Kill them

Kharona 'felt' the voice in head urge him to attack. Every bit of him tried to fight the command but the Illithid had brought the supressed thrall in him to the surface. Rage flooded thru him. Rage that the foul one turned on him and channelled into the silver mindblade flaming from his hand.

This cannot happen again. Kharona despaired. A soft laughter answered his mental wailing and again Kharona was urged, no, required, to kill the outsiders.

[Private to DM Daniel: Prep Stuff: Inertial Armor-AC4 (1PP), Force Screen-AC4 to front (1PP), Psionic Focus, Psychic Strike charged (only 1D8),

Current AC:22 front, 18 rest

Players rolls Initiative and you can move within 30' of any of the characters. You are in a big tunnel, there are driders levitating above you, webs in front of you, and the PC's and 30-something minotaurs in the webs. Some of the minotaurs are free, and the voice urges you to target them first.]
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Kharona shot forward. Stepping off an outcropping on the wall he launched himself into a spinning jump. The silver midblade flared and shattered into a thousand jagged pieces at Kharona's will. He sent the shards speeding towards the nearest freed minotaur as he landed in a crouch. Focus made them razor sharp as they drove into the creature's side, passing thru his body and flying back to reform around the Soulknife's outstretched hand.


Move to within 30' of a freed minotaur
Use Crystal Shard - 2 PPs for 2D6 damage
Target nearest Minotaur
Ranged Touch attack - 18
Damage: 11

The shards rip into the minotaur, injuring him but not too badly - his tough hide seems to absorb the blows, and he roars in anger and pain.

Seeing the Mindflayer Deepwalker howls with rage and easily overcomes the creature's blast.  Still enraged he ripped away the new webs the driders send his way.  Having to go through the driders to reach his target Deepwalker slams the closest drider with his flail.

Rolled a 25 for Will Save
Rolled a 21 for Reflex Save
Rolled a 26 to hit on AoO for 22 points of Damage
Rolled a 21 to set Psionic Focus with move action
Rolled a 12 to hit using 2 point Power Attack
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Deepwalker clobbers the creature and it begins to chitter angrily.

Close on Kharona's heels, the Calishite fought the mental command as well. Dammit... just give me one minute of freedom and you'll taste my blade you squid face!

But the command was too strong to resist. Headed straight for a freed minotaur, Yuthel shaped the blade of energy around his fist and slashed at the cow-man. The blade plunged through the soft skin but the man's momentum carried him too far too soon to deal much punishment.

Init : 17
Charge : 25
Damage : 4

"Rothe iblith.." It wasn't clear who the half-drow was talking to as she corrected her aim before releasing a second icy ray towards the Illithid... however, she over-corrected, missing for a second shot running...

It seems the minotaurs know about flayer thralls - the three minotaurs who are neither webbed or stunned charge past the bodyguards (each bodyguard can make an AOO) and slam their horns into the mind flayer, which flies backwards & thuds against a wall, unconscious.

With it's defeat, the minotaurs shout out a great cry of victory - cut short only by the sound of the driders above you weaving spells again.

Their chittering takes on meaning for those who can speak in the tounge of the drow - "If you will not serve your house, you will serve none! The spider queen claims your strength and your sight."

[Private to Illianka: Make me the following saves:
Will save DC 15 or suffer -4 to all attack rolls, saves, ability checks, and skill checks
Fort save DC 14 or be blinded
]

"Free or dead!" Illianka cried back, defiantly as she resisted their magic through sheer mental fortitude. "The spider bitch has no claim over me! House DeVirr can rot!" with those words, she flicked a dagger from her sleeve up at the Driders, but the webs hampered her strike and the iron blade missed, clattering into the darkness before falling back to the cave floor.

With the beasts passing beside him, Yuthel's reflexes have him take a shot at the most wounded minotaur, trying to finish them as soon as he can to pursue other targets.

The mindblade's arc leaves a trail of light behind but misses the charging one.

Then suddenly, the illithid's command have no hold over Yuthel's brain. Could I really be free? Quick, I need to either get outta here or kill any mind-flayer around! He stops in his tracks and looks around at Kharona, to make sure the same feeling is there...

AoO misses

Kharona's chest tightened as he saw the minotaurs run past him, ignoring him and seeing the Flayer as the main threat. The compulsion drove him to attack the creatures and protect the Illithid. An act that went so far beyond being wrong...and yet the silver blade flashed as Kharona spun on the ball of his foot and slashed out at the nearest of his would-be saviors.


AoO: 15
Damage if a hit: 11 (discharge Psychic Strike on the hit)


Then the bulls charged past and Kharona watched with hope as they gored the foul one. A simple moment of realization was all he felt as the Devourer's presence left his mind but he gasped loudly as if he had just rose out of the water to suck in precious air. The Illithid's touch was on him like a cancer. He had escaped them so long ago that he had almost forgetten it's filthy caress.


KILL IT!!!! he screamed in Common at the bulls. He shot a quick glance at Yuthel and then up to the Driders. The least he could do was aid this strange party and kill the twisted Drow that floated above them.

OOC-Can we label our posts with something like Round 1 so we all know where we are at in the Initiative order/round? Something to help us keep time.

DM: Go ahead.
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Schnickle stood there, woozy and confused.

DM: Don't worry too much about initiative - I keep track of it fairly carefully & post the opponent's actions at the end of each round. We have more of a "All PC's go, then all NPC's go" initiative order.


