..2|################### 11|##############/./##\.\################## -.|#############/./####|.|################# 12|############/..T|###\....\############## -.|###########|...E.\###\.../############## 13|############\.....|####|..|############# -.|############/..../#######\.....|######## 14|############/../##############\.\####### -.|############\..|##############\......O## 15|##############|...|##################### -.|##############/O/#######################
GAME: Elyanna rolls weapon5-1: (8)+8+-1: 15 GAME: Elyanna rolls 1d3+3: (2)+3: 5
There is a brief parting of her carnivor's teeth as the goblin's bolt grazes her arm. "Zazzlesplat!" she snarls at the little bugger as she strides hatefully toward him. Between steps, Elyanna's bucklered arm crosses her waist to uncoil the lash of braided hair hanging there. And in a deft, serpentine roll of shoulder and elbow, with a bassy >CRACK!< that echose briefly in the cave, she flashes the silver tresses of the whip's popper across the goblin's face and sending him to the ground. Unconscious...
- and bloody...
- From a WHIP!
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (3)+3: 6 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (16)+3: 19 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d4: (4): 4 GAME: Fup Goash damaged Elyanna for 4 points. 22 HP remaining.
"Rop!" Fup calls out, seeing his twin fall. He immediately rushes forward, knocking an arrow and letting loose. It misses.
Uggo moves up behind him, standing protectively, kinda, beside Rop. She also shoots, hers is a solid strike, hitting Elyanna.
She also hisses, "Kobold Lover!" It's a hatred only goblins would understand. <goblin-talk>
"AHH! Caracoroth's Crablice! What is that? Get out here!" Vussat calls, suddenly and surprisingly mauled by a panther, "Spiders! Help me."
The spiders do not help.
She steps back to give herself some space, desperately casting.
GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (20)+3: 23
Sadly, the spell does not land. The panther is simply too engaged with this new toy. Vussat may be the one to doze, permanently.
Drokk struggles to his feet, caltrops falling from his armour. He heard the whip-crack, can see his goblin companions firing at something.
'Would you please get out of my way, dear friends.' He intends to ask. It comes out as, "URRAAAAGGGGHHH!"
Tae is really sick of this stupid orc and his stupid slowness. Still, she has to wait a bit longer. She's done it this long, a few more seconds should do. She uses her free time to adjust the height of her blade. Probably.. up around.. here for a good strike, as she estimates roughly where his neck is likely to be.
GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (7)+3: 10 GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (3)+3: 6 GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (11)+3: 14 GAME: Tae rolls 1d4+1: (1)+1: 2
The panther, very much awake, tries to maul the bossy one some more. While the attack isn't a great success, yet another blow from the panther's formidible claws leaves yet more blood spilt.
GAME: Elyanna rolls weapon5-1: (6)+8+-1: 13
It's whip versus bows! The two goblins would back up, but there's a raging orc behind them. The orc is supposed to be in front. This is how things go. Fup tries to avenge his twin, while Uggo helps out.
Pffft! Pfttt! Two arrows are loosed at Elyanna
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (2)+3: 5 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (15)+3: 18 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d4: (1): 1 GAME: Uggo damaged Elyanna for 1 points. 21 HP remaining.
Fup, still tripping from the caltrop poison, misses. Uggo though, she grins with interlocking teeth and puts another arrow into the red half-orc.
Well... scratches up Elyanna's other arm, to be precise.
Again!
She's shot by another lowborn goblin!
Elyanna is even less amused than she was by the last Zazzlesplat shooting her, and the look she fixes on the little female is one of quickly inspired -hate-, and she snaps a whip at the little one, coming close, but not quite sealing the deal. Still, in case the message wasn't clear she growls in her Bludgunni accented goblin:
"You're dead."
"Wuzzat you said Wuzzat? I can't hear you." Uggo calls back, "Fighting! Come in the cave!"
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20: (2): 2 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20: (18): 18 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20: (16): 16 <OOC> Cryosanthia says, "actually, third one isn't necessary."
The hobgoblin has had enough of surprise panther playtime. Using her staff as a barrier, to hopefully keep it back, she withdraws into the cave, walking backwards.
No one warned her about the caltrops. However, she spots them, after she's backed through the first patch. Not in enough time to avoid stepping on one in the second patch. She feels a sharp pain in her foot, then a dizzyness, then she drops.
Hearing a thump, Uggo calls out, "Wuzzat you?"
Panther: I... won?
GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+4: (3)+4: 7
Tae has waited all this time and when she finally swings, misses the enemy by a country mile. At least her panther is doing much better. Not that she knows that exactly. In the meantime, she'll string together every nasty word in her less refined tongue that she can think of. And her knowledge is most extensive.
