T1: A Visit to Spelding Square [Completed]

[InVinoVeritas]

Quozen starts dragging debris over to where Pendrake is to start trying to reach him.

 

[Scott DeWar]

"Quozen, don't worry about me, just find blob!"

 

[InVinoVeritas]

"Okay..."

Quozen starts looking.

 

[Trouvere]

[sblock=Ngikhnit, Pendrake, Quozen]Pendrake calls advice at Quozen, who rapidly changes his mind about what to do. He gazes keenly about, but cannot penetrate the shadows.

Pendrake strains to snap the cords of the net, but cannot get purchase. As he struggles, he suddenly jerks in a different way as something unseen strikes him twice from above. His skin - and the net - sizzle with acid. Entire strands of the net are burned through and snap.[sblock=Ngikhnit]For a brief moment, Ngikhnit sees a blurry black limb bludgeon at Pendrake. His eyes follow the limb back, and he spies the creature wrapped around the post just above Pendrake. Leaving him hanging, it spirals itself around the post downwards, and slips from sight again.[/sblock]OOG: UT3 hits Pendrake once, twice for 9 damage, bringing him to 11 HP. Net damaged by acid for 4 HP, leaving it in very poor condition.[/sblock][sblock=Midias, Peladus]

Peladus nods understandingly.

"Right then, I'll give it another go."

He proceeds to address the lock again.

Baffled by Gillin's singular argot, Peladus has a go with the picks he thinks will be best for the job, but even though the lock is simple, he does not quite get the bar to click back.[/sblock]OOG: Ngikhnit...

 

[Scott DeWar]

Free action "Sheit! Its above!!"

 

[Boddynock]

The young mage chuckles and rolls his eyes.

"OK. Third time lucky. And if not, perhaps Myrtle could oblige?"

Once again the lock defeats him. Frustrated now by the waste of time as his companions face the beast inside, Peladus growls.

He turns to Gillin and asks the loan of Myrtle so that he can bash in the lock.

OOC: Trouvere, I'll leave damage, etc. to you.

 

[orsal]

"Right up on the post!" The half-giant had been planning to tear the net apart, but on spying the tentacle he realizes there are more pressing things to be done. DM: It's not clear from your post how high up he sees the creature. If it's within is reach he'll move up next to it and attack where he thinks he saw it going with his heavy flail (+4, 2d8+3). If not, he'll throw a javelin (+0, 1d8+3).

 

[Trouvere]

[sblock=orsal, IVV, scott]

"Right up on the post!" The half-giant had been planning to tear the net apart, but on spying the tentacle he realizes there are more pressing things to be done. DM: It's not clear from your post how high up he sees the creature. If it's within is reach he'll move up next to it and attack where he thinks he saw it going with his heavy flail (+4, 2d8+3). If not, he'll throw a javelin (+0, 1d8+3).

OOG: my apologies, I have been less clear than I could have been. Let's see if I can fix that. From Ngikhnit's position, he's looking at this:

topdown:

; side on:

; isometric:

Quozen (blue) is on the ground; Pendrake (red) is just a bit above 10 feet from the ground, just out of Quozen's ~8 ft vertical reach, though within Ngikhnit's. Strictly, he's in the (bottom of the) third 5 ft cube up; these cubes are out of reach from the ground for purposes of attacking, without throwing something or using a reach weapon (hint? ). The creature (buff) was up and left one cube of Pendrake when it attacked, but moved down(ish). How far is unknown... it disappears as part of its move, so it's not possible to see exactly where it goes.

I've been a little sneaky - the post is centred on the intersection of four squares. That means all the squares in this 2x2x4 stack contain an object. Any creature in these squares can share a space with the post (gaining +2 AC bonus if not wrapped up in a net), and any creature can try to climb the post in and to any of those squares.

Also, because of the long delays in this game, I think it not unlikely that everyone has by now forgotten OOC that it has been pretty well established that slashing and piercing damage has proved less than effective against the creature![/sblock]

 

[Scott DeWar]

OOC: re: (gaining +2 AC bonus if not wrapped up in a net) I wonder who he meant by that? I actually remembered the slashing weapon restriction.

since Pendrake was caught in the net with his morning star, and it is bludg and slash could he use that to continue to cut himself free?

 

[Trouvere]

OOG: a morning star is bludgeoning and piercing! Pendrake has a light slashing weapon on his person, though. Move action to draw, but then a full round action to cut multiple strands, I think. 1.5 rounds, using start/complete full-round action (this). But we have Ngikhnit, Midias and Quozen's actions to resolve before Pendrake acts again.