The Third Adventure

[mgtremaine]

Kiplyn readies his sling.

[mushgnome]

OOC: I found this little guy online, looks about right.

Hi! I'm a Plagiophorus!

[kipper]

Ready missile weapons and wait to see if the beetles come towards us. (Dame Simonetta has a sling). If we see them, launch one volley then retreat back around the bend again (northwestwards from our current position) just enough to get out of their sight.

[acodispo]

Willie approves of Dame S.'s plan and gets out his sling.

[ehiker133]

Dougal likewise readies his sling.

[mushgnome]

Beetle Battle Round 2

Our Heroes set the trap, and the beetles take the bait.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... the sling stones fly.

Tet, Noh, and Dougal miss their mark. Kiplyn and Dame Simonetta brain one of the beetles, while Willie wounds a second.

With a sickening squish sound, the three surviving beetles uncork their missile weapons: a sticky, runny, tan-colored glob resembling peanut butter.

Dame Simonetta dodges one of the beetle-globs but blunders into a second. She takes the impact in the flank, and is nearly bowled over, but manages to keep her feet. The force of the beetle bomb has slightly rearranged her internal organs, but she shrugs off the damage, wipes the sesame paste from her eyes, and fights on!

Tet is not so lucky. The big man takes a beetle-loogey straight to the solar plexus and sits down, hard. Tet has the wind knocked out of him and the sensory hallucination that his chest is being squeezed in the center of a sesame-seed bagel! It will take a penalty round for Tet to catch his breath so he can rejoin the battle. Also, Tet drops his torch and it goes out, leaving Dame Simonetta's lantern as the only light source!

The 3 tahini beetles seem content to park at 30' range and launch wave after wave of spit-globs upon our heroes. Tet is down to 3hp and stunned 1 round. Dame Simonetta is down to 5hp and holding the only source of light.

What next, Heroes?

How brave are the beetles? Morale 2d6 = 11, highly aggressive, perhaps overconfident: their hunger overrides their natural aversion to light.

Sling attack rolls

Dougal 3 miss
Kiplyn 20+1=20 hit for 3 damage, co-kill with D.S.
Noh 4 miss
Dame Simonetta 15+1=16 hit for 5 damage, co-kill with Kip
Tet 5 miss
Willie 14+1=15 hit for 3 damage

Beetle attack rolls, random targets:
vs Dame Simonetta 9 miss, 15 hit for 3hp, save vs paralysis 19 success
vs Tet 20 hit for 3hp, save vs paralysis 10 fail, incapacitated 1 round and torch goes out!

Using v5 "gamma" rules for Hobbets and missile weapons, our heroes will get 2 shots next round, should they choose to continue the volley. (3:2 rate of fire)

[mgtremaine]

"Get em!" Kiplyn resists the urge to flee and doubles his efforts to take down the beetles.

[kipper]

We can't quickly retreat now and leave Tet behind, so let's continue with the missile fire! Dame Simonetta continues pelting the beetles with her sling.

[acodispo]

Willie is confident that the missile-acumen of Hobbet-types will be more than a match for these beetle-blobs!

He loads another missile in his sling & looses it with an expert whirl!

[mushgnome]

Beetle Battle Round 3

Dame Simonetta puts on a display of expert Hobbet marksmanship and brings down the wounded beetle. Kiplyn puts a dent in beetle #3. Dougal, Noh, and Willie's stones all clatter ineffectually off the beetles' hard carapace.

Simultaneously the beetles launch another missile attack. Two of the beetles miss, but Dame Simonetta's target with its death throes unleashes a glob of sesame paste that catches Willie in the throat. Willie falls to the ground and cannot catch his breath; he feels like he is choking on a sesame seed bun!

Willie is stunned 1 round with a bruised larynx, but Tet gets his breath back and can rejoin the fight! There are 2 beetles left in the fight, one of them wounded by Kiplyn's shot.

What next, Hobbitses?

sling attacks

Dougal 13, 11 miss
Kiplyn 16, 8, hit for 2hp
Noh 12, 10 miss
Dame Simonetta 17, 19, two hits for 3+3=6hp
Willie 3, 6 miss

simultaneous beetle attacks
2, 17, 3
random target = Willie
He takes 3hp damage, dropping him to 6/9, and fails his save vs paralysis with a roll of 3.