Parting Gifts: Ch 1 - Dusk - IC

[kinem]

(ooc: Yolo would know that undead are immune to death effects. Bro, please edit your post.)

A plume of fire erupts from the head where Grandfather's fire seed impacts its, and you can feel the heat for an instant. The monster looks somewhat damaged from it but still mostly intact.

A swarm of cannonballs erupts from the ground near Haessellekh and the balls crash into the monster at great speed. However, the tactic proves surprisingly ineffective against this foe, as most of the balls bounce off the undead's thick armored hide. A couple of them do impact its nose and eyes, doing some damage. Zach has to duck as the massive balls noisily scatter all over the street, knocking out sections of walls and windows and chewing up the cobblestone street.

(ooc: Yolo to act.)

 

[Brother Allard]

OOC: Der. Note to self: pay more attention!

Yolo levels a finger at Zach, uttering a quick prayer for his preservation.

OOC: Casts Sheild Other. Deflection and Resistance bonuses are moot.

 

[Shayuri]

"Doesn't mind fire too much, does he?" Grandfather muses. "Lets try altering our tactics a bit..."

He knocks his staff on the ground, then holds it aloft.

"Give me a storm," he says to the sky.

The sky...answers. Dark clouds swirl out of a point directly over the raging undead monster. Lights flash from within them, and thunder booms. A chill wind picks up, blowing dust and stray papers randomly about. Despite all that, the stormcloud is small, covering just that disc centered on the head, maybe a hundred feet or so wide.

Lightning flashes from the angry disc of clouds, crashing onto the monster with a thunderclap and the sharp, acrid stench of ozone.

(Call Lightning Storm! The cloud and stuff are just flavor...since it wasn't stormy out, it just does the 5d6 damage per bolt. Ref save DC 25 for half.)

 

[kinem]

(ooc: Please refrain from posting actions for a new round until NPC actions finish out the old round.)

The monstrous head keeps pounding away at Zach but it adjusts its approach a little, taking more careful aim at the expense of putting less power into each blow. Zach slashes it again with another mighty blow of his scimitar, but it manages to pound him with 3 devestaing head-butts. The mighty elf takes it in stride.

The brave halfling priest Yolo flinches as great bruises appear on his body.

(ooc: 43 damage each to Zach and Yolo)

Fred Foster stops singing and instead casts a spell. Suddenly, a large fire elemental rises in back of the monstrous head!

(ooc: Those with Spellcraft can tell, and the other PCs can pretty much guess, that this is a major image spell.)

(Round 4)

Grandfather summons his lighting storm and a bolt flashes down onto the giant head. It hits, but the monster dodges the worst of it.

The head looks significantly damaged, but not near defeat, and its wounds continue to slowly heal before your eyes. Unlike the tarrasque's incredible rate of healing, however, the head's fast healing is not nearly enough to compensate for all of the punishment it's taking.

 

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B = building		d = door

$$
$$ = Grugaro, giant head

F = Fred Foster		h = human

b = Bron Hager
c = Cron Hager		O = half-orc

HH
HH = Haesellekh		K = Kurina

G = Grandfather		y = Yolo

ZZ = Zach
ZZ

ff
ff = illusory fire elemental

 

[Voidrazor]

Great batlike wings explode from the illusion of normalcy cloaking Haessellekh's shapeshifted form. Creating a shrieking gale through the intersection, she launches herself into the air and flies 15ft up and over Zach in a twisting curve. En route she aims a thin green ray at Grugaro. "Change of tactics? Very well, endgame". Her form blurs and a shockwave of arcane energy emanates from the Sasoguese mage. For an instant she appears many-armed like a Hindi death goddess, each limb in an intricate gesture.

Move action to position herself so that she'll be 15ft up, above Zach, and exactly 15ft from Grugaro. Manifests Psionic Disintegrate (+19 touch to hit, DC28). Casts Spell Stream (quickened via rod), off of that casting rnd 1 Haste, rnd 2 Force Screen, rnd 3 Concealing Amorpha rnd 4 Transformation

 

[kinem]

Haessellekh's green ray strikes the undead giant head. It is rattled a bit but remains intact, if somewhat the worse for wear.

Haessellekh is able to perform the four rapid castings with her spell stream as she planned.

(ooc: still to act: Kurina, Yolo)

 

[Brother Allard]

Yolo quickly recovers himself, ignoring the growing purple bruises, and brings down another column of coruscating holy flame onto the beast's head.

OOC: Casts Flame Strike (spell-like ability) [empower spell-like ability + bane magic (undead)] 24d6, Ref DC 24 for half.

 

[kinem]

A huge column of fire roars down, engulfing the monster. The creature roars in anger, yet nimbly turns aside again. When the flames abate you can see more burns on the monster, which is slowly getting more and more damaged as this battle continues.

(ooc: Kurina to act)

 

[Jemal]

*Sorry, was away for a week*

Kurina sighs as she sees that they're not going to lure the beast. Instead, she steadies her stance and looses a steady stream of arrows at the beast.

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Rapid Shot, +37/37/32/27/22, Damage 1d8+13 +1d6 fire. Range 165' Threat 19-20/X3
*Undead=Favoured Enemy, btw*
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