Strange Aeons: Ash's Redoubt [DMOOCH]

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Begin Round One ...

R1T23: Björn ... you know your name is Björn ... but for the life of you, you can't tell much more about yourself or where you just were or what you're doing here. There's over a dozen people looking just as confused as you in your clump.

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Around you, you see shadows of awful, unnatural figures moving through the mist—gangly hunchbacked giants, lurching tumorheaps, spiders scuttling upon forests of legs, and other nightmares of your design. Horrifying noises, some that echo weirdly, others loud enough to be uncomfortable, accompany the shapes.

Noting is in hand or prepared. What do you do?

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Björn: 23.
Bangs: 21.
Brother Jomah: 20.
Eric: 18.
Zoo: 18.
Patient 601: 16.
Flair: 16.
Mack: 14.
Akbar: 12.
Zarinda: 11.
Aliendrei: 11.
Haru: 8.
Knuckles: 8.
Sam: 7.

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R1T23: Björn takes stock of his surroudings.

R1T21: Trying to slink back from the shadowy figures towards the others dressed as himself, a relatively non-descript young man - apart from straight bangs that falls into his eyes - finds his voice and fearfully asks (his voice barely rising to a whisper), "W-where are we? W-w-what is going on?"

His eyes continually dart between the others, the shadows, and the rest of their surroundings, not lingering long enough to fully absorb any details into his overtaxed mind.

R1T20: Brother Jomah, what do you do?

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Around you, you see shadows of awful, unnatural figures moving through the mist—gangly hunchbacked giants, lurching tumorheaps, spiders scuttling upon forests of legs, and other nightmares of your design. Horrifying noises, some that echo weirdly, others loud enough to be uncomfortable, accompany the shapes.

If it is your turn, or has been your turn at any point up to when initiative is called, remember that vocals are free.

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Björn: 23.
Bangs: 21.
Brother Jomah: 20.
Eric: 18.
Zoo: 17.
Patient 601: 16.
Flair: 15.
The Tatterman: 14.
Mack: 13.
Akbar: 12.
Zarinda: 11.
Aliendrei: 10.
Haru: 9.
Knuckles: 8.
Sam: 7.

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R1T18: Eric, you delay ...

R1T17: Zoo, what do you do?

Patient 601 (action stated) on deck, Eric is delaying ...

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Björn: 23.
Bangs: 21.
Brother Jomah: 20.
Eric: 18. DELAYING!!!
Zoo: 17.
Patient 601: 16.
The Tatterman: 15.
Flair: 14.
Mack: 13.
Akbar: 12.
Zarinda: 11.
Aliendrei: 10.
Haru: 9.
Knuckles: 8.
Sam: 7.

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R1T17: Zoo shakes his head to clear it. Hadn't he just been... huh what had he been doing? Seeing the horrors of the fog he scrabbles away on all fours. He definitely didn't remember those at all. Turning away from the fog he sees the crowd. Who are these people? He calls out to them: "Do you see them too? It's not just me right? We need to go, right now."

R1T16: A voice fills another's brain, crying out with desperate enthusiasm: "Awake! Wake up, fool of a madman! Revelation is at hand!" His head is full of cotton, his eyes are refusing to focus as he slowly comes to. As the mist parts and he sees what surrounds him, wingless vultures and crocodiles built of twisted bodies, he shuts his eyes again. He whimpers softly.

A sharp phantom pain catches him on the shoulder, and he hears the voice again: "I said WAKE UP! Dreams are no refuge here!"Whirling to see what caused this pain, he finds nothing and no one touching him but he does see that surrounding him there are more than a dozen white-robed figures who hadn't even registered at first. The sense of community soothed his nerves. Until he counted them.

Thirteen.

The nameless man starts whimpering again, but keeps his eyes open.

R1T15.5: As the second man whirls around in confusion and fear, another answers the former man's question. "Go? Just where do you think we're going to go? I don't even know you. How do I know you're not one of them trying to trick me?"

He rises to his full 6'5" and flexes to stretch his muscles. You see that he appears to be the epitome of the chiselled-chinned youth of northern peoples. Beneath the layers of grime and dirt there lies hidden a charming smile with straight white teeth and an incredible physique. However, the smile rarely appears and his haunted eyes dart around, searching the shadows. If you peer closely you can see he has an almost hunted look about him. He moves with great caution, checking every corner and crevice as he moves. His rippling muscles appear to always be in a state of contraction, like a tightly wound spring, ready to move in the blink of an eye.

R1T15.3: Another man surprises himself and those around him as a short sword of exceptional quality appears in his hand. Though he just can't seem to pick out anything that is within the mists, he is the first to notice that something is wrong with the northern youth.

R1T15: Tense as he is, there is something about this northern youth - his features and strength - that could lend themselves to a leader. Even then---

The northerner suddenly looks as if he has a spasm - his chest thrusts forth and he bends back slightly, his head tilted upwards, arm thrown wide, and bent knees taught. Something is definitely happening to him as he grimaces in pain and his body begins to shake. Pushing through one of his hands something is seen trying to force its way out from the inside. It happens at his right hip. Then, the entire right side of his face swells and distends and he lets out a scream. As his head swells, the mouth grows wider and wider until you notice that another head is forming, separating. The left arm now has two forearms/wrists/hands coming out of its elbow before the rest of the full arm separates from the elbow and there are now two arms coming from his left shoulder.

You all stand in rapt terror as with more incomprehensible growths form and finally a second form separates itself from the northern youth. Now free of whatever was inside him. The northern youth burbles one word that all hear, but only barely: "Me."

His eyes having rolled upwards in his skull, and despite no apparent wound or marks from the process, the young man seems deflated some how and falls. He doesn't fall like a proper body, but rather simply tumbles upon himself limply as if there is no mass within him and his skin is rumpled cloth.

What stands in his place is terrifying and altogether unlike any of the rest of you.

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Fear and panick erupt.

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You are all panicked, and on your turn you will drop anything in your hands - which only affects Eric - and go bolting directly away from this monster. Since the northern youth (Björn) was randomly rolled as the "middle person" in the group, this means that everyone will be running directly away from it ... meaning in all directions, and into the midst.

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You are shaken. I will make adjustments, don't adjust your rolls. Just because you aren't panicked and running blindly into the midst doesn't mean that soiling yourself is out of the realm of realistic options.

