"See....good place for trap." Fish says with a nod.
"Axe?"
"Can I have a wooden axe sized like this one?"
After the explosion, Axe takes a peek in the room.
You need to learn how to open walls Ama; Idris does it better.
Almalik shields himself from the blast, secretly enjoying watching AMa fly through the air.
"I have no use for crude wooden objects, but I am pleased we possess a proper means to damage the dark fey."
He wanders into the room after the trap, brushing dust from himself and stepping over Ama's twitching body.
"Now, this is odd..."
"Hey, why you make loud boom!" Nagbur grouses. "Is muchly distracting and we gots work to do!"
"Green. Nagbur no be fighter but club be okay I guess. Anybody wants use real cold iron spear?" he asks, waggling it.
Green seems completely fazed out and anything said to him is wasted at the moment. Almalik detects strong transmutation from the robe and strong conjuration from the tiara. Green suddenly blurts out.
"Those are the Faerie queens robe and tiara! I thought they be long gone! We be having no queen in many many many years."
"Huh. So what they do? Maybe Ama use?"
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Ama crawls back up, her body heavily bruised and her hair standing up.
She walks up to the mannequin, her bruises meanwhile healing at an incredible rate and her hair returning to normal.
Take some healing if you want, Nagnag, she mentally tells Nagbur, who still caries wounds from a while earlier.
Ama runs her fingers over the fabric of the faerie queen's robe, which looks much like a sleeved mantle. She removes it from the mannequin and dons it, after which the robe immediately fades to near invisibility. With a gleam in her eyes, Ama then takes the crystal tiara and places it on her head.
"I told you," Ama says while slowly turning to look at her allies, her face cracking with a wide smile, "I'm the goddess queen!"
Green looks slightly confused but nods and heads back to the wood.
"What did ye want?"
He starts casting his spell and shapes the wood in all the desired items. Muttering about Ama all the while he's doing it.
Almalik looks in disgust at Ama, but then shrugs.
"Well, provided I'm no subject of yours." He looks over to Green. "You know, I will take a staff if you are able. It can be fashioned into an object of great power at a later date."
Idris waved his tonfa and said, "I'm good. Once you manage to get everyone kitted out, let's be moving. A rolling stone gathers no moss, but a stationary target collects arrows."
Ama carefully takes hold of the cold wood nodachi once Green's made it.
"Thank you, Green!" she says, and sheaths it next to her adamantine nodachi.
Green finishes the many requests and is sweating by the end of it. He nods for you to lead the way.
You head up another ladder leading onto the next floor. The floor is bare save for a few tables and chairs. The moment you decide that you will go up another floor a creature slides down the ladder, followed by two others. These creatures resemble an ugly, stocky gnome with a bulbous nose and reddish eyes. It has a shaggy dark mustache and ratty beard, both unkempt and caked with dirt and filth. When they see you one of them spits on the ground.
"Filth! What be ya doing up here? Give over ye weapons an armer."
"You know them?" Ama asks Green.
Ama steps up to the gnomes and says, "Greetings, tiny folk! What's up and down for you? My name's Ama, and my friends and I are here to help save your realm!"
"How about you try and take them, stumpy? What do you say Green? Friends of yours?"
Fish hefts his new great club. "Yeah try and take stumpy," Fish growls clearly not aware that the stumpy comment was referring to the gnomes height.
The creatures look angry and two of the three suddenly grow in size to large crowding the room. These large loutish creatures appear brutish even for a giant, with bulbous nose, scraggly hair and patchy beard. The smell emanating from it is no surprise considering the filth of itself and its clothing.
"You no give weapon we take. This be no our realm, we take!"
The first two swing out with their halberts at Ama. The last one takes a step and throws a rock at Axe. Every one of them misses both of them luckily. Green yells out that they are spriggans and that they are dangerous.
"Watch out! They grow at will! Very strong!"
Combat round 1:
- Creatures
- Fish
- Axe [PfE]
- Almalik
- Ama [PfE]
- Idris [PfE]
- Nagbur
In bold may act!
With his cold iron tonfa, Idris began lashing out at the spriggan on his left. "Thanks for the info."
His weapon flew in a fury, slamming into his opponent over and over.
HP 54/54. Current AC: 22/17/18 (+1 for dodge)
Active conditions:
Active spell effects:
Ama draws her cold wood nodachi and attacks the spriggan north of her.
She misses the spriggan and spins a full circle on her heel.
Almalik quickly smears some butter in his hands before tossing it at the floor beneath the huge creatures.
Idris punches the first one out cold. Ama tries to hit the second large one but is not used to the weird feel of wood instead of steel in her hands.
Almalik identifies the creatures upon seeing them, the additional information green gave helping him a lot. He immediately casts grease to try and trip the large spriggan.
Spriggans, although normally small, can grow to large at will at any moment. When enlarged Spriggans are unable to use their natural abilities or their sneak attacks. Unlike most fey they do not possess any means of damage reduction save against cold iron. The have a small allotment of spells: Flare, Scare and shatter.
Combat round 1:
- Creatures
- Fish
- Axe [PfE]
- Almalik
- Ama [PfE]
- Idris [PfE]
- Nagbur
In bold may act!
