He draws one last arrow, once more taking aim, again taking aim at the closest one.
Once the arrow is fire he removes his short sword intending to keep the mite basically on the front of thier line of the dangerous hella rodric and the animals.
Arilyth continues her song (but this will be her last round for it, heads up). She aims at the 'blue' mite (unless he's dead, where she will target 'green' unless they too are dead, then next closest non-dead mite).
Nedyr fires his bow at the closest foe that hasn't already been picked off. His owl seems to flinch in case this one flies back at them due to a strong wind.
Nedyr smiles as it's a pretty good shot indeed and mutters to his owl, "See? No harm done... to us I mean."
Two more fall but despite the losses the psychotic little beasts continue scrambling onward towards you (fallen foes are only unconcious at this point)
Round 4, Initiative 21: Aluxion
Aluxion calls out to the others, "Y'all are seein' this too, right? These things are creepy, ain't that the truth?"
He lets off another arrow at the slowly advancing mob of mites.
Ending her song, Arilyth takes aim at the nearest Mite.
Cerian with the mites closing moved to cut them off from reaching their archers. The dashing miss Darbi in tow. He brought his blade to bear trying to finish the twisted fey creature quickly.
Cerian and Hella destroy the creature as it moves in, rending it into a fine pink mist with their fury.
The witch moves forward JUST a bit more, and then fires again at any remaining mite. If I miss, can I blame the ending of the song?? Mmm.. probably not.
The arrow shoots comes closer to hitting an ally than one of the mites, fortunately striking neither.
The elf winces and hopes no one noticed.
Realizing she's falling behind, Mme. Pindles lowers her bow and skitters up to the fray. She hears Aluxion's dismay at missing, and remembers that the lighting is less than optimal for those....somewhat taller friends.
With a giggle, she snaps her fingers and four lights suddenly brighten the night.
Realizing she's falling behind, Mme. Pindles lowers her bow and skitters up to the fray. She hears Aluxion's dismay at missing, and remembers that the lighting is less than optimal for those....somewhat taller friends.
With a giggle, she snaps her fingers and four lights suddenly brighten the night.
Also wanting to stay close to her companions, Arilyth moves forward at (almost) a double move, until she is in partial dim light.
Rodric moves up, while the mites swarm forward once again, attacking wolf. Wolf attacks the first that reaches him.
but misses.
The mites giggling pushes up to the highest pitch of laughter that anyone can tolerate as it draws blood, setting everyone's nerves on edge.
The last mite glares at Miri, his eyes flashing.
Mme. Pindles glances away from the creature's gaze dismissively, but her body feels as though it has been plunged into icy water: goosebumps break out across her skin and her hands shake violently, causing her nearly to drop her bow.
She attempts to brush off the sinking feeling and reloads her bow. The gnome takes a deep breath in vain to try to calm her nerves, then takes aim as carefully as she can.
The bolt from her crossbow sails high after a particularly violent twitch.
Darbi senses the distress of her gnomish friend, but stays right at the side of Cerian as instructed, preparing to attack the fey.
Aiming at the one furthest 'north', trying to strike it with an arrow.
Hella moves forward striking at the mite with her spear.
Cerian darts to his left before crossing back over to his right,blocking both mites from getting around him and hopefully confusing them enough to take advantage. Again he slashed wickedly at one of the evil little blue boogers, the brave Thyacline bound forward as well.
Darbi runs alongside Cerian and sinks her teeth into one of the fey he approaches.
Round 5, Initiative 21: Aluxion
Aluxion sighs. The mites seem determined to vex him, fighting in the dimmer areas between the various light sources. No matter. He's hunted on darker nights than this with no light source before. Sometimes he even caught something.
Nedyr raises forward, and fires once more, unoriginal perhaps, but sometimes effective...
...but not in this case, I wonder if they're going to take my bow away after this and tell me I can have it back after lessons?
Rodric moves in, swinging his longsword at the mite.
finishing it off.
Lady Arilyths arrow drops a mite as well.
The final combatant realizes his peril a little too late and tries to escape.
The last mite falls as he tries to run.
Hella looks at the mess and nods to the others searching them for anything of use doubting she would find anything.
Hella carefully made her way through the roots looking for the entrance into the Mite's lair.
Hella manages to plot an easy enough course through the tangle of roots to the entrance that all can pass without falling down one of the number pitfalls located there. The mites have little on them other than their little daggers and loin clothes...
Hella would look into the entrance and turns to them. "Follow that trail and you won't fall. Just be careful. Rodric, Cerian, do you two want to take lead? I have a sling for ranged but I will try to back you up and be up there with you unless you wish me to lead."
Her hands manage to finally stop shaking as she calls Darbi back, but inwardly the chill of fear still festers. "You're a good girl, Miss Darbi. You did great," she mumbles into the thylacine's fur as she hugs her.
Rather annoyed with the creature that caused this fear, she makes sure to pluck the dagger from his fallen body as they pass.
As Miri reaches Hellas position she feels the fear just start to fade from the pit of her stomach.
Hella looked over everyone making sure none were hurt and that everyone was fine. She waits until Miri has approached and would move to her leaning down and whispering softly into her ear.
"Do not worry. The pack is here for you. You are safe with us."
"I dont mind taking point, just well be ready." He said with a slight grin putting his bow away properly and pulling out a dagger in his off hand. He slid over to the hole and glanced down into it.
Nedyr looks around, "We seem in pretty good shape after that fight, were any of us wounded badly?"
Mme. Pindles's pride catches her again, and she shrugs off Hella's comforting words. "I'm fine, I'm fine. They were just so disgusting that I wanted to throw up, that's all."
She smiles at Hella despite herself. "Thank you, though. It's a funny pack, but I'll take it any day."
The gnome tries to keep a better eye on her surroundings as they press on.
Peering down the dark hole you see nothing that could be a trap, but it shows plenty of recent traffic.
Once he sees that everyone is ready he will slide down the dark entrance keeping his eyes peeled for any trouble.
Make an acrobatics check please.
As you sldie down the tunnel you are able to slow yourself and stop just above the bottom, about 30 feet down, you hear a pair of mites cackling as they amuse themselves in the neighboring chamber.
There are undoubtedly lots of roots to use as hand and foot holds, but Aluxion takes some time and ties off a 50' rope around the tree, dropping the rest of its length down the hole.
"I'll be keepin' near tha back," he explains as he lets some of the others descend first. He casts Light on one of the front-liner's weapons.
All missed arrows are recoverable.
Nedyr reclaims his arrows as well, his owl helping out by plucking the ones that went the furthest afield or had the most embarrassing results.
With the party decending behind him the young elf creeps forward torwards the sound of the mites mentally kicking himself for not looking before he leapt so to speak.
"Wolf guard this spot. Let no mites get out." She told him and Wolf wagged his tail watching them go down the tunnel. Hella takes the rope and would start to climb down after slinging her spear onto her back.
Once down she would look around her spear glowing with light.
Arilyth looks about at the now dead mites as the adrenaline fades from her. Making sure the group is unharmed, she stays near the entrance for a moment before following Cerian and Hella down.