CH. 6: Clockwork Horrors

[JadedDM]

Val's opponent skitters up close and nips her foot, drawing a little blood. Val retaliates with her coral trident, but the spider manages to evade. She hears another gun shot, but once again it doesn't come anywhere close to hitting her, instead hitting the wall behind her. "I forgot to take into account wind resistance," Frisno mutters, tossing the spent pistol to the ground and pulling out a third from his bandoleer.

After confirming that the two spiders trapped in her Grease spell aren't going anywhere, Ouragana looks around and notices that Jocelyn is having the hardest time. Focusing her concentration, she fires two missiles at the offending spider, but surprisingly even they are not enough to destroy it.

Moving quick, Areilon manages to stab her opponent in the glass eye again. This time, the blade goes in deep, shattering the eye and spilling oil on the ground. The spider collapses at her feet, moving no more.

Jocelyn swings her hammer at her own opponent, but the attack goes wide. Luckily, she is able to side-step the creature's counterattack entirely, but it's clear she isn't going to last much longer at this rate. The hammer and shield feel heavier and heavier in her hands, her forehead is covered in sweat, and her legs are sticky with her own blood.

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Initiative
Areilon (1d10+4): 8
Jocelyn (1d10+4): 10
Val (1d10+7): 17
Ouragana (1d10+3): 7
Clockwork Spider 01 (1d10+3): 5
Clockwork Spider 02 (1d10+3): 13
Clockwork Spider 03 (1d10+3): 8
Clockwork Spider 04 (1d10+3): 11
Clockwork Spider 06 (1d10+3): 5
Frisno (1d10+10): 13

Round 2!

Clockwork Spider 01 attacks Val (1d20): 19, hit for (1d4): 1 damage.
Clockwork Spider 06 makes a saving throw vs. spell (1d20): 8, fail. It cannot get up.
Ouragana fires two Magic Missiles at Clockwork Spider 04 using her wand for (2d4+2): 8 damage.
Areilon attacks Clockwork Spider 02 with her sabre (+2) (1d20+2): 18, hit for (1d6+1): 5 damage. Clockwork Spider 02 is destroyed.
Clockwork Spider 03 makes a saving throw vs. spell (1d20): 1, fail. It cannot get up.
Jocelyn swings her hammer at Clockwork Spider 04 (1d20): 12, miss.
Clockwork Spider 04 attacks Jocelyn (1d20): 2, miss.
Clockwork Spider 02 is destroyed.
Frisno fires his pistol at Val (1d20): 4, miss.
Val stabs at Clockwork Spider 01 with her fine trident (+2) while moderately encumbered (-1) (1d20+1): 11, miss.

(OOC: Wow, what awful rolls I keep getting.

Initiative and Actions for Round 3?)

[Jenara]

Arei goes to aid the Cleric, attacking from the side.

1d10+5, 1d20, 1d6+1=[4, 5], [4], [3, 1]
Init 9, Miss.....

[HorizonsDream]

Jocelyn takes another whack at the clockwork spider with her warhammer.

Init Roll, Hit Roll (1, 12)

[Nuke]

Val continues to press the attack.



1d10, 1d20+2, 1d6+3=[4], [15, 2], [1, 3]

Jaded, she dropped the other spider to reduce her encumbrance.

[JadedDM]

Jocelyn sees Areilon stepping in to help, giving her the opportunity to withdraw. But for whatever reason, she decides not to and swings her hammer again at the spider. Again, she's too tired and weak to make a solid connection. The spider, unamused, leaps at her chest again, knocking her to the ground before biting into her. The world spins and then goes dark as the acolyte falls into unconsciousness.

Both Areilon and Ouragana act, but they're moments too late. Areilon steps over a dead spider to attack Jocelyn's opponent from the side, but she finds it difficult to reach the glass eye from there and isn't able to even scratch the creature. Ouragana blasts it with one more missile, which leaves a sizable dent but doesn't take it down.

Val and her opponent continue to fight each other. The half-orc manages to hit the creature's eye twice, but it still won't break and the spider continues coming at her, even managing to take another nip at her heels.

In the chaos of the melee, one of the two spiders trapped in the grease finally manages to get to its feet. The other is not so lucky.

