Castle Amber: A D&D Adventure

Spoonweaver · Post by **Spoonweaver** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:02 am

The hall is full of things attacking the Worm. Gontort hacks away at the thing like a thresher. The owlbear skeleton scratches at it in a flurry, and a large beetle bites it with all it's might. Rachelle thinks she might not be able to get into a good Meleeing position so she holds back.
Lynda arrives and quickly begins firing arrows. She lets three fly at the worm, each one digging deep into it's flesh. Tammy uses her magic to power up Gontort, while Galse looks over Thistlewhistle.

The worm rears back and slams down on top of the owlbear. It's bones crack and bend, but it continues fighting. The worm is looking very ragged and slow.

Deep inside the worm, Kalar reaches out to his Ghoul minions to try to get they to help him escape. He feels one of them snuff out.

Owlbear takes 19 dmg.

Worm takes 61 dmg total.

Kalar takes 9 dmg.

Master K · Post by **Master K** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:07 am

"Sweet merciful, what the hell is this thing?!" Lynda shouts. She continues to volley arrows.

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:08 am

The roar of battle is too much even for Galse to ignore! He gets out the big hittin stick and joins the melee! (Though he will try to position himself out of reach of the things mouth and go for the sneak attack)

Feenicks · Post by **Feenicks** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:12 am

Rachelle rushes over to what she assumed was the back of the worm. No matter how many undead it had gone through, it was still eating one of her allies, and there was no way it was going to stop at one.
She puts everything she could into a Power Attack as she hacked away at the thing.

Spoonweaver · Post by **Spoonweaver** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:33 am

The Owlbear and Gontort hack away. The beetle sprays acid all over the worm to no affect. Tammytharn notes that the worm must be immune to acid, or at least beetle acid. She tries to think up something better to summon, should it come to that.
Lynda shoots a hail of arrows that all hit their mark and Kalar's skeletons slice away. Galse enters the hallway and his presence causes Rachelle to feel a large urge to enter the fray. Rachelle rushes the worm as it charges forward, she misses the worm horribly but does arrive behind it. The owlbear and beetle are crushed under the worm's weight. Gontort is shoved hard to the side and the worm rushes to now be face to face with Galse, Lynda and Tammytharn.
Deep within The worm, Kalar struggles to free himself as he feels his other ghoul fade away.

The worm takes 53 dmg.

Kalar takes 6 dmg
Gontort takes 14 dmg

BMR · Post by **BMR** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:37 am

Kalar feels the other ghoul die and screams with rage. It lacks any power though, as he's already exhausted that ability.

The ghouls were loyal! They were his minions! They belonged to him! And this blasted slime ate them!

Kalar completely loses it and all restraints he had on his emotions fly away in the fire of his rage as he struggles even harder to free himself.

Feenicks · Post by **Feenicks** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:53 am

"I missed?" Rachelle thought, bringing her halberd back up. She couldn't miss again! This monster had to die! She brought herself into a rage, bringing her halberd once again down onto the worm as she did so.

Spoonweaver · Post by **Spoonweaver** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 5:09 am

Tammy backs away form the worm, not wanting to get caught in it's gaping maw.

Lynda hits the worm right in what she assumes is it's eyes, though it's hard to tell. The flitch from the worm after the hit shows Lynda she was right.

Galse swings out his possibly evil, yet very powerful, quarter staff and a large flourish. He slams it down seemingly out of no where directly on top of Lynda's arrows. A massive gush of green ooze erupts form the worm. Kalar spills out of the wound and slides directly in front of Galse.

Rachelle skrews the worm, inserting her halberd more than half of it's shaft deep into the back of the worm. A hot squirt of ooze shoots all over her.

Gontort slices away at the side of the worm, cut off from his friends. As he does the worm lets out a deep gutteral cry.

The worm bursts.

Acid spray all over the hallway, the whole party is burned by it. Both of the skeletons are destroyed in the process. Some of the party manages to escape the brunt of the acidic spray but no one escapes it completely.

The worm is now nothing more than lumps of flesh scattered around the hall. The corpses of the two ghouls lay partially digested on the ground. Gold pieces mix with the acid, making them less than desirable.

Lynda deals 20 dmg
Galse deals 48 dmg
Rachelle deals 15 dmg
Gontort deals 11 dmg

Galse takes 6 acid damage
Tammytharn takes 14 acid damage
Lynda takes 9 acid damage
Kalar takes 4 acid damage
Rachelle takes 17 acid damage
Gontort takes 15 acid damage

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 5:13 am

Galse snorts, gives Kalar a "Where the hell did you come from?" look and starts cleaning the acid off of himself and his stuff. In a funny way, he feels like he's lost his appetite

BMR · Post by **BMR** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 5:15 am

Kalar screams his rage as he's freed, raising his arms up in fury. Then he falls to his knees and goes to the bodies of the ghouls.

