OOC: I should get an AOO too right?

Jorn swings his chain as the brain rises, trying to take it down before it can cause more mayhem;

15:46, Today: Jorn Brightcaller rolled 6 using 2d4+4. Damage.
15:45, Today: Jorn Brightcaller rolled 19 using 1d20+7. Spiked Chain AOO.

Should the brain still remain standingfloating, the dwarf takes one last gamble by dropping his chain and drawing his throwing axe, sending the blade spinning upwards towards the leader;

15:51, Today: Jorn Brightcaller rolled 6 using 1d20+4. Throwing Axe Ranged Attack.

OOC: Wait! You don't need to drop the chain, just let go of it with one hand (free action)!

OOC: Jorn: yes, and your spiked chain threatens a big area. And Gurgun's right, you don't have to drop the chain completely. You can't make an AoO next round however (no weapon being properly gripped).

And Jorn, you finished off the brain-in-a-jar with your AoO! Write something cool. ;)

[Private to GM: Mid-Round Update:

The wickedly spiked end of the chain smashed into the glass jar, widening the crack and spilling yet more of its pre

Updates:

Skeleton #3, #4 destroyed

Brain-Jar critically damaged!

Initiative:
20 - Slove
20 - Gurgun
19 - Jorn
19 - Balrok
18 - Garel (NPCed)
12 - Undead Girallon
11 - Skeletons
 3 - The Brain Of Mourel The Duskwalker]

The dwarf gasped in horror as the undead abominations started rising from the sides. With Gurgun covering from him against the horde, Jorn set his sights on the slowly rising head, spinning the spiked chain in his hand, then letting it loose at the foul creature.

"Yer not getting away foul creature!"

With a ear-splitting crack the end of the chain pierced the glass bottle the brain was stored in, striking into its pink, vunerable flesh. There was a mental shriek, one of pain, surprise and anger, and then only silence. The dwarf gave a satisfied grunt, turning to check if the domination had worn off Garel.
[Private to DM BadCatMan:
OOC: Best I could think of on the fly ^^]

Does the monkey continue to fight, or does it stop when its master dies?

Slove is quickly after the undead creature and swipes it with sword.

OOC:-
17:52, Today: Slove rolled 19 using 2d6+8. damage.
17:52, Today: Slove rolled 26 using 1d20+9. attack with sword.
Slove base movemant is 50ft so he should be able keep/catch up with creature.
If he has charge he will.

Balrok is doused in gook and fluid as the vat breaks, but that doesn't dampen his enthusiasm for the death of the brain.  "Gud shot, Jorn!" he calls gleefully.  If he is close enough, he then kicks the brain, sending it flying like a football into a nearby wall.  "Fer gud measure," he explains.  He's so distracted by the dead brain that his swing against the undead monkey lacks anything resembling focus.

13:34, Today: Balrok rolled 12 using 1d10+9. PA +2 damage.
13:33, Today: Balrok rolled 15 using 1d20+10. Attack v. Monkey PA -2.

Yay! Time to finish this fight!

OOC: Balrok, it's out-of-control, undead killing machine, what do you think? :D
I'm not sure if the controller's death frees a dominated victim, but it's usually played that way. I'll roll a new Will save for Garel: 25. He's freed!

The reign of Mourel the Duskwalker ended, rather gruesomely and anticlimactically, with a mashed pink and grey brain flopping onto the glass floor. You'll still... not get... alive, here, die... the voice whispered in their minds, one last threat.

Until Balrok booted it into the wall, causing it to go splat.

Slove carved a chunk out of the girallon, but Balrok couldn't say the same, his axe only scraped its tough, dead hide. [Slove: hits, deals 14 damage. Balrok misses]

The girallon retaliated with an angry snort of noxious gas, and slammed a paw down on the elf's arm. [Girallon: slam attack 28, damage 10 @ Slove]

With the cold grip freed from his mind, Garel shook his head, his will his own at last. He raised his hands in a gesture of surrender to Gurgun. "It's me! I'm free!" he declared, then swung his staff at a nearby skeleton to prove it, but it ducked the blow. [Garel: Will 25, free. Attack 12, miss]

The remaining skeletons were out of their holes now, claws reaching and scratching and clutching. Balrok bore the brunt of one scraping at his armoured back. Another went for Jorn's throat, perhaps in revenge for the death of their master; his beard protected him from the worst of it, but he lost a fair few hairs in the process. [S1 claw attacks Balrok: 7 and 7, miss. S2 attacks Jorn: 21, rolled a 20, critical 12, no; and 7, miss. Jorn takes 5 damage!]


Round 7:



G: Gurgun Nightwhisper
S: Slove
J: Jorn Brightcaller
B: Balrok
G: Garel Aster

G: Undead Girallon, moderately damaged
1, 2, 5, 6: Skeletons

Effects:

Protection From Evil: (Balrok, Gurgun) +2 deflection AC, +2 resistance Saves vs Evil (ie, on everything). Blocks possession, enchantment (charm, compulsion), and attacks from Evil summons.

Initiative:
20 - Slove
20 - Gurgun
19 - Jorn
19 - Balrok
18 - Garel
12 - Undead Girallon
11 - Skeletons

Gurgun takes a step towards the skeletons and tries to trip the ones remaining, but he fails to get a good grip on the bony bodies. Good to have Garel back , do something about big ape! he says while attempting to duck the skeleton's retaliations.

