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The fetid stench of swamp and rotting flesh, a gleam of maddened eyes - and the giant turtle is upon Rico in a snapping, swiping flurry of slimy scales. Smashing against her shield, the turtle seizes upon Rico's shoulder with bone-cracking fury and makes a valiant attempt to saw through her curiass with its beak, only to rear back in agony as its own shoulder is impaled in turn by Rico's notch-toothed spear.
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Naya casts Lightning Bolt.
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GST's Reflex vs Naya: (1d20+5)[14] - failed
Unable to distinguish between a jolt of electricity intended to get it moving and a jolt of electricity intended to kill, the turtle shudders and flails about in agony, coming dangerously close to shocking Rico as well as it churns up a splashing frenzy of mud and river water.
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Brin and Setsuna
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GST's AoO: (1d20+16)[31], Damage: (4d6+16)[26]
Pragmatism seems to go down better than altruism with the giant turtle. Even with Naya bobbing about distractingly overhead, Brin's steady aim (over her private musings about dinner) sees her bowstring thrum twice in quick succession, lodging arrows deep in the turtle's fleshy neck.
Setsuna, on the other hand, is not so lucky. Having shut its eyes and instinctively withdrawn its neck partway into its shell from the pain, the giant turtle is nevertheless quick to pick up the imminent threat poised by Setsuna as she makes her battle cry. Hissing aloud from its foul-smelling maw, the turtle pulls its head back into its shell even further, leaving the tiefling with naught but empty air to strike at. Yet even as Setsuna recovers from her slash, the beast suddenly lashes out with malicious speed, striking swift as the viper as it bites down hard on the tiefling's exposed torso.
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Red
HP 55/55
AC 23
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Move to I4
Swim check: (1d20+8)[28]
Attack: (1d20+12)[18], Damage: (1d4+5)[9] - miss
But Rico, that's too far to jump. My legs... they're too short...
Ruing not for the first time that she was born of Tien stock and was the tiniest in her vertically challenged family, Red furrows her brow and hesitates, digging her heels into the ground, unsure of what to do. She hadn't practiced with her bow since leaving Sandpoint. The kukris, newly enchanted then by Taladron, had been ever so much better to use. (What on earth would Rathi have said?)
Still, upon seeing Rico staggering and Setsuna apparently crushed between the turtle's jaws, she doesn't hesitate. Putting all shame at what her mentor would have said out of her head for now, Red takes a flying leap off the bank and dives headfirst into the river. Gasping as she surfaces from the unexpected chill of the water, she kicks herself over to the turtle's side, her kukri skittering across the wet scales and she tries ineffectually to hack into its leg without getting swatted herself.
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GST and Rico
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Attack: (1d20+16)[21], Damage: (4d6+16)[35] - miss
Setsuna's new tunic, scandalous in appearance as it might be, proves it worth in deflecting the worst of the turtle's serrated bite. To those watching, it might have seemed for a moment as if the turtle had chomped the tiefling into half, but no. For after a few heart-stopping seconds during which one might have sworn they heard the snapping of bone as the turtle saws its jaws back and forth to try for a better angle, the beast spits the tiefling back out, a thin layer of blood coating the sharper edges of its filthy mouth.
Lunging forward once more with its mouth agape, the turtle tries to grab hold of Setsuna, only to be thrown off balance as it is promptly pummeled in the skull by Rico as she tries to stab it to no avail.
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Shalelu
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Attack: (1d20+11)[14], Damage: (1d8+2)[6]
Attack: (1d20+6)[21], Damage: (1d8+2)[6]
The muted sigh and the head tilt of frustration is sufficient testament to Shalelu's opinion of the situation, even as her own arrows glance off the turtle's bullet head and shell, doing little more than skim algae off the chipped scales.
"Goddess alive, Red, I told you not to do anything to get yourself eaten..."
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Initiative Order:
> 25 - Naya
24 - Brin
23 - Setsuna
20 - Red
12 - Giant Snapping Turtle
10 - Rico
6 - Shalelu
It is now Naya's turn.
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Re: (PF) maggie's Rise of the Runelords: Hook Mountain Massacre IC
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