Final Fantasy: Chaos Crystal [IC]

[Ramsus]

The first of the undead hand-things bursts into radiant flame and dust, but the second apparently aware of what happened to the first avoids the flames.

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CC1 failed its save and died.
CC2 succeeded its save (and lived).

[Mai]

Zyrn wades though the water, struggling against even shallow water. She moves to S16, only 15 feet away, then swings her greatsword at a nearby bat, in hopes of taking the irksome thing out. This was frustrsting. She never wanted to fight in a swamp agaIn, but no doubt that wasn't going to be avoidable.

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Attack:
(1d20+3)[7]
Damage:
(1d10)[8]
Crit:
(1d10)[9]

Summary: moved 15 feet west to hit a bat. I'I'll change her location on the map now thay I know we can.
V16 to S16 (for future reference)

[charlesrwest]

Moowgli continues to hail fire upon the enemy below.

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Wings/Gust to get to move 10 ft altitude. Target nearest bat if possible. If not, targeting nearby foot.

Attack: (1d20+5)[24]
Damage: (1d6+3)[6] + (if crit) (1d6)[4]

[Ramsus]

Moowgli again knocks a bat out of the air. In almost but not quite revenge, one of the remaining bats flies up in Moowgli's face and.... fails to do more than be annoying.

The baboon next to Three Claw tries to bite him, but he's having none of that.

A crab scuttles up to Deshy and clamps a pincer right on her foot. It hurts a bit. Which is more than the gross weird thing next to her that tries to bite her with its big gross mouth and misses can say.

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Bt2 dies.

B1 misses Three Claw.

C1 moves from Y24 to W21 and Claws Deshy for 1 bludgeoning damage.

Bt4 moves from AC14 to X17 and misses Moowgli.

L misses Deshy.

[gryffydd65]

Three Claw readies his spear and shield as the baboon tried to bite him, it misses as Three Claw brings the spear up , attacking the crazed ape.

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Details:[1d20+6 (17) # 6
Details:[1d4+4 (2)

[Ramsus]

Three Claw's counterattack fells the ape.

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B1 died.

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Deshy tumbles to the side, flinging the stupid crab on her boot into the mud. Her ears fold tight against her head, and the hair on her tail stands on end. She can't escape now, nor can she get enough elbow room to shoot anything.

"Mrrrrr..."

Damn it. Damn it!

Tears stream down her face as she tenses up and fights to delay the inevitable. Kimiko is too busy beating herself up to think of a plan, and D'Shi wants to make them work for it, at least.

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Bonus Action: None

Action: Dodge

Move: None

Status:
HP: 6/9
L1 Spells: 1/2
Effects: Mage Armor, Dodging

[Ramsus]

Three Claw gets assaulted by small things (an undead foot and a crab) going after his feet.

The bat Zyrn is engaged with moves closer and that's about it. Hasi also gets a visiting undead foot. And a baboon leaps from tree to muddy ground and climbs up a tree to be neat Moowgli.

The undead hand clawing at Deshy can't hit her with all her flailing about.

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SF3 moves from T9 to W11 and Stomps Three Claw for 3 bludgeoning damage.

Bt1 moves from S15 to S16 and misses Zyrn.

B2 Dashes from AD13 to Y16 (up 15 feet).

CC2 misses Deshy.

SF2 Dashes from AA16 to W16.

C2 moves from Y11 to W11 and Claws Three Claw for 1 bludgeoning damage.

[Mai]

Zyrn grunts in iritation as her swing misses. She swings her greatsword again, swinging upwards at it, hoping to nail it this time.

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Attack:
(1d20+3)[12]
Damage:
(1d10)[10]
Crit:
(1d10)[10]

S16 to U15
Attack action
Bonus to observe

Damn it. Duplicate of a post I posted where preventing negated the rolls now this post needs to not be the same. This better count as not a duplicate.

[charlesrwest]

Moowgli kicks and the ground beneath the tree below shifts, making the tree increasingly unstable. He hurls his last glowing rock at the baboon with a deep "Kupoo!"


What fiendish foe forces this fracus? Baboon on the tree,
Why must this conflict be?

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Mold earth to try to knock the tree over. If it works, the attack no longer has disadvantage and he will gain another 5 ft of altitude.

