Breaking the Mold, part 4
Log Info
- Title: Breaking the Mold, part 4
- Emitter: Faranmidahn
- Characters: Ashes, Burai, Lysos, Rocky, Rumbo
- Place: The Felwood Forest
- Time: Thursday, September 10, 2020, 6:25 PM
- Summary: The battle continues. Fighting is rough on all sides, the mold is slowly stripped from the infected hosts. Progress is slow, hampered by Ash's channeling which sometimes improves the mold. She runs out of spells, as Lysos almost sets herself ablaze. Rocky lives up to his name, impenetrable, immobile, none of the infected are able to damage him. Though sometimes, his swings are too slow. Rumbo fires and reloads his Dragonspitter, hobbling around to pick the best targets. Burai fights with spell, tooth and claw, stripping the mold away. The mold tries to flee, but is assaulted by the survivors and the prisoners. Eventually, after what seems like an age, all the infected are freed. Although, one was freed through death. Ashlee patches up the rest with bandages, and the injured are bourn back to their village on Lysos' floating disk. The mourner continues her efforts, using her training and devices to devise a cure for the Mindslaver Mold, and then all can think clearly again.
After opening salvoes on both sides, the battle was joined.
with the sorceress and druid both going into the basin to try to liberate the prisoners, they had been affected some by the weaponized spores, as had Ashes, who moved up to support them, after doing what she could to heal and support Rocky and Rumbo.
Rumbo's exchange with the archer, with some creative imput from Lysos's Thunderstomp, ends with the gungoblin coming out on top and doing what he can to make sure the enemy stays down.
Rocky, is like unassailable stone, weathering spores and clubs with equal aplomb and managing to destroy one of the mindslaver molds threatening him.
Many of the hosts are either freed or dead(freedom in many forms), and some try to assist against those still enslaved, as well as the free roaming mold colonies, some of whom have decided someplace else is better than here.
And so the battle continues...
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (9)+4: 13
The hunter's breath bubbles softly, but the pool of blood around him stops expanding.
Rumbo raises the dragonspitter he weilds above his head as he hobbles over the downed archer, gripping it tightly in both hands, but before he brings it crashing down on the person bleeding out on the ground he is stopped by an order from the Arvek Nar. The gobber gives a weary look down to the injured archer and sighs before looking back up "Aye Captain." He calls out in submission before working through the routine to reload the dragonspitter. "Don't bash the fellow who stuck two arrows in you..." He mumbles as he works through the process and then hobbles as best he can towards Rocky and the people still fighting. <goblin-talk>
The fleeing molds are moving away, one's by Rocky, one's near where Lysos was.
GAME: Lysos casts Thunderstomp. Caster Level: 6 DC: 16 GAME: Lysos rolls 1d20+5+5: (17)+5+5: 27
"Nope," Lysos says immediately, shying away from the creeping molds... glad, certainly, that they aren't creeping towards her. "Okay.. where.. ah." Two of the hijacked people fighting Rocky and his new friend catch her attention, so once more then stomps her magic through the ground towards one of them. "Krak!" The one between the sith-makar and the liberated guard loses its footing and falls.
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (16)+2: 18 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (4)+2: 6
The infected harrying the druid move in on him to renew their assault, but mostly accomplish nothing aside from assure he still knows they're there.
The other freed villager, wild eyed with fright, nonetheless continues trying to undo the bonds that keep her neighbors bound.
The guy behind Rocky, moans once and spits out dirt, only to jump madly to his fet with much screaming as he sees the quivering mold growth slinking away.
GAME: Rocky rolls weapon4+6: (13)+7+6: 26 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (2)+4: 6 GAME: Rocky rolls damage4: aliased to 1d10+3: (5)+3: 8
Rocky swings, landing a blow that hits the clubber.
