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<blockquote data-quote="Broccli_Head" data-source="post: 1160" data-attributes="member: 105"><p><strong>24 Alturiak, Year of Rogue Dragons (1373 DR): <em>Black Tentacles do more damage than waves of Mooks </em></strong></p><p></p><p><em>[DM note: Variak's character was not available at the session, nor could we find his character. Thus, he was sent back to guard the horses and Lord Danwick.] </em></p><p></p><p>Seeing the tentacles forming, Aris and Nosr ran straight out of the room to come to rest on the set of stairs leading further into the dark temple getting slapped at least one time each from the writhing appendages. Purple light oozed from the halway below and Aris drew his bow, nocked an arrow and positioned himself to fire at anything coming down the hall. </p><p></p><p>Back in the room, Grim, Benito and Ellysidell fought against the statues. Ellysidell closed with one, suffering a slap, and hacked at the statue with his magical falchion sending only a few chips flying. Dodging and weaving, Grim attacked the same statue, only leaving a scratch. </p><p></p><p>"Oh well," he said sheathing his sword, "that won't work." </p><p></p><p>He fell back to ducking and rolling to avoid the tentacles on his way out of the room. Benito, hearing Ellysidell's cries of frustration sought to knock the statue over. Bull-rushing the structure, he too was slammed before closing. He crashed into the statue, but it did not fall. </p><p></p><p>Nosr, in a momentary lapse of reason, or perhaps thinking his magic more powerful than that of the dark temple, decided to area dispel the tentacles. It did not work. However, Benito felt a sudden loss of strength as Tyr's power of the bull faded from his body. </p><p></p><p>Putting two and two together, Benito overcame his shock and cried out, "Nosr!" </p><p></p><p>"Oops! Tactical error," observed Aris turning back to watch the stairs. </p><p></p><p>As Benito continued to curse at the sorcerer and his head was grappled by a black tentacle, Nosr cried back, "Don't worry, you'll get used to it!" </p><p></p><p>Ellysidell tried to topple his statue and failed. It lashed out and grabbed him with one of it's tentalces squeezing and crushing the muscles on his right leg. As Grim tumbled, a tentacle or two hit the halfling hard. He got to his feet and tried to regain his balance and composure. To add insult to injury a tentacle lashed out at him and attempted to wrap him up. Realizing that his strength was insufficient to fight against this magical construct in seeing Ellysidell and Benito caught, the little halfling twisted as if in a dance and slid away from the hurtful appendage. Successfully, this time he tumbled under two more sets of writhing black things to come to rest behind Nosr and Aris. </p><p>Anger welled up in the Holy Justice of Tyr and he struck with all his might at the statue that was trying to wrap around his neck. Mano did not disappoint and the statue toppled with a satisfying crash. The tentacles disappeared. But Benito shook his head. There were at least two more statues between him and the stairs, with two tentacles each! </p><p></p><p>"We're under attack!" cried Aris as he let an arrow loose. It struck one of the humanoid enemies marching down the hall with loaded crossbows. </p><p></p><p>Grim shrugged his shoulders and quaffed a couple of potions. Nosr fired magic missles, hitting several of the cult soldiers. A volley of crossbows followed after a cry from the apparent leader of this group yelled, "Target the spellcaster!" </p><p></p><p>Nosr was hit more than once with a crossbow bolt and decided to hide behind Aris, who continued fired another arrow into the group, at the leader. He saw the guard that he had originally hit drop back and head back down the corridor. "We're going to have more company soon. Hurry up in there!" </p><p></p><p>Ellysidell glared at Aris. Benito did not have time. He activated his speed boots and charged another statue suffering another hefty slap. His armor was dented and he was very bruised. The statue did not fall. Ellysidell struck at the tentacle on his leg in desparation. It was cut in two. He continued his swing and struck at the other. It two was rendered ineffective. He struck at a third tentacle and destroyed it. Now we were getting somewhere! A fog lifted from Ellysidell's thinking. The normally quiet wild elf was on to something. He yelled out to his tentacle-battling partner, "Cut the tentacles! They are weak!" </p><p></p><p>Benito understood and soon he and the elf were slicing through the tentacles and in the statues that they were fighting. They suffered another round