No idea... we should probably knock him out, just in case...
"Okay, so knock him out. Burn plants off. Mamushka fix any accidents."
"That..sounds wise." the elf stands back, keeping the palm of his hand resting against the hilt of his blade.
Why do I have the feeling that things are only about to get weirder?...
He gives himself a bit of distance from the strange looking man.
"Wait! Those growths are from a Mindslaver Mold. A fungus that controls a person's brain. The mold is in charge now."
Percy takes a second, more cautious look. So the plan is the same, ya?
"One more reason not to trust all this green stuff." Neverhome mumbles as he eyes the rest of the cave cautiously.
Its a mold what?
He asked his hand resting on the hilt of his katana. He wasnt sure exactly what they were to do precisely.
"Do we still want to knock it out first?" He questioned with a slight frown.
"He's still alive in there, and it can dodge attacks and let him get hit instead so we need to be careful. It isn't affected by cold and acid doesn't affect it much oh and I've heard that magic does not work as well either." Sigrun says, strapping her hammer back onto her back and drawing her axe. "This isn't going to be easy."
"What are you planning to do?" Beverhome quickly asks as his eyes warily go back and forth between Sigrun and the fungus covered man.
"You could grab him and put him in a sleepa. We can knock him out like that. Or we beat him until he's knocked out."
"Try to cut it off? Unless we can disable the host without killing him first. But Vashti, you need to be ready to heal the damage we may have to do to him." she replies, never looking away from their opponent and the man they'd come to rescue.
Hobbes' eyes widen as he gets an idea. "I can knock him out. Just keep him off me and he'll go night night." He reaches into his pack and pulls out an arrow with a head shaped like a glove.
Nodding to both Sigrun and Hobbes belied the fact that Neverhome held very little hope for the man, moreso since the mold seemed to be growing out of him. But if he could be rescued and his wife saves from heartbreak... it was a risk he was willing to take, presuming this course of action didn't endanger Sigrun, which had him doubly worried. Mold spreads...
Zses nods at Hobbes' idea. "Sounds good. If that doesn't work, I could also try to stun the mold with a spell. Don't know how effective that will be, tough..."
The leafy man notices you and draws a battleaxe.
Hobbes will wait until Zses puts the hex on the man before knocking his bow with blunt arrows.
Zses looks at the mossman when he turns toward them. "Look, better scurry away and let that guy go: we've been against witches, giant mantises and killer plants scarier than you!" Zses chuckles as the enemy approaches.
Unsure really of what to do in situations where you had to subdue someone rather than slay them Neverhome still readies to strike the man should he go after Hobbes.
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The felinerai moved forward presenting both a juicier target (he hoped)than a halfling. He drew his blade and swung hard trying to hook the mold mans axe and pull it from his grip.
Hila charges the moss-man and bites him.
Allie watches as the battle goes on, confused as to that she can do to help. Fire is her game, but that didnt seem appropriate here...
As the group descends on the man, Percy is kinda lost as to how she can contribute. Trolls she could handle. Moss infected men were a different story alltogether.
She decides finally to release a bit of magic that helped her allies in battle.
Looking at the assembly of people about to administer a beating to the poor man, Vashti's stands ready to prevent the poor mans death if at all possible.
Ered draws his sword, but realizes that there is little for him to do in this case, so he simply waits for a more opportune time.
One of Hobbes' arrows strikes a glancing blow to the man's arm, and Hila takes a chunk out of the man's leg. Silence, meanwhile, goes for a disarm but ends up dropping his weapon instead. The man retaliates with a massive axe swing, but his movements are clumsy and uncoordinated. Silence easily dodges. From a spot on the man's shoulder, a particularly-prominent plant growth launches a spore at Hobbes that narrowly misses.
New Round
Seeing Silence and Hila engage the moss man while Hobbes shoot him Neverhome decides to just stay back, all the while hoping an errant axe swing might find itself in the winter wolf's skull.
White wolf, red wolf
Needs to be a dead wolf
Black axe, red axe
Strike true and say goodbye wolf
Silence was not happy about dropping his blade to avoid the business end of the axe that he had been trying to disarm. Perhaps it would be easier to knock him out.He let out a curse as he ducked low and got a good reverse grip on the hilt of his katana.
愚かな無毛ヤギやつ
He then rose and swung it hard the non bladed edge crashing hard into the moss man.
"Are you just terrible, or you've got weed in you eyes?" Zses mocks the plant man as he misses all of his attacks. Eying the enemy warily for any incoming attacks, the witch chuckles slightly.
Hobbes fires off another pair of blunt arrows.
Hila keeps biting the man.
More blows strike the man. He's looking pretty battered by now. In fact, Hila's bite staggers him for a moment. Your efforts don't come without a price, however, as the man's large axe cleaves through Silence and buries itself in Hila's side. The large pod on his shoulder fires more spores, but they're harmlessly carried away by a sudden wind.
New Round
"Will people stop tryin' to murder my pup? First the kid, now this guy."
Hobbes fires another pair of blunted arrows.
He roared in pain and a little fury, the sharp edge of the axe made his eyes water a bit.
NEVERHOME! Use the side of that lumbering thing you call a sword and clonk him will you!
He growled out clutching at his wound while further skirting around to the side (five foot step hopefully to flank with Hila since everyone else is watching or shooting) again slashing hard with the non sharpened end of his blade hoping to put the man down before that axe cleaved him or little Hila in two.
Exhaling deeply through his nostrils Neverhome moves up as Silence bade and attempted to strike the moss man with the flat of his blade.
The man collapses, unconscious, from Neverhome's blow. His breathing is even, and he appears to be in no danger of bleeding out.
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"Alright, one of you longshanks pick up the guy so we can get him back to his missus."
A large patch of moss detaches itself from the unconscious man and shoots a cloud of spores at Neverhome .
"WILL SOMEONE PLEASE BURN THAT THING!" Neverhome howls as the cloud wafts over, bringing his hands up in a futile attempt to cover his face.
"Fine, fine. Ya big baby."
Hobbes draws a flask of alchemist's fire and tosses it at the moss.
Zses sighs with relief when the mold man drops unconscious...and jumps when the thing leaps away on its own and attack Neverhome.
"Aaargh!"
Staring at the enemy, the witch laughs nervously "Didn't think it was that fast! Well, at least we can roast it safely, now..."
Vashti moves in to drag the man away from the battle with the stuff.
Is it vulnerable to fire, do we...nevermind, Girls, roast it.