"you realize, of course, that you've made a great deal of noise?"
both warriors are too busy trying on helmets to think much about the noise that their coup de grace made.
"okay, i'm low on constitution from that armor. we need to hide."
"okay." says Jaxxon, ever agreeable.
the pair goes through the small door on the east side of the entry hall ( as described previously) and enter what looks like a billiards room, or men's parlor. there is a large, well appointed snooker table in the center of the room, though it is covered with cobwebs and dust.
a glass doored cabinet appears to be full of bottles of liqouer... hunting trophies in the form of animal heads line the wall and
Crikey!!! they are animated! The Mountain lion can roar, the bear growl menacingly, and the moose can flail the air with its horns, but the undeadheads cannot actually DO anything.... being mounted to the wall.
They bare their zombieanimalteeths at the invaders..... but they cannot attack.
"okay, Kit can you move this pool table to block the doorway?"
Jaxxon passes the requisite 2nd level st roll.... a stuffed raven caws angrily at him, but its feet being nailed to its perch, it can do no more than to caw ominously.
"okay" fin begins "i'm taking the head of the lion and the bear.... careful that they don't bite me, and I'm placing one on either side of the door, so that if anything comes through it can get attacked by the heads"
( did i not say this kid was a "natural"?)
"okay." i say smiling...... this kid uses the environments you offer him really well.
"okay. I drink my healing potion... i drink 2d6 worth... he rolls double 1's.
i contemplate whether daro would apply in this case.... and decide it does.... his second roll comes up a 7 so he can have up to nine con..... bringing him up to full power at 14.
Jaxxon remains unscratched thus far..... but that doesn't translate into him feeling safe.
they leave the door open so they can see out, but turn the pool table over on its side, so that they still have full cover from it up to the level of their chests.
at some point, two large bats..... about the size of a fruitbat..... no, they might actually HAVE BEEN fruitbats! fly to the short halway in front of the door and suspend themselves upside down from BARBED CHAINS coming out of their backsides!!??
POP!
one of their heads explodes when Fin deals a deadly and quick shortbow shot......... the other bat, who appears to have some sort of cathode tube installed in its head, immediately flies away.
"should we yell for them to come get us?" Jaxxon asks Fin
"we could..."
"HEY!!! we are downstairs!!! come down and get us!!"
well, how to respond to this?
their is the approach of heavy, clunky footsteps in the hallway.... they are coming in the direction of the snooker room. they have only the dim light of an old lamp in the snooker room to see by, but the sight coming down the hall is as crazy as any they have seen yet.
it looks to be... a large, muscled,.... purple? gorilla..... with a spherical diving helmet its head?!
this is madness!!!
No! this IS sourcastle!!!
Fin draws his bow and lets it get closer.... he wants a called shot. As he is eyeing it, he sees the divers helm illuminated from within. Inside the helm is a wingless fairy with an utterly homocidal and insane look on his face. he is pulling levers and gears inside, apparently he is OPERATING this insane creation from inside.... the walking nightmare of a twisted fairy mind!
[GRAPE APE]
MR 80
special damage:
none.
van hexxen is currently working on a newer more powerful helmet to install on his hollowed out gorilla...... something that could fire off bolts of electricity perhaps? but this is the early model. He built it for his fairy servant Leon the Peon, to make up for the fact that he had, in a fit of anger, torn off the fairies wings.
Leon is an angry fairy indeed ,and the Grape Ape ( color of fur selected by Leon.... its called "magenta sunset") offers him a chance to take out his raw aggression.
the grape Ape bears down the hall. Fin lets fly a called shot to the glass window of the helmet.
3.
fail.
Jaxxon lunges forward to attack over the pool table. He regrets it. the furious ape pummels him with huge fists... and hurls him to the floor.
he takes 30 points. his armor will take 22 of those with the new helm. 8 con loss. he's at 6.
Fin.... standing off to the side takes advantage of jaxxon being hurled aside.
this time he passes his 4th level dex roll easily and an arrow flies straight and true to the centermost point of the apes helmet.... shattering the glass ( which acts as armor in terms of damage to leon..... and nearly impaling Leon.... who remains inside the ape, squiming and screaming, the arrow deep in his side.
"i shoot him again"
the second shot also finds its mark and Leon the peon moves on to a well deserved afterlife.
"I don't have much Con" my son says to Fin "lets go back to the chapel and drink a healing potion."
"okay."
"at this point the boys both bolt for the front door.... moonlite thru the stained glass windows providing enough light to see.
I decide not to harrass them, but they still don't let the door hit their bums on the way out.
its clear they hate this house..... and love it at the same time!
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