There is a yelp of pain as Wat unleashes his blast of astral wind followed by a second closer yelp moments later. Rain feels the world unthread about her for a moment, the leering goblin appearing by her side slashing at her throat. Compelled, she strikes at the creature with her sword which causes pain to lance through her head.
The others can see Fiddlesticks is actually behind Rain, not to the side where she strikes out and makes no motion to attack whatsoever as Rain perceives. Blood runs from the creature's ears and nose freely, and it cowers with a look of absolute terror on its face.
His jaw quavers as though struggling to speak in response to Rain's plea to stop. His clenched fist, drips with a black ichor which dissipates as the leprechaun opens its hand, sinking to the ground.
He reaises his hands:
"I'm ... I'm so sorry! Soryth snatched my mind! So Blind! So sorry sorry sorry!" The wee man begins shaking and weeping quietly.
As soon as Fiddlesticks opens his hand and releases the ichor, the pain that threatened Rain's mind relents, fading before it does her any real damage.
The glade is still. Slowly the sounds of birds returns. At the edge of the woods curious bearded faces begin to reappear. Seeing that the danger has passed the leprechauns gingerly return to the shamrock patch, looking up at you with hopeful smiles, and tiny pats on your calves of congratulations.
GM: | Combat over! Chapter 1 complete! (Pretty much) Congratulations! You may now level up to level 2! | |
[sblock=Combat Actions]
Xivorts all dead (Xivort 1 didn't make an OAtk vs Gray; it was Dazed)
Fiddlesticks marked and caught in Wat's blast and moving closer takes 4 extra damage blooding him.
Moves behind Rain and uses False Presence: Rain is compelled to make an OAtk: On a hit: Rain takes 10 psychic dmg on a miss he takes 10 ongoing psychic dmg. Fiddlesticks appears in another square adjacent to Rain, now visible.
I made a diplomacy check for Rain after the fact; He could only be returned to his normal state once bloodied and Rain made the attempt before Wat bloodied him. So I figured it was fair to let him have his attack and then roll diplomacy anyway. The crit 20 roll was enough to convince me to neutralise that attack. So congratulations! You did it! And you didn't kill Fiddlesticks!
11/30 HPs left
[MENTION=6684473]CrimsonFlameWielder[/MENTION] I will get an XP tally up soon, and I'll have our illustrious judge sweep in and approve this one as it is a level up. I hope Gray makes it as well. If he doesn't we will level him up to level 2 anyway and you can pay off the XP like we did for TCO.
As I want Zuri to remain relevant, I'm going to give her PC the XP even though she was NPC'd. I may ask about and see if anyone would like to take control of her until the end of the adventure. Let me know your thoughts on that idea in the OOC thread if you like.[/sblock]