[D&D 3.5e / IC] Lightning Rails and Whispers of the Vampire's Blade

[TaiLiu]

Quire's first strike is successful, and the giant badger chitters from his blow. Mamellek follows up Quire's attack with an powerful swing of her spiked chain, and it easily rips through the badger's fur and hide. In pain, it begins foaming at the mouth. Then it suddenly collapses from exhaustion and blood loss. When Quire tumbles into the room, he nearly bumps into an old human man, who is leisurely strolling to take a look at the battle scene. The aasimar can tell immediately from his scent: this man was V.

As the dire bat swoops down and successfully take a bite out of Sebastien, Bastoi manages to pierce the skin of the oversized beast with his dagger. It shrugs it off, ignores the Artificer's attacks, and tries to latch onto Sebastien's face, the better to get a grip with. Fortunately, the powerful psionic pulse Donharath sent out successfully disables the bat, and it stops trying to attack, trying to fight off the psion's mental intrusion instead. It hovers a few inches away from Sebastien, well within range of a melee attack.

Meanwhile, as Fritz tries to grapple-hug the dinosaur, it snaps back and prevents the Warforged from pinning it down. Its razor-sharp teeth manages to rip off significant chunks of livewood from Fritz, and then it leaps onto him, trying to knock him down and get at the more fleshier Bastoi.

Then the party hears a distant clang! of a metal gate being shut, from the base of the tower. It seems as though the man in ragged clothing has shut the gate.

Spoiler: Mechanics

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The dire badger is enraged, and it makes a full attack against Mamellek:

Attacks: Claw - (1d20+6)[10]; Claw - (1d20+6)[21]; Bite - (1d20+1)[18].
Damage: Claw - (1d4+4)[8]; Claw - (1d4+4)[5]; Bite - (1d6+3)[7].

UNCONSCIOUS!

The dire bat is stunned, and cannot take actions until its next turn.

The deinonychus attempts an overrun action:

If Fritz fails to make a successful Attack of Opportunity against the dinosaur, then the dinosaur attempts to knock him prone, via a Strength check: (1d20+4)[13]. If it succeeds, Fritz will be prone, and the dinosaur will attack Bastoi on its next turn.