((OOC: I had a nice little narrative set up, but then the board logged me out and ate it, so I'm going with raw details and hoping I don't lose it again:
Dunno how to get IC to do empowered calculations, so I have to add the extra 1/2 manually. I believe that makes this 28 for this bolt (it's stronger already 'cause it's raining. Hooray for rain!) Call Lightning in rain (Empowered shard: add 1/2) (3d10=19)
We're fighting flesh eaters and she's taking notes for a field journal," the rogue thinks to himself. If Doral can maintain the image he will continue to try to toy and continue to distract the second beast with the edible-looking fat merchant. If that doesn't work out he will instead take out his wand of magic missiles and strike the first beast, which is locked in combat with Kraken.
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OOC to Jkason: The figure that looks like its wearing red shorts is Doral illusionary fat man, I think. Kraken's figure is the one putting his weight onto his back foot as he winds up for a sword swing, just below the entangled area.
"Why you bloody...," Kraken mutters. Midian's lightning seems to linger around the shaggy shaman, flickering sparks play across the tip of his beard, his scruffy hair and the edge of his falchion. His eyes seem to spark with the fury of the storm. The rain mingles with the blood from his wounds and runs down his body in rust-red rivulets.
Moving suddenly with superhuman speed, Kraken leaps at the undead, bringing his falchion down in a wide arc. This time he is braced for the jarring impact. If the thing is absorbing his blows, he just needs to strike harder. He spins in a nimble dance of death, slamming the sword into the side of the undead again.
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Going into Whirling Frenzy, giving +4 Strength, +2 AC and an extra attack (both at -2). AC is now 17 base, raised to 19 with the Shield of Faith. His charge penalty has now worn off. ON the subject of DR, his falchion is magical if that makes a difference.
Damage 2d4 7=12, 2d4 7=13, 2d4 7=12
Assuming that 19 confirms the critical for the second attack, use the third damage roll.
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OOC - Is your weapon effected by damage reduction, does it have a type such as slashing, piercing, etc or is it untyped magical damage like the eldritch blast?
ooc: just like eldritch blast.
Glaive makes a step toward his darkness effect, as he continues to attack the large undead creature.
Kraken whirls his falchion in a deadly arc and carves the creature once across the chest. The steel grinds against the bone and surprisingly draws sparks this time. Glaive swings his eldritch blade at the creature but misses it as it nimbly dodges away. Dorel continues to concentrate on his illusion, causing the merchant to stumble to his knees and attempt to crawl away from the slashing claws of the creature. Whisper flings another three bolts of energy at her target and is rewarded with the sight of creature chunks exploding outward from the impacts. Midian finishes incanting his spell and the storm overhead howls with unnatural intensity. He concentrates and thrusts both hands forward at the creature. With a brilliant flash of light, a bolt of electricity lances out of the sky and strikes the creature near him. It goes rigid for a moment as millions of volts of electricity passes through it. At the same moment and booming crack of thunder shakes the air around him. Midian's ape bounds forward and attacks with its claws, but misses.
The creature Kraken struck presses its attack against him. It strikes with both of its claws, but misses as it tries to bite him. Kraken looks badly injured by the creatures talons. The second beast attacks the fat merchant in front of it again, but it suddenly stops as one claw passes all the way through the illusion. It's head swivels about as it seeks out a new target. With a loud shriek of hunger and anger, its eyes alight upon Midian.
With a brilliant flash of light, a bolt of electricity lances out of the sky and strikes the creature near him. It goes rigid for a moment as millions of volts of electricity passes through it. At the same moment and booming crack of thunder shakes the air around him. Midian's ape bounds forward and attacks with its claws, but misses.
The creature Kraken struck presses its attack against him. It strikes with both of its claws, but misses as it tries to bite him. Kraken looks badly injured by the creatures talons. The second beast attacks the fat merchant in front of it again, but it suddenly stops as one claw passes all the way through the illusion. It's head swivels about as it seeks out a new target. With a loud shriek of hunger and anger, its eyes alight upon Midian.
Midian bites his lip as the creature turns its attention to him. Whistling for Garuk to guard him, he retreats through the brush, calling down another bolt of lightning in hopes of (re)-killing the creature before it can reach him.
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I'm guessing the brush below Midian is also difficult terrain, so a 30' move through that will hopefully mean the undead has to spend more movement than Midian to get to him. Using standard action to call another lightning bolt:
25 electrical damage: Roll 17 + 8 for empowered shard
Garuk should be close enough for a full attack this round, so:
Doral sighs as he realizes that his illusion was no longer going to be effective, nor was it likely that the majority of the rest of his spells would be of use against undead. Pulling out his wand of magic missiles he aims at the injured creature battling Kraken and looses its three bolts.
