The moment the blue rider charges, Baer hits him hard with her quarterstaff.
Majenko tries to help out, but misses when he attempts to sting one of the riders' horses.
Mavor moves a little west, then charges at the red rider. He swings his axe at the man, but the attack doesn't connect.
Tural hops a step back and waves his hand towards the red rider. Immediately after he starts chanting in a loud and booming voice, but his hex isn't affecting the enemy.
"That's it, I can no longer do nothing," Izas says, and starts a summon spell.
The red rider lets his horse take a 5-foot step back, then stabs Mavor with his lance.
Baer attacks the rider next to her twice and hits him on his head the second time.
Round 2:
Tural
Izas
Red
Baer 11/29HP
Denario
Green
Blue -22HP
Majenko
Quorthos
Mavor 27/36HP
Like before, some bad mojo must be hanging over Denario.
Denario throws another card, but another gust of wind guides it into a tree.
The green rider moves away from the you and positions himself southeast of the fight.
The blue rider lets his horse take a 5-foot step back and attacks Mega Baer with his lance. His lance misses Mega Baer.
Round 2:
~
Majenko
Quorthos
Mavor 27/36HP
Round 3:
Tural
Izas
Red
Baer 11/29HP
Denario
Green
Blue -22HP
Majenko
Quorthos
Mavor 27/36HP
The hyena attacks the blue rider.
Quorthos faces the green rider and readies an action. If the rider approaches within 15' he will throw his dagger and then 5'step iin fromt of Izas to shield him from the threat.
[ dice=MW dagger]1d20+5[/dice] [ dice = damage]1d4+2[/dice]
Instead of trying to debuff his target again Tural decides to buff mega Baer. He continues his chanting afterwards.
- Fortune (Su): The shaman grants a creature within 30 feet a bit of good luck for 1 round. The target can call upon this good luck once per round, allowing it to reroll any ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill check, taking the better result. The target creature must to decide to use this ability before the first roll is made. At 8th and 16th levels, the duration of this hex increases by 1 round. Once a creature has benefited from the fortune hex, it cannot benefit from it again for 24 hours.
Mavor steps up and attacks the red rider.
Majenko flies up to and lands in front of the blue rider's horse, which he tries to sting.
Quorthos's hyena attacks the blue rider, but its bite misses. Quorthos himself readies to throw a dagger.
Tural buffs Baer with his fortune hex.
Mavor steps up and hurts the red rider with a swing from his greataxe.
Majenko stings blue's horse, but the horse isn't affected by the pseudodragon's poison.
Izas's summon spell finishes and a large snake with a second head at the end of its tail appears next to the green rider.
The large snake tries to bite green with both its heads, but fails twice. Izas himself withdraws from the red rider's range and moves to a position west of Baer. "I see you've got this. I'll check inside, to see how the Jeffersons are doing."
The red rider steps back and stabs Mavor with his lance.
Round 3:
Tural
Izas
Red -18HP
Baer 11/29HP
Denario
Green
Blue -22HP
Majenko
Quorthos
Mavor 19/36HP
Denario moves closer to Mavor and Quorthos, hoping to get a better shot/toss.
Round 3, Init 17
Baer lashes out at the blue horseman, using Fortune.
to hit;
damage.
to hit;
damage.
Fortune Roll for first attack:
to hit;
damage.
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d8+7[/dice] damage.
or
[ dice]1d20+5[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d8+5[/dice] damage.
[ dice]1d20+5[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d8+3[/dice] damage.
Denario moves closer to Mavor and Quorthos, hoping to get a better shot/toss. HE still misses with his attack, though just barely this time.
Baer lashes out at the blue horseman, using Fortune. She hits the blue horseman twice, knocking him unconscious with the first and off his horse with the second.
The blue rider's horse bolts off westward.
Green takes some distance from the large snake Izas summoned and attacks it with his lance, but the creature evades the attack.
Round 3:
~
Majenko
Quorthos
Mavor 19/36HP
Round 4:
Tural
Izas
Red -18HP
Baer 11/29HP
Denario
Green
Majenko
Quorthos
Mavor 19/36HP
Quorthos's hyena charges south to attack the green rider.
