Dungeon of the Fire Opal, Part VI

[Murhid]

Flurry of Blows then , no need to keep things up for so long on my accord, though.

Maybe a description would fit the hole jumping on the ghoul thing better than an action... anyway.

 

[reapersaurus]

Technically speaking, since you have to attack before moving or after, wouldn't attacking something in mid-jump require Spring Attack ?

OOC: I presume that landing from a jump is seperate from the normal movement restrictions? If gravity was counted as a character's movement, than you'd have to outlaw someone from moving more than 30' a round when jumping off a cliff... And a last conditional for this round's movement: If Ubaar can't reach the spider, and the if the ghoul's don't come close (perhaps they are turned?), than he will attack whatever he can reach this round. (He's raging - he'll not go a turn without fighting)

 

[HeavyG]

“Eek!”

Taz moves next to Kytess (N8) and readies her dagger to hit any ghoul that dares to come close enough!

Meanwhile, Ivellios starts cutting himself out of that spider web with his swords. * Cut-cut-stab-poke*. He manages to almost free himself, then the spider near the ceiling drops another one on him, entangling him even further.

"One second, I'm coming, I'm coming...it seems we'll need a little luck to win this battle, don't worry," The halfling says as he hurries into the room, "I'm here...I'm sure you all are more assured now, right?" Sollir grins as he begins chanting softly.

As he finishes his spell, the party feels a new energy coursing through them. Their courage is bolstered. At the same time, the mysterious voice in the dark corridor ahead is heard chanting also. Then, abruptly, it stops.

Hearing the commotion cause by the new threat, and seeing that Ubaar's condition has improved considerably, Jalon pushes his way to the front of the party.

When the priest lays eyes on the ghouls before him, he instantly clutches the silver, mailed-fist icon upon his chest. Incensed by the presence of such degenerate creatures, he holds forth Tyr's symbol of justice and boldly strides forward.

'Abominations! Turn back now, or face Tyr's fury, wretched ones! There is no place for you amongst the living - repent at once, or taste righteous steel and flame.'

As Jalon raises his holy symbol on high, he feels a great darkness, a great power of evil around the ghouls. He puts his whole faith into the attempt, but the ghouls don’t seem to be afraid of him. (rolled a 13, not high enough unfortunately)

The voice ahead croaks “Kill HIM. Kill the priest, my beautiful !”

(I’ll also be assuming the others will follow and back him up.)

Murhid with a slightly fatigued face on, sends a quick checking glance at Kytess and Ubaar...
"Any orders comrades?"

The monk and Kytess both await the undead unslaught.

If the spider's out of reach, he'll say "Damned spider - if Ubaar was taller he'd finish you off!"
And then ready an attack against the ghouls if they advance, readying to split the lead one in two with the greatsword, saying "Come get some, you grotesque bags of bones."

Then, with a shout, hisses and spits, the ghouls charge at the stalwart defenders, claws raised and dripping ichor.

One goes for Murhid while the other three go for Jalon, Ubaar and Kytess. They seem to be ignoring Taz.

As the first approaches Murhid, the monk jumps at it, kneeing it in the face and making it fall to the ground. Murhid hears the ghoul’s skull crunch as he rides it to the ground, ending up kneeling on a kicking and clawing ghoul. Murhid manages to avoid the venom-dripping claws by deflecting them with a wrist lock, but the ghoul bites him in the leg. (6 points of damage for the ghoul, 6 for Murhid)

Ubaar and Kytess fare better. As his ghoul approaches to claw his eyes out, Ubaar swings with his greatsword, putting all his strength into the blade, and chops off the ghouls head. Its body continues advancing for two steps, then falls to the ground like a puppet with cut strings. Meanwhile, Kytess shreds her ghoul’s leg as it charges, then reverses her chain to slash and crush its neck as it falls forward at her feet, just as Taz buries her small blade in the thing’s shoulder. (16 points of damage for Ubaar, 10 and 7 for Kytess, 1 for Taz)

The last ghoul launches itself at Jalon, but succeeds only at scratching his heavy armor.

