Immersive Ink

mgtremaine wrote:
ooc: Ways you know the suspense is killing us right [img]images/smiley/smiley.png[/img] ... let those dice roll!!!!

ehiker133 wrote:

mgtremaine wrote:ooc: Ways you know the suspense is killing us right [img]images/smiley/smiley.png[/img] ... let those dice roll!!!!

OOC: hopefully the floating beaked, tentacled thing isn't, though.

coffee wrote:
OOC: Until you see the update in the "These poor buggers have bought it" thread, there's still hope.

waysoftheearth wrote:

mgtremaine wrote:ooc: Ways you know the suspense is killing us right [img]images/smiley/smiley.png[/img] ... let those dice roll!!!!

Sorry guys; I got knocked over for the last few days with a nasty cold. back at 'em...

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.

mgtremaine wrote:
Wen breathes a sigh of relief when the beast goes down. But then looks at the battered Dieter and gasps. "We better get out of here, this place has a heavy unnatural curse upon it." Wen move quickly towards the direction the beast came from using his vision and 2 candles to make sure nothing else is lurking off in the distance. 1 Candle he would leave over Dieter as he recovers.

coffee wrote:
In the stunned silence that ensues, Dieter can be heard to mutter: "So, not as bad as the giant, then."

And then he gathers himself and sets about tending his wounds.

ehiker133 wrote:
Desmond wipes the black ichor from his sword as his shoulders slump in fatigue.

"By the gods, what in the world did these nuns DO to spawn such nutse in their abbey?" he wonders aloud.

No more surprises for the two-headed halfling. From now on, if possible, even when Desmond/Mondes is resting, one of the two heads is to maintain a vigilant eye.

OOC: Unfortunately, we still need to rest at this point! Dieter more so than anyone else! It's probably a good idea to provide him with any other healing we might have handy, as well...

NOTE: Interesting automatic word modification on the profanity...

sulldawga wrote:
Dorgan walks over to Dieter, points over at the gelatinous mess, and says, "Bet yer glad ya rolled out of the way afore that fell on ya, eh?"

He pulls his flask of Dwarfish spirits out of his pack and offers it to Dieter.

"I'm guessin' we don't have time fer the Miss to heal ya up. Take a swig a this and let's get movin'. I don't like leavin' Gustave alone fer this long. No tellin' what mischief he's mixed up in."

OOC: If we're going to take a short rest, Dorgan will take another shot at binding his own wounds as well.

sulldawga wrote:
When the mage returns, Dorgan says, "Wen, I ain't gonna tell ya ta do something ya don't want ta do, but it might be worth it ta look through the remains a that giant floating squid and see if it ate some gold recently, or some such valuables."