Wildwood Red in Tooth and Claw II [IC]

[Shayuri]

"W-wait," Inamar blurts, coming to her senses. The novelty of this strange sight had transported her briefly.

She plucks at Weylan's shirt to hold him back.

"There's a dead body over there," she points at the south end of the room. "And something's...clicking behind the pots there. It's a real mess in here. It looks like someone, or maybe something, was just smashing stuff. And I think the rats can get in here too. Looks like...little holes, tunnels."

She grimaces. "I hope that's not how he died. Ew."

 

[Voadam]

Though Inamar stops him at the entrance before he actually enters the room, the light from Weylan's mindblade illuminates its interior now.

The room stands roughly 30 feet by 30 feet. The stink of death and rot is nearly overpowering. In the center of the room is a raised shaped earth fountain with carvings around the top rim, possibly of runes. One side of the fountain is smashed and water trickles out making the earth floor muddy here. A half dozen clay urns lie in the far left corner (the southeast), their lower halves covered in mud, mold, and mildew. Burlap sacks are stacked along the far south wall, their chewed and threadbare corners spilling dried grains along the floor. A pair of humanoid legs clad in leather stick out from behind the burlap sacks, and a small pool of apparently dried blood stretches along the floor next to the sacks of grain. The wall behind the sacks contains earthen niches, some filled with growing mushrooms of various sorts, others seem to have had their contents smashed or knocked out. Above the distant chatter of rats from deeper within the burrows, you hear a low clicking sound coming from behind the urns.

As Weylan's light reaches the far corners of the room the clicking noise cuts off abruptly.

 

[Voidrazor]

NR4ZN moves up to shield Inamar and Weylan from potential peril, "Be wary my lords. We may have just sprung a trap."

 

[Voadam]

As NR4ZN pushes himself forward with great clangs a great dark monstrous multi-legged form rises from behind the urns to scuttle up onto the walls and start towards you all with tremedous speed. Its body is covered in armored chitnous plates and it is longer than a full grown horse.

http://www.samford.edu/schools/arts...-05f/ruffner/Stone-Centipede-Order-Lithob.jpg

Initiative!

Inamar 16
Lithob 13
Thelso 10
Weylan 6
NR4ZN 3

 

[Shayuri]

With a horrified yelp, Inamar scuttles backwards and instinctively fires off a blast of swirling violet energy from her hand!

(backing up 10' and blastin'!)

 

[Voadam]

Inamar's energy blasts from her hand and catches a segment of the beast blasting off a chunk of exoskeletong.

The thing continues to scuttle along the wall and jumps out at NR4ZN but with surprising quickness the warzoder spins aside from the scuttling horror's clacking mandibles. A viscous venom drips from the thing's maw.

Thelso 10
Weylan 6
NR4ZN 3
Inamar 16
Lithob 13

 

[Pyrex]

Rolling a few feet out to the side, Weylan jabs his mindblade towards a gap in the creatures armor-plated exterior.

(OOC: Tumble to move into position, then attack)

 

[chakken98]

Depending on who the creature is headed toward next Thelso will do one of the following.


1) If it appears to be headed at Inamar Thelso will move to her spear in hand, knowing that she isn't as well armored as himself or the others and if possible he will mutter a prayer as he places his hand on Inamar's shoulder "Goddess Kerela grant your blessing upon one that serves the hunt, in our time of need."
ooc: Shield of Faith

2) If it appears to headed toward any of the others Thelso will ready his spear for an attack moving towards the insect with the grace that only Dover have, and will jab at it. "Kerela guide my hand and help us slay this creature"...

 

[Voadam]

Thelso rushes forward to engage the dark beast saying "Kerela guide my hand and help us slay this creature" and though he strikes quickly the beast moves like lightning and his spear does not land a blow.

Weylan moves to tumble around to behind the beast to flank it with the warzoder, but the creature strikes quickly as Weylan makes a slight misstep on the uneven wet ground. The soulknife is quick enough however to dodge out of the monster's way and evade its venomous maw.

As the creature extends its snapping jaws at the elan he jabs his mindblade into a gap in the creature's armored plates eliciting a shriek from the beast as he grievously wounds it.

NR4ZN 3
Inamar 16
Lithob 13
Thelso 10
Weylan 6

 

[Voidrazor]

With a terrible whirring of servos, NR4ZN brings its massive tree trunk to bear upon the chitinous horror.