Rosalia, Scrag, Grok, and Roderic see a new shape loom suddenly out of the darkness. Before anyone can react, the shape resolves into Tuk, who quickly glances around and grabs a vial from the case, then chucks it into the darkness behind him. There is a tinkling of breaking glass, then the whoosh of flame is heard. Tuk seems to grin wickedly somehow without moving a single facial muscle. John sees a muted flash of orange flame coming from the periphery of the dark area; any closer and he would have caught some of it. It would seem that his companions on the other side have found a means of damaging this thing also.
As John watches, the burning, stinking mess heaves it's mass further into the darkness, still pursuing his companions. On the other side of the darkness, the flaming black tentacled spooge-monster attacks the first thing it comes into contact with- Scrag. Scrag angrily bats away the incoming tentacles when they lash at him, and is
unharmed.
OOC: Grok is up! I just updated my aging desktop with all new barebones parts and windows7 (aka. Vista that works), and I forgot to copy over my PBP files, so please forgive the blurry map. Looks like this fight's going to be over soon anyways.
Grok 23 (rnd7 Cast Divine Favor->Roderic)
Rosalia 22 -4Str (rnd7 moved, search)
John 22 (rnd7 cast acid orb, miss)
Scrag 11 (rnd7 hits swarm for 0)
Roderic 8 -4hp (rnd7 grabs vial, throws, hit swarm for 6)
Tuk 8 -18hp -1Con(poison) (rnd7 move, hit swarm for 4)
Swarm 3 -14hp Alch. Fr. nxt rnd 2&5 (rnd6 hit Tuk for 5)
DEAD Grey Dwarf 12 -21 (rnd6 move, free:drop, free:quickdraw, miss)
DEAD k1 19 (rnd1 charge, miss Roderic)
DEAD k2 7 (rnd1 hit Roderic for 4)
DEAD k3 7 (rnd1 miss)
DEAD k4 5
DEAD k5 4
DEAD k6 2 (rnd1 miss)
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