66: A pinch of preparation saves a pound of trouble

[Ebiris]

[12:52] <@Ebiris> Advancing ahead of the rest of the group, Rudy carefully and stealthily picks his way through the vegetation, starting to catch sight of the lighthouse ahead between the trees and undergrowth as he works his way forward...
[12:53] <@Ebiris> OOC: perception, Rudy?
[12:53] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+1
[12:53] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+1 and gets 20." [1d20=19]
[12:55] <@Ebiris> Nothing seems amiss at first glance, while the way ahead is littered with corpses of varying age he can't spot any of them moving around. However his sharp eyes spot a much nearer threat, a set of creepers inching down a nearby tree towards his head. While they blend in much better with the surrounding vegetation, the motion is one he remembers well from the animated foliage back at the supposedly haunted village a week ago!
[12:56] <@Ebiris> OOC: init, you avoided a surprise round
[12:56] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20 vine
[12:56] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20 vine and gets 5." [1d20=5]
[12:56] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+2 dog
[12:56] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+2 dog and gets 19." [1d20=17]
[12:56] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+5
[12:56] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+5 and gets 10." [1d20=5]
[12:56] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+2 Liamae
[12:56] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+2 Liamae and gets 17." [1d20=15]
[12:57] <@Ebiris> OOC: other PCs as well, you're not that far behind
[12:57] <@Henrietta> roll 1d20+3
[12:57] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+3 and gets 5." [1d20=2]
[12:57] <@Rudy> "Gah! It's a plant thing!" calls Rudy, looking up with a start!
[12:57] <@Lucie> roll 1d20+6
[12:57] * +Hatbot --> "Lucie rolls 1d20+6 and gets 19." [1d20=13]
[12:58] <@Ebiris> OOC: Myra?
[12:58] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+4 m
[12:58] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+4 m and gets 18." [1d20=14]
[12:59] * Ebiris changes topic to 'Lucie > Val > Myra > Liamae > Rudy > Henrietta > Vine'
[12:59] <@Ebiris> OOC: Go Lucie, you can roll perception to spot the vine before it acts
[12:59] <@Lucie> roll 1d20+14
[12:59] * +Hatbot --> "Lucie rolls 1d20+14 and gets 21." [1d20=7]
[13:00] <@Ebiris> While Rudy shouts back, Lucie can't quite see what he's shouting about. There are plants everywhere!
[13:01] * @Lucie moves up behind Rudy, weapon ready, just in case he's not jumping at shadows. "Hell are you talking about, Rudy?" she wonders, surveying the ground.
[13:02] <@Ebiris> Reaching Rudy, Lucie is perhaps too late in finally spotting the animate vine bearing down from above! Meanwhile Val remains protectively by Henrietta's side, ears flat and teeth bared.
[13:02] <@Ebiris> OOC: Myra
[13:02] <@Rudy> OOC: Would Myra need to roll perception too?
[13:03] <@Ebiris> OOC: yes, everyone who hasn't spotted it has to roll. I should've just done a surprise round with you and the vine, but eh. Too late now.
[13:03] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+14
[13:03] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+14 and gets 18." [1d20=4]
[13:04] <@Rudy> Myra lopes forward to Rudy's side, and then looks at him disparagingly with all the eyeballs she can muster!
[13:04] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+6
[13:04] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+6 and gets 14." [1d20=8]
[13:04] <@Ebiris> Liamae hangs back, spells at the ready but lacking a target for now!
[13:04] <@Ebiris> OOC: Rudy
[13:05] <@Rudy> "It's right there!" he complains, backing off a step and unloading a pair of bolts into the offending foliage!
[13:05] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+7
[13:05] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+7
[13:05] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+7 and gets 23." [1d20=16]
[13:05] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+7 and gets 12." [1d20=5]
[13:05] <@Ebiris> OOC: 1 hit
[13:05] <@Rudy> roll 1d8+1
[13:05] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d8+1 and gets 5." [1d8=4]
[13:07] <@Ebiris> Rudy fires, one of his bolts shears through a vine dangling from the tree overhead and the other punches right into the tree itself!
[13:07] <@Ebiris> OOC: Henrietta. You can at least see where Rudy shot and go by processof elimination. Or roll perception, your call.
[13:09] * @Henrietta comes to within thirty feet of Rudy and sends an orb of acid after the stump of the vine Rudy just shot!
[13:10] <@Henrietta> roll 1d20+5 ranged touch
[13:10] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+5 ranged touch and gets 11." [1d20=6]
[13:10] <@Ebiris> OOC: hit
[13:10] <@Henrietta> roll 1d3 acid
[13:10] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d3 acid and gets 3." [1d3=3]
[13:12] <@Ebiris> The acid hisses as it eats through the plant-matter, the vine in question abruptly thrashing in the air - before all the plants within thirty feet regain the same animation they had two nights ago at Henrietta's behest! Grass binds together and lengthens to wrap around ankles, leafy fronds grab at anything in reach and overhanging branches come down to grasp at the shoulders of the unwary!
