Komos and Varn both see the creature in the room. The ropes used to tie the dogs to the furniture are broken. It looks like the mounts chewed through their restraints and ran for their life when the creature appeared.
It was a strange fleshy creature that had a body structure like some horrific fusion of man and mantis the size of a pony. It was hairless and was made up of brown flesh. It had a mantis like abdomen which ended in a single appendage that looked like a human arm. The the five fingers that would be at the end of the arm, had fused together to make a pincer, with the claw being made of a substance similar to nails. From the abdomen were four legs that lifted the creature up like a horse. Instead of hooves though, the legs ended in hands, each with five fingers. A humanoid body was attached to the abdomen. It stood upright like that of a centaur. Instead of arms though it had two large scythe-like claws. Finally the head was wrinkly like a dried fruit. It had no eyes. It had a single vertical mouth that spanned the entire head. The mouth was lined with razor sharp teeth and dripped green acidic saliva.
The creature was blind but it seemed to have incredible senses. It immedietly knew where Komos and Varn were hiding and let out a screech. It's cry was like a distorted cacophony of a room full of people all rambling and talking incoherently.
(OOC: Was intending to cast guidance on me while you both were sneaking forward... But I should have been more clear. I won't add guidance to my initiative roll as kev already added it to his stealth check.)
Initiative: 9
(OOC: I'm also good with your rolling initiative for everyone... Saves too if they happen on the monsters' turn.)
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Being technically, blind it uses scents and sounds to get a perfect read on the position of Varn and Komos. Green liquid drips from its face, sizzling when it hits the floor and releasing wisps of acidic vapor.
"This thing looks frightening. I'm sure Arix isn't going to find one of these! Attack!" His voice breaks during the last word, reaching a very high pitch, but that doesn't matter considering the threat in front of them. Varn runs forward and as he does he pulls a leaf of sumac out of his component pouch. "Burn." He says to the leaf while putting it close to his mouth and the leaf bursts in flame, forming the shape of a scimitar. Varn runs and stand next to the creature, but waits for an opening before he attacks.
BA: Cast Flame Blade. Move towards the creature. Action: Ready an attack, will trigger once Varn finds an opening for a good attack (so when someone comes close and grants him the benefits of Pack Tactic). Reaction: Unleash the held attack if the condition is met. Attack: 18 Fire damage: 10.
"If that's the thing that has killed the people here we need to be careful!" Komos yells out. Pulling out his Icosahedron, he spins it around in his hand looking for the side with a shield with legs on it. Finding it, he presses the side causing it to open up and eject a small robot which simply looks like an armored spider, that quickly scurries to the middle of the group. The robot then twitches and emits the ring of a beautifully tuned bell, granting a bit of strength to all the kobolds around.
action - summon protector cannon bonus action - move cannon to the middle of the group, within 10ft of everyone, and give 11 temp hp to all.
Hearing the commotion and Varn's attack command, Sniv rushes into the room, quickly bestowing some divine blessings to the three kobolds before his body begins to transform and his staff merges slowly into his back as his claws elongate and his mouth grows into a proper snout with glistening white and deadly sharp teeth. His legs grow much longer as he begins to bound towards the creature, positioning himself as close to the creature as possible and preparing to attack.
Move: 30 Feet towards the fight
Action: Cast Bless targeting Sniv, Komos, and Varn Whenever a target makes an attack roll or a saving throw before the spell ends, the target can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the attack roll or saving throw.
Bonus Action: Wildshape (Deinonychus)
Move: 10 Feet (gained from Deinonychus Form) towards the creature (hopefully next to it)
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
The creature does not seem to react for some reason when the flaming blade strikes it. It clearly did damage. Does it not feel any pain? It's vertical mouth quivers as it releases a eerie chattering sound. Acidic spit is sprayed out from it in Varn's direction.The acidic mist gets all over his face and temporarily burns his eyes, allowing the creature stab its deadly scythe like claw into the Kobold's back. It continues chattering in a low voice. It almost sound like a large group of people are whispering among themselves at the same time.
"Varn!"Komos cries out, pushing the button to reactivate his cannon. "You ok?" Then looking at the creature yells, "Whatever you are, you need to be put down!" He then rotates his Icosahedron to find a button with a flame on it and presses it, as a smoldering pellet flies out towards the creature.
BA - cannon for 4 temp hp --- remember, you can 'choose to take it', so if you're still full, just choose not to. action - firebolt: Attack: 28 Damage: 7
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
(OOC: @kev; Bless unfortunately needs to be rolled separately because if you just add the bless in the original roll then it counts as a critical even if you just roll a 4 on the bless dice but not the d20. Also for @FireCat and @kev, we should have advantage because of Pack Tactics, right?)
