IC: Dichotomy's Age of Worms Redux, Part I

[Dichotomy]

Alexis, with wild abandon, swings at the creature, but she overbalances and misses.

As she steps back, Alendar uses the opening to snipe with his bow. His arrow sinks into one of the creatures legs, but the wound is only minor.

Viktor swings his lit torch again. He strikes the swarm and singes the beetles a little more.

After Viktor moves back, Breth flings his alchemist's fire at the swarm. His aim is off, but the splash from the flames manages to burn the aberration a bit.

The strange creature steps toward Alexis and swings both its front legs. The cleric is hit with one and suffers minor injury.

As Boldak drops off the sarcophagus and draws his oil, the swarm moves to cover Alendar. The elf takes the bites themselves in stride, but the acid that Viktor was able to largely shrug off, burns deeply into the elf's flesh.

[sblock=OOC]Alexis: attacks Aberration; 9+2=11, miss; 5-foot-step
Alendar: readied action triggers; shoots Aberration; 13+6=19, hit; 2 damage
Breth: retrieves stowed alchemist's fire; 5-foot-step; readies
Viktor: attacks swarm; 14+3-4=13, hit; 1 damage; moves 20 feet (your sheet is wrong, btw)
Breath: ready triggers; throws AF at swarm; 10+2-4=8, miss; direction roll=4; lands just SW of Aberration; 1 splash damage to Aberration
Aberration: 5-foot-step; full attack A, 2 claws; 4+6=10, miss; 16+6=22, hit; 3 damage
Boldak: draws oil; moves
Swarm: covers L; 1 auto damage; fort save 6+4=10, fail; 4 acid damage; fort save 4+4=8, fail; will be nauseated when his turn comes (but you don't know that yet)

Status & Init
Alexis: 3 damage
Alendar (technically he should be before Alexis, because he "interrupted" her, but that is dumb): 5 damage; nauseated on his turn
Breth
Viktor: 7 damage
Aberration: 3 damage
Boldak
Swarm: 2 damage[/sblock]

 

[michael_noah]

Boldak quickly approaches the swarm with his oil and smashes the flask on top of the sarcophagus. "Light this stuff up!"
[sblock=ooc]Move 3 E, 2 N, throw at the righ/middle of the sarcophagus, or the swarm itself, which I think is only ?' away.[/sblock]

 

[TiCaudata]

"Get that oil on those bugs!"

Breth waits for Boldak to throw the oil, and then moves to the NW corner of the sarcophagus. He raises his hands and throws fire onto the (hopefully) oil coated bugs.

[sblock=ooc]Speak. Delay until after Boldak. Move to the square Viktor was in last turn and cast BH on the bugs.[/sblock]

 

[o3caudata]

Alexis refocuses and swings again.

[sblock=ooc]Attack and 5' step S.[/sblock]

 

[Dichotomy]

[sblock=OOC]worthley told me he wants to see what happens before Viktor goes... Since I don't have anything better to do... Not sure what the point of that was...[/sblock]
Alexis swings again at the six-legged aberration, but her aim is just plain off.

Alendar, looking ill and distracted by the beetles, moves away from the swarm.

Breth shouts his suggestion to Boldak and waits for the response.

[sblock=OOC]Alexis: attacks; 6+2=8, miss; five-foot-step
Alendar: nauseated; moves
Breth: delay

Status & Init
Alexis: 3 damage
Alendar: 5 damage
Breth
Viktor: 7 damage
Aberration: 3 damage
Boldak
Swarm: 2 damage[/sblock]

 

[worthley]

[sblock=ooc]sorry, I miss understood the order of events, and thought that Breth and Boldak would do their thing before me.[/sblock]
Viktor takes a step to the swarm and swings his torch at it again.

 

[Dichotomy]

Viktor steps up and swings his torch at the swarm. Sadly, the frustation of the moment must be getting to him, as he misses by a mile.

The strange aberration, on the other hand, has no problems. It lays into Alexis with two claws, and she drops bleeding on the stone floor.

Boldak flings his oil and smashes it in the midst of the swarm. Breth follows by setting the works aflame with his magic. Alas, the swarm avoids some of the magic, and the oil also simply doesn't burn well. The results are less than amazing.

The swarm proceeds to swamp over Boldak and Viktor. While the human gets a swipe in with his torch, both he and the dwarf get bitten and burned by acid.

While Alexis bleeds on the floor, Alendar shakes off his illness and fires at the freakish thing. "Can we make it?" the elf shouts loudly as his arrow sinks into flesh.

[sblock=OOC]Viktor: moves; attacks; 5+3-4=3, miss
Aberration: 5-foot-step; full attack, 2 claws; 14+6=20, hit, 6 damage; 19+6=25, hit, 3 damage; A drops
Boldak: moves; throws oil; 15+3=18, hit
Breth: stops delaying; moves; burning hands; ref save 19+3=22, success; 1 damage; 1 damage from oil (which I treated like a lantern breaking)
Swarm: covers V & B; V gets AoO; 19+3-4=18, hit, 2 damage; auto swarm damage, B-1, V-3; fort saves, B-7+4=11, success, V-20!, success; acid damage, B-1, V-1; nauseation saves, B-12+4=16, success, V-17+5=22, success

Next Round
Alexis: stablization 64, fail; loses 1 hp
Alendar: shoots aberration, 15+6=21, hit, 6 damage

Viktor is next, just so there is no "Miss Understanding."

Status & Init
Alexis: 13 damage; unconscious and dying
Alendar: 5 damage
Viktor: 11 damage
Aberration: 9 damage
Boldak: 2 damage
Breth
Swarm: 6 damage[/sblock]

 

[TiCaudata]

"ALEXIS!! Viktor! You can help her can't you!?

Breth points his finger at the aberration hoping to freeze it, and then runs 30 feet to the northeast.

[sblock=ooc]
Ray of Frost.
[/sblock]

 

[worthley]

Viktor takes a step out of the swarm, and waits for Boldak to step out before he strikes the swarm with his torch again, fearing that the oil still left on the bugs may also ignite Boldak. "Alendar, you need to get her out of here, and patch her wounds."
[sblock=ooc]Viktor 5' steps out of the swarm and readys to attack once Boldak leaves the swarm. Don't know if I've done this yet, but dodge bonus against the swarm.[/sblock]

 

[michael_noah]

"Be careful, that thing can fight many foes at once," Boldak warns his companions as they race to save Alexis. He continues in his unorthodox fight against the swarm, drawing and smashing another bottle of oil, then stepping out of the mess of bugs.
[sblock=ooc]Throw the oil in a square next to Viktor, 5' step NW.[/sblock]