Hedran would like to make a knowledge arcana check to see if the enemy has any protective spells cast on himself.
Hedran casts detect magic to check for protective spells.
"What are you staring at me for, half-orc?" The redcap growls at Hedran. "Which part of scram did you not get?" Hedran does detect a magical aura around her.
Looking around the room, Ratel asks Nigel, "Burn it to the ground? Not a bad idea, I was wondering if we should try and have someone occupy it, if not we definitely don't want to leave it for the hobgoblins to take over."
Following the others, Ratel hears the offer from the 'redcap' looking at bear, he says softly, "Leave? I think not." he then shoulders his shield and draws out his mutagen and drinks it.
Hearing the clinking and more commotion around the corner, the redcap sighs. ”So it’s going to be one of THOSE days. Fine, have it your way.” The redcap then attacks the party.
Ratel drinks his mutagen and shoulders his shield.
5ft step A big upward swing with the morningstar two handed.
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Hedran batters the trollhound with his morningstar and it totters around dizzily.
The redcap moves up to Hedran, swinging her scythe, catching him on his ribs.
"Do you mind friendly fire, Hedran? I could catch the trollhound and the redcap, but the spell will hit you too."Father Noelan asks Hedran.
Nigel smacks the trollhound another time and it collapses onto the ground.
"Ok, trollhound's down, that makes my life simpler." Father Noelan answers, satisfied.
"Noooo you killed Slobber! He was such a good doggie." The redcap wails.
Father Noelan then unleashes a burst of radiance on the redcap.
The redcap is not blinded by the sudden burst of radiance, but seems to be burned by the light.
Robert moves up the stairs, then fires a single durable cold iron arrow at the redcap, but it flies out through the arrow slit.
Go for it!
In sylvan "Ուխ, քանիսն եք այնտեղ:"
Gren rides up the stairs with Fenton and takes a swing at the redcap from further in the room.
"What is it to you, gnome? You had every chance to leave but you persisted in hanging around after I told you to get lost!Then you killed my dog!" The redcap retorts angrily after Grenwold's swing goes over her head.
Not wasting his breath on excessive words, Ratel moves forward, pointing at the troll hound telling Bear ”Attack” while he goes after the redcap with his blade.
Ratel manages to stab the redcap in the gut.
Bear chomps on the trollhound.
Hedran casts brand then attempts to club the redcap.
The redcap dodges his first swing but the second swing catches it in its side, inflicting a nasty brand.
The redcap heals a little swings its scythe at Hedran, but Weasel snaps at the redcaps eyes and she flinches back, causing her scythe blow to go wide. She tries to kick Hedran but only lands on his leather lamellar. She then takes a 5 ft step north.
Father Noelan, seeing a whole lot of cover in front of him, moves off the stairs and fires a single arrow at the redcap hitting her shoulder.
One Handed SC/SS (brand)
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+1 brand damage on whichever attck hits DC: 13 fort.
+1 Longbow, Point-blank Shot, Precise Shot, Durable Cold Iron arrow on Redcap.
The redcap dodges the first morningstar swing, but the second strike catches it on her side. Robert then buries an arrow into her throat and she goes down. The party finishes her, and her trollhound off. Searching her body, the party finds a +1 scythe, a whip feather token, a potion of cure moderate wounds and a potion of fly.
Searching a nest at the back of the room, the party finds contains 22 gp, 476 sp, a bracelet made from black jet (worth 200 gp), 13 chess pieces carved from soapstone (worth 5 gp each), a stylish cap made from albino beaver fur (worth 300 gp), and a strange sandalwood statuette of a bear eating a lion whole (worth 150 gp).
After using a grappling hook and climbing up to the trapdoor, the party finds that it opens up to the ceiling. The view is pretty nice, since they can see for miles. They also see a balcony on the third floor of the keep.
Gesturing toward the third floor of the keep, "Hey let's go there."
"Yes, let's. At least to make sure that this tower is completely clear."
The third floor of the keep is about 140 feet from the trapdoor entrance, with nothing but open space in between. Unless one could walk through air, or fly, clearly it is not something that can be accomplished.
"Uh huh."Father Noelan remarks dubiously. "Have you discovered the secret of Flight yet?" Father Noelan points at the empty air between the two spaces.
"Yes but I would rather not go alone."
The party descends the tower and crosses the courtyard.