R1T14: A tall man with black hair and green eyes (Flair) is the first to scream in terror and try to run, but he happens to have been standing next to the monster. Before he had a chance to fully turn around the creature reveals something in his hand to have a straight razor and he cuts the tall man deep across the eyes, ruining them and doing 14 ... enough to drop the man, blood and vitreous humors mixing as his vital fluids bleed forth.

R1T13: Mack, you are terrified, but you are not blindly panicked. You happen to be standing adjacent to this unholy terror. What do you do?

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Bangs: 21. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Brother Jomah: 20. PANICKED til end R22T15!!!
Zoo: 17. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Patient 601: 16. PANICKED til end R14T15!!!
Björn: 15.5.
Eric: 15.3. PANICKED til end R23T15!!!
The Tatterman: 15.
Flair: 14. PANICKED til end R12T15!!! DYING!!!
Mack: 13. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Akbar: 12. PANICKED til end R21T15!!!
Zarinda: 11. PANICKED til end R18T15!!!
Aliendrei: 10. PANICKED til end R13T15!!!
Haru: 9. PANICKED til end R24T15!!!
Knuckles: 8. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Sam: 7. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.

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R1T13: Mack slowly backs away from the rather dangerous-looking person, deciding that discretion is the better part of valor. All the while, he's trying to figure out if there's anything familiar about its visage. What is it? Where does it come from, and where is Ourolini? There's probably a book about this somewhere, and these other people are rather silly, if they're just going to stand there and wait to have their faces (or other parts) eaten, but if they want to present themselves as targets while Mack backs away slowly, he's got no issues, though he supposes that it might be considered frightfully amoral to leave these poor people to some sort of awful fate.

Having backed away a couple of paces, Mack says: "W-would you like to m-meet my friends?"

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I will assume that is a withdraw action ... more than just a five-foot step, maybe 10' distance?

You don't have a clue what this is, and to be honest your mind is doing more whirling and racing than mentally cataloguing.

R1T12-T9: Four people instantly bolt in various directions, running and screaming in terror into the mist.

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Akbar, Zarinda, Aliendrei, & Haru.

R1T8: Knuckles, you are scared but you keep yourself from running into the dangerous yellow cloud. What do you do?

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Bangs: 21. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Brother Jomah: 20. PANICKED til end R22T15!!!
Zoo: 17. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Patient 601: 16. PANICKED til end R14T15!!!
Björn: 15.5.
Eric: 15.3. PANICKED til end R23T15!!!
The Tatterman: 15.
Flair: 14. PANICKED til end R12T15!!! DYING!!!
Mack: 13. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Akbar: 12. PANICKED til end R21T15!!!
Zarinda: 11. PANICKED til end R18T15!!!
Aliendrei: 10. PANICKED til end R13T15!!!
Haru: 9. PANICKED til end R24T15!!!
Knuckles: 8. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Sam: 7. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.

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Knuckles delays ...

R1T7: A fit, vibrant woman with dark blonde hair and freckles runs right to the man whose eyes were cut out. She tries staunching the bleeding somehow, but she is in tears and blubbering and unsure of herself.

End Round One ...

R2T21: Bangs, you are 10' from this terrifying "man." What do you do?

Zoo, you're in the hole. Feel free to post your action.

Brother Jomah and Patient 601 are both panicked and will be running into the mists.

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Bangs: 21. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Brother Jomah: 20. PANICKED til end R22T15!!!
Zoo: 17. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Patient 601: 16. PANICKED til end R14T15!!!
Eric: 15.3. PANICKED til end R23T15!!!
The Tatterman: 15.
Flair: 14. PANICKED til end R12T15!!! DYING!!!
Mack: 13. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Akbar: 12. PANICKED til end R21T15!!!
Zarinda: 11. PANICKED til end R18T15!!!
Aliendrei: 10. PANICKED til end R13T15!!!
Haru: 9. PANICKED til end R24T15!!!
Knuckles: 8. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Jacqui: 7. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.

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R2T21: The suddenness of events spiraling into chaos is to much for Bangs' conscious mind to handle. Luckily for him, his instinct decides to take over. Bangs' sight is drawn to the man who was slashed in the eyes, Bangs can tell the woman over him has no clue what she is doing. A brief thought flashes through Bangs' mind wondering how he knows what should be done to aid an injured patient, but it is quickly dismissed as he focuses his attention on the man, the exercise helping Bangs ignore the chaos of the moment. The man is unconscious, and bleeding heavily, unfortunately he is too close to the creature to risk treating, and another slash like that will likely make treatment impossible. The creature must be removed.

With rough breathing, Bangs reaches a trembling arm toward the creature, unsure why he is performing the action, only that it feels 'right' toward what he wants to accomplish. Following that feeling, suddenly the nearby loose stone raises off the ground and circle Bangs' arm forming pressure in Bangs' mind like a coiled spring. All around him on the ground, the loose stones clatter as if some great energy readies itself, gathering. Bangs lets it build before he releases it sending the stone hurling toward the beast, though the stone goes spiraling high and deep into the mist. Following that, Bangs circles around the beast to get closer to the injured man, hoping to do something before he bleeds out.

R2T20: The first man to have done any speaking - the one with a hearty frame - gives a gurgling low growl of terror and runs into the mist. (Brother Jomah)

R2T17: Zoo wails in shock upon seeing the demise of the northerner. As most of the assembled flee, Zoo moves toward the man with the ruined eyes. Grabbing the man by the arms he says to the nearby woman "Hare says to go, we can tend to him later."

Zoo easily drags the man 10' down the left fork of the alley well into the mist, his scarred arms tensing at the task. Though the man weighs more than 200 lbs., if Zoo decided to heft him up and carry him he could move at a rate of 20'.

R2T16: The man who heard voices turns and runs in terror.

R2T15.3: Eric stands and runs in panic, the mysterious sword disappearing as it leaves his hand, never really noticed by its momentary wielder.

R2T15: The supernatural killer now only has the weakling who mentioned something about friends, the seemingly useless woman, and the man with thick bangs. He turns on the woman, the one who first showed mercy in this realm of horror. He steps towards her and makes a long, bloody gash along her left lower intercostals, up across her breasts, up the center of the neck, and then flicking his war razor out from under her chin as she bleeds at a massive rate. Then with a claw he tears off her face and she seems to be killed instantly. Mack, Bangs, from her blood spray you can make out the word on the ground: "up".

He now stands adjacent to Bangs.

