As Rooth starts climbing, Inamar calls up after her, "Hey, if you have any rope or something, drop it down here as you go. It'll make it a lot easier on the rest of us."
Last edited by Shayuri; 4th July 2008 at 07:52 PM..
As Rooth starts climbing, Inamar calls up after him, "Hey, if you have any rope or something, drop it down here as you go. It'll make it a lot easier on the rest of us."
'Just a little climb to take a peek Inamar' she yawns to him giving him a dont worry about me look 'with some luck their just donw the bend'
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Gravan glances upward at Rooth, whose skilled climbing can't be matched, even in wild form. He stays silent, wary of alerting any foes who may lurk in ambush on the other side of the fallen trees. I think, if push comes to shove, that I'll take the long way.
The mature trees in this part of the forest stand 50 to 60 feet high. Rooth approaches the fallen trees that lie across the path, hops onto the downed trunk of one and then onto the nearest stout tree trunk and begins shimmieing her way up the thick trunk of a taller tree that survived the storm. Moving from branch to branch as she can she must still hug the trunk with both hands and clamp on her legs at some points. She glances further down the track as she goes but does not immediately spot any ambushers down there and it looks clear from her immediate view but she knows the higher she climbs the farther she will be able to see.
However, at about 35' feet up as her hand pulls on a leafy branch above her it exposes the black striped red fur of a large fanged multilimbed creature looming above. Gravan, watching quietly from below also immediately spots it.
Initiative!
Rooth
Gravan
Red
Weylan
Syfer
NR4ZN
Inamar
"Agh! Spider!" Gravan shouts as Rooth scrambles back to land. He takes a step back, and shifts into human form. Then he casts entangle, careful not to catch rooth in its radius, but encompassing as much area around the creature as possible, including part of the ground if possible, so if it drops into the bushes it will be entangled as well. "Take some potshots. These things are gross."
Rooth squeeks a small cry and tries to get back safe to the ground as fast she can. Rooth begins to scamper down the trunk hurriedly moving from 35' down to 25' up. Her skin hardens and she looks pronouncedly more bestial as she activates the lycanthropic blood in her veins.
Gravan turns back to his human form to be able to speak and shouts out a warning about spiders and begins to invoke a druidic mystery thrusting his arm up towards the tree and clenching his hand into a fist. The upper branches of the tree start to twist and writhe around the creature. The area Rooth is climbing on seems unaffected but the back of the tree and ground cover behind the tree starts to writhe as well.
Gravan's cry allows an easy spotting of the red furred creature for the rest of the party on the ground. Large fangs and claws on four legs are evident as it scrambles. To Gravan's dismay the black striped beast seems superbly adapted to maneuvering dextrously in the heavy growth of magical plants and scrambles swiftly out of the confining grasp of the branches to snap at Rooth with its large white teeth that draw blood. It maneuvers on four limbs with clawed feet that turn inward like a sloth's and also uses its powerful looking long prehensile tale in its movement. It bites and continues down the trunk a little to wait below her at about 15' high up on the tree.
Rooth takes 4-2= 2 damage from the bite.
Initiative:
Weylan
Syfer
NR4ZN
Inamar
Rooth
Gravan
Red
Unfazed by the turn of events, NR4ZN reaches behind itself as a large compartment opens to meet its hand. The warzoder retrieves a great and terrible chain. "Lethal countermeasures initiated."
The middle links are the size of a human fist, but they grow larger, over two feet wide and wickedly spiked at the ends. Taking a half step forward, it spins the chain up to speed vertically. Then the robot jumps nearly three feet straight up as it arcs the chain up and over the furred creature. The vicious chain end then descends, shortly after its apex, but aided by NR4ZN's considerable mass, upon the red and black beast.
Upon the first sounds of an attack, Syfer is ready, whipping out his tigerclaw and approaching the felled trees. What is that thing? he asks as he hurrys forward.
