ADVENTURE! FORTUNE! FAME! EXPERIENCE POINTS!

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

Standing before you is the entrance to a large dungeon, filled with traps, treasure, and horrible creatures. Within this dungeon lurk four iconic Dungeons and Dragons monsters. Are you brave enough to face them?

Beholder, Lawful Evil, Challenge Rating 13


Displacer Beast, Lawful Evil, Challenge Rating 5


Mind Flayer, Lawful Evil, Challenge Rating 8


Rust Monster, Neutral, Challenge Rating 3

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[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[Something's coming. Mantis pauses and steps back, eyes narrowed. There was something even more alien than the other newcomers, and it was aware of him. There was nothing spoken between the two minds, yet the psychic knew this deep in his bones.]

[This was not good. His hand adjusts a strap on the arm of his uniform, tightening it with short, jerky movements.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[Hmm, this psychic seems to be a much more powerful telepath than the mind flayer is. Oh well, it's still an inferior human without the innate psychic resistance of an illithid. Probably a good idea to prepare for the worst, just in case. Not that the mind flayer expects to lose to a human.]

[Let's try a a mind blast from a safe distance. DC 17 Will save or be stunned for half a minute.]

[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[Will save fails; Mantis has only ever dealt with human horrors, not on creatures with such powerful and strange minds. The blast leaves him stunned and he reels back, stumbling in the dark cave.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[Looks like the mind blast worked. The mind flayer approaches its stunned prey and grabs his head with its face tentacles.]

[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[There's a shriek as the bony man struggles, trying to fight off the abomination. Mantis kicks back with his heavy boot and tries to send heavy cave rocks at the monster's body. His success is hampered by the remaining effects of the mind blast, though.]

[identitycircuit.livejournal.com]

[Angry roommate is angry and coming to the rescue with a gun]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[Aw man, right as the mind flayer was about to have some DELICIOUS BRAINS, another pesky human has to show up. At least this one looks like it's already wounded. MIND BLAST!]

[identitycircuit.livejournal.com]

[An old wound, beast. And he's rather angry at the moment.]

[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[Mantis can vaguely recognize the creature's thought processes and creates a psychic barrier between Liquid and the attack. He muffles a scream of alarm as the tentacles around his head constrict slightly and something wet slobbers on his bare skull.]

Kill it!

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[Uh oh, that mind blast didn't work. HAVE ANOTHER ONE. The mind flayer isn't going to give up such rare prey easily.]

[identitycircuit.livejournal.com]

[And Liquid wasn't giving up his roommate so easily. He aimed and fired again, trying to get it to let Mantis go]

[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[Again, Mantis blocks the attack, then abruptly shields himself as well; the thing that was holding onto him was very close and the cave was dark. Stray bullets could become a preventable hazard.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[The mind flayer's prey seems to be deflecting the attacks...keeping it alive as a hostage for a bit sounds like a good idea. The illithid also manifests it's own deflecting field, just in case.]

[You're annoying, one-armed human. The mind blasts don't seem to be working, so the mind flayer is going to try mind control instead. Do you suddenly find it difficult to move? Probably not, if you know about the second controller port.]

[identitycircuit.livejournal.com]

[Come now, he had a psychic in his command for years and he now lived with him full time. Second controller ports were a given]

A little light, Mantis?

[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[How the fuck does Liquid expect him to-?!]

[You know what? Fuck it. Mantis channels his panic into power and telekinetically lifts a good-sized rock from the cave floor. Being grasped as he was in the monster's arms and mouth-tentacle-things, the captive had a reasonable notion as to where its head was.]

[Take that deflecting shield and shove it, illithid; Mantis is going to do his damnedest to beat you to death with a rock.]

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[Blast! This human seems to be particularly resistant to psychic powers.]

[OW! The stunned (and possibly concussed) mind flayer lets go of its captive. It quickly teleports up to a high ledge a few meters away, where it spams mind blasts, hoping for a stroke of good luck or for Liquid or Mantis to get a sucky dice roll.]

[identitycircuit.livejournal.com]

Set it on fire, Mantis.

[And now it was hard to find. Fantastic]

[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[Like a good soldier, Mantis does as he's told. Keeping the mental shields up on both of them against the barrage of mind blasts was consuming his energy at too great a rate though; he had to drop the shields for precious seconds before the miserable creature on the ledge abruptly burst into flame.]

I APOLOGIZE FOR THIS LATE, TROLLY TAG

[roll-for-init.livejournal.com]

[OHGOD ON FIRE! WHY AM I ON FIRE?!]

[Mind flayer primary schools are notoriously lax on fire safety, and this one never learned to stop, drop, and roll. Instead, it runs in frantic circles before falling off the ledge.]

1000 XP FOR EACH OF YOU.

I was doing my own derping for the thread anyway. Stupid oak pollen

[identitycircuit.livejournal.com]

Mantis! We're leaving, now. [Retreat before anything else showed]

[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[Mantis scrambles back to Liquid and flies the both of them out of the cavern as fast as he possibly can. He hardly pauses as they reach the white hall, choosing instead to levitate straight to their room before their feet touch the floor again. The psychic is shaken from the close-call and trembling badly.]

Shower. Now.

[identitycircuit.livejournal.com]

[Even while in the midst of a battle high, that never stopped being fun. He wouldn't say it, though]

... would you like assistance?

[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[He only nods, not trusting himself to speak just yet. The sheer alien-ness of the creature he'd been attacked by was mind-bending, let alone the intention he'd read.]

[Mantis doesn't want to be alone right now. The monsters might get him.]

[identitycircuit.livejournal.com]

Come along. [He placed his hand on Mantis's back, firm]

[psychic-waltz.livejournal.com]

[He allows himself to be guided to the shower, letting his mind rest while his body automatically peels away his uniform. Liquid's presence is barely registering as Mantis endeavors to disentangle his thoughts from that things'.]