[IC2] Pool of Radiance
Thanee
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While the adventurers watch the entrances and marvel about the strange construction, a portion of the wall in the north-east slides open, and a huge lizardman the size of an ogre emerges from it.
Apparantly being angry about something he quickly charges in, his sharp claws ready to strike.
OOC: I will draw a map and start combat with initiative rolls and so on tomorrow. Please do not post here for now (once combat starts, only post in the COMBAT thread; I will post a summary for each combat round here, and afterwards posting continues on here as normal).
Apparantly being angry about something he quickly charges in, his sharp claws ready to strike.
OOC: I will draw a map and start combat with initiative rolls and so on tomorrow. Please do not post here for now (once combat starts, only post in the COMBAT thread; I will post a summary for each combat round here, and afterwards posting continues on here as normal).
Thanee
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1348 DR, Day 15 of Mirtul (spring) - evening
Battle Map - Round 0
Status:
Earmy - unscathed
Eldwyn - unscathed
Eliath - unscathed
Emagor - unscathed, Greater Mage Armor
Peabody - unscathed
Professor - unscathed
Large Lizardman - unscathed
[smallcaps]Combat Declarations[/smallcaps]
Battle Map - Round 0
Status:
Earmy - unscathed
Eldwyn - unscathed
Eliath - unscathed
Emagor - unscathed, Greater Mage Armor
Peabody - unscathed
Professor - unscathed
Large Lizardman - unscathed
[smallcaps]Combat Declarations[/smallcaps]
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Thanee
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Round 1
Battle Map - Round 1
Earmy casts a spell to protect himself from harm, and then readies his bow and an arrow to be prepared for the large foe.
"A lizard creature, interesting..." the professor says. Then he realizes the beast wants to attack them, and hastily grabs his hand crossbow, firing a bolt at the enemy. The bolt finds its mark, even though it is not nearly as precise as the gnome is used to, probably he fired it off a bit too quickly. Nonetheless it seems to hurt the lizardman quite a bit, which only makes him even more angry.
With a quick pull of the trigger Eliath sends a small bolt off towards the beast, hoping to wound it further. Its size compared to the creature is almost laughable but Eliath aims for something vital. And indeed, he manages to hit something vital. Unfortunately, it is not part of the lizardman. The bolt flies over his head and strikes a vent sitting there on the ceiling. Immediately upon impact, a sharp hiss can be heard, which slowly gets louder.
His sling already in hand, Eldwyn lets fly at the over-sized lizardman. The halfling hits the creature and further adds to its wounds.
Emagor, putting his faith in his Greater Mage Armor, boldly strides forward toward the lizardman and casts a spell to improve his damage. Realizing, that he won't be able to reach his for, he stops near Eliath and readies himself for the arrival of their enemy.
The lizardman steps forward towards Emagor and Eliath and rips at them both with his sharp claws. He manages to hit both of hits targets and wound them lightly.
Now that he is closer, you can see, that he wears a rusty chain shirt, which looks like it is put together in some kind of patchwork fashion, probably the remains of a number of his past victims.
Status:
Earmy - unscathed, Shield
Eldwyn - unscathed
Eliath - lightly wounded
Emagor - lightly wounded, Greater Mage Armor
Peabody - unscathed
Professor - unscathed
Large Lizardman - moderately wounded
[smallcaps]Combat Declarations[/smallcaps]
Battle Map - Round 1
Earmy casts a spell to protect himself from harm, and then readies his bow and an arrow to be prepared for the large foe.
"A lizard creature, interesting..." the professor says. Then he realizes the beast wants to attack them, and hastily grabs his hand crossbow, firing a bolt at the enemy. The bolt finds its mark, even though it is not nearly as precise as the gnome is used to, probably he fired it off a bit too quickly. Nonetheless it seems to hurt the lizardman quite a bit, which only makes him even more angry.
With a quick pull of the trigger Eliath sends a small bolt off towards the beast, hoping to wound it further. Its size compared to the creature is almost laughable but Eliath aims for something vital. And indeed, he manages to hit something vital. Unfortunately, it is not part of the lizardman. The bolt flies over his head and strikes a vent sitting there on the ceiling. Immediately upon impact, a sharp hiss can be heard, which slowly gets louder.