OOC: July 13 I'm leaving for a week of vacation, syfer will follow the group and attack whats needs to be
Inamar gasps in startled fear as the creature emerges, and she flings a hand out. Eldritch power crackles up her arm and sizzles through the air towards it!
(Invis castle is being mean. Feel free to roll for me if you see this before I can edit it in. Attack bonus is +4...+5 if it's within PBS range. 1d6 damage)
Suprised by the sudden appearance of the spider-sloth-thing, Weylan quickly manifests his mindblade then hurls it at the creature. His haste however causes a rare mistake and he throws the blade into the downed tree beside him, exploding into psychic energy harmlessly against its wet bark.
Upon the first sounds of an attack, Syfer is ready, whipping out his tigerclaw and approaching the felled trees. What is that thing? he asks as he hurrys forward and leaps upon the downed trunk, ready to spring upon the creature should it come lower.
Unfazed by the turn of events, NR4ZN reaches behind itself as a large compartment opens to meet its hand. The warzoder retrieves a great and terrible chain. "Lethal countermeasures initiated."
The middle links are the size of a human fist, but they grow larger, over two feet wide and wickedly spiked at the ends. Taking a half step forward, it spins the chain up to speed vertically. Then the robot jumps nearly three feet straight up as it arcs the chain up and over the furred creature. The vicious chain end then descends, shortly after its apex, but aided by NR4ZN's considerable mass, upon the trunk of the tree where the red and black beast was a moment before. The creature dodges as swiftly on the tree among its branches as Weylan does unhindered on the ground when fighting.
Inamar gasps in startled fear as the creature emerges, and she flings a hand out. Eldritch power crackles up her arm and sizzles through the air striking the beast and eliciting a howl of pain!
Rooth looks at the spider watching what or who has its attention.
ooc for all:
Spoiler:
If the spider is not attacking her, she will get to a stable branch and use her Composite Longbow 1d8 - Attack (missile): +5
If the spider is attacking her she will trie to reach ground as fast as possible screaming: 'Distract it from me!!!'
__________________ ~With Us Three Under Water You Will See the Beauty of the World~
Rooth looks at the creature watching what or who has its attention. Seeing as it is crouched ready to spring upon her after having drawn first blood with its fangs she tries to reach ground as fast as possible screaming: 'Distract it from me!!!' . Unfortunately in her haste her grip slips and she plummets falls! The creature lunges again for her and its fangs slash through her armor on her flailing shin but her shifted skin is thick enough to prevent the teeth from tearing her again with such a glancing snap of the thing's jaws. She tries to roll with the fall but is buffeted by a couple branches on her way down and WHUMP lands painfully with the wind knocked out of her.
"What the..." Gravan's face scrunches up as he regards the creature. "Well... ah, not a spider."
Gravan transforms back into his wild form and tosses a rock above the creature, hoping to drive it down to where it can be fought on the ground.[/quote]
The creature snarls and chases the fallen Rooth who lies relatively helpless on the ground with the wind knocked out of her from the painful fall. NR4ZN lashes again with his chain but the creature is too swift and evades the heavy metal links.
Syfer springs however and catches the beast with a rake of his bag nakh drawing a yowl of protest from the red-furred creature.
The beast darts down and lands another bite upon Rooth, drawing more blood, though again her active lycanthropic heritage helps.
Initiative:
Weylan
NR4ZN
Inamar
Rooth
Gravan
Syfer
Red Vore
Rooth is prone and took 14 total damage this round.
(OOC - Hee, did I miss a turn?Sorry if I did...Enworld 2 seems as slow as Enworld 1 sometimes, and it's really annoying. )
When Rooth falls, Inamar yelps, "Oh no!" She dashes to the shifter's side and reaches out to put her palm against her shoulder. There is a white sizzle of light where their skins meet, and a loud, if muffled, CRACK noise. Life giving energy rams through Rooth!
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