R2T13: The weakling concentrates from where he stands and a viper materializes at the killer's feet. It attacks, and though it would normally provoke an AOO, the killer does not bother as the viper misses.

R2T8: Knuckles, you are still delaying, do you do anything?

Bangs on deck, Zoo in the hole ... feel free to state your actions.

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Bangs: 21. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Brother Jomah: 20. PANICKED til end R22T15!!!
Zoo: 17. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!! Dragging Flair.
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Patient 601: 16. PANICKED til end R14T15!!!
Eric: 15.3. PANICKED til end R23T15!!!
The Tatterman: 15.
Mack: 13. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!! Summoned viper!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Akbar: 12. PANICKED til end R21T15!!!
Zarinda: 11. PANICKED til end R18T15!!!
Aliendrei: 10. PANICKED til end R13T15!!!
Haru: 9. PANICKED til end R24T15!!!
Knuckles: 8. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.

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R2T8: Knuckles stands a few feet away from the killer, shaken but not made to flee. She takes a deep breath and clenches her fists, her immediate thoughts torn between fleeing, leaving the others behind, and standing to fight whatever this... thing is. When it kills the other woman and turns towards Bangs, she seems spurred into action, gritting her teeth and letting out a decisive grunt, dashing forwards to try and strike the creature, hopefully stunning it in time for the others to act and either get away or take it down. It certainly looks frightening enough to need more than one opponent. It's not the best roundhouse and it easily moves slightly to keep from getting hit by the powerful woman.

End Round 2 ...

R3T21: Seeing his attack miss and another person die before him, Bangs can't help the feelings of helplessness and rage that build within him. He doesn't know who he is or what is happening, all the memories he can recall have been of pain and horror, but... he wasn't about to die without getting answers from this insane world he is in. His resolve is further strengthened when a man helps take the injured out of danger, a viper appears attacking the creature, and a women steps up to strike at the creature. Taking this as a chance to fight back against the creature, Bangs starts to move.

Wary of that creature's speed with it's blade, Bangs dives away toward the man and rolls brilliantly - hopping erratically to move out of it's range unharmed - and successful in doing so. Drawing a safe enough distance from the creature, Bangs extends his arm again, holding it with his other arm to stabilize his aim as the stones once again respond and are launched towards the creature, but the creature is incredibly agile and dodges.

R3T17: Zoo, you are in the mists, pulling precious cargo. What do you do?

Slasher on deck, Mack and his viper in the hole ... (Mack, feel free to post your action)

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Bangs: 21. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Brother Jomah: 20. PANICKED til end R22T15!!!
Zoo: 17. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!! Dragging Flair.
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Patient 601: 16. PANICKED til end R14T15!!!
Eric: 15.3. PANICKED til end R23T15!!!
The Tatterman: 15.
Mack: 13. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!! Summoned viper!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Akbar: 12. PANICKED til end R21T15!!!
Zarinda: 11. PANICKED til end R18T15!!!
Aliendrei: 10. PANICKED til end R13T15!!!
Haru: 9. PANICKED til end R24T15!!!
Knuckles: 8. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.

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R3T17: Zoo ... feel free to take your action, but you are otherwise no longer visible to the evil as you are in the mists, but you had only gotten 20' and you still feel his presence. You are dragging the blinded man. What do you do?

R3T15: The terrifying man runs his razor deep across and around the strong brawler's abdomen to disembowel her, her viscera dangling to the ground as she falls to her knees. Though he has time to close on Bangs, the creature whose eyes are bandaged over looks directly at Bangs and instead goes to exact greater damage to the doomed woman. She manages to just look over to Bangs and whisper - her eyes glassy as if channeling something else - and gurgle "Wake." With that, the creature tears her throat out with his clawed hand. (Knuckles, that was you.) Again, everyone senses and even in their mind's eye sees this.

R3T13: Up, up, up...is the litany inside Mack's mind. I need to get up. I need to climb something. I need to get away from this...thing, and I'd really like my little viper buddy to at least SLOW THAT THING DOWN!!!

Expressionless, or at least thinking he's expressionless while he has an internal debate, Mack looks around for an escape route while withdrawing. If Ouro were here... No time to wrestle with the internal monologue, professor, find a way to make yourself uninteresting. Let someone else draw its attention.

And with that, the man heads off into the mist.

Following fast behind him is a viper that suddenly grew many times its length. In the unseen depths of the mist, the man's cry is heard "ME!"

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Mack, that was you, killed by your own now-amped-out-of-control-undismissable viper.

End Round 3, Begin Round 4 ...

R4T21: Bangs, Just you facing off against this thing, everyone else has left (even getting killed by their own construct in the process). What do you do?

Zoo? What do you do?

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Bangs: 21. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!!
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Brother Jomah: 20. PANICKED til end R22T15!!!
Zoo: 17. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!! Dragging Flair.
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Patient 601: 16. PANICKED til end R14T15!!!
Eric: 15.3. PANICKED til end R23T15!!!
The Tatterman: 15.
Akbar: 12. PANICKED til end R21T15!!!
Zarinda: 11. PANICKED til end R18T15!!!
Aliendrei: 10. PANICKED til end R13T15!!!
Haru: 9. PANICKED til end R24T15!!!

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R4T21: Another monster? Bangs thought as the monstrous dog exits the fog nearby and attacks the thing, Maybe these two will distract each other enough for me to help the injured man?

Following that thought, Bangs moves away from the thing into the mist looking for the injured man. He finds him, he examines his condition, and tries to see if he is still alive murmuring words of comfort automatically as he does so. Unfortunately, it seems as if the man expired from his wounds, likely shock.

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By "examining his condition..." this clued me in that you attempted a Heal check to actually do what you fluffed doing.

R4T17: The dog creature's neck extends like a serpent striking it's prey, its large maw barreling toward the blindfolded monster. Patches of fur and skin fall from its throat with the sudden movement. The large size and the fear Zoo is feeling, coupled with the monster's inhuman agility, is enough to miss.

R4T15: The killer steps forward and cuts the canine creature's forward underchest deep to stun it, and then takes off its snout with his hand. The dog-creature bloodily shifts back to the now ruined brown-skinned man he used to be. Bangs makes out a word in blood on the ground from where this brief, and doomed, savior had been standing (which means everyone senses this as well): "save." (Bye, Zoo.)