Then, another pack of ghouls jumps down from the corridor and looks at the defenders with murder in their eyes. One licks its lips with a long black tongue as a different figure arrives at the edge of the corridor and into your light. It looks like a decayed human corpse, like the ghouls, but with completely white translucent eyes, and wearing tattered rags that used to be black robes. It holds a wickedly curved dagger in one hand and a pair of pendants hang from his neck. One is a symbol depicting a laughing animated skull on a solid black hexagon. The other is a neckchain holding up a fist-sized red gem. An eldritch energy swirls around its upper body, alternating sickly purple and intense black.

Then it speak with a shrill voice “Bring me the heart of the priest !”


Ubaar and Jalon recognize the symbol as the unholy symbol of Velsharoon, god of necromancy and undeads.


Here's the initiative for next round.

Ivellios
Sollir
The ghoul's boss
Jalon
Spider #1 (the one over the web)
Taz
Kytess
Murhid
Ubaar
The Ghoul Army


And the status of the party :

(S) Sollir Furryfoot : Hp(21/21) Bless (9 rounds, affects everyone)
(M) Murhid : Hp (5/21) 4 points of dexterity damage, poisoned ?
(T) Taz : Hp (19/19),
Sheela : Hp (9/9),
(I) Ivellios Nailo : Hp (26/35) Entangled in webs (-2 to hit, -4 to dex, can’t move)
(U) Ubaar : Hp (26/32), Endure fire (12 hours), 2 points of dexterity damage, enraged, poisoned ?
(K) Kytess : Hp (18/28) Endure fire (12 hours)
(J) Jalon Odessa : Hp (20/24) Endure fire (12 hours)

 

[Taz]

“Archibald was right!” Taz says, hopefully telling the others about the gem while not alarming the ghoul leader about their knowledge of the fire opal.

Taz readies her dagger again.

 

[reapersaurus]

Taz readies her dagger again.

Looking past Jalon and Kytess, Ubaar sees Taz brandishing her dagger in the middle of a battle royale :
"Taz-zy, is that your best weapon here?
What happun to da stingy-stick that the witch hurt us all with?

If you, or Sollir, or Ivellios could finish off da spider up dere, or nail dis raggedy-man here?"

Ubaar re-balances after cracking off the last ghoul's head, and waits for another within striking distance to tee off on.

"Nice kick, Murhid - but getting close with dese things ain't good...

Nice moves, Kyte - as always.

Jalon - is your faith not strong enuff in here?
Sometimes you just gotta make converts of monsters by baptizin' em with Steel!"

 

[Jalon Odessa]

After deflecting the ghoul's pitiful attempts to claw him, Jalon retaliates with a sweeping, double-handed blow of his longsword.

'You may resist the searing light of Tyr, but you shant withstand my fury, wretch!'

The priest then turns to Ubaar, responding to his advice -

'Indeed warrior - there is foulness at work here, that can only be cleansed through flame and steel.'

 

[Murhid]

Murhid sways his head slightly from side to side as if drowsy, then goes for a kick at the ghoul, hopefully to get it away, or better. Then attempts to make his way to the other side of the room. And while doing so he will draw forth three master work shurikens.
"Yes Ubaar, hit and run though, you kno-" Murhid makes a cringed face as the pain from his recent wounds set in a bit more.

If no one else offers to take care of spidy, Murhid will say "I will... *Murhid looks at the shurikens in his hand* distract, yeah distract that construct of a spider"

[OOC: Attack + Move to K9]

 

[HeavyG]

With Sollir’s help, Ivellios cuts and slashes and finally frees himself from the web. Then they both enter the room.

Then, the undead priest mutters a few unholy words and points at Kytess. With a flash of dark magic, the warrior stops moving, then, he turns towards Ubaar. (A 1 on that save. And Kytess doesn’t have very good will saves. Oh well.)

After deflecting the ghoul's pitiful attempts to claw him, Jalon retaliates with a sweeping, double-handed blow of his longsword.

'You may resist the searing light of Tyr, but you shant withstand my fury, wretch!'

The double-handed blow scores a deep wound on the ghoul’s chest, and a spray of foul ichor spews out. The ghoul is still coming, though. (8 points of damage)

Then, the spider tries to throw yet another web at Ivellios, but the elf saw it coming and dodges lithely out of the way.

