The queen attempts to fly away as the group swings after her. Lucky find purchase under her wing, the queen begins t slowly fly away before A shimmering bolt of energy slams into it as Tara’s bolt rips the body in two.
(lucky, Jax, and Virnen can still act against the 6 drones)
Jax would quickly spin around towards the drones as the queen drops. He would draw his revolver once again and fire off another round of shots from his arcane empowered weapon.
With pinpoint accuracy the group targets and takes down three of the drones.
It is at this time you look over to the collapsed body of the queen. The body begins to emit an orange cloud of dank pungent mist. It quickly fills through the chamber and out of the tunnels. It smells of honey and spoiled milk.
A moment of hesitation and dread come over the party as they do not know how the hive will act without its queen. Looking back to the three remaining drones you see that they become enraged.
The buzzing gets louder and their fuzz on their thorax was fluff out. As the madly bolt to attack..... each other. The three drones collide into a ball of stinging masses until it falls to the ground, dead. You hear a distant roar from the tunnels, it’s getting louder and louder as the crazed swarm is heading to fill the chamber. It seems that without a Queen, a battle royal has begun to elect the new bee royalty. You have a few quick moments until that roaring buzz is consuming every inch of the chamber.
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Jax’s survival check: 12
Jax begins cutting the sac out, but is having difficulty achieving the proper angle. He is having to cut the skin around it in order to keep the sac intact, it’s taking him some time to get this done.
Let's get this done and get the Hells out of here! Lucky gives his last bardic inspiration to Jax, and then runs over to try to help as much as he can with the cutting and the gross stuff.
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Jax would continue to quickly carve at the bee... using a laser like focus to extract the sack as quickly and carfully as possible with the help of his companion.
With Lucky’s assistance(keep your inspiration) Jax is able to cut through the right spots and take the silk sac as it drips with gore and blood.
Looking around the large room you can see tunnels sporadically lining the walls all the way up into the darkness pas your dark vision allow. The amber glowing Khyber crystal in the center of the chamber.
The humming of bee wings growing louder. As far as you can tell from your current vantage point. Nothing indicates a direct exit away.
Tara, that crystal looks - powerful. You know something about them. Can it do anything to help us? Lucky looks around, frantically, not quite panicking yet but not too far from it.
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Tara snaps out of her loop of worry and nods. "I-ah-maybe. With Ourelonastrix's blessing. Let's see what I can learn. It really is quite impressive, indeed the last time one of its size was found..." She quickly begins examining the crystal, her fear momentarily forgotten in face of her fascination with the dragonshard.
The gang rushes forward, sliding down the slopes wall to the floor. sprinting to the center spot illuminated by the massive crystal jutting out of the floor. Tara places her hand on it as she begins to inspect and recollect her knowledge.
Tara:
You touch the gem. For everything that you have seen in this underground volcanic landscape, it’s cold to the touch. You feel the power resonating, the vibration and aura. You feel your own energy raise as your heart beat increases, getting louder... faster. You feel your heart in your chest, the beating in your face just as it crescendos! .
The group sees Tara touch the crystal and as she does her eyes go white and she becomes unresponsive. Still standing holding onto the crystal. Her mouth muttering words in draconic.
The swarm of bees begin filling into the room. Pure mayhem in seconds as the bodies of the warring insects roll like a wave crashing towards the group. not directly looking to attack the party, but sure to be within the crossfires
Tara:
An energy wave erupts from your entire person, only you can see or feel. Time seems to have come to a standstill. Chaos frozen in place. Looking to your new friends in a stasis. You recall everything you’ve ever been taught about Khyber crystals - (Everything you know in real life, just treat them as Siberys dragon shards as I have seemed to switch them) but you also have heard tales of shards this giant being able to contain unfathomable power of someone were to try and harness it. Being able to change reality around the wielder. These stories often spoke of great cost and consequences if things went poorly or mismanaged.
(If Tara would want to try and harness the power of the crystal she may, roll a d20 and add your spell casting modifier. State what effect she would try to cause. It can be any level spell or other effect she can think of. There is a sliding scale of success and failure.)
