The Lamentation of Lolth - Chapter V

[hippocrachus]

Calenthang bears the grimlock leader's hit with little more than a flinch, chalking the little monster's ability up to his own lack of experience with the heavier protection about his person. He does however note the grimlock's berserker like indifference.
This one knows no pain... he thinks to himself, changing his strategy to a more defensive style to better hold his own against the blood-thirsty grimlock.

Fighting Defensively: -4 to Attack, +2 Dodge to AC

 

[Mimic]

Broddy: 20/25 hitpoints

Broddy sucks in air sharply as the one of the Grimlocks cuts into him. This wasn't good, he was no fighter and while he might be able to best one of these things the chances of coming out alive against two of them was slim.

Stepping back a few feet Broddy concentrates for a moment and invokes one of his innate ablities, suddenly the air around him and the two Grimlocks is filled with voices, sounds and various other noises. He new the sounds wouldn't last too long but hopefully long enough for him to gain the upper hand, or distract them at least until someone came and helped him out.

<ooc: Five foot step back and activates ghost sound as loudly and as many as possible>

 

[Manzanita]

Drogo

Drogo will stop running when he sees the combat. He'll then take a deep breath and call on the spirits of Nature who grant him their power as their agent on earth. He envisions the viscious dire badger emerging next to Therav, and assaulting the Grimlocks.

OOC: Cast summon nature's ally II, a dire badger. Drogo can cast this spell at a range of 35 feet. He'll try to put the badger as close as he can to the merchant. This spell takes one complete round to complete. He casts this spontaneously, dropping Bulls Strenth. Dire badger stats here.

 

[kirinke]

Teleri bites back an obvious retort and fires the arrow she had prepared once the sword lets her. Intellectually, she knows that the sword does have a good reason for teaching her a lesson, but she still inwardly seethes at being taken over. Now that the battle has been joined in full, she will concentrate on the matters at hand. Survival of both herself and her companions.

She uses the anger and adrenaline rush to draw the sword and at the same time, tossing the now useless bow into some handy bushes. As the two grimlocks rush her again for the second time, she knees one in the crotch and slashes the other with the sword's edge. (hoping the critters have the equipment in the right place )

She will then heal the ones with the most damage, burning up her non-combative spells if she has too. She will save the summon monster I for an emergency. If she can, she will also aid the merchant.

 

[Majin]

Using one of his innate abilities Broddy creates a loud high pitched whine that immediately gets a reaction from the small band of grimlocks. Gritting of teeth, slapping of ears, and all manner of irritated behavior insues. The grimlocks then begin sniffing strongly, reverting to using their only other form of sensory targeting to continue the battle, albeit at a disadvantage for as long as the sound continues.

Dunstand takes aim with his dagger and throws it at the grimlock flanking Calenthang, but unfortunately the dagger flies wide, piercing the ground not far from Therav, whose eyes widen comically as he spots it. Seeing the mage in trouble Sielwoodan lets an arrow fly at one of the grimlocks attacking Broddy, trying to get it's attention. His arrow finds its mark in the creature's flank, causing a squeal of pain from it as it turns around to find the source of this surprise attack. (8 damage) Meanwhile, Drogo begins casting his summoning spell.

Sensing that he may have bit off a little more than he could chew in his haste, Calenthang adopts a more defensive stance against the raging grimlock leader and is still able to score a hit on his attack. (10 damage) Ayden makes use of the confusion caused by the gnome's magic by caving in the grimlock's skull who landed a hit on him before. (6 physical / 6 shock)

(OoC: Kirinke - Just a few quick things. Unless Teleri has some kind of prior knowledge or experience with grimlocks she would not be able to know they are blind just by looking at them. Also, drawing a weapon and then attacking is all she'd be able to accomplish this turn, she is not able to attack two grimlocks nor heal anyone.)

Teleri swings at one of the grimlocks attacking her but it manages to parry with its axe blade. Rex likewise misses his attack as he leaps towards the remaining grimlock near Therav.

The grimlock leader swings wildly at Calenthang, missing as the fighter blocks the heavy axe's chopping swing. Miraculously, possibly as a result of their recent hearing loss, each remaining grimlock in turn misses their intended target. Each of them also in turn growl furiously in frustration.

Initiative:

Broddy - 19
Dunstand - 17
Sielwoodan - 17
Drogo - 16
Calenthang - 15
Ayden - 14
Teleri - 13
Rex - 11
Grimlock leader - 10
Grimlocks (6) - 9

 

[Verbatim]

As the hammer struck home, Ayden felt the creature's skull give way to the blow and watched as its body began to convulse as the eldritch lightning raced through it. As the creature slumped lifeless to the ground, Ayden whisphered a quick prayer of thanks to Finder and looked around to check on his companions.

Teleri and Calenthang were holding their own against their opponents while Rex seemed to be keeping the merchant safe for the moment. Dunstand was drawing another of his daggers, how the man felt comfortable with so many Ayden would never know, and Sielwoodan's arm was a blur renocking an arrow and drawing back his bow.

~They fight like well greased gears...thank you Uncle...~

Spotting the retreating form of the gnome, Ayden felt that the shouts, bells and whistles that echoed all around them had to come from him, and Ayden wondered why the gnome would summon a parlor trick at a moment like this.

~Perhaps he is also more of an entertainer than mage...as I am more of one than priest...~

Knowing the time for questions would be later, if there was a later, Ayden quickly charged the grimlock facing Broddy hoping to help out where he could.

 

[hippocrachus]

Calenthang continues to fight the grimlock leader, trying to protect every one of his openings as possible.

Fighting Defensively

 

[kirinke]

Teleri continues to fight the two grimlocks and slashes at one of them again. When the wailing, shrieking sounds fill the air, even she winces.

ooc:
sorry maj, just going by the description of the things in the stat block. This muscular humanoid is about as tall as a human. It has thick gray scaly skin and blank, eyeless, eye sockets She wouldn't know about sensitivity to sound, blind-sense or anything like that, but she would see that.

As for the rest, shoulda spread it out a few rounds. Still, neat visual reaction to the sword's 'lesson'

 

[Majin]

OoC: Yes thats what you would see, visually, but your character does not know for sure the physiology of such a creature. If she has not studied grimlocks (given for example the chance of knowing by Mimic's knowledge roll), then she would not know one way or the other whether this type of creature even needs eyes to see, so it is dangerous to assume and make judgements like that which could very well get you or the party as a whole into trouble. If you want to take it a step further which is really not necessary but for the sake of arguement, given the artist's rendition of the creature, its eye sockets are not empty, it just does not have any visible pupils, which is still no indication that it cannot see. Any monster could have such features but since they are not all the same, anything is possible.

Anyway, just another little bit of advice. Don't assume anything. Don't even assume the color of a goblin, because again, anything is possible, and you can bet if I change something that isn't the norm in the MM, that most likely I have my reasons.

 

[kirinke]

ooc:
good point lol
*and she backs away from the DM with the wicked gleam in his eyes
RUN, RUN, for your lives big teeth!