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+9: (14)+9: 23 GAME: Elyanna spends ONE point of PANACHE. GAME: Elyanna rolls weapon8: (1)+6: 7 (EPIC FAIL) GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d12+10: (3)+10: 13 GAME: Drokk damaged Elyanna for 13 points. 8 HP remaining.
Drokk is finally on his feet! The battle is that way! He charges past Uggo and Fup, who are wise enough to step aside as they hear him pounding up. Emerging in the cavern with the other two, his blood-shot and bulging eyes seek targets.
There's one in front of him! He swings! His great axe blowing by Elyanna's attempt to parry, and chopping deeply across her front.
This is how he says hello. "RAWERRRAAAAGGGH!"
Well, that sucked! Tae figures her attacks are hardly going to save the day now. She will instead focus on healing Elyanna. Hopefully someone is listening out there. She doesn't usually pray, but this is a pretty serious situation.
<OOC> Healing GAME: Tae rolls 1d8+2: (3)+2: 5 GAME: Tae damaged Elyanna for -5 points. 13 HP remaining.
Tae sighs as the healing works its magic. She's had to step back to avoid the gigantic orc terror. It won't do anyone much good if she gets herself cut in half here.
<OOC> Tae says, "Anyway, leap check vs. dc 15." GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+12: (19)+12: 31
The caltrops are fairly easy to avoid, provided a cat wishes to take its time. Shade does not. Instead, she bursts forward and hurls herself over the caltrops, the black cat clearing them easily as she rushes ahead after the enemies.
GAME: Elyanna casts Cause Fear. Caster Level: 2 DC: 14 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20-1: (18)+-1+2: 19 <OOC> Cryosanthia says, "okay, makes save, is shaken for 1 round"
The dagger is a bit out of practice, and even as Elyanna tries to parry the mammoth swing, it's already hit. Chain mail rings, bones rattle and blood flies as the red woman is twisted half around by the blow and she takes the instant to stagger back the rest of the pace as she regains her facing. The dagger will be no good until he closes, but, let's try something else. She tucks her lip under her fangs to whistle a dischordant diddy before punctuating it with a sharp whipcrack over his head to complete the spell.... to little effect.
"Ahh! Panther!" Uggo cries, "Move up."
Both of the goblins do, clattering after Drokk and taking up positions where they can fire past him, and use him as a meat shield should the panther chase them some more.
Uggo glares at Elyanna with mean eyes, "Shoot the red one!" An unnecessary order, as Fup is still going after her for whipping Rop's face off. Now they're not twins anymore, this will ruin their social life!
<OOC> Cryosanthia says, "and shooting into melee penalty" GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20-1: (7)+-1: 6 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20-1: (19)+-1: 18 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d4: (2): 2 GAME: Uggo damaged Elyanna for 2 points. 11 HP remaining.
Two more arrows are loosed, Fup misses, Uggo's finds its mark. Another cut wells up blood as it stings by Elyanna.
Vussat does not answer any questions. She lies unconscious, bleeding.
The rage fades from Drokk's eyes. The pulsing veins on his forehead, in his neck, return to their regular levels of distortion. The ominous brown brusing in his face fades as his pounding heart returns to normal.
He did after all, prematurely rage.
He looks around, his thoughts stuck on 'rrrr?'. Drokk's mouth moves, words come out.
"I was told there would be kobolds?"
GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (19)+3: 22 GAME: Tae rolls 1d6+1: (1)+1: 2
Finally reaching the fun, Shade rushes in to greet one of the goblins. With her teeth. It's little impact at this point, but the cat is certainly just getting a taste for blood today, and a full meal is standing in front of it.
<OOC> Healing GAME: Tae rolls 1d8+2: (1)+2: 3 GAME: Tae damaged Elyanna for -3 points. 14 HP remaining.
Seeing the panther arrive is a relief. Tae is still vastly more confident in Elyanna's fighting skills than her own, though. And so she directs yet more healing at the woman. It seems that the orc is out of it for the moment. Not that she cares. She's going to kill him anyway, once she gets the chance.
GAME: Elyanna rolls weapon5-1: (7)+8+-1: 14
Still seething at being shot at by that -one- goblin, the red woman spares the orc a withering, spiteful look, then snaps her whip at the female goblin, coming close but not quite sealing the deal. "Told you. Idiot." she growls in the Oruch tongue.
"Drokk! They're Kobold lovers! They whipped Rop's face off!" Fup shouts, in a nasty, nasily high pitched voice.
"Yeah! They're the ones supplying them with weapons! Kill 'em!" Uggo snarls, showing her shark-like teeth.
"Uhh..." Drokk doesn't seem convinced.