[13:12] <@Ebiris> OOC: reflex saves everyone but Val and Liamae
[13:13] <@Lucie> roll 1d20+6
[13:13] * +Hatbot --> "Lucie rolls 1d20+6 and gets 13." [1d20=7]
[13:13] <@Henrietta> roll 1d20+4
[13:13] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+4 and gets 7." [1d20=3]
[13:15] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+6
[13:15] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+6 and gets 11." [1d20=5]
[13:15] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+3 m
[13:15] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+3 m and gets 6." [1d20=3]
[13:17] <@Ebiris> The plants here are as vicious now as they were under Henrietta's control, entangling and holding fast everyone but Lucie! With everyone so bound, the controlling vine loops down and around Rudy's neck to try and bind him itself in a considerably less gentle grip!
[13:17] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+7 entangled AC, Rudy?
[13:17] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+7 entangled AC, Rudy? and gets 8." [1d20=1]
[13:18] <@Ebiris> But Rudy leans his body back just an inch which is all it takes for the vine to whiff through the air!
[13:18] <@Ebiris> OOC: Lucie
[13:19] * @Lucie steps in and takes a swing at the plan assaulting Rudy!
[13:19] <@Lucie> roll 1d20+7
[13:19] * +Hatbot --> "Lucie rolls 1d20+7 and gets 8." [1d20=1]
[13:21] <@Ebiris> Lucie's intent is good, but she stumbles over Rudy's foot as its yanked in her path by the grass beneath them, her swing only impacting on the tough bark of the nearby tree in a glancing blow! Val runs up to the edge of the animated plants, growling and starting to bite and tug on the vegetation that binds Henrietta!
[13:21] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+7 aid another on any check Henri makes to escape herself
[13:21] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+7 aid another on any check Henri makes to escape herself and gets 21." [1d20=14]
[13:21] <@Ebiris> OOC: Myra
[13:23] <@Rudy> Myra struggles mightily, laying her claws and teeth into the plant that threatens her summoner!
[13:23] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+9-2 b
[13:23] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+9-2 b and gets 12." [1d20=5]
[13:23] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+9-2 c
[13:23] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+9-2 c
[13:23] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+9-2 c and gets 8." [1d20=1]
[13:23] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+9-2 c and gets 21." [1d20=14]
[13:23] <@Ebiris> OOC: 1 hit
[13:23] <@Rudy> roll 1d4+5
[13:23] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d4+5 and gets 8." [1d4=3]
[13:25] <@Ebiris> Myra shreds through the thick vine, tearing deep gouges that make it recoil from her! Hanging back herself, Liamae reaches her hand up and guides it down, a tiny burning orb falling from the sky and through the trees to hit the vine from above!
[13:25] <@Ebiris> roll 1d4+2
[13:25] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d4+2 and gets 6." [1d4=4]
[13:25] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+1
[13:25] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+1 and gets 4." [1d20=3]
[13:26] <@Ebiris> The vine is hit squarely as the orb passes through and leaves a tiny smoking crater at Lucie and Rudy's feet!
[13:26] <@Ebiris> OOC: Rudy
[13:26] <@Rudy> Rudy attempts to give the vine the slip, using his agility to best effect!
[13:26] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+5 escape artist!!!
[13:26] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+5 escape artist!!! and gets 17." [1d20=12]
[13:27] <@Ebiris> Rudy nimbly slips free of the plants trying to grab at him, not even suffering a tear in his shirt from his efforts!
[13:27] <@Rudy> His next call is to pick his way apart from the clutching plants, so that he might better shoot them!
[13:28] <@Ebiris> OOC: roll tumble if you're moving away? Or else provoke an aoo, i dunno
[13:31] <@Rudy> OOC: I'll take an AoO
[13:31] <@Rudy> OOC: Don't wanna move at half speed through difficult terrain. AC is presently 23
[13:34] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+7
[13:34] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+7 and gets 24." [1d20=17]
[13:34] <@Ebiris> roll 1d8+7
[13:34] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d8+7 and gets 9." [1d8=2]
[13:34] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+13 CMD?
[13:34] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+13 CMD? and gets 31." [1d20=18]
[13:35] <@Rudy> OOC: considerably lower :(
[13:35] <@Ebiris> roll 1d8+7 constrict
[13:35] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d8+7 constrict and gets 12." [1d8=5]
[13:36] <@Ebiris> So focused on evading the grappling plants from below, Rudy leave an opening that the vine takes ruthless advantage of in snaking itself around his neck and squeezing enough to make his vision threaten to black out, lifting him bodily off the ground as the life is choked from him!
