Marked By Destiny, Marked by Tragedy Part 2 (No Judge Yet)

[Wik]

Brelach keeps his eyes open, and looks about nervously. His shoulderblade is beginning to itch, and he scratches it nervously.

"I can sense magic. Should I bother using it? It takes a little bit of energy to do." He mutters, still itching his damned shoulder.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Not yet--I'm guessing the whole place reeks of foul corrupted magic, so it won't be of any help yet. There will be a time for all things, especially when we figure out who the leader of those kobolds was--kobolds usually don't sit around all day waiting to ambush a hole in the ceiling, at least not without some impetus towards such behaviour. Like when the vile Professor Arthur Doliar hired the bugbear thugs to wait in ambush."

 

[stonegod]

Weapon shoulders the crossbows, tying them to his pack. Taking his flail in hand, he stands tall, waiting to follow.

 

[Patlin]

The rats, emboldened by hunger, swarm forward.

Roll initiative.

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(OOC: Unless they, you know, swarm )

Inevitable, wasn't it? [/sblock]

 

[stonegod]

Always battle ready, Weapon feels the tension in the air and is ready for it.

OOC: Init: 20. Are they a swarm or just a bunch o' rats?

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: With the verb swarm, they must be a swarm.

Alys is too busy talking about Professor Doliar to notice the swarm (Init 6) )

 

[Patlin]

Yes, it's a swarm.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Wow, that's ironic--I just realised that so far I've encountered at least one swarm on 100% of all my characters who had a total of no good way to damage swarms in their party (the other two of my characters were Psions with a good AoE attack). I hope we have a torch or can jump back up onto the rope fast )

 

[Patlin]

The really anoying swarms are those of extremely small creatures. Rats are somewhat larger, so you probably won't need to resort to torches.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Oh right, I forgot that you can still deal half damage to them with attacks. Yes, the small swarms can be deadly indeed! The supposedly-CR1 Blood Ooze thingy in Shackled City rings a bell on that note)