(I/C)
“Hello! A little help here!” Brendon cried out as Lyra pointed out the door to the cave and whispered, “Ape coming.”
”Ape, why did it have to be ape!” Wyn ran towards Brendon, sword out. “Ah! My turn to ‘elp you, du Lac!”
“Abraxas!” Kovid shouted, “Shake that sniveling Manling out of the cabinet and jam it here in front of this door,” He ran towards the door, passing Lyra who was trying to help Brendon off the ground. “Thor’s scrotum, this is going to be hairy!” The sound of the enraged primate was closer along with the rasping sound of the dragging chain.
“Señor Wynter, use this!” Abraxas tossed the silver dagger (Ftr Dex >10, Elf Dex >10 – no roll) to Wyn who caught it easily. “Si, Señor Koven, let's move this cabinet, mas rapido! ¡Ándale!”
“Merci Monsieur Salazar! Easier to use dis den de sword!”
“Move it Wizard!” Kovid roared as bent down, scooped up a dead stirge, and tossed it underhand as far as he could out the door and into the cavern, before throwing his weight at the open portal and slammed it closed, scrabbling to find a lock, wedge, or anything to help, before cursing and pushing his weight behind the door to keep it closed. “Hurry!!”
“Ooo! My plan worked!” Lannis said, pushing the door open and giving Abraxas a weak smile as the Fighter shoved him aside and shutting the door, wrapped both of his hands around the frame in order to lift it. Seeing Brendon with the stirge on his back and Lyra finally getting him to his feet, he pointed a finger at it and screamed, “In Bet Grav!” and a twist of chaos tore free and blasted into the stirge (1d4 damage: Orange 1 – thanks Rik!) singing it at best.
“Merde!” Wyn finally was close enough to thrust his borrowed dagger at the beast (>+2 to hit, Orange 15) and skewered it deep (1d4+1 Damage, Orange 1: 2 Damage – thanks Rik! And killed!!), bursting its stomach and raining Brendon’s own blood and the bird’s bile down his back. He dragged it off the scout and let it fall.
Meanwhile Lyra had been digging through the side of Brendon’s pack and her hand closed around his healing potion. “Got it!” He popped the top free as she was dragging the scout across the floor to the room with the bath. “Oh come on!” she complained. “This place is bullshit.” Finally able to, she upended the flask down Lannis’ throat and the bleeding running down his back lessened and stopped (Heal 1d6: Orange 3 – Heal 3 Brendon).
Abraxas lifted and leaned back (<Str, Blue 8) lifting the cabinet and proceeded to drag it across the room to Kovid who was holding the door closed as the Ape SMASHED into it screaming and hooting! (Kovid: <Str Yellow 10, Ape: <Str Orange 9 – 5 pts under vs 9 pts under – Ape wins). The dwarf had his face red and feet dug in as the ape shoved and twisted and smashed at the door. The jamb held briefly, but the wood of the door began to crack and splinter (1d6 structural Damage: Red/Black 4) and the dwarf had to push with all his might to keep it in place – but he knew it was a losing battle. “Abraxas!!” He cried out.
The Fighter, veins pulsing, skip walked backwards, head twisted as he got there with the cabinet and helped the dwarf hold the door closed long enough to put the cabinet down. “There!” The sound of the angry Ape and the splintering wood had the two men look at the cabinet and each other (Abraxas: <Int check Blue 4, Kovid:
“This isn’t going to work!”
It took the two of them half a second to come up with a different plan. Abraxas dropped the cabinet onto its face and turned it catty corner so that one end of it has braced against the other wall, and the other long end would stop the door as soon as the jamb broke free…which it just did!
The door slammed open…and stopped after barely a foot and a half – showing the 600# snarling Ape on the other side looking at them through the door and beating its chest, hitting the door but the cabinet was keeping the door closed…for now.
But the ominous sound of the splintering door had Kovid turn to Abraxas and mutter, “We have a minute.. two tops, before that door is toast.”
“Si! But no butter on his toast!” He turned to the Ape, “No butter for you!!”
Time now is 9:35
(OOC)
Ape is stopped for 1-2 minutes until door is broken and then it gets into the cabinet room. 4 of you are in the bath room, 2 doors in here – one on the far east wall, one on the close east wall. Bath tub is filled with clean and fresh water and room is marble tiles. There is a shelf with 7 small flasks on it. What’s the plan? Monkey coming!
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