Bangs senses movement, and realizes that in his own terror and addled mind he rushed too quickly a pronouncement of death and bends over his patient. The man opens his eyes - terrifying blood sockets that they are - and Bangs' feels an awful pain as the man punched him in the right lung with an incalculably powerful blow. He only takes 7, but Bangs' right lung is collapsed and he is staggered. He stumbles back, barely keeping his feet, and the blinded patient stands on his feet, a look of elation and cruely covering his face - enough to be recognized by Bangs despite any ability to express from the eyes.

End Round 4, Begin Round 5 ...

R5T21: Bangs, no doubt a little confused, the damage itself was not good but the effect of the blow was more severe. You are staggered with a collapsed right lung and now standing in front of a bloody eye socket killer with superhumanly strong fists. And you got the sense of the death from the dog-man. What do you do?

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Bangs: 21. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!! STAGGERED from a collapsed lung.
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Brother Jomah: 20. PANICKED til end R22T15!!!
Patient 601: 16. PANICKED til end R14T15!!!
Eric: 15.3. PANICKED til end R23T15!!!
The Tatterman: 15. Include fake Flair.
Akbar: 12. PANICKED til end R21T15!!!
Zarinda: 11. PANICKED til end R18T15!!!
Aliendrei: 10. PANICKED til end R13T15!!!
Haru: 9. PANICKED til end R24T15!!!

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R5T21: Wheezing heavily, Bangs steps back coughing as he feels the death of the dog-creature in the distance, Those who ran immediately were apparently the smart ones. Wary of the non-living thing in front of him, Bangs tries to will some strength into his partially suffocated body, and feels as though some reservoir of power is taped into right before a small surge of vitality fills him, though it could just be adrenaline masking the pain he feels.

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You are healed of 5 hp, so you only have 2 hp of damage, but the staggered effect remains independent of hit point damage.

R5T15: Bloody Eyes steps up to the man who has regathered some of himself and punches him in the head for a whopping 7, enough that Bangs totally forgets what tiny little bit of history has happened up until now. He basically has amnesia on top of amnesia, and no idea why his lung hurts, doesn't remember the bandaged eye man, and doesn't remember why this terror is attacking him.

End Round 5, Begin Round 6 ...

R6T21: Bangs, what do you do?

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Bangs: 21. SHAKEN as long as he is within Tatterman's presence!!! STAGGERED from a collapsed lung.
* Immune to Tatterman's Frightful Presence.
Brother Jomah: 20. PANICKED til end R22T15!!!
Patient 601: 16. PANICKED til end R14T15!!!
Eric: 15.3. PANICKED til end R23T15!!!
The Tatterman: 15. Include fake Flair.
Akbar: 12. PANICKED til end R21T15!!!
Zarinda: 11. PANICKED til end R18T15!!!
Aliendrei: 10. PANICKED til end R13T15!!!
Haru: 9. PANICKED til end R24T15!!!

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R6T21: Head ringing ... lung burning ... Bangs is confused and scared. He looks fearfully at the eyeless horror before him before lurching away erratically searching for safety. It is a beautiful series of maneuvers to get away from the one, only to find that he suddenly has a horrible wound at his gut that cuts from just off-center of his left abdomen and through his intercostal muscles, and out the back. He looks up to see the man with the bandaged eyes. Bangs tries to figure out ... he wasn't there just a second ago ... how ... but all he can mutter in heaving gasps is "up" ... several times before lurching forward and falling over and his fear and consciousness now become a part of this nightmare realm.

R8 ...

The panicked run aimlessly through the yellow mists. Because it grows ever thicker it is harder to keep a straight path and many of you still running think you've passed some points before. Every now and then, you would hear someone else running and it would heighten your own fear and you would re-double your efforts. Sometimes something might zip across you just ahead of your path but not clear enough with the yellow mist to really catch anything. Every now and then it gets to be too much for some and ruined structures offer possible hiding spots or places to cower.

Brother Jomah hears something ghosting his steps to the side and he quickly changes course ... right into the path of the killer who cuts him wide open and he shouts "WAKE!" at the top of his lungs before expiring.

R18 ...

Eric is running in panic and he feels a sharp pain on the left side of his head and sees his left ear fall to the ground (8 + 1 CHA drain) and the bandaged man suddenly appear, but Eric does not stop but the bandaged man is fast and as Eric tries to escape he gets cut across the brow and blood flows into his eyes. A round or two later of running blind he trips and takes a tumble and smashes his head against a rock on the ground, spattering the ground with the word "me".

R28 ...

For a minute and a half now Patient 601 has shaken off the blind panic. There is an area that seems to be pretty defensible and he has taken to hiding, gathering strength for when--

and in the darkness, all hear the terrible death cry of a man newly acquainted with fear and pain and one word screamed out: "SAVE!"

"The last four of you..." comes a whisper heard as much in the mind as throughout this wrecked place "... have evaded me for too long. I shall reward your sweeter deaths with something special."

Whatever Akbar was doing, he is surprised as he is surprised by the bandaged man suddenly becoming visible down low, cutting with his razor deep into his foot at the point between his second and third toes inward, then up along the side of his leg. He bolts upright and thrusts his claw through Akbar's cut so deep that he grabs his spine and breaks it. Akbar gasps, "W-wake."

R28T11-9: Zarinda, Aliendrei, and Haru ... each of you separately hear this and now that the bandaged man is just 15' from you, just out of view as the mists get thicker. What do you do? All of you are free to post.

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The Tatterman: 15.
Zarinda: 11.
Aliendrei: 10.
Haru: 9.

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R1T22: Zoo lifts himself from the ground slowly, taking in the scene before him. He turns to his cell mate and eyes him cautiously. When he's established that he is just as confused, Zoo turns back to the doctor and whispers to the man beside him "Magpie sees something good on the doctor. Do you see it?"

R1T21: Björn lurches to his feet with a cry of anguish and terror as he looks down at himself moving his hands over his entire body trying to contain the creature that is tearing... forth... from...

Upon seeing he is whole and damaged he looks around...

Seeing Jomah, he crosses. "I don't know you." Then, crossing to Mack, "But, you... I never forget a face... Mr...Ch... Ch..." and then he pales, backing away. "No... I don't know you, either."

He moves to the corner with his back to it and stares at the others and beyond the bars.

R1T20: The doctor, careful not to get near the cells without looking overly cautious, mutters various things and takes another cut along the man on the table. He screams in pain and she has a look of delight.

