Leora follows T'chazzar and the sound of the dog's bark as quickly as she can, given her heavy armor. Her heart is pounding, not just from running for a few blocks, but also from the thought of finding the danged tooth fairies and getting that much closer to finding Jessi.
Once she reaches the area near where they heard the dog bark, she looks and listens again for any signs of the dog or what might have attacked it.
Davina moves toward the sound as quickly as possible. Her crossbow is out. "Go ahead Kiri and T'chazzar. You're faster than us. We'll catch up as soon as we can. Be careful though."
Kiri was just becoming complacent, bored, and annoyed with their lack of progress when they all heard the dog yelp in pain, then again, and she nodded agreement as she said, "Yes, they do, and I doubt the bastards care where the teeth come from all that much." With that she gave a great leap and reached the top of the buildings with the assistance of the wind and proceeded to run across them, leaping from roof o roof as needed, while making a b-line for where the sound of the dog was.
As you all get closer to where the dog yelps originated, a new sound can be heard on the night air: childlike yet malicious laughter.
As he closes on the area T'chazzar draws out a vial of alchemist's fire.
As he runs toward the action, Domitius hears the laughter. If that isn't tooth fairies, I'd hate to think there's more creepy stuff in Kintargo that laughs like that. As he runs, he feels the grip of the gladius in his hand, I hope this 'cold iron' business is the real deal.
T'chazzar and Kiri--not burdened by heavier armor--quickly outpace the other three party members, the drow moving through the streets and alleys while the strix, after a wind-aided leap to the low rooftops, runs and jumps on higher ground. Both eventually spy a dark form sprawled on the street with three smaller figures straddling it or atop it. The moonlight glints upon a pair of metal tongs or pliers much longer than the winged creature that wields it.
More moonlight on metal glints briefly from the rooftop as another tooth fairy gets the drop on Kiri, flying at the strix woman and trying unsuccessfully to bite her while squawking three words in an otherwise enchanting-sounding language.
"Strange bipeds! Two!"
The three other fairies look up briefly from their work, all grinning crooked, toothy grins, and then two go back to biting the fallen dog while the third uses its oversized pliers to rip a tooth out of the motionless dog's mouth. Then one takes flight with surprising speed and zips at T'chazzar, nipping the drow in the forearm with its long pliers . The other two continue to chew on and perform brutal dentistry upon the fallen cur.
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T'chazzar shakes off the biting faerie and skids to a stop, steps back, and lobs the alchemical fire directly at it.
Then he draws his cold iron short sword, the dully-colored metal seeming to absorb the dim light around it.
Alternating between a thrill of terror at the unknown, the excitement of impending battle, and a desire to end this scourge once and for all, Dom sprints on the scene as fast as he is able.
T'chazzar recovers nicely from the sudden ambush by lobbing a flask of alchemist's fire at his attacker. It strikes the tooth fairy square in the forehead, causing the fairy to burst into flame and flitter in the air like an oversized firefly. Meanwhile, Dom emerges from the darkness to the south ready for battle.
Davina moves forward as fast as she can. "Everyone ok so far?" she wheezes as she comes around the building's corner.
Kiri was almost caught off guard by the sudden attack of the lone tooth fairy and quickly shifted back as it tried to bite her causing it's teeth to miss. Kiri quickly moved away from the creature, trying hard to make sure that the diminutive little creature wouldn't manage to strike her, pulling her dagger as she went. With a new safe distance obtained she gestured and a burst of wind slammed out at the tooth fairy but it seemed the monster would manage to dodge it with little effort.
The tooth fairy that surprised Kiri continues its attack, plucking at the strix's feathers and biting at her savagely. Both attacks hit, doing minor damage , but Kiri feels a tingling sensation and a hint of numbness at the site of the bite .
At the same time, a fifth fairy swoops down from the rooftops and confronts Dom; its long pliers reach in and nip the half-orc painfully on a finger . The little terror giggles wickedly at its work.
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Kiri fights off the numbness admirably, then spins away from her attacker to batter the little freak with an air blast. Unfortunately, her aim's a bit off and the tooth fairy eludes her attack.
Nothing else spotted.
Leora runs forward to catch up to her companions as best she can. Holding her wooden flask high, she shouts "Take heart! We'll destroy these cowardly tooth stealers and find Jessi!"
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As Leora closes on the battle, the fortifying tingle of her spell washes over each of you. One of the two tooth fairies torturing the downed dog takes flight, making a kamikaze flight right at T'chazzar ; the second (Lazy? The leader? Up to something?) merely sits atop the dog and smirks as the battle rages. The burning fairy drops to the ground and rolls around, attempting to extinguish the flames consuming it. The fire goes out, but not before burning the wicked fey a bit more; the thing's still moving but now lies prone.
