Against the Storm Part II: Luskan

[Elric]

"Someone needs to remove his powers. Dispel his magic and he can be defeated"

Alex advances cautiously with his rapier

(after someone does use a dispel)

"You can't defeat all of us- at least not now."

Alex (hopefully) waits for someone else to attack the BB in tandem- otherwise, he'll go it alone.

(OOC: I suppose it's too late for Ubaar to use a dispel magic, since his caster level of 10 is the highest in the group...)

Edit: When I said rapier, I meant stake

 

[GoldenEagle]

OOC: DM Matt - I lost the thread with the spells I have memorized and the list I have on my computer is different. If kelnar has a dispel memorized he will use it, but my list shows he did not memorize it.

GE

 

[reapersaurus]

Ubaar begins to doubt the Thunderbeast's Strength, for the first time in his life.
He thinks . o 0 (What good is being a follower of Uthgar - dedicating my life to the pursuit of glorious hand-to-hand art, if I can't wrestle this thing into submission?
What good is Uthgar's fury, if his Searing Gaze does not affect even as dead of guy as this?)

Ubaar hesitates as he is overwhelmed by the BB's power.

 

[DM_Matt]

(Eh, Kelnar hasnt been using that list anyway, so go ahead. Next time, though, stick to it)

Kelnar tries to defeat the creature by attacking the powerful overlapping fields of magic that surround and permeate it. He fires waves of entropy through the Weave at the creature, hoping to tear apart the fields and cause them to collapse. The most powerful one falls. Then a second...a third...a fourth....a fifth...a sixth...a seventh...By the time Kelnar can no longer hold the onslaught together, all he can see is the creatres natural magical eminations.

Ubaar feels the creature's hold weaken greatly. It is still superhumanly strong, but Ubaar now feels that he is stronger.

(Being that he can't use his bite/drain attack without getting a pin, he had cast Adament Grasp from a crystal (the Psi equivalent of a scroll). That provided a +10 to grapple checks. The dispellings also killed his enhancement bonus to str)

Awaiting a change in action from Ubaar b4 going further.

 

[GoldenEagle]

OOC: Sorry about the confusion in spell list. I will get it right after we finish this encounter and get a chance to rest.

GE

 

[dead_radish]

*droooooooool*

 

[reapersaurus]

Seeing the BB weaken, Ubaar resumes his attempts to squash it like a bug, or at least keep it occupied while the others free up and help him finish it off.

 

[DM_Matt]

Ubaar breaks free and tries to flip the BB over him, but the BB twists aside. Ubaar, momentarily behind the BB, grabs him from behind and pins his arms behind his back. Ubaar smashes him against the wall, but it doesn't do much good.

(Init is reevaluated here. There was a pause in combat and most people have no opponent. Ubaar makes the first move here. Everyone else rolls new inits. Alex rolls a 20 and beats the BB)

Alex runs over to the BB with a stake and drives it into the BB's chest. He doesn't dust, however. He shouts out. "Time...for you...to see....what I'm really...made of..." The two crystals that the priests were carrying suddenly appear in his hands. Alex steps back, then jump-kicks the stake further into the monster's chest. Red and black energy arcs into and out of the crystals. Ubaar and Alex are knocked backward somewhat. The crystals slowly turn to dust and the creature's flesh burns away. The creature grows and blackens, until it needs to hunch down to not strike its head on the ceiling. The creature is jet-black, with glowing red eyes, scaly skin, and a canine muzzle with sharp fangs that drip blood. The monster's arms are long, longer than they should be, and its fingers are tipped with claws several inches long. It throws its head back for a moment and roars. The monster seems cautious, moving to retreat...

 

[DM_Matt]

Emcat remembers the ritual he saw earlier, and says in his growling cat voice "Uh, oh..No wonder these guys were so tough....these aren't corrupted human hosts infused with energies of the nether realms...these hosts are being infused with actual demons...meaning that that thing...is vampire concentrate!"

EDIT: Mistakenly wrote Kelnar instead of Emcat

 

[dead_radish]

Elone bleeds viciously at the monster.