As Morgana has now coated her wrists in the oil that’s spilled onto the floor, and quickly slips out of the bonds that tied her wrists up, she’s unaware or oblivious to the fact that her Duergar captors were preparing for any moves that she would take to escape.
The one that whispered into her ear just moments before stabs her right hand clean through and impales it into the ground! Shocking pain races through her arm and no sooner does that occur that another identical pain shoots uo her left arm! Both hands are now firmly impales into the cold stone floor. In moments, Morgana will bleed out and lose consciousness.
She hears the same wicked whispering into her ear, “First I’m going to **** ya till you beg me to come inside of you only to make the pain stop. Then I’m going to let my crew have a go at ya. Once you’re nothing more than a used shell, I’ll sell you off to the Drow. They’re always looking for a ***** to sacrifice. Hahahahaha!”
The hulking barbarian seems happy to see Gremryl back up even further as if it fuels his rage seeing his enemy in fear of his strength.
Grugg crouches slightly into a runners mark. Taking advantage of his Charger feat, he uses his action to Dash towards Gremryl and close the gap before giving any opportunity to dodge! Taking a Bonus Action to Attack, and having traveled in straight-line for more than 10ft, Grugg puts the entirety of his momentum into a lunging punch directly into the raised shield that Gremeyl braces behind! The force of this blow causes the shield to slam backwards into Gremryl’s face, dealing 6 points of damage and pushing the Dwarf back 5ft from Grugg. Kneeling down to pickup the deflected handaxe from the floor, Grugg prepares for Gremryl’s next move...
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Gremryl spits with conviction:
"Ye Goliaths are known for honor, that guard over there has none! I challenged him to a fight, not you. I'm Gremryl Stonebreak, Soldier of adbarr, Gutbuster of Brigade, Paladin of Moradin, and (hearing Morgana yelp) Friend of that young lass about to be hurt! Ye should know about that eh!"
I'll swing for his nuts and say a silent prayer to moradin
Attack: 26 Damage: 10 if it hits divine smite 15 and plus 1 fire damage (which ignites anything flammable)
2nd attack Attack: 16 Damage: 10 if hits divine smite 5 and plus 1 fire damage
my bonus action will be to shove him 5 feet away wiht shield master move and circle towards the morgana and them
Morgana enables quickend casting and casts mold earth on the patch of stone that has the oil on it and causes it to move towards her face thus coating the gag. She will instantaneously slip the gag and then cast fear on the guards.
In a desperate gamble to turn the tides of their situation, Morgana manages to free herself of both the bindings around her wrists and the gag that once held her voice. Now free to cast her spells requiring a verbal component, she casts Fear on the 6 Duergar Guards that were restraining her. What Morgana failed to discover during the long months with Hemeth, was the natural resistance to spells that the Grey Dwarves have in common. Having advantage on their saving throws, only 2 of the 6 Duergar Guards are afflicted and drop their weapons to turn around and run from the image of their worse nightmares appearing before them. If there was a silver lining in this tragic story, it would be that the unnaturally cruel Duergar that had whispered into Morgana's ear was one of the affected...and the horror he's now witnessed forever changes his life as he gives up the blade and becomes an armor smith and raises a wholesome foster family of orphaned children. But I digress...this is about Morgana's attempt at turning the battle to her favor yet uncharacteristically and perhaps a bit naively failing to appreciate her dire circumstances.
Duergar Gate Guard - "KILL THE GIRL! NOW!" he barks the order out and without hesitation, a volley of crossbow bolts assail Morgana.
Leon sees the impending flurry of crossbow bolts and attempts to duck down to avoid any stray bolts. While missing the few that come his way, one of them manages to find its way into the side of Leon's thigh, dealing 3 points of damage.
The hailstorm of arrows impales the young Tiefling, reducing her body to thin shreds of bone and bits of meat. The damage dealt is instantaneous and near fatal. The next actions demonstrate the cruelty with which Duergar treat their enemies and presumptively their slaves. Each of the remaining 4 Duergar Guards proceed to one by one hack of a single limb from Morgana's body until all that's left is a bloody stump of a once powerful sorceress.
Stool (telepathically to Morgana) - "MORGANA!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!" it cries out in heartbroken panic.
Gremryl catches sight of this just after launching his groin attack on the Goliath. It's almost too incredulous to believe what his eyes are showing him.
Morgana lies bleeding out and in a death-saving, unconscious state. If she isn't stabilized, her character will pass away.
As the hail of arrows arches overhead and before they impale morgana she will whisper to the group, "I can still save him...I can still save my friend...don't worry Grem...I'm coming Grem...grem...grem??...gr...…"
(this action takes place immediately prior to Morgana's)
Gremryl takes action against the Goliath Barbarian. Wielding his mighty "Benny" against Grugg, he takes a swing at his opponent. Coming down with great strength, the Barbarian raises his fist and deflects Gremryl's weapon with a deep grunt. Not resting for a second, Gremryl winds up again, and puts even more weight into the next attack, this time aimed right at Grugg's groin. It connects and Gremryl swears he hears a *CRACK* as the flames ignite Grugg's crotch for a little more pain inflicted. Finishing with a shield shove and maneuvering around his enemy combatant, Gremryl is now between Grugg and his companions. Looking back at them he witnesses a life-changing scene unfold.
