nadya moves up, enraged,
Get away from my son! she growls
beta turns around and bites at Ten Penny, leaping for her throat, but securing a nasty bite by her exposed shoulder, dragging her to the ground and thrashing. preternatural cold spreading through her veins.
plus
omega pivots and chases down nadya, leaping, but she ducks, thwacking it aside with her unstrung bow.
plus
[ round 1 ]
[22: Giacomo], [19: Ten-Penny], [18: Nadya], [16: Wolf-b & Wolf-o], [12: Arwyn], [10: Gondork], [9: Wolf-a]
Arwyn!! Try to keep that one in the back busy while me and ten-penny focus on this one! Giacomo, you too! Throw some rocks if you have to!
"Although I appreciate the effort Gondork, you aren't deaf. Giacomo asked you to stay a little closer to recieve support, moron!" Ten-Penny snarks.
"Gondork, you oaf!" Giacomo manages between casting. "What about 'stay close' is hard to understand? Also, 'throw rocks'? What do you think I have this bow for?"
plus
Gondork ignores his party's pleas for tactics and replies:
I'm sorry, children's lives are at stake here! We have no time for elaborate magicks! Enlarge yourself instead! More arrows, less talking!
"Right!"
Hearing Gondork call out, Arwyn shifts aim to Wolf B.
for a possible piercing damage.
for a possible piercing damage.
orm moves around the tree and cowers.
[ round 2 ]
[22: Giacomo], [19: Ten-Penny], [18: Nadya], [16: Wolf-b & Wolf-o], [12: Arwyn], [10: Gondork], [9: Wolf-a]
Giacomo finishes his spell and Nadya grows Large. He then skips through the snow unimpeded, then channels energy to cure Ten-Penny (excluding the big bad wolves).
"Thanks Giacomo, that patches things up."
Ten-Penny tries to jump scare wolf-b, by making a quick stab move towards it. If it rears, she has an open shot at its throat.
for and sneak damage
Debilitating Injury set on Disoriented: -2 on attack rolls, -4 if attacking me, until beginning of my next turn.
omega bites at Nadya, but misses (even big she's ac 14 i think)
plus
[ round 2 ]
[22: Giacomo], [19: Ten-Penny], [18: Nadya], [16: Wolf-b & Wolf-o], [12: Arwyn], [10: Gondork], [9: Wolf-a]
dropping her bow and drawing her weapons, she hefts her handaxe and chops at the boreal wolf but misses
Arwyn stepped forward into Point Blank range and continued to shoot at Wolf B.
for a possible piercing damage.
for a possible piercing damage.
Gondork circles into flanking position with Ten-penny, and strikes with force.
moving up to point blank shot, arwyn fires a single shot at the alpha, pegging him for 9 damage. Gondork circles around and nearly finishes the beast off with a savage blow for 10 points. the boreal wolf yelps painfully, letting out a low pitched whine.
it tries one last bite on ten-penny, fighting for its life, before passing out, bleeding in the snow.
the remaining wolf seems demoralized and discouraged after its alpha and beta go down.
[ round 3 ]
[22: Giacomo], [19: Ten-Penny], [18: Nadya], [16: Wolf-o], [12: Arwyn], [10: Gondork],
Giacomo taps himself and grows to medium size , then yells "Boo!" at the remaining wolf, hoping to scare it away.
Ten-Penny runs up towards the last standing wolf and lashes out with her Short Sword (snowshoes enable this as one move action).
for and sneak
Debilitating Injury set at Hampered: creature moves at half speed and cannot make 5ft steps until beginning of my next round.
the remaining wolf runs away, run action, 25x4 = 100 ft. getting 50 ft. away without leaving tracks in the snow.
[ round 3 ]
[22: Giacomo], [19: Ten-Penny], [18: Nadya], [16: Wolf-o], [12: Arwyn], [10: Gondork],
[ round 4 ]
[b[[22: Giacomo], [19: Ten-Penny], [18: Nadya], [/b][16: Wolf-o], [12: Arwyn], [10: Gondork],
for and sneak
Nadya runs over to Orm, dropping her weapons and picking her up in her current she-giant hands and squeezing him hard. her voice extra gravelly from her distorted size
"Orm! Orm! Orm! Are you alright? Are you hurt?"
-- orm sobs
"Thank you, Thank you! " she says as you gather up your things and the bundle of firewood, heading back to camp as Nadya gradually shrinks back to medium size, still carrying little Orm.
back in camp, around the fire, the tents set up and dinner cooking, Orm stays much closer to his mother's side. He's unharmed, just traumatized a bit from being chased by the boreal wolves.
Your evening would be otherwise uneventful, except that you come back and start preparing dinner, only to find maggots in the provisions, the meat and tack have soured and everything is spoiled.
"I don't know what happened. I haven't seen anything since you left, Mjoli and I were fine. Nothing approached the camp." Says Caladan, backed up by Mjoli.
"Thats all of our food! We're still a ways off from Ellprin! We'll starve before we get there!" says and exhasperated Nadya, having checked over the provisions a third time. "Gone. Its all gone rotten. "
"This is bad. Giacomo, can you make food magically? Nadya, Arwyn, can't you just hunt us down some food? "
"Should we go back for those dead wolves...?" Ten-Penny asks, remembering her terrible survival skills. If it wasn't for Arwyn, she would also be lost in the woods...
Arwyn nodded.
"I'll go see if they are salvagable." She said, jumping up and grabbing her equipment.
"Oh no, how could this have happened? It all seemed fine this morning. And Caladan, sadly I can't create food yet, I don't possess that much spellpower yet."
Giacomo picks up a rotten biscuit and attempts to scrape off the mold with an arrowhead. Then his face lights up.
"I know, I've barely used this, so it might not work completely."
