Battle & Loot
The debuff slowed my movements as I retreated back. I could feel my alertness had picked up as looked around me, as I took note I loaded my sling with one of the glow rocks from my pouch and began spin the sling around my head.
“The spores cause debuffs mine seems to have a slowing affect.” I shouted
the flowers advanced at me. Ozwald swiftly thrusting his sword taking them out one at time . I Looked at the small army of flowers and used my spell monster sense. My vision took on a purple hue
:flower folk: theese tiny creatures swarm on those that disturb their gardens. Their special abilities help all plants grow even in the worst climates, their spores can have arrange of effects depending on how they are pollinated during their growth.
I released the glowrock from my sling the shot hitting one of the flowerfolk right in the bloom of the petals and a cloud of spores burst from it, the flower stopped moving. Ozwald lunged forward with his rapier cutting it in half. Greg changed the tune he was playing to something deeper and faster and more dramatic. I felt a surge of power as I released another glow rock this one knocking down a flower folk. Ozwald shifting his stance and swiping his blade left cutting three in half just missing the the one I knocked down . Clouds of spores slowing building five more flower folk remained in sight Ozwald moved backwards in my direction. His sword thrusting and slicing but he was not hitting the small creatures as effectively as he was in the beginning. The spore clouds and debuffs getting to him
if only I could use my summon but I know my magic isn't strong enough to keep him from attacking us. Then the thought stuck me I launch one last glowrock from my sling stunning the flower folk that was in the lead, as I drop to swampy ground my finger flaring with purple light I drew my binding circle around me placing my mark at it's center. “ let them through to me.” I shouted to Ozwald.
Ozwald pulled the tip of his sword back and down moving to the side. The five little flower folk came charging in to circle at me. I cast bind locking the little flower folk in place as I marked them all. I felt my magic sinking deep in to them. A notification dinged but with my mind busy with battle it shrank from vision to be viewed later. And as soon as my magic had control a larger flower folk appeared as it attacked this one the size of a dwarf slightly over 5 foot tall shaped like sunflower. Spitting seeds at me, Ozwald circled around and sent my little flower folk to move towards it tring to corral the larger one in to my binding. “ I want that one in my binding circle.” I shouted
Just then Phil appeared behind it picked it up out of the ground and tossed it in to my binding circle. I activated mt binding spell and once again my hand flared with purple light my mark and magic sinking deep in the flower folk. I now had a little army of summons. I thought to myself
Phil shouted “all clear except for this dam pollen its everywhere”. He pulled down a face covering I didn't even notice he had been wearing.
Only then did Ozwald start going over to the corpses and start looting. I continued harvesting the herbs I saw. After a half hour we tallied all the loot. From the first monster room.
Minor health potion : recovers 10 health over 1 second. X 5
Mana powder: boosts effects of any magic used for 25 seconds X 12 portions
thorn stalk: thees stick strips when attached to weapon increases damage by 1 and have a small chance to inflict bleeding status
when attached to armor increase defense stat by by 1 and attacker my take weak reflected damage.
Whip of thorns: this whip dose base damge of 1to 4 and on critical strike it can latch on binding a target
redweed: you know the redweed plant is used commonly for healing affects in alchemy. The boost provided by your gather-herb skill will preserve the healing properties by 5%. with this boost any one who eats the herb raw will receive a healing affect of 15 hp per serving of redweed. X 12
marshtails: you know this herb is sometimes used confusing poisons but your knowledge is lacking for full affects.
Bog mushrooms: these mushrooms have varying affects. you know they can be used in poisons and powders with differing affect your experience with these mushrroms has helped your magic preserve many properties with your gather herb skill. The poision ribs and cap will gain boosted poison damage of 10 hp per second. The stem when powdered will reduce the cost of stamina consuming skills and boost stamina recovery for 20 seconds. If consumed raw the cap will cause one to three stacked of food poisoning, the stem if consumed raw will recover 10 points of stamina.
I went over my notifications from the battle. The first few were for the flowerfolk I bound.
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Flowerfolk: level 2 flowerfolk this flower folk is purple posy variant. your knowledge of herbs and alchemy contributed to capturing this monster granting you better knowledge of this species of monster. This particular monster can release spores in to the air poisoning enemies, for 3 points of damage over 10 seconds, its base attack is 1 to 3 damage. If pollinated with deadlier poisonous plats it will grow stornger and have stronger poisonous effects.