With both hands, Grugg grabs for his man-bits and clenches his teeth so hard that one of them fractures. His blood boils as it courses through his veins...most of which appear to bulge out from his neck and oversized muscles.
Grugg rises to his feet, walks briskly a few paces towards his other handaxe and then turns towards Gremryl, who's attention remains on the now dying Morgana the Limbless.
Grugg - "No more chance, Dwarf. Grugg end you now." He says with a grimace of pain, still feeling the hurt of his crushed nutsack.
Charging Gremryl with in a maddening rage and an unrelenting flurry of attacks, Grugg the Goliath Barbarian attempts to finish this encounter with Gremryl the Paladin of Moradin swiftly in order to win his prize from the Gate Guard. Grugg's first attack is like something out of dreams that young Dwarven boys who want to grow up one day and be terribly powerful and become the stuff legends are born from. Deploying a backwards roundhouse across Gremryl's face with the heavy wooden hilt of his custom-engraved handaxe and critically damages the Paladin! Gremryl sees blackness flashing out his vision for a quick-second and takes a punishing 18 points of damage!
Grugg's second attack comes from his ridiculously massive legs. Using his momentum from the previous attack, Grugg lets go of his handaxe letting it fall, pivots on his heel, spinning around once and kicking out his left heel to perfectly strike the handaxe into the sternum of his target. It arrives with such force that even the heroic Gremryl Stonebreaker can't deny the unmistakable pain of a minor fracture somewhere on his ribcage. Gremryl takes 9 points of damage and grasps for air while clutching his chest.
Grugg - "WWOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRR!!!!!" his earthshaking roar drowns out all other noises in the area.
Again, using the momentum he's gathered from the first two strikes, Grugg leaps upwards into the air with arms fully extended and
FOR GREMRYL STONEBREAKER's EYES
Moradin's image comes into focus and a beautiful greenish-white flame radiates from around him. "The face...it looks strangely familiar, but surely this is Moradin's holy flames...so it must be him...but it's so familiar to me somehow..." thinks Gremryl.
Moradin - "Fear not, my child. This day is not yours, however my blessing is always with warriors of my light, like you. Let this moment refine you. Let it make you stronger! Lest it define you...and put you into a slavery that mere chains couldn't begin to compete with. There is holy purpose to your life. Follow it, my child."
comes down with his other handaxe, again with the heavy hilt, this one too engraved, although this one has a metal core inside of its wooden exterior. Unable to raise his shield in time, Grugg effectively pierces through Gremryl's defensive guard and lands his blow so mightily across the Dwarf's neck that it deals 8 points of damage.
It's too much for Gremryl to maintain, especially after witnessing the impalement and dismemberment of his comrade. He falls unconscious but is stable for now.
Grugg - "Mighty beard...powerful spirit. Grugg happy. Get stronger, Dwarf. Fight Grugg again." he says while towering over Gremryl. Then, picking up the Dwarf with his giant-like fists, Grugg hefts him up over his shoulders and begins to walk towards the human casually.
Leon - Roll a perception check as you see thunder thighs over there hulking towards you.
Leon yells into his gag as Grem falls to the ground, "Noooooooooooooo!!!! Get up Grem, your not done yet! Get up Grem!!! Get up old man!"
Leon quickly composes himself and thinks "Looks like I am in some kind of re-tard rodeo... Tymora and Dawnbringer give me your blessing. This has been a real son of a ***** day."
Leon thinks about a life of slavery or a life of death...
Dawnbringer (telepathically to Leon) - "Steady, Leon. Watch closely. Read through each muscle fiber to understand the intent of every action..."
Time seems to slow and Leon begins to notice the subtlest of details about the way Grugg saunters towards him. "There is no malice...and Gremryl still breathes...the rage has..." Leon thinks to himself.
Dawnbringer (telepathically to Leon) - "...subsided. You see it now. Quickly you learn, Leon." she says warmly. Leon envisions her smiling.
Leon look down at the ground. Telepathically to Stool, "I am sorry about Morgana. There is nothing that I could do. I will try and heal her if they let me."
Telepathically to Dawnbringer, "Thank you my lady. At least we have our lives. Maybe the prison has a cool date spot we can hangout in"
Telepathically to Grem, "Don't you die on me. You keep breathing. I will be there in a soon. One of us Stonebreakers has to win the beard challenge and I am not battling myself."
Grugg walks up and then stops just short of where Leon is forced down to his knees. The barbarian then heaves Gremryl up off his shoulders and roughly drops him into the stone flooring.
