1.1 - The Wyr River: Into the Earth

Yui nods and flicks some mud off her cloak. Alert, Yui examines the chamber, while examining Darazen and Osred (whats he up to?) out of the corner of her eye. Her hands seem drawn to handholds in the wall.

You cling to the wall, to the shadows without issue for about 25 yards. There are scraps, bones and trash at the edges, pushed and kicked aside. The tunnel starts to turn northward, going down further. Any further and you may lose sight, contact with your party.

The scouts have disappeared from sight, but they do that, using the shadows and nooks to make themselves invisible,mst you are not too worried, especially since no alarm has been sounded.

Yui looks over the others, sizing them up. "Sorry for the confusion, I ducked into this southern cavern after being chased by these 'mud men'. I threw a glow stick and an old dagger I had found down a tunnel", she says pointing to where the archways are, "to make some noise and throw them off. I thought it had worked. But then I heard the chittering behind me in the cavern and noises from out here. If those are slicer beatles....I thought my odds would be better out here. With all of you here, we could probably make short work of these insects. Follow me."

With that, Yui edges around the edge and into the south cavern.

Darazen follows Yui to the south and signals the remainder of the group to stick together.

Not really knowing what to expect, Darazen start to sort through his memories for types of insects, and particularly the aforementioned "slicer beetles". He hopes to recall something about them that might give them a combat advantage. After all, Darazen is hardly a front-line fighter.

Encounter:

In the southern cavern, there is a small Slicer Beetle nest containing two youths. Each is about 7 feet tall/long. There is no sign of the adult.

Slicer Beetles 5(15)
Slicer beetles shed their tough carapaces three times during their lives. In the first two stages, these creatures look like well-armored, six-eyed beetles with front piercers designed to slice through flesh, bone, and most types of armor. They grow to nearly 12 feet (3.7 m) high in their second stage.



Health: 15
Damage Inflicted: 5
Armor: 3 (Physical Only)
Movement: Short
Combat: Slicer beetles are the kings of piercing and tearing, using their pointed front legs to stab through and rip into flesh, bone, and armor. Young slicer beetles deal 5 points of damage, adults deal 7 points of damage, and wizens deal 10 points of damage.
Additionally, each time that a slicer beetle successfully attacks, the victim must make a level 5 Speed defense roll or his armor is torn apart and destroyed.

1D20 Roll Intitiave

To determine who goes first, second, and so on in a round, each player makes a Speed roll called an initiative roll. Most of the time, it’s only important to know which characters act before the NPCs and which act after the NPCs. On an initiative roll, a character who rolls higher than an NPC’s target number takes her action before the NPC does. As with all target numbers, an NPC’s initiative roll target number is three times the NPC’s level. (Corebook: page 90)

Darazen takes a step back in astonishment when he sees the two beetles. (ooc: Ringo and George, he thinks. only joking). He had read about these monsters, but nothing prepared him for seeing them in real life. Seven feet long, even for a baby, is pretty gigantic when you see how ugly and threatening they are, mandibles and all. **I'm going to have to take notes if we survive this. The company might be interested in the information.**

He states to the group, as he readies for battle, "Careful, they bite, and they are heavily armored." Darazen backs off, not wishing to engage in melee, but draws his punch dagger just in case.

(well, at least my initiative reflects my actions... and at least it wasn't a one!)

Speed roll, please

As you head back, you see something that you missed on the way in, a light beam across the floor. It is tiny and a very deep red, but it beams from the edge of one wall to the edge of the other. You are not sure if you tripped it (broke the beam) on the way in; but then again, if you had, wouldn't someone be there to check it out? You carefully step over it and make note that it is there. Watching for more, you see none and make you way to the southern cavern.

Has she found the others yet? I'm assuming she'll have to wait a round or two before joining in the fun with the slicer beetles.

R:1 - Khoren charges into battle, daggers drawn. He makes a quick observation of the rocks, foot holds and such in the room and decides where it would be best to spring up from. He gets just within springing distance. You will be able to leap into an attack next round.

R:1 - The beetles rear up slightly, but do not move forward. Raising their piercers, they appear slow. The chitter increases to a higher pitch, surely trying to draw attention from something. Seeing Khoren as easy prey, the nearest one tries to leap forward, but is held back.

R:1 - Orsed, your action? Then Utazó (who is still moving back to for two rounds), Yui and last Darazen.

Darazen is slowest to react, but focusing his mind to bypass armor he attempts to harm a beetle through a mental onslaught (2 damage bypassing armor if successful).

Yui hotheadedly tries to rush around the beetle that is focused on Khoren, hoping to take advantage of it's distraction, and then climb up its back and then stab it in it's unarmored eyes with her dagger and a previously hidden forearm blade (dual wielding)

(GM, I don't know how you want to split up this action, as I don't think it would be fair to do all of the above in one round if Khoren can only run forward in his round, so for now Yui is trying to run around the giant beetle, preparing to rodeo it.)

Thanks.....it will indeed be two actions to do that. An action is usually 5-6 seconds long. I will post the actions and results like above.