T'chazzar draws his sword and stabs at the burnt faerie on the ground as he steps back close to it.
Domitius looks at the critter in front of him, sizes it up, and, emboldened by the blessing of Leora's besotted benefactor, swing his gladius.
T'chazzar impales the incoming dark fey a moment before Domitius obliterates his attacker with his new gladius. Both fairies gasp in mortal pain before exploding into clouds of sparkling white fairy dust. While the effect looks pretty, the dust that covers the drow and half-orc stinks horrendously.
T'chazzar coughs and chokes. "Bleah! Blech!"
"And good riddance."
Davina fires her crossbow at the tooth fairy
on the roof next to Kiri. "Careful Kiri."
at the fairy sitting on the dog.
Davina's shot at the tooth fairy threatening Kiri flies off harmlessly into the night sky, but the little menaces still witness three of their number perish in a matter of seconds upon the blades of Dom and T'chazzar. Cries of outrage, disbelief, and/or fear echo throughout the alley, a couple of shrieks coming from the eaves of nearby buildings where you didn't even realize more fairies lurked.
Your eyelids suddenly feel heavy and you nearly yawn. Make a successful DC 13 Will save (Dom actually has to roll 2 saves) or fall asleep.
You feel a magical force try to affect you but you withstand it easily, thanks either to your spell resistance or immunity to sleep spells. Your sickened condition from the second slain fairy's death throes explosion is 1 round.
Nope, made a dumb force-of-habit move and put red X's on those tokens, but the tokens are so small you can't see 'em. Since the dead fairies blew up, I have now removed their tokens from the map.
Sorry for the confusion.
In the middle of snarling something defiant, Dom's eyes suddenly roll back and he collapses like his strings have been cut.
Davina with the assistance of her Inspiration manages to realize what is happening and shake off the effects of the spell.
Dom slumps to the street as an insidious magic strikes in the midst of him, Davina, and T'chazzar. With three of their number dead and only one person affected by their magic, four rooftop fairy ambushers shriek in frustration before taking wing in various directions. One still squats grinning atop the motionless dog.
Although the rooftop fairies initially fled in different directions, they all eventually banked and flew to the north. They fly close enough to the rooftops to make missile fire attacks against them impractical.
T'chazzar stumbles over to Dom, still coughing up white dust, and grabs the half-orc and roughly shakes him awake.
Seeing Dom fall over, but not being able to make out much detail in the dark, Leora makes her way towards him. She is relieved to see that he is only asleep, not unconscious from something the tooth fairies did.
"Hey, wake up! C'mon Dom, get up!" Leora bends down next to him and attempts to shake Dom awake.
With her tiny nemesis distant for the moment, Kiri sent another blast of air slamming out at the tooth fairy with devestating force.
"Here Leora let me help." She casts Light on a crossbow bolt, and as you've seen her do in the past, shoves it into her bun like a hair stick.
Leora hustles up, waking Dom from his fairy-magic-induced slumber while Davina kindly conjures some light to help the cleric see more clearly. Again, some sort of sleep spell detonates in the main cluster of heroes, this time potentially affecting Davina and Leora. The last tooth fairy--and the leading suspect for the origin of the sleep effect--sticks its tongue out at the group and takes flight, heading north.
Your eyelids suddenly feel heavy and you nearly yawn. Make a successful DC 13 Will save or fall asleep.
Although the rooftop fairies initially fled in different directions, they all eventually banked and flew to the north. They fly close enough to the rooftops to make missile fire attacks against them impractical.
Leora resists the feeling of sleepiness washing over her, but is too distracted by overcoming the magical effect to notice the tooth fairies escape.
Davina manages to avoid going to sleep. "That little. Is Dom ok Leora?"
Kiri lets the fairy that attacked her think it's going to make good its escape before blasting it from long range. The thing is pushed into a brick wall, impacting it like a snowball might: some glistening white particles spread out into the air before falling lightly to the street while a larger smear of white sticks spattered to the wall.
Four tooth fairies slain yet four escaped to further stalk the night. What now?
Let's examine the dog." She moves up to it to see what condition it's in.
The downed dog's breathing is very shallow; it's dying. Its fur features half a dozen bloody patches where it was apparently bitten, and several of its teeth have been wrenched out of its bleeding mouth.
"Is Dom ok Leora?"
Domitius gets up, flexing his hand. "A nip on the fingers and some wounded pride." He scans the rooftops, scowling. "Did we see where they went? T'chazzar, are you okay? You didn't look so good after you got a faceful of that dust."
T'chazzar finds that the nauseous feeling he was experiencing has quickly passed.
"I'm all right," says the drow as he wipes white dust off his face and sheathes his sword. "They took to the rooftops faster than any of us could likely follow, except maybe Kiri."