Lero silently makes his way towards the bodies, cautious of a trap. He checks the pulse on both elves (Medicine 7) and whispers, "They appear to have been killed about an hour or so ago." He closes the eyes of one of the bodies and whispers, "May the aether receive you," before cutting a pouch from one of them and dumping the contents into his own. He looks up at Arial as she approaches, "They've made it a point to collect the bodies," he whispers, "They may be on their way back down here for these two."
While Lero checks the bodies for life signs, and valuables, Kraithee approach them and looking at the bodies ask Flux: Flux, what do you think was the weapon, natural or made, used to kill this elves? We need to start understanding what we are dealing with. (Offers to Help in an Investigation check)
Turning to Azi: Azi, check the basin in those threes to see if the elves hid something before dying.
Azi nods and will head over to where flux pointed out to him. He will give a quick look around for anything interesting (Perception?) but is mostly keeping an eye out to ensure we are not ambushed.
Buama let's the others do the investigation and checking of the area around the bodies. She finds a spot amongst some plants where she has a good view up and down the path. Her thunder cannon is ready, but she only has the glow of plants to help her see anything.
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Arial looks around, whispering to Lero, "Strange. These are the first bodies we've found, and it looks like they've been dead for over an hour. Maybe they missed these ones while collecting corpses. I guess we got a coin purse out of it though." She winks at Lero, looking into the basin with Azi. The basin is large, roughly 10 feet in diameter, but fairly shallow at about 2 feet deep. Searching through the outer edges, you find nothing.
Examining the wounds on the bodies, it looks like the bones were not only shattered in several locations from tremendous pressure, but large chunks of flesh are missing too, similar to a large maw having bitten and ripped off the flesh of these poor elves. Several large indents in the ground suggest that something large, possible several, slaughtered the elves.
As the party examines the bodies and the basin, three grotesque monsters ambush you from the trees above, crashing down onto the ground and attacking the party. Similar in appearance to giant apes, these aetherbeasts have two heads, each one with horrible maws, lined with fangs and tusks which jut out from the creature's mouths. They eyes and mouth are aglow with an orange aether, as the aether seems to break through parts of their skin, as if trying to escape. Screaming, they attack Azi, Lero, and Duncan, trying to bite them with their mouths.
Azi lets out a scream as the beast tears into his back. He turns and draws his sword in a fluid motion but just then the beast takes another chunk out of his flesh, causing him to swing high. Being in a bad spot Azi drops to a defensive position in hopes to live through this day.
Ki point used to activate patient defense (disadvantage to all attack roles made to hit Azi.)
The huge aether beast nearly lands atop Lero from the trees above. One of the heads bites down on his shoulder as it lands and Lero rolls away avoiding the second head's bite. When he rises, he has his venom dagger in hand, pulsing a sickly green color, and jabs it in the back of one of the beast's heads (41 Damage). He then tumbles away from the beast, landing 20 feet NW of it.
Seeing itself being surrounded, Kraithee extends its arm pointing it to The creature attacked by Arial and Lero and shoots a ray of pure aether at it. Cast Eldritch Blast 1d20+5=17 to hit; 1d10 =1 force damage at D1.
Seeing that the Aether didn't leave his body, Kraithee joins itself with the Aether and materializes next to Namura and Buama (south of Namura, East of Buama). OOC: Cast Misty Step as bonus action.
With all the screaming someone was sure to hear and Azi sure didn't look good, but she was not in a position to even get near him to help. Instead she stepped back five feet on the path still giving her a clear shot at two of them. She aims at the one ((DA2)) that is in the middle of the pack, sets the gun to had a thunder blast, and fires. BOOM! She squeals excitedly because it actually hit and she could see it put a decent hole in him where the ammo slug buried itself in its flesh. ((3d6+5 = (4+5+2)+5 = 16))
Of course, if the screaming hadn't alerted anyone, that sure had. Time to fight or die. Her adrenaline kicked up a notch as she thought, "You really aren't in the lab anymore, Buama." Even the crash and gremlins hadn't been that bad. She had recuperated from that by doing what she was best at. Now to keep her aim true on all her shots.
