The Underdark Primeval [IC]

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-- Round 3 (cont) --

Vuoor twists and shakes himself free of the strand. He moves around the downed drow towards the other one.

Morph dismisses the spike stones, commands Bull to charge the roper, casts Snakebite, and closes on the drow. The drow misses Morph with his glaive as he closes. Morph's snake arm lashes out at the drow, but the drow dodges at the last moment.

Bull moves towards the roper, but is blocked by Rune. The drow slices into Bull's carapace as he moves past him.

Solli fires his third dart, which whizzes past Vuoor's ear and lands in the drow's neck, dropping him. The svirfneblin then reloads his dart thruster.

Dargo sunders the strand holding him, and takes a step foward.

Rogoth rushes forward, looking for an opening to attack the roper.

Denasa flies in to the cavern and sends Legs to deliver a polymorph spell on Dargo.

Rune flails her club at the roper, but her blows merely bounce off the creature's hide.

Initiative
Rogoth: readied attack against the roper's strands.
Denasa:
Rune: 11 damage, roped, biofeedback (dr 6), -8 Str
Drow 1: 59 damage, down
Drow 2: 48 damage, down
-- action paused --
Roper: 14 damage
Vuoor:
Bull: 36 damage, roped, half-speed
Morph: freedom of movement, Snakebite
Solli:
Dargo: 40 damage, possibly polymorphed?

Morph's attack 9+6 misses. Bull's movement is hampered due to his injuries, and uses a double move to close. Bull is hit by an AoO for 10.
Solli hits for 9 damage, dropping the drow.
Rogoth moves forward, almost reaching the roper. He readies an attack against a strand.
Legs delivers the spell for Denasa. Does Dargo accept it?
Rune misses with a 2+11-4 and a 19+6-4
Will wait to see if Dargo is accepting the polymorph before continuing.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

OOC - Could I edit to say as a free action - "Dargo, Legs will cast a spell on you, don't be too startled!"

 

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OOC - Could I edit to say as a free action - "Dargo, Legs will cast a spell on you, don't be too startled!"

Of course you can!

 

[Keia]

Dargo did get an AoO against the strand as before, but missed again. I don't think the drow would've provoked, it's only against grapple attacks, isn't it?

OOC: you're right. The drow was vs a normal AoO - if he did something else other than move.

 

[Keia]

OOC: Dargo would accept with the warning shout - he wouldn't without. Doesn't really want to be polymorphed - but he doen't know what the spell is.

 

[Erekose13]

Morph moves as close to the roper as he can get around the far side, running all out if need be. If he is able to attack with his scorpion's arm he will, otherwise he will wait till next round. Bull left to his own devises and unable to get any closer to the Roper turns around and starts to pull away from it, trying to take the strand with him.

 

[Ashy]

Rune skirts around the right side of the roper, trying to make room for Bull. She then frantically tries to get the roper's strand off of her...

 

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-- Round 4 (cont) --

Dargo, accepting Denasa's spell, transforms into a cloaker.

The roper's stony maw bites down on Rune, crushing the earth genasi's flesh. Rune's biofeedback absorbs much of the damage. The roper then fires 4 strands at the others. The first strand hits Rogoth, but not before the grimlock slices into it with his axe. The second strand hits Vuoor. The 3rd and 4th strands attach to the cloaker (Dargo) and Denasa.

Bull pulls on the strand attached to him, breaking it.

Morph rushes forward, getting closer to the roper.

Solli fires another volley of darts at the roper, hitting twice. One of the darts flies into the roper's mouth.

Initiative
Rogoth: roped (rope sustained 9 damage)
Denasa: roped
Rune: 24/41 hp, roped, biofeedback (dr 6), -8 Str
Drow 1: 59 damage, down
Drow 2: 48 damage, down
Roper: 36 damage
Vuoor: roped
Bull: 28/64 hp, half-speed
Morph: freedom of movement, Snakebite
Solli:
-- action paused --
Dargo: polymorphed into cloaker, 36/76 hp, roped

Dargo takes on the physical attributes of a cloaker. His constitution modifier decreases by 1, giving him 76 base hp.
The roper hits Rune with its bite attack for 12-6 damage. Rogoth hits the strand before it hits him, doing 9 damage.
Solli's darts do 22 damage. One was a critical.
Note on Vuoor: Although Vuoor is roped, his slipperiness makes any escape artist checks he makes automatically successful. It's not Freedom of Movement. I'm going by the MM text, that says "they usually can wriggle free from most other forms of confinement".
Note on Roper: This roper's weakness ability appears to be weaker than others you may have faced or heard about in the past. It doesn't appear to take effect unless/until the creature has been roped for a full round.

 

[Keia]

Dargo Golden, Cloaker (Fighter/Ranger)

Dargo the cloaker took several seconds to assume his new form. At first, he didn't understand what was happening to him . . . then he wanted to lay a serious smack-down on whoever turning him into a cloaker. He had fought cloakers before . . . he hated cloakers . . . he hated all aberrations . . . and now he was one. He remembered that they could direct their moans. He didn't want to get the others in a moan - that may be worse that better.

Dargo floated toward the roper, gaining some altitude, then focused a moan on the roper.

OOC: Focused moan on roper (stupor). DC 14 - i think.

 

[Erekose13]

Morph continues charging. Bull free from the strand turns to observe the roper trying to find the best way he can to attack the creature that had grabbed him. If he can spot a way in he will move towards it.