"They shot first! Kill them!" The two goblins shriek. Both pull bows, both fire.
GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (5)+3: 8
With the goblin again readying it's aim, Shade takes a bite at it. Sadly, this doesn't strike. The panther's tail lashes, not in annoyance, but in anticipation. It's close, they are small, the big one appears to be useless.
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (20)+3: 23 (THREAT) GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (7)+3: 10 (Not Confirmed) GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (10)+3: 13 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d4: (3): 3 GAME: Fup damaged Elyanna for 3 points. 11 HP remaining.
Fup's shot scores a hit, on Elyanna's leg. Uggo is having difficulty firing around Drokk, and her shot goes wide.
Leadership shows its strength.
Outside, the spiders mill around. Without riders they don't know what to do. That cave seems interesting. A web over the front of it will do nicely, they decide to get started on that.
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+6: (14)+6: 20 GAME: Elyanna spends ONE point of PANACHE. GAME: Elyanna rolls weapon8: (1)+6: 7 (EPIC FAIL) GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d12+6: (6)+6: 12 GAME: Drokk damaged Elyanna for 12 points. -1 HP remaining. (DYING)
"Kobold lover!" Drokk roars, not as loud as when he was raging, but still echoing in the tight corners. He swings his axe, cutting across Elyanna, landing a blow that strikes her down.
<OOC> Healing GAME: Tae rolls 1d8+2: (2)+2: 4 GAME: Tae damaged Elyanna for -4 points. 3 HP remaining.
Tae growls back at Drokk, "Goblin slave.. For striking down the kobold slayer, I will feast on your flesh this day!" She once again reaches out through the divine to heal Elyanna. Hopefully this will work. Hopefully Shade has a few tricks up her sleeve, too.
<OOC> Tae says, "Time to kill Uggo, gdi." GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (6)+3: 9 GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (18)+3: 21 GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (17)+3: 20 GAME: Tae rolls 1d4+1: (4)+1: 5 GAME: Tae rolls 1d4+1: (2)+1: 3
Shade's eyes are empty, berfect of mercy as first one swipe, then another shreds open the bowels of the goblin in front of it. When if falls dead, the cat focuses its gaze on the other archer and pads on over, its entire body language promising, 'You are next.'
GAME: Elyanna rolls weapon5-5: (2)+8+-5: 5
Regaining consciousnes from the floor again. She isn't happy, she hurts and, out of spite, seeing the orc threatening the druid, she tries to whipcrack up into his tender bits, but to no avail, the angle is just too awkward. And she rolls away to open some space.
One gobbo left! Fup sees Elyanna go down, and feels a thrill in his dark little heart. Avenged! His glee is short lived, as a panther roars and takes down Uggo, exposing his flank. That's way too close man! He takes a step back, shooting at Shade.
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (2)+3: 5
The shot goes wild.
No retreat or yield is called. Vussat bleeds.
<OOC> Cryosanthia says, "I think it's 1 Elyanna, 2 Tae, and 4-6 Shade." GAME: Tae rolls diplomacy: (8)+1: 9 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d6: (2): 2 <OOC> Tae says, "And I'm up! Guess he wants to caveman me."
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Tae looks at the orc, her hip flaring out to the left and her right hand settling on her on her waist. It's the pose she uses when she wants to accentuate every curve she has. And she has them all. "You know, why not lose that goblin friend of yours and you and I can take a little... walk?" she suggests coyly.
<OOC> Cryosanthia says, "so, he's doing a non-lethal, so -4" GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (11)+3: 14
That's a tempting offer. Drokk is definitely interested! However, there's a fight going on. He knows, she will be impressed by his ability to control himself. Deciding that an unconscious Tae is the best Tae, he turns his axe sideways and swats at her head with it.
And misses.
Perhaps she will be impressed he didn't kill her? Dating is so hard.
GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+4: (1)+4: 5 (EPIC FAIL)
Perhaps she's just flustered by the offer. Or angry at the situation, but Tae's counter attack looks, well, downright girly. She's not even close, and she barely keeps hold of her weapon.
<OOC> Tae says, "Bite, claw, claw." GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (8)+3: 11 GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (16)+3: 19 GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+3: (19)+3: 22 GAME: Tae rolls 1d4+1: (3)+1: 4 GAME: Tae rolls 1d4+1: (1)+1: 2
Shade directs her displeasure at the orc who just took a swing at her half-oruch. The cat clearly is having none of this challenge to her property. The bite misses, but both swipes of the cat's paws strike, spattering the cave with orc blood.
