The Underdark Primeval [IC]

[deadestdai]

Reloading his weapon, Solli is taken aback by the pretty gloaming's outburst and whistles to himself.

Bloody hell - it must be that time of the month! Mental note to self - don't piss off the pretty one.

 

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OOC: The retreating creatures have Spring Attack, so Dargo and Bull each got an AoO off last round, but they missed.

The two dwarves continue their retreat down the hall, up the stairs, and out of sight before Denasa is able to send another lightning bolt their way.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

*Denasa flies toward them, eager to fry their treacherous little tails.*

 

[deadestdai]

Solli scowls when he see's the maddened girl fly after the dwarves (Probably into a trap, no less.....) and shouts, LASS!! WAIT! YE SHOULD WAIT SO'S WE CAN HEAD ON TOGETHAR!!.

Leaping off from his vantage point

Spoiler

Tumble+12 for safe landing

, Solli makes sure that the other are following before he scouts on ahead to see what the silly Gloaming has gotten herself into.

 

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Temple of Moradin

Denasa flies down the dwarven hall, in hot pursuit of the fleeing creatures. At the end of the hall are broad steps leading up into a large chamber, dominated by a large altar to Moradin. This room, like the others, is constructed almost entirely of stone. But the stone here is cracked and broken, and the ground littered with stone fragments.

Six hulking steel-gray stone forms stand here, shaped like 10 foot tall massive humanoids. They wear iron breastplates over their stone bodies, and wield huge two-bladed swords which look like they are built of the same material as their bodies. Two have third arms attached to their chest by broad stone belts. Two others have large boxes mounted on their shoulders.

With a shock of insight, Denasa recognizes these forms as Maugs, intelligent mercenary constructs from Acheron, renowned on the Outer Planes for their unflinching loyalty and fearlessness in battle. The third arms are shoving arms, which can push opponents away. The boxes are stone spitters, which fire stones as missile weapons.

Denasa flies easily above the maug's heads, out of reach of their swords. The two maugs outfitted with stone spitters turn towards Denasa, aiming their shoulder-boxes at her.

The two dwarves which fled to here are nowhere in sight. The rest of the party is rushing up the stairs and will arrive next round.

Initiative
Denasa
Maugs

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

*With an internal shriek and an external scream, Denasa flings her lightning at the two aiming things at her, clutching the silvery rod at her side to add power to her magic.*

"Don't you dare!"

[OOC - lightning bolt at the maugs, Empowered with the metamagic rod, unless she knows better. If so, then fireball from one of her scrolls.]

 

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-- Round 1 --

Denasa flies to the side of the chamber and down a bit (still out of range of the maug's swords), positioning herself to hit both stone spitter-wielding maugs. Her lightning bolt zaps through both maugs.

The maugs fire a heavy volley of stones at Denasa. She dodges one, but is hit by the other.

The other four maugs line themselves up at the top of the stairs, readying their weapons against the approaching heroes.

Round 2 Initiative
Morph: shillelagh
Bull: 10 damage, greater magic fang
Rogoth: 48 damage, raging 3 rounds
Solli
Dargo: 27 damage
Denasa: 5 damage
Vuoor: 15 damage
Maug 1
Maug 2
Maug 3 (shoving arm)
Maug 4 (shoving arm)
Maug 5 (stone spitter): 42 damage, 1 'increased' attack
Maug 6 (stone spitter): 21 damage, 1 'increased' attack

The others are 20-30 ft down the stairs, and see the maugs as they line themselves up at the top of the stairs. The stairs themselves are 50 feet long.

OOC:
Denasa's lightning bolt does 42 damage to Maug 5, and 21 to Maug 6 (made its save). From what she knows, Denasa thinks one of her empowered lightning bolts should be enough to down a standard maug with some luck, but both maugs look like they have quite a bit of fight left in them. Battlescars criss-cross all of the maugs' bodies.
Maug 6 hits Denasa for 5.
Sorry for lack of map, I've got computer troubles.

 

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OOC: Just a little further description. The maugs are lined up in a defensive wall at the top of the stairs. The stairs are 40 feet wide (same width as the hall you just passed through). You understand the following intuitively:

The shoving arms look like they are designed to bull rush. If you're bull rushed on the stairs, theres a chance you can fall all the way down the stairs for damage (same rules as normal falling damage, but using d4s instead of d6s). The chance of falling is related to the strength of the bull rush check. Even if you aren't pushed all the way down the stairs, the push might cause you to lose your balance and fall prone. You have a -2 penalty on opposed bull rush checks due to attacking from below on stairs.

 

[deadestdai]

**OOC: Solli will again run up the nearest wall so as to take him out of the range of any melee attacks (And hopefully somewhere where he can protect himself from those nasty flying stones.) and fire vollies of three darts at single targets, preferebly those with their back's turned to him so he can get his sneak attack damage in too.**

Solli growled when he saw the little fairy-girl flinging spells at the creatures. This could probably have been avoided if she had just let him sneak on ahead so they could at least be ready for this.
Taking a small leap once more to the side of the passage, he scaled the wall effortlessly and stopped to take aim, hoping that the girl didn't get squished before help could bundle in.

 

[Keia]

Dargo Golden, Half Deep Dragon Golden Dwarf (Fighter/Ranger)

Dargo charged up the stairs to attack the most wounded maug. If it doens't look like he'll make it, he'll stop 10' away, then adjust and full attack the following round.

OOC: One attack +14 / +1d10 +10 + 1d6 frost, or Full attack: Dwarven Urgosh (Primary-Blade): +14/+9, 1d10 + 10 + 1d6 Frost (x20), Dwarven Urgosh (Secondary-spear): +14/+9, 1d10 + 6 + 1d6 Shock (x20).