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This time Alyssa's spell fizzled, and though seemingly close to death, demogorgon was still waving his incredibly sharp claws and trying to catch someone with his teeth. Some of his wounds closed at your very eyes.
Str check: 11
Ramious muscles yet again proved to be the strongest force of nature in this adventure - he slammed the creature to ground with a loud thud, making demogorgon to screech again. The monster tried to retaliate, loosing it's mind (if it had one to begin with) and attacking randomly everyone around:
Bite vs Ramious : Attack: 8 Damage: 5
Claw 1 vs Leon: Attack: 14 Damage: 11
Claw 2 vs Cinder: Attack: 8 Damage: 7
He missed by far and Cinder attacked again (using attack from previous post)
That ... was confusing: sure, radiant light just tickle the slimy skin of the demogorgon, but three devastating blows from all the blades around had to leave just pieces on the ground - yet, when the dirt settled down, the precious monster blood stopped dripping from the wounds, at least some of them closed up and creature attacked again, still randomly thrashing around:
Once that pitiful sparkle of fire touched the demogorgon, it howled as if in tremendous pain and Ramious seems to finish the creature off without much fuss. It looked like demogorgon was completely and utterly dead, with blood now freely flowing form the wounds.
(275 XP each. I will add it, and I think I counted skeletons as well)
“Um. Hmm. Surely I have something in here that could store the blood...” Alyssa will rummage through her bags, careful not to disturb the flowers she picked from when the Princess pointed them out in here. Finally, snooping through her mess kit, she finds something to harvest the blood in.
Whoever took upon himself the gruesome task of draining blood from the ugly slimy body of the monster, now had a steaming bawl of blackish blood in his/her hands. All what was left is to find the point of "exit" to test if the ritual is indeed that simple.
The archaeologist will complete the task of draining the blood from the monster, humming to herself as she does. Alyssa will say a few words in elvish as she made a few graceful gestures with her hands, casting prestidigitation to clean her hands of the blood.
"Now that we have the resources. Should we look for what we came in here to do, or look for our point of exit?" She'd ask the others, and herself, thinking of leaning towards the former.
Ramious takes a few deep breaths, getting a second wind. (+6 hps back)
"Well, now we look for the big bad monster, right? Where'd she say it liked to hang out? She didn't say. I think we have to go back to that last place and start looking for tracks....to try and track it down....shall we?"
If no one objects, Ramious leads the group back to the forest like place, and examines the area for tracks, asking for help from Leon, and tries to figure out where many of the tracks lead to.
It took time... The blood in the bowl stopped steaming (though did not thicken yet) and the chill of the place made even Cinder shivering, when finally Ramious spotted definately very fresh tracks of the monster. It was easy to follow - the tracks were enormous and if any living/unliving being was near by, it got scared away by hydra and it led to the strange place - solid rock flat spot. No tree - pseudo- or mirrored grew here, no grass, even mold stays away from it. The tracks stop right there and there are no fresher one that lead back.
Agreeing with Leon, Alyssa will walk up to the flattened area where the tracks stop. She'll pull the flower from her pack and lay it down onto the ground. Then, as the ritual stated, she would poor the harvested blood onto the flower, taking a couple cautious steps back to observe.
The flower laid on the ground as an ugly smelly starfish. When the last drop of blood hit it's petals, the flower begun to grow, squeezing under the foot of the party members and enveloping them in a spinning blackish-red vortex. A moment later - though it felt like minutes have passed - the petals dropped down, shrunk as rapidly as they grew before untill all what was left - the black smear on the ground.
The group found itself standing on the rocky drop off in the mountain they could not recognize. The evening sky is blue, there is only one sun and the air is fresh - whatever plane it is, humanoids can survive here. Behind the party is huge cave entrance. There is enough light still to see a little inside. Like before, rocky ground makes it impossible to tell when hydra was here (if ever) but the size of the cave makes it more suitable home for a huge monster. There are familiar gate-flowers growing along the walls, some of them seemed to be picked. Short tunnel inside pretty fast come to an intersection - there are corridors leading left and right.
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Ramious grunts in satisfaction. He glances towards the group, making eye contact one at a time. "I have to say, it's been good meeting each of you. None of you screamed and broke at trouble...I've seen many tough lookin men do that...more than once....and...you all seem pretty smart...and...in a fight...turns out you're all pretty damned handy. You know, I might like to learn some of that magic stuff from a couple of you. But for now....if any of us don't make it out the far side of this thing...let me just say....good stuff people. Been an honor." He seems considerate for a moment, "You know, I usually screw this sorta moment up...maybe ya'll are rubbing off on me." Looking a bit embarrassed, he turns towards the cave and creeps forward carefully.
This time Alyssa's spell fizzled, and though seemingly close to death, demogorgon was still waving his incredibly sharp claws and trying to catch someone with his teeth. Some of his wounds closed at your very eyes.
Str check: 11
Ramious muscles yet again proved to be the strongest force of nature in this adventure - he slammed the creature to ground with a loud thud, making demogorgon to screech again. The monster tried to retaliate, loosing it's mind (if it had one to begin with) and attacking randomly everyone around:
Bite vs Ramious : Attack: 8 Damage: 5
Claw 1 vs Leon: Attack: 14 Damage: 11
Claw 2 vs Cinder: Attack: 8 Damage: 7
He missed by far and Cinder attacked again (using attack from previous post)
Alyssa-Leon-Ramious
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
Leon strikes at the prone creature.