Quorthos moves to Baer and invokes a spell. "This will help... but, if you hear voices, my advice is, don't listen."
Tural takes a step closer to Baer and casts Cure moderate wounds. he continues his chanting in the meanwhile, prolonging Baer's fortune.
"No backing up now you coward! Come over here and let me reintroduce my axe!"
Mavor 5-foot steps closer to the rider and attacks him with his greataxe once again.
Majenko flies toward red and moves into flanking position with Mavor. He tries to make red's horse fall asleep with a poisoned sting.
Quorthos's hyena charges up to the green rider and attempt to bite the man, but the rider dodges the attack. Quorthos himself moves p to Baer and cast infernal healing on her.
Tural also moves up to Baer and he cast another healing spell on her. Meanwhile Tural continues his chant, ensuring his fortune hex continues to aid Baer.
Mavor 5-foot steps up to the red rider and swings his greataxe at the man, but the weapon's deflected by the rider's armor.
Majenko flies up to red and stings the rider's horse. The horse wobbles on its feet and crashes to the ground, sound asleep.
The red rider falls off his horse and lands flat on his face.
Izas's snake continues to attack the green rider and bites him once, wounding and poisoning the man.
Red tries to get up from the ground after falling off his horse, but by doing so provokes an attack from Majenko. The tiny dragon stings red and the man drops back to the ground, sound asleep.
Baer heals a bit from Quorthos's spell.
Round 4:
Tural
Izas
Red -18HP 1NL & Asleep (Horse 1NL & Asleep)
Baer 25/29HP (9 more rounds of fast healing 1 after this turn)
Denario
Green -13HP -1Con
Majenko
Quorthos
Mavor 19/36HP
Round 4, Init 17
Baer goes to knock on the door. She raps on the front door with her large quarterstaff, trusting others to deal with the final rider.
Baer booms with her enlarged voice.
Intimidate
Denario sees red fall asleep.
"Saves some trouble. I'm going after green."
He hurries south and opens his palm, forming an icey orb.
"Incoming..."
Baer moves closer to the door and taps it with her quarterstaff. She threatens those inside, but there appears to be no reaction.
Denario shoots an snowball right between the green rider's eyes and takes him out. The man's horse quickly withdraws from the scene.
Izas walks up to the front door and puts his ear against it.
"I hear nothing," he whispers to you, while the unusual snake he summoned slithers over to him.
Quorthos moves up towards the back of the house, intended to stop any bandits who try to escape from that side.
"I hear nothing," he whispers to you...
Baer nods, then waits for the doors to open so she can confirm for herself.
"If they choose to hide from me, to fail to accept their faults, then they have earned their fates when I greet them with my 'staff," Baer whispers back.
She is ready to squeeze in when the door is opened.
Mavor walks up besides Izas and nods.
"If you open the door, I'll check inside for any trouble."
Tural patiently waits till the front lines of the group open it.
"They might be sipping on some tea, though they need to be deaf to not notice the ruckus out here."
Izas opens the door and Mavor and Baer enter the farm. Inside the house you see a tied up man and woman in the southeast corner of the farm's living room, lying near a hearth. Three thugs stand in between the tied up people and you, while two more are near a door in the building's north wall. Mavor hear some foot steps inside another room to the west, and sees two more thugs as he turns his head.
Izas also enters the building and addresses the thugs. "Surrender now, and we won't harm you."
"No!" one of the thugs yells back. "You get out, or else we'll cut them to pieces!"
The thug takes a step back, draws a longsword, and presses the tip against the throat of tied up man.
Baer waits to see if Denario, Mavor, or Izas want to talk. She's happy to go in and smash things up. She can't worry about the lives of everyone, but is happy to rid the world permanently of raiding trash like these villains.
Mavor looks at the men in turn, then looks at the people on the floor they are holding their swords at.
Then he begins to smirk, smile and eventually laugh.
