Irdril fires an eldritch blast at the gnoll on Gal and then as a bonus action slings a magic rock at it as well.
"I'll be over there short Tib.."
Irdril's attacks deflect off the stone corridors and don't land home on the gnolls. The gnoll in front attacks Galinndan furiously while the one behind gets tired of waiting to attack and draws his longbow, firing it past his comrade in the close quarters.
Both manage to land home solid blows!
You realize that the hunting gnolls probably left their packs somewhere while running through the corridors and probably also left a few members of their hunting party guarding their belongings.
They will die! Not I!
Infuriated by the pain, Galinndan refuses to back down and keeps slashing.
And this is the point where Buppido decides to run headlong into the swirling melee, laughing his head off as does so.
1/minute: Buppido cuts a mad caper around you, laughing maniacally the whole time. Force a single attack roll against you to be made with disadvantage.
1/day: Buppido charges madly at an opponent, screaming his odd and completely confident war-cry. His reckless charge forces a creature no more than 2 sizes larger than him to use its reaction and all of its movement to move 10 feet out of the way. The creature chooses the direction in which they move.
Inspiration: Buppido’s madness can be contagious. Force one creature that can see, hear, and understand Buppido to make a DC 16 wisdom save or gain one level of madness.
Matching the excited yips with angry grunts, Eddrikk steps around the corpses littering the ground by his feet.
Eddrikk smiles a wicked smile as his club lands with vigorous thud.
The gnoll in front of Galinndan still stands (but will make his next attack with disadvantage). The gnoll with the bow is forced back by Buppido's frenzied antics and moves around the corner. From there, strange slobbering and chewing noises are heard.
Their equipment can't be far from here, and I bet there's a few gnolls remaining guarding it! Come on, Eddrick, help me find it. Eldeth, Idril, care to join?
With that, Galenus prepared to move out.
"YES!! YES!! LET GOOD OL' BUPPIDO HELP! HEEEHEEEHEEE! NEVER LOST, HAVE I!!!!!"
The derro runs around madly screaming, gibbering, laughing, crying, and dancing all at once.
Eddrikk finding himself cut off from the fight attempts to circle around.
Unable to affect Galinndan's battle with the gnoll, Kanzen dashes over to the fallen gnolls near Eddrikk and grabs a bow and some arrows, then dashes back to his position.
Having snatched a bow, Kanzen rushes back, nocks an arrow, and fires at the gnoll.
Galenus will move around the corner to see if there are more gnolls.
Idril gives Gal bardic inspiration as a bonus action and then moves to assist Tiberius in stabilizing.
Tiberius will move around the tunnel with his small bit of glow shroom to cut off any retreat.
Trying to avoid cutting Buppido by accident, Galinndan keeps slashing at the sole gnoll still in front of him.
Galinndan slices deep into the gnoll in front of him, who falls. Half a second later, an arrows strikes the rock right next to Galinndan's head. He looks behind him to see Kanzen holding a bow he's just fired.
Cyrus stays behind Galinndan, not wishing to put himself on the front lines. Galenus doesn't notice any signs of new gnolls from his current position.
Tiberius and Galinndan only hear the continued slobbering noises.
Galinndan hears the slobbering and his fury is not abating. He charges forward and hunts the source, ready to strike.
You find the gnoll hunched over an accumulation of dirt. He is greedily gobbling it up with both hands. When you appear, he snarls at you to warn you away from his precious meal. When you strike him, he howls in rage and grabs his own spear back up.
Galenus moves up behind Tiberius.
In a continued attempt to rid the caves of these vile creatures Eddrikk attacks the new found Gnoll.
Chasing after the last gnoll, Kanzen drops his bow and draws his daggers again. He charges in at the dog-like creature, slashing away.
Irdril moves up behind Eddrikk.
Lacking a clear path to the enemy this time Cyrus changes his tactics and waits to ambush any further Gnoll incursion.
The gnoll with dirt all over his face nimbly dodges and deflects Kanzen and Eddrikk's blows and, enraged, stabs at the one who hurt him.
Kanzen, seeing Galinndan close to falling, gives his all to take down the gnoll now.
Kanzen slashes desperately at the gnoll in a final burst of energy, striking home with fury.
The gnoll drops from its three wounds. You catch your breath in this dark network of tunnels, breathing hard.
Kanzen looks at Galinndan. You need healing, friend, he communicates to the surface elf. There may be more enemies around. He then moves back down the tunnel to where he dropped the longbow and quiver of arrows, slinging both over his shoulder.
Tiberius comes around the corner meeting up with the group, catching his breath. Well, that went rather well, all things considered.
he takes a moment to heal the worse of his wounds. his hand glowing faintly as he does.
how fares everyone? That was a tough battle.
Galinndan nods to Kanzen without speaking and silently accepts Tiberius' aid as he retrieves his dagger.
He gathers himself, then communicates:
I am still wounded but I can fight. Have the others found the gnoll's equipment?
He begins to search the bodies of the fallen creatures, especially seeking blades.
Found on each gnoll is a spear, a longbow, 20 arrows, hide armor, and a shield. The pack lord had a glaive, chain shirt, longbow, and 20 arrows. This equipment looks usable but is not of the quality that would be sold.
Well dat was a good time... ha ha the tattooed dwarf laughed as he began searching the bodies of the fallen and gathering their weaponry.
Did someone says something about findin der stash?
"I am uninjured, but I'm also out of heals until we can get a short break.. I will take one of them nasty ass hide armors if no one minds."
If so she promptly cleans it up with a prestidigitation spell..
Whew! That was a challenge! Galenus says, finally catching up to the rest of the group. But I don't know how long we should stay - those hook horrors could come back at any time.
Watching Idril clean up the hide armor, Galenus requests, Hey Idril, do you think you could clean up the rest of them, too? Or at least enough for some of us to wear.
Galinndan looks greatly worse for wear.
"We should leave soon. The noise and smell of blood both carry."