The blue beast moves around his bush toward Meredith, claws extended and drool running from his maw.
The green one charges Meredith, biting her on the shoulder.
The red one comes around the corner right at Etune.
Etune grows claws and slashes the beast across the chest, and then Wilhelm nails him to the wall of the building with two well placed arrows, taking him out of the fight.
Meanwhile, Meredith is trying to back away from the impending doom.
The green wolf-man steps up, doggedly pursuing Meredith, going full out with tooth and claws. Meredith, however, nimbly dodges each attack.
The blue beast ignores Meredith, and lopes on toward Merisiel, closing in (but not able to attack).
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The halfling gets a very philosophical look on her face as she lets the claws withdraw.
Well, worth a shot...
She uses the pinned fellow's clothes to staunch the worst of the bleeding and hopefully stabilize him before glancing up to see how the rest of the fight is going.
I hope I'm not making a huge mistake here.
Meredith heals herself while Etune stops the red monster from bleeding out. Merisiel prepares to defend herself, when Wilhelm plunks two arrows solidly in the blue creature's chest, dropping him like a sack of potatoes.
Etune stabilizes Red, who is close to death.
Green takes an arrow to the leg, but continues to try to tear Meredith apart. She dodges two claw attacks before taking a nasty bite to the shoulder.
The combination of attacks (most of which hitting) causes the green beast to shudder and drop.
Ok, so you manage to stabilize all of the beast men, each of which was extremely close to dead. They are still in very bad shape.
Meanwhile, Merisiel finds a pay box containing 55 gold. It must have been to pay the loggers' wages.
There isn't really anything else of interest to you in an abandoned logging camp.
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"I prefer to arrest them with a rope or another thing, this will prevent them to follow us and sustain their lives till we stop the ritual. Otherwise, we can just cut their throat", "which would be my first option", she shows no empathy for the beasts. "Decide fast, we don't have much time". The elf will wait for the others' decision playing with her daggers.
You distribute the broken beast-men into different bunks and leave. Eventually darkness falls, and you make camp.
After a night's rest, you hit the trail once more.
A deep, placid river interrupts the path to Briar Henge. A few large logs have been placed across the river, providing a crude bridge to access the other side. Sunlight dapples the surface of the murky water, the result of branches crisscrossing the river high overhead.
@Wilhelm - still Ned a for save
@Merisiel - you don't see any traps on the logs
Over the night, a strange effect has taken hold of you. You must now apply the Bestial template to your character. Humanoids with the bestial simple template are more resilient and develop rudimentary natural attacks, but the transformation dulls the mind and gives those affected a brutish demeanor.
Rebuild Rules: AC increase natural armor by +1; Attacks gain 2 claw attacks and 1 bite attack dealing damage as though the creature were one size category smaller (Medium creatures deal 1d3 points of claw damage and 1d4 points of bite damage, Small creatures deal 1d2 points of claw damage and 1d3 points of bite damage; all three attacks are considered primary attacks); Ability Scores +2
bonus to Con, –2 Int damage, –2 Cha damage.
Feel free to play this up!
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Meredith has trouble plucking flowers out of her hair. Something doesn't feel right. Her pale green skin isn't helping, either. In fact, when she looks at her hands she notices her nails are extremely sharp.
"How did that- ow, my tongue." Meredith feels her teeth and notices how jagged they are. "Oh, man. Now what I want, not what I...expect. And...things."
Perception:
Initiative:
Meredith is making an easy swim across - the water is pretty calm. Meanwhile, Merisiel starts hopping from log to log.
Suddenly, the trap she didn't find springs, and an axe blade comes swinging out or the trees to cut her apart.
As the trap springs, an archer surprises you with an arrow flying toward Wilhelm.
Luckily, many of you see the crocodile making it's approach toward Meredith, so no surprise attack there.
The archer, however, moves swiftly, and gets another arrow off at Wilhelm before you can react. This one goes astray.
Wilhelm takes the archer out as quick as he appeared.
Etune misses the crocodile, who swims to Meredith and attacks, but manages to bite a floating log instead.
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Halfway across the river, Meredith sees a swinging blade, some arrows fly around and a crocodile try to bite her.
"Hold it, boy. Don't do this."
Realizing she doesn't have time to calm it down, and how agile that croc is compared to her, Meredith swims to shore.
Once on shore, Meredith will draw her wand of Cure Light Wounds (I'm assuming she gets chomped) or her shield (if she is unharmed.)