GAME: Elyanna casts Hideous Laughter. Caster Level: 2 DC: 14 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20-1: (20)+-1: 19
Clear of the orc for the moment, Elyanna staggers unsteadily to her feet, singsonging "Your breath smells like a goatherd's crotch!" ir the Oruch tongue once more, as she makes her little gestures around her hilts. Alas.... the joke/spell falls flat. But it might draw his attention.
<OOC> Cryosanthia says, "Fup shoots at Shade" GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (6)+3: 9
"Kill the panther you idiot!" Fup shouts, knocking another arrow and firing it at the panther that is clawing up Drokk's back, "It's on you and it's killing you! That kobold lover isn't impressed by your scars! You're such an idiot!"
The shot goes wild.
Blood pools grow larger.
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+4: (13)+4: 17 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d12+6: (12)+6: 18 GAME: Drokk damaged Tae's Companion for 18 points. -2 HP remaining. (DYING)
The Hideous Laughter swirls around Drokk, attempting to take hold. He feels himself start to chuckle, then growls and shakes it off.
A panther is ripping at him. He obeys the goblin. Goblins are so smart. Spinning he wacks the panther, his axe cutting deep. Shade is flung across the room, falling unconscious and sliding.
Drokk feels good about this.
GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+4: (11)+4: 15 GAME: Tae rolls 1d6+3: (3)+3: 6
Seeing her friend laid low enrages Tae. So much so that her next swing connects. There's no elegance. She puts her body into and chops into orc flesh as if it were a tree she meant to hack down. Still, she's facing a superior enemy, and for all her effort, he's still standing.
GAME: Elyanna rolls weapon3+2: (15)+5+2: 22 GAME: Elyanna rolls 2d4+3: (8)+3: 11
Perhaps elegance was a conceit....
Perhaps like Compassion...
Like Mercy....
Elyanna, bleeding from her savage wounds, gnashes her fangs in a snarl of hate and staggers toward the Oruch, a shrill screech of steel as she draws her Bludgun falchion and gets it into both hands in time to bring it down across the bastard's back. Armor, bone, flesh... hewn deeply by Hob-wrought steel and she exults as he falls.
"You you you!" The goblin chitters, his voice going high pitched. The panther going down is good, Drokk going down, is not! He could surrender, but Never Surrender!
"Die! Die! Die! Just Die!" He draws back and looses at Elyanna's back.
GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d20+3: (19)+3: 22 GAME: Cryosanthia rolls 1d4: (4): 4 GAME: You damaged Elyanna for 4 points. -1 HP remaining. (DYING)
It's no where near as effective as Elyanna's shot, but the arrow strikes and drops her.
Bleeding, lots of bleeding.
Drokk twitches, dying energies leaving his body.
Seeing both her companions down, Tae knows it's all on her. She either kills this piece of waste or everyone dies. So, no pressure. With a growl she moves in, her blade up and ready to hopefully chop him to ribbons.
GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+4: (16)+4: 20 GAME: Tae rolls 1d6+3: (6)+3: 9
She locks eyes with the goblin as her scimitar plunges into its chest. She wants to watch the life leave those eyes. With a violent twist, she rips the blade free. "I drink your blood later.. I have work to do now."
<OOC> Rolling Healing, Shade, then Ely GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+9: (19)+9: 28 GAME: Tae rolls 1d20+9: (13)+9: 22 <OOC> Cryosanthia says, "Stabilized, both"
The half-oruch sets herself quickly to treating her patients. Once Elyanna is stabilized, she turns to Shade. She doesn't notice the tears in her eyes until they blur her vision. Regardless, it's some of the best work she's ever done. But healing is only half of her being. With those two no longer at risk of dying, she has some time. First, to clear a path towards the mouth of the cave. Then, to hack of the leader's head. Similar treatment is afforded all the others. This is followed by the customary looting of the dead. It takes some effort, but she eventually dumps heads and bodies into the water at the far side of the cave, then returns to stand watch by her wounded companions.
The water entrance is thoroughly plugged.
Outside, the spiders are webbing up the cave.
Inside, it's rest and recovery.
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| Name | Race | Class | CHP | HP | AC/FF/T |CMD |For |Ref |Wil |
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|Elyanna |HALF-ORC |Bard/Swb | 22 | 27 |17/15/12 | 17 | 1 | 8 | 5 |
|Tae |HALF-ORC |Dru | 13 | 13 |13/11/13 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
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==================== Current Initiative Order - Round 11 =====================
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18 Spider Riders 1
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16 Hobbo 1
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13 Orc 1
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>> 9 Tae 1 Flat-footed (11 rnds active) <<
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7 Elyanna 1 Flat-footed (10 rnds active); DYING
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| Name | CHP (T) | HP |
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| Elyanna.......| -1 | 27 |
| Tae...........| 13 | 13 |
| (C) Shade.....| -2 | 16 |
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