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[Wirevix]

Results - Turn 6

Spoiler: Trent (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
You draw your machete and back away cautiously, your feet managing to avoid the thickest spots of roots almost on their own.

Spoiler: Great Cave Lily (click to show/hide)

Roll to detect: 6 +2 = 8 Overkill
The lily does not scream like it would if Hollywood had constructed it, as plants have no vocal cords.  Instead it flails its "head" back and forth, frustrated as its sensitive roots become a confused tangle.  Great Cave Lily now believes there is more than one person in the room and is confused.
Roll to attack: 1 (lol, first monster not getting any luck at all)
Frustrated with the ghost sensations, the lily charges at a phantom target and smashes its head off the hard stone floor, dazing itself.
Roll to recover: 6
The lily escapes damage from its own foolish move and rears up again.

Spoiler: Intrepid Team Leader (click to show/hide)

The intrepid team leader hurries towards the mysterious stone, extremely eager to see what it is.

Spoiler: Joe (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
You wait until the others are there, then spring to your feet in order to investigate the light.  It looks like an odd flake of some sort of crystalized mushroom thing, glowing brightly but mostly blocked by that big rock which is parked halfway on top of it.  How could that have gotten there?  That seems utterly suspicious, and your keen-eyed investigation makes you realize there's no way that rock is part of the cavern stone itself...

Spoiler: John (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
You pull out your knife and hurry towards Sally, standing ready and waiting for trouble, because it seems like it has to happen sooner or later.

Spoiler: Jones (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1 +1 = 2
You sort of flail the whip around at random, but your usual skill with handling it means you get control over it before it accidentally hurts anyone.  You do not, however, manage to hit the rock.

Spoiler: Sally (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
You set a near epic stance, squaring your feet off, camera up, a figure of inspiration to any jungle-faring reporters everywhere.  If only they could see how awesome and authoritative you look right now!

Spoiler: Giant Cave Fisher (click to show/hide)

The rock starts to move.  It shifts, wobbles back and forth again, and then sprouts legs.  Big, long, spindly insect legs, with dagger-pointed tips, setting each one on the ground delicately and pushing itself up.  It looks like some sort of horrendous tailless scorpion, or something, with great claws unfolding from beneath its belly, and long whiplike appendages on its back.
Roll to detect: 3
The giant cave fisher is only dimly aware of what woke it up, and makes no move yet.

(Bestiary updated.)

[Dwarmin]

"I should of brought my pepper spray..." Sally says, frantically snapping pictures and backpedaling.

Sallly looks for a good size rock to throw at the creature

*SNAP, SNAP, SNAP*
These are a few blurry pictures of a Giant Cave Fisher. It still sort of looks like a rock...with pincers and legsl!

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Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. This is a picture of the small group who ventured into the caverns, standing side by side and smiling photogenically. Sally White is standing prominent in the center.
2. This is a picture of the "Head of the Dragon", the entrance to the cavern. Ominous darkness stretches ahead into the entrance, wherein juts toothsome rocks.
3,4, 5.These are a few blurry pictures of a Giant Cave Fisher. It still sort of looks like a rock...with pincers and legs!

[Ochita]

I throw a rock at its head. A big rock.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Trent sees his opportunity as the lilly bashes its... head?... against the floor. He immediately turns and runs for it!

[Jay Kayell]

Jones whips the cave fisher in the eyes, trying to blind the beast.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Take out my bat, and wait for the fisher to make the first move.
Maybe it's friendly...

[Wirevix]

Results - Turn 7

(I would definitely not want to be on an expedition to find new species with some of you guys.  "It moved and it's an animal I don't recognize?  KILL IT!"  Forgetting the point maybe?  Haw haw.)

Spoiler: Trent (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
You book it, stumbling around vines here and there and doing your best not to fall flat on your face.  Not pretty, but it works.

Spoiler: Great Cave Lily (click to show/hide)

Roll to detect: 2 +2 = 4 -1 (confused) = 3
The great cave lily has only a faint idea where you are amidst all the confusion.  It can't entirely tell which of the various things it feels is you.
Ability - Snaring vines: 5 +2 = 7 -1 (confused) = 6
In its anger at its confusion (if a giant plant can feel anger, anyway), it simply pulls up its vines all around the room, snatching upwards with them to catch at its fleeing prey's feet.
Trent - Roll to dodge: 1
You completely fail to get out of the way.  In fact, as soon as the vines start springing up, you trip on one, and plummet face-first into the full net of them.

Spoiler: Intrepid Team Leader (click to show/hide)

The intrepid team leader hurries towards the creature, utterly excited.

Spoiler: Sally (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2
You don't actually find a good sized rock.  You find a little one which is not very impressive at all.  How lame.

Spoiler: John (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6
You grab the nearest, biggest rock you can find and chuck it straight at the unknown animal with as much force as you can muster.  It whistles through the air like a missile!
GCF - Roll to dodge: 6
The giant cave fisher lunges up and over the stone, leaping into the air in an impressive feat for such a bizarre looking arthropod.
The intrepid team leader screams at you, "What are you doing!  We came to study these, not kill them!"

