Swift enhance weapon.
Hedran's sword glows with energy.
x1.5
x1.5
Fenton moves to attack to try and hurt the Tendriculous. Gren says "Fight it!"
Grenwold Move - Push Fenton To flank - handle animal DC 25 if he fails, Fenton just attacks. He may also not be able to handle while grappled. If so, just put Fenton in the closest spot.
Grenwold Standard - try and escape (haha)
Fenton Move - approaches
Fenton Standard - attack
Hedran cleaves deeply into the Tendriculous and it releases Grenwold and flops on the ground.
Fenton stabs at the downed plant, then Cavall rips it apart.
Searching for Vardalel, the party eventually finds him at the top of a pine tree. "You know, I saw that huge monster plant, didn't want to become lunch, so I hid up a tree?" He tells the party sheepishly.
"So when are you going to be taking me to Misthome and out of this wood full of monsters?" Vardalel asks Nigel."And are you going to be leaving me out here in the woods all day?"
Grenwold examines the tracks leading out of the keep, even though the scene is now a mess of overlapping paw prints, hoof prints, boot prints from fight between the tendriculous and party. Among the fresh tracks, Grenwold finds several pairs of unsteady, small barefoot prints, which he recognizes belongs to the drunken korreds leading into the Fangwood, in a northerly direction. He finds another set of 3 small leather shoe prints leading into the Fangwood, in a southerly direction, and last of all a set of large boot prints made by the Ohancanu heading in a western direction further into the Fangwood.
Searching the place inside out, while avoiding the Basildirond and Bristle’s workroom, the party does not manage to find Cirieo’s equipment.
In the middle of the search for Cirieo’s equipment, Nigel's wolves start howling outside the door.
We spotted a place where there was a large forest fire. There were two two legger bodies on top of a burnt tree.
Seeing Hedran sceave the plant monster in two, Ratel smiles, "Well struck, Hedran." He then returns to the barrels and finishes moving the. As Grenwold begins to study the tracks Ratel tells him. While you study the tracks, I will make more mutagen, yell if you need help." Ratel then sits down in the courtyard, drawing out the equipment he will need from his pack and mixes more mutagen.
After finishing the mutagen Ratel naps for a couple of hours until he hears the wolves howling. Waking himself in enough time to hear Nigel's explanation he asks, "Should we check out the section of the forest burning first, or return to Misthome? We could leave Vardalel here until we are ready to go back to town."
"I don't think we should leave Vardalel here. If a Tendriculous could wander in while we were here, what else could be lurking around?" Father Noelan puts in. "If it's a wyvern, hiding in a tree isn't going to help matters."
As the party sets off out of the keep, Vardalel tags along with them, deciding he party travels for another 3 hours following Nigel's wolves, before it gets too dark for the humans to proceed and the party takes a rest for the night.
Earlier:
"Thank you, Ratel but It was a lucky shot."
Hedran knocks on the wizard's door. "Hello sir, I would like to take you up on your offer to scribe some spells."
Hedran scribes as the other search.
Blade Tutor's Spirit
Burning Hands
Chill Touch
Haste
Dispel Magic
(210gp) + 600 in additional supplies for future scribing + 1 blank spell book? 15gp
Hedran look's up from his work and asks, "Do you have a blank spellbook? I would happily give you 15gp for it."
Later "Thanks for searching without me. How did it go? I think these are going to really help us...once I figure out how to cast them. The wizard gave me lots of ideas to help plan for future encounters."
Bristle takes the gold pieces and passes Hedran a blank spellbook. "Here just take it and keep copying, and don't disturb my work.",as he looks up from the mannequin.
"There is a wooden structure there. We may be able to break down some inner walls to make a makeshift stable. From there bring all valuables inside. Time permitting we could make the broken down wall harder to enter or barricade the towers so they are not repopulated."
"Father, I have one more pearl of power. Can you cast cure moderate wounds on Ratel."
Father Noelan takes Hedran's pearl of power and uses it to refresh his divine energies, which he uses to heal Ratel.
The night passes uneventfully, and the following morning, the party sets forth towards the site of the forest fire. Father Noelan spends a couple of his channels in the morning.
On the first hour of travelling, Cavall, Bear and Fenton seem a little bit on edge as the party passes by some bushes as they make their way through the woods.
Something doesn't smell right here...
Suddenly, two tiny, vaguely humanoid creature seems to be made completely of bundles of sticks wound with thorny vines, holding tiny longspears in their hands, yelling "Humans are not welcome here!" Then they spray splinters at the party.
Grenwold recognizes them as twigjacks, they are maladjusted protectors of the wood, these malicious fey constantly threaten any attempts to civilize the wild. They are vulnerable to fire.
