Auriel, who had started leading the boat again downriver, is caught completely off guard when Hex attacks. He quickly draws his halberd and looks in the same direction as the ranger, trying to discern what is attacking them.
The creature evades the vines grasping for it, to Hex's dismay. A long, snaking tongue suddenly darts out from the wall of grass. A glimpse of a Large amphibian head is the only warning before the tongue wraps around Carlthuzad and yanks him from the boat. The dwarf is dragged through the thick grass briefly, restrained and grappled as the poison secreted by the creature's tongue nearly causes him to pass out.
Round 2 Order: Players <===== Enemy
Placement: Carlthuzad is being dragged away by the creature, currently 10 feet away from the keelboat.
Sylyra also jumps as Hex without warning casts a spell into the grass at the side of the keelboat. He scowls and is about to ask her what she's doing when the tongue and then head make their appearance. He watches with alarm as the tongue wraps around the dwarf and then pulls him from the boat in one swift motion. Smiling, the elf comments, "Nice of him to provide a distraction. Now, let's get out of here in case there's a mate."
“Mmmmffffghhh. Mfffffrrrh! Help!” Carl manages to get out, as he’s dragged away, feeling his life pass before his eyes. He hears a voice in his head.. “Is this what is to become of you? A meal, for a toad?” And then an eerie, cackling laughter in his head as he squirms.
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Auriel glares at Sylyra. While he had already seen that the druid wasn't the nicest person around, he didn't expect that kind of behaviour. He just says:
- No one gets left behind.
Then he grabs one of his javelins and throws it at the creature.
Attack: 14. Damage: 9
Insight check on Sylyra (to see if he discerns he's failing on purpose): 12.
It's clear Sylyra wanted to keep going and is being half-hearted in his participation in trying to rescue Carl. He's watching Uragum and Hex more than the creature. That's all you can get from this in-battle insight check.
Carl feels himself being pulled backwards, oblivious to anything else happening. Inexplicably he feels a little stronger, he feels the effects of the healing, but he doesn’t know where that came from. He tries his best to squirm free, to wriggle and avoid the grasp of this creature’s tongue, but he is not really the wriggling type. He struggles and grunts with not much success, the perfect morsel for a giant toad. “Halp…. Mmmmffpphh!” is all that you hear as he struggles..
OOC: Botting Uragum for this round with frostbite.
Auriel's javelin lands in the creature's side, but Hex's arrow is less accurate. Carlthuzad's struggle continues, but the tongue of the Large creature reels him in. Sylyra's burst of healing comes just in time, as the dwarf is drawn fully into the maw of the awaiting giant toad. Uragum's frostbite grows on the creature, but Carlthuzad is swallowed whole, blinded to the world around him and restrained, feeling only the tumbling movement of the toad as it leaps into a nearby waterway, hopping away with him inside.
Sylyra, looking to leave the distracted toad behind, nearly suffers the same fate as a second tongue and amphibian maw emerge from the wall of grass on the opposite side of the river. The elf is able to pull back from the attack, rocking the boat hard and splashing marsh water onto the deck as it adjusts to the shifting weight.
Round 3 Order: Players <===== Giant Toads
Placement: Carlthuzad is in the stomach of one giant toad, currently 50 feet away from the keelboat. A second giant toad is engaged in melee combat with Sylyra.
Health: The giant toad that swallowed Carlthuzad is lightly wounded.
OOC: Worth noting that Carlthuzad is no longer considered grappled. He can no longer use an action to attempt to escape, but is still able to act with the restrictions of the restrained and blinded conditions.
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OOC: Now, I realize why the name Auriel seemed peculiar to me.
"Auril's kiss!" Sylyra spits as the second toad makes its appearance. The huge tongue darts out at the elf, and he almost suffers the same fate as Carl. As he steadies himself on the rocking boat, he glares at the nearby toad and then chances a look over his shoulder at the one escaping. Baring his teeth in anger, Sylyra waves his staff and grunts the words to call forth another beast, this one with wings. The swamp bird appears 10 feet up in the air, pieced together by magic and bits of nature. "Kill that fleeing frog and then return!" Sylyra yells at his creation. He then grabs his staff with both hands, and black, spectral flames race in both directions, engulfing the weapon.
