ooc: Sorry for the delay and rushed post. My husband's endoscopy went a little different this time. Different drugs for him and I had to babysit him more than anticipated after. Hopefully I didn't miss anything important in this post, if I did I apologize!

Tanzy: So what will you do if they wish to come along then? People tend to like festivities you know... he informs you with a grin. And you go ahead and kill him however you see fit. But slitting throats has its merits, don't knock it so quickly, he wags a finger. Whatever you do, if you want company I'm yours. I can turn into a hippo and block the door or something. I'm very useful you know.

Raknesh/Bryon: Halek looks pleased to see you join them, the little girl turns her head briefly but quickly turns back to Halek, seemingly focused on him most of all. You, she points, you alone would feed us for a solid year! Yes, we are hungry. You'll do nicely. Judging from Halek's tiny size she can't be talking about him physically, not to mention you know that the bodies are always recovered, albeit dead. She must be feeding on something else...It doesn't much matter though for she suddenly rushes forward, moving impossibly fast towards the poor boy...

ooc: Ok, she'll be there within a round so go ahead and make your attacks. Keep in mind you're in an alley so that means friendly fire is a possibility. Here's the layout: x=the girl, r=raknesh, etc. Also please roll will saves while you're at it.

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Prizzard: Should you mention it, the blind man happily gives you directions to a good tailor and when you tell him all you desire he looks stunned. That will not come easy, or cheap, but then you probably already know that. If you can give me a little time though, I think I can put it together for you. Now, I'll need to take your measurements...

09:05, Today: Bryon rolled 3 using 1d20+2.  Initiative.

Bryon quickly makes the hand gestures needed for one of her abilities. The ground beneath the girl erupts with black tentacles.

Althol moved to put his shield between Bryon and the charging girl. His eyes go wide when he sees what his wife can do now.

Create Chill Tentacles but starting five feet from us and extending the length of the alleyway. None of us should be affected.

What Raknesh feared happened, of course.

As he noticed the strange use of 'us', the thing hiding under the guise of a little girl made her move.

"Halek, move back!" he said, moving between him and the thing.

He fired a quick volley of holy arrows, hoping to stop her progression.
init 10
         dmg  fire  holy
ATT1 36   15    5    11
ATT2 19   16    1     4
ATT3 16
ATT4 32    13    4    9

Prizzard isn't exceptionally tall at 5'9" (175cm) but weighs more than his form suggests, a trim and muscular 210lbs (95kg), much of it in his legs. "So long as I have it in time for this wedding. And you need not trouble yourself with hiding my lack of an arm, I may have it regenerated by then. I assume you'll want half up front?" The man taking his measurements will get to see his scars, glowing blood vessels, draconic tattoos, ruined cloak, and other equipment and oddities. Prizzard will allow his odd request and appearance do the intimidating for him while remaining reasonably polite himself. This is my price negotiation.

rolled 25 using 1d20+22.  Intimidate.

“I have a difficult time believing any of our companions would suddenly up and want to go to some noble wedding festivities. I’m not too worried about loosing them for a day or two.” Tanzy grins at Perkins hippo comment. “I don’t know if a hippo is the best choice, but we’ll come up with something. Did we figure out when the actual wedding day is?”

Bryon/Raknesh: Althol takes out a rod and fires an energy blast at the girl too. His and Raknehs's volleys hit true and they definitely seem to affect her, but when Bryon's tentacles try to wrap around her, something unexpected happens. With a snarl, she grabs the nearest tentacle and with a shriek of rage rips it right out of the ground, flinging it fifty feet away with incredible strength. It is then that Halek pipes in, looking excited and worried all at once. I knew it! It's not a little girl, it's an illusion! She's part of something much bigger. Something huge! I think it's an arm or something! With that he hits the thing with his white bright blast and with a scream of agony she sizzles and burns on the spot. As you gape at what is left you finally see her true form. Not a child at all, but rather a flesh colored tentacle like thing of its own, and far greater in size than Bryon's were. You also see now that it seems to be emerging from the abandoned building, the other end of the tentacle coming out of one of the previously boarded up doors. Another illusion perhaps? What is going on!? Before you can think though, another bursts through another door and starts snaking its way towards you, no longer concerned with disguising itself. ooc: Ok, for time's sake the AC is 20 so you'll know if you hit. Good luck!


