The Whispering Cairn (Team Diamond Lake) - IC

[HolyMan]

OOC: Be sure to state 5'step and direction to avoid AoO Shayuri. Rolling for Zeke than will advance the round.

 

[HolyMan]

"I didn't come here to die!" Vixtrin screams as she runs for the stairs. "I'm getting out of here!"

The scream helps to distract Aria from a clear shot but she needn't worry as Zeke steps up and pounds the bug like thing into the ground. Cheering the blow the young woman's smile turns to an expression of shock as she sees the swarm scuttle it's way over to Zeke slowly crawling up his legs.

Zeke starts to feel the bites, stings, and slow burns of the acid beetles.

[sblock=Combat]
Listed in INIT order.

Character          AC  HP  InHand/Condition
Aria               [COLOR=Yellow]17[/COLOR]   8  c.bow/[COLOR=Yellow][I]shield[/I][/COLOR]
Vixtrin            15   [COLOR=Yellow]1[/COLOR]  chain/none
Zeke               17   [COLOR=Yellow]4[/COLOR]  m.star&shield/[COLOR=DarkOrchid][I]distracted[/I][/COLOR]
Galyne             16   [COLOR=Yellow]4[/COLOR]  axe/none
beetle swarm       17   [COLOR=Yellow]7[/COLOR]  none/none
Eldariel           17   [COLOR=Yellow]3[/COLOR]  c.blade/none
mad slasher        15  [COLOR=Red]-2[/COLOR]  none/[I][COLOR=Red]dying[/COLOR][/I]

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[sblock=Actions]
Round 5:
Aria - 5'step, load and fire crossbow (miss)
Vixtrin - Fort save (success) double move 60'
Zeke - 5'step, attack slasher (hit dmg: 10)
Galyne - not gone yet
Eldariel - not gone yet
swarm - attack Zeke (auto hit, dmg: 6)
slasher - dying[/sblock]

OOC: Zeke goes before Galyne so slasher was dead, use same roll for whatever you wish to do ghostcat

 

[fireinthedust]

Eldariel, having thrown his one oil flask, moves and kicks the "mad slasher" creature's corpse to slide it across the floor and into the main body of the swarm. His theory is that the swarm will devour the flesh of the creature, and give Zeke a chance to escape.

We've need of oil and fire for such a swarm of gnats. I've a mind we should return again with better supplies. Aria, let's leave this place.

And with that he backs up a few paces, watching the swarm cautiously.

[sblock=actions] Standard action to kick/push the "mad slasher" carapace towards the swarm. It looks like an insectoid body, so I'm hoping it has a chitinous shell that's basically easy to slide across a floor with a good push; unlike a water-bag human body, which would just flop.

Move action back 4 spaces/20 feet. He's prepared to move to Aria's side if need be.

Free/minor: basically as he moves he'll ready his sword once more.[/sblock]

 

[s@squ@tch]

Zeke

For a moment, Zeke felt elated - "I did it! I did it!". - the slasher thing was dead, but then he felt the bites and bugs beginning to crawl all over him, and the pain snapped him back to the present.

"Let's get out of here!"

 

[HolyMan]

OOC: ghostcat to finish the round if he wishes to flee also than I will assume everyone leaves to the steps.

 

[ghostcat]

Galyne ends up slightly off balance has Zeke fells the slasher just before he takes a swing. While deciding what his next move should be, he responds to Eldariel "We can't leave without Jules."

Deciding that he needs more information he racks his brains for anything he has heard about insect swarms, while slowly backing up toward the entrance.

[sblock=OOC]Move towards steps.
Knowledge (Nature) check using previous roll (1d20=8)+4 = 12

HM. If he can't think of anything better he will slowly move back towards the steps but ensure that he leaves a gap between him and the swarm.[/sblock]

 

[HolyMan]

End of Round (maybe combat)

Eldariel's ploy works and the beetles start on the carcass of the slasher as everyone starts to move away.

Everyone that is but Aria. She stands transfixed staring at the death before her and a momentary flash back takes her...

[sblock=Aria] The night before you awoke changed and with the abilities and such you now have. You wonder were you dead then? Like the slasher is lying still and prone you seem to remember vaguely what it feels like to be dead. [/sblock]

"Aria! Come on!" Eldariel yells from the stairs, to bring the young woman out of her stupor.

OOC: If you chose to double move to the stairs combat will be over. Everyone will regroup at the top of the steps.

 

[s@squ@tch]

Zeke, so lost in the rigors of combat, completely forgot about Jules.

 

[fireinthedust]

[sblock=HM] Please let me decide what Eldariel would say. In point of fact you're absolutely right, he'd say that; but he'd also run over and grab her by the wrist if he thought she wouldn't move on her own. [/sblock]

Eldariel runs over and grabs Aria's wrist, pulling her along and away from the swarm. Aria, please come along! Galyne... we can't fight the swarm without fire or wider spells; we can do nothing, now. It will devour that corpse soon enough. If you go down that shoot, maybe you'll find Jules. We have to retreat. Maybe it will follow us.

 

[ghostcat]

Galyne backs up enough so that the beetles are no longer a threat. Then starts to dither, he does not want to leave his friend but at the same time, Eldariel is right; getting killed won't help Jules.

Finally he backs up as far as the stairs and waits to see what the bugs do.