Atrius gets close enough to strike the giant, and does so, careful to avoid the tentacles.
Robin, seeing the giant helpless and taunted stops talking and just watches in amusement. Atrius moves up close to the edge of the black tentacles and swats the giant hard. The tentacles continue to grapple the giant and dire wolf, damaging both of them, while Marcellano tries to communicate with it. Cadas moves next to Atrius and stabs the giant with her trident. Adolina shoots her crossbow at the giant, wounding it further.
The giant, between bouts of laughter, responds to Marcellano, "mama and my brothers will kill you, so do your worst", and he is not able to get up or stop laughing. The dire wolf continues to try and break free, but he just does not have the strength.
Cadas stabs again down at the prone giant.
Atrius follows up.
Marcellano sighs, grim-faced. "Very well."
After the battle is over, the firepelt cougar gently takes Adolina leg in her mouth, not biting, and begins to pull her towards the woods to the west, away from the trail. She pulls slightly, lets go and walks towards the woods, looking back to make sure that the group is following her.
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Adolina waits just long enough to check that everyone is following before gliding off into the woods after her new friend, curious to see what this beautiful, and apparently loyal, beast is leading them to.
She makes sure to displace twigs and so forth, so that there is a clear trail for the rest to follow.
Cadas moves with the group. I suspect a ranger or druid is in trouble. she postulates.
"It certainly seems possible," Marcellano says, frowning as he dismisses the tentacles so that Robin can get at the giant's body. He follows closely behind the others.
Marcellano dismisses the tentacles so Robin can inspect the body, and he discovers that deformed humanoid has a magical spear, and a magical belt. Adolina nods to the cougar, and she follows it into the bush. The creature seems to be very well trained, as it stops every so often to ensure that the elf is following her. After finishing the body search, the rest of you head off into woods, following the easy trail that Adolina left and quickly catch up.
Only fifteen minutes later, you come upon a sickly farm in a clearing in the forest. The woods around their land are decorated with several hanging cornhusk and leather humanoid shaped fetishes meant to ward off intruders—an investigation of any of these fetishes reveals they’re stuffed with what appears to be a mix of dirt and human hair. A tangled field of corn and other diseased plants grows in the eastern section of their land, while to the north slump two sagging buildings: a barn and a farmhouse. Both have had their windows boarded over, and moss and fungus grow heavy on the shaded sides of the decrepit structures.
The cougar, stops and looks at Adolina, and growls low while looking over at the house.
Marcellano takes the time to scan the fetishes with detect magic as the party moves through, looking faintly disgusted by their contents. When the party reaches the farmstead, he hangs toward the back.
"Well?" he asks the others. "I admit that I'm not champing at the bit to be the first one to open that door and find...whatever has our friend here all riled up."
unable to determine the enchantments on the two items Cadas asks Marcellano to take a look. Not my strong suit. she admits.
Surveying the scene she offers The cat seems to indicate the house. I think I'd rather hit the barn first and clear it if we can. Maybe come in through the woods to the right and in behind it?
Marcellano looks over the spear and the belt, while he has detect magic going...
"Just let me know that there's no traps. I'm perfectly content going first; that is why I'm with you, after all!"
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"Shall we Robin?" Adolina asks with a smile before crouching down to face the cougar. "Stay with my friends." She points at Cadas, hoping that the cleric is good with animals. "I'll be back in a moment." A small part of her hopes that she can keep the cat, which is rapidly growing in her affections.
(With Robin at her side?) Adolina slips off towards the barn. (-10 if I have to hellcat)
"Aha. A belt of giant strength - appropriate enough, I suppose- identical I function to that Atrius is wearing," Marcellano says. "The spear is simply enchanted for accuracy. And that is, sadly, likely to be offset by its inappropriate size. We can sell it later."
As Robin and Adolina approach the house, Marcellano follows at a safe distance and, from 60' away, scans the dwelling for magic.
+2 familiar near
The firepelt cougar, looks at Adolina with a puzzled look, and moves to her side following the elf. While not as stealthy as Adolina or Robin, the cat seems to be quite at home moving silently.
Adolina and Robin move stealthily along the western side of the clearing, keeping just inside the woods, when Adolina hears tramping thru the woods on the other side. She notices an 8-foot-tall creature with a grotesquely deformed head that resembles a giant pumpkin on the right side, a huge puffy mass of tumors and overgrown bone giving his head a lopsided look. It seems to be headed towards the barn.
The rest of the group had just started to follow when Cadas also points out the creature.
Cadas motions to the others to stop and stay still until the creature enters the barn. She then continues with her plan to close with the barn first.
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Adolina glances back and sees that the rest of the group are waiting. She does likewise until the creature enters the barn at which point she gestures to Robin to move up to the doorway.
As the creature moved past she studied it carefully, noting its gait and how the tumours obstruct its vision somewhat from one side.
Marcellano watches the deformed creature warily.
You watch as the creature moves up to and into the barn. Robin thinks about casting a spell, but even doing it quietly might alert the creature, that you hear rumbling around inside the barn.
Cadas, with hand gestures, indicates that she wants the group to enter and engage.
Marcellano falls in with the rest of the group, and as they're all gathered, he whispers, "A half-ogre. Usually inbred savages, rejected by two species too sensible to love them. Be cautious. There are likely more about, and they are both dimwitted and cruel."
You gather by the barn door, ready to look in and confront the ogrekin. Adolina opens the door, and while no one is surprised, you find the creature was just ready to exit, and stands directly in front of Adolina. It has a wicked looking hook in its un-deformed hand and brings it up to swing.
Assuming I'm within range (or could be with a 5-foot step), Atrius will take a Full Attack with Power Attack.
vs DC 18
The ogrekin falls to the ground, laughing.
As the ogrekin falls to the ground, Marcellano shakes his head. "Robin, your jokes solve more problems than any sensible understanding of the world would admit..." With a quick gesture, he sends bolts of force arcing toward the laughing giant. As they slam into their foe, he takes a discreet step backward to allow the others room.
vs DC 18 -- Rats and other really nasty words!!!
Marcellano, casts a spell at the giant on the ground damaging it, and Atrius steps up to it and hits it very hard with two swings. The stops laughing briefly, then starts laughing again.
Cadas advances into the barn and stabs the prone target.
Adolina steps in, and with two attacks puts the ogrekin out of its misery. There is no apparent reaction from the house.
Adolina continues carefully into the barn with Robin on her heels. The rest of the group waits briefly at the door till the pair give the all clear signal, which is not forthcoming. As soon as the pair move in, they see three additional ogrekin come out of the back room of the barn, "more of them" shouts one of the three, "lets get'em" and they advance.