(CSRHoD) Creamsteak's Red Hand of Doom II [IC]

[Vigwyn the Unruly]

Pender, Male Human Fighter 7

Pender rushes forward (as best he can in full plate armor underwater ) and attempts to free Avril by prying open the jaws of the great fish.

 

[Redclaw]

Seeing Avril in trouble, and his missiles failing to drive the creature away, Larian steps up, chanting an arcane word, Amplifico, and grasping the tail of the crocodile as it thrashes in the mouth of the fish. Instantly the transformed Avril grows to twice her size, stretching the mouth of the catfish.

[sblock=ooc] cast magic missile from memory, 4d4+4 damage.
CS, am I right in thinking Avril, in croc form, is not a valid target for my enlarge person spell? Cast enlarge person on Avril.[/sblock]

[sblock=spells]Spells Memorized
0--Detect Magic, Detect Magic, Light, Mage Hand, Lesser Acid Orb
1-- Color Spray, Shocking Grasp, Protection from Evil, Magic Missile, Mage Armor, Enlarge Person (trans.)
2-- See Invisibility, Scorching Ray, Scorching Ray, Knock, Bull's Strength (trans.)
3--(with bonus) Mass Resist Energy, Fireball, Dispell Magic, Displacement, Haste (trans.)
4-- Greater Invisibility, Greater Invisibility, Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer (trans.)
Spells In Effect
Mage Armor--14 hours from breaking camp

Rod of Extend--2 uses left
Pearl of Power--Available
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[Dalamar]

Siobhan takes the spear from Tyrla and then moves towards the catfish, hoping that it will lose interest in them when it realises that this meal is fighting back.

[sblock=OoC]Attack with MW shortspear +10 (1d6+4)[/sblock]

 

[Pinotage]

Avril - Human Druid (Crocodile) - AC 18 - hp 49/49 - Spot +13 - Listen +13

The catfish looked sluggish and fat, but it had a bite that held onto her stronger than she would've expected. Her crocodile tail lashed out against the water, attempting to free herself from the powerful jaws of the creature and its teeth. Panic had not yet started to set in, but she could feel the creature's throat attempting to get her down into its gullet. It was actually attempting to swallow her. She frantically swam again, hoping to escape.

[SBLOCK=OOC]OOC: Attempt to escape grapple. Grapple modifier: +9.

Spells and Abilities Active:

Wild Shape (Crocodile, 7 hours)
Extended Barkskin (140 minutes)

Spells Cast and Abilities/Items Used:

Wild Shape (1 Used)
Barkskin
Lesser Metamagic Rod of Extend (1 Used)

Spells Prepared (Normal 6/4/3/2/1, Wis 0/1/1/1/0):

Level 0 (6): Cure Minor Wounds (3), Detect Magic (2), Guidance
Level 1 (5): Cure Light Wounds, Enrage Animal, Faerie Fire, Obscuring Mist, Produce Flame
Level 2 (4): Barkskin, Bull's Strength, Cat's Grace
Level 3 (3): Call Lightning, Cure Moderate Wounds, Stone Shape
Level 4 (1): Flame Strike

Avril's Character Sheet [/SBLOCK]

 

[Arkhandus]

Warren the halfling, HP 44/44, AC 25 (t 20, f 21), Island of Blades stance

As soon as Pender gets close enough, Warren unleashes the attack he had been waiting for.... A quick stab mimicked by a cold, shadowy copy of his blade, freezing tiny bits of water in its wake. If he hits Avril by mistake, he'll be disappointed, but it's her own fault for engaging the thing in melee by herself like she did.

[sblock=ooc]Leaving it to the DM to roll for determining which grappler he hits. Warren acts right when Pender gets to the giant fish, so if Avril escapes before Pender's turn, it should be no problem.

Both attack rolls came out 28, so whichever one I'd choose, Warren still gets the extra cold damage from the shadow blade. So, 28 to hit, 9 piercing damage, and 1 cold damage. -_-

Short sword +13 melee for 1d4+5+1d6 damage, and Shadow Blade Technique +13 melee for 1d6 cold damage
Shadow Blade Technique against giant catfish (1d20+13=28, 1d4+5=8, 1d6=1, 1d20+13=28, 1d6=1) [/sblock]

 

[Creamsteak]

Initiatives
Tyrla
Larian
Pender
Warren
Avril
Siobhan
Fishstick

Tyrla draws a spear, but not for her own self-defense, rather to hand it off to Pender.

Larian takes advantage of his virtual plethora of transumation spells and casts enlarge person on Avril in crocodile form. This spell has the effect of increasing her size and making it fairly impossible for the fish to swallow her, but it does not automatically break her from the current held status.

Pender closes some amount of distance with the fish, but his heavy status and the water prove too challenging to both close the distance and land an attack. He ends his action 15 feet from the beast (only needs to move 10 to be in range, which is his move speed right now).

Warren looses himself from Pender and strikes with his technique against the dire catfish. His blade rips into the flesh of the massive bottomfeeder and rips open a fair portion of it's fatty tissue underneath it's skin. 10 damage.

Avril attempts to break free using an opposed grapple, but comes up a little weaker than the fish and does not break the hold.

Siobhan, like Pender, only manages to close the gap. She still needs to move another 10 feet to attack.