Round 4

Kharona dropped to a knee and brought his hands in tight to his chest. The silver flames of his mindblade licked softly about him, growing in intensity as he focused his thoughts into the weapon. Releasing into the blade a small part of the anger that had overwhelmed him before.

With a suddeness that belied the fact that he had been motionless only a moment previous he rose and spread his arms wide. The mindblade spun from his hand but flew wide of the Driders floating above them.


Move Action: imbue Psychic Strike
Attack: Throw Mindblade at an unhurt Drider as Deepwalker will likely finish off the one he hit last round. A Drider that is not threatened by Deepwalker so I'm not throwing into melee and the -4 to hit=) Expend Psionic Focus for +2D6 on Psionic Shot.
Rolled a 1. Not even funny. Out of now 9 attack rolls in 3 RPs I've rolled 3 1s.  Yuthel's done it too already. I killed my own guy in an Eberron RP. I curse you Dice Roller, with all of my soul. So long hot 3d6 + 2d8 damage there. lol
Do I need to do anything about the 1?
DM: This DM doesn't punish people for rolling ones.

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As the drider Deepwalker is fighting starts to cast its spell Deepwalker smashes it with his Flail, interrupting it.  Turning his attention to another drider Deepwalker hits it solidly with his Flail, bearing it down to the ground with the force of his blow and smashing it's body to a yellow-white pulp. Bouncing the flail off the ground, he slams it into another Drider to the sound of breaking bones.

AoO rolled 24 to hit for 19 Damage
Rolled a 27 to use a move Action to set Psionic Focus using Psionic Meditiation
Use a 2 point Power Attack and expend Psionic Focus on Psionic Weapon
Rolled a natural 20 to Hit and a 19 to confirm critical
Rolled a 25 for damage X2 for critical
Rolled a 6 for Psionic Weapon Damage
When one drops Cleave Attack on another drider; rolled 25 to hit for 17 Damage
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"Then dead it shall be" return the driders, the remaining four dropping to the ground around Illianka and striking. Two of them manage to miss entirely and one finds it's fangs slipping away from her, but another strikes cleanly, dealing 6 damage.

[Private to Illianka: You passed the initial poison save.]

"Mother Lolth, give us the peace of death and glory!"

Seeing Kharona turning against the driders, Yuthel decides to help. He sees lots of people fighting, than, watching as some drop to the ground, he decides to charge one, lending whatever support he can to the dark elf surrounded.

13:48, Today: Yuthel Astid'Malaad rolled 23 using 1d20+10. charge drider.
13:48, Today: Yuthel Astid'Malaad rolled 9 using 1d8+3. damage drider.

"You strike at air..." she muttered, before her eyes glowed once more, her power activating as she chanelled her will. The same glow entered Deepwalker's eyes for the second time and a moment later, the melee specialist and the agile knife-thrower had switched positions...

[Private to Deepwalker; DM Daniel: Dimension Swap with Deepwalker again... >< please don't hate me.]

Round 5

Kharona hissed as the Driders floated to the chamber floor. Had the touch of the Devourer's mind been so foul that he couldn't even properly throw his mindblade?

Finding his center he manifested the blade once again with ease of long practice. Yuthel had joined the combat as well and damaged one of the creatures. Channeling the power of his thoughts Kharona stabbed with the mindblade, aimed directly at the spider-Drow facing Yuthel. Silver flame lit in the creatures eyes and loud crack snapped in the air as Kharona thrust the force of his mind into that of the Drider.


Move action: manifest Mindblade
Attack: Mind Thrust on the Drider hit by Yuthel. Damage:9
DM: Drider failed it's save.

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Wading through the driders surrounding him Deepwalker brings his flail around to smash another of the foul beasts.  Suddenly he's somewhere else surrounded by driders his strike hitting the floor where a drider used to be in front of him.

Rolled a 20 on Concentration check to use a move action to set Psionic Focus using Psionic Meditation
Rolled a 11(assume miss) to hit using a 2 point Power Attack and expending Psionic Focus on Psionic Weapon

The remaining driders turn and make a dash for it - everyone gets an attack of opportunity as they pass, but otherwise they will be running for it.

Kharona intercepted the Drider he and Yuthel had damaged. He lashed out at the drider with a vicious swipe of his mindblade but the creature was fast and dodged up the side of a wall to avoid the strike.


AoO-7 sigh. A 1 and a 2 in my last rolls.

Stay and fight you dogs! Yuthel's anger at having been a thrall makes him lash out in fury at the driders around. Bringing his mind blade to bear again, he swings the thing at one of the fleeing half-drow/half-spider.

Die! Die! Die!

00:59, Today: Yuthel Astid'Malaad rolled 16 using 1d20+8. mindblade AoO.
00:59, Today: Yuthel Astid'Malaad rolled 5 using 1d8+3. damage AoO.

As one of the driders fled past, Illianka struck out with her dagger. The small blade flashed true, striking the fleeing creature hard enough to draw blood even through its' carapace.

"Rothe Iblith.." she muttered as it moved out of range, though it wasnt' clear whether she was insulting herself or the drider. "Do we give chase?"

As the foul driders flee his might Deepwalker smashes one of them with his flail.

Rolled 23 to hit for 27 Damage

OOC: Let me know if it drops cause Deepwalker may get a Cleave attack.

[Private to Deepwalker: (Rolled the cleave for you, missed)]

The driders suffer various cuts and scrapes as they attempt to escape, and one is crushed under Deepwalker's flail. The remainder dash away as one stops to cast one final spell, filling the passage between you and him with thick webbing. Then it turns, and dashes away.

OOC: If anyone can think of a way to chase them down, go ahead.