Cir is keeping a keen lookout until she observes a trispeckled butterfly flitting around her head, which diverts her attention somewhat.
Chell nixed the idea of smoking the cave, so Torgue pulls hard with the others assisting and ape is slide out of its wedged position.
*The capt and jenkie won't be able to attack in the cave
Initiative Order:
Chell
Sorrin
Torgue
Scraggs
Bri
Bonegnaw
Cir
Astri
Astrianna keeps lookout as well instead of helping move the ape, making some excuse about chimeras, or making sure they didn't miss anything, or something vaguely resembling a desire to avoid manually extracting a gorillon from a relatively tiny hole.
She gasps as the Cir spots the beautiful butterfly and starts trying to figure out what type it is, rattling off her educated guesses to Cir with plenty of explanation.
Peering inside the cave you are amazed how it can be pitched black within 5 feet of the opening. Solid darkness to your eyes, yes a good hiding spot from wandering eyes.
Can you shoot two or a few of these in there?. Sorrin passes sunrods.
Euphemia tries loading her bow with a sunrod and tests the feel of it.
Astrianna raises an eyebrow. "Sunrods weigh about a pound, you'd probably be better off just throwing it. Alternatively you can wait a few moments and I can create a magical, mobile light source inside the cave."
Cir tries to test the sunrod but she quickly shake her head, her arrows are clearly longer than then rods. She quickly dismisses the idea.
Can't see in the dark but I can see other things at times. Especially these big things with long noses, colored pink for some reason.
Round 1
Seeing Cir test the sunrods confirms Astrianna's suspicions they would make poor projectiles, though her mind does wonder if somewhere out there someone has fashioned vampire-slaying sun-arrows.
Regardless if Sorrin tosses the rods into the cave, she casts a cantrip and four balls of light appear and zip into the cave to shed light.
Cireladwen chuckles and uses her own inner light to fire a glowing layer down the passage to accompany everything else done to illuminate the area.
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Initiative Order:
Chell
Sorrin - tosses a sunrod
Torgue
Scraggs
Bri
Bonegnaw
Cir -
Astri - spell with dancing light
Peering into the cave you see scattered gnawed bones scatteered aorund the tunnel like cave. There are two side tunnels (from what you can tell from this POV) and long center tunnel that has what looks like lines of stalactites.
There's an assortment of knotty roots covering the walls and floor mixed in with the stalactites, but your perceptive eyes pick out the tip of black tail slipping into one of the side tunnels (tunnel on your right).
I see a tail slipping into the tunnel on the right. Everyone ready to go in?
Sunrod in one hand, scimitar in the other... Sorrin enters the cave and follows the tail.
Torgue follows behind Sorrin.
Astrianna thoughtfully considers Torgue's words before following the group. "We are walking into the den of Bonegnaw's pets... be wary. The gnoll is probably getting desperate, and may loose something horrific on us."
She continues to voice her opinion out loud. "Where did he get all of these creatures?" It then occurs to the half-elf that she would happily take on jobs to capture such creatures for the right pay, and answers her own question.
A seasoned and well traveled hunter, no doubt. I admire his prowess.
Cireladwen ducks in after everyone else, but without saying a word.
And Chell follows Torgue in the suggested marching order, pulling out an Everbuning Torch. "Should I perhaps watch the entrance in case there is no way out or he comes out close by? I am quite low on spells. I have a spell to hold humaniods, one to produce fog from myself and one to provide sanctuary from the enemy. Also that fog isn't going to last forever and some of those prisoners might be good with a bow. We'll need to show a tough front if we want them to throw down arms."
And now, he knows that...
As Sorrin and Torgue proceed into the caver you each take damage to your feet as you feel sharp thrones tear your soles and damage your feet, ankles and lower legs.
I need reflex saves from each of you or your landspeed is reduced by half if you fail the save. DC: 15
RD 1
Down the right tunnel is hyena tucked in the corner, he growls and hisses but down not move/att - yet. (he is holding until someone threatens it.)
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Bonegnaw
Pops his head and arms for behind the first row of stalactites which he is using as cover and fires at Sorrin, who is the first in the line.
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Round 1
Astrianna shrugs at Chell. "I believe we should stick together. You've got a boarding pike, and sometimes that's all you need." She sighs at Sorrin. "Why are you so paranoid? You must think- ow ow ow s$%+ there's thorns everywhere!"
The half-elf momentarily forgets her pain as Bonegnaw pops from behind cover and fires on them. "There he is! Cir, the arrows!" She ignores the hyena unless it becomes a threat.
Cireladwen's eyes widen. She doesn't remember giving anyone her name, let alone the abbreviated version used only by her twin brother and some long-dead humans. Still, her muinthel nin has a point.
Not as many as she gave to Cireladwen, though.
Chell jumps as small sharp objects bury into her legs. She gives a prayer of thanks for the thick boots and baggy pants since they stopped the worst of it.
Torgue curses as his foot is impaled.
You can use the previous damage rolls.
You really don't see the spiky growth but you sure can feel it.
Deciding that Stalactites will make good anchor points, Bri caste her web spell in the cave, centered on the gnoll.
The thick web clings to wall, ceiling, floor and stalactites.
The gnoll is not grappled as he was able use some of the stalactites to create some open space.
“Ahr the Ring sent ye, did they? Well I give t’ same answer,
ye’ll get yer cut over me cut and dead body!” The gnoll growls at his attackers.
I placed a light red down to show the squares with the spike growth cover. I also put up the web
Torgue looks at the others The Ring?
Round 2
Astrianna thinks to herself. Thi' Ring the prize fighter at the Broken Skull? Doubtful. Or THE Ring, an unknown group...? Hard to tell with his accent, but I distinctly heard "they".
The bard attempts to pull a fast one and keep him talking. She gives Torgue a Shhh look. "There are those in the Ring looking to move up. Your head will be a stepping stool for our boss when they take credit for collecting the cut."