As the chuul crushes TT, she lets out a slight whimper as her strength gives out and her body is crushed inside the claw. Her lifeless body now helpless as the chuul flails around. Nelvik in a state of distress, attacks the Chuul, but his natural armor has been too much for him to pierce this fight. Rhaucred slices with his cleaver and seemingly misses his mark at first but the chuul moved him in his claw just enough to get a deep cut between its scales. Hunding yells in desperation for TT to hold on. He has seen too many comrades die and he doesn't want to see another go down today. This rage fuels a deep cut right to the back of the chuul piercing its body deeply. It is in this moment that Nedrick sees it, the gap between the scales on the back of his head. In a quick burst of movement he moves in and stabs deeply with his rapier then pulls it to the side to dislodges a scale. The chuul flails for a second and lets out a flurry of clicking sounds. Nedrick then reaches into his cloak and pulls his dagger with his other hand and jabs the dagger deeply into its skull.
The chuul instantly goes motionless. The mighty claws release and the severely wounded Rhaucred and the lifeless TT are freed from their grapple.
Congratulations combat is over! You have defeated the Chuul! Please award yourselves 200 xp.
As the beast dies the curse pulls the last of its strength away and into Rhaucred healing him for 6. With his new strength Rhaucred quickly grabs a healing potion from his bag and forces it down TT's throat.
”You really saved me today... There was so much pain then my body seized up. It would have had its way with me. For that I thank you. Now... I want to repay this debt. Tell me more of this necromancer.”
Nedrick walks over to the chuul, inspecting the tentacle that was paralyzing TT and takes his dagger and slices deep into it. He finds a gland with some liquid in it and squeezes it and a bit of blood into a vial. He was able to extract just enough to coat his blade for one attack. This poison will paralyze the foe for up to 1 minute or until a constitution save of DC 13 is made.
Rhaucred tries to remember as hard as he can, but the near death experience with the chuul is clouding his thoughts still. His gut says east so he goes east.
Following the cave east around the rock, the group is witness to what everyone assumes to be the chuul's previous meal before fighting the adventurers. There is not much left of their camp, just shreds of torn blankets and bodies of dead kobolds. This leads into a dead end and so the group pursues the northern path. This leads to another room where the ceiling is covered with bloodstains, and several shattered weapons are scattered throughout the room.
There are 4 exits to leave the room south-west, west, north-west and east. Rhaucred stands by his gut and makes a motion to go east.
Though still wary of how the group could possibly beat a powerful necromancer after a near death experience with a tentacle crab monster he still understands the need for the group to go on. If not for him, for the rest of them. For Nelvik.
" let's try to keep on east," he suggests before moving off in that direction with his eyes peeled.
Nedrick walks over to TT. "We almost lost you before I even got to you know my rare friend."
Nedrick asks TT genuinely, "I have never met someone before who is able to change forms the way you can. How does it work? Can you become anything in the realm?"
"Nature has granted me these abilities, human. I have always lived among the turtles, thus I typically spend my days as one of them. I found early on in life that your kind is more responsive to this form, however."
TT remembers her childhood days of visiting Uldama, where the children would chase her around as a turtle. When she took genasi form for the first time, the villagers had the same reactions as her current allies: shock, awe, wonder, curiosity... Her natural swimming ability allowed her to help the local fishermen, in exchange for the delight of human food of course. Thus, the villagers eventually came to appreciate her presence and unique abilities.
Reacting to Nedrick's question, TT starts to wonder if she can transform into forms other than the turtles native to her homeland.
"Now that you mention it, human, I believe that once I have seen a species I can most likely..."
TT looks at her hand in an attempt to transform into something that she has seen recently, but a sharp pain enters her body.
Flinching, and clearly not fully recovered from her near-death experience, TT says, "It seems that I will have to answer your question on a future date, friend."
chanting an ancient spell, mort twirls his staff and summons 3 mystic shards of magical force, shooting them at the vile crab monster
magic missile: 8
The chuul is is feeling the damage from the onslaught of the attacks and starts to get desperate.
1
The chuul uses its tentacle on TT.
TT's Constitution save: 18
TT is now paralyzed!
The chuul attacks with it's right claw on Rhaucred
Attack: 11 Damage: 15
The chuul then attack TT with his left claw
Attack: 18 Damage: 11
TT is now downed!
Rhaucred has 1 hp (shield won't help you here)
TT's first death throw 2
Nedrick begins to panic seeing the onslaught of damage and TT go down.
"Platinum Dragon guide my blade." He whispers to himself.
Nedrick out of desperation draws a dagger from his cloak and makes a slash with his dagger and stabs with his Rapier against the mighty foe!
Rapier Attack:
Attack: 21 Damage: 10
Dagger Attack:
Attack: 24 Damage: 4
Fear not druid. The death not will not take you tonight (reckless raging).
Attack: 16 Damage: 8
Rhaucred desperately takes another swipe at the beast with his cleaver.
