CH. 6: Clockwork Horrors

[Jenara]

Backing away from no 3 Arei let's the others deal with it and moves to no. 6.

1d10+5, 1d20, 1d6+1=[8, 5], [6], [4, 1]
Init 13, miss but its down isn't it? Prone?

[JadedDM]

Tialis spots a chest sitting on the table behind her. Using the key, she opens it, revealing sacks of gold and silver. Opening up her satchel, she quickly begins stuffing the loot in. She drops a handful of coins on the ground as she does so.

Ouragana and Val both attack the same spider, but before the half-orc can find a good opening, Ouragana blasts it with a magic missile, the impact knocking it to pieces. Now only a single spider remains, and it is still stuck in Ouragana's grease puddle.

Areilon moves up to it, careful not to step in the grease herself, and tries to stab it in the glass eye while it's down. She misses, though, and her blade merely bounces off the iron hide. A moment later, the grease suddenly evaporates, the spell having ended.

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Initiative
Val (1d10+7): 8
Ouragana (1d10+3): 7
Areilon (1d10+5): 13
Clockwork Spider 03 (1d10+3): 8
Clockwork Spider 06 (1d10+3): 7
Tialis (1d10+3): 5

Round 6!

Tialis opens Frisno's chest and begins removing the valuables within.
Ouragana fires a single missile from her Wand of Magic Missiles at Clockwork Spider 03 (1d4+1): 5 damage. Clockwork Spider 03 is destroyed.
Clockwork Spider 06 attempts to get up by making a saving throw vs. spell (1d20): 1, fail. It does not get up.
Val attacks Clockwork Spider 03 but it has already been destroyed.
Clockwork Spider 03 is destroyed.
Areilon moves 25 feet northwest and makes a called shot (-4) with flash and pizazz (+2) against Clockwork Spider 06 that is prone (+4), with her sabre (+2) (1d20+4): 10, miss.
Grease spell ends.

(OOC: Yep, being prone gives her a +4 bonus to hit, but she still missed by 5 points.

Actions and Initiative for Round 7?)

[Jenara]

Distracted by Tia Arei tries to hit the remaining spider and misses again.

1d10+5, 1d20, 1d6+1=[10, 5], [6], [1, 1]
init 15, total miss.

"You are taking his money and leaving us to deal with the fall out?" She asks, "That's a little off..."

[Breila]

Ouragana points the staff on Tialis and threatens her: "If you don't help us to fight against the spider NOW, the next bolt of magic will be directed against YOU!"

[JadedDM]

Tialis shrugs. "There isn't a bounty on the gnome's head, so a girl's gotta make a living somehow, right? I really only took him out to make the dwarves look bad, but that doesn't mean I'm doing it for free." Her brow furrows. "Strange, though. I thought there'd be more. Maybe he has a secret stash elsewhere?" She shrugs again. "This should be enough for now, anyhow."

At Ouragana's threat, she actually laughs. "Do you think I am afraid of you, human? Remember, I have been following the lot of you for awhile now. I've seen you fight. You have no real power; if that old gimp dwarf hadn't given you that wand, you'd be threatening to throw your boot at me right now. Besides, are you really dumb enough to waste what little power it has left on me while your friends fight against that last spider?"

[Breila]

Fuming with anger, Ouragana gathers the magical energy of a cantrip and throws something as close to a real magic missile as she can manage at Tialis.

[Jenara]

"Leave her Oura!" Arei shouts, trying to deflect a blow, "She isnt worth the effort." The Elf says with a hint of sadness.

[Nuke]

Val stabs twice.

init, hit & damage (1d10, 1d20+1, 1d6+3=[5], [8, 1], [5, 3])
hit, damage (1d20+1, 1d6+3=[12, 1], [4, 3])

damn.

