Day Five. After midnight. Wednesday, November 16th, 576 CY
Cold, foggy, cloudy
At the stentorian intonation of Long Bo of the Shalm, roots, vines, shoots and creepers writhe to life with a will of their own, grasping, clutching and holding Mouser the thief and Brevos the ranger!
Around them swirl a chaotic cacophony of wailing trees, shrieking undead, singing phantoms, and the shouts of battle!
Into that pandemonium of sound, the beautiful maidens recite more words that cannot be heard nor comprehended.
Suddenly, Brevos, Ingrid and Telkis feel their armor growing painfully hot! In minutes it will sear them, cooking them alive!
Rudolf evades the grasping flora, running across it and out, beyond the range of its reach! He joins Telkis, who has broken free of the noose-like grip of the plant tendrils, and the diminutive pair advance on the northernmost woman! (W1)
"Prithee, kind sirs, I doth beseech th-!" the innocent seeming maid pleads before they strike her down mid-sentence with sword and bludgeon!
She collapses to the ground, broken and bloody, and doesn't move again.
Startlingly, her shape transforms into that of a old crone, her hideous face locked in a leering death's grin.
Telkis' armor begins to cool!
Ingrid gets free of the strangling vegetation, and helps Mouser loose from the ropes that bound him, but the living plants still hold him fast!
Suddenly, Urdur appears out of thin air as he hurtles a small jar at the fair maiden to the southwest of the chaos! (W2) It contains the mysterious, fiery orange concoction he discovered in the Hell Mouth of the Dark Mother, and when it hits the ground at the woman's feet, it explodes!
The beautiful maiden is consumed in a sudden conflagration that incinerates her alive! There is the smell of fire and brimstone and burning flesh and then the burst of flame is gone and with it, the woman's life!
The charred, blackened remains of her skeleton fall to the ground as Brevos feels his armor cool. But Ingrid's grows hotter still!
Then the ensorcelled druid begins to weave another fearsome spell!
Actions?!
Map:
One square = 10 feet.
Non-required Reading (rolls and rulings):
PC Status:
- Brevos, Half-Elf Ranger 3: Move: 9", AC: 2(1), HP: 2/31
Grey Mouser, Half-Elf Magic-User/Thief 3/4: Move: 9", AC: 5, HP: 13/19, Spells: 2/2 1st lvl, 0/1 2nd lvl
Ingrid Esthof, Human Cleric 4: Move: 6", AC: 3(1), HP: 7/22, Spells: 1/5 1st lvl and 2/4 2nd lvl
Long Bo, Human Druid 4: Move: 9", AC: 4(3), HP: 20/30, Spells: 5/6 1st lvl, 0/3 2nd lvl and 1/2 3rd lvl
Rudolf Rassendyll, Halfling Thief 4: Move: 9", AC: 3, HP: 4/16
Telkis Brassfang, Gnome Fighter 3: Move: 9", AC: 0, HP: 7/32
Urdur Shimmerstone, Gnome Illusionist 3: Move: 12", AC: 4, HP: 5/9, Spells: 0/2 1st lvl and 0/1 2nd lvl
- Turned Undead (Ingrid): Duration: Z1, Z2: 4 rounds; V1, V3: 5 rounds.
Audible Glamour (Urdur): Duration: 6 rounds
Entangle (Bo): Duration: 8 rounds.