HP 10/10
AC 16/T14/FF12(18/14/14 with Mutagen)
Saves F4R6W0
EffectsMutagen
Manny's little legs pump furiously as he keeps rushing up.I gotta start hitching rides on that bull! He gets near enough to Mogrohl's foe and draws his extract of Adhesive Spittle. Deal with that pointy ear, Mog. Then I save silly hobgob.
Now alone on this side of the creek, Ordrud draws a bead on the half-elf archer with his longbow again. He holds his breath and lets the arrow fly into the river. "Pentacles!" He curses.
Don't tell me what to do little goblin. Mogrohl means to say it but the message never reaches his lips. Instead, Mog takes a step forward and retrieves his falchion.
"Die b$&#@!" Hatred burns in Mogrohl's chest, his muscles seem to grow in the moment.
He bares down on the changed elf with his blade.
Ketz continues his attack from the air on the enemy. This time he fires at the healer and again his shot misses.
Enemy part strikes back...
In the front of the battle the changed elf now wounded and surrounded begins to flee.
The yzobu strikes once more as she runs away dropping her in her tracks. HIT
The human seeing his horse get almost beheaded strikes back at the orc rider, Segovax. MISS
The half orc rushes in behind the running elf to protect her back but is too late. He tosses his 2nd spear at the Yzobu with the dying goblinoid on its back. The hit cuts the Yzobu as grazes a front hoof from a short toss. HIT
Finally the human and half elf track behind each other and both let loose with missile weapons on the yzobu as it provides cover for the trailing Orc. Both missiles strike their target but the beast stays up. HIT & HIT
Round 4 Summary
Party Casualties
Aronok stabilizes from dying but remains on his now wounded Yzobu mount. -3HP
Gorehoof Wounded 6/15 HP Remaining
Ketz Wounded 8/10 HP Remaining
Yzobu 7/15 HP Remaining
Party Effects
Segovax Shield of Faith +2 (MUST NOW MAKE DC14 WILL SAVE)
Manny Mutagen (+2 Nat AC, +4 STr, -2 Int 10 minutes)
Ordrud Studied Target 1/2 Elf
Enemy Casualties
Horse Killed from Segovax Mutilation
Dwarf Dying from Segovax Attack
1/2 Orc Spearman Wounded Slightly
1/2 Elf Bowman Wounded Slightly
Elf Staff wielder Dying from multiple gore wounds from Yzobu
Human in Armor Slightly wounded
Hhuman healer uninjured
Party Up!
After a lost arrow, Ordrud finds the half-elf archer with his longbow again. He holds his breath and lets the arrow fly.
HP 10/10
AC 16/T14/FF12(18/14/14 with Mutagen)
Saves F4R6W0
Effects:Mutagen
If the foe next to the Yzobu is still up, Manny fires off an adhesive spittle extract at them
The DC is 13
If that foe is down, Manny moves 2 squares north, 2 squares east and spits on the archer
HP 10/10
AC 16/T14/FF12(18/14/14 with Mutagen)
Saves F4R6W0
Effects:MutagenIf the foe next to the Yzobu is still up, Manny fires off an adhesive spittle extract at them
** spoiler omitted **The DC is 13
If that foe is down, Manny moves 2 squares north, 2 squares east and spits on the archer
All downed characters are marked with X. Is your target blue dot?
Yes
After watching his target get maimed by his allies beast, Mogrohl moves back past the enemy's front line and towards the women in the back of their split formation.
Mogrohl's muscles still flare with anger as he approaches. He emits a noise that seems a mix of battle cry and the growl of a beast while swinging his blade, trying to lop off the woman's head.
Kezt aims at the healer, letting loose another barbed arrow while bird circles overhead.
Nusku moves over and calls upon the Lord of Flame to save the Hobgoblin from death. "Oh Lord of Fire and Light. Cleanse this ruffian with your flame so he can pay tribute to you." Aronok's body is now covered in flames, cauterizing his wounds.
The human party action continues...
The armored human struck and almost killed by the mighty swings of Segovax peddles backward in prayer,
Segovax follows...