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+5: (6)+5: 11 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (16)+4: 20 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d8+1: (4)+1: 5 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+5: (16)+5: 21 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d8+1: (7)+1: 8 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20: (4): 4 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+5: (11)+5: 16
Still riding high on ambient heals and freedom, the first guard tries to dislodge the growth on his still enslaved friend, but manages to hurt him, instead.
Meanwhile the armoured woman on the ground, herself now free of the mold, tries to trip their neighbor, but only ends up eating a tooth rattling blow with the warhammer. He then turns his wrath on Rocky, but it's like the goat bleating at a mountain.
<OOC> Ashes nods, "Channel 4 of 5" GAME: Ashes rolls 2d6: (8): 8 GAME: Ashes damaged you for -8 points. 26 HP remaining.
Assess, act. Assess, act. The drill sergeant's commands come back to Ashlee. She's looking around, trying to track what is happening to whom, and what she should do. Rumbo seems focused, Rocky is fine, Lysos and Burai haven't called for help. Channeling Vardama's blessing isn't the best plan, it's helping the mold, but it's a plan so she goes with it.
Ash shakes her holy symbol, "Feiu of the Tears, save them."
<OOC> Ashes says, "it's 1d8+cleric level" GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d8+5: (7)+5: 12
Freshly healed, the felled hunter blinks his eyes open, only to see a big cat in his face and he recoils. Seeing the moldriddled forms of his neighbors beating on the cat, he rolls away before deigning to stand and pull the spear from the fancy clip on his quiver strap.
Rumbo has a maximum speed of 25' at the moment as he is using an improvised crutch.
GAME: Rumbo rolls 1d20+5-4: (4)+5+-4: 5
Rumbo aims along the barrel of his dragonspitter, one eye closed and the other squinting at one of the armoured figures fighting Rocky who is.. let's not quibble.. HUGE! The barrel wavers as Rumbo tries to sneak a shot around his massive cohort but when he picks a shot and fires the dragonspitter barks but the lead ball flies past Rocky's head and misses the armored foe!
GAME: Lysos casts Thunderstomp. Caster Level: 6 DC: 16 GAME: Lysos rolls 1d20+5+5: (10)+5+5: 20
Things seem to be looking alright now with Rocky's fight, so Lysos looks around.. frantically would be the wrong word. More... energetically. She spies Burai being teamed up on, so she stomps the ground again, channelling her magic through the earth to trip one of his assailants with yet another "Krak!"
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (19)+2: 21 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d6+1: (1)+1: 2 <OOC> Faranmidahn says, "one on the groundtakes a swing, then tries to stand" GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (9)+2: 11
The moldy fellow on the ground after Lysos' spellcraft takes a fruitless swing and rises to his feet.
His partner, however, manages to land one upside the jaguar's head.
Meanwhile, the freed fellow close to hand continues untying vllagers, and the one near Rocky starts to calm down.
GAME: Rocky rolls weapon4: (4)+7: 11
Rocky double checks who still has a parasite, they're getting uncommon, and swings his blade. Sadly the sith's timing is a bit off, and he hits only air.
The slaved one is going to bull rush the freed guy to get out of his bad spot.
GAME: Rocky rolls weapon4: (10)+7: 17 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (16)+4: 20 GAME: Rocky rolls damage4: aliased to 1d10+3: (8)+3: 11
The hunter is up and armed, probably going to help. Lysos knocked a guy to the ground and he stood up.
There's another mold outside the basin somewhere behind Rocky.
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (7)+4: 11 GAME: Burai rolls 3d6: (9): 9 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+5: (6)+5: 11
Burai casts his feline gaze about. He sees one patch of Minflayer mold climbing the wall. A twitch of his ear sends the spongy ball of fire bouncing vertically up the wall after it. But the other one is out of sight. Burai gives a warning growl at the host nearest him, which possibly unnerves the poor infected villager enough that when the jaguar turns and dashes up the wall a hasty blow misses him.