Tara gazes around, eyes wide. Thoughts and possibilities tumble through her head. So many choices! Bee destruction, distress calls, invisibility. Her mind shies away from another potential use...resurrection. She only had one shot at this, better to save the people here now then to rip Risi from Dolurrh. Tara takes a deep breath and makes her decision. "Ourelonastrix, grant me your strength, and should I fail, let your wings bear me to Dolurrh."
DM:
Tara would like to teleport the group to the location where they first separated from the lizardfolk.
Check: 10 If I can add guidance, I would like to do so: 4
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From the groups perspective: The moment after Tara touches the stone and her eyes go white. A pulse of energy shockwaves out as you hear the crystal shatter. As everything goes white for a moment.
Tara used the teleport which is seventh level =DC (8+spell level) 15. Tara rolled 14.
Lucky's Opportunity Attack: Attack: 23 Damage: 6
Tara grits her teeth as the bee's stinger skates off the dragon's scales woven into her dress, and sends a bolt of blue and gold energy at the queen.
Attack: 22 Damage: 12 and adv on next attack roll against her on hit.
Stella Diamant, Human Rogue 17 (Swashbuckler), The Exploits of Misfit Company
Kat, Medtech, Cyberpunk: Red
Shi, Changeling Bard 4 (College of Spirits), Tyrant's Grasp
Dani, Human Artificer 9 (Armorer), Skulls and Starships
DM, Project Point (Teams Scimitar and Longsword)
Everything Else!
The queen attempts to fly away as the group swings after her. Lucky find purchase under her wing, the queen begins t slowly fly away before A shimmering bolt of energy slams into it as Tara’s bolt rips the body in two.
(lucky, Jax, and Virnen can still act against the 6 drones)
Jax would quickly spin around towards the drones as the queen drops. He would draw his revolver once again and fire off another round of shots from his arcane empowered weapon.
Attack: 23 Damage: 12
Virnen will quickly refresh his Hunter's Mark on one of the drones not targeted by Jax and fire an arrow at it.
Attack: 10 Damage: 11
HM Bonus Damage: 2
Fortune's Founders - An Eberron Tale: Virnen Palaris, Wood Elf Ranger (2)
Lucky picks a drone at random and stabs at it with his rapier:
Attack: 15 Damage: 8
Woah, this crappy day is really turning around!
With pinpoint accuracy the group targets and takes down three of the drones.
It is at this time you look over to the collapsed body of the queen. The body begins to emit an orange cloud of dank pungent mist. It quickly fills through the chamber and out of the tunnels. It smells of honey and spoiled milk.
A moment of hesitation and dread come over the party as they do not know how the hive will act without its queen. Looking back to the three remaining drones you see that they become enraged.
The buzzing gets louder and their fuzz on their thorax was fluff out. As the madly bolt to attack..... each other. The three drones collide into a ball of stinging masses until it falls to the ground, dead. You hear a distant roar from the tunnels, it’s getting louder and louder as the crazed swarm is heading to fill the chamber. It seems that without a Queen, a battle royal has begun to elect the new bee royalty. You have a few quick moments until that roaring buzz is consuming every inch of the chamber.
Jax would race towards the queen... and with his rapier-like arm blade, he would attempt to quickly cut the silk sac from the bottom of the large bee.
Jax’s survival check: 12
Jax begins cutting the sac out, but is having difficulty achieving the proper angle. He is having to cut the skin around it in order to keep the sac intact, it’s taking him some time to get this done.
The buzzing continues to grow...
Let's get this done and get the Hells out of here! Lucky gives his last bardic inspiration to Jax, and then runs over to try to help as much as he can with the cutting and the gross stuff.
(Jax can now roll again with option to add inspiration)
Jax would continue to quickly carve at the bee... using a laser like focus to extract the sack as quickly and carfully as possible with the help of his companion.
survival 10 plus 6 inspiration if needed.
Tara gulps. "We need to hurry." She whispers something under her breath while she waits for the pair to finish getting out the queen's silk sack.
Stella Diamant, Human Rogue 17 (Swashbuckler), The Exploits of Misfit Company
Kat, Medtech, Cyberpunk: Red
Shi, Changeling Bard 4 (College of Spirits), Tyrant's Grasp
Dani, Human Artificer 9 (Armorer), Skulls and Starships
DM, Project Point (Teams Scimitar and Longsword)
Everything Else!