The humans call to the gods and his abilities fail as he is pursued down the road by Segovax and his bull.
Further away near the river the half orc is covered in spittle thrown by Manny. He kneels confused by the overpowering of his friends and near despair at hand but calms himself.
He then throws his last spear at the goblinoid that threw the spiitle at him. The throw is wild landing in the river. He then turns and runs. MISS
The advance of Mogrohl has caused both the females to react with melee. There first move was an act to pin him down. The human shot by Ordrud's arrow drops her lt crossbow and acrobatically moves into position behind Mogrohl with her scimitar out.
The human reacted slowly providing Mogrohl an opportunity to strike with his falchion which he successfully completes; he slices her across her torso as she rolls into position unsuccessfully. She is now bleeding to death behind him. HIT
This provided the half elf a strike with her dagger against her favored enemy the orc. Her swing is true but not life threatening. HIT
Round 5 Summary
Party Casualties
Aronok is now healing -2/12 after Nusku provided aid from flames
Gorehoof Wounded 6/15 HP Remaining
Ketz Wounded 8/10 HP Remaining
Yzobu 7/15 HP Remaining
Party Effects
Segovax Shield of Faith +2
Manny Mutagen (+2 Nat AC, +4 STr, -2 Int 10 minutes)
Ordrud Studied Target 1/2 Elf
Aronok Fast Healing applied 1 of 10 rds
Enemy Casualties
Horse Killed from Segovax Mutilation
Dwarf Dying from Segovax Attack
1/2 Orc Spearman Wounded Slightly but not stuck in spittle now running.
1/2 Elf Bowman Wounded Slightly
Elf Staff wielder Dying from multiple gore wounds from Yzobu
Human in Armor Severely wounded on death's door.
Human healer dropped by Ordrud's arrow and Mogrohl AOO.
Party Up!
The 1/2 Elf drops to her knees and pleads for her life.
She starts crying face down in the dirt.
Nusku will delay, sensing that more flame was not needed for this battle.
To Segovax's command, Mogrohl merely grunts. No sense keeping pets, cousin. Just another mouth to feed.
His body still surging, Mogrohl runs over to the half orc. "If I could, I would only kill one of your halves. Maybe I will try to split you in two." Mogrohl brings down his falcion directly over the head of the half orc as if he were cutting a piece of wood on the chopping block.
His half-elven target surrendering causes Ordrud to change interest toward the running half-orc. He checks the wind and arcs his longbow accounting for the half-orc's pace.
Manny sees that the bigguns have things in hand and goes over to check on the hobgoblin and see if he can stop the splurting.
The battle is now over as the male 1/2 orc is viciously brought down running away. The female half elf has surrendered and the male human in armor lay barely alive. With no hope the male pulls his hope knife from its sheaf and kills himself in the road quickly as taught, a true Tranauian.
Ordrud stows his longbow and crosses the bridge. He ostensibly looks for replacement arrows and casually for loot.
Manny nods and shakes his head while approaching any bleeding out foes and staunching wounds
He didn't try very hard with the humie though.
"They should be sacrificed. But as you wish." Nusku frowns as he starts looting the bodies.
Search of the area revealed:
Ordrud restocks three arrows from the half-elf's quiver into his own and counts the currency: 396 gold, 20 silver and 6 copper. Interesting items to him are the three masterwork daggers, masterwork backpack, and spring-loaded wrist sheath.
The hobgoblin archer in heavy leather armor says to the group, "They had 396 gold, 20 silver and 6 copper. At equal (7) shares, that's 56 gold each. How are we splitting things? I could use that half-orc's backpack."
I don't read, but that journal that was on the humie in studded leather might be useful. Humies like their words being stolen and put into books.
Manny tuck his share away
The bleeding and dying do just that leaving only the poor little half elf.
She is obviously scared to death and tries to speak in several tongues hoping that any of it is understood.
[Languages (Dwarven, Elven, Giant, and Common) ]
"Ppp leease do not kill me, I can... can help you. What do you want of me?"
She looks about at the group with her big brown eyes and darkened skin.
"Are you part of the Twisted Hearts Band?"