[13:36] <@Ebiris> OOC: Henrietta
[13:36] * @Henrietta tries to take just a step away from the hostile flora and gain a clear enough sight of the offensive vine to hit it with a few of her roses!
[13:37] <@Henrietta> roll 3d4+3 let him go!
[13:37] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 3d4+3 let him go! and gets 12." [3d4=2, 4, 3]
[13:38] <@Ebiris> The roses dot the vine making it look like a gigantic rosebush itself! It immediately goes slack afterwards, mercifully falling off of Rudy's neck and letting him free, as the surrounding foliage immediately returns to its former dormant state.
[13:39] * @Henrietta pats Val on his head for being so helpful, before she rushes towards Rudy!
[13:40] * @Lucie looks around warily for further murderous vegetation, after a quick glance for her friend. "You alright Rudy?"
[13:40] * @Rudy flings the offending vine away from him, and haggardly clutches at hit bruised throat, where ugly marks are evident.
[13:41] <@Ebiris> OOC: perception, Lucie
[13:42] <@Lucie> roll 1d20+14
[13:42] * +Hatbot --> "Lucie rolls 1d20+14 and gets 30." [1d20=16]
[13:43] <@Ebiris> "Wow, Rudy, you look like a cast off from the hangman's noose," Liamae opines as she approaches. "You gonna be okay to continue like this?"
[13:43] -> *Lucie* You can't see any murderous plants nearby... you think.
[13:44] * @Lucie seems relieved after a thorough scan of the surrounding area. "I don't *think* there are any more of those about...but keep a lookout. That wasn't here on our last visit, right? Bet they spent their time preparing for us to return too."
[13:44] <@Henrietta> "You do look terrible," Henrietta adds, giving the offensive vine an evil look.
[13:45] <@Ebiris> "Who are 'they' anyway?" Liamae asks, peering through the foliage at the lighthouse ahead. "You killed the necromancer, right?"
[13:45] <@Rudy> "No?" he chokes, pressing a hand against the tree for a moment, before jerking it away. "This field will be the death of me," he adds, glancing around balefully. Myra hovers behind him, supporting him by the shoulder. "Yeah, we did. New occupant moved in, maybe?"
[13:45] <@Henrietta> "He had an ally in the tower," Henrietta responds. "Someone who was making those lights, perhaps? And there was also the archer."
[13:46] <@Lucie> "Yeah, somebody was still up in that tower shooting at us when we left," Lucie says. "Maybe more than one, we didn't make it inside."
[13:46] <@Henrietta> "Maybe we could send Myra across? Or an elemental?"
[13:48] <@Lucie> "Sure. Scout the place out first this time?"
[13:49] <@Rudy> "I'll send Myra in," replies
[13:50] <@Rudy> "I'll send Myra in," replies Rudy, stepping back behind a tree. "Well, the door is admittedly an obstacle. Should've brought a ram..."
[13:51] <@Rudy> Nonetheless, he makes good on that, and Myra is soon trudging towards the front of the lighthouse while he remains out of the tower's view.
[13:52] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+9
[13:52] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+9 and gets 10." [1d20=1]
[13:52] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+4
[13:52] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+4 and gets 22." [1d20=18]
[13:52] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+5
[13:52] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+5 and gets 12." [1d20=7]
[13:52] <@Ebiris> OOC: Myra's AC?
[13:52] <@Rudy> OOC: 21
[13:52] <@Ebiris> roll 1d8+3
[13:52] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d8+3 and gets 7." [1d8=4]
[13:52] <@Rudy> OOC: Er, wait
[13:52] <@Rudy> OOC: Sorry, 24. 21 is my AC now!
[13:53] <@Ebiris> No sooner does Myra step out from the treeline than she's beset by a flurry of arrows! Fortunately none hit her immediately.
[13:54] * @Lucie watches the tower alertly to determine where in the tower the arrows are coming from, and whether it's more than one archer or just one efficient attacker.
[13:54] <@Ebiris> OOC: perception, Lucie
[13:55] <@Lucie> roll 1d20+14 EYES
[13:55] * +Hatbot --> "Lucie rolls 1d20+14 EYES and gets 32." [1d20=18]
[13:55] <@Rudy> Myra alights from the ground, making headway towards the roof of the lighthouse!
[13:55] <@Ebiris> OOC: what's her speed?
[13:55] <@Rudy> OOC: 30ft
[13:55] <@Ebiris> Lucie can see two sources of arrows, one just above the ground and one halfway up the tower, each coming from tiny slitted openings.