R1T19: Mack wakes up to the new noises. He looks quizzically at the man who stares at him, then looks away. Mack licks his gumline as though he was dislodging food after eating. Speaking of which, was he hungry? He didn't think so, but so much was unfamiliar. Looking around the cell, he takes in as much of the detail as his perception will allow, cataloging the quality of the stone and mortar, observing what type of creatures might be in the rushes at his feet, noting the smells and sounds as much as he sees and feels. Once he figures out what's going on, Mack walks to the bars to see what's going on outside. As he approaches the cell door, Mack pays close attention to the lock, wondering if he can determine what country he's in by the shape of the lock. (Alas, no.) He then decides to say something comforting to his new cellmates.

"At least we're not getting eaten by a poorly-conjured viper."

R1T18: The big man with wide fearful eyes and a tangled and matted full beard staggers to his feet and lunges at the bars to his cell.

"Let me out!" he screams at the person performing the torture in front of the cell. "You've got the wrong man! I didn't do anything!"

Frantically, he shakes and pulls on the bars with all his strength trying to escape, but these bars are sturdy, and meant to keep powerful people contained.

R1T17: Bangs sits up suddenly from his sleep, panting and covered in sweat - just sweat, mind you - before wiping it away, ignoring that it is centered around his eyes, and calming his breathing. That is, he tried to calm his breathing, but being in a cell with a man tortured in front of him doesn't evoke a feeling of serenity.

Seeing the doctor's cruel experiments, and the others cries for freedom, Bangs remains silent. He feels alone, do the others not remember who they are? Do they know each other? Do they know him? Finally his gaze rests on the doctor. Why is she doing this? Does she enjoy it? Is she going to do the same to us?

Like a moth to a flame, Bangs stares at the doctor wondering what fuels her insanity.

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He does not know anyone here. He does not know if anyone knows him. She does seem to mutter nonsense about "pain response" but has no real scientific approach. She seems to enjoy this. You don't know if she is going to do the same to you. However, given her enjoyment of her "experiments" and that this poor man cannot last much longer, it is a safe bet she'll be moving on to test other creatures when her plaything is no longer playing.

Note, I will roll for information/interaction-based things, just prompt me to do so. Still, her emotions are a mix of excitement and pleasure as she goes about her work.

R1T16: Akbar awakens facing a brick wall. For a moment he thinks he's still in the alley. With that thing... He reaches under his smock and runs a hand down the knobs of his backbone, making sure that his spine is still in place. That was a dream? It seemed so real. Felt so real. He looks up and takes in the other prisoners, the bars, the jailer and the torture in progress...

Prison? What exactly had he done, apparently while tripping balls on some seriously hard drugs? Maybe they just take drugs really seriously in this town. Which is... he realizes he can't remember. Holy %@#, what the hell did I take? And why did I think that was a good idea?

He startles when his cellmate speaks up. "Something good? You see something good in here? I'm all ears. At least until Miss Manners over there cuts them off..."
R1T14: Grabbing the bars, Aliendrei keeps silent for a second, look at his cellmate (Bangs), then whispers, "Why are you doing that?"

R1T10: "Please, someone ... please," says the man wanly, "someone help me, please."

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Zoo: 22.
BV: 21.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 20.
Mack: 19.
Brother Jomah: 18.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Al: 14.
Ben: 10.

[lostsole31]

R2T18: The big man seems to not hear the admonishment of the torturer and his efforts to escape increase.

"LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!" he screams as he thrashes at the bars. As he strains against the bars, his muscles bulge and he seems to grow larger. Then he definitely grows larger as his head nearly brushes the ceiling of the dank cell.

NOBODY is more surprised when this happens than the 11-foot-tall, black-bearded giant himself!

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I figured out what you were doing, mainly because you prefaced it in the OOC with a question, but please do as you did non-spoilered ... that was great. Then, in spoilers give the "crunch" ... "I use the Enlarge ability ... blah-blah..." We are just getting started and I don't know your characters, and I don't feel like being a detective reading an essay ever time someone posts without giving the crunch. Thanks.

Next, FYI ... it only lasts a round, and you did it at the end of your round. This is Jomah surprised and learning about his abilities, of course, but he has to do set it up again at the beginning of his next round if he wants to make it useful.

Seeing the man grow larger, Björn realises this may be his opportunity... If he can help the... thing... muscle open the bars, perhaps he can escape and get back to... back to...Someone? Was there someone waiting for him? Yes... There is always someone waiting... Waiting to grab him... To torture him... To tear him apart... That poor man on the table... He must be helped...

Coming forward near the creature that was once a man he says, "We must help him..."

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Please do the DM a favor ... use quotation marks. Thanks.

R2T17.8-.5: The doctor turns and hisses as if to say something to the cell holding the giant and she seems a little - WHUMPF!-CLANG!

Unnoticed was that the prisoner on the table, though truly bloody and weak, took advantage of her momentary distraction previously and struggled in his blood-soaked bindings and managed to get a leg free. He desperately kicked her in the small of the back right into the bars of the cell with the giant, the guy who just whispered to him (and the weaker man towards the back of the cell, pushed even further back because of the grown man). It was an unbelievably lucky strike and it crits her so that she takes 10 to the back and bonks her head on the bars for a minor concussion (1 INT & 1 WIS damage).

R2T17: Shocked out of his examination of the doctor and his intuitive knowledge of the pleasure she gains from her pursuits, and then by the sudden frackas, Bangs turns and faces his cellmate and distractedly says in a whisper, "N-nothing. Listen, that man won't last much longer, we need to help him and get out of here?"

Focusing back on the injured man as he whimpers, Bangs attempts something from the dream, the feeling of reaching out and attempting a connection to another being.

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Al, it seems as if there is some type of ... something ... a sensation you've never quite felt before. It is as a tickling at the mind. Do you embrace it or shy away from it?

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You almost feel, strange. Like somehow your desire to conspire with your cellmate gives you - might give you - some type of connection. It is a strange feeling. But it doesn't stop there. The victim's combat-tense body pauses for a micro-second ... and he looks right at you with a quizzical look. He nods, and when he does, you suddenly feel like you are definitely "connected" in a way that's hard to describe.

Then, it gets stranger, for in your mind you hear his voice, "Name's Ben. It's like you're trying to open a collective - tactician or vitalist? I trust you; we're connected now."

