Previous -- NextLazlowe turns back around carefully. It seemed like there was further to go in the southwest, sure, but there definitely weren't any signs or sounds of water. Soon he gets some visibility, scoops up the we-hope-it's coal and heads for the wheelbarrow.(That's four 3-kg-per-each chunks of we-hope-it's-coal I'm tossing into your backpack for now. You can see your inventory in the first post. I'm sure you'll add them to the wheelbarrow in the central chamber next turn, but let's see how the others are doing . . . )
Meanwhile, the rest of the group re-assembles behind Frank, the latter nobly taking the lead down a narrow corridor, lit from behind by the bobbing light in the lanterns. Frank promptly discovers why the scaled turkeys were cowering in a corner the entire time you were mining into their cavern instead of running away.The enemy's combat table (venomous, you have no immunity):
1: Fail terribly
2: Fail
3: Succeed
4: Succeed
5: Succeed greatly
6: Fail by succeeding
Attack roll: 3, Succeed!
Damage roll (1d6+1): 1+1 = 2!
Frank, HP: 7/10
Freakish tentacles lash at you from the cave ceiling, bludgeoning like a club, stinging like a jellyfish. Frank suffers for it, barely avoiding an even worse injury; but you can see nearby that the final scaled turkey was felled already.
As you watch, long thin legs shift from where they had been hiding against the nearby walls. You spy the body of some creature you had missed against the ceiling, like a leathery land-bound standing jellyfish waiting for prey to come by. Its three legs had been dislocated from sockets around the body's rim, like dislocated shoulders, and now they set themselves with slurping sounds. From the middle extend the tentacles that it used like a whip.
And there's another one! They're coming for you!Basically
tripods without the heat rays. Or evil
squid with elbows.
Okay, GM time. I want the game to proceed at a good pace, and the fastest part of any game is me rolling random numbers. Please give me
at least two actions per post during combat. It can be as simple as "Kill the nearest freakish standing jellyfish x2." Or you can give me conditionals, whatever, I wanna do what you wanna do.
I will then go through combat rounds until either I run out of rolls or something weird happens that interrupts things and requires your input. Cool?