Kraken takes the time to lash together a few canopies of branches covered with broad leaves, to keep the worst of the rain of everybody. Curling up beneath his one he mutters
"I'll take watch before dawn, I'm usually up then anyway. Wake me if anyone gets eaten again."
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Doral seems surprised about Whisper's request, but then answers with, "I would welcome the company, Lady Whisper. I imagine that it would be quite difficult finding sleep after your recent ordeal." Doral spends the rest of the watch chatting quietly about unrevealing, and most likely almost entirely false, stories about travelling as a merchant through Zilargo.
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Kraken takes the time to lash together a few canopies of branches covered with broad leaves, to keep the worst of the rain of everybody. Curling up beneath his one he mutters
"I'll take watch before dawn, I'm usually up then anyway. Wake me if anyone gets eaten again."
Midian slumps a bit at the mention of the recent attack and what he sees as his own failure for yet another being in his company.
"So long as I have the time in the morning to meditate, we can take whatever watch is uncovered," Midian says, gesturing to include himself and his ape--which has climbed a nearby tree and huddles on a fat branch. [color=sandybrown]"Wake me whenever someone needs to be spelled. With that, the druid begins to make preparations to sleep.
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"I can take any watch you like me to take, I have no need to prepare any magic. My eyes are not extraordinary keen, but unhindered by darkness." Glaive says to the others, sitting a bit away from them.
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As the sun sets the air is filled with the songs and calls of jungle creatures. Bird calls slowly give way to distant primate cries. Midian's Ape sits up and sometimes chuff's loudly at the cries, perhaps hearing the call of his own tribe. Sleep would be difficult with all the strange noises, but fatigue helps you settle in. Dorel and Whisper talk quietly throughout the first watch before waking Glaive to take the second.
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Shortly after the others turn in you begin feel a growing sense of unease. It's the feeling before a big thunderstorm, the air hangs heavy with tension seeking release. The sensation makes you uncomfortable; it is a cold and dark feeling. A small part of your soul, still heavy with the taint of demonic influence, seems to sing with pleasure at its touch. You remain on alert throughout your watch, but can seem to find no source of the influence.
OOC - During the coming battle the unusual sensation does not seem to be coming from the creature before you.
Glaive slowly becomes aware of a change in the environment around him. The animal calls around him have ceased, though the distant echoing cries still carry through the air. Looking around he suddenly notices movement among the sleeping forms by the fire! Thick vines covered in leaves snake amid the sleeping forms, gently touching here and there as if tasting each form. Following them back to their source, he sees a huge leafy form. You can see no legs on the creature simply a pillar of vegetation. The vines are attached around a gaping orifice lined with broken splinters of wood reminiscent of teeth! Glaive's shout of warning rouses the sleeping party.
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Kraken sighs as he gets up, picking up his falchion (habitually stuck in the ground next to him) as he goes.
"What's a fella got to do to get a bloody night's kip around here?" he says to no-one in particular as he moves to put himself between the thing and the spellcasters. "Snack on this ya mangy bastard."
He brings his falchion down in a mighty overhand chop.
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Doral tries to take a few steps back away from the creature before a stream of bright colors flies from his body and towards the creature's eyes, "I swear! It's as if a man can't get a proper nights sleep anymore!" Doral is rendered invisible at the same time, giving an eery effect as his disembodied voice finishes his exclamation.
A moment after shouting a warning, Glaive channels eldritch power into a bolt of energy. It streaks towards the creature and impacts in the center of its chest. Kraken leaps to his feet, pulling his blade from the ground at the same time and rushes the creature. His powerful strike severs branches and vines, staggering the creature for a second. Dorel quickly casts his spell while the creature is distracted. In a bizarre spectacle, all the color from Dorel bleeds away, even light and darkness until he is no longer visible. A maelstrom of light hurtles towards the creature and erupts in a riot of colors. The creature waves its viney tentacles in confusion for a moment before reorienting on its victims. Midian moves away from the lashing vines and shouts for his ape. The creature moves to engage it while Midian begins casting a summoning spell. The ape leaps down out of the trees behind it and tries to slap it with a massive paw, but misses. Whisper unleashes a several bolts of force that streak straight towards Kraken before veering around him at the last moment to strike the creature. The creature lets out a deep groan, like the sound of a tree being felled. It leans down and bites at Kraken, barely missing his head. Its two tentacles swat at Glaive and the Ape and strike them both! The vines begin to wrap around them both, though the ape manages to seize it in both hands and tear it away. The fissure carved by Krakens sword and the blasted bits from Whisper and Glaive's spells begin to knit together. Tiny vines like tendons and muscles slither within the wounds, drawing the damaged sections partially closed!
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The air seems to thrum like a plucked string as you draw on your eldritch energy. Perhaps it is the nature of the energy, drawn from your demonic gifts, or some other source. You feel the vibration pass from you and flow in the direction you have been traveling.
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The ape, maddened by its brief captivity, tears at the plant creature.
Midian continues to chant, and as he does, an animated fire churns to life behind the creature, lashing out with its flaming body.
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So sorry I've been awol. Next week should be much lighter, since the show I'm in is closing over the weekend. I'll sub out Midian's Bull's Strength for the summons: Nature's Ally II, Fire elemental, Small
Doesn't look like it hits, but if the plant decides to retaliate, it takes 1d4 burn damage and has to make a Reflex save (DC 11) for each hit or catch fire.
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Midian finishes his chant and a burst of flame erupts behind the creature. It extends itself like a pseudopod and tries to swat the plant creature but misses. Midian's ape roars and attacks the creature in a rage. It lands one powerful blow, rocking the immense body. Kraken and Glaive coordinate their attacks and carve deeply into the creatures mass. The creature retaliates by leaning down and chomping Kraken's upper body. The sharpened bits of wood pull free, leaving splinters in the wounds. It's long tentacles swat at Glaive and Midian's ape, but the primate is the only one struck. The sinuous vine starts to wrap around its body once more! It's entire body seems to be on the verge of collapse before the severed vines and branches reanimate and stabilize the creature.
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Your mind races as you try to remember all the obscure legends and studies regarding animated plant creatures. You suddenly recall a thesis paper written about the Tendriculous plant. It is a highly mobile plant that feeds off of living prey. When stuffed in its maw, powerful poisons paralyze the victim and it is quickly digested. They are difficult to kill as the severed pieces quickly heal and reanimate the creature. You recall that only blunt trauma and acid can kill off the creature permanently.
Sensing weakness, Whisper rejoins the fray, sending another flurry of wildly spinning, yet unerringly guided, magical blasts at the ailing plant monster!
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