Giacomo gathers all the food into one heap, then casts Purify Food and Drink on the pile of food. He then dusts off the biscuit he was previously holding.
"See, you barely see the mold anymore. Good as new!"
Gondork, severely disheartened at the sight of incomprehensibly spoiled food, grumpily sits down next to Caladan.
This is worse than that time I had to travel with a band of she-orcs through the badlands of Belzken... what are we going to do without food in this life-forsaken winter wonderland? Eat snow?
His face lights up at Giacomo's suggestion, and while the halfling is busy with the food he starts a lengthy monologue on sundering weapons and armor in combat towards Caladan.
Giacomo holds out his holy symbol (or whatever is necessary for the fey magic casting ) and blesses the food, purifying it, and for a second it looks edible again, then a black cloying miasma spreads out from the food, a dank odor rises, and the maggots once again crawl out of it. something is wrong.
Arwyn returns shortly with the boral wolve's carcasses. there wasn't time enough for other creatures to find them, and the meat seems good if gamey. for tonight you eat like paupers, but at least you eat. the meat cooks up well and Nadya still manages to make a good stew out of it. there's enough to feed the sled dogs some scraps, but the horses and their oats were spoiled too, they're kinda hungry. You can feed them the meat, especially cooked, but fully feeding them would cut into what little you have.
the night passes uneventfully, keeping adroit watches, the food keeps overnight. you discuss your options more as you travel on the fifth day, pressing the horses a little as you go. You stop for a quick lunch/breakfast after a few hours of travelling, and push on to the evening. in the last hour or two of sunlight before dusk, you notice a strange formation in the snow, not far off your path. It almost looks like crumbling sections of snow covered walls, and piles of snow covered stones that might have once been houses. One seems still mostly intact and rather large, inside a curved walled area.
Giacomo proudly holds the cleaned biscuit in the air, then a new maggot pops out of it. Giacomo drops it in the snow in surprise.
"Euch, looks like the spell failed. I can try again tomorrow, if we don't mind the smell of rancid meat."
Giacomo goes off hunting by himself, and returns with enough food to feed several other people as well.
"Look, houses! Maybe there's some food left! The rabbit I caught was tasty, but I would like to have some bread to go with it."
Arwyn looked darkly at her spoiled rations.
"This is no coincidence. Some enemy has found us."
She advocates pressing on using forced march as fast as possible.
When the houses come into view, she volunteers to go investigate.
Giacomo goes off hunting by himself, and returns with enough food to feed several other people as well.
for getting along in the wild you check once for 24 hours. so if you decide to hunt, the entire group will slow down for the whole day.
Giacomo +4 food units
+5 food units.
+6 food units
+4 food units.
Arwyn looked darkly at her spoiled rations.
"This is no coincidence. Some enemy has found us."
On the morning of the 6th day, as you continue, you spot the houses
This place was once a small town or village at some point, though most of the buildings are little more than piles of snow-covered stones, with crumbled sections of their walls rising from the ruins. The only structure that might offer temporary shelter appears to be a large edifice inside a walled circular yard with an arch at the entrance. The front door seems to have rotted away, but a smooth stone circle engraved with the outline of a butterfly is mounted above the archeway that still stands.
It looks like it might have once been a temple to Desna.
As you get closer, you see two people clearing the snow from the churchyard, dressed in robes and vestments of a desnan' design.
Ten-Penny sees the little halfling go into the woods to forage for food. The little guy is always so optimistic, but he does have a point. We already have nothing, and we can't get any less than that...
When the houses come into view
"I'll go with you, Arwyn. You never know what lurks in these kinds of ruins."
When the two people get into view
Then-Penny quickly gets to cover when she spots others. She tries to see if there are more people or even dangers around.
(+2 vs traps/ambush)
"Desna... Desna is good, right? Should we strike up an conversation, Arwyn?" Ten-Penny whispers
"I'll do it." Muttered Arwyn to Ten-Penny, then strode boldly up to the minons of Desna.
"Hail minions of Desna! Have you seen a village herabouts?" Called Arwyn, genuflecting as a Desna follower.
Idly she looked around at the tracks around here.
Gondork investigates the food, pinching a maggot between two fingers, before squishing it.
There seems to be some kind of curse effect, fouling your purification attempt, Giacomo. what the f$*@. This is powerful magic, and highly unnerving. What do we do without food?
He seems honestly scared at the thought of not having food. He decides to help the cleric to the best of his ability, but his hungry stomach prevents him from being of much use.
Gondork goes with the ladies towards the temple ruins, silently observing.
Wasn't Desna the god of travel and stuff? Might ask if they have some food.
so its on the morning of the 6th day that you come upon the ruins.
ten-penny crouches cautiously behind the ruined wall, and inwardly flinches a bit as Arwyn calls out to the two in the yard.
the two men wave in a friendly fashion, and call out, "Run along and play now!"
Arwyn paused, confused.
Run along and play now?
She looked around for who else they were talking to.
She turned back to the two priestly types.
"Ah, I don't want to disturb you gentlemen in your affairs, but would you happen to know of anyplace herabouts that sells food? We can pay." She called out cautiously.
You pause, confused, looking around. Its clear from their mannerisms, that they were speaking directly to you. You don't see anyone else around. The rest of the group is about sixty feet back by the sled, having trailed you on your slight detour. Ten-penny still crouching behind the fence, watching with her white cloak and peering over the snow covered tumble-down walls of the courtyard.
The priests busily continue shoveling by the door.
"Food, don't worry child, you'll be okay. We've food enough plenty for you inside. You won't have to worry about food any more. Now run along and play with the others. We'll have a nice supper tonight. "
he makes a shrug to the other priest as if to say - silly kids - and goes back to shovelling.