Academy of Drell, Part III

[Zhure]

a... golem?


Marching order (assumed):
FRONT
..^..
----> Rallyn
Arana
<-----Kith
Keith
<-----Charlotte
Victor
<-----Maerath
Ellie
<-----Sildarin


Charlotte's astral construct wings it's way forward for about half a minute, carrying Doyle.

Telepathically, Doyle relates back that he sees "an armored man, probably a dwarf.. no, maybe it's a well built golem, and of dwarven proportions but far too large. It's coming right at me!"

Ellie clearly hears the sounds of hammering footsteps not too far ahead.

Arana is still confident she heard the distinctive sounds of a heavy crossbow*. She moves to the side of the passageway and tries to take cover.

Rallyn the closest, can't make out what's going on, as it's too far ahead of him, probably 60 feet. He can however clearly hear the running feet.

*Normally, golems can't use crossbows.

 

[Jeremy]

Now *that* I heard. Gonna have to get my ears cleaned out. What's going on up there?

Rallyn creeps forward, trying to see what is making those loud footsteps.

 

[Dalamar]

Now we're going to have to fight in here! Not my day, not my day at all...
Cheer up! You're the last in the line, maybe we can avoid the actual fighting altogether.
I don't think our 'friends' would allow that...
Well... atleast we can take a look as the females duck and weave during the fight.
Is that all that is in your mind?
No. I also want to touch them.

 

[GnomeWorks]

Damn...

Charlotte mentally dismisses the astral construct, after telepathically instructing it to set Doyle down.

Whoever and whatever it is, it certainly won't be expecting us...

Already I can feel the heat of battle... the flame of excitement... if I charge in, we'll gain the element of surprise. Dangerous, yes - but why live if you don't take chances?

What the hell! Here goes nothing!

Charlotte silently shoves past the others in line, moving up to behind Rallyn.

"It's coming right for us. Move back, Rallyn, I have a plan, and I need to be in front of the group. Get a ranged weapon ready, or something."

She pauses for a moment.

"Just trust me, Rallyn. There is something dwarf-life and armored up there, and it's coming straight at us!"

 

[Zhure]

Marching order (assumed):
FRONT
..^..
Rallyn
----> Charlotte
Arana
<-----Kith
Keith
<----- Victor
Maerath
<-----Ellie
Sildarin



Rallyn moves even further forward, far enough in fact he can make out the last vestiges of Charlotte's astral construct as it sublimates into ectoplasmic goo. (Presumably having expired from being formed too long.) Standing next to the astral construct is the dwarf-shaped golem, but of a far larger stature. It has to hunch over in this cramped space and if it was in an open area probably would be almost eight feet tall.

In this thing's hands is an axe, probably a bardiche* of some sort. The entire assemblage, the "dwarf," it's weapon and the scale armor it is wearing is made of some sort of brass or copper, with threads of silver vein running through it. Runes cover the weapon and armor as well. Every scale of the armor has a rune on it. It is kneeled forward looking intently at where the astral contstruct was.

Charlotte rushes up to be beside Rallyn and asks him to have a ranged attack ready, warning of the creature he can barely make out.

[bold]Charlotte mentally dismisses the astral construct, after telepathically instructing it to set Doyle down.

[/bold]

I don't believe AC's are telepathically controlled, through the power Ectopuppet they are remote controlled. I'll look into it further.

In this context, a bardiche is functionally identical to a glaive.

 

[GnomeWorks]

OOC:

OOC: Okay, then just let the AC drop the psicrystal. The thing shouldn't be broken just by falling a couple of feet, and it probably won't make that much noise.

 

[evileeyore]

Kith advances, drawng his rapier.

"Huh, I don't think this is heavy enough, but what they hey."

He moves up behind Charlotte and Rallyn.

"May I cut in here?"

HIs fingers dance and he intones Ithil lavamin ile tel’quenat.


Cast sheild

I don't believe AC's are telepathically controlled, through the power Ectopuppet they are remote controlled. I'll look into it further.

They aren't but the Duration is 1 rnd/lvl(D). The (D) means dismissal as a standard action. So while she can't controll it telepathically, she can dismiss it...

Sorry I was gone so long, it nice to have a rialable computer agian

 

[Jeremy]

Rallyn whispers, "My lord, my lady," he gestures towards the---thing, "It's your dance."

Though talking to it may be preferable to swinging at it.

Rallyn moves aside.

 

[Zhure]

Marching order (assumed):
FRONT
..^..
<-----Kith
Charlotte
----->Arana
Rallyn
----->Keith
Victor
---->Maerath
Ellie
----->Sildarin


Charlotte lets the astral construct fade out, leaving the psicrystal on the floor.

[b[Kith[/b] moves up close and casts a quick spell, rapier drawn.

Rallyn moves aside, letting Charlotte and Kith take the point.

Doyle telepathically relates what he sees to Charlotte, but it's pretty clear, albeit from a different perspective.

The "golem" leans in toward the psicrystal and gently prods it with a finger.

 

[GnomeWorks]

Why the hell is Kith up here?

She nods politely to Rallyn as he lets her through to the front.

"Damn it, Kith," Charlotte curses quietly once Kith gets ahead of her, though loud enough that Rallyn and Kith can hear. "Get the hell out of my way! That thing is messing with my psicrystal."

She looks around for a quick moment, then - as quietly as possible - draws her rapier.

"This is a pretty small tunnel." She comments to Kith. "Only one of us will be able to take it at a time, and there may be no room for missile support."

Calm down, Charlotte, calm down... maybe fighting it isn't the best idea you've had... that thing looked like it was heavily armored. It will be hard to hit it.

Charlotte taps Kith on the shoulder to get his attention. "Got any ideas?" She asks, reluctantly.

I can't believe I'm asking this scoundrel for ideas...