Grugg - “Take Dwarf.” He says to some of the Duerger Guards. Looking at the bloody mess that’s become of of the young Tiefling girl, Grugg turns to Leon, removed his gag, and asks, “Want girl live? Or leave body for bugs?”
As Morgana has now coated her wrists in the oil that’s spilled onto the floor, and quickly slips out of the bonds that tied her wrists up, she’s unaware or oblivious to the fact that her Duergar captors were preparing for any moves that she would take to escape.
The one that whispered into her ear just moments before stabs her right hand clean through and impales it into the ground! Shocking pain races through her arm and no sooner does that occur that another identical pain shoots uo her left arm! Both hands are now firmly impales into the cold stone floor. In moments, Morgana will bleed out and lose consciousness.
She hears the same wicked whispering into her ear, “First I’m going to **** ya till you beg me to come inside of you only to make the pain stop. Then I’m going to let my crew have a go at ya. Once you’re nothing more than a used shell, I’ll sell you off to the Drow. They’re always looking for a ***** to sacrifice. Hahahahaha!”
The hulking barbarian seems happy to see Gremryl back up even further as if it fuels his rage seeing his enemy in fear of his strength.
Grugg crouches slightly into a runners mark. Taking advantage of his Charger feat, he uses his action to Dash towards Gremryl and close the gap before giving any opportunity to dodge! Taking a Bonus Action to Attack, and having traveled in straight-line for more than 10ft, Grugg puts the entirety of his momentum into a lunging punch directly into the raised shield that Gremeyl braces behind! The force of this blow causes the shield to slam backwards into Gremryl’s face, dealing 6 points of damage and pushing the Dwarf back 5ft from Grugg. Kneeling down to pickup the deflected handaxe from the floor, Grugg prepares for Gremryl’s next move...
Duergar gate Guard - “Time’s ticking, Grugg!” he yells out from behind the city gates.
Grugg - “Yield and Grugg not rip beard from Dwarf face.” He says with ultimate conviction.
Gremryl spits with conviction:
"Ye Goliaths are known for honor, that guard over there has none! I challenged him to a fight, not you. I'm Gremryl Stonebreak, Soldier of adbarr, Gutbuster of Brigade, Paladin of Moradin, and (hearing Morgana yelp) Friend of that young lass about to be hurt! Ye should know about that eh!"
I'll swing for his nuts and say a silent prayer to moradin
Attack: 26 Damage: 10 if it hits divine smite 15 and plus 1 fire damage (which ignites anything flammable)
2nd attack Attack: 16 Damage: 10 if hits divine smite 5 and plus 1 fire damage
my bonus action will be to shove him 5 feet away wiht shield master move and circle towards the morgana and them
Morgana enables quickend casting and casts mold earth on the patch of stone that has the oil on it and causes it to move towards her face thus coating the gag. She will instantaneously slip the gag and then cast fear on the guards.
Morgana lies bleeding out and in a death-saving, unconscious state. If she isn't stabilized, her character will pass away.
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As the hail of arrows arches overhead and before they impale morgana she will whisper to the group, "I can still save him...I can still save my friend...don't worry Grem...I'm coming Grem...grem...grem??...gr...…"
Gremryl nailing having decimated the Goliath’s testicular sack and igniting it on fire. Can’t hear what morgana said but sees the hail of arrows....
”by moradins heart... NOOOOOO!!!!!”
Gremryl nailing having decimated the Goliath’s testicular sack and igniting it on fire. Can’t hear what morgana said but sees the hail of arrows....
”by moradins heart... NOOOOOO!!!!!”
(this action takes place immediately prior to Morgana's)
Leon yells into his gag as Grem falls to the ground, "Noooooooooooooo!!!! Get up Grem, your not done yet! Get up Grem!!! Get up old man!"
Leon quickly composes himself and thinks "Looks like I am in some kind of re-tard rodeo... Tymora and Dawnbringer give me your blessing. This has been a real son of a ***** day."
Leon thinks about a life of slavery or a life of death...
Perception check 18
Gremryl stonebreaker, soldier of adbarr, gutbuster, and paladin of moradin... is down...
Leon look down at the ground. Telepathically to Stool, "I am sorry about Morgana. There is nothing that I could do. I will try and heal her if they let me."
Telepathically to Dawnbringer, "Thank you my lady. At least we have our lives. Maybe the prison has a cool date spot we can hangout in"
Telepathically to Grem, "Don't you die on me. You keep breathing. I will be there in a soon. One of us Stonebreakers has to win the beard challenge and I am not battling myself."
Grugg walks up and then stops just short of where Leon is forced down to his knees. The barbarian then heaves Gremryl up off his shoulders and roughly drops him into the stone flooring.
Grugg - “Take Dwarf.” He says to some of the Duerger Guards. Looking at the bloody mess that’s become of of the young Tiefling girl, Grugg turns to Leon, removed his gag, and asks, “Want girl live? Or leave body for bugs?”
“I will take the girl alive. I will put her down if she wants it. I am not threat to you. May I bring them both back?”