R2T16: Akbar, it is now truly active in here. The victim kicked the doctor against the far cell and it was a nasty kick. She's right on the bars as the cell with the now-giant in it. What do you do?

Aliendrei, you're posted actions from before don't work now (or rather, I am allowing you to adapt to the situation). You're on deck, what do you do?

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As players you created your characters and defined a race. However, for the purposes of story, none of you actually began (at least your lives) as a witchwalker/ ifrit/ tiefling/ erinyes/ whatever. You started ... story-wise/ RP-wise ... as humans. Now, post events of the dream, you are ... different. Of course, you could have had an insanity or feral nature before that manifested as an insanity that made you believe you've been this all along anyway, so how you RP it is up to you. But for the purposes of dramatic irony, you ONLY JUST BECAME your race coming out of the dream. The fact that Al mentioned in-dream that he was "always this way" and that the dream deals with the subconscious informs that Al may very well have no idea he was ever actually human.

Zoo and BV, you are effectively delaying, so feel free to post as well.

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Zoo: 22. DELAYING!!!
BV: 21. DELAYING!!!
Mack: 19. DELAYING!!!
Brother Jomah: 18. ENLARGED ... stats not updated!
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (34:44, Damage: 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)).
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Al: 14.

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R2T16: Akbar doesn't know what the man on the table has done. For all he knows the guy could be in here for shoplifting... or because they found him in the woods, in a cabin made out of the bones of dead hookers. But he does know what the woman torturing him is all about. She is enjoying her work far too much. It's not about whatever her victim deserves or does not deserve. She needs an attitude adjustment right soon. Especially before the rest of them get a turn on that table...

After his cellmate's whisper, his eyes initially go the the ring of keys on her belt. He's pretty sure he distract her, start up a conversation. He's oddly good at that... But then the fight starts and it's too late for words. The nice ones, at least. He stares at the jailer and thinks at her as hard as he can... F#@K YOU!

He then speaks strange words and moves his hands in a strange way. Nothing seems to happen from this but something seems to have rocked her world and she is dazed

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With painful stare and a roll, she suffered 11 sonic damage!

R2T14: Aliendrei, what do you do?

Zoo and BV aare both on deck and in the hole, and both were delaying, so they can go anytime. Mack is also delaying and can go anytime.

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Zoo: 22. DELAYING!!!
BV: 21. DELAYING!!!
Mack: 19. DELAYING!!!
Brother Jomah: 18. ENLARGED ... stats not updated!
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (23:44, Damage: 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). DAZED til end R3T16!!!
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Al: 14.

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R2T15: "Let's see... Let's see... It didn't work last time, but that's because he missed. Could it be that I really can call something out of the ether to help the man on the table? Maybe he can get the keys. Let's try again..."

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Mack focuses his mental energies, trying to call the viper from his dream into the cell. It should be small enough to get through the bars, and it's even likely that it could somehow move the keys off the woman's belt, but that would be kind of obvious, now wouldn't it? Perhaps another choice would make more sense.

Sure enough, a viper appears right behind the woman. When the viper arrives, Mack directs his thoughts at the viper's mind while whispering: "Avoid the larger creatures and bring me..." Mack visualizes as many things as he can which resemble lockpicks. With things getting so hectic, he wondered if Ourolini - a draconic creature that seems to be elusively hiding in his dreams - would ever be able to make an appearance. In the meantime, the viper hisses and is defensive, but doesn't really do anything.

R2T14.5: Zoo looks back and forth between the doctor and his cellmate. "Please don't freakout," he says before a flash of green light surrounds him and expands.

What emerges is the large-hooved dog from Zoo's dream, it's long neck and head poking through the bars.

R2T14: Aliendrei, what do you do?

Björn, you have been delaying, so feel free to post. Otherwise you're on deck anyway. Brother Jomah in the hole (post if you dare, but circumstances might change) ...

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BV: 21. DELAYING!!!
Brother Jomah: 18. ENLARGED ... stats not updated!
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (23:44, Damage: 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). DAZED til end R3T16!!!
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. 10' reach, READIED to bite!!! Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes)
Al: 14.

[lostsole31]

R2T14: Aliendrei's shouts at the doctor now turn to shouting for others to grab her keys.

End Round 2, Begin Round 3 ...

R3T21: Björn continues to hold his action after seeing what has taken place outside and waiting to see what his big companion will do.

R3T18: As quickly as he grew, the bearded man returns to his normal size. Moving surprisingly quick for a big man, he reaches though the bars to grab the torturer. A torture implement and not a true weapon - in fact, not even a true torture implement, the woman wildly swings at the man with the balding pate. Between a poor weapon and the man's desire not to get hit he doesn't grab her.

Eyes still wide but no longer afraid, the man smiles at the face of his captor. "How about you let us out of here, luv?"

He speaks to his cell mates without looking away from the woman. "Get the keys!"

R3T16: The weak man in the same cell, towards the back, says, ""Little friend, go get the keys, and bring them to me!"

The snake doesn't seem to know what to do and hisses in place.

Björn, do you break your delay to try to get the keys from the woman. She's not grappled, but she does seem to be fully focused on the man trying to grab her.

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Björn: 21. DELAYING!!!
Brother Jomah: 18.
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (23:44, Damage: 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). DAZED til end R3T16!!!
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. 10' reach, READIED to bite!!! Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes)
Al: 14. DELAYING!!!

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R3T17.9: Björn gets his fingers on the key ... so close, so close, but he just. can't. grab. them. And she pulls away.

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The DC is a 14 ... Doh!

R3T17.8: The man on the slab gets free of his bindings and flanks the woman with those in the cell.

R3T17.5: The doctor, though able to defend herself, seems to have been dazed by something for the past several seconds and there are blood trickles at her ears.

R3T17: Bangs is taken aback by the voice in his head, and doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. Still, he concentrates from the relative calm on his side of the room and the man's wounds begin to knit (3).

R3T16: Akbar, what do you do?

Mack on deck, Zoo in the hole, Aliendrei delaying ...

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Brother Jomah: 18.
Björn: 17.9.
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (23:44, Damage: 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). DAZED til end R3T16!!!
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. 10' reach, READIED to bite!!! Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes)
Al: 14. DELAYING!!!

