I concentrate hard and unleash bolts sickly green magic energy from my hand at the brownies attacking wreck (blue).
"Halm is there something you can do for Daphne?" I shout
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She mutters to herself softly, every word tripping out of her mouth one over the other louder and louder...
"Ah! That accounts for it. Time is a touchy fellow and he won't stand for beating Now if you got on with him For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock on your morrow's morn Just time to begin your lessons only whisper a hint to time and round goes the clock in a twinkling Hands tripping over each other to half past one"
"TIME FOR DINNER INDEED"
As she finishes the last word, her fist pointed at the sky thunder cracks, but no lightning follows, and she peers up at the sky bewildered.
Botting Harb.. He takes an AoO of yellow as he moves..
hit
and it never makes it to Wreck to attack so only 12 damage done to you Wreck..
Wreck attack blue twice..
both attacks remove an image
Four magic missiles come flying in and bypass the images, killing the blue one.
Red - Dead
Green -15 4 images
Blue - Dead
Yellow - Dead
The one remaining one looks around and starts casting a spell.
vs DC 23
It disappears from sight..
Dimension Door
Out of combat.. Currently there is some people lined up for the wheel action, which is still turning, but there are no more evil fey to kill victims atm..
Actions?
Wreck drops his hammer and embraces their confused friend in a tight hug
"Easy there! Ive got you"
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Seeing Wreck handle Daphne, Halmier readies his wand and looks at his friends.
I move over and shake the last person in line attempting to wake them from their daze, I wave a hand in front of their face and pinch them as well. I move down the line do this to all the people hoping it will be enough to get them "awake" and get them out of here.
"Wreck, why are you holding me? Also why do I feel a charge? Oh and children.
Danika tries to awake people but they simply wont. The artifact controlling them has to powerful of a grip on there minds.
I walk around the wheel looking for a way to permanently disable it so that its carnage can not longer be wrought upon the unsuspecting.
You think it has some sort of mechanism that works it.. Probably inside the body of the structure. You all remember a doorway in the back the fey were taking the lady too.
"We don't have time to be distracted playing hide and seek with brownies. Ah, the storm."
Daphne gestures dismissively at the machine.
"Children first. There's enough horrors in this place that we will have plenty still to deal with after we see the young safe."
As Daphne drops bombs on the titans wheel you all can hear the death throws of the last brownie coming from inside th structure, as well as what sounds like peices breaking.. The wheel comes to a halt afterwards..
"Black lines smear through Sathelbry’s name on the signboard in front of his sleigh stop."
It now reads, “Free Sleigh Rides for Children.” Seated in the driver’s seat, a queer little gnome with an icy beard waits patiently as dozens of children pile into the sled.
Know Nature on the gnome
As you arrive the little guy cracks his whip, lurching the over-packed sleigh toward the nearby wood at a breakneck speed.. Its gone before you have a chance to stop it..
The group does however notice Sathelbry’s mangled corpse bound beneath the sleigh, his head dragging against the snow leaving behind a bloody trail. His limbs have been carved off and a pack of dogs are fighting over them..
There are a number of children still there waiting on the next ride to doom..
We should scare those children away from here! - says the Dwarf, reviewing his priorities.
"Or we can just smash the gnome? " he adds his suggestion. As they say. When all you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails
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"Save the children, first. Halmier and I will do what we can to keep them from harm. The rest of you can do what you like to the gnome and the sled."
Daphne nods to Halmier, then moves towards the children trusting her companions can deal with a gnome.
"The children are our main priority, if they don't round like the adults didn't then we will have to physically move them. Wreck can you scare those dogs off before they figure out the children won't be resisting much if they get more hungry."
I ponder Wrecks idea of killing the Gnome
Wreck I think you have the problem solved already, we just kill the Gnome since I feel he won't be reasoned with and use the sleigh to move all the children out of here, we just keep them safe till his return. Hopefully he doesn't harm the children he has already.
Wreck nods, advancing on the dogs, his weapon out, raised above his head.
Just like all the rest of the enchanted peoples of Falcon's hollow the children are no different.. They only seem to care about one thing, free sleigh rides..
Halmier tries to instill the terror of the ride in the children. Though he's generally not comfortable scaring people.
"Do you even know where that man is taking you? Have you seen any of your friends return?"
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The dogs growl a bit but in the end are ran off by Wreck.. Halmier's attempt to be scary does not go over well, but luckily he is only trying to scare children so he succeeds.. All the kids go running away screaming in different directions..
Daphne looks around for a moment, touching her bow, trying to find the right spot to ambush the gnome on his way back.
"Now that the kids are gone, a bit of preparation seems in order. Danika can you do something about our shortage of imaginary children? Wouldn't want our sleigh rider to think anything is amiss. Before the obvious moment, at least. An illusion or an explanation, whichever you think better suits his temperment. I'll be over here."
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Harbaestus grinds his teeth and gets ready.