This lofty entry hall contains a set of stairs ascending to the north, a double door to west, and a swinging door to the east. The odor of cooking meat wafts from the eastern door. Angled halls exit to the north and south, ending at stout wooden doors. Thick tapestries depicting forest scenes adorn the walls, but each tapestry is badly torn and stained with blood.
A hulking thing which is a patchwork of rotten cloth and grotesque skin, with stray bits of straw poking out the seams patrols the room and moves to attack the party.
Nigel and Hedran recognize the creature as a skinstitch. It is a construct and has 5 DR/slashing and there is wasp nest of swarming sewed into its stomach. Any round in which the skinstitch takes more than 5 points of bludgeoning or slashing damage from a single attack (after applying its damage reduction), the nest has a 50% chance of shattering, releasing a wasp swarm from the seams in the skinstitch's skin. It has resist cold 10, resist electricity 10 and is vulnerable to fire.
Recon healing:
Robert puts the Longbow away and unsheaths his MW Longsword.
The skinstitch lurches clumsily on the table, knocking some stools away in the process and swings its longsword, two handed, at Ratel but it does not penetrate his now toughed hide.
"I think whoever who created this had some screws loose.It's disgusting. "Father Noelan comments as he takes a 5 ft step north east and shoots two arrows at the skinstitch. Both arrows bounce off its surprisingly tough cloth exterior.
He then commands Cavall to attack the creature. It takes a swing at Cavall as Cavall approaches, but Cavall ducks out of the way, then stumbles on a fallen stool as he tries to bite the skinstitch.
MW Longsword on Skinstitch.
Took 30 feet to get where he is. Depending on what is requires he may still get an attack.
Seeing the large patchwork creature, Ratel snarls, "You are truly unnatural, Bear attack." As bear moves forward attacking with tooth and claw, Ratel steps into the door, attacking with scizore, shield and then scizore again.
Robert stumbles on the loose flooring and the blow goes wide.
Bear bites at the skinstitch, his teeth piercing into its skin. The second claw swipe does not penetrate the toughened cloth but the third claw swipe rips a line in its stomach, splitting the wasp nest of swarming, and the angry wasps swarm the party.
Ratel stabs with his scizore but does not manage to stab through the cloth, the shield however bashes into its chest.
As he swings his scizore again, his blow goes wide.
Bear and Ratel are stung by the swarm, and bear feels a little more sluggish from the poison.
Grenwold, Nigel and Robert recognize the swarm as a wasp swarm. It is immune to weapon damage, single target spells (eh just go see swarm traits) for being diminutive and takes 50% more from area of effect damage and it can cause distraction and has poisonous stings.
Swarm—injury; save Fort; frequency 1/round for 4 rounds; effect 1 Dexterity damage; cure 1 save. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Grenwold is a little disgusted at the wasps and the horrible creature.
Grenwold hacks at the creature with his glaive causing more stuffing to fall out of its seams.
Nigel moves up to the creature, while Hedran takes a swing at the creature with his longsword, loping off its head.
Father Noelan calls Cavall away from the swarm and also runs off. "I can't do anything about that swarm. If you have any ideas, do it!"
”Agh, don’t look at me. It looks like I didn’t prepare for wasps.” as he waves away the buzzing creatures. He stays in the swarm, wagering he has the best chance to distract the wasps and the best resistance to the poison. He directs Fenton to get away from the buzzing mess.
"Come on Bear, let's get away from the bugs." Grabbing Bear by the harness, Ratel drags Bear out of the swarm and to the other side of the table.
Free action to recall knowledge on dispersing swarms of insects. Probably by using smoke.
MW Longsword on Skinstitch
Robert figures if they get far away enough from this place, the swarm might not chase them that far. Other then that, now it's riled up, the only way to deal with a swarm would be by area of effect items(alchemist fire/acid), or area of effect spells.
”Anyone have any oil or anything? Hot tar? What about the alchemists fire?” He swats at some of the wasps.
Robert rummages in the Bag of Holding, bringing forth 8 flasks of Alchemist's Fire. "Here. Let's use these."
"Nigel do have one one I can throw?”
Robert goes into the room then pulls out an alchemist fire. Nigel takes it and throws it on the wasp swarm.
The swarm gets hit by a direct hit of alchemist fire, then swarms both Robert and Nigel.
Both Robert and Nigel are not distracted by the swarm all over them, but they both feel sluggish from the wasp stings.
Bear manages to fight off the poison.
The auroches, panicked by the angry buzzing wasps, flee out of the courtyard and into the woods.