[13:56] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+9
[13:56] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+9 and gets 11." [1d20=2]
[13:56] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+4
[13:56] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+4 and gets 12." [1d20=8]
[13:56] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+5
[13:56] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+5 and gets 11." [1d20=6]
[13:56] <@Ebiris> More arrows flail uselessly through the air at Myra as she steadily draws closer...
[13:56] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+9
[13:56] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+9 and gets 26." [1d20=17]
[13:56] <@Ebiris> OOC: +2 on that, actually
[13:56] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+6
[13:56] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+6 and gets 17." [1d20=11]
[13:57] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+7
[13:57] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+7 and gets 12." [1d20=5]
[13:57] <@Ebiris> roll 1d8+3
[13:57] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d8+3 and gets 8." [1d8=5]
[13:57] <@Ebiris> As she crosses the halfway mark, an arrow strikes her! But does it slow her down?
[13:57] <@Rudy> Myra is undaunted, and flies at top speed towards the roof!
[13:58] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+11
[13:58] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+11 and gets 14." [1d20=3]
[13:58] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+6
[13:58] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+6 and gets 24." [1d20=18]
[13:58] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+7
[13:58] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+7 and gets 15." [1d20=8]
[13:58] <@Ebiris> roll 1d8+3
[13:58] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d8+3 and gets 11." [1d8=8]
[14:02] <@Ebiris> Another arrow strikes her before the arrows cease with Myra closing into range and alighting on the broken roof of the lighthouse and starting to descend out of sight...
[14:04] <@Henrietta> "I'm going for the door," Henrietta says, casting Invisibility upon herself and then advancing as quickly as she is able towards the tower!
[14:05] <@Ebiris> Liamae waits a few seconds for the invisible one to take the lead before she follows Henrietta!
[14:06] <@Ebiris> Val doesn't wait at all, though, running hot on Henrietta's heels!
[14:06] <@Rudy> Rudy at least throws a hasty enhancement on his friends before slumping behind a tree!
[14:14] * @Lucie steps out just before the treeline, making her presence obvious to the survivors inside. Marshalling all the fearsome presence her bestial headgear provides, she raises her voice and calls out over the hill to the tower defenders: "There are two ways we can do this! One of them ends with you alive. Come on down now, throw down your weapons, and we won't do any worse than hand you over
[14:14] * @Lucie to local authorities. You want to make a valiant stand, well, look where that got you last time!" Lucie points to the patch of ground whereupon Rudy had unceremoniously bashed the necromancer's head on their first visit. "Your army's gone. You want to send those black skellies down again, well--" she thumps her mace into her palm demonstratively, "--I've got a nice chunk of silver here to put
[14:14] * @Lucie big holes in their skulls. You can't hold out in there forever. Us? We can get food and supplies back in town if need be. Surrender or die, one way or another."
[14:15] <@Lucie> roll 1d20+22 intimidate! (I assume it applies)
[14:15] * +Hatbot --> "Lucie rolls 1d20+22 intimidate! (I assume it applies) and gets 30." [1d20=8]
[14:18] <@Ebiris> With Myra assaulting the defenders from above, the two sorceresses plus dog charging in, and Lucie throwing around threats like the voice of god, things must be looking grim for the occupants of the beseiged lighthouse! But it's not all plain sailing as Henrietta and Val both find themselves blundering into well concealed but wickedly sharp spikes jutting out of the ground underfoot!
[14:18] <@Ebiris> roll 1d4 and reflex both of you then react
[14:18] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d4 and reflex both of you then react and gets 4." [1d4=4]
[14:18] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+7 dog
[14:18] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+7 dog and gets 16." [1d20=9]
[14:18] <@Henrietta> roll 1d20+4
[14:19] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+4 and gets 5." [1d20=1]
[14:19] <@Ebiris> OOC: Henrietta you're reduced to half speed by the pain in your feet
[14:24] <@Henrietta> She can't help crying out in pain, but that's hardly the first time she had been injured in a fight! And besides, the entrance is near! Going slower means she might be able to spot the next danger better!
[14:24] <@Ebiris> OOC: roll perception, then?
[14:25] <@Henrietta> roll 1d20+2
[14:25] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+2 and gets 4." [1d20=2]
[14:27] <@Ebiris> Henrietta bravely continues onwards despite the traps, her dog loyally at her heels! Liamae shows slightly more prudence, stopping where she saw Henrietta and her dog injured and starting to cast a spell... but that's no help to the lead pair who blunder onwards through a veritable field of spikes and pain that mercilessly stabs their legs!
