Topic: Fireless: 5/5 (Read 9901 times)

Coolrune206 · « **Reply #75 on:** March 17, 2019, 03:31:22 am »

Aegis takes a moment to line her spear up with the creature's eye, then flings it at the entity. Without waiting to see if it connects, she slips her shield onto her arm and draws her mace, ready to block or strike depending on the movements of the fiend.

Dustan Hache · « **Reply #76 on:** March 17, 2019, 07:45:22 am »

without missing a beat, Dustan nocks another arrow and fires it at the fresh wound on it’s chest from Fifteen’s sword!

WyrdByrd · « **Reply #77 on:** March 17, 2019, 09:05:06 am »

The Skald casts a duet of Cants, driving Fingers of Steam deep into Fifteen's wound, both boiling the fluid within the Fiend and opening any other injuries it might have sustained. He then takes a defensive stance, ready to retaliate should the Fiend attempt to charge his position.

TheLastDino · « **Reply #78 on:** March 17, 2019, 08:53:06 pm »

Fifteen casts Crack on the fiend's wound, trying to widen it further.

Dread · « **Reply #79 on:** March 19, 2019, 11:21:05 pm »

Spoiler: Combat order (click to show/hide)

Lesser Fiend of Swords: 2 + 3

Lesser Fiend of Swords: 3 + 3
Damage(1d6): 5

The fiend is fast, very fast. It skitters past Fifteen and Aegis to attack the others behind them. One arm scythes towards The Skald, who quickly ducks beneath the edged bone spike. Undeterred, the fiend raises it's 'tail', pivots on four legs, and brings the raised appendage down hard on Dustan.

The warlock falls backwards away from the blow, quick enough to avoid having his skull pierced but not so quick as to prevent the spike from tearing a bloody gash down his torso. Dustan stumbles, a worrying amount of blood seeping from the wound, but remains on his feet.

Fifteen: 8 + 2
Damage(1d4): 3

Fifteen lowers his sword and recites a Cant with practiced ease. The wound already marring the fiend's flank widens considerably, eliciting a steady flow of white fluid.

Dustan: 4 + 3

Despite his bloodied chest, Dustan draws and shoots again. This arrow goes wide, embedding itself firmly in the wood of the empty bookshelf.

The Skald: 8 + 2
Damage(1d6): 6

The Skald steps back, inhales, and shouts out not one but two Cants. His words boom like thunder in the confined underground space: Finger, Steam. Scorching vapor materializes before him and, coalescing into a finger-like shape, lances deeply into the fiend's gash. The creature flails wildly, consumed by heat from the inside out.

Aegis: 7 + 3
Damage(1d4): 2

With careful aim and two steps forward, Aegis sends her spear flying directly into the fiend's massive pupil. For a moment it continues to struggle, but one by one its seven legs give out and the beast collapses dead to the ground.

From the tunnel, tapping. More fiends on the way, dozens of legs striking the ground in a discordant cacophony. And something else. A magical field, by far more powerful than any the party has ever experienced before. Whatever sources it is at least two hundred feet away, several rooms back in the library, but already its presence can be felt in the room. Faint feelings of fear, hopelessness, and despair creep into their minds. The shadows around the corners of vision move and shift, twisted forms dancing at the edge of perception. The temperature drops several degrees, and clouds of ancient dust swirl in vortexes around the cavern.

Mirthful still hunches over the pedestal, scribbling madly on a piece of parchment. Before he'd seemed oblivious to the carnage happening behind him, but at the coming of this new presence he fumbles his charcoal. A torrent of curses escapes his lips, and snatching up his utensil he returns to work somehow even faster than before.
"He's here. Barricade the entrance! Collapse the tunnel if you have to, just keep them out! Quickly, quickly, we have no time. No time!"

Spoiler: The Skald (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Dustan (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Fifteen (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Aegis (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Chisaiko (click to show/hide)

Coolrune206 · « **Reply #80 on:** March 20, 2019, 01:06:21 am »

Aegis points at the ceiling of the tunnel.

"Fifteen, crack please."

After Fifteen casts crack on the ceiling, or even if he doesn't, Aegis uses her pull cant on the ceiling of the tunnel to bring it down.

Dustan Hache · « **Reply #81 on:** March 20, 2019, 04:24:10 pm »

Stumbling to his feet, he checks the wound the fiend left with a couple of pats on his chest, before letting out a growl of frustration that his tunic is now torn and bloodied. per the command of mirthful, he attempts to put his brute strength to use and tries to topple the empty bookshelves in front of and into the tunnel to assist in blocking it, provided the others don’t collapse it shut first.

TheLastDino · « **Reply #82 on:** March 20, 2019, 09:56:48 pm »

Fifteen nods in response to Aegis and casts Crack on the ceiling.

WyrdByrd · « **Reply #83 on:** March 22, 2019, 09:14:58 pm »

The Skald attempts to assist Dustan in moving the bookshelves.

Dread · « **Reply #84 on:** March 23, 2019, 06:47:35 pm »

Fifteen: 5 + 2
Aegis: 7

Working together, Fifteen and Aegis Crack and Pull the ceiling of the tunnel. At first their efforts succeed only in bringing down a shower of pebbles and cloud of dust, but after concentrating their efforts on a few strategic points they manage to destabilize the roof enough to cause a partial cave-in.

As the collapsing roof forms a barrier across the tunnel, Dustan and the Skald haul over the empty bookshelves. They prop the sturdy wooden furniture against the pile of stones to reinforce it as the terrible presence nears.

The dust settles. The tapping has stopped. For a moment, the only sounds that can be heard are the scratching of Mirthful against his paper.

Boom.

Something throws its weight against the barricade, something heavy. The barrier trembles, shedding smaller stones.

Boom.

Again. The room shakes, and the bookshelves that support the barricade topple over. The pile of stones won't take much more.

Finally, Mirthful finishes his transcriptions. Tossing his charcoal to the ground, he swiftly rolls up the parchment he was writing on and stuffs it into a leather satchel. He looks up, and the fear on his face is plain to see.

"You! Dustan! Come here. The rest of you, do something useful. Quickly, quickly, we only have seconds left."

Spoiler: The Skald (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Dustan (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Fifteen (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Aegis (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Chisaiko (click to show/hide)

Coolrune206 · « **Reply #85 on:** March 24, 2019, 12:17:45 am »

Aegis quickly runs over to the display case and, after a quick inspection, attempts to cast a pull cant on the most useful looking object within to yoink it out.

Dread · « **Reply #86 on:** March 24, 2019, 01:02:36 am »

The display case appears to contains five objects: A hexagonal ring carved out of red stone, a single silvery feather on a necklace chain, a bracelet of thick grey leather, a short throwing knife forged from translucent, smoky glass, and a piece of jewelry in the shape of a bronze snake. The shape of the snake seems to be shaped in such a way as to be hung behind the ear.

Out of the five the knife seems the most immediately useful, but its thin glass looks liable to break on its first strike. However, each object emanates weak but distinct magical fields.

Coolrune206 · « **Reply #87 on:** March 24, 2019, 02:52:45 am »

Aegis uses her pull cant on the hexagonal ring.

((Times of imminent danger? Must initiate looting!))

Dustan Hache · « **Reply #88 on:** March 24, 2019, 08:35:08 am »

”What would you have me do, sir?”
Go help mirthful in whatever way I can.

TheLastDino · « **Reply #89 on:** March 24, 2019, 07:26:30 pm »

Fifteen rushes over to the display case as well and, after a moment, takes the necklace and puts it on.

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