This godforsaken bastard fae will feel remorse for his actions! - happy with his own terrible pun an apparently unsatiated he continued, pointing to his own immense weapon - Mates, I present you Remorse!
" I didn't prepare any Illusion spells today, just my regular assortment of battle spells because it is old habit. I didn't think we would run into Evil Fey bent on killing off innocents at a carnival". I flip through my mental spell book trying to see if anything I can do will help but come up a bit short. "Not much I have at the ready that will help in an ambush, I can just fireball the sleigh as he comes back as long as he has no children on it with him."
I pull out a rod from inside my cloak, it is made from the mandible of an Ankheg, I grip it tightly in anticipation of the sleighs return.
"I can set up an obscuring mist to hide the lack of children. If the fey looks like he'll enter the mist, you can clear it with a fireball, Danika."
Halmier casts Obscuring Mist where the children used to be and takes his place behind a nearby building.
Ok the group sets up for an ambush.. Not long after you all can hear a whip ebing cracked as the sleigh returns.. You all notice that it is empty save the little gnome creature..
As he pulls the sleigh to a stop..
He easily notices the obscuring mist, as well as the non-hidden members of the group. Which would be the girls..
The little gnome jumps off the sleigh with a pair of small pickaxes in his hands.. He begins to casts a spell..
Init Order after readied actions go off..
Gnome
Group..
I allow the magic to flow through me, building to a tremendous roar and releasing it through my index and middle finger on my right hand, a smile across my face.
Daphne fires on the gnome as he comes to a stop, watching him carefully to see what he plans.
"Where did you take the children, poppet?"
"As my friend just said, where are the CHILDREN!" My face contorts in anger at thinking what this monster may have done to the children, remembering all those times I performed my stage magic for children and how they loved every moment of it.
saves..
The little gnome gets blown up and takes a bit of damage before being shot with an arrow..
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Both of the melee move through the fog..
Round 1
His spell goes off and multiples of him appears
theres 6 of him total..
The group is all up again, Wreck and Harb charge from either side..
Harb destroys an image..
Danika fires an acid ray at him..
and kills another image..
Daphne and Hal are up!
He does not respond to the questions, he only smiles wickedly..
Halmier casts Hold Person on the fey. (DC 17)
+
"The children, fiend, or you face the end of your eternity."
Daphne's first arrow destroys an image, as does her 2nd arrow..
Only 1 image remains..
saves vs the hold..
"Round 2"
The gnome looks at Danika and says "Skin like ice, bones like glass, crack and snap and fractious smash!"
He then attacks Wreck twice with pickaxes and once with his razorsharp beard..
only the beard hits..
The group is up!
Wreck and Harb smash away again..
Harb lands a hit after Wreck takes the last image..
And kills the little gnome..
Out of combat.. Actions?
I feel the cold take over my body, feeling frigid and fragile all at the same time.
You are afflicted with a curese. If you take more than a single move action each round you take 1d6 points of damage and 1 point of Dexterity and 1 point of Strength damage as bits of you break off. A DC 16 Fortitude save halves the damage and negates the ability damage but must be made every round you exert herself. In addition you take double damage from bludgeoning and sonic attacks.
I stiffen up and look over at Hal
"I don't feel so hot after that Gnome cursed me"
My skin takes on a blue crystalline sheen, my muscles tighten and my breath becomes frozen. I slowly start to straighten up but feel the pressure of the ice harming my body.
"Ah, I think I have just the thing for this."
Harbaestus goes to the gnome, and starts looking through his belongings for clues or anything useful for them.
Daphne considers the sleigh a moment, then looks back over the fair.
"I think we'll want to just torch the machinery tent. I can't imagine anything good has come of the wood chipper. Safer to burn the tent down than to try and chase fey through it. Beyond that, I don't know. The minotaur and the maze, perhaps."
She stops herself.
Hard times ahead for the town regardless, better to move quickly. We cannot save everyone.
"I don't think we have much time. Let's move as we can."
I shake off the ice and freezing that took over my body, rubbing my hands together and hopping up and down to warm up.
"That was a feeling that I never want to have again, Daphne I agree with just torching the machine tent. I don't even want to think of what the people look like in there."
I will walk over with Harb to inspect the gnome, and see if there is anything in the sleigh that will maybe give us a picture of what happened to the children.
Hal manages to remove Danika's curse as HArb searches the gnome.. He finds a pair of small mwk pickaxes and thats all..
Where too?
"I have the sad realization that the children are all dead, there will be no saving the last ride of this once enjoyable sleigh. Either the Ale tent or the Freak show would be good places to search for survivors next."
I walk behind the sleigh, taking the body of the old sleigh driver and releasing him from his place of dishonor. I then unhook the animals pulling the sleigh and drive them in the direction of the exit.
"Sounds right, we can set the machine tent ablaze as we go by."
Daphne seems grim.