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by waysoftheearth » Fri May 17, 2013 11:42 am
waysoftheearth wrote:
{Dieter, Ogre Slayer, on 1 hit point, held in the electric grasp of a horror of the deep, being hauled away to an awful fate... After three years real time it all comes down to this round. I'm scared to roll... but that's D&D.}
Everyone pitches after the brain-horror as it lurches away with Dieter in its grasp at surprising pace. It's only fortunate indeed that the ceiling isn't loftier else the thing would already be out of reach!
{This is it then. A BIG initiative roll coming up; Dieter=5+1 (Ohwah!). IT=4. Josiane=6, Dorgan=6, Wen=4 Desmond/Mondes=3+1. Josiane attacks with sword d20=17,7, hits for d6=5. Dorgan attacks with axe d20=20,20 (!!!) hits for 2d6=8 hp. Dieter attacks with dagger d20=8,17, hits for d6=4 hp. Ref rolls up its hp; 5d6=3,6,3,5,2=19. Sustained so far 2+5+8+4=19; it's exactly incapacitated. It can't reply. Desmond/Mondes attacks with sword for d20=1,14, hits for d6=3. Wen can't wriggle between all the fighting types, but deals it 1 hp of burning damage with his gaze.}
Josiane throws herself at the retreating aberration, spearing her sword into it's pasty flesh as Dorgan bounds off a book shelf and into an impossible mid-air attack that gouges horrific rents through the massed tentacles, flinging half a dozen of them into the library pit with a spatter of black gore! At the very same moment Dieter plunges his dagger into its opening maw with what might very well be his last strength, and drives it deep!
The thing is caught in an awful mid-air paralysis for a moment; in which Desmond/Mondes and Wen simultaneously finish it with hacking sword blow and scorching eye-fire, respectively. Dieter drops free of the monster's grap as the whole thing falls 8ft to the ground in a flatulent, quivering heap of purple-back gore.
[f=32]
Golgildir the Elf Medium (MV 12", AC 9, HD 1, hp 1/1, AL N) great cloak,
lantern; spells: color spray; scrolls: sleep, sleep, charm person
Hirelings: Georges;
torch[/f]