Meanwhile, Frisno steadily aims his new pistol right at Val's head. "Okay," he says to himself. "Checked wind resistance, taken recoil into account, properly calculated vector and trajectory." He smiles darkly to himself. "Nothing will stop me now," he comments, right before a blade bursts out of his chest, covered in blood.

Frisno looks down at the blade in disbelief and attempts to say something, but finds it difficult with his mouth filling with blood. He makes a choking sound, then falls face forward, the loaded gun still in hand. A fuzzy outline behind him suddenly starts to become clear, taking the form of a red-haired elf woman in black leather armor. She casually puts her foot on the gnome's back for leverage, and yanks her short sword out of his back.

"I always get my man," the now visible Tialis says smugly.

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Initiative
Areilon (1d10+4): 8
Jocelyn (1d10+4): 5
Val (1d10+7): 11
Ouragana (1d10+3): 8
Clockwork Spider 01 (1d10+3): 12
Clockwork Spider 03 (1d10+3): 12
Clockwork Spider 04 (1d10+3): 5
Clockwork Spider 06 (1d10+3): 12
Frisno (1d10+10): 19
Unknown Assailant (1d10+3): 13

Round 3!

Jocelyn swings her warhammer at Clockwork Spider 04 (1d20): 12, miss.
Clockwork Spider 04 bites at Jocelyn (1d20): 11, bare hit for (1d4): 4 damage. Jocelyn falls.
Areilon takes a five step movement over the destroyed Clockwork Spider 05 and stabs with her sabre (+2) at Clockwork Spider 04 (1d20+2): 6, miss.
Ouragana fires a blast from her Wand of Magic Missiles at Clockwork Spider 04 for (1d4+1): 2 damage.
Val, while moderately encumbered (-1) stabs with her coral trident (+2) at Clockwork Spider 01 (1d20+1): 16, hit for (1d6+3): 4 damage.
Clockwork Spider 01 bites at Val (1d20): 13, bare hit for (1d4): 1 damage.
Clockwork Spider 03 attempts to get up by saving vs. spell (1d20): 20, pass. It gets up.
Clockwork Spider 06 attempts to get up by saving vs. spell (1d20): 10, fail. It doesn't get up.
Unknown Assailant backstabs (+4) Frisno (1d20+4): 24, critical hit! for (2d6x3): 18 damage. Frisno falls.
Frisno is unconscious.
Val, while moderately encumbered (-1) stabs with her coral trident (+2) at Clockwork Spider 01 (1d20+1): 17, hit for (1d6+3): 5 damage.

(OOC: A new challenger appears! Wow, I did not expect that to be a critical hit. I kind of thought the two of them would duke it out for a round or two, at least.

Nuke, Val could have attacked twice this round, so I took the liberty of rolling a second attack for you against Clockwork Spider 01.

Actions and Initiative for Round 4?)

[Jenara]

Arei glances to the left at Oura. "Help her!" She shouts motioning to the fallen Cleric, before driving the her blade into the eye of the creature.

1d10+5, 1d20, 1d6+1=[6, 5], [18], [3, 1]
Init 11, Hit AC 1 for 4 damage (Called shot again on the eye)

"Are you with us?" She asks the Elf, "I will not weep for him."

[Nuke]

Val stabs again, clearly preoccupied to notice the fall of the clockmaker.

1d10, 1d20+1, 1d6+3=[8], [12, 1], [4, 3]

[JadedDM]

Of the two spiders still stuck in Ouragana's grease, one remains and one escapes. The one that escapes makes its way around the grease puddle to Areilon and bites at her, but the nimble swashbuckler easily evades.

"With you?" Tialis asks in response to Areilon's question. "I've been tailing you for awhile now." She draws a dagger and places it under Frisno's neck, then with one smooth motion, slits his throat. "I had a feeling you'd lead me to the murderer sooner or later."

Ouragana hurries over to Jocelyn and tearing off pieces of her robe, start to bandage the fallen acolyte up.

Areilon's opponent nips at her, drawing blood; but she counters by smashing open its glass eye with her sabre, destroying it.

Val and her opponent circle each other, testing each other for weaknesses in defense, but neither can find an opening for now.

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Initiative
Areilon (1d10+5): 11
Val (1d10+7): 15
Ouragana (1d10+3): 6
Clockwork Spider 01 (1d10+3): 11
Clockwork Spider 03 (1d10+3): 4
Clockwork Spider 04 (1d10+3): 6
Clockwork Spider 06 (1d10+3): 12
Tialis (1d10+3): 5

Round 4!