To hit: 27
Damage: 12
Ramious holds the creature down with one arm, and yanks out his rapier with his free hand, slashing down at the creature.
Attack: 24 Damage: 13
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
Alyssa would crinkle her nose at her missed fire bolt, and would switch it up this time.
Sacred Flame DC Dex 13 Damage: 1
(lol)
just an unstable unicorn.
Dex save: 5
That ... was confusing: sure, radiant light just tickle the slimy skin of the demogorgon, but three devastating blows from all the blades around had to leave just pieces on the ground - yet, when the dirt settled down, the precious monster blood stopped dripping from the wounds, at least some of them closed up and creature attacked again, still randomly thrashing around:
Bite vs Cinder: Attack: 17 Damage: 9
Claw 1 vs Leon: Attack: 12 Damage: 16
Claw 2 vs Ramious: Attack: 24 Damage: 10
Cinder hammered creature again: Attack: 10 Damage: 6 + 5
Alyssa could fire again. (as well as others)
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
This thing was pretty hearty. With another flick of her wrist, Alyssa would attempt another firebolt.
Attack: 14 Damage: 1
(lol!)
just an unstable unicorn.
Leon striked at the creature again.
To hit: 20
Damage: 15
Ramious continues to hold the thing down with one hand, while slamming his steel blade into it.
Attack: 25 Damage: 17
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
Once that pitiful sparkle of fire touched the demogorgon, it howled as if in tremendous pain and Ramious seems to finish the creature off without much fuss. It looked like demogorgon was completely and utterly dead, with blood now freely flowing form the wounds.
(275 XP each. I will add it, and I think I counted skeletons as well)
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
"Let's collect that blood before it all soaks into the ground." Leon suggests.
“Um. Hmm. Surely I have something in here that could store the blood...” Alyssa will rummage through her bags, careful not to disturb the flowers she picked from when the Princess pointed them out in here. Finally, snooping through her mess kit, she finds something to harvest the blood in.
just an unstable unicorn.
Whoever took upon himself the gruesome task of draining blood from the ugly slimy body of the monster, now had a steaming bawl of blackish blood in his/her hands. All what was left is to find the point of "exit" to test if the ritual is indeed that simple.
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
The archaeologist will complete the task of draining the blood from the monster, humming to herself as she does. Alyssa will say a few words in elvish as she made a few graceful gestures with her hands, casting prestidigitation to clean her hands of the blood.
"Now that we have the resources. Should we look for what we came in here to do, or look for our point of exit?" She'd ask the others, and herself, thinking of leaning towards the former.
just an unstable unicorn.
Ramious takes a few deep breaths, getting a second wind. (+6 hps back)
"Well, now we look for the big bad monster, right? Where'd she say it liked to hang out? She didn't say. I think we have to go back to that last place and start looking for tracks....to try and track it down....shall we?"
If no one objects, Ramious leads the group back to the forest like place, and examines the area for tracks, asking for help from Leon, and tries to figure out where many of the tracks lead to.
Survival: 16
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
It took time... The blood in the bowl stopped steaming (though did not thicken yet) and the chill of the place made even Cinder shivering, when finally Ramious spotted definately very fresh tracks of the monster. It was easy to follow - the tracks were enormous and if any living/unliving being was near by, it got scared away by hydra and it led to the strange place - solid rock flat spot. No tree - pseudo- or mirrored grew here, no grass, even mold stays away from it. The tracks stop right there and there are no fresher one that lead back.
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
"Let's see if this ritual works then..." Leon says, nodding to the others to bring out a flower and some of the blood.
Agreeing with Leon, Alyssa will walk up to the flattened area where the tracks stop. She'll pull the flower from her pack and lay it down onto the ground. Then, as the ritual stated, she would poor the harvested blood onto the flower, taking a couple cautious steps back to observe.
just an unstable unicorn.
The flower laid on the ground as an ugly smelly starfish. When the last drop of blood hit it's petals, the flower begun to grow, squeezing under the foot of the party members and enveloping them in a spinning blackish-red vortex. A moment later - though it felt like minutes have passed - the petals dropped down, shrunk as rapidly as they grew before untill all what was left - the black smear on the ground.
The group found itself standing on the rocky drop off in the mountain they could not recognize. The evening sky is blue, there is only one sun and the air is fresh - whatever plane it is, humanoids can survive here. Behind the party is huge cave entrance. There is enough light still to see a little inside. Like before, rocky ground makes it impossible to tell when hydra was here (if ever) but the size of the cave makes it more suitable home for a huge monster. There are familiar gate-flowers growing along the walls, some of them seemed to be picked. Short tunnel inside pretty fast come to an intersection - there are corridors leading left and right.
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
"Seems like we may be on the right track here..." Leon observes.
Ramious grunts in satisfaction. He glances towards the group, making eye contact one at a time. "I have to say, it's been good meeting each of you. None of you screamed and broke at trouble...I've seen many tough lookin men do that...more than once....and...you all seem pretty smart...and...in a fight...turns out you're all pretty damned handy. You know, I might like to learn some of that magic stuff from a couple of you. But for now....if any of us don't make it out the far side of this thing...let me just say....good stuff people. Been an honor." He seems considerate for a moment, "You know, I usually screw this sorta moment up...maybe ya'll are rubbing off on me." Looking a bit embarrassed, he turns towards the cave and creeps forward carefully.
Stealth : 18
Perception : 6
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.