Industrygothica's "Those Left Behind" [IC]

[industrygothica]

Rokelsh takes out three more of the kobolds before he hears Tanith's words and jumps out of the main path of her fireball. He's not completely uninjured, but he'll make it (10 points of damage).

While most of the creatures have been put out of their misery, the fully formed chaos beast still moves.

The dwarf's arrows land cleanly and appear to do damage, but they are quickly absorbed into the creatures amorphous mass.


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Rokelsh 19/37
Tanith Dathius 20/23
Friadoc 23/32
Shaimon Hu'u 27/36 barkskin
Rogash Ungart 28/39
Jonas Cleighton 31/44
Dyspeer 16/29
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[Scotley]

Rogash

Hardly breaking rhythm, Rogash sends another brace of arrows at the chaos beast.

 

[Friadoc]

Switching from his bar hands to his nunchaku, Friadoc attempts to tumble behind the best, so as to flank it. Once done, the halfling will start to attack.

 

[Mista Collins]

Quickly changing to a more tactical style of casting, three bolts of pure energy leave her hands and strike the beast true.

ooc - magic missile

 

[Jemal]

Rolling to his feet, Rokelsh hears the words distantly, his head ringing slightly. Seeing Friadoc still in melee, he growls and leaps out, sword coming down in a mighty overhand chop.
[sblock=combat]
If it's 10' or more away : Charge, Power Attack 4.
Attack +10; damage 2d6+15; threat 19-20
Otherwise, move to ensure flanking position (5'step if possible), and Power attack 2.
Attack +10/+5(if he's within 5' step I get the second attack); Damage 2d6+11; threat 19-20
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[industrygothica]

Friadoc tumbles past the thing and pops up on the other side, smacking it solidly with his nanchacku. At least, as solidly as can be, given the creature's make-up.

Rokelsh charges the beast with a guttural, sword raised and ready. Just before reaching the beast he trips over a smoldering kobold's body and throws himself off balance (damn those fumbles!)

Tanith, spot on with her spellcasting today, blasts the thing with three more magic missiles and it howls in pain.

As Friadoc dances behind the thing, two vicious looking claws form on the back side and each take a swipe at the nimble halfling. Fortunately one misses, but the other slaps him hard. Tanith winces at the blow, as only she truly understands what it means to be struck by a chaos beast.

The sturdy dwarf pumps two more arrows into the vile creature despite the obstruction of Rokelsh's stumbling (nice shots!).

The thing stops moving and, perhaps more importantly, stops morphing. By all appearances it seems to be dead. Rogash's arrows still protrude from the thing's bulk.

[sblock=Details]
23 Rokelsh 19/37: charges, greatsword miss (natural 1)
23 Friadoc 18/32: tumble 11+9=pass; nunchaku hit, 4 damage
13 Tanith Dathius 20/23: magic missile (SR check 11+6=pass, 11 damage
12 Chaos Beast: (vs. Friadoc) hit, 5 damage; miss (fort 19+6=pass)
9 Shaimon Hu'u 27/36 barkskin
9 Rogash Ungart 28/39 (15+7=hit, 5 damage;16+7=hit, 6 damage)
7 Jonas Cleighton 31/44
5 Dyspeer 16/29
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[Mista Collins]

Immediately moving towards Friadoc, Tanith looks him up and down to make sure the ugly effects of a chaos beast strike won't be taking hold. "How do you feel? You don't like turning to mush,do you?"

Once it is determined Friadoc is fine, Tanith turns to the rest of the group to better explain her actions. "I want to apologize for my brash reactions back there with the fireball. I noticed the chaos beast form from one of the kobolds and it appeared if the others weren't brought down immediately that we would have had seven more to deal with. We were fortunate enough that we were able to take this one down as quickly. If there were eight in total, I guarantee we would be singing a different tune. The physiological makeup of the chaos beast is quite odd. It takes pure focus and a bit of luck for spells to effect it and as we witnessed all these kobolds; a strike from it can prove to be miserable."

Once Tanith realizes she is going on and on about this she stops and gives the rest of the group a smirk.

 

[jkason]

Shaimon Hu'u, barbaric human druid

"I want to apologize for my brash reactions back there with the fireball. I noticed the chaos beast form from one of the kobolds and it appeared if the others weren't brought down immediately that we would have had seven more to deal with. We were fortunate enough that we were able to take this one down as quickly. If there were eight in total, I guarantee we would be singing a different tune. The physiological makeup of the chaos beast is quite odd. It takes pure focus and a bit of luck for spells to effect it and as we witnessed all these kobolds; a strike from it can prove to be miserable."

Shai holds at the threshhold of the door, Dyspeer at his heels and bow in his hands.

"You saved our hides, Tanith. I'll take a singe anytime you need if it keeps me winding up like those--" he nods at the dead, gelatinous kobolds.

"But you just said that one got made from a kobold by a chaos beast. Which means we don't have seven more, but we have at least one more. And if what you say's true, none of us want to get in reach of the thing if we run across it..."

 

[Mista Collins]

"But you just said that one got made from a kobold by a chaos beast. Which means we don't have seven more, but we have at least one more. And if what you say's true, none of us want to get in reach of the thing if we run across it..."

"I was thinking the same thing, but this may not be entirely true." Tanith comments. "If you recall our last travels together, we ran across someone who was transforming creatures into other monstrosities. This might be the case here. Though, I wouldn't rule out the idea of these being created by at least one more chaos beast. Either way, we need to be on our guard."

"How are you feeling Rokelsh? It seems you took the worst of my hasty actions." Tanith says with a look of embarrassment on her face.

 

[Scotley]

Rogash

"I'm sorry I doubted you. I understand that in battle one sometimes has to take risky action." He looks into the room one last time then addresses the group. "Are we fit to continue on?"