“Archibald was right!” Taz says, hopefully telling the others about the gem while not alarming the ghoul leader about their knowledge of the fire opal.

Taz readies her dagger again.

Murhid sways his head slightly from side to side as if drowsy, then goes for a kick at the ghoul, hopefully to get it away, or better. Then attempts to make his way to the other side of the room. And while doing so he will draw forth three master work shurikens.
"Yes Ubaar, hit and run though, you kno-" Murhid makes a cringed face as the pain from his recent wounds set in a bit more.

The kick crushes the prone ghoul’s skull as Murhid launches off further into the room. It’s still moving, though very feebly. (7 points of damage)

If no one else offers to take care of spidy, Murhid will say "I will... *Murhid looks at the shurikens in his hand* distract, yeah distract that construct of a spider"

Looking past Jalon and Kytess, Ubaar sees Taz brandishing her dagger in the middle of a battle royale :
"Taz-zy, is that your best weapon here?
What happun to da stingy-stick that the witch hurt us all with?

If you, or Sollir, or Ivellios could finish off da spider up dere, or nail dis raggedy-man here?"

Ubaar re-balances after cracking off the last ghoul's head, and waits for another within striking distance to tee off on.

"Nice kick, Murhid - but getting close with dese things ain't good...

Nice moves, Kyte - as always.

Jalon - is your faith not strong enuff in here?
Sometimes you just gotta make converts of monsters by baptizin' em with Steel!"

The priest then turns to Ubaar, responding to his advice -

'Indeed warrior - there is foulness at work here, that can only be cleansed through flame and steel.'

At that moment, the second wave of ghouls leaps forward. Three try to surround Ubaar, while one goes for Jalon and one jumps at the paralyzed Kytess. Meanwhile, Jalon’s former opponent keeps clawing at him and Murhid’s one staggered to its feet and ran after him.

Ubaar skewers the first one on his sword and Taz pokes the one trying to eat Kytess as they arrive in range. Then they attack. Ubaar gets clawed on his right arm and he immediately starts feeling a little numb in that arm. Jalon blocks the charging ghoul’s attack, but the one he wounded counter-attacks and manages to score a shallow wound on his neck. And, undeterred by the dagger blow from Taz, the last ghoul bites Kytess and looks for an opening in her armor to finish her off. (Ubaar did 14 damage and Taz 2. Ubaar and Jalon got 2 damage each, while Kytess received 5 – The N12 ghoul is getting ready for a coup-de-grace attempt, better stop it.)

Another pair of ghouls jumps down from the corridor up in the wall. Looks like they’re the last ones. The priest waves them by as he says “Finish them !”



Here's the initiative for next round.

Ivellios
Sollir
The ghoul’s boss
Jalon
Spider #1 (the one over the web)
Taz
Kytess
Murhid
Ubaar
The Ghoul Army


And the status of the party :

(S) Sollir Furryfoot : Hp(21/21) Bless (8 rounds, affects everyone)
(M) Murhid : Hp (5/21) 4 points of dexterity damage, poisoned ?
(T) Taz : Hp (19/19),
Sheela : Hp (9/9),
(I) Ivellios Nailo : Hp (26/35) Entangled in webs (-2 to hit, -4 to dex, can’t move)
(U) Ubaar : Hp (24/32), Endure fire (12 hours), 2 points of dexterity damage, enraged, poisoned ?, ghoul poison
(K) Kytess : Hp (12/28) Held, Endure fire (12 hours)
(J) Jalon Odessa : Hp (18/24) Endure fire (12 hours), ghoul poison

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Sollir tucks his wand in his belt as he tries to move behind everyone, hopefully going unnoticed while drawing his shortbow...

(Standard Action is putting the wand back, and move while drawing my shortbow, going diagonal-is this possible?-to N8, N9, P10, and finally P11, if this is not possible i'll simply go to P9)

 

[Taz]

Taz will delay until after Ubaar has acted. If the Ghoul threatening Kytess has not been defeated by then, she'll take out the wand of magic missiles and shoot a load in its direction, still holding her dagger ready for an AoO. Should the Ghoul go down before then, she'll stop delaying, step back 5' and cast Shield.