Hex huffs in frustration as her arrow misses. She moves to jump out into the water just as the second toad appears, stopping her in her tracks. With another huff and a step back, she aims her bow high and continues to shoot at the toad with Carl.
As Carl is struggling to remain calm inside the belly of the toad, he thinks fast about anything he can do to save his life at this point. He manages to put his thumbs together and pinkies pointed outward, he thinks to himself “Time to give him heartburn, maybe he’ll think twice about keeping me in his belly!” He manages with effort to get his fingers together and eyes closed he concentrates, fire begins to erupt from his fingertips.
Carl casts burning hands, causing 13 points of fire damage. He wiggles even harder, trying to get out!
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Auriel curses when he sees Carl is swallowed by the giant toad. And another toad appears and goes straight for Sylyra. Well, at least that means the elf is going to fully participate in the fight now. He and Uragum can fight this new creature while he tries to help Carl from a better position.
So he grabs his holy symbol and mutters a few words. Suddenly the symbol starts shining with a golden light and a silvery mist surrounds the eladrin, who then disappears in the blink of an eye and appears 30 feet away from the boat, and closer to the toad that has swallowed the warlock. Walking with difficulty due to all the water and the plants that want to get a grip of his boots, he approaches the creature and swings the halberd at it, aiming at its head and trying not to hurt Carl in the process.
- Sorry, friend. Dwarf was never on the menu!
BA Misty Step
Use the rest of the movement to get 5 feet away from the creature.
Attack with the halberd (10 feet reach). To hit: Nat 20! For a total of 26. Damage: 15
OOC: Botting Uragum for this round with another frostbite.
The boat rocks again when Sylyra dodges the incoming tongue a second time; Hex's arrow sails wide of its target, thrown by the shifting surface beneath her feet. Uragum tries to slow down the approach of the giant toad, but the creature resists his frosty magic. Sylyra's summoned bird flies past Auriel as he dissipates into mist, reappearing behind the creature as it flies by the fleeing giant toad. The toad's maw opens wide when the bird's beak jabs down into its back, and curiously, it responds to Auriel's line by belching flame. The stunned creature is an easy target for the Eladrin's halberd, and its head falls into the shallows of the swamp. Carlthuzad looks back at Auriel through the open hole in the giant toad's neck, covered in acidic stomach bile and the brackish water quickly filling the creature's gullet.
Round 4 Order: Players <===== Giant Toads
Placement: The remaining giant toad is engaged in melee combat with Sylyra. Auriel is 45 feet away. Carlthuzad and Sylyra's summoned beast are 50 feet away.
Health: Carlthuzad is lightly wounded.
OOC: Carlthuzad is able to escape from the giant toad's corpse by using 5 feet of movement (he will emerge prone).
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Sylyra hisses something in Sylvan as he swings his magicked staff at the remaining toad's huge head.
Shillelagh Attack: 26 Damage: 8
The swamp bird again honks as it returns to hover above Sylyra, alerting the elf to the first toad's demise. As Sylyra issues no command, the bird prepares to dodge any danger aimed at it.
Carlthuzad stands and looks around, briefly shaking the goo off of himself. He turns and looks to see after clearing his eyes a second toad, battling with Sylyra. After experiencing the toad from the inside-out, he wishes that on no one - after standing, he moves to where he can see the toad and focuses his energy, gripping his battle axe and a mote of force shoots forward toward the toad. He shivers in fright and his skin chafes, he only croaks out “Begone, foul beast!”
Eldritch blast : 17 to hit, for 4 points of force damage.
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A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Seeing Carlthuzad safe, Auriel just rushes back to the boat, though it looks like the party is beating the other toad badly and he won't make in time to do another hit.
Auriel, who had started leading the boat again downriver, is caught completely off guard when Hex attacks. He quickly draws his halberd and looks in the same direction as the ranger, trying to discern what is attacking them.
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The creature evades the vines grasping for it, to Hex's dismay. A long, snaking tongue suddenly darts out from the wall of grass. A glimpse of a Large amphibian head is the only warning before the tongue wraps around Carlthuzad and yanks him from the boat. The dwarf is dragged through the thick grass briefly, restrained and grappled as the poison secreted by the creature's tongue nearly causes him to pass out.
Round 2 Order:
Players <=====
Enemy
Placement:
Carlthuzad is being dragged away by the creature, currently 10 feet away from the keelboat.
