Before she knows it, Yeda notices the trees in front of her getting... smaller?
She looks at herself and then the ground around her and quickly gets it. Smiling at Zeldana, she acknowledge Ah, yes. Thank you!
Looking back to the giant bat, she remarks I suppose there's no hiding now!
"seeing" the growth of what is Yeda enlarge before it, the bat swoops in towards Yeda, shrieking loudly. It swoops low and attacks yeda, hovering just above Zeldana.
The bat bites deeply upon Yeda's growing body, it's blood stained fangs punching through armor, sinking into flesh.
Tamm takes advantage of the beasts distraction and throws his magic dagger at it from the shadows.
(in combat, sneak attack)
He moved forward carefully pausing about halfway towards the other side of the path to throw his spear at the bat.
It was a bad throw and he knew it the moment the spear left his hand. He cursed lowly in elven.
The enlarged warrior woman growls as the bat sinks its teeth through her armor.
Off of me, wretched vermin!
She tightens her grip on her javelin, preparing to launch it directly into it's body when it gets far enough back...
"Shouldn't have gotten closer." Zeldana said as she took out her cards. Magic wove through the cards before she threw one up to the bat.
The bat, flapping it's wings at Yeda, suddenly stiffens as the dagger digs into it's exposed chest, while underneath the card flung from Zeldana's hand connects with it's groin, sending tendrils of ice throughout it's body. It opens it's mouth to shriek again, but only a heavy gasp escapes it's mouth. It flaps once more, and then grows limp, falling to the ground below.
Her card returning to the deck almost instantly, Zeldana jumped and rolled out of the way. Coming back up with a graceful twisting twirl. "That went down fast." She commented.
Tamm holds out his hand and his dagger re-appears there.
He sheaths it at his waist and hops down to examine the bat closer.
little blood oozes out of the wound from Sazzat's dagger, but aside from this puncture, nothing appears to be obviously wrong with the dead bat.
He clambered down from the perch he was one and moved torwards the bat pulling out a new spear and holding it ready to strike again as he studied the creature.
"Dewdrop be a friend and fetch the spear i ... wait, i never taught you how to do that."
He began with a chuckle lifting up the leather mask to get a good look at the creature.
"We should probably check on the person it was attacking."
Yeda nods and re-affixes the javelin to her back. Walking on around the corner she looks and waves.
Greetings, you really stirred up a big one here! Are you okay?
Zeldana came jogging up alongside Yeda. "We took care of it!" She declared with a smile.
Loxley winced as Zeldana dove out of the way of the falling creature. By the time she had drawn a second arrow and tried to line up a shot the others had knock it out of the air. She slid her arrow back into its quiver as she approached the felled creature. Giving it a cursory glance as Sazzat mentioned the creature’s previously unseen victim. ”Right.”
She quickly hurried after Yeda and Zeldana. Rounding the bend Loxley moved to approach the victim. ”Are you injured?” She asked, echoing Yeda’s question. She tries to look the victim over as she nears them.
[occ]Really need to up her heal check.[/ooc]
yes. The leather of the wings is in decent shape, just a simple tear at the far tip of the wing. there is some severe freezer burn at the groin of the beast, causing severe damage to the tissue and the short right leg of the bat. For a quick GP, you can salvage the wings and the fur upon the shoulders and surrounds the neck, covering the top of its chest and extending down below it's shoulder blades upon it's back. Given the size of this creature, you'll need at least 7lbs of salt to properly preserve the fur and leather wings until you get back from this adventure. and you know it isnt cold enough yet to remove the hide and allow the hide to freeze. although, you are in an area with makeshift tombs...
The figure, a man, ear length black hair, wearing a leather shirt and supple leather pants, lays upon the ground, unconscious. A spreading pool of blood soaking the hard packed earth.
"Maybe there's a chance to save him if we act quickly."
Whoa, he's not okay at all. Loxley, can you revive him? Corrin, good-berries?
She kneels next to the man to inspect him for a moment but quickly move back out of the way for Loxley.
As much as he wanted to begin the process of skinning and salvaging what he could from the giant bat, saving a life was more important. He hurried over and slipped out a big fat strawberry, the magics contained within sure to help the man... if he could be helped of course. He slipped the berry into her mouth and helped him chew, then started to massage his throat so he could swallow the healing goodberry down.
Loxley knelt beside the man, taking the space Yeda moved from. She looked for the source of the injuries as Corrin slipped the magic infused berry into the man’s mouth. If the man was going to survive the Druid’s magic was going to be vital. If she needed she could burn some of her own magic to heal him, but she didn’t want to if she didn’t need to.
You quickly run your eyes over the unconscious man. You can see that he is injured; the leather upon his legs torn.
