CH. 6: Clockwork Horrors

[HorizonsDream]

Seeing Arelion draw sword, Jocelyn takes out her war hammer. "Find more of them?" she asks, assuming that is the case.

[Jenara]

"Three more, coming right at us!" She responds, "Keep Oura back"

[Breila]

Ouragana snorts. As if she was going to involve herself in a fight she could only lose! She approaches the doorframe and once again tries a cantrip to make the liquid greasing the joints of the nearest clockwork spider solid enough to impair its movements.

(OOC: Is there a bonus for a cantrip if the same has been used before?)

[Nuke]

"We coulda just closed the door." Val says out loud. But, she steps in and stabs.

init, hit and damage. (1d10, 1d20+2, 1d6+3=[1], [10, 2], [5, 3])

I still don't like the way those rolls look, I assume 12 and 8....

feel free to resolve more than one round if you would like Jaded. OK by me.

[JadedDM]

Before anyone can react in time, the first spider moves forward and attacks Val with its iron mandibles, but the half-orc easily evades the attack by simply hopping over it, into the room itself. She then turns and strikes at the creature, but her trident's prongs simply bounce off the creature's metal covering.

Areilon swiftly moves into the room and goes for a different spider. It only has time to rear back a bit before she plunges her sabre into its glass eye, shattering it and soaking the weapon in oil. When she withdraws the blade, the spider stumbles a bit, spurting oil onto the floor, then collapses in a heap.

Ouragana tries the cantrip she used earlier that night, but this time it actually works. It slows the spider down considerably. This gives Areilon a bit of time before it comes after her, and allows her to easily avoid getting bitten.

However, Jocelyn hears the ticka-tacka-ticka-tacka of another creature from behind her. She turns just in time to see a fourth spider, having come down the hallway, almost upon her!

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Initiative
Areilon (1d10+4): 9
Jocelyn (N/A)
Ouragana (1d10+2): 9
Val (1d10+7): 8
Clockwork Spider 01 (1d10+3): 7
Clockwork Spider 02 (1d10+5): 12
Clockwork Spider 03 (1d10+3): 10
Clockwork Spider 04 (1d10+3): 13

Round 1!

Jocelyn readies her warhammer.
Clockwork Spider 01 moves 15 feet southeast and attacks Val (1d20): 6, miss.
Val steps 5 feet into the room and attacks Clockwork Spider 01 with her fine trident (+2) while moderately encumbered (-1) (1d20+1): 11, miss.
Areilon steps 5 feet into the room, then moves 15 feet east to attack Clockwork Spider 03 with her sabre (+2) (1d20+2): 21, hit for (1d6+1): 7 damage. Clockwork Spider 03 is destroyed.
Ouragana moves 20 feet northwest to the door frame and uses a cantrip on Clockwork Spider 02 (1d20): 1, pass.
----Clockwork Spider 02 makes a saving throw vs. spell (1d20): 3, fail. Clockwork Spider 02 adds +2 to its initiative.
Clockwork Spider 03 is destroyed.
Clockwork Spider 02 moves 15 feet southeast and attacks Areilon (1d20): 2, miss.
Clockwork Spider 04 moves 90 feet west, entering Jocelyn's light spell radius.

(OOC: Breila, there are no bonuses added for casting a cantrip more than once.

Wow, I can't roll for crap today. Good thing there are no NPCs in the party yet, right?

Actions and Initiative for Round 2?)

[Jenara]

"And have them coming up behind us? No thank you." Arei says in response. "Oh crap." She exclaims, sword ready to strike number 2.

1d10, 1d20+2, 1d6+1=[10], [15, 2], [1, 1]

init 10, hit Ac 2, for 2 damage

[Breila]

Ouragana turns around and uses the same cantrip on #4.

[HorizonsDream]

Jocelyn turns to face the spider that is coming up behind her. "Um, problem!" she calls out as she attacks the spider with her warhammer.

Init Roll, Hit Roll (9, 8)

[JadedDM]

Val's opponent lurches at her, but she quickly steps back and uses the blunt end of her trident to keep the mechanical creature at bay. She hears Jocelyn's call for help, but has her hands busy with this bugger. The amazon strikes with her trident, hitting the spider in its glass eye. The eye cracks, but does not break. She makes a second attempt, but misses entirely.

Areilon has similar luck against her opponent. She sidesteps an attack, then makes one of her own. She cracks the creature's glass eye with her sabre, but does not break it entirely.

Ouragana turns quickly at Jocelyn's call and attempts to use her cantrip again, but she stumbles over the proper words and gestures, and it fizzles out entirely.

Jocelyn, meanwhile, slams her hammer down at the creature, but it scoots aside just in time. She only succeeds in hitting the floor. The spider then leaps at her, but she only just barely gets her shield up in time to block it from going for her neck.