GAME: Ashes casts Diagnose Disease. Caster Level: 1 DC: 14
Ash takes a quick look around, the remaining hosts all look intact, although one is out cold by the prisoners. The closest mold is near Rocky, on an active, armoured host. Holding back on the healing might be the best option.
Ash waves her holy symbol, although she's drawing on the experience she had from before her time at the temples. She wants insights into how to heal this, and Nan taught her a few things about using her wiles to diagnose disease. It'll help later.
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (7)+4: 11 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+5: (1)+5: 6 (EPIC FAIL) GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+5: (5)+5: 10
The beleagured rarmoured host decides he wants mo more of this position and tries to pull past the liberaated, only managing to get smacked by Rocky for his trouble and manages to go approximately nowhere.
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+6: (1)+6: 7 (EPIC FAIL)
Perhaps still delirious from being so recently freed, and retrieved from death's door, the hunter moves in to thrust awkwardly at one of the slaves, even as the druid he was helping absconds, "H-hey, where ya going??"
Rumbo grumbles to himself after missing a shot, doubtless swearing under his breath some of the choicest gobber curses, and proceeds to reload the dragonspitter. Powder is poured down the barrel and then a patch is placed over the muzzle with a lead ball rammed down on top. All the while Rumbo keeps a cautious glance around to try and spot any mold that would like to creep up on him.
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (9)+4: 13 GAME: Burai rolls 3d6: (8): 8
The flaming sphere leaps into the air again, striking the mold climbing the wall even as Burai pulls himself up next to where Rocky had held off the guards. The jaguar looks around quickly for the mold that came this way. His instincts tell him the foreign substance - especially such a virulent and self-preserving one - must be stopped lest it upset the balance.
Two hosts now threatening the hunter Burai healed, plus the mess by Rocky.
GAME: Burai rolls perception: (4)+9: 13 GAME: Lysos casts Thunderstomp. Caster Level: 6 DC: 16 GAME: Lysos rolls 1d20+5+5: (18)+5+5: 28
Lysos is getting pretty good at this turning and foot stomping routine, and almost gets to the point where she could forget that these enemies are in fact indidious intelligent plants that are seeking to control and eventually devour people who are probably innocent. Almost. At least she's aware enough to have something of an idea of who is who... another spelled stomp sends another host sprawling to the ground.
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (3)+2: 5 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+6: (7)+6: 13 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d8+3: (2)+3: 5 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+0: (2)+0: 2
The enslaved villagers flail at the hunter, who ends up skewering the fallen one as she tries to rise, and he recoils in remorse, "Betty! I'm-I'm sorry!"
Another continues working on the bindings....
And the last, perhaps finding some nerve, takes up a loose stone and hucks it somewhere in the neighbordhood of the mold, that just wants to get gone...
GAME: Rocky rolls weapon4: (3)+7: 10
Rocky takes another swing, trying to free the last who stands before him. Well, kinda trying to run away, but still... the swing goes wide.
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+5: (4)+5: 9 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+7: (7)+7: 14 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+5: (19)+5: 24 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (4)+4: 8 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d8+1: (5)+1: 6
The guards continue their knot of discord, with the free woman landing the only telling blow amongst the flurry of activity.
<OOC> Ashes says, "Cure Moderate" GAME: Ashes casts Remove Paralysis. Caster Level: 3 DC: 14 GAME: Ashes rolls 2d8+3: (10)+3: 13
It's good that the villagers are starting to fight back, perhaps not so good that they're stabbing each other and missing the mold. The ashen Arvec scrambles over to Betty, who is still afflicted.
"Feiu of the Tears, lots of help for her." the Mourner says, looking for a non-moldy spot to touch. If not, well, her faith will protect her... hopefully.
She calls out in monotone, "How are we doing?"
Betty improves greatly, and the mold shrinks away, interpreting Ash's actions as an attack.