DeinoSniv lets out a screech as his friend gets attacked and lashes out with both of his claws and a bite. DeinoSniv starts to growl a little as Varn is bleeding and repositions around the creature so that if Varn needed to retreat, DeinoSniv could move between him and the monster as he fell back.
As the party's attacks of teeth, claws, swords and flames strike the creature, it begins jittering uncontrollably. It shakes so much that it starts to look like a blur. It strikes with unbelievable speed, stabbing both its scythes into Varn's back and dropping. Him it "screams" the sound it creates sounds like 10 different voices screaming at the same time. It looks especially agitated and dangerous.
(OOC: I wanted to confirm before I take my turn... The HP tracker says Varn is at 9, his sheet says 17 and your most recent post says he is down... By my math the creature did exactly 21 points of damage and took him down, I just wanted to confirm that this was the case.)
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“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Komos will follow Varn around the corner, not wanting to make his friend face danger alone, also trying to be quiet. ((Stealth 9 - guidance? 1))
PbP 🎲: Tyekanik; Moneo Noree; Korba Muris; & occasional DM:
Komos and Varn both see the creature in the room. The ropes used to tie the dogs to the furniture are broken. It looks like the mounts chewed through their restraints and ran for their life when the creature appeared.
It was a strange fleshy creature that had a body structure like some horrific fusion of man and mantis the size of a pony. It was hairless and was made up of brown flesh. It had a mantis like abdomen which ended in a single appendage that looked like a human arm. The the five fingers that would be at the end of the arm, had fused together to make a pincer, with the claw being made of a substance similar to nails. From the abdomen were four legs that lifted the creature up like a horse. Instead of hooves though, the legs ended in hands, each with five fingers. A humanoid body was attached to the abdomen. It stood upright like that of a centaur. Instead of arms though it had two large scythe-like claws. Finally the head was wrinkly like a dried fruit. It had no eyes. It had a single vertical mouth that spanned the entire head. The mouth was lined with razor sharp teeth and dripped green acidic saliva.
The creature was blind but it seemed to have incredible senses. It immedietly knew where Komos and Varn were hiding and let out a screech. It's cry was like a distorted cacophony of a room full of people all rambling and talking incoherently.
Roll initiative.
(Perhaps you should roll initiative for us in the future, to move things forward?)
Initiative: 22
Varielky
(Alright. Will do that if that's what everyone wants)
Komos lets out a small shriek and takes a step back as the creature turns towards them.
initiative 11
And I'm very much in favor of rolling initiative, and saves, for us just to keep things rolling.
PbP 🎲: Tyekanik; Moneo Noree; Korba Muris; & occasional DM:
(OOC: Was intending to cast guidance on me while you both were sneaking forward... But I should have been more clear. I won't add guidance to my initiative roll as kev already added it to his stealth check.)
Initiative: 9
(OOC: I'm also good with your rolling initiative for everyone... Saves too if they happen on the monsters' turn.)
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Sorry for the wait. IRL got a bit busy
Creature's initiative: 6
Being technically, blind it uses scents and sounds to get a perfect read on the position of Varn and Komos. Green liquid drips from its face, sizzling when it hits the floor and releasing wisps of acidic vapor.
Party goes first.
"This thing looks frightening. I'm sure Arix isn't going to find one of these! Attack!" His voice breaks during the last word, reaching a very high pitch, but that doesn't matter considering the threat in front of them. Varn runs forward and as he does he pulls a leaf of sumac out of his component pouch. "Burn." He says to the leaf while putting it close to his mouth and the leaf bursts in flame, forming the shape of a scimitar. Varn runs and stand next to the creature, but waits for an opening before he attacks.
Varielky
"If that's the thing that has killed the people here we need to be careful!" Komos yells out. Pulling out his Icosahedron, he spins it around in his hand looking for the side with a shield with legs on it. Finding it, he presses the side causing it to open up and eject a small robot which simply looks like an armored spider, that quickly scurries to the middle of the group. The robot then twitches and emits the ring of a beautifully tuned bell, granting a bit of strength to all the kobolds around.
action - summon protector cannon
bonus action - move cannon to the middle of the group, within 10ft of everyone, and give 11 temp hp to all.
PbP 🎲: Tyekanik; Moneo Noree; Korba Muris; & occasional DM:
Hearing the commotion and Varn's attack command, Sniv rushes into the room, quickly bestowing some divine blessings to the three kobolds before his body begins to transform and his staff merges slowly into his back as his claws elongate and his mouth grows into a proper snout with glistening white and deadly sharp teeth. His legs grow much longer as he begins to bound towards the creature, positioning himself as close to the creature as possible and preparing to attack.