Health:
Carlthuzad is grievously wounded, restrained and grappled.
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Sylyra also jumps as Hex without warning casts a spell into the grass at the side of the keelboat. He scowls and is about to ask her what she's doing when the tongue and then head make their appearance. He watches with alarm as the tongue wraps around the dwarf and then pulls him from the boat in one swift motion. Smiling, the elf comments, "Nice of him to provide a distraction. Now, let's get out of here in case there's a mate."
"No, Carl!" Hex shoots Sylyra a disapproving look before pulling out her bow and taking a shot at the creature.
(She'll hold her Attack until after everyone else has had their turn to potentially proc Colossus Slayer.)
Action: Longbow Attack - 18 Damage - 6 Colossus Slayer (If damaged): 6
“Mmmmffffghhh. Mfffffrrrh! Help!” Carl manages to get out, as he’s dragged away, feeling his life pass before his eyes. He hears a voice in his head.. “Is this what is to become of you? A meal, for a toad?” And then an eerie, cackling laughter in his head as he squirms.
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Sylyra clucks his tongue and wrinkles his nose at Hex before speaking a few words in Druidic. Carl feels a little life magically returned to him.
healing word: 9
The druid then twirls his hand, and a flame appears above the palm. He tosses the flame in the creature's direction, but deliberately misses.
Auriel glares at Sylyra. While he had already seen that the druid wasn't the nicest person around, he didn't expect that kind of behaviour. He just says:
- No one gets left behind.
Then he grabs one of his javelins and throws it at the creature.
Attack: 14. Damage: 9
Insight check on Sylyra (to see if he discerns he's failing on purpose): 12.
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For Auriel:
It's clear Sylyra wanted to keep going and is being half-hearted in his participation in trying to rescue Carl. He's watching Uragum and Hex more than the creature. That's all you can get from this in-battle insight check.
Carl feels himself being pulled backwards, oblivious to anything else happening. Inexplicably he feels a little stronger, he feels the effects of the healing, but he doesn’t know where that came from. He tries his best to squirm free, to wriggle and avoid the grasp of this creature’s tongue, but he is not really the wriggling type. He struggles and grunts with not much success, the perfect morsel for a giant toad. “Halp…. Mmmmffpphh!” is all that you hear as he struggles..
Acrobatics check to break grapple : 7
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
OOC: Botting Uragum for this round with frostbite.
Auriel's javelin lands in the creature's side, but Hex's arrow is less accurate. Carlthuzad's struggle continues, but the tongue of the Large creature reels him in. Sylyra's burst of healing comes just in time, as the dwarf is drawn fully into the maw of the awaiting giant toad. Uragum's frostbite grows on the creature, but Carlthuzad is swallowed whole, blinded to the world around him and restrained, feeling only the tumbling movement of the toad as it leaps into a nearby waterway, hopping away with him inside.
Sylyra, looking to leave the distracted toad behind, nearly suffers the same fate as a second tongue and amphibian maw emerge from the wall of grass on the opposite side of the river. The elf is able to pull back from the attack, rocking the boat hard and splashing marsh water onto the deck as it adjusts to the shifting weight.
Round 3 Order:
Players <=====
Giant Toads
Placement:
Carlthuzad is in the stomach of one giant toad, currently 50 feet away from the keelboat.
A second giant toad is engaged in melee combat with Sylyra.
Health:
The giant toad that swallowed Carlthuzad is lightly wounded.
Carlthuzad is lightly wounded, blinded and restrained.
OOC: Worth noting that Carlthuzad is no longer considered grappled. He can no longer use an action to attempt to escape, but is still able to act with the restrictions of the restrained and blinded conditions.
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OOC: Now, I realize why the name Auriel seemed peculiar to me.
"Auril's kiss!" Sylyra spits as the second toad makes its appearance. The huge tongue darts out at the elf, and he almost suffers the same fate as Carl. As he steadies himself on the rocking boat, he glares at the nearby toad and then chances a look over his shoulder at the one escaping. Baring his teeth in anger, Sylyra waves his staff and grunts the words to call forth another beast, this one with wings. The swamp bird appears 10 feet up in the air, pieced together by magic and bits of nature. "Kill that fleeing frog and then return!" Sylyra yells at his creation. He then grabs his staff with both hands, and black, spectral flames race in both directions, engulfing the weapon.