Fenton and Bear dodge out of the way of the first set of splinters completely, but Cirieo, Nigel and Grenwold get some splinters on them.
Fenton, Cavall and Bear duck out of the way of the second set of splinters, Cirieo manages to get partially out of the way, as does Weasel, but Robert, Hedran and Nigel get splinters in their face.
The orange twigjack steps forward and sends more splinters flying out of its body.
Bear and Fenton get fully out of the way of the blast, Robert, Hedran and Nigel dodge the blast partially , while Cirieo, Weasel get the full splinters in their face.
The yellow twigjack sends a wave of splinters at the party as well.
Fenton, Bear and Cavall get fully out of the way of the splinters, Robert, Cirieo get partially out of the way , but Nigel and Hedran get the full splinterblast.
"That STUNG, you little bastards!" Robert growls. "You're going to die for that."
Herdan at camp:
"We should prepare or think about preparing for somethings. In the wizard's spellbook, there were spells that create darkness. I'm working on some countermeasures. But we may be able to get continual flame cast by that wizard if we go back that way or buy some Ioun torches."
"There are invisible creatures which I have made some preparations for but more is better. Smog pellets are something we may be able to get at the camp."
"Swarms are common in the woods I have learned a spell that can help but more prep is needed."
"We should start looking into flight."
"Nigel you have some magical aptitude I have seen how easily you use wands what type of training do you have? I have never seen anyone without magical ability use a wand without using the trick I use to use cleric wands (UMD). Maybe those skills could help cover some of our limitations."
"Finally, we should set out some basic marching orders so we are not just walking in a clump. We should avoid lines an circles."
In sylvan:
Gren coaxes them back into the stable if can, and leaves some extra grass and feed, and water for them, before the party sets out on the tracks.
In Sylvan:
[spoiler=Actions]
Free action - drop glaive
Swift action - activate bull focus
Move action - move with Fenton to other side of yellow twigjack, drawing morningstar
Standard/standard - attack with pack flanking on Yellow twigjack
Cast Frost bite 5ft step. SS/SC
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Robert shoots the twigjack on its body, though it dodges Grenwold's attempt to club it, it gets gored by Fenton.
Hedran steps up, his blade glowing with frost, and cuts the yellow twigjack down in two swift swings.
Father Noelan, trying to kill the twigjack before it can blast again, fires two arrows at it, that go wide. He orders Cavall to flank, and kill it.
Cavall ducks an attempt by the twigjack to poke at him as he goes around, but the twigjack weaves out of the way of Cavall's teeth.
Cirieo, seeing Nigel collapse, drops his morningstar, urges bear onwards to attack.
Cirieo manages to club the twigjack, but Bear misses his bite.
Ratel moves up and stomps the twig jack flat.
Nigel bleeds out a little more.
Remembering a conversation with Grenwold once regarding Nigel and his issue with being healed while unconscious, Father Noelan tries to stabilize Nigel first.
Then he asks Cirieo to wake Nigel up with his own smelling salts."Just rest for a bit," Father Noelan tells Nigel once he wakes up. "We got rid of the twigjacks, now let me see what I can do."
Father Noelan then uses his last 2 channels, then taps Hedran and Robert with a Cure moderate wounds each.
He taps Cirieo and weasel with a cure light wounds.
"Oh, մենք մտադիր ենք Misthome- ին: Oh այո, հանքաքարը: Այդ ժամանակ ես պետք է իմ զամբյուղը կառուցի:" Bristle Billy answers Grenwold absentmindedly as he works on the mannequin. "Եվ հրաձգության միջոց:" He adds as an afterthought.
"Իսկ ինչ ռեյնջերներ: Ես այս վայրում չեմ տեսնում Ռեյնջերս եւ չեմ գտնում Finders պահապանները: " He asks incredulously. "Այս տեղը դատարկ էր, այնպես որ ես տեղափոխվեցի, եւ հիմա իմն է:"
Oh, we're going to Misthome? Oh yes, the ore. I'll need to construct a cart for my shopping trip then.
And a means of propulsion.
And what Rangers? I don't see no Rangers in this place, and isn't it Finders Keepers? This place was empty, so I moved in, so it's now mine.
Grenwold manages to urge the oxen back into their stables where they seem contented enough to stay there.
"We should prepare or think about preparing for somethings. In the wizard's spellbook, there were spells that create darkness. I'm working on some countermeasures. But we may be able to get continual flame cast by that wizard if we go back that way or buy some Ioun torches."
"I've got discovery torch, which I believe is just as powerful as a continual flame, for emergencies. Hasn't come up yet, but I can also trigger the spell 'fear the sun' off of my torch."
"There are invisible creatures which I have made some preparations for but more is better. Smog pellets are something we may be able to get at the camp."
