You set off to the southwest, towards the cemetery where two of your numbers had fallen. You had wanted to put sufficient distance between you and it before building the pyre, as it could have acted as a beacon to anything around, so it takes you some time to get back. By the time you are making your approach, the mist is burning off, and the beautiful morning is starting to cloud up.
As you approach the crucifix-shaped depression which is the graveyard, your ears pick up sounds; shouts, voices raised in spellcasting, the clang of metal on metal. Looking at each other, you ready your own weapons and approach warily, watching for hidden foes.
As you crest the low rise that surrounds the lichyard, you spy two humanoids, a dwarf with a bow and an elf in robes standing near the well, amid a sea of rats, both normal size and those of unusual size, amidst the rats stands another humanoid, but one with ratlike features, in leather armor, and wielding a shortsword in one hand.
With a loud incantation, a bright ball of fire streaks from the robed elf's hand, blossoming into a conflagration that engulfs the swarming rats. The dwarf fires well placed arrows at the oncoming horde, skewering one after another.
With a wild frenzy, the sword-wielding rat-man charges the elf, its blade penetrating the man's gut. With a cry, the elf slides from the blade. The rat-man and three hungry dire rats turn toward the dwarf and the dwarf turns toward's his foe.
"Already? This place is a nightmare."
Belle does a flat out run at 5x speed. She will be able to make it 150'. I can't move my icon on the map though.
Reynaud begins strategizing.
Now Tony, if you have any of those grenades left, this would be a good time to load them up. Agyen, if you climb a tree you'll be safe to summon those kni-
He cuts himself off as Belle sprints toward the enemies.
Or not. Let's try to make sure she doesn't get herself hurt.
Reynaud hoists his shield onto his arm and starts to run after Belle, drawing his sword on the way.
"Belle?! What the?!" - the half-orc roars, running after the others, shouting at the fighting group down below - "Stand down you dogs and sons of dogs!!"
Tony listens to Reynaud as he watches Belle charging off half cocked, soon followed by Garrosh and Reynaud himself.
He turns to Agyen, "Is it always like this with her?"
He turns and chases after Belle at top speed.
Belle takes off toward the solitary dwarf standing by the well, with Reynaud following shortly behind. The dwarven archer fires three arrows at the oncoming dire rats, skewering two of them neatly. The two skewered rats drop to the ground, twitching on their impailment.
The lone dire rat and rat man move in toward the dwarf. The dwarf nimbly dodges both the rat bite and the swordblade of the rat man. The ratman chitters "Lord Orcus will add your bones to his throne!"
Reynaud, you ended up just past where I noted this would occur, so your Perception DC is slightly higher.
Tony and Garrosh, as you 'acted' before you should have, you have the option to keep your actions (Run 4x), or change your actions. Roll20 has you as moving 4x.
for damage if hit. DC 11 Fort Save if hit.
for [dice]1d6+2[/ice] damage, if hit.
Tony continues his chase after Belle.
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The lone dire rat and rat man move in toward the dwarf. The dwarf nimbly dodges both the rat bite and the swordblade of the rat man. The ratman chitters "Lord Orcus will add your bones to his throne!"
In a broad, dwarvish accent the dwarf archer replies,
"He can eat ma Breeks! As fer mae bones, they'll be kicking him up the *@^$3!"
He then proceeds to shoot a few more arrows.
"Be cautious. Reynaud's tracks suggest that there may be tunnels or holes under the ground."
The armored figure seems to concentrate for a moment, then strides forward, getting faster and faster with each step until he's moving faster than anyone else.
Reynaud pursues Tony and Belle.
Tony, Garrosh and Reynaud hurry forward after the fleet-footed elf. Agyen, noticing the holes opening just behind Reynaud takes a more cautious approach, and casts expeditious retreat.
The dwarven archer fires another shot a the remaining rat, skewering it with sufficient force to impail it on a nearby tree. Turning, he fires two more arrows at the wererat, striking it once for significantly less damage than an arrow to the gut should have caused.
Belle hears the warning and will cast Vanish on herself, then make her way more cautiously towards the probably injured dwarf.
"Thanks for the warning Aggy!"
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Reynaud, Tony and Garrosh took off after Belle, with Agyen trailing behind. The lone dwarf took out another rat and hit the wererat with another shot.
