If Thoughts Could Kill

[Hammerhead]

Groknar looks disappointedly at the gnome-turned-toad. Not much difference, really. Small, weak, and ugly. No fair, wizard-man! Time to eat axe! the half-orc bellows. He brings his axe down repeated upon the slimy beast.

 

[GruTheWanderer]

Tuskaar bites the prone dwarf, knocking him unconscious. Groknar feeds his rage by turning the toad to pulp. Verra runs to the doorway through which the bald mage vanished, but sees no trace of the wizard.

Upcoming actions: 8 - Darian. 14 - Lysander, Tarkus. 13 - Zelestine. 12 - Verra. 11 - William. 10 - Bald Mage. Verra, you've used the partial, but you can still use the normal action.

 

[Victim]

Curses. The Wilder leader escaped before I could use Dimensional Anchor. Oh well, I probably would have missed anyway.

The dominated William, now that he seemed to have finished using the gnome's head as drum, was a bit to close for comfort, or easy spellcasting. Hopefully, he would continue to attack that stupid beast. It was rather unfortunate that his dispels hadn't removed the Dominate. There was a simple way to defeat the spell. Unfortunately, he hadn't prepared the spell; it was on a scroll. With a thought, Darian reoriented his force shield for maximum protection. This is probably going hurt. . .

Leaving himself open for long moment, Darian reaches into his bag, shuffles for a moment, and pulls out a scroll. Fortunately, this one, having combat applications, had been placed on top when he had rearranged his scrolls this morning. Protection from Evil.

With his attention returned to the combat, Darian defends himself with a flashing blade while awkwardly reading from the scroll. He quickly finishes the spell and reaches out toward William. If he remembered correctly, William had no defenses that would prevent his spell from landing.

After warding William against mental control [OOC: If Darian misses with the first touch attack, then he tries again with his action. Ignore the following actions, but not the speech.], Darian says, "I'll be with you in moment, Verra. There are a few loose ends to tie up down here. He had planned on asking the dwarf to surrender, and using magic missile should he refuse.

Instead, he moves to assist Verra. If she'd used the coward's refuge of Invisibility, then the elf would need another pair of eyes. If he notices anything with his magical detections, he'll point out the enemy to Verra.

Then he notices Groknar attacking the polymorphed wizard. "What are you doing, muderous beast?" Darian shouts angrily. "You can't attack a defeated combatant!". Alas, it will probably be too late for the gnome.

[reorient shield to face William: Free. MEA: retrieve scroll - provokes AoO. Standard: Cast Protection from Evil (lvl 1) defensively on William. Concentration success automatic, touch attack +5. Haste partial: move to K3]

OOC: Gru, you posted while I was writing mine. I've now edited.

 

[Keia]

Verra, not seeing the bald mage but not hearing any casting either pulls a crystal rod from his belt. A quick command and the See Invisible power manifests on him. Verra then scans the room for the bald mage.

If Verra does hear something he will abort his action to send out a mind blast into the room toward the sound, hoping to stun the mage and capture her.

Assuming she is in the room and spotted with the see invisible, Verra will attack the next round with three attacks (but will stop if the mage drops).

 

[GruTheWanderer]

William strikes Darian as he draws the scroll (12 damage). Darian casts the spell on the defensive and protects the fighter from further commands. Darian then hurries to the door through which the bald mage departed. Sure enough, the coward chose to turn herself invisible.

When Verra arrives a moment later, Darian shouts out her location. Verra's first shot misses, but the second one pierces the mage to the heart. She slumps to floor, invisible but dead. William feels his self-control return.

Zelestine drags the body of the dwarf out of the way and prepares for the return of the girallon. When the beast reappears, it falls swiftly to the blades and spells of those who still stand.

Tarkus attends to Bellus and his brother (before the end of Groknar's rage renders him unconscious), then helps the others. Refreshed and rebuffed, the team moves through the rest of the complex, finding many more rooms but no more opponents.

Ellyn escaped, and there may be more Wilders in the field, but their headquarters has fallen.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Tarkus will cast 2 circles of healing (1d8+9 each to all with in my area) Me sorry brother. Me not get spells off in time to heal you and keep others alive as well.

 

[Hammerhead]

Bad guys die! Bloodfist brothers victorious! After being saved for death by his brother, he punches him on the arm. No worries, brother! Groknar no die!

Jobu worry. Bad lady escape, he says. What now? We kill dead thing?

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Hey Groknar! Toad look meaty. maybe we cook and have toad cabobs? Tarkus looks after Tuskaar making sure his companion is well. That'll do pig. that'll do. Tarkus will cast detect magic on the items in the area. is anythink coming up as magical?

 

[Victim]

OOC: Actually, since Groknar killed the toad, it should turn back into a gnome. Also, IIRC, clerics can only swap for "Cure" spells, and not healing circle and the like. It's not a big deal now though.

"Well, we could seek to press our attack by Remote Viewing Ellyn and Teleporting to her location. I see no reason to allow her and her mind flayer lackey to withdraw from field. After running her down in the midst of her ignominious rout, then I believe we should re-equip ourselves and gather more information.

If the other chosen is truly a lich, then he'll soon return to a state of unlife even if destroyed. Unless we track down his phylactery, err, Evil-Magic-Soul-Gem," Darian explains to the half orcs, "attacking him at this point will be futile."

Darian begins paging through the captured spellbooks, looking for any unusual spells. "It seems rather unusual that we didn't find Ellyn's spellbooks."

OOC: As far as know, Verra hasn't announced Ellyn isn't a mage. I'm definitely getting Psicraft and Knowledge Psionics.

 

[Hammerhead]

Jobu says you wrong, wizard man. Because....uh....bad guy go the plains...and...uh....no sky or tell-a-port in plains. No, other plains...I no know, friend Jobu. I no good at this. Definitely sky in plains, and me bet you tell-a-port there too.

Look at toad now. It is gnome. Gnome no taste good. Too stringy. I say we go to inn, get drunk and eat real meat. My treat, cuz me hungry and want food. What say, brother?