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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Jun 10, 2023 17:24:24 GMT -5
Even with the burst of speed, the troll behind Astrid charges after her and makes a swipe. Lightning crackles on Astrid’s hammer then releases in a bolt of energy, firing toward the open crossroads where Gerhart and the first troll are. Lightning consumes Astrid, and she travels through the bolt, appearing behind the troll just as Gerhart gets a powerful, electrified slash off against it.
Skidding to a stop, Astrid raises her warhammer then charges forward toward the paralyzed troll. She brings the hammer down overhead against the troll. Ribs snap and bones in its legs crack, and the monstrosity buckles under the power of the strike and collapses in a burned and bloody heap. But it’s not dead until its heart is burned. Until then, it could regenerate internal wounds and get back up!
“Gerhart, can ya cut it open so we can–”
BAM!
The troll that had been chasing her slams Gerhart into the wall.
“Gerhart!” she cries. Pointing her hammer at the troll’s back, Astrid fires off another bolt of lightning this time striking the troll from behind and at least temporarily distracting it for Gerhart to try and recover.
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Troll 1: almost dead, incapacitated for now at least Troll 2: stuck in Scern’s spell until the end of Gerhart’s next post Troll 3: angy and only slightly singed
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Post by Ser Gerhart Stanislav on Jun 10, 2023 20:05:54 GMT -5
Gerhart spits out a spray of blood as he is cracked into the wall, but the burning feeling in his throat reminds him of something very important. As the third troll faces Gerhart down, he takes in a deep breath. Warmth builds in his throat before he exhales a flaming breath directly into its face.
The screams of pain and anger reverberate throughout the cave as the smaller troll burns. Feral swings crash into rock as Gerhart dodges to the side to get out of the way.[1]
"Don't...get hit....hurts." He rubbed his chest with a wince, that seemed to just pass through his armor.[2]
They need to get this fight down to a more even number, the other one was about to break free and the one they had hit was hurt, but they would start to patch themselves up given enough time. Gerhart knew it was best to take it out now and even things out.
He rushes around to the incapacitated troll. Blades are raised overhead before bringing them down through the troll to where he can best approximate its hearts are. He twists the blades to completely destroy the hearts before turning back to face the others. 2 on 2, much more fair.
"Pick which one you want, I'll take the other."
1. Step of the Wind 2. Padding hit prevention used
Troll 1: dead Troll 2: freed Troll 3: V angy and more singed
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Jun 12, 2023 19:30:46 GMT -5
With one troll dead, or seemingly dead with its hearts in several pieces, the odds have evened out at least a little. Still, Astrid’s just a little nervous that this one might randomly get up and bite them in the rear, so she quickly gathers up the hot spark in the back of her throat and gives the heart a little bit of a barbecue while the other troll reels in pain.
“Aye, that didn’t look like it felt too good,” Astrid agrees. Of course, in her distraction, she doesn’t notice the flailing arm of the troll that absolutely smacks the crap out of her draconic snout. Her feet may be sturdy, but she lets them give to the hit, otherwise, the blow might have snapped her little neck. It leaves her a bit dazed as she tries to blink the spots and stars from her vision as blood drips from her nose. “A-Aye, it didn’t feel too good…”
Tearing burnt skin from its face, the troll whips around and roars at both of them, sizzling hot with fire and rapid regeneration. Behind this one, its ally, burned by Scern’s chains in multiple places across its body, runs up. They can see a thick, jagged weapon of blood held between both of its hands and poised to batter both of the intruders.
Lightning starts crackling around Astrid’s body as she says, “I think I’ll handle the one I trapped before. Looks like he’s got a problem with me.”
flame breath (Beist’s tonic) Immovable Bastion
Troll 1: dead Troll 2: v singed Troll 3: weapon of blood, burned arms, bloody feet from caltrops
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Post by Ser Gerhart Stanislav on Jun 12, 2023 21:03:05 GMT -5
"Yeah, I don't think this one is a fan of mine." Gerhart looks up to face the other troll as the blood from its wounds pooled around its fists into wicked spiked gauntlets. The ranger's pupils shifted a moment to the milky white and stars flashed over his body as he and Astrid both felt their bodies recover.[1]
Gerhart thought about betting Astrid to see who could finish theirs off first, but the troll closed the distance quick to try and get in body shots. He was doing all he could to just parry the blows from it to the side. Where the hell did this thing take boxing lessons?
An uppercut slipped through his defenses and landed an uppercut to the chin. Thankfully the help from the celestial with him kept the ranger upright even if he did stumble back. Think, think.
This thing is as fast as Zarius, hits hard too, but it's not perfect. The pattern is repetetive, just executed almost too quickly to keep up. Gerhart follows the fists, taking another body shot into his cuirass as the dents start to mount.
There it is! He notices a specific lag in a punch, the way it pulls back just too far for an uppercut. As the troll moves to strike he brings a sword down to meet it, the clash of momentum sending the troll off balance and stumbling back.[2]
Gerhart follows up with the Guardian's Blade to strike horizontally across its chest leaving a gaping wound.[3] The troll stumbles more, blood hitting the stony floor in wet thuds. It tries to step forward, wound still not closing as its body hasn't recovered from the fire.