Magic stone attack:
Attack: (1d20+5)[8] (1d20+5)[25]
Damage: (1d6+3)[5] + (if crit) (1d6)[2]

[Ramsus]

Moowgli's attack to uproot the tree fails as it's more deeply rooted than he hoped and the bat knocks his projectile astray.

[1ring42]

William Macintyre felt a combination of excitement and trepidation as he entered the facility. He had been entered into a sort of a lottery after winning a module writing contest for a TTRPG magazine, and the excitement was for the chance to experience a fantasy RPG in virtual reality, however he felt the trepidation because he didn't know too much about final fantasy, having only played multiplayer games growing up.

Now he was sitting still as his pale freckled face with fiery hair and blue eyes was scanned into the machine along with his lean build.

As he built his character, he went with what he knew, following the trope of the scholarly wizard to make his "black mage" which seemed to be more like a damage dealing caster once again sticking with familiar territory, and leaving his scans mapped onto his character, only changing the hairstyle to match that of a medieval friar.

And with his character build he took a deep breath and ACCEPTED

[Ramsus]

After William hits ACCEPT, the menus vanish and the background fades from dark shifting colors to bright ones. You lose sense of your body and feel a strange sensation you can best describe as if you were taking a fast moving elevator outside of your body. You regain feeling in your body, but for a moment it feels muted and strange to you.

Then you sense the presence of another mind inside the body with you. After a moment of confusion you feel your mind and this other mind pulled together. How this resolves exactly is different for each of you. Once it has, you first feel the world around you again. Then your other sense fade in as the shifting lights pull away to reveal a world around you. If this is a virtual creation, it is amazingly well done. As far as you can tell, it's as real as the ones you came from.

The first thing William notices is that his sense of balance is off as he's much taller and beefier than he was before. The next thing he notices is that he's in a swamp. The third thing he notices is that there are other people here and that they're being attacked by animals and undead and whatever the hell that one thing is!

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Everyone else sees a new person appear a bit to the east in a momentary person sized twinkling pillar of multicolored light and thinks "Oh good, backup!" and the thought is immediately followed by Hasi vanishing with the same kind of special effect.

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So it's you 1ring determine how the melding of your "player" and "character" personalities worked out. Mainly I imagine this is a question of which is most dominant and how much.
The more dominant the "player" personality is, the longer it takes to find your balance in this new (to them) body. Though you can still carefully walk around just fine immediately and at most it'll take you about a half hour to adjust.

In this case your movement speed is halved for the rest of the fight. Compounded with difficult terrain.... you're not going to be moving very far this fight. (Though feel free to round up to the nearest five feet when determining how far you can move.)

[1ring42]

This feels so real... Wait am I not alone here?

Who are you? Why are you in my head?

Wandering Storm took his bearings both externally and internally. As intellect clashed with intellect briefly before accepting a sort of truce, after all they had been dropped into a dangerous situation.
We'll just have to figure this out after we get through this.

It took some doing but William finally spoke, partially to the other entity but partially to the party as a hole, as he felt the right arm taking out a lump of coal. "Well let's see how the physics work around here ja?" He was surprised to hear what sounded like a vaguely nordic accent pass through his lips before Wandering Storm resumed control, gesturing as if he was hurling the lump but instead pointing it at the larva and bellowing out a single word in ignan as the coal briefly glowed blue and shot out a small bolt of lightning.

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attack - (1d20+5)[9]
damage - (1d7)[5]
crit - (1d7)[6]
Casting firebolt with lightning as the damage type

[Ramsus]

The bolt of lightning crackles at it hits the creepy monster, clearly harming but not killing it. It then tries to bite Deshy, but she dodges it and the pincers of the crab at her feet.

Meanwhile Moowgli slaps a bat away from biting him.

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C1 misses Deshy.

Bt4 misses Moowgli.

Larva misses Deshy.

[gryffydd65]

Three Claw stabs at the crab with his bronze spear.

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(1d20+5)[16]
(1d4+6)[10]
(1d4)[1]

"Well met new one, I am Three Claw. "

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Deshy can't focus on the guy who teleported in and vaporized Hasi right now. If the big monster comes for her next, she'll probably try to run for it.

Like we always do...
It's called surviving, thank you!

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Just dodging again. Same status as before.

[Ramsus]

Thee Claws basically explodes a crab so hard the undead foot nearby him is stalled by the shockwave.

The remaining baboon climbs further up to be at Moowgli's level and reaches out and savagely bites Moowgli's neck.