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Whisper moves over towards the others, keeping them between herself and the monsters. When she spies one moving towards Midian, she repeats her spell, hurling another triad of motes at the creature!
Midian's final lightning bolt shatters the frame of the skeletal creature. Bits and pieces scatter widely across the ground, most still grasping and flexing as if still seeking living prey. Seeing the first creature go down, Whisper redirects her magical attack against Kraken and Glaive's foe, striking it just as Dorel's own bolts impact. The first set of bolts shatters its arms and takes out a knee. The final volley breaks its rib cage and spine, leaving it helpless on the ground. The creatures jaws snap open and close with audible clacks for a few moments more before going still. The storm overhead continues to rage, and somewhere in the darkness the entangled and dying reptiles bleat piteously.
With the two undead monsters down, Glaive realizes the injured man that has helped them and moves to help him. He uses his wand to heal Kraken's wounds, still looking for more enemies approaching.
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OOC: Sorry for my lack of input, been away. I wrote a post for Kraken yesterday but ENWorld ate it, so there are 2 d20 rolls sitting on Invisible Castle, wasting away...
WD, not sure where you got the impression that these were giants - the post above says they are "almost 6 ft. tall".
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Kraken grins and turns his face upwards towards the storm. He closes his eyes, and his rapid breathing slows as he mutters some words under his breath. After a moment, shoulders sagging with weariness he suddenly notices Glaive.
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Doral moves out from the brush and gingerly toes at some of the pieces of creature with an inquisitive eye for detail. "Well, I am definitely pleased to be part of such a capable group. Should we lick our wounds a bit, or see if we can track where these things have come from?"
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"Ah, she'll be right, Glaive mate," says Kraken. He looks down at his wounds and seems to notice them for the first time. "On second thought, yeah, might be good. It'd be a bit embarrassing to fall down in front of the ladies, eh?" He nods towards Raysuldra and Whisper, with a grin and a wink directed towards Glaive.
Without waiting for the warlock to perform the healing, Kraken kneels down next to the pile of bones. Unlike Doral's careful probing, Kraken simply dives in and begins rooting around with his hands.
"These weren't your ordinary bonewalkers," he says, just loud enough for the others to hear. "Did you see me blade skate off them like they were made of stone? It's supposed to contain the bound will of a hundred ancestor warriors too, so what are they made of?" He rummages throught the remains in search of clues.
With a glance at Doral, he adds, "I can set a camp, find you bush tucker and not get lost, but tracking I was never much good at. And at night, in the rain? Besides, the old shaman used to say 'don't hunt deadfellas in the dark'. Might be wise to listen to him, eh?"
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"Kraken's right," Whisper says briskly as she comes up to the re-dead bodies. "Night is their time. Not to mention, these things don't seem to have been trying to sneak up on us specifically. They were attacking those animals for some reason."
She murmurs a spell in strange sibilant whispers, and her eyes shimmer with a moment of azure light.
(Casting Detect Magic to scan the bodies)
"I haven't studied undead before, unfortunately, so I'm not sure what these are."
"Thanks mate," says Kraken to Glaive. "Reckon I could take on a pack of those mongrels again, eh?" Despite his most grievous wounds having healed, Kraken still looks quite tired and wan.
He listens to Whisper's musings even as he continues to turn over bones.
"I ain't so sure Miss, " he says. "Those lizards, we've got packs of them roaming the scrub. They eat mostly leaves, the odd bird or rat, food you leave out for later. Nothing about 'em worth attacking. Now, *either* these deadfellas are of the sort that just attack anything that moves, or, " he picks up a shinbone and waves it at Whisper, "some flamin' mongrel pointed them our way and said 'kill anything that moves'. Those lizards just got in the way."
He tries to break the shinbone on a rock.
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She looks up at Kraken, face hidden behind the smooth mask she wears.
"Like I said, I'm no expert on the undead, but they did seem to be following those creatures, killing them. I'm not sure what that means, other than it doesn't seem completely random. Mindless undead might attack them in passing, but I don't think they'd follow them or hunt them without being specifically ordered to. So either these had orders, or they weren't mindless. Either of those would beg the question of -why bother-?"
She pauses, then asks, "Do you know of other examples of animals being killed for no apparent reason by undead?"
Doral frowns at Kraken while then giving a small shrug, "Ah well. It was a small hope, but I had supposed that if these undead were being guided by something then it would be wise to stop them at their source. Mayhaps we'll get another opportunity, hopefully one that will be on our own terms."
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