Spoiler: Jones (click to show/hide)

Roll: 2 +1 =3
You lash your whip at it without the most incredible amount of force, but this time you do manage to get it to go in the direction of the creature that has thus far not made any move to harm you whatsoever.
GCF - Roll to dodge: 5
The giant cave fisher skitters backwards, out of the reach of your whip.  The intrepid cave leader screams at you too, "What is wrong with you people!  I swear, for this you are losing everything you were paid!"

Spoiler: Joe (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5
You draw your bat and wait for something to happen.  Mostly what seems to be happening right now is people attacking the thing and the intrepid team leader screaming his head off.  It echoes a lot.

Spoiler: Giant Cave Crawler (click to show/hide)

Whether the massive insect was going to be nice at first or not doesn't matter--now people have been throwing rocks at it, and like anyone would be after having large rocks thrown at their head, it is properly pissed!  It also does not do a Hollywood-style screech, because bugs also lack vocal cords, but its legs do make a chittery rattling noise when they rub together, which is highly unnerving.
Roll to attack: +DEATH
It lunges straight onto the intrepid team leader as he attempts to investigate the angry animal up close.  With one quick wrench of its pincers, your intrepid team leader is now in two pieces.

(Firstpost updated.)

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Give the other team members a mouthfull while beating up the arthropod with my bat.
WE ARE HERE TO STUDY THINGS NOT KILL THEM! NOW YOU HAVE KILLED THE TEAM LEADER AND HE WAS THE BEST TEAM LEADER EVAR!

[Dwarmin]

Must...remember... Sensei Katadomono..."You must strike with the precision of a Spring Dragon!"

Sally preforms a swooping dragon punch on the creature

OOC: FAH

[Wirevix]

(I don't think a pickaxe would be part of basic spelunking gear.  I can't really see how you'd need a pickaxe to explore a cave in a basic situation.  Creating new caves is not really part of basic spelunking.

And I'd rather not have people switch their skills.  You can blame me for missing out on +1s -- I am not too used to keeping track of all these stats and I do sometimes miss some.  Just ask me and I'll fix your result to include the +1, although I can tell you that a 3 in a cave of this structure still wouldn't find you a big rock.  (John only found a big rock because he rolled a 6.))

[Dwarmin]

Okey. Sally all of a sudden remembers her lifetime love of martial arts...

[Ochita]

MORE ROCKS, GO GO GO

[Jay Kayell]

Jones tries the whip again, trying to pull down a large rock from the ceiling onto the cave fisher's head.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Keeping calm, Trent tries to hack his way out of the vines.

[Wirevix]

Results - Turn 8:

Spoiler: Joe (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5 +1 = 6
You swing your bat in a mighty, perfect arc, putting your full power into the blow,
Giant cave fisher - Roll to dodge: 1
cracking the massive creature directly over its ugly face and smashing it inwards.
Roll for damage: 2 +1 (Weapon) -1 (Armored) = 2
The cave fisher staggers backward, but its armor protects it from immediate demise.

Spoiler: Sally (click to show/hide)

Roll: 4
You lunge at the beast with a reasonably-formed punch,
Giant cave fisher - Roll to dodge: 1
and smack it straight in between its glittery, faceted eyes.
Roll for damage: 4 -1 (Armored) = 3
The shell cracks and the giant cave fisher collapses, its buggy brains oozing out onto the stone.

Spoiler: John (click to show/hide)

Roll: 1
In a hurry to join in on the assault on the cave fisher, you charge around looking for another big rock in a cave which is mostly smoothed out.  You grab what looks like a big rock and is actually a stalagmite rising out of the floor.  Your attempt to hurl it with your momentum turns out badly, and you slip.
Roll to recover: 2
You manage not to impale yourself on the jut of rock, and instead just knock your ribs off the side of it as you crash to the ground.  That's going to leave quite a bruise.

Spoiler: Jones (click to show/hide)

Roll: 6 +1 = 7 (Overkill)
You lash your whip up onto a stalactite, perfectly catching about a narrow point.  You give it a powerful heave, and with almost supernatural strength shear the rock off, dropping it.  Right on Sally and Joe.

Spoiler: Stalactite (click to show/hide)

Joe - Roll to dodge: 3
Joe makes an attempt to dive out of the way and half makes it, the stalactite coming down over a leg.
Roll for damage: 3
Something cracks but his leg is still attached.
Sally - Roll to dodge: 5
Sally, energized from punching the creature in the face, is somewhat more successful at getting out of the way, only getting spattered with chips of rock when the stalactite breaks into pieces upon hitting the ground.

Spoiler: Trent (click to show/hide)

Roll: 5 -1 (Snared) = 4
You start to work cutting at the vines.  They're pretty tough, but you manage to hack through them, though it takes more of a sawing motion than a hacking one to get through the rubbery things.

Spoiler: Great Cave Lily (click to show/hide)

The great cave lily starts squeezing with its vines.
Roll for damage (unavoidable): 6
The vines tangle tight about Trent's middle and squeeze very hard.

(Yay, you killed your first monster!  And don't worry about the whole changing skills business, Dwarmin--your charactes will gain additional +1's, or higher pluses, over time... for example, practicing her martial arts enough on monsters (or chaotic neutral teammates that drop a stalactite on your head) will get Sally an additional +1 in martial arts.

Health & status post updated.)