Prizzard:
The tailor looks like he wants to protest the short time frame, but changes his mind the closer he looks at you. He gives a defeated nod and accepts half the money up front, telling you he'll need the full three days til the wedding to work on it.
Later, at the inn, you find the tavern surprisingly full considering the hour, but then bustling cities like this always have thirsty folk. As you sit and order your drink, you don't have to look hard to find seedy customers. Within minutes a woman in her thirties approaches you and sits across from you, leaning back in her chair
to study you with open curiosity. You have an interesting look eh? If you're who I think you are, you have quite a few bounties on your head. Wanna give me a good reason why I shouldn't collect? There is a teasing, almost flirtatious way she says it, but such things might be lost on someone like Prizzard. She's a stunning woman, though there is a large scar on her cheek that some would find a bit marring.

Tanzy: Everyone underestimates a hippo! They're dangerous I tell you! They get their chompers on you and you're not getting out of it. Plus, have you seen how big they can get? You try moving one away from a door! I say Tanzy, I really must show you sometime. Plus, they have the cutest little ears! he adds with a laugh. But if you're not worried about the others then I won't either. After all, you know them and I don't really, he shrugs. And I'm pretty sure I heard the wedding's in three days.
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Bryon will use her power to teleport to a spot across from the new tentacle. She already has spiderclimb so she will cling to a wall and start to aim.

Use Flees the scene to reposition so that she can use a cone next turn without catching her comrades in the blast.

“Then we’ll leave tomorrow night,” Tanzy decides. For now a disguise is in order, she can’t afford to be recognized if they are planning on heading home. She will purchase a dress a size too big, nothing fancy, as well as a gray wig and some glasses. She’ll fine tune the outfit with what she has in her room at the inn and then test it out on her companions as they return from their various errands.

To the tailor before leaving: "I understand this is short notice, there will be a bonus depending on how well I like it." Hopefully encouraging quality and outsourcing with that promise. Balancing the carrot and the stick today!

As sexually inert as Prizzard has been, he can still admire the female form. Most of his scan of the woman was to determine if she was a threat. He underesrimated people far too often though, wasn't good at reading people, even members of his new "family" could be an utter mystery at times. For a short moment he couldn't help but comoare her.. no, he forced the thought down with the force of a practiced spellcaster and greeted her while pouring a shot of his drink, sliding it to her. Moving this convo to PMs

Prizzard will hold off on developing a decent buzz, rather occasionally sipping for taste and to just feel the edge of the drink.

Although he expected the girl to be something else, Raknesh would never have guessed it was a part of illusion using giant octopus like monster.

Keeping his place between Halek and the creature, he fired another volley.

His aim was not as good as he is used to, maybe because of the illusions, but the size of the creature allows most of the arrows to find their mark.

Tanzy: As you gather your new disguise, Rocky scurries over to you, telling you there seems to be a problem with your friends in an alley not far...ooc: I'd say time frame wise and all, you can wait a round or so and join them. It's close enough to lined up that you should be fine if you wish :)

Raknesh/Bryon:

Luckily Raknesh's attacks seem to be helping, and the tentacle coming at you reacts, lashing back and forth in pain and rage. To your surprise then it spews forth something black and tarry. It flies through the air at you...As you try to dodge you see that it sizzles and eats through some of the building walls around you. Some kind of acid but far worse than you've seen thus far. What's more, Halek's sudden yelp behind draws your attention. He's being dragged! But you can't see what's doing it, only that he's on his back, moving quickly towards one of the building doors. Invisible! Some of them are invisible! he gasps, already halfway towards the door...

ooc: Ok, so you can roll a reflex save DC 20. If you fail you take 30 acid damage, if you succeed you take half that. Even though the tentacle with Halek is invisible, you can use his position to aim. I'll just say you take a -4 to the attack roll until I come up with something better. Also, make sure your hit points are back up from the last fight. You've had time to heal :)

“If you haven’t already, make sure you let the others know! Tanzy suggests to Rocky as she heads towards the alley.

