Mothman's Adventures in Darkmoon Vale game

Game Master Mothman

Anor watches and listens to the interaction with interest, but leaves Reekis too it.

The creature stays silent for a moment, and lowers its hand – and dagger – ever so slightly. But then it raises the knife again and barks at Reekis in the same language.

Reekis replies:

Draconic:

The small humanoid shifts slightly, but does not lower the dagger. It opens its black scaled snout to speak again.

By the way, if anyone who understands Draconic posts to say they are translating for the rest of the group, you can all start reading the 'Draconic' spoilers.

Anor steps forward, crossbow levelled at the creature.

To the others she says "It would appear there's a wolf this thing is scared of, that we may have to bypass to get the mushrooms."

Adalwin listens on in fascination as his companions engage the creature in its strange language. "So it's friendly?"

"That may be pushing it, but it's not antagonistic. We may get out of this room without a fight yet."

The creature either grins or sneers, showing a jaw full of sharp teeth.

Give reekis a try before I open fire ;)

Draconic:

Intimidate 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 2 Ooo, scary...

Strictly, we don't have to kill everything here we see. Reekis is more a lover than a fighter. It doesn't seem to have the mushrooms, and we've found out about the wolf.

Indeed, it's talking like it ain't gunna let us disturb the wolf though.... We could try just walking out?

I'm good with the "we don't have to kill everything we see" attitude.

Jasper asks, "What does it want? It doesn't seem happy to me."

it tried to drop an anvil on you.

"Where do we find this wolf?"

Draconic:

it tried to drop an anvil on you.

"Where do we find this wolf?"

"Well, if this thing is hiding uyp here away from it, I'd guess we find the wolf down. Some kind of den in the basement?"

"Ask the f%&@ing talking lizard. I don't want to stumble around this Cayden damned ruin looking for a wolf."

The small reptilian peers at Reekis for a moment from under its cowl, then yaps harshly at him, and gestures towards the north wall of the room with its dagger.

"We have, he's not being very forthcoming..."

"Actually, I take that back. Sounds like the ground floor, on the North side. It apparently speaks common too. Well done Reekis."

"Yeah. It's a talking wolf. OK, let's leave Shorty to it, head north."

"I agree. Let's go."

Everyone leaving?

Jasper waves an acknowledgment at the kobold, still feigning a limp. "Sorry about the mess. Thank you for the information."

Once out in the hall, he will stop the game and walk normally.

Adalwin steps back from the doorway to let the others go, but stays within sight of the creature and lets the others file past him before he takes his leave.

Assuming the thing doesn't attack, Adalwin will wait for the others to leave and then close the door and follow

The creature watches warily until the door is closed, but makes no move against you.

Everyone gets 133 experience points.

Nearly half way to level 2! Whoop.

Seeing Adalwin cover the rear, Eljoy moves to the front of the group.

"What'd ya'll make of that talking wolf business? Are we going up against some Urgathoa damned werewolf?"

"Hopefully not, possibly a dire wolf though, or some form of awakened creature?"

Knowledge Local: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
Knowledge Nature: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26 Does Anor know anything ore specific?

"Or a werewolf," mutters Reekis.

Eljoy leads the way north up the corridor to the point where the passage turns east. Poking his head cautiously around the corner, he spots nothing untoward and steps around the corner.

Ahead of him a straight corridor stretches away to the east. It is reasonably well lit at the far end, where daylight streams in through two open doorways and the mostly collapsed far eastern wall. Eljoy can see a total of four doors along the corridor. Nearby, near this western end of the corridor are two doors side by side in the northern wall. The nearer one appears to be very slightly ajar, whilst the next one is fully closed. Near the eastern end of the corridor are two open doors, the one on the south wall likely leading back into the courtyard. The other lies just past it, on the north wall.

At the far end of the corridor, standing just in front of the collapsed eastern wall is a broken, headless statue.

Map.

"One at a time then," Eljoy mutters. HE moves to the first door on the north side and tries to open it.

"Or a werewolf," mutters Reekis.

Jasper's head whips around at the man's utterance. Eyes a little wider, he moves closer to Adalwin as they walk.

Eljoy, Perception check please.

Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 7

The door is ajar by several inches, but the room beyond is fairly dark and Eljoy can make out little. He pushes at the door – it opens quite easily, but the rusty hinges squeak loudly.

With the door open, the room beyond is dimly lit by a small amount of filtered sunlight coming through the doorway and another opening in the western wall. An ancient looking stone desk, chipped and cracked, and the rotting, splintered remains of a chair give this room the appearance of a study. Gnawed bones and rubble litter the floor and tufts of grey fur can be seen here and there. The stench of wet fur hangs heavy in the air.

As Eljoy looks within he hears a low angry growl, and spies movement from somewhere behind the desk.

"Got it on the first try. I hope you're not a werewolf," Eljoy says with a mix of satisfaction and trepidation. "Can we get some light here?"

He raises his shield and hefts his ax.

As Eljoy hefts his weapons, he sees three wolves slink out from behind the battered desk and the piles of rubble in the corners of the room. They appear to be normal sized wolves, but are snarling and growling aggressively.

Everyone roll for initiative!

Initiative: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12

Init: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

Wolf initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 2 = 12

Initiative: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10

Eljoy settles into a defensive position. "Come on, then you mangy bastards!"

Initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

"Eljoy, lead them out here. Maybe I can treat them like I did the flying things in the chapel."

"The hallway's too tight. We've got to either push into the room or fall back to the big hall. Either way, Ady get up here."

In that case, on his turn, Jasper will use his SLA to cast dancing lights.

Adalwin could run through the courtyard to come through the passage from the other way if that helps

Eljoy just wants you close by between the wolves and the others and he wants to fight them somewhere that only one of them can attack while a few of us can. Retreat to the hallway's beginning seems easiest.

"Which one Eljoy? Make the decision."

"Fall back damnit!" Eljoy snaps.

ELjoy plans on retreating to J10, Adalwin's current square. If everyone clusters around the hallway outlet we could get 5 attacks on the first wolf through.

Anor nods, and promptly ignores the order. "I'll cover your backs as you go."

Move to Q7 hopefully without the wolves noticing.

Stealth: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17