Alzar and group are slowly leaving the woods behind as the forest begins to make way for plains and meadow. The copses of trees are become fewer. The road is getting better and easier and they are making better time.
That day a rumbling can be heard from below. Alzar orders a full stop and it continues. Then, out from the ground comes a Thoqqua, a giant worm that is super hot and uses that heat to melt earth in order to move and find food. Alzars orders Dryshik to Mist Ball it and Estaish to take the horses and wagons and pull them back. He dismounts and moves in. Dryshik’s Mist Ball fails to affect the Thoqqua. Alzar runs to attack it first, and it leaps from the ground and hits Alzar. Normally it would deal 4d8 damage of heat, but Alzar takes -2 less per die (Gloves of Fire Resistance). Additionally, his items won’t be inflamed and damaged. He takes 11 total.
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Alzar’s staff misses. The next round, Alzar swings and misses. Aleigha is there and stabs with her sword and misses. Dryshik breathes another ball and nothing. The mist is evaporating before it can hit the Thoqqua, so Alzar mentally orders it back. It nails Alzar for 4 heat damage. (which would have been 6 and damage his items, etc)
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Alzar’s staff finally makes a connection for 6. Aleigha misses and Estaish is now here and adds a hit for 7. The Thoqqua misses. The next round, the worm wins init and hits Alzar again for 1 damage. Alzar fumbles his staff. Aleigha misses. Estaish does not and nails it for 8 more damage, killing it.
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XP – 75 for all three
XP 23032 for Alzar
They all back up and wait for the corpse to cool down. Alzar has only read about these worms, and never fought one before. It cools, and Alzar checks but finds nothing around, or in its stomach of value.