OOC: Flurry of Blows touch attacks 8, 11 (I'm guessing none hit)

OOC: Hello? Where is everyone? (Jorn's told me he will be absent for a few weeks, so he's okay.) I'll NPC/update on the weekend if Slove and Balrok don't check in.

Mid-Round Update:

With Garel finally free to act, he remembered what he could do to deal with the walking dead. Raising his starry amulet of Mystra, he cried "Let Mystra's touch return you to rest!" Beams of blue-white light lanced out from the seven stars, spilling around the corners and impacting on each of the undead fiends. The skeletons dropped into piles of inert bones, leaving only the hulking mass of the girallon still to deal with. [Garel NPCed. Turn Undead, turn check 19, turning damage 7, all skeletons destroyed]

"Good ta have ye back!" Jorn cheered, raising his chain in salute. He tried hurling the other end at the roaring girallon, but succeeded only in tossing it into Slove's back. "Sorry!" [Jorn NPCed. Attack 8, rolled a 1]

Updates:

All Skeletons (1, 2, 5, 6) destroyed

Initiative:
20 - Slove
20 - Gurgun
19 - Jorn (NPCed)
19 - Balrok
18 - Garel (NPCed)
12 - Undead Girallon
11 - Skeletons

Gurgun watches with satisfaction as the skeletons crumble to the ground; the path is now free to the girallon!

Slove tries take another slice out of girallon.

OOC:
14:02, Today: Slove rolled 10 using 1d6+6. damage.
14:02, Today: Slove rolled 15 using 1d20+9. attack with sword.

Slove struck the girallon again, but this time he couldn't pierce its thick dead hide. [Slove misses]

Balrok followed with an axe-swing of his own, and with more success. He chopped the zombie hard, cleaving it open. [Balrok NPCed. Attack 31, damge 16.]

The girallon retaliated, slamming its paw down hard on him. [Girallon: slam attack 31, damage 12 @ Balrok (added to bio-line)]

Round 8:



G: Gurgun Nightwhisper
S: Slove
J: Jorn Brightcaller
B: Balrok
G: Garel Aster

G: Undead Girallon, badly damaged

Effects:

Protection From Evil: (Balrok, Gurgun) +2 deflection AC, +2 resistance Saves vs Evil (ie, on everything). Blocks possession, enchantment (charm, compulsion), and attacks from Evil summons.

Initiative:
20 - Slove
20 - Gurgun
19 - Jorn
19 - Balrok
18 - Garel
12 - Undead Girallon

Loading one of the magic stones in his sling Gurgun fires away, but misses horribly, causing the stone to clatter harmlessly against the crystal walls of the chamber beyond.

OOC: Rolled a '1', sigh...

Balrok continues to hack at the ape determinedly, chopping into the thick, dead hide like he is chopping cord wood.

10:53, Today: Balrok rolled 16 using 1d10+9. Damage vs. Giant Ape.
10:52, Today: Balrok rolled 23 using 1d20+10. Axe vs. Giant Ape.

Mid-Round Update:

Balrok's axe cleaved into the girallon and tore off chunks of dead flesh. There was much left now, they'd pared it almost back to the bone. A few good hits seemed likely to finish it off. [Balrok hits, Girallon serious damaged]

Updates:

Girallon serious damaged. It has AC 18.

Initiative:
20 - Slove
20 - Gurgun
19 - Jorn
19 - Balrok
18 - Garel
12 - Undead Girallon

Slove swing with great sword again.

OOC:
04:39, Today: Slove rolled 15 using 2d6+6. damage.
04:39, Today: Slove rolled 22 using 1d20+9. attack with sword.

Slove swung his sword high, and lopped the girallon's head clean off. With a throaty gurgle, the rotten behemoth hit the glass floor with a might thud and lay deathly still. [Slove destroys girallon zombie!]


OOC: Battle is over!

"Glad we got dat monkey off our backs, heh heh heh," Balrok says, then immediately begins searching the body and area for traps and loot.

Search 22, or 23 to find traps.

Balrok hunted around the skeleton vault, though he found no traps and no great treasure.

Examining the glass jar that had contained the brain of Mourel Duskwalker showed that it had a backbone, of sorts - a foot-long twisted platinum rod, with a loop at one end and a large topaz at the other.



Jorn seized on it instantly. "Another one o' dem portal control keys! That makes two." he said, pulling an identical rod from his pack and comparing them. "We're sure to be gettin' out now! We jus' have ta get to the whatsit place controlling it."

He also peeked inside the skeleton niches and pulled out a dark shape, a gnarled horn fashioned it to a drinking cup, bound with platinum bands and set with gems.



"An' this is tha Grail that tha merchant Tulin Fairweather originally hired us to find, what got us out 'ere in the first place. That's made from black dragon horn, that it. And bloody ugly it is too."

Gurgun joins in the search of the chamber, casting a worried look at the fierce dwarf warrior Balrok looks like he could use some healing. Gurgun can treat your wounds, and Garel may heal them. the hobgoblin proposes.

"Bah, jus' a flesh wound," Balrok grumbles as he searches the body while bleeding out onto the ground.  "But if ye two wanna stop the bleedin', I won't object--less blood tu clean out of me beard later, heh."

OOC: No luck as I rolled 9 on the check, unless I can take 10 which means 16
This message was last edited by the player at 15:40, Mon 01 Nov 2010.

Well, I have 14 HP left even after my rage ends -- that's enough that I won't keel over.  I went ahead and ended my rage in my stats.  So there's no particular rush unless we're ambushed down here.