andres ♔ every broken enemy will know | that their opponent had to be invincible

[adamantiumed]

♬ indestructible - disturbed

WHO || Lanston Wellington, Drax the Destroyer, Wolverine, Nathan Young, Faith Lehane, Maxwell Briggard, Sam Winchester, Rocket, Eric Carpenter, Cora Hale, Dimitri Belikov, Alanna, Jaime Lannister, Klaus Mikaelson, Gus Harrison
WHAT || A team of Knights is tasked to assault the site of Shadowkind experimentation on Andres, free the Shadowkind within, and recover Sir Bancroft, if he's being held there.
WHERE || Andres Isle
WHEN || September 19th, 2014
HOW || Actionspam

[ Having spent months scrying on areas of the Island scouted out by Sir Bancroft and Sir Chessing, Hasmed is able to send a few groups to the Island via greater teleport spells, with a fairly small margin for error, as to where they're going to land. The Shadowkind prison teams land flawlessly, and the very big group appears in a clearing in the middle of the woods, abruptly finding themselves surrounded by trees and mostly darkness. The moon is in its last quarter, and with the trees so thick above them, there are only patches of light that filter down here and there. Those with darkvision or lowlight vision can see perfectly, but anyone with normal vision may find themselves squinting to see much of anything.

The teleport spell only works if the entire group is physically connected, so when they arrive, Wolverine yanks his hand off Nathan's shoulder, and gives Drax a Look like stop touching me if you value your hand. Eric runs his Drakenet app to determine their location, then announces: "Dead on." In other words, no spell mishap sending them miles off target. Beside them all, Lan's mount, Daisy, stamps her feet slightly, obviously unnerved by the magic. He whispers "Whoa, there" and reins her in, causing her to settle. ]

Comments

[layonhands]

[ risa pushes forward next to eric, looking over the symptoms, and shakes her head. ] It's a fast-acting disease. I can-- [ she goes to move forward and eric hesitates, clearly unsure about her having to touch the guy, but then nods, and she steps closer with a hand outstretched, brushing it to his forehead. a white light appears there, at the point of contact, and then the tumors slowly vanish back into his skin, and he sucks in a breath. ] It's alright. You'll be alright.

[ beside cora, a little boy, face scarred from experiments, shakes his head and tugs on her sleeve.

"He touched the slimey!" ]

[impetere]

[She glances down to him, face frowning in concern.]

What slimey?

[sirstickuphisass]

[ "That one." the kid points off towards a line of ooze trailing through the grass into the trees, not far off. eric exchanges a look with the other knights. ] We should check it out. Risa, can you keep an eye on them?

[ the cleric nods, reaching down to take the little boy's hand and draw him away, as the elf touches his face, amazed. ]

[impetere]

[Cora dismounts from the horse smoothly, her eyes flashing gold as she takes a deep breath, trying to see if she can catch the scent of what they're dealing with before they actually get there (survival 15).]

[sirstickuphisass]

[ the trail of slime seems to have been left by a large creature, that seems to move by dragging itself along the ground. the greasy slime is already starting to dry up, suggesting that the thing is probably had just fled the area before they came through here. it can't be far. ] Well?

[impetere]

Whatever it is, it's big.

[She pulls back, eyes following the trail.]

The trail's starting to dry up but it couldn't have gone far.

[likeagod]

[Dimitri makes his way over. If they need to track something, he can help too.]

Should we follow it?

[sirstickuphisass]

I'd rather surprise it than vice versa. Come on.

[likeagod]

[Dimitri nods and starts forward.]

This way.

[Survival 18 to track?]

[sirstickuphisass]

[ it's not hard to follow the ooze trail. and what they find is not a pleasant sight whatsoever.

A quivering pile of tumorous flesh pulls itself along the ground, about seven feet across and appearing to weigh over a ton. as they catch up to it, it stops with a squishing noise and its impossible to tell whether it sees them or not - it has no discernible face.

It is, however, joined by a second one, that comes out from the trees in the opposite direction. Le fuck.

eric draws his weapon and shoots at the first one (atk 16, dmg 11). it's hard to miss the massive fleshy creature, and his bullet hits it with a sickening squelch. ]

rolllll for init ]

[likeagod]

[This is probably going to be a terrible idea, but Dimitri is an in your face fighter first and foremost, and so he moves in toward the horrific creature, stake slashing out across it's surface, hoping to potentially expose some kind of organs or weapon points, because it sure is hard to tell what is what (atk 18, dmg 11).]

