Iron Heroes: A Saga of Might

[mfloyd3]

Xoria stares at the creature, horror wrestling with curiousity at the bizarre magical beast.

 

[Dr Simon]

[sblock=Xoria]
The creature is most likely a berbalang, a kind of vampiric creature. It is said that they can send solid projections of their true selves out to hunt, whilst their true body lies safe elsewhere. If the projection is killed, the true body may be stunned but it is not otherwise damaged.
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[Dr Simon]

Ping?

 

[Shayuri]

"No!" Vela cries, and dashes forward on fleet feet to wrest the creature away from its easy prey!

(Grapple check!)

 

[Walking Dad]

Olmar
Defense 14 (FF14), HP 48/48, F +6,R+5,W+5; Ini +2 ; Fury Pool 0/13; DR 1d4

Olmar also rushes in to get a hold on the creature.

[sblock=OOC]

Grapple. Should provoke no AoO unless it has Combat Reflexes because Vela already tried.

Rolls below

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Reserve Points: 48 / 48

Pick (gripped with both hand and Power attack 1):
1d20+5 - 1d6+6 - 20/x4

In berserker rage:
1d20+6 - 1d6+8 - 20/x4
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[mfloyd3]

With her companions in the fray, Xoria holds her fire, resolving instead to study the creature.

[sblock=Doc Simon]
I realize this is a non-standard spell, but is there any way Xoria can use her newfound divination abilities to trace the location of the creature (assuming that this is a projection)? She does not want to scry on the site, just to know a rough distance and direction.
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[Dr Simon]

Vela and Olmar grab hold of the creature, which drops the girl and turns, shrieking, on its attackers. In a flurry of claws, wings and teeth if buffets the two humans, biting Vela's forearm with its needle-sharp teeth.

[sblock=OOC]
Vela and Olmar manage to grab the creature.

Creature attacks claw/claw/bite, hits Vela for 2 damage.
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[sblock=mfloyd]
Yeah, I reckon Xoria could have a go at that. To achieve that level of detail requires a 5 mana spell. Range to the creature currently isn't an issue.
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[mfloyd3]

Xoria reaches out with her mind, trying to trace the mystic energy surrounding the creature.

OOC: DC 10 Channel check, vs. Divination (Mastery 1)

 

[Dr Simon]

With Vela and Olmar keeping a grip on the struggling bat-like creature, the young girl, Kira, is able to run towards her father standing by the back door of the inn. Then, with hoarse shrieks, three more of the creatures swoop out of the night sky, flapping frantically above the fray.

[sblock=Xoria]
Xoria focuses on the original berbalang. She can just make out a slender silver thread, barely thicker than a hair, that snakes away from the creature into the night sky and off somewhere to the southern hills, towards where everyone has been saying Tizun Thane's mansion lies.
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Edit: Always liked Russ Nicholson's illustrations in the old Fiend Folio

 

[mfloyd3]

"Get back inside!" calls Xoria. "There's nothing to be gained by fighting them!"