You Stupid Children!
Nualia shouts down Danth, clearly starting to get riled by his attempts to sway her from her path.
"
You don't know the forces you are dabbling with. YOU STUPID CHILDREN!" She screams this last part, as if incandescent with your presence here.
She lets a few seconds pass, clearly calming herself. Jokad sees Jovik's nod, but ignores it. He has other ideas. Nualia, still stationary, still bathed in flickering light, raises her monstrous left arm and points at you.
"
Sandpoint will burn. It is a required sacrifice. But now, it is your turn to lend your blood to Laamashtu. KILL THEM!" She belows, sending her demonic hound flying towards you.
Mal barks a single sharp warning, but you are all aware of the horrid beast as it flies through the sky at head height towards you, its legs kicked up tight under its body, its jaw extending.
Jokad waits. Jovik flinches, his hand reaching for Goblin Hook.
"
Not yet" Jokad whispers to himself. Danth catches it. Wonders what he means.
The hound is nearly upon them.
Then Jokad drops onto his back, kicking the large chunk of statue towards the trap. It is a massive piece of masonry, and slides agonisingly slowly across the floor.
And then it triggers. The two gates come crashing down. The back one crashes to the floor behind the hound, the front one, nearest Jokad, falls three quarters of the way before hitting the chunk of statue, sending up chips of masonry as it cracks into the stone.
The hound barrels against the bars of the cage, its jaws slathering towards Jovik. The young thief takes an involuntary step back as the trapped creature barks and snaps with its jaws with furious venom.
Then the glaives fall. The hound yells. A wicked gash opens up across its flank as it is raked and thrown to the ground, but almost immediately the wound closes. (OOC:
It hits, but the damage is below the damage reduction level).
The yeth hound's legs skitter off the slick floor, trying to find some purchase on the smooth floor.
Jovik, feeling his nerves recover, and knowing that Jokad is not going to be able to do much until he gets back on his feet, slashes forward.
He sees that the monster is flat footed and lunges at its exposed nose, feeling goblin hook open up the flesh. The creature shrieks in agony, far beyond the actual damage of the small wound. The gash hisses and fizzes as if the silver of the blade is corroding the flesh of the monster.
OOC:
Hit on the flat footed Yeth for 3hp damage.
Nualia shrieks her fury, but does not yet move forward. She screams at the hound "
Kill them you stupid fool!" and then changes to some dismal, infernal language, shouting words that sound hideous to your ears.
The hound, as if feeling fear for the first time, scurries backwards away from Jovik's blade, its flaming eyes intent upon the small silver weapon. The claws of the beast skitter and scrape on the polishes surface.
In its desire to put some distance between itself and the rogue it walks unseen into the descending blade of the southern glaive.
]The glaive slices straight through the injured hound, leaving his twitching body in two halves (OOC: glaives do x3 damage on critical, and I am not bothering with the confirm because the darn thing is trapped and vulnerable. Call it GM-fiat! Anyway, 3x9=27, -10 DR = 17hp damage. That, given the small amount of damage Jovik did, is enough to kill it.)
Nualia screams, a scream of sheer fury.
The trap clicks and whirs. The floor tilts, the statue slides towards the hole that has opened in the floor, but pinned by the iron bars, it does not quite slip in. The floor rises again, catching on the edge of the statue. The glaives begin their cruel dance one again.
OOC: The trap is currently stuck in 'on', with the statue effectively triggering the trap, but being unable to clear the mechanism. Jokad could probably kick the statue free, into the hole, next time it opens, if desired. The Yeth hound is dead. I based the above on Jokad's post. I think this is what he was planning on doing, and why he didn't do what Jovik asked him to do. If I was wrong, well, oops!
