ROUND 3 cont.
Owen lays on the floor in a mischievous pile, staring at the back of his eye lids.
Suddenly dropping his flanged mace and his shield, Gregor yells out, “I’ve just about had it with this thing! Get out from behind that thing and face us!” Risking injury, he reaches past the statue to grab hold of the floating creature. It lashes out at him with its entire body, but for once the statue gets in its way instead. Gregor wraps his large hand around one end of its muscled body, and slams it against the wall (OOC: Drop weapon and loose shield, move action; Gregor initiatives grapple and provokes an AoO; creature hits AC 7, miss! Gregor touch attack 18 + 5 – 4 (cover) = 19, hit! Opposed grapple checks, Gregor 11 vs. creature 0, grapple initiated! Grapple damage 1d3 + 5 = 8 hp of nonlethal damage).
Azten divides his attention evenly between watching the passages to either side in front of him, and peeking behind him to monitor how the others are faring with the creature.
When he sees that Owen is down he looks to her for any sign that his skills are needed. Quickly moving over to the prone human he sees that he seems to have been magically put to sleep. Not wanting to waste any time, Azten lightly kicks his companion with his boot, “Come on, lad, no time for napping” (OOC: 5-foot step, standard action to wake up Owen). The young man’s eyes fly open and he is momentarily disoriented as he gets his bearings, “What am I doing on the ground?” he stammers (OOC: Owen is prone, and will get to act right after Azten next round).
Seeing a chance to help the giant in his subdual of the creature, Majakilar drops his weapon. “Alexi,” he barks out with military bruskness, “you’re in the way. Step aside so I can get at that thing!” (OOC: drop weapon, delay action to move in next to Gregor once Alexi gets out of the way)
“I can't hit that thing with the statue and everything in between...” Alexi grumbles. Hearing Majakilar she steps behind Gregor and reloads her crossbow (OOC: 5-foot step, reload crossbow).
Glad to have an opening, Majakilar moves in next to Gregor so that he can reach the strange monster (OOC: move action; initiative point changes).
Kenneth curses under his breath as the creature ducks and his bolt clatters against the statue.
"Well, if that is how it's going to be..." he grumbles, dropping another bolt into his crossbow, and looking for any chance to get a shot in (OOC: load crossbow, ready attack action).
ROUND 4
With Gregor’s hands wrapped firmly around it, the creature desperately releases one its purple eye rays at him. It hits him full in the face, and once again the giant drops, already snoring. The creature easily wriggles out from between his fingers. (OOC: Ranged touch attack hits AC 25, hit! Gregor Will save 10 + 1 = 11, failure; Gregor falls prone and is asleep; creature is no longer in a grapple).
OOC: Kenneth could fire his readied attack right after the creature escapes the grapple, if he so chooses. It would use up Kenneth's Round 4 action, but would change his initiative point to 15.
Round 4 cont.:
Gregor 9
Azten 9
Owen 9
Alexi 4
Majakilar 4
Kenneth 3
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Round 5:
Creature 15
If not, he will simply reload his crossbow and shoot again.