"That's a good idea, we can work on figuring out utility items like that at Misthome."
"Swarms are common in the woods I have learned a spell that can help but more prep is needed."
"We ran into the issue with the wasp swarm - I think that we'll need more than just alchemical items to deal with them. And it isn't just wasps, we should also consider the whole suite of foes - oozes, undead, dragons, etc. There's no knowing what we'll fight."
"We should start looking into flight."
"I think the best I can do is air walk, at some point. I could learn planar focus which would give Fenton and I a limited ability to do that, as well. Generally though, we are grounded."
"Finally, we should set out some basic marching orders so we are not just walking in a clump. We should avoid lines an circles."
"Agreed, though Fenton moves pretty quick, so I'm happy to always be in the rear. You're an educated fellow, so I'll defer to your wisdom about the optimal geometric formation. You'll have a better sense of the geometric shapes of spells."
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In Sylvan: Դա կարծես արդար է, բայց ամրոցը չէր լքված: Կային մեկ վերապրող `հրամանատար: Այսպիսով, իրավունքներով, փնտրողների պահապանները չեն կիրառվում: Պարզապես ինչ-որ բան մտածելու, ձեր զամբյուղում աշխատելու համար, մենք կփորձենք հեռու մնալ ամրոցից, եւ մենք շուտով կվերադառնանք: Ավելի ուշ մենք կարող ենք խոսել այդ մասին:
Taking a moment to scrape the remains of the fey off of the bottom of his boot, Ratel checks the bodies for anything of value while Cirieo uses the smelling salts to wake Nigel. Once everyone is ready, Ratel continues moving the direction Nigel indicated.
As Ratel helps set up camp, he hears Hedran talk about magic, and asking Nigel about wands. He shrugs at the question, "You finger wagglers do what you feel is best." he then gestures towards Bear. "Unless you can manifest a breastplate for Bear, then I'd be real interested."
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Nigel shrugs.
"I... try to be a scholar. My background is... unique. My parents vere researchers, interested in ze intersections between life and death, and every state in betveen. Zere is, quite literally, magic in my blood... as vell as a lot of *ozer* zings. I have alvays knovn zat zere was pover zere, but I have, as yet, not been able to properly unlock it; I am still looking for ze right mix of catalysts, which is why I have a tendency to harvest parts from zose of our foes zat have interesting abilities."
We should prepare or think about preparing for somethings. In the wizard's spellbook, there were spells that create darkness. I'm working on some countermeasures. But we may be able to get continual flame cast by that wizard if we go back that way or buy some Ioun torches
"There Daylight,but if the ambient area was already dark to being with then we would need sunrods as well." Father Noelan answers.
There are invisible creatures which I have made some preparations for but more is better. Smog pellets are something we may be able to get at the camp
"For invisible creatures, I could prepare a spell to reveal all invisible creatures for a short while near me." Father Noelan replies.
"Or we could throw powder, assuming we knew where the invisible creature was." Cirieo adds.
"I can't really do much about swarms. Blasting isn't what Priests of Erastil are good at." Father Noelan answers.
"If I do manage to learn to channel more of His powers, I could get Fenton walking on air. But it'd only last a short while."
Father Noelan thinks about Ratel's request. "It could be done. But it'd require immersing Bear in a large tub to form ice around him twice a day."
The party travels in the Fangwood forest for another 2 hours and runs into a Ironfang Patrol consisting of 4 troopers, in breastplates and carrying longbows.
The ironfang soldiers, on catching sight of the party, move forward to attack, firing four arrows at Father Noelan.
The tree Father Noelan is hiding behind gives him some cover, causing two of the shots to stick in its trunk, but he gets caught by two arrows.
Hedran uses the fy hex and moves toward the right most archer.
Seeing the patrol, Ratel forces his way through the brush, coming out south of the patrol.
Grenwold double moves adjacent to two of the legion, still wielding his glaive.
Robert moves 60'. +1 Longbow on Red
Still Back at camp:
Hedran nods appreciatively, "Father thank you for your thoughts. Your skills now and in the future are invaluable. Ha. Ice Armor on a bear, I had the same thought. I was considering Daylight myself though I like the idea of having a spell cast days before with continual flame. The materials are a little costly though."
"Grenwold, you make some great additions to the list, oozes, undead, dragons. I would be happy to hear your suggestions. Holy water comes to mind but it is a little weak. I can hand out swords made of force. But it would be a bit of a process to make a lot of them." says Hedran happy to have the additional insights.
Curiously, "That's an interesting situation you find yourself in Nigel. There are much more capable casters out there but if there is anything I can do you help you please tell me. Do you have any leads? I know some people with magic in their blood feel drawn toward dragons, fey, tomes, gods or nature do you feel anything like that? If you want to see the notes I made from the wizard your welcome to.