[14:27] <@Ebiris> roll 3d4
[14:27] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 3d4 and gets 5." [3d4=1, 3, 1]
[14:27] <@Ebiris> roll 3#1d20+8 reflex saves for dog
[14:27] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 3#1d20+8 reflex saves for dog and gets 62." [3#1d20+8 = 19, 25, 18]
[14:30] <@Ebiris> At Liamae's behest, a field of glittering sparkles cover part of the spiked field, making it far more visible for the sorceress to carefully pick her way through to avoid harm in following Henrietta and Val. Up above Myra's life gives out once more, a weight off Rudy's mind, surely. And springing up from the side of the lighthouse, a tremendous great black cat with yellow eyes and a grisly red pattern adorning the fur of its muzzle and face appears, starting to lope towards Val!
[14:30] <@Ebiris> OOC: lets roll init, now
[14:30] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+6 cat
[14:30] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+6 cat and gets 22." [1d20=16]
[14:30] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+2 dog
[14:30] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+2 dog and gets 15." [1d20=13]
[14:30] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+2 Liamae
[14:31] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+2 Liamae and gets 16." [1d20=14]
[14:31] <@Henrietta> roll 1d20+3
[14:31] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+3 and gets 5." [1d20=2]
[14:31] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+8 ???
[14:31] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+8 ??? and gets 27." [1d20=19]
[14:31] <@Lucie> roll 1d20+6 words have failed :(
[14:31] * +Hatbot --> "Lucie rolls 1d20+6 words have failed :( and gets 10." [1d20=4]
[14:34] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+5 r
[14:34] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+5 r and gets 8." [1d20=3]
[14:34] * Ebiris changes topic to '??? > Cat > Liamae > Val > Lucie > Rudy > Henrietta > ???'
[14:35] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+6 m, if relevant
[14:35] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+6 m, if relevant and gets 16." [1d20=10]
[14:35] <@Ebiris> OOC: she's dead, Rudy
[14:35] <@Rudy> OOC: Oh, right
[14:36] <@Ebiris> The great cat lopes forward and positions itself between Val (and the hidden Henrietta) and the lighthouse, snarling and baring its prodigious fangs at the much smaller hound. Liamae looks up with a start and forgoes crossing the spiked field in favour of firing a set of flaming meteorites from her fingertips at the interposing feline!
[14:36] <@Ebiris> roll 3d4+3
[14:36] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 3d4+3 and gets 9." [3d4=3, 2, 1]
[14:37] <@Ebiris> It closes its eyes and flinches as its struck, before roaring furiously, a bellow that must carry for miles in its fury! Val doesn't hesitate in the face of this, though, charging forward with doggy fury to assert his species natural place in the order of the world above cats!
[14:37] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+8 charge!
[14:37] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+8 charge! and gets 17." [1d20=9]
[14:37] <@Ebiris> roll 1d6+3
[14:37] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d6+3 and gets 9." [1d6=6]
[14:38] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+8 CMB
[14:38] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+8 CMB and gets 17." [1d20=9]
[14:39] <@Henrietta> roll 1d20+6
[14:39] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+6 and gets 24." [1d20=18]
[14:40] <@Ebiris> The cat is momentarily stunned by the much smaller black dog's ferocity, Val grabbing onto its neck with his teeth and snarling as he tries fruitlessly to drag it to the ground, only to be shaken off! Yet blood drips freely from the gaping wound struck by the dog!
[14:40] -> *Henrietta* It looks like a mountain lion but the colour is off and the build is far greater, more akin to a tiger. It must be a new and undiscovered species, or the result of magical experimentation/selective breeding
[14:40] <@Ebiris> OOC: Lucie
[14:41] * @Lucie apparently doesn't have any option but to rush in after her friends and help with the fight, keeping as close an eye out for whatever obstacles slowed Henri's progress as she goes.
[14:42] <@Ebiris> Rushing ahead, Lucie catches up with Liamae by the spikes about thirty feet behind Henrietta and a further fifty from the cat and dog show.
[14:42] <@Ebiris> OOC: Rudy
[14:42] <@Rudy> Rudy dispatches air elementals, which waste no time in closing with the aggrieving feline marauder!
[14:42] <@Rudy> roll 1d3 linka, from the soviet union
[14:42] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d3 linka, from the soviet union and gets 3." [1d3=3]
[14:43] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+8 charge, my pretties
[14:43] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+8 charge, my pretties and gets 12." [1d20=4]
[14:43] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+8 charge, my pretties
[14:43] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+8 charge, my pretties and gets 20." [1d20=12]
[14:43] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+8 charge, my pretties
[14:43] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+8 charge, my pretties and gets 12." [1d20=4]
[14:43] <@Ebiris> OOC: 1 hit
[14:43] <@Rudy> roll 1d4+1 fools!
[14:43] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d4+1 fools! and gets 3." [1d4=2]
[14:44] <@Ebiris> The elementals zip in overhead, gusting and whipping about the great cat, annoying it further!
[14:44] <@Ebiris> OOC: Henrietta
[14:44] * @Henrietta closes in with the magical cat, bringing her flail down upon its head with all her might!
