The Underdark Primeval [IC]

Outraged at the ambush, Morph launches a devistating attack with leathal prejudice. Carefully dropping a spike stones just out of range of Dargo on either side of the passageway, creating a safe corridor for the party to enter the room and hopefully catching any glaive-wielding enemies in it's radius (7 20' squares).
 

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Rune will step to Dargo's right and attack the drow with her psychokinetic greatclub.

OOC: If she can activate her power stone of oak body before attacking and still make her attack, she will do so...
 

-- Round 1 --

Rogoth moves forward, entering the cavern to stand next to Dargo. Sensing his hated enemy, drow, Rogoth swings his battleaxe, but misses.

Denasa, unable to see the enemy and wary of the danger of sticking her head out, stays put.

Rune squeezes past Dargo and closes with a drow. The drow slices her with his glaive as she closes. Rune returns the favor, smashing the drow across the shoulder.

Both drow spring away, ignoring Rune and Rogoth and instead concentrating their attacks on the wounded Dargo as they cackle with glee. Both their blades swing by the dwarf's head, missing.

The roper shoots strands out at its two new targets, wrapping its tentacles around both Rogoth and Rune. At the same time it pulls on Dargo, dragging him forward.

As the roper drags Dargo the drow slash out again, this time one drow connects, cutting the dwarf deeply with his glaive.

Initiative
Rogoth
Denasa
Rune: 11 damage
Drow 1: 19 damage.
Drow 2:
Roper
-- action paused --
Vuoor
Bull
Morph
Solli
Dargo: 40 damage

Rogoth misses with a 2
Rune doesn't have time to activate her stone and attack in the same round. She hits with a 7+11=18. Her damage is 7+12=19. (Should Rune's damage be 1d10+7+1d4? How do you figure 1d10+12?)
Drows have Spring Attack feat.
Dargo is dragged 10 ft and hit by Drow 1 for 15 damage.
Others may change their actions if they wish.
 

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Morph instructs Bull to charge the nearest drow as soon as he is finished casting. He then moves to the entry way and casts flame strike such that it captures both drow only.
 

*Denasa will squeeze forward a bit to at least see what's going on. Catching a glimpse of the huge roper, she gives a squeak and blasts several darts of light at the hideous thing.*

OOC - Moves to K7 and drops a magic missile on the roper. 4 missiles in total.
 

Dargo Golden, Half Deep Dragon Rng/Ftr HP: 43/83 AC:19

Dargo snarls in anger at the beating he was taking. The roper, not the drow was the primary threat to him. Dargo hated aberrations . . . always had. He took a swipe at the tentacle dragging him closer.

OOC: Attack Strand. Dwarven Urgosh (Primary-Blade): +14/+9 (1d10 + 10 + 1d6 Frost) , (Secondary-spear): +14/+9 (1d10 + 6 + 1d6 Shock). Dargo has close quarters fighting - to assist against future (non-flatfooted) grapple attacks.
 

Vuoor Seakin : Kuo-Toa Monitor 5

Vuoor pulls out one of his daylight pellets and tosses it near Dargo while tumbling to the left to try and get behind drow1.
 

Rune digs deep into her psyche, drawing forth on the reservior of power that lies there. She dredges that power up and siphons it outwards, into her limbs, steeling herself for whatever is to come. She then breaks into a run, heading directly towards the monolithic, tentacled creature before her.

OOC: Manifesting biofeedback (3 pp initially, + another 12 pp which should provide DR 6), followed by a move action.
 

OoC:I'm back, for real this time... I'll catch up on the thread tomorrow afternoon 9well, today, but I just got home from work...ugh). My apologies for having to have Rogoth on autoppilot.
 

-- Round 1 --

Vuoor digs through his pack and retrieves a daylight pellet, as he tumbles around the drow. He doesn't tumble quickly enough though, and the drow reacts, but Vuoor manages to duck the blade. He tosses the pellet, which explodes as it hits the ground near Dargo's feet, filling the cavern with brilliant light. The drow squint, blinded by the light. Vuoor himself is also blinded. Dargo is in line with the tunnel, and the light from the pellet shines down it, blinding Denasa as well.

Bull, obeying Morph's command as best as its vermin brain can, takes a double move forward, squeezing past the others in the tunnel. It heads towards the drow on the left. The drow hears the large beetle's chitinous feet as it closes with him, but blinded, is unable to swing his glaive at him. Bull rushes towards the drow, running into the ropers strand attached to Rune, which slides up over the beetle's bodys. Bull ends his move in front of the drow.

Morph moves forward to the mouth of the tunnel so he can direct his spell, and casts. Near-invisible spikes grow out of the ground, surrounding the drow and roper. Morph knows where he placed the spike stones, but they are near invisble to others.

Solli climbs up the wall and moves towards the mouth of the tunnel. As he goes he downs a small vial, and disappears from sight.

Dargo snarls and swipes at the strand attached to his body, severing it.

-- Round 2 --

Following Dargo's lead, Rogoth swings his axe at the strand attached to him, severing it.

Denasa sees the flashing glaives of the drow move back from the mouth of the tunnel before she is blinded by the daylight pellet. She leaves the ground, and flying blind, moves forward until she bumps into Morph.

Rune manifests biofeedback and moves forward.

The drow swing their glaives blindly, hitting only air.

The roper pulls Rune forward an additional 10 feet. Poisonous secretions flow from the strand into her body, and Rune feels strength rush out of her body. The roper fires more strands. Dargo swings his urgrosh at a strand, but misses. The strands hit Vuoor, Dargo, Rogoth, Bull, and Morph. Strands miss Denasa.

Initiative
Rogoth: roped
Denasa: blinded
Rune: 11 damage, roped, biofeedback (dr 6), -8 Str
Drow 1: 19 damage, blinded
Drow 2: blinded
Roper
-- action paused --
Vuoor: blinded, roped
Bull: roped
Morph: roped
Solli: invisible
Dargo: 40 damage, roped

I'll say Vuoor retrieving the daylight pellet from his backpack is like drawing a weapon, not retrieving an item, so he doesn't provoke an aoo. Vuoor fails his tumble roll. Vuoor could close his eyes to avoid the blindness, but the effect would be the same, so I figure he might as well keep his eyes open.
Bull running through the rope strand is treated as a bull-rush attack. Bull's strength check failed to break the strand.
Morph's spike stones are detectable only by a rogue with a dc 29 search check. Describing exactly where they are is a little too complicated for Morph to do in a combat round, so they are invisible to everyone else.
Dargo's attacks: 3+14 vs 28 fails, 16+9 vs 18 succeeds, damage 4+10+4. The strand is severed.
Rogoth's attacks: 18+14 vs 20 succeeds, damage 5+6. The strand is severed.
Rune can't see the location of the spike stones, and misses them through sheer dumb luck.
Rune's fort save: 4+6 fails, Rune take 8 Str damage!
Roper's attack rolls: 20 against Vuoor barely hits, due to Vuoor being blinded. The roper shoots a strand against Dargo. This is a touch attack, not a grapple, but I'll allow Close Quarters fighting to be used against it, giving the strand the same AC as the roper. Dargo rolls 9+14 to hit the strand and misses. 27-4 hits Dargo, who has soft cover from Rune. 20-4 hits Rogoth, who has soft cover from Rune. 19 hits Bull. 24-8 hits Morph, who has soft cover from multiple creatures. 21-8 misses Denasa.
Vuoor is up. His blindness will wear off just before he acts.
 

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