His sling already in hand, Eldwyn lets fly at the over-sized lizardman. The halfling hits the creature and further adds to its wounds.
Emagor, putting his faith in his Greater Mage Armor, boldly strides forward toward the lizardman and casts a spell to improve his damage. Realizing, that he won't be able to reach his for, he stops near Eliath and readies himself for the arrival of their enemy.
The lizardman steps forward towards Emagor and Eliath and rips at them both with his sharp claws. He manages to hit both of hits targets and wound them lightly.
Now that he is closer, you can see, that he wears a rusty chain shirt, which looks like it is put together in some kind of patchwork fashion, probably the remains of a number of his past victims.
Status:
Earmy - unscathed, Shield
Eldwyn - unscathed
Eliath - lightly wounded
Emagor - lightly wounded, Greater Mage Armor
Peabody - unscathed
Professor - unscathed
Large Lizardman - moderately wounded
[smallcaps]Combat Declarations[/smallcaps]
Thanee
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Round 2
Battle Map - Round 2
As his bow is in his hands at the end of his spell and he drew an arrow just moments before, Earmy draws back on his string and shoots the arrow. The arrow hits its mark, but the large creature isn't distracted enough to allow Earmy to aim for a vital spot. Instead, the arrow only lightly wounds the lizardman.
Professor Schnickschnack makes sure he is not within the lizard creature's reach, trying to find a shade to hide, so he can fire another bolt at it. While he cannot fire immediately, he does seem to have successfully removed himself from the beats's focus.
"Try and surround it," Eliath says to Emagor as the elf steps up. "It is big and dumb we should be able to bring it down easy enough."
Eliath steps aside the pains of his wounds fresh in his head. He tries to draw away the creature's attention so Emagor can get in behind it. Then he thrusts at the beast but the point gets caught in some of the finer chains of the gargantuan's armor.
Pleased with his first volley, Eldwyn winds up his weapon again and slings another stone at the big lizardman, which puts a sizable dent into his armor, and causes him to grunt in pain.
Emagor is concentrating too much on the business at hand to have any energy to spare for idle chatter, or to notice the opening, Eliath is providing him with. He attacks the great lizard beast again with his longsword, but the beast's chain shirt catches the blade and prevents any injury from it.
The lizardman attacks the two closest targets, again, Emagor and Eliath. Once more, his sharp claws dig into their flesh, painfully wounding both of them further with his powerful attacks.
To make matters worse, one of the doors on the other side of the room opens, and an older human in robes steps into the doorway.
“What do we have here? Did some of my experiments actually manage to... Hmm, interesting. I don't think I know you... yet.”
Status:
Earmy - unscathed, Shield
Eldwyn - unscathed
Eliath - moderately wounded
Emagor - moderately wounded, Greater Mage Armor
Peabody - unscathed
Professor - unscathed, hidden
Large Lizardman - moderately wounded
Yarash - unscathed
[smallcaps]Combat Declarations[/smallcaps]
Battle Map - Round 2
As his bow is in his hands at the end of his spell and he drew an arrow just moments before, Earmy draws back on his string and shoots the arrow. The arrow hits its mark, but the large creature isn't distracted enough to allow Earmy to aim for a vital spot. Instead, the arrow only lightly wounds the lizardman.
Professor Schnickschnack makes sure he is not within the lizard creature's reach, trying to find a shade to hide, so he can fire another bolt at it. While he cannot fire immediately, he does seem to have successfully removed himself from the beats's focus.
"Try and surround it," Eliath says to Emagor as the elf steps up. "It is big and dumb we should be able to bring it down easy enough."
Eliath steps aside the pains of his wounds fresh in his head. He tries to draw away the creature's attention so Emagor can get in behind it. Then he thrusts at the beast but the point gets caught in some of the finer chains of the gargantuan's armor.
Pleased with his first volley, Eldwyn winds up his weapon again and slings another stone at the big lizardman, which puts a sizable dent into his armor, and causes him to grunt in pain.
Emagor is concentrating too much on the business at hand to have any energy to spare for idle chatter, or to notice the opening, Eliath is providing him with. He attacks the great lizard beast again with his longsword, but the beast's chain shirt catches the blade and prevents any injury from it.