[14:44] <@Henrietta> roll 1d20+10
[14:44] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+10 and gets 16." [1d20=6]
[14:44] <@Ebiris> OOC: hit
[14:45] <@Henrietta> roll 1d10+6
[14:45] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d10+6 and gets 10." [1d10=4]
[14:50] <@Ebiris> Henrietta's flail falls down as the sorceress appears, bashing the cat on its flank and drawing blood with its sharp flanges! The creature spits and hisses angrily as chanting his heard from high above, a burst of jagged thorny plants arcing down from the top of the lighthouse and detonating just behind Val and the air elementals in a jagged burst of stinging barbs and acid!
[14:50] <@Ebiris> roll 3d6 reflex for Val and elementals
[14:50] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 3d6 reflex for Val and elementals and gets 5." [3d6=3, 1, 1]
[14:51] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+8 Val
[14:51] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+8 Val and gets 24." [1d20=16]
[14:52] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+4
[14:52] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+4
[14:52] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+4
[14:52] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+4 and gets 9." [1d20=5]
[14:52] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+4 and gets 18." [1d20=14]
[14:52] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+4 and gets 21." [1d20=17]
[14:53] <@Ebiris> OOC: full damage on first, half on other two
[14:53] * Retrieving #dunes modes...
[14:53] * Ebiris changes topic to '??? > Cat > Liamae > Val > Lucie > Rudy > Elementals > Henrietta > ???'
[14:55] <@Ebiris> From their farther back vantage, Lucie and Liamae were both able to see a figure duck down under the top of the lighthouse walls after that spell, but more immediate problems present themselves as behind the pair, those familiar black skeletons are seen clambering up over the cliffs on either side of the lighthouse outcrop, both of them heading into the woods were Rudy was left and vanishing!
[14:55] * Ebiris changes topic to 'Black Skeletons > Cat > Liamae > Val > Lucie > Rudy > Elementals > Henrietta > ???'
[14:56] <@Ebiris> The beseiged cat meanwhile splits its wrath between the two who harmed it the most, suddenly seeming to grow in stature and wrath as its muscles bunch up and its teeth elongate with a pained howl, its eyes becoming furiously bloodshot and rabid as it claws Val before whirling about to bite and claw at Henrietta!
[14:57] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+12 Val
[14:57] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+12 Val and gets 25." [1d20=13]
[14:57] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+12 Henri
[14:57] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+12 Henri and gets 26." [1d20=14]
[14:57] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+11 Henri
[14:57] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+11 Henri and gets 27." [1d20=16]
[14:57] <@Ebiris> OOC: AC?
[14:57] <@Henrietta> OOC: 21 for me. Val's AC has +5 to it, whether that helps
[14:58] <@Ebiris> roll 1d8+8 18 ain't enough
[14:58] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d8+8 18 ain't enough and gets 16." [1d8=8]
[14:58] <@Ebiris> roll 1d8+8 Henri
[14:58] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d8+8 Henri and gets 10." [1d8=2]
[14:58] <@Ebiris> roll 2d6+8 Henri
[14:58] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 2d6+8 Henri and gets 11." [2d6=2, 1]
[15:00] <@Ebiris> Val is knocked several feet back by the cat's massive claws striking him, the dog making not a sound as it skips across the rocks and lays there unmoving, before Henrietta becomes its target and is savaged by massively powerful claws and gigantic teeth that rip and tear her fragile flesh!
[15:00] * Ebiris changes topic to 'Black Skeletons > Cat > Liamae > Lucie > Rudy > Elementals > Henrietta > ???'
[15:01] <@Ebiris> Hesitating a moment, Liamae steels herself and hurries daintily across the spiked ground, trying to get in range to blind the cat with another glitterdust!
[15:02] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+1
[15:02] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+1 and gets 6." [1d20=5]
[15:02] <@Ebiris> roll 4d4
[15:02] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 4d4 and gets 8." [4d4=3, 1, 1, 3]
[15:02] <@Ebiris> But her caution is for naught. Even seeing the spikes she still gets cut up quite badly in the feet, nonetheless struggling across and into range to just catch the cat on the corner of her thrown sphere of blinding starlight!
[15:03] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+5
[15:03] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+5 and gets 10." [1d20=5]
[15:03] <@Ebiris> Flinching back, the cat's eyes blink several times as motes of light fall into them, most assuredly blinding it!
[15:03] <@Ebiris> OOC: Lucie
[15:04] * @Lucie reaches out her left hand and her will to envelope the fearsome feline in an aura of crushing cold! Whether it lives or dies from this, she'll move in to support Henri thereafter.