The monstrous fish willingly releases the enlarged croc, unsatisfied with it's strange ability to bloat itself up to the fish's own size. Seeing all of the strange tempting morsels that have decided to come closer, it decides that another snack would hit the spot right now. It lashes out against it's aggressor, the small halfling Warren. The bite attack hits, once again dealing only 7 damage. Warren is bested by the fish's strength, and now becomes held in it's mouth, threatening to take him into it's stomache on the following round if he can't find a way to get loose.

 

[Arkhandus]

Warren the halfling, HP 37/44, AC 25, Giant Killing Style

Warren grits his teeth for a moment, trying to avoid being swallowed by the giant fish. He tries to use his experience with fighting big monsters to shift position in its jaw, stab its gums or lips, and cut through. After a twirling of his blade and a sweep to try and invoke burning energy along its length....

[sblock=ooc]While he could try an Escape Artist check at +4, it doesn't seem likely that it would beat the fish's grapple check to get him free. So instead he'll try to stab and incinerate it first.

These actions are assuming that nobody else gets him free first somehow, since I'm not sure how they could. If he is somehow freed from its grip first, he'll use a different tactic.

For now, his action is to change stances to Giant Killing Style, for +2 on attack rolls and +4 on damage rolls against larger creatures. Then initiate Death Mark and attack. It's not really mentioned anywhere in the Bo9S whether or not Desert Wind maneuvers work underwater, but since it does mention a limitation on Stone Dragon maneuvers (and since some spells already have such a clause), I would assume that the designers intentionally did not limit DW in that way. Besides, Death Mark generates its fire inside the body of the target. I'm not quite sure if a strike maneuver can be used in a grapple, but from the grapple text and the way maneuvers work, I think so. Up to the DM of course.

If his Death Mark fails to work, he'll still be making an attack, at least.

Short sword +9 melee (+11, -4 grappling, +2 Giant Killing Style) for 1d4+12 piercing damage and 6d6+3 fire damage (Reflex DC 16 halves the fire damage), fire damage covers an area as well excluding Warren (20 ft. spread radius if target is Large, 30 ft. if Huge, 40 ft. if Gargantuant, 50 ft. if Colossal)[/sblock]

 

[Vigwyn the Unruly]

Pender, Male Human Barbarian 7

Frustrated by the slow pace of his movement underwater, Pender continues to lunge forward as quickly as he can. When he reaches the great fish, he grabs its mouth and attempts to pry open its jaws so that Warren can swim free.

[sblock=OOC]In mechanics terms, joining the grapple, goal is to break pin.[/sblock]

 

[Pinotage]

Avril - Human Druid (Crocodile) - AC 16 - hp 42/49 - Spot +13 - Listen +13

Avril felt her body grow in size, quietly thankful for Larian's spell that would stop her from becomming this large fish's food. She doesn't manage to jerk free, but strangely finds herself free as the sluggish fish quickly darts for the smaller halfling that had come to her aid. Warren! Her mind convulses at the thought of harm coming to Warren and she uses the increased weight and power of her large form to slam her massive tail and bulk into the catfish. With a little luck, the blow would dislodge Warren from the creature's mouth.

[SBLOCK=OOC]OOC: Avril uses her tail slap attack. Avril's Tail Slap: +9. Damage: 3d6+7 hp.

Spells and Abilities Active:

Wild Shape (Crocodile, 7 hours)
Extended Barkskin (140 minutes)
Enlarge Person (Larian, 7 minutes)

Spells Cast and Abilities/Items Used:

Wild Shape (1 Used)
Barkskin
Lesser Metamagic Rod of Extend (1 Used)

Spells Prepared (Normal 6/4/3/2/1, Wis 0/1/1/1/0):

Level 0 (6): Cure Minor Wounds (3), Detect Magic (2), Guidance
Level 1 (5): Cure Light Wounds, Enrage Animal, Faerie Fire, Obscuring Mist, Produce Flame
Level 2 (4): Barkskin, Bull's Strength, Cat's Grace
Level 3 (3): Call Lightning, Cure Moderate Wounds, Stone Shape
Level 4 (1): Flame Strike

Avril's Character Sheet [/SBLOCK]

 

[Redclaw]

Larian's eyes open wide in alarm as he sees the halfling gummed by the big fish. Hoping to do a little to help, but realizing that he doesn't have many options while underwater, he casts a quick spell, and four globes of blue light leave his outstretched hand and move through the water to strike the dire catfish.
[sblock=ooc] cast magic missile, 4d4+4 damage [/sblock]

[sblock=spells]Spells Memorized
0--Detect Magic, Detect Magic, Light, Mage Hand, Lesser Acid Orb
1-- Color Spray, Shocking Grasp, Protection from Evil, Magic Missile, Mage Armor, Enlarge Person (trans.)
2-- See Invisibility, Scorching Ray, Scorching Ray, Knock, Bull's Strength (trans.)
3--(with bonus) Mass Resist Energy, Fireball, Dispell Magic, Displacement, Haste (trans.)
4-- Greater Invisibility, Greater Invisibility, Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer (trans.)
Spells In Effect
Mage Armor--14 hours from breaking camp

Rod of Extend--2 uses left
Pearl of Power--Available
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