The Temple of Elemental Evil game thread

As the snake jets back, darf siezes the opportunity and lets his arrow sink right inbetween its eyes. Realizing the toll that the bite took on Anrins health Darf rushes to his aid signaling the others.

If Darf kills the snake with his shot Matthias will rush to Anrin's aid and try to stop the bleeding.

Otherwise he will continue his original course of action and launch his spell.

Already tense, Kaxaon explodes into action when he sees and hears the commotion down the hall. The end of the corridor is a long way away but he charges in like a bull. He unwinds the rusty, spiked, blood-encrusted chains wound about his forearms and sets them whirling. These are his weapons, wrought from the slavers chains that once held him. Memories of his enslavement fuel him now. He sees the halfling fall. Some sort of enormous snake. Kaxaon runs on.

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I figure a dash would bring Kaxaon into striking distance, but he won't have an action available for an attack. He enters rage.

Anrin lies at Ehlonna's mercy.

The poison that the snake pumped into Kaxaon only serves to enrage him. He wraps his spiked chain around the giant snake's neck and pulls the noose tight, his muscles bulging from the strain.

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OOC:
*My description of Kaxaon's attack sounds like a Grapple, but I choose to make a regular melee attack.
*Savage attacker Feat: Once per turn when you roll damage for a melee weapon attack, you can reroll the weapon’s damage dice and use either total. I choose the higher result of course!

"Bravely done! Marvelous, really marvelous! The way its head came right off! One good thing about evil is that it often inspires courage to oppose it in the truly valiant. Yes, you and I," Grumble says, standing his weedy body next to the hulking berserker, "We're one of a kind!" Grumble pokes around a bit, looking through the odds and ends in the room (perception). "Another great thing about snakes? They make great soup!"

(edit: to post in-character. I think that I need to set this AFTER I add rolls; I've been doing it before I click "Advanced" and then don't think to check it afterward, and my selection to post as character seems to reset)

Matthias will go to check on Anrin, and seeing that he is doing OK will stare at this strange man who just wandered up and began talking, "And who, sir, might you be? I don't believe we've met."

Kaxaon mutters to himself, "Oh great, another talker! As if Spugnoir and that halfling weren't enough to make my head ache!" Dripping blood as he goes, he makes a circuit of the room to see if there's anything of interest.

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OOC:
*If I find nothing of interest here, I'll go back into he corridor to check the still unexplored rooms.
*I'm down to 5 hit points.

Kaxaon is uninterested in non-practical weapons, and to his knowledge Spugnoir is seeking scrolls, not treasure. The big man shrugs but gazes at the chattering newcomer in a way that says, "I'm watching you." The man is right about the snake soup though. Finding nothing else, Kaxaon heads for one of the unexplored rooms. As he goes he wonders if Spugnoir might have bandages or a healing salve. The pain is ignorable but all the blood is making a slippery mess.

Kaxaon stumbles into the room next to the stairs, going by the light of Anrin's torch on the ground. This room was once very opulent, obviously a place of many expensive furnishings. The remaining bits and tatters still appear rich but probably wouldn't hold any value.

2 doors remain on the other side of the hall. The others are still recovering from the shock of encountering such a deadly animal.

Elmo walks over. "What happened here? Is our Gallant injured? Oh...it's kinda dark here.

I don't have any healing salves"

"As much as I hate to postpone our job here I think we may have to take Anrin back. He's too injured to continue on here, and with that poison in his veins it's best we get him to a healer," Matthias says, staring at the still form of his halfling friend laying on the ground.

Kaxaon grunts in reply to Matthias. He jerks a thumb at Spugnoir. "I go where he goes." He crosses the hall and tries one of the doors.