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Namura spun forward with both short swords out, but neither one was able to pierce through the aetherbeast's hide. (Two misses on D3) As handy as her bow had been earlier, her short swords felt ten times better in her hands.
Flux sighs. They should have thought this was a trap. They quickly pulled a flask out of their satchel, and fling it at the flank of the beast before them. A successful hit, the flask shattered and the acid within covers it, dealing 5 damage.
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As Duncan leashed out with his sword, the blade did nothing to penetrate monterious hide. (Miss 11) Looking outward he is he'd he had taken the time to further stregthn his defenses.
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Arial's engages the aetherbeast furiously, striking at it with her daggers. They all landed, puncturing the creature's hide through the cracks of exposed aether. "Die you tanar'ri`jaless!" She screams, dropping all pretensions that the party's location hasn't been discovered yet. The aetherbeasts retaliate, DA1 and DA3 beating themselves into a frenzy, as the aether seeping through their skin blows brightly with new cracks forming. DA1 attacks Arial, biting viciously into her left arm and neck (critical hit), nearly killing her on the stop. Using what energy she has left, she moves out of range (Disengage), pulls out her javelin and throws it at the beast, piercing its hide with crackling lightning energy. DA3 bites Azi in the shoulder, and with the loss of blood being too great, he drops unconscious, swinging back, the other head bites Namura in the wrist, drawing a large amount of blood. DA2, furious at Buama for punching a hole through it, charges past Flux and Ducan. The movement was too quick, as both miss the moment to strike in retaliation. Bearing down on Buama, both heads lunge at her and connect on both her shoulders.
Status Tracker:
DA1: 67 damage taken
DA2: 24 damage taken
DA3: 9 damage taken
Arial: 53 damage taken
Azi: 25 damage taken; Unconscious
Buama: 21 damage taken
Duncan: 9 damage taken
Flux: 0 damage taken
Kraithee: 0 damage taken
Lero: 11 damage taken
Namura: 16 damage taken
Friendly reminder that attacks on DA1 and DA3 have advantage due to their Reckless ability. Also, you've pinned the AC down to a 15, and you know they have resistance to Cold and Lightning, and immunity to Poison.
Assessing the scene, Lero starts to get the feeling that they're in over their heads, "Focus on one at a time! If you need to flee, you know where to go!" With that, he flips around, rapier in hand, until he's flanking his beast (#1) from the side. The reddish orange aether seeps through its body as he plunges his rapier into the beast's side and drives the rapier hilt-deep. For good measure he gives it a twist before withdrawing it and turning and sprinting to the beast (#3) that knocked out Azi.
"Someone get him up!" He slashes at the back of the beast with his dagger, but it fails to penetrate its thick skin. He then continues his movement to end up fifteen feet away from the beast, taking cover behind the tree by the pool.
The ranger had to grit her teeth to prevent herself from crying out in pain, as the aetherbeast left her arm bloody. Although she doubted it would matter, as she was sure their position had already been given away. Angry at the blasted thing for managing to injure her, she was quick to retaliate. Both of Namura's shortswords made contact this time, slicing deep lines of glowing red across the beast's chest. (26 damage total.)
As Duncan missed his attack he saw the beast rush forth at Buama! No, I will not let this happen again! Channeling all his psionic energy, he focused all his power on the 2 headed creature. With a shout he thrust his telekinetic blow out in an attempt to catch the beast. Unaware of the attack, the beast was hit in the side and sending it tumbling 15 ft. away. Landing prone on the ground. Duncan stood taking in deep breaths. To push a beast of that size required ample amount of energy but it was enough for now.
Seeing Azi fall to the beasts restless attacks, Kraithee can't shake the feeling that it is its fault because Azi only went to the basin at its request.