[herebemonsters]

[ the bullet and dimitri's blade have a bizarre effect on the monster, indeed. it starts to seal up over the damage caused, and seems to be swelling up, its innards straining against the membrane that makes up its skin. it tries to slam into dimitri, but is incredibly slow and cumbersome (atk 11) ]

[impetere]

[Mellie (who was absolutely there this whole time, following Cora around like a very large puppy) is totally ready to charge in there and start tearing things to pieces, but Cora takes one look at the fact that thing seems to be growing and she's quick to throw out a hand in front of her (wisdom 17).]

Wait.

[Because sometimes the bear needs an actually verbal command. She's going to actually take them both a 30 foot move backwards and look around to see if there's something she can use from a distance, like a tree limb or something, because she doesn't like guns so naturally she doesn't have one (spot 22).]

[sirstickuphisass]

[ there actually are numerous fallen, broken limbs of various sizes. she can grab one that would effectively be a reach weapon, that allowed her to stay 10 feet away and prod it - but it would only do 1d4+her str mod for damage.

the second blob starts oozing towards eric, but is... really slow and won't get there yet. so he shoots at it (atk 30, dmg 14)... and then crit fails, taking a step backwards as it advances and slipping on a slime trail, falling on his ass. luckily his fort save is a 28, so he doesn't start busting out tumors for y'all to see. yet. ]

[likeagod]

[Ew gross.

Dimitri tries to maneuver around the areas where the skin is stretching, in case it decides to...explode or something, and slashes at it again with his stake (atk 24, dmg 9).]

[herebemonsters]

[ again, the reaction is very strange, that straining continuing across its body, as it sluggishly fails to hit him again (atk 15) ]

[impetere]

[Well, it's better than actually touching the thing. She grabs one of the more sturdy branches, moves back towards the flesh blob again, before jabbing the jagged end of the branch into it (attack 11, damage 4 if it hits). The attack is awkward and sloppy but she doesn't want to be all tumorified.]

[sirstickuphisass]

[ it still hits. like i said, these fuckers are hard to miss. congrats eric, while you're laying there prone, this guy's gonna slither up to you and smother you with his horrible body (atk 13). luckily, even prone, eric's fast enough to roll aside and avoid the attack. his gun still in hand, he fires up at it (atk 25/15; dmg 10+7). ] Dammit!

haha i've been forgetting imp melee smash this whole time oops

[likeagod]

[Yeah, this is going to probably end terribly but he....sure doesn't have any better ideas (wis 6 l o l).

So he'll stab the thing with his stake again, with more force this time, and hope that enough damage will kill the thing (power atk 21, dmg 19 with penetration).]

[herebemonsters]

[ dimitri buries the stake up to the hilt in its side, and while it looks like it's still swelling for a moment, it abruptly quivers violently, and then sort of deflates. yeahhh boy. ]

[impetere]

[Cora watches it deflate and ... okay. Maybe they can get out of this without it exploding all over them. She turns a bit, before moving to try and stab the other blob, knowing she won't have quite the same effect but hopefully it doesn't backfire on her either.

... And she does really well, apparently. (attack nat 20, damage 10).]

[sirstickuphisass]

[ streeeetch, as she pierces it with the jagged end of the branch. it gives an angry slam at eric, striking him this time (7 dmg) ... and it grabs him, winding around his body with its horrible mass. he spends his time crawling out from it with a successful escape artist check :( dripping horrible slimy goo ]

[likeagod]

[With one of the creatures deflating before his eyes, Dimitri rips his stake out before moves to the engage the other, hoping to help bring it down just as quickly (atk 16, dmg 9)]

[impetere]

[Cora tries to stab at the thing again, concern written all over her face for Eric because that can't be good at all, but right now they need to just worry about killing the thing first (attack 19, penetration damage 8).

Unfortunately, however, Mellie has no such restraint. She's tired of sitting out of the fight, Cora's orders or not, and she just charges at the thing, slashing at it before Cora can stop her (attack 27, damage 12).]

[sirstickuphisass]

[ as they all attack it, the flesh starts to swell and grow, and the monster seems to start doubling in size-- but mellie's attack downs it before it can act, and it too, collapses to the ground.

eric starts to pull himself to his feet, groaning. ] That's just--

[ his groan is overpowered by another noise erupting from the nearby bushes: a hideous, piteous moaning noise full of gurgles that are nauseating. everyone must make a fort save dc 15 or become sickened. ]