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Brigid's first arrow strikes sparks on the wall right beside the startled bandit. The second takes him in the upper thigh, punching almost right through! The boy lets out a howl of pain and reaches out to steady himself on a chain attached to the cage beside him. His weight is enough to activate the counter weight and the cell door begins to open. Within you can her the bizarre screech/growl of the owlbear.
Rounding the corner just after his two thugs, Dovan appears with his sword out and a wild look in his eyes.
"Kill them! Cut them down! They have ruined everything!"
He and the 2 bandits with him ready themselves for your attack.
Meanwhile running towards the owlbear pen, Auchs skids to a halt as he sees Brigid and the wounded boy. He takes a quick shot at the woman, a wide smile crossing his fleshy lips.
Attack-Ranged:
Damage:
The hastily fired arrow misses Brigid by a country mile.
Akiros steps forward and crosses blades with the bandits threatening himself, Kent and Ulryk.
Attack-Melee:
Damage:
His strike glances off the bandits armor, causing no damage.
As this is happening, Ulryk begins to grow. By the time he is ready to fight, he is towering over his enemies.
Giant Ulryk and Svetlana up next.
Svetlana watched the flow of the battle from her hidden spot, but decided the time for action had come. She gave Damen a quick nod and a smile back at his mention of the barely-alive bandit, but did not take the ranger's words to mean she should do something about the man. A quick few of the upper level of the keep revealed two bandits still in the fight; but the priestess felt them woefully overmatched against Damen and Brigid, the former of which now had his bow back from Kent. That left the fight just down the stairs from her position. She took a step towards the stairs, and seeing Dovan and two thugs quickly decided to bring Calistria's powers to bare. Grabbing a piece of flint and a pinch of silver dust from a pouch at her side, the priestess clenched the flint tightly enough to draw a touch of blood while casting the dust into the air above her. She chanted her incantation in Draconic while pointing at Dovan and his men. Raw emotion converted into coruscating light, causing a burst of vivid illumination to explode around the three combatants just in front of Akiros. Not wanting to make herself a target for the archers on the upper level, and confident that a now-massive Ulryk would prevent anyone moving up the stairs, Svetlana then dropped prone on the floor.
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Giant Ulryk stares down at the 2 bandits and Dovan. He brings up his enormous weapon and strikes at them.
Attack:
Damage:
The huge weapon slams into one of the helpless brigands and crushed the poor fellow flat.
Round 3
Kent
Bandits (5)
Stag Lord
Damen
Brigid
Bandit Leaders (2)
Akiros
Svetlana & Ulryk
Kent goes to stand next Ulryk.
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Norry take a shot at Akiro - Attack: Damage: And misses
Nest the archers Topper and Falgrim shoot arrows at Damen and Svetlana
Topper (Svetlana): damage:
Falgrim (Damen): damage:
Lastly, the wounded boy Jex. leans down on the bar locking the owlbear in his cage, releasing the beast.
Owlbear Initiative:
Brigid whips her head in all directions as she assesses the threats arrayed against her. While she can't see it yet, the strange hooting growls are unmistakable. As the Stag Lord's shots whiz by her, she realizes that standing her ground is folly. She moves north to the one opening she can see, rushing past the big lummox with the fleshy grin.
Once in the courtyard, she turns, panting, with an arrow nocked ready for her pursuers.
As she hustles past the beefy fighter, the big guy makes a move against her. Brigid takes advantage of his maneuver and tries to drive her cestus into his face with a quick jab. Unfortunately, Auchs' bow tangles her legs and she goes sprawling. Without hesitation and risking a meaty fist if he's quick enough, Brigid scrambles to her feet.
Glancing over the battlefield, Damen's eyes fell on Brigid, partially obscured behind the crumbling fort but plainly isolated and on the ground. "Brigid!" he cried, moving as quickly as he could across the tumbledown keep, shield and morningstar in hand.
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Reeling from Brigids punch, Auchs whirls around, unhooking a club from his belt and swinging at you.
Attack-melee:
Damage:
The attack misses by a good foot, swishing past your abdomen.
On the other side of the compound, Dovan moves into the space recently vacated by his now dead henchman. A rapier in hand, he attempts to 'prick' Ulryk with it.
Attack-melee:
Damage:
Akiros continues to fence with his former lackey.
Attack-melee:
Damage:
His sword slips past the bandits guard, and he buries it to the hilt in his gut. The thug slides off the weapon, dead before he hits the ground.
Ulryk and Svetlana are up
Svetlana had watched the burst of light surround several foes hopefully, but pouted for an instant as the effect was not as powerful as hoped. Fortunately for her she didn't linger long on the reaction, instead dropping into a prone position just as a well-placed arrow wizzed through the spot she just had been standing in.
Now she was irritated. Shoot at me will you! Staying prone she peeked for a moment to target her foe before again calling on her goddess' blessings. Tugging at the emotions of one of the men, she attempted to incite an envious rage towards his compatriot.
EDIT: Save DC for spell is 14 Will
Kent takes a look into the future
Does not see anything good but trys anyway. Kent shoots his heavy crossbow at the bandit Ulryk missed.
So damage is doubled. You can't always trust visions of the future.
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The bandit so recently lucky to have been missed by Ulryk's giant polearm has his luck run out as he is feathered by the wizard's crossbow bolt. He drops his weapon and wraps his hands around the shaft protruding from this gut, and slowly crumbles to the ground.