[JadedDM]

Using an illusionary cantrip, Ouragana sends a 'magic missile' right at Tialis. The elf braces herself and flinches, but when it hits her, nothing happens. Opening her eyes, she scowls, but then smiles. "I knew it was fake all along," she insists. Pulling out a small vial from her belt, she bites the cork and rips it off with her teeth, then spats it out. "You should really know better than to work with such inferior species, Areilon. In any case, I am sure we'll meet again someday. Ta-ta!" She then downs the liquid inside, and within moments, fades away from view like a ghost.

Meanwhile, the battle rages on between Val and Areilon against the last spider. This one is strangely dexterous, despite the fact it was slipping in grease for most of the battle. Neither can hit its eye or do any significant damage to its moving parts. Luckily, Areilon is able to avoid the spider's attack, as well.

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Initiative
Areilon (1d10+5): 15
Ouragana (1d10+2): 7
Val (1d10+7): 12
Clockwork Spider 06 (1d10+3): 13
Tialis (1d10+4): 13

Round 7!

Ouragana uses a cantrip on Tialis with a -1 penalty (1d20): 10, pass. A 'fake' magic missile hits Tialis for 0 damage.
Val moves 15 feet east and attacks Clockwork Spider 06 with her coral trident (+2) while moderately encumbered (-1) (1d20+1): 9, miss.
Clockwork Spider 06 bites at Areilon (1d20): 2, miss.
Tialis drinks a potion and turns invisible.
Areilon makes a called shot (-4) with flash and pizazz (+2) with her sabre (+2) against Clockwork Spider 06 (1d20): 6, miss.
Val stabs her coral trident (+2) at Clockwork Spider 06 while moderately encumbered (-1) (1d20+1): 13, miss.

(OOC: Initiative and Actions for Round 8?)

[Jenara]

"Damn her!" Arei shouts, blade driving into the Spiders Eye.

1d10+5, 1d20, 1d6+1=[5, 5], [14], [4, 1]
init 10, hit Ac 5 for 5 damage.

[Breila]

Turning her attention back to the battle, Ouragana unleashes another magic missile from the wand, aiming at the diamond eye of the clockwork spider.

[Nuke]

hopefully this round will do it.

Val is determined to finish this now, stabbing with extra effort.....

init, hit and damage. (1d10, 1d20+1, 1d6+3=[5], [19, 1], [5, 3])

Smug in their victory the half-orc looks herself over and then laughs.

"I figured it was him." looking at the corpse of the gnome she adds "Problem solved."

[JadedDM]

Ouragana blasts the remaining spider with a missile, which knocks it back a bit and causes one of its legs to fall off.

The spider, undeterred, leaps at Areilon who at the same time strikes at its eye. However, neither can find the opening they are looking for, and consequently, both miss.

Finally, Val moves in with her trident, thrusting it right at the spider's eye and shattering it. The spider screeches, stumbles, then collapses in a heap, spurting oil from its broken eye.

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Initiative
Areilon (1d10+5): 10
Ouragana (1d10+3): 5
Val (1d10+7): 12
Clockwork Spider 06 (1d10+3): 10

Round 8!

Ouragana blasts a single missile at Clockwork Spider 06 with her Wand of Magic Missiles for (1d4+1): 3 damage.
Areilon makes a called shot (-4) with flash and pizazz (+2) at Clockwork Spider 06 with her sabre (+2) (1d20): 14, bare miss.
Clockwork Spider 06 bites at Areilon (1d20): 2, miss.
Val stabs at Clockwork Spider 06 with her coral trident (+2) while moderately encumbered (-1) (1d20+1): 20, hit for (1d6+3): 8 damage. Clockwork Spider 06 is destroyed.

(OOC: End Melee)

[Breila]

Ouragana shudders. "Dreadful things" she says. Then she looks at Jocelyn and asks: "What do you think, should we carry her back to the inn or wake her mentor and bring him here to heal her?"

[Jenara]

"Horrible..." Arei agrees, "I have a thought.. Tia said she expected more.." rubbing her wounds stems the blood flow by ripping off her shirt sleeves.

"Let's get her upstairs, check that other room and find the watch. We have to explain this... Somehow."