IG's "Those Left Behind" Chapter 2

[Scott DeWar]

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OOC

Obviously I will provoke an AoO, gotta love it. I'm really not trying to get Friadoc killed, I swear.

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ooc; didn't i see something about you always trying to get yourself killed? that seems contridictory....

 

[jkason]

Shaimon Hu'u, barbaric human druid

A volley of projectiles fly through the opening toward the chaos beast, but only Shai's and Friadoc's manage to do any damage.

Shai's face lights up with a childlike glee. "Hey, I hit something!" he says.

Emboldened by his latest success, Shai fires again, but as the diminutive monk tumbles through his range, Shai's attempts to miss him wind up throwing his shot wide, as well.

"Well, poop."

[sblock=OOC]Now, that's more like the Shai ranged attack I remember.

Firing into melee; damage (1d20+3=13, 1d8+3=4)[/sblock]

 

[Mista Collins]

"Fighting from a distance takes finesse and patience," Tanith says as she fires her crossbow once more. As her own shot goes wide, she turns to Shai with a smirk. "Something I could use as well."

[sblock=rolls]attack and damage (1d20+5=16, 1d8=8) -4 (firing into melee) on attack for a total of 12.[/sblock]

 

[Shayuri]

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[industrygothica]

The combat post has been updated, and the battle is over. And the big shocker: Friadoc's the only one that took any damage.

 

[Leif]

Uulark Simental

"Now that the battle is over, for the moment, and we may rest ourselves somewhat, it occurs to me that we have something of a mystery on our hands: By my reckoning, it should not have been so easy for me to deal with those undead creatures. Either than were less powerful than normal, or we are near to a source of Holy Power. I do not consider it to be possible that I am that much more powerful than I thought that I was!"

 

[Friadoc]

"It caught me solid," says Friadoc. "But no where near as solid as I expected."

 

[jkason]

Shaimon Hu'u, barbaric human druid

"Fighting from a distance takes finesse and patience," Tanith says as she fires her crossbow once more. As her own shot goes wide, she turns to Shai with a smirk. "Something I could use as well."

Shai smiles again. "We could have practice sometime! Company always makes things less boring."

His momentary distraction is fixed, however, as the glob of creature dies. He frowns as the others ponder the strength of their adversary, and snatches Dyspeer by the scruff of the neck when the wolf tries to sniff at some of the corpses.

"You just ate, you pig," he chastises softly.

"I don't know much about these sorts of beasties," he admits. "but if the rumors are true, who knows what's gotten put together 'round here. We reckon this was the original chaos beastie that got all those kobolds up above?"

 

[Shayuri]

"I wouldn't jump to conclusions," Talashia warns, squinting suspiciously at the dead fragments. "Friadoc, come over here. Let me see where it scratched you."

[sblock=GM]Can I make a Knowledge: Planes check, perhaps? Or Arcana...not sure what chaos beasts fall under. I'd like to see what she can deduce from what she knows, based on the following anomalies: 1) The chaos beast didn't seem to be reacting to the presence of the zombies, when they normally (as I understand it) reflexively attack anything moving in their vicinity. 2) It had spell resistance, as she could probably figure out from the failure of her first spell. 3) There was no sign of Friadoc having to fight off (ie - making a save for) morphic instability as a result of its successful attack. If she knows enough, based on the knowledge check, to come to those conclusions, then perhaps the check (or another, if need be) might suggest to her ideas for why those things might be? [/sblock]

 

[Leif]

Uulark Simental

Uulark, ever curious, stands near the remains of the chaos beast (4 feet away) and absently jabs it with his spear.