Corrin manipulates the mans mouth and then his throat, allowing the goodberry and its magical healing to activate; the effect suffusing the humans body. The bleeding upon the mans body stops, and his palor that was pale, lessens. Yet the man still remains unconscious, breathing shallowly.
Noticing the torn leather of his legging Loxley pulls her knife and moves down to the leg. She cuts the pants leg open and checked the wound. She gave quick glance around for the man’s pack if he had one, if not she shrugs off her own. Digging around she tries to locate something to use as a bandage. Bandage in hand, she grabs her waterskin to clean and cover the wound. Believing that even with Corrin’s berry magic she wouldn’t want to risk it getting infected before the man could get somewhere safe to rest and fully recover.
Well, he isn't awake, but it seems like you've brought him back from the brink? Can you get him to the point that he can walk back to town on his own?
Now that the man isn't dying, Yeda looks impatient to move on.
Tamm asks Corrin "Are giant bats a common thing out here in country?"
He tilted his head to the side and continued to feed the man 2 more berries of goodness.
"Giant bats arent common anywhere to my knowledge but they also are not unheard of. Strange to see it at this time of day though, bats are usually nocturnal."
He answered waiting to see if was going to wake up first before going onto to other measures.
"I'd be worried about him walking back alone." Zeldana said. "After all, Corrin is correct. That wasn't a usual sight." She added.
Loxley wraps the legs with thick bandages while corrin provides neccessary aide to the casualty. And while it looks like the man wont die, he still isnt regaining consciousness.
Loxley wipes her brow as she looks over the bandages, nodding to herself. She looks up at Corrin then back at the others. ”He’ll live, but I don’t think he’ll be walking home o his own.” She says solemnly then looks up at the sun. ”We’d lose a day’s travel backtracking, but we could carry him back to town.” She looks back at the group.
Yeda looks down the path, and then back at the unconscious man impatiently.
Arg! You're right, we can't just leave him here. But we can't delay heading off these larger threats to the town, either. Can a couple of you take him back and then rent horses to catch up?
She thinks a bit more.
What if we run into more waylaid travelers? We could really use Shalelu right now...
He didnt like it but . . .
"I can have Dewdrop take him to miss Ameiko. I would prefer him here with us, but I don't want to delay Justice to the prisoner, but its not right to leave this guy here alone. Im pretty sure Dewdrop can handle that."
Yeda looks over at the elk, and nods appreciably.
I understand that might be hard for him to separate from us for a while, but Dewdrop might even be able to get the man back to town and return to us faster than any of us could.
"It's not far. Can Dewdrop find us if you send him back now?" Tamm asks.
Loxley lightly smacked the side of her head with her palm. ”I hadn’t thought of sending Dewdrop.” She smiled and stood. She moved over to the elk and patted his neck. ”You can do it, can’t you. And I’m sure you can find us afterwards. Animals are more intelligent then we give them credit for.” She looked back at Corrin. It was ultimately his call.
"I think we should probably take him back."
"It won't take much time and I'd hate to have another bat or something worse attack a helpless man and Dewdrop on the road."
He opened his mouth to answer and took a moment as he tilted his head to think. Dewdrop could find the town of that he was sure, but he wasnt sure that the elk could find them. And he would probably try. He took a look at the man again, trying to ascertain 'who' he was. A farmer? a trader lost from a caravan? A townsman foolishly wandering out in the wilds?
"We can tie him atop Dewdrop on continue on, he's bound to wake up. Maybe he can be helpful. I can send Dewdrop back to town, but I dont think he could find us again. And he loves squashing goblins.It wouldnt be fair for him to miss out."
He said as he moved to recover the spear he threw earlier.
"Let's take him back." Tamm says.
Yeda is reluctant, but doesn't want to fight the group too hard.
O-okay. But in case Ameiko has had a change of heart on staying in town, let's avoid running into her before we set out again.
The green haired elf with the strange mask hiding his features went to work getting the man atop his friend and tying him down in such a way that he hopefully wouldnt fall off. It seemed the spent as much of his time trying to calm the large elk down as he did tying, but when he was done it was clear he felt like he did a good job.
"Never fear, I've got rope." Tamm says.
"Wonderful! Because I don't have rope..." Zeldana said with a slight almost cheerful laugh. "I've many things but not always everything!"
you spend the next 30 minutes searching the area for neccessary wood branches and a couple logs to fabricate a litter for the unconscious man to lay upon, and then spend another 2 hours transporting him carefully upon the road back to Sandpoint. The guards at the town gates sees you and your bundle, and quickly respond, offering aide to help the man.
After seeing to his needs, you turn around and are able to make up the lost time, and are able to reach the same point where you encountered the bat and his human victim upon the road.
You spend the next hour on the road, and almost as one, spot a side trail running off into the woodline on the northern side of the road.
"Do we go into the woods?" Zeldana asked. "We still have a bit of time that we would be spending the night in the woods." She added.