Mission Kicks Some Ass, Takes Some Names
Subject: Peeping Wizards
Are the two of you whisperers going to let anyone else know the results of your finding?
Assuming we survive Godzilla . . .
From: Scott
Subject: Re: Peeping Wizards
Uh.. . that would be 'the results of your findings about the robe.'
A little clarification for ya. . .
From: Karl
Subject: Re: Peeping Wizards
All in good time. All in good time. Farron is still rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. "D-did someone say 'dragon'?"
From: Karl
Subject: Re: Peeping Wizards
Seriously, though:
Farron awakens with a start. Instinctively his first thought is to scramble for the hole, having made sure he set up his bedroll right at the edge the night before. But he is distracted by Garyth's screams. Knowing he could not simply retreat and leave Garyth to die in the jaws of such a terrible beast, and knowing he could not himself fight such a thing, he does the next best thing. [summon monster: Celestial Hippogriff] He pulls the familiar candle and tiny bag from the pocket of his robes and weaves the spell to summon a Celestial Hippogriff. Once it appears he will order it to attack the dragon with all it's weapons, hoping the distraction will cause the swamp dragon to drop Garyth and defend itself.
From: Ty
Subject: The underground trail; nice lizard lizard lizard... 2
The sound of crunching bone and Garyth's screams are terrible to hear. Sa'id is barely able to concentrate as he rolls out of his bedroll, and immediately begins searching through his robes for his components. Pointing one finger at the giant lizard, Sa'id speaks a word of eleven syllables and a lance of fire leaps from his outstretched hand. [Touch attack 13; hit; damage 1, 5, 4, 1] The fire strikes the swamp dragons flank, and works its way across leaving a black scorch mark. But the creatures hide must be incredibly tough, because other than the black mark, the fire does no visible damage.
Garyth, still being shaken back and forth and in terrible pain, tries to break free with superhuman effort. [Grapple roll 24 vs opposing roll 34] In spite of his strength and will to break free, the creatures jaws are just too strong, and he remains clamped between crushing three inch teeth.
Meanwhile, Cadfael hums happily to himself while he begins picking up his bedroll and other gear.
Rennik desperately fires three arrows at the dragon's head. Firing past Garyth is dangerous, but leaving the dragon to chew on him is probably worse, so he takes the risk. [Rapid shot 21, 13, 16; hit, miss, miss; damage 4; misses 37%, 50%] Only one arrows strikes the creature, and it only skids off appearing to do almost no damage. Fortunately the other two do not hit the hapless Garyth, though one misses him by inches.
Mission rolls out of bed, disheveled and sweaty looking. His color is beginning to come back, but he looks like he had a tough night. In spite of this, he leaps at the swamp dragon with amazing speed, and runs right up to the side of its huge head. He slams one open palm just under the creature's eye socket. [stunning fist; attack 27; damage 13; Fort save 13 vs DC 16; stunned] The blow is amazingly powerful, and strikes at exactly the right angle to inflict maximum damage. The crocodile visibly reels from the hit, and its jaw sags open, allowing Garyth to tumble out. The injured guardsman tries feebly to get up, but is unable to stand.
The crocodile continues to reel after the punch, and starts shaking its head as though trying to wake up.
Farron pulls his components out of his pockets, and calls forth a summoning spell in a voice like thunder. As soon as the last word is spoken, a huge hippogriff appears. It immediately launches itself into the air with a birdlike screech and a powerful down stroke of its wings. It claws the back of the staggering swamp dragon as it goes by, and then flaps its wings furiously, fighting for altitude. [Attacks 14, 15; miss, miss] The crocodiles back armor is very thick, and the hippogriff, in spite of its size and ferocity, appears to do no damage.
[Initiative Sa'id 20, Tichenor 17, Garyth 14, Cadfael 13, Rennik 12, Mission 12, Swamp dragon 5, Farron 4, hippogriff 4]
From: Ty
Subject: Re: The underground trail; nice lizard lizard lizard... 2
BTW. Holy... CRAP Mission is stinking cool.
Makes me want to play a monk now....
From: Mike
Subject: Re: The underground trail; nice lizard lizard lizard... 2
Pain. The whole world is pain. It would be so easy just to give up, just to let it all end. But before he can even make up his mind about it, Garyth realizes that he is stumbling to his feet. He grits his teeth as he feels his broken ribs sliding past each other.
"Hurry!" he croaks. "Get below!"
He moves to protect the party as they get down the hole.
From: Dan
Subject: Re: The underground trail; nice lizard lizard lizard... 2
Cadfael looks up and sees that the swamp dragon has lost his meal, though Garyth is still broken at its maw. He then glances back toward the hole and picks up his pace, resigning himself to the fact that he'll likely have to throw his belongings down rather than carrying them safely on his back.
From: Mike
Subject: Re: The underground trail; nice lizard lizard lizard... 2
OOC: I should probably clarify a bit. Garyth will retreat toward the hole, but will want to make sure that Cadfael and the wizards, at the least, get down ahead of him, so in the event that they aren't hustling fast enough he'll keep himself between them and the swamp dragon.
From: Scott
Subject: Re: The underground trail; nice lizard lizard lizard... 2
Despite the fury of the dragon and the miasma of Shadow in the jungle, his feet were on the Path still.
But Mission has no desire to face the swamp dragon. Not alone, not with the group, not ever, if he had his way.
"It won't remain stunned for long," Mission says. "Down the hole, and let's hope that armor can't contract!"
Mission will move for the hole. Hopefully, the mage-formed griffon would occupy the swamp dragon's attention long enough for all of them to get to safety.
Mission will snatch up the wolf, if it seems willing, and will slowfall down the rope.
From: Matt
Subject: Re: The underground trail; nice lizard lizard lizard... 2
Tichenor recoils from the monk with a growl, drawing Rennik's attention. Somehow sensing Mission is trying to help from his confident and purposeful stride, he trusts the monk has some sort of plan to get the wolf into the hole. The gods only know what, but after what he did to the swamp dragon, Rennik believes Mission to be capable of almost anything.
In the halfling tongue, he calls out, "Tichenor! Go with the human!"
Grabbing his pack, Rennik will also move quickly toward the hole, firing an arrow back toward the creature when he has established himself within 5 feet of the hole.
From: Raja
Subject: Re: The underground trail; nice lizard lizard lizard... 2
And again, Mission comes to someone's rescue, Sa'id thinks to himself. At least the monk wasn't self-righteous about it.
Sa'id turns and runs for the hole, since his spell didn't really affect the thing at all. He'll go down in to the tunnel.