Flowerfolk: level 3 this flowerfolk is dandy variant. your knowledge of herbs and alchemy contributed to capturing this monster granting you better knowledge of this species of monster. This particular monster can release spores in to the air that drops focus and may cause confusion. This may affect enemies and allies. If pollinated with other plants it can increase chance of confusion.es. This monster has a base damage of one to six
flowerfolk: level 4 this flowerfolk is a pink posy variant . your knowledge of herbs and alchemy contributed to capturing this monster granting you better knowledge of this species of monster. This particular monster can release spores in to the air. The spore from this flowerfolk produces a light healing effect of 3 hp per second. If pollinated with other healing plants it will increase the amount of healing or neutralize certain effects.
Flowerfolk: level 4 this flower folk is a red rose variant. your knowledge of herbs and alchemy contributed to capturing this monster granting you better knowledge of this species of monster.
This monster can release spores in to the air that cause a reduction to constitution 1 point for 30seconds. If pollinated with other plant that reduce stats this flower folk will increase the amout of constitution that will drop, or it may make other stats drop. The thorns on this flower folk cuase increased damge and may cause a bleeding effect. Base 2 to 8 damage 4 to 10 vs bleeding targets
Flowerfolk: level 7 this is a sunflower variant. your knowledge of herbs and alchemy contributed to capturing this monster granting you better knowledge of this species of monster. Unlike the smaller of its kin the sunflower does not release spores but instead can spit its seeds at enemies dealing ranged damage of 2 to 10, if pollinated with other types of plants the seeds may carry properties of varying effects, (currently poision) the paticular flowerfolk has concealment ability. this variant of flowerfolk is a level 2 monster class allowing its stats to grow and develop as it fights.
Stats:
Strength (STR):15 (4 to 12 damage per hit)
Dexterity(DEX):13 (110 / 115stamina) “rooted” rooted cannont move from rooted location without magical assistance stay where it is summoned until banished
Intellagance(INT):10 (100/100 manna)
Willpower(WIL):10 ( 5 points recovered for health manna and stamina per minute)
Constitution(CON):10 ( 100/100 hp)
After reading the prompt I realized how stupid my idea of send my flowerfolk and Ozwald to drive the sunflowerfolk in to my circle was, and I was glad Phil picked it up and threw it at me in to my binding circle.
“Ozwald you were awesome in that fight . I feel like I didn't contribute much but now that I have a small squad of little flower folk i'll be able to contribute more. In the next battle. I remarked
“I hope so little summoner because if it wasn't for the bards fanatic buffs I would have been over whelmed with all those spore effects, and swarmed. But I am glad you managed to get in those lucky shots with that makeshift weapon of yours. Perhaps after you get few more skill levels you might actually do some damage given a decent weapon and ammo.” he glanced at Phil before following up his remark and you why did you not do anything the whole battle. I swear I was fighting by my self!”
“If I would have joined the fight you would have gotten very little skill progression and experience that Sunflower folk was supposed to be the experience pay out in this room. But we gave the monster to summoner so he would have something to fight with as we go deeper for now Greg will support you with his musical buffs but the next floor will be beyond your skills unless you level up. After the first floor Greg and I will take over. Until then my job will be to only step in when you two newbies are about to make a stupid decision and mark traps.” Phil stated as if pointing out the obvious stupidity of Ozwalds remark.
Greg chimed in “Phil is right if we would have fought this fight both you and our summoner would not have gain any skill progression. But he could have been nicer in saying it. Besides we need to let the debuffs run out you two.”
I spoke up then “ I have a name you know. It's Noah for the record. As much as it is nice that you guys know my chosen class its getting annoying being referred to as summoner all the time.”
Greg spoken again “My apologizes Noah, but think while you two recover you should talk about what you can, and cannot do in battle. Because I saw Ozwald display excellent team work striking down the little critters you stunned but with a swarm like that it wasn't possible to stun enough of them to be effective in that battle.”
ozwald and I discussed and came up with a game plan for handling mobs in the future. As he and I talked I relized why he seemed so irritated about the last fight his roll isnt really that of a tank but we put him in that position although my current summons wont change that he willing to do that for the loot drop until the end of our trip or I get summon that can tank from one of the rooms I agreed and even told him how my knowalge or herb lore and alchemy boosted the effects of the herbs I gathered and I was willing to let him use those as well. We gathered our things and headed in to the next room.