When Duncan attacks the creature that was in front of Kraithee and Buama, it breathes a sigh of relieve and starts accumulating Aether in its veins, sensing it course through its body until reaching its finger tips and pointing both hands to the creature now away and prone Kraithee releases all the Aether it gathered in it.
After the explosion of Aether darts, Kraithee moves to stand between Arial and where Lero was at the start of the round.
Cast 1st level Magic Missile, spend 2 sorcery points for quicken spell (non left) and cast 2nd level Magic Missile at D2 7d4+7 = 23 force damage (only one 2nd level slot left).
Flux steps forward towards the second beast, and pulls another flask of alchemical acid from their satchel, throwing it at the beast, who manages to roll out of the way. Flux then mutters something in a long lost tongue under their breath.
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DA2, furious at being knocked prone, goes into a rage, leaping up from to ground as the aether cracks intensify in color. It charges Buama, leaping into the air with mouths open and fangs beared. Just before ripping her to shreds, two brightly colored blasts of blue aether stream from just behind Buama's shoulder, hitting both heads square in the faces and stopping the beasts forward momentum as it crashes to the ground in front of Buama. The wisps of skin and flesh begin to rise into the air, as the red aether gradually shifts colors into blue while it dissipates up into the sky. Turning, you see bronze-skinned elf with braided hair, wearing leather armor studded with a shining metal. In his hands are two beautiful, intricately carved guns. aether tubes run from the backs of the guns to a small portable ASD on his back. As he speaks, you recognize the thick accent (think French) as the voice you heard from the thopter. "It looks like you pirates are a little lost, eh?"Arial turns to the voice, "Who in aether are you? Thanks for the aid." Charging forward to intercept DA3 and his attacks on Namura, several streams of red aether blast from the southwest corner, two of them striking Arial in the back as she falls to the ground, unconscious. One streams for Buama, but misses and hits the tree.
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"Look alive!" Lero shouts as he charges forward to the last remaining beast, "We have company!" He ducks down low stabbing his Rapier into the beast's lower back. As he passes the beast he rises and lashes out with his dagger, driving the point into the side of one of it's heads. (21 Damage) He grins at Namura as he passes her and sets his sights on the newcomers. (Ends his turn behind Namura)
Lero silently makes his way towards the bodies, cautious of a trap. He checks the pulse on both elves (Medicine 7) and whispers, "They appear to have been killed about an hour or so ago." He closes the eyes of one of the bodies and whispers, "May the aether receive you," before cutting a pouch from one of them and dumping the contents into his own. He looks up at Arial as she approaches, "They've made it a point to collect the bodies," he whispers, "They may be on their way back down here for these two."
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While Lero checks the bodies for life signs, and valuables, Kraithee approach them and looking at the bodies ask Flux: Flux, what do you think was the weapon, natural or made, used to kill this elves? We need to start understanding what we are dealing with. (Offers to Help in an Investigation check)
Turning to Azi: Azi, check the basin in those threes to see if the elves hid something before dying.
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Azi nods and will head over to where flux pointed out to him. He will give a quick look around for anything interesting (Perception?) but is mostly keeping an eye out to ensure we are not ambushed.
Perception : 21
Buama let's the others do the investigation and checking of the area around the bodies. She finds a spot amongst some plants where she has a good view up and down the path. Her thunder cannon is ready, but she only has the glow of plants to help her see anything.
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Arial looks around, whispering to Lero, "Strange. These are the first bodies we've found, and it looks like they've been dead for over an hour. Maybe they missed these ones while collecting corpses. I guess we got a coin purse out of it though." She winks at Lero, looking into the basin with Azi. The basin is large, roughly 10 feet in diameter, but fairly shallow at about 2 feet deep. Searching through the outer edges, you find nothing.
Examining the wounds on the bodies, it looks like the bones were not only shattered in several locations from tremendous pressure, but large chunks of flesh are missing too, similar to a large maw having bitten and ripped off the flesh of these poor elves. Several large indents in the ground suggest that something large, possible several, slaughtered the elves.
