Spider's Path

[HolyMan]

Crashing through the undergrowth the party ignores the pull and scrape of burrs and brambles. From down the hill the hydra let's out a hungry screech. Then a few moments later you hear the sound of the monster leaving the creek and tromping up the hill. Two heads reach the crest first and look about wildly. The third and fourth heads can be seen sniffing the air for signs of their prey.

With assurance it takes and pulls itself up to the path, strecthing out all it's necks but one towards the forest. The creatures fifth neck ends in a headless stump that is blackened and burnt, being dragged along as the monster advances.

Claude seeing it moving towards his friends takes a shot at the monster, the arrow grazes a neck and keeps flying but he has bloodied the beast and turned at least one head his way. Even as Claude draws another arrow and takes aim at the same head he is shocked to see the gash seal and the blood loss stop.

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Jareth                 20  [COLOR=deepskyblue]18[/COLOR]    ---/poisoned -2str  
Onesimus                [COLOR=orange]9[/COLOR]   [COLOR=deepskyblue]19 [/COLOR] ---/---
Hydra                  55  15    ---/---
Trinham                 [COLOR=orange]9[/COLOR]   [COLOR=deepskyblue]11[/COLOR]    ---/poisoned dex=4
Lora                   15  [COLOR=deepskyblue]14[/COLOR]    glavie/--- 
Aidan                  16  [COLOR=deepskyblue]17[/COLOR]    javelin/poisoned -3str
Claude                 [COLOR=orange]14[/COLOR] [COLOR=deepskyblue]19[/COLOR]    bow/---

[sblock=ooc]posted in init order
+2 AC added for being in forest- also is difficult terrian (DMG pg 87)
Pre-combat over please list round 1 actions [/sblock]

 

[Myth and Legend]

"DAMNT IT!" Lora cursed and placed her glaive next to her as she was crouching. "Hold your fire everyone, don't lead it here. I will try to distract it, if i am successful immediately retreat further in to the woods. And don't break formation - she added with scorn, looking at the scrawny red haired boy with an angry sideways glance.

Lora hoped that the beast was as stupid as it seemed, so that her trick may save her and the group. The girl tried to keep her mind calm but the hissing, snarling beast snapping at the air really made it hard for her not to shiver. The young Wizardress remembered a little trick Mirella had taught her, and used it now to recover her composure and do the necessary motions for her spell.

Lora formed a seal with her hands, her thin, long fingers intertwining and resembling a hexagram. "Lumenere duren oriel" she mumbled, a faint light glowing from her fingers. Immediately, a silent, vaguely humanoid shape made of white light forms to the right of the Hydra's position, just outside it's reach, and started dancing around tauntingly.

[sblock]Lora casts Dancing Lights and attempts to create a humanoid shape to draw the beast's attention off the party. The duration is a nice 1 minute (10 rounds) and it has 130 feet of range at Lora's current level.

Dancing Lights 10/10

Prepared spells:
0 level: Daze, Resistance, Message, Dancing Lights
1 level: Enlarge Person, Sleep, Benign Transposition[/sblock]

 

[HolyMan]

[sblock=ML] Nice dumb animals do like bright lights, my question is do you cast this away from the bridge, towards it or on the hill side? Edit it in and I'll check tonight [/sblock]

 

[Myth and Legend]

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Lora casts it where the red G is. It can move 100 ft/round so Lora moves it towards the Yellow G spot (haha) marked on the map. The idea is to lead the Hydra back towards the river and away from the party.[/sblock]

 

[HolyMan]

The glowing lights are seen by all the hydra's heads and the creature starts to turn away from the group and towards the lights. Lora leads the creature back towards the water before ending the spell once the creature is out of sight.

A great 'SPLASH' comes from the creek area, telling everyone that the creature has reentered the water below.

[sblock=OOC] Int check for Hydra = 1d20-4 = 0

Guess that's another great spell usage for Lora, first the Enlarge Person and now this. [/sblock]

 

[Sphyh]

Onesimus breathes a sigh of relief as he hears that Lora's plan comes to fruition. He moves out back onto the road and looks up down for this comrades and proceeds down the path toward the bridge at a moderate pace.

 

[Theroc]

[sblock=OOC] Int check for Hydra = 1d20-4 = 0

Guess that's another great spell usage for Lora, first the Enlarge Person and now this. [/sblock]

[sblock=OOC]
And the ghost Sound earlier, with the Gnolls.[/sblock]

 

[Myth and Legend]

Lora inhaled deeply - she had waited with bated breath to see if her spell would work. Her hands were trembling and her heart was racing in her chest. The girl stood up and grabbed the polished wooden shaft of her glaive, just so her hands would stop shaking. "Let's get going before it comes back." the girl exclaimed and went down the path.

 

[ghostcat]

Once Lora has loured the hydra off and people start to move, Trinham hobbles off with the others, maintaining his position in the marching order. Hopefully still being helped by Claude.

 

[Frozen Messiah]

Claude sat in the underbrush as still as he could with an arrow nocked in his bow just in case. He sat there praying that the hydra would be lead away. Claude sat there with his eyes closed listening to the creatures feet hit the ground, they were moving away. "Mon dieu..." Claude says as he let's out a sigh of relif whiel waiting for the next orders from Lora. When he notices everyone else on the move he begins to move along with them, glancing now and then towards the river.