The lizardman attacks the two closest targets, again, Emagor and Eliath. Once more, his sharp claws dig into their flesh, painfully wounding both of them further with his powerful attacks.
To make matters worse, one of the doors on the other side of the room opens, and an older human in robes steps into the doorway.
“What do we have here? Did some of my experiments actually manage to... Hmm, interesting. I don't think I know you... yet.”
Status:
Earmy - unscathed, Shield
Eldwyn - unscathed
Eliath - moderately wounded
Emagor - moderately wounded, Greater Mage Armor
Peabody - unscathed
Professor - unscathed, hidden
Large Lizardman - moderately wounded
Yarash - unscathed
[smallcaps]Combat Declarations[/smallcaps]
Thanee
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Round 3
Battle Map - Round 3
Earmy aims his bow at the large lizardfolk. His arrow is precise despite the distracting movement in the melee, and sinks deep into the brute's side.
Schnickschnack calls out "Earmy, move away, I'm coming..." and a moment later, a globe of darkness appears, stretching all around.
Confused as to which way the Professer wants him to move, he heads to the south, hoping for the best. Unfortunately, that means, that he cannot see anything at all right now, as he is within the sphere of darkness created by the gnomish Professor. At least he has walls within reach to guide his step.
Eliath takes a deft step as he tries to get on the other side of the beast. He feints and then stabs at the creature. Distracted just for the moment, the lizardman howls in pain, as Eliath sinks his blade deep into his side.
Eldwyn sings a brief spell and vanishes from sight.
Emagor, somewhat disheartened by the repeated disappearance of his so-called "friends" apparently leaving him to stand toe-to-toe with the enormous Lizardman all by his poor lonesome self, once again reaches down within his vast stores of testicular fortitude and strikes out at the scaly foe with his sword. Trembling slightly, the blade misses its mark. Peabody merely shudders and cowers against Emagor's neck, whimpering his little iguana whimper.
The lizardman now fully concentrates his attacks on Eliath, ripping the elf's flesh with his massive claws. Despite his visible exhaustion, taxed by the many wounds he sustains, one claw manages to wound Eliath. The elf begins to feel his wounds draining away his strength as well now.
“Hide and seek we play?” The aging man says. “I don' think so!”
He casts a spell and aims into the room, a wide grin on his face. The grin vanishes as the spell apparantly has no effect.
“That is not what it was supposed to do...”
[SBLOCK=Spellcraft DC 18]Dispel Magic[/SBLOCK]
Status:
Earmy - unscathed, Shield
Eldwyn - unscathed, Invisibility
Eliath - severely wounded, fatigued
Emagor - moderately wounded, Greater Mage Armor
Peabody - unscathed
Professor - unscathed, Blacklight (on small item)
Large Lizardman - critically wounded, exhausted
Yarash - unscathed
[smallcaps]Combat Declarations[/smallcaps]
Battle Map - Round 3
Earmy aims his bow at the large lizardfolk. His arrow is precise despite the distracting movement in the melee, and sinks deep into the brute's side.
Schnickschnack calls out "Earmy, move away, I'm coming..." and a moment later, a globe of darkness appears, stretching all around.
Confused as to which way the Professer wants him to move, he heads to the south, hoping for the best. Unfortunately, that means, that he cannot see anything at all right now, as he is within the sphere of darkness created by the gnomish Professor. At least he has walls within reach to guide his step.
Eliath takes a deft step as he tries to get on the other side of the beast. He feints and then stabs at the creature. Distracted just for the moment, the lizardman howls in pain, as Eliath sinks his blade deep into his side.
Eldwyn sings a brief spell and vanishes from sight.
Emagor, somewhat disheartened by the repeated disappearance of his so-called "friends" apparently leaving him to stand toe-to-toe with the enormous Lizardman all by his poor lonesome self, once again reaches down within his vast stores of testicular fortitude and strikes out at the scaly foe with his sword. Trembling slightly, the blade misses its mark. Peabody merely shudders and cowers against Emagor's neck, whimpering his little iguana whimper.