[lostsole31]

R3T16: Akbar watches the others join the fight, or attempt to, and realizes that they resemble the people from his dream, or bad trip or whatever that was. And the snake. He hopes it's not that snake... But, first things first. Ms. Manners and her knives need to be put out of action. Whatever he's doing seems to be working pretty well, so he decides to keep it up. He gestures and mumbles another expletive, barely audible... but inside the jailer's head it must sound like a cannon going off...doing 7 sonic and she appears to continue to be dazed!

R3T15: Mack, what do you do?

Zoo on deck, Al (delaying) in the hole ...

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Brother Jomah: 18.
Björn: 17.9.
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (16:44, Damage: 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). DAZED til end R3T16!!!
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. 10' reach, READIED to bite!!! Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes)
Al: 14. DELAYING!!!

[lostsole31]

R3T15: Mack, instead of going for complex, takes a different tack as he shouts and points, "Bite the doctor. That thing! Her there! Attack!"

Now that the snake seems to get as it moves in a little to bite the doctor. She's midway through a partial crouch in her movements and it bites her in the breast for 1. It is hard to tell since she is loopy if the poison will affect her or not.

R3T14.5: Zoo lowers his head and charges the door of his cell, eager to escape. He slams into the door and cracks his skull hard for 9, causing him to reel some as the blood comes down his head.

Al is delaying ...

End Round 3, Begin Round 4 ...

R4T18: Brother Jomah, what do you do?

Björn on deck, tortured/badly wounded man in the hole, Aliendrei delaying (feel free to post) ...

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Brother Jomah: 18.
Björn: 17.9.
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (11:40, Damage: 1 CON (11), 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). DAZED til end R3T16!!!
* POISONED!!! Fort DC 9 1/rd til end R8T15 or 1d2 Con; 1 save ends.
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. 10' reach, READIED to bite!!! Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes). 1d20+5 to hit, 1d8+6 for bite damage.
Al: 14. DELAYING!!!

[lostsole31]

R4T18: The big man reaches through the bars and grabs the struggling Doctor, who in turn seems to reflexively shift form - albeit still held. "She" is now some type of humanoid with gray skin, a narrow head, and a sinister, noseless face. None of you know what it is, but you do see that its hands are now powerful, clawed things and she/it drops the half-shears. Oddly, though some type of shapechanger (or so it would seem), her/its clothes are still worn.

"The keys dammit! Grab her keys!" he shouts at his cellmates.

R4T17.9: Björn, what do you do?

Bloodied man on deck, doctor (currently grappled, but not longer seeming dazed) in the hole, Aliendrei delaying ...

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Brother Jomah: 18. GRAPPLING!!!
Björn: 17.9.
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (11:40, Damage: 1 CON (11), 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). GRAPPLED by Brother Jomah!
* POISONED!!! Fort DC 9 1/rd til end R8T15 or 1d2 Con; 1 save ends.
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. 10' reach, READIED to bite!!! Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes). 1d20+5 to hit, 1d8+6 for bite damage.
Al: 14. DELAYING!!!

[lostsole31]

R4T17.9: Björn, seeing the woman change her shape, screams and jumps back from this bizarre sight. Acting reflexively, some sort of ectoplasm comes, seemingly from nowhere and forms around his body in what appears to be plate armour. Witnessing this happening to himself causes him to jump further back and bounce into the wall in shock and yell out again.

For the "armour literate," this seems to be a highly complex, masterwork suit of half-plate. Many of the vital areas have additional thickness, and it is reticulated enough to offer protection to the joints. Once Björn has stepped back, he senses two things: first, an adrenaline boost (that's the CON bonus); and second, there is a sense that the armor is yet "unfinished" in some way, and he has a mental connection to it. Yes, he might be frightened by it, but it is filling him with boundless energy, though it does limit his mobility some.

R4T17.8: The bloodied man, flanking the grappled doctor, snatches the keys off the monster's belt and tosses the keys to Bangs' feet right there at the bars of his cell.

R4T17.5: The doctor - though now seens as a genderless grey monster than a woman - possesesses enormous strength, but she/it still can't escape Jomah's grip.

R4T17: Bangs, the keys are now at your feet. What do you do?

Akbar (currently giving the doctor the painful stare) on deck, Mack and his viper in the hole ...

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Brother Jomah: 18. GRAPPLING!!!
Björn: 17.9.
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (11:40, Damage: 1 CON (11), 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). GRAPPLED by Brother Jomah!
* POISONED!!! Fort DC 9 1/rd til end R8T15 or 1d2 Con; 1 save ends.
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. 10' reach, READIED to bite!!! Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes). 1d20+5 to hit, 1d8+6 for bite damage.
Al: 14. DELAYING!!!

[lostsole31]

R4T17: Seeing the keys drop to his feet, Bangs hurriedly grabs them and starts trying them on the lock of his cell. He manages to unlock his cell. The door is not open, but it is unlocked.

R4T16: Akbar, you are currently doing the stare-whammy on the ... whatever it is/ doctor. What do you do?

Mack and his viper on deck, Zoo in the hole, Aliendrei delaying ...

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Brother Jomah: 18. GRAPPLING!!!
Björn: 17.9.
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (11:40, Damage: 1 CON (11), 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). GRAPPLED by Brother Jomah!
* POISONED!!! Fort DC 9 1/rd til end R8T15 or 1d2 Con; 1 save ends.
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes). 1d20+5 to hit, 1d8+6 for bite damage.
Al: 14. DELAYING!!!

[lostsole31]

R4T16: The @#%$@$ is THAT?!

Looking at the creature that used to be the jailer, Akbar wonders if this place is a torture chamber...or a kitchen. Well, whatever he's doing seems to be working, so he'll keep working until that thing stops moving. Once again, the creature reels (though in this form) and it seems like it might be off-kilter again.

R4T15: Mack, unless you have a different command for your viper, it will continue to attack. What do you do?

Zoo on deck, Aliendrei (delaying) in the hole ...

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Brother Jomah: 18. GRAPPLING!!!
Björn: 17.9.
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (5:40, Damage: 1 CON (11), 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). GRAPPLED by Brother Jomah!
* POISONED!!! Fort DC 9 1/rd til end R8T15 or 1d2 Con; 1 save ends.
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes). 1d20+5 to hit, 1d8+6 for bite damage.
Al: 14. DELAYING!!!

[lostsole31]

R4T15.5: Once again, the dog was first in action, and it somehow tinged oddly in Aliendrei's head... as if there were some odd rivalry.