Raknesh focused his psychic senses at Halek's remark and his eyes glowed briefly.

Hissing in pain as the acid burned part of his arm, he fired another volley at the tentacle holding Halek.

"Hang on! I will save you!"
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11:54, Today: Bryon rolled 23 using 1d20+7.  REF save.
SO 1/2 is 15
Reduced by 3 bc/ damage resistance
Reduced by 5 bc/ energy resistance
So 7 damage

Bryon will focus on the "invisible" tentacle dragging their ally away.

11:50, Today: Bryon rolled 25 using 7d6.  Cone- Brimstone Blast (Fire damage).

The invoker’s Eldritch Blast does Fire damage (instead of Untyped damage).  In addition, any creature struck by the attack Catch Fire (RefNeg).  Catching fire this way lasts for up to 1 round per 5 Warlock levels and does 2d6 Fire damage each round.  Putting out the fire early is a Full Round Action. Being struck by multiple Brimstone Blasts does not increase the burning damage per round, but does reset its duration.
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Raknesh's arrows hit surprisingly true, well to any onlookers anyway. Raknesh is of course expectant of such success. The tentacle, however, flings violently and poor Halek hits the ground hard as it writhes in pain. At least it was enough to loosen him, and he starts to scramble away just as Bryon unleashes her cone of brimstone. If it was in pain from Raknesh before, now it is in agony and you can practically sense its fury as the now flaming, half invisible things rush at you in a desperate attempt to grapple you.

ooc: Ok, Tanzy you're just coming on the scene so feel free to attack. Tanzy is safe from the tentacles for the next round but Bryon and Raknesh, please make opposed grapple checks. Raknesh, your DC is going to be 24 and Bryon, yours is 22, so if you roll below that you're successfully grappled. Note, you do NOT get an attack of opportunity against him, so good luck. IF you do get grappled, please roll a fort save DC 21 or be paralyzed for two rounds at which point you can roll another grapple attempt to try to escape. If you fail that, you have to roll against paralyze again. Hopefully that makes sense. So for now I just need a grapple and a fort. If you manage not to get grappled, feel free to roll for the next round. Good luck! ;P

09:38, Today: Raknesh Kaltash rolled 16 using 1d20+9.  grapple.
09:40, Today: Raknesh Kaltash rolled 26 using 1d20+8.  fortitude check.

With all his senses and psychic power concentrated on the invisible tentacle, Raknesh failed to notice the incoming threat and got caught easily.

Thankfully, his focus allowed him to validated the 'mind over matter' motto and he managed to shake the paralysis that had begun to take hold as the tentacle surrounded him.

PM discussion with GM, turned out being high enough on the wall let Bryon avoid being grappled all together.

Bryon managed to be high enough on the wall to avid being grappled. In return she aimed her cone at the tentacle that tried to grab her. Since her fire cone had done so well the last time, she threw another at the beast this time.

11:11, Today: Bryon rolled 26 using 7d6.  Brimstone Cone (Fire Blast).
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Halek unleashes a blast at Raknesh's tentacle, worrying for his friend, and it grazes the thing, which you're fairly sure was on purpose. No doubt the boy is trying to spare Raknesh any danger. Still, it's enough that the tentacle thrashes and immediately starts pulling Raknesh rapidly towards the door it has emerged from...