The wounded bandit by the owlbear's cage seems to have had the fight taken out of him, and just sits on the ground, tending the arrow in his gut. The two archers in the watchtower continue to fight one another, thanks to Svetlana's murderous spell.
The owlbear shambles out of its cage, beak held high as it sniffs the air. The wounded bandit attempts to make himself look even smaller, but his movements cause him pain, and he cries out. Instantly the abomination turns on the hapless boy and begins to rend him limb from limb.
Behind the owlbear, the Stag Lord growls out what might be a command or curse that seems directed to the owlbear, who ignores him in favor of gulping down hot chunks of human flesh. Distracted, the bandit's leader spends his time shouting at the creature in a language you cannot understand.
Damen and Brigid are up!
Brigid sidesteps the attack, keeping her eyes focused on the fighter in front of her though she catches sight of Damen in her peripheral vision. Damen! Get Ulryk! The owlbear's loose and the Stag Lord is here!
Brigid is mutely aware of the owlbear tearing into the hapless bandit, giving her a glimmer of hope that it is not a trained attack beast but a wild creature just as likely to threaten its captors. She decides to hold her ground for a few more seconds. Brigid falls back a step, just out of the range of Auchs' club, and sends two point-blank arrows his way.
Damen's eyes went wide at Brigid's yell, his attention so focused on his footing that he hadn't noticed the beast almost immediately below him. He turned to shout, "Ulryk! We need you! Ulryk! The Stag Lord is here with an owlbear!"
With a muttered oath to Erastil, he jumped down from his perch, shield and morningstar at the ready.
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Ok....here we go
Brigid steps back and unleashed 2 arrows at the lumbering Auchs, striking him with both arrows and sending him to his just rewards. As he slumps down, Damen arrives on the scene by jumping from the rooftop. He unfortunately lands bad, and slightly twists his ankle. He was prepared to attack Auchs, but as the bandit is already dead, he readies himself for an attack from the owlbear.
Seeing his thugs defeated, Dovan takes a step back then turns and flees.
Akiros, seeing Dovan flee, turns and runs up the stairs to the watchtowers, running past Svetlana.
Svetlana and Ulryk up next.
Svetlana giggled as she looked across the courtyard at the two bandits attacking each other. Emotions govern everything, something she learned as a consort in the Temple of Calistria before joining the party. Staying prone, the priestess crawled over to the edge of the upper platform to take in the commotion on the lower level. There she spotted the owlbear, not much I can do about that beast but then her eyes set on the Stag Lord. Just a man...that I can help with! Again she drew upon the power of her goddess and probed the large man's mind, flooding it with conflicting emotions to overload his ability to act.
Kent will go up with Ulryk and cast Color spray on The stag Lord.
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Ok, I guess Ulryk's still indisposed, so I will roll for him!
Ulryk lumbers after the retreating Dovan, but soon realizes that his size is a hinderance as he needs to slow down and squeeze past the ruins of the stone keep and the wooden palisade. Dovan disappears around the corner, looking like he is heading for the main gate.
Round Five
Kent
Owlbear
Stag Lord (Held)
Damen
Brigid
Dovan
Akiros
Svetlana & Ulryk
Kent: You cannot get to the Stag Lord at this time, even if you climb onto the roof and drop down onto the rubble pile like Damen did. You can get there and cast your spell next round, if that is what you want, but I need you to make either a climb or acrobat roll if you are climbing down from the roof top.
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Kent deftly jumps through the hole in the roof and lands on the pile of rubble below without injury.
Screeching it's high pitched growl/chirp, the owlbear turns its head, as if sniffing the air. It suddenly stiffens as it spots the Stag Lord, frozen at the end of the hall. With a ear-piercing scream, the creature rushes the man and begins to rend him with beak and claw.
Brigid and Damen up next
Damen paused for a moment to glance over the fallen bandits and toss off a smirk and a wry "Good thing I rescued you," to Brigid. Then his attention was back on the beast dismembering the bandit lord. Damen watched the attack for an opening, freeing his hands of his shield and morningstar, then stepped forward and drew his bow to send an arrow at the Stag Lord.
Brigid glances at Damen briefly with a slightly puzzled expression, then returns focus on the owlbear and Stag Lord. Her lips curl in a look of distaste; this was becoming an odd fight. She wonders briefly if an act of kindness would change things with the bandit chief, but she sighs and shakes her head. The owlbear's poor treatment, the Nettle creature to whom she was beholden, the cruelty of Kressel. Nothing she had heard goes to his favor. The only mercy she could give is a quick death.
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Between the arrows and the Owlbear, the Stag Lord did not stand a chance. Being frozen by the spell left him unable to fight back, and the savage anger of the Owlbear and the well placed arrows of Damen and Brigid put an end to this fearsome warrior.
The owlbear shuffles its feet and lets out a mournful squawk every now and then as it looks over the remains of its hated tormentor. It seems to be mostly ignoring the rest of the party.
OUT Of COMBAT (for the moment!)
Staying wary of the owlbear and keeping an arrow nocked, Brigid backs a few steps into the courtyard and stands before the gate. She looks around, taking note of any bandits still alive within her eyeshot.
Men of the Stag Lord! she announces in a clear, ringing voice. Your leader is dead: slain by the beast he had hoped to tame. If any of you vish to take his place, feel free to take his helm avay from the owlbear. Everyone else, throw down your arms and give up the fort. You have lost this day.
She waits calmly for a response from the remaining bandits.