As this thought creeped inside his mind, so did somehow his skin on his body. His arms slightly elongated, becoming far thinner as claws started to appear where his hands were, while his face partly turned into a muzzle as his teeth turned his mouth into a vicious jaw. At the same time, sprouts of hair appeared in some places on his body...

Once those changes ended, he started applying his newfound weapons to good use, biting and clawing at the most fragile parts of the door, but good use ends quickly as the bite against a hinge - a thick casing of metal against enamel - does 6 to Aliendrei, hurting so badly with cracked teeth (possibly two shattered) that he can't use his attack again right away. (DM will inform you when your bite is available again.)

R4T15: Mack, unless you have a different command for your viper, it will continue to attack. What do you do?

Zoo on deck (action declared and pending), Brother Jomah in the hole ...

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Brother Jomah: 18. GRAPPLING!!!
Björn: 17.9.
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (5:40, Damage: 1 CON (11), 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). GRAPPLED by Brother Jomah!
* POISONED!!! Fort DC 9 1/rd til end R8T15 or 1d2 Con; 1 save ends.
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Aliendrei: 15.5. Can't use bite again until after R6T15.5!!!
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes). 1d20+5 to hit, 1d8+6 for bite damage.

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R4T15: Bite her some more!" shouts Mack, keeping himself safely in the back of the cell. The viper moves in and bites again for 2, though it is unknown if she suffers from poison or not. It is NOT lost to Mack's keen eyes and knowledge that the bite of the snake was incredibly powerful for its size, and it is a curious phenomenon that it should do so well.

R4T14.5: The Zoo-dog uses its massive tongue to lick up some of the blood on its face. Eager to get into the fight and escape the cell it leans its shoulder into the celldoor, hoping to force the lock, but these bars were made to hold those with the strength of ten men and they keep true.

End Round 4, Begin Round 5 ...

R5T18: Brother Jomah, you are grappling the gray doctor. What do you do?

Björn on deck, former torture victim in the hole ...

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Brother Jomah: 18. GRAPPLING!!!
Björn: 17.9.
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (3:40, Damage: 1 CON (11), 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). GRAPPLED by Brother Jomah!
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Aliendrei: 15.5. Can't use bite again until after R6T15.5!!!
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes). 1d20+5 to hit, 1d8+6 for bite damage.

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R5T18: The big man maintains his grip on the grey thing and pulls it into the bars, pinning it.

R5T17.9: Björn, the big man has successfully pinned the doctor against the bars, face/chest first. What do you do?

Torture victim on deck, doctor in the hole ...

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Brother Jomah: 18. GRAPPLING!!!
Björn: 17.9.
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (3:40, Damage: 1 CON (11), 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). GRAPPLED/ PINNED by Brother Jomah!
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Aliendrei: 15.5. Can't use bite again until after R6T15.5!!!
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes). 1d20+5 to hit, 1d8+6 for bite damage.

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R5T17.9: Seeing an opportunity, Björn closes and drawing back one of his huge mitts he throws a punch between the bars to crunch in the strange grey creature's face for 6, causing her/it to go limp in the bearded man's grip.

R5T17.8: The former torture victim rears back with a foot and performs a coup de grace by kicking her/it in the back of the neck with a resounding crack. Its strange eyes go buggy and its head falls backwards some.

Combat Ends ...

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Brother Jomah: 18. GRAPPLING!!!
Björn: 17.9.
Ben: 17.8.
Dr. Ilesi Scaen: 17.5. (3:40, Damage: 1 CON (11), 1 INT (12), 1 WIS (13)). GRAPPLED/ PINNED by Brother Jomah!
* Object of Akbar's hypnotic + painful stares.
Bangs: 17.
Akbar: 16.
Aliendrei: 15.5. Can't use bite again until after R6T15.5!!!
Mack: 15. Summoned viper lasts til end R11T15.
Zoo: 14.5. Large size, animalistic transformation, lunge (bestial reflexes). 1d20+5 to hit, 1d8+6 for bite damage.

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The only thing to add about what just happened is that Zoo does suffer considerable pain from the trnasformation. He always feels pain with his magic ... "painful magic," but "considerable pain" is when it actually affects him. I rolled for the Fort save that you had forgotten (and subsequently failed).

Mack utters his words softly, but it is too soft to hear as a loud shout comes from the Captain. "GRAY!!!"

Begin Round One ...

R1T23: Akbar (only), what do you do? It is 25' to one of the guards, 10' to either door (to the courtyard or the furnace room).

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Akbar: 23.
Björn: 22.
Mack: 21.
Ben: 20.
CG #1: 19.
Ourolini: 18.
Bangs: 15.
Brother Jaume: 14.
York: 12.
Zoo: 10.1. SICKENED til end R1T10.1!!!
* Must spend MA each round to concentrate on form. Animalistic transformation with Size change: small and 60ft darkvision from the list Blank form can grant.
* 40ft land speed, scent, 1d4 bite attack, small size, and 60ft darkvision. +2 Dex, -2 Str, +2 natural armor, +1 size bonus to attack rolls and AC, and +4 to stealth checks.
CG #2: 10.
CG #3: 8.
Al + Fennec: 3.

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R1T23: Akbar looks over to the commander. "We're not Grays. We're just people like you, stuck in here trying to make the best of a bad situation."

He says this like he really means it. But just in case it doesn't take, he steps over to the courtyard door and opens it. He is not yet "in" the doorway.

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SA was to charm person. FA to make a 5' step. MA to open the door. No more actions to take cover in the doorway.

Also, you do not yet know the result of your charm person.

R1T22: Björn, you are just inside the furnace room with one hand holding a light-rock. Aliendrei and his fennec are in front of you in the room. You looked back when you saw green lights and saw the Zoo-shift and heard the guards. What do you do?

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Akbar: 23.
Björn: 22.
Mack: 21.
Ben: 20.
CG #1: 19.
Ourolini: 18.
Bangs: 15.
Brother Jaume: 14.
Captain York: 12.
Zoo: 10.1. SICKENED til end R1T10.1!!!
* Must spend MA each round to concentrate on form. Animalistic transformation with Size change: small and 60ft darkvision from the list Blank form can grant.
* 40ft land speed, scent, 1d4 bite attack, small size, and 60ft darkvision. +2 Dex, -2 Str, +2 natural armor, +1 size bonus to attack rolls and AC, and +4 to stealth checks.
CG #2: 10.
CG #3: 8.
Al + Fennec: 3.