"Perhaps we should take some time for a meal and beverage and rest our weary legs?"
Frum chimes in.
"Howzabout a drink??"
"Sure enough. Ye have earned it. Let's go."
"I tink ve should examine de body before it I'd too late." I vill go alone if no one else tinks so."
"Very well Zepfina, I will accompany you. The work of a scholar is never done. We will meet you back at the Ramblehouse later."
Zigil will join Zepfina and Eldan.
Cham answers, "Yes, he was in the bed. It was awful! The militia took his body away. I'm not sure, but I thought they said something about taking him to Sanctuary."
"Giles, why don't you meet the Sergeant for drinks later. I'm worried that Katrezra might be in danger from the same people that killed Rodrik. It might be better if we all went to Sanctuary."
Fair nuff. I'm comin.
Frum sighs and staggers off.
As the group makes their way towards Sanctuary in the waning light of dusk, Garm suddenly stiffens and growls. His growls are answered from a nearby alley, and a young wolf slinks forward, with another pair behind. All of the wolves are foaming at the mouth.
Before the group can react, the two rear wolves surge forward and nip at the closest target, Zepfina.
One manages to pierce Zepfina's leggings with its fangs, and it drags her to the ground.
, +2 vs stun/stagger
I am going to delay.
Zigil will draw his sword and and attack the nearest wolf. , .
Tarakona casts burning hands (DC 14 reflex half damage) on wolves 2 and 3.
The other wolf closes and bites at the prone dwarf, causing more harm to the Panzerkopf.
Tarakona begins making the motions of spellcasting, and the closest wolf snaps at her, missing narrowly.
Flames spring from Tarakona's hands, hitting all of the wolves. The farthest from her, however, manages to get out of the way of most of the fire.
Reflex 15 for half.
Eldan adds to Tarakona's fire, and the smell of scorched fur fills the air.
Slei moves around Ziggy and fires her sling at the nearest wolf.
One wolf has borne the full brunt of both gouts of flame, and Slei's sling bullet is enough to bring it down. Zigil charges in to aid Zepfina, but his attack narrowly misses.
Giles 5' steps in and unloads his blunderbuss.
"Back to hell's gates with you, beasties!"
Both attacks vs touch ac.
He then orders Garm to attack.
"Blasted hellfire you lazy dog!"
Bystanders up the street have their attention drawn by Giles' warning shot. Garm tucks his tail between his legs and begins heading in their direction.
Zepfina fights defensively from the ground, attempting to head-butt one of the wolves. (+2 AC)
The wolves continue to attack their downed prey.
One of them batters Zepfina even more.
(+flank?),
Eldan says something in comprehensible, gestures briefly and points at the closest wolf then a blazing, blue-white arrow flies from his fingertip, striking true.
It is extremely unusual for wolves to come into town. There may occasionally be an attack on a farm, but only if the wolves are starving. And usually wolves would run after being burned so badly.
Eldan also knows that these are not fully grown wolves, and that they seem underfed as well as sick.
Eldan's magical bolt strikes the badly burned wolf, and it reels, barely keeping on its feet.
Slei fires out another sling bullet at Wolf 3.
Giles drops his blunderbuss to the ground, draws his bastard sword and swings at the closest wolf.
Slei's caution to not hit her companions causes her attack to go wide.
Zigil steps forward and cuts down the badly damaged wolf, but Giles' attack goes well wide.
Tarakona moves past Zepfina and unleashes a fire bolt at the wolf.
Zepfina tries again to headbutt her canine foe.
The wolf yelps as Zepfina's boulder helmet crashes on its snout, then snarls and attacks the prone dwarf again, or at least tries to attack in her general direction.
Eldan gestures and points again sending another arrow the wolf's way.
"Something is very wrong here. Wolves rarely attack a farm let alone the town. They may have been brought here against their will."
With Eldan's bolt, the final wolf falls to the ground.
"It looks to me like they have been affected by some sort of alchemical concoction. Zepfina, let me look at your wound."
on Zepfina. Has she been poisoned or diseased?
"Anybody else hurt?"
"Is someone able to track where the wolves came from?"
"Hmph lemme see if I can find some tracks."
Giles also picks up his blunderbuss and loads it with more pellets.
There are no tracks in the alley, but Giles finds some empty cages under tarps tucked around a corner.
Zigil believes it is likely that whatever the wolves had would be contagious, and that it's likely best to treat Zepfina overnight as if she had contracted a disease.
"Humph don't know much about treating the sickly but maybe one of you lot does?"
We search the cages and the wolves to see if there are any clues but otherwise, on to Sanctuary.
Ziggy will be happy to treat Zepfina until she's better.
Ziggy searches around the cages look for clues about where they came from.
While Eldan is helping look for clues he says, "Should we have these corpses burned in case whatever they have is still contagious? Also, do you think that this is related to this mystery human and our investigation?"
Unfortunately, there is little to discover beyond the fact that somebody deliberately smuggled these wolves into town and released them. And it appears that they were deliberately treated to make them appear rabid and have a debilitating bite.
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"It must be related. I bet there's some major conspiracy here that we can uncover! Then we could be heroes!" Quietly, "Just for one day."
"Let's go to Sanctuary and see if we can find Katrezra."