"They gave their lives in my service, they were good servants..."

Still not thinking quite clearly, just having come off his rage, Kalar drops his tower shield and starts removing the gear from the two ghouls and leaving it with the rest of the treasure for now. He then picks up what's left of the two bodies and stands.

He turns to the others and says, "Thank you for your assistance, but I must see to my fallen minions, they deserved better than this. I will be back shortly, then I will do my best to tend to your wounds."

Ignoring the pain of his burns (and the skeletons which, quite frankly, Kalar doesn't even take notice of seeing as how they were mindless animated bones) Kalar leaves the room, limping slightly in pain. He heads for the room with the pit to the ghoul lands and lays the bodies of John and Kretivuslar there. It seems appropriate.

Feenicks · Post by **Feenicks** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:10 am

Rachelle, biting through the pain of the acid, goes after Kalar, after seeing him go into one of the side rooms.

"Are you seriously going to put two undead you had under your control for less than a day over the well-being of your living party members?" Rachelle asks pointedly, wedging herself into the doorway as she did so.

BMR · Post by **BMR** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:58 am

Kalar turns to Rachelle, eyes burning.

"Woman. These two gave their lives in my service. You. You, however, have no damn right to speak. Not a day ago, when Gontort was fighting for his life, you stood by and did nothing even after I called for us to help him."

Kalar stands, and moves closer to Rachelle, hand on his war pick.

"The dwarf may not be the most pleasant of people, but he took a spear to his back for you. It was you who called for his aid, but when he was in trouble, you complained about a damned painting!"

By now Kalar is face-to-face with Rachelle. "And now, you have the bloody gall to come to me and give me grief about two who died fighting for me. I don't know what part you played in killing that beast, but it couldn't possibly have been as great a sacrifice as those two gave."

He reaches a hand out and lays it on her shoulder. "I am hardly in any condition to discuss this further, but I am absolutely ready to talk things over with you should you press the issue." with the last part, he squeezes his grip tight, utter menace and anger in his eyes making it clear just what sort of euphemism "talk" was.

"With this touch, I can heal you, or I can hurt you. It all depends on what further discussions you wish to have. So tell me, elf, what will it be?"

*Somewhat out of character for Kalar usually, but he's still coming down off the effects of his Outrage ability, and hasn't gotten control of his emotions yet. Normally, he'd be all cool and calm, talking his way through things, but he's still a bit crazy right now. Also, having been inside the worm, he has no idea bout the significant part Rachelle played in saving him.

Feenicks · Post by **Feenicks** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:37 am

Rachelle, undeterred, wedged the blunt end of her halberd in between the two of them, using it to push the cleric away.

"Do you really want to push this, maenad?"

"First, Gontor is a damned menace, a loose cannon that just so happens to be pointing towards our enemies. I may have reacted strongly towards the loss of that painting, but if he can't even deal with issues like that without splitting someone's head open, who knows what will happen if he comes into any tense situation that shouldn't end in violence?"

"Second, you cannot call the death of creatures you controlled the every action of a sacrifice, especially not when you're clearly here to dredge up new ones. Your necromancy is horrid enough, but attaching such terms and false compassion to undead is completely loathsome."

At this point, Rachelle takes Kalar's hand off of her shoulder. "And last, you're not the sort to willingly discard potential... resources."

BMR · Post by **BMR** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 8:00 am

Kalar is loath to admit it, but Rachelle is right, we won't discard potential resources just yet. And he did give his word to see the party safe.

He takes a few breaths, regaining his composure.

"You are right, I won't get rid of assets when they still have use. And as much as I do really want to push this further and see it to the end, I gave my word to do my best to see you all safe through this, and I do not break my word."

His eyes narrow and he says, "The point still stands though, that when that loose cannon was useful to you, you called on him for aid as soon as you saw those warforged. But the very second he was in danger and needed your aid, you turned your back on him while his back was skewered for lack of someone defending it."

He reaches out and touches Rachelle with his fingertip, <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/cureMo ... healing</a> her of her wounds.

"As for compassion? I have none. But those undead were MINE. Controlled or not, that worm took what was mine, and I will not have that."

He turns his back to her, going back to taking care of the remains of the two ghouls. "There, you're healed, now leave me to my work or plant that halberd in my back. Either way, we are done here."

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:02 pm

Tammytharn releases all her remaining unused (non-domain) spell slots, and replaces them all with healing, which she then begins using to heal whoever needs it most (all though Kalar and Rachelle are already away)

"We should go back to our safe-room to rest and clean up" she suggests.

She also fishes a Healer's Kit out of her pack, intending to use it to help patch up her party members.

2 cure serious wounds
1 cure moderate wounds
2 cure light wounds
5 cure minor wounds