As the party examines the bodies and the basin, three grotesque monsters ambush you from the trees above, crashing down onto the ground and attacking the party. Similar in appearance to giant apes, these aetherbeasts have two heads, each one with horrible maws, lined with fangs and tusks which jut out from the creature's mouths. They eyes and mouth are aglow with an orange aether, as the aether seems to break through parts of their skin, as if trying to escape. Screaming, they attack Azi, Lero, and Duncan, trying to bite them with their mouths.
Status Tracker:
Initiative Order: Party, then Aetherbeasts
Azi lets out a scream as the beast tears into his back. He turns and draws his sword in a fluid motion but just then the beast takes another chunk out of his flesh, causing him to swing high. Being in a bad spot Azi drops to a defensive position in hopes to live through this day.
Ki point used to activate patient defense (disadvantage to all attack roles made to hit Azi.)
The huge aether beast nearly lands atop Lero from the trees above. One of the heads bites down on his shoulder as it lands and Lero rolls away avoiding the second head's bite. When he rises, he has his venom dagger in hand, pulsing a sickly green color, and jabs it in the back of one of the beast's heads (41 Damage). He then tumbles away from the beast, landing 20 feet NW of it.
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Seeing itself being surrounded, Kraithee extends its arm pointing it to The creature attacked by Arial and Lero and shoots a ray of pure aether at it. Cast Eldritch Blast 1d20+5=17 to hit; 1d10 =1 force damage at D1.
Seeing that the Aether didn't leave his body, Kraithee joins itself with the Aether and materializes next to Namura and Buama (south of Namura, East of Buama). OOC: Cast Misty Step as bonus action.
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With all the screaming someone was sure to hear and Azi sure didn't look good, but she was not in a position to even get near him to help. Instead she stepped back five feet on the path still giving her a clear shot at two of them. She aims at the one ((DA2)) that is in the middle of the pack, sets the gun to had a thunder blast, and fires. BOOM! She squeals excitedly because it actually hit and she could see it put a decent hole in him where the ammo slug buried itself in its flesh. ((
3d6+5= (4+5+2)+5 = 16))Of course, if the screaming hadn't alerted anyone, that sure had. Time to fight or die. Her adrenaline kicked up a notch as she thought, "You really aren't in the lab anymore, Buama." Even the crash and gremlins hadn't been that bad. She had recuperated from that by doing what she was best at. Now to keep her aim true on all her shots.
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Namura spun forward with both short swords out, but neither one was able to pierce through the aetherbeast's hide. (Two misses on D3) As handy as her bow had been earlier, her short swords felt ten times better in her hands.
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Flux sighs. They should have thought this was a trap. They quickly pulled a flask out of their satchel, and fling it at the flank of the beast before them. A successful hit, the flask shattered and the acid within covers it, dealing 5 damage.
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As Duncan leashed out with his sword, the blade did nothing to penetrate monterious hide. (Miss 11) Looking outward he is he'd he had taken the time to further stregthn his defenses.
Arial's engages the aetherbeast furiously, striking at it with her daggers. They all landed, puncturing the creature's hide through the cracks of exposed aether. "Die you tanar'ri`jaless!" She screams, dropping all pretensions that the party's location hasn't been discovered yet. The aetherbeasts retaliate, DA1 and DA3 beating themselves into a frenzy, as the aether seeping through their skin blows brightly with new cracks forming. DA1 attacks Arial, biting viciously into her left arm and neck (critical hit), nearly killing her on the stop. Using what energy she has left, she moves out of range (Disengage), pulls out her javelin and throws it at the beast, piercing its hide with crackling lightning energy. DA3 bites Azi in the shoulder, and with the loss of blood being too great, he drops unconscious, swinging back, the other head bites Namura in the wrist, drawing a large amount of blood. DA2, furious at Buama for punching a hole through it, charges past Flux and Ducan. The movement was too quick, as both miss the moment to strike in retaliation. Bearing down on Buama, both heads lunge at her and connect on both her shoulders.