Virnen will hold an arrow at ready for any drone that comes close. "Any ideas on how we get out of here?"
Fortune's Founders - An Eberron Tale: Virnen Palaris, Wood Elf Ranger (2)
With Lucky’s assistance(keep your inspiration) Jax is able to cut through the right spots and take the silk sac as it drips with gore and blood.
Looking around the large room you can see tunnels sporadically lining the walls all the way up into the darkness pas your dark vision allow. The amber glowing Khyber crystal in the center of the chamber.
The humming of bee wings growing louder. As far as you can tell from your current vantage point. Nothing indicates a direct exit away.
Tara, that crystal looks - powerful. You know something about them. Can it do anything to help us? Lucky looks around, frantically, not quite panicking yet but not too far from it.
Tara snaps out of her loop of worry and nods. "I-ah-maybe. With Ourelonastrix's blessing. Let's see what I can learn. It really is quite impressive, indeed the last time one of its size was found..." She quickly begins examining the crystal, her fear momentarily forgotten in face of her fascination with the dragonshard.
Arcana: 23
Stella Diamant, Human Rogue 17 (Swashbuckler), The Exploits of Misfit Company
Kat, Medtech, Cyberpunk: Red
Shi, Changeling Bard 4 (College of Spirits), Tyrant's Grasp
Dani, Human Artificer 9 (Armorer), Skulls and Starships
DM, Project Point (Teams Scimitar and Longsword)
Everything Else!
The gang rushes forward, sliding down the slopes wall to the floor. sprinting to the center spot illuminated by the massive crystal jutting out of the floor. Tara places her hand on it as she begins to inspect and recollect her knowledge.
Tara:
You touch the gem. For everything that you have seen in this underground volcanic landscape, it’s cold to the touch. You feel the power resonating, the vibration and aura. You feel your own energy raise as your heart beat increases, getting louder... faster. You feel your heart in your chest, the beating in your face just as it crescendos!
.
The group sees Tara touch the crystal and as she does her eyes go white and she becomes unresponsive. Still standing holding onto the crystal. Her mouth muttering words in draconic.
The swarm of bees begin filling into the room. Pure mayhem in seconds as the bodies of the warring insects roll like a wave crashing towards the group. not directly looking to attack the party, but sure to be within the crossfires
Tara:
An energy wave erupts from your entire person, only you can see or feel. Time seems to have come to a standstill. Chaos frozen in place. Looking to your new friends in a stasis. You recall everything you’ve ever been taught about Khyber crystals - (Everything you know in real life, just treat them as Siberys dragon shards as I have seemed to switch them) but you also have heard tales of shards this giant being able to contain unfathomable power of someone were to try and harness it. Being able to change reality around the wielder. These stories often spoke of great cost and consequences if things went poorly or mismanaged.
(If Tara would want to try and harness the power of the crystal she may, roll a d20 and add your spell casting modifier. State what effect she would try to cause. It can be any level spell or other effect she can think of. There is a sliding scale of success and failure.)
Party, please let Tara act first.
Tara gazes around, eyes wide. Thoughts and possibilities tumble through her head. So many choices! Bee destruction, distress calls, invisibility. Her mind shies away from another potential use...resurrection. She only had one shot at this, better to save the people here now then to rip Risi from Dolurrh. Tara takes a deep breath and makes her decision. "Ourelonastrix, grant me your strength, and should I fail, let your wings bear me to Dolurrh."
DM:
Tara would like to teleport the group to the location where they first separated from the lizardfolk.
Check: 10
If I can add guidance, I would like to do so: 4
Stella Diamant, Human Rogue 17 (Swashbuckler), The Exploits of Misfit Company
Kat, Medtech, Cyberpunk: Red
Shi, Changeling Bard 4 (College of Spirits), Tyrant's Grasp
Dani, Human Artificer 9 (Armorer), Skulls and Starships
DM, Project Point (Teams Scimitar and Longsword)
Everything Else!
From the groups perspective: The moment after Tara touches the stone and her eyes go white. A pulse of energy shockwaves out as you hear the crystal shatter. As everything goes white for a moment.
Tara used the teleport which is seventh level =DC (8+spell level) 15. Tara rolled 14.
Teleport roll: 85 ..... lol just barely!