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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Branding Opportunity" data-source="post: 2467906" data-attributes="member: 31812">Foul Play, Round 1Mavic uttered an elaborate curse in Giant involving improbable, circuitous, and ultimately redundant genealogical possibilities for the creature's heritage. He raised his hands on high and called upon the might within him, outlining his body in a pale yellow halo of flame that left him like an arrow to alight into a circular ball of fire that hovered malevolently upon the muck and flith that the creature resided in.  "Perhaps THIS shall burn your bowel-lair, fiend!"  The flaming sphere hovers over the foul, ebony liquid boiling up from below, but seems to dissolve into harmless steam at it gets close to the creature.  (OOC: Mavic casts Flaming Sphere and places it upon the corner most opposite Morley and Reivik some few inches over the filthy ...er, fluid.; Mavic makes caster level check 4 + 11 = 15, failure, spell has no effect)Fearing he recognizes this creature, Morley searches the ground around him for rocks, bricks even sticks that he can use as a missle weapon and begins hurling them at the inky being in the water.  He finds a broken flagstone near where he is standing and flings it at the thing in the water.  The stone simply passes through without seemingly harming it.  (OOC: flagstone attack 16 + 14 – 4 (non-proficiency penalty) – 4 (cover) = 22, hit! Damage 1d3 + 2 = 3, no effect on creature)“Problems?” Latalya asks, not being able to see anything in front of the party.The elf reaches into her backpack and produces her composite longbow from it, knocking a cold iron arrow and waiting for an opportunity to shoot.  (OOC: Ready Action to attack as soon as an opponent comes within view. Dex is -2 currently, not wearing the gloves)George hugs the wall to give others space and he just fires a single arrow into the ink. He waits to see what happens before sending in more.  The first arrow, like Morley’s stone, simply passes through the creature without harming it. (OOC: bow attack 15 + 13 + 1 (PBS) – 4 (cover) = 25, hit! Damage 1d8 + 1 (PBS) = 3 hp, no effect on creature; Technically George has only taken one standard action, so you still have a move action left)With an explosion of foul water, the creature bursts from the water, rising before you until it is over 15 feet in height.Seeing her chance to act, Latalya fires her bow at the fiend.  Unlike the other attacks, Latalya's arrow seems to have an effect on the creature as it visibly recoils from the shot.  (OOC: bow attack 15 + 13 – 4 (cover) = 24, hit!  Damage 1d8 + 6 = 7 hp)The creature looks more like a runny, black oil slick taken on enormous proportion, water still streaming from its hideous form.  It has no discernable features or appendages, but is covered with thousands of squirming, hair-like tendrils which surround it like an unholy halo.  These tendrils seem to be secreting a noxious substance whose stench is the most overwhelmingly disgusting thing you have ever smelled in your entire life.  They extend in all directions from the creature and are able to reach Morley, Reivik, George, and Mavic.  (OOC:  Reflex saves Morley 18 + 10 = 28, success, Reivik 20, automatic success, George 10 + 15 + 2 (cover) = 27, success, Mavic 15 + 6 + 2 (cover) = 23, failure, Mavic takes 1 hp of acid damage; Mavic makes a Fortitude save 10 + 6 = 16, failure, Mavic takes 2 points of Dexterity damage).As the creature expands, so does the stench that surrounds it.  As it washes over you, you immediately feel the bile in your stomach begin to rise, sickening some of you.  (OOC: Everyone makes Fortitude saves: Reivik 9 + 15 = 24, failure, Reivik becomes nauseated for 2 rounds, Latalya 18 + 13 + 1 (resistance) = 33, success; Mavic 12 + 6 = 18, failure, Mavic becomes nauseated for 1 round; Eshanna 10 + 9 + 2 (resistance) = 21, failure, Eshanna becomes nauseated for 4 rounds; George 6 + 6 = 12, failure, George becomes nauseated for 3 rounds; Morley 17 + 8 = 25, failure, Morely becomes nauseated for 2 rounds, Beau 16 + 7 + 2 = 25, failure, Beau becomes nauseated for 2 rounds)Just when you think that things couldn’t possibly get any worse a amorphous tentacle of solid blackness forms in the creatures body and streaks towards Morley (OOC: Creature hits AC 30, hit! Morley takes 15 hp of bludgeoning and 4 hp of acid damage)OOC: As per Thanee’s suggestion, here is the newly modified Initiative.Reivik 5Beau 4Eshanna 2~ROUND 2~Mavic 23Morley 16George 14Creature 10Latalya 10</blockquote>

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