We're gonna go with Syrio holding still and waiting and observing...

(20:56, Today: Syrio rolled 3 using 2d6 ((1,2)).

Syrio gains 1 new xp.)

Darn.

Getting the exp to level up ain't so bad. Let's see if it is worth it.

In the attempt to swap places with Ravnar, Syrio ends up opening the door with a tumble onto the floor. He is there for only a moment as he acrobatically picks himself back up.

But it is little too late, as he looks, he sees what was making the noise. It was a strange creature, symmetrical to three points on its body. It had three arms and three legs (presumably 3 eyes), with a maw of mouth on top of it. It's skin was made of a cobbling pile of rocks.

The room surrounding it had seen some damage, pillars chipped and the pool in the room centre seemed to overflow a little.

As the headless torso of a strange creature saw Syrio, it let out a weird sputtering, inhaling noise towards Syrio. Sensing something, it lets out a gutteral roar and thumps towards them.

Get back in the hall! Get back in the hall!

Syrio hurries to leave the room, and shut the door behind him...

(Dex/Defy Danger: 08:08, Today: Syrio rolled 8 using 2d6+1 ((2,5)).)

Scrambling to get past the door, Syrio manages to do so just in time for Jagga to take a metal piton and jam it into the floor. He hardly hammered it in twice before the door braced against an impact from the other side. A groan could be heard and it barged again. A little dust from the floor getting uplifted from the impact.

"It won't hold for long, so act quickly!" Jagga pointed out as he started to move back. Punctuating his point, the group could hear cackling noises around them. Sai let out a profanity in frustration.

Don't forget to modify gear with the sapphire and the stuff you guys got from the store room.
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:33, Sat 02 Mar 2019.

(Done)

Fighting in the hallway sounds too confining... is there a good area that would be near enough to get to in time...?

The closest "more comfortable" battle arena would be the hall that the creature is in. bBut it has a monster in the doorway.
Next would be the entrance foyer hall. Even with the crates, it is better than a hallway which just fits Sannang (assuming no shenanigans with the marble/orb that Nimol seems hesitant to use).

The next comfortable one would be the room with the rotating staircase and the lock, but you run the risk of being intercepted on the way up by whatever that cackling is.

"Get to the entrance foyer hall! We'll have room to fight there with Sannang!" shouts Syrio, so everyone heads there...

As the group travels to their destination, they note that there is more humidity in the air, the walls look damp. Emerging from the floors and walls, came pools of a liquid mud.

The pools of mud raise up and condense into impish creatures, similar to the dust mephits from yesterday. They have more menace in their voice as they cackle and they begin to approach.

The wood of the door, though distant, can be heard splintering under the punishment.

Mud Mephits are... in the foyer? Or blocking our way there?

They are coming from the hallway. You're already in the Foyer

Got it.

Any idea how many there are? Or is it too soon?

As syrio asks himself how many there must be, he looks back at where they came from, to find maybe 4 of these pools, but the sounds suggested more might be coming.

You can do one thing before your round of actions begin, choose carefully.

Duelist
When you analyze a potential opponent for a few moments, and ask, “What is its weak spot?” the GM will tell you, honestly.

Syrio tries to figure out the best way to fight the mud-things...

This wasn't the first time Syrio had fought a fluid enemy. His experience told him that these mud mephits weren't as quick to form as other things he had seen like water elementals.

If he took apart the appendages of the creature, or took out the legs and made it fall over, it would be vulnerable while reforming.

(Can we start attacking the things now? Or is it a little late for that?)

Like I said, you had a round where they weren't formed to do a thing. Then you did said thing. So feel free to proceed.

Yes, so... do I/we need to roll for it...?

You wanted to attack so it would be Hack and Slash right? I have the other NPCs

"Separate the limbs of the mud things!" Syrio tells his companions. "That's their weakness!"

(14:41, Today: Syrio rolled 12 using 2d6+1 ((5,6)).

14:41, Today: Syrio rolled 10 using 1d10 ((10)).

14:42, Today: Nimol rolled 6 using 2d6+2 ((2,2)).

Nimol gains 1 new XP.

14:44, Today: Ravnar rolled 8 using 2d6+1 ((2,5)).

14:45, Today: Ravnar rolled 4 using 1d6 ((4)).)

Nimol takes a stab with his new spear, hoping to spin the spear and try creating a hole large enough to remove a limb. His problems come to ahead when the mud absorbs the impact, giving Nimol not much leeway.
As one arm is occupied, the mud mephit uses its slowly enlarged other arm to slam down on Nimol.

Jagga saw the problem coming to ahead, ever the team member, he went to save Nimol. Despite choosing a good weapon - a two handed scimitar - Jagga missed his target, thanks to a mud ball intercepting his blade mid arc.
Thus Nimol takes the hit.

This very rude mud ball had come from another mud mephit. One that Ravnar was striking at, when it tried to get back at Ravnar, it failed to hit its intended target.

Abrisham had thrown a powder which stayed in the air like a cloud, forming a path between the mephit and herself. She snapped her fingers and a bolt of lightning flowed through the cloud to jolt the mephit.
But as she did that, a bit of powder had gotten towards a bottle on a box. So the bolt forked and shattered the bottle as well. A blue-white point of light comes from the bottle and a bit of wind swirls.

Zand helped with a sword swipe of his own for the mages mephit, in trade he got a hit in the shoulder from some rock hard mud. Sai does the same thing to Ravnar's mephit, though he moved with more agility to avoid the hit.

Meanwhile a distant banging still occurs, the sound of splintering remaining the same.
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OOOOOPS... I rolled with +2... ranged attack.

I was gonna use ammo and forgot to say so...

Wait, so you mean you were using the Volley action with the bow?

If so, that is ok, just say what move you're using if you don't describe fiction (aka, I had nothing to work off so I assumed melee).

Yes



I know, I just forgot... the only clue was that Nimol took a +2 bonus to do it...

This, I should have noticed. I'll mod the post in a bit.

That is, how Nimol's part of the story would go if he felt eager to use the spear. But he was hesitant, it wasn't familiar to him just yet.

Instead, he had relied on his bow, and dispense of numerous arrows to cause the limb damage his ally advocated for.

Jagga still missed his target, and took some harm from a mephit. Though he gritted his teeth and carried on like any warrior would.