"HAHAHAHA! And here I was thinking that I was just going to enjoy myself with a little round of sparring with some men. Looks like I've caught some mice instead, hiding behind their feeble threats and captiveswhile they are actually cornered themselves. You know, I enjoy myself tremendously in a fight with men, but mice on the other hand oooo."
Mavor seemingly shudders with delight at the thought of it all.
"You know that mice are a delicacy for some orcs right? And I look just like my father... You? You I'm gonna play with afterwards if you continue to hide behind defenseless people. Now, you have a chance to get out of here, see? Fight us and win, run or be the mice you are and cower inside this place. If you do kill these people you're never gonna get out of here alive. I'll personally see to it, you die slowly and painfully. These people don't mean anything to me, but it will only fuel my bloodlust for you. So what's it gonna be? Men or mice?"
To get the message across, Mavor grips his greataxe tightly and grins really really wide.
"Hey bud, think about it. We've mopped up all your friends outside, who were even riding horses.
You know how this will go right? You badly hurt or kill one bystander, and there's no little wall called 'proper reason', standing between our hands forced and your lawless lives.
Think about it.....you walk out, you walk a living man. You don't...well you'll be playing cards with other skeletons in who knows what place, after the queen of the boneyard judges you."
Tural adresses the men as he walks to the front.
"And what do you hope to achieve here? They don't have any money by the looks of them. Killing them won't kill us, well wait outside and kill you when you are done with your evil deeds. So what do you hope to get done today?
Quorthos circles the building until he reaches the broken window and then looks in to survey the situation. Once he heard the others, he leans right in. "Oh, good, I didn't miss any of the fun. I really hope they don't surrender this time - you honorable-types won't let me have my fun if they surrender. So please, by all means, keep up the hostage situation. The longer it lasts, the less likely you will surrender, and the more fun I'll have! " Quorthos grins wickedly and glares at the man holding the sword.
Baer moves into the home, squeezing herself to get through the doorway.
"There be food here!?" Baer booms, voice full of hungry hope. "Or did they surrender, boss?" Baer looks at Mavor.
Intimidate
Denario suppresses a smirk, by pretending to cough.
The thug who threatened to hurt the farmer swallows and looks in the direction of the kitchen. One of the men in the kitchen joins you in the living room, while the other stays behind him. The one who entered the living room is another familiar face. It's the other of the two men who rode up to your tents during Quorthos's watch a couple of nights ago, the one who tried to get behind Quorthos.
"The men outside... how are they?" the familiar man asks. He then seems to recognize Izas and directly addresses him. "Our leader... is he...?"
"He's alive," Izas replies. "He's recovering at my place. Though I'm not entirely sure about the condition your men outside are in."
The man stares at Izas, then casts a glance at the door through which most of you entered the building.
"You can check on them, if you wish," Izas tells him. "I can even come with you, and see what I can do for them."
There's an icy silence inside the farm while the man seems to be thinking. All of the other thugs appear to be waiting for him to decide what to do.
"Unfortunately, we had to rush inside to check on our friends, so we couldn't do anything for your friends," Quorthos explains. "If you want to relax, we can all check on our friends, and then figure out the rest later."
"Indeed, what will it be?"
Baer looks at Denario with a big grin, her left tusk bouncing happily as she speaks.
"WE EAT THEM NOW!?"
Intimidate
"They're all yours, but maybe Mavor would like a bite.
After all, that one, as Denario points at the most muscular one, seems to have most to chew."
"Feel free to bite Baer, if they resist. They will know why you're called that way as well, a good reminder I'd say."
The thugs get increasingly nervous, safe for the one who calls the shots. He gives Baer a skeptic look.. "I don't expect you to eat any of us, but I do expect fighting you to be a bad idea."
He draws his longsword and drops in on the floor. He then does the same with his lance, longbow and arrow quiver. "Guys, do the same. We can't beat them."
Most of the thugs do what they're told to do, but the one next to the northeast door quickly opens the door. Just as the thug's about to run off, Izas waves his hand and mutters something.
The thug freezes in place. Izas walks up to the door and closes it, keeping his hand on the doorknob. "We'd much prefer you'd stay, for now."