Meanwhile Bryon's blast rings true, and has equally good effect. In response though, it flings that strange black acid again, the substance making the brick wall around you sizzle and burn...


ooc: Since Bryon is using spiderclimb, she's out of danger and can do a ranged attack as desired. There's the one she's attacking, the one Halek escaped from, the one attacking Raknesh, and a fourth that Tanzy is working on. So everyone can roll their next rounds and Raknesh, you can definitely use mind arrows. Bryon, roll a reflex DC 20 or take 28 acid damge, successful save= half. I know Tanzy is a bit busy at the moment so I'll npc her until she's ready to come back. Sorry for the delay guys, I was an idiot and didn't notice a PM I got a billion years ago. My apologies.

Tanzy activates her ring of invisibility and heads for the doorway the tentacles are coming from. Hacking away at those things is getting them nowhere. Time to see what is going on inside the building. The fact that Raknesh is being dragged that direction is even more motivation to see what is lurking inside the building.

05:54, Today: Bryon rolled 12 using 1d20+7.  Ref Save.

Bryon gritted her teeth and the thing flung more acid at her. In response she climbed higher, trying to avoid more of the acid next time.

MvA Climb 10 feet up

She noted that Raknesh was being taken by one of the tentacles, she unleashed another Brimstone Cone at the one tentacle holding him.

06:06, Today: Bryon rolled 24 using 7d6.  More Brimstone Blastin.
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Seeing Bryon avoiding the tentacle, Rakesh cursed himself for not using his own way of doing the same.

Still, there was a more pressing matter as he was getting close to know what was really inside the house... and he really didn't want to.

So he fired another volley.

"Halek ! Stay out of reach !"

Thankfully between Raknesh and Bryon's efforts, the tentacle dragging him is destroyed, turning visible again as what's left of it bleeds black blood onto the alley ground around you. Halek obeys his orders, keeping clear of the remaining tentacles and blasting them with his white light. He seems to be able to see them, but that's hardly surprising for the boy. You still have three remaining tentacles and Halek mutters something and they burst into visibility suddenly, which you are more than thankful for. Unfortunately they seem to turn frantic and start flinging themselves about wildly. It's quite jarring. And then you feel your muscles start to weaken...Already the remaining tentacles seem to start towards Raknesh again, the only one of you within actual reach at the moment.

ooc: Ok, roll Fort save DC 22 or you become exhausted (see below). Next round please!

"An exhausted character moves at half speed and takes a -6 penalty to Strength and Dexterity. After 1 hour of complete rest, an exhausted character becomes fatigued. A fatigued character becomes exhausted by doing something else that would normally cause fatigue."

Tanzy: You manage to slip in unnoticed thankfully and as you enter the door you find yourself in a large, empty room that seems to span the whole bottom of the building. It's old and dusty and full of debris and dirt. The bases of the tentacles, however, are all gathered here into a bulbous mass with a large, gaping mouth at least ten feet high and equally wide. Rows and rows of gnashing sharp teeth eagerly glisten, and oddly the rest of the mass seems to go down below the broken floorboards as though trailing underground.

Bryon decided to climb to the roof of the building. Being higher migh make things easier, and her range was far beyond the height of this building.

“Bit off more than I could chew...” Tanzy mutters eyeing the gnashing teeth. Her rapiers would be about as effective as poking pins in a cushion. Nevertheless she moved forward to attack hoping her invisibility would grant her some safety...

OOC: attack 1: 38 (20+18) confirm critical:20 (2+18)
Attack 2: 22 (4+13)
Attack 3: 24 (16+8)
Attack 4: 34 (16+18)
Attack 5: 22 (4+13)
I will edit this post with damage after I hear back from the gm about a few questions I had :)

Getting free, Raknesh used his slippers to climb on a nearby wall while he shoot a few arrows.

Thankfully, the adrenaline rush from his close look at an horrible death made his body move with increased energy

18:57, Today: Raknesh Kaltash rolled 23 using 1d20+8.  fortitude check.

He concentrated his fire on the closest tentacle.

move action: move and climb( walk on wall)
standard action: many shot.