Industrygothica's "Those Left Behind" [IC]

[industrygothica]

The agile halfling is able to draw his quarterstaff and give the things a good whack, but the staff just bounces off and he struggles to keep his grip against the tightening tentacles. He thinks he can hear his staff bounce on the stone floor as consciousness escapes him.

Rokelsh's luck in avoiding the tentacles has run out as a pair of them swirl up his legs and hold him fast to the ground. The determined warrior grits his teeth and manages breaks free before the things do any real damage.

As Jonas's hands are mostly free, he says a prayer to Heironeous, asking for the strength to break free of his bindings. His prayer is granted, and as the power of Heironeous flows through him, he pulls himself free with a guttural roar. The tentacles grab at him again, but he rips free easily.

After several more seconds of struggling, the dwarf Rogash is finally able to slither away from the rubbery tentacles, but not without taking a little damage.

Shai struggles wildly against the many tentacles hold him to the ground. He can see that Friadoc and Dyspeer are both unconscious, and the determined wizard Tanith is starting to fade.

"Get to the others!" he yells frantically, valliantly, to those that have freed himself.

Almost as soon as the words came, Shai finds himself splat on the floor, gasping for a deep breath. Friadoc and Dyspeer both lie motionless in a heap, but freed at last. The bewildered wizard pulls herself to unsteady feet. "What tha..." The words escape her as he watches the last of the tentacles fizzle out of sight.

[sblock=details]That was two rounds worth of actions. The spell is over.

Status:
Rokelsh 29/37
Tanith Dathius 1/23
Friadoc -2/32
Shaimon Hu'u 14/36 (5 nonlethal) barkskin
Rogash Ungart 16/39
Jonas Cleighton 31/44
Dyspeer 0/29 (3 nonlethal)
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[Mista Collins]

Exhausted, Tanith moves her way over to the halfling and checks to see if there is anything she can do.

 

[Jemal]

Rokelsh Anxiously looks around for the source of the bad juju, eyes slightly glazed as a low growl can be heard from him when the rest of the noise quiets down.

 

[DrZombie]

Jonas rushes to the halfling and usen his wand of CLW to revive him. He notices the bruises on Tanith and once again uses the wand to get the party back in fighting shape.

"That was nasty." is all he has to say. "Was it a trap or someone standing closeby?"

 

[Scotley]

Rogash

Seeing that others with more skill are attending to the fallen, Rogash takes up his axe and watches for any new threat.

 

[Mista Collins]

"I don't know, I never heard the heard the somatic part that goes along with casting." Tanith says as she starts to think about what occurred. "But it did not last as long as it could have, so I am assuming it was dismissed. I'd be wary either way, someone or something is inhabiting this place."

 

[jkason]

Shaimon Hu'u, barbaric human druid

Jonas rushes to the halfling and usen his wand of CLW to revive him. He notices the bruises on Tanith and once again uses the wand to get the party back in fighting shape.

"That was nasty." is all he has to say. "Was it a trap or someone standing closeby?"

Seeing his wolf companion fall unconscious, combined with the sudden disappearance of the tentacles, pulls Shai back to himself. He stumbles as his muscles seem to shudder and wane. Still, he lifts the wolf to his lap, and insists Jonas heal him before he takes any of the wand's magics for himself.

"I don't care which," Shai says, his usual cheer overshadowed by the cold anger in his voice even as his hand gently pets the wolf's coat. "but I owe him pain for what he's done."

 

[Friadoc]

"That was nasty." is all he has to say. "Was it a trap or someone standing closeby?"

"Thank you, Jonas," says Friadoc as he stands up slowly from being healed, groaning as he stretches out the aches of what just happened.

"If it was a trap, I couldn't sense it," says Friadoc. "Either before or after it was triggered."

"But, it's obvious that the bag above was meant to be triggered to aide it," adds the halfling.

Once Friadoc feels more confident in his faculties, he'll give the area a quick sweep, again. However, before he does, he'll make sure the others stand back somewhat and he'll tie a length of rope about his waste and hand it to Rokelsh and the others.

"Just in case it is a resetting trap," says Friadoc with a wry grin.

 

[Jemal]

Rokelsh shakes away his anger and takes hold of the rope, stepping back and out of the room. "Whatever it was, the person responsible must pay."
(This is assuming it's been a minute or so without us finding anything to suggest there's a viable threat nearby).

 

[industrygothica]

Though they can't readily see anything, Friadoc and Tanith both figure that it was probably a designed trap rather than some unseen enemy.

ooc: I've attached a crude map of what you've covered so far. Assume Jonas has healed everyone to some degree; I'll post the details of that tomorrow morning, I hope. A bit short on time right now--12 hour shifts don't suit well to gaming, it seems.