Move: 30 Feet towards the fight
Action: Cast Bless targeting Sniv, Komos, and Varn
Whenever a target makes an attack roll or a saving throw before the spell ends, the target can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the attack roll or saving throw.
Bonus Action: Wildshape (Deinonychus)
Move: 10 Feet (gained from Deinonychus Form) towards the creature (hopefully next to it)
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
Note: I'm not going to be updating your character's HP but I will be updating things like spell slots and weapon/armor damage
HP Trackers:
Komos: 24/24 AC19 Temp: 11
Sniv (Wildshaped): 26/26 AC13 Temp: 11 [Concentrating on Bless]
Varn: 17/23 AC15 [Concentrating: Flame Blade]
Protector Canon: 15/15 AC18
Creature: 10 Damage taken
Acid Spray Vs Varn: 19 Dmg: 11 Acid
Concentration check for Flame Sword: 13 - HELD-
Scythe claw attack Vs Varn: 9 Dmg: 13 Slash
Concentration: 11
Forgot Bless: 3
=Barely passed Concentration check=
The creature does not seem to react for some reason when the flaming blade strikes it. It clearly did damage. Does it not feel any pain? It's vertical mouth quivers as it releases a eerie chattering sound. Acidic spit is sprayed out from it in Varn's direction.The acidic mist gets all over his face and temporarily burns his eyes, allowing the creature stab its deadly scythe like claw into the Kobold's back. It continues chattering in a low voice. It almost sound like a large group of people are whispering among themselves at the same time.
Party's turn.
"That hurt!" Varn calls as he strikes once more with his flaming blade. "I'm beheading you whether you like it or not! You will feel the pain!"
Varielky
"Varn!" Komos cries out, pushing the button to reactivate his cannon. "You ok?" Then looking at the creature yells, "Whatever you are, you need to be put down!" He then rotates his Icosahedron to find a button with a flame on it and presses it, as a smoldering pellet flies out towards the creature.
BA - cannon for 4 temp hp --- remember, you can 'choose to take it', so if you're still full, just choose not to.
action - firebolt: Attack: 28 Damage: 7
PbP 🎲: Tyekanik; Moneo Noree; Korba Muris; & occasional DM:
(OOC: @kev; Bless unfortunately needs to be rolled separately because if you just add the bless in the original roll then it counts as a critical even if you just roll a 4 on the bless dice but not the d20. Also for @FireCat and @kev, we should have advantage because of Pack Tactics, right?)
DeinoSniv lets out a screech as his friend gets attacked and lashes out with both of his claws and a bite. DeinoSniv starts to growl a little as Varn is bleeding and repositions around the creature so that if Varn needed to retreat, DeinoSniv could move between him and the monster as he fell back.
Action: Attack (Multi-Attack) (Advantage from Pack Tactics (Varn))
Bless: 2 Bite Attack: 21 Damage: 4
Bless: 2 Claw Attack: 23 Damage: 4
Bless: 1 Claw Attack: 23 Damage: 6
Bonus Action: None
Move: Reposition around Acid Creature
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
((Yeah. Everyone gets advantage off of pack tactics for everyone else))
HP Trackers :
Komos: 24/24 AC19 Temp: 11
Sniv (Wildshaped): 26/26 AC13 Temp: 11 [Concentrating on Bless]
Varn: 0/23 AC15 []
Protector Canon: 15/15 AC18
Creature: 46 Damage taken
Doing Crit-fishing rolls for Varn and Komos -
20
1
Creature BA: ???
Creature scythe attack Vs Varn: 25 Dmg: 12
Concentration Check: 24 + 3
Creature scythe attack Vs Varn: 18 Dmg: 16
As the party's attacks of teeth, claws, swords and flames strike the creature, it begins jittering uncontrollably. It shakes so much that it starts to look like a blur. It strikes with unbelievable speed, stabbing both its scythes into Varn's back and dropping. Him it "screams" the sound it creates sounds like 10 different voices screaming at the same time. It looks especially agitated and dangerous.
Party's turn.
(OOC: I wanted to confirm before I take my turn... The HP tracker says Varn is at 9, his sheet says 17 and your most recent post says he is down... By my math the creature did exactly 21 points of damage and took him down, I just wanted to confirm that this was the case.)
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
((I may have made some mistakes in math. Let me go back and double check)
I count first attack doing a total of 6+11+12+9 = 38 damage to Varn
Varn had 23 HP + 11 + 4 Temp HP = 38 HP
So he is down. As for the 9 in the tracker, I forgot to change it to zero))