[15:04] <@Lucie> roll 5d6 cold, fort 19 halves
[15:04] * +Hatbot --> "Lucie rolls 5d6 cold, fort 19 halves and gets 18." [5d6=2, 2, 2, 6, 6]
[15:04] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+10
[15:04] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+10 and gets 15." [1d20=5]
[15:05] <@Ebiris> Freezing ice stuns the cat, blood and saliva turning to falling icicles on its form! But though it moves stiffly, it still yet moves!
[15:05] <@Ebiris> OOC: Rudy
[15:05] <@Rudy> OOC: Did I see those skeletons?
[15:05] <@Ebiris> OOC: roll perception and find out!
[15:06] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+1 eyes
[15:06] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+1 eyes and gets 21." [1d20=20]
[15:06] <@Ebiris> OOC: No, you didn't.
[15:06] <@Rudy> Bolts follow Lucie's icy assault!
[15:06] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+6
[15:06] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+6
[15:06] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+6 and gets 26." [1d20=20]
[15:06] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+6 and gets 13." [1d20=7]
[15:07] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+6 crit?
[15:07] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+6 crit? and gets 23." [1d20=17]
[15:07] <@Ebiris> OOC: did you account for range?
[15:07] <@Rudy> OOC: I did not
[15:07] <@Ebiris> OOC: 1 crit
[15:07] <@Rudy> roll 2d8
[15:07] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 2d8 and gets 12." [2d8=8, 4]
[15:08] <@Ebiris> Rudy's bolt strikes the cat in the side of the head, puncturing through its skull and surely getting the brain... but despite such ruinous injuries, the blinded and raging feline stays up on its feet, propelled by sheer fury alone!
[15:08] <@Ebiris> roll 1d6 elemental 1 acid damage
[15:08] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d6 elemental 1 acid damage and gets 5." [1d6=5]
[15:08] <@Ebiris> OOC: elemental squad
[15:08] <@Rudy> The air elementals soon follow on the assault!
[15:09] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+7 (+2 flanking, +1 altitude)
[15:09] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+7 (+2 flanking, +1 altitude) and gets 16." [1d20=9]
[15:09] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+7 (+2 flanking, +1 altitude)
[15:09] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+7 (+2 flanking, +1 altitude) and gets 8." [1d20=1]
[15:09] <@Ebiris> OOC: 1 hit
[15:09] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+5 (+1 altitude)
[15:09] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+5 (+1 altitude) and gets 13." [1d20=8]
[15:09] <@Ebiris> OOC: 2 hits
[15:09] <@Rudy> roll 1d4+1
[15:09] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d4+1 and gets 4." [1d4=3]
[15:09] <@Rudy> roll 1d4+1
[15:09] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d4+1 and gets 2." [1d4=1]
[15:10] <@Ebiris> The gusting elementals blowing around the cat's head finally do it in, battering and slamming it down to the ground! Despite clearly being dead as it lays there, it still somehow twitches threateningly every few seconds on muscle reflex alone.
[15:10] * Ebiris changes topic to 'Black Skeletons > Liamae > Lucie > Rudy > Elementals > Henrietta > ???'
[15:10] <@Ebiris> OOC: Henri
[15:11] <@Henrietta> "How dare you?!" Henrietta snaps with a rage she is feeling more and a more lately. She kicks the cat in the side, but it seems that she is even deprived of a proper outlet for her anger. Instead, she makes her way towards Val and gathers him into her arms.
[15:14] <@Ebiris> The big black dog that saved Henrietta on more than one occassion will no more be her companion on future adventures, his shaggy black coat matted with blood and marred with shattered bones poking through ruined skin. Dark eyes that often seemed too intelligent for a mere canine stare up at his owner, forever blank and unseeing. Alas the moment is ruined by a figure popping up over the roof of the lighthouse again, what from a closer inspection looks like a tall blonde woman dressed in hides and with her hair festooned in flowers, her voice starts to chant again...
[15:14] <@Ebiris> OOC: readied action away, Henri
[15:15] <@Henrietta> "Disappear!" Henrietta cries out, launching her roses at the blonde.
[15:15] <@Henrietta> roll 3d4+3
[15:15] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 3d4+3 and gets 12." [3d4=4, 4, 1]
[15:17] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+15 concentration
[15:17] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+15 concentration and gets 28." [1d20=13]
[15:19] <@Ebiris> The woman is struck by roses, staggering back half a step but keeping her ground and not skipping a beat in her chant. To her words, the sky begins to darken, clouds churning and roiling overhead before the air is split by a tremendous peal of thunder, lightning arcing down to imact Henrietta in turn!