Action: summon beast: air (concentrating)
Bonus: shillelagh
The swamp bird squawks as it flaps, aiming for Carl's captor. The bird catches up, attacks the frog, then flies five feet up.
Maul Attack: 13 Damage: 7
Hex huffs in frustration as her arrow misses. She moves to jump out into the water just as the second toad appears, stopping her in her tracks. With another huff and a step back, she aims her bow high and continues to shoot at the toad with Carl.
Action: Longbow Attack - 10 Damage - 8 piercing Colossus Slayer: 2 piercing
As Carl is struggling to remain calm inside the belly of the toad, he thinks fast about anything he can do to save his life at this point. He manages to put his thumbs together and pinkies pointed outward, he thinks to himself “Time to give him heartburn, maybe he’ll think twice about keeping me in his belly!” He manages with effort to get his fingers together and eyes closed he concentrates, fire begins to erupt from his fingertips.
Carl casts burning hands, causing 13 points of fire damage. He wiggles even harder, trying to get out!
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Auriel curses when he sees Carl is swallowed by the giant toad. And another toad appears and goes straight for Sylyra. Well, at least that means the elf is going to fully participate in the fight now. He and Uragum can fight this new creature while he tries to help Carl from a better position.
So he grabs his holy symbol and mutters a few words. Suddenly the symbol starts shining with a golden light and a silvery mist surrounds the eladrin, who then disappears in the blink of an eye and appears 30 feet away from the boat, and closer to the toad that has swallowed the warlock. Walking with difficulty due to all the water and the plants that want to get a grip of his boots, he approaches the creature and swings the halberd at it, aiming at its head and trying not to hurt Carl in the process.
- Sorry, friend. Dwarf was never on the menu!
BA Misty Step
Use the rest of the movement to get 5 feet away from the creature.
Attack with the halberd (10 feet reach). To hit: Nat 20! For a total of 26. Damage: 15
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OOC: Botting Uragum for this round with another frostbite.
The boat rocks again when Sylyra dodges the incoming tongue a second time; Hex's arrow sails wide of its target, thrown by the shifting surface beneath her feet. Uragum tries to slow down the approach of the giant toad, but the creature resists his frosty magic. Sylyra's summoned bird flies past Auriel as he dissipates into mist, reappearing behind the creature as it flies by the fleeing giant toad. The toad's maw opens wide when the bird's beak jabs down into its back, and curiously, it responds to Auriel's line by belching flame. The stunned creature is an easy target for the Eladrin's halberd, and its head falls into the shallows of the swamp. Carlthuzad looks back at Auriel through the open hole in the giant toad's neck, covered in acidic stomach bile and the brackish water quickly filling the creature's gullet.
Round 4 Order:
Players <=====
Giant Toads
Placement:
The remaining giant toad is engaged in melee combat with Sylyra.
Auriel is 45 feet away.
Carlthuzad and Sylyra's summoned beast are 50 feet away.
Health:
Carlthuzad is lightly wounded.
OOC: Carlthuzad is able to escape from the giant toad's corpse by using 5 feet of movement (he will emerge prone).
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With the first toad dead, Hex immediately turns her attention to the second one and takes a shot.
Action: Longbow Attack - 27 Damage - 5 Colossus Slayer: 4
(Aye FINALLY A HIT)
Critical Damage: 7 + Colossus Slayer: 7
Sylyra hisses something in Sylvan as he swings his magicked staff at the remaining toad's huge head.
Shillelagh Attack: 26 Damage: 8
The swamp bird again honks as it returns to hover above Sylyra, alerting the elf to the first toad's demise. As Sylyra issues no command, the bird prepares to dodge any danger aimed at it.
Carlthuzad stands and looks around, briefly shaking the goo off of himself. He turns and looks to see after clearing his eyes a second toad, battling with Sylyra. After experiencing the toad from the inside-out, he wishes that on no one - after standing, he moves to where he can see the toad and focuses his energy, gripping his battle axe and a mote of force shoots forward toward the toad. He shivers in fright and his skin chafes, he only croaks out “Begone, foul beast!”
Eldritch blast : 17 to hit, for 4 points of force damage.
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Seeing Carlthuzad safe, Auriel just rushes back to the boat, though it looks like the party is beating the other toad badly and he won't make in time to do another hit.
(Auriel's turn is movement + dash)
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