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Initiative
Areilon (1d10+4): 14
Ouragana (1d10+2): 6
Jocelyn (1d10+4): 13
Val (1d10+7): 14
Clockwork Spider 01 (1d10+3): 5
Clockwork Spider 02 (1d10+5): 6
Clockwork Spider 04 (1d10+3): 13

Round 2!

Clockwork Spider 01 attacks Val (1d20): 4, miss.
Clockwork Spider 02 attacks Areilon (1d20): 9, miss.
Ouragana uses a cantrip on Clockwork Spider 04 (1d20): 18, fail. It fizzles out.
Jocelyn attacks Clockwork Spider 04 with her warhammer (1d20): 8, miss.
Clockwork Spider 04 attacks Jocelyn who is wielding a small shield (-1) (1d20-1): 9, bare miss.
Areilon attacks Clockwork Spider 02 with her sabre (+2) (1d20+2): 17, hit for (1d6+1): 2 damage.
Val attacks Clockwork Spider 01 with her fine trident (+2) while moderately encumbered (-1) (1d20+1): 16, hit for (1d6+3): 7 damage.
Val attacks Clockwork Spider 01 with her fine trident (+2) while moderately encumbered (-1) (1d20+1): 3, miss.

(OOC: CWS4 missed Jocelyn by 1 point. I guess that Ring of Protection +1 is paying off already!

And my luck continues to suck. I won't bother posting another map this round, because nothing really changed this round to merit posting it again.

Actions and Initiative for Round 3?)

[Jenara]

Arei strikes at #2 once more, swinging her blade at the creature in a wide arc.

1d10, 1d20+2, 1d6+1=[1], [9, 2], [6, 1]

init 1, hit ac 8 for 7 damage.

[HorizonsDream]

Jocelyn curses as she tries to smash her warhammer down upon the spider once again.

Init Roll, Hit Roll (1, 18)
DMG Roll (3)

[Nuke]

Val tries again, hoping the next blow will disable it.

init, hit and damage (1d10, 1d20+1, 1d6+3=[9], [1, 1], [5, 3])

O.O fail......

[Breila]

Ouragana modifies the grease spell into a cantrip that will make a sticky dark substance (like old grease) spread on the diamond eye of the spider she and Jocelyn are facing, and casts it.

Initiative roll: 1d10=8

[JadedDM]

Areilon lashes out with her sabre, Telsa, but the mechanical spider hops back, avoiding the blade. It then just as quickly leaps forward, biting her exposed left wrist with its iron mandibles and drawing blood.

Jocelyn swings her hammer, slamming it into the spider's thorax and leaving a sizable dent there. The creature retaliates by slipping past her defenses and biting her ankle.

Val's opponent hisses and then moves in quickly, biting her arm. This causes her to drop her coral trident to the ground with a clatter.

Finally, Ouragana uses another cantrip, this time to try and slightly blind Jocelyn's opponent. It seems to work, as the creature shakes about, as if trying to dislodge the grease covering its eye.

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Initiative
Areilon (1d10+4): 5
Jocelyn (1d10+4): 5
Val (1d10+7): 16
Ouragana (1d10+2): 10
Clockwork Spider 01 (1d10+3): 8
Clockwork Spider 02 (1d10+5): 6
Clockwork Spider 04 (1d10+5): 6

Round 3!

Areilon attacks Clockwork Spider 02 with her sabre (+2) (1d20+2): 11, miss.
Jocelyn attacks Clockwork Spider 04 with her warhammer (1d20): 18, hit for (1d4+1): 3 damage.
Clockwork Spider 02 attacks Areilon (1d20): 14, hit for (1d4): 2 damage.
Clockwork Spider 04 attacks Jocelyn (1d20): 12, hit for (1d4): 2 damage.
Clockwork Spider 01 attacks Val (1d20): 17, hit for (1d4): 2 damage.
Ouragana uses a cantrip on Clockwork Spider 04 (1d20): 5, pass.
----Clockwork Spider 04 makes a saving throw vs. spell (1d20): 12, fail. It suffers a -1 to hit.
Val attacks Clockwork Spider 01 with her fine trident (+2) (1d20+2): 3, critical fumble! She drops the fine trident.

(OOC: Looks my luck is starting to turn around. By the way, Ouragana has used all of her cantrips for today. She can continue to use them, but she suffers a cumulative -1 to each check from now on.

Still won't bother posting a map this round, because nobody's positions have changed.

Actions and Initiative for Round 4?)

[Jenara]

1d10, 1d20+2, 1d6+1=[6], [8, 2], [3, 1]

Trying something flashy (and stupid) Arei tries to skewer the creature in the eye by swinging her cloak round as she spins (failed called shot). "By the gods, why won't you just die?" She shouts.