"Rumbo, what is your status?" She says for the goblin on the team. <goblin-talk>
<OOC> Faranmidahn says, "hunter is gong to move to flank with ashes and try to stab the mold" GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+8: (19)+8: 27 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (16)+4: 20 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d8+3: (6)+3: 9
The hunter, mortified, notices Bettty's wound being closed by the touch of the spooky woman with the skull face. He breaths a quick, "Thank you!" with a glitter in the corn of his eyes and manages to thrust the spear into the mold infesting the village woman, sheering some of it away.
There's one caught between Rocky, and two freed fighters. Rhere's also a mold off by itself trying to leave.
GAME: Rumbo rolls 1d20+5: (18)+5: 23 GAME: Rumbo rolls 1d6: (5): 5
Rumbo hobbles a few steps closer to the mold fleeing from Rocky, "Good!" Rumbo calls out in response to Ashes with a broad grin, "So anyway I'm blasting!" and he does just that and blasts away at the mold! <goblin-talk>
GAME: Burai rolls ranged: (11)+7: 18 GAME: Burai rolls 1d6+3: (2)+3: 5 GAME: Burai spends ONE use of FIRE BOLT. GAME: Burai spends ONE use of FIRE BOLT.
Burai launches a Fire Bolt, searing the mold further.
There are two infested fighting the hunter and Ashes, one fighting Rocky and going after the freed hosts. The gunfire suggests there's something outside the bowl also.
GAME: Lysos casts Thunderstomp. Caster Level: 6 DC: 16 GAME: Lysos rolls 1d20+5+5: (10)+5+5: 20
"Oh no you don't," Lysos mutters to herself, taking a single half step forward towards the hunter's fight to stomp and "Krak!" once again, felling the mold-controlled villager between him and Ashes.
<OOC> Faranmidahn says, "goes after the hunter" GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (12)+2: 14 <OOC> Faranmidahn says, "on one the ground, after Ashes GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d4: (4): 4 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (16)+2: 18 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d6+1: (6)+1: 7 GAME: Faranmidahn damaged you for 7 points. 19 HP remaining. GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+6: (11)+6: 17 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (12)+4: 16 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d8+3: (4)+3: 7 <OOC> Faranmidahn says, "the last one tries another rock" GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+0: (16)+0: 16 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d4: (2): 2
There is another exchange of blows, with of the slaves, whistling past the free hunter's face with his club, while (!Evil)Betty lays one in on the nice Arvek who healed her before trying to rise, only to eat a close stab with the hunter's spear that severs more mold.
More knots are undied, and the prisoners are finally unbounds.
Meanwhile, the one by Rocky manages to huck another rock, this time bouncing it off the mold.
GAME: Rocky rolls weapon4: (12)+7: 19 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (11)+4: 15 GAME: Rocky rolls damage4: aliased to 1d10+3: (8)+3: 11
Rocky tries to tread the line between paying attention to the battle around him, and not letting it distract him. Little distracted. But the sith attacks once more, shearing off a hefty chunk of mold. Enough that it seem to wilt and fade... likely a good sign. Now just to hunt down the rest.
The three guards, at last finally free, seems to halt their swings, not quite in unison, but near enough that no one else gets hurt. There's a "Thank you!" and the guards turn to move in after their people intending to see them safely out of here.
GAME: Ashes rolls perception: (5)+2: 7 GAME: Ashes rolls ranged-4: (8)+4+-4: 8
Ash looks around, glad the guards are free. The clubbers look fine. Covered in mold, but fine. She picks up a rock and throws it at the mold that's trying to get away, it goes quite wild and skips along. "Throw some rocks at it, if you've got nothing else."
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+6: (7)+6: 13 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (8)+4: 12 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d8+3: (4)+3: 7
The hunter, meanwhile manages to land another spearthrust on the mold clinging to Betty. He almost seems hopeful.
Rumbo brings the dragonspitter close in again to reload it and, while he toils with the powder and the ball and the ramrod, he calls out "How much of this mindslaver mold madness is there?!" <goblin-talk>
GAME: Burai rolls ranged: (6)+7: 13
Burai walks after the mold. A bolt of fire streaks out from one paw but scorches into the ground. The jaguar growls in frustration. He breaks into a trot.
