Hugh goes through the same process again, silently casting Eyes of the Cat on himself, then the grogs.
Note that eyes of the cat does not allow sight in a lightless underground cavern.
Hugh quickly heads back out, casting a spell on a rock quietly that makes it glow with moonlight, and heads back into the tunnel, holding the rock in his closed fist so only a little light leaks out.
[roll on discord]
"I can manage it." she said quietly as she unclipped both of the brooches at her shoulders, and slipped her dress and hangerock from herself, as her flesh shifted and twisted as her body contorted in an unnatural fashion, and her flesh spouted the same color hair that adorned her head, until she was a much smaller fox, as she shook herself free of any left over cloth and then would follow in after Hugh with a self satisfied smile, so that they might find their prey. (shifting into her heartbeast)
You enter the main chamber where the naked Muspeli woman was sleeping, and realize that she does not have room in here to stand up- she can sit as she is, and probably can't even do that in her Etin form. The chamber is comfortable for you and your men to stand in at your current height however. She sits up as you enter, blinking.
As Hugh realizes that the chamber doesn't get bigger, he silently casts a spell to maintain the grogs' smallness. The first attempt doesn't work, but the second one does.
As the Muspelli wakes up, he feels a moment of guilt at attacking a helpless woman, then he remembers the farmers outside and the attacks on the covenfolk, and motions to the woman, saying, "Kill her." As he begins casting his own spell. As he does so, he recalls that his own spell will end soon, so goes to his knees behind the grogs.
[rolls on discord - not sure if you're allowing the maintenance spells before combat starts so not rolling the last spell yet.]
He can manage the first attempt before combat, as can Alva should she choose to do so, then roll initiative
[8 on init, when he will do the second casting]
3 inits for nix
Loki's punishment? I do not see that spell... OTOH, Hugh has a glowing rock with him so you can certainly see.
Loki’s Punishment
CrAq 35
R: Voice, D: Con, T: Ind
A crooked wand with the Thurisaz rune etched into it with acid.
This wand fires a jet of acid, which begins inflicting +10 damage per round on a target within voice range.
The acid can be cancelled at the leisure of the user, which is useful for carving out stone or wood.
(10, Voice +2, Con+1, Device Maintains Concentration 5+, 24 uses a day 5+)
Ah, that works then... and she has no magical defense against this, so simply roll damage, she will roll soak
Right, the acid causes a light wound. Hugh lengthens the maintenance on the shrunken men, who go next, attacking at -2 strength for their reduced size- however the redheads defense is penalized by 2 for the cramped quarters- the group inflicts 4 heavy wounds on her at which point she begins to transform into a reptilian creature, getting larger as she simultaneously tries to make her way towards the exit- past your group.
My understanding is that Alva did not plug the entrance, is this correct (she won't make it out in one round regardless, and has not managed to disengage)
Hugh chants another spell, trying to turn the redhead back into her original form.
[roll on discord - intent is conc duration to turn her back to original form as his attempt to keep her from shifting.]
her soak has changed and she needs to roll each round same as damage does- but it is Alva's turn next.
The wounds she has already taken are gravely aggravated by the acid- she takes a 5th heavy wound from the wand.
It's about a pace high, two paces wide, and twenty paces long.
Alva creates 1000 cubic paces of clay to fill a 40 cubic pace hole, as the Muspeli woman is trying to dive into said hole, while changing into the etin mod while Hugh tries to transform her back... I'm going to call that a base 5 transformation, a roll of 0 gives 34, halved to 17, range voice target individual duration concentration means 3 magnitudes, so the spell fails. However the Muspeli has no defense against being buried in clay, and is thus embedded in the clay overflowing the tunnel. On the other hand there are also a lot of people in small enclosure which is now cut off from outside air- the Muspeli will need to make deprivation rolls every 30 seconds, the characters in eh cae will (at the end) need to make a roll to resist the disease of bad air with a target number equal to the number of intervals which have passed for the Muspeli How long do you want to (try) and maintain the clay? You can do so up to 15 minutes per point of concentration, but given that 15 minutes is 30 intervals you will likely not wish to maintain the spell this long...
Hugh casts a spell through the conduit, and the Muspelli starts to glow. Then he shouts, "Get her!" to the grogs.
[Roll on discord]
The glow begins to emanate from the wall of clay , where her feet are a fraction of an inch within, and the rest of her is further in. They can strike at her legs with pretty easy abandon, the only real impedement is that the higher they strike the more clay they have to go through. With 5 combat rounds per interval the can do quite a bit of damage without rolling, but are uncertain of the situation at first and would await instructions. If the acid spray is maintained it will of course eat at the clay as much as it does her...
As for duration of the clay you did not specify, you only gave numbers. Concentration and diameter are the same penalty. In the future it would be useful to define these things before the outcome is determined. A diameter is 2 minutes so 4 intervals works fine.
Hugh will direct them to hack away, unless it seems like they're only doing superficial damage. Is she a snake or a person at this point?