Out of the holes which Agyen had noticed poured more rats, the nearest one takes a snap at Agyen, but misses. One of the other morphs from a rat to a half-rat half-man creature wielding a shortsword, and sneers at the psychic.
The wererat on Brodin slashes with his sword and attempts to bite the dwarf, but is unsuccessful against the dexterous monk.
"That's a LOT of rats!" - Garrosh grumbles a warning to his other companions, as he doubles back and charges the group closer to Agyen - "More of them back here boys!" - he roars even as a magical barrier comes into existence around him - "What are these anyway?!"
"Try to get closer Agyen!"
Garrosh runs up and chops one of the bone plated rats in twain.
Belle is in a quandry. Her main skill is to heal but there are two groups to protect. She decides to waste the vanish she just cast and cast glitterdust on the group to the north and save Aggy . Her center is the northwest corner of the main rat-man.
DC 17 will save or be blinded.
Tony stops at Garrosh prompting and Argyn screaming. He turns to see the assault levied upon the caster, then back to the dwarf who has sent a dizzying volley of arrows at the last of his opponents. Bodies littering the ground around the dwarf.
I think he can handle that
He pulls a pair of daggers as he wheels back to assist Garrosh. Taking one of the daggers he winds up good and tries to brain one of the stunned rats from 30 paces.
The wererat easily dodges Brodin's first two arrows, but the third strikes him straight in the throat, but still the creature does not fall. Tony's well placed dagger skewers one of the rats.
Agyen steps back and summons his dagger, and it slashes at the closest rat, landing a glancing blow.
Reynaud runs to catch up with Belle.
Garrosh runs up and chops one of the bone plated rats in twain. Belle bedazzle's three rats and a wererat. The wererat easily dodges Brodin's first two arrows, but the third strikes him straight in the throat, but still the creature does not fall. Tony's well placed dagger skewers one of the rats through the skull. Reynaud runs to catch up with Belle. Agyen steps back and summons his dagger, and it slashes at the closest rat, landing a glancing blow.
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The dire rat closest to Agyen scurries up and attempts to bite, but is a bit overzealous and bites too soon. One dire rat attempts to charge Garrosh, not understanding the concept of ‘reach weapon’. But Garrosh’s swing is slightly off and just manages to shave off some fur from the creature. The creature launches itself at the half-orc, burying its teeth into the man’s thigh. The other two rats, blinded by glitter, stumble about in a random direction, looking for the tasty morsels they can smell.
Belle is still torn between which direction to head, and with rats popping up everywhere the situation is far to dynamic. She will stay put and begin a summon monster from the wand. That way if there is a surprise visit somewhere she will have some fast moving eagles or something ready to respond.
"You're a nasty, disgusting, stubborn little thing, aren't you?!" - the half orc grumbles as the rat manages to bite him against all odds.
Taking a step back toward the Psychic, he swings in response - "How are you holding Agyen?"
Garrosh quite efficiently squashes his attacker into a red paste, while the dwarven archer places three well placed arrows in the wererat's back, ripping it's heart out and splattering the still beating organ all over a nearby gravestone.
Agyen again steps back from the rat, and this time the dagger connects solidly, skewering the rat.
The spiritual dagger neatly skewers the rat. As it goes through its death throes, the psychic ponders blasting it with force, but decides to hold off and watch the holes. It doesn't take the others long to dispatch the two blind rats, and then all eyes turn to the dwarven archer.
"Hah!" - Garrosh grumbles - "That's that!" - he adds, looking around - "You good. Right Agyen?" - the half-orc presses on, looking over his companion.
Once convinced he is well, he moves towards the others - "Everyone good?!" - he shouts as he moves to meet them, but taking care where he steps, and looking around at where the rats may have come from.
"Seems like we are just another group of foolish adventurers. Like you we lost a companion without ever getting past the first door, or so I assume, then lost another before ever going past the threshold. We've just returned from burying our dead and were going to track the ghouls back to their lair since we destroyed all but one. Not sure if that idea will pan out as the trail is over a day old and there may be more of the things about. It doesn't help that none of us are much at tracking, but a group of a dozen ghouls has got to leave quite a trail."
"Looks like you have a similar problem. I would not advise burying your companion here."