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (4)+2: 6 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (16)+2: 18 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d6+1: (2)+1: 3
Lysos is actually starting to look a little bit worn... which, considering that aside from that initialy frightening few moments of combat, she hasn't really had to move or do much of anything. So.. maybe drained is a better word. She starts looking about, first for rocks according to Ashes's called suggestion.. but then her eyes settle upon the faded sphere of blackness in her vision. Then she is hurrying towards it, scooping up a fallen branch along the way so that she can thrust it into the ball and ignite it. Unfortunately, she gets a little bit too close and yelps when her skin blisters a little bit.
GAME: Rocky rolls weapon4+2: (14)+7+2: 23 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (10)+4: 14 GAME: Rocky rolls damage4: aliased to 1d10+3: (1)+3: 4
Rocky chuffs quietly to the freeed guards, bobbing his muzzle. "You are welcome. Excuse please." The mountain of solid lizard surges forward, rushing with perhaps surprising speed towards the commoner still infected, his large blade striking the mold with a glancing blow.
The guards, quickly appraising the situation, do their best to keep between their people and those obviously still infected, trying to keep them calm and herd them out the way they came.
GAME: Ashes rolls ranged-4: (14)+4+-4: 14
Ash looks around, Rocky seems to know where he's going, the guards are being protective. The prisoners look okay, and the hunter is rough but still standing. There's no one really for her heal, nothing really to direct either. She finds another rock, and flings it, it also misses.
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+6: (16)+6: 22 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (19)+4: 23 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d8+3: (5)+3: 8
Perhaps too emboldened by the assistance of the strange healing woman, the hunter chances another thrust, only to wound the woman, instead, "No!" he cries.
GAME: Rumbo rolls 1d20+5: (10)+5: 15 GAME: Rumbo rolls 1d6: (2): 2
Rumbo blasts away again, shooting the slowly fleeing mold and enveloping himself in a bellowing cloud of gunsmoke. Burai stalks the mold relentlessly. The next fire bolt originated from his mouth. Not so much fire breath as a line of burning energy that finally finishes the mold. With a chuff of satisfaction he turns and runs back for the depression.
GAME: Burai rolls ranged: (17)+7: 24 GAME: Burai rolls 1d6+3: (2)+3: 5
Burai launches another fire bolt, hitting the mold that is so desperately creeping away. It goes up in a gout of flame.
GAME: Lysos rolls 1d20+2: (16)+2: 18 <OOC> Faranmidahn says, "d6 for club +d6 fire" GAME: Lysos rolls 1d6+1d6: (1)+(3): 4
Alright. So now she has a stick. That's on fire. Lysos turns about.. the mold she'd been planning on immolating is gone. Smoking, it looks like. So she looks back towards Ashes and her crowd. Then, hiking her skirts up enough so as not to trip on them while holding fire in the other, she hurries over towards the arvec mourner. "Watch out!" she cries, then swings the burning branch at the most hurt looking of the hosts. Or, rather, the disturbing mold that seems to be growing all over her.
<OOC> Betty after Lysos GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (11)+2: 13 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d6+1: (5)+1: 6 <OOC> Faranmidahn says, "the other one goes after the hunter" GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (11)+2: 13 <OOC> Faranmidahn says, "and the villagers continue milling out through the pinch point"
The nameless host takes a club swipe at the hunter, but only swings at embers, while Betty manages to tie into Lysos, perhaps as revenge for bruninating her.
Meanwhile, the rest of the villagers try to make their way out through the narrow cut in the basin.
GAME: Rocky rolls weapon4: (8)+7: 15 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (7)+4: 11 GAME: Rocky rolls damage4: aliased to 1d10+3: (2)+3: 5
Rocky carves off another chunk of mold, making progress, but not freeing anyone else just now.