Mogrohl's examines his blade, a bloody mess! He pats it in the dirt and the grass but when the gory smudges seem to cling on, he wipes the blade off on one of the victim's clothes. Ah, that's better.
The cleansing process seems tranquil enough as Mogrohl takes a deep breath. He seems to shrink a little as the surge of battle wears off. He walks over to the javelin he threw earlier and retrieves it. Before putting it away, he stands above one of the dying and holds it above their chest for a moment, about to end their suffering. Nah, let them pass slowly, as punishment. Instead, he sits on one of them as if they were a tree stump, the dying humanoid let's out a loud moan.
After resting for a while, Mogrohl stands and receives his share of the spoils. To him, this is a lot of gold. "This should probably go to a war chest," he says, but takes the gold pieces all the same.
Mogrohl takes the masterwork dagger from the felled half-orc spearman, flips the dagger in the air but fumbles on the catch. The dagger falls to the ground after making a small cut on Mogrohl's hand. Heh. He picks up the dagger, fits the sheathe onto his belt, and then sits on what remains of the half-orc spearman while picking at his tusks with his new dagger.
He listens intently to see what Segovax does with his new pet. She's not poor for words, that's for sure. I hope we sew up her mouth.
After Segovax's pronouncement, Ordrud collects all of the new shiny currency and shares 56 gold, 3 silver, and 1 copper to everyone.
Then, without any other comments, he takes the half-orc's backpack putting its contents in his old backpack.
The hobgoblin archer takes the quiver of arrows and caltrops from the half-elf. Then, he takes a pint of oil from the dwarf.
After he stows the caltrops and oil in his multi-pocketed belt, he goes to investigate the wrist-sheathes from the half-orc and masterwork dagger from the human.
Mebbe these invaders have a camp we can go check out. They no doubt got horses considering that one humie had a horse.
Nusku will take his share of gold but nothing else. As the equipment did not help with his powers of cleansing flame, it was worthless.
Information possibly held by the members here.
Old tale was that the Twisted Hearts was a merge between giantkind and the orcs to destroy the humans in Belkzen. Supposedly they broke apart after being beat down by the Crusaders of Lastwall.
It is true that the Twisted Nail tribe combined with the hill giants of Heart Eater to form the Twisted Hearts. The leader of the merged tribe was a Hero Chieftain hill Giant named Uskroth. This was the last tribe to occupy land south of the Kestrel River.
The final battle by the Twisted Hearts was at Bloodmarch Hill. It was there Uskroth was killed by no less than 20 wounds as his tribe pushed the humans out for the day before being taken down after the chieftains death. Uskroth's tomb is in Bloodmarch Hill.
It is said that the tribe is getting back together under a new hill giant leader, Grenseldek. The tribes (Twisted Nail and Heart Eaters ) have been meeting recently in the shadows of Tranau planning this renewal of power.
Aronok comes to and checks his surroundings. He looks at his closing wounds not knowing who healed him.
He checks his mount for wounds and stays quiet for the moment. He does dismount and walks over to the holy scriptures of Sarenrae taking the symbol and scriptures if no one stops him.
Other known information currently held by the group.
You are to meet Bazuuk and the leaders in Urgir in a week.
Your are to assemble as a tribe and recruit if needed.
You are currently near the Kestrel River on the path between Tranau and Urgir.
You currently have a hostage (1/2 Elf Female Ranger)
She states when asked about the twisted hearts,
"Aren't you part of the Twisted Nail tribe? We were here to find you."
Manny picks through the rest of the equipment and shrugs. Nothing here I want.
Survival Take 10+4=14
Stealth Take 10+11=21
Perception Take 10+4=14
Ordrud points at the two gobs and says, "let's go. Be sneaky." He starts following the tracking of the dead party.
Twisted Hearts? Twisted Nails? Sounds like some human mummer show.
”We’re not part of any Twisted Heart or Twisted Nail”, Segovax growls. ”But we could be…”
”Ordrud, take the goblins and follow the softskin’s tracks. If the stitcher’s right, they got more supplies near here.”
The young lady says "What, your not?" and then goes quiet remembering she was told not to speak.