[15:20] <@Ebiris> roll 3d6 reflex Henri
[15:20] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 3d6 reflex Henri and gets 9." [3d6=2, 6, 1]
[15:20] <@Henrietta> roll 1d20+5
[15:20] * +Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+5 and gets 14." [1d20=9]
[15:20] <@Ebiris> OOC: full damage
[15:23] <@Ebiris> The lightning hits Henrietta full force, causing her to jerk and shudder as electricity courses through her for what seems like far too long when it's just an instant in reality! With that done, the blonde spellcaster quickly ducks under cover once more! Meanwhile as Rudy provides support from the forest, he finds himself now the hunted as a pair of familiar black skeletons emerge soundlessly from the undergrowth behind him, leading with their claws on the attack!
[15:23] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+10
[15:23] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+10 and gets 20." [1d20=10]
[15:23] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+10
[15:23] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+10 and gets 28." [1d20=18]
[15:23] <@Rudy> OOC: ow
[15:23] <@Ebiris> roll 1d4 damage
[15:23] <@Rudy> OOC: AC is 21
[15:23] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d4 damage and gets 3." [1d4=3]
[15:23] <@Ebiris> roll 1d3 strength damage
[15:23] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d3 strength damage and gets 3." [1d3=3]
[15:25] <@Ebiris> Rudy's panicked dodge gets him out of the path of the first skeleton, only to end up right in position for the second to rake his back, right through the shoulderblade! The wound is trivial compared to others, but again he feels his strength leaving him... Meanwhile Liamae follows Henrietta's example in preparing to attack the woman on the tower when she makes her presence known again...
[15:25] <@Ebiris> OOC: LLucie
[15:26] <@Rudy> Rudy makes a pained shout, one that sounds as much like a hacking cough as anything!
[15:27] <@Lucie> At Rudy's panicked shout, Lucie whips around and tears back down the hill to help him out. She might not be able to do much about the caster in the tower, but this is exactly why she took the time to add silver coating to her mace.
[15:27] <@Ebiris> Rushing back, Lucie pushes into the woods far enough to see Rudy being assailed by two familiar foes!
[15:27] <@Ebiris> OOC: Rudy
[15:28] <@Rudy> Rudy hops back a step, before turning about and running atop the hill! He dives to the ground, hoping that his prone body will present less of a target to any wandering archers! OOC: Withdrawing, going prone at end of movement
[15:29] <@Ebiris> OOC: elementals
[15:29] <@Rudy> OOC: Can the elementals charge the mage?
[15:29] <@Ebiris> OOC: no straight line. But they can fly up and attack normally
[15:30] <@Rudy> The elementals fly towards the mage atop the tower, laying into her with clobbering gusts of wind!
[15:30] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+4 attaccck
[15:30] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+4 attaccck and gets 12." [1d20=8]
[15:30] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+4 attaccck
[15:30] <@Rudy> roll 1d20+4 attaccck
[15:30] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+4 attaccck and gets 8." [1d20=4]
[15:30] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d20+4 attaccck and gets 21." [1d20=17]
[15:30] <@Ebiris> OOC: 1 hit
[15:30] <@Rudy> roll 1d4+1
[15:30] * +Hatbot --> "Rudy rolls 1d4+1 and gets 4." [1d4=3]
[15:31] <@Ebiris> The elementals are barely seen over the lip of the tower's top walls, whipping about and striking downwards at an unseen foe!
[15:31] <@Ebiris> OOC: Henrietta
[15:32] <@Henrietta> There are no enemies left in sight, and so she waits for her chance to vent her anger.
[15:32] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+13 vs elemental one
[15:32] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+13 vs elemental one and gets 18." [1d20=5]
[15:32] <@Ebiris> roll 2d4+5 let me know if this kills it
[15:32] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 2d4+5 let me know if this kills it and gets 8." [2d4=1, 2]
[15:33] <@Rudy> OOC: Yes
[15:33] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+13 cleave on elemental two
[15:33] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+13 cleave on elemental two and gets 16." [1d20=3]
[15:33] <@Rudy> OOC: miss!
[15:33] <@Rudy> OOC: AC is 17
[15:33] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+8 on elemental two
[15:33] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+8 on elemental two and gets 27." [1d20=19]
[15:33] <@Ebiris> roll 2d4+5
[15:33] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 2d4+5 and gets 10." [2d4=1, 4]
[15:33] <@Rudy> OOC: Lives on 1 hp
[15:35] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+15 casting defensively
[15:35] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 1d20+15 casting defensively and gets 29." [1d20=14]
[15:36] <@Ebiris> roll 3d6 on elemental two
[15:36] * +Hatbot --> "Ebiris rolls 3d6 on elemental two and gets 8." [3d6=5, 2, 1]
[15:37] <@Ebiris> Up above a weighted chain is seen arcing upwards to crash through the elementals, discorporating one before a blast of lightning finishes off another, but neither of the two who must be responsible for this poke their head above the wall and into the line of fire!