The lizardman now fully concentrates his attacks on Eliath, ripping the elf's flesh with his massive claws. Despite his visible exhaustion, taxed by the many wounds he sustains, one claw manages to wound Eliath. The elf begins to feel his wounds draining away his strength as well now.
“Hide and seek we play?” The aging man says. “I don' think so!”
He casts a spell and aims into the room, a wide grin on his face. The grin vanishes as the spell apparantly has no effect.
“That is not what it was supposed to do...”
[SBLOCK=Spellcraft DC 18]Dispel Magic[/SBLOCK]
Status:
Earmy - unscathed, Shield
Eldwyn - unscathed, Invisibility
Eliath - severely wounded, fatigued
Emagor - moderately wounded, Greater Mage Armor
Peabody - unscathed
Professor - unscathed, Blacklight (on small item)
Large Lizardman - critically wounded, exhausted
Yarash - unscathed
[smallcaps]Combat Declarations[/smallcaps]
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
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Thanee
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Round 4
Battle Map - Round 4
Earmy carefully moves along the wall until he can see again, and turns his attention back towards the big fight in the center of the room, once he does. He then casts a spell to increase his reflexes.
The Professor slowly moves forward and fires his tiny crossbow at the huge lizardman. The bolt strikes him in a vital spot and the big brute seems visibly weakened now.
Eliath side step up behind the ferocious lizardman. "You stinking bug-eater! You will wish you had fled with that scaled tail between your legs instead of facing me!"
His rapier flies out, but in his somewhat weakened state, the elf does not manage to penetrate the tough skin of the lizard.
Eldwyn moves quietly over to Eliath and uses the wand to provide a cure. He feels the healing magic giving him a good amount of his strength back.
Emagor, still not quite realizing Eliath's flanking maneuver, which finally comes into effect, boldly strides into his thrust at the great lizardman's vitals! Peabody cowers most effectively. At the incredibly loud noise, the tiny lizard dares to take a peek, seeing the much larger lizard on the ground and his master staring at his sword in disbelief.
“Ok, now the playing stops!” proclaims Yarash the Wizard. He raises his arms in an arcane gesture and speaks words of power. A tiny flaming ball races towards the center of the room and bursts into fire, spreading everywhere. Earmy is somewhat glad to have taken the Professor's advice earlier and backed off, since he is spared from the flames, as is the gnome himself. The other adventurers and even Peabody are scorched badly, yelping out in pain. Only Emagor seems to have had some luck and evaded the worst of the fireball. As the flames settle, Eliath is lying on the ground. The large lizardman is burnt beyond hope.
Status:
Earmy - unscathed, Shield, Cat's Grace
Eldwyn - critically wounded, exhausted, Invisibility
Eliath - dying
Emagor - severely wounded, fatigued, Greater Mage Armor
Peabody - severely wounded, fatigued
Professor - unscathed, Blacklight (on small item)
Large Lizardman - dead
Yarash - unscathed
[smallcaps]Combat Declarations[/smallcaps]
Battle Map - Round 4
Earmy carefully moves along the wall until he can see again, and turns his attention back towards the big fight in the center of the room, once he does. He then casts a spell to increase his reflexes.
The Professor slowly moves forward and fires his tiny crossbow at the huge lizardman. The bolt strikes him in a vital spot and the big brute seems visibly weakened now.
Eliath side step up behind the ferocious lizardman. "You stinking bug-eater! You will wish you had fled with that scaled tail between your legs instead of facing me!"
His rapier flies out, but in his somewhat weakened state, the elf does not manage to penetrate the tough skin of the lizard.
Eldwyn moves quietly over to Eliath and uses the wand to provide a cure. He feels the healing magic giving him a good amount of his strength back.
Emagor, still not quite realizing Eliath's flanking maneuver, which finally comes into effect, boldly strides into his thrust at the great lizardman's vitals! Peabody cowers most effectively. At the incredibly loud noise, the tiny lizard dares to take a peek, seeing the much larger lizard on the ground and his master staring at his sword in disbelief.
