The Heroes of House Tharashk

[cdsaint]

Gamil take a step towards the door and tries to cast an infusion on himself, he manages to avoid another attack, but is so shaken by the brutality of the attack that he gets the somatic component wrong and flubs the spell.

Dox leaps out of bed and grabs his rapier and is halfway down the hall to the stairs before he's really aware of what he's doing.

The creature reaches for Gamil again, gibbering insanely in a language you don't recognize. You manage to dodge the first attack easily, but on the second you feel the raspy pads on it's palm slide over your neck once more and manage to pull back only at the last second.

Gulo is a bit slower to react, but proves to be considerably faster on his feet as he breezes past Dox in the hall and hurls himself down the stairs.

ok, not the end of the round, but close. Gamil's action is next, then we begin the next round at the top. on the map m is the "monster", others positions are marked by the first two letters of the characters name.

 

[Hoog]

On my turn I will continue down to the first floor and move to engage, flanking if possible.

 

[Express]

On my turn I will continue down to the first floor and move to engage, flanking if possible.

Gulo will attempt to put himself between the creature and Gamil, then
will emit a great cry and hack at the creature with his sword.

 

[Jarval]

Gamil swings again with his morningstar, abandoning the idea of magic for now. Once Gulo and Dox arrive, he moves behind them to repair himself.

"A well timed arrival, friends." He says, relieve to have assistance. "I think it came in through the room with the hole in the floor."

 

[cdsaint]

Gamil swings again, somewhat encouraged by the appearance of allies and the sounds of more coming fron upstairs. His attack glances off the things tough rubery skin. He looks around, but there's not much of anywhere safe to go at the moment.

(end of the round, Gamil has taken 12hp damage, the thing has taken 4 hp)

Dox follows Gulo down the stairs, vaulting the rail and tumbling around the table and stabbing at the horrrid looking little monster.

The creature, still hissing and muttering attacks Gamil again trying to grab ahold of his neck but misses twice.

Gulo steps in on the side opposite Dox and takes a mighty swing with his falchion. He is taken aback by how quickly the little creature dodges out of the way as the falchion knocks a large chunk of plaster from the wall.

(OK Gamil, back to you, bear in mind the little SOB has long arms giving him a 10' reach. Out the door or up the stairs would be the only places to easily get out of reach, but both would draw an AoO. On the other hand, you haven't taken damage this round, and could probably combat cast with a good likelyhood of success.)

 

[Hoog]

Dox will on his turn attack the enemy while saying "Sorry it took so long to get here"

 

[Jarval]

"You are here now, that is all that is important." Gamil says, trying again to call on his magic to repair his damage. He keeps a close eye on the creature's arms, splitting his attention between his infusion and his opponent.


(OoC: Going with what you said cdsaint, and trying to combat cast repair light damage.)

 

[cdsaint]

Gamil casts his infusion without any difficulty. He's feeling much better now.

Dox springs forward with his rapier extended, but the vile little being slipsout of the way at the last moment.

The creature lunges at Gamil once more in frustration. It dies! Makes it die! this time it manages to get a rubbery but strong hand on your shoulder and squeezes you in a painful grip. Gamil pulls back before it can loop its other arm around his neck.

Gamil repairs 8 points of damage on himself, then takes 5 points from a successful attack, but once again evades the grapple. Express, I'm guessing you want to attack again, just let me know.

 

[Express]

Upset at the creature's habit of avoiding attack, Gulo lets loose another louder cry and flies into a barbarian rage. "Look to me creature!" he bellows and slashes at the monster again.

OOC: Id like to use the raging luck feat to spend a temporary action point to try to hit the monster.

 

[cdsaint]

Gulo Screams at the creature, and the creature looks at him. Too late to stop the tremendous blow the creatures eyes widen even as he is split into two pieces. It is not accurate to say two halves, because the head shoulders and one arm fall to one side, while the body and one detached arm fall to the other.

The room is suddenly very quiet. After about a minute there is a determined pounding on the door.

Express, no AP was needed, came up with a nat. 20 this time, and a 19 to confirm. Quite a bit of damage there, I'd expected him to take 2 more hits to go down.