Sun Xiao is startled to hear listenable music coming from the Bard.
Maybe he was just having an off day? he thinks to himself before moving forward.
He heads forward about 15 feet, struggling through the snow before stopping.
Damn this snow. Not going to let me get within attack range.
He adopts a fighting stance and awaits the enemy.
Azor draws his morning star and prepares himself for the coming battle. He casts Vigor on himself, Chloe, and Sun Xiao, Giving them 5 temporary Hit points
Jack loads his crossbow and casts Inertial Armor.
Chloe pulls out her masterwork shortsword and watches for the worm.
The Tatzylwyrm, focused on its chosen prey, barrels past both Sun Xiao and Chloe, taking hits from them as it does. However, it's still standing (or slithering) as it pounces on its chosen prey-Jack.
As the beast impacts Jack, it bites him hard and attempts to wrap around him! However, its claws graze harmlessly off of the armor that he had summoned seconds before.
Ghulassen, you'll be up after we see if Jack's grappled or not.
As he recoils from the devastating bite, Jack fails to avoid being grappled by the Tatzylwyrm.
Continuing his power ballad, Ghulassen readies his bow and fires.
Ghulassen's arrow sails through the air and buries itself deep in the back of the Tatzylwyrm. It rears up in pain, but still holds onto Jack tightly.
Sun Xiao rushes over to the beast's side and slams his fist into the top of its head, but appears not to penetrate its thick hide.
Damn, I gotta keep Jack alive until we kill this thing.
Azor casts natural healing using 2 power points to heal for 6 and passes the healing through the collective to Jack.
Scowling, Jack tries to wrench himself free...
...and just barely manages to escape. Then he moves 15 feet away from the beast.
"You will burn for that."
Chloe whirls into action and slashes the tatzywyrm with her shortsword.
Chloe's sword cleaves through the tatzylwyrm, sending gore everywhere. The creature shrieks in pain and writhes on the ground in obvious agony for a few moments, before finally slowing to a complete stop. It's quite obvious that it's dead.
Sun Xiao gives Chloe a nod of approval.
Good work. Glad to know she can get her hands dirty if need be.
He looks around the area to see if he can notice anything amiss.
Jack rubs the bite marks on his shoulder, grimacing.
That was unpleasant, but at least I managed to keep myself from being sliced open.
Then he begins scanning the area.
"Oh, ewwww. It's all over me. That's... ewwwwww." After fruitlessly trying to wipe off the entrails, she looks around helplessly. "I don't think I've got a change of clothes, and I do not want to undress in this weather to wash my outfit."
Jack glares at Chloe. "Oh, how tragic. Maybe you can scrape that mess off with the Tatzlwyrm's teeth. They are quite sharp, after all."
Azor sighs, as a sign of relief and at the continued bickering.
He then walks over to Jack and uses transfer wounds.
"There all better now you have no need for sass."
"I don't think I've got a change of clothes, and I do not want to undress in this weather to wash my outfit."
"Kinky"
"Ghulassen, I would set you on fire if I thought it would have any effect."
"But in any case, we should see if we can find anything unusual here, then get moving."
Chloe, on Jack's advice, checks for anything unusual.
"Now is not the time Ghulassen."
Azor takes a look around
When you search the area where you first spotted the tatzylwyrm, you find that it had been feasting on what appears to be a human-although it can barely be identified as such now. It was either a bandit or just an unlucky traveler, you can't tell which though-or even what gender it was. A dismembered hand a few meters away from the remains still clutches a masterwork dagger-the blade is spotless, it seems as if the person's last stand was in vain. In the immediate area around the carnage, you find a quiver next to a shattered bow (ruined beyond repair) with 25 arrows still intact, along with a pouch with 150 gold in it.
As you search through the wreckage, a cold gust comes screeching through the gully, whipping up the snow and chilling you to the bone.
Ghulassen goes and takes the arrows.
"Oh look. Ammo.
"Nice dagger anyone mind if i take it?"
Sun Xiao shivers slightly at the chilling wind, bracing himself against it.
"I have no objections, Azor."
Chloe shivers, and pulls her furs tighter around her.
"If we're done here, we should get a move on."
With that, Sun Xiao starts walking again, turning around to see if the others are following when he reaches the edge of the clearing.
"Yes, let's."
And maybe we'll find an opportunity for me to actually damage something.
"Y-yeah, sure. Let's go."
Azor picks up the masterwork dagger. He takes his current dagger and is about to toss it on the ground, but changes his mind and puts it into his pack instead. He then joins the group.
"Off we go!"
You continue on through the forest, and for the most part are able to handle the cold-with the exception of Chloe, who just can't seem to get warm after the fight with the tatzylwyrm.
After about an hour you begin to notice a change in the scenery-feathered bundles and strange fetishes hang from the lowest branches of the trees in this part of the forest, swaying and shifting in the wind. All are stuck through with small pins holding pieces of leather bound around them.
Jack scans the area and carefully examines the bundles.
He notices that the bundles are actually the frozen corpses of dead crows, filled with tiny sprite arrows.
He frowns, shaking his head gravely. "It would seem that there are malevolent fey in these woods. Stay alert, everyone.