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25 damage taken; UnconsciousFriendly reminder that attacks on DA1 and DA3 have advantage due to their Reckless ability. Also, you've pinned the AC down to a 15, and you know they have resistance to Cold and Lightning, and immunity to Poison.
Assessing the scene, Lero starts to get the feeling that they're in over their heads, "Focus on one at a time! If you need to flee, you know where to go!" With that, he flips around, rapier in hand, until he's flanking his beast (#1) from the side. The reddish orange aether seeps through its body as he plunges his rapier into the beast's side and drives the rapier hilt-deep. For good measure he gives it a twist before withdrawing it and turning and sprinting to the beast (#3) that knocked out Azi.
"Someone get him up!" He slashes at the back of the beast with his dagger, but it fails to penetrate its thick skin. He then continues his movement to end up fifteen feet away from the beast, taking cover behind the tree by the pool.
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The ranger had to grit her teeth to prevent herself from crying out in pain, as the aetherbeast left her arm bloody. Although she doubted it would matter, as she was sure their position had already been given away. Angry at the blasted thing for managing to injure her, she was quick to retaliate. Both of Namura's shortswords made contact this time, slicing deep lines of glowing red across the beast's chest. (26 damage total.)
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As Duncan missed his attack he saw the beast rush forth at Buama! No, I will not let this happen again! Channeling all his psionic energy, he focused all his power on the 2 headed creature. With a shout he thrust his telekinetic blow out in an attempt to catch the beast. Unaware of the attack, the beast was hit in the side and sending it tumbling 15 ft. away. Landing prone on the ground. Duncan stood taking in deep breaths. To push a beast of that size required ample amount of energy but it was enough for now.
(Spent 3 Psi Points, Push 10 damage on DA2)
Seeing Azi fall to the beasts restless attacks, Kraithee can't shake the feeling that it is its fault because Azi only went to the basin at its request.
When Duncan attacks the creature that was in front of Kraithee and Buama, it breathes a sigh of relieve and starts accumulating Aether in its veins, sensing it course through its body until reaching its finger tips and pointing both hands to the creature now away and prone Kraithee releases all the Aether it gathered in it.
After the explosion of Aether darts, Kraithee moves to stand between Arial and where Lero was at the start of the round.
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Flux steps forward towards the second beast, and pulls another flask of alchemical acid from their satchel, throwing it at the beast, who manages to roll out of the way. Flux then mutters something in a long lost tongue under their breath.
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DA2, furious at being knocked prone, goes into a rage, leaping up from to ground as the aether cracks intensify in color. It charges Buama, leaping into the air with mouths open and fangs beared. Just before ripping her to shreds, two brightly colored blasts of blue aether stream from just behind Buama's shoulder, hitting both heads square in the faces and stopping the beasts forward momentum as it crashes to the ground in front of Buama. The wisps of skin and flesh begin to rise into the air, as the red aether gradually shifts colors into blue while it dissipates up into the sky. Turning, you see bronze-skinned elf with braided hair, wearing leather armor studded with a shining metal. In his hands are two beautiful, intricately carved guns. aether tubes run from the backs of the guns to a small portable ASD on his back. As he speaks, you recognize the thick accent (think French) as the voice you heard from the thopter. "It looks like you pirates are a little lost, eh?" Arial turns to the voice, "Who in aether are you? Thanks for the aid." Charging forward to intercept DA3 and his attacks on Namura, several streams of red aether blast from the southwest corner, two of them striking Arial in the back as she falls to the ground, unconscious. One streams for Buama, but misses and hits the tree.
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"Look alive!" Lero shouts as he charges forward to the last remaining beast, "We have company!" He ducks down low stabbing his Rapier into the beast's lower back. As he passes the beast he rises and lashes out with his dagger, driving the point into the side of one of it's heads. (21 Damage) He grins at Namura as he passes her and sets his sights on the newcomers. (Ends his turn behind Namura)
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