1. Prevailing Justice 2. Guard Break 3. Gerhart's Final Strike
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Jun 15, 2023 18:51:02 GMT -5
Despite being in fairly close proximity with these trolls, Astrid hasn’t done a lot to fight them head on. She just knows well that she does not want to be hit by them at all costs. The poison from their bite, claws, and weapons sounds miserable to endure. While she’s sure she can power through it, she doesn’t want to have to. She’s faced a dragon fearlessly! Why is she so spooked now?? Maybe what Veliky said is really getting to her.
Feeling a renewed vigor from Gerhart’s spell, Astrid takes a steeling breath. Let’s do this.
The crackles of lightning completely consume her body, and Astrid becomes a manifestation of electricity itself. Bright blue light flashes against the walls of the cavern, and she grips both her hammers tight. The troll roars and charges her, swinging the jagged club at her. She rushes forward to meet it with the same energy, letting out a voracious battle cry that invigorates herself and Gerhart. They can overcome this challenge!
The troll’s weapon connects with her upper arm, and just when the beast thinks it’s done something well, it finds that its weapon passes right through her! The weight of its swing throws it off balance, and Astrid takes advantage of this by slamming her hammers into the troll’s exposed arm with so much force that the limb is ripped from its body. The heavy limb slaps against the ground, sparking with electricity and covered with a thin layer of frost from Astrid’s hammers.
Stumbling away, the troll shrieks in pain, blood spraying in all directions. The wound steams as the regeneration process starts to begin without fire to cauterize it. Astrid looks at Gerhart and prepares to release a gout of fire from her throat. Maybe they can line them up!
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Post by Ser Gerhart Stanislav on Jun 15, 2023 19:21:15 GMT -5
The wave of healing comes at the right time, flushing the poison from his body as the cut from the knuckles split his cheek. If this is how the lackeys fight, Gerhart is certainly feeling less confident about fighting the king of these things.
Every slash seems to never leave as deep a wound as Gerhart likes. The wound across its chest has certainly slowed it, but it can still knit up the smaller cuts. Constantly blocking every hit is also starting to shake up his arms and sap out the energy little by little.
From around the back of this thing, he does catch Astrid's glance and can see the quick formulation of a plan. The similarities the two share make it really easy to plan without talking. He can see something's percolating in her mind, he just needs to give her the assist.
Gerhart rolls his shoulders and resets his stance, keeping his blades moving fluidly in front of him.[1] The troll roars at and comes in for what it thinks is its final strike. The movement of the blades help parry the blows as Gerhart steps in and just headbutts the troll as hard as he can to send it off balance.[2]
It stumbles back towards the one Astrid is fighting, delirious and stunned for a moment.
1. Blade Dance 2. Head Strike
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Jul 2, 2023 15:47:02 GMT -5
It’s really nice that Astrid and Gerhart have fought plenty of creatures together and learned how one another fights because it really makes it easy to set each other up for devastating combos against tough enemies. With only a look, Gerhart gets the idea and sends the other troll right into the path of the gout of fire that Astrid releases into the cave. Warm light explodes out and the flames strike both trolls, sending them reeling back and cauterizing their wounds to prevent any healing.
With both trolls screaming in pain, now is the time to finish them off with a blow to the heart! Astrid looks at Gerhart, her grin only a split in her electrical form, then she throws her war hammer ahead of her. It collides with one troll then bounces off to strike the other before manifesting in her hand again for a flurry of blows to the troll in front of her. Three successive strikes deal massive damage with the buff from her battle cry and the special technique she learned from Cyran. The troll, ashen and embered from the flames, can’t heal between the strikes and crumples under the force and speed of Astrid’s hammers, collapsing to the ground as she deals the final blow to render it dead.
Stepping back, Astrid watches Gerhart’s final blow, breathing heavily from the exertion of the fight. These suckers were tough. “That was hard,” she manages to say.
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Post by Ser Gerhart Stanislav on Jul 6, 2023 19:20:05 GMT -5
"You're telling me." He laughs before spitting out just a bit of blood, thankfully no teeth. These things hit hard, enough to get through his armor even with all of his training.
He lets out a breath as he looks at the battlefield. Tight quarters, lots of places to hide or attack from, no places to really recover. If they met the king in a corridor like this they would be in trouble.
"I wonder if we can get the big one outside....or maybe we just keep him in a big room. I don't like the idea of fighting him tight like this." There weren't many times he wished for his fighting knives back.
The extra range his longswords gave him was nice and helped him better control a battle. The knives would be a good back up to have, maybe he should think about expanding his arsenal.....Learn to fight with more things.
"In any case, I can call Hal and get us back to camp whenever you're ready!"
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Post by Lady Astrid Stormstone on Jul 6, 2023 19:42:12 GMT -5
“I think I was ready the moment we ran into them,” Astrid manages to joke through heavy breaths. She’s really glad she got herself the recipe for Beist’s transmutation potion because she’s not sure they’d have been in the position to hit the trolls with anything else in their arsenal, not even the hot dragon candies Astrid’s been saving for an emergency.
But that doesn’t matter. Both of them are largely unharmed, and with a bit of rest, they’ll be in ship shape again. There are several more things for the guild as a whole to manage. They haven’t quite found the main lair, and if there are more of these creatures out and about, Astrid just knows that it’s going to be a hard-won battle. Maybe they’ll need an extra pair of hands for the next attempt.
“Let’s get outta here…” She says, grabbing one of the dead trolls and dragging it back to the entrance. After all, the WEF wanted some of their bodies to study and prepare for the big fight. That’s just over the horizon, but it’s something to think about another day.
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