The three guards keep an eye on things as the villagers squeeze out, trying to maintain order, as they look around for new threats.
<OOC> Ashes says, "okay, I'm out of cleric spells" <OOC> Ashes says, "so it's channel 5 or 5" GAME: Ashes rolls 2d6: (8): 8 GAME: Faranmidahn damaged you for -8 points. 26 HP remaining.
Ash sees Betty get hit again, and raises her holy symbol. She's out of spells, it will have to be her last channeling of Vardama's power, which will heal her mold too. Which won't help, "Feiu of the Tears, a little more."
She follows up with a monotone annoucement, "I'm out of healing magic. It will have to be bandages, after the fight. Try to get them down fast."
She repeats, "I'm out of healing." <goblin-talk>
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+8: (6)+8: 14
With new remorse at doing harm to his friend(+?), the hunter's followup strike comes nowhere close.
GAME: Rumbo rolls Knowledge/Nature: (5)+9: 14
Rumbo sets himself to reloading the dragonspitter again, going through the motions in well practiced manner. As his hands work with the powder horn and the ramrod he grumbles loudly "Stupid Mold. Whoever thought a mushroom would shoot arrows?" <goblin-talk>
GAME: Burai rolls acrobatics+3: (12)+0+3: 15 GAME: Burai rolls melee+1: (18)+9+1: 28 GAME: Burai rolls melee+1: (2)+9+1: 12 GAME: Burai rolls melee+1: (10)+9+1: 20 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (3)+4: 7 GAME: Burai rolls 1d6+5: (3)+5: 8 GAME: Burai rolls 1d3+5: (3)+5: 8 GAME: Burai rolls 1d3+5: (3)+5: 8 GAME: Burai rolls fort: (15)+8: 23 GAME: Burai rolls fort: (8)+8: 16 GAME: Burai rolls fort: (1)+8: 9 (EPIC FAIL) GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d4: (1): 1
Burai leaps in, a great distance, landing without hurting himself. Claws fly, jaws bite, he lands them all, ripping into the stricken one. His mouth fills with spores and he coughs as his judgement gets worse.
GAME: Lysos rolls 1d20+2: (9)+2: 11
"OW!" Lysos fumbles with her flaming branch as she barely gets out of the way of being brained by the mold controlled woman. Instead, her assailant's club bounces off of her shoulder, numbing her arm to the point of making her return swing completely ineffectual. Her fingers involuntarily release the flaming brand and it falls to her feet, flames licking at the bottom of her skirts.
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (19)+2: 21 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (9)+2: 11
The moldy man with the club turns and lashes out at the armoured Sith, but, despite skimming the club glancingly off the reptilian's breastplate, he doesn't really land a telling blow.
Betty, for her part, gets close to ringing Lysos's bell with her club, but can't quite seal the deal.
Meanwhile, the rest of the civilians, and the guards, manage to get out of the basin.
GAME: Rocky rolls weapon4: (20)+7: 27 (THREAT) GAME: Rocky rolls weapon4: (12)+7: 19 (confirmed) GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (16)+4: 20 GAME: Rocky rolls 2d10+6: (9)+6: 15
Rocky attacks again, flinching internally as is sure he's struck the host again, only to find he missed by the narrowest of margins... which does rather unplesant things to the infectious mold. Well, unplesant so far as the mold is concerned.
<OOC> Ashes says, "actually, Evil Eye the mold -2 AC, so it will be easier to hit." GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (17)+2: 19
Well, Ash has run out of things to do. Except glare, she's got an endless supply of baleful looks. Which she lavishes on the mold covering Betty. Her eyes boring into it, stay put, get smack. Or lit on fire. Hopefully Lysos will be able to set it aflame as easily as she is her skirts. Hopefully the Hunter will land a blow. In the meantime she focuses on the infection, willing it to just die.
