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Six From Gate Pass - Chapter 3: Shelter From The Storm

Gregor

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Lee's eyes narrow and his brow furrows as he watches Hrimr refuse to fall. He takes a quick look towards his sleet storm to be sure that Bannock and Arnir have not emerged and then he raises his wand to skies. Another clap of thunder and another stroke of lightning blazes down at Hrimr. The blast drives the fight out of the Dwarf and he barely stands, disabled and smoking.

"Finish him!" cries Lee to the gargoyle, "Tear his limbs from his body and scatter them across my ocean!"

The evil gargoyle follows its masters demands to the letter, slashing and grabbing with its claws, goring with its horns and biting with its razor sharp teeth. Though Hrimr is barely standing, the beast does not care. It lashes out with everything it has.

Its bite snaps on air and its gore splashes against a wave. However, its two claws slash down and dig into Hrimr's shoulders. The dwarf cries out as his lifeforce drains into the sea and then passes out from the pain. The gargoyle lifts the unconscious Hrimr up, talons still rooted in flesh and it roars as it pulls outward with each arm. The sickening sound of cracking bones, popping joints and rending flesh can be heard just before a torrent of blood sprays out. In a literal interpretation of Lee's commands, the gargoyle tears Hrimr's arms from his sockets and hurls them towards Kirio. Blood is everywhere: on the gargoyle, splattered upon Torrent's terrified face, spilling into the now crimson ocean. Hrimr's now lifeless body bobs slightly and then tumbles away in the current.

His magical warhammer, the weapon linked to the life of the Innenotdar forest pulses as a brilliant stream of green energy is drawn from Hrimr's body. The energy courses in the air and then seeps into the weapon which now bobs up and down in the surf.

GM: I am sorry to report that Hrimr Cavekeep has fallen in battle.
 
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Gregor

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"Hrimr!" cries Torrent in a horrible death shriek, tears welling in her eyes, "Istishia no! Please! Stay this madness!"

She strikes out with her axe, knowing full well its uselessness against the gargoyle, but caring little due to her rage.

"Slay it Kirio!"
 

digimattic

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Arnir hears the second crash of thunder and feels a deep sense of dread, despite being blind to the outside world. Reaching into his bag he pulls out the glass orb of storms. placing it up against the gargoyle column so it can't skitter away, he looks over to Bannock fearfully before driving his foot into it.... "Mystra preserve us..."

OOC: thank goodness for the inquisitor's boots...
 

Gregor

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Arnir, you drive your boot down onto the delicate glass sphere. You drive a huge crack through the orb which sends smaller cracks all over the surface of the magic item. Energy crackles along the ruined item, slowly building up before detonating in a loud explosion. A white shockwave of blinding energy blasts out and washes over you and Bannock leaving you both, surprisingly, unaffected.

Outside of the sleet storm, everyone hears the explosion and sees the spherical shockwave emerge and continue expanding rapidly until it reaches the edge of the eye of the hurricane. The great hurricane crackles and sizzles and the winds begin to spin at a rate akin to a twister. Loose rocks and uprooted trees fly around the edges of the eye which have now quickly shrunken inwards towards where the party is doing battle with Lee. The eye is closing inexorably and the howling of the winds has reached a deafening pitch. The hurricane has obviously been amplified and intensified, as if it was just suddenly rushed to its maximum power level.
 



funkmamagoat

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Kirio, feeling nauseated at the sight of Hrimr literally being torn apart grits his teeth and tries once more to end the Gargoyle's threat... seeing that once again his first shot will go wide he fires a second time...

OOC: oh well...
 

Bannock

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Oblivious to the terrible events happening around him, Bannock tries to press onward, pushing off of the gargoyle statue and past Arnir. His underclothes crunch with frost, and his armor creaks, stiffened by the cold. Against the odds, he continues to advance, slowed but not stopped. He can almost see a break in the edge of the freezing whirlwind. Holding the two crossbow bolts in his left hand, he removes a potion of Cure Light Wounds from his belt, and downs it in one gulp.

OOC: Forgot to type in the -6 but I am keeping it in mind. Still passed! Bannock's on fire! Way to put one foot in front of the other!
 
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