"Ouch!" says Raven as she's floored by the charging dwarf. She suspects something is up, and is quite worried about Seat and the codex. But she sees Tali dash off after the dwarf. This leaves Anvuss and Shoot alone against this Bryllys.
"Go get him, Tali!" she shouts after the fleeing figures. She stands, and heads back to fight the strange brain creature.
OOC: (Move to O22, ready to attack next round. I might change this if Bryllys' actions suggest a better alternative.)
ooc: I'm going to be out of town for the next week, and checking the board only intermittently if at all. For the immediate future, Tali's holding on to Seat until the compulsion wears off (or he gets away), and will chase after Seat if he breaks the grapple.
I went back to look for a spells available list for Shoot, and found this instead. If you would like to NPC Shoot's action for this round, sounds like he will sling a stone at a skeleton.
El Jefe's been swamped, so if we're waiting on Shoot's next action, it might be better to NPC him for one round.
OOC: Sorry all, I was out travelling for the first part of this week. It wasn't even fun travel, as I had to drive across Wyoming. Again, sorry I didn't give you folks a heads-up.
Shoot loads another sling bullet and hurls it at the black veiled woman's body, it connects, and the sound of snapping bone confirms that the shot was a damaging one. Fang continues to quiver against his paralysis. (OOC: Thanks for checking the thread for that Patlin.)
Tali charges after and grapples Seat, holding him in place and halting his escape.
Anvuss swings again, and again he lands a hammering blow on the jar. The glass cracks in a spiderweb pattern from the point of impact, and fluid begins to spray out through several tiny holes.
The skeletal body of the black veiled woman moves up to Shoot and Fang, clawing at Shoot and just managing to scrape his frame. (1 point of damage after DR).
The yellow robed human continues to do his best impression of a statue.
Combat, Round 4:
Leaking fluid in all directions, Bryllys continues to float unsteadily (5' float to O22). His telepathic voice echoes out, sounding a little desperate in it's madness, "Do not resist me or I will make your deaths slow and painful!" As if to emphasize the point, the air ripples again between Anvuss and Bryllys.
[sblock=Anvuss]Mind Thrust again, DC 14 Will save or take 11 points of damage.[/sblock]
OOC: Raven is up next in Round 4.
Damage recap:
Shoot (23 of 24 hp remaining)
Tali (15 of 16 hp remaining)
Fang (9 of 13 hp remaining)
Raven (11 of 17 hp remaining)
Anvuss (17 of 18 hp remaining)
Terrain:
** = Wall
ss = Stairs
dd = doorway
-- = rubble-filled doorway
tt = table
co = rusty cauldrons the size of a medium creature
kg = rotted wooden kegs and debris
ct = cot
cr = crate
bb = Codex of Bone
Bb = dead body
Empty spaces are clear, open terrain (stone floors in this case).
PCs or NPCs in Red are unconcious and bleeding.
Foes:
Lo = Yellow Robed Human
Bw = Black veiled woman
By = Bryllys
PCs:
Rn = Raven
Ti = Tali, currently grappling Seat
As = Anvuss
Se = Seat, currently carrying the Codex of Bone
Sh = Shoot
Fg = Fang
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Seat fights for breaking from Italimek's grasp. "Don't you see? the black carriage is the best place to hide the Codex! they'll never figure we put it there!"
ooc: Grapple check is 15. If he breaks from the grapple he'll continue his way (possibly provoking more AoOs from Tali). Drothgery said he'll be out of town, so somebody else may have to roll for him.
OOC: Couldn't fit in a post yesterday, but I'm here as usual. Happy to see this thing going again! Raven had wanted to move to O22 after getting up from being knocked prone by Seat. I guess that was her round 4 action. SO I don't know that I have anything else to post. If that was her round 3 action, then she'll attack Bryllys in round 4. What the heck, I'll make her rolls. She'll feint as usual, and not use combat expertise. bluff 1+5=6; to hit 6+3=9;...was that really D20s?
Raven moves up to O21, and swings at Bryllys, but the wobbling jar proves to be too difficult for her to hit.
Seat struggles to break free from Tali's grasp, and barely manages to wriggle free (Grapple check (1d20+3=13)). He manages to stumble to L10.
Shoot steps back to L22 and fires another bullet at the black veiled woman's body. The shot catches the "woman" right in the spine, and with a cracking sound, it topples in a heap.
Anvuss swings once more, and his strike shatters the glass containing the fluid and the brain. Bryllys' fading, telepathic voice utters a wailing, "Nnnnoooooooo!" The metal casing for the jar crashes to the floor amidst broken glass, rancid fluid, and twitching gray matter. With his destruction, the compulsion upon Seat breaks, and his thoughts clear.
The young man in yellow robes remains stationary for the time being.
The sound of fighting from down the hall that Shiv and his cohorts came from has ceased, and a still silence falls over the scene.
OOC: Combat concluded.
Damage recap:
Shoot (23 of 24 hp remaining)
Tali (15 of 16 hp remaining)
Fang (9 of 13 hp remaining)
Raven (11 of 17 hp remaining)
Anvuss (17 of 18 hp remaining)
Black Veiled Woman (Head) unconcious, but stable
Black Veiled Woman (Body) destroyed
Yellow Robed human
Terrain:
** = Wall
ss = Stairs
dd = doorway
-- = rubble-filled doorway
tt = table
co = rusty cauldrons the size of a medium creature
kg = rotted wooden kegs and debris
ct = cot
cr = crate
bb = Codex of Bone
Bb = dead body
Empty spaces are clear, open terrain (stone floors in this case).
PCs or NPCs in Red are unconcious and bleeding.
Foes:
Lo = Yellow Robed Human
Bw = Black veiled woman
By = Bryllys
PCs:
Rn = Raven
Ti = Tali, currently grappling Seat
As = Anvuss
Se = Seat, currently carrying the Codex of Bone
Sh = Shoot
Fg = Fang
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