Deshy continues to fend off an undead claw. Zyrn has less luck with one of the feet, which stomps down on one of hers.

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C2 dies.

SF3 misses Three Claw.

B2 climbs higher up the tree and crits Moowgli for 6 piercing damage. His armor breaks.

CC2 misses Deshy.

SF2 moves from W16 to U15 and Stomps Zyrn for 2 bludgeoning damage.

[Mai]

Zyrn makes note of the new person, even as this new enemy crawls under her and primes to attack. "You okay? Need any help newbie?" Zyrn asks, swinging her sword at the severed hand thing below her.

Edit: Zyrns weapon gerts suck in the mud after her swing, and in her yank to pull it free, the blade cracks, leaving the weapon useless. "You know, whatever forces controll this stuff, I meant because the mind thing has to still be problematic... I wasn't calling him a noob. No need for that kind of pay back." Zyrn mutters just loud enough to be heard.

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Attack:
(1d20+3)[4]
Damage:
(1d10)[5]
Crit:
(1d10)[10]

Zyrn will move from U15 to V17 if she kills it.

[charlesrwest]

Moowgli takes a swing at the bat harassing him.

"Kupoow!"

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Bonus action to cast shalleighly and then attack with staff.

Attack: (1d20+5)[20]
Damage: (1d8+3)[4]

[1ring42]

Interesting. Let's try something else...
Ya know I like the way you think.

Wandering storm went through the same gestures, however the ignan word spoke was different as a streak of condensation speared out of the coal towards the larva.

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Fire bolt made cold through firaga.attack - (1d20+5)[9]
damage - (1d7)[1]
if crit - (1d7)[1]

[Ramsus]

Moowgli hits the bat like it's a baseball and sends it flying up over the trees. Home run!

The Larva is clearly a bit effected by the cold, but still stands. It tries to bite at Deshy again, just barely missing. The crab harassing Deshy just scuttles about trying to avoid getting stomped on.

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Bt4 died.

C1 misses Deshy.

Larva misses Deshy.

[gryffydd65]

Three Claw looks in disgust at the stomping foot. He takes aim with his spear.

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(1d20+5)[18] (1d4+4)[7] (1d4)[2]

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

While she's spinning around and swinging her bow in monsters' faces, Deshy catches sight of a bat practically gnawing the moogle's antenna off.

"Moowgli!"

She repeats her quick healing spell before ducking under the big worm's jaws for the fourth time.

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Standard Action: Dodge!

Bonus Action: Healing word! Heal Moowgli for (1d4)[1]+4 damage.

Move action: Nope!

[gryffydd65]

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from w11 to v14

Three Claw quickly dispatches the stomping foot and moves closer to get into the action.

[Ramsus]

The baboon biting on Moowgli doesn't let go, grinding its teeth into him a bit more even as most of the damage it deal before is healed.

Deshy and Zyrn fend off some detached appendages.

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B2 Bites Moowgli for 1 piercing damage.

CC2 misses Deshy.

SF2 misses Zyrn.

[Mai]

Abandoning her greatsword temporarily. She curses in giant, frustrated, and has to resort to punching at the hand thing that's trying to attack her.

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Attack:
(1d20+5)[13]
Damage:
4
Crit:
4

If it dies, she will move from U15 to W16

[1ring42]

"And might as well go vit the classic kill it vit fire."

The black mage spoke neither William nor Wandering Storm sure who actually said it before they went through the same motions once again speaking a different command word in ignan. The coal glowed briefly before shooting a small fiery orb at the larva.

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attack - (1d20+5)[17]
damage - (1d7)[1]
crit - (1d7)[7]

[charlesrwest]

Moowgli inclines his head in thanks to Deshy and then tries to see if Baboons can fly as well.

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Attacking with staff:

Attack: (1d20+5)[10]
Damage: (1d8+3)[8]

[Ramsus]

Zyrn tries to punch a thing that isn't there. This doesn't work. But she then remembers the thing that is there to attack and she kicks it hard enough to break it apart.

The black mage's fire has about as much effect as his frost did, though the damage is at least notably accumulating. Though at least he's having better luck than the larva and crab attacking Deshy, neither of whom can seem to land a blow upon her.

Moowgli swings right as the baboon realizes a sustained bit is maybe not the best idea and pull back, the staff swishing through the air.

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C1 misses Deshy.

L misses Deshy.