(YBA) Lovecraft in the Cathayan Tombs

[Ciaran]

Oak Mummy (1/3) attacks you: The chain devours the rapids; shields against the chi of the spring!

You grapple the mummy. As your hands wrap around its throat (feeling the strange woody protuberances beneath), its hands grasp your arms, and more of its shoots lash out and bury themselves in your wounds. In agony, you tighten your grip more and more… until with a sudden wrench, you rip its head from its shoulders. A thick, muddy sludge pours from the neck as the undead thing collapses into a sodden heap at your feet amidst a shower of scarlet oak leaves.

You gain 2 hits defeated.

 

[Yellow Sign]

OOC: Ok here is my record keeping
Bought Mastery of the Scythe Style and saved one XP.
Picked up the Jade Oak Ring (+1 to Jade and Oak moves).
Went from 2 Hits to 3 Hits.
Updated my Character here and in regestration.
If I have forgotten anything or did something wrong please
tell me



Lovecraft tired and hurt after his fight with the Oak Mummy sits down and takes a break. "I could really used something to drink and eat about now. But I have lost all my supplies to that vine creature. Hopefully there is some water down here some where or I can find a way out." Lovecraft shakes his head. "I need to stop talking to myself like this or I will go mad." After a few minutes of resting and tending to his wounds. Lovecraft will stand and go across the hallway to the other archway.

 

[Ciaran]

(To gain a natural hit, you need 5 hits defeated times your current natural hits. Right now you have 2 natural hits, so you need 10 hits defeated to get to 3 natural hits. As far as I can tell, you only have 6 hits defeated; 1 for escaping the vines, 1 for the unseen thing in the corridor, 2 for the Lotus Mummy, and 2 for the Oak Mummy. So you’re 4 hits defeated short of getting your mastery.)

(Edited to fix a mistake in the numbers.)

 

[Yellow Sign]

OOC: Ok I see where I made the mistake. I was just going by 5 hit's defeated per level. Ok I will fix everything!

 

[Ciaran]

(To clarify: when you gain a Natural Hit, you spend the Hits Defeated you needed to get it. So when you got the 5 Hits Defeated you needed to gain a Natural Hit, you spent those 5 Hits Defeated, leaving you with 0 Hits Defeated.)

 

[Ciaran]

Crossing the hallway and passing under the other archway, you find yourself in a room twin to the one you just left. Yet another sarcophagus looms in the center of the room.

Behind you, you hear a rustling, and feel something catch on your shoulder. It stings! Reaching over, you pull it away with some difficulty. It is a scarlet oak leaf. Suddenly it stings your fingers as well! Ripping it away, you toss it to the floor. Your fingers come away bloody...

The rustling comes again. Turning, you see a swarm of red oak leaves swirling through the air, coming closer...

Vampiric Leaves (2/2) attack you: The mace spins facing the cavern; parts the thrust of the club!

Vampiric Leaves
CR 2
Hits: 2
Student of the Flying Ruby Oak
Student of the Stealthy Orchard
Student of the Evasive Glade

 

[Yellow Sign]

Dancing and dodging, Lovecraft tries to evade the hell born leaves.

The fox dances through the cliff; dodges within the beauty of the isle!

 

[Ciaran]

You dodge and weave to escape the leaves, but there are too many filling the air, and they begin to settle on your exposed skin. As you feel the stinging bites across your body, you drop the torch and roll around on the floor, crushing the leaves. A trail of broken, bloody leaves comes away on the stones.

Vampiric Leaves (1/2) attack you: The lightning slashes with the vineyard; shields the rising of the storm!

 

[Yellow Sign]

The phoenix sings near the wastelands; scatters the drive of the lash!


Grabbing his makeshift torch, Lovecraft attempts to burn the flying leaves.

 

[Ciaran]

You wave the torch about clumsily, scattering the dreadful leaves and setting them afire. A couple of stray leaves flutter out the archway as the rest burn to ash.

You receive 2 hits defeated.