Attack: 20 Damage: 17
Last lucky 18
Attack: 12 Damage: 11
1
As the chuul crushes TT, she lets out a slight whimper as her strength gives out and her body is crushed inside the claw. Her lifeless body now helpless as the chuul flails around. Nelvik in a state of distress, attacks the Chuul, but his natural armor has been too much for him to pierce this fight. Rhaucred slices with his cleaver and seemingly misses his mark at first but the chuul moved him in his claw just enough to get a deep cut between its scales. Hunding yells in desperation for TT to hold on. He has seen too many comrades die and he doesn't want to see another go down today. This rage fuels a deep cut right to the back of the chuul piercing its body deeply. It is in this moment that Nedrick sees it, the gap between the scales on the back of his head. In a quick burst of movement he moves in and stabs deeply with his rapier then pulls it to the side to dislodges a scale. The chuul flails for a second and lets out a flurry of clicking sounds. Nedrick then reaches into his cloak and pulls his dagger with his other hand and jabs the dagger deeply into its skull.
The chuul instantly goes motionless. The mighty claws release and the severely wounded Rhaucred and the lifeless TT are freed from their grapple.
Congratulations combat is over! You have defeated the Chuul! Please award yourselves 200 xp.
mort runs to his fallen pal TT, takes a swig from his flask, and attempts to stabilize her.
*hiccup* wakey wakey!
medicine check: 10
TT is now stable and is unharmed, will regain 1 HP in 1 hour.
As the beast dies the curse pulls the last of its strength away and into Rhaucred healing him for 6. With his new strength Rhaucred quickly grabs a healing potion from his bag and forces it down TT's throat.
Healing 6
Nedrick looks over the bodies and his injured comrades.
”We were lucky no one died. Very lucky.”
Nedrick stares off into the darkness.
”What other horrors await us in this cave or at this mansion.”
Nedrick looks at the wounded.
”I feel we need to rest and collect our thoughts for a brief moment.”
OOC: I elect for us to take a short rest.
Hit Dice: 5
After the rest Nedrick would like to examine to Chuul to try to determine where the paralytic was coming from.
Nature: 10
Healing14
Nedrick walks over and sits next to Nelvik.
”You really saved me today... There was so much pain then my body seized up. It would have had its way with me. For that I thank you. Now... I want to repay this debt. Tell me more of this necromancer.”
As her alllies come to her aid, TT pukes water onto the ground.
"The birds...didn't tell me about that...thing..."
TT checks to make sure that her companion turtle is safe, before passing out in relief.
"It seems that we....owe you our lives..."
10
We take a short rest for a while before continuing on in the cave
Rhaucred Attempts to determine where the mansion might be in relation to their current position.
4
And then heads either north or east.
*During the short rest*
Nedrick walks over to the chuul, inspecting the tentacle that was paralyzing TT and takes his dagger and slices deep into it. He finds a gland with some liquid in it and squeezes it and a bit of blood into a vial. He was able to extract just enough to coat his blade for one attack. This poison will paralyze the foe for up to 1 minute or until a constitution save of DC 13 is made.
Rhaucred tries to remember as hard as he can, but the near death experience with the chuul is clouding his thoughts still. His gut says east so he goes east.
Following the cave east around the rock, the group is witness to what everyone assumes to be the chuul's previous meal before fighting the adventurers. There is not much left of their camp, just shreds of torn blankets and bodies of dead kobolds. This leads into a dead end and so the group pursues the northern path. This leads to another room where the ceiling is covered with bloodstains, and several shattered weapons are scattered throughout the room.
There are 4 exits to leave the room south-west, west, north-west and east. Rhaucred stands by his gut and makes a motion to go east.
Overall Map:
Zoomed
Though still wary of how the group could possibly beat a powerful necromancer after a near death experience with a tentacle crab monster he still understands the need for the group to go on. If not for him, for the rest of them. For Nelvik.
" let's try to keep on east," he suggests before moving off in that direction with his eyes peeled.
Perception 19
Nedrick walks over to TT. "We almost lost you before I even got to you know my rare friend."
Nedrick asks TT genuinely, "I have never met someone before who is able to change forms the way you can. How does it work? Can you become anything in the realm?"
"Nature has granted me these abilities, human. I have always lived among the turtles, thus I typically spend my days as one of them. I found early on in life that your kind is more responsive to this form, however."
TT remembers her childhood days of visiting Uldama, where the children would chase her around as a turtle. When she took genasi form for the first time, the villagers had the same reactions as her current allies: shock, awe, wonder, curiosity... Her natural swimming ability allowed her to help the local fishermen, in exchange for the delight of human food of course. Thus, the villagers eventually came to appreciate her presence and unique abilities.
Reacting to Nedrick's question, TT starts to wonder if she can transform into forms other than the turtles native to her homeland.
"Now that you mention it, human, I believe that once I have seen a species I can most likely..."
TT looks at her hand in an attempt to transform into something that she has seen recently, but a sharp pain enters her body.
Flinching, and clearly not fully recovered from her near-death experience, TT says, "It seems that I will have to answer your question on a future date, friend."