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North by Northwest, Chapter 2.5: Caster and Mouse


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Cian, Cellan: What's worse is that owlbear egg, when cooked, smells foul. The residual odor is absolutely noisome.

Ghur, Zeegra, Zottel, Herev: You hear a strange gurgling sound as the water begins to ripple. The beginnings of four small humanoid figures start to break the pool's surface, knives in their hands. As they rise out of the water, you notice that they bear an eerie resemblance to the goat-men that you've fought previously, with the strange addition of odd metal inserts in the sides of their neck, which vaguely resemble gills. A clear tube, filled with green liquid, exits from the back of their neck and re-enters their body between their shoulder blades. Cursing in their dark language, they attack.[sblock]OOC: Surprise round! Everyone gets to act except for the druid and the dark elf, and then we move into normal combat rounds. If you can't picture how they're surfacing, think of the end of Apocalypse Now, when Martin Sheen rises out of the water. They're soaked and angry.[/sblock]
 

Cian

Wrinkling his nose at the smell of cooked Owlbear egg, Cian shuffles about trying to get away from the odor and completely oblivious to the attack from the water.
 



Cole Braddock

Cole is a bit slow to react as he was not expecting an attack to come from the water. His surprise is quite obivious to the aquatic creatures as his swings are sloppy and completey off thier mark. "What manner of creatures as these!!!?"


Attack & Damage
 



[sblock]Hey, all. Please, please roll initiative for your characters when combat starts. It'd be wicked helpful. Also, because you did not roll a Listen check, Bloodweaver1, I'm going to rule that that's equivalent to taking 10. Cole will act when normal combat begins.[/sblock]Initiative (Italics indicates surprised)
Ghur 23
Hooved Men 21
Cellan, Manakar 17
Zeegra, Zottel 16
Cian 13
Herev 11
Cole 10

Surprise Round
Ghur quickly draws his shortbow to fire on the creatures, but, in his haste, aims wide, and his arrow splashes into the water some ways behind the creatures. The four of them finish surfacing and advance on the group as Zeegra draws her crossbow. Just as they stop moving, Herev slams his warhammer into the chest of one of them, collapsing the rib cage and demolishing its internal organs with a sick squishing noise. He quickly brings the hammer back and strikes at one of the others...[sblock]Herev, roll your attack for the Cleave feat. :)[/sblock]
 

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