of slams for the evil, black appendages, but the battle was soon won. </p><p></p><p>While the fight against the statues raged behind them, Nosr and Aris--with Grim making sure he was back to full health before he took any action--held the line. Only two guards and their leader remained, Aris having dropped one more. They fired their crossbows, hitting the stairs in front of the genasi and closed, drawing longswords. The leader all the while urging them forward, firing her own crossbow at Grim, and missing. She held back and drew her longsword. Nosr remembered a spell that he had not used for some time and cast it from behind the cover Aris provided. The two cultists collapsed in a heap. The last one charged and struck Aris hard across the shoulder cutting him deeply. The genasi responded in kind, slicing open the enforcers abdomen and kicking her corpse back down the stairs. </p><p></p><p>"Take prisoners for Benito," Aris reminded Grim as he eyed the helpless enemies. Grim began securing the prisoners. </p><p></p><p>Benito and Ell clambered out of the statue room, bruised and beaten. They began reaching in their packs and belts for draughts of healing. Benito took some time to also use his Tyr-blessed magic to remove some of the damage from the crushing blows of the guardian statues. Seeing prisoners he clamped the manacles of truth on one. Aris remembered the poison wax pellets and had Grim remove them before the two mooks were roused from their magic-induced slumber. </p><p></p><p>Aris and Ellysidell moved forward to the base of the stairs while Benito began his interrogation. Clamping the prisoners mouth with his mailed hand, the priest of Tyr, upset at taking so much damage from evil, guardian statues had no patience. He ran the the un-manacles prisoner through and began asking 'yes' and 'no' questions to the survivor. All the answers to the questions apparently lay down the hall. Benito trusted the manacles and Grim confirmed that he did not think the helpless prisoner, at their mercy was deceiving them. </p><p></p><p>Realizing that he was still pretty banged up, Benito downed another potion of healing. Aris did the same. Nosr had done so during the brief interrogation. They were about to continue, when more cult enforcers were spied down the hall. A volley of bolts flew at the party, with Ellysidell taking a hit. Aris held the wild elf back. </p><p></p><p>"Nosr, soften them up for us." </p><p></p><p>The sorcerer nodded and began his incantations....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Broccli_Head, post: 1160, member: 105"] [b]24 Alturiak, Year of Rogue Dragons (1373 DR): [i]Black Tentacles do more damage than waves of Mooks [/i][/b][i][/i] [i][DM note: Variak's character was not available at the session, nor could we find his character. Thus, he was sent back to guard the horses and Lord Danwick.] [/i] Seeing the tentacles forming, Aris and Nosr ran straight out of the room to come to rest on the set of stairs leading further into the dark temple getting slapped at least one time each from the writhing appendages. Purple light oozed from the halway below and Aris drew his bow, nocked an arrow and positioned himself to fire at anything coming down the hall. Back in the room, Grim, Benito and Ellysidell fought against the statues. Ellysidell closed with one, suffering a slap, and hacked at the statue with his magical falchion sending only a few chips flying. Dodging and weaving, Grim attacked the same statue, only leaving a scratch. "Oh well," he said sheathing his sword, "that won't work." He fell back to ducking and rolling to avoid the tentacles on his way out of the room. Benito, hearing Ellysidell's cries of frustration sought to knock the statue over. Bull-rushing the structure, he too was slammed before closing. He crashed into the statue, but it did not fall. Nosr, in a momentary lapse of reason, or perhaps thinking his magic more powerful than that of the dark temple, decided to area dispel the tentacles. It did not work. However, Benito felt a sudden loss of strength as Tyr's power of the bull faded from his body. Putting two and two together, Benito overcame his shock and cried out, "Nosr!" "Oops! Tactical error," observed Aris turning back to watch the stairs. As Benito continued to curse at the sorcerer and his head was grappled by a black tentacle, Nosr cried back, "Don't worry, you'll get used to it!" Ellysidell tried to topple his statue and failed. It lashed out and grabbed him with one of it's tentalces squeezing and crushing the muscles on his right leg. As Grim tumbled, a tentacle or two hit the halfling hard. He got to his feet and tried to regain his balance