<OOC> Faranmidahn says, "the hunter will try to kill betty's mold and not her" GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+10: (1)+10: 11 (EPIC FAIL)
The hunter, flustered and harrowed looking, tries to remove the last of the foul mold controlling Betty's body, but ends up driving the speartip into the ground and triping over the haft.
GAME: Rumbo rolls 1d20+5-4: (13)+5+-4: 14 GAME: Rumbo rolls 1d6: (3): 3
Rumbo raises up his dragonspitter and swings it around as he aims along the barrel. Finding someone still swinging a club the one-legged gobber takes a few wobbly steps forward until he finds the perfect shot and KABLOOM! "Who else needs to get shot?!" <goblin-talk>
<OOC> Lysos says, "And.. that's probably.. well, I'll pick up the flaming branch, which will probably provoke an AoO" GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (6)+2: 8
"Oh no, oh no!" cries Lysos as she quickly leans forward to start patting out the flames eating at her clothes, conveniently ducking her out of the way of another swing of Betty's cudgel. Thankfully, she is able to stop the flames in time, and even manages to reclaim the discarded fire weapon.
<OOC> Faranmidahn says, "ok, clubby is going to swing at rocky" GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (16)+2: 18 <OOC> Faranmidahn says, "odds lysos, evens hunter" GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d4: (2): 2 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (12)+2: 14
Getting more desperate as both it and it's host are so close to death, the Mindslaver steers the man into making another fruitless swing at Rocky, trying to dislodge him from the path to safety!
Betty, for her part, less hurt, takes a swupe at the sorrowful hunter, but achieves no more success.
<OOC> Rocky says, "One more stab, hopefully do it..." GAME: Rocky rolls weapon4: (1)+7: 8 (EPIC FAIL)
Rocky chuffs in annoyance. If this mold thing would just give up, everyone could go home just a little earlier. The makes to voice his displeasure, well aware the mold isn't likely to understand him, but makes teh mistake of also swinigng his blade, and manages to kock himself in the jaw. Annoying, but not worth thinking about... or it wouldn't have been, if the sith hadn't ended up biting his tongue. Ow.
GAME: Ashes rolls melee+2: (10)+2+2: 14
As the sith-makar bops himself, Ash bends and picks up the club. She's not very good with it, she's not good with her Khopesh, which is why she usually leaves it behind. If it comes down to her physically fighting, things have gotten bad. Out of heals, and finding that glaring isn't much assistance, she hopes that flanking with Rocky will help. Her swing won't, it wiffs and misses like so many others have.
Though the lesson is learned. Bring a proper weapon next time.
GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+8: (13)+8: 21 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (6)+4: 10 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d8+3: (8)+3: 11 <OOC> Faranmidahn says, "and betty is free!"
The hunter, not ready to give up on Betty, not after everything the adventurers have done to free them all so far, he manages to skewer the final flecks of mold on her body and kills it.
GAME: Rumbo rolls Melee: (17)+1: 18 GAME: Rumbo rolls 1d4: (4): 4
Rumbo growls as he hobbles up alongside Rocky, though what a gobber might describe as a growl others have considered a squeak, and with the last wobbly step lefts the broken hoe he has been using as a makeshift crutch and brains the club weilding fellow. "Fall down and die like a Myrrish Gnome!" He squeaks out fiercely as he brings the hoe down to lean against. <goblin-talk>
<OOC> Lysos says, "I would like to bring down the fires of justice." GAME: Lysos rolls 1d20+2: (3)+2: 5
Lysos swings fruitlessly at the remaining mold host... perhaps trying so hard to avoid burning the actual person beneath the mold is making it nearly impossible for her to hit the the mold itself. Or perhaps, and more likely, Lysos is just really bad at the game stick ball.
<OOC> Faranmidahn says, "ok, clubby is going to turn on the goblin" GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+3: (8)+3: 11 <OOC> Faranmidahn says, "betty lays into the clubber" GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+2: (13)+2: 15 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d20+4: (15)+4: 19 GAME: Faranmidahn rolls 1d6+1: (3)+1: 4
Clubby, the last of the infected souls, flails at the goblin to no avail, where Betty, freshly liberated, tries to save him-with violence! Alas, the mold evades her blow and she lays the hapless man out to her immediate regret, "Barry, no!"