A couple of seconds later the thug's able to move again. He quickly moves away from Izas and the door and drops his weapons. Meanwhile Izas moves directly in front of the door.
Baer lowers her weapon and moves to make nice with the thugs. Uses her really long arms to into a pile, and then to help the villagers up and to safety.
"Izas, what now?"
Izas nods in the direction of the tied up farmers. "Maybe you could untie my friends."
He looks at the others party members. "And maybe the others could gather the weapons these men dropped on a pile, out of their reach."
Tural stands at the back, proud of his father getting the bandits to submit. He moves into the room and starts collecting the weapons with a watchful eye on the men.
Once all of the weapons have been gathered, Izas addresses the thugs again.
"You've all chosen a wrong path, but I will provide you with a chance that many would not have given you. Listen carefully..."
"We will keep the weapons with which you planned to do harm. If you don't travel north, where there have been bulette sightings, your large number should keep you safe. Next time you purchase weapons, let it be for a more honorable purpose."
"You will leave this farm and not ever bother the people who live here again. They are kind people, and they deserve better."
"If you want your leader to rejoin your group, come to my village tomorrow morning. He'll be cured and ready to leave with you."
Izas looks at each of the thugs, taking a moment to look in every man's eyes.
"If this is clear," Izas says after a moment of silence, "then you may leave now."
Izas steps aside and opens the farm's back door. The thugs look a bit wary, especially the ones who tried to escape earlier and the one who pressed a sword against the farmer's throat. They slowly exit the farm. Their "interim leader" exits the farm last, momentarily stopping as he stands next to Izas and looks at the old man.
"My... allies who..."
"I'll come," Izas replies, and follows the temporary leader outside.
"I'll be right back," Izas tells you as he steps outside. "I have to take a look at the men we defeated."
Baer unties the farmers, who thank you for coming to their rescue.
"I thought we were done for!" the woman says while her husband holds her closely.
"Easy, dear. Easy."
The man turns to you. "There's not much we can do in return, except to offer you dinner. Maybe a place to spend the night, if you don't have one yet?"
A while later Izas enters the building through the front door. You hear hooves in the distance as the thugs ride away on their horses. The farmers and Izas exchange some words, mostly thank yous and dinner invitations from the farmers.
Baer nods to the offer of food and lodging, especially once she returns to size.
"I'm sorry that these brigands attacked you. We saw them on the road, but they declined to show ill intent to us. Now I wish they had. We would have suffered them no less badly, and fewer of them would be riding away to potentially do more harm," Baer mentions, as she begins to help clean up any mess the bandits left behind.
As she works, she shuffles up near Denario.
"Tell me Denario, why didn't we kill them while we had the chance? Do you agree with offering them mercy?"
Denario has his arms crossed, but shrugs with a neutral look.
He speaks soft enough for Izas not to hear.
"I wouldn't have shed a tear if we did. Izas is showing more compassion and good trust than can be good for people, with these bandits.
But, this isn't our home, we've little to say in the matter."
He smiles, "You'll get to eat them next time."
Quorthos comes into the house and helps untie the farmers, ensuring they are not injured. Although pleased that combat was avoided, he is a bit surprised that Izas' actions - nothing prevents the men from re-arming and coming back to revenge.
"Izas... why did you let them go? They should have been punished for their crimes, locked up so that they could not harm others." He shakes his head. [b]"Have we not just allowed them to trouble others instead of you?"
Not wanting to go against his father Tural remains silent about the topic of punishing the bandits or not.
"That is the reason I went away from my village. I wanted justice where my father cares for everyone."
He turns to the farmers. "We would love some dinner! A place to sleep doesn't sound bad at all either. We do have to be going in the morning though." He joins Baer with cleaning the house whilst waiting for dinner. As a joke whilst cleaning he moves closer to Baer and taps her on the shoulder, casting Fly on her. The moment she does she feels her feet leave the ground and she is able to fly for about 5 minutes. "That should help the cleaning a bit!"
After laughing a good while he asks if anyone is hurt.
"Did anyone get hurt in the fightings? I will tend to your wounds if so."