Parting Gifts: Ch 1 - Dusk - IC

A sickly green aura spills from Haessellekh as she reaches out psychically, attempting to gain control of the colossal creature's mind. She raises her eyebrows in mild surprise upon seeing the fireseed actually harm the beast, but says nothing. The unexpected result seems to be completely forgotton however, as all of her concentration focuses on the Tarrasque's psyche. Blood begins to flow from one of her nostrils as pushes herself to the utmost.

OOC - Manifests fully augmented Psionic Dominate. Using Overchannel to push the DC 1 higher (DC 32). 27 damage to self.

(ooc: Psionic Dominate has a 1 round manifesting time, so the result will not be revealed until the next round.)

Zach sees the acid hit Kurina, and thinks a moment to go help her, and heal her, but he shakes his head as he continues to fly towards the monstrosity, intending to by as much time as possible with his knew form.

Kurina grimaces in pain and lets the wind carry her to some vantage point within good range of the beast. Hopefully the beast would be confused by her dissapearance and unable to find her until she could renew her assault. And judging from what happened with that fire seed, maybe her flaming arrows were hurting it more than she thought.

If there's a good vantage point (Big rock, stable tree-branch, building, whatever) within range of it, she'll d-door there. Closest possible, with a max distance of ~330'. If there's nothing good, she'll try to appear near something (tree, rock, whatever) she could use for cover while still getting a shot at it.

Preferably on the other side of the beast if available. If she gets its attention again, she wants it heading away from town.

Grandfather chortles ultrasonically. Well now, that changed things.

He calls to mind a variant of the same spell...but THIS fire seed blazed with all the fury of the summer sun, burning like a little piece of the plane of fire itself. He flies higher, angling for a good firing position as he does.

(Maximized Fire Seed and move higher)

"So it is not quite invulnerable," Yolo notes. "That is somewhat encouraging."

Chanting a quick prayer, he swoops to within 75' of the beast and utters and anathema.

Casts destruction, DC 26.

Zach swoops towards the monster, and it sees him coming. Angry now, it turns its face towards him and bites him as he arrives!

The giant Zach is a skilled warrior, and manages to keep his vitals out of the creatures mouth, but he's cut from the scraping. (ooc: 40 damage, 20 of which were temp hp from Greater Heroism)

He sees an opportunity in the current proximity of the giant beast's neck, and slashes into it with his enlarged scimitar. (ooc: crit) The beast again ROARS in pain as he does some damage, but it is not really as hurt as he might have hoped.

Kurina sees a large tree about 300' away. Vanishing, she appears behind it. It will be a while before she can pull that trick again. (ooc: 4 rounds) Most of the acid has dripped off of her or evaporated, but some remains, and it continues to burn her. (ooc: 5 damage)

Yolo casts his spell and it appears to irritate the tarrasque, but no more. (ooc: Beat SR, but it saved)

(ooc: round 4)

The tarrasque turns on Zach with a fury! It tries to bite him, and almost chews his head clean off, but the displacement effect fooled it, and it snaps its jars in empty air. Its horns miss as well, but it manages to claw him twice and whack him with its mighty tail. (ooc: 47 damage.)

Haessellekh doesn't think she was able to gain control of the creature's mind. (ooc: didn't beat SR)

Grandfather casts a spell, creating another Fire seed, that he'll toss when he can.

(left to act are Zach, Haessellekh, Kurina, and Yolo)

Now steadied and somewhat safe, Kurina lines up her bow and begins unloading arrows into the beast.


Rapid Shot, counting the -2 range penalty (165' range increments): +33/33/28/23/18, Damage 1d8+9 +1d6 fire. Threat 19-20/X3

Zach, knowing defense isn't an option at the moment goes for an all out assault on the monster, slashing at it with his scimitar and bashing it back with his shield, screaming at the monster in fury.

OOC +39/+34/+29/+24 melee [1d6+20+2d6 Holy; 15-20/x2; Slashing; Holy Avenger Scimitar]
Only TWF +38/+33 melee [1d4+9; x2; Piercing; Wounding, +3 Defending Wounding Spiked Light Steel Shield]

Kurina still feels sick from the acid, but luck is with her at the moment and she hits the monster with all five of her shots; the last impacts near a leg joint and seems to do a bit more damage than the others, but overall any damage to the monster seems small, as the other arrows practically just bounce off, but perhaps the flames do a little damage.

Zach's next strike hits the monster in the neck again as it howls in fury. Quickly he follows up with more slashes of his large scimitar and shield bashes, hurting it with the scimitar twice more, though his last blow slides off the creature's armor-like plating. While the damage he's done to it is not insignificant, drawing blood and howls, it is still rather less than he might have expected given the placement and force of his strikes.

His shield bashes seem completely ineffective; despite what he would take to be solid hits, the giant shield seems to do no damage to the monster whatsoever.

The monster is surprisingly agile given its enormous bulk, and the ground shakes as its huge claws dig into the wheat field.

(ooc: Waiting for Yolo to act)