and composure. To add insult to injury a tentacle lashed out at him and attempted to wrap him up. Realizing that his strength was insufficient to fight against this magical construct in seeing Ellysidell and Benito caught, the little halfling twisted as if in a dance and slid away from the hurtful appendage. Successfully, this time he tumbled under two more sets of writhing black things to come to rest behind Nosr and Aris. Anger welled up in the Holy Justice of Tyr and he struck with all his might at the statue that was trying to wrap around his neck. Mano did not disappoint and the statue toppled with a satisfying crash. The tentacles disappeared. But Benito shook his head. There were at least two more statues between him and the stairs, with two tentacles each! "We're under attack!" cried Aris as he let an arrow loose. It struck one of the humanoid enemies marching down the hall with loaded crossbows. Grim shrugged his shoulders and quaffed a couple of potions. Nosr fired magic missles, hitting several of the cult soldiers. A volley of crossbows followed after a cry from the apparent leader of this group yelled, "Target the spellcaster!" Nosr was hit more than once with a crossbow bolt and decided to hide behind Aris, who continued fired another arrow into the group, at the leader. He saw the guard that he had originally hit drop back and head back down the corridor. "We're going to have more company soon. Hurry up in there!" Ellysidell glared at Aris. Benito did not have time. He activated his speed boots and charged another statue suffering another hefty slap. His armor was dented and he was very bruised. The statue did not fall. Ellysidell struck at the tentacle on his leg in desparation. It was cut in two. He continued his swing and struck at the other. It two was rendered ineffective. He struck at a third tentacle and destroyed it. Now we were getting somewhere! A fog lifted from Ellysidell's thinking. The normally quiet wild elf was on to something. He yelled out to his tentacle-battling partner, "Cut the tentacles! They are weak!" Benito understood and soon he and the elf were slicing through the tentacles and in the statues that they were fighting. They suffered another round of slams for the evil, black appendages, but the battle was soon won. While the fight against the statues raged behind them, Nosr and Aris--with Grim making sure he was back to full health before he took any action--held the line. Only two guards and their leader remained, Aris having dropped one more. They fired their crossbows, hitting the stairs in front of the genasi and closed, drawing longswords. The leader all the while urging them forward, firing her own crossbow at Grim, and missing. She held back and drew her longsword. Nosr remembered a spell that he had not used for some time and cast it from behind the cover Aris provided. The two cultists collapsed in a heap. The last one charged and struck Aris hard across the shoulder cutting him deeply. The genasi responded in kind, slicing open the enforcers abdomen and kicking her corpse back down the stairs. "Take prisoners for Benito," Aris reminded Grim as he eyed the helpless enemies. Grim began securing the prisoners. Benito and Ell clambered out of the statue room, bruised and beaten. They began reaching in their packs and belts for draughts of healing. Benito took some time to also use his Tyr-blessed magic to remove some of the damage from the crushing blows of the guardian statues. Seeing prisoners he clamped the manacles of truth on one. Aris remembered the poison wax pellets and had Grim remove them before the two mooks were roused from their magic-induced slumber. Aris and Ellysidell moved forward to the base of the stairs while Benito began his interrogation. Clamping the prisoners mouth with his mailed hand, the priest of Tyr, upset at taking so much damage from evil, guardian statues had no patience. He ran the the un-manacles prisoner through and began asking 'yes' and 'no' questions to the survivor. All the answers to the questions apparently lay down the hall. Benito trusted the manacles and Grim confirmed that he did not think the helpless prisoner, at their mercy was deceiving them. Realizing that he was still pretty banged up, Benito downed another potion of healing. Aris did the same. Nosr had done so during the brief interrogation. They were about to continue, when more cult enforcers were spied down the hall. A volley of bolts flew at the party, with Ellysidell taking a hit. Aris held the wild elf back. "Nosr, soften them up for us." The sorcerer nodded and began his incantations.... [/QUOTE]
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