BZzzzzt!"Hmph."Durham shuffles through the slime to the center island, finding more or less proper footing-he lashes out at the closest beetle with his sword!
[Attack Roll 1+4=5 VS AC 17]
Feeling as thought he should be better at this, his blade slices cleanly through the air and hits absolutely nothing. The beetles all make a keening sound which might be their laughter, in their strange, coleopteric family.
Then they swarm down upon the party!
Two buzz toward Durham!
[Beetle 1/Attack Roll 2+12=14 VS AC 13]
[Damage=??? Redacted, since you don't have personal armor listed on your sheet Freeform. :O And I doubt that was intentional. This one would be a miss]
[Beetle 2/Attack Roll 2+17=19 VS AC 13]
[Damage=2]
He feels a painful bite on his forearm, as the greasy mandible tears through his shirt! Luckily, the other one tries to bite his neck and gets a mouthful of leather armor.
Three more team up go for morazin, author of their misery
[Beetle 3/Attack Roll 15+2=17 VS AC 13]
[Damage=2]
[Beetle 4/Attack Roll 1+2=3 VS AC 13]
[Beetle 5/Attack Roll 15+2=17 VS AC 13]
[Damage=2]
Two latch onto him and draw blood! One just sort of flies into a wall and sets itself on fire, and dies in a thrashing heap. Derp.
The remaining two beetles each pick one target of the remaining heroes...
But standing by Konicek has it's advantages. Note his long, spear like weapon-he advantageously strikes both of the little beasts as they attempt to close in on him and Anciano
[Attack of Opportunity/Attack Roll 18+5=23 VS AC 17]
[Damage=2+3]
[Attack of Opportunity/Attack Roll 1+5=6 VS AC 17]
He skewers one skillfully, beetles parts flying about in dramatic fashion, but the last one does a fancy barrel roll maneuver and dives straight down on [1] Konicek himself!
[Beetle 6/Attack Roll 16+2=18 VS AC 17]
[Damage=1]
It blunder into his unarmored face, scratching it with needly claws, and he tosses it away with a mild curse.
...
Anciano, remaining unbitten and unbothered, incants Create Water over the still burning corpse. There is a subtle flash, like a stroke of lightning in minor-and what amount to a bucket of water falls from the air onto the corpse, snuffing out the roiling flames.
Durham as well, is thoroughly soaked.
...
"Crows take you!" The Knight roars, striking with furious fury. At a beetle.
[Attack of Opportunity/Attack Roll 18+5=23 VS AC 17]
[Damage=8+3]
The critter explodes in a puff of wings and viscera, it's tiny body blown to pieces by a swift stroke of his glaive.
....
Morazin hops back, and fires another wave of Dragon fire over the enemy! It's noticeably weaker this time, but the majority of insects are still nicely singed. One more blast should do it...
Beetle 1
2/4 HP left
Attacking: Durham
Beetle 2
3/4 HP left
Attacking: Durham
Beetle 3
2/4 HP left
Attacking: Morazin
Beetle 5
1/4 HP left
Attacking: Morazin
Durham Westfall
9/11 HP left
Status: Thoroughly Soaked
Effects: Endure Exposure (Immune to Morazins breath)
Wielding: Longsword/Light Wooden Shield
Anciano Sabio
9/9 HP left
Status:Healthy
Effects: Endure Exposure (Immune to Morazins breath)
Wielding: Lux Aeterna Tome
Spells Remaining Today
Lv. 0: 1xCure Minor Wounds, 1xGuidance, 1xCreate Water
Lv. 1: 1xShield of Faith, 1xCure Light Wounds, 1xProtection from Evil, 1xSanctuary
Domain: 1xSanctuary, 1xCure Light Wounds
Konicek Gig
11/12 HP left
Status:Healthy
Effects: Endure Exposure (Immune to Morazins breath)
Wielding: Chapter Issue Glaive
Morazin
7/11 HP left
Status:Healthy
Effects: Endure Exposure (Immune to Morazins breath)
Wielding: Fire Tome
Battle: There are now four angry, very much singed corpse beetles in the process of leaping upon your group-two swarm around Morazin, and two around Durham. Anciano is behind Konicek, who is covering them both with his glaive. Durham is standing on the central island, and Morazin has moved slightly ahead to hit all the beetles in range. He can move back to Konicek, but will incur AoO's.
The corpse is now no longer burning, but the fire continues to smolder apace otherwise. The ground you are on is stable enough, fighting in the room itself in any place but the center 'island', will incur a DC10 balance check to keep from slipping in the muck. Approaching the walls will also possibly threaten fire and smoke inhalation damage, though it is not yet thick enough to cause problems with breathing or vision, it's catching rapidly and smoke is filling the room.
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