Daseem nodded as Menrozzar breathed fire over the corpses. Although nodding caused droplets of blood, much of which was his to splatter on the floor.
Through gritted teeth he asked, "A-anyone got the wand?"
Bupkis heals Dassem, sacrificing some of his own vitality. "Looks like you need some assistance."
"This will help the wand last longer."
Amira hands Daseem the wand to patch himself up. "Looks like some kind of trolls. Your fire should do the trick."
Menrozzar studies the burning corpses as he tries to figure out what kind of giant they are.
Daseem kicked the flaming corpse of the giant that had hurt him before nodding to Bupkis, "T-thank you!"
Daseem then searched the corpses to see if they had anything of interest.
If there was nothing of interest Daseem would start walking back towards the giant's village.
...
The giants have a studded leather armor and a heavy flail each. The dead wolf only has its fur for those interested in side business as a trapper.
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"Ice Trolls, to be precise. Technically, any fire would probably have worked - even just a torch - but that at least ensures they stay dead. We should be on the lookout for any more, though.
Now that they're dealt with, shall we find ourselves a place to lay low and rest before continuing our guerrilla campaign?"
"I'm all for resting, because the last raid has cost my best spells again, that we use for emergency evacuation."
Bupkis says. "If anyone hurt, I heal first before resting. I just need to eat bigger breakfast when I wake up."
He was disappointed not to be heading off immediately but Daseem nodded, it didn't make sense to overextended so he grunted "Need ta find some place to s-stay."
As they started searching, Daseem shared his wilderness lore.
Daseem quickly finds a place that is slightly elevated to not sit in a puddle in case of rain, that has also enough vegetation to be hidden from sight.
All go to sleep, but Menrozzar, who takes the first shift of keeping watch.
Menrozzar tries to stay awake and keep an eye on the area for any signs of danger.
Bupkis notices during his watch that someone is approaching their camp.
Bupkis shouts out "Alarm, wake up!"
Bukis powers up and shoots at a Worg.
Menrozzar awoke, cursing, as the enemies found them in the night. He was going to get shredded - he couldn't sleep in armor, after all. He stood up and cast a spell, conjuring a protective shield before him.
Bupkis shot is good, but not good enough to take the winterwolf down. One of the ice trolls charges Bupkis.
Ivan awakes in his chain shirt. He grabs his hammer and shield, but cannot do anything more.
Another ice troll comes at Bupkis and swings his weapon at him.
Grabbing the giant-bane longspear, Menrozzar decided distance was key to survival, and stepped forward to strike at the wounded ice troll as he roared in anger.
At the sound of combat Daseem jerks awake, and his hand reaches for his crossbow. Grumpily he complains, "I was having such a nice d-dream." He glanced around and a smile crept onto his features, "Oh! It wasn't a d-dream! GORRRUM!"
Menrozzar takes down the wounded giant, while Daseem stumbles over his feet and doesn't manage to hit.
Amira sits up, rubs her eyes, and starts singing an encouraging song.
Bupkis tries to whip the ice troll.
The ice troll returns the favor.
With a troll in his face biting him, Daseem had no option but to drop his crossbow and pull out his sword and hack away furiously! He screamed incoherently at the Troll as blood and spittle flew.
Menrozzar drops the spear and bites and claws at the Worg that attacked him, trying to return the favor.
Menrozzar takes the winterwolf that attacked him apart.
Daseem cuts the wounded ice troll in half.
Ivan moves in front of the wolf to harass it. The wolf tries to bite the dwarf, but in vain.
I'll show ye bastards what happens when ye rouse a dwarf!
Bupkis moves over to whip a worg.
With a last whimper, the large wolf dies.
Daseem dusts himself down and stops to close the wound he'd just taken before muttering to the others, "Eh they found us too e-easily. Should we m-move?"
"You think there is another patrol on our tracks after this one, that would reach us before morning? Either way - with the wolves we would need a very solid plan, for them to not find it. Moving away wouldn't do."
"Me thinks we should stay here," Bupkis opines.
"Ok." Amira goes back to her bedroll and to sleep. "ChrrrrZZZzzzzzz"
Daseem stays up for the last shift of the watch. As the sky turns from black to dark blue it becomes easier to look out for approaching giants, but no more of those show up.
Finally the sun makes it over the horizon and makes the snow on the mountains sparkle. With the sun other guests arrive. Some vultures circle over the corpses, waiting for the adventurers to leave. And those birds can be seen for miles.
Properly armored, Menrozzar says, "Now we need to move. The vultures will attract attention. We'll let them find the bodies. What should our next target be?"
Daseem replied at once, "The brewery... I'm t-thirsty!"
Moving back to the giant's village you find it on high alert. Patrols on the roads watchtowers with double the giants in them. Reaching the brewery will not be easy.
Hah, I can't wait. I'm sure it'll taste like s!%#e. Even more so compared to dwarven brew! Ivan laughs following along.