Robert manages to shoot red in his ribs.
Bear double moves, following Ratel.
Father Noelan moves out of cover behind the tree and fires at red as well, hitting him on his thigh.
Cirieo urges Cavall forward, trying to get in line for a clear shot, then feathers him in his shoulder.
The red hobgoblin drops his longbow and draws his glaive, then readies to attack Grenwold as soon as the green hobgoblin does so.The green hobgoblin, seeing his fellow trooper ready, drops his longbow, draws his masterwork battle axe and swings at Grenwold. The green hobgoblin then takes a 5 ft step north west.
Grenwold dodges the axe strike while the glaive blow clangs off his breastplate.
Light blue hobgoblin drops his longbow, draws his glaive and attacks Grenwold, while the yellow hobgoblin drops his longbow, draws his battleaxe and takes a swing at Grenwold.
Grenwold gets a nasty gnash on his arm from the battleaxe, though he ducks out of the way of the glaive strike.
Father Noelan shoots at the red hobgoblin as Cirieo tries to stay on Cavall as he reloads his crossbow.
Father Noelan manages to shoot red in the arm.
Cirieo adds, "The Chernarsardo Rangers battled against a trio of vicious green dragons for nearly a decade two generations ago. If there are any remaining dragon-hunting supplies, it's likely stored in Fort Nunder's infamous vault, which was guarded by traps made by the best trap smiths among us Chernarsardo Rangers, a dwarf named Dargrit Foehewer, and a human named Ekaterin Fletcher."
"I could lead you to Fort Nunder." Cirieo volunteers.
"That seems fair, but the fort was not abandoned. There was one survivor - the commander. So by rights, finders keepers doesn't apply. Just something to think about, work on your cart, we're gonna investigate away from the fort for a bit, and we'll be back soon. We can talk about it later."
"Չգիտեք, թե ինչ հրամանատար է, բայց կրկին այստեղ չեմ լքում, եթե այն մտնի մառան, սնունդ ստանալու համար:" Billy Bristle makes a harumphing sound."Հրամանատարը կարող է մնալ մնացած վայրից, բացառությամբ սեմինարի եւ կախված բոլորի համար:"
Don't know about what commander, but again I don't leave here unless it's going to the cellar to get food.
The commander can have the rest of the place except for the workshop and the forge for all I care.
Smiling as he and bear break out of the brush, telling Bear, "Flank Bear" he rushes the nearest hobgoblin, attempting to tumble under the glaive, he tries to smash it with his shield, as Bear, going to the other side, tries to bite him as well.
The hobgoblin tries to slice Ratel as he moves in but Ratel blocks it with his shield.
Ratel bashes the red hobgoblin as he moves in, then Bear tries to bite blue, but can't get through the breastplate.
Grenwold smiles at the hit he takes, and embiggens himself with bull focus, then drops his glaive and moves adjacent to two of the hobgoblins.
Swift - bull
Free - drop glaive
move - draw morningstar
5-foot step north 1 square
Standard/Standard - fighting tiems.
Grenwold manages to smack the green hobgoblin on his ribs, but Fenton's horns do not penetrate the breastplate.
Hedran swings his sword. Trying to finish green.
SC brand 5ft step.
PA
PA
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Nigel nods.
"I am aware of ze vay zat some people have sorceress pover due to ze injection of non-humanoid bloodlines into zeir family tree. Vhat I have... is a little different, but it is a useful analogy. I feel zat I have a number of important ingredients, but zere is something... missing. Ze trollhound looked promising, but it vas a little *too*... contaminated. Never mind. I am sure zat somezing vill show up at some point..."
Nigel gamely hustles forward, and swings at Green.
The hobgoblin dodges Hedran's first swing but gets caught by his second, and Hedran carves a mark into him.
Nigel manages to clobber the green hobgoblin on his head.
Robert continues to shoot at the green hobgoblin catching him in the torso.
Those glaive wielding hobgoblins switch to their battleaxes and attack Grenwold, but do not have any luck hitting him
Watching the first enemy drop, Ratel moves forward and attacks the one trying to hit Bear. Hekicks at the hobgoblin, then swinging his shield he follows up with a backhand, as Bear rears up on his hind legs and attacks with tooth and claw.
Nigel tries to swing at the green hobgoblin but it sidesteps out of the way.
Ratel manages to punch the blue hobgoblin, then bash him with his shield, but the last punch clangs off his breastplate.
Bear bites and claws at the blue hobgoblin but the hobgoblin dodges out of the way and only the last claw connects.
Father Noelan fires two shots at the green hobgoblin, but they both clang off his breastplate.
Cirieo tries to stay on Cavall as he fires his crossbow, catching green in the throat and he goes down.