"Pfft! That no muchly deal, we do that! And it just make you more easy to hit," Nagbur says to the newly-enlarged opponent as a subtle foul smell wafts through the room.
Fish moves over to the small Spriggan and takes a swing with this new club.
Axe tries to nimbly get inside the Spriggan's reach before using his new toy against it.
It looks like when I converted Idris from paper to HeroLab, I rushed it and didn't include his non-magical equipment. Though I said I was using a cold iron tonfa, that doesn't make any sense, since tonfas are typically a wooden weapon. He should be using his cold iron sai (he had 1 silver, and 1 cold iron).
Nagbur siphons health from the large still standing spriggan but it does not to much damage at all. Fish tries to hit the smaller spriggan but it dances aside with great ease.
"Phaw!"
At the same time Axe makes short work of the last large spriggan. With a loud sickening crunch he crahes his axe through bone an flesh, cutting the spriggan in half with great ease.
The last spriggan takes a step back from Fish and grows large on the spot. He feet almost slip out from under him but he manages to stay upright just at the last second. He drops his bow, grabs his halbert and swings at Nagbur. With a loud booming voice it says.
"Ha! Weakling! You no hide!"
Combat round 1:
- Creatures
- Fish
- Axe [PfE]
- Almalik
- Ama [PfE]
- Idris [PfE]
- Nagbur 23/38hp
In bold may act!
No problem, adjust it in your profile and use the other weapon in the future! You may still add a coldwood tonfa to your profile if you wish.
Idris stepped in front of Nagbur, his coldwood tonfa slamming into the spriggan's ribs. "Leave the little one alone, and fight someone your own size"
Ama lets out a battle cry as she swings her cold wood nodachi at the last spriggan. "HEEYAAAHHH!!!"
Rubbing his hands together, Almalik lets out a gout of flame at the spriggan.
Idris hits the spriggan twice, followed by Almalik's flame arc. Ama, used to swinging her normal sword, misses him just.
Combat round 2:
- Creatures
- Fish
- Axe [PfE]
- Almalik
- Ama [PfE]
- Idris [PfE]
- Nagbur 23/38hp
In bold may act!
"You think you beat Fish if you get big?" Fish says as he swings his club at the spriggan's knee.
clearly missing the kobold back pedals, "Maybe it help a little."
Axe moves into reach with the large spriggan, taking a defensive posture as he comes in.
Fish misses the huge spriggan, who is quite hard to miss counting his size. He moves away from the creature in the hopes he has distracted it only a bit.
Combat round 2:
- Creatures
- Fish
- Axe [PfE]
- Almalik
- Ama [PfE]
- Idris [PfE]
- Nagbur 23/38hp
In bold may act!
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Nagbur goes total defense.
"You no hit me! Nana-nanana!"
The spriggan shrinks back to his normal (small) size and runs away from the group. He runs away at fairly slow pace because of his size.
"You no catch me!"
Combat round 3:
- Creatures
- Fish
- Axe [PfE]
- Almalik
- Ama [PfE]
- Idris [PfE]
- Nagbur 23/38hp
In bold may act!
Idris spun in place and launched himself at the spriggan as it tried to get away. Unfortunately, he misjudged the distance, and ended up in a heap at the spriggan's feet.
The spriggan starts to shrink in size and Idris immediately jumps on top of him, crushing the little creature.
"No crush me! Me no bad."
The ugly spriggan grumbles.
"Why you want weapons? You here fight king?" Fish asks the half crushed spriggan.
"Look pretty bad to Nagbur," the blue says as he walks over and kicks the spriggan. "Why for you attack us?"
"We just here for gold!"
The small creatures whimpers.
"Me have family! Boss waiting for me, me late me get punished!"
Nagbur pokes the cowering spriggan with the butt of his spear. "You no worry for punished. You no cooperate, you be dead!"
He turns to look up at Almalik. "What you think, maybe boss be useful?"
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Ama starts looting the downed spriggan's then moves over to do the same with the half crushed spriggan.
"You mentioned gold. How much have you been able to gather thus far?"
Being stripped by Ama doesn't seem to faze the spriggan, being threatened to death however does.
"Me no get much gold. You looked like you had, fey not have much gold. leprechauns be cheats with their empty pots!"
He says in a pained and rushed voice.
"No want to meet boss! Much scary!"
In the distance you hear the sound of thunder crashing every few seconds. The room you are in seems to slowly get darker. Watching outside reveals a heavy storm coming your way. Judging by the distance you might be in time to check the other building. Being trapped this high in a large tree is surely a bad idea in a heavy thunderstorm.
Ama whacks the already half-crushed fey with her cold wood sword.
She stabs each spriggan in the throat, killing them. "Pretty sure their boss is this master of death... Let's move on."
Ama heads toward the other building.
Seeing that time is becoming crucial the group loots the now dead spriggans and head down to move to the other tree.
You hear a soft hiss and footsteps following behind you as you make your way down the tree.
You climb down the rope ladder hanging down from the lowest tier of the building. Halfway down you see two black clad figures waiting for you down at the forest floor. Up you see a single black clad figure with a fireball in his hand. The highest figure hisses at you.
"You kill slavessssss, we killssssss you."
Hearing a soft hiss and footsteps behind, Idris whirled and said, "Behind us!"