Journal of Rollo Lavius 2

Entry #230 - Crocodile Master

(G230 06/02/2015 via Roll20 - AP(GM), JF, Mira, Guru)

And then I was up again! Having a cleric in the group seems to be essential in these God's forsaken Plane of Shadows. It's not a pleasant sensation being beaten into unconsciousness, but at least it didn't last long.

I grunted a rhino grunt by way of thanks to Sylvia and backed off from the battle to get my breath back.

I was still badly injured and I wanted to turn back into a human to get more comfortable, but I couldn't remember how wounds worked. I had a great big open wound still on my flanks, almost a metre long. If I changed back would the injury still be as big? I shuddered and stayed as a rhino.

(Incidentally it turned out I was wrong, as I learned later, if I'd changed back then the wound would have shrunk down with me.)

Meanwhile good old Sylvia had also healed Gurudor who then leapt to the attack and went for the priestess or witch or whoever it was that had attacked me.

In return she summoned up more of those fire breathing hound things. To counter attack them though I summoned up four more crocodiles (for a new personal best and total of eight!). Needless to say, things were getting crowded around here.

Sylvia cast Bull's Strength on Gurudor and he set to work. The woman fled and the battle flowed into another room. We all gave chase as she leapt out of a window and into the darkness.

Mirabella was back in the fray now and followed the woman. Gurudor jumped out of the window after her and summoned up his paladin's steed and rode round to a southern building.

I healed myself up a bit, turned into a human at last, and joined Sylvia and Badger going cautiously down some steps to the other building where we thought the woman had run to. With the crocodiles charging ahead we entered the first room. Mirabella was hit by a bolt of green bile and she was sickened.

While all that went on, Gurudor appeared at a window looking over the ears of his horse. I was not entirely sure what his plan was.

The gang of crocodiles swarmed further in and attacked some of the critters within. I summoned up more. You can't have too many crocodiles. You think you can. But you can't.

Gurudor continued peaking in windows and reported seeing my crocs fighting with a man and a great big creature.

I now had ten crocodiles on the strength and they were tearing into the place, chasing the women and all the other denizens of the rooms within. It was chaos.

The main fight was now between two men and the crocs, and further in, the woman and another being (a teifling it was thought) fighting crocs and Mirabella fighting the big beast that we could now see had quills on its back. As if that wasn't enough though, someone cast Swarm of Bats on me and Sylvia and we fled towards where Mirabella was. Thankfully by the time we got there the quill beast was dispatched, practically suffocated to death by the weight of crocodiles on it.

Gurudor was outside shooting at targets though the window.

Crocodiles were beginning to unsummon though so I finally decided to go for something different and summoned some lions which I sent after the woman and the teifling. Meanwhile the other crocodiles were tearing the man who had fought alongside the quill beast to pieces. Being a Master of Nature is truly awesome, I could feel my power growing with every moment of the battle.