As the shadows of dusk grow, everyone notices a gigantic centipede with two, whip-like tails. At the moment, it is curled up, apparently asleep.
What do you do? ;)
"Hssst! C'n we go sneakin' aroun' it, some?" Sunny whispers.
"Awe...poot!" As her whispered question seems loud enough to wake the dead, never mind a giant bug...
"I see no reasons to doubt you K'tzhang, you are probably better than me at tracking" as he waits for the others to cover the rear.
Sunny brings her horse to a stop a little rougher than intended, and it protests, which wakes the centipede.
Nerik waits for others to act.
Sunny blushes bright red,
"Sorry guys..." She says even as she slides off her saddle and unlimbers her x-bow. Taking the reign with her other hand.
Shortbow
Donk says in common, "Stop!" and then continues...
K'Tzhang looks in amazement as Donk climbs onto the giant creature. After several moments of staring, he gathers himself and continues to follow the trails. It'sth thisth way.... His voice quieter and more far away than normal...as though his mind is still elsewhere...
Sunny's large eyes open wider in amazement as Donk gains his mount. Though she steers her horse clear a ways from said large, monstrous vermin. At K'tzhang's urging she follows the stout Kobold and his directions.
"Amazing..." as he watches perplexed how Donk tames the creature.
Undercommon[spoiler]"Well done Donk, congratulations in recovering or acquiring that creature"
"That is incredible," Sulna mummers.
Over the next few days, the party, lead by K'tzhang, makes their way WNW, eventually reaching a point where two rivers, most likely the Shrike and Thorn Rivers. Thankfully, there's a bridge crossing, odd though it is. The bridge is obviously very old, but very sturdy. It is a three-way bridge, reaching from each side of the Y that makes up the merging of the two rivers, meeting in the middle over the pond formed by the rivers before flowing WSW.
A little worrying, the party hasn't encountered anything more since Donk did whatever he did to get the centipede to let him ride it.
28 Pharast - Morning
Initiative
As the group has decided to be done with breakfast, three forms rush from the forest, two are massive wolves. The third is a deformed beast of a man, easily 8 ft. tall.
"Criminies!" Sunny exclaims even as she lifts her x-bow and shoots at the fastest wolf.
Damage
Polson and Belros launch arrows at the humanoid, both of which fail to strike it.
As Donk moves, the humanoid creature charges Polson, striking him and sending his unconscious form flying back towards the rest of the party.
Sunny lands a bolt solidly into the southern wolf.
The northern wolf charges and nearly biting Belros.
Con
Seeing Polson flung back, K'tzhang moves to where Polson has landed and placing his hands on the elf, prays to Aspu to bring healing to him.
Sulna will move next to Polson and attack the big guy. (Using a charge maneuver if needed.)
"Hey ugly!"
Second round:
Sunny reloads and fires at the same target,
Take a 5-foot step back let go of my crossbow and take out my swords.
Aglow with a healing light, K'tzhang touches Polson, healing part of the vicious cut from the giant humanoid.
The second wolf charges in, biting Donk.
Emerys charges the northern wolf, but stabs high and misses the beast.
Sulna charges the humanoid, failing to hit it, but does gain its attention.
Nerik mutters and one of his hands crackles with a violent blue energy. He moves up to the nearest wolf and touches it, causing part of the energy to transfer to the wolf.
Sunny manages to plant another bolt into the southern wolf.
Belros steps to the side and stabs at the dire wolf in front of him, but fails to connect the point of his blade with its hide.
Polson lays there, unconscious but not bleeding out.
Donk rips the dire wolf in front of him apart. It is very dead.
The giant humanoid cuts Sulna deep with his axe, and then bites the human.
The remaining dire wolf bites Nerik, knocking his feet out from underneath him.
K'tzhang tries to fire an arrow and the giant wildman, but fails to make a clean release of the bowstring, and the arrow instead strikes Sulna.
After a quick sidestep, Emerys stabs the remaining wolf with both blades, each one striking the wolf in sensitive spots.
As Nerik tries to stand, the dire wolf bites him again, and he slumps back to the ground.
:( ;]
Sunny takes a five foot step to her right(Nth), re-loads and fires at the big, ugly, possibly smelly, monstrous man.
1d20 + 2
1d20 + 6:( ;]
Sulna lays there, a mess of a man, but not getting any worse, yet.
Sunny's Round 3:
Sunny takes a five foot step to her right(Nth), re-loads and fires at the big, ugly, possibly smelly, monstrous man.
Full attack
Shortsword + if flanking
Belros stabs the remaining dire wolf, leaving it seriously injured.
Donk charges the giant beastman and claws it viciously.
The beastman fails to strike Donk with its axe, or to bite him.
Sunny's bolt strikes the beastman, but her bolt shatters to splitters on impact.
The remaining dire wolf bites Emerys, but fails to knock the young man to the ground.
K'Tzhang moves to Sulna and prays at his side, placing his hands on his wound a white light enters his body.
K'tzhang's healing hands close some of Sulna's wounds, but the kobold is unable to avoid the blade of the beastman's axe.
Emerys stabs the remaining wolf with both blades, and leaves it a lifeless corpse.
Sunny's Round 4:
Sunny re-loads and fires at the big, ugly, possibly smelly, monstrous man.
I'll just continue my assault on the wolf.
Attack
Critical Confirmation
Damage
+ Sneak Attack
If critical
Belros stabs the corpse of the DEAD dire wolf, making it deader.
Donk makes some impressive gashes in the flesh of the beastman with his claws and horns.
The beastman strikes Donk with its axe.
Sunny nearly shoots Donk in the back of the head, but manages to strike nothing but air instead.
With blood gushing from his various wounds, K'Tzhang withdraws out of range of the monster man, Getting closer to his companions.
Attempting to charge in on the beastman, Emerys rolls trying to avoid the creatures axe. Unfortunately, the creature corrected its swing, striking Emerys a solid blow on his back. He flattens out and doesn't move.
I charge the beastman
Damage
Belros silently runs up to the beastman and stabs at it's chest. When he strikes, it feels almost like striking an iron door.
The beastman manages to evade Donk's horns and the claws of one hand, but is still struck by the mites other claw. The beastman falls to the ground, continuing to bleed. As the creature lays there, its form becomes slightly less bestial.
Donk pulls and pulls, eventually ripping the beastman's deformed head off.