“Ok, now the playing stops!” proclaims Yarash the Wizard. He raises his arms in an arcane gesture and speaks words of power. A tiny flaming ball races towards the center of the room and bursts into fire, spreading everywhere. Earmy is somewhat glad to have taken the Professor's advice earlier and backed off, since he is spared from the flames, as is the gnome himself. The other adventurers and even Peabody are scorched badly, yelping out in pain. Only Emagor seems to have had some luck and evaded the worst of the fireball. As the flames settle, Eliath is lying on the ground. The large lizardman is burnt beyond hope.
Status:
Earmy - unscathed, Shield, Cat's Grace
Eldwyn - critically wounded, exhausted, Invisibility
Eliath - dying
Emagor - severely wounded, fatigued, Greater Mage Armor
Peabody - severely wounded, fatigued
Professor - unscathed, Blacklight (on small item)
Large Lizardman - dead
Yarash - unscathed
[smallcaps]Combat Declarations[/smallcaps]
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Thanee
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Round 5
Battle Map - Round 5
Earmy hustles around the darkness to place himself within reach of the errant wizard.
The Professor waits for his allies to make their moves, planning to cover them with his darkness sphere.
Ignoring his own wounds for the moment, Eldwyn uses the wand to try and save Eliath. The elf opens his eyes, still looking a bit scorched, but at least he is conscious again.
The great lizardman having gone down to defeat, Emagor was just about to gloat to Peabody, when the fireball erupted around them, leaving both him and the iguana horribly scorched. "I say, Peabody, let's get the hell out of here!" says Emagor, to which Peabody halfheartedly responds with a weak voice, "Eeep?"
Emagor withdraws from the combat as expeditiously as he can safely do so, and as cautiously as he can heading for a protected spot at the rear of the party for now.
Once his allies have moved, the Professor steps forward, covering everything and all in darkness, much to Earmy's dismay, who has so carefully avoided the sphere of darkness. At least, their opponent won't have it any easier to see. The sound of his hand crossbow firing a bolt can be heard, followed by the distinctive grund of pain coming from the wizard.
From where Yarash was standing, a voice can be heard in the darkness. “Great, just great. These bugs are tougher than I thought...” followed by arcane words of power, but the spell he cast has no noticeable effect.
Status:
Earmy - unscathed, Shield, Cat's Grace
Eldwyn - critically wounded, exhausted, Invisibility
Eliath - severely wounded, fatigued, prone
Emagor - severely wounded, fatigued, Greater Mage Armor
Peabody - severely wounded, fatigued
Professor - unscathed, Blacklight (on small item)
Large Lizardman - dead
Yarash - moderately wounded, some spell effect
[smallcaps]Combat Declarations[/smallcaps]
Battle Map - Round 5
Earmy hustles around the darkness to place himself within reach of the errant wizard.
The Professor waits for his allies to make their moves, planning to cover them with his darkness sphere.
Ignoring his own wounds for the moment, Eldwyn uses the wand to try and save Eliath. The elf opens his eyes, still looking a bit scorched, but at least he is conscious again.
The great lizardman having gone down to defeat, Emagor was just about to gloat to Peabody, when the fireball erupted around them, leaving both him and the iguana horribly scorched. "I say, Peabody, let's get the hell out of here!" says Emagor, to which Peabody halfheartedly responds with a weak voice, "Eeep?"
Emagor withdraws from the combat as expeditiously as he can safely do so, and as cautiously as he can heading for a protected spot at the rear of the party for now.
Once his allies have moved, the Professor steps forward, covering everything and all in darkness, much to Earmy's dismay, who has so carefully avoided the sphere of darkness. At least, their opponent won't have it any easier to see. The sound of his hand crossbow firing a bolt can be heard, followed by the distinctive grund of pain coming from the wizard.
From where Yarash was standing, a voice can be heard in the darkness. “Great, just great. These bugs are tougher than I thought...” followed by arcane words of power, but the spell he cast has no noticeable effect.
Status:
Earmy - unscathed, Shield, Cat's Grace
Eldwyn - critically wounded, exhausted, Invisibility
Eliath - severely wounded, fatigued, prone
Emagor - severely wounded, fatigued, Greater Mage Armor
Peabody - severely wounded, fatigued
Professor - unscathed, Blacklight (on small item)
Large Lizardman - dead
Yarash - moderately wounded, some spell effect
[smallcaps]Combat Declarations[/smallcaps]