Clockwork Spider 03 moves 30 feet around the grease puddle and bites at Areilon (1d20): 4, miss.
Tialis performs a coup de grace on Frisno, killing him.
Ouragana moves 10 feet south and stabilizes Jocelyn at -1 HP.
Clockwork Spider 04 bites at Areilon (1d20): 14, hit for (1d4): 1 damage.
Areilon performs a called shot (-4) with flash and pizazz (+2) on Clockwork Spider 04 with her sabre (+2) (1d20): 18, hit for (1d6+1): 4 damage. Clockwork Spider 04 is destroyed.
Clockwork Spider 01 bites at Val (1d20): 7, miss.
Clockwork Spider 06 attempts to get up from the grease by saving vs. spell (1d20): 3, fail. It does not get up.
Val stabs at Clockwork Spider 01 with her coral trident (+2) while moderately encumbered (-1) (1d20+1): 13, miss.

(OOC: Wow, I did a whole point of damage this round.

Actions and Initiative for Round 5?)

[Jenara]

"You were watching me, I felt you..." Arei says as she swings her blade directly at No.4.

1d10+5, 1d20, 1d6+1=[9, 5], [17], [4, 1]
Init: 14, Hit AC 2, for 5 damage.

"Help with that one?" She asks, advancing on the Elf, "How do we explain this?"

[Breila]

"Stop talking and cut down that spider!" Ouragana shouts at Areilon and the newcomer, while checking again that she has bound Jocelyn's wounds as best she can.

[Nuke]

Val stabs twice, hoping to finally get this over.

1d10, 1d20+1, 1d6+3=[5], [18, 1], [5, 3]
1d20+1, 1d6+3=[10, 1], [1, 3]

[Jenara]

"What... Do you... Think... I am doing!" She shouts trying to dodge an attack.

[JadedDM]

Ouragana double-checks Jocelyn's bandages while admonishing the two elves. She confirms that Jocelyn has, indeed, stopped bleeding.

Tialis, however, pays the mage no mind. "I'm sure you can handle that on your own," she says, in regards to the spider. "Explain it? I suppose that's up to you," she says, distracted. She searches Frisno's body thoroughly before finding what she appears to be searching for. "Aha!" she says, lifting up a small silver key. "There we go."

Val strikes at her opponent, shattering its eye with her trident's central prong. She then turns to aid Areilon, but doesn't even scratch the spider. Areilon herself, however, hits the eye and cracks it--but to her surprise, does not break it. The spider keeps coming. Areilon is able to sidestep its bite attack, though.

The final spider, still stuck in the grease, comically attempts to get up only to slip and fall again.

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Initiative
Areilon (1d10+5): 14
Ouragana (N/A)
Val (1d10+7): 12
Clockwork Spider 01 (1d10+3): 13
Clockwork Spider 03 (1d10+3): 13
Clockwork Spider 06 (1d10+3): 10
Tialis (1d10+3): 12

Round 5!

Ouragana double-checks Jocelyn's bandages.
Clockwork Spider 06 attempts to get up from the grease by saving vs. spell (1d20): 6, fail. It does not get up.
Tialis searches Frisno's body.
Val stabs at Clockwork Spider 01 with her coral trident (+2) while moderately encumbered (-1) (1d20+1): 19, hit for (1d6+3): 8 damage. Clockwork Spider 01 is destroyed.
Clockwork Spider 01 is destroyed.
Clockwork Spider 03 bites at Areilon (1d20): 10, miss.
Areilon makes a called shot (-4) with flash and pizazz (-2) with her sabre (+2) at Clockwork Spider 03 (1d20): 17, hit for (1d6+1): 5 damage.
Val stabs at Clockwork Spider 03 with her coral trident (+2) while moderately encumbered (-1) (1d20+1): 11, miss.

(OOC: Sorry about that delay, I lost internet for over a day.)

[Nuke]

Val, preoccupied with the spider, misses the exchange again.

1d10, 1d20+1, 1d6+3=[1], [2, 1], [5, 3]

[Breila]

Satisfied that Jocelyn is reasonably safe for the moment, Ouragana gets up and fires another magic bolt at spider #3.

INIT 5, dmg 5