GAME: Rocky rolls weapon4: (8)+7+2: 17 GAME: Rocky rolls damage4: aliased to 1d10+3: (9)+3: 12
Rocky winces as the last commoners falls, but keeps up the pressure, slicing at the mold still upon the prone form. It seems to do the trick, the vegitation starting to curl and wilt. Rocky looks around a moment for other threats, then the sith glances to Rumbo, peering a moment before nodding solemly. "Break big bang splodey woo." Hopefully that means something vaguely appropriate.
Rumbo says, "Finally someone says it's time to set the Felwood on fire!" <goblin-talk>
The villagers are outside the basin, but they haven't abandoned their saviours yet. Aside from the withered guys that were dried up when everyone got there, there's only the one new dead guy.
Success!
<OOC> Ashes says, "so I guess, +3 to heal him, and +7 to cure him" GAME: Ashes rolls heal+3: (10)+7+3: 20 <OOC> Faranmidahn says, "he are stable" <OOC> Ashes says, "and if I can cure the mold and undo the wisdom loss, the roll for that is:" GAME: Ashes rolls heal+7: (17)+7+7: 31
"Okay, he's down. Let me stabilize him, check on the others Rumbo." <goblin-talk> Ashlee orders, moving over towards the most recently fallen and seeing what she can do for him. She's got her thanatopticon out, although the readout is 'bashed in the head', so it's telling her the obvious. She starts bandaging him up.
"Get everyone organized to go back." Ash tells the group, then takes out her goblin knife and starts unfolding it into a stretcher. This guy will need one.
Rumbo had lifted the broken hoe, presumably to brain the fellow with the club again, but he pauses at the directions given. "Aye Aye!" He says and then, spotting the knife, Rumbo sheaths his dragonspitter and pulls an old army-issue Goblin-knife of his own. "Good thinking with the knife boss!" He begins folding it into a stretcher as he looks around the group. <goblin-talk>
A Goblin Army Knife with Bludgun designs on it.
GAME: Lysos casts Floating Disk. Caster Level: 6 DC: 16
Lysos drops her branch with a bit of a yelp when the flames start getting too close for comfort. Again. Then she kicks at it until the flames go out. And then... she watches what Ashes is doing for a moment, then, "Sedensmulo." As she utters the word, she makes a circular sweeping motion with her hand and summons a slightly opaque, slightly concave floating disk. "Uh.. will this help, Ashlee?"
Ashlee looks over at the floating disk. She nods, that will be much better!
Now that the colonies of the foul mold have been destroyed, the villages gather their dead with nary a dry eye to be seen. The heroes are, of course, asked to escort them back to their village, where the mess all began. Shelter is offered, though they struggle to feed you the first night.
Over some days, after some consultation of her gadgets and knowledge, Ashes susses out the treatment required to purge the lingering spores from everyone's bodies, lifting the fog in their minds.
After making sure the treatments took, the party is given their compensations by the guild, though there are also several mementos afforted each of them from the grateful survivors....
Combatty Stuff
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| Name | CHP (T) | HP |
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| Ashes.........| 19 | 26 |
| Burai.........| 40 | 60 |
| Faranmidahn...| 33 | 33 |
| (C) Torrent...| 33 | 33 |
| Lysos.........| 31 | 31 |
| Rocky.........| 34 | 34 |
| Rumbo.........| 10 | 10 |
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==================== Current Initiative Order - Round 19 =====================
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>> 22 Rocky 1 <<
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19 3 Guards 1
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17 Ashes 1
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10 Hunter 1
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9 Rumbo 